Morning journal and courier., 1881-12-19

The Chicago Convention-An Appeal in
 Behalf of the Pledge There Made.
 NEW YORK, Dec. 1S.-The executive com- mittee appointed by the Irish-American Na- tional convention in Chicago on the Fist inst, consisting of D. c. Birdsall of Connec- ticut, General P. A. Collins of Massachusetts. Dr. W. B. Wallace and Patrick Ford of New York, A. Sullivan of Illinois, A. F. Brown of Missouri, and Colonel M Roland of Ken lucky, met at the Astor. House yesterday. Colonel Roland was chosen chairman and Mir. Brown secretary. A resolution was adopted asking the presidents of all Irish. American societies of whatever nature to correspond with Secretary Brown, giving their views as to the best method of forming the national federation Of Irish societies rec. commended by the cony ntion. The follow
 ing address was adoZ ed:
 NEW YORK, Dec. r, 1884, To the Friends of Ireland in America
 At the Irish National Convention held in Chicago
 two weeks snce at which every portion of the United
 promised 10 our Kindred in Ireland that we should
 sustain them to the last in their struggle liberty, of which they totally deprived and
 that with all the resources at our command we should
 aid those who evicted from their little holdngt
 in spite of the boasted benefits of the new Land act
 It Is not generally understood this country thai
 the provisions of that do not extend to those
 who account of the famine of last year and the
 duced crops which preceded it. arrears of rent and who are now being mercfessly turned out into
 the highways to perish of cold hunger charity does rescue them It was also solemnly pledged
 by representatives in convention that we shal
 stand by the people of Ireland in their resolve meet coercion with coercion
 As the first installment under these pledges the
 convention resolved to send Patrick Egan Treasurer
 before Feb. l. 1882, the of $250 900, substan
 tal reply to the insoent untruth of Lord Granville that the Irish people in America do not sympathize with their kindred ardi aIienable rights and assurance to brave countrymen that flesh of their hesh and shal do our duty in the hour of their great extremity. the tenantry of Ireland be maintained througf
 the winter in their resistance to the tyranny of the
 Irish landlord system the tillers of the soil will be enabled to become it's owners artificial famine will be rendered forever impossible, and the people o Ireland will have come into their again, and be placed on the road to natfonhood
 To this benehcent an6just end your combined and self sacrificing efforts necessary. Proceed al once by every method in your power to raise the money with which to redeem the solemn pledge o
 your representatives Let each society represented in the convention redouble it's energy Let thost who not members of society join such the! elect hand their subscriptions to the local mittees.
 At this gracious season. when all Christian hearts filled with good will when every home is being frightened for the genial festival of Christmas with instincts of friendship and affection it is emf nently becoming that our hearts and our purse should be directed te our kindred in the mother
 land to the bare homes which landlordsm and lega
 tyranny have stripped of everything to the prisons which the noblest of langushing for de votion to their kind to the mothers bereft of
 to the little children who know nothing of the joy
 of Christmas in the most pious country under heav and who will not have even bread unless seni it; to the families evicted from humble roofs
 cast out to perish in the name of law and civilization
 manfuIly to the end that native land shall to be beggar among nations.