The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-03-14
Green Fields and Fat Churchyards.
81 SPREw STREET, CLEVELAND, OHIO,
September 7, 1868.


To the Editors of The Irish Republic.
SRs THERE'S melancholy gloom the face of Ireland to-
day. and the homeseads of its ancient crmbng into
dust Nature is true smiling sweety on that favored
land for she is allowed to put forth verdure where the
powsae and the ready spade obeyed the strong
of the Irish peasant but the awful stiffness that surrounds
you should you travel portion OF the country procalms
the almost utter desoaon of once happy people, and the
ominous sign of future political hurricane Look to the
old village where dwet your brother He is longer there
the people who surrounded him. Their cottage roofess
and sheep kline quietly browsing by the DOORS 10 to
the spot where stood the hamlet You find no
trace of there has not been stone left upon stone The
English landlord the Scotch tenanrmer has leveed its
walls and neat stone wall through its center Away,
far away in the distance it continued succession of
pastureelds where the fat and sheep of the heartes
tyrant feeding little conscious of the fact that they aen
decay.
There districts of course Ireland where of
the kind have been describing not visible but unless
revolutionary movement neyenes between the land
lords the English laws and the people, they will finally share
the fate of those less favored spots and deoae In
their 1t must be The landlord who has been
scared by the later revolutionary movements of the Irish
Fenian patriots not likely hold the power he
his without using it to the detrimen of those
whose sympathy accord with such revolutionary movements
it be supposed that he will spare them for his
own benefit who and labor to pay him high
without which he could not subsst The die has been
cast he has taken has de and with stamped upon
his cruel heart he will pay back while he and without
much regard to pecuniary motives measure of injustice
and cruelty for the of fear which he has received
from the people, This the that has lately
increased the number of Irish emgrants who coming in
thousands to seek employment The political aspect of Ire
land is than either the natural social aspect
and if there scoge wanted to accelerate the exodus
of the native from the shores OF Ireland the suspension
of the habeas corpus and its fearful consequences
sufficient to achieve that end Under these and other cir
cumstances will any publicly proclaim that the
of the Irish at home not willing to fight for
the independence of their native land They their
quantances flying from their homes the finest among
their friends taken to prison. themselves logged by the
pampered police who have thrown aside any pretensons to
the love of aherand having sold their birthrigh for
of pottage They and columns of infantry
and squads of cavalry moving about with their ready
while they themselves have not much hayfork,
fearfuy havethe English mnons of the law performed their
work. And it possible that with all these things staring
them in the the Irish patriots and sympahizers of
patriots either speak out manfu stir yard the
way revoution You who have the MEANS however,
them but chance that the blaze of battle may
their dormant spirits and send back again portion of the
manhood that has left and they will strike down the British
flag with much courage the brigade at Fonenoy with
vengeance than the English lords ever dreamed of
meeting. Why then, should there be any difference of
opinion upon this point why should in this country
who profess be patriots adhere any longer the
arguments of different parties that divide and weaken when
every hour in Ireland destructive to its native
years of former period and when every sensible
must know that if honor and freedom be achieved by
rshmen be the green fields of their native
fighting unnchngy for the liberty they lost? The Irish
patriots of Ireland, England and Scotland look the
of the Atlantic for assistance from their brethren in
America feeling assured that there brave hearts here
painting for the hour battle and brave men, too yearnng
for one glance of those pleasant valleys IN which
they spent the happy days of boyhood for quiet
grave among their kindred mould, that it after
noble struggle for their long lost liberty Will they be
deceived p M.
The writer of the above recently from Ireland He has
the desolaton which heso eengy DEPICTS and being of
the people, and who worked and suffered he should
know the spirit of Ireland-EDs [. R.