The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1870-06-29

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tbs so-s rssscts e-e5Ii 1Poa the Irish u1Dsf
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* tbs PoPgs1 EzuiOr, q his psrforuNaess-
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is7is-s. p-oss<t azinzt this movement As silly IN
ihe * degree Bat there : something IN
spsakably ri5ic1iozs IN tbs 6zzls; something
sno-1Ossiy babyish n this making var upon
Ca1aiz by force zhsch eoold rot keep It's Gen
srzl fru1 capture b. two men IN hack These
a-e - the hsrOez Of the front = These are the
men IN the eaPF No soch performances as thiS
VII give Independence TO Ireland
The forces Of the Irish RepubEc viii move
upou Canada in force This Sss the order
Ebich this great warrior sent BY telegraph to al
parts Of the country. Having arrived at the
border. perhaps 500 strong. the grand army
halted. and the redOubtabIe warrior, emulating
the fame Of Napoleon FOR electric appeals TO
.
diers, this IS the advance guard Of the Irish
American army for the liberation Of ireland.
For your own country. (which, America or Ire
la0d you now enter that Of the enemy. The
eyes Of your cOunirymsn are upon you For
Eard, march :" This thrilling effort was responded
to, when the border was reached, By the rifles Of
a few Canadians hidden behind bushes. The
great warrior Of the age watched with the eagle
eve Of General President, the commencement
Of the war, when two men drove up in hack.
and the warrior, picked up ike runaway baby.
and tossed into the carriage, is safely removed
from the field Of glory" to the care Of jAilor.
We know Of nothing to compare with this ex-
plot, since that terrible struggle related BY Tom
Corwin, in which the heroic militia general, with
praneing steed and waving plumes. charged gal
Iantly upon a pnmpkin-6eld and after slashing
right and left with his trenchant blade. capszed,
and lnnded head first in a rotten pumpkin. But
this was imaginary. O'Neill's scarcely less giO-
rious exploit forms part Of the history Of q The
Irish Republiep
We have said quite frequently. that there Is
no law in this country 10 prevent a man making
an ass Of himself and there is none. II 0'Neill,
or any other ninny, wants to play President Of a
Republic that doesat exist, and if other ninnies
want to play officials and generals, and il poor
servant girls please to pay these fellows for being
silly and to strip themselves Ct their hard-earued
wages to support a set Of loaiers in big house,
nicely furnished and newly earpeted, over in
Brooklyn. why there isn't any law against it.
THIS is free country. Folks who want 10 he
fools may, perhaps, as well spend money and
time in getting up cartridges, guns. cannon, and
other accOutrements, for a war with Great Britain
as in any other tom-foolery. II gives work to
some honest and industrious powder and gun
makers, who pocket the cash and laugh at the
dupes who pay it. But when people who live on
American soil. under the protection Of American
laws, go out to burn that powder 10 shooting in
nocent Canadians, subjects Of Government
with which we are at peace, then these United
States Of Americs are forced TO send a couple Of
officers with hack to arrest the army and loek
him np.-IS. Louis Democrat