The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-10-18

Daniel McSweeney, the Irish-Ameri.
can who was imprisoned in Ireland foi
ten months and four days as suspect,
arrived in New York Sunday on the
steamer Aurania, and party Of Irish
Americans went down the bay IN tug
to meet him. Among them were Gen.
McAIahou, John Il, Develin, Commis.
sioner Coleman, James Redpatb, Con-
greasman Robinson, Judge Richard o.
Eugene Kelley, Gen. Thomas Francis
Bourke, and Senator Bourke, and Sena-
tor Daily. The customs officers insisted
that Mr. McSweeuey should land at the
Barge Office aud the tug took him thence
to the foot Of West Thirty-fourth street,
Ho was escorted to the New Yo1k Hotel,
where lie sat during the evening facing q
g-oup Of reporters.
II come over here Voluntarily" he
SAID, ITO tell my couutrymen how Blaine
treated mo when | was locked up in an
Irish Jail. l am now so years of age and
came to this country frat in 1852. re.
manned in Pennsylvania three years,
where got out G4y first naturalization
papers, and then | went to California.
where got my tiuGl papers on Nov. IS,
lo6O. l was in the cattle trade, and at
tended so strictly to bustness that my
health gave way, and physicians ordered
me to take sea voyage for my health.
Ia March, 1877, | went to Ireland with
my family and bought small freehold
property called Carrowcanuon House, in
county Donegal. l was there four years |
and tried to sell the property, but Buck |
sAot Forsters Coercion act bad SO de- |
preciaied property that J. could not dis |
pose of 1T.
EARLY in the morning OF June 2. 1881, |
cousables broke into my house and ar |
rested me, ! was SO feeble al the time |
that had to use q clutch. / was dragged |
2JO miles ana thrown into Dundalk jail. |
Tue charge against me was melting the /
people OF the neighborhool to riot and |
assault ! saw TIE American Consul at
Dundalk and demanded my releasa or u
speedy trial, on the ground that l was
an American citizen. lie wrote to Min
lister Lowell, who in turn wrote to Sec.
reiary Blaine. With the sanction of !
Secretary Blaine, Minister Lowell wrote
to me, after l had been four months in
jnil, that Earl Granville refused to tell
what the charges against me were, ami
that be himself could not Interfere, be-
cause was only naturalizsd citizen,
anyway, and not an American born. /
bad thought that the rights of American
citizens were equal, no matter what their
previous condition or nationality might
be.
For over ten months I lay in that
British Jail, when, had l not been an
American citizen, would have been re-
leased in three months time at least, as
the other suspects we're. During all that
time listened to the CALLING tauuts from
my jajlers, "What good is your American
citizenship? Let your flag protect you ii
it can" Insult after insult was heaped
upon me, ell because it was James G..
BIaines policy to turn his back on the
appeals of Irish-Amercans. The IRISH
Americans should know this and act nc.
cordingly. When Mr.. Trelinrbuysen
went into olico lie tool; hold of my case
at once, and the prison doors were
opened and | was released"
Watt, will undoubtedly jcct the pub
licalion of the above in his SMUT ma
chine. Vote the Democratic ticket and
turn the rasc1lS Outi