Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-08-15

battered and broken thst England re-
fuses to buy them out. More manli-
ness and determination were shown by
Irish tenants In protecting their IN
terests. Dublin castle has become
so politically inpovsrishsd that no
English party is so poor as to
do 1t reverence. In word, the insti-
tuition which ruled Ireland ten years
ago is bopelessly doomed to-day. The
greatest Of Englsnd's statesmen--the
Prime Minister who imprisoned 1000
Land-Leaguers in 1ssl--has brought
forward a measure in 1886, which II
carried would have made some
OF these "ex-suspects" the prac-
teal rulers Of ireland. Not only
this, but majority Of the
English Liberal party, with . million
and half Of British voters, have en-
dorsed this remarkable change Of policy
on the part Of Mr.. Gladstone. The
entire fabric Of human liberty stands
upon the foundation of individual right
and natural freedom--the natural right
Of man TO obtain access to and CON-
mand Of the resources of the land
of the country for the sustenance
of himself and his family, and the
right of community to govern itself
in its own way, so as to best promote
the moral and intellectual wellbeing Of
its people. To repel these rights is an
ipsuferable tyranny; to vindicate them
is not only human duty, but Divine
Injunction. While the sword has inya'
risbly been the weapon by which SUBJ
ject races have asserted the right
10 rule themselves, Ireland has
travelled this far on the road TO nstlonal
autonomy by its exclusively moral and
pacific force, though confronted in all her
endeavors by one of the greatest mill
tary and most Inscriptions empires in
the world. The leaders at home are
neither disheartened or dismsyed at the
reverse recently sustained, nor do they
believe the methods employd in this
constitutional fight to be either blunted
or impaired, while resolute hands and
cool heads are still to the front, deter
mined to face again an enemy intoxi-
Gated with an unexpected and tempo
Iary success. The policy which tie
Teries will try to carry out while in
power can be easily inferred from the
tactics by which they have succeeded
in obtaining power. They will con-
tinue to play upon the political fears
and religious prejudices Of the English
people"
Speaking of Belfast, Mr. Dsvitt said:
The loyalty which has manifested
itself in the murder OF Catholics, po-
licemen, and English. soldiers, has hor-
rifed most Epglishmen who were told
how peaceable and law-sbiding class
that was which was opposed to home
rule. The civilized world has also
passed its verdict upon the ruffsnism
which had reduced prosperous Irish
city to a state Of terror and disorder"
After speaking at length upon the
present crisis in Great Britain, Mr..
Davitt said l will ask you, in
conclusion, to sustain the move
ment in Ireland as you have upheld it
before in the Land-League fight, AMI
subsequently in the parliamentary
struggle. The fruits OF past assistance
are manifest in the changed tone of
the press Of this great Commonwealth
and in that Of every other civilized land
upon the Irish question. You have
generally upheld our hands in the fierce
struggle which has won for vour birth
land the sympathy of the world in its
fight for freedom, and you are repaid
in the consciousness that without your
aid our success would not have
been SO signal. AS citizens Of this
mighty republic you have good rea-
son to be proud of the friendly
feeling which has recently been
manifested by the public sentiment Of
the country towards the efforts Of Glad
stone in behalf of home-rule. Try to
intensity and perpetuate that feeling.
Its existence constitutes . mighty fac
tor in our favor en- the other side.
While there is this practical unity OF
American feeliDgin our behalf there can
be no excuse for or extenuatiOn Of dis
unity among ourselves, either at home or
abroad. We will best deserve aud most
surely maintain the good opinion Of the
American nation by preserving such
unity of purpose and harmony of action
in our movement as will command uni
versal respect for the cause which it
upholds and guarantee the success
which we should! aspire to deserve, as
much for the means and methods which
we employ to achieve it as for the OBJ
ject which the public sentiment every
civilized land declares to be the in
alienable rights and legitimate aspira-
tions Of our race.