The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-05-01
THE GRAND OLD MAN.
AN INTERESTING LETTER FROlI THE CHAM
PI0N OF HOME RULE
Mr. Gladstone Declares His Faith in the
Ultimate Success Of His Cause-Eis Par
ticipation in Our Centennial Celebra-
ton.
BUFFALO, April 26.-The Coma'ier to-
daY prints the following:

day prints the following:
A little over four weeks ago John J.
Mcbride of this city wrote a letter to
Mr.. Gladstone enclosing list of names
that had been signed TO the memorial
circulated by Mr.. Mcbride, expressing
sympathy with the cause of home rule
for Ireland. This additional list in
cluded the names of President Harrison,
Cardinal Gibbons, Speaker Carlisle,
Vice President Morton, Archbishop
Ryan, Secretary Blaine, and large ma
jority of the members of both houses of
Congress. Yesterday Mr.. Mcbride re-
ceived from Mr. Gladstone the letter
published below. Every word of it, from
the address to the signature, was written
by his own hand. It is of interest to
all patriotic Americans. His high trib-
ute to Washington will at this time,
attract general attention.
House OF COMMONS,
LONDON, APRIL ~, 1889.
My DEAR SIR: I have the honor to
acknowledge your letter of the 22nd of
March, and the remarkable list appended
to it of those distinguished citizens
of the United States who have testified
through the memorial you mention their
interest in the condition of Ireland and
their desire for just and reason
able acknowledgment of her national
claims and aspirations.
l rejoice not only to think but to
know that throughout the wide confines
of the race to which we all belong there
is an overwhelming preponderance of
sentiment in favor Of that acknowiedg-
ment. At home this judgment has been
constitutionally recorded by Ireland
herself, by Scotland and Wales, the rep
resentatives of ali the three being IN fa
vor of home rule by a majority of three
or four to one. And founding ourselves
on the evidence of the elections in Eng
land which have taken place since the
general election of 1886, we firmly be-
lieve that England herself, were the op-
rortunity now afforded her by disso-
luton, would record a verdict decisiyely
in accord with those Of the other por-
tions of the United Kingdom and of the
Anglo-Saxon race at large.
Encouraged by these indications at
home and abroad, and by the wise ad-
vice of their representatives IN Parlla-
ment, the Irish people show an indispo-
sition to crime and outrage not less re-
markable than their determination to
carry forward their cause to a successful
cousummation, now retarded by the
votes of men who do not represent the
real sentiment of the country.
1t is a further satisfaction to me to
include in this acknowledgment local,
but authoritative, manifestations from
America only less remarkable than what
has proceeded from other centres and has
had the illustrious sanction Of the~
President himself. This very day l
have received communication in the
same spirit with your own from the
Legislature of Nebraska, one further in.
dication of the sentiment and desire
which prevail throughout the vast do
main of the United States.
Finally, I rejoice to be put in pos
session of such declarations at moment
when your great country is about to eel
ebrate, on the 30th inst, the centennial
anniversary of the Inauguration of
George Washington as the first Presi-
dent of the American Commonwealth. l
have been requested from Chicago and
elsewhere to intimate an. assurance OF
my participation in your national JOY.
1t is real and grateful participation,
for the statesmen of the American rev
olution have taken their place. once for:
all among the greatest political instruct
ors of the world. George Washington
was their acknowledged and illustrlous
head, and to him and them have long
felt that I owed no trivial part OF my
own public education. Long, without
limit of length, may that union flourish
under the blessing and favor ofaGod,
with the foundation Of which their
names are inseparably associated.
l have the honor to remain, my dear
sir, your most obedient and faithful,
". E. GLADSTONE,
To J.J. Mcbride, Esq.