The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-03-21

luton had no trappings nor crosses, nor honor The
descendants of these men, to this day. conservatives
Go to France to Austria to Spain, and you find your
O'Donnels, McMahons, Neles, to-day where their
fathers before STOOD by the sides of thrones the first to
draw their swords for kings and against the people
Come to America Where have all the emigrants who
have landed these shores for the last thirty years
been found Have there been any great of Irish
men or sons of Irishmen among the who first lifted
their voices against the highest crime of latter years.
Southern slavery? Were they not the who were
oudest in condemnng those who sought to root out this
evil which made chattels of Gods images? And they
justified themselves in their outrageous by throw
ing the imsy vail of the Constitution their acts
The English constitution declared themselves slaves
and did they recognize it's right to declare wrong right?
Where the Irish to-day? Are they with the party
that proclaims liberty to all men? No; they with
the old SYSTEM" that has retarded the world and
that now puts its shoulder against the wheels of progress
and freedom, and says, No further" They are with
the men whose hands are red with the blood of the
slave, and who would people to declare man
brute once MORE even though half million of men died
to assert the contrary The very children of Irish
parents while they preserve the records of their race
to belong to the drag-chain policy The great
representative men of our race-Chares OConnor, and
men of his rank in society-were all much Southern
as Jeff Davis, and to-day would stand by throne in
America, and fight for arisocracy like the exes of
DID,
We are fully aware of the delicate ground on which
we tread. That the conservative living stand
ing over the conservative dead and that who
assert that the poor sonscoe of the ST. Antoine
who marched with Liberty the thrones of kings
was grander hero than he who handed Marie An
oinette up the steps of the peoples throne-the gull
otine, will be set down radicals and nfdes by those
who cry for Irish freedom and decry freedom elsewhere
About this bowling we do not care. Wewant to get
our people think and investigate for themselves Our
history has been tragedy of errors We have been
fighting the new idea for the DID, We have been going
into the tombs with dead systems, and we have not
emerged from the graveyards yet.
1t is time we turned over a new leaf for the old is
blurred and foul with our crimson story. The establish
ment of Republics not blundcred into like men
times stumble into fortune. When we take the true
to regain the independence of Ireland and pursue
that course to the end, we will succeed.
There is but one road to liberty. That road is revo
luton. Revolution in all is first mental then
physical We trying to reverse immutable laws
and endeavorng to create the physical first Mind
is the cause and muscle the effect If the will rise
in the west some morning, begin to hope that
people who have not passed through the mental can
naugurate physical revolution that will give birth to
free nation.
AS we have said before, there is but road to
liberty Conservatism does not travel on this road
Kings do not travel this road unless to trampe the
people beneath their chargers hoos Eccesiastics do
not travel on this road-because their calling is con-
sentative and monarchcal-unless to WOO the people
into by-paths that lead to their own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT,
The men who believe in the rights of humanity and
that God created man look nroudV and step out