Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-29
ADoRAM PHELPS,
WORDS OF IRELAND'S DELE
GATES.
Stirring MaDifestOfrOm the Lead
ers in the Cause TO their !
COuntrymen.

Preparations for the National Con-
vention Of Irish Organizations in Chi
cago on November 30, are nearly
completed, and the attendance prom
Uses to be very large. The following
address is published in this weeks
Irish World
To the Irish Organizations of Amer
lea:
We deem it right to say a last word
on the National Convention TO assem-
bic November 30, at Chicago, prepara-
tons for which are now a%pproachi 6
their conclusion. !.
This Convention answers several
purposes.
The Irish people at home r in the
agony of what promises to be the final
struggle with landlordism, and the
Convention is intended to convey 10
them. in the most distinct and unmis
taxable manner, that Irish America
is unanimously and enthusiastically at
their back.
The significance Of the demonstra-
ton is that, composed as it will be Of
all the Irish American organizations
friendly to the Land League cause
and policy, it will be a grand embodi-
ment and concentration Of all Irish
forces that will place unity of aim ard
the strength Of numbers and Of ma
%ierial resources before the whole
world.
The second purpose Of the demon
stration Is to assist the Irish at home
in the struggle against the English
rule Of terror and reign Of despotism,
All the movements since last Feb
ruary have had a joint object and
efect-tbe FIRST to kill landlordismi
the second, to kill coercion.
At home and abroad the Irish want
TO prove that to coerce Ireland is no
small thing to be attempted, and by
no means to be accepted with tranquil
patience or mean cowsrdice.
We want to prove that coercion is a
means qf government in ireland
against which all the Irish race rise il
indignant and potent revolt. and t
close that phase Of English rule il
Ireland once and forever.
And thus the Convention is intend
ed to be at the same time a message 0
hope to the Irish at home Of the vas
forces they may count on as allies, ant
a message Of warning to England 0
the vast forces with which she vii
have to deal.
The demonstration ought TO Civ
the word of doom 10 the twin curse
Of Irish life-Irish landlordism an
English domination.
Lying accounts from ireland seek t
produce misleading impressions i
America. Ireland is representa- a
lulled by the Land Act, and the ma
jority Of tenants are pictured as seek
ing the Land Court.
1t is falss, most false. The lull j
ireland is but the preparation for IL
storm.
The rents are just becoming du'
and our impression is that in the vas
majority Of cases the rents will not b
paid.
The tenants Of Ireland, at th
present moment, stand face to fac
with one of the most trying situation
that ever tried the manhood an
patriotism Of a nation.
On the one side their terrors ar
appealed to by 10000 soldiers, 1900
armed police, and the suspension {
all sensational liberties; on the othe
side the obcdient puppets of Nj
. Gladstone in the Land Courts max
! high bids to their cupidity by appa
rently large reductions of rents; an
: yet, mistaken by appeals to thei
fears, and superior to the appeals (
a their selfshness, the Irish farmer
: obey the No Rent manifesto, and re
main true to their imprisoned leader
7 and their outraged homes.
We appeal to eur countrymen t
make the momentous C~onventio
which meets at such a crisis worth
4 Of the magnifcence Of the occasion
the magnitude Of the issues and tn
. s~acredness Of the cause.
i. p. O'CoNNoR,
EUGENE SUyRRY