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

blessed with the vgor of race the frutuness
of our country and still those people plant the seed and
reap the harvess, while we are slaves working on
English plantations for our masters Slaves whom all
can use and none can own and who worked but not
fed and flung aside, when useless, like brutes Seeing
this we cannot accuse Providence from whom nothing
but goodness can come Of the works and mistakes of
men.
We know that some of our people, under their ter
rble suerings and in their desoate ignorance, have
given up all hopes of the restoration of manness and
happiness to our nation and sink into nohngness be-
lieving that it is all from Providence. We pity those
whom misery and slavery have reduced into this hope
lessness but we despse them for letting the grand idea
of national resurrection slip from their suffering hearts.
We say and challenge contradiction that people who
have lost their national pride, and who willing to
allow the history and glory of three thousand years pass
into nothngness without dying in the struggle for that
nations restoration must run into degradation rats
into sewers. There is other feeling that whips men
into responsibility and preserves their virtues but ma
tional pride. Let this grand national faith in the
ultimate triumph of country be taken away from
and we shall all become what so many Of have
already become hopeless aimess desperate in crime and
needless of censure. No matter how poor may be-
nor how humble positions in the community, while
we are linked to great cannot bend to the
seductons of crime. We have the life Of country
in our keeping and filed with grand ambition, our
motto is, up and ON. We cannot drag country
through the sloughs of debasement, for carry
cause about us wherever we 60
But to return to Providence We notice from the
following from cotemporary that the hand of Provd-
ence was in the defeat of Garbald outside the gates
of Rome:
"Garibald the Frst-and in a human probability Gar
ibald the Las-of the redhanded brgands who recently
polluted the territory of the Holy Father with their unha
lowed touch-has utterly fallen into ruin and obscury The
hero of Aspromonte has been shon of his command and
his vanity at and the time, and is nameess
| captive in the jail of Florence.
ale made no parting address, and looked DID, haggard
and disappointed The revolutionary is broken
down all over the territory
DO e not see IN this terrible Alarming against nedng NTH the
temporarily Of the Pope, the hand Of an o0ise and operT"ng
| Prouidence"
Now this is most attering JUNCTION to lay to spirit
ua consciences, and we admire the feeling Of intimate
relationship with Providence which awards all victories
for oar side to Him. and the victories Of the other side
to the devil We also recognize Providence in the
recent defeats of the Garibaldans-that Providence
which crushed the patriots in Poland and defeated the
Fenians in Ireland-he Providence that always sides
with the heayy batta1ionS.
We refer to this italian affair simply to draw con-
illusions therefrom that may apply to our own case.
While of people have that blind faith in Prov
idence, which requires Heaven to do everything with
out any exertion their parts, we that the
Papa Government had the true conception of how far
Providence could be relied in the defense Of Rome.
Instead of praying and appealing to Providence to meet
the march of Garbald and his men, the Pope organ
lied an army-Swiss, Belgians Irish-everything but
Italans-had them armed with the most destructive
weapons Of modern warfare picked from the arsenas of
France and England sent to France for reinforcemen
induced Napoleon to threaten the humiliation of the