Warren sheaf., 1881-06-22


neIt, in The midst of the frsndo appeal Of The
Irish people for emancipation and q redress Of
wrongs, dared to denounce in laundering tones
MS abe9rrence o. n;r Of the PRACTICES pursued BY
law-abiding man, and above all, and which will
ever rebound to his glory, Jealous Of the sane
hty OF human life. The man who commits
crime" he said, .'glves strength to the en-
form was worth the shedding Of one drop Of
blood" He described the Irish rebels of 1898
as gang of miscreanta" THROUGHOUT the
whole conrse Of his political career he preached
and followed out the doctrine Of constitutional
agitation strictly. Mr.: Parnell, on the contrary,
if not openly advocating assassination and out
rage, yet connives at all these crimes; for he
'ssups with those who slay,'' and in his
speeches passes over, with sinister and sug-
gestive smiles, all reference to these outrages
Mr.. Parnell is inst at present Of infinitely more
Importance than the desolated households rem
dered SO by the bullet from behind the wall.
We challenge our readers to produce one soli-
tary sentence emanating from Parnell, de-
nouncing in unmistakable language these
abominable murders and the perpetrators
thereof. O'Connell had something to offer the
people in return for their agitation. He went
boldly and manfully for the repeal Of the
union. There was . conference in all his plans
and purposes His ideal was free and eman-
cicated people, and for the contamination of this
iuea he labored with titanic force, until at last,
worn out by his superhuman efforts. and dis
couraged in soul by the broils and dissentions
among his followers, he quickly sickened and
died As we have already said, OConnell's
agitation was carried on by purely cOnsttu-
tional methods. had IS its ultimate q definite
object, however impracticable that object
might be. The repeal of the union was the
object to which he pointed his countrymen, but
forbid in clarion tones the application of physi-
cal force to attain the contamination of this,
their fondest wish. Parnell's agitation is in
direct defiance of law; by the absence Of any
outrage and murder Assassination, Is 3
means to the attainment Of an end, is unjusti-
fable. That law Of expectancy propounded
by Caiaphas, the high priest, shat 3 man
should die for the people" contains no senti-
barbaric times, when life was bereft of that sa-
light of the nineteenth century. ,e
At the best it was but the argument Of q
sophist Since then many Caesar has fallen
fnlfllment OF, or in accordance with, the philos-
ophy of that law. When Caesar fell, not only
did the embodiment of despOtism fall, but his
death was an obliteration Of that law of which
he was both creator and exemplar; and if the
czar of all the Russias shall fail by the hand of
the law Of expediency as q principle
governing the actions of those asking his death,
but an act in strict harmony with that nihilis-
tic dogma, that the death of the czar is the ex-
tinction of the law, not the removal of an out
growth but the obliteratiOn of the thing itself
1t is not expedient that one man (or many men
as Mr.. Parnell will have it, shall die for the
people. The assassination of landlord is
murder, and cannot be considered by any SEN
timent - an expiation, sacrifice extinction of
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the outgrowth and not the cause Of these op-
pressive measures, the creature and not the
creator Of these obnoxious land laws. He is rs
much, in the light of reason, victim to this
legislation as is his tenant, for, if from these
laws spring all of the misery and poverty ex-
this same source flow the attendant train of in
iquitous assassnations and outrages. Poverty
is much to be preferred to = continued and
ever present sense of insecurity of life, per-
son and property. If any plea could be offered
in extenuation of assassination as means to
an end, ,OConnell would be entitled to that plea
for. during the period of his agitation, famine
had stalked through the land and had desolat-
ed nearly every household in the famine
stricken districts. Nearly every law on the
statute book of England affecting Irish inter-
ests was not only unrepealed but was enforced
with the greatest rigor and severity by big
oted and intolerant government.
How different the situation; all laws affect
ing the rights of conscience have been re-
pealed not one law touching the landed and
proprietary rights lof landlords and tenants
which was then in force, but has either been
repealed or modified by Gladstone's land law
of 1870, and the enforcement of the same has
been tempered with mercy, and yet we must
confess that the repeating and modification Of
the old and the enactment of new laws have
not kept pace with the changed conditions of
life among the peasantry Of Ireland. The
worst feature of this agitation is that these
outrages are being committed with the conni-
colleagues and in the face of the most merci-
ful and benefcent of governments. A gov
ernment that has pledged it's honor to remedy
all the wrongs of ireland, consistent with the
welfare Of its people and the claims of Justice
and whose every effort has been towards allie
waiting the wants Of the perishing peasants
during the trying times of the late famine.
The plighted faith the avowed intentions, and
the well-known integrity and philantrophy of
the members Of the present government is
sufficient guarantee that if the Irish people
will be but wise in their generation, discarding
the rabid vaporings of Parnell and eschewing
all connection with him, exercising that
patience which the great task before the gov
ernment demands at their hands, their wrongs
will surely be redressed, and that in most
thorough and radical manner
In that gallery of fame which history is
erecting for the great of earth, there will be
found niche for that noblest of tho sons of
Ireland, according to him his proper place and
position among those who are accounted the
embodiment of true greatness; but in the
hearts of all his countrymen there is erected
greater and more enduring monument, a
memory enshrined in hearts that will never
cease to beat in grateful remembrance of one.
who, for their sakes became poor, and who
counted his life but nought in his efforts for the