Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1866-12-02
FENIANISM In IRELAND.
SFeat Excitement IN DubIIn-PIan 81
the Intended Rising.


-diGion Of affairs in Ireland is very threaten
ing, and the large shipments Of troops
thither, as well as the angry tone of the
London papers, betray the alarm felt by
Che English people and Government. The
following extracts from the correspondence
Of the New York World, though dating
earlier than the reports by telegraph, are
interesting and significant though perhaps
n some respects sensational. A Dublin
correspondent writes on the 10th Of De-
oember: pa.
Whoever may have doubted the proba-
bility Of rising in ireland is now satisfied
that something partaking of that nature
will be attempted. Whether it will prove
a success or tiasco is not argued. 1t is
not the Fenians now who intimate this, nor
would any person imagine from their ap-
parent quietude that they were eyenin ex-
istence. The English Government itself is
alarmed, ard the alarm is thence conveyed
all the Ieaceably disposed inhabitants Of
the island. This proves cOnclusively, to
my mind at least, that a rising in Ireland
Is more than probable, it is certain. The
Preparations on the part Of the Govern
ment for defense are carried on openly, and
there is TO attempt made to conceal the OBJ
iect for which they are beiEg made.
Propably your readers are already aware
OF the fact that Ireland is not all Fenian.
Far from il being 80, a very large majority
of the population is not only unfaYOrably
disposed towards the present rise, but l
firmly believe some are sufficiently base, in
the event Of rising, to fight against their
own countrymen.
This section Of the people is necessarily
snti-Fenian, and the prospect of rising is
received by them with ridicule, as far as its
success is concerned. However, they are
frightened. Holding, as they do, that the
movement is merely concocted for plumber
and rapine, they have removed their &C
counts from their Irish bankers and lodged
hem instead in English houses. They have
forwarded their plate in the same way to
London and other places out of 80 unsafe a
place as Ireland.
The store proprietors and all in fact who
have invested their money in the country
view these preparations in somewhat a
different light. They are partly national.
They would like to see Ireland free but
fear for the sake,of their possessions TO mix
themselves up in a conspiracy.
But for the credit of Irishmen there is
patriotism evea in spite Of all these diff
cUlties and there are those who are willing
TO sacrifice life in struggle for liberty. But
I regret to have to say that these patriots
are not men who have anything but life 10
lose. They are of the slower order" So
called by aristocratic England; they are of
Che poorer classes, unfortunately. These
have been trained in hatred of England for
their fathers sake, and when old enough
they dave learned to hate herfor their own.
ErUm this class have the Fenian ranks
been hlled, and they view with delight
prospect of speedy contest with the per-
sistent enemy of their race.
From > private official source l have
learned that the plan of rising has been
discovered. From this plan it would APP
pear that the rising was not to be confined
to one place, but to be simultaneous, the
main force to be concentrated in the south
of Ireland In the midland counties the
forces were to diverge towards Cork, Bel
fast Waterford and Dublin, taking the
principal cities in their route, ana putting
up intrenchments as they proceeded, which
they can retire behind in case Of repulse.
The Castle of Dublin was, according to plan,
TO be seized by inside parties, and the task
Of spiking the guns in the various barracks
was TO fall to the lot of the Fenians among
the army ranks. This is all l have been
able to gather of this rumored document up
to the present.
A Question: correspondent, writing on
the 18th, says:
The blow Is about to be struck at the
power of Great Britain. Within a month
you will hear Of the rising Of the Irish
people from one end of this unfortunate
island 70 the other The train has long
been laid The arms are here, the men
are resdy, the officers appointed, the or
ganizatiOn perfected. The movement upon
Canada was really feint, for all the while
the object was steadily kept in mind to
create an outbreak upon the old soil of
Ireland.
J need not tell you that the Irish people
that is, the great mass Of the lower and
producing classes-are as one in this move
ment. Those who doubted at first are now
willing that it should be tried. The land
holding class and the Orangemen are OPP
posed to it. The parish priests at first
gave it no countenance; but l believe
speak for more than oRe-half of them when
l say they are willing this movement
should be tried not with the expectation
It should succeed, but with the hope that
after it is over the English Government
will be compelled, as matter Of decency
and a saving of its treasury, to grant some
measure of relief TO ireland to abolish the
wicked church establishment, and to re-
arrange the land tenures of the country so
as to restore the people TO their soil.
Let it be understood once for all that the
real grievance Of the Irish people is that
deir land has been wrested from them, and
that they cannot obtain a livelihood in the
country where they we're born. England
has robbed us of manufactures we have
nothing to depend on but the soil. The soil
rs Withheld Prom us, and IRE insist THAT WE
SHALL HAVE THAT.
Now that matters have progressed so far
{ can do no harm to give some inIling Of
the movement atloat in aid of the projected
outbreak. Unknown 10 the English Off
Gals, quite large quantity of arms and
material Of war have been landed on these
shores within the past year. Pixies have
been manufactured, and other domestic