The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-26 00:00:00

The F enians.

The New York correspondent of the Herald
says :—Fenianism grows more formidable every dal-,
By the precipitate action of your Government
division of Fenian counsels has been transmuted
into duplication of Fenian strength. We hear no
more of the bickerings of the two factions. The
leaders are still Roberts and O'Mahony, Sweeney
and Killian, and these men probably have hue-
rested and antagonistic motives ; but the Fenian
body is an unit. The West sends its money and
its promises of adhesion to Roberts ; the East ta
O'Mahony. But West and East alike demand a
movement against the " British oppressors." Every
considerable town and village has its " circle,"
which holds a weekly meeting. Many of the
" circles" meet twice a week. The larger cities have
several " circles;" New York has 53, which adhere,
to O'Mahony, besides several which acknowledge
the leadership of Roberts. Many of the " circles"
devote from $2,000 to $3,000 regularly every week.
No Fenian in good standing gives less than 431
weekly to the fund. The two Fenian treasuries
receive not less than $400,000 weekly in contribu-
tions. Irishmen do not monopolise the emoluments
due to subscriptions to the Fenian loan. After the
great Fenian meeting in Brooklyn, on Wednesday
evening, a committee of Fenians waited on the
Board of Aldermen then in session, soliciting in-
vestment in the Fenian " securities." Every
alderman subscribed for $lOO worth of bonds. The
board is composed of 20 aldermen—five Irishmen,
seven Germans, and eight Americans. The receipts
at the head-quarters of Fenianism in Brooklyn on
Thursday were something over $412,000. At a
Sweeney meeting in the neighbouring city of
Hoboken on Thursday evening $l,OOO were contri-
buted by the audience. A public Fenian meeting
in the village of Poughkeepsie in the same evening
brought $5OO to the Fenian Fund. In one week
in the little village of Waterbury, Conn., the
sum of $1,350 has been collected for the " cause."
A manufacturer in Newark presented the
Sweeney " circle" of that town with equipments
for a thousand men. The western papers teem
with accounts of Fenian meetings, with the
inevitable subscriptions. Twenty-one " circles"

c, run go "'cosy ccA.- coo ra-lio Li to.) OD 7, CVO
to the Fenian fund. The city of Chicago
has given alone (in all its contributions) more than
$2,000,000 to the Fenian treasury. From a copy
of the Cincinnati Commercial, I learn that within
the week $4,000 have been raised in Columbus,
$2,700 in Cleveland, $3,100 in Toledo, $l,lOO ia
Bucyrus, $950 in Akron, $827 50c. in Dayton,
$7BO in Marietta, and amounts ranging from $350
to $l,OOO in about thirty other places, with $ll,OOO
and something over in Cincinnati—all in Ohio.
The Louisville Journal gives a report of a Fenian
meeting in Louisville, in which allusion is made
to subscriptions varying from $2OO to $BOO by
nearly twenty towns in Kentucky. The St. Louis
papers mention the subscriptions by St. Louis
" circles" as reaching the weekly (average) sum of
$20,000. Hundreds of towns in Illinois, Michigan,
Ohio, Wisconsin, lowa, Indiana—all the western
States, in fact—are sending in weekly contributions,
running from $8 or $lO, probably as the lowest, to
amounts only to be named with four figures. The
aggregate must be enormous. I have thrown toge-
ther these few facts without any attempt at connec-
tion, confident that they will speak for themselves.
Under all the circumstances, the action of the
Canadian Government, in calling out ten thousand
volunteers, must be looked upon as reasonable
enough. It was evident, immediately upon the re-
ceipt of the news of the suspension of the Habeas
Corpus Act in Ireland, that Fenianism would
become so aggressive here as to compel prompt aml
vigorous action in Canada. The provincial autho-
rities know that little or nothing is to be feared
from O'Maliony ; Sweeney's theory is the least im-
practicable, and Sweeney has the confidence of the
real fighting men of the " Brotherhood" —the
Fenians of the West. These Fenians are, so to
speak, on the ground ; hundreds of their " circles"
hold meetings and drill within sight of Canadian
territory. They have several sloops and schooners,
now ice-bound at Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit,
and Toledo ; but these are being " fitted up ;"
Fenians openly meet upon them, discuss " plans
of operation," and appoint " officers in the Irish
navy." Two months hence navigation will be
resumed. What if, in the meantime, Fenian
raiders should secure and hold the water way to
the St. Lawrence? These vessels would be at
liberty to slip out, rendezvous at some point
in the possession of the Fenians,
armament, and thence at a given time depart upon
there receive
a voyage of pillage and destruction. 1
Fenians are more thoroughly
e
Canadian militia, and I
believef tleir pirates from
could open a line of egr_esskeo disciplinedh
to t3oo;haayn Feniansth
Ontario. Sweeney
Chicago to the head of.
the publication of a
in-
vasion of Canada ; and while
generally considered a distin-
guishingplan of action is not
erllship in this case there
plainly intimates that his schemea consists of an .
is
for the
chmen' demand something
no choice,
bstantial than hints. The Canadian au-
more SU
I thories, at any rate, place some imrortnee ell on
proof of generalship,
Sweeney's intimations.

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