The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-16

predecessor In determined hatred and uncompromsng hos
ty to the barbarous tyranny that reduced it. step by STEP
to degradation and ruin.
Irshmen of the South do you not hear as all the world
does the accumulated wrongs your oppressed countrymen
crying to heaven for the vengeance tady here below Be-
hold the hosts of famshed and broken hearted heots that
land daily the shores of Observation-Disclosures homeless
outcasts in strange andwho have been driven from the
homes of their ancestors where their fathers lie buried by
the pastoral uurpaons of the mercess agrarian law
makers Behold the prisons erected upon your native soil
by the yrants of former days. again repee with those of
unfortunate counrymen who but dared to gnaw
their chains goaded desperation by the eight of their
fette and slowly but surely tortured into convict graves by
hunger and cruel and inhuman punishment Behold the
murderous and wanton assaults of brutal sodiery upon
unarmed defeneless and onen; the $4,000 paupers
literally anting and furnishing by the roadsdes as they I'M
consciously stagger and stumble onward the amine-ed
churchyards and the 100000 wreches who annually flee
from the pecer to find their last resting place in the
bottom of the sea- and many alas to step those shores
feemen but in name ncrused with the barnaces of long
years ignorance oppression and slavery neglected their
kindred poor mprovdent and abandoned ae they are
but too oen and too certainly corrupted and their national
traits and characteristics perverted Behold the evictons
and homestead dwellings of the last thirty years. the ends
atrocities of the instruments of the law the nsuerable
intolerance of the opulent landlords Cypress
i've and exacng than BEFORE the deliberate and
the country and the brutal and swnsh tyranny of the law
making power that has driven each succeeding generation
into premature and hopeless rebellion.
Again say you unite brothers and determined
to be Free By uniting you cenraze your power and make
it irresistible Think you if but onehalf of the Irshmen
of the United States but organized and combined for the
dsnthrament of their race that aduaton and importantly
would be the used from the corrupt legislators
of the National Congress the uflment of their promises
No. The fulfment Of their pledges, which in
tended be kept could be demanded and in of
mistakable import By uniting now future deception and
treachery will be overawed There enough Irshmen in
the United States overurn pecemea the Gogoha of
ruption fraud and political Machiaveansm existing
under the misnomer of Repubcanism and substitute in its
stead condition established undeed national principles
the integrity of which should be mpervous the chcanery
of such Sumner and Stevens Think you, if less
than oneha of your counymen united but for the
sole purpose of demanding the exercise of international law
in favor of the Instantaneous held in British chains that
the spacious of the Secretary of State would have closed
their behess the nod of the British minister has
done heretofore The answer too plainly, Now the
panacea for oil shortcomings and msforunes is to be
found only in union the union of whole race,
thorough and competethe intelligent portion of it. Every
opposition go down before it, and among the that
faterng incoherent and unnatural sacerdota obstruction
which is disgrace to the age from which it has been
.exhumed Under the auspices of the Fenan Brotherhood
all this and more be accomplished Hence its influence
Even the education and Of people large
have already materially advanced their status enlarged
and elevated and nroad WIDE into
the hydraheaded vice, ntemperence Now what we
do? Why meet at some convenient but respectable place.
ten twelve, fifteen twenty, organize Circle meet again.
and bring such of your contrymen trustworthy
honorable in Standing and intelligent correspond with the
headquarters Of the Organization No. 10 West Fourth street.
itions Do not mind about whats going be DONE" or
where how All those questions premature. Nothing
can be done till you united When has DONE money
is subscribed for the purchase of arms equipments clothing
etc. the "tramp tramp tramp" of the Fenian men, on
not only British but Irish SOIL will bring you the