The examiner., 1881-12-03
/ HARTFORD, CONN.,, Nov. 28, 1881.

~( FEC.
 HARTFORD, CONN.,, Nov. 26, 1881.
 EDITOR ExAMINER-ln your issue of Mo- vember % the writer of the letter signing himself T. s., takes exception to your opinions of the Land Act because 'they are extreme and not in accord with the opinions of a large number of Irish men," Now, sir, in order to form cor rect opinion of this large number of Irish men it would be necessary to enquire who these Irishmen are. If they belong to that class, forced to leave their native land be- cause their parents or themselves may have been evicted from their homes to make room for some idle, life sucking landlord, and turned on the roadside to die with hunger and cold, and then coming to this country say, "give the Land Act a fair trial 7 we may easily know they are not a fair sample of the true Irishman. They belong to that class that every lover of liberty, of whatever nationality, will say have kept the tiller of the soil the world over in perpetual bon- dage and the best thing they can do is to take the first steamship to Great Brit ain, join the Queens O,o,a, or else the hire ling Irish constabulary and help Forster, Gladstone & Go. suppress the Ladies Land League, and bolster up the tottering land lordism that is now on it's last legs, and become the willing aiders and abettors of the worst system of robbery that ever dis graced the civilized world.
 Again, admitting that the Land Act ''is far in advance of the Reform Bill " that cept it as the great cure all They have great many evils to complain of. They desire the land of Ireland for the people that live there, and are willing to till the soil and earn their bread by the sweat of their face. They desire it because it is their God given right. They desire it be- cause it was stolen from them by the bloody William and the butcher Crom- well. They desire it because they are in sympathy with the advanced thinkers of the civilized world and all true reform CTS desire it, and intend to have it the world over, peaceably if they will, but some day, forcibly if they must.
 The writer takes exception to the reso- lution passed by the Parnell Branch of the English goods, because it will injure the working classes of England who suffor from the same cause that Irishmen suffer.
 Then to my fellow -countrymen I would say: You that are bound hand and foot to @ few aristocratic idlers shake off your lethargy, prove yourselves worthy of your ancestors let the government of Eng land know by your voice and your vote that your children shall not inherit paul perism. Organize yourselves my brother Englishmen, shake hands with your brother man in Ireland, don't allow the enslavers of the world to keep you sepa- rated any longer, forget the prejudices of your early teachers, remembering that the Creator intended you should live in world is your country, and to do good ought to be part at least of your religion.
 The writer says, ''you cannot expect the full sympathy of Englishmen in your cause, believing as they do in obtaining their rights by peaceful and legitimate means" Now sir, would ask in all fairness, did not Parnell, Davitt, Dillon and host of others use the very means the writer suggests, and for so doing the habeas corpus was suspended, martial law proclaimed, the coercion act framed for the occasion and some of the best men in Ireland to-day are in English prisons because they used that freedom of speech which is the right of every man who speaks the English tongue.
 No! no MT. Editor, go on with your advanced ideas spread the light, you will find their are millions of Englishmen> that love liberty and they want it for them selves as we'll as for their brothers in Ire land. Thank God the people are begin ming to understand they have rights that even tyrants are bound to respect, and hope and pray that the present agitation in Ireland will ere long result in the down. fall of landl lordism the world over, and the next generation be cursed with fewer millionaires and burdened with fewer paupers.
 Yours in the cause,
 AN ENGLIsHMAN.