The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-12-28
pATRICK o,DoyNELI..

Meeting Of Irishmen and Irish 9ympa
thizers at the National Capital-Opinioni
OF Congressman Robinson, Calkins. Fin
erty and Belford upon the Trial, and
Execution Of the Murderer OF Informe1
Carey.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 10,
There was large meeting this evening
at Ford's Opera-house under the auspices
of the Clan Ma Gael to express, in the
words of the call, american opinion and
feeling with regard to the judicial murder
of Patrick O'Donnell by the British author.
ities." Congressman Robinson, of New
York, presided. He stated that O'Donnell
was not the fist Irishman that England
had murdered, nor would he be the last, for
there was interminable war between Ire.
land and England. He thanked God for
that, because England represented oppres-
sion and everything despicable in the nine
teenth century. He criticised the Anglo
mania which led the American people to
fete and make much of Englishmen who
visited America, simply because they were
Englishmen. He did not mean to find fault
with the 81, 800 900 citizens of the United
States, but with the 4,UO0,00J dudes who
were in the train of every En- ,lishnlan.
The United States could not afford to have
her citizens arrested by England without
protest, nor have them convicted without a
fair trial. The name of Patrick O'Donnell
was prouder and more honored than those
OF all the queens and monarchs of the
whole world. He stated his intention
to get the House of Representatives to say
whether it approved the course of the Min
lister to Great Britain. Ii he had been a
true representative of the United States
Patrick O'Donnell would be alive to-day.
"Lord"J j. Russell Lowell must come home.
The whole diplomatic corps was disgrace
to America.
Congressman Calkins said he was not
here because he had Irish blood in his veins,
but because be always had been lover of
liberty, and because he hated tyranny and
intolerance. He hoped to live to see the
day when the people of Ireland would Re
as free as the citizens of America. Fne
time was not far off when the tyranny I'M
der which Ireland was oppressed would be
broken. Ii it should turn out when proper
investigations were made that O'Donnell
had been convicted in spite of law and
against IL, then Ireland added one more
patriot to her long line of individual suf-
terers for freedom.
Congressman Finnerty, of Illinois, said
the meeting was called TO lament the impo-
tency of the great nation, which by a ma
ton not fit to black its shoes, had been in
suited in the person Of its President. There
was a day when the cannon of America,
feeble to-day, would have answered the in
'ult and defiance of England. The question
was not so much one of Irish liberty as
American decadence. There never had
been insult more direct or inexcusable than
ihe re usal OF Lord Granville to consider
The request of the American Nation. Sup
BASE the President Friday night had tele-
graphed Lowell: II demand the respite of
Patrick O'Donnell for ninety days, or dip
tomatlc relations will be suspended" If he
had sent that, the blood of the Nation
would have been up, and if England had
sent her fleets they would have been
met as they had been met before. Re-
ferring to the contest for the
of the House Com
mlttee on Foreign Affairs, he said the back
bone OF certain party would resent the APP
polntment OF any man said to be under the
influence of England as head of that COM
mittee. If one party was responsible for
Minister Lowell, he did not want another
party to be responsible for gentleman
who was certain to be the ally and support
er OF the policy of that Minister.
Congressman Belford of Colorado in
iorsed the remarks of Robinson, and as
serted that O'Donnell had done an abso-
utely just act in killing sneak. Had lie
been tried in Colorado the jury would have
acquitted him without retiring. A man who
entered conspiracy and then gave away
Ills confeierateS n order to save his own
neck had no right to live.
The NEE ing, which was very enthusiast
ilc and frequently interrupted the speak
srs with loud cheers, adjourned alter the
adoption OF resolutions in condemnation of
The action of Great Britain in the O'Donnell
,aSe.