The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-08-17

we are about to ask: Are We as race fit for liberty
for the enjoyment of full and untrammeled reedom?'
A good many earnest and honest people have serious
misgyings the subject And we could earnestly wish
that they had less for their doubts Do any real
valid grounds exist which are sufficient to Justify or
warrant in any degree the anxious hesitation expert
enced in many respectable quarters respecting our intel
gent appreciation of the true principles of liberty or
the practical purposes to which we would probably
devote that national independence we are anxious to
attain?
We answer that those who are fit for liberty love
liberty for its own sake They the friends of free
dom principle well for personal interest These
positions we deem unquestonable and unassailable.
Is it SO with all the Irish people, or even with that
large section of them which processes to be liberal? IF
the utterances of the ome Irish newspapers to be
credited anything like fair representation of the
feelings and opinions Of those who read and support
them, we must give negative to the question.
Very lately the eternay antagonistc principles of
monarchy and republcansm, of freedom and slavery,
were pted against each other in Mexico The patriots
who andthe toolof the tyrant
with his mercenary mymidons who fought for dominion
glared death into each others eyes, Thanks to the
strong and true hearts of the of Mexico right
and justice triumphed; and the blood-staned invader
and usurper lost not only the kingdom he sought, but
the life he forfeited. How the glorious
ceived in Ireland land struggling for its liberty?
With groans and sighs for poor Max. and poor Car
lotta" while horrid objurgations hurled unspar-
ingy at the who had done nothing but their duty
to liberty to their country and mankind We cannot
help saying plainly and decidedly that people who can
feel and speak falsely the liberty which they profess
to love, true republicans, and should remain
they are the becs and the slaves of kings. Wetrust
and indeed believe that these lcksptte newspapers
did not and do not represent the opinions Of the a
true, genuine Woodworking, honest Irish people But
it is high time for the latter to come out and let the
world know the truth.
Some weeks ago. an honest and worthy man. who holds
high office among the Irish nationalist of America went
to Europe to take such and might be
advisable and available to advance the great of his
country's liberty It rumored-with what truth
do not profess to deerminethat his arrival in the
old world he put himself into communication with
of the leading republicans and revoutionss of conn-
entail Europe IF he did So he did neither less
than it was his incumbent duty to do To form league,
offensive and defensive, with the heroic who have
uproot monarchcal despotm from every country
it has numbered and cursed and to found in each of
their respective countries such free republic every
truehearted son of Erin abors and prays establish
his native SOIL But how was the intelligence received
by certain Irish American Journals who profess to be
the advocates if not the actual organs of Irish liberty
With something almost amounting to an actual !" thrill
of horror with the most painfully pointed and positive
assurances that the invention of the enemy
that was not is not and could not be true and tina
nothing celestial terrestrial Internal could be g
damaging, or dangerous to cause as the idea OF
an alliance with red republicans carbonari, and other
cursed and accommodated individuals and assocla-
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