Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-10-16

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"a NSsa fhe American half d thj con
.,,;,s,cr. f,rmlv believe that IN army Of
opo ooo r.ea eiI5tl h frtIand, lnfsnsd, or
r.nixed and effective H. al resReoee. saving
ofIioses and arms. The Irish neas l,Sliese
thasUfeen and arns snfiieiene Ssr 20O, 0pV
men ere on. shsie Wy from ANrrisa, on
hoard q feet Of iron .flods And will soon ar
rive. Out Of these two notions the. reality
of - Plot has ~ be c0ustfucted. We
have alrssdy faahomed the depth Of one Of
them. and W can take . pretty fair measure
of-shs other. Il h just possible that some
thousands Of Irish shopboys, artisans and
labofess have taken . Fsnisn oath, and not
lmp66Sl6le that 5 few hundreds Of them
have had - much drill - could b given
. discharged militisinan On . moonlight
night two or three times . week. That
however. Is Il e amount and quality Of the
oreanixation " n h0sps. Abroad, We have
no doubt that 1 vast number df Irishmen
in various pasts Of the Limited S1ates have
become nominal members Of The = Brother
hood" but TO suppose that they will ven
ture their persons in . descent upon the
British isles, or that thst viii provide ~
ren,Ans in ireland with either money b
munitions for . single days parade, would
be . complete halluciDstien. Psrhsps q
case or two Of arms may have bssn die
patched to Cork; indeed, il seems from the
movements Of our cruisers on til. coast,
that they have actua'ly been instructed u
look out Tor some political smugglrr but
Of the two eAAms, ~ believe even the Fe-
MAN army TO have more Substance than il
armogy. rFNfTf} IN
TIE more completely the scheme is re
vealed, the more s0Hemely absurd does !,
appear. The Irish recruits must havs
thoSght that scattered companies of hair
brain, d lad. trained Just to keep stem sns
know their facings could suddenly coalesc,
into an effective army under officers which
they had never seen, ard with. weapani
which they had never handled. The FEM
ans in America nuA have fancisd shst the,
could transport from that country and dis
embSk on the shorcs Of Ireland the lead
ers And the material required for . force o.
200, 900 troops without difficulty or hind
rance. Yet both these parties knev and
understood, ~ far - they were capable o.
understanding. the Syenth Of the power
against which their operations were to bs
directed. by I'll lri.hmen except Fsniap,
this point has been very cleafy seen, ant
insisted upon with piainness very remark
able. The Irish journals ask the Fenian,
what they could posSbly Expect to DO with
all the strength and intelligence even Of Ire
land itself against them. and the power o
the British empire behind. Az to the ma
turity Of the plot, we haze learnt from tn,
public statements Of the American Fenian
that the o. gAnization n ireland, such "a ",
have found it, was actually complete, Their,
was nothing more to be done. The prepa
rations were finished, the army was enroll
ed. and the day Of provisional govern
ment" WAS established" The tAilors
plasterers and railway porters now in pris
on represent the approved heads Of the con
spiracy. In fact, the contcmptuous indii
ference Of the government led to create
Opencss on the part ofthe conspiraters thar
was originally designed. In the beginning
and IN device the Fenian brotherhood was I
very secret society, but it's members at las
grew SO bold aud threw disguise aside Sc
generally that they left US little to learn.