Year: 1867

proclamation by the Feniau Govern


nenf--.A New Declaration of Ende-


pendence---An Appeal TO lhe world.


After seven centuries Of outrage and
misery unequaled in the history OF hu-
manity after having seen oar laws, oar
rights, our liberty trOdden under foot by
the foreigner, our lands pass from the Irish
farmer TO the Irish or foreign usurper, and
the rightfnl owners Of hundreds Of years
mppianted by cattle destined 90 supply the
markets Of England after having seen our
skilled Workmen driven into exile, our men
Of thought and action to imprisonment and
the scahold having 10 longer either lands
10 cultivate. laws or acknowledged rights
TO invoke il q word, having nothing per-
tanning 10 man save the faculty Of suffering
or the determination to Eight we cheer
fully choose this last resort


An men have right TO liberty and hap
piness Believing that there can be no
durable liberty or happiness except upon
the basis Of free labor, and that there can
be no free labor when themeans Of labor is
not free; considering besides, the first means
Of labor is the soil, and that the Irish soil,
instead Of being in the hands Of the Irish
workingmen, is held by a selfish and des-
potic oligarchy, we declare II TO be our de-
clare il TO be our determination to repos-
sess ourselves Of that soil by force


Considering that all men are born with
equal natural rights, and that by assOcia-
ting themselves together to protect one
another and share public burdens justice
demands that such association should rest
upon an equitable basis~-such as maintains
equality instead of destroying tive de-
clare that We aim at founding a republic
upon universal suffrage, securing 10 all the
intrinsic value Of their labor.


We declare that we wish absolute liberty
of conscience, and the complete separation
of Church and STATE.


The pubic expenses will be paid by a
progressive capitation (lahor being free
from any impost


Calling upon God and mankind to Wit
ness the Justice Of our cause and the inten-
sity of our sufferings, we declare in the
face Of the world, in order to succeed in
reeonquering the inalienable rights that
all men receive at their birth, to take up
arms and combat the dominant oligarchJ
and, as its strength dwells in Its credit,
based upon its property, we will employ TO
destroy il every means that science, or
even despair, shall place within our reach.
Wherever the English flag waves over
English property il shall be torn down, if
il be possible, without fear or truce and
we swear in the sacred name Of our coun
try, by the suiierings of those who now en-
dure the tortures of living tombs for the
cause, BY the dear and revered names Of
those who have died for the freedom of
ireland, BY our honor and that of our chill
dren, that this war shall cease only when
the Irish Republic shall be recognized, or
when the last man Of our race shall lie in
his grave.


Republicans Of the entire world, our
cause is yours Our enemy is your enemy.
Let your hearts be with us. As for yon,
workingmen of England, il ia not only
your hearts that we wish, but your arms.
Remember the starvation and degradation
brought 20 your fresides by oppressed
labor. Remember the past, look well to
the future, and avenge yourselves by Civ
ing liberty to your children in the coming
struggle for human freedom


Herewith is proclaimed the Irish Re
public By order of the Provisional Gov
ernment Of Ireland