The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-04-11


Israees down to the English subjugaton ESQ caed) of
Ireland we come with one bound to the African race
in these United States We find men, at this hour of
the day. who have the euda and barbarc erontery to
stand up in the light of the nineteenth century and
deny the rights of the black to liberty after
half million of feemen have written his enfranchise
ment in crimson volumes.
Now that the material iron that bound the material
limbs of the black has been struck away and that
the plantation is musical with the cries of
suffering humanity superior white that part
of it which its superiority by its power
to Cypress the coored race, is hardly willing to allow
the black man to exist without being linked to any par
ticular master The ruian whom nature has rendered
superior" to the BRUTE by giving him white skim and
setting him on his hind legs is willing to allow the black
to exist in the community kind of pariah, but
to give him any rights interest in the State not to
be tolerated.
There are certain number of men in America who
do not believe that the late war was fought on one side
for the preservation and on the other for the destruction
Of slavery. Yet such is the fact and when history
points from the unborn years to this red page in the
story of the Republic the spirit of the dead will
and cry we died that slavery should perish" What
grander cause ever guided to victory than the
transformation of five millions of chattels into five mill
ions of men And yet, what did the soldiers of the
Union accomplish, if we refuse to ndorse their
victory Nothing Until the liberated slave has
received his citizenship, and stands before the law the
equal of his white brother he is still but slave Knocked
with the semblance of freedom The four years war
a bloody blotch and the half million graves are as
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latter trodden down by the feet of yrant serfs who
incapable of rising above the snkpoos of prejudice
whose rank womb has given them birth, and around
whose pureus they wallow like swine in the mire
What has been done for the slave whose chains have
been rven but whose rights full citizenship have been
denied He has been transferred from one taskmaser
to many He has been turned over from the heartess
saver whose mercy lay in his interest in the chatte
ignorant and preudced public heartess the SLAYER
and having no profitable interest in the slave. AS a
consequence he slave to thousand brutal ser when
he was slave before the war but to one gentleman
master.
How long shall the intelligence of the nation the
who have interest in every union grave hesitate
to throw open the doors of the Temple of Liberty the
black man, because men, with the virus of tyranny in
their blood howl against the rights of man? Every
day that passes and the slave dsenfranchsed is
day of victory the hordes of despotsm and day of
disgrace in the annals of the Republic Who refuse to
acknowledge the equality of before the law? On
what grounds do they base their refusal?
1t makes sick at heart to go into the sinks and
slums of Cities and hear men, who wrapped in
filth and hoary with vice, whom God has forsaken and
humanity denied foam with basphemy at the idea of
allowing their superior man the right which God has
given him. because his skin may be darker hued than
theirs. And why do these degraded beings deny the
rights to the black which they themselves enjoy?
On the ground of his nferority It is the tyrants plea
and as old as the worlds unholy history