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

Samson shorn of his locks he as helpless as child and
poor to do him reverence. This is Napoleon
alone. That Napoleon associated with his feowmen.
So of our own beloved Washington We sing his praises,
and laud his NAME who in comparative poverty and weak
ness and conquered the mighty nation of the earth
We would not pluck laurel from his brow take
star from that of honor that admrng world has
SO justly awarded him. But we love his name because it is
associated with country, and truth bids remember
that the real power by which the victory of freedom
won in the indomabe spirits and iron of
those dauntess men, who hung their sckes upon the WALL
left their plow in the furrow the call of their country
associated for its defense made Washington their leader and
with heart and with mind fought by his sde died
together in the breach It the principle of associated
action devoted to glorious cause and its fruits this
day reapng By this all human progress and improvement
wids pucking the fruits they grow, destroying the
game for his meat and quenchng his thirst with the waters
of the gurglng r may furnish the poet with theme for
p@an to the goddess of Natural Liberty but he will be
barbarian STILL and his children after him will
the uncuvaed wastes and sleep in the
and dens until they learn to associate with others and
bne their efforts for mutual good Then and not till then,
will the march of improvement commence Then and not
BEFORE will green fields smile where the dense forest STOOD
and cheerful glad be heard where the wild beast
hows and seeks his prey Rome in her glory seated upon
the throne of nations but vast association and
robber she was she derived all her glory from the ccum
that she could the power of her millions
in strong and resoute action given end So of all the
nations of antiquity and their works Stupendous those
works must have been they their existence to the weak
of alone, and his power when organized and
associated with Others Wonderful and almost incredible to
Individual these works.
A solitary traveller, as he stands upon some pyramid OF
DID, whose top like the brow of huge mountain is reared
high towards heaven, and whose giant form sits amid
solitude and run well wonder how human power could
raise that mighty pile which like attempt 10 rival
the eternal hills moulded in the hand of the Almighty him
SELF But let him back through the dusk of ages past
and he shall that solitude hronged with active life The
hum of busy wormen, the click of ten thousand hammers,
and the creakng of ponderous shall break upon the
and the principle of association shall reveal power
which laughs impossibtes, and is fully adequate
that massive structure which has stood through long
ages the wonder of the world Though the of the
builder has persisted with the marble which it
sculptured yet the work remains and grand solemn and
silent it sits there memento of the past like the skeleton
of and wasted monument at unknown grave, to
herald the glory though cannot tell the of him that
sleeps at its base 1t built by the power of associated
action perhaps by the weakest of all action of this kind
that which compulsory. Such the power of the prn
cple
1t be hailed of the most suspicious signs of
the times that whereas mad ambition pride and avarce have
hitherto welded most successfully the power of the principle
benevoence has length commenced manifestations of its
power and gathering her forces and mastering her armies
for mighty effort for the meoraton of the condition of
oppressed down-trodden suffering humanity The tempest
of the signal for associate that they
go with stronger hand to win aurels in the tented
field the ground with the bones of the slain, and
fill the earth with widows and orphans But the wall of
suffering is borne upon the air of heaven it strikes
upon the listening ear; thrills through every artery and
vbraes upon every of the great soul of humanity and
brings out the earnest question: what be done to afford
relief? Happily the world is beginning to find
in the great principle of associated acona principle akin
to Omnpotence ITSELF but hitherto too often employed to
extend the empire of tyranny and oppression. On this
principle Order is founded in its power it has done
much Let the bonds of union be strengthened and their
lines extended and shall go to and glorious
conquests.-Ark.