The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-03-01

Tho attack upon Mn pAnstlt by ry'src'
nrtAnY op tnmAsp ForFrfnl in pnt'ia-
ment @ day or iwo ago, wes severe hnl c'f-
talnly went too far In rs charges against
tho Irish leader, but II Ia not surprising u
IS natural for tho English leaders 70 CON
found oil kinds Of agitation 10 Ireland INTO
one, and therefore place such men a' FAR
NELL aud DNytrf and llEAlEY upon an
equal footing Of rospOnsibilty Tor crimes
committod.in the name OF Erin aud hDcrly
with the base aud direct instruments OF
such crimes. II Is the tendency OF popular
agitation to run into extremes, and what
the men of thought at the bead OF popu-
lar uprising desire only to accomplish by
right -and peaceable methods, I'M
thinking zealots at the other ex'
IRENE Of the movement imagine
can be done by terrorism and bloodshed'
The organization and subsequent bloody
work of the Invincibles were to be expected
as the. outgrowth, by all the analogy oil his.
tory, of the Land League. The. Lana
League and the Irish leaders, such as FAR
NELL and the others mentioned, have I'M
Willingly and indirectly, it is true, operated
as the cause of the. Phoenix park assassina'
tions and her-crimes that have oil late
wears stained the soil of the Emerald Isle,
but they should, not and cannot be helu 10
any legal accountability or even moral re-
sponsibility therefor. To charge, uhuer
the circumstances, such responsibility upon
them, is equivalent to blaming tie general
of an army for the crimes OF the guerllias'
scalayags and camp-followers OF his army
who act not only not by Ais orders put IN
direct opposition to the commands issued to
his legitimate soldiers, 1t is the genera
duty. to attempt to prevent such cohuuc''
butif he cannot, there all his legal OF moral
responsibility ends. Mr.. FoEsTER's re-
marks therefore, are absurd and unjust,
and indicate the fact that he and those
whose mouth-piece he is, do not appreciate
the course and accomplishments OF popular
agitations. The intelligent world cannot
be made Ito believe that PARNELL ana
DILLON and HEALEY and DAvITT, men who
ere fighting with the statesmen's weapons
for the correction OF great national abuses,
have any sympathy even, or excuse for
such acts of violence and blood as the Phm-
nix park assassinations, To charge this
upon them is a gross attack a
SANDER and unwarranted from any
standpoint whatever. On tne
other hand, the civilized world
,,;II ro;o;co at the prospect of breaking to
pieces the terrible band of assassins'
who seem to have been operating secretly
under the name of Invincibles. such an
organization is the opposite extreme OF dig
nified, wise and successful political agita-
ton. 1t is, in word, the very surest way
to drive sympathy from q mob, to drown
principles in bloodshed.. land rlvet oppres-
sion more firmly upon the oppressed. Inc
leading Irish minds, therefore, cannot but
with the rest of the world, feel gratiied at
the apprehension of the lnvincibles, ana
their almost certain punishment. Inc
cause of Ireland and the cause OF morality
law and order, cannot but be benefited by
trampng upon such senseless and heart
less agita4ors. The Irish battle Tor
libertv and reform must be fought within
the pale of the law, if ever successful, ana
English statesmen may as well learn that
such men as Parnell and his confreres In
tend to fight it nowhere else.