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


the State embracing every individual as necessary
part of the whole.
We mean also that the State shall maintain it's
right to the service of all it's members We mean
that each shall be dutiful to ALL We mean that duty
shall be no longer a vague an idle word that it
shall really express the relation of the parts to a
whole, the relation by which man or woman be-
comes the servant Of the actual time the sur
rounding society,-of family, of country, of the
world bound to help to the utmost in the progress
sion of Humanity, with no limits except the posi-
bilities of the individuals particular sphere.
We mean by the Republic form of government
in which all may participates; government not to
be surrendered to rulers or representatives" but
to be directly exercised by the people themselves
originating, discussing, and enacting their own
laws, deputing only their officers to carry out the
popular WILL the expression of the peoples intellect
and conscience
We mean also by that word Republic to express
the connection not only between the State and the
individual but between States or Nations and the
community of Natons-the whole of Humanity
We mean that, as individuals component parts
of the State Or body polite, so States Nations
are component parts Of the Universal Republic, the
body polite of Humanity, bound in duty toward
that and entitled to the protection of that against
all interference encroachment
We mean by that word Republic the oneness of
Humanity, the equality of all peoples and of all
people. We mean that there is one common OBJ
!ect and purpose in all times and among all races of
mankind, the progress from improvement to i'm
provement, through successive discoveries and ap-
plications of the laws of human life, of which laws
the whole people, and no priestly class whatever,
the interpreters and that it is the duty of eve
ry human being to aid in this progress.
This is our meaning of the word REPUBLIC Is
it yours also? How may you forward its realiza-
ton by reinvoking barbarism for the destruction of
the commerce by which Ireland itself as we'll as
England, is sustained and civilized? And acting
less indirectly, can you do no more than invade
Canada or Ireland? Invade Canada and Ireland
both, if you will, but invade them with republican
principles, which will be effectual than rifles
of the longest range. / make objection to the
rifles whenever they may be needed; but without
principles and the clear purposes springing thence,
rifles only go off in the air, bruisng the ridemen's
own shoulders in the reco. And with principles,
I guess, the rifles may not be much required. You
can make Ireland republican when you will.
And you who are not going to invade Ireland
you millions of Irish-American citizens, for whom
there would not be room even in most republican
Ireland-cannot you do something for the country
of your adopton-for America herself-by teach
ing her that truer republican programme which she
has yet to earn,-the caring the morrow, as we'll
as on the of election, not only for her own
citizens, but for Humanity also, whatever may have
been written in her Constitution So found new
Ireland here Make it Irish-America, if You will,
with honorable rivalry striving to displace and
venge yourself upon the Saxon But make it as you
make Ireland-as you make yourselves-republcan