Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-10-25
EGAN,s REPLY TO M,VEAGH.

Mr.. Wayne MscVesgh, Philadelphia
Sir-I perceive by the daily papers that
at meeting in Cooper Union, under the
auspices of the Democratic club of New
York, you, renegade from your party, as
you are said to be from yonr people and
your creed, attempt to palliate your apos-
tacy by undertaking to do that which the
London Times, with its battalion of testi-
mony, chief among which was the noto
rious Pigott, failed to do-to besmirch my
good name.
With the adroitnees of a police court
pettifogger, you, under the preteIt of re-
ferring to something that somebody else
said, assail me: First, as "a swindler" who
'failed to account for a very large trust
fund placed in his CHARGE" second, you
say set was we'll known at Washington
when he was appointed what the charges
were, and that he had fed the country to
avoid arrest and trial on very serious
criminal CHARGE" third, you describe me as
ga sham patriot and fugitive from GRIM
| inal Justice" to which you are pleased to
| add that you were "greatly surprised and
disgueted to find such man selected to
represent the country in high diplomatic
post" and that you not only reasserted
your statement "thst my appointment was
an insult to Chilli" but that you considered
/ it "also an insult to every self-respecting
| Irishman in the United States"
| should treat those costly and cowsrdly
| insults, coming as they do from one of the
4 last stragglers of the retreatine know-noth-
4 ings, who find that there is no place for
| them in the republican party, with the
same contempt that have shown for all
attacks made in the English and American
pro- British press, were 1t not that they
| were spoken at a meeting at which figured
as vice presidents 7. F. Gilroy, William R.
Grace, j. j. O'Donoghue, John D. Grim
minis, John G. Sheehan and others, and
that it is reported that your wor1s were
received with cloud cheering"
would neither be surprised nor an
noyed that you should launch out into
those ignorant calumnies; on the con-
trary, under ordinary circumstances,
should feel greatly entertained; but l am
amazed and panied to think that the Gil
roys, the Graces, the O'Donohues, the
Crimmines and the Sheehans should have
meanly sat in Cooper Union and patiently
listened to you.
am convinced that in the entire rsnks
of the republican party there could not be
found single man who would make upon
the character of any Irish American 80
wanton, foul and unfounded an attack az
You have made upon me; but If such one
could be found and he should, under SINH
lar circumstances, assail in like manner, in
named, I will simply cay that there would
not be in New York city any hall sufficient
, " large to contain him and me. I would
, publicly bring him to order and eitLer hs
or should leave the building
! In your great desire to sssail me yor
have been found. I perceive, to fall bacl
, entirely upon my connection with HI
. national movement in Ireland.
: To the Irish race here and in the OLD
land, my course of conduct in that con
!, nection needs no vindication to my malign
> ers on either side of the Atlantic, max
no explanation. In my entire connection
with Irish affairs there WAS not one stngl
act that would take back, not one that
have to apologize for.
j. For the Information of my Americas
friends who may not be su eoursnt wit
g the matters to which your slanderous al
t tscks refer, will say, first: The "ver
10 large trust fund" that you mention, and
10 connection with which you dare to appl
1t to me the term "swindler," was the Ian
Q, League fund, which amounted to 81 $50
al 600, of which, from 1879 to the end {
ID 1882, 1 had the distinction of being u
,e treasurer Upon resignipg the positio
le and turning over to my successor the oa
n ance of the fund, the auditors, Mr.. job
Dillon, NJ. P, Rev. Eugene Sweeney an
Mr.. Mather Harris, N. P, in their joil
nv report, after stating particulars of the
y counts, said: awe certify that ever
m item of such expenditure has been full
fe and satisfactorily vouched, and we ha'
pleasure in bearing testimony to the sy
tematic and strictly business-like mann
in which the accounts and record of ga
b. fund have been kept by Mr.. Egan."
NJ In addition to the balance of principal
IT. turned over to my successors the sum
e4,4OO 15s. sterling, about s2S, 900, viii
70 had realized as interest and profits
on investments, while giving my whole til
~. for two years gratuitously to the league.
'as Second. There never was form
charge made, or warrant issued agar
me by the English government. the OF
criminal charges being thoee ma
re by the hostile press based up
l.. the Pigott forgeries. Those oril
ZEN inal charges were fully inves
a gated by the Parnell Times commission
r;- 1855 with the result that Pigott confess
y, to the forgeries and committed suicide;
70 accomplice of his the next day, WI
MS MS he learned of the fate of his princir
''o dropped dead in the streets OF London,
attorney general of England, Sir Riohi
Webster, as leading counsel for the Tim
on February 81, 1889, withdrew and ape
The pized for the forperies, and tho Times n
day, in the course of leading artie
am spoiogized for their publication In the
will lowing terms: "Mr. Parnell In the '
aief ness poA sse. eo...s.. W. 5000 IN s1
tie rosract the trntb of that statement.
tier these circumstances we deem 1t right
was express our regret most fully and
He cerely at having been induced to pub
cot. the letters In question as Mr.. Parnell's
he to use them In evidence against him.
he expression of regret, We need hardly
the includes also the letters falsely attribI
,e IL to Mr.. Egan, Mr.. Davitt and M; Okel
The London Times iess By this On