The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-10-12


are not will cry to Heaven louder than the roaring
cataracts of Niagara, and will sooner later, hope
in day. eventuate in the extrpation- total an
nihiation-ofa power whose progress in every land,
has been marked with cruelty, rapine, murder and
tyranny
Whilst writing this the pen shivers in my fingers,
and my blood cold, because witnessed the events
of that disastrous period Like Cato, in the Roman
Senate, crying out the occasion of every Grafton,
"Carthago est delenda" 1 never alude to English
misrue in Ireland without arraigning tyrants with
this million murder. But enough of this; and now to
the material elements in the hands Of Ireland for her
total dsnthralment.
Doctor Madden states the United Irishmen enrolled
100000, and that of that number 300 900 ready
to take the field and at that period the population
not greater than at present At period long previous,
when the population of Ireland much less than the
present. Ireland after the capitalization of Limerick in
the of years SENT according to MacGeoghan
400 900 fighting men France up to the time of the
battle of Fontenoy, and from Fontenoy to the first
revolution 100000 more, amounting in all to one
million.
There we find Ireland turning out as many warriors
as Xerxes led to battle They left Ireland to re-
turn and regain her freedom but the land they loved
{" they never saw more" and were betrayed by that
heartless ambitious tyrant Louis XIV
In what pleasing contrast to this is the present pow
erful attitude of our exed countrymen in America.
Numbering six or millions, yearning- fercey
yearning-after the freedom of old Erin and in that
audabe desire promised the aid and sympathy of the
vast majority of the native American people.
For the restoration Of the great American Union
more Irish raised during the late war, than
in the service of ungratefu France Will any sane
man. then dare say that half the number of Irshmen
enrolled in the French brigade and especially in the late
American war; would not become formidable antagonists
An overmatch-to England, at home abroad-on
the banks of the st. Lawrence or of the Shannon?
During the struggle for her independence, America
had only three millions of population, and yet with
the aid of $4,000 Irish volunteers and some regiments
of French soldiers under Lafayette, the American eagle
made the lion Of England bite the DUST and drove the
tyrant invaders out to the music of Yankee Doodle"
From that happy hour the era of Americas greatness
commenced, and she has gone since with gigantic
strides-fnging her mighty shadow the rotten
monarchies of EUROPE teaching and pointing out to
mankind that the best security for lasting freedom and
happiness in Republican institutions Ireland has, at
home in England Scotland Canada, and the United
States about fourteen Millions and yet she is ensayed
will in my next letter, show her greater capabilities to
attain her freedom than several of the nations of Europe
who by the great soul and strong sprang to godke
freedom in modern times.
wish to conclude this letter, as every one [ may
write, by beseechng my warm-hearted exied country
men with uplfted hands and imploring accents to
UNITE and stand together brothers all" Oh, be-
loved counrymen for the sake of Christ and his blessed
mother unite for the sake of your pundered sres and
murdered kindred unite for the sake of your eveed
homesteads and quenched hearhs, unte for the sake
of the bloody orgies of 49, the fogged, picketed men