The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-05-05


q EnSlish government in Ireland has not
maintained peace and order, but has for seven
hundred years broken her peace and destroyed
s 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
Che members of Parliament. In Ireland one
twenfy-ffth Of the population votes for
members Of Parliament. In England reg
istration laws are favorable TO votes.
In England all classes of population are fairly
represented. In Ireland the Poor law is en-
ployed to secure TO landlords ana piace,hunt
ers the preponderance IN the National dele
cation. In England the judiciary Il fndepend-
ent of the executive, and sympathizes With
the people. The Ireland judiciary is the creat
ure and part of the executive, and ssp-
pointed exclusively from the enemies of the
people. In England the. magistracy y
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
seYonty-eight per cent of the people, and the
detestabe spirit of religious bigotry is thus
legalized and perpetnated. In England, laws
creating civil disabilities on account of re-
ligion have long been dead. In Ireland laws
made under Edward III, Queen Elizabeth,
Earl of Stratford, Charles l., Queen Anne, and
their successors are still vital to torment
people for whose oppression no statute is
found too hoary by venal and truculent
Judges.
9. Every measure of legislation proposed by
an English member receives courteous con-
alteration. Any measure, however Just,
necessary or humane, proposed by the patriot
Irish members is certain of contemptuous
rejection by the combined majority of both
the. great English parties. Thus the. edu-
inadequate; thus it is that evictions,
unknown in England, and declared by
| Gladstone to be almost equivalent TO
| death sentences, are of daily occurrence
| in Ireland, and have nearly doubled
in Eve years, in spite of the boasted benefit of
| the Gladstone Land laws; thus it is that al
though according the GOVprUmpUt rpfnruq
| criminals are twenty-seven in ten thousand of
| the English population, and only sixteen In
| ten thousand of the Irish population, in spite
| of the evaporation to which they are sub
| ject, yet England enjoys constitutional
| liberty, and Ireland is under worse than mar
| tial law. The intrepid and persistent attempts
of the patriot Irish deputation to obtain in the
! English Parliament Just and humane laws for
| Ireland have always been, are, and, in our be-
| lief must continue to be, a failure Now,
| therefore, in view of these facts, be 1t
RESOLVED, By the Irish, American people, in
| convention assembled, that the English Gov
| ernment in Ireland, originating In usurpation
| 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 ex-
| ist in Ireland and that it is the duty of the
| Irish race throughout the world to sustain the
| Irish people in the employment of all legiti-
mate means to substitute for it national self
government
RESOLVED, That we pledge our unqualified
| and constant support, moral and material, to
| our countrymen in Ireland in their efforts to
| recover their national Selt-gOVernment, ana,
| in order to more effectually promote this OBJ
| ject, by the consolidation of all our resources
| and the creation of one responsible and au-
| thoritative body to speak for greater Ireland
| in America, that all societies represented in
| this convention, and all that may hereafter
| comply with the conditions of admission, be
| organized into the Irish National League of
| America, for the purpose of supporting the
| Irish National League of Ireland, of which
| Charles Stewart Parnell is President
ResOlued, That we heartily indorse the noble
sentiment of Bishop Bltler. of Limerick, that
| every stroke of Forsters savage lash was for
| Irishmen new proof of ParnelPs worth, and
an additional title for him to the confidence
and gratitude of his countrymen
ResOtUed, That we sympathiZe with the labor
| ers of Ireland in their efforts to improve their
| condition, and as we have sustained the farm
| ers in their assaults upon the landlord gar
| riSon, we now urge upon farmers justice and
| humane consideration for laborers. In the
| words for the employment of which an Irish
! demand that farmers allow laborers "a fair
days wages for Il fair days work"
h Res0lUed, That as the manufacturers of
Great Britain are the chief sources of her
material greatness, already declining under
the influence of American competition, we
earnestly counsel our countrymen in Ireland
to buy nothing in England which they can
produce in Ireland or procure from America
or France, and we pledge ourselves to pro-
| mote Irish manufactures by encouraging
their import into America, and to use the mt
| most endeavors by plain statements of facts
| and discrimination iE patronage to persuade
American tradesmen from keeping English
goods on sale.
ResolUsd, That an English Ministry, ostenta-
tiousy" Liberal, has earned the contempt and
detestation of fair-minded men throughout
the world, by imprisoning more than one
thousand citizens of Ireland without accusa-
hearted women. engaged in works of mercy
among evicted victims of landlord rapacity
and English law.
ResOlDed, That this convention thanks the
Rt. Rev. John Ireland, Bishop of st. Paul; Rt.
Rev. John O'Connor, Bishop of Omaha; Rt.
Peoria; o Most Rev. John Williams, Archbishop 5
| of Boston; Rt. Rev S. V. Ryan, Bishop of Buff
falo; Most Rev. Patrick A. Feehan, Archbishop
| of Chicago; Rt. Rev. Edward Fitzgerald, Bishop
of Little Rock, and their cO-laborers, for their
| efficient efforts in providing homes for Irish
immigrants in the United States. The people
of Ireland are by law of God and nature en-
titled 10 live by their labor in their native
land, whose fertile soil is abundantly able to
nourish them, but since brutal Government
| Compels large numbers to emigrate, it is the
| duty of their countrymen TO warn them
against the snares of poverty in large cities,
and assist them in agricultural regions.
ResOlUed, That the policy of the English Gov
eminent in first reducing the Irish peasantry
TO abject poverty, and then sending then
| penniess 60 the United States, dependents
| upon American charity,is unnatural, inhumar
and outrage upon the American GOV
eminent and people, ,h we 6 RESPECTFULLY tate
Government to this iniquity. We protest
against its continuance, and we instruct the
officials who shall be chosen by this conVen
ton to present our protest to the President OF
the United States and respectfully but hrmly
to urge upon the President that i Is the duty
| of the Government of the United States TO de
cline to support paupers, whose pauperisu
began under, and is the result of, English mis-
government and TO demand of England tina
she send no more of her paupers TO thes'
shores 20 become a burden upon the American
people.
ResOued That this convention welcomes thu
| sturdy and undaunted patriot and pruden
custodian, Patrick Egan, who, to protect thu
Land-League funds from the robber hands o
, the English Government, voluntarily aban
doned his private business and accepted a lonl