The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-05-11

tnent. The Russian Government may be best
adapted to the people of that country; and IN the
absence of any information to the contrary from
those most interested, we assume that 1t is their
choice Whether the people of Germany tend to
a consolidation separation OF their various
nationalities, we are satisfied. With France, our
intercourse must be forever that of friend with
friend. For Hungary recovering at length her au-
tonomy we have words of congratuaton; and
even for the Poles we believe there is coming
day. England alone, under all outward forms of
relationship or amity, we are compelled to regard
as the mortal foe to human liberty.
This is but historical consistency. CHANGING at
the condition of medieval Europe, find that
while other countries contending for the vim
dication of human rights under various circumstan-
ces England was the stronghold of their enemies.
"From the devil we come,' said one of her kings,
"and to the devil we Co." Her boosted magma
chorto was the result of the triumph of France at
the battle of Bouvines in 1914, and such it was,
the work of Norman barons for their own prvil-
eges-never crossed the channel to the " Irish
enemy" For then, now, Englishman under
stood by the word liberty, liberty to oppress
So late as the American Revolution the bitterness
and pertinacty with Which that contest was waged
by England-cear issue of might and right it
was-leave no room for doubt on this point. The
men who suffered every form of cruelty and dis
tress at her hands that wicked ingenuity could
nfict, yet speak to those who will hear them from
their graves.
The rise of this inhuman power may be dated
from somewhere in the middle of the last century,
and may be traced to her piracies in the East and
her monopoly of the slave trade. Her profits from
the latter branch of commerce alone, carried
for two hundred and seventy-four years from the
year 1861 are estimated at $500, 00O, 900. Her
robberes in India from the battle of Plassy, 1857,
to the year 1880, counted at ,O0O,OoO,OOo.
This blood capital of $4,000, ooo,o 900 is the
of that modern English power which eliminated at
Waterloo-and not any quality of superiority in
herent in the so-called Ango-Saxon race, in which
if there ever was any Distinguishing quality it was
Norman.
It would be inopportune to review the means by
which this power has obtained her present DOM
nation in Ireland. 1t was not by fair fight
ing. It would be absurd to suppose that
which we grieve to say she has used her most
efficient instrument in war, could be SO subdued
Although 10000 of her troops
trated in Ireland in 1900, in the shadow of whose
bayonets the destruction of that Irish Parliament
was accomplished to which the address of the Con-
tinental Congress of l775 alluded and no doubt
partly on that account" Your Parliament had
done US no wrong. You had ever been friendly to
the rights of mankind; and we acknowledge with
pleasure and gratitude that your nation has pro-
duced patriots who have nobly distinguished them
selves in the of humanity and America y
yet the true history of that period shows that the
great fraud not, and could not have been, con-
summated by force. What is material to know
is, that having obtained her present ascendancy in
Ireland by such means as no other history reveals