The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-12-21

society 1t is to this brutality" that we owe the pres
ent American Republic A certain portion Of the
pure and great spirits of England rather than be de-
voured by the monster" at home, followed the setting
sum- that like the finger of Providence beckoned them
on to this boundess continents The brute in good
time followed after and sought to crunch their bones in
the wilderness
The of '76 actually prosecuted into revou-
ton and lastly into Republicanism. When England
now comes fawnng at the gantsfet and cries, Great
is America, but [ am her sirew it should be borne in
mind that it aoas not 10 o1,d republics the early emu
grants ,oere hunted the sea. No; this lion that
crouches at Coumbas feet to-day sought to her
in her cradle.
We who have seen the lions spoons in Ireland thcky
strewn with the blood and bones Of our people, have
never been troubled with any sublime conception about
the polish of the brute. We saw a nation rich and
powerful, whose whitened every sea, whose
banner Haunted in every harbo whose literature scared
above the nations and whose palaces rvaled the ideal
of romance We knew that all its greatness from
plundered peoples all it's Eskohnoors" from murdered
princes, all it's glory from suffering humanity, and we
said with the poet:
Far dearer the grave or the prison,
Ulumed by one patriot name,
Than the trophies of HER who has risen
On LibertyS ruins to tane."
For seven hundred years Ireland has felt very little
of the sunshine that is said to flow from the British
Constitution The brute in all his carnyorous glory has
roamed through the fair fields of country convert
ING gardens into wdernesses and cities into rookeries
fret ShO NH he
has been one carnival of blood And still the world
is stunned with his hosannas to the Lord. With one
paw upon the neck of Ireland and another upon the
breast of India while the cries of millions ascend to
heaven for vengeance he chants his homies unto the
Lord and stabs his victims to stop their moaning, while
saying grace He first sends his missionaries to pelt
the heahens with bibles and follows these up with iron
clads and shackles Oh this is the great that floods
the world with his light Half the ministers and priests
of the Christian Church willing to fall down and
worship his golden claws and cry anathema to those who
can pick flaws in the British Constitution.
On the other hand, there is Ireland who has followed
an idea for seven hundred years Scaods have gowered
athwarth her path Dungeons and graves have yawned
in blackness before her. Seas Of blood have beat
sunless Shores but Liberty shone above them all Greece
and Rome have become the themes Of the worlds song
while she who suffered and sacrificed all rather than
bend sits low the estimation of the world
Nations have blazoned the centuries with their great
ness but where is the nation that has walked with
tinuous and defiant step to the martyrdom Of seven
hundred years for liberty? Other nations have enjoyed
liberty for seven hundred yearsIreland alone has suf
fered for it for that time.
Tn takino into consideration what orr countrv is
and what she might be her children as talented
plot and fearless to execute they patient and
heroic in suffering, it almost drives into despair and
makes us fly from responsibility and duty into that
towards refuge that fatality lures towards the