The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-01-07


Ireland's children want whrle our garners
are full Snail the descendants OF the pa
triots, and heroes, and martyrs, and states
men that she has furnished to do honor to
our kind, perish miserabiy with starvation
lbefore our eyes? / know you will answer
No! it shall never be!
| LETTERS RECEIVED.
The following letters were received by
the Executive Committee
BALTIMORE, January 5, 1880.
| Thomas Potts, Esq, Secretary Irish Relief
Society:
Ny Dear Sir.-I thank the committee for
their courteous invitation to be present at
the meeting tomorrow night, and You for
the agreeable terms in which you have been
| pleased to convey il. A prof ssional en-
gagement in the Court OF Appeals at An
napoiS tomorrow will deprive me OF the
| pleasure OF meeting my Richmond friends,
so dear TO me, and showing my sympathy
for suffering Ireland. 1t seems as if God
in his divine wisdom has seen ft TO subject
her people to centuries OF oppression, 10
chastise her with the scourge Of religious
intoIerances, while she has been ground Tn
der the heel Of 4 sOulless and heartless and
brainless social and political despotism.
But to our finite, humane sight 1t seems
also that these trials have only elevated and
purified and enlarged the character and
genius OF Irishmen until their achievements
in arts and arms, in science, in literature, and
in thought have circled the civilized world
with halo OF glory.
Wrong and insult, contumcly and op-
preston, cannot debaSe pure, hish.spiried
people rs long as they preserve their faith
in God and their belief in honor and truth
as great instruments by which be works his
will.
The Norman reconstruction acts failed
eight hundred years ago, as the cOnslilu-
tional amendments Of King William did six
hundred years after, and as other recon.
structiOn acts and constitutional amend
ments have failed in our own time to crush
the spiIit OF proud, true people, to re-
verse the eternal laws OF nature, and to
Subvert the very foundation OF social order.
For Irish history has demOnstrated-wha
we see, and seeing, feel-that society is
stronger than laws; that civilization con-
trOis constitutions and that neither c0nsti
tuition nor laws can arrest the march OF the
one, nor change the organization OF the
other.
A chivalric race, relying on the purity cf
its blood, proud OF the traditions OF its an
cestors, conscious OF its own inherent race
powers, has resisted Ill attempts at eXpairia-
ton. determination, or absorption, and to-
day is "a proud and reliant as IL was thou
sand years ago. Our race in our times can
have no higher example. / hope may
prove as true to ourselves, to our history,
and TO honor and truth as the Irish have
done to theirs. | aspire to no higher glory
for ourselves and our pOsterily.
nj
the meeting, am yours respectfully,
BRADLEY Il. JOHNSON.
WASHING rON, January 3, 1880.
! Thomas Potts, Esq.,, Secretary Irish Re-
lief Society:
Dear Sir,-I have just bad the pleasure OF
receiving your note OF yesterday. Nothing
!. : than the severe attack Of lumbago,
which makes me unable to travel, could
prevent me from attending the meeting TO
be held on Tuesday under the auspices OF
the Irish Relief Society,"" No one is
more interested in the objects OF that asso-
citation than l. Do me the favor, therefore,
to obtain my admission inO the society as a
member, that may make such contribution
as ny means will permit
Thanking you very cordially for the very
friendly terms Of your note, am very truly
yours, }. +. JOHNSTON.
RICHMOND, VA, January @, 1880.
A. ". Kelley, Esq.,:
Dear Sir,-As live in the country will
not be able to attend the meeting to be held
tonight in behalf OF the sufferers in Ire
land As the son OF an Irishman, | have a
deep feeling for this cause. | send some
thing however that will do more good than
my presence.
am, very respectfully. yours,
RICHARD L. BgIRNE.
[The " something" WAS a check for SOL
EFT CETERA.
| At the conclusion OF Mr.. Royals re-
marks, Mr.. Kelley called upon the secretary
to read the following list OF gentlemen who
had been appointed as co,!ectors to canvass
the city:
Marshall Ward -Messrs. John A. Cur
lis, q. Watt Taylor, J. J. English, james
p. Sharp, F. J. Parater, Philip O'NeiIl.
Jefferson Ward. AIessrs. John II. Bry-
ant. Arthur Rooney, william Dafiron. Mi-
chael Murphy, John X. MoIoy, James
Golden.
Madison IVard.-Messrs- John Bell Big.
ger. Henry Miller, Charles +. TAYLOR, Al
! fred Moses, Edward Cummins, A. Il. Good
man.
| Monroe VQrd.-Messrs. George a.
Uuudiey. p. +. Moore, Robert T.. English,
Daniel Murphy, o. {. Mcneil, Z. Fin
| messy. ,,.,
Clau Ward-Messrs. J. J. sinnott, Will
liam Kelly, william Raakin, Thomas Barry,
James o. Keeffc, Robert Leckey.
.JQcksOn Ward. Hes'rs. John Kankln
w. j. Gentry, NJ. griffin, Frank Deyinei
Thomas Bradford u. +. Hannegan'.
MGncheSter.-Joha +. Taylor. -Dhn Cor
roll, ..FilZgeralG:
Calls were mado,for Mr.. j. V. Reddy snC
General Mahone, out neither gentiema1 re
sponded; and hr. Kelley Declared th'
meeting adjourned.
Among the contributions Was 500 frJ
Messrs. Thomas Branch Il Co.
The subscpiDtions amousfed 10 all 81
$500.
ARRESTED FOR FELON@US CUrTr c.