The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-02
SPECIAL CoRREsPoND ENC E.
Our Relations with England.
BY AN AMERICAN.

BY AN AMERICAN
The chief end Of man, among many of the so-called
leading" arsocrats of Europe, is to divide America,
and to keep her divided 1t matters not to this snob
European gentry how this vile work is done, so that
they can do it. They are animated by the same domin-
eerng spirit that mpeed their tyannical fathers in
the eventfu days preceding and during the first Amer
lean Revolution. Human nature is the in all ages
and all lands.
What the British arstocracy could not do in the days
when they controlled the weak George the Third they
attempted again in 1872 Failing signally in that brief
war; they made another Infamous essay against the very
existence Of country by joining the shareholders
rebellion of 1861. Still signaly defeated in that
base design, they have been trying on the game of
international" fattery the one hand and of free
trade interference with political elections on the
other. The recent results in Ohio and Pennsylvania
ominous of British influence at the American polls
The hand Of Joa6 IS IN Mas thing.
But forewarned is forearmed" The trap is sprung
too soon for the final of these national political
gamesters. The American people say to them, as was
said to the apoogss for monarchy in the days of Louis
Philippe cit is too late" Your trick is discovered.
Your design is unmasked. It is all very we'll, it is
immensely pretty, for English nabobs, who live and
move and have their being in the profits of American
trade talk soft about national reciprocity
&C community of blood" identity of language unity
Of interest," and all that sort of thing 1t is too late"
gentlemen. We understand you perfectly Our fathers
understood your fathers with equal perfection It can't
be done, gentlemen and what is more, it 'front.' be
done. You have tried it on again and again; you may
continue to try but it is only wasting your time
and ours There can be no permanently good feeling
between America and England, as nations until the
American claims for damages committed by the vessels
of England are honorably settled We are most happy
to acknowledge the noble stand taken by portion of
the British people towards America. AS long as the
American heart throbs with the lofty principles of
patriotism and gratitude it will never cease to remember
the men and English soil who stood by us in
our deathstrugge with the slave power 1t is with
sincere thankfulness acknowledge the manly stand
taken by the suffering operatives of Lancashire, (more
than half Of whom Irishmen) who preferred to
endure the loss of labor of home and of the necess
ties OF e rather than consent to the recognition OF the
Southern Confederacy They denounced it with voices
made feeble by hunger and refused to let be officially
recognized by the British Government, then and now
under the control Of corrupt and proud arlstocracy
because it openly boased to the world that It's corner
stone laid in the bloody foundations OF American
slavery All honor to the memory OF these brave sons
and daughters of honest toll Forever shall their pat
riotc deed be enshrned in every true American BOSOM
Tt recognized at the time by the manly and grateful
utterances of that pure and gifted patriot Abraham
Lincoln. His name is synonym OF all that is great