The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-10-26
THE IRISH TROUBLES.
PAY NO RENT-A MANIFESTO FROM THE
IRISH LAND. tEAGUE-APPEAt TO
pIIr PFOpT r .erc

the English press rs a direct incen-
tive to civil war. The League in
this document promises to supply
those who may be evicted with
funds collected in the United States,
and asserts that another heroic eff
fort on the part of the people will
destroy landlordism. The Dublin
Freeman'S Journal thinks ruin to
individuals and possibly bloodshed
will result from the Leagues mani
festo. The Irish Times thinks the
tenants will not obey the order and
that they will hasten to take advan
tage of the Land act The new
war-ship Infexible, carrying four
18-ton guns, has been ordered to
Ireland, and military reinforcements
are on the way. The following is
the manifesto issued
''Fs!5os0 Countymen The hour has
come to test whether the great organiza-
ton built up during years of pltient
labor and sacrifice and consecrated by
the allegiance of the whole Irish race
the world over is to disappear at the
summons of brutal tyranny. The crisis
with which we are face to face is not of
our making. 1t has been deliberately
| forced upon the country, while the
land act is yet untested, in order to
strike down the only power which
might have extortcd any solid benefits
fnp 80 Of
that act to leave them once more help
lessly at the mercy of the law invented
to save landlordism aud administered
by the landlords minions. The execu-
tive Of the Irish national land league,
acting in the spirit of the resolution of
| the national cOnventiun-the most
| freely elected representative body ever
| assembled in Ireland-was advancing
steadily in it's work of testing the land
act At the same time they took meas
| ures to secure lin the event of the land
| act proving to be mere paltry mitiga-
! ton of the horrors Of landlOrdism in
order to fasten it more securely upon
the necks QftAe people, that the tenant
farmers should not be delivered blind
folded into the hands of hostile law
| courts, bur should be able to fall back
upon the magnificent organization
which was crushing laudaordism out Of
existence whQa Dir. Gladstone stepped
in to its rescue.
| ''BIow after blow has been struck at
the land league in mere wantenness of
| brute force. In the face of provoca-
ton which has turned mems blood TO
| flame, the executive adhered calmly,
! steadily 10 the course traced out for
| them by the national convention. Test
cases of q varied and searching charac-
ter were with great labor pup ia train
! for adjudication In the land courts
Even the arrest of Mr.. ParneI and the
excited state of feeling which it evoked
did not induce tn executive to swerve
! in thc slightest from that course, but
The events which have since occurred
seizure Of almost all the memb 3rS of the
| eEecptiye and chief officials of the lea
que upon preposIeF0qs Drctepses, and
the violent suppression of free speech
put it beyond any possibility OF doubt
that the English government, unable to
declare the land league an illegal asso-
citation, defeated in the attempt to break
its unity, and afraid to abide the result
Of the test elses, bas deliberately re-
solved to destroy the whole machinery
of the central league, with view to
rendering the experimental trial of the
act impossible, aud forcing it upon the
Irish tenant farmer on the governments
own terms. Only one constitutional
weapon now remains in the hands of
the league. It IS the strongest, swiftest
and most irresistible of all. We hest
tate to advise our fellow contrymen to
employ it until the savage lawlessness Of
the Nnglish goFeFGnaEt has provoked
crisis in which we must either consent
to see the Irish tenant farmers disarmed
Of their organization and laid once
more PROSTATE at the feet of the land
lords and evury muTmur Of trirh public
opinion suppressed with an armed hand,
or appeal to our conntrymen to at once
resort to the only means now left in
their hands of bringing this false and
brutal government to its senses,
Fellow countrymen, the hour to try !
your souls and 10 redeem your pledges
has arrived. The executive of the ma
tional land league, forced to abandon
its policy Of testing the land act, feels
bound to advise the tenant farmers of |
Ireland from this day forth to pay no
rents under any circumstances to their
landlords until government relinquishes
the existing system of terrorism and re-
stores the constitutional rights of tile
people Do not be daurted by the re-
moval of your leaders. Do not let our
selves be inundated by threats of mill
.ary violence. 1t is as lawful to refuse
10 pay rents 20 i is to receive them.
A gainst the passive resistance Of the
entire popula ion military poN er has
40 weapon. Funds will be poured on
lnstintedIy for the support of all who
nay endure eviction in the course #
he struggle. Our exiled brothers in
America may be relied upon to contrib
lte if nessary as many millions of
money as they have contributed thous-
nds to starve out landlordism and
ring English IS ranny to its knees. You
ave only to show that you are not un-
worthy Of their houndless sacrifices
)ne more growing struggle for your
and, your homes, your Iiyes-a strug
lie in which you have all the memories
# your race, all the hopes Of your kin
red and all the sacrifices of your i'm
risoued brothers"
The manifesto is signed by Messrs.
arDell, Kettle, Davitt, Brennan, Dill
IN, Sexton and Egan.
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