The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-10-13
EVIL couNsELLoRs.

The wonderful PERSONA mnkuosSm VI w.
late Charles Stewart Parnell has never been
more clearly manifested than since his death
| That he had largo personal and devoted fol-
lowing has always been known, but that tho
devotion of his adherents Was so great a. 70
assume the form of frenzy over his bier was
never suspected. Not only have those who
opposed him in Ireland-because they fore
| saw that his continuance at the head OF the
Irish party, after his relations with Mrs.
O'Shea had become known. could but be dis
sstrous to the Irish cause-been most bitterly
denounced a. murderers and assassins. but
strong efforts were made to incite riot and
murder against them in case they should at
tend the obsequies of the dead leader. United
Ireland, the organ of the Parnellites. was par
ticularly bitter. II uttered strong protests
against the men who tried 10 drive Parnell
TO the WALL being allowed Ito sentimentalize
over his grave" and exclaims: Let them
keep their tears for Gladstone. 1t is the men
Of Ireland who stand about the tomb Of our
chief and they will guard it, They will not
change their opinions. but will fight his cause
the more stubbornly-oppo sing the men who
sold him 10 his enemies and gave into the
hands of the English statesman the cause de-
Tended by his forefathers."
1t is natural that the friends who Mr.. Par
nell won over to him by his personal gifts
and ability, and by the earnest devotion he
always manifested for improving the condi-
ton of the Irish people should be filled with
the keenest sorrowa at his death II is also very
natural that they should have been shocked
beyond conception by the suddenness OF his
decease. Still it is TO be hoped that when
the first outburst of grief is over and time
has convinced them that they must accept
the inevitable, they will como into moro
reasonable frame of mind
IL they do not there is no possible hope
that the future lot of Ireland will be any bet
ter than her past, or that the people Of the
Emerald isle will ever receive any privileges
other than the English Tories shall sec fit to
give them. II the fsctional fights which
have so long divided the Irish party are to be
kept up and fomented with greater intoler-
ance than ever there can be no unity of pur-
pose and consequently no influence brought
TO bear upon Parliament for eifecting such re-.
forms as Parnell labored for and which have
for so many years been urged. Then, even if
the Irish party are thoroughly united among
themselves what can they accomplish with
out the aid OF the English Liberals They
are by themselves in a hopeless minority in
Parliament. and have never yet effected any
thing of consequence without the powerful
assistance of Mr.. Gladstone and his party.
The friends of Ireland in America and the
leaders of the Irish Land League in the United
States should bend their every energy towards
accomplishing unity among their compatriots
at home. 1t is matter of the first impor-
lance that the excited and heated appeals OF
the Parnellite radicals should be deprived OF
their venom. and that he advice of such evil
counse.or5 as United Ireland should be un-
needed as perncious and destructive. If the
truth of the maxim in unity there is
strength was ever shown, it has been in the
case of Ireland. since factional dissensions
among the people themselves have always been
the main cause of the continuance of all the |
woes of which we have so long heard so much |
complaint. Unless the dead past is allowed |
to bury its dead and the enmities which |
have existed between the Parnell and |
anti-Parneil factions are not laid to /
rest in Parnell's grave for the common good |
the friends of Ireland at home and abroad /
can expect nothing but repeated failures and
disappointments