The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1866-12-07
Fenianlsm in Ireland.
Great Excitement About the Ex-
pected InsurrectiOn.

Affairs in Ireland at present are in
the most uncertain state they have been
for many years. The people arc in a
state of excitement bordering on mad
ness; the Government. is bewildered and
preplexed; the military authorities are
drilling and maneuvering; the police
are arresting and locking up; the pris-
on officials are complaining of want of
accommodation, and the civic dignita-
ries are asserting there is no cause for
alarm, "Why is this thus2' as your
talented countrymen, A. Ward, would
ask Well, / will tell you. ..r
FENIANIsM REDIv1vUs. .t
For some months past the English
Government and the loyal portion Of
the Irish people have been hattering
themselves that Fenianism was dead.
The Wholesale arrests effected under
the suspension of the habeas corpus
act, the garrisoning of the country, the
suppressing of the "Irish People" and
the punishment inflicted on the con-
victed Fehians--all these things were
thought by the English Government to
have had such torrorizing effect OF
tho disnffected masses that they would
Immediately repent, obtain absolution
Of q notoriously anti-national priest
hood, and take the oath of union, prom
ising allegiance TO theirparental rulers.
IL had Iulled itself into fancied securi-
ty, and the Fenians were being looked
upon, NJ before the arrests, rs mythical
beings who, IT they did vt all exist,
merely uttered threats in America
against Canada, which they never in
tended TO substuntiate, but had forgot
ten all about Ireland and an attempt
at rebellion there. But from this
dream of security there has been an
awakening The Government finds it
has been unable to kill the Irish senti.
ment and denationalize the Irish peo-
pie, and find that, far from eradicating
Fenianism, il has strengthened IT,;
that far from living out Of danger,
that danger is more immediate than
ever arr'ia. l5 f.yrst adI a1tur.
now THE AWAKENING CAME ABOUT.
1t was hardly thought that, after
banishing so many persons to America
who had come over TO preach the doc
trine of freedom to an oppressed race,
any could be found 80 regardless OF
their own safety rs to repeat the at
tempt With myriad detectives of tile
kcenest sagacity, there was no escaping
arrest if they did come, and with the
gold bought services of an American
Consul like West, they were satisfied,
if once arrested, even United States
citizenship would avail them little; and
yet Dublin, Cork, and even Belfast, at
the, present moment, swarms with sus-
piciOus persOnages. These suspicious
personages" although not wearing
square -toed boots. nor speaking with Il
nasal twang, nor guessing, calculating,
nor reckoning, nor yet call for 3coek-
tails" and "smashes,' 1"juleps' and
"whisky skins, are known to beAmer-
leans, and are kept under the strictest
espionage, | have seen numbers of
them, and spoken TO several ia my Ca
pacty az your correspondent. know
them TO be Fenian agents. Some of
them put up at the best hotels in the
city, and show an nextraordinary amount
Of skill in evading the vigilance of the
police, for each is we'll aware he is
watched. "N..f hA haasa.'HH H..
~ TRAITORS IN THE CAMP.
Where is the man who has not his
price? Who in this sordid age will
talk of being incorruptablc ?, and when
was there ever political organization,
however noble in its aims, without a
traitor-some base, unworthy wretch,
who, for ..filthy lucre," would not sell
his compaions Probably nowhere
has this traitorous faculty been more
largely developed than in this unhappy
county. Jimmy O'Brien in '98, and
Pierre Nagles in sc, We'd with one
another in yillainly; and, even now, in
Ireland. there are O'Briens, Nagles
and even Castlereaghs. who, sacrificing
all the noble instincts Of humanity al
the altar of Mammon; scruple not tU
sell their eountrymen. Iknow not il
James Stephens be spy-I think not
many here assert he is; but do know
that every plan and every action Of
the Fenian organization ismade known
to England; and not only that, but that
if she liked she chould at this moment
lay her finger on every Fen;an in Ire.
| land, Yo6 may ask me how is this
| and why she does not arrest them
i You may say that England boasted oI
this knowledge months ago, and yet
;, was palpablyRt fault, Even SO, but
,since that time, within the last three
weeks, the British authorities have
been put in possession of information
/ that If Feniunism he tpeaEon and