The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-12-07
comes men who will go into oblivion with an extinct
race or rise into Immortality with regenerated nation.
Irish Support of Free Trade with
England.

mention his name although it is not by any
unknown in the political and literary life of this
country. An Irishman by descent, and an American
by BIRTH he is he tells U.S. naturally attached to the
liberties of both lands He would preserve the glorious
privileges of the one and restore the usurped rights of
the other He tells us that, feeling thus he has de-
rived considerable qualification from the discovery,
which he has made through the perusl of The IRISH
REPUBLIC that some Irishmen are beginning to open
their eyes to the TRUTH and that is, that England's
strongest and weakest point is her commercial suprem
acy. If" he adds, "you want to fight successfully
this robber of the nations you must do it at the custom
house. But alas instead of doing that the Irshmen
of America have pursued exactly opposite course
and have BEEN of the sanderer of their race and
derer of their country, THE MOST DEVOTED ALLIES"
Somebody has savagey asserted that mankind are a
mass of contradictions" The sentence is too sweeping
to be absolutely true But must be confessed that it
has more foundation in fact than is altogether comora-
BILE to contemplate Take even the most sanity ndi-
vidual Is not large part Of his secret life contest
between convictions Of right and tendencies towards if
not actual apses nto that which he taught to regard
as wrong? And when we take look at nations, the
spectacle behold is anything but exhilaratng
France which claims to be the mistress of modern civ
ization has high record of combats and sacrifices for
the of human liberty. YET the ruler of France
chosen by something which pretended to be universal
suffrage, is at this hour the jaer of Europe England
which extends to few hundred wreched Greeks in the
island of Corfu the right Of choosing their govern
ment, and gorifes herself without limit because she
thus recognizes the right of to rule himself turns
round and within the last few days hangs three nno
cent in the city of Manchester because they
the right for the land of their BIRTH and for the
millions of the race from which they have sprung
But in this respect are Irshmen themselves blameess
Have they any good reason to Justify them in
blazoning the inconsistencies of others? To this we
compelled to return the melancholy answer that
while clamorng for the liberty of their own oppressed
race the other side of the Atlantic, they gave all
their sympathy all their moral and political support
those who would if they could, have perpetuated to
unborn ages the chains of enslaved people here in
America, and who are still resolved if they posi-
bly, accomplish it. to treat that oppressed SO
many helots and pariahs in the land Of their birth
This is not pretty picture It is neither consolng
nor encouraging one-God knows it is not. Nor is it
improved when we fnd as we do at this moment, that
not few of those who pirate glby about republic
in Ireland, will curse, with venom which only an
eternity of horror can satiae all who advocate repub
lie in Italy But bad as all this u.s. the climax of Irish
inconsistency not capped yet Look at the action of
Irishmen towards political parties here in the United
States of America. Among the Republicans we have
never attempted to conceal that England and her na
nous government have got few devoted friends,
like Sumner and Stevens, whom have before
charged and now again CHARGE with being false to the
cause of their country and to that Of universal liberty
But for all that the principles Of the party to which
these men unhappily belong cut right at the root Of
English tyranny as we'll as of every other form of
human oppression, and would if followed out to their