Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-17
IRISH NaTfONALIsTs.
A Meeting in Aid of farnelps ParHa-
Inentary Fight.

1neGt0fy right
by Telegraph
representing the Irish National Leagues of
nearly every State in the United States had
a secret session here to-day, TO devise the
best means Of lending aid TO Parnell and
his colleagues in the old country. During
the conference 8 dispatch from Parneli was
read advising the meeting 70 fix on date
subsequent 10 the English elections Tor the
holding Of the National Convention. An
address was then read and adopted, which,
IN part. Is as follows:
In obedience TO the suggestion of the
chosen leader of the people Of Ireland, the
National Committee Of the Irish National
League in America, assembled to designate
the time and place for holding the next
National Convention of the League in the
United States, have decided to postpone the
date Of meeting until January, 1886. 1t
must be manifest to all members of the
league and ali friends of self-goyernment
/ in Ireland that it would be impossible
either for Mr.. Parncn to attend the conven-
ton ia this country, or 10 send any of his
able assistants pending the general cleo
ton, which will probably occur next No
vember. Hence the wisdom of his sug-
gestiou that the convention be postponed.
In the mean time. however. the league
should inaugurate period OF activity not
/ less earnest than that which prevailed
when Ireland was threatened with another
artificial famine, and when her leaders
were imprisoned and her press silenced I'M
der the so-called Liberal Government. The
uartv led bv Mr. Parnell needs support.
How well 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 prosecuted and who have sought
TO degrade them, being numerically less
than one-twenteth of the body in which
they serve, they have achieved a success
unparalleled in the history of struggles for
free government. By their ability, their
, unity, their discipline, their faith in the
Justice Of their cause and by their restless
laboIs, they have forced not only their enc
mics, but the world, to look upon their op
preston and TO listen to the recitaiS of an
outraged, plundered, misgoverned people
They have not been able to get back
! Grattan's Parliament for Ireland, but they
boldly announce that no lesser measure
will be accepted by them, and pending its
restoration, though prohibited from gov
erning Ireland, they have been able to die
tate who must cease and who may assume
the work of governing England When
bers viii be increased from thirty TO at least
eighty. They will have more or less of the
only reliable English support-that which
comes from iear-irom 4 number Of Eng
| lish members who will owe their election
20 the judicious exercise of the balance of
power of the exiled Irish in England and
Scotland. With that strength they will be
able to throttle English legislation and thus
compel the English to allow them to retire
from an atmosphere polluted by royal and
arist0cratic bestiality, and to establish
free Parliament for The government OF free
people in Ireland.
In the accomplishment of this work
they need one more great effort on the part
of their American auxiliaries. We appeal
to every branch Of the League to give re-
newed life and determination to the work
At the Convention to be held in January it
is more than probable than Mr. ParneIl
viii be present 1t is certain that the Irish
Parliamentary party Will be represented"
In the evening large demonstration was
held at Ogden's Grove being attended by
several thousand friends of the Irish cause.
Among the addresses delivered was one bv
Senator Riddleberger, of Virginia Alex
ander Sullivan, eX-President of the Irish
American League in America, called to the
chair, introduced the speaker in the follow.
ing words: The distinguished American
patriot who is to address you this evening
does not claim, like Mr. Lowell, that he is
English. He will not tell you. ike Mr..
Phelps, that the Prince of Wales is proper
model for your sons, and that the English
Queen is our Queen. He does not believe
with some Americans that the United States
Senate is an annex to Scotland yard He
does not put on mourning whenever a
stone falls from the walls of the modern
Babylon
The Executive Committee of the Irish
| National League of America decided to-
night to hold the national convention at
I Chicago in January. The exact date is 10
be fixed through correspondence between
| Parnell and Egan.