Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-05-18
THE DUBLIN TRAGEDY IN
DORSED.
Proclamation By the Republican
brotherhood.

A special dispatch from Dublin says the
following proclamation has been issued by
the Irish Republican Brotherhood:
"GoD SAVE IRELAND"
10. the Irish People and all Louers of Liberty.
and particularly to Our Brothers Of the Irish
Republican Brotherhood and other kindred
organizations:
As there seems to be a grave misunder-
standing as to the aim and scope of the late
executions at Dublin, we, the Executive Of
the l. r. B., hereby request the aforesaid to
withhold their opinion Of this matter for the
present and refrain from the expression of
sympathy at public meetings which tend to
humiliate Ireland and give aid and comfort
to England. As to the monster Burke he
had preyed upon the lives and liberties of
his countrymen for many years, and has de-
served death thousand times at our hands;
and as to Lord Frederick Cavendish, the
lineal descendant OF the former Lord
Broughill, who hanged the gallant and
patriotic McEgan, Bishop of Ross, at Car
rigtohiIl, because he would not betraY
his country; his very name stinks in the nos
trils of the Irish people, by the iniquities Of
his brother, Lord Harrington, and the
wholesale evictions Of his father, the Duke
of DevonshiTe, thereby driving thousands
of the rightful owners of the soil to the
poorhouse, exile and death. This orgRniza-
BlOn HAS bOlSTdl6Q buO NdRdTleb Ol
and his safe treason-mongers until he has
filed the bastiles of cur country with the
victims of useless parliamentary agitation,
which left 10000 persons homeless last
year and drove millions Of the flower of
our people to exile. This ceases to be harm
less when a truce is made by which himself
and eighty of Ireland's bravest sons are
left to languish in prison, to be exiled or
assas5inated, and these men, who by So
called outrages, opened the prison doors to
Parnell and his friends. If England really
wished to deal fairly with Ireland, why not
issue q general amnesty by which the
prison doors would be opened and thou
sands Of our exiled brethren who now pine
In foreign lands could return In safety
and honor. Instead of this Gladstone sent
emissaries to the venerated head Of the
Catholic Church, who, by lies and false
representations, have deprived thousands Of
our prosecuted people of the comforts Of
religion by turning our altars into political
platforms. Let us ask the people Of Ire
land, are there no classes of people to be
considered except farmers, and Of what
avail will It be to ireland IL this
selfish class is firmly rooted in the soil
and becomes thoroughly loyal to Eng
land? We ask our friends In America
to ponder on our desperate circumstances:
to think Of brave and honorable people
driven to despair by witnessing the white
bosom Of our women torn open by the
bayonet OF English mercenaries, and our
children Of tender age shot down In the
highways, while our walls OF anguish are
stifled In blood. We are convinced that no
true prosperity can exist in Ireland so long
as England possesses her custom houses,
thereby allowing her manufactures to pass
into Ireland free, thereby leaving our Irish
merchants unemployed and an enormous
war tribute exacsed by England taking
away the produce OF the land, thereby
forcing the Irish people to starve. Now,
therefore, we call upon all our brothers In
America, particularly advanced National
lists, TO aid by every means within their
power the men who have carried out this
execution; and we hereby further declare
that they deserve well of their country. By
order of the Executive of the Irish Re-
public Brotherhood.