The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-11-11
RED1vIvI ON rHE RAMPAGE.

HOW THE UNTTkD freshmen SKNTENCED
MEMBER TO DEATH-A CASE OF TREASON TO
IRELAND WITH JUDGMENT PRoNoUNCED ON
The New York Herald gives the following
fall particulars Of the recent sensation of
the metropolis: About one year ago an
organization was formed In this city OF Q
sommunistic nature by man named Father
MCNAMARA, who had at one time been
a Lazarist priest, and who had also ofticiated
as a clergyman of his cwn persuasion In
Raleigh, North Coroline. It IL said that,
owing to sons Irregularities, the bishop of
the diocese In which Father Mcnamara
the clergyman of his functions or,
as It was styled In the
latter half of the eIghteenth CEN
fury, the bishop had ''unfrocked" him.
Since then Father Mcnamara has devoted
tions in the Fatherbood of Nations and the
Brotherhood of Man. The ex-reverend
gentleman wears q long sack oyercoat with
velvet collar; his yellow hair hangs down
on his shoulders; his face Is always clean
shaven, and his presence Is marked one
whenever he appears in any OF the streets of
the city. The Organization formed by Father
McNamara was called the Sacred Order OF
United Irishmen Redivivi, and had q num-
Der of lodges scattered throughout New
York City with fesrfully mystic titles. 1t
was the design OF Father Mcnamara to revive
the organization at one time known as
THE ORDER OF UNITED IRIsHMES,
and which had correspondence with the
French revolutionists of 1898. A number
OF earnest, fervent and enthusiastic young
Irisbmen, not at all deferred by the pros
pectus OF tbs association, which declared that
ireland could only be freed by weekly
subscription OF twenty-five cents per man,
joined the ''Sacred Redivivip and paid in
their dues az became them. Each candidate
was sworn secretly, his hands crossed over
basin of blood, and with a large, sharp
bladed ak depending from the ceiling di-
rectly over his head. 1t was q fearful
scene that some Of the candidates
witnessed, and three or four became light
headed Immediately after the ter
rible and gbostly inaugural ceremo mas.
Ex-Father Mcnamara declared that even II
the Pope and Kaiser Wilhelm opposed the
movement he alone would free Ireland.
The organization increased rapidly, until at
one time the Redivivi numbered about one
hundred and eighty members in this city, ali
of whom were paying subscribers. One OF
the chief and most deadly conspirators was
vender of human hair, who Is proprietor OF
store in Canal street. This man possessed
some money, and it is said that he had
negotiated for harbor steam tug to proceed
60 Ireland with
TWENTY MIME MUsKEr5,
csliber 1857, when Father McNamara stopped
his proceedings. There was also a poet
named Callinnsn in the organization, who
had for nom de plume "Red Rain"
Among the recruits obtained by ex-Fsther
Mcnamara there was a young man named
Thomas j. McGeoghegan, a we'll educated
and good-looking young gentleman OF
twenty-five years Of age, who Is now teach
ing school in the academy of the Christian
Brothers. In Brooklyn. The pseudo-Fsther
McNamsrs, who closely resembles a noted
preacher in Brooklyn, having considerable
conversational powers, did In some manner
fascinate Young McGeoghegan and
finally induced him to join the Redivivi.
The young man had written for the press,
and being largely gifted with Imagination,
be become one OF the most earnest and zeal
Gus propagators OF the revolutionary doc
trines which the ex-priest had given his
years to indicate. The Redivivi generally
met in Chatham street, over weekly
newspaper office, and sometimes a milk
can full of blood would be conveyed from
the Thirty-iourth street slaughter-house, OF
which the Redivivi would partake freely.
and thus seal their vows of loyalty and
heroism. But young McGeoghegsn began
TO have doubts OF the honesty as we'll as the
practicability OF the organization OF the
Redivivi to
SECURE THE LIBERTY OF IRELAND
through the fundamentally of ex-Father
McNamara. Being Of quick intelligence,
to use politicians phrase. he "kicked,"
yet he did not fail to subscribe his weekly
twenty-five cents. 1t seems, however, that
Mr.. McGeoghegan is a very strict Roman
Catholic, and alter some months oonnec-
ton with the Redivivi be began TO have
conscientious doubts as to whether he
should continue to be a member or not.
Having IS a Catholic to do what Is known
as the Jubilee" he was informed by the
Cl6TnVman W mi lrQ ho
sat that he could not receive absolution un-
less he immediately left the Redivivi.
Mr.. - McGeoghegsn, feeling that he
S 1g 10 Dc hs. certain hs o6d III the matter
to death II he were to become a
traitor to the Re1ivivi, consulted two other
clergymen aud they informed him of the
spiritual penalties TO be enforced should
he CONTINUES as a Redivivist. Now came the
agony, and Mr.: McGeoghegan found himself
between two hres. He felt that he would
have to endure the pains of hell-hre IL he
were 70 rerlain in the Redivivi, but should
he dare &C. leave 1t he knew that the organi-
zation would have him shot as a traitor to
the cause oil Ireland. The young patriot de-
cided Immediately, and chose everlasting
bliss In the future TO psltry and indefinite
existence as school-seacher. Accordingly
be dared his fate, and wrote a letter to the
national CHER of the Redivivi, as Ex-Father
McNamara calls himself, resiguing bis posi-
ton as me m Der of the Sacred Order. The
letter was written at the peril OF Mr.. McGeo-
ghegan's life, and is as follows:
SAVE, M'NAMARA, MoNTURT, TIE sALUrANT."
In vindication OF my character and honor,
both az an Irishmsn and q Christian, am
compelled to give publicity to the annexed
letter Of Father McNamara. in reply to one
OF mine, resigning my position as a member
of the Redivivi. As Father McNamsra and
bis adherents have both publicly and pr
vately slandered me, and attributed base
and unworthy motives to me on account OF
my resignation, 1 feel 1t due to myself and
countrymen to make public statement OF
the facts and expose an organization that Is
an imposition, as can easily be recognized
from the substance of his letter. At the
solicitation OF Father Mcnamara. joined