The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-12-06
THURSDAY MORNING. DEC. ..


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II thA Feuians make their promised be-
N i-nessnens aoainst xlgnnA dsiss the
,ssbhaf - ii VII hav5 = ~ ece quickly.
And the reports Nat come from N parsef
the country and from Europe q well, would
seem to indicate that strong efforts were BE-
inn msds ssrsskzA a. promise which has
been made to them BY Stephens and other
prominent leaders in the Fenian movement
If all the letters published as having been
written in Ireland are genuine and the inior'
.n.Srm they profsss 70 give is genuine, then
that country seems to be in . safe state for
rebellion. The cable has snnouced several
captures of arms supposed to have been de-
.;-ned for Fenians, and . schooner WIS seized
at Cork, supposing to contain arms for them.
The British Government would not make
these seizures unless there was pretty good
evidence for approaching hostile uove-
nsnt, and the activity which prevails at the
headquarters in New York and elsewhere
throughout this country, is probably the
strongest noaSss which operates upon the
British authorities. England IS naturally
suspicious of Ireland and Irishmen, for she
is we'll aware that populous country and its
inhabitants have no small lit Of wrongs and
abuses to revenge. Whatever may be thought
of the prscsicAl wisdom of the movement by
which the Fenians hope to improve the polit-
ical condition 81 their native hand there is no
doubling the earnest sincerity of majority
Of them. They would gladly do anything
that would promise relief to Ireland, and
England knows full well that they are capa-
BILE of giving her trouble, and will not hest
tats to do 80.
A Queenstown correspondent Of the Rossd
says, touching the result of the proposed
uprising
s'Pethaps 1t is madness perhaps this Fe>
MAN movement is lacking in prsience and
worldly wisdom but who knows but that
good may come Of IT. The hood Of the
martyr is the seed Of The church. What il
some eight or ten thousand peop'e are killed
on the battle field? Is not that better than
the dishonored lives thu Irishmsn are now
compelled to live in their own country Will
not this unreasonable outbreak, il you will,
again attract the attention ofthe whole world
to the chronic misgovernment of Ireland by
the English people. We now suffer and
starve, and are compelled to leave our ma
tive land. A few Of as may be Killed, but
We can be no worse after the bsttle is over,
and Fenianism is once more crushed. Eng
land will not do anything for us by peaceabIe
agitation. That has been tired. Every eff.
fort made to induce the government of Grea,
Britain to be just TO us has utterly failed
We are powerless our arguments are un,
needed our prayers are unanswered fol
our suferings there is no pity. IL it not bet
ter for US TO try TO show the English govern,
ment that it does not pay-that if they vii
not do us justice we will make Ireland cling
ing curse 10 her?h
The best policy therefore for England t.
pursue in relation to Ireland will be to regart
her more as q constituent part of her British
Kingdom and less as . conquered Pro-
vince. She may be able to put dowr
Ireland in pitched battle, but that will no
affect the grand cause for winch Fenianisn
is an effect. Ireland has been cruelty mis-
governed by England, and not until the abuse.
OF that Government have been corrected, and
there are better prospects of the future, will
England cease to be vexed by the ghost .oi
Fenian invssions and Fenian revoits. She
may whip the Fenians in a hundred battles,
but they will not stay whipped, until some
thing has been done for the permanent i'm.
provement of the political condition of Ire.
Land. When this shall have been done the
cause for Fenians will have been removed,
and the English can rest in peace. Con-
corning the condition Of affairs in England
the same writer goes on to say:
. Among all classes the conviction grows
and spreads that We are on the eve of start
ling aud terrible events. That conviction in
well founded. 1t is simply fact that the Fee
man organization in Dublin-and dare say
the same holds true of it's branches through.
out the country-is at this moment in . high
state of activity. Its committees. andismayed
by the tremendous risk they run, meet resu-
larry, discuss their plans of the rising is
sue orders, dlsburse money, receive reports
and get through all the other work pertaining
to the desperate mission in which they are
engaged. 1t would be folly to suppose for
moment that those men were not in earnest
They are terribly in earnest, and their plans
and preparations are shaped for fierce and
bloody struggle. Their preparations are ne
cessarily different from those on which . mil
itary man would place reliance; he would
think much of cannon and mortars, of grape
and shrapnel, and would calculats a good
deal on the service Of his cavalry. They can
bring neither artiller or mounted troops into
the held. Their tactics are to be sudden
PUSHES on the soldiery and hand to hand 6ght,
ing. And they expect to introduce into the
strife certain novelties which they are conf,
dent will prove tremendously effective