Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-12-20
0'DONNELL'S EXECUTION.
A DENUNCIATORY MEETING HELD
AT WASHINGTON.

Congressman Robinson, Calkins. Finer
ty and Belford BristIing with Speeches
Lord Lowell and the Anglo Mania
Under Fire-The Hanging Proclaimed
an Insult to this Government
WASHINGTON, Dec. ia large meet
ing was held this evening at Ford's Opera
House, under the auspices of the Clan
Na-Gael Society, to express, in the
words of the CALL american opinion
and feeling with regard to the judicial
murder of Patrick O'Donnell by the Brit
ish authorities"
Congressman Robinson presided. He
stated the object of the meeting, and said
that O'DOnnell was not the first Irishman
whom England had murdered, nor did he
| suppose that he would be the
lasts for there was an interminable
war between Ireland and England.
He thanked God for that, because England
represented oppression of power and
everything that was bad and despicable
IN the nineteenth century. He criticised
the AnglO-mania which led American
people to fete and make much oil English
men who visited America simply because
they were Englfshmen. He did not mean
to lind fault with the 80, 900, 900 citizens of
the United States, but with 800, ,009 dudes
who tiOcked in the train of
could not afford to have its
| citizens arrested in England without pro-
test, nor to have them convicted without
fair trial. The name of Patrick O'Don-
nell was prOuder and more honOred than
those of all the Queens and monarchs of
the world. He stated his intention to get
the House of Representatives to say
~ xva1 Of fl,,o. a..
Minister to England. If he had been
! true representative of the United States
Patrick O'Donnell would be alive to-day.
Lord" j. Russell Lowell must come
home. The whole diplomatic corps was a
| disgrace to America.
CONGRESSMAN CALKINs.
OF Indiana, said that he was not here be-
cause he had Irish blood in his veins. but
because he bad always been a lover of
liberty and because he hated tyranny and
intolerance. He hoped to live to see the
day when the people of Ireland shall be
as free as the citizens of the United States.
The time was not far off when the tyranny
under which Ireland had been oppressed
would be broken. If it should turn out
when proper Investigations had been
made that O'DonuelI had been convicted
IN spite OF defense, in spite of law and
against it, then Ireland would have added
Vldual sufferers for freedom.
CONGRESSMAN FINERTY,
of Illinois, said that this meeting had
been called to lament the impOtencV of a
great nation which, by nation not fit to
black its shoes, had been insulted in the
person of its President. There was day
when the cannon of the United States.
feeble to-day, would have answered the
insult and defiance of England. The
question was not so much one of Irish
liberty as one of American decadence.
There was never an insult more direct or
more IneXeusable than the refusal of Lord
Granville to consider the request of
the American nation. Suppose that the
President, on Friday night, had tele-
graphed to Mr.. Lowell: 81 demand the
respite of Patrick O'Donnell for 80 DAYS.
or diplomatic relations VIII be suspend.
ed" If he had said that the blood of the
nation would have been up, and if Eng
land had sent her fleets they would
have been met as they had been met be-
fore. Referring to the contest for the
Craftsmanship of the House Committee
on Foreign Affairs he said that the back
bone of 4 certain party would resent
the appointment of any man said
to be under the influence of England as
the head of that committee. If one party
was responsible for Minister Lowell he
uAA hOO NdiiI iuObuSI parry 10 ne TPSpOl-
sible for gentleman who was certain to
be an ally and supporter of the policy of
that Minister. He had spoken these
words as a Democrat, knowing the back
bone of the party, because he thought that
some Democrats should tell the presiding
officer of the House what people of his
sentiments thought of surrendering the
control of foreign affairs into the hands of
clique who believed in hobnobbing with
the English aristocracy. The speaker
also referred in eulogistic terms to
Blaine's foreign policy when Secretary of
| State.
CONGRESSMAN BELFORD,
of Colorado, indOrsed the remarks of Com
! gresham Robinson, and asserted that
| O'Donnell had done an absolute COM
mendable act in killing a sneak. Had he
been tried in Colorado the jury would have
have acquitted him without retiring. A
man who entered into conspiracy and
then gave away his confederates in order
to save his own neck had no right to live.
The meeting, which was very enthusi-
astic, and frequently interrupted the
| speakers with loud cheers, then adjourned,
after the adoption of resolutions con-
demnatOry of the action of England in the
ODonnell case.
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