The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-06-01
THE FENIANS STILL MOVING
Ten Thousand in Buffalo.


The Fenians are leaving this State, and
city, on every train of cars. They go in
small squads, and are, as far as we are able
to, learn, rendezvousing in Buffalo, at which
point, the telegraph informs US, there are
at this time $1,000 Of them. The New York
Times states that the movement is made
against the better judgment of General
Sweeney, the commander in -chief Of the
expedition; but he has yielded to the out
side pressure, and is now on the war path
Our information then leads us to believe
that the Fenians are, as an organization,
consolidated and united in body, for the
distinct and avowed purpose Of achieving
their national independence by force of
arms, and that their means and energies
are pledged to this end. They have upon
their books, enrolled as Fenians, in the
United States and Canada, as they posi-
lively assert, five hundred thousand men,
| ready for a movement.
Their bonds they rely upon as being good
at par, and claim the ability to redeem the
same in current funds. In Ireland, the
population, it is averred, is unanimously
| Feniau. Active operations are to be COM
menced at once, and with an earnestness
and vim which belong only to revolutions.
We are assured that forty thousand men,
with arms and equipments, will be in Can
ada within The next ten days, under the
| leadership Of General Sweeney.
/ ,f 4horfua,,I
/ troops is to consist of those who have had
prior experience in military matters. This
is the quota required to inaugurate the
movement. There are, according to our in
| formation, already in Canada, or in close
proximity, ready for delivery, arms and
equipments for forty thousand men, and in
a few days that number is expected to be
| there TO make use Of them
But short time since forty boxes Of arms
| and accoutrements were sent from Louisville
and have ere this reached the Canada bor-
ders. This is but one of the hundreds Of
other shipments Of the same materials that
have been made from other points. The
/ supposed schism in the Brotherhood, as ex-
planned to us, amounts to but little, as the
entire organization are inclined to follow
that nanssar leader who first strikes the
blow Cor freedom. All indications are that
tba 6rst war blast will be sounded at once.
Important and successive meetings of
the various circles are everywhere being
held. and the liveliest activity Of the Broth
erhood is apparent. The Fenians sre at
| work, and at work with earnestness, and in
a very short time the fruits Of this work will
be exhibited. They are up and doing, and
our readers may be assured that extraordi-
nary. not to say astounding, developments
viii be made within few days. Be the re-
! snlt of this extraordinary movement what
ever it may, the public may begin to feel that
the Fenian organization is far from being
one that can no longer be treated with in
significance. We have written these re-
marks for the purpose Of giving intorma-
ton obtained from the most reliable sources,
and not with the view Of indorsing or con-
domning the Fenian organization, and we
close with the reiteration to our readers that
extraordinary developments may be ex-
pected in a very short time-indeed the
telegraph at any hour may bring intelli-
| renee that the ball has opened