THE AMERICAN DYNAMITE PARTY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3558, 4 December 1882, Page 4

THE AMERICAN DYNAMITE PARTY.

(Dublin Freeman, September 23.)

The New York papers bring lively accounts of a recent meeting in that city of the disappointed subscribers to the Skirmishing Fund. They wanted, they said, to know where the money went to. At one period there was a dozen men talking at once. What with the cross fire of epithets, the pounding of tbe chairman's blackthorn, and the deafening confusion generally, the place was a perfect pandemonium. O'Donovan Rossa, in the course of a speecli scarcely five minutes in length, said that 'ever since lie had been a boy he had been convinced that the only way to put the fear of Grod into England's heart was to strike her where she would feel it most.' After this speech was ended a disturbance took place. One subscriber called another a renegade. He retorted, 'You're a liar.' The row then became general. ' Put him out,' shouted alternately the partisans of each man. The noise and scuffling men, mingled with oaths and thumps of the chairman's blackthorn, were the only sounds distinguishable in the uproar. Everybody left his seat, and all semblance of order was lost. Half a, dozen men shook their fists in each other's faces and a hand to hand fight seemed eminent. Just at this time, however, the big chairman, who had been specially appointed on account of his size, and a few others of cooler heads rushed among the combatants, separated them, and after a few minutes restored something like order, and then the meeting was promptly adjourned.