Year: 1866

President, that he would promptly take
measures, only, of course, by solicitation
and iutercession, to have those men re-
leased, or the punishment modified or
mitigated And what anxieties would
be relieved if it we're known the PTesi-
dent was interested himself in behalf of
these prisoners? Mothers aad wives of
those captured aud imprisoned ones
would feel better if they could only know
the eye of the Government was upon
those, and its good offices, its persistent
efforts, put forth for their release or re-
lief and surely if the party in the ma
iority in Congress we're so anxious for
Fenian success and enlargement and
triumph, they would have been anxious
to know that the President was doing
something on this subject. The Democrats
were all anxious to know that something
should be known as to the intention and
efforts of the Government in this matter.
With the hope Of having the correspon-
dence between our Government and Eng
land on this subject laid before the peo
pie, and that the Fenians themselves
might see what the President was doing
in this matter, 1 asked leave on Monday,
June %, the day when resolutions might
be offered, to which no objection was
made, to offer a resolution requesting the
President (if not incompatible with the
public interests) to inform the House
what steps, if any, had been taken by the
Government for the release of the Fenian
prisoners in Canada. But I was not
allowed to offer that resolution objec-
ton being made, it would not be allowed
to be voted on at all. Do you ask me
who objected to a proposition so reason
able, so prOper-one which would give
relief to many Respondent and bleeding
hearts-one which, by some means getting
to the ears of the suffering prisoners in
Canada, would mitigate their pain, by
assuring them the great Government Of
the United States, although compelled
by circumstances to prevent the invasion
of neighbor's territory in time of peace,
would still, as far as possible, throw
around those taken prisoners in the act
of invasion It's kiudest care, and DO all in
its power to obtain for them all possible
relief? Who objected to the introduc-
ton Of the resolution? ? Surely it could
not have been those sure friends Of the
Fenians, those who have been so zeal
Gus lately to induce the belief that it was
the President and his friends who were
crossing the path of Feuian progress and
conquest 1t must have been the Dem
ocrats who objected! Butno, my country
men, the objection was made by your late
found friends it came from the Radical
side of the House, and from them only.
Came from those who were unwilling the
neutrality laws should be repealed, so
that you might have a chance to pitch
into England, and redress the wrongs
of centuries. Came from those who have
ever denounced and maligned you, until
now, fearing the loss of power, and seek
ing, by even false pretences, to win you
to their support, so as, if possible, to
save them from annihilation. Yet, un-
willing publicly to fulfill private promi
ses, or even allow anything to be done
for you if they can prevent it, they object
to even a resolution Of inquiry, as to
what the President is doing to mitigate
the suferings of your people. But even
this they do eovertly-they were afraid
to be known openly as objecting to so
reasonable . proposition. Hence the re-
porter for the Associated Press was re-
auested not to give the names OF the OBJ
jeetors, so that the Irish might not know
who objected, and the Globe of Tuesday,
the 26th, notes the whole procedure
The fact is, the Irish as a people, or the
Fenians as an organization, can not rely
on Puritanism, the chief support of Radi-
calism, for any aid, countenanee, friend
ship, unless so far as Radicalism is to be
benefited thereby -


Well, fellow countrymen, which will
YOU believe, Senator Fitzgerald or Hon.
John Hagan, who knows the tricks Of
the trade? Why, you may ask, do l
poke my nose into this affair Let me
tell you-L care not how you vote, be-
cause have no interest in hematter ex-
cept what every good citizen ought to
have, in maintaining the integrity of the
Union, the foundations of which these
mad Radicals are trying to sap. Don't
they prefer the niger to you? And is
it not to put the niger above you that
they now want your votes? Be trapped
by the shallow design of the demagogue,
and you deserve to have the inferior
place-but this is not my reason for ad-
dressing you. The men who are coquet-
ing with the ancient and implaceable
enemies Of ireland, are telling you that
they intend to invade Canada as soon as
the neutrality laws shall have been re-
pealed, and on that account they ask
your votes. Well, they have given them
selves a long time to prepare. Ii they
don't invade Canada before those laws
shall be repealed Canada is safe for
another century. This they know too,
but ambition! an1Jjtjon!! ran away with
their brains, and self SOrdid selfish self has
eaten out the last vestige Of truth and
decency They robbed Ireland OF the
money you subscribed for her relief
abandoned the cause they solemnly swore
to maintain played false with the des-
TIMES of nation, and now seek to barter
away your votes for Office. Did you, my
fellow countrymen, know the crimes, the
terrible crimes, these Radical-loving
Irishmcu committed against their native
land, you would join with me in crying
out


For tongue to curse the slave


Whose treason, like q deadly DllguLr


Came DER the councils Ofthe brave


TO blast them in their hour Of might"
Aye, at the very moment when hope