The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1866-03-03
Gone ..With a vengeance.,,


With the first glances of the New Years
sun the shadow of retributive justice falls
darby upon the British nation Long d.
vided. and Gisregarded, Knocked, scoffed at,
and despised, the spirit of vengeance to
which the hopes and feelings of the exiled
Irish have given life and vigor. has sprung
up in the path of their traducers, and Eng
land, alarmed at the creation of her own
hands, starts back as she recognizes the full
proportions of the power which the cruelty
and I'M Justice of her laws, and the taunts and
insults of her press, have arrayed against
her. Atlength the time has come when
! the policy of ignoring the real dimensions
of the danger contained in the attitude of
the Irish millions in America has ceased to
be possible, even if advisable. For years
! the Irish people in the United States have
been marks for the unsparing and unscrup-
ulOus enmity Of the English press. Their
social position was decried, their character
blackened with the tongue of envenomed
SANDER, their political status snaered at, and
above all, their undying love of the country
from which they had been driven ridiculed
and condemned. The hatred reflected in the
laws which freighted the Irish emigrant
ships with their living loads pursued the ex-
| lies across the ocean, and on the prairie or
in the backwoods the Irishman was as little
secure from the malice of the British journ-
alists as in the humble homestead beside the
Shannon or Blackwater, from which the
land laws which the English Parliament re-
fuses to amend had expelled him. PoEiti-
cal associations directed against the power
of England sprung up in America, but their
mention was greeted with storm of ridi-
cule by the English people and their instruc-
tors. Fenianism began to be heard of, but
the sapient British public laughed or. The
insane and ridiculous conduct of the leaders
Of the organization afforded them full room
for merriment but the men who chuckled
over the bombastic manifestoes of O'Maho-
ny, or the bunconbe addresses of his sala-
ried officials, seemed to overlook the fact
that behind the grotesque mask of Fenian-
ism lay the settled resolve of host of deter
mined men whose good sense might one
day emancipate them from the management
of corrupt and inefficient leaders. This rev
olution has actually occurred. The Fenians
in America are beginning to show that pru-
dence and good sense are not totally exclud-
ed from their councils. They are shaking
themselves free of the hampering influence
of the man whom Stephens termed the
''drae cham Of the organization, and driv-
! ing his psrasitical followers from their
ranks. Still more important and significant,
they are exchanging the imprudent and IT.
rational idea OF commencing an insurrec-
ition in Ireland for the far more feasible
project of an invasion of Canada. It is
northward, not eastward, the Fenians are
about to turn their steps. It is on Cana
dian soil their flag is to be uBfurled. There
| IL method in this madness, if madness 1t be-
| The English Government are pledged to de-
! fend tie Canadas, but 10000 Fenian vol
unteers from thsf States, aided by the i'm
mense number of Canadian sympathlzers
who would flock to their banner, would be
more than a match for the force which the
/ British Government would be able, IN such
la condition of affairs, to spare from their
garrison in Ireland. AndsWho can say what
complications may arise out of such war,
particularly when it is remembered that its
ultimate effect would probably bsthe annex
alton of the Canadian provinces to the Uni
bted States? Such, at any rate, is the Fenla n
programme for the coming months, and
Judging from our American adVices. We are
inclined to believe that the accomplishment
| Of the designs to which the new leaders oil
| the organizations have turned their attention
| is neither impossible nor improbable.
! It is, of course, evident that Fenlan