THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AND THE FENIAN MOYEMINT.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 214, 9 February 1866, Page 3

THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AND THE FENIAN MOYEMINT.

The Morning Pdst, of 20th September thus disposes of the numerous rumors as to the prospect of assistance from the Government of the United States : — In the great cities of the United States, and notably in New York, there is a class known as " political loafers." These men are too idle to work, and spend their days in lounging about bars and beer saloons, drinking at the cost of those who are fools enough to treat them. These are the men who get up disgraceful riots at elections, and who are the ready and vile tools of vulgar demagogues. These are the men who the shameful riots in New 'York, in 1863, and who from first to last gave an infinity of trouble to the [Federal Government. These are the men ever bent on mischief, who started the association called the " Knights of the Golden Circle," which association would, but for the firmness and discretion bf Mr Lincoln and his advisers,- have inflicted upon the Western States the horrors of a civil conflict. And these are the men who started the present 3?enian movement, Taking advantage of the ill-will against England, on account of the alleged English sympathy with the South, they pretended that, if Irishmen would unite, the G-overnment and people of America would assist them in severing Ireland from the United Kingdom, and forming the Emerald Isle into a republic. No one in America, except the Irish, was gulled by these loafers, and the meetings of the Fenian circles were the subject of much 'sensational merriment. Strange to say, though 3?enianism is almost dead in America, it survives in Ireland ; and, though by no means politically formidable, it may work some evil to Ireland by temporarily arresting her progress. Now 3?enianism in Ireland lives upon the assurance that America is coming to

the rescua; and we venture to asseri that not only is the assurance false, bui it is the very reverse of truth. America wili not attempt to turn Ireland into i republic; and, moreover, neither t!i< Government nor the people of America wish for the success of Fenianism. The American Government, which is certainlj a representative Government, as all alon^ evinced hostility to the loafers' Feniar fiasco. The American: Government was loyal to England under the provocations engendered by the war , and now when the relations between the two countries are of the most cordial character, and when not a si»g!e cause of irritation remains, we may be sure that, rathei than aid Fenianism, the American Government will incline to do what it can tc stop a movement which, in a political point of view, in ridiculous, but which, ii not nipped in the bud, may result id much suffering to the foolish dupes of a set of vagabond political adventures.