The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-05-04
Ireland and Liberty.

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they constitute painfully large section of the human
famly-are never slow to believe the worst concerning
the unfortunate. Hit him hard he has friends"
This just as true when applied to nations as to ind
viduals When down. keep them Nay more Ii
only for pastimes sake, kick them for falling" The
black man, till very lately, in bonds Who ever
spoke, without sneer of the Niger? In other
days the Helot was the slave of the SPARTAN Is not
his name to this very hour expression OF contempt!
Chained like Prometheus to his rock Ireland wrlthes IN
the internal embrace of English tyranny Her people,
in consequence are "mere rish homeless exies with
out friend on EARTH or country which they can call
their own
Spread tearlike DER the worlds sad face,
Who bleed at every vein."
Is it to be always so? 1t is for ourselves to deter
mne No peoples liberty ever come from without.
It must originate with themselves The very germ OF
its existence wrapped up in the resolve that they will
be no longer slaves Those who content to lie for
ever in the dust of degradation deserve the doom to
which they are consigned. They fit only for the
wheels and hoofs of the resstes hosts of the fearless
and the free.
Such is the way of the world and all things consd
ered the world is right. And the people who refuse to
assert their rights, and yet who expect to be treated
otherwise are only feeding themselves on their own
folly. Men and nations if they are to be feared, must
prove that they powerl- they are to be respect
ed, must make it Enthusiastically manifest that they
resolved TO be free.
In our case, however, an element of murderous In.
Justice has been introduced which it would be improper
TO over1ook. AS nacton we have novc i'll point OF
fact been really conquered. We only divided, by
devices the most devsh, and made to do, by our in
ternecne STRIFE the deadly and deplorable work which
onr enemies themselves would have forever found i'm
possible to accomplish And when it was done-when
our strength was exhausted in the atricda stre-the
letters fastened and the spoils secured Even
proud and powerful America had not so long since,
narrow escape from similar fate.
We have pondered all thsin the sadness Of our souls
And we are resolved that, God helping u.s. the wrong
shall be righted Hence we are feared by our national
enemies and their determination is that a and
nation we must be exterminated But the world must
be prepared for the huge sacrfceone greater thou
sand fold than any that offered by the reekng
sword of an ATTILA, ZENGHIs KHAN SANDER
must be summoned from its damned abode and made to
do its deadest and its worst Poison must be poured into
the cup of our humiliation. The world must be taught
that bad people, and deserve to perish The
serpent has strangled his victim. He besimes it. be-
cause he intends to make meal of it.
So it stands And we had better prepare ourselves
for the ISSUE Between the Irish people and the Eng
sh ogarchy, it neither less than question
of life and death The one battles for free existence
The other fights for the tgerpower that feeds and fat
tens the manged carcass of human liberty. One
the other must perish
Be their faults what they may, there is at least
virtue to which the Ish people, entitled to lay
claim and that is their love to their lost LIBERTY Like
the stars Of heaven from century to century burns
quenchless and changeess the wreck and ruin of
God To-