The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-08-17

prepared to acknowledge the right of your brother man
to rule himself the Tiber and on the Thames well
as on the Lifey and the St. Lawrence and the
Potomac? If you are it is high time for you to get
much of your modesty as will enable you to tell
the world plainly of it, and to DECLARE right in the teeth
of all this low bgory and miserable misrepresentation
that your motto is, fiat jastitia ruat colnm." Let
justice be done, tho the heavens should fall
Perhaps some excuse ought to be made for the
shortcomings of those who have unhappiy for them
selves, been trained up under despotc systems which
attained their evil perfection in the darkest ages of the
world. But we have now to look at the sayings and
doings of very different classone at least who ought
be very different. But unhappily, they not
Years have rolled away since CHARLES DICKENS, the
eminent English novelist, visited America. He was
Toasted and eted and fooled to the top of his bent
We old enough to remember the of indignation
which rung and reverberated through the United States
when Dickens, on his return to England, SO basely
traduced and caricatured those who when he in this
country treated him with such excessive and unmerted
kindness In this, however, he only true to his
English instincts and followed in the steps of every
other Englshman that has been permitted to tread
Coumbas free and hospitable shores One of his most
offensive charges against the Americans was, the affect
.Ra,heyiness of their natures They seemed he said
both and women-to care nothing about liberty
equality On the contrary, their ncessant inquiries
were about kings queens, princes dukes, duchesses
ears and countesseshow they dressed talked ate slept
and sat and walked. We regarded the assertion, we
do most English sneers at America, libel and lie.
Could the people of this glorious land of Washington
act in so despicable and unworthy? We
spurned the very idea vile and vllanous invention
But must say that of our later experiences have
forced to think that is quite possible for the most
contemplate of gulls and to be Matched in the
very nest of the mountain eagle We have lived to hear
m American born-a descendant of the Pilgrim Fathers
one nursed and nurtured under the very shadow of
Plymouth rock-asserting that the iron tyranny now
established in France the best possible government
and that the perjured ruan who murdered liberty in
that country who tried hard assassnate in America
and who renders free in any part of Europe
sheer impossbity-we have and we are sick at heart
to say it-ved to hear such simpering slave proclaim
ing and proving bess the mark) that Louis Napoleon
is great and good man." We expect to hear next that
the gentleman in black has takenhs place among canon
sized saints
Of all the horrd and hateful forms of this snobbsh
Vsubserviency, the American is beyond all possible
PRESTON the most unnatural and inexcusable The man
who is actually "born in the purple who is "a king in
his native country" ought surely, at all times and in all
places, to know, respect and uphold the dignity of his
noble birthright For such to become the toady
and the parasite of the poor poodle princes of Europe
truly melancholy spectacle Milton tells us that the
liking of evil amid the misery of his awful realm still
commands respect and fear, for is he not still an
archangel ruined p But American citizen fawning
doglike about French English palaces, and licking
the bloodstained hands of idle vagabonds who call
themselves mobiles and lords is sad and sorry spec
tacle