National Republican., 1883-04-26
Concerning Dynamite Brnwlers,

There are two alleged Irishmen in this
country who froth and fume in favor Of right
ing Irish wrongs by the use of dynamite and
internal machines. They have no respectable
years ago. Their names are O'Donovan Rosa
and Patrick Grove. They boasted that they
could frighten England by the mere mention
of such things, and they hoped to injuro the
business of the Engish'Atlantic steamship
lines by making people afraid that by patron
izing them they would be subjecting them
All this was deemed very absurd in its
day, and the people on both sides of the At
lantic refused to be scared. Recently, when
it was clear that it could be most useful to the
British government and most hurtful to the
cause of Ireland, dynamite scare has been
engineered by the London police, and the
possession of dynamite-a legitimate article
of trade-has been dealt with as proof of a
great Irish plot against the government. No
body has been hurt. No dynamite has been
exploded. No orense has been COM
mitted. Parliament had to pass law
against owning dynamite in order to mako a
show of disapprobation of the perfectly law
ful acts of men under arrest A cheap rascal
testifes that he has been sent from New York
for some unknown purpose by a Scotchman,
and nothing is shown by his testimony, after
it is sifted down. on which to hang charge
which would damage anybody. 1t is not true
that he has sworn to any dynamite plot in
America. Let any man read the testimony.
He says ho was sent to London to receive or
dcrs. He had box which he threw over
board on the way, because ho did not
know what it was. So he swears. Then
he carried box from one mans place to an
others, as any porter would have done for a
six pence. And ii was supposed to contain
dynamite If he tells the truth, it is that he
and another man from New York named
Gallagher were handling dynamite and nitro
glyccrine in London. For what purpose no
body knows. The explosivesdid not go from
New York. 1t is as easy to get the materials
for these things in London as it is to get sand
and lime. 1t is as ridiculous to talk of send
ing them from New York as it would be to
talk of sending flour or salt.
What, then, is all this blathcring about
dynamite plottors in New York? viii they
bring buildings over from London TO be ex-
ploded If not, they commit no ofIense here.
If they send any body to England, the Eng
| lish law operates upon the persons SO sent.
If Lynch and Gallagher have done anything
wrong, they will be punished without help or
hindrance from tho United States. If any
American citizen does anything here against
the peace of England which International Tau
or usage declares should 6eprereated6y By our gore,n-
ment, we hope the law may be found to punish
him. If we have no law forbidding the
olense, we trust that the omission may be
supplied by early legislation. This would
be heaping Goals of fire on England's head.
For when the Laird Brothers, one of whom
was member of tho English parliament,
built and equipped the Alabama to burn
and sink United States vessels, the remon-
STRANGE of our minister, Charles Francis
Adams, was met with Earl Russell's mocking
reply that the Lairds were violating no law
of England. This was making England's
laws the measure of international oblga
tons. This our government will never imi-
tate. If it can be made to appear that our
laws do not now prohibit our citizens from
putting the nation in the attitude of violat,
ing international obligations, they will GER
tainly be amended.
But what is our government called upon ia
prohibit by law2 Shall we suppress freedom
of speech or of the press because these privi.
leges are not used with good tasteP Our own
citizens have, without check, charged the as
sassination Of a president upon his consti-
tutional successor and his friends, with tn,
evident intent to instigate and procure his
assassination. The chief magistrate Of Tho
nation has been designated by the reckless
and INSCRIPTIONS organs OF q pestilentia