New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-25
Washington, March IL. 1880.
LETTER FROM JOHN DEvoY.
HE EXPLAINS 4 REVERENCE TO HIMSELF IN
SPEECH OF SIR WILLIAM HARcoURT's.

SPEECH OF SIR WILLIAM HARCoURTs.
TO ns BdHor OF TAo rrf6HnS
Sir: An aIluslon to mo in The Tri6unes London
correspondence to-day calls think, for few words
NJ examination that win shed little further light
or the situation created by The Timos" and its
forgercs Lord Harrington, It seems h accusing Sir
william usrcourt OF tho real authorship Of Parnellsm
and Crime and quotes from a speech OF Sir william
in which hs said to quote your correspondent, that
the doctrine Of the Land League az expounded Dy
Afr pevoy was the doctrine Of treason and as aSsnar
,ton am not much troubled about the treason for
have written and done great deal OF what Is ealled
treason over there, and have no apologies to make
for that fact But don't want TO be held Responsible
,or words 1 never used and dislike being claSsed
,mopr fools. Any expoundlng l may have done
in connection with the Land League was In the
columns of The Frcemap's Journal OF Dublin, over
INV own Signature and there was neither " treason
nor advocacy Of assassination in that
lord Harrington evidently refers to certain speech
attributed to mo that called forth SIR William Har-
courts remarks which, In turn, brought Dret 70
Soirder ne cable from me. statement Of the actual
facts Will servo 10 show how weak IS tho evidence on
which "The Times's" case Is founded, even when 1t
.nno,rs 10 he moro Trustworthy than that OF tho
hir.d spy. 10 Caron, and the selfconfcsSed forger
and periurcr Pigott Toward the ond OF 1850, or IN
tho beginning OF 1884, made snort speech u
Meeting of tho Seventh Ward Branch OF the Land
Learue In this city, the burden OF whioh was inc
advice that Irlshmen I'm America should not urge lhef
oountrymen in Ireland to extreme courses IN Wheh
,h.v could not and would not be sustained This
1900 a. much TO such a course as tho adoption
% a 4ro repts policy as to physical violence l
A, mot advocate assassination, nor hint at 1t, nor
.s thar one word in the whole address that could
be twisted into a reference 10 II.
Tbere WIS no reporter present and no man In the
meeting took notes No report or reference 70 the
meetjng appeared in any OF the daily newspaper
And here let mo say, regreuuily, after many years
experience that It sometimes rather haIu 10 DC nou
csnonssble for what some reporters in this country
max, n man say in speeches ard Interviews no"
- ,,orso Il Il when ono has 10 answer for the
o,do oTorts OF An amateuri loft the city next day
md at,.r an absence OF several weeks found In the
daily papers on my return caeied extract from
sneecb of Sir william Harcour In which ne was maze
~ s,v that "Englshmen should rise in their might
and st,mp out men like Dayttt and Dewey" Tho
context was not given.
Michael Davitt had recently been sent BACK 10
oo,,,,o+ csu by Sir Williams order and could say
notbIro resented the alluslon TO me as wauton
and nnnroyoked threat and Immediately oabled 10
the Homa secretary my opinion that two couh
NAV Al stampingn eThis led 10 the publication OF
s,.femsrt mat I had threatened Harcourt with
ss,a,sr.t,on and the whole episode was made tho
,orrdstion NJ much abuse and Misrepresentation Oh
mo In thu English and the Irish Tory press. Mon'ns
after this learned that report of my Seventh ward
speech, false from beginning to end' haa oeen pup
,,.hod IN a. obscure Irish weekly In this city.
was made 10 advocate the killing Of every man rom
the landlord and the agent TO tho ReeS5 s S1a oHo
s yas mS dnuention on tho part OF man who has
since admitted In letter which now 99a r w Shaa No
qfarco,,rts nmerors snes sent the paper TO him
hence his attack At the time in Sa ssh,s dss on
and for months after had nos ,ue snssnS VI
what be founded HIS stamping OUT sPeSon, data
do not seek 10 shirk responspy LII tRa fstsb