Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-05-22
THE LAND LEAGUE.
Il Defenss From the Base Charges Of a
BJue-NOse British Subject.
GLENwooD, Mimi, May 10, 1882:

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! BSue-Nose British Subject.
GLENwooD, Mimi, May 10, 1882:
| To the Editor of The Globe.
| An editorial in the Pioneer Press Of the
Sth inst, with regard to the assassination of
Lord Cavendish and Mr. Barke, struck us as
being the outcome of long fondled and bit.
ter animoslties Gagged up in the heart of the
editor, against that unhappy race whose
destiny seems to be cast in the sea of expiring
peoples. That very learned editor assumes the
sphere Of the prophet and predicts martial
law and coercion for ireland as just and
deserving return for the cowardly taking of
of the new chief secretary and his
under-secretary, Burke. Why this for
Ireland? Why hold Ireland ac-
| countable for this dark deed. True, the MUIR
| derer may be Irish, but what of that Con-
denim the entire people, because of the act of
an individal? Why not let loose the blood
| hounds of the P. p. on the entire American
people for the murder of our lamented Gar
| field? Is Ireland more accountable for the
acts of her sons than America
The p. p. says: "Parnell, Davltt, and other
| andleague leaders are enthusiastic in their de-
nuncatlon of the deed, which is but the looked
| for fruit of their teachings"
This we brand as an unqualified falsehOod,
and we hold its author in duty bound to apollo
| gizs to the land league leaders. 1t Is
an established and fundamental principle
of the land league, that it discountenances,
| and has from the first discounteDanced, all
| agrarlan outrages. This shocking deed is not
the fruit of land league teachings, but fruit
of the diabolical outrages and unparalleled
| robberies which the internal British parlia-
melt has practlced in Ireland for over 100
years. True, we must turn back the pages of
| history to find parallel to this crime, but we
| need not 20 back to the ages of darkness, as
| does the P. P. 1t is but necessary to look
over the records of the past three years in Ire
| land. Who among the proud ones dropped
tear over the graves of the first martyrs OF
| the land war. Who among the proud ones
stood affrighted when the sentence of death
of death by starvation and buckshOt-was
pronounced against an entire nation, upon
5000, 0u0 of Gods creatures? Where was the
| sympathy of the tender.hearted P. P. when
| for no other reason than to give vent to his
deviltry, that boosted statesman Gladstone,
| let loose the hell hounds of England,o the de-
| fenseless tenantIy of Ireland and doomed to
the dungeon hundreds of Ireland's brightest
sons?
We ask the p. P. what he knows about the
| bCdCuiuSS Vi tiO lduO LEAGUE W JuotuJ uiS do
sertion that this bloody crime Is its fruit. If
there is any truth IN him about which we
| have our doubts) he must confess that he
knows nothing.
"Parnell, "says the prophetic Press, "may 20
| back to Kilmainham with the one consolation
that he has sown the seed and now reaps his
reward" Yes, noble Wlseacre, Mr.. Parnell
has sown the seed, but not the seed of anarchy
and bloodshed. He has sown the seed of
| Of al frufh. it 10 fo chaJ
until it has grown to such enormous
size that the fabric of British in
Justice trembles before its mighty
frown, and the enemy, not only of Ireland but
| of the world, against which Truth has ar
rayed her forces, unable to stand longer the
test OF comparison, when its pet weapon, co.
| ercion, has failed, and when the government
assumed policy which threatened the stolen
rights of the rObber, driven to desperation the
internal imp, landlordism, hoping to bring
the penalty of its bloody deed on the land
league, Redeemed its land in the blood of the
noble lord Is it because some miscreant land
lord stains his hands in his brothers. blood that
martial law should place it's merciless iron
heel upon the people? That bayonets shall
support evictions and grape shot check mobs
Is it because Of this that the gallows tree
| shall drop its CHASTITY fruit in fostering ripe
ness upon the historic sod and Mr.. Parnell
| solace his ennui in the dungeon?
"The American land leagues" says the
Press, "mav congratulate themselves that
they have watered the tender plant
and say We, well may they con-
graduate themselves that they have
watered the plant, not the plant that has de-
veloped into the full fedged murderer, but
the young and tender plant OF youth and JUS
the land league leaders. Of what more glori.
Gus object could the American land leaeuers
be capable than of lending their aid to a cause
based on the incontrovertible basis of truth.
Stand firm, thereon, ye leagues, both of Ire
land and Amersca, and though kingdoms 90
down and republics rise on the ruin, thoueb
languages may perish, worn out forms and