The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-12-28

for the part had implicit faith in the infaibily
OF certain certain course; because of all these
things, some men laughed at our simplicity, when
said ace must hare Union! What, unite with men whom
have fought SO fercey for two years? Cut off my
right hand first
Men have accused us of inconsistency before and at
the Cleveland Convention for standing up for Union.
What you who have been of the leaders side of
the house, where all the virtue is talking of unit
ing with those fellows who have called such hard
names and who do not represent corporals guard?
Yes We did what we considered right and will always,
we trust do the thing; but country is going
to the dogs and her fighting each other instead
of the enemy. it is not who was right or who was
wrong the people have made up their minds on that
subject long ago; and those people demand Union
among all honest men now. If it is necessary for the
achievement Of Union that all the leaders who were
prominent in both branches should step asde let them
do it with the good grace Of unsesh men, no matter
who was right or who was wrong at the time of the
split
We had found out that when Irshmen once take
stand they will keep it, after they know they are
wrong rather than acknowledge their error give IN
to those other teoaos. Also that any factionis who
wishes to raise the banner of Ireland find followers
These though not powerful for good powerful for
evil We have known men to work for spite since the
spt who never did pins worth for Ireland before.
But of all this enough.
part of the Senate of the f B. and W. r. Roberts,
on the one hand, and John Savage the other, have
wished for General Convention to settle the and
Il n 1o
easily done There were men in the Senate whom we
knew to be anything but revolutioniss, and we knew
they would bhmder-to tender word. Knowing
them to be neither revoutionsts republicans
who foamed at the idea of giving black liberty,
an Italian liberty Englshman liberty, anybody
liberty outside of the Irish race, had little faith
in their honesty and little hope that anything but big
otry and blind partizanship could out of their
e arrangements"
The Fenian Brotherhood has existed in the United
States for nine years. and all this time the Organization
was illegal according to the law of nations. We or
ganized spoke, wrote armed and paraded in the cities
and towns of America, and the world knew that we
preparing take the edaganst power with which
the United States at peace. England through her
minister's protested time and again against the open
violation Of the law Of nations America shut her eyes
to Englands complaints The loyal people of these
United States tolerated, nay encouraged, Feniansm.
! Why? Because Fenianism had raised the Banner of
Ireland" and on this banner written, Liberty"
The American nation, child Of Liberty willing
to defy the yrants of Europe in her sympathy for
prosecuted people in their struggle for freedom The
Fenian Brotherhood up to this, has given the
American people to regret the sympathy and pro-
lection given disrusth the loyalty of Organization
In every battlefield of the Republic, members of the
Brotherhood from generals down to the rank and file,
are laid to sleep beside their American and German
comrades. When great portion of the Irish people,
led by old ward politicians, sympathized with those who