The daily Cairo bulletin., 1884-08-21

l''9 IOihlS'C'
Connecticut Catholic
During the past three years ou7 country
has been insuled on several occasions by
England Our citizens have been arrested
in Ireland and cast into prison without
trial or even formal examination of any
kind. Our government has been appealed
to by the aggrievcd parties and their
friends, but to no purpose. The arrested
persons were detained in prison as long as
the English officials saw fit. When it was
convenient for John Bull, the insulted and
wronged citizens in English prisons were
set at liberty without even an apology.
Our government did not have the spirit and
frmness to resent this glazing insult to the
citizens.
The man most to blame for this spirit
less inactivity of our government was
James G.. Blaine who was Secretary Of
State when the first arrest was made in
Ireland of our citizens without warrant or
legal cause, He supinely allowed the in
suit, and instructed his mouthpeCe in Lon
don, Minister Lowell, not to interfere in be
half Of the citizens of the United States.
His instructions have since been followed
out by the present Secretary Of State.
Mr., Blame appears to have almost mani
tested an aversion to the interests Of Irish
men or lrish-Americsns. When he was
Secretary OF State lasge demonstration
was held III Baltimore to protest against
the despotic course the English govern
ment had taken against our citizens, he was
invited to be present, but he did not
deign to even seud reply or letter of re-
gret TO the honorable committee that invit-
ed him. At this meeting the late Judge
Black and other distinguished orators and
statesmen were present and severely de-
nounced England and sharply criticised the
ur-Amcrcan course James G.. Blaine as
Secretary was then pursuing. Blaine was
then posing himself to gain favor with the
aristocracy OF England, instead of protect
ing the rights of our citizens, He was un-
able to answer the charges made against
him that evening and telegraphed through
out the country. James G. Blaine never
attended a meeting called to assist the Ir-
ish in their struggle for freedom and never
assisted them in any way to conquer their
inyeterate enemy-Old England.
Grover Cleveand's record, though not as
long or as brilliant IN national affairs, is
much more in harmony with our people.
He has always been foremost in any dem
onstraton or movement tending to lit up
our people or to assist them in their strug-
giles. In the spring of 1882, when Mayor
of Buffalo, he was asked to preside al a
public meeting called to take action on the
case Of the Irish Americans then Imprison-
ed in Ireland. On taking the chair he said
that he considered it an honor as well as a
duty to preside, and ther, after pointing
out that the naturalized and native born
citizens had the same right to protection
from the government at Washington, he
laid down the following principles:
at needed not the statute which is now
the law of the land, declaring that all nat
uralized citizens while in foreign lands are
entitled to and shall receive from this gov
ernment the same protection of person and
property which is accorded to native born
citizens to voice the policy of our Nation.
In all lands where the semblance of liberty
is preserved, right of person arrested to a
speedy accusation and trial is, or ought to
be, fundamental law, as it is a rule OF
civilization. AT any rate, we hold it to be
so, and this is one Of the rights which we
undertake to guarantee to any native born
or naturalzed citizen of ours, whether i'm
prisoned by the Gar of Russia or under the
preteXt of law administered. for the
benefit of the landed aristocracy of Eng
land. We do not claim to make laws for
other countries but we do insist that what
soever those laws may be, they shall, in the
interest of human freedom and the rights of
mankind as far as they involve the liber-
ty of our citizens, be speedily administered
We have right to say and do say that
mere suspicion without examination ol
trial is not sufficient to justify the long I'M
prisonment of citizen of America. 9th
er Nations may permit their citizens to be
thus imprisoned. Ours vii not And this
in effect has been solemnly declared by
statute"