The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-12-07

behalf of Irish liberty the entire party principle
tied neck and heel to the interest Of England Iii bar
gain made and carried out by the gigantic thieves of the
old world and the new IF you, Mr. Bull says South
Carolina will throw your moral and material weight
into the SCALE to help me to preserve my peculiar In
sttuton shall engage to do no action and to speak
word by which your righteous rule over the people
of Ireland shall be either destroyed or disturbed"
And SO Mr. Bull rigs out his Aabamas, and lights the
ocean with the glare of Coumbias burning ships.
And the Saveocracy of the South and its ally the
Democracy of the North reigned at Washington from
the days of Andrew Jackson the great to the days Of
Andrew johnson the little and they moved O
finger to tighten or unclosp the chains Of Ireland Yet
rishmen support the party" enthusiastically at this
hour They cling to it creed, to all appearance
sacred in their estimation than that which
Germs their souls eternal veal They perform it as
duty to which everything else must give place. Is this
fatal infatuaton this judicial blindness to have
an end?
All thinking men know as an absolute certainty, that
England only continue her bloatedsupremacy by MAX
ing hersefwha she boastfuly declares herse-he work
shop of the world Let her succeed in doing in
reality and her power will be supreme and perpetual
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tortured victim die in her rags and chains The
derous spoiler has finally triumphed and God and JUS
tice are both defeated This is the meaning of Free
Trade, in the English acceptation of the term. One
would think that to all Irishmen who have SO much
excellent to the supremacy of English rule,
this would be enough to make the very name of Free
Trade and of all parties who connve at support it.
hateful as hell itself But, no. it is quite otherwise.
You surely joking, the reader will be naturally
ready to exclaim. On the contrary,
serious in our lives AS friend has asserted, in the
words quoted at the commencement of this article in
behalf of English Free Trade-and consequently of
English supremacy and power and aggrandizement-
Irishmen have above all Others been Englands most
devoted and useful allies!
We have already spoken of the Republican party We
have admitted, without hesitation, that they far
from immaculate. Here and there the black sheep is
only too conspcuousy evident in the CENTER if not
times the head Of the flock The Judas appears among
the twelve, and carries the bag of his bribery with
unabashed countenance There such disgrace
full instances These your Radical CD advocates of
Free Trade with England But after all they are little
more than exceptions to the general rule The leading
journals and most prominent politicians Of the great Re
publican party Of america true, heart and soul,
to the protection Of their comnty's industry. They
resolved that not England, but America will be the
worlds vast mandatory; that theyw keep the wealth
of their country to enrich their citizens not to ag
grandze the bloody bloated arsocrats of Europe that
they will preserve for their workngmen such wages
as will enable them to live and their families in
comfort and intelligence human beings ought, instead
of sending the cash the be suuandered bv
spendthrif lords and squires in the gambling hells of
London and Paris They resolved that honest and
industrious men IN america oW be protected and not
left the naked victims of an Internal system which has
fed and clothed and lodged their brothers in Eng