The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-06-02
The FcnIan Raid.

An attempt was made iu the early part
of last week by certain misguided, but hon
est and enthusiastic. Irishmen, to invade the
Dominion of Canada. The leader of the
movement was Gen. C'NEILL, who figured
prominently in the same kind Of an expedi-
tion three years ago. aud which terminated
quite as disastrously as the present. The
number of men who repaired to the borders
of Vermont is not exactly known, but they
were about as formidable and successful as
the celebrated army of a certain king OF
France, of whom il was written
THE King of France with thirty thousand men,
Marched up the hill, and then marched down
again."
The whole affair has ended, as every man
of common sense knew it would end, IN a
miserable and disgraceful failure. Gen.
O'NIgLL has been captured by the United
States Marshall of Vermont, and in default
of bail has been committed to the Jail of
Burlington, in that State. The whole thing
has been signal failure. We will not en-
large on the subject, but will append to
these remarks, the following sensible and
straightforward article from the Pittsburgh
Post every word of which we heartily en-
dorse
We have frequently used the means within
oar sphere, by way Of council to our Irish pop
ulation, to cut loose from heartIess dema
gogues, who play upon their feelings. and to
listen to those who were really their friends,
that it has been s;ezed upon to our disadvan-
tase. We have been represented as unfriendly
to the cause of freedom in Ireland, and want
ing in sympathy to that people. AS these col
umns are not the proper place to explain
why this could not be so, We must be content
TO rest under whatever charges designing and
CDprincip!ed men may choose to make. We
again reterate in the very midst Of this Fenian
torrent, that our knowedge Of a few Of the
leaders. justihes cS in repeating that they are
unprincipled scoundrels, obtaining moneyiunder
false pretences, and deluding honest meu to
their own destruction. Men and women, boys
and girls, have been importuned to give up
their hard earned wages, to get ap eK pedit tons,
to make war upOn nation with which are
at peace, and which, under every principle of
international law, strengthened by special
treaty, this government is boxnd TO Interrupt,
or be prepared to accept war itself Sunburst
bonds, payable when Ireland is free, have been
imposed upon thousands, and tie money spent
by mountebanks who may well laugh at their
dupes. Oi the many thousand who are now
adrift over the country, how many of them
know the plans of the leaders. They go it
blind, resting content with the assurance that
General O'NIELL and a few others equally
daring and wise viii guide them to success.
All this is humiiating to a people whose
blood has Watered every field where human
rights haze been tested by force; whose ge-
MUS Is the admiration of the world whose
whole history has been struggle agaiBst in
cessant persecution; and at becomes doubly
Paiafn! TO cotemplate The increased suffering
which those now in Ireland must endure from
the abortive attempts made in this country, To
assail England through one of herA colonies
Every such attempt affords pretext to impose
additional penalties and furnish arguments to
the inveterate foes of the Irish race, country
and religion.