The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-11
FENIAN NEWS.
Address to the Citizens of the United States from
the 9Th Regular State Convention, F. B., Cal.

Deeply impressed with the justice and sound policy of sub
mng the world the principles which actuate u.s. much
to disarm the envenomed shafts pretended friends to
the good will and active cooperation of all liberty loving
and just men,-We the Representatives of the Fenian
Brotherhood of the State of California in Convention
blod, now solemnly announce and declare
Firstly our feowcitzens the brave patriotic and mag
unanimous American people, that long the cruel tyranny
of England enforced the peopleo Ireland long will
continue to conspre against and compass its overthrow
And that any power earh be it Christian Pagan that
may have of quarrel with England will find in firm
friend and ally And in this connection it is but Just that
should lay before the tribunal of American public opinion,
few land necessarily but few of the manifold grevous
acts of nhuman tyranny which that wicked and tyrannca
government has inflicted Ireland. Preliminary these
accusations 1t deemed proper to briefly revert to the his
tory republic and to remind the reader of the elem
England that time with characteristic presum pon
sumed the right govern North America and her equity
ocracy to ensave the colonies by aggrandzng themselves
The protracted waged with erocty unbecomng civ
zed state of society, tells how earnesthow fearfuly
est-they in their diabocal intent. Colonel McKee,
personated by Judges Keogh and Morris The fires of Wy
oming rekindled at Pentonve and Mounoy-the only
difference being, that the former humane and
cfu because instantaneous than the latter Washing
ton city, be it remembered had her ideas of Republcanism
illuminated by the eight" of British freedom. My lord
Packenham would have extended the "proectono of the
Union Jack and the "ever glorious British constitution"
over the benghed people of New Orleans but frustrated
in the audable design by who probably would have
been "loya subject had it not been for the laws which
George the Second had occasion mprecae causing him
theoss of such subjects Later still in the history of Amer
ca we hnd the impress OF British treachery
When the sword and torch banshed the Atlantic
the pen and press and forked tongue invoked to MAIN
and wound "Cousin Jonathan" Emancipation societies
begoen with the ecundiy of the rabbit Slavery hui
slavery cannot must not be contempoaneous with the
freedom of the Bron Exeter Hall agents salared and
pensoned abroad and preach devernce benghed
America The public is tossed and swayed by these gifted
ncendiares and war; dire war; with its train ofhorrors, is
precipated the United Statesand 10, where is that
brood of sepnts gone Golook for them in the arsena
and of Britain experimenting the construction
of Aabamas and Shenandoah bockaderunners for the
descendants of cavaliers - else, search for them
in the sanctums of the British press, pouring out their
envenomed souls in gangrened illusions to the status morale
and personnel armies and holding inducements to
thebave and gallant southron protract in which he
had prospect of with the Interior motive of
coming in at the DEATH and perchance offer protec
torate Ia Honduras. These specimens of John BULBS
LOVING embraces to people whom he to-day both hates
ana learS And mark prediction-his spies will be SENT
lnoeeu ALREADY are, In mids-n the pulpit the ros
tru In the Preseyerywhere, telling you about the ties
OF OF language freligon of origin etc., etc.
Whlcn Dnd Inc TWO nations in such loving bonds of unity
But lest designing demagogues should misrepresent
language and meaning when speaking of England and her
people, now soemny declare that we deeply sympathize
with the lgoverned and impoverished people of England
that recognize the fact be that their enemies and OBJ
pressors enemies and oppressors that it is the
rupt arstocracy of Ireland we'll as of England and Scot
land and Wales that against that the tool of on
preston all the to us whether the material of its
uacture be Saxon Celtic; that the "bread ro through
out England the distress prevalent in the
dcts-the squad poverty the shocking immortality to be
met with in all her towns and citiesare living proofs that
even the Engshmen are bggared to feed pampered arts