The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-26
MOVEMENTS OF THE FENIANS-A PRO
CLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT.

CLAMAIlON BY IHE PRESIDENT.
From the NJ Y. Herald.
If there is not veritable Fenian operation
against the peace and sovereignty of the New
Dominion on foot, there is certainly great
deal of hurrahing in the woods and marching
and countermarching in the telegraphic re-
ports. From Buffalo is reported 'great
activity during the last forty y-eight hours, of
''large bodies of drilled veterans" and five
car loads of these are reported in a later
despatch as moving from Buffalo through
Rochester for some point further east, from
which it is conjectured they are to approach
the frontier. Albany is full of the same ex-
plosive fellows. They are heard of in Auburn
as on the way to Minnesota; Burlington and
other points in Vermont send word of
their movements, and even Boston
has story to tell of the same
threatening display. In every case the de-
spatches agree on one or two pointS-irst, it
is the actual presence of men for some unusual
purpose that is reported, and no theories or
guesses are given, because the men were no.
where communicative; next, in every instance
where the quality of the men is noted they
are described as men who were formerly in
the United States volunteer forces. Besides
and more conclusive still of the earnest in
tentions.of these valiant souls to free all of
Ireland that can be found on Canadian soil
the Government at Washington has received
information sufficient to warrant the Presi-
dent in issuing his proclamation warning the
Fenians of the illegality of their purpose.
So long as the proclamation is unaccompa-
MED by the general movement of United
States troops and an indiscriminate arrest of
every suspected parsonage bearing arms,
however, it will not avail much, and the in
vaders, if the necessity occurs and they are
discreet, may even be enabled to get into the
enemy's country by dodging the troops sent
to prevent them. Here, then, is apparently
the fact of Fenian operation fairly before
us, and the further fact that the persons in
charge are putting forward material that can
hold its tongue and stand fire. Speculations
of the possibilities of such movement
may, therefore, be we'll spared, since it will
certainly not be many days, perhaps hours,
before these fellows will be heard of as in
more or less bloody collision with soldiers,
militiamen, or the police on the other side the
lines. From the widely different points at
which the movement simultaneously appears,
it seems to be intended to throw parties across
the frontier in way to battle all possible vigil
lance on the other side and on this side also.
Invasion in this way is easy enough, but the
concentration in the enemys country of these
isolated parties may prove to be quite another
matter if the Canadian authorities are not
stampeded by the first alarm and act at the
right moment with discreet energy If it
shall ever happen, however, that two or
three thousand of the reckless and resolute
rascals who probably make up these parties
are concentrated on Canadian SOIL under a
leader of only average skill, we do not see
why the world might not be INDUCED with
the spectacle of real Penian war on more
or less bloody scale. Until the war really
comes, however, and in view of the past his
tory of Fenian movements, we are at present
only authorized in concluding that the Fenian
treasury is empty, and that the leaders feel
convinced that something must be done to
fill it,