The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-03 00:00:00

TROUBLE FOR HEAD CENTRES.

It is said that a lawyer in Boston is engaged in
endeavouring to collect the moneys that were paid
for bonds of the " Irish Republic," and that he
says that the parties who issued them are personally
responsible for the amounts. This matter is of con-

siderable importance to some of our own Fenians.
In regard to the legal liability of those parties, there
may be a difference of opinion. On behalf of those
claiming payment, it will be alleged that the money
was obtained from them under false pretences. But
the bonds themselves bear upon their faces the
stipulation that they are not parable until " after
the establishment of the Irish Republic." As that
Republic is not yet established, but is to be before
the Ist of January next, according to the statements
of James Stephens, would it nct be well for parties
anxious to receive their funds to wait for forty days.
The time is not long, and if Stephens is a man of
his word, the bonds will all be paid in a very short
time. But aside from this view of the case, it would
be doubtful whether any Court would assist the
holders of these " securities." They were :givn
for the purpose of invading a country with which
the United States are at peace, and it would be
against the policy of the' .w to sustain them. In
addition, the ground could be taken with much
plausibility, that the money was given in donations
for the support of the Fenian cause, and that the
bonds were evidence merely of the amount of the
contributions. Nevertheless, a lawyer in Boston
says that he can recover on these bonds. The
Boston lawyers are sharp, no doubt, but for sagacity
in difficult cases it is known that Philadelphia
lawyers are remarkable. Until one of the latter
admits himself "puzzled" at this question, we must
continue to doubt whether the victims of the Irish
Republic have any remedy.
HORACE GREELEY.
Against all the host of aspirants to the next
vacant chair of the State of New York in the United
States Senate, we urge the nomination of one of the
most eminent, able, and noble of our citizens ; one
who does not put himself forward for the place,
who will take no steps to secure it, who harbours
no desire for it, and who might possibly decline it.
We mean Mr. Horace Greeley. Our Legislature
could not better please the Republican party, either
of the State or the nation, than by electing him
unanimously. Mr. Greeley's undisputed leadership
in state politics, his ripe experience of public affairs,
his splendid intellectual powers, his love of impar-
tial justice, his incorruptible integrity—all these
qualities designate him as the one man who
above all other probable candidates ought
to be chosen, and chosen without opposi-
tion. During the war and since, on several
points of public policy the Independent failed to
agree with the Tribune. The expression, therefore,
of our preference for Mr. Greeley above any other
candidate who has been named, or who can possibly
be elected, is not meant to apply our acquiescence
in the Tribune's partial commitment to the pending
constitutional amendment as the ultimatum to the
South. But knowing Mr. Greeley perhaps as well
as he is known by any of his personal friends, we
believe that not a more unselfish, single-minded, in-
cessant toiler in the public service now lives in this
nation. Moreover, if agood old custom is not to pass
entirely out of fashion, it would be an agreeable
historic incident to see once again a great state
represented by a great man. Friens, let us
talk, it over !---7 he Independent.

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