The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-09
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
The fish Bishops on the Fenians.


lit greatly be anented that the Catholic Bishops OF
Ireland should act in such as to provoke II not TO
Justify language SO violent and disespectl as that which is
employed in the following article which quote from the
PHILADELPHIA Unirsethe oldest Catholic journal in Amer
lea For SAYING less the journal has called us such
hard names as infdel "abolitions" etc. Nevertheless
we are always ready to forgive the repentant snnerJ
The cable has brought the that the Irish Bishops,
assembled in council in Dublin have issued condemnation
against Fenianism This is good, merltorous loyal,
and udcous act For: what right have the Irish people
be free? None whatever The wretches-e them con-
nue in slavery. Haven't they been in distress Tor
hundred years. and do not seven hundred years OF
desposm make right in any form Of government These
Irish people are the nsoent the most audacious and
wicked nation in the world. Datlection-nay positive
revolt after seven long centuries What guilty damnaole
can they say word against England? They should stay IN
their chains and be hanged to them They have no natural
right decent clothes for their ragged backs to
GOOD food their hungry bellies to comfortable houses to
dwell n to make any subsistence for their children They
Indeed they have not This Fenansm is most diaboical
conceit. Why positively, 1T has endangered the ex,
sence of the yrant and elevated the hopes Of ire Vlc%
day. none under the moon by nght-oh none under any
circumstances People utterly Ireland The
inhabitants of that country in like the inhabitants
of other countries The Spaniards their SO do
the French; do the Americans and SO DO many other
races But the Irish have right of this kind The
cession of such right to Ireland would be tantamount to
this that England has right to lord it Ireland with
internal laws Of course such pnnclpe can never be con
ceded Hence would say ethe backguard Irish bequet
and be hanged to them Nay more we would sincerely
adve all Irshmen who not Fenians-bu are sorey
afraid that every bloody rascal of them enroed-o shoot
down the Fenian dogs wherever they meet Them And to
shooting they might with much proprety add quarferng
and quarterng sticking heads and trunks and limbs on
polls fixed the roads This would be magnificent
proof of loyalty England would be delighted at the sight,
and new Victoria cross would be sent to every brave
fellow who had hand in it. They are fools If they do not
work for this unparalleled reward What trophy such
cross would be to hand down to their descendants! We
hope the fine opportunity will be embraced And we would
90 further The remains of those prime Fenlans-St
Lawrence OToole and Archbishop Punket should be dis
inferred reduced ashes and then scattered with
in the of Holy England to the winds OF hell
Fenanm will flourish in the SOIL And even further still
The prisons should be broken open and the Fenian inmates
stoned to DEATH These scoundres have right to live
minute Did they not try emancpate country which
had right be emancipated? They didhe cutthroats
Therefore, let them be stoned to atoms This viper OF
Fenanm must pounded out at every cost If this not
done quickly the people will actually begin think that they
have better right to their native hills and plains and
valleys than the loyal sheep heers and buoes which
now being aened them for the omnyorous appetite of
John Bull In fact they might think that they had
right also the animals That would be most dreadful
Hence our readers will admit that the danger is imminent
The Bishops have done we'll. We wonder iusrious
John of Tuam among them If not he should be arragned
treason for he has been formidable teacher OF national
independence all his life But the Bishops have not done
quite as we'll the right demanded They said mourning
about the funerals Asuredly they should have reprobated
that Infamous funeral which took place lew gays sra and
Belfast Forty thousand people attended that funefa anu
every one of them wore green Did the Preates not see
that diabolical multtudnous funerals OF this kno oo ~
calculable ill to England? The Irish have no
to 90 to funerals under any pretene But wearing the
now what the devil right have they got TO wear
Oh the PreIaes committed great oversight IN nov v
the f1neralsl The sacred power OF England WIZ ~
a them for that omission We trust, however, nat Inc
NEGLECT will be corrected And when the BISHOPS ~ t
in concaye to do what they omitted they snouu ,;h
with long manifesto The people are in malignant
state of error which should be removed ey 81 ta;
they have right to independent sar Iban other men
IN notcs they think that nature intended them TO make