Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-12-20
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The judicial murder which was yes
terday committed in London upon the
body of an American citizen is but an
other evidence of that total disregard for
Justice and humanity which has always
been characteristic Of the English Govern
ments whether under Wing or Tory, Libe-
raj or Conservative leadership. The
course of the government, from the date
of O'DonpelPs arrest in South Africa TO
the hour of his unjustifable murder IN
Newgate prison yesterday, was marked
in its every stage by a determination
that he should not escape. The
unwarranted change of venue, the illegal
mode of impaneling the jury, the
systematic refusal to admit evidence
favorable to the prisoner, the partisan
speech of the Judge, which was IN fact an
almost direct command to the jury to con-
vict. all served to make his convection
thing as sure as was ever achieved Dy
Town Major SIR and his satellites, even
as it was accomplished by means every
whit as monstrous and revolving as were
the methods of that villain. And since con-
victiOn the acts Of the government OInclals
| have been even more despicable. They have
not hesitated to take any step which would
tend to throw obstacles in the way of the
movement toward justice and mercy, as
| witness the refusal even to furnish the
names of the Jurors who had sat upon the
| case. many of whom declared their YER
dict influenced by the dishonest charge
of the villainous and partisan Judge; nay,
| the very newspapers of the metropolis OF
the world, with single honorable eX-
| ception. refused to publish the appeal to
the jurors which was sent them by the
counsel for the defense.
1t is such mOnStrOus lnlqultles as THESE
bv which the Irish people are con-
stantly urged to the seeking OF new
means by which to harass and inJure,
and ultimately, with Gods blessing, to
destroy an enemy as implaeaDle as Hate,
and as cruel as HGiii; It is such deeds as
these That 90 far to justify the use OF any
| means in assailing England. Practlclng
all the devilish barbarities of by-gone
| ages in her ceaseless efforts at the eXter-
mination Of nOblepeOple, whom her own
| tvranuical misrule urges to constantly re-
peated uprisings, England has the au-
dacity to appeal to the laws of cIVIllZa-
ton when assailed by methods winch
civilization condemns, but which, repre-
hensible as they may be, can never De
placed upon the same low plane WIN her
own methods for the government OF Ire
land.
The present writer is, and has always
been. an opponent of the dynamite sys-
TEN of warfare against even such a re-
morseless enemy as England has proven
herself to be; but the outside world may
fudge from the methods used to compass
the murder of the unfortunate ODonnen
how easily the passions of lrishmen may
be aroused to the adoption of any steps
which may lead to some measure oil re-
venge. Nor will the future be barren OIL
additional causes for this desire Tor ven
geance; tor it is not to be supposed that a
government which, to further its upright
eous ends, deliberately plans the starya-
ton and deportation of whole people,
will rest content with the blood Of a SIN
gle additional victim.
Down AND Common.
Savannah, Ga, Dec. Is, 1883.
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