The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-06 00:00:00

THE SEDITIOUS TRESS.

The Irish "National" journals are this week much tamer
than usual. The Irishman, which generally exceeds the rest
in vehemence of expression, counsels moderation in
an article headed "A Warning." The supposed inten-
tion to nominate Lobs', another Fenian convict, as a
candidate for the Queen's County, it. describes as a " grave
error," adding, "What will victory in the Queen's County
declare that the Tipperary election has failed to pro- ,
nounce ?" It cautions the "Nationalists" against "drifting
into useless and ainless egitailon." No further victory
can (it say) add prestige to tho national cause. " Tha
injury that would result to Ireland," continues tha Irish-
man, "from a now suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act
cannot be over-estimated. It might, and doubtless would,
prevent men expressing their opinions in public, but
could it prevent them fostering them in secret ?"
This article appears side by side with much boasting over
the return of Hesse, which the Irishman describes as a " con-
stitutional victory." The Irishman assails Cardinal Cullen, ac-
cusing him of having for years eadeavoured to repress the po-
litical aepirationsof Irish.nen, and the result was Fenianism—
a "Irrankensten which, to his horror, ho found he had helpedto
create, but could not destroy." " The people (it is added) do
not listen to his political precepts. How should they accept
him for a political guide, who always leads to defeat?
How should they respect him as a politician, who is
neither generous nor just?" With regard to the other
organs of sedition, the People Eays that "if the Treason
Felony Act be put in motion again, there will be men
at. the press prepared to brave its terrors." The Nation
presses the candidature of John Martin for Longford,
and on the subject of the threatened "Ilepress•.on,"
says :—" Let the people of Ireland mark well the fact - it is
not invasion or insurrecteon that has affrighted our Eng-
lish masters ; it is not war they want to avert, for there
is no danger of it. The tyranny with which wo are
threatened is intended to arrest the constitutional action
of the Irish people. The election of Jeremiah
O'Donovan Rossa is the cause of the outburst of fury with
which we are visited. Tho chance of other elections of a
like kind is what the ruling classes desire to avert. The
expression of Irish national opinion, legally and constitu-
tionally, by means of public meetings and processioes, is
what they are anxious to suppress." There is a good deal
more writing of the following kind :—" There is a striking
moral in the Tipperary electron, if English statesmen could
only read and comprehend it. Converting an Irish patriot
into a felon by the forms of English law but graves his
name for ever above his place in the national Walhalla
where the national heart holds communion with its heroes
and martyrs." The minor journals, the Flag and Weekly
Naas, have articles in the same strain. The forme:
speaks, apropos to Roses, of "The Nation's Jubilee,"
and boasts that "the name of the imprisoned revolutionist
was more potent to preserve the peace than all the troops,
and all the police, and all the parliamentarians the Govern-
ment could provide." A wood-cut represents O'Donovan
Bosse, manacled and in prison dress, claiming Lis seat in
the House of Commons.—Pall Mall Gazette.