Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-12-25
DEFENSE or 0'D0NNELL.
The yindicator of Irish Honor Yield.
ing lis Life to Wipe Out His
C0nniry's Disgrace.

toWntfl'S IIiSsThcc'
To the GAZETTE.
In your issue of the 18th inst. APP /
pears an article signed NJ. B, Start ,
ing out 10 discuss the tenCe-cuttnE /
question, the writer soon branches oil /
into the following:
1.-The demonstration in the United 4
States in favor OF O'Donncll, the MUIR (
,iercr OF Carey, the informer, led by /
Congressman Robinson of New York, /
and tinerty of Chicago, is absurd |
and ridiculous in the extreme. O'Don-
nell has been fairly convicted of red 4
handed murder, and ought by all /
means to be hung. What if he is Il
citizen OF the United States, does that
lessen sen lhia Hi way Way Tie News rl"n a.
hort on political egpninq.,.o We to goto war
with England, US Finerty and Robin
SON would have us, because she has al
fer her ancient methods condemned q
man TO Ice hung for n crime the penal
ty of which is death? No, thousand
times, no. We have enough 10 aIiehu
To our own troubles"
Thnt clever Frerchwoman, the
Duchess D. Aubrantes, once said that
ursiudice suuints when IL looks ana
lies when ii talks. The foregoing Is n
striking illustration of the saying IN
another place in his letter Nj. -
makes the assertion that there nr'
Two sides TO every quts'ion, out !,
seems from the above that there Il
only one side In the O'Donneil case
and that is rs his i0Se dirN has pre-
scented 1T.
Now there can be only two theories
reasonably entertained in regard Z
the killing of Carey. The one Is sell
defense; the other ia TO avenge hi
countr,'s wrongs. 1T the former
there is no necessity to say anythin
in hls vindication, unless NJ.
would want him hung for bein
irish. II the latter theory, tho
O,Donnell stalScd his life, his all,
what he deemed the call OF duty
moor man, but q patuo
an unlettered man, but her
conscientious man, but
courageous one prompted 10y the III
pulse of outraged humanity and II
suited nationality, he risked his lihe
ty and life to wipe out his country
latest aud greatest disgfaee--the eAi-
ence of the infamous, treacheron
murderous flend. James Carey. III
law has called It, and attempted
proye 1t, murder. Reason, commt
sense and the unerring instincts
true manhood, answer sterniy aud OF
phaticaliy, no, II was not murder,
was avenging justice. Against Care
the Individual, OiDonneli had no M
Ice against Carey, the man, he DO
no persooal ill-will. In fact, as SUI
he knew him not, nor cared augl
But against Carey, the iniornaeri I
craven traitor, who, masqueradlng U
der the guiae of patriotism, worm
hi,nselfin into the confidence and COZ
aeIs of some OF his coniiding count
men pledged to fidelity and loya
10 them by the most solemn Nows
Stunning oven the cloak OF religion. a
the profession and outward sembiai
OF practical piety, Ia order the M
efiectually to hide his murderous
ception; who, when the opportun
presented itself, betrayed his associa
into the clutches OF British hangn
one of his victims being boy in
teens, aud all for British gold-it '
to rid the world OF this perjnred &
tor, this mocal monstrosity, this
tional disgrace 10 Ireland and iri
men, that o. Donnell raleed his ave
Ing nrn. lie consigned the base
lille to tue proper ahiding place OF
reptiles--a hole In the ground,
Nor was IL the mere wanton
lninies of Carey tkyat called for ~
and full retrbution It was more
unspolxen and outspoisen demand
niillions for the prompt WIND
tlon uf Irish manhood.
years the siigma has heea cast u
Ireland that she has produced u
Appyovers than patriots, NOR, into
um Than returmeIs, more traitor
anan mArtyrs for, the cause OF hhe
hnnt her sons could not tfusf,
WIRE always ready to betray {