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

not merely "gtering generalitiesn but monstrous
abcatons. Recast in the spirit this new dogma that
stirring preamble becomes the msest fasest pretex
ever invented paate ungrateful sedition and vii
famous rebellion.
Were Jefferson, Adams Franklin and their compeers
apostles of false doctrine when they proclaimed all men
equal?
IF they that all equally wise learned yr-
uous, brave patriotic capable energetic Industrious or
frugal they surely imposors, and their fundamental
dogma was (as it has been pronounced aseevident ien
We all do know that very unequal in wit and worth
courage and integrity Nowhere is greater diversity
fest in than in the moral and intellectual qualities
evinced by diverse members of the human Nay if
you search you shall easily find undoubted offspring of the
same Caucasian father and mother who unlike in
moral and intellectual qualities light and darkness The
fathers of this Republic well of this
and dreamed of conroverting it. Who does know
that the Benedict Arnold at time gallant
patriot soldier and afterwards base detested traitor
and that DR. Frankn's only of the btteest
Tories in America?
What the men of the Revolution affirmed and made good
this: Mems natural "rights to life, liberty and the pursuit
Of happine equal and perfect notwithstanding their great
diversiies Of capacity and merit
If this be not true, then liberty is dream and
"The equality of equals denied by despot
born in the purpe-nor conqueror raised the
haberds of his exug, adong soldiers to lord the
PROSTATE millions abasing themselves the oot-stool of his
power If the rights of men be not equal despite their OBJ
vious and striking contrasts of ability and WORTH then
Warren martyr and the victims of fever packed in
British prison-ships, " died as the fool deth."
Here two living in the street with
of them SUPERIOR the other decidedly my Inferior in
intellect and in mental development. Have I natural
right govern and the atter Has the kindred
right govern and me? If then indeed what the
Atheist Tory Hobbies proclaimed 1.-THE natural state of
mankind For men and races seldom realize their in
eriory and if Government is properly the rightfu
opoy of the wise and strong then bloody be
fought for centuries to decide who the rghl of
that monopoly. Augustus Cesar Charlemagne Norman
William, Louis XIV Frederick of Prussia Gar Nicholas,
would each have readily assented the axomThe tools
to him who them," and justified their monopoly of
power by the very assumptions invoked to justify the
doctrine that government is the rghul monopoly of race
What the champions of Universal Freedom are required
and make good is the right of to sefgovern
ment despite his nrory other persons to the
Of other That my neighbor is taller WISER braver
nobler cleverer than Amy of these all of them
together give him right mine, but such
from Difference to his higher qualities shall fit to accord
him.
There inferior racesthat is inferior in rights All
mems rights equal all other MEMS despite their pre-
sumed ineriory in mental physical power Questions
of have ghtu place in the consideration of essen
tia human rights He who is truly and wisely the cham
pion of liberty and sefgovement for class is
the aserter of the equal right of all other The posi-
ton next to be made mpregnabe this Man, because he
is manbecae of the wherewh God has chosen to
endow hmis entitled every political right that justly
pertains any individual Let this be maintained
and established and the battle for Universal Freedomor
the rights of every and peoples virtually
HORACE GREELEY.
The O'Nei1l T)enunciation of 1.-THE Irish Republic"
We have second thoughts resolved to discontinue the