St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-05-12

make Ireland bleed at every pore Tor the pen
eft of the heartless landlord ana the Ensi!sn
l. English government in Ireland has not
maintained pedce and order, but has for seven
hundred years broken her peace ana destroyer
s. English government in ireland does not
allow that portion of the Empire an equitable
gland one-tweifth Of the population votes for
the members of Parliament. In Ireland one
twenty-fifth of the population votes for
members of Parliament In England reg
istration laws are favorable to 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-
ers the preponderance in the National dele
CATION. In England the judiciary is independ-
ent of the executive, and sympathtlhes win
ure and a part of the executive, ana 1s ap-
pointed exclusively from the enemies of the
people. In England the ma g esyaod j.
In ireland ninety-seven per cent. OF the mag
istrates having jurisdiction over the peoples
liberty are selected from creed rejected Dy
seyenty-eight per cent of the people, ana the
detestabe spirit of religious bigotry is thus
legalized and perpetuated. In England, laws
creating civil disabilities on account of re-
made under Edward Ill. Queen Elizabeth,
Earl of Stratford, Charles l., Queen Anne,and
their successors are still vital to torment o
people for whose oppression a mo aroens
IouHu Wv AAo>~AS - SS-,> :
Judges.
6. Every measure of legislation proposed by
an English member receives courteous con-
sideration. Any measure. however Just,
Irish members, is certain OF contemptuous
rejection by the combined majority Of both
the. great English parties Thus the edn l.
inadequate; thus. it is that evictions,
unknown in England, and declared by
Gladstone to be almost equivalent to
r,xr -gNf 1nt1
in Ireland, and have nearly. doubled.
in FIVE years, in spite of the boosted benefit of
the Gladstone Land laws; thus it is that al
though according to the Government returns:
the English population, and only sixteen in
ten thousand of the Irish population, in spite
ject, yet England enjoys constitutional
liberty, and Ireland Is under worse than mar
tial law. The intrepid and persistent attempts
Of the patriot Irish deputation to obtain IN me
English Parliament just and humane laws for
Ireland have always been, are, and, IN our Pc
lief. must continue to be, failure. Now
therefore, in view Of these facts, be 1t
Res0lued, By the Irish-American people, In
convention assembled, that the English Gov
eminent in Ireland, originating In usurpatlon
and perpetuated by force, having failed to
and never having acquired the consent OF the
governed, has no moral right whatever to ex-
list in Ireland, and that it is the duty of the
Irish race throughout the world to sustain the
Irish people in the employment of all legiti-
mate means to substitute Tor II natlonal sen
government.
and constant support, moral and material, to
our countrymen In Ireland in their efforts to
recover their national sef-government, and,
in order to more etfectually promote TINS oD-
iect by the consolidation OF all our resources
and the creation Of one responsible and au-
thoritative body to speak for greater Ireland
in America, that all societies represented IN
this convention, and all that may hereafter
comply with the conditions of admission. be
organized into the Irish National League of
America, for the purpose OF supporting the
Charles Stewart Parnell is President.
Res0lued, That we heartily indorse the noble
sentiment of Bishop Butler. of Limerick, that
stroke OF SAVAGE asn was a rof
an additional title for him to the confidence
and gratitude of his countrymen.
RESOLVED, That we sympathlze with the lapor-
ers of. Ireland in their efforts to improve their
condition, and as we have sustained the farm
ers in their assaults upon the landlord gar,
rison. we now urge upon farmers justice and
humane consideration for laborers In the
words for the employment of which an Irish
member of Parliament was imprisoned, we
demand that farmers allow laborers "a fa1r
days wages for a fair day 8 work.
e Res0lped, That as the manufacturers OF
Great Britain are the chief sources OF her
material greatness, already declining under
earnestly counsel our country men in Ireland
to buy nothing in England which they can
produce in Ireland or procure from America
or France, and we pledge ourselves to pro-
their import into America, and to use the ut
most endeavors by plain statements OF facts
and q discrimination in patronage to persuade
American tradesmen from keeping English
goods on SALE
RESOLVED, That an English Ministry, ostenta-
tiousy..' Liberal" has earned the contempt and
/ detestatiOn of fair-minded men throughout
the world. by imprisoning more than one
Thousand citizens Of ireland without aecusa-
ton or trial, a number of whom were noble
hearted women, engaged in works of mercy
among evicted victims of landlord rapacity
Resolgsd, d.. That this convention thanks the
Rev. John OIConnor, Bishop of Omaha; Rt:
Peoria: Most Rev. John Williams. Archbishop
qalo; o Most Rev. Patrick a feehan, Arehbshop
of Chicago; Rt. Rev. Edward Fitzgerald, Bishop
of Little Rock, and their co-laborers, for their
n liz sates The ol people
of Ireland are by law OF God and nature en-
titled to live by their labor in their native
land, whose fertile soil is abundantly able to
nourish them, but since brutal Government
compels large numbers to emigrate, 1t IS the
duty of their countrymen to warn them
against the snares OF poverty in large Cities
and assist them in agricultural regions.
RESOLVED, That the policy of the English Gov
eminent in first reducing the Irish peasantry
to abject poverty, and then sending them
pennies to the United States. dependents
upon American charity is unnatural, inhuman
and an outrage upon the American Gov
ernment and people. We respectfully
direct the attention of the United States
Government to this iniquity. We protest
against its continuance, and we Instruct the
officials who shall be chosen by this conven-
the United States and respectfully but firmly
to urge upon the President that it is sthe duty
Of the Government Of the United States to de-
cline to support paupers, whose pauperism
began under, and Is the result of, English mis-
government, and to demand of England that
she send no more of her paupers to these
shoresto become aburden upon the American
people.
RESOLVED, That this convention welcomes the
sturdy and undaunted patriot and prudent
custodian, Patrick Egan, who, to protect the
Land-League funds from the robber hands of
the English Government, voluntarily ADAM
doned his private business and accepted a long
L aYiIe.l In foreign .landa. the integrity