The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-02-22

and how he has made himself the tool Of that very
respectable person who since the assassination of
Lincoln, has been resisting the national will in the
White House, order to do the tratorous work through
the South which Jeff Davis failed in accomplishing
From such men we have never got any good. We
pec But it is more than time that the rights of
the people, and the safety and of the great party
of liberty in America should longer be suffered to be
sacrificed by those who we'll understood to be
in secret league with johnson and Seward. We aude
mainly, if not exclusively to General Banks and if
do him any injustice let him out and prove it.
and shall be the first to make apology and repara
ton. The history of the Neutrality Laws Repeal bill,
and its final fate, not yet quite forgotten. The
events which succeeded the Fenian invasion of Canada
reused the entire country to sense of the urgent
necessity of repeating at least modifying these in
famous and atrocious laws. The great Republican party
honestly sympathized with the movement and we are
thoroughly convinced that if Congress had not been
manipulated by certain political thimberiggers whom
England keeps in her constant employment these vile
and insolent Neutrality enactmens would not to-day
disgrace the statute book of America Mr.. Banks had
charge of that bill, too The worse the omen. It
passed the House by enthusiastic, and almost unan
NOUS vote. But the English ambassador set Mr. Seward
to work, and the bill was buried in the pocket of Mr.
Sumner. Verify these Chairmen of Committees of
Foreign Affairs great hands at killing good bills
and fathering bad Did Mr. Banks protest against
this most insolent and unconstitutional interference
Did he appeal to the country to call to account the
who had openly defed its authority? Not he. He
spoke big, and then swallowed his eek as valiantly
Ancient Pistol And from that day to this the world
has never heard whisper of the repeal of the Neutral
ity Laws.
This action of Messrs. Seward, Sumner and Banks
cost the Republican party the loss of the States of New
York. Ohio, and Pennsylvania at the last election We
assert this deliberately because we know and prove
it to be true The intelligent and liberal of
Irish fellow citizens-who the salt that would very
eaven all the rest-had begun to hope that the
great Republican party would do, what the Democrats
during their sixty years lease of power attempted
wished to do and that is to declare themselves for
liberty to the people of Ireland and of Canada as we'll
to all other races and lands-that they would no
longer allow the Government of this great country to
constitute itself shield and support of European op-
pressor but would repeal every law that tied the hands
of the oppressed and leave them free fight and
quer their merciless yrants. So they had begun to
hope, and if that hope had been honestly fulfilled euey
Irish nationalist america acho deserves the Ooud
haze been Republican voter today. But the hope
not fulfilled 1t rudely and events have proved
dsasrously defeated by the dishonesty of the who
were acting in the interest of England.
Another noble opportunity has now presented itself
in common with this Citizenship question to the great
party of progressive freedom in this country IF they
have the honesty and the good to avail themselves
of it, lost ground may possibly be reganed and foun
dalton laid which will ere long be covered with noble
superstructure Let the Republican party introduce
and enact law that will really honestly and efficiently
protect the rights of American naturaized citizens all