Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-08-11
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The Fenian Brotherhood Of New York city
and the vicinity had monster picnic festival
at Joness Woods on Tuesday. Many thOus-
ands of members Of the order, with their wives,
children, sweethearts and dfriendsgenerally were
present, and the occasion was one of universal
pleasure and interest. Theoration by Mr. VIM.
II. Roberts Of New York was leading feature
of the day proceedings. From the lengthy re-
ports of Mr. Robertss effort we make few
extracts that present its salient points.
After an appropriate cxordium, in which
he declared that although the British jour
nails sneer aud affect contempt for the Fe-
man movement 'ahe British government has a
very different opinion of it, for she is beginning
to hear the rumbling ofthe storm that shake,
if not destroy, her rotten old hulk from stem to
stern,'' he continued:
Now, fellow couutrymen, is 1T not reasonable
TO suppose that when the Irish republic has her
auxiliary bureau of finance, of war, and of the
navy here, Just as the South had in England
Nassau, and Canada. which by the way, we
could make short work OF If President Johnson
thinks the Blue Noses would be worth the TAX
ing-and unless TO deprive England of an ally
duu huicIiOd VI db cuOIuJ, ehAhh "Oith
the haviDg-it is not fair suppositon that the
Irish republican government will find as llber-
al friends among the AmericaDs-not to men
ton the Irish Americans-as the South found
in Canada and England2 l think the navy bu-
reau alone will have its hands full in equipping
cruisers like the Florida, the Alabama, the Tenn
and the Stonewall; the names Will be different
we will have the Robert Empet, loud cheers
the Edward Fitzgerald, [prolopged cheers /
a. ar1 ho e Ton
thusiastic cheers. They will be called after
Irish martyrs, so that their names when dead
will strike more terror into British hearts than
even when living; for their blows will be aimed
at the most vulnerable and vital part of Britain,
her commerce. of course l expect that our
practical common sense plebeian President An
DIV johnson, will follow the example of her most
ungracious majesty Queen Victoria, and declare
the Irish people belligerant. Laughter and
Cheers English vessels of war will receive
notice to quit American ports twenty -four hours
after arrival should they think it prudent TO ar
rive here at all, less their crews-many of whom
are Irish-would forget to return; If they are
lucky enough to get off with their ships l will
guarantee them the most hearty groaus and OH
er expression of tenderness that ever yet assail-
ed the ears of British cut-throats We will not
ask any more partiality from the American gov
eminent or from American fellow citizens
than England extended to the Southern people,
who booted the Prince of Wales in the streets
of Richmond, in 1860. And may God bless
them for showing their contempt for the descen-
dant of tyrants. Great Cheers. | am told,
on excellent authority, that be was greeted with
the music of melodious fish horns lately on the
bank of the Liffy. May God bless these fish
horns, and the lips that blew them, too. Roars
! of Laughter And though it may seem like
PROCLAMATION to ask such thing for tin trum-
pet STILL if they give the first notes ofthe ava
kening sense of the Irish people to their shame
and national degradation, they deserve a bless
| ing-and they have mine. Do you say AmenI
TCries of "Yes, ,""Yes." Amen" "Amen," aud
cheers.
The concluding passage of the Grafton is re-
ported as follows:
l have seen more sickening sights than any
beheld on the battlefield; the CHASTITY skeletons
of what were once Gods creatures, far and
comely, and strong, shrivelled into skin and
bone from starvation, and piled in heaps, with
little straw for shroud, waiting to be pitch
| ed into common hole, "unwept, unhonored,
| and unsung;' this was death-this was murder.
| To be sure there was no blood split, for the
gauDt demon OF hunger consumed 1T before he
| DESTROYED the victim inundated on the alter of
British law There was no flesh mangled, un-
less what the rats or the starving infant eat from
| its mothers breast. There was property
destroyed or taken, for they died on the road
side, eating grass or roots, unable or unwilling
| to touch the turnips that grew SO tempting in
side the hedge, although knew of one case
where poor starving wretch was sentenced to
Imprisonment for eating them out OF the vessel
that the gentlemen cows were feeding from; and
vet good men, honorable men, respectable men,
say "Peace, peace" when there is no peace; they
say, "All is we'll" when all is i'll; and bias
p6euDe Gods holy name by attributing to His
will the work of their own hands and that of
their accomplces. Immense cheering