The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-03-15
OUR LETTER FROM BRoADeRIM.

These feet with angels wings shall vie
And tread the palace of the sky.
OUR LETTER FROM BROADBRIM.
Ireland and Her Champions-A Bigamist
and His Experiences-A Bad Woman,
Etc.
New YORK. March 8, 1884.
EDITOR CHIEF:
This week, two notable meetings were
held in our sister city Of Brooklyn, both
devoted to the same cause, and as diametri-
cally opposed to each other as day and
night. On Sunday evening thousands of
Irishmen turned out to give a cheer at
parting to the Hons. J. E. and William
Redmond, who are now on their way to
Ireland, after two years work devoted to
the Irish cause at the Antipodes.
The arrival of the Redmond brothers at
this particular time is most opportune for
the Irish cause and will be regarded as
God-send by every we'll wisher of Ireland.
It Is impossible for an American to look
with indifference upon the struggles of
suffering people, and the story of the miser-
able condition of the Irish has been
80 frequently rehearsed that no one need
be ignorant of it if he can read or hear.
But the story of suffering and wrong has
never been more eloquently told than it
was by William Redmond on Sunday night.
It is just such apostles as these two Irish
gentlemen, who will gain hearing for
Ireland's cause before the bar of the world.
No man doubts their honesty or their pa
triotism, and only a pack of crazy dyna-
mite fools call their wisdom in question.
But Mr.. Parnell and his lieutenants need
no yindication. The substantial successes
they have won for their country in the past
few years are all the yindication they re-
quire. 1t was truly great, as we'll as a
representative meeting, and it is safe to
say that hardly respectable Irishman in
Brooklyn would have been absent if the
house would have held them. AS it was,
more went away than were able to gain ad-
mission to the theatre-and the close of the
meeting was an ovation of which. the gal
liant gentlemen must bear grateful remem-
brances on their way back to their native
land.
But the meeting at the Brooklyn theatre
was not the only Irish meeting on Sunday
night in that city. A few blocks away the
Dynamite club was holding its usual Sun
day night meeting in the interest of assassi-
nation. The principal speaker of the even
ing informed his hearers that school had
been formed in Brooklyn for the purpose
of teaching young men how to use this ter
rible explosive, which, although he asserted
that it could be manufactured for the tri-
fling sum of sixty cents pound, and a
pound of it would blow up the Parliament
House, they were still in want of funds,
and these must be raised before Windsor
Castle could be blown to smithereens, and
Westminster Abbey be knocked out of time.
At last the orator waxed warm, and he
went for the bishops and priests who
counseled peace. He charged them with
being bribed and bought by British gold,
and this brought young Irishman to his
feet in defense of the clergy. The orator
denounced him as spy, and the young
Irishman, who evidently came of the good
old fighting stock, undauntedly replied that
the orator was liar. The friends of each
rallied around his man, when somebody
roared out, "Chuck him ont of the windy"
while every one seemed willing to do it, no
particular one cared about belling the cat.
A stalwart policeman, club in hand, made
his appearance about this time and the in
cipient Irish rebellion was crushed. Both
parties, however, remained defiant to the
last. One party declaring that she'd
chuck 'em out av the windy" and the other
party asserting that 'he'd loike to see 'em
do it." Evidently the lessons on the use of
dynamite that they had received made both
parties feel uncomfortable, for the lecturer
asserted that man could carry enough in
his breeches pocket to kill 100 men, and the
crowd fearing that the combatants might
be armed with the new engines of destruc-
ton, were quite willing to let them share
the fate Of the celebrated Kilkenny oats.
1t was instructive, however, to visit both
meetings. The Redmond meeting repre-
sented the wealth, the intelligence and the
respectability of the Irishmen of Brooklyn,
and in the responsibility I class the hard
listed workingmen, who are honestly labor
ing for their country's freedom and eleva-
ton. 1t was meeting that any man who
loved freedom for freedoms sake might
have been proud to attend, but the meeting