The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-10-26
ENGLAND IS ARRAIGNED !.
IriShmen Place Her on a Par with
Turkey
STIRRING RESOLUTIONS PASSED !
BY a Mass Meeting Held in New York Under
the Auspices of the Irish National Am
nesty Association-The Condition of
DR., Gallagher and Whitehead.

New YORK, Oct. 26-Under the auspices .
of the Irish National Amnesty association .
of this city, which is affiliated with tho .
organization of the same name in tho
United Kingdoms a mass meeting was held .
last night at the Grand Opera House to |
protest against the treatment extended to |
Irish and Irish American political pris- |
oners in English prisons The meeting
was presided over by the Hon Morgan j. |.
OBrien, judge of the supreme court
The following resolutions were read and
adopted;
Whereas, England has been cruel to
her political prisoners to such an inhu-
man extent that at least six men have
been driven mad, twice as many hurried
to the grave, and others so shattered, mem
tally and physically, as to be rendered in
capable of taking their places again among
men to fight the battle of life,
"Resolved, That we American citizens,
in public meeting assembled, dcnounce
the treatment to which these prisoners
nave been subjected, as unworthy of even
nation of the lowest barbarians, and pro-
test against its continuance in the case of
the political prisoners who are still held
in England's dungeons
Whereas, We have seen DIR. Thomas
Gallagher and George Albert Whitehead,
two most worthy citizens Of our country,
the former physician Of eminence, the
latter clever mechanic, and both physi-
cally and mentally without a blemish
when they left these shores, returned tous
after thirteen years mental and physical
wrecks, fit only to be detained until death
relieve them, in an asylum for lunatics;
and
Whereas, Their condition is due in the
opinion of. specialists, to the brutalities
which were inflicted on them by the En-
glish government, bFutalities shocking be-
yond conception, according to eye wit
nesses,
Resolved, That we, the fellow citizens
of these sufferers hereby record our horror
at the crueltes, bad as ever imagined by
Turk or Neapolitan, practced upon them,
and declare that England in the face of
the world, instead of posing about atroci.
ties in Armenia, should hide herself in
snclcloth and ashes for her own atrocious
misdoinRs in the guise Of civilization, and
Resolved, That we hereby respectfully
call upon our government to make such
protest without delay that these barbar-
tiles must cease, and the world stand
aghast at England's barbarism and hy-
pOcrisy, as will insure the cessation of
such barbarties, and the release of these
men, all of whom were convicted on aC-
knowledged perjured testimony and under
a law hurriedly elected by parliament to
secure their imprisonment.
Resolved, That copies of these resolu-
tiOns be sent to President Cleveland Sec
retary of State Olney and other members
of the cabinet and TO the representatives
in both houses of congress.
The secretary read the report of the COM
mittee which recently visited DIR. Gala.
CHER ard Whitehead at Amityville. The
report was as follows:
"Your committee appointed to take
charge of the released prisoners and see
that they are properly cared for would re-
spectfully report that we visited them at
the Long Island Home, Amityville, and
found them in about the same condition
us they were when they arrived in this
country as far as their mental conditions is
concerned, but their physical condition is
much improved. From DIR. Gallagher you
cannot get any connected conversation,
only that he considers himself i'll treated,
inasmuch as he has 30 money in his pocll-
cts to be gentleman. He is continually
writing letters to friends to send him
Sc 500. OF course those letters are not sent
out. In the case of Whitehead all he seems
to want is work, in order that he can take
care of a wife and large family who he be-
lieves are depending upon him for sup
port, We, of course, are aware of the fact
that he has no wife or family"
Speeches were made by Judge John II.
Mccarthy, Assistant District Attorney
John f. Mcintyre, Hon, John r. Fitz-
gerald, of Boston, and Rev. DR.. McGlynn
DIR. McGlynn said that the movement was
an orderly one. 1t was an appeal for
mercy for men whose only fault was that
they loved their country we'll They We're
no ordinary common criminals. The high
est of authority had declared that they
were not murderous dynamiters. They
had not been convicted upon sufficient
evidence. DR. McGlynn urged that there
should be no feeling Of hatred manifested
on the part Of Irshmen against the En-
glish people because Of the condition Of
DR., Gallagher and Whitehead. The ofli-
GERS Of the English prison in which the
men were confined were to blame.
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