The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-25
rnr ATTACK ON rAnsELL.

The attack upon Mr.. PARSELL by fN-sE1-
RkrARY or IRELAND FoRsrER, ia parlia-
ment a day or two ago, WIS severe and GER
tainly went too far in its charges against
the Irish leader. but 1t is not surprising. IL
l. natural Cor the English leaders 10 con-
found all kinds Of agitation in ireland into
one, and therefore place such men as PAR
NELL aud DAyIrr and HEALEY upon an
equal footing of responsibility for crimes
committed in the name OF Erin and liberty
with the base and direct instruments OF
such crimes. It is the tendency OF popular
agitation TO run into extremes, and what
the men OF thought at the head OF popu-
lar uprising desire only to accomplish by
right anu peaeeable methods, UNI
thinking zeslots at the other ex'
treme of the movement imagine
can be done by terrorism and bloodshed.
The organization and subsequent bloody
work of the Invincibles were to be expected
as the outgrowth, by all the analogy OF his
tory, of the Land League. The. Land
League and the Irish leaders, such as FAR
NELL aud the Others mentioned, have UNI
Willingly and indirectly, it is true, operated
as the cause of the PhUnix park assassina-
tions and other crimes that have OF late
years stained the soil Of the Emerald Isle,
bat they should not aud cannot be held TO
any legal accountability or even moral re-
splnsibiity therefor. 10 charge, under
the circumstances, such responsibility upon
them, is equivalent to blaming tbs general
of an army for the crimes of the guerilla',
scalawngs and oamp-iollowers OF his army,
who net not only not by his orders, but IN
direct opposition to the commands issued to
bis legitimate soldiers. It's the generals
duty to attempt to prevent such conduct,
butit he cannot, there all his legal or moral
responsibility ends. Mr.. FonsrERs re-
marks, therefore, are absurd and unjust,
aud Indicate the fact that he and those
whose mouth.picco he is, dorot appreciate
the course and accomp! tghmcuts OF popular
agiiatlons. The Intelligent world cannot
bn made to believe tina. PARSELL and
IRE lightipg with the stetesmen's weapons
for the correction OF great national abuses,
have any sympathy even, or excuse for
sucn acts Of violence aud blood as the rhm-
nix park ussasginaiions To charge this
upon them is u gross attack, II
Islander and unwarrauted from any
standpoint whatever On the
other hand, the civilized world
will rejoice at the prospect of breaking to
pieces thc terrible band of assaasIns,
who seem TO have been operating secretly
under the name OF lhvincibles. Such an
organization is the opposite extreme of dig
niiled wise and successful political agita
tion. 1t is, in word, the very surest way
to drive sympathy from n mob, to drown
principles in bloodshed and rivet oppies.
sion more firmly upon the oppressed. The
leading Irish minds, therefore, cannot but
with the rest of the world feel gratiied ut
the apprehension of the lnyincibles, and
their almost certain punishment, The
cause Of Ireland and the cause of morality,
law and order, cannot but be benefited by
tramping upon such scuseless and heart
less nglNtors. The Irish battle for
liberty and reform must DC fought within
the pale of the law, If ever successful, aud
English statesmen may rs we'll learn that
such men as Parnell and his conIreres IN
tend to fight II nowhere else.