THE "DYNAMITE COUNCIL."

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2349, 13 October 1881, Page 3

THE "DYNAMITE COUNCIL."

The Irish Convention, which is known in the United States as the " Dynamite Oounoil," has brought its sittings to an end, having previously adopted a series of " wild and somewhat ungrammatical resolutions," which the " Standard's " correspondent believes were to the following effect:— 1. That it was for Irishmen in Ireland to decide the question of waging a war for national independence. 2. If this decision Bball be in the negative, then the exiled Irishmen will do anything which they think proper to strike down tho enemy of Ireland. 3. No consideration iB to be paid to the views of Irish members of Parliament with reference to anything to be done in Irish affairs outside Parliament. 4. The fact that Irish girls send their earningß gained in American service to parents in Ireland to pay rent should arouse Irishmen to grasp hell's fire and to drag down lightnings from heaven to hurl in the face of the enemy. 5. England's strength and precautions make war in Ireland probably hopeless; but there iB no question whatever about the Irish race all over the world being able to fight England all over the world. It is to this manner of fighting that this Convention, after due deliberation, have determined to direct the attention of the Irish race.

6. The Irish race is scattered all over the world. England's flag floats in every harbor in the world. Irish people could destroy it wherever it float', and thus pay back that vengeance with which England thanked God she had rooted the Irish out of Ireland The Irish of New Tork could any night take every ship floating the English flag and barn it into the deep. They cunld do the same at Halifax, Quebec, Melbourne, Sydney, Cape Town, and San Francisco. The Convention, while speaking thus, may not enter into the question of international law. They have before them the question of freeing Ireland, independent of all laws, or other questions, or other duties. The Convention decides that as belligerents do not generally commence a campaign by attacking the strongest and best fortified places of the enemy, while it would be a grand thing for the Irish people to commence by destroying the war ships of England, it is not incumbent to commence that way. It would bo just as well to commence the work in the most easy way to accomplish it. By the time a few hundred English merchant ships are destroyed the world may witness the beneficent Bight of all tho sbioping merchants and insurance companies of England presenting petitions to Gladstone to re-consider the Irish question. The Convention regrets that the provision of its Constitution defeat the views of members nobly inclined for umion for Ireland.

Finally, the Convention expresses the opinion that after the Ist of September all peaceable people sh/onld avoid patronising ships that sail under the protection of the English flag.