The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-12-07
IRISH NEWS.


with senseles faery nauseating To get real insight
h'o the state OF the with regard the merits de-
ers Oh the Fenan excitement in England and Ireland,
from the English and Irish papers, is almost an mpossi
olly The English press with honorable exceptions
cry loudly for blood and condemn all attempts the
British Constitution" as the most mpous sacrege The
irish papers, the other hand of magnify hills into
mountains riots into revolution.
We copy extracts from London correspondent of
the Chicago Tribune who views the matter from Ameri
can standpoint The writer evidently intends to do Justice
TO the subject and only from lack of knowledge
tain points, which few men, outside of those interested
possess He brings the matter of protection to American
citizens before the thousands of the Tne American read
ers, and we hope it will have its effect.
LONDON ENGLAND Nov To-day the English press is
yehementy declaring that the sentence of death upon the
batch of Fenans found guilty Manchester of shooting the
policeman who attempted to prevent the of Kelly and
eay must be carried out in every They have said
this IN previous trials of the kind They begin with
ring that the time for lenency past that example
must be made and blood blood But as the
day of the execution has approached they have shrunk
from the consequences and tmid suggestions of repreve
have appeared WE'LL it SO in this case 1t would be idle
to speculate that You will know before this reaches
you-may indeed have recorded the the gallows.
write for another purpose First few words the guilt
OF the prisoners.
Bood blood Heaven bless the British beast if blood
could have washed dsaecton Ireland it would have
been washed out long ago. Since first English murdere
Historically called invaders) landed in Ireland seven
hundred ago. to the present. the English trail be
traced by the blood and bones of men, Blood scaolds
racks dungeons violations and misery have been the gifts of
England to Ireland And the old beast imagnes does
it, that by crushing out the lives of few brave men, who
bearded him in his den, he will still the heart of Ire
land? We may fight in madness among ourselves we
may waste the strength possess in petty outbreaks
may not for years-how many will be solved by
country rise nation proud and independents
but tbs not IN ma" nor IN heaven to stamp out of hearts
hatred to English oppression domination, whatever else
ippan correspondents may call this feeling which becomes
stronger with time
The have been found guilty of having "feloniously
wuly and of malice aorehough killed and murdered
Charles Brett But whatever the eqal guilt morally only
of them be suspected of having intended to kill Did
heg believe Allen asked himself whether his shot
would kill not He could Brett when he fired at
hlm lie tried to get the open without firing but the
poor officer true to his duty and if the prisoners were
to be rescued the guardian of the door must be disabled
The shot fatal and Allen must take the consequences
When he says he was innocent he means that he did
not intend to murder Brett. He only hoped to render
him incapable of resistance But the others guilty of
murder in of the word technical one They
might have killed twenty people had they chosen. They
fred in the air. they made much noise they could by
shouting and threats but they avoided regousy any shot
which could do anybody harm The wonder is on the
theory that the men were murderer that only
killed If they endangerng their lives why not have
shot hadozen of the foes who were at their mercy? But
just at this moment it absolutely requires courage to saw
this much in public Men furious with you Some vow
their way Venture word for the who if murderers
the most mercu of the class heard Of and some
turns round and asks you Fenian One cause
for this eager thirst for vengeance in the rise within the
past four weeks of peculiar and dangerous species
of crime We are constantly reading in the papers the head
ing "Another Policeman Shot, The possession of reyov
becoming much general among the violent classes
than has ever been the case previously and this men ar
butte to the American tenan sort of epidemic of MUIR
deous rong threatened carried by men of the burglar
Glass; who have studied Fenian tactics and used them for
their purposes This hardens people who are ordinarily
of Manchester. If five be hung right off
the pistols will be stored away and the prospect Of the
horrible in Southern cities of the old times will be
of races.
The Irish Fenians and the English Radicals work
together The alliance in few sentimental expressions
the first touch of actual nnlicy The