The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-09-03
n1scx11AHHoUs 1R1sH NEWS.
THE DUBLIN OUTRAGE.

THE DUBLIN OUTRAGE.
The full and graphic report OF this das-
tardly outrage, published in last weeks
STAR, is corroborated in every. particular
by the reports published in other leading
Irish we.klies of the 18th. From the
Dublin Nation, which is owned and edited
by Mr.. A. M. Sullivan, one of the organ
izers and promoters of the meeting, wo
extract the following: ..n,.,.
On Sunday last the Phoenix Park was the
scens OF an Outrage by the Feasoo Oh tiie
neople as wanson and terrible az any re-
! corded in history. Our readers are aware
that the Amnesty Association, thinking
that the opportunity. presented by tne
presence in Dublin OF some memoers VI
the Royal Family was propitions one lot
| asking the Grown to liberate the polltlcal
nrisoners still confined in English Ja!ls,
published early on Friday week thelr IN
tention to hold monster meeting ut Tue
Wellington Monument, for the purpose OF
addressing such a request t" the crown.
: AS the object of che meeting was admltteo-
iv legal. and as there was no prospect OF
the meeting being anything but perfectly
peaceable demonstration, most persons ln'
f aeined that interference with it would not
be attempted by the authorities. 6ae mos.
, persons were mistaken. Late on Saturday
: night an exceedingly brief notice was Is,
r sued, signed by the Secretary of the BOARD
}. of Works, and simply prohibiting the hold
+: ing of the meeting. The promoters OF the
i. demonstration. imagining that the Boare
h of Works, at any rate, whose Junction.
a have hitherto been sufficiently indicated by
c their name, had no right to prevent tn'
n people from assembling for q pertecti!
n legal object in their own Park, decided t.
y hold the meeting and to meet the cohse
q ouences; and, accordingly, they presente'
% themselves on Sunday at the base OF til
lin MnnnnPnt.
1T thousand persons we're assembled to NEE
le them. What took place from the tim
IT that Mr.. p j. Smyth, Mp, and the othe
gentlemen who were to take a prominen
eff part in the meeting, appeared on the seel
iii of the Monument until the police charge
es down upon the defenceless people an
We mercilessly belabored them with the
at bludgeons, will be found wildly narrate
in another part of this paper. Here it WI
ne be sufficient to say that large force
Mt police, which had lain concealed III
in deep gorge near the Monument, suddeni.
ng and without provocation, rushed at the u
,ly armed crowd and struck right and lett WI
mt their bludgeons. They spared no on
ut, They first felled their victims to the groul
rs, with bludgeon- blows, and then kick'
he them numerically. The promoters o! !.
IRE meeting came in for specially brut
of handling, Mr.. Smyth being savagely stru
lei and Mr. Nolan, Mr.. A. NJ. Sullivan, Mr..
of d. Sullivan, Mr.. p. j. O'Byrne, and 9th
nto gentlemen being grievously maitreate
M The police did not confne their attacks
ere the persons who actually formed part
the the meeting, but ran over the Park In
m directions, emitting with their clubs
1t kicking into insensibility every man a
tu- woman whom they met. In fact, tn
ted behavior was more like that of a gang
nti- lexasperated Red Indians than anythi
t it else. The people so savagely assai
it were at first perfectly defenceless, as I'll
and could get neither sticks nor stones near
;. as Wellington Monument, and had brouI
neither weapons nor missiles with tn
,eld But when they were driven near the r
,ov- cate they found some stones, and tn
,aps partly in self defence and pertly, no dot
,eak because they were exasperated, few "
the found to return the blows OF the pol
.qis- and afterwards to break the windows
nor such houses as bad hags displayed in nc
cent. of the Royal visitors. Tue breaking OF
1854 windows of Mr.. Kerr's establishment
r tia. Gthers is, of. course, most regrettaoie
here cumstance but it was the lneVltaole
/ an ouence of the outrageous conduct OF
were police. Things took ludicrous turn
They Monday when some innocent and ino