The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-23

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known fact that the ruan ruler of France will not this
hour tolerate the idea of Republic in either Spain
Italy In fact so long his power remains unbroken
such thing is simply out of the question And sad
and sorrowu enough is the reflection that the largest
and most civilized section of the great Celtic family
that which rules the fair fields of France-shoud
be turned into Infamous confederation of tyrannica
Thugs, whose object is to strange human liberty Now
does anyone possessed of the ten housandth part of
crupe of brains imagine for moment that the great
organized conspiracy against the rights of mankind
called the monarchy of England would tolerate the
sence of free Republic in Ireland for single year?
Suppose you were able to fight them in the island and
drive them out of it. Suppose you able to meet
and conquer them the And these for people with
out base ofsuppes legally destitute of national rights
and relying mainly for support upon about couple of
hundred thousand persons, the vast majority of whom
workingmen-these we say, for such people, are
large suggestions They are easy things in wnd-n
the mouths of ranng takers who have plenty of lung
with dreadful scarcity of common sense-but in
reality they undertakings of something next to
insuperable difficulty. But suppose they accom-
plished, could English tyranny and Irish liberty
tinue to live side by sde, channel of some
thirty miles wide? The thing is impossible One or
the other must perish.
Which it is to be must depend in small degree
the which taken now by those who have
to live for their countrys liberty and if necessary
die for it. Let them take every available measure
and there some avaiabeto sap the foundations of
aristocratic tyranny in England itself Make the work
ingmen Of England of whom there are more than five
Millions acquainted with their wrongs and rights, make
them not only reformers but Republicans and word
for it, you will break the that binds Ireland in
chains and that is done there is enough of daring
and devotion left in land and to rise and
plete the work of national deliverance
Some wseacres will shake their shallow heads and tell
us that such an undertaking is hopeless. Blessed are
the ignorant for they know nothing" Whatsay the facts
of history? They tell us that there Republic
in England, one that fought and conquered, on many
bloody field the entire gentry and nobility Of the land
with their King at their head yes and which left that
aithless yrant headles corpse before the windows of
his palace at Whitehall This was beyond all question
the grandest lesson that the Amounted occupants
of thrones received-at least up to that period. To
this hour it makes regal ruans little uncertain about
the continued duration Of the union between their
secraed heads and the royal shoulders which they
SET Is not fact too, that the Chartsts of Eng
land Of the most numerous and decidedly
revolutionary bodies Of men in Europe up at least till
1848? And is it not another fact that Irishman,
Fergus OConnor their trusted leader? But, alas,
had he been less of agtator of the OConnel stamp
and more of sterling revolutionst there might be
different tale to tell to-day about English and Irish
liberty. But even with all his faults and failures thou
sands of the honest artisans of England would have
freely sacrificed their lives for him. We can well re-
member that the day of his funeral in London as
the huge procession winding around the size Oh
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