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

for Miss M. Will you kindly send it to herr
Believe me, very faithfully yours,
LETITIA LUBY.
The people of Ireland are not without faults. Yet
we are thoroughly convinced that among them there
larger proportion devoted to the cause of their counry
liberation than among those of any other people
For present purpose we pass by the exceptional
classes From all who feel or fgn who truly entertain
falsely swear, allegiance to foreign oppressor, we
expect nothing From those who regard the gospel OF
Irish liberty" thing unworthy of the first and
supremest service of their hearts and veswho regard
it thing of secondary Importance to Church polemics
sectarian ascendency-we expect nothing. Nothing
but evil No matter what pretenses they may make or
under what holy unhoy guse they may appear these
men are our country's enemies Traitors to the land
that bore them, and to the of which they at
once the disgrace and the destruction neither ask
aid from them nor desire contact with them Let the
chaff blow aside. We look alone to the good and
genuine grain. There are those-there thousands
and hundreds of thousands of them-among the Irish
of America and of the world-whose first and last
and highest impulse to their ruined country
and to raise her to the high and honorable place to
which she is entitled among the nations To such we
speak The brother tried and true who fought your
sde would you not, did you not risk life and limb to
defend and protect him And when he yielded up his
noble life the field of war, would you not have sent
the ruan sroler to instant perdition who would have
dared to dismember or dshonor even his senseess
mains Truly and tendery you laid him in his glorious
grave to whose haowed earth your heart still
with afectionate reverence Yet there something
which that brave feared far than death, and
that have the loved of his desolated home
left unped and uncared for hunger and to beggary
IF anything could disturb his eternal rest if anything
could lacerate his feelings in the solemn world of the
departed it would be that the country and the people
he had laid down his life to save had abandoned his
family to such fate as this.
Now Notwithstanding all that the bloodless spouters
of 48-some of whom have made far greater sacrifices
for the preservation of Southern slavery than for the
restoration of Irish liberty say to the contrary, it
great fact that the people of ireland at this
hour engaged in as real and terrible against Eng
sh tyranny that which was decided by the swords Of
the American patriots in 1776 They are engaged in
war in which, inside the last two years, brave
have died on the field and the scafold and in the
dungeon. They engaged in in which, to use
the language of the sacred Scripture, dying,
almost daily, of whom the world was not worthy" It
is just necessary, holy war-a for the preser
walton of ancient and glorious country For,
let not disguise it from ourselves this is the closing
contest Either the Irish people, distinct nation
atty, or the English power with it's widespread wither
ing oppression, must perish These are terrible and
tremendous issues and must follow them out to their
legitimate consequences. And of the very first of
them is-and if you are in thorough earnest, as we
believe you are, you will at prepare for ito pro-
for the succor of the wounded and the susenance
OF the dependents of the fallen The work. we CRATE
fully confess, has not been wholly neglected But is
too generally the amongst u.s. has been gone about
in struggling and desultory, and consequently nei