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


weakness and villainy-the reckless plumber, under
the most patriotic pretences of our poor people
the Manhattan investigation and exposure-the
deposition of the "chief" and "center" of the
Ubiquitous New York circle-the appointment of a
bigger rascal in his place-his fasity and fa--and
the long shiny tail of disgusting nobodies, by whom
he was succeeded Alas alas, these things have
gone far to make the very of Irish nationali-
ty stink in the nostrils of all honest men.
Truly cause must be next to divine which can
survive such succession of scenes of damning
disgrace and enormous wickedness.
Of the men at home the overwhelming majority
are true as steel to the cause of their country
More than that, they are, generally speaking, men
of advanced opinions-the intelligent advocates of
liberty, not for their own land only, but for men of
all countries and climes
But the circumstances in which they were placed
were, in almost every possible point of view, Pc
culiarly unfortunate.
Watched by the thousand eyes of the fendish
power that holds their country in bondage, every
avenue of ordinary intelligence was closed against
them. They did not and could not, know the true
state of affairs. Bereft of liberty of every kind,
to them was presented the horrid alternative,
either to abandon their countrys cause, to obey
the dictates of the unprincipled despot who chose
to assume the management of their affairs. They
chose the latter course, and continued to extend
blind, unreasoning confidence to utterly
unworthy of it, as their late actions have only
too clearly testified. The consequences were
as lamentable they were inevitable. The
best men of our race in Ireland and England were
made the tools and victims of the worst and basest
men that have yet appeared to dishonor the Irish
name. Their liberties and their lives were play ed
WITH to create political capital for, and fill the
pockets of, spawn of ignorant adventures in
New York. Without money, without arms, with
out preparation of any kind, they forced into
open war with England. The result was, what
every man who is not lying rascal knew it would
inevitably be, their discontinue and destruction.
Once more were the gaos of England crammed
with Irish patriots And if her gibbets did not
groan, as of DID, beneath the burden of their mu
tilated bodies, why was the hoary murderer of ma
tons so unwontedly "merciful"? The armed le-
gions of the Fenian Brotherhood of America sup
ply the answer.
Experience in this, as in too many other instan-
ces, has been purchased at fearful expense. But,
happily, it has not been altogether vain. 1t has
put an end, once and forever, to the swindling of
scoundrels, in connection with the Irish national
cause on the continent of America
A new era now opens. And, without expecting
too much from it, We may safely predict that it will
prove happier one than that which, to the inf
mite relief of all honest men, has just come to a
close. One thing is certain that, in enormous in
iquity and overwhelming disgrace, it can, by no
possibility, prove worse.
The time has when more resolute course
must be taken. The fate of Ireland trembles in
the balance. Are bad men to be allowed to trife
with it. in the time to come, as they have done, in
the past? If they are, the sooner all earnest men,