The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-08-31

Sometimes on being introduced individuals after arriy
ing in country town. where hundreds of Ishmen reside
without reading national paper devoted the cause my
blood becomes chilled to hear Ignorant Irish farmers
who given one cent to the Brotherhood the
nterrogatve, is Fenianism dead?
Feniansm dead? Are the Irish people dead? Fenianism
dead? No. Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen though
long night of British oppression through which Ireland
has passed. has degeneraed and cusomized to slavery
wards of onehalf of the Irish people, feeling their
natural condition to be the interiors of Others though
Their portion OF our who have to this land of free
dom after experiencing want and many paupesm
at home to partake of the bread of liberty which the
uionary heroes 76-the founders this Repubic-have
after fighting the greatest battle of man, given free of cost
the oppressed of the EARTH that all and be filled and
become strong with the bread of life so as to 90 forth on the
real mission of with strong and cultivated intel
lec produce the fruit in the uncuvaed and
trodden nations of the world though say this class
of countrmen who have of the wrecheness
of Ireland than any othewho have behed the living babes
the death bosoms of their starved mothers and yet while
enjoying the blessings of eemen herea boon which should
only be extended to those who would defend through all
emergencies and plant it in the land from whence
refuse join the iberaors of their country aid in any
in the establishment of the form of
in their native land This class of wouldbe Irshmen out
side of self and ordd GAIN is lost everything noble and
grand God themselves Ireland and the world And
shall designate them, and they must be henceorward
known such The Engishized Irish weeds of dscord"
who have strengthened the claim of TYRANNY at home and
who poluting the air of freedom here.
Feniansm dead? No, Mr. Chairman, though it has re-
ceived from its first inception to the present time deadly
opposition and misrepresentation from certain Irish
who kept in luxury by the starving people at home
who ready give them half of their scany means
and who have been elevated to such position of wealth
and grandeur in this land by the hard contributions
of the Fenans enable them send millions of dollars
Europe uphold foreign dynasty the fall of which
inevitable practical thinking portion of the world
the succession of day after night but who neverthe-
less Notwithstanding the sacred memory of the past-the
fidelity of the predecessors of the who compose pre-
sent Organization to their calling in the penal days. when
they had to be protected in the mountain passes of Ireland
yes Notwithstanding the knowledge that Ireland the natural
rival of England in everything which goes constitute
ona power and that In every generation since Henry the
second armed with the English Pope Adrians Bull corsgnng
the temporal power of Ireland England invaded the fair
soil OF Erln down to the present day. millions noble
and historic have not only died the death of slaves and
pauper but also the death of mental know
ing their God their religion, their country except in
name with the recollection of all this and that upwards of
million of the best blood of Ireland died the death of
paupersm in the years 1867 when full and plenty abonded
in the andwhen the warehouses of the different cities were
loaded with the fat of Ireland waiting shipment to England
and died with disease and shipwreck on their
way to the shores of America and that words of the
inmates of five points" New York city-in fact of the
ewd houses of all the large cities Irish women that
halt the rumeers and keepers of den of dissipation
gether with oneha the of those who before
the criminal courts of the country for crimes committed
against the laws rishmen and Irish women into which
condition they driven their arrival here
of want and ignorance and of their early training under
British tyranny and Irish torysm home; that Ireland
possessed literature and national when Britain
was land OF painted savage and that through the prolific
ness of her SOIL the beauty of her scenery her vast mineral
resources the facilities of her rivers great CONNER
c advantages of her extended harbors calling the mariners
OF every cme 1t would seem that she destined by the
Creator to be earthly paradise man but alas this land
which natures God has deced with for every human
enterprise turned by the of the English arsocracv into
living earthly hell where under the robes of Christianity
devils rule both temporarily and spiritually and where men
are systematically stepped in ignorance and through the
furnace starvation which they either die at
home become beggars at the gates of aye where
ne war OF hunger has absorbed its tortring
anu deadly grasp in generation alone than have been
by the cannon of the combined armies of the world
g Inc last five hundred years with such evidence that
W uo VI 1he mentally and physically murdered millions
OF our race are crying Heaven for vengeance that God
country virtue humanity and everything noble and grand
are oug US onward to aid people; that it mortal
s na ne creator against Ireland against the past the
PreSe anu e uture against the of the world for the
e Sh i eos I'VE under such adamnabe heish yoke
charity of people, the wearing Of the naona oS
csr dsd an6 crime than the ministers and
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