Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-13
FRIENDS OF ERIN
In COuneil-Second Annual Convention
OF the National Land League ut
Washington.
Large Number of Delegates in Attend.
anee-Many Catholic Priests Pres
ent-Offiesrs Elected.

WAsHISaTos. April lS.-The seeona an
nual convention OF the National Land
League began its session this morning with
twenty-five States represented. Among the
first arrivals were Representatives Robinson,
of New York, eni Usdd and Murch, OF
Maine. Many Catholic priests are in at
tendance as delegates. General Patrick A
Collins; president of the League, called the
convention TO order, ard read the call giving
the reasons therefor and reviewing what had
already been accomplished by the League,
wherein the Chicago convention had failed
to fully carry out its objects, and what re-
mained for this convention to do. The call
sets forth the great distress that now exists
in Ireland; and the matter should receive the
undivided attention of all Americans as well
as Irishmen; they shpuld bury all Differences
and petty lealousies and unite to protect their
distressed fellow-crestures in ireland.
John Rooney, of New York, was made
temporary chairman, and committee on cre-
dentials appointed. Committees on resolu-
tious and organization we're also appointed
John Boyle VReilly, of Boston, offered a
resolution which recites the fact of the i'm
prisonment Of American citizens in English
jails, quotes the language and dispatches Of
Minister Lowell, and calls upon the Presi
dent to Immediately to recall Lowell, and
provides for the presentation OF the resolu-
The resolution was unanimously adopted
amilst great applause.
The Committee on Credentials reported
227 delegates present.
EVENING SESSION.
At the evening session the Committee on
Organization presented p. A. Collins for
president, and he was unanimously chosen,
together with a list of vice-presidents, in
Guiding Mrs. r. NJ. Springer, and OConnell,
of the District of Columbia, for secretary, all
OF whom Ware elected. The chairman and
ID legates OR-illy and OByrne, and Fathers
McMenamin and Cronin were appointed a
resolution regarding the imprisonment of
American citizens in Ireland.
Mr.. OBryan of New York, moved that a
vote of thanks be rendered President Arthur
for efforts made for the relief Of inPrisoned
American citizens. Hisses.l
The president stated that under the rules
the motion would go to the Committee on
RESOLUTIONS without debate. Applause
A letter was read from Wendell Phillips,
in which he says: "Our relations with for
eigu States will never be satisfactory unit
our diplomatists remember on that side of
the ocean what they ought to have learned
heIe-that all men are created equal, and
that injury done to any Anne rican citizen, n o
m after what his antecedents, his class or his
position, ID as grave an Insult 10 tne ndllo7
as il the wrong were done to our foreign
minister himself. / trust the convention
will assert these principles with all the en-
phasis possible"
General Rose Grams, appearing on the plat
form, was greeted with three rousiDg cheers
He said he sympathized with the cause
which brought the meeting here, and it was
not the beginning of his sympathy. The
evils which were to be redressed were rooted
six centuries deep in the soil OF Ireland, and
no American could understand what the
Irish people had suffered.
Congressman Robinson, of New York
made the customary address. Some routine
business was disposed of and the convention
| adjourned till to morrow.