Devoy's Post Bag, vol. 2 A LETTER OF INTRODUCTION 69 BAG April at Laramie, Wyoming, If I can secure a position on the Chicago press I will return there nia. after the meeting; if not, I will make a last effort in N.Y., and fail- ing there will return here and go mining in New Mexico, where I ellows I want to get are fine have lots of friends. And if the decisions of the meeting are not cal- have a State organisation and culated to put an end to the present chaos I will resign. It will be ft on the road there would be time, in fact, for all who respect themselves and who really mean a magnificent field out here. revolution to wash their hands of this child's play, and leave the " respectable and honourable" gentlemen to play patriot as it may J. DEVOY. suit their delicate fancy. Nearly all will be at the meeting. Poor O'Doherty is out of em- ployment and persecuted by a lot of his men. He can't come. LONDON Wouldn't it be necessary to issue a special call, giving ample time and urging full attendance? Everything depends on it. NEW YORK, Thanks for your budget. It was a drop of water in the desert. 20 April, 1881. Yours truly, JOHN DEVOY, CASTLEGARDEN, N.Y. e shipping emigrants fast as agreements within time speci- A LETTER OF INTRODUCTION From Thomas Sexton, M.P., Dublin, to John Devoy, New York. THE IRISH NATIONAL LAND LEAGUE, 39 UPPER SACKVILLE STREET, DUBLIN, RESIGN 21 April, 1881. DEAR SIR, I take the liberty of requesting your friendly interest in Mr. John DENVER, McDonald, a young Irishman of excellent abilities and character, who 20 April, 1881. is about to emigrate to the United States. Before I ever had the pleasure of meeting Mr. McDonald, I knew him, through my con- her with one from Waldron nection with the Dublin press, as a graceful and forcible writer, both you. It will reach you from in prose and verse, and my personal knowledge of him has more I by Hynes and Sullivan. It recently convinced me of his honest and manly interest in the welfare and an attack by O'Leary on of his country and her people. Indeed I am aware that Mr. McDonald his was the first I had heard has been a tower of strength to the Land League cause in Leitrim, Of course I won't reply till I his native county, and I am convinced that his able and energetic W." says he sends one. service will not be soon forgotten. If you find it in your way to publicly denounce anything advise, encourage, or assist him in his new sphere of life, I know you ed to the list of pleasures in will be as glad to make use of the opportunity as I shall be grateful to you for doing so. and will start on my way I remain, Dear Sir, ng at Iowa and in Chicago. Yours most sincerely, evoy through his friend, William THOMAS SEXTON, skirmishers recently dispatched to M.P. Co. Sligo.