The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-05-18

ion Of races-conquering and conqnered-between
Englishmen and Irshmen that there is between
Russians and Poles? Say yes and, supposing the
parallel to be exact find the Poles distinguishing
between the Russian people and the Russian Gov
eminent, seeking for alliance with the people, not
withstanding all injuries and Observation-Disclosures
"for your liberty and for ours* In our Chartist
struggle O'Connell offered an Irish army against the
right of the English people; and the conductors of
the later Young Ireland party, from Charles Ga
vanDuffy toMaurice Leyne, repudiated and reviled
Mazzni and the Republican Party because we
were anti-papal. Is your Fenian policy any diff
terent? Some of us would be glad to know.
believe in the teaching of history. And even
a few recent lessons should be sufficient, 1t may
have been necessary for Italy to care first for unity
and for unity only. If you can point to the for
eigner encamped on your borders, as the Austrians
in Italy, 1 might say-Fight first for unity,
driving the invader from Ireland. Notwithstand-
ing, Italy is yet not one, because she has so far
preferred Cavour to Mazzin The Republican has
yet, from the Capitol, to proclaim the real begin
ming of the Italian Nation. Poland's only nation
al and not republican leaders failed, even as Kos
suth also failed in HungaryT 1t is only the Repub-
to the Russian people, command the dead to
rise again. The kingdom of Poland is an anachro-
nism and an impossbility; and "FIuis Ro1omie"
was the eptaph of all that meant only individual
ism. But the Polish Republic get as, not buried,
but in the quick womb of the future, necessity
for Republican Europe. Only by the Promethean
fire of tie Republic can Europe be revivifed the
life of this great America be fed, for the worlds
illumination.
And as this is the only practical or possible
solution of the ages difficulty, looking only at the
question of sefsalvation, so is it the logical and
proper result of all those higher aspirations and
generous perceptions which prompt us to
make common cause with our fellows, and, while
working for ourselves, however fragmentarily, to
bear in mind the artistic beauty of the whole He
is no true Republican who works only for Ireland
only for England, only for the United States
There may be times in which this man or thatmay
need all his strengthen himself to maintain his
standing place. That is the justification of isoat-
ed endeavors. But even then the Republican
works and strives with relation to the universal
Judge whether it is necessary for you, Irishmen,
to stand alone. tell you, Fenans if you stand
alone today in your efforts for the liberation of Ire
land it is not because there not Englishmen as
heartily DESTROYS yourselves of 1reand's freedom
You may retort that we care not for you; that we
have neither cared to free ourselves nor to hinder
or remedy the i'll our Government has done to you
But in what then do we differ from you? Were
Castereagh and Wellington, who ruled England
and Ireland, Irishmen or English? Is your Catho-
lie clergy English too, well as the Pro-
testant? Are the Lucans and the Shirleys
English? Your Ennistymon and Athlone
guardians English too? The respectable trades
men, whose cheers for an English Queen speeded
the patriots convict ship toward Australia,-were
these Dublin loyalists all ofSaxon blood? Or, are