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

facturers could get their " hands" to work for half
wages and could therefore, supply the Southern slave
holders with all of goods at half the price at
which they could be produced in America So the
South went in for Free Trade heart and soul and the
Northern Democracy supported them and ninety-fve
hundredths of the Irish people of the United States were
they still, Democrats to the And it came
to pass that the most enthusiastic supporters of Free
Trade with England and consequently of the power and
glory and perpetuation of the British Empire the
Irishmen of America y!
So we have found out another-whch constitutes no
less than the or-cass of the friends of Free Trade
with England and these are the Irish Democrats of the
United States.
Now we have few words to say to those Irishmen
who thus by voting with the Democrats and supporting
the great Democratic doctrine of Free Trade with Eng
land are swelling the wealth and upholding the power
of England We shall speak the truth fearlessy, but
at the same time calmly and without prejudice; and
ask fair and candid hearing.
There is duty which you owe to the whole human
race, and that duty is to do what in you lies to strike
dorm those European tyramnaes which have plundered
the nations and reduced two-thirds of your feow-men
to the wretched condition of beggars and slaves These
accursed despotisms whether they called empires
monarches whether they ruled by anonted robbers
under the of kings queens czars or kaisers
all pieces of great whole. They all depend on
each other and are linked vast conspiracy to Cypress
and destroy England is the keystone of the entire
Internal structure. The man who votes down her trade
gives blow to level the whole with the earth The
who votes for her trade-as all Democratic voters
dds aiding and assisting whether he knows it not
to continue the robbery and oppression and wholesale
murder of mankind
You owe duty to the american Republic to which,
good citizens, you have to bear true allegiance
Has England been anything but the enemy of that
Republic? What she in the days of Washington,
when she not only poured the red tide of her Infamous
mercenaries on our shores to murder American liberty
but when she hired hordes of brutal Hessans do the
same unholy work yes, and bounded on the Indian
savage with his tomahawk and scalpng- knife the
helpless wives and children of American patriots who
were battling in the field for the liberties wenow enjoy
What was England during the late war; but the trucu
lent cowardly enemy of this great Republic? Anxious
to wound and rend and Destroy yet afraid to strike
building and arming her pirate Alabamas to sweep
American from the sea- and thus to aggrand
ze herself by getting the trade of the world into her
hands? We ask you, Irishmen, you doing your
duty to the Republic Of which you citizens, when
you vote for Free Trade with England We ask you
the question Will of you be good enough to send
us a reply?
You duty to Ireland the land of your birth.
That duty to strike down the oppressor Of your
try and the calumnator and murderer of your name
and race, by any weapons of which you lay hold,
and at any time which affords you the opportunity. We
once believed-we would like still to believe-that
whatever else that is good and noble an Irishman may
lose there is one honorable feeling which continues to
live and burn in his SOUL throughout all chances and
changes till his heart is cold in death That feeling