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THE NATIONAL LEAGUE ORGANIZE

fHE NATIONAL LEAGUE ORGANIZED.
A Declaration Of the Principles Upon Which
the Organization Is Founded-Who tho
c,ew officers Arc.
In the Irish convention in Philadelphia
Yesterday afternoon the committee on
resolutions presented preamble and reso-
Iutions. The preamble says that the
English government has existed in Ireland
not to preserve the lives Of the governed,
but to destroy them !; that it has!annihilat.
ed the liberty of tho people that instead
of protecting the property of the people,
the English government in Ireland has
been conspiracy for its injury and ruin
that is has not maintained peace and
order and that Ireland is not allowed an
equitable and efficient voice in the Legisla.
mittee recommended the adoption of reso-
lutiors declaring that the English govern
ment has no moral right whatever to exist
race throughout the world to sustain the
Irish people in tho employment of all
legitimate means to substitute for it ma
ties represented in tho convention.
the conditions of admission, be organized
into tho Irish National League of Amer
icap, for the purpose Of supporting the
Irish National League of Ireland, of
which Charles Stewart Parnell is presi-
dent demanding that tho farmers allow
the laborers fair days wages for fair
days work couuselling their countrymen
in Ireland to buy nothing in England
which they can produce in Ireland or pro.
cure from America Or France, and pledg-
ing themselves to promote Irish manufac-
lures by encouraging their import into
America, and TO use their utmost endeavOr
to persuade American tradesmen from
keeping English goods on sale declaring
that an English ministry has earned the
contempt Of fair-minded mon throughout
the world by imprisoning moro than a
thousand citizens of Ireland without accu-
sation or trial that the policy of the
English government in first reducing tho
Irish peasantry to abject poverty and
then sending them penniless to the United
States, dependents upon American charity,
is unnatural and an outrage upon tho
American government and people. The
resolutions were adopted.
A Scheme of Organiza,lon.
The report of the committee Oil organi.
zation, setting forth tbs objects of the
Irish National League OF America"
was read and unanimously adopted, as
follows
WHEREAS, in the opinion of the citizens
of America and Canada, Irish and of Irish
| descent, it is needful for the purposes
| hereinafter set forth, that sinking all pri
| vate prejudice and creed distinctions, they
| do unto to secure this common end, do
band themselves together under the name
and title of the Irish National League of
America.
The objects of the Irish National League
| of America are
]. Earnestly and actively to sustain the
| Irish National League in Ireland with
moral and material aid, in achieving self
| government for Ireland
9. To procure clearer and more accu-
rate understanding by the American peo-
pie of the political, industrial and social
condition Of Ireland, that they may see for
| themselves that her poverty is the result
of centuries Of brute force and destructive
| legislation and that, if permitted to make
| her own laws On her own soil, she will
| demonstrate the possession of all the
essentials natural and ideal, for political
autonomy, beneficial alike to Ireland and
the United States.
=. 70 promote tho Development of Irish
manufactures. by encouraging their I'M
port i:lto the Uuitcd States, to promote
the study of Irish history, past and present,
and to circulate carefully prepared litera.
ture in schools and societies that the jus
| tice of the cause may be thoroughly de-
| Tended against ignorance, malice and mis-
| representation.
4. To encourage tha study Of the Irish
! language. the cultivation of Irish music
and au enlightened love Of the art charac-
teristics which made the past of our race
| bright amid darkness and have always
secured foG the Celt SUCCESS and renown
in every country i'll which he has an equal
opportunity with his fellows.
>. To hu,t the enemy where he will feel
it most. by refusing t, purchase any article
of EnSlish manufacture and by using all
legitimate influences TO discourage trades
men from keeping MI English manufac-
lures on sale.
6. To abolish sectional feeling, to de-
stroy those b:leful :snin0sities of province
aud creed which rave been insidiously
handed dcvn b.; Tie enemy, to weave a
closer bond OF radical pride and affection.
and TO keep alive the holy flame of irish
duties of American citizenship.
SEC > The officers OF tho league shall
be q president, vice president, treasurer
and secretary.
SEC. s The president shall preside at
all meetings OF the league and perform
such ether duties as may hereinafter in
these articles be imposed upon him.
Sec. 4. In the absence or inability to
serve Of the Or SiiaDt his tiuties shall he
discharged by the vice president.
SEC. ). Tho treasurer shall properly ac-
count for all moneys paid to him by the
make explicit reports thereof annually to
a convention OF this league.
Sec. e, The secretary shall keep correct
records Of ali meetings of the league. re-
ceive all moneys Tor its use from subOrdi.
uata branches and aiii'iating organizations
in states and countries, aud pay the same
over to the treasurer, taking the receipt
therefor, and all moneys SO paid to the
order in favor of tho treasurer.
Sec. ?. The governing body Of the
league shall consist of tho president, vico
president and council, which shall be CON-
posed of one member from each state, ter.
ritory, the District Of Columbia and do.
minion of Canada, and which shall be
elected by the national convention, and
shall meet at least once annually, the time
and place for which shall be designated by
the president.
SEC. 8. The governing body shall meet
at least once annually at the time and
place heretofore provided, and shall frame
an organization similar in character for
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