The new North-west., 1882-05-19
THE BLACK FLAG.
Sowing Seeds of Gall and Folly that will
Yield Bitter Fruit

New YORK, May 1.-THE following proc
lamation has been issued by the Irish Re
publican Brotherhood.
DUBLIN, May S.
To the Irish people and all lovers of Li5ey
ty, and particularly our brotherhood of
II. b., and kindred organizations
AS there seems to be a grave misundsr
standing as to the aim and scope of th,
late executions at Dublin, we, the executiv,
OF the /. X. B. hereby request all aforesaid
to withhold their opinion of this matter fol
the present and refrain from expressions o
feeling at public meetings, which tend Il
humiliate Ireland aud give aid and CONFER
to England. As to the monster Burke, h,
has preyed upon the lives and liberty of hi.
countrymen for many years and had desery
ed death thousand times at our hands.
And as to Lord Frederick Cavendish linea
descendant of the famous Lord Brougham
who hanged the patriotic and gallant Mace
Asan, Bishop of Ross, at Carrigadroid, be.
cause he would not .betray his country, Ills
very name stinks in the nostrils of the Irish
| people by the iniquities of his brother, Lord
harrington, and the wholesale evictions of
his father, the Duke of Devonshire, thereby
driving thousands of rightful owners of the
soil to the poorhouse, exile and death. This
organization has tolerated the vagaries of
Parnell and his safe treason mongers until
he has filled the bastiles of our country with
the victims of useless parliamentary agita-
tion, which left 10000 persons homeless last
year and drove millions of our people into
exile. This ceases to be harmless when a
truce made by himself and friends they are
allowed to go free and eighty of Ireland's
bravest sons are left to languish in the prison
to be exiled or assassinated and these men,
who by so-called 'outrages," opened the
prison doors TO Parnell and his friends. If
England really wished to deal fairly by Ire
land 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. But instead of this Gladstone
sent emissaries to the venerated head of the
Catholic Church, who, by lies and false rep
resentations, have deprived thousands of our
poor people of the comforts of religion by
turning our altars into political platforms.
Let us ask the people of Ireland, are
there no classes of people to be considered |
except farmers, and Of what avail will it be |
10 Ireland If this selfish class is firmly root |
ed in the soil and become thoroughly loyal |
70 England? We ask our friends In America |
% ponder upon our desperate circumstances,
o think of the brave and honorable people |
iriven to despair by witnessing the white
,osoms of our women torn open by the bay
'nets of English mercenaries, and our
children of tender years shot down in our
highways, while our walls of anguish are
teeped In blood. We are certain that no
rue prosperity can exist in ireland so long
IS England possesses her custom houses,
hus allowing her manufactures to pass into
reland duty free, thereby leaving our Irish
mechanics unemployed, and an enormous
var tribute exacted by England taking away
be produce Of the land, thereby forcing the
rish people to starve.
Now, furthermore, we call upon all our
rethren in America, particularly, advanced
'ationalists, to aid by every means in their
over, men who have carried out this exc
ution, and We hereby further declare they
eserve well of their country.
by order Of the executive Of I.R.B.