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


notion with me- but the present condition of the country
seems make 1t more important than ever before I'm in
favor of revising system, of getting the taxes
of domestic industry fast and cappng them
on the foreign competitors"
1t is not for us to undertake to forecast what the
suit of the impending national trial may prove to be-
We can only hope that apart from all personal or pot-
ical considerations impartial justice will be administered
that the accused if found to be innocent Of the heavy
charges preferred against him. will get an honorable
acquitta but that if proven to be-as believe him
to be-a daring and persistent vioaor of the law which
he soemny to obey and execute, demoralzer OF
the national virtue dsturber of the public peace, and
an enemy of the general wea he will be relieved of
the office to which he has done 50 little honor, and
signed to that obscurity in which his crimes may be
covered by the mantle of charitable oblivion.
But be the result of these proceedings what it may,
thing abundanty evident, that the principles an
nounced in the above extract by the Senator from Ohio
Of infinitely greater practical Importance to the peo
pie of America than all the other political issues-if
they could be taken together-whch are at present
placed before them. We have just before the
country many questions of absorbing interest The
payment of the national debt is onewhether it is to be
in gold or in greenbacks whether the country keep
money and means to its relief in the hour of it's peril
or whether it is to proclaim itself repudiator before
the nations These matters in which the honor and
safety of the Union not only in this generation but in
unborn ages, are deeply concerned Because, if we
Fuse when find ourselves in safety to pay honestly
the debt which contracted when were in immin-
cnt danger will be so ready to put their money in
possession when next require it :? The reduc-
ton of that enormous taxation which the Southern
bellon has bequeathed to us, and which presses SO
dsastrous the springs of popular industry is another
question which the great party in power must deal with
soon if not they may be certain that their political
enemies will turn it into weapon with which they may
possibly work the overthrow of Republican rule No
really free people, such the Americans undoubtedly
are will remain patiently for any great length of
time under such burdensome load as now cramps and
brushes the energies of the citizens of the United
States The rights of naturalzed citizens in foreign
countries have been so wantonly trampled in Eng
land and Ireland that the country has been reused
on the subject from end to end Congress has taken it
up, and far able to judge, has done in
perfectly good faith. But somehow in the Foreign
Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, OR
rather in its Chairman there to be strange dis
position to pass measure which, under such faith
less Executive have had during the past two years.
will be practically valueless. English influence has
deep purse and long And, apart from this it is
duty to declare plainly, what was very emphaticay
declared us that unless the people pour in petitions
and Populations by thousands and of thousands the
chances are that the Conservative obstructionists will
strange the measure the Senate the United States
In that body is we'll understood that the Democrats are
to q against as, and when aided by those who are
Republican only in name, it is not difficult to foretell
what is likely to be the issue. To these have to add
another question: which in point Of commanding import
to the entire people Of the country perhaps SUI
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