The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-11-04
THE TROUBLES IN IRELAND.
Looking to America for Help.

A cable dispatch announces that Mr..
Chas. Stewart Parnell intends sending a
new delegation to the United States to
raise men and means for the outbreak
that seems pending in Ireland. In this
connection the New York World pub.
fishes an address 'to the members Of the
Land League branches and friends of
Ireland in America" now in type in New
York, and about to be distributed
throughout this country. The address
claims that there has been no Indictment
to insllrrection or appeals to revolution
ary remedies either on the part of the
Land League or any of its members
notwithstanding this, all the legal ma
chinery of its government is now to be
employed in procuring the conviction
and Imprisonment of Mr.. Parnell, to-
gether with that of the executive and
leading members of the Land League
organization, and in responding to tho
inquiry why this is to be done, con-
tinues:
''The landlords of Ireland demand it.
That class of men whom the London
Times once stigmatized as the 'cutpurses
Of the British empire are bowling for
vengeance upon the Land League, and
liberal government has to obey the man
date of a few thousand individuals and
trample upon the few remaining privi-
leges of the millions of the Irish people
And for what?
"First-Because that system which an
English statesman once declared was q
stencil in nostrils of Christendom'-and
which the late Lord Clarendon termed
sfelonious'-has been dragged from its
hideous lair in Ireland BY Parnell and
the Land League, and so exposed in I'LL
its deformities before the civilized world
that its infamies are denounced and its
prolonged existence decried by every en-
lightened community throughout the
globe.
"Second-Because the Lard League or
ganization has reused the tenant farmers
of ireland from that criminal torpidity
in which they have for so long period
allowed themselves and the chief indus
try Of their country to become the prey
Of monopoly and class which no other
people in Christendom would tolerate for
one day upon their privileges as men,
their intelligence or their manhood.
'Third-Because the agricultural class
es of Ireland are now banding themselves
together in open and justifiable combina-
ton to demand the abolition of those
laws which condemn them to an exist
ence of misery and social servitude, and
which place themselves and their birth
land periodically in the attitude of men,
dicants at the doors OF other civilized
nations; and,
Ireland has been educated by the Land
League upon the question of land own
ership, to the rejection of a system which
is the parent alike of aristocratic SUI
premacy and all the social and political
evils which spring from the infliction of
class monopoly and caste rule upon the
land and liberty of the country.
''Herein lies the 'seditious conspiracy
for which the Land League is to be
crushed and Parnell imprisoned-for
which freedom of speech is to be denied,
and the right Of public meeting abolish
ed, under the regime of Gladstone, Bright
and Forster. and the rule of that govern
ment which claims to be the champion Of
peculiar privileges among the nations!
"Men of Irish blood and sympathies in
America! Protest against this outrage
through the public men and enlightened
press of this land of liberty and justice,
and come to the practical assistance of
those in Ireland who are now battling
not only for the rights Of your kindred,
UuV Aol tuOSo VI lHuuSLTldl uutudIlty
throughout the world.
I'm this struggle now drawing to a
crisis in Ireland people or system of
land laws must perish. Landlordism,
the parent of famine-the source of agra
rian crime-the author of the social de-
gradation and chief instrument in the
political servitude of our people, is wag-
ing at this moment deadly war against
Ireland, the Land League and Parnell,
and upon their behalf ask whether you
will remain idle and Indifferent specta-
tors Of the contest, or be active and sub
stantial co-operators in graphing with
ard crushing at once and forever the
scourge of our race and the deadly enemy
of our fatherland?
Sustain the remaining members of the
Land League and the people of Ireland
by auxiliary organization on this side of
the Atlantic, and all the power of Eng
land will fail TO crush the national land
movement or prop up the crumbling edi.
flee Of Irish landlordism.
aid can be forwarded direct to the
Land League, Dublin, or through Rev.
Lawrence Walshe, treasurer American
Land League, Waterbury, Conn.,. Pat.
rick Ford, Irish World; +. B. O'Reilly,
Boston Pilot, or DR.. VIM. Wallace, 145
East Forty-eighth street, New York City,
President of the New York Land League.
MICHAEL DAvITT,
Hon. Sec. Irish National Land League.
''New York, October 2G, $780,"