The Evening critic., 1881-10-29
FREE IRELAND.
Enthusiastic Meeting Last Night.

American element which is indignant over
the plan Of arbitrary government pursued
1T present by Great Britain to oppressed
Erin. The object Of the assembly was to
express its Indignation at the conduct of
the present ministry of England, and 10 de-
wise means for the assistance Of suffering
Ireland NTtHN
Mr.. Daniel Grady called the meeting to
order, he being chairman Of the local Land
league, and Upon his motion Mr.. john Ar
thur wits selected to preside over the pres.
emit meeting. Messrs. William Smith, John
Moran, Peter Mccartney, Joseph Loughran,
Maurice Fitzgerald, Il. ID. Daley, and Felix
Brannigan were chosen as vice-presidents,
aud Mai. Richard Oulahan, Daniel Brosnan,
and w. +. Ryan selected as secretaries.
Mr.. Arthur introduced Hon. George &.
Gorham, editor of the Republican of this
city, who made q brief, elegant and stirring
speech, sketching tho most effective means
by which Ireland could gain her rights and
Irishmcn be free people upon their own
sod. Mr.. Gorham expressed himself as OPP
posing violent measures either in Ireland
or America, and advised that the safest and
surest way would be q passive resistance to
the outrageous conduct of England ut home,
and for the friends Of Ireland elsewhere to
aid by sympathy and practical contribu-
tiOns to her cause and her leaders.
Mr.. Gorham was followed by Senator
Jones, of Florida, who spoke for some
length, delivering one Of his Usual magnin.
cent orations in behalf of his native land
and his suffering brothers. He denounced
the sumptuary action and series of actions
of Premier Gladstone, and applauded the
manly, unwavering and dignifed course Of
Parnell
Prof. Richard T. Greener (coldred) sue.
xl.l To.xr ...I d. Il L..
cisive speech advocated the cause of free
Ireland. All of the orators on the occasion
were warmly and repeatedly applauded. At
the close of the speeches the following pre-
amble and resolutions were offered by Coun-
sellor Edward d. Rice, of the Washington
bar, and unanimously adopted
Where the sacred rights and ipaAenablc
privileges of. the Irish people, sanctioned
and established by the Divine law, and
guaranteed by the English constitution,
have been fraudulently and violently
wrested from and denied them by the ar
bitary and despotic action of the British
government, which, with tho knowledge,
sanction, and procurement of the premier,
has, in time of peace and comparative quiet,
invaded Ireland by an armed force of
brutal soldiery, alien to and distrusted by
her people, and intended and calculated
to precipitate an armed conflict in addi-
ton to this she has enacted tyrannical and
coercive laws, which have been enforced
against the Irish people by virtue of an
usurped authority, sustained by the mill
tary arm Of the government, and in order
to do this she suspended those parliament
tary prerogatives which for centuries have
been held sacred and inviolable by English
freemen; she has practically nullified the
right of the Irish people to choose rep
resentatives by subjccting those represen-
tativcs, when chosen and engaged in dis
charging the sacred trusts and duties
attaching to their offices, to unwarrantable
seizure and imprisonment; she has sus-
pended in Ireland the writ of habeas corpus,
and denied and abridged the right of the
people to assemble peaceably and devise
constitutional means for the redress of their
grievances; she has abridged and forbade to
the Irish people the liberty of speech and
of the press, the great bulwarks Of
a nations liberty, by harsh and arbitrary
methods she has denied to accused per-
sons in Ireland the right to speedy and
public trial by jury Of their peers, and
finally has deprived Irish citizens of liberty
without due process Of law, and then cast
them into loaths0me prisons, as Is evil
denced by the apprehension and confine-
ment of those brave and trusted Irish lead
ers, Parnell, Davitt, Dillon, and their assO-
ciates whose fearless souls never proved
recreant to duty: Therefore,
Resolped, That for these high crimes
against the constitution, against humanity,
against God, we solemnly arraign the Bri
fish government, its agents, advisers, mer-
cenary hirelings and apologists, before the
people of this great and free Republic and
before the entire Christian world, confident
that their responsive answer will bury these
Asian methods and their despicable authors
and promoters beneath an avalanche Of OBJ.
lOqy and contempt. .a-t1
Resolred That we denounce the arrest
and Imprisonment of Charles Stewart Par
nell the illustrious and acknowledged leader
of the Irish people, as also the wholesale
and arbitrary apprehension and incarcera-
tion of his brave associates, as distasteful to
modern civilization and utterly subversive
of the constitutional prerogatives of great
empire that we regard with horror as n
human race, with grave apprehensions for
the safety Of free institutions in England
and elsewhere, the abridgment of free
speech and the destruction Of free press, as
at tempted by the British ministry in Ire
land, and sincerely trust that these methods
and practices, the spawn Of that dark and
bloody feudalism of an age we had hoped
forgotten save for its atr0city, may not sur
vive the wreck Of Irish liberty.
Resolved, That we disclaim any enmity
toward tho masses Of the English people, a
great body of whom, like our brethren in
ireland, have been denied the franchise of
q free race and vast number of whom
suffer from similar land grievances; that
we ask their support in our attempt to pre-
serve inviolate those privileges, sacred alike
to them and to the people of Ireland that
we recall with hope the course of that noble
and high-minded Englishman, Hon. Joseph
C0wen, member of Parliament and editor
and proprietor of the Newcastle Chronicle,
and tender to him our sincere thanks for
his lofty and independent conduct in dis
carding the passions and prejudices of the
hour and boldly declaring himself the friend
and ally of a wronged and suffering race,
the enemy of reckless and arbitrary MN
istry. t
Resolved, That the manifesto issued by the
council Of the Irish National Land League
to the tenant farmers ito pay no rent was
only proclaimed by Parnell and the other
leaders when they found the last remnant
Of justice and liberty trampled under foot
as measure of passive resistance, as the
only answer to the iron rule of the min
istry. That we urge upon the people of
Ireland instant and uniform compliance
with the manifesto as their only hope tor
the future against landlordism, and that
we hereby solemnly pledge to them and to
the Irish National Land League our earnest,
united and hearty support ut all times and
nv all the Legitimate means at nur com.