The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-05-10
THE IRISH NATIONAL LEAGUE.

/ ed, and Platform Adopted-AI6xander
Sullivan; of Chicago, Presidential ViO-
lent DenuhciatiOn OF England's Alleged
MisruIe in Ireland.
PHILADELPaIA, ApEl 81. :
AT the morning session, the Secretary
! read, by unanimous CONSENT a COM
/ munication from Hon. s. S. Cox,
OF New York, cOngratulating the Con-
| ventiOn on what it had done, and declaring
4 that it was impossible for Ireland to remain
: under British government, on account of
/ commercial restrictions of the latter. There
! were 6S, 242 able-bodied men engaged in
keeping the peace, - while there were but
| 81, 900 engaged in teaching. The mcer-
tainty of land tenure and of political status,
! and standing army of spies, go to render
/ Ireland the worst governed country in the
world. Agitation for liberty will go on.
! The questions of extradition, citizens rights,
etc, if considered by the Convention, must
be viewed in the light of the lessons of re-
I cent events.
Edward O'Afeagher Condor then moved
tha5 the thanks of this Convention be ten
dered to Mr.. Cox. Carried.
On Mrs. PaTnelPs entrance she was heart
lily cheered.
At twenty minutes to twelve recess was
taken for two hours, to await the reports Of
the committees.
At 2 40, on the reassenbIing of the con-
ventiOn, the Chairman of the Committee on
Resolutions submitted his report, as follows:
THE PLATFORM.
The Irish-American people, assembled in
convention at Philadelphia, submit to the in
telligehce and the right reason OF their fellow
men, that the duty Of government is to pre-
their liberty, to protect their property, to
maintain peace and order, to allow each por-
voice in legislation, and to promote the gem
eral welfare by wise, just and humane laws
We solemnly declare and cite unquestOn-
able history and universal ffP
ing men in testimony hereof.
l. That the English Government has exist
ed IN Ireland, not to preserve the lives of the
governed, but to destroy them. Entire cons
munities it has wantonly mastered by the
deliberately applied the blazing torch; into
helpless towns it has discharged deadly bombs
Through c9nsecrqted srypts; where age and
infancy Sought shelter, It has sent its bloody
butchers. Sacred persons Of venerable priests
1t has stretched upon the rack or suspended
from the gibbet. Pulling babes have been inn
their own words, Its enissaries ike that
government Its gold has been folded in the
hand OF the assassin, and 1t has rewarded the
iniamy OF perJured traitor. Its troacherous
falSehOOd has lured patriots to unSuspectcd
dagger and explosive were not enough.
1t enjoys the unique infamy of being the
only Government known to ancient or mod
ern times winch has employed famine for the
destruction of those from whom it claimed al
legtance BY forcibly robbing the Irish peo-
pie OF the fruits OF their own toll, produced
by their own labor, it has buried not hum
dred, not thousand, but more than million,
of the Irish race unshrOuded and uncofined
in the grave of hunger. 1t has mcrcilcssly
compelled other millions in compulsory pow
crty, to seek in alien lands the bread they
were entitled to In their own.
There Is no form of cruelty known to the
lowest savage which it has not practieed on
the Irish people in the name of the highest
civilization. There is no device of fiendish in
genuity it has not adopted to reduce their
children, and women's bodies have been vic 1
tins of its licensed ruffians There is no spe-
cies of destructive attack, however insidiOus
or violent, ancient modern, rude sclen-
tit1c, whether directed against life or matterin
barities in ireland have not furnished exam
pie. There is no form of retaliation to which
despair or madness may resort, for which En-
glish cruelty in Ireland is not exclusively re-
spOnsible.
Ireland has not defended the liberty of the
people, but has annihilated it. The statutes
series of coercion laws framed to deprive
citizens of all vestfges of personal freedom,
and to reduce them to outlawry in order to
them to fee o to foreign foreig9 lands. and Since Since
the beginning of the present century.
the laws for Ireland have been
made in England and during that
period habeas corpus and right of trial
by jury have been suspended more than fifty
times HOrdes of soldiers have been loOsed
upon people forbidden to bear arms, and a
state of war, with all its attendant horrors,
with occasionally those of retaliation. has
been maintained. To-day representatives of
the people are in prison, gui1tless Of crime
Freedom of speech is abolished. Freedom of
press is abolished, and the right of peaeeable |
public meetings is annuilod. No mans house
is secure, night or day, from armed maraud- |
ers, who may insult and harass his family.
Without warrant citizen may be thrown |
into prison: without counsel he may be put
on mock trial before preiudiced Judge and |
packed jury; on lying averments of pur- !
chased wretches, his liberty may be sacrificed !
or his life taken in the name of law
3. Instead of protecting the property of |
the people, English government in ireland has |
been conspicuous for its injury and ruin. |
n Of
100000 have been allowed to lie waste. The |
ownership of the remainder, generally ac- |
quired by force or fraud has been retained in ]
the hands of ravenOus mOnOpolists who an !
nually drained the country of its money in /
back to the Irish people In addition to this,
an iniquitous system of taxation imposes on |
lance OF Iorelgn army IoI an hOppIesslNe con-
stabulary, for salaries to supernumerary of /
favorites; for blood-mOney for informers, and 1
for vulgar court whose extravagance is I
Inc naturally created capital OF the countryls /
sent to England on one pretext or an /
tcles of English manufacture, which the Irish /
people, under self-gOYernment, would pro- |
dquce for themselves or purchase in America.
irlsh manufacturers deliberately destroyed /
by England in the last century, are still dor
i hant Her immense WaleT-poWef turns no
WheeIs; her canals are all but I'M npassaDle; her
rivers are all Obstructed; her useful clay and
valuable minerals are untouched. In her
beautiful harbors are few ships, except those
Of her enemy English law for the protection
OF ProPer1ty IN dd dTeaRd an has been been fa ian anGe TO
eft of the heartless landlord and the English
manufacturer.
l. English government in Ireland has nC.'
maintained peace and order, but has for seven
hundred years broken herpeace and destroyed
5. English government in Ireland does not
allow that portion of the Empire an equitable
and efficient voice in the Legislature. In En-
gland one-twelfth of the population votes for
the members of Parliament. In Ireland one
twenty-fifth of the population votes for
members of Parliament In England reg
istrati0n laws are favorable 70 votes
In England all classes of population are fairly
represented. In ireland, the Poor law is en-
ployed to secure to~landlords and place-hunt-
ers the prePonderance in the National dele
CATION. In England the judiciary is independ-
the people. The Ireland judiciary is the Great
ure and part of the executive, and is ap-
people. In England the magistracy is
CHOSEN without regard to creed.
In ireland ninety-seven per cent. of the mag
istrates having Jurisdiction over the peoples
liberty are selected from creed rejected by !
per cent. of the people and the
legahzed and perpetuated- In England, laws
S.I GTGasllg clEll ulsabIliues on account OF re-
made under Edward III, Queen Elizabeth, I
Earl of Stratford Charles l. Queen Anueand
their successors are still vital to torment
found too hoary by venaI and trueulent
6. Every measure of legislation proposed by
an EnglisE member receives courteous con-
necessary or humane. proposed by the patriot
Irish members. is certain of contemptuous
rejection by the com mbined majority of both
the great English parties. Thus the edu-
cationaI system of Ireland is notoriously
thus It is that evictions,
unknown in England, and declared by
Gladstone TO be almost equivalent TO
death sentences. OF daily occurrence
In Ireland. and have nearly doubled
In i've years. in spite of the bOasted benefit of
the Gladstone Land laws; thus IL IS that, al
though according TO the Government returns,
criminals are twenty-seveu in ten thousand Of
the English population, and only sixteen in
Ten thousand of the Irish population. in spite I
Df the evaporation to which they are sub
ecf. England eniOVs constitutional ]