DYNAMITE ECHOES FROM AMERICA.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1106, 13 July 1883, Page 3

DYNAMITE ECHOES FROM AMERICA.

(Argus London Correspondent). The revelations published in London concerning the dynamite plots have created a m cat sensation in America, and the captuce of ihe gang of conspirators has produced no little commotion among the Fenian Brother, hood throughout the States. Tho language of defiance has been exchanged for that . f deprecation and disavowal. Numerous pro mineut Irishmen, who were silent if not acquiescent before, now feel constrained to disclaim any connection with the murdermongers. Many communications from the other side confirm ami amplify Lynch’s disclosures at Bow-street Police Court. The Daily News New York correspondent states that Lynch was very well known, ami that his story is generally admitted to be true. A member of the Emerald Club told tincorrespondent that the Emerald is one of over 100 similar clubs scattered throu hunt the country. They are subsidiary clubs of the Clan Na Gael Society. Gallagher was affiliated, but was not a regular member. He belonged to the Williamsburg Cub. The Clubs are governed by executive committees, who select the men to go on m ssions. John Devoy was formerly on the Emerald' Executive Committee, llossa was formerly a member, but withdrew some years ago owing to a qnarel caused by Devoy aud Breslin, who wished to control matters. Tne Emerald Executive CommittJk chose Gallagher, ami left him to so'ect his subordinate agents. He took his brother ami Lynch The informant Hid not know where Ausburgh, Dalton, aud Curtin went. They are Rossa’s agents. Gallagher was selected because he was a manufacturer of dynamite and infernal machines. The box Lynch threw overboard at the com mencernent of his voyage ’ was an infernal machine. There was a qua'rol about sending Lynch. Rossa furnished the funds to his agents, while the money for Oallagher and lynch was supplied by private contiibntions, The prisoner known as Wilson or Whitehead is well renown in New York, where he was a lealer ami a man of means. With regard to the paper money found in Gallagher’s possession, it is still in tne hands of the police, who are endeavoring to trace the channels through which it reached him. Two or more officers are believed to leave England for tire States charged with this particular business, and if they can secure the help of the American authorities, the task will not be difficult of accomplishment. In a later telegram the Daily News correspondent reports that M W. J. Burns, an Irishman of Jersey City, says that nearly all the dynamite prisoners in London were sent there by the committee of the Fenian Brotherhood, consisting of Rossa end two o hers. He says that ho was present at a mseting of the brotherhood in the Bowery, a year ago, when Rossa introduced Lynch as a man who, like himself, had suffered at the hands of the English Government, and would risk his life for Ire land. He declares Dalton’s real name ts Delahunty and that Rossa announced at a Fenian meeting in Jersey City, in Faoruary last, 'bat he had selected six men foi the work in England, and that they would soon hear startling news. Rossa of course denies Burn’s statements, professes to have only a slight acquaintance with Gallagher, and asserts that he knows nothing of the plot. The braggart is beginning to tremble for his sate 1 y. Meanwhile the disclosures at Bow street have produced a gratifying change in American feeling, and in the tone of the leading journals in regard to thn diabolical conspiracy. Some sense of shame has at length been awakened, and a c amotion is becoming general that the United States j Government is bound in tho interests of civi isatiou and humanity to hunt down I the cold-blooded assassins who, to use the ■ strong language of an American speaker, ' “are sheltering their cowardly carcasses behind the American constitution.” One I correspondent declares that the public sentiment in favour of vigorous measues for tbe suppression of the dynamite conspiracies gains strength daily. There is ab-oliue unanimity amongst native Americans on the sul ject. The talk in the streets, at the clubs, and in the newspapers is a 1 ne way. The Tribune embodies the cur nt opinion when it says:—“ The dyn mi e plots cannot be justified as deliberate act of war, revolution, or retaliation. Tl ey night not to be considered political offences. They cannot be said to have a single redeeming feature. They do enormous harm to Ireland, are a blistering disgrace to America, and are wanton crimes against civilisation. If American law does not provide for the repression and punishment of those primarily responsible for such c lines, as we fear it does not, it ought to be amended in the interests of civilisation. ’ The New York Times observes : -“Themen who organise conspiracies in the Unite I States for the n iminal purpose of freeing Ireland, ostentatiously declare that they do not care a fin for the sympathy rtf the American people. Ttiey are taking effectual measures to show how they will faro without our sympathy or moral support.” The Herald denounces the leaders of the movement, points out its fMy and wickedness, and says it believes the American people would be willing for their Government to go in for tbe prevention and punishment of such conspiracies to any extent not inconsistent with the completeness of the right of political asylum. “ Nor would we limit that extent by such short a measure as England applied in the case of Sunon Bernard. We hold that the dynamite conspirators are offenders ag inst human society, and if there is any law m iking, law executing ingenuity, which can reach them without infringing the principles whose sacred preservation is more important than even the punishment of these wretches, the American people will be willing to see it exert itself.” These sentiments come late, lint it is cheering to find that events are forcin' them to the surface at last. Dispassionate Americans probably begin to have an uneasy presentiment that when the Fenian desperadoes are tired of worrying England, they may turn their murderous energies against the plutocrats and capitalists of the States. Anri, moreorer, there is looming in the distame the possible question of compensation should England suffer any serious damage through the tolerated machinations of Rossa and his assassin crew.

A telegram from Washington says that a Cabinet Council was held on April 25, at which the statements recently published as to the presence of certain persons in the United States for the purpose of forming dynamite plots were informally discussed. Although these statements are not based upon official information, a hypothetical question was framed, upon which the moulders of the Cabinet expressed their views regarding the proper policy for the Government to pursue in the event of any contingencies which might arise from the attempt of certain Irishmen to use America as the basis for dynamiite attacks against England.