Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-16
IRELAND'S PARLIAMENT.
THE NATIONAL LAND LEAGUE
CONVENTION.
The Great Gathering at Dublin
speech of Parnen-The Fight for
Home Rule 90 Go On-The Voice of
the Irish I'm AmerIca-The ssPall
Mall Gaxete'' and stTimes's ON ahe
Council.

DUBLIN, September S.-About thousand
delegates attended the opening proceedings
Of the National Convention to-day. Messrs.
Bigger, T. q. O'Connor, Sexton, Healy and
Sullivan were present. Previous to the
opening of the convention q conference
of delegates from the Labor
League was held, and Mr.. Sex
ton informed them that the convention
would adjourn the consideration Of ques-
tions affecting the laborers until tomorrow,
for the purpose Of enabling the labor dele
gates TO confer with Mr.. Parnell and the
executives of the Land League.
Twenty one members of Parliament were
present at the convention. Mr.. Parnell,
amidst the greatest enthusiasm, took the
chair. Mr.. Sexton received number OF
kilograms, particularly from American
branches OF the League, exhorttDg the dele
gates never to rest until landlordsim is
abolished, not to pay rent, and to hold back
their harvests, etc.
Mr.. Parnell, in his opening speech, re-
ferred to the thinning of their ranks by
coercion since the last convention. He
said that for every ten In prison one hun
dred would join the League. He reca pitu-
lated the resolutions and said that the
question OF self-government was the most
important. He had always considered that
1t could never be settled as
long as the question In regard to rent re-
mained in dispute. The land act left the
rent question as q continual source of dis
content and strife between the different
classes in Ireland. He had no doubt that
this was designedly so arranged by the
British Government.
He warned the farmers not to trust to the
land act. 1t was, he said, designed to
break the League. Nobody should appeal
to the land courts until the cases to be pre-
pared by the League had been submitted.
They should press forward to the abolition
of landlordism and to legislative independ-
ence. He advised the farmers to borrow
money under the land act so as to give work
to the laborers, and invited the latter to
join the branches Of the League. He
pledged himself to head the laborers' move
ment If the farmers did not give them fair
play.
Mr.. Parnell in his speech, referring to
the industrial question, said Irishmen
should encourage home manufactures, even
If they had to pay dearer for them than for
foreign goods. Things not producible in
Ireland should be bought IN America. Eng
lish goods should not be bought In any
event.
Mr.. Sexton then moved, collectively, the
Land Leagues resolutions noticed in these
dispatches yesterday, and they were carried
by acclamation.
The reading Of congrstulatory kilograms
occupied an hour. Among the more notable
were threats to stop American subscriptions
in the event of the agitation slackening.
Mr.. Sexton and Mr.. T. P. O'Connor were
elected Secretaries of the convention. There
was very large attendance of priests.
The Pail Mall Gazette this afternoon, dis
cussing the opening of the Irish National
League Convention, says: "The League is
in its infancy. The irreconcilable element,
which is at present uppermost, will find It's
level, and the League, like the Trades
Union, will become one of the steadyiDg,
and, in the best sense of the word, con-
servative forces Of the social system"
The Times, In leading article, discussing
the National League Convention, says:
"The note which the Land Leaguers uni
formly breathe is a note of continued agi-
tation. There is no sign from first to last
of any intention on the part of the men
who 1--we by agitation to accept the land act
as a settlement of the Irish question. Once
and for all, Ireland must understand that this
kingdom is and will continue to be politically
a united kingdom, and Great Britain will no
more tolerate secession than the United
States tolerated 1t in 1861"