Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-17
O'DONNELLS FATE,
Congressman Finnerty's Views on tao
Coming Execution and the Course of ia Q
United States.

himself fully as egards the probable event
OF ODonneii being hanged on Monday.
he sad he had called on the president in
regard 10 the case within few hours, but
mad obtained no information beyond the
assurance that action had been taken and
5ne result wound be announced through
the state department when the reply was
received from England. The president
did not expect an opinion, Finerty said,
but he was as courteous as usual, although
he appeared rather serious and somewhat
anxious.
an case O'Donnell is hanged on Mon
day" continued Fenerty, ct will be snab
to the United States house, which by reese
luton, requested the president to ask
res spite, if if has been asked, which sup
pose it has, and been refused, to both, the
executive and the house, and consequently
the whole country, has been
not only snubbed but insulted.
We may, in thas event, acknowledge that
our government is utterly unable to obtain
even the slightest concession of common
Justice for one Of its citizens from Eng
land. We may as we'll say to Great Britain:
arrest every American citizen you suspest.
Keep him in jail without trial, hang him,
outside even the forms of your own law,
We as nation have fallen so low that We
cannot do anything TO hinder. You may CO,
in short, with our people what YOU d---R
please on your own dung h1ll' Sir VIM.
Vernon Harcourt will be the medium
through which the refusal of the respite
will be communicated. he is
homo secretary, and bears the
Americans that marrow hatred which oniy
insular EDglishmen can develop. He is
sarcastic brute whose face always wears a
sneer. Gladstone holds such man in that
position on the principle perhaps that a
man always keeps vicious dog, that he
may be disagreesble to others but useful
TO himself. GLADSTONE could never get
along without some cantankerous person
in his government"
"What can congress say if O'DonneM is
hapged?" was asked.
"Fold its hands after pocketing the in
suits. If you had asked me what any
other nation of our national strength or
less than our national strength would dc
under like circumstances | might answer,
in fact l wouid answer, it would sus-
pend dlpionati relations with
Great Britain until the insult was explain
ed or atoned for"
"Woald you vote for such proceed
lngs?"
'sWhat would be the use if did. Com
merclel interests are called, we'll, even in
this country, TO be superior TO the ides of
national honor. [ might stand alone ia
that position and certainly I do not desire
practical isolation. We are e commercial
people, but we're re q belliQaren5 nation
there would b. u uic IN the air before
Monday nigh5 We ere the second iarg-
est Caucasian nstl0u il regard to popula
tlon and belave IL territory, Yet we are
afraid to sueeze bscause VIC might dis
please the id little isiand that has
navy and asserts ITSELF whether IN the
right Or wrong, President Arthur has
certainly done what ne could 10 remedy
this state Of affairs, and | hope his rec
concentrations aoout no navy 10 the pres-
en6 congress will Do sustained without re-
ference 70 party"
Suppose congress should declare fer
the suspension OF diplomatic relations.
and Englaad declsre war;"
England vii do nothing Of the kind.
She would sack down com lsteiy, because
she knows she has everything 10 lose in
such q Struggle She might blockade all
our ports, but We you'd not starve, and
We would be healthy and happy on hog
and hominy, If nothing else, while our
letters Of marque. authorizing privateers
10 prey on her romercs, would sosa
make havoc with her carrying trade. She
might annoy us badly for six months after
war was declared, ont within year or
eighteen months az most, We would starve
her to death, and sne knows it. Her feet,
great as it ~, could never
protect her vast merchant m4riae."
what DO you think, leaving cut the
question of war, congress will do in the
premises7"
II have heard that should O'DonneIl be
executed on Monoay O resolution will be
introduced asking the stase department to
lay all correspondence before the house.
Then 1 suppose sc Will have a debate
with good deal Of sound and fury in
dced, bat that will be the end of it,"
The conservative element in the house
will not in my opinion, oppose that Wig
orous action be taken. England is called
''nation of shop keepers" Now, I'm
afraid the descri ption more truly applies
to ourselves. Great BRIAN has always
adopted her citizenship gpon her shoulder.
She fips our national nose with her
fingers. bat the chic ~jii aot be knocked
Off, and tbs national rose Will seek refuge
IL tlio SL1ib Gnu SSIt ltoHs Which rapidly. IN
foreign relations Is degeneratl1g INTO p
sort of handkerchief Ia the adopted
citizen business it is more Of Il untinc
lis" than ever il vas in he wort days of
slavery. am sorry TO have 10 speak 40
rudely CT the national s, ubol, but frank
ness Is somstims s VI oIesome =
'What remedies do you propose TO re-
store stars and stripes to iss ancient re-
spectability?"
"Give some other element in The oountax
than shopkeepers chance; reconstruct
the navy; send an American to represent
US in London, and recall the weak snoh
and dude of dudes, Lord Rector, of the
university of Edinburgh, an adopted
Scotchman, pretty representative of thu
United States in England"
CpDoaMeLL
LONDON, Dee. 15.-rhe scaffold upon
which O'Donnell is to be executed is being
erected. The hangmsni is inside Newgate
and remains there until after the execu-
ton. ODornell sleeps we'll and takes his
meals regularly. He does not occupy the
cell to which condemned persons are usu-
ally assigned, bat is placed IN q larger one
Two wardens are constantly Watching him
and usually only one man IS detailed fol-
this rervica