Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-03-19
Che gepnblif;a|u.
The Ir;,h Arc coming.

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The IRISH Are Coming.
We have lad frequent occasion, says tn
Chicago Esening Post, to observe tn
advance of the Feniqn wing of the Irish il
the United States, toward those high polit
lcal truths which are the eternal safeguart
of this Republic. Step by step and da.
after day, as they have thoughtfully con
sidered the causes which have made th'
land Of their birth the home of poverty anC
discomfort, have they been rising to tha
elevated plane Of thought, and that exalta
ton of sentiment from which they can SCI
the true relation of parties and politica
forces in the land or their adoption. As {
consequence of this growth, the old allie
glance of the Irish TO the Sham Democracy
has been ruptured and among those who
stand committed to the broadest extension
of human rights, the Fenians, especially
the members Of the Brotherhood in the
West, are distinguished for their zeal and
frmness. The Irish Republic, the organ
of all such, printed in Chicago, is the mosI
emphatic and determined of the Fcniar
journals; and that paper, its senses quick
ened by the great cause of liberty to which
it is devoted, never fails to comprehend
the full meaning of the partisan movements
here at homo. In itslast number, it strikes
at the root of the present difficulty and
danger thus, in a sledge-hammer blow:
"Nominally there aie two parties to the
contest which has ragged in the national
capital during the greater part ofthe period
which has elapsed since Abraham Lincoln
died bv the bullet of an assassin. These
are, the Congress, on the one hand, and
Andrew Johnson and his advisers, on the
other But. in point of fact and reality.
these are only the visible champions of
principles which lie at the very foundation
Of all human government, and of interests
which extend over the entire length and
breadth of the United States. The godlike
principle of mans right to he free, and the
devilish principle eff mans power to en-
slave, are doing battle as fercely from the
Capitol and the White House as they did
between Grant and Lee on the blood-stained
chattel owning interest of the South.
( backed up by the ignorant and unclean
hordes OF the mock Democracy of the
North, shall rule this American continent,
and make it, in the name ola Republic, a
bulwark to all the tyrannies of the earth,
the very stronghold and vanguard sf the
vilest and beastliest that ever cursed man
Kind, or whether these States, in which the
mighty problem of the worlds destiny
seems likely to be solved, shall be controll-
ed by the men who rob no man-white or
black, American. Irishmar, German. Gen
tile or Jew-of The liberty which God has
given him-by the men who would make
this great country a real Republic, land
in which the rights oi the poorest and the
weakest shall be as sacredly respected as
those of The proudest and most powerful, a
land in which Il will be thing impossible
10 be, or TO have, a slave-by the men who
believe in liberty as they believe in God
the protection, the enjoyment, the blessing
OF all races and lands-are the questions at
issue"
True, every word true, And that Fe-
nian journal, of all the properly Irish jour
mails OF the country, should be the one TO
declare thai truth and make il the basis of
its political action, is fact which shows
the progress that the Irish are making-s
fact which. more plainly than anything else
that we have ever seen, demonstrates the
fitness of the Feuian leaders to shape and
control, for bencficent purposes, the move
:nent OF which they are the head. Until
this Fenian excitement uhsealed the eyes
and opened the ears of the Irish to the
enormities of American man selling and
the unuiterable atrocities Of the work
without-pay system, not even the British
aristocracy could have been fiercer or more
unrelenting in their hate of Abolitionism,
than the leaders of the Irish party. They
were always ranged on the side of despot-
ism in this country and We are not mis-
taken when we say that one of the most
potent causes Of Know Nothingism was the
unhestating obedience of the Irish to the
slave power at all times and IN all emer-
gencies. 1t is fortunate for the Irish name
and the cause of Irish liberty that the err
rors of the past are 10 be atoned for by de-
vo'ion to the cause of universal freedom
in the future. We hail this accession of
the Fenians to the ranks of those who.
over the head of the black and despised
negro, are fighting the battles Of mankind.
with delight alloyed only by the fact that
there are still SO many of the Irish name
who are still doing service in the despot's
camp. ef leaHsr