AN GAODHAL.
455
MAGHNUDHAT CHILL-DARA,
18adh Bhealtaine '85.
A Shaoi Ionmhuinn:
Ó'n lá thainic na samplaidhe sin de'n
Ghaodhal do chuiris chúgam, níor mhothuigh
mé, dearbhaim duit, an t-am ag dul
tharm. Dá m-b' fheasach dam go raibh a
leithéid so de pháipeur le fághail air
dhruim talmhan, do chuirfinn fios air go
práidhineach fad ó. Acht fá dheireadh, tá
páipeur do réir mo mhian am' sheilbh, &
is mithid liom a luach air feadh bliadhna
chur chúghat, agus dá bhrigh sin, atá ord¬
ughadh trí sgilling air phosda Bhruaichlín
faoi 'n scáth so.
Ní chualan sinne, air an taoibh abhus
de'n fhairge, tuairisg air an meud oibre
ag a dhéanadh agaibh-se thall. Ní raibh a
fhios agam nó go bh-facaidh mé an Gaodh¬
al go raibh Cumann air bun 'san Éirinn
is mó d'ar g-cosbóir le leabhra saora
Gaedhilge chur amach, agus mar sin cúis
ar d-teangan d'agradh, agus do chosnadh
agus, fá dheoigh, buaidh a bhreith dhí.
Cia h-iad na leabra chuireabhar amach
cheana, agus cad é a luach fá leith? An
bh-fuil an Hómeur úd Micéil le fághail
agaibh, clodhbhuailte air nós chéillidhe?
Ní gádh dhúinne leis an nGréigis úghdar¬
aigh.
Ní chreidim go m-b' fhéidir le h-aon-
duine, d'ar fios a Ghaedhilge dhúthchais, &
ag a m-beidheadh aithne air an Gaodhal,
déanadh 'na éagmhuis air aon chor, óir
bainfidh se greann, múnadh & tír-ghrádh
as, agus sin uile air son lea-chorónach
'san m-bliadhain.
Dob' áil liom iomlán an cheathramhadh-
leabhar de 'n Ghaodhal fhághail uait, más
féidir é. Chuiris uimhir Abráin mar
shampla cheana, anois, más é do thoil é,
cuir na uimhreacha roimhe, agus na diaidh
so, na h-uimhreacha a leanas, no go d-
tabharfar chum cinn é.
Go m-budh fhada bhéidheas an Gaodhal
ag dul i bh-feabhas agat.
Go measamhuil,
"NÍOS ÁIRDE."
(Le freagradh thabhairt do "Níos Áir¬
de" — nach h-aisteach an t-ainm é ? — níor
chlodhbhuail ar g-cummann-ne aon leabhar
ach an Gaodhal. Támuid déanadh ar n-
dithchill, ach tá 'n t-airgiod gann — go
spesialta aig an muintir a thiúbharfadh
cómhnadh do chúis na Gaédhilge dá mbeidh¬
eadh sé aca. Ach tiocfaidh an t-am, le
cómhnadh Dé, agus sin go goirid, i bh-fuigh
cúis na Gaedhilge bhuaidh air dheacracht
na h-aimsire agus truailleánacht Éir¬
eannach, F G-)
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ting his Gael will please notify us by
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We have not ceased to send the Gael
to those who got the first volume whe¬
ther they paid their subscription or not,
we do not want to act discourteously,
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do not wish to continue it.
THE TAIL WAGGING THE DOG !
Every move of the satraps of the Administration
in the vicinity of New York and Brooklyn clear¬
ly demonstrates a puritan compact to weaken the
influence of the Irish element in this State.
Three-fourths of the Democratic voters come
from the Irish element, yet the Federal offices,
of patronage and emolument, are, for a purpose,
bestowed on mugwumps and anti Irish nominal
Democrats. Too late, gentlemen. If he who
tries to ignore the Irish element keeps his finger
on the point of his nose until he succeeds he
will have an everlasting appendage to it ! It is
within the memory of men not yet old that in the
city of Boston a few Irishmen had to fight puri¬
tan intolerance for their very existence. They
rule the city to day.
The congenial soil of this great, free country,
enriched by the sweat, aye, and the blood, of
patriots of all nations, is too prolific to have the
luxuriance of its growth evershadowed by the
dwarfed exotics which, by artificial means, for a
time, succeeded in producing a sickly miasmatical
blossom. This is the last spasm of expiring puri¬
tanical intolerance, and is so wild and reckless in
its aims as to foreshadow its fast approaching dis¬
solution.
