Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-07-19
Important Fenian RESOLUTIONS.
NEW POLITICAL PLATFORM.

A largely attended Union meeting OF
the different circles of the Fenian Broth
erhood in Chicago, few days since
adopted the following resolutions. The
Irishmen, it will be seen, declared them.
selves for Liberty and Justice and
against Slavery abroad or at home. The
resolutions were as follows:
Resolved, That the Fenian Brotherhood
have an abiding faith in the ultimate
success of their efforts to enfranchise
Ireland, and no misfortune, failure or
opposition, no matter how disastrous or
formidable, will crush out their hope
that Ireland is yet destined TO be q free
country, and her people enjoy the same
freedom which other people enjoy as an
inherent right,
Resolved, That while thus devoting our
lives to the disenthrallment OF our Ma
tive land and our countrymen, We will
not submit to the imputation that we
are friendly to the enslavement of pollti-
cal degradation of any race, or any por-
tieu OF the human family, but will insist
that liberty and justice are not the priv
ileges of the few, but the inalienable
birthrights of man.
ResOl0ed, That the Irish people in the
United States have long endured the in
furious reproach of being the political
slaves Of party,and without inquiring as
to the merits Of any political issue, they
have thrown their whole influence as q
class just as they were directed by the
political organization of which they
have constituted a large numerical por-
ton that henCeforth the Irish people
in the United States assert their perfect
freedom from party thralls and party al
legiance, and, like their fellow citizens
Of American birth, will vote and act
with those who make universal liberty
at home and abroad the cardinal point Of
political faith.
Resolved, That the Irish people of the
United States will not be the dupes of
any men or Of any party organization
which makes the political degradation
Of any person test of political fidelity,
because, if for no other reason, it would
be arrant impudence in US to appeal to
the world in behalf of our own coun-
trymen in their native land, while by
our votes, and our speeches, and our in
fuence, we insist that any portion Of the
people Of this country shall be denied
that liberty and equality which we de-
mand for ourselves, for our country and
our kindred.
ResOlved, That the liberation of our ma
tive land is now, and will henceforth be,
the grand object of our lives; that
every man who aids US or befriends US
by word or deed in our purpose, we will
recognize as friend and that in all
who oppose our lawful measures, we
will recognize those whose political as
ISOLATION is to be avoided that while
our duties faithfully as
American citizens, we will nevertheless
hold all who oppose Irelands redemp-
ton as enemies of the great fundamen-
tai principals Of American liberty, and
Will array our votes against the policy
and the candidates Of such men, as we
would against any other enemies Of hu-
man liberty.
Resolved, That it is foul libel upon
the patriotism and the intelligence of
Irish Americans to assert that we are
the property, the voting chattes, ofany
political party, and that we will satisfac-
5orily repel that calumny, by hereafter,
ID all occasions, voting for that party
which finds no excuse in musty laws, in
vested rights, in ancient prejudices, for
degrading or enslaving men, or for pre-
venting free men, with arms in their
hands, recovering that liberty and ma
ionality Of which they and their race
nave long been cruelty aud UNANIMOUSLY
deprived. T. KARNEy.
c. E. MOORE,
j. F. SEAMAN,