The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-02-29

sort of Shiny life The life of the reptile was in the
head however and the spasmodic movement OF the I'M
buried tail has been given by the spirit OF dssenSlon
that has set the Fenian Brotherhood by the ears.
When the tomb was closed on the heartess body of the
Liberator he literally and unreasonaby called,
the '49 men, after sealing the door, tramped on the
pyramids of petitions that signed by village school
masters and parish clerks for the Irish people, and
avowed themselves the disciples Of Mars and substituted
pixies for goosequills. Indeed there gene
ration that talked SO much blood and were guess of
little of that dainty fluid as these same '48 men,
How could it be otherwise? They were the pupils
of the old school of rant and if they broke away from
the old schoolhouse and broke the masters heart with
their bloodthsty talk they carried the vrusof agita
ton in their systems and what bred in the blood will
break out in the bone Indeed the '48 men moral
force of the most puerile Sort but for effect they
talked of war That there were men in the movement
who were cast in the fiery furnace has since been proved
by the of whose will be spoken by the
lips of reemen when his compatriots forgotten in
the common dust Need we say this one is
Meagher's.
The spirit of the Irish people had grown FESTIVE in
the harness of the agitator and willingly followed the
phantom of physical revolution which was raised the
Young ireland banner. What phantom it was and
how it melted away like mist, the mountains of Tip
perary, is part of our historical disgrace
When the prison closed on the leaders, and the
phantom laid there two parties in Ireland who
gloated the ruin. One of these parties was the
English Government, the other was the repeal agita
tors
Feniansm, having sprung up from the grave of AZ,
shook the dust of Old and Young Ireland from its
wings, and clothed itself in the plumage of Liberty.
Liberty that embraced mankind within its universal
comprehension
There have been three causes which have kept Fe-
niansm close to the old beaten paths of bigohy and
seconalism The fag-end Of agitation that has been
forgotten by death, and the spouting and scodng old
that have survived their 48 generation, have
hung its path like dead weights crossed its march
like gbberng and vicious Spirits dragging it into old
facous rus or, failing to stop its course, turning 1t
into wrong channels Add to this that its founders
pupils of Agitation, and sported their repeal
buttons and flung up their hats at Mullaghmast and
Tara and also participated in the battles of the tongues
of Young ireland.
Thus this new generation of men that constitute the
Fenian Brotherhood at home and abroad have been
led for the most part, by of the past Place
at your head who draws his inspiration from the
past instead of from the present and from the future,
and he will lead you to the grave. He travelling that
way himself
Fenianism arose clothed in the habiments Of Pro-
gress 1t sprung up in night from the souls OF the
people. It took the Ldeo for its leader. 1t never
todded in babyhood tied to the apron-strngs of &C.
clesastical authority; it nurured on deceit
by the sophsry of hungry lawyer who had hunted
the men of 98 into their graves at the head of the
yeomanry bloodhounds For this reason, this Fenan
Idea was cursed and banned as dangerous 1t could
not be manipulated by peer or bishop. Tt of the