The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-07-06
Union.


dress'' to the Irish Nationalist of America, from
the heads of the Irish Republican Brotherhood on
| the other side of the Atlantic
The document gives utterance to feelings such
as, under the circumstances might be naturally ex-
pected to be entertained and expressed
It proclaims the formation of UNION of senti-
ment and action which had, unfortunately for some
time past, been interrupted, and which is most
essary for our credit people, and for our sue
cess as nation, struggling to our lost in
dependence.
In order to understand correctly the bearings of
the question, we shall glance, very briefly at
connected with, or Glossy affecting, our national
cause during the last nineteen years.
The Young Ireland party of 1s4s, had got hold
of the right principle They clearly enough
as all sane and honest men have ever seen-that
people, whose rights have been torn from them by
force, and which are withheld from them by
force, can never recover them by other means than
force. So it has been, in all times past. And SO
it will be, in all times to come-at all events till
that millennium arrives, of which we have heard
so much and seen so little when evangelical wolves
shall cease to devour Lambs and converted eopards
refuse to dine upon kids.
| But the practice of the '4s men was not, by any
means, up to their preaching. They seem to have
been incapable of forming anything like correct
estimate of the magnitude of the work which was
cut out to their hands. And it is amentable fact
that, while they wrote and spoke with immense
ability and effect, they did not attempt to pre-
pare themselves to cope with the iron-clad power
which held their land in bondage. The consequence
was that, when the time of trial came their failure
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Presuming on their services as subordnates in
this very small rebellion, two men-whom we pre-
fer not here to name-assumed, on their oacae ap-
pointment, the supervision and management of Irish
national affairs on both sides of the Atlantic. The
offices were, in the judgment of the gentlemen
making the appointments, to hold good not only ad
vitans aut cupona during life and good behavior)
but-so far as we have any evidence the contrary
Throughout all time.
The arrangement was simple and-to themselves
Exceedingly convenient. The one was "head"
in Ireland. The other was ditto in America. And,
as the former distinctly declared, within the past
twelve months, they had ca right to supreme con-
troll and to the possession of all monies," and
to everything else. Each was accountable only to
one authorty-himself And to no law but one
was either amenable and that law was--his own
sovereign will.
The man who dared to doubt and still worse,
the man who was so far left to himself as to deny
this was at once sentenced as &c traitor" and in
every possible way in which he could be annoyed
and injured, he was dealt with accordingly.
Such was the style of s'liberty" in store for the
Irish Nationalist of America, if they would only
be good enough to sacrifice a sufficient amount OF
blood and treasure to establish and enthro'ae 1t.
But in this land of free thought and untettered
action, pretensions so intolerably impudent could
not very long be endured. And they were not.
The independent Irishmen of America STOOD ups
in the cause of rioht and their first action was 10