The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-09-21
Che Mottolk 2ost.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER q, 1865.
MORE ARBITRARY ARRESTS

The New York Epening Post of Mon
day is surprised and grieved at the con-
duct of the British Government in regard
to certain persons suspected of "Fenian-
ism" in Ireland, and it goes on to tell us
that at Dundalk five men have been ar
rested, and refused bail. "These men had
not committed any crime; they had met
together, in a time of profound peace,
without arms, for some purpose not
stated before the magistrate they We're
not charged or suspected of having COM
mitted any crime; and yet the judge be-
fore whom they were arraigned not on
ly refused to discharge them, but sent
them to Jail withou t bail
"What is the boosted liberty of the
British subject worth, when English
judges can thus arrest and immune in
Bastiles' innocent men charged with no
crime? If this kind of thing goes on
much longer, it will be necessary for
our government to demonstrate with
Lord PalmerstOn and as soon as Con-
gress meets it will be advisable to bring
up before that body the arbitrary and
tyrannical treatment of British subjects
by the British government. 4ys
fortunately for Mr.. Seward and
members of Congress, the form and even
the language of such complaints and re-
monstrances are accessible to them.-
| There are letters of Earl Russell To our
| government and TO the British Minister
at Washington, which will answer, with
but the slightest changes, for Mr.. Sc
ward TO fire back at Earl Russell there
are speeches by Gregory, Roebuck,
Laird, and others in the House of Com
mons, against IL government, which
require only a few verbal alterations t.
make them useful to members of Con
gress who wish to show up the lawles
tyranny, the savage brutality, and TIN
folly of the British government, and ap
peal TO the whole civilized world, and t.
Christians everywhere, to refuse theil
c%ountenance to such proceedings.
"Ireland and the whole of Great
Britain are lying profoundly at peace
;, suddenly Lord Palmerston, known as
/ hater of Irishmen, takes it into his hea'
4 to order indiscriminate arrests, rightan
left. A young man tells another t
double up and on the instant one Q
Palmerst0n's 'minions' seizes hin
drags him before a magistrate or judge
: also in Palmerston's pay, who consigr
him to a dungeon, and 'tyrannieally n
fuses to accept bail for his appearance
Another equally innocent young Irisl
k man tells two or threeof his companion
Els to close up and he, too, is dragged of
and disappears in a Bastile. Anothe
Happens to say fall in behind and i
is locked up without opportunity to e'
o plain his meaning /; and his weepin
" wife and aged mother appeal in vain ft
either justice or mercy. rF
care these proceedings fit for til
nineteenth century? Does not the ci'
ilized world blush at such tyranny? an
70 SO on and so forth-for the reniainder
this see speeches of Roebuck, M. p, an
Others; where we may also learn thu
. Ireland ought to be an independer
State, and that the United States ougl
Il. to help the Irish against England, b'
cause thus a severe and damaging blol
can be struck at the strength ofEnglan
u (which is, according TO the wise Rot
IN buck, an irrefutable argument.
t'The British authorities seem to al
prehend that the Fenians intend a rex
olution. We trust our W governmer
to is as vigilant in this matter as was thu
of Lord Palmerston in q like. case
1861. We should scarcely think it d
cent in Mr.. Seward or Mr.. Stanton to
nd closetted with emissaries of the Iris
|, revolutionists, though even in that the
would have the support of English pr
sy cedent. But whenever the Fenians 81
up an Independent government in lr
land--if that, indeed, is their obJec
to which we do not profess to know
8 " will.become our duty to recognize it
a belligerent, to begin fitting out priv
teers for it, to sell it blockade-runner
provisions and suppliesof all kinds, al
at In almost all possible ways to assist Il
revolutionary government in makii
I'd war upon the English and driving the
out of Ireland. In this city our me
ek chants and shipOwners will, no dOub
les be encouraged in hosting the Irish fla
nj; our sailors will be engaged by the mo
at respectable men to serve in Irish AL
bamas, and our s%hipbuilders will col
struct their fastest ships for the Iris
service--only we trust they will hay
the decency not to lie about their acton
at in Congress ; we should not like to 81
an American place himselfon par vii
" Laird.
> GAN this, If it happened, could
justified by English precedent, or rath
'es- il would not need justification, for ev'
E%nglishmen could scarcely have the il
pudence to complain of us for what tn
insisted upon doing but a few We,
ago."
We have long been an admirer of I
Evening POst---Our grandfather was