The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-02-29
Rev. G. w. Pepper and Hon. Charles Sumner.

The following correspondence will be read with interest
by our readers Rev. George w. Pepper, Chaplain, 10th
S. Infantry is of the best ishmen in the country
Being Protestant clergyman, he has done TO bring
the of Ireland before the American people than any
other man in America We glad that Charles Sumner
is SO favorable universal liberty" and that his heart
beats for the wrongs of our poor country-EDs. r.
From the North Carolina Standard.
GoLDsBoRo, January 7th, 1868.
Hon. Charles Sumner U. S. Senator.
DEAR SIR Your earnest speech in the Senate
American citizenship, coming it did from the chairman
the Committee Foreign Relations inspires with the
hope that at distant day, to lrshAmercans in their
journeys the old land for health and recreation will be
extended the broad shield of this Government protecting
them from the and indgntes of that foul and
treacherous nation, England. Those significant words
noble refuaton of the foolish notion pervadng the minds
of thousands of ishmen that your sympahies not
with their counrymen at home in their desperate efforts to
rid themselves and forever of domination oathed and
abhorred by nnetenths of the people of Ireland That
grand old nation fifty termed the Poland of the sea has
had and have the sympathes and honest friendship
of Massachusetts honored senator whose voice often
raised in defense of liberty in the United States whose
vgant and persistent services in the legislative halls Of the
Republic fastened negro emancipation the GROWING glory
of the nineteenth century knew that SO brilliant record
in favor of American freedom would suffer cloud to
rest upon it's fame, by permitting the rights of American
citizens to be dgraceuy assaed by the governments of
Europe and especially by nation that much solid
aid to the Southern revolution and whose presses plunged
into the widest rapures of rhetoric when the fatal shot
fired at Fort Sumter. 1t has always appeared to Irish
Americans shame ana seaman CnaC tnelr
when flung into British basles appealed in vain to Charles
Francis Adams and other representatives of
in Great Britain At this very hour, brave and accom-
pshed soldier Colonel Halpin is pning and suffering in
English dungeon for words spoken in New York This
gallant and fearless patriot for four years In the ranks
Of the Union army and the Christian Government of Eng
land him to fifteen years Imprisonment for no
crime committed within the Queens dominions There is
also Captain Warren of your State noble and intrepid
soldier of the Union he is sentenced for the PERIOD
and is compelled herd with the eons of Eng
lands las might call your attention to Colonel Burke
whose brave bearing and burning words in the dock when
sentenced hung worthy of Emmett and John Brown
to the fascinating and polished scholar, Meany formerly
editor OF an Ohio ournao the daring and manly Maggie
who electrified Judge and jury with the exclamation, II am
citizen of Americaand my Government will that this
base TRANSACTION is overhaued" To the genial and beautiful
Kiceham who, when he heard in Dublin prison of the
triumph of the Union army made the prison walls ring with
again. feel the chains grow little lighter on nv body"
Knight enumerate other IrishAmercans but pass with
Iarkin Their triumphant deaths the scaod have made
their memories eternal One of these spirited heroes was an
Irish-American and you remember he marched to the