New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-28
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Mr. Parnell has burned his ships behind MIN
this time and plunged into the Irish bog. His
followers and admirers in his own country and
in America have persistently asserted that he
has been systematically traduced and cruelty
misunderstood. They have represented him as
a Jealous and self-sacrifcing patriot, who had
never sanctioned Outrages and murder, but on
the contrary had repeatedly denounced crime
Hereafter Mr.. Parnell cannot be misunder-
stood. His responsibility for lawlessness and
crime will be plain. His speech on Monday
night disposes of all sophistres respecting his
secret dislike OF Outrages, his Ominous silence
and his equivocal phrases He has denounced
in terms Of malignant violence the Govern
ment's atte mpt to suppress lawessness by con-
victing and Furnishing criminals He has held
up the officials of the Crown, the judges and the
Juries to the execration of lrishmen.
A Protestant himself, Mr.. Parnell has sought
to infame the religious prejudices OF Catholics
by describing the juries which have convicted
murderers and assassins as HpacBed Juries.
composed almost exclusively of Professionals"
He tells the Irish people that if crime has
diminished it Is only because they are them
selves kept down by the brutal, terrible CO.
ercion Act. administered in a brutal, terrible
way" Not one word has he to say against
those oulrages. What he loathes is the system
attic and orderly course of justice by which
those outrages have been made Odious 1t is
the administration of the Crimes Act which he
denounccs as radically ADJUST and utterly de-
testable. In this way he blurts out his sym
patlIy with and approval of those criminal
means and agencies, whereby his political in
fuence has been maintained; tor II the pun
ishmeut of outrages be odIous and execrable,
the crimes themselves cease to be odous and exc.
cradle. and become necessary and patriotic.
O'Connell's great maxim was: Crime gives
strength to the enemies of Ireland" Mr.. Par
nells logic seems TO be: "CTIme gives
strength to the friends Of Ireland and must
not be punished in the interest of her enemies
Mr.. Parnrll now stands unmarked. He cannot
pose before English Radicals a moderate and
temperate leader, seeking to accomplish his
purposes by constitutional means and abhorring
violence and crime. Tie no longer courts an ALI
ance with any political party or faction in Eng
land. He defius them all, Radicals, Liberals
aud Conservatives, and deliberately aims
shaft of poisoned praise against his most useful
ally in English public life. Standing there IN
Westminster he denOunces the Government for
furnishing murderers and desperadoes aud re-
storing the authority of public law. He pam
ders to the woro: passions Of the Irish people.
He warns them against being influenced by the
restraints imposed by servie judges and cor
rupt juries. He counsels them to persist IN
their sullen resistance to every thing that is
Englsh-to everything that is not Irish and il
that resistance happens to take the form of
agrarian outrage or assassination plots, be has
nothing to say, save that there il a brutal, ter
rible law" administered in brutal, terrible
Way and that everybody detests it,