The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-29

FENIANIsM IN THE SoUrH.-We clip the follow.
9Th
" Important to h.ishnen.-we we're yesterday
favored with call from Mr.. Jas. Brennan, an sc.
credited agent of the Fenian Brotherhood, who is
now visiting our city on business connected with
the order. He proposes to make his stay here
long enough 10 show to the public generally, and
lrisbmen particularly, the true condition of the
order, its past history and its prospects for the
future To this end be Will deliver a series Of lee
lures, embracing these and other points of inter-
est We we come Mr.. Brennan to our city, and
commend him to the good Offices of our citizens,
trusting that bis mission here will be as successful
IS he wishes it to be-"
And we are sure .natljf our friend Brennan be
not successful, it will be through no fault of his
He has tact, energy, patriotism and great ability
The South has never done much for Feniani5m.
During the late war 1t had no opportunities, hay-
ing been cut off thereby from the central authori-
ties, and since the war no effort has been made to
carry the life and principles OF the organization
into that section. Now, we expect that 1t will
arise to its duty, and that our cOuntrymen South
will generously and earnestly assist their brothers
in the North and do their full duty to their c0un.
try and the cause. The work ia theirs as much as
ours Ireland is equally their motherlsnd, aud has
equally strong claims upon their affections, their
support, and their resources. Let them now give
all and thus be entitled to claim share in the
glory and ua success that will surely, and let Us
hope, soon, result from the labors and sacrifices
of true men, for the past nine years. United
lrishman, Jan. %.
1t may be true, as our Buffalo contemporary
declares, that the South has not done much
for Fenianism as q special movement but the
South has done much for the principle on
which Fenianism is founded. The South has
waged long and severe struggle in behalf of
the right of independence and self-govern-
ment, and hence cannot fail to sympathize
with any other people who insist on exercising
that right. The South believes that Ireland
has the same right to free herself from the
central power at London, as the Southern
States had to hberate themselves from the
central power at Washington. She hopes that
Irish efforts will be more successful than were
those of the Confederacy, whenever the Irish
people resolve to assert their inherent rights.
Our Irish fellow-citizens ought to remember,
too, that in the South was erected the first
barrier against New England intolerance and
that the great party with which the Southern
people now aot-the genuine party of liberty
and progress-is the party which opposes the
attempts of the Radicals to impose restrictions
on the right of naturalization in this country.
There is a natural community of interest and
of opinion between the people of the South
and European emigrants. Both are the OBJ
jects of Radical vituperation and hatred both
are subjected to Radical resentment on ac-
count of their persistent refusal to countenance
the Radical scheme for the conversion of the
government into a centralized despotlsm I;
and both are impelled to spurn the policy
which places the political communities of the
South, and the laboring population of the
North, under the feet of negro minority
guided by ambitious Radical politicians, and
needy Radical adventurers.