The Portland daily press., 1882-10-17
IRELAND'S AFFAIRS.
The National Conference-Davitt Discus
ses the Programme for Future Plat
form

The National Conference-Davitt Discus
ses the Programme for Future Plat
form
LONDON, Oct. 16 The Globes Dublin dis
pa On On reports elaborate military arrangements
at Vlceregal Lodge, and soldiers have been or.
9ered T to leave the barracks only in couples
- Iireetions nave also been given that half of
s9e aVallsoie force be retained in the barracks.
Msrwood, the hangman, has been threatened
WIN assassination, if he even ventures to go
10 ireland to perform.an execution,
DUBLIN, Oct. 16.-A demand for local self
government 10 the programme Of the National
conference includes abolition of nomination
| py lhe goYefnmen. to office, and abolition of
the office Of Lord Lieutenant The Central
Council OF tie new league, will consist of 80
members, ~ OF whom will be elected by coun-
y conventions, and ten by the Irish parliament
tary party.
LONDON, Oct. 16.-Miehael Davitt saws. in a
letter on the Irish conference: "The pro
gramme that is to be discussed as TO the future
platform of the country, is far too wide to be
lett TO the decision OF any select body of local
lea 4ers. Each separate plank is of national
Importance, requiring careful consideration,
aud demanding for the movement in which SO
many otner vital interests are to be included a
popular sanction and measure of support that
coulu scarcely be counted upon unless put be-
lore our people at home and abroad as emanat-
lng rom truly representative assembly,
pretend
Now that an indication of renewed activity on
tne part OF the leaders is apparent to the peo-
pie, they are beginning to pluck up confidence
egaln, as is evident from the increasing num-
Der OF meetings thst are being held in various
parts OF the country. 1t requires very little re-
hectlon TO convince our farmers and people
generally, that hestancy apathy or indiffer-
ence on their part, while confronted with an
ever active and INSCRIPTIONS enemy, means de-
feat TO their cause and the revival of landlord
and west British agcandon0u in tha 10
OF Ireland Ii the struggle of the past teaches
one thlng more than another, it is that the
concessions which have been made TO ireland
nave Deen The measure of her own determina-
tlon IN demanding what was hers by right, and
not the equivalent Of England's sense of ius-
tlee voluntarily conceded by an unpreiudiced
House of Commons. These concessions. IL IS
true, are never commensurate with the
efforts put forth by our people in movements
Tor tDe obtainnent of full and complete instice
but the lesson of how alone they have been
aud can be won is the one hing that must be-
learned ~ heart in every corner of Ireland if
We are ever TO wiring from reluctant foe the
11H complement OF our peoples inalienable
rights, national and social. 1t is true we have
been beaten from the position which the land
movement held a year ago, bat only at the
cost to England OF an attack by Mr.. Gladstone
upon every political privilege that dis
tinguishes naked despotism from constitutional
liberty. Is this saying that the two great
principles, truth and justice, upon which that
movement rested for mora sanction and foun-
~dation, are weakened or overthrown because
brute torce has, for time,' oyerpowered a
moral cause? The grand, indestructble truth
that this land of Ireland was made for peo-
pie, aud not for class, is still as self-evideut
and palpable as the everlasting hills, while
the justice of demanding that the ownership
of that land should be vested in thoss for
whom it was created in order to be administer
ed SO as best TO promote the prosperity and
happiness of the people, is still the predomin-
ating conviction OF the Irish mind and its vim
dlcation the III N resolve of the rising genera
tion of Irish manhood Well nav land
monopoly, confronted by such inyincible
truths, while compelled to fall back upon cosr
cion for support, be expected TO exclaim, with
the vanquisher of Roman legions: One more
such victory and I am nndone.' All that is
required from us TO effect this desideratum is
imply to stand fearlessly by truth and Justice