The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-06-30
aa> Some time ago the editor of the Journal

JEST Some time ago the editor OF the sjOuTf0b
saw fit to designate US as g Fsnian editor We
have been trying ever since to think what the
journal man meant, but can't imagine Per-
haps, however, be knows that our sympathies
are with the Irish people in their movement to
free their land from British rule and oppression,
| and that his remarks were intended as reproach
therefor. We are very willing to be called a
Eenidn; because we wish that organization every
success We nope to see the day when Ireland
shall be free when she shall take her place as
nation of the earth; when the @ shamrock shall
proudly wave defantly over g Erins Green Isle y
Perhaps the late movement was iIl-advised, but
we believe that it was made in all sincerity, and
but for the action of our own government might
have been successful. Our authorities have act
ed strangely in this matter. For months prepa-
rations were being made by our Irish citizens for
an attack upon Canada their movements and
intentions were known to all, and yet no word
of encouragement met them. But just as soon
as the Fenians had gathered along our border
and some of them had crossed the boundary, and
had showed British soldiers that Irishmen can
| fight, the military force of our government was
summoned to the aid of the British the Fenians
were dispersed by our authorities their leaders
were arrested, and the epidence is not all clear that
foreign troops did not cross oUer into one of our
ot0n States and there shoot dorm our adopted citi-
Gems. 1t seems to US that our government has
acted with bad faith in this matter uo
While on this subject of Fenianism, we append
a few extracts from speech made by Col. Rob-
erts at a Mass Meeting in New York on Monday
evening last
FELLOW oUNTRYMEN AND FELLOW CITIZENS OF
THE GREAT AND FREE REPUBLIC OF AMERICA.-I
greet you to night from the bottom of my heart
and soul, and here raise my hand to that God
that created all men free and equal, and thank you
in the name of suffering and oppressed Ireland
for your presence here TO night. You would be
less than Irshmen if this call did not meet with
such response and very much mistake if when
the thunders of your determination reach our ru-
lers, they will not begin to think that they are
the servants of the people instead Of being our
masters and our tyrants. | know that in the Ian
guage of distinguished public functionary YOU
might be classed as 8 evil disposed persons. p
Great God ofHeaven and has it come to this
men who have upheld this banner of republican
liberty, whose starry folds is the emblem of free
dom--is it come to this that when you profess
your love for freedom, when You declare from
the bottom of your souls that you sympathize
with oppressed and struggling nationalities-
when you swear before high heaven, come what
will, you will do all that remains in you as free
men to break the chains that bind your native
land in bondage and slavery-is it come to this,
when you resolve upon these things that you
must be stigmatized as evil disposed persons ?'
Is that the sentiment of great and free nation
Was it not such sentiments as these that made
Washington and his compatriots march barefoot
ed with bleeding feet through the SHOWS and for
ests of this continent to fight and smite their.
oppressor, and leave you, as the result of their
efforts this legacy which we now enjoy, this free
dom which we ava il ourselves of, not only to-
strengthen the fabric of which they laid the foun-
dalton, but to extend universal liberty to all ra-
ces and to all people all over the world. make
no protest against any officer, high or low, who
merely performs his duty. But protest against
the men who speak as though their hearts were
in favor of British sentiments and beat with Brit
ish impulses. believe the Secretary of State pur-
posely worded that proclamation Of neutrality so
as TO make it singing insult to lovers OF Irish
freedom. | acknowledge that it was necessary
for the United States Government to issue a proc
lamation Of neutrality, but expected that neu-
trality to be the same as that which Great Britain
exercised between the Northern and Southern
sections of our country when we were writhing
in the death-throes almost ola terrible rebellion
| say the. neutrality laws between England and
the United States were destroyed because one
party to the contract had violated it, They had
no existence, but Andrew Johnson, from Tennes-
see--he could have issued proclamation refus-
ing US aid, and leaving US to the consequences of
our own acts, which is all we would have asked,
and we would have applauded his action. But
he chose to stultify himself He knew this Feniau
brotherhood had lived and grown in power
We did not go into by places, and owing to the
unfortunate state OF affairs among our people,
we were compelled to come out with publicity
which none regretted more than myself We did
not ask Americans to raise finger to help us
we asked that it be left TO the Irish people alone.
But we did not act openly, as far as our arms
and soldiers were concerned bat detectives were
set us to spy US out, so that our arms might be
seized. The mails and the telegraph were seized;
and could not get letter or despatch unless
the people at Washington said it might come
Is that the neutrality law? From Andrew john
sons insults appeal to night, not alone to the
multitudes here, but to the common sense, and
common justice and love or fair play of Ameri-
can freemea, and ask them TO reverse his verdict
y 4 81 Have we not given you proof
that we meant to fight? In the six months in
which we were in existence we gathered together
the true men ana hurried them against the OPP
pressor with power that nothing could have
checked but the power of this great nation and
when we move again we shall move with
a power that no nation on earth can check.
If it were not for the power exerted against
US by the misrepresentation of Uncle Sam
now at the head of this country, | be-
lieve would tonight be issuing proclamation
from the English colonies in America, and from
every port in America there would be issuing fast
sailing Ycrusers to crush the Commerce of Eng
land, if you have determination and energy and
intelligence to use it. The time will come when
hozannas to Irish liberty will echo across the At
lantic, making glad the hills and valleys of our
oppressed and unfortunate native land. Loud
cheers.
rs At the Mass Meeting held in Monument
Square, in Baltimore city, one evening last week,
the speakers stand was ornamented with the in