New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-27
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE TUESDAY FEBRUARY q. 1883

the expenses of blowing up the British Meet In
Newport. The job was never execueea
@because some Of the trustees stole the 1unds
@We,n burn London and Liverpool yet" ne
says ave are not squeamish about means
Wen use fire and poison" They always nave
used fire and poison. The current term Tor the
combination Ia whiskey. They are using it now
profusely in this city, and the spectacle Is SUI
ficient to make England totter with fear.
But the greatest hero of all in this army Oh
heroes is p. j. Sheridan, the man who has Deen
mentioned by lnformer Carey as an inst'ga-
tor of assassination. How he does rejoice and
dilate under his proud distinction He does
not deny the charge Not he He holds an
interview with himself, has il put in type, and,
after trying in vain for several days to sell it to
some correspondent of an English paper, gives
it out for publication. He denies in his state
ment that he ever knew Carey, has o true assas-
sins contempt for an informer but refrains
from denying the most dreadful Of The charges
which Carey makes against him. But how
beautifully he poses as an Irish patriot! "Do
you approve Of shooting landlords 7" he asks
himself, and thus gives answer: "Well, that
ais very direct question. No, do not APP
"prove of shooting man simply because he
happens to be landlord, nor am prepared to
@condemn the man who will fight to the death to
"defend his home and save his family from
destruction" In plain English, he thinks the
landlord should be shot il he attempts to
make the tenant get out or pay the rent. That
is the patriotism of the Irish assassin, ard the
bold Sheridan avows it like friend OF assas-
sins. In the light of this declaration 1t Is easy
TO understand what his mission to Ireland was
when he went there in the disguise of priest
" to uphold the No Rent manifesto" Sheridan
is very proud of his interview, and very much
impressed with the terrible picture he draws OF
himself as an assassin for he says at its close !:
" | shall remain in New-York. If any ennis
sary of the British Government wants to know
@where am, he Will find me at my desk in The
Irish World Office any day Of the week." There
Is hero for you He thinks he has made
himself so terrible that the British Government
will send an emissary" after him at once.
If there were the slightest danger of the ennis
sary ~ securing HIM, he would never have been
heard from at all.
Draw this army up in line and look them
over. What Is their common bOast3 That
they are assassins and friends of assassins
What can be the motive for this They must
know that they cannot arouse sympathy for
Ireland in this country by representing that the
cause of Irish liberty is the cause of assassina-
ton. They misrepresent Ireland when they do
that and should he denounced as earnestly by
all patriotic Irishmen NJ they are detested by
all Americans. They make the Irish question
reproach and Irish patriotism a burlesque
Ireland" exclaims the inflated McSOrley in
the play, Z" has $50, 900 men in arms" "Then
why don't they whip England y. " Because che
police won't let 'em!" The Irish-American
patriots are the main contingent of McSorley'
army.