The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-09-07

of common stock They distinct race, with as
manypecuarites and excelences to distinguish them
from any European people there are between the
French and Enosh Let this bosh cease, and let the
Americans claim no i" common ancestry with any
Euronean neople dwarfed by tyranny but let them call
themselves the AMERICAN RACE This eternal cant of
Eno;sb robber lords and hireling scribes, and their
humble and unmanly echoes this side Of the water
is nothing but pous falacy. Why does not our Ger
man nation claim common ancestry with the Amercans
There is more good old Dutch blood in American VEINS
tenfold as much as English. Why does not France
claim kindred with America? France, the good mother
who guarded Columbia in her cradle, when the lion
mother was crouchng for her throat Were it not Tor
France, it is more than likely that Washington whom
Lord John SO delights to honor now would have swung
from the highest tree in Massachusetts, Virginia
Yet France is too honorable to crying to America,
claiming common ancestry" The German nation, to
which America owes half her greatness is too proudand
honest to beg relationship. And yet, either of these
two peoples could lay stronger claims to friendship than
England
We quote again from the light:
Had Lord Russell stopped with these generalities they
might have passed for the coureses of aerdnner
speech and the applause with which they greeted would
hardly have echoed beyond the walls of ST. James Hall
But he went on to say:
.s s S % ss @ dss saassssa to
establish their iadpendee and The time CONTINUE a and per,
odAoyrence 1ut the SSo
s" s$ :%Ss' ode s INTO sor
This was very frank and honorable aende for that cpl
grammatc saying of Lord Russell which did SO much to
judce in England "The South is fighting for
Independence, the North for Empire"
What more is wanted? Any little differences that
L. l
"wolf and lamb are happily smoothed over by
the admission that though England attempted the life
of her Democratic daughter she stabbed her msunder
standngly and America can be thankful that she was
not killed Now that she is fully recovered from the
attack and having got thew and muscle going to
waste for of exercise England willing to beg off
All good Christians of course, will sympathze with the
old dame Let our Yankee friends be "magnanimous'
enough to send the lion some tooth picks for then
fathers bones are yet sticking between his teeth.
Here is choice bit of scandal brought in to "pont
moral and adorn tale:
1t easy enough for each peck the others ailngs
and to assa vulnerable points with unfriendy criticism.
Contemporary England has shown how Vulnerable is thu
British policy of the past fifty years. Andthe present write
Mr. Hepworth Dixon exaggerated accounts OF Splruas
and Mormonism used to disparage American society
provoked to say "Spirituasm is form OF delusiol
that seems to ascnate the Imaginative and the soowing
but trust that the that Her Majesty has become
victim of such fancies not ue as an American have
such pride in the good of your Queen, that canno
believe that she magnes the soul of the Prince Cosor has
passed into the Highland servor who is her constan
attendant"
ooh! ah no. indeed Of course you will rot believe it.
But if decline take up such scandal concerning YOU
Queen why do you judge the intelligence and religion
America by Mr. Dixon's scandal|
ooh! yes quite So"
"Then as Mormonism, Utah is just the Botany Bay
Christian Europe and observe that at this moment there
Mormon missionaries in London, seeking among you
people the recruits which they know they cannot find among
English"
just So our English cousins form the most brilliant
haray in the long professions American Botany