The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-21 00:00:00

" Go, young man ! I wish you all possible pros-
perity, with a little more sense !"

LIMERICK JUNCTION, Wednesday Night.

Several of the country people in this county who
have been concerned in the late outbreak, and are
still absent from their houses, have expressed their
wish to return if the authorities will deal leniently
with them.

Reports are in circulation that Fenian reinforce-
ments are expected from America, and that the
landing has been prevented hitherto by the bad
weather.

We quote the following from a contem-
porary :—The weather continues excessively
severe, the quantity of snow on the
ground this morning having been considerable ;
and it is absolutely impossible that the insurgents,
ill-clothed, half-starved, and unsheltered as they
are, could have held together in any numbers, in
the mountains, at such a season; and it is suspected
that many of the wretched miscreants have already
fallen victims to the hardship of campaigning under
such circumstances. Even the military, with all
the care bestowed upon them, are suffering very
much from exposure to cold and wet in scouring
the country for Fenians, against whom the hard-
ship thus caused naturally exasperates them.
Numerous prisoners are daily arrested, and among
those taken up by the police yesterday was a man
named Duffy, who is known to have acted as
secretary to James Stephens, and who was found
with a large sum of money in his possession at
Boyle. Threatening notices have been posted up
in some localities in the county of Tipperary call-
ing on the tenantry not to pay rents, under a pen-
alty of being shot, by order of the authorities of the
" Irish Republic." Notwithstanding all these un-
favourable symptoms, however, the agricultural
classes show signs of returning confidence, and
in Tipperary and elsewhere deposits, which were
removed from the banks under the influence of
alarm, have in many cases been restored.—The
Very Rev. Dr. Rowley, P.P. of Tipperary, ad-
dressed his people in a most impressive discourse
against Fenianism on Sunday last ; and the follow-
ing resolution, which was proposed yesterday at
a meeting in Arkiow, by Archdeacon Redmond,
the zealous parish priest of that town, shows, in
concise terms, the view of this insane outbreak
which the Catholic clergy in general are endea-
vouring to impress upon the people :—" Resolved,
that the members of this committee wish to take
this opportunity to express their abhorrence of
the Fenian conspiracy as opposed to both Divine
and human law, as utterly senseless, mischievous,
and wicked, as calculated to drive away the wealthy
from our shores and to increase the evils of absen-
teeism, to paralyze trade, to prevent the influx of
capital, and to diminish employment ; to impede
beneficial legislation, to cloud and to blight the
best prospects of the country, and to bring dis-
grace on the character of Irishmen at home and
abroad, exhibiting them as lamentably credulous
and ready to leave themselves at the mercy of de-
signing knaves, seeking to traffic in their money
and their blood for their own selfish and wicked
purposes; and that therefore we pledge our-
selves to discountenance and to prevent to the
best of our power the diffusion of such a fool-
ish, mischievous, and wicked combination."—As-
suredly Ireland is at this moment in a most deplora-
ble state—a state from which more than human
means seem required to rescue her. The country
labours under the incubus of an insurrection, essen-
tially foreign in its origin and organization, and
which the people have not wished for, although
so many thousands of Irishmen have been unfor-
tunately duped into it. It is opposed to the reli-
gion of the country, and ruinous to its material
interests ; and nothing could be more unjust than
to hold the country at large responsible for the
mad and wicked outbreak ; but still it remains an
incubus which the suffering country cannot shake
off. I happen to be intimately acquainted with
the feelings and opinions of all classes of the
people in a portion of Ireland which has been the
scene of some of the saddest occurrences in this
outbreak, and I know that even the peasantry look
with dread and horror upon Fenianism. Never-
theless they cannot raise their hands against
it. Be they ever so well inclined, they dare
not do so. I speak of the mature portion
of the population, who have even the smallest
stake in the community, in the shape of family
'or of holding ; but there are plenty of loose,
unattached, floating members—of social scum, if
the word be not too harsh to apply to anything
human—to form a nucleus of Fenianism in every
district quite capable of overawing the rest of the
population. And it appears that this overawing
system has been carried into effect with a ven-
geance. In all the disturbed localities bodies
of Fenians have gone to the farmers' houses to
compel the young men to join under threats of
immediate death ; in some cases they have actu-
ally shot persons for refusing to join them, in
order to strike terror into others, and they have
adopted the barbarous expedient of placing those
who were reluctant to accompany them in the
front rank whenever they attacked a police sta-
tion, so that the poor victims might be most ex-
posed to death. In many instances young men
have fled from the rural districts into the towns
to escape the compulsory recruitment of the
Fenians, and this is known to have happened
especially in Tipperary. The people of Ireland
have no wish to appeal to civil war for the re-
dress of their grievances. By no means. The
Irish make some of the very best soldiers in the
world abroad, and they may, perhaps, be comba-
tive enough at home ; but it may be said, without
any slur on the national character, that they
have not, and never have had, military tastes sim-
•
ilar to those of many nations of Continental Eu-
rope. They don't like civil war except in theory.
Some people, unwilling to believe that the Fe-
nians are really so destitute of pluck as they seem
to be, suppose that their apparent cowardice is
only a portion of their guerilla tactics ; but I am
convinced that the retreating movement will
always continue to be the main feature of their
tactics, and that they have no notion whatever of
meeting either troops or constabulary in a stand-
up fight. In the meantime great mischief has
been done. Business has been completely para-
lyzed. Money is not circulating. The prices of
provisions have been considerably raised. The
weather itself has long been most.unpropitious, and
has quite interrupted agricultural work ; and, on
the whole, the position of the country is gloomy in
the extreme. On Sunday last, in all the chapels
of the south of Ireland, the clergy denounced Fe-
nianism in the strongest language, and warned
their people against it ; and, on the other hand,
Government seems to have adopted every practi-
cable measure to eradicate it. Flying columns of
troops have been formed to scour all the disturbed
districts, each column being formed of infantry
and cavalry, with engineers, military train, &c.,
but as yet they have not been successful in coming
to an encounter with any body of insurgents. A
vast number of prisoners have been arrested,
many of them in arms, and several of them sup-
posed to be leading men of the organization ; and
four Special Commissions are immediately to be
issued, to sit forthwith in Dublin, Cork, Limerick,
and Clonmel, for the trial of the Fenians who will
now be arraigned on a charge not of treason
felony, but of high treason ; and it is more than
probable that the law will be carried out with
the utmost rigour, at least in a sufficient number
of cases to spread a salutary terror in the ranks of
the insurgents.

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