The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-03-14
SPECIAL CoRRESPoN DEN CE.
Pencilings From Paris.

Penclings From Paris.
FIGHTING IRELAND WHAT FRENCH JOURNALS THINK
Us-GLADsToNE, OUR LoDE-sTAR loyal LONDON
1R1sHERs-THE PRESS BILL-ABYssIN1A-
THEATERs.
February H. 1868.
ST. Valentines day And what is the gentle message we
receive from Ireland? Disturbances in Cor-the police
attacked by the people with volleys stones the attack
by repeated bayone chargesnine hours fighting Such is
the of the telegram which arrives and my friend Mac
earthly of Muskerry who has been on the Continent LAS
say here in Europe these fifteen years. pushes to
me- glow of excitement his face See that nine hours
fighting in Cork Gained him by the that nine
hours fighting in Cork vastly different thing from
nine hours fighting in Paris. But nine hours Why,
there wasn't than ten hours real fighting at Water
loo" Admitted; but told him this likely to
turn Peterloo and so it has turned There
gross acknowledgements exaggeraon in this dispatch.
The Irish revolution has not yet commenced and when it
does commence fancy it will be affair of long duration
and bloody episodes of centuries heapng
up is to be wiped out in nine hours STILL those tele-
grams, though they nurture false hopes useful to the
of Ireland They keep the Irish question before the
eyes of Europe and give friends at the press to
speak good words in favor. And am glad to write
our friends the press here in France neither few
ukewarm. The semi-oficia journals the PaTe the Cons
tonne the Etendard wedisposed to Ireland In the
latter especially, there stirring articles occasionally,
written by NJ Jean Wallon professor the Sorbonne
worthy conere of the good Able Perraud who wrote
mastery sketch of the state of Ireland in 1863 The
clerical journals of them, do not like us, considering
the Fenan communicated all of them msapprecate the
Irish question Ireland for hem is the inauguration, the
great devou sufering Catholic people of to-day the Fe
mans restless of disorder; and the grief of
la Verte Em Gas these Frenchmen persist in poeczing
Ireland is the Church Establishment! If that abo
ished then Pat. might sing hosannas don't it, for
Irishman. Freedom of worship is all right it exists
| IN lint do hSoh
applaud the bestowal of tract hungry 1t is all
we'll to build splendid temples the Almighty but it
should be recocted at the time that thousands men,
whose bodies living temples of the Holy Ghost
forced to quit home and herand every year, because they
have not enough to eat This Irish question very much
and until you discover that there other grievances for
Pabesdes that boated Church Establishment your advocacy
is of little value. Great Britain exploits Ireland that is
say, puts hand the Irish mouth to fe its recama
tons while puts the other into the Irish pocket empty
it. AS Ned Lysaght wrote once
Call poor Ireland the land of potatoes" -.
The English policy is the Claude Duval policy, without
the Claude Duval chvary-the policy of I" stand and
deliver and until exemplary journals in France learn that
simple fact they cropping in political twilight as far
The best way to argue with robber is
from the right shoulder straight outf you have knucke-
busters your fist much the better. Even ropes
when they menaced in their possessions leave aside bulls
and affect Chassepot and they wise in their generaton
therefore, Montana points that wholesome lesson.
1t is remarkable that the great Democratic French PRESS
such papers as the Steele the Avenr National and the like,
take most wrongheaded view of Fenanism The Steele,
the other day, called Fenianism "troglodyte which