The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-02-01

Let the Irish Catholics of America compare them
selves to the German Catholics and they will find
one side people holding to their rights, and re-
spected accordingly or partly feared which is the
thing; and on the other hand, people who humble
themselves in the dust beneath the feet of men, and
trampled with impunity. We build churches and have
the doors locked in our faces the within of the clergy
we buy burial lots and cannot bury dead in them,
if the departed happened to be national in their lives
every ignorant parish sexton insult wives and
children and we are threatened with humiliation if
demur
Are not these facts patent to all men, and shall we
be anathema if we dare protest We suppose that
the Rev. Mr. Finnucane knows the law when he says:
1t is the province of the Church. and her minister's to
Judge as to the morality of the actions of her children
She has to decide achot IS ldvM to do not to do
Now, if by the " Venerable Cullen" and such West
British minister's Father Finnucane g the
Church. and when they decide it is not legal to fight
against the English Government in Ireland that we
must hang heads, and throw down our rifles, and
succumb protest will not obey their orders but
as Donald O'Neil said more than five hundred years
ago. "we will continue to fight them to the bitter end"
Now we know the Church has not laid down any such
doctrines and it is we'll she has not for boldly de-
clare that the Irish people would not surrender their
country even for the command of the Church We tell
those Venerable Cullens and Prces and other church
men who have forsaken the crimson path of the old
bishops and priests of Ireland that if the Irish people
were thoroughly convinced that the Church or her
ministers could be as false to sell them for English
preferment they would turn them like the leaf of
a new novel,
Now about the priest preaching ON Sunday, and
keeping silent through the week. that depends entirely
on which side he stands" green red" IF he is to
compare the British constitution to the sun, like Bishop
Moriarty man who saw thousands of his people die
of hunger on the hills of Kerry under the refugent
beams of said constitution say he should be severely
silent through the week. Signing that God did not
make hell hot enough, eternity long enough, to
punish men for aspiring to the independence of their
country is quite enough on Sunday, without degrading
the whole week at similar performances. On the other
hand give us such bishops MacHae and such priests
as Vaughan and Lavele, and they preach and write
and pray all the time. We only protest against the
Irish Catholic bishop priest who forsakes the of
Ireland and turns his back the past and would make
the Irish people the slaves-the willing slaves the
ignorant slaves of England.
The cry of infdelity raised against us might do to
scare old women in mountain districts in Ireland but
it is the merest dressing up of old buried
and resurrected superstition the light Of the nine
teenth century, and in such land as this.
We have all read how English chroniclers-priests
and monks too for the most as Geradus Cam
brenss-traduced our Catholic forefathers who dared
to act and think for themselves. We have all read
Donald ONeil where he describes those "Sanonmonhs
going ont of morning to shoot the mere Irish, and then
returning to sag Mass oi the blood OF oar co'mby''e"
on their hands," Likely those fellows called our Tore
fathers such names as nfdels" and beasts IN those
days. , -,
Oh, when will our people learn to hold up their heads