The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-05-25

selves; and to recognize neither MASTER nor leader
nor Chief" except truth, and liberty, and everlast
ing justice
What false systems and traitorous men have done
for their country, they require not to be told
Would they allow us to ask them to turn over
new leaf, and make the experiment of what they
themselves, guided by right principles, can do?
But if Ireland was ca country careless of her
children's fame" in former days, we greatly fear
that large proportion of her people are chargea-
BILE with far heavier offence, at the present hour
What is it? will be instantly, if not angrily, de-
manded.
We answer, tbs the wilful neglect to secure pro-
lection and employment, and-in many instances
the mere means of life itself to poor exiles when
they are flung homeless and friendess as they
often are, on foreign Shore
We speak not now of the slow, cold blooded
wholesale massacre of the helpless and the poor
which England, by her antiIrsh landocracy, is
tinually perpetrating in our native country Alas,
habit hardens even comparatively good men to the
tame endurance of almost any amount of evil
provided, always, it is inflicted on others So we
need not be very much astonished ifmillions can
be done to death in Ireland, by eviction, and fam
and press and platform rather connive at it than
protest against it. Very many of them will con-
tnue, whether we like it or not to shock man and
to insult God, with their praise Of and their prayers
for, system more foul and fendish more murder
GUS and accursed, than the rites of Juggernaut or
the massacres of Dahomey.
We speak not of these things now We speak
of something that is at our own DOORS here in free
America-that is appealing to our eyes, and hearts,
and consciences, every day of our lives-of some
thing which, if we willfully and obdurately overlook
it much longer will proclaim against us in trumpet
tones, which the whole civilized world. shall hear
Judgment of condemnation far more dreadful, and
far more just, than any worst enemies ever pro-
nounced.
In the very last number of THE IRISH REPUBLIC,
an incident is recorded which will help to illustrate
what we mean Away down at the foot of one OF
the columns of the paper-to which place our ex-
ceent printers had, for their own convenience CON
signed twill be found short paragraph headed
" Chivalry and Humanity" It records the name
and suferngs of poor and we doubt not, honest
and virtuous, Irish woman. Her husband found,
like hundreds of thousands of others, grave in
the Atlantic, on the passage from Ireland to Amer
lea. The poor, forlorn widow wandered on to the
city of Syracuse, in the state of New York. She
was near her confinement; and, in the place we
have named without house, or home, or friend, or
SHELTER she lay down, in her maternal agony on the
open street. kind hearted medical man, at his
own cost, had mercy on her. Some of the crowd
consisting doubtless, in large degree, of her
own countrymen-said it was shame, and de-
parted, and-did nothing
Probably not much less than half the inhabitants
of the Empire State are Irish, either by blood or
BIRTH
Since i845-that is, in the short space of twenty
two years-about twenty hundred thousand of the