Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-01-06

employee of the circus, who ventured on too
| familiar terms with the eviciousanimal. 1.-The
wheat and oat crops of Alabama are reported
as failures. THE white race is greatly
overrated,' - said speaker in a Boston meet
ing of negroes relative to the Cadet Whitaker
case. 1.-The people of Iowa adopted, at the
late election, an amendment to the State con-
sttution making coored men ineligible to the
Legislature of that State. The Com
missioners of Roads and Revenue in Putnam
county, Georgia, have fixed the price for retail
liquor license at So, 600 per annum. Thirty
one States of the thirty-eight in the Union now
have biennial sessions of their Legislatures.
THE SITUATION IN IRELAND.
Affairs in Ireland are rapidly approaching
crisis. The English Government has thrown
an army into the disaffected territory twice as
large as she employed in her attempt to sup
press the American Colonies in their struggle
for independence, and it is doubtful if ever,
since Waterloo. England has massed so many
troops in any one enterprise as she has now
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eregnty. The trial of Parnell and thirteen
other leaders in the land movement, is now in
progress at Dublin. The jury impannelled on
the 2Sth ultimo, consists of both Catholics
and Protestants and one Quaker, and it is
reasonable to suppose that so far as relates to
the composition of the jury, the prisoners will
have fair trial. In the preliminary proceed
ings. Chief Justice May read an address sta
ting that after the miscOnception that had
arisen as to what he said on former occasion,
he should not take part in the present trials.
After Chief Justice May had finished reading,
Justice Fitzgerald took the chief seat and the
trials were proceeded with before him and
Justice Barry.
Acknowledgement Law opened the case for
the Crown, the reading of which occupied three
days. He spoke in firm and moderate tone.
He said the object of the conspiracy in which
the prisoners were engaged, was to cause the
social accommodation of a number of per-
SONS, and to make their lives not worth hav'
ing. He pointed out the absurdity of the
idea of parceling out Ireland among a popu'
lation of five millions, which would only add
to the misery of this unfortunate country. He
severely condemned the policy of the Land
League, which he said advocated freedom, yet
brought all it's power to bear in the coercion OF
private individuals The Government, he
said, was bound to institute proceedings to
put down wicked agitation.
! Continuing his address, on the 29th, he re-
ferred to the humble occupation of most OF
the prisoners" and said, doubtless, they found
agitation most profitable. He warmly de.
nounced agitation as all intolerable conspira-
cy. The intention of the Government, he
said, in instituting these proceedings, was to
protect the rich and poor alike from fright
full tyranny that respected neither life nor
property. The people had been told not to ac'
cept Mr.. O'Connell's dctum, that no farm was
worth drop of blood, and few days after
they were thus advised, Ferrick, the bailiff,
was shot at Ballinrobe. The remarks Of the
Acknowledgement at this point caused consid-
cradle feeling in the Court, especially when he
quoted the reported words of J. w. Nally, one
of the prisoners, that "Ferricks murder was
worth Il hundred speeches." He further stig-
matized the proceedings Of Land Leagues as
capital plan for reducing society to original
chaos and bringing about communism. He
particularly pointed to Messrs. Brennan, Boy
ton, Gordon, O'Sullivan and Nally, OF the
prisoners, as agitating with view to peeu-
mary profit. He quoted Nally' IS violent speech
which Immediately preceded Ferrick's muir
der, and then proceeded to deal with the vio-
lent speech attributed to Dillon and Parnell,
both of whom said the people had remedy
for their grievances in their own hands. The
faith in the British Parliament, but to drill.
lie cited various further passages OF the
speeches by these two members of Parliament,
as exasperating the people into spoilation and
murder. lie quoted, amidst general laughter,
from the speech of Mr.. Bggar, who said he
did not recommend the shooting of landlords,
because wrong men had been sometimes shot.
After quoting Mr.. Harris recommendation to
the peasantry to emulate the example OF the
French in 1888, he said the Land League is
founded upon basis of sedition and treason
Mr.. Parnell, who was given to expressing his
opinions moderately, had himself declared that
either the landlords or people must 60, and it
would be for the people themselves to decide
which, The Court then adjourned at 3.3O p.
m., because the Attomey-General was fa-
tigued. Mr.. Parnell was loudly cheered on
, leaving the Court.
Continuing his address on the 3Oth, Mr..
Law completed the reading of seventy-seven
extracts from speeches of the traversers,
showing that they all counseled the people to
withhold their rent He then quoted the judg-
ment of Chief Justice Cockburn to the effect
that conspiracy was the act Of two or more
persons combining to injure third party,
and that it was not necessary that the acts
done should be criminal. A mere combination
to effect civil injury would he within the law.
lie wished to read the opinion of Daniel
O'Comell on a proposed strike of farmers
against the rent roll, but this was not allowed
by the Court. Mr.. Law proceeded to explain
the puniShments which the traVerSers adVO-
Gated for those who took evicted farms, and
declared that one of the Traversers had been
continued in his post rs the paid agent of the
Land League after having held persons up by
name to popular eXecration and murder. lie
dwelt with much effect upon the point that
the traversers had given prominence to the
statement that if &c, 600 persons were enrolled
in the League, no army could enforce land
laws.