The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-25


take warning in time lose control of and are dsgraced
by that body and insist that servant OF any rep
reenative district acting be instantly compelled TO come
home and resign the position he dsgace The nine hundreo
thousand inhabitants of Michigan easily look AFTER ther
eight representatives and eternal vigilance the price
of liberty and the liberty of the citizen Is pierced IN Its
vital point parties and politics must be hurled TO
the Winds and whoever stands in the way opposes Its on
ward march be swept before indignant and outraged
people Is it thus people in chains and noby struggling
for liberty acts? Why, sir when Britain, taking advantage
of your necessities, brought about by herself demanded
Mason and Sde forty thousand men in the city OF Dublin
publicly and swore "by the pale head the execuoner
held In his hand in Thomas street. by the unwreh tomb
in Bodenstowns churchyard if you go to war with
America you can't have from Ireland" They sought
to give backbone your minister Washington but failed
These knew and vndcated the law of nations better
than your sckenng sentimental huhkies In Washington
whose provision blinded the deep design of those Euro
pean powers especially if not solely England IN assuming
to give air of Importance to this doctrine upheld and
insisted on by them or it, though admitted an Mn
view of eectng combination at no distant day against
this country when by the practical assertion OF such rgnt
by this coalition, they would demoraize the bavest army
that existed composed yours would be OF men from
all these nations Greedy says if they insisted on this doc
during the rebellion they could have demoraized our
army That not their game 80 long as we were destroy
ing each other. -
Again Some have the audaciy say that the Irish
trying intrigue this Government into with England
Poor shorsghted miserable dupes they should see that
the contrary they warning in advance OF con-
ngency that must come and is coming, and therefore
demands prompt settlement and acknowledgment now OF
the doctrine from nation that won't can't fight you
and who dare bully you into admission OF an absurdlty
"a bully who like all bues is coward when not per-
mtted to argue longer but compelled to light or dlsgorge
his captves.
Why sir in the of with the United States she
can't compel from Ireland to fight for her. this Vael
laws down clearly his treatise the Laws of Naons for
when Ireland visited by calamity famine, she did
exhaust her treasury her people, acting the part
of parent but on the contrary permitted the expectation
provisions guarded by armed men, to be taken from her
to save the people, while that people were
sarvng-and when she did not do her duty, the United
States did duty and fed the Irish people, therefore says
Waite in sub
with the friend that fed you you not bound to light
for her against that friend You released from the obi
CATION subjects and the nations bound to unite their
arms to prevent her taking man from Ireland"
Again sir, the of the English people are becoming
too enlightened permit themselves to be dragged into
sustain antquaed absurdty long since exploded
aested and confirmed by the thousands that avaed them
selves of that fundamental lawhe very essence OF your
political life and institutions Nay. more, SIR the English
Republican Brotherhood longer to be hoodwinked by
cursed incubus and vampire that has long attened on
their sweat and toll and blood
But says Senator Howard, this question must be settled
by treaty We that Senator to understand and be IN
formed that will permit compromise of our character
or dignity nation by entering into the soemnues OF
treaty to beg of Britain abolish monstrous absurdity
No in the language of Henry Clay the preenson must be
surrendered or settled at the lannon's mouth.
Why sir it is but few years ago since, alarmed at the
almost total humiliation of our by this oil
garchys intrigue Mr. Lincoln appointed commission Tor
the purpose who asceraned that OF our COM
diverted from American bottoms and not
before properly had been diverted to Brit
sh bottoms for nearly thirty years. by the nrgus OF these
gentry into the treaty consummated with ola
Jackson And sir after intriguing into desoang
war steadily pursued since 1885, while steadily engineer
ing it. endeavorng make the lands of the socaed empire
of India (Which they openly and agrany robbed produce
sufficient cotton enable them do without our American
staple when and by the they had successfully disrupted
Union they hoped But we know nd the dunStv er ;na
that inernecine conflict and sadde STILL We the Irish who
have known and suffered long by of them see the
coven foot again in the many missionaries buatng
the land North and South among the people whose homes
and they lately left desoate and lonely
tensb voluntary offerings to promote that loving
Cousin while they seduousy intriguing future
combinations against her growing power constantly exciting
her jealousy and stimulating her avarce And in this
necton tell me- pray what agency induced
railway borrower Robert J. Walker to advise borrow
$3.50 of foreign loan? those mortgage
our industry who warned their touch bonds
a few years ago?
No sir we insist and demand true citizens that