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

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reached until the millennium shall have arrived This
probably dawn when man becomes perfectly angelic,
a thing which may happen in upper sphere, but
which does not at all probable in this the first and
lowest stage Of the arva It puzzles the unthinking
portion of mankind to account for the dsnegraton of
homogeneous people like the Irish. Why don't the
Irish unite?" "The Irish can never unite I" Until
unite we can never do anything" These sentences
have been echoed from generation to generation since
Strongbow landed on the shores of Ireland.
We do not intend to accuse our foreathers for their
divisions and euds at the time Of subsequent to- the
English invasion; for England herself was almost as
severely up by faction in those days Ireland This
is something that to be overlooked in history
when talk Of the chiefs and clans and provincial
kings fighting each other with as much persistency and
malice as they fought the invader; and gorying
the destruction of their brothers with much display
of local pride England was rent asunder all this time
and for years afterwards by this feuda SYSTEM
much as Ireland was. The English became united by
foreign By turning the thoughts of the nation
outwards the swords of the nation turned outwards
ALSO We have doubt that the invasion and conquest
l-so-caled-of Ireland did more towards uniting the
English than any peculiar excellence in their character
about which they pirate so much. The Irish chiefs
sometimes stopped their throatcutng of each other
fight the invader At such times they were sure be
successful After the enemy was driven to their Ships
or seaport towns-sometmes almost swept out of the
countryside devil found work for the idle swords and
kens of the chiefs again. for they lowered the national
banners, and hoisted red hands" and strong hands,
and went at their old work of killing each other The
sins Of the fathers visiting the children the third and
fourth generation, may apply to people, but we
insist having them follow us to the fortieth. The
unfortunate part of the descent is that while all our
fathers sins have descended to u.s. royal flow so many
Of their virtues should have been lost by the way
The complete unity of any people, no matter how in
telligent well governed they may be, is impos-
sibity. Indeed the unity of majority Of nations is
preserved by force But any kind of union that pre-
the family nation from extinction better than
no union at ALL
There are ten thousand reasons why Irishmen are
not united. A people which have been crucifed for
hundred years. whose land has been confscated
whose laws have been oblterated whose shrines have
been demolished whose intelligence has been outlawed
whose history has been written in blood, whose towns
have been depopulated whose fields laid waste cannot
be expected possess all those virtues which those
who have been protected and encouraged by national
governments do not always possess. We have gov
eminent around which our national aspirations might
cluster. We are mighty army that has become
demorazed by defeat and suffering and whose generals
have fallen in the fight Our very numbers and strength
destruction. Let regiment become demoralized
and they be brought under discipline again but let
army vast in numbers and vehement in passion be-
terrible chaos?
This is our position to-day. We are huge, undis-
ciplined routed army Our victorious enemy is hot in
our pursuit He has inexhaustible commissary and
well filed exchequer pay his victorious troops and