The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-23
Fenianism and the English Radicals.


Fenianism and the English Radicals.
SYMPATHY BETWEEN ENGLISH AND IRISH WORKING CLASSES
"A NEW AND IMPORTANT PHASE OF THE
.ts FENIAN AGITATION.
Correspondence Oct. 2 of the New York Times.
There is phase of the Fenian difficulty The Reform
League has all but formally adopted the Fnan cause and
its active members have publicly avowed their sympathy
with Fenian principles The speeches at the Roundo Ban
quet in Dublin last week. nothing compared with those
league Wednesday evening, in London such
defiance government would think, could not pass
over Next week Fenians to be tried in Dublin and
Manchester and the Reform League declares that they
right in their principles and right their action Here
the facts Mr. Beale the President of the league who is
spending few weeks at French watering-pace, sent
letter to the league condemnng Feniansm. Mr. Lucroft
objected its being published because he felt that the Irish
people fully justified in using physical force redress
their wrongs when they had received such fearful provoca
o Mr. Whitford said the Irish people had been much
rodden upon that it would be wrong to condemn them in
this way. Mr. Cooper after hundred years of British
wrongs could not blame the Irish for resortng to force
They might be mprudent but he fully sympathized with
them Mr. Odger said the Irish had good be dis
pleased with English rule and if he Irshman he
would be a Fenian Ireland would never make impress
sion upon her rulers until she knocked of them down.
whether in the way of the Hyde Park ratings otherwise
he did not know They had much right to sympathize
with the Fenians as with the Roman movement.
elbow the people to get redress Why the bloaed
parsons who protested religion the people did not believe
n had sympathy with the people, and that state Of things
would be continued until power stong for them
would saw I'VE will endure longer Todenounce the
Fenan the had DONE the greatest mistake
they could have committed and unless Ireland rghted
Endorsed every word that had been said in favor of Fenian
ism. He (Ir Brisk would say Let Feniansm go on and
prosper Mr.. Goldring thought it would be detrimental to
the league if this letter condemnlng tenansm went forth to
the world Eventually resolution carried to receive
the letter and the minutes but discaiming SYM
pathy with its contents"
do not wish to exaggerate the importance of these men
or their uerances but this is the Reform League which
placed itself the head of last years political agitation In
this country which resulted in the passage OF the reform
bill And here they refusing to condemn Fenlanlsm,
refusing to condemn rebellion sympathzng with It, Indoors
ing it giving the moral aid of certainly not poWeress
political organization For less than this hundreds OF Irish
men have been pnng in prison for the last yeartor not
more than this scores undergoing penal servtude
1t places the government and Mr. Beale aso IN an awkward
predcament The government can scarcely avoid taking
some notice of speeches which justify armed insurrecon
and Mr. Beae who seems be the only moderate in
| the Ieaoue can scarcely remain its President.
There is also another point of view Ever since the Man
chester the leading journals have been threatening the
irish with the English mobs and here have
the organized leadership of the English mobfuy sympa
thzne with usyng and squirting the Fenians decar
inc that they good and abundant provocaon for
an open instruction Does the league speak the sentiments
of the great body of the English Radicals? If So the rsh
even in England might find partisans well as in America
And suppose the of English Radicals should declare
that the Irish had right to separate and independent
government and make it party question: follow that of
the suffrage reform In any English demand Tor
justice to Ireland strong enough to be heard and to make
itself heeded is likely to bring the matter to speedy settle
men Men voted for reform who had wish for IT. because
they wanted to appease the camor and get the question o
of the way They will do the with respect to Ireland
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