Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-10-14
PARHELL AT WEXFORD.
A Personal Onslaught Upon Mr..
Gladstone
That May Have fastened His
Arrest.

By cable to the Herald.l
DUBLIN, October 9, 1SSl.-Mr.
Parnell spoke at a great League
meeting in Wexford to-day in answer
to Mr.. Gladstone's charges made at
Leeds on Friday. He said that he
was pleased TO SEQ that the country had
not forgotten its traditions, but was
prepared to return a fitting answer
To threats and intimidatiOns-aye, If
il became necessary an answer
10 those means which had been used
BY an INSCRIPTIONS government,
means which had failed, and which,
please God, would fail again if tried
again. They had had recently an OPP
portunity OF studying the utterances
ola very great man, a very great ora
tor, a person who, till recently, de-
sired to impress the world with a great
opinion Of his philanthropy and
Of his hatred of oppression, but who
stands to-day the greatest e%oercionist,
the greatest and most unrivalled SLAM
derer of the Irish nation that ever
undertook that task. He referred to
William Ewart Gladstone and his
unserupulous, dishonest speech OF
Friday night. Not content with
maligning the Irish, he maligned Mr..
John Dillon. No Misrepresentation
was too patent, too mean, too low for
him to stoop to, and it was a good
sign that this masquerading knight
Grant, this pretended champion ofthe
liberties OF every natisn except those
of the Irish nation, should be obliged
to throw off the mask and stand re-
vealed as a man who, by his own ut
terances was prepared to carry fire and
sword into their homesteads unless
they humbled'and debased themselves
before him and before the landlords
Of the country.
Mr.. DILLoN's% POSITION.
Mr.. Parnell then stated that Mr..
Dillon would reply himself to Mr..
Gladstone in the Land League office
on Tuesday next. He proceeded to
declare that he wouldinsist on tenants
getting the benefits of all the improve
ments to which they are entitled
under the clause introduced in the
Land act by Mr.. Healey. Mr.. Glad
stone had praised Mr.. Shaw as pattern
to Irishmen, but Mr., Shaw, speaking
in County Cork, had declared that he
never saw a process server but his
| blood boiled and he felt inclined TO
take a linchpin out of his ear. If he
(Mr. ParnelD had said hat to-day
Mr.. Gladstone would have him In
Kilmsinham before three weeks
we're out. That speech Of Mr.. Shaw's
was more clearly an Indictment to
an act Of violence than anything that
had been said by any Of those men in
jail, and yet Mr.. Gladstone held Mr..
Shaw up for admiration to the whole
Irish and English people, Mr.. Glad
stone had accused him (Mr. Parnell)
of preaching the gospel Of plumber,
but the land had been coniscated
three times over by men whose de-
scendants Mr. Gladstone is now sup
porting in the enjoyment of their
plumber by bayonets and buckshot.
Mr.. G~LADsToNE's ADMISSIONS.
Mr.. Parnell declared that Mr..
Gladstone in bewailing the fact that
there was no moral force behind the
government in Ireland had admitted
that the English government hat
failed in Ireland. He had admitted
all that Grattan and the volunteers o
82 fought for, all that the men of '9t
had lost their lives for, all that 0'Con
nell had argued for, all that the men o
'4S had staked all for, all that the mel
Of '65, after a long period ofdepressio
and the apparent death Of the nation
al life Of Ireland had cheerful.
faced the dungeon and the horrors Q
penal servitude for and all that the
in their overpowering multitudes hav
re- established and will bring to a sue
cesslul and a final issue-namely
that England's mission 10 Ireland ha
been a failure, and that Irishmen hay
established their right to govern Ire
land by laws made by themselves o
/ Irish sell.