The Irish republic., 1867-09-14
Pulling Against the Stream.


champion it. It must be understood that the cause is
foreign, and that, if successful would draw liberty
down from her high place, and rampe her in the mre
This is what may be termed the magnanimty Of fools.
Sacrificing ourselves the shrine where interests
and the interests of humanity are sacrificed
The inconsistency of the Irish nation in the United
States for the last ten years especially, has been the
most unaccountabe bunglng and blunderng part Of
long and suicidal history We say suicidal history for,
since the English invaded Ireland there has not been
one united struggle to repe the enemy We talk of
ONeils but in their palmest days they had to fight
England and one half of Ireland at the same time We
boast of Sarsfed of Aughrim and Limerick and follow
his fortunes to the batteeds of the contnent but did
Sarsfeld fight for Irish independence No. He merely
fought for King James and Cathoicity against King
William and Professionalism The English people deserted
their own king for William and gave him the throne of
England. The Irish took up the of the Stuart
and fought to force him on the English people What
did Ireland owe to the House of Stuart? What she
owed to all English monarchs blood and hate" An
independent Ireland never entered into the thoughts of
Sars6eld his men, if it did, they gave shape
and color to in action Not only did Ireland
has, one way or another, unknowngly perhaps thrown
herself against all nations who dared to against
established authority. The descendants of the Old
Brigade, in France became the enemies OF the Revolu
ton and the people, and gored to die on the scaod for
the cause of kings In Austria Russia and Spain the
thing repeated; and wherever you find the
ODions ODonnells, De Lacys, and the other descend
ants of the Irish Brigade you will find them the props
of the thrones, and the enemies of liberty. In our
own day, we find the same thing repeated. OConnell
offered the services of loyal Irshmen to put down the
Chartsts, should they dare to disturb royalty England
It is ustifabe and praseworthy enough to hurrah for
Irish liberty but when you to apply the same rule
to Others is another thing Consequently when the
Italians fit to protest against the temporal power Of
the Pope and proclaim that tyranny the under
all Names the Irish fly to the They fight for
tonesa taken prisoners and paraded through
the streets of the italian cities to be cursed and defed
with filth by the people Slaves what brought you here
To rivet the shackles limbs more 2" The
poor Sepoys were blown from the guns in India by in
many cases. men who sighed for Irish independence.
One half people to-day weeping the fate of
Maximian and the rise of liberty on the ruins of
monarchy in Mexico It was Irishmen who defeated
Napoleon at Waterloo; it Irishmen who defeated
Don Carlos in Spain, and restored Engands FRIEND the
vrtuous Queen Isabella to the throne of the PENN
sula.
All these blunders-not to call them by any harder
names-may have been partly excusabe, and forced
people by complicated circumstances but if of
the present day profit by the experiences Of the past
and even at this hour of the worlds history cut our
selves away from conservative tyranny and take oupace
in the ranks with all true Republican people, country
and our name are not yet beyond redemption.
We have said that united Ireland has never met Eng
land in her march of conquest England has conquered
Ireland by detail Taking chief after chief, and clan
atter clan oE Nrn,1zell uhere each chief