Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-03-21
rhe Fenians. the War.Path !

last Saturday wssgt RahiaE,s Day-sncrsd
so:ithe patron sains sgSnd. o. that day, go
aaid the kilograms sho Ner'hs the Fonians
ESets march acrossthsj border ana take posses
Esip olocn Weterias little provinces of Can't
Eian NsXp scotia Snds EeS. Brunswick. In .hOse
9aif N6fthaS Iaad5 they Arc to establish the Re-
blisel Itslesa.a And found bass of operations
5t5gaiasf En- slaha.. 5whsshas th0y accom-
plsfsd all tliis q Saturday lass remains to DC
seen. The Eonians arc undoubtedly going to St
,cmpt something ggpasin1astoassnds of them arO
bourd to be "hurt" bOfore their ruw is cvs', and
s0no few of their leaders will probab;y:cOme cut
F'of it'enormousy rich.~ Is - 9;
BY far the iarsest gathering Of the Fsuian
brotherhood which has mot in Amories since the
inception Of the movement, was c0nfoncaon SUD-
day, March 4tl', at j ones5 Wood, an immsnsc
i park on the Northern ouGkirts of New York City
Notwithstanding that Archbishop MClo.kcy,
Roman Catholic Prslate of Now York, had for
.billen anynlember Of his noek, to. s,tcnd thi'
grand meeting, upon pain oEpxsoninunicasi9pl
yet the II oman Catholic Churches, through the
city were we'll nigh acseftsa audOsa one hun.
drel thousand gentlemen Of Cttish.origih, ~f6se
feet were at dno time on their hasire bag, ren.
. duzvOpsei st JOnsss Wood. Im,gne one hundred It
;. qisusand Irishmep, dsrotcaly atachsd 10 po;ee'
toes, nnd With an abiding ,fa,hiu .good-mhisksy
4 swearing; by sk'Patrick, :listonKg to- Col. oM>
honey and his Ads,.anI hulliug. .:out their llthJ
i.lucr. for bonds of the Irish NoRublic! Howlivo:
j. must have been the scene u TIL. speeches con:
{; sistsd Of narrowing pictures of tha wrongs o
lreland and urgent appeals. fyr moro money e
carry out tho Fenian designs. And.mOney POURED
!: iinsand is still pouring in, by hundreds Of thou
: sands. ais x ,ea.,.. ..,. t.34s. ~; :.
( Another mas. meeting was to have Lcen- held OIL
I The 9th Mt Cooper Institute id Now York'Ctyiii ii
4 fact, meetings arc being held, day md night
throughout the North and North West. The
leader of tho military expedition against c.nads
is Genl. Sxseny, an Irish patriot. who did bril-
liant scrvics in tue US. Army, during the LAT.
war Newspaper correspondents from New eYor}
aver otiutcrfcredmithbyth us. Govern
ment Genl.Sweeny will haYe taken possession
Of whsterer points in CanadGhc:ewishes,'by TIKI
> middle of April. In the meantime, Secretary
Ssward has, wo bOlicrc, assircd the British Gov
crunent that the neutrality LAWS shall not b'
vioalated by American Feniany. 900
i While allthisis.gong ousiu america, the Brit
ish Government is fully alive to its peril, and il
clearing tho decks for aGght. Unhappy Irclant
has beon placed under matliaf law anda tl in
habit.ntz dcprivedof the right Of..HaStaa Corpus
Arrests Of Fenians arc being made 'unceaaingly
, and the trial Of fanian conspiratorsk Has bocom,
permanent institution of,thc land.
!; The day, may bo at hand when the chains ths
bind ireland in the slaYish. yoke Of foreign dcs
potism may be broken. We say. foreign despo
tism; (; for 50 tits, and hass,bccn for hundreds o
y0sr.. We doubt The success of tho Fcnian
nos: profoundly but, although we may have spo
ken Of thcia in tcne of railiery, wo do not fsr
moment doub. thsir patriotism and sincerity. Th
spring which is now opening upon US will doubt
lcss determine the fact whether Fenianispa is "tt
bs or not to be-" n,