New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-24
EnRS1LR IND PARNELL.

Cround that he COulu not consent I'D lhc iel''So
of prisoners whose proceedings were lar more
dangerous than individual indictments TO out
rage. Resumng that defense after an lnterVal
of ten months, he now declares that lreland
would have believed Mr.. ParDell to he SUPREME
and would therefore have become ungoVerh-
able. lie contends that the recent disclosures
at Dubin have increased the suspicion that the
Land Leayue was connected with the Outrages,
and demands from the Irish leader something
besides formal disclaimer Speaking WIN TIE
outhority of n servant of the Crown, whose
ipdrment of public affairs has been vindicated
hv rho locic of events, he described the chiefs
If the Land League as unveiled and unmaskod,
and charged them with heading an organization
10y which outrages were promoted ana huiue''
melted. Addressing an audience that was
thrilled with tho thought that his steps "''o
docced by Iniscreants from day to da' ana 'L"'
hi: life was repeatedly plotted AGAINST he
CHARGED Mr.. P.irnell not with planning, but win
conpiying nc outragcs, and declared thnt tho
PLnnix Park assassins acted, not on the letter
lint i'm accordance with the spltlt oi the iiSh
leaders speeches.
What had Mr.. Parnell TO say in reply to TINS
tcrr,ble Indictment Not one word. lie sal
stunned and sullen, and either womb not OF
could not defend himself, although there were
lou,I cries for a reply In this way he enabled
Lord Harrington to close the debate ''r the
night by Interpreting his silence rs an adh'''-
sion that q pyimd tdcie case had been rsIt"'''neu
AGAINST the Irish leaders. a defence ol some
KIND be was forced To make, yesterday, Tor DIS
followers ont of Parliament would not he IN
cl,ped to accept the subtlcties OF apologIsis,
who might assume that his enemies mad at
tcm,,ed TO bait" him and had miserah.y
failed The Irish public would soon lose faith
~ 3, leader VINO could not repel by rccrlmina-
tion and violence the assaults by his critics.
Ills belatcd reply, however was ~ uISpif'on
that he might better have left the silence I'M
broken. His colleagues, indeed, can safely be
dcpt Dded upon to id him iii their own way.
They will defy Mr. Forster to ONT ont III MS
or their speeches a single direct aud unmstaha-
ble Indictment to murder or outrage; they VIII
discla m responsibility for the crimes which have
followed in the track of a social revolution INTO
winch the Irish people were planged throush
the iniquity of the land laws and the criminal
folly of Government coercion; and they VIII
charge anew that the PhGnlx Park murders
were a Fenian plot AGAINST him and them III the
hour of their triumph ~ well as hdeous crime
for which coercion was primarily Responsible.
what was said last May can be repeated now,
and Mr. Forster can be dismissed with coarse
irouy as disappointed politician who is stIuS-
cling 10 force his way back into public life by
disolaying assassins' wounds which were never
made
But when Mr.. Parnell's defence is made and
all that can be- said in his favor by his associ-
ates is said. one ugly fact cannot be explained
ovav nor argued down. The political ends
which he had ih view during the Land agitation
were promoted by systematic violence and law
lessness. lie organized a movement which was
dcpendent upon intimidation, law-Orenklng ana
murder. He sent out from Kimanham the No
Rent manifesto, which could OILY he enforced
bV bands of desperadoes and hedge muTdercrs
The outrages followed. and If he did not openly
dvise them he did not denounce them. The
crimes served his political purposes md lie did
not set his face against them. He continued to
tolerate them until, weary of inaction in prison,
he threw out the suggestion that the Land Cues
ton might be settled Oh the basis of an Arrears
bill. and that his good friend, Mr.. Sheridan,
might be able to make himself of use in repres-
NOT until his own plans were shattered by the
PhGnix Park assassinations that he found leisure
IN EXPRESS adherence OF dastardly and hldcOus
crime. By that time violence and bloodshed
had become so common that the moral sense of
tho community had become impaired Fcnian
conspirators felt that public sentiment educated
hv so many months of lawlessness would tOler-
ate even a crOwDinG outrage. So that although
Mr.. Parnell and his associates had no accom-
plices at Phoenix Park, they had prepared the
WAY for that atrOciOus crime by neg'ccting to
warn the Irish people against the results OF or
ganizcd violence and by silently awaiting them
selves OF the political uses of crime.
Mr.. Parnelrs silence has condemned him at
every stage of the Irish movement 4 fort
night ago, wien a special jury failed to convict
Mr.. O'Brien Of sediti0us liDcl, he tclegraphed
hearty congratulations, but he has never said
that he was glad TO gee murderers getting their
deserts aud jurcs regarding Their OAths. lie
could praise his friend Sheridan last May as "A
useful man in REFRESHING outrages. Yet that
Jealous agitatOr, disguised az priest, had been
so active in enforcing what he now terms the
" processes Of social Ostracisin" that James
Carey thought he was organizing and arm
ing the "lnvincibles." The Phmnix PARK as
sassinations called to Mr. Parnei's cold lips Il
few words of adherence, but lie was dumb
when cowardly assassins fred from hedges,
when innocent women were murdered in che
highway. or when an entire family was butch
cred In cold blood. When he ought TO be eo-
qucnt. as on Thursday night when Mr.. Forster