AN GAODHAL.
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A! deunfaidh mé dearmad ar phian, brón a's crádh
I láthair ar nDé 'náit a mbeidhmíd go bráth.
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Acht anois, Och! anois, táim i m' aonar gach tráth
Ag fuireach go d-tiocfaidh an t-aingeal mór, breágh;
Go ndeireann sé liom fág an saoghal ad' dhéigh
A's tar liom gan stad nois go láthair do Dé. —
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'S é an dúithche is aoibhne — fíor-shásamh na súl;
'S é an dúithche is suaimhnighe — fíor-shásamh na n-dúl;
'S é an dúithche is binne — fíor-shásamh na g-cluas;
'S é dúithche an Té a rug beannacht anuas
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A mháthair gidh uaigneach a's brónach mo chroídhe
Tá cuimhne mhaith agam ar gach uile nídh
A mhúin tusa dham — 'nois is rún liom do thoil,
Do dheunadh, agcómhnuidhe do dheunadh gan mhoill.
Our New York Republican contemporaries flay
the Grace and O'Brien Democrats for helping the
Tammany men to apportion the Assembly districts
of the city in the interest of Tammany. They
should not. The Grace and O'Brien men are the
kith and kin of the Murphys and Sheehans of Tam¬
many, which the said press hound to death by the
most ignoble means — lying and the defamation of
character. In fact no ballot-box stuffer or rumhole
bum could be guilty of more nefarious conduct, and
this to the incalculable loss of the Republican party
whose national principles need no lying, defama¬
tion or bigotry to attract to them all liberty-loving
citizens, but many of whom are deterred from doing
so by the well grounded fear (from the actions of
the last Legislature, and the party's submission to
Mugwump rule in New York and Brooklyn, the al¬
pha and omega of whose reform is higher taxes,
the ousting of the Murphys and Sheehans from of¬
fice and the appointment of the Harrimans and Wa¬
rings in their places) that if they be not checked,
the people in the near future, in locations where
Mugwumpism is enabled to dictate the Republican
policy (to Republican shame), (as has been the case
in these cities), will have to submit to such laws l(?)
as will dictate the size of their chamber utensils and
whether they can use them at the call of nature be¬
tween Saturday night and Monday morning!
Republican friends, these parasites seek to sup¬
plant your honored, honest, liberty-loving State
leaders through the immense public patronage pla¬
ced in the hands of their confederates in New York
and Brooklyn (by unthinking, deluded men), and if
you permit them you will be consigned to eternal
shade (as you would deserve to be), for the great
majority of our cosmopolitan citizens love liberty,
and will support the party who carries its banner.
Republican friends, your country since its Inde¬
pendence has not stood so low in its national prest¬
ige as it stands to-day through the machinations of
the lying, bastard mugwumps — the agents of for¬
eign powers — who have prostituted the most sacred
traits of social instinct in their efforts to ruin your
country and degrade American manhood and bring
it under foreign domination. They even went so for
in the prostitution of these sacred instincts as to
employ their wives, daughters, and sisters as camp¬
aign solicitors for their mugwump idol. Did civili¬
zed humanity ever descend to such depths of dep¬
ravity?
Republican friends, the mistake of your lives was
your endorsement of the hybrid candidates for may¬
ors of Brooklyn and New York, both lying pledge-
breakers. — Denounce them, and announce in your
platform that the fact of a man's name being Mur¬
phy or Sheehan, Strong or Scheiren, is a matter of
indifference to you, that the latter names have acted
more deceptive, ignoble parts, in lying and circum¬
vention than the most degraded name in the direct¬
ory could.
We would recommend all those de¬
sirous of possessing a solid interesting
Gaelic reading matter to write to Mr.
Patrick O'Brien, the Gaelic publisher,
46 Cuffe st. Dublin, for his very in¬
teresting book, Bláithfhleasg de Mhil¬
seáinibh na Gaedhailge. Price, in cloth,
3s.
The Philadelphia Philo-Celtic Society meets at
Philopatrian Hall, 211 S. 12th St., every Sunday
evening, where it imparts free instruction to all
who desire to cultivate a knowledge of the Celtic
tongue.
