The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-08-17

repose in it, and the expectations of every lover of liberty
The coming Convention at Cleveland will either be the
greatest event in Irish history the greatest failure There
be no medium. Those who will compose it rise
the height of eee survey agance the position of AFFAIRS
and placing themselves the platform of universal liberty
they must strike hands with every people who advocate the
spread OF Republican principles and set their faces against
all sorts of tyranny AU ondrcheS, matter Of hdt hue
creed nation the enemies of the people, AL monarhies
united against the spread RpubHcanis. The Fenan Brother
hood must unite w all Republicans IN Anerica IN Europe all
the ea to couuteract the brotherhood of nonarchcm deu
No should be elected by any Circle representative
to the coming Congress simply because he spout because
he pushing fellow. AS general thing pushing fellows
are unreliable Killian Corydon Massey, and hosts
of such ilk forced themselves to the Brotherhood Let
no man be sent simply because he as go. Send the
staunchest and steadfas in the Circles Men who
have stood solid from the first while hundreds wavered and
fell away Men who know the workings of the organization
and who will be carried away by speech gneman
assumption Men who have their heart in the movement and
who ready sacrifice all side issues ramplng party in
the DUST for the sake of liberty Send thousand such
to Cleveland the 4h of next month"; and let them place
the Fenan Brotherhood basis that will win the respect
of all eeme and the independence of Ireland attanabe
On the other hand let and sectional position be
taken, and the old programme of fighting the hoe uod with
out the sympathy of anybody outside ranks be carried
out, and it were better we had never met.
We have fear however but that the organization which
has survived the viper bites of many Internal adder
tured and warmed in its BOSOM will prove itself worthy
of the sympathy of all eemen, and of the and
thusiasic support of all honest Irish nationalist
Wehad hoped that clerical for socaed
political ofenses and denuncaons of Fenansm, were
things of the past and that would again be called
upon record anything disgaceu and uncaed for
the action of a reverend gentleman in Buffalo.
The world wonders at the orbearance of people, when
ndgnities to the dead Because that love country
and true to the history and traditions of martyred
fathers unworthy enter the church built by ourselves
The green % that often waved the track of the hunted
priest wet with the blood of his defenders is enough nova
days to set Maynooth flaming We wish
this matter to be brought Immediate and that the
Church would let know whether banned or not
Let this barking here and there above dead brothers,
stopped let the fiat go forth that mathematical
This hanging between heaven and hell like Mohammeds
cofn is unbearabe; let know doom once and
we can then know how to meet it.
At meeting of the Fenian Brotherhood of Buffalo, held
at their hail. No Al Pearl street, Wednesday evening" July
31s the following preamble and resolutions unanimously
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WHEREAS On the evening of the 9th instant committee
waited the Rev. Wm Gleason of ST. Josephs Cathedral
and communicated him their intention of buying the
who like him. had died good Catholic should be buried
he the Rev VIM Gleason thereto asserting, and giving to
| the undertaken burial ticket for the Cemetery and,
WHEREAS The above named Rev. VIM. Gleason did
the next daSunday- perform the funeral services
Of the Church the remains of the noble and patriotic
Sergeant Lynch who died the hospital of the Sisters
Charity in this city, from the effects of gunsho wound
received the I'd of June, 1866 the battle of Ridgeway
there being religious for such unchristian and
preke conduct the life and death of the deceased having
been most exemplary attested by the good Sisters who
administered his for the past thirteen months
we'll by the Rev. Jesuit Fathers who attended him through
his Illness and at his last moments; and,
WHEREAS The only given for this shameful insult
and this outrage the dearest feelings of the Irish people,
was that clad in green uniforms, enemies of English
despotsn in Ireland in the church, therefore, be it
Resolved That We Catholics have yet to learn that is
of the dogmas of the Catholic Church that it is crime
and sin against the Almighty labor fort the freedom of
native land
Resolved That we know that the Fenian Brotherhood
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