Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1885-08-18
THE NATIONAL LEAGUE.


ventiOn Provided for.
Chicago, Aug. 15-The national COM
mittee OF the Irish National league, COM
posed of one member from each state,
went into session here at ii 80 this
morning. The chief purpose of the
meeting of the committee was to deter
mine when and where the next national
convention will be held. Senator Rid.
dleberger arrived about noon and was
taken in charge by Alexander Sullivan
and Gen. Kirwin. During the session
of the committee letter was read from
Parnell, in which he advised that the
date of the convention be fixed at
period after the English general elec-
ton.
The following is the address formu-
lated and adopted this afternoon at the
meeting of the national committee of
the Irish National league of America:
In obedience to the suggestion of the
chosen leader of the people OF Ireland,
the national committee of the Irish Ma
tional league Of America, assembled to
designate time and place for holding
the next national convention of the
league IN the United States, have decid-
ed to postpone the date OF the meeting
until January, 1856. 1t must be mani
fest to all members of the league, and
all friends of self-governmenti in Ireland,
and that it would be impossible either
for Mr.. Parnell to attend a convention
in this country or to send any of his
able associates pending the general cleo
ton, which will probably occur next
November. Hence the wisdom of his
suggestion that the convention be post
poned. In the meantime, however, the
league should inaugurate period of
activity not less earnest and energetic
than that which prevailed when Ireland
was threatened with another artificial
famine, and when her leaders were i'm.
prisoned apd her press silenced under a
SO called liberal government. The
party, led by MIR. Parnell, needs
support. How we'll that support
Is deserved we need hardly tell the world.
Assuredly we need not tell men of
Irish birth or descent. Serving without
compensation, without Official power Or
patronage among aliens who have per-
secuted and who have sought to degrade
them, being numerically less than one
twentieth of the body in which they
serve, they have achieved success unpar-
alleled in the history of the struggles
, for free government. By their ability,
their unity, their discipline, their faith
in the justice of their cause and by their
restless labors. they have forced not
only their enemies, but the world to
look upon the oppression and to listen
to the recitals OF an outraged, plundel ed
misgoverned people. They have with
| ~, n
tunlty to thrust before the world their
! scrunity of light. They never allowed
it to be hidden. They blockade the
legislation of tho English parliament
r They objected to, postponed and de.
, feated local legislation, intended to
foster and expedite English business
, interests in retaliation for the dull,
3 brutal Indifference which was shown to
Irish interests. For the first
: time IN English history il
: was impossible to extend the
e franchise privilege in England and
o Scotland without giving Ireland abso
t lutte equality III the extension. While
: they have not been able to compel tht
+ government to disgorge the surplus O.
the unexpepded fund raised to support
o the now disestablished church, they
have wrung from the champions of thai
t colossal robbery the admission that il
o belonged to the people of Ireland, anC
f have compelled the return of portion
| of the stolen funds. They have not Sc
: cured the land of Ireland for the peo
;, pie of Ireland, but they have forced th,
. enactment OF legislation, which, although
: inadequate in its effects, is extraordinal,
g in it's terms and confessions as t,
!. amount to confession of the enormit,
). of the system which has SO long groun(
down and impoverished the Irish peo
pie. They have not been able to ge
: back Grattan's parliament for Ireland
but they boldly announce that no lesse
's measure will be accepted by them
l. and pending Its restoration, thougl
n prohibited from the goye1nmen
of ireland, they have been able to die
: tate who must cease and who may Of
'r sumo the work of governing England
If They have driven the rarty of coerciar
4 the party Of judicial murders, the party c
eviction, the party which vainly sough
to imprlson ideas when it thrust me
d into dungeons, the party led by GLAD
II stone, who wrote boastfully of the dowI
fall of the American republic. into dit
graceful retirement from Dublin castl
v und they have shown that while Dubli
st castle was the home of the so-calle
d English liberalism and the seat {
IN tyranny, its unnatural vice and importe
! English bestiality made it only worth
~ OF site in the ancient Sodom of Como
ID rah, or in modern London. Their labor
ne have been hercnlean. Their accon
Mt plishments under the most adverse ci
Gu! stances are almost miraculou
= When they next appear in parliamel
ae their numbers will be increased fro
s- thirty to. at least eighty. The
m will have more or less of the on
=. reliable English support, that whit
" comes from number OF Eugiil
ne members who will owe their ele