The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-07-13

States should be readmed representation in Congress- the
Southern exrebels and their Northern ympahizers natu-
rally graytated towards the support of the Presidential policy
more in consonance with their viewsthey carried he''
Irish with them matter of course. 1t during
this dispute that the Fenan raid Canada planned
fitted out and set in motion; but Notwithstanding the natural
desire of johnson and Seward crafty and concate large
body their adheren and Notwithstanding the intense rr
aton of the North at the supposed derecton of the British
Government in the enforcement of its neutrality laws and the
consequent havoc committed Northern during
the war by the Alabama and other prvaeer yet such
tone public opinion in regard Fenianis that neither
the President the Secretary of State dared openly wha
ever their secret sympathes may have been to wink at the
breach of neutrality General Meade with an army
to the Canada frontier to quash the raidersand Fenansm
is under a cloud here"
"For the present. remember Mr.. Editor that eighteen
years ago. the drama of Ireland for the Irish played
The net results werethe exile and exparaton of of
the leaders, the disappointment of many visionary hopes and
the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars by the hard
working lrismen and OF the United States who paid
for the show In days the drama being repeated
under the of Fenianis with of the soreeaded
exes f1848 managers prompters and shers and
attendance of the bounty jumping riff-raf
supeumerres The results promise to be about the
And fifteen twenty years hence should you and
live long, shall probably revival OF that drama,
under other The curtain will be rung up
grand flourish of rumpe the rrepressbe victim of British
tyranny will again make its appearance the with his
grey reize coat corduroy kneebreeche and hobna Shoes
dudeen in hatband and shlleah in fist to deliver the
TRADE of rant buster and bombast against the bloody Guild
British Empire" There will be arsenal of rifles in dry
and Irish creduly will and embrace each other the
summit of spurious sublmity; and the curtain will drop
fight in cabbage garden cold night dance in the hills of
Kerry, equally ludcrous and abortive tzzte.
have no statistics hand show what proportion the
Irish in this country hold to the native bo the
relative fecundity of Irish and American But allow
ask How happens it that in their pleasant little game
of push the Irish have almost entirely neglected the offices
in the Federal Government? The Constitution requires the
President and Vice President to be native bon but of Cab
Minister'S for instance in number there is not
Ishman; of the nine judges of the Supreme Court of the
United States not of the twelve ENJOYS Extraordinary
of the twenty-five Ministers Resident not These
all appointments by the President with the advice and
of the Senate In the National Legislature, of the
ytwo members present composing the Senate which is
chosen by the State Legislatures lrshman and OF
the hundred and eghyve members of the House of
Representatives which is elected directly by the people in
districts there sevenree of these elected from this
vicinity where the alien born population the native
two to One of these three is John Morrssey prize
fighter gambler and ornament to his And will add
that single State has Irshman for Governor Really,
Mr. Editor it that Irish "push to be understood
somewhat after the of Irish "hoist (which
hoist d0um. 60.
But bring these remarks to close When the Irish
people here conform the spirit of their oath of citizenship
and in renouncng allegiance all foreign kings princes and
poentaes also all active participation in foreign
plots and instruction calculated compromise eneutray
of the land of their adoption they will win for themselves
what they have not present. the respect of those among
whom they have chosen their lott and when they
vie with the descendants of the New England Purans in
obrety and steadness in industry and thrift patience and
and practical sagacty they
may begin dream of pushing the Yankee out of exist
ence," but not until then. VERMONT.
New York, May a. 1867.
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