Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-28

gulltless of crime; freedom of speech is
abolished; freedom of press is abolished;
the right of peaceable public meetings is
annulled; no mans house is secure, night
or day, from armed marauders who may
insult and harass his family. Without a
warrant a citizen may be thrown into
prison; without counsel he may be put on
mock trial before-a prejudiced Judge and
packed jury. On the lying avowments of
purchased wretches his liberty may be
sacrificed or his life taken in the name of
the law.
Third-Instead of protecting the prop
erty of the people, English government in
Ireland had been conspiring for its injury
and ruin. Out of 26,000,O00 acres of pro-
ducing land, 100000 had been allowed to
lie waste. Ownership of the remainder had
been generally acquired by force or fraud,
and been retained in the hands of rayenous
monopolists, who annually drained the
| country of its money in the form of rents,
no portion of which goes back to the Irish
people. In addition to this an Ubiquitous
system of taxation was imposed on the
people, a gigantic burden for the sus-
| tenance of a foreign army, for an op-
pressive constebulary, for salaries to
supernumerary officials and placemen, for
| pensions to English favorites, for blood
money for informsrs, and for a vulgar
| court whose extravaganza is equaled only
| by the sham of its pretensions. The natu-
rally created capital of Ireland is sent to
| England on one pretext or other and brings
| no exchange except articles of English
| manufacture, which the Irish people under
self-government would produce for them
selves or purchase in America. Irish man
ufactures have been deliberately destroyed
| by England in the last century and are
dormant, her immense water power turns
no wheels, her rivers are INSTRUCTED, her
| useful clay and valuable minerals are un-
| touched, in her beautiful harbors are few
ships except those of her enemy. English
law for the protection of property in Ire
| land has been farce to make Ireland bleed
| at every pore for the benefit of heartless
landlords and English manufactures.
Fourth-The English government in
Ireland has not maintained peace and Or
der, but have for 700 years broken her
peace and destroyed her order.
Fifth-English government in Ireland
| does not allow that portion of the empire
an equitable and efficient voice in the egis-
| lature. In England one-twelfth of the pop
| ulation voted for members of parliament.
| In Ireland one twenty-ffth of the popula-
| tion votes for members of parliament. In
| England the registration laws are favor
| able to the voter. In Ireland they are
| inimical to the voter. In England all
classes of the population are fairly repre-
sented. In Ireland the poor law is en-
| ployed to secure to the landlords and place
hunters preponderance in the national del
egation. In England the judiciary is in
dependent of the executive and SYM
| pathises with the people. In Ireland the
judiciary is creature and part of the ex-
ecutive, and Is appointed exclusively from
the enemies of the people. In England the
| magistracy is chosen without regard 10
| creed. In Ireland 81 per cent. of the
magistrates having Jurisdiction over the
peoples liberty are selected from creed
rejected by rs per cent. of the religions.
Bigotry is thus legallzed and perpetuated.
In England the laws which created civil
disabilities on account of religion had long
been dead. In Ireland the laws made un-
der Edward III. Queen Elizabeth, Earl of
Stratford, Charles II, Queen Anne and their
successors are still vital to torment peo-
pie for whose oppression no statute is found
too heavy for venal and truculent judges.
Every measure of legislation proposed by
an English member receives courteous con-
sideration. Any measure, however Just,
| necessary Or humane, proposed by patri-
otto Irish members is certain of contempt
uous rejection by the combined majority
of both the great English parties. Thus
| the educational system of Ireland is motor
iously inadequate. Thus it is that evictions
are unknown in England and declared by
| Gladstone to be almost equivalent to death
sentences, and are of daily occurrence in
Ireland, and have nearly doubled in five
years, in spite of the boosted benefit of
Gladstone land laws. Thus it is that, al
though according to government returns
criminals are 81 in 10000 of
the English population, and only 16
in 10000 of the Irish population, in spite
| of the evaporation to which they are sub
iected, yet England enjoys constitutional
liberty and Ireland is under worse than
martial law. The intrepid and persistent
attempts of the patriotic Irish deputation
to obtain in the english parliament just
| and humane laws for Ireland had always
been and, in our belief, must continue to
be failure.
Now, therefore, in view of these facts, be
| it resolved by the Irish American people in
convention assembled, that the English
government in Ireland, originating in ur-
surpation and perpetuated by force, having
failed to discharge any of the duties of
government, and never having acquired
the consent of the governed, has no moral
| right whatever to exist in Ireland, and that
| it is the duty of the Irish race throughout
| the world tc sustain the Irish people in the
| employment of all legitimate means to
substitute for it national self government.
ReSOlred, That we pledge our unqualified
| support, moral and material, to our coun-
| trymen in Irel nd in their efforts to recov-
| or national self-government, and in order
more effectually to promote this object by
| the consolidation of all our resources and
| the creation of one responsible and repre-
sentative body to speak for the greater
Ireland IN America that all societies repre-
sented in this convention and all that may
hereafter comply with the conditions of
admission, be organized into an Irish ma
| tional league of America for the purpose of
supporting the national league of Ireland,
of which Charles Stewart ParnelI is presi-
| dent.
| ResOtred, That we sympathize with the
| hberators of Ireland in their efforts to i'm
prove their coz dition, and as we have sus-
| tanned the farmers in their assaults upon
Landload Garrison, we now urge upon the
farmers justice and humane consideration