New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-05-09

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| and organizino great armies for the invasion of
trembling Canada. Mullgan is as nearly ubiquitous
| "a n human being can be. We hear OF MN IN
| Syracuse, Buffalo. Chicago, Cleveland; ana we
| learn that lie intends to invade Canada w
| Ogdensburg Trout River and Fort Ene. Inc
census of warriors enlisted, mustered III, enrolled
and regmented by Mugan, is variously STAYED
Some put it in the roundest kind of numbers, al
! 900 900. The moderate are content with lOOOoo'
Then in Mullgans military chest, which Is near
his physical chest t. c., in Mugan's pocket. il sara
to amount TO an orientay magnificent sum, vaguely
but suggestvely expressed by the phrase, all that
is wanted" The chosen weapons of Mulligan are
breech-loading rifles With millions of men, and
millions of money, and millions of breech-
leaders. Mulligan 10 only waiting for the
breaking ont of wax between England and Russia.
Then. up. guards and at em!" will be the word.
General OjNeil will then assume the command of
"the Fenian forces in the United States" with the
Colonel" as his aide-de-camp and assistant breech-
loader Meanwhile, we are assured, Mulligan Will
visit every prominent city" raising the number OF
men, with correspond breech-lOading rifles, to bill
lions When last heard from, he was accommodating at
Osweg0; but lie has great faculty for rapid travel
which may prove useful to him by and by. If Rus
STA and England remain at peace, it viii make no
difference to Mullgan. He viii then go to Canada
on his own hook. He will Invade " all the same,
and "evade all the same, for that matter.
Wehave before spoken of the difficulties attending
rigid enforcement of the laws which should protect
ourneighb0rs from the nuisance and peril of military
expeditions organized within the United States One
of the chief of these at present, appears TO De
Mulligan. He is not only omnipresent but he seems
to be omnipotent. If the truth be told of him,
he has already set the laws of this land at defiance
Va cont Rritisb NI,istar ont of the country
bag. baggage, and portfolio, for doing on small
scale what Mulligan is Teputed to be now
doing on a large one. But he is mightier
than the President and all his Secretaries. He will
90 when he gets ready and then he will go breath
ing horrid war through each of his dated and curl
ing nOsrils We cannot see any way of locking him
up So mpOtont are we that he scOrns even to affect
secrecy. He goes up and down. beating his drum
and Haunting his verdant flag unarrested, unhin-
dcred unimpcded and unchallenged. All his do
ings are telegraphed to the newspapers. All his
breech-loaders are, to speak, stacked In the
face of mankind. When the time shall come
for his serried ranks to march over the
border, they will have used our soil as
a recruiting ground, as drilling ground,
rs a field Of rendezvous We cannot help ourselves.
Mulgan is too much for us. We are very law
abiding. We wait for overt acts" while it is, by
We have not yet tried even the virtues of Presden
tia proclamatons. cheap and impressive as they are
MostGovernments under the circumstances would
incarcerate Mulligan and confscate his breech-
leaders, But in every country in which personal
rights are sCrpulously respected, it is not easy at
a certain stage of their proceedings, to deal with
men who keep on the shady side of the law, though
nobody doubts their illegal intentions. 1t might
be difficult to prove that Mulligan has been
and still is levying war; To mprisOn him, would
be to make him a martyr at once Every Demo
cratic newspaper in the land would denounce his
arrest as bit of Old World despOtism. The President
would be likened to the Emperor of Austria. The
secretary Of State would be nicknamed Metternich
or Haynau. All the regiments wOnld hOldmass- meet
ings, and be eloquenty addressed by gentlemen who
want to 60 to Congress. One consolation is that
the raid will probably end as so many others have,
or that there will be no raid at all Our faith, to be
frank in Fenian persistence isn't much larger than
a grain ofmustard seed-in the sincerity OF Fenlan
leaders it isn't much smaller.