St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-16

body polite for crimes committed for persons
to whom they are kindred. We devoutly hope
that the officers authorized by law will sue
coed in bringing to justice
THE AssAssINs OF DIR. CRoNIN.
We repud1ate, both as American citizens
and as Irish Americans, the claims made by
the enemies of our race, that the Irish ele-
ment has any desire or any purpose to make
vengeance because Of teuds. factions or dis
agreements growing out of political differ
ences or personal heartburnings. We desire
TO declare that, in the absence of any
rational opportunity for the assertion of the
independence of Ireland, after the
manly fashion Of the American revolutionary
fathers. and while regretting the absence
of that opportunity we wish to convey TO
Charles Stewart Parnell and his associates in
the present struggle for Irish home govern
ment and the rights of the Irish tenant
farmers, our sincere desire TO aid their patrl-
otto efforts and our wish to leave them I'M
embarrassed by any policy OF ours. until all
peaceful methods of settling the Irish ques-
ton have been exhausted. We return our
sincere and most grateful thanks to
Hon. John NJ. Thayer, governor of Nebraska,
for his magnanimous defense of the honor OF
our race against the reckless ISLANDERS OF a So
ciety of professional foreigners We also re-
turn our thanks to Hon. Charles A. Dana. of
the New York Sun, who has proved himself
In this crisis, as ever, the friend of our race
and Of human liberty.
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A long statement, accompanying a
preamble and resolutions, was read and
adopted at the picnic at Cheltennam
beach. 1t recognizes fealty to this nation
as the first and highest obligation, and
next thereafter pledges support to the
cause of Irish liberty, to be secured
under the leadership of Parnell and
Gladstone. The preamble and resolu-
are as follows:
Whereas, In the midst of the universally
conceded tribute to the Irish people, justly
earned by devotion to the principles of lib
erty and civilization, when Ireland's chill
dren, led by her patriotic and as
tute statesman, Charles Stewart Par
nell, were on the eve of break
ing down the barriers of English preju-
dice: when the world had to make Ireland's
cause its own; when foSsilized bigotry and
selfish interests only stood in the way of
Irish progress, cold bloodeo and cruel assas-
sinations dropped their double-distilled
poison into Ireldnds chaice: and.
Whereas, In order to indelihly stain the
reputation of our race, those conspirators
and assassins did resort to the infamous
calumny of charging our murdered fellow
citizen with being a British spy; therefore
be it
Resolved, That we denounce with all the
force OF indignant language our utter abhor-
renee Of assassination, murder and the
moral assassination resorted to by the muir
element Of money, and the betrayal of peo-
pie whose devotion to the cause of liberty
too often make them the victims of desingn-
ing Enaves.
Resolved, That knowing DR.. P. H. Cronfn
to have been patriotic, ligh-minded, pure
Christian gentleman, utterly incapable of
playing the roll of sycophant or falsely living
the life of q spy, we brand as the most mali
eious libel and moral assassination the infa
nous report that he was an agent of England
On the contrary, knowing him to have been
devoted defender of honesty and truth, we
hereby declare it to be our solemn eonvic-
ton that for his faithful adherence to the
Irish cause, honesty and truth, he was f0ully
murdered to prevent the exposure OF the act
ual criminals, who have dragged down that
cause in blood and tears into the dust Of our
Gethssemane
Resolved, That the crime of his most
atrocious murder calls for all the energies Of
our civilization for the speedy and extreme
punishment OF the law and we pledge our
abiding support to the public authorities
until every guilty man shall have answered
to the law for his participation in the most
devlish murder which has Redeemed the an
mails of crime. We deem it our duty to eX-
press our regret and ch4rin that few
prominent lrishmen In this country and
across the water should have taken the fool
ish position that DR.. Cronin's murder was
the work of England's agents, and that the
suspicious and accusations almost univers-
ally entertained and expressed In
lea against men pointed out by
the evidence as the authors Of the
conspiracy to murder DR.. Cronin, were ut
tered in the interest Of the London Times.
such utterances from men upon the other
side of the Atlantic, while they may be over
looked for their impertlnence and pardoned
for their insult to our intelligence do lasting
damage by undermining confidence in the
Judgment and discernment of men whose
wisdom is Irish affairs we have been accus-
toned to trust, and whose opinions in those
matters we want to continue to respect.
Resolved That we express our continued
confidence and adhesion to Mr.. PArnell and
his party. and our belief in the ultimate sue
cess of his efforts to secure for Ireland the
blessings of self-government. Believing Ire
land to be capable of self-government, we
recognize the right of thea majority Of the
Irish people living in Ireland to de-
termine their own position In the
national question and to shape
their own policy in advancing it.
Whatever they decree through their chosen
representatives when that choice is freely
expressed, we pledge ourselves to cordially
support. We denounce any attempt at in
reference with that right of the Irish peo-
pie. either by Irishmen in America or Eng
lishmen in England, as an impeachment Of
Ireland's capacity and qualification for self
government and offensive to the sentiment
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