The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-02-08

~ ars for them no speeches and no votes about
them There would be Irish grants no Irish jobs
No irish patronage provision for ishmen in India and
tho ones In short there would be end of Ireland
snbiect of domestic policy But what would her
dtion be- and the condition of her people? Suppose the
Channel fleet vanquished if not annhated-the whole
British force captive disloya-Uster dsmayed colu
sive and the Irish Republic soemnly proclaimed the
BIarney Stone the Curragh of Kildare the Phoenix
Park Dublin. What would be the next step? Necessity
and precedent would agree in demanding Convention to
settle the future government of the island very memoir
able precedent familiar Engshmen suggests the prob
able constituents of such assembly all the Irish peers
the Irish members of the late British Parliament and few
noabes elected by the municipal bodies of leading
towns But let not for moment delude ourselves into
the idea that any such old world consttuonalism
would be accepted model for imitation by the fbuster
ing Reormer who would have lay the foundations of the
Irish Republic The first thing that these graduates in
American democracy would set about would be the extinc
ton of all Irish peers whatsoever The next thing would
be the degradation of all of notaby and hereditary
position twoold axiom to which only Irish ingenuity
has been able to give consistency would furnish the i'm
pulse to this movement "1hat man is as good
other sufficient why tyrannzing arstocrat
should walk before Terence or Thady That the same
is great deal better, too" is equally sufficient
why Thady and Terence should install themselves in the
arstocrac So there would be territorial notables
of epoch in this convention The assembly would meet
under the auspices of those "gems of boys" who
shipped off in the orecases of emigrant ships dozen
years and who having studied the theory OF civil
eminent in the municipal pongboohs of New York. had
further improved that knowledge in the civil of their
adopted country Qualified by their military experience for
command they would take the lead the councils of the
regeneated land of their BIRTH Some unexpected difficulty
in Legislation might after time present itself to those
suggest the necessity of calling the aid of professional
learning But of this rest assured-the American
Irish regeneros of Ireland would call in the assist
of the Irish bar The Irish bar may may not be
enthusiastically loyal it said to be suky and querulous
because Disappointed but STILL in the MAN, society of
gentlemen and its members would repe Infectious the
of the rowdy bravadoes yomited from the Saloons
sums and beershops of American cities. These gentry
would then have to do their work by themselves The
and the process of remodeling would be simple enough
All those who had inherited purchased large estates would
have surrender hem to hold them terms prescribed
by their new In the they would be
ceeded by the descendants of the old Irish chieans and
princes who every knows have been for genera
tons demeanng themselves walters in all the hotels of the
United States In the other case they would remain the
nominal lessons who had leases renewable forever
with the option of paying refusing fines and rents After
this little work was settled these Brummagem Girondists
would their attention to the Church The first STEP
being of destruction would present difficulties
who equally hate Professionalism and establishments But this
part DONE then would the question of reconstruction
redistribution That which has perplexed would puzzle
them What would they do with the tthes and globes of the
Protestant Church? The Romish clergy would stand by in
impressive expectancy. But it is thing take away,
and another give away True they hate the Protestant
Church but that does not make them love the Catholic
Church bit better Moreover, any lurking favor which
they may have cherished towards ecclesiastical estab
shments would have been completely eradcaed by their
temporary citizenship in America. Nor could the repre-
sentative of Western Republicansm who had learned to
now eAceHent puIpoSeS money may DC dppHeu De
supposed likely to lavish it doubtful investment
the support of priesthood to whose doctrines they
Indifferent and of whose undivided allegiance they had
slight hopes residence in America does confirm the
Ishmans religious belief still less does it teach him
tolerate Ulramontane hierarchy Here would the
first quarrel between the native peasany and their travelled
berator and very pretty quarrel would be indeed.
When the libuering Directorate had decided on the
disposal of the spols of the Church. they would have to
decide the internal government of Ireland The first
thing that would strike them would be the singular incon
venience of having Imperial funds draw upon. They
would have to pay their Government their udica
tur magtracy and police out of the of Ireland
Now as it of the staple complaints of unhappy
sister and her clerical patriots that she is unduy taxed at
present we cannot suppose that her patriotic Directory
would increase her taxation Therefore there could be
greater supplies at the command of her new than of her
former masters But she could hardly trust the
ray OF surrounding nations she would have provide
Tor oSe means OF external defense which betrayed
by England An army and in addition