Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-05-10
AN APPEAL FOR ERIN.
ADDRESS TO IRISH
MEN
Adopted at the Last Meeting Of the Irish
Land league-a. n. 0Sullivan
TO Lecture Here on
May 20.

Land League, an account OF which was
crowded ont yesterday morning. was oil
unusual interest. A letter was received
from Patrick Ford, editor OF the ir'sh
World, stating that NJ. NJ OSnllivan'
the great traverser, would be in Bellaire
on the 18th instant, and, ii desired,
would lecture in Wheeling en- the 2Oih.
A committee wss appointed to take the
matter into consideration and report.
The following address was presented
and adopted, and a request made that
it he published in the REGISTER;
FsLLow CONFERENCE.-The time has
at length arrived when IT BECOMES lhe
duty OF every Irishman to enroll HIM
self a member OF the Land League. l0n
are ali aware that a struggle might
saw a life and death struggle, IS now
going on between the Irish people ana
the robber landlords, backed up by Inc
perfidious and tyrapnical government o.
England. You are also well aware that
the people OF Ireland are powerless
against the landlords and the English
government il left to themselves. leu
are also aware that the people oil Ireland
are receiving aid and sympathy from the
people of all nations, and that II the
people OF Ireland will but stand FIRMLY
together. the reign Of landlord desPot-
ism is at an end, and Ireland will soon
:gsin take her place among the nations
of the earth.
Will YOU then, whilst all nations and
peoples are extending their aid and
sympathy to the struggling Irish peo'
pie, stand idly by Indifferent as to the
final issue OF the land question?
know YOU will not do it, and am
perfectly we'll aware that the spirit oil
Justice, nationality and hatred TO OPP
preston has not left you, and that you
are not entirely oblivious OF the wrong,
misery, Indebtedness, plumbers, contis'
cations and cold blOoded murders in
flicted by the robber landlords and Eng
lish government on the people OF Ire
land for the last seven hundred years.
The history OF the English government
is a history OF repeated injuries and
usurpations, all having in direct object
the establishment OF an absolute tyranny
over the Irish people.
To prove this let facts be submitted
10 a candid world.
They are aiding the robber landlords
10 swindle the Irish people ont oil their
God-given right-the right 10 own the
land they cultivate.
They have caused periodical famines
in Ireland, by which the people died OF
starvation by the thousand.
They have cut of the trade oil the
country with all parts OF the world.
They have deprived the people OF the
benefits OF trial by jury.
They have transported beyond the
seas, time and again, the friends OF the
people for advocating the peoples
cause.
They have plundered the Irish seas,
raysged its coasts, burned its towns and
destroyed the lives OF the people.
They have passed coercion acts to
drive the people into an unprepared re-
belliOn.
They have arrested, and are arresting
innocent men, both Irish and American
citizens, and casting them into PRISON,
without trial by jury or the color u! law.
They are endeavoring to force the PEG
Die of the land out OF their native coun
try, to seek at the hands oil strangers a
home and protection denied to them by
their own government.
Tney have destroyed the manutacto'
ries and commercial interests OF Ireland,
to enrich English mOnOpolists. And as
it were, to cap the climax OF their hell.
ish designs, they are shooting down in
cold blood innocent men and women
for protecting their God-given rights.
Fellow countrymen, these are some OF
the charges, in which arraign the cruel
and unjust landlords, and the base.
perfidious and devilish government OF
England, and against which your faith
ers, mothers, brothers and sisters are
bravely battling to day, and Spartan
like, laying down their lives for their
God-given rights.
| ask YOU, fellow countrymen, are not
all these charges just? Ii so, are you
not willing to do little to help your
relatives and friends to free themselves
from the burden OF oppression that
weighs heavy on them.
Fellow countrymen, let me ask you
one question. Did you ever reflect why
it is that the few earnest Irishmen who
compose the Land League Of this city,
are so anxious that you, one and all,
should join the League? II you did not,
let me tell you the reason. In conse
uuence OF the great number OF evictions
taking place every day, the Land League
requires a large sum of money to de-
fend ejectments, and feed and procure
shelter for those evicted; also your
united sympathy is more dreaded bv
the English government than that OF
private individuals, and also that you
may set a good example TO the Ameri-
can born citizens, that they, too, may
lend a helping hand to the people OF
Ireland, now bravely battling to pro.
tect their rights against lot OF land
lord robbers and tyrannical and alien
government.
In unity there is strength, and as Son
as the 0rsngemen OF the North
and the Catholics of the south
Of Ireland become united, which is now
being fast accomplished, all, so
soon, as the Irish people the world over
becomes united, the days OF landlord
robbing and English treachery and cold.
blooded murders will cease, never more
to be thought of, only by the ruined
churches and desolated homes OF that
once beautiful and happy country. Look
at Rome, Greece. Carthage and your
own dear Erin. As long rs they re-
NAMED united no power on earth could
conquer them. Up to this date there
are about 5000 branches of the League
established in this country, besides a
great many by the ladies-God bless
all in good working order.
Look abroad over this vast continent,
from Maine to California, from Michi
gan to Florida, Canada, France, Austria.
liza and South America, everywhere, from
the sultry climate d the torrid zone to
the frozen SHOWS OF the Arctic ocean,
wherever the Irish exile seeks a shelter
and home, there the people are con.
tributing their money and denouncing
in thunder tones the base and pertidious
English government and the tyrant
robber landlords. And in the face OF
all these facts, shall it be said that q cor
porals' guard cannot. be mustered to
Join the League here? Why then, nv
friends, stand back? Or are you degen-
crate sons of noble sires, men who
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