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were not murllerers. Back in your face as q
London Editor truly says, oh, England the
foul stigma, which you cast upon our butch
cred countrymen, is flung France will not
hear it. America will not list to 1t; the
world Will hold you guilty. Ireland bleed
ing, beggared, trampled down in the earth.
tells YOU that our three young countrymen,
whose blood you deliberately and wantonly
she'd were true patriots. Irish blood for
many months has been thirsted for, and
blood has at last saked the thirst OF the
foul natures that yearned for it.. The names
of the illustrious triumvirate Allen, Gould
and Larkin, rise to the lips like litany-
their devotion to Ireland can never he for
gotten until the sun turns into blood and
God ceases to rule in Heaven! From the
memorable day when Lord Edward Fifzger-
aid died in prison exclaiming -" Damn you,
come on" down until the strangulation OF
these Christian patriots, Irish blood has Of
ten called for vengeance Young Aller. as he
marched to the scaffold asked, what will
America say when she hears it, As Poland
looks to France, az the Christian looks to
Palestine, so Ireland looks to America But
while we talk, the dead are resting in their
shrouds and the living are mourning over
them. They laid down their lives for Ire
land, and though we cannot kncel upon
their graves, or trace one fond line to their
memories. yet their memories will always he
green to the thousands who loved them and
mourned them for Ireland's sake.
The eloquent Gladstone in his recent
speech ascribes Fenianism and all the troubles
of Ireland to the misgovernment and OPP
preston of England Ireland complains
that her land for hundreds of years has been
deemed Legitimate plumber for the rapacious
and needy servants of the British CROWN
She complains that the most cruel fortunes
and the most savage measures have been
used to force on her people a detested
Church, where its members only form one
twentieth part of the population; that
Henry the Second put the people to death
because they did no. want to he Catholics {;
that Henry the Eighth did the same because
they would not become Protestants; that
Cromwell the saint,
THE mildcst hammered man
That ever scuttlcd ship or cut a throat,
put them to the sword because they were
loyal to the king.
She complains that Elizabeth fomented
revolts numbering million of the Irish. in
order that there might be estates enough for
each importunate courtier.
She complains that an English King stole
the Earl of Desmonds estate, six hundred
thousand acres-that James the first seized
six countics-that eight million acres-two-
thirds of the island, were distributed among
the supporters of Cromwell
She complains that William of Orange
he of glorious memory, turned out four thou
sand families to die upon the road, and then
!, established penal code worthy of Herod.
She complains that the Second George
DISTINGUISHED five-sixths of her population.
drove hundred thousand to the army of
France.
She complains that her clergy were hun
ted and massacred.
She complains that seven millions of mon
ey supported Ivy Il hundred thousand havo-
nets, united Ireland to England.
She complains that millions of tithes are
wrung from an 0verworked peasantry to sup
port miserable set of sporting Bishops.
She complains that when the sword failed
to eXtcrminate, that England. the Christian
nation, the Empire of He'll, organized
periodical talnines in the years 1917. 1881
1887, 1917 reducing Ireland from popula-
ton of eight millions to half that aggregate
She complains that in recent year, thir-
tv-three thousand houses were levelled to the
ground by the Crowbar brigade and their
inmates turned out on the road to die of
hunger and starvation.
She complains that for five hundred years
tie flower Of every generation OF Irishmen
have been killed on the battle fields, or muir
dered on the scaffold, or driven into DESC
late exile for love of Ireland.
She complains that the sacred charter of
manhood without which our life Is 10 ser
than the dogs. is trampled under the feet OF
her foreign lords.
Ireland, in the face of Europe, in the face
of America, in the face of the great Creator.
is amply justified in entering upon a war
with England the people can do SO with a
fraor fill a., -
is Heavens work. 1t has been truly and
forcibly said by powerful writer, that it is
no light or factious quarrel.
1t is Irelands last resource. long eyade,T
long postponed. The rights which she sought
in vain to purchase with her tears, She
springs up at last to purchase with her
hearts blood. In the coming onset the
Irish people will have the sympathies of the
true and good. The earth is weary of their
grOans!
They tight for liberty to lire Hundreds
of thousands of Irishmen would again die in
the fortunes of famine if they continue to
bow their necks to the Parliament of Eng
land! They fight for liberty to retain the
rights Of neonbo0d-that ID common With cy
cry nation in Europe, they may possess arms
to defend themselves. They fight to resist
outrlges more grlevOus and dishonornn
than those for which an English King was
brought to the block-outragcs which at
this hour would cause the swords of France
to spring from their scabbcrds to strike
dead their audacious author. They fight
because they are denied peace except at the
price Of dishonor-because their hero leaders
are doomed to the prison and to the gal,
lows. They fight because the honor the in
terest, the happiness, the necessity, the very
existence OF that ancient nation depends up
on the valor of the present time If the
Irish at home cover, FINCH or falter, then
the hopes are gone for which their fathers
gave their fife's blood. Gone in the stencil
of dishonor and infanly that will cling
to it forever. In Gods name let the strug-
gle begin. Oh! that my words could burn
like molten metal through your veins. and
light up the ancient heroic daring which
would make each Irishman Leonidas-
each battlefield Marathon-each pass a
Thermopyle!
FRESHMEN IN FAVOR OF UNIVERSAL LIBERTY.
In the Legislative halls of the Government.
it has been trjumphantIy asserted that Ire
land is unworthy of her independence, be-
cause torsooth some recreant Irshmen in
how