New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-16
IRISH NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE.

MEETING AT COOPER NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
BY MAYOR HALL, JUDGE GAR'lN, AND
OTHERs-A DEMAND TO BE MADE ON Gun
GRESs.
A mass meeting of the Irish citizens OF New
York favorng freedom OF Ireland, and demanding
tho liberation of all American citizens now imprisoned
by England was held last evening at Cooper Institute
His Honor MAYOR Hall presided The was crowded
70 excess Mayor Hail. on coming forward, was received
with loud applause He said there was no necessity TOT
the use OF placards to call meeting OF lrishmen To-
gether for such purpose they had met mere tonsn
He was delighted to find that some OF tne m naqse
their voices In favor OF Irish interests The question
was simply whether subject who had gwen up nus ae
glance 10 an old and degraded Government and bestowed
IL TO America entitled to the protection OF MS adopted
country. During the late civil war inc necs pi ~
shp was invaded and Mason and sidcl taken from IT,
and the whole British Government shook with lndgna
ton, and their surrender was demanded, hIsn1 D
Irshmen and those who sympathise with ireland nave
looked upon the British Government one OF the mean
Gods earth, there was no one VINO dld not III ss
There will shortly he in power a new class Of in the
American Congress, and these men VIII DC Ince
by Committee from tho present meeting. VINO
win demand that their nation shall not sui
fer the execrable despotlsm OF English tyranny
The movement Irish natonalists must assume prae
cal shape The OF the people Of New-fogk snou9
eomminge with that Of Brooklyn and every hamet anu
village In Long Island The cry for freedom snouH is
along the Hudson, and through every village III INC
country until finally tho administration hearkens 10 IT.
series OF resolutions which adopted with acelama
zion. The concluding resolution was as foowf ,sb
b English ius or NAV veric be cast into English eou
cells ahhoreu 10 the instincts aud dogatoU TO the dignity OF
people this Republic friendly term, With the power Heh
outrage. the nation In the person m hnmbs't eisni az 70 @
people call the ESecutYe ana congress
not ray treaty With England which does not guar
.te conditional precedent immediate release Of captive
citizens, ampe.t cpanou o individual wrongs " well
fir the insult offered 70 our national honor
The mover then spoke at considerable length eIernR
TO tho prosecutions Of Ireland ana the helpnE MARI e
the refuge for the freshman, who here coud enjoy Tue
reward OF their labor, their civil and religious nDer
He showed how rlshmen had never failed 10 do honor 10
their adopted country. especially In her time or
and Americans in their OF 1872 the Mexican war; the
Rebellion, &c. England he sald had arrayed party
against party creed against creed. Aer eloquenuy de-
scribing famine OF Ireland, and reminding the aua
ence Of the Of Americans during that PERIOD no
concluded by stating that In Ireland there was no due
no freedom OF speech, and no free use OF arms.
Tho Hon. Samuel u. Garvln District Attorney or the
County OF NewYork. then came forward 'His feelings
no said were In favor Of Irish freedom from not very
recent date They from ancestry born on irlsh SOIL
from stock who suffered for liberty, and never mingled
their blood with the oppressors IL was hatuIal lor
Americans TO symyathze WITH tho oppressed anu hey
would dare arrest American cltlZens Tor
words spoken ! America The dear man at Wa.hington
would sounds loud enough to be heaTd from
IRISH tongues. =. ,,.-,---,
cen O'NeIl President Of the Fenian brotherhood.
then addressed the meeting the object OF his remarks
being bayOnets instead Of petitions Tor tho release Oh
American captiycs, ,- 49,,
drcssed the meeting. after which the following R9te-
men were nominated Committee To proceed 10 WASH
lngon AID urge their Representatives IN Congress 70
give the subject Of the resolutions their earnest atte-
don Judge DAILY, Mayor Hall, j. Mcheon Ed j.. heary'
and Horace Greeley. 80 - -
Cheers were given for Ireland, after which the pro
cc6dIDAs terminated