AMERICAN FENIANS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 959, 2 June 1883, Page 4

AMERICAN FENIANS.

The London correspondent of the ■*~-Argus„ writing on March 30th, says : The 'difficulty which surrolmds any attempt to check Fenian enterprises directed from the other side of the Atlantic would be promptly overcome if the British Government could rely on receiving any help from the Cabinet at Washington. But there is nothing to hope for in this direction, and Mr Sackville West’s appeal for little assistance has been met by the declaration; that in the present situation of affairs the United States Government are not justified in interfering with “Irish sympathisers ”in New York. It would be interesting to know from the Cabinet cf Washington at what point they would, be prepared to interfere with tti'e murderous crew whose “ sympathy ” for Ireland is expressed in the; reckless explosion of dynamite, and in suggesting such atrocities as the murder" of Lord F. Cavendish and Mr Burke in Phoenix Park. Only this week we have Mid. 1 another example of th e kind of-' sympathy which these gentry have for Ireland,/p Twelve’.men convicted of rqnspiyacy to murder have been sentenced at Belfast Assizes to various terms of penal servitude* from xo years) downwards. These persons were all. , ofthehi' members of the Crossmaglen bltShch of the Irish Patriotic Brotherj, ,This, particular branch ; \ya| forihea by . .an . Irish - American named Bum-ra direct agent of Rossa —and its function was murder, the murder of landlords of of anybody who interfered with its hOIy tniSSiOh. By chance —and not by ; racn .marked out for “re-; moval ” escaped thV assassins; Certain bppkS were found by the police which went !to prove that on one occasion at least fL r.equtrit was made from the Land. murder of a certain ioj^^ypiqippse... ; It was further given in evidence that the proclamations of this icoaspiracy made frequent invocationof the patriots Parnell;and Dayitt, wßfe%f# r ranfell’s friend Redpath was’ mentjipgfd in league with Bum and Rossa in promoting the exXfyyafln. •qf.-ther Patriotic Brotherhood. TheClnVestigation of this conspiracy has produced a 3 nut for the Washington is no pretence for, say-’ ing tjat.the conspiracy to murder ciertam'obnoxious landlords was a political the-intended ..victims, had no official position and were fulfillidg doofficial duty Rossa and bis asg<seiiti*^ E are consequently guilty of an dffenpe against the common law, Of course bft admitted, and it is npt 9&»' Wlilikeiy. that their extradition wUI be claimed. In the. same way the ' Pameiliteß* ‘refuse to make .any reply to the suggestion of complicity in, the mdrffCr lf- would be monstrously} inctmyebient, apd'it is much' safer to gpot^apt; for public opinion.; By and bye*public opinion may perhaps . rfevenge.itself.. ■ ■"