St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-16
ERIN'S NOBLE CAUSE.
Delegates of the Irish National League of
America Assemble in Force
at Chicago.
--.4,resentativeS From Nearly Every State
in the Union Present at
the Session.
A ForcibIe Address to the Irish People
of America Formulated
and Adopted.
Alexander Sullivan Makes an Elo-
quent Speech-Riddleberge
Interviewed.
The Irish National League.

The Irish National League.
CHICAGO, Aug. 15.-Delegate repre-
ser dives of the Irish National league of
n.arly every state of the Union assembled
this morning at McCoy's hotel TO
consider the best methods of re-establish-
ing the organization with which they
affiliated on a firm and enduring ba-
sis. Among the most notable of the dele
gates who are present may be mentioned:
Mr.. Patrick Egan of Lincoln, Neb., presi-
dent of the league, and at one time treas
urer Of the parent organization in the old
country: MI. Alexander Sullivan. eX-presi-
dent of the organization in Ireland; the
Rev. Dr. O'Reilly of Detroit, the treas
urer of the league for over three
years; Roger Walsh, the secretary; NJ. V.
Cannon of Davenport, Ia; DR.. Thomas
O'Reilly of st. Louis: p. j. Flately of
Boston, Capt. Maurice Wilhere of Penn
sylvania: Judge DOnnelly of Wisconsin.
Capt William Lomassney Mackey of De-
troit: NJ II. Holmes of New Jersey; DIR.
Fox of Troy, n, Y; James Reynolds of
Connectibut; Capt. Micqael Boland of
Denver. Col. Gen. Martin Kerwin of New
York: Tablet and several others. The
object of bring these men together is to
devise the best and wiSest methods of
lendiiis. aid to Mr.. Parnell and his col
leagues in
THE OLD LAND.
The national league is the successor
of the land league. The session Of
the executive committee of the ma
tiOnal league commenced at 10 o'clock.
All the members were present except
Flaherty of Boston. Senator Riddleberger
did not arrive this morning as expected.
The committee that went to meet him at
the Baltimore & Ohio depot were informed
that the train on which he is coming was
ditched about fifty miles from Chicago. He
did not arrive until about 2 o'clock. The
national committee of the Irish National
league. composed of one member from each
state. went into session at 1880 o'clock.
The chief purpose of the meeting of the
committee was to determine when and
where the next national convention will be
held. Chicago was selected as the place of
meeting, A message from Parneu was
read. in which he had advised the confer
ence to set the date of the convention to
occur after the English elections. Follow
ing is the address formulated and adopted
this afternoon:
IL obedience to the suggestion of the
chosen leader of the people of Ireland the
national committee of the Irish National
League of America, assembled to designate
the time and place for holding the next ma
tional convention of the league in the United
States. have decided to postpone the date OF
meeting until January, 1856. 1t must be
manifest to all members of the league and
all friends of self-government in ireland that
Il would be impossible either for Mr.. ParnelL
TO attend the convention in this country, or
send any of his able associates, pending the
general election 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 the period of actiV-
ity not less earnest and energetic than that
which prevailed when ireland was threatened
with another artificial famine, and when her
leaders were imprisoned and her press ST.
fenced, under so-called Liberal government.
The party led by Mr.. Parnell needs support.
How well that support is deserved
we need hardly to tell the world. We
need not tell men of Irish birth or of
discount, 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-twentieth of the body in which
they serve. They have achieved success I'M
paralleled 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 their oppression and
to listen to recitals of an outraged, plum
dcred misgoverned people. They have with
uatchless skill seized upon every opportunity
10 thrust before the world their cause. 1t is
pne which will bear the scrutiny of light.
They
BLOCKADED THE LEGISLATION
of the English parliament. They object to,
postponed and defeated local legislation. in
tended TO foster and expedite English
business interests in retaliation for dull,
g1,s
Irish interests. For the first time
In English history Ii was impossible to extend
the franchise privileges in England and Scot
land without giving Ireland absolute equality
in the extension. While they have not been
able to compel the government to disgorge
the surplus of the uneXpended fund used to
support the now disestablshed church, they
have wrung from the champions of that
colossal robbery the admission that it be-
lOnged to the people of Ireland,
and have compelled a return of
port'0e> of the stolen funds.
They have not secured the land of Ireland
for the people of Ireland, but they have
forced the enactment of legislation which,
although inadequate in its effects. is so eX-
traOrdnary in its terms and confessions
as to amount to a confession Of the enor-
nifty OF the system which has so long
ground down and impoverished the Irish
people They have not been able to get
back Grattan's parliament for Ire
land. but they boldly announce
that no lesser measure will be accepted by
them. and pending its restoration, though
prohibited from governing Ireland, they have
been able to dictate who must cease and who
may assume the work of governing England.
They have driven the party of coercion, the
party of judicial murderers, the party of
eviction, the party which early sought to i'm
prison ideas when it thrust men into dun
geons. the party led by Gladstone, who wrote
boastingly of the downfall of an American
Republican into disgraceful retirement from
Dublin cpstle, and they have shown that
while Dublin castle was the home of the So
called English Liberals, and the
SEAT OF TYRANNY
its unnatural vice and imported English
bestiality made it only worthy of site in an
cient Sodem and Gomorrah, or in modern
London Their labors have been herculean.
Their accomplishments, under most adverse
circumstances are almost miraculous. When
they next appear in parliament their num-
bers will be increased from thirty to at least
eighty. They will have more or less of the
only realiable English support, that
which comes from fear from a
number of English members who
will owe their election TO judicious
exercise of the balance of power by tn
exiled Irish in England and Scotland
With that strength they will be able to
throttle English legislation, and thus to
COMPEL the English to allow them to retire
from an atmosphere polluted by royal and
aristocratic bestialiaty, and 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 auXilliaries.
We appeal to every branch legue TO give
renewed life aDd determination to the work.
We earnestly invite all who are not MEM
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