O'DONOVAN ROSSA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1163, 20 October 1883, Page 3

O'DONOVAN ROSSA.

There was a public meeting of the Fenian Brotherhood in New York on September 24th. O'Donovau Rossa was present. In his speech he said he had peculiar opinions of his own, and sometimes was thought to be too strong in them. England must be driven into the sea before Ireland can be free. Ireland must fight England. It must come to war. I have met many men during the past week, and tliey are continually asking where any dynamite is. I* tell them it is here, but will reach England soon. We must use any measure that will bring our enemy to terms. I have nothing to say against the Land League, which seeks independence through peaceful means. 'England-declares there is war between Irelaud and herself. The Judges chargo their juries that men are tried for making war "in dynumite fashion against the Queen. Tliey say that one man with a nynamite cartridge is equal to 300 equipped with Armstrong guns. Constitutional measures have failed. War is now the last resource, and must bring the God-forsaken dynasty to terms England has used dynamite in blowing Indians, Kaffirs, and Egyptians into atoms. We have some right to give her a dose of the same medicine. England is striving with all the resources at her command to put an end to this dynamite. It will strike her before she knows it, in the part she leasts suspects. The laws here do not prevent me from doing what I can to make Ireland what Emmet so beautifully says, "Great, glorious, and free." God granting me strength, I intend to put forth every effort to stamp under foot the vilest dynasty that was ever witnessed.