The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-12-11


President of the Fenian Brotherhood, has
already had trouble with ten of his Sem
ators, and has dealt with them in right
royal way. On Wednesday last, these
impertinent Senators, met in their new
Senate chamber, on Broadway, New
York, and adopted preamble and reso-
luton setting forth the fact chat bonds
to the amount of sixty-eight thousand
dollars, purporting to be issued on the
credit OF the Irish Republic, are about
to be PIT in circulation. and have, in
some III stances, been issued as genuine
and valid bonds of the Republic afore'
said by an agent whom the Senate had
previously repudiated. The Senators in
question, therefore, notify the members
of the Brotherhood that all such bonds
are illegal, and that their issue ana sale
will he dealt with as a fraud on the or
ganization."
The next day President MAHoNY is
sned an address to the Fenian Brother
hood, denouncing the Senators in ques-
eion as 'long-timed malcontents, acting
without legal authority, and also caused
the following placard to be posted up at
headquarters:
1T being deemed advisable to keep
dishonest persons from the ot1ices OF the
headquarters of the Fenian Brotherhood
"a we'll as the enemies OF the tenlan
brotherhood from its immediate valua-
bles, the following persons are excluded
for per6dy until further notice. Per
order, JOHN OMAhoNi,
President F. b
The dishonest persons" alluded TO are
the ten Senators who had censured Pres
ident MAHoNY by implication for issning
bonds without their sanction. Their
'perfdy" is, of course, apparent enough
ONLY a set of traitors would dare to
doubt the patriotism of their President
or the immaculate honesty of any agent
whom he might think proper to appoint.
What does it matter whether the ap-
peintment was illegal OF otherwise! The
plea of military necessity" covers this
particular case quite as etfectuaily as 1t
has covered Vulnerable others on lar
ger field of operations Bnt when these
Fenian Senators solemnly declare that
the act was unconstitutional they
prove themselves ignoramuses of the
worst kind. Why there is scarcely
child in the land that does not know by
this time that 1.-The higher law" is supe-
rior to any Constitution that was ever
framed, and to preserve the national
life" what Radical will doubt that Pres
ident MAHoNY is not only justified in
selling all the bonds of the Irish Repub-
lie he can get hold of and using the
money as he thinks best, but also IN
sending everybody who disputes his right
tn do so either to some Fenian Fort Lafay-
cite or to Coventry as in his judgment
he NAV deem most advisable. What II
there were danger that the funds might
be misapplied; is mans loyalty to be
impugned for stealing from the Treasu-
~; and especially the Fenian treasury!
Are the bonds of the Irish Republic any
more valuable than Mississippi cotton
The idea is preposterous. The patriot
ism that does not help itself to every
thing it can lay its hands upon has none
of the ring of the true metal. If the ten
Senators who have been so summary
suspended from the exercise of their func-
tions are SO credulous as to doubt this,
let them ask the hero of the fdscO's Of
Big Bethel and Fort Fisher, his opinion
on this interesting subject.