Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-04-21

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from his prison in Ireland, to tn
Young Ireland Society of Glasgow, il
which he says that the dynamite polio,
can only have the effect of exasperatin,
the English democracy, Davitt is right
Occasionally an easily excited IrisI
friend will say to III that if he were il
the old country now he would kil
burn, blow up, do anything to strik'
terror into England. This is all wrong
Gross outrages may have been perpe
trated upon Irish men, women ant
children, but for this shall Irish mel
and women commit a. grave outrageI
upon English men or women innocen'
of these crimes, and maybe even con
demning them 2 MOI 1t is not hon
orable. It is not logical. It is not il
conformity to the laws Of God. The
laws of man may err. They may be
weak, puerile, unjust, deserving only
Of contempt. But the laws of God are
immutable, Interchangeable, and just and
right. They are, moreover, inexora.
BILE. They must be obeyed, or their
very violation will work their own re.
venge; and In most cases terribly and
lastingly. We love old Ireland. We
owe her as all sympathetic men loved
Poland until she was partitioned from
the face ofthe earth. We love ireland
for her woes. We love her for the
valor Of her men, who have CALAMITY
drawn their swords for every good
cause. She has given France her fam
lilies Of Mcmahon and Mcdonald,
and America her Cleburnes, her
Shields and her Sheridans. We love
old Ireland for the wit and beauty of
her women, the learning of her schol-
ars and the n~ever-failing good humor
of beth her SONS and daughters, but at
last the strongest bond that binds the
public heart to her is her long-contin-
ued suffering. This general sympathy
which Ireland possesses, in every coun-
try, even England not excepted, is her
strength, and nowhere is this sympathy
stronger or more effective than in
America. Still, as Mr.. Gavin points
out, incendiarism, murder, assassina- |
ton, a but ALLEVIATE the truest friends
and the strongest supporters that Ire
and has, the democrats of other coun-
tries. The Irish in America can ex-
ert most powerful influence upon Irish
nome sentiment. They cannot use this
influence better than in discountenan-
ling crime as an antidote to crime, as
'assination al a corrective of eviction.
They a do their countrymen no
service than by praying them
to outrage the moral sentiment Of
heir we'll wishers and friends. Let
.rishmen in Ireland plead; use what
outrage they possess; declaim; write;
but not murder, not burn, not
lse dynamite. The world moves.
is conservative and slow, but
ven England will soon be made to see
hat government in these days of en-
can neither be by priests
8 i'll the middle ages, by absolute
nonarchs, or by tyrannical dominion of
country over another. The day
or all these things has passed, and
'ow government must be of the people,
y the people and for the people. Men
re 10 longer m%enials, serfs, depend
nts, they are men, or they are becom-
ng SO, and the oligarchies, the kings,
ueens, enperors, OIL what-not, that
Ill to recognize the fact and give
people the privilege of governing
1emselves, as they have the right to-
o, are only digging for themselves
its to ensnare their own feet. When
blacks of America are free the
'hites of Europe will not long consent
} wear the shackles ofabsolute power.
for all this, murder and asson {
ill never hallow any cause. Oh bring
success. Irishmen will do we'll to t
stem to Michael Davitt. t
Judge Thoman said, Wednesday night, +
} the associated press at Washington, :
nat the rules drawn up by the commits }
on differed somewhat, but not mate +
from those employed by former :