The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-08-31
To Our American Readers.

another nation and build up her greatness the
ruin OF her antagonist her first grand is to defme
the character of the fated one She calls those people
savages whose unruy and unsympathetc natures make
it impossible to treat them with any sort of fairness
They are in the way of progress" and setting them
selves up in opposition to the which her superior
civilization airs its regal FORM they must be tramped
down. She lies down their fair name in the estimation
of the world and spares pains to manufacture afro
cities when there any lack of real ones In the end the
world half believes her to be general benefactor and
thanks her for crushing out the history and life of the
unfortunate country about whose real history the world
knows little, and cares less.
A great lie we'll carried out, becomes great truth
in the end while great truth which is buried beneath
the well managed machinery which makes lie truth,
becomes forgotten failure Truth crushed to earth
will rise again, says the poet but when said truth is
met by the demon of lies and crushed earth time and
time again, truth becomes MANNED and disheartened
in the end that sometimes she does not rise again. Many
fair truth is buried in oblivion while lies have raised
their hypocritical and hooded heads and looked the
world in the face above their unforgotten graves IF
ever there people who have felt the misery of
coming bet'ceen "geot progressive and Christian
nation and It's goal (lts own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT at the
expense of all others it the Irish people Like TRUTH
Ireland has risen from the earth to which she has been
crushed thousand times by the father or mother of
lies-England Every time she has risen far she has
been crushed back again but each time she seems to
gain vgor, and spite of the power of all the demons
that assist her enemy she will yet rise above
them ALL Since the English Pope Adrian handed over
Ireland to his counryman and friend King Henry, in
1855, up the present hour, 712 years, England
has used all means that hell could lend her to effect the
subjugation of Ireland She has tried determination;
but where she has crushed hundred to the earth
thousand have risen up defiant and unconquered
While her heels have pressed on the breast of our
country and while her hands were reeking with our
fathers blood she has filled the world with her hymns
to heaven and drowned the cries of her victims with
her hypocritica bowling of hosannas to the Lord
Finding that the sword the rack and the gibbet could
not srange the spirit of liberty which burned in the
soul of Ireland she has filled the of the world with
lies about our poor people With the aid of plant
press INSCRIPTIONS historians, and accommodating
eccesastic she has scattered her lies to the four winds
of heaven and wherever the poor peasant from Ireland
has flown for rest and succor he has met hesh preu-
Dice born Of and fed on those English les In
stead of receiving the strong hand of friendship and
the hundred thousand Welcomes to which he entitled
from all men who respected those who suffered for
principe he was met by insult and persecution. Even
America the child of Liberty, had the poison poured
into her ears by this viper that tried srange her
in her CRADLE and Irish became term of reproach and
by-word for contempt in the childrens mouths
From any other nation, this prejudice and rank in
justice might be tolerated and become bearabe but
when born of Liberty and nursed in her cradle,
and whose souls should rise above the narrow level of
gilded monarchies-when such a people 50 far forget
themselves as to take up the lie from the lips of their
and our enemy and persecute our people for struggling