The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-05-25
The Irish Mother.


MEsRs EDITORS: addressing you on the above subiect
not without hope that it will have some influence with
those who above all Others the best beloved of our
haye the honor of numbering hundreds of
them among my most cherished friends know their quiet
retiring natures know their reluctance take part in the
turbulent struggles of know they regard home of
their families their peculiar sanctuaries and of
those who desire to change their habits but help
thinking that they should of the influence they
for the advancement of the holy of fatherand
1t will not be necessary attempt prove the great nu-
which all mothers and exercise the minds of
the young and plastic beings entrusted their Let any
of look back to infancy and ask ourselves what form
the first and dearest that presents itself in the mirror of the
soul? What form is that which in the dark midnight
when all the world wrapped in sleep, SOFT STILL that
her gentle breathing all the sound that falls upon infant
ears? Whose eyes, mild tender, loving, those
that watch weary tossing the bed of sickness Whose
hands those kind angels and cool the air of morn
ing that tend every peevsh want and ond the
little nervous frame repose? Whose lips those
that they lovingly press themselves the fevered brow
seem bring with them the very balm of health and joy?
What voice that SOFT musical than sound of
harp ute that leads infant souls above the ordd
things of earth to realms of endless bliss beyond the
The every heart in that namethe first that
falls infant earsthe last that cheers before put
forth into the unknown of eternity IT'S Mother,
Mother See Them the Irish mother and who loves her boys
fondy who gazes with such glowing pride upon them
the Irish moher The earth possesses for her great
watch their graceful FORMS developing themselves
into the fine proportions of manly beauty and to mark the
godke germ of intellect beamng from the eye and clothing
the brow all the attributes of thought and wisdom Gentle
she and tmid fawn by nature yet to her dear
babes from harm, death itself has for her. Now let
ask these mothers who think the earth has equals for
their children how they acknowledge the degrading aunt
that the Engshman the stranger henvader the lord the
superior, the of their darling ones? and they
made for other purpose than be the hr and dudgs
of foreign despot? How they consent to their boys
doing all animal toll of the ser and their girls
becoming the servants of neither fair good
vrtuous they?
But the Irish mother is not politician She accepts facts
they are and believes they the will of God, because
they She may ask, what poor weak woman do to
aid in overhrowng huge system of fraud and corruption
Much very much You teach your boys as know
shAmerican mothers do, that they the equals, and
may be the superor of the King the throne supported
the bleeding shoulders of unwilling slaves That they
should aspire beyond the owy condition of the tolers of the
EARTH That God made their superior That beyond
the ocean lies land of their fathers bound and groaning
beneath foreign yoke That by the ruthless hand of tyranny
they have been driven forth begga and exile wanderers
that land from its degradation That toll should be
great study heavy danger too fearful to deter them
from the holy task life without freedom only living
death that death the of liberty only the portal
to life and Immortality. For
this earthly sphere,
A boon, an offering Heaven holds dear,