The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-22
IN THE CAUSE OF ERIN.
THE MISSION OF THE NATIONAL
Isr NJ. Prs IN AMERICA.

40 II r , IN AMHHlCA.
Mr.. Dillon Returns to America Under
Circumstances Similar to Those
Under Which He First Came-A Re
cent Change in the Sentiment of
Englishmen Toward the Leading
Irish Patriots.
ISince the following letter was written Mr..
Dillon and Mr.. O'Brien have been arrested,
and their tour TO this country may be de-
layed. il not prevented. The letter is pub
lished, however, as it gives some interesting
facts about them.1
LONDON, Sept lO.-On or before Sept. 2s
john Dillon, NJ p, William OBrien, NJ. T.
and Tim Harrington, III. p, set sail for the
States to plead once more the cause of their
country among the people of America.
This will be Mr.. Harrington's first visit to
the great republic; Mr.. Dillon and Mr..
OBrien are. Of course, already familiar
with its platforms. On this occasion, how
ever. MIR. O'Brien viii have by his side the
beautiful lady he recently made his wife.
With great spirit she resolved to face all the
fatigues of the tour.
AS the companion of Mr.. Parnell on his
first constitutional mission from the Irish.
men at home TO the Irishmen of America
Mr.. Dillon went TO New York in the late
autumn of 1879. Then, as now, the House
OF Commons was approaching dissolution,
which came in the spring of 1880, as it may
come il the spring of 1891, causing Mr.. Par
nell to hurry away from Montreal in order
to marshal his forces in Ireland for the gen.
a~ol ala nbzv, -, 4 -
Inpendiag famine hung over the distresstul
country and as will doubtless lgain be the
case, should the present fears prove only
two we'll founded, a large part of the 472,-
900, which resulted from the expedition,
was devoted TO the relief of distress among
the peasantry.
The plans for the present tour will not
be completed till the arrival of the deputa-
ton in New Y ork, but In all probability il
will occupy six months, and follow very
much the same lines as that of eleven years
ago. After visiting the PRINCIPAL ciLieS of
the states, as well as many of tine smaller
towns, Tue deputation will proceed to Can
ada, and in the early spring embark on
the st. Lawrence for home. In order
that the smaller centerS of population
may not be neglected, as on previous
tours u plan will be adopted which was
found to have had most satisfactory results
uulllk Llb ISCeub Jour Ol MT. oil
Thomas ESmOnde and Mr.. Deasv in Aus
tralia. The three delegates attended mas.
meetings of citiza0s in company and then
parted, each going his own way to addres:
audiences in the smaller towns and country
| districts of colcny. By the adoption OF
| this method the missionaries will carry
words of hope and exhortatlon to almost
| every community of Irish people in the
| new world.
Next to the 'uncrowned king' himself
| Mr.. Dillon at the age OF IS, and Mr.. O'Brier
at the age of "a, have become the mos
| powerful men in the Irish party. MIR. Tin
Harrington, as secretary for eight years o.
the national league, has gained knowledg,
| OF the movement secoud to none of hi
colleagues in the House Of Commons
| ALI three members were included il
the Times list of 1.-THE criminals
tried by the special commission. No
| even Mr.. Sexton, who is an orator, is ad
mitted by all parliamentarians to be al
most second to Gladstone, has made s,
many effective speeches at st. Stephens a
Mr.. Dillol and Mr.. O'Brien. Since Mr
Sections long illness they have sprung t
| the first place as senatorial gadiators, an
| during the past session they have share
with Mr.. Healy, the honors of the arena.
Within the last three wears, it Is not to-
much to say that the English estimate Q
Mr.. Dillon and Mr. OBrien has undergon
a complete change, a change not wholly du
to Mr.. Gladstone's new departure" O
Mr.. Dillon's return from America clever
| years ago. having completed the work {
organizing the American counterpart t. th
land league he became in the imaginatio
| OF tories and liberals alike the storm
petrol of Irish politics. He was n
garded as man of the most violent opir
ions and the EXTREMIST courses,
rhetorical dynamiter and an oratorical in
vincible. In the days Of the land league h
was constantly receiving, learn FROM MI
T. p. OiConnor, letters of mence a and in
suit, which pictured him as the mons. e
Robespierre of the Irish movement. TIL
few EngliShmen who knew Irish histor
knew that as the son of leader in th
| young Ireland movement, he had been Dor
ana bred in an atmosphere of rebellion
| that his was one Of the warmest welcome
John Mitchell received on returning fro1
exile, and that no one had been fiercer i
denouncing Isaac Butt when tha
leader was Fastening to his fal
| With MANY this knowledge only IL
| tensified their bitter hostility to th
man. In the House Of Commons he wa
| frequently the Object of hurricane G
wrath, and under Mr.. Forster's reign 0
terror ne was one Of the first to be throw
into prison. Even when Mr. Gladstone in
clined the hearts of English liberals NOR
| generously towards the Irish nationalist
Che hot member for East Mayo was sill
regarded for some time as the Hotspur o
the Parnellite party. DR.. Nitchin, tn
| dean of Winchester. was the first to pu
John Dillon right with the English publ
by entertaining him as a guest. In th
past three years Mr.. Dillo
has frequently appeared o.
liberal platforms, and it has been found the
there is another side to his character.
has gentle feelings as well es hot passions
that he can excite tears of pathos as we'll a
shouts Of anger, and that, so far from bein
stern irreconcileable, he ca be as forgiy
ing as the rest OF his countrymen. AS
consequence JOIN Dillon has become th
hero of the British democracy. 1t ha
been truly said that had not Mr.. Balfou
prolonged his life two yeas ago b
releasing Mr.. Dillon from prise
| he would have shortened that n