The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-28

and vote for Catholic Emancipation" because, as
be warned the government. I" he would not be re-
sponsible for the consequences of civil war In
Ireland" This decided the ministry Of that day,
even though England was at peace with the
world. In 1864, England again ct peace. bot
alarmed at dangerous powerful and widespread,
thorouehly disciplined conspiracy, gave orders to
one Major Mitchell to make scrutinzing investi-
gation Of the coasts of Ireland, its harbors bays,
Islands and inlets and the facilities Of maneuver-
ing the navy touching the sure and swift suppress
sion of rebellion. This Major Mitchell reported
officially after such investigation. that England's
civil war in Ireland, II not her chief source of
weakness, although her chief arm of strength In q
foreign war or foreign invasion"
What an overwhelming rebuke TO those little
minds asking, what will the Irish do without q
navy" does this official report At such time pre-
sent? But lukewsrm men are full of specious
ruses and arguments and wise laws TO evade
plain duties. What follows in 1866! Napoleon
orders q magnificent oil painting OF " Ireland q
Republic" TO be executed by one of the first artists
in France, and makes it q present to the Irish
college at Ames; Russia theoretically pushes
her forces to the base of the mountains forming
the boundary line Of British India; the Poles
assemble In thousands in Paris ready 20 cross the
and deceit prscticed upon them by the British
government, when Lord John Russell and other
members Of the ministry intrigued, through the
Polish committee in London, the rising, and fur
nished them with money, promising subsidies IN
abundance to insure success; American ner-
chants and capitalists were ready. willing and
thrstDg not only to subscribe literally, but even
individually many of them, at their own risk and
cost determined to 1T out privateers to annihiate,
II possible, British commerce from the seas.
port Of these peoples what brought about
this terrible change? What American
will subscribe his 800 now? Where are
those cheering Godspeeds We used to receive at
al, Il. - Al H., 49,
Hungarian, the Pole and the American in this
land, How dare we ignore the evidences Of our
senses to this radical change Of popular sentiment
Are the principles Of the irish Revolutionary
on them distrust BY permitting their motives to
be aspersed, or the principles founded and
grounded in good faith to be doubted by permit
ting butterfly statesmen, moth-eating minds, to
paraphrase and trife with these principles, and
csricature this invisible army by aspersng their
motives and triiing with their lives. Well know
ing the intricacies Of their embarrassing position,
II seals their lips for the present. Every lrishman
that possesses spark OF Irish national feeling
should understand clearly the enormity of the
crime committed by those ambitious leaders.
MaIignsDt.minded, pledge-breaking individuals,
they raised. and are endeavoring TO raise, storm
In the midst of tnis nation, ct peace with the
world, In the name of the people of Ireland that
has estraneed this whole people from them,
causing them not alone to withdraw their support.
but also the moral support of the greatest nation
on earth. Nay, more; creating necessity for
international diplomatic correspondence between
the United States and England to exist to the mani
fest injury Of the prospects of the Irish Revolution
airy Brotherhood. II would appear to any thought
full mind that the instigators of these raids and
plots, were either subsidized by British statesmen
or the devil, or at least we're positively blinded to
9 ray of light penetrating their darkened under
standings, TO the fearful desolation and havoc
they are seeking TO create, and which good and
gracious God above prevented them so far from
having consummated. That God Is Just ia true
that He is mereiful is equally so that He pro-
tected the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood is ap-
parent; that BE has to Himself reserved the right
In His own good time to deal with those men He
foiled. is manifest. Our duty is to fill up the
bIeaches-repsir the injury done silently but
swiftly, by removing the clouds drawn over these
men. The Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood's
principles are well defined. Show the nations
how faithfully they preserved them intact Pour
oil into the lscerated wounds, by generously re-
plenishing their exhausted treasury instanter for
well have they deserved It, and well have they
earned it. God will inspire them to use il to ben
eft them one hundred fold in view of their suffer-
ings, and, reinstated again in the confidence of
mankind, when the tenacity with which they
preserved their principles are known and under
stood clearly, they will secure once more the
moral support, and think, the material aid this
time of all republican governments and people,
In admiration OF their stability and the business of
their cause which alone enabled them TO pass
through this fiery ordeal. God save Ireland.
JOHN ]. O'CoNsoR,
Center and Organizer Fenian Brotherhood. Dis
trict Louisiana. Postoffice Box 694, New Orleans.