Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-05-11
IRISH NATIONAL LEAGUE.

0eiphfa-A Formal Organization EHece-
ed. and Platform ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
| Sullivan, of Chicago. Presidential yio-
lent Denuneiation OF England's Alleged
| Misrule In Ireland.
| PHILADELPHIA, April q.
/ At the morning session, the Secretary
read, by unanimous consent; COM
! nunication from Hon. s. 8. Cox,
Of New York, congratulating the Con-
yention on what ii had done, and declaring
that it was impossible for Ireland to remain
/ lnder British government, on account of
/ commercial restrictions of the latter There
! we're 6S 242 able-bodied men engages iRz
keeping the peace,'' while there were but
! d, 900 engaged in teaching. The uneer-
| tainty of land tenure and of political status,
/ and standing army of spies. go to render
Ireland the worst-governed country In the
world. Agitation for liberty will go on
The questions of extradition, citizens rights,
! ETC., If considered by the Convention, must
De viewed in the light of the lessons OF re-
/ cent events.
Edward ONfeagher Condor then moved
that the thanks of this Convention be ten
iered to Mr.. Cox. Carried.
On Mrs. ParnelPs entrance she was heart
/ lily cheered.
/ Father Boylan, of County Cavan, Ireland,
then addressed the Convention amid much
applause He said that John Bull would
now be put on one horn of the Irish dilem-
ma, and the landlord on the other. While
/ Pat would milk the COW. He complmented
the spirit in which the American press
treated the Irish question. America had
given Irishmen employment, but lrishmen
/ had done Americas hardest work on the
fields of both peace and war.
The entire Convention rose to its feet and
cheered Father Boylan unanimously.
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 been the first to feel the effects of any
Incorporate action on the part-of this Con-
vention, and he was glad to congratulate the
delegates that their action had so far been
wise and moderate.
1t was moved and carried that vote of
thanks betendered Rev. Fathers Boylan and
! Agnev.S
At twenty minutes to twelve recess was
taken for two hours, to await the reports of
the committees.
At 2:4O, on the reassembling of the con-
ve1tion, the Chairman of the Committee Oil
Resolutions submitted his report, as follows:
THE PLATFORM.
The Irish-American people,. assembled in
| convention at Philadelphia, submit to the in
| telligence and the right reason of their fellow
men, that the duty of government is to pre-
|
| their liberty, to protect their property, to
maintain peace and order, to allow each por-
! ton of the people ar equitable and efficient
| voice in legislation, and to promote the gen.
eral welfare by wise, just and humane laws.
We solemny declare and cite unquestion-
! able history, and universal knowledge of liv-
| ing men in testimony hereof.
l. That the English Government has exist
ed in Ireland, not to preserve the lives of the
governed, but to destroy them. Entire COM
| munities il has wantonly masSacred by the
sword: TO asylums of terrified women it has
| deliberately applied the blazing torch; into
helpless towns it has discharged deadly bombs
| and shells.
Through consecrated crypts, where age and
| infancy sought shelter, it has sent its bloody
| butchers. Sacred persons of venerable priests
it has stretched upon the rack or suspended
from the gibbet. Pulling babes have been i'm
paled on points of its bayonets because in
their own words, Its emissaries like that
| Government" Its gold has been folded in the
hand of the assassin, and it has rewarded the
infamy of a perjured traitor. Its treacherous
falsehoOd has lured patriots to unsupported
death, as II the sword, cannon, torch, scaffold,
dagger and explosive were not enough
1t enjoys the unique infamy of being the
only Governments known to ancient or mod
ern times which has employed famine for the
destruction of those from whom it claimed al
legiance By forcibly robbing the Irish peo-
pie Of the fruits of their own toll, produced
by their own labor, it has buried not hum
dred, not thousand, but more than million,
OF the Irish race unshrouded and uncotiined
compelled other millions, in compulsory pow.
crty, to seek in alien lands the bread they
were entitled TO i'm 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. There is no device of fiendish in
genuity it has not adopted TO reduce their
numbers. Within two years it has massacred
children, and women's bodies have been vic
tins of its licensed rufans. There is no spe-
cies of destructive attack, however insidious
or violent, ancient or modern, rude scien-
tifc. whether directed against life or matter in
any portion of the globe, for which its bar
n f0rW q hnNr ENrnWr
pie There is no form of retaliation to which
despair or madness may resort, for which En-
giish cruelty in Ireland is not exclusively re-
| sponsible.
2. We declare that English government in
Ireland has not defended the liberty of the
people, but has snnihilated it. The statutes
| enacted since the invasion amount TO
series of coercion laws framed to deprive
and to reduce them to outiawry ' in order to-
them to fee to foreign lands. Since
the beginning of the preSen~ century.
when the Irish Parliament was abolished,
the laws for Ireland have been
period habeas corpus and right of trial
by jury have been suspended more than fifty
times. Hordes of soldiers have been loosed
upon people forbidden to bear arms, and
state of war, with all its attendant horrors
with occasionally those of retaliation, has
been maintained. To-day representatives of
the people are in prison, guiltless of crime
Freedom of speech is abolished. Freedom of
press is abolished, and the right of peaceable
| is secure, night or day, from armed maraud-
eis, who may insult and harass his family.
into prison; without counsel he NAV be put
on mock trial before preJudiced Judge and
packed jury; on lying averments of pur--
| chased wretches, his liberty may be sacrificed
or his life taken in the name of law.
-; Instead of protecting the property, of
been conspicuous for its injury and ruin.
Out of 2O,W0.OOO acres of producing land,
| OWnprShiD lv
quired by force or fraud, has been retained in
the hands OF ravenous monopolists who an
/ the form of rents, no portion of which goes
| Dack 10 the Irish people. In addition to this,
the people a gigantic burden for the susie
nance of a foreign army, for an oppressive con-
stabulary, for salaries TO supernumerary Of
hcials, and placemen for pensions 10 English
favorites; for blood-money for informers, aid
for vulgar court whose extravaganza Is
e9ualed only by the aham of its .pretensious.
sent to England one pretext or an
| other, and brings no exchange except ar
people, under self-goyernment, would pro-
duce Tor themselves or purchase in America.
| Irish manufactures, deliberately destroyed
by England in the last century, are still dor
| mant. Her immense water-power turns no
| wheels: her canals are all but impassable; her
| rivers are all obstructed; her useful clay and
| valuable minerals untouched. In her
beautiful harbors are few ships. except those
| of her enemy. English law for the protection
! OF property in Ireland has been lance to
| make Ireland bleed at every pore for the BEN
eft of the heartless landlord and the English
| manufacturer
4. English government in ireland has not
maintained peace and order, but has for seven
hundred years broken her peace and destroyed
her order.
5. English government in Ireland does not
| allow that portion of the Empire an equitable
and efficient voice in the Legislature In En-
gland ORe-twelfth CT the population votes for
the members of Parliament; In. Ireland one
| twenty-ffth of the population votes for
! members of Parliament. In England reg
/ istraton laws are favorable 10 votes.
In Ireland they are inimical to the voter.
| In England all classes of population are fairly
! represented. IN Ireland the Poor law is en-
ployed to secure to landlords and place-hunt.
ers the preponderance in the National dele
cation. In England the judiciary is independ-
ent of the executive, and sympathzes with
the people. The Ireland Judiciary Is the Great
| ure and part of the executive, and is ap-
pointed exclusively from. the enemies OF the
| people. In England the magistracy 10