The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-09-21


those whom he has made his eternal enemies. Their
numbers-which he has committed million murders to
reduce-he calculates with coseness and carefuness
which only fear and hatred could inspire And the fear
full fact starts up and sares him in the face that these
numbers well nigh, if not altogether equal to his
own While the strength that sumbers in their sinewy
and the warre that burns in their fearless hearts
specters which rise before himpasied as he is by
systemazed vice. and haunted he is by centuries of
crme-as hateful and horrible as was the mysterious
finger of old to the eyes of the Eastern depo when it
wrote upon the wall the recorded judgment of his evil
deeds and of his coming doom.
If, in any undoubted instances recorded the page
of history of have been extermnated itmay
be fairly questioned whether it not the work
of their own vice and folly than the power of their per-
secutors One thing is certain that England has tried
the Internal experiment in Ireandhas for centuries of
war and famine and woe unutterable tried it and
again in that unhappy country-and never was
failure signal than that which at this hour is dis
played to the surrounding nations
It is said by the historians of the early age of the
Christian religion that persecution proved of the
most efectual instruments of its propagation. The
converts hunted from Jerusalem fled for refuge to other
cities. There each became center of burning zeal and
difusve light, and so the faith of the Nazarene
quered by the very which intended to
suppress it. Torn by brutal force from their humble but
honest homes, hunted by creatures cruel than
savage beasts from their native soil flung like worthless
weeds into the tid holds of emgrant ships onooker
might we'll have been tempted to imagine that the foreign
tyrants had put quieus Irish nationality at last.
Some natural historians have asserted that senent
creatures live on EARTH of whom if is taken and
cut pieces each manged section instead of decom-
posing assumes distinct life, and becomes animal
as perfect as was the original whose destruction
was supposed to be accomplished.
There is to-day in these United States OF America,
an Irish nation more numerous and powerful and far
more united in its hatred of and determined hostility to,
English tyranny, than that which met the armies of
Queen Elizabeth many bloody field Tt is preparing
for its great work And when the hour strikes for the
task of ages to be performed it will rally to its call
hundred thousand of as brave and devoted as ever
followed the banners of freedom to battle and victory
The enemy is on the lookout as we'll he may. He
is comprising hell and earth, at this hour to undermine
and overthrow this great national confederation whose
first cannon shot will be the deathkne of his accursed
power
We have spoken of his sagacity. At no time, and
under no circumstances have his endke intelligence
and activity been earnestly at work than they are
now. Mark the means adopted. The Irish people are
the principals in the contest They devotedly and
honorably attached to their religion Through that
or rather through not ew Of the men By acom 1t as adj
painstered-their nationality must be struck down.
Hence the denuncations of the Fenian Brotherhood.
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openly protested and active enemies and 50 few declared
friends
Ireland has but friend among the nations of the
earth That friend is the great republic of America
The people in that republic the sovereign power