The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-02-15


ested supporters Of English tyranny pretend to
terrain a second opinion on the subject
So much for the deadly disease. What say we con-
corning the cure? All here we enter altogether
new region and respecting which there exists such
diversity of opinions such "a strife of tongues, as
almost sufficient to confound the cleares intellect
and appall the stoutest heart.
Everybody, friendly and unfriendly, interested and
disnteresed to consider his peculiar province
to prescribe for the Irish patient The doctors are
very numerous, indeed each ready and resoute-wl L,
mill Ito thrust his fayorite nostrum down the unfor-
tunate patients throat. One would imagine that the
children, relatives Of the unhappy sufferer were the
only parties entitled to interfere. But, The prop
erty to be inherited is large The expecans are very
hungry. The harpies must be fed Therefore, all the
ordinary rules Of justice and decency cooy ramped
under foot.
The first remedy is blood-etting Oliver Cromwell
tried it, with considerable success rather than two
hundred years ago. Cut-throat Castereagh drew SO
much Of it, in 1798 that Lord Byron tells u.s. the
placid miscreant" actually bathing his sleek white
hands in Erins gore. This is still the avorite pre-
scriptioa of the English Government. Does not the
scaod lately erected in Manchester prove this? And
"a Briton" in the London Times is calling loudly for
martial law in Ireland That simply means whole
sale military Misunderstanding hangings, quarterngs
We are very familiar, we 1rsh with these things They
are the perennial cure for all Irish ills prescribed and
administered from time mmemorial by the rulers OF
England. We do not think that the matter requires
much argument IF dungeons and scafods and bullets
and bayonets if fire and Sword the only instru-
ments of government which the English enemy has in
store for u.s. must only try and ourselves the
resouton-and to rise to the necessary practical state
of preparaton-of giving as good we get The game
is one that two can play at And to that it must newt
ably come.
The next class of political physicians who present
themselves to us, and who never tired Of talking
about the proper way of remedyng the wrongs and
relieving the suerngs of Ireland the parliamentary
docnaires who promise to do everything by peaceful
agitation and perpetual petitionng, and who have as
yet done nothing exceptto aggravate the evil which they
professed to cure This class consists in very large
degree of English liberals, of such good men John
Bright and Stuart Mill and their political associates.
They are truly liberal in their IDEAS and doubt not,
honest in their intentions But, somehow, they have
done no good to Ireland. Their advice has been tried
over and over again Ireland agtated for upwards
of twenty years, from end to end. The work
Quoted under the leadership of of the abest
our race any other race has produced Monster
meetings without number have been held. AS many
begging petitions have been presented to the British
Parliament would the entire face of Ireland,
from sea to sea. And what has come of it? Failure
and disaster and desolaton unparalleled in the annals
of nations Just think Of the great O'Connell dying
disappointed and broken-hearted in foreign land, while
the men who trusted him, trusted
before, and whom he promised often to lead to free
DOM were dying of hunger in hundreds of thousands,
or flying in myrads into exile if the land they left
behind them was under curse Such has been Irelands