New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-28

powerful at home and also faith that the promises
80 sOemnly made would be kept. When the coun-
tics had been proclaimed the British uress--aud
how may designate that press? I believe II
to be the yest in the world unless il he
fairly designated the journalistic ezcrsments Of
England-that vile press then began to boast
that the organization was suppressed again in
Ireland. But only few weeks afterward the
Lord Lieutenant wrote that pressing letter, which
you must have read, calling upon the government
to suspend the habeas corpus act. You know the
Wholesale arrests that were made after the 8aspen
sion of the habeas corpus act. They thought 10
make the word believe that We were suppressed
then, at least. That was the third time but tell
you that the organization in Ireland to-day Is
stronger thanit ever has been stronger in numbers,
in discipline in all therequirements Of army save
only war material. The organization in Ireland
toward the last year numbered 900, 000men. Zap
plaqse) OF that force $4,000 men were thor
onghly drilled, with large proportion of men
VINO had smelt powder on the battlefield large
proportion of veterans, in short; $4,000 more are
partially drilled, and over 100 900 were quite IN
dt!Iea' But Il taere be man among you who
thinks that $4,000 IFishmen, thoroughly drilled
and 5OUOO others partially drilled, to begin with
would not make force sufficient to meet what
England can DFlng against us, he is wofully igno-
rant Of the resources Of England.
THE MILITARY FORCE OF ENGLAND FOR IRELAND
The United Kingdom, az It is called has thirty
thousand men effective. 1t would take England
from thirty to forty days to concentrate IS 600
men in Ireland. 1t would take her three months
at least to concentrate 10 600, and it is Yerv
likely that she would never be able to concentrate
a larger force. Laughter) OF oource we could
concentrate in Ireland; on four or five given
points, 100000 men in twenty-four hours. Gap
plause.) all we wanted then in Ireland, from the
middle of September, last year, to the end Of
December, was arms to put into the hands of our
men. The men were there We only wanted
the arms. But in the very hour of our strength,
there came to Ireland the melancholy news of
your disruption here. Still we held on. We did not
In hat aTv4 Iol of
tinent could be found together to withhold from
ireland, in that supreme hour of her need and
peril, the suecOr which they had so sOlemny
pledged to give us. And it was because could not
bring myself to believe this, that had made up
my mind to get myself arrested even if they had
not succeeded in doing So for felt myself bound
to action last year, and thought yOu would feel
bound to it here; that if devoted myself so far
as to accept prison, you on your side would be
driven to give US what we wanted. However, be-
fore the time I had decided in putting that in
execution, in case did not hear favorable news
from this side, the government discovered my
residence and | was arrested. / suppose you
would all like 70 know how got out Of prison.
(Laughter) Well, it did not require any extraor-
binary effort on my part for with the force OF true
friends that were around that prison in Dublin it
would not have been possible for the government,
if those walls had been adamant, and thought had
a regiment stationed inside those walls to keep me
there. (Cheers.) To my friends outside in Dub
lin, therefore, refer you for the manner in which
THE FENIAN OPPORTUNITY.
| That was the time of our greatest power in Ire
land. If at any time between the oath November
1 and the end of December you had sent to ireland
a small force, or even only few superior officers,
| with the necessary war material, do believe as
in my own existence that Ireland would be an indie
| pendent country to-day. You know what took
| place. However, my mind was made up not to
leave Ireland, and so / remained for nearly four
months in Dublin city after my escape from prison
WHY HE CAME HERE.
AT length / had an invitation from Mr.. 0'Ma
| hony to come to this country-and from Others
too. The organization, it was said, required my
presence here. The evening after this invitation
| called some of my most devoted friends around
me to hold counsel and to see if, before deter
mined on starting for America, something NIGH
not be done at home, even without your assist
ance. IL was determined on that night. Ever
4 without asking for my voice, the majority deter
mined on deterrlng action yet awhile. 1t was
then, and then only, that determined on coming
to the States. Once determined on, set about its
execution or rather my friends set about its exc
cution, for was in their hands, and indeed, it il
to them and not to any effort of my own, tina
} everything is due.
This departure from Ireland was much more dill
9 fcult and much more full of incident than tn
J escape from prison; but | do not care to dive
: upon it now. ! want to come to the object of m
s visit to America You know by this time that
d is TO reconcile parties here to affect union
D. sueha union a. will give us very speedily all thu
c. we want for thefreedom of our land. fud u
Ly organization here tOlp 2sunder and as | said q
ID sorts of bad feeling among the members Still,
I; believe, from what the people rave shown to M
g self since my arrival in the States that can etie
D. enough for all our purposes. tCheers,) -.
re 1t will give me great pleasure, bat il will civ
% ireland more peasure-the men who are no
L. pining in prison, the men who are standing in IL
II face of all difficulties at home-t would give the
l infinite pleasure to see the heads of all parties
It this organization united AS said l have mad
t advances for that purpose, and so far as reco
lect have not as yet let fall one single word thu
8 could fairly hurt any one of these gentlemen
: did expect that Colonel Roberts would have acte
q like Mr.. O'Mahony. believe it was patriotic an
i wise on the part of Mr.. 0'Mahony to give in b
l. resignation. believe it would be patriotic an
t wise on the part of Mr.. Roberts to do the SAINT
If that had been done, and Mr.. Roberts and Nj
L OMahOny had appeared on the platform TO-DAY
fOrgiving one another forgetting the past stretcl
S ing forth the hand Of brotherhood to the othe
and calling on the men SO as to concentrate them
g work together; if both ofthese gentlemen had bee
t here to indorse me, believe that our organizatic
s would have, in q single month"; ten times the pow,
that it has ever possessed, and that the liberty
Ireland would be certainty. Hear, hear.) Ihal
X already requested you not to let fall single wol
= that would hurt anybody. have respect for NJ
y Roberts and Mr.. 0'Mahony. | have a respe
y for every man who has worked in this cause,
u he is proved dishonest; once man is proved di
y honest, | break with him forever. But no SUI
~ thing has been proved against these gentlemen
yet, and so you have no right to boot and cry o
). against them-no matter who sets you n. Y
- shall never be set on in that way by me. Her
y. publicly, before the Irish people, once more,
7 friendly and traterna spirit, invite these gentl
d men, the heads OF all parties, to come TO II
~ while / remain in New York, and e
=, deavor to come to an understanding Al
n | cali on the Irish people here and throug
~ out the earth-for | believe that the wore
~ pronounce here to-day, however secretly spoke
VI shall be read wherever our race is found. | ca
ID then, our whole race TO rise up against the ma