The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-12-07
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CHICAGO, ILL, DECEMBER 7, 1867.
Liberty Springs from the Martyrs Blood

Liberty Springs from the Martyrs Blood.
It is some time since that Christian nation, England
strangled any of countymen on the gaows for the
crime" of protesting against her robber rule in Ire
land The civilization of time and the spirit Of the
age forbade, ESQ it was thoughtD the Lions INDUCING
in his meal of blood. Since the days when Wolfe Tone
killed himself to baulk the British hangman and the
head of Emmett was held aloft and proclaimed that of
traitor since the Catholic patriots had their Threats cut
by the dozen the bridge of Wexford and their dsem
boweed bodies flung the baements, and their Pro-
testant compatrots of the North with McCracken at
their head, butchered by the fends of England
since Lord Edward died shouting Damn you, come
on" and Bond murdered in his prison cell, the
English have adopted safer surer and more Christian
modes of killing the Irish people Ninetyeight was the
great fructifying of Irish nationality The land
long barren deuged with the reddest and richest
blood of the people, and though the tree of Liberty
which the United Irishmen had planted in ireland was
tramped into the earth beneath the crimson hoo of
brutal soldery the seed could not die It then it
is rebellion must be stamped out cried the howl
ing dervises, sxty-nneyears ago. in London Andwhen
the land turned into Wilderness and house into
house of mourning when the priests and presbyers'
heads were spiked their chapel and church gates,
when "the green was beneath the heels of victorious
and cowardly enemy, and the martyrs named with
bated BREATH England laid the fattering JUNCTION to
her SOUL that rebellion stamped out in Ireland.
Time, who sets all matters right has not failed in
case Today the world has reversed the verdict of the
tyrant, and the names Of Lord Edward Wolfe Tone
and Emmett written in the worlds heart; while the
fends who rioted in blood, and tramped Liberty the
dust are rottng unorgoen or named but to be cursed
is consecrated until it is baptized in
blood Since 49, there has been nothing in Ireland
but cool and bloodless murder Famines and prisons,
poorhouses and emigrant huks, have been the means
employed by the English to stamp out rebellion in
Ireland attery In the glorious struggle of 49, there
persisted fifty thousand of the people strong protest
against English robbery in Ireland. In 1847 there
persisted million ofthe peopleignoby, but 6o0dessy,
by famine. Compare the two epochs and to which will
the Irish nation revert with most pride?
It is needless to go the history subsequent to 49,
or describe how the children of the dead pros
elytized by recreant teachers, and educated in that
slavish doctrine that the liberty of ireland not
worth drop of blood" How degenerate the men of
O'Conneps time had become, when they could stand
on the graves of the dead Of '98 and listen to such
treason" Oh, surely the end of that school not
inappropriate and their teaching must have been perfect
when they died with bloodless hunger.
We pass over '48, for the men who moved in those
days but scholars from the OConnell school, They
talked blood, but spilled They talked fight but
made no preparation How they intended to regain the
lost independence of Ireland has never been satisfac
tory explained They raised storm and were not able