The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-02-15

who, at the same time support with their hardlyearned
cents creatures of the McMaster species, who SO
honestly their pay for doing the acka work of
the wild beasts of European monarchy here in Amer
lea. England has left but place on earth where her
Irish victims find subsistence and a shelter
home and country yes and opportunity to organize
and and prepare for the long-looked for day of
righteous vengeance That place is the United States
But had rebel arsocracy been enthroned in the South
Franco Austrian tyranny in Mexico, and a Guelph
kinglng set up over the Canadian Dominion" and
they would have speedily cleaned out this of Irish
treason" and of American independence. After that,
England might sit at All earthly hope of Ire
lands deliverance would then, have been at end.
Was not this noble project? Would it not have been
glorious achievement? Are not the who plotted
to carry it out admirable specimens of Christian jour-
nalsts?" And have not those Irishmen right to be
proud of themselves, to-day who allowed any earthly
motive interest, induce them for single second
to sympathize with, or support that which would have
forever sealed the fate of their unfortunate country and
secured the unopposed and universal triumph of her
murderous and unsparing enemy?
Well, let the past be past. For our part we are
heartily ashamed of great deal of it. and-with one
excepon-are glad to be done WITH and to Danish it, if
we could, from the records of recollection. We need
hardly say that the exception to which REFER is the
part which many of our gallant countrymen took in
saving the Union the red field of Honor to
the living defenders of this magnificent country
completely and forever free and glory to the gallant
dead
"On farnes eternal camping gound
Their silent tents Spread
And glory guards with solemn tread
The bivouac of the dead"
But we have to do everything to do, with the pres
ent And ask readers to transfer their attention
to the events which Transporting which have very
lately occurred in the fair land of fathers which lies
beyond the If they do So greatly fear they will
discover have done, only too much, and too con-
elusive evidence that popular rights and democratic in
sttutions-which, being interpreted real Repub
lican form of Government of the peoples wish and
for the peoples bene6t-are not much more popular
with certain influential parties in Ireland than they are,
or very lately were with their kindred spirits and fellow
consprators, here, in America We alude to the far
famed political declaration respecting the relation be-
tween England and Ireland lately issued by large
number of the Catholic clergy of the Diocese of Linn
erick and supposed to be written by the Venerable
Dean OBrien who is located, believe at Newcastle
West The professed object of this carefully composed
document is to bring before the British Government
and the public generally, the dreadful and disastrous
condition of affairs, in what the English sarcasticaly
call the sister" island and to point out what in the
opinion of the Reverend author of the paper would be
an effectual remedy for the evils which are
now so notorious
The question resolves itself into two divisions One
concerns the disease the other relates to the RENE
dy. Concerning the first, there is, among all honest
and intelligent men, no difference of opinion On
this point, we and the subscribers to the Limerick
declaration are thoroughly agreed None know better
than the Catholic clergy to what horrible condition