The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-07-13

in the brightest sunshine note their deep and awful
shadow glooming the land around and when in the
night [ mark the fire glow with which it chases the
clouds affair." and drives the darkness back my thoughts
go forth distance of four thousand years to the
times when the Israelites
WENT OUT OF EGYPT.
They had deverer prophet, and priest, but there
guide their wandering way in the woful desert
that lay broad between them and the Promised Land,
when to lead them there came in their sight token
which was as dark cloud by day and as pillar of
fire by night" No darker cloud gloomed in the
face Of any man who loves ireland and her patriots, by
day. than this jail which mmures whose names
are history Within its wallis lying in hospital is Thomas
Burke the Emmett of our time; and with him Edward
Duffy gentle and firm is stretched death. The
daring MCafferty the gallant MClure, and all their
host of cavaliers tenant its dungeons and never cloud
was darker between the eyes of people and its hope than
looms the prison that contains their best and bravest
But at night when mans thoughts 60 forth and claim
their freedom it shows like the pillar of light the
wanderers in the far eastern soudes that led from
Egypt to liberty and our stricken hearts rise up at
beacon which lifts its glory to be lamp in path to
grid ourselves up for the journey for the memory of the
heroes and sufferers who have bequeathed us their
example.
1872 NOT SCOTCHED
even is the movement for revolution in Ireland never
knew of more enthusiasm, real tangible and true, per-
wade all classes except those whom class about
You cannot conceive by its effect upon yourselves
the influence which the manly bearing of the Fenian
prisoners has produced amongst Those who never
believed in the business who cared for impulses
who never sympathized with it, begin to recognize its
force and reality They that there must be devotion
and ZEAL and than enthusiasm in it's purposes and
in those who maintain them Just now, of course from
the activity of the police there be very active
organization here but still there is organization going
quietly and surely distinguished leader in this city
recently showed evidence to of the power and nfu-
ence of the movement here * 4 Il x x
* Another, whose alliance with the organisation
would if known, horrify city Of genteel dasards
and believing slaves" much if they were told the
Governor of the Bank of ireland was in it. and not
only in it. but an active and powerful member. Things
in the words of the fallen Stephens after his arrest go
on as usual although there is not very much sign of
the proceeding The truth is there could not be- for
just now in all Europe there is city where espionage
and the power of arbitrary imprisonment exist to such
extent Our Government is Government of detectives
at present. and for the better of that Government
they carry about with them blank warrants cut and dry
with which, when they suspect any they can trans
fer him to jail forthwith during her Majestys pleasure
and the suspension Of the habeas corpus ehave heard
of 6tres de cachet when the Bastile throye and,
triumphed have heard of the spy system of Fouche
in France and that which the Gar Nicholas developed
and maintained in St. Petersburg and Warsaw; but I
without fear of any contradiction that there
was any system of espionage dread intolerable, or
powerful that which, through all Ireland, prevails at
this moment for the British lion is frightened exceed
ingy and not Lord strathnairn the commandments