The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-04-28
The Irish National League Of America
Born Yesterday.
III Not Killed by Jealous Friends II
May Thrive.
Full Text of the Platform aud Resolu.
tlons offered.
Terrible Arraigument of Eugland's
Course, Past and Present.
The Remedy Suggested Is 10 Boycott
the Briton.
Congressman Finerty, a Dynamite
Disciple, Deeply Disgusted.
Fall Report of the Proceedings
The Convention.

The Convention.
PHlLADEl PHIA, April 21.-lt was nearly
IL O'Clock before the national convention
assembled this morning, The reading Of
the minutes was dispensed with.
Dr. O'Reilley announced that the com.
mittee on resolutions had prepared re.
port but was not yet ready ts present it.
Colonel Michael Boland, the chairman OF
committee on organization, said
the committee would not be
ready 10 report till after the committee on
resolutions had reported, as after long
debate the committee on organization had
not been able to agree on the number OF
officers for the Matte eague, or its ex.
act scheme of government.
Boland, therefore, moved that when re.
cess be taken it be for two hours, to allow
the committee on organization time TO
perfect its report. Carried.
The secretary then read by unanimous
consent communication from Hon. s. 5.
Cox, of New York, congratulating the
BODY on what it had achieved, and declar.
ing that it was impossible for Ireland TO Ie.
main under the British government OH ac.
count of the commercial restrictions of the
latter. There were 6S 2l2 able-bodied men
engaged in keeping the peace, while there
were bnt 2l5,OOO engaged in teaching the
uncertainty of land tenure aud political
status and standing. An army of spies 10
to render Ireland the worst governed coun,
try in the world. The agitation for liberty
will go on. The question of eNtrsdi.
tion, ofciti2ens' rights, etc., considered by
the convention, must be reviewed in the
light of the lessons OF recent events.
Edward Oneaghre Condor then moved
that the thanks of this convention be ten.
dered Cox. Carried.
On Mrs. Parnell's enterance she was
heartily cheered.
Father Boylan, of county Cavan, Ire.
land, then addressed the convention amid
much applause. lie said that now John
Bull would be put on one horn of the Irish
dilemma and the landlord on the other,
while Pat would milk the COW. He com.
plimented the spirit in which the Ameri
can press treated Irish aeitators. America
had given Irishmen employment, but
lrishmen have done Americas hardest
work in the field In both peace and war.
The entire conyestion arose tD it's feet and
cheered Father DOyland tumultuously.
Cries for BETS were heard. The chair
man said that DR.. Belts was not in the hall.
Father Agnew, formerly of Scotland, and
now delegate of the United Man aattau
league. addressed the convention. He
said the Irish In England aud Scotland
would be the first to feel any intemperate
action on the part OF this convention and
he was glad to congratulate the delegates
that their action had so tar been wise and
moderate. He moved thata vote of thanks
be rendered Fathers Boylan and Agnew
Carney, of Massachusetts,, said on this mo.
tion, that every Scottish clergyman had
for many years endeavored to denationaize
every lrshman who crossed the channel.
Carney, amid Kisses and confusion, was
pronounced out of order. A motion for
vote of thanks was then carried. At twenty
minutes to twelve recess was taken for
two hours, to await the reports Of commit.
tees.
At $40 p. M. the chairman of the com.
mittee on resolutions submitted the report
rs follows.
THE IRISH NATIONAL PLATFORM,
The following is the report ofthe cOmmi
tee on resolutions: The Irish American
people, assembled in convention at Phila.
delphia submit to the intelligence and right
reason of their fellow-men, that the duty of
the government 10 to preserve the lives of
those governed, to defend their liberty, to
protect their property, to maintain peace
and order, to allow each portion of the peo-
pie an equitable and efficient voice in the
legislature, and to promote general welfare
by wise aud Just humane laws. We sol.
emily declare and cite unquestinned his.
tory and universal knowledge OF living men
in testimony thereof.
First-That the English government has
IrnlQnH In lao
of the governed, but to destroy them. En-
tire communities it wantonly massacred
by the sword; to asylums OF terrified wo-
men it has deliberately applied the blazing
torch; into helpless towns IL has discharged
deadly bombs and shells: through conse,
Grated ports where age and infancy sought
shelter IL has sent its bloody butchers: the
sacred persons of venerable priests IL has
stretched upon the rack or suspended from
the gibbet; pulling babes have been i'm.
paled on the points OF its bayonets, because,
in their own words, its emissaries liked tina
government. Its gold has been folded in
the hands OF assassins, and has recorded the
imiamy of the periured traitor. Its treach.
erous falsehood has lured patri.
OTIS to unsuspected death, as II
the sword, cannon, torch, scafIolG,
dagger and explosives were not enough
1t enjoys the unique iniamy Of being the
only government known to ancient and
modern times which has employed famine
for the destruction of those from whom IL
claimed allegiance, forcibly robbing the
Irish people OF the fruits OF their own tolls
produced by their own labor. II has buried
not hundreds, not thousands, but more
than million OF the Irish race, unshrouded,
uncoiiined in the grave OF hunger. 1t has
mercilessly cor PEELED other millions In
compulsory poverty to seek in alien lands
the bread they were entitled to In their
own. is there no form OF cruelty known to
the lowest savage which II has not practced
on the Irish people in time of the highest
civilization. There is no device of
nendish ingenuity II has not adopted
to reduce their number within two
years. 1t has massacred children, and
woman's body has been the victim of its
licensed rutlians. There is no species OF
destruction or attack, however insidioas or
violent, ancient or modern, rude or scien.
tilic, whether directed against life or mat.
ter, In any portion of the globe for which
Its barbarities Ia Ireland have not fufnishec
examples, Tnere is no form OF retaliation
to which despair or madness may resort
for which England's cruelty IN Ireland is
not exclusively responsible,
Second,-We declare the English govern
ment in Ireland has not defended liberty OF
the people, but has anDihilated IT, Statutes
enacted since the invasion amount to a SO.
ries of coercion laws framed to deprive
citizens of all the vestiges OF personal free.
dom and reduce them to outlawry in order
to coniiscate their property nj d compel
them to flee to foreign lands. Since the be.
ginning Of the present century, when the
Irish parliament was abolished, laws tor
Ireland have been madei In England, and dur.
log that period habeas corpus and the riph /
OF trial by jury have been suspended more
than ilfty times. The horrors Of sold,ery
have been loosed on people forbidden to
bear arms and a state Of war with all Its AT.
t,uda.t NJ rrors, with occasionally those OF
ratification, has been maintained; TODAY