The daily gazette., 1883-04-28
THE NEW LAND LEAGUE
AN ORGANIZATION FINALLY
EFFECTED.
ITS OBJECTS AND PRINCIPLES.
Ringing Resolutions Adopted by the
PniladelphiA Convention - The New
League Fully Organized.

PHIIApxLpH1A, April 27.--The Irish Race
Convention reaseembled in Horticultural
Hall, this morning. A letter from Hon. 8.
8. Cox, member of Congress from New
York, expressing sympathy with the objects
| of the Convention, was read. After q re-
cess, the Committee on Resolutions pre-
sented q preamble aud resolutions. The
preamble says that the English Government
has existed in ireland not to preserve the
lives of the governed, but to destroy them;
| that 1t has annihilated the liberty of the
| people; that instead OF protecting the pro-
perty of the people, the English Govern
ment in Ireland has been conspiracy for
its injury and ruin; that it has not main
tained peace and order; and that Ireland is
| not allowed an equitable and efficient voice
In the Legislature. In view of these facts
the Committee recommended the adoption
of the following resolutions;
ResOlved, BY the lrlsh-American people,
in convention assembled, that the English
Government in Ireland, originating In
usurpation, perpetrated by force, having
failed to discharge any of the duties OF
government, never having acquired the con-
sent 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 to sustain the Irish people in the en-
tute for 1t national self government.
ResolVcd, That we pledge our unqualified
and constant support, moral and material,
to our eountrymen In Ireland in their efforts
TO recover national selEgovernment, and, in
order the more efIectually to promote this
object, by the consolidation of all onr re-
sources and the creation of one responsible
and authoritative body to speak for greater
Ireland in America, that all the societies u e.
presented IN this convention and all that
may hereafter comply with the conditions of
admission, be organized into the Irish Ma
tional 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 endorse the
noble sentiment of Bishop Butler of LINER
ick, "that every stroke of Forster's savage
lash was for Irishmen q new proof of Par
nell's worth and an additional title for him
to the confidence and gratitude of his cOun-
trymen."
RESOLVED, That we sympathize with the
laborers of Ireland In their efforts to improve
their condition; and, as we have sustained
the farmers In their assault upon the land
lord garrison, we now urge upon the farm
ers justice and humane consideration for
the laborers. In the words, for the employ
ment of which an Irish member of Parlia-
ment was imprisoned, we demand that the
farmers allow the laborers "a fair days
wages for iair days work.
Resolved, That as the manufactures of
Great Britain are the chief source OF her
material greatness, already declining under
the influence of American competition, we
earnestly counsel our countrymen in Ire
land to buy nothing in England which they
can produce In Ireland or procure from
America or France; and we pledge ourselves
to promote Irish manufactures by encour-
aging their import into America, and to use
our utmost endeavor, by plain statements
of fact and discrimination In patronage, to
persuade American tradesmen from keeping
English goods on sale
RESOLVED, That an English Ministry ,osten-
tatiously "liberal," !" has earned the contempt
and detestation of fair-minded men through
out the world by imprisoning more than q
thousand citizens of Ireland, without aecu-
sation or trial, number of whom were
noble hearted women, engaged in works of
mercy among the evicted victims OF land
lord rapacity and English law.
Resolved, That this Convention thanks
Rt Rev John Ireland, Bishop of St. Paul,
Rt. Rev. John O'Connor, Bishop of Omaha,
Rt Rev. John Lancaster Spalding, Bishop
of Peoria, Most Rev. John Williams, Arch
bishop of Boston, Kt. Rev. 8. v. Ryan,
Bishop of Buffalo, Most Rev. Patrick A.
Freehan, Archbishop OF Chicago, Rt. Rev.
Edward Fitzgerald, Bishop of Little Rock,
and their co-labOrers, for their efficient
efforts In providing homes for the Irish i'm
migrants into the United States. The peo-
pie of Ireland are, by the laws Of God and
nature, entitled to live by their labor, In
their native land, whose fertile soil is abund-
antly able to nourish them; but, since a
brutal government compels large numbers
to emigrate, 1t is the duty of their country
men to warn them against the snares of
poverty in large cities and assist them in the
| agricultural regions.
Resolved, That the policy of the English
| Government in first reducing the Irish peas
antry to abject poverty and then sending
them penniless to the United States, depend
ents upon American charity, is unnatural,
inhuman and an outrage upon the American
Government and people. We respectfully
| direct the attention of the United States
| Government 10 this nquity, protest against
| its continuance, and instruct the officials
who shall be chosen by this Convention to
| present our protest to the President of the
United States, aud respectfully, but firmly,
| To urge upon the President that it is the duty
of the Government of the United States to
decline to support paupers whose pauperfsm
| began under and is the result of English
that she send 10 more OF her paupers to
| these shores to become q burden upon the
American people.
ResolU.d, That this Convention welcomes
the sturdy aud undaunted patriot and the
prudent custodian, Patrick Egan, who, tc
protect the Land League funds from the
robber-hAnds of the English Government
voluntarily abandoned his private business
aud accepted long exile In foreign land
the integrity of whose guardianship hai
been certified, after minute examination
of his books, ty the distinguished and indie
pendent patriots, John Dillon, Rev. Eugene
Sheehy aud Matthew Harris. Grateful fo
his invaluable services, his countrymen re
joice that they possess on this importan
occasion the advantage of his wise and ex
perienced counsel and are proud to wei
come him to their hearts and their homes
The resolutions were unanimousl,
adopted.
, The report OF the Committee on Organi
zation was then read, as following:
WHEREAS, In the opinion of the citizen
. of America end Canada, Irish and O
! Irish descent, it is needful for tn
purposes hereinafter set forth, that sinkin
all private prejudice and creed distinction
they do unite to secure this common enc
, do band themselves together under tn
name and title of the Irish National Leagu
Of America.
ARTICLE L.
The objects of the Irish National Leagu
q of America are:
' /. Earnestly and actively to sustain tt
G Irish National League in ireland with NOR
: and material aid, in achieving self-goverl