The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-03-14

1t rather coured ecclesiastical censure than it's
tenance. By this it could satisfy the of OPP
posite creeds that was not religious movement That
where all men assisted in throwing off the foreign ag
gessor they could rest assured it not changing the
foreign for home tyranny.
Since the dssensons in the Organization, the true
spirit of Fenianism has been turned aside into petty
issues You cannot find that broad spirit of liberation
in religious matters now that existed four years ago.
You will find leaders in our movement that will shrug
their shoulders and say of man, because he is
Protestant, Oh, he IS not one of u.s.
Still, with all its drawbacks it is the grandest Organ
ization carried out according to its original conception
that existed in any nation 1t does not confne its
sympahes to our own nation even but embraces all men
who thirst for liberty within its universal BOSOM 1t
has its enemies 1t has met an opposition that would
have killed anything short of Truth. The English
Government hates it. Bishop Moriarty hates it. Every
Irishman false nationality hates it. Every who
has bated to destroy liberty hates it, John Mitchell,
whom Fenianism ransomed out of prison, where it
should have left him to suffer the torments of the
damned for his treachery to this Republic hates it.
Here he from gloatng over the prison pens OF
the South where the Union soldier starved for his
devotion to Liberty and with that unblushng eronery
of man whose cheeks are banched with remorse, and
whose pride so devsh that he hugs the serpent that
is eating his heart, raises his emacated countenance
among honest men and denounces Feniansm. Oh! it
is the spirit of his murdered youth rising up to rebuke
him. He sees his own deformity in the purity of Fenian-
ism, and crazed by his hdeousness, would destroy
the mirror.
There is no power earth outside that destroy
Feniansm It's destruction will come from within if it
does come 1t cannot be killed, but it can commit
suicide
Oh for some power that could draw the true men
together that would restore its lost motto Liberty and
Ireland. Then hand in hand, and heart to heart,
could meet these liberty prisoners and tramp them be-
meath our united feet
If the blood of the martyrs be spat upon by the
woud-be destroyers of Liberty, and its crimson beauty
soed by their expectoration then indeed is it
time for Fenansm to die for it is rotten to the
But if it is the spirit of true liberty and imbedded
in the souls of intelligent men, power on earth
crush it out.
That there have been plumbers and failures in the
history of Fenianism is undeniabe. The were
the errors of a people who while following up the
national idea, not disciplined in the severe and
single school of intelligent practcabty. While all
were aiming at a resurrected Ireland each brought
his private pecuarities and passions into the work, and
the grand idea oenmes sacrificed at the shrines Of
petty gods In fact we have Invested ourselves
of our various partsanshps and to-day there scarcely
man that accepts the Fenian dea-Liberty- without
dozen qualifications All these things have borne
their fruit and we reapng the harvest of dis
cord We stand around the altar of country, each
swearing he the greatest devotee at the shrine but all
in confusion over petty and vicious nothings.
We do not wish to condemn any party We know
that it is the nature of to be selfish. Otentlmes
men are fighting their battles and pushing self to
GOLF hash tramnled