The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-03-22
THE IRISH REPUBLIC.
Proclamation by the Fenian Govern
ment-A New Declaration of
Independene-An Appeal
to- the World.

After seven centuries of outrage and
misery unequaled in the history of human
ity; after having seen our laws, our rights,
our liberty trodden under foot by the for
eigner, our lands pass from the Irish far
mer to the Trishsor foreign usurper, and
the rightful owners of hundreds of years
supplanted by cattle destined to supply the
markets of England after having seen
our skilled workmen driven into exile, our
men of thought and action to Imprisonment
and the scafOld having no longer either
lands to cultivate, laws or acknowledged
rights to invoke in a word, having moth
ing pertaining to man save the faculty of
euffering OF the determination to fight, we
cheerfully choose the last resort.
All men have right to liberty and hap
Piness. Believing that there can be no du-
rable liberty or happiness except upon the
basis of free labor, aud that there can be
no free labor when the means of labor is
not free considering besides. the first
means of labor is the soil, and that the
Irish soil, instead of being in the hands of
the Irish workingmen, is held by selfish
and despotic oligarchy, we declare it to be
our determination to repossess ourselves Of
that soil by force.
Considering that all men are born with
equal natural rights, and that by assOciat-
| ing themselves together to protect one an
| other and share public burdens, justice de-
mands that such association should rest
upon an equitable. basis-such as maintains
equality instead of destroying tive de-
clare that we aim at founding republic
upon universal suffrage, securing to all the
intrinsic yalpe of their labor.
/ We declare that we wish absolute liberty
of conscience, and the complete separation
of Church and State. ~
The public expenses will be paid by pro-
gressivo capitation (labOr being free from
any imPost.) 49,.
Calling upon God and mankind to wit
ness the justice of our cause and the in
tensity of our sufFerings. we declare in the
face of the world, in order to succeed in
recnnquering the inalienable right that all
men receive at their birth, to take up arms
and combat the dominant oligarohy and,
as its strength dwells in its credit, based
upon its property, We will employ to des-
troy it every means that science, or even
despair, shall place within our reach
Wherever the English flag waves over
English property it shall be torn down, if
it be possible, without fear or truce ;. and
we swear in the sacred name of our coun-
| try, by the sufFerings of those who now en-
dure the tortures of living tombs for the
cause. by the dear and reyered names of
those who have died for the freedom of
Ireland, by our honor and that of our chill
dren, that this war shall cease. only when
the Irish Republic shall be recognized, or
when the last man of our race shall lie in
his grave. -z
Republicans of the entire world, our
cause is yours Our enemy is your enc
my. Let your hearts be with US. AS for
you, workingmen of England, it is not only
your hearts that we wish, but your arms,
Remember. the starvation and deg radiation
brought to your fre-sides by oppressed
labor. Remember the past, look we'll to
the future, and avenge yourselves by Civ
ing liberty to your children in the coming
struggle for human freedom
Herewith is proclaimed the Irish Repub
lie, By erder of the Provisional Govern
ment of Ireland. ..- -.,.-.-.
Changes in Military Departments, Etc.
WAsHrNaroN, March IA. 1.-THE follow
ing change has been made in the geograph-
ical department as now constituted First
The State of West Virginia, Tennessee,
and Kentucky to constitute the Department
OF the Cumberland, brevet Maj Gen. John
Pope to command, headquarters at Louis
vile. Ei, ,sl.
Gen. Grant publishes to-day, for the in.
formation and government of all concern
ed, the act to provide for the more efficient
government of the rebel States, and con-
cIudes as follows: $50 5 '
In pursuance of this act the President
directs that the following assignments be
made &.e a5." 1ei
First District of the State Of Virginia to
be commanded by Brevet Maj Gen. ]. NJ.
schofeld, Headquarters at Richmond.
Second District, Consisting of North and
South Carolina, to be commanded by Maj
Gen. D. E. Sickles, headquarters at Column
bia a4aeae U
Third District, consisting of the States
Of Georgia, Florida and Alabama, to be
commanded by General G. H. Thomas,
headquarters at Montgomery.
Fourth District, consisting of the States
of Mississippi aud Arkansas, to be COM
manded by brevet Maj Gen. E. o. c. Ord,
headquarters at Vicksburg.