Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-28
irish NATIONALITY.
CLOSE OF THE CONTENTION At
PHILADELPHIA YESTERDAY.
A Platform of Principles Adopted-The
Policy of England ArraiSped-A Plan of
OrganiZat on Agreed Upon-AIex, Sulli-
van, of Chicago, Elected President.

PHILADELPHIA, April 27.-It was nearly
II before the Irish National convention
assembled this morning.
DR.. 0'Reilly announced that the COM
mittee on resolutions had prepared report
but was not ready to present it. Col.
Michael Boland, chairman of the commit
tee on organization, then said the commit
| tee on organization would not be ready to
report until after the committee on reso-
lutions had reported, as after long debate
the committee on organization had not
been able to agree on the number of officers
for the national league or its exact scheme
of government. Col. Boland therefore
| moved that when a recess be taken, it be
for two hours to allow the committee on
| organization to perfect its report. Carried.
The secretary then read by unanimous
consent communication from Hon. S. S.
| Cox, of New York, congratulating the con-
vention on what it had achieved, and de-
claring that it wa.s impossible for Ireland
to remain under the British government
on account of the commercial restrictions
of the latter. There were 68,242 able
| bodied men engaged in keeping the
peace" while there were but 2,100 engaged
in teaching. The uncertainty of the land
tenure and of the political status and the
standing army OF spies go to render Ire
land the worst governed country in the
world. Agitation for liberty will go on.
The questions of extradition, citizens
rights, etc., if considered by the cenven-
ton, must be viewed in the light of the
lessons of recent events.
Edward 0'Meager then moved that the
thanks of this convention be rendered to
Cox. Carried.
On Mrs. Parnelps entrance she was
heartily cheered.
Father Boylon, of county Coven, Ireland,
| then addressed the convention amid ap-
plause. He said that now John Bull
would be put on one horn of the Irish d.
| lemma and the land league on the other,
while Pat would milk the COW. He COM
plimented the spirit in which the Ameri-
can press treated the Irish question. Amer
lea has given the Irish employment, but
Irishmen had done Americas hardest work
on the fields of both peace and war. The
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cheered Father Boylon tremendously.
| Cries for "Betts" were heard. The chair
man said DR.. Belts was not in the hall.
Father Agnew, formerly of Scotland,
now delegate of the United Manhattan
league, then addressed the convention. He
said the Irish in England and Scotland
would have becu the first to feel the effects
of any incorporate action on the part of
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Pratulate the delegates that their action
lad so far been wise and moderate.
1t was moved that vote of thanks be
! rendered to fathers Boylon and Agnew.
| Carney of Massachusetts, said on this
motion that every Scottish clergyman had
for many years endeavored to denational-
ize every Irishman who crossed the channel.
| Carney, amid Kisses and confusion, was
pronounced out of order. The motion for
| a vote of thanks was then carried.
At twenty minutes to II a recess was
| taken for two hours to await the reports of
| the committees. At 2:40 the chairman of
| the committee on resolutions submitted
his report as follows:
THE PLATFORM.
On the Resembling of the convention
| the committee on resolutions presented the
following platform:
The Irish American people, assembled in
convention at Philadelphia, submit to in
| Eelligence and right and the reason of
| their fellowmen, that the duty of gov
eminent is to preserve the lives OF the
governed, to defend their liberty, to protect
| their property, to maintain peace and or
der, to allow each portion of the people an
| equitable and efficient voice in legislation.
and to promote the general welfare by
| wise, just and humane laws. We sol
| EMMY declare and cite unquestioned
| history and the universal knowledge
of living men in testimony there
of. First, that the English govern
ment has existed in Ireland, not to preserve
the lives of the governed, but to destroy
| them. Entire communities it has wanton-
ly massacred by the sword. To the asy-
| lums, of terrified women, it has deliberate
| ly applied the blazing torch. Into help.
less towns it has discharged deadly bombs
| and shells. Through consecrated crypts,
where age and infancy sought shelter, it
has sent its bloody butchers. The sacred
persons of venerable priests it has stretch
| ed upon the rack or sus pended from tho
gibbet Pulling babes have been impaled
on the points of its bayonets, because, in
their own words, its emissaries liked that
government. Its gold has been folded in
the hand of the assassin, and has reward
ed the infamy of the perjured traitor. It's
treacherous falsehood has lured patriots to
unsupported death, as if sword, cannon,
torch, scafold, dagger and explosive were
not enough. 1t enjoys the unique infamy
of being the only government known to
ancient or modern times which has en-
ployed famine for the destruction of those
from whom it claimed allegiance, forcibly
robbing the Irish people of the fruits of
their own toil,produced by their own labor.
1t has buried, not hundred, nor thou
sand, but more than million of the Irish
race, uushrouded and uncofined in the
grave of hunger. 1t has mercilessly COM
PEELED other millions in compulsory pow
erty to seek by alien hands the bread they
were entitled to in their own land. There
is no form of cruelty known to the lowest
savage which it has not practiced on the
Irish people in the name of tee highest
civilization. There is no device of fiendish
ingenuity it has not adopted to reduce their
numbers. Within two years it has massa-
cred children, and woman's body has been
the victim of its licensed ruffans. There
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