The revived "Citizen" failed to attract readers and folded in 1872; Bell's "Irish Republic" followed a year later. Neither paper was in sympathy with the ethnic-minority Catholicism powerfully represented by the city's Tammany Hall Democratic-Party political machine and, until his death in 1864, by the authority of a third Ulsterman, Archbishop John Hughes. Mitchel dedicated his paper to "aspirants to the privileges of American citizenship”, arguing that the more integrated (or "more lost") among American citizens the Irish in America were "the better”.