The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-07 00:00:00

TIIE FENIAN SENATE'S ADDRESS TO THE
LIBERTY-LOVING PEOPLE OF ENGLAND.

The Senate of the Fenian Brotherhood adjourned

till after Christmas, and were to meet together on
the 27th December, to complete the work of unit-
ing the body, and to take such measures as the
well-being and advancement of the organisation may
require. Previous to the adjournment an address
was adopted to the " Liberty-loving people of Eng-
hnd," to which the Senate was moved by the efforts
of leading English Liberals and R..formers to save
the men r.cently ex-cuted in Manchester. We
think t►he address a step in the right direction, as it
proclaims a brotherhood with the body of the Eng-
lish people, awl hostility only to a class and to the
Government. It thus at le (st narrows the osten-
sible field of enmity. A great objection to, and
difficulty in dealing with Fenianism, is in its
love of generalities —its vague declamatio❑ and
sweeping assertions. When Fenians fasten on the
aristocracy all the crimes of English history, OPC
has but to appeal to its pages to discover that like
nearly all these general assertions, it is in the main
untrue. No doubt, like all oligarchies, the English
aristocracy have got crimes enough to answer for,
and being the ruling class they must bear the chief
burden of blame where England has been in fault.
But those who insist upon attaching to them all
the blame must award also where they have been
right, at least the chief praise. Turn then to the
explicit charges made against the class in this docu-
ment, refer to the history of Ireland, and ask any
Fenian head centre of them all—to whom does Ireland
owe the most cruel oppression experienced at any
ruler's hands? and the answer in spite of himself will
spring spontaneously from his lips, and Cromwell
is the word. Now Cromwell was a mere English
yeoman. He was the head of a force composed of
English yeomen, and the Head Centre (as the title
pleases the Fenians) of an. English Republic. This
bit of English history is a curious answer to the
address. But if we look a little deeper we will see
that it was the very men who founded the greatest
States of the Union who gave to America her in-
stitutions, and stamped their character on her face,
to whom Ireland owed the worst measures of
tyranny, of which she now so justly complains.
Emphatically these men were the bone and mar-
row of England, the best class of her yeomanry.
How is it that nothing is thought of poor Brett—
as some one very justly remarked while all
these masses are being said for the souls
of the slayers, that unfortunate man, slain
while in the honourable and self-sacrificing
discharge of his duty, is left out in the cold ?
Is there no Caroline of Queensberry to comfort his
widow and provide for his children ? Is all the
sympathy to be lavished on those who killed him.
If we must have such a fuss over this Manchester
business, let us at least be fair. Allowing the good
motives of Allen, Gould, and Larkin—allowing that
they courageously and successfully accomplished
the rescue ; yet dispassionately regarding the occur-
rence, we affirm that no man there acted more nobly
than Brett. The Fenians have hitherto been as
greedy in absorbing to themselves all wrongs as
well as all sympathy, but now for the first time they
come forward to claim as brothers in misfortune the
working men of England. The very day this docu-
ment saw the light in N ew York, a striking instance of
their sympathy was given in London to those whom
they addressed, for on that day, with a barrel of
gunpowder, in the streets of Clerkenwell, they blew
up, root and branch, a block inhabited by those
they addressed with such endearing epithets. They
may rest assured this commentary will strike more
than " the bloated and brutal aristocrats," and,
perhaps, lead these tyrants to congratulate them-
selves on the enmity of a body who thus treat their
friends. We repeat, however, that we welcome an
appeal to reason—to passion—to prejudice—any-
thing rather—than a barrel of gunpowder and a blun-
derbuss. The Fenians should remember that if they.
blow a man's brains out, they deprive themselves of
the means of convincing that man. Let them leave
the man his brain, for any manner of acting on it
is better than this. The address is signed on be-
half of the Fenian brotherhood of America, by
James Gibbons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; F.
B. Gallagher, Buffalo, New York ; John O'Neill,
Washington, D.C. ; J. C. O'Brien, Rochester, New
York ; P. Cunningham, Utica, New York ; M.
Finnegan, Houghton, Michigan ; P. W. Dunne,
Peoria, Illinois; J. W. Fitzgerald, Cincinnati,
Ohio ; John Carlton, Bordentown, New Jersey ;
Patrick J. Meehan, Hudson City, New Jersey ; T.
J. Quin, Albany, New York ; William Fleming,
Troy, New York ; Edward L. Carey, New York ;
Thomas Lavan, Cleveland, Ohio ; Myles D.
Sweeny, San Francisco, California; W. R. Roberts,
President, Fenian Brotherhood.—Anglo American
Times.

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