The Shasta courier., 1854-01-28
PROSPECTUS OF .TME CITIZEN,


A NEW WEEKLY JOURNAL, TO be pub
IA lished in New York, and to be conducted
by JOHN Mitchell, assisted by THO FRAN
CHS MEAGHER, and competent corps OF con-
tributOrs.
The principal conductors are, in the first place,
Irishmen by birth. In the second place, they
are men who endured years of penal exile at
the hands of the British Government for en-
deavoring to overthrow the dominion of that
Government in their native country. In the
third place. they are refugees on American soil,
and aspirants to the privileges of American cit
izenship.
The principles and conduct of their new
journal will be in accordance with their posi-
ton. their memories, and their aspirations
They refuse to believe that, PROSTATE and bro
ken as the Irish nation is now, the cause of Irish
Independence is utterly lost.
They refuse TO admit that any improvement
in the material condition of those Irishmen who
have survived the miseries of the last seven
years. if any improvement there be, satisfies the
honor, or fulfills the destiny of an ancient and
noble nation.
They refuse to believe that Irishmen at home
are so abect as TO be "loyar' to the Sovereign Of
Great Britain, or that Irishmen in America can
endure the thought of accepting the defeat which
has driven them from the land of their fathers,
and made that beloved land an object of pity
and contempt to the whole earth.
The movement OF all the western and south
ern nations of Europe is towrrds Republican
ism, After few years OF dismal peace and
order "-after lying like a corpse motionless,
breathless, from her last giant struggle, with the
fetters of her tyrants weighing down her limbs,
and their bayonets at her breast, Europe is again
ripenng fast for another bursting forth of the
precious and deathless spirit of Freedom. The
dumb masses of English life, the men voteless,
landless rightless, who labor forever in mines
and factories, who have no part in the govern
ment of their own land, no interest in the op-
preston of Ireland, i'll the plumber of Asia, or
in the European balance of power-those mass.
es, we apprehend, were not finally crushed into
the earth OH the 10th of April, 1S4s, as some
persons believe. They finding voice and
spirit again. Germany and Italy are not dead
Hungary is not even asleep. War already RACES
III Europe; other wars are interchangeable is
to say promising; and all over Europe and Amer
ca there are eyes watching and hearts burning
for the occasion to turn all diplomacy and war
to good account for the cause of Republican
Freedom. Mankind is once more becoming
charged with the electricity of Revolution, and
one of the poles of that battery we believe to be
situated somewhere in or about New York.
The conductors of The CITIZEN desire to
awaken again the national spirit and ambition
OF Ireland--to evoke and stimulate among Irish
men a noble zeal to aid and to partake in the
great march of European Democracy. The SOW
ereigns and aristncracies of Europe being ban
ded together against the Peoples, we intend to
promote, SO far in us lies. fraternal alliance
of the Peoples against the sovereigns and aris-
tocracies.
One powerful obstacle to such fraternal ALI.
ance has hitherto been the hypocritical pretence
to " Liberalism" made by the British Govern
ment. The conductors of The CITIZEN mean to
devote their most earnest efforts tn strip off that
sanctimonous pretence, and to exhibit the Eng
lish power in Its true character, as not only the
oppressor of Ireland. but the oppressor of Eng
land, and the ally of oppression all the world
over. Intending themselves to be true and loyal
American citizens. they will recommend no
course of policy which would isolate the Irish
or other European refugees from the common
action OF this great Republic. They will incul-
cate, and with all their power assist, careful,
loving study of those wise and just institutions
under which, here i'll America, they have found
both refuge from their enemies, and school
and example of the grand doctrine they mean
TO enforce. To become, in good faith, citizens
and armed soldiers OF America, is to enlist under
the banner OF universal Democracy. They will
bear forever in remembrance, the heavy debt of
gratitude which expairiated Irishmen owe to
America for her powerful protection and ready
sympathy and will piously watch and prepare
for an occasion to discharge that sacred debt
They will be jealous in the task of reconci-
ling the various factions which, on both sides OF
the Atlantic, have distracted and weakened the
cause OF Ireland and have always given her ell
emies easy victory.
The conductors oftbis Jonrnal intend to make
trial how many Irishmen how many votaries of
Democracy militant in Europe, and of Democ-
racy victorious in America, will agree with them
i'll these principles, and help them in striking
this alliance. Soon they will be enabled to
know whether they are aboring to amy good
end. They do not think Of spending their whole
lives in thrashing the water or ia :. moving
dishes of skinned milk" They do not mean to
he likened unto the Jews, forever calling Pales-
the their country, and waiting for The restora-
ton of King David's dynasty.-or the Welsh,
watching, generation after generation, for the
return of Arihur--or the soldiers of the Milleni-
UNI, eternally girding on their swords for the day
OF Armageddon. While British tyranny still
grinds Ireand-~while Irish spirit still breathes
and BUNS in passionate revolt against it, they
will labor III their chosen work. AT any rate
and in the meantime, they know that the honest
and fearless preaching of Truth and Justice
must bear good fruit, both for Ireland aid for
America.
The CITIZEN will be published every Satur-
day the first number will appear on Saturday
the 7tli OF January, 1854.
TERMs-Three dollars per annnm, or six cents
per single copy, payable in Advance. All com
munications to lie addressed to John Mitchell,
Citizen Office, No. 3, Spruce street, New York
MIR. T. Foley, of the firm of McGarraIlan &
Foley, No. so, California street, will eceiv sub
scripiions until Agents are appointed for Cali
iornia. Fl H
TIE MIsERIEs of A DEBToR.--Debt is a per-
fo.f hnve