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


capable of enjoying blessings of liberty equally with his
white brother provided the integences are equal If
intelligence is to be the test then the white man who
lacks intelligence should be deprived of all participation
in the enjoyments of liberty we'll the black man,
if justice be done.
We satisfied that all this cry of nferiority and
brutal race is but lying in the mouths of
corrupt to put fair complexion their preudices
That the black is not mentally the equal of the
educated white man cannot be denied. How could he?
Slavery made intelligence crime and the alphabet
the tree of knowledge whose fruit yielded nothing but
death to the slave Other have tasted of the
same and drank the cup of slavery to the dregs and it
i'll becomes them now to dash the wine of life from the
black mans lips
From any stand point the black man, when viewed by
the unflmed eye of reason is entitled to all the rights
Of citizenship He born here and his father before
him. That his predecessors brought from Africa,
and reduced to slavery does not justify his exclusion
from citizenship Many white men were also brought
the sea- and fled from bondage to freedom and
for these same runaway slaves to deny the black
his rights in the country now is criminal inconsistency
and inexcusable blunder. 1t is blunder that has
drawn upon our country the contempt Of freemen and
and with the voice denying liberty to Others
countrys groans will fall unheard upon the ears of the
world
Let fling away this remnant of low preudices that
is but the lees of the vices which England has poured
into souls 1t is in the nature of the Irish
to be ungenerous, and how Of countrymen
persist in prosecuting the fallen is anomaly that has
puzzled our friends and gratifed our enemies.
Why should We who are but guests at the banquet
of freedom deny the black seat at the board when
the American host is willing to allow him that right
I" Nay but, masters, the very dogs pick up the
crumbs that fall from the table, and not willing
that human beings shall partake of the crumbs
Away with this blind bigotry, and let act as becomes
men, free and worthy Of free nation. TheAmercan
people willing to trust the black men with the ballot
and do pretend to love liberty than the Amer
leans? Or do we love America than her children
Now, what sorry figure cut, with the marks Of
the gives our own limbs, and the gait and seeming
of the bondsman still cngng to forms, and rolling
and roting in liberty, not willing to allow the poor
negro the luxury of standing beneath the banner of
the Republic, and looking up to God to feel himself
man. Until his is registered in the ark Of free
DOM the ba'ot-box, he is but slave in midst and
we the masters who lash and sell him. make laws
and break them, and he cannot have voice.
That the day of universal liberty in America is at
hand it requires prophetic eye to God trac
ing with lightning hand across the midnight sky the
mighty decree that shall oberate fraud and wrong and
though million demons howl in its binding glare five
million slaves shall blossom into men in it's living light
Oh that we could retrace the past and correct the
of our people, in the great movement for
the abolition of slavery But God never rolls back the
past The present and future The black man
| is but half free Let help to render him wholly
free by giving him the ballot. 1t is his right, and
further, he acW haze it. wheter sag yeo or nay &c.