O'BRIEN'S CANADIAN CRUSADE. Attack on Lord Lansdowne.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 206, 4 June 1887, Page 4

O'BRIEN'S CANADIAN CRUSADE. Attack on Lord Lansdowne.

In a letter to the " Freeman's Journal," explaining the delay in his departure for Canada, William OBrien says : "It only remains to convince Lord Lansdowne that he has presumed upon Irish Canadian opinion as grossly as he has mistaken the delay in Kilbude's and my own departure. lam heartily glad of that delay. It has enabled us to show that we have exhausted every effort to bring about an honourable peace. It has served to illustrate once more the memorable cruelty and heartlessness of Irish landlordism, ever cowaidly enough to whine for terms when squarely faced, ever cunning and wicked enough to violate these terms immediately tho moment repudiation seems safe. Irish - Canadian statesmen will al&o derive useful light ds to the base u<-e to which their unlucky declarations have been put when they learn that an agreement which would have lekindled every hearth in Luggacunan on honourable conditions was cast to the winds on the very morrow of their innocent and uninformed utterances. I shall appeal to the honest masses of our race and of every race in Canada to choose sides between Lord Lansdowne and the peaceful tenantry whom he seeks to exterminate by a systom of clearance as odiously unjust and inhuman as those which tilled the pest-houses of the St. Lawrence with dying Irish victims in the days of the great famine."