Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-09
EXTRADITION.
Much Gossip Afioai, but Nothing Def
mite Known as to the Stains
of the Cases Of
lyman, Walsh and Sheridan-Interview
with a State Department OH.
cial on the Subject.

The St. Louis Globe Democrats Washing.
ION correspondent telegrspbs his psper a.
follows: While there is much gossip s1oat
relative to the Irish extradition cases, there
ia no tangible evidence from the State De-
psrtment or from the British Legation as TO
the actual status OF the cases OF lyman,
Walsh snd Sheridan. The very air of mys.
terry which seems to pervade these sacred
official places does great deal toward in
flaming the Irish Imagination. No story is
too wild to gain believers, and every fresh.
telegram from London or Dublin seems TO
set more extravagaut tales afoat. More
invented than has been circulated
here during the past week with
reference to the probable international
complications between this country and En-
gland. This springs, in most part, from cit
IL ms OF Irish descent or from the Irish born,
whose hatred of the Eaglish government is
only equaled by their respect for the Ea-
glish authority. The State Department Off
cials, sfier having denied everything in de-
tail and in toto, have shut up like clans at
low tide, with real or affected disgust at pub
lie inoredulity. One OF these officials, who is
in position 10 know what is going on in the
matter of our diplomatic relations, said to-
day that a perfect panic seemed TO have
seized upon tse Irish-American public in
this affair. The department. had been
besieged and csjoled and threatened in
tAe matter OF the exiradiiion cases before it
had received any offcial hint lat an extra
dition case was likely to arise. Whist the de-
partment might or might rot do would be
ridiculous 10 state on Hypothetical csss,
and when the Gaze came, before it there would
be obvious reasons for not prematurely dis
closing the probable course of the govern.
ment. Tn. State Department would most
assursdly not advertise its conferences and
action from day TO day by interviews with
newspaper correspondents. There was one
thing The public might be assured of, and
that was, this administration is an American
administration, and might be confidently
relied on 10 see that justice was
done American citizens, whether ma.
tive or foreign born, and to pre-
serve the sacred right of asylum. 1t would
not deliver innocent men 10 the hangmsp,
nor be swift TO execute the mandates OF
Eaglish courts. There was no ground for
alarm, according to this State Department
authority; there was no reason for apprehen-
sion on the part of any body but the guilty
or the friends OF the guilty. That the matter
of exiradition had been discussed both at the
department and in the Cabinet he would
neither aft m nor deny. On one point alone
he was positive, and that was that the United
States would in these cases observe both the
letter and the spirit of the extraditiou treaty.
"If you want to know Just what this gov.
ernment will do" said the official, "read the
law-resd the treaty, II you want to say
anything about it, say the United States will
do toward England exactly as we would ex-
pect England to do toward us under the
same circumstances. This neither means
that we will surrender political offenders nor
that we will protect murderers and assassius." !"
As for any information relative TO the steps
already taken, he added, sarcastically, Read
the Dublin dispatches. They appear to be
reliable"
There is now, apparently, no question as
to the fact that correspondence on the sub
jet between the British government and this
has recently occurred, and that the gscd
offices of this government were rendered in
something like the above terms. This, un-
doubtedly furnished grousas for foreign dis
patches TO the effect that the State Depart
ment at Washington had made overtures,"
etc. As TO the probable fate of the
indicted parties, should application
be made for extradition, it must
depend wholly upon the evidence adduced by
the EDglish authorities, of the character Of
which evidence the American public will
have the same opportunity OF judging the
State Department. 1t will be a question of
come time, however, before it comes TO that.
In the meantime there is more rot being
| talked on the streets here tha has been heard
| for long time. Irish blatherskites, like Ed
ward OM. Condor, are haunting Newspaper
! Row, aud firing the Irish heart TO the top
| NJ their ahilitu