The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-10-05
An Irishman of the South on the Enemies of
Irish Liberty.


Irish Liberty.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. September %, 1867.
10 the Editors of The Irish Republic.
GENTLEMEN Having been constant reader of your adj
mrabe journal since first appearance upon the counters
of the dealers of this city, and observing that
respondent has thus far greeted you from Memphis make
bold to obtrude myselfn the absence of able
tbutoon your indulgence and that of your readers and
tender you my hearty congratulations upon the bold
independence which you have displayed in your per-
sons and advocated in that of Others since your advent in
the world of letters.
1t must be extremely CALLING the Catholic Iishman
observe the pursued by too of the hierarchy
of the Church in which, tme his boast to have
been baptized and educated and the particularly when
it considered that he had been led to believe from his in
fancy that that Church the firm advocate of the most
boundless freedom for the oppressed of all lands without
distinction of caste complexion. The most momentous
events of the past two years. however, have bitterly dispeed
the deluson and the free thinking Catholic of to-day
acknowledge with pan that the doctrines of the Church of
his fathers expounded the Cuen Moriarys Duggans
and Geasons subverve of the true principles of liberty
and damning reproach and name After railing
against Professionalism and Mohammednism for centuries
have been awakened by the painful consciousness that out of
hard earnings have been erecting basile for
and under the mistaken gue doing
the representatives of Faith Hope and Charity have been
kissing the beeweed hands of Tyranny and Oppression and
bending the knee moral Slavery For this melancholy
state of affairs ourselves to blame We have done
what other freedomoving people ddyielded up
souls and bodies to the control of men, of whom
have proved themselves overexacng and yrannca Alas
the result-wanton insult and unmered reproach-
exempfed in the conduct of the anoned and reverend
tyrant Gleason the dead body of the heroic
To all those who take the trouble of nqurng into the
of this strange anomaly it will be apparent that who
undergo the peculiar rituasc of training which is
pracced in certain colleges but ail apostles of Liberty
Out of those institutions not in ten hundred forth
republican. If the ewyedged dictator is advocate of
repubcansm, he have entered college with his prn
cples indeby fixed for certain such doctrine prevails
within their walls The divine right of kings is fixed
DOGMA openly taught in the greater number of these places
and every who this country from such in
sitution Maynooh less touched with the be-
lief in royalty dvne! In proofofths twill not be place
to call the attention of your Irish readers-Fenians in par
hcular-o what you have already observed with disgust and
commented upon in the right spirit allude the costly
ceremonials gotten up in many places throughout this
try (the South especially the death of Maximan
the royal murderer Requiem Masses, gded cataalques
and public professions did honor to the memory of the
archbutcher of ten thousand parots Bishops priests and
deacon in costly vesmens chanted doorous anthems in has
honor; but where the singing voices the swinging
of incense the gded oataques the cloths gold
and mourning pagean to do honor to the glorious Catholic
Cet-the heroic Lynch? They not be wasted on C
Lynch had no brother cardinal dgnifed eccleastic
as permitted to heap conumey the body of the slaugh
tered Ce while the giterng inter- sken vesment and
singing voice united to glory the Saxon murderer These
assertions may be considered Meteorological for Irish Ca
thoc but they true is high time for Irishmen of the
Catholic faith to arouse themselves to the reality of the
slavish tyranny under which they groa and shake off for
ever the CALLING letters forged brbed dcator to bind them
from the pursuit of liberty for their fatherand Let them
beware The Maynooth Oath of itself it but too convincing
testimony that have been devsng plans and in
instances whispering their pupor into the ears of the hired
emissares of the enemy We want reverend gentlemen OF