New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-07-07

DECLARATION oN BEHALF OF rtiE people, oF lEELAND
Of ttsir Fuf-1srdfrof ~ EagirH1 end n 20 1ft1
Nations ag-,,f 20 on MIctsrs Grscl, Hllfasbs ~ E.
nsar Nlr f.-k. Ja.g .. LIS. 90 vese4ce ~ maag
Thousands ~ ElIsd f-fs'mH.
First The people Of Ireland have been an indenon
dent and hfenei nation Tor several axes before hng
land emerged from obscurty. or VS. blessed BY civA
zstion and have maintained their independence In me
held against thc Roman the saxon, and the Dane i0i
more than twenty centuries
Second The claim OF England % rule Ireland is
usrpaon based upon the pernioas breach OF treaties
ln'iance those OF 1921 ami l7,2) and not upon military
success
T1rf The right o. peop', 70 reconstruct Is sup.
pressed nationality, cannot be- impaired hy time
FoHrfa All men were created equsl and endowed By
God with right 10 subsistence from the land
nm; Ine majority OF a nation Is the nation, and
ought 70 rule. A nation cannot commit treason. bur
the man who acts sgMnst IL Independence commits
treason.
Srfb The man who refuses 70 work Ia. no right, in
the commonwealth; he disGuaics himself BY refusing
70 comply with the laws Of God
Srrgfl The man who a1ors-not he who iilcs-
should make the laws
Eighh: The land OF Ireland Is amply sufficient, to
support the people Of Ireland
Niah Every man IN Ireland shall be owner Of A
piece of land-shal possess vote IN the creation and
admiLisfrlfio 81 the laws-and weapon 90 protect
h., life ant property.
T,ah. The permanent absentee landowners OF Ire
land are curse 10 the nations nuisance that must be
Eiereuts foreign Government il a tyranny in any
nation i'm ireland 10 has proved an insupportable ar
fiction. and must be- destroyed.
Trsldh A Government that seeks BY armed mohs
by dyerting the course Of the law % put down the
expression OF public opinion is usurpston and ought
TO be Immediately put down.
Thrfsenh The Government Of England IN ireland
has violated All the rights Of having seized upon
the land and divided 20 among set ofrai cous adveu
tuners having gurt these adveuturcrs with sundry
titles of nobility having conferred upon them the
elusive power of making ami administering the laws
having armed them nth the whole powers OF the state
and placed the labor and property o the people al their
command having given o. them rights aud prop
erfy in an the land, an the animals All the hsh and
birds and mines and timber and having excluded the
people from any and every right which God originally
conferred upon them having for years and years
tnued % rob the Irish people OF their food under the
name of rent and iax" and by the forms of law
having compelled them 10 subsst roots and weeds
and grass having suffered famine % destroy hundreds
of thousands of the people who ght have been saved
by a timely and proyidont action of the Government
having refused grant the national ships Of the United
Kingdom % carry food % them while the United states
of America freely sent her war.ships treighted with
iood-the free gin of a neutral people having nsti
tutcd poor laws that have IN view the eNtcrmnauon
and humiliation of the people instead OF their relief
having hled ireland with armed men % suppress the
expression of complaint having passed unprecedented
laws 90 stiHe misunderstanding virtually abolished
trial by Jury the of John Mtche for these and
for thousand other reasons equally orcible, we deem
u sacred duty 10 20 forth and assist IN putting down
that Government.
Now we whose names are hcrcunto subscribed, vow
before God aud the nations 10 90 forth and at the risk
OF our lives shoot down the men who form this Gov.
eminent and those VINO assist them. either In detail or
in gross according A. the Lord may deliver them into
our hands Signed this eth OF July lsi-