The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-04-25

the of the war all believed but so welded are
to old ideas and institutions that it was matter of
experiment whether the people would allow the cause
of the war; and the disgrace of the Republic to be re-
moved. We know that certain number of intelligent
had foreseen the destruction of slavery and had
clamored for the fiat to go forth that should make
out of chates. We also know the other hand that
majority-an Ignorant majority it may have been, but
cod with vote counts much man with soul
had to be prepared to face the music of breaking
chains with passive obedience
Had the question of slavery slavery" been sub
mitted general before the late war; there would
have been New York majority rolled up for slavery
1t is doubtful yet but hot contest could be waged
if the question was submitted to the people" Many
will smile, and many will pooh, pooh, at this, but we
assert that people who will cast their ballots against
universal suffrage would for the continuation of
slavery.
Is not this slowness Of the people to progress dis
hearenng to those great reformers who have worked,
and working to draw the earth closer to the skies
They have passed. like great pioneers into the future
They stand upon the hills beyond which all is liberty
and peace and cry unto the crawling people, come on
But the Of ignorance browns their voices and the
people, moulded by the hands of the DEVILS potters and
led by cunning and unprncipled men, pod and grope
through the darkness and vclousness of their ways.
Well has it been said that Republcanism is but
pertinent 1t is experiment when founded III general
ignorance 1t requires intelligent people to found
and preserve the purity Of Republic Every ignorant
is danger in the State. He is the property of
any cunning knaye who takes the trouble to catch his
soul He can be used to sab as we'll protect liberty,
He wants license and not freedom
1t makes one wish for that autocratic power that the
Gar Alexander welded when he struck the chains from
the limbs of million of serfs without begging the
sent to do the great work from his subjects Had he
put it vote the serf would still be the property of
the MASTER and God should look while the old
ashed and the maidens violated, to please the
caprice and passions of the superior the Russian
"chivalry."
Men cry, I" Why does not this and that party do thus
and SOP" The Republicans have liberated the slaves,
why not incorporate negro suffrage in their PLATFORM
They in favor of temperance, why not make 1t one
Of their party principles? They in favor of pro-
tectng the American working and manufactures,
why not hoist it on their banners?
The very men who cry out thus would appeal to the
preudces of the people against the party that would
do these things and defeat them the issue. They
would cry, "nigger equality and free trade" and
free whisky" Thevery people who would be benefited
by temperance, prohibtve tariff and universal suffrage
would vote against them, and defeat the loyalty of the
nation, and give the Government into the hands of the
stakeholder and man-sener again.
It is useless for freemen to fret and ohafe at the
blindness and inconsistency of slaves. We by
slaves those men who legally free, but morally
shaved
The world moves forward at snaiPs pace, and the
few who move into the unrodden fields must wait until
it pleases the hero" to follow Let the true men of
our still work and fight against And if at
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