The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-06-26
Fenians Everywhere.


good harvest by their late efforts on Fe9ian-
ism. Special correspondents have BEEN
writing from everywhore and nOwhere.I
With their usual elasticity of conscience
they have launched the terrible shadow of
coming events. Facts were not necessary, ]
the subject was above it the popular mind|
would have become too rational IT any
thing positive had been announced. The
danger, however, fortunately Obviated, and
SILENCE with respect to particulars was JUL
|diciOus, since there was nothing to tell. Ill
there is one thing more than another which
gives Freemasonry Importance and terror,
bit is the idea of some mystery-some dread
secret which is supposed to bind and rule
it's members. And to this place-to SIM
|ilar nOtOriety-our London oracles seem
Ito niche up Fenianism. Fenians may feel
somewhat proud of these exertions made in
their behalf, but as the public well know
that their principles are rather widely diff
|ferent from those of Freemasonry, there
must prevail some disappointment that!
what we are most anxious to learn-thei,I
naOUensents-turns out to be nothing but al
chapter of speculatiOns, aggravating thel
more as the Fenians show decided objec-
|tion to act upon the programme SO con-
Isiderately announced for them.
Wilson and Davitt are now on remand
for completely in Fenianism.
Their arrest and the seizure of some ftty
{revOlvers came as q boon, a marketable
article, to the columns,of the press. The
charge against them as yet appears is de-
4cidedly aggravatiug in the insigniticance of
the evidence. But the occasion could not
be lost, it was Fenianism, or something
like it, and all that was wanting to make il
THE ganuine article was readily supplied by
1.-THE inventive faculty of tour leading Or
lgans." So speedily did the alarm grow in
Ito realities that from every part of Eng
land terror-laden kilograms were flashed
upon us.
We were on the eve of desperate events.
America, too, was in scope miraculous way
Is interviewed" by the Daily Telegraph, and
lin short special communication, which
read very like others that hailed from Lon
don, we were assured that the Fenian
THE especial privilege that distance always
claim when facts are under consideration,
renders these announcements from the
cousin c0untry quite ipDesistible. The cor
respondents who (speaking figuratively)
takes American ground has an advantage
over his fellows that is enviabfe. Assert
what he may, the news is telling, inasmuch
as there is so little chance of disproving it
at the time of sensation. The bitterness of
doubt is forgotten, and the British public;
3gnllible to the last, will submit even with
a relish to more doses If they are only ju-
4diciously administered.
Faith in Fenianism and it's terrors suffers
Guile on the discoveries of the police. A
case of rifles is seized at Kingstown, sus-
picious arrival is hurried off to the lookup
at Liverpool. Both are eventually claimed
by their respective owners. A well-known
&gunsmith in the South of Ireland politely
him without delay, and the poor beer agent
after satisfactory proof, is finally restored
to the brewers. These flashes in the pan
that speak at least to the vigilance of the
police, if nothing can be said of their dis
cernment, are after all incidental to their
calling. But there is no privilege, nc
8apology that can cover the announcements
= that are vented in the daily press. The
voracity of the public for sensation was
&never greater than it is now, and if facts
fail, if murders are not forthcoming, the
Fenians are at once forced into the service
#Startling headings, thrilling paragraphs
awaken us to the sense of our danger as we
what they have not done. How Genera
HO'Neill was overheard to say, Canada firs1
land England after. Under such patronage
and notoriety as this what brotherhood OF
league would not become famousf The
press has done more to keep Fenianism
alive than any principle on which it's mem
beers could hope for perpetuity. Fenianisn
might have thfived and become all institu
tion in the evil days of Ireland; but in the
prospects that are now before Ireland, in
the success and justice sue will achieve by
Legislation, the most devoted Fenian mus
foresee the failure of any enterprise that is
simply worked by secret society. Will
the amelioration of Ireland, and the assn.
rance that is felt at/no distant day of Sc.
curing representative Parliament in Dub.
lin, Irishmen can afford to be patriots in
one faith without class or distinction
London Universe.
We presume it will be news to few, that il