The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-12-28

allowed them to arm and drill at time when native and
foreign traitors plotting destruction in the cities
and towns of the North Taking all these things into
consideration the officers of such Organization should
never for moment do anything that might estrange the
American people from our cause. We said to them:
You freemen; your fathers fought this same
power that fighting 1t is your duty assist U.S.
Liberty, her friends friend her enemies are our
enemies" How have the officers of the Organization
treated this people to whose federation we owe our ex-
istence as an Organization. The leaders of the two
factions-and they are only fit to lead facons-have
united and offered the Presidency of the united body
man who next to jeff Davis is most obnoxious to the
American people. This is than blunder, it is a
crime 1t is treason America and treachery to the
Brotherhood There nothing in the history of Irish
blunders that approach it. Oh we thank God that
we can throw this shame to the shoulders of few
men; for if Convention of the Brotherhood at large
ndorsed the action of the Senate and G.. g. [. r. we
would deserve to be stamped OUT false to liberty.
What were these thinking of? Do they think that
the American people are stones and the Irish fools
We protest. in the of the liberty loving of our
race, against this insult to Amerca-if the American
people will take an insult from such an insignificant
source-and the nation, in whose broad bosom
millions of hunted and prosecuted people have found
refuge and from whose shores liberty will flow not
alone to Ireland but to every enslaved nation of Europe
that this is the voice of Feniansm but the voice of
men whose ideas of freedom cramped into certain
political and religious circles outside of which they
never It would though that spirit Of
suicide that has killed finest promises of national
life, has arisen in the Fenan brotherhood and that the
Organization has received blow from it's leaders hands
that the power of England could never deal.
We believe and feel that John Mitchell has too much
dscernment to accept the position. Let those leaders,
then at elect unobectionable man. no matter
how humbe-if true to lberty-we do not care straw
about leaders in the past of the wordto take the
Presidency, and the they then retire from their
positions the better Wete them that every man who
has had hand in this terrible treason will be distase-
full to the American people for the future. There are
several of the L r. B. from Ireland and England
who can do at least much work has been done in
the past. John Mahony James Stephens, we would
object to- of but they far preferable to John
Mitchell. O'NIahony is Republican, and was true to
the Union during the It for his loyalty to
America that certain hoa headed Senator'S opposed him.
and not for the cause of Ireland.
In Justice to Mr.. Savage, we must say that it was
from the Senate emanaed the proposition to place the
free men in the Fenian ranks under the charge of
John Mitchell.
We care not what may be the opinions of others, we
will never be false to motto: Liberty her
friends are our friends her enemies are our enemies
We deserve to be turned like slaves master"
for following men, and helping to shove them to the
Organization, who dead and should have been
buried in obscurity long ago. Every Circle in the
land should repudate this insult to America at once
We can have union, but our officers must be con-
sistent men, They must be true, not alone to Irish
liberty, but to liberty everywhere.