Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-08-23
General SChurZ On the New
s:.E Eenian Movement.


The Detroit Post, edited Ivy General
Carl Schurz, the German patriot, soldier
and orator, thus comments on the great
Fenian demonstration in Chicago last week,
and we commend his observations to every
Irishman who desires to have the Ameri-
can people sympathze with the Fenian
movement for the liberation of the Father
land from British oppression:
TIE NEW FENIAN MOVEMENT.
The great Fenian demonstration i'm Chi
cagO, last Wednesday, was one of the most
significant events OK the times. The fact
that the Irish patriots have openly stepped
upon the true platform for men desiring
liberty and independence for themselves
and their native land-a platform claiming
liberty as the natural right of all men, and
self-government as the natural right Of eve
nv peoples no less significant and inn
pOrtant than the fact that the declaration
of these principles has Immediately rallied
to the support of their cause the open SYM
patty and Outspoken approval of men re-
cOgnized as leading statesmen and politi
clans, powerful to influence the nation in
behalf of any cause worthy of popular APP
proval and aid. Ii is fixed fact that the
American people do not and will not SYM
pathiZe with quarrels for there Independent
government. Whether nation or pcO-
pie is ruled by one government or by an
other, if both are alike despotic and illibcr-
al. few Americans care a copper. But
while we cannot actively sympathize with
a people struggling for mere change of
dynasty, our sympathies were never yet
appealed TO i'm vain in behalf of any people
struggling for liberty and human rights,
and recognizing those broad and liberal
principles as including all men. in accord
ance with our own immortal Declaration
of independence. So long as men claim
liberty for themselves, but deny u 70 Others,
they cannot eTpeef md riH not receive the sym
pathy Of others. But the motto of liberty for
iii men enlists at once the sympathy of all
who love liberty and their fellow men.
The great mass of the Irishmen of the
United States have for years voted steadily
with party opposed to the principle of
liberty and equal rights to all men. whose
creed embraced only liberty for the white
of the United States upon all subjects ex-
cept slavery. but was not broad enough to
reach ont beyond the United States, and
embrace liberty for lrishmen in Ireland
In return for the mistaken fidelity with
which they have served this proScriptve
and illiberal party. the Irish, seeking liber-
~ for their own native land, have appealed
in vain for aid and comfort to the Demo-
cratic leaders. No Democratic Governor
has addressed them words of he arty SYM
pathy, or pledged them his countcnance
and good will, like the Republican Cover
nor Oglesby. of Illinois. No Democratic
statesman. of wide celebrity, has assured
them of the sympathy of Congress and
pledged them his personal support. like
Schuyler Colfax, Speaker of the Rcpubli
can House of Representatives. No diStin-
guished Democratic leader has openly ia
Ken the stump in their favor. like General
Logan. Republican candidate for Congress
in Illinois, and distinguished Union Gen
cral. On the contrary, the Democratic
leaders all profess TO sustain and admire
Andrew Johnson and his administration
which has proved the greatest enemy of
the Irish patriots they have yet encounter
ell. more formidable than the Canadas and
more trCachcrous than England
But the entire body of the Irish people
as well as the Fcnians should understand
distinctly that the powerful champions of
freedom and human rights in this county.
"a well as i'm all countries, bCstow their
sympathies and lend their aid where they
discover the principles they love, and not
elsewhere. They will sustain the Irish
cause II that cause means freedom and human
rights; and not otherwise. They will aid
and encourage the Irish people. if the Irish
people sustain freedom and human rights;
and not otherwise If the Irish Republic
means liberty TO all men. majority of the
American people mean the same thing; and
the two are fast friends upon principle and
united in sympathy. But il the Irish Re
public means simply freedom for such as
are able TO get it. or have it given to them
because of their color or religion, OF poll
tics. the majority of the American people
do not believe in any such doctrine: and
those of them who believe in il. like the
Democratic party will leave them to OBJ
tain their freedom if they are able To get il
alone. or To wait until it is given them, ac
cOrding TO their own doctrines.