St. Landry democrat., 1883-06-02

hasten in subscriptions, meant SUD-
scriptions, sane or insane, but for the
private personal profit OF those so ex
horting, (now mark him) throughout
the whole course OF my life this sort OF
charge is one which has excited my dis
gust and aversion, for the simple
reason that while it is the cheat and
reckless resort OF men who wish to de-
fame Irish movents, all notorious facts
in the present and all record of history
in the past show 1T to be scapdalonsly
false. No doubt, by adding to my letter
words which never used, such a mean
ing might be put upon the sentence al
luded to, but it was utterly foreign to
my mind. It is a style of calumny
hurled against Messrs. Parnell, Dillon
and Egan as we'll as against Mr.. P. w.
Grove, yet it is a singular circumstance
that though various have been the
agrarian and political combinations Sc
cret and open in Ireland for a hundred
and eighty years past. Never yet has
one Of them been known to be. estab-
lished or used for mere personal profit
or venai purpose" That pretty hard
for you Mr. Terence Mcclure, you say
the "agitators pocket the money" Bah
patriots living like princes on the funds
knowledge of the government officials
themselves, (name that will you Mr..
McGuire,) SO Oh we go Tories Rappa-
rees,' white feet 'Tery Ats United
Irishmen,' White Boys .Ribbonmen,''
'Fenians,' 'Invincibles,' 'Dynamiters,'
Petroleurs,-they have lived in Power
ty or died on the scaffold; but, in the
whole range of disclosures by govern
ment spies there is no instance on rec
ord of money making or personal profit
in connection with Irish conspiracies
except the profit of government reward
pocketed by hired informers.
Q. A story-which have already done
my best to contradict-has been af1oat
here that O'Donovan Rosa had given
me personal warning. [ was to be
executed for my apprehension OF ,dyna,
mitering' and 'kerOsening.' feel bound
to say that although some reference was
made to the fate of Darcy and McGee'
and certain other expressions, (exagera-
ted and added on to by rum0r spread
ers) may have alarmed those near and
dear to me. myself consider that Mr..
O'Donovan Rossa and Mr.. Grove have
dealt fairly enough with my letter, con-
sidering all the circumstances. | don't
believe they would injure me, and re-
gret the currency Of a statement SO un-
Just to them.'
Let England for once dare to turn
these 100000 Irish out of employment
that Mr.. Sullivan is, we may say, made
to write Of, then would come the skero-
sening.' War is war; there is no chris
tianity about it and the quicker it's un-
derstood the better. Mr.. Terence Nc
CURE you should organize prayer
meeting and send out missioners to
convert the dynamiter to English civil
lization and particularly offer thanks to
God for the cheer England sent up for
the methods used by John Brown in
| Virginia. That too was to be war ac-
cording to the claw of nations" a
swhimsicality,n eh2 England has
cursed every nation she has ever touch
ed. The East Indies to-day is ground
down to the paupers lowest grade by
taxation. England taxes everything to
their shade trees, but its doing the will
of God according to England's idea of
civilization. With due regards to you
Mr.. Mcclure, / am, sir, for dynamite
ever till Erin is free Republic.
| Yours, JOHN O'SHANE.