Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1885-02-14
R0SSA'S JEALOUS DEFENDER
A PLEA IN BEHALF OF DYNAMITE.
4 Forcible Arrangement Of England
and Some Plain Talk Concerning
Her Policy Toward Old Erin.
Interesting Homo Letter.
rrrom On Occasional Correspondent 4

| ED. ADVOCATE. Lear olT.-NO o.
ticipg your structures on dynamite
in general, and O'Donovan Rossa
in particular in your issue OF the
| 7th inst, / would beg your indul-
gence and space in your valuable
journal, land, indeed, do value
your paper very much, and deem
your last issue the best paper ever
printed IN our camp in regard to
our mines), to say only Il few
words in defense of those much
abused dynsmiters. ! was gong
to say apologize for them; but, sir,
they do not require an apology
TO commence with, O'Donovan
Rosa has been abused much
indeed, by friend and foe alike.
You, dear sir, place yourself in his
position, or be placed there by a
hated alien foe, driven from the
home of your fathers, hunted and
bounded down almost to deaths
door by the paira agents of that foe,
thrown into prison for years to as
sociate with the vilest ours of per-
fidious England; fed on bread and
water, occasionally little, thin,
sinking cruel given you to eat;
with your hands IRoNED BEHIND
YOU get down on your belly to lick
up that Cruel, like creeping rep
tile, as ODonovan Rossa has had
to do, and if you ever survived such
treatment received from her Chris
tian Majesty most damned, l
would say-government, L think
you would be willing to use dyna-
mite or any other mite" to blow
that dynasty from the fnce of Gods
green earth, all sentiment and Ia
de-da business to the contrary not.
withstanding.
l know, to people on this side of
the water, far away from the scene
of action, that the use of explo-
sives to blow W London and other
cities of England, is regarded bar
barous indeed. Well, probably it
is, but when Grant fired on Vicks-
burg with It's population of men,
women and children therein; when
Sherman trained his guns on At
lanta, with the same kind Of a pop
ulation within its walls - did the
world judge these great generals
barbarians? Oh, no; it did not.
When Lee started en his invasion
of Pennsylvania with the intention
of wintering in New York and Phil
adelphia, and stormine by she'll
ing, and bombarding these cities,
if he ever reached their gates, if
said cities did not surrender at
once to his. invading hosts was or
was not he pronounced a blood
curdling villain by the applauding
world, especially EnglandP
But, men will say that this is no
criterion by which to Judge Irish
dynamiters. There was a state of
actual war existing in the cases |
have been referring to, but, my
dear American friends, | insist that
it is criterion, and that a state of
ACTUAL WAR exists between Ireland
and England to-day has existed
for centuries, and will exist until
Ireland-Dear Old IrelaDdl--is
forever free.
Dear Sir, l appreciate the sym
pathy you show in your article for
the Irish people and Ireland's
cause, and knowing from the tenor
of that article that your heart, your
true American heart, beats in,sym-
pathy with the patriots of the land |
of my fathers, ! could not let this
pass without thanking you for the
same, and also saying a few words
for that much abused O'Donovan
Rossa. lie is not understood. A
more gentle heart never beat meath |
an Irish freize coat or an American |
broad-cloth, than that same ODon-
oyan Rossn; but tyrany and OPP
preston heaped upon him by the
oppressors of his country, made al
most maniac of him. And no
man who will read the history of |
those expressions will condemn
him great deal, at least Ameri-
cans will not. l mean genuine Amer
leans, and not Anglicised cockney
dudes.
Indeed ] am cory to incumber
your paper with this efusion, as |
presume it will take up space that
would be of more value to the gen
eral reading public for something
else. Nevertheless your paper is
read by large number of citizens
who sympathize deeply with dear
Old Ireland and her struggles for
freedom, and would probably like
to see a word in her defense and