The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-10-26


good things she her ragged but unsubdued
sister prefers "a crust of bread and liberty"
ANOTHER SECRET DISCOVERED The Fenian alarm Is
spreading The Government in receipt of many dispatches
announcing possible plans of the brotherhood troops anu
gmboa have been dispatched Ireland and the entire
western coast of that island is guarded with extraordinary
vigilance.
"MRs BRowNo PERSONALLY IN DANaER-There is a
wild that the Fenan planning attempt to seize
the person of the Queen at Bamoral Although little no
credence is given to the report precautionary have
been taken and the household guard Bamora has been
doubled
What in the world could they do with the English Queen
if they captured her? We know the Irish heavy alb
ducton-where the old folks interchangeable the Queen
DID, and where could the bridegroom spend the honey
moon? No. this will not do. Telegraph something more
substantial Mr. Sensational Mendax. Had sweet
little isle of own where the old flag could float triumph,
would not object to such hostage for the victims to her
horrid tyranny but is want useless criminal
disturbances of half crazed wholly drunken old women that
would end in the ncarceraons of thirty forty fine fellows
Let them keep their Queen amid the Brown" heahs and
shaggy woods of Scotland. We don't her. But do
want our liberty.
CONVENIENT BY BAsT1LE."
We cannot eecually illustrate the practical opera
ton of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act than by relating
the substance of the petition presented by Mr. John MCorry
to the House of Commons 1t the personal narrative of
who has experienced the rgor of Imprisonment under
State warrant The testimony is not that of hearsay We
have here the who tells the story
of his treatment and whose yeracy there is not the
slightest reason to doubt.
The story certainly singular 1t is worth review
of its leading characteristics John MCoy respectable
and very industrious mechanic of the city of Dublin He is
it appears bricklayer by trade Unfortunately for HIMSELF
he has given attention literature He has acquired
information these subjects than usually possessed
by persons of his Glass; and he selected to deliver lee
tre to his fellowworkmen at the Dublin Mechanics Ins
tue the subject being John Banm the Irish novelist Mr.
Cory has lately shown that he perfectly competent to
deal with the subject he undertook to illustrate.
MCory had never been Fenian; never had been con-
nected directly indirectly with any seditious movement
Apart from the honorable of his intended literary lee
ure he had done anything to excite suspicion
There are however appears Jack Ketches among the de-
ectives who think flat burglary" for artisan read
write One evening, coming home from his work. he
found his wife prisoner in the custody of several policemen
who occupied his He was hurried away at once-al
his books and papers had been previously sezed and after
round Of visits several police stations he safely depo
tied in the convict prison of Mounoy He asked upon what
charge he arrested No could te-he brought
before the magistrate He heard of The Lord
Lieutenant suspected him of reasonable practices and that
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For the crime of being suspected he was he u.s. locked
up in convict CELL In that cell he kept in solitary
fnement twenty-five hours out of the twenty four The
naming hours he spent compulsory walks around the
prison yard in the company of the gang of convcs with
whom he charged Even this walk silent He
forbidden toopen his lips and an officer of the Jail walked
round with him, who threatened him and his companions
with punishment if they spoke.
In the solitude of his cell he allowed either
books except he rather oddly complains some
moral and religious books provided by the prison authorities
for the information of convicts."
The of pen, ink, and paper denied to him. Upon
OCCASION favor he allowed to write to his wife,
But he wrote under the of warder who watched lest
scrap might be secreed His letter brought to the
officers of the prison to be read and any letters addressed
him also opened and read AS general rule, his
friends and relations denied to him and when,
special favor he obtained permission from Dublin Castle
receive visit from his wife and sister, he thus describes
the visit:
"They permitted stand the outside of iron
grating while he stood inside They wereaowed to converse
through the grating in the and hearing of warder
and the conversation turned any general topic
the warder interfered."
The discipline which Mr. MCorry describes is that of
very penal confinement 1t is only recently that
convicted prisoners treated with anything approach
ing such harshness is disgracefu and inhuman to
apply it to any untred prisoners those committed after
their guilt is udicaly established. 1t is simply an outrage
principle of law and Justice subject hee