The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-12-18
rHE FENIANs.
Address OF the senate to the Irish of
America.

Address OF the senate to the Irish of
America
The Senate of the Fenlan Brotherhood were
IN session at their rooms in this city during the
past two weeks. Previous to adjournment, the
Senate ordered the issue OF an address TO the
Irish nationalities Of America, In which they
Once again, Brothers--we swear II to
You by the bitter memory Of Ireland's woes by the
Ribbets heavy with the martyred bodies OF her pa
hiots, by the blood of the braves who fell at Lime
stone dge, by the hopes OF our kinsmen waiting
in elon cells, for the roar of the strife that wilt set
them iree-that once again, il you but do your
duty to your native land, we will follow the CLEAN
and liberty. Now, self rel ant believing ron our
souls in the sancity and justice of cause united
ano fearless, We have como to the threshold OF
renewed effJrt, more resOlute to carry out our
plans, more confident OF success, more experienced
and better prepared than ever before.
And, brothers. in the sacred name of God, who
knows the wrongs our people have endured and the
sssUess nj Sur we S a0rsSaTy @ eoTts SDS
sacrifices to make our coming struggle oyerwhelm-
ana Lresisi9y suScSsiui: aon baaa naT9 fnI,ad I'D
States five millions OF people, You nave brains 10
plan and hands to extcu G. You have the so ders
field. You are nearly twice as strong in men and
money, as We're the people Of this repu6 ic when zen
same power that has destroyed the liberties OF your
country.
They succeeded, and why cannot your The sym
pathy of the world is with you; the cordial CO.
operation of all lovers of human liberty you may
beats in unison with you. Then, brothers, be equal
to the respon, ibility make one final, glorious
animate you TO joln hearts and hands in this the
sublimest WORK OF an exiled people-tne winning of
liberty for your fatheriand. But remember to
minge prudence with zeal. Keep your own coun-
sci. Tho enemy must know of your preparation
h s ace Ie tho pa s
above az, work work uneeasinrIy untiringly,
and with O will. Strengthen the hands OF
Executive of your organization, and we swear
to you, by your fathers graves, we will not
desert or betray you! We are ready Tor the work;
we fail 1t Will be because you do not do Vour part
Brothers the result OF our past efforts well as the
hopes of the fu Ure, justly in calling upon you to
make exertlons and sacrifices tnat will be worthy of
the cause In which we are engaged. But beyond all
prompt and determined action on our part which
has never before been presented to US. The safety
%hoo tn % have od
prayed and struggled through so manF difficulties,
are doomed to destruction by the ruthless toe whose
tRe we have shattered in the sight OF the
world, and who threatens, in revenge. to
"stamp out our national existence, like q loath-
some plague by the extermnauon oil all who repre-:
sent the irish race upon Irish SOIL OF what avail
to that the ivilizalion of the age forbds the
execution of threat more infamous than any tha5
CRIME ls thai for seven hundred years, they have
refused TO be slaves or to acknowledge the suejec.
ton sought to be enforced upon them? The power
which, within single generation, has DESTROYED
two millions of our race by famine artfcia ly en-
gendeIed; which in Jamaica, massacred the negroes
on the pTetense of levOlt concocted by her own
officers is capable OF repeating the same atrocities
to-day in Ireland; and the fact that people have
been placed under the military ru Q OF a General
whose fendish cruelty In blowing the revolted Sc.
poys from the mouths of his cannon the English
Government has rewarded with peerage, proves
that the foe that has SO often attempted the
exterminat on of our race is only too willing
with which we are threatened by a press that
only too faithfully represents the brutality that
prompted the idea. Can we submit tamely to an
indignIty so vi eS Is there anything In the Irish
nature that suggests to our enemy an outrage SO
unheard Of as that whole nation must be sacrificed
at the shrine of tyranny for aspiration after free
dom, which receives the plaudts and the sympathy
Brothers, this must not, cannot be; to permit it,
when the power OF prevention Is in our own hands,
Se 70 OF %hc6 Ge 6
Aheady the influence OF your organization has
been manifested in snatching fIom the lion his
destined prey; and the fear of your power and ven
geance has saved the men whom British law had
consigned to the ielons death. Let your ring
out again not in the empty menace of excited
wds, but in the OF assembling legions, and
the crash OF arms as you grasp them in the oeterm-
nation OF revenge; for II the designs OF England be
CARED out in Ireland, 1t will not be the judicial
murder Of handful of your race that will C al for
vengeance; 1t will be the wholesale slaughter OF our
people and the devastation OF our anc stral homes,
thai Will demand at our hands bloody retribution
You possess here power that England win hesitate
TO DEFY Let your acts then give expression TO
determination 10 hold her to q strict accountability
home; and as you arm yourselves for the approach
ing struggle for Irsa lndependehce let your enemy
the fight on the principles of honorable warfare or
MAKING II a strife OF eXlerminaton, in which you
will repay with teniOld interest the treasured
wrongsof centuries. You have within your reach
hostages for the safety of your kIndred, now
menaced with humiliation by the power that has
cast yOu out as exiles upon the world; but the
hand with which you grasp them must be that of
armed force; and If you place not yourselves
promptly in that position, England that never
spared weak opponent, or yielded iota to mercy
or justice will laugh at your efforts to avert from
your native and the dangers that now environ 1t.
Solemnly, we adjure you, bro hers, not to prove
recreant to the great and holy trust placed In your
hands. In unity in friendship. in zeal in conf
dence let US all enter upon ouI labor, lodging our
lives, fortunes and sacred honor TO It's success;
and the heroism. the energy, the devotedness, and
the reverence of all former times and all iormeI
struggles will gather about this last glorious move
ment for Ireland to sanctify it with their OenedIc
tiOnB.
Signed, on behalf of the Senate OF the Feniau
Brotherhood
JAMES GIBBONS. President Senate, F. B.
J.C. O'BlIen, Secretary.
Approved
WILLIAM r, ROBERTS, President, f. B.