The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-06-15
The Cracking of towards.

al character has been our peoples almost total de-
pendence on some foreign power to efe ct their hb
Grafton Some how or other every peasant in Ireland
believed for many long day that the French were
terribly troubled about the degraded position in
which Ireland placed, and, consequence
of such dependence others, the imaginative
minds of the Irish easily believed the old
or Shan Fan Vocht when she crooned
"There ships upon the say"
For over two hundred years this old aoouaan, in
various DISCUSSES has been combing down the bump
of self esteem in people, and teaching them
this slaves doctrine of looking without for that
which must be developed within. So well had the
old lady impressed the people with their own infe
riority, and incapabty for breaking their letters,
that they bent beneath their chains like docile
slaves wandering to the hills, and gazing out into
the boundess ocean, straining their eyes to catch
the CLEAN of that French fleet which, of course,
never gladdened their hearts eyes. In addition
to the advance guard that France was to send to
free us there were several friendly to be
sent in good time by Spain Portugal and of course,
in our latter years by America. So firm the
faith of the people in the coming of those deliver
ers that they, at least began feel that their de-
friends, and matter in which they themselves had
only secondary interest
This Shan Yam Vocht doctrine extended until
the people believed that their own, their coun-
try's redemption not worth the spilling Of a
DROP of Irish blood. Of course the French could
come over and spill as much blood as was necessary
to free our country; but then the French are
people so wellused to spiing blood for land agains)
liberty that they rather like it. Like bullocks they
fatten by blood-letting.
1t is one of the most remarkable phas es of hu-
mainly that the miserable and degraded
people become the more they fear death-albeit the
change from their homes to their graves is hardly
worth covering at This is more remarkable in
people who have been slowly degraded and who
come to believe, at last they have been taught,
that they were intended for persecution and mar
tyrdom and misery. There no persons in Ire
land so much afraid of war as the inmates Of poor
houses Next to those favored individuals come
the recruits for the same institutions. The higher
you 90 the less becomes the fear of death.
But to return to the Shan Voo T0cht, for alas
she is once more grooming her hopeless melody,
and wandering abroad among our people, pouring
her slavsh doctrine Of submission into the soul of
the nation.
Feniansm had taken the old lady by the neck,
and showed her into the grave. 1t seems now that
Fenanism did not heap enough of earth upon her,
for taking advantage of the late disasters the
ganizaton, she has risen in the habiliments of
death and, smarting under the castigation she re-
ceived from Fenian hands, she hobbies round croak
ing " told you 500 You can't free Ireland'-
"Englapd is too strong'' "Those fellows were
cursed and couldn't have luck" "Repent, confess
yourselves, be good subservent slaves, and sin no
more" and SO on.