Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-05-25
4 Proclamation by the "Irish Repub'
lican Brotherhood"

DUBLIN. May IL
The following proclamation has been issues
by the " Irish Republican Brotherhood:
"GoD SAVE IRELANn
DUBLIN, May g.
"To the Irish People, and all Lovers of LIB
erty, and Particularly Our Brothers of the
irish Republican Brotherhood and Kindred
Organizations:
sAs there seems to be grave misunder-
standing as to the aim and scope of the late
executions at Dublin, we, the Executive OF
the Irish Republican Brotherhood, hereby re-
quest all aforesaid to withhold their opinion OF
this matter for the present and refrain from
IN 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 had deserved death Q
thousand times at our hands; and as TO Loro
Frederick Cavendish, a ineal descendant OF
the infamous Lord Broughill, who hanged tho
gallant and patriotic MacEaaan, Bishop OF
Ross at Carrigadrohid, because he would not
betray his country, his very name st1nks In
the nostrls of the Irish people by the inlquf
ties OF his brother, Lord Harrington, and the
wholesale evictions of his father, the Duke OF
Devonshire, thereby driving thousands OF the
rightful owners Of the soil TO the poor-house,
exile and death.
"This organization has tolerated the vaga
ries of Parnell and his safe-treasonmonger
until he has filed the bastles OF our country
with the victims of q 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 truce is made by which he himself
and his friends are allowed to go free, and
eighty of Ireland's bravest sons are left to
languIsh in prison, to be exiled or assassina-
ted, and these men who. by the so-called out
RACES opened the prison-doors to Parnell ana
his friends.
eff England really wished to deal fairly by
Ireland, why not issue a general amnesty, by
which the prison-doors would be opened and
thousands of our exiled brethren who now
pine in foreign lands could return in safety
and honor Instead of this, Gladstone sent
emssaries to the venerated head of the Cath
Ole Church, who, by lies and false representa-
tons, have deprived thousands of our poor,
prosecuted people of the comforts of religion
by turning our affairs into political platforms.
Let us ask the people of Ireland Are thereno
classes of people to be considered except farm
ers and Of what avail will it be to Ireland If
selfish class is firmly rooted in the soil and be-
comes thoroughly loyal to England:
1--WE ask our friends in America to ponder
upon our des perate circumstances, to think OF
the brave and honorable people driven to de-
spair by Witnessing the white bosoms OF our
women torn open by the bayonets of English
mercenaries, and our children of tender ago
shot down in the highways, while our walls OF
anguish are stifled in blood We are convinced
no true prosperity can exist in Ireland so long
as England possesses her custom houses there,
allowing her manufactures to pass into Ireland
duty free, thereby leaving our Irish mechanics
unemployed, and an enormous war-tribute ex-
acted by England taking away the produce of
the land, thereby forcing the Irish people to
Starve. ..=e
''Now, Furthermore, we call upon all our
brothers in America, particularly Advanced
Nationalist, to aid by every means within their
power the men who have carried out this exc
cution, and we hereby further declare that they
deserve we'll of their country.
Is BY order of the Executive of the Irish Re-
publican BrOtherhOOd.''