The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-16

since first the foot of the foreign oppressor touched
her shores the spirit of liberty departed
gave up the holy contest but is ready and anxious to
renew it to-day as she hundred years ago. in
the face of all the iron power of England and of all the
blasphemes and curses which her heborn emissaries
can utter Or is in point of that domestic purity for
which the stern Republicans of the oden time were so
noby distinguished For the sacredness of family ties
and the honor of female virtue country stands peer
less among the nations We could easily add other
items But time and space compel us to forbear What
we have rected constitute high and noble record and
ust6es the feeling which has prompted and inspired
the services and sacrifices ofour lives that such people
are worth saving.
But we prepared that account, to lay aside all
regard to truth and honesty and aater them with the
stupid and disgusting lie that they autess people
We scon and spit upon idea base and vile. Coun
trymen and brothers, you have much good to learn and
much evil to unlearn and the you know it, and
the deeply and painfully you convinced Of it,
the likely will you be to enter resoutely that
course of efsacrfce which alone conducts to real er
ling WORTH deserved success and to happiness
How stand you with regard to UNITY? Have you
ever been united people? IF SO, we would like to
fought you as nation She fought you against each
other For four hundred years it Irish clan against
Irish clan Then after that game played out" it
was religion against religion Catholics against Protest
ants Is it not SO still Is not England, with the
assistance of John ONIahony, fighting the different
tons of the Fenian Brotherhood against another
here in America to day? There unity in other nations
so far as their independence and liberty concerned
Let foreign invader land in France or England or
the United States and the last the people of these
countries will rise and hurl their enemies into the grave
or the Is it in Ireland Alas, alas, should
heads with ashes and sit low in the dust OF
humiliation when attempt to answer the question.
How stand you in point of deUotion to yom
nationality Is not the fact that out of every
ten of the Irshmen of America live and labor not to
their country, but to upho1a the party IN
american politics to achich they are aHached9 And
what has that partywhat has any American political
party-done to free Ireland? We will not mince mat
ters Such Of conduct could not and would
not, be followed by their hearts true to the
cause Of Ireland. We leave our readers to draw the
inference.
Do you ertend freely to others the liberty qohch you
yehementIy demand for yourselves? How stands your
record in this respect? Of religion we shall say moth
ing Perhaps we not in the habit Of consigning all
who differ from us to -, WELL to "uncovenanted mer
cies" Let us come down to earthly affairs. Over and
over again have been told to teeth that no Irish
man ought to be Radical >" Radical meaning the
extension to others of that which claim for ourselves
that THE IRISH REPUBLIC, because it advocated
universal liberty, must die" You were not long since,
an oppressed people, who escaped, with bare life, from
task-masers cruel as any Virginia Alabama ever
knew. How have majority of you acted how are you
now acting towards the lately emancpated people of the
South In the past you would have locked their letters
In the present you deny them the right to vote Do you