THE IRISH NATIONAL LEAGUE IN AMERICA.

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

THE IRISH NATIONAL LEAGUE IN AMERICA.

In connection with Messrs Redmond’s visit to Australia, the Melbourne Argus his the followin'* : - The convention of the Irish in America i i April last fell under the control of the Parnell party. Mr Parnell, who was to have attended, wrote excusing himself on account of his presence being required in the House of Commons, and he expressed the hope that the convention would do nothing to prevent the Irish National League accepting money aid from the American bo lv. Tins advice was acted upon, and the Rossa faction was ruled out. Airs Parnell was present, and leceived an ovation. Mr Redmond, Mr Egan (the treasur r of the Land League), and other prominent agitators also took part in the proceedings. As a consequence of the adoption of a “moderate pi ograimn : ” the “ Irish National League ” and the “ lii-h National League of Am ti a ” will nowwork together. How “ m .derate ” is ihe tone and language of the new bo 'y niav he judged from the following “ first plank of o' the platform ” : “ 1, That the English Government has existed in Ireland not to preserve the lives of the governed but. to destroy them. Entire communities it has wantonly massacred by the sword. To the asylums of terrified women it has deliberately applied the blazing torch, into hepiess towns it has discharged deadly bombs and shells. Through consecrated crypts, where age and infancy sought shelter, it has .sent bs bloody butchers. 1 lie sacred persons f velleiab e priests it lias stretcued up m the rack or suspended from the gibbet. Paling babes have been impaled on the p nuts of its bayonets because, in their own words, its immusaries ‘ like I that sport.’ Its "old gold has been folded in the hj m l of the assassin, and lias re ward e 1 the infamy of perjured traitor. Its treach-rous falsehood has lured patriots to uususoected death. As if the sword, the cann ui, the torch, the scaffold, the 1 bagger, and the exclusive were not enough, it enjoys the unique infamy of being the only Government known to ancient or modern times which h'S employed famine for the destruction of those from whom it claimed allegiance. Forcibly robbing the Irish people of the fruits of their own toil, produced by their own labour, it has buried not a hundred, not a thousand, but more than a million of fie Irish race, uushronded, uncolfiiied, in the gtave of hunger. It has mercilessly coins polled other millions in compuismy poverty to seek in alien lauds the bread they were entitl n (l to in their own. There is no form of cruelty known to the lowest savage which u has not practised on the Irish people in the name of the highest civilisation. L’aere is no device of fiendish ingenuity it has not adopted to reduce th'-ir numbers Within two years u has massacred c nMren, and woman’s body has been the victim of its licensed ruffians. There is no species of destructive attack however iusi lions or violent, ancient or modern, rule or sm.otitic whether directed against life or matter, in any portion of the globe, for which its barbarities in Ireland have not furnished the example. 1 here is no form of retaliation to which despair or madness may resort for which English cruelty in Ireland is not exclusively responsible.” The Messrs Redmond are to speak to show that the Land Leigue is not respoo sible for outrages i>» Ireland. Possibly i],ey will also be prepare Ito prove ihat the programme of the liish Naiomil League in America—as sanctioned by the Inch Ita lers —does not incite to outrage, and does not excuse crime, no matter how terrible, even before its committal. Mrs Parae.il accepted the post of president of the ladies’ hr.v eh of the American League, formed on the basis of the resolus tion quoted. Vie onau colonists are invited by fcne Messrs Reimmd to contribute to the. fund winch is to be raised by these false and scandalous representatives.