The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-12-22
An O'Donnell Meeting.

| w WASH1NfTON, Lee. 19.-Iner0 Is
large meeting this evening at Ford
Opera House under the auspices O
the "Can-na-Gael" to express, in tn
words of the cali, "AMerican opinion
and feeling in regard to the judi. .,ia
murder of Patrick ODonnell by tn
British authorities" Congressman
Robinson of New York presided
/ and stated that O'Donnell is not tn,
first Irishman England hat
murdered, nor would b,
be the last, for there was an
| interminable war between England
and Ireland. He thanked God fol
that, because England represented
oppression and everything desplcablt
in the nineteenth century. He criti
cised the Anglo mania which lee
American people to fete and make
much of Englishmen who visit
America, simply because they were
Englishmen. he did not mean to
find fault with the SO, 900, 600 citizens
of the United States but with the
SOC, 900 dudes who focked in the
wake of every Englishman.
Congressman Calkins said he was
nor here because he had Irish blood
in his veins but because he always
had been a lover Of liberty, and be-
cause he hated tyranny and intoler-
ance. He hoped to live and see the
day when the people of Ireland would
be as free as the citizens of America.
The time is not far off when the tyr
amy under which Ireland is op-
pressed will be broken. If it should
turn ont when proper investigations
are made that O'Donnell was con-
victed in spite OF law and against it,
then Ireland added one more patriot
to her long line Of individual suffer
ers for freedom.
Congressman Finnerty (of Illinois)
said the meeting was called to la
ment the impotency of great ma
ton, which by a nation not fit to
black its shoes had been insulted in
the person of its president. There
was day When the cannon of Amer
ica, feeble to-day, would have re-
sented the insult and in defiance of
England. There never was an in
suit more direct or inexcusable
than the refusal of Lord
Granville to consider the
request of thoAmerican nation. Sup
pose the President on Friday light
teIegraphed to Minister Lowell, 81
demand the respite of O'Donnell tor
80 days, or diplomatic relations will
be suspended" If he had said that
the blood of the nation would have
been up, and if England sent her
fleets they would have been met as be-
fore. Referring to the contest for the
of the House Commit
tee on Foreign Affairs, it was said
that the backbone Of a
certain party would be broken
in the appointment of any man
said to be under the infiuenceOf Eng
land as the head of that committee.
If one party was responsible for the
it is certain he will he an
ally and supporter of the policy of
that Minister. He spoke these words
as Democrat knowing the backbone
o, the party because he thought some
Democrat should tell the presiding
RGs5h R6aGGssh} Ct Els anif aanaiTfre%ndsrng the cone
troll Of foreign affairs into the hands
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bing with the English aristocracy.
Congressman Belford, of Colorado,
endorsed the remarks of Robinson.
He asserted that O'Donnell did an
just act in killings sneak.
Had he been tried in Colorado the
Jury would have acquitted him with
out retiring. The man who entered
q conspiracy and then gave away his
in order to save
hi own neck had no right to live.
The meeting which was very en-
frequently interrupted
the speaker with loud cheers, and adj
journed after the adoption of reso-
luton condemning the action of
Great Britain in the O'Donnell case.