The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-02

unworthy of the peoples condencethat Victoria Queen
of the United Kngdomand that with the blessing of God
and by virtue of the Constitution she shall remain Queen
until the end of her natural life mauger the frohngs of Irish
serfs who cry out for freedom.
While rejoice at the extinction OF slavery can never
elevate the Irish bondman to position OF political
equality with the freebo Briton his superior alike by the
laws of nature and natures God.
would grant the Celt every civil right which the saxon
would afford protection to his person and property
because it is just but would at the same time withhold
from him all political power not only because unnecessary
his welfare but because its exercise would prove danger
ous if not disastrous to the State.
And yet this universal suffrage is what the leaders of the
Reform Revolutionary party most srenuousy contend for
1t the alpha and the omega of their political faith 1t is
their panacea for all the ills which afct the country.
In the whole history of human fanaticsm-in the annals
of human ignorance and auiy there cannot be found
instance of folly wckedness at once SO monsous and SO
absurd as this.
What! has it come to this that the freebon Brons of
this great nation incompetent to govern it? Is it true
that they require the aid of superior intelligence to
enable them to manage their own aars And this be So
the of Irish bloodprobably the least civilized of
all the of mehe instruments best adapted to supply
the lack of virtue the part of the English people?
And yet this repeat and this alone is what the Reormers
Revoutioniss by reconstruction in order to effect
which, the basis of the manhood suffrage they are
determined If necessary, to inaugurate civil war; not war
between States and nations conducted according to the
of civilized nations but domestic war, which will involve
every city and and neghborhood and family in the
| kingdom in its helish and bloody horrors.
To accomplish this end they have organized secret po
ca society," whose chiefs threaten to march their forces upon
London depose or hang the Queen usurp the functions Of
government outside the Constitution" as James
Stevens has declared.
NV friends this is no fancy SKETCH it is literally terribly
1t the programme of the Fenian and Reform leaders
and newspapers publicly and repeatedly avowed by them
selves In the meantime while plotting this foul treason
against the Government they faithfully and steadily continue
to plumber the public.
And this all this, to found Irish Republic the wreck
of the English monarchy embracing the garden spot of the
world that these architects of ruin may retain the
which they have SO criminally abused.
Sir, this state of affairs cannot last much longer The
country needs repose
To meet the present crisis four things in my Judgment
are expedient if not essential.
First-The Reform Revolutionary plan of reconstruction
be abandoned the law by which it pretended to be
justified repealed and the Union of the three Kingdoms
restored its original exclsvene The scheme of recon-
sructon attempted be carried out by Reormers and
Fenans infamy and outrage nuly and cheat
nay worse it is impossib Its enforcement is there
fore double to be deed and opposed as an act OF
legislative tyranny without parallel in history
SecondlyThe British Government must provide suit
able place. somewhere beyond the limits of territory
say Mexico the Sandwich lslandor the colonization
of all the rebeous Irish and such renegade Brons of this
country in favor of manhood suffrage and equality
think this is the best because it is the cheapest mode of
getting rid of these shameless creatures. They claim
equalityet them have it, and enjoy it by themselves
If they must amagamaevote together work together live
together breed together-e it be in distant cme
where their denominations neither attract the observation
nor shock the moral sense of Christian people
Of these two elements Saxon and the ris-he latter
is infinitely the espectabe and is matter of aston
ishment how the unmannery Ce who have for the
part been decenty brought up to know their proper
places soop low to consort with such mean vile
English trash The thing almost incredible and absolutely
incomprehensibe
We have doubt but that the whole Irish will pro-
against the barbarsm of the Tory Earl of Luddngons
Speech cry shame the black heart and bgoed brain
that would this hour of the worlds history give uerance
such soulless mockery of nations Can we never
escape the caumny and persecution Of this anous Saxon
ogarchy? Surely there race so prosecuted as
ours and the malignant spirit with which the hirengs of
England-no being satisfied with numbering and robbing
follow U.S. is perfectly unaccotable Let one loud voice
of protest ascend from the Irish people of America against
the insulting and inhuman sentiments of this pampered earl
but before doing so let them ask Themselves what od
think If the same sentiments word for word uttered b full
booded hisma and enthusiastically Endorsed by audience
onehaf of whom Irish Impossibe cries our ndig