The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-09-21

av relioous their history is record of enduring faith
of consancy under persecution; OF tne d ;t
cheerfully made in the sustanment OF Religion anu
of tolerance and charity in the hour of trumph and the
whole course of Organization proves tha III 1 ePec
raoe Pof;opbe pnre and reverenia homage which man
offers to his Maker-we regard as sentiment 100 sacfeo 10
be mixed up with the strife OF ear IN G 1eaVe
it. untouched between the conscience OF the ihuua ana
Him to whom the tribute due content with the dscharge
of the second great duty that devoves on man. we do not ask
of on brother at what altar he worshp satlshed when he
honestly serves his country and leaving to his of
rioht the obligation which he alone can discharge.
the power which fifteen millions of the Irish
scattered between the old world and the new must
necessarily exercise if they be true to their country we have
adopted the alternative of revolution because the slavery TO
which our kindred has become too CALLING for
human endurance degrading to be submitted to unress
ngy by beings endowed with the attributes OF men, Our
rights the possession of native SOIL kept from us by
force by the power which grasped both with armed hands
By force and alone they be restored to us IN their
original negry and by force and the strength OF our own
coyery belongs the first place and by efforts to
consolidate and organize people, we but record our ac-
ceptance of the duty and determination to acquit
selves of it like true men and faithful children OF our
country.
against wrong of freedom against oppression 1t is not alone
the cause of nation striving for its Independence is
the effort of ensaved humanity to emancpate itself from the
taldom and debasemen of feuda tyranny The elevation
of down-trodden people is benefit conferred upon the
whole family of naon and of none this be said more
truly than of Ireland which, from her position and resources
is capable if Free not alone of rendering her popu
laion happy and prosperous, but of dusng by example
and influence the spirit of independence throughout the
world wherever her scattered children be found As
people, we have ever loved liberty and struggled for its
tanment people, in favor of liberty to-day not
in the ugenerous of those who would monopoze its
blessing the exclusion of their elowmenbut liberty
universal the benefcence of the Deity of which is the
emanaton impartial His justice, which commands that
shall do unto others would be done by Save this
desire nothing for our race our country And as we
have commenced this struggle determined to persevere in it
until Heaven and the power of right shall have
crowned efforts with success ask the lovers of liberty
everywhere to extend to the aid and sympathy
which it should receive from those who profess to be the
friends of human freedom We ask them regard fairly
and Judge by the standard of opinion of any nd
vidua but by conduct, and the official acts and
policy of elected representatives who the only
legitimate opponents of sentiments and principles And
when the hour to strike shall have arrived and set
faces towards the determined to do die in
the final eort-n the of the God of Justice whose in
spraon and blessing invoke for for the sake
of our common humanity the advancement of which we
SEEK and by the memory of marred dead who persisted
that others might live freemen ask that the good wishes
of all beryloyng and especially the aid and influence
of the great American nation shall be the side Of
Liberty and 1rehRa f6ftune sacred HONOR
GENERAL THOMAS FRANCIS MEAeHER.
The following resolutions the death of General Thomas
Francis Meagher reported by the committee appointed
for that purpose, and unanimously adopted:
s ta
as an frishmsn set large to
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in hs % % & ubmO The
decree Providence this Congress the
of General Thomas Francis MsaghE nato9a calamity
soldier the world has lost of the brightest
produced by struggle for freedom elevate adorn and dignity
humanity; and,
nseparably with the Irish Revolutionary
which the foremost and abes advocates and the
last act of his Irish national affairs
sympathy with the efforts of the enan
liberation of his native land and his earnest desire
aid those efforts the utmost of his personal influence and supports
esoued That attempt appropriate the
clique section the and fame Of Thomas
to the of the heroic dead and SANDER to
r b ST county hereie inv Will pon and bod s xe to- mitae in
the future.
oUe That copy of these resolutions suitably engrossed
and forwarded child of lamented fellow
countryman, and be inserted on the minutes
THE FENIANISM.
iesos9ed That this Congress invite the friendship and counten
anc OF the press for the Irish indie
pendence and that b. viii support those journals which
her rghtfu place amongst the nations of The earth and which will