Year: 1867

poor wanderers who, beret of everything but fe
thrust forth from the shores of Europe mighty and
magnificent one In the breadth of its fertile plans in
the length of its stupendous rivers in the splendor of
its populous Cities in the genius Of its enterprsng
people, and in the practically nexhaustbe extent OF its
immense resources it stands first and foremost among
the nations of the EARTH Knayes and fools may snarl
at the heels of the Queen Republic of the West But
what cares the uncouded moon she walks amid the
stars in her slvery brightness for the bowling of the
wolves that prow the forests in pursuit of their pary
prey?


The distinguishing attribute of America-the glory
which oushnes that of all other ands-is UNIVERSAL
AND uNrRAMMELED LIBERTY. This enables her, like
the deed great of other days. to take her place amid
the stars


With the principles of the most perfect national


liberty and of the most entire political equality peryad
ing the very air they BREATHE with such practice in the
noble art of segovernment they see, and share in,
every year and day of their existence it, in any sense


thing to be wondered at is it not, the contrary
the most natural thing in le that the enlightened Irish
of America should desire to sweep away, and
forever, that atrocous system of royal robbery and
legalized murder which have SO long blighted and
blasted the fair land of their BIRTH and to establish in
their room that reign of the sovereign people which will
rescue their from the most greedy and grinding
oppression that bondmen knew and make them the
kings and nobes the poprieors and possessors Of their
native land and everything in it, from the center to the
encircling sea?


This in very few simple words is that Fenianism of
which the world has heard SO much for which its friends
in not few instances have been ready to sacrifice both
nd itc have
directed SO much unhoy hatred and outrageous sehood
Contending for SO sacred, we have a moral
right to claim and to expect the sympathy and support
of all men, in all lands who hate tyranny and oppres
sion and who love justice and liberty And especially
ought this to be the with regard to all citizens of
America who profess be and true to those grand
old republican principles which their distinguishing
glory More than half of them have Irish blood cours
ing through their veins. And have they not all good
reason to know that English treachery not much less
dangerous to them, nation, than that English
tyranny which their heroic ancestors tramped in the
dust


Such sympathy and support are not merely valuable
to countrys 1t is deliberate conviction
that they absolutely essential to its successful pro-
gress and final triumph An earnest of better things to
come and which inevitably will come, if we show
selves worthy of them-has already been afforded u.s.
We alude to the attempted repeal of the Infamous Neu
trality Law by the Congress of the United States-a
movement arrested by the criminal inconsistency of Mr.
Senator SUMNER whose despotc power is able defeat
the will of the entire Irish and American people He
has been lately over among his dear friends in England
and is soon back crammed with few more anti
Fenian lessons which will guide him in his glorious
enterprise of srangng Irish liberty and by the treach
erous prostitution of his high position in America doing
the dirty work of the murderous tyrants Of Europe.


The support, that single occasion, 50 spontaneously
given it in the power Of the Irish people of America
if they will only be true to themselves and their country