The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-05-18

wrong. I acknowledge, sadly enough, God knows,
our English shortcomings as servitors of Freedom,
and of Justice, the mother Of Freedom; it will not
please me to throw the same reproach at you. But
the facts stand there We have been used against
each other by our tyrants. Is it not time to give
up our folly? Is it wise for either to wait even for
the others invitation? Is it not wiser course
to hasten so far as we can, that good understand
ing between the people which shall enable us to
put strength to strength to overturn thrones first
however we may quarrel among the ruins? There
will be time for settling our king fomented SQUAD
bles when we grasp hands over the tyrants graves.
Is your freedom practical question,-a question
of time, of means, ofmoney? Less money and less
exerton than has been spent in this late Irish move
ment toward failure, or in the attempt on Canada,
or than you will spend the poorest probabilities
of privateerng trying to tame the British. lion by
treading on his corns,) would rcvolutionze the
whole British empire The materials are ready for
your using. Time is only relative to exertion.
The question is one of money only. The Reform
movement in England has not cost 1.-THE of FEM
an expenditure 1t is true it may not come to
much, because the farthest-looking reformers have
no ideas beyond universal suffrage as a parlia-
mentary reform land faith in the infallibility of
that remedy is already dying out,) and John Bright
does not even 90 so far as that, wanting only suf
fcient I" garrison (as his friend Mr.. Golden ex-
planned iD sfor present institutions )" but yet
this movement, without principle or leaders at pre-
sent, has power, and would have been powerful as
an ally to you. Had but portion of the funds and
the labors you have wasted been properly applied,
you could by this have stirred all the working class
es in England Scotland, and Ireland, for the Re
public. 1t is question of well-expended money
after all.
Again, then, dwelling upon your avowed aim,
what mean you by the RepwbAc9 We of the Eu-
ropean party, we in England also who have earned
the right of initiating action there (but who will
not complain if we are superseded by more eper-
getic men, we ask to know your meaning. We
ourselves know clearly what mean.
We mean not only the displacement of partic-
ular form of government; but believing that pres
idents but slightly improved constitutional sove
reigns, we mean the abolition of class government,
which is monarchy, under whatever name. We
mean not merely giving the land to the people and
enfranchising them from their thradom under the
priesthood; we mean not only this or that remedial
measure, however just or needful; but we mean
radical reorganization of government and of soce-
ty, a reorganization which shall prevade all ranks
and conditions of men, reorganization whose
principles we accept as a faith, defend with our
reason, and dare to maintain and to promote with
our lives.
By that one word REPUBLIC we mean the equal
right of all men to well-being and well-dong, and
the ordering of all the powers and capabilities of
society for the lettering of every member toward
the perfecting of the whole.
We mean that there shall be none uneducated,
none without property, none shut out, by legisla-
tive enactment or social intolerance, from the peo-
pies land, or from whatever the commonwealth