to interfere with the interests of a similar one in England,
instantly devices were set on foot by the enemy to crush it, or so
embarrass it that its destruction could not fail to follow. It was
banned and taxed out of the market until it died. In this way, the
silk, glass and woolen manufactures of the country were destroyed;
the latter having so injured the English manufacturers in the time of
William the Third, that they presented a memorial to this dignified
and affectionate son-in-law of James, praying that the manufacture in
Ireland might be suppressed, as it was interfering with the success
of the woolen trade in England; which prayer the king entertained
favorably, and promised to grant. In this way, from the earliest days
of the invasion, the interests of Ireland have been trodden under the
feet of the oppressor; while, in a religious point of view, her
people have been held for generations in the most frightful bondage,
and constrained to contribute to the maintenance of a Church which
nineteen-twentieths of them believed to be heretical, and which had
been thrust upon them in violation of every right, human and divine.

Now, however, it is brightening up on the verge of the horizon, and,
like chickens, England's untold acts of infamy and oppression, in
regard to Ireland, are coming home to roost. In every city and
hamlet, throughout the great Republic of the United States, and in
every town and village in Ireland, as well as throughout the rural
districts, there exists a regiment or detachment of the vast army of
the Irish Republic. No matter how invisible the force may be at any
particular point, yet there it exists, awaiting the signal to pounce
upon the enemy, and avenge the wrongs of ages; each member of it
feeling, within his heart of hearts, that those injuries have reached
him individually, and that, without the opportunity of wiping them
out, even at the expense of the last drop of his heart's blood, the