The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-25


bend their supple knees to her they do to England
1.-The powers that be are right" Oh, accommodating
doctrine, that covers all reverses making ustfable to
kiss the hand that red with countrys blood be-
cause that hand represents pelf and power
All these things links in the long chain of evidence
proving the many why we are a divided people,
With all failings and misfortunes through all the
persecution and gloom of history through all the
bribery and soulbuying of willy enemy the people
have been false to Ireland Leaders might fater
betray the of liberty judges might sell their
birhrght of poverty and vengeance for place in the
enemys army of traitors but the people swerved
knowingly from the crimson path Of duty Through all
the years darkness the star of Irish independence has
shone and the needle to the north poe SO have the
people marched with their eyes set upon this star.
Dungeons might rise, and graves might cape athwart
their path, and some might fall and perish therein but
the survivors marched the same This was the soul
of the nation and that soul still turns to the star of
Irish liberty and the people march through dungeons
and graves to-day fearlessy they did of old
Leaders may prove false or incompetent and may lead
good men to death instead of victory but the cause is
the same
England may strew the land with graves but from
those graves shall rise up the feemen of the future.
So, If we fail through ncompetency dishonesty, the
grander future will solve the problem The people
all right now, they have been but they
misdirected and confused by leaders. We had hoped
that this Fenian Organization would have drawn all
together and that at last the Irish race would have
given united battle to England. With all its blunders
and failures it promised to be the most powerful revolu
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opposition that would have killed any other organiza
ton; and it out victorious The recent hanging
of three countrymen in Manchester thrilled and
Mortified the world and if the factions into which our
Brotherhood is divided had but casped hands, the
urgency of the time demanded there were twelve mill
ions of ready for Ireland In the face
of the threatened determination of the Irish people in
England by brutal but cowardly government; in the
face of the defiance flung in the face of this gov
eminent by the Irish people in England Scotland and
Ireland and the eagerness OF entire to follow
the lead of united Organization is like the work
of the devil that the Brotherhood is kept divided for
mere bubbles Let fill volumes with the necessity
of upholdng this that clause, in this that
stitution but the fact the face that without
unity oor country is lost And what do your bubbles
amount to in that case :?
We publish two letters in this ISSUE one from John
Savage, and the other from General O'Neill-the
respective heads of the two brancheswhch show that
the cup of unity has been dashed from countrys
lips and the old draught of accursed division must be
drained to its dregs
The basis fixed for union the appointing of seven
men by Mr.. Roberts and seven by Mr.. Savage, the
united fourteen to elect the fifteenth member OF the
united Council the fifteen to elect the President and
the whole to accept the Constitution adopted at Pha-
dephia for the guidance of the consolidated Brother
hood All right thought the Irish people, the blood OF
the martyrs has not flowed in vain if it cemens the
divided Brotherhood into powerful Organlzaton'