Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-27
A TALK WITH P. J. SHERIDAN.
He Denies Certain Statements Made by
Carey, the InfOrmer.

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The Irish World publishes an interview
with p. j. Sheridan, the man whom Carey,
the informer, designated as the organizer
of the ''Invincibles." Mr.. Sheridan, it ap.
pears, has been in this country for sev.
eral months, and is now on the editorial
staff of the Irish World, Of New York,
Carey, in his testimony before the Police
Magistrate in Dublin, said he had been in
troduced to Sheridan at the Angel Hotel.
IN Dublin, where the latter ap.
peared in the garb of a priest. In
reply to that statement, Mr.. Sheridan
says: 81 never met the man in my
life. His references to an interview with
me in the Angel Hotel, Dublin, and his
statement about my promising to forward
MN some arms from London are sheer
fabrlcatlOnS, and convince me that his
story has been cOncOcted i'm Dublin
Castle, and that Carey, in order to save
his miserable neck, volunteered to swear
to it in the witness box" Mr.. Sheridan
admitted that he had found it necessary
to travel in Ireland disguised as a priest.
as an order had been issued for his
arrest. 81 assumed" said Mr.. Sheri-
dan, ''the disguise OF priest, and went
to Ireland, first, for the purpose of
arranging for the recovery of some prop
erty of which | had been robbed during
imprisonment and exile; and, second. for
the purpose of putting down agrarian
acts and uphOlding the mo rent mani
festO' by the process of social Ostracism.
that being, in my opinion, the most po-
tent as well as the most moral weapon
within the peoples reach" Mr.. Sheri-
dan had no doubt that if himself and
other active men had been allowed
to move about as usual among the
people society would be spared the hOr-
rlble exhibitions, or most of them, that
followed, Forster ruled otherwise, and
on him, and him alone, rests the RESPONSE
blllty. MaamstraSna, Gurteen, Ballina.
the Phoenix Park, and like tragedies
throughout Ireland would be unheard of.
Asked his opinion as to whether any of
the Land League funds had been used for
promoting disorder in Ireland, he said
that such presumption could only ema-
nate from one or two sources, viz: either
total ignorance of the Land League
policy and its leaders, or an i'll
concealed desire to disparage both.
At the time that Mr.. Forster
charged that he was engaged in
fomenting disorder he was occupied
in bringing succor to men, women and
children whom he Forster had left with
out home or mOrsel to eat. Asked if
ne approved of shooting landlords in Ire
land, Mr.. Sheridan replied: "Well, that is
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prove of shooting man simply because
he happens to be a landlord, nor am
prepared to condemn a man who will
fight to the death to defend his home and
save his family from destruction. Glad
stone himself has characterized an evic-
tiOn as a sentence of death.''
In conclusion, Mr.. Sheridan said he had
no intention of leaving New York. and
that if any emissary of the British Gov
ernment wants him he will find him at
his desk in the Irish World office. He
had no hopes for the prisoners in Ireland,
as the government had only to name its
victims and the informers will swear ac-
cOrding to order. AS to the future of Ire.
land, he said: "There is one thing, how
ever, of which l have no doubt, and that
is that Ireland was never so determined
on the achievement of her independence
and never so straight ON the track to OBJ
tain il as she is at this hOurv