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    • SUPERFLUOUS LOYALTY.
    • LEAVES FROM A DIARY KEPT IN PARIS.
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      The Tomahawk: A Saturday Journal Of Sati...

      THE TOMAHAWK : A SATURDAY JOURNAL OF SATIRE . "INVITAT CULPAM QUI PECCATUM PRETERIT . "

      No. 3 8.] London, January 25, 1868. [Pri...

      No . 3 8 . ] LONDON , JANUARY 25 , 1868 . [ Price Twopence .

      Superfluous Loyalty.

      SUPERFLUOUS LOYALTY .

      Mr. Digby Seymour's Address Is Not Appro...

      Mr . Digby Seymour ' s address is not appropriate to the present and breadth season of . the It land is true Fenianism that throug has created hout the a whole sensation length of gredient which a , certain however vague confident feeling peop of alarm le may is be an of acknowled the power ged of the in-Government to root it out . contemptible ¦—¦ — —— All — ¦—¦ — - consp . — f ~ »» —~^ iracies ^* , J ¦ and - *•»* ' *•* . when when w aa ^ ut aa they they « " ¦<•» *¦¦» V show h show ^ . m . J , ^^ ' * w si signs kjlb gns . AAl ~ r of of V ^ A . existence o \»* rganized A <^ « - * M ¦ . JLJ . ^ V / U however system fcj T fcj t W JLAJfc

      however minds in defective a degree , which have more is far or beyond less the the effect proportions of exciting of men the ' s amongst lurking ev the il . most We unsop read of histicated Fenian musterings innocents of in the rural population solitudes ; , of cious meetings and mysterious within a stone seizures ' s throw of arms of a police ; of threatened -station ; of attacks audaon attempts the best to blow fortified down strongholds prisons and ; of rescue barefaced prisoners and , daring at the cost of half-a-dozen murders . Visions of suspicious looking

      ruffian fian institutions s s with with twelve twelve float shooters shooters before our , , bowie bowie mental knifes knifes vision , , and and . We other other read tran tran dail s satl atl in antic antic the newspapers , of the withholding of names of certain individuals y reasons at coroners well ' understood inquests which and police makes -court us feel examinations that there are for at large These those are the whose causes proclivities of , the are dangerous alarmor to rather the community uneasiness . which now pervades society vague . Though , the number of these ,

      to secret be found reprobate everywhere ruffians , which may be gives small us , one the idea of them that is our certain next door neighbour , or the new lodger on the parlour floor , may be sinister a Guy Faux designs in disguise concerning , and which that we our hesitate Irish friend to question entertains him . is Dig , All who by we Seymour is require a Fenian is to first and know who in at coming is present not ? forward And in order towards . to But be this the on object our efficiency guard Mr . of his scheme is to be doubted ; even should the address to be presented ¦ ¦•— to the Queen »« bear -m * »»» tons ¦**¦ of , , ¦ signatures jt # >«•* h Jk Everybody Ik 17

      is believe — no »—— ^ question r - ^ s -w»— and v w knows w — that - » —— -v beyond that £ \ , ^* ^* , ^* as the ^ a nation desire w _ «* ^ , ^^ the for a . Irish ^— certain W >* are ^^ w . reform loyal r T . ^« s There » prin ^ \ ^ ^*> J - cipally connected with land tenure and church establishment wedded the Irish to are Ireland not striving in bonds for of any love kind which of revolution are not to . be We lihtl are , severed . It is but a small degenerate class of desperate immi gy - grants , distinct alike from true Irishmen as from Englishmen , that dress has is superfluous brought the , for evil Her upon Majesty us . Mr requires . Digby no Seymour assurance ' s ad of - the

      loyalty of her Irish subjects . What is wanted is that each Fenian may be identified , and for Fenianism this purpose is a pest Mr . which Digby were Seymour a disgrace 's delicacy if it were is out indi of genous place . to time Irish that soil it were ; but energeticall this it is not y . stamped It is of forei out gn for ori the gin protection , and it is of end life , if and all propert Irishmen y in were England distinctl as well y called as in Ireland upon . openl To y this to declare 10 that they are not Fenians Juiwitu which 1 I 1 U 1 A could \_ # not be insulting

      if to " " ¦ " — Fenians their -- *** - * feelings . * - * . w *> w are v **^ s , political the vv * ^* true * tvw consp malcontents . v * irators ^ , tt , would in fact l « be J . l ^ , Xi unmasked anything ^/ t C / w XJ 1 O Uililjci more ; for : than their mere names street where ruffians the , addresses they will not lie , go and deliberatel they arc y to daring sign enough , as they have shown us on several occasionsto refuse ,

      Mr. Digby Seymour's Address Is Not Appro...

      to pledge themselves to loyalty even when called upon to do so would in public surely . Then have sympathizers the conscience , too to , refrain in respectable from perj positions ury , even , at If the Fenianism risk of confessing is a serious their proclivities evil it should . be dealt with energetically , not in a maudlin sentimental way , as though the loyal Irish had corns which were not to be trodden on in endeavours

      to suppress it . from Mr . some Digby literary Seymour circle ' s of address the Fenian may as Brotherhood well have for emanated all the confidence Her Majesty may derive from it . It is better that it should fall through rather than the Queen should be deluded by a meaningless parchment ceremoniously presented to her by a number of worthy gentlemen who never harboured a malicious thought against her Government .

      Leaves From A Diary Kept In Paris.

      LEAVES FROM A DIARY KEPT IN PARIS .

      Balls, Reviews, Receptions, And Hospital...

      Balls , reviews , receptions , and hospitals Tuileries ! Over , and Parts over . would again The Beaujon poor ! you to No ? little see very We the grisette p all leasant cholera musC I thing passed perform patients to on be , the had my an duties hard Empress way to hands allotted the —but Hop scarred to what ital us . with I drove needle past pricks him , the en ouvrier roiite for who the took Bois off de his Boulogne hat to me was as my staggering work ? under The a grisette heavy load and — the then ouvrier why should share I comp with lain me of a common humanity —they have their f duties / have mineNo

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      gner , " —never spoken y of my southern birth . And as accept a servant wh my y 1 destiny Because of ; Creator that , I suppose I . desire Ah , they most ! how see earnestl much that I y much ' m to prepared do better my duty to to be known as " my Eugenie the Good , " than as , " Eugenie the S leasant paniard to ! " live Still I can from ' t hel all p feeling the turmoil it would and be very of , very the p Tuileries ¦¦ . Very away leasant indeed , % h to live far MVf worry from Paris

      in — — - — happy ———— -mr m ^ w retirement •**— j p r » ** m , . w «» surrounded w « *»« a . * * - * ^ ^ r . b *¦ ^^ y beautifu * T ^ M » -fc . away » l -V scenery * - *¦ T * * V ^ 111 and J , ( IX |^ a forts happy of peasantry a life . of To privacy resign . all To the withdraw cares of State myself for from the com the - Capitol , and be as one dead to all save my personal friends b and e right relations ? . All this would be very pleasant- —< W would it

  • Citation
    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Jan. 25, 1868, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_25011868/page/1/