The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-04
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
John Mitchell.

The telegraph brings the announcement that all the
factions of the Fenans in the United States have agreed
upon union OF which John Mitchell Is to be the high chief
Head Center
Misfortune has wrecked many patriotic effort Tyranny
has often proved too strong for liberty. Natonae have
been exnguished and desposms have sprung up the
ruins of free Institutions but these things for which
the victims be justly repreached The Fenans have
been guilty of much weakness and folly of much iltmed
disunon and of unfortunate faith in unworthy agents. but
until this last proposition to make John Mitchell their chief
there has been public of which the Organization should
be ashamed Who John Mitchell? Where does he reside
and what is his status among the American people? John
Mitchell is Individual who the United States
fugitive from the penal colony to which he had been
fenced by Great Britain He welcomed here by warm
hearts and liberal hands He made at home and his
request he made American citizen He became
citizen of the United States, within whose borders and
under whose flag millions of his countrymen and country
women and their children, have found that peace plenty
happiness and freedom which denied them in all other
parts of the globe.
John Mitchell when he the four millions of Irishmen
and their descendants enjoying political personal and reg
ious freedom known person outside of the American
Union also four other millions of human beings only
in political but physical bondage-men who upon their native
soil, had names, no families no present. future-no
anything but labor and the ashland who treated kept
and valued any other brood stock John Mitchell cameto
the United States martyr in the cause of human liberty
and he had hardly put the garb of American citizen
before became the public champion of human slavery
not technical right but institution commencing
itself to the moral and political economy of mankind Asa
sequence this espousa of slavery this apostle of liberty
forgot the solemn oaths of fidelity and allegiance he had
the United States and put the badge of treason
to the country which Tor eighty had been well
coming and sheterng feeding, clothing emancpatng and
equalizing his counrymen and which gave him food cloth
ing and shelter and political standing when he
vcted felon Next to jeff Davis this Mitchell though
personally of very small concern, of the most
grateful of all traitors He traitor friendship, traitor
hospitality traitor to the roof that sheltered and the hand
that fed him. traitor to the flag that protected him. the
try he had obey and human liberty, of whose
he paraded himself apostle and martyr This
lives in New York. monument of the tolerance of
people He is permitted to live there object of uni
versa contempt Does the Fenian Brotherhood propose
defy the public opinion of the American people? Do
selecting this ackdaw of slavery this advocate of the
acle the lash and the auction block for men, women and
children this ungraeful wretch that fired the flag which
covers the homes of more Irish hearts than beat Irish
soil this traitor to freedom home country, and humanity,
and him the leader upon American soil of crusade
for liberty? Should the Fenan do this then they and their
cause and their leader will deserve to be buried beneath the
contempt and Indignation of the nulted and outraged
American people, We think the Feniaps, with their
perience of traitors within their Organization should
understand why the American people, and all other people
horror upon the elevation of John Mitchell chief of
requiring TRUTH honor loyalty and devotion Freedom
Chicago Tribune
(From the same.
We mentioned the other day the fact that John Mitchell
had been offered the Presidency of the Fenan organization
all of its wings The fact that the offer made has been
confirmed and it is relief to know that the miserable man,
even hsdegradaton had the grace decline it, Theo offer,
unaecepted it has been, however, insult to the
American people, and rejoice that the Fenans have
capped the calamity of being obliged to be counted parc
pators In the shame