The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-09-07

single blow, smash to atoms the bood-staned fabric of
English tyranny, and leave Ireland free to rise from her
deep degradation, and take her place of power and
prosperity among the free nations of the earth Why
has not that hand been lifted up strike in the of
justice! Why has it hitherto hung paralyzed while
such mrderous wrong has been perperated in the face
of earth and heaven? Let these questions be fearessy
answered, according to the demands of truth and we
will make at least step in advance of the deplorabe
position which, up till now, have been compelled to
occupy. We WILL at all events, discover the dreadful
disease which has sapped strength and endangered
our very existence. Whether or not it will be in
our power to apply effectual remedy and 50 to
establish complete cure remains hereafter to be
The sovereign people of America have stood by and
suffered the sacrifice of Ireland without either earnest
remonstrance anything like efectual interference.
TO this of conduct there were, in judgment,
two grand contributing The first was the curse
Of american szaoeay This was hereditary complaint
The virus was derived as fatal Inheritance from that
destroying tyranny against which the people of America
had to fight for their national existence. It grew and
spread like consuming cancer, until either it the
Republic must be exterminated For fully three-quar-
ters of century polluted and poisoned the fountains
of national thought and feeling and compelled the
most earnest advocates of American freedom think and
act for the preservation of liberty, and the
quent necessary extinction of slavery in their land,
than the ghting of the wrongs the restoring of the
rights of the oppressed of other lands And alas it
sad and sorrowu confession which truth compels us to
make that, with noble exceptions the Irish took
sides with those who would have continued the of
human slavery in this country and who still lament its
extinction. So long as the majority of the American
people and their government supported slavery
side of the Atlantic it could hardly be expected that
they would become the champions of liberty the
other. Nor they. And SO long the Irish
people exerted themselves to the chains of OPP
pressed in America it scarcely reasonable for
them to complain of the oppression of their own
in Europe. But they did; and we must do the world
the justice of admitting that it did not believe either in
their consistency OR sincerity
Another leading cause of circumference and naction
with which the people of America have treated the
question of Irish national independence, has been the
spirit OF intolerance achch hs.nen haye in too many
lamentabe instances displayed toaeards each other This
has created doubts in the minds of many intelligent and
earnest men, whether the liberty of which talked
loudly and for which protested strive so earnestly
might not in the end practically mean the power to
coerce or oppres all those who dared to differ from our
darling opinions beloved dogmas. We do not at all
say insinuate, that such would really be the
case But that such suspicion has been widely dis
seminated by the Vaccinations of our enemy and that
it is still entertained and credited to no limited extent
is, we fear, beyond all peradventure
This the work of willy and remorseless oppress-
Or She has carefully set and baited the trap. Alas,
that many Of us in criminal folly have been ever
ready to fall into it.
England first invaded Ireland under the most pious
preenses-came to do the devils work in the name of
God She said the people were heterodox and SO she