Morning journal and courier., 1883-04-28
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. THB IRISH CONVENTION Proceedings of the Last
 Days Session. AIPLATFORM OF PRINCIPLES English Rule in Ireland Se-
 verely Arraigned. A SPEECH FROM MRS. PARNELL. The League on 8 Perma-
 nent Basis.
A SPEECH FROM MRS. PARNELL
The League on 8 Perma-
 nent Basis.
PENNSYLVANIA.

PENNSYLVANIA.
 Corps of Permanent Officers Elected
 The Platform of fPrinc1pIes-A Rousins 1 Speech From Nrs. ParneII-Dstails O1
 the Last Days Works
 | PHILADELPHIA, April 27.-There was some
 delay in getting to work this morning at the Irish convention, and there were at the start few signs of the disorder which pervaded yesterdays proceedings. A message having come for ''man from Utica," and no such individual being present, the chairman took ! the opportunity to say that 'tno pent-up
 Utica contracts our powers.' The committee on resolutions and the committee on organ
 ization, it seemed, had wasted good part of the time allowed them, and were not ready | to report. A communication from s. s. Cox was read declaring it impossible for Ireland
 to remain under the British government on account of the commercial restrictions of the latter. There were 66, ,242 able bodied men en- l gagged in keeping Ethe peace" while there 1 were but 21, 900 engaged in teaching. Un- certainty of land tenure and of political status I and the standing army of spies go to ren- der Ireland the worst governed country in l the world. The agitation for liberty will go 1 on. Questions of extradition, citizens
 rights, etc., if considered by the convention, must be viewed in the light of the lessons of recent events.
 The communication failed to inspire much enthusiasm, it being altogether too conserva: tive to suit the radical element which is re- sponsible for the greater portion of the tur-
 bulence. This conservatism was so marked that several delegates voted "No' when mo- tion was made to thank Mir. Cox for his ex- pression of sympathy with the glorious cause of liberty.
 To the Rev. Father John Boylan, of Ire land, belongs the credit of thoroughly awak- ening the enthusiasm of this mornings con- vention. He is speaker of much personal magnetism and not little eloquence, and while talking with decided Irish brogue, his style is impressive and interesting, and his remarks were repeatedly cheered. At times the applause was deafening and long continued, especially when he referred to the fact that Protestants and Catholics were combined in the effort to free Ireland from English thrall- dom When he concluded his address loud cries were made for the Rev. George c. BeGtS, or OG. LOUIS, h 1rOI0SGaQG clorSynAQ, but MT. Betts was not in the hall, and the only remarks from the Protestant side of the house were from Thomas Bingham, of New York; who remarked that the happiest mo- ments of his life had been spent in the con- vention during the past three days.
 The Rev. Father Agnew, of Scotland, who comes as representative of the Manhattan
 branch of the land league, and who spoke in strain even moro conserV rVative than the
 letter of Sunset Cex, was applauded by the
 level headed delegates, but when 8 motion
 was made to thank him and endorse the
 sentiments he expressed, together with that
 of Father Boylan, the obstructionists, com
 monIy known as tho ''dynamite clement"
 again came to the fore and voted "nay'' on
 the resolution.
 At twenty minutes before twelve 8 recess
 was taken for two hours to await the reports
 of the committees. The morning session
 suited in nothing whatever save some excit-
 ing, if not incendiary speeches, and there
 was no marked turbulence and disorder ex-
 cept when delegate from Baltimore wished
 to speak on the Irish in Scotland; then some
 one objected, raising the point of order that
 he was not talking to the question, which
 was 8 vote of endorsement to Fathers
 Boylan and Agnew. The chairman, Con- gressman- elect Foran, of Cleveland, ruled
 the point of order well taken. The delegate tried to speak despite the ruling, and there were shouts of ''Put the gag" from Major Horigan, of New York, who sat at are
 porter's table beside J. O'Donovan Rossa, and who only resumed his seat when Rossa,
 who has behaved throughout with the ut most decorum, pushed him back into it. At this time there was some excitement, but It was of short duration. During the recess the hall was almost deserted, though few spectators retained their seats in the galleries, anxious to secure good views of the after noon proceedings. Several ladies were pres ent and waited patiently for the convention to resume business.
 After the convention reassembled there was little debate as to whether if the business of the convention were not completed an ad- journment should be taken for the purpose of attending the reception to MT. Egan. The feeling of the convention was against any such action. Mir. Egan came forward and said: No reception or honor to me shall interfere in the slightest degree with the work of the eonvention..' (Applause) Dr. O'Reilly then read the report of the commit tee on resolutions: The resolutions arraign the British government for it's barbarity. cruelty and oppression. It has wantonly massacred by the sword; to the asylums of terrified women it has deliberately applied the blazing torch; into helpless towns it has discharged deadly bombshells; through con secrated crypts, where age and infancy sought shelter, it has sent it's bloody butchers. The sacred persons of venerable priests 1t has stretched upon the rack sus- pended from the gibbet; pulling babies have been impaled on the points of it's bayoRets because in their own words it's em issaries ''liked that sport" It's gold has been folded in the hand of the assassin, and has rewarded the infamy of the perjured traitor; it's treacherous fslsehood has lured patriots to unsupported death. It enjoys the unique infamy of being the only govern ment known to ancient or modern times which has employed famine for the destruc ton of those from whom it claimed ale glance, forcibly robbing the Irish people of the fruits of their own labor. It has buried, i not hundred, not thousand, but more than a million of the Irish race, unshrouded, uncofined in the grave of hunger. It has mercilessly compelled other mil lions in compulsory poverty to seek in alien lands the bread they are entitled to in their own. The resolutions declare that instead of defending the liberty of the peo- pie, the British government in Ireland has annihilated it, instancing the laws enacted since the invasion, and claiming that since the beginning of the present century every law enacted has been framed for the suppress sion of personal liberty in Ireland. Instead of protecting the property of the people Eng fish government in Ireland has been con spiracy for it's injury and ruin. Of twenty million acres of producing land six millions have been allowed to lie waste. The owner ship of the remainder, generally acquired by force or fraud has been retained in tha hands l 
 drained the country of it's money in the | form of rents, no portion of which goes back to the Irish people. In addition to | this an iniquitous system of taxation | imposes on the public gigantic burden for | sustenance of foreign army, for an oppres sive constabulary, for salaries to supernum- | erary officials and placemen, for pensions to | English favorites, for blood money for in formers, and for 8 vulgar court whose extrav- agance is equalled only by the shsm,of it's | pretensions. It is therefore
 Resolved, That the English government in Ireland originating in usurpation, perpetraed by force hay ing failed to discharge of the dutiss of govern
 nent, having acquired the the gov erned, has moral right whstever to in Ire and and that it is the duty the through out the world to sustain the Irish people in ths ployment legitimate to substitute local for it's national government
 Resolved, That pledge our unqualified and con- stant support, moral and material, to country men Ireland their efforts to recover national and in order the effectuaIy to promote object by the consolidation our authoritative body to speak for greater Ireland America that all the societies represented in this vention and all that may hereafter comply with the conditions Of admission, be organized into the Irish