Year: 1870

that grand elimination, it is of the utmos


consequence that we take care that this ex


pertinent of free government at home is no
abused that we take care that we do mo-


convert the Republic of the United State


into a propagator by force of republican, is
stitutions that we take care that free insti


tutions shall 60 forth, propagated by thi
Republic by the force of our example and
not by the force of our bayonets and oul
| swords.


/ I have no unfriendliness toward men o
foreign birth, but would gladly welcome
| them to our shores from whatever land they
may come. L would receive with q cordial
and hearty greeting English, Irish, Scotch.
French, German, Swiss, Swedes, Eorwegians,
and even the thronging thousands fr rom Chi
ma, whose coming already begins to alarm
the apprehensions of our people on the Pa
cific coast. But would have these emigrants
come here and be taught after they come
here that the first and highest concern of an
American citizen is the perfection of our free
institutions and the completest development
of the magnificent resources of our vast do
main. | would have them here be taught
that their duty as well as our duty is to dig
about and water and stimulate TO a grander
sscan ssssr liberty, whose leaves, hope, may yet,
by peaceful influences, be for the healing OF
the nations.


Now, sir, have this sympathy with Ire
land, sympathy as an individual, that should
be glad, very glad to see the condition of Ire
land improved. But have not any sympa-
thy with Ireland or with the Irish that leads
me to suppose that the best way to accom-
plish that result is by stirring up hostilities
in Ireland or by organizing hostile campaigns
in this country against the integrity of the
British empire. | am in sympathy, sir, with
the spirit of this utterance by John Bright,
now a member of the British government:


1--WE have given Ireland free churches and free
schools, and hope before long we shall give them
free land and free vote. ireland lies adjacent 10
the most populous and wealthy island in the world.
We can buy from her all that wishes TO SELL AT
higher price than any other nation will give. We
sell her all that she wi hes TO buy at lower
price than any other nation will take We propose,
ton and without blood, with only the holy weapon
of a frank and generous justice, which Is every
long been separated by oppression and by injus-
tce.n


am in sympathy with the spirit of that
noble utterance and | believe that the lib
eral ideas which now rule IN England, and
which have found partial expression in the
recent measures of Parliament. give US hope
that the day is dawning on Ireland. when as
a part of the British empire her old renown
shall return to her: when her new orators
and poets and statesmen, no whit inferior to
the old, shall add new luster TO her ancient
splendid history as well as TO the history of
England. And l believe that day will not
be FASTENED, but will be greatly, unwisely,
disastrOusly retarded in its coming by any
Oficious intermeddling of our people or our
government with the course Of events in the
British empire. We have at present enough
to do TO bind up the wounds, TO heal the hurt
occasioned by the late cruel rebellion against
established government at home. Let US ad
to bot arl ID
Fenian brethren, as well as all our adopted
citizens, TO Join US in that work, making this
country the greatest and freest nationality on
the face of the earth, the home of the op-
pressed of every cline, instead Of wasting
our influence and our energies by ill-timed
and ill-judged expressions of sympathy with
insurgents abroad.