The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-02-01

OF American, let no protesting to be representative
or ruler of the sovereign people of this free country be
too careless contemptuous in his tone towards,
treatment of those heroic men who are now dying for
liberty IN the tyrants dungeons Their cause, if not
their character, should render them respectable, yea,
even sacred, in the estimation of all who love liberty
and hate oppression At all events it is not very
slsent very credabe to despise neglect them
the part of those who profess to the memory Of
the who fought and conquered the hired hordes Of
England at Lexington and Bunker Hill. Nor would
it be unworthy of those who profess to be the
OF Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson to every
influence in their power to obtain the liberation of the
men who have confronted the same enemy and upheld
the in Europe did the heroic Fathers ofthe
Revolution in America. There was Republic in
England which, when the tyrant of France commenced
to burn and torture certain of his who dared
to differ with him in religious opinion sent message
through his accredited envoy that if this work Of hell
not stopped the guns of the English Republic would
be laundering at the gates of Paris Have we got
no man, we get no government, in this American
Republic, that will say much and do much to
the dastardly tyrants of England?
But let us come to closer quarters tt fact ascer-
tanned beyond all possible doubt that large proportion
perhaps considerable majority-of those whom
England has seized and punished, are not only Amer
lean citizens but american citizens vho meuer either
spoke against conspired against, fought against
British poaoer in any part of the British dominons
Whatever they did in respect to these things done
here in America In fact they have been punished by
foreign power for acts committed in the United States
Some of them still untred yet they have been kept
in close confinement prison fare, and subject prison
discipline for months and years. We could name dozens
of such cases. Others are under sentence of penal
servtude and serving out. their sentences in
English feon cells. Colonel Warren was merely found
on the shore of Ireland No eliminating evidence was
brought against him, except that of rufan in
former, which judge jury on earth, unless the
packed and purchased which the English Govern
ment uses in Ireland, would listen to for second.
Captain McAferty, of Detroit Mich, is native-born
American Yet he has been consigned to the doom
we have described. And on the 18th of January, Mr.
George Francis Train and two Others were taken out
OF the ocean mail steamer at Queenstown and consigned
to English jail We believe that all these gentlemen
native Americans. Mr. Train to certainty is, and
nobody for moment, pretends that his arrest was
occasioned by anything he did said in England
or Ireland 1t for speeches made in Philadelphia
and New York. To all this we shall only add two un-
deniable facts The first is, that several American
citizens have died of hardship in the prisons of Eng
land during the past two years. and one Michael OBrien
or Gould, was publicly executed at Manchester The
other fact is that have the very best reason to know
that not few American citizens who have been incar-
cerated in England and Ireland were connected
with the Fenian Organization broke any British
law nor in any way conspred against British authority
Such is the sad array Of acts of tyranny and
endured by American citizens, whom the American
Government is solemny sworn to protect YET to this
hour, beyond feeble circumstances = which never
amounted nor ever were intended to to ANYTHING