HOME RULE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 14, 2 August 1873, Page 14

HOME RULE.

Wb demand a Federal union with Great Britain in Dlaee of th A may be left to an imperial legislature, in which the Three Km^doZ EeLdTST r hT ce TtatiTeßT tatiTeB - Whafc we are "^iStoSStS own i^i • Bhe . w »ll bo governed by herself for the benefit of hZ whS.t P 3IS.!S 9tead ° f T b «"g «°7™« d the benefit of Engird! whilst multitudes of the Irish people are driven into exile V ellow-cpuntry men ! We implore you to banish from amonivon ent^l n HV eal r ie r ?"* d T» eion « The members of thuSS 3ir!vi dl J rent .» h ?« M » > beli efo. a nd furnish an example of men who, while tbiw differing, yet unite, with the utmost cordiality in pursuit of those national rights which are common to us all «dwhieh, if achieved, would shed rich blessings on Catholic and Protoetaut alike. Fellow-countrymen—men of property and of social position— men who, in a rightly ordered community, should.be among the political guides and protectors of your humbler compatriots -we appeal to you. Your stake in the welfare of Ireland is great. .Have £2-°!! i ambi " on /?, be ' in y° ur own land, rulers and legislator* instead of the agents of English power to prolong her depression ? Of will you longer hold aloof from your own people and remain without a counfry—neither Irishmen nor Englishmen— an anomaly in the wide expanse of Christendom. Irishmen ! you of the classes ia which the love of national freedom has ever been preserved ; you, whose fathers have in every age aud in '°rr VV u ery i. arex J a .- dared for kve.of your native land, we appeal to yon Ibe franchise is now within the reach of most of you. Use it for Ireland. Our , country is challenged to declare for Home Rule or lionoon Kule— for native legislation or alien misgoxernment. How will you answer ? * <■ -