Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-02-10
Let I4iberty's Flag Float proudly y
i'm the Breeze; IL Is the Terror Of
Tyrants and the Hope of the
Slave.

Let Liberty's Flag Float proudly
i'm the Breeze; IL Is the Terror of
Tyrants and the Hope of the
Slave.
Freemen, the long expected voice of the
noble sons of freedom who placed the 3rd
Napoleon on the throne of France has been
waited across the wide expanse of waters !;
it is short but it speaks volumes. The
same spirit which revolutionized France
in 1S4S is to-day secret, reigning power,
and prOclaims it in accents not to be mis-
taken. Will the cradle of liberty, the
asylum of the oppressed of all nations,
think well upon it, now when England re-
pudiates all just claims against her by our
Government, and more particularly when
she laughs to scorn our diction of the right
of expatriation so nobly demonstrated by
our best jurists. This is intolerable.
Americans look at it; Irishmen prepare
tor it. Remember the glOries of the de-
parted heroes of the Revolutionary war,
remember that Lafayette, Kosciusko
and DeKalb had shed their blood and car
ried honorable scars to their graves fight
ing in defense of freedom. Know that
Commodore Barry, the father of our navy,
and Paul Jones, who struck terror into
England and carried fire to her wooden
walls, would not brook to suffer an insult
to the flag of our country. Americans,
take inspiration from General Washing
toms farewell addr, IS, and remember the
inspiring tones of Patrick Henry; gird on
your armor to fight for victory or die in
the last ditch, emulate the example set
you by the immortal jackson, help to
crush the hydra headed monsters of Europe,
and enthrone the Goddess of Liberty, peace
and plenty. Freemen, read the following
address and see for yourselves that the as
cending star of freedom shines lustrous in
France. Americans, strike in Gods name
and remove the shackles which has so long
bound brave men to accursed tyranny:
ADDRESS OF THE FRENCH DEMOCRATS TO
THEIR BRETHREN IN IRELAND AND ENG
LAND.
brothers Three humble plebeans
have atoned ON the scaffold at Manchester
for their love of liberty and their country.
"Three children of the people-two work
ing men and soldier! Admirable union
Allen. Larkin and O'Brien, three Irishmen,
have been added to the long and glorious
list of martyrs tor English Poland
"These three men have been condemned
NOT for having killed two horses and
police sergeant They have been con-
demned for having delivered, at their own
personal risk and peril, two of their chief
patriots, Colonel Kelly and Captain Dacey,
who came from America to the assistance
of Ireland, thinking that. after having freed
the blacks, it was their duty to release the
whites.
"These three citizens have been punished
because a government never pardons insur-
rection against its tyranny-the most holy
of duties.
.Deathl Behold the last words of the
English aristocracy to the just remonstran-
ces of the Irish people. Alter having taken
away their country they take their lives
Your poet said to the murderer of a king,
II did not know that a man had so much
blood" What would he have said to the
murderers of a nation after the massacres of
Henry III, of Cromwell, and William Ill {?
Will the gallows at Manchester be the end?
Will this sacrifice, at least, be the last? If
the bIoodshed at Drogheda did not put an
end to the life of Ireland, these three exc
cutions will not bring about that result.
"In the name OF National Right, as
sacred in Dublin as in Rome; in the name of
humanity violated without justice and
without cause; in the name of the Eternal
Truth, which proclaims the inviolability
of human lite, we, the French Democrats,
will protest. We associate ourselves in
our protest with the grief Of our democrat
ic brethren of Ireland and England.
1--WE execrate Jointly with you this odi-
GUS and useless barbarity-this triple exc
cution which could only cause the idea of
reprisals to be entertained, and make civ
iliZation recoil.
'In England, the political scaffold of the
nineteenth century is an anachronism and
absurdity. We should have thought that