The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-12-31
THE IRISH PRESS ON FnnrAN1sp1,

THE IRISH PRESS ON FENrANIsp1.
The following synopsis Of opinions OF tho Iisl
press on the present crisis in Ireland we copy from
the New York Tribune, which journal, however, i
should bo borne h mind is not friendly to tho Fe
MAN movement:
The excitement in England, at the prospect o
an Irish revolution and the ferocity Of the pross
have produced o rbsult in ireland OF q different
character from What, doubtless, was expected
Irish journals which have revied and persistently
secuted Fenianishl and ignored its le ders arc
compelled to look tbr cause equal to the prod'lc
tion OF such all upfocr, The profosscdly national
,rcss Of course beholds in the situation vindica
ton of it's preaching and prophecies, while even
tho pro--Engliahlrr Irish papers are shocked into
protesteeiorr1 against the savage, unthnkng wild
ness that possossts their brother loyalists in
London.
The loading Irish journals are all forcibe in thoil
tions Of style. I. may be taken for granted how
ever, that the boldastis less bold than it would be-
and that tho fatea Of Tho United Irishman M
tion, Irish Tribune, md othor oltspokcn Journals,
in 1913, and the moro recent homily preached by
the seizure and extinction OF The Irish People, as
the latter, now imprisoned in England, combine in
restraining complete expression Of the popular
side. and o mobilization of the remonstrances
omqnatng from other quarters. Still, brief re-
ference to Them is Indispensable as illustrating
certain phases OF tho Irish crisis.
The Dublin Nation does not sympathize with the
Fen;an movement. Fearing to contemplate the
chances Of struggla as against it's countrymen,
it still thinks the Central .Organizor desperate
enough to face the risks oooily witl subtitle in-
tellect and undannte9 heart" It deplores what
seems to it q Fenian fatuity in depending on re-
sources known only to themselves, but comes out
openly and admits Tint, whatever fate my befal
the project, the FenidnB have already exhibited in
strong relief certain iacts which have won the ut
ts1S SeaS de S nd W world e M % Thsh haS nan a2a
that the old spirit Of tie Irish people, their hatred
Of foreign rufo their loyb Of freedom their deyo-
ton to the idea of national Independence, exist in
unimpaired yigor, and tlat England is to-day as
far from holding sway oyg their hoarts as she was
hundreds Of years ago. Upon the enduring basis
Of the detostation Of Brtih rule by the Irish race
tho Fonian leaders built up tEeir organization.
This ant-Fenian journal also admits that the
measure Of support giyep to the leaders in Ireland
is earnest unswerying, and almost unauost99n!- !!
strongly incensed at tie idea of being stamped
out" md grappos with tao London Times in style
which, if not effective, s suggestive Of a means
which might be- It minds tho Thunderor that
as the British army is npi wholly composed OF En-
tempting tho stamping gut process. Irish sol. :
diors might not SEQ arysfun in the hanging OF
their fathors or brothers. pr fellow-townsmen, and
might not at all relish CO work Of fogging their
sisters with panQ.Mr4. : q tffeJ a5ths5 ted and
man-aa wording IN tWoevil ways, by stimulating
ferocty on one side and retaliation on tho othor
The Nation VIII 10 yet it's voice 'can roach thepross
and people, !" imp1ores and invokes the judgment
of tho world on tho fearful character given by the
English to the nitiatory steps in the armed strug
glo-in case such should ensue.
flu nee, has reply to tho English charge of the
procliyity of the Colts to conspiracy and the ab-
horronco of tho Saxon and Ntrman for the samo,
which is outside OF the subjet matter, us the rule
more than the race of people crentos conspiracy.
Historically speaking, howov,r, the descendants of
tho Nornlans who went to ireland and became
ssmoro Irish than than the hish' have had quito
as much to do with the conpiracies and rcbellions
i'll Ireland as the Colts. Mr., Stephens, who is
called sstho magician by wlom these marvels hove
beon worked" is doubtless of Norman extraction
himself. The Examiner suggests that if tho Irish
inhabited the larger isle hey would bo as ''sof-
satisfied, as domineoring, a1d ms regardless OF the
feelings of others as tip public for whom the
Times writes;;" while, if he latter wore in Ire
land, with poverty addee to oppression, there
would bo no lack OF conspiacies
The Examiner docs nc attempt to yndicatc
the Tenian conspiracy, bit, on the contrary, re-
CARDS it as misfortune. Sill it stands as 4 count
IN tho bill of Indictment aginst the mode Of gov
erning the country; For, it adds, "not only has
rally but not wise, but ovomnodorate mon cannot
help seeing that this mad Nnian organization has
really produced from thoruers Of Ireland an
attention to tho grievances the country that was
not given them boIoro." Tb style Of sono Of that
attention, however, did moi suit this paper any
more than it did tho Nation and wo SEQ this anti
Fonan journal also drivenback upon it's nation
ality. It regards tho staining out process rs u
threat, to use it's own wordsthat ''tho Irish plant
ers would be let loose upon he Irish negroes" but
rathor detiantly declares tut stho Fcninn organ
to bo dispersed by big, Bullying talk" Mother
can it SEQ that the roawakenng of hostile clements
tho Orange, for instanco-sythiG the country is
n 1neana to secure it's poaco.-
The strongost robuko the proposed arminag Of
the Orangomen has met hasusoly onlanatod from
u thoroughly 'loyal" journl and in tho North,
too, where the Orange ntepst las its homo. It
comes from the Northern Wig, o l,ading paper Of
Ulster. Remembering and co9domning us dis
graceful the circumstance ofIlord Clarendons in
tho Orangomen during his7ice Royalty in 1913,
The Wing believes that to eok such measures
now-to arm ono section Of tie people against an
other ina country so divided freand-would be
to s'doliboratey dissolve sciety and establish
monarchy" The impolicy o.the mode is shame
Of rewarding the priests who nve opposed Fenian-
ism-to arm and let loose thtr ferco and ntolor
ant enemiesl
'If tho authorities" says The Wing, "wish to
render civil war inevitable, thy have only to take
this top. Ne are certain tat to put arms into
the lands of tho Orangemo would Of necessity
compel the Catholics to arm II their own defence,
and then we should have thooeople, by the dolib-
orato act of tho Government, iyided into two hos
tile sections, ready in Ulster acre, whore there is
not now the least danger Of 3 insurrocton, to fly
Gladstone and the majority in the Commons
is callod to tho rescue, viii this mixture Of
advice and warming: "A Government thus