The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-06-08
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Now that America is opce more 1T lib
erty for foreign enterprises, we may be az
cused if we cast an anxious look at that
mysterious organization of which we have
been so often reminded during the L. st
four years. It is not pleasant to be inform-
ed IN respectable authority that almost
every Irishman in the United States has
joined 3 society pledged to annex Canada
and iberste Ireland st our first difference
with the Government st Washington, or
the slightest tiff with our imperial neigh
Dor. Since the organization is proclaimed
to be no secret, n to have proved q val
liable auxiliary to the Federal Cause, we
might venture to ask q few questions as TO
a movement which boasts to be q prepare
ton for war with this country.
We address ourselves to the New York
Herald, and, as we have done it the Justice
to insert its account of the matter, we claim
the same candor in return. The real fact
is at once interesting and important. The
Irish Fenisns have derived from their
Phenicisn ancestors the secret of invisi.
bilty. Fern seed is said to possess this
virtue, but, as with many other charms the
question is how TO use it. The classical
reader will remember that il wss on Car
tdGgenisn, that If, Phenicisn soil, that a
iaGy met hness, and kindly conveyed him
snd all the sailors Of his ship, invisible, to
tho very presence of the Queen and her
court. On q previous occasion his life, We
believe had been saved very much in the
same manner. The New York Herald
understates the number, probably from DIS
trusting the power Of mere organization to
conceal so great q movement. It's only
adding q cipher. There are $50, 900.
Whether they rub the charm on the soles
Of their feet ori8ke it in their whisky, they
Immediately become invisible to their next
neighbors and their own mothers and
brothers. Their arms are equally invisible,
as also the horses, the artillery, the bag
gage wagons, and the other Recessaries of
war so h0efslly supplied by their Fenian
friends in the United States. Nobody can
form the least conception of the splendid
military spectscles to be witnessed on the
boys of Irelsndif one could
see them. You drive through Connemara,
and only remember to have seen one old
woman in twenty miles but there are q
hundred thousand Feuisns -msnueuv1ing,
attacking, retrestiog, and performing the
incest evolutions on all sides of you
Their bsyonet charges are terrible but for
breaking the charm they would make q
pincushion of yon. The most wonderful
part of it remains to be told. When the
Fenian has rubbed his foot, or moistensd
his throat, he becomes two men. His Or
binary natural CARCASS still goes on its old
work, digging potatoes, driving the pigs
home, smoking a pipe, telling old stories,
or reading the Galway VIndieqtor or the
TppeTGry AdUocGte. But this Fenisn
second-self is miles off in the mountains,
charging in line, firing vollies and perform.
ing prodigies of vslor and discipline.
1t is said that if you challenge them by
blowing a trumpet or firing a gun, they
will just answer to show they are there,
but will not care TO do more, as it is BUSH
ness no pleasure with them. This, toe,
explains what has been done with the im-
mense sums of money subscribed by the
American Fenisns. The AHEAD Centre"
Estate Centres" and "Uircle Centres" tell
the anxious subscribers that the arms are
all ready to be sent over as soon as 8 war
can be got up. The fact is they are already
in Ireland, though for the reasons we have
stated, nobody has yet seen them or their
bearers, or is at all likely 10 see them
The American Fenians may take our word
that their money that their money had not
salaries of Centres" the maintenance of
FeniEn hotels, or in paying for monster
advertisements in the New York Herald.
It is all shining, and blazing, and thunder.
ing away in the training of the great army
which is n day to camp on the Ourrsgh,
if not Aldershott itself. It is true we dc
not see or hear it; but that is wonerrful
efficacy of the Ph9snician secret mentioned
above, sno which constitutes the real
strength of Fenisnism.-LondOn Times.