The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-16

to live. Away with the wretch Let his body be
reduced to ashes and his soul consigned to eternal per-
dition.
This style of teaching" pays. 1t must do SO, or
there would not be many crawling parasites pursu-
ing it. But, in humble opinion it has two small
defects It is destitute of truth and honesty And those
journals which the vehicles by which it is conveyed
are curse to the world And the by whom they
written and published-no matter how many pro-
essions they may make about "poltics and "religion
are not to be trusted
For parts, resolution from the first was what
it is at this moment to peah the truth fearlessy impugn
it whose seth. For we are as firmly convinced as we
that the Eternal regns in heaven that good
truly served, and people earth
really profted by the suppression of truth the pro-
mitigation of falsehood. This, as matter of course
exctes into evil activity egons of interested and
perated enemies For that We prepared. And
the readily reconciled to it when remember
that existed, who worth his salt, who
had not many and bitter enemies. And we know that
honest straightforward action while it enemies
also secures friends It calls forth the admiration and
support of men, true men, each of whom, as compared
with the of the unnstruced and unreasonng herd
is like diamond amid the dust and darkness by which,
in its native mine, it is generally surrounded So that
the renowned dramatist speaks true when he tells us
that,
Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just;
And he but naked, tho locked in steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted
Perhaps the Irish people of extremes than
any other in existence They so in their virtues
and we fear, considerable extent they in
their failings The lights among the most bright
and beautiful that shine from heaven earth. The
shadows the heaviest that conceal those magnificent
works of nature, which, they divine in their
origin, will, we trust, be divine in their end For the
day will come Notwithstanding false friends and fierce
enemies, when the long, gloomy night of material
savemen and mental degradation shall have passed away
forever.
Take the leading attributes by which the greatest and
been distinguished-the men of classic Greece or of
ancient Romeand if you apply them fairly to the Irish
race, you will find that they do come by any
means so short of the standard as their enemies and
caumniaors have led the world to suppose Are we to
take martial prowess? The bravery of our people has
been proved often that it has become proverbia Nor
has this been, by any MEANS confined to the bull
dog courage that will brave all the physical dangers of
battle It has extended both in remote and times
to those rare and valuable combinations of mental quail
tiles which necessary produce great commanders
For victorious generals, from Fonn to Wellington what
country earth has surpassed own? Or is it in
that high intelligence by which the leading races of
mankind have signalzed themselves, and which, like
ray of uncreated light has bazed out in the poetry and
prose, and eloquence and sagacty, by which men in
every age have been benefited and delighted? For our
part we are firmly convinced that the songs of Ossian
of which we have only abused and mutlated fragments
as they came from the lips of the bard-were equal
if not SUPERIOR anything that Homer Virgil pro-
duced while such Swift and Grattan and Curran