The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-05
AFFAIRS IN IRELAND.

Practical NullifcatiOn-A suspension of Civil
Rights Except in the Province Of Ulster.
Belfast Gable Special.
The notification Of the Southern States pre-
ceeded secession. 1t is the same thing in Ire
land. This city is proper one in which to re-
gard the state of affairs calmly, because outside
of boycotting and the whirl of its enforcement
all civil rights seem now to be practically sus-
pended in every province except Ulster The
Massachusetts colonists would not pay the tax
on tea the Irish tenants decline to pay any rent
charge or land rates. What is this but nullifi
cation7 What is eviction but a popular crimeq
Captain Moonlight" now boycotts even re-
porters who speak to or are friendly to anti
leaguers who have been excluded from the
Nationalist meetings. Bishops who would not
bless the old Land Leaguers, and who once ex
orcised Fenians, now give their benedictions to
the boycottng Nationaists. To-day Leaguers
are given everywhere the trade. Tenants are
compelled to be martyrs, so that the landlords
may be execrated as tyrants Private coercion
takes the place of government coercion-a re-
version Of motive power Mr. Parnell is like the
student in the fable, who made a man out of
pieces of dissections, and then breathing achem-
ic life on his construction, created the Frank
ensten monster. who as soon as he breathed, de-
voured the student. Parnel1 and company. as
political firm, have dealt in what may be called
a reprisal of merchandise upon the landlords,
and now the original dealers with the firm are
setting up the business of coercion their own
account, just at the time when before the cleo
tions, the firm wants such business SUSPENDED.
The foregoing is summary Of what
Orangeman told me here yesterday when / was
procuring views from those who are called
Loyalists, we'll as from the Nationalists
to give both sides of the situation. That which
is now so embarrassing to the magistrates
courts the bailiffs, the landlords, the tenants,
the Viceroy and the Tory Cabinet-just as the
latter as well as Mr.. Parnell desire quiet until
after the eections-is that the southern Irish
man is like Manfred, who had that unquiet
let him sleep" Doubtless both Mr.. Gladstone
and Mr., Parnell know what they were about
when one passive'y, the other actively. put the
Tories in power at such an embarrassing Irish
period as the present-the former to escape
trouble and Mr.. Parnell to gain fuel with which
to feed the Home Rule fire and to fan its flames
into independence for Ireland. just now the
country is divided as the United States were in
1861, the North standing by the union with
England, the South striving for separation.
THE BoYOoTrING OF MRS. oCoNNELL.
In consequence of the sensational reports of
the boycotting of Mrs Morgan O'Connell, your
correspondent at Dublin proceeded to-day to
Kildysart, near Ennis to interview the lady, de-
spite the threats of the local Leaguers. Mrs.
O'Connell is about thirty-ive years DID, of medi
um height comely, dignifed and determined.
She said: II am the widow of Daniel O'Con-
Lell's nephew and not granddaughter of the
Liberator. as some papers have stated. I have
seventy tenants, and six of them hold leases.
The rents are absurdly moderate, and many of
them are in arrears. Maurice Walsh, president
of the local league, is yearly tenant on my
land, and now owes two and half years rent.
The tenants demand reduction of % per cent.
l am willing to reduce the rents Is per cent but
NO more My duty as the guardian of my only
boy John, prevents my giving more even if
were SO inclined. l reside at Kildysart during
one quarter of each year. / have many helpless
retaiIers, most of whom are aged and totally
unable to provide for themselves Formerly
bought everything at the local shops, but the
tyranny of the league now compels me to 60 or
send to Limerick, twenty miles away for every
thing / need. The local tradesmen refuse to
sell anything, even bread, to m ysef. my servants
my dependents. Even the priests have joined
the tyrants 1t is untrue that the police are pro-
tecting me. / protect myself. Some OF my
laborers have been coerced into desertion. but
others remain and are now saving my crops.
They have not yet been molested" Mrs. OCon-