The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-02-07
A RINGING LETTER.
Appealing to the Men Of Cavan to come to
the Front.

county CaVan tOwnSmen, nOtedly and
unfortunately well-known, black-thorn
Skirmishers to the Royal Irish OF
Ballinagh, Cresdone, or Scrabbagh.
But party fights are over. A newer
and brighter united action against
our mortal enemy dawns on us; let
us avail Of it, as it breaks on our
bondage, and let not Cavan men lag
behind when the word is onward.
hereby unfurl their banner, and con-
stitute myself color-sergeant. Then
rally round your flag it has few sup
porters.
l have watched this Skirmishilg
and can recall but few subscribers
from my native county. Among them
two brothers all the way from the
crossroads of Middletown; and if
every Irish family had but two such
representatives of manhood, rs |
know them to be, British law in Ire
land would not be a thing of twelve
months duration; but our manhood
depreciates under the influence Of
that cursed law. Niney-fve per cent
of it is below par. | don't care for
talking about the little do for the
! cause. In common with millions of
my prosecuted race, l have had to
circumnavigate the globe in search Of
a task master, and luckily or unlucki-
ly secured one in an Over-grOWn rail
70 I'd depot, who measures out Starva-
| ton to his white slaves at pleasure:
still l keep soul and body together,
skirmish little in and out of the
Irish World, and hoping fol- the time,
| hold myself in readiness at twenty
four hours notice. for any point OF
! the compass, or any mission of de-
struction to the British empire.
Cannot a million Irish mericansdo
and say the same! Yes, men and
money by the million!
\ million fund. u million subscri-
bers, Il million sworn skirmiShers.
and England's ill-omened star sets to
rise no more. But the million idea
cannot he carried out by the isolated
efforts Of the few who cCnsecrate
themselves to the almost hopeless
task of freeing Ireland. We are not
patriotic, or else 4 handful Of land
sharks and few thousand bayonets
would never hunt IS as they have
done.
If we have the best fighting, we
have also the worst revolutionary
material in the world; and self-styled
revolutionistS. advanced natlonaliStS.
censure the skirmisl. Do they know
what English honor is! They may
learn to their cost by placing them
selves within its clutches. but I'm
| thinking they won't. British honor
| put its wolf price on the heads of
priest and bishop, and hanged and
| quarted them on the bribed evidence
of common prostitutes. but all that
is very conveniently forgotten by too
many of their successors to-day.
British honor signed and broke
treaties, butchered men, women and
children and blasphemously gloritied
God for the crime. as it gloriiied Him
for the abundant Irish harvests of
the famine years. In 'QS and later. it
put its price on our own heads. and
paid its spies to lead us 20 the gal
lows. When driven before the pike
men of Oulart Hill. 1t murdered the
defencelesS women and children in its
retreat: it packs benches and juries
to-day to secure political verdicts, and
| its record is no better in other coun-
| tries. whether shooting down Ameri-
can colonists in rs, burning their
churches into camp fires, purchasing
alike the civilized treachery of Ar
mold and the savage alliance of the
red man. it was all the same.
In 1872. and in the late war also, it
showed its cloven foot in the Alabama
I built nal t,,anneYAl ~, 4
/ commerce England-wards. In Scot
land it repaid the hospitality of Mac
Donald of Glencoe with the massacre
of himself and his highland clan. In
France it burned Joan of Are ut the
/ stake, and refused her ashes Chris
tian burial.
But why enumerate the sickening
detailsl BY land, or sea. in Ireland.
| India, or America it was always the
same and no need to speak of IRE
| land.
What do the Cavan men think of
it, DO they forget the history of
".Gallows Ililll Let million of
monthly subscribers to the >kirmish-
ing Fund settle the question. Here
is Cavan man who proposes TO give
i
earns y dollar. more when he can, and
himself to the cause ut any time.
Caven men show Your estimate Of
British honor by making your native
county for once the banner county in
| our
Struggle strong to keep.
The Old soil where our tat hers sleep.
And this in no sectional sense. One
county Is as dear as another. The
DAYS of '.Far-ups' and "Far-Downs
have Disappeared: but there is a ma
tural pride associated with the locali-
ty of ones birth, and on this account
| would like To see Cayan foremost.
1t was there. in I-ougheyduff. first
saw the light. and there. ut last,
would like to sleep within the shad-
ow of its old church yard.
/ Let generous rivalry be displayed
+ nv every county. creed and color.
Orange or Greene. Catholic or Protes-
tans. we are all Irish. and should
have 4 common faith in ourselves and
our country. Ireland for the Irish to
have and to hold for their own use,
according TO their ownhws- II Is not