The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-10-28

APPEAL TO THE IRISH IN ENGLAND.

Inc following circular has been addressed
by the Executive to the Home Rule Confedera.
ton of Great Britain:
The Confederation has now been established
FIVE years. When Mr.. Bait decided to take
, other departure in Irish political warfare, and
formed new National party for the attain
ment of legislative Independence for Ireland,
he knew that there was another Ireland, which
bad grown in numbers and had become great
influence throughout the length and breadth
of Great Britain. He uurollei the banner of
Irish Nationality il Great Britain, and galvan-
lied into cohesion the plumbers of bis country
men scattered Throughout the country, and
founded yonr present Confederation. Organ
jz"d that you might Use your influence in as
ssting and secUrdipg the efforts of our coun-
trymen at homo, You have developed into a
power which even our founder did not contem-
plate. OF the work accomplished yea may
well be proud, You have asserted yourself in
score of constituencies, and thereby intruded
the irish question into English politics. You
have wruDg from English andidates q promise
| TO support the Irish party in their demand for
Home Rule on the floor of the House Of Com
mons. You have, therefore. proved that.
though absent from your native land, you are
able and willing TO use the power you possess
in favor Of the old and undyipg cause. But,
satisfactory as may have been the past, there
is much to be accomplished in the future. In
fifty constituencies you have the power to
turn men who will promise to support tho Irish
party, or at least to RECT the men who refuse
this engagement. What is required for attain
ing this end Simply q little exertion on your
part to place on the register the man who is
emit tied to the franchise, either parliamentary
or municipal. OConnells motto was, Organ
izs, organize, organze." We repeat it, For
five years Irelaud's case has been before the
English people through the voice of the Eng
lsh Commons, but circumstances have been
prejndicial to success. The Governments ma
jorIty has been abnormally large We must
now prepare for the change of circumstance
which must hoon come How are the fifty
members TO DO returned by Englieh constrtG.
encies pledged to give their support TO the
Irish pBrtyf BY forming in every borough in
England where one does not nov exist a branch
of the Confederation, whose officers and mem.
bers will see that the name of every 1rishman
who is entitled to q vote is placed Oh the regis
ter, and who will ensure that every lrishman
has the opportunity of exercising the same
privilege as bis English fellow citizen. En-
hauca your demands and your position by put
ting in every public Office, every vestry, board
of guardians and town council men whose |
opinions are your opinions, whose sym Pathies |
are your sympathles, and whose hopes are your |
hopes. In your epdeavor you will receive the |
support of the head office, and whenever you |
be sent to assist you. Englishmen imagined !
that they could afford to treat with calm indif
ference the demands of Ireland and the strug-
giles for her rights when the battleields were |
within her own borders, but you have brought |
the question on to their very hearths-you
have made Home Rule for Ireland household
word where before was unheard and unknown.
lntrude your demands into the political organ
izations, the party lotteries. Think not of de-
creasing the Tory msj ority or of increasing the
Wing majority. II 10 for you TO proclaim jas
tice for Ireland. Your demand is within the
Constitution all the more on the account you
are bound 10 exhaust all constitutional means.
You have yet to give an Irish complexion TO
the politics of the Birmingham six hundred.
You have to make your influence felt in the
party calculations of Bristol, Plymouth, Ports
mouth, Chatham, London borougbs, and score
If other places, aud to force on them the fact
hat nation demands the restoration ef her
Parliament, and q right of seIf-government,
md that this is demand with which, sooner
" later, they must comply. The Irish question (
must be taken into their calculations. The Z
ime is propitious. The flow of Ireends life
Hood is stayed. For the first time for forty i
tx years the registrars returns shows al in I
resse in the population of Ireland over the .
revious year. You, Irshmen, who. by til.
xercise of the qualities inherent in your ma
ure, have lived GOWN the caiumny and preju- .
ices, and have achieved for yourselves posi- :
ion, wealth and comfort, and who enjoy the I
rivi!eges of EBRlishmen, you especially are =
allied upon to increased exertion. IrelAnd's Z
ause is your cause. Your ambition lies not in
elf sggrGndizement or profit, but in the real = =
alton of Ireland nation,