The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-02-08

might be agreed on but to please the seerage never
never If there is any thing that entities Eng
land the consideration of the respectable nations Of
the world, it is her insurmountable sefconceit The
way she wraps herself in the imaginary grandeur of the
British Constitution and patronzingy ignores the few
specks of earth outside the British island with their
scarcely goodenough damned population is SUBJ
lime. A sublimity, however, not step from the
ridiculous
Whenever you meet an Englishman who will admit
there things to be found outside the British
Empire good fourishes in that celestial region put
him down as Republican That man will toast the
President of the United States before the Queen.
The writer in the London Reuieo magines indie
pendent Ireland for the fun of the thing Blarsted
ridiculous, you know, 'owever." He goes on to show
how extremely unfit for sefgoyernment these Hirish"
would be- He quotes New York city proof that the
Irish people are utterly unfit for selfgovernment He
forget that there few Irshmen outside of
New York city, and that there some Teutons, also
the true Saxons-and natives well, all helping
to prove the instability of Republics in that village
By the by draw the attention of readers in that
city to the fact that when the London Times or the
Paris Monite wish to prove the failure of Republican
Governments they point the anarchy that howls and
the corruption that Testers in New York.
What would become of the Irish people if England
took it into her head forsake Them and leave them
to each other? We trembe at the bare idea of being
left for single hour without her divine guardianship.
" Let suppose that by sudden and overwhelming
surprise, Ireland were wrenched away from England.
What would be the result to us and to Ireland % asks
the Reve,o We beg to inform them that is contrary
IF Trish to
No. we never take advantage of foe who has treated
us SO openly and magnanimously England has done
We must blow our horns and beat gongs, in true
Irish fashion, as we advance, lest by any chance we
should by sudden and Overwhelming SURPRISE catch
her en- deshdbihe.
Is it not the sublimest point of even English impu-
dence to ask the question: What would become of Ire
land if she wrenched from the British Empire =?
Here is nation that for hundred years has
dered by fire. sword and gbbe starved ashed tortured
and outraged by all the conceivable cunning and malice
of hell the Irish people, and she has the erontery to
ask, through her leading journals, what would become
of us if we succeeded in cutting loose from England
What would become of us? Admitting the very worst
that enemies predict could we be worse OFT than at
present Could Satan from the Internal regions,
and bring with him the spirits Of all the murderers,
traitors and ends that disgraced the handwork
of God, and that they should establish pandemonium
in Ireland, it would be worse-t could be
than it is at present governed-if such word
apply to the state of affairs thereby England. Sup
pose an Independent Ireland" What could the
Irish people do at the very worst but turn to and kill
each other. Could they kill each other faster than
England kills them? Could they kill off three millions
IN twenty-five gears by the foulest anarchca state OF
society that we imagine? Not likely Yet Eng
land has done this for us. Has not history been
one long crucifxion from the landing of SrongboW to
the present hour? Have not people been reduced
to almost utter extinction on several occasions by the