Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-03-05

ity, and that Is to apply the cloture to th
: Irish party in parliament and compe
: them to return to Ireland for new in
i structions from the people. Thus we SO,
O the Sampson of Irish landlordism shor
OF its locks by the land league, pullin,
: down the pillars OF the British con stitu
tion. in its blind fury aud rage, becaus,
t the people OF Ireland are united unde
q the banner OF the league in Just, mora
movement against an unjust aud unnat
: ural privilege. No such spectacle wa.
ever before presented to the n.lookinl
outside world as o strong and popula
. English administration allowing itsei
to be led into ruin, and forced into dead
ly antagonism to the reasonable ant
unanimous demands OF five millions o
people by class that is responsible fol
every wrong that such people has sui
fered. and every calamity that has faller
upon the country through system which
consensus Of public opinion the world
over has condemned as barbarous, ,unius,
! and illogical. What, on the contrary, il
the position oi the land league in the es
timatlon OF the Irish people, or, il viewed
from an unpreiudiced external stand
point; q movement which has
\ united a hitherto divided country an or.
ganization which aims at stamping out
a social rinderpest from the midst Of an
afflicted people. The land league strikes
at the root of Irish misery, and work &
for freedom from wrong which rankles
in every heart and places poverty a. a
sentinel at every threshold IN the land,
1t seeks its end by means which no NOR
alist can condemn and which no opposi-
tion can arrest except by the employ
ment OF measures which must strength
en- the hold 1t already has upon the Irish
mind, and must inevitably communicate
the hatred which Is born toward an obi
GUS system to the power which resorts
to such measures in order to coerce the
people into q continued violation OF its
intolerable yoke. This lis the secret OF
the success of the land league, as also it
is an explanation Of the immense influ-
ence which it wields over, united Ire
land to-day. Resting upon the sacred
rights OF the domestic hearth for just
and solid foundation the land league can
battle against every enemy that con-
fronts it, because every homestead in
the land becomes a voluntary fortress
tor the defense of what demands protec-
tfon Tor its roof-tree, and promises Sc.
curlty Tor the common neoessaries Of life
to its hitherto undefended and .impoyer-
ished inmates. This is the snovement
against which the. landlords OF Ireland
are now dashing their heads in maniacal
rage, and the position from which MIR.
Gladstone hopes to dislodge a whole ma
ton BY repressive and coercive meas
ures. Well, the machinery OF the land
league may possibly perish in the eom-
ing struggle. bnt the Irish people and ex-
ternal justice, from which the organizes
tion derives Its power, are as indestruc-
tible as time itself. and must as surely
triumph over Irish iandlordism as the
sun shines down to-day: upon the, snow
clad hills and plains oi, Munster. Men
of Cork-people of Ireland3when sacri.
1ce must be the test Of 'earnestness, and
dogged determination, with unfiinching
perseverance,, the front which the land
league must show to its enemies, reool-
lect that no great movement has ever
yet triumphed in Ireland or elsewhere,
or just principle been, vindicated with
out numbers having to suffer, for their
devotion to the cause OF justice and rea-.
son. Will the tenant farmers shrink
from the temporary ordeal Through
| which they can march to free land and
happy homes !? VIII the manhood of our
country turn tail upon It's past career,
and give up the struggle. or look beyond
the little imprisonment and suffering to
an Ireland OF contentment and
property Your ringing cheers
are the response which the land league
confidently expects from its members
throughout Ireland to-day, and while
| this spirit animates farmer and laborer,
artisan and mechanic, men and women,
Catholic and Protestant, neither coer-
clon nor flying columns can save land
lordism from destruction or stand be.
tween our! country and freedom from,
eviction, rack rents and misery.
Let every unconstitutional. act on the
part of the government. and every out
rage perpetrated by the landlords be
SO many arguments given to the world
as proof that Englishmen car, not gov
ern, US as they rule themselves, and
that the class which has done their dir
ty work in Ireland in the past had tor
feited every claim to further toleration
from the Irish people. Despite the
efforts that are being made to drive you
from stern passive attitude into loose and
violent acton. adhere to the programme
ot the league. and repels every lincent-
i've to outrage, and every ipducemept
to give your enemies the opportunity of
wIping out this movement in the blood
OF Irishmen. Let the public opinion of
the civilized world now focused upon
our country. see that 1t Is the govern
ment and not the land leagtie which
commits outrage upon justice and pop
ular rights, and that it is the landlords |
and not the people who blacken the
character and violate the principles OF
equity and morality. II your patience |
becomes exhausted BY government bru-
hope. which is Your God given Inherit.
ance, be trsmpled upon by vindictiye
power, the world will hold England and
not you responsible, if the wolf dog Of
Irish vengeance bounds over the Attain
tic at the very heart of that power from
which it is now held back BY the influ-
ence of the league; but glorious, in
deed, will be our" victory aud high in
the estimation of makind will our grand
old tatherland stand if we can SO curb
our passions and control our acts in
this struggle for free land as 10 march
20 success through provocation and
danger without resorting to the wild
Justice OF revenge. or anything which
could sully the character OF brave and
christian people. Temporary defeat we
nay sustain, but If we refrain from
What would aid in crushing our cause
or generation, it will rise from such {
iefeat. and smite its very overthrower. !
Ehe men who are the soul of the land 8
eague to-day throughout Ireland reflect {
he youth, earnestness and determIna- G
II its gifted and chivalrous president. $
Charles Stewart Parnell, and it will 90 4
lard, in face OF the twenty years OF DO
ltical lite We have now ahead. if every f
vii atflicting our people be not swept 6
rom the path of Ireland's progress dur. i
ng this generation. Onward with the b
,lorious work of Ireland's redemption b
rom pauperism and degradation-on. t
espite every obstacle which bars her '
ray to contentment and happiness, and
ur children will enjoy a, happiness
'hich we never knew, while posterity
'i!l bless the hands which banished
rime and misery from the land. Let all q
rho may be singled out for persecution +
e looked upon as the representatives OF II
le peoples righteous cause and honor. o
d bylreland in proportion to the suffer- II
lgs which landlord-ridden England in u
icts upon them. II in business, let the a
eople see that their business shall pros al
er by their patronage. Let whig coer 81