The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-18
THE NEWS.
IN DEFENSE OF THE AssAss.s.

Proclamation ISSUED by the Irish ne
| publican brotherhood.
NEW YORK. May IA special from
Dublin says the following proclamation
has been issued by the Irish Republican
Brotherhood:
GOD SAVE IRELAND"
EUBLIH. May S.-To the Irish people
and all lovers of liberty, and particular
ly our brothers of /. X. Il. and kindred
organizations: As there seems 10 bs. a
grave misunderstanding as Ia the aim
and scope of the late executions at Dab
| lin, we, the executive of L. r. B., hereby
request all af0I esai1 To withhold their
opinions for the present and refrain
from expressions of sympathy al public
meetings, which tend To stimulate Ire
| land and give aid and comfort to Eng
land.
AS TO THE MONSTER BURKE,
he had pFeyed upon the lives and liter-
ties OF his coantTymen tor many years,
and hiss deserved death Thousand times
at our hands, and as TO Lord Frederick
Cavendish, n lineal descendant of the
| infamous Lord Broghill, who hanged pat
riOtic AcKeegan. bishop of Ross, at Car
rigadrobid because he would not betray
his country, his very name is sting in
the nostrils of the Irish people; by the
iniquities of his brother, Lord Harribg
ton, and the wholesale evicIions of his
brother, the Duke of Devonshire, thons-
ands uf the rightful owners of the soil
were driven Co the poOrhOuse, exile and
death.
This organization has tolerated the
vagabonds of Parnell and his safe trea-
sonmongers, till he has filed the bastiles
-, r III.
less parliamentary agitation, which left
10000 persons homeless last year and
drove millions of the flower of our peo-
pie To exile This ceases to be harmless
when truce Is made by which he him
self and his friends are allowed to 20
free, and eighty of Ireland's bTavest sons
are left to languish in PRISON, To be eX-
lied OF assassinated, and these men who
by sO-called autrages opened prison
doors to Parnell and his friends,
If England really wished to deal fair
ly by Ireland why not issue gener
al amnesty by which the prison doors
will be opened and thousands OF our
exiled brothers who now pine in foreign
lands could return in safety and honor.
Instead of this Gladstone sent
emissaries to the venerable
head OF the Catholic church,
who by lies and false representations
have deprived thousands of orr poor
people of the comforts Of religion by
turning our affairs into political plat
forms. Let US ask the people of Ire
land if there are no clnsses of people to
be considered except the farmers, and of
what avail will il be to Ireland if the
selfish class is firmly rooted in the soil
and becomes thoroughly loyal TO Eng
land.
We ask our friends in the United
States TO ponder on our desperate cir
cumStances, to think of brave and hon.
Orablc people driven To despair. We are
convinced that no more prosperity can
exist in Ireland so long rs England DOS
sesses her custom houses there, allowing
her manufactures 10 pass into Ireland
duty free, thereby leaving our Irish me-
chanics unemployed, and there is a
tribute exacted by England, taking away
the produce of the land and thereby
leaving the Irish people to starVe.
Now, Furthermore, We call on all our
brothers in the United States, particu
larly advanced natiOnalisis, to aid by
every means within their power the
men who have carried out this execu-
ton, and we hereby further declare
that they deserve well of their country.
BY order of the executive OF |. II. b.