IRISH AMERICANS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3800, 19 September 1883, Page 4

IRISH AMERICANS.

The assassination section of Irishmen in America (writes the London correspondent of the Argu.s) are displaying renewed activity. On 2nd July 1000 persons met at the Cooper Institute, under the auspices Of tho Ladies' Irish Aid Society, to raise money for what is called the "Martyrs Fund," iv other words, to furnish assistance to the families of the Phajnix Park assassins. The platform and the chairman's table were draped in black. It Ayas tho first muster of the dynamite faction since tho Philadelphia Convention, and they improved, the opportunity. Mr Sheridan presided, and made a most incendiary Bpcoch. He said tho object of the meeting was to pay homage to tho mcuories of tho men who had given their lives for their country. The bravo and dauntless men who were murdered by the British Government at Kilinainham were actuated by the purest motives in all they did, and their names were worthy to be placed on the roll of Ireland's political martyrs. Mr Sheridan pronounced tho names of Bnuly, Curley, Fagan, and Kelly slowly, and the audience cheered each vociferously. The Irish, ho said, were justified iv adopting whatever methods of warfare were most effective for driving English power from Ireland. If all the Irish in the States lauded in Ireland the English could be expelled, but tho advantage could not be maintained; therefore a "scientific war was necessary, which could bo carried to tho heart of England. He hoped to inflict a greater injury on England within the year than Germany inflicted on Franco by the war. Speeches in the same strain were made by Mr John Walsh and Mr Frank Byrne. After this Meszcroff, tho teacher in Rossa's dynamite school, was called for, and he declared that 100 women like Brady's mother and 1000 educated dynamiters would free Ireland in a month. Resolutions were adopted expressing sympathy with tho families of the "martyrs," declaring that Englishmen accepted office in Ireland at their peril, and that any Irishman accepting office was a traitor to his race and country, and should be dealtj with accordingly.