The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-12-14
SPECIAL CoRRESPoN DEN CE.
American Disunion and English Murder
BAREFIELD, ENNIS, Co. CLARE, IRELAND,

November %, 1867.
To the Editors of The Irish Republic.
GENTLEMEN: The telegraph has, by this time, flashed
the broad Atlantic the sentence boldly uttered in the
dock at Manchester that should be written in letters of
god and that will yet be embazoned round the "sunbur
when the green flag of Erin will rumphantly over
her plans"as the prisoners left the dock Shore triumph
anty exclaimed God Ireland and the other prisoners
answered fervently, and her people,"
The herosm of ancient Greece Rome evidenced at
Thermopye and elsewhere be rivaled noby by
any in modern history it in the conduct of
the men there doomed to die
Before of death Shore and the
four other brave fellows the former said empatcay the
unfortunate divisions of counymen in America have
certain extent neutrazed the efforts that have made
either in direction another for the liberation of
country By all these things have been hwarted and,
matter of course submit to ate Hear that
exiled children of Erin in America y Hear it with shame
and bitter for your unfortunate dvsonw Had
you been united people hitherto you now thank God
becoming these dare not be impeached for the foul
crime of murder and of which, with all the solemny Of
about die they declare they not guilty Had the
exiled of Erin preserved unbroken their mighty million
hosts colossal gigantic power terrible than the
writing the wall" would confront the revengeful
yran and with fierce soul and terrible ARM tell him not to
dare spill the blood of innocent men, yearning-noby and
heroically yearning-that God may Ireland" "and
her people,"
Don't mistake me- beloved countrymen. is not in
the of things in the records Of history found
that the bold united threat of fourteen millions home and
in exile dare be disregarded by any yrant power EARTH
you you ought to be in free Americathe
voice of the blood these who have been
hanged owing to your supnenes and divisions be
heard by every soul of you in thrilling mournul accents
mournfu as the banshee Withdrawing you never-never-
desist until you exact summary rerbuve vengeance for
such shedding of innocent blood.
During several trying periods of our modern struggles for
freedom we find the of English yrants stayed and
their heartess obsnacy to claims forced to give way
before the bold avengng threat of friends and kindred
in foreign lands.
Republican France would not dare allow England to i'm
peach as traitor the United Irshman Napier Tandy
an adopted French citizen.
Representatives of the people, said the President Bona
parte referring Wolfe Tone rise to call your aen
ton to the widow and children of man whose memory is
venerable and dear to Ireland and France The Aduant
General Theobald Wolfe Tone founder of the United Irish
Society," who betrayed and taken in his expedition
Ireland persisted in Dublin, assassnated by the illegal
ence of courmaral You have heard the last words of
this ustrios martyr for liberty, eads the of his
trial and deense What could add to this? You him
nnder YOUR own uniform in the midst of this disseminating
tribunal"
Hear that YOU six or seven millions of Irshmen in Amer
ca and blush shame that you should remain divided and
supine under such present CALLING provocations.
"Te it not Gath and proclaim it not in Ascalon" that
whilst enlstng the sympathies of France towards Napier
andv and Wolfe Tone powerless to enlist the SYM
patbes of our kh and kin in the present disastrous
junction The brave martyrs who have suffered an gnom
nous death we're as brave and heroic Tany Tone and
when their blood shed satisfy the ravening appetite of
our alien will not hreks of horror resound from
America and Chrstendom Rest assured this shedding of
innocent blood because these martyrs to truth and freedom
would not on SO solemn an occasion, assert e will be