The Rock Island Argus., 1882-05-12

Fenians Acknowledge and
extol Assassination.
A Severe Coercion Act
Passed.
Home News, Brewers Con-
vention, the Scoville
Family.
Criminal and Sporting, --Gen-
eral News.
A PROCLAMATION.


New YORK, May IA special dis
match from Dublin says; The following
proclamation has been issued by the Irish
Republican Brotherhood:
GOD SAVE IRELAND.
To the Irish people and all leaders of liberty,
md particularly Oug brothers Of 1. r. b.
and kindred organizatioa:
AS there seems to be grave misander-
standing as to the aim and scope of the
late executions at Dublin, we, executive of
LR.B., hereby request all aforesaid to
withhold their opinions of this matter for
the present, and refrain from expressing
sympathy at public meetings. which tend
to humilitate Ireland and give aid and
comfort to England. As to Minister
Burke, he had preyed upon the lives and
liberties of his countrymen for many years,
and had deserved death thousands of times
at our hands, and as to Lord Frederick
Cavendish, the linea1 descendant of the
infamous Lord Bronghill, ,.who hanged the
gallant and patriotic MacEagan, Bishop of
Ross, at Carrigadrahid, because he would
not betray his country, his very name
stinks in the nostrils of the Irish people
by the iniquities of his brother, Lord Hart
ington, and the wholesale evictions
of his father, Duke of Dew
onshire, thereby driving thous
ands of rightful owners of
the soil to the poor house. exile and
death. This organization has tolerated
the vagaries of ParneH and his safe
treason, until he has filed the bastiles of
our country with the victims Of a useless
Parliamentary agitation which left 10000
persons homeless last year, and drove a
million of the flower of our people to ex.
ile. This ceases to be harmless when
truce is made by he himself, and his
friends are allowed to GO go free and
eighty of IreIands braves are left to starve Oh
languish in prisons to be exiled or assassi-
mated: and these men who by so-caIleu
outrages opened prison doors to Parnen
and his friends. IF England really wished
the deal fairly by Ireland, why not issue q
doors would be opened and thousands Of
our exiled brethren who now pine in for
eign lands could return in safety and
honor. Instead of this, Gladstone seal
emmissaries to the venerated head of the
Catholic church, who by lies and false
representations have deprived thousands
of our poor prosecuted people of the com
forts of religion by turning our altars into
political platforms. Let us ask the people
of Ireland are there no classes of people t.
be considered except farmers, and of wha
avail will it be to Ireland if the selfish clas
is firmly rooted in the soil, and become
thoroughly loyal to England. We ask GU
friends in America to ponder upon on
desperate circumstances; to think OF brave
and honorable people driven to despair b,
witnessing the white bosoms of our womeI
torn open by bayonets of English mercen
aries, and our children of tender ages sho
down on the highways, while our walls o
anguish are stified in blood. We are con
vinced no true prosperity can ever exist il
Ireland SO long as England passes her Gus
tom houses there, allowing her manufac
turers to pass into Ireland duty free, there
by leaving our Irish mechanics unemployed
and enormous war tribute exacted by Eng
land, taking away produce of the land ant
thereby forcing the Irish people to starve
Now, furthermore, we call upon all ou
brothers in America, particularly advanced
nationalists, to aid by every means in thei
power the men who carried out this execu
ton, and hereby further declare that the,
deserve well Of their country.
By order of Executive of Irish Republi
can Brotherhood