St. Landry democrat., 1882-06-10
The Irish Republican Brotherhood. ~

DUBLIN, May II.
The following proclamation has feen issued
ty the " Irish Republican Brothcraood':
"GOD SAVE IRELAND.
"DUBLry. May 8.
ITO the Irish People and all Lovers OF Lib
erty, and Purtic lla"lv Our Broth rs of the
Irish Republican Brotherhood aIl Kindred
Organizations:
AS there seems to be grave misunder-
standing as to til" aim ard scope Of the late
executions at Dublin, we, the Executive or
the Irish Republican Brotherho I'd. hereby re
quest all aforesaid t. withhold thetropinlon OF
this matter for the present. and refrain from
an expression of sympathy at public meetings,
W h oh tef,4l t. h,lniiatc Ireland and give aid
and comfort to England.
"As to the monster Burke, he had preyed
upon the lives AMI liberties of his countrymen
for many years, and had deserved death
thousand times at our hands; and as to Lord
Frederick Cavend'sh, lineal desccndant OF
the infamous Lord Brough IL, who hanged the
gallant and patriotic MncEagan, Bishop OF
Ross, at CarrigadrOhid, because he would not
bctray his country. his very name stinks in
the nostrtls of the If Sh people by the lnlqul-
ties OF his brother Lord Hlltingt III, and the
wholesale cyctians Of his father, the Duke OF
Devonshjre, thereby driving thousands OF the
right1u owners of the soil to the poor-house,
exile and death.
"This organization has tolerated the vaga~
ries of Parnell and his safc-treasOnmongers
until he has filed the bastilns of our country
with the victims Of useless Parliamentary
agitation, which left 2D.000 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 Ireands brayest sons are left to
langush In prison, to be exiled or assassina-
ted, and these men who, by the so-called out
RACES opened the prison-doors to Parnell and
his friends.
'If England really wished to deal fairly by
Ireland, why not issue general amnesty, by
which the prsOu-dOOrs would be opened and
thousands OF our exlei brethren who now
pine in foreign lands could return in safety
and honor. Instead of this, Gladstone sent
emissares to the venerated head of the Caths%
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 there nc
classes Of people to be considered except farm
ers and of what avail will it be to Ireland if q
selfish class is firmly rooted in the soil and be-
comes thoroughly loyal to England?
1--WE ask our friends in America to pom Ter
upon our desperate 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 age
shot down in the highways while our walls of
anguish are stitlcd in blood. We are convinced
no true rospcrity 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 m 2chanics
unemployed, and an enormous war-trhute ex-
acted by England taking away the produce Of
the land thereby forcing the Irish people to
starve.
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
cuton and we hereby further declare that they
deserve we'll of their country.
By order of the Executive of the Irish Re-
publican Brotherhood