Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-15
Irish NATIONAL LEAGUE,


America, and Appeal 20 American Cit
liens to Lend Them Their Aid and ExDer-
ienc1.
DETROIT, Mich, May IA The execute We
council of the Irish National league of
America met here this forenoon and trans
acted much important business. Pres
ent, Patrick Egan, of Dublin, Alex. Sulliv-
an, president, Rev. DIR. G. O'Reilly, treas
urer, John j. Hayes, secretary and VIM.
B. Wallace, of New York, Rev. Father Nc
Kenna, of Mass, M. V. Gammon,Iof Iowa,
James Reynolds of Conn, and J. G. Don
nelly, OF Wisconsin.
The following address was approved.
The Irish-American societies and all
friends.of Ireland-The convention of the
Irish race which assembled in Philadelphia,
has passed into history. The Land league
having been forcibly suppressed in Ire
land, the Irish people, still rising intel
lectually above the force and tactics of
their oppressors. have formed themselves
into new organization, the Irish National
league. Preserving the aims of its pre-.
| decessor, charging its scope and gather
ing within its lines the entire population,
| except the foreign garrison, and its bene-
| ticiaries, the Land league of America,
| whose glorious, if brief career, shall be
forever remembered as a splendid testi-
| mony of the devotion of sea-diviaed race
| to its distressed kindred, accedirg
to the desire of its Irish exemplar, net i'll
preliminary convention, audited its books,
| adjourned sine die, and its delegates, to-
gether with those of numerous other Irish
American societies, the aggregation of
more than !, 200, entered into convention,
for the purpose of unising all the elements
of the Irish race in America more eff
GENTLY to aid their countrymep at home.
The prudence and wisdom which char
acterized the deliberations of the great
| body thus constituted has commanded the
respect of rejecting men unreservedly, &C
cepting the platform of the Irish National
League of Ireland. of which Charles
S. Parnell is president. 1t solsmnly
organized the Irish National
league of America, and thus inaugurated
| the most compact, most cohesive and most
| Inspiring movement of the time for the
promotion of an object at once humane
and political, and that object the restora-
| ton of self-government to the people
| whose poverty, frequently descending to
not due to the soil, bat is the result of the
blind viciousness of hostile foreign pow
er which is annually draining out naturally
| created capital and maintains a system of
| terror and lawlessness ruinous to the peace
| and fatal barrier in the way of industrial
and social development.
The substitution by legitimate means of
a national self government for this coer-
Give and destructive force is the chief aim
of the Irish National league.
The direction of the movement in Amer
ica was unanimously entrusted by the con-
vention to council consisting of the presi-
| dent and an executive council of seven.
This body is now formally organized. In
compliance witi: the duties imposed upon
us we request all Irish American
! benevolent, temperance, military, literary
| social, patriotic and Rausical societies,
| represented in the convention, or DESTROYS
of atiliating with the Irish National league
Of America INN ediately to send to the Sec
rotary, room 5, No. 81 Clark street, Chica-
| 60, ILL.,, their full name, with the time and
| place of meeting, the name and correct
! pestotlice address Of their respective pres
idents and secretaries, that they may be
supplied with the platform, the rules of
| the organization and the literature to be
issued il the future, by n cans of which the
! closest union Between this country and
| Ireland Will be constantly maintained.
| Each society will continue its special
work under its own name, but as members
of the Irish National league eff America
each will be designated Branch No. -" in
tho order in which they comply with sec
| ton XI. of the plan of organization.
We request that all societies belonging
10 the league, and all intending to join it.,
| shall meet singly or in groups, on the
| evening of Thursday, June 8, for the pur-
pose of notifying their proceedings to the
| convention, and we suggest that in add
ton to appropriate addresses the
| platform of the Irish National Land
League of ireland, and platform of the
Irish National Land League Of America,
be road.
We earnestly appeal to the men of our
race lot members of our societies to con-
| s,ientiously consider the critical con-
dit1on of their kindred in Ire
land at this time. The platform
of the Irish National league is one upon
which all reasonable men of Irish blood
can honestly stand together. Its method,
one by which all can work vigorously and
efficiently together. Its object is sane
toned by the highest morality and expert
ance of mankind, and demonstrates that it
may be achieved by persistent, determined
and united effort. The sympathy of our
American countrymen We earnestly invite
for the just claims for a country whose
people in America and in Ireland have
been from the earliest dawn of rebellion in
the American colonies to the last hour
OF American independence their
staunch and stalwart allies.
Alexander Sullivan, president, Rev.
Chas. O'Reiliy, D. D., treasurer, and j. j.
Hyners, secretary of the esHnoil, directed
that the treasurer remit to Alfred Webb,
or such other treasurer or trustees rs dur
ing his term of Office may be designated
by the Irish National league, the sum of
81 900 as frequently as that sum be re-
ceived by him, providing however. that
smaller sums shall be RENTED, if in the
judgment of Parnell any emergencies
arise requiring more frequent remittance,
the council being SO notified. The eonsti
tuition directs that all moneys be sent by
the branches directly to Rev. Chas. O'ReiI
ly, treasurer, Detroit, Mich. quarterly
statement was ordered issued by the treas
urer and secretary. The president ap-