The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-30

The FenIans and the Canadians.
From The Wortd.
While the Fenans and those who sympathlze
with them IN this country are organizing mea-
suIes TO secure the escape from the death.
penalty OF colonel" Lyucn AMI his companions
in dHress at Toronto, it is extremely desirable
to bear in mind the real conditions of success in
these humane and honorable efforts. These are
not to be found in such hot and hasty appeals
to the passions of men on the American side of
the line as may, indeed, precipitate new hos
tilities against the Canadss, but can hardly fail
in doing so to cause the execution of the indivi
duals chiefly concerned. There is time for all
things; and however excellent and desirable the
most impassioned Benian may hold 1t to be that
the whole Canadian border should be set in a
blaze by way OF compelling Englishmen to un.
derstand that ireland refuses to accept the favor
Reconsideration of phianthTopic Britons as the
pest thing she has right to hope for, it must
still be perfectly plain to any rejecting man
that the way to make Canadian justice relax its
hold upon Lynch and his comrades is not to
feklpdle IN the popular mind of Canada all the
teaPs ana Jury, all the terrors and rage which
were aroused by the invasion In which Lynch
ana his comrades are accused of taking part
NO doubt the hanging of Lynch and his COM
RACES would greatly tire the Fenian heart bo n
an the old country and the news but, though It
be true that the blood OF the martyrs is the seed
oi the church, we nowhere read that it Is proper
10 make men martyrs against their will for the
sake OF the church. If Lynch and his comrades
mad proudly claimed the Fenian name, gloried
Ia IT, and asserted their willingness to die for the
good OF the cause, the case might be different.
But so lar IS this from being true, that Lynch and
his comrades have earnestly endeavored to rspu-
dlale all share In the invasion. They claimed
acquittsl on the ground of their non-partcipa-
tlon IN the campaign of Fort Erie. Their lives
must be saved, II they are to be saved at all
Oy sueh representations from our own Gov
ernment TO the Government of Canada as
tnmultuous and passionate demons nstrations upon
our own border are morally certain to stnltifv
ano render utterly futile. In this connection it
Is important TO impress upon the Canadian
Reopnie, themselves the TACT, of which we have
the fullest Canadian evidence that even the
combatans on the Fenian side, during the traid
on Fort Erie exhibited a forbearance and GOOD
conduct which should be initiated now by the
SatI bSutnorl'les VINO nave these prisoners in their
hands. Major Denison, who, after SERVING In an
in portant military position on the Canadian
sue, wrote and published the best account we
nave nave OF IT the Fort Erie campaign expressly
the Fenlans, except in so far as tbev were
wrong in invading a peaceful country. in
TeT1ymIg car 5IIg on an, an unjustidabe war, behaved
seent seatrtkbapIy tbrecy weWH wei ~ to the inhabitants.
Witn oqzens or the people of the place, and was
az az Sastohlshed at the universal testimony borne by
raShIo rasm 10 me unvarying good conduct of this
Deen called plunderers, robbers and marauders
yet, no matter how unwilling we NAV be to
aunlt II, the positive fact remains that thew
@ @sIoIe put lew valuables, that they DESTROYED.
comparatively 80 a speaking, but little or nothing
ana = m tnat t6ey committed no outrages on the in
naUltants, but treated every one with unvarying
:, Inc same officer adds that the Fenians be-
naV9u 10 their prisoners with ''the preatest
hInuness," and speaks of them as tdoIng acts
Inat put one in mind of the days of KNIGHT.
AS no honest and humane person can have
any OBJECT at this moment in connection with
the Fenians in Canada save to rescue them from
death, 1t must be the wish of every such person |
70 strengthen, and not to weaken, the pressure |
upon the Canadian authorities of such q gene. |
rous and digni6ed public feeling as is borne |
witness TO in these candid admissions of a soldier
who. did his duty Sgallantly in the Geld against |
me invaders OF June. The New York Times,
Which hoped before the Fenians invaded Canada
hat the British would hang them all when thew
got there, and which now surrenders Lynch and
lls comrades with contempt to their destiny.
ma the Tribune, which cares for the Fenians
)nly so far as they may be seduced into yiolat.
ne the Constitution OF the Union and voting for
ne KnoW-Nothing radical policy of Stevens and
3utler, are quite Indifferent, of course what be-
omes OF Lynch aud his comrades in the tempest
hey would evoke on either side of the line We
rust that the evil expectations of these and
ucn as these may be defeated and brought to
lothlng by the good sense, humanity and fore.
'gnt OF the Fenian leaders in this country.