, 1866-04-12
TINE PKNtAN CHluE.

aAAAA0hk LIE a41uuspueIH Ol IA4stnOO0s uE-
ccpiion and fraud that envelopes the whole
Fcnian hunbug, II is difficult to tell what
that organization may or may not be doing.
We only know that the leaders connected
with II arc without brains, and the followers
arc very generally without chnracter. From
such motley and DANGEROUS crew, no good il
to bc expected. Incapable Of working to-
gelher under any organization. their own
"brotle7hood'' Is house divided ae eainst H.
SELF, living testimony known and read Of
all men, that being unable to rule them.
selves they arc unfit to rule Ireland.
Had the British Government Withdrawn
frcm Ireland and surrendered it, control to
this Fenlan sect, We can all see that between
its two warning factions poor Ireland, in
stead Of finding republic and pence, would
have been drcnched In lratesnal blood. With
utterly incompetent leaders, opposed by the
whole power Of the church which nine-tcnths
Of all 1rishmen obey, opposed By iour-dflhs
Of the Irish people In this country and In
Ireland, crippled By fatal dlscerd within its
own ranks, and with the whole military
power OF Great Britain fully aroused, pre-.
pared and lying in wait for it, any honest
phase Of Fenlanism Is insanity. Any real IT.
tempt to operate for IRISH Independence with
such means IL sheer madness.
One branch Of the Fenians, the Roberts and
Sweeney faction, confess this fact, and pro-
pose movement nkainst Canada. The other
adopt for their war-cry, tto ireland direct" Ii
the latter are the most foolish, the former are
the most wickedly piratical. Canada has i
long frontier, and one which it is Impossible
for either the Canadian Government or our
own 10 guard at every point. Hence it Is
practicable for the Fenians, with fifty boys,
to cross the frontier, sack some obscure ham,
let, and return or dlsperse. This is the ut
most they could do. And to do this would
be unmiugsted murder and robbery. It Is
difficult 10 sec how any class Of men,
who have lived in the United states
long enough TO acquire some ideas
OF civilized life, could 20 about
the country eoolly announcing such a coward
ard bcstiel project. The conquest Of Canada,
ifit were POSSIBLE, would hare no more CON
nectiou with the Independence of Ireland,
than would the plumber Of Boston and Chi
cago. But as ''job'' for the Feniaas It is
simply impossible, and would only end In the
hanging Of u few poor de1uded Irish boys,
who ousht to be trying TO earn q living by
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