The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-10-19

that he has been waiting for such these
democratic victories have now apparently afforded to
encourage him to resist recklessy and unlaWuly
than the Congressional plan of reconstruction IN
the Southern States. This will simply keep old wounds
open and result in the ruin of the misguided people Of
the South while it may, and very probably will force
the Representatives of the people in Congress assembled
to take such decided measures with usurpng President
the duty they owe to the safety of the country may
imperatively demand All this may result in scenes
which wise and good of every party will deprecate
and deplore
There is, however, another and a very important
sense in which have right to regard the late disaster
to the party of progress most salutay and ne
cessary much is the bitter medicinal potion
which eradcaes disease and restores the bodily functions
to healthful and happy action For it is impossible
any longer to conceal the painful TRUTH that the Rpub
hcon porty for time past, has not been true its
owm principles.
We shall enter into general Indictment at present.
although it would not be very difficult to do So We
shall select single instance-one respecting which
have right to speak How has the Republican party
or its leaders, acted towards the Irish nationalist of
America
The Democrats do not profess to be the friends of
freedom either at home abroad They the friends
of England and of all other tyrants and despots From
them party we never got nor expected aid
enlargement of any kind.
But when betrayed and prosecuted by President
johnson and his henchman Seward considerable Sec
ton Of the earnest and intelligent members of the
Fenan Brotherhood turned their eyes to the great party
L H. h
and led to believe that they would receive the not
very great boon of having {" the neutrality laws"
modified that America would no longer be made the tool
of English yrants to repress every movement for justice
and liberty. And by Fenian votes the State of New
York saved to the Republicans, and by the very
aid the entire Northern States were carried as with
whirlwind sweep against the hybrid abominaton called
the johnson policy"
Did the Republican party redeem their pledges and
act true to liberty? No. And now they are beginning
to reap the consequences.
Their leaders" were false to liberty. And when that
the case they must either be deposed or the party
itself must die. The Know-Nothing bigotry of THAD.
STEVENS could not bear the idea of Irish liberty! Oh
What does he think Of the result in his own State
of Pennsy lvania, to-day? The aristocratic CHARLES
SUMNER the Chairman of the United States Senatorial
Committee Foreign Relations, was the lover of Eng
land and the bosom friend of the British Ambassador
the late Sir Frederick Bruce; and he put the bill
which proposes repeal the neutrality laws his pocket
and deed the entire people of America and their House
Of Representatives And out of the said pocket the
neutrality law repeal bill never came to this hour
We tell the Republican party that long as they are
led by such men they will get nothing and deserve
nothing but defeat
The party of liberty, if it is to live, must be honest
and pure Is it. or is it not the fact that in our Re-
publican State Legislatures and New York. for
instance members have been openly for sale? Is
this to be put end to- or not? The question must be