Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-28
Hon. Alexander Sullivan
Chosen President Of the
New Organization.
A Grand Gathering at the Acad.
envy of Music to Ratify
the Union.
Text Of the New Constitution and
the Method OF Procedure,
Full Details OF the Philadelphia Con
vention.
Special Dispatch 10 TIE BEE.
THE PRnCEEDINlS.

Special Dispatch 10 Ia. BE
THE PROCEEDINGS.
PH1DADELPH1A, April 27.-It was
nearly IL o'clock before the Irish
National convention assembled this
morning and reading of the minutes
dispensed with. DR.. O'Rielly IN.
nounced that the committee on resolu.
lions had prepared the report, but was
not yet ready to present 1t. The
chairman of the committee on organ.
lzation said the committee on organ.
ization would not be ready to report
until after the committee on resolu-
tions had reported, as after a long
debate the committee on organization
had not been able to agree
on the number of officers for q nation.
al league OF Its exact scheme Of gov.
consent . communication from 8. 8.
Cox, of New York, congratulating
the convention on what 1t had achiev'
ed, declaring that It Was impossible
for Ireland to remain under the
British government. A > OF
thanks was then passed to
Cox. Father Boylan, Of Ire.
land, and Father Agnew addressed
the convention oongratulati,g 1t upon
It's temperate action and declaring that
England and Scotland would be the
the first to feel the effect OF any In
temperate action.
At 20 minutes to IL 4 recess was
taken for two hours t oawait the re.
port of the committee
AFTER REEss.
PHILADELPHIA, april 27.-The
chairman of the cormittee on resolu-
lions submitted his eport at $40 this
THE REpLUTIoNs.
The report # the committee
on resolution says that the
Irish. American people assembled
In conventional Philadelphia to
submit to le intelligence and
ri0ht reason G their fellow.men that
the duty of government is to pre-
serve the liv of the governed, to de-
fend their liberty, to protect their
property, maintain peace and or
der. to alw each portion of the peo-
nle an eotable and efficient voice in
The leoature, and to pro.
mote II general welfare by wise,
mat an1umane laws. We solemnly
~Saolsrend cite the unquestioned his.
torv a universal kno Wedge of liv-
, inc tsmony thereof; first, the Eng
IisR Fernment has existed In Ire
landot to preserve the lives of the
govned but to destroy them. The
fe,ution then pictures ut length the
alwed bsrbarities of the English
oernment and how the "blazlng
foh has been applied to asylums Of
,rrifsd women, how the deadly bomb
ias been discharged Into helpless
towns, and adds: As if the sword,
cannon, torch, scaffold, dagger and
explosive Is not enough, it en- oys the
unique infamy Of being the only gov
eminent known to ancient or
modern times which employed
the famiae for the destruction
of those from whom 1t claimed allie
glance, forcibly robbing the Irish
people of the fruits of their own toll,
produced by their own labor. 1t has
buried not a hundred, not a thousand,
but more than a million of the Irish
race, unshrouded, uncofined In the
grave of hunger. 1t has mercilessly
compelled other millions In compul.
sorry poverty to seek In alien lands the
bread they were entitled in their own.
There Is no form of cruelty
known to the lowest savage which It
has not practioed on the Irish people
In the name Of the highest civilization.
The last paragraph Of this plank refers
to dynamite as 1t Is. There Ia no form
or relation to which despair or mad.
ness may resort for which the English
cruelty In Ireland Is not exciusivsly
responsible.
Ssoond-We declare that the Eng.
lish government In Ireland has not de-
Tended the liberty OF the people but
has annihilatsd the statutes enacted