The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-04


is to submerge his entire personal concerns in the
common stock. No. There is a sense-and q most
important one-in which every man must live for him.
SELF must erect the fabric of his own fortunes and as
the management and mastery of his own affairs.
To neglect this duty, to perform it imperfectly is
injurious if ruinous to the individual himself and
unjust towards others Of this we all see numerous
examples, in our everyday experience and these are
less marked in their character and consequences
Neither is it necessary for consistent with
the general good that the family circle should be abol
ished sunk out of sight. On the contrary nothing
is absolutely essential to the welfare of any COM
munty than the cultivation of what are called the
domestic vrtuesthe faithful discharge of those sacred
obligations which are attached to the words father
son and brother, daughter, mother and wife. Who
knows not that here may find of the chiefest
elements of that stern republican virtue by which the
ancient Romans distinguished, and by which the
fathers of the American Revolution were SO prominently
characterized?
Of equal Importance and necessity-in its own proper
PLACES the arrangement of men into nations as into
families. And that such is the design of the Power
which presdes the universe no intelligent man can
doubt when he looks to the natural barriers of and
mountains by which different sections of the human
family divided to the habitudes of thought and
action by which they respectively characterized to
the languages they speak, or even to the deepyrooted
prejudces by which they not unfequeny animated
may many instances be exceedingly difficult define
the elements which combine to constitute nation
Sometimes they more and sometimes less numerous
and distinct. But the thing itself is plain and patent
to the entire world written the face of nature and on
the mind of man.
Now, just as it is impossible for the individual
to surrender his personal rights without doing
I'M Jury both to himself and to others-and just as it is
impossible to interfere with dissolve the family circle
without producing consequences disastrous and destruc
tive to the common interest so is equally impossible to
interfere with, to usurp abrogate nations rights
without producing evil consequences which affect not
merely the people that directly and Immediately
wronged but which extend also to the peoples of other
nations and other lands.
Apply the principle to the case of Ireland and it's
illustration is complete Of the losses and suferings
endured by the Irish people, from the days of Henry H.
to the present hour the world has often heard And
yet question if the ten housandh part of the wrong
and misery inflicted has ever been revealed Only
think OF system which, in one short quarter of a
century, has actually destroyed more human beings than
did all the wars of Europe during the past three hun
dred years And who can, for moment, doubt that
the subugation and spoation of Ireland and of India
were main elements in producing that oyer-gorged ars-
tocray which attens the very vtals of the Eng
lish people, the of whom have been reduced to
condition of poverty and debasement which are re-
proach to humanity itself For they who connve at the
robbery and ensavement Of others always end in being
robbed and enslaved themselves. This is lesson, we
may observe en- PEASANT, worth learning by certain
nlgger-haers here in America For our Southern ars-
tocrats, if they find impossible to keep black slaves
pretty certain if not well watched to create white