The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-12-03
IRISH NATIONALIST.
Enthusiastic Telegram The ReSOIu.
lions Adopted by thO Convention,


CHICAGO, December 9,-The Irish M
tional Convention met this morning.
telegram was read from Michael Dillon o
Hagestown, Nd, saying he was an ole
man, but he would give his four sons ant
his daughter to serve Ireland, with $l0OOI
il necessary; that these should be the senti
ments OF every man and woman who love-
liberty, and he trusted that Ireland's off
spring would secure her freedom with
Charles Stuart Parnell as her President.
Another telegram from the Ladies' Land
League, OF Montreal, somewhat violent
nature, aroused great enthusiasm.
The Committee on Resolutions made its
report, which was unanimously adopted,
together with addresses to the Irish people
Of America.
The following are the resolutions passed:
ReSOlred That rs in the words OF the
American Declaration Of Independence,
the consent OF the governed Is the only
power from which government Justly
derives its authority, and us in the words
Of ono Of her British Malesty's present
Cabinet Ministers, Mr., Joseph Chamber
lain, after one hundred years OF English
rule in Ireland, English rule there can only
bo maintained by fifty thousand bayOnets
this Convention declares English rule in
Ireland to. be without either legal or moral
sanction, and demands the establishment
in Ireland Of q national government based
upon the will Of the Irish people.
ReS0lred, That us the English Govern
mani hOg npnWnH Pn1nl,tn 10 g,,l,tu,,N.
the Irish nation by wholesale eviction, by
the arrest Of every friend Of n popular
cause, and the suspension OF every popu-
lar right, and by the terrorism OF military
force, and MS the Irish people have shown
an equal determination TO meet these, and
by passive resistance defeat this attack on
their liberties, this Convention, represent
ing the lrish-AmeriCan race, pledge the
people OF Irish birth and OF such descent in
this country to stand by the people at
home in this momentous struggle to the
full extent Of their power and resources.
hhNO'Hd, That this Convention thoroughly
endorses the policy OF the Irish leaders at
home in the present crisis, and that we
have entire confidence in their patriotism
and craftsmanship, and that we tender to
them, and 10 the Irish people at large, the
expression ol our sympathy, and the as.
srrancc that in every struggle against Brit.
ish rule they will be fully sustained by
their kindred in America.
Resolved, That we heartily endorse the
mo rent" manifesto of the home execu.
tive ot the Irish National land League at
once as the best available weapon to strike
their landlord jailos, and swift and
shifting instrument to abolish utterlya bad
and hateful system, and as Il fitting answer
OF the Irish people to the attempt Of the
coercion ministry to force the acceptance
Of defective legislation at the point Of the
bayonct."
B,Tolrrd, That with the view Of giving
practical effect to the foregoing address and
this convention recommends n
special levy Of - from the organiza.
tions here represented, and all other organ.
lzatiOns friendly to the Irish cause, and
from the friends Of such organizations, to
he forwarded in instalments before the
first day OF February 1882, TO the Central
Treasurer Of the Irish National Land
League.
The discussion then begun upon the prop.
osition to raise quarter million dollars to
send to Ireland.