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

through ages of war and famine of deceit and disaster
of fire and food and tears. And, sorely tried as, in
some respects we have lately been enough has trans
pired to prove thatso far devotion to the national
cause is commemorative Irishmen of to-day not
worthy of the heroic ancestry from which they de-
scended.
AS people haze not been easily su6dued In fact
we have never been subdued We can hardly expect
the sers and sympathzers Of England to regard this
vrtue-n Ireland at all events And indeed 1t is one
of which history demonstrates the English themselves to
have been remarkably innocent. When invaded by
the Norman French under the leadership Of William,
the Bastard single battle-tha of Hastngs-laid the
power of the Saxon law and rose again, from
that day to this But when the same horde of robbers
and by all the resources of Eng
land-undertook the subugaton of Ireland, they made
the very comfortable discovery that they had got
different sort of fish to fry Not an inch OF Irish soil
were they permitted to take, or keep, but what they
were able to cover with their shields and swords. If
in any instance they conquered it was by fraud rather
than by force And the resistance begun in that age
has stretched through ages of battle and BLOOD until it
has reached our own.
Werepeat it, Ireland is not conquered yet Disarmed
she s-tied down. like Sampson, only it is with the iron
letters of England instead of "the green withes" Of
the former Philstines And still requires thousands
of rihed cannon, and of ironclad warships, and up
wards of hundred thousand mercenary soldiers, to
"keep the peace in that hapess land, which God made
so beautiful but which men have converted into the
dungeon and the charnel-house of Europe.
The present year has still to about two.thrds of
Vot hoe air he
newed on the soil of Ireland True, the attempt
mady hopeless one from the first. By was this
better known than the cowardly swinders who advised
it and urged it on We aude exclusively to the ruan
robbers, whose palatial mansions in Now Yorl, and
sybare uxuries in Paris have been bought not only
by the money but by the liberty and the lives of their
betrayed brothers. Black as hell is their eternal nfa
my; and yet it only renders fercey brig ht the
late wild outburst of that volcanic hatred of foreign op
preston which forever fires the universal Irish heart
And on this side of the Atlantic did not the past
year witness spectacle which made it than evil
dent that the exied Irish of America have not forgot
ten the rights and wrongs of the fair land of their
fathers? In the month of June last the lately chris
tened /" Kingdom of Canada was taught lesson, at
Ridgeway, which has SO shaken its that from
Windsor to Quebec, it has lived in perpetual
ever since A mere handful of Irish patriot soldiers
proved more than match for the 'loyal legons Of
John Bull Let the poor beast below, in wrath and
fear, as long and loudly he likes. Let the rickey
provinces beyond the ST. Lawrence hudde together for
safety in socalled confederation like so many cow
erng sheep. What matters it? Their time is coming
just as through all her unparalleled trials nation
has still lived, so deceit, and incompetence, and
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countrys liberty shall rise triumphant like the noble
ship the threatening wave and, like her. on
through calm and Storm to the desired haven of
egn power. Long and fearful has been the night of
chaotic oppression that has hung like the maedction of