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

rate from England, but wishing, if the separation
must come, to see the reason and the advantage Of
lt)-Do you mean only ''tyranny done at home,"
or do you look to some reality of the Republic.
Not tyranny done at home, nor tyranny at all, or
the people would turn upon you tomorrow, and
masters of leland one day, you would be tramped
into the tyrants' grave the next You mean more
than that by the word Republic already heading
your manifestoes. What then is your meaning?
Is it the Republic of the past of the future which
you are seeking? I cannot gather this from Fe-
MAN traditions nor learn it from any exposition of
principles you have put forth. Is it the Republic Of
the Past: Jewish, with occasional jubilee for the
poor who shall never cease out of the land %; Spar
tan or Athenian with helotism under the skirts of
your philosophy; SWISS with priests to dictate
the direct and open vote Of the whole community
French or Haytian, with some Napoleon or Sou
louque for emperor; or American with cheaper"
president instead OF king, and congress in place
of parliament? Or is it the Republic Of the Fu-
tire which is neither sacerdotal rule or &c philo-
SOPHIE neither imperial nor constitutional -;
which will not be monarchic or anarchic under any
form or name, or on any pretence whatever?
cannot find that you have either anticipated or
answered this question: which is not mine alone
but the question of all of republican faith or
republican tendencies in Europe. So you shut
yourselves out from sympathies. So, even
though you succeed, you stand riddle before us,
not open, plain-voiced preachers of repubcanism
for the benefit of all humanity, but in your isolation
repeating the old fatal mistake, that of caring only
to win upon one single point of the great battle
field, to win for yourselves So France stood alone
in 1s4e, and, standing alone, fell. l do not say,
therefore, that isolated endeavors are forbidden.
Each man must settle that according to his own
conscience. Let each in the melee strike for himself
when and where he will. 1t is his right we are not
under leadership. But if he make not clear his OBJ
ject and his party, if we know not certainly how
far he is with against us, how shall second
his efforts, whether for his advantage for ours
If your flag bore only upon it "Zrelaaed for the
zrish," might not care to urge much. You have
your right lead your Irish life, with tyranny
done at home, if it please you. But you have
held up the flag of the Republic, and you are an
swerable to Republicans.
do not question any right to separation,-man
or woman, individual from society, people from peo
pie. The naked personal right las it is called for
want of less ambiguous word,) the naked person
al right to secede from ones fellows, from ones
nation, from humanity, may be acknowledged to
the full It is the natural right Of selfassertion,
the sacred right Of insurrecton, the right also of
desertion and of suicide. While Force, the Anarch,
is the only savior of society, savior and emperor of
course, rebellion must be in permanence Let the
slave strike, anywhere, anywhen, anyhow. Strike!
and listen only to the ak or the daggers echo Let
it be war, to the knife, against the tyrant!
The challenged may sometimes choose his weapons
as his time. And yet, when slave to tyrant weap-
poned in whatever way, is still unequal warfare is
it not wiser that the wronged should understand
one another, that they may band together? And