Weekly Trinity journal., 1866-06-02
The Eenian Swindle.

Irisbmen have been often enough warned not
10 be swindled by the self-elected leaders of the
Fenian organization. To prove that these warn
ings were not unfcunded, we copy portion of a
speech lately delivered in New York by Mr..
Scully, well-known Irishman recently sent
over to investigate the actual condition of af-
fairs. He said =" We assembled here to-
day for the purpose of demanding, in the name
of our country and our imprisoned countrymen,
an account of the leaders of this movement of
the Fenian Brotherhood of their stewardship
We are assembled to-day for this one purpose
We believe that who stood by our country
and clung to the cause with the most daring
tenacity in the hour of danger, have right to
demand this account We need not say word
as to the faithful manner in which we did our
duty. Our exied brothers, our crammed pris-
ons, the rigorous judgments of perjured judges,
the host of British troops poured into our coun-
try, the suspension of the haheas corpus, and the
many other acts of British tyranny but to well
nttcsted. And yet we withstood all this, until
the last ray of hope from our people at this side
had completely disappeared. You have to-day
heard how often on the hillside drilling, in the
noon of day, in the dead of night, we met with
one glorious hope within our bosoms of sharing
with our 1rish-Amercan countrymen in the re-
generation of our people. How, whether at the
pike-handle the pike-head, the bullet-mould, or
cartridge-making, we all shared alike in that
one hope, and despite hosts of English spies and
detectives, clung to our cause, until we witness
ed our homes made desolate, and we ourselves
obliged to fly to the emigrant ship as our last
sad resource, leaving our people and our families
In desolation, hiding from house to house, with
out the means or opportunity OF emlgrathg !
without shilling in their pockets, not daring to
work even in the fields, nor come TO market with
their goods, knowing that nothing but certain
"a tln in, fha me-
en-, men, who is responsible to US for all TINS!
1t is not the people who have so often boasted at
this side of the Atlantic that they would send us
rifles, and men, and ships-whch Boosting they
called the Robert Emmet," the "Wolf Ione,
the "Brothers Shears the "Ttomas DAVIS,
ard Heaven knows what-and yet never sent us
o ship nor a rife, nor scarcely dollar to pur-
chase rife They told the people OF this coun-
try that we had sixty thousand rifles. Damnable
Ealsehood! /! We had but very small quantity of
rifles n all Ireland, and very few OF that number
but were purchased by the little collections made
from our own poor people at home DO these
people think that we could fight with broom
sticks, or did they get up this movement to make
themselves fortunes at such price as the ruin
of our country of our homes, of our families ?
This is question which hope they will answer
us; and if they do not answer us satisfactorily,
we will not only arraign them before the public
opinion of the world, but before high heaven it
tion, and basely deserted our cause. Our coun-
try to-day languishes beneath the rabber rule of
the English government. For years past our
property has been conhscated, our homes leveled
to the dust, our people in thousands cast upon
the wide world, without respect to age-the
young, the old, the sick-how often have they
been taken from the bed of fever and laid by the
ditch side, to witness, few moments before ex-
piring, the crumblng of their homes, which
were inhabited by them and their people for
hundreds of years-to witness the crow-bar bri-
pades of the robber Adairs and Plunketts of
England level to the dust the walls within which
they breathed their first breaths-to see their
young, helpless families plundered Of their
rights, cast upon the wide world to beg or
starve, or become the inmates of poor houses.
To-day is but a continuation of the famine of
Al, and yet we look around towards the four
corners of the earth, and ask Thee, o Lord God,
is there shred of honor left in man, or will the
nations of the earth behold forever pining
helplessly in the grasp of these English murder
ers. But who pity US when our own have
treated us in this Way?'