The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-05-16


zaon in America We in ireland. rrce.ved FROM you
about one thousand I'VE hundred POUNDS have come
and woe to the man who says Or does snyshns 70
vent that Great cheerinsl Lot there be no cries
today against any man you have come S in spirit
Of brotherhood wel 4 not woe to you and woe to Ire
sas &c ss man who ss : ps Sss
Of creating dssension and dlscord in our
,snh s. wsen the breach unhsppily existing ting
lChe~ing fhis no place for him; let him 60 70 Eng
land. that n che place for hi-cheerslleth him go to
let him not stand here with lrshmen who have sworn
to free ther land or die. Great checring l. for my
more tried bs nv friends than by nv foes The men
who used to call themselves my friends and the friends
Of ireland have proved deadier enemies to ireland and
But must not anticipate speak to you In spirit Of
brotherhood. ! want 70 have you united want 10
have all Into the work. like brother Irish
men and patriots. and any body Of men who pre-
vents union, here. to-day, In the face Of you all,
land and enemies to our race tremendous cheering.
Our motto today shall be union. Continued cheering
Each man among US must give up selfshness and short
You can all do It, Cheeringl You are the people, you
are the power you can make the men, you can direct
vent them going asiray from it Cheers The duty is
upon you to-day, and you must do it, Cheers and cries
Of I'VE wll) To come back to my narrative.or it IL
merely narrative and l It TO be
go, rather than speech--for the first six years
after tbs ORGANISATION, as ! said, we in Ireland
almost back upon resources, and am sincere to
that did not tr st TO resources alone-hat
looked to America for anything whatever For,
from the spirit of dssenson that sprung up the amount
OF calnmny, Misrepresentation, bad feeling, bad blood
and scandal that was INDUCED IN In this organization
shame was brought upon US all over the world and 1t
only be bloted out by the redemption Of ireland
Cheers A voice-."That IS good'o About the year
sue had almost despaired Of getting anything done
from this side and 1t seemed to me at home that we
were bound to make another effort We bad then one
Of the best men the people knew In Ire
land I sent him out here with statement
Of affairs. That man has SINCE been condemned TO
twenty years penal servtude; he Is now "felon,'
with feons cohcs doing feons work. OBJ ICED TO associ
alto with The assassin, the burglar the sconndre with tho
S ee rh bos e crm wss nav trusted
friend. trusted Irshman in the cause Of Ireland
learned, patriotic and accomplished He was OF
70 him here In America He wrote home In great heart
TO his friends, all Of whom his letter cheered except
what had already heard knew his mission would be
failure. knew that from his first letter to me- That
was the first course open to me-to send this man 10
America upon the peoples work HIS mission was
q failure The next course open TO mo was to
establish q newspaper in Ireland and get for
1t wide q circulation as possible, and devote
It's proceeds to the organization. You must know that
greater difficulties arise In raising money in ireland than
PIE as reas" for this Poor as the people Of Ireland
are to-day, II Icoud have one months tour there, as
could in these States. would raise as much money as
would free Ire land. But / not free to move
about Ireland. 1t was necessary for me- az head Of
this organization, TO travel with caution and was be-
But In short time received sufficient money to estab
sh the Th Pope OF which you have heard great DEAL
whatever as every obstacle was put in the way Of
its circulation and became dangerous for seller to
i s buy IL 0 the ana
their aependsnss, brought their influence q bear
their faces against the paper that difficult
TO effect large circulation. The Chicago fair was an
service to the cause Of Ireland was deputed 10 60 from
Chicago to Ireland to represent the state OF Affairs to u.s.
Ostensby he went to buy goods for the fair and receive
what We contributed but In reality he came and repre-
scented that nothing could the organization from
rum but my presence in America and the committee in
organization would fall to the ground In this narrative
am emitting many details, because wish TO speak in
spirit Of Cancellation and do not wish to let one word
should hurt him by chance beg his pardon beforehand
and say that did not mean It. l came TO the
Clarence Mccarthy. ! asked him, among other
things, If the entire proceeds OF tho fair would be
and and on his representations ana promises came
land, % ny arrival IN New York % send them slooi On
my arrival Chicago 81 900. The fl0o sent from
New York. according to PROMISE then another f1o0 and
81, 900 from Oh cago For q considerable time could
receive no more money There a state convention
held in Chicago st that time and Mr. OMahonv attended
Il as well As the centres Of the Western states Mr.
OMahony, on being called on TO say what was the
strength Of the Fenan Brotherhood at that Tins In
America stated that he could not claim more than ten
thousand In It. As my object In coming TO tho States
collect money and receive arms in order to bring
the movement TO close soon possible, felt that,
felt that 10 Chicago on that night and continued feel
Il for eight ten days, Is went through the States
through towns Of Iinosand 1t was only when got to
ST. Louis that began TO 81 my way and felt that II
put in proper working order the organization would
realize all my expectations in short time And here
may say, that never requ red much. Those people
who told you that for two hundred thousand
or hy thousand, or twenty thousand men, one half
mat mat. kner very ue about ,, me- ana % less
been per ectly satisfied with a few All we then
wanted was war material On my return to New York
GO %fIG %
that Mr.. 0Mahony should have deputy Head Centre,
in Mr. O'Mahony, for Mr. OMahony was always opposed
10 making rect appeals for money and absolute
y necessary that these appeals should be made.
Of this continent when invitations were not
forthcoming. The Invitations did not come Ger.
these changes effected an extraordinary Improve.
men which very soon became visible in the organiza
ton That which had real eec, on the people OF this
continent was, believe the statement made TO them
In 1904 That statement was 10 the eject that the
ganzcd force at that time In Ireland sixty thousand
men, Just six times the strength Of your legal open
ganzaiion in America; and made the engagement that
II England went TO war that year the Danish ques-
ton we should take the field but that whether England
What the people wanted here well in Ireland
was hxed time for action and not 10 be dragged on
they had been for years, without knowing when the
time for action would come To the statement then
made much Of the progress made is TO be attributed On
my return TO Ireland found that the work In q
very good state and the report that brought back from
America set the people TO work still harder But still
the war did net take place England fought shy she
has often since tho establishment OF organzs lon
She did not go TO war on the Danish ques-
ton, and We had then year more 10
wait. You held your Cincinnati convention, and about
that time wrote stating the req1 remcns Of Ireland,
s %s,s asking aSr 'ps MP 'snusy IsSrrx a9s
q April 900 alone and for the months OF May juno,
July and August about G., 700 per month The money
for January February and March sent 10 me-abont
{ 1000 Another 81, 900 sent TO me In April but
did not get the second instament till the middle Of
May, and Of the money for May, June Jsy and August
got none. Instead OF getting the money asked for
and which would have enabled TO take the field last
year two gent men we're appointed here TO so to Ire
land TO investigate orr work. They were perfectly
satisfied with the state OF affairs IN ireland They sant
over very favorable rpcr and asked for money DO
sent back 20 II agreed on nj that time that
the bonds Of the Irish rpublic should be issued
upon Their return. II calculated we should have
all that requisite by tho close OF the wear II 50