The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-09-28

as part of the sins of the fathers visiting the children
The world is moving, however. There has been a
GENERAL smashing I'D of " dead empires within the
last seven years Previous to that tme four millions of
men. here, in free America were egalized chattels.
Slavery was an institution over whose sacredness the
gis of the Constitution was thrown and to enter its
forbidden ground unless with shoes off the feet and
with bated breath and reverential ave. was DEATH.
When John Brown marched to the scafold between
scowng rows of the "chvalry of serfdom," and when
Governor Wise the law indicated and pronounced
the old traitor" dead who thought that there would be
such general delivery and that the arrogant Of
the South, whose pride and strength and glory were
drawn from the lives of their human chattes in defend
ing their accursed institution would be tramped into the
dust beneath the feet of freemen chanting
John BrSw1; body s lies or the grave
Who that has witnessed the emancipation Of 4000,-
900 of will despair Of the ultimate triumph of free
dom over depotsm the world over 1t remains for the
country that smashed their letters to complete the work.
and make the slave of yesterday freeman indeed 1t
is useless for to evade the subject of impartial sui
frage by sophistry-useess bring up that tyrants
plea against giving their freedom, that they
not capable of using their freedom judiciousy" The
who have the souls Of fighting and dying for free
dom be safely trusted with the simple privilege OF
the ballot The party who would deprive the black
man of his full rights to equality before the law"
would also deprive white of those same rights, did
the opportunity offer or their sefshness require them
to do SO. We appeal to countrymen who, having
escaped from system of slavery fully as bad that
which was washed out in the blood of its supporters in
ric oil nattu udicpS Uivn
their voices and votes to the rights of the
cuted. Shall we, countrymen, like the shipwrecked
mariners who having been flung upon the rocks beyond
the reach of the angry sea, fling back all others who
seek to escape from death shall we, being safe our
Selves extend charitable hand to all sufferers and well
come them to that refuge to which welcomed
ourselves by others The eyes of the nation
Our duty to America demands that having received all
the grand privileges to which citizens entitled we
should not be the selfish ngrates that would deny to
others what we demand for ourselves Give the black
man liberty-without the ballot he is still slave-and
liberty will not suffer thereby. Having escaped from
slavery he will know how to sympathize with struggling
nations and when the time that Ireland feels able
to strike for her independence every black voter in
America will cast his ballot for freedom against tyranny
The only objection offered by the enemies of universal
liberty against the black mans right to the ballot is his
ignorance That, having escaped from slavery where
all avenues of intelligence regousy shut from
his darkened SOUL he is fit to the ballot The
great trouble is that were he admitted to full citizenship
he avod the ballot against has enemies and the enc
mics Of liberty. The English Government-so high is
their regard for conservative the
ballot and the of by the Irish people. They
say, give those ignorant Irish arms and they acW kill
each other! Give them the ballot and they oM not use
1d'c'0"s The Irish people would use that ballot and
bullet against the yrants acho haze robbed and murdered
them, and this the yrants know While petitions miles
long, and monster talking meetings are legal and fost-