The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-30

since defunct visited Dublin once The cure which
they prescribed for all Irish Ills to the Lord Lieutenant
of that day. was more plentiful use of needles and
thread" on the part of the "loyal" inhabitants of
Dublin. Is it bread? Let the famine graves of Kill
rush and Skibbereen and of thousand places besides
answer that question. Let the pestent emgrant ships
the torture dungeons the millions of exiles in America
and over all the EARTH tell how much the Irish had left
after their country lost Oh, will be tod they
have their faith That at least is secure" Is it, in
deed Such is not altogether the opinion Of the Right
Rev. DIR. Lynch, Catholic Bishop of Toronto. He has
told the world what becomes of thousands thousands
of virtuous Irish peasant girls when they are flung
fendess and helpless into the dssipated and polluted
cities of America He can tell what becomes of thou
sands on thousands of young Ishmen in the barrooms
and gambling saloons of this vast continent IF, as
some are convinced it is the greatest of all evils for
individual to lose his her faith then for one instance
of proseytism through the bribery of sec in Europe
there are ten thousand through the Indifference and
dissipation of America At this hour there must be of
Irish people and their descendants fully millions
in the United States We believe that the highest
number claimed by any Church is four millions. What
has become of the remainder?
for sefpreservation And this we all know is the first
law of nature And any and every people who do not
place it first lost people Are the Irish people in
the habit of doing so?
Wewsh it, in power to give more satisfactory
answer to the inquiry. But
"Facts are chiefs that Wilma ding,
And dare ma be disputed"
Let any man take up the Irish newspapers of Amer
ca and examine mpartialy what is the tone of their
teaching There are not much more than dozen of
them, all told So the task is by means an onerous
or impractcable one And Of at least nine out of the
twelve we assert that for one column devoted to Irish
onaity there are six full of religion and religious
and things. IF these two things were kept carefully
apart, no great harm might possibly be done But,
instead of that mixture of faith" and nationality of
creed and country" it called constantly dished
up to u.s. which of all earthly denominations is the most
vile and contemplate.
Next take our aleaders" and lecturers, whether within
the pale of the Fenan Brotherhood outside the ranks
of that Organization Clerical denunciatons episcopal
influences, for or against the case may be-are not
these their regular stock-nrade? Are not messages
and addresses, and harangues generally, absolutely
brstlng with denias and disclaimers Of infdelity as
we'll as revolution with the most solemn observations
of their devotedness to their religion, nay, sometimes
even with benevolent suppcations, offered up to the
Eternal that the tongue may wither that dares TO
utter sentence against the dogmas to which their souls
cling as their first and chiefest concern?
Such advocacy this will never free lreland-no not
if its authors and their victims, to live and rant
for ten thousand years They make the cause OF their
country secondary to other considerations and men who
do that will never tread down everything that lies IN
the way of Irelands liberty. And more, and worse
than that they not free agents. Ihey a'o
bound, hand and foot, by influences and by men "no
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