The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-04-28
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
The Irish Convention.

Philadelphia, 27.-It was nearly II
o'clock before the Irish National Con-
vention assembled this morning. The
reading of the minutes wRG disposed
with. DR.. O'Reilly announced that the
committee on resolutions had prepared
a report but was not yet ready to present
it. The chairman Of the committee on
organization would not be ready to re-
port until after the committee on resolu-
tons had reported. The committee on
organization was not able to agree on the
number Of officers for the national league.
The secretary then read by unanimous
consent communication from s. s.
Cox, of New York, congratulating the
convention on what it had achieved and
declaring that it was impossible for Ire
land 10 remain under the Birth Govern
ment. a vote of thanks was then passed
to Cox. Father Boy Ian, of Ireland, and
congrstulating it upon the temperate &C
ton and declaring England and Scotland
would be the first to feel the effects of any
Incorporate action. At IL. 40 recess was
taken for two hours to await the reports
Of committees.
The chairman Of the committee on
resolutions submitted his report at 2.40
pm. The report Gays: The Irish Amer
lean people Assem- bled in convention at
Philadelphia submit to the intelligence
and right reason of their fellow men,
that the duty ofgoVernmenti is to preserve
the lives Of the governed, to defend their
liberty. to protect their property, to
maintain peace and order, to allow each
portion of the people an equitable and
efficient voice in the legislature, and to
promote general welfare by wise, just
and humane laws. We solemnly declare
and cite unqueationed history aud uni
versal knowledge, and living testimony
thereof first, that the English government
has existed in Ireland not to preserve the
lives Of the governed, but. to destroy
them,
The resolution then pictures at length
the barbArities of the English govern
ment, how the blazing torch has been
applied to asylums of terrified women,
show the deadly bomb" has been dis
charged into helpless towns, and adds. AS
| il the sword, cannon, torch, acatfold,
dagger and explosive were not enough,
it enjoys the unique infamy Of being the
only government known to ancient or
modern times which has employed fam
inc for the destruction of those from
whom it claimed allegiance, forcibly
robbing the Irish people Of the fruits of
their own toll produced by their own
labor. 1t has buried not hundred, not
a thousand, but more than millions of the
Irish race, unshrouded, uncoffned, in a
grave of hunger. 1t has mercilessly
compelled other millions in compulsory
poverty to seek in alien lands the bread
they were entitled to in their own.
There is no form of cruelty
known to the lowest savage which it
has not practiced on the Irish people
in the name of the highest civilization.
The last paragraph Of this plank refers to
dynamite. It says: There is no form
of retaliation of which despair or mad
ness may resort for which English cru
ETY. in Ireland is not exclusively respon-
sible.
Second: We declare the English
government in Ireland has not defended
the liberty of the people but has annihil-
ated the statutes enacted since the inva-
sion, has enacted a series Of corcion laws
framed to deprive citizens of all vestiges
Of personal freedom and reduce them te
outlawry, in order to confscate their prop
erty and compel them to fee 10 foreign
| lands,