The Irish republic., 1867-07-20

human racer That they have not done IN times past
is nothing the point Let honest mistakes be buried
in oblivion Our grand work is with the present and
the future
Before discussing the prospects, possibilities
OF getting the of people to act true to Ireland
and to human liberty there previous questions to be
asked and answered Have we been putting consistent
principles before our peoples minds? Have we been
honestly endeavoring to lead them the right road?
We do not hesitate to affirm that in this respect the
glorious of Ireland has received Justice at the
hands of its friends and champions the Irish nation
alists of the United States
1t most serious mistake to place-as was
done for years. man. remarkable for nothing except
the cunning of intellectual mbecty, and the dexterity
of hereditary moral dishonesty the head of our great
national movement. But it incomparably worse to
allow him to breathe the rotenness of his fon soul
into the organization itse-to compel every man iden-
titled with it to turn cold shoulder to the cause of
liberty here in Amerca-and to leave mankind in un-
certainty, whether Irish natonalsts side with slavery
with freedom whether they the friends and sup
porters of system which would degrade human beings
to the level of cattle and sheep and swine OR of system
which would send scourges and chains and
back to the hell that invented them and elevate every
on cdIGu CO pOSlClOn III WHICH MS only maSter
would be the God who made him.
Was it not laid down-does it not still exist-as
fundamental principle of national organization that
the of Irish liberty SHALL at no time and under no
circumstances be identified with the cause of human
liberty in this in any other land Is it not to this
very hour carefully tabooed from all such contamnating
contact and suspended like the coffin of the false pro-
phet, half way between truth and ies between liberty
and slavery, between heaven and earth?
Verify this is admirable state of things How long
should it be allowed to continue Not for another hour
if honestly the freedom of our country if we
really expect the ibertyloving of America and of
the world to help to open path through the Red Sea
of enormous difficulties, by which the Irish can
march to freedom and independence.
We frightened with the bugaboo of party politics.
We assured that will be dragged through
the dirt of stump speeches and contested elections And
threatened with the prospect of being used plat
forms whereby to erect the greatness of dishonest trick
sters who will afterwards carefully kick down again.
Our simple reply is that it is not possible for us to
become degraded to be more bedeved by these
evils than too many of have already been and that
the only way to check and eventually to eradicate them
is for the Irish people to take their stand the prn-
cipe propounded by immortal countryman, O'Con-
NELL liberty for Ireland and liberty for every other land
that exists beneath the heavens True to this principle
we must support every who is true to it, and we
must strike down. regardless of all party ties or political
consequences, every who is false to it. This will
open the way to the freedom of Ireland Nothing short
of this ever can.
The issue comes to this if the Fenian brotherhood
wishes to do its duty to the great with which it is
intrusted it will declare its rcple declare them SO
plainly as to place them henceorth beyond all possibility
of doubt 1t will proclaim in words of fire. and in tones
that will thunder to the very ends of the eart that
demands and will have national liberty and enna RIGHTS