The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-06-29

rebel angels was hurled from the battements OF
Heaven, ever a greater crime committed?
This is the second count in the indictment. We
dare the callous criminal and his abettors, to deny
it.
Re has been false to liberty IN hiS oon land, and
throughout the 0hole earth To sustain, enlarge
and perpetuate system Of slavery-under which
four millions of men and women, whom the Chris
tan Church treats as rational and immortal beings
were Bred and bought and sold like SO many sheep
or hogs-this man waged nearly dozen
provinces, for more than four years and sacrificed
the lives of upwards of seven hundred thousand
men, This is the third count in the Indictment
Let the serpent and his Shiny BROOD try their teeth
upon the file.
During the terrible contest more prisoners were
taken on both sides, than would constitute several
large armies. 0fthese helpless men not Jess than
ten thousand aoere deliberately done to death, at
Andersonvile and elsewhere, by the authority, and
with the coWardy connivance, of Mr.. JEFFERSON
DAVIS This the fourth count in this horrible in
dictment; and there are thousands of living wit
nesses to prove it, all over the United States; to
say nothing of the famine graves which, like the
blood of Abel cry to Heaven for vengeance.
Not even in the Inferno of the master-poet of
Italy can fe-so frightfully prolific in wckedness
be found as that which, on this occasion, we have
SO imperfectly sketched.
One would have imagined that succession of
crimes Of such matchless enormty would have been
deemed sufficient by any single individual, if
possessed of satanic relish for that which is evil
and accursed. But no. 1t seems that in the pro.
foundest abyss of the birthstone lake lower hell
can still be found, by fendsh discoveries
This arch-enemy of that great Republic which
the tyrants, of England and Europe hate and fear
this champion of the brutal enslavement of millions
of men, as immotal himself-ths scourge
of humanity, with the blood of slaughtered
thousands on his skirts-has now added ano-
Their transcendant crime against God and man to
the long black list of his horrid and hateful life
He is now the champion of the blessed British
empire-the martyred saint whose prisons arise to
Heaven for the eternal perpetuaton of its rule
"True British MANHOOD is, at present, the god
in which he glories-that I" manhood" of which the
Canadians displayed such an immense amount
during the late Wharf.-The " MANHOOD which robbed
banks and hen-roosts along the Canadian frontier
the " manhood" which harbored sneaks and COW.
ards and murderers, who fought with carpet-bags
full of vrio bottles and old clothes saturated with
yellow fever-the I" MANHOOD which got on board
British pirate ships preyed on peaceful commerce,
and then turned its manly heels to its armed
mics. Not doubt of it, Mr. Davis. This "true
British manhood is very magnificent affair." The
god and the worshipper worthy of each other.
His prayer for the Canadians, and for all other
peoples-the Irish included, as matter of course
is that " the British flag may never cease to waye'
over them.
So we have got on our knees at last. That s a
great improvement. When the devil betakes him
self to that operation may be pretty sure that
the best of blessings will be invoked And SO it is
on the present occasion.