The Warwickshire Herald. — 1887-03-17 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

PARNELLISM AND CRIME."  I, THE series of articles on this subject in The Times , were concluded on Monday, having, as it says 'shown "how Mr. Parnell's constitutional organisation ' was planned by Fenian brains, founded on a Fenian loan, and reared by Fenian hands; how the infernal fabric 'rose like an exhalation' to the , sound of murderous oratory; how assassins guarded it about, and enforced the high decrees of the secret ,Iconclave within by the bullet and the knife. Of that conclave to-day three members sit in the Imperial Parliament, four are fugitives from the law ; against one a true bill for murder stands recorded ; all the exiles consort with professed assassins since their flight. It remains to show that the distinguished representatives' at home have continuously maintained their relations with the murderers who fled and the murderers who harbour them. In Parliament and before English audiences Mr. Parnell and his lieutenants have repeatedly denied their American accomplices. They ignore the secret history of the Central Executive. The memories of Brennan, Egan, Sheridan, and Boyton are cherished in silence. They never mention John Walsh, their chief organiser, or Frank Byrne, their secretary. The feats of these heroes in 'the campaign' are shrouded in oblivion. But Ford and Finerty they discuss with the assurance of calumniated innocence." At the close of the article the writer calls attention to a meeting in New York on January 23rd of present year, organised by Patrick Ford, at which Michael Davitt warned the English Government that if the people are once convinced that the Executive are bent on "extermination " in other words, that they mean to enforce the Queen's writ—'• not all the influence of all the Irish leaders in the world will ever suffice to prevent some supreme act of retaliation which a maddened people may be driven in despair to contemplate." If coercion be attempted, "thousands of men," the orator continued, "will feel called upon—nay, compelled by their manhood, their consciences, and their pledges to the sacred cause of Irish liberty, to sacrifice their lives, if necessary, to show the world by one supreme act of desperation that, mighty as England's power may be, there are means by which Justice can be vindicated and outraged rights avenged, even against a culprit so great as the , Government of the British Empire." This, says the correspondent, was Davitt's last word to the Ameri, can wing of the "constitutional movement. He I had been in Pat Egan's company a few days before. Ile was escorted to the " Alaska " by the Ford family, and bore away with him precious tokens of the solidarity that subsists between the foreign and the domestic co-partners in " the public, legal, and Parliamentary struggle." They were two costly albums containing a variety of old newspaper articles on the abortive Home Rule Bill of last year, and 'the whole of the let ere on the Irish question addressed to the Irish 11.1Prld in 1886 by the seas tors, congressmen, and other leading public men of the United States." The one volume was dedicated "To the Right Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone," the other "To Chirles S. Parnell, Esq., M.P." "with the compliments of the Irish National League of America. Patrick Egan, President." We are unable to say whether Devitt has yet fulfilled his mission and presented these "unique productions" to the consignees. Ford, at all events, "feels quite sure that the gentlemen for whom they are intended will