Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-12
THE IRISH LAND LEAGUE
Letter flom Judge Black.


There was meeting Of the comnii tee
Of the Irish Land League fund On
Tuesday night, in Baltimore. Mr. Pat.
rick Reilly in the chair. The follow
ing letter was read frora Hon. jeremiah 5.
Black, of Pennsylvania, in response to an
invitation to deliver an address in that city
on the centennial OF Grattan's declaration
! Of Irish independence, February -.
BROCKIE, Pa. January 7.-Dr. II. II.
Cole, BaltsA4ore, M.-My dear SIR Your
| first letter was received just as l was start
ing for Pittsburgh and other places in the
! western part of the state, whence re-
turned only yesterday, and found your
note of December 20 ultimo. That is my
apology for the delay. suppose that my
opinions are in accord with yours. l may
De little cooler; but that is accounted
for partly by difference of temperament
and partly that l have not personally
suffered from British misgovernment
as much as my Irish fellow citi-
zens. My mind, however, is as we'll
made up OH the right and the wrong Of the
question as anybody else. lam perfectly
willing to give expression to the sentiment
l entertain on any proper occasion.
think, also, that the 22d Of February, at
Baltimore, will be Il proper occasion. 1t
| will, therefore, give me great pleasure to
| be with you, if possibly can. But it may
be impossible. Duties which are impera-
ative require inc to be in the West at
Chicago. st. Louis and Milwaukee, at q
time not yet accurately fixed, nor do
know with certainty how long
shall be detained there cannot there
! fore, at this moment make any posi-
tive promise and you must not rely upon
anything but my sincere wish to accept
your invitation, if l can do So consistently
with the engagements to which l am
already bound. If you must nave an an
swer now, yes or 10, You may consider me
as answering No" You are not to ad-
vertise me as one of the principal speakers
of the occasion for shall bo short AMI
uninterestiug aid will merely give, in the
| dryest possible way, the reasons for the
hope within me that the American people
will take up tho attitude which becomes
| them in the great struggle for liberty and
law and justice which their Irish brethren
are now making. Yours very truly.
J. s. BLACK.
DR.. Cole stated that he had introduced
| Judge Black to Mr.. Charles Stewart Par
nell, at the Westminster Place hotel, Lon
! don, and had listeued with great interest
those gentlemen ON Irish affairs, Mr.. Black
having recently returned from several
weeks soiourn in Ireland, where had bee"
an eye witness Of the oppression and mis-
rule there, aud lie spoke eloquently in de-
nunciation thereof. This had induced him
to make tho motion, which had been
unanimously adopted, to invite Mr.. Black
! to deliver the address on the 22d of Feb
ruary. tie would now say that the kind
! letter of Mr.. Black rendered that celebra,
bration impossible. because all the time
between this and that date would be re-
quired to make the necessary arrangement
| which could not be even commenced with.
out positive affirmative reply from the
distinguished Pennsylvania statesman.
He therefore suggested that letter he
written to Judge Black, thanking him for
his courteous letter and for the spirit i'll
which it was written, and at the same
time to inform him that in the absence of
an Immediate affirmative reply the proposed
| celebration on tho 22d prox. would be
abandoned, but extending to him All invi-
tation to deliver an address on some
day later in the season, suitable to his con-
venience. The suggestion was approved.