The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-04-17
The irish Renuh1ic.
BT THE FENIAN GovERNMENT-A NEW
DECLARATION OF 1NDEPENDENCE-AN APPEAL TO


PROCLAMATION BT THE FENIAN GOVERNMENTAL NEW
| DECLARATION OF 1NDEPENDENcE-AN APFEAL TO
| THE WORLD.
| After seven centuries of outrage and misery
eQuaed in the history of humanity; having our
laws, rights liberty rodden under foot by the
foreigner, our lands pass from the Irish farmer the
Irish Or foreign usurper and the rightul owners of
| hundreds of years suppanted by cattle destined to
supply the markets of England; after having seen our
skilled workmen driven into exile, of thought
and action to imprisonment and the scafold having
no longer either lands to cultivate, laws aeknow
| edged rights to invoke; in a word, having nothing
pertaining to man the faculty of suffering the
determination to fight chcelfuly choose the last
resort.
All men have right to liberty and happiness Be
lieving that there can be durable liberty or happi
ness except upon the basis of free labor, and that
there can be TO free labor when the of labor
ree considering BESIDES the first of the means of
labor is the SOIL and that the Irish SOIL instead of be-
ing in the hands of the Irish workmen is held by a
selfish and despotic ogarchy, declare it to be our
determination to repossess ourselves OF that soil by
force.
/ Considering that all men are born with equal natu-
raj rights and that by assocatng themselves together
protect another and share public burdens JUS
tice demands that such association should rest upon
equitable basis-such maintains equality instead Of
destroying tive declare that aim at founding a
republic universal suffrage, securing to all the in
trinsc value of their labor
| We declare that we wish absolute liberty of con-
science, and the complete separation of Church and
State. -.-...
The public expenses will be paid by progressive
capitaton Qabor being free from any mpost.)
| Calling upon God and mankind to witness the jus
tice of cause and the intensity of suiferngs,
we declare in the face of the world, in order to
ceed in reconquering the inaenable rights that all
men receive at their brth to take up arms and COM
bat the dominant oigarchy and It's strength dwells
in its credit, based upon its property we will employ
destroy it every that science even despair
shall place within reach.
| Whenever the English flag waves over Irish prop
erty it shall be toru down. if it be possible without
fear truce and swear in the sacred name of
our country by the sutferngs of those who now en-
dure the tortures of living ombs for the cause by the
dear and revered names of those who have died for
the freedom Of Ireland, by honor and that of
children that this shall only wlen the Irish
Republic shall be recognised when the last of
shall lie in his grave. Republicans of the
| tire world, our just cause is yours. Our enemy
is your enemy. Let your hearts be with As for
you workingmen of England it is not only your hearts
that we wish but your arms. Remember the starva-
ton and degradation brought to your freSides by OPP
pressed labor. Remember the past, look we'll the
future, and avenge yourselves by giving liberty to
your children in the coming struggle for human free
dom!
Herewith is proclaimed the Irish Republic.
By order of the Provisional Government of Ireland.