AN ARCH FRIEND.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5089, 9 May 1885, Page 3

AN ARCH FRIEND.

The Intransigcant publishes the following manifesto :—" I have been struck by the band of an English emissary. It is do fault of England if I am tiot lying in my tomb; she had the intention of accomplishing the murder,but the agent towhom tho task was assigned has destroyed her hopes. This is not the first time that England has attempted my life, and it will not be the last. But so long as Heaven grants me the strength to preach Irish independence .to my unfortunate fellow citizens, I will accomplish my duty with the same energy and devotion as in the past. I - have not, and never had the slightest intention of fomenting war in the free land of America, | but I can, without neglecting the gratitude and the respect, I owe to the great people who grant me hospitality, sustain those who struggle for us. That national spirit which was long dormant, when as a young man I revolted against the tyranny of England, is now awaken* ing in Ireland. Today the nation rises and implores the aid of her exiled children. Can I refuse the help which I can give, and the encouragement which I can send across the sea, to that noble and unfortunate people which responds to the voice of liberty ? No; the bullet of the assassin will not frighten me. Were Ito fall in the struggle, under the blows of a ruffian in the pay of England, I will die with the conscience that I fulfilled my duty, and with the hope that my assassin will meet with a cruel and sanguinary punishment.—O'DoNoyAy Bossa."