The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-12-06
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an employe of the Dublin city bakery
company, leading land agitator and
member Of the land league, was arrest
ed this morning and conveyed to Cas-
,tlebar. He will be charged with using
seditious language at Balla, and with
endeavoring to seduce the police from
their allegiance. Brennan is secretary
of the national land league and promi-
nent in the amnesty association and
other political organizations
The court of the queens bench to-
day granted the application of the
crown that if the grand jury of Sligo
found true bills against Davitt, Daily
and Killen, accused of sedition, the in
dictment should be moved for trial to
Dublin.
Dublin, Dec. 5.-Brennan was re-
ceived enthusiastically by large crowd
on his arrival at Castlebar under escort
of the police. He was taken to the
court house and examined. The in
dictment was read to MIN, after which
he was remanded until Monday, to al
low time to secure the attendance of a
Shorthand writer, who took down his
remarks, as aEwitness. Bail was re-
fused. The prisoner was defended by
Charles O'Malley. The expressions
which caused the arrest of Brennan
were to the effect that he adopted the
words, of Davitt, and the time for re-
solve and action had arrived Brennan
had been informed of the issue of the
warrant, but made no effort to avoid
arrest.
New York, Dec 5.--The Herah's
correspondent at Belfast interviewed
Biggar, who said: -Fe
81 dispute the absolute right to the
land which the landlords claim. The
history of land tenancyin Ireland can
not be ignored as Englishmen ignore it.
The original grants to the landlords by
the English kings did not give them the
rights which they now claim. Tenants
then had as much interest and partici-
patton in the land as the landlords, who
only managed it for mutual benefit.
The only right which the landlords have
is presciption-one of the chief provi-
sions of their grants being an engage
ment to furnish certain number of
soldiers. The landlords gradually as
sumed an absolute ownership, and ex-
ercised the right to depopulate estates
at will Moreover, the English kings
had not the right to give grants sextend-
ing beyond their own reigns. 1 claim.
therefore, that Queen Victoria's parlia-
ment has the right at the present time
to dispose of this property as it may
think best for all classes. If you allow
that landlord has the absolute right
he claims to turn off the population, as
the duke OF, Sutherland did in Scotland,
you have only tologically extend the
argument in order to prove that he has
the power to rent his land to the French
government, to allow French engineers
to erect Notifications thereon and to
populate it with French soldiers, to the
constant menace Of England. Land
lords assume that their absolute owner
ship of the land was acknowledged.
This is not so. Parliament did not
acknowledge it when, in 1888, it passed
the poor law and forced the landlords
to pay half of the poor rate, though pre-
viously the landlords had not paid a
penny to support the poor. The Glad
stone land act was another attack on
the rights claimed by the landlords.
The ex-premier himself last week ac.
knowledged parliament's rights"