a 941 - 5 ^ If 44 (Irishtown. — Majj ^nd, 1880.) y fvj H • > o Mr. Michael Davitt then came forward, and was received witli cheers, lie said, — “ llcverend cliairnian and men of Mayo, I l)cg leave to rtiovc tlie followin|> resolution for your adoption. 5 “ ‘ First llesolution. — That in commemorating the initiation of the national land agitation by an anniversary meeting in Irishtown, we are manifesting the vitality of that movement which during the past 12 months has shaken the feudalistic system of land laws to its foundation, called forth the inherent and hitherto inert resoluteness of the farmers of Ireland in the assertion of 10 their rights, and demonstrated the power of the democracy of our country by the triumphs achieved over class supremacy, and the intelligence and order exhibited by the people in over 100 great demonstrations during the past year.’ “Now in moving this resolution, I beg to thank you, or rather to thank 15 Father McAlpin first, and then you heartily for the reception accorded me. I think we are performing good work here to-day in the cause of Ireland, the cause of the tenant farmers in this now historic town of Irishtown. Twelve months ago the cause of the tenant farmers was in the dust, landlord supre- macy was recognised in Ireland, then no man’s house was secure, no man’s 20 children safe from the workhouse. But I believe that by the operation of this land agitation landlord supremacy is now in the dust, and the cause of the tenant farmers is now triumphant, and now, thank God, the spirit abroad in Ireland is more strong than it was 50 years ago. Now what brought this about ? Simply the action of the democracy of Ireland, the 25 resolute stand taken by the people in asserting their rights. You are aware of the forces that have been arrayed against this movement. First it is denounced as a communistic movement, and I take it as a privilege here to-day to call upon the men to deny the charges that have been brought against us. Father McAlpine said that he would regret as one who has taken 80 an active part in the movement, and I declare that at no meeting I have attended was there held forth doctrines that could be tinted with communism (cries of “ Never ”). Ireland is essentially a Christian country, and until the people have taken up an advanced stand on this question, I feel certain that such communism as was exhibited in Paris would never be tolerated in 85 Ireland. Therefore this charge is ungenerous and false. Now the next force is the landlords (groans). They tried intimidation and failed, they tried the infiuence of Government, but they failed also, and in the late general election the people triumphed over them by the free force of the people. Now the next force that was brought against this agitation was the English Govern- 40 ment sent troops of constabulary and shorthand writers to take down every word spoken by the speakers at these meetings, and last by arresting Mr. James Daly, Mr. James B. Killeen, Mr. Thomas Brennan, and myself. They have tried to crush the agitation (groans). Well the men of the people who were arrested stood their ground, and the Government fled from the contest. 45 Now having enumerated the forces that were arrayed against this agitation, I Avill glance at the work. First of all it has shown the tenant farmers of Ireland their great strength. It has brought them together in vast numbers ; the force of landlordism is nothing against the A^ast masses of the people. It has raised them from that despondent state, and convinced them that they have rights 50 to the soil of Ireland, rights far more strong and more superior than the landlords, and it has infused into the people such a spirit that they 3 arc {Irish to 2ii(l, imO.—3Iioh(iel Bavitt.) — / resolved to light for these rights until victory crowns their cause. From tlie operations of Irish landlordisni, and from unproductive seasons, tliis country lincls itself in a great social crisis. What did the Land League movement do ? It called upon the people to pay no rent until they got a reduction. It 5 called upon the people as I call upon you to-day, to look to the comforts of your own homes, and then offer the landlords what you can spare. The result of this teaching is that something between two and three million pounds have been kept in Ireland to support you in the past, and I am sorry to say in the present famine. Now the next benefit conferred was the lifting PO this question from insular obscurity, and gain for it an audience bounded only by the centre of the world. Thanks then in this movement is due to Charles Stewart Parnell (cheers). As this land movement, headed by Mr. Parnell, has taken the land question 3,000 miles, and placed it before the chivalrous American people (cheers). What was the reception it received 15 from the Republic of the West ? Let the reception given to Mr. Parnell be the answer. The whole people of America, the whole American press, save and except the grovelling hireling rag the “ New York Herald ” (groans). The whole American nation then has declared that justice and natural rights demanded that the landlords should go (Down, down with them, and 20 groans). The next triumph of the national land movement is this, Mr. Parnell came back from America, and flung himself into the contest, and wherever he appeared the landlord representatives fled before him like mists before the sun. Having squelched King-Harman in Sligo, the O’Connor Hon in Roscommon, and Kavanagh in Carlow, and having at last swept by a special 25 train from Cork to M^avo? he politically killed poor Mr. Riown, and thiough him virtually extinguished landlord power in Mayo. Mr. Parnell returned to Dublin and summoned a land conference, and adopted the other day such a radical programme of land reform as has never been previously taken into the House of Commons. I have now pointed out to you the forces working 30 against us. I have now one question to put to you. Have you the same ready hands, the same willing hearts to plant this reform, until it finally crushes landlordism out of Ireland ? Are you resolved fighting side by side to crush this monster of iniquity, Irish landlordism ? Will you through public meetings and by local organisations aid in doing this, for in your 35 organisation lies your strength ? If you do this, then depend upon it that vou will be saving your people from emigration. Now in conclusion I have only just to say in answer to the charges preferred against this agitation by a paper that has rendered this question a good service, but is, I am sorry to say, to-day as bitterly opposed to the platform of this laud movement as it was 40 12 months ago (groans for the “ Freeman’s J ournal ” ). It brings a charge of confiscation against the National Land League. It brings this charge in the interests of the landlords of Ireland. The “ Freeman ” says it is only the land- lord’s interests are to be protected. Your earnings are a mere trifle compared to the Avealth produced by Ireland. Yours have been God-given rights ; when 45 vou declare to keep a firm grip of your earnings, then it well becomes the “ Freeman’s Journal” to prefix such charges of confiscation against you and your children in Ireland. In the past you have been the Aveaker party, the landlords had the Government with them. Now you have triumphed both over the landlords and the Government, and by your action you have made the 50 landlords the weaker party. Then in the name of reason, in the name of justice and of common sense, let the landlords go to the wall (loud cheering).” 4 R Q 3366.— 30. {Irish ! own. —Matj 2u(l, 1880.) Mr. John J. Louden, on coming Torwai-d, was received witli loud cluxis. lie said, — ^ t n .. Men of Ivisl.towM, it is not without feelings of cuiot.ou that I a.hlres^ von toulav Twelve mouths ago when the land agitation was not heai-d of a 5 Lw luen'iuet in a held near hove to deelai-e in the face of the world tliaUhe tenant farmers of Ireland were determined to assert their rights I stood !iZ the nlatforin that day. I stooil in, on that platform and helped to initiate the’moveineiit, and you eau well understand that I took my place lero which was not altogether well defined. And now ‘“f y'ZeZtoiiid 10 Milltown and Westport, Balia and Ballinrohe, and al i demonstrations which have brought hope to the hearts of ^P«opte and terror to the hearts of their enemies, I feel proud. Yes, my fiiends, t e ae-itation which was oommonoed here, and in which you have p aye “ P” elr part, for remember that it was you gave this agitation to Ireiand tha 15 agitatiL has been crowned with success. Not alone have we on 1*«“ ohiayo, Galway, Sligo, and Leitrim preached the gospel of the P “P - ^ reo-oneration hut we have carried the war into every possible avenue of attac h e we could strike landlordism low (cheers). What has been the resu of om eftlts V I remember in the spring of last year, when fte people unable 90 to pay their rents were threatened with wholesale extermination. xpeiienc toaches us that where the people were unable to pay the expelled from their homes without mercy. How many evictions take plL since the agitation began, some have tTat ttaZ h thf the district have not done their duty, hut let me tell you that thiou,h the length and breadth of the land the farmers following the advice of our gie " leadl have kept a firm grip of their homes (cheei-s). Then my friends availiuo- ourseives of the law as it exists we have succeeded m doing a giea I nt of service. I shall give you a case in iioint. In Westport a landlord bZghthis ejectment processes against his tenantry. These poor men were m Zonner able to pay, and then he said Give me my land, and you may ' emtarate or go into the workhouse ” (groans). Well, we in Westport have an organisation called the tenants union, an organisation in which the tenan facers have enrolled themselves under the Bag of the union for protection, ai d the tenants union thought fit to defend them. They filed c airns for 35 compensation, and what was the result ? The landlord had to pay the^ men so much for compensation, so that when the decree was gained he ofEeied to forgive them if they would only keep their lauds (cheers and groans) My friends, I mention that case to you to show you what may be effected by organisation. If the tenants union did not exist, men who are not open to 40 caiolery, and who would not come forward in the interests of humanity, the interests of their downtrodden brothers, the Land Act wou ® heard of and the people of Ireland would have no protection Wei wha lesson are we to take from this ? The lesson is that the people must trust to themselves alone in order to obtain their rights. You may ave lai 45 leaders for centuries but they never have been successful in protecting i poor from that grinding tyrannical institution of landlordism (cneers oi Mr. Parnell). Now. my friends, the people must trust to theniselves, the people must organise, not to take away the rights of any man, and to protect their own rights and properties. We often hear the expression that our 50 meetings are communistic, but I here declare in the face of heaven that the land does not belong to the landlords but to the people for whom Goa 9 .; 5 ( [rishlowii.—May %id, 1880.— Jo/m J Louden.) intended it. Yes, my friends, in a document emanating from parties in Dublin, the people are told to render to Cmsar the things that are Ctnsars. A friemd of mine once said Tiberius deserved the rope for he was a tyrant. No, you must not let any man bring a charge of communism against us, for the eaus(i 5 we are advocating here is the cause of humanity and ot God (loud cheeis). 0 [Irishtown.—May ‘Ind, 1880.) Mr. Charles S. Parnell, M.P., tlien came forward and was rcccwcd with cheers over and over again, with wavingoC hats and cries of welcome, [roluud’s rcpi'oscntjitivG, &c.j lie said, “ Reverend Chairman and people of Mayo, I regret that I have not had 5 an earlier opportunity to thank you for the distinguished honour you have conferred upon me in electing me at a moment’s notice as the representative of your noble county (cheers). This delay on my part has not been wilful. It has arisen from causes connected with the public service elsewhere, and I am sure you will therefore readily excuse me. You know also that two 10 other great constituencies in Ireland have conferred upon me a similar honour. The city of Cork and the county of Meath. To the county of Meath I am under special obligations. It was the first constituency which elected me, and so enabled me to devote myself to the cause of my country. It has placed me at the head of the poll. On the other hand I feel this 15 great county has special claims on me from a personal point of view. Mayo has been the birthplace of this great national land movement, which has since swept like an ocean wave over Ireland. Mayo is the first county where I first learned a practical lesson on the land question, and Mayo was the county that stood by me and carried out the teachings which we taught the 20 people of Ireland last spring. But I am sure you will agree with me, that in approaching the consideration of this question as to which constituency I should sit for, that you and I should he guided by motives for the public o-ood. No personal motives, no local considerations ought come between us hut the conclusion which will be for the good of the whole country. If I 25 were to consult my own personal feelings, I confess I should prefer to sit for the safe seat of Meath or Mayo, rather than the troubled waters of rebel Cork But we cannot as I have said look at these matters only from a personal point of view, and if any constituency have shown me favour they have. But if I retire from Cork the result of that victory over whig or tory 30 will be lost, and a whig or tory would assuredly represent that city. Now what am I to do under these circumstances ? I wisli to rely on the support and patriotism of the counties of Meath and Mayo, and I wish to ask you to leave me free to act for the public good (cheers and certainly). The resolution I have to propose is in the following terms : — 35 “ Second Resolution. -That we hereby endorse the programme of land reform for Ireland, which has been prepared by the “ National Land League,’ and adopted at the conference of land reformers held in Dublin on Thursday last, and pledge ourselves to do all in our power to have tliat programme applied to the anmlioration of the agricultural and industrial classes of our country’ 40 (Cheers). “ The ‘ Freeman’s Journal ’ in its issue of Saturday commenced a leader on this subject in the following way , x- i “ ‘ We have no desire to appear antagonistic to those land reformers who dream that it is possible at a single sweep to buy out all the landloifis m the 45 country, and resell their estates to the tenants ’ (cheers). Now the ‘ Freeman s Journal ’ in supposing that this sentence conveyed generally the programme of the Land League, made not for the first time a mistake with regard to our programme, our aims, and objects, and the means by which we seek to cariw out those aims and objects. M'e do not desire to buy out at a single 50 sweep all the landlords in the country, and to resell these estates to 7 (Irkhioton. — May 2nd, 1880, — Charles S. l?arncll, M.P.) the tenants at 20 yc^ars purchase of the Government valuation, or at any oUier valuation, and there is not a shadow of foundation in any of the resolutions passed at the Land Conference the other day which could convey such an imnression. The programme of the National Land League is such as to elleet r, a reduction in the raekrents which are pressing on the tenantry of Ireland. And I would point out that the ‘ Freeman’s Journal ’ which now gives us such advice has from the very lirst obstructed the National Land League m carrying out this ohjeet. I can recollect the land meeting of which this is the anni- versary, and the subsequent meeting at Westport at which I first appeared 10 and taught you to hold a firm grip of your holdings (cheers), were denounced in the leading article of this same ‘ Freeman’s Journal.’” (A voice, down with the whig “Freeman. ) Mr Parnell. — “ And furthermore, in addition to the reduction of rent for the tenantry which we have been successful in obtaining wherever the 15 people of Ireland followed our advice, we desire to bring about a gradual transfer of the land of Ireland to the tenant farmers of Ireland. We believe that the people of a country should own the land, but we have never said that we are williug at one sweep to give 20 years purchase on the Govern- ment valuation, and nobody has a right to forecast the future. Who can 20 tell that the land of Ireland next year or the year after that the land will be worth 20 years purchase of the valuation. A few years since land was selling in the Landed Estates Court at an average of 23^ years purchase of the rental being 25 or 30 per cent, over the Government valuation ; to-day land cannot be sold in some places at 15 years purchase of the rental ; and 25 it would be folly and madness for any man to recommend the people of Ireland to give 20 years purchase of it for their land to-day (hear, hear). Now what have we recommended as one of the means to effect a gradual transfer of the land of this country to those who till it, and also as a further means of obtaining an abatement of raekrents which still affects many parts 30 of this country ? We have recommended the appointment by the Govern- ment of a Commission with power to do certain things, power to improve and carry out the Bright clauses of the Land Act ; power to the department to acquire the ownership of any estate upon tendering to the owners thereof a sum equal to 20 years purchase of the Poor Law valuation of such estate, 35 and to let such estate to the tenants at a rent equal to three and a half per cent, per annum on the purchase money. This is the clause which is evidently misrepresented by the ‘ Freeman’s Journal.’ Now I claim and I feel convinced that the appointment of a Commission composed of men who meant to do right with the people of Ireland with 20 or 30 millions of 10 money at their command with power to pounce down upon any rackrentmg or exterminating landlord in any part of Ireland, and to put an end to his rio-hts over his tenants by giving him twenty years purchase upon the valuation is a far better means for protecting the Irish tenant than the cloud of a legal fiction contained in the late Mr. Butt’s land bill (cheers), and 45 as for the rest this Irish land question has now attained such proportions that it must be settled, and it can only be settled in one way, by a transfer of the land to the people who occupy it. There is no other settlement for the abolition of the feudal system of land tenure than the settlement which we have proposed. We have dozens of precedents in all the great 50 European countries, in America, in Canada, and in Prince Edward s Island for the settlement which we urge to-day. There is no precedent anywhere 8 C Q 3366.— 30, /. ^'^5 .... ; » l‘; • • , .‘i V • ■ l.<\ ,)» I « J ■ •■ ' ' '• '. j I -■ • ►. t!'* ,(i» I' r ■'*' 'it l ! . . ./ ■ ^ *- # A|i • V ‘ I .-*> Vj^i' ' 4» ' . > * / % I f S v' ' -f ] t ;. i , • ' v’- , ’ii' ■r- •. t - i s , ■ ’ >' •(< ■. I ui ' '.i'' " ■ ' ?,.n . I . ; . 'I't ( j 1 .1 , ' . ' . , ,*ii ' /J /♦f ,• •' , .1 ^ ' • . 'r rt.4.' o. < '■ (! » t ; • :. 1' 1 T| ' ,-f, ; 4. \. i 4 < ,/ \ A M 1* M.,’ , ♦ » <*V . f ‘iv* ^ » ■ •'»: ; t ' / {Tris1down.—3Iay 2nd, Charles S. Farneil, ILF.) lor the scttlenicut recommended hy the ‘ Erceman’s Journal.’ But, says the ‘Prwmau’s Journal’ at the end of a lahorious and ungrammatical article of two columns and a half, ‘We shall deal on some future oceasion ‘ with the ohjection urged in the scheme under consideration to the plan 5 ‘ of fixity of tenure laid down liy Mr. Butt. We shall only at present ‘ say that we think they are capable of being met.’ Now these few lines are all the notice devoted by this newspaper to the grave objections which have been urged against Mr. Butt’s bill, and it is fully ten days since these objections were first published, and if the ‘ Freeman’s J ournal ’ really 10 believes what it says in the tail of its article that they think these objections are capable of being met, I say that they would have adopted a far more sensible course in devoting these two long columns of a leader to meeting these objections to our plan rather than hy putting forward objections to our plan which are based entirely upon a false hypothesis. Twelve months ago I 15 said in this county of Mayo that the settlement ol this land question would stand on the courage of the people themselves, I said that in far darker times than the present, with Government reporters at my elbow taking down every word I uttered and every exclamation that was made by the people with famine fast coming on the people of Ireland. We have appealed to the 20 Government of England, we have told them the state of the case, and in response to the cry for work and bread they sent us policemen’s bayonets, policemen’s huts, and imposed taxes upon us to pay for them. Now you were not afraid then with this dark prospect before you to exhibit this courage and determination, and those of you who have followed our advice 25 are not compelled to sink to the degraded level of pauperism. If under these circumstances, with this dark prospect before you, you had the courage and determination to follow our advice and stand by your rights, surely you will now, when the goal is almost in sight, be as brave as you were twelvemonths ago (hear, hear). Surely you will to-day renew the pledge you made twelve 30 months ago upon these historic plains, that you will keep a firm grip of your holdings, that you will refuse to pay any unjust rent, and that you will stand by this struggle until the lands have passed into the possession of the people. If you do this to-day we can promise you victory (hear, hear). The \_Irish National JUinxLXeague was then a struggling institution, our people 85^wereTbcn starving, but to-day the National Land League is known all over the world ; Canada, Australia, and America are pouring money in to help us (cheers). They will give you millions, but don’t be attempting to pay unjust rents in this coming summer and autumn, and compel us again to appear as beggars for you in all parts of the world. They are willing to send 40 us money, but they think that you should not wilfully plunge yourselves into poverty by continuing to pay these unjust rents (cheers). And this is a reasonable position you have taken up, the land of Ireland is amply sufficient to feed all her population, but if you persist in sending every ready penny you have and selling all the food of the country to support the landlords in 45 luxury you cannot in future expect the support of the civilised world. But I am sure that warned by the teachings of the past you will renew your determination. It is impossible for the 600,000 tenant farmers of Ireland to be overwhelmed if they combine together. It is impossible for even the tenant farmers of a single county to be thrust out if they combine together. 50 We will protect you by fighting in the courts points of law (cheers), and out of the courts by creating a public sentiment against landlord exterminators 9 {Ir}shloio)i.--May %id, Charles S. Parnell, M.P.) who may venture to trespass on your rights, and it l)y elianee in any plaee a laiullord should get the upper liand of Ids tenantry, vv(‘ will see that better and liap})ier homes will take the plaees of those you have lost. But in order to do all this you must take our advice, you must stand lirm, you must give good notice whenever any of you are threatened wdth eviction, and above all things you must form local organisations wddeh will he able to investigate these cases and support the Land League. I leave this cause then, lor it is your own cause, confidently in your own hands, believing that the spirit of the county of Mayo has not been deteriorated by the suHering of last winter and that Ave are commencing a renewal of agitation on this land question o-reater intensity than that which signalised last winter.” (Loud cheering). v!9 *' 10 [L'ishtoion. — Mai) 2nd, 1880.) Mr. Michael P. Boyton, Secretary of the Kildare Land League, on coming forward was received with loud cheers. JIc said, — “ Men of Mayo, the resolution which has hecn handed to me l)y your llcv. chairman to propose to my mind contains the kernel of the nut of all 5 your Avork ; it is this, “ Lourth Ilesolution — ‘ That Ave will continue to look upon anyone taking a farm or renting land from which another has been evicted or which may have been given up through exorbitant rents as an avowed enemy to the interests of\is country and an abettor of a system which plunges Ireland 10 into periodical famine.’ “ I trust you all know the meaning of that resolution ; it simply means that the work of all the preceding ones are bound up in this one. It simply means stick together. I have no excuse to offer for my presence here, but there is an old adage which says, ‘ Show me your company, and I will tell 15 you who you are.’ It is a proud ambition of mine to be in the company of kr. Parnell and Mr. Lavitt, but that you may not make a mistake as to who I am I may be pardoned for making an explanation. I came here to-day to speak where the land movement of Ireland originated to bring a message to you from the National Land League of Ireland and to tell you the ball set rolling 20 here 12 months ago is now rolling over the whole country. I came here from ^ a county one half of which belongs to six landlords, and one of these land- lords owns a quarter of the county. He is the man to Avhom the Duchess of Marlborough handed over the money. That noble Duke of Leinster (groans) you seem to know something about him ; it would be impertinence of me to 25 tell you about him. Men of Mayo, I have been sent^ here by the Land League of Kildare to take a photographic view in my mind of everything I see here to-day, and I assure you for the first time in my life that I set foot ill Mayo. I will go back, and if God gives me ability to do it, I will tell them that the cows in Connaught have long horlis. (Laughter and cheers.) 30 I may tell you that we in Kildare have returned a tenant farmer to Parlia- ment ; that county that gave Saint Bridget and Saint Laurence O’Toole to Ireland, and also which gave Lord Edward Eitzgerald to Ireland ; and that Ave have young men there, though they may not assemble in such masses as you do here, they are none the less resolute ; that the members have learned 35 from the lesson of Mullaghmast and the massacre of the Curragh of Kildare. We have friends there who recognise this land movement. We look on the face of that young, honest, and earnest man here to-day, the leader of the Irish people. (Cheers.) He wears the triple leaf in his hat. We look at him, and we read between the lines in his countenance, and we see in Parnell 40 nothing whatever visionary. But there arises to our minds, Avhen we see him face to face with the , when we know that there are sufferings , there arises to our minds visions of the picture of a woman weeping and mournful and that picture is ‘ Grannaile,’ with mother of pearl doAVii her cheeks and the seven dolours of centuries of misery ; but behind Parnell we see that 45 mournful figure looking to the west, and across her tearful eyes I see a form standing by in the noontime of freedom. My soul doth magnify the Lord. I have only one more word to say, and that is give three cheers for Eather Corbett.” (Loud cheers.) 15 (BaUintaffy, — 3nZ Mtitf, 18R0.) Eev. Mr. Corbett, C.C , ciarenK.n is, Chair„.a,., on con.ing forward was received with continued cheers and sa„l -My friends, 1 thank you for the way you l,ave received n,e and tor having honoured me in asking me to jneside here to-day. may o ,\oii that l am more a man of action than of words, we have quite enough of 5 able men willing and able to-day to do the talking for ns It shows one very much how Earnest men can do some of the work. I feel grateful to you for coming here to-day, and for having made this magnificent de.non- Lation. But I think it is a monstrous thing to say that we canno .is much as sow our crops in this country without being surrounded by a body 10 of police and a Host of spies (groans). 1 told these gent emeu that hey might come up if they wished, hut, at the same time, I entered my hull hie protest against them, and I was informed that they only came to protect , L I told these police that we are not to be preventea or terrified, and that they will not put down this agitation by brute force, and 15 hold our farms and keep a firm grip of them, we wil at leas te.iify t e landlords so far as we can that they will relinquish their hold upon the land Now, gentlemen, the action that I have taken with regard to these holdings has attracted more attention than 1 at first anticipated, so that I think it is necessary to lay helore you a short statement with regard to 20 the position I hold in these farms. About twelve years ago proprietor bought out this property, and his first act was to laise e le i about one-third of their amount. His next act was to strip he who e nroperty.thus entailing upon the tenants, and doing away with the o. Lundaries, and at great expense and labour compelled them to make new 25 boundaries, to pay the poor rates and county cess. He f"*— pelled them to give so many days labour gratis, and not only , u . Lem work under other disadvantages. He sent out his bailitt who writes out a coiiy of laws containing certain penalties. If the leader of a donkey losj a sod of turf on the roadside he is fined two shillings and sixpence. He 30 sends out this bailifi', who reads his code of rules for the tenants, and you may think it incredible that he enforces these rules. I have it on tie authority of the tenants themselves before whom this infamous document was read. When the children were going with their parents' dinners across his fields he warned them not to go there, and he actually strewed bro -eii 35 o-lass OH the paths. He would not permit them even to enter his yard, so that his workmen must go out on the roadside to take their dinners. Well oeiitlemen, I could state for you many other cases of petty tyranny but such as I have stated will be quite sufficient to show the character o the man he is. Now, to come back to the case m point. i e no . 40 content with striping the land, he took it into his head, that the hoi^ the tenants were living in, were not good enough he went round and ordered every tenant to build a house, but John M‘Hugh. needed no new house for he had a very good house, but he commanded him withm 2 (Balliiltaii/.-^rd May. 1880.-/?CT'. Mr. Corbett, c.c.) Evolve moths to quit that lu.use, which was at that time as good as it is now He commanded him to lay the foundation of his house in a sand- pit. Now, a few yards in front of tlie house, there was a very good site but that would not do, and the consequence was, he was obliged to hui d 5 his house, and to raise the walls two feet thick, and twelve teet liigh. He built that house up, and failed to have it finished within the twelve months. Now gentlemen, along with having built his house, he reclaimed some of the laud, and having expended his little capital of two hum rec pounds, he found he was running out, and he could not hold out any 10 lonoer, and the poor man went and sold out the few sheep and cattle be haiT and he said to the landlord, 1 am breaking down, and I will give you up my holding for fair compensation. The landlord told him he won oive him five pounds. M'Hugh then came to me, and I asked him would L oive me the farm for the five pounds, and I took measures to have the 16 farm, and to give him the five pounds. This is the state of the c^e and I am determined to hold it as long as I can, and when I am put out, I wi 1 sue for a claim in the Land Courts, as far as the law will allow me (cheers). I furthermore call upon the people of this neighbourhood and every one, never to dream of going into posses.sion of these holdings again. Let t lem 20 lie waste, and put this tyrant down. I thank you for haying come here to-day, you have done the work quietly, and you certainly show a spirit that encourages me to fight out the battle for you. I tell you that it is the want of spirit and courage that has kept you down in the dust so long. If you took this bold stand twenty years ago, there would not be a vestige 25 of landlordism in Ireland to-day. We will carry out the programme of the Land League, and we will strike a blow as we have done here to-day. And I hope it will be heard that I am determined to take up every holding of the kind in the parish. I only ask you to be faithful to each other, and don’t be casting your eyes on the holdings of any one. A great deal rests 30 in your own hands when the Land League wants you to come to them, when they call upon you for assistance. They will not be able to o any- thing without you. They will aid you. A Voice . — Aid yourselves and God will aid you. I will now conclude by saying, may God save Ireland (cheers). 3 {Ballintagy.-Zrd ,W«;/, 1880.— MV. Midutel P. Boyton.) You l.nvc to-.luy. u.en of Mayo, at ^ onr back what 1.0 assembly ever ha.l hefore-.vhat no leader, even O’Oonnell, never had-you have the ground vou staml upon. You l.ave a .-ight to it under the laws of the lu .t.s , Constitution, that were made ior your protection, and the on y t img m la 5 system is that vou are deprived of the rights of the British subjects cheers). ■ You are not allowed the same privilege of fecot. hu.eu an. Eughslnuen. They have taken advantage of your ignorance. They tl.ink you have ..o hu.uan feeli.,gs among you, and they have had their State .nouey and fhe stronv rigl.t arm of force. But God Almighty never gave r.gl.t as a t.tle lo 10 what tl.ey get by unlawful .neans. You have at your back-you have before you right and justice, aud to gain that rigl.t and justice you don t « ant to use force to proclaim to the world th.at you will mau.taiu them. i seed that vou have sown to-day will come up and astonish the whole woidd Let who will takenp the crop, the crop that will fo low .t wt 1 be mor 15 significant when the question of the right to the lain wi t ■ wish to tell vou that Father Corbett has, and will have, the law at his bac . and we in these days are entitled to use the brains that God has given us These ore tlie davs of progress, humaiiily, and science, aiid I want 20 bear this in mind lliat the man wiio is to-day the recognized leader ol the people of Ireland, is taking advantage of every intelligence, ,s taking au- vaiitage of every weapon greater than the sword-the pen. He has lull - eiice. We have a faithful and efficient staff of men who are putting befoie the eyes of the civilized world, greater euipii-cs than the British, that every 25 power will be used against tiiem. So will the black clou e swept oi ever from this island, and the bright blue sky, with its brilliant sunburs illumine that sky, aud you have more right when tl.ese days come o claim the banner which led the great movement. Men of Mayo you have far more right to that banner than even Ti|iperary (loud cheers) I 1 tank SO you for the kindness vou have show., me in listening to me. I did no come here to make a speech. I come here to learn to describe in great round Roman type before five hundred audiences in the great Kepublic the West. I am not here to.day to speak, I am here to-day- to put on le- cord, and I raise my voice, and say with firm resolve what I have seen here 35 to-day. We have seen in this good reverend minister of God that he is not afraid to come l.ere to assist true principles, for that is the lueamug o us demonstration, wj have at his back intelligence and the law of he d So far as that law will give him strength over that perpetrated le . process, iie will have it at Ids back, aud he will have ‘he brains of the bes 40 counsel, and he will make a show of this case, and fight it out o . bitter end. I may never set foot in Mayo again, an now ,0 Vive three cheers for Father Corbett (loud and continued cheering). 0 4 12 '.j'WhA I H-l 4 j 'A/' ■ 9 t t-Kli'ifO '.’ ‘ m' i»f>x)!: i/lk'/ , ' ,' V(f(i H I’Hot'J, >■ {[} i 'Iff'}.* yt - lA . I’ . f t ■' I 4 . : ‘vv: ■ t u» 7 / or UrtVi?? ••-I' <)!•* ' t ll;)‘V»5 •, 1 .l,l« Of ■ tUiw I- lit; ■ •; ,T "u'tf OS . >,,f| ' i. / 1 ' I ' ’ T I : • I £2 I ’ I'l ■ ' I f i , > r;f: ■ j, I 1 : ■ ^ ’ *i 1 . 1 1 ' r 1 (■» 'i; - 111 *' •■ I ' (Baliiniaffy.—aTd May, 1880.) Mr. Michael P. Boyton then said— I rise to propose what I am sure you all feel this moment, the warmest possible vote ot thanks to Father Corbett. The best way that you can do that is by sticking to the resolution. You have pledged yourselves that you will keep these two farms until these men come back, and that is the real vote of thanks you can pass to Father Corbett. Give it unanimously, and with a will (loud cheers). Mr. P. J. GORDON simply seconded the vote of thanks. The CHAIRMAN then came forward and thanked Mr. Boyton, after which he addressed the assembly in the Irish language. 9 ^r {Ballintaffy.—^r(J Ma?/, 1880.) Hr. John W. Walsh, of Balia, oil coinincr forward was warmly received. H(‘ said Rev. and worthy cliairmar. ■ and tenant-farmers of Mayo, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for the magnificent demonstration you have made here to-day. 1 feel tint the power is still in the hands of the people if they will but exercise it 5 (cheers). Only a short time ago I had occasion to call on the people of Mayes to prevent Anthony Dempsey from being evicted. I am glad now that the people answered that call, and show that they are determined to have the land. I felt sorry at first that I could not attend this demonstra- tion but I thought I would be wanting in my duty if I deserted the people 10 in such a grave crisis as this. How, I feel it a pleasure that I have come here to-day ; I feel a pleasure that I have come here to-day to lend my humble aid to Father Corbett— the Soggarth Aroon- and I may tell you that it was from the lips of Father Corbett that I first learned to hate land- lordism The name of Father Corbett is now a household word in the 15 whole county ; and again I will tell you why I feel a pleasure. It is this : That before I was scarcely able to crawl I recollect the name of Anthony Ormsby (groans). And I am here to-day to assist you to denounce that systeirn God made this world for his own glory and man’s benefit. You have as much rvjht to the soil as you have to the air you breathe. Almighty 20 God never intended that a few lazy people should own the land. W ell, you are going about with begging boxes. Is that right or justice? Now, rny friends Lm acrain glad that I have come here to-day to offer a few remarks to you ’ As one who has taken an active part, I ask you now to keep the ball roiling, and the flag flying. Never let it drop until victory be yo«rs. I 25 am sorrv we are losing a man, Michael Davitt, for a few months. Mr Davitt thinks that it is his duty to go across the broad Atlantic. I will now ask you, in the name of Mr. Davi't, to join hand-in-hand with Father Corbett, and if you do tins the day of your deliverance is near at hand. As the day is now ‘rather late, and as Father Corbeti has other enpgements, I 30 will not detain you, but don’t stop in your efforts. 1 may be in a position to throw myself hand-in.hand with the humblest tenant-farmers. God gave the right to live on the land of their birth. Any humble effort that I can do I will devote my time, irrespective of consequences, to the cause of the tenants. We are determined to stick to you to the end, and let me 35 tell you that I look upon this demonstration as one of the greatest ever held. But this display which I see here to-day, and which was dis- played at Looneyraore, will live as long as a single Irishman lives (loud cheering). k i K 8 i^Glennamaddy . — Muy lO/A, 1880.) Mr. John Kelly (chair) -4 Uv John Kelly, tenant fanner, was moved to the chair on the motion of Mr Luke Hussey, after which he came forward and said :-I thank you for askiim me to take the chair. I did not think I would he proposed. Ilow- 5 ever I am as well aware how this parish is as any other man. I know estates were bought in the Incumbered Estates Court, and I know the reason they bought it, to send the tenant farmers to the hogs. I am not going to speak of any landlord. If the people were hut loyal they would soon manao-e the landlords : I mean if a man was evicted that no man would 10 meddre with his land (hear, hear) and make him a black sheep m | the parish. They may return members of Parliament, hut we can have a | Parliament at home if we like it ourselves, by establishing branches of the j Land League. Let the land he left waste. Let him that does he pointed i out at nTarket and fair, let no one buy or sell with him. If he has a family let no one connect with him. There is a fine meeting here to-day after what was said. The chief object of this meeting is to put down tyrants I don’t want to interfere with any man’s rights (groans for the ; tyrants). Any man that the cap wUl fit let him wear it. let him wear the ^ , can and I don’t care it he don’t wear yery long for I am a had tador f- „„ (laughter). I say there is respect due to one landlord in this parish w lo neyer did a had act who gaye seed potatoes to his tenants. Mn t.ore did that, (cheers for him). Now, I don’t like to detain you longer. Gentlemen haye come here to direct you. I don’t like to take up the time of men who haye come a long distance, and I hope you will giTe them a good healing 25 (cheers). A 2 3 ( G Icnnamaddy . — May lO/A, 1880.) / J. W. Nally, lialla. ^ J. W. Nally, Balia, who was received with cheers, said,— i Bellow countrymen, I have to propose a resolution, a resolution that 1 , proposed 15 months ago, hut I say the parties I then addressed have not 5 adhered to it. ' “ llcsolved, that Ave will look upon a man who would occupy the land from which a tenant has been evicted as the enemy of our country, and wo ^ herehy pledge ourselves neA^er to occupy a farm from which a tenant has been evicted or surrendered for nonpayment of rent ” (cheers). 10 What is the use in coming forward and speaking to you when at this moment there are some scoundrels amongst you ready to grapple them up ? (Down Avith them.) I know there are scoundrels here Avho would raise their hands. I Avish to propose the resolution, and all united together, determined as it Avere to get rid of the agent, haililf, and the accursed and damned land- 15 lords (oh ! and laughter). Do you organise in one mass. Come together after this meeting, let ye come and show that we intend to banish every blasted landlord out of the country. Let ye join together in the hillside and valley and everywhere until we get rid of that accursed hated system called landlordism. Let us come forward then like men and put those 20 blasted landlords in the same position as we have ourselves been for a number of years. I have a feAV papers here ; just listen to me about the landlords of this place. I know very little about it myself. Of course if I err you will correct me. There is one estate. I will go in at the end. I will not mention the old fellow’s name. One man whose valuation is 8^. 15s., 25 rent 15^.; another valuation is 10 guineas, rent 16Z. (oh!). Well, there are so many names in it, it Avould he injudicious for me to name them. The next time he is coming forward to collect rents, let ye come foiuvard and say that the devil a halfpenny at all he will get (laughter) . (Here the speaker became inaudible owing to noise around me.) Well, my friends, I 30 will not conclude Avithout referring to my friends that are keeping up the wall over there. (Here the speaker pointed to some persons leaning against the walls within sight.) What I come here for is this. To say this much. That every one amongst you Avill join the Land League until we put aAvay landlordism and every ism, I don’t care a damn about all isms. Other gcntle- 35 men Avill come forward of more experience to second this resolution (cheers). 4 {G-lennamaddu.—3Iaij IG//^ 1880.— J. W. Nally.) Mr. J. W. Nally. i AV Nally came forward again and said,— friends and follow eonntrymen (cheers) , coming here J assure you lor a liositivo fact though it is well known in this county ‘'‘=‘1 ^ “ 5 systoin eallcct landlordism I will work tooth and nad and ^ sL those scoundrels called landlords banished in oh mon. be the owners of the laud. I toll you what it is, that I request of you, to abolish landlordism and leaye lu its stead peasant proin iota, j (cheers). 'l will now thank you for the reception you liaye g.yen me As I 10 am in the habit of saying things that I don’t do or believe in myself, let eac , and every one of you go home sober” (loud laughter). Here he referred to the police, and said, There is one thing about those, we have no right to say anything at . against them. They are very peaceable and orderly hut 15 few they might get more intelligence (laughter). I wo ild ask them to join the Land League (laughter) on the same principle that olhei peop e do. and when they join the Leape. I will guarantee that they will he keeping it (laughter, cheers for Nally). 13 {^Olenuaniaddy. — May 1880.) Mr. Fitzpatrick. Mr. Fitzpatrick said : — . AVcll, fclloAV-c.ountrynien, men of Glcnnamaddy, degraded men with image of the same Creator upon their faces. Men who arc here m their thousands 5 to nrotest against a system called landlordism, the most degrading, the most accursed. lYliat country better situated than this ? Men wlio liave lain down too long beneath the heel of the oppressor. Mr. Nally, a man whom you should ever respect, a man who is willing to sacrifice money, health, and everything else to olitain for you what every man shoulcHiave 10 liberty. To unite with one another is all we want for tlie abolition o landlordism. Mr. Nally has said that every ism should bo banished, but I “ bet is one ism uLh should remain (hear, hear.) You should be ink as one man in Cxlenamaddy. I hope there is no man amongst you who will take land from which a poor fellow, like yourself, is evicted. They are 15 robbers. The Government that supports them and baoks them up with soldiers and with peelers (groans.) I don’t want you to think that I spea of every individual policemen. It is the Government that supports them, and the obieet for which they are supported— for the purpose of keeping down you. I say, gentlemen, you are called upon here by your honoured 20 friend ; yes, your friend Mr. Nally told you the object of your meeting here is to do away with landlordism. Away with it. Youknow one thing you have as good a leader as ever entered a field (cheers, and cries of ParneU). He is as brave an offieer as ever lived, but no matter how good the general, no matter how faithfully the officers carry out his instructions. You are the 95 soldiers he has called upon to fight. You are to fight in his van. If you will be united and fond of one another, labour for the one common end What is the end proposed to yon by Charles Stewart Parnell, the uncrowned Prince of Ireland? “Keep a firm gripe of your holdings.” “Peed your wfife and children first, and the landlord after. An 30 I say, feed yourself first of all, no matter who is there (cheers). (Here the speaker referred to some tenants in the neighbourhood of Williams- town, on the estate of the Earl of Clanricarde, who were paying 30 per cent 'over Grifiith’s valuation, and who went to ask abatements, but were told they would get none. They were refused an abatement of rent where 35 they paid 30 per cent, over Griffith’s valuation for land that was not fit to feed a jacksnipe (laughter and groans). He also spoke about a woman and two children who were driven from their home before the Land League was in existence to proteet them, and that the woman had since died 40 ^'’lle also gave another instance of a woman (with children), who had been driven into Galway gaol, and yet some people could be found to take the land from which she had been evicted (groans). He also referred to a Mrs. Tormey or Toomey, and continued : That house has been burned dmvn ; you will hear it in a few days that they are going to apply for compensation. 45 Before that house w^as burned down there Avas a good table m it and it was taken out. Everything in the house was smashed through drunkenness, and I am determined to oppose that application for compensation. I say, the man is well known that made that a charred roof. It is not compensation you want at all. Here it is as plain as daylight to you, as plain as that God 50 Ylmighty favours your meeting. Although your soggarth aroon is not here, we Aviil put a charitable construction upon his absence. Perhaps he has A3 5 (Glcnnmmddn.-May \m, 1880 .-*-. Mlzpalrick.) m-aycd tor m, and wc will say this is why he stopped at home to-day 1 believe myselt that a more generous people does not live on earth than n, people o£ Glennamaddy (eheers). If we wanted proof of that we wonl.l have it after to-day, hut we are hurled too long under the heel of he oppi^sor r. Yes, we were too much; now. however, wo will follow our eadei lame ( cheers) . I come forward to second a resolution. Tliere may he a — who would do it, hut I hope there is not a traitor in this assembly who will do it ; if in conseiiuenee of an unjust rent a man would throw up a arm. I say. nontlemcn, the object of our meeting here to-day will not ho a failuie. 10 Those men should he avoided as skunks. I have one word more to say. I will ask you now to unite (cheers). 6 {Glennamaddy . — May IG^A, 1880.) Mr. Kilmartin, Ballinasloc. Mr. Kilmartin, Tenants’ Defence Association, Balliuasloc, who was received with cliecrs, said, — “Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, 1 thank you very sincerely from 5 the bottom of my heart for the kind reception you have given me. When I see .the flower of our land assembled, I say I am proud ; but when I see such a multitude here to-day, tens of thousands to meet us, I am. I sec that the time has come when landlord tyranny will he put down (‘ Down with them’). Yes, my friends, it would he impossible for any man to look 10 around without seeing men of every nation on the fields of Australia. It would he impossihle for any man to see the crowds from other countries with the crowd of Irish poor, and not to have a great view for old Ireland whose sons inspired from the Apostles themselves to take up the cross of religion (voice, In spite of England). Speaker : In spite as it were of that hlood- 15 stained banner which tried to crush out freedom in every country in the world. How is iti'that we remained so long in slavery ? I believe Providence must have had something to do with it. When they go to Australia oi America they see the banner of freedom over their heads. When they come home we see coercion, intimidation. We see policemen doing their duty. 20 Irishmen, the sons of Irishmen, sent here to act as spies on this very plat- form, as if we were traitors and rebels. These men are only doing theii duty, and they arc not to be insulted, but the Beaconsfield government which inaugurated this is gone now. They tried intimidation, but they were not able to succeed. They arrested some of the champions of tenant-right. I say, 25 gentlemen, I say to the police if I were in the city of London before the Queen’s palace I would speak stronger than I do here. I was never a traitor or a rebel, but I am a traitor and a rebel against felonious landlords or land laws (‘ Down with them ’). Pour years ago in Ballinasloe when I saw tyranny and villany that w'as being worked up among landlords, I gatliered 30 together a few friends and established the Ballinasloe Tenants Defence Association (hear, hear). And I am nowhere, my friends, to preach the same doctrine to ye, that I proclaimed on many a platform, that the time is come when landlord tyranny must be put down (“Down with them ). And this is the pressing important question, how^ are we to put them dow n ? By 35 the multitudes 1 see here and other parts of the country, I say the people are all the power in every country. Although w^e have the Coercion Act in operation and they may order your arrest if they like, still I say the power of the people is superior to all other power. It is by the people all laws are made. We have exercised that power nobly during the last election 40 (clieers). The brave men of Mayo did their duty, and they wall do it again (cheers). The exercise of our privileges as electors wdiich is the smallest power w'e have can do it. I tell you the w^ay to get the greatest power, to come here and declare that you will w^ar against felonious landlordism until it is put down (cheers). No’W the way to do this is by lawTul 45 constitutional means, otherwise you will not be doing it right. loi instance, I have been showm a sheet of names since I came here to this town, where the landlords are grinding them to the dust. Now I mean to show ve how you can nullify the law' of the landlords. Join the Land League, never take a farm from which a man is evicted. Ostracise 5Q the villain who would do such a thing. There is not a greater criminal ever swung on a gallow^s than the man who would take that land. I say 8 YOU cnii point to him us ho g'oos the roud, ciiid suy. “ liolinlrl llip. inn.n who vol)l)0d tllC widow.” If VC SUV {^G Icnnamadd u . — Ilay lO/A, 1880.— Mr. Kilniarlin.) ^ u can point to him as he goes the road, and say, “ Ikdiold tlie \illain; behold the man who rol)l)ed tlie widow.” If ye saw a mad dog, would not llain ; ye halloo liini. AYould not ye linnt the mad dog from society, hut the desperate villain who would hid for the land is fifty times Avorsc than tlie mad dog. If you do that, believe me you tvill have the land for the value. Let tens of thousands of people assemble, as we did in Ballinasloc, on the veiy grounds where they take place, and we expect them to leave the tenants there yet (cheers). Do the same here, and if the tenant is about to bo evicted, and the landlord clearly understands that his land rvill lie waste 1 oi 10 ever, he will not be such a fool that he will put him out (cheers). N "With regard to rackrent, where is the tenant avlio is not rackrented ? .1. 1 say, in the” words of Charles Stewart Parnell, our brave and noble leader (ciicers), Avho will lead us to victory, and his colleague, Mr. Davitt (cheers), I say, in the face of this brave assemblage of Irishmen and Avomen, if you 15 hold a firm grip of the land AA'ith determined voice, there is no poAver under the CroAAm Avill put you out of it. Offer a fair rent, and in the name of God whateA^cr the consequence is, as my friend Mr. Malachi O Sullivan said twelve months ago, if they don’t take it, put it in your pocket. Mr. O’Sullivan twelA'C months ago aa'us secretary to the Ballinasloe Association, and he 20 gave sood advice to the people of Ireland. Infidelity has been imputed to him . ( Voice, “ ’ ) Speaker : I say Mi\ O’Sullivan is as good a Catholic as any one in that crowd. I fear I am trespassing on your patience. When I look around amongst you and see the green saMres, and AAdien I look back and see these 25 banners (pointing to the back of the platform, AA'here there were a feAA flags and banners), when I see here the picture of Parnell, AV^ith Erin asking him to save her people, I think it woiM not be too much to ask you to put your patriotism to the test. Do as Parnell advised you to do, “ Keep a fiim giip “ of your holdings.” Establish in this place this very day a branch of the 30 Land League. The man who would libTsnbscribe one s hilling is u otjI2I^^*y , of the name of IrishmanT There arelunongst AmrnTckplates, bailiffs, and nican spTes,'-andMow^Pnaves, wdio tell lies and do Avm’se. ( Doaaii AAith them). The more justice we get, I say the greater friends Ave are to the Qiieeu and Constitution, but I want ye to be true to your own country. 35 (Voice : “ So we Avill.”) Speaker ; If you Avant to save Ireland’s population, if you Aidant to saA c the brave youth of the country, unite and band together for mutual pro- tection, such as you can do by joining the Land League. I haA'e a list heie. It contains about 40 names. It would be quite useless for me to occupy 40 your time by reading it. The press Avill take notice of it. It is m almost eA'ery case nearly double the Government valuation. . Tlui-AaJidlmids never did anything for us. No, nor for the Queen either, great as they are, and loyal as they try to be, but maintain at the point of the bayonet these nefarious laAVS. (“Doavii Avith them.’ ) Now, in the name 45 of God Almighty, I have considered this question earnestly for years and years. I knoAV serious consequences may folloAV Avlien I tell you to stick to your homesteads. Let you all come to their rescue if they are puc oiii. Keep them there. Noaa-, my dear friends, I have to apologise for detaining you so long. If I 50 liaA^e done so, it is my great love for you that made me go so far. I thank you 9 {^Glenncimaddij. — Mai/ IG/A, 1880. — Mr. Kilmartin.) sincerely, gentlemen, for the kind reception wliicli you have given mys('ll‘ and my colleagues from Ballinasloe. I have now to point out to you a ircntleman from Ballinasloe who was sued hy a Mr. Duggan, and mulcted in 500Z. He nohly published his reports, and he was brought into the Dublin courts, and fined 500^. If you love your country and religion, if you love your wives, daughters, and childi*cu, try to keep them at home. I hav(‘ been in foreign lands, and my heart would warm to an Irish man or woman, but there are other scenes in the streets of Melbourne that would make you weep (cheers). [Knockcroijlicrrj . — jShnj 10///, 1880.) Mr. Matthew Harris, Ballinasloc, said “ Mv. Chairman and fellow countrymen, I (as your chairman has told you) ~ have heen sent here by ilie Land League to represent tliem hero to-day, and I may tell you that they Avill emancipate the farmers of Ireland, 5 (Cheers.) I am proud to see such a large assembly liere to-day, beeause I believe that the success of this great movement depends upon popular support. (Cheers.) I believe that it is the people themselves that have to-day the working, and not their representatives in Parliament or out of Parliament. I will tell you further, gentlemen, that we have not as yet 10 arrived at that point when wo will be able to achieve a great measure ^ of land reform. I believe that we have a long distance yet, when we can bring the enemies of our country to our feet. I believe that this agitation will have to approaeh the point which the tithe agitation arrived at. I tell you that it will have to come to this, that the tenant farmers of Ireland will 15 have to reeognise their right to the country. I tell you it will come to this, that the tenant farmers of Ireland, when it oonies to that point, then it will be our duty to say to the landlords. Gentlemen, we have^ been paying you rent for a long time now, w'e have submitted to oppression, we have seen our people driven to foreign lands, we have seen our young children 20 sent to the four winds of heaven ; we have seen all these things done by you, you who own tliis fair island, and Ave have borne it now but we will bear it no longer. (Cheers.) We are all united in one grand hrotherhood now, and Ave say to you, go aAA'ay, AA^e will liaA'c you no longer. (Cheeis.)^ We will not be contributing to our oAvn slavery by paying what 25 (No, no.) We Avill do as the men in the tithe agitation did, Avho never got repeal to those laws When you say this to the landlord ; when you can stand up in the manner of freemen, not individual men, beeause there are among Irishmen, men so noble, that they come for- ward from time to time. (Cheers.) But when instead of resting upon 30 individual action you will crush them down before you as a camel standing upon a fly. Unite together, not in the way you have done, do not be sitting in the corner reading the newspaper AAuth your neighbour on one side and saying to him ‘ Oh, is not that a splendid speech that such a man made,’ and asking one another, what are these men 35 in Parliament doing for us. I tell you that the English Government aa ill give you nothing (no, no), except you yourselves get into such a position that will compel them to give it. (Cheers.) Without union, Avhen each man is willing to contribute to the general good, I am an Irishman and as Avell as my neighbour ; until this is done you Avill never get anything. Because, if each man says, I Avill look to myself, I will mind my family , I will go to mass and say my prayers and my religious duties. Noav this is very good in its Avay, but he has another very high and noble duty, and it is to look around him and see where suffering and misery prevails, and if he be a good man he is bound to eome forward and lend his aid in redressing his 45 wrongs. Now I will allude to the state of Connaught a few years ago. (Knoclccroglicry. — ^lify 1880, — Mi\ 3Iattlicio Harris.) At tlicit time tbis t^rCcit province wns in tbe Imnds of a, few families. In tbc county Galwav Lord Clanricardc often said that lie could put in his j^iey marc for the County Galway. In the County Sligo it is exactly the same way, and in the County Leitrim, which unfortunately In llos- 5 common and Mayo they could do as they liked. The result was this, they were everything and the peoiilc were nothing. Your voice was never heard ; there Avas no consideration given to you. It was Lord Clanricardc in GahA'ay, and some two or three others. These were the men that were looked to. Well, gentlemen, things are greatly changed since then ; hut I am heie to defend 10 the policy of the Land League. In the ‘ Lreeman’s Journal ’ that policy has been attacked by Trank Hugh O’Donnel, and he is another proof of the necessity of the people relying upon themselves. Well, this man comes foiavard and attacks the programme of the Land League. What does he compare it to ? To English manufacture. He says that the laAV has the power 15 of interfering between English manufacturers and their employes. What is there between the Irish landlord and the English manufacturer. He lives liy industry ; every shilling he receives brings comfort to the men aaJio are working for him, while they have forbidden labour. They make it a condition that the man shall not put a plough or spade imo the laud, 20 and the poor labouring man is left walking about without employment. This is the institution that Erauk H. O’Donnell would support in this country. Therefore I say, rely upon yourselves and upon your own acts and deeds, and in that union and love of brotherhood all ever the world. INow, gentlemen, there is one Avord Avhich I shall notice, and that is, whethei you 25 think that it is more probable that you Avill get peasant proprietaiy or fixity of tenure. (Voice, ‘ Peasant-proprietary.’) My opinion is, and in this opinion I am fully justified by the statement of Mr. Gladstone when he came to Ireland, and other great men, that they are in favour of giving to Ireland a peasant proprietary (cheers), and would Ave be not very foolish indeed if we were to go in for fixity of tenure ? Mr. Gladstone, Avhen he came to Dublin, said he is in favour of giving to Ireland a peasant proprietary, and Avould we not be very foolish indeed if we should turn round and go on for fixity of tenure. Would that not be a nice thing for the Irish farmers to do ? In the first place, is not every man paying more than he is able to pay, and we have falling markets ? But I hope that such an arrangement will be made that in the course of 20 yea rs lie^will be o wner and pro- prietor of the land he holds. (Cheers.) /Therefore I ask you further, that along with uniting together, you should unite in opposition against any man who will take any poor man’s land. Well, gentlemen, tlie Land 40 League, they are at present a public body Avith Mr. Parnell at its head. (Cheers.) If you were cheering until this day week you could not give enough cheers for him; you have a public body that for the first time is true to the people, for it has shown its truth to the people. Show that devotion and energy ........ if you do not do this, do not be blaming the land- 45 lords, or do not be blaming the Land League, but lilame yourselves. And we are here to-day for one of the piu’poses, and that is for forming branche.3 A3 5 A 30 35 {Knockcro “ on the scene of their tyranny is the proper place to hold them up m / I nnrl to assui’c tbe victims of oppression public odium and scorn (clieers), and to assuie me nr at their very doors that in their sufferings they have the sympathy of thei B6 Inty and their country (cheers). To this extent ^ that the meeting should he of a local character; f wishing that the condemnation o* ^se opf— ^-'1 We ddired to the people of tliis locality (cheers foi hatlier hiiine;. It W take part in this good and just and holy work, he con- thatixeuy 1 represented here from all parts of the anlwe^t-Kerryhas gallantly re^nc^d to our call, and stands here to-day upon this field above " ‘nl ancient har-ony of South “uogh ; to cry shame on the fvipTidship to the oppressed sons and daugliter o i„ „„ iiienusnip to u n mpnl hpware how thev trample on r:“troI “cllurasr to declar.e eternal war against that tne sacieu iig n vnh nod starve and exterminate a vile land system which allows a few to rob and starve nation (Voice ; ‘ McGillecuddy will he worse to-mouow. ) ■ 7 “yTeilow countrymen, that Kerry stands here to-day, hut it was not enough rn tans that Kerry should come to Tuogh, above all things we desired that our meeting should partake of a national character by having amongst us one (Bcaufort.-M»!, 1««<, 1880.-2V.« O' nononykue.) .epvccntin, the t„ speak (or all las countr^n^o ' . loi t,,os„ <,a tl.o more distant T iLtirL^'upl “.ose still (artker and lartker away in tke 5 soutUern hemisphere («>--)•/ 7‘';“‘X^'°Co*;cirrs^^ 'Tirnamtof amongst ns to-day in the member tor the mty o ige of onr eon- Charles Stewart '’millions ol"lrW are gazing upon it, looking temporary lustoiy (ehe ) , ^ ^ towards It, and It 7 lieve “the judgm'’ent of a rvhole people to be unerring. 10 teacli us to unite. I oei J t=> fault and I entertain no The simultaneous eonelusion q„,UUes repdsite doubt whatever that my ^ to this eonelusion (eheers). for leadersliip ; my own observation lias ,^eli Butweeann^.— " LSn:: Will a Jays -77.7-. men, and half-hearted men. (Vm e • ^ God these traitors, more or J®"® thrmister-ioll of a nation, and wo will erush count but as nothing n ^ alouff le beer sl. Ireland, \ 20 them or sweep He\ iiit“ rr. “ - — ^ , Onward.’ IfeTinow that tbe"T)athoroui* labour wi 1 be beard sliouting, — ‘ . -i o,„UQnt as bis own we will notbe^SS^ttoJ^riSn^^^^ - r osilf (11 Je adviee make due allowance for the diffiedty of hrs posrUon ^ 30 that I would venture to S"® ““^essino- to speak for Ireland propound That it in the eonrse «« Jd take counsel from the J “ 1:1 J cavillers, and ^ '“ 35 ulJhe r:;rr r;-: .u. — .. a. « {Beaufort . — May KV//, 1880.) Mr. Charles S. Parnell, M.P., 'vas rccoivoa ^vitl, d.cors, »ai,l “ JA'llow countrynioii aiul people oi Keny, allow me to -* . . Ti- +i,n1nvi[)oii this niagnilieeiit meeting. congpatnlate yon \/l. f} ^ ' '' , . It is tlic largest land iiieoting wliicli 1 liave , , teX^since, in tl,e county Mayo (cl.ecrs), just twelve had t 10 l.ononi , ‘ ° movement, at Irislitown, wiiieh will sweep tl.e 5 months Since, we imtiat . ^ evmn Us hollow basis. I have IVndal system of m two long lionrs-(Voleo, ‘ You to apo Iigise o y = anuounced for tills meeting to eom- ,0 at tue present time hciiio so c nevliaps tlie greatest, orone of the greatest, undci in a groat moven > P ' ^ obtaining for the people the land of „ pt ,o„ly in the past, and I believe that even - i::r • was totrellealconstahleLherty, of Killarney, removed from ;'rpth:^ U'his attempt was unsuccessful, as the head-constable 20 appeared to have XT me a obance 1 am sorry I o If my riends on P“ 7."" vdee, and I cannot make my words ‘‘X X-s “Jtectin^. The laws tire landlords make give the landlords reach this lar„e mee „ ^^Pmh the right to exact any reM that ^ for that rent, 25 the tenant has ^pen^^ i, ,ot and finally m ariving nlthouo’h we Members of able to pay tins rent. ^ Xr Lr. ;on can do a great Parliament ■=» f Xj'X'Xohsation is enormous-, there are 600.000 deal moi . • ,.1 fivere are 10 000 landlords, and no law can give 30 tenant farmers in Irela , farmers (cbeers). the 10,000 landlords the power » ^ the way in which Now there has been ^ lieliete it will never he settled as this land question wi n ,r v survives in Ireland (cbeers). You long as this l .jlrnTyou please, but as long as it exists iu 35 may patch and cobble t y w a bad system, and it is your i i.,a dnty i. ‘'d'™ lU l'“y J , befor, tbe ow a good foundation j J put them before the English Parlia- English nation, and we sha^U ‘^Xyugland, Scotland, and Ireland, has 40 meut. Iu uo otbei count y, ^ i ^nd we shall ask what steps shall such a system “(l^XTutolmul" ti is exceedingly likely that, as in be taken to abolish it m the past, something else we^av settlement of the 7’ , XCer custom to the rest of Ireland (Voice: stone is going to exten „biect to such a measure, hut we cannot • It would not be bad’). ^/“VXXnl nXtion (cheers). The Ulster accept it as a final solution o i JJy m protecting that property, ■ ro*r':i.“r = i • -■ 45 {Beaufort. — Mai) ICdh, 1880. Mr. Barnell.) ,,ovty for tl.c tenant. But if a i, cried of depression eon,es we see tl.e nronertv of the tenant is no longer protected, and we sec who is the hist to sivfe. We see this hy the ,ieople of the Nortli ot Ireland where the Xht of the tenant has disappeared in the face of had times, and where the 5 tenants are groaning inst as loudly as you are under the oppressiye rachronts hat have been iiillieted on you. We must have, then some temporary measure which will prevent the extinetiou of the smaller classes ol the tenantry, the only standard of rentwhieti is afforded to us is the Governmen valuation. In proposing that evictions should he suspended lor a period o 10 wo years in the holdings valued at and under 201. we have been charged with ’a desire to eonliseate the rent of the landlord for two years, but we will leave him many other ways of recovering his rent We will leave hnn the same method of recovering it as the tradesman has for his debts. We will put him in the same position as the banks and shop-keeping ela s 11 -, of the countrv who have been supplying the means ot existence to tenant farmer; during the last 12 months. There should be ™ in placing the landlord on a level with them lor two years for rLty o’f their debts in the shape of rent (cheers). BiB ^ done, what will happen? I know as a matter of fact that^ 20 tenant farmers of Ireland fully 100,000 are unable to pay the rents (cheers) Biectments tor non-payment of rent have been scattered broadcast over the hnd and in a short time the landlords will ask the courts of law to entorce thosl decrees and ejectments. This will be a very serious sitnatmn- Can^t be expected this time in the 19th eentnry our people will allow them- 25 selves'to be driven from their farms as in 1848. I think that day is gone by (cheers and ‘We will not do it ’) ; that a spirit of determmatron is hiilo- fast hold of our people, and that they will no longer permr their^ selves" to be exterminated as in the past, either with or without the aw (cheers) I say that the Government that leaves the tenantry of this 30 Luntry'at the mercy of the landlords iintetakes sibility.the outcome of which no man can foresee; and I ask the Gov ment rf Eiio-land to inform themselves upon this subject, and if it h . TaTmy statement is a true one. and that the majority of the Irish people are face to face with famine, that they will pass such a measure as will stay 35 eviction (cheers). If the Legislature refuses to step m this agitatioi will have to -o on (cheers), it will increase tenfold m intensity, and the people will do for themselves that which the Legislature refuses o o (cheers) Now, I have said that I don’t object to the Ulster custom, bn the Ulster custom is entirely inadeopuate to meet the present emeigenej , an 40 s useless for the Government, like the ostrich, to hide its head in the sand " Id : tagine that by extending the Ulster custom that they can meet the gravity of the present emerge y. ^ J f nflipv tbino-s that a Commission should he appointed with mended, amongst othei things, Onmp neonle have iTowers of compulsory expropriation m certain cases. Some people lia a- !akl 1 at we ouMit to expropriate absentee landlords and Lonctoi companies, Now, undoubtedly, the principle of expropriating companies, and corporations drawing vast revenues from lie and and letuin noZrg is a correct one, but at the same time_Ij=annotl« many absentee landlords and London ao estates in Ireland and I should pr efer a m easure of compulsoy expropiiation teth^e-^ekrenting landlords. I would empower the Govm-nment Q 3366.-77. A 3 {Beaufort. — May 1880. Mr. Barnell.) Commis4oii to irive CYcry rackrcnting landlord in Ireland, or f'c ‘"“*- rentin- amon-st the number in Ireland, 2(1 years purchase ol the Govern- rcntin, a „ ^ enacted, and eight or r''"*^dllions°of money given to this Commission, that you rvoukl see rents ^ = mlent t; u:”::!!; now it would work. We should have ’a Commission with ton millions of money entitled to come down on any » - “ — ^ - r:,'r;rr:; bound to rLice their rent that it would make it more profitable to. them to • ^ 11 1c ihnn to take the 20 years’ purchase in compensation. Well, remain landlords than to t a Ke ^ i , xrm-w wore selected then siinnosin"- 10 or 20 landlords m the county of Keiry were selecte ? . j fiipv Yielded to the pressure brought to hear 15 by the Commission, and y ^ ^ 11 po next worst noon them the Commission could atteiwauis ^o aim smec In am deal with them in a similar manner, and in that way all over Ireland. :„ufd Lve me simplest and most easily worked -chinny for -m- peUing a natural reduction of pi, tenantry, I Ih“ XXXs:“ Xlnot he XX Xlhlle there is money to -end the^^^^^^ 26 of law. The National Land League has P e^dy “f coulymen the purpose of defending the tenantry of Ireland. loiii teiio J if America will send you as much money as you want. Eveiywheie l-oXtlm States /found the greatest anxiety to help y^m n L then *be afraid • band yourselves together ; organise yoiiiselves (elieer ) this meeting the eviction of occupiers of land oi nrhitrarilv fixed by the landlord is unjust, subveisiv _ ^ Tou"^^^^ cal Jfor the emphatic condemnation of all lovers of justice. 35 6 [CdnUvislouni . — M«>l 1880 .) Mr. Thomas Brennan, Dublin, in nomi.ig forward was rocoivcl will. loud and continued checrinsjs. He said : “ Rev Cliaivinan and fellow-countrymen, before tlu^ resolution is put to i y„„ I must say a few w-ords in support of it. Tins, I belieyc, ,s the hrst 5 land nrceting tb'at has been held in the county Meath since the formation of the IrisllNational Land League. And I trust it is hut the coniinenee- irient of a healthy and vigorous agitation of your soeial rights, and that Meath, whose name is associated with so many historic reve ations, the Meath of Lucas, and the Meath of Charles S. Darnel (cdieei-s), will 11, take its place with the other counties who are nobly hghtmg on behalf of the tillers of the soil. (Cheers.) If you do not suffer so nincli from the eifectsof Irish landlordism as some ot the counties he iind the Shannon, it is not due to the heneyolence of your landlords, hut it is owing to the fact that the majority of your people have been swept from oft 15 your fertile plains. The yalleys whose echoes gave back the sounds of meriy iauMiter are now only disturbed by my lord’s cattle, as tney are fattened for the^English markets. (Cheers.) Look at your present position Look at ' the prospect which you have before you. You are working from morning till night, from yeai- to year, to supply the idler with the unjust tax 20 which he levies on your labour, and when you are unable any longer to supply him with that tax he turns you out. Look at the position win i your country occupies amongst the nations to-day. Look at tne charity- hox going round, and if you have any national pride you must blush for shaml (Cheers.) I am not in the habit of claiming virtues for the 25 Irish. We have virtues, thank God. hut we have faults too ; and it should he our first duty to correct tho.se faults. No doubt you will be told that these are very revolutionary ideas, and, as our may he accused of preaching Communism from this platfo™ W 11, I do not know whether I am preaching Communism or not, but if it 1 e Com- go munisni to say that the earth was made by Go^^thejntopJe^andJ^e ToX have as munrnfflESWeHfT^TEe^iiairj) then I am a (tommunisTlM r^y in it" (Cfagers" Ye had a good deal ‘^^1/ giving to Ctesar that which belongs to Caesar. Most readily and accept that doctrine; hut if Ciesar is to get his due what compensation t.',;,i, landlords to nive you. Unfortunately they canno^restorejo^of Te this of ca-5i5tV»;^ny happy'toiJS^n the land. They cannot restore the two milhonsof yoiii veoje whom they mmdered in ’47 ; and this is the institution and these aie the men that sonL land reformers told us that we should make a fixity m the .“y. , (Ch'eerrr WeTre L 4owhrs of a peaceful revoMon Now you will ask me how is that peaceful revolution to be accomplished ; first, by showing what your rights are 45 a manly determined the land for the people well remember, twelve months ago, wJien tne eiy ui l ^ / Tas raised in the Co. Mayo. (Cheers.) How the people themse ves first L ed it, the breath left their mouths. But, with the knowledge ot their right! and with a leader there was consternation in the camp of the enemy, 50 and the cry was, What, had the end of the world come, that the men, who A. 3 'IWrd, ISHO.— J/r. 'I'lnmias lirenvan.) few months a^'o came to tliom with liats in hand, now reCused to pay thorn tlndr 1 rent. Yes, they appeared het’ore th(‘ landlords, and with a knowledge ol their rights ; and at last they seized landlordism hy the throat in order to crush it. (Cheers.) You will have to assume the same hold attitude ; you wdl 5 have to speak out in the same way you did before. You must give up putting your hand to your hat for every lump of clay you may meet ; you must give up calling the landlord or his agent, Your honor. (Voices ; ‘ We will.’) You must go and strike against rent until this question is settled ; you must refuse to pay a rackrent. Rent means the profit that 10 remains after you have satisfied every other claim for the working of your , holdings, after you have paid the merchant and the labourer, after you have | paid yourselves the support of your families, then see that your children are clothed, and after that, if anything remains, give it to them. (Cheers.) And if he refuses, then put it in your pocket until he comes respectfully 16 to you and asks you for it. You must organize; you will not have discharged your duty when you return to your homes this evening unless you go” back organized. The ti ^p of determined men is well calculat ed to disturb the repose of ty rants ; but you must be organised and determinedT^rm h 'brancITdrth^and League in every part of the county. 20 I said somewhere before that wherever there is a police barracks there should also be a branch of the Land League (cheers), and then the tenants should have the protection of their just rights. (Cheers.) We are now ready to assert our rights against landlords, and that system musr be fought out. The place of all others where it must be fought out is in Ireland. I have 25 very little faith in the House of Commons redressing your wrongs. You have to-day raised the cry of the land for the people, that cry is already widespread in the north, and it found an echo in the plains of the south.” (Great cheering, during which the speaker concluded.) 6 lUliLi. [Cdrdenslown. — M(ty '2:Vrd, 1880.) Mr. BrGIlliail tUcMi came forward and said: ^ ^ “ r beg’ to move that the chairman do leave the chair, and that Mr. 1. M. CaiTCW to 1)0 oalled thereto.” After Mr. Carrew taking tlie chair, Mr. Brennan said : “ It now becomes my very pleasing duty to move a vote D of thanks to Batlicr Bagan for his conduct in tlio chair, and I am sure that that proposition needs no words of mine to recommend it to you. I will, before concluding, ask you to allow me to say a few words. If tlierc is any county in Ireland that should rise against landlordism, it is Meath. During the last 30 years half its population, or 90,000 human beings, has been 10 sacriliced by Irish landlordism. An eviction has taken place, and you Iia-. e pled'ved yourselves here to-day that no person shall take that farm ; andjL there he any such wretch found, he must be branded Mr. Kettle then came forward and said : — » I have great pleasure in seconding Mr. Brennan’s motion. It has been 16 said ill some other place that I took part in trying to separate the priests from the people. Now, I could not do that, and I will tell you the reason why. The priests are generally taken from the educated classes of the people, so that it would be impossible to separate the priests from the people.” (Cheers.) 20 The Ceairman then came forward and said » My good people, I thank yon most sincerely for the kind manner m which you have received the resolution. As I told you before, I believe my dutv is to be here with the people-with the tenant-farmers of Ireland I assure you it has afforded me the greatest pleasure to take the chair at this 25 meeting. I now thank you all again most sincerely, and I trust you will all go to your homes peaceably.” 11 {Cdnlenstowu.—May 1880.) Mr. Michael P. Boyton, Kildare, then came forward to se(;oad the resolution, and was received with cheers. He said ; -Men of Ireland, and I think that takes in Kings and Meath, 1 have been honoured with an invitation to he present at this asseinhly here to-day. 5 I came here not to speak, as you have already heard, hut I came here to assert a few facts, and one of them is that I wish you to rcinemher that the fight that you are fighting hero to-day is not a fight of Irish nationality. It seems to me that gentlemen who have told you hero to-day the ^ merits 01 the case Avould have better perhaps have. left the fact that landlordism has 10 been a curse to yourselves, for you don’t want any man to tell you that.^ M e Nationalists of Ireland try to redress your wrongs, and I trust m Gml that before long the landlords will be becoming members of the Irish National Land League. You are freemen, and yet you are afraid to stand up and assert your rights ; you are British subjects, and one of the rights is the 15 ri-ht to assemble here for the redressing of grievances. I say that you are not permitted to assemble while they are sending the strong right arm of force here (meaning the police). I have attended meetings in England, in Scotland, and in Ireland, and I never yet saw' the strong right arm of force used until you struck at the root of the question of landlordism . ^ (Cheers.) ^ 20 Well to-day your duty is tow^ards your country and your families, and if there be a just God in Heaven he will see you righted. I believe that the justice of God is fast if we have a little of our patience, and I believe that the settlement of this great question will soon take place. Until you learn that you can go on and claim this and that measure you will never be 25 men. Learn the means to redress your grievances. Stand together, anc^ show it; and then, if you fail, the enemies of your race and creea cannot point the finger of scorn against you, and say amongst your- selves ‘ You did it.’ (Cheers.) So until you learn self-reliance and self- confidence you will never succeed, for you will never deserve it. Now you 30 have heard a lesson here to-day that you should carry to your homes B e are eno-aged in building up our native land to a nation. We have begun where fill other land reformers have left off, and until you give us the con- fidence we cannot succeed. ‘ He who builds up a house without the blessing of God, he labours in vain. (Cheers.) That house shall be the uatmnality 35 of Ireland. We want the ground to work upon, and will have nationality and Home Rule. Eirst hold up your head, and then ask for what you are able to get (cheers) ; for Ireland is worth all the trouble that we arq o-ettiim. Every person who stands erect here to-day will scorn the foul imputations that have been made against us; but they came from our 40 enemies. To say that we who wish to root you on the soil are about to separate tiie priests from the people is calumny. (Voices: ‘Noihing ot the kind.’) There is only one answer to it, and I trust that that answer will be found on every one of your lips, and that is— it is a lie. It is a le, for we could not separate the priests of Ireland from the people of Ire anc . 45 But to-day, thank God, we have the bishops and priests of Ireland with us. I stand here in Meath, where the bishop put forward my chief and leader, and told him, ‘ Go on, we have faith in you.’ If our cause be just it will 0-0 on; if it be wrong it will go down. I believe the cause of Ireland is a good cause. I thank you for the very kind and patient manner in which you have listened to me. It may be before this agitation is ocer I may meet some of ye again.” (Cheers.) 10 {Flnea.—Mmj '2.1th, 1880.) Mr M. M. O’Sullivail, representative of the Land League, in coming forward to second the resolution, was received with loud and continued cheering, lie said, — 5 “I have been asked, Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, to propose the second resolution to you. These are the terms of the resolution which I will ^''^F^rpijat the only safe, sound, and secure settlement of the land question is to abolish landlords’ rights and privileges, and to restore to the people their 10 just rights, of which they have been ruthlessly despoiled.’ ” lie continued,— “ That is the resolution which I have to propose. That is the resolution which yh^ my strongest and most hearty sympathy. (Cheers.) No matter may be extended to you for the settlement of the land of Ireland. I believe that any system which allows the landlord 15 system to continue, will be the system which will be accepted by the Irish people. The people in the south and west of Ireland have already set forth and declared before high heaven that it must go. Will you assist them in driving them from the land? (Cheers.) I want no cheering, I want no speeching, I want action (cheers), for school boys can cheer just as well as 20 men, but men must be determined to be successful. (Cheers.) It is just 12 months since I first stood on the platform in Irishtown. In the presence of, I believe, fifteen thousand people, there are not one thousand here met too-ether to assist us to propose fair rents to their landlords, and if they did no't accept that, to pay nothing at all. (Cheers.) Now, that is what I want 9. you to do, you will never do it, therefore, you must organise, you must get " as one man, you must not allow yourselves to be exterminated. Are you satisfied to do that with the rest of Ireland. (Yes.) I ivould mistake you if you did otherwise, and I would be very sorry to have to come from Dublin if I thouo-ht you were capable of doing anything else. That you will here to-day o. hold up your hands before liigh heaven, and declare that never will you cease ^ agitating, that you never will take a farm from which any man may be evicted. If you do that for a few years, landlordism is doomed m spite of ten thousand parliaments. (Cheers.) I want you to hold up your liands it. Will I take that as a registered vow, or will I not ? Will I go home knowing that you are determined to do your part. (We will.) I am sure of it. If you intend to be cowards, I am not one of you, but if you are determined to doVo^^i’ tfiAy as men, then I am with you. There are men with you; there are many of them good and true Irishmen, sons of tenant farmers like your- selves, and I am sure they will not desert you in a good cause. There are others I will not answer for. There is to day a case which has been brought under my notice, and it is this, that John Holt, constable, it appears, went and swore an affidavit that he had reason to believe that a will take place with the land-meeting Well, before to-morrow evening I will know the reason why he did this, and that they will find that there is such a thing .K as law if it is in the country, and, well, he will find there is. Now, I am not o-oing to speak on the national question to-day. I am not sorry for it because I believe that the most of you will agree with me that the national question must be settled in a place other than Parliament, I will not speak on that question at present. We have in this country determined, earnest, men, men who will do their duty to the tenanf;-farmers of Ireland. The only system that can give you fixity of tenure is the system that will make every man of A 5 f 35 V 40 50 (rmea.—ilay 27W.. 1880.— M. M. O’Sullmin.) you the owner of his own home, ami that is the system for which you must l.ht, ami you have the Irish National Land League with 20,0001 at its hack. ^ Let you be evicted, and there is not a man living who would dare to ta -o youi tarni, now in the meantime the Irish National Land League intends if 6 'you are swept out. I am here to-day in open insurrection to land ordism m 'every shape or form, you must have that before you, you must have that in your mouths. It you are not determined to have that you are not deter- . mined to have your r ights.. Who can give them to you? Organise . L Oi-anise ! Organise ! JLTTther countries peasant proprietary has been i 10 established. In France the peasants were first in much the same "“S' “f are The people rose together as one man and won. Then I would hke to ask you people to come together, only that we are 100 years behind rreneh , peasant, we are not as determined as they were, hut we might be. Cheeis.) ; But peasant proprietary will yet make us monarohs of our homes. (Cheers., ^ 15 We will have to pay a fair value for the land, say 20 years of the time. Ihey j have peasant proprietary in France to-day, and for the past 200 years. Are j you willing to have peasant proprietary before 100 years are past, are you willing to join your brothers in Munster and in Connaught. This is what you are to take to your homes to-night, never mind speech-making. Take 20 iiome the ideas, then ask yourselves, are they true ? Act in aeeordance with the dictates of your own consciences. That is what you have to consider as how you can best benefit their wants. I will ask you then to form a biaiic i of the National Land League here, it is the only organisation at present to be recognised in the country. Let not a man be mean enougn to slink away 25 from the rest, if such men are to be found they are not fit to be in yom organisation, such men are always cowards. If you continue for a few years. If it fails, why it is not our fault. If it succeeds, it is due to your own exertions. (Cheers.) 6 ^ f -mK 1 B 80 .— lloym) 10 Mr 'uoi!ers tlioii came Ibrwawl to iii-opose tlie resolution, but it seems lie ivas not able to vea.l it, for Mr. Moran bad to read it for him. The resolution is as follows : — , x i t . oEosolved,tbat we will hereby cstablisb a branch ol the Land League and invite the ncojile to become members in order to protect themselves airainst the ini.iuities of the land laws and emancipate themselves tor ever from landlordism.” Mr. Fitzimons. Mv. Fitzimons seconded the resolution, but did not speak. Mr. M. M. Sullivan. Mr. M. M. Sullivan then came forward and said, Mr Chairman, I have now to ask you to leave the chair, and I beg o propose that Mr. Moran do be called thereto. I have now great pleasure in proposing a vote of thanks to our last Chairman for his able conduct m the chair. It did not, I must say, require much trouble at his hands. So t la I trust you all will give him a hearty vote of thanks. (Cheers.) ('Zten«<6r6'CT».-Ji«y 30Z//, ISSO.-iZr. T. JJremau.) Mr Thomas Brennan, OuWin. Mr. Thomas Broiuum, Dahlia, came lonvavd an.l was received with clieeis. Cheers Avere also g-iveu for Mr. Parnell. j\[r Prennan said, — ^ , i* ^ 5 Mr. Chairman and men of Mayo an.l lloscommon, t le hononr of pi c^- posing the lirst res.ilntion lias lioeii eoiillded to me, and 1 will eommenu. ’’^''SnUtandtorou the spot where 05 of God’s creatures have been legally iilundercd (.n-oans) (‘Down witli her’) wo most solemnly enter our pretest 1 A ^ t the inluinianity of the act that has left them homeless, and we pledge “ rrls n:ft:;XVose_m any other farms from which their occupants '7tl^mtlfe’purpo!eThat\ringsthis vast multitude of men here to-day ,1 you come not to herald victory (“ No ”). You come not even to thank those ,r whom God has blessed with wealth for having applied some of it to M'eviate sorrow in this time of famine. No, you come with heavy hearts and knitted hrew! Ton come, and it is the only hopeful picture in the scene ; you com rvitlddetermination to the resolution to protest against that heartless act (“ Shame ’) that act of premeditated murder, by which those poor families have Leii teued from their homes. Homes to which, wretched though they he they cluim with all the fervour of Irish hearts (cheers). It is a time foi u , slut 0 ? siieh scenes, to control ourselves, and to speak of lano-ua-e that which will keep us out of the iron gripe of that fiiend of landlordism, known as the law of sedition (groans). ^ It is hard for you or with the cry of starving children banished from their homes sail ringing n your ears, to curb your indignation (“AYe can’t”), but we must not allow tlm to induce us to excesses of word or act that would in any way injure heluse we are all desirous to serve (hear. hear). That cause is just, and it does not require violence to recommend it. And those who are loudest m 30 tWrlclemnation of our excesses should latlier thank - many a tyrant does not stain the ground to-day ( True ). But last week when the Chief Secretary for Ireland spoke in his place m the House of Commons, ho expressed a hope that Irish landlords would not this seasea<.e. hut T think the p atform ,s not the jdaee to d('clarc war against England, and wc should rememher that Isaae Butt, lo .re.at constitutional leader, deelamd that this country, enslaved as i is is 5 outside the beiielits of the constitution, and if you want proofs ol t hat you will lind that the constitution has restored to us one day wliat it has taken from us another, and you will find that the Government of this country had some ohject in the repeal of this Peace Preservation Act. 1 hey de|,riv«l me of mv aians and never restored them to me. Gentlemen, what 1 said in 10 favour of the aholition of rents: I know what I said has heen taken ex- ^ ception to hy some good Irishmen ; T wish not to mention their names, hut I knew in the “ Irishman ” a few months ago an advice that was given and by the way they were in favour of paying no rents. I was in the young Ireland party, and I would say it that their advice should not be followed hy i 15 Irish people. It was stated that they were in favour of establishing peasant proprietary, but ,they would not go so far as an agmrian wnr proprietary which shows you that after all the experience as Jie hi tei past Lows you that the landlords declared war against the people and bams e them from the country (cheers). Leaving out the period of the famine from 20 the year 1851 to the year 1871. what do we find ? We find that two millions ot the Irish people had emigrated ; during that period we find that we had nevei more than four millions of people in this country ; and, I believe that at one time we had very near ten millions. There are turn classes of tenants in Ireland there is the man who will do nothing but remain dormant and who 25 finds faiilt with every movement that is brought forward. There are ma^ men who might be advanced something in years like myself, folloiveis of t Young Ireland, and repeal movements and other great movemeu s la lave snruno' up. But there is another class who keep gnawing and chewing against the state of the country, they will point out the sore and never apply a remedy 30 those men are Iwl men. There is another class who are selfish men and sneaking bad men w'ho are always reporting bad stories to their andloi s these men are the curse of Ireland (voice; Farrell Cawley) (groans) m tell you among the people themselves, to my own certain knowledge there are men who have half a year’s rent taken off unknown to the world am 35 o-ol half a year’s rent taken otf some of their friends rent; and from being toibed and bought they go round to the people until they he dowm like whipped spaniels at their master s feet. “ Now, I would warn you particularly against some of those who like Mr Shaw and Mr. Miteliell-Henry, M.P.’s, who, whenever a proposition is 40 put forward by such men as Mr. Parnell, will raise the cry of revolution and confiscation. Now the people are beginning to see that it is not landloid alone they have to contend with. We are characterised as communists in this eountry, but who are the communists f They are the men w lo lave sent millions and millions of our people from our land, these are the men 45 that should be crushed and put down. I do not like there slioii i e any misapprehension as to what I am saying, but what I say is this, peasan proprietary in this eountry is the only thing that can ever satisfy the people. Lie Government has money enough, and let them pay these men for caving their land and you will assist one another in blotting out lor ever that teiiible 50 vile landlordism (down with it), and if you don’t eradicate it root and branch vour children and their children will have the same task before them that 8 ^ Q 3366.— 31. {Mouul Inme.-Jimc iUh, Harris.) vou hare to-day. X havo alvoa.ly detained you too long. It wo adhered to h 'oWen rule and do to others as we would he willing they should do unto L ' we would not need being liere to-day. I think, gentlemen. ,t is not Ian lo’iio un to the landlords and say give me 26 per eent. reduetion m rny rei^h r No°ma*n has a riglit to elaira it unless he is certain to get it and unless ■’ happens to bo paying an exorbitant rent. II every man separates himseh from his ,0 never shall he prosperous. And. now in eonelusion. I heg to thank you for the kind manner in which you heard me (cheers). 9 {3IoHni Irvine— June iSlh, 1880.) Mr M. M. O’Sullivan, Dublin, said,— “ Mr. Chairman, ladies, and gentleman, alter the very able and eloqumit sneeebes you have beard I don’t intend to detain yon long, but I am going to -ive ymi what my friend Mi-. Iliekey said a praetieal advice. A year has now passed away since, in public meeting assembled, you pledged yourselves 5 never to pay unjust rents. And a year has passed away since you pledged yourselves never to take a farm from whicb anotber had been evmted. Have yon adhered to the determination of not paying unjust rents ? Have you adhered to the determination of not taking a farm from wliicli another has been evicted ? Yonder bouse tells you that a person has been evicted, and 10 that a person is going to take that farm. After all we should not be sorry that such a thing occurred hecause it is only by that we will break down the system which has given rise to it. You are here to-day to protest against that eviction, but protests are of no avail unless some action succeeds to them, you must pledge yourselves to-day never to have anything to say to 15 that man who is about to take that farm, let him alone, don’t speak to him. You must pledge yourselves to be more united, for there is still a hankering- after that law that is hung upon your necks, and the only way you can counteract that is by union. You must unite above board, form branches o ^ the land league, unite in every way you jiossibly can to break down ns 20 system of landlordism. I will not detain you any longer, but I will simply su])port that resolution that has been put to you. 12 {3[omt Iroine.—Jnne &h, 1880.) / Mr. Hickey, Dublin. Mr. llickoy said,— - It is a very pleasing duty Tor me to propose a warm vote ol thanks to Mr. Jud"o for the very able manner in wbieli he filled the ehair. Mr. Judge is a voimg gentleman of very few words but a great deal of work. Last Sunday, owing to bis energy, he got up a great meeting near Erenchpark, le 5 is always foremost when work is wanted, and I will ask you to give him a hearty cheer for his kindness (cheers).” Mr. Sheridan seconded the vote of thanks. 13 / [O/oiicen. — June (Slh, 1880.) Mr. Michael P. Boyton, Kildare, in coming rorvvard to pro])OSC ilu‘ next resolution, was received with loud cheers, lie said . ^ ^ “Men of Tipperary, 1 stand here to-day in r('S])onso to au invitation, \ addressi'd by thc' Secretary of the meeting to the Irish National Land Lt'ao'uc to personate it at this imjeting, and to represent thc President of that ’organisation, Chas. S. Parnell (cheers). I also represent yonr .iimior mcinher here to-day, he who is working in America tor you— Dil on (cheers). 1 say here to-day as they said that we do not saeritice one sing (' nrinciplein the cause of Ireland. It is the first and greatest of all, and 10 we should never cease, let them call us what they will, until ^e have achieved the idea of P. J. Smyth, and iiialve it a reality (cheers). Men o Tipperarv, I wish to-day once and for ever, on the part of the Irish Nationa I.and League, to put an end to the foul accusations that have been brought aganist that body, as an organisation ; I wish once and for all, and I mov n 5 that when I am speaking here, that the length ant neat i of this grand island. I will read for you the foundation stone : ‘ There can ‘ be no harm in striving to live and wishing to die in Ireland. It is neixher ‘ sin nor treason to say that where a man labours he has a right to be fed, ‘ and that it is cruel to punish a man for not paying a debt which nature 20 ‘ has rendered it impossible for him to pay, along with being the most ‘ generous we are the most justice loving people in the world, and we^ wi ‘ never seriously countenance any movement that is not based on Lie strictest ‘ morality ’ (cheers). It is now for you to say whether we are building upon the foimdation stone of the edifice that will be crowned with the green flag 25 of Ireland. But perhaps it is well that I should tell you where this came from These wo^xls came fro ^e lips of the ArchbL hojyoLCaslml, and to ^.liom canT-cornpar^A^^ not to the f^ul wolf dog of Ii'elaiid that o-uards the pass wherein lies the undying hope of Ireland’s independence. We expect tliax all that lies within the limits of God’s law, and so far as 30 permitted by the law of the land, we intend to fight this fight We have { made up our minds to sweep away landlordism (cheers). There ore, men o Tipperary, understand our position before you give us your hand ; we do not want your cheers. Understand that the fight that we propose is not a fight for tenant right ; it is not a fight against good or bad landlords ; we propose 35 so far as the people of Ireland backs us to sweep away the system. It is upon the system of landlordism which we look upon to-day as tie weapon with which the power ..... has crushed the hope of our race. The late Isaac Butt once called this black soldiery ‘ the army of occupation,’ but Mr. Butt, with all his learning, did not name the real araiy 40 of occupation of which that is only a weapon, the system of landloit ism in Ireland. The landlords, be they good or be they bad, tbe landloic s Ireland-the army of occupation-hold you by the throat, and until you can loose that grip from off your throat, tell Mr. Smyth that you can ne\ ei sprino- to your feet to ask for liberty. We live in a practical age, the days 45 of omtory are arousing the people to a knowTedp of the truth we preach ^ t __ /-V ri oci ni Ti*isinmpn. ill. We preacn agu-iust - . t i i asking you to kind yourselves togetUer to demand your right to the land God has given you. we ask you simply to put yourselves into the position ot men who can stand erect and ask for liberty. As I said beioie, we 60 are now in the day of railway and newspaper, and I want to illustrate B y preach against selfishness, these are the doctrines of Irishmen. Q 3366,-26. m, \m).-Mr. M. J>. Boyton.) the sun goes down to-nioi-ro^y Dillon and Davit! i 20, that fact to yoiy,^.-.>.. w j , will luwe^ar-nWsago fr<,m mo, that at a mooting of 20,000 Tiiipoi-ary mon, 1 saw V tho lii'st time in my life in Irolamt the stars ana strii)cs as a si^'iuil of distress. ’I’our hrethron in America will know the meaning ol 5 tluat tor the American flag has nercr yet been appealed to in yam (ohe’ers). I thank God who has given me to-day the power of meeting the men of Tipperary face to faoe at the base of Slievenomon, hut we are followed throughout the land by a swarm of spies. In Mayo, m Cork, and in Galway, and in Meath we have protected these men from injuries of an 10 outraged people, never at any assembly of Englishmen have there been Government spies. In our simplicity and ignorance. ... • purpose of aenuainting their Government with the sentiments of the Irish people, ratal mistake, we found that they were carefully wateluug word for word to drag the men who were teaching you the truths, that would 15 make you freemen, hut I would only have been too happy to have them here to-day .... Men of Tipperary, I told you befor^did not intend to indulge in oratorv, and I want you to help me out^Tou tenant farmers of Ireland by your greed for the land, have been mainly instrumental in building up had landlords. You must not have any greed. You have 20 learned from the oppression of your country that you have been a power u weapon in the hands of your enemy. To-day we ask you not for your cheers. I ask every good honest faithful Irishman here present who loves his native land, I ask you here this moment before God and his countiy to raise your hands and say we pledge ourselves never to take the land from 26 which a tenant has been evicted (hands raised and cheering). » en o Tipperary, it would he a poor sequel to your assemblage here to-day did you not show your practical determination to get your rights. To-day we baptize a new organisation in this scene of an eviction ; and I to-day proclaim a branch of the Irish National Land League is at this moment formed o|, with Mr. Cusack, Secretary, and Mr. Thos. Cahill, Treasurer. I want every man here to take a personal interest in this matter in setting on oo a branch of the Land League, and then you can say that you were always m the vanguard in the struggle for Irish rights (cheers). Men of Tipperary, I think you have made a glorious beginning, and should it he my lot to meet QK YOU again, on the land question, anywhere in this great county, I slial always feel I have a particular interest in Tipperary. It is a goodly tree when it crew so fast, and with the help ol God by its fruits that tree will one day he known in a soil consecrated by the blood of martyrs (cheers). I repeat that the man who commits crime gives strength to the enemj'. I have, perhaps, detained you too long, therefore, I will tell you men, of fqiperary, do not mind this thing of li.vity of tenure ; you want to ahohsli ihis system of landlordism. One word more, and I will not detain you, w'e will never allow one star to he torn out of that flag, we will never allow one string of our Irish harp to be severed, we are asking for the liberty and independence of our native land, hut you will pardon us if we begin in the beginning and not in ' the clouds (laughter). Then you can lift your green flag, and, perhaps, one ^ dav enable your illustrious Arohhishop of Cashel, wdien he crowns the ancient rock of kings with an edifice worthy of our ancient faith, to plant, unsullied, our own iminortal green on the summit of the rock (great 50 10 (Clmeen.-Juuc m, 1880.-i)ir. M. 1>. Jionlon.) I now 1)02; to propose the resolution : i + n .. That «-c bolievo organised and determined is essential to the suceess of landlord reform in Ireland, and we. therefore, dpm it our duty t establish hraiielies of the Land League in this countrj^lncli witt-aet-Tn 5_miOTiTritlrtne limhdt hol^ 15 Dublin.” 1 Q 3366.-26. 0 11 fci. {(JUmccn.—J me (>///, 1880.) Mr. M. P. Boyton (sec page «) tl'cu earao lonvard and said “ I bo"- te move that oni- Cliaiiman do leave the eliaii', and that tlic l^ev. Father Kniane do be moved thereto. I now i.roi.osc a vote of thanks to our most worthy Chairman for his eonduet in tiie eiiair. H.s speeei. wiil echo 5 from tile i-ress. We are also in'oud to see in your faces a determiuatmn to aliolish this system. I beg now to propose a vote of tlianks to oui Ciiaii- 1110.11” (dicers). Mr. Joseph Fisher (see page 8) then eame forward and said o If you wili aliow me to say a few words m support of that vote o tiianks, 10 I would say that I never for a moment doubted the priesthood of lipperary from the time of Father Sheehy down (cheers). AVe will always stand foi- ward in the defence of our illustrious priests of God. I support, soul I do it, the vote of thanks to our Chairman, who was the first to tlie chair at a Land League meeting in Tipperary ” (cheers). 15 The Chairman did not respond. 14 (^Newfown. — ,l'U7ie 13M/, 1880.) Mr. Michael P. Boyton, han'l league representative, who, on coining forward, was warmly received. He said “ Men of the people’s eoiinty-for 1 take this occasion to rename the only eoiintv in Ireland that sent to the floors of the British House of Commons to 5 represent them a tenaiit-farinei— the county that sent the only tenant-lariner lo Parliament deserves to be the people’s county. (Cheers.) It is gratifying to me to see to-day before me, face to face, this inagniflceiit gathering, I know the reason,— because 1.5 days ago we planted the seed in Maryboro’. (Cheers.) I am Mad to be here to-day to assist the men of the people’s county in keeping 10 the bidl rolling ; and from the indications I see here to-day I feel certain that before this day month 25 branches of the Land Le.igue will be in existenee. You seem to me to see— at least, the landlords- -the fact that an effort has been made in a practical way to right your wrongs. (Cheers.) But mark you, and I wish you to bear in mind the words of the resolution I am 15 speaking to. In that resolution lies your way to victory. It is that you must help yourselves. (Cheers.) You have money, you have good earnest active young men; and I thank God I have seen here to-day. on this platform, something that tells me that this movement is going to be a success; and I see, in your assembling here to-day to record 20 your testimony to the progress of this movement, that the seeds o education and organisation that we are trying to sow have taken root. (Loud cheers.) The worthy parish priest of Stradbally, Dr. Magee, who entertained me yesterday evening, expressed his regret that he could not be heie to day to stand on this platform. (Cheers.) But he is doing the work that we are 25 trying to do for you. (Cheers.) The moment he left the altar steps this morning at Timalioe he had an assemblage of evicted tenantry to assist them by his i-ounsel and advice; and I told him that he would have at his back the Irish National Land League with 30,0001. (Louil cheers.) (Here he held up a number of ejectment processes, and said) I suppose you know what these 30 are They are writs of eviction. (Groans.) In reply to the causes that brino- you here to-day. Tor gentlemen in the service of Her Majesty, and perhaps for the Chief Secretary of Ireland, to appeal to the British Governmerit who never had a conscience. He, the Chief Secretary, appealed to the land- lords of Ireland to stay their hands, to hold back from their devilish work o 35 depopulation and pauperisation. And what was their answer? Last week at our desks in Dublin we had 1,000 ejectment processes. (Groans.) Now Mr. Simple Quaker, Chief Secretary Forster, had come over here I o try and pour oil on the troubled waters. You have your answer. The mistakes that Ld been made centuries back have been that Irish leaders, Irish politicians, 40 and Irish statesmen have invariably appealed to the conscience of Great Britain But she lias no conscience, and it is time you found it out. ( . eeis.) u ' she lias a point which we can touch, and that is her pockets. (Cheers.) It is iii my experience of Englishmen an appeal that has never been made in vain. 'Ihe organisation that is spreading over Ireland has in view a set of objects, and if 45 we are enabled to carry out these objects — and without you we can do nothinn-if you enable us to carry out these objects we will make the property of Irish landlords so worthless that the landlords will leave it to you. (Cheers.) Your friends beyond the wide Atlantic and in far away Australia, men who to-day hold positions of trust, statesmen and politicians, and everyone of the 50 great and learned professions-(cheers)-these men know the story of 8 {Ncwhmn.—Janc 1:5///, ISSO.— il/r. lUichmd P. Pmjton) / Irisli wrongs, and they recognise tlic weapon wliich has been invariably used tuerusb ymiout. These men recognise tlie fact that we live in a practical •lo-c and that our measures and movement shall be carelully taken, every step, with the view of going to work this time in the right way. (Cheers.) ihey 5 cannot send you armies, but they can send you that which creates armies, money. First, they want to help you, provided you want to help yourselves. (Cheers.) This movement that is now on foot is no Communistic movement; and 1 say it here to-day to the men of the people’s county. Wo have to lollow in the wake of gallant Tipperary. Last Sunday, at the foot of Slievenamon, I had 10 the pleasure of addressing 20,000 Tipperary men, with 2.5 ot tneir pnests at my back ; and before we left otf that day I had the gratihcatioii of seeing every man there hold up their hands like one man, and pledge themselves- ‘ That never more we will lilt a hand. We swear by God and Virgin Mary, Except in war lor native land. And that’s the vow of Tipperary.’ And I to-day want you to lift your voices and hands (all hands raised) to fight for the green soil of Erin. (Cheers.) There are great but misguided men who state and write that we are leaving aside the great glorious cause m 20 Irish nationality, and occupying our attention with the lesser one. is false. Until you can take the green colour, which God Almighty printed on that ground, you can never separate the greater from the lesser of these glorious causes. Furthermore, I say to you that toi tie short time this movement has been on foot no leader ever gamed as inuch 25 for us as our illustrious Parnell. (Cheers.) Yon are here assembled to redress your grievances, and we tell you that we are no Communists. We want to make no excuses; I condemn the practice ol apo ogetic ex- cuses and explanations with respect to what the agitators were o ermg t le landlords. (Cheers.) The French people have a proverb to tins extent, 30 ‘ The man who excuses himself accuses himself.’ Now, 1 trust tliat we sha hear no more excuses about our movement, because it is not necessary to le making excuses. We don’t care what they call us ; hut it may be necessary to set the people right ; but it is not necessary to be every day denying such accusations as are brought against us. (Cheers.) It is .yariably the device 35 of those who are friends of a social movement to foully v.llify and slander those whom they cannot answer by argument. When your cause is bad always abuse your opponent’s attorney. In all your battles I hope you will never hear any oentleman making excuses for such accusations as, ‘ The agitators are devils and Communists,’ for we are neither devils nor Communists ; we are men 40 engaged in doing the only thing that we can do to gam oui in epeii ence the British Constitution. (Cheers.) For my own part I am proud of the agitator. (Cheers.) We have been denounced as agitators. But as . you, ami those who denounce us, what were such men as Henry Grattan, Cui , and Flood ? What was Daniel O’Connell ? They were al ^ ^ 45 are agitating for your emancipation from the curse of landlordism. (Cheer, ) And we want you to be free from that curse. (Cheers.) I have not i „ do with making excuses for good landlords, for they have other means thiougi which they can be heard. They have the press, and a thousand othei ways, without coming to us tor their good character. (Cheers.) Now I wan 50 everyone of you to understand that you are to band yourselves toge lei , orgahse and agitate for the total extinction of landlordism. You want to Q 33S6.— 62. T» X> {Newtown.— June VMh, Michael P. Uoyton.) nut Ibiward your (leiuand, and then let the Englisli people take the rcs])on. sihiUry if they fail to answer that demand when it goes forth with tiic thundering voice of all Ireland. (Cheers.) Don’t be afraid of the men who call you bad namcs-let them lire away. Things are going bad with 5 these gentlemen when they have to turn on us and call us bad names. (Cheers.) For the first time in history the people of Ireland are making an effort to live on the soil that God created and blessed— a land consecrated bv the footsteps and the graves of thousands of saints. (Cheers). A land that has shed its blood again and again in abortive attempts to rescue itself 10 from the infamous touch of the vilest government that ever cursed the earth A o-overnment that wherever over the face of the wide world it has pknted its ^soldiery it has left the stain of blood. (Cheers.) You are going to demand lawfully from that Government the right that it gives Englishmen, Welshmen, and Scotchmen— the right to live on your own soil, and the right 15 to free yourselves from the villainous devil-fish, the octopus, that grasps you m its monstrous claws, and stands between you and the light of God. (Cheers.) Your reverend Chairman has placed in my hands a number of cases, and what we want is your assistance and your work ; and before I finish I will take an illustration of whether you mean to Mmrk. (Cheers.) I have^ here the 20 cases of eviction that has brought us together to-day. In the first place, I went down to the lands and had a good look' at them. Your fiiend, Mr. Delany here, pointed them out to me. Do you take a good look at them too. You can see them from where you stand, and then form your own judgment, and think what kind of man, if man he is, that has crushed these 25 people. In the first case there is Mrs. Maria Reilly, whose Government valuation is 10/., and who is charged by this man a rent of 23/. 156-. (Groans, and ‘ Oh, oh, oh ! ’) When this place was first taken the rent was 1/. 2^. Not because that was a just value for the land, but to obtain it. And they are now in possession 25 years, and they owed but 1 ^ years’ 30 rent. (Groans.) When other lands gave good crops this land would pro- duce no more than 13 stones of corn to the acre. Half that ^rent was tendered to her landlord, but he refused it unless the whole li years’ rent was paid ; but he let her in, after getting possession, as caretaker for six montlis. There have been evictions in Mayo, Galway, and Tipperary, and the care- 35 takers that are watcliing these evicted farms and inhabiting these homesteads are the bats and the owls, and God help the man who dares to go near one of them. (Cheers.) This poor woman has nine children, and is in that little cottage over there ; and when these six months are over what is she to do f Another case is that of Catherine Reilly, whose Government valuation is 10 5/. 156-., and whose rent is 10/. 12^. She owes l^ years’ rent; she has been evicted. (A Voice: ‘Name; name the tyrant.’ Groans.) ^ No; m justice to all parties I won’t mention his name. I won’t pollute my lips with his diity name. (Loud cheers.) Another case is that of Catherine Brennan, who is 32 years in possession and is 60 years of age, and has two daughters. She 15 owes two years’ rent. I went through all the land with Mr. Delany. (Cheers.) He showed me this house, and I walked over that land and valued it, and I must say that the man that would take sucii rents as I have named from widows is nothing but a tyrant and confiscator. My hands are full with cases, so I won’t go into any more of them. I understand that a seiies of acts such 50 as these arc contemplated on this property. (Groans.) Now, men of New* town I want you to note carefully what will ensue if these evictions take place. ’ 10 (N,;r/ou;,.—M,w VMh, ISm.-Mr. Midmd J>. ItonKm.) l-lcilgc yourselves like men, aiul if your consciences tell you not to do that, don’t do it. I ask you, as (lod-icaring Irishmen, to take the pledge that no one here will take the farm li on, which another has hcen evicted (Cheus.) I want you all to hold np your hands and say you take that p edge. (Loud r, cheers, Ld all hands raised.) Now, the man that wo, dd break that pledge would break his oath. You liave taken that pledge that you will^ not go on that property. (Cheers.) I ask every labourer to sceK a day s work m some other place. 'I'hcrc will he a thousand instances like tins oceui bei e Christmas. I have said enough to-day, but by virtue of my position as the 10 representative of your illustrious leader, Charles Stewart 1 arpell-(^ecis) I Leby nominate a br,anch of the Land League, to be called the Newtown branch, in the Queen’s Coiinty-I should have said the peoples county. (Cheers.) Every one should come up and join it. We have money, we laye everything to work for your rights, but until you show your determination to 15 help us by ioining the Land League we cannot give yoii one dollai o, he p. (Cheers.) Now, should any Land Leaguer here be evicted, we will take charge of his widow or orphans, and we will care for them until they are restore . (Cheers.) 'I’liis movenient, as it has borne such magnificent fruit, deserves to L gone on with-go on with it-what is your neighbour’s lot to-day may be 20 your own any day. Stand together like men, and as your thrice worthy repre- sentative said, 1 trust you will see that without money we cannot work forward and assist you. Assist us, and we will never stop until we have wiped away that infamous system of landlordism off the face of the earth altogether. ( on cheering.) Q 33GG - •’ll’. 11 (^Nt'io/owii. — 13///, isSO. ^GcUlcnen, I .Icsivc heartily to support tl.at vote ot hanks to 1 atl^r MeCroa, for I rvish to pay .ny triin.te, f'V'that ha kept patriotie priesthood of Ireland, and were it not for our fa, tl, that has p^ 5 l,ationalitylnn-nins in our hearts we V,^‘T3l nt us al^ for will come, for the justice ot God reaches a limit, an >o ^ ’ we have kept the bright faitli burning in our hearts, under the gi eatest p socution and oppression, (Cheers.) One day I shall ’ and someone will see a nation creep out of poor Iielan ^ ^ y 10 not believe this, my arm would be powerless, and my and 1 would be in America back again. But I know hat Goc m fos own o-ood time will repay us the blessing of national independenc . ( ) tiar my tribute through our chairman here to the patriotic P™* ''ood o Ireland (Cheers.) They have always been with the people, an ey 15 “ays with us There is no protection for the poor evicted people, but hem?: house of refuge for the criminal. The law of ‘he W can re^h him, but there is no law to protect the poor man. Laifolordism to ^ cen^ turies been coiiimittiiig crime, aye, felonious crimes, and still t dishonour it It has pulled down thousands upon thousands ot histoiie a oo sacmd spots on this island, and it is here to-day that we are going to begin toTave our revenge, for the priests and bishops will help us to pull do™ that system. ‘Those who tell you that we work to separate the peop e lom le priests are telling you a damnable falsehood. . not want to do it; but this is a weapon in e lan s O’Connell 25 We have the priesthood of Ireland at our b.aek as w. 1 as dinw f Cheers) I pay my humble tribute to the worthy cuiate foi piesid n here to-day. (Cheers.) The best tribute you can pay him is by taung advice he gave you, to be orderly, peaceable, and like-determined men I repeat hefe the words which fell from the lips of Dr. Magee, that patrio le 30 prie!t of Stradbally, this morning. He told his hearers that the man who . »i... — 1» i. “ r. LS are driven to commit a crime, then let tne moon ue ^ (Cheers.) I heartily support the vote ot thanks to y (Cheers.) 35 Chaiiiman ; I have to thank the proposer and the seconder of the last resolution. I thank you in the name of the they that my intercourse with the priests m this ^ lo^ese ma ms speaks will never be separated from the ^"ptople of Imlaiid! and of the Irish clergymen as an evidence o J priest 40 their love of being amongst their people. (Cheer .) ^ religion, supposed to be but amongst bis people, preaching e .g ) My sowLg the seeds of love, and extending charity to the friendl I now ask you to disperse in order and m ^ we shall never rest content until we wipe fioin -he statute 45 which are a curse to us and a disgrace to civilization. (Cheeis. ) 13 lidlli/ff/dNS. — June VMh, John Gill, Sc*aiv(l:iAvn. ;t o'.^lock i,.m. Mr. .lolm Ciill .uov«l tl.at Mr. Daniel O'Connor I- LG Knoekaclovvn, ,lo lake tl.c chair. 'I'lie motion having heoi, seeo.uh-, I hy s..mc one whose name I (Ihl not ascertain, Mr. O'Connor took tin; cinui. Daniel O’Connor, I’.L.Ct., Knockculown. Mr. Daniel O’Connor then came forward and said— 6 Gentlemen, I have to thank you for the honour you have hone me i.i asking me to nreshle at this great meeting. (Hear, hear.) Many of yon know that speaking, is not my part. I think there is hut very little tor me to si^ on this matter. I uiiderstand this meeting lias been got up, a. all the meetings tor the last twelve, the land tor the people, to give ^ - tfie sod 10 which ought to be their own and will he their own betore long. (Heai, heai.) John Gill, Secretary. John Gill, Secretary, said— 1 have received letters of apology from Charles Stewart I arnell (C ijnsO Also from John O’Connor Power, hoii. member. (Cheers) Anothei + 1 no 1/ivelle 1 will give them np to the pi ess. from the respected curate hcithei navtiic. i. w ^ 2 Hat I mil OKS. — June VMh, ISSO. Mr James Daly. Tl,o (irst rcsolulkn, was vca.l l.y M,-. Duly, Castlolau-, but s,nuc person ca-nc ,■ n e „1 it bcl-ore Mr. Jtaly, bowever bo cou\,l not well doeipber ,1 . t>;e ;.cs:bd;rwas nonbllly proposed by tbo person (Mr. Coyne), bowever it was read and seconded by Mi . Oaly. ' “;d tb’:: ^tiie face of tbo great depression in Ireland, we * in the strongest manner tbe action taken by relentless landlords, wbo hav ^ refused to reduce impossible rents, and have in defiance ol t.be » ’ ' ‘ J tbe Cbief Secretary applied civil bills and ejectments, as a means g 10 of tbe first resolution, I have been asked STiu^^if 1 f.miTip Your routs were increased 50 oi LUO ir ^’■^l::;''Ve\e::sCe^ i— tbe rents were not decreased or a^wb^rre famine I might say desolMed tbe eou^;!^ 1 ric T nnd lords when the times were bettei, mcreaseu Uie FE rr:: .It-.*. ; a. - r.. - i*;" > , ""■» » - , f, o-o-Ip to live throuffh these few months, how, on Gods lartTl'irthlulndLds, instead of coming to rescue tbe people by refraining r sevir bem with civil bills and process of ejectment; people who from seivmg ^ Government 1 W W are lev doin. now ? They are like in the days of fighting, ^''rthtrthe^GovrJmirX^^ an Act to seed tbe land protect you. If those landlords get ^ boms to seiT a " irss^nTii: rr Civil Mils are about to be showered on you ; - - under a Govei n- ment that "elr laws - tlm most aust injbe 10 ZrSrabovi on 4"" tbe people only a decimal of tbem rights, and as o^g as G^^d that I have a voice to raise or an arm ^ ^ ^ tmth, it to do it at tbe cost of my liberty. If it be sedition would be better than to be at tege. y ’ Government have mroTa“lscLce_lf they are — d wl« itr rnL' ^rTter) I reremhel-! sLTtwelve ’months ago, that some landlord in (langht ). f he ‘ Freeman’s Journal’ and Dublin papers, „ - — - A 2 / liaUiiolass. — liiiir VMli, 1880.— J/r. -/. Dalij. 'Phal llnil) of llu'lawdidiioipaytlic police upon tlio estate. IV.vhaps lie dreamt ot it alter Ids sixth tumbler. (Laug-hter.) However, he vviote to the ‘ Ereimiau’s Journal ’ that he retiuired poliee protexdiou. 1 took it, upon myself to write a letter in answer to that. (Groans.) 5 Voice.— is it Blake ? (Down with him.) This man gave himself two names in the pajicr. lie was tracing his dam and grand-dam since the . (Laughter.) What was the result of this imiuiry ? I found that the tenants here Averc paying donhle the Government valuation, and the unfortunate tenantry, when they found that they could not pay 10 that man’s rent, ‘ Your honour, sir, you have rackrented us so long that Ave are not able to pay it.’ There have been three agents appointed over this property, and each of them resigned in succession. The third or fourth o.entleman is appointed. Well, I hope he has a conscience. When he goes over the country, and finds the state, I hope he Avill he tickled with a con- 15 science and do as those other men did. Even if he does come here, I believe there will not he one man found in the locality to reap them for him. Shun him the same as if he was a leper dog. That might be sedition. Those Ishmaels, and they are the landlords of this country. Let it lie waste. When I see those farms I am sorry to say it is not'ohserved as in other parts 20 of this county. I did not intend to attend any more of those meetings, only to counsel the people Avhat they should do. I know a solicitor that was offered a fee to defend thirty-three ejectments in the small town of Miltown. Now, is not that a sad state of affairs when the people are living on charity, not on the charity of your neighbours, hut by the people Avho were driven 25 from this country a quarter of a century ago. From England, Scotland. Even from the Zulus. Sent here from Australia, from the Kafidrs. Who are they sending it to ? To you. To earn money, and the Government have o-iven you seed to till the land for the landlords. Every word we say will be taken down and reported to the Castle, and I hope Mr. Forster, who, I am oA told, is determined to legislate for the Irish people, I hope they will bring it with them and leave it before him, and that he aauII see the necessity for passing a SAveepiug measure to save from those rapacious, avaricious landlords. Voice. — Put down Stringer. Mr. Daly. — Don’t mind Stringer; will do his duty. He did not string 35 me up before. They strung me up only . I did not know how to speak sedition until 1 Avent in. I could speak more sedition in one hour than i could in a week. I copied it from Mr. Gladstone, Avho, I am glad to say, is now the Prime Minister. (Cheers.) I want to qualify my Avords by saying that Mr. Gladstone is incapable of speaking sedition. He is the only Prime 4,0 Minister that has attempted, in our times, to do justice. I am glad he has succeeded in driving from Dublin that political clown, Jimmie Lowther. (Groans.) You were groaning Jerry Stringer and Mr. Lowther, by much better men. I think the new Lord Lieutenant will do some good. Lord Oranmore (groans), you Avill excuse me now, — Lord Dundreary; well, I J5 will can him Lord Never-done-raving ; he was raving about coercion ; and the Duke of Marlborough. If we were to trace hack their title deeds. However, I will not mind it. I believe that it Avas not on the right side of the blanket he was got. Lord Never-done-dreaming, he says there is more coercion required. I tell him, the people of Ireland arc an intelligent class 50 of men. They have allowed themselves to become slaves. I am a tenant- farmer mvself, and I pay rent to four or five landlords. He threatened to 4 l{viii .y i.mrvrl of Ireland When the low snakes rgLLiL^^rhere'lLJ^as your brother "tL'S ‘ this land is ours,’ and we are determined to fl,ht • 1 II. • o. iinf voiirs The Government connives at you, tney rei y 45 Tat theTwm protect, ^1-7 ^ Tjou avl and sweep away the young blood from the country. ^ land of your birth, you will stick to it. The savage loves his native shore, ^ ‘ And why not Irishmen love his more and more . (Heai, ea .) T\ ^ Q 3366.-58. P- 25 KiW', 1880.-P«^ri(;/c J. Um-dm. Yes J say the Irisl.ninn should loye his land more than any iieopha It is the laud from which all crime was first excluded. Though wo arc chargee daily hy the Government, hut not one word said ahout the crime eommitted in England. Wo have a letter from one . He says that the cause o lo 5 poverty is because you hold these meetings through the country. Ate all know when the question was taken up some time ago when you were forgotten hy the landlords, and your brothers in a foreign land would forget you Like the people in ’48, you would he allowed to perish hy the road- side', without a coffin to cover you. I have seen ly self, in *''0 town in 10 which I have been horn, the people perish, and buried withoirt a coffin. , landlords were obliged so far, that they could not get ^ say my friends, that I would take it as a choi^to die fighting for the rights of my home than to die in the workhouse. jTf you were right you would procUim on every platform that this land is ours and that we are determined 15 I maintain it. (So we are.) Lord Oranmore and Bro^e-he spoken in the House the other night and condemned the Irish people. No d it is a policy of his to condemn the Irish people. If Lord Oranmore never returns again to Ireland, Ireland will not mourn his loss. Perhaps he mic^ht some fine morning ohligeJreland„iy„y |00,000 men rt 111 nn+ he dearly bouo'ht. What is your life to you, my friends . Nou, "" Zllnds, I hold a document in my hand. It refers in strong language teethe land sharks, land grabbers, and robbers. You can put them on ti rin- as Brown, Jones, and Robinson, as the landlorirohter, the snea^g re^nt and tlm rogue of a bailiff. (Laughter.) The name of every land 4,5 grabber will be ptlHEESr, the name of the place he lives, how many young Lies he has to fortune off-that every young man who has an honest Ins i heart will leave the young ladies on their hands. Yoice. — You are married. , , , i 14- xr Sneaker— Mr. Nally is going in for a land grabber s daughter. -0 the land 'grabber is not afraid, he might get ashamed of his conduct nL, my friends, you know that the greatest enemies we have is the land X / Balluolass.—Jimc VMh, \m).— Patrick J. Gordon. A o«lil>ers 'I’lio greatest laiul grabbci's is tbc pnosts' bi-otlicrs and tlic, priests tticmsclTcs. Tlio name of tlio jiarisU priest that resides m Claremoms and Ids brothers ami curates will be sent round. It may be said tliat we have no right to speak of our priests. I am not speaking of all piies s. 6 have good priests in tbc Cburcli. We have Canon Doyle and we bave Arelibisbop Croter. (Caugbter.) (Tliis laughter was caused by the speakers ignorance of the name of the Archbishop of Cashel, Dr. Croke. And ^ is the boy that croaks some of the lamUords. (Renewed laughter.) By means in their power get rid of landlordism. The parish piles o , 10 Rather Ryan, that he did not care whether it camejromjhe^c. Cardinal, or Bishop, or any other authority, that the land belonged to the people. It was not the teaching of the Church; if it was I wou iievei Lter that Church again. (Cheers.) It may be, as I said before, the teaching of some individuals in the Church. The Church can only teach one way. , 15 I You cannot go to that meeting because all there are Penians, if that e , Renianism all Ireland is Renianism to-day ; if it is Reniauism to tell the i people that the land belongs to them, I am a Fenian. I regret, my friends, in keeping you so long here. There are many others to speak here I as well as me. I know that I am speaking to my friends. You will ai i 20 that I have done my part of the work in the year past. No teac mg o priest, pope, cardinal, can ever tell me that I must keq, away from he , Ale. I must teach the gospel of truth. It may be said to-rnorrow bat , I am teaching the people to be disrespectful to the priests. I deny that. . There is no man on this platform who wishes to respect the priests mom 25 than I do. I feel for the people and the priests. I have suffered in Galway gaol for the priests. I am here now again to fight for my church and priests to-morrow if required When we tell the people to pay no uniust rents to the land robbers--/Aye. and not to pay (or obey) the Govern- ment of England or any other Government which is inclined to rule you wi i 30 an iron hand. If you are evicted, the Land League will assist you. They have formed a most determined resolution. WUl place them m a cabin a door of the former holding. If you be determined, honest men, the houi of Ireland’s delivery will be at hand. ‘ Ireland a nation, great, glorious, and free, 35 ‘ Pirst flower of the earth and first gem of the sea. (Cheers.) In eonelusion, my friends, I will ask you not to pass away from kis meeting with that ringing cheer, and let it pass with the wind. Le every word that falls from this platform be engraved on you. Let the mother teach her children before she says her morning prayers. T^oh 4,0 them that God has given you this little place. Stick to i or i ® Stick to your homesteads. Let the embers of that national le bosoms, k ask you to bear in mind that you did not AA be seen; you came here to get instructions I hope ^ ^ol. scholars have taught you, for I am on y an assis , amongst 4.ii (Lauo-hter) I will appeal to the poUce if there are honest men amon„ A%hich I know there are-that they will have some pity for the poor people in the hour of trial. I don’t care as far as I am concerned if h self and themselves were out in—. I know there are honest who ought to have some sympathy for their fellow men. Some of em had 50 to fly from their homes, through the accursed system of land lobbeiy and landlordism. Has swept away from Ireland. (Cheers.) A m avou the resolution say Aye.” C li KiUasser. — 13 /// June 1880 . Bev. Mr. Bowler, C.C., Killasse.-, who was received with cheers, Proposed the first resolution as follows That we protest against the recent heartless evictions that have taken place at Drumeanor, and hereby pledge ourselves not to take those “y o‘'‘“ farnis from which a tenant may have been evicted capriciously oi lor the non- payment of a rackrent. (Voice,-I would like to see them who dare take 0 5 1 Aether voice, -long life to ye.) Rev. Mr. Bowler said, the great object til meeting is to express sympathy with the victims of landlord tyranny. {Away with it.) When people are in trouble, when any misfortune comes upon them they look to their friends for sympathy. VVe are m trouble hcie . ome !f our people have been driven from their homes, and they arc here in thousands 10 to raise^ their voice against heartless exterminators. (Cheers, and gioans ,oi "" thlnT It is at all Les a sad thing to see people forced from the homes o their iikihood, but in the present case there are circumstances which make doubly feeling when our country is going through a terrible crisis, h amine came up:,! [he lani, and by the generosity of our friends we have got over . and 15 its ravages have been thus far stayed. (Cheers for Parnell ) (Cheers ^ Cork.) Rev. Speaker- The cry of the Irish people was heard everywhere ii their misfortune. America heard her cry and came nobly assistance. (Cheers.) So did Australia and Catholic were to be found sympathisers m our distress m Asia and Tu y. 20 of woe was told to the lords of the soil, and some of them came noWy forwa^ and lent a helping hand. (Groans for the lords of the sod.) Rev Speaker. While there were some who had no sympathy whatever, ecause ey ave n hearts, or rather because they have hearts harder than the very stone. Landlords of this stamp are now coming forward, not to save, but rum their poor tenan s 25 (Down with them.) I am not going to detain you any longer, wi jus as you to raise your hands on high and pledge yourselves that there will not be anyone found in this parish to be a traitor or who will take these farms, th a there will no one be found in this parish to work on these farms, oi to hei the cattle of the landlord on these farms. lam sure you are eteimine 30 carry out this resolution. I will detain you no longei . (Cheers.) Mr. Francis Keane, Boleboy, near Foxford, Seconded the resolution. 4 Ki! lustier. 188U. ]VIr. Joseph Walsh, Castlebar, said Men of Gallon, I have to thank yon amce.ely lot he couh. 1 way wl d von Inve teceivca me, a more sUanget, 1 may say that although a stranget n, tin ^fthe countvy hut 1 am not a strange,-, unfoitunately, to the mllue,.ces of pait ol the c y, mcetinos to be held. In speaking on those land laws which have caused thcsc inceunj, . . ^ , 5 rcuestiou we cannot ove.look the fact that the major, ty o persons wl.o now otn the laud of Ireland eauic hy that ownership by hand hy perjury, am robbery and that the humble n,eu who stand ,n that crowd are the r,g , u robheiy,a ar-uinents of even our enemies maybe owners of the so,l Don, wl,o elahns to be 10 toldLrre'lingl^n^ although a ad,„it that the humble tenant h,td stronger moral rtghts, and that lanO has only legal rights to possession. Now, if yon are the rtghtfnl owners o the soil thl men who dispossessed yon are therefore cr,n,,„als ,„ the sight ,,f V, nitv and iustice ( Down with them.) These people who possess the soil .. ” r, a >«■ ■« f :: are a great number of these yon have from your own ranks who take fa, n s from tLse who have robbed yon of your rightful property^ and the teceiver as bad as the thief, and the man who takes and "’f the landlord has deprived you is a Judas Iscariot. Men of Gallon. I fea 20 very often you have no compassion for your neighbour wlien his family is thrown on the world your consciences must be very bad when you take possession of his hling. It is no excuse on the part of any man who takes the land of h s neighbour that the land had a little water that was necessary for his tm It is no excuse when you have a small holding for a large amily, 26 Z'you should like to add this to it to make it larger. Such a resolution as tUs is there ought to be no necessity to propose. If when yon or you. tolly were evicted to-morrow, would you say ,t was justice, say to take pos- sessitfn of your holding? Do to your neighbour as you would wish yo nXlnr L do if yon were similarly circumstanced. It is no excuse to say \ MuUhew llarris.) / necessity there is for you to unite in opposition to landlords altogether. You‘ submit to landlordism, you lie down under the tyrant’s feet, the more bad landlords you will have. As I said in the beginning, if instead of lying down, if instead of sneaking round corners, if instead of acting the part of mere sycophants to lie down and allow these men to trample upon you, if instead of this you showed the spirit of men, you would be very much better than you are. Gentlemen, I think I have exceeded my speech now. 1 beg to thank you verv sincerely for your kindness in listening to me, and I beg to offei you those remarks. (Cheers.) {Monaslerevmi . — hnie 20///, 1880.) Mr. Michael P. Boyton, Kildare. Mr. Michael 1>. Iloyton, KiUiarc, said: “ In the absence^of your esteemed rvuish miest Mr LeuiLmn, tenant farmer and Toor Law Guard, a.n, w,U take he chair (Cheers.) 'lie has asked me, as secretary to this meeting, to ,ea< .5 for you the following eoinniunieations which have been received by the pro- '“‘rrabselmr'of those who are invariably regarded - and , T • 1 1 lif'st tbinff wc can nave is tneir t 7ch^::^.)’’"'’h:,ld I my himd lettms and telegrams from 40 10 parir™riests and curates throughout Ireland. (Cheers.) It will perhaps take lip^ too much of the time of this meeting to read for you one “ eonmiuuieations, I, therefore, hi fulftlment of my duty as meeting, will read for you the more important communications of those whom we have received words of encouragement and hope. («>’“' •) 15 “ First the County Mayo, I will read a telegram from Father Corbett Claie- morris (Cheers.) You will have heard of Father Corbett This is the man who stepped in and took the farms of two men who were pl.mdered to America. Father Corbett defeated the landlords m the Courts, and he is landholder to-day. He says, • Kildare siiuelehed landlorita at tlm e eetmn 90 There cannot be prosperity while a vestige remains. (Neve,.) That carne from a priest who celebrated mass to-day on the steps of the ^ ^ Next I have a telegram, received to-day from Father John Ryan P.P., Ne Inn Tipperary : ‘ I believe the Land League established by Parnell is the only I:;,! ^securing iustice to the tanants of Ireland ’ (Cheer.) I will re^d who showed his devolion to the people of Ireland by stopping no less than fifty families from being filing on the roadside within a lortnig iL ^ representing the priesthood of Sligo, says : ‘ 1 am with you healt and soul May the blessing of God attend the endeavours of the Land Leagiie. 30 We hold to-morrow a meeting on the land question, we are with you "^"TshaU go from Sligo to Limerick. Father Eugene Sheehy, Kilhnallock a man worthy to bear the name of the illustrious Father Sheehy, who died for his country at Slievnamon. Father Sheehy says, ‘ Parochial duties mdie y 35 attendance impossible, I am with you in spirit to-day, 1 think that the Lan ' Leavue should be planted everywhere.’ I hold a telegram from l-’“>‘er Joyce parish priest, Louisburg, County Galway, ‘Goon with the good work ; God 9 ifwrhave not the priesthood of Ireland here in proper person we have at 40 least the sentiments of the patriotic part of them. I have 15 telegrams ,om 15 counties nr Ireland to show the people of Monasterevan. to showjhe cause we are representing, to show them that t lose w o say j j Leaone of Ireland is trying to separate the priests and ihe people of Ireland, t sW them thatthe/ art mistaken. (Cheers.) 1 will go from the service 45 of God to those who serve their country. I may tell you that I know I a welcome to read. I will first read for you, in complimmit of the men who cam here to help Kildare (cheers), I will read for you the letters of the senior representative of Queen’s County, the tenant farmer who was sent ove, to the House of Commons to ask for justice for his class in Ireland. (Cheers.) 1 i^MoiMntentV(in. — Jitne. 20^//, IH8(). Mu II. 1. Jioijlon.) i( ‘ Dc'xi’ Sir ‘.‘It is impossible for me to be in Ireland for some time, otherwise .t would give me the greatest pleasure to be at the meeting m order to establish liic Land League in Kildare. It is my opinion that there should be a 5 Land League in every parish in Ireland. The peop e neec no inueh from the (lovernmeiit, ami there is no way of getting anything bon, an Knglish Varliament only by pressure, and that must come Iron, the 1'«>P « >>» - side as well as their representatives inside. It should be properly wo.Ud „ the coming time. The farmers must not crouch, and they must combine and 10 make known the cause to save themselves from ruin. “ ‘ Wishing you success, I am your obedient servant, ® Richard Lalor, (Cheers.) “ I will not detain the time of the meeting, but I think I would not be la doing justice to the Parliamentary party if I did not read a telegram received an hour ago from the member who succeeded Isaac Butt m the represen a- tion of Limerick, Mr. William H. O’Sullivan. ‘ I regret that it is impossible to attend your meeting to-morrow. I w^h it success, and 1 hope that eve.y part of Ireland will follow your example.’ 20 “ I have selected one more letter. It represents the sentiments of those who wish the land laws altered. You can judge of the man by his language. “ ‘ Dear Mr. Boyton, I am obliged by your invitation. It is impossible for me to be at your meeting. I hope the spirit of Mayo will rouse Kildare and every other county in Ireland. The land for the people must be Uie war cry, 26 and it must be taken up in the House of Commons with more detenmnation than has yet appeared. The Irish parliamentary party is doing well, but it must be better. It must be kept up by the spirit of the multitude. po icy on- compromising against everything anti-lrish must be manifested ; also none but genuine men must regulate Irish affairs. And there can be no peace byween 80 England and Ireland so long as evictions in Ireland are sustained by Eng is bayonets, driving the people from their native land. We oljiect as much to evictions by the of Victoria as by the of Elizabeth. (Here I lost a couple of words.) This letter was from Mr. John Ferguson, Glasgow. S5 Mr. Boyton continued: — “ I don’t think it necessary to detain you with any further correspon- dence. That is the cream of it. There are 40 or 50 letters and telegrams to show you that in all Ireland the people are with this movement, heait and soul 40 “ I wish to conclude my remarks as secretary by saying that an invitation has been extended to the senior member for the county ot Kildare, but to which there has been no reply. 1 wish to say that an invitation in ike terms, courteous and to the point, has been sent to the junior member tor the county of Kildare, to which there is no reply. Gentlemen, I believe it is not necessary 45 to tell you any more that the priesthood and the people, the patnotic priest- hood of Ireland, are in heart and sentiment with this movement. (C leeis.) A 2 3 A »•/*, \HXO.-Mr. M. l>. Ih'lton-) (At this stage IJoyton .ctircd, a„ 15 our thousands 'do hereby indorse the foregoing declarat.on ^ nosition and wrongs of our mis-governed and impoveiished cou }, ikewise justiheation for recording our determination to resort to eve.y aw means w^herehy our inalienable rights, political and social can be regained their enemies.” (Cheers.) 4 {^Mowtdereoan. — Juna ‘iO/A, 18H0.) Mr. Michael P. Boyton. Mr Boyton said of t lie three resolutions : “ In this resolution lies the kernel of the nut. It will he proposed by Mr. Kelly, Moiiastcievaii, (Cheers). Me has asked mo to read it for you as his 5 specs is at home. (Laughter.) l^af Ling heard the principles and objects of the Irish National Land Leaoue this day set forth, and affirmed by accredited representatives of that orgmiisation, we approve of the same, and recognising the truly patriotic 10 and beneficient efforts being made to ameliorate our agricultura and industiui classes, we heartily pledge ourselves to assist by every lawful means m oui power by extending the measures of education, combination, and self- e p proposed by the Irish National Land League.’ ” (Cheers.) 1880 .) Mr Brennan, Maryborough. «-■. ' "■:• “■: =:“ 5 tion p Committee, and I am acting deputy chairman, ’r::; hted tvi;,. -L portion. I have stood ma„t-do,.r an, I .n-,looi relief efery yearV Why i.s it tlnrt one ha!t-an,l (lo,l Ahniglity knows ,t a ;:,ul eoi^d come to ,ny face at this-why it is as a Kihlarc man, I have to r sav here to-,lay. that one half of the people ot tins county can neithc, io.l or write. Wc arc well enough olf, we have 10,000 paupeis, an, itoilo people unable to rea,l or wite. I wish also to tell the n.e,, of Kiidai-e to-day we Inrvc have 260 soldiers in disguise, for they are not po icc- meu I wish you to know why I say so, because 1 know what the people of Fneiand the people of Scotland and Wales call a policeman. Me is the pio- “ tmorof law a'nd order. (Laughter.) I say, therefore, that the disguise, soldiery that are sent here, and 1 wish the Government reporter to note mj words and your approval of them, that the disguised soldiery are not ttent he for to protect law and order, they are sent here for the pin pose °f 16 and terrorism. (Cheers.) I "’f “ j a^d I people Ibr I have spetit seven years amongst tl,e hee men of England, and fell yo’i. that the presence of an artned force would not for one moment be tolerated by any body of Englishmen in their vicinity. (Cheers.) “ These men are watching me and my associates. 90 Mr Boy ton : “ We thought for a time that they were sent throughout Irelan to protec?^ from the people, but I have to say, and my experience extends to five of the most patriotic counties in Ireland, that ablv protected by the Land League with the people at its back. (Heai, he .) AmlT-renevi;. held, anill never will hold, with any man to aUiseJ^e 25 men who are teaching you a lesson. They arc doing then u y you do it loo ? (Cheers.) I came amongst you, my friends, and I . „h d io tell the men of my own county here to-day, I came amongst my fi ends, and see men who are wearing the garb of policemen, but in reality are solche,s_ mL of them honest and independent minds, as I hope among the 30 aTthf altar I kneel. (Hear, hear.) We wish to educate the 1 -ple ptdien.ly, but the English Government have sent the police among Im too. (Laughter and cheers.) Were I to-morrow m the pcs. on o ot o l ose gentlemeit for there are only a few of them who hold hat fhev cmr ffover.r Ireland by means of an improved rtfle mid black-co ted 35 soldiery I would tell them with an intelligent and honest raina that m seudin he police here they are making a mistake. The pobce will hear too tnuel . (Laimhter.) Therefore I say, gentlemen, but I have digressei lom my -ev remarks on the resolution, which were figures only. “ I told you we had in this county 10,000 paupers. I want to tell y ou 4f) thi.m else There is scarcely a man in this assemblage who has not to pay or 1ms not paid sometime or another what iJXe-ifrire^nr known as the grand jury. This grand jury is composed "-i^Omngemen. ““ I'” n vote away 45 position, “ AmUhe 'vote of that 30,000f. to sustain gentlemen in Zb pmbs with their broad acres, stone walls, and grand avenues, and to ^ ’ 1 ryffsTAi-mo- in stone-built poorhouses, and gentlemen who ZeTZ^rmirZolice bataaeks for the accommodation of “Idie^ ? 50 That 30 OOOf. comes cut of your pockets, and you have not a vo.ee m the dis- p sZZf one farthing of it. I wish now to go behind that, and come once (Moumlen'vnn.-Jmc. 20//., I880.-.1/n M- /’■ «»'/<""•) ,0 tl,o question. Yon l.uve met here to- our feelino-s or your cheers, which are the best proof that you are in earnest. In the name of God, and in the name of his country, and m the name of the 15 welfare and future happiness of his wife, children, brothers, and sisters, and every honest Irishman who is here present, and who will stand by my words that fall from my lips, I ask him to follow me. “ ‘ We, the people of Kildare, to-day assembled, hereby pledge ourselves never to take a farm, or the land from which our fellow tenant farmer has been 20 evicted for non-payment of an unjust rent, or on which his means, his labour, and property have been confiscated by his landlord. We pledge ourselves never to bid for or take that farm.’ (‘ Never ’). ^ ^ . “ Now then every man who can take that pledge in the sight of God hoi up his hand. (Hands held up.) 25 “ I thank the Almighty God that is the vow of Kildare— you will stick too-ether now— you have already formed a branch of the Land League. I think thlre were a thousand hands held up, and if he comes to me, I will fight his landlord wherever there is the smallest shadow of injustice. (Hear, hear.) I regret to-day that the Land League could not send a man here to ^plam to 30 members all their objects. But they told me, ‘ In your native country you want no help.’ Therefore men of Kild are, I have here to-day by authority of as representati ve of the iHm^T^tWl Land L^^ - I^clare a Monesterevan Lfanch of the LIsTTLandJLeague fofmeT’''^ th^neans what he sa} s, has mly-to come to the secretary and hliind in his name. He will have my help 35 and the help of my friends, as far as 20 or 30 thousand pounds to.” Mr. Boyton here retired, but came forward immediately after, and propose j a vote of thanks to the Chairman, which was seconded. ^ B 3 13 {Mondsierevan. — June 20th, IH80.) 10 15 Mr. Michael P. Boyton. Mr. Boyton said, — , , ... “ It is entirely infonnal to address you again. You heard me tc mg y that the police were not brought here for to protect law and order of us 5 eotnnrunity, or to protect the people from the speakers, or the speakets f,om you will turn your face over there (pointing to where the police were standing) you will see some 50 armed policeman, 40 or 50. ^ to tell you here, that 1 think this thing will be investigated at the proper source Why the men of the Royal Irish Constabulary and resident magistiate have been sent here to-day, after the magistrate who is living among you, and knew you. gave his personal guarantee for the peace and order and law-abiding qualities of the people? (Cheers.) The magistrate here, the only magistrate responsible, offered his personal guarantee for the peace a order of this meeting. I learned in Dublin yesterday that they weie g ^ to send to Monasterevan a large armed company of soldiers in disgiu , with a resident magistrate at their head to protect you. (Laug ei an cheers.) I think, all things considered, it will be to the advantage of police, and I hope to the enlightenment of the resident magistrate, that he ■20 has been present at this meeting. (Loud laughter.) i, i,„,rer “ If lie be an honest man, and that is something tha i is mile to be than even a magistrate and a policeman. (Laughter.) I trust that he will as a gentleman, tell his superiors, I am very much afraid they won te their superiors, that he will tell his superiors, that the people of Kildaie oy initiated the land movement with earnestness of purpose, and with peace- fulness of law abiding subjects. That he will tell his superior to police or any thing else, but to give us good laws, and we wil take care of their government for them. (Cheers.) Your reply to the carrying breech loading rifles, to the gentleman tiiat comes armed with powm 30 -!vour reply to them will be that you disperse in an orderly manner, and .o' to youi homes like Irishmen who have heard to-day from this platform the gospel of truth, humanity, and Irish nationality Bear this m land for the people,’ and that we have declared war aganist landlo, ^ (Cheers.) He then called for three cheers for the Queen s Conn y, w i 35 come to help them. (Cheers given.) 15 {^Moncistei'evan. — Jiiiia 20tli, 1880.) / / Chairman. 'I’he Chairman then came fonvard and said, .. Men of Kildare (cheers), after hearing so much eloquence from my friends on the platform, 1 feel that there is no room for me to say a single woi . .'i feel thankful to you and the members of ihe Land League for the high honor you have conferred upon me. Mr. Boyton has explained to you all the lules of the Land League, he has laid out the road for you. It is in our own hands to travel up or d:wn ; join hand in hand, a long pull and a strong pull by your own hoiLt efforts, everything Mr. Boylon has mentioned m his speech here to- 10 day. I will now conclude by thanking yon.” (Cheers.) 14 (h'atdue. -2Wi Jim, ISSIi.) M. M. O’Sullivan, Who was rece,vea with cheers, sairf-Mr. (Jhairman, had.es and Gc.tlc- „,en-The honour has been conferrea on me to propose the hrst reso nt... , as follows : — ^ a o That wlnle appreciating fully the system of hxity of tenure aavoca o 1 5 bv some of our representatives this meeting is of opinion that sue a . , rif L" 1 ina iiuestion eouW be only temporary, and tha it is only ment of tlio la I industrial re- where the til ers o > properly developed. We therefore declare sources of the country can I 1 y * establishment that we shall use every means in our power tor tire «r 10 of a peasant proprietary in this country. ■ , i. i This resolution comes at the very root of the laud 4“^““ ‘ V v.n IfP nrosoerous if you adopt the necessary means, but surely ...ri: say y!.u ale prosperous when you have to beg from the nations ,h the earth. 15 A Voice.— I deny that. (TSullivaii Here there was great iiiterruptioii. Attei a '"'"Tharmaii feels that we should not be beggars before ti.e world. We have met here to-day for a three-fold object. Over “ -h T fr-nni Mflvo ' that voice shouted out the land toi me 20 aoo a voice went out fiom Mayo , mar neonle ” In hraiioe it shouted upon the Kepublioans ot to-day. ^ twill ask von to stand up before your God and say that no man lull „ vour necks You never have bad a holyday, the landlords trample upon youi necKs. never had a working day. I'hpv like ID • 1 SP7 the people were trod down as you aie. i y In Prussia in ioU/ me do“'md w!irti say anything to the police, those men can never forget 30 their vonthfnl days. I am sure they are with you m ^ You must oroanise, you must stick to your homes, Uid you :‘r“r“ t:. reason 1 have to talk > • + nn tn decide is are you still would not have to talk. ’'““^“‘'“bTh r yo to decide whether willuig to give your all to the laudloids^ It f J on WIU use every ^^^rJ^Cwtu the laud Jeame to ItlrmTer door' got the poker and split the murderer's bead. Unite ;3 (KcuM..-mh June, 1880.— 1/r. M. M. aSuIUvan.) to women and fellow countrymen, 1 am proud to see you in such Inrcce numhers. Dense resolute and strong- To war against oppression and wrong. T learn that three families have been evicted, left out on the roadside with :: lovelg hut the blue canopy of Heaven, and I believe with not "U Ip;rarXi"ev1n' now in the noontime of the nineteenth century the landlords are more determined than ever to exercise their cruel and 15 merciless powers, which will depopulate this fair and ferti e cOTn ry. Thetce of the lindlord is hidden from the sight of his tenants suffering. Ah he cares little about your fate and why should you care for his. if a tenant is evicted from his holding, I hope you will allow no man to have anything to do with it, either to fence or do anything else to it. 20 If Ihe™ “I inan^oniid mean enough to take that holding what will you do with him A Voice— “ Shoot him.” TTnnf him point the finger of scorn at him. Bv your meeting your oppressors with determination and stern resolu ion • - 71 ,^ them that , ou are determined to lie at the heel of oppression. “ TsL;! y"u lUl reooUect the fable of the old man who. instead of throwing clods Ld grass, pelted the robber off his property Well mv friends, having addressed you so late y, now. but Uke my advice and organise yourselves, and you will teach 30 landlords a lesson yet, that shall vibrate through the woild. Mr. Thomas MoUoy, a tenant farmer, said-I second the resolution proposed by Mr. Finn. 7 {Shride.—^mh June, 1880.) Mr P j. Grordon (who was received with great cheers), Semiule.1 the resolution, and in doin,? so said— Mr. Chairman ladies, and follow countrymen. I am proud of having the honour of addressing you hero in Shrule to-day. T had made up my nimd to a tend another ■meeting, hi.t something has occurred in this gallant county that ,s echoed by mv feelings. The Church teaches that he who ts not with you is aoainst von, and I am sorry the priest of tins parish is not he. e to- day Let it not he understood that I want to excite that gentle- nmn ; hut I will not let it be understood that his name is m accordance witli his acts. He bears the name of Good, hut he is damn little good. 10 is the people of the parish .hat has made him what he is. .and i is you with voi.r hard earnings, that has placed him in this position. . leayiiig it in your own hands to chastise those who are against the people. I understand, my friends, that there is a party here who "P - system of reporting to the Goyernnient that the peaceable people of Sh le 15 and its surroundings were determined to cut one another s throafe say we have no intention of cutting the throats ot our friends, but I dm care if half the throats of our enemies were cut before morning. 1 shall tell you the cause of my being here to-day. mre "vv as a anc oic robber who went into the house of a peaceable woman. He was not satisfmd oo with carrying out the law, hut he took the law into his own hands. He ' went into the house of a respectable woman, and he riTTl He was not satisfied to allow the sheriff and the P^'f ‘’y* . ^ - did it himself, or thought to do so, that galla.it woman had from him and hurhd him from her cabin. Well, my fiieii Is, it 25 finish there. That land robhev who was not satisfied with mbbing the woinan ol her labour, he hronght hack a gun. commenced smashing befor him That gallant woman stood up, took from the reait r a ongs an smashed the head of the robber. The laws of God and man that you are bound to protect your households. She has not been y 30 If a crime but has protected her ho, lie from the land robber. I 1 .al) a!k the women here to-day to act the part of the soldier, allow no robbei ‘to enter your cabin. The law will protect, and if you ' J"” cabin door the robber, your name shall pass to eyery quarter of tl e globe, and shall go to the grave with the mark of respect for your count y. 35 It has been said that this meeting w,as got up to lord whose property is here. I will refer to the good “ fortunately they are as scarce in Ireland as a white blacabnd. Me h. one white blfokbird. Lord De Clifford, his mother was a mode, to landlords of Eimland and Scotland. . , i r i.i qo It asgotn; to expose the robbery, tyranny, and p under o t hose landlords who !fter years of toil on the land that God has created for yoii conms and says, unless you are able to pay fhe rent I demand you are to quit your cabin. G (Shrule. — 20i/» June, 1880. — Mr. P. J. Goraon.) God says, tlie rich tyrant shall never enter the Kingdom of Heaven, and with all your property I believe that will be a satjslaction. We are here to denounce a system that has left you a starving i-eople in your own land. Why are you begging yellow meal ? Because you are 5 too cowardly, you have not the spirit of the Ballina woman, and then the Government would see within the House of Commons the necessity for making a measure for the people of Ireland. But when you he down cowardlv, the Government of England think if you are flung a stone o yellow meal to one parish it will satisfy you. Well if you had the jirit o 10 that woman you would not take yellow meal. The dogs of England would not take it nor the people of England. They refused to take what the Irish are beo;cyinof for. ^ . i i I sarthe Government has aided the landlords. The Government help them to murder vou. It is now twelve months since I had the honoui 15 of addressing you in Shrule, and I now say the Irish people will never be loyal to that Government until Ireland gets justice. le on y way r a you have to let the Government see that you are not cowards any longer arm vourselves like people, and, if you have no way of getting the iifle, se the old cow and buy one. You have a privilege now to buy a pn, and i 20 you can afford to pay for it, you can be a policeman in town with your gun on your shoulder. I have several times spoken with regard to the pdice, an what I have said then I repeat it now, that within that jacket there is a heart warm and determined for the rights of their country, anc ley lave shown it lately in Dunmore, 'Ihe landlord would not allow the old man 26 to stay. The police said, let us pay this, and the police paid the l ent. Kow, my friends, if the police turn round and pay the rent, it will show something to the Government. They will see they have an honest heart. Often when they have to assist evictions it has been done against t le wis i of the unfortunate men who had to do it. 30 Now, 1 have to refer to something that occurred convenient to this place a place called Calla. There has been a poor man evicted or in the name o beiim evicted. The resolution speaks in the strongest rerms against any man who shall take the land from which persons have been evicted, but I hope the plan will be acted upon ; but, unfortunately, there stands in the midst of 35 us persons who are only wishing to have the land. This about the men’s names, David Bourke, who is a neighbour of Tho “ton and his son-in-law. They both went to the landlord and offered increase for the land. (Groans.) Mr. J. W. Nallv.-Gi oans are no use. Kefer it me for my pills I have 40 continued-The landlord is bad enough, but the man who goes to him and offers an amount of money when he sees the tenant going to be evicted is a greater tyrant fnan the landlord is. p Organize yourselves as one man, show the landlords and the Go - 45 ment that you shall never be allowed to leave the land of your birth (Shnde.—mh Jum, 1880.— l/r. P. J. Gordon.) c I ..f t,i..h heaven that tlie land that was created for your use that bwear before Irrgh J i, there a 5 thfwotho::e;p‘l ^ Il'rre Catdrand™' alnnlrt by your own deternr .red act.n, J«w ^ llthX wmX, “This land 1 have created for you, and you are to cultivate him what is fair for the land, but I tell you when you give him more than him what IS lau voiirself You gather all the money he is entitled tojou are a ro^ l,„dlord, and support the landlord, while you can. and ^e , , ^ y... have not the spirit of nationality 16 • “the Church your soul is dead, and without "y:r^:;;t:ry!rhrer.d"^^^^ tl-hi: anothe/has ^ 20 hour- >«V ^me w^i^ « Now I ask my ttmids to 'keep that pledge that you have made before to take no Ian s hLhano^hasLnevicted.^ 26 TuVrlT^ti: takes the part of the land, ^has Inc selfish end in view. But I .y it is better for the land of your birth than to die starving. My friend says it better to die now when you are able to die. than to die next year- when 1 1 hie to die The Government has sent into the country an you may not you here to-day to say you 30 amoun o seec ,k the youno- blood to put up their hands and say O Cotell once 'said that the land of Ireland would be dearly bough t at u Ooimeii o „ is better for you to lose one diop o ^ Laikin, and O’Brien did, and we are determined to 35 your oo a ’ _ ’ l repeat the names Allen, Larkin, and aBrieV^They have walked to the scaffold, and the uttered from « y„„,3otyes as wake of Allen, Larkin, a ^ arar"wtlanT tbbeTand God save the people. In reding to tbe^and sharks and land contempt, midst. I ask you in the name of Ii eland W t-a pass them by, don’t speak to them in the fan (a 45 Lord Leitrim got”). 8 (Shrule.—mh June, P. J. Gordon.) Mr J. w. Nally.— You are too cowardly to do that. Mr Gordon continued. -Pass them by with scorn, and I will tell you my peonle, that like l,ord Castlereagli, when he sold his country to the Government, he may go and buy a raaor and cut his throat. If they are 5 treated with contempt, they will come on their bended knees and asK forgiveness of their country. But, I say, don’t forgive them. They have sold their nationality, and away with them. My friend to propose that not a young man in the parish will marry the daughter of a iLid grabber. I know this gentleman himself was paying his addresses 10 to a very nice lady, but when he found there was a land grabber in the family, he would not speak to her at all. I have come here amongs you, that my voice will carry to you, and bear home the lesson which 1 Lve told on the platform. Bear in mind, that the land is yours, and that you are determined to have it, you must fight for the land of your '"'tn conclusion, I will ask you to repeat the pledge. Every man to raise up his hand, and pledge himself before God on high, that he will never take a holding from which a tenant has been evicted, and that you wi proclaim to the Government that the land is ours, and that we are 20 determined to maintain it (cheers). 9 2 N 2 {Shrnle.—20th Jvne, 1880.) P. J. Gordon in proposing a vote of thanks to the Chairman said-I need not say any- thiiio in praise of Mr. Monahan, his voice, and money, and pen, wcie always advocates for the r.glits of his down-trodden cimntry. I am sure that every word I speak in belialf of the Chairman will be endorsed by the 5 voice of tlie people. Perhaps I iiiay travel many miles again m addressing my countrymen at their platforms. I will take the opportunity of saying that not tm- the last time, but on the present occasion that you have assembled not to cheer with banners and ribbons, but pledge yourselves by an honest determined heart. Bibbons and sashes will not make an 10 honest Irishman, you must have your heart in it. You must raise your right hands ia defence of your homes. ^ It is not by marching that we gain our country’s rights . . • • • In marching along with a determined attitude that no powei in eai i, no power in hell, can deter the people in maintaining their rights. 15 Every word which has been said to-day has been sent forth with honest hearts, and tells you plainly that Ireland should be obtained by detei.nine duty and not by speaking. j In referriiio- to the National Land League, let it be clearly understood that the National Land League in its progress throughout the counties 20 in Ireland at large, that it has exposed the land laws, come to the assistance of the people in the hour of their need, and have sent that great chieftai of the Irish people to-day, Charles Stewart Parnell—they have sen im o leave your cause before the world. He has travelled the United States of America begging for the Irish people, and only for the aid that has 25 been begged for you, 1 ask you, where would you be now . He has com to you in the hour of your need ; he has exposed the system of lobbeiy. By the English you are told you must respect the aw, you mus r speot the rights of property; but I ask you is the Government protecting the unfortunate tenants? u , Jov, 30 I don’t care by what form a man is robbed, whether by mg i or . y, you must look upon it as a robbery. It is quite the same to a og row is killed— by choking him with a rope or with butter. When your years of labour have been plucked from youi ™ “ Y left a starving people, the landlord and ladies 35 interests of the poor tenants. All the labour on the land * interests of the landlord. He must get his rent roll. He raises h- year to year until at last there is a burden on the back of the tenants . stand up boldly, tell the Government and the landsharks, YO" " , ^ mined no longer to be robbed, and that you will 40 daylight as well as by night. Unite and proclaim to the world that the land is ours. 16 {Shride.—mh June, 1880.) Mr. J. B. Walsh said Mr. Chainnan and ,atriotio ,uen of Kilu.aine, scarcely twel™ months have elapsed since 1 had the Imnour of addressmg a J™’ and I am proud of tl.e attitude which you have assumed in the cause of the LwmLdden people of Ireland. It is not to day that I saw sounded 5 the men of Kihnaine on the true principles of Irish nationality , an i. " as a proud boast of mine to see that the men of patriotic us in this movement. I see many familiar faces whom I know to he strong in the cause of Irish nationality, and 1 trust we shall never ^ the patriotic men of Kilmaine will be found backward “ ‘^eir J 10 belief the object of tnis meeting is to protest against the ''Tim Ld“' a Mr. Boiirke, of Ower. the tenant Pat KevU, of Mai- You have assembled to denounce not alone the eviction of Pat Kevil, but the eviction of any of your fellow countrymen from *0 so*' ““ "“rX 15 born I find the valuation of Pat Kevil’s holding is £9 10s., and the rack Tars and fellow countrymen I hold to-day that instead of Pat Kevil being indeed to Mr. Boiirke.Tr. Bourke is indebted to Pat Kevil for m sum^ ^f £90 Well, somebody says he won t pay it, but I ho i you s 20 mindples y;u have heard here from this platform that tins system which Tel: tL man will not be tolerated any longer. Well, ellow 00 -^ men lam it is true, here to-day deputed by the Irish National Land Lea, ^ to offer an’y assistance towards explaining the objects of tins am here to tell you that we are occupying a better position tha 25 when I had last addressed you. We have "“‘'‘'“^TuTHTs notT have struggling humanity the world over working with us. Irishman to be found along the highways and byeways of t ll not to-day watching the attitude of the Irish people, wl- lieait beat for you, who feel for you, who sympathise for you, a which has been denied you by the powers that be. If you stick « ^ pledge that you made in my hearing twelve months ago that you w 1 ^ pay the land robber an exorbitant Y'^TaTT SoTa^a fair r'ent, am not asking you not to pay any rent, I am ask g y 1 J 35 so as that you will be able to pay the merchant YYIYT “mains support your family, guano to put down your crop, and Y"7Tet°from you give thai to the landlord. But I hold he has no right to extract fj^ y ^ your hie blood. They will say YtYholdltTTber’s men maintained their title they will walk away. They hold it as 40 hv British bayonets. The land of Ireland has been conhsca eTTn to Lit the whims of the followers of the Y‘:Y?:i::'rSey If y°ou study the history of Ireland you wi 1 f ^ 0 ! t me towards Ireland has always been a policy of blood, blood. 2 O 12 ^Shrule.—20t]i June, l^SO.— Mr. J. B. Walsh.) you will fiml tv, on. with the' fire and the sword, and again with gibbet, and a.rain with artificial landlord-made and Govornment-made fammes Their "sole object see.ns to be, to root out the Irish race. I hey have tried it over and oter again, and I am 1 ™“^, fellow co-trymen o state e s today that they have failed and that they will fail. The spiiit ot liis natiomdity is as strong here to-day, as f " ascended the scaffold o! Manchester, and raised that holy ciy — “God save Ireland.” . nf I am here to-day as an Irish nationalist, to proclaim the doctr ii e of 10 Irish nationality. I am one of those who have taken agitation since its initiation. I have stuck to it through thick and to and I should be sorry to use one word in favour o the National Lan Lea 25 it may sound in his ears. Give us the land, give ’n ** Idllrs come now when you must show a good front. We will follow others but you must follow us and back us up. <. ,• i Ottfa Did you ever hear the story, the old story of the bundle of sticks. O can be easily bent, but put them together and you cannot. 30 A united people cannot be broken, your cause is a just one, Uoa ordained that every man should earn his bread with the swmat of his brow. He never thought of those idle lazy fellows who have gained propel y m an hundred and one ways that I don’t care to mention. He "fy; that these fellows should have your land. He never intended that 35 people should own all the land while five millions have not a mod. This system has been swept away by the people ol France, orway Sweden, Germany, Turkey, by the people of China, and thong 1 as no eas by the people of the glorious and free America. Are we to he up s^e the bastard come into our cabins. Let me ask any parent m the crowd to m 40 it his own case. He is sitting down in his house with that famdy about him. A tyrant comes in and^ says you must get up, I want this ca . What’ would be the feelings of that man when he ns ami y out on the road'? Aye, I donT know what would curb that man s from dark imaginings or his hands from bringing them mo e ec • 45 If you are true to yourselves^ you will put an end o a y 14 ^ (Sl,„le.-Wth June, im.—Mr. J. B. Walsh.) r f -th Ireland as a begging box before the world seeking for alms, sendmg oi - go,„g forth as as „here she wonld have gone to-day were f ; J'Mr Vlelf Lnd the land agitation (cheers for Messrs. Parnell Tn -tti She woidcl have gone forth to seek a livelihood which has = :ld:::eiherinUie J ^ livelihood 7 ^"7 the broad acres which are about Kilmaine do that you wi instead of sending them to America you :aCr:::.~ :rr farms of tU acres. TOO long 15 you have borne this (great cheering). 15 miiyiptai (Shrnle.—20th June, 1 880.) Mr. J. B. Walsh, It is not a thing of yesterday to find the name of Mr Monahan amongst the people to redress their grievances. It is now twelve mont s since I had the pleasure of mixing with him under h.s bo d He has devoted a great deal ot his time to cause of the peoide ho fa 5 he is concerned, I am sure he will spare no tune m trying o p ai people in their proper footing. . r v i + m.. ^ It affords me the greatest pleasure to second the vote of thanks to . Monahan. Mr. Parnell and his party have a Bill which they a^ about brino-ing before Parliament, asking the Uovemment to stay evictions (or 10 at le’ast two years, so that no man valued under £20 can be evicted wi hin the next two years. And I may tell you that I believe there is a probability of that Bill, or a portion of that Bill becommg law. I also wish to Jl you, that there is another clause in the Bill, that no man can be evicted when he tenders the Government valuation for Ins land at least or 15 two years. Hence, I will read the Bill, to show that be eLted :-Martin Healy, £16 6s., rent, £32 ; Mardin ^ rent, £13 8s. 3d. ; John Tierney, rent, £7 lOs., valuation, £l2 [and so on to about twelve names]. p rack- In small cases I am sure you will agree ’",'1 ‘ 20 rent and I will ask these people not to pay a rack-rent, but pay the shop- keeper and the people from whom you have got things to support your fandly, and if you have anything left, give it to the landloid, i is goo enough for him. I believe the landlord is George Lynch. I have one word of advice to give you. It is this : , that 25 I trust we will not find a man in this vast assembly here to-day that will not oo peaceably home. I believe infomiation has been sent to the Castle of Dublin, that a breach of the peace was about to take place heie They lie, the scoundrels. I saw men to come here peaceably. 30 Hrincr the doctrines to the people that had not an opportunity of being he!e to° day. If you do this and spread the light, your cause must “'TM^ahamt returning thanks, said-If I alhv” of the National Land League would interefere with I"* N^^naM , 35 would not be here to-day to support it. I always supported National y, no matter at what risk. HiRnerse in an Go quietly home, and show that you can assemble and disperse orderly manner. 17 {lhUinl(m}^h.-->Jnne inowc; Mr. Thomas Brennan, Dublin, .1,0 .as received ; ' “Mr Chairman and fellow countrymen : Again the hand ot ‘ Atrnin we meet here to-day to protest agains has been heavy upon you. ^ evicted shall remain ‘ SIX' X-’- - '“XX" “ plundered helpless creatures we me ^ . Itrirn/e'd during^ pas't month. Not n^^ t- I wit,m.ed a | ir’infenll lws in miiou, she now occupies the unenviable position of 15 having 200 human beings ’ Voice ■ “ She could not agree with her husband. (Loud laug .) Mr Brennan • “ And yet this heartless act of cruelty has not met with the i> j.«™- «'!'•■ »•• •»“ f V',hrc"“."‘.“ 'X X“:. I 20 were raised m hoiioi at the , monster. ^lishment; ^ I 20 ^ endangered; and yet these /And yet here, not the hie ot one bu Government, whose first ^rn'oTbttoC"^^ people whom they work of eviction goes on. f-'' -XreVM:: O te’nantry'awaits tenantry of Ireland do not know but the iate ot League, \ them. I have a good you know that 30 of knowing the position ot ma y niMOvity of the tenants eyeou .. ha.est,auy 35 :L:fhe giiestiou will come to be decided whether he or you will enjoy ,t— Voice ; “ He will never.” Mr Brennan ■ “ Whether after having starved yourselves for the last twe ve months, having golden will be ,0 :r:t ttrch’:;!:; L must he again pa-d -ud lor yo^^ (Cheer^ 11 \ rrhe nuestion must soon be decided, whethei you vm 4 j 1 dir that hardest in order that a few idlers may enjoy the usual quantity | surrender that har\est thov mav be in a position to purchase ^ ofehampagne (Neve^O ^ order^that they^ prize dogs and pay gam ' » resistance to the law, simply because I 45 1 don’t advise you o ^ believe there is nothing wrong in and your property; and if I don’t guaramg y it is not because I see anything wrong in it, but WrrinritlsraXi^^^ I .now the landlords would not wish , 3 •»■■■ ten '.■ut'yoa.'’™v! the aid of a (lovernmcnt that ^ advised you last year not same advice this year, and we say ^vere not able to adoni. \ e 5 any man that pay. an "«.'“ ’ j (.Quple of words, owing to to the 8“‘'. eause into yonr own hands and not mtenupiion.] It is hy tak Oo y intrust it to that of any otte per^n. ^ Veiy f- p ^^p this movement has made • + ‘fc rlpmocratic tendency. 1 here 10 progress of that ^^rtorainister to any man’s personal vanity, is no man movement m this. though some talk about hut it is a movement of the people for the people and th^ „ leaders, dictators, and uncrowned -t fou Ireland's curse has been her leader . They led to I,eland does not IS slavery, and then they be tlie sovereign will of the ;rie:''"(r:.r Itetod has h.! ^ 0 . en gh . crowned and uncrowned. We want no eh.efs or lords, b“t n (Ch individual that could keep you standing e ^ 20 is not any individnal that could stir t le conn Iceland a nation, the land months. It is not ®;"tTiorlous’:a:se "f the country-(cheers) of Ireland for the people of 1'^ ^ t<,.day after your hard —and the noble cause of humani y g . something to serve week’s toil ; and it will tliis evening. Mr. Parnell 26 that will give yon strength let g than any other two men or and Mr. Davitt have ,™Aing in this movement dozen men. (Cheeis.) B , i ^ u.it whose work was as essential whose names have never yet been leai ° p,;^tf„rms. We will to its success as those who ave *iu have to depend, not 30 be required to put forth a our s ^^use upon members of Parlia^nt or any m , y ^ou into your own ““'"“til you force them to agitate for, a must starve out the ^ ^ ^ ,„ter into a holy conspiracy change in the land laws. (Chee 0 country and the object of that 35 against them ; we must y™'™ t„ ennoble idleness and degrade union the destruction of P Tn-iVe eviction a costly luxury Ubour. The landlord may evicl, -y t, Ja day’s ro him. There is not a >— g man in the co^^ ^y wages to save that crop. c enough to take that land, I say such 40 word “ Rackreut, and if any .nanism conduct should be branded. national. I don’t believe (the Irish people) prosperous y ennobling one word of it. I think it is -- ^dy that t^^^^ .P patriotism then than at presem, landlordism will be but the com- 45 spectre of starvation. , p j juje in Ireland. It is the chief prop mencement of the destruction o ^ g tumbling of the institution. Remove that pi op herself in the dust. Ireland as a nation will take part in will take part in righting 50 emancipating the woild, m stiikin^ of ages ‘Republican.’” (Cheers.) ^ All in favour of tlie resolution say * >e. ^ ^ 4 y/ ■yt 27 '/'- '« 80 -) 7 Mr. John W. Walsh, hall-, has been “ M‘- Itok ,? would be fair on o.y part to detair. you entrusted to ni} c feathers, and broker’s tickets. They had ““ ^t^his uionMedlLth-haH^ wool, to try and keep themselves alive, a human be ingjriesjo^ tract p'^t(^ns.) I have later used]. I found in 30 still visited families at Boy n or . [ ^ unable to move one house a man a man 70 years o a„ . ^ while the minions of the law ,,,t for ever ? (No, almost dying. Are you piepa . ^ ef fbe weather we have come / no.) I am glad to see that e^n h® ” ®)-®“ ^ b, ,just one, aifo 35 here. This is one more proof that y q, that you will succeed. ( ong i . yourselves again that you will not , you have for the last 12 months H you 1 take a hum from which thchc poo p p^ landlords cap m do that you will bring an “ asking for a settlement of the Irish land 40 hand to you and to the Government as g question. You will secure the ‘®"“ ^ou v.Hl be as France, tenant farmers of every oner ®°“ system has been wiped out. Belgium, &c. m ac e thousands of You will put an end to th.it sy ^ elsewhere. I witnessed a 45 your „ake the blood curdle in any man’s veins. I saw scene yesterday whicu ^ wai^o-ons. They have to go across to harvestmen huddled ^^ley are sent across in cattle trucks unfit earn the rackrent to Eng , < farmers live on meal, which they for English pigs. In th>s ®°"“ y„ . Po.ses. You will think with 50 would not consider good enough for English ^ ^ { 3 ,ninlo,ifrl,.-.hne 27/A, l880.-i/.-. IV. Hnlsh, of Balia.) „.e that the people of Ivelan.l a., a peaeeiu, «oeh wouM ..ot J,e law — [i- y j ^ fVipni or cap m hand, you will no longer say your honour to the , o X Voice • “ Devil a cap in hand any more.” (Laughter.) ^ ;11 „nnn settle the Irish land question. Mr. Walsh : “ If you do that that the Irish Mr. Forster ,s deter,., med to pu^ people have a gr.evance. . with yourselves, and yourselves alone. 1 J ,0 force Mr. Forster and the Government and he You will do that by refusing to take farms h • t- A Vrvn will advance vour owm position. You ‘'ImI'' ’ and children’s children, who will bless you and pray for you when Ch,ldren. and c ^ ^ ,,ery one you are dead and g . but you '5 of you to J 0 ,n American people are watchmg have no idea of what Thev are a great and powerful you to-day Theu;/”P" not neglect you. The h-is^miollLaJd League will assist you in your hourof need. (Cheers.) 5 1880.) Francis Dalbey, Castlc.ea, proposed a vote of thanks to the Chairman, and in doing so said ; O'Connell always tried to impress upon the Irish people, with the words of the poet to the Greeks,— ‘ Hereditary bondsmen, know you not, Who would be free, Tlieinselves must strike the blow. There could be no grenter authority than O’Connell. Voice : “ Lord have mercy on his soul. Mr. J. w. Walsh, Balia, said : — a I am sure under the able guidance of Mr. McDermott, whom r beheve is 10 President of the Land League, the people will be „ trust there will be always found amongst you a man who will take the par trust there w j h.^^^d that a great many landlords have bou^hUhrir land in the Landed Estates Court, They say they don’t hold the T A I . the title of Cromwell. 1 hold their title is not good also. If a man ,5 :to en h r man comes into the fair of Ballinlough and btys the trse, I sa; he is not entitled to keep him. In the sa.ne way the land was yours.” (Cheers.) The Chairman said ;— “ r thank yon very kindly for the honour you have conferred upon me hope tie t^will coLwhIn the aristocracy of this par, sh w.ll he sorry that 20 they did not take the part of the people. ( leeu.) Patt Dorr, Ballinlough, came forward amidst some laughter, aftei the of .. They have o.eredf„aL^^^ In - TtM' 5 say We wiU givl you nothing for your breakfast, for the Int you t^ll gl: half that, for lunch ditto, and in the last place as much as ‘ you like of the other three.’ ” (Loud laughtei.) 10 [lifillinlou^h. — ''27t/i, 1880.) z. Patrick J. Gordon, Claiemonis, said “ Mr. Chairman, ladies and men of Ballinlongh. I must thank you o.i my own part for the kind invitation you have sent me to attend this meeting. It was my intention to attend another .netting, but from the pressing note 1 received, and the character of the land laddy (landlady)— (T.aughtcr)— whose 5 character is described on the black bann^Fr^rhe banner and motto of death, that motto which you must look upon as the destruction of youi e ow men. (Groans.) If we '^assemble here to-day, we assembled in the same affair 18 months ago. It was founded in the town of Clarernorris. The land question has been founded there, the land war that has swept along the land and t e 10 Government has been exposed to the world. This G^ernment that has taken charge of the Irish people has no sympathy for you. [Task you, my friends, to form in one band. It is better for you to die in tlm prison fighting for the rights of you native land than to die starving paupers in the workhouse I ask you here to-day, in the presence of the Government, to resist the mckrenCng 15 landlord in every form, to act the part of the noble ^voman in Ballma. The robber came in the daylight to evict her. That brave and noble woman stood and acted the part, not of a woman, but of a man. I ask every woman here to-dav to bring her thoughts in her breast home. (Loud laughter.) I am proiid’that this is not a question of religion; it is a question of right. It is he 20 question of the land which God created for all men, for Protestant and Cat lo ic, to enjoy. • ‘ When I consecrated this land,’ said He (meaning o ), oi my people you shall earn your bread by the sweat of your brow.’ If I keep you here to-day in the midst of rain I will not apologise. Many a wet and dreary day you have spent toiling for the land robber. (Cheers.) I ask you .ny 2.5 friends, to repeat the pledge which you made one year ago, to band yourselves together to resist against the robber. S.ay before the world that yon will not lie°down as we are told by the landlords and the Government, not to he down as slaves. I am glad that the spirit raised in Mayo has swept from Mayo to Roscommon and Tipperary. Mayo has swept a laurel from the b.ow o an Tipperary She has founded that land question which to-day landloids themselves must admit ; it has taken a prominent part in the exposure to which the landlords have been exposed when the Government came to aid and protect them with tlie sword and bayonet. The Government was bound to proiect all their subjects. I ask you what protection they gave the tenants ? 35 They protect one landlord, while they sweep a thousand people to tne work- house. Are you satisfied to enter a poorhouse? (No, no.) If you are you have no right to be here. Now. my friends, we are told by landlords, an y the Government, that the cause of the poverty in Ireland is owing to the extravagance of the tenants. (No, no.) That you are wearing grand clothes 40 and eating too much beef and mutton. I have been speaking to a man I believe he was 80 years of age, and up to that he had never a bit of beef in Ins life. (Laughter.) You must be contented with yellow meal ; you must e content. 'I'lie landlords give the preference to some friends of his own. say witli the landlords it is good enough for people who are content wilh >M ^0“ 45 must band yourselves together like men. Shake hands with every TFo ei farmer, no matter what creed or class, and say as one man. Tins land is oui s. You my friends, may be called upon to stand up, not as beggars, to resist this system I hope you will carry liome in your bosom the advice you have received on this platform, and no matter what advice you receive, whether from T) Q 3366. — 47. 8 ■4 i {Ihllvnlou^h.—Juue. 27 fh, 1880.— M'. P. J. (Jordon.) I 1 ih the landlord robber or the Government of England, it is better tor yon to die . fio-hting for your country than to die in the poorhouse. My advice to you j hm-c to-day is that no one will cn courage another to take the land trorn which another is evicted. If there is anyone^ambngst you don’t associate with him m 5 any form. If lie is a land grabber and has daughters, 1 will advise every young- man to shun them. I will ask you to pledge yourselves here as honest men to raise up vour hands to heaven that no man will take the land from which a tenan has been evicted. God is ;^ing to help the people who is determined and , willing to help themselves. jTluppose the Government thought this meeting TJ 10 would be rather small and so sent us a lot of police. (Groans.) 1 do don’t want \ you to groan for the honest policeman. The honest policeman in the locality of Oranmore or Dunmore ; he had an Irish heart, and said, ‘ Brotheis said he, ‘ is it possible that we will allow our fellow man to be evicted, ane ley made up 1/. 135 . for the poor man who was about being evicte . ( eeis.) ^ 15 What I advis^ou to do is pay no more rent, and the police will pay it toi you. (Laughter.) Remember the words of Charles Stewart Parne l, Keep a ^ ‘ firm grip of your homesteads.’ ) I ask you again that under Rie form of Government, under Chief Secretary Lowther, who is gone, under Clnet Secretary Forster, who I don’t care about, the Government I say has no sympathy wiih 20 the people. The only form of Government is unity amongst yourselves. Band too-ether like brothers, and swear before high lieaven that the land you wi maintain. Now, my friends, I hope you will withdraw from this meeting without shouting against any person. What you have heard to-day repeat it along the line of march, that the land was created for the people. I don’t care whethei a 25 robber be one by night or one by day, I treat him all the same. ley sa} i is equal whether you choke a dog with butter or kill^ him with s.ones. (Laughter ) The land robber— I don’t want you to call him landlord, theie is no lord but one-he raised the rent. Why are you begging? Because you have not got the spirit to tell the Government that Ireland to-day will be as the poet has described,- ■ A nation great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth, first gem of the sea.’ (Cheers.) 9 [Jlallhiamore. — June 29tli, 1880.) Patrick McDonnell, Mohill, pioposcd the next reselution : “ Resolved that the final and permanent settlement of the land question can only be obtained by abolishing the present obnoxious system of lamllo.disin and the substitution therefor of a system by tvhich the proprietorship o. soil ivill be secured to the tillei . i 4.1 ic 5 “ Men of Ballinamore, it is hardly necessary for me to say a woi on i resolution. Until it is done tve will never have Ireland, tretod is capa Ic of producing twice as much food as would feed the people. What was the cause of this? Now, we call upon the people to unite against the citade o , landlordism. The tenant working from year’s end to year s end can scarcely fO make both ends meet. This was called confiscation. It is conhscation one man can depopulate a whole country side. This is confiscation ; we want to confiscate any man’s right. We are willing to pay the fta value of what belongs to him, say that no man can have ‘he n ht to s. y out ’ (Cheers.) Every ten or twelve years we have changes ot law. Ihtse 16 peoplehave been only cutting branches off the tree; we must strike at the root (Cheers ) ‘ The tree that does not bear good fruit must be cut down, a eers? iTi:doesit has poisoned you. It has long since poisoned the country, remember when I was a young chap myself, I thought.lt was a great tiling to see 1 uve lord. (Laughter.) He came, and I found that he was only like 20 myself, but that ho had a big grey whisker. (Laughter.) onue wou never have gained his object only that they knew he had the people at back. Tree trade for Ireland, or elsC' • 1 1 • CHerc he referred to the Irish volunteers, but, owing to noise aiid my leiiig iushle in the room while the speaker was outside, I could not catch his words 26 O And ask for free land for the people, or else (Cheers.) I have from time to time read a good deal of history, and I l.ave never heard o a country that got— except— I believe that whenever the red flag has been pllited they have robbed the people. They ' 30 The British Government to-day has not a friend on the face of the They may take you one by one, and may succeed in cius iiiig you , _ ^1 unite Is oneLn you will crush landlordism for ever, bo long^- - remains strike at the root of the tree. No more landlordism. We will pay him the full value of his land, and let him take himsell away to Ttmtacto . Qa n bter 1 Let them P rountrv but themselves and their herds ana wouUl wish to have no one m tl>e „„ Wc are their Hocks. The tillers ot the so 1 arc eq 7 competition will a. good as any other The Americans are crush the landloids ye . ^ ^ evicted. 5 sending over beef. Le no man ^^atter what has been the cause from (No, no.) Let no man take a 1 ^ leper, shun which a man has been cv • ^ landlords cannot him when you meet him m he streets. stock your land and mine.” (Cheers., Mr. Roloert McManus seconded the resolution. 10 “ All in favour of it say ‘ Aye. Passed unanimously. 5 [BalUnamore.—Jtmc 2^th 1880 .) -f ' Mr. M. M. O’SulUvan, Secretary, Land League, Dublin, said: <• Ladies and gentlemen, I rise to propose the third resolution ; these are the ‘“-mJwe protest in the name of justice and manhood right against i. ri.» I.;"- because of inability to pay rent. ^ i i p i* „ branch of the “ You have in the two former resolutions resolver o j ‘ TIT ■ (l>;= Histvir-t because by organisation amongst yomselvcs Land League in this distiict, Dccause ly g 10 the only way by which you can obtain your ^ ^ I any other power but yourselves. bay; come to for that which yourselves alone can do. N x A vbpn men take the conclusion to take their own business in .heir o"" their own business in their own hands it is generally perfoinied. ^^Fhej-t 16 two years have been very bad in this country. (Hear, ,,„ai„,.dism. you could make has been taken fiom y y when ill you could beg or borrow has been Uken A you have sown your crops the landlord ,s coming to ^ .0 iglsXi. ii : noTS ^tnrr^s ‘S' by „erty from a thief. You must meet together, -^^^bon ^liieinber that - of the Land League, and once there, you must act 25 yorare engaged in a grand object, that your own interest are ^ at sUke. Meet too'ether then whenever landlordism is to be resis e , L.tbekctingiudividually,forifyouacth,d.^ lie to^Le conclusion that landlordism should be ^ >ohshed and ‘^‘^a y^ste ^ 30 of oceupiership should he substduted oi it. oey jpjjt Jt can be thinking man, that it is only when the soil >^010 = made to produce most, and when it is prodtmed the weal h ot y J increased. The business and duties of a b“Te , , tood °by -nving the general good, and they will only govern for ‘>>0 » havekxtracted 35 Ld to the people who wdl make most of it. P^e ^d m L over six millions a year out of this countiT. ^‘“yi^bed out of this extracted for 30 yyrs •' ‘'^bpurT8d°millions of money into the country riiri —d wealiy cLntry ivonU h he. Y. ^ is 40 end to, less than every 20 years .^-.yhyey Ly- system of landlordism. (Groans^ p,. “nf the soil he tills, and of the must get the tiller of the soil tote ^ tPc carpenter improvements e ma -es im ^ improvements, and yet is the owner of the chan, me riiiei oi 45 he is not owner yf te ^ (daughter.) M O’Sullivan ■ “ You must determine on that. It won’t do lo If you Mr. O Sullivan . ^ Ic to act but vou must wait don’t act all your talkiiiysm vain, sy ,ntry. Don’t be in a hurry, until there is a thorough organisation m Y o (mUu,,,.orc.-Ju.c mu, 1880.-*-. M. M. (yUluia.an.) ,-hc cry “wlit^Xn^; reverberates with he y- , O’Connell said. Wo say now ‘ organise, organ, so. Agitate a„,^ . g , p„li,. organise.’ (Cheers.) ^ ^ere are good ones ; but I am sorry 5 nient. The members of 1 arliament, Parliament. You must I cannot congratulate you on having goo^ mei^ yourselves. You not depend upon them good oi ba . eviction, let no cannot go home determined enoug o o • yourselves solemnly man take that farm. (No, no. and eheeis.;_ ^ou P^/ . you pledge 10 not to take Inhere r:t :::cL. iit ti^ ;; tr pledge yourselves that you never will take anyj^ held up.) You are j My attention has been drawn to an good work is sure to ensue. ( ,' p t r eanue here. It is that 20 unfounded charge made against mem ers o applied. It they received money from the Land League "peeTmade to could not be applied because it was_ never sent. AUus,™ has^^^^ r'YCi^thint wfha'vkrdoTs Tdo our own work. Yon see as jdainly 30 Tdaylight that it is your own work tha^l^lfeffstandfortrrk^^^ position of Ireland, as a beggar before the nations of the earth. Voice; “We don’t wish it.” ^ neither 35 Mr. Sullivan : “ If you don’t, then prosecute lh.s _ag.tat.on. Let length nor breadth, height or depth ever separate yo . ( 7 nSiiHimmore.—Junc 2f.)lli, 1880.) / 4 Mr. M. M. O’Sullivan said;— «• Wf liave conic to the end of a very successful meeting. It now becomes mv duty to move that you. Mr. Chairman, do leave the chair, and m proposing a vote of thanks to tlie chairman 1 must congratulate yon upon the dcteimmed manner in which you have acted. I must request that you will take deter- 5 mination home with you ; that determination that you will have it on every occasion. Establish branches of the Land Leagne. They wil. sustain you The Land League has already 10,000/. (ten thousand) pounds for die snppor of evicted families. It has also twelve thousand pounds out of its pohtica funds to sustain you against landlordism. It will fight your cause m the law 10 courts ; it will show up landlordism to the world ; and it will strike down the system, provided you give it that active support which it is necessaiy to give. In every country where peasant proprietary has been established tneie prosperity has been established too. In Belgium, a little country Le of tills country, is twice as wealthy, there are one million owners of then 15 soil In Prussia, there are five millions, and in France, the revolution created ei-ht millions. In the Channel Islands, Switzerland, wherever peasant pro- - piletary exists, there is no such thing as the begging box and We mean to do away with pauperism. In this country seven hundred and forty-four people own half the country. In Scotland twelve men own a fou th 20 of that country. Eight hundred and forty-four own half of England , e ^ English democracy and the Scotch democracy have risen to their ' Irisl landlords were carrying over six or seven millions a ‘4 v" You must determine that you will put an end to that system (We will.) I on must join in with the democracy of every country in the world to become on 25 confederation of the people against the powers that oppress them Kemembe . is the ignorance of the masses that keeps up tyranny. Rise to youi feet ike Ln Feel yourselves men; not looking to every little shoneen ot a landlord in this country above all. On every estate let the tenants band together theie_ This year don’t let your crops be taken from you. Stick to your hom^s^ oo you ;re turned out you will be turned out in a body, and we will budd houses there. (Cheers.) Don’t pay any rent; you are not This year you have been living on the charity of the world. You may be able to pay next year ; if you have a good harvest you will Don let your children be reared up beggars. Don’t attempt to g>''e « ' S.5 lords what is necessary for yourselves and your children. Come to conclu-n what rent you are to give him ; if he does not take it, go home and put it in your pockets. (Cheers.) Go home now quietly and peacea y. Obey the v^ery excellent advice you got in the Catholic Church to-day. Le Set drunl We must be industrious, but it is no use in bem^ - ustrious 40 as long as all the profits go into the pockets of the landlords. (C .) .4 11 {^Bnllinamore. — June ‘‘Z'dlh, 1880.) Mr Francis Murphy, Clonsardcn, came forward and said ; .. Felkiw-con„trvn,ei,. 1 am glad to see so many of you here ^ propai^ate the land work wldch has so many ohjccts m view (Cheers.) One !reat object of the Land League is to make tlie tillers of the soil the owners it To carry out the great law of the Creator by establishing the right ot 6 every child bom into the world. T’hey have dared to blaspheme the name of God They have dared to call themselves lords of the soil. It is to ina -e riirht this great wrong and carry out the will of Almighty that the Lan League was fo,med-(Voice, ‘ So it was’)-and to expose in ad its hideousness tliat” monstrous blasiihemy called landlordism, ““ 10 blood and sweat for the land. They have toilea on the land They expend their sweat and labour only to see the product seized upoii-(hear, heai )-to pay a rack-rent to be spent by some shoneens, tramps, &c., in '“^s^ 1 Cheers 1 While the poor tenants are wet, cold, and hungry. Landloids think the tenant fanners ought to deprive themselves of the means of “ 15' in these terrible times leave the people no means of sustenance. The landlords turn upon them and serve processes for one year’s non-payment. He a so evicts the poor tenant for one year's rent, and gives him no mercy. ( Oh. ) But when he can find no person so vile as to take the land (Here he referred to some foolish young person who had been sent to prison 20 for two months for some offence in connexion with land in Leitrim, but i not catch the whole of his words.) . 1,1 ^ j He continued ; “ If you don’t look upon this case with right hearts and consciences, there is a man above who will. He called on ps tenants at t is season to pav a half-year’s rent. I C.1II on the members of the Land League 0 25 look to these people who though poor in state do honour to their country be ore the united ” (Cheers.) Mr Michael Reynolds, Mohill ; He said “ Electors and non-eleetors of Leitrim, I feel great pleasure in seeing you before me to-day in your thousands. Your meeting here to-day to nfv Id has a two-fold object, it shows to the British Government that we will 30 not be satisfied until we have a reform 111 the land laws. (Cheei..) ■ shows to the landlords, the shoneen landlords of this county who deterimned to keep possession of the land as a right. The resolution that has been placed in my hands is reflecting on one of our county representatives. Voice : “ Tottenham.” O’Beirne. Major O’Beinie is 35 Sneaker : “ No, my friends, it is not , it is ivii. w dcu j the rentleman. (‘ Down with him.’) His conduct on this occas.on was a cruel and mlistrous wrong to the people of the couifoy (’ To hell wtth lum. H.s interference was at a time when 200, 000(. should be applied to the variou committees in Ireland for the purpose of sustaining ‘''® Le iLi.; of saying that none of this money should pass ^ the Land I>eague. (Groans, and cries of ‘ Down with him. ) • j f member of the Land League, and I have the honour of being president of the local branch in Mohill, and a great amount ^ “““Y ’’‘‘TlwvThrougl, 45 hands, and I may tell you it has been distributed honestly and the noor neople. A large amount of that has passed throug y St Vincent de Paul. It is a plain contradiction to every statement emanating from C O’Beirne. Now ^ think Dean Ivers is the gentleman that would Q 3366.-48. 8 {Ballinamore, June Wth, 1880.— J*. Fmnois Jlurphy.) not be connected with anything like communism. 1 may differ with some of those divines in political matters, and I hope I have a perfect right to do so, but to their spiritual teaching I how with sulimis.sion to the divine truths I now call upon you to denounce, gentlemen, the language used. (Cries ot 5 < Down with him.’) I ask you here to-day to become united as one man members of the Land League. (Cheers.) That being so you will be a nowerful element ; when the next election occurs you will have it in^ your Lnds to return a man who will sustain Mr. Parnell. (Cheers.) It is grievous and melancholy at this time when our people are sustained by the chaiitable al in over the world that the landlord iias not ejectments that mean the destruction of our people. They are making this land question one of life an^d death struggle for them (the tenant farmers). I call upon you to join the Land League.” (Cheeivs.) 9 {BalUnamore.—June 29^/t, 1880.) Mr. Philip Brady, IWliiianiorc. said “ I have oreat pleasure in seconding that resolut.on. Major () Be, me has ,nade hi.nself eloquent for once in his life. Now, gentle.nen I will deta.n you hut a very short time. I will read a letter for you from the Land League : ‘ iNIy dear Sir, r v r ‘ 1 ENCI.OSI! cheque for 20 pounds voted at our last meeting oi the family of the late Philip Meehan (the man siiot by M.- Aclrison). We can assure the poor woman and her afflicted children that they have our heartfelt sympathies, and that whatever assistance is in our power to render them thev • Yours faithfully, ‘ Thomas Brennan.’ (Cheers for Brennan.) I just wish to say a few words more in vindication of my own cliaracter. On the 7th of April last, the day of the poll here, I was told inside my own windows that I had received large sums from the Land IB Leaoue for the starving poor and not for electioneering purposes, and that set “ I;e ;eople drunk to i,;ult their elegy. On the 7th Apr,, last there never came a pennv to Ballinamore. Two sums, 15 pounds, and the second .0 pounds, Lre' handed over to the priests. The next was 20 porurds, which Ls distributed to the poor as best we could. The last 15 pounds ,s being 20 distributed in food and clothing. If I have said what is wrong, gentlemen can correct me, and it could not be used for bad purposes. (Down with fem.) All in favour of condemning the conduct of Major O'Beirne say Aye. B 2 10 {Ranshoni.— chilli Rlh IHBO..) Mr. M. M. O’Sullivan, Secretary, Irish Land Lea^ruc, Dublin. Mr Malachi M. O’Sullivan said : — -Mr. Clmirmun, ladies and gcntle.nen, it affords ““ deed to be present at this meeting and on this day. ( eai, i .) deed to oc picsL ft scarcely coniine ourselves to Irc- j very great day ; it is a day oii ^ y brothers land We must go abroad m the world and looK to oui u , d our slters i it America. C Hear, hear.’) We cannot forget what they are itHoray. They are celebrating the anniversary of Anrencan .ndependence ’rthe 4th of ,Tuly tloughorrt the length and breadth of the land. (Cheers, n It is a day which brings us a sad and a joyful picture; sad because of n,e.uoriesofthepast,,nenror,es of on, defeat to ga, Invoiis because we see it before us , s: 1- » air; ,knce 0 ( lrel..a. (Cheers.) We see to-da). the picture ut Aineucan 5 Xndence before us. We see these brave men standing EngUsh taxation and throwing the teas into the ocean, and we to-day a e met for the purpose of throwing landlord’s taxes which are imposed upon us into oceam' American independence was effected by union. Organised union in the people, that is what we want to-day. JO on this 4th of July is /“Vrw„"wdth'’the landlords.’) Th“t of nluriitr'in Ireland is like the soul of man ^•11 1 • /X -i-ol Rear hear ’) It is a spirit which shall never ““:;ttrVh”“L.lS': l;.’ «.i. s ■. v -» • SS ...t Jet.,»i..tl ...iu. •"««'< P'hpl' •h.~l"»- (Cli»t._) " h. , 1. 1. fu. ,» ^ will ’i It will not do to say it will, i will not accept y it unless I see men firm, determined men banded together as one great J determined to strike down that hideous system of landlorism 30 in the first place, and the system of British domination on the -s not by words and by cheers that we can accomphsh tha end. would be easy enough to gam ludependence. ( Hear, ^ ) America to-dav. Let us look to every country m the woild Can you poi me to one --’i' What is it that has gained it ? The sword, an ® 35 ront the rifle and the man — . These are the only powers hat can g n your independence, and any person that tells ym, the whi/d is that ‘ otru-lt wtTis L^t win^t irishmen, and no man aay there is no oppression— V Who - stand and tHl me that^t retwf/; ^ol: '^hf " irr;: f^e h^ore the nation Are Irishmen cowards enough that they will not stand up and fiee nation. Are n mi Ti- rests for you to say whether you 45 in ask thL another year to send ^mrstaud^up and ;ay to them to-day, when they are Llebratiuv their anniversary of independence, will yon not say, ^»n are . brothers: we are ready to socrifiee onr y . J? px.xvcP Will that erv go to the world ? { res.; Tiieyuuucu 50 to free youis . j ^ Yes It is rarely you are (‘ Yes.’) Will you have that in your hearts . ( • ) A 2 (ftmW, Ath, 18H0.-JWr M. M. 0'8«Uimn.) spoken to like this. Men have come ^<1 to gain notoriety to get into l>.„lunent They have .luperi you. /^time has eo.ne now when men no het!e, than yourselves, mean to shaW otf the landlord yoke in this eoun^ ■11,(1 also the yoke of British (lomination. You must foiin yourself / . ^ You must above all put your face against evictions. You 5 organisation —. Y u im f ^ landlord^lu^ must or e doing right, and when you are doing wrong. No man can unmil „ wL L.U. ™.r »«.■ 7“; t' “f,. “ r,r League If you throw in your little mite you may be ab^e to make a htt e ::riargendusefu,where.rjandj»lt^^^^^^^^^ inv fpllow countrymen, let tnis aay not go and legal movemen ^ervi e. , countrymen in the great struggle ^°Z:::rbefe^ I shaUbeableto rmeT^ranriri^^^^^^^^^^ hill of — a (theMh ^ for the emancipation of the tenant farmers of Ireland. (Cheers.) A resolution pledging themselves to form a branch locality was then proposed by some man whose f f ‘ was seconded by another man ; both where maridible where I stood. (^Ransho)’o’ > — Jii/jj 4//<, 1880.) P. J. Sheridan, Tubbercurry. . i n P J Sheridan, Tubbercurry, asked all in favour of the resolution to hold ' up their hands. (All hands up.) He continued “Well now my friends, 1 have to congratulate you upon the success ot tins 6 meetin-. Before dispersing I want to give you one word of advice. All the mcetiims that have been held from the inception of the present movement, they were rcmarkahle for respectable conduet, and I liope this will he no exception. I hone all that have done us the pleasure of coming to meet us here to-day wi vo hie quietly, peaceably, and respectably, and that they will toing home in 10 their hearts whatever little wisdom they have heard, and to take the advice to have a branch of the National Land League in this locality. 15efore some time I promise you a monster meeting, perhaps within in the heart of the town of Sligo. If Sligo he a for flnnkeyism, rf it cannot raise itself to the moral obligations we will give them maich peihaps 16 40 000 men into the town of Sligo and give them a tenant-right nemonstration that perhaps they will be glad to be seen in the tail of it. You have merchants, shopkeepers, &c. that yon patronise. They flunkey like as they are For Sligo always had flunkeys in it ; but, thank God, there are men enough to re- deem the place. We, tlie tenant farmers of the country, will show them tha 20 the tenant farmers are a power and a m Ireland. I have to congra u a e the Chairman ; I have again to repeat my advice to you to go home peacea y and quietly, and leave your enemies at a loss to know how to find fault with. (Cheers.) 25 “ I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Remember tne work of the vreat O’ Connell, a name dear to every Irish heart. Remember his advice, that he who commits a crime gives the enemy a chance ; but they will see from the conduct of this meeting that we will be able to conduct ourselves. ( Hear, hear.’) Now, my friends, as Mr. Sheridan said, I hope at no very uistant day 30 we will form a branch of the Land League.” The proceedings then terminated. 10 July 1 H 80 . Mr. John W. Walsh, Balia, tBcn came forward, and said,- Mr cliairman and fellow-countrymen, I have groat plcasnro in coming forward to second this resolution, which has been i.roposcd hy my friend Mr Walshe. There arc many reasons that gicc me pleasure to-day, and ?hat is to raise my Yoieo in praise of American independenec. (Voice - - Cheers tor Ameriea.-Cheers.) And I hope the Irisli people, under t ie “ k Ch p of Charles Stewart Parnell, will hare Ireland a free natron y t Vdee -Cheers for ParnelU I am sure there is not one here to-day who I I'ot fll -n-ateful to the Americans tor the help they hare giycn ns ndfti.r tl pasrtwelre months. (Hero a man, apparently under the influence ^ f af nf tho nlatform and told the speaker to go baclv, 10 of drink, came to the front pf upon Mr. James Daly, Castle- “d intenmpte'l him or someone. his turn would he next. M:’ J rNairtoWtho reopk to throw him out, when he was taken hy Ml. j. 1 L ISToiiv “ don t Imrt him, take r"'r xi,::: — « » .... u..- liimana;y. ilie spx.ak 1 The sneaker The landlords ,o,,, ,, °^oZ oTiiXiM will be the owners of the land they till, and not hare us ' rh out tlm helhm box before the world. Now, I want erery one of sondiu„ ^ ^ JJ Land League, and by doing that you hare only to Tay ol timing to get your name enrMled, and when you do that get a ‘“rw‘'Nrir'tbaa eCe tent rf'tirplatform, and said : J. W. ^saliy tlien cam ^ speechmg There has been more good done since y nnppvs ^ 2 r the pills. (A Voice -.—Three cheers for Uory of the Hi . 4 liohola.—\'lli Jnly 1880. Mr. John W. Nally, halla, then came forward, and said li’dlow-coimti-ynicii, it is now oigliti^on raontlis ago since 1 proposed tills resolution that t hold in my hand, hut where is the use m coming torwar and proposing resolutions when at this moment there are m ym.r mu st sharks ready to grabhlo up the land from which another tenant 5 evicted. I am a thorough nationalist. I say you must organize and estahlis i a hraiich of the Land League. There has heen more good done ance t us day week, — there has 1)cen a landlord shot in Ballinrohe. ( leeis.) on all can have rifles now, and any of you who are not able to huy a rifle (cheers) or gun have the pitchfork in your hand. But you must pay ten 10 shillings for a license if you want to shoot the vermin. (Here the speaker pointing his finger towards the crowd, said,-) you all know the vermin 1 mean what is nibbling at your hearts. (Laughter.) I believe the words of the Act moans crows, magpies, and jackdaws. I believe them inoludo vermin. You can do anything you like after, but I am not teUing you o 15 do it. You know pills are not bad, I mean for to help the indigestion, you will know them better by Sorab’s pills. (Laughter.) (I believe this wou Sorab pills alludes to himself, for he goes by the nickname of Sciab throughout the County Mayo.) Speaker,-! will now read the resolution for vou ; it is as follows : Third llesolntion. 20 “ That we pledge ourselves to our country and to one another that w^e will do all in our power to persuade persons from taking in future or ho t mg a farm from which persons have heen evicted, having heen obliged to leave through excessive rents.” I will now read from the “ New York Times ” to you; it is headed “ A 25 Talk with Emigrants,” and, perhaps, there might be some one here from Eotford that will be able to tell us whether it is true or not. I wil not read it all for you, it would keep you too long. A man from Eolford, in the County Mayo, spoke enthusiastically of what America had done to alleviate the awfu distress of the poor. He said the priests were using the relief money lo make themselves rich. (Voice ; It is true enough.) The reporter asked him if he were a Catholic, and ho replied that he was, but he had no patience when he saw how Lather Mike O’Donnell was acting. When he came amongst us first wo all had to subscribe to buy him a horse. And a few days before I left home ho bought forty bullocks and put them on a farm that he 35 purchased for little or nothing from the agent who had raefaented a poor family that lived on it until they could not pay any more. (Groans.) tie stored the potatoes in the chapel, and during the night gave t'^em ™ay his own personal friends. And when the Protestant minister, Mr. Jackson, went to him, and asked why he had desecrated the House of God by making 40 it a storehouse, he got no satisfaction. 30 6 IU>ltola.— \'th Jnlu ISHO. Mr. Joseph Walsh (hon caino, and said, 1 1)0^ vcsolution. Mr. J. Daly,— o , 1 a vote ol thanks to oui woitliy .1 ua7 Tvot : rrycrirc' not done yet.) Speaker-Well I have keen asked to do so, =md o.r^stTor like 5 (No personcame forward.) Mr.haly,Iheg to propose the vote of thanks to tke chairman. Mr. W. Clarke seconded the vote ol thanks. 10 Mr. White (Chairman), on coming forward, said- I thank you for the vote of tlianks yon you to keep a firm grip of your holdings, homes peacahle. have passed upon me, and 1 tell I hope you will all return to your 7 (^CdTIuloiKU/J) . Mr. Michael P. Boyton, .»i Kiidavc. Su,,i...rtcd tl,. lesolutum. lie »aid-Meu of KuuieUoweu if there was „„ythi‘ig waatiug here to-day to show the earnestneee o purpose with which you have assembled in spite of the obstacles, of the diftculties t la Pave bL.1 thrown in the way of your coming here, I think your numbers 5 are an answer to it. I should be glad if the men who are sitting th re would come here, for I came here for work and not for talk (cheers.) (1 his was addressed to a party of men who were sitting on the grass some i is tance away from the speaker.) And I want you men of Donegal to liste to.dav intently to my words, and to take from them a meaning deepei to perhaps mail appears on the surface (cheers). The resolntmii^wM^^^^ has been read and proposed on this occasion is one la liberty of analysing for you (cheers). Bear m mm wren i lution' is put to you by the chairman, that each and every man becomes responsible for the meaning of it, and adopts it as his profession ^'^'“Tlmt we the men of Donegal assembled to-day in our thousands on the heights of Cuckaiighrim. do commemorate the glorious amiiversary of tmerican Independence - (cheers) - and the birth of that mighty llepiiblic in whicli the exiled millions of an ancient race enjoy the inalieii- 20 able rights of ‘ life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (cheeis). 'these words are taken from the docuineiit that made its Inst appeal ance on the Ith July, 1776 (cheers). In the year 1776 three rinllions of peop e exiled from their native land beyond the Atlantic, were forced--forced in self-preservation to proclaim their right to life, liberty, and the puisui 25 of happiness. They gave forth in that noble document, signed by a lepie- seiitative of m ery one of those thirteen colonies, represented by every s star in that banner (a flag floating on the platform). They declared no to the power that oppressed and drove them to it, but to the whom woi c y dtlLd therr indlpeiideiice. They resolved to be free, and they declared 30 the reason of that document m the very first sentence o i , respect for the regard, and for the opinions of mankind, induces us o the world the reason that we will no longer submit to George e _ (cheers). They told it in language that to-day is impressed inde i y ^ mind of every boy, as it was in mine when a boy, throng lout le con in 35 ent where there stands to-day under that flag fifty millions ot freemem They declared what they were about to do. they put i m p , they sent it forth to the civilized world, and to that document every man who signed his name (and there were thirteen Irish born men among them) (cheers) Every man who signed his name signed at the same iime ^ 40 deaUi warrant (cheers). And the concluding sentence of " “in furtherance of which we pledge our lives, our proper les and our sacred honour” (cheers). They went and having told the ^ ^ declared, that the law of a foreign country had no right o 4 S . , 11 they l)rove(l it, for with the rifle (cl,cer.)-au.l having tohl t, uhertios- -(choers)-and aiwi the svvoi'd, with fire ant stce le emblems that God to-day that llag, that .■o,.esen s ,n ^,.„e leaved Almighty has “ iveland. These stripes 5 shamrock might Americans aimed high when they went were taken from the s y, defied their hats, but they for liberty. They stripes, and the sunset, and went into God s eternal sky, ai y pinner, the stars that He placed fm a e^eini 10 and they could not go higiei. ^ 1776.” The American a .n,„ a* three millions ot people o p ^3 p-ge. " '"nillTorcheers, I of my cause and my ,,ord of one freeman than the Irishman I would sooner have „ __ Boytom”) He „Peersof you all. (This tPe man. I do not 20 continued ; therefore cheer t e sen im sweeps those believe in men. Men have come -d ,p,n do and grey old hills as they did since the t y liberty. The American peiiiaps hear my aching ° „o„ld „ever have been people won their liberty, and if t y < aown-trodden, and the 25 able to have aftorded shelter to ® „p tpe mightiest refugees of the 'vhok woi d (che^ y power of modern tunes k . 7 ^ women, or a people, or a (hear, hear), and not t le powei^ majesty, and the might of belief, no, nor \;keness with their immortal souls, 30 those who stood in Gods i .j, America in those days as there the people (cheers). There “Iml wbo would have sold the signers are men to-day. too many m I. eland men of that paper, men who would have cut 1 h oat yellow gold of the loathsome powe.^that is sp.ead.n,^^^ y ^ 35 to-day not in cliarity (gioan vvyeanino- I am obliged to be with deep import to my Britaiif I have constitutional. I am living unc . fay.. T am qualified to say wliat lived seven years in free Eiigiaiic an leie floating' to-day is wrong under these laws, for the self-sau 40 hy the power of might, over this is an ’ ^ ^ , ^b ioht of a British /left there (cheers). 1 know well //I ” « you to draw subject, and I intend to tel you t a^ ^ constitutional, “Htok b//rrllr?hro"g^ I will, perhaps, show some of those who S 2 5 •^ 7 ' {Carmlomujh. — Uh Jidy, 1880. — Mr. Boyton). claim to represent constitutional authority here, how much they have outstepped and overste])])ed the power that is conferred on them by the Government ot Great Ih'itain (groans). I wish t(j confine myself now to the purport of this resolution, the second 5 portion of which is a vote of thanks to America for the money she sent here to keej) the Irish people from starving (cheers), “and while expressing our deep sense of gratitude for the magnanimous aid so timely and generously extended to our starving people, we desire to convey ” (I ask you to mark the language, for when this resolution is proposed to you, you will be re- 10 sponsible for it), and we desire in giving that vote of thanks “ to convey to the freemen of America the knowledge that the spirit of liberty is something that has neveryet died out of the Irish heart” — the spirit of liberty unchained ojjpression and unqueiiched by long suffering, awakes with new-born hope this glorious 4th of July in many an Irish bosom amid the mountains and 15 vallevs of dark Donegal. ♦ O You have heard the words of that resolution. If you adopt it here to- day, I tell you that before that same sun rises on the other shore of the great Atlantic, it will be in print before the eyes of six or eight millions of Irish people ro-morrow morning. I think it only due to you, men of Donegal, to 20 tell you that there is more significance in your act, and in raising, for the first time in the history of Ireland, the flag of a free nation here (cheers), a flag that the power that rules has been compelled to honour, for under that flag we thrashed them three times. That flag is raised to-day on this rugged peak of a Donegal mountain, and with God’s good help the 25 inspiring new-born hope that conies from the sight of it will one day or another, when there is no meeting on Cruckaughrim, will tell you to look back to this day, for so sure as God has written his history on these mountains, the land of the O’Donnell’s and the O’Neill’s, so sure as God has marked out this land, the land of the people, so sure will the raising 30 of that flag to-day become historic (cheers). You are sending to America your thanks for charity, but you are also sending a message to our country- men in America — to that other Ireland — that other Ireland where, thank God Almighty, they can stand erect like men, knowing no lord, duke, or earl, or queen, as master (cheers). To these Irish Republicans of the great 35 \V est you are sending a message to tell them for their charity you will show them to-day you are not unworthy of it, and that you mean, as the result of this meeting, to show them that you mean now to help yourselves (cheers). I tell you, in God’s name then, that in adopting this resolution you are 40 doing something serious, and more than may appear here to-day. You are sending a message beyond the sea. Do not deceive them. They would if they could send one hundred thousand men like me, with the benefit, the advantages of a freeman’s education, and of a soldier’s training (cheers) to help you, but they do not think — and I do not think — ^you ought to be helped 45 if you do not show some determination to be no longer like a rope of sand. 6 {Cu,-n,lo,,a:,h.-Uh Jdii, \MO.-Mr. no;,t,m). ''y but t,.. like intelligent bonest .non, nl.oulder to sboulcler. nnd ebow them that ymi are willing to belp youreelvea (cheers). America is a great country. It is a large country. It ,s a powerful country an,l it is only ten days from bore. They have sen you over a lame an', mint of money. They a,'e willing to send you over hfty times as imrch (cheers). They have sent money for chanty, hut sent money for education. They have sent money heie to be used iudiciously wisely, and honestly, to show the way to help yourselves- o 'show von the wa; first to take by the throat the front rank man m the 10 enemy's line of battle. That man is the weapon that has been user mos eflectLlv, most potently, and with an avenging arm, to keep you wheie you are to-d.ay. ,’> put you in a position in which there is an iron c amp .m ‘your head and on your mind, to keep you in the hovels and m the miserable squalid poverty that you see around you to-day ; because they 15 know well that if you were well ted and well clad, and could put your foot firmly on your own green sod, you might like to be i e a man. an a (raid of landlordism. A Voice — “ A. way with them.” . .Mr Boyton-Therefore, Irishmen, in striking to-day constitutionally a no the system of Irish landlordism, you are striking at the greatest weapon Ihat iias ever been held in the hand of that power, that it there be a ju t (iod— and we are told there is a limit even to God s justice will so J reap the harvest, in this ill-fated unhappy island, that they have sowed.^ We are teaching you to stand together within the law tor you 25 less to do anything else. We are teaching you to know British subjects. We want to tell you what you cau do it you wil stand toirether like men, nobly, manfully, and honestly (cheers). If you knew a tenth of the power that you possess under the laws of this land, you be a different race of men in twelve months, but you don . 30 I want to tell you to-day a fact and it has been my lot to do it, m y a time and oft, before an audience of Englishmen four times J If they dared in England to send into your midst an armed body of o dmis in disguise, the people would execrate the Government out of its existence. If thfy dared to allow one of those black-coated soldiers in England to 36 thrust his face pryingly and insolently into the railway gentleman-iiito the compartment in which a gentleman was sitt g, tvould be a row about it. In three days there would be ^ Krnes— there would be a question asked in Parliament, there the gentleman’s friends, dukes, and earls in the Carlton and other places 40 to rLonstrate with the Secretary of this and that and ^ tell them “ this was a terrible encroachment on the liberty o . , subject” If they dared to put, as they did, two detectives into the compartment to travel with me from Dublin to Londonderry I would have him up before his authorities before twenty-tour hours. u espis 45 exerciL of authority that I see in the hands of irresponsible men in this 7 {Car,ul.,na,jh.-ithM!,, mO.-Mr. ,,„lice.rulod country tgroan.), I ^peak ot tne oay Coercion .dels. Peace Preserv.atioii .dots, or any ot tl.e othe Acts th^at lia^ 05 ten used to cloak oppression. I speak ot the days when Irishmen ■ Catholic and Protestant alike-stood^ hto- 1° rifle and wore a bit of steel on their hqT^f a voice, a o rte 'days of the Volunteers of 1782, and while the great power Englaiid was e.taoed in trying to stifle liberty in the far west, the of that SO seifsanre hberty found its way into the northern hills, and gave bir h to the vlnteers ot ’82 (cheers). Ireland had then her own army, and she marched her army, and in Ih.hlin she put across the months f f o Give us free trade, or we will give you the contents of the,e (cliee s)^ When the power of Britain found they could not resist f ^ f . 35 looic, they gave free trade to them-gave Ireland a brief glimpse „a°io.ial independence (a voice, “ Thanks to them for nothing )_ To day every man in this assembly is a British subject and has a .. lit to caii o.( his- shoulder one of those improved rifles, and a piece of ste here it he comes and pays ten shillings, the cost of a licence. Due ot the 40 riohis of freemen, and the right that every man that is a tree, nan n, Eng- la;d and ficotland. or Wales had. is the right to bear arms. 1 hav not in my power to shower little ten shilling licences among yon. I had by the blue vault above us, they would come down like snow flakes. Do stake me. The reason I tell you this is, because the Govenr- 45 ment haTlly consented to extend to Ireland the advantages of an Act > T 2 9 (Carmhtuyjh.-Uk July, 1880.-i/r. Boyton). -the right to hill ground ga.ne. The ground game has not been - far „sn,y reading of the Itill before Parlian.ent yet dehne,l. flunk t . hareJ and rabbits, however, that is so.neth.ng tor yourselve . But I want yon men of Donegal, to know this, that you have a r.ght to bear 5 Inn!, I near then., an.l to learn the use of then, (cheers). 1 an, act.ng ,,, telling you so, under the advice of Queen’s Counsel. et ose w lo ,nay conccn make the best of ** (“''oers). r wisli tliat every young man here could tak. , . i i ,,iU.side where he could hurt nobody, and Darn to ain, a,,d s oo .^anc .ye- r r j .aockerv and a farce to say that they have co.ne he,-e to beat ‘be tfsi;: r;r;iur'You have a right w lr,d:e these cluU and to purchase these rides under the Bntrsh cmrstn Ofl tution until they make any patching or t.nkermg of it again, y a o the rioht to keep the arms, and , o also keep your temper and do not 1 w to\,e trapped by my language or by the infl^. ed boni , • b .vvoVino- “a” fool of yourselves. Do not go kqtgt of anv other man into making a looi j j rl^pr^ for they are not policemen (cheeis), bacKea uy u j nation in Ireland, and the army of occupation, as applied to tiese men, ^ £■ D-rvrv • 1 h pv 3 TG slmply P^rt aiid parcel ot the syste 30 army of oceupatmii [ ^ that, because the /rrrr>an«; “ clieei’S for Isaac x5utt ). a an ,, . , • .i, 35 of British law. and the knowledge of the mean use oDt made ^'tsis , that Isaac Butt had, you would he tree in a week, and that, too, y . and constitutional means. ^ sentiment here to-day J™ K„ ,o. k.o., YOU With a harangue, ihere aie olucj t rvrviPrl Pp It is -'‘Tr" ty, riuir, “‘i- " “■ 10 {Carndonagh.—Uh July, 1880.— i/r. Boytoti). you honour tliat which ,nako» ,ne equal to y,.ur sovereign, aye even by the law of the land (cheers). I wish to tell you one o my i es. this that I have the right to go into the presence oi your sovereign wi out being presented, and that is more than any nobleman m Donega can 5 say 'rhat is another of the rights of a free citizen (cheers) and hat is a rilt, with the help of God, I never intend to sacrifice for until Ireland cp „ive rue an equivalent for that, I will remain true and feithM to the alle- giance I have sworn in the land of my adoption (cheers). Ihey won t put f.:: ;: Parliament, so you need not be afraid to listen. Now, then, there 10 are other resolutions to be proposed, and, as I have said before, have de- tained you too long. At the conclusion of the resolutions T will speak to you gafn for three minutes if you give me time now to draw my breath (cheers) . 11 I (Cnrndonagli. — Juli/, 1880.) TVrr . Boyton , . TT „•! T n^snvp vou I (lid not come down supported the resolution. He said— 1 assuie you ^ 1 1 oVlnn- hnt as they say m anothei place, I ' nl here to do so nu.cl, speech-urakmg, bu as t ^ y TMit myself in order by concluding with a motion. i • + l tl,e third resolution, with the gentle, nan’s very able an po,n ed r 1 1 P T wish to say a few words in support ot that ‘-‘elorh ..at .nnst result tron. th. H i You have been told by the P.-esident of the Insh National Land iea^ue. the leader of the Irish tohfby Mr. Parnell to keep a grip on the land. You have been to d bat 10 throiniout Ireland, from the far-oft’ hills in S‘-bbereen m Coih^ u .1,. -,o.. "f one fortnio-ht, two weeks, a^o, 1 had the piou 1 , rp- e : of S levenainon. to take from the lips of twenty housand T perary men the vote of Tipperary (cheers). Have you ever heard the vow 15 of Tipperary ? 1 will tell it you : “ In over more we lift a hand, We swear by God and Virgin Mary, Except in fighting for iiatiye land, And that’s the yow of Tipperary. 90 (Cheers ) The Tipperary men are heart and soul with this movement, and „ ,s„,, 2S faShOlly n.pLnS O Olfilm.al O tb. w.rJa ot Po.ooll boop'bS * on,, on ■nsra p.. » ». a- •;» t." t ■“ :: do not tell you to cheat or defrauii wherein for ^ ^ Christian Minister who is true to hts Master cod erLed .e w . . means to susta-m hie as the air and as • and from that 35 you are born you are entitled land created for you, you are entitled to draw the me and to house your wives and families between God the system, that steps in between J"" ‘ „ ^bal you are entitled to and his ordinances in your regard. We tell you that you a " iXi:“ drawing your liberty, your life, and the pursui y I 15 {Carndonaijh. -Uh JtdfJ, 1880.— Wr. Boyto7i). rpi ( foil v.Mi to keep a ^ bosom. ^1 herefore wo tell you to keep 1 that which comes from the land, your crops. 1 ay no re y “ % first the .nan if you have any money to nahles yC, to fulfil you.- first '‘f fil "e , - 6 yourselves, to feed yourselves, to clothe ! kod Chly, a;.d ho..se ^your fam.ly and those for whom - " ,< ,„.e res,„,s,h.e tus.loh fo fhe ,.,an and TthTle.. wL l.ave trusted you, trusted to your '7' the prosperity ot the coming season, i a} eve y y ^ ...aer t.m laws of U,^.ealm. *'■ ""7- - h,:t:'r::: !ftetrh:i:,: tim lua as U, no cred.to.- m my opmmn, but as the buckshot be is sustained by the soldiery, the bayonets, , ” J “ -"THrSr: the power of passive resistance, and the power greate. than al tl e k ledge which is greater than all-the knowle^e tha t unded act.o. +1 + ravron thp luw must treuible before it (cheeis). a power that e jf are “.. t:entyl..r hers, could be held at the gate of these S:7?i“HfS3H;E:5£ America are leauy policeman to 40 of the men that are pi , , twenty ns nn."”.: ans »- r.ncn™”v :nn:rrni:~cr 45 with you, the people (cheers). 16 X (C'arm/om,;,//.— U/- .hdn, IS80.--A/r. \ow tl.e,. I l.avc asl<..l vou t..-.lav to united Irisli.nen ; 1 have aid ;ou to-day to put in the haekgronud tor ever the luttor .no.nor,eB ;,;u. veu,etu. hopes that have been a centuries. Whetlier though a man kneel at this altai oi i , 5 :,au pray to his God with a covered^ head or on h.s liended knees, it has nothino- to do with VOU. (A voice Nothing a ) fCod e,rof the North, I ask you to-day, and I do so ni u, the name of your eouuuon eonntoy -k you snair to the iiower ot Britain, i ou cai * ' , . . -.1 ‘Mni-tVi ifheers) They know ay, 1(1 in -another they .Iread, it is a united North (chee . ) y th'is'rtuti* h,rr!;ifthe bookTelr ’written about religious eontrcn-ei^es ” ' -r: betw’eeu tihnselt ^nd his fellow-nian (cheers). That is the trutli o ,t men of the North-Catholics, Protesteiits, and Preshytenans-and I must say, though I differ fion, the Presbyterians in my faith. I no thincr It is tliis Isaac Nelson told me oiice-(cheers)-- Ym “ ffiidmi honest Presbyterian who is not at heart a wiVsettle the Land Question, and having settled y" 0 5 deal with every grievance ; hut I appeal to you , ^ nd mtensilthat any man can, unite-stand together. - " man’s faith e‘r creed may be. Hear with the weaknesses '> ^ in ciuick temper ; know but any man as an Irishman. J J it lltk and let no man ever raise a question that does not concern 30 anybody but himself and j tp, p„,i„ess of this melrtlrior"” Vou hell this resolution read. It is in order to settle tie La'nd Question. We want to unite and in doino- that, we want an organization which shall be effective be o- . „o.l,-land when any man goes outside that organization who has tyen a pubUcpledoea.idbidsfor,takes.orholdsafarmfromwhichhisfellow-labourer h flllow-tenant has been evicted for an unjust and inequitable ren , say mark ill down, do not do any illegal act, but do not speak to him, do not kneel near him at the chapel, and don’t let any gm t la^ me any r 40 spent for lierself-{la«ght.er)-when you meet him on the load, y anything, but treat him as an unclean thing. Tf vou had that spirit to-day as it is in parts oi y Coun y you would sVle the Land Question in Donegal in twe ve months^ X It Vu to help yourselves. We are telling you how to-day, and .fid;/, im.-Mr. Hmjlod/. 7 ^ ,l.o.-eibro once .nmo, m tl,e ,uo.t urgent manner, and fronr lips that wdl perhaps, never speak to y.m “S;;'"’ baling ” 0 ™“® ‘his , or occupy any iarm or old f evicted, and to oppose and to resist, uj e y tlie exercise of such base and unchristian tyranny on the part the lords ' We want vou. in taking this, to form a union of the tillers of the o Now, if there be one man in this assembly who is base ®>““g ' ‘ ' ,0 enoindi, cowardly enough, and, need I say, knave, ‘ iled^e, let him go hide beyond the hill, and et every man who w U ake Od ;i;dge himself, let him hold up his hand with me (® “-)• [He.e hands were held up. Those who did not appear inclined to hold up hands were shouted at to do so.] 15 The speaker ol Chlrles 'ZZrt Parnell’, t,rnd League, and 1 nominate, subject to li; esteemed friend, a man it is -t necessary fm me to tell y^^ 20 whom I recognize a worker-Mi. Cia P ^ +I 1 P T pacrue and all you have to do. Wi- Orampsey, Vie, and ereh Land Leaguer will be entitled to have sufficient unds or lawyer to fight for him in every case of landlord injustme and M ill furthermore, in furtherance of the pledge ta -en y y°“ That is 25 your wives and families provided for if they J the work of this organization. This Land l^eague lorins ,, , , dredth that it has been my good fortune to assist 111 *' ™ twelve months, I am proud of Donegal, and I thank yom m ‘h® J“ that flag, and I say, by the spirit I have seen here to-day, thank Dod, 30 there is hope for Ireland (cheers). 18 {Carndonaijh.—Mh July, ISSO.— Mr. lioyton). A vote of thanks a as then proposcl to the C'^innan who b reply, advisedthe people to go home (\uietly and peaceablj (a voi and shame the police”). Mr. Boyton , ^ 5 again addressed the meeting. He said :-n.ey have broug i no on y le police, and 1 rvill not lose the opportunity. It is the op.mon o y if they are policeme., they should be here without arms. If they are soldiers, I am told, and acting on that op.mon, that they have been gm y, some of them, of conduct degrading to the uniform and ‘ 10 soldier (groans) if they are soldiers. The men perhaps duty and I hope you will take a lesson from them and do y aiel’oldiers, or if they are policemen, they acted illegally unconsWu- tionallv, whether by the orders of their authorities or » down and attempting to destroy the placards that convened this assem 15 blaoe (o-roans). When I am furnished with proper authentic informat on ^that subject, I will bring the conduct of these po icemen ot eir superiors to' the knowledge of their masters (groans cannot vet their masters to bring it to the knowledge of the Goiernme at ever; possible opportunity I have, I will bring it to the koowle^e of 20 the people I want you to show the truth of that second resolution by dtersing peaceably, quietly, and orderly like good Land Leaguers, rhat m?ans .loi IruJJ I want you not to give these soldiers or one of their officers, or one ot the crowd of auxiliaries, spies and detectives they have with them, not to give them a chance to say there was ‘he shghtes 25 occasion here for their presence. I know you will do it. came lere hundred miles and lost two nights’ rest to do this, and if you go om peaceably, and show these men that you despise their to keep the peace that was never menanced. you will pay me and y sg1v6S an infinitG honour (chGors). 19 {^Carndonagh. — 4^/i July, 1880.) Mr. Crampsey blanks to Mr. Boytou tor having come so far Said— ct us le most grateful •md havino' spoken now tor two nouib. Inks torshowing yon your duty, and he has shown constitutionally bound to do, and what you will do. I propose 5 thanks to him. Mr. Boyton In reply said— A shilling telegram will always bring evictions whenever you want me (cheers). me here to resist 20 T (Dmmheernn.-Wlh.hdy, IRSO.-Mr-. Michad /’. Boylon.) Michael P. Boyton S,i.l-Tc,u.Mt lar.um-s an.l Ulors ..f U.c soil-y.u have poseHhy heard, <.r iva.l li.av the Battle ef Waterloo uae lust. U was bccaime tl.o oaval. t xv e e late.’ And to-da-y, while 1 have had so.ne experience m the ha.nU.ng ot trooi^ in my lifetime, I must certainly say, speaking trom that expeiicuce, , la ^ Irtslnnen, want that e.xperiencc that your euenues are ’ 1,0th in the House of Connnons and in the eoluu.ns of the public pi e,^,. ■ 'I'liere is no I'arlianientary organization or discipline. (Here re re “ trv and tell them, if they have time tor hearing it, what ve ate heie Aoreeibly to the invitation of the branch of the T,and League that eon ;ra thil meeting, 1 have the honour to appear before you .s the lepie- scntative of the National Organization (heai, anc c ee s) 15 unfo'rtunately for the first time, to this r:rrr 1 . 0 .. m ,p L, iianiay, ^ing Christians in the^H. who have pimped lir^ti^^rl'a^asendingathll Oree here to-day. But bear ‘’"Iiid'f :ine among you, men of Leitrim from the far North. Done^rb 35 Galway, Tipperary, and Clare, and several othei . . ^ tVie people have^.nie o„eer. r:.',rMa;: riC: that islo'-day, thank God. the National move- 1, (cheers) Follow the example of Mayo, not so much in „.ent, was hoii ( 4 and listening to oratory. 30 coming here, miles on miles, 1 y _ Thnt -is much as you like, but and briiioing flags and banners, and music. That as mucti as yo ^ wtw mNo in practical work, for all this amounts to smoke, unless.it 35 Le!,::“ Tie LaLl League is yourselves. You, the people tlm we want to le"arn the lesson ’that Ire the mt’;!:: !::re: LroHi!; l m society, but especially the larmei 40 :::t tlteC onus owl (hear). The resolution which I have been asked ‘bl’ZTvrnmTlT^Tiy legislation on the Irish land ipiestion can never be sa”Zctory or per.nmient, which does not abolish absolutely the present system of landlordism. 0>n,mhnm,.-\\th.luhi, 1 S 80 .— Wr. Michael P. Boyton.) (.. 1,„„„ uMth tl,c, In tins .-csolutl.-n you arc sin.ply war cry tliat lias gone Ibrtli against tlie system ot lamlloulism. "‘u !!‘n,'.t’Iwn with them, it is away with it. You have nothing to do , ...aiviihials. You have to .■» -th ^ ' Jf i ll-;::!:. In^that lle insumen ana Zhiiaren of Irishmen what they are to-day. He said ,t was an engm of elaborate wickedness, the best Htted to degrade human nature that eve. , 0 i s d from the perverted ingenuity of man. I believe that app hes to hish imdhnlm (•• Awav with them.”) Unless this movement, which I have to tell YOU, is one purelji national, and the men who would to-morrow wis i me in this movement of the people of Ireland for the I"---" of their fathers is not a truly national movement. I would msta ly 1 y It that inv tongue mioht be for ever silent before I would speak a wold Zii of e laml’miestion (cheers). It is because this ‘and moveme^ liiie.itly pZical nationalist, because it is a movement of Ireland ^ for the Irish, that me aucl the like ot me are enabled to . • • 1 see, and I am sad to tell you so, a want of .... • m'nj « ofi men that makes vour hopes for the future of Ireland sink tioiii . . . ^ ^ ■ this is the want of what is called cohesion. It is the want very ^ is Ueepiuo von where von are to-day. It is a want of an-1 a wa of nnitvicheers). It is all very well to cheer. You are prepared to-day to ■or riiole in Illy coat, and in your brother's coat, and you are wasting it, 2.-. wliere it si.onld lie against the common enemy. We preach inland to tell the people the power they possess. W e, too, come t i ll, heoanse of the infamous system that has made you paupers ; n'a o ins met w-n to assert vonr natural rights. Who are those we seid ( yo«; own sewes. (Here I lost part of the speech, owing to the •m i.mmer in which the people were crushing). The men that I see here before me, that perhaps some years ago I hope it is not so to-day, used to go crawling with their caps in hand they aie slaves in their hearts and souls. The iron has gone in so fai the that 'it has wasted their spirit away. Yon have 3., hnt that people is like a rope of sand, tmless it is in .le w^s o h et > that was read from Isaac Nelson a united people. Nothing ocldeve the simple questioii^tho land question— because a ■ ■ ■ ' ' ,t 1 fo T that question (cheers). (Cheers for Nelson.) 1 don t now iiriZetam yo^ hnt very little longer, ^ 40 you what the Land ^^ry Lirphysically incapacitated from u.) a.,. « Zise of Commons will, in the long run. amount to nothing. 1 don t \ R 4 M,. 1380.-Wr. Mwhrud P. tw .natter wi.at you beg ^ „kets of the ,uen you .-.uhcal it ,uay be so long as .t t„„,ay from 5 sent there to kee,. their „f Leitrim, rvhy did you send bun there? f if you bad been united in C:“ ^ " ' With a un^d people a settlement of the land question - We will show you, there will be two h^^i m ^ ::;r; “ *" a' 1. .1.1. "• '-"O' " -a- -> on another subject.) All ill lavour of the resolution say “aye. ^ * 20 30 .. -i ^ » .... — . rr, - 1 . T rlon’t know now whether i will oe aoie uo E!t:rr:x':::fH:n^u“:aS^^ know that there are still men in Ireland, who are no, a, raid to stand » the ])latfonn. ■ Y ^^ParTmihue a little for telling you the signiHcance that is ' A ntl!:: countries to passing resolutions. Resolutions have een s 01 ered at meetings but when a resolution is passed at a public meet , irin that is present, and gives his assent to it, is responsible for Ins assent, thereto. Now listen, men of Leitrim. Ye irishmen.-' mark you, and there are Irishmen Imr. I wish they would once and for all t jr Yo Y Ya^W ’’'^td^lu'Xrrirtht face of this pledge-whoever is base .0 rYgh’to do it, rpll be P« — to the welfare ot his country (cheers). iNow, yo “'AnYryoAhave nothing to borrow from the past, perhaps that has been your own opposition, disunion, &c., that has ep you w ere 5 6 R 2 7 iiw I S80 Mr. Micltctel I*- Boijion) (Drnmhrrar.—UthJulii, I ...e, .-can,. U,e,.o.-„,c ,Vo.u t.e n. he ‘ foL_sta,>d together, an.l. not nilamous system. Yon must 1^ ,,,• (, 1 ,^ or like the men of this town or the next 5 ,he north, l.nt like Irish, nen l.a.nl togethe.- one ami a Y wi„ .,.rve the for yonr awaits this island, ‘ Teverv' one of yon took vonr little children, that it Mould >o o . M-orldly effects and ‘ ‘ ‘ ^ ^ 1 No matter who he may be . • • • ,0 powerless . . . • ^ „„t a„swerahle .■■■■■ i ,f the men who compose this national land league, ::: tv;::;:;:' : ...t a: time m ht, ,f the peop. of ireham. heeome „ » o. “" :;;:;:r;v'::":J:: anything else. f^tVh ''iV learned, thit the people that nations, the most powei • Government whatsoever, created by God, people is the power, J 3,,^ tp, ,,,le. as in that be a "ViVs"’ Eterntl otiimiices, fhat the earth was 2(1 the hegimiing of &o- > ' e united body, and all Ireland to the hand - b people of Ireland pay only W^iem come and get it. 30 «„0,000 tenant farmers miwi iy l.y^^ -^^ tbismessage- vv^vrrt:’;:rVreto_t..^^ strength that Providence has given us in supi o o An appey to the hearts "y‘ ™ ,p,p aiid-lS^Vhi^nST “T; C^rimsVenTlmVrthat landlordism backed by the power and iSVVihlepriLvouof. Wbe.i yon are standing erect on you. 40 own soil, you, the people, will ^ broken because I construction VV‘met here assembled whether they be LanmeV- --t. The words of this pledge yen know what they meaii. G iiw r I , 1 ^^0 Ur. Micharl /^ lioyton.) /'■'—/ “n. [Drumkeeran. — WthUuly, 1 >‘ • n • Ul, or who will take alarm from which The .na„ who is o^ anlly or i,-„„ o„ that hill his neighbour or thu.r licio i wo ■ ^ lahoorilii? o.oii, " bo are labourers this K yours, as well as the the true . . • • ^^ J fiaof vou will never turn e:u th 5 hutoers. 1 want you to he l-an. Mr. larallorrl, oa that tarm, that the eioi. m. y ;|”(lauirhter). Now, mark me, aaeiit, or baililf beml their back to a e e ^ you men who eai ii your bread ly t ^ aepend on what heaouers. Graaers, itc., gio'' mS < ' 1 ^^^ J ^ „u.st lie Laud Leaguers. 10 we s,.end o» the every man, no matter what lus ,, eland for the Irish. Not one. th e oi . y ^o in eesition or profession m soemty maj be ,u the sight of God and ot his 'ellowniun Ih »-■ -■ ”■' vn‘ .’Ti:” .;;: ":r i.~ “ 4 work-youi Nvmk now. ,,,1 the sea you have a claim on the exei- ,,ibutea bt your brothers beyo d tl e s a, y^^^^ 20 tions of myselt and the men j ^ settlement is with yourselves. Don’t mind the landlords, i may teii } V.m will get plenty to contrary to law, aye, even yVe ask no violence, ‘ ^ fFncrlaiid Shake hands with one eoiitrary to tiio infaniousiy 7- :-'::':i"he law. (Here the 2.0 another "’’'f I a v J ^ speaker expressed a hope t lat 110 011^^ hearing you the cause). He -^; ;';,“;';;'t;'e renewed i.ope the sight of those hands have given me, i thank y , , t g„ing up tell me that I am ripit (cheers). ^ . . . • * * * * i-iT-sac-t-ho oeoiile were about to lie tlien came forward, lor ‘ “‘b ''‘g „,|,o said it was im 35 Iwouiiseyouareasseinhledhme.iiiexe^^^^^^^^^y^ „„coiistitutioiial exer- and that you are not going o ,.ise of unwarrantable or uiiiiecess^ai j ^ duty. I want you to 8 ° .„„t distance, and answer those people, many of yon have come here a gi • peaceably, 40 their lying and y‘®'‘' p boeiher for Ireland, and that you will b free from crime (cheev^or I repeat here to y ^ eventually O’Connell— while 1 hold-mt ' ^,.1,^ eomniits a crime settle the land question, 1 say U at Oives strength to the enemy (cheers). & 30 (Conn. — Will •Tnly^ 1880.) Mr. Mathew Harris. Ml’. Mathew lliirris proposed the first resolution, as follows . .‘This .neeting being convened for tl.e triple object of advancing the land ,„ovenie..t, exposing and denouncing acts of tyranny and oppression and of keeping able in the breasts of Irishmen the sentiment of nationality in 5 unabaled action, be it resolved that the interests of the and movement will be ti.e better served by adherence to the established rules of the Irish National Land League, tyranny and oppression being ,, counter acts of mercy and justice, and the ultimate object of Ire anU nation by the indignant repudiation of any feudal barter that would add a 10 link to the already too close union rather than sever that which bin s. Felbw countrymen, it is with sensations of emotion I address you under the sliade of this ancient edifice. Roderick O’Connor, the last king of Ireland, spent fifteen years of his life-fifteen years ot inglorious ease vears when he was singing psalms with the monks of the ; 1 S 'should be fighting for his country. There is a time for prayer, and a tune LrtoHi let L pray in the camp, on the battle-field could very well say their prayers without King Roderick But the Irish people could not do their duty to their country without _ him was the eilodiment of Irish nationality. The edifice has fallen into decay 20 but the spirit of piety, liberty, and nationality, which inspired the men of the period to do battle for their country. That spirit existed as green to- day fn the hearts of our people as it did the first day this country. The English as well as the Irish were great church buildeis, but there was this difference that, when the English built a church t ey a so 25 built a castle, and when the English soldiers were driven out, hey ep. the castles, and in some way they have managed to keep hold of eountrv. I would not wish to draw any distinction between religion an politics I think the best Irishmen are the best in attendance to eir relivion It is the one God who inspires the heart of the patriot is the same 30 as He'iGio inspires the religious. I would not try to have people praying when they ought to be fighting, and fighting when they ought to be praji g. Everything should be in its proper place, and its proper position. Ah of you have lieard of the Bill which Mr. Forster has introduced. It was a vreat measure intended merely to protect the tenant farmers 35 against °the aggressions the landlords has been P— « “ Mr. Gladstone who, 1 believe, is a good and wise man. Mr. Gladstone Ids simplicity, thought that by bringing iii a moderate measure measure that would protcet the poor man against the nch that would save the Irish people for the time being, he thought that 40 by bringing in such a measure he would conciliate the landlords of IrelLd ° Bui, my friends, he undertook a task he knew nothing of. Mr Btitt, too, thLght it was possible to bind the landlords and tenants, he thought that by them it was their interests, and he thought by doing 3 ) [Cong.—Wlh July, 1880 .— Mathew Harris). Lr - rs.r. »::r; r .rr.;?"- i 5 C ■). He .nust turn round {part of the sentence fo, ) and am some one class or another, and rvhat class are so fit to hold t as the ,„en ,vho till it. It is not an absolute contract as is a contract which takes into account fail. ,5 tineencies are the crops which grow upon the and ^ - .f Ae If a man contracted for land at a certa.n rent-.f fail-I say the man is not n, orally bound to pay fail And if the landlords rely upon his cuckoo cry about “ « If nrotrty I will ask these men, where men have rights or dut.es or ,0 Wh Z rShts or duties belong to the people. Is 7;, to opnress another. We shall make them remember that we all depend upon the bounty of a good God, and that the man ^ ^ for his fellow .nan, because he happens to be a poor man, he .s „o „ against every principle upon which j^Znmons I 9^ In this debate which has taken place in the House of Com.nons i 25 In this hobate was sory to trs.::: -i - ■ r r. L. .f Mr. H„„ in ."jlng " “• "'J “* “ Zr^no rauer ho: a^ lie may’ be. his not the approval of his :rr t:Jn.“ :eZn;r"tio:ziu! "mZ : *: 7 35 ;;t;r:h::te"^ rt:ct:z.nd:virafoZr;^^^^^^^^^ z. « r. TutZhrVe 1:1:1 — z r: :r:z r Ight up for murder, and when they refuse to find a pnma to case they are not doing their duty. This shows the stron ant.- case, . -TTi 1 a WVintpver mav be said about national feeling existing in England 7" 45 the land agitation or any other agitation, you n 4 C {Comj,--nth July, Mathew Hams) V the national independence of your security uiitd you have i. nd vou see the cabins opposite them, country. You see the old church, an y resuscitated. I hope the c^ins of our peep e shal spring up .n You do not know the day the wav 5 England, and the only ^ there can he no true that without achieving the libert> oi yuu j liberty. remark about a class of men Before conelud.ng I ^ this country- who next to 'ho »" ’ The°land-grabber may take a single 10 ,he land-grabber an ^1 e ^ ,,, “‘™’ ■ of tL homes and residences of humble people. Industry ceases, every * g ctpaclv eve on the grazier class, for Let roe tell you all i have saw, anu and eloquent Chairman, it will all pass I „„t come come together and „ J,ff„rts L in vain. You „ ^°"™:t’:,ra::h:;— r against you. There is one evil 20 may say that t slightest claims put amongst .'hese inen,^ »d '"a^ 'o t^^^^ ,^m,ter like Mr. forwaid m yo force, what chance have you Gladstone^ dare^^mt run ^coun^^ ^ resistance, except yo j nthprlv love charity, and Christianity, amongst T' ol But if t on show you are not ready to go forward to assist from yoin Bu t rf 5 I p„33,M ir "dll’ rgraJf a -uc^n when you have ^ .at .e Lu To Xot unite with his fellow man, such a man is a greater enemy than the landlords themselves. 5 0 2 ^Conci.—Uth My, 1880.) lev John O’Malley, P.P. . ' , ,,, * , • I * TTp said Mv Inends and fellow "'Trt'wi Tol bribe Lple truth who; I say that never in ,ny We dhri'fel such pleasure in addressing a meeting as I do on the present 12^ When I look round on this splendid meeting, assembled under the 5 aha'dow of the sacred shrine, it gives me hope that the days of our ree om re annroachin m I want to know where is the man that tells me I havo^ no n2to be here°. Will any man tell me it is not my place as an Irish pr.es t s de by side with the people. I stand here before you as an Irishman Zsant°evcept the Land League. The object of the Land League is o do Lay with iLh landlordism. Has not Irish landlordism been the strong garrison of the enemy, for mind you. although the other g^son has disappeared-the Irish Church-it was but a thrauneen o the Irish 20 LanXrds The Irish Protestant clergyman was often a good man, an ^ h” wtnissed it, but the Irish landlords have spent their money m Pari. ond left the people to themselves. Therefoie I say ith anlrds” I will assert here before high Heaven that the a fon and the meaning, and the intention, and the desigi. of Irish 25 Cdlo’rdism has ever been to annihilate the Irish faith ; they tried o annihilate the Irish people / -^tr" btilg'-t SuTd"; afte; L:::r"mLTnd:X,r;ndT« .nthalew halbcrowns L divide here and there, and the sights I have seen never will leave to divide nee ’ eyes with :L™" ’li::e si te Md corpses in on^e house. I have seen round Castiebar whole villages cleared away, people murdered and the tyrant that did that still lives, the strongest lyutation oi the calumny tLt the Irish people are a nation of assassins. I have been sent 35 back as^a priest in Connemara. There I saw whole mountain sides cleared away by another tyrant who still lives. And one fact, I hope the crenttoeii of the press will take down. On one occasion 18 , , :jeetmenls were entered, and the ruffianly^ f tllto divided the proceeds between them. Seeing / 40 despair that anything ever would happen to raise ' s rouLd • T saw these meetings. Last I said that the spirit of the people was roused , now thiy wml th® ir work ; like the fable of the birds and the persmi who was going to reap the field. As long as you were looking to memb 6 July, 1 880 . -Her. John a Medley, p . p .) r ^ ■Rut (tO( 1 helps the people that mind them- i;:r"r r;:rr « .i- - »« "t ■ tt ■'inn is strenirth If you take a piece oi thread you can snap frirthre^ -- of them 'and it will lake a boy to smash it ; put twenty it, put inree Kront- it’ but t)ut a thousand - , a if will t-ikn a stronfif man to breaK ii, i it will hora a sMp-, you wiU put it .-ound landlordU,,,. d lash it to the oround. Talk is cheap, but what we want is action. ”\Ve want that every'’ parish in Galway and Mayo shall liave its council, and We want that e X P , jt and pay his every single means will be used to make eve y 10 money. For if the peoide are united and stick to eacli ot Twmtatly^sronTwold about taking land belongliig to another. landlords nave i r j jg murder. A man or sent to the bottom of the Atlantic. i y • fViinrr to tnko awav a mans liie i jjui said to me, “ Is it not a savage thing to taive away what shall you say to the man who brings it upon hiinselt ? I 20 the system of assassination ever yet entered into the councils of any o y of Irishmen Now, my friends, I have said so much anout the Land League, and about my position here to-day, as a member of the Land League, and TrWh cLzen and now I shall say a few words about my position as ::iri prie I si: now, that wherever the Irish people are contending 25 for th ir just rights, 'the proper place for the priest to be is, not alone with he X d but at tiieir hid, and the people will go wfoh them It may be asked where are the priests, at the head of the Land League? I defy any man’ to see a nobler object in the world than to see men trodden up risinv up to assert their rights ; and I ask, are they not putting into practice 30 the Brst law of nature-self-preservation ? Certain wild words may be used llmeetings. Well, that is carping at trifles. There are no large meetings *at there are not some wild cries, and behind these, I must say, there is a “eal of good. It has been objected that people of no consequence : It tL head of these meetings. But so, I say, why do not you com 35 and lake your place amongst them ? I say it is the duty of Irish prmsts to head their people in getting their rights. I will conclude by as mg you to give one hearty cheer for the man who has put the spirit into nation— Charles Stewart Parnell (great cheering). 7 _1 uh Juhj, 1880.) Mr. James Daly MIows — “ That coinpetition in land nroposcd the next resolution, as follows. i I . , m • havin.. proved to be detrin.er.tal to the best interests and social wcllbem lrcda!,d, witi. a corresponding pecuniary gain to .be -aiord duss aiid the Legislature failing to remedy an evil of such magn. ude, vh.eh has 5 brought desolation to thousands of homes, be it resolved that no person shall bid for or occupy the land from which another has ^ inability to pay a rack-rent, and where it niay be egi ima ^ laud which has been voluntarily surrendered, be it resolved tnat no person si, all pay a higher rent for the same than the Government valuation. 10 Reverend and respected chairman and patriotic men of Cong, I .'ave been asked to propose the second resolution. It would be my “”'® ° ‘ / farthi.m for the land from winch a man has been evicted But I say, in L prLiice of the Government reporters, that a should no pay any rent for the lands from which another has been evicted. A 15 speeches that have been delivered, it is not my intention to delay you ong. This resolution says that there should be no competition lor the land The political doctrine should be that he who tills the soil should own it Landlordism is a legalised term for picking your pockets. I say J"’ ,s a legalized term tor picking your pockets. The land of Ire 20 oiven to them when these murderers who followed Cromwell and have taken your places. If my great-grandfathei^ coat was^ o C. by your oreat-grandfather, bave I a right to it ? .“No, no. ) Give tnesc landlords something for their title and send them about their business. . am a member of the Relief Committees in Castlebar, and we 2.5 to get money from committees to send our families away. Loi - m has aped oni own gentleman -Lord Oranmore-who was pitchforked into the place by the men of Mayo. He is like the monkey spitting down on you He has called for a list of crimes, and asks fur more cl.aiiis lor you^ man sent down money to get the people to reap the Sa.on liarvesL^ 30 not be surprised if next year they told you to stamp on eve^y kind of s except the Champions. These periodical lamines arc brought o" ^y t landlords. Tell these men that they may emigrate themse ves be any migration in this country pick the men from the wilds o. Connemara and pLes nearer to yourselves, and place them on the lands that have been 35 made good bv your forefathers. It would be better to have the peasant than the pheasants. Until then you will have periodical Father O’Malley says he saw five in one house dead. * drama be enacted only but for the landlords? I presided at the town meeting. But, by Heavens, the prison bars were 40 keep me from venting my feelings. I want no promotion. I to we, on the busy pinnacle and say you must follow my beck. I you had men in '47 to take up your case could Lord Lucan s bnl oeks be on the streets of Castlebar? There was a bill introduced by [) / (Cong.—Uth July, 1880.— 3 /r. .Acmf.s Dthe laiidgrabbers to put 30 the people out. You have been aroused to a sense of your duty to your country Swear before Heaven, that this land which God created for us you are determined to maintain. In Tuam I have seen the people carried to graves without a coffin, forgotten by men, not by God. He says He shall revemre all the crimes committed by tyrants, and these are 35 the landlords. All the strong arms of Ireland have been raised up to help you in your struggles, your brothers across the Atlantic are watching you. If they find you lying down they will cease ; but if you are determined to be free you must strike the blow against landlordism. I will sketch over the attempt at Ballinrobe. They have run over to 40 Claremorris and took one man from amongst us. But they wanted to have some bird in the nest. They knew he had nothing to do with the murder. They look with an eye of suspicion upon everyone who says we will be no 10 {Cong.—Wih Jvly, L 880 .— P. J. Gordon) longer bcOT..-., If you waken up timt spivit of undying nationality in vou^ bosoms, speak it to yon,- children in the morning and when they are goino to bed, that it is their right to assert their right to the land ol birth The Police went as far as Queenstown and arrested those men on- 5 their way to America. I stole away Bve of them, and before a week elapses the other two will be away too. If there were a crime committed against the man, let them find out the guilty party and the guilty party m his own heart. He has evicted a poor widow and her orphans and e em starve. Then I say the guilty conscience requires no accuser I will ask 10 you to raise your hands to high Heaven, and say no man will take the land Lm which another has been evicted, and if you break it you cannot say but you made the pledge in the presence of two soggarths aroon. any man occupy that land let it be the police with a barrack. I don t object to the police, they are better than the landlords. I ask you to be 15 in the future united. The House of Commons is composed of landlor I robbers. 11 {Cong.— nth. Jnhj, 1880.) Ml-. P. J. Gordon S,i.l -No honour cnn be bestorverl on ,ne greater than tins I have to do now, in seconding a vote of thanks to one of 11 i, book has gone into the cabin and into the mansion Some have re d , wlrtear because they knew the doctrine would rise up amongst the , Irish neople, and the teaching of that book would bring you to e rom o de na d what Father Lavelle has written for. He said in Scotlai d It he was an Irishman born, and ready to die for is country I k ‘onto give three cheers for him (great and prolonged cheering). Same for Father O’Malley. 0 Rev. P. Lavelle brietiy returned thanks. 1.5 G'urlevn.—Mj 1880.) Matthew Harris, Balliuasloo. Matthew 11 avris, hall inasloc. lie said— , . , r « >’cllow-coui,Uyiiicn, 1 fou- 1 would coUapso under tlio kindness ot yoiu reception, but that I know that reception is given to mo as llie reiircsen- talivo of the Land League here to-day (cheers), a body that has done more , to inspire the ^OThidiTfs-ir manliness and determination into the hearts o 5 the Irish peasantry, and it has done more to unite them in the grandest and noblest cause that men could be united in, the cause of the poor, the humble, and the dejected against the proud, the tyrannical, and the strong. Ihe work of the Land League is to band to_setherHmj«^^ of this country against the ari.stocracy^nhS3i^nSlSI!5^^ 10 the aristocracy. (Cheers.) 1 1™^“‘ prS^^sJ tbOTand League has made through the support it has got from Irish people ; the progress that it has made is something wonderful, some- thing that has driven terror into the hearts of the enemies. For. no matter where the exterminating hand may lie ; he may take refuge m Pans, he may 15 go to that second Sodom, he may go wherever he likes, but wherever le ^■oes the voice ot the people will reach him. The true sentimeu s o i ei y have at last taken possession of the people. He feels that at last all us devices, all his plans, all his unprincipled tyranny, are begmnrag » ' him. The people, guided by the true spirit of true religion and purity 20 (cheers), that the people, guided by those nohle sentiments, see all the plots and plans and foul schemes that have ever been raised up against them, no matter what they may be; unless they until tliey abolish land- lordism in this country and all the foul and bad feeling that is connected with. it. (Cheers.) ^ 25 “ I am proud to see in this lonely place to-day so many assembled, this remote locality, so far away from towns and cities. I may tell you that the enemies of this country have taken possession of city and citizen. They have taken possession of our towns and citadels. They lave ta -en pos session of everything that is the work of man. But they “J'’* ^ 30 possession of the broad plain or mountainside, or the lonesome valley are still in possession of mir people, and thus they assemble m their housands to denounce a system supported by bayonets and rifles. Oiir citadels aie the hearts of brave Irishmen. Their noble intellects or their noble Hearts not be contaminated by slavery; who have not bowed themselves down liefore 35 the tyrant or the oppressor or the tyrant, whether he came with a bribe oi with a sword in his hands. That is a proud thing to say of our people. (Cheers.) We are the only people who. after seven centuries of oppres- When England, great and proud as she is, when her powei and’her strength has fallen by the weight of its own corruption, Ireland 4.0 will be pure, noble, and self-sacrificing. “ The\-esolution which my friend Mr. Cogovin has read for you condein- natory the members of this county. r. t 4 . + f n o /see on that banner there, ‘ Galway to the front. What I want to tell you here to-day is that Mr. Mitchell Henry w'as another - . le 15 Lnily of O’Connor Don has been put out of the county of Eosoommon. No matter how plausible he (Mr. Hemy) may be, he nightly raises his voice. Major Nolan himself does not come to the front with Mr Parnel and the men with him. If he does not be a sincere advocate of the people he wi 6 ( (J /I rt((‘ 11- -Jnhi IS///, lsso.--.l//'//A^''/- Ihin-i.s.) Inrlainentary action, and stated that they should not again sit ni rai-lianuait Tor (lahvav it' tliey eontinued their pri'sent course.) / 5 ne eoniinued,-*^ 1 am glad to ;; ^ttid ^ «,en .,o is i„.aay. H one of your aristocrats, iha o /Tnmditnrl Mr. Miteliell lorwavd as the man of . 1 1 , I am very sore on this point tl s. Association in Balli- was Gstahlislied, we hac oim fhvouo’li Mayo and I think 1 a rivp Qiippches delivered were read tluougii mayo, nasloe, and the speecn . , ivTr,vn All the great men 90 they had a m-eat deal to do with the people of 20 theyhaci ^ fellows do xmt we kept aloof from • y ’ -^y ^ to get some support. lielAonr ground am — -- We wrote to the association to which I much pa not m l is wllat I would ask of you-(Some interruption ::!::r:ed iwlnl noise which was created hy a couple of fellows arguing on the road close hy.) Ar XT • - ddiere is some work going on to injure tins meeting, (t he 30 here is what I an y ^ „.ore no Here IS what I Wish t y ^ Mitchell Henry and r nT 'nie:::: r;;- oi landioi. and hamfl-. whe., Mapi Aolan. y Liotlimg. There was the victory was gone what .. A / ^ ^tefence on the 35 fo«rteenorsixtmmthoi.andpo^^^u^^^^^^^ trial. '® '’“"j "A [ 1 Uoj.j AVas not that a hard thing > To he all :r xirh::ght in. « Its """ constituencies received from their representatives.) rr 1- n,l- “Therefore rely upon yourselves. Bely upon your own Ho continued ;-- ihcieioie i ^ i j iTitplli^^BiicG- Don t i^ij P iifir*c ^pxt A^Gtir tells you, that yon h o tlioiiHit yon were minding 45 the landlord and the haili c • floors into fertile land, your husiness when y- » lie — t of nutriment he gives IiL"! wheT yl. 30 r n-r “’rt^lS^rVlves yon of mat wmeh I (h, Jn!,, IS/A, I SSI).— vou havriitl.ousnud U.i.es ii IkiUci- risl.t to II, im I „) t))))« ul,™ 11)1' Dill" 'vlio would not conu, Idnviu-d like lui Iml.mtwi luiil ,l i„i„ usudus,. Ibis iulaiuous systoni, that iiiai, should l« looked upo" as It,,. I, lark sheep ol the lloek. f liope thc,-c is ,u, uiau that ,s uo« listeniug 5 to U.0 hut will come fonvassl to resist it. 'll, ere is a letter ,-o.„ a worth., orutleniau lu're whieh stated that tiiere are good la,idlo,-ds and , heir ax- • landlords. There is no eertainty^ in the system itselF. 't he good landlord ^vill support the l.ad landlord ill his acts. .prinml Vaire'-Whan can he do when he is hrongkt into had company.^ (-Lo.u^ .Mir Harris.—" 'llic greatest exterminator went torwai-d to he in the ehd, at (ialway. Mr. O’Connor, who never (luenohed a lire, went torwarc , a,,,! heeause, the ,.oor respect him the rich despise him. Both of these men went forward to he memhors of the County Galway club. The ood 15 man was hlaek-heaned. Any man with any love for the iieople-that man was not wanted in tlie Galway olid,. That man was hlaek-heaned, hut the exterminator, the man wdiose liands was red with hlood, not a single hlack-hean against him. (Groans.) Here he reteried to the -t Leitrim grand jury, the members of whieh retused to tind 20 Mr. Aclieson, while lie said in an adjoining county (Eoscommou) McH „ and Weldon, against wliom he alleged there was not the shadow of a cliaige, tliere was not one man to give evidence against them but an irformei named Clarke. This vile man, in the hope of getting 2,0001., went torwaiu to swear against these men. These men were kept two years in prison. ■>6 They were kept in this maimer, and the landlord, wdio delihera ey s lo . a man, and where there was plenty of proof of it, that man the gram .iiiry would not find a hill against liim. In fluding hills all that is reciuired is a my'friemls, how can you contend against those had men, unless 30 you nnite in love as they nnito in hate ? 'Therefore I call upon you to come foiuYtircl. (Cliccrs.) i t i " Gentlemen, when I r tliein take that down too. , • ..i ^ „i .‘Our chairman hero to-day, he told you that this was a strictly leg.l ^ “ft: ttiot rtrtt the :::r3 ts tt - - f “it ttt! anf to-nwrofyou wiU he told the Constitution is snspontel You are toid to pav the greatest respect to the Constitution, to temhle when on we hear the word Constitution mentioued, hut the Government that vulesmis cares no more about the Constitution than a hoy does about a that iic is tossim- in the air. (Loud laughter) (Here ho quoted Mr. Butt s opinion aaain.) '’you have no Constitution, no law. nothing hut the will of t ie tyranis that rule over you. Your only Constitution “ 25 laws of the Great Almighty, who has imprinted in your hearts love "f '-y y> who tells you that you are wrong, that yon are unjustly dcatii .th, what v!u have to say about the rights ot property ? Men have rights as wd as ■property. It iiCTcr can he the right of one man to extemiuiate anothei Whatever they say about rights, if you be men it is your duty to sta 30 together and put on a hold front against the many forms of opposition = j'iiTtamed you too long, my friends. In conclusion let me ^ you, each and every one of you, don’t he deluded hy words. Don t mmd soft sodei :Lr) Support that man, no matter who he may he. I am happy to say 35 "af: s vrea movement has one advantage. In every other movement you 1 oklm np to the gentlemen in the locality. Vou cm, Id not Imld a leetinv without calling on the gentlemen to preside at it. ^ou wereal^s ■ ° ,n,„. soles the big house. You are hegmmiig to look those ^m'ssOTS ill the face. You are heginiiiiig to think — when the poor 1 „ -I, mild have his family torn from him. The time is come win n " Tey t lel sf es wiU he measured hy the measure which they have meted out io yof I beg to second the resolution that has been entrusted to «u. (Cheers.) Ulick Burke, Colmaustown. nick Burke, Colmaustown, moved— , 4. i i ^That copies of the resolutions he forwarded to the county memhers and ‘“He's:i-‘‘ Any person wishing to join the Land League will now give in their names.” 9 [I)()ole<((/ue. — 1880.) Mr. Anthony Clarke, Islaudoady, ^ Clwiivinan, said mcctinR. I couic to toll you the last Novcmb,-f by Thomas Scott, ami tbcie was ma / 5 larm. Tbeio would be no leaf of the men of Islandcady. -hj Mr. Denis Duffy, Islaudeady. Mr. Denis Duffy then came forward to propose the first resolution, as “iTesoTved, that we, the people of Mayo. 10 land-grabbers, who are the enemies of oui j; tpe Irish peox^le.” Heeontinued:- gentlemen, if you look round your “ 111 reading tliau lesomt i- .,0. them by the bullocks and native hills yon see that ^ happy peasantry, sbeep of Euglislimeu and c ’ . n -r miisiana • wby then do we but tlieir bones ^rtlie last 30 yearn the land-grabber allow these things ^ rack-renting landlord 25 comes and takes np om 1 nd , ,,, g,oans.) I and oppressor of our count y. ( O’Connell or Grattan am sorry I am not an orator ; if I bad tlie ton^ne I could keep yon for hours.” (Cheers.) 20 o [Doolcafjno . — 18 B 0 .) A Mr. Mellet, Islaudeady, teaaut-famiov, ^ < . 1 fn nroDOSC tho iicxt rcsolutioii, as follow . ]Vtr. lyrellct then ^ this district, pledge ourselves “ Resolved. Tlwt wo, iUc ' ' ^ j ,,„s i,ecii evicted, and wc sliall 5 Mr. J. W. Walsh, Balia,— Mr. J. AV. M^alsh then eame to ask more than cheers “ Mv Chairman and fellow eountiyn , ^ 4 t 11 riip oheering yon could do until the . • • from you, for all the checii y this great cause. are of little avail unless you a yourselves 10 Tlie terms of the resolution yoi > no>lil)Ours have been evicted. not to take the land from which a y ^ „{ the country From all tho platforms throug lou o manfully stood , by. The land of the ^'0^ J & y to you in the name of Ireland to stand together li . ^ „o ftirther, that you will not man who will be guilty of such an , . . speak to that man. or the enemy of the Irish race, him, in feet, tha you ^ determined to carry on this land war 20 The Irisli National Land League branch, from the countiy. until we succeed in abolishing '»dlorf.sm joot and bi Twelvemonths ago you heh j^^tances ; and why, because you of rent. You succeeded for it. So long as the people had the courage to stand up boldly ^ to R ^ 25 of Ireland are slaves, so long wi ' y part of Ireland in carrying out to-day. tenant-farmers,^ t/Tlou should combine, that you should show to the this w ar. Therefore it is that yo ,, and abolish that system. world at large tliat you are piepc condition of the Br. Doyle, a short time ago when "l^ere starving. Now why 30 people in the West , ‘ Ush writers will have the audacity are the people of Ireland o ^ population. I to say that the famines in Iieland me ^bomJre-tells think Sir Robert Keane J the statement , us wliat Ireland is capable of ‘ ^ j _ „mke Almiglity God 35 that the famines in Ireland are Pu ’47 daily might the scapegoat ° America with grain and cattle seized in the be seen ships sailing o o ^ ^ system shall last, that Ireland shape of rent. Are yon piepai ^ necessary that each shall go forth with the ^'®SSmgom^ members of the Irish Natimial 40 and every man o you si , ^ national proportion, as my friend Land League, for it has now Und from the Pacific Mr. Walsh told you. Theie is no ^ but their sympathies are to the Atlantic, from America o N - b prepared to look ^ with you. Then it landlordism, he it good or had, in every , 45 for your rights. l a f,.. greatest curses of this country are people r; :;s:- — .-ri, - »• w-. - I i iDooleoin^e.-My 18//., .880.-V.. J. TV. WaM.) ^ that Lm.Uonlism is IttviUnot hcroi-oy tor you to clciioK opoo i . ‘ ’ t,j. ,tono liy yourselves yiv.l)evitt,ormy nemls uiAme^^.,^^^^^ has sp.>kon at great length on this alone; you arc the ponci. * • ‘ . , jhc House ot Commons. It is not Hill whieh Mr. I’orstcr has Nevertheless. Mr. Parnell a Hill that the Irish people ffi >e sa is ^ calls upon you for your opinion up ■ paniell that Bill can he fight direction, and with aot one amongst you can he ) enlarged and improved upon ^ , j jh and hreadth of this land spared in this grea n^k. '^i 1 yourselves, and God will aid there is work enough to he done foi you. Aiu y you. (Cheers.) Q 3360.— 9. B 9 {Tioolcague . — July 1880.) Mr. J. W. Walsh, Balia. Jli-. .1. W. Walsh, «alla, then camo forwav.l to proi.osc a vote of thanks “I lave much pleasure iu proposiug a vote of thauks to our eliairmau. I ™ suvo that any assistance that lay in his power ho has always given to r ‘the people. I have to ask you again to heeon.e inemhers of the Irish l^n, ' ]^a< lie. I now Leg to propose a vote of thanks to the eliairinan. (Cheeis., Mr J B Walsh, Castlebar, then came forward and said, o I hav^ much pleasure in seconding the vote of thanks to your chairman. The Chairman then said, — „ “ I have to thank Mr. Walsh for the honour he has conferred upon me. 14 {^])oolca(}tic. — 1880 .) Mr. J. W. Nally, Ml!'- - -VI T IV N-vUy ia comias; r«vvvu«l, was receive, 1 witli dicers lie sei. , Mr. .T. . N-'l'y- , ^ f,,i„„js an.l fellow coantrymeu, .md .. Dow .1 with Chvuohdl . J assorahlod here to-day, I have come especially the Irish ‘o- “ ro'ortunity. to .lenounco a gentlemair, . here, it heiiig the first tunc tli. ^ .J^ ^^^11^ ^ bastard, although his mother might he a decent woman, .s hoi.l C / be called the „im.’) Speaker,the other nigh n I made use attention of the ““ n 1"!- avanted Hie Lord Lieu- of at a meeting at Bohola S t^ ^ ^ continental damn 10 tenant to take ^ ^ i made use of at Bohola. I am ahout. I will tell you y ^ care about that ; I suppose at liberty to do it hei^ to-d y. ^ Clau-ehill '. he was lealous. A\ ell, 1 1 J ^ b„c been, and although if I was there in ^ no’acoount (laughter),-! could pnnee 15 he may he an Englibh co , cnontl ’ But when I had not that r ««■ . high honour, I ask you to „ j Well, now, my friends, that is al ^ J ^ ^ ^^^1 intended to be in 1^“““ ’ ‘ - (, lends, I will read a programme 20 come here and denounce him. JNow, my ^ from the Land League, and I hope you emois^^ emanate from the Land He here read a large proclamatio H P r ,^^ler any considera- League. It caUed upon the peoihe no o ® of tiou: and it blamed the landlord read I was 25 extermination of the Irish people hut the way in only able to take the substance ot it. 13 /vCY/.S'// . Jul'H IbbO. Mr. Joseph O’Donnell Quinn, Oublm, ilc \ J.1 • V X ,, eo>nin, ~l, wa. .cooivoa with loud aud coutiuuod chocaug. said,— . ^ nP min-o I reel that it is my lii’st duty to Ml'. Chairman, men am no. tho bottom ot my heart, thank you hoartUy and upon this my iirst for tho very cordial reception y (Cheers.) I am appearance on any platform in ^ Nationiyl Land League. 1 to-day as the .i Lnlteri tool bound to say that I (Cheers.) But lest you niig i c P eloquent speech. It , ,ot to be cpeeted drnot "believe in the efficacy 0 I am one of those y«™S country, as if it had been possible by ; of speech for ^ p,^at our country has been robbed ot, and \ eloquence to achmve all the ^culd all that is theirs by 3US ic , countrjTuen, by other means have been achieved long ago. B,, ^^cting L5 must your rights he wou. ( priuciples that are embodied m to-day? land for the people.’ (Cheers.) And this motto (pomtmg to the haune j cletermiuatiou that our we arc assembled here to-day 0 B institution, that blasphemous efforts shall never cease until th country, and the people who / tilled the soil owners of iL (C ^^^ciecessary to enumerate the | practical men of Sligo. ^ ^ m (ccni this institution of land- many evils that has acciue prigimien, is that institution just ? (No, lordism. I ask you, ^ as 1™“ ‘ English dominion in this 25 no.) Landlordism is one o le ricketty ediffee shall soon be laid country ; pull down that prop, and the old nck^ too, ought you low. Then again, I shall ask lus 1 . J • j pull down this prop ? not, with all your might and with id^youi^ sLei 1^^^^ This movement has this o jec ^1 ^ ends 30 (Cheers.) You ^,^em simply by unity and orgam- sLo^l^'cChems.) Let the “n is U :riro£ hand, and landlordism Shall be 35 laid low. (Cheers.) looldno- upou such a magnificent meeting as ..Kow. I must say the men. aye, and the women I now see before me, assisting the people. too of gallant Sligo will deeds of the brave men of Sligo, (Cheers.) Often I have heau o ^ ^ hehold 40 and I must say that it was J 1 tcc lengthy upon yonr ^ them with mine own eyes. ns I have before said, that patience. (No, no.) But .‘t y»; hearts upon gaining, are to the means hy which the iig i s y yourselves into clubs and he gained by unity and principles of the Land League, then I 45 associations. If you disappiove having the object in view% the say, join yourselves into 0 lei as ^ p^nke the landlords liberation of our country fro J J ^^uld have the emigrate.) I do not think ^ ^t Pand. if they do not slightest objection to that, and the day j. 6 Keash.- -July %m, 1880.- Josci>h O'Donnell Quinn. emigrate, U.ey this couutry ? Lamtlordism is au you, wi.y should icy _ el the tillers English mstituion arc the titles ol these men to these of the soil; ami, let mo ask yo , „ them; and in CTei 7 one large districts of land t ey ^yritton in the hundred cases you will tell you that landlordism blood of your fathere. ( roa . _ tolerate this system ? is spending oTcrj'thiug you have u^. ^ Answer me men, will you_ ( . ^^^t tolerate , <0. 17'" h .» »»«. 111.™ ^th them.) In conclusion, I of Parliament for you tenant farmers of s,eaker,-If you had you Tipperary. (Cheers, -^.w h^ Jland, the offspring of a rebel ,5 had a good man, and a fait desperation of ’18. He has counsel ed t 1 confiscate the haryest what any attempt on the par s barvest ; do not let you haye spent your ^f.f^^^Xare^heir rights to it f Haye they the landlords depiive y r, qmde ^ Well then, my concluding 20 eyer put one hand to a^ploug “ to unite yourselyes into words to you -will ^ rnri tbe day is near at band when societies; and, with ‘'i® , the tenant farmers of Ireland shall landlordism shaU he jf^ts, aldllm men of our country shaU. be in the enioyment of then ow n ri„ ms, 25 look upon a regenerated and free Ian . Keash.—My 25^7i, 1880. Mr. James Bourne, not known. Mv. James Bourne B.cn came forward to propose tlic last resolution, in tlic “"toolTeTtUaTwc regar-d any landlord who eyiets a tenant in this year of famine as an enemy of the human race, and shall stigmatise as a trai or taminc as a ^ — r-r^^^^TTrovrle: n lioldino- from wliicli a tenant has 5 his country any person who tHEci or licrds a hoiam, irom been evicted. Keask.—July 25^//, 1880. Mr. Timothy McDermott, Ballymotc, labourer. Then came forward and said, — « Mr. Chairman and fellow countrymen, I am happy to have the honour of seconding the third resolution proposed to you by Mr. Bournes. My friends, I am very happy to have this opportunity of giving you a few facts 5 that I saw and was witness to on this property some 18 months ago. I became then the victim of landlord tyranny myself. I was cast upon the highway : and the landlord’s name was Biggs. (Groans.) “ I will never forget, my friends, the answer that that monster made to a widowed mother. His answer was, ‘ I do not care a damn. ^ (Groans.) And 10 yet this man had the audacity a few weeks ago to come into Ballymote to support the canditure and to bully the electors of Ballymote to vote for Kino'-Harman. (Groans.) But, my friends, he was taught a lesson in Bally- mote that he will never forget. We met him, and we left him in a way that he was not able to speak. (Cheers.) Well, my friends, you may say to your- 16 selves, ‘ It is too far back to be talking of 18 years ago.’ I agree with you in that; but it is to warn you that a similar fate may not overtake you. Where are all the tenants ? I will tell you where they are, my friends ; their bones are at the bottom of the Atlantic, there are others of them lying within the workhouse graves in Sligo. 20 “ Mr. Bibbs’ houses are whitewashed outside, and what way inside they are black, my friends, with smoke, with poverty, and distress, and all on account of his rack-rents. “ Let any one of his tenants get up here and say is he not rack-rented twenty-five per cent, aye, or fifty per cent., over the Government valuation. 25 (Groans.) It was for this reason, my friends, that I brought this heartrending scene before your memory to-day, that you might cry out against it by uniting together and by joining together in a branch of the Land League, that vou may resist the tyranny of such men. (Cheers.) And now, my friends, I will ask you, I will ask our fellow protestant fellow farmers, that 30 wishes to throw off the shackles of sectarianism, that monster, that legacy that was left to us by our enemies in the way of the most accursed system that ever cursed any man, Benianism and Orangeism ; let us all raise our voices against this system and help tliis grand man Parnell and his men. (Cheers.) And then you will get the good to love and respect you and you 35 wiU make your country what she was and must be, and what we will make her soon to be : — “ Great, Glorious, and free, “ Birst fiower of the earth, “ And first gem of the sea.” 40 (Cheei-s.) Q 3366.-8. B 9 Kecisli. — July 2^ih, 1880. Mr. P. j. Sheridan, Tulibcvcarry, keeper of a pubUc-housc. 1,1 coming lonvaril was received with clieers, he said,- ^ Mr. Chairmau aud fellow countrymen, whatever misgmngs I had of the manhood of the Keash people before to still have hearts brave and hearts strong to rid us of the evils of oui native 5 land I have to congratulate you upon your presence here to day ‘°P® 11, e ,.esnlt of this day will be something practical, if it is not, I shall thin tte meelLi “the many failures. I care not for speeches be they ever so elociuciik and I care not tor your cheers, I hke to see ^ ’ and by no other means or measures [will we gam oui ends ( in my fellow countrymen, it is that you are praoticaUy to apply yourselves to the task that is before you. It is very clear and delmite in the progiamme “^‘‘Th»e“omeUiing in it worthy of your aid and assistance, there appears to he manhood, there appears to be pluek and ^ ■.K not "ot up hy any selfish motives. ISo, you have at its 1 ec aTan of patriotism who has a number of lieutenants who appeiw to ^ tonnd a home for their efforts in the hearts and bosoms of then hiotiiei Irishmen (Cheers ) I have no fear, my fellow countrymen, that with a “o^^tielltraintag, yon will just all he capable for the eSoids we have . , ^ 1 1 „i „-l,nt is necessarv, is to form orgamsations yourselves, and once LatT'is thus, you will he no despicable factor in shaking landlordism m its Tlmn let each and every individual try and do something to help us unite in olThond o,.fraternityLd perhaps we will win os nntive Ireland. How is it that you have so long remained heie idle, lo = t tint was started hy the sweat of your brow aud not proclaiming " “ " " “ 77 r '• "r t f vonr laud and wliicli you are only privileged to look at ; oi aieyou 30 oil '’f.y7^'"“^’“tlnstit The resolution whieli I have come here to :lTis one tlat must practically apply to yourselves. It asks you Xk m oiTlandlords as the curse of the laud aud to look upon Him as an Imy o/ tbe human rac. «i to cal^‘- ^ w^ e^^.r! “ Xui;;"ruriou^ b; gomg Uud each otliers sboiildei. Xve found tbit tenant farmers here arc afraid to come on tins platform to '’';C"“rpoor hour in Heland-s struggle to see a tenant farmer ,0 neX bercL fear that the landlord slionld bear of it, .is som. thing -=‘«y‘^,^Vlta!^ien.oresstrt\T shake: off, come’ boldly and xrbXe vom — r-:r him that the me: of Ireland are determined aud resolved not to be iid en 1- ^:T7lou<^er and tell them that the highwayman has as much light to 4,0 ovm- any , , come Xard to t^ front and assist his fellow countrymen and they wiU not resist your manhood no more than the tide of the Atlantic. 10 Kcmh.-July 25-, P. J. Sheridan. Then, my lew eonntrymen, these three resolutions I ask you at onec to adopt I would pass to the practical portion ot the resolution. I wotI ask you with regard to the taking o£ another’s land-I toll you that this is a thiim deserving ot your attention. It is the one princijile w hieli this S niovcnrent covers, and on wlijch tlm independence of the tenant tarmers Xon ilrmly, that the nianl-lrfid, tor the holding ot his neighhour is a bi-er enemy to the people ot tfib eountry than the landlord who tries o evicrone man in order to make another pay him better. I have here to repeat the advice I have given to you from every plat orm. ny man v 10 dl-es to take possession ot a farm from which another has been evicted, ct the linger of sLrn he pointed at him, y«rIoDkuEonIu^a^^^ let the children scout him. (Groans.) In fact it becomes a national duty that this should he done, such men are the curse of your country. ^ Landlords are not so much to blame. I might say an imported aristocracy 15 brought into this country should show a disposition for the but when they come amongst you here, and find that you fertilise the land by the sweat of vour brow and labour, and they then fancy that it is worth ^ more than this ; but let there be no more of that amongst you. You lave .iven a pretext to landlords for eviction. But any more et the evicted 20 farm remain unhabitated, let no man attempt to till it, except as a common *°LernS toke thetvTeted farm and the landlords will find it is no longer expedient to be evicting, it is better to hav^ baxl tenant ton t^ leave it there paying rate s and tax es, andJo_be_ge^ nothing for i . ^ 25 “Then in orfSTo-SSy this out you must pledge yourselves here before God that you shall never possess a farm from which yom- neighbour is evicted. Then, my fellow-countrymen, in order that you might chrect th„ necessary ariangements, it is necessary that you at once form a brand o 30 “e mirof the parish come together, and say, I will be secretary, and ehaii-man, then the men you have at the helm, are men whom you have selected but I ask you to be cautious, my friends. Do not measure the men by the extension of acres he possesses, or an amount of polished talk r mav use select him whom you know to have at heart the carrying 35 out of this -reat movement, and there is no fear but tot they will direct vou properly. There is one other fact that I want to mention. Some doeu- i Lents have been handed to me; amongst them I find some fecte which certainly are remarkable. On a certain proper y I find tha the landlord has given a holding to Anne Halloran, valued at 121., and she 40 now has to pay 251. 2s. id., that is as good as asking Is. Sd. m change oi The district of Battlefield, I find is the same,— Mary Hannay, land worth m - - Bridget Hannan „ 7^. * • 20Z. 45 John Higgins 30/. Widow Mary Higgins „ 6/. os. - ^ 53 (Voices down with him.) There is a specimen of Irish landlordism There is another widow on his land, a Jane Hughes, her land is worth 3/ 5, and her widow’s cap does not save her in the presence of from this 50 land ip^ant ; hut he must make her pay 2.. for the H. he has given her. Q 3366.-8. C Kcmh.-Jia•• 1 which d,. grades labour in Irelau.l onslaught has l.een ,„a _ ^ (great groaus, and cries of A heavy blow has been struck - ^ ^ J ^ rf affairs that man shall bejudged not ^ "’j Milltowu I n,ade use shall he the recognise, I syste,,,. When ' ‘ ^ of an exp,.ess,„„ that has ' ' I': we are in open ,,av to recall that -P--' l„ open insurrection 20 insurrecnon against l"“i ^o rob the many of their against It until it is on o ^ ; p the system that is ruining tin- industry. We are in insurrection ^ ^ „here the colintry-tha. is driving its inanhood and ts beau^.i ^ laws are made by persons wio are n . Wogj I endeavour to sketch 25 government where the people are ® for you the evils whieh landlordism has hroug . pen y- y this asseinhlv has felt, directly or fj;. 7,,,.,^^ ,,„,,lordis,n has , need not to paint foooujhej brought upon your countr>. ^ pomiuff here to-dav bear '^''2noI^lorVes!\U 'f ^ ThatTril make the pulse run cold, and ^he , 1 r..srv tVirpntpiied with scenes that win nineteenth century we are threats coffirdess -raves, and 1 • Wp 5 vdl have evictions and deaths, and coramess , 36 emigrant ships and workhouse . H , Heentionsness. Yon with a rack-rent in order that he might live n have worked early and late to supply him with a ra , legalized plunder endeavour to drive you voiT^satd the coffin is [Here Mr. Bodkin’s name was mentioned, and 40 too short for him— his legs must be '"'O ^ . f^p Mr. bWhimy. The Go'd who created you never ordained that you shonh. 3 I {.mitow..-iSth July, im.-Mr. Tlum>as Brrnmm.) 1 r 1 .V r.Vp that You have passed through a year ,low,. to a l.eap o( clay l.kc that j which it has taloai all your time am . iiari.dl) Will you now, you over water (cheers for the Americans 5 man whom you have been '""I: -I’l”' ^ the foreign landlord when you were cullivatmg >■ ,li,...-hox, an I country; when your hand was. m „„ will you uow give him the hai vest . unjust rent. Any m I y co ntry must go upon 10 tolumselt mav lie effectual we strike, upon I ack-i cuts, ^ j ,i.„ first step towards tliat orgaiiiza- must liave perfect organization, t ’® tion is to let the people know ^L-pt nlace the ^reat truths oi the people, at the chapel-yard, “ = 'J have'rights, the power must be created by forming the ,hese Lai clubs must adopt the principles ot .nmocra y, an^d .ive priiicipies by showii^ .he pojr o t^e peop .0 the hayo„c.s . . ..e can .have them ^^m the country (irroans, and cries of to hell with the ). ,^^,1 Olher day In Sligo of what un.ty^an do, rent «tracto npon a man s cat e . , to town, until tnere ^^d.- „ , . .1 „„ cows 25 them to the town of Slig", put them up ‘TL'tlLgs eeneral. We at 4s. 6d. Now, we want w mafa ,ake land, want that no goods sha e , „„ will be allowed to earn a i";-rrr^^ people togetlwr. After mass, and at the ^'ossroam * ^ — • nr'Q n P n t,S tor ci nmst br ng the l-°.>'! ^ arrangements tor a the people assemble. ^ id ^ 8 ^ system ot paiiipnlet. criiig, >y . Kranch In this wav 35 ot pamphlets to dis.rihu.c amongst the members of we want to create a system ot literature, and .he. < Y „„ from the false. This is a movement in iavour of matter wliat the occupation of the labourer ...ay ^ the rivliis of the artisan in his worksliop. for the farmer 40 farmm-andthe mechanic, the “'\;L:LtcTr bies^^^^ obieci is to do away with that system 1 Lcemenl. If ,0 take away the fruits ol the many. Go on then ^ rrrgCs:aL^L.d:.;\ri::f::.Ly‘^^^^^ 5 0 4 Jnly, 1880.— Wr. ThAvms Breman.) ,„vn not xvhat .loin, Mitclioll called a Parliament of eaae, but a that’ will re,.oftnise'no,hi,„ but the sovereign W.11 oi P,e imop n or^ tint we should foriret our systein of nationality. 7 n'iLn 1 tnean somethin, more than a green flag flying rom Dubhn Ca tie ^ 1 mean the Irish nation for the Irish people. K we had t. government n Ird3 to-morrow that wottM prote,! the idler against the worker I would be against them. A Voice . — “ To hell with them,” groans. All I see here, I think, will agree witli me that the hig lest orm 10 government is a republic (cheers for the republic). We , Ltabb^^^^^ Irish Ipublie on Irish soil, but as long as the tillers of the soil are forced to support an idle class, a repu nnlva mockery These lands you have belongs to you. They belo g to you who have saved them with your sweat, and there is ttothittg moral y 15 wrong in saying that you will protect those iruits w.th your strong r.g , arms. 5 5 C 2 I {^lilltown. — July, 1880.) ]y[r. Thomas Ehatigan nro'^osi'd the seeor\J resolution ; ..o of tlo. I.a.ol Question w, 1 ^P‘ do. s not seenr.’ the proprietorship of the so. to t ic ,i as fiiiiil th.:>t Mr. Patrick J. Gordon i„ secorulinu th.,- .-esolution said :-Mr. l^vn^rtive , town, T .an, til eonnty. an, sta, .1 ^ Y nationality has not heen Mayo, and I an, proud tl,at that sp„ ^ ''ti:‘:n."f".hri,1tLTLn as, U for the past year, until nohle to,,, y. O tndav I would soineti.nes say I am not a 10 Mayo has ra.se,, up Mavo-Mavo has left a pat-able to Galway,,, an. for now I ha,, „on. ,„d „>day T"'"'- 1 •:, .heu:;::;:,::!':; rctritve watehe., yo,„ a„d t,,.. !;::i::,ethi.,. ,ro,„ yo,, m .he tuture. We - 1 ,,d,‘,o,,,,ee,hela,,,,lo,.dswhoh,.^ land belongs to then, ,„et he,-e to-day deter.ni,ud, people (great groaning). ,, > fMilltown to denounce the land L we did twelve months ago ^ of robber, ami that system ot landlordism, v u < (A Voice-“ To Hell with them.”) u * f t that (^ roice , . j j T w/ill tiall YOU what is a tact, tliat Allow me to tell yon of the blood which Bo.lkin spilled the and down with l,„n the robber), some of the 30 in the town ot T„a, , streets of T„a,„ is crying to blood which his grandfather sp.lled on the stre ts Heaven to-day for vengeance agamst h,s gran • J J i„ „,i„d that there Is so„,e „amL of Peter Mr. Bodkm, a,.d ont on a cold evening 35 Manmon and John Mtxiatn ^ , r ri-o rloo to die hke dogs. V ^ ^,,11 If you are determined to keep a hrm ,.1 y ^ ::,.th:rr 6 II 18 80 Mr P, J. Gordon.) [Milllown.—^’oth ,ti„n and w.inan sliall ke a Hn grip , 5 notl.in 2 but what 1 would do. an I ^ would aay, Oh ! God yon have p;„,,,,„,ed the ays.en. a victim 1 wdl die on the ®P° ' ..oiir^cabin door, than he sent to von would rather die on the t res o c o Workhouse you have -Baliinasloe or the Workhouse, If you die tn the _ 10 no one to go to your funeral doctrine. We have expect that every man and wotttai ^ past, -aye, I iieeii Icoke.l upon as a brave ra"e, wi , f„,,„ot, we will fight it, the future. It you fight ft > eountry. Do not fight tor the Zu uland^^ .^^^^gyellow meal in Irelatuk 15 And il you diaw a sword yon ^ j ^ C ,|ieni is l.ord Some of the landlords ^ZX \ call him Lord Na- Oraninore^ You may .dl bin. Lord Oranmo, e. hiit I^c grt'ana. He ''as once m y -when his father was a travelled in the streets of New York s^ ^ 20 bankrupt, i,,u,„d was extravaganc^^^ He says you ,„ere that t e cause P good tdothes. I ask you are eat too much beef an 1 o , ^ ^ .,^. 1 , there tvorse clad people on t le ace .^,1 life. You content in your P'’.''^^^^' determination. As Mr. Gladstone 25 will get measures in that Gov . j said the only measures given ‘ ^ jp every man wlio says he if it is a crime in the eyes of the Government, a, d Remember has a right to the land of h.s b.rth ts^a^ Fen. there is a story about the '’oy J ^ ,,et 30 to come down he would no ^ to when he gave a blow of a stone ^lejim^^^ .^. give a blow of a stone o i > bego-ar One fellow said the Ihere is a story ^ made of Cauber. I say- gentleman was made of c . y, J 1 ^ eause of 35 God created every man alike J be looked down ,ou.- country ^';;';;’;,';;who 'lias take.’, charge of you, but brings tlm ;:;:I m:d sL,s to protect .he landlords and drive you to the work- house door. /« No no.O If any man say you 40 1 ask you are you content wit t ^a p,oclaim Ifom morning have no right to the an o t o ’ p p „iU ask you as honest men till night till that system ts swept to eter y. ,o lea™ your hands on your breast and say ^ , i„ ,,„... 45 bosom? I say letthcie ue 7 (M{lhoim.- 2 ith JvJy. 1880 .— Jlfr. P. J. G,>rdon.) l,i,„ ,v,tl, scorn and cnntcnpf. Do not buy or soli with that man H„V0 the curse ot God on any nnu, who will take the land of Ins ne.yhbour. ■n,oro are land-grabbers, land-calves, atnl land-sharks. 1 he land-calves m the landlords. Tlie bailifl’ is watching yon behind your hack. He is 5 seeking every day to drive yon from ymir home. The Government is watchiim yon, and working witli the hindlords, liecanse they are a 1 land- lords If von wish that tiie spirit of Nationality shall How at your bosom, that von an. determined to keep the land of your hirtli, if yon are deter- mined not to starve in the poorlionse. have no scraping to these landlords. 1(1 Piiv them what is just, and if they do not take if give them nothing at all. Tli'ere is a Bill to be brought on to-morrow niglit. If tiie House irf Lords throw it out it will be adopted again. The man at the head ot the Govern^ ment sees that tlie people are determined to obtain justice. lhat Bi , say will tie made law. It will give you a time-tliat you need not pay a 111 farthinv for three years to the landlords. But I will say, pay the shop- keeper, '’and if the fandlord evict you he will have to pay you seven years compensation. ^ (A Voice “We n.ay thank you for that and Mr. Nally. ) If you remained at home for the last eighteen montlis, and sought for no 20 justice, I ask you would the Government give you anything? No ; they would allow you to starve. The same system has really determined to sweep out the peonie. I call here to-day for three cheers for the independent men of Ireland (cheers). About the late Lord Lieutenant’s son, Mr. Churchill, i will tell you, whilst his father was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and while 25 some of his friends were selling buttermilk in Dublin, he stood up and praised the Irish people. He is now. because his father got the kick-out, denouncing the Irish people, and says every man who says it is better to die fighting than starving, he says lhat man should be arrested. If he has changed his bob already we do not care what he says. We are determined 30 to stick to it as firmly as the land itself. As far as I am concerned, every single place I can stand up, every wall, every hill, every house-top, if can get on it, I will say it is better to die fighting than starving. Tlmre is a land-grabber in this locality named Billy M‘Hugh. Now, I don’t know who the man is, hut a document has been put into my hand 35 which says a man named Billy M‘Hugli took land in this neighbourhood (Mr. Nally asked this man to come forward until they would investigate the case. Mr. M‘Hugh came forward, but decided not to mind the case till by-and-by). Allow me to tell you that I don’t care, let him be Disraeli, Gladstone, or Billy Bourke, I have been handed a document with the name 40 of Billy M‘Hugh attached to it; this document says he took the land lo himself. I don’t know whether he is the man or not (groans lor him). Allow me to tell you I don’t know who this man is. If he is a h.n - grabber you know him. If he is a land-grabber shun him, and have no connexion with him. I see amongst you land-grabbers. These people I 5 D 8 Mr. P. 'I- (Gordon) duly, 1880. , , • ,1„. f„t,ire Allow the prass to grow, l.ot it see iniglit bo sbulioei m ^ „l,o wither. Let no iimn be allowed to cut it. We will dare to take a scythe to cut it. loiccs.— “We will cut ti.e hands oB him, we win -hat oft' unnoticed. ^-V'::hf::re:e“^^^^^ .^1: „sve now to ^ is will, re.gnrd to t le ' ‘ ^ ,, as lost tliat leg hghting Mr. Seymour. Ht ib a i>tie lostk-gs, I say 0 lor <>■“ Governnient that IS crus nng^yo^^^^^^ . • worked for years yon would be better men one-legged landlord ,Uling that land, an ■> ^ ^ „f rt.e soil. 1 he comes with the toice ot iii ^ throw out. I say men who are evicted by strengt , " wm iT place, and let the 15 that they ought to say tliey are eteunmcc moon never 'h”'® i„ , 0 , „„e month. The Govern- months in the yea , • • -i rl the Land Lea^rue will come to nient cannot keep yon always in ^ soldier the yonr protection. St c ^ ^ Lan.i League 20 Land League will help ) . 1 y tor tlic will not recognize you. 1 say that you 'tldnllotb- Iwlll ask yon “ 3 ^ ImI “o^tts before God and Heave^that - ^ ^ saw put np was tiroiXid grabber I know myself. I 7;; ^'^eTUel IS like Jemmy O briei . ^ ^ vmi now I will ask you to keep your own coun.ry ai.d^we camio y^^ to tlie Land League. „ P ^joiself. He told you to work on the 30 League is the gospel preac le lianded it over tund and earn yonr 33:::3Lrr;on-a mat, Is if he live, to the people, and 1 ,or one tyrant here it is his right ,o have t e land ^o your principles the to fall than that many should pet t ^ mly suffered » the scaffold in Manchester, “ God save ireS ’■ I ask you to say, “ God save the people (cheers). 9 5 D 2 {MiUtown.—^^th July, 1880.) Mr. J. W. Nally, of Balia, proposed the third resolution : — “ That we pledj^e ourselves to perfect and make permanent the organiza- tion commenced here twelve months ago for the achievement of the liglits of the working and industrial classes. 5 and in doing- so said— Well, iny friends and fellow-countrymen, 1 .lid not come here to-day to make a lengthened speech, because speechifying on my part is not good for fl.e health, because a party in the House of C » • Brumfin division, avepresentariveotyou inta^ and altliough, owing ^ ^ Dmmfin will the small end of the misrepresentation (cheers). 10 emancipate itself from ^ le i surprised for the last couple But be this as it may, cheerful strains of music which generally of hours, when listenii^ meetiu'i's. I would have rather thought accompany the proceedings Bridav^last you would he playing the that ate the new. we J3, that the tyrannical flag 16 “Dead March in Sail. J (cheeL) by people who were supposed of England was trailed in the d« t (cheer ^ jH. not being worth going out to fi„ht wl . natin-ed. This ^^^^'^/-^^rceteJly vrsLtod have some sympathy stei>sister across the wa^ cheers for^he Afghans”) (cheers). It is astonishing that aftei sue i o which you can feel grateful, one oasis in the long cc,,try, and perhaps in the Kow, a great crisis in Hie histoiy ^ ^f^cr. This history of England, wi c^^^cr to afford some small 25 BiU which Mr. Gladstone as i » J ^ ^ ^ gc to-morrow among vohet to the suften coiintiy a bad lot— tne Mo ^ people (cheers and laiightei)- J trampled upon by those of Ireland are ® (cheers)^. Mr. Gladstone was taunted by some 0™'!®Vr“lTGiadstone’s reply was. ‘there is yet justice in bringing on this hi h ILy their justice by legislation these land meetings, a prosecute them, then if their he any stateman of his day, 36 Ton have the Prime Minister of En d „ ersecuted, that you uot only admitting rnecCarrio alleviate the unexampled have been ornelly tieate , J misery of your position tet^yoiim^^^^^^ have no fee in^ y , ^ ^,(,(,,„ed to m the 40 children (groans foi t e ^ resolution which I have t n i- 0.0I Gnvthino' to equal the all the scoundrelism of another has been evicted :r"'"^«i tete Tte e rt many ways, my friends, of hilling a dog (down with them). towards buteCw them by your manner towards them that you considei them unworthy to he 0“^ ™u will never be worth so much As long as landlordism y t^ter)” So it you adopt constitutional aswillpngle on f there is no fear in the world 50 means in this endeavoni ° o 3 A ^ iL„okotjl,.-Jn„nst l.sA K Gcyer.) ,ou .m - heaven aviU attc.nd a jus c ^tron‘’'th to the enemy and degrade ‘connnit nocnmc w ueM^ your cliaractcis,. lluro . 5 to Hiis country, means ^ = pleasure by your encmics-the the laws as they aic is , \ ^ ,i.™p awav with for the present, and landlords. The Arms Act Leitrim (groans for them) are Lord Oranmorc and Biwn ami ^„pe ^;tL them both doing their best to ge^ Leao-ue. The Ministry are with 10 the only way is to join t le i a ‘ | °ey ot England is with you ; you; the Commons are with * 'J J :othingbut a grave SC;r:n ir. yor bemg suceesstm (Cheers)... „ "irrarr; — » — - follows:- system of land tenure in Ireland “ "^^Ifone’ ot ttie" e^S causes of famine and of the chronic poverty and distress which prevails amongst us. received with cheers. He said, T have the honour of coming o Mr. Chairman and fellow <,Lead. The land forward to second the resolution ^ yy'^;;;::,''"oy them if you 26 system of tins country requiies a im o to\merica tor the Eenians :r:j: ';r,- r.— - “ «>. - you can do nothin , joi 4 -i,ov mnv he evicted. Me must ^ ^ ri tiVp a farm from which anothei may he evicie ^ ” "™™ .!«* <»■ i'~ r“"7 "f u,;. z." the land for his cattle and sheep to graze on (groans). 35 Mr. Denis Kerrigan, Drumcliff, Tenant Earmei. ivrv TIptiis Tverri^'an proposed the third resolution, thistesoTiiC wt readtn such a low tone that I was unable to hear it. 4 yLackagh. — -August \st, 1880.) Mr. P. J. Sheridan, rublican, Tubbcrcurry. Mr. P. J. Sheridan seconded the resolution. He said, Mr. “ Chairman and fellow countrymen, I feel proud at seeing you assembled here to day in your thousands, w'C must assert our rights, and if we do not get them througli 5 our members of Parliament I would ask you then to ring out your voices through the muzzles of ‘Minie’ rifles as well as from those platforms. We have America at our hack, and she is watching over us, and helping us in the hours of our distress (a voice, ‘ Cheers for America.’) There are evictions in all parts of Ireland ; the landlords are fighting against us with a 10 strong hand. Organise yourselves then, join the National Land League, and hy this means you Avill see your country what she once was, a free and pros- perous country.” (Cheers.) A 3 6 {Lockgah. — Anguat \sl, 1880.) P. J. Sheridan. Mr. Sheridan then came Forward and said, — “ The very pleasing duty devolves upon me to propose a vote of thanks to our worthy chairman. I will give you one advice before I have done, and that is stick to your holdings, and let there be no man found to take a farm from which another man has been evicted.” I 7 {MUhtrecl. — l.sV, 1S80.) Mr. M. M. O’Sullivan. Mr. IVlalauliy M. O’Sullivan, of the Duhlin Land League, on coining Forward, was received very warmly, lie said : — “ ]Men and women of Cork and Kerry, I really feel when 1 address the 5 people of the south of Ireland that I address men and women who are going to do that which they are resolved to do. It has been my honour and plea- sure in this agitation to hear a good part, hut never have I had the pleasure of addressing my own countymen until to-day. I am sure that that motto, ‘ The land for the people,’ and the motto, ‘No strength hut the people’s, 10 will he carried out with that firmness and determination which we may expect from the men of Millstreet. The cry of the land for the people originated in Connaught, and it has now come to Munster, and I want to know will you take it up with vigour ? (Cries of “ We will.” Here a man in the crowd began to sing, when a movement was made to stop him and put 15 him away.) Mr. O’Sullivan continued : Let the singer sing away, let every man acquire money hy the fruits of his labour. It is that man’s trade to sing, and it is the farmer’s to work. (Cheers.) We want every man who works to he paid for it. (Cheers.) This morning I went out very early to Scrahan where evictions have lately taken place, I have met the people 20 who have been evicted, and I inquired into their circumstances, and I found two families living in smoky huts in a deplorable condition, which in no place hut in Ireland you will see. You could not see around you with the smoke, it was such a wretched place. On behalf of the Land League I promised that as long as people were not got to work on these farms or to occupy them 25 that we would build houses for them. "We have found it necessary in this agitation to make promises to the people which we mean to fulfil and which we are fulfilling. It is not hy speaking alone or cheering you wdll gain any- thing, you must use practical means. M^e have too much of that kind in politics and we have too little of earnest work. If the people do not take 30 th (3 farms from which others are evicted, if they let the land lie idle, then the landloid will have to bend his hack, and if he does not mow the hay and save it, let it rot. Let no man he found to save it, and let it rot, and if you bring them to that pitch, you will find landlordism will come to an end. (Cheers.) In the west of Ireland we have resolved that landlordism will come to its 35 knees, and he throttled, and we want the south to come to our assistance. I want to know to-day will you or will you not ? I want to see the hands of those who till the soil raised. (All hands raised.) It will not do to tell us you will do it, we w'ant to see the practical work done, and if you do that, an end is put to the unjust system. If I were speaking against a system, 40 the principles of which I have not thoroughly sifted, I would he wrong to stand here, but I have examined the land system, which every man will tell you is wrong. (Hear, hear.) I want to secure simply to the worker the fruits of his toils. If we look into history we will see that landlordism has a very foul and bad basis. At the same time, we are condemning it, at 45 present we are in favour of it, and we will do full justice to these men. We will give to them compensation in the shape of money, their just rights, which a friend of mine said they gave us not. They would give us the gallows. We wiil give them compensation in the shape of money. We are simply taking it for granted as if the land was in the market. We will 50 give them that value as other nations have given to the landlords, as Eussia 6 (^Milhsfrcct. — .Ingmt \sf, 1880. — Mr. M. M. O' Snllwan.) and ]Udg-iiun have done, hut it we swept them olV the l‘aeo of the earth, W(; would be giving them their due. Simply these ])eople are not the })eople to roh any man, ue Avill give them the value of the market, and no more, and we swear by the heavens that landlordism must have an end. It has 5 brought ruin and desolation on our country. Who is it that has not stood on the platforms, and has not seen our people going away, when we see these fertile valleys capable of cultivation? When we see these, and when we see these people going away from our country, who is it that his blood has not swelled in his veins, and foiled an opportunity of putting 10 an end to it ? (Cheers.) We want to put an end to it by constitutional means. We will put an end to it within the constitution. If there is to he an emigration, let it ho an emigration from the mountains to the fertile plains. Let it he from Kerry and Mayo into the rich and fertile counties, hut not from this to another country. Our own sons are as 15 brave as any others if they put their interests in motion. If they put before them a platform on which they can stand. If they can stand on the platform put before Ireland by Charles Stewart Parnell, let them stand upon that platform, let them say it with determined action and decide upon what is to be done, and then follow it. Mr. Heffernan and myself stood to-day 20 upon the last fallen house of Ireland, and Ave swore it should be the last. We stood upon it and we saw three families there. It was by the rising of the sun, and we sAVore there Avould be a rising of the moon, a rising that would see these people fixed again in their homes. I will not occupy any more of your time. I see there is not the shghtest reason why I should. 25 I see you are determined to put an end to landlordism, that you don’t want fixitv of tenure, Avhich means fixity of landlordism. You are determined to strike doAvn that garrison. I don’t stand here to advocate any particular system of national independence, it is enough for me to know that this meeting has accepted our platform. I don’t ask them to folloAV these details. 30 If they do accept the principles, and I am sure they do accept them, and if I appeal to the women I am sure I Avill have them with me. Porm a branch of the Land League in your midst, join it, and sustain it. The expense and cost Avill be nothing. I don’t look at the costs. (A voice, ‘ But we do. ) One shilling a year — ^l3ut one penny a year from the 000,000 farmers of 35 Ireland would make 50,000 shillings, but I won’t go into that. The great cause of our poverty is absenteeism. Every year 6,000,000/. of our money are taken out of the country by absentees. Now if this money was handed back for the last 30 years Ave would have 180,000,000/. in the country Avithout counting anything in the shape of interest, and I ask you would it not become 40 a rich country.” (Loud cheering.) y Mr. M. M. O’Sullivan, Dulilin, tl"'" ''"'■'vaiil, anil Kud : I liog to move that I'aUici- McMahon do leave the chair. :uul that Mr. Cronin do lake llie cluiir. Mr. Cronin having taken the chair, Mr Sullivan continued— “ 1 now have very great pleasure in iiroposing a vclc ,d' thanks to cm- worthy chairman, Canon McMalion, lor the very a dc manner in wlii.di lie lias presided iicrc to-day. (Clicers.) lie lias heen t ic champion of Irishmen’s rights, and I cannot allude to this without (hid that we have our own ‘ Soggarth Aroon ’ with os to day. (Chceis.) Id I am sorry that we have not the parish priest of tins parish. (Croans.) ■I'he Chairman here interposed, and said there should be no reference made. Mr O’Sullivan—" xlt the same time I must say that yonr ‘ Soggart i Aroon ’ is none the worse because he is not here. If Canon Griffin coiihl not P5 conscientiously come on this platform to-day we will have to do without him. In proposing this vote of thanks to Father McMahon, I must draw your atten- tiontothe fact that Father McMahon has been for years your advocate, and am not going to draw a distinction between him and other men. I would >e sorry to do so, you may be sure he is a good man, and it (lanon Griffin cannot 0(1 be with ns in politics, we will leave him there, and we will go on (cheers) an follow those good men who will lead us. (Cheers.) I have now much pleasure in proposing a vote of thanks to our worthy chairman latlici McMahon. (Loud cheers.) 1 must ask you not to go home satisfied with cheering. I ask you to go homo firmly determined to do that which we as '^5 to-day.’ (Clieers.) Id \sf, ISSO.) Mr. J. R. HelFernan, oT Hlamoy, and Socrctaiy or Cork Land lj(aii 2 ,aio, tlieii came forward, and said : — “ hkdlow countrymen, it was at the rising’ of the san tiiis morning tliat 1 stood upon tlio lands of Scrahan wliich were given over to that fatal 5 system tlie garrison of England. Eviction and famine now go hand in liand. It was only a few weeks ago that v/e were told hy the papers that our smooth-tongued (|uaker Chief 8eer(dary had asked the landlords to stay tlnnr hands. We mean to bring public opinion and our own force to bear on the enemies of Ireland, and we will, if you stand to your guns and not take a 10 farm from which a tenant is evicted. If you follow the advice of the previous speakers we will tight for the tenants, and if you do not touch the land you will starve out the landlords. (Cheers.) It is time that they sliould go. Man must work or steal. I ask you, do the landlords work ? ^No, no.) Well if not, then they steal. I will tell you how they steal. 15 Suppose one of you take the hillside and reduce it to a garden, the landlord then pursues you and makes you pay rent for it. Is not that stealing from you the fruits of your labour ? James Redpath, your American friend, lias told you that Ireland has two enrses, one curse is famine, the other the curse of the landlords. When lecturing in Boston he told you that the 20 hunted fox had his lair but the hunted tenant has no place. Landlordism must go, absenteeism is a curse. I regard your decent landlords of the present moment as a curse. If they were all bad together I would like to see how you would stand. In my father’s time, for I don’t remember it myselt, he had to pay one-tenth of his property in the way of tithes. If you had ten 25 sheep you should give one of them away. But the people rose en-masse, and they starved out the church. Well, the landlords can get the ten pence now and pursue it. The landlord requires an agent. He could get no rents himself.” (Cheers, and groans for Hussey and Townsend.) Mr. Cooper. The curse of the country. 30 Mr. Heffernan. “ The landlords are bad, but the agents are worse, and I am sorry to find that you have such an opinion of them and that they are so nnpopular. They have got a grip on other localities too. Well, Mr. Hussey is an able agent. (A voice; ‘There is not a bigger robber in the world.’) Your position of 35 agent here to-day reminds me of one of the famous auctioneers in London for 55 years. During that time he sold u[) all manner of property and men, but never until last week did he sell up an agent. (Cheers.) I am sorry to find another John Bobbin in our days. There is a fall in the price of landlords from 25 years purchase a few years since to 11^ years purchase 40 now. (Cheers.) It is quite within the bounds of our position to-day that we would bring them down lower still. (Cheers.) There is one thing that has been referred to here, and that is the relief that has been handed out within the last year. This relief has been handed to you by your exiled brethren in America. I accuse Parnell publicly of feeding the landlords 45 by the. relief given to you if it goes into their pockets. But it is for you now to keep a grip of the harvests. Eirst clothe your wives and families, set by enough to feed yourselves till next harvest, and then you can give the rest to the landlords. We are determined to fight the battle, and it is the people’s work to starve the landlords. Let no one be found 50 to buy up that land at Scrahan, and if you do, that you will surely starve out the landlords.” (Loud cheers.) B Q 3366.-59. 9 [French pork. ]st Auijnst 1880.) Mr. Thomas Mulleague propost'd the first resolntion as follews ; — Tliat we the tenant farmers of this district liereby pledg'e ourselves to use every legitimate means in our ])owcr to secure the abolition of landlordism, and that we regard as the only final solution of the land (juestion a peasant proprietary. 5 He said, T did not hope to come forward to address so many gentlemen here around me, nevertheless, i think it proper that the voice ot one of the peo})le should be heard to-day foi- right and justice against those land laws — laws more worthy of the days of Elizabeth and Cromwell than of those of Victoria and Gladstone, and are a disgrace to any Constitution. but 10 why should we be surprised at such laws, for what are they but the legitimate fruits of that blighting creed that was planted in our country by the hands of confiscation and was maintained by the blood of our forefathers. That tree is known by the name of landlordism, and so long as you will remain the willing slaves of that institutioii you will be 15 despised by the liberty loving people of the earth. Are we entirely blameless if we enter into the rent office of landlord or agent, with the creaving step knowing our rights. Hence we are an improvement on the generation, and by pei-severing in this course of action the day is not far distant when we will have our rights. 20 Twelve months ago from to-day the position of our country was anything but encouraging, when the landlords thought to put the money in their pockets (cries of dowti with them). Our ranks would be desolated were it not for the timely intervention of Charles S. Parnell, who, with the eye of a prophet saw the famine in the distance, and like another Joseph saved 25 the people. He a})pealed to that other Pgypt beyond the Atlatitic, to save his people from death. The patriot hearts of the liberty-loving people of America contributed liberally out o^ their coffers to save us from despair. Therefore I would appeal to you to-day, my fellow-countrymen, never to cease till you see 30 that power beneath your feet and in its place have established a system of peasant proprietary, which will bring peace and plenty to our people. There is no land on earth worth more than one shilling an acre, and it is more than the landlords are entitled to — (cheers) — and you can give them one shilling and sixpence for good meadow, and if it is bad give them from 35 sixpence to ninepence. I hope your cheers are not empty ones. u 1 (Fmio)ipark. — l,sY August, 1880.) Mr. Matthew Harris ill seconding the resolution said The large nuinher assembled here io-day is sufficient evidence of that fact. If 1 were to enumerate the virtues and good qualities of our people — the grievances which they suffer under — ■ this speech I am about making would be, indeed, a very prolonged speech. 5 But, ladies and gentlemen, these are nobler qualities which our peojile possess in a higher degree than all the others in the world. These have been .... by one fault, and that is the tact of practicability. If we are less practical (ban those you would continue to be subject to them. You have met fo establish a Branch of the Irish National Land League — 10 you have met to assist in the creation of a great organization which extends itself from one end of the island to the other, and until that is extended so as to embrace all the country we never need hope for success. For it is not upon individual exertion, it is not upon the work of this man or the other man, it is our sole and entire reliance should be upon ourselves, and 15 ourselves nlone. Well, I am happ}^ to see that the })eople are realizing these things. They are feeling the necessity of combined action, and 1 hope the time is not far distant when the people will be so united that when the bailiff or when the sheriff — (groans, and cries of “ Dowm with them ”)— or when the 20 landlord come to dispossess the poor industrious person from his holding, which according to all the laws of justice and hunnrnity, and morality he has ca better right to than the landlord . . . the people throughout the country will all rise like one man, that signal fires will make their ap- pearance on the liill-top, and that every man in the vast area will come 25 Together in thousands and tens of thousands and say to the landlord, You can go no further.” This man is our brother — this man is our neighbour — this man has a better right to the earth than the extravagant landlord, and we shall not allows this man to be distui'bed — we shall not allow one hair ot his head to be disturbed — we shall not allow his 30 farm to be taken from him — we shall not allow his children to be thrown out on the world — we shall not allow his aged fathei' to be driven upon the mercy of the waves — (great cheering, and cries of “ Never”)— by any tyrant, no matter who he is. Well, my friends, it is only by union and organization you can accomplish 35 this. By this union and organization you can accomplish all I say, and very much more than I have told you. Then 1 ask must he not be a grossly selfish man who would stand aloof from a great movement which promises this. It is those rotten men — those vile bad men — help themselves and themselves alone. 40 Voices — We won’t let them. They sneer at the men like Mr. Kelly beyond, who has done a great deal (cheers). Voices — Such fellow^s that went to serve the processes the other day. They had to go home quick, we were the boys that were able to do it, 45 down with them (great cheering). 1 {Frcndipark. ~\st Avguai, ISf^O.— J/r. Matthew Harris.) M'liese cold-blooded people vvlioiii I luive .illuded to sneer iit such men ns my iiicmd, Mr. Kelly, 'riiey shake their heads and say— this fellow ou.Ldit to mind his own business ; you one side, you have your country also on that side — you have everything on that side, and you have the land laws on the other. And though the landlord may have the law in his case, though he may have the power of comini'' and taking your crops this harvest if you let him come and take the fruits of the earth God has given to you, you are the basest people in the 25 world (cries of “ Never, never”). Take his document and do as the great Archbishop of Tuam has done. It may be the law you say, but the laws of humanity demand that me and my children must live by the land. Take the document and tear it up. But my friends I would be doing an injustice to you, I would be a very bad adviser, and a bad man to ask you 30 to do what I say unless you are all organised in the membership of the Land League. It they know you are united in love one with another, and if they know you have the spirit of the nation ; for 1 can tell you that without courage and manhood, and thought you see it is God Almighty implanted in you- except you see that fully, the Government 35 reporters are here, and let them take it down, except you use that sentiment you are certainly foolish. You have to unite together, and you have secondly to make yourselves united, that you will never allow yourselves to be trampled, and that you will stand up like united ireemeii and denounce that system. 40 I told you in the beginning of my speech not to rely too much upon America, and not to rely too much upon others. I give it as a mere matter of opinion. There are few better men tlian Mr. Parnell. You will agree with me when 1 tell you that Mr. Davitt has our confidence. There are some liberal, patriotic and brave men. But, I tell you my friends, do not 45 be depending on, or expect that these men can do all, and do not be {Frenchpark. — 1st August, 1880. — Mr. Matthew I Jams.) (Icpeiiclinj^ upon any luaii. Dopeiul upon the principles of freemen that is im{)lante(l in you. Depend u})on yourselves, and do not be the dupes or blind worshipers of any persons. 1 am an old Irish politician, and every word 1 say, i tell you 1 say to you with as much sincerity as it I 5 were standing in the presence of my Maker. Give those men an honest support, but do not allow the brains to be risen out of your head by a clamour about this man or that man. No people should be more grateful than we to all our fellow people. In all the great trial they have shown, that in the breast of the Geal, there is more true sincerity and 10 love, and generosity, and devout sincerity of our people for their fellow men, thoimh the wide ocean is between. But at the same time, know that they are far away, and that you are standing face to face with the enemy. And we ask for the assistance of your fellow men in order that this brave work shall prosper. 15 Now, ladies and gentlemen, 1 have detained you a long time. I would detain you longer, but, as I say, I am not altogether myself to-day. I will conclude by asking you to adhere solely and strictly to principle, to fall back upon the great principles of Christianity, which tells us all to support each other, to love virtue and hate vice .(great cheering). 2 S / [French'park. — 16^ August, 1880.) Mr. Jasper W. Tully, Fellow countrymen 1 have to thank you sincerely tor the reception which you have accorded to me, a reception which I know is not accorded to me from anything of my own, because 1 am but a private m the ranks doing battle in the cause. In proposing this resolution I have first of all 5 to express my admiration for the admirable speech which I have just listened to from the lips of one of Ireland’s gifted sons, Mr. Harris, of^ Ballinasloe. We are here to-day because we believe that the men of Frenchpark were patriotic, that they were earnest men, that they were good men, and true men. We believe then that your natural leaders 10 ought to live by the people and for the people. We believe that they, for some good reason or other, have refused to be at your head (down with landlords and land-sharks), and here to-day. We on this platform have furled to the breeze the unsullied Hag the motto “ The land for the people,” that was our rallying cry, that was our watchword, and that 15 embraces the whole case against landlordism. 1 am one of those who believe that the land of this countr\' was made for the people. I believe that God never ordained that a few should revel in luxury while the people starved. This land of ours is owned by two thousand individuals, and statistics further show thnt in this year of famine there have been 20 a quarter of a million of people depending for their daily food on the alms of foreign nations. Is there not something rotten m the state of things? Is it right that a few thousand should revel in luxury while the people are starving? Landlordism is the cause of this. Now my fellow countrymen I know there are many well meaning and 25 honest men who will say it is a very good thing if we could get the land at a fair rent, that we cannot get the land for nothing. But what is rent ? It is a monopoly of the land of this country. Suppose in the town of Frenchpark a few men were to lay hold of all the necessaries of life, Uiat they laid hold of all the water, to establish a crushing monoply and charge 30 any price they liked. It is the same with land (a voice “ That monster m human shape, Mrs. O'Connor, put families out a few weeks ago”). Mr. Tully then proposed — “That we hereby pledge ourselves, never to take land fiom which a tenant had been evicted, and that we will stigmatise as a traitor to his 35 country, any one who bids for or occupies land, from which a tenant has been evicted.” (1 did not remark who seconded this resolution, but, I know the person, if anyone at all seconded it, made no speech.) 7'his resolution torn copied from a newspaper report of the meeting. 2 S 2 9 i r [Frenchpark. — \sf August 1880.) Mr. J. W. Walsh [n seconJing the resolution said— Mr. Chairman and fellow-country- men I will not attempt to detain you under this downpour of wintry ram, hut \ feel proud at your action here to-day in standing under this rain, for it is one more proot that you are earnest in your cause. It is one 5 more proot to our enemies of Irish National indestructibility. I had the pleasure of visiting your town the other day, when I was seeking to see it I could find people inde})endent enough to take up the stand of the people’s cause. But I am proud to see you united as one man in the cause ot your country. You have assembled not alone for the purpose 10 of enrolling members in the Irish National Land League, but for the pur- pose of demanding a final settlement of the Irish Land question, a question which has attracted the attention of the world. You have assembled to demand that the land of Ireland belongs to the people of Ireland, God himself said “ To the children of men shall I give the earth. Well, if 15 you believe the word of God, you will ask yourselves for whom did God make the earth. Was it for a few idle individuals to call it their own and use it as they like? Or for the benefit of the many, that they may by their industry develop its resources? I say the latter is as sell evident and requires no proof. John S. Mill says “ the land of Ireland was made for 20 the people who cultivate it.” It was given to them by God as was given the air, the sunshine, and the water, God Almighty never ordained that a few people owns the land and the millions without food. Only that the evening has turned out so very wet, I would read some statistics for you. 25 I will now show how the land is proportioned among the people. Three individuals own 100,000 acres each, and four 15,000 acres each, 452 persons own 5,000 acres each, 292 persons own 645,800 acres. Is that system right? 292 persons own about half ....... 744 own 9,612,728 acres, or about half of the island (a voice “ What 30 are we, what the devil are we, do let ye stop m the bogs). One man owns 170,119 acres, another owns 156,974 acres, another 121,353 acres, another 11,867 acres, another 114,881 acres, another 101,330, another 9 508, another 74,551, another 93,629, another 94,551, another 72,915, another 69,501 acres. Men of Frenchpark, and brother Irishmen, 35 is that in accordance with the law of God when He said ‘‘ To the children of men, shall I give the earth.” “ He said man was to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.” The land belongs to no one. It is not yours. It belongs to the Irish people. The landlords nevei expended a penny upon it. He never spent any of his earnings there. 40 He believes he has a right not only to the land, but to the sun, and the sand, to the fish, and everything (a voice “ To hell with him. ). You then, I say, join in the grand march for freedom. Yours is a noble cause and a just one, and must succeed. There is not an Irishman to-day, throughout the length and breadth of the land, who is not willing to be 11 / {FmicJipark. — l.s'^ I H80. — A/i J. U. W' alsh.) oun.lle.l as luciul.ers oi' tlie Trisl. National Land League. It will not do to come here to these meetings, and say “ Hear, hear, and No, no, and listen to the speeches. What we want is work, real work. Too long we have been misled hy our people having too much sympathy, and too little 5 real work. ! want every man of you to go to the Secretary of the League, and become enrolled as n embers of the League. Above all hear in mind that the land is your God given right, that the land is yours and that no })Ower or people have a right to it. As a i>ioof, in all other countries the land is owned by the people. In France, before the 10 Revolution it was owned by six thousand, and now it is in the hands of nine millions (Mr. Nally ‘‘cheers for the French Revolution”). A Voice “ They were never better soldiers than the Irish ; cheers for them.” Mr. J. W. Walsh— If the tenant raises two blades of grass where 15 formerlv grew but one, the additional blade is taxed. If he does not pay the" rent out he goes. In all other countries self preservation is the law of nature, but in Ireland it is different. They will tell you, pay your rent and taxes, and if nothing remain lie down and rot. But I am glad to see the people of Ireland are now too intelligent to stand 20 this any longer. It is necessary that each and every man of you should join together in this great movement, for against you you have a powerful element. The landlords are joined against you. There is not a man holding land in Ireland who calls himself a landlord, but whom I call a land robber, or a land thief ; there is not one of these that is not trying to 25 put down the Land League. It is for you to show a bold front to the enemy. I warn you that the enemy is there. I ask you to keep a firm grip of your homesteads. I feel grateful to the people of my native county— Mayo— but I ask you in the name of Ireland, in the name of struggling Ireland, to keep a firm grip on the harvest. Do not allow the 30 harvest to be dragged from you as it had been for centuries. Do not allow the produce to go to London and Paris, to Baden-Baden and Rhine-land, to be spent in gambling dens. I ask you to keep a firm grip on the harvest and to pay the shopkeeper, to pay the merchant from whom you got goods to support your family and send them to school, 35 and if anything remain you may do what you like with it. Fellow countrymen, I have done my duty in asking you to pay the shopkeeper, because the shopkeeper is your friend. But then I will appeal to the shopkeeper class to-day not to desert the people in their hour of trial. 1 am glad that the shopkeepers of Frenchpark have come to the front. 40 Let me again ask you to go down to my friend Jordan Loughlan, ask him to ei rol you in the Irish National Land League, and by doing so you will drive another nail in the coffin of landlordism. Do not be afraid it the sergeant of police, go into him and ask for the names of those he has enrolled (great groans). Tell him here publicly to-day, that you are each 2 T 12 * {Freiwhpark.—Uf Angnat, 1880.— Mr. J. W. Aalsh.) and every one of you svvoru eueinies of landlordism, and that you will not rest, easy until that viscious system is rooted, root and branch, from the land. , t i • i i In conclusion I have another word to say to you which, T think, 1 men- 5 tioned to the people of Frenchpark on another occasion. It is this, that should anv man be so unfortunate as to be evicted from his holding, that I trust in 'no parish and in no country will there be any man mean enough to take his holding, let the land be waste, and should it be taken by some bailift‘ or hanger-on, do not recognise him. Do not speak to him, 10 but treat him as the enemy of the Irish people. (A Voice— “Give him the ball.”) “ There is not a man in all the land The country now can spare, The strong man with his sinewy hand , And the weak man with his prayer. 13 2 T 2 {Freiidipiivk. — Ks/ Anytist, IbSO.) Mr. J. W. Nally. NotAvithstancling a fellow, uaiued (llmrcliill, m Loiulou I believe his n.other was an honest wonian-he had the andacity to bring my name before the House of Commons, and ask why 1 had the audacity to go out through the country and spread the light. M r. Forster gave him a nice 5 snub. He told him to go home to his mamma and see that they sold no more buttermilk. I tell you neither Churchill nor the bloody Bodkin, no matter who he is, they will nor deter me to spread the light, and put down landlordism. As I said belore, I was not introduced because 1 was known. I said before I mentioned — lU A Voice— “ Do you think would pills operate on him.” Or to make, I do not care which which would ye say, men of Roscommon ; which would ye say, either Lanty More (alluding to Mr. Launcellet Clarke, witness in the late trial for the murder of Mr.'’voung, near Castlerea), and the person who kept him in ins 1,5 employment? Oh, they were worse than Churchill. (Nally then read from a list giving old rent and present rent, of which the following are examples) John M‘Clean, old rent, £5 10.9.; rack rent, £10. As I read the names you can give me hearty groans. Cormack Warde, old rent, £10 lO.s. ; rack rent, £l2. Cormack, if he is here, tell him that I 20 told him not to pay a halfpenny at all this year. Thomas Maxwell, from £8 up to £22 . * . . • Yv)u see it is worse we are getting. Well I tell you now that just in conclusion, 1 have to say that on several platforms that I have been the medium of conveying to the people at large about these rack-renting scoundrels — and I have to speak about 25 them and be they my father or mother, or anyone belonging to me- at is ni\- firm belief that the land of Ireland is for the people of Ireland, and that any man who is worth £100 should not be allowed to exist to see his fellow-countryman go without shoes or stockings, I believe he could not be an honest man. I appeal to you to swear before High Heaven 30 that you will abolish landlordism. Let ye unite and organize, and say like this ; “ If that fiehJ there is unoccupied on account of rack-rents, we wall have nothing to do with it, and we will shun that man and look upon him as worse than the robber who pierced Christ on the cross. I hope my words will reach from one end of Roscommon to the 35 other, and that they will penetrate across the oceau. 15 {Clouecn. — Amjmt Isf, 1880.) Mr. Michaol P. Boy ton, wlio attc'uded Itoui the National Land League, suppoi’tcd the resolution. He said, — “ Men of Tipperary, six weeks ago on the Kilhury farm a demonstration, exceeding tliis in numl)ers, hut I trust not exceeding it in determination and 5 in courage, two qualities for which Tipperary men have a reputation to sustain, was held. I trust though this meeting he a small meeting to-day, it Avill shoAV that being here on the spot it is as resolute to do the work that is required of you, as AA^ould have been the 20,000 you had six weeks ago at Kilhurry. (Cheers.) You haA'e been told that you took a pledge on that 10 land that day l)eforc God you took a vow — the vow of Tipperary. (Cheers.) Hememher the Avords that came to you from the lips of a man whose head is Avhite in the service of his country, a pure consistent patriot, and ho repeated the Avords that came from the immortal genuis of Thomas Davies : ‘ Tor never more Ave lift a hand, 15 We swear by God and Virgin Mary, Except in Avar for native land. And that’s the vow of Tipperary.’ (Cheers.) That is what you took at the base of Slievenamon six weeks ago. To-day, you are assembled here to show, — one or two perhaps would be traitors, — that 20 you are determined to keep that vow. (Voices, ‘ Away with him, down with him.’) Eor to-day, in the words of the resolution that has been proposed, and the pledge that has been administered to you from the sacred lips of a minister of God, you are to reaffirm' that voav, and to show that you will be true to your word of honour as men ; for if you be not true to your 25 Avord, why then jou are not men, though you had 50 times as much reputation as the men of Tipperary have. (Cheers.) In repeating for you the words of that resolution I Avisli you to take to heart the meaning of the words that fell from the lips of the minister of God that read it for you.” He here read the resolution and continued ; — “ If the law of the land allows such things 30 to be, you are protesting, in the name of high heaven, against the injustice, the iniquity, and the unfairness of that law. But the laAV of the land failing to give you the power to do as you Avould, steps in God’s law, Avhich is over the law of every land, and the law Avhich God gives man from his right hand, the law of nature. To-day, in the second part of this resolution, you 35 affirm your determination, so far as the laAV of nature permits you, within the circumscribed limits of the law of the land, to hold out that power in the face of your enemies that resolute determined numbers will give, and to strike the fear of God and terror into the hearts of those scheming enemies of their country, who would fly in the face of the people, and make a 40 humbug of the people in face of Sliereenamon. Noaa^ then, men of Tipperary, mark you, you are going to discountenance all and every attempt made to deprive the rightful owner of these acres of his rightful ownership of them. (Hear, hear.) The crops that are groAving to-day and ripening under God’s own sun on that land belong to Henry Meagher (a voice : 45 ‘ Undoubtedly ’) ; and if Henry Meagher be not permitted to take np these crops for his own use and benefit, then, men of Tipperary, you have sworn before God that they shall rot on the stalk. (Cheers.) I have been honoured by being permitted to address you once before ; then next in Tipperary town, three weeks ago, I had the honour of again meeting the 50 manhood of Tipperary. (Cheers.) This is my third visit, and I swear 6 {^Cluneen. — August l-s7, 1880. — Mu. MlcJiuet V. lloytou.) l)elbrc God, if tluit laud is touched by auy man here to save the crop for his landlord, 1 will ucver set foot iu Tipperary again (Cheers), because I wont be coming back to speak to a. crowd ol* men who had [)crjurcd themselves ; and if you allow these ero[)S to be taken from the I’ightful owner, why then you 5 will be deceitful perjurers, t thiidv that the landlord’s interest here, and it has been a powerful one, because during my lifetime it has swept a popu- lation fully as large as there is in the hills and valleys of Tipperary to-day. There is only one half of Tipperary at home that was here 35 years ago.” (A voiee : “ More.”) Mr. Boyton, “ That is true. I tell you to look and see, for 10 where you had 100,000 population in this county in the year 1810, you have not one half that number in the year 1880.” (A voice : “ Better ones.”) Mr. Boyton, “ They are gone, but remember where they are gope. They have gone with the hope that from the remnant they have left behind’ there will be enough left to show that there is life in the old laud yet. (Cheers.) I have had 15 some experience of my fellow countrymen throughout Ireland for the last four or five months. From the far cloud-capped mountains of Donegal away to the coast of Skibbereen I have seen crowds fully as enthusiastic, fully as determined to pledge their words, as this ; and I tell you, men of Tipperary, there is a hope swelling in me to-day that, in spite of all things, with the help of God 20 the clouds are clearing away. (Cheers.) The people are beginning at last to realize their strength,— the power of the democracy of Ireland, the power of the people, the power that comes from intelligence, the power that comes from organization, from combination, from the knowledge of your own strength. There is only one thing wanted, and that is to learn, that we 25 Irish people have never learned yet, the power that comes from unity. Had we to-day an united nation, we could, instead of pledging ourselves not to rob our neighbour’s wife, and family, we coidd stand up on our feet and dictate terms to the eternal enemy of Ireland and the Irish people ; and we could, when dictatmg terms to them, if they refused, put our strong 30 right arms and grapple the throat of the nearest enemy, the landlords of Ireland. (Cheers.) I did not come here to-day to address you. I came to aid by my humble efforts as a representative of the National body the Slievenamon council of the Land League in carrying out the work they set themselves to do on the 6th of June last. I thank God that I see such 35 flourishing indications of resolution, determination, and fight. (Cheers.) I mean lawful fight now, unless they give us fair play. You know that it is the truth that makes men free. You know that we need never be afraid to speak the truth ; and I tell you now, as sure as you unite to help the struggling tenant farmers, tillers of the soil, and those who depend on them, 40 as soon as you unite to give them the natural rights in their own soil, so sure as you have accomplished that end, will come from God’s right hand the freedom of Ireland. (Cheers.) The man who cannot, or the men who cannot, stand together to hold that field could not stand together to hold that hill or this county. Therefore I tell you again, we are beginning at the 45 beginning. We are beginning to try to educate the Irish people into the knowledge of their power ; for they have a power, if they would exercise it, that would cranch this miserable system in 24 hours. To come home to the direct object of this assemblage is this. There have been rumours in the air that there are men wanting to take or desirous of taking the land of Henry 50 Meagher. It matters not who or what they be. I tell these men here to-day, and I desire them to mark it, the people of Ireland, at least so much of them as A 4 7 {Clonccn. — Au(jud l.s-/, l.S8(). — Mr. Michael V. Jloylon.) wo can coinmaiul under this national ovgani/ation, and so mucli ol: the I'unds ol‘ their hrothors in Aineriea as they can command, have through tlieir council sent you. Men of Tipperary, you in the gap, you are in the ga]). Upon how you hold tjiat ga]) now depends on the future,— the land (piestion \ 5 in this county. (A voice : ‘ It will never he lost.’) Wo have given you a > hit of Avork to do. Wo are at your hack with the people of the Land Leagiu' . throughout Ireland, AVo are coming to sec with our help Avhat you will do to fight for yourselves, for in holding that land you are asserting a principle, you are dclihcratcly shoAving the landlord the power you have to crush his 10 interests, the only thing that he ever consults in Ireland. It Avas said of these landlords, and when all is said and done they are only a handful, some five or six thousand, some one in every thousand of the people ; and suicly, granted that there are 500 men, and these all cowards, if we got only one to every landlord, it ought to he enough to settle the land (j^ucstion, piovideu 1 15 alAvays, as the laAvyer says, that you mean business, and that you are united. ^ Now then, it was said of landlordism of old, and said by a honest Englishman, that it asserted the landlords asserted their rights with a hand of steel, and neglected their duties with a front of brass. Now then, you must show thein that a"ou will compel them to first carry out their d uties, an d, failing__ 20 that, you will deprive them of anything to carry out about. jThe^)ject that is in vicAV at the present time may be a long way ahead of us. It is to plant the Irish people in their native land in the form of a peasant pro- prietary. (Cheers.) We of the Irish Land League have no fault and no objection to find to any man who comes up here and advocates a different 25 means of settling this land question, but we do emphatically say that a peasant proprietary must be the only and the final solution of it. Let them to-day give us fixity of tenure, which some of us believe is fixity of land- lordism ; let them give us free sale and fair rents. No man to-day in Ireland could define, and no number of men would ever be found to define, AAdiat is a 30 fair rent, and Avhat is not. Therefore, aa’c aim at the root, and av e are not going to be thrust aside by gentlemen who think that Ave are going too far. Let ^ them come with us, and if we do not take them far enough, let them stand aside and let us go on^. /l*mvself would be the last one to interfere Avith the free expression of any man’s right, or his belief or opinion on the settle- 35 ment of the land question ; but for the present I wish once for all to tell you what Ave have to-day in A'iew. It is a peasant proprietary , and, failing that, we vow that the land of Ireland shall become just like that farm must become, if you are faithful to your vow, a wilderness. If they do not give us the land for the people, why then give the land to the game, but 40 they will never get it. (Cheers.) I have talked more than I would have done under other circumstances. There are gentlemen here who know the immediate circumstances of this place, that know the parties, that there has been, as I have said before, rumonrs that they were looking to spit in the people’s faces. Let them take to-day a Avord of Avarning, for I tell them 45 that there is something round they do not think about. (Cheers.) You can tell them it is not in cheering or in meetings that the firm determination of a resolute manhood is ever carried out. It is in exercising quiet and jDeaceful methods ; but the moment the spark is struck, then they had wished that they had thought before they had 50 provoked it. Onee for all, a A\^ord of AA'arning is never wasted. (‘ Never.’) And I tell these men, and I tell them most truly, it AA^ould be 8 {Cloncen. — Amjnsi ISSO. — J/y. 3ricJiacl P. JjOij/o)i.) l)cttor for thoin they liad never 1)een horn than tliat they attempted hy foul means to defeat the resolution of the people of Ti})perary. (Cheers.) I could not add one word to Avhat I have said. I say now that wo are going, your Avorthy junior memher and myself, to organize the county Tipperary, and 5 that those Avho to-day Avish us to strengthen their hands in the settlement of the land question hnoAV Avhat the meaning of an organized dh'pporary is. (Cheers.) They Avill IcnoAv it Avhon Ave have 20, aye 80 thousand men to say ‘ Wo AAull hold the land.’ ” (A voice, “ It Avill he.”) Mr. Boyton, “ Go on, and if you AAunt to fight it out, it Avill take thousands of the police and regiments of 10 soldiers to serve a single process of ejectment in the county Tipperary ( Cheers) ; and all that AAnthout ever firing a shot, nnless Ave are provoked and have the means to do it, we must always have the means. But Avhile Ave are AA^aiting for that Avc Avant the men of Tipperary, the men, — let the old Avomen stand aside — and come up resolutely, earnestly, fearlessly, and manfully, and give their 15 names to such young men as Mr. Cusack, and men who will be appointed secretaries. (Cheers for Mr. Cusack.) Give him your name, and as you have received his name so Avarmly I may perhaps tell you that the secretary of the Sleevenamon Land League, — that is the name they haA^e given it, — it takes in all the branches that will be established Avithin the immediate vicinity, — 20 that he is a young man that has the confidence of the Irish National Land League (Cheers), no less than has the worthy President, and the Presidents of the branches already formed and in process of formation ; and my mission to Tipperary is to visit cA'ery centre in this county, and to organize a branch of the Land League, and I have got three weeks, and out of this 25 county I will never go until twenty-five branches liaA^e been established. And as we commenced with the clouds, and now Ave haA'e the sun shining, so the mass of the people shall be with this movement, which will be auspicious for a just and holy cause, the cause of Ireland for the Irish.” (Cheers.) I . — 2S. ' tell you ; and I will call on you, when you hear it, to give a cheer for the Royal Irish, for on that oeeasion I saw a young police- man, plainly showing that the mother s milk Avas in the lad, and at the gable of the house I saiv that young policeman shedding tears for having the work to do, having that party Avork of landocracy in this country 40 to perform. I say to you then that Avith these men AA'e have no quaiiel with them about their duty. Their duty much depends on what duty is, for he has a duty before high heaven, and that is not to put a bayonet into a man. Also, these men did that which plainly they are entitled to another cheer for ; and this is a lesson for hungiy dogs and the 45 people of this county, not to go speeching over the land; but what did the constabulary do in the county Gahvay for the old fellow that was being put out ? They turned over together, and put their hands into their pockets, and paid the rent. (Cheers.) That shows that, notwithstanding the tempta- tions, notwithstanding the bribes that the powers that be can give, and the B 2 11 [Cloncen. — Aucjust 1880.) Rev. Mr. Meagher in returning tlianks said, — “ I thank this great crowd lor the vote of thanks you have passed to me as your chairman. Mr. lioyton has said, and very properly, that if the priests and the people are united, no matter how great the force and power 5 that is hrouglit against them, they would he able to sweep it away. That is the organization for this county, and I would say for all Ireland. The priests and the people going together, and raising their voices in any cause j but especially in the land eause, will be so mighty and so powerful that they will be heard with fear and respeet in the halls of St. Stephen’s. Therefore, 10 let this be the rallying cry that will echo from this meeting, ‘ The priests and the people of Tipperary.’ ” (Cheers.) 15 7 {Kcadne.—A'uoual hlli, IbW.—Mr. T. Brennan.) Mr. Thomas Brennan, l)iil)lin, who was received witli cheers, said,— ^ “ Mr. Chairinan and fellow countrymen, in coming here to-day and travel- ling through the county of Leitrim I was thinking that the last time I had the honour of addressing the men of that county it was when the then 5 Government of England hrought me to Carrick-on-Shannon to answer to the charge of having used wicked, seditious, and malicious language. (Voice : ‘ Which they could not prove.’) Yes. We did use seditious language against the power of landlordism, which had so long crushed the people (groans), and please God we will continue to use seditious language and he guilty of 10 seditious acts against the system that degrades labour and ennobles idleness (hear, hear), until that sedition against landlordism shall ripen into revolution against landlordism, and the whole infernal system go down before the might of Ireland’s awakened manhood. (Voice: ‘Bravo.’) Mr. Brennan: We want to create a social revolution in Ireland. I do not mean a bloody revo- 15 lution. Blood enough has been shed already, the blood of a couple of millions of our people, by Irish landlordism. (Groans.) But we want an uprising of all that is just, and manly, and patriotic in the country against the system that has been robbing and plundering you. Yes, Irish land- lords have been robbing and plundering you from your cradles. They 2b have been roblring you of your birthright in the land, and they have been robbing you of that independence which should raise men above the dumb driven cattle that the American poet asks us not to be. Erom the time you are able to handle the spade you have been working for the benefit of the landlords ; you have been working wlien you should have been cultivating 25 your minds and preparing to take a creditable part in life’s battle ; you have been working in order to supply yourselves with the mere necessaries of life and supplv the idler with the luxuries. And worse than all, you were taught that it was your duty to do this. You were taught that God created you merely to work and starve and to be as slaves to men who are inferior 30 to you in everything but what the world calls birth. (Cheers.) You arc taught that it was a sin to murmur against your poverty or strike at the cause of it. You are taught to stand with uncovered heads in the presence of your landlord and his bailiffs, and even to bend the knee to his lordship. (Cheers.) I have seen it with huDiiliation for my country. I have seen 35 even women bend the knee as some brainless lordling passed by. I have seen some time ago at a railway station in the west of Ireland a poor old man nearly 80 years of age stand trembling in the presence of his landlord. His hat was off, it was snowing at the time, and the cold snow was falling on the old man’s bare head, and the landlord never even told him that he might 10 put on his hat. (Groans.) Yet this man was and is considered what is called a good landlord, which only goes to prove that though some of them may not use all their power, they all w ish to have it ; and though the y may not bite, they ail wish to have'Tlm teeth. Me want to draw the fang s and leave the animals ha rmless . (Laughter.) We want you not to crouch 15 dowirto ymwlmid or any other man in the community. (‘ Never.’) This land that you treated is yours. You have as much right to that land as you have to the free air of heaven, and any man that comes forward to take from you the fruits of that land you should treat him as a robber and a plunderer. (Cheers.) The work of education must go on until the humblest peasant — I 50 do not like that word peasant— until the humblest labourer in the country shall recognise that he was born with the same rights as the peer (cheers). A 2 3 {Keaduc. — Aikjji.sI S/A, 18S(). — Mr. T. lirctt>i(m.) and that it is an insult to tlio God who made him, and that it is sedition ag-ainst tlu; law of Heaven to aeknowledge any lieap of' clay as his master, ir you want to attain your i-iglits you must act in an independent manner; there must he no hogging ; you must acd witli a manliness that will strike 5 terror into the hearts of the enemies of the people. We have evidence offered by every country in the world of what a determined democracy can do. And we want that democracy in Ireland. And by the democracy of the country I mean every man that works and Avho lives on liis own earnings and not on the earnings of others, and it is his interest to combine against 10 the class that has taken the nation's wealth away and giving nothing in return, who unjustly takes your earnings and lives in idleness upon ^^our industry. We can say to it, as the great modern poet said, as Shelley said of his own country men- - ‘ They rob you of the seed yon sow, they take the wealth you have ; they 15 wear the web you weave, and bear the arms you forge.’ — Now we want you to keep the seed you sow, to keep the wealth you have, to wear the robes yon weave, and bear the arms you forge. (Cheers. j I am not going to tell you that this can be easily accomplished. This revolution cannot be worked in a day ; but it will take time and labour to upset the state 20 of^things which slavery has produced. No great reform has ever been carried without sacrifices. You must be prepared to make sacrifices, even great sacrifices, to rid this country from the power of Irish landlordism. (Voice : ‘ It is time to stamp it out.’) Mr. Brennan ; You must strike that system everywhere it rises its unholy head. The landlords are entering into a con- 25 spiracy against your rights, and you must enter into a conspiracy against their power ; but you cannot have that conspiracy until you have organisation. The men of every parish must be thoroughly organised and ready to act as one man, and then let the word go forward in a general strike against rents until the question is settled. (Cheers.) We have up to this advised you not 30 to pay an exorbitant rent. We may soon ask you not to pay rent at all. (Cheers.) Until you bring the landlords to their knees then you will sooW settle the question. You are not bound to pay what your farms cannot pro- duce. The battle ground of this social movement is not, I believe, in the English House of Commons but on Irish hills and Irish fields, in Irish^ 35 cabins and Irish workshops (cheers), and I believe that your representatives would much more serve the cause of the people by coming down amongst their constituents to teach them their rights and how to assert them than walking around the streets of London, or writing essays for the English^ periodicals. (Voice: ‘We will let the lords know their duty.’) Mr. Bren- ' 40 NAN : Yes, as my friend remarks, within the last few days that aristocratic assembly by which Mr. Erank Hugh O’Donnell is so enamoured has thrown out the Compensation for Distiu’bance Bill introduced by Mr. Eorster. I think we ought to be very much obliged to those worthy citizens, and I do not know whether we will pass a vote of thanks to them here to-day. 45 Hereditary statesmen are not always remarkable for their precision, but certainly 1 did not imagine that their lordships would play so directly into our hands, for every action of this kind but rouses the people, and I have no doubt but that these gentlemen have created a flame for the destruction of their own political and social power. (Cheers.) There must bo no flagging ( 50 now in this movement. Everywhere the voice of the people must go up, , demanding the abolition of Irish landlordism, the light must be let in on 1 4 {Kcadue. — Aiujiist '6lh^ 1880. — Mr. T, lircnaan.) those (lark deeds, every act of landlord oppression — and God knows they are many — must be made known in your district ; eomraunicat(5 with the Land Leag'ue and give them full ])articulars of tlie tacts, ])nt give nothing l)ut what will stand the test of investigation, and we will take care that it will 5 get the h{'st considenitiou. ddiis is a movement tor the people’s henefit, and you should not he waiting for what you call leaders to do your own work. If a hurglar comes to rob you, you don’t go for a meml)or of Parliament to kick him out. (Laughter.) No, you go for his throat; that is what we Avant yon to do for the system that is rol)biug you, and the result of your 10 efforts will bo the national and social regeneration of your country. It has been used as an argument against us that if you make Irish farmers pros- perous they will forget their right to national independence. I think it is more likely that they will when they are well fed and clad, than when they are engaged in keeping off the spectre of famine from their thresholds. God 15 forbid that we will ever forget to make Ireland a nation ; and when I say Ireland a nation, I mean more than a green flag floating from Dublin Castle, I mean Ireland for the Irish : if the Government of Ireland I would l)e found in rebellion against it. Most of us here will agree that the highest form of government is a republic. Well, you may 20 establish an Irish Eicpublic on Irish soil, but as long as the tillers of that soil is forced to support a class, your Irish Republic would be but a mockery of freedom. (Cheers.) This land of Ireland is yours ; the fruits that this land is now producing is yours : you have nourished it with your support and you have nourished it with your strong right arms, and you 25 should take care that no robber will be allowed to steal away those fruits from you.” (Cheers.) A 3 5 {Keadue. — AK(ji(sf Ht//, 1880. — 3Ir. P. J. Sheridan.) Mr. Patrick J. Sheridan, Tiil)l)crciirry, shopkeeper, who was received Avith cheers, said, — “Mr. Chairman and fellow countrymen, the first impression the men of Leitrim made upon me was a lasting one, and to-day you have framed in my 5 mind not only that impression but you have caused me to make room for another. We have to try and assist in every means in our power in putting an end to landlordism. Since I last met you there have been several branches of the Land League scattered over the country. They arc in an excellent state of organisation, and if they form a nucleus of all, you will find it will be io of use to us. The resolution which I have been honoured to support is new on the platform, it asks you to hold your crops and not surrender them to your landlords. Landlordism, which not only threatens to rob you of your crops, but of your very existence, and the tenant farmer who refuses to join us, is not one hair better than the landlord ; if such a man can be found he is 15 destroying all the means by which his neighbours are trying to find a home in the land of their birth. The resolution says it is absolutely necessary to stick to your harvests ; landlordism will take advantage of the occasion lost in refusing the Bill which has been sent up from the Lower House. Who are those lords ? They are all that you should detest. They are the personi fica- 20 tionof idleness who spend the wealth you gath er. (Groans.) Th us m y fello w countryme^ I ask youTo ple dge y^rselveslcTthTs resolution and to sustain it bT^king to your harvests. Yield them to nobody. My fellow country- meh, ther^TY'oSe'YfKer fact whiclTcomes very prominently before us, indi- vidual landlords are resolved on taking our places, they have done this in 25 Boscommon, and I am glad to hear that there was energy and resolution there, and patriotism enough to show that they should not be evicted in the noonday for one year’s rent. The sheriff and a posse of police evicted 60 persons who were thrown on the world for non-payment of one year’s rent, and on this property there was no running gale. They were evicted for one year’s 30 rent. The landlady is Mrs. Lambert of Dublin. The gentleman who is receiver on that property when last he asked for rent he gave two shillings in the pound reduction, and what did she tell him ? You had better allow me that money, I won’t allow that. On this property I have taken down the rents and valuation, and the rents were 50 per cent, over the Government 35 valuation. (Oh !) Well, fellow countrymen, you need not wonder if you can form any judgment of their acts. I accompanied the sheriff from house to house, and a m.ore heartrending spectacle I never witnessed. I want you to remember these facts. It is absolutely necessary that notice should be served on the relieving officer who will communicate to the next workhouse, iO when there Avill be food got for those people. The result was in this case that no notice was served, and the people did not know any eviction was ■ about to take place, and at the time the eviction took place the people were gathering in their thousands two miles away, from the surrounding districts. If such another course as this be attempted by any officer of the law, let 45 your arrangements be : — Away to the chapel bells and church bells when the eviction is to take place; let there be horns in every parish; let men and women assemble there and keep the people in their homesteads, and the legislature will see that it is necessary to act in conformity with those ideas. We are the people, we are the nation, we are the strength and material that 50 constitutes the nation, and are we going to be trampled on like worms ? The people are determined that they shall be no longer what they have been in 8 ( Keailnc. — Augiatt ’Slh, 1880. — 31r. P. J. Sheridan.) tlio past. They must stand fearlessly before tlieir fellow men and deelai*(‘ that they will be no lonijfor slaves. In order to do tins it is absolutely necessary that you should be united, and that organisation should bo amongst you. In every parish let there be a branch of the Land League, and I have r> little fear that the present generation will live to see themselves rooted in the soil that they have watered with the sweat of then’ brows. (Cheers.) Let Protestant and Catholic unite in one common bond of friendship to serve their country, because it is our common cause. Grasp youi* Protestant brother by the hand, and we will present such a front as the rockbound coast 10 of Ireland to the beating Atlantic wave. (Cheers). Q 3366.-64. B 9 Mnllmahonc. — S/// A ikjusI ISSO. Mr. Michael P. Boyton, of the National Land League, Dublin— ' Ihoposed the next resolution: He said — “ Men of "^ripperary, we have met before, and will again. (Cheers.) I i acknowledge the honour which the Slievenamon Land I.eague has conferred upon me in putting me forward to propose one of the most significant resolu- tions that has yet been proposed in the land war. (Cheers.) In proposing 5 this resolution we are to-day tiring red-hot shot into the very heart of the | enemy.” (Cheers.) ! (A voice, “ We want no powder.”) j Mr. Boyton — “ It is well and fitting that such shot should be fired from | the base of Slievenamon. (Cheers.) Listen to it, for before the sun sets j 10 to-morrow evening the re-echos of that will be heard on the floor of St. James s i and elsewhere.” (Cheers). | Resolved — “ That this gathering of the independent manhood of Tipperary indignantly 1 repudiates the monstrous assumption of an assemblage, whose position, created « 15 by the accident of birth, enables them to insult and defy the will of the people. | Such a course has hastened inevitably the annihilation of the House of Lords, and Tipperary to-day avows to the world its firm determination henceforth and for evet to acknowledge no lord hut God, who created the earth for the children j of men, and not for any class or caste. 20 “ In proposing that resolution to you it is ray honour to see that you know the significance attached to it. The people of England some time ago made up their minds as to the inutility of the institution known as the House of Lords. They said that it was not in accord with the spirit of the age I tell you, men of Tipperary, it, and it alone in every land, and the principle 25 it typifies, has been the eternal and the inveterate enemy of liberty all over the world. (Cheers.) By means of a little Bill which was brought in to feel the way these gentlemen were touched to the marrow, and they came there in their might, lords, dukes, and earls, men with titles created by theii fellow - men, men born as you were, men who had no more right to contiavene the 30 ordinances of God Almighty than the humblest farm labourer has here to-day. (Cheers.) God said that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow. These men must live in luxury, for they never w’ork. These men are idlers, why should they dictate to the people, to the workers ? The day is past when people bow and crouch to the earth under feudal tyranny. The people of England 35 say they must go, and in response to that they have spewed their venom on the tillers of the Irish soil. (Cheers.) We at last are face to face with the enemies of liberty, and the enemies of liberty have always been the enemies of right, reason, and justice. In commencing to-day in Tippeiary an agitation foi the abolition of the House of Lords, you yourselves are only doing what millions 4 j 0 of determined Englishmen are also making up their minds to do. (Cheeis.) As one of the signs of the times, I will read for you a leader from a paper, professing to be the leader of public opinion in Ireland. In the ‘ Freeman’s Journal ’ of August 5th we find the following sentence : — ‘ The lesson of ‘ Wednesday is the old, old lesson, which for centuries the Irish nation has 45 ‘ been learning, the lesson that when England yields she yield to pressure, ‘ and not to reason. The people of Ireland must remember how they won ‘ Emancipation, the Land Act, the Church Act, and every concession, small and 8 Mull'mcthone. — 8^// Awjmt 1880. — Mt'. Mlcluiel P. Boy Ion. ‘ large. Agitate, agitate, agitate.’ Plie ‘ Freetnaii ’ newspaper prints these three words. It has got past the period of agitation, and we say. Organise, organise, unite. (Cheers.) ‘ I'he Irish people must instantly bind themselves ‘ into one grand combination to put down the House of Lords, and conquer the 5 ‘ land for the people. The House of Lords has thrown down the glove to the ‘ Irish nation, and the Irish nation must as one man take up the gage.’ W e need never hope to take up that gage until the people were like one man. Disunion, dissension, discord, has been the greatest seed that the enemy of Ireland ever sowed on the soil of Ireland. Their gold has been instrumental before to-day in 10 making Irishmen enemies of one another, in creating discord in the family, in the society, in the club; between the provinces, between the counties, between the towns, and between the factions. (Cheers.) Thank God, and not England, the people to-day have intelligence, they have education that they never possessed before. They have learned that all over the world the power of the 15 people has been acknowledged and recognised. They see the greatest powers of modern times, France, free America, and other powerful nations, governed by the will of the people ; not by the will of any miserable class, caste, ol- faction who take up God Almighty’s earth. These men have set themselves up between the people and justice, and it is for the people to say whether they 20 shall be beaten to death against the firm rock of justice by the power of the people. Here is another sentence from this paper. ‘This agitation must ‘ be conducted with vigour, with boldness, with force. It is now plain that ‘ from reason, arguments, moderation, compromise, we have nothing to hope. ‘ We have tried gentle methods. We know what was the result. Let Ireland 25 ‘ only throw herself into this new agitation with all the zeal, and vigour, and ‘ earnestness which marked the struggle for religious equality.’ Twelve months ago the most violent advocates of the policy of freeing the Irish land and rooting the people in the soil would not have thought of using such language as that. This paper — and I am sorry to see that it did not have sufficient respect 30 for this assemblage of the manhood of Tipperary as to send a representative here to-day — this paper set itself deliberately to crush the agitation, and the people of Tipperary sent its owner elsewhere to look for a seat. (A^^ voice, ‘ And will again. ’ifriTe lesson should bear this fruit, let the men who are to-day urging upon us fair rents, fixity of tenure, and other methods of com- 35 promise ; let them take warning by the lesson they have found that there is no compromise, for we have not asked already for the fiftieth part of what we are j entitled to by just reason, and yet your request has been flung insultingly in | your face. We have commenced a movement to free the soil of Ireland, the , land that bore you. You know that it is yours by the law of God and justice, 1 40 who gave it to you. If you want it you will have to unite, to organise, and to 1 show these landlords what they seem to be ignorant of, the power of the people. (Cheers.) It is said that when leeches leave off sucking they die^ The bloody | leeches that have drawn the moral life, the prosperity, the commerce, and emptied j thehomesof thisbroad land, they must be taught that it is time to leave off sucking. 45 (Cheers.) The only way in which we can accomplish that is by combination, I as pointed out to you to-day, for the purpose of letting them know distinctly that any rent at all is better than no rent, and that if they d>) not listen injustice they will get perhaps nothing at all. (Cheers.) Had we our object accom- plished to-day in the thirty-two counties of Ireland, and had we thirty-two 50 councils, and the president of each of these councils sitting in a National Council Q 3366.— 50. B y Mnlliuahone—m August 1880.— M/’. Michael P. Boglon. in Dublin, we might be enabled to seiui out lo the Lund Leagues the word? ‘ when your landlord or his tool or minion comes to you for rent tender him the ‘ CJovermnent valuation. If he refuses that let him wait till he gets any more. (Cheers.) Every tradesman in the world can combine for self-preservation, for 5 their protection, every class of society have their own rules and regulations, but the unfortunate upholder of them all, the down-trodden tenant-farmer, and the man who is depending on him, the labourer ; for this is not only the cause of the land, but it is the cause of labour, the cause of justice, and of humanity. This paper tells you to-day that this is a just and holy cause, and I believe that 10 so sure as I believe tliat all justice and holiness comes from God, the great landlord, and the holy one. 1 regret that I am not able to continue my remarks, 1 may do so at another period, or I may again in a day or two. I have had a good deal of work for the last day or two, and my voice fails me now, but, like the men of Tipperary, my spirit will never. 10 t Mnllinahone. — 8/// August 1880. / Mr. Michael P. Boyton— Again addressed the people. He said — “ Men of Mnllinahone, I am very sorry that I was not able to do more justice to my part in the demonstration here to-day. It is not due to any want of feeling in me, but rather to physical failure than otherwise. I do not think any amount of talk could put more spirit or determination into you 5 than ^v'hat has taken place already by the demonstration at Kilbury, on the 6th of June, and by the meeting held this night week at Cloneen, and at this magnificent meeting here to-day. For my own humble part, I do not believe in talk. While I would wish to make a speech that would move the stones, I never yet knew the value of words, save and except to put the people right, 10 and then it is for the people to learn that lesson, that we Irishmen too shall have, the lesson that our strength lies in unity. I have one thing to allude to here to-day. It is my duty to refer to it, or else I should not seejb^e before me there, on that black flag, the words ‘ The vow of Tipperary.’ jOn the 6th of June last that vow was taken by some twenty thousand people, and I am glad that that 15 vow has been kept. It was that the land of Kilbury should never pass away from the rightful owners. In the face of existing circumstances no more deadly — no more serious charge could be brought against a man to-day in South Tipperary than that of being a ‘ land shark,’ a ‘ land grabber,’ for we, and when I say we, I mean the people from whom I sprung, and not the lords 20 temporal or spiritual. (Cheers.) We, the people, determined that we would make the name of ‘ land shark ’ and ‘ land grabber ’ as odious as ever was the name of informer in Ireland. (Cheers.) You all know how, for centuries, we i-emember the family and the descendants of the man who might have sold or betrayed the cause of Ireland in the past. I want to tell you to-day that 25 the man that betrays the cause of the people will be cominit ^g treason against humanity instead of treason against his countrjFi (Chm’s.) One of tlmT^thiest symptoms of public feeling has been the fact that men have found it necessary to come into the court of public opinion and state that there was no foundation even for a rumour, for, so far as the letter you 30 heard read by Mr. Cusack went, there was only a rumour in the air that people were looking for the lands of Kilbury. , (Cheers.) Mark you, there was no charge, there was no fact, there was nothing to substantiate or to in- vestigate. Had there been we wmuld have sifted it to the bitter end. There was simply a rumour in the air, and on the strength of some remaiks 35 that I made in the chapel-yard at Cloneen, last Sunday, men shownd themselves sensible to the fact that it wns a terrible charge to say that a man w^as flying in the face of the people, and they came foiavard with a disclaimer, they came forward and told the people of Tipperary that they never had anything whatever — no hand, act, or part, in attempting to 40 to betray the cause of the people. (Cheers.) I tell you now that is a healthy sign, and I tell men that nothing can be more serious than to make a charge without foundation. Mark you this, men of Tipperary, it w^ere better for the man who will hereafter be found to even think of betraying the people’s cause, it will be better for him that he had not been born, for though we might not answer 45 for his miserable life the contempt and the infamy that attaches to the committing of treason against the people’s cause will be handed dowm to his children’s children. I have no more to say. That was a rumour in the air, it is past, and let no man ever again attach any importance to it. These men have asked for justice ; C 2 13 ^InUlnohouo. — M/// ^l/u/nsf 1880. — Mr. Michaol P. Boy ion. 5 you, if you expect justice, you must give it to everybody. They disclaimed all attempts to take that land, and 1 want you to believe them, as I do. (Cheers.) Mr. Cusack, the secretary of the Slievenamon branch of the Land League, will now nominate the Mullinahone branch, atul give you the names of the president, secretary, and council.” Mr. Cusack then said — “ Every man in the parish of Mullinahone that wishes to join the Slieven- amon branch of the Land League will join next Sunday. The president is Mr. Michael Mullally.” Mr. Mullally agaiivcoming forward, said — “ It is six weeks since we commenced the agitation. 1 here is a gentleman 10 in command of the Queen’s forces to-day, and he is the only man who has treated us as a gentleman. He has not dared to bring his forces into the field to-day, to dare to ask what we were going to do, and I ask vou to give thi;ee cheers for Mr. McLaughlin. (Cheers.) Mr. Boyton. “ That is another healthy symptom. This is the first land meeting that I have 15 attended during the last twelve months at which there was not at least five- and-twenty, fifty, or one hundred of Her Majesty’s forces in Ireland, and I am glad to see that one of Her Majesty’s officers has taken upon his shoulders to trust the people for the preservation of peace and order. (Cheers.) He is a gentleman, and I think he knows the people, and I wish the people to respect 20 him as a gentleman, and to honour his principles in leaving the people to them- selves. I now have a duty to perforin, and I do so with pleasure, to propose a vote of thanks to the Chairman of this meeting. (Cheers for Father Murphy and for Father Murphy of 98.’) It is a vote of thanks to the priest- hood of Ireland, and though this land movement did not originate or commence 25 in Ti[)perary the Archbishop of Cashel was the first man and the best man in the Irish priesthood to give us a ‘ set off.’ (Cheers.) Dr. Croke blessed the banner that we raised on the 6th of June on the land of Kilburry ; he blessed with his good wishes the national land movement of Ireland, and in a vote of thanks to the Chairman we are voting thanks to the people of Tipperary, and 30 to the gallant, noble, manly, Irish priesthood of Tipperary. (Cheers.) Mr. Mullally— Seconded the resolution, and said — “ He did so ‘ con-amore,’ and if they stood true to themselves and their creed they need not fear any man.” Rev. Mr. Murphy replied, saying— “ I have only just to thank you, all who have taken part in this great demon- 35 stration here to-day, for the attention with which you have heard me through- out my remarks, and for the honour you have done me now.” (Cheers.) 14 Mulliuahone.—Qth August 1880 i¥r. Michael P. Boy ton, JVCr. Boyton again addressed the meeting, and said — “ liefore we adjourn this meeting to assemble again at Clonmel next Wednes- day, and I ho})e any man who has any respect for himself and the cause will be there, I wish you all to be inspired with the spirit of Kickham (cheers), and the best way you can show you have that spirit is to come there, and 5 thus show by your presence in Clonmel that you mean what you say. I will take the word of every honest Irishman present that he will come to Clonmel on Wednesday next, Yes or no? (Cries of Yes.) Now, there is one more little thing remains to be done. We want the work, the organisation, and in case there should be any man, boy, or girl present who was not at the demon- 10 stration at Kilbury or Cloneen I want them to take the pledge that six hundred thousand people of Ireland are taking for the last three or four months, and we want every man, woman, and child here present to pledge themselves before God and myself never to take a farm, to bid for a holding, or to look for a holding from which their neighbour has been evicted for non- 15 payment of rent. (Cheers.) Now, then, every man here that belongs to Mullinahone must give their names to the secretary of the Mullinahone branch of the Land League. That is the work, that is the organisation, and all the talk goes for nothiiig_ unless you do that. I thank you for the reception you have given mej Mr. Thomas Kickham will take your names next Sunday. 20 Every man who claims to belong to the independent, fearless, honest manhood of Tipperary will go there and give his name, and the meaning of that giving your name is that the rest of your brothers throughout Ireland are prepared to stand at your back ; and whenever your landlord evicts you if you belong to the Land League your wife and family will be supported (‘ bravo ’) and 25 your neighbours, your brother land leaguers, will see, so far as 20.000 /. of A merican money in the Hibernian bank g oes, that no one will ever take your land. That is what it means. (Cheers.) 15 {lioUintiibher. — ?)th August, 1880.) Mi\ M. M. O’Sullivan. In seconding the resolution said : — Mr. Chairman, it affords me very "reat plciisure to speak to you after the able and ])ractical speeches which have been delivered by those before me. We are assembled to further the land movement in Ireland, to pledge ourselves never to take a farm from which 5 another has been evicted, or Avhich has been surrendered from any cause whatever, to pledge ourselves never to work upon these farms, never to buy the cattle, the goods, or the produce of the farm which has been sold for rent. To let tliat produce rot upon the farm, if ihe landlord and his wife and family do not go with their scythes and rakes, and work upon it themselves, 10 and do one honest day’s work. ’Vou have just passed a resolution, condemning the recent action of the House of Lords, I myself never cared very much for the action of the House of Lords, or the House of Commons ; but I do care for the action of the people of Ireland. It is not upon their action you have to depend 15 it is upon your own com.bined repeated action. We have been speeching^ enough in Ireland, but now we want when the people have been educated, we want them now to organise, all the people in one grand trades union, and strike against payment of any rent whatever, pending legislation on the land question. A year and a half ago we offered to meet them on fair 20 terms, to offer fair rents to the landlords, and if they did not accept them to pay none at all. We ask you now to pay no rent whatever, until we have legislation on this question. We ask you to unite as brothers in one grand and glorious cause, not to go slinking one of you who may have the rent in his pocket .... He who has rent now 25 may be starving next year. If you have a good harvest keep it, the landlord never worked one day upon it. If he sowed the potatoes, if he dug with the spade, if he put the oats in the ground, and by the aid of the sun, which God has made, as he has made the land, if he had worked upon it then he has a perfect right to it. Has he done so ? Did he make 30 the land? Did he improve the land? Did he sow the seed ? Whose seed was it ? (A voice “ The people’s.”) Then the people will keep it. For the last seven months I have had day by day, to wade through letters that often sickened my heart, and made me hope for another country, aye, and for the country heyond the grave, rather than read the tales that I have 35 read, and what was the cause of it? Landlordism (cheers). It was our action that saved four millions of money for the Irish people, and gut money from heyond the Atlantic from the people of America (cheers), to support this institution (cheers). Let them feed themselves and their families first, give yourself meat every day in the week, they did not work, let the 40 workers feed themselves. If they have any money left pay it back to thecharity funds, and if there is a residue, which I do not think there will, pay the shop- keeper. They tell you that the cause of Ireland’s poverty is over-population. I look to the right and to the left, and I look before me, and more beautiful 6 [Ballintnhher. — 8//^ Aiffynst, 1880. — Mr. M. M. O'Sullivan.) Ininl nu' eyo ne\ oi' i-ostcfl upon, why wc have not one-fovirtli of population. Tliey oiler einigration. We’ll accept it, emigration from the bogs to the phiins wliicli lac(‘ us and will be ours, have we not as miicfi matdiiiess as tiiey have in other countries? Have we not as much manliness as tin* French 5 a hundred years ago, with your honour here and tliere. Tiiey were no better nor worse tiian their neighbours. A few rose to the occasion, said they would not pay any more rent, the landlords came to them, and the people sprang from the earth, they turned upon them, they gave them the position the 3 ' deserved, they hung them. 10 I do not wish that human blood should be shed in any shape or form, if you can gain your rights without it. But by all means gain your libert^’, and your manhood, continue in this agitation. We have brought the land- lords to their knees. We have compelled the Governrnent to bring in the Compensation for Disturbance Bill. The landlords threw it out and the 15 people will rise in insurrection against that House. We want unity for this. I want to know will you unite. 1 don’t want you to cheer, or hold up your hands, but that you will go home with a full determination, to organise yourselves in clubs. What has kept you ? \A' hat has kept Ireland in the d •gradation she is in ? It is landlordism and dissension, that has 20 heen the degradation of Ireland. For does any one believe that if the j)eople were united, landlordism wmuld have one day’s existence. Do away then with dissension, and by^ Heavens, I think the day is passed, when men like Mr. Parnell should go beg before the nation (cheers for Mr. Parnell). You. know the faults of land laws, rack-rents, pauperism, evictions, death, 25 and moral degradation. Do away with the whole, sweep it away and all these things combined will follow. The other evening I united with the artisans of Dublin, with the Trades Unionists, I met them and their delegates, and there and then we formed a compact, for the furthering of this institution, in a short time the cry of 30 “ Down with landlordism ” shall not be iiecessary^ ; but we shall stand before the world not as a nation of paupers, but as a nation of freemen. (Cheers, a voice “Cheers for O’Sullivan,” great cheers.) 7 (Ikdiintuhher. — Ht/t Auijunf, 1880. — Mr. M. M. (y Sullivan.) Mr. M. M. O’Sullivan, in proposing a vote of thanks to the Chairman, .said — There is one great evil in this county which has not been touched upon to-day, it is the evil of absenteei.sin. The absentee landlords bring six million pounds out of the country. I am not speaking of these landlords 5 who spend part of their time out of the country. Take that, since tlie Union, eighty years ago, 480 millions of money, put that into the country to-day without its interest at all, and what a wealthy nation will you not make Ireland. Belgium is not one-third the size of Ireland, and yet its population is almost as large. What is the reason of this? because 10 almost every man is his own landlord. We must not cease agitation till every man in Ireland owns the land he tills. We will not stop until we render the land from which a tenant has been evicted not worth one penny to the landlord ; we will cut off the supplies unless they come to terms with us. We are the millions they are the few. If they want to be 15 fed let them labour themselves. Avoid persons who would take land as a bloodsucker, if he comes into the chapel keep away from him, and if he follows you do not touch him (cheers). Q 2 13 {Ballintuhher. — August, 1880 . — Mr. M. M. O’Sullivan.) Mr. M. M. O’SuUivan— As re,?arrls tin* money Ave don’t require the money, we require tiie shilling in order tlutr we may give you treble the value. 15 {liaUintubber.— 8th August, 1880.) Mr. Edward O’Connor III coming forward to propose the following resolution was received with cheers : — “ Resolved — That we shall regard any man who will prop up the crumbling edifice of landlordism by taking lands which has been rendered accursed by being the scene of an eviction, as a social outcast, to be shunned by all, and viewed with feelings of abhorrence.” {Bnllintnhher. — 8th August, 1880.) Mr. J. W. Walsh said —Mr. Chairman and men of Ballintubber — 1 have much pleasure in supportinpj the resolution. I alwnys feel it a pleasure in being con- nected with any resolution that I find a true and tried friend of the people proposing and seconding, and as an Irish Nationalist and Land Leaguer, I 5 congratulate you on the bold front you have shown here to-day. You have shown that the men of Ballintubber shall be in line with the peo[)le of Ireland in fighling the battle of the tenant farmers. And not alone with the tenant farmer, but with the whole (*ountry, you are determined to I'oot out that cursed system of landlordism, which has been our curse for ages. 10 You have shown you are determined to root out periodical famines, famines which are attributed to a surplus po])ulation. Who can say we have an over-population. Sir K.obert Keane has refuted that when lie savs : — «/ “Ireland is capable of supporting twenty millions of people in ease and comfort. And Addison says it is cipable of supporting forty millions. 15 Then those who say we have a surplus population lie, and they know it. You have assembled to demand a settlement of the Land Question — you are assembled to show that you are determined to work for the people of Mayo, and the people of Galw ay, and with the Irish people for ever. God made this world for his own glory, and for man’s use and benefit. He 20 made the soil of Ireland for the people of Ireland, as he made the soil of any country for the people who cultivate it. He says the earth He gave to the people of men, if we believe the words of the Almighty. He gave the earth to the children of men. If we fook over the history of Ireland we shall find that a third is owned by twenty individuals. Is that right ? 25 Is it just or manly ? Mr. O Sullivan has gone so fully into the question that I do not intend to say much to-day. I only do think it right to preach the same doctrines as I have done on every platform. I have been at meetings every Sunday Since these meetings coTumenced. I am determined to carry them out 30 until we have the soil for the people who till it. You will find people live on food unfit for English horses, in cabins unfit for Irish pigs, trying to raise rents for an unscrupulous and worthless class (groans). Now what fellow-countrymen, becomes of. this rent ? I will tell you. The greater portion of that goes across to London, to Paris, to Vienna, to Baden- 35 Baden, and Rhineland, lo be spent in riot and gambling dens. Would you expect a man to grow strong whose very life-blood runs out through a wound who had an ulcer — whose very life-blood is running out through his wound ? So it is with Ireland — her very life-blood is dra'’' 0 ’ed from her in the shape of rents, rates, and taxes. Calculate the amount of monev 40 wrung from her in seventy years. You will find it amounts to the enormous sum ot five hundred millions. We are here to-day to demand, fiercer than ever, a settlement of the Land Question, and to show that we are not to be deterred by marines landing in Castlebar or Westport. A Government reporter is on our platform. We are not to be ground P 2 9 (Ballmttihher. — Sth August, 1880. — I\Ir. J. W. Walsh.) by tlio House of Lords — the House of Landlords I should call it. I liave heard people speak of got, d landlords. I never met one. In Frenchpark several persons came to me and .said, Say nothing of Lord De Lreyne.” What was the first action of Lord De Frayne ? Me voted, of course, v/ith 5 the majority of his party against that miserable makeshift of a bill intro- duced by Mr. Gladstone. You may as well send a fox to guard the geese {“ Down with him ”). Well, fellow-countrymen, somebody says, Down with him.” But a day will come when the English democracy will join heart and hand Avith the 10 Irish democracy and will SAveep aAvay this institution. We shall have a settlement of the Land Question as they had in glorious France. The system they have now in France is peasant proprietary — hence the pros- perity of France. Every inch of ground is OAvned by the tenants who till it, and tenants-at-Avill are few and far between. Eighteen months ago Ave 15 asked you from many platforms to pay no exorbitant rents. Then Ave AAa^re decried. Noav Ave stand here fearlessly to ask you to pay no rent at all I am sure the people of Ballintubber will not be bcdiind the people of Ireland. I hereby to-day call upon you. Irishmen, in the name of humanity, in the name of your struggling countrymen the 20 Avorld over, each and every man on the townland in Avhich a tenant is e\dcted, to go to the landlord and say, “ We ha\^e made up our minds to pay no rent until the man is restored.” They haA^e offered us an emigra- tion scheme. The land thieves have offered you a scheme of emigration as a remedy for your ills. But, felloAV-countrymen, are you determined to 25 leave the land of your birth ? (‘^ No.”) Are you prepared to folloAV the advice of Mr. Parnell — {“ Cheers for Parnell ”) — when he asks you to keep a firm grip of your homesteads ? (Voices, “That we will.”) If you do that they Avill see that their scheme is a useless one, and they shall find that the Irish people Avill not go. 30 “ If gallant service Avill lead the band “ The Land League Avill save the land.” We Avant too combined action to Avin the hearts of the labourers, the mechanic, the brain Avorker, the clerk, the shopkeeper, aye I Avill go so far if there is a soldier or a sailor, they shall join you in one grand effort in 35 assisting us in this grand scheme of land and labour. “ There is not a man in all the land ‘‘Our country now can spare “ The strong man Avith his sineAA'y hand “ And the Aveak man with his prayer.” 40 How can you expect that this class of people (land grabbers), can be tolerated in on(; land, you might as well expect that a hawk and a sparrow, cai] be reared in one nest. This is a great movement. It is a movement of the people. It is no longer Parnellism, or Davittism, it is the stern 10 SSttWI / [Ballintubbei'. — 8th August, 1880. — Mr. J. W, Walsh.) will of tlie people the land God made for them, and you are as well entitled to the broad acres, which are now occupied by some land thief. The land bidongs to the people, and no man can deprive yon of it. Before I conclude T have to ask you, that each and every one of yon, will 5 before yon go home etiroll yourselves in the Land League, you must show you are determined to work with ns in brotherly love. In working with us \ on are working for brotherlv love, and for humanity the world over. Then I beg you even if yon have to beg the money, to join the Land League. I ask you to go at once and pay your shilling. Do nor imagine we come to 10 beg money from you. We only ash one shilling in the year, and in return, within the coming fortnight, the Secretary of the Branch will hand you a card or ticket, and that card I recommend you to wear in your hats (cheers). Now there is a great benefit to be derived liy people wearing these publicly, because ycm will have an opportunity of knowing who is 15 your friend, who is your enemy. We want you to do it to-day, and where the vanguard will rest to-day, the rere will to-morrow. I want each and every one of you to become members of the League. In conclusion I ask yon again in the name of the Land League, in the name of Ireland, in the name of struggling Ireland to unite in one body. 20 You know the story of the bundle of sticks. The landlords are few. We were told twelve months ago it was impossible to get them to give a reduction of rents, but they do it to-day, and they will have to give more (cheers), (a voice cheers for Ireland — cheers). 1 I [Ballintid)ber. — 8t1i August, 1880, — Mr. J. U . Walsh.) Mr. J. W. Walsh — l have beeti requested to tell you before you leave to-day every man should come forward and enroll himself a member of the Irish National Land League, of which Mr, Bourke is Secretary. 14 {lialliutahher. — 8/// Aiujust, 1880.) Mr. J. W. Nally of Said: AVcll, men of Koscoinmou and surroiuiding districts — I did not come here s[)L(:ially to propose this resolution ; I ihoiight it would be pi’o- posL'd he some other one ; it is not the resolution that I have in my hand, is not the one 1 have been in the habit of proposing. The one I have been 5 in the habit of proposing is the one that condemns persons taking the lands of others. Well, what is the use of addressing such resolutions, when 1 know that parties have been taking the land from which people have been put out from. I ask you if anyone offers more than £2 for these meadows, I look upon him as an enemy of the nation. Now, let ye bind yourselves 10 together. I heard there were some meadows round here to be let. Offer them 2c?., that is the only way to bring these graziers, these land sharks, these land thieves, to bring them to their knees. I came here to-day. This resolution, in defiance of Churchill, in defiance of Stanford. I have not come here to make a speech, because too much speechifying is not 15 good. Resolved, — That we, the people of this assembly, in public meetiiig assembled, tak(! this opportunity of denouncing the conduct of landlords who, in violation of those manly laws which should guide the conduct of life, give support to these infamous men, these informers, such as Lanty More 20 (L. Clarke). Down with him (great groaning). Cheers for Weldon and M‘Hugh (cheers). Now, before I have finished, my fellow-countrymen, which do you think Lanty More worse than Sandford Wills ? 12 Ki /It »•<>•/ hi . — llf/i A uf/Hs/, 1880. Mr. M. M. O’Sullivan, Land League, Dublin. Mr. M. M. O’Sullivan then came forward and said : Men and women of Kerry, it aflbrds me very great pleasure to speak to you here in my native county, ''riiroughout a short career, it lias been my lot to speak to many men, but never until to-day have I had the same impressions when I speak to my own county men. (Cheers.) We have assembled here to-day 5 to further this land movement to put forward through Kerry that the landlords must go (cheers) to make war against monopoly. We don’t wish to take one penny from the landlords, but for all that, we want to secure to the tenant the fruits of his industiy. The landlords may oppose us ; yes, they have opposed us. In the House of Commons a very small instalment of justice to the Irish 10 tenant was passed, but it was thrown out in the House of Lords. (Groans and hisses.) But the people have determined to put an end to that House. (Cheers.) I want to know to-day if the men of Kerry have the manliness to support the people of the west ? (We have.) I knew that there was manhood in Kerry, and I want to know will the manhood of Kerry support the people of the w^est. (We 16 will, we will.) We have in Kerry too much apathy, and I am sorry to say too little of practical work. In the west, north, and east of Ireland the tenant farmers have declared that they will never pay one penny of unjust rent, and that they will not take the farm of an evicted tenant pending the settlement of this land question. I want to know to-day will the men of Kerry assist them in 20 proclaiming this to the world ? (We will.) In Cork, on last Sunday, we pledged the people never to buy the goods or produce of a farm from which a tenant was evicted or which had been sold for rent. We have pledged the people never lo labour on that farm. If the landlord wishes to save the crops, let him hend his own back. (Cheers.) And if he does not, let the crops rot on the land, 25 hut let no labourer work on the farm. In this way, and in this way only, will we starve out the landlords. I appeal to the landloi ds, and I see some of them here to-day, to sell out and go wherever they like. I ask you to-day not to cease this agitation until you have your rights gained. (Cheers.) I want you to pledge vourselves with uplifted hands and with no braggadocio that you 30 will never cease this agitation until you have obtained for yourselves the soil you till. (Cheers.) Come up with all hands now (all hands up). That’s right — stick to that pledge. I must now tell you that this movement on which you are engaged here to-day is for the benefit of the people, and I am here to-day to tell you this movement I am sure will come to a successful conclusion. My 35 advice to you all is, to work earnestly for your living, no matter what you are at, whether at the desk or at the plough ; I want you to be paid for your labour. (Cheers.) A remedy has been held up to you by the English House of Lords, and that remedy is emigration. There is scarcely a beautiful hill throughout the country that I have not trod on ; there is not a people of any manliness that 40 I have not seen ; and I have never seen braver men than Irishmen, nor have I ever seen any women purer or more virtuous than Irishwomen. (Cheers.) And I say to you here to-day, don’t emigrate — stick to your homes. These lands were rendered fertile by the sweat of your brow, you have acquired them by your honest toil, and they should be yours. You are required to pay rent for 45 these farms, pay a fair rent an‘d give the landlord his due if you are able. But there are absentees in Kerry who never purchased their lands which they claim as theirs, they have no claim to these lands, God made the laud for man’s use and benefit ; why then is it for the use and benefit of a few ? Many of you A 2 3 y KUIor^iht . — Wfh August, 18H(). — Mr. M. M. (T Sullivtvu. have been starving during the past year. Are you always to be so ? (no, no.) I s have read many letters with tears of sorrow in my eye. Not sorrow for the poverty but for the want of manliness. We have made it our determination that no famine will appear again, that you yourselves will strike down the cause of 5 that famine, Irish landlordism. (Cheers). I want you to band together and be as one man. I now place the remedy before you. I ask you to be banded together as one man and to form a branch of the Land League here. Form branches of the Land League in your districts. You have with you Charles Stewart Parnell, the man who travelled over miles of ocean to save you 10 and your families. (Cheers.) You have with him many faithful lieutenants, men who like himself will work for you. T say we want many things. We want to know whether the people are with us or against us ? (With you.) Are the men of Kerry less ])atriotic than the men of Mayo ? I asked the tenant farmers there to pay no rents to the landlords but a fair rent — their valuation, and if 16 they did not accept that to pay none at all. (Cheers.) I am glad to-day that I can look upon that social multitude and know that they will carry it out. I came from Mayo to-day to bear a message from Mayo to Kerry and that message is not to pay any rent whatever till you get a settlement. A voice — If we don’t pay rent what will become of us ? Mr. O’Sullivan — You shall do it 20 no more. You had no friends to look to you then, but now friends have come forward with money, the Land League comes forw’ard now with ten thousand pounds for the purpose of supporting evicted families if men come back together and come to the conclusion of paying no rents, we will support these and their families, and in that way we will gain. (Cheers.) 1 ask you to-day, men of 25 Kerry, to unite with the men of north, south, and west. I ask you, are you deter- mined to prosecute this land war until you have got a settlement ? The landlords have thrown down the gauntlet, will you take it up, or will you remain as you are? (Never.) Will you make a first move to-day to perform that great work. I want you to form branches of the Land League throughout your county, and 30 if you do and work determinedly, you will be sure to win a victory. I will not say more now, I will address you again. (Cheers.) 1 Killorgliii . — 11 th Au^iisi , 1880. Mr. M. M. O’Sullivan, of Dublin. Then came forward and said : “ Gentlemen, it now devolves upon me to propose a vote of thanks to our chairman, and in doing so you will allow me to refer to a few points that have been touched upon by the previous speakers. 1 must refer to landlordism, and one of your landlords— the Marquis of Lansdowne. That nobleman resigned 5 from the Government simply because you were going to be put into a position of safety for a time, but Lord Lansdowne would not agree that you should get this, and so he resigned from the Government, and opposed us in the House of Lords. (Groans). A great friend of mine, an American citizen, who was over here. I told him to come down to Kerry and see the state of the country 10 there. He came down and he visited the Very Rev. Canon Brosnan, of Cahirciveen, and he has got the true facts from him. He has sent letters to America which the Lords would be ashamed of. But my friends, don’t depend upon Parliament to right your country’s wrongs. You have bad landlords and what may you expect from them ? You may as well expect tears from hogs 15 as anything from them. If the Irish people are determined to go on as a body, you must keep on in line with them. It will not do for you to attend a meeting, but you must work — work — unceasingly work. They have the bailiff, sheriff, and the police to do their work. We have you and who have you only yourselves. Will you really and truly determine to-day to band 20 yourselves as one man ? Will you above all go home determined never to take a farm from which another is evicted, never to work on that farm. If the crops are to be saved, let the landlord or the landlady go and work on it, and if they don’t wish to work on it, let the crops rot. (Cheers.) Or give it back to the rightful owners. (Cheers.) In other countries, Prussia and 25 America, the land has been bought out by the Legislators, and given to the people. The Government bought out the landlords at a certain number of years purchase, and the people paid rent for twenty years, and after that twenty years, they were never asked to pay rent, and the land became theirs. (Cheers.) That is what I want in Ireland, buy out the landloids, put on a 30 rent for a certain number of years, and after that, let it be the property of the people. (Cheers.) In France the people were like what you are now. Never knowing the luxury of a meal of food, never eating meat for the six days of the week. But the people at last rose en-masse, and they asked their noble Lords to right their wrongs, which they would not do, and the people hunted 35 them out of the country. (Cheers.) I would be sorry that you should do that to your landlords, but I say to-day, no matter what the result will be, landlordism must go. (Cheers.) I have very great pleasure in proposing a vote of thanks to our Chairman. (Cheers.) 7 Ki llorglin , — 11 th August, 1880. Mr. J. R. Heffernan, of Blarney. I have very great pleasure in seconding this vote of thanks : “ And in doing so I must refer to what our friend Mr. O’Sullivan said of France when he said that the landlords were hunted out of France. But I say that the landlords were hunted out by hanging them on the next j)ost. But my friends we are not going to do this, nor shall you for we pi'efer to settle 5 this question peaceably and as constitutionally as we can. We purpose giving them twenty years purchase, and then let them go in peace. Some may call it confiscation and robbery, but I want to know who the robbers are. They are the landlords. When you turned the hill sides into good land, the landlord comes and puts a rent on it, and charges you for your labour. Is not that 10 robbery ? The landlord did not cultivate it, but he raised the rent on you, therefore he is a robber. At least, I call that robbery. (Cheers.) Only for yourselves you would not have a landlord in Ireland to-day, but you would have him in his proper place carrying a rifle for the Government or earning his bread by honest work. (Cheers.) And not having you supporting him. Well, 15 all your earnings are gone to support the landlords in the gambling hells on the Continent, in Paris, London, and in Germany, while we, the poor peojde of Ireland, are starving as we are here in Killorglin. (Cheers.) I feel very great pleasure in seconding this vote of thanks to our Chairman. (Cheers.) Chairman. “ Fellow countrymen, I beg to return my sincere thanks to you for the 20 manner in which you have received the vote of thanks. We have detained you too long coming here to hold our meeting on a day that so much business is to be done, but we were anxious to catch you from all parts of the County and put before you the principles of the Land league. And now that we have done so, I am sure that you will put them in force, for you will not lack the opportunity — 25 for from end to end of Kerry evictions are going on. I have seen many men who have been sent hurriedly into exile, and some have gone to the workhouse, and some have fought out their battle to the end. We, the Land League, will support these men. I have already got money from the Land League for evicted families in Kerry. The Land League will give you no money for to 30 pay your rents. It will not assist you to pay your rents. It may seem very harsh to you — that when some of you owe ten or tAventy pounds that the Land League ought to give it to you to settle your rent — but the Land League will not do any such thing, because the effect of that would be that every land- lord Avould then bring ejectments in order to get his rent from the Laud 35 League. Therefore the Land League will give no money to settle rents. I ask you now to go home peaceably and orderly, and give no offence to any man. The principles you have heard here to-day are not Communistic, you would be unworthy of this great gathering, unworthy the great Kerrymen aaLo fought and followed O’Connell, if you would be foolish enough to commit an outrage — 4i0 you would be unworthy of all these if you would commit any violence. fCheers.) You must assist yourseLes and form yourselves into one solid phalanx and so assist yourselves and your felloAV creatures. (Cheers.) 8 {CloiuneL — August 117//, 1880.) Mr. P. J. Smyth, ]\r.r., next addi'cssod tlio meeting, lie said : — “ JMen of South Tipperary, I do apologise at not having been liere at the opening of the meeting, and as I had now only an opportunity ol seeing the resolution it is a guarantee, at all events, that I will iiot intrude very long on 5 your attention. This meeting, I understand, has some connection with the rejection of the Compensation tor Disturbance Bill, hut that is not its sole motive. It has, I am sure, a higher object — an assembly of Tipperary men in public meeting ealmly eonsidering a question which concerns vitally their interests and that of the entire nation. The rejection of that Bill l3y the 10 Lords was a foregone conclusion, everyone knew the Bill would he rejected, hut never, I suppose, in Parliamentary history was there so mueh noise made about so small a measure as that same Disturhanee Bill. It was exa^s^erated O O on every side. It would neither have ruined landlords or saved tenants. If passed to-morrow I do not believe there are five tenants in Tipperary who 15 would have been afteeted by it for good or evil (hear, hear). There is now a movement for the abolition of the House of Lords. Well, when we talk of abolishing a thing it is wise to consider what is to replace it. A life Senate appointed by the Crown with jtroperty qualifications, or a Senate elected by a restricted constituency and a higher franchise than the Lower House, either 20 one or other it most assuredly would be, for every Parliament which I know of has its two chambers, its upper and its lower. I am prepared to say that for my own part I am not prepared to take part in an Anglo-Irish Ptadical movement for the reform or alteration of the English constitution (hear, hear). Let them reform their own constitution as much as they please, our 25 business, and if understood, out right business, is to regain our own con- stitution here, to reform, amend, and alter that by ourselves, and as we please, in our own way, so as to bring it in full harmony with the circum- stances of the times in Avhich we live. We may do it, and it is an easier thing to do than to abolish the House of Lords. Erom the days of Edmund 30 Burke down to the last general election — from Edmund Burke to Daniel O’Connell and Sharman Crawford, from their days to those of Mitchell and Meagher, and Doherty and Lawlor — from theirs to Duffy, and Lucas, and George Moore, and from their days again to Butt, and Mr. Kickham and all through these movements, no matter by whom directed, the uniform 35 grievance of the Irish tenant was declared to be insecurity, and the remedy invariably proposed always the same, security or continuancy of tenure. This continued down, I say, to the last general election — rather I should say down to the conference in the Botnndo, called the Land League Confer- ence (cheers). That conference unanimously sanctioned the proposition that 40 an amendment of the Land Act is an impossibility. A week afterwards a Bill was to be promoted in Parliament specially for the amendment of the Laud Act. That Bill was known as Mr. O’Connor Power’s Bill which was rejected by the Government, but at the same time they adopted its principle, and hence the Compensation for Disturbance Bill about which we have heard so much, but 45 of which we shall hear no more. Gentlemen, the history of Ireland teaches us this great lesson, that in all our movements we have suffered more from lame- ness and indecision of purpose, and indefiniteuess of aim than even from our dissensions. The confederates at Kilkenny wrecked their cause through decima- tion of principle. The Princes of Tyrone and Tyrconnell were soldiers and so- 50 called courtiers at one and the same time, but they were only themselves when A 4 7 {^CloumcL — August 11///, 1880. — J//*. P. J. Smyth, M.]?.) ^ they were soldiers on tlieir native soil. O’Connell’s great movement suffered, beeanse to a certain extent it n as open to the suspicion that tlic llcpeal cry was used to extort concessions. We slionld profit by these lessons, and learn that tbe first condition in politics, wliicli is nothing if it be not practical, for 5 Ireland is to give a plain straightforward and unfettered answer to the (piestion ‘ What do you want? ’ (cheers). I saw coming by a road a placard with the motto, ‘ The land for the people.’ That motto expresses a truthful, a high, a noble principle; but it may suggest to some minds the idea that every landless one amongst us is to have a slice of the national property. Its true lO reading is this — the land for the use and benefit of the people, the tenure of land so regulated that the earth may produce most abundantly of its fruits, that it may conduce most to the general good ; that is the true reading of it, and it has no other that I can view. You have heard, and when we are speaking of the people of Ireland it is well there should be no misunder- standing. What do we mean by the people of Ireland ? Do we mean the six hundred thousand agricultural tenants alone ? No; there are agricultural labourers as well as agricultural farmers. There are tenants in towns as well as in fields. There are professional men, there are shopkeepers, tradesmen, artisans, merchants, manufacturers, there are landlords by inheritance and 20 landlords by purchase, and not one of these classes alone singly, but all in combination, constitute the people of Ireland — the Irish nation (cheers). This is the doctrine of nationality such as it has been ever held in Ireland, and which I pray it always may be held. You have heard — now we are coming to practical points — a good deal of the Land Commission. Of 25 personality I always strive to keep clear, and therefore of the composition of that Commission I do not speak except to express of it that Government have added to it two at least representatives of the tenant farmers. But the Commission being constituted, I would impress upon the people of Tipperary to delegate the best men amongst them, the most intelligent, the most 30 informed, to go before that Commission and state the facts of the case and suggest their remedy. That evidence will be published, and if the report should be in conflict with the evidence we will know where to lay our hands. Bnt I say it is the duty, as I hope every tenant farmer in Tipperary will consider, to prepare his evidence, and to go before that Commission manfully 35 and boldly, and state the case of the tenant farmers. There are two schools of thought on this land question, both well represented, and by earnest men upon every side. One school looks to the extension to all arms of that Ulster custom which has been the prosperity of the province of Ulster, and Avhich secures for the tenants there fixity of tenure, free sale, and fair rents, to The other school advocates the expropriation of landlords, and to that end the creation of a new department of English Government in Ireland, with power to take possession of any estate in the kingdom at 20 years’ pur- chase. (Some person here contradicted Mr. Smyth, who continued.) That is the precise term, I repeat, Mr. Secretary, that has been put forward as the 45 programme. AYell, the first question to ask in reference to any jirogramme that is before you is, is it practicable ? is it attainable ? If it be not, it is a waste of principle, a waste of time to agitate. If it be attainable, wise, jnst, and proper let it be sustained with the strength of an united j^eople (cheers). M^ell, following the report of the Commission, we may take it for granted that next session Government will submit a comprehensive scheme of land reform. lYhat the nature of that scheme may be I am not in a 8 {Clonmel.— Auyua! Ulh, 18S0.— J/r. F. J. SmylJt, M.P.) position, no one is in ;i position to (leCino, but if J may be allowed to express the feelings, or if 1 may be allowed to tender an advice to the framer of that measiuH', it will be divided into three ])arts, or tberci would be three measures, each dealing with a distinct ])art of the land question. One would deal with 5 the relations between landlord and tenant, the other would deal with the subject of ])(;asant projjrietary, and the the third would deal with the waste lands of the eounty (ebeers). It is needless for me to deelare, for I have often done so, wbicii many of you have seen in public letters, my particular vieAVS on this question of landlord and tenant. I am in favour of the 10 extension to all Ireland of the Ulster custom. With regard to peasant pro. prietary, to be a healthy growth it must be a native one. Let the tenant farmer have every facility possible of becoming owner by honest purchase, but not otherwise, of his farm (hravo). I will suppose the case of a farmer in this county with simply one hundred acres of laud at a fair rent, and with 15 security of tenure. Would it be for the interest of that man to become a peasant proprietor. Prima facie it would because peasant proprietary is the highest form of fixity of tenure, and good ownership is better than conditional ownership, but whether it would be wise in his particular case would depend on something else. If he were obliged to leave himself without capital to 20 make himself a peasant proprietor, he would arrive at the conclusion, ‘ better to remain as I am, independent, than become a pauper.’ It is a matter of calcula- tion which comes home to every man here. But believe me that this question of the land must he settled, and speedily settled, that it will he settled by the strong common sense of the country, by the inhabitants of Tipperary, not 25 dreaming that we are to spend om* lives, and go on descending to the grave, and from father to son, agitating, agitating for ever. The social question, we must settle it amongst ourselves, and having done so, turn our thoughts to a higher purpose. There was a time when in this county was fought the battle of Irish independence. At that time the tenants were handicapped, 30 and absolutely at the mercy of the landlords, who would exercise their power unscrupulously, terribly, and the tenant was driven to the wild justice of revenge, in the words wrung from the heart of Davis — ‘ Full oft, with rash and single arm The peasant strove to guard his eyrie, Till English blood bedewed each form, And Ireland wept o’er Tipperary.’ Those days never can recur again. Again and again, whenever I come amongst you, I appeal to you, men of Tipperary, to be always just as you have always been, to be always moderate because you are always ])rave, 40 receive not amongst you doctrines subversive of that eternal law which has said to each one amongst us, to every man savage or civilised born into the world, never any just cause can prosper by crime, no just cause can prosper by a violation of the law of the eternal God. Stand by your rights firmlv, unitedly, determinedly as men, but be sure, be certain that they are your 45 rights, and when you pursue them not alone to assert the right for your- selves, and in doing so shrink with horror from inflicting wrong. This is your pmsuit, this is your cause. Set this great example to all Ireland, be just and fear not. This cause, if we he wise, prudent, practical and bold, is nearly settled. Next session I predict it will he settled. If the Disturb- 50 ance Bill were a real Bill, if it were backed by the popular sentiment of Q 3366.-37. g q {Clonniol.—Augnsl lUh, 1880.— P. J. Sm///h, 3LP.) llio people, ii‘ it were a real radical Bill, wlii(*h went to tlu; root of the land "•riovanee, and were sustained, not alone with energy and ability by the Irish members in Barliamenl., but backed by tlu; stnmgth oC the Irish peo2)le, the House oC Lords dare not, and could not resist it, but it was because it 5 was a sham Bill it failed. Let us now pursue realities, and reality means justice, truth, common sense. Let us pursue that firmly and determinedly, I make no promise, but I express my thorough conviction that next session will see a comprehensive measure of land reform passed by the Imperial Parliament. I promised I would not detain you long, I fear I have taken 10 up your time, but I thank you much for your kindly reception (cheers). I feared perhaps that some of you might be finding fault with me (‘ no, no,’) and say I had not been so attentive to what are called Parliamentary duties, I spent but a short time there, about a fortnight during the session. I would have wished to have said a word on one or two subjects, I did say 15 a word on one, and I am not ashamed of that or the part I took, but sur- veying the proceedings there, I felt that the best service an Irishman could render at present to his country was silence. I find no good result from frequent talking whatever. The time will come when no doubt it will be an agreeable duty to express there the will of Tipperary. That will I shall 20 declare there, that will I shall follow, and no matter whither it leads, with you I resolve, Tipperary (cheers) knowing that you Avill impel me nowhere save on the path which justice and personal inclination direct me ” (cheers). 10 {Clonmel.— JiKjusf Wlh, 1880.) Mr. MichaGl P. Boyton, ol* the Irish National Land League, next addiH'ssed the meeting- and said : — “ ]\len of Li[)perary, you hav(^ heard r(^ad for you the letter of the illustrio- . , Archbishop of Cashel, you have lieard his sentiments, you have heard the 5 burning ehxpient words of the senior member for Tipperary, and I think it is a high honour to he found in a meeting where these sentiments have been re- ceived as you liavc received them. They are equally noble, honourable, and Avorthy of tlic source from Avhence they came. I could not say more. In spite of dilliculties almost insurmountable and organised obstruction, this 10 meeting has been carried out to-day to the success that you are all witness of. This meeting was one of those popular movements, originated I do not know where, but there were no less than three or four distinct sources of promotion. I do not knoAV myself at this moment Avho or what it was who are the real originators and promoters of the meeting. I only kno w that it is a grand 15 spontaneous outburst of the views of the people._jThe Irish National Land League Avas asked to send a deputation here to tell the people of Tipperary their remedy for the land-trodden. It is summed up in very few words. Their creed is that the people themselves hold the settlement in their hands. They do not believe that such a measure Avill satisfy the Irish people and 20 unite the tenant farmers of Ireland and those who are depending on them, for I hold that the tenant-farmers of Ireland and the labourers and the shop- keepers that they sustain, are the people, and that the landlords are not the people of Ireland. I hold the doctrine that the law of nature and not the law of Britain must settle the land question^^Thold that no matter what measure 25 will ever be introduced in the British House of Commons that Avill l)e of a nature to satisfy the united demands of the Irish people, the British House of Commons, composed of landlords, who are sent there to legislate for their own interests, Avill never pass it. The best proof is, as Mr. Smyth so eloquently put it to you, they sent in a perfectly miserable, worthless measure. 30 I agree Avith him, a sham, but when they came there in their might and threw out that sham, then in Grod’s name what do you expect them to give you. They won’t give you a measure that is acknoAAdedged to be worthless. Do you expect such a change will come, if the people of Ireland sit down that the next session of Parliament will give you better A'alue — a sweeping land 35 measure. Mr. Gladstone has given the Irish people plainly and distinctly to understand that unless the people of Ireland strengthen his hands he is powerless to move. Now then, how are we to strengthen his hands ? (A voice, ‘ A tenant league in every parish.’) Mr. Boyton : “ You seem to undei-stand it. Join the people of Ireland 10 in one grand combination, as the ‘ Ereeman’ newspaper suggests, then it will come to these lords, and I say Avith Mr. Smyth that I do not think that we, the people of Ireland, want to join hands to abolish the English House of Lords, but we wmnt to abolish the landlords. I say that the landlord portion of the Irish people are foreign in race, not in creed and sympathy, and that 45 they are the eternal enemy of every principle that P. J. Smyth typifies in his dream of the nationality of Ireland (cheers). That dream A\dll be realised, but it AAdll be by the people and not by the lords. I know that if to-morrow we were to stand face to face with the enemies of your native land.” (An interruption occurred here wdiich prevented the speaker being heard durino- 50 the conclusion of the sentence.) “ Therefore, men of Tipperary, I wish to go B 2 11 {Clonmel.— A n(jnM Ulh, \m).—Mr. 31. P. Iloylou.) on with the work that avo hc'g’nn on yoinh'r saciual moiinlnin (Slievcnarnon). i use the words sacred inountair.. Away to-day in dapan, in the farthest part of the East, tlu^ fla[)anese have a mountain to which they look 5 crushed us with iron over a hundred years ago, and we look to-day fear- lessly, face to faeo, into the teeth of their olfspring the landlords of Ireland. Wherever these men he found on the floor of the Eritish House of Lords, in the grand jury room, in the hoard of guardians and else- where, or even in the cattle shoAV (‘down with the cattle show’), we 10 wish these men to knoAV that Avhilc, that is to-day, that miserable mo(*kery and sham called the Royal Agricultural Society, here outside the Avail is to- day assembled, the real agricultural society, the men out of Avhose pockets and from the SAveat of Avhosc hroAV these men are enabled to live in luxury, aye, and infamy (cheers). I liaA^e no desire on earth to stir up disunion 15 among any class of men. In speaking of these landlords I have nothing to do with individuals. I do not care if it was St. Paul himself, it is with the system, with this rotten and corrupt and noxious weed that has infected the land, and we must pluck it out by the roots ; therefore we are not going to- day to cut off the stem and leave the roots in the ground (‘Never.’) Our 20 belief is that no matter what you ask for from a British Legislature you will never get it unless you take it up by the strong right arm of force, controlled by reason. That force Ave can have Avhen we have an united Irish people. To that end we to-day have met at a common platform. Men of every race in Ireland, be they English, Irish, Scotch, or Welsh, men of every creed, no 25 matter what a man’s creed may be, we ask you to be the for once ‘ United Irishmen ’ (cheers) J^We want you to join hands lovingly, for the man who advocates murder oiMisseusion is an enemy to his cause and country. We want you to join hands and stand together shoulder to shoulder, and pledge your- selves man to man that you will not look for the food of your brother’s AA^'ife 30 and children over his head, that you Avill not take the farm or the land from Avhich he is evicted, that you Avill not till it, that the crops of the landlords that the law gives them, the laAV from the landlord himself, let him go and bend his ^ OAvn back and reap them (cheers). We tell you the Avay to make Avorkers out \ of idlers. They say that Avhen leeches leave off sucking they die. Noav then, 35 men of Tipperary, you are called upon to stand together to stop this vile in- famous traffic that is going on in the lives, and the happiness, and prosperity of Avhat is left of the Irish people (‘ hear, hear ’). Go to-day to tlie sea ports, what do you see ? The same old Avork that these men did in ’47 and ’48 (a voice, ‘ Yes, and ’98 ’). You are asked by gentlemen who advocate a different 40 measure from what we have put before you, you are asked to again enter into partnership with these men. As well might the Avolf try to enter into partner- ship with the lamb, because, no matter Avhat that enforced contract might be, the power is still in the hand of these men, and we hold that fixity of tenure means fixity of landlordism. MY ask for fixity, the true fixity of the Irish 45 race upon their OAvn soil (cheers.) Men of Tipperary, the right we ask is not tenant right but manhood right, the right to guard what you have, the right to join hands one with the other and crush, if you can, by your honest scorn, the man that will be found base enough, in the teeth of the Land Leao>ue pledge, to betray the cause of his country by taking the farm from Avhich 50 another is evicted. M"e are practical, because Ave ask you to unite to save yourselves. i)o not depend on British legislation because the remedy is in 12 13 {Clonmel.— August ^Mh, 1880— jJ/r. HL 1\ Bog Ion.) yoiii* own hands, and T ninst say in irutli a great deal of tin; inisrortuncsol' the present system an', diio to yourselves. We hold that the land shark, the land grabber, is a ten fold worse enemy ihan the landlord, lie sustained the land- lord who makes use of him, as the landlord powei- of England always did, to o create disunion, dissension, and disorganisation amongst Irishmen. The enemy has been busy, yet with all their mighty poAver of a great press, and with all their armies and their clforts, if the Irish pcoj)lc stand together on the platfoi'm that we have laid down for them, and join hand in hand and he in heart and soul locked together to save their own native land, not all the power of Britain 10 can ever undermine them JWe have raised the flag of ‘ Ireland for the Irish’ at the base of Slievenamon. There is the inscription, ‘ Ireland for the Irish/ hut that means the land for the people. We do not believe that to-day if the Avhole people of Ireland were armed to the teeth that they could for one moment resist the power that could be brought against them. (A voice : ‘ Eor a year, perhaps.’) “ I am glad to hear that talk from Tipperary. I hold that until Ave can join together hand in hand all over Ireland, and that out of 500,000, half a million tenant farmers, we can get out of every hundred, five determined 2 Q young men to say, ‘ No man shall ever till that soil, but its rightful oAvner,’ then we Avill settle the land question. But before we begin to destroy the Empire of Great Britain, let us begin to destroy the outAvorks of the citadel. I know the spirit of Tipperary men, I know it well. Through the fi< 3 lds of California I stood shoulder to shoulder for many a year AAutli them. I 25 knoAA” that they are earnest, that it is at the citadel they alAA^ays strike, life- long history shows us wliat has been the consequence. Young men of Tipperary, I ask you, in God’s name, to help us to begin at the rifle pit and the outAvorks, 35 40 and stand together, and then perhaps such a scene as has taken place Avill never be witnessed again. Eather Byan alluded to the coming down of the 30 jflatform, but there is more significance in it than that. He said the House of Lords would come down (cheers). I say, no, but I would point out to you when tlie platform did come down where did we alight on, was it not on the land ? It is the land we are looking for, and I think that the doctrines Ave are now putting forth on every platform AAdien that structure is unnecessary will be standing unhurt, as we are to-day. I am sorry to detain you so long. I say do not be led away from the main question by any humbug about the miserable sham called the House of Lords. If they want to tinker at the House of Lords let them put in one of their ironclad ships, the whole of them as a crew, and sail her up into the mountains of Tipperary, and we will take care of them. Ho not be frightened by the presence of police. When the fight commenced to-day, that is the word, fight ; they Avere there, AAdiere are they now. There has been a second meeting to-day, and there has been no policeman sent to it. I want you never to allow Tory 10/. notes or black- 45 g^^ards to destroy you. There have been Tory money, bad Avhisky, and blackguardism used to obstruct this meeting, but you see the result. They sent fictitious telegrams over the wires to Dublin, they tore down the placards, and sent their runners out Avitli rumours that the meeting Avas to be suppressed or abandoned ; they done every single thing they could to throAV disgrace and 50 put the meeting into confusion and disorder now we are standing here, and that is evidence of what they have been doing. I told you, and I tell you again, that the young honest manhood must take this cause out of the power of blackguards or of whisky to do us an injury. I wish uoav in conclusion. B 3 13 {ClonmoL—AiKjiisI 11///, 1880.— J//-. 31. 1\ lioijfon.) lor [ Iiav(' si)olvi'ii loni>'('r than uiulor oilier cireurnslancos. 1 wish in con- clusion to tell yon distinctly that 1 do not Ixdievi^ in s]) 0 ('ch making’ oi* in poetry, or in oratory. If oratory or poetry could have regenerated Ireland, she would he to-day the tirst of nations. AVe are practical, we mean work, and 5 if from this meeting men go away, and allow the words that have heen used to he thrown aside, then I say agitation is one vast humhng. Work, organize. Already there have heen three meetings in South Tipperary, every one organised, determined, and enthusiastic. They have resulted in the im- mediate formation of some seven or eight active working hranches of Id the Land League. At the foot of Slievenamon there is a farm. That farm to-day has the Land League flag flying on it. We will fight them in the court and out of it (cheers). One hour before I came to this meet- ing, I was told that the landlord interest will make terms, we will have no surrender (cheers). I ask you, therefore, not to judge of the Land 15 League, or the Land League programme, from the mouths of its known ene- mies, rather ask yourselves, ‘ I give my word of honour as an Irishman not to roh my neighbour of that of which his landlord has plundered him. I give my Tvord of honour to stand with him fully and fearlessly, and labour in the good old fight, ‘ Ireland for the Irish’ (cheers). I have one more 20 word to say. Two evenings ago, in the train, I p)icked up the acknowledged organ of rank Toryism in Ii-eland. Under the sub-leader in that paper I read that this land movement could he called by no other name than that of the Jehad. I Avas astonished at the phrase. The following day, the word pleased them so well, they had a leader headed the ‘ Jehad.’ I asked somebody better 25 informed than myself, and he said in the east, Jehad meant a holy war, they say that men have gone forth to preach the ‘Jehad,’ and when the Jehad is preached in the east, all true Alusselmen rally, and the sacred colour of the prophet is unfurled and the sacred colour of the prophet is none other than our own immortal green, and to-day under that colour we will fight 30 the land war, for if the land war were fought under any other than the national flag of Ireland, my lips should he silent for ever. I want you, therefore, to believe that we are engaged in a just and holy war against the men who have profaned God’s ordinances which was written for the children of men. These men say it is not just to support us, ‘ Ave will j)re- 35 serve our game, and if those animals don’t pay their rent we aauII send them to America, we will keep them in the swamp, in a miasma of discon- tent, so that we can from time to time set one faction, or one class against another, we will divide them, and we will conquer them ? Noav then rally with us to the cry of ‘peasant proprietary,’ ‘God and Ireland,’ ‘invincible 10 by your unity,’ and with the help of God we Avill fight and Avin ” (cheers). 14 {Cloinnol. — Ai(yi], and the court in Hell.’ I liopo the tenants will alnde by good sound common sense. If you have not good sound common sense and the princi- ples in your hearts that are typified in that colour (pointing to a green banner before him), you are not worthy sons of that soil of Saint Bridget, 5 whose bones are mouldering into dust in that soil. (Cheers.) Where arc the men who try to sneer us down ? Tell these men that you have ceased to believe in them, and that you now believe in the principles that the day is gone for hero worship, and that the day is come when Ireland shall sec the dawn of freedom. (Cheers.) I have spoken so far on the first object of 10 the Land League. The second is, ‘ To effect such a radical change in the land system of Ireland as will leave it in the power of every farmer to make the land he tills his own.’ This is the second object. It is that the workers shall cease to be the slaves, the down-trodden serfs of the idlers. (Cheers.) God says He created the earth for the children of men. One of the most 15 gifted servants that God Almighty has in this country, the Archbishop of Cashel, tells us that the husbandman must have the first of the fruits of his toil. (Cheers.) Therefore, tenant-farmers, before you pay rent or your debts to the bankers and shopkeepers you must first perform your duties to your wives and children. (Cheers.) The man who tells you that 20 rent has a prior claim tells you a lie, and that which your church teaches you to be false. Therefore, let it not be the cry in Kildare, I must make up my rent. (Cheers.) I have had the painful necessity of looking into the faces of tenants paying rents. They have come up to Abbey Street to tell us theii- grievances and ask for relief from our president. 26 (Cheers.) They come to Abbey Street for that justice which they should get from their landlords, for what they get is but a mockery. (Cheers.) In my own experience, for I am in charge of this county, we have 83 branches of the Land League in the country, and we have advised all these how they will act. Now, will you take the advice of your member and go up to Ely 30 Place and ask for justice from Kavanagh of Borris. (Groans.) Don’t groan that man, for God has given him what I wish he had given many other liien — a brain. I like him because he is an open foe. I would sooner stand to-morrow on every cross-road in the county and advocate the return of Kavanagh of Borris to represent Kildare than I would our pretended friend, ; 36 Meldon. The day is gone when that trimming wakening policy can do no good for Ireland. Whod did you ever gain by the growling application of these men ? What gave you the miserably patched and worked-up Act of 1870? You see by the resolutions of these men that you must be careful of your language and that you are not leading the people astray. We don’t 40 believe in leaders. We lead the people nowhere. You must be leaders yourselves. (Cheers.) I ask you then in God’s name to sweep away these politicians and trimmers, these men who want to put M.P. to their names. We have the heart to help you, and the money too, as soon as you have the disposition to help yourselves. (Cheers.) We are telling you the way to 46 help yourselves, and we want you to put your disagreements, bickerings, and all that would keep you slaves and serfs all your days aside. We preach against greed. It is enough for me to know that Her Majesty’s Government takes careful notes of every word that falls from Mr. Dillon or myself. It I is enough that the enemies of Ireland are watching us, without men coming \ 50 to tell us of inflammatory language. I say it here before high heaven, that I unless you organise, and show to the enemy what they are showing you, you 1 Q 3366.-63. B 9 ] \ I H {Kildare. — Augusl 15/A, 1880.— Jfr. Illeliael F. Hoy Ion.) will novor got cvoii the miserable Compensation for Disturbance J?ill. I want to tell you men to place; a check on these men. Dor I say that they are; ne)ne be;tter than our pretcneleel frienels. The Government, hacked by the pe)\ver of lanelle)relism in Ireland, by the navy anel the police, who find it more 5 convenient to tear down placarels than te) elo their duty. (Cheers.) These men Avho ought to do only right. But if they do anything wrong our enemies Avill take care of them, and it is hotter for you to let them alone. Dor if ever I am consigned to the scaffold I will not go to one of these Whigs for a favour. Therefore sweep Whiggery out of Kildare. (Cheers.) I believe 10 that God Almighty has sent us an angel from whoso lips we have the word unity. What is the meaning of the language of this banner before me, ‘ Union is strength ? ’ (A voice : ‘ Union amongst ourselves.’) Right my friend, it is union. How much have you contributed to that union ? Do you wish to go on and tight your fight, and I will stand by you ; therefore, 15 I want to be no leader. I will bo a leader on the fields of Virginia but not in Ireland. I will place the objects of the Land League in your hands, and the means to adopt these objects and gain them is by organisation. For those neglecting their own interests and taking a farm from which another is ejected, or purchasing cattle or goods seized for an impossible rent, are 2\) yom* worst enemies. (Cheers.) I am here to-day to tell you that the representative journal of Ireland has nobly and manfully grasped the bull by the horns and taken up our cause. (Cheers.) . The press and this great meeting have taken it up. (Cheers.) Now, I am detaining you too long. (‘ No, no.’ ) ' I want to be practical because I have 25 come here to-day to organise that organisation that has done me the honour to send me to Kildare, I must do justice to. I say, therefore, it is your duty to bear in mind the means proposed. (Cheers.) The third object is ‘ To demand a reduction of excessive rents.’ We ask you to say that the rents have gone high enough, and now they must come down. Now, I think the 30 advice that has been given you here to-day when you were told to remember the advice of O’Connell, would be time enough when we wanted it. That advice, I am sorry to say, is an insult to intelligent LIshmen of to-day. That advice has been given off every platform on which I have stood, from Donegal to Skibbereen. That is the advice of 35 Daniel O’Connell. (A voice; ‘You’re a second O’Connell.’) I don’t like that remark. Was it not by meetings and organisation he got all for you. (‘Yes, yes.’) Well, to the men who attend these meetings I will say it is time enough to give you this advice when you require it. There is no intention of committing a crime against the law of God or the law 40 of Britain ; and I am the last man to ask you to do a thing I would not do myself. (Cheers.) We have in Ireland the value of moral force, not what is met with on every battle-field of Europe, physical force. I remember during my experience in the American war, a war against slavery as this is to-day a war against serfdom (‘ Right ;’ cheers) ; I remember a column of 45 men surrounding an outpost. The leader said ‘ Surrender.’ He used no physical force, but he had 200 men behind him against seven ; that was not physical force. I appeal to you now to make your enemies this force, and hearken to the words of John Dillon. Until we can show a united front to the enemy better lie down and do as my unfortunate father did. Take 50 them away to where they can learn the lessons they ought to, and to where they can breathe the free air of heaven. (Cheers.) I regret to have 10 [Kildare. — Augnsl \hlh, l.SHO. — Mr. Michael P. Boijlon.) (lotniuod you so long-. I shall look upon this meeting as suflicient answer to all that have bocni urgcnl against mysolt and the men associatcid with me. (Cheers.) I api)oal to you through every parish, in every town, in every village, and at every eross roads — for I am as mucli in earnest at a eross 5 roads as any place else (cheers) — to pick out two men who will not be afraid of any man and send them to me, and it is my duty — my painful duty — to show these men how they will work up the men of Kildare. I shall go through the county myself, for there are evils in Kildare that want to be plucked out. They should be the servants, instead of masters ; I allude to the police and 10 baililfs. (Cheers.) Then I should like to see a man at the rent office saying words that he should be ashamed of ; making use of the word honour, which belongs to nobility, and there is no nobility but virtue ; and there is not a viler word in the language than the word worship, for the moment you use that word you despise the thing which belongs to God. The land- 15 lords have given fixity of tenure in their own time, and if they don’t keep it, and keep the partnership which has been given them, it will not be their fault; but they will have to give it up by the force and will of the world.” (Loud cheering.) B 2 11 {7v/l(larfJ. — Amjmt 15/f//, ISHO. — Mr. Michael Nokm.) })rosp(M‘ous. Aro they ealling' iuc(;tiiigs to-day ? (‘ No, no.) ’ If we Avere f)ros|)erous Ave Avouhl not have a meeting* to-day. (Clicers.) This meeting was ushered in and })i*oelaimed to-day l)y the artillery of Heaven. Yon all have heard the thunder heri*. to-day. Be united in Kildare. The thing wanted 5 is unity. Let Protestants, Prcshyterians, and Catholics, and every other denomination unite as Irishmen ; for wc are all Irishmen, no matter what creed we profess. If you are afraid it is not right. Let every one go together, work together ; and then Avhat Avill wc get? We will get Avhat we Avant, fixed in our homes. And in this way, men of Kildare, nothing in the 10 world will prevent you from gaining what you are looking for. You see what all these landlords have done. They have throAAm aside in the House of Lords that small Bill that Avas brought in for your protection. Will you take up that challenge ? It is by taking up that challenge, and nothing else, that you Avill win from that Parliament. I ask you to enroll yourselves, enlist 15 under the banner of the Land League, and they will give you what you want, and you wiU be contented.” (Cheers.) Mr. Boylan, of Carberry, then came forward and said : — “ Gentlemen, I sincerely wish and desire to form a branch of the Land League. I mil be president, secretary, or anything you like to appoint me 20 in that branch.” (Cheers.) Mr. Weir, co. Meath, then came forward and said : — “ I am sorry I cannot make a speech for you, but I mil tell you that the Land League has supported us in Meath, and only for that we would be hunted out of it. We would be in a bad way only for the Land League.’ ’ 25 (Cheers). Mr. John T. Heflfernan, of Kildare, then said : — “ Gentlemen, I move that Mr. Driver do take the second chair. Mr. John Crihbin, of Allenwood : — “ Gentlemen, I beg to second that.” Mr. Driver having taken the chair, 30 Mr. M. P. Boyton came forward and said : — " I have now very great pleasure in moving a vote of thanks to our junior member for this county, Mr. James Leahy, for his dignified conduct in the chair. In doing so I wish to say that Ave commenced the Land League in Monasterevan a feAv weeks ago; and at that meeting Mr. Leahy wrote to us 35 to say he was with us heart and soul, and that if he had received the invi- tation in time he would be with us in person. I think you can do no better than to pass a vote of confidence in him for the work he has done in Par- liament in supporting Charles Stewart Parnell. (Cheers.) In presiding at this meeting convened by tbe Land League to-day he is faithfully carrying 40 out to the letter Charles Stewart Parnell’s policy in the Land League. I therefore ask you to pass a vote of confidence in him. (Cheers.) The flag unfurled yesterday in these counties — ‘ The Leinster Leader ’ — will be in favour of peasant proprietary, or any proprietary tbey like to call it, so long as it rights the tenants in the soil and give them their rights. Parnell calls 45 upon every man to follow him and stand by these colom*s. Mr. Parnell would be in Kildare to-day, but that he has greater national duties to attend to. You will always find him in the thick of the fight, where he is wanted ; and he has around him good active workers, men who are not going 14 {Kildare. — Aiigml 15^4, 1880.) to s[):ir(^ ilunusclvcs, (Choors.) I now move :i vote of tlninks to Mr. .lames Leahy, our junior mem])er, for presiding hero to-day.” (Cheers.) Mr. John Cribbin “ Gentlemen, I have very great pleasure in seconding this vote of thanks 5 to our chairman.” Mr. Leahy, M.P., Chairman, then said “ Men of Kildare, in returning you my sincere thanks for this additional favour, a vote of confidence in me, I will tell you that it was not at my own solicitation you sent me to follow the leadership of Parnell. You have sent 10 me to perform a duty, and I have performed that duty as best I could, and I am happy to say that I was always together with Parnell. I am not a very fluent speaker, but I am a very good worker. The seeretary of this meetmg and the member for my native country, Mr. Dillon, have spoken to you, and I agree with every word they have said. But they have found 15 fault with my opening remarks, but it was only, as you know, bke the opening of a ball. The first party I told you to put your trust in was the Land League, and I say so now too. Band yourselves together, refuse to take a farm from which another has been evicted, and don’t submit to excessive rents. (Cheers.) Leave such farms there to them, and let them 20 keep them themselves. I may say, with the member for my native county, John Dillon, that I have less confidence in Parliament; but if we have friends then we must set them something to work upon. Mr. Parnell cannot stand there unless he has something to stand upon. (Cheers.) Per- sonally I have no ambition to put M.P. after my name. I am James Leahy, 25 as well without it as with it. If I could do you any service I would to the last penny in my pocket, and why ? Because I am one of yourselves. (Cheers.) You will excuse me now. I am not a good speaker, but if any act of mine in or out of the House of Commons displeases any of you, all you have to do is to say : ‘ James Leahy, surrender the trust we have reposed 3Q in you,’ and I will at once yield it up to you. (Cheers.) I now call upon every man to pledge himself before God and his fellow man never to take a farm from which his neighbour has been evicted. (‘ Never.’) I want to see you pledge yourselves with your right hands raised. (All hands raised.) All right. Never break that pledge, and victory will be yours.” (Loud cheers.) {Tuam. — August 15///, 1880. — 31r. T. Brcuuan.) Mr. Thomas Brennan, Duhliu Secretary to tlic Irisli National Land Lcai>-nc. Mr. Thomas Brennan then came forward and said : “ Mr. Chairman and felloAv countrymen (cheers.) I have the pleasure of proposing the second 5 resolution here to day which is as follows ” : — “ That as a united and solid organisation of the people is necessary for the attainment of their rights we pledge ourselves to organise in this district, and form a branch of the Irish National Land League.” “ I am glad to see by this important meeting assembled for the purpose of 10 practical Avork, and that Tuam has at last fallen into line with the rest of Connaught (cheers). Henceforth the people of this district Avill have some- thing to protect them in the assertion of their rights (cheers). You will hear a lot of cants about the rights of proj)erty from men who could show very little right to the property they hold, you will not hear much about 15 what is as important, the rights of laboiu*. The rights even of property must give Avay before the far higher rights of hmnanity ; you must protect your own lives and those of your families by not allowing any person to take from you this year’s harvest, which the charity of the world enabled you to raise. I say if you give the landlords the harvest in the shape of rent you need not 20 expect the people of America and Australia to come again to your aid to keep you out of the workhouse and from starvation (a voice, ‘ We will not’). Will you surrender what is your own and go forth again on the world’s highways to beg for charity, or if not, the cry must go forth from one end of Ireland to the other, ‘ Hold the harvest.’ Many of you here to-day remember the 25 scenes of ’46 and ’47, and are you now going to witness the same ? (A voice, ‘No, no, we will hold the harvest.’ Cheers.) In doing so you have the advice of one of the most learned, as he is one of the most loved, pre- lates of our church. Dr. Croke, and in one of his recent letters, quoting the words of St. Paul, said, ‘ The husbandman who labours must first partake 30 of the fruits.’ We want to get rid of this accursed system of landlordism, root and branch it is destroying our country and branding us before the world as paupers and beggars (groans). I want you to pay the farmer 20s. to the 1/., the shopkeeper 20s. to the 1/., and your neighbour 20s. to the 1/., and if you have anything left you can give a little to the landlord to keep 35 him from starving (cheers). Let the landlords go and work as you do for their bread, and then they will know what honest labour is. We aauII agitate from platform to platform until we get our desire, ‘ The land for the people ’ ” (cheers). Mr. M. Mangan, farmer. 40 Mr. M. Mangan then came forward and said, “ Gentlemen, I beg to second the resolution.” A 2 {Tnaiii. — AiKjnsl \olh, 1880. — 3Ir. P. J. Gordon.) Mr. Patrick J. Gordon, Clavcmorris, Sliocmakcr. Mr. r. J. Cordon tlicn came forward and said : — “ Mr. Chairman and fellow countrymen, I came here to-day to he one amongst the men of Tiiam (cheers). I am a Tiiam man myself. The land agitation is going on for the last 18 5 months. I am glad to see the men of Galway united with the men of Mayo. (A voice, ‘ Cheers for Mayo.’) The landlords say the land of Ireland belongs to themselves, hut I will tell them from this platform the land was made by Almighty God for the people. My friends, where would the Irish people he to-day only for the assistanee sent by the Ameriean people (a voiee, 10 ‘Cheers for America ’), and our noble leader, Charles Stewart Parnell? (eheers). (A voice, ‘ Cheers for the Penians ’). My friends, I do not intend to detain you any longer by any remarks of mine, and as it is raining very hard, but I will give you one advice before I retire. Join the National Land Leau’ue, and after a short time we will have the land of Ireland for the J5 people of Ireland ” (cheers). 4 / / i^Tncim. — August 15//^, 1880. — 3Ir. 11. D. JValsh.') ^ .. Mr. R. D. Walsh. ]\[r, 11. D. Walsli then came forward and said : “ EelloAV countrymen, T have often asked myself the question liow it is that 600,000 tenant farmers of this country, the hone and sinew of the land, allowed 5 the giant monster, landlordism, to cripple our industry and retard our social progress so long’. Thank God, times have ehanged. We have assemhledto- day to pledge ourselves to continue the land agitation until we obtain a final and successful settlement thereof, and to denounce a baneful system of land occupancy, Avhich monopolises the interests and destroys the happiness and 10 welfare of nearly 5,000,000 of our race. Some persons not only doubt the legitimacy of the land movement, hut even go so far as to say that there is no cause. But, I say, what has driven 50,000 of our country during the ^ last six months into exile ? Our representatives in Parliament a few days ago asked for a small measure to relieve the evicted tenants, but our hereditary 15 enemies, the House of Bandlordism, spurned the idea, and became for a moment furiously eloquent about the rights of property, and said, in a word, that such a bill as Compensation for Disturbance should never have sanction. No, fellow countrymen, unless you pay the rackrent, unless you continue to feed them in idleness, my Lords of the Upper House, to starve your families that 20 they may riot in luxury and ease, unless you do these things you have to fly for ever from the old homesteads wherein you first saw^ the light of day. Yes, leave vour holdings in order that their cattle may fatten thereon. That is their advice, but I take the liberty of repeating Mr. Parnell’s counsel to the men of Westport, ‘ Keep a firm grip of your homesteads ’ (cheers). Well, 25 fellow countrymen, our duty to our country and to ourselves is -clear. Let us combine, let us organise, let us learn the lessons taught by other struggling nationalities, who by perseverance and unity — ‘ The patient dint and powder shock, Will blast an Empire like a rock.’ ” A 3 {Tiiam, — August 15/4, 1880.) <- Mr. John W. Walsh, of Balia. ~My. J. ^y. Walsli then came forward and said : “ Mr. Chairman and fellow-countrymen, after the eloquent speeches you have heard, I Avill give you one advice that I have given at meetings for the last tAvelve months. Let there be no man amongst you so mean as to take a farm from which another tenant may be evicted. ‘ Ilold the Harvest.’ ” 6 {Tuam, — August Itjth 1880.) Mr. J. W. Nally, Balia, Farmer. After the speakers had left the platform Mr. J. W. Nally said : “My friends, — I heard this morning that Boakin is going to shoot me. A voice : ‘ lie better stoj) at home.’) I say, my friends, stick to your homes 5 and do not let these blasted landlords turn you out, away I say with the landlords.” He then distributed some tracts to the people. 8 21207. TUAM, 00. OALWAY, 15th August 1880. INDEX. Page. Introduction - - - - - 1 Mr. J. Hanly (Chairman) - - - 1 „ R.D. Walsh 2 „ J. J. Louden ----- 2 „ Thomas Brennan - . - - 3 „ M. Mangan ----- 3 „ Patrick J. Gordon - - - - 4 „ K. D. Walsh ----- 5 „ J. W. Walsh, of Balia _ _ . 6 „ J. Furey ----- 7 „ P. J. Gordon ----- 7 „ John W. Nally, of Balia - - - 8 Beporter — Thomas Matthews, Sub-Constable. Q 3360.— 4 . 250.— 11/80. Pk. 13. / TUAM, Co. Galway. Sunday, August 1880. Dublin, August 20, 1880. I BEG to state that in compliance with instructions received I proceeded on the 11th inst. to Tuam, county Galway, for the purpose of attending and reporting the proceedings of a land meeting published to be held there on 5 the 15th inst. A platform was erected in the market square capable of holding about 20 persons. At 1.30 o’clock p.m. contingents began to arrive from the following places : — Annadown, Headford, Lackagh, Kilbannon, and Milltown. Around the platform were exhibited some flags and banners bearing the following inscriptions : — “ Hold your harvests,” “ Our cause is 10 known from Connemara to the throne,” “ Spread the light,” “ Stand together, brothers all,” “ Down with landlordism,” “ Down with the tyrants,” “ Brave men and true, we have work to do,” “ God save Ireland.” Just before the proceedings commenced Mr. J. W. Nally, Balia, addressing the crowd, said, “ You should have 12 chairs up here for the town commissioners ; but I would 15 not call them commissioners, I would call them 12 damned ” (cheers and groans). At about 3 o’clock p.m., when the proceedings commenced, there were present about 3,500 persons. On the motion of Mr. J. B. Walsh the chair was taken by Mr. J. Hanly, 20 P.L.G. The chairman, on coming forward said, — “ Bellow countrymen, I thank you for making me your chairman at this large meeting you have here to-day. We are here to tell the English Government tliat we are unable any longer to submit to landlord tyranny (cheers). There are but three classes now in Ireland, landlords, paupers, and peelers (cheers and 25 groans) . Bellow countrymen, those men who are carrying on this agitation have been called nihilists and communists ; but these terms will never do, for the Irish people will never become nihilists or communists. The Irish people stood up for nothing only their God-given rights, the lands which they tilled and which they are determined to keep a firm grip of, come what 30 might” (cheers). The proceedings broke up at 4.40 o’clock p.m. THOMAS MATTHEWS, Sub-Constable, 42,169. Q 3366.-4. A 1 / {Timm.— Au(j list Yolk, 1880.— J/;-. 11. 1). Walsh.) Mr. R. D. Walsh. Mr. II. D. "Walsh then came forward to propose the first resolution as follows : “That wo regard the arbitrary aetion of the House of Lords in their 5 rejection of the Compensation for Disturbance Bill, as not alone subversive of the first principles of the Constitution, but unjust and tyrannical and calculated to increase the miseries of tlie people of Ireland.” Mr. J. J. Louden. 10 Mr. J. J. Louden having been introduced by the Chairman, said : “ Men of Tuam, it is now the second time within twelve months I have had the honour of addressing’ you (hear, hear). The first resolution, which is now my duty to second, but before I do so, I will take the liberty of making a few remarks. You all know the House of Lords is comjiosed of nothing but landlords 15 (groans). (A voice, ‘ Down with them.’) Since the first meeting at Irish- town we ourselves have often been commented on by the landlords. My friends beyond the water, Drank Hugh O’Donnell (groans) (voice, ‘ Down with him ’) ; the speaker continued, Yes, denounced Charles Stewart Parnell (cheers for Parnell), I say from this platform that the organisation which had 20 withstood the assault of the Tory Government, would not fall back before the cant of the light horsemen of the black Internationalist. Religion on the lips of such a man is mockery. When I speak of the black Internationalist, you do not suppose I mean the clergy of the country. I respect the men who perform the functions of their calling (a voice, ‘ W^hy are they not here 25 to-day P Another voice, ‘ Cut off their supplies.) Por them it is to speak on matters of morals, and for us to speak on the land, question (cheers). Therefore I do not allude to them, but to those strollers of all nations whose business it would appear to be to support universal tyranny and to keeji the people in ignorance and slavery. Let them know that they were despised 30 by the people of Ireland (Mr. Nally, Groans for them,’ a voice, ‘ Groans for them ’), and that when they and the O’Donnells and De Munns to pre-ordained oblivion, Charles Stewart Parnell would live in the hearts of an emancipated people (cheers for Parnell). Now, my friends, stick to the advice given to you by Mr. Parnell (a voice, ‘We will’). Stick to your little homes, join 35 the Land League, and organise amongst yourselves, and after a short time you will be a happy and prosperous people ” (cheers). 0 {Tnam. — Angust l^lh, 1880 J Mr. J. Furey, Ilcadford, larmcr. Mr. J. Eurey then came forward and addressed tlie meeting in the Irish language. Mr. P. J. Gordon. 5 Mr. P. J. Gordon then came forward and said : “ My friends, it is my pleasiug duty now to propose a vote of tlianks to Mr. Ilanly, our chairman, for the able way he has conducted this meeting.” (A voice : ‘ Cheers for Mr. Hanly.’). Mr. J. Hanly, Chairman. 10 Mr. Hanly then came forward and said : “ Gentlemen, — I thank you for the vote of thanks you have passed on me. I hope you will all go home peaceably, and take what you have heard here to-day home with you” (cheers). A 4 7 { — ylugn.si 22;/^"/, IHSO.) Mr. Dillon, M.P., wrote “ 1 regret very rnueli I crannot be present at liallingarry. I am o})lige(l to leave for London on Sunday. I need not say that 1 wish you every sucecss, and I hope the people will be ready to jjress on the work oj organi- sation without which meetings arc perfectly useless. (Cheers.) Should the (piestion of the Land Commission be brought forward at Sunday’s meeting, 1 trust the people of Tipperary will express their opinion of it in no uncertain language. It is of very great importance to make it clear that the Irish farmers refuse to submit their case to the Commission, because once that has been made clear, the report and the evidence of the Commission will be 2^0 without weight or authority, and can be dealt with simply as a statement of the landlord’s case.” Mr. Mullhalum Manum, M.P., wrote that his state of health did not permit him to he present at the meeting. 3 {Jidllinyarry. — Auynsl 'i'lml, ISSO.) Mr. Michael Mullally, rrcsidoni of the Sliovcnamon Land Leaf>iie, })vo|)os('d tlio llrst resolution, as follows : — “ Idiat the existing system of landlordism is the ehief cause of national impoverishment, periodical famines and depopulation, and even the great(ist evil that afllicts our misrided country. We unite with the people of Ireland in demanding its abolition, and the substitution of such an occupier proprie- 5 tary as will protect the agricultural and industrial classes, encourage thrift and economy, and secure to the tillers of the soil unfettered homes, and the Godgiven fruits of their industry. “ Men of Ballingarry, it occurs to me, and doubtless to each one of you, standing as we do on the green hillsides of Ballingarry, and looking round 10 on the fertile plain, whose surface is as fruitful as God can make it, and whose climate is mild as a mother’s milk, it occurs to me to ask why in this soil the Irish peasant starves and mourns, why we are alternately a nation of heg 2 !Urs, compelled periodically to send round the hat, not only to the valleys of the Mississippi, hut to the Antipodes to Australia to ask the people to try 15 and keep the life in the unfortunate tenantry of Ireland. Men of Ballingarry, what is the reason or cause of this? Go through any part of Ireland, and where in the world will you see a more industrious, more patient race than the peasantry, and why is it that in a soil as fertile as God’s love can make it that he cannot live ? That shows the miserable rule of these persecuting 20 landlords who drag the life blood from the tenants and deny them the right to live in the county. The landlords, I suppose, think that the Almighty God, when he made this land, made a great mistake. They deny they have a right to live in the country. Are you going to submit to this ? I ask you, one and all, and each to raise up your hands before high heaven, and this 25 shall be as solemn as before God, to raise up your hands in the face of Heaven and protest against the jiersecuting system of land tenure in Ireland. (Cheers.) Men of Ballingarry, of course you have seen, and I know you have watched with panting hearts the blissful unanimity that characterises the present Land League, There are men amongst our audience to-day remember the 30 times of Smith O’Brien (cheers for ’48), and the period of the Conciliation^ Hall with the great O’Connell at its head. Men have said to me, ‘ Your Leao'ue will end in a bottle of smoke,’ but I told them it will not. No right-minded man can say this. In O’Connell’s time the whole of England was sworn against the Conciliation Hall, but here now we have all Ireland 35 united in one common mass. "We have Presbyterians in the north and Catholics in the south under the glorious patriotic Archbishop of Cashel and Emily. Unity is written on the banner of the Land League. Victory shall be the next thing that shall be emblazoned on it ; and standing together Orange and Green will carry the day if you be true to yourselves. Why is 40 it that each and every man amongst you, the youngest as well as the oldest, can remember some of your brothers or sisters hurled to die on a foreign strand, leaving their bones whitened for the wolf or jackall ? It is because we have no hold of our own country. Give the peasants Ireland, give all Ireland, give them fair rent, | give them fixity of tenure, 45 and we can boldly fling down the gauntlet, and we can boldly challenge the wide world to beat us in anything. (Cheers.) Men of Ballingarry and women of Ballingarry, you are all aware that within the last eight 4 A 3 {HallhKjitrrj/. — Awjusl 22//r/, 1880.— ii/rV/w'/ Mullully.) or nine weeks, l)enealh the sun-kissed sIoi)es of historic; Slicvenanion an infant Land Leai>’no was horn. T am "lad to tell yon that within that -(r- pcriod this infant League has got over ihe whooi)ing cough, the measles, fever, and ‘ hoc genius omnia,’ and that it is innocnlatcd with the utmost 5 hatred of landocracy. Well, men of Ballingarry, I look to yon to-day to as linidy Jix Ihis League on its feet as you holy hill (Slievenamon). Stand _-:^ together ; go ouc and each and all ; let ]io one stand aside. It is no use one man having a good farm and not coming forward and joining also ; and if there is amongst you a cowardly hound who dare attempt to touch a man’s 10 land from which he is evicted, don’t touch him ; don’t lay a finger on him ; treat him with silent contempt (cheers) ; shun him as if the plague spot were on his cheek. Sooner clasp the murderer’s hand than you will touch him ; leave him alone in his glory, and that vile wretch shall go down to the earth from which ho sprung ‘ unwept, unhonoured, and unsung.’ ” 15 (Cheers.) I, s (l>((tlli/(/rtrr//, — Afifj/tfi/ 22i/(/, ISRO.) Mr. MichacJ P. Boyton supporiod tlui rosoluiion. lie suicl, — “ ]\[on ()]■ Tipperary, 1 am to spealc in sii])port oT a resolution that has been moved and seconded. I will rc'ad for yon tliat resolution, hccausc it is intended to he your voice, and because it is intended that tlie cheer of the men of Balling'aiTy in carrying’ that resolution Avill sound far beyond the hills 5 of Tipperary.” He here read the resolution and continued : — “ In explanation of the resolution, as there may he many who have not read last week’s papers, I would wish to tell you the man that you men of Tipperary returned to represent you in the British Parliament while ho was begging for charity for your countrymen in America has been grossly, vilely, and malig- 10 nantly insulted. The man whom the English Government have appointed to misrule the Irish people, Mr. Quaker Eorstcr, said in his speech in the House of Commons referring to what Mr. Dillon said at Kildare this day week that his speech was within the letter of the law, hut that it was cowardly and wicked. I wish you therefore to ring out a note of defiance from the hearts of Tipperary 15 to tell him that he lied. (Cheers.) Tipperary never sent a coward anywhere (cheers), and least of all into the camp of the enemy. The sou of John Dillon is no coward (cheers), and therefore to-day in passing that resolution, without a single dissentient voice, I want you to hurl back the foul insinuation into the teeth of the Irish Chief Secretary. The second part of 20 the resolution deals with another matter. The present Government when it came into power did so largely on the strength of the promises it made to do something for the amelioration of those who till the soil. The moment that Government got into power they follow in the footsteps of their predecessors, and appoint what they call a “ Boyal Land Commission.” The other Com- 25 mission was notoriously composed; I allude to the Tory Commission of Landlords. It was made by landlords of landlords to fight the landlord’s cause, and they went in sworn to give no justice whatever, not even a, hearing, to the honest tenant farmer of Ireland. (Cheers.) The Government now in power got a lease of that power from the people for the jmrposc of 30 doing justice. Wha.t is a sample of the justice they intend doing ? They go following, as I said before, in the footsteps of their predecessors to acqiurc evidence of that which requires no evidence. ( Cheers.) The whole world, the whole of England, unto even the most notorious Tory landlord, acknowledges that the land question wants some settlement. The present Government 36 appointed a Commission, and what is the nature and composition of the Commission they appoint and ask you to come and lay your case before them ? That Commission in its composition is 10 times more notoriously in the interests of the landlords of this kingdom than was the Tory Commission.* It is composed of six men. Two of these men are individuals whom the 10 people of Ireland ran out with a voice of indignation from their seats ; flung them out with scorn. I allude to Kavanagh of Borris, who will be, I believe, as he has the best brains of any of these six men, he will be the leading, guiding spirit of that Land Commission. (‘ Groans for him.’) In selecting, therefore the head and front of the landlord interest, the man who carried 45 the standard of selfishness and greed in the British House of Commons, they went and picked out the worst enemy the Irish people ever had. They put him on the jiu’y to try whether there is anything the matter with you or not. The Q 3366.-29. 8 B {liaUiiKjcm'i/.—AnfiusL im).—J\LiGhaei 1\ BoijLon) ]ioxi huUvkliial in tliat- Commission is the O’Conoi' Don, a man who, though li(' kneel at the sanui aliar ol‘ tin; majority of you and me, 1 hold him also to he the sworn eiunny of justiee to the tenant farmers of Ireland. (Cheers.) A young Irishman, eame home from heyond the western wave, and when he 5 Avent doAvn to lloscommon ho heat that lord of the manor on his own soil, and the voiee of the people took np a comparative stranger, and they flung out the O’ Conor Don. The other members of the Commission arc perhaps less notorious, but they are known for their hitter unswerving hostility to the cause of the Irish tiller of thn soil— my Lord Beshorough and Mr. Shaw— I 10 have no doubt whatever that Mr. Shaw would vvdsh to do some measure of justice to the tenant farmers of Ireland, hut Mr. Shaw, with all his good intentions, will find that all he can say will he no avail in such a packed jury to try themselves. Therefore the Government ask you to go before these six gentlemen to find your way up to No. 0, Ely Place in Dublin, and elseAvheie 15 that they send their rein’csentatives, and to tell them what is the matter with you : ‘ What are you assembled in your meetings for ? What arc those ‘ grievances ? Why are you despairing ? Why are you agitating ? lYhat ‘ are you organising for ? There is nothing the matter with you, and they send a Commission composed of the very men whose existence as a body you 20 wish to destroy to try your case. It has been said that this was a case of going to laAV with the devil and the court held in hell. There never was a truer application of that old familiar phrase ; You are going to lay your grievances before a prejudiced packed court. In the name of God is there a m mi so unintelligent or ignorant as to think they will ever get justice from 25 srrch an assembly. I say therefore to the men of lipperary that to ask the tenant farmers of Ireland to state their grievances when the Lord knows they have every evidence they can possibly Avant. They know you have grievances crying out in the sight of God and before the cWilised nations of the caith that you have grievances that call aloud for redress. They wish to do as 30 they have invariably done when they were brought to the pinch, they wish to delay, to shelve, and put off the demands of the Irish people. But I thank God we live in a different day from the days of 42 years ago. 42 years ap history was created not very far from where we now stand. The past has its memories for Irishmen, its better memories, aye, and vengeful hopes, born 35 of these memories. But the tide of progress goes on ; educacion goes on ; people are more enlightened ; no longer will they lie down the disspirited and hopeless serfs they were in ’48. (Cheers.) We have memories, aye, memories attached to where we are to-day, and the name of this village has been associated for many a year with a bitter sneer from those who have 40 always been not only the enemies of the Irish, but the enemies of liberty all over the world. (Cheers.) Let them sneer ; but the day will come when we Avill blot out such memories, and when the men who shed their blood, and mark me, my friends, to-day all over this world, where civilization is progresing the cause of liberty, Avhether that blood be shed uselessly or 45 successfully, it is still a sacred cause, and though the blood that is shed in that cause sink into the earth the cause can never die. (Cheers.) They can never sneer at the cause of liberty j it will never be effaced. The lemem- brance of one single stroke, struck in that cause, will never be effaced from the memories of the men who remained. They can no more blot out the 50 recollection that there has been a rash, perhaps a fatal attempt made foi the moment by a people driven by oppression and by the very selfsame 9 {Balluiparri/. — ^liuinai "liiul, 1880 . — Micliael L\ Boy Ion.) I ))()\ver t lull you ;iro arrayed a^'iiiiisi io-(l;iy, driven in a mojiieiii ol! despera- tion to take up arms and strike rig'lit at tlie eolours that, tliese men u))lield. All over the world, wlunxwer the Hag of liberty has l)ee)i uururled, that one scltish, inramous, inl’ernal interest, born oT the grcaal of hell itsell', has been 5 ready, aye, always ready to ])ut it down. (Cheers.) When I sj)eak of that interest I mean the interest that has to be upheld, sustained, and supported by l^ritish bayonets, all the Avorld over, for those moji eould not see llussia go away to the East to free the unfortunate down-trodden Christians of Bulgaria and Servia, but they must send their infamous gold into the Black 10 Sea to stani]) out Christianity. These selfsame Tory lords, dukes, and earls, these selfsame men, representing as they did the landocracy of Ireland, have been the personal enemies of the cause of liberty all over the world. When a young man in America I learned my ju'ofession as a soldier, and I well remember the very lirst musket that we ever seized from the enemies of the 15 great Bepublic of the West bore the Tower mark on it. We were en^aired in a struggle to save the Bepublic where your brothers, and the brothers of every oppressed race on earth, find a home under a free sky, and on a free soil ; there the gold of these same men, this infamous faction of bigotry, intolerance, conservatism, or whatever else they call it — I hold it to be the 20 cause of greed, the cause of oppression, and inhumanity — there these men sent their gold to prop up slavery. They sent their gold into the South ; they sent their blockade runners, and assistance moral and material, to the men who were struggling to keej) 4,000,000 of unfortunate men in slavery, because they were of a different race. Their efforts there failed, and to-day you 25 Irishmen, you tillers of the soil, who are in very truth but one remove from that slavery, you find yourselves face to face with the same old enemy, and are you going to stand together and fight it out ? (A voice, “ Why not ? ” Cheers.) We do not ask you to commit violence, either by word or deed; we ask you to move carefully as far as the law will permit, aye, even the 30 law of Great Britain. We ask you to work within the law ; but within the law we can point you oiiT^ way th^will~brmg these men to the eartli. and when there crush out the life out of them for ever. (Cheers.) We projjose to withdraw from these men the means whereby they live in luxury and in infamy. I claim to know whereof I speak, for I have seen the blood 35 and sweat of the Irish tenantry coming from even estates in this country where men should bend their back, to turn over tlie earth that God gave for their sustenance from morning till night. I have seen their sweat and blood coined into dianm ndji-Io deck the painted harlot away in Erance and else- where. I have seen men rioting in debauchery, living in luxury and infamy, 40 gaming, racing, sporting your hard earnings that they had plundered from you in the shape of extortionate and unjust rent. The day is coming now when you yourselves will be called upon to settle this question. You see from what you have been told about those courts that wish to try your case, you see the nature of these courts. You have lately witnessed the fact 45 that the very smallest amount, the minute portion of justice that could have been expected from that body, they rose up like one man, these Lords Temporal and Spiritual, and they flung it out to show that they meant “No surrender.” They will never give you justice. There- fore you are called upon for God’s sake, for the sake of your country, 50 to stand together now. (Cheers.) You are called upon legally and justi- fiably to unite yourselves into one big organisation all over this island. Q 3366.-29, -f 10 tr {^.BaUiugavrij . — -Aiigusl "I'lnd, 1880 . — Michael P. Boy Ion.) Wlu'u (liat organisation is [jcrlcctaal you will tlicn exert the streiigtli that God has given yon, and, axjeording to tiie law of nature, to elaini, to hold, to demand, to take possession of yourselves, of the justiee tliat is denied you. (Cheers.) So soon as \re are able to have a eoinpaet Land League in every 5 parish, village, and town throughout Ireland ; so soon as we ean know that we have men on whom we ean rely and trust ; men who will crush out treachery ; men who will no longer tolerate the blackguardism and infamy Iwought about l)y English gold (cheers) ; so soon — as your worthy repre- sentative and my esteemed friend, John Dillon, said — so soon as to these 10 meetings, instead of a disorganised, hut firm, determined, and enthusiastic* crowd, so soon as we can march four deep one mile of a column of earnest, honest, determined young men, stepping along the road — not drilling — marching to those meetings, we will begin then to show our teeth. (Cheers.) You must not wait for men to come here to do this thing for you. These arc 15 the days of self help. You are all intelligent enough now to know you arc lighting for your bread and butter. There are men amongst you wdio would to-niorroiv say, ‘ I do not wish to take any part in this movement.’ Why ? ‘ Because my land is cheap enough, and rented below Griffith’s valuation ; ‘ my landlord is a good landlord.’ When you hear a man telling you that 20 tell him, ‘ If that be the case it were better then that you w^ere not born, for ‘ you are not at heart a Christian.’ (Cheers.) God Almighty has told you, do unto others as you would wdsh others did to you ; and Avhen a man tells you, ‘ I am well enough off ; I do not want a rcxluction of rent, or peasant ‘ proprietory,’ turn round and tell him, ‘ W^e know you are well enough off, 25 ‘ but are you doing to your brother, who is not well enough, wffiat you ‘ would wish he would do to you.’ Tell that mean, fearful weak-kneed, half-hearted man that he is not worthy the name of Irishman, because this is a struggle of all Ireland. In the past Tipperary claimed, aye, and justly, and deserved to carry the standard. You claim to be the vanguard 80 in Ireland. The spirit I have seen raised in this county within the last month tells me that you only want to be put right, and to-day you will assert your right and claim to lead Ireland again. There will be 10 or 12 branches of the Land League in the south of the county I hope within 12 months, and that those members of Parliament, who are tired for their doing nothing, that 35 they will come here and show you how to help yourselves. I therefore wish every man that is here and worthy the character of Irishman and the name of a Tipperary man, that he will at once join the nearest branch of the Land League. WY do not want your money, but we want you to help yourselves and to help one another, and you can only do that by unity. Bemember, the one thing 40 that has caused Ireland all her misery, all her misfortunes, aye, and all such things as happened on those hillsides, has been want of unity. I think if God Almighty were to send a special messenger tliis moment out of the heavens to breathe on you one word that would free you, from the lips of that angel would come the word ‘ Unity.” There is no necessity to detain you longer. 45 You have been told where the standard is flying. It is now to show whether you are men who will rally round it. To-day in Balliugarry will be established a branch of the Laud League. Every man here who has manhood sufficient need not be any longer a crawling, crouching serf. Every man who would wish to be free himself, or for his children to be free, should at once join m 60 with his brothers all over Ireland. (Cheers.) Bemember, I tell you again, this time you are not fighting for an uncertain quantity ; you are struggling 11 {Balltugarnj. — Augiust 'lind, IH.SO. — j^richacl P. Bog Ion.) to possess yom-selvos of tlio land from Avliich you draw your lid;. You arc liglitiug’ for lif(', and furtlicrmoro, you ar(; flighting’ to show the whole world that wore so ready to g•iv(^ you bread, that tlie men — lliat you will now. aft(‘r yo\i have tided over the dillieulty, stand together like men fighting yonr own 5 light, helping yoursidves. Mind yon, llie enemy is a very small individual, and if you only stand together until this time next 12 months W(; can have; 25(),0()(), and that is a quarter of a million of men, not one in every tliree of the tenant farmers Jind labourers in Ireland. If we had a quarter of a million of men wlioin avc could di'pend on Ave AA Ould settle; the land question in 10 21 hours. All the cheering, as Mr. Parnell (and I trust he Avill he soon among you) told you himself, all the meetings and cheering amount to nothing unless they arc folio Aved hy organisation ; all that organisation Avishes you to do is strictly Avithin the letter of the laAV, merely to unite hand in hand, to pledge A'ourselves one to the other that you Avill not any longer go treacherously, 15 sneakingly hehind your felloAV farmer or tenants hack-hidding for his land, and giving his rackrenting landlord an excuse for cither raising his rent, or throAving himself and his family out on the roadside. You are ask(;d to pledge yourselves not to take your neighbour’s farm. The resolution that folloAVS Avill deal Avitli that. I have taken up too much of your time ; hut if 20 there he any excuse I hav(‘ to offer for the length of my remarks, it is the Avish that I could do ten times as much in half an hour to unite you as I Avish to do noAV. I feel grateful to you for the reception you have accorded me, and I feel gratified for the attention Avith Avhich you have listened to my remarks. It shoAvs that the men of Ballingarry Avill not he hehind the men 25 of Prethand, Cloneen, Mullinahone, Drangan, and the other branches of the Land League. (Cheers.) I expect Avhen I return to Ballingarry again to visit this League to have the secretary show me a hook Avherein is enrolled the names of three or four hundred good, stout, active, intelligent, manly young felloAvs. I have every reason to he grateful for the Avay in which avc 30 have been received in Tipperary. Prom the success the movement has already had, I say to you men of Tipperary, ‘ Lift up your hearts.’ ” (Cheers.) C 2 12 {BaUingarrtj. — Jufjust 1880.) Mr. Michael P. Boyton again addressed the meeting, and said : It is noAV my very pleasing duty to propose a vote of thanks to the worthy, esteemed, and r(wer(Mid chaii-man. Having done so, I ivish to tell you that I have never assisted at a land meeting at Tipperary at which a minister of God did not preside (cheers), showing thus the insidious enemies of the 5 T)eople Avho would try to create a split between their duty to God and their dutv to their conniry, that the priesthood of Ireland arc with the people, true to the heart’s core. (Cheers.) In proposing, therefore, a vote of thanks to yonr esteemed ehairraan, I do so, and as I have done before, I hope that the voice of every honest Irish heart present will give a vote of thanks 10 not alone to him but one after another to all the ecclesiastics up to the illustrious figure on the chair of Cashel, (cheers.) Ton have all read by this time the words of Dr. Croke. He says, speaking the words of God, that the man Avho labours and tills the soil must first be fed and clothed out of it. He flings back in the face of your rulers the vile calumnious statement that 15 the tenantry of Ireland refused to pay their just debts. We do not tell any man to pay that which is not just, but we do tell every man what God tells him, and what the Archbishop of Cashel tells him, that there is no first claim in rent, that yourselves, your family, should be first fed, housed, and clothed before von pay one farthing ; bear that in mind, and any man who tolls you 20 we are counselling dishonesty, tell him it is false. God says yon must live out of that soil, and you are told from the month of St. Paul and the Archl)ishop of Cashel that rent has no first claim on yonr earnings. (Cheers.) Therefore I wish the vote of thanks i,o go forth, not alone to those worthy priests, but the whole priesthood of Tipperary, the most patriotic in all Ireland. 25 There is one little fact in connexion with this meeting. You are told that meetings are not for talk, they are for work ; and before putting the vote of thanks I wish to call now, and I do so in accordance with our invariable custom. I call on every honest Irishman here present to lift up his hand before God and pledge himself never to take, hold, or occupy the land from 30 which his neighbour has been evicted for non-payment of an unjust rent, never to work on that land, and to discountenance and to denounce as a public enemy any man that will be found treacherous enough, and base enough, to sell the people by doing so. (Cheers). Pledge yourselves, (every hand was here raised up, Mr. Boyton requesting the women present also to 35 raise their hands, which they did). Beferring to the women, the speaker continued, I will ask them in the name, and by the honour of that pledge, never to look in the face of the man who will be traitor enough to take his neighbour’s farm. (Cheers.) I ask them to give him no countenance, because the man who will sell his fellow-man or sell his county would 40 betray his wife. (Cheers.) The pledge that you have just taken you will be expected to adhere to, and the man who does not I have got a few words to tell him. Now, if there is any man entertaining even an idea that in the face of this pledge, and the organisation existing in Tipperary, that he will be allowed to go along after taking his neighbour’s farm, I tell him 45 there is a black cloud in the sky he knows nothing about. The pledge you have taken is one of the most emphatical votes of thanks to your parish priest, for it shows him that the work that he has so worthily presided over here to-day has been effectual. I therefore move a vote of thanks to Pather Hickey.” 15 [rxiUt iKjarrij . — Atigiibl 1880.) .V man \vhos(' name was not avidihly })roiu)imc('(l, iiirorinally pro])oso{l tlic next resolution, Avliich, how('ver, he (lid not read, Mr. Michael Cusack, of Drano-an, Seerelaiy of llie 81icv('namon Land L('ai>'iie, then came forward to .second the I'olloAvin^- resolution, which he read : — “ That we recog'nise in the Irish National Land League the only true organisation around which it is now the duty of all true Irishmen to rally I'hat \YC approve of its objects, and the means proposed for their accomplish- ment, and in to-day establishing the Ballingarry branch of the Slievenamon h Land League we hereby pledge ourselves never to bid for, take, or hold the farm from Avhich our neighbour has been evicted for the non-payment of an unjust rent, and never to take hand, act, or part in sowing or saving the crops thereon, and to hold the man who 'will do so as a jinblic enemy.” He said : “ Men of Tipperary, a branch has been started now in Ballingarry, 10 and except ye fully nnderstand its objects, ye w'-onld be great fools if ye were to come and join the League. If you go and take a farm, and if you come together, and if you agreed not to pay the landlord his rent except he gave an abatement, and some of you held out for a month, and then some of you Avent to him and gave him the rent in hand ; that cannot be done now. IVe 15 do not want to deprive the landlord of his rent, as the paper said, only for the Land League, the landlord of Kilbury would be paid his rent. IVe do not want to deprive the landlord of his rent. After first mass on next Sunday in Ballingarry, every person wishing to join the Land Leagm' will be enrolled on payment of a shilling. Every man can become a member of the 20 Land League on payment of a shilling, or a pound, according to your means, and on joining the League you have the assistance of the League wlieu attacked by the landlord for an unjust rent or other cause ; but there is no use in uniting until his landlord will crush him, until a man comes to join the League. Every man that is in earnest Avill become a member of the 25 League. I have great pleasure in seconding the third resolution.” Mr. Fisher, junior, of Canlck-on-Suir, son of Mr. J. Eisher, of Water- ford, next addressed the meeting. “ I am very proud to see such a meeting as I see before me here to-day, and in reference to the resolution I wish to say a few words. Looking over you all here to-day you seem to be very respectable, but I hear you have one bad tailor amongst yon, and 1 believe it is out of some of your coats he has 30 got the measure for his own, and if you take my advice you will all join the Land League and become members and oppose men like him of robbing you of what is just ripe of the fruit given to your exercise and toil. During the autumn of last year I travelled through a great part of the country, and I saw farmers and servants everywhere living on what waas not fit food for dogs, 35 the turnips and the carrots. I.Iie landlords tvill yet exj)ect that you will pay them the full rent and starve yourselves, but the time for that has come to an end. You must learn that Irishmen should be as wnll able to live aiid deck their children as the landlords wlio obtained the soil in the first instance by robbery, and existed since by plunder and confiscation. On Friday 40 night, in the House of Lords, a lord called Oranmore and Browm one of the most bigoted of the lords, got up and asked Lord Spencei- wliether Ik could 13 [BalHii(j((ii'if. — Au(jnd 22u(l, ISSO. — Mr. Ftfiher, jnii.) aiiswor liim the (iiu'stioii, Aviu'llicr tlu' Lniul Ij(!agiic was a le^al combination oi- n ot, and Eavl Si)en(*ei’ iold liim lu' could not. ]^o; l)iit 1 would ask him whether the Landlord’s Association tor oppressing and tyrannising- over Ihe tenants is a legal comhination or not ? I have here a list of the names 5 of the Landlords la-ague in the county Tipperary, and I will i-ead the names for you, and ask you to give three groans each for them. First, ]N[r. llichard Bagwell, of Clonmel, (groans). The next, Mr. Arthur Smyth-Barry, (groans). Then we have Lieutenant-Colonel Carden, (groans). The Earl of Donoughmore, (groans). Matthew H. Eranks, (groans). J. B. 10 Going (his work has been going on long enough), (groans). Viscount Gough; AGseount llawarden ; Earl of Huntingdon; Thomas Lawlor of Carrick ; Colonel Manseangb ; the Marquis of Ormond (sixty-nine ejectments at present on his property, ami I believe he has a lot more notices to quit he will be going on with very shortly) ; Samuel Barry, brother-in-law of 15 Count Do la Boer’s ; B. W. Reeves, I suppose one of the firm of the Beeves’ that tried to put the Meaghers out of Kilburry ; the Earl of Boss; John Trench ; and there is one name I left to the last, and it is not the least of them, and that is our august M.B., Stephen Moore. As each name Avas repeated it was receiA'ed with groans. Mr. Eisher continued, — “ These men have joined together to keep you in the state of serfdom you 2U have been in for hundreds of years. You have all heard of the parable of our Lord concerning the fig tree, how for three years it cumbered the ground, and it Avas ordered to be cut down. The system of landlordism has cumbered this country, not for three but three hundred years, and uoav cut it down, and join together and you aauII eventually gain the soil for yourselves. It is late 25 UOAV, and I Avould not Avish to detain you, but I Avould like to impress on you the necessity of enrolling yourselves members of the Land League, and as Mr. Boy ton has told you, a thousand men Avalking four deep and passing by the demesne of a landlord Avould have more eil'ect on their hearts than the coming and going and forgetting all they had heard. By 30 uniting Avith your fellow men, and by carrying out the cause Avhich has been so ably AA^orked for you you will be only doing justice to yourselves, your country, and your God.” (Cheers.) The resolution was carried. I.ist, of Landlords’ Association. r {Kiltidlagh. — 22«(Z August, 1880.) At n 1)01 it thit ‘0 o’clock. Martin Halloran, of KiltuUa, took the chair, and said : — Gentlemen and fellow countrymen, I am more than happy to see you here to-day. When getting up this meeting we were told over and over again that we would liave neither speakers nor 5 hearers, but I say to them that they are damned liars (cheers). I will give up the agitation if you are not true to yourselves, but if you are true to yourselves the work will go on. 1 will go on with the work, but let me never hear amongst you that there will be houghed cattle, or trimmed horses’ tails, or anything of that kind. The moment there is anything of the kind I 10 will give up the agitation (cheers). It is a sad thing that you are to-day denounced by the clergy of Kiltulla. But I won’t occupy your time, as other speakers are here, and you will hear elegant speeches fx’orn them (cheers). Mr. Thomas GrrifSn, of G-urteen, then came forward and said : — I beg to propose the following resolution for 15 yon ; — “ That we call upon the tenant farmers of Ireland to keep a firm grip of their crops, and to reflect that it is a higher crime against all moral law to suffer their families to starve in the midst of plenty, than to deprive their territorial masters of the means of wallowing in unrighteous luxury ” 20 (cheers). Men of Kiltulla, the land question is now resounding on every hilltop and valley of Ireland. Stick to that cause we are fighting about, stick to the cause of Parnell and Michael Pavitt. Almighty God made the land for the people, and no man has a right to-day to say that that land is his. You must be 25 determined not to bid for the land of your neighbour (cheers), then no eviction can take place ; and if an eviction takes place you will be spared the sight of these land-grabbers. You understand, my friends, that our country is never destined to see such a sight as was in ’47 (cheers). Now we have the right class of men, and the right cause, so join the 30 Land League to-day (cheers). TTnlmown, Some person whose name 1 was unable to obtain seconded the resolution. 2 [Kiltidlaq}). — 22W Amjust, 1880.) Mr. Anthony Grriffin, of G-urteen, then ciune tbrwiird and said — I am very ijlad to see such a gatherin;’- of good men here to-day. I am ha|)j)y to see the good men of Kilchreest, Kiltnlla, Loughrea, and Athenry have contributed to this meeting. I must not forget Gurfeen, as 1 am a Gurteen mati myself, and we in Gurteen 5 were the first in the diocese of Clonfert who formed a branch of the Land League, and I am proud to see that the men of Kiltulla have followed our example, and not be submitting any longer to the vile system of landlordism under which you have suffered for centuries (cheers). This agitation origin- ated in Mayo and has extended o\er the length and breadth of our little 10 island. The Land liCagiie had its origin in the same county, and a branch of it will be established in every town and parish of Ireland, and then we won’t care for the landlords (cheers). There in Gurteen, I am sorry to say, in spite of all our efforts there are a few spies, and a few traitors amongst us A voice, “Put them down, and the only way is to kill I'hern.” 15 No, no. Although they do their best to prevent the tenant fanners from joining our cause, we should not harm them. When we were getting up the Gurteen meeting I asked a man to give us a field, and he said, “ What would I do if my landlord knew of it.” I said what do you care for your landlord. As soon as he recovered he went home and asked his wife to 20 j oin him in a prayer to save him. I wish to tell the spies themselves that we know how to deal with them. 1 don’t wish to be misunderstood, we shall not injure them, but we shall put up their names on every market place in the county, and the people will shun them as they would a leper. There is one thing I regret very much in regard to these meetings, and 25 that is that we have not a single priest with us. Now, I regard and con- sider that the priests are the natural leaders of the people, and if they don’t wish to lead us, why we will go on without them. If they don’t wish to join the Land League, then they should not prevent any other joiniiig. In the diocese of Tuam everyone is in the Land League, but I tell you that we 30 can go on without the priests. Now, the resolution tells you that it is better to keep a firm grip of your harvests than to let the landlords have it. If 3'ou pay rent arid struggle all the year you are great fools (cheers). But men wlio go on well and pay their rent to the landlord, tin* landlord will be 35 very kind to them, and will give them a glass of grog, and he will say, “ I would not get my rent only for how I treated that man, and he is a great fool.” The landgrabbers some time ago were plentx in tins country. If the landgrabbers were put down in ’47, as we are now putting them down, we would have none of them in the country now. 40 I am totally against outrages of all sorts. O’Connell used to say, “ That the man who committed a crime gave strength to the enemy.” Every such thing is brought up in the House of Commons against us, and to make the people rebels. The only way you have to put an end to spies and traitors is to unite. Let you all join the Land League, and prove to 3 (KiltiiUagh. — 2,2nd August, 18B0. — Mr. Anthony Griffin.) the worltl th:it you will bafllo the power of th(; landlords, and denounce spies everywhere vou meet them — (cheers) — and yon will find they will come round by-and-bye. Now, the next thing I shall tell you is don’t be fools to be paying rack-rents. Don’t seil your oats and potatoes to 5 pay the landlord. The man who sells his cro[) to pay the rent is no man, and he is unworthv to be there. If you are not able to make rent out of the land you shall pay none for it. After paying for labour, paying the shopkeeper, and keeping what will support and clothe yourselves and families, if you then have anything left you may hand the rest over to the 10 laTidlords. The oat crop will be small, the potato (;rop a failure — A voice, “ No, no” — and, then, I say, that tlie man who is rack-rented shall pa\ no rent at all. I know a man not far from here whose valuation is £12, and whose rent is nothing less than £30. I don’t wish to mention the landlord’s name, but I say that is a rack-rent wdiich should not be paid. 15 Voices, “ Name the landlord. Put it out at once, &c.” Lord Ashtown is the landlord, and only for you knocked it out of me I would not tell it. I advise that man to go to the landlord and offer liirn what rent he can spare, .and if he does not take it let him put it by till the landlord calls for it, or let him make roads or drains with it on his farm 20 (cheers). That great man Charles Stewart Parnell — (cheers) — along with Michael Davitt started this agitation, and he offered the landlords twenty vears pundiase, and they have refused it. As an humble follow of Parnells I would tell him to offer them now fifteen years, and if they won’t take that, to next year offer them ten years, and the next five years purchase. 25 They will be glad to get the five years purchase in the end. A voice, “ They will be too late.” Well, I heard a story of a man who ran away \vith a young lady whom he intended to have for his wife. Wh(‘n they went to the priest and asked him to marry them he said he had only £ 1 , and he would give it to him. 30 The priest, who wanted to put down such things, said he would not marry him for the £1. Well, he went home, and that night he spent 5s. out of the pound treating some friends. Next day the priest sent for him, and said, “ To prevent scandal I Avill marry you for the £l.” “ Oh,” said the man, “ 1 spent 5s. of it last night, I have now only 15s.” The priest again 35 refused him, and that night he had a little more refreshment. And so on till he liad only 5s. Lft, when the priest said to him, “ Give :ne the 5s. itself,” and he married them for the 5s. (cheer.>^). Now, in the same way if you go on agitating and not paying any rents only what you wish, the landlords will be glad to get anything at all by-and-bye, and clear out, and 40 then you will have the land free for yourselves (loud cheers). As there are able speakers to follow, 1 beg to propose, ladies and gentle- ir.ei, ; — “ That we consider the system of land tenure in Ireland as the root and source of the most frightful evils, which have long degraded and pauperised this unhappy country, and that nothing but a bag and baggage 45 abolition of landlordism will ever satisfy the Irish people ” (cheers). 4 3X {Kiltullagh. — 22nd August, 1880.) Mr. Thomas Griffin, of Gurteen, then came forward and said — Gentlemen, I beg to second this vote of thanks to our Chairman (cheers). Chairman. I thank you all very much. Everyone that wishes to join the Land League their names will be taken down now. We have established a branch here, 5 for herds as well as others. We had a great debate the other day in Kiltulla, and we will allow everyone to join except the land grabber. Everyone is welcome to join ( loud cheers). O’Loughlin. A young man named O’Loughlin then came forward, and read a poem on the dealings between landlords and tenants, the necessity for unity amongst 10 the tenants, and the objects of the Land League, and how a tenant who takes a farm from which another is evicted will be held up to scorn. 15 {l\iltullag/i. — 22n(l August, 1880.) ULr. Joseph Hooban, of Loughrea, then forwutd iuid said — Ffllow-countryrnen T am asked 1o second this resolution, and before yoiiii^ further I will read lor you the letters we have received. (Letters of apology were then read from — Charles Stewart Parnell ; Pev. Father Conway, Screen ; Rev. Father O’Malley, and Rev. 5 Fatlu'r Pelly, P.P., of the parish, who was strouuly opposed to the meeting, (fee., &c., A voice, “ We will cut off liis supplies at Christmas” (cheers and groans). Gentlemen, before I nmke any observations in reference to this resolution, 1 wish you to understand that 1 am here as the representative of no part}', 10 under the influence of no motive, but governed solely in tins vital crisis by an imperative sense of duty. At this solemn and vital crisis I believe it to be the duty of every Irishman however humble or high his capacity to lend all the aid in his power to the settlement of the issues involvedi in this agitation, and thus help to restore peace and order and happiness in this 15 unhappy, blighted country of oni’s (hear, hear, and cheers). 'Phis is how and why I am here to-day. I have been invited by the Committee, and the voice of conscience and duty made me comply. I have great pleasure, indeed, in seconding the resolution read for yon, for I have long been (;onvinced b}' the historv of the fell system against which you protest to-day, that. 20 nothing less than, a total abolition will bring the olive brancii of peace to this conntr}^ (cheers). No temporary makeshifts, no cowardly dalliance with the spirit of affronted mono[ ly, or timid lopping of the blighted branch of this fatal Upas tree, which sheds its withering poison on the happiness and homes of our j)eople, can or ought to be accepted as tin:d 25 and satisfactory. Our legislators proposed to take a few stones off this crumbling edifice of landlord feudalism, but they would not be satisfied, they shall still have us to shatter our homesteads to be a detested fabric like the Tower of ilabel in our midst, a symbol of confusion of unholy anarchy and strife. We ask 30 th rn to give us peace and order in our unhappy country, and to root out that burning branch that has been for centuries rooted in our land. We ask them to look into their hearts, and see would they be satisfied as we are, and then we ask them to lift off that horrible hand that presses us down, and allow us to live like men, stalwart and patriotic men, and 35 virtuous women adorned with smiles and flowers, beaming with blushes (cheers), and proclaiming the justice and the glorious omnipotence of God. For whom did God create and make the laml ? (Voices — “For the people”) For wlnnn did he bless that land ? (For the people.) Was it for that poor remnant of htimanity to lord it over the necks of the people ? Was it that 40 he should waste it in the great and Avicked luxury over the necks of the people ; No. The earth He gave to the people and the children of men, that they might live according to those grand qualities of the soul. Thus, my ifiends, here is your right. This land is your right, a right and charter you have established in the minds of all right-minded men, and you ars 5 3X2 [Kiltullagh. — ^2nd August, 1880. — Mr. Joseph Iloohan'j. not worthy of that ri^ht unless you proclaitn that that rijrht is yours, and dettiand its speedy sotfh'tnent (cheers). That right is yours, and not that of th.e aristocrats. Did you ever read in your whole lives, of an Irishman receiving honour 5 from a Government without that Irisliman earning that honour. Hut T tell you who these landlords are. They are the offspring of CromweH’s soldiers, whom he honoured with these estates. They are some of the worst, and some of them are the basest of Irishmen, who have sold their father- land for English gold. These are the creatures uho would be your 10 tyrannical masters. We then, once and lor all, say that they must go, that the eyes of our children may never see them amongst us, nor bend a knee to them. There is only God above you to whom you sliould bow and bend ; but never let your children so bend again or dragging off your hats to these. Organize like resolute and determined men, and take 15 the good advice given you and let landlordism go. Why then — let there be no more lethargy amongst you. Arise and be men, and remember what the English met at Fontenoy — the Irish battalion. Like what you would do for your people. Would you not bare your bosoms again, as your fathers did of old, sooner than lose your hiith ? Would you not wish to still have 20 your merry dance on the hillsides ? Do not your hearts feel sad when you think of these things, and when you were driven out from your homes, or perhaps swallowed down in the sea? Do you ever think of these things ? Arise then and protest against such things, and that you will no longer allow these landlords to wreck your homes. I implore you in the 25 name of justice, in the name of your wives and families, to arouse yourselves and band together and protest in the name of God to never allow these things to stand between you and your homes. What good can tliese aris- tocratic landlords be ? If you have that intelligence — unite then, my friends, and remember that chivalrous purpose and grand achievement for which you 30 do so. Unite together then, and remember that your rights shall be won by your own historic bravery, and of your sons, and then you shall remove from beneath that dark cloud too long overshadowing you (loud cheering). 6 {Kiltullagh. — '2,2nd August, 1880.) Mr. Peter Broderick, of Athenry, tlieii came forward and said : — Gentlcmeo, when I came over here to-day 1 had no iniention of speaking, but at the solicitation of kind friends, I deem it my duty to propose this resolution entrusted to me. I am sure and I believe that yoti are thoroughly aware our duty here to-day is to lorna 5 a branch of the Land League and jr<' to day to stand slioiilder to shoulder and say : — We will not go, the Irish race, We shall not go, the Irish race ; 5 Go gallant Celts, and take your stand. For the League, the League, will save the land. (louil cheers). Beware of the land-grabber, for he is worse than the landlord Wherever you meet him look upon him with scorn. If he goes into a shop to buy 10 goods do you go in after him and tell the shopkeeper not to sell him goods or that you will not buy goods there any more. Whenever a tenant is evicted I want the tenantry to go to the landlord and say to him, we will not ])ay you one penny rent until you reinstate that man (cheers). The trades unions carry out that rule, and ours is a tenants union, and I don’t 15 see why we should not carry it out. If you go and tell the landlord that you will not pay one penny till he puts that man in again, you will soon see that he will reinstate him. If the people refuse to cut down the corn, as they have done with a certain landlord or agent near Ballin- robe — they refused to cut Ins corn, and so he had to take his scythe and cut 20 it down himself — they would soon succeed. But, my friends, the times are changed. A light is breaking in the sky. A light which, twelve months ago, was observed by the keen eye of Michael Davitt (loud cheers). He is to-day on the hillsides of California, preaching the light for you. Now there is one signiticant thing which I have remarked the other day when 25 speaking to an assembly, and that is, tliat all the ladies and daughters of the landlords wear kid gloves ; but I tell them, as I have told them before, that kid gloves won’t stand always, for a time will come when they will have to e:irn their bread. It the people of Ireland are true to themselves the downfall of landlordistn is certain ; as certain as I am standing on this 30 platform, and some of these men will then have to earn their bread as you have now (cheers). I only think it right to refer to the action in the House of Commons of one of your members, Mr. Mitchell Henry. He has been playing a queer game lately, and at last the cat has come out of the bag, and showed him 35 up in his true light. All those who speak for you the best are those who speak the plain words of abolition of landlordism. The present Government is better inclined to this country than any who were ever in office, and its hands require to be strengthened by the tenants. Mr. Henry is afraid you may go too far too-day, but he should know that there are honest people 40 in Kiltulla (groans for him). As a Mayo man I think it right to tell you that we had a landlord representative for twelve years, Mr. George Browne, of Brownstown, and he said in his letter to the ( Uaremorris meeting that Ireland’s poverty was caused by the unthrifty people (groans). If you are satisfied with Mr. Henry you may, but if not, you will give him a ticket of (Kiltnllafjh. — August, 1880. — Mr. John \ W rdsh.) leave, as llrowiie, Kavaiiagli, O’Coiior Don, and the rest of the bad lot of landlords jjot it last tinie — left out in the cold. Never .send a landlord representative into Parliament again (cheers and “ Never ”). You might as well send a fox to guard the geese as to send a landlord to Parliament. You 5 have plenty of time to organize the people, and you ought tell Mr. Henry that vou have done with him. lie is, T believe, a Whig. Beware of the Whigs. O’Connell called them the base and bloody Whigs. The Whigs are going with the Government. They have acted with the Government, against the people and their sole object in doing so is to exterminate the people. 10 Then are you prepared to resist the acts of these Whigs who would banish you from the land, as you would the Penal Acts of Henry the Third, Elizabeth, or the Coercion Act of Victoria (groans). Call upon yourselves to aid yourselves, and God will aid you. There is no use in depending on Parnell, or your representatives in the House of Commons. 15 You must depend upon yourselves alone. On the hillsides of Ireland you must fight out your battle, as you are doing to-day. There is no use in fine speeches and ! ands and banners unless you stand to yourselves like men. The time has come when you must speak plainly, and say that you shall be no longer slaves (cheers). Assist us in wiping out that feudal 20 system of landlordism root and branch. Landlordism is the sum of all that is felonious. Look at other countries from which it has been swept away. France before the revolution was owned by sixty-thousand men, and it is now owned by the people and they are peaceful and happy. Belgium and Holland are gardens of peace. Prussia's peace 25 and contentment are due to a land tenure. China, Turkey, and even America — in fact anywhere the system is banished the people are pro- sperous. If you take the landlord of to-day you will find lum a tyrant by instinct, an absentee, ashamed of the land that bore him, and in ninety- nine out of every hundred cases even the greater enemies with the most 30 prejudice. Take the average tenant farmer, and look at him, toiling from morning to night, living in mud-wall cabins unfit for any other than pig- styes, he tills the land that produces nothing for him, for the landlord goes first and sets his share. And what becomes of that share. It goes to the Continent to enrich the racecourses and gambling hells there. Then, if you 35 are prepared to abolish this system, stand to us. There is not an Irishman under that starry banner there, but is watching to assist you to strike against that system that has sent you across the water (cheers). Then let me ask each and every one of you to go to the secretary after the meeting, and enrol yourselves under our banner, and become members of the Land 40 League, and then we will have a united people. We will be united with the artisan at his work, the clerk at his desk, and the mariner at sea, and when we are so united we must get our rights. You can see that the day is not far distant when the sunbeams of hope shall dawn upon you (cheers). I have detained you, too long, for which I ask your pardon (“ Xo, no,” and 45 loud cheers). 3 Z 12 i {Kiltullagh. — 22nd AugvM, 1880.) Mr. John W. Walsh, of Balia, then said — Fellow countrytncn, I have now much pleasure in proposincr a vote of thanks to our Chairman for having taken the chair on this occasion, and I liope we will always find a man of the people to do his duty in the time of need. I am sure you all feel thankful to Mr. O’Halloran for 5 having taken the chair here to-day the place that ought to be filled by Father Pelly. As a Roman Catholic 1 believe it is the proper place for th(? priest to be at the head of his flock, and the day he leaves the people the people have no right to support him (No, no, support yourselves). 1 wonder what Father Pelly has to say to the letter of Dr. Croke. He sa 3 ^s 10 that every hushandn)an has a right to his farm, and to proclaim it to the world. I proclaim it from the platform here to-da 3 ^ The secretary of this meeting is prepared to enrol as members of the Land League all classes and creeds. Herds were heretofore excluded, but I say that herds have as good a right to be members as anyone else. You should get all classes, 15 including the artisan, you should get the policemen if you can get him (laughter and cheers). Let it be thoroughly understood that every man can become a member except some bailiff or hanger-on of the landlords. Let you all join the Land League, and you will win victory (loud cheering). 14 [Buonccu. — Atigiist 22nd, 1880.) Mr. John Mulrooney, P.L.G., Kingsland, president of the Boyle hraneh of the Land League Position, Parmer. Mr. John Mulrooney Avas moved to the ehair. The Chairman on eoming forward said, — 5 “ My friends, I thank you for asking mo here to-day to be your chairman at this large meeting. And I hope, gentlemen, that nothing will be said or done to-day that will gwe strength to the enemy.” (Cheers.) Mr. J. Tully, Boyle, proprietor of the “ Boscommon Herald. ’ Mr. J. Tully then came forward and said, — 10 “Mr. Chairman and fellow countrymen, the duty devolves upon me of proposing the lirst resolution, Avhich is as follows ; — “ ‘ That Ave protest in the name of justice and human right against evictions, and we pledge ourselves not to take any farm from which the tenant has been evicted or which has been surrendered because of inability to pay 16 rent.’” Mr. Tulley continued : “ Now as there are many speakers on this platform here to-day, and as I am affected Avith hoarseness, I think I owe you an apology for trespassing on your patience for a brief space. Well, fellow- countrymen, there is some determination wanted in your breasts. The 20 uninhabited plains of Boyle and the over-populated mountains and bogs are mute. The evictions, the acts of oppression and cruelty Ave are here to-day to denounce, they have attained a wide publicity because the sheriff was twice foiled in the work of eviction, and because such courage fired the breasts of the men of Bella and Dooneen, they Avere willing to permit the 26 buckshot warriors (cheers) to pass over their corpses before their fellow- tenant should be made loose his grip of his homestead. (Cheers.) Now the air is laden with rumours of more coercion, and more stick for Ireland. (A voice, ‘ Let them try it.’) Yes, fellow-countrymen, one of the most trusted of Erin’s sons, Mr. J. Dillon, M.P. for Tipperary (cheers), told the men of 30 Kildare, last Sunday, that they should march to their meetings like soldiers, and because he hinted at a general strike against rent he has been accused of wickedness and cowardice. (Groans.) And by whom ? By the Chief Secretarv of that Government that is wicked enough to enforce unjust laws with anied power, and that is cowardly enough to permit. Yes, fellow- 35 countrymen, the cry of coercion, the cry for your blood, is swelling in volume. Irish landlords would give half their rent-rolls to stamp out the Land Lcao-ue. (A voice, ‘ To hell with them.’) Let me give you an instance relating to the evictions Avhich we are here to-day protesting by word and deed, '^Colonel Taaffe Earrell (groans) got somebody to write for him ro 40 the Chief Secretary in reference to the conduct of the men of Bella and Dooneen, in reference to his own heartlessness, and in reference to your humble servant. That man actually obtained ejectment decrees against four of his tenants at the Boyle April sessions for one year’s rent, together with the hanging gale. Thomas Sharkey, who was thrown out on the 45 roadside, and he paid his half year’s rent last November. I will tell you about another tenant who was decreed last April amongst the rest by Taaffe Earrell. (Groans.) He succeeded by parting with his effects in making up Avithin 1^. of his rent, but it would not be taken by his agent, (a voice, ‘ Groans for Boberts,’) until he would pay 21. for law costs. He brought his 2 {Dooncoi. — jhicjml 22«(/, 1880. — Mr. J. Tally.) last calf to the fair and he could iind no bidder, and he hrouglit it to another fair and it contracted hlack leg, and died within 2 1 hours. And his daughter stole the rent and went to America, that poor girl worn out hy the miseries of her own land. What agony and Aveeping must have been the lot of 5 that broken-hearted girl. ‘ She’d rather houseless roam Where freedom and her God might lead. Than be the meekest slave at home. That crouches to the conqueror’s greed.’ 10 W’’e do not want coercion, neither do we want homilies on the sovereign efficacy) of the voice and pen. The voice and. the pen can do little if the people do not stand together, you must be true to each other and you must organize, then such scenes as those days will be rare and few. Then the landlords cannot oppress the poor tenants, and defraud the labourers of their hire. 15 ‘Up, then, countrymen and kindred. Make yet one other stand, Plant your flag upon your native soil ; Be your motto, “ Live and Land.” ’ ” Mr. T. Connaghton, Curnaghven. 20 Mr. T. Connaghton then came forward and said, “ Gentlemen, I beg to second the resolution.” A 2 3 {Booncen. — Aurjusl 22>/(/, 1880. — Mr. M. M. O' SiUHvan.) Mr. M. M. O’Sullivan, Dublin, mcmLcr of the Land League. Mr. M. M. O’Sullivan, in coming forward to support the resolution, said, “Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, we are assembled on a very auspicious occasion, the sun shining down his heautiful rays upon us and no less lovely 5 rays of our heautiful women’s eyes approving of our efforts. (Cheers.) You are assembled Avith the firm determination that no evictions shall ever take place yonder on the plains of Boyle again. (Cheers.) You are assembled to bring that power Avhich caused those evictions to its knees, aye, and to strangle it there. (Cheers.) You have been asked for the past twelve months 10 to pledge yourselves to take no farm from Avhich a tenant has been evicted. I will now ask you to go one step further, one step on the road to the attain- ment of your just rights ; I will ask you to pay no rents, pending the settle- ment of the land question. Do not say to these landlords, we would pay your honour if we had it. Don’t be saying I would pay you only I am afraid of 16 my neighbour. Stand together up like men and say you won’t pay until you get this land question settled. Away Mr. Cromwellian Land Thief. (Cheers and groans.) You will get no more, you have got enough already, and we are determined now to put atAny the likes of you. Then if the landlord says, he Avill CAUct you, let him do so. What has he to get ? the farm will lie 20 idle ; he Avill seize your goods for rent, but there Avill be no buyer. Then if he evicts you he has no gains. My friend, Mr. Tulljq spoke about a calf with a black leg, well I am sure there will be blackleg among them. (Laughter.) We have a Commission of land thieves going about, and at this very moment they have their report in their pocket, and all the questions will show their 25 report to be a true report, and every question will be against your own interests. (Groans.) Therefore, away with this Commission, give it no evidence at all. If they want a Commission let them take the facts that we, as commissioners, are bringing before them here, and that is noted for them by one of their reporters, one of their recording angels. (Laughter.) I am 30 very glad to see so many police at this meeting ; the young men will go home with some food for thought, and the old fellows will go home shaking their purses, thinking they Avill get a bigger pension in a short time. (Laughter.) When you see a grey beard and a prying eye in a policeman you may be sure he is a corrupted old scoundrel. (Laughter.) If a poor man is evicted from 35 his holding he is offered five years’ compensation, and we are offering the landlords twenty years’ compensation, and if they do not take that perhaps they might take less bye-and-bye. (Cheers.) The landlords say we have om* mortgages to meet : yes, but these are the mortgages that have raised your rents. They Avill say, if you buy them out they Avill not have one penny ; but 40 you say to them, go and labour as we do, do one honest day’s work, and if you cannot work go into the workhouse. (Laughter.) Let there be a Carraroe in every village, if necessary, and a united branch of the Land League. (A voice, “ We wiU.”) I want to give you one advice before I retire, and that is, there Avould be a large number of the young ladies here 45 to-day, but they had no mode of conveyance, the police had all the cars. Well, give the police no more cars, let them walk to evictions, and any of them that are not able to walk let them stop at home. Let anyone who gives them cars keep them afterwards, and let thern rot. (Cheers.) And the police Avill soon have to wear spectacles to see whether they are connected with this 50 movement or not. (Cheers.) 4 {Dooucen. — Aiujnsl '■1‘lnd, 1880.) Mr. Patrick J. Sheridan, Tuhbcrcuiry, Shopkeeper and Small Farmer. ]Mr. F. J. Slioridan, in coiniug’ forward to propose the third resolution, was received with cheers. He said : — “ Mr. Chairman and fellow countrymen, I am glad to see you here to- 5 day. ‘ In your masses, dense, resolute, and strong. To war against tyrants, oppression, and wrong.’ I am glad to have the opportunity of confronting the manhood of E-oscommon that has registered itself hy its deeds on the pages of history. 10 The resolution that has been put into my hand strikes home the question at issue. It states — • “ ‘ That we pledge ourselves to pay no rent pending a settlement of the land question, and we call on our brother tenant farmers to act upon the advice of Dr. Oroke, Archbishop of Cashel, and the National Land League, to hold 15 the harvest.’ “ Yes, my friends, ‘ hold the harvest,’ that is the advice of Dr. Croke. Before you hand over your harvest to the landlords, you must see that you have ample means for your families, and to pay your shopkeeper accounts, and to pay whatever you borrowed from your generous neighbour, and if after 20 that you have anything to spare, you can give the landlord something to keep him out of the workhouse. (Laughter.) But until then is any man in Ireland bound by any law, moral or divine, to yield up his harvest to the landlord.” (Cheers.) The resolution was seconded, but I could not ascertain the man’s name 25 who did so. G {Dooneen. — August 1880. — 3Ir. M. 31. O' Sullivan.) Mr. M. Mulleague, Prenchparlv, rarmcr’s son. Mr. M. Mulloaguc then came forward to support tlic resolution, and said, — “ Pellow countrymen, as I am not in the liabit of being at meetings like this. 5 We arc assembled hero to-day, and if wo look round, we can see the work of that exterminating Jack Ifarrell, who lived and died (groans), and it is no wonder Taatfe Farrell should he had because the blood of the tyrant’s coursed through his veins.” (Cheers.) Mr. McGeOgh, Commercial Traveller. Mr. McGeogh then came forward and said, — “ Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, when first I came to this country 28 years ago, I was then in Skibberreen, and I saw a child sucking its dead mother s breast. I think it is better to die fighting than even witness such scenes. (Cheers.) The landlords call you assassins, but we are retorting by calling 15 them land robbers and land thieves. The Government seem to think that there were inland seas in Eoscommon and Mayo, they are sending one thousand marines.” (Laughter.) Mr. M. M. O’Sullivan then came forward, and said, — “ I propose that our present Chairman do leave the chair, and Mr. Tully 20 be called thereto. It is now my pleasing duty to propose a vote of thanks to our former Chairman for his conduct here to-day as Chairman of this large meeting. I wish to know before I go back to Lublin to-night whether you want fixity of tenure or peasant proprietary. (Several voices, ‘ Peasant proprietary.’) Well, I hope fixity of tenure will never be mentioned on an 25 Irish platform again.” (Cheers.) (A voice, “ Long life to you.”) Chairman then came forward, and said, — “ Gentlemen, I thank you for the vote of thanks you have passed on me. I hope you will all go home quietly.” The proceedings then terminated, it being a quarter to 5 o’clock, p.m. {^[anorliamUloti. — Axgnsl 29///, 1880.) Mr. Jasper Tully said : ]\tr. Chairman and follow ooniiiiymcn, 1. have travelled a long distanee from lioscomnion to ho with the men of North Leitrim on their platform here to-day. I have left hohind me the hnllock traeks oil' which human 5 heings have been hunted, I have ])asscd through verdant jdaiiis, beautiful and magnilieent scenery such as my youthful eyes never rested upon. I have seen tillage on the very rocks, and I considered to myself was not this country worth fighting for. AVas not this country worth making some struggle for, in order to retain ])ossession of the land for the tillers of the soil. 10 Al'heii I look round on the manhood of Leitrim, their stalwart limbs, and into the flashing eyes, of the people of Leitrim I consider to myself and I put the question. Why is it that Leitrim is a straggler in the march against land- lordism ? Are you not as strong and active as gallant Mayo ? (cheers.) Are you not as strong and active as patriotic Sligo ? And are you not as strong 15 and brave as my native county Itoscommon ? Have you not hands to work and hearts to dare as they have ? And why is it that branches of the Land League are not sjninging up in this county. Is landlordism not working its potent engines in your midst (Voice, Down with it). Speaker : Have you not to work in your fields early and late, and the landlords seizing the first fruits 20 of your labour ? Those descendants of a robber horde descendants of the plunderer Hamilton, that once dwelt in yonder ruins. Is it right or just that you should labour continually, living on the humblest fare, and that they should be born in luxury and enjoying all the fruits of your labour? Is that a just state of things ? (No, no.) Eellow countrymen, when the 25 men of every other county are up clamouring for them rights why not you do the same ? It is not enough for you to come to meetings and cheer, you must unite and organise in branches of the Land League. Well, fellow countrymen, in order to unite successfully you have to unite against tyranny the most odious. More odious than that exercised by the Turk over the 30 Bulgarian until you have it abolished. Fellow countrymen, I ask you to unite and sink local jealousy. (Here he quoted three or four lines of poetry and continued.) Men, be true men, and grasp the band of your fellow man, place your back to the wall and tell the tyrant landlords that you will stand their tvranny no longer (cheers). That you are determined never to cease 35 your efforts until you place your foot on the neck of landlordism. The air is thick with reports about fixity of tenure. M^e find the “Daily Express” advocating fixity of tenure. AVe find Lord Monteagle writing to the papers and declaring that tenants should get security in their lands, in other words advocating fixity of tenure. The landlord and official classes are becoming 40 enamoured with fixity of tenure because we won’t have it, it is imprac- ticable. The genius of Isaac Butt, who sleeps away in the wilds of Donegal, was not able to secure a measure for fixity of tenure. But the Lord made the land for the people (hear, hear). We want the land for the people, there is plenty for all, and why is it that men should be steeped in the 45 lowest poverty ? It is because some have seized more than their natural shares of the earth’s fruits. AVe want a division of the land amongst the masses of the country. We want also to sweep away the iniquitous laws of entail and promigenitnre. The landlords are proof against reason and argument. They are clutching like the drowning man to the slightest shred 50 of their monstrous privileges. The House of Lords threw out the Compensa- tion for Disturbance Bill (boos and groans). I did not attach much myself to A 2 3 {Manorhamillon. — AikjhsI 29///, 1880. — 31)'. Jaspo' Ttilli/.) tliat, I rather think wo sliould 1)o thankl’nl to the J louse of Lords because tiiey have played into our hands. This cause will not he fought in Parliament ; Par- liament Avill be of little use until you put youselves in such a ])osition to dictate to Parliament. Don’t be waiting for leaders, this cause must be fought out on 5 every hearthstone and hillside of this country. Fellow countrymen, we arc bringing landlordism to its knees and we mean to choke it. We will cut off the supplies, and I ho})c you will do as the men of Foscomraon did last Sunday, to pledge yourselves to pay no rent pending the solution cf this land question. We mean to starve the landlords into submission. Let the landlord evict 10 any of you ; who will take your farm ? Let him seize your goods, who will buy ? nobody, you have the landlords at your mercy if you are only organised. The landlords have been unreasonable ; we mean to meet them with their own Aveapons and starve them out. Fellow countrymen, I have only in conclu- sion to ask you to unite and organise, your common country appeals to vou 15 and let me trust that you will he soon in a position to sweep away that infamous huge blasphemy, Irish landlordism. 4 10 {^litiiorhamHloit. — ytiujiisl 29///, 1880.) Mr. P. J. Sheridan said ; “ Ml-. Cliaii-mau and lellow counti-ynien, I am lionourcd with a place on this platloi-m to-day to aid and assist you in raising a war-cry against tlie tyranny that has so long crushed you to the earth, and I hope we will 5 see the victory avc are so long lighting for. Landlordism is not only shaken, hut it is in a swoon ; whether it awakens from that svA^oon or not is in your hands. You can do so hy supporting the resolution which I hold in my hands. It is as tolloAvs : ‘ That Are pledge ourselves to pay no rent pending the settlement of the land question, and we call upon our brother tenant farmers to act on the advice of Doctor Crokc, Archhishop of Cashel, • and the National Land League, to hold their harvests.’ It is only a short time since this Avas introduced. It has been got up to prevent people from paying any rent until the land question is settled. It is absolutely necessary that you must act like one man in this business. If on a property one man 15 goes and pays his rent and tAvo men stop at home that is not the AA^ay to do it. Let no man pay any rent until the Imperial Parliament says what you are to do. You are already mulcted out of rents which your land was not worth ; you have been robbed by a band of land thieves. Y ou improved their properties while they take away your hard earnmgs and spend them, God knoAvs hoAV. 20 If a neighbour was evicted there Avere too many of you to go behind his back and look for his holding, but the day is gone for land grabbing. Anywhere a landlord evicts a man from his home, let no man dare to herd it. If any wretch should be low enough to do so, whether it be at the church or chapel, point the finger of scorn at him and bring him into contempt ; cry 25 shame at him and point him out to everyone as an_u^lean animal. By this you will establish what you are in perfect ignorance of. Let the people be, as one unanimous, and true to the national trust ; let every man discharge his duty his clnistian duty — to his kind. If any wretch should go and do what is so strongly condemned on this platform here to-day he will 30 feel his own life a burden to him. Some may imagine that it is too ' »tiong. No ; a desperate sore requires a desperate cure, landlordism and ' land grabbing require a desperate cure. Anywhere you have not a Imanch i of the Land League to-day, have it on this day week. Consult the | people in the selection of its business, let these people go out circulating | 35 its doctrines and bringing the peo])le together, which will make lamh i lordism shake to its vamps. Stand by the national movement and the I nation is at your baeks. It is a great relief to us to find so illustrious a i character as the name that is quoted in this resolution here to-day, in the face J of all that is said to the contrary, rally round the National Land League Avhich '' 40 is the means of keeping you safe ; the illustrious Di^Croke, who appears to be as the noonday sun before others of his cloth. It is a Godsend to the Irish tenant farmers, we are exhorting you to join this movement as the best national means of raising up a down-trodden people. You will run counter with neither the law of God or humanity, for we have it from God that He 45 created the earth and air for man’s use and benefit. God created the land and water for the use of man, the people South Patagonia, which has long since been converted into a free land. More, you are in your shoes, “Hold your harvests.” This may appear to some tenants a very extraordinary thing to be asked to hold their harvests, I ask those 50 men as fathers, I ask their wives as mothers, are they going to hand over their children’s cradles to be rocked by workhouse nurses. (No, no.) Since 6 i {3lanorhamiUo)i. — Ait(jusl 29///, 1880. — 3[r. P. J. Sheridan.) I I (‘anie on the platform lioro T got a few particulars. I cannot miss this opi)ortunity, although I don’t lihe to he personal, hut the man is so exceedingly covetous that hceorncs inseparable, God knows I often Avonder why landlords arc half so good when I consider the 5 law that hacks them out. We thank them for their goodness. (In speaking of a landlord named Whyte he said), f have taken a few particulars Avith regard to the way he treated his tenants. Idicre Averc some Avho held a take I or holding at 8/. a year. This honourable gentleman, for 1 presume lie will pledge his honour Avhen he goes to talk to you, he first takes away 10 two-thirds of the tenants’ laud, and you would imagine he reduced the rent. No. lie raised the rent from 10 guineas to 20/. for the remaining one third ; is this to be tolerated in a Christian land. (No, no.) Can this he tolerated, this wicked land system, Avhich enables any man to treat his fellowman in such a way. The landlord, whether he got his property legitimate or otherwise, 15 he says, “ I Avant that land, I can get plenty Avho Avill give me more rent.” You see this raised from 10 guineas to 20/. for one third of his land. Can this he tolerated even if the law sanctions it. ( No, no.) practical work if you want to reform it, let there he no more petty differences between you. The last election Avill fade from your memories if you committed a mistake 20 at that election ; you can remedy it next time. You must he united as one man ; pull together, and you will sweep before you as a mountain torrent any- thing that would obstruct it down a hill. There is another matter that I Avish to speak about on this occasion. Ihaye_been_jdepute^by the Land League to open branches in the county Leitrim. I have spoken~td~~^ne priests, 25 and I am sorry that that Avorthless election has opened a breach, which is not closed yet. Follow the advice, and I have no doubt that this will be one of the most useful branches that was established in the west of Ireland. I hope you will give me introductions to the most energetic and manly fellov^s, like your chairman, who has pluck and courage to put his 30 shoulders to the wheel, no matter who cries shame upon them. The Land League is a strong baby. Then, my friends, assist its growth by the esta- blishment of branches of the League over the land. No matter whether he be Protestant, Jew, or atheist, or anything else, as long as he has to earn his bread by the SAveat of his brow, take him into your ranks, extend the hand 35 of friendship, banish all local jealousy in this glorious movement, and at no distant day you will have Ireland, as she ought to be, first flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea.” (Cheers.) A 4 7 {^Ia)) 0 )'h((m}ll<))t . — ulvf/iisl 21)/4, 1880.) Mr. Edward Gayer, wlio was received with cheers, said ; — “ Men of Leitrim, [ have been aeeordc'd tlic privilege, I helicvc, for tlie third time now, of addressing’ the men of your county. I am sure that the great excitement wliieli has reigned here to-day.” (At this point a hand 5 playing interru])ted the proceedings for a short time.) Mr. Gayer, continu- ing, said : “ I was saying, when interrupted hy the music, that I suppose our })rescnce here to-day has given great scandal to the very many very religious people that live around here, but in answer to that I will reply that we coming here' this day are acting under a higher law than that either of puri- 3^0 tanism or what they call British law in coming here. That higher law to which I allude to says that ‘ If your ox was to fall in the ditch on the Sahhath ‘ day, you should straightway go and relieve him.’ If it he lawful in the sight of God to work on a Sahhath day to relieve a dumb animal, how much more lawful to work on a Sahhath day to relieve a remnant population of ]^5 6,000,000 of people, which we yet count. Before I came out to-day I was looking over a copy of the ‘ Irish American,’ a paper edited hy as true an Irishman as ever lived. He remarks that the thousands that were sent over here lately hy the English Government were sent here in order to collect rents for the landlords, and he also remarks that the people of Ireland, in self 20 defence, are hound to those, their wives and children, to keep such of the crop as necessary to support them, and not to have people as they have been for the last season fed if I may say on food that some of those landlords would not give their hounds. (Cheers.) But if you are but true to yourselves landlordism will shortly be the memory of the past, and we will have a peasant pro- 25 prietary on its ruins. (Voice, ‘ I am glad I am not grey until I see it.’) Mr. Gayer : I am, it shows what the power of the people can do with the progress which the Land League has already made, as some of the eloquent speakers who addressed you before I came forward brought landlordism to its knees. Now the men who are on their knees asking you to accept fixity of tenure, 30 it is not a score of years ago since they would willingly have sent to the gallows any man having the hardihood to introduce it. There is no necessitv whatever for outrage or violence ; this agitation, as it is, is perfectlv able if necessary to upset the Government, I mean the administration, if they do not give into the people’s views. Daniel O’Connell once boasted, and 3g I heard him myself boast, that one Irishman was able to beat five Englishmeu, and we had an instance of that on Eriday night in England when 36 Irish members fought from 2 o’clock to-day, suppose all through the long night until 1 o’clock to-morrow, six times their number of Englishmen, and triumphant in the end. (Cheers for Parnell and his faithful followers.) So will you 40 triumph, God is with you, the sympathy of all the nations of the earth is with you (America), your countrymen are scattered all over the earth, and they may exclaim, what country is there on earth that cannot bear testimony to the fruits of our labour. Those people have stood to you this last year and often will again. They have better means, they are where they get 45 freedom and leave to earn money, there are no peojole in the world can com- pete with them in any discussion. Everywhere that these people ever mean to distinguishh themselves they have distinguished themselves, either in the Senate or on the battle field. Now, besides this material support which they sent you, there is a very great support in having them look on as is confessed 50 for as England is at present, with what she supposes to be very bad news coming home daily from Afghanistan. Now with such an unpleasant 8 {Jldnorhamilton. — Aiujmi 1S80. — J/r. J>J. Gaijcr.) ])rospcct before tlic Govorniuent, and in faec of tliis, the Ibi^lisli Covei'ii- inent will scarcely dare to tyrannise over you.” (At this sta^^e of tlie ])roeecdiiigs a man in tlie croAvd commenced shouting’ and interriipting the speaker, whicli lasted for about a minute, until the man was shoved 5 away by the people). When quietness was restored the speaker eon- tinned: — “ Whisky-ins])ired people will never induce me to depart from the path of duty. (Cheers.) I call on you all here now to join the Land League. United you arc strong, divided you are weak. You know not the extent of your power if you work together with unity of spirit and of action. Now 10 there are many shots in the locker if the Government do not give the people their demands. There is nothing in the world to prevent people from abstain- ing from the use of every article that pays duty and assists that Government. There is nothing illegal in not drinking tea or whiskey, or smoking tobacco ; it is from those articles the English Government receive their principal 15 support, and I am sure if the Irish people are put to it they mil abstain from those indulgences. It is not my purpose to detain you any longer. I will just conclude by thanking you from my heart for the kind reception you have given me.” (Cheers, and a voice, “I wish we had 10,000 equipped in Ireland like you.”) 20 Mr. P. J. Sheridan said “Now, my fellow-countrymen, the pleasing duty devolves on me to move a vote of thanks to our worthy chairman, and that he do leave the chair, and that Mr, Travers l)e called to the second chair. In proposing this vote of thanks to our chairman you will all agree with me that he has discharged 25 his duty with marked ability and patriotism. I feel very proud that your local branch of the League has got such a man at its head. I have o-reat pleasure in proposing this vote of thanks.” (Cheers.) Mr. Jasper Tully said “ Eellow- countrymen, I have great pleasure in seconding the vote of thanks 30 to your chairman here to-day. In doing so, I wish to add a few more remarks to those already addressed to you. I am glad that in North Leitrim there is a spirit of manhood springing up. You will have a good deal to con- tend with in the working of this Land League, you will have false friends and you will have open enemies. I myself will have to stand as a criminal before a landlord bench of magistrates on a charge of libel, and it is because they brought this charge against me and because they think they can silence me unknown to the rest of the world in a little petty sessions court. It is that that brought me here to-day to denounce him. I have only in conclusion to ask you join the Land League ; it is not enough for you to pay a shillino- 10 to the Land League, you must be thoroughly loyal to its principles, rou must take care that no man is allowed to take a farm from which another is evicted from any cause whatever ; you must also take care that no man is allowed to buy goods sold for rent. I must also warn you not to be led away by the course of leadership ; we require no leaders, and I don’t like man- 15 worship. People should do their own work. I ask you, fellow-coimtrymen, to hold a firm grip of your homesteads, and also I Avould impress on you to hold your harvests.” (Cheers.) The chairman acknowledged the vote of thanks, and the proceedinn's terminated. B 9 Mr. M. M. 0‘Sullivan, of DuLlin, siij)p()rtc(l the rosohition. Before the meeting eoiumenced 1 informed him I was ])resent to report the proeeedings for the Covernment, and that he might so inform tlie other speakci's. lie said — 5 “ Mr. Cliairman, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Barrell’s remark about the Chief Secretary’s advice to the landlords of Ireland has hrought to my mind a request that was made to me immediately before we commenced this meeting. It was a request from a very renowned gentleman indeed, Mr. Jeremiah Stringer. He asked me to tell you he was there Avith another to report the proceedings, I 10 niay tell him now Anth your advice to go hack and report the proceedings to his Government, and to tell them that every man here is determined never to take a farm from which another has been evicted (cheers) ; that they are determined that house and land shall be uninhabited Avhile birds fly and grass groAvs, unless its rightful owner is sent back into it (cheers). They are 15 determined that as long as the present system of landlordism exists that they will never cease to use all legitimate means in their power, by one combined industrial uniou, to put an end to that system, and to substitute for it a system of peasant proprietary (hear, hear), that is a system under which every man is his own landlord, subject to the jurisdiction of the State ortlie com- 20 munity in general (cheers). They are determined, in conjunction with their brothers throughout the west of Ireland, to put an end to what you heard Mr. Farrell call the right of landlordism, but the Avrong, as it was, the giant wrong of landlordism (cheers). What right has landlordism? Come to its rights. Where has it got that right ? Mliich is the right of the people, who has a right 25 to the land. Is it not the people, the people whom God created to enjoy the fruits of the earth, and who created the fruits of the earth for them, and not for the idlers, the non- workers (cheers) ; it is the man who tills, the man Avho labours from year’s end to year’s end Avdio is the rightful owner, and it is only by the apathy and disunion, aye, and I must say, the ignorance of the j)eople 30 of their rights that has caused them to be appropriated by landlord power in Ireland (hear, hear). We have to a certain extent at these meetings and from the public press dispelled the ignorance. The people now Avith one voice believe and say that the land was made for the people, and they are also determined that the people shall repossess themselves of it. Thus has 35 the ignorance faded away, the apathy too, that apathy which was the cause, the great cause, of Ireland’s present abject and degraded position ; that apathy has cleared away, and your meeting to-day at this house from which a man was evicted proves that (a voice ‘right ’). Now, there is there no disunion. I would like to know before I go back to Dublin, to know whether we will 40 leave this meeting disunited or united (a voice, ‘ united ’). I wish to know whether you aaqU form an organization and enrol yourselves everv man of you before you leave this, this very field, enrol yourselves in that organization. It is by meetings such as this when thepeople are together that they see their OAvn poAver, that they determine to use that power. It is only by such meetings that 45 you can become united, and become firmly united by a social band, the band of some society (hear, hear) ; Ave want you to become united under tbe Irish National Land League. You knoAV its objects ; first to free the land from its curse, to free the land from that poAver which desolated your homes and which ruined your families. The object — the means by Avhich we mean 50 to attain that is, first, union among the people. In case a tenant is evicted 6 {CloudkiUy. — Au(jHst 1880. — Mr. M. M. (A Snlllixm.) that the [)('0])lc will plcdg’o theiuscdvcs never to take that 1‘arin, never to Avork upon it, never to buy the g-oods sold Tor rent (‘ Never ’), anti theji i! the landlord eviets a tenant, if yon are united, why the rarm is useless to him, if there' are ero[)s upon it Avhy he will not get anyone to labour to eut the erops J 5 he may if he wishes reap the grass himse'lf, his sons, and his daughters, and do an honest day’s work. Let them then eeasefroin seeking for land. Well, tlie sherilT puts them up, but there is no buyer, and what is he to get for the rent? Then do you not see your})Ower if you are united. 13ut you will say ‘ True, but w(i see that all the j)eople Avill not be united.’ If you do not 10 you are deserving slaves. I Avant to knoAV Avhether you have earnestness enough to beeome united, to stand together like men in one grand, industrial union and to say to these men, ‘AYe liaA'e been paying you rackrents for j^ears, you can sIioav us no right or title to the land, it is mainly yours by Crom Avoir s SAVord, and by confiscation ; however AA^e have been paying you 15 for that right for years, we did it because AA^e did not knoAv our rights, but now that Ave know them Ave are determined to bow no longer until Ave come to a settlement of this question.’ It is only in this Avay that you can bring landlordism, that unholy poAA'cr, to its knees, if you become united, and I wish you here to-day to pledge yourselves, here in the free air of heaven, 20 which AA^as made for you by God as the earth was, that air the landlords would charge rent for if they possibly could ; they might as well charge rent for the air as fine you for killing the birds that fly there ; they might as well charge rent for Avater as to fine you for killing the fish that swim there ; rent on them is unmoral, they are natural agents. If you combine together, com- 25 bine sternly and determinedly, you can resist this poAAm* and bring it to its knees in this Avay, and if you do this men will be very glad to take com- pensation, and go about their business and work, or dally, or idle, and go into the Avorkhouse if they like. Noav, Avhat is the system that Ave will substitute for it. It is this system Avhich prevails in all the European countries. In 30 Belgium such a thing as a pauper Avas never known. In Ireland Ave know them Avell enough. What is the reason that in one case the man avIio tills the soil knows he has no man, when he makes the land Avorth from three to eight shillings an acre, he has no man to raise it up to nine, and rob you of the Avork you yourself did on the soil. Who made the improvements 35 we see everywhere ? Was it the people or the landlords P If you saw a land- lord digging, if you saAV a landlord rooting out the ‘ spuds,’ Avhy then he is by all means justly entitled to the value of his labour. If you see no landlord AAuth his spade in his hand digging there, and if you see him charge for your labour,’ tell him, ‘ You are robbing me and I will not stand it longer.’ 40 (Cheers.) AVe can create a peasant proprietary in this way, to take the banks. They issue a certain number of notes beyond the actual com they have, and they issue that on credit. Now the Government, the land is certainly a greater security than gold, for you may lose gold in the sea, on the land you cannot lose it, so now let the Government issue land debenture notes, having 45 the land as security, and we will buy out the landlords. N ow, take a farm, for there is nothing lilfe giving a practical instance, take a farm of 10/. a year valuation or 100/. even, which farm of 100/. we will give the landlord 20 years’ purchase. AA"e offer that now (a voice ‘ Too much ’). Take this farm of 100/. a year valuation, you buy out the landlord, we offer liim 20 years’ pur- 50 chase, which at present we pay at the rate of 3^ percent., that is three times 3 per cent, a year for the Government valuation of 100/. Now, under the present A 1 7 {^ClonakUfi/. — August 1880. — UTi'. AT. v7/. 0‘ Sullivan.) f! / i land law, the Govcniiueut valuation ol’ 100/., you all know, means a rate of 200/. So under our scheme there would he 00/. a year for what you at present pay 200/. Again, if you wish to huy out at 35 years, we give 5-2- per cent., and then your children own the land, having you subject to an ordinary 5 slight tax. Is that a system you would wish to have estal)lished or not ? I want eveiy man who says it is, I want him to pledge himself to-day to you to labour for its attainment, in conjunetion with the Irish National Laud League. I want you to pledge yourselves, hold up your hands [eveug hand held up) and pledge yourselves. I want the young women 10 to hold up their hands too, and say they will not get married to any young man who does not first become his own landlord. If you thus hand together, as I see here in Clonakilty that you are determined to do, you need not be afraid or frightened when you see the police. We ean tell them that we have no use for them. Police duty at the present time is evieting the people, to go 16 abroad with the bailiff, that man that you heard Mr. Farrell speak of as the biggest man in the parish ; in the west of Ireland he has got rather small lately, and it strikes me very foreibly that he will become small in this part of the eounty in a very short time. The police go to assist that man, in doing what ? In evicting the poor man from the house he himself built. 20 You have heard before how we got this car here for the purpose of see- ing that house and that land, where the poor man laboured for 25 years and had to pay IO5. an acre for the work he himself did on it. Well, now, police duty is to evict these poor people. I am very sorry, as my friend Mr. Heffernan, who is a chivalrous man, said that we would have to 25 say anything against a lady, but when a woman unsexes herself and does a deed that will bring a blush of shame to a tyrant, then we will no longer pity her, and as men we no longer feel ourselves bound to respect her as an Irish lady. (“ No, no.”) Now, in the west of Ireland, last Sunday, we pledged ourselves not to give the police cars for the j)urpose of doing bad acts, that is 30 as to evict the people. If they wish to evict let them walk it and do it, and if the people give them cars let the cars lie idle as the land. If yon have weddings do not use these cars, for it would sully the bride and bride- groom by sitting on cars used for such a purpose. Will you pledge youi'selves if any person give cars to the police for the purpose of carrying out 35 evictions, and of destroying happy homesteads, that you will never sit on these cars again. Will you do that ? Well, now, let them, if they like, give cars to the police, but let them lie idle after. I have nothing at all to say myself personally to the police. I am very glad that they are attending ^ ^ these meetings, for they are getting a very good political education. They 40 had not opportunities when they were young men growing up of getting such a political education, and if they had, many of them, seeing the dirty work the police have often got, many of them would never have joined. (Cheers.) They are farmers’ sons, with all the sympathies of young men, and with all the sympathies of their brother farmers’ sons, and very many of 45 them are more sorry to do some of the work than we possibly can be. There are old fellows among them, aye, old cadgers among them ; have no respect for them, at the same time don’t do anything at all to them, pass them by on the street and don’t look at them — they will be very often looking at some of you. Now I am afraid I am keeping you too long. There are other very 50 respectable speakers here to-day. In conclusion I will ask you not to go 8 [Clonakilty . — AncjnsL '■I'dlh, 1880. — 3[r. 31. 31. O' Sullivan.) / vy liomo from this mooting, ohooring as you liavo boon and vory ontliusiastic, ■without boooming a littlo more ])raoti(*al also. Cheering, gathering to- g('thor at meetings and going away again are but as the clouds which gatlicr together and fall without rain. You must not be a cloud, you must be a 5 band of fiiaii, determined men, really willing and anxious to carry out the instructions which arc given you. You must be banded as one man, every- ! one having the interest of bis brother at heart, and if you do that before one j year, if you refuse to take a farm from which another has been evicted, if you refuse to buy anything that has been held for rent, you will in a short time ^ 10 bring landlordism to its knees, and then become as other nations which have a system of peasant proprietary established in their midst, a pros- perous tenantry, a law abiding, orderly, aye, and a free and prosperous country.” (Cheers.) ^ The resolution was carried. \ Q 3366.-34. B 9 {Clo)ial:}Uij. — Au(jnsl "l\)lh, 1880.) Mr. M. M. O’Sullivan, of Dul)liiij })roposc(l a vote of tliiinks to the eliairnian, as follows : — “ Now, before' we ])art, al’ter a very sueeessful meeting', 1 will ask that our late Chairman do h'ave the chair, and that Mr, Earrcl he called to it. In 5 })ro})osing a vote of thanks to onr late Chairman for his very able conduct of the ])usincss of this meeting, I wish to speak on a few subjects that were not touched upon by previous speakers. One of them is, if tenants are evicted, how Avill they support themselves. The Irish National Land League has a fund for that piu’posc, so do not trouble your heads about that. 10 This poor man here is now enjoying the benefit of that. Another point is this Land Commission the Government gave you. That is, the Govern- ment actually sends out a Commission of landlords to report upon the state of the tenants, to report upon the wretchedness that they themselves have created. Do you think that they will report unfavourably of themselves ? 15 There is no necessity for such a Commission. We have had commissions enough already. We have had evictions. We have had poverty. We have had the begging box through the nations. M^e have relief committees. Is not that evidence sufficient ? Have you not had relief committees in every village of the country, every priest and every parson, every 20 layman, should know these relief committees existed. Is not that suffi- cient evidence ? Away, then, with this Commission. If you give it evidence its report will be against you ; every question that it will ask you, every question will he a question to show that you have no honest complaint. They will he something like a CroAvn Prosecutor cross-examining a witness. 25 Give them then no evidence. Now, with regard to this question of peasant pro- .rf prietary, I will give you just one instance to show you what it has done for Prance. You all remember the Pranco-Prussian war. The State of Prance wanted money at that time, and who gave it to the State ? Do you know ? The peasants gave all the money to the State at the time, they 30 gave over two hundred millions of money to the State, and they offered ten times as much, and I would like to Lnow if you are able to lend the State two hundred millions. There is another point, it is the question of leaders. Now here you Avill he thinking that you have no leaders, because any big J.P. does not come foinvard to he your leader. Let the people do their 35 own work and lead themselves, and elect men from yourselves to he your leaders.” 16 [BalUntujIeragh. — bth September^ 1880.) Mr. J. W. Walsh, Balia. Mr. J. W. Wal.sh said : -Mr. Chalnnan and men of Leitrim, I thank ' you, on behalf of the Irish National Land League, for the vote of con- fidence you have passed here to-day. I am sure that the voice of Leitrim will be heard from this day forward along' with the voice of the people of 5 Mayo, Koscommon, Tipperary, and the rest of Ireland in demanding the land of Ireland for the people of Ireland. A short time ago I met a gentleman, an exile of Lrin, who has been living in Scotland for a long time, and he said to me ; “ What about Ireland ; or could your body do anything towards ‘ spreading the light’ in Leitrim. If you can see your 10 way, the Irishmen of Glasgow will subscribe liberally to it ; for they say that there is no place in Ireland wants it more than Leitrim. It is gratifying to me to be able to tell my friend, when next I meet him, that I saw the men of lieitrim carrying out John Dillons advii'e, with military precision marching shoulder to shoulder, determined to fight the battles 15 of the people. I find the people of Leitrim more advanced than I thought. They are determined to raise the cry I heard raised on the slo[)es of Slievenamon last Sunday— “ The land for the people.” I thank you, men of Leitrim, for the kind manner you have mentioned the name of Mayo. I am a Mayo man, and my native county has struck the key-note 20 of this agitation. As one who has taken an active part in this agitation, I thank you for joining your hands in the grand march to freedom. I have not come here to speak good or bad of any man. I have come here a sworn enemy of landlordism, and I shall use all the means m my power to do away with the system, root and branch. I think it only light to lead 25 for you the objects of the League, as some of you may not be aware of them. (Here the speaker read the rules of the Land League, and what it was established for, from a printed card \\hich he held m his hand, and continued) — It is needless for me to dwell on this subject any further. You can procure one of these tickets from the secretary of the local branch.. 30 You should wear it in your hat going to the markets and fairs and the chapel on Sunday. You will then have an opportunity of seeing who are Land Leaguers and who are not. This movement has already assumed national proportions. It is no longer Davittisni or Parnellism, but it is the stern will of the nation. If the tenant-farmers of Ireland are true to 35 themselves and their country and the Irish National Land League, their cause, which is a just one, will ultimately succeed. We have heard a great deal about the Irish population being awless. Where is there a people who could witness such scenes as have, been enacted in this country for the last twelve months. I have seen myself seven 40 families, consisting of sixty-nine human beings, thrown out on the roadside, W'ithout a morsel of food to eat hut what they got from the local relief com- mittee. Can the Irish people be called lawless, if you take into account all 0 / {Balhnagh nujh.- :nh Scptemher, 1880.— •/. W. Walsh.) the misery and degradation wlileli tliey have been 8vd))ected to by landlord tyranny. 1 think it was Sadlier who called the landlords of Ireland the cutpnrses of Ireland, and I look upon landlordism as the sum of all that is villainous. I hold that the land of Ireland belongs to the people. 6 Almighty God made the land, as He made the air and water, for the people. He never ordained that a few lazy and good-for-nothing in- dividuals should own the land. He never ordained that six hundred and ten individuals should own ten millions of acres, when He said This earth I give to the children of men.” The land must be held by the 10 people, not as tenants, but as proprietors, and not hold it under the whim of any landlord, but as peasant proprietors. We have heard a good deal about fixity of tenure, fair rents, and free sale. My friend, Mr. Brady, has told you, in the words of Michael Davitt, that fixity of tenure is fixity of landlordism. Fixity of tenure may be all very well— say, with free sale— but I object to the 15 words “ fair rents.” It is not in the power of the Government to fix a fan- rent at the present time. Suppose they fixed fair rents four, or five, or ten years ago, what would you think of it to-day. With foreign competition and bad liaivests, how can you fix fair rent ? The only thing the people of Ireland is willing to accept is that the' tiller of the soil shall be the 20 owner of the soil. It will not do to depend upon Mr. Parnell or the British House of Commons, or the Irish National Land League. You must depend upon yourselves alone ; the power is in your own hands, if you only exercise that power. I ask you one thing here to-day, and it is this, that you will give 25 Colonel Tottenham and Major O’Beirne, a ticket-of-leave to join The O’Conor Don, King- Harman, Bnien, and Kavanagh, and the other gentlemen who were sent right about face. Ihe House of Loids had better mind themselves, before they drive the democracy of Lngland, and the democracy of Ireland, to wipe it out, root and bianch. For my part, 30 I don’t care whether it is Whig or I'ory you send into Parliament, their object seems to be for centuries, to wipe out the Irish lace. I don t care, whether it is Henrv IL, or Henry III., or the infamous Hessians of 98, oi Oliver Cromwell, and last though not least, the famines and evictions of Queen Victoria, their object is to wipe out the Irish race, who are demanding to-day 35 their right to live on the land of their birth. You will have each and every man of you to act like brothers, there is no use in trying to succeed, if some of you are going backsliding to the landlord or agent, or the police barrack, telling stories. I hope the time is gone for that. You are forced to go periodically to look for the assistance which has been deprived you in the 40 land of your birth. You have paid your landlords an exorbitant rent for years, which they have spent in Belgium, France, Baden-Baden, and in Rhine Land, how they spend it, I am not going to tell you here to-day. Fully nine-tenths of the money wrung from the tenants of Ireland goes abroad, never to return. How can Ireland gi-ow strong, while her very 5 H 7 {Ballinagleragh . — 5th September^ 1880, — Mr. J. W. Walsh.) life current flows out in the sh*. f! illiotih KUrne.) of Commons, and it is that Cod’s pi-ovidcnuc is the cause of ramino. jNovv, what is famine? Pamino is a want ol lood. Has there been a want of lood? Was it ever more ahundant hy God’s providence tlrnn it has been. (A Voice : ‘ But wc will hold it.’) God’s providence then is not the cause of famine. 5 Well then, Avhat is the (;ause ? I’he cause is not having- means to buy. And what is the cause of not having means to buy? The landlords who take away the produce of the soil for years, and not only leave you without the surplus produce, hut take away the capital also, and leave you nothing. The cause of the cause is the cause of 10 the effect, and tile landlords are the cause of the cause, and they must • he the cause of the effect. Now, I hope to put down the landlords in argu- ment first, and then we will meet them in tactics too. Well, what remedy are we giving ? But first I will quote for you a political writer, Stuart Mill, he, in his tract on political economy, says, ‘ The Irish tenant has no 15 hope, nothing to hope for, he has nothing to fear hut being dispossessed of his land,' and against this he defends himself by the ‘ ultimo ratio ’ of an appeal to defensive civil war.’ Well, we will not appeal to defensive civil war, but we will appeal to passive resistance against the landlord’s demand. You will therel^y violate no law. Well, how will you do this? By following after 20 the example given you by those grand old pagan Homans. The patricians, at one time treated the inhabitants of Home as you have been treated for three years. Well, what did they do ? They went and told the patricians to take the land and work it for themselves, and they would go and look for land elsewhere. The patricians were very glad to give them the land. 25 What is your duty now. For every ejected tenant m Ireland you Avill find a piece of vacant land, assemble on this land, build houses, not temporary, but build up houses of sods ; ten shillings will put two windows and a door to it, thatch it well as a thing not to last for this year, but ten years, if the ejection continues. (Cheers.) This man you will have to support by your contribu- 30 tions, everyone must contribute to their support. There are 500,000 tenants in Ireland, and each of these, paying a shilling every half year will make a million shillings, that is 50,000/., that would give ten pounds a year better support than they would get in the poorbouse to 5,000 tenants, but if the number is not 5,000, but 2,500, it will give 20/. a year for the support of each 35 ejected tenant. By that means you will have a local police of your own walking about the road with nothing to do (cheers) but overlook the land, and have an eye on the neighbours land, and not see them trespassed on in the morning, and you may have an iron hut built up beside, but no harm, when you violate no law you can live in harmony with the police. When 40 the old pensioners, after the Continental war, on the out-stations of the contending armies used to sling their canteens one to the other and inter- change a mutual drink. Not the less bravely did they go into the fight because they were generous men. Well, perhaps you and the police may fraternise and take a friendly pot, each performing his own duty.” (Cheers 45 and laughter.) Here the speaker was reminded by the chairman that he was speaking too much, and he concluded thus : “ I want to ask you one and all, will you persistently and perseveringly carry out my programme ? Ho not do it with a clieei to-day and forget it to- 50 morrow. We have the machinery already. The priest has a collector in everv town that brings him bis Christmas dues and Easter offering, that man A 4 7 (^Cldiinuicnoise. — Scplcnihcr 5^//, 1880. — Mr. Willumt Kilrae.') uill do the work for you. lie will bring it into the treasurer, who will send it to the Land League to l)ul)lin, and get dowji an aeknowlcdgraent for the money deposited, and you will have a fund there to earry out your objects, and if it fails, and if your determination is known to your kinsmen in America and Australia through Mr. Parnell you will have funds enough. (Cheers.) Then 1 ask you, will you persist and persevere and earry out that programme, whoever ‘ do ’ let him lift his hand with a shout ? (All hands lifted with cheers.) 8 {^(Ud dill, ISSO.) Mr. Thomas Brennan, oi‘ l)ul)liii, supjxu'tod Mic msolution. ll(‘ said : — “ Uvv. Chairman and Collow conntrymoTi, al'tor the very able address whiciJi yon have just hoard from my friend Mr. Kilrae, t do not think the resolution 5 which has l)('en sid)mitted to yon needs many words from me to reconnnend ^ it to yon. The Kini^’s County has been a long time Avithoiit speaking out ui)ou this important and vital subject— (question) —but she speaks to-day with no uncertain voice, and here by the banks of the lordly Shannon, here in the plac(‘ associated with so many liistoric recollections the manhood of tlu', county 10 pledges itself to-day to work for the emancipation of the toiling masses and the destruction of the power of the idler whom you have so long supported (cheers), and I trust the voice that goes up to-day demanding the land for the people will not be hushed till that cry shall become a reality, and honest labour Avill be repaid by having its fruits protected. (Cheers.) This is not 15 merely a movement on behalf of the tenant-farmers of Ireland against the landlords of Ireland, it is a movement of the workers of Ireland against tlie class ndio have been robbing you (cheers), against a class who despise labour in every form. It is the in cising of the democracy of Ireland against th e privileged few who have been livi ng on the profits of youi laliouTT (ClTeei s.)~ 20 It is the Tebellion of men who7fora long time, notTno^ig their rights, have bowed under the weight of oppression, and who now, knowing that God did not create them to be the willing slaves of any class, who know that they came into the world with the same rights as him who is called lord, take their stand upon these rights, and hurl defiance into the teeth of their 25 enemies. (Cheers.) To attain your rights, it is but necessary that you know them, and when the great political truths, which have for the last eighteen months been preached in the province wdhch lies beyond yon stately rivin*, when the great truths of manhood and self-reliance which have been pro- claimed from a thousand different platforms in Connaught will have taken 30 root in the minds of the people of Ireland, neither the feudal powuir of the landlord nor the bayonet of a foreign Government can keep you out of them. (Cheers.) This movement differs from all previous public movements in Ireland, inasmuch as it relies solely on the powder of the people. It tries to teach that the people have their emancipation in their owm hands, that is, the pownr of 35 the people if but rightly applied can surmount any difficulty, and if no other good has been accomplished it is something to have got shut of that idea of leadership wffiich wns thought necessary to dazzle the Irish mind, and publicly sow the seeds and the nrin dples of repu b licanisn iioheers), whicli can alone raise an enslaved peophv (Hear, hear.) TTis not necessary in Ireland 40 to-day to raise up any idol for popular adoration. The people w^ere now engaged in worshipping iirinciples and not men, we have taken our owm cause into our own hands, and therein lies the secret of the success of this move- ment. We have as a people a great many faults wdiich slavery has produced, and I think that instead of claiming every imaginable virtue, 45 political and social, for the Irish people, it would be much more patriotic m any man whom his countrymen consent to listen to rather to point out tliese faults and show^ how^ they can be corrected. It has been too much the custom to tell yon that you are the finest peasantry in the world. No doubt wm have grand virtues. It was something, it is something to have kept the 50 national flag flying at all in the face of such difficulties, and looking at our B Q 3366.— .38. [Cl, refuse to pay an unjust rent. (Hear, hear.) An unjust rent is, as my friend Mr. Kilrae explained to you, anything over the surplus profit that remains after you have paid for every claim for the Avorking of your holdings. Pay the labourer, pay the merchant, pay the 10 banker, pay yourseh es in the support and education of your children, and if there is anything over that offer it to the landlord (cheers and laughter), and if he does not take it then put it in your pocket till he comes rcspect- fidly to ask you for it (cheers) ; but above all, and before all, you must refuse to take a farm from which a man has been evicted. (Cheers.) Let that farm 15 remain AA'aste ; let the grass rot upon it ; let the crops rot upon it ; and if any man is found to take it, or even work upon it, there are a thousand and one ways in Avhich you can punish him (cheers) ; that you can punish him Avithout transgressing the laAV. I look on this as an educational movement that is necessary to teach the people their rights, and as long as we teach 20 nothing that is degrading or immoral, as long as we do not interfere with any other branch of national labour then I hold that it is entitled to the support of the Irish people, that it is entitled to support in the name of nationality and humanity, and in these sacred and holy names I ask you to-day to endorse the principle and to accept the policy of the Irish National 25 Land League.” (Cheers.) B 2 11 {Clctumac noise. — September 5/A, 1880.) Mr. Thomas Broiman pro[)oscd a vote ot thanks to the chairman, as follows : — “ It now hccomcs my pleasant duty to move a vote ol thanks to oui reverend chairman, Pathcr O’Ucilly, for his conduct in the chair to-day. I 5 know that you will carry that resolution with three times three. (Cheers.) Pather OTleilly has come here to-day to preside over our meeting, hut he has not come here as a priest, he has come here as a citizen and an Irishman, and as your equal in everything. Now, after this magnificent meeting heie to-day I think we may change the name of this county ; we have no longer 10 kings in Ireland. (Cheers.) We had enough of kings, hoth Irish and English, and for the future we may call it the people’s county. Now, I am sure that you will not let the lesson that you heard to-day die, hut that you will carry it home with you, and give it practical effect. In pro- secuting this work we must all he tolerant of the opinions of others. It is 15 a poor cause that cannot meet argument with argument instead of meeting argument with a hlow. Let us have discussion, plenty of discussion ; we will thereby he training ourselves to take rrp that position which we should take as citizens of a free country ; hut in that discussion let us not descend to personalities, which so often creep into your discussions at present. Gentle- 20 men, I have great pleasure in moving the vote of thanks to Eather 0 Reilly for his conduct in the chair.” Mr. Harris put the vote of thanks to the meeting, and said, — “ If the priests of Ireland acted in the same manner as Eather O’Reilly has done, the question which we are here advocating would he granted hpfore 25 another week.” Rev. Mr. O’Reilly acknowledged the vote of thanks, and advised the people to go home quietly, and not to bring themselves on a level with the brute creation by drinking. The meeting then separated. 26 (( 'l(niiiKi<‘U(>ise . — ;)///, Mr. Matthew Harris, oC I’allinnsloo, i^-oposcd IIk* lU'xt l•(!S()llltioll : “ 'I'liai know iui>' as wc; do that it should Ix'! impossihh'. for tlu^ landlords ol th(^ Kiiiij,'’s County to rob, op])r(‘ss, and cxtonuiuato the tciiaut-lariTiors in the. manner they have done if tlu^y had not the (jo-operatiou ol a section 5 of the temantry, avc hereby deed are that the man Avho would lake a lann Iroin Avhieli a tenant has or shall have l)een evieted is a [)nhlie enemy, oiu; who deserv('s the reprobation of all ii,()od men.” Jl(> said : — “ Never on any former o(*easion w hen about to address a public meeting Id have I felt so depressed as I feel at present- when L look aroiind, as L havi; done lu'ia^ to-day, and see so many erumhling' monuments of our ancient ])iety and learning, and our ancient heroism. Had it not been lor the reqidrements ot a public meeting’ I feel that silence itself in this saeied place would he more eloquent than words, for throughout the world uowheie 15 has there been found the same surface of land wdiich contains the ashes of so many saints, so many kings, and so many heroes as this locality of Clamnacnoise. Along that causewaiy upon the ground on which we stand, numberless kings have been brought here to be interred in that graveyard, and the loud re-echoing of a thousand melancholy voices has been heard hundreds 20 and hundreds of times I’e-echoing through those valleys. Those times are all passed novv, ladies and gentlemen, and so has the clan system which was the political system which existed in those times. In this graveyard the dust of kings is mingled with the dust of beggars, and the dust of the humblest of the people. Aot long ago in the small towni of Shaunon Bridge the lineal 25 descendant of the great O’ McLoughlin died a labouring man s wife, ihese memories, the lecolleclions of these things I must confess sadden me, but while I feel disspirited on the one hand I feel rejoiced on the other, for the blood of these kings circulates throughout our people, and what is the kingly power winch they formerly possessed, has come to be possessed by 30 the people themselves. And if you but use that power, if you but remember that throughout the world the powder of the people has pulled up kings, and emperors, and republicans, and turned them down ; if you but remember these things, and reflect upon the mighty powmr that rests in your own hands, you will very soon find within yourselves that this thing of tearing down 3.5 landlordism in Ireland is not such a monstrous thing as formerly you thought it was. You will And tliat you have been enslaved, especially in the King’s County, by as paltry, as contemptible, as w’orthless a class of men as ever enslaved their fellow^ man, and I often reflect how it was that the men of the Kino>’s Countv did not come to the front before this. I know what the It) magistracy of the King’s County are, and I tell you that the English Govern- ment may tire, and the English Government often has tired of persecuting the Irish people, but the magistracy of the King’s County never has tired of it. (Cries of ‘ Down with them.’) The blood-stained hands of Cootc or Cornwallis are not red enough to satisfy the3aflgi3y^GIieYnagistrate¥~df 15 the King’s County, and I have asked myself, wlien Lsaw^-ar great and noble people lying down dormant like sheep under these tyrants — I have asked what is the cause of all this wretched serfdom on the part of the men of the King’s County ? I have asked myself this question over and over again, and I have beo'un to think that it may he owing to the fact that the bones of Shears 50 Armstrong are buried in the King’s County (cheers), and that the blood of iVic Armslrongs, and worse or blacker, or darker, or viler, or falser 12 (^{ — Soph'inhcr 5///, IHSO. — ////'. Mallhv.w Ihirri-s.) blood lU'vor llowc'd in llu' veins of man, Hull the blood of Sbears Armsieon^- is circulating- thvong-li tlio magistracy of the county (groans), and 1 liavc said to mysTlf that one of the very (Irst things in order to (cleanse this county should he to take the hones of Shears Armstrong (groans) to 5 (‘X'hnme Humu and bring tliem over and hnry them at the teet ol. dudge Keogh. (Che(;rs.) And 1 ask you here to-day, men of the King’s County, to throw' olV this slavery. 1 toll you not to bo looking round and he watching this man on one side, and the other man on the other ot the King’s County. Watch Avhen they get a ])Oor man at their feet, if they 10 know him to he a man of some sentiment, a man of independent spirit, they crush that man. And why do they crush him ^ fbey crush him because they know he is not supported by his fellow men. And it you support one another, if you act like brothers, and sustain one another against this beastly systenr ; and if you had done this, Armstrong, or a hundred Aim- 15 strongs, -would tremble before you. (Groans.) As long as you lie down and cower before them, so long will they oppress you. Adjoining this locality what has been done ? One of the most infamous men, one of the most despicable characters, one of the greatest satires upon humanity that ever- existed, Lord Ashbrooke (groans), he has been oppressing and dispossessing 20 and robbing his tenants, the same as if they wm-e not flesh dml blood, the same as if they had not a soul in their bodies, or the spirit of a man witlrin them. (A Voice: ‘Three groans for him.’ Groans.) And I tell you, my friends, the man who stands this oppression and lets the shabby crew, the agents and the bailiffs, oppress them, they are hardly worth giving the name 25 of men. Mv resolntion distinctly states that those who take a farm from another shoirld be despised by all men. That resolution goes so far as to condemn the tenant who undermines his neighbour ; but I tell you another thing. Mv friends, I am not making a splendid oration, I want to talk sense. I want to bring things home to your minds and hearts. I want plain 30 speaking. I want to put the thing plainly and clearly before you, and tell you what to do. Well now, there is many a man covets another’s farm and is afraid to take it ; but there is another class of men, there is a class who when the landlord comes and asks an enormous rent, no matter what he asks of him, they will come forward like so many fools and they will hand him out all 35 he demands. Now, next to the man who takes anothei s f aim this class of man is the worstj^f land lords knew that, Ashrooke and the like of him, that, as Mr. Gladstone HidTpcople have to live^’st to exist in comfort and ease and happiness in the first instance, and that all that remains after keeping him in this manner that, and that alone, is due to the landloid. If these ■jjQ men were made to feel this they would not in all this bad time come foiwaid in the tyrannical and savage way they have ; they would not lie sending round their writs, and in addition to the rent put 21. 10^ ., o r 3/., o r 51. on the tenants ; but so long as they find fools and slaves bending down their necks there will be always found tyrants to trample upon them. Now I do 45 not wish to occupy too much of your time, but I will ask you one simple question ; If you expect the landlord to reduce your rents you expect that lie will make a sacrifice for your sakes. If you expect that I or any other man will advocate your cause, or that such men as Mr. Parnell (cheers for Parnell) will waste his time or his energy or his money in advocating your 50 cause, you should be prepared to make some sacrifices yourselves. Each man should say to himself, he should apply to himself the broad Christian principle of doing unto others as you expect they should do to you. If you B 3 13 Jc A [ClrnniKiciioiso. — S<‘})leui()(‘r 5///, ISHO. — Dir. Mall heir IJen'is.) oxpoct oiluM’s to assist you, why not assist one anothor? Why not oach man conu' forward, not to ho waiting' to h(^ asked, hut why not (;ach man j'lish forward and see iiow or in what Avay ho oan assist liis droopin" la'otlior who is in th(> g'raspof a tyrajit porliaps P lint if tlio rnauAvho has a good landlord, 5 if the man aa'Iio is not oppressed himself if he holds haek in his seltishness, if he opens not his heart, hnt says, ‘ O, [ am all right, I do not can' about anybody else.’ If people do this they Avill ])c acting against the greatest and noblest truths of the Christian religion, to vvliich they profess to belong. A thousand years ago Clanmaenois was founded by St. Kieran, a carpenter’s son, and 10 thus it is Christianity arose purely and solely from the people. St. Patrick b(>gan his mission by freeing slaves, himself a liberated slave, and thus man succeeded in changing a savage, barbarous, selfish world to a Avorld of Christian morality, to [i world of Christian love, to everything noble and good. And except yon adopt the same principles, and except you become 15 inspired Avith the noble self-devotion that inspired these men, and take to yourselves this great Christian lesson that yon are morally bound before God to assist your fellow man ; except you think to yourselves that it is the same God who sustains the arm of the patriot who sustains the arm of the king ; except you take this lesson to yourselves, and except you assist and support 20 each other, this great movement must fail. Gentlemen, I have hardly alluded to my subject, and the reason is that aa^c have made such progress with this movement that the time is at hand, or near at hand, Avhen no man shall dare to take the farm from which another is evicted ; for the man who takes a farm from which another is evicted he Avill not only be looked upon 25 as a black sheep, but will be looked upon as an abomination of abominations. That no decent man will marry with his family, and that he Avill be looked upon as false to his country and to his religion ; false to his friends and to everything that a good or honest man should support. Gentlemen, I beg to propose the resolution which has been entrusted to me.” .30 (Cheers.) Mr. Peter Egan seconded the resolution, but did not address the meeting. 14 {( — Srplonihov 5///, ISSO.) Mr. James Lyiiam, oT lialuui, snpporU'd the i-csoUiiion as follows: — K(‘v. cliainnaii, friends, and follow oountryinon, I conic licforo yon here to-day to inakc a few obsouvations, and in doing so I beg to remind you that 1 am here as one of the ])Cople, as an Irish tenant-farmer like yourselves, 5 and with all your wrongs and with all your grievances ; aye, and with all your faults ; to that class I am proud to belong. (Cheers.) Never in the eventful history of this country was there a greater necessity than the present for Irishmen of every class to stand together, to be united, and to strike one determined home blow at the enemy of the race and of the people, 10 landlordism and landlords. You are here to-day in your manhood and in your thousands to protest against the foul and wicked system that for centuries of wrong and evil persecution has left the grand old Irish race beggars at home and wanderers abroad. (Cheers.) You are here to protest against a system that has left the Irish nation a beggar in rags at every door 15 in Christendom ; a system that has exterminated the people from the homes of their fathers, that has thrown them out on a merciless world to die in ditches, and rot away in workhouses, in order to make way for sheep and oxen, preferring tlie stupid brute creation to man that the God of Heaven made in His own image and likeness. (Cheers.) You are here to-day then to 20 devise some means to stop this persecution that has been the cause of more bitter tears, of more heart readings, of more sad partings, of more destruction of human life than even the persecution of the Pagan emperors of Home. Surely a grand old noble race with all its noble traditions and proud recollections deserves a better fate than that. But the wonder is even tha 25 you should be here to-day in your manhood and in your thousands to give evidence against that guilty criminal that stands arraigned before the world’s universal bar, as the murderers of your people, the exterminators of your race, landlordism in Ireland. (Cheers.) And do they call that communism, is that rebellion ? Well, if it is, I am a rebel, and I am proud to avow it. 30 (Cheers.) And this is the system that they want us to set up as a household god, and bow down before. Oh, uo ; tell them never. Irishmen never, never will be idolaters. It is a false god, and if you are but true to yourselves and be united, believe me that that zephyr that commenced to blow in the West, and that now has increased to a tremendous hurricane, increased by the 35 united voice of the manhood of Ireland, will sweep the rotten structure to a thousand atoms. (Cheers.) Men of Ireland, be not dismayed, though there may be olistacles in the Avay. There are prejudices in your way, deep-rooted and many. They exist in the minds of men who have no right to be here to-day, I mean those West Briton flunkeys and shoneens here to-day, but 40 they have not the manhood and independence to stand up for their country’s cause. I ask you to-day to brand them and to mark them; aye, mark their children after them, and point them out and say, ‘ There is the child of a man who, when his country was in sad trouble, refused to stand by it.’ Another class of fellows going around in this country, senti- 45 mentalists — hypocrites, I call them — talking of the rights of property, what right of property have they ? When did they get their right of property ? (A Voice : ‘ They got it from Cromwell.’) No, they got it from the stranger and the Saxon, land that Avas wrung from your ancestors in treachery and blood, Avas given to these robbers and adA^enturers as a reward of their hatred 50 of your ancient faith and race (cheers), and now descendants of those that B 4 15 1 — S<‘pli‘iiih(‘i' .)/A, ISSO. — ,I/r. Jo UK’S Lji'iKiui.) siolo your proixn’ty ns t.licy stcnl your labour, so-eallod nrisioorais, tlu^ Ib-iiisli llouso oT Jjords, tlu'y d(niy your rig'lits and claims. 1 was determined to give you a delinitiou of wdio these aristocrats are, hut 1 see iu the (;rowd around me some of my country women, and I would not olFeiid their ears with such 5 a task ; hut, suilice it lo say, they arc; the disreputahle sous of disrej)utahle sires, Avho are now rejoicing and gloating in their ignohh; victories. Bui-, Irishmen, recollect so was Bahylon shouting with joy and insulting fallen Israel the very night their towers were battered down hy the Persian rams. So if you he true to yourselves the tyrant’s power will he severed in ihis 10 country, the handwriting is on the wall. Now, gentlemen, I will not detain you much longer, because there are men here to address you to-day ; hut 1 will make you an appeal here to-day as one of yourselves, as an Iiish tenant-farmer. In the shadow of these grand old ruins, that splendid monu- ment of your ancient grandeur, of your fallen race, within whose ruins sleep 15 so many of your ancestors — soldiers, saints, scholars wdio sacrificed their lives and properties on the altar of their country, in the name of everything you hold sacred and dear, in the name of a banished race and kindred, in the name of Ireland’s hope at home and beyond the grave, I ask every man here to-day as a representative of theTullamore Branch of the Irish National 20 Land League. I ask for every man to join the Laud League, to abide hy its rules and teachings, so well explained hy Mr. Brennan, and if you do I will assure you I will pledge myself to you before long you will see dear old Ireland redeemed and regenerated from the accursed thraldom of land- lordism.” (Cheers.) 16 [Cl( inii fouiul amon-sl you to watch the downfall of his neig'hhonr to take his little I'ann. You ivnieinlHa- when one land- grahher was watching his neighhour’s larin, in onhu’ that he might grab it , and he would do the same to-day, only public ()])inion is hiouglit against 5 him. Do as they did in Sligo. Every man rerused to Avork for the hlack- smith, and the Land League brought up a blacksmith, and the Land lieai;ue in Dublin sent 10/. to carry on the business. Now, if you do the like you will bring the landlords to their knees. There is no way to do it but by uniting as one man, and avoiding squabbles amongst one another. 10 I suppose the land robbers here would ask you to do as m the years past, and have your hat in your hands. . . • By all means respect a gentleman. But there is a class of land robbers who would expect you to have your hat in your hand always tor them. Nou, I will repeat what I said a few Sundays ago. There was a young land- 16 lord who came home from the Continent and brought a dog with him. An old man said, ‘You arc welcome home, landlord; yourself and your dog are line gentlemen.’ I know the do" in the kitchen got betted food chan the tenant. The dog Avas racked and combed whilst the unfortunate slave on the estate was dispossessed by the landlord. He 20 would be hunted out as there was no regard for him, and I say there is more regard for the black slave than for the white slave in Ireland. If you think it\vas the same God that created you and the landlords you would have self-respect for yourselves. If you consider that the landlords are madt' of a different quality from you, you should also consider that there are two Gods, 25 one for making you, and one for the landlords. But if you say it is the same God, then I say respect yourselves; have no bowiag and scraping befoie these land robbers and land bastards that surround this locality. Yes, my friends, I ask you to give three cheers for O’Leary and Eatferty, and in response I will ask you to give nine cheers for every honest Eenian in Ireland. 30 (Cheers.) . . . Mr. Gladstone, one of Ireland’s best friends, he said that the only measure that was given for Ireland was granted by the bold determi- nation of Irish Eenians. I say, if you are an honest Irishman, you must be a Fenian. There is no honest man in Ireland who is not a Fenian . . . .^ If there is an honest Irishman that says, ‘ I wish to see my country free 35 he must be a Fenian. If taking a part in this land question makes a Fenian of a man I protest here to-day that I have taken an active part in this agitation. I have not spent six Sundays in Claremorris the last 18 months. I have travelled three counties, and if that makes a Fenian I declare I am one. I ask all the young women of this parish to become a 40 sisterhood. Let them SAvear before God that the land is created for their use, and that they will assist their brothers until there is a better time in Ireland. My friends, I do not wish to detain you any longer as there are others to follow. There was a little confusion in the beginning, but thank God that is now over. It is said that when we have no enemies to light Avith we 46 fight with one another. M^ell, it was only for amusement we fight with one another. I see that the Government was afraid this meeting Avould be a small one, for they have sent an extra force here to-day. (Groans.) Let me not be understood that I am offering any insult to the Irish police. There are honest men amongst them. There are men in them whose fathers have been sent 5Q from their homes. There are police to-day in Ireland that the landlord-robber with the force of the bayonet has driven his father into the Avorkhouse, and A 4 7 mmm, {Kilconlu.—Scpfcmher VMh, 1880.— Jfr. P. J. Gordon.) his mother and hy some little inniumcc or otlicr lias got, him into the lorcc. That has not made him a had man; and I toll you hero to-day that there aic good men in the Irish constabulary. We cannot blame the ixdice, hut we hliinic the Government of England to-day. The party work against their nature. 5 They tell them to do it. Let us not fight against the police. In conclu- sion, my friends, I will ask that there he no disunion amongst us. We are all fighting for the independence of the country perhaps in different ways, that is ^n order to get shut of that cursed system. If I am o-oing to Clareraorris hy a particular road to-mght, why should I 10 prevent another man to go that way? I do not fall out with the man who says that the best wav to get shut of that cursed system in Ireland is at the point of the bayonet. ‘ I tell you here to-day that if he he prepared to carry it out at the point of the bayonet I am prepared to follow him. I will ask you to watch parties who go about you who pretend to be your friends. The 1 K Government of England have detectives amongst you. They are here ; they are on the platform. You should also have your detectives, and I ask you to watch yourselves, for the hour is approaching ” (The remainder was lost in the shouts.) 8 {Kilcovh/.—Sepfcmher 19/4, 1880.) Mr. P. J. Gordon, in proposing a vote of thanks to the chairman, Sii I * - ' “ It would not 1)0 easy my friends to make a second speech. I made some allusions awhile ago to landlords. I made allusions to the bastard landlords 5 too. I will now prove to you why the unfortunate people ot this locality are persecuted and driven down to poverty. I am speaking of the valuation of a holding helonging to George Lynch, of Cloonkeen. (Groans.) e i known that I respect that name, hut I do not respect that man. ihe valuation of one holding is 11. 10.. and the rent 20/.; of another 10 S/. 5.., and the rent 21/. 4.. 4(/., (and so on for several hgures). Now, I will ask voii how in this world can those unfortunate people pay that rent. It is all very fine for people to bo speeching over this land question, hut if vou want to get shut of it you must establish a system against the land robbers. If there is a system like this carried on the people must 30 15 plunged into poverty. They say the failure of the crop is the cause of the poverty. Well, now it might be some cause, but the principal cause is rackrent. In Trance they have peasant proprietary, and, as the man says, thev have something for the wet day; but in this country, when the wet da; comes, he is almost perished entirely. The bank is closed against him, 20 and the shopkeeper cannot give everything. The shopkeeper lent you the monev to go to England; he gave you the meal, and during that time the lamllm^d never came to your aid and asked you, ‘ Do yon want anything Blit he has extracted every shilling you could give him. I will conclude by introducing to yon the second chairman, Mr. Edward Blake. 25 Mr. Edward Blake, farmer, Liskeevy, said : “ Yon all know me. All I can say is this.” (Here the speaker com- menced speaking in Irish, which he continued to the end of his address which lasted about a quarter of an hour.) 10 {Cooiieal. — Sej)tcmhcr VMh, 18H0.) Mr. J. B. Walsh, Castlebar. Mr. J. B. M^alsh, who was received with cheers, said, — “ Fellow-eoiuitrymeii, T cannot sympathize with Mr. Melvin as a tenant farmer for making an apology for proposing a resolution similar to what he 5 rt'ad, for he is one who is rohhed hy this pernicious system of landlordism ; he is one who has to pay rent to those wlio arc not morally entitled to rent ; therefore he had no need to olfer an apology for proposing a resolution to abolish theni for ever. I think that the land of Ireland should he held hy the nationalists of Ireland. Who are the Nationalists of Ireland ? Are they the 10 Knoxe’s ? (Down with them.) Are they the Gores ? Are they that chief of the crowbar brigade, the Earl of Lucan, Lord John Browne, or the Marquis of Sligo ? (No, no.) I say they are not. The Nationalists of Ireland and Mayo are the people of Ireland and Mayo, and the land cannot he in safer hands than ■ the people of Ireland. There may he, and there has been, 15 exceptions to this. Indeed, the National men who held the land of Ireland, and whose principal work for generation upon generation has been to tread on nationality and the freedom of our country. TVe want to get thejaud into the hands of the people who cultivate it, the present occupiers of the soil of Ireland. We don’t want to acknowledge any man as master. We 20 want to see the people of Ireland free and independent. Wa want to see them stand on their own hearth and homes, and say before God they have no masters hut themselves ; and when that object is attained, I think the masters — the present masters of Ireland — will be on the other side of the Channel. (Cheers.) I say, therefore, that the highest effort of nationality 25 ought to he to dispossess the present landed aristocracy, and give the land to the people. The people of Mayo ; well, suppose you are the Nationalists of Mayo, were certainly the people who first gave impetus to this idea, and I hope that no Nationalist will now he found to leave the soil of our forefathers. Our history has been an unfortunate one, to take it in a worldly sense. We 30 should be prosperous, as we are morally a great and high-minded people. I am glad to see the tenant-farmers of Cooneal coming forward to jn’otest against this vicious system of landlordism, and never to rest satisfied until the soil of Ireland is in the hands of the people of Ireland. This effort to get hold of the soil of the country is one that should excite the sympathy of 35 the Irish race all over the world ; and for that purpose alone it ought to he supported, as I am glad to see that you support it to-day. (Cheers.) The support of this movement does not depend on any individual ; it depends on every man taking upon his own shoulders part of the burden of the great effort to dispossess the present landlords of the soil. It depends on the peo])le 40 themselves. When one of your neighbours is made a victim of this vicious system, you can all go to his help and succour. Let them not leave the suc- couring of our own race to the good Samaritans of the country. Let no man take the land of his neighbour, because if he does he is morally guilty as he who wants money and puts his hand in his neighbour’s pocket, and takes 45 his money out. Is there any one of you who will take land from which people have been dispossessed ? (No, no.) This system of fixity of tenure has not a good aspect, to my mind. It oppresses the trader in the towns and the mechanics of the cities ; it ojopresses all the industrial and social life of Ireland. This system of land tenure, by which properties must accrue and 50 fall into the hands of the eldest son, — and this system of land tenure, hy 4 [Cooi/eal. — Seplcmber VMh, 1880. — J/r. J. U. JValsh.) which scttloinciits may 1)C made leaving' the soil of Ireland to persons yet imhorn, — 1 say that this system o])])resse8 the trader and mechanic. If a meclianic in any town in Mayo wants to bnild himseH' a lioiise, is ho alileto do it? Ho is not ; and it is because the ])resent occupier is not able to give 5 him a lease suHicient to bnild any property, and thereliy it interests the social life of every man in Ireland. I am not one of those who believe that if the ])eople of Ireland became possessed of the soil of Ireland they would turn Conservative or give England all they possessed. I think they Avould be more inclined to live in Ireland, and take part in the administration ol‘ its IQ affairs, socially or otherwise. (Voice, ‘ Spread the light.’) Speaker, I am glad to see that the light is spreading ; if lias reached to people who some years ago could not believe that they could exist in this country except by the good Avill of a foreign aristocracy. It has reached those people, thanks to Eedpath, and others like him. (Cheers.) It is reaching the people, thanks to those teachers, because you now can see that every man in Ireland can exist if even the country did not boast of one landlord. We are able to exist if a landlordism never existed or was ever thought of ; and I hope that the majority of this meeting will live to see the day when we will have no land- lords. We have already stopped eviction. Who has the hardihood to put 2 Q out any tenant ? I know there are thousands who are kept in their homes by this agitation, and I know it is not the landlords that has sufficient mercy to leave them in. It is the land-leaguers that is doing it, and they are keeping the people in their homes, and possession which is nine parts of the law. Let no man give up possession ; if there is stronger power to put him 25 out he knows the way to get in. I hope you will allow no such thing as local jealousies to crop in amongst you. Nothing is worse than petty differences. If a neighbour were to injure you it is better that it should go unrevenged. I hope that the people will now be united, aud keep united until every man present is owner of his own house and his own home.” 3 Q (Cheers.) A 3 5 {Cooncal. — Seplcmhcr 19/4, 1880.) Mr. J. B. Walsh said, — “Men of Oooiical, a very pleasing duty devolves upon )ne to reiuni iliauks to your worthy eliairinaii. 11(5 is a lueiiibcr of your own elass, and a more orderly or better braneb meeting you eould not see in Mayo. 1 have, tbere- 5 fore, great pleasure in pro])osing a vote of thanks to him. 1 have one word or two to say to you before you disperse. I tell you, any man who gives bis family until next year be is guilty in the sight of God.” (Voice: “ It is not able to supply us.”) Speaker : “ If it is not, don’t pay any rent at all.” 10 Doctor Gallagher seconded the vote of thanks, to which the chairman replied. I {Cooucal. — September Vdlh, 1880.) Mr. J. W. Nally. Mr. J. W. Nally, who was received with cheers, said, — “ 'Well, uiy friends and fellow countrymen, and especially the Nationalists of this part of the country, I did not come here to speak to this resolution, 5 although I am the father of it. It is eighteen months ago since I liad the honour of proposing the resolution I hold in my hand to-day. But still, what is the use of proposing this resolution? No use whatsoever ; for the most enthusiastic in the crowd are the very parties who have proffered rent to those scoundrels called rack-renters. 1 tell you, for a positive fact, that I IQ knew a case where a man went to a fair with a cow, who only expected six pounds, and he got four pounds more than he expected. There are some of those men here to-day that I was pointed out, and there were some of them vesterday in Killalla, and they had the look of Judas Iscariot who stayed Christ on the cross. I am not in a position to speak on this question ; I came here, though labouring under a cold, when I heard there was not one to spread the light to hold the harvest. I had the high honour on yesterday to witness the hill on which the Trench soldiers landed, but when you are called upon, it is not on the hill you will be called. You will have to come at the point of the bayonet. I hope you will buy a lot of those pills that 20 I will be selling, that this scoundrel called Churchill (groans)— he brought irbef ore the House of Commons to know why a character like me should be allowed to go through the country. I will repeat the same to-day. No matter who he is or what his calling may be, he can have a rifle and use it, he can keep it in his house, and by carrying it about he can have 25 it for 10s. a year ; they are very cheap now. Where I was brought before the House I did not say much, but whenever I speak I say something. What I said was. If a man wants to shoot some game such as grouse, hares, partridge, or anything like that, by shooting vermin you have onlv 10s. a year to pay. These vermin are crows, jackdaws, rooks, and every- gQ thing else. I tell you you can shoot. There is no close season for shooting vermin.” (“ Cheers for Mr. Nally.” Cheers. ) Mr. Nally : But what is the use, as I said before, of passing a resolution when it is not carried into effect ? I have attended meetings in Galway, Boscommon, and Sligo, and I found that the parties who were most enthusiastic were the parties who 35 would take a farm. This resolution which I am going to propose is not worth the paper it is printed on if you take farms from which people have been evicted. Now the resolution that I have to propose is this, but it ain’t strong enough ; it is this : “ ' That no man shall take a farm from which his neighbour has been evicted 40 for an unjust or excessive rent, or in any other way violate the principles of the Land League. That we consider any man who takes a farm from which another has been evicted, or which has been surrendered for the non-payment of an unjust or excessive rent, as an enemy of the people, and we look upon him as worse than the robber soldier that pierced Christ on 45 the cross.’ ” ■” ^ He continued ; — “ Is there a man that will buy that land or inhabit the house that he left? (‘No, no.’) When I saw the beauty of the crowd I saw yesterday in Killalla, and I can only call them Zulus * «= * while 50 those blasted scoundrels are spending it in England and London and the 6 {Cooiieal. — Scplonhcr \\)lh, 1880. — Mr. J. TF. NctUp.) hack lanes of l.)iil)liu in prodig-ation and vice. The hone and sinew that I see liere I wonld like them to understand that the words that have down from my lips were not np to the wishes of my heart, because I woidd like to do | away with laud grabbers and laud sharks. You want something more tlian [ 5 speechifying. It is no use unless you say you will go hand in hand under | the standard of Wolfe, Tone, and Emmett, and go on the same scaffold as | Allen, Larkin, and O’Brien, and until this is done we will never have total 1 separation. (Cheers.) Excuse me, and when I have time to come down i > again I will sec you.” I f A 4 Q 3306.-15. 7 {CouncuL — Seplembcr ID/zi, 1880.) Mr. John Sweeny. Mr. Jolin Sweeny said, — “ Tenant farmers, I liavc great pleasure in seconding the resolution so ably read by Mr. Nally, and T hope you will take bis advice, and if you 5 do the British Constitution cannot dispossess you.” (Cheers.) Dr. Gallagher, Cooneal. Dr. Gallagher said, — “ Neighbours and fellow-countrymen, I am very proud to see you here to-day in your thousands to protest against this vicious system which has borne 10 you down for the last 300 years. It is all in your own hands, you have the ball at your own feet if you stand together, if you agitate, and continue the agitation, but if you are not united it is of little good. You must be united one and all in this l)attle in which you are engaged. Your enemies are strong, wealthy, and powerful, but you are numerous. Mr. Bedpath the other 15 day said that if we should attempt to contend by physical force against the British Constitution we should be in the minority of 1 to 18. My friends, if we employed physical force we would be in a great minority. If we employ agitation as we are now engaged in, we have the majority. If we unite and agitate no power on earth can withstand the Irish people. The 20 British Constitution or the British bayonets cannot withstand you if you are united. By unity you are stronger than the British Constitution ; they must yield to you; they cannot withstand you. (Cheers.) My friends, be united as they have been in other parts of the county, as they have done at Claremorris, when Father Corbett and Mr. Bedpath and others in the 25 neighbourhood weut out to reap the Land League harvest. They sowed that land, those men of South Mayo, they brought it into Claremorris, and no landlord ever got one sheaf of that corn.” (Voice : “ Devil a grain of it theyTl ever get.”) Speaker: Stand together ; be united; take no land from which a tenant has been evicted. Don’t pay those inckrents which weigh 30 you down, and victory is yours. The resolution I have to propose to you is as follows : " ‘ That we repudiate with fitting scorn the inflammatory, unquakerlike, and unstatesmanlike language applied to our worthy member for Tipperary by Mr. Secretary Forster ; that we treat with proper and deserved contempt 35 the sensational reports, alarming rumours, and weak inventions of our lying and selfish enemies and their craven allies, the weak-kneed, half-hearted Whigs, who would induce the tenant farmers of Ireland to present a mutilated case of their acknowledged grievances before a notoriously prejudiced tribunal of their known enemies, that calls upon our countrymen to abstain 40 absolutely from giving evidence before this unnecessary Boyal sham Com- mission, and to denounce all such insidious attempts to shelve or put off the only settlement of the land question the Irish people will ever accept as final.’ ” He continued, — 45 “ My friends, pay no heed to this sham Commission ; it is not required. They know what you want. They know what you have been asking for the last two years. What do they want of a vagrant Commission going about to see what you have to say upon the land question ? They know that you are 8 {Cooncal. — Soplcmhcr Vdlh, 1880. — J)r. (Jullayhcr.) not able to pay the ])resciit rents, and wliat do tliey want of a Land Commis- sion P Not one iViend of the tenants’ eaiise is on that Commission. Tlie O’Connor Don, Ik'sshoro, and Kavanag-li, do they Avaid; to know what the peoi)le recpiire ? d’hey don't wish to g-ive it to you without it being wrung, 5 and we will wring it from tliein. Wo must not ho asking for it; we must wring it from them. I have great pleasure in proposing this resol utio]i.” (Cheers.) Mr. Patt Durkin. Mr. Patt Durkin said, — 10 “ Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I find groat pleasure in seconding the resolution proposed by Mr. Gallagher, and I would ask you to pay attention to the instructions given by John Nally. “ Through good or ill Be Ireland still, 16 Though sad as theirs your fate, And true men be you men, Like the rebels of ’98.” — (Cheers.) Mr. Wm. McDonough. 20 Mr. William McDonough said, — “ Bellow countrymen, I have great pleasure in reading the following resolution, — “ ‘ That we call on the tenant-farmers of Ireland to keep a firm grip of their crops, and reflect that it is a higher crime against all moral law to 25 suffer their families to starve in the midst of plenty than to deprive their territorial masters of the means of wallowing in luxury.’ ” (Mr. Nally : “ Who is his landlord.”) (Laughter.) “ I am delighted to see you here in your thousands to-day, and I trust you will adhere to the instructions given to you by Mr. Nally and the other speakers. I feel proud that we have this 30 opportunity to cry down that great evil of landloj’dism. (‘Down with land- lordism and land sharks.’) I trust we shall he soon rid of them, and then, and not till then, will we he happy and contented.” Mr. Michael Burke. Mr. Michael Burke said,— 35 “ Gentlemen, I now come forward to second the resolution of Mr. McDonough, and I verily believe there is no man here has more reason to protest against landlordism. It has banished our sisters and brothers to seek refuge in a foreign soil. You now see the necessity of coming forward to join the League. If w’C get sick the first thing is to send for a medical man, 40 and you have to put out your tongue before he can tell what is your disease. I can see by a man here to-day what disease he has. I can see he is rack- rented ; but hold one another like bees in a hive — hold by the legs, and if you unite, you and each of you will soon have a great victory, and our brothers and sisters that are in the state of Massachusetts and New York, 45 another in Hong Kong and China, they will be no longer there. Hold one another by the legs. (Laughter.) That will be a grand victory, and we will be landlords of our own soil.” Q 3366.— 15. B 9 {rroi!f//ilisli. — September VMIt, 1880.) Mr. Thos. Bierne. 5 o’clock p.m. the chair was taken by Mr. Thos. Bierne. He said “ Gentlemen, T thank yon lor tlic honour you have conferred on me in asking me to take the chair here to-day. I am not much as a speaker, hut I will 5 tell you hclorc I conclude the reason for having this meeting here to-day. It vais got up for the purpose of protesting against the eviction here by ^iLiss O’lleilly, of the Co. Meath. I now introduce to you Mr. Michael Moran, v'ho will propose the first resolution.” Michael Moran proposed the first resolution, as folloAVS : 10 “ Besolved that we, the tenant farmers of Leitrim, protest against evictions, and pledge ourselves never to take a farm from which another has been evicted.” Jasper Tuliy, in seconding the resolution, said “^Ir. Chairman and fellow countrymen, it is no idle purpose brings us here 15 to-day. AVe are here to raise our voices against the premeditated murders that is to be perpetrated here. You should do all in your power to put an end to evictions. AYell, fellow countrymen, I do not come here to-day to address you at any length, but in order to gain your rights you must be united. I appeal to you to be united, for if you take up the tale of the 20 history of Irelaud you will see by it that it was disunion was the cause of all her misfortune. Then, I say to you, join the Land League, be united, and victory shall be yours. Don’t give up the crops to the landlords. In con- clusion I again ask you to be united, and you Avill again see Ireland what she once was — a free and prosperous nation.” (Cheers.) 2 {ProurjUUsli. — September 19///, 1880.) Mr. Michael Reynolds, in supporting the resolution, said: — “ Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I feel great pleasure in seeing you all assembled here to-day. All the tenant farmers has to do is to join the Land League. Do not take a farm from wliieli another has been evieted, and by 5 that means you will pauperise the landlords, who will shortly be glad to come to terms Avith you. I say again, join the Land League, and by that means you AviU form a link that no human power can separate.” (Cheers.) Mr. Michael Walsh proposed the second resolution as follows ; — “ That Ave resolve to use all the means in our poAver to abolish the system 10 of landlordism AAdiich has operated against the peace, happinesss, and prosperity of the country ; and we will regard as the only final solution of the land (luestion the immediate establishment of a system of peasant proprietary.” Mr. John McDonnell seconded the resolution. 15 He said : — “ PelloAv countrymen, I have heard a great deal about Land Bills since I left the cradle, but I tell you that the only Bill is this ; one which will root the tenant farmers in the soil. The landlords call the land leaguers very hard names, confiscation is one of them, but it is they who are the confiscators. 20 The land belongs to the people, and we will keep it ; we will have no more landlords. The Government talks of emigration, but if Mr. Eorster wants to have the people of Ireland emigrate, why then let him send a ship load of landlords. The settlement of the land question rests with yourselves, there are a half a million of good men in Ireland, and we are determined to have our 25 rights. (Cheers.) Bixityof tenure is fixity of famine, serfdom, and tj^iannA , which we will submit to no longer.” (Cheers.) A 2 Q 3366.— 16. 3 (^.Pyuuyhlish. — Scplcrnher VMh, 1880.) Mr J W. Walsll, ol! Balia, on coming forward to support the resolution, was received with cheers. lie said ; — t i t i “ Uv. Chairman and fellow countrymen, I have heen deputed hy the Land 5 League to come here to day to protest against the eviction of 50 poor families. It was the fashion of the Government in disturbed times to pio- c'laim certain districts ; but the time is come when it is in the power of the of the people to proclaim certain townlands ; in the name of humanity let there ho no man found to take those lands. If you leave those lands to 10 waste and rot, Mrs. O’Beilly, and those like her, will then see that it was better for them to let the people live. You may think the land laws bad, the landlords worse, but the worst enemy of Ireland to-day is Lie land- o-rabber. The land is yours, and those land sharks have no right to it. I ask Amu to join the Land League, to join the Irish nation, and help to sweep 15 this system from the land. I don’t want you to bring yourselves within the meshes of the law ; the Irish National Land League is at your back. Now I ask you to hold your harvests ; keep it, you will want it to feed yourselves and families for the next six mouths, and if you have anything left give it to the landlords. Before I conclude I have to mention the conduct of the 20 Head Constable in Longford, and I hope the police here present will not take it ill of me for so doing, as I only want to bring his conduct under notice of the press. The police are men I have a great wish and respect for; are they not the sons of tenant farmers themselves, and their sympathies are with us in this movement, or at least they should be. The speaker here spoke about 25 the Head Constable watching him when he came to Longford the day before (Saturday), and even says he saw me off by the train that night con- tinued, Mr. Tully and the other speakers have detained you so long that I will kenp you no longer. I see by your assembling here to day that the men of Leitrim are now prepared to join in the grand march of freedom. Look 30 at the state of Ireland now, and what it was. If she was a country, instead of having only 5,000,000 to day, you should have 20,000,000. Addison tells us that Ireland is capable of feeding 40,000,000 of people. In conclusion I ask you to join the Land League. If the Government don t step in and settle the land question the people of Ireland will get no 35 concession from their landlords. I will now ask those people who are about to be evicted not to leave your houses until you are dragged from them. Hold your harvests. If you cannot afford to pay your rent and does so, and leave your family to starve, then I say to you that you are guilty m the eyes of God and man of wilful murder.” (Cheers.) The speaker then 40 concluded. 4 (Proiif/lilitili. — Scplonber ID///, 1880.) Charles O’Bierne proposed tlio tliird and last resolution, as follows : — “ That having’ heard the exposition of the principles and programme of the Irish National Land League, we call on our brother tenant farmers to aid in the advance of its ends and objects.” 5 ‘Moin together and shoAv by your determination that it will not only take the police, but all the Marines and red-coats in Ireland to evict those people.” Mr. Francis O’Bierne said : — “ Fellow countrymen : I have been asked to second this resolution pro- l)Oscd by ray namesake Mr. O’Bicrnc. We arc now at war with the land- 10 lords. The landlords have been taking money from their tenants by false pretences. I will tell you how. The tenant having a little money saved begins to expend it by improving his laud. The landlord comes ; he sees the improvement, and raises the rent. Now is not that taking money by false pretences ?” 15 The speaker here read the rules and regulations of the Land League for the crowd. He continued: “Wherever you find women landlords they are always the worst. The people should be allowed to hold their harvests for the time being. I know that I, for one, would lose my life rather than part with my property ; and the house that I would build I would allow no man 20 to take it from me.” (Cheers.) Mr. O’Shaughnessy came forward, and said: — “ Men of Leitrim. I am happy to have the honour of being amongst you to-day. Now, gentlemen, you have heard the speakers who came before me, and I hope you will act in accordance with what they have told you. I now 25 beg leave to move that Mr. McMorrow do take the second chair.” Mr. Jas. McMorrow then came forward, but as it was raining very heavily at the time, he simply thanked the people for moving him to the second chair. {C((Iiir. — Septemhar VMh, 1880.) Mr Joseph. Fisher, Waterford, dournalist, Pro])riotor of the “Munster lilxi)ress and AVaterford Daily Alail,” then eame forward .and said — “ ]\[en of Tipperary, it is a privilege to meet yon here to discuss a question in which avc arc all interested — the ])rosperity of Ireland. I wish to take up this question, not hecausc it aifects the rvhole of Ireland ; it aifects the farmers in the first instance, the labourers in the second, and the people in h "eiieral in the third. Neither do we take it up to get the tilumph of one class over another. Our object is, that the land shall be tilled, that it shall bring forth wealth and prosperity to the Avhole of Ireland. (Cheers.) There are two classes of landlords — a class living on their tenants and spending the Avealth of the country, and there are landlords Ave Avant to create. ATe Avant > 10 that evervone shall be the oAvner of his oavii land, and that no one shall l ave poAver to turn him out. (Cheers.) There Avas a time Avhen there were no landlords, no bailiffs, and no evictions ; and Ave want to go back to that good old time. AA’e Avant to go back to that ancient Irish system of tanistry, under Avhich each member of a clan Avas the absolute owner of his own land. 15 (Cheers.) That is the invariable laav of the God that made the land for the people, and it shall not be in the poAver of anyone to turn them out. (Cheers.) Alen of Tipperary, as long as the people Avere disunited and separated they Avere only as a rope of sand. The Land League shall make them united, and shall make them stand up befoi-e Heaven and say, God made the land for us, 20 and Ave shall keep it. (Loud cheers.) This, gentlemen, is the law of God, because Avhen Tie created the land He knew that the land was wanted to pro- duce food for man. Every man wants food, and every man is entitled to food, and the food comes from the laud, and therefore every man is entitled to the land. The landlord says you must give him a rent for that land or he 25 will turn you out. Now there are two ideas before the people. Every man is to be made the owner of his land, his own landlord. That is what is meant by peasant proprietary. He is to live on his own farm, and no power on earth shall dispossess him. (Cheers.) That is the first idea. But I am sorry to see that the gentleman who represents you has Avritten a letter, in Avhich 30 he says ; You are not to get land, but you are to hold it and pay a fair rent for it. You are to get fixity of tenure, at fair rents and free sales. AAYll, Father Byaii tells you you must not attack or quarrel Avith any man, but that you are to stand shoulder to shoulder Avith each other, and complete your work in a satisfactory manner. (Cheers.) Upwards of 100 35 years ao’O there was in Ulster a society called “ Hearts of Steel,” whose object was to prevent tenants competing with each other, and they were obliged to put on physical force betimes. (Cheers.) If you establish peasant proprietary, there will be no power on earth to dispossess you, and your members will not then be strivmg to bolster up the present landlaws and the present land 40 system. I say it here in the presence of you, aud without fear of contradic- tion. Avith reference to fixity of tenure at fair rents and free sale, that it is an effort to bolster up landlordism by the term fixity of tenure at fair rents. Now Avhat Ave want is to make every man the owner of his OAvn land. Only time is o-ettins: late, I would like to sav a few words about the Ulster custom ; 45 but I say again that what we want to get is, that everyone shall be able to get possession of his land and hold it under Heaven. (Cheers.) Now a great many of you have come here to-day by rail. The railway was made to make money for the speculators who were engaged in it. Now the law allowed these speculators to go into the land, and take it from both occupier and 6 A 4 [Cohir. — Scplemhcr 10///, 1880. — ^Tr. Joseph Fisher.) owner for tlicir own purpose. I don’t nslc the English Parliament to do so, hut there is not a session in which two or three railway bills arc not passed; and all I say is, that what applies to the railway itself applies to the land at both sides of it. (Cheers.) It is a great convenience for me to 5 come from Waterford to here in two hours, instead of spending live or six hours on the road. This the railway does, and it is a private speculation ; hut the farms that lie at each side of the railway perform a more important duty, they raise or produce food for the sustenance of the people, and that is the primary want, while the railway is only a secondary want. Then 10 why not giVe the same facilities to the people as are given to the railways ? Yoii are aware that the landlords have formed an association to baulk your views, and maintain the present land system. They pay a subscription into this association. That association is called the Laud Committee ; they should make it the Landlords Committee. That committee, as I have just 15 said, is formed to defeat the rights of the tenants, and the money is got where? Erom the tenants themselves. You are paying rents to these men, and they are paying it into the committee. Gentlemen, I don’t like to have our own money used against ourselves, and do you tell the landlords so, and that you will pay them no rents while they are spending them in 20 opposition to your views; they will very soon give it up then. I am rather an old man now, hut when I was a hoy I lired in Limerick, and at that time there was a Major Yokes, a resident magistrate there, or as he was familiarly called, Tommy Yokes. He was examined before a Committee of the House of Lords, and he stated before that committee 25 that the poor people could not live in Ireland unless a landlord or an agent was occasionally shot. (Cheers.) This was the opinion, then, of a resident magistrate. I am sorry to say that such things are coming to the same state, and if Tommy Yokes were living now, he should repeat the same opinion he did years ago. (Cheers.) I am glad to see such an orderly 30 meeting here to-day. What I want everyone of you to know is, that every- one of you alone has a responsibility on your shoulders, and use no half measures to secure the enjoyment of your farms. The Land League will encourage you to apply all your energies to develope the resources of the soil, and thus elevate you to a nation of independence. This you will effect hy 35 joining the Land League, hy thorough combination, and a hearty determina- tion to accept nothing short of complete ownership of the soil. (Loud cheering.) {Cahir. — Scptcniber Vdth, 1880.) Mr. Robert B. Bushe, bcllview, Cloiunol, rannor, then came Forward and said, — “ ]\lcn oi’ Ti|)i)erary, men of my native' country, it is witli pride tliat I pr()j)()S(? the second resoliilion For you, wliich is as Follows : “ ‘ 'I'hat a succession oF had harvests, cattle plagues, and foreign compe- titif)n, having brought our tenant farmers to a condition that renders it 5 impossible For them to continue the payment of extortionate and unreasonable rc'uts, Ave ])roclaim to the world onr conviction that the enforeennent of such [)ay]nent is contrary to the laAv of God and of all civilized Christian countries ; and that w(' condemn emphatically the unjust and inhuman practice of rutldessly evicting tillers of the soil from the homes and the lands 10 their industry has made habitable and productive.’ ” “ Gentlemen, that is the resolution T have been asked to propose, and with regard to the first part — the production of the soil and foreign com- petition — I wish to tell you that I know a gentleman farmer who possesses a prime farm of land well tilled, and that gentleman assures me that he 15 has only about nine barrels of corn to the acre, and that at only 8^. a barrel. Now I ask you how is money to be made out of the land when the labourers are paid out of that, where is the remainder ? The landlord says, ‘ 1 must have the crop ; I must have the rent.’ But I say there is another man that comes before the landlord, and that is the shop- 20 keeper that gave you bread to feed you and clothes to cover you ; I say that that man comes before the landlord. (Cheers.) Pay that man and then keep enough to support yourself and your family, and then if you have any left you may give it to your landlord. God made the land for the people and the landlords have depopulated it. In 40 years this gallant county 25 of Tipperary has been depopulated. Is such a state of things to be tolerated ? I know a landed proprietor, and she says that land is not fit for working farmers but for shopkeepers, and she refused a memorial of her tenants to reduce the rent which is 200 per cent, over Griffiths’ valuation. There is also a gallant colonel who is an absentee, and he owns a large property in this 30 county, and he wrote to say, ‘ I know I am on my death bed, I would much ‘ rather see goats and snipes on it than Irish farmers.’ (Groans.) Now men of Tipperary, you see that the Bill brought into and passed by the House of Commons has been rejected by the landlords, the enemies of the people. Will the ])eople submit to these things. (No, No.) No, the people of 35 Tipperary Avon’t submit to it. They don’t want to wrong any man. Let the soil produce it, let the times be favourable and the people are as Avilling as ever they were. But the times have changed and the people must change too, and how ? By not having the agents and bailiffs coming to them, for the land was made for the people by God, and the people must have it.” (Loud 40 cheers.) Q 3306. 43. 8 B / [Cdhir. — Seplcniher VMh, 1880.) Mr. Michael P. Boyton, Kildare, theii canic forward and said, — “Men of Tipperary, one of the first objects, in fact the ol)jcet of the National Land Leat^ne of freland is organisation. Prom what I have seen here to-day and at other meetings in this glorious county of Tippc'rary, 1 must, sp('.aking truth, therefore, say that organisation seems to me to 5 be the want of the Irish people. (Cheers). 1 come here to-day meaning to expound the princii)les of that national organisation, and 1 don’t think it is fair to the gentlemen who have been asked here to propose and second tliese resolutions, and to the representatives of the public press who put on record here to-day your sentiments, that they should he made 10 here to-day the victims of inconvenieuce resulting from a want of organi- sation. I see before me some 12,000 of the free and independent tillers of the soil of Tipperary, and I (hink such a meeting as this is worthy attention from those who promoted it. We are here on this platform crowded and choked to such an extent that these gentlemen who came here 15 to report your speeches, men, some of whom are as honestly determined to right your Avrougs as any of you. I want that such a thing will not he -necessary to say again at other meetings. I want to see a platform tvliere all Avould have proper accommodation. There is no fault to be found Avith the people here, but I ask the promoters of other meetings to take the 20 full rights of ejectments and give them fair play and room to draAV their breath. (Cheers.) I hope the lesson here to tliis meeting will not be throAvn aAvay on the officials of the next meeting in Tipperary. I have been asked to expound to you the principles of the National Land League. Their broad principles are embodied in the phrase I see before me, “ The 25 land for the people. Ireland for the Irish.” (Cheers). Their object is to lift the people of Ireland to an independent manhood, and not alone the tiller of the soil, but the men who work for him, the farmer and the labourer. Ours is not a union of brotherhood, but it is an effort to unite the whole people of Ireland in one common cause in defence of the first 30 law God has given them — self-preservation. We are earnestly working for you, and Ave mean that you shall furnish us with the means to do so. We want 'you all to unite in one body, from tbe sailor Avho ploughs the sea to the labourer who tills the fields of Tipperary. (Cheers.) Wicklow, or Kerry. (Loud cheers.) We are asking you one and all irrespectWe of province -or county* 35 town or city to join with us to-day. (Cheers.) We propose to put to the Irish people for the first time in a century the question whether they are equal themselves to the solving of the simple practical preliminary. If«iu this land movement the people of Ireland are found to be unequal to the task that the people of every other civilized land have accomplished, then before 40 God you are not fit for the higher position of nationhood. If you cannot band now in a brotherhood for the preservation ♦of yourselves and your future happiness and prosperity, then don’t band for anything else. (Cheers.) For Ireland’s nationality is the moral essence of our* movement. It inspires us throughout Ireland ; it inspires us as the soul created in God’s image. 45 That our objects, and the means we propose to effect them, are selfish or founded on greed, I deny it. I say that we are the manhood of Ireland, who 'fight against that accursed gospel of greed wherever it shows its head. (Cheers.) We have been opposed, and as I am sure every intelligent Irish- man knows that we have been accused of the worst principles of society, 60 avarice, and servility, that accusation cannot be sustained. (Cheers.) We 10 B 2 (Cahir. — Sepleitihcr VMh, 1880. — Mr. M P. Boy ton.) j)ro|)uso to take the place of these principles, tliat we would, if possilile, suh- stitute for these the most glorious of the graces of manhood, and that is : hirst, love of home, love of country, and then talk of freedom. (Cheers.) It has been the fasliion within a recent })eriodin ap])ealing to Tip])erary, to ([note the 5 words of her national poet, Thomas Davis. (Cheers.) I wdsli to tell you myself that Thomas Davis wrote prose as well as poetry, and I shall read for you one of the sentiments from the prose of Thomas Jfavis, and in reading that for you I commend it to the senior member for Tipperary : ‘ It is not ‘ a gambling fortune made at imperial play that Ireland wants ; it is to get 10 ‘ her peasants into snug homesteads of their owm, 'with well-tilled fields ‘ to hel}) to develop the industry of her people ; to gain conscious strength, ‘ and then to deserve the high gift of holy freedom.’ (Cheers.) These arc Ireland’s wants. (Cheers.) There is more of Thomas Davis I would call your attention to. He says, ‘ It is not.’ Mark me w'ell, my brother 15 Irishmen, for it is upon your decision ; it is upon your decision as to the meaning that I hold to he fixed gospel of the Land League, hangs the future of what part Tipperary shall have in settling the people in their homes. (Cheers.) He says, ‘ It is not from the senate as some suppose, or from the ‘ battle-field as others will tell you, that the regeneration of Ireland shall 20 ‘ arise ; it must arise — it must spring — from the domestic circle, from an ‘ expansion of social life, from views exalted beyond petty sectarianism ; in ‘ short, from Irishmen consenting to live and work together, using for these ‘ purposes none but civilising means.’ (Cheers.) I have been driven through the writings of Thomas Davis to find out the gospel of the National Land 25 League. I ask you, men of Tipperary, how I have found it ? (Cheers.) I don’t wash to detain you longer, but I have a duty here to go on wi th the work which, with the help of Tipperary, we have been enabled to accomplish in June at the foot of Slievenamon. (Cheers.) Already throughout every county in Ireland wu have such encouragement, steadiness, and reason with 30 the democracy that no human being has ever wdtnessed. Branch by branch is instituted everywhere in Tipperary. Already I have applications from 20 , centres to go there in helping them to help themselves. (Cheers.) You have all heard of the Kilbury ease, and there are many men here who are disposed to attribute the final settlement of that case to the Land League. Men of 35 Tipperary, it is not true that the Land League of Ireland, the natiooal organ- isation of the country, had any hand in settling that case. Give credit wdiere credit is due. It is due to the honest neighbours of Henry Maher. (Cheers.) Go over to-day to where my young friends have come from, the heathery slopes of the mountains, and there you will find the Land League ? M^hat is 10 the Land League ? Why, it is the people themselves. It is not a number of young men sitting at desks in the ofl&ce in Dublin. It is no mean wurshippers. Men who are sent to get you the land, but it is yourselves, your own men, wdio are doing this work. (Cheers.) Therefore I tell you. Irishmen, and I wurn you, that if ever there were a period in your country’s history when you 45 wanted organisation, it is now. (Cheers.) You are fighting first for the land that God gave you, and from whence you and your fathers have sprung ; you are fighting for the homes created by your honest industry ; fighting for the happiness and prosperity of your wives and children. (Cheers.) You are fighting for the future of Ireland, and I say to-day that Ireland needs all her 50 army. (Cheers.) I say to you that there is nothiug in this organisation in 11 {Cnhir. — September 1880. — Mr. M. P. Bouton.) which you arc called to take ])art coullictiii*^ with any existing organisation. And I say to you again Ireland needs to achieve her ])lace among the nations of the earth, a united army. We may want j)erlia))s the cavalry of repeal; Ave Avant the artillery of home rule ; we may want the rank and file of 5 the Land League. Aye, and avIio knows hut we may Avant the engineer avIio is working for aa^c Avill give him the signal to fire the gun. (Cheers.) We shall Avork together. AYhen Ave are working apart we are doing the work of the enemy, the Avork of the devil. (Cheers.) There never was a period yet Avhen the appeal for unity has been made AAutli such intensity and 10 such fervour. The man to-day Avho is found lighting against the democracy of Ireland, that man is the enemy of the cause of Ireland. I tell you, Irishmen, that this is a revolution. It is a revolution against a vile system ; it is a rehellion against injustice, and against greed. (Cheers.) It is a war, a holy war in a just cause, and the hanners that are carried at the head of 15 our columns have been blessed by the priesthood of Ireland, by the illustrious priesthood of Tipperary. (Cheers.) And while I pay my humble tribute to these to-day, I call upon the prelates and priests of Ireland Avho are standing hack from the people’s cause to follow the priests of Tipperary. (Cheers.) Therefore I appeal to you, one and all, to join hands with us, 20 give us your adhesion to our cause, stand together like men, and when you are able to achieve your social independence, we may from the rank and file of 250,000 Land Leaguers select an Irish national guard that with the weapon of freemen slung on their arm, the rifle that they may take, the place of that organisation, that 100 years ago gave Ireland a glimpse of liberty. (Cheers.) 25 If we cannot draw this Irish National Guard from the honest, manly people, then where in God’s name are we going to get them ? Trom our Land League, if you stand to us and help yourselves, and we will show you a national guard before whom the volunteers of 1882 will fade as mist before the sun, and then a brighter gleam of Irish independence than was beheld 30 by the immortal Grattan shall spring forth on Ireland and her people who have never yet forfeited their right to take their place among the nations of the earth. Now we want your united action; we want a union of hearts and hands, a union no one can sever, for the cause is the cause of dear old Ireland for ever. (Loud cheering.) B 3 12 {Cahir. — Srpt^nibe?' 19/A, 1880.) Mr. Michael P. Boyton, Kildare, then eame forward, and was reeeived with clieers over and over ag-aiu. lie said, — “ Men of Tipperary, it is my pleasing duty now in supporting the vote of thanks to Eather Mooney, and to perform another duty no less pleasing because it is my public duty. This resolution that you have adopted I shall in reading for you say that it is like the coneluding part of a solemn 5 ceremony, that you will follow the words of the illustrious Archbisliop of Cashel, Dr. Croke (Cheers), when he told the good men and true at Kiiburry to give no pledge but that which they intended manfully to carry out. (Cheers.) This is the final part of the resolution, and I desire in giving this pledge to you that you shall respond as becomes the men of Tipperary, 10 and as they have done at other meetings. (Cheers.) “ ‘ That we hereby solemnly pledge ourselves never to bid for, take, hold, or occupy the house or land from which a tenant has been evicted for non- payment of an unjust rent; never to work on such land, and never to purchase cattle or crops seized for nonpayment of such rent.’ (Cheers.) Now 15 I call on every honest Irishman who loves his country to raise his hand and pledge himself. (All hands raised.) That is the best vote of thanks you can pass to the president of the Cahir branch of the Land League, for it shows him what you mean and how you do it.” (Loud cheers.) B 4 14 {Cahir. — September W)lh, 1880.) Mr. Joseph. Fenton, Clomnorc, ranner, then came forward and said, — “ Gentlemen, 1 feel great pleasure in proposing the third resolution, as follows : — “ That having heard the princijdes of the National Land League, its objeets, and the means proposed for their attainment, we give them our 5 heartiest approval, and hail with satisfuetion the establishment of the Cahir braiieh, and that we hereby solemnly pledge ourselves never to l)id for, take, hold, or oecupy the house or land from whieh a tenant has been evicted for nonpayment of an unjust rent, never to work on sueh lands, and never to purchase cattle or crops seized under such conditions.” (Cheers.) Mr. Edmond Walsh, Ballymaher, farmer, then came forward and said, — 10 “ Men of Tipperary, I am placed in a curious position here. I have been asked to second this resolution. Well, I have much pleasure in so doing. I love the people, and as much as I love the people of Tipperary, I love a native legislature that ought to be given to the Irish people. We have an organisation of landlords throughout the country. Irishmen and men of 15 Tipperary, in this regard the people of Tipperary have never received their rights. The landlords have asserted their rights, they will have them to the last, and the poor tenants will have nothing. The tenant says, I have done my best. I have given you everything. I want to know from the people what will pay the landlords a fair rent, an honest rent, but I say we will 20 give him an honest rent, but otherwise we will give nothing beyond that. (Cheers.) I use the words of Swift. The landlords are doomed. We have done our best to grow two ears of corn where one grew before, and we have failed, and the man that will do that is better than we are. Men of Tipperary, there is more sense under a frieze coat than under the broadcloth, 25 and I see it, and I say to you, ‘ Carry it home with you.’ In conclusion I ask you to stand by your rights by the green banner I see before me, and you will gain your rights, men of Tipperary.” (Loud cheers.) Rev. Thomas Power, C.C., Cahir, then came forward and said, — “ Fellow-countrymen, I have great pleasure in supporting this resolution, proposed and seconded, ‘ That we approve of the Land League in our midst, 30 ‘ and we pledge ourselves never to keep a farm from which a tenant has been ‘ evicted, or bid for any of the stock seized.’ I have to congratulate you on the success of your meeting to-day. It shows that these laws which crush and depress the tenant farmers of Ireland must be reformed. Union is strength, and Heaven helps those who help themselves. (Cheers.) Disunion has 35 been up to this the bane of our country, and if you stand together work energetically for that result, it must be attained. (Cheers.) We have at present a Government determined to do justice to Ireland, but they have a strong coterie of landlords to contend against. The evening is drawing fast to a close. It is time that I should congratulate you on your good behaviour, 40 on your good order, and I hope it will be so until you return to your homes this evenmg.” (Loud cheers.) Mr. James O’Halloran, Clonmel, then came forward and said,~ “ Men of Tipperary, I am proud of you having come here to-day to show the landlords, the people, and the Government that you are determined to have your rights. I have great pleasure in proposing a vote of thanks to oim 45 worthy chairman. I hope you will all unite, and that we wiU have the land to live on.” (Cheers.) 13 {Hwcrsmlle. — September ^S)lh, 1880.) Mr. M. M. O’Sullivan: Mr. Chairman, Ladies, and Gentlemen. After this day s meeting I think there is still hope for Ireland. Myalls cannot hold out the light of truth, neither can walls hold out a determined people struggling for their rights. (Cheers.) It is now eighteen months since you have pledged 5 yourselves never to take a farm from which another had been evicted. To-day vou stand here to stamp upon the man who has violated that rule ; to stamp ujion him the indelible stigma of public abhorrence. You stand here once more to pledge yourselves never to take any farm from which a person has been evicted, or which has been surrendered from any cause whatever. (Cries 10 of “ Never.”) You stand hero to pledge yourselves never to buy any goods, any farm produce, or any cattle which have been sold for rent. (“ Never. ) Let the sheriff come, and let him liave his auction, but let him have no buyer. That is the only way in which you will be able to put an end to landlordism in Ireland. What the evils of that system are need not be told you from 15 this platform. You see it around you. You see it around you in your every- day life. You have trod, many of you, over the homesteads of the people now turned into large grazing parks for the cattle of the big grazier or the capitalist who has fed upon your labour. At last the manhood of Ireland has stood up and has said that it will tolerate this landlord system no longer ; 20 that they will depend upon themselves and not be looking to others to do their work ; not looking to members of Parliament ; for instance, men like Mr. Mitchell-Henry. (Cries of “ Down.”) Piemember that it is the interest of I these men to keep you in serfdom. It is your interest, in the name of humanity, to stand up and do away with that system. They have done it, 25 as vou have been told by Mr. Huban, in other countries. In Prussia they did it peacefully. The Government bought out the Prussian nobles in this way ; they advanced a certain amount of money to buy out the landlords, and they charged interest to the tenants upon thaij money. Now, for instance, take a farm of which the valuation is 100/. a year ; the rent 30 of that at the present time would be something about 200/. Now, if you give the landlords twenty years’ purchase, that would be 2,000/. ; that at five per cent, terminable at the end of 35 years would be exactly 100/. a year rent that you would have to pay for 35 years, and then the farm was yours. In Prance, the people set upland did not offer any compe n- 35 sation to these men ; they would not have it ; bu^^yjpm^ed them, and they did away with them in that way. (Cries of “ The riglff way.”)~We have no right to say whether it was right or wrong. The Prehch~are the best judges of their own work. What we have to do is to settle our own question, and it can be done easily if you adhere to the principle of not taking a farm 40 from which another has been evicted, and not buying anything sold for rent, and not working upon any farm from which a person has been evicted. If there are crops there, if there is hay, if there is anything to be done, why, let the landlord come and work himself, like my Lord Dunsandle. Let him come over and save the crops himself, and his wife and daughters and sons, 45 as vour wives and daughters, who are a damned sight b etter t han them, have to do. You must, above all, reSEEiber thaPtliere is no dignity but labour ; thaFthe man who works is the only noble in the land ; that those other men who idle should be put into the penitentiary or jail , or some place, make them go and do a public work for their living. The only speech to-day that 50 is necessarv, is the fact that we have come here to-day, that we have 4 [liiversvi/le. — September lO/A, 1880.— J/r. 31. 31. O' Sullivan.) proposed a resolution denouncing those men, and denouncing the system. It is not necessary to treat you to a long speech upon the land question. You know your rights, and you know you have nothing to do hut in cases like these to assemble together to denounce the land grabber, if he does not give 5 up the land. (Cries of “ Maim him. ” ‘‘ Shoot h im.”) No, do not speak to him at all. If he goes into chapel, keep away from him, and make a ring round him that everybody may see him. Do not buy or sell from him ; and after a little time he will be very glad to give up the farm, and go back into honest life again. A 3 5 (Riversville. — Sepleynber lyJi, 1880.) Mr. M. M. O’Sullivan: “ It noAV liecomes my duty to move that Mr. Pallon leave the chair, and that Mr. Harris take the second chair. In proposing a vote of thanks to our recent chairman, who has recently been evicted, I must say that the reason I did not speak to-day was that I thought it was unnecessary, seeing 5 that you had at last come to the conclusion of voting one of your own body into the chair at one of your meetings, and that you were not looking to some big gun, a J.P. or some other P. in the place, that you were not looking for him, but that you took an evicted tenant and put him into the chair at your meeting. I thought that that was quite a sufficient speech in 10 itself. I think the history of our meeting to-day will mark a new era in the movement of the Land League in the West. You have come here determined to protest in the most solemn manner against land grabbing, and you have done it. Mr. Murty Hynes is destined to have his name written in history with a very questionable, in fact an unenviable, notoriety. The only way 15 that Mr. Murty can retrieve his name is to come upon this spot where we are standing and here give up this farm, give it up, and then let the late man who was evicted be reinstated, no matter how bad he was, and I believe he and his family were always bad. We are not here to reinstate any man, but we are here upon the assertion of a principle, and 20 that principle we will maintain. There was another thing that struck me when I stood up here. I generally devote half of my speech for the educa- tion of the ‘ P. I. C.’ We have not had many of them here to-day, and those that have been here have been pretty well educated. I think some of them would scarcely have joined the force if they’d had so much education 25 previously. The young fellows are very good fellows, but the old fellows, don’t trust them. Now, regarding the practical part of it, practical work is the thing that we should look to in Ireland. We have had too much music, too many flags, and too little practical work. Let us look to the practical work in the future. You have determined to organise a branch of the Land 30 League in this district. Are you really firmly determined upon that ? (Cries of assent.) Let me see the hands of those who are. Before you leave this field enrol yourselves in the nearest branch of the Land League and unite yourselves in your own interests, If you are united the few landlords must give place to the millions of the people. This poor man that we had as 35 chairman to-day has been evicted by Mr. Persse of Eoxborough. I believe he is a fox hunter, but in this instance — (cries of ‘Rabbit’) — he is a rabbit catcher, but he is a man hunter because he hunted this poor man on his farm; he hunted him even though there was not a year’s rent due, according to what the man tells me ; he hunted him and his wife and family ; 40 tfie youngest of them is only two months old. Is that the state Irishmen will be in always ; will they only live on their land by the sufferance of these men, or will they not rather be united, stand up once and have a fight, fight for your homes ? Will you not rather stand together in that fight than betray each other like this man ; this traitor to your cause and to the cause 45 of his country ? Will you not stand together ? I will not, in the words of the poet, pray that earth may refuse him a home, and heaven its God. I will not, for that would be giving too much importance to him. I would rather let Mm be among you a ma rked man ; a man upon whom every man will look as if ‘traitor’ was marked with a brand upon his forehead. And 12 ^ — {liiversville. — September l^th, 1880. — Mr. M. M. O'Sullwan.) surely in this crowd or in this country is there any man who Avili stretch out the hand of IVicndship to a traitor ? (Cries of ‘ Never.’) There is not a man wlio would kneel at the same altar with such a man ; there is not a man who, if he saAV him walking on one side of a street, would not walk on the other, for 5 traitorism and fidelity are the very opposite, and should take opposite sides of the street. Will you not thus mark him ? Keep liim with that brand upon his forehead until he comes here and makes restitution, and then when he does that, then hold another meeting, a jubilant meeting, to celebrate the triumph of your cause. I promise him that though to-day I have restrained 10 my tongue, for if I let it free the hideousness of the act would cause me to sav Avords that mav be harmful to the cause I advocate ; but if he comes here, if he gives up this land back again, I promise him that the words of laudation shall flow from my lips as the rain does from the sky, that nothing will prevent me from giving expression to my joy for the triumph of that 15 cause for which I liaA^e humbly but heartily worked.” {BivemvUle. — Seplemher Vdlh, 1880.) Mr. M. M. O’Sullivan: This is Mui'ty Hynes’ own letter. I am sure Murty we will have a fine meeting’ here in a short time to pass Murty. He says : ‘ To the Committee ‘ of the Land League,— In regard to me buying the crop that Bermingham ‘ was evicted, I only bought the hay of it by public auction, and paid cash 5 ‘ out for it, for it was the people’s opinion that the League would not inter- ‘ fere, and if I had thought so I would not buy it, as__Bermmgham_shp 3 M ‘ be tbe last man to get the benefit of the League. (So I believe he is.) ‘ As I have done it innocently,’ he says, ‘ if I be paid my money back, or ‘ get time until I take my crop off it, I will have no more to do with it. I 10 ‘ remain, yours, gentlemen, Murty Hynes.’ Now Murty has a father, as everv viper has. ‘ My dear Mr. Griffin, (this is to the Secretary of the Gurteen Branch ; the father is a member of that branch, and the secretary, as in duty bound, wanted an explanation, and here is the explanation .) He says, ‘ I received your letter this evening, and was about to write to you, 15 ‘ whether I received yours or not, concerning the land of Bermingham that ‘ was bought at Conacre for a very small sum by my son Murty, who says he ‘ merely bought it as revenge of Bermingham, and did not know at the time ‘ whether it was the wishes of the Land League or not to have Bermingham ‘ restored. He was not the first that bought, but others that there is no talk 20 ‘ at all about.’ That will not be so for the future if any man takes a farm from which another has been evicted. ‘ Murty was told that members of the ‘ Land League said that Bermingham’s breed was too long in the country. ‘ Murty said he would be the last person in the country that would disturb ‘ the Land League, but aid it in every way he could. He paid 18Z. for the 25 ‘ hay ’ and you have been saving it — ‘ and to give it up would only be ‘ putting money in Lord Hunsandle’s pocket. He paid the money the same ‘ day, not knowing it would come to this ; but if he could only get so much ‘ of his hay as would pay him, he would give it up. furthermore I would ‘ say for myself, if I thought the Land League would take such men as 30 ‘ Bermingham, I would not join your branch, and it was his brothers that ‘ quenched all the fires on Lord Hunsandle’s property. There was not one [ ‘ person evicted since his brother done it before ; and^s for Murt y, he is | ‘ willing to suffer a great part of his money if he had only some ; you ‘ know 18Z. is a handsome sum to be at a loss, but as for any of my family 35 ‘ to have anything to do with it, they have not. We are very sorry that it ‘ has happened, as it had anything to do with the Land League ; but we ‘ promise to get out of it, as it is the best system, but for Martin Bermingham ‘ to get the benefit of the Land League, he or anyone belonging to him, he ‘ does not deserve it. I remain, yours truly, Michael Hynes.’ That is the | 40 father’s letter. Now if they give up this place, we will have that other meeting I spoke of, and that meeting will certainly be the trumpet-sound of a new and a brighter history for Ireland. [Bii^ersinlle. — September Vdlh, 1880.) Mr. Griffin : , , • ^ . I beg to propose tlie second resolution That no land system is final “ or SiUisfaotorv rvliidi does not abolisli the present system of landlordism “ and snhstitute therefor a system by which the oceupier of the soil can “ become the owner tbcrcof.” 5 After the eloquent speech you have heard from Mr. O’Sullivan there is no use in my saying anything to you, and as Mr. Ilarris lias to come after I will make room for him. Three cheers for him. Mr. Matthew Harris : y Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen It augurs well for the success ot this A / 7^ 10 great movement to see so many tenant farmers rush here to-day for the j preservation of their fellow-men. If that spirit had pervaded the people of this country in the past, our lands would not have been desoLated nor our people driven by the four winds of heaven to every country in the earth, as they have been. But I hope, my friends, we are entering upon a new era. 15 This great movement is progressing every day, east, west, north, and south. The people are beginning to feel their own strength, and also beginning to feel the weakness of the tyrants who have been oppressing them m the past. There have been in the past wliicli I have alluded to, two agencies which have been destructive to all the interests of our country. One of those 20 agencies is the tyrant who comes directly to oppress, to enslave, or to destroy his fellow man ; the other agency still more vile, a still worse and still more infamous agency is the traitor, the renegade who co-operates with that tyrant. ! The tyrant landlord who would exterminate without mercy hundreds and hundreds of families, such a man would be powerless to act, if among your- 25 selves there were not vile, false, bad men, men who look around them and watch to see where the poor man may be slack of money, where he may be wanting in means to pay his rent, and where he may be oppressed perhaps by disease or sickness of his family or any of those numerous calamities which we are all inherent to in this world. He watches such a man, and in the hour of 30 his trial and weakness, at the very time when he should sustain him, he comes forward and he takes the home over his head or the land by which he was supporting his family. Let me tell you, my friends, that this man is worse than the 'tyrant and the oppressor who is striving to crush you down every day, because such a man feels very well, he knows, the sentiments of the 35 people ***** {prevented from writing for an instant hij a crush). IsMw, gentlemen, I have spoken about these men in their individual capacity, but if I spoke of them in their collective capacity I could bring home to them all the calamities which have fallen upon our country, for the very first man who comes forward to take a single farm, that does all 40 the harm. The great exterminations which have been in the past, those exterminations which, as I said before, have laid waste vast districts in our country, it was the first man that took a poor man’s farm, that was mainly instrumental in it. These things always begin small. One man begins and he takes a man’s farm. Another imitates his example, and another, and 45 another, and the thing extends itself ever, until at last it comes to this ; the landlords take it into their heads that they can exterminate their people with impunity, just as my Lord Hunsandle, in the times that are past, has taken it into his head ; just as he exterminated whole districts of country, exter- 6 (Hwo'sville. — September \^th, 1880. — Mr. Matthew IlarriH.) minatod his L‘ellow-man, and along with his follow-man, poor w('ak women and children ; just as he exterminated them in the past so it will he in the future, if you do not resist every man who moves in that direction. (Cries of “We will.”) If hefore tliese heartless exterminations took place, if before 5 Lord Dunsandle had done the injury he has done especially about the district of Kiltullag'h, if they had assembled together in their thousands, as you have assembled here to-day, and if they had held up Lord Dunsandle to public opprobrium, if they had made this country too hot for Lord Lunsandle in the sense of a country being too hot for the man who has the hatred of a 10 people against him, if they had done that, the exterminations v/hich have taken place u])on Lord Dunsandle’s property never would have taken place. Therefore, my friends, I say you are here to-day engaged in one of the noblest and most glorious works men can be engaged in, you are engaged in a great work of Christian charity, you are engaged in assistijig your fellow- 15 man, not by giving him a halfpenny or a few potatoes in charity, though that of itself is a good act, but by doing a work which will be beneficial not to one or two, but to thousands of thousands, to millions I might say, for it will extend itself throughout the whole country. You know as well as I know that the man’s friend or brother from whom this farm has been taken 20 was in the past one of the worst instruments that Lord Dunsandle had. Now I am not anxious to speak in favour of this Bermingham, who has been evicted from this farm. I have stood upon many platforms, but I always speak out my mind like an independent, honest man. It is not that we want to support Bermingham, it is not that we care about Bermingham, it is not 25 that we want to interfere between Lord Dunsandle and the slaves that he has had around him in the past ; but we have come to maintain the broad principle that no man should auction a crop, or take land from which another has been evicted. If this great principle is adhered to, if you keep this one point firmly in view, if you do not deviate from that, if you are firm, then 30 all the rest will be very easy matter indeed. But if you are weak, or if you fall back, if you begin to collogue, or to make free with the man who does that, if you act in any way unworthy of Irishmen under such circum- stances, then numberless calamities will fall upon you, upon your children and upon your homes, as they have fallen in the past, on account of your 35 doing this thing that I advise you against this day. Now I mean to follow the example of my friend Mr. O’Sullivan, the gentleman who has done more hard downright business in this matter than any other man in Ireland. I shall follow that example, and not make a long speech here to-day ; but before I cease to speak I wish to allude to^ a very important 40 fact, a fact which bears very strongly upon the Boyal Irish Constabulary who are present here to-day. (Groans.) Do not ; that is wrong. I can tell you, gentlemen, that on account of the great public spirit that rose up in this country at the time of the Penian movement some 15 years ago, on account of the number of young men, who having been connected with 45 that movement, were forced through necessity to join the Boyal Irish Consta- bulary, on account of this single fact, there is a very great improvement in the Boyal Irish Constabulary of this country. I would not like to say they were all what they ought to be, but still I would like that when you would give a groan, it would he a qualified one ; that it is the bad members 50 of the force you are groaning. Well, gentlemen, with regard to the Boyal Irish Constabulary, you know that there wns a Bill brought into Parliament 7 A4 {Tdvcrsoille.—Seplemher VMh, 1880— J/r. Malthew Harris.) for tho purpose of protecting tlic poor people against tyrannical bad landlords ; that Bill was thrown out by the Lords, they went in opposition to the Commons, and one of the men Avho opposed that Bill I believe, though I am not perfectly certain upon the point, was Lord Bunsandle. Lord Dimsandle 5 was one, and I am quite certain that Lord Ashdown if he were tliere (but he is in “another place ” to-day) he Avould have voted also against the measure, because upon his property, and I will digress for a few moments to speak of that property, upon his property they have a rule that when a tenant dies, the rent shall be raised upon the incoming tenant. Well, I do not know 10 how he would like that rule to be applied to his own family, if the same reductions were made in the income of his family that he made in that poor family, of which the father had died. We have one half of the Government with us; we have the House of Commons with us ; we have the Lords against us. That clearly proves that the enslaved country cannot enjoy the 15 constitution at all, for this reason, that if we could enjoy one of the greatest privileges of the constitution, that is to cut off the supplies ; it is with the Lords to refuse a Bill, but it rests with the Commons to cut off the supplies to support the military system in case the Bill is refused. Now if we had the government of our country in our own hands — and I hope the time will 20 come when we have the government of the country in our own hands cut off the supplies from the Royal Irish, cut off the supplies from the military, tell the Lords,— If you do not pass our Bill we will not pay men to tyrannise over the people for you, if that privilege of the constitution were exercised, you would soon have the Lords coming upon their knees 25 praying the Commons to pass the Bill they had rejected. I put this forward, gentlemen, as proof that an enslaved people can have neither law nor constitution behind them. Before having done I would ask you to organise ; to join in the next branch of the League ; to do so in an orderly, sensible, and practical manner; for without organisation we cannot hope to 30 succeed. If any man comes and tells you, Oh, tlie Land League— no matter what it may be— the Land League is not a fit thing for a good Irishman to join, tell him you are as good an Irishman as he is ; that you do not want to have any discord or disunion with your neighbours; that you have no discord with anyone only with bad landlords and land grabbers ; teU him 35 that, my friends, and as soon as the country is thoroughly organized, instead of the numbers that are here to-day, though the numbers are considerable, when a man has notice to quit, or when a farm is about to he taken from a man, tens of thousands of people will rush together to protect that man. In the Presidency of Bengal, when what they call a “ man-eater, one of the 40 fiercest of the tiger species, puts his appearance in, the whole of the villagers around are in a state of alarm. The tiger ! They do not know when he may devour some of them, and they all come together and make great exertions to drive him from the locality in which he is. So it should be with a bad landlord, his agent or bailiff ; when he comes into a district to 45 oppress and grind them, to put people out of their peaceable homes, you should all congregate together as people do in Bengal, and drive that worst of tigers from your midst. I am sure to-day that if the tenant farmers of Ireland had their choice, they would sooner have imported into the country so many lions or tigers, or any other savage animals, than have the landlords 50 they at present have oppressing them. If you do not get up among your- selves a spirit of resistance ; if you do not say that you have endured this 8 {Rioersimic.—Scptcmbc)' 19//^ 1880.— J/r. MaUJicw narris.) tyvanny too long’ ; il‘ yon do not make these people understand that you are not tools for cravens to play Avith ; if you do not shoAV that you have sufficient courage, sufficient sense, siUricient moderation, sufficient judgment and reason, sufficient everything tliat is nohlc and right in man ; if you do not 5 rememher that you arc made after the likeness of the Great Being Avho is oA’cr us all ; if you do not rememher that, and that the true nobility of man consists in his resistance to everything that is vile and tyrannical ; if you do not remember these things, and, remembering them, combine to put down everything that oppresses you ; if you do not do that, between the bad 10 government that is ruling over us, and the landlords as they are, and the bailiffs as they are ; if you do not consider these things, I fear that those who come after us will say that those who came before them were wanting in the warm blood and generous sentiments that are the characteristics of true Irishmen. I beg now, gentlemen, to second this resolution which has 15 been proposed for you. There are other gentlemen to speak, and I have already detained you too long. But I hope and trust that you will not attach too much importance to words. It is deeds that carry everything before them in this world. The words that I say will pass away like the wind that blows ; but you yourselves, by union and working together, by joining 20 together in forms of organisation such as I have stated, will make these men feel that you are too great and noble a people to be oppressed in the manner that you have been. Q 3366. — 42. 9 B {lliverHi'/dlc. — September Vdlh, 1880.) Mr. Matthew Harris: Gcutlemen, our chairman has not been much experienced in the duties he had to perform hero to-day, therefore I will put in (jloho all the resolutions which have been proposed and seconded, as I now occupy the second chair. Every man who is in favour of the resolutions which you 5 have heard read let him raise his hand. (Hands raised.) Unanimously. Any man that is against the resolutions which have been put forward. Not one. Now gentlemen, before separating I would wish to make a few remarks about the poor man who has occupied the chair here to-day. You have heard yourselves from Mr. O’Sullivan how cruelly, how badly, the man has 10 been treated by the Persse’s. Now it is a most unpleasant task for me to be talking of or denouncing gentlemen of the County Galway. Among the gentlemen of the Comity Galway are to be found many men possessing good and noble qualities, but we cannot be splitting straws. Me are engaged in a fair contest with the gentry of this country, and I say in 16 that contest you have not greater enemies than the Persse’s of Galway. Another thing I have to tell you. These gentlemen are all allied through this country as blood relations, every one of them has intermarried, they are all related to each other, and all united to each other in their clubs, and their coteries, and their meetings, and if you do not unite in the same manner, 20 not by blood but at all events by union in practice, of course those who are united will get the upper hand of you. Now I will make one remark. I have often been pleased to see a fine field of County Galway gentlemen go out to hunt, but another melancholy reflection has crossed my mind, and it is this, when I see those men hunting over the hearth-stones upon 25 which the people lived. Burton Persse, as master of the Galway foxhounds, I blame. I tell Burton Persse — I tell the whole of the Persse’s in Galway— that if they go on oppressing the people they will have to drop their hunting. They will not allow them to ride over the hearth-stones of the people all over the country. They will not allow them to go into a poor 30 man’s field and kill or injure the poor man’s crop or frighten his cattle. They will not allow them to breed foxes to kill or eat the poor man’s fowls in this country. We can meet these gentlemen in a thousand Avays that we can think of. M^e can show them that there are clear-headed, intelhgent men at the head of this movement, and if they try to crush us we can crush 35 them. Now I tell you anyone who had looked at this poor man would see that he was an old, weak, helpless, and feeble poor man. Here was a man \vho, had Persse the heart of an Irishman in him, if he had the generosity of a Christian, or of a man in him, he would have assisted and not oppressed that poor man. But I warn him from this platform, and the like of him, 40 that people will not put up with his oppressions any longer. This poor man has gone back to his home from which he has been put out. He has gone back against the Avish of Persse, and I say the Land League will support him in that home again. Gentlemen, I think our business is all concluded here to-day, but I will make one further allusion. There has been a letter written 45 by the man’s father who took this farm ; it shows that there is sometliing of a good inclination on his part. He says he made a mistake. The only way to make people feel they have made mistakes is to show them what they have done as we have shoAvn him here to-day. At all events he has written 14 (Riversville. — Sejjtember 19//^ 1880. — 3Ir. 31. Harris.) this letter. AVc don’t care about tho letter, hut we want him to give up the farju, and if he does not do that he will find the public feeling— a strong publie sentiment, not alone against him, but against every member of his breed. Shall I read the letter ? Mr. O’Sullivan will read the letter, after which wc will all disperse. 15 B 4 {lliversnille. — September VMh, 1880.) Mr. Peter Broderick : “ Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen. — As the order of the day is to ho brief, I will try and adliero to that poliey. As Mr. Harris has very nearly exhausted the suhjeet, very little remains for me to say ; hut in looking round over this vast assembly, and considering the solemn and imperative duty that we have 5 come upon here, I cannot express myself as I wish to, hut I know that m your hearts there burns a feeling of indignation against this man who has thought to set aside the principles Ave hold so dear. About 18 months ago he thought to sot aside one of the principles of the Land League, namely, to take no land from which another had been evicted. See how consistent 10 the acts of this man have been Avith that teaching. I thought the spirit of degeneracy had passed, hut unfortimately even in our own parish a man is found to break the rules and defy the people. A fcAV days ago, when a man was joining the Land League, he said to me, ‘ I found it was foolish to attack a city or to fight single-handed against a crowd.’ This man Murty 15 Hynes, did not consider that it was foolish to attack a city or to go against a crowd single-handed. He might have asked Avhat power did the Irish people possess. As Mr. Kettle put it the other day, we possess neither cannon nor capital, hut we possess the free and determined will of the people to assert their rights. We have no capital hut the honesty of the people. 20 This movement is only sustained by your fidelity ; if a traitor is found among them mark him well, hut that is all ; refuse him your moral support, which you can do. We know perfectly well that we are engaged in a strictly constitutional and strictly legal course ; let no man commit a crime at all which shall bring him within the power of the law. Murty Hynes I did not 26 know at all, hut I certainly know him now ; his action bequeaths to his children a legacy which perhaps no other man could give. There is an heirship of crime now which in his family shall he borne for ages, shall never die in ages to come. There are men now listening here who, when they become grey with years, when they pass by this spot might naturally 30 point with interest to the spot where they held an indignation meeting to condemn Murty Hynes for his action. It is a matter of deep regret that in this Christian land upon the Sabbath men like us should have to come here to condemn the action of our fellow-man ; but still it is a hopeful omen for us when the national standard is sullied to see all our children rush with 35 torrent speed to uphold the national dignity of the nation. Now I hold^a resolution in my hand which is in fact endorsing what Mr. Harris said, it is that you form a branch of the Land League in this parish. We should bear in mind that union is strength, and that were it not for the union of the people to-day the action of Murty Hynes could go as free as the wind thiough 40 the air, and no one would notice it ; but when the power of the people is massed together then the AA^eight of their vengeance falls upon them. You are asked to-day to organise yourselves ; you haA^e been told that oiganisation should follow agitation. Goodness knows we have agitated long enough. Ai-e we to do nothing else ? To-day you are merely asked to join in it ; to 45 prove your strength, so that no more Miudy Hyneses can crop up amongst vou. Hy your moral power to-day you can inflict an injury upon that man that perhaps he is unaware of ; you can refuse him your support ; you can make him moan beneath himself until he says, ‘ 0 alienate of Heaven^ 0 Spirit accursed ! ’ It may be that to him, but you can look on quietly and 10 Vi', /. (Tiiversvillle. — Sciilcmbcr \^lh, 1880 — Mr. Peter Broderick.) you can sec iliat man wearing beneath the curse. As Mr. Nelson said so well in Kintullagh a Imv days ago, to-day he began his crop. When he means to gather it up I do not know ; hut tlie best tiling he could do would he to ask the whole party to go and save it lor him. Now, as I said before, 5 the order of the day was to ho brief. I will he so. Iho resolution I have in my hand is the outcome of this meeting. You are asked to form a branch of the Land League, which will support you from the tyranny with which you are surrounded here. Unfortunately every wlicie the eye can reach around here tyranny has been the rampant power lor 10 years. Will it he so for ever ? No. It will if any like to have it so ; it is in your determined power to put it down. Unless you are determined to put it down, and united to put it down, it will live on as ever it did. Now, in the presence of Mr. O’Sullivan, the secretary of the Land League, it would he presumptuous for us to speak about the Land League. It has been tiied 15 and never been found wanting. To-day you are in an isolated place, yet in a moment you are come here to raise your protest against the action of one man. This plainly tells you that the Land League is with you, and will you refuse the Land League your moral support ? It is perfectly open and accord- ing to law. It is even open for the policemen to join in it. Now, gentlemen, 20 before we disperse, it may he well to say that the object of this meeting is not to condemn a system or a class so much as to condemn the action of one man. Landlordism has been condemned often and often, and will he till it is banished from the land. Now the action of this man meets, I think, with your greatest censure. He has acted hostilely to your interests, and is the 25 very man who would go round to-morrow and defy the Land League. Well, the Land League has no power to do anything to him, but you can deal with him •, you can refuse your moral support to him. When you meet him in the fair do not know him ; when you meet him in the market-place do not know him ; form that ring around him that Mr. O’Sullivan suggested to you. 30 I think my ofiBce is done. I will just ask you to become members of the Land League. If any man does not know where it is, this {exhibiting a placard) will tell him. It will tell him that the people want to he organised so as to protect their own rights. He will know that disunited power has been the evil upon this land. A man might go and do what he liked and 35 nobody interfered with him, hut now the people are handed together m their mighty power, and no such evil can live amongst them. That is the reason you are asked to join this movement, and I hope from the enthusiasm I have seen there will he a very large muster-roll. I thank you for the attention you have given me.” 40 Mr. John Rooney (or Runoe) spoke in Irish. B 2 11 {Ennis.—A^th Sepf(>mher, 1880.) Mr. M‘Mahon, of Kiimsh. My friends of ?]nnis, T have come a ^ood way to-day to see you to attend tills meeting. It is not a landlords’ meeting it is for the farmeis and for the poor people, and I hope that the people will stick together and work together, and get what they require. In Kilrush we have been 5 expecting to see some of our county members there, but it is hard to stir the people there ; but what there are there are good. There are plenty of people there, but still there are so many that go away to England, France, and (iermany, that the people do not see nor hear, nor say a word about them. They are afraid to stir or speak, but before many days I will have 10 a branch of the Land League in Kilrush (hear, hear). Now, there was a few days ago a little incident that happened in Kilrush. Within a few miles there'’ were one or two farms, but the farmer had a small plot of land which this time a year ago produced nothing, and to-day it is beautiful meadow, half reclaitued, manured, and everything, but it was taken away 15 the other day and sold to the highest bidder for £30. They came to take the hay away. There were two or three men with their coats off came, and there was the landlord came with two of the Eoyal Irish, and they had to walk away without it. There was no fighting. Don’t fight if you can, but keep your grip hard on what you have— don’t starve, and don’t let 20 your children starve. You have no tillage now. Whom did you get it from? You have to thank Mr. Parnell for it. Are you going to starve your children ? No. Don’t starve, and don’t let the children starve, and don’t fight ; but, if they put you to it, you know what to do. I like to keep out of fighting as long as I can, but if they put us to it, I will tell you what I 25 will do— the sword will leap and the bayonet will fly. I will now read the resolution — “ That we pledge ourselves never to be satisfied with any settlement of the land question except upon the basis of an occupying proprietary, which we regard as the only means by which all classes of the nation can be 30 united in a National Parliament.” I wish success to you, and that you may succeed (cheers). 6 (I'/nnis. — 19- that which every honest man in Ireland should su])port (cheers). I have been your representative, you the women and men of Ennis, for two short sessions, and I have endeavoured, in 5 accordance with my j^edg^es from this platform, to take that stand in Irish politics which 1 hold can only be taken by a true Irishman, and that is the stand of National Inde})endence. I am neither a believer in Toryism nor a follower of Whiggery — a plague on both the houses, 1 recognise but one policy, and that is the policy of squeezing from any Government that which 10 belongs to Ireland, by every means which God and nature have placed in our power (cheers). I came to Ennis pledged to support that policy known as the active or the Parnell policy (applause), and I think that any man would be false to his national conscience, false to the history of his race, false to the instincts of the Irish people, who did not pledge himself to 15 stand or fall by Ireland’s leader. What is this land question ? This land question has been a sore on the body of Ireland ever since the unfortunate day when, by our own divisions, the Saxons planted their accursed feet on our soil. This land question is for the people of Ireland, one of life oi" death. Industry has been driven 20 away, our markets and our commerce have been banished, an opposing hand has been laid on Ireland, and that opposing hand has been laid on Ireland as much by our own dissensions as by hostile, tyrannical, and despotic Governments (cheers). God gave the people of Ireland the land on which they were born, and England sent us landlords ; 25 but do you not believe that the day has come when we should do away with this land system, which has eaten like a cancer into the heart of every social life in the north, in the south, in the east, and in the west. It is a divine principle, and it has been echoed by statesmen of eminence through- out the world, that the labourer is worthy of his hire, and that the man 30 who tills the soil shall live by the soil (hear, hear). Has Ireland lived by the soil? No, but that system of landlordism has fattened on the land of Ireland, and has corrupted itself and its surroundings through the abused energies and the wasted labour of the Irish people. Our people have been sent forth in emigrant ships, have rotted in gaols, 35 have died on the roadside, have filled the workhouses and the poorhouses,and why ? Because a hostile Government, and a dissenting thing, a party cut up into pieces in Ireland, has allowed the people to have become the tools of successive Liberal, Tory, and Whig Ministries (hear, hear). But when aery has arisen — a cry of justice, not of generosity — we have been generous 40 too long, and we have too long sacrificed our principles of justice at the shrine of generosity — it is too late to be generous — the message has gone forth to England, justice — nothing less than justice, and we ask like just men nothing more. We ask no injury to the landlord, but wc are determined in the name of God and justice, to break down the bad, the foul, the corrupt 4 N 8 September, 1880.— Vr. Finigan, m.p.) sysU'in. We ask iiothinir tor the tenant but what he is entitled to. W(> ask that he shall he able to teed his taniily properly, that he shall be al.le to clotlie his fainilv i)roporly, that he shall he able to house his tainily properly, tl.at he shall he able to support, as Ireland ever has supported. 5 relicdon and education (cheers) ; and we ask that when he has done all tliese thino-s, and paid the shopkeeper of the town-for this is a town (piestion as much as a country question— when he has done this, then it is tune enough to think of paying the rent (hear, hear). Therefore, the cry has gone forth- not. pav no rent, but pay no unjust rent; and you, the men who are 10 supposed to live by the land of Ireland, are you preiiared to endorse this principle of paying on ? (groans). Stand firm to your words, and show that you stand by your deeds— Ireland has too long listened to words— Ireland has too long floated one banner and another to the summer’s breeze— Ireland has raised too many shibboleths, but to-day, I think, every man, 15 whether he believes in Home Rule or Parliamentary action, or whether he believes in the divine right of appeal to the sword, every man is bound to support that vital principle, the land for the people, and the government of the people by the Government of Ireland (cheers). It therefore gives me much pleasure, as the Member tor this constituency , 20 pledged to an active independent fighting policy, and pledged only so long as the country is with me. I prefer to see my country cast as a log on the waters of time than tie myself to either Liberal or lory. Never mind what were their professions of generosity or love for Ireland. I believe God helps those who help themselves, and God stands to that 25 nation which stands to itself; and I also believe that that great principle which has been the means of building up Empires abroad may yet be the means of building up this holy nation at home. That great principle is to recognize this, that he who is not with us is against us. Let no man, let no tenant bid for any land from which another has been evicted (heai-, 30 hear). Stand to one another as soldiers stand in battle arrav, recognise that the wrong of one man is your wrong. Recognise that an injustice inflicted on a small tenant or on a large tenant affects every man, every woman, and every child in Ireland (hear, hear) ; and if you endorse this policy inculcated in this resolution which I have the honour of sujiporting, 35 you must pledge yourselves to do what you have pledged me to do, and which I, under God, shall always endeavour to do, to stand by Ireland and Ireland’s leader, whether the cause is broken down or whether it succeeds. We have been told that there are Ministers of great eminence, men of great spirit and justice, who now rule the destinies of the Empire. I 40 respect the name of Gladstone, I honour the name of Bright, and I have a deep sympathy with many of the Radicals fighting for popular liberty in England ; but I know that above and beyond all these systems, there is only one that I must love, one system that I must cherish, and that is nationalism. Bribes may be offered, cajoling sentences uttered, but my 4 N 2 {Ennis —VHh Sei>lemher, 1880 — -I/?'. Einujan, M.r.) experience' ot Parliaiiicnt is that lie who tights to the last and takes froni the hostile Government— for every Government is hostile to the Irish National cause— every thing wrung from a Government by fight increases your power, consolidates your manhood and enables you to retain that 5 hold on the people, (and the people have confidence in their representatives), which is absolutely necessary for the unification of the Irish party. I have nothing to say of men who may not have done what they promised to do on the hustings, because I know there is a reckoning day (more shame), and I leave it to the jieojile to judge and testify by their votes 10 what should be the conduct of the men who have pledged themselves to sin)})ort the cause led liy the illustrious Charles Stewart Parnell (cheers). You have cheered, you have shown by the majesty of your numbers that you are in earnest over this great land question of self-government ; but if you wish to carry out your resolves, if you wish to put your ideas and 15 principles into practice, you must do something more than cheer, you must do something more than unfold the Stars and Stripes, you must agitate and you must organize (hear, hear). Every . man should be on the Land League Register, every man should be on the national roll (hear, hear). Evet-y man should feel that the cause, the holy cause of Ireland’s liberty, 20 the sacred cause of Ireland’s nationality, is committed by God and man to his safe keeping; and, as I have told you that God helps those who hel]i themselves, I ask you, in the name of Irish liberty, to agitate and organise, to stand on platforms like this with the priests and the people once more united, and by so doing you will bring about that change in the accursed 25 and bad land system which is absolutely necessary for your own existence ; and you will also bring about that return of Irish right which can only be won by Irish might, that return of an Irish Parliament, elected by Irish- men, to serve the interests of Irishmen, and not to serve the interests of either party in the British Parliament (cheers). 30 It would be idle for me to-day to make a long speech on any question. All that I feel is this, that as the representative of Ennis, and as, if I may be allowed to say so, one determined to stand with the country in the Land League, one determined to stand by the tenant-farmers of the country, if I may say this, I may assure Mr. Parnell and the leaders of the Irish people 35 throughout Ireland that Ennis and Clare are ready again to do what their forefathers did before them, stand by the old flag, fight by the old flag, and fight for God and Irish liberty (immense applause). 10 (Ennis.-- I9th Septewher, 1 8 S 0 .) Mr. Charles S. Parnell, M.P. Peojilt' of Ennis, and tonant-fannors of the County of Clare, in aoknoAvled^dnfj iny gi-atification at the splendid reception which you have o-iven us, and at this luannificent nieetint^, exceeded in size and ini- jiortance hv none which I have yet had the honour of addressing in Ireland 5 (hear, hear) — 1 wish to say that it yiv('S me an additional pleasure to have an o])])ortunity of addressing' for the first time after the Session of Parliament a meeting in Ennis, which was the first constituency in Ireland to send me help in the last Parliament (cheers). 1 may, perhajis, also be permitted to point out to you a notewortliy feature connected with this 10 meeting, esiieciallx as it is, I think, a sign of the times, and a sign of the progress of our movement. When first I addressed you, last duly twelve month, this square was glittering with the bayonets of the police — (shouts) — and I promised you then, pointing to that force, that if we could build up a determined and a united Irish part} , that in a very few years this 15 military force would be abolished (cheers). To-day there is not a single constable present at this meeting — (long-continued cheers) — and it is the first of the Irish land meetings which have not been attended by scores, and some of them several scores of constables. Let us look upon this as a happy omen of the future, as the first recognition in our history 20 by the Government of England of the alnlity of our peo[)le to maintain order for themselves — (cheers) — and consequently to govern themselves — (cheers) - and let me ask you, fellow-countrymen, in return so to bear yourselves during this meeting, and after this meeting, as to show that vou are worthy of the practical power of self-government, which has been 25 given to day to the people of Ennis (“ Bravo,” and cheers). Let us see after this meeting no disordei’s in the streets — (“ No, no ) — no signs of liquor upon any man — (cheers) — nnd let us give no excuse to the police, who are now confined to barracks, to come into the streets (laughter, and cheers). 30 The resolution which has been proposed and seconded foi' you in such able terms, is one inculcating the necessity of union and independence amongst the Irish party — {“ P>ravo ”) — union amongst themselves, and independence of every English Ministry, whether it be Whig, Tory, or Piadical. I have always believed the necessity for such, but my convictions 35 have been tenfold strengthened by the experience gained during the last Session. I have seen that the more independent the Irish party was, the more respect it gained for itself and for 1 1 eland. I do not complain of our party. Our party on the whole has been a good and a worthy one. It is true that a very small section followed the Government across tlie floor of 40 the House of Commons, and refused to sit with the great majority of their colleagues, and the spectacle was presented of an apparently divided Irish party- — divided, perhaps forty on one side, and some twenty on the other. 1 regretted from the bottom of my heart this appearance of division and 13 4 0 2 [Ennis.— mh Septemhcr, 1880.— l/>. Parnell, aisutiic.n ; but 1 trust that those members, when they recognise that the overwhelming oi)inion of their constituents is in favour of union and united action, will retrace their steps, and will join the great body of their colleagues in presenting a solid front to every (Government. For ourselves, 5 in the" last Parliament, we had a Tory Government to face. I never at that time hid my convictions that, with a Liberal Government in power, it would be necessary for us somewhat to change and modify our action. Nothing was to be gained from the Tories, and it was, therefore, necessary for the Irish party to punish them without sparing them (cheers). 10 This present Liberal Government has made great promises. Up to the present it has absolutely given us not one single performance, but through the mouth of the Chief Secretary for Ireland, it has entreated that it be given one year of time, in order to see whether it can not benefit Ireland, and we have been willing to give them that time and that trial ; but I 15 stand here to-day to express my conviction that whenever it is necessary for us to resume our ancient policy, such as we practised against the Tories (hear, hear), that whenever we find that this Liberal government falls short in either its professions or its performance, that on that day it will be the duty of the present strong Irish party to show that it can 20 punish a Liberal Government just as much as it ever punished the Con- servative. Now, we have had issued a Land Commission, and there has been some / division of opinion as to whether the tenant-farmers ought to give evi- dence before this Commission or not. I have not yet had an opportunity 25 of saying anything in public upon this matter, but I may say that, in the main, my opinions coincide with those of Mr. John Dillon in reference to this Commission (cheers for Dillon). At the same time, I only wish to express my opinion, and I do not wish to coerce any tenant-farmer in re- I ference to this matter one way or the other ; but I am bound to tell you 30 honestly that I believe this Commission was appointed in order to try and whittle down the demands of the Irish tenantry, to find out for the English Government what was the very least measure of reform that would have any chance of being accepted in Ireland, and, to a great extent, to divert the minds of the tenant-farmers from agitation and organization to the 35 useless work of going before this Commission and giving evidence. I can- ^ not possibly see what useful effect evidence before this Commission can have. We know that the report, if there is any report, must be of a one- sided character, and against the interests of the people of this country. The composition of the Commission is a guarantee for that. Hence we 40 have to consider whether it is at all probable that the importance that might be gained from having evidence put down would be of any counter- balancing advantage as compared with the demoralization that the tenant- farmers must experience when they turn their eyes with any hope or con- fidence to such a Commission, and so constituted (cheers). 14 {E)}})is. — 19//; SeptcmJx'r, 1880. — .1//'. Parnell, m.p.) What will be said it the teuant-farniers <;() before this Commission m any large numbers? It will be said that you have accepted the Commis- sion. It will be said that you will be bound by its report, and if there is very much evidence given it will form a very good excuse for the Govern- 5 ment and for tlie English Tory party to })ut off legislation on the Land Question next session until they have had time to read the evidence and to consider its bearing and effect (cheers). My opinion decidedly is this, that whatever harm you may do to your cause by going before this Commis- sion, you will certainly be able to do it no good. Depend upon it that * *10 the measure of the Land Bill of next session will be the measure of ,>eui activity and energy this winter (cheers). It will be the measure of }oui determination not to pay unjust rents (“Good, and cheers). It will be the measure of your determination to keep a firm grip of youi home- steads (cheers). It will be the measure of your determination not to bid 15 for farms from which others have been evicted (cheers), and to use the strong force of public opinion to detei" any unjust men among you (and there are many such) from bidding lor such farms. If you refuse to pay unjust rents, if you refuse to take farms from which others have been evicted, the Land Question must be settled (cheers), and settled in a w ay 20 that will be satisfactory to you. It depends, therefore, entirely upon yourselves, and not upon any Commissions or any Governments. When you have made this question really rijie for settlement, then, and not till then, will it be settled. It is very nearly ripe already in many parts of Ireland. It is ripe in Mayo, in Galway, in Koscommon, in Sligo, and in portions of 25 the county of Cork, but I regret to say that the tenant- fai iiiei s of the county of Clare have been backward in organization up to the piesent time (shouts). You must, then, band yourselves together into Land Leagues. Every little town and village must have its own branch. You must know-’ the circumstances of all the holdings and all the tenures within the district 30 over which the Land League has jurisdiction. You must see that the principles of the Land League are inculcated, and when you have done this in Clare, Clare will take her rank with the other Irish counties, and you will dud that you will be included in the next Land Bill Avhich will be brought forward by the Government (cheers). 35 Now, wdiat are you to do to a tenant wdio bids for a farm from which his neighbour has been evicted ? (Various shouts, among which Kill him, and “ Shoot him ”). Now’, I think 1 heard somebody say, Shoot him. (“ Shoot him ”)— but 1 wish to point out to you a very much better way, a more Christian and a more charitable way, w’hich wdll give the lost sinner an 40 opportunity of repenting (liear^-^hear'). When a man takes a farm fiom which another has been evicted you nrust show him on the roadside when you meet him, you must show' him in the streets of the town, you must show him at the shop-corrnter, you must show him irr the fair and in the market-place, and even iir the house of worship, by leaving him severely 15 [Ennis.— \^th September, 1880 .— >/r. Parnell, m.p.) aU»nc, by puttino- liim into a moral Coventry, by isolating him from the rest \ of his kind as if he was a le]»er of old — you m.^ J pur jlg testation of the crime he has committed, and you may de])end upon it if the poj>u- lation of a county in Ireland carry out this doctrine that there will be no 5 man so full of avarice, so lost to shame as to dare the public opinion of all right thinking men within the county, and to transgress your unwritten code of laws (cheers). i People are very busilv engaged just now in discussing the way in which the Land Question is to be settled, just in the same way as, a few yeais 10 ago, some Irishmen were at each other’s throats as to the sort of Parliament that we would have when we got one. Now, I always think it is better to first catch your hare before you decide how you will cook her, and I would strongly recommend public men not to waste their breath too much in discussing how the Land Question is to be settled, but ! 5 rather to help and encourage the people in making it, as I said just now, ripe for settlement (bravo). When it is ripe for settlement you will probably have your choice as to how it shall be settled, and I said a year ago, that the Land Question would never be settled until the Irish land- lords were just as anxious to have it settled as the Irish tenants (cheers). 20 There are, indeed, so many ways in which it might be settled that it is almost superfluous to discuss them, but I stand here to-day to expiess my conviction that no settlement can be satisfactory or permanent which does not ensure the uprooting of that system of landlordism which has brought the country three times within this century to famine (cheeis, and! 25 “bravo”). The feudal system of land tenure has been tried in almost every European country, and it has been found wanting everywhere, but nowhere has it wrought more evil, or produced more suffering, crime, and destitution than in Ireland (“hear, hear”). It was abolished in Piussia by ^.iie 30 transfer of the lands from the landlords to the occupying tenants, the landlords were given (government paper as compensation. Let the English Government give the landlords their paper to-morrow as compensation. We want no money ; not a single penny of hard coin would be necessary. Why, if they gave the Irisli landlords, or the bad section of them, the 35 four or five millions a year that they spend on the police and the militaiy (hootings), in helping these bad landlords to collect their rents, that would be a solution of it (laughter), and a very cheap solution of it too ; but perhaps, as with other reforms, they will try a little patchwork and tinkering for a while until they learn better. Well, let them patch and 40 tinker if they wish, but in my opinion the longer the landlords wait the, worse the settlement that they will get (cheers). Now is the time for them to settle, before the people learn the power of combination. We have been accused of preaching Communistical doctrines when we told the people not to pay an unjust rent, and the followiiig-out 4 P IG {Ennis.- \^th Sej)tember, f'nrnell, m.p.) of tliat advice ‘in a few of the Irish counties has shown the English (iovernment the necessity of a radical alteration in the land laws, but how would they like it if some day or other we told the people not to pay any rents until this (i[uestion was settled? We have not told them that yet, 5 and I hope it may never be necessary for us to speak in that way. I hope the question will be settled peaceably, fairly, and justly to all parties, but if it should not be settled, we cannot continue to allow this millstone to ( , hang round the neck of our country, throttling its industries and pre- venting itU progress, and it will be for the consideration of wiser heads 10 than mme(“ There could not be,”), whether if the landlords continue obdurate and refuse all just concessions we shall not be obliged to tell the people of Ireland to strike against all rent until this question has been settled, and if the 500,000 tenant farmers of Ireland struck against the 10,000 landlords, I should like to see where they would get police and 15 soldiers enough to preserve the peace (cheers). 17 4 P 2 [Ennis. — \9tJt Septeinher, 188u.) Mr. T. D. Sullivan, M.P., Men of Ennis and people of Clare, we are here to-day opening what has been ealled the winter campaign, but, my friends, Heaven has blessed us for this inaugural meeting with what may well be called a summei's day, and the beautiful and tlie floral tributes of summer and of autumn 6 have been showered, as we went through your town to-day, upon the leader of the Irish people and upon the worthy representative of the historic borough of Ennis (cheers). My friends, the fair ladies of Ennis filled our carriage to-day with such beautiful flowers as these, worthy gifts and worthy tokens from the fair and good women who gave them to us. 10 Long may they live in the heart to cheer the spirits of the brave men amongst whom their lot is cast (“ Bravo ”). Long may they live to guide the youth of Ireland in the way they should go, and to be the good sisters and the fond mothers of brave and true-hearted Irish patriots (cheers). 15 Now, my friends, I was here amongst you about twelve months ago. I came with Charles Stewart Parnell, and we two brought you a candidate for your representation (hear, hear;, and if he was not a good and a wmthy man, if he had not proved himself a true Irishman, we would not be here to-day again (“ Bravo”). You know what a fellow does who 20 passes a bad shilling anywhere ; he takes care not to show his face there again. But we have not brought you a bad coin, and because we have not, we are not ashamed to be again amongst you. We have brought you a piece of the true metal, and it has been rung on the floor of the House of Commons, and it has given bright rings. And, now, 25 I can tell you, my friends, that amongst all that Irish party, there is not a braver and more courageous, or a more resolute man than the member for the borough of Ennis. Whenever a bit of hard work is to be done, whenever an enemy has to be faced, whenever any little difficulty is in our way, and we want a man to stand in the gap, we call upon James 30 Lysaght Finigan, (cheers). My friends, he is one of those men of whom it has been said that they will go anywhere and do anything (cheers). Now, in that House of Commons, below the Speaker, on the table, there is stretched across a gold bauble they call the mace, and these English Members of Parliament seem to think that that mace is one of the most 35 sacred things in the whole world. They seem to imagine that the ghosts of all the Kings of England are watching that mace and taking care of it. But I tell you that they are not, because they are in a place that is entirely too tight for them to get out (laughter). However, an official called a serjeant-at-arms, dressed in a black suit, with a regular sword by his side, 40 and brass buttons, and all that sort of thing — he goes up now and again to this mace, he brings it in on his shoulder when the Speaker is coming in, and he lays it reverently upon the table, and when the Speaker is leaving the chair the serjeant behind always comes up and he takes this mace and 19 (PJnnis. — Pejitcriilx’r. 1880. — Mr. 7. f). Siilhi'an, m.p.) puts it n^verently uudtu- tlio tal.le (lau.trhtor), and then having done so he walks backward the floor of tlie House (laughter). Now, did you ever know such nonsense as that? In iny opinion human beings were not made to walk backwards. However, this old gentleman walks backward, and it 5 is well for him there is nothing there to trip him up. He walks backward, bowing as he goes. Well, now, T have a little secret to tell you, and it is this, that the Irish Members don’t care three rows of pins for that mace. They do not seem to have the slightest regard or respect for it, but if, some one of these days, 10 the Irish party decide that they will send some man to take it ofl the table and throw it out through the window, if they do, the man they will ask to do it will be James Lysaght Finigan (“ brovo,” “ they will do it ”), and James Lysaght Finigan is only to get the word of command from Charles Stewart Parnell and he will throw out that old mace as if it was a black Irish 15 thorn. Now, my friends, this brief Session of Parliament that we have had was but the preliminary canter of the new Irish party. If a Tory Government had been in power, we would have showm them what we could do, but a Government is now in Parliament which professes an intention to deal 20 fairly by the Irish people, and they ask from us, my friends, a little time. They say— Give us a little time, we have come suddenly into power ; we have not had time to frame our measures ; wait and see what we will give you, and deal with us accordingly. Well, how, we have thought that that was not an unreasonable request, and although we acted firndy and 25 spiritedly upon many an occasion in that House, still we had a reserve of power and a reserve of plan behind us that we have not yet brought to bear upon this present Administration (hear, hear). But if we find that they are fraudulently deceiving the Irish people, if we find that the Land Rill for which they have told us to wait, is a sham, then we will show them 30 what the new Irish party can do. Now my friends, when first I had the honour of speaking at an Irish Land Meeting, it was at Castleliai- in the county of Mayo, and I told the people there this thing I said to them, you are largely to blame for your own misery and destitution. You have pitched your scale of living too low 35 and you have paid too much rent (hear, hear). You have been satisfied to live in rags ; you have been satisfied to live in bad houses ; you have been satisfied to live on poor and bad food ; you have been satisfied to let your little children go barefoot and naked, and to give the product of your whole year’s labour in the shape of rent to the landlords (shouts). Now I tell 40 you that was a wrong state of things, and I tell you it was immoral and improper for these tenant farmers of Ireland to reduce themselves or allow themselves to be reduced to such a condition as that (right). They pitched, and you have pitched, in this county, your scale of living and your ideas of what is fit and necessary for you entirely too low, and you have kept an 4Q 20 I8sn.— -Wr. V. /). .SVJ.W, M.P.) i,lk. ,.|as» wal1owi„R in luxury u|>on the fruits of .your honest industry. I Noxv u,v friends, we uu.st ehanoe all that. You must raise up your hearts raise up vour spirits, raise up , your owu ideas of what the people should ho. Resolve in your owu minds that the first elaun on the frmts of .vour 5 industry is the su|>port. of yourselyes, your wnes, am joui aim le. deceney and comfort (hear, hear, ami cheers). What is rent at all ' What is rent ? Now nuud you this. 1 he ^ ■ men in Hiicrland ami the wisest men of other countries have laid down tin truth that rent is a share in the profits of farming after the laboure. an. 10 the farmer have had their due ami proper support out of the soil, and w there is no such profit, when there is no such ,,ro t accruing out of he year's labour, owing to bad crops, depreciation of prices, or other s matters, then there is no rent due at all to the landlord. Now mind 5 on my friends, these are not my words, these are not the wore s o wia 15 caLd a land agitator. They are the words of English philosophers and English statesmen, and bear them in mind, that when ™ from the farmer’s twelve months of labour, after e as air y provided for himself and his family, then there is no rent due to 20 ''‘"Now''Mr. Parnell and Mr. Finigan have told you here to-day that the key note, the keystone of your power is this, that a stop shall be put to thltakiim of farL from which families were evicted for the non-payment of an uniTist rent. Now let me tell you that no matter how you meet or no matter how you pass resolutions, or no matter how you cheer if the 25 the practice goes on of outbidding one another for these farms, or of ta mg these farms at all on which evictions have taken place all vain (bravo). Nothing that we can do will save you, if you go takm farms from which the landlords have cleared out honest and, industrious families, because they failed to pay them unjust and extravagant len s^ 30 But my friends, so sure as that siiii is shining on us, so sure it is that you stand to each other like brothers, follow the advice ^ven you here to-day, leave those farms to grow this les anu ,™*es and Ly one is base enough to go in on them, shun him (shoot him) ; let h.in be as an outcast amongst you, and his life will be a life of shame and a 35 life of misery, and the shame will attach not only to himself, but to his children and his children’s children (cheers). Now one word in conclusion. There are people m this country who are foolish enough to think that if the farmers of Ireland were made secure in their holdings, if they were made comfortable and happy, they wou or 40 gl^ the national cause of Ireland. That slander has been uttered upon the tenant-farmers who are the bone and sinew of the Irish race. Here, to-day, I denounce it as a slander (cheers) ; and if I could believe that "tory foi a single minute, I never would .stand upon a land platform. But, my fnend^ I have a different opinion of the Irish race, and my belief is this, that as 21 4 Q 2 19^// September, 1880.— T. T). Sullivan, m.p.) you make them str oiic^, as you clothe them and feed them, and raise their 'hearts to a true perception of what the condition of the people should he, according as you educate them, and according as their young people grow up about them, reading and thinking and learning for themselves the history 5 of their country and the history of the world, stronger and stronger will grow the spirit of Irish nationality in the hearts of the peojile (hear, hear, and “Bravo”). at 'fhat s})irit has never been crushed out and it never will be ( evei ). Elizabeth tried her hand at it and she failed. Cromwell tried his bloody ' 10 swor-d upon it and he thought to exterminate the Irish people and to extinguish for ever the idea of an Irish nation, but he, too, failed ; and here we^are to-day, sons of the Irish soil ; here we are to-day on the plains , of historic Clare, standing up for the national cause of Ireland, standing up , for everything that will benefit the Irish race and that will give them | 15 honour and dignity amongst the nations of the earth (cheers). 1 have no fear for the future of Irish nationality, and I fling back into the teeth of those men who say that what the sword could not destroy, prosperity would cure. I say they have a mean idea of the Irish })eople. I have no such idea. I trust in them and believe m them, and I am as 20 convinced as I am of my own existence, that for this people that have weathered so many a storm their barque of nationality will not go down m smooth and sunny waters. No, my friends, 1 believe in the future of_ tlm Irish race, and beca use the tenant-farmers of Ireland are the^ mam por t^ of the Irish populati^a i^ "Realise they ar^he supp ort of all cl ^sj ^ 25 t li^o^tr y7ra m anxious to get them placed in the posi tion^Jheyjhqi^ be in. I am anxious to see that they shall no longer be the ^ey of an idle and a worthless class, who squander in riot and luxury the hard earnings of honest men (cheers). I would say to you, in the words of an Irish poet, “Grant us, we pray, but wisdom, peace, and patience, and we will yet 30 uplift amongst the nations our fair and fkiU, but yet unconquered isle” (cheers). 'z 22 lUdlyshanno)). — S(‘])lcmher 2(5^4, ,1880. / / Mr. Thomas Brennan, who was received with cheers, said — “ Mr. Chairman and fellow-countrymen, I am glad to see hy this magnih- eent meeting here to-day that Donegal has at length wheeled into line with the rest of Ireland. (Cheers,) That your eyes have hecn opened to the fact that you have hecn long enough supporting idlers, and for the future you 5 will endeavour to do something to support yourselves. I don’t sec why Donegal should ho second to any county in Ireland in its condemnation of the present landlord system. You have sutfered sulTIcient from its evil intluenccs. In coming here to-day I saw very little to remind me that I Avas not travelling in Mayo or Galway. (Cheers.) I saw on every side of me 10 evidence of landlord oppression. I saAV the remains of once happy homes hear silent hut clocpient testimony of the work of the destroyer. I have seen land capable of reclamation lying idle, and I have seen fertile spots laid deso- late. I have seen, and I sec now, a manhood as intelligent as any in tlic laud (Cheers), a manhood that only requires to he organised in order to SAveep 15 everything before it, and I have asked myself hoAV it is that the north does not join hands Avith the other three provinces in making war upon the present system in a strike for the rights of labour, in demanding that the labourer shall be protected, I have asked myself why is it that the people of the north, Avho are proverbial for their industry, should so long seemingly 20 acquiesce in a system which robs them of the fruits of their industry., I never yet met a man, no matter Avhat his religion or politics might be, no matter hoAV lie might be Avedded to the existing institution, but would prefer light taxes to heavy taxes, but Avould prefer to enjoy the fruits of his industry hLself rather than see others enjoy it (True), and if we could look for the 25 secret of the apathy of the people of the north in this movement, I think wo Avill find that it is not owing to your prosperity, or that you are contented Avith your lot, hut Ave Avill find that it is OAving to the distrust for their catholic felloAV-conntrymen wdiich the English Government has ever fostered in the miuds of the Irish protestants, and I think that Ave Avill shoAV 30 that the great object of the Land League is to restore the temporal Avelfare of the Irish people, and not to restore the temporal power of the Pope, that the brave yeomanry of Ulster will join in this movement toi the piotection of the rights of the toiling millions. (Cheers.) We put forward to day a platform upon which every worker can 35 take his stand, no matter at Avhat altar he may kneel on Sundays. lYe tell him it is his interest to combine against the class that is robbing him the other six days of the week. (Cheers.) The landlord makes no difference between Protestant, Catholic, or Presbyterian money; they take it all alike, they take the last shilling from you no matter what 40 your religious convictions may be, and you should meet them in the same spirit and feeling by combining, irrespective of creed, for the destruction of their power, and to make the people of Ireland, like the people of almost every other country, tlie owners of the land they tdl. (Well done.) Now there are very few people but will acknowledge that the 45 present laud laws need reforming. Even the landlords themselves have recently condescended to argue the question, and it must soon come to be considered what change will be made in those laws. Well, the change that will be made in them will be in proportion to the energy and detenu i- A 4 7 HaWishmnon.--^^^^ \m).-Mr. Thomas Brennan. nation whicli you show. 1 am not g‘oiug to sketch a measure ot land reform for you, it issuOicient to know that the existing state ot things is had in order to iustify us in attacking it, and he mine the duty to attack that system winch has ruined our country, and rohs it, and has driven mi ions 5 of our people to misery and death-which to-day necessitates the chanty hox to he luiAvlved about to all the nations of the world in order to keep the remnant of our race from starvation. I will not tell you that the revolution of living the land to the people will he carried out in a day. It wil take airour energy and determination to have it accomplished. Ihchrst wor s 10 we have to devote ourselves to in order to do away with that system is to teacli the people their rights. Prom every town and village, from every hamlet and parish in your county the voice of truth must proclaim to the people that God did not ordain that they should he the slaves of any class (Hear, hear), that they were horn with rights, and they should assert these rights. A e wan , 15 to teach the people that their own cause rests in their own hands, that they should not leave that cause to leaders, no matter how honest or able t lose leaders are. If this country is ever to he redeemed, politically or socially, it will he by the might of mind and might of arm of Ireland’s manhood. (Cheers.) When we have the people alive to their rights we must arm the power by 20 organisation ; it is a grand thing to see, as we do to-day, the manhood o le country assemble for the purpose of asserting their rights, assemble for the purpose of proclaiming the sovereignty of the people : but we require some- thino- more than mere meetings of the people ; we require organisation am determined action; we require, above all, organisation ; and I would impiess 25 upon you that your duty will not he discharged when you full youi laiinei " and return to your hamlets this evening. You must return home wit i a determination to work, and carry out that determination. (We will do it.) Branches of the Land League should he established in every parish m your county, and every man that lives by honest labour in that parish shou c ic 30 enrolled in it. And if there are men found who will not join, who trifle by standing alone, they should be allowed to stand alone in their hour of tria . We want to make the Land League an industrial union in the same way that the members of different trades combine for to protect their rights, and then we want a strike against land monopoly. That strike has already commenced, 35 and we want you to join in it. We want you to join in the strike against rac rents-against payment of rackrents. Any man who now pays a rackrent, whether he can afford it or not, is an enemy to the public good. w^ut you to strike against taking farms from which others maybe evicted When- ever a man is evicted from his holding, that holding should be allowed to 40 remain vacated ; the crops upon it should be allowed to wither or rot, am i the landlord wants to cultivate it he should be allowed to bend his own back and work (cheers), and see what a little honest labour is like. If cattle are seized for payment of rent, no man should be found to bid for them or buy them. See what this united action did in a county neighbouring to this. Some ime 45 ago in the County Sligo a landlord seized upon the cattle of a tenant for the payment of a rackrent ; these cattle were brought to the town of Tubber- curry, and they were offered there for sale; there was not a mim in la town found to offer one shilling for them. They were brought to Ballymote and they were there offered for sale with a like result. They weie len 50 bromdit to Sligo, and in the market place of Sligo these cattle were bought in for the owner at four shillings and sixpence a-piece. We want to make 8 lialhishannon. — Scptcuiber 2(5///, 1880. — Mr. Thomaa Breuuan. o’oneriil throughout IrcUvnd that state of things that exists iii Sligo, and when we do the triumph of your eause is assured. You have raised the cry hero to-day of the land for the people. (Cheers, and erics of stick to it, often.) Don’t he content with raising the cry ; go on with the work, 5 and your cause will triumph. As well as here in Donegal to-day that cry is repeated on thirteen different platforms. This day it is thundered on the hills of Connaught. It finds an echo on the plains of Munster, on the heathered hills of Tipperary. Let us have Ulster and Munster unitedly like waves of the sea ; Leinster and Connaught for victory, shoulder to 10 shoulder for liberty, and tvlien we do that, and extend a hand of brotherhood to our fellow-countrymen of the North, wo will put forward a platform that may be the means of regenerating our country socially and nationally, and at no distant day, Orangemen will again meet Catholics at Aughrim or the Boyne, not to perpetuate discord but to bury the hatchet of civil and 15 religious strife beneath the colours of orange and green, and sign the Magna Cliarta of Irish liberty.” (Great cheering.) B Q 33GC.— 10. 9 '‘t'cen. 'lOtli Septeuihcr, 1880.) John Dillon, M.P. Rov. Chairman and people of West Cork, it gives me more pleasure than I can express to see you assembled here to-day to declare that you are re- solved not to stop your exertions till you destroy and put a stop to that system which is ruining the country, and which has disgraced the name 5 of the Irish people before the civilised world (hear, hear). I believe that the people of Cork, in common with the people of other counties who have been beforehand in this great work, will pledge themselves at those mass meetings not to have any terms with landlordism, but will put their hands to work until it has become a thing of the past (cheers). I 10 would ask these people and those who were writing letters to the newspapers calling on the tenantry of Ireland not to declare themselves opposed to the system — what is it that landlordism has ever done for Ireland ? (Nothing.) I would ask these people, who said that because we are preaching a crusade against landlordism, we are endangering the 15 nationality of Ireland — I would ask them to name the landlords whose names are honourably known to the people for their work done in the service of the c (>untry. I only remember now three or four. During the last seventy years I may mention only two, Smith O’Brien, and now, Charles Stewart Parnell (cheers). I cannot think of one other who 20 has stood beside the Irish people to defend them against oppression, or to save them from wrong. But if I were to begin to name the Irish land- lords who took their stand beside the enemies of the people ; who hunted priests ; who threw down the houses of the people, and drove out your re- lations and ancestors, I would keep you here till morning before the roll 25 would be exhausted. From the day when an English and foreign force first gave them a footing in Ireland, they have been found on the side of oppression and injustice, and never on the side of the people. Land- lordism in Ireland has made Ireland one of the poorest countries in the world. It has brought about the condition of things which shocks every 30 stranger now who sees the people living in misery and a mass of rags, and their children naked almost to indecency. Is there no country in the civilised world, except this country, where the children of the tenants are starving and naked. I know of no other country. When people come to you to tell you that landlordism is 35 a good institution, and one which has given good benefits to you — point to your starving children. There are to my own knowledge landlords drawing one hundred thousand pounds a year out of this country, and spend only a hundred pounds a year or so in wages on the estate. Tell them whatever landlordism is in England, where it is a recognised principle that the 40 landlord shall spend a quarter of his income in improving the land, that in 6 / ( ) ‘ {SkMcrccn.—2{Ul> Srpfemhcr, IS 80 . -1/r. John Dillon, Irelaiul it is a tluao- that sliouhi not be tolerated, and wliieli will ]U)t be tolerated much longer (cheers). Band yourselves together in one organiza- tion, whose object will be to put down landlordism. I’he banner which had been raised in Mayo, with the words ijiscribed thereon, “ Landloidism 6 must go down,” has been adopted throughout the country, and very soon the curse of the country will go down (hear, hear). I dont know whether in this district that system has worked the evils ot which I know. Even you hold your lives by a very uncertain tenure. I ask those who live under a good landlord not to step aside and see their neighbours 10 driven down. And if they have a good landlord, his sfui who conies after him may be an awful curse. I know what has occurred in the county of Dublin. The rents were low, and the people comfortable under a good landlord. The landlord died, and his son came after him, and he was the most awful curse in the world. I saw the broken-hearted tenants of that 15 landlord living in cabins on the road-side. These were the tenants ot the good landlord. Every man, no matter whether he lives under a good or bad landlord should not be selfish. You will very soon know what it is to live under a bad landlord. Two or three cases have been brought under my notice since I came here. 20 The first case I will allude to is Mr. Campion’s lease (groans), ! have just read over one of these leases, and I have no hesitation in saying that it is a document of the most disgraceful character I ever read. This lease recalls to my mind what an American farmer said to me when talking about the reservations in Ireland. He said “ Why, God bless you, 25 when *we have a farm here in America we own it right through to the other side of the earth.” I hope you will have the same state of things here shortly. The game that runs over your farms, and the fish that swim in the rivers should be the property of the tenants, and by God’s help we will make them the property of the tenants (cheers). Not 30 content with this, however, this genius puts in a clause to deprive his tenants of any benefits accruing under the Landlord and Tenant Act of 1870, or any other Acts of Parliament amending same, or claiming any compensation in respect of his farm or otherwise. He is not content in taking all this, but he prevents them from cutting a branch from the trees, 35 or cultivating their lands, but as he wishes. Now, how are you to deal with such a man as that ? The way we do in Mayo with such men is : all the tenants go together to their landlord and say, “ Here is what we consider a fair rent this year.” I say a fair rent to that man would be nothing at all. But supposing that you are able to give him something 40 this year, let the tenants go to him, and say, “ Here is what we are able to give you,” — say the Poor Law Valuation (too much). If he says he won’t take it, put it in your pockets, and tell him that the Land 7 t (Skihhereen. — '2Gth September, 1880. — ihr. John Dillon, m.p.) Loaoue ut Dublin will try it out with him. Wo will go into every Court in the country, and if th6y will evict you we will build cottages for the tenants, and we would like to see who would put you out. The ivgent will then come to reason before a year or two. llut^betore 5 you are done with Mr. Campion let him reduce his rents to the Govern- ment valuation. Perhaps, next year, if the (piestion is not satis- factorily settled we would insist on reducing them a great deal more (cheers). ,■ i, t There is another case which occurred some distance trom heie. n 10 this case the yearly rent was £21 10s., and it was usually paid between the 16th and 21st of August. I have here two receipts dated 187o, and 1879. This year the rent was claimed on the 5th August, and when it was not paid on that day, a writ was served from the High Court in Dublin, on the tenant. This writ was dated 5th August, and entailed a 15 cost of two guineas on the unfortunate tenant. I am told that no remis- sion of rent was given, and that the valuation was £l3, and the rent £27. Now, all I will sav is that if that holding were down in Mayo, I would not have allowed any rent at all. If we had this man up in Mayo, we would teach him that landlords have their duties as well as their rights (name, name). The 20 gentleman who served that writ is a Mr. John Barrett (groans). ^ I will have this case published. The way we have arranged is, that in each townland there shall be two or three men told off, and they shall have books, and they should go round and ask every man to join the League, and ask every man for his rent and his valuation, and in that way 25 we will have the best information, and we shall have union of all condi- tions, and all men. And what I advise the farmers to do is, to pay this year the Government valuation and no more, and then insist on getting a clear receipt (a voice, “ They won’t do that ”). Well, if they do not then let the tenants stand together and keep the land till he gives the receipt, 30 and if he does not do that, keep all, and we will fight it out with him (cheers). If you go singly he will crush you, but if you go all together what can he do ? If he undertakes to evict you, let him do so if he likes, and if he attempts that he will find out that he has undertaken a very tough iob. Unless you, the people of Cork, are more easily dealt with 35 than the people I represent (cheers). I advised at a previous meeting that the farmers should be organised, and that the people should come to meetings, and march to their meetings under command of their leaders. I said that, and 1 will do that always— Not that I intend to go out into the fields, and face the landlords or the 40 Royal Irish Constabulary, but because I know that such demonstrations will be a mark of earnestness on the part of the people, that there is nothing which so strikes the landlords with an idea of your strong 8 H {Shihhereen.—±(Hh September, iHHO.—Mr. .lokn Dillon, Jctenuiiiation as by obeyino- the commands of your leaders. 1 wish to see tliat rlone. because I wish to let the landlords know that if they wish to repeat this year which their fathers did in Ireland thirty years aoo, the iieople will not submit peacefully. And I wish to let the people 5 rmiiember that if the landlords are determined in their folly to clear off the population by eviction, that the people of Ireland will not submit peaceably to this (“ No, no.” and cheers). I believe that anythin^r i„ t le shape of wliolesale eviction this year will not be peaceably submitted to. and rherefore, in the interests of peace and order, the people should m 10 time demonstrate their strength in order to warn the landlords. We desire for nothing then but justice and fair play, and T hope that the tenant fiirmevs of this district will show them that they are determined to have justice, and to have leave to live. And that if they make a bold front and organise as I have pointed out they will succeed m carrying 15 out the programme I have laid out, and I will point out m conclusion, that the great lesson we want to teach the people is, that they must settle this land question themselves here in the fields, and not m the bnglish Parliament (cheers). The English Parliament has been your enemy ever since the day that 20 Cromwell came over at its command. Until you are more than a match for tiie Irish landlords, the English Parliament will give you nothing. Until you show them that in order to get any rents at all in Ireland, they must change their laws. Arguments unsupported by passive force are as iiieftectual in London, as if you tried to pull down these stone walls with 25 marbles (cheers). I now appeal to you to act the part of men— stand together, organize, and put on a bold front, and carry out the programme of the Land League, and you will win your rights, those rights which seventy or eighty years of talking have failed to win for you (loud cheers). I now beg to propose 30 the following resolution : — “ That the present state of the land laws, is injurious to the tenants, the landlords and the State, and needs an immediate reformation." ( Loud cheering). 9 H 2 / (^Skihhcreen. — 2()th Seidetulie'r, 1880 .) Mr. John Dillon, M.P. 'riien came fonvard and said — I i)ropose that Dr. Jennings take the second chair. Dr. Jennings having taken the second chair, Mr. Dillon continued — It is now my privilege to propose a vote ol thanks to our worthy Chairman, 5 Father Hill. I do so with all my heart, and trust you will pass it most warmly. The priests here have behaved as priests always ought. Tliey belong to the people, and the Church, of which they are brought up ministers, is the Church of the people ; therefore the priests should not leave you depending on the landlords for your support. Let the priests 10 take their stand against the landlords who persecuted the Church, and would again if occasion arose. I have great pleasure in proposing this vote of thanks (cheers). {Slihhereeii. — St‘/)feinhcr, 1S80.) Mr. Edmond J. Earrell then (•;uiK' lorward and was rnenived with cheers, lie said ; - Ilcv. chaiT- inan and hrother tariners, I lia\'e addressed many meetings of late, hnt I must confess that from wiiat 1 have listened to to-day, and the meeting before me, 1 am hardly able to speak with joy. If you continue on in this ■) way VL.u will make the landlords more anxious to settle this (|uostion than you are. d'he member for Ti})perary has told t'ou that it will never he i-ettled in Parliament until tliey find it too hot for them at home. 1 am acquainted with a good many landlords, amongst the number is one who, u[) to last Saturday, wouhl not even think of accepting our otter of twenty 10 years purchase, but on Saturday he would take the otter of tlie Land League, and accept the twenty years purchase. Now that is a good sign of our progress. 1 have great pleasure in proposing this resolution ; “ That we deem the creation of a peasant proprietary the best means towards the establishment of a lasting prosperity to the country.” 15 Everything the Irish farmers require is within this resolution. Within this resolution gentlemen is the power of taking from the landlords the power which they have held so long (cheers), and so viciously against the people. Let no one tell you, or persuade you to take the Ulster custom. There are from time to time gentlemen that you send into Parliament, 20 recommending the Ulster custom to you. hut when you send one to Parliament again send a right one. Make a vow that, whoever you send, you will not send a landlord. The Member for Tipperary told you that he could only remember two Irish landlords who have within the past seventy years taken the side of the tenants. So you must be cautious in 25 selecting your future members. Mr. Gladstone in one of his speeches made reference to the unfair rents usual in Ireland. What do you think of the country here from the land- lord dowm to the bailiff. Why the bailiff’ in this country is the biggest man in it. Never offend a bailiff for if you do he will take the story to 30 the landlord, and you will suffer. You have to do the duty for the bailiff*, but there is no duty work going now (cheers). t)ne of your neighbours not far f‘rom here boasted that he made £2 an acre for his land. If you were depending on that acre’s produce of £2, you would not live long. I won’t detain you longer, but simply propose this resolution. I hope 35 the day will soon come when we will be all united in this country. The Cork National Land League has, I think, done its duty. We have estab- lished twenty-one branches in this county. This one is one of our last. What- e\ er you do stick together, and let no man take a farm from which another has been evicted (loud cheers). T 2 NEW ROSS, Co. nCv/ord SifNDAV, Scpfe)nh('r 2()/'//, Mr. John Furlong. [ propose that Father Tom Doyle take the chair. Mr. P, A. Pope (New E oss). T second that resolution. Rev. Mr. Doyle. “ My friends, my first duty is to offer you my most sincere thanks for the honour yon have conferred upon me by calling on me to preside at this vast and most important meeting (hear, hear), and also to express my regret that some man better qualified had not been selected to fill this very grave and 5 very responsible position. (None better.) I say tnat this meeting is vast, not merely in the immense multitude assembled here to-day, but still more in its representative character. We have in the first j)lace the people of Eoss, the men of this old historic borough, who have always been in the very front of the fight for “happy homes and altars free.” We have then gallant 10 Wexford from Kilmore to Kilkeely from Bannow to Buncloy, the descendants of those heroes who never fiinched in the hour of danger, whose indomitable courage alarmed and terrified the conspirators in the Castle and their generals in the field, and has thrown a halo of unquenchable and unfading glory around the magic number ’98. (Cheers.) We have then the brave men of 15 Carlow (hear, hear), who at length, tired of their bondage and weary of grinding at the mill of their oppressors, arose in their might and by one giant effort shattered into ruin both the temple and the idol of landlord ascendancy. We have the brave stalwart men of Kilkenrry, who more than a quarter of a century ago, led by the gallant Curates, were in the very van 20 of the battle for tenant right against landlord oppression (hear, hear). M'^aterford, city arrd corrnty, who e\er come to the call of duty, are fully represented here to-day. Cork, the metropolis of tire south, is here in its irrrrivalled representative Charles Stirart Parnell (cheers), the leader and emphatically the leader of the Irish people, surrounded and sustained by a 25 goodly number of the trrrest and the best men of the Irish party (hear, hear). And though last not least, wm have here to-day the ladies to encourage us by their presence and to cheer rrs on rn the good vork. Are we not surrounded, ci-owmed, you might say adorned, by an array of rustic and civic beauty beyond competition ? Is it not true then to say that this meeting is vast in 30 its representative character ? I said this mectmg is most important if we can judge of the importance of an assembly from its vast rrumbers, from its A ‘ 1 Q 33G6.— 62. \ew noss.—Srp/rilihrr ISSO.— P. -/. IP/mi. (jiioslioii all tlu' elciueiits which arc calculated io coinhiuc the priest wdh the pc'ople, for there is that Ihorouo-h and entire identity which makes the iiderest of the one the interest of the other. 1 will detain you no longer, hut thank yon, men of the County Wexford, for the kind manner in which yon 5 have listened to me, and also for the kind manner in which yon received the assistance which the County Carlow sent to yon to-day. (Cheers.) Mr. Barry, M.P. “ Pellow countrymen, this magnificent meeting affords convincing proof that the farmers of Wexford and the surrounding counties are fully alive to the necessity of strong and united action, and that tliey are determined not 10 to remain in the hackground whilst the rest of their countrymen are engaged in a life and deatli struggle with the evil power of landlordism. (Cheers.) We have met to-day for no idle or frivolous purpose. We are warring against a system of Land Law which has no parallel in the civilised world (hear, hear), a system which has brought upon Ireland untold suffering and 15 misery, reducing her people to the lowest state of slavery and degradation, perverting the resources of this fair and fertile land, until famine and pesti- lence claim their countless victims, causing tens of thousands to fly from scenes of horror and desolation, to seek the means of existence in foreign climes, denied to them in the land of their birth. Against this system the 20 Irish people have declared war, and the result of the struggle depends not upon Government, not upon your leaders, not upon Parliamentary repre- sentatives, hut depends entirely and absolutely upon yourselves. (Cheers.) That the settlement of the Land Question depends upon yourselves cannot be enforced too often or tvith too much emphasis, more particularly when 25 we find men in the position of popular representatives wlio seem to mis- understand this great uprising amongst the people and to mistake our noble enthusiasm for a false and fickle excitement and who ought to know better, refer to those who are foremost in the struggle upon this Land Question as ‘ shrieking brethren and blockheads of mankind, and call upon us to cease 30 our vigorous action and abandon our vigorous effort, and to place confidence in the Government, the Landlords, and the Loyal Land Commission. TLell, iny answer to men who tender advice like this, my aiisvvei is . Put foi the earnest and resolute attitude of the people, but for the splendid services of ]\Ir. Parnell, but for the teaching and planning of the Land League, we 35 never would have heard of a Loyal Commission. (Cheers.) Only for the resolute attitude of the people, the Irish Land Question would be to-day where it was two years ago, quiet and at rest, whilst the sufferings and wrongs of the people went on unnoted. Eut I think it is perfectly fail, Avhen we are called upon to abandon our energetic action and to repose con- 40 fidence in the Government, I think it is perfectly fair that we should exa- mine, not into the promises, but into the performances of that Government, and I will very briefly indeed refer to the action of the Government during the present session. You will remember that when T'arliament assembled after the General Election, the Irish Members heard with surprise and regret 45 vhen the Queen^s Speech was read, that no refeience whatevei vas made to the Irish Land Question, and in order to mark their resentment, they moved an amendment to the Queen’s Speecii. Well, the Government of New Uoss.—Heiilemhcr mii, Ilnn-n, MJ‘. oouiNc was (luitc iwcparccl wi(,\i an oxcusc, and the excuse was this, tliat with the short time at their disposal, they had no opi.ortu..ity lor oonsidering a question of such grave importance and magnitude as the Irisii Land 5 The next measure dealt Avith by the Government was the Irish Distress liill and 1 will just say this about that Irish Distress Bill, that a more ohmutic iiv I* OSS. — Sojilouihcr -.)// . I '1/ /(I ' • -n.is l.uuUiucsti.n.. is a s.'eat aucl |„vssi»s .luest i«u. and it lias 1, can r ,.d to the rvont l.y the agitation winch has swept over tin! cainliy .Lnths.” Had it not been tov this '-e.nent one ,.onh.wonhl have been extonninated as they were exterm, nat d ISW s 7i„ snl,sennent years; and, at that time, if tlioso landlords h.ul not "hi on -nlvaidase ol‘ the opportunity wldch the famine, and the depress,,,,. lClh,7i„^;he ia.nino, gave tlnnn for tl,e purpose of extermmat,ng the ' Lie it is l,eeanse they then felt tl,ey were face to faee w,th a st.m.g „„!e„’,ent, and witl, tl,e force of public opinion, wh.el, no sma 1 clni . IP ,nen in this or in any other c.,,,,,try Id fail to disregard, (llern^ 71 tl,™ our people L, thank God. still in the land, and we have se before ns tin- task of securing, now that we have the opportunity, tha every man who works on this fertile land of Ireland shall have lor h.ms ■ind'for his chihh-e,i the fruits of that work. (Hear, hear. How , tins ir, ‘,0 b,' done > I do not propose to waste your time by sketching out p an. , p iauT to such an Ininiense mass meeting. I believe, an, I have ^pressed the opinion, that this „nestion will .ourtiw iid that it is far more important for us to make the .piestion 20 .'ipc tor settlement than to knock our heads against cad, other fans as to how it may be best settled before it is ripe. (Hear, 1, a,.) H„Lv, 7 I may say a L words upon one or two proposes which have beerLmle froni time to time with regard to the settlement of this ouestion, and I wish to speak in the most kindly, forbearing, and friendly maimei, 25 coLi LLe fight of everybody to differ from me, hut at He same Lie’ pointing out, as is my duty, imperfections and weaknesses where they appear to be fatal to the chances of success. ‘\s . — Scph’iiibfi- 2(5///, ISbO. — Mr. ParncH, M. P. (lu'ar, lieai-,) to wluil iho value would have been if it had Jiot l)e{‘U (ivnelied on hy the act of tlu' landlord, hut he is entitled to do nothing- more. The Ulster custom does not keep the tenant in his holding, it sirnply lines the landlord for evicting him. (Hear, hear.) 5 “ Now we cannot sanctimi any amendment of the Land Act, any perma- nent amendment of the Ijand Act which sanctions the right of the lawdloi-d to evict; so that the Ulster custom, as a means of altering or improving the relations between landlord and tenant, would he entirely unsatis- factorv if not useless. But then again another class of advocates have 10 spoken of Avhat is called fixity of tenure at valued rents periodically valued. Now I believe that there are inherent objections in this system also, hut I think it is scarcely necessary for us to go into the inhereiAt objections to the system, since it seems utterly impossible to arrive at a solution of the question hy that means. All the great statesmen who 15 liaA’e spoken on the system of land tenure in Ireland, have condemned the fixing of the rents by the State. Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Bright, and Mr. Forster have repeatedly declared that they will be no party to a State arbitration of what the rents shall be. (Hear, hear.) All the advanced Liberal school in England, Avith the exception of Mr. Courtney 20 and one or two other men, take the same line, and therefore in the face of such declarations, I fail to see the utility of struggling for a method of settling the Land Question which we shall never get (hear, hear), and which, even if we did get, would only perpetuate that system of landlordism which has destroyed this country. (Cheers.— ‘ Down with them.’) 25 “ We seek as Irish Nationalists for a settlement of the Land Question which shall be permanent, which shall for ever put an end to the war of classes, which unhappily has existed in this country (hear, hear), a war which supplies, in the words of the resolution you have just passed, the strongest inducement to the Irish landlords to uphold the system of English misrule 30 wliich first placed those landlords in Ireland ; and, looking forward to the future of our country. We Avish to avoid all elements of antagonism between classes. I am willing to have a struggle between classes in Ireland short, sharp, and decisive once and for all, but I am not willing that this struggle should be perpetuated at intervals when tliese periodical re- 35 valuations of the holdings of the tenants would come round under the system of Avhat is called fixity of tenure at valued rents. (Hear, hear.) This to my mind, apart entirely from the impossibility of obtaining from the present Liberal party such a solution, is the real objection. The real objection is that the system of landlordism would still remain, and that 40 the solution Avhich has been obtained in other countries, and which has succeeded in other countries, — in France, in Germany, in Holland, in Italy, and even in Spain,' — would not be our’s, but that we should be left to struffMe on Avith this millstone round our necks, and Avith this constant source of disunion and confusion still existing amongst us. 45 “ Now, then, is the time for the Irish tenantry to show their determination, to show the Government of England that they will be satisfied with nothing less than the ownership of the land of Ireland ; and, believe me, such a solution is far more practicable, possible, and much nearer, than any other solution. (Hear, hear.) The great John Bright believes in 50 OAvnership as the solution of the Irish Land Question ; and we have, as I 26 Xcu: — Scj)l (‘iiibcr ’‘I'olli , ISSO. — Mr. P<(i‘iicll, M.P. hnvo said, llio suo(!Ossrul })roco(l(;uts wliioli liav(' been sci us in ovcry olJier coiiuli-y where the leudal laud tenure prevailed as our guide. Let us, tluni, strug'gl(‘ for tliis sottlenu'ut, ’whieh will 1x5 linal, which will be satislactory, and whieh will leave no traces of the old system behind it. (Cheers.) 5 “Talk ot lixity ot tenure at fair rents, t think that the Irish tenantry should be able to look forward to a time when all rent would cease, when they woidd have the homes as their own, without the necessity of making annual payments for them ; and I see no difficidty in arriving at such a solution, and in arriving at it in this way : By the payment of a fair rent, 10 a fair and fixed rent, not liahlo at recurrent and, perhaps, near periods to revision, but by the payment of a fair rent for a space of, say, 85 years, after which time there would bo nothing further to pay. In the mean- while the tenant would have fixity of tenure ; ho would have his tenure, also, at a fair rent, not liable to even revision, re-valuation, or raising. 15 Let the arbitration be made now, and you would find that the magic of property, which turns sand into gold, would enable the then owner and the now miserable tenant of the most barren and unprofitable holding in Ireland to bring it into such a state of cultivation as to put him beyond the reach of famine after two or even three bad seasons. 20 “ I had wished, in referring to a sad occurrence which took place lately, the shooting, or attempted shooting, of a land agent, in this neighbourhood. (Uproar.) I had wished to point out that recourse to such measures of procedure is entirely unnecessary, and absolutely prejudicial, where there is a suitable organisatioi] amongst the tenants themselves ; and I have 25 thought from time to time, looking at the want of organisation in this and other counties, that the reason for this occurrence was the want of organisation amongst the farmers. (Hear, hear.) I believe that if Kil- kenny county had been organised, young Boyd would never have been shot because his father, in the face of strong public and organised opinion, 30 would not have ventured to abuse his rights as a landlord. But, in dealing with this matter, and in urging, as I wish to urge, the people not to go beyond the law (hear, hear) I feel myself very much hampered by the action of the Government of the country, which has been of such a character as to produce an impression that they desire to set the sympathy 35 of everv fair-minded and just man in this country against the adminis- tration of the law. (Cheers.) It should be the duty of a government so to administer the law as to secure respect for the law amongst the majority of a community, but, unfortunately, that has not been the practice in Ireland ; and I regret that this Liberal Government, though it 40 calls itself Liberal, should be allowing its Crown prosecutors to follow in the evil example of their predecessors. The principles of common law requhe, as my friend, Hr. IVIarum, observed just now, that every accused person should he considered innocent until he has been proved to be guilty ; (cheers) but in the cases to which I am now referring the Executive have 45 acted as if they w^ere determined that the accused persons should swing whether they were innocent or not. In fact, they have done their best to take these cases out of the hands of the Courts, and to bias the decision of the jury to whom they should be left; and we may look, I suppose, for an attempted repetition by the Crown of that jmy packing which has 50 disgraced the criminal judicature of Ireland, and led to so many judicial murders of innocent men, committed in the name of the law. (Cheers.) D 2 27 \,;v Ho.sH.-Serl,:,„l>er TSS().-:)/r. /'«»»-//, M.P. / .. N,„v lol, us uxuniinu for u uunucut, au.l let, us cxau.in.. as lavv-al,i.liug eilin.us u-hu wisl, to chuck an, I ivstraiu the fluvunuucut IVom the violuut, ustitutiuual. an., i.lcga, coucsu they a.-c ad,,,, tin, ,u ,„,asatiou uf .nunlor, let us cxauuuu what the act.uu ol the (.uvenuueu has 5 hue,, in those cases. A munher of respectahle men w«c an-ostc,h tenants o, ,' e nceuertv ol the landlord concovned, 1 . helievc. Three ot these uu.u w.u. cmuuitted'for trial hy the .uasistrates, and are now ,n |,ns,m awa.t.ng trial, Iwool- then,. Well, shortly atterwards live young girls disapiiearc.l Iron, lieir laiuilies and from the country, and, after considerahlc search, it was 10 found that the v«liec had carried them off foreihly. The actum ol the courts was solicited to obtain the restoration of three of the,se girls to their pare, s, ami the courts felt that they could not support the high-handed ac ion ,rf he f'oYcrniuent and they gave a writ of habeas corpus, winch resulted in ,drls hein» simt hack,'l believe, the next day. (Cheers.) Two more young r, ^omcn wdio happened to he of age, and in reference to whom their parents eannot’proeeed, are still detained; hut I ask you whether it is not a disgrace to the Government of any country, deliberately to .spirit off witnesses lo the mirpose not of protecting them against any attempts that iiiight he made to hitiuiidlte them, hut for the purpose of intimidating them and mstructm, ■to them as to the evidence which they shall give. (Uproar.) “ Well, then, the next thing that this most Liberal Government does is the most unheard of step known in this country. While two men are m prison awaitin- trial, after they have been committed for trial they actually o ei a reward of SOOi!. to anybody who will come forward and swear against them, ■>6 (Shame) They have often offered rewards before a person has eui leeused .if the crime or arrested, hut even in Ireland I have never heard of a Government actually offering a reward for testimony against men vvho me Ivim. in gaol awaiting trial. (Groans.) It ivas reserved tor a so-callc,l Lteal G:vorume.it to attempt to take the law into its hands m this way 30 aud to override the decision of the properly constituted tribunals o "'"tiL is a story ill English history of the sou of one of the English khms who was once brought before the English judge tor “ law^md he behaved in an insolent manner to the judge, ami he said to him, 35 I the sou of a king, and yon have no authority over me hut the jiulge si mved him his authority hy committing him to prison and by keeping Inn hi Now the Government of the country stands m the place of the Crown, and the Government of Ireland have no more ^ J - in reference to the to of that king had to swagger hetoie the Jiiigiisii , trust that the attention that has been directed to this question will comLt h Government to cease a kind of action in reference to nutnes.ses wdiiehlias been condemned hy the ‘Pall Mall Gazette, one of their own 15 organs and that we shall have no further recurrence to the ahommahle prirces' of old times in reference to accused men who are awaiting their *1' Ld now in conclusion I will say one word to you. I wmuld entreat , mn-int farmer not to look at this laud question from a selhsh point of 50 Iw You' have to-day the first real opportunity that you ever^had of Sew lluse.-iiepirmlwr -iMh, Ihn-nelt, M.r. il. ...<1 'K'liovc .no wlic, thn lan.l .l..osli<... l.as l,cou mially sntUed, ; sl,:u bo in a posit, ion to claim, with ivoosistiblc rc'ce, the .-cstora ol o .■ „1,1 Farliaincnt. (Cheevs.) Some woll-moanmg men arc saymg to-day, A . .,10,1’t continue this agitation; don’t continne this movement ; you an, 5 . driving the landlords out ot the national ranks.’ I should like to knou when the landlords, since the imion, were in the national ranks. ( ovu.) s imnossihlo to expect them to he in the national ranks while they know Uiat their only hope ol maintaining their right to commit w^ng les in the . itenanee'ot English power in Ircland(ehoers), and it it is desirable to ,0 r tllein in the national ranks, I tell you that the best way o bringing llieni there is to take from them the right to do wrong; to destroy the system of landlordism which was planted here by England in order tha s ii, mWit diyide Ireland’s sons amongst theniselyes and so naaintain her pow We will not, you will not, be demoralised by concessions, and a though the 15 Irisli land question may be settled, although our people may be lendeici iirospcrous and famine banished from the land, I feel sure that the remoyal of suitering, the increase of wealth, and the independence of this country will so far from diminishing the determination ot the Irish people to lu themselves, strengthen it, and enormously increase their power ol regaining 20 their lost rights.” (Cheers.) U 29 {I\illeenadeema.—2Gth September, 1880.) Mr. Matthew Harris, of Baiiinasioe, then came forward aiid said Ladies and gentlemen, T think it would be p,c«nn,.ti<.n on n,y ,nut to detain you any longer after the eloc,uent snoeehes you have heard. I have been entrusted with the thiril resolution it is as follows—" That believing as we do that the curse of Ireland is land 5 grabbing, we hereby denoiinee the man who would take a another had been evicted, as an enemy to God and man. My frien s, a oreat deal has been said and done for the benelit of the poor striigg mg farmers of Ireland since this time twelve months. The words of the resolution are protesting against land grabbing, the man who takes a farm 10 from which another is evicted as an enemy to the country, but I am sine that there is not one man in this large assembly before me here toMay would be so mean as to do it. 6X2 J/.a VKilkctiWj. Oclobcr 1 )i]rd, 1880.) Mr. P. J. Gordan said “ Eov. (diairman, ladies, and jnen ol’ Galway, 1 am proud to have ilic Inmoiir of addressing you here to-day. I am addressing my native eonnty, but I have the honour of representing the noblest eounty in Ireland, Mayo. I am thankful for your invitation to the meeting, and I have left a meeting 5 within live miles of me to come and give a helping hand in establishing a hraneh of the Land League here. Allow me to tell you that at this meeting you have traitors in your cause. You have men among you who have made capital of your poverty. But while you have among you four iiillars of the Church of Home, and you have also on this platform the representative of 10 the real Suggarth Aroon in Lather Eaglington, and though last not least, Lev. Father Butler. Now I have done with the priests. They are a class in themselves. But I want to speak now about the landlords ivhich suiiound this locality. 1 heard an amount of praise given to some landlords, hut unfortunately in Ireland a good landlord is as scarce as a white hlackhiid. I 15 have knoivn one landlord, since I was horn, in Tuam, and his name; sinks deep into my heart. I Avill not screen the name of that land robber, Ilohert Henry of Togher. I have seen him yesterday in Tuam with a very smooth face upon him, and they say the greater the rogue the smoother he goes. He is one of those land sharks. When I see before me the motto of that 20 independent nation, the stars and stripes, I hope and trust that the day will yet arrive when the stars and stripes of Ireland will float on the hill-tops of Ireland. (Cheers.) I am not under any obligation to the Land League, or neither to you. Some one might say that Gordan came because he is well paid for it. (No, No.) Yes, I am well paid if the land shark is crushed to 25 the earth. Let ye do no crime that will implicate you with the Govern- ment ; for the bloody Government is watching every act of yours that they might steep their hands in the blood of the people as they did in the days of persecution. They have given you a sham Bill, and they gave the same power to the land robber. And they still tell you that if you have patience you 80 will get everything. A boy in a school held up bread to his fellows, and says if any of you ask this bread you will not get it, and if you do not ask it you shall not get it. They said if you assemble and demand justice you shall get it. We have demanded justice, and we are told now in our poverty and distress, that because we ask justice we shall not get it. I ask 35 every one of you to hold up your hands and pledge thau you will take no land from which another has been evicted. I will ask you to keep that pledge. Let the land go waste. If there is a tenant evicted let some other tenant take him into his cabin, and let no man come and gobble up that man’s industry (the remainder of the sentence lost by the great talking in 10 the crowd). We have been told that the Irish tenants were extravagant in the past, and because of their extravagance they are in poverty. Well, there is not on the face of the earth a worse fed people. I ask you to cheer for the Zulus, because they have stood up nobly and fought against the Government who slaughtered them. I ask you not to allow the Government 45 to starve you on the roadside. A great poet said that Ireland was a nation worth loving, and a land worth fighting for. I say it here to-day. On this day week I had the great honour of attending a meeting at Clonbur. I had no idea of being there until the Pv-ev. Father Conway, the poor man’s friend, p I received a telegram, because he suspected that the letter diet not icach n^e. I Q33GG.— 11. 8 B li it {yLhbri/kiiocknioi /. — Oc/obnr Wrd, 1880. — i\ . (Jordan.) Well, when I avvivod in Clonhui- I had the ploasurc ol’ hearinej that some <*‘reat land I’ohhev was muvdcrc'd, oi‘ shot hims(^ll. ^.l^hc Governmeni. of bh\‘’‘hind wove mnvmiiring liccaiiso M ountmorres was shot. I don t ap])rovc of mnrdoring anyone, hnt I say that the Government of England did not go 5 into monrning when the people were starving. Within one week in the parish of Claremorris, the coroner held inquests on the bodies of 13 childroji who were starved on the roadside. Now did the Government of hlngland go in mourning for them? We are told in Scripture that the hlood of the innocent cries to heaven for mercy ; then I ask you will not the Government 10 he responsible for the miirdei* of these infants ? Well, 13 is nothing com- pared to the people of Ireland. Look at the father in one place, and the mother in the other. I ask you here as honest Irishmen, is it not better for you to die a victim at the doors of your cabin than to starve in the woikhousc. The man that goes quietly to the workhouse is nothing hut a white slave. God, 15 when creating the land for the people, he said you will cultivate the earth and earn yonr living by the sweat of your brow. I ask you to count in your memory all the land thieves around you here ; have they earned one shiiling in their lives ? They write to the agent and the ageut sends out the land shark, the drivers. There is an order from the master ; Mr. Charlie is going 20 to the continent. Miss Louisa is going to Paris, and they want money. In the town of Tuam I have seen unfortunate victims die on the road side and carried in a mat for a coffin to bury him. The Government got shut of the people, and the landlords had no poor rates to pay for the coffin. Well, the people of Ireland to-day are not going to lie quietly down on the 25 road side, nor they are not going to allow their friends to be buried without a coffin. I say, in the presence of my priest, that the hour is approaching Avhen every Irishman will be called upon to stand up boldly and assert his rights, I am not here to have my speech reported. I don’t care if it ctoes not reach that wall so as that every Irish man and Irish woman before me 30 shall carry it liome in their bosom. A man who has not the spirit of nationaity in his bosom is lost to his country. There is one of those bigs bugs, and I will refer to that nobleman who goes by the name ; why it would take me an hour to repeat tliem. I said to Mr. Eedpath that that gentleman had as many names as the ten commandments— Dominie— Lord Oranmore and 35 Brown. (Groans, and cries of down with him.) I had the great pleasure oi great honour if you like, of speaking to him once in my life. He asked me why I headed 500 persons to the graveyard of . He was not con- tented to evict the living until he would evict the dead. I said, ‘ You could ‘ not bestow a greater honour on me than to say I headed 500 men. I think 40 ‘ it is more than you could get to follow you.’ Now that gentleman described in the House of Lords that he never evicted a tenant. Tdiat may be true for him, but if he did not send them to America he sent tliem Irom the good land to the bog. He attacked Mr. Iledpath. And I said to him « You can accompany me to Lord Oranmore’s property.’ I said, ‘ lake notes 45 of his property.’ The people were in the corner; the pig there, and the ass there ; the three in one apartment. I brought him to another house with only a little child. 1 asked, ‘ M^here is your father ?’ ‘ In England.’^ ‘ Your mother?’ ‘Binding oats.’ ‘Did you get your dinner?’ ‘ I did.’ ‘ MTio got it ready ? ’ ‘ Myself.’ ‘ Had you milk ? ’ ‘No, nothing.’ Now there 50 is the lord of the soil who spends his money over in England, and the child of the unfortunate tenant, who is earning his living over in England, and the 9 [Jbhcnknochnon . — Oc/ohrr Srd, 1880. — J. (Jo7'd<(n.) child had ii) ready her own dinner and had nothing' l)nt potatoes. All the money that had been earned in Ireland had been dragged by the land robbers and si'>ent at the gambling tables in London and Paris. They never during the famine subscribed a shilling to the funds. Then Ave are told that the lands r, ol Ireland arc set so cheap that you can live on it very comfortably. You remember the property in Tuam that had been held not long since by d^homas Tighc, of lilayo. (Cheers for him.) In Ireland to-day there is not a better landlord. AVell ye have got, and I am sure there is many from Tuam at this meeting, and you have got the devil’s bochel m D. B. Leonard. 10 (Groans.) You know hoAV he lias prosecuted the people on Galway road. They say Avlien rogues fall out honest people get their own. I had the pleasure of meeting him siuee the land meeting of Tuam, and I believe the attack I made on him lias made him change his hat, for he had a black hat yesterday. I rememlier that his father would not get a stone of yellow meal on his word, 15 There is not a class in Ireland to-day who has plundered the people of Ireland more than the solicitors of Ireland. You go and have a difference Avith your neighbour, and the solicitor Avill take up your case, and whether you have a good case or not he will say he will make a good job of it. Let ye keep a firm grip of the land : let no man go to law for the future but the landlords. 20 Let ye take each other by the hand and swear that for the future you will be no traitor to your country. I wiU go back to one solicitor in Tuam and he to-day represents the man who hanged his own son in Galway, the Warden of Galway. Now, there is one in Tuam, and that fellow is of the name of Mun Concannou. How could you expect that he would do a decent job for 25 any one of ye when he persecutes his own son. He has his own son under evic- tion. Noav, I Avant to shoAV you by this parable that you never can trust yourselves in the hands of these solicitors. Let ye settle your differences at home. The judges of Ireland are well paid, because the more crime is com- mitted in Ireland the more pay he gets for it. But the priest Avill charge 30 you nothing. Now, my friends, there are some gentlemen to speak to you here with regard to the Land League. Although I am here not as a representative of the League in person, I represent the League in form throughout the country. Let every man join the Land League. Let every woman join the Land League. You must remember that the glory of Trance 35 is due to the noble Trench women. It was a woman that led on the honest sons of Trance to liberty, and I am proud to tell youttiat amongst the honest iieople of Ireland are women. I must ask you to join the League. In the past you had no friend. If you are now put under eviction by a land robber the Land League comes to your aid and they expose the robber. They 40 support the tenant in the court, and if he is evicted they support him on the road side I Avill ask you not to recognise these landlords as lords. But believe that there is not a lord on earth but the Lord of Creation. Becognise no one on earth but he Avho represents Him, and that is the priest and the bishop of your church; and I tell you if there is a bad priest in the parish 45 treat him as a bad priest. I am proud to have to stand on the platform to- day with your priest, and my townsman of former days. His name has gone on the breeze and sunk into the hearts of many Irishmen, who speak Avith pride and Hory of the Bev. Tather Cahill. If I thought the priest was not faithful to” the cause of the people there is no man would denounce him 50 sooner than I would. Now, I Avill ask you my friends to surround yom* worthy parish priest enroll yourselves as members of the Land League, and I hope ^ " 10 B 2 [Ahhcul'uockmou . — Ocloher \\rd, 1880. — /’. J. Oordan.) to SCO b.-tbrc long I'ci'ort®! tliat Abbcykiiocknioy Is oao of tlic 8tKm''-ost iiicinbevs of tlic L uiil League iu Ii-olaiid. I have travelled tliicc eounrics, Mayo, Itoseomiuoii, and Galway, and have travelled it at ray own fx-oeiise and until Ireland is proclaimed a nation I shall work by day and 1 5 shall write bv night, ay, and I shall plot by night until Ireland is a natron. Don’t rest contented slaves by the iiresido, Wberover you know tlierc is a newspaper to be read, wherever you see that Pandun 0‘llaffierty’s comma, rd- ments are read, let ye go tlicrc and listen to every word and go home, and. . . tliat England is licro only as a robber. In the days of persecution 10 the English nation drove your irviests from the people and the people trorn the cabin. Tliey have persecuted religion. Tircy have got up a system of class against class. They kept each other cutting one anotlrer s liroats. Yon can take an Orangeman in your hand. God created Iran, and that Ires in his bosom, and there is a guide in the church to gunle him You shah 15 say that this is not a iiiiestion of religion. I will ask you to repeat the solemn nledire I will ask every man and every lady to put up their right ham before the God of creation. I am proud that the first hand I saw up was the hand of an Irish lady. That no one will take a cabin or a farm from where a tenant lias lieen evicted. Allow the land to remain m the hands of the 20 land robbers. There is now what they call a Landlord National Laud Leagiio. Well there is in Ireland a few thousand land robbers, and there are in Ire am millions of people. What, then, would Government do if the Irish nation proclaimed that this land is ours, and we are bound to maintain it. Ireland at one time numbered 12 millions ; now you have only five millions. Every 25 hour you work on the land the landlord makes you pay for it. If you reclaim some of it next year you have to pay 31. more. You are working day am niMit on that land. It is lilce an old house that you are propping up until at las°t it comes down on you. I will ask you that for the future you wil pay no rackrent ; you will hold within the bounds of the Land League, and pay 30 no rackrent. I know there are land sharks in the village. I will e you what you will do to him-treat him in the form of a mad dog : and that , when he appears iu the village, every man in the village I'aUoos im ira i goes and drowns himself. Do not have any intercourse with him. ^ Do i speak to him ; don’t speak to Ms wife and children; and it he go mo 35 chapel let him go into a corner for himself. Let the people of this parish respect their priest, and let them mark out that laud shark-point him out to the priest; let him die as I said about Castlerea. He first betrayed us country, and when England had no job for him to do. he went and cut his throat. Murty Hynes took a farm, and when he found that the peop e 40 were hallooing him he gave up the farm ; and to-day I had the pl^^ure M distributing about 100 of the song composed for Murty Hynes. I te y Murty Hynes is an honest man, because the Scripture says there is more joy in heaven over one repenter than 99 just. I want you to watch if t ere is a Murty Hynes here. aSd you will find that he may run ro Eather Ca^^ii 45 and say, ‘ I make an open confession, and here is the land for you. you that the land shark or the land grabber is ten thousand times wors . take great pleasure in speaking of land robbers, but I tell you the land grabber is the worst we have to deal with. If the landwere left to the am - lord he would say it is better for me to settle with the tenant in ime. wi 50 ask you to pay no rent to the landlords unless he gives it to you M a fair valuation. The time is approaching fast when aU Ireland will be estabhshed 11 {Abbei/IciiocIcDioi/. — Oclohcr 'M, 1880. — P. J. Gonlan.) as being lueinbors of the Land League, to give one solid strike against paying- rent at all until the laud (piestiou is settled. I ask you to go lionie from this meeting peaeeably and respectably. If you respect yourselves lirst you will respect others after. Don’t be bowing ; walk up independently and say, 5 I am under no obligation. You only occupy the land like me. I will pay you what is fair, and I swear before Heaven I will pay you nothing else. I will ask you to keep every word you have hoard hero to-day in your memoiy. I don’t come to meetings for the purpose of being on the platform, but I come hero to give a helping hand to proclaim before God on high that this 10 land is ours, and if we cannot get it peaceably, to fight at our own doors for it.” (A voice : ‘ Cheers for Gordan.’ Great cheering.) B 3 12 (^Ahheyk)iockmoy . — Ocloher llrd, 1880.) Rev. Mr. Cahill, P.P., said : I have just to lucntioii an omission made l)y Mr. ITanly. I tldnk Mr. Kolly oi‘ all the landlords of Ireland is deserving of praise, lie is a good landlord, and the son of a good landlord. His father hefore him did his duty to the people, and he in the crisis we have passed through did his duty too. 5 lie gave 20h as his contrihution foi* the funds that were gathered for the relief of distress, lie told me one day, ‘ Father Cahill, do not let a single ‘ person in the parish perish of hunger as long as I have a penny in my ‘ pocket.’ Mr. lloche, of Ryehill, is a good landlord too.” Mr. Thomas C. Griffin proposed “ That a branch of the Land League be established in this parish, and that all the tenant farmers be requested to join.” He said : “ Lev. chairman and fellow countrymen, ~I beg to propose the third, and I believe the last, resolution. Now, the speakers that have gone 10 before me have exhausted the subject, and I think it will be unnecessary for me to say anything. Now, I cannot sit down without saying that it is with feelings of great pleasure I stand before you to-day. It surely is a pleasin^ si^ht to me to see so many patriotic priests of the diocese of Tuam assembled here to proclaim the rights of the people to the land they live in.^ The priests are 15 the natural leaders of the people, and I think any agitation without the priests at the head of it will end in shame. Now it is a pleasure to me to see the priest, your own Soggarth Aroon, attending here to-day, because I have come from a diocese where not a single priest has gone with the people. While giving the lead to the priests of the diocese of Tuam, I have to say that not 20 one single priest of the diocese of Clonfert has taken part in these meetings. I was told of a man who held land from a Mr. Kenny, whoever he may be ; he had an old cow, and the unfortunate cow was fond of strolling. She was fond of a good bite of grass, and went over to the landlord’s grass. He was told who owned her. The landlord took out his book and marked down 2h 25 in the man’s rent. The man had to sell the cow in a year’s time for 11. All I will say is that I believe there is yet hope for dear old Ireland. The diocese of Tuam is first in Ireland, and they have joined in this war. It is a war, but an unbloody one, and I hope it will leave you freemen though A found you slaves. If you carry on these things loyally you will win. But if 30 you go on committing outrages, for I regret to have heard that outrages were committed, but I say a man who commits outrages is a great coward. Any man who goes at night and injures a poor beast is not fit to be in any cause ; he is a great disgrace. One speaker alluded to Murty Hynes. Well, he gave the land up, but he deserves no credit for it. He was hooted at the fairs. 35 He is a land jobber ; and I have heard when he went into the chapel the people made a ring round him. I ask you to commit no outrage ; keep to the Land League, and the land question will very soon be settled. 13 i^Ahheijhiocloiioij. — Oct oher "M'd, 1880.) Rev. Mark Eglinton said : “ llcv. eliaivinan, ladies, and gentlemen,— 1 feel a great pleasure and a 5 disapprobation, nay, the scorn and curses of his kind,-yes his hate for drivino- out human beings to make room for bullocks m a Christian land. (Cheers.) My fellow-countrymen, in my journey through the west oi Galway for the first time in my life I wondered how, on God’s earth, in this nineteenth century of ours, wdiile human nature is up and stirring the world 30 over, that the original and primitive sterility of our native lulls is as fresh and as primitive to-day to look upon as it w-as when the flood subsided. ( ear, hear ) This is a matter which must strike any stranger forcibly who takes a run through your beautiful and romantic country— a country which would inspire anybody with the idea that it never naturally was formed or framed 35 to be the nursery of slaves. (Interruption.) As I journey along those hills it confronts me. A manhood whose bravery is already recorded, and whose upright conduct, honest dealings, and manly efforts in everything that befite a man has established them as a peasantry second to none on the face of God s eai-ni Yet here, amongst their own native hills, in this nineteenth century 40 with its boasted advance of civilisation, w-e are almost yet in the primitive state of our forefathers. But how long, my friends, shall it be so ? ( Not long. ) It is with you and with me to tell. If you are up and doing ; if you join in this great national movement ; if you will join the rest of your fellow-countrymen until w-e build a sufficiently strong formed public opinion of this country, you will find that landlord tyranny, backed though it be by British bayonets shall be no more before you than a straw before the wind. (Cheers and interruption.) I ask you to join this movement. You do not pitch your- selves in a half-hearted manner into it, but each of you, like the apostle of this great cause, look upon it, not as the guardian of your househo d and 30 your children, but as the guardian of your great national trust which to God t3 October 'ird, lb80 Jiv. 1\ J. t:iheridan.) and man you shall render an account of how you shall support and aid it. Then as you move on, take and hand yoursclt together. Organise, organise, until this great national movement has cast root in all the hills and vaheys of Ireland, drawing freshness from every plaee in which the Celtic 5 hlood exists, and so sure as God is in heaven, so sure, my friends, is the day of your liheration at hand. (Cheers.) Then I would say that it is absolutely necessary that each and every one of you who already has not enrolled yourselves under the banner of the Irish National Land League, that you should do so at the earliest possible opportunity. Any of you who have 10 conm from parishes in whioh a branch of the Irish National Land League has not been established, as soon as you go back pitch yourselves into it with enero-y, and see you have a branch in working order, and thereby aid your countrymen in the great struggle for emancipation. It unfortunately happens many pressures are brought to bear upon some of you. You have 15 the a-ents and the bailiffs threatening you with serious conseciuences if you ioiii in this movement. The man is worse than the landlord who should be influenced by such an individual ; he is lower than the agent, and more dishonest than the bailiff himself. Eellow-countrymen, does it never occur to you when joining this movement, you are joining a constitutional move- 20 ment, and by doing so you are to snap your finger at all that is brought a-ainst you— not merely against the land agent and the bailiff, but the British Government itself. That is just the British Government in this county. (Interruption.) When it arraigns us for discarding and^ disre- spectino- this constitution, the Government it is that has often taken it an 25 shattered it to atoms and sent it to the four winds of heaven. But that they did because they found you were disunited. If you were unammous and in such a state of organisation as the Land League wish to give you, they dare not trifle with your constitution in your presence, or trifle with your liberties for a moment. They did so. They found they were meddling with such a 30 constitution tliat they could not resist. After all, it is the people ttat create a nation; it is by the voice of the people that laws are established ; but when the people are not united and do not pull together and do not stand together they are .... either to themselves or country. Then take the lesson to heart. Band yourselves together, until, with the rest of your 35 countrymen, you can raise your voice in a solemn and earnest and impressive wav that will make landlordism shake to its very foundation. (Cheers.) Now, this movement has been but a short time in existence. It is uothmg but a political baby; yet you see what it has accomplished a ready. It is no longer necessary that the tenant shall go hat in hand, and with trembling 40 knees, to his agent and stand before him, not with the pluck and energy of the brute creation, hut like a slave who wants to be robbed of his energy, is knowledge, and his nerves. (Cheers.) Nothing short of that is wanted among you. It has raised up a sort of moral courage m the people; it has made men that thev can raise their heads agamst high Heaven, and with 4,3 banded grip and resolute arm, say they will lose their rights or wm them. Then this political baby, young as it is, if you only nurse ii; and catei to its wants, where win landlordism be ? It wiU strangle it with the . . . . of its own iniquity. It behoves you, every one, to pitch himself enthusias- ticallv into this movement. Aid and assist your benefactors ; and notwitb- 50 standing the effect, the announcement wliicli the Bishop of Cloyne may have upon the apathetic, yet we have a relief in that direction when we remember 10 ^ ^ {Muam.— October M ISSO.— J/v. P. ISheridau.) / Iho .nvn,t anil illustvious ArcUliishop ot Caslict, that worthy successor to the (“ Three elieers for the lion.”) Wlicn wo remember the prononneoment of that great and illustrious man, the Archbishop of Cashel, wo can well afford, my fellow-countrymen, to turn away with a 5 sarcastic smile on our faces at the pronouncement of the Bishop of Cloyne th.o other day. We can well afford to ignore it; for with all due respect to the dignity that presides over the diocese of Cloyne, bore to-day, in the presence of gentlemen of his own cloth and my fellow-countrymen, I say, coimiared Avith the great and illustrious Archbishop of Cashel, he is as a 10 li-hted taper before the noon-day sun. (Cheers.) Now, it often happens sometimes, that men arc not able to prescribe for themselves. I heard an extraordinary remark made the other day, that Irish farmers, like Irish patients, want a physician to prescribe for them. When we are unwell, we cannot prescribe medieine for ourselves ; but is there not a tenant fai-mer 15 here that will prescribe a remedy to improve the general aspect of affairs in the country ? There is not one there who is not able to do it himself. We need no preaching of contraband doctrine from any gentleman of any position that runs riot Avith our convictions. (Cries of “No.”) Then, I say, stand by the Land League, and sustain it; and the Land League, like a true and 20 faithful pilot, will steer the barque that is destined to bear you to the harbour of prosperity. There are many speakers to follow me, and I will not trespass any further on your time ; but I wish to have a parting word with the many fair o-irls I see among the crowd. It is a notorious fact that these young girls have got a great and important part to play in this great movement, and 25 thev have got to do that without bemoaning their sex or steppmg out of their wavs. I say to these girls, that when they return to their homes, by just simply and quietly rebuking the suitor who had dared to come and woo them, they are degrading this national movement . • (Interruption.) I say to them by doing so they are serving in a very unmistakable way the 30 great cause we have now at heart ; and I say what is more, they have a right to take and make a solemn pledge, raising Iheir fair hands, and with a warm and sincere earnestness of heart, to pledge themselves before God and man that they shall never Aved or nurse a slave. (Cheers.) By this means you will o-et a spirit and conviction certainly in the rising generation, which, Avhen 35 well^'rooted and well fed, I have not the smallest fear in my head, will be more than (Interruption.) That is the freedom Lorn tyrant yoke of this down-trodden and unhappy land. (Cheers.) 11 \ » IIII J {Ilaarth October IbbO.) Rev. W. Conway, Chairman Some TOntloman here said the priest ought not to marry a man that has not ioiiied tlio Land League. I am sorry I cannot do it ; I must marry any couple that come hetore mo. lu.t I would urge the matter that when any lady that presents her credentials to get married, the first credential we 6 should insist on is that he is a inemher ot the Land League. (Clicers.) ask crery man that pledges himself to the words of the resolution, that is, that he will not take a farm from any man that has been evicted either capriciously or for the nonpayment ot raokrent-every gentleman that pledi^es himself not to take those farms— everybody who promises to lift t ic 10 sharp axe at this most iniquitous system, will hold up his hand. The resolution was carried by a show of hands. The Chairman . a i I will say a word or two in introducing the speaker to the thn*d reso u- tion. I am sure there is not throughout the world, where an Irishman is to he met throughout the world, a man who would not treasure up a hi o 15 sand that eamefrom Carraroe-(cheers)-for there has been fought the battle whose cry has been uttered by C lar es uar am ^ There they made a firm grip and set the noble example to Ireland Who inspired them with the spirit that made them fight for that but the gentleman who proposes this resolution-the patriotic pnest of Carraroe . 20 (Cheers.) The Rev. Mr. Kane i i i Gentlemen : This is the resolution That no settlement of the land question will satisfy the Irish people except that which wil secure to the tenant farmer the peaceful possession of his home and the fruits of “ industry ” Gentlemen : I am very sorry to say that I have been taken 25 short here. I did not know a word of this untfl I came on the platform, and consequently I am not at all prepared to speak to you as I would wis . We intend having a meeting ourselves very soon ; and for the last few days I have been engaged from morning until very late at night trying o ge up anorei — oF the Land League if possible. (Cheers.) I see there am 30 several persons here who perhaps do not understand what has been said in the English language. Well, I would wish to say a few words in the Iiash language consequently. (Cheers.) [Mr. Kane proceeded to address the meeting in Irish.] Mr.O’Loughlin:- I have great pleasure in seconding the resolution proposed by the ei. „ Eather Kane, and I hope that you will all endorse the good advice that e ** has riven you. [Here the band played a tune.] The resolution you hear so Fbly proposed by the Eev. Father Kane I have great pleasure m sLondLi^; and I hope you will all foUow the noble and good advice he has riven yol By doing this you will do a great deal to serve youi.selves, your 40 wives, and your little ones. I have great pleasure in seconding the resolution. -d q 12 ^ ^ ^ 1 ^ {Cork. — Hh October, 1880.) Mr. John Billon, M.P. Mr. (Chairman and Gentlemen— I address you under considerable ditticulties, inasmuch as 1 am here to take the place of another man I am here at his request, he was c^uite unable to come here, and he asked me to speak for l.im. I will just mention that lett(>rs are addressed to Mr 5 Parnell, letters of sympathy. The lirst is from Father Sheehy, which shall read for you (he here read the letter), also letters from the secretary of the Dunmanway Land League, the Land League in Kantur , an or, and Mr. B. Pield. ' I do not think it may a])pear. It is not necessary or me to speak at any length on the principals of the Land League after ^ r. 10 Parnell has spoken to you ; but, at the same time, there is one or points that I think I should explain to this meeting here to-da} . e ore address myself to the subject of the object of the Land League, and e practical policy which it desires to be placed before the people of Ireland, i might be useful that I would take this opportunity of alluding once more to 15 the oTOss misrepresentation by which it i.s sought to chaige to the accoun of the Land League certain acts of violence. Last Sunday pointe ou to the people that it was clearly against their interests to break the peace I pointed out that to them, because, as I showed to them, the po icy w iic the Land League has placed before the people is a policy ^ se e ence , 20 and 1 pointed out further that it was additionally unnecessary for them to do any acts of violence because they are now the winning party. It is therefore desirable that although this matter has been fully explained, t a. , I should take this opportunity again of pointing out the misrepresentation of the English and the landlord Irish Press, which have been so malignant 25 and which are directly to a, desire to injure the position of the Lain 'League by connecting them with actions for winch the Land League is not responsible. , Now. before I leave this subject 1 would like to say one word as regai-ds the tax’ on huuum life. The condition of things which i desire to bring 30 about in Ireland is one, that the most unpopular landlord or agent «ii walk the road by night without being armed, as 1 would inyselt When we have once convinced the people that, by adopting our policy they can ‘ defend their lives, the cause will disappear, and with the cause the etiect will disappear also. , i i - 1 r 35 Therefore 1 say, according as the people understand and adopt the policy of the Irish Land League, so have we a right to except that outrage and acts of violence will disappear from Ireland. While speaking on this subject I think I should allude to an occurrence that took place in Ireland, and that is a deputation of landlords waited upon the Government m Dubliri 40 Castle. 'Ihey grossly exaggerated the condition of the country wit i regar to the disturbance. I am not aware that ( ^ catch the remaining words of this sentence.) I am strongly of opinion that the contrary is the truth, and this year, if 3 ^^CorL—\)th October, 1880.— ilfr. DiUoyi, m.p.) statistics wore prepared, it might coinp.are favourably with any other year. But what T want to tlircct tlic attention of tlie meeting to is, that the land- lords were anxious to know whether the Government were i.repared to perform their first duty, to proteet life and property. I wish to tell the 5 landlords, that while we prevent every act of outr-age upon their class, that if they undertake, as indicated in this speech, to repeat the deeds of past yeai-s^ I think [ shall say, we have at our disposal means which shall make them bitterly repent the day (cheers). Now I come to the practic-al work which we should undertake ; perhaps 10 1 cannot introduce that better than by reading a short statement of the objects of the Irish National Land League. I do this because we find it necessary, over and over again, to read these in answer to the misrepresent- ations which have been made against us. Here is the card we circulated in thousands in Ireland, and every farmer thr-ough the country has this 15 card in his house • First, to put an end to rack-renting and eviction. ‘ ‘ Is that assassination Secoiid, to effect a change in the Land system in Ireland as will put it into the power of every Irish farmer to hold the land he tills on fair terms. Well now the means we propose -I suppose the landlords will say it is by 20 shootino- the landlords and the means are— Organization amongst the farmers”for the purpose of self-defence, to purchase no cattle or goods which mav be seized for the non-payment of an impossible rent, and by public mekings, the injustice of the present system ; a resolute demand for the reduction of excessive rent. Fourth, temperate but firm, resistance to oppres- 25 sion. These are the means which we propose to adopt ; and I may point out that the means which liave proved already more efiective to protect him a^minst oppression than years of agitation is, that of refusing to take a farm from which his neighbour has been evicted, and refusing to purchase cattle. Now I should like to explain that last passage, temperate but firm, 30 resistance, means that when an estate is rack-rented, and when we advise the farmers on that estate to tell their landlords they will not pay that rent, we do not mean that we shall resist the police in their attempts^ to carry out the law. I do not wish to expose our people. I do not consider they can successfully cany it out, nor does it mean to shoot landlords, nor does 35 it mean to commit injury to property, but it means that we can get up, that they will defy the landlords, and say “ This much you y shall get, and no more.” Then comes into play our other principles. If he evicts the whole estate, support the farmers, and hold meeting after meeting 40 with the object of not taking the farms-not to assassinate any man, but to brino- public opinion to bear upon him by not speaking to his children and refLimr to purchase or deal with him at fairs. These are the rights of the farmers° and we have tried in several localities, we have succeeded so far to keep these farms empty. 5 T 4 (^Cork.—9th October, 1880.— 3M Dillon, m.p.) Now, these arc all the things we ask the Irish farn.ers to do Iherc is nothing in all this that can bring the farmer within the gr.,, of the law, and there is no doubt now, if the Irish farmers carry on tins policy, the landlord system must come down (cheers). , , i Y 6 Now, I come to point out why it is that Mr, Parnell thought it desirable to repeal this. It is not necessary for me to say, what was said over and over again, that it is just as much interest to the merchant to overthrow the Irish system as it is the farmers. There is another strong reason, and it is this ; I know for a positive fact that the Irish Government are under- 10 going l.ressure to suspend the Coercion Act. It is now y™'- d«ty to take a stand one side or another. If the city of Cork goes in with the Tan Leaivue it will help them. The inii.etus of this city going in with this moraiient. ... I have said already the interest of all classes are boun together. Now, 1 desire to say, in conclusion— I think it right to say i 15 those who say that this movement is antagonistic to any other movenien that is for the good of Ireland, are treating us with injustice This inove- meiit is a temporary movement. We all wish that the Land League wi soon come to an end, but I do not see any practical way for to eftect any oood for Ireland so long as the vast majority of the Irish people depen s 20 upon the whim of a small class who are nine-tenths Englis ' 'rt'vic I sav that I cannot conceive the feelings of Irishmen who think that the cause of Ireland will be injured from emancipating you from living on the will and caprice of masters, instead as living as freemen. I would wish to say one other word. The work in which we are en- 25 o-aoed is not agitation, because I have always told our peop e . meetings are nothing except backed up by determined artion. )ur object-fT is to tell the people how we consider to carry on our policy free from vio- lence I, for one, would be very glad to have no more mee mgs, an hope that will he the case before this day six months. Now, with regard 30 to the practical work of this meeting, is that , . • - - ‘‘ave an hoiii of meeting every week, and that every farmer then who wishes to ioin can come there and find the secretary ; that in any case of hard- ship may occur, the farmers may know where to come to, that they may find the Land League settled in some place, and be sure to get some 35 legal assistance. I think that this Land League would best assist us by promoting through their local knowledge the formation of branches through p the county Cork. I think it more desirable that directly you form a branch you should put yourselves in connexion with the Dublin bianc , and to send in a monthly report, stating the number of members and the 40 amount of money received. The Cork Land League can give enormous 1 assistance by giving these persons any information necessary. I will not sit down without saying that good work has been done by the Laud 1 eao-ue. A good spirit is spreading throughout the country. There is most monstrous tyranny practiced, and I mention this for the purpose of 4.5 not forgetting what the Land League has already done. 5 5 T 2 i {Cork. — %th October, 1880. — Mr. Dillon, m.p.) I thank you sincerely for the hearing you have given me, and I would — and I would ask the members to wait until after the meeting, as I wish to have a little conversation with them (cheers), Mr. Dillon then retired, and again came forward and said : — 5 Gentlemen — Mr. Parnell, before he left Cork had an interview with the former Land League. I know arrangements were entered into that twenty should be nominated — ten from the old Land League, and ten from the new. 1 will ask the secretary to read the names for you, and then draw up a set of rules for the adoption of this meeting. 6 [Cork. — ^th October, 1880.) Mr. O’Connor. Mr. O’Connor, Secretary, then came forward and said the following are the names : — The Parnell Election Committee. Messrs. George Eai ry, I’.c. 5 „ Daniel Pyan, t.c. „ P. J. Madden, T.C. „ Pichard Sweeney, t.c. — Tracy, t.c. „ Linehan. 10 „ John Ueasy. „ Denis Aherne. „ D. J. Piordan. ,, Pichard Aherne, From the Land League. 15 Messrs. John Daly, m.p. ,, J. P. Hetfernan. „ Timothy Harrington. ,, John O’Brien. ,, Enright. 20 ,, Forrest. ,, Thomas Linahan. ,, Aulife. ,, John Aherne. „ Patrick O’Hea. 25 Mr. W. J. Pyan, to be Treasurer, and the Treasurer nominated by the Land League, E. Farrell. The Hon. Secretary, nominated by the Election Committee, J. R. Poch, and by the Ijand League, Mr. John O Connor. T have also to announce that Mr. Parnell has recommended that no chair- man be appointed to the League, but that each meeting elects its own chair- 30 man for the time being. T should also say, that the old Land League of Cork had Mr. Parnell as president, and I hope he will continue to be president of this League. I have also to announce that immediately the meeting is ovei‘, members will be enrolled, and all those who have not paid up their subscriptions to the old League will please do so now, the 35 amount is 5s. But Mr. Parnell recommends that Is. should be taken from labourers. As I am on my feet I might as well say to you that the citi- zens of Cork will come forward to assist us in defraying the reception expenses. Of course the Land League will not pay it. At this stage of the proceeding there were some interruptions, owing to 40 some persons objecting on the part of the citizens to defray the expenses. The Chairman (Mr. Daly, m.p.), then came forward and said : — You beard those names read out to you by Mr. O’Connor, and I now put those names to the meeting. 7 {Cork' — 9th October, 1880.) A crentleman nainecl Walsh here stepi)e(l forward and objected generally to the names, on account of he himself not being one of the Committee, but after some persuasion he withdrew his objections. A vote of thanks to the members of the Chamber of Commerce, for the 5 use of the room, and another to the Chairman, concluded the business of the meeting. 5 U 8 (^jlliy^^Oclobcr 10 ^//, 1880 .) Mr. James Leahy, M.P., cliainuiui. Mr Tamos l,ealiy, M-I’-, “iiriiii;- l>eeu moYccl to the chair by hr. O’Neill, hollmvcovnitrymeu. this is the first time 1 have aiipoarc, hetore you streo voi! returued me as your representative to the T ease o Com.nons (cheers) It is my duty to return you my smccro thanks tor Hiat victoiy r, over the lamlkmlism of this county. In the next place, my taends, have to return you my thanks for calling on me to take the chair to-day at tha monster meeting of the eo. Kildare. It can he said that you are there in youi in vom- might, and in your manhood. What hrougli you Ip-e to-dav-^ AVas it not to protest against the recent cyictions that hayc taken no nlaec’ in your midst? A young apprentice came to exercise his practise, liand in evicting the tenantry of l^Uk-y. A- y- ‘ouLy to against that? (A voice. ‘Yes.’) And he did it with a right good evill. He ,Ud it in a manner that I do think would create a breach of the peace in any county in Ireland hut this. What can any well-disposed man think ' ai, man eomino- to the estate of Kilberry, standing m the well of an outside cai, 15 man comm^ tu „ , +„na,acv fiipm ' To tlie road witli and driving there to his unfortunate serfs and telling them, ivms; mere Lu iii» LiLii-v^x 1 1 o,. VOII ‘ I do not care what heeonies of you.’ It is not my province to addiess ‘voii’lono- to-day, hut I could stay long enough telling you of the wrong ive tenants en,lL. It is my province to introduce to you *0^^^ ^ 20 will sympathise with you and tell you how to act, men who true Liree to follow in order to get rid of this intolerant system of land- lordism ” (A voice, “ Down with them. ) i ki rx Mr Leahy : “ You will be advised to enrol yourselves to-day under the Land League, and I trust yon will every niau of you in Ins own locality, ami 2 - that united action will tell trumpet-tongiied upon the Governnient of tl country. Upon last Thursday a party of landlords visited the Coiinc Clianiber in Dublin Castle (groans), and among the men who form 1 that sacred body were some of your local landlords (cries of ‘ Down with them ). Did they go there to ask for protection for the Kilberry tenantry . (No, noj ,0 Wd they go there to ask for a proper settlement of the land question ? tha h t burning uuestioii this moment in the heart of every Irish tenant. I see another nartyl name mentioned as being at that eonclave. Colonel Tottenham Ians) wlTom the tenant farmers of the county Leitrim sent to the House if ComLns to misrepresent them. I suppose he went there to te 1 what he Q- told the Prime Minister in the House of Commons. I will tell you what it was. ‘ If you pass this Bill,’ said he, ‘ it will enable the tenants of Ireland to y o 4nirica with the plunder of the landlords in their pockets (<='“eis) When will landlordism restore to the tenantry the pounds of plunder that they ex- tracted from them, and that is now in their pockets? ^ ^ 40 too long. are eloquent speakers to come aftei me, i must oe^ ^ the corresponclence that has been received in getting up this meetin,. Mr. JoHn Cantwell, secretary to the meeting, re-ad the following letter from the parish priest, the Key. James Doyle, P. P. of Athj. ay lit reply to your urgent invitation to attend the land meeting next Sun, lay, I cau only express regret at ray inalnlity to comply with t le uis les ^ committee, but I regret still more the necessity winch has arisen for holdm. {JUnj.— Occohcr 10///, 1880.) Mr. Richard Lalor, M.P. :\rr. Richiu-d Lalor, M.V., support, ( mI the resolution. Ito said,— Mv friends and fellow eonntrymen of the county Kildare, I heard before I eaine to Athy that the people of Kildare were satisfied with their present condition, that they were satisfied Avith the present state of the land question 5 in this county (erics of ‘ No, no ’), and I heard it from a high authority since I came to this town that there ‘ was ’ ahnndance of good landlords in the country (‘ No, no ’). Is there an ahnndance of good landlords in this country ? (Cries of ‘ No, no, certainly not.’) Your good archhishop, Dr. McCal)e, if there is not an ahnndance of good landlords, must he greatly mistaken, I 10 sav for my own part I have lived a long time in this country, and I could not find out these good landlords. I have often heard of the good landlords of this country, hut like “ Will-o’ -the- Wisp,” wherever I went near the good landlord that I heard of I found that he disappeared, and that he sot farther aAvay as I went towards him, and I came to the conclusion 15 that there was ne’er a good landlord in the country (cries of ‘ Right,’ and ‘There is not’). Well, my friends, I did not come here to abuse the land- lords at all. I said often and will say now again, I believe if I were a landlord like them; I am a tenant farmer like yourselves, living by my industry; but I believe if I turned into a landlord that I would be as bad 20 as the very worst of them. Now I have often seen within the last few years men like myself, aye, and poor Catholics too, they became landlords, and I believe they Avere some of the worst landlords in this country, our Catholic landlords Avho became landlords within the last 20 years. I am firmly convinced that it i s impossible for any landlord to be good . There is too 25 much temptation left in their Avay for to have it possible that they coiud oe landlords and be good men at the same time. I am not, as I said before, o-oino- to abuse them. 1 am not coming here to say anything of Mr. Ver- schoyle. You know Avhat he has been doing, and Avhat his intentions are with regard to his tenants. I Avill say nothing at all about him, and I 30 won’t say anything at all about the Leinster lease (cheers). The man that instituted the Leinster lease in order to get over Griadstone’s Act is courted by the landlords of this country and the landlords of England, a model land- lord, and it would appear to-day, from what I see about, that you do not think him a model landlord. I will say nothing either about the landlord 35 Avho a few days ago, in writing to the London ‘ Times,’ said it would be a pity to leave the people of this country to liA^e on potatoes, poteen, and idleness, for it strikes me very forcibly that the man that made use of that expression knows what the poteen is as well as any man round here, and it strikes me also that he has not been one single bit better in the spirits tlian any man 40 I see before me, and I would like to know noAv Avhy it is that Lord Cloncurry can take poteen himself and object to you taking it, and that he can lead an idle, I won’t say a dissipated life, because perhaps he does not lead it, but what right has Lord Cloncurry to be idle more than any man in the county Kildare, his tenant. I say he has no right to it, and I say it is doAA^n- 45 right impertinence of him to make use of such an expression. Are the people of this country, the tenant farmers of this country, to be the slaves of Lord Cloncurry, or any other lord in the land ? Why should your hard labom* go to support these men Avho give you insolence f TVhy should your hard labour go to support these men in foreign countries in every kind of 8 'in— •fHiMM irifiVliiiiiiHil^-. {Ath ;/. — Oclohot' lOth, 1880. — Mr. Richard Lalor.) (lissii):iti()n, and to turn l)aek on you and spit in your taco, and tell you you are made for their supi)ort and idleness. T say that God Almighty never intended such a thing to take ])laco, and it is a downright insult' to insidt the ])eople of this country Avith such language as that. I will tell you what 5 I think you Avill do, and it may ho a good thing to Avarn men like Cloiicurry, Avho AA'cnt heretofore Avith one title. I Avill give him another title, and I think it Avill stick to him here in this country. Call him ‘ Poteen Cloncurry ’ for the future (cheers), and may every man, Avoman, and child in Kildare knoAV him by no other name from this out hut ‘ Poteen Cloncurry ’ (cheers). 10 WellnoAV, my friends, I am not going over the grievances of the land system in this country, I Avon’t insult your intelligence by pretending to think that you have not felt the hardships and the degradation of the land system of this country before this. In my recollection I do not think there is any county ill the AAdiole of Ireland, or at least in Leinster, that has suffered more 15 than this in which I stand at present, by the landlord system. I remember Avell what Avas done over in Clooney here beyond, and on the road from here to Kildare, from here to Ballitore. I know very well that there is not a man in this crowd present listening to me, and in the Avhole county Kildare, has not suffered one time or another hy landlordism, by the gross exactions, 20 and the unjust exactions of landlordism. Noav, I believe there can be no doubt of the necessity of sweeping away landlordism (cheers). We know what the jieople of Ireland have suffered for the last 12 months, for the last three years, and I need not press upon your attention the necessity of getting rid of it, but I think that every man of business in the toAims are just as 25 interested in this question as you are yourselves. There is not a business man in Athy or business man of any single toAvn in this count}^ that is not as much affected by the land question as the tenant farmers themselves. And it is not alone the business man but the mechanic, and the tradesman, and the labouring man, for when the only industry in the county is deprived 30 of the fruits of toil, how can people that have to live on that industry in the town prosper. There is a class of men in this country that I Avant to draw their attention to the present state of things, and that is the Protestant tenant farmers of this country, and a great deal of the poor ‘ shoneen Catho- lics too, the poor little fellows that are aboA^e begging. They Avant to have 35 nothing to do with this moA'ement, they are ashamed, they think it vulgar. Well I blame these shoneen Catholics a great deal more than I Ijlame the Protestant class. Up to the present the Protestant tenant farmers in this country were a political party in themselves, and it is hard to expect they will unite with the people altogether at once, but I want to put it to those 40 people, what do they think of the present land system in this country ? Are they not nearly in as bad a plight as ourselA^es, and if we get a proper Land Bdl won’t these men make by the transaction just as much as AA'^e will, and Avill the Protestant tenant farmers of this country have it said that tliey are going to let the Catholic tenant farmers gain their land and something to put 45 them out of the power of the landlord tyrants of this country, and that they took no part in it ? I say it is downright coAvardice and AA'^ant of forethought that they do not join in with the Catholic tenants and fight the landlords on this question. Well uoaa’, I am not going to speak very long to you, but I want to warn you of one thing. The landlords of this country are getting 50 too high a rent, and no matter what Land Bill is got if the landlords of this country are able to uphold their present rents, I say that un_Land Bill that the House of Commons can gme you will be suffic ient, j I belicA'^e myself Q 336G.— 32. B ff — OcJoltcr M)/f/, 1880. — iMr. llichard /jd/or.) that (Irillith’s valualioii is rather too high in a great portion oC Fr cl and, and partienlarly on small tenants in agM-icnltnral holdings, but as it is, at any rat(^ I Avonld advise the tenant farmers of Kildare lor the future to pay no rent, higher than Ciritllth’s valuation. The landlords, of course, will tell you 5 that r am a very dishonest man for putting such a notion in your heads, and if people act on it of course they Ayill say they arc very dishonest, hut no matter Avhat you ask them for, if it was the least thing, they will say you arc dishonest. Never mind about the dishonesty of the qucstioji. lleduce the rents in future, mind what they say. Tor the future the tenant farmers of Ireland ought to pay~no higher than Griffith s valuation, hut at the same time (I am only going for the present) depend upon it that there is no land law that can settle this question that won't make the tenant farmers of this country, the men who cultivate the soil, the owners of the soil. No matter what shape or form that you give to landlordism, it is not that it 15 is had or evil in itself, hut that it is working evil, and will always work evil and degradation to the people who have to submit to the landlords. Mind, no matter what system of landlordism you have, there is no system like the system where men own the land they cultivate. There is another advice has been given to you here to-day, and if you only adhere to it the landlords of 20 this country will he nowhere, and that is this, if they come down upon any tenant, let you stand together and do not take a man’s farm that is put out for non-payment of rent. If a man is put out for non-payment of rent, let his neighbours not run grabbing at it. I cannot believe that the men of Kildare have not spirit, and honesty, and patriotism enough to abstain from 25 taking their neighbour’s farm. No, my friends, the men that are capable of taking their neighbour’s f aian, and seeing himself and his children put out on the road, are not capable of liberty, they are capable of nothing ; and I do tell vou candidly that these land grabbers in the country they are worse than the landlords, and you would have no bad landlords in the country only for these 30 land-grabbers. The resolution that I came to propose and speak to I ask you, is not it an honest one ? I ask you that you will take a pledge before you leave this that you will take no man’s farm that is put out of his farm. Now, your Archbishop to-day, in his pastoral letter, appeared to be under the impression that the hand League, and I am a member of the Land League 35 myself, that they were advising the people of this country to shed the blood of the landlords (cries of ‘ never ’). Now, I must confess that I never heard such advice given, but on the very contrary, the Land League believes, without shedding a single drop of blood, if the people of this country have only virtue enough and manhood, that in spite of any Government and any landlord, and 40 all the landlords put together, they will have their right before six months if they will only stand together like men. We do not believe it is at all necessary to shoot a landlord, and we do not encourage it, on the contrary, we deprecate it ; but as I said before, we are not bound to g o watching every poor fellow in the country thaUs driven to desperation.^ We are not going to watch and ]) reach sermons to them. Let the men that drive the men to ^ desperation, let them take care of themselves (cheers). I must protest against the Archbishop saddling us with the responsibility of every assassina- tion that takes place in this country. He has no right to do it, no more than anyone else has a right to do it. They speak of this country, because one poor fellow of the name of Mountmorres was shot the other day (groans). Well, I would not like to be the man that shot Lord Mountmorres at all. I think it was a bad act, but I Avould like to know what fuss is made when a poor 10 {Alliij . — OcloJicr 10///, 1880. — Mr. Rickard Lalor.') A man is shot in the oounliy. Why, it wo take England, there ‘is’ about live murders in England for one in Ireland, and where is the fuss made about the men that kill their wives, and ehildren, and sweethearts, and all their friends in England ; tlu're is no fuss made about tbcm, but beeause a 5 man ]ia])i)ens to have a title to Ids name, a great fuss is made about him. Well, as I said before, I think it very wrong. The Archbishop said this country was steeped in the blood of tbosc men. Where lias it been steeped in i the blood of these men ? lloiv many have been shot in this country, or ; deprived of their lives since this Land League commenced? No, I am com- ‘ 10 vinced that onlv for the National Land League there would have been 10 I murders to tlic one since it commenced. What we liave, and what the Land League has to try is to show you another road besides shooting those men, j b ecause they are not __w'ortIi shooting (cheer s). Eecollect Avho these poor ^ wretches are, these landlords. They are foreigners. on can judge of wdio 15 they are by the people who gave them a footing here. One of the first that gave them a footing here w'as ‘good Queen Bess ’ (groans). Well, she was not very particular in the men she choose to confer favours upon. The next that planted them here W' as James the Eirst ; he was a Scotchman. Well, the Scotch are very fond of every country only their owm. lie brought a lot 20 of poor fellows from the Highlands and from the Hebrides, and he planted them here. Well, after these Scotchmen, then came Cromrvell, and you know he planted a nice lot of people in this country, and after him, William of Orange, and you know who William of Orange w^as. They were a nice lot, and their descendants here, the men wLo claim the right ; these few men, 25 the landlords, claim the right of driving the whole Irish nation into the sea ; that is wdiat they claim. They say that they have a right by law, and that no law could deprive them of that right and power which they at present enjoy of driving the whole people of this country into the sea if they liked, and mind you that is no slight boast of theirs. They do it whenever it suits 30 their purpose. They did it for a time. They drive the people of this country the same as if they Trere a flock of sheep whenever it suits their purpose. I have seen whole districts depopulated by these men, and I want to tell you who these men are that were sent here, and bad as the wretches were who brought them into the country they never intended them to have the right 35 of driving the people off the land even by Cromwell or James the Eirst, el- even Sweet Elizabeth. Not one of them ever intended that they should drive the people off the land, but I need not tell you as soon as these landlords got the power over the people, as soon as they became the law-makers, they began to make laws in their own favour, and surround themselves with every 10 power it was possible to degrade and impoverish the people and make serfs of them. You wonder now you do not know history in this country, and you wonder, the whole of you think the landlord have a right to all they claim, and that they have a right. They have no right only by laws themselves and their forefathers made. These are the rights that they hold, and these were 45 the laws that they made for themselves to degrade and impoverish the people, and to give themselves all the power and wealth of the country (cries of ‘ Down with them’). “ Now, I want you to understand who these people are. These men, mind you, if you turn them out there on the street, they are not one bit better 50 than one of yourselves. There is not one of these men that is born with a breeches upon them. Not one; they were all born just like ourselves, and if they had not wealthy parents and wealthy men and Irish slaves to dress B 2 11 {Allii /. — October M)lh, 1880. — Mr. .Uichard Ldlor.) them, they would l)o just tlio sauio as ours(dvcs ; and I know that if you took 10,000 landlords of Indand and took 10,000 luoii, tenant fanners, out of the county Kildare, that the 10,000 landlords are not half as intelligent or hall as moral, and these are the men that are taunting you that you must still 5 continue to ho their slaves. AVhy, my friends, it is ahsurd.^^^ind you, they had this system of landlords all over Europe. In Eraneo, up to a few years ago, until the year 1703 they had the landlords there. Well, I suppose a great many of you heard of the Eronch Eevolution. The Ercnch people were a sensitive people, and they took a method of getting rid of their landlords that iO unfortunately , wo cannot take. No, my friends, we are not able at present to take the method that they took. I wish we were (cheers). I wish wo wore, and it is not here I would be to-day (cheers). No , we are not ab le,_but we must take other methods, and I can tell you this, without fighting tlic Government or without an y revolution, or without any violence, if you stick 15 truc~ to each other, unite an^ or ganise in each ])arish a land league, stand together to one another, do not allow the landlords to trample upon you, and I saWas s ure as the sun is shining on you this moment you w ill become the landed proprietors of this country before three years come about (cheers). All you will require^ my friends, is union. i)o not be jealous of~each other. 20 Do not be watching and saying, ‘ Oh, here is a fellow ready to go and take a man’s land.’ No, I do not believe there is any man here to-day ready to go and take anyone’s farm. Do not do that ; open your minds to each other. I will tell you a story. We have a landlord, he happens to live in this county. He will know who I mean. I spoke of him in the House of Commons, and 25 told a story about him. He ejected a man here, a big farmer, holding about 100 acres down about eight miles of my place, on the 8th of Eebriiary, and this man had built a fine house and place, and spent hundreds of pounds on it, and we went down and held a meeting there close to the land, and we pledged the people not to take the farm, and there happened to be a bl ack 30 cloud over it that day, and the black cloud hangs _oyer it, anWwnTuntil h^ goes back into it again himself. The Queen’s County and no part of Ireland or Scotland~Kas been able to furnish a tenant for it since, and I have no doubt the landlord will be very glad to take back the tenant he evicted last Eebruary. Now what I want to put into your heads is this, that if you come 35 to the resolution not to take farms which men are put out of you will find there is a black cloud hanging over it, and if you point out ^iis black cloud , no neighbours will take the land I am sure : but if any neighbour comes in, anv stranger that does not know the circumstances of the place, always point to the b lack cloud that is hanging over this place, and they will turn their bac ks 10 and g o home with themselves^ Now, m^'riends, I am exceediugly obliged to you for the kind attention you have paid to me, and having said a great deal more than I intended to say, there is one thing I want to say to you. I know Mr. Parnell ; I know him by sitting in the House of Commons and other places too. You may rely on it you have an honest man at the head 45 of Irish affairs at present. No matter who may tell you this or that about Mr. Parnell. One will tell you he is imprudent and going too far. He is not going too far nor imprudent, but he is one of the most intelligent prudent men in the three kingdoms at the present time (cheers for Parnell). I know there are very prudent men, and that consider themselves very honest, 50 that will tell you to beware of Mr. Parnell. I tell you bewane of him too, but it is to follow him, to follow Mr. Parnell wherever he may ask to lead you, and, believe me, he will never lead you astray ” (cheers). 12 {AlJnj . — Ocloher 10///, 1S80.) Mr. Michael P. Boyton, oT the Irish National Land League, supported the resolution, lie said, — “ Tenant hirmers and men of the Queen’s county, Kildare and AYieklow, f ft)!’ I see here to-day representatives of branches of tlie Irisli National liand 5 League from all sides around Athy, and they ha\ o come here to assist you in holding a publie meeting, not for the display of banners, not to listen to music of bands, not to listen to speeching, and spouting, and elo/pience, but to work to organize and to teach you the way that Charles Stuart Parnell (cheers) and his followers want the land question settled, and that is not on 10 the floor of St. James’, not in the theories put forward l)y the gentlemen who write long eloquent letters to the daily papers, not in the various panaceas that arc thrust before the Irish people to-day, as the writers have grievances, rather to teach you that you hold in your own hand the settlement of the laud question. I am standing to-day on the third platform in the county Kildare 15 in connexion with this movement. I am glad to see that the land movement in this country so auspiciously inaugurated at Monasterevan and followed up in Kildare, has now been taken practically in hand by tlie tenant fanners of Athy (cheers). A week ago the requisition signed l)y the tenant farmers of Athy was sent to the national organisation which I have here 20 to-day the honour of representing. I left a meeting to-day in the hands of gentleinen who are well able to take care of it, to come here to my natne countv to do my work at home (cheers ) . At the very moment you are cheer- ing here and extending, not to me or the men who spoke to you your accord, say rather, to the principles of the work we have in hand at this very moment, 25 the man who, standing upon the platform in the IVIarket Square of Kildare, made hi.s words ring throughout the length and breadth of these kingdoms, John Billon (cheers). John Billon is standing now on a platform in the town of Templemore in Tipperary, speaking to 25,000 people of Tipperary, and I would have been by his side, but for the fact, that the men here in Kildare 30 wished to make a movement themselves, and recognising that truth, that this movement should come from the people, and when that people show a dispo- sition to move, it is our duty to show them the way to move, and how (cheers). JNIv good and esteemed friend IVIr. Lalor and ]Mi. IVIoium, A\ho a Aveek since met face to face 20,000 or 25,000 of the stalwart men of Kilkenny, 35 they went into the question at issue so largely that there is no necessity for me to go on at any lengtlr. Side by side on the platform of the Irish National Land League stand men of experience, men of judgment, men of position, differing as to the ultimate measure of reform that the Irish people want. We do not ostracise from our platform any man, no matter what way of 40 thinking ho may be in regard to the settlement of this laud question ; but Ave have put before the world a fixed set of principles that we believe will even- tually succeed in giving to the people of Ireland that Avhich God gave them for their support, their own soil (cheers). AVe do not go to-day for fixity of tciuue, because we believe fixity of tenure to be fixity of landlordism ; because 45 we believe that any measure that tends to perpetuate the system of land- lordism can neA'er be for the good of the Irish people (cheers). Buring the recent elections the proposition that we issued to the electors of this county by the honoured and Avorthy junior member presiding here to-day, contained ^ 4 ^0 for fixitA^ of tenure, fair rents, and fiee sale, with a scheme 50 leading up to peasant proprietary’ (hear, hear). AA e go in purely and simply to-day, Avithoiit doing for the English Government what it is their 99 . Ill,, j^—Octohcr 10///, 1880.— J/;-. M. 1\ Bon Ion.) duty to do, Avo go in to have the people of Ireland, with oiui voiee, demand the scttlement of this (piestion. It is, tliereCoro, the duty of tlie Englisli Go- verument that misruled this eouutry, it is their duty to bring forward sueh a measure of laud reform as tliey will give us, and not lor us to tell 5 them what we want. It is the duty of the Government to bring forward that measure, and it is ours to see whether it Avill suit or not (eheers). In the present condition of this (ouuty, I am sorry to say from my experience, extending over 1(5 counties out of the 32 in Avhieh I have raised my voice to audiences ten times this extent, I am sorry to say Kildare is a long way liom being as forward as she ought. The letter of tlie secretary to this meeting which I received Avhile performing my duty among the men of lijApeiaiy, Avhere wo have 25 branches of the Land League, some of them numbering 300 members and sending 100 mounted men to a single meeting. The letter told me that I must rememlier that the people of Kildare were not the people of Tipperary. I do remember that they arc the same, that they are Irish, and that if they are more cowardly than they are in any other part they are never belonging to the county of Wolfe Lone or Lord Edward Eitzgeiald (cheers). I want the men of Kildare to know that it is my duty, if I can do so, to place them shoulder to shoulder with Tipperary. I do not think that 20 physically, mentally, or morally you are inferior to the Tipperary men, and I belieA'e in my soul there is just as much Irish patriotism here in Kildaie as ever was in Tipperary. Therefore, I ivant every man here to-day to remember what your brothers in Tipperary are doing. They are standing together, and Avherever acts of landlord oppression come up they tell the tenant, ‘ let them 25 put you out, we Avill put you in again ; let them put you out again, we ° Avill put you in again (cheers) ; aye, and again and again, and let them, if they dare, see the man that Avill come there and touch a blade of grass on your land.’ I tell you that it is not by crimes of violence that the people of the south riding of Tipperary to-day are enabled to, if we give them the word, strike against the payment of all rent. It is not because they have always been fond of shooting a bad landlord in Tipperary that they are in their present position. It is rather because, with their clergy at their head, they are standing face to face with the hereditary enemy of Ireland, landlordism, its worst weapon, and telling them come here to Tipperary and do your worst. We will show you how we will settle the land question. Already a dozen of model farms exist in the county Tipperary. They are model farms because they are standing there a living Avitness that the landlord dare not till the land, and cannot get a living man to strike a spade or plough in it, and he dare not, he is too cowardly to go there and till it himself. What has brought about this condition of things. Intelligent organisation, organisation without Avhich this meeting and all such meetings will be Avorthless, and the excitement and the enthusiasm of the time Avill pass away just as these men to-morroAv Avill take down these flags and this platform, and it will all vanish, and the land grabbers, and the land thieves who are here amongst you will go back to their evil devilish work, of propping up landlordism by taking land. I have had a lesson or two since I came to Enldare, one most particular and painful one, I saw a farm on which was created a homestead from the earnings of the father of the present occupiers. A day or two ago I saw that widoAv woman and her children thrust out by the sheriff, and by the Duke of Leinster’s minions and tools Avith 40 bayonets of the nolKe. Twelve hours after that Avoman was evicted from her home- C 4 23 [Alhij . — October 10///, 18'S0. — j\[r. Jf. J?. JiO/jlou.) sU'ad 1 saw that man’s cattlo that had hecn looking' tor it when the woman was in diihenities on it (groans). I am hero to-day in Atliy witliin a low hours’ journey of that farm, and standing on this platform to-day I say that while I will counsel men to avoid ei'imcs of violence, in the words of James 5 Iledpath, that man must he socially cxeommnnicated. 1 want that man when he meets his fellow man in the street, if he he an honest Irishman, to look at him with scorn and contempt, for the man to-day in the face of this great movement who will take his neighbour’s land or his farm, as you will bo called iij)on to pledge yourselves not to do directly, the man who does that 10 betrays the cause of Ireland, and he is a traitor to the cause of the people, and the cause of the people to-day in Ireland is the cause of God, of justice, and of humanity (cheers). I do not intend to make a speech. I want to tell yon we have rank Aveeds groAving round us here on the fair soil that v/as once blessed by the footsteps of St. Bridget. We must root out these AAceds. 15 It will not do to pull the tops off them. jWe must destroy the land-grabbing in Kildare, and I tell you now, had Kbeen in possession of the facts, the AA'bole facts of the evictions that have taken place here two months ago, these evictions would ncAur have been carried out as they Avere (cheers.) If these peop/le have been thrust from tbeir homesteads created by their own 20 industry, if there is Avrong or injustice in their case, I shall particularly call upon every man here at this meeting to-day to hold up and place a jnntest against the unjust evictions, I shall call upon him by his soul to say that no wretch be found base enough to take that land or occupy it (cheers). Standing here I publicly proclaim the lands of the Verschoyle estate from which these 25 people were evicted, and I say that the man who takes that I will hold an indig- nation meeting at his door if he were the Lord D uke of Leinster himself, I will teach him a lesson that has been ta ught bis base , vile, miscreant class through- out Ireland. It is not the landlord, mark yoiiTitTs the men that the l^dlord that thrust these people out that he would have to step in and take their 30 place. In the portion of Tipperary I refer to has been organised there is no living man would even dare to think of taking a farm from which his neighbour has been thrust out, in fact, under no circumstances there to-day would a man take a farm from AAdiich another had been evicted, justly or un- justly, and I think that is a healthy sentiment, and I think we have a 35 healthy sentiment in Kildare, where Ave have the Leinsters, the Burrowes, the Latonches, the Verschoyles, and all the other land thieA'esof Ireland (cheers). Koav, speaking of land thieves, yon Avill remember what my good friend Mr. Lalor told you about the delegation of landlords to the lord-lieutenant at ten minutes’ notice, and I should like to see the representation that this meet- 40 ing would send there to be received by Earl Cowper at ten minutes’ notice in the ‘ presence chamber.’ I want to tell you 40 of these men who assembled in Molesworth Street, offered to go or send a deputation of their leaders to Dublin Castle. There were 40 of them went. A few days ago, the ‘ Irish Times,’ one of the organs of landlordism in Ireland, called Mr. Charles Stuart Parnell, 45 and 39 of his following, the 40 thieA’es (groans for the ‘ Irish Times’). They made a mistake. If they had waited to see that deputation entering the pre- sence chamber of Dublin Castle, they were the real 40 thieves, for there were 40 of them, and these men went there with a cowardly cry to the British Government to give them the means to saAU the Ha'cs they thought in danger. 50 I venture to say this moment that I could take these 40 land thieves with me to the base of Slievenamon, show them the fainest and most fertile 24 {Athy.— October mh, 1880.— iJ//-. M. l\ Boylou.) farms in Troland, and Ijring them l)aek without a luiir of their liead touched Tt is not hy destroying’ these men, therefore, or ])y holding individual had land- lords up to public execration, that we can settle this question. Our means to settle it is to swce[) away landlordism from Ireland for ever. We must abolish 5 it root and branch. We can never enter into a compromised partnership with landlordism, never ; we must get rid of it for ever if we expect to he Avhat God and nature intended we should bo, a free nation and people. I will not detain you further with any remarks. I did not come here to nake a speech. I have made seven at seven public meetings within the last ten days. The 10 resolution that has been read for you, proposed, and seconded, closes with the following pledge . — Now, if there be any man present who feels in his con- science that he cannot, honestly before God, and in the sight of his fellow- men, take that pledge, let him withdraAv himself to the outskirts of this crowd. I remember the letter that came to my hand from the illustrious Archbishop 15 of Cashel, now on his way to Rome, and I think to speak there for the Irish people, the miserable Irish peopl e. |~ The concluding words of Dr. Cooke’s letter I will never forget, and I will read it to you. He says, “ Irishmen take no pledge that you are not prepared manfully and “ honourably to adhere to.” I repeat that to you therefore before taking 20 this pledge, and the man who proves himself false to it, I Avant you one and all to mark him doAvn so that we may excommunicate him socmlly. “ In “ to-day esiablishing in Athy^ branch of tile IrislTN ationalLand League “ (the third branch in the county Kildare), we hereby pledge ourselves “ neA^er to take, hold, or bid for land from Avhich our neighbour has been 25 “ unjustly evicted, never to work on that land, never to purchase cattle or “ crops seized for rent.” Now then I call upon every man to put his hand up (here all hands were held up). Now there is another duty belonging to the administration of that pledge. You may think perhaps that all you have to do is to separate and go to your 30 homes after having given that testimony of your good will towards our cause. My fellow countrymen, that is not enough. That pledge is simply the beginning of your Avork. You have heard here a moment since the president, the junior member for the county, nominated as president of this branch of the Land League. The gentleman from whose lips I heard to-day one of the 35 most eloquent addresses that it has yet been my lot to hear at a land meeting in Ireland. Dr. O’Neill, vice president, Mr. Timothy Ryrne, treasurer, and my hard working oratorical Mr. CantAvell, secretary. It is part of the duty of everv man who held up his hand to give his name, his subscription, his rent, and his Government A'aluation, to Mr. John Cantwell, in oi’der to 40 become a veritable member of the Athy branch of the Land League. When you have performed that duty I Avill tell you then what it is our duty to do for you. When you have done that, and the branch that you are Ijelouging to is affiliated to the national organisation, Ave undertake to keep you in your farms and in your land (cheers). AYe undertake with the assistance of your 45 neighbours to see that you will never be robbed l)y any landlord, good, ])ad, or indifferent (cheers). If we can by all the means at our command reinstate you without committing any overt act against an unjust land laAV we aauII do it. If we find ourselves pow'erless to put you back into your holding, we will take good care that no man Avill take it over your head (cheers), and if it i 50 fails and if you have no other means in the world of providing for i yourselves, your wife and family, we AA'ill support them for you (cheers). Q .3366.— 32. D 25 (^Atlnj.—Oclohcr 10/A, 1880.— i//r. M. l\ Bojjlon.) And we Avill build you ii house in sight of tliat of which you have been unjustly deprived, and we will support you there to guard it for the Irish National Land League (eheers). I trust, in conelusion, therefore, that this inccting will not dissolve without shoAving that these uplifted hands, 5 these addresses that are poured from the platform, have not been un- availing, and for my own ])art I will use tlie one address of sineerity when pleading to our people of Kildare, and in earnest, I did not come here to make a speeeh. I eame here commissioned by Charles Stuart Parnell to establish the Atliy branch of the Land League, and I have done it (cheers) . 10 The resolution was carried. 26 i I {Templemore. — \Oth Orfohrr, 1880). Mr. Jerome Cussen. Mr. Cliairniaii, and tenant-fanneis of d’ij)[)erar} , I feel great pleasure in proposing this resolution here to-day, and from its substance I thirds it will have more bearing on the subject of establishing the Land League in this town than any othei' I’esolutioii that will be proposed or has been 5 proposed : — “ fhat the principles and objects of the Irish Land League deserve the contidence of the people ; and, in giving our adherence to the Templemore branch, we hereby pledge ourselves never to take, hold, or bid for the land from which our neighbour has been unjustly evicted, and never to work on 10 such land, and never to purchase crops or cattle seized for debt.” Now, the Land Question has come to this, that we have brought you here together for this great object, this object of combination .... . . (interruption) I need not tell you if any of you are heavily rack-rented, which many of you are on this estate. I am not 15 afraid to say it, too — that there is many a man rack-rented on this estate, and let him offer pro tern Griffith’s valuation, until this question is finally settled. You all know Union is strength,” you know (interruption) And now it is for the settlement of this Land Question, that you must band yourselves together ; you must 20 combine yourselves into the strength of a great army; place yourselves on the defence ; wait for the landlord to attack ; strike him in the most vulnerable point, and then strike with strong, with constitutional weapons, in the most vulnerable point ; and I promise you, if you do so, you will shortly see the Land Question settled I ask you now, in the name of 25 God, while there is a peaceful agitation going through the country, to band yourselves together for this one object. 1 myself have much ex- perience in knowing hou the generality of farmers stand. I stand around Tipperary, and 1 know bad seasons, high rents, unjust rack-rents forced up, and they have been the cause of all this ; and I tell you plainly that the 30 shopkeepers and the bakers of Templemore, are the (interruption) . . . that are paying the rent to the landlords, and I say that ye should not pay those rents, while ye want money for other purposes. If \ ou can pay Griffith’s valuation do so, but pay no more. You must see to your families. The time is come ; the question must be settled. The 35 Government are disposed to settle it ; but no Ministry that ever lived could settle this Land Question. It is only the tenant farmers that can settle it. But you yourselves can settle it by becoming members of the League, by pledging yourselves never to bid for a farm from which another man has been evicted or (interruption) 40 I stand on this platform independently of every man, I do not care who it is. I would not join this League were it not that I see there is a chance of a final settlement by the combmation of all its adherents. I will just quote one little fact to show the significance of great meetings. At the time 11 {Templemore. — 10 15 M ( {Tcmplemore. — 10^/i October, 1880. — Mr. Dillon, m.p.) will iiiulertake to support you in this struggle, both by legal advice and by assisting those who are distressed and ruined by the action of the landlords. The first thing then that we propose to do is to reduce all excessive rents, f) and I think that on the whole for this part of the country, that (Griffith s valuation would be a pretty fair standard to rest on, the best .standard we have for the {)resent. I kiuw districts in the West where, when the cou ntry is organized sufficiently, I shall advise the people not to pay any more rent a t^ll, bec^ise they have been paying~TjrifiTth’s v alTnitron~tliree~times ov er , 10 three times Griffith’s valuation for twenty years. Those men have bought their holdings, they have j)aid the^ull price, and they must have them for the future without rent ; but in this district where the rents are not so outrageous, I think what we had best do at present, is to come down to Griffith’s valuation ; but what I would point out is this, that you must not 15 go to sleep over this movement, and suppose that by coming to a meeting like this to-day that you have won the battle. By coming here to-day you have only commenced the battle. You must organize every townland. In each townland, one or two men ought to go round with a list of the farmers of that townland, and ask each man will he not join the Land 20 League, or_wi]l he. deAext._tim_p-eQple. Give every man a chance to stand by his people, and organize in that way the farmers of every townland, and then when a man sets himself again st the rules of the League, and tak es a farm from wh ich another has been evicted, the way to deal with him i^ this^(“ 1 should shoot him.”) No, I would not injure any man, but the 25 way to deal with him is this ; do not have any communication with him at all : do not allow your children to mix with b is children ; d p not speak to him, and h ave no dealings with him ; neither buy nor sell with him ; show in everv wav tha t you can, that you regard him as wh at he is, that he is a traitor to his people and his countr}^, and a friend of the oppressors 30 of the peo^iL.” Believe me, if you keep up that system for a short time, it will be far more e ffectu al than if you shot h im, bec ause no m an can be punished for such a deed , and you will find that he will give way before ton^o the force of public opinion, and will hand back the farm, as many men have already done, back to its rightful owner. I believe that if you 3o act upon these lines and organize yourselves thoroughly, and never mind Parliament at all, that you will bring about a settlement of this question very soon, and a settlement very favourable to the people. Do you reduce the rents in Tipperary ; do you prevent eviction in Tipperary, and let the Parliament in London settle the Land Question whenever they have time 40 (cheers). 17 4 E 2 {Templemore . — TO^/j October, 1880.) Mr. John Dillon. M.P. It is iiiy duty to move that our worthy chairman, Father O’Conno)', do now leave the chair and tliat Father Hackett take the second chair. It is my privilege to move the thanks of this meeting- to the reverend gentleman who so kindly took the chair, and identified himself to-day with the cause 5 of the people. In doing so I wish to (•t)ngratulate you on the encrinotis size of this meeting. I believe that there must be, at least, twelve thousH.nd men listening to me now, and I want to know, are you twelve thousiind men going any longer to submit to the rule of five or six landlords ? (“ No, no “We will die first.”) If you do, all I can say is the sooner you put 10 on petticoats tlie better, and the sooner you cease to call yourselves Tipperary men. And remember that the great mistake that the Irish people have always made is in believing that when they come to a meeting they have done all the work and won the victory. Nothing of the kind. This meeting v^ould be worse than useless if you were to go home believing that 15 now you had won the battle. This is only the beginning, and this is only in order to tell }ou how you are to work, and howto fight the battle, (irganisation is the weapon, and without organisation, agitation, s])eech making is worse than useless. Go home then determined to play the part of men, and go home determined that for the future there shall be no Im-d 20 in Templemore but the will of the men of Tipperary (cheers). {Templemore. — 10^^ October, 1880.) Mr. Thomas Brennan, of Dublin. Kcverend Chairman, and men ot 'ri|)))crary, it is with the utmost reverence that I stand to-day for tlie first time on the sacred soil of your (gallant county — (cheers) — and it is with a full consciousness of my own unworthiness that T raise my voice to address you (“No, no.’) 5 In any movement that the ))eo])le of Ireland are interested in, it is a, matter of vital moment to know what part Tipperary will take in it — ( ■ An active part -and when the iko’s of this da\'’s demonstration is carried into the halls of the idlers, it will not serve to calm their trouhled conscience or soothe theii ruffled feelings, for well they know the truth 10 of the words of Davis that your wrath is fearful as the storm that swee])s the hills of Tipperary. If evidence were wanting to convince any unpre- judiced mind of the evils of the system of Irish landlordism I had that evidence presented to me coming here to-day. I saw on every side a land that was rich and fair, a land upon which nature has lavished its choicest 15 pfifts. hut instead ot huimtn habitations 1 saw cattle sheds, and instead of men I saw beasts. Yes, it would seem that they try to make the cattle that graze in your fertile valleys, and not the men who surround this plat- form. the [)ride (d’ 'rip])erary (cheers and “Bravo”). I ask you for a moment to consider the evils which landlordism has brought upon your 20 country. Many of you remember the scenes of ’47, and those of \ ou who like myself have not witnessed the reality, have seen the picture painted by the master-hand of John Mitchell. Ycm have seen how our country was destroyed, how its manhood and its beauty w'ere murdered or sent into exile, you have seeT\ the picture “ when on highways oft 25 were seen the wolf-dog and the vulture keen, teai- ut the limbs and gnaw the face of some starved child of the Irish race ” — (cheers) — and if the scenes of ’47 have not been renewed in ’80 it is not owing to the bene- volence of Irish landlords or to the intercession of the landlords’ ally, the English Government (cheers). No, it is owing in part to the action of your ■30 representative here who with Mr. Parnell — (“ Ihree cheers for Parnell, cheers) — undertook the very disagreeable duty, placed themselvt^s in the awfully humiliating position of national beggars. I am sure that in going from city to city in America the high mind of Mr. Dillon must — (“ Cheers for him ”) — must have revolted against the occupation, and nothing but 35 sincere devotion to the suffering ones at home would have enabled him to go on with his mission. Now, are you content that this system of begging shall for ever go on? (“ No.”) Are you content that your country must be for ever represented as a beggar among the nations? (“No.”) If not, you must strike at the cause of it (“ \\ e will ”). There is enough of 40 food raised every year in this country for to support its people. VVe want to keep that food in the country, and not have it spent by alisentee land- lords in London or .Paris (cheers). A nation like an individual vvill lose its self-respect when it commences to beg, and 1 would ask those who hope to preserve the national opinion. Tv- If) {TempU‘mo7’e . — lO^A October, 188(>. — il//'. Thomas Brennan). who wish to j)lac;u tlieir country in the })osition of a nation, to say that in inakino the })eo|)le pros])erous tluy take a necessary step for- tlie accoin- jtlislinient of tiieir desire. Wlien we have a peo]»le independent, wlien we liave a peo})le in Ireland wlio are not daily in dread of the workhouse, a 5 [)eople Avho will feel they have the ])rofits of their labour secured to them, a people who will ho able to educate their children in order that they may know the rights of freemen, we will have a healthy national opinion in the countiy (cheers) ; a tide of prosperity will stem the tide of emigration, and we will then have an educated manhood in Ireland that will know its 10 rights, and that will know how to tight for them (cheers, and “ We have sV got })leuty here to-day ”). The argument advanced by some people, that ■ if you make the farmers of Ireland contented they wdll cease to be national is too fallacious, I think, to need refutation. Surely that nationality which I stood seven hundred years of persecution is not going to disappear when 15 the people get enough to eut. What an insult to that nationality to say that it can only exist with hunger and rags. Now, this movement must not be confined to six hundred thousand i tenant farmers ; it must take in a far wider constituency; it must take in every man in the counfry wdio lives by industry. The cause which we | 20 advocate to-day is the cause of work against idleness ; it is the cause of the ‘ majority ; it is the cause of the toiling millions against the idle few, for no matter how you may labour, you, directly or indirectly, feel the weight of the monopoly which, in this country, degrades labour, and makes it a crime to obey God’s command to fallen man (cheers). Slavery has so degraded 25 social life in Ireland that the Irish squireen is considered a gentleman Avhere the hard-working artisan or honest farmer, who have been robbed ^ to support him, is considered a slave. Have you ever thought of how it is ' that you who work from daylight to dark, you who have been working in the workshops or in the fields since your hands were able to handle a 30 hammer or a spade, have nothing to look forward to when you are unable ^ to work further than the workhouse, while the men who do nothino-, the men who have never done an honest day’s work in their lives, live in luxury, and go down to their graves in luxury and idleness (shouts) ? ; Where was your landlord when you were tilling the soil ? (“ In bed ”), 35 Mayhap he was lounging in the park of some foreign city ; when your hands were on the plough his were on the dice-box, and he now comes forward and tells you that all your work has been for him, that your labour is not your own at all, and that he claims the profit of it. j Now, your own Archbishop (cheers), the revered Dr. Croke, quotes a 40 high authority when he says that the husbandman that labours should first partake of the fruits. Now, if you want to partake of any of the fruits, | you must strike against rsck rents ; you must refuse to give — I won’t say ■ what Mr. Dillon said — to give the Government valuation, but you must | refuse to give more to the landlord than the surplus profit that remains | 4 F 20 5 {Temphmore.—XOth October, 1880.— Mr. Thomas Brennan.) aftci- you hiiv.' paid every other claim for the working of your holding, and after you liave paid yourselves (cheers) ; and as the evening is getting late, I will conclude with that oTie advice to you, and it is, to pay the shopkeeper who has supp(U’ted you for tlie last twelve montlis ; pay the hanker ; pay the labourer ; ]>ay yourselves in the support of your families and in the education of them, and it there is anything remaining after that, then otter it to the landlords (cheers and laughter), and if he does not take it, then put it in your pockets till he comes respectfully to ask you for it (laughtei). Now, the Irish people have declared war against landlordism, and in this \ 10 great movement no mattei- how many men fall, do not wait to raise them ; no matter what may be the past services of men, the moment they cease to advance with the national opinion, the moment they begin to temporise or ado[)t a ]iolicy of compromise, then I would have the nation say to . them, “ Thank you for your past services, but henceforth be no officer of \ 15 mine.” ^^o, there must be no compromise now: the Irish people have declared war against landlordism, and it must be war to the knife till the system is destroyed (loud cheers), / 21 4 F 2 I Oulart. — lOtli October 1880. Chairman. I liavo great pleasure iu introducing to you Mr. Sexton, tlic Member for Sligo, Mr. Thomas Sexton, M.P. Very Eeverond Sir, and men of Wexford, I liave the honour to appear be- fore you in support of the resolution to which the venerable priest who lias 5 just addressed you has so ably spoken. I was in hope that the position which I have the honour to occupy before you here to-day, would have been filled by your senior member, Mr. Barry, one of the ablest lieutenants of the active Irish party, and one of the most faithful followers of Mr. C. S. Parnell. However, Mr. Barry, like most of those who stand around me here 10 to-day, in fact, like myself, is a man who has to live by his own labour, and consequently, he is not able to give so much time to the public service as I am sure in his heart he wishes. It was necessary for him to return to London to superintend private affairs of great importance, but before doing so, he called upon me desiring me to 'convey to you his message of 15 sympathy and his best wishes for your success. Now, my friends, for the first time in my life, I have the honour to appear before an audience of the men of Wexford. I feel great pride and great pleasure in doing so, because I remember what the great Cork man of another generation, Thomas Davis, wrote of the men of IVexford. He said ‘between Cuchan (?) and Kinsheela 20 and and Mount Leinster, there is as stout a mass of men as ever saved a state by honest franchises, by virtue, and by industry— and there is as stout and brave a mass of men as ever tramped through a stubborn battle.’ Your grandfathers upon this soil fought a stubborn battle against the enemies of Ireland, and you have a stubborn battle to fight to-day. It is 25 a battle that must be fought with other weapons. You have not to go upon the hillside with the weapons of war, but the cause for which you fight is the same— the ol)ject is not different. You fight for peaceful and for happy homes, and you fight for them, not only for their own sakes, but be- cause when you are secured in happiness, and in the enjoyment of the fruits 30 of your labour, you will then be better able to struggle for the rights and in- dependence of your country. Now, my friends, what is the struggle in which we are engaged. It is a struo-Me ao'ainst a strong and ancient institution. The institution of land- lordism in this country, and what is the record of that institution ? We find 35 its memorials in our unroofed houses, where formerly our simple and our virtuous peasantry gathered around their happy hearths. What have the landlords of Ireland ever done for the people— they have enjoyed the land of the country for generations and for centuries, and what have they ever done to benefit the people, to assist them, to improve them in the scale of civiliza- 40 tion ? Have they, like the landlords in other countries, come and stood by their people in sickness or in distress ? have they built schools for the children Oiilart. — Wlh Oclohcr, 1880. — Mr. Se.vfoi/ M.F. of the people? Have they exerted thcinselvos out of tlie vast fortunes that your labour has raised for them — have they exerted tliemselves in any way to give you the light of educatiou or the eomforts of eivilized life ? They have not. In every other eountry in the Avorld, even where the tenants were serfs, 5 where they Avere considered to he slaves, and living and existing, draAving the breath of life at the mercy of the landlords, even in those countries tiic land- lords have ahvays deemed it to he a duty to stand by those poor serfs in their distress — to send them doctors in their sickness, to see that their children had some share of educatiou ; hut in Ireland alone have the landlords been content 10 to act as the suckers of the blood of the people. In Ireland alone have they been content to have no other tie between themselves and the people of the country, except the rent collector and the sheriff. Now, this being the system of landlordism in Ireland, I think it is high time for us to consider Avhether it is consistent Avith civilization, or with the rights of the Irish people, or with the 15 hopes of the race that landlordism should continue in this country. I am dis- tinctly of opinion that the time has come Avhen the Irish people from north to south and from sea to sea should make one united and determined effort to jAut an end to landlordism for ever, and thus to place their country in line with France, Avith Prussia, with Russia, Avith America, and Avith all the great 20 nations of the earth. It was hard to pay rent in the past, it will he harder to pay it in the future. The struggle for life is becoming every day more difficult and more fierce, the aaRoIc Avorld is noAV only one big farm such are the facilities of communication between one country and another, by railways and by steamers, that the farmer of the Western States of America and the 25 farmer of the great plains around the Black Sea and the East of Europe competes with the farmer of Ireland in his OAvn markets. The produce of all the Avorld is brought into Great Britain by steamers and raihvays — compe- tition brings down prices — you have more to contend against than either your fathers or grandfathers had in the Avay of procuring a return for your 30 labour, and hard as your fathers and grandfathers found it to pay the rent to their landlords, I tell you that yourselves and your sons and those Avho will come after you will find it still harder, and that the competition of great countries Avhere no man pays any rent, in France, in America, and in Russia, the competition of those countries where a man has the soil for himself and 35 Avhere he pays no rent Avill drive the Irish farmer out of the market. Now I tell you that there is no cure for that except to place the Irish farmer upon a level AAotli the farmer of other countries in the w'orld, and there is no way of doing that except by buying out the landlords, by doing away with the idle classes who are a burden upon the industrious classes, as the old man of 40 the sea Avas a burden upon the shoulders of Sindhad the sailor. You Avill never he in such a position as that until you are in the position of being rent free, so that the land of the country will he your OAvn. Noav if there were anything necessary to convince me that it is idle to hope for any settlement of the land question, Avhich will continue the landlord and the farmer in 45 existence, and yet do justice to the farmer, I find it, Avhen I look hack on the attempts Avhich have been made to settle the Irish land question already, — I am speaking to menAvho most of them know more about the subject than I do myself, — if I say anything that is incorrect you aauII he able to correct me. You all remember the passing of the Encumbered Estates Act; that Act AAns 50 passed with what was called a benevolent and kindly intention toAAnrds the Irish tenant. It was passed for the purpose of enabling the landlords to sell B 3 13 OttfarL — loth Ocloher 1880. — Mr. Sexton, 31. P. tlu'ir ])ro])('i-li(,\s in Hie Court, and the idea was tliat by enabling tlieni I to sell their projierties the eountry might get rid of the elass of tlie old landlords who were su})])Osed to he against the interest of the tenant, 1 mean tlie old needy men, men of the old stock, the men who had gone 5 through their properties and emharassed them, in the card playing and roystering days of old. They had heavy mortgages upon the land, and those mortgages obliged them to exact heavy rents from the tenants. The idea was, that if those men who had land embarrassed, went into the Court and sold the estates, they might he succeeded by a better class 10 of men — that is to say, succeeded by men who would he able to let the land to tenants on easier terms. What happened ? The embarrassed old needy landlords went out, but they Avere succeeded by a genera- tion of landlords infinitely worse than themselves. As bad as the old landlords Avere they had a drop of generous blood in them; they came of 15 old families, and the relations between themselves and the people were very often cordial and friendly. Very often the landlord of old times, hard driven himself, Avas found Avilling to send a tenant every aid he could, but the ncAV elass of landlords, the men who bought and who made their money over the counter in trade, and who knew the value of every coin before they 20 spent it, they went in, they Avere not satisfied ndth the rent the old landlords were, but they went in upon the skinflint principle. So the neAV landlords, the “ Ebenezer Scrooges,” who came in, these men charged eight or ten per cent, interest upon the land, and the tenant found himself in the hands of a Avorse master than before. Now, the only regular effort which has been 25 made to settle the land question was made in 1870 by Mr. Gladstone’s Land Act; Ave all know of that, Mr.' Gladstone, who is a very humane, a very Avise, and an experienced man, said he believed that Act Avould settle the Irish land question. Noav, after a lapse of ten years, we find the land question more radically unsettled than it Avas befoie that Act. IVhen I 30 look over this country, what do I find ? I find instead of doing good, though individually it has done good in some cases, I say it has loAvered generally the condition of the body of the Irish tenants, it has done more harm than good. There Avas one clause in the Act that Avhether the rent was high or loAV, an alteration of the rent Avas considered a ncAV lerting of the farm, and 35 the tenant aaIio submitted to an alteration of the rent, escaped all the conditions of the Act. So the landlord had only to say to the tenant I Avill put a shilling in the acre on your rent ; if he refused to pay the shilling he Avas turned out of his farm, and if he accepted it he was said to have contracted himself out of the benefits of the Act. Now, Mr. Gladstone, I 40 believe, from a humane motive, fixed the scale of compensation for the tenants Avho Avere turned out of their farms. The small farmers Avere to o-et seven year’s rent, the large farmers AAnre only to get one year’s rent, for being disturbed. What aa^s the effect of that? The landlords said to themselves, if Ave have small farmers, when we turn them out Ave shall have 45 to pay them seven years’ rent ; if Ave have large farmers, Ave sh.all only have to pay them one year’s rent ; our business therefore is to turn out the small farmers and put our farms into the hands of the large farmers. What has been the effect of that ? The quantity of tillage has gone doAvn, and the stream of emigration has continued. The bone and sinew of our land, the 50 fathers and mothers and fine strong stahvart boys and girls, who might be fathers and mothers of a stalAA'art Irish race in the futuie, have been diiven by thousands across the Atlantic. And even since that Act the consolidation OlUarl. — \()th October 1880. — Mr. Sexton, M.P. of I’anus has i^ono on, and if ever a farin lias heeome vaeani the landlord has heen anxious to add it to the next one, heeause the landlords know that if they had to turn the farmer out they would not have to pay so much compensation as if they had a lot of small farmers upon their lands. 5 tt is perfectly jilain, tiierefore, that the attempts of the English Parlia- ment to settle the Irish land question have been up to the present time bungling attempts ; they bave tinkered at the question and have left it in as unsound a condition as when they began to tinker at it. My conclnsion is, nothing will ever do except to place the Irish farmer in 10 the same position as the farmer in other countries, and to make the tiller of the soil the owner of the soil which he tills. Now, I have read lately in the public press, some criticisms upon that proposal of Mr. Parnells’. Mr. Parnell pointed out that what had been done in Prussia might very well he done in Ireland. The answer made to that by the English 15 Press, and some of the worst enemies of the Irish race are the writers of the English Press, men who have groat ability, but no sympathy with the wants of the Irish people, they said that the case of Prussia bore no comparison to Ireland because in Prussia the tenants were serfs. I say in Ireland the tenants arc worse than serfs, because they are more open to starvation and 20 oppression than they were in Prussia, or any other country. What was the serf? The serf was a man bound to remain upon the soil where he Avas born. He had no liberty to leave that part of the district where he was born. I consider that many of the tenant farmers of Ireland would consider that the Prussian serf was very much to be envied, because the Prussian 25 serf could not leave the farm he was on, whereas the Irish farmer desires to be left upon it, and fears to be turned out, so he Avould consider the former was very much the better off. But, supposing it was a disadvantage to him that he had to stay upon the farm, if it was a difficult thing in Prussia to raise the serf to the position of the true peasant proprietor, then Prussia did 30 a greater work than we are asking the English to do, because, if it was more difficult to make a serf into a tenant than to make an Irish tenant the owner of his farm, then Prussia did a greater thing than we ask England to do, and Euo-land ought not to refuse the demand Ave make. Let no man convince you that there Avould be any difficulty in establishing a system of peasant 35 proprietary in Ireland. Of course, there will be a great many here and there Avho may have an opinion different from that which the great bulk of the Ecclesiastical body hold. I say there may be small differences of opinion upon this question, one Irishman here, one Irishman there, may have his OAvn crotchets. We should treat the opinion of our OAvn fellow-countrymen with 40 all respect, and we should not use unseemly language or violence to them, either on the platform or off it, we should allow them the same respect as Ave should ask for ourselves, but we should retain our OAAm opinion, and Avhen we hear any Irishmen say that peasant proprietorship is a vision or a chimeera or a dream, we should be in a position to shew {inaudible) that what has 45 been realized in Prussia could be realized in Ireland in one Session of Parliament. If Parliament set its mind to do it, it could, and I tell you that Parliament will have to set its mind to settle it if you make up your minds that it must be done. Now, I happened two or three days ago to be reading a Parliamentary ])aper, published last session, about the water supply 50 of the City of London. The City of London is supplied with water by a number of private companies, and the Government have the idea now of lip the companies and putting the whole supply of the water into the B 4 15 Oulart.—Wilh Oclohcr \9,9>^—Mr. Scxlon, J/.P. hands of a (Icpartniout nndcr ilic conirol ol’ the Government. Now what do YOU think they proposed to pay the water eoinpanies ot London, lor the purpose of taking' np tliis right, and enabling the Government to take into its onn hands the water supply of that one City. Thirty millions ol pounds 5 sterling. They propose to pay thirty millions of pounds sterling lor the ])urj)ose of getting eontrol of one single neeossary of life, water, to the inhabitants of one city, mind you, one city in the Empire. Now, il they aic able to nay thirty millions for giving water to the Cockney, I think they ought to’he able very well to alford to raise a loan of a hundred and fifty or 10 two hundred millions for the purpose of paying olf the landlords of Ireland, and enabling them to juit themselves to some honest labour. What is the total valuation of Ireland. Grilbths Government valuation of Ireland is about 12,000,000/. Now, if tbe landlords of Ireland are to be bought out, the purchase-money ougbt to be based upon the valuation. That s the nearest 15 test we can have of the value of the land, and it is a test against which the landlords ought not to complain, because it is supplied by their friends, the Government. Now we will say that the valuation of Ireland is 12,000,000/. a year. Now I believe sometime ago land could be sold for twenty years purchase in Ireland, but I have reason to believe the value of it is running 20 down. I know very well that the Land Judge in Ireland has very little to do. Estates are brought into his court for sale, but it is exceedingly difficult to find buyers, they are at fifteen years purchase now, and they will be at ten years purebase very soon, and unless the landlords of Ireland take the matter up, and take some steps, I should not be surprised before long to 25 see them at five years purchase. But take it at fifteen years purchase, 180,000,000/. would be sufficient to purchase tbe landlords out and send them about their business. Send them out to civilize the Zulus. My aro-ument is this, that if 30,000,000/. could be afforded so easily for the supply of water to London, six times that, which is 180,000,000/., could be 30 afforded to give peace and prosperity to the whole country. Now it would not be necessary to pay out a single penny in cash. All the Government would have to do would be to create what is called a State Loan. Suppose an estate was valued upon the valuation at 15 years’ purchase, at 10,000/., the State would issue to the landlord a bond, say at three or three and a half 35 per cent., it would issue a bond for 10,000/. to the landlord, and he could either keep the bond and go and draw the interest every half year, or go into the market and sell the bond, and he could easily find purchasers for it upon the good security of a public loan of Great Britain. Now, supposing there were ten farms upon this estate, and that the value ,10 of each farm was 10,000/., the Government would spread the payment over so many years and charge a fair interest. Now, if the land was bought on fair terms, say fifteen years purebase, you know there are so many farmers paying a mckrent, one and a half or twice the valuation, that spread over 35 yeLs would be very much less than they are paying at present. In fact, 45 in many cases, the farmers would have to pay,— in most cases,— only three- fourths of the rent they pay at present. They would have to pay that back in thirty or thirty-five years, and they would never have to pay anything to anybody again ; so at the end of three or four years there could be a lottery by the kate, and a certain number of these bonds could be wiped out. At 50 the end of thirty-five years the whole of the bonds could be wiped out, the landlords would have received their money, and the State or the country 16 3 ()(ila)'l.—\^)lli October 1S8().— y7fr. Sextou, JU.I\ would uol, 1)0 a |)(Mmy the worse. The rarnior would be iu a prosperous eoiidition, so that there is no opposition in reason, or ])olities or pu])lic honour. There is no reason tor opposition, except the prejudice that exists in the mind ot a class in Ireland, and the prejudice that exists in England, 5 to settle any Irish (picstion upon a just basis. ‘ Now, Avhen we ask, how arc l.he landlords of Ireland fighting this battle, I think you may very well feel proud of yourselves — proud of the people at large, when you compare the way in which we are conducting this frightful struggle, with the Avay in which the landlords are acting. How do we act ? 10 lYe are come into the open, arguing the question fairly and legally, we are not counselling violence to anybody ; we are depending upon the strength of organization amongst the people, and we are depending upon the strength of that public opinion amongst the people which will deter any mean or cowardly wretch from doing that which the public condemns. But how are 15 the landlords acting ? Well, I have heard them in the House of Commons, and I have heard them out of it. I know their tactics pretty well by this time. When a landlord rises in the House of Commons, and it is very hard for anyone else hut a landlord to rise, because there are very few else there ; hut when he speaks upon the land question, what does he do ? He slips the 20 question entirely, whether the landlords are asking more rent from the tenants than they can afford to pay — that is a delicate question ; hut he turns upon “ outrage ” ; he talks about murder ; he strives to blacken the character of the Irish people ; he strives to prove that they are out of the pale of public sympathy; that there is nothing good for them except coercion. 25 Now that is the system of parliamentary argument on the Land Question. Now, outside Parliament, what have they done r Ever since the movement began they have not had the courage to write under their own names ; they have not met upon platforms, hut have been writing anonymous letters to the “Express” and the “ Daily Mail,” and the other organs of the Tory party, 30 maligning and blackening the character of the people, and stirring one another up to outrage. I have even seen one letter in which a landlord wrote ad- vising his fellow landlords, when they were sitting in a room after dark, never to pass between a light and the window ; there was a sensible fellow for you. And I have seen another letter in which a civil engineer laid dowu 35 a scheme for landlords, that they were to sow the lawns and walks with dynamite, so that if any man put his nose inside the gate he would he blown into a thousand atoms. That is a very reasonable and moderate way of arguing the question. N o w, the last thing the landlords did, I suppose you have all heard about 40 it, they assembled in Dublin the other day to the number of 105. I was surprised to see them selecting the number of 105. 105 is the number of the Irish Members of Parliament. I do not know whether the landlords decived themselves into the belief that they were Members of Parliament. In former times when they wanted to get any dirty Avork done at the 45 Castle, they could always find plenty of Members of Parliament, but the Members of Parliament are now upon the platforms of the people. These 105 gentlemen held a meeting in a hall in Molesworth Street, and one would have imagined that if they had anything just to say they would have had those gentlemen present who are here at my right to report their words, so 50 that their case might be judged upon its merits ; but I have a sort of private opinion their ense has no merits, because whenever they want to talk about C ^ 17 Q .S366.~69. Oulart.^im October 1880.— Ji/’. Sexton, M:1\ it they go hehind doors, and lock tlicmsclvcs in, and keep themselves as private as if they were a rrceraason’s Lodge. The other day, alter laying their heads together for two hours in that hall, they decided to go up to the Castle, and have a talk with the Government, and they managed tlie whole 5 matter so privately, tliat the agents of the press of l)Lil)lin, who were at the Castle at three o’clock, enquiring whether there was any deputation, wcic told that there was no deputation expected that day, hut five minutes later the deputation was shown in to Mr. Eorster. But I have very good reason for believing that they, after saying what they had to say, received something 10 very like a snub from the chief secretary, for Mr. Eorster is a man who was not horn yesterday. He has had some experience of public life, and it takes something more than 105 landlords to throw dust in his eyes. They went into the Castle, and then what went on took place very quietly. Still, I think I can tell you what happened. They went in and said they desired to 15 have the Habeas Corpus Act suspended. The country has passed through three yeers of famine, and the Inilk of the people, but for the harvest this year, would have been driven to desperation. The farmers are deep in the books of the shop-keepers. After the people have emerged from that terrible agony, what is the proposal made by the men who have suck ed the^ 20 blood of the people, who have taken their income, who have taken more ^than their^'are of theTalue of the land. What is the proposal made now, because they find the people coming together asking reasonably that the produce of their toil should belong to themselves ? They say, ‘ Take array the personal liberty of the people.’ These matters cannot be allowed to go 25 on ; if there is any liberty in speaking their minds, landlords cannot live in England at all. Let the liberty of the people be placed in the hands of the Lord Lieutenant, or of any sub-constable with an india-rubber conscience, who swears that he has ‘reason to suspect’ that any man is disloyal. The second proposal made was that the Peace Preservation Act should be 30 renewed. The Peace Preservation Act was in force up to last July. When the Liberal Government came into office they found themselves face to face with Mr. Parnell, and with 35 or 40 men under Mr. Parnell’s lead, who cared very little about what the House of Commons thought about them ; they were determined to stand no nonsense, so that I can tell you that if the 35 Government had determined to renew the Peace Preservation Act, instead of l)eing here talking to you, I would have been over in London now, and in all probability we would only have been in the middle of the session. Now you know what the Peace Preservation Act was ; it denied the first right of any man,- to carry arms. It denied the right of any man to be out at night, 40 unless at the mercy of the police, and it enabled the Lord Lieutenant or the police to put into gaol, and keep there as long as they liked without trial before jury or judge, any poor man they liked. It enabled the police to inflict that last insult upon the people of Ireland, to break into the houses of the Irish, and to break into the bedrooms, and thus outrage the sensibility 45 and the modesty of our Irish women, and hurt them in the most sensitive part Well, these gentlemen at the Castle the other day wanted that Act renewed. They also wanted to threaten the Government ; they said, ‘ if you do not give us what we want, if you do not place the liberties of the people at the mercy of the police, and throw the houses open so that they may visit the people 50 at night, and make the people the slaves of the Castle, I will tell you what n^e vill do, we will not act for you as magistrates on the bench, and we will Oulart. — loth October 1880. — Mr. Sexton, M.V. not {U'i in the Grand Jiu-y voom.’ T think I may speak tor the people Indand at larj’-e ; 1. think that we eould do without them in tlie grand jury room, t thiidv that wo eould got better men than over they were or are upon the benches ; and I tliink that if Government would give them all 5 their walking papers to-morrow, we would undertake to give them a now and a better set of grand jurors and magistrates in a month. That was one of the threats they threw out to the Government, and they threw out various threats of that sort, until at last, Mr. Torster, after listening to them a long time, asked them, ‘ What suggestion have you to make,’ evidently showing 10 that Mr. Torster did not consider these things I have shown you as suggestions at all. They were as dumb as dogs, they had nothing to propose, and Mr. Forster politely bowed them out of the place. I understand they felt very much disappointed at their reception at the Castle, and, in fact, the impression has spread amongst them that they made a very great mistake in 15 going there ac all. Now, if these landlords had any gumption, any common sense, they would perceive that they might just as well attempt to turn back the falls of Niagara as to turn back this great movement. When Mr. Forster said “have you any suggestion to make,” they would have said the most sensible 20 thing, “Yes, Mr. Forster, we have a suggestion to make — we want you to establish a peasant proprietary in Irelend — we want you to pay us out — give us in the name of God any sum you think fair for our land.” Believe me, the longer they wait the less they will have to get— the longer you carry on this movement, the less they will get, the lower the value of the land will get. 25 Now, what I Avant you to do here to-day, as representing the Irish National Land League, and as speaking for the Irish party, your representatives in Parliament, is to bind yourselves together with bands of steel, which will unite every man of the farming class ; that will leave no man, whether Protestant or Catholic, whether Avell-to-do or ill-to-do, out of the organization. 30 The landlords have an organization of their own. A friend of mine Avent into a shooting gallery in Dublin the other day, and he saw a stout middle- aged gentleman in a bottle-green coat firing away at the mark with a revolver. This o>entleman did not look like a very sporting character, and he said to the keeper of the gallery “ who is that ? ” “ Oh, that is a landlord come up 35 to practise shooting.” “ Indeed,” said my friend “ that is very surprising, | have you many of them coming here ? ” “ Indeed, we have Sir,” he said,— | Ave have had about two hundred of them this week,” So that if the land- ; lords take to practising shooting now, Ave shall find that they will give the j police something to do. It will be pleasant, indeed, by-and-by to find that 1 ^0 the police are so busy Avith the landlords Avho have given so much trouble to the Irish people that they Avill not give any time to us. Now there is a story told about Bagenal Daly, who was very fond of boastina* about his skill Avith the pistol. “ What can you do Avith a pistol ” some one said to Daly. “ Well, I can knock off a wine glass from the stem 45 at 15 paces.” To which his friend replied, — “ That is all very Avell, but you know that the wine glass has not a pistol in his hand.” Now^ if the land- lords take to shooting there will be shooting at som ething more than wine glasses ; if they take to shooting there might be s ome shooting b ack. The best thino- the landlords can do is to act considerately, because if they take 50 the law into their own hands and act upon the threats they made use of to Mr. Forster, if the Government did not protect them, I can only say to them C 2 19 I Oalart. — lO^A Ociohcv 1880. — Mv. Sexton, M.V. that ir they add to all the insolence they have shown to the people in the past, — if they add to that, — if they dare to proceed to dccids of violence to the i)oople and their friends, — I can say they will hasten not only the settlement of the land question, hut that that settlement will he preeeded 5 hy a catastrophe of which they can very little gauge the extent. Now, I am here to-day to tell you that that organisation must proceed, and that the Land League looks to the eounty of Wexford for help. Thomas Davies said, in his famous essay on Wexford, whieh I quoted helbre, that there was no county in Ireland fitter for freedom. He said they were slow to move, hut ] 0 that when onee got into motion there was no more steady motion in the world. We know what you did in ’98 under the most terrible and dis- heartening odds. Wo know that the same sjiirit that was in your grand- fathers is yours. We know that the same hlood is in your veins, and the same spirit in your hosorns. We believe that the farmers who are Avell off in 15 the world will not selfishly stand aloof and let the poor people fight out this battle. Neither do I believe that the shopkeepers will stand aloof, — they know their lives are bound up with the farmers. It is not upon the aristocrats that they have to depend for their means of living, it is upon the bulk of the people who surround the small towns that the traders of the towns have 20 to depend, so that if they take an intelligent view of our action upon the land question they will help you in this movement. Now I heard a story which shoAvs how hard it is to convince the shop- keepers in the towns that their interest is with you. An agent Avas in Tipperary, and was spending the evening in one of the toAvns, and a shop- 25 keeper said to him ‘ I don’t knoAV what I am to do if I do not get a little more means — all my capital is out among the farmers,’ and so on. This man had l)een refusing to join the Land League, giving those winks and shrugs of tlie shoulder, and all those excuses which a man can find. Then he began to talk about bis debts, “ I have 1,200^. among the farmers, and there is not one of 30 them can pay me more than 16*. in the pound.” “ Is that distributed among many ” ? “ Oh, yes, it is among a good many.” “ What sums do they owe ?’ Then the shopkeeper took the book, and my friend of the Land League fixed his eye upon an item of 78/. “ So ” he said, “ this farmer owes you 78/. How long has he been getting into that debt,” “ about tbree years.” “What is his 35 rent ? ” “ About 30/. a year.” “ Bad cess to you, don’t you see that you arc paying the rent, and not he.” It ncAmr struck him that he aaus paying the rent, — but the produce of the farm Avas not sufficient to do more than support the farmer, so he went to the shopkeeper and borroAved the money from him, and gave it to the landlord. It ought to be plain to the shopkeepers that 40 their interest lies in promoting such a reform of the hiAvs as Avill enable the farmer to IHe and pay bis debts, because it is a bad sign when the landlord takes such a rent that the tenant cannot pay his rent, but is obliged to go to the shopkeeper and borroAV. Noav I ask you to unite in this locality, — spread the light in this and every 45 other locality you knoAV ; to enrol all the farmers, prove to them tliat their only safety, their only hope of success lies in the organisation of the Land League. Believe me, if you are not able to settle this question in Ireland yourselves, — if you are not able to shoAV in the next six months that you can bring a force to bear that Avill bring the landlords to their knees, you 50 need never expect the British Parliament to settle it for you. jl knoAv that last year when Mr. Porster brought in a little Bill to protect people who 20 Oiilarl. — Oclobc)' 1880. — Mr. Sexton, M.P. AV(‘r(; cj('cio(l by the landlords, Avliai happened ? Mr. Gladstone eanni in witii 150 votes more than the op])osition ; hut such is the prejudiee in t;wour of landlords in that llouse that the majority of 150 hound and pledged hy their pledges upon the hustings to aid Mr. Gladstone, melted away like the 5 snow upon the mountain under the sun. Some of them disappeared over to the Tories, — some went away altogether, and it was only hy the action of sixty of us that the Bill passed the Commons. Now about the House of Lords. You never saw such a dull place in your lives. I have been there a few times in the evening, — you see a few old men 10 like ghosts moving about and murmuring to each other. I suppose they can hear Avhat they say, because you sometimes hear someone say “ hear, hear,” like a voice out of the grave. But on the night that this Bill came on, such Avas the fury and the terror excited among the landlord class all over the Kingdom, hy the idea that there was to be any law passed again to 15 protect the Irish tenants that they came from all parts. They came from their hunting in the Highlands, they came from the Continent, they came in their laAvn sleeves, there came peers AAotli black hair, peers with red hair, and peers with grey hair, and there came peers Avith no hair at all, and some of them were carried like the people Ave read about in the Bible, — the lame, 20 and the halt and the blind, — they came in crowds and in legions to vote down this Irish Bill. There were only 50 lords out of the 500 that sit in the House of Lords that Avent with the Government that night. I sat in the gallery and Avatched the men that were voting against the Government, you would have thought the stream never Avould have stopped. There Avere a 25 crowd of bishops sitting in Avhite sleeves, the emblems of purity ; and when the division came, those spiritual overseers and preachers of the gospel of peace and good will, went into the lobby against a Bill to protect the people from ruin. Now you will never get a good Land Bill from those tAvo Houses of landlords, unless by your OAvn organisation in Ireland you bring about 30 such a state of affairs that the landlords will be helpless in your hands. Now I would be very sorry if I thought you were depending upon the English Houses, but I know you are not. I knoAV you can carry Avhatever you want. The first thing you have to do is this. The tenants on every property should j consult Avith one another, they should consider Avhat their produce brought j 35 in, what their farms, bi’ought them in, Avhat they had to pay their labourers. AAdiat they had to pay for manure and seed, what they ought to take for themselves and their families for decent and comfortable living, and should ’ then decide what is a fair rent, what they should pay their landlords, allowing themselves a fair living. After that they should offer to pay that to their [ 40 landlords, and if the landlords refused to accept that rent, to accept a rent which Avould allow the tenant leave to live, then I say, and I deliberately stand by the opinion here, and I will repeat in the House of Commons, — I ! say until this question is settled, it is this duty of being refused, to pay no rent at all. The Land 45 present, advised the tenants to pay no rent, but the Land League is at j present seriously considering whether in vieAv of the evictions and ejectments and threats and the unwise and insane conduct of some of the I Irish landlords, it may not be necessary for us to take some more stringent steps very soon than we have taken up to the present time. 50 Unless the landlords at the eleventh hour take counsel and consider that 0 3 21 4 Onlart. — 10^// Oclohrr 1880. — Mr. Sexton, M.P. ^ S- the )) 0 ()i)lo is irresistil)lc, wc propose to send an intelligent agent to every part of Ireland, Avho Avill llnd out whether the land is raek rented, and ii‘ we find it is impossible to live upon the farm, that the rent leaves the tenant no margin to live upon, wo shall propose to the tenants not to pay any rent 5 at all. Next wo shall ask you to hind yourselves not to take any larm from which the tenant has heen ovieted for the non-payment of an unjust rent. I rememher a story hearing on this point. An Englishman was talking with my friend, Joe Eyan, about Ireland, and as a rule, an Englishman always finds something had in Ireland, in the climate, or in the weather, or in the 10 air, except in the Government, not in the Government, and he said, ‘ You t are very backward in the science of agriculture ; you should establish ‘ model farms, where the farmers would he taught the rotation of crops ‘ and all things necessary for scientific cultivation.’ ‘I will tell you what it is, we have very good farms in Ireland ; there is a farm in my country, 15 there was a poor man working very hard trying to pay the rent until at last it got too hard for him. Well’ said he, ‘ We are very united in that place, ‘ Avhen we come to a decision we are all of one mind ; and since that poor ‘ man has heen turned out of that farm, you never could get a man to take ‘ it. That is what I call a model farm,’ he said. We ought to have a model 20 farm like that in every county in Ireland. I should think that if the organisation of the League prospers in this locality, as I hope it will, there will he perhaps one or two model farms in the county of Wexford soon for the education of the landlords. How are you to treat any man who, in the face of these public resolu- 25 tions and your matured judgment, meanly crawls to the agent or the landlord and arranges with him to pay a rent which the farm could not afford, or to take upon any terms a farm from which a tenant had heen unjustly evicted. You are not entitled to use any violence to him. You are not entitled to use any violence to him in his person or property, and it is not necessar y My 30 advice to you would he to treat that man as if he had im existence . There is no law to oblige you to shake hands with him; there is no law to oblige you to say good morrow to him when you meet him in the road. There is no law to oblige you to have any communication with him. I believe that that system carried out, not by one or two of you, but by all of you by one 35 united action, is powerful enough in six months or a year to put an end to the system of land grabbing in Ii-eland. There is no man of obstinacy strong [enough], or of moral nature dull and obtuse enough, to resist for any time the scorn of his fellow men. It is bad to live upon a desert island, but there is one thing worse than living on a desert island, and that is living 40 on a moral desert island ; living in the midst of a population, but yet living in the midst of a desert of contempt created for you by your own acts. Eurthermore, you should never bny any part of the produce of a farm \ from which the tenant has been unjustly evicted. The landlord may take to the cultivation of the farm himself, and it would be a good thing to see 45 the idle landlord doing anything. But I think you should not assist the landlord by buying any produce at the auction, because what has always o-iven power to the landlords in Ireland ? This, that the people in Ireland had nothing but the land to live upon, and when a man lost a farm there were twenty people looking for it. But, as my venerable friend has said to 50 you, it is better that a few people should suffer for a short time, than that all the people of Ireland should suffer for a long time ; therefore, if any man 22 Oalart. — 10th October 1880. — Mr. Sexton, MM. wants a I'ann, in God’s name let him exercise a little discretion and wait, and nse self denial, because the moment a farm is left idle, that moment the landlords will cease to evict ; they will 11 nd a tenant in the hand is worth two in the bush. 5 Idiero is one thing* more yon must do. If any man is turned out of his farm hccause he will not pay an unjust rent, you, when you put your heads together, should see that that man and his children, when he is turned out, do not starve,— that he docs not become a victim of his patriotic devotion. There, I have spoken to you of the simple code of emancipation of the Irish 10 tenant-farmer. If you, one and all, shopkeepers and farmers, unite in this grand, this patriotic as well as this sacred bond, it is not in the power ot landlords or of Kings, it is not in the power of Governments or of Parlia- ments to long delay the concession of your rights. The future is on your side. The instincts of humanity and the law of God are all upon your side, 16 and I believe, myself, that the day is not far distant when Ireland sees a happy and emanciiiated tenantry planted upon her soil, and it will be proved that the men of Wexford are amongst the happiest in Ireland ; that they have neither the base spirit nor the craft of slaves.” The resolution, being put to the meeting by the Chairman, was carried 20 nem. con.' C 4 23 Oiilnrt. — ^Oth■ October 1880. — Mr. T>crcrcn.r. / Mr. Devereux. Revcroiul Cluiirnitin ;ni(l rollow-countvyinen, it is with some difThUmce, l)ut still with a little pride, that I eome l)efore you, men of Wexford, — men that we may feel have been driven away from another portion of the (country. 1 am here to-day as proud as we were in ’08. I can imagine to-day, that if 5 the spirit of the immortal dead could (inaudible) * * * in the course of my life, I can imagine the men who fought in ’98 on those hills yonder would to-day look down, and I am sure they are to-day praying for the good cause which we have in hand, and which we will carry to a grand and glorious end. The resolution which has been put into my hand I shall now 10 read. It requires no words from me ; hut I assure you, I did not come here to make a speech. I came here to be a listener ; but some others of the able men who should have spoken are to-day addressing other thousands in other towns. I am what they call a man in tlie gap. The resolution I have to propose is, ‘ That we hereby promise not to take any land from which the 15 ‘ occupier may have been evicted for the nonpayment of any rack-rent ; and ‘ we further pledge ourselves never to purchase any goods, cattle, or crops ‘ distrained or seized under any execution for such exorbitant rent, and we ‘ will look upon any man who violates this rule as an enemy to the national ‘ cause.’ 20 Eellow-countrymen, that resolution does not require many words from me to make it received here by everyone with acclamation. It is a resolu- tion which comes home to every man ; it is not only the tenant-farmers, — the labourers and the shopkeepers too can carry it home, because who does it affect? The laud grabber, — the Pontius Pilate of the 19th century. 25 Whenever a tenant is evicted for nonpayment of an unjust rent-mark, — an unjust rent, — if you meet that man in the streets, shun him ; if you meet him in the fair, tuck up your coat and keep away ; if you meet him at a little convivial social entertainment, walk out of the liouse, and you will soon bring him to his level, and soon find that he will be as good a man as you are, 30 and perhaps a great deal better. The other day, in the third city of Ireland, — the city of Limerick, — a land grabber took some land upon which too high a rent was charged and the unfortunate man was evicted ; he brought down his corn, and his oats and his hay to market ; he walked in, and thought he would sell. He asked a factor 35 if he would sell it ; he said he Avould not, he had better people to sell for than him. He then wanted to sell it himself ; but he brought it home. And you may depend he will pay no rent this year. Pellow-countrymen, the good cause is prospering. I am only a few days in this country on a few days holiday. The first shout of the Land League 40 came across from New Loss ; it passed round you to near Wexford, and then across up to the foot of Mount Leinster, and it is here to-day, in the historic valley of Oulart ; and it shall go on spreading a network till it is all over the land. It is ail over Sligo ; it is all over Mayo ; it is in far off Cork, Kerry, and Waterford ; and it is now spreading like an ocean, taking all into it ; 45 and if it does this, you may be sure that the land question will be settled. Pellow-countrymen, after the exhaustive speech you have heard from our dear and esteemed friend Mr. Sexton, it is difficult for me to elucidate any new questions upon it. Now, there is one thing I would ask you all here to-day : to do no act which the Government can look upon you and say 50 you have committed a crime, because, as Mr. Sexton, quoting from a greater 24 i [Tcmjylcmorc . — 10/// Octoher, 1880. — Mr. Dillon, m.i*.) ao-ainst tin; [/cople, and that it shall be considered a crime for an Irish tenant to hani^ his rifle over his mantelpiece (clieers). We mean not to break the peace, we mean to cariT on this great movement peaceably and orderly, but I tell the man who breaks the j)eace on the Irish j/eople, that 5 he and his older will rejient it. and they will before very long learn to know that they have made a very falst- step both for themselves and for the privileges which they sought to defend. What are the means then which we projiose to the jieople of Ireland to achieve those rights which they have sought so long through talking and 10 through argument? We tell the Irish people that the hour for argument is gone by, that they have been arguing'this question with the Government for upwards of eighty years, and they have got nothing, except eviction and ruin, and rack-rents. We tell them that if they wish to have this question settled, if they wish to hsve their own homes their own propt rty, 15 and to save themselves from rack-rents and evictions, that they must do it, not in London, but here in Tipperary, by their own exertions and by combination, and the means which we lay out for the Irish people are these, organization, the most careful and strict organization of each district, and then when the district is organized, let the farmers go in a body to 20 the agent or landlord, or steward, and tell him what they consider is a fair value for their farms, tell him that they will give him that, and not one penny more, and that if he won’t take that, then to do his worst (“\Ve will give them Rory”). The Irish landlords have now for a hundred years had it in their power to fix the rents and the value of Irish 25 land, which, allow me to point out they never worked or tilled. Now, the Irish National Land League proposes that for the coming year, the Irish fanner shall fix the rent of Irish land, and we mean to treat them better than they have treated the farmer, because we do not mean to give them nothing, at least not yet, but we mean to give them a fair value, and we 80 will see how that works for a year. What w^e then propose to do is for the pi'esent winter, to reduce the rents wherever the rents are excessive. By this united action if the landlord in reply to your protest that you will not pay more than a fair rent, if he serves notices of eviction, then report the case to the Land League, in Dublin, and wm w'ill have it out with him, 35 and if he evicts any man, looking at this meeting here to-day, I believe that in this and the surrounding estates, that if he evicts any man so far from adding to the rental of his estates, he will have an idle farm on his hands, he will have on his hands what I have heard described as a “ model ” farm, that is a farm which no living thing will go on, to show what the 40 power of the public opinion of the people is. When you have succeeded in keeping several farms vacant for some time, you will find the landlords will be more willing to listen to reason, and that the Irish Land League /■ t , 4 E 16 — lO/A Oaloix'r. ISSO — J/y. Dxrcrcn.r. s- in:ui, says, * ll<> commits a criiiK' i^avc's slr(‘U”'ih to tlic oiu'my. Mind, YOU have a very fair and very g-ood tJovernment at the. present tinui, il tliey oidy get a lot of men like you to shove them on and to j)ush them on, to make them do what you want them to do. Since ’1)8, down to tlu^ present 5 time, it was the landlords that governed Ireland, and could yon expi'ct them to do it except lor themselves ? If the shopkec])ers wei-e governing Ireland they Avonld do the same thing ; il the hankers governed Ireland it would he the same thing, 10 per cent.; but when the people govern Ireland it will he governed as it ought to he governed. I am not very old, hut 1 lenienihci 10 a short time ago that 1 heard of a landlord Avho purchased an estate in tlu; Landed Estates Court; a deputation went to him and asked him if he Avould give the iioman Catholic Chapel which was upon that estate, which 1 knoAV he never purchased. ‘ Ah ! ’ said he, ‘ if 1 went into the market and bought a cow 1 would buy every hair in her head.’ Now, is there a landlord in 15 Ireland who would believe such a thing as that No, not one. The people will have some sort of tenant right ; they arc coming on, and they will come on, and all they require is for you to educate ; and the press, the people of Ireland, and our own little paper in Wexford is doing good work, it is spreading the Avork, and more people Avill he able to see things as they ought 20 to see them. As I said before, some neAV crime Avithin the last Aveek, some one has sent a threatening letter to some unfortunate landlord or tenant, I do not know AAdiich. The whole toAvn of Enniscorthy last night was in a state of excitement, at least the military down there, the sort of military there is in it, and they are doing their duty, and why not do it ? It is their 25 duty to detect crime ; and every man in Ireland, if he finds out a man committing a crime, he should at once hold that man up, and not allow that man to commit a crime, because that is the curse of Ireland, committing crimes. Landlords will now make it an excuse that you are doing wrong, thev will say you are joining in societies to rob them. You are not doing 30 that, you are only trying to get your own. People will tell you different ways in which this land question Avill be settled. Now, I say to you, trust the Laud League, trust Charles Stewart Parnell. Charles Stewart Parnell has brought this question before the civilised world ; and, having the civi- lised world before you as your jury, you must succeed. You will find a 35 verdict against the bad landlords, and having found a verdict against them, the British Parliament, bad as it is, will be only too happy to get a good name before Europe. Some say fixity of tenure at fair rents. What is fixity of tenure at a fair rent? If you got that 100 years ago it would be fan. They got it in the North of Ireland over 200 years ago, and they are 40 happy. But noAV, here, where the landlords have put it up to the highest pitch, put it up far above its value, the land of Ireland is at a rack rent, and being at a rack rent, it cannot stand at that ; doAvn it must come, and down it Avill come ; and when the land comes doAvn, under the instructions of the Land League, then it will be time enough to settle the land question. But 45 Ave must make it right, we must sow the corn, we must water it, and bring the dews of heaven upon it, and the grace of God ; and having done all that, the reapers will go and bind, and we Avill gather in a grand harvest. Some few years ago we had nobody on our side, we had only a few newspapers ; now we have all the great thinkers of England and Ireland. I 50 need not mention again the name of Charles Stewart Parnell ; Ave have Justin M’Carthy, one of the greatest thinkers in England, a man who holds D Q 33G6.— 69. / _]()/// Ovhihcr ISSO.— v?//-. Dcocreax. :,s l.i-li M position in .London as Lord Boaconsli(dd or Mr. (j ladstono ; no hav(‘ snc.li a man as 'r. T. O’Connor, who lias made a name lor himsoli; who is last rising' to tho highost position in .England as a writor ; wo havo A. iM. Sullivan, one ol' the groatost orators since tho days ol O Conmdl. VVi :> havo strango to sav, tho greatest oonservativ(> in England, Lord Cairns, who was o-oing hi Tor to destroy the law ot ])riinogeniture and the law of entail. 1 must say a word upon that, it is the greatest curse of the 19th century is tliis law of entail and primogeniture. What is it ? It is that, il a land- lord dies and owes 10,000/. ami has property worth 100,000/., ho nec'U not 10 pay a- iionnv of his debts, his property goes to his sou or his heir. Is not that an unfortunate law? Whereas an unfortunate shopkeeper, if lu' owes 100/. out of 150/., he must pay every penny he owes before his widow can 0.(1 a penny. That is the law ; hut who made it? The landlords. The last o-rant given by the Duchess of Marlborough’s committee is to send a few 15 people to America. I would say, don’t go to America, stay at home. I have travelled all through Ireland and find that there are more waste lands than would support 100,000 farmers ; coming from Enniscorthy to this, there is plenty of land growing nothing but furze. But suppose you give that to the peojile at a fair rent, or give it them as theirs for ever, and you will find they 20 will make it a garden. Now, fellow-countrymen, I think I should conclude. I have kept you too long, particularly not having a set speech made. There is an old story told in Ireland about alarmists, it is a story told of Lord Chesterfield when he was Lord Lieutenant in Dublin; he was on the spree the night before, 25 and he did not get up early in the morning, after a champagne supper and so forth, but in rushed a fmv landlords and a few story tellers and they told him that Cork was up in revolution, they meant that, he took out his watch and said ‘ Begad, it is time for them to get up.’ The fellows came with a barren story. (Laughter and confusion.) I believe that the Lord Lieu- 30 tenant has ''some common sense. I believe Mr. Eorster has some common sense, if he has not, I believe he has learned some, because no matter what he is’, and I know there are people telling him bad stories, every day there are stories going to him at the castle about the killing of a cat in Kilkenny and killing'’ a dog in Wexford, or killing a mouse on Oulart Hill. But no 35 matter what comes or goes, we must have the land, we must have a way of living and must not be kept down as we have been kept down for the last 50 years. Oh ! the tongue is a mighty power, as it goes from shore to shore, and the pen has more power over men than the murderous eanons roar. ’ Let the word flung from the fearless tongue {inaudible). I say, 10 gentlemen, you have as I said before, the intellect of Ireland upon your side, and you have, as you always will have, yom* respected parish priest, and’ you have, what is more, the old man who proposed the first resolution. It must be a magnificent cause which has brought out an old man, who should have been at home saying his prayers, here to pray for you. Keep 15 quiet. 1 have gone away from the subject. But my resolution was that there were to be no landgrabbers ; they are worse than the landlords, because they encourage you to go wrong. I am much obliged to you for your kind- ness in listening to me this evening. I hope and trust when I have the honour of addressing you again, that 1 shall address a free people, who have 50 the land question settled and have a National Parliament on College Green. 20 {Cln'haun.— iOth (>ct.oher, 1880.) Mr. P. J. Gordan Mr. ('hiiiriuan, ladies, and fellow countrymen, I am proud to have tlio honour of addressimc? you here to-day. I did not intend to be at this meetin<^. hut i^ettino- a, pressing telegram from my friend, Mr. dierney, I at once i-rsolviHl to be here to-day at your meeting. I have come amongst 5 you to give you a helping hand to ui)root that system ot land robbery whiidi has left us a poor nation, and I have come amongst you to ask you here to-day to pledge yourself before the God of Creation that no man in this parish, from this day forth, shall take any l.md from which another- has been evicted I will ask you to pledge yourselves by rising your right 10 hand as a signal, as a solemn pledge before your God, and it you violate that pledge, 1 pray that you shall send yourself to perdition. I have come amongst you to ask you to pledge yourselves solemnly on this great and important question, and to say that you are not satisfied with this system ot robbery which has sent Ireland’s greatest and truest son, Charles Stewart 15 Parnell, across the Atlantic to leave your poverty before the people of that great and glorious country, America, and the American people responded at once to the call of Parnell for the Irish brothers. But why was it that Parnell had to go beg for the Irish people ? First, I tell you it is because we are too cowardly, because we are long down under the 20 system of sham law ; but the Government has instituted and they have that law, and they say they are bound to protect the lives and pro])erty of the peojDle, but they only protect the lives of a few thousand of landlords, while they allow thousands of our sons and daughters to die. The Government has gone into mourning last week for the murder of one lord, and Her Majesty 25 the Queen has sent a letter to Lord Mountmorres’ lady. 1 have no objection that her Majesty the Queen should write a letter to eveiy widow in Ireland, but I ask you has Her Majesty or her Government gone into mourning or sent letters to the widows and orphans of four millions people that died in the workhouse ? It is the policy of England, no matter what 30 Government, Whig or Tory, to perish you out, to crush you out ; but to-day the proud hopes of Ireland are approaching fast, and I am proud to see here around me the brave manly faces of my brothers, and the smiling faces of my sisters, who shall proclaim that the land that God created for them, we are determined to sacrifice our lives or hold it. I will quote one 35 incident in my locality. One land robber insisted upon a poor unfortunate man to enter upon his holding, and his name is Murray M‘Gregger, Black- eree, and his agent is Captain boycott ; the tenant’s is Thomas Melee. The holding contained 4a. Ir. 2p., the valuation is £3 15«., and the rent is £14 \is. Along with that unfortunate man entering he had to pay the 40 land robber £10 fee, and he had also to build a house on the 4a. Ir. 2p.,. and the land robber would not permit him quarry a few stones on the very property until he had to go a mile and carry them on his back. 3 N 4 -/ / (ClerJinw. — lOtJi Octoher, 18S0. — Mv. I\ ■ (xordan.) Now, I ask you are you satisfied with this system of land rohhory ? If you are determined men band yourselves togetlier. I will ask the fair dauo-hters of this locality to combine together, to be in the band equal to tlu'uicn, and if there is a cowardly man in the village let the brave women 5 force him to the front A man could make money and huy a pro})erty, and then crush tlu' peo])le. 1 ask you to combine together and swear before God on Higli that you are determined to stick to the land of vour birth. Why is it at this time of poverty and distress that you have not your priest on this platform to-day as your chairman ? (Groans.) I 10 don’t want you to groan him, but I want you to teach him a lesson. I am a Catholic devoted to the Church of borne, and to-morrow, if my Church were in danger, I’d be one of the first to fight for her ; and when the late Pope wanted soldiers in the field, I can truly boast that 1 was the first recruit in the county Galway. My ambition is to see my people free— to see them in l.a the land of their birth ; and my ambirion is to see the priest with the people. And when the priest wrongs the people I am the first man to denounce him on the platform. Perhaps you do not know why he is not here to-day. Perhaps you are not aware that he is a landlord. At the late election in Roscommon I had been invited to a meeting, and the priest, a Patrick s 20 Day, spoke from the altar of me, and he gave me my Patrick’s pot. I made up my mind to go to his parish on Easter Sunday, and I gave him his Easter eggs. I told the people to hold their shillings in tlieir pockets, and let him go live on his 9,000, and the result was that all the collection he got was 16s. I will ask you here to-day to teach this new parish priest 25 a lesson, and you will find the next meeting you will get up he will invite himself as chairman. 1 don’t wish to speak against the priest ; but the more devoted you are to the Church the better you will be. You know that he is a little landlord, and I hope he never will be bigger. 1 have a newspaper here. It contains a paragraph about an eviction 30 that took place here about a week ago. I suppose you all know Mr. Bourke, of Ower. I have known him a long time, and never knevv any- thinii" o'ood of him. He stuck into the newspaper that an amount of police were at the eviction, and that he reinstated the tenants. They are placed into the cabins that their forefathers cultivated — all their labour has been 35 sacrificed Not a single landlord has subscribed a penny for the famine — not a penny has been subscribed by Bourke of ours, and now be comes to throw the people on the roadside. Let you follow in the foot- steps of the brave sons of Mayo (cheers). You must know that I am a Galway man. But I will tell you a little anecdote that happened once 40 in Liverpool. There was a row got up in a cabin, and there was a black in a corner. The Mayo men got the upper hand, and the black said, “ I am a Mayo man now.” Well, I will say I am a Mayo man now. The reason I have for being a Mayo man is that they were the first to pro- claim to the Government — that cruel Government — that this land was ours 45 — that we are determined to sacrifice every drop of our blood until we 5 3 N 2 / ! {<'lerhavn.— \Oth October, O^^O.—Mr P J. Gordan.) sweep away every vestige of laiullonlisiii from this county at least. There is another landlord in this locality— Mr. Browne, of Olarne — and if he had his windows open he woidd almost hear me here. He refused to wive any reduction to the tenants, and gave them no assist- 5 ance in this present time. And what are the tenants to do? I tell the tenants here plainly, and in as plain language as 1 can use, m the presence of mv friend the Government reporter, not to give him a penny at all it he refuse to take what will support him. Hold the harvest— hold the rent— and if you are evicted I will ask the neighbours to put you m again. 10 If the land-robber come again to put you out, the Land League will take you up and build a cabin on the roadside, and watch your farm. I will refer to a, gentleman who has helped out the tenant class thi.-. last year or two, and this is Mr. Lynch, of Ballycurren. I think there is not a man here Tto-day, whether he is a neighbour or not, that does not 15 know’ that Mr. Lynch of Hallycurren, was the tenants’ friend m the past. His letters w’ere read on the platform, and his money went in to support the people. Now, I don’t want to say too much about good landlords foi 1 would rather to talk of bad ones ; for you know that landlords, in Ireland are a curse to the Nation. Landlordism fas left millions of people 20 starving. When I say starving I say after the years, years of toil and labour you have nothing at the end of your days. If you have a long family you have to get shut of them. The mother has to weep at tlie door to see her darling daughter never more to see her, and the father accompanies his child to the ship, that child emigrates to a foreign land, 25 and no more shall that father ever see that child. They go from this land as Mitchel said, “ They are gone with a vengeance.” Yes, and I pray to God that the brave sons in these foreign shores may yet return with a vengeance to the Government to their own shore, that only 7U0 years ago walked into this country wdth the sword and bayonet. She plundered t'le 30 Nation, she violated the fair sex of Ireland, she butcliered the infant in the mother’s womb ; they shot down the father at his own door for daring to look out. They picked out a handful of fellows, and constituted the o a Govern ment of Ireland. I'hey allowed the people to die within the workhouse. The father on entering the workhouse is sent to one quarter of the Union, 35 the mother in another portion, and the children in the third. I hey are sepaiated within that workhouse, and I say to you here as honest fatheis, would it not be better for you to die at the cabin door than die within the walls of the workhouse (cheers). Well, I have seen on the “ Weekly News ” of this week a very important 40 ball got up by the landlords ; well mind you, they never invited the tenants; it wL a lot, of landlords if they had it at aU. 'fhe first thing they danced was the buckshot waltz ; and then some gentleman stood up and said the best thing he could dance wa.s a notice to unit polka ; you know my friends that during the vears of famine, the landlords of Ireland celebrated 45 their balls and festivals, they picked up every shilling that could be 6 I / . /' {Clerhau,n.— \Oth October, 1880. — Mr. V. J. Gordan.) extracted from tlie tenants, and went to Ijondon and Paris to spend it, and never inquired whether the j)C()ple of that parish were starving, and have written home to the agent to send them money in ordei- to send their tamilies to the Continent, and never inquired whether the people were 5 dying of hunger; you know within the last year the landlords were more pressing for rents than they were in the past, and the account they sent to the agent was, that they should get their rents no matter what famine there was. I ask you hei'e to-day as honest men where would half the people ot 10 Ireland be to-day were it not that some men stood on the platform and advocated for the tenants. Mr. Parnell travelled America and they have exposed the land robber landlords. I have travelled almost the three countries, and I tell you wherever 1 got an opportunity I never screened him for a moment land grabber let ye treat 15 him as I tell you. Mr. NALLY — Groaning is nothing at all. Take him very quietly away. You know where to put him. Mr. GORDAN continued — ^There was a soldier once who had a white trousers, and a dog went into the river and shook the dirt on his trousers. 20 The soldier Sciid — I will neither beat you nor tease 3mu, but I will balloo mad dog. Let 3m halloo mad dog after him. Have no communication whatever ; if he have a shop let ye shun him as ye would the devil. Murphy H3mes threw up his farm ; why did he do so ? It is because the people assembled in their thousands ; they tumbled the ditches, and scat- 25 tered the wall, and sent Murphy round the village. Now, ray friends, the landlords say that the cause of the poverty is owing to the extravagance of the people. I want to know where is the extravagance. It is on the landlord’s side. The unfortunate tenant is worked, cultivated a bog until he changes it into land. The landlord comes and views the spot. He never 30 reckons of your hours of labour. And he sa\ s this land is worth now three times as much as when you got it, and what you pay three pounds for this year the landlord expects six pounds tor it next year. Ihe poor tenant is brought down to poverty. The sheriff and police come and throw them out on the roadside to starve. 35 Are 3-011 done with that system of law ? You must try on ever}' farm to get shut of it. Bind yourselves together. Have no creeping about it. Let everv man be bound within the Land League, which is the only pro- tection we have. And along with the Land League let no man forget the spirit of nationality within his bosom. 40 “ Ireland a nation Great, glorious and free. First flower of the earth. And first gem of the sea.” I will ask you to stick to the home of your birth. I want you here as 45 fathers and mothers to teach the rising generation which I see around me 7 {Clerhaun.— \Oth October, 1880 — A/r. P. J. Gordan.) f |^ 0 i-e — the young blood of Ireland — teach them every evening that it shall be their nisfht dream, that as Emmet shed his blood for his country, and as Lord Edward had been strangled for loving Ireland, and as Allen, Larkin, and O’Brien had been swung up on the scaffold of Manchester for 5 loving this dear land of ours, I ask you to raise up your voice in a solemn prayer that God in his mercy may save Ireland and the Irish people (cheers). 8 .5 O {Clcrhauu.. \Ot]i OcUthc.r, ISSO.) Mr. P. J. Gordan Said : — Perhaps I shall never come before you ai^aiii. In seconding tin' vote of thanks to the chairman, I feel pleasure in doing so. You have on this plat- form an evicted tenant under Bourke, of Owcr, and I tell you I’d rather take the hand of that honest evicted tenant than the blood-stained hand of Bourke. 5 [A man named iMannion came to the front and was cheered. He is the evicted tenant alluded to.] The valuation on this unfortunate man’s holding is £4 1.5s., and the rent is £7 1 2.S’. 9(7. Tliis is jdain evidence to show that the present system which vou are under is the curse and wrong of the unfortunate tenant. It 10 shows plainly that the rent on that unfortunate man’s shoulders, that he is crushed beneath a power, and is not able to support his family. . . . ll you give him a fair valuation, he is able to pay. I am proud that the spirit of the people here recognized the acts of an honest man — [Mannion was brought on the platform at this stage] — and I shall feel proud when I shall 15 hear, at a future day, that the spirit of the people will crush beneath their feet [the remainder lost]. If you are honest men you will become mem- bers of the Land League. 1 am under no obligation on the face of the earth to the Land League, but I came here, as an Irishman, to uphold t!ie pi'inciples that the Land League has laid down ; and 1 am determined, at 20 every sacrifice, to woik night and day with the tenants of Ireland to estab- lish the Land League. Now you know that you have been pledged hea-e to-day, and let that pledge not be a sham one. You have been pledged to keep away from any shopkeeper who would not support the Land League, and. as my friend, Mr. Nally, said, I for one do not care if it was my father that 25 is a land-shark, I will come upon the platform and denounce him by name. Now you have landsharks in the town of Headford, and you made them landsharks bv buving their goods. For it is well known that some land- sharks in Headford never earned a shilling in their lives. Whoever becomes a land-grabber shows his power, and do not enter his house to buy anything, 30 and you will bring’ him cn his knees as the tenants have made the laiidloids already. If there is a land-grabber who sends in a report to the police that he is afraid someone is going to cut the throats of his sheep, there is an iron barrack as you have above at the Morgan Rattler (Morgan Morris). I have no objection to have the police and the barrack there. 35 I’erhaps the barrack and the police would make an honest man of Morgan Rattler. I know in Ma\ o that the man who reported the case to the police was the very man who committed the crime, but he wanted to get £< U for £5 value. I ask every man to shun that man’s house and that man’s family, for in that family there are traitors .... and that man was working behind 40 the backs of the unfortunate tenants and the landlords. [ The speaker then referred to the conduct of Mr. Mitchell-Henry, M.r , and said he would be opposed next election]. The hour is approaching when Ireland shall be proclaimed a land glorious and free, and this is a nation worth fighting for (cheers). 17 {Clcrliiiun . — 10^// Octoher, liS80.) / / j Mr. J. W. NaUy Sail! Well, m\ friends, 1 am called upon on this occasion to propose a resolution. \ knew notliino' about coming here s])eciall\’ to see it 1 would s])read the light in these mountain ])asses. Where is your priest to-day f They will he with you on Easter Sunday, as they will on Christinas Day. 5 My' hoys, hold tlu' harvest. Let ve hind it and say that we will keep a firm grip on yonr homesteads. I oo long have we sufiered with these parties. 1 will call them as I wall call these absentee landlords 1 will not call them that, though as long as they live amongst us we will have to give them a little, hut let it he cut, let it he small. Instead ot giving 10 them too stooks let ym give them a sheaf. 1 believe I was one of the first in Connaught that proposed a resolution in Irishtown the time this agita- tion was commenced. It was something tantamount to the one 1 am going to read for you now. I say now, once and for ever, away with resolutions, away with speechifying, away with anything, but let them get 15 in, but let each and every man in the village from which a farm has been taken, let him come for the pills and pills only. A ^'oice. — “Holloway’s ointmeiiT.” Mr. NALLY. — That is too mild. When the pills will go they will want no ointment. T know there are anmiigst the crowds here land grabbers, 20 land thieve.s, worse than the landlords. The money you have earned in England has been sent to be spent out of the country This man is going to the bad, that man is going to the bad. I want a couple of acres. Uh, are ye Irishmen ? Ah, sad to say, ye are not ; like the bundle of sticks, join together all. What is the u;^e of 25 me going from platforni to platform Land grabbers are a thousand times worse than the landlords. Who amongst you will take a beast to the fail-. You will get TlU or £12 ; you will get £'S or £4 over your own valuation. Is the landlord to be blamed ? Is he to be blamed? No, but the land sharks ; and there are some of them — I will have to read 30 their names. . . . I want to bring those landlords that we are sending off to England the yellow boys to come back and handle a spade and shovel for a while. I’d have ye to unite, and without organization we cannot get total separation from that hated, that detested, that blasted Government that 35 we are under at present. It is very easy for us to talk in open air and say we will do this or that, while some of the most enthusiastic amongst you will go in for land that has been surrendered for non-payment of rent. When we get fellows amongfst us like the seven brothers we can smash them. But keep together, keep strong ; dynamite and gun-cotton will 40 scatter them to pieces. I will mention names for the edification of the crowd. I suppose ye all know a man named Bottrell. Is there any one among.st you there that would wish to have that land laid waste ? If any of these names are here to say a word allow them come on the platform. Is there any man 45 named Pat Davis, from ? Is he a land grabber ? John 9 3 O 2 (Clerfiau?). — 10^// Octohor, 1880. — Mr. ./. 17. NalJy.) 'rally, vvliat about him for bcim^ a laiul orabher? Well, wliat will ye do to him ? A Voice. — “Give him pills.” Mr. NALLY. — What about another named Keane? Where is he? 5 Many a s^ood son reared a had father. What about another man nanuid Mr. Keating ? Pat Davis, is he guilty ? J. Casy. A Voice. — “ We have another named Hackett.” Mr. NALLY. — Well, my friends and fellow-countrymen, as there are some other parties to speak after me, T did not come here to speak, but 1 10 had a few words to say. But I want to tell you, do you like to unite and organize ? Our meetings are like a drop of water on the ocean unless ye get the pills. The resolution : “ Resolved — That we stand firm m the conviction that the landlords will 15 attempt to seize the harvest at the coming season for the payment of rack- rents, which harvest was raised by the })eople’s industry, together with rhe charitable donations of the outside world. W e here pledge ourselves to use every means to hold the harvest for the preservation of our families.” Now, in conclusion, my fellow-countrymen I hope ye won’t be led away l)y 20 joining the Land League or any other league, hut join the league, freedom league to hold the harvest ; and how will you do it ? Ah ! you will have to do it at the point. Unity and organization, for without unity there is not strength. And if you do it, I implore of you to do it. Because this will he the last platform 1 will stand upon, until I see the manhood of Ireland, to 25 keep the firm grip against those blasted and detested landlords that are living in the back lanes and back scums of England. 1 thought that was the last I had to say, because I am a little hoarse. But still, I think I am getting a little better. I came here to this meeting to-day. I have been told on last Friday, in Castlebar, where I w-as down on particular business. 30 I showed the letter to that Soggarth Aroon, 1 ather Conway, and 1 say cheers for him (cheers). I told him I am invited to attend a meeting in Clarne, and when I told him, he jumped with joy, and sai l, “ light was wanted in that country.” A Voice. — “ Christmas will tell that boys.” 35 Mr. Nally. — I met that great man, that Soggarth .\roon. Father Corbett, in Claremorris, and he told me to come in here, and break down every door and window to let in the light. “Go on John” he said, “go on and spread it through the whole country, and we will soon put landlords to their knees. And where is there one of them to-day. Ah, when they go 40 to collect their rent, they are tormost. 1 hey won’t give a fortnight oi' three weeks to the people. They are the first to come, and they will kick the peo})le if they do not do it. ( ), my curse to that people if they do nut hold the harvest (cheers). 10 {Clerhaun . — lO^A October, 1880.) Kr. K. D. Walsh said : — T have i^reat pleasure in secondinsj^ the resolution, and I feel frratetul for the coinpliiuentary cheers you have given me, not for myself, l)ut because I am the representative of the Irish National Land League. I at once lioped in my infancy that I would see h.ei e assembled the men of this .5 ])arisli in assertion of their rights, and I once hoped to see that my antici pations crowned with, success .... The time has arrived when we must throw oft all party spleens, d'he time has arrived when that this man that fouglit with you must join hands and say that the land you labour shall be yoiii’ own. 1 see persons who all their lives delved in the fields and in the 10 bogs. I think I see here to-day parties who have given labour to suppoi t thousands in a lifetime, here to-day unable to pay their debts, unable to pay the shopkeeper, and they are asked to give their money to the people who are spending the money out of the country. When will parties who are gone be able to show their independence? When they come home. 15 But here they must work from morning to night, from year to year, fiom month to month, often during the night and day. And yet a fellow man says, give me what 3’ou gained, give me what you laboured for, in order that I may spend that money in the slums of Europe (cheers). Do I statid before men, or do I stand before children? If 1 stand before children they 20 won’t listen to what I say, but if I stand before men they must listen to the plain facts that I enunciate. These ])fcrsons who are here, these persons who are assembled here to-day because they resolved that that system which has blasted them shall be destroyed ; that system which has pauperized them should be rotten, and the system which has kept them in 25 misery shall be done away with for ever. A great many who pretend to be the friends of Ireland come before us, and amongst them there is one whom I have no desire to insult, because any man who insults a lady is a coward. 1 liave no desire to insult the ituchess of Marlborough, but 1 must say that the motives vvhich dictated her charity were motives of 30 polic)’, when she tells those who sent in their report that if you want to be contented and peaceful and rich, you must leave the old homestead wherein you were born, you must leave kith and kin and those with whom you lived in childhood and with whom you would gladly die in old age. Are y(m prepared to follow the Duchess of Marlborough. 35 Well, 1 don’t ask you to die with the sword just now before you leave your place. But 1 would ask you to organize until that system is eradi- cated for ever. I see noble faces; men upon whose brow is impressed the image of God, and am 1 to l)e told by men of Clarne that you are to gi\m them the fruits of your industry, and unless you give the money you 40 worked for, I shall send you on the roadside to beg. Is not your labour entitled to fruit ? According to common law, if you work you must get something thereby. Now, there are manv here who work from year to year', and at the end of the year you have the cowardice to give all to the 14 / / ;/ 5,V {Clerhann . — lOt/i October, 1880. — Mr. R, D. WaUh,) laiulloid. Any man that sliall, hereafter, do tliat, lie sliall not flourish. His children will curse him, and they will say: there in that churchyard lie our deq'enerate fathers. There in that churchyard lie those who wcmld not fight for Ireland. But we shall fight for the cause of Ireland, for the land 5 that we love. . . . The enthusiasm of this vast meeting astonishes me. It is to my mind something new, because they were always skulkers and slaves, and if they knew their rights they were afraid to tell them. 1 was asked whether it would he advisable to ask Mr. Hackett to join the Land League. My friends told me it w'ould not he any use. I went in and 10 asked : perhaps, you would not have any objection to join a society for the common good. W ell, said I, perhaps you would join the Land League. “ < >h. no, no, get out.” I had to leave, and I got nothing for my laugh except the extreme pleasure of knowing that he is an ignorant man. This man has accumulated a vast deal of money. ... I ask every man 15 here not to go into his house, because he is a tyrant. ! ask every man here, if he wishes to lo\ e his country and his creed, because he is one of those that wishes to put the chains of slavery on the people. Is there any man here from Gurtlogasth ? Is it true that this individual whose life has been a perfect idiot ? Is it possible that he would be allowed — 20 that there are people here who would pay bim I fhy. over the Government valuation ? riie object of the Government is that the people should be prosperous and contented. How can they imagine that they could be contented if they have to pay 1 3s. over the amount Government themselves say is a fair rent ? . 25 His name should be printed amongst the wretches. He should not be spoken to, neither should the agent and those that infest our land. Now, gentle- men, you know, everyone here knows, that shopkeepers live by your toil. Every man of common sense here must admit that your labour creates the wealth of the neighbourhood. Every man here, if he is an honest man, 30 must admit that his industry has been the cause of the riches of many in Headford How, therefore, is it that you will be so unmindful of your own interests that you will be found base enough to help these men ? I he cause we advocate is the cause of Ireland. Tho cause we advocate is the national good of our country, provided that the people of Ireland 35 are sufficiently intelligent, and that now-a-days they are banded together, united, and their cause is sure. This cause is destined to triumph if you are united. You all know' if you bind seven or eight sticks or fifteen you can scarcely break them. If you have one or two a physical man can immediately break them. 40 Now, your only object in coming here to-day is this : to be united. You have, I know very well, fought amongst yourselves. Many of your blood have fallen in ignoble strifes. You have fought for nothing at all. But to-day I ask you, before the God of justice, to bind yourselves as one man for the regeneration of old Ireland, and I ask you to give 15 [Cl<’rlH(nv . — \OtJ) Ortolx’r, li^SO. — Mr. II. I). Walsh.) thn'e choors for Allen, Larkin, and O’Brien. ’Phere was a time wilt'll (dwell Hoe tought and bled. There was a time when Hugh O’Neil fought. But tlie unfortunate and unlucky dames the Second came. He lied from the Boyne, iind Trishiuen went t<» the Shannon. 5 d'he men w^ent forward to Limerick, and there, by the banks of historic Shannon, the glorious women took battens in their hands, and struck at the invaders ndien they steed upon tlie walls. Aie there not sufficient women here to-day to say that they will make their husbands do something for the cause. Let every man promise here to-day, before the Creators 10 chapel, that he will do something to help the cause of his fatherland. We are to have a country to fight for, we have children to remember that what we worked for was not in accordance with their fathers. T tell you now that the spirit of education is so quickly spread that if the men here to-day do not do something for their country, their sons will curse their 15 memory. It w ould not take any man long to spend a shilling. Every man can spend a few' shillings with the Land League. I am one of those who believe in the amelioration of Ireland with the sword. Still, I say, let all be combined and united first I say, if you combine, and organize, and educate yourselves, the day is not far distant when the sun of liberty 20 shall shine over your heads, and you shall rise before the world a glorious nation (cheers). Mr. Tierney, In a few words, proposed a vote of thanks to the chairman. 16 3 a (Cast/eislanfL — ]Oth October, 1880.) Mr. Arthur O’Connor, M.P. Reverend Fatlier and follow countrynion I find it hard to address you, for I have just come from a scene of misery ami o])])ression such as, T thank God, my eyes have oidy once rested uj)on (cheers). T Itave seen, in the neio-hhourhood of your town, an unfortunate family whose roof, within the 5 lavst three weeks, has been burned u])on them, and who arc now living in an out-bouse, a father, a mother, a grandmother, and six children; and all fheir food for to-day’s dinner consisted of eight small potatoes (cries of “Shame”). The father of that woman, twenty -five years ago, took from the landlord a piece of land utterly unreclaimed, which was valued at 2s. 10 an acre. For twenty-tive years, as I am informed, that himily has paid for that land £S an acre rent. (“ Too much.”) £230 in that twenty -three years has the lord of the soil, who is rolling in wealth extracted from the hone and sinew of that unfortunate family (shoots)-- £230 — whereas the valuation was only £23. £207 the landlord has put into his ])ocket, I .) which, as I declare before God, I believe to have been the real propertv of the tenant (cheers) ; and now, when after two such disastrous harvests, as \ ou know of, these poor i)eople are utterly unable to supply that rent, which for so long has been extracted from them, the house which was built bv the tenant and not by the landlord, has tumbled down, and that which 20 was once a bog, and which has, through these long years of toil and suffering and privation, been reclaimed by the efforts of that tenant family, is confiscated as the landlord’s property (hooting). I declare to you, my fj-iends, my very heart finds it hard to address you, fellow Kerrymen, on such a subject Avith much control (“Give it to him hot”). It is an 2o exemplification— though I hope and believe an extreme case — of that infernal system introduced by enemies and by stransrers, which, throuo’h ^generations, has niaoe the condition of our people a bywoi’d in the civilised world (hear, hear). riiere was a book written 280 years ago relating to the first entrance of 30 the British into Kerry, and one of the passages of that book describes the state of Kerry in that day, and these are tlie words : — “ Kerry is a district so rich in corn and men and cattle as no man would believe.” What is the condition now ? A large portion of the country has gone out of cultivation altogether. The people are as they were thirty-five or forty-five 35 years ago at the time of the Devon Commission, the worst housed, the worst fed, and the worst clad of any in Europe. (Hooting). Not that the tenants have not produced from a naturally fertile soil to keep all the population of this country in comfort and in but that which they have wrung from the soil by their hard labour has been 40 under this infernal system of landlords, which I refer to (interruption), who, by law, were recognised as the owners of the soil. (Interruption.) Well, that system is, I believe, about to be put an end to; but it will not 4 6K {Cu/itfeisl ment from Ireland, like any other set ot men, have .... qualities, and have a very difficult work. Some are genuine, unsellish, patriotic men, who are prejiared, like my friend Mr. Biggar (cheers), to do their duty upon all occasions, in spite of opjiosition, in spite of obloquy, simple and solely because it is their duty to their country, and they love their country. 15 (C'heers.) There are others who appear to seek a seat in the House of ( 'ommons merely for some fancied honour which might attach to a seat in that assembly, hut imperfect as our representation is, it is amply suffi- cient to enable us to secure that victory which already is within sight. ( Cheers. ) '10 Already the House of Commons begins to appireciate tlie condition of our people ; and already public opinion in England which is really in the eves of the Government of infinitely more importance than public opinion in Ireland, has become alive to the fact that the condition of Ireland is a disgrace to so-called European civilization (cheers,) and that we who 25 represent you — I mean we who really do represent you (Hear, hear.) in the House of Commons, have already taken stock of our position. We have already, by one session, been enabled to judge of that material which we have to trust to in the struggle which is ahead of us. We have gauged our resources ; we have taken stock of the position we have to take, 8(t and we are convinced that, with your assistance, we shall gain that position, and that within twelve months, as I believe (cheers), the power of the landlords will he broken, and that which has enabled them to extract from you that which is, in reality, your property, will he taken from them (interruption.) You know that the land laws which now exist, wicked, 35 infamous and stupid as they are, enable the landlords — a comparatively small individual body of men, to become the virtual arbiters of the condition, of the happiness, or rather the unhappiness, of tlie great bulk of the po})ulation (hear, hear.) You know that the condition of the ordinary Irish tenant farmer IS very much the condition of a mill horse, wdiich is allowed so much food, 40 and no more, as may be sufficient to enable him to make a })rofit for his owner; and so the Irish tenant-farmer is allowed to exist, to toil, not for the sake of the community to which he belongs, but for the sake of the pocket of the landlord. You know the system of extortion which, through generations, has brought you to your present condition of poverty ; and I 5 5 K 2 {Odstleialand . — \Ot/i October, 1 8S0. — Mr. Ai'tJmr ()' (Jonnor, m.i*.) h( t(' (loclatv, as 1 have declared already in the House of Coiniiiotis, that 1 rcirard the action of the landlord who exacts an unjust rent troui any tenant, as precisely tlu* same as the act of the hiohwav rohher who, under threat of murder, extorts your piu'se (cheers). The laws pro - 5 vide foi- and puidsli the action of the rohher; hut that which is called law in this country in relation to land, enforces and ahets the crime of the extortionate lai'dlord. Now, I have told you that tlie memhei s of Parliament who re})resent you have determiued that, come what may, they will leave no stone unturned ; 10 they will face eveiy dithculty, eveiy attempt at intimidation, every attempt at coercion, in your defence, with the assurance that Avith your support victory will cimvn every effort (cheers). But, my friends, Avhile we have our duty to do, you also have imjiortant duties to do. If you do not su])- port us, if you do not su})poi t us as you ought, frankly 1 tell you you ai-e 15 not worth fighting for, and I look to } ou and to my OAvn constituents in the Queen’s County to support me and those Avho act Avith me. Noav, Iioav can you do that? You can render us im])ortant as.sistance, and that in the sim])lest and plainest way. I do not recommend any acts of violence, 1 deja-eeate every one of them (hear, hear). The *20 English members of Parliament over and over again, the English Press constantly is calumniating us members of Pailiainent, and charging uj»on us that, Avhen in asseml)lies of tins kind some man, smarting under almost imenduivable Avrong, gives expression to sentiments which are not in accor- dance Avith their notions of Avhat is right, we stand by and offer no chiding 25 expression, Ave make no effort to re})ress the utterance of those feelings, and that Ave are virtually aiders and abettoi-s in eveiy act of violence that is committed throughout the country (cheers). Still, AA-e might well affoi'd to forfeit the good opinion of sucli people in England AA’ere it not that there is a great disadvantage attaching to it. Our enemies make 30 use of these charges, and the public opinion in England is affected by them. We have no need for crime. As O’Connell says, “ The man Avho commits a crime gives strength to the enemy” (“Three cheers for O’Connell.”) Now, it would be perfect affectation on my part Avere I to pretend not to be cognisant of the state of feeling in Keriy. I know the feelings that are 35 entertained towards the landlords, and I believe them to be ])eifect]y natural. I sympathise with those feelings, and I can well understand — though I shall not attemiit to justify— the extreme act of any man A\ ho might, in the moment of irritation, be prejiared to do that Avhich St. Patricx and St. Patricks followers would, in their duty, be compelled to 40 denounce. I, therefore, charge upon you, and this in plain words, not to bea.t al)out the bush in any Avay, not to attempt any act of violence towar ds Samuel Hussey (hoots). I tell you that the man who Avould shoot Samuel Hussey would do a grievous harm to the cause of the tenant (hear, hear). Harm neither him nor anyone connected Avith him. Do not touch his 6 {(^isfU'iddiid. — 10/!// October, 1880. — Mr. Arthur OAhunor, m.i*.) caltK'; do not injure' Ids |)ro|)t'rt v ; Out while you leave liiin alone, stand to \’our holdino's, ket'p !i lirin gri]) of your homesteads, and sciek, tlu'ouoh (he o[)en channels of the constitution in the lio-ht ot day, hy those means which justice will allow, tin; working out of oni- redemption. ^ ou have 5 manv nn'ans in your j)ower ot assisting' us without resoit to force or violence, or anything which is recognised as illegal. 1 do not pretend to regard the laws w'hich are enforc(.'d upon the j/eople of Ji'eland as, in many cases, hinding upon conscience. As 1 said in the House of Commons, in many cases the ohedience to the hhiglish-made laws in Ireland is often a 10 (piestion of prudence (hear, hear). What, then are you to do ? Well, here far removed as you are from the centre of Government, far removed as you are from wduit would he the centre of Government, as we shall have one day our own Government in College-green (cheers), here where in the w'est of Kerry you receive the 15 first shock of the Atlantic waves, you are not lost sight of hy a great hody of your countrymen, and Mr. Biggar and myself are here Avith (Ahers to represent the Land League among you (cheers), to encom-age you, to su})port you, and to strengthen you in your efforts. We ask you to reci- procate those efforts ; we ask you to give us that assistance Avhich you can! 2(1 Now, the assistance wliich we ask at your hands is this, not only that you Avill attend such magnificent gatherings as Ave have hei'e to-day, and Avhich I really thought it impossihle for the Castleisland district to produce (cheers), not merely to attend Land League meetings, hut to form your- selves into 1 /ranches of the Land League, and to he active and energetic 25 members of those branches (hear, hear). I Avill ask you to forAvard to the liand League or its local I'epresentative exact and coi-rect details of every case of op])ression Avhicli may come Avithin your knoAvledge (cheers), to enable us to complete those returns, Avhich Ave are now drawing up, of landlortls and tenants, and rents and Aailuations, Avith such circumstances oO of hardship and injustice as may j/roperly he quoted in connexion Avith each case (hear, hear). Secondly, I urge upon you to j/rovide, first of all, for your Avives and yom- children, as l/eing those to whom your first duty is due. After you have j/rovided for them, give l/ack Avhat you owe to those men Avho, in your Innirs of need, have from their small stock often 35 Avith great difficulty, furnished you on credit Avith Avhat you require (cheers) ; and Avhen you have done that, Avhen you have secui'ed that Avhich is properly and justly yours, as 3mur Ameliorated })riest to-day has told you, Avhen you have secured that Avhicli is your due, the first fruits of your oAvn labour upon the land, then you may think of the landlord 40 (cheers — interruption). Already in different parts of Kerry the tenants have begun to realize that the rent AA'hich is exacted is not the due of the landlord, and they have tendered that Avhich they can afford to pay, namely, the Amaluation. I tell you that if you can afford to j/ay the valuation and no more you ought to tender it ; if you cannot pay sufficient to satisfy the 7 — ]Oth OctoJx’r, 1880. — Mr. Arthur O'Connor, m.p.) * landloi'd of tlui ao-cnt, if t 1 u‘ iiistalinont you offer is not sufficient to secure y(tu in your holdings (interruption), then stick to youi‘ niotie}’' (cheers). It is of‘ no earthly use tor you to part with your money which is essential to the ])rovision tor voui‘ children, it hy so doino you do not also secure 5 yourselves in your’ holdings. You will hy so doino sim])ly lose your money, and you may lose your tai’in too (cheer’s). Aoain, I’ememhei’ what i have ah’cady told you ; keep a tii’in oi-ip ot your holdings — (cheer’s) and it you shortld he evicted, dorr’t g’o away to Arneric’a — (inter’rujrtiorr) — stoj) in the rreighhour’hood ot your own homes, 10 watchino- the first opjrortunity to r’eg’ain jxrssession — (cheers) — -and mark rny wor’d tor* it, hetor’e twelve months are out, it you will act in that way, and act together’, the landlor’ds will only Ire too glad to allow you to regain therrr (cheers). And fiiralh", it you find that a neighhour’ has heen evicted, consider’ whether’ you should join hinr, whether you should sympathise 15 with hinr irr his distress, or’ whether’ 3 ^) 1 ; should allv v’ourselves with the oppre.ssor, and help h) grind him to the dust (cheers). The man who behind the hack ot arrother joins in the efforts ot the landlords to expatriate a niarr by ofter’ing to take that land troni which he has been unjustly evicted, is r’ightly corrsidei'ed to be as Irad as the landlord himself. 20 You have already declared that 3 a )U will be no party to such a transaction (ernes ot “ No ”). I congr-atulate 3^11 upon your resolution ; but I sincer’ely hope that vou will keej) it (inter’ruptiorr). Well, niy friends, I congra- tulate you upon your meeting — I congratulate you u}»on 3 n)ur determina- tiorr, and upon your- apjrarent unanimity ; and I rejoice that I am irr a 25 position to carr 3 ^ back to the Land League in Dublin so satisfactory an account ot the spirit ot the peojde ot Castleisland — (cheers) — and I trust that wherr next year I come aniorrg you — as I ho})e I shall do — we shall be able to congr’atulate each other upon the success of our combined efforts — (cheers) — wdrerr a new er’a having dawned upon Irelarrd each man 30 shall stand upon his tai’ru a free and independent man, with the conviction that no power upon eai’th irr the sliape ot a landlord or agent can evict him — (cheers) — and that ever’v sod he turns, late or earhy he turns tor his own benefit, the Vrenefit ot his children, and the benefit ot Ireland (cheers). 35 One word more, and I Irave dorre. You have tor Kerr 3 ' t\vo members named Blermerhassett — (hoots) — and you have also one who in our ranks during the past Session has done thoroughh" good and rroble service —a man who bears the dearest name in Kerry — The O’Donoghue — (cheers) — • and I can assure you on the part ot The O’Donoghue, that he regrets his 40 utter inability to be present at this magnificent meeting — (interruption)— because of family affliction. I am sorry to say the health ot one near and dear to him requires his attendance elsewhere. A Voice . — “ Sorry for it.” 5 L 8 {C(Vitleisl(ind.—lOth Octoher, 1880— A/r. Arthur O'Connor, m.p.) I’.ut bct.vvoen 'I'lic ()’Don()t the ])ledge they made before 5 the Cteneral Election of this year ? (Intei’ruption). If I might he at liberty to offer you something of my ex))ei'i(nic(' with regard to the Parliannnitary conduct of these two gentltMiien — Mr. lhennerha,ssett has been longer in Parliament than T have — during the whoh^ of tlie last Session of J’arlianient 1 will ti'll vou what he could athy with Mr. Parnell is concerned dui-ing the ])resent Parliament. He has not sat with the advanced Irish section of Members of Parliament. He has thrown in his lot, so far as I know, 15 with the Whiggish members of the Irish party, who are our most deadly and dangerous enemies, and uidess vou have men who are thoroughly in O ' earnest, who are determined to use every exertion, in season and out of season, for the purpose of having your views carried out, you will not succeed in the Englisli Parliament. 20 With regard to Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, it is too absurd to speak of him as the representative of Kerry, or any other county, because though I have been a rather good attender in the House of Commons, even 1, at the present day, do not know his personal appearance. As far as the represent- ation of Kerry is concerned, you might — (interruption.) I believe when 25 Mr. Hussey’s son wanted a grand jury, vSir Rowland Blennerhassett took the trouble to come over here to kee}) this tyrannical agent’s sou in as the Pligh Sheriff Of this county. As far as attending his place in Parliament to assist Mr. Parnell in fighting against the constabulary system in Ireland, Sir Rowland was absent and nowhere to be seen. One of the things which 30 the Land League in the different parts of county Kerry can do is this: You can call upon Sir Rowland Blennerhassett — he is capable of doing duty if so disposed. If he does his duty give him a renewal of power , but if he refuses to kee]) the pledge he made before the last general election, you should call upon Mr. Blennerhassett to resign (interru])tion) and you 35 should take very good cai-e that he never again misrepresents this great county (hear, hear). I'hen, with regard to Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, I believe he has declared that he is prepared to resign Iris seat for this county. Well, if he resigns his seat for the county, then a great privilege is in your hands, and a great duty is before you, namely, to select a man 40 of the right sort to represent this county. Do not be satisfied with men who simply come forward on the morning of the election and ])ledge them- selves to support your peculiar views, or the views of the parties in whom you have confidence. Have tried, honest men. I do not come here to advocate the claims of any public man. You know the character of the public men of 5 P 24 {C<(stleisl(ind . — \Oth October, 1880. — Mr. Ihugar, m.f*.) Tn'land as well :»s I do. Perhaps you have local men but you an' to take care to have oeiitlemen of considerahle ability and tried deter- mination, and honesty of purj)ose ; and if you do that, the result will be that you will give a very material and valuable assistance to have the result 5 carried into operation which you wish. Then brethren, there an' other duties which Land Leagues can do ol the very gi'c-atest impoF'tance (interruj)tion). Among other things, you can take care that none of your neighbours give moi'e than the valuation to the landlords in the shape of rent. You can take care, if any- 10 one is base enough to take property against the course pursued by his fellows, that the ])ublic opinion of the district can be brought against him, and that he be forced, not by physical means, but by means which are exceedingly powerful, to do wbat he oughi. to do in regard to a matter of that kind. Then suppose a tenant-farmer is threatened with an eviction 15 with no cause, you can take care that all the facts are supplied to the Land League in Dublin, and that this man would get a proper defence (interruption). In the great majority of cases, if they had been properly defended .... the result would have been tliat the landlords would have been unsuccessful, and the tenant would have continued in the possession 20 of his farm. Then, again, suppt)se a tenant is evicted, you can, if possible, take means to have this tenant put back into his holding. You can take care that the land will be of no value to anybody else, you can take care that the cattle shall not be cruelly treated, but that they can stray off the land : the fences will fall down, and there will be no benefit in having that 25 land. Suppose any man takes this land ? (Interruption.) These are all means which you can take. Another means was taken in Limerick the other day. A farmer liad taken a farm from which the occupier had been evicted. He took the produce to Limerick market and could get no buyer. It ou can take care that any of these shall be a marked 30 man, and shall suffer instead of gain (hear, hear). There is another question which has been raised very much. The Land League are unfairly charged with the shooting <^)fTandlords. It is no part of the duty of the Land League to recommend the shooting of landlords for a great variety of reasons. They never have given any advice of the sort. Mr. Hussey may be a very 35 bad man, and plenty of other men are as bad as Mr. Hussey ; but I can tell you what the Land League can do. If anyone is charged with shooting or ofiering violence to the landlord or his agent, it is the duty of the Land League to see that that person who is charged with the offence shall get a fair trial. What is the good of a man shooting a landlord ? First of all the 40 Government offers an enormous reward : for a large sum of money some one may commit perjury against one for whom a grudge may be felt, or against whom there is no cause of suspicion but of the very vaguest kind, may take place. Then the police take care that, if they hear anything of a suspicious nature, they bring him before the magistrates, and take caie, if 25 5 P 2 (Castleisland. — \Oth October, 1880. — Mr. Biggar, a.p.) anything is in favour of the ])risoner at the bar (interruption) shall be suppressed, and use every means In their power for a conviction (renewed interruption). Then, again, the magistrates who hear the case are all partisans against the prisoner at the bar, and in favour of their own 5 class. 'fhen, again, if any case whatever is made against the prisoner, and he is sent forward for trial at the Assizes, the Government take care to pack the jury, they bring down the ablest counsel at the b:ii', who try, if i)ossible, to twist any little at their command foi- the means of bringing about a conviction. 10 Well, you the members of the local Land League can use your exertions to get everything in favour of the person who is charged with such a crime as shooting a landlord. You can take care an innocent man shall not sutler the penalty he is not entitled to suffer. These are all things which are thoroughly legitimate, and which you can do, and which will have the 1 5 effect of bringing about a beneficial state of things. In reference to land tenure, the system hitherto has been this. The people have been tyran- nized over by an unfair administration of the law (interruption), by which the landlords — the powerful party — have tyrannized over the people. They made an example of a few people. [Here the speaker became inau- 20 dible.] I very much thank you for the very great attention with which you have stood here, and seemed to listen to what you could not possibly hear, and I beg to support the resolution which has been proposed by my friend (cheers). 26 (Kilhrennan. — lO^A October, 1880.) / Mr. T. D, Sullivan, M.P., My friends and fellow-countrymen and constituents of the county of Westmeath, I am glad to renew my acquaintance with you to-day (cheers), and I thank you heartily at this the first meeting that I have had the pleasure of addressing since my election. I thank you who are here 5 present, and I thank my friends who are elsewhere over the length and breadth of this country for the honour they did me on that occasion (cheers). It was then, and it has been since, and it ever will be my sole desire in this matter to serve your interests and the interests of Ireland (cheers), and it is in tliat cause that I have come among you here to-day ; and, 10 mv friends, as I see you gathered hereabout me I could not help wondering and feeling surprised at the question where you all could have come from; because, as I drove through your county to-day, I could hardly see the home of a tenant-farmer (cheers). And when I was driving through the length and breadth of this county on a former occasion, from north to south and east 15 to west, I admired the beauty of the scenery, I admired the loveliness nature gave the land, but I missed then, and I miss now, the homes of the people (cheers). And now we have met here to-day to protest in the face of heaven against that threatened act of eviction, an act of eviction which I sincerely hope will not be realized (cheers). We are met here to-day in 20 defence of the hearth and home of an honest Irishman and his family. We have met here to-day to protect, if we can from ruin, the homestead of an honest and industrious Iri.shman. Has not this county been sufficiently depopulated, and must we witness this terrible system of depopulation still continuing in this county of Westmeath? (cheers). Our enemies talk of 25 over-population in this country ; but we all know the fertile soil of West- meath could support, in comfort and happiness, a population five times the number that exists on it to-day (cheers). Now, how has it been with the poor man, whose case has been under our consideration, at this moment. Has he been an idler ? Has he been a 30 spendthrift? No; but a hard-working man, slaving morning, noon and night to raise the rent out of the soil, and give himself a fair subsistence on it. And after many years of honest labour where does he find himself to-day ? Threatened with the high road or the emigrant ship. This man has been committing the only fault I know him to have committed. He 35 has been committing this fault — a fault common to the millions of his countrymen ; he has been paying too much rent (cheers). That is the fault that has broken him down ; that is the fault that is breaking down many another man like him. He has been leaving too little for himself and giving too much to one of those individuals who call themselves land- 40 lords in Ireland (cheers). Now, I do not say that this gentleman is one whit worse than a great many others of his class : it may be he is not so bad a man as a great many of them ; but I tell you the whole class and {Kilhirnnan.—AOth October, 1880 .— Mr. T. D. Sullivan, m.p.) order of these men liave been for years and for generations exacting from the indu.strial population of this country vastly more than is m equity their due. .'1 Voice. — Let in the light. 5 Mr. Sullivan. — Not only has this industrious tenant been paying a high rent, which might justly be called a rack-rent ; but 1 am credibly informed he has been paying rent for land he never farmed at all. Now I am satisfied to believe that there must have been some mistake about this matter ; for I do not think that many men in Ireland would be so base as 10 to charge a man for land he never let to him at all. I think there must have been some mistake about it : but at all events the mistake has been going on for a long time. A Voice. — Twenty years. Mr. Sullivan. — And, surely, restitution is now due to the poor man who 15 has wilfully or not wilfully been robbed of his hard earnings for all those years. Moreover, I protest against this system of rack-renting altogether We hear of Griffith’s valuation. The rent of this man has been nearly double Griffith’s valuation. But I tell you Griffith’s valuation is itself, not only a sufficiently high rent for Irish tenant-farmers to pay, but I claim it 20 is too high a rent for them to pay. How was this valuation arrived at. The lands were valued not for the purpose of rent, but for the purpose of taxation. They valued the land^ — [At this point the platform fell in. ] Who made the improvements'? Was it the landlords? No. Successive 25 generations of Irish tenants. And f assert the landlords have no right to those rents— (interruption)— which they never made, but their tenants made. Now I do not want to denounce the landlord who is threatening this unjust eviction. I do not want to denounce him ; but I tell you, I appeal to him ; and if he be an honest man, and a man of humanity, and 30 a man of wisdom, to stop his hand and not to carry out this threatened eviction. I ask him from this platform (I put it to him), not in the shape of denunciation or a threat, but I put it to him as your representative, and as an Irishman, to have the manliness, honour, and credit, to show justice and mercy to a poor man who may be in his power ; but who has on his 35 side the claim of equity and justice. And I tell this landlord here to-day, before your faces, before the face of Ireland, and in the face of Heaven he will incur a serious responsibility if he commences in the county of West- meath once again the horrible work of dispossession and eviction. I tell him, my friends, that if he lights this fire in the county of Westmeath, 40 God only knows where it will stop. I have been noticing with great satisfaction, because I have been watch- ing closely the affairs of the people of this county, and I have been notic- ing with great satisfaction, that none of those horrible dispossessions and evictions we are reading of in other parts of the countiy aie going on here 3 (^Kilbi'cnnxii . — \Ot/i Octoix^v, LSiSO. — Mf, 1 . IK SnHu'on, M,r.) ainoiio- us. I had ^a'cat hopes that order ot thinos would continue to the end, and that we sliould luive (piiet, and peace, and comfort, and tliat we should be spared these horrors in the county of Westmeath (cheers). I con- sider it a shocking' thing to find that this fiery brand ot discord and disunion 5 has been lighted up in this jdace among yt)u, and 1 ask this man tbi the sake of ])ublic peace, tor the sake of order and tranquillity to (juench that firebrand, and not to rai.se it so that it will kindle a fast-s]»reading fire over this county (cheers). Dowm in the county of Kerry, at the present time, you may have heard 10 ot the doings of an agent who is dispossessing families, and after dispos- sessing them, in order to prevent re-entry, he is burning the liomes that once were theirs, in which they led virtuous, quiet, and happy lives. In Irish history there is now remembered, at the present day, as the name ot evil omen, wdio, not content with the ordinary prcicess ot civil war, left 15 a track of fire behind him wherever he went, and his name is known to this day as Murrock the Burner. It seems to me this land agent in the south of Ireland has become emulous ot his fame. He wishes to make his name known to history as Ossey the Burner. Let us not have his evil example followed in this county, which has been sufficiently depopu- 20 lated already. Let us, in the name of God, have no more of this trouble. They may talk of agrarian outrages. I condemn agrarian outrage ; but the greatest agrarian you can imagine is the agrarian outrage of unjustly evicting a tenant-farmer from his honest home. You are aware that there is at the present moment going on an uprising 25 of the long-oppressed Irish people against this atrocious system ot rack- renting and eviction, known by another name, which tells in one woid the whole story of the country — Irish landlordism (cheers). Against that accursed system the people are rising in peaceful revolt, and it is high time they should do so; and I tell you that peaceful revolt of theirs cannot 30 be put down if the people prove true to each other ; if they stand together shoulder to shoulder like brothers, you may defy all the power of the British Government (cheers), you may defy all the power of the German Government on the back of it, to continue the slavery and opiiression ot the Irish race. 35 What are the measures that are now being adopted in the futile hope ot [)utting a stop to this righteous movement of the Irish people ? A tew days ago there was issued from Dublin Castle a circular announcing that increased forces of Constabulary would be sent to the counties of Galway and Mayo. The increased charges of those Constabulary it is said will be 40 put on the people. I will tell you what to do with those increased charges. The people are already paying as much as they can pay, and a great deal more than they ought to pay ; and if this increased charge or increased rate is put on the tenantry in any part of Ireland, I tell them to go and stop it out of their rents (cheers). Let them tell the landlord that this 2 1 4 >r / t- [Kilhreinixii . — 1 (XA October, I88(\ -Mr. 7’. O, Sulltvan , 's\.v.) iiicTctiscd police mte exceeds tlieir ])ower to meet or discharge ; that th(^y have no way under Heaven ot])aying it, unless by stopping it out of their- rents, and once the landlords hnd out you are on that track, you will see how soon they will manage to do without this extra force. Moreover, if 5 it calls down this punishment on the people, if their legal and righteous agitation brings on them the penalty of having extra police, 1 will tell you how we Avill manage that. We will so organise the Irish counties as that they will want extra police in every county in Ireland (cheers). We will all act on the same footing, and one county will be as good as another, and then 1 10 would like to kiu)w where they will get all these extra police from (cheers). They sent us over a handful of marines some months ago, and they thought the moment they perpetrated that tremendous act of power and force, and war, that they had the Irish question settled. What about the marines ? There has no more been said about them than there was about that large 15 ship of theirs that sank in Dublin Bay. The marines seem to sink out of sight, as the Vanguard did when another of the ironclads gave her a stitch in the side, and down she went as if she was made of glass. They talked about raising her, and had a number of scientific men to discuss ways and means for pulling up the vessel from the bottom of the ocean. We are about 20 to sink Irish landlordism, and if once we have it down, all the art of man will never i*aise it again (cheers). Now, my friends, you are av^are that their exists to-day on Irish soil a great organization, the aim and object of which is to raise the condition of the tenant farmer to the condition he should occupy. Every day new 25 branches of that organization are being formed in various parts of the country, and those at the head (jf that organization, will never rest until they have spread it through every parish in Ireland. Because union is strength. If you leave this question to be fought out by two or three or half a dozen counties it may be defeated. Let us get the thirty-two counties 30 into it. Let the |)eo]de stand true to their own cause, and I tell them not only will this victory be won, but the victory will be won much more easily than is at present supposed. Now I alluded awhile ago to the agrarian outrages that are perpetrated by the landlords, which are the beginning and the cause of all the other 35 agrarian outrages that we have in Ireland. I tell you, for the working out of your cause, no outrages on your part are necessary or desirable. If you spread through your country, and if there is spread through all Ireland, this organization I speak of, it will be more powerful for your cause than any amount of terrorism or outrage that could be committed 40 in any one corner of the land. We will have this organization so estab- lished, that when a wrong is done to a tenant in any part of Ireland, measures will be taken to redress it. We want to do away with the temptation that comes to individuals when they are hard and sore oppressed to avenge their private wrong. We want to do away with that 45 temptation, we want to substitute for that discreditable state of things 5 fi i/\i/hreiiiu(7i. — {^)lk ( h-iobcr, 1880. — -I/*'. I- ^uHivan^ M.r.) ,„u‘ uK.iv crcdilal.li' ic the countiy and more l.ciioHcial tm. yourselves. So Mien I would siy to you, as you are here eiioaocd in a, eommon cause- some of you are under the iron heel of oppression, others do not feel it (piite so much : some farmers are iioor and opjiressed, others are in easier 5 eireumstanees. I tell you the rich nieir -if there he rich tenant farmers should make common cause and he handed like lirothers. Organize ; suhscrihe whatever little expense is necessary for the working of the organization. It will ])ay you back in ease and comfort, and independence a thousand fold. 10 I conclude as 1 began, by appealing to the landlord of this holding, not to push his legal rights, if he have legal rights, to an extremity. fhe law has sanctioned many an injustice in Ireland. It has diiven many men to ruin and despair. ’ People talk of the law. We liave bad laws m Ireland, we have long had bad law^s in Ireland, and it is no defence for a If) man to say on this question of landlord and tenant, he has the law at his side. To this agrarian question, the law has long been the enemy ot the poor man, and the robber of the poor man. A Voice — “ What law\” Mr. SuUivan.—TXxe law made by England. It has sent honest men to 20 the workhouse, to the emigrant ship, to the gallows, and the grave. Oui desire is to end this hideous condition of affairs, and to have peace and comfort in this native land of Ireland. Our desire is that the honest tiller of the soil shall have no man to make him afraid, and rob him of the fruits of his industry— that he shall not, at six months’ notice, be turned from his 25 hearth, and be told to take the wide world. I believe, if the Irish peop e do their duty in this matter, that a satisfiictory settlement of this question is not far distant ; Init, at all events, be it long or slnwt, let us do our duty. Slaves we have been long enough. It is no shame for a man to be a slave if he resists it, and revolts against it to the best of his ability. It is a 30 shame for a man to be a cringing and cowardly slave (cheers). It is shame for a man, when he is shown the way to freedom, if he has not the manliness to act on that fact. Stand together, brothers all, stand togethei", stand togethei, To live or die, to rise or fall, 35 Stand together, stand together (cheers). Mr. White proposed, and Mr. Kenmj seconded the following resolution “ Ihat we will accept no settlement of the land question as final which does not abolish the existing system of landlordism, and substitute therefor a system of peasant proprietary ; and for the attainment of this end v e 40 jiledge ourselves to work in unison with the Irish Land League, and to form branches of it in this district. {At this point the band plaijed, and it was impossible to hear what was said). 6 {Kilhrennan. — lO^A (h-tohcr, 1880.) Mr M. M O’Sullivan Mr. Clinii-inaii, ladies and n’eiitleineu, after the very able speech you have lieard I'roni your representative, I will not detain you long. He has stated the whole ease in a nice gentleinaidy manner, as he always does ; in the manner of ;‘i speaker, a historian, and a ])oet. You have 5 ])rotested against the threatened eviction which is to take place here, and you have ])ledged yourselves never to take this or any other farm from which a person has been evicted. You must also pledge yourselves never to huy any gocxls oi- cattle sold tV)r i-ent. It is hy these means, andhy these means alone, as far as 1 can see for the present, that yem will bring land- 10 lordism to its knees. If you do not take a farm from which a man is evicted, if you let it be useless to the landlord, if it be useless to the occiH)ier, if you do not buy the goods sold for i‘ent, what can the landlord do ? He may evict; what is to be got l>y it? He will get no rent for the farm. He may seize the goods, an auction may be set up, but there will lie no bidder. 1 .'i The resolution I have to speak to, tells you not to accept any settlement C)f the land question as final, except it abolishes the ])resent system of land- lordism, and substitutes a system of peasant proprietary. In this country three remedies have been placed before the people. First, fixity of tenure. What does that mean ? It cannot be defined. What is a fair rent? You 20 must establish a court to determine; and what is free sale? It is a sale dependent on the landlord. A Voice. — A broken stick. Mr. ilf. O'Sullivan. — When I hear men advocating that system and advocating also the repeal of the Union, I liegin to see what contradictory 25 opinions men possess. You would be doing exactly for the tenant farmers what Castlereagh did (groans). You would be tying up indissolubly the poor man to the rich and powerful men, who prey upon him. That is what Castlereagh did for Ireland. He tied poor Ireland to rich England, that Imgland might prey upon it. Then people say the other system is the 30 Ulster tenant by custom. Now what is that custom. I have examined it carefully. There are on some estates certain usages that the Land Act of 1870 has legalised. On some estates that usage means a light of sale. The usages differ on some estates, and vary on the same estate. On some estates the right of sale brings £5 an acre, while on others it does not 35 liring a penny. How is that? Because the power of raising the rents is left in the hands of the landlords. Some landlords, who are good men, do not raise the rents ; other men, such as I indicated last Sunday, in which the rent was raised from £6 to £38 A Voice. —Down with him— shoot him. 40 Another Voice. — Shame. Mr. JI. O' Sullivan. — Then, you must do away with those two plans of reform, and what remains? Peasant proprietary. What is peasant proprietary ? Stating it in simple terms, it is making every tenant his own landlord (cheers). What we have been told against that system 45 is that the tenant requires a landlord to look after him, before he would be 7 {hilbrcnnan. — \Oth Ovtoher, 1880. — Mr. M. M. O'Sullivan.) idle. Now, it is quite true that under such a system the tenant nei work for the miserable existence lie has at present. What has he to do at j)resent ? He has to feed, or, rather, to starve, his children, and feed the landlord in every luxury that every country in the world can produce. It 5 has been said that landlordism is a thing that is not intrinsically bad. Now, let us see. A tree is known by its fruits ? What are the fruits of landlordism ? First, confiscation. Y ou have the people making the land beau- tiful, like your land in W^estmeath. fhey make mountain and bog fertile by the sweat of their brow, and then what happens. They are driven back 10 gradually into the swamp, and from swamp to swamp until they are driven to the sea to emigrate. They are driven to the tops of the mountains until they make the land fertile, and then what follows ? Eviction. What is eviction. I have seen one. I have seen a poor widow woman with eight children driven forth from the house which her father built, and in which she got married. 15 I have seen that woman with eight children sitting on the roadside, rain and snow coming on their heads, without a morsel of food. There they were, seeing the house they built levelled before their eyes. When you read in a novel of an unfortunate woman in the streets of London sittinar outside, not the house she has built, but the house of a stranger, are we 20 not moved to tears when we read such a thing in fiction ? What must it be when we see it in fact ? (Cheers.) Seeing that, will any man tell me that landlordism is not a thing intrinsically bad ? A Voice. — Down with them. Mr. M. O' Sullivan . — If you put it to a jury of honest men, and ask for 25 their verdict, what will be that verdict — good or bad ? A Voice. — Guilty for the landlords. Mr. M. O'Sullivan. — Then it is your duty in the name of justice to stand and protest against it — not only to protest against it, but to work for its being abolished altogether. We in Ireland are famous for coming to a 30 meeting and cheering, and doing nothing afterwards. \\Tienyou come to a meeting you are only taking one step forward, which must be followed by after work. Preaching is a very good thing in its way ; oratory is a very good thing ; combination in a crowd will make men feel they are united ; but after the speeching let not the practical work be forgotten. Unite 35 yourselves with the branches of the Land League until they have one grand, industrial organisation all over the land. Agitation has been con- demned in certain quarters. Unless it be a vigorous and determined agitation like the present it is to be condemned. Agitation without practical work after it is only as the soul without the body. You must 40 put body into this. Organise yoiirselves. If you do, no Government in the world can withstand you. You have at present a party in Parliament headed by Mr. Parnell — (cheers) — and on the platform is one of his most trusted lieutenants, Mr. Sullivan, yogr representative. That party will be powerless without your 2 K not 8 {KUhrennan . — 10^// (htohcr, 1880. — Mr. M. M. O'Sulhvan.) assistance. A party is required in Parliament ; and an organised people is required out of Parliament (cheers). It is on your organization and on the work you do that any measure of land reform will be given to Ireland. Organise yourselves into branches of the League. I wish to pledge you 5 here to-day, those who are intending becoming members of the League — hold up your hands those who will. (Hands were held up.) (Cheers.) The Secretaries will take 3’our names after the meeting. Do not leave. Do not run away after taking the first step. You must go on on the lines of agitation until you find it is fruitless. Then, I say, we mean to have the land if 10 you are organised. Above all, the man who does anything of an individual character, who commits any outrage against personal property, he is at the present moment the greatest enemy of Ireland. Be organised — do nothing that will compromise the cause. “ Be your own masters, dense, resolute, strong, 15 To war against treason, oppression, and wrong.” (Cheers.) A Voice . — Three cheers for Parnell (cheers). A Voice . — Land robbers and middlemen (interruption). The Chairman . — I am happy to see at your meeting no police, but I am 20 sorry to see no priest (interruption). I am sorry I cannot make a speech (cheers). 9 {Banirtf. — i7tk October, 1880.) / Mr. Healy. Men of fkntry, it ogives me great satisfaction to be afforded this oppor- tunity of addressing the men of my native town (elieers). F liave to con- gratulate you upon the numbers in which you liave gathered into this meeting, the evidence of determination vvdiich you have shown upon, I 5 trust, the organization which will spring out of it. Furthermore, F have to congratulate yon ipion the dignified a.nd prudent attitude of your clergy. Ihey have come here and put them.selves at your head. You have listened to the powerful and elo(pient speech of your parish jiriest — (cheers) and, in.sjiired with the confidence that, liaving at your head a 10 man of his character, ability, and learning, you should determine to come in and join the Land Ijeague, which will be estafilished to-day, and juit yourselves under the shield of its protection (cheers). Reference has been made--(interruption). F believe that this is the first meeting of any con- sequence thathas been held in this part of thecountry. It iscertainly the first 15 chance you have got of previously establishing a Land League amongst you, and all I can say is this, that from my knowledge of the locality, and from my knowledge of the landlords of the locality, and of the hardships which are committed in the locality, that no place in Ireland wants a F^and League more — (cheers) — and a very sad evidence of this want of an 20 organization and of a Land Fjoagaie m this locality has been given in tlie regrettable occurrence of last niglit. [The speaker here referred to the assassination of John Downey, .Mr. Hutchins’ driver, near Drimoleague ] Well has it been said that if the man who poinb^d that gun had been 25 enrolled amongst our body, had been shown the means by which he could have redressed his grievances without committing this deplorable cihne, well has it been said that that man would not have lain there through the long weary hours of the day watching, and enduring all the miseries which we sup})ose any man must have endured vdio had to {lerpetrate that actual 30 crime. {A I oice . — “ We are all soi'iy for it.”) But upon whom chiefly rests, in our opinion — (“ Hutchins”) upon whom chiefly rests the main guilt of this unfortunate outrage ? (“ 'I he land- lord.”) 1 regret to say that, having gone into the facts of the case, and 35 inquired into the condition of the teiiantiy of this landlord, 1 regret to say that there were as many evidences of cruelty and injustice and rack-renting upon that mans estate as upon the estate of the greatest tyrant in Ireland (cheers). I deplore this occurrence — 1 regret it. I regret the miserable and untimelydeathofthatpoor,unha]:)py boy whom Isawyesterday stretched 40 out and weltering in his blood, and I said — “Must tnese things go on? Are you content that year after year, and time after time, the crimson stain of a great crime can be fixed upon our souls?” If you are deter- mined to take up a firm attitude, binding yourselves one with another, there need he no reeourse to these deplorable outra< 2 ^es. Tf Mr. Hut ns tenants — T do not sup])ose there has been any of them that has committed {Banin/. — \7th OcAober, 1880. — Mr. Ilealy.) this offence — but if Mr. Hutchins’ tenants had banded themselves firmly together — one man i^iving' another the rig^ht hand of fellowship and 5 promising^ to take no land from which another had been evicted (cheers) — to pay nothing’ but a just rent, they could have defied Mr. Hutchins ; and every man of influence, from Mr, Parnell downwards, would have come down and asserted the rii^ht of these tenants to live in j)eace and plenty on that estate (cheers). 10 I find, as a sample of the management of things on that estate, that Mr. Hutchins has ejectment processes at nearly every sessions, (Disturbance.) At the very last sessions he had ejectment processes against some two poor men. These men pleaded for time and they would pay him all, but, vindictively, and viciously, Mr. Hutchins despised their prayer be 15 despised their prayer; he would give them no time to pay their rent, and what has been the result ? Y on know the result. A stiffened cor[)se is lying now in the police barracks, and he may thank God it has not been himself. (Interruption.) I have come here on behalf of the National Laud League to supply you, and all men like you who are unjustly treated, with a much 20 better and easier means of redressing your wrongs. What we ask and what we plan is this — that every farmer in the country should solemnly promise his fellow farmer to pay no unjust rent, to take no land from which a tenant had been evicted ; and if the five hundred thousand tenants straighten up their backs and stand in their determination before the ten thousand land- 25 lords in this country, I say they will sweep away these few men, and they will stand, in the end, free, erect, and disenthralled. But in this neigh- bourhood, for which God has done so uiuch, and man has done so little, there are other men and other estates that deserve notice besides the estate of Mr. Hutchins. I am actually informed that, travelling amongst this 30 kindly people, men in this nineteenth century, require the protection and dare not stir abroad without a guard of some half-dozen policemen with loaded rifles. (“Oh,” and interruption.) What has made them afraid? Has it been acts of faith, hope, and charity ? (“ No, no ”) ; or has it been oppression and tyranny ? (“Yes.”) Well, please God, before very long 35 you,- by your determination, will do away with the necessity of these men o-oino’ about efuarded with ])olice ; because, we will take from them we will wrest from their hands the engines of tyranny with which they have been able to oppre.ss you. (Cheers.) Some to whom I am now speaking — some of you may have starved 40 through last winter ; your crops may have been bad ; your children may have been naked ; your bed may have been straw, and these landlords were enjoying their purple and fine linen ; they had their wines and theii meats, and some of you perhaps, were starving ; and some of you, if the Almighty had not given you a good harvest this autumn, with what would you have 45 survived the winter that is coming on? (cries of “nothing.”) I say, then, th« 6 C 8 {B>intr\i. — I 7^// Octolxn'. IftSO. — Mr. TTcahj.) i Tiiaii wlif) ])avs a rout, the man who has £20 and wlio can only safely pay £10, who has the twenty, knowino- that if he pays the twenty he will starve durin., rent £35; again, £10, rent £22, again, valuation £15 156., rent £29; and last, not least, rent £2, and the 20 valuation £6 lOv. Now I hold that that is a rack-rent and that those people have no right to pay it. I also hold in my hand a letter wiitten by a certain land agent in this locality to a tenant of his. He says, “ Unless you to-morrow, at nine o’clock execute the proposed lease of your farm for the £42, I shall increase my terms to £iH yearly, and my 25 attorney’s full charge of £3 3,s. for the lease ; and if this is not agreeable, I am quite ready to go to the course of law.” (Cries of “ name. ) Were I the tenant I would simply tell him I will not do it. tSpeak out manfully; let them know that you are men. (“Name.”) I will tell you the name, Richard G. Campion (groans). Mr. Healy, some time ago, 30 in r(.*viewing the members of the Land Commission appointed by the Government, forgot to tell you of a certain matter which came publicly before the Court at Bandon the other day. I find one of those gentlemen, Mr. William Shaw, m.p. has served some of his tenants with processes of ejectment ( “ oh ” ). It appears in one case the tenant paid £34 a year ; 35 that he held the land under a lease ; the lease expired, and Mr. Shaw sent his agent to him to tell him that he should pay £10 more. The tenant refused to pay it ; the case was defended ; and I am glad to say that I believe the termination of the case ended in favour of the tenant (cheers). It is an extraordinary matter that men whom we are told are 40 friends of the tenant-farmers— I have heard it repeatedly said that Mr. Shaw was a good man — he was a friend of the tenant-farmers ; but I say any man who serves a process of ejectment and tries to increase rent at the present time is not a friend of the tenant-farmers of Ireland ; and I . rw*- > ‘ 6 G 24 [liantry — \7th OcJoher, 1880. — Mr. John W. Walsh.) trust when next time you get an opportunity, you will give Mr. William Shaw the ticket-of-leave to join Sharman, O’Hagan, The O’Conor Don (cheers). In conclusion, let me ask you to-day — each and every man of you to 5 enrol yourselves as members of the Land League. Never ])ut off until to- morrow what you can do to-day. In about half an hour after the meeting we shall be able to enrol every member as a member of the League ; and let me tell you in future to stand boldly before the landlord and his agent ; not to go cringing to him and saying “ your honour ” to him. Speak 10 manfully ; go to these land meetings, read the papers, educate yourselves, and I would ask you still further to march to the meetings with measured step and military precision, to go hand-in-hand in your masses “ dense, resolute, strong, “ To war against treason, oppression and wrong ” (cheers). 25 6 G 2 {IjOiKjJbril . — October Mlh, 1880.) Mr. Charles S. Parnell, M.P. “ Pollow-coLintrynicn, 1 wisli that I could express to you the great grati- lieation which I leel at addressing this luaguifiecut uiceting, a meeting which shows me that the people of Longford arc at length going to place them- o selves in line with the rest of their countrymen, and to take a hand in the great struggle Avhieh is uoav going on for free land in Ireland. (Cheers.) “ We believe that the only programme hy which the interests of both the farmer and the labourer can Ix' secured in the soil is this programme of free land. We consider that the propping up of the system of landlordism IP by attempting to improve the relations between landlord and tenant, is impossible, and will only result in disappointment, and Ave Avill take no hand or part in it. If the tenant farmers of Ireland desire to go forward for their rights, we aaoII stand by their side and assist them, and Ave feel sure that at no distant day avo shall earry this struggle to a glorious and a successful issue. 15 (Cheers.) While, then, the advocates of rents valued periodically, of the Long- held system of parliamentary tenant right, of the extension of the IJlster custom to the rest of Ireland, and of all the other nostrums which are put forward from time to time in the vain attempt to retain and perpetuate landlordism in Ireland, while the advocates of these respective systems are ‘20 knocking their heads against each other, Ave will go on with our work, and Ave shall claim the most complete settlement of your question, of the question Avhich your exertions enable us to demand. ( Cheers) Between the men on the one hand who ask the Government to fix the rents which the tenants shall pay as a neA^er ceasing tax to the landlord, and those land reformers 25 on the other side who claim that the tenants by paying rackrents for many centuries have long since paid the landlords the fee simple of the land, (cheers) and like the Bishop of Ossory, consider that in many cases the question of restitution from landlord to ^ tenant now presents itself, rather than one of payment from tenant to landlord ; betAreen these two sets of land 30 reformers, I say, one representing the low-water mark of land reform and the other representing the high-water mark of land reform, there is a long interval. “ The Land League, the National Land League of Ireland, which I repre- sent her-e to-day, has not yet decided where along this long line we shall :)5 halt. The extreme limit of our demands, when the time comes, must be measured, as I have said repeatedly in other places already, by the result of your exertions this winter (cheers) ; and you may depend upon it, you may rely upon it, that whatever your exertions entitle you to claim Ave will press for with vigour, determination, and with success (Cheers;) U) “ The nature of the settlement of the land question depends entirely upon yourselves. The Government have no notion yet hoAV they are going to settle it, and they Avill not make up their minds until they see what you are going to do. They may, perhaps, as they have already done, by sending extra constabulary to the counties of Mayo and Galway (groans), attempt a little L5 terrorism while they are making up their minds ; but the terrorism will amount to very little, and they may as well strive to keep back the tide with a pitchfork as to stem this wave of land ngitation by sending extra police into the counties or putting agitators into prison. (Cheers.) By the way, this sending of extra police, or at all events the attempt , to make the counties pay the cost 50 of extra police, if they do attempt it, is of very doubtful legality. Under the old Coercion Act, which expired this summer, they undoubtedly had () {IjOtKjford.— Ocfohcr 1.7M, 1S80.— J//-. C. S. naruoU.) power to do it; but 1 have it on f^’ood authority that, to s » ’ ^1- 'f'i ■ ■ ' . I,' ■^. . ■ ' i'ffj; fL^ ' 1}! -■ ^. . . ;■ ■■■■ -r rv.. ■■ ■ : -. ? ; .• _ -i-o: .■la;; iT •Cl:/ if:-’ ■. ■■ ■' 'fn M , i .. . ■ .t. ^ *; 'i’ i’ . *' f ^ ^ »;,s « , ’ • 4 ■ 1 t ■ 1 *— ■ ♦’’■■• ' l„ ' .-f i> • . - 4 V ^ . -Nl-''-'/ . WfiO^ f . ■ • ■ *■ , ,. • ’ Vq U t • - . • . '■ ? ff^hl -•' +ivY> it.-fvrf • » ■ 1 ■ : : t hint ■» rad 1 • . •v. n ’ full 22 ■ ^ -i ' . ' f)> ' ^ &6 ■''i: •■ "■■.t ■ / “ A (^Lougfovd. — October 1880. — Mr. C. S. JPctmelL) ‘ iiig, disorganising, interfering with every business that may be transited, ‘ as far as it is prudent or possible to do so, and tormenting this unjust and ‘ anti-Irish House of Commons until they lind it tlieir interest to do justice ‘ to us. I will have nothing to do with any Ministry, no matter of what 5 ‘ party, except, indeed, to oppose them, which I will do very constantly, ‘ until they make the concession of justice to the tenant farmers of Ireland ‘ part of their acknowledged policy.’ “ We call to-day, 28 years after those words were spoken, we call upon the Irish constituencies to send us a party to the House of Commons that will carry 10 out the policy of Frederick Lucas to the bitter end, if it should be necessary (cheers) ; and we promise you that with such a party of Irish representa- tives, instead of being a byeword and a disgrace to Ireland, as it has been in times past, it will at least be some assistance to the noble exertions that the people are making to-day (l)ravo), and that this party will be a compliment to the 15 people of Ireland, and that after we have succeeded in destroyi ng landlordi^ , the chief prop to Eh^ish misruIeTWTnay be able to”^dTurther, until we have obtained the restitution of our legislative independence robbed from us in 179&.” 8 {Cmuiliill.—\7th October, ISHO.) CUNGHILL, near Achonry, Com iff/ of Sligo 17th October, 1880. 25th October, 1880. I bog to furiiisli the following copy of iny notes, taken at above meeting on 1 7th instant ; — The Rev. Mr. Lowry, P.P., MuUenabreena, Chairman, In the course of his remarks he used the following words “ Don't 5 kill any man or commit any offence that would give strength to the enemy. lytr N. Corcoran, of Culfadda, near Ballymote, farmer, proposed the First resolution as follows “ That a just and easy settlement of the land ciuestion is essential to the peace and welfare of the country, and we demand of the Legislature, at the earliest possible moment, an Act of 10 Parliament by which the occupiers of the soil will become the owners of it ; and we declare that until we obtain such a settlement we shall continue to agitate and use every constitutional means to uproot land- lordism, and plant in its stead a peasant proprietar} .” He afterwards used the following words “ Let no man’s cattle eat the 15 o-rass or drink the water, on any farm from which a tenant has been evicted.” Mr. Sexton, M.P., then spoke and used these words “ Either the landlords or the tenants have to go, and the tenants shall not go.” Mr. M. Bavey proposed the second resolution -.-“That we cordially endorse and pledge op ourselves to sustain the earnest policy of the active Irish party, that we reioice with satisfaction at the distinguished service that has been rendered to that party by our worthy senior member, and that we condemn the attitude and action of the section which separated itself from the main body, and became the tail of an English party.” 1 3 L 2 (Ou'mjhill. — l7tli October, 1880.) CUNGHILL, County of Sliyo. 17 fh October^ 1880, ■25th October, I 880. I to forward a return of the notes which J theni^ht desirable to take from the ditfei'eiit speeches delivered at the land meeting whicli was held at Cimghill, on f>nnday, the I 7th instant. Rev. P. LOWRY, P.P., of Achonry, occupied the chair. In the course 5 of his speech he warned the people not to commit themselves in any way, for hy doing so, they would give strength to the enemy. Mr. MURTY COliKERON, of Ballymote, told the people in the course of his s])eech, not to let their cattle eat of the grass, or drink of the water of a farm from which any ])erson is evicted. 10 Mr. SEXTON, M.P., next addressed the meeting, and t(jld them not to buy from or sell to any man taking a farm from which another is evicted, and said that either the landlord or the tenant should go, and that the tenant would not go. Mr. M. BOUKKE, of Kinnagrelly, told the people that they should be 15 ready at a moment’s notice to abolish landlordism, and as there was an Act passed to abolish hares and rabbits, they wmuld abolish landlordism which are far worse game. Other speakers addressed the meeting, including Mr. iMward Gayer (Ed. Sligo Champion), and N. H. Devine, of Tubbercurry. 20 There were five bands in attendance, together with ten Hags, some ol which bore the following inscriptions : — “ Down with Land Grabbers,” “ The Land for the People,” “ God Save Ireland,” “ Down with Land Robbers,” “ The West’s Awake,” “ The Dawn of Freedom.” And also m front of the platform, were the words, “ Down with Land Grabbeis. 25 And one of the flags from Tubbercurry, had three imitation pike-heads attached to toji. fhere were also a large number of people carrying imitation ]»ike-heads on long poles. Ihere were about one bundled on horseback, wearing sashes, bearing same inscriptions as those already mentioned — also some wore green hats and ca})s. They appeared to be 30 taking a prominent part in the whole proceedings, ihere were several shots fired aliout half-past five o’clock, p.m.. by the members of the pro- cession, as they were dispersing. In my opinion, there were between four and five thousand persons attending the meeting. 35 (Signed), ll'UiERT Hkwiti', Sub Constable. J. W. Brown, esq., Sub-Inspector. 3 [C(tn’(/ro (‘. — Oclobcr \ llli, 1880. — Jlec. JTr. McLou(jhlin.) Mr. Conroy Rosmuck. Mr. Conroy Jlosnmck, sooretary, rc'jul letters from -I. B. Dillon, M.ik, 'f. B. O’Connor, ALP., P. -I. (Iordan, Claremorris, M. Henry, M.P. During the reading of the lattcjr’s letter several of its ))assages were groaned, and g the letter itself was burned when read. Rev. Mr. McLoughlin. llev. Mr. AIcLoughlin, said, — “ L am sure it is on aoeouiit of tlie parish of Arrau sending out its hundreds to the meeting that the honour is given to the eurate of Arran. 10 Whenever an opportunity will he given to me, of course as a Connemara man myself, I will avail myself of it to do all the good I can. By helping one another in all parts of freland great results can he carried out. Then let the mainland unite with the islands and the islands with the mainland, and then perhaps in a short time the result will begin to appear. I will 15 tell vou a fact. There are such things in Arran as a fourth of land. To those who do not know what a fourth is, I will say that there are 12 acres in a fourth. James O’Flaherty, the justice of peace in the island, has a fourth from the agent. Air. Thompson, and for the fourth he pays only 4/. He suh-lets this, and for every acre he gets -U., that is 12 times on an average 20 more than he pays himself. That will tell the jjeople of Arran and the people of Ireland what reason the respectable man had when he said the people of part of Arran were worse off than people in Africa.” 1st resolution: — “The present system of land tenure in this country is antagonistic to the well being and social condition of the people 25 of Ireland, be it hereby resolved that we use every legitimate means for its abolition and the substitution of a system that shall secure to the tiller the ownership of the soil.” Mr. John Joyce seconded the resolution. He made no speech. Mr. Patrick J. Sheridan said : — 30 “ Bev, Chairman and men and womeji of Ireland, it affords me great pleasure, as a delegate from the Land League, to come here on the track of my friend Air. Havitt, and strengthen the brave peasants of the west. It occurred to me before I had the pleasure of viewing the hardy, brave girls and sons of Connemara that all hope was gone of ever your being free men, 35 but when I look at these giants in stature and giants in intellect, too, with fair opportunities, it occurs to me that it is good for Ireland that Connemara is still left. When I remember the many disheartening circumstances with which you are surrounded, and when I remember the code of laws under which you are so long groaning, it occurs to me that there are materials in 40 Connemara to raise up on the ruins of landlordism a peasant proprietary. In passing through the country the name of Carraroe has always sounded like sweet music in my ear. Even in the city of Dublin faces and tongues are pronouncing blessing on you. I believe it is only fair to tell you that throughout the breadth and length of the land there are no tenant farmers 45 in Ireland who stand higher in the estimation of the Irish jiNational Land League than you. Seeing you have won so much by so small an effort, it only remains to show you what becomes your duty, and once you see it, like fearless men, you are determined to do it. I would say the first duty you owe A 2 3 {Can'iiroe.— October 17^//, 1880.— Jfr. P. J. l:^herid65, for were it not fo,- the men of 65 and ’67 we would have no national opinion in Ireland to-day. M nen thes,; men were cast into prison the predecessor of this high ecclesiastic came forward with 35 another manifesto, and without a particle of evidence charged these pure mintle.i me,r charged these pure minded men with the darkest of ernnes, (Cites of “r t. \ GoverrlnUiadc^-'cl. And now ,t is wdTen the' air' in;^dir thick with rumours of arrests that Dr. McCabe comes forward with his manifesto, in which he almost charges us with 40 being the instigators and abettors of assassination (‘never’) with a view no doubt of influencing the minds of the catholic jurors of Dublin before whom we may have to appear for a verdict one day. But I beheve the Irisr neoule will not be intimidated by political manifestoes, come they from the Castle or Cork Hill, or the Cathedral in Maryborough .Street (cheers), ^ow 46 !s‘the ’time when the democratic principles of this movement wtll assert them- selves. This is uot a movement of men, and every man that has taken a prominent part in it up to the present may be cast into prison to-"’™'™"’- Lr cause cannot be sent to prison. That cause is riefended by the s long arms and the stout hearts of the people. Now is the time t iat you wi see 60 how necessary it is for you to follow the teaching which we have given you from the commencement, and that is to rely upon yourselves and imt upon 4l SaKSiL { ll'i’a/por /. — Octoher 17///, Lb8(). — T. lirentutu.) leaclcM-s (hear, hear). A leader or a nu.nher of leaders .nay l.e eut dowa or sent, i.ho prison to-morrow, and the eanse tluvt was depending- upon leaders wdl fail with them, hut the cause that rests ui)on the eternal principles of truth cannot he cut down (cheers), ^'ou have observed that what has most 5 frio-htened the landlords is the comhination which you have entered into, it is that lock that you have hroughl about, the comhination that you have entered into against the’ pavmenl of raekrents, and the luHuence you have brought to bear to prevent any person taking a farm from which others have been ewicted. Continue that and your cause is triumphant. You must refuse to pay a rent 10 that you are not able to afford. I trust there will bc^ no man traitor enough to his fellow tenants to pay a rent that he cannot afford, and to leave his children to starve during the coming winter. You must refuse to take the farm of the evicted. You must let that farm remain there idle as a testimony to the fidelity of the iieople. But should there be such a wretch in the 15 community found to deal in stolen goods, to make money niton the misfortunes of his countrymen, then you must visit him with the severest sentence of social ostracism. You must not allow your children to speak to his children. You must not deal with the baker who would sell him bread, or the butcher who would sell him meat. You must refuse to enter a house the threshold of ' 20 which he would be allowed to cross. You must leave him severely alone and let him wither under a people’s curse. This movement is in many respects similar to the great anti-tithe war which arose in Ireland some 50 years ago, and Mr. — (here an interruption occurred by some persons crushing between me and the speaker so that I could not catch the name), he says in the period of 25 1831 the amount of arrears for tithes alone was 104,000/. Of that sum the Government succeeded in collecting 12,000/. at a cost of 15,000/. It is recorded somewhere during that period that a regiment of soldiers was sent to escort three cows to pound. This is the state of affairs that we want to bring about with regard to the collection of raekrents m Ireland. The corabi- 30 nation that destroyed one unjust tax will also destroy another. When you have that combination and when the people of Ireland will join, and for the next 12 months carry on this war which Connaught has almost smgle-han e carried on for the past 12, before you hear the Christmas chimes of 1881 you will hear the knell that will herald the downfall of Irish landlordism (cheers). 35 And the grave that will receive that will also close over all the social evils that at present afflict our country.” (Cheers.) / A 3 5 {jrcN/port.— Ocloher 17///, 1880.) Mr. Thomas Brennan seconded the vote of thaidcs, and said : “ I assure you tluit 1 have; great pleasure in seconding- the vote of thanks toj our chairman wliich has been proposed by my Iriend Mr. Louden, and in doing so I would ask you to let not the enthusiasm which this meeting has worked 5 up to-day to die out with the hist strains of the band, the last strains of music, but that you will carry it into your every day work for Ireland (cheeis). If vou carry on this great movement for the next twelve months as you have carried it for the past twelve, so sure as that sun will ajipear in the heavens to-morrow your cause will be triumphant. But I would remind you that your 10 duty will not be done when you return to your homes this e\ cuing. I he (Treat work is not to be done at a meeting of this kind, but it is to be done when you return home to your fields and to your workshop. It is to be done when you meet at the chapel yard or at the crossroads on Sundays, and there have an interchange of ideas, and there form a combination for the assertion of 15 your rights. But in first doing this work you must never forget that there is a iiioher cause than even the land for the people -that we have a nationality, and that we should never fail to ask for the restoration of that great nationality (cheers). Seven centuries of oppression have failed to crush the national spirit and it is not now when the horizon is bright with hope that we ought to 20 o-ive up the struggle for independence. It is the duty of every man now to work to make Ireland a nation ; and when 1 say Ireland a nation, I mean no mockery of freedom, I mean Ireland mistress of her own destinies (cheers;. Ireland with a national army to guard her shores— Ireland with a national senate— and Ireland with a national government that will know no higher authority than 25 the sovereign will of the Irish peojile.” (Cheers.) ( If'e.'iliiorl.— Ocloher 17///, IHSO.) Mr. J. J. Louden, CauldiUr, r>.L. aiul iunDcr, seconded the resolulioi I le said : — “ Men of Westport, of I>ouisl)urgh, and of the other sunounding- parishes, I now come forward to second a resolution which embodies all the prineiidcs 5 which I with others have been fighting for from tlie day that our agitation commenced; and I am proud that it is my privilege to-day to advocate these principles without abating a jot of our demands (cheers). Twelve months ago, throwing my eye over the social condition of Ireland, what did 1 sec? I saw a few men who never worked having everything, and I saw the men that pro- 10 duced everything having nothing. I saw a few men whose title was confisca- tion claim (Jod’s earth, and 1 saw God’s people, for whom God intended the earth, denied the right to live upon it, and I asked myself the question, could this state of things continue to exist? Well, my friends, Tluimas llrennan and Michael Davitt (cheers) and a few other men stood up upon the platform, 15 and we there declared war against that nefarious system. We there unfurled the banner of a people’s emancipation, and beneath that banner we stand to- day (cheers). It would ill become me now to detain you from your homes to-day by going over the ground we have travelled within the last 12 eventful months. ' It would ill become me, I say, to detain you with the details of this 20 question, but you will pardon me if I say a few words to you about the pro- gress we are making, and the end which we soon hope to reach. When my friends were put in prison a Tory Government— a Government of landlords — was in power. Lord Beaconsfield— Lord Beaconsfield, who put himself for- ward as the champion of the Turk and the executioner of the Christian— was 25 then prime minister of England (groans) ; but, thanks to the action of ihe democracies of Great Britain and Ireland, Beaconsfield and Jemmy Lowther are in private life to-day. We have succeeded in extracting from the Liberal Government a promise to bring in a Bill next February for the good of the people, for the establishment, if not of peasant proprietary in Ireland, at least 30 of some form of land tenure which will protect the people from rackrents and from eviction (cheers). I cannot say just now what the exact form of that Bill will be, but this I do say, in the language of the resolution, that if the Liberal Government attempt to pass a Bill which will tolerate the existence of landlordism, the people of Ireland will reject it, and will march as one man to 35 assert their rights (cheers). What have the tenant farmers of Ireland de- manded ; what have the people of Ireland asked for ? Anything unjust ? No ; they have simply asked the right to reap what they sow, to feed and to sustain and educate and clothe with the produce of their labour their wives and their little cluldren. What is rhe demand of the landlords ? That without working they might 40 take the produce of other men’s labour, so that they might keep race horses and drink champagne. The people have struck against race horses and they ^von t stand champagne. Does it not then appear on the face of it that the demands of the landlords are unholy and unjust, and that the demands of the tenants are natural and equitable. How then have these landlords met us ; ha\e they 45 come forward to show that our propositions are contrary to natural law or to natural justice. Have they come forward to refute our arguments ? No, but they have had recourse to the old plan of the crowned and coronetted tyrants of Europe, to belie the people, to slander the people, to hire men and newspapers to belie and slander them that they might show to the world, or prove to the 50 world that they were corrupt so as to bring about coercion. Within the last three months, since these landlords formed an organisation in Dublin, a corrupt Jf'CN/porf. — Ocloher 17///, IfiHO. — J//‘. «/• '■/• Loudea.) •,„,1 l.lrelini? ,.ies.s have l.ccn hewling Ihr the arrest oC 'ri.oinas lirennaii (cries '„r ‘ ilown with ll.eiii,’ luul groans), lirii.ed ami eorrnpt liirehngs and liloody spies tliroughoiit the country are roaring lor our arrest, hut to all the thiliu er o their hlaspheniics, of their lies, avc will oppose the thunder ol a nation s voice and 5 demand, riglit for a sutfering people (ehcers). Yes, my friends, let them helic them wc will be just men, and posterity will Judge of the pure cause. riiere arc others as mueh to be dreaded, and their hirelings, as the landlords and their hirelings. IMark yon, when 1 speak of the landlords I would wish to confine myself especially with regard to the land of the rackrenters, of the usurers, and 10 the unjust men who would, in fact, apply the principles of commerce to land. Greater enemies than even bad landlords, than their peers and betters, are those lukewarm thimblerigging double tyrant politicians who will go before the people with specious promises on their lips, but corruption and betrayal m their hearts (cries of ‘down with them’)— who will go on a public platform before 15 a deduded people, will attract them with showy and glittering phrases, and will then run away to betray the people’s cause at the dinner table of the noble- men over Ireland. These men are doing the devil’s work. To-day in Tipperary and in INIeath, where the people have been sold, their representatives have been advocating a tenant right of their own, aye, watching to do so of old. They ,20 tidvocate what may attract you, but they are in direct opposition to the Land I.eague (groans, cries of ‘down with the Ulster custom and P. J. Smyth ). There you have the old system alluded to in the eloquent woids of Thomas Brennan, the old system ‘ divide and govern,’ divide and betray, divide and crush, carried out by men who call themselves Irish patriots. 25 Plowever, we have effected much in the recent past, and I trust in God, with proper combination amongst the people, they will march a portion ot these shakey patriots, and that the day will arise when these men will come to give an account of their stewardships. Let them dismiss them. Remember, my friends, that the waste land question is naturally a section of the land question, 30 and that we would have the poor men who are now huddled together as cottiers thriving and prosperous farmers upon the cultivated waste lands ot Ireland. We must not forget the great body of the people who do not live on waste lands, but who are paupers on good lands. No, we will say to P. J. Smyth (groans). Yes, my friends, we will say to P. J. Smyth, and to 35 other politicians of his class, that we claim for the people the waste lands of Ireland, and that we claim for the people and for their children after them the fertile lands of Ireland (cheers). As 1 mentioned to you a moment ago it would ill become me to go into more details on land law reform. You would find it extremely uninteresting, but let me tell you this, before many 40 months pass away you will all know what the present Government means to do on this question. If they act as statesmen and just men you will applaud them, but if they act as mere political trimmers you will tell them ^ that you are prepared to march on until you assert your rights, that you will be pre- pared to stand side by side with the workmen of the towns in England, m 45 Scotland, and in Ireland, and in America, and you will never cease agitating until the land of Ireland belongs to the people of Ireland.” (Cheers.) Q 3366.— 44. B 9 jiort . — October 17/A, ISHO.) Mr. J. B. Walsh, Castlchiir, |)ul)liciin, seconded I lie resolution, lie said ; — “ Men of Westport and fellow-eoiintrynien, — The resolution which I have to second will make my task \ery easy. 1 am not one of those wlio pin my 6 entire faith on the action of a ])arliamentary representative, but 1 am one of those who believe that every Irishman was born in the land more or less the victim ot conquest, and that it is onr duty, if we possibly can, to reverse the history of onr country, and to make that wliich was conquest tor the Irish ])eople better for the Irish National Land League. I had the misfoi’tune, or 10 good fortune, whichever 3011 wish, to have some hereditary claims on the people ot iMayo. 1 partly fell into the shoes of one who had many times declared his faith and had risked many and many things for the sake of his countrv, that man more or less was instrumental in the return of one man, one man who promised to be the most extraordinary advocate of Irish nationality 15 that ever entered the British House of Commons (cheers). I have to ask myself the question to-day has that man answered the anticipations of ray predecessor. If he has not, then I consider it my place, no matter what the amount of dissent may be made, it is my^ place t o denounce him to-day, that Mayo expected of John O'Connor Power better things. In a vast assembly 20 like this 1 will not expect every one will agree with me, but I will say tnis, if he does not mend his manners the voice that is hoarse in speaking for the rights of the people to-day will oppose him at the next election. When I say a word against John O'Connor Power I tell you I speak more in sorrow than in anger, for I am one of those who believe that he was born with a great 25 brain, which, if used, would be a great assistance to tlie cause of Ireland. Let us once more ask him to join the ranks of those faithful followers, those faithful men who follow Parnell in the House of Commons, and who are willing out of the House of Commons to follow Parnell. We must call this man to do his duty like them. We must call him to do his duty as the representatives of 30 Roscommon are doing, and as the representative of Sligo is doing. I cannot say that the representatives of Galway are doing it (cries of 'down with them’), though one of the representatives of Tipperary is not doing it, and I may say that there is one of the representatives of Sligo not doing his duty to Ireland. Weil, 1 believe that the cause of the tenant farmer in Mayo ought to be the 35 cause of the tenant farmer in Cork, and if the members of Parliament for the county of Cork do not honestly represent their constituencies the people of Cork have a right to tell them to withdraw and to hand back the trust which was placed in their hands into the hands of the people again, I cannot for a moment believe that the latest representative which we returned to the House 40 of Commons, Isaac Nelson, could be unfaithful to his trust, but I do believe that he is not doing his duty. A very important question is the disarmament of the constabulary, and the Rev, Isaac Nelson then did not put in an appear- ance in the House of Commons. He did not take his place besides Parnell, and advocate that the same military body which is placed in this country to 45 overawe the honest opinions of the people, he did not present himself there and say they must be disarmed. I am not one who will say that w’e ought to be satisfied with the CTOvernment of England, but so long as the Government lasts we have a right to expect the same freedom as the people of England expect. At a public meeting in England do the armed constabulary tear, do 50 the police tear down the placards of the people at a public meeting, and the Q 3366.-44. C 11 {ire^lpoH.—Oclobci' \1lh, 1880.— J//-. J. li. WaUh.) ojiinions of the people arc respected, and we imist make our representatives in / i the House of Commons tell them this, and they have the power, if they only ^ exercise it, to stop the pay, to starve out the constabulary as we will starve out the landlords (cheers). I am not saying a word against the constabulary 5 personally but as a body, but as a semi-military body f must protest against them. (A voice (Mr. Sweeney), the (lovernmcnt is the cause of this.) I believe now the people of Mayo, and there are a great numl)er of the people here to-day, have a right to expect from her representatives a full, conclusive, and open explanation of their comluet during the present session of Parliament, 10 and when they do let no man be moved by personal favour, but let him ask of our representatives have they done their duty to the people, and if they have let us propose them a vote of thanks ; if not, let us condemn them. Mayo, I believe, to-day justly claims to be the foremost representative county of the land agitation, or in other words, the great scene of the land for the 15 people. When I say that Mayo wants the land for the people, I must only look upon the land for the people as the first stepping-stone to a greater and grander conformation of things, it is the country for the people, and to place in the hands of the Irish race the savings of Ireland (cheers), then we may say that God has saved Ireland, and it remains for the people to say we will save 20 what is left of it.” (Cheers.) The resolution was carried. 12 {ircs'lpor/.— October IVh, 1880.) ' The Chairman, Mr. O’Malley, in ivi>l:y to the vote oF thanks, said: “ I ask you now, each and every man ol you, to look upon men as something above these slaves that landlord tyranny drove ye and yours to lor the last 800 years. Ye have families and little homes, and will ye mmd them, will ye let 5 these landlord serpents and their satellites, and 1 sec some of them here, will ye let them drive you to the roadsiile. It is all very good to hear such men as Mr. Hrennan and Mr. Louden, hut will you take their advice. Will ye go home and live by these honest men that have given their lives and their fortunes to save ye. Starve the landlords we must in this country. Do not be carried 10 away by the elocpience of Mr. Brennan, but be carried back to your ()wn humble little homes where your children perhaps will have to he all night, under what ? a guano bag, and the guano that came home in them was not paid for yet. Tenant farmers, if you do not be true to yourselves the beast of the field should not be treated as these. If ye have hearts, and it ye have hands, it 15 has haiipcned before, but it will never happen again, and I ask ye, no matter who he is if he is with you heart and soul, be sure he is not your enemy and that he has the Government money in his pocket, I do not care what occu- pation he follows, watch ye all the slaves of the country, and the man who is not with you heart and soul look on him as a Cory don or a Talbot, for when the 20 day comes he will sell you, and put the rope round your little ones’ necks (cheers). Now, I do not want to detain you very long, but I wdl speak my mind freely and honestly, for I tell you I have nothing to lose but my life, and I never yet w’ent into a cause but I went into it with an honest heart, and I never entered that cause if it was to lay my life down I was ready to do 25 it. But mind, I do not want you to lose a life, God forbid, nor to draw blood, but I say this much, and I take the responsibility of it, and the man who would stand by and see the little ones turned out on the roadside without putting his breast before them, then he is unworthy to be called an Irish farmer, and the man that will meet these reptiles and takes off his hat, some call 30 this courtesy. Will God bless the courtesy ? I ask you men wherever you meet these, wherever you meet them look them with a narrow straightforward o-aze, and tell them, ‘ Aye, slaves of our race, the blood of my father ^is on you; ye killed ray father, ye banished my brothers, and ye drove ‘ our sisters to where beyond, beyond without a friend to protect them.’ Come 35 man, it is time for a father to stand before his little ones, and it is time for a son to stand before his mother, and it is time for a brother to stand protection to his sister, and 1 tell you little ones to-day there is some talk of arrests. Aye, for my part I do not care that much for it-I have a few little ones, they can live and if T am arrested my last word will be raised to them : ‘ Never stand 40 ‘ oii a platform, but go, my child, sell your lives as dear as possible; do not ‘ yield one inch, for never will be peace, never be happiness in this counti}/ ‘ as long as there is one trace of a land shark and bailiff on the face and breadth ‘ of Ireland.’ ” Th-G CllStirnian again addressing the meeting, said : 4- “ I have not come here to make a speech, but I have come to announce to "" you a very happy result, and that is that there is a tenant farmer, once a tenant farmer living within three doors of this platform, and unfortunately within the last three weeks he took a farm of land, or rather was going to take it. It is now my duty to announce to this meeting that the son of that tenant 50 farmer has got authority from his father to announce to the public at large that he has given that farm up to Sydney Smith, and we can speak plain to each and every one to say as much as we have censured him for the last fortnight, and that when he has satisfied every man in this assembly, they will give him a cheer.” ( Cheers.) C 3 15 {jreslporl—Oclobcr mil, 1880.— J/r. O'Mallei/.) A young nuui named Patrick Murray, ol Westport, here came idrward, anti having stated that the liirm was taken without his knowledge, Ibrnially an^ nounced tliat his father had given up the I'arm on the day betore (Saturday), and added, “ The curse of (lod to the atfair.” 'Phe announcement was received with great cheering. [IVcs! port. — October IT/A, IHBO.) Mr. J. W. Nally, oC Jkilla, came forward and addressed the mceiini|k‘ 1 le said : “ ]\ty friends and fellow countrymen, — I did not intend to say a single word here to-day. I came here specially to see, to organise the people, to put them 5 in military order ; that is, by the peoi)le going in military order it will have more elVeet on this hated and detested constitution that we are under at present (cheers) . It was only to-day I just went to take a ramble after hrciakfast with a well known tried patriot. I Avent round the castle, the castle that the tenantry and those that are banished years ago from the land erected. I only wont round^ Xo and I saAV lord this and another “ j yst ass ” (justice) along with him. Well, I suppose it Avas nearly time to bring those poor police that had to come several miles, the money out of their OAvn poekets, they had to proteet some land shark or grabber, I Avas not outside the gate when I could sec a dozen coming down. Oh ! tally’s pills is going to bloAv it up,’ (cheers) along that avenue that he 25 paid 20,000^ for that was lying in the hill, but he did nothing for the starving tenantry throughout Mayo. No, he spends it in the back lanes and slums of England and every other place. I do not begrudge him, surely, but boys and nationalists, I tell you Ave are not going over to England, and the yellow boys can go home and send them back again to them. We will keep a firm grip. 20 I tell you to unite and organise, for Avithout unity of action and organisation we cannot get total separation from these blasted scoundrels (cheers). My friends, I do not care for a cheer or a hear hear. I want to bring home these words, I do not want ye to go and spend your money in porter or whiskey, I want ye to go and buy some of the doctor’s pills, mind they will have more /■ 25 effect than anything else (laughter). He again addressed the people and said : “ My friends, — Ye have listened to me patiently, and I tell you altogether on this occasion to allow anyone that will accompany me that you Avill make AA-ay. Of course, ye have made allusion to a gentleman called Mr. Stringer, and he 30 is here doing his duty, and I am here doing my duty, and he is to tell the Government and the castle how the people feel.” 17 (liohl/ord. — \7tli ( ISSO.) Mr John Dillon, M P. Mon of Tipperary— I am ^Had to see that you have come here to-day — the men ofeentralTipperary— to declare that you also are for the cause \vhicl» we have heen preaching all throughout Ireland, and which is tlie c.mse onvven on that hanner-tliat is to say, that the Irish land l.elon-sto 5 the Irisli people— that it has been taken from them by fraud and force and that tlie men of Irehmd are to-day determiiual to take hack the land of their fatliers. You are liere to-day to ple.lge yourselves that you wdl enter into that struojrle, and not cease from it until you win the victoiy. I remember a short year ago, when this banner was first laised in ms 10 native county, the County of Mayo, in the town of Claremoiiis. l hat \\ect(Hi 5 that a Parliament of landlords vvoidd undo their own power, and reduce their own reiits. 1 tell you that was expectini^ more than human natun; jj^ives you a rii>'ht to expect. You have now entered on an entirely different })ath dhe path of self-reliance — oi action, and if you stick to that you will find, within two years, you will, every man of you, he owner of your own 10 home, and independent of landlords. 11 TULLO W, f V>. Carlow. Sau(lai/j \1 th October, lh(S(). Mr. Edward Dargan pvoixjsed “ That Ave express our admiration of tlie action of the majority ol the Irisli ])arliamentary party actiii”’ AA'ith their distinguished leader, Mr. Parnell, during the late session, and AA’^e disapproA^^e of the conduct of those Avho 5 sacrificed their independence and diAuded the party hy sitting Avith the Government.” Mr. Biggar i ^ “Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, the resolution Avhicli I liaAC been asked to sniiport is one Avith Avhich I think yon aauII all agree, and say that 10 there is not much room for difference of opinion, and not much need tliat I should argue in favour of that resolution, the resolution being in favour of the leadership of onr honoured friend, Mr. Parnell (cheers), and in favour of the policy Avhich ^^Ir. Parnell has so ably advocated. (Cheers.) Witli regard to this question of leadership, in every party there must be some 15 leader. Mr. Parnell has been selected, first by a majority of Irish members of Parliament, avIio represent the vieAVS of the Irish people, and, in the next place, be has been unanimously, I might say, selected ; and the opinion has been affirmed nnanimously by the sufi'rages of the Irish race, not only in Ireland but in all parts of the world, so that in point of fact it is not an 20 arguable question. With regard to this question of leadership, it is no disparagement to other able members of the party, of whom our honoured friend the Lord lilayor of Dublin is one, to say that Mr. Parnell is peculiarly fitted for it, because other members of the Irish parliamentary party have their business avocations, and there are other difficulties AVith which to 25 contend, and Mr. Parnell we see has all the qualities of leadership combined in one. He is better able for that reason to perform the duties Avliich a leader ought to perforin. Then with regard to this question of leadership in Parliament, it is very desirable that the party should speak together as one l)arty and ndth one mind. This question of where a member shall sit or 30 where a member shall not sit in the House of Commons may seem a trivial question, but it is in this way ; it is the question of whether we are to stand toward the Government in an attitude of expectancy, that is, expecting that something good will come from the Government, or whether we shall stand in an attitude of criticism and of determination to insist that the 35 Government shall do something which is good for Ireland, whether the Government likes it or not. (Cheers.) Noav, we who sit on the Tory side of the House, we do not do so because we approve of Tory opinions, or because we are disposed to show a factious opposition to the present Govern- ment ; we do so simply because we say that the interests of Ireland are 10 first, and that the interests of England or any English faction must come after the ’interests of Ireland (cheers), and we say we must sit there in an attitude A ^ Q nSfifi.— 70. {Ttdiow.— Oclohrr 17///, 1 880.— -I//’. Hiuijor, JI.P.) of ohsorvatiou to crilicisi' llu' ( Jov/MMiiA/ait, and (o insist, tliat th(;y shall p('i-lonii the ivfonns which wa' Ihirdv the Irish people have a rig'lit. to. (C’heers.) Then it is desirahlo that we shonld sliow, of conrs(‘, as largo a nninlx'r in that House as possible. ( )iir nninhers are not so very lai'i^e that 5 it is desirahh' that onr inlliuniee shonld he dissipated hy being' scattered over the ditVerent parts of t he .LLons(‘, so that we carniot have (n'cn an opportunity of eonveiiicntly consulting together from time to time as to what is the Ix'st eonrso on a particnlar occasion, hecanse, although avc recognize Mr. rarmdl as leader, wc do not recognize him as the dictator for the Irish party. "We 10 only value him so long as wo l)elievo him to ho right. (Cheers.) Some qiu‘stions have arisen, notably one with regard to Mr. Bradlaugh, iii the House of Commons, when the Irish party Avero divided. (Interrnption.) At the same time I say that, as a matter of tactics and a matter of l)usine.ss, it is desirable that the Irish members should keep togetlier and should act 15 together upon all occasions. (Cheers.) Another result of that is this ; that the argumeuts likely to come from the Irish members on any particular question, even after a short consultation that may take place among the members themselves, Avill be more consistent. There will he less of the svstem of one member offering’ his opinion, anothei membei offeiing his 20 individual opinion, and so on, Avith consequent lessening of the influence of the Irish party. IVell, you may say that in dealing Avith such a man as Mr. Gladstone, and so on, it is not very desirable that Ave should give a very troublesome criticism, I Avill not say opposition, because Ave never have, and I hope Ave never shall, oppose Mr. Gladstone for opposition sake; but at 25 the same time Ave are bound to make the best case we can for the Irish interest, and I think that can be l)est done by us acting as an undivided party. I say candidly tbat if aa’c had only Mr. Gladstone to deal with it would be very plain sailing, for this reason : Mr. Gladstone is a gentleman of quick comprehension ; he can understand an argument A’cry rapidly, and 30 if the argument is sound he is very likely to say, ‘ Your argument is of such influence on my mind that I am convinced hy it.’ (Interruption.) But if vou are dealing with a blockhead like Mr. Porster, and I say ‘ blockhead ’ deliberately, you must urge and re-urge, and batter it through his thick skull, before you will influence him to do as you (laughter) and as he 35 very likely after Avarcls will do ; so that in reality, in dealing Avith matters of this sort, Ave should act in accordance Avitli the experience we have o-ained, and do Avhat Ave think most judicious, Avithout any small per- sonal jealousies toward one another. (Cheers.) Ideally, I do think that when members are elected by great constituencies, and receive the 40 great enthusiasm of such meetings as this, they should be prepared to give Avay to the small prejudices Avhich they might have on minor questions', and give Avay for the great good of the Avhole community Avhich thev have the honour to represent. I think I have said enough with regard to this question of a matter of policy, and Avith regard to this very mean 45 question as to which side of the House the different members of the Irish parliamentary party should sil;[h^ I will say— I Avill take the liberty of saviim, seeing that I am an office-bearer of the Laud League— I Avill say a few Avords with regard to the Land League, and I may say as a preliminary, that the Land League has been most foully maligned by the English Tory 50 and Whig papers, and by the Tory landlords of this country. (Cheers.) In point of fact the Land League has never advocated the sliooting of Irish « X {T/iHoiv.— Oc/oher 1880.— .?/>•• /ylf/f/ar, JLP.) landlonls, and in point of fa-ci lo show Unit tlio Land Lcja^nio has not ^ puhlicly or ])rivat('ly advocat'd the shooting ol' landlords, since the l/.uid ' League (*anic into o])(‘ralion, so I'ar as L know, not more than one agrarian murder has iaken ])laee. The only case to which I. could reler as a (;ase oI 5 agrarian murder, is the case of Mr. Loyd, in county Wextoi-d. Whei her or not in that case the murder arose from the lact that Mr. Moyd had a lathei (interrnj)tion), I eannot say ; hut at the same time the fact remains, that that is tlie only agrarian murder which can he pointed out since the Land League came into operation. (Cheers.) I dispute then, entirely, that the 10 shooting of Lord IMountmorres, which took place tlie other day, was an agrarian murder at all. It must have firisen from some other eause, and so far as I have been able to read or hear from parties who knew that nobleman, really I cannot possibly imagine it liad anything agrarian in its character. I am sorry to have heard our friends, the Lord Mayor of Dublin 15 and Mr. 3^Iacfarlane, say they did not entirely agree with the programme of the Land League. Now, I do not think after all there is so very muck difCerence between tlie opinions expressed by those two gentlemen and Lie opinions of the Land League as appeared at first sight, and I do not think these gentlemen would bo far wrong if they said they agreed with the ^ 20 general principles of the League. As I understand the principle of the League is this. They say no settlement of the Land Question can be a final settlement except the occupier shall be the proprietor of the land. That is the principle laid down, by the Land League, but they do not say that any less reform proposed by the Government, or which would be within 25 the reach of the tenant-farmers of Ireland, should not be accepted by the tenant-farmers of Ireland. Now, from that point of view I think Mr. Gray, the Lord Mayor of Dublin, and the Land League could pretty much go hand-in-hand. I do not think there is any room for fighting between them,~fl and I would not be disposed to denounce the conduct of the Land League 30 on one hand or Mr. Gray on the other. (Interruption.) I believe the plain and absolute proprietorship for the occupier is the most feasible and most reasonable ; but I need not attempt now to argue the question. It is a matter of opinion, and I do not think because two parties differ on a matter of mere detail, that, therefore, they should be personal 35 enemies, and that the one party should think himself called upon to speak in the harshest terms of the other. (Cheers.) I will detain you only a very few minutes longer. I know I must be thoroughly tedious, especially to our friends at the far side of the meeting ; but I would like to say one or two words on questions which were not dwelt upon so much by 40 former speakers ; that is with regard to the duties of the League. Now, | one of the duties of the League is that pressure shall, as far as possible, be brought to bear upon landlords not to ask more than the Government valua- tion L the shape of rent. That ean only be carried out in one way, namely, by thorough combination on the part of all the tenant farmers throughout 45 the whole country (cheers), and by thorough loyalty of each one toward all the rest. If you unanimously agree not on any pretence not to pay more than the Government valuation, the landlord will be very glad to take it ; but if one gives way and another gives way, and the thing does not become universal, the old story will have to be told again, that the landlord will 50 cut down the individual tenants in detail, and the result will be that the latter end will be as bad as the beginning. But if you do as I suggested, A 2 . 3 Q 3366.— 70. ink, 1 ,?/)•. /Shji/ar, M.l'.) if vcm 1.oconu^ unanimous, inaln.—Mlh Oclohcr \m).—Mr. Matthew IJarris. ((’heers.) Do you tliiiik by talkini," about coercive measures they cau fri‘>-hteii the leaders? I tell the (Jovernmerit from this platform they do not know their men. 1 can tell them further a spirit of manliness, a spirit of independence prevails among- the people of Ireland that cannot be cowed 5 down by the threat of months or years of imprisonment. Prior to this great movement, there was a greater movement carried out by the democracy for the liberation of the country. And the spirit of knowledge that movement inspired, which spread itself under the guidance of James Stephens that spirit which pervades our country, and is instilled into 10 the minds of the people, renders them entirely reckless of Government threats in this small measure of Land Reform. If I were to speak at any cvrcat leno-th on this question, 1 would say, it divides itself into three forms. Pirst, there is the exterminator : the man who comes forward and uses his wealth, not to benefit his fellow man, but to oppress and exterminate him. 15 Cheers.) There has not been throughout this parish much extermination. I will tell you why. The land was too bad, for it in the parish ^ of Kiltoom and adjoining parishes to make grass farms, and where the land is poor, unfit for o-rass farming, where they cannot get a capitalist to take hold of it and try to make money out of it, wherever you find tluit state of things there you find— 20 (Interruption.) You have the people who like bad land ; we have them on bogs. You have them everywhere where it is unfit to feed a bullock or sheep. If a bullock or sheep were more profitable than the man you would be driven from this parish as they have been in other parts of this county and the ad- joining county; and I say you deserve great credit for coming here to-day for 25 this reason : though you are not in the course of being exterminated yourselves you have come forward like men, as I hope, to assist your fellow men through- out the rest of Ireland who are being in course of extermination. (Cheers.) But if you had not this highest form of extermination to contend with, you have rack renting and the confiscation or your improvements to contend with. There 30 is not about Curnaseer, about Berry, or Curramore, hardly an acre of land in those places that is worth more than about 5^. an acre, and were it not for the extraordinary industry of the people and the wonderful economy of the people— and I have met people from Lough Rae and Castlereagh, 20 or 30 miles away from this, trying to dispose of the produce of their farms — were it not for the 35 excessive industry of those people it would be utterly impossible for them to live on the bad lands in those parishes ; and if ever it came to the establishment, of a peasant proprietary, and valuators are put forward to value the lands in those parishes, the amount that will have to be paid for it by the tenants at the highest computation in the majority of cases cannot amount to more than about 40 5 years purchase of the present rent. (Cheers.) Then there is a third point, the confiscation of your improvements. Come out of the town of Athlone and what do you see ? Every patch of grass or tillage you see has been done by the people, and reclaimed by the people, and if you enquire what rents they are paying for the land, you will find they are paying the very highest rents. Not 45 only their improvements have been confiscated, but the money and labour they invested in the land has been robbed from them. Looking at the landlords as exterminators or rackrenters, or a man confiscating the people’s improvements, take what aspect you may of the question, I do not see how you can refuse to say that the greatest advantage Ireland would derive at present is the total 50 abolition of landlordism. Now, in this parish, you have not a great extensive landlord • there are a number of petty landlords. There have been land jobbers ’ 10 Killooiit. — 17/// Ortohrr ISSO. — Mr. MaUhrw Harris. luul land dealers buying- an estate to-day and selling it to-morrow, d'hose men are the enrsc and bane oi Ireland. A voice: Down with them. Mr. Harris: It’ you had an extensi\e man, it you had one large man that 5 had owned the whole parish or half the parish, then you might have expected fair play or extermination from such a man. But you have a number ot poor, petty, grasping wretches, who arc watching a poor man to see it he has a good coat on his hack, to raise his rent: tellows, who, if they have — (interruption). There is only one w'ay to manage those men, and that is to do what my resolution 10 calls on you to do : to unite together as men, each to become members of the League ; and as all these petty fellows arc united with each other, so should you unite together in resisting this robbery and oppression which to-day they are forcing upon you. (Cheers.) I remember, my fellow parishioners, on the lands we stand upon, old Sir Frederick French, who was a very good man in his 15 way, owned this property ; built cottages for the comfort of his tenants. I do not say the cottages he built were suitable for the people ; he resided in Lonaou ; and it takes a man to live among the people to know the people. At all events, like a good-hearted man, he showed a desire to improve the condition of the people. After Sir Frederick, there came in Sir Charles Danville (Oh!), one of 20 the most stupid, one of the greatest tyrants that ever existed. The first thing he did was to inquire where there was a poor man w’ho had a farm where the rent might be raised ; after that he came forward and made the people bring their cats and dogs to kill them. A voice ; Down with them. 25 Mr. Harris ; Now I say that a man who would bring a poor man’s cat and dog to kill before his door would not think very much of going a little further and killing the poor man himself. (Cheers.) And when you hear so much said about agrarian crime, you should remember for the one crime committed by the tenant in striking down such a tyrant as Danville there are a thousand 30 crimes committed by the landlords in their oppression of the poor. (Clieers.) After Sir Cliarles, who came in his place? An English hatter, Mr. Wakeman. (Groans.) Surely I may apply to Mr. Wakeman the old proverb, out of the frying pan into the fire. Mr. Wakeman, like a wise tyrant as he is, for I will not call him a man, he looks through the whole country to see where he could 35 get the vilest and the worst of agents, just as in ancient times those tyrannical men used to look out for the keenest scented blood-hounds to hunt down the people. The worst man is Sebastian Nolan ; the worst man, the worst agent, and the greatest scoundrel in the West of Ireland. Sebastian Nolan was fired at in the County Galway. 40 A Voice : — It was time. Mr. Harris : — Of course the man who fired at him committed a very great crime. , A Voice : — Oh 1 Mr. Harris : — But for fear that he had been fired at, I will not say what another 45 outrage he wmuld even have committed : — a greater crime. What did Sebas- C 11 Q 3366.-56. Ki/fon/ll.- \J/h Ocloher — Mr. MdiUtcw Harris. tian Nolan do. I Ic came by t lie tenants one by one. He had the face of a hvpoerlte. He was in Ilaire’s Hotel, lie bron-vlit them in and asked them to have a uy out landlords. Well, all I can say is, that it would he very much hotter for you to have to ])ay to the Govorn- uieut a settled reut than any to the landlord, which he can raise at his own caprice. If a year of famine came ujxui you would the Government turn a you out? It is most absurd to think it. You have sixty mend)ers in the House of Conmions, who are determined not to stand any nonsense. Now, the resolution says : — “ That we pledg-e ourselves not to take a, farm from which a tenant has heen evicted for non-payment of an unjust rent. Neither will we work 10 upon such a farm, nor huy any stock or farm produce which may he sold for rent.” Now, urdess you carry out this resolution you might as well stay sitting at home. “ You may resolve till the cows conte home.” You must do something else as well. You must, hy practical action, show that your 15 resolution says more than words. First of all, we say that the local branches of the Land League should consult together in these troublesome times, and agree what rent they will pay to their landlords. Let them offer this rent— it may be Griffith’s valuation— offer whatever you can fairly pay. If the landlord will not have 20 it, why you have no choice but to keep it. Let him, if he wishes, have re- course to law for his rights, and I can assure you, in every such case, the National Land League will he ready to give you liberal help from its funds. Well, if the tenant is turned out, it will he your duty to assist him. Then next you must resolve that not one of you will take tne farm 1 do not 25 care what the Law Officers of the Crown may say — that you will not, any of you, take the farm from which any man has been evicted ; and that you will not contribute to the help of that faiin by buying anj cattle fiom off* it. There is one point upon which this resolution is silent, and I think it my duty to say that if any man be found among you to violate the ru le 30 which you have laid down — if any man be found who takes a farm from Avhich another liaTbeen^icted— it is your duty, it is your right, to make evidenced the feeling which the action of that man caused in your minds. You have no idea. 1 am sure none of you would commit an outrage. Outrage hurts our cause. It may gratify the feelings of one man, but it 35 raises the cry for coercion, and which may perhaps interfere with the progress of our movement, and do material hurt. Any man who violates th ^law which you have laid down, y ou must leave that mail as lonely, in the midst of a populous town, as Robinson Crusoe vas on the island. Remember these three rules First, that you will not take a farm f rom 40 which anyone has been evicted j second, that you will not bu^the produ ce of such farm ; and third, that you will no t give countenance to any person who takes sucli a farm. ^ , And let me tell you, if you find in your towns any shopkeeper incurring the favour of the landlords, the people have a ready way of dealing with these people. There is no occasion for 45 you to go into his shop to ask him to take clown any of his goods. 2 Z 12 {Iiailiehoron(ih.—2\st October, 1880.— Mr. Sexton, m.i>.) Now, my friends, I have Ih.'ou handed a paper put Into uiy hands whleli shows that the Ulster tonant-rijrht is a mere sliain. In one estate m this vicinity it is the custom to raise the rents on tlie death of the heads of the house. Now, wliat do you say to that? And that is. I am sorry to say, 5 on the estate of a very eminent statesman ; and if a man is forced to part with liis farm the rule is that he ii . — Oviobci' ‘l llli, 1 880.) Chairman. 'riic iK'xi spoakor is a nuMiilx'r of the Land L(?agai(‘, l)y naiiuj Mr. 'I'hoiiias Mreiman. Mr. Thomas Brennan, 5 J\[r. Chairiuau and iikmi of Lcad rim : I iliank you for the reception which you have accorded me to-day. I know that it is rendered more to the representative of the principle than the man. This magniheent meeting is an elo([uent testimony to the force and intensity of this move- ment. I remember well when this movement was first started, when we 10 in Mayo raised the banner of “ The Land for the People,” it was some time before we got Leitrim to stir, but when she spoke she spoke in tones of thunder. And I call to mind to-day that when I last had the honour of addressing you from this spot we had a judge, an attorney-general, and a CroAVii prosecutor among the audience. Well, there are none of those distin- 15 guished personages here to-day, the only familiar form in the scene is the Government reporter. Leitrim again to-day gives her adhesion to the prin- ciples and adopts the policy of the Land League. It is unnecessary for to speak at much length as to what those principles and that policy are, they are known to you all ; they have been proclaimed from a thousand 20 different platforms. Those principles have been accepted by the nation, and have been ratified by every political economist. That policy is the policy of self-reliance, which alone can raise a people from out the depths of slavery. IjVe make war upon the system of Irish landlordism ; upon that system that has destroyed your country ; that has driven its best and bravest children to 25 exile and to death ; that system that is accountable for the ruined home- steads and desolate plains that are around us to-day. We make war upon that system, and we will continue to make war upon that system till the last vestige of its feudalism shall be swept from the country. We do not advocate half measures ; we do not propose that tvork should be forced to enter into 30 partnership with idleness, but we say that a man who tills God’s earth, and who enriches that earth with his labour, should be the owner of it ; and no settlement of this question will be final or accepted by the Irish people that fails to do this. The persons who now come forward with exploded theories of land reform in order to divert the public mind are, whether conscious of 35 it or not, enemies to the people’s cause. It is your duty to find out what is right, and to go for that. If there is to be compromise, let the offer of that compromise come fi-om our enemies and not from our friends. Xo doubt you will be told that our principles, that the principles of the League, are highly communistic, and a homily will be delivered to you upon the 10 rights of property by men who can show very little right to the property that they call theirs. {Cheers.) Yes, cheers for Michael Lavitt, for to him more than any man alive is due this uprising of the democracy of Ireland against the land cliqu e [or thieves]. I was saying you will be treated to a homily upon the rights of property by men who can show very little right 45 to the property they call theirs. But if a “ communist ” means a man who takes what belongs to another_^who will not work himself, but who believes he has a right to what you and I work for, then the communists of Ireland will be found in the castles and not in the cottages. It is about 18 months ago since the people of Mayo, goaded to desperation by the acts of the A3 5 r ( C((rriclc-()u-Sli'(i)ino)i. — Oclohor ''l Uh, ] 880.) iiKM) who wor(^ rohhiiii*' ilioiu, ])ut tluiir hiichs to tlio w;ill, stfuck out Iroiii ih(' shoulder and said they would stand it no lou^'cr. Will you do this? V" {Cheers.) 1 think that there; are very few |)(;o[)l(; hut will acknowh;df»'e that the eause of lahour has made giant strides dui-ing that period. This is , 5 entirely owing to the democratic tendency of this movcinend-. Too long the; Irish people relied upon leaders and failed. VV'e are now asking tliem to rely upon themselves {So they loill), and as long as wc continue to teach these democratic doctrines, as long as wo do not preach any doctrine that is immoral or degrading, I thirdc this movement is entitled to the support ol 10 the Irish people. This is a movement of the people for the people, and it should not he confined to any one section of the people. T his is not merely a farmer’s movement, it is a movement of the workers of Ireland — of the Avorkers of Ireland against the idlers. It is the duty of the whole indus tria l classes to join in that combin ation. Y ou wil l ob serv e that th^ land l ords 15 have recently become very anxious indeed about the interests of the labourers, and they are endeavouring to show that their interests are antagonistic to the interests of the farmers — they are endeavouring to show — they are endea- vouring to make us fight among ourselves again, but do not be deceived. The cause of the tenant farmer is the cause of labour, and therefore the 20 labourers’ cause. What coneerns the farmer concerns the labourer, the artizan, the merchant, the professional man. In Ireland the land is the source from whence we all draw, so that if the laws that regulate the land are bad we all feel the Aveight of them. If sufficient attention has not been given to this question of the labourers, it is entirely owing to the fact that 25 until recently this movement has been confined to parts of Ireland where there are not two classes, but where every farmer is a labourer. Well, I am glad that the question has been raised, and I publicly thank the landlords here to-day for having raised it. The labourer must be made as inde- pendent of the farmer as the farmer should be independent of every other 30 man in the country. The labourer must have a home and a plot of land, and knowino; not the name of landlord in connexion with either. This is not merely a land movement, it is a labour movement, and it is only by the force of such a movement that the rights of labour can be protected from the greed of monied power. Too long the people neglected their own 35 power. Labour AA^as scoffed at and derided by the Avealthy until it became almost considered a crime to obey God’s command to fallen man. But the Trades Unions have taught us a lesson, they have taught the people then poAver and hoAV to use it. We Avant noAV a similar union of the people of Ireland against landlordism, and in advocating this, in asking this, we are not advocating 40 anything that is contrary to religion or morality. The landlords have joined in combination against your rights, and try to uphold land monopoly. We^ want jou to ypin^im combination for the^assertion of your rights-,- and to-hreaL d awn that monopoU n But I am bound to tell you that that monopoly can never be broken down 4 r 3 merely by agitation. This agitation is only good in so far as it teaches the people their rights and leaves organisation behind it. So if you want this movement to succeed it must not be an agitation of mere Avords, it must have the organised and determined manhood of the country at its back. Y our duty wilFnot be done Avhen you return to your homes this evening — your 50 duty is not done by attending meetings of this kind. A more important 6 [C(n‘rlcl'-o)i-Slt(ii/rion . — OcAoho' 24///, 1880.) J the (H)untry, iiiul every man that lives by honest labour must he enrolled in 5 that hraneh. The triumj)h of this a^reat eause is now eertain il you hut rely upon yourselves. Do not mind the talk about State proseeutions. They may proseeute, they may imprison a Few of us, hut they eaiinot proseeute the nation {cheeys). They eannot imprison a cause, a cause that depends not upon man hut rests 10 upon eternal ])rinciplcs of rifi^ht. That cause cannot he destroyed. 1 verily believe that for every one of us that is cut down or sent into prison there will he ten more ready to take up the cause. It is a poor cause that cannot afford a few men to prison, or to a greater trial than that if necessary. Were it otherwise, and if with the arrest of Mr. Parnell the cause with which he is 15 identified would also he arrested, then the farmers of Ireland would deserve nothing better than the degradation and poverty that is their present portion. In order to carry on this movement to a successful point, you must observe three things. Pirst of all, you must organize, then you must refuse to pay an unjust rent. The man who now pays an unjust rent is worse thanjlm 20 man who extracts it. You must refuse to take a farm from which another has been evictedT^X man that takes such a farm is infinitely worse than th e man who has caused the eviction ; and sh ould such a man be found in the country, then you should visit him wit h the severest sentence of social ostra- cism ; the vengeance of the people should fall heavy upon him. Th ere are a 25 thousand wa ys in whTcli"you can puniMi him without viMating the law. There is no law to compel yo u to speak to him ; there is no law to compel youTdYeli~himrgoods ; Therms no lawi t o compel you to deal with the man who would selThim goods. This now is the programme of the Land Lea g vie ,. When we have a more extensive organisation we will have a more eom- 30 prehensive programme to submit to you, and when we have that thorough organisation, the days of Irish landlordism are numbered, and upon the debris of that system you can raise the structure of an independenc and prosperous Irish nation. Mr. Jasper Tully will address you. The resolution was put to the meeting and carried nem. con. A 4 7 {C((r)'tck-oii-Slt(tuii()u . — Oclohcr 1\Hi, 1880.) ^ ] Mr. Thomas Brennan. 11 now Ix'conu's my ploasin*,^ duty lo movo that JVlr. Waters do leave tlie chair, and tliat Mr. Lynch, of h^lphin, Ixi called th(;r('to. Aud i will avail niys(dr of the opportunity in order to move a cordial vote of thanks to our 5 chairman for the manner in which he has presided at our meeting- to-day. I am sur(' that resolution do(‘s not r('quire words Irom me to recommend it to yon ; hut I Avill, herore bidding you goodbye for the prc^^crit, ask you to allow not the se('ds of political truths Avhich have been scattered broadcast to day to fall upon barren groinid, but that you well tend them until a ]() regenerated Irish nation shall l)e the result ol' your labours. I trust this meeting to-day of the toilers of the country will l)c a snllicicnt answer to the croaking prophets who have been toretcliing a split among the working classes, and that this meeting of the farmers, the labourers, and the artizans to-day will lay the foundation of a fi-aternal brotherhood of labour which 15 alone can gnaru men’s rights against the coercion, the monopoly, and the tyr-anny of capital. In prosecuting this great social war I trust you will never forget that Irishmen liaAm a higher duty still, and that is the sovereign independence of their country. Heference has been made by some of the speakers to the members that represent or rather misrepresent Leitrim in the ImjAerial Parliament. Well, now, I do not care much for parliamentary representation in any form at present, as long as we have to send members to the English House of Commons; but as we have to send them there, it is better that men would go there who would represent the national opinion of the country. I think the men of Leitrim should 25 not be content to have any officer in British uniform representing them. I do not believe in the efficacy of parliamentary representation in the English House of Commons. I believe that if this country is ever to be redeemed, socially or politically, it will be by the might of mind and might of arm of Ireland’s democracy. I ask you to keep before your minds 30 the one ultimate object, the sovereign independence of your country, and when that glorious day shall come when the refulgent blaze of freedom’s sun shall burst over the disenthralled Irish nation, and the headstone shall be rolled away from the sepulchre, you who, hke the Magdalen, have watched by the tomb, shall look up in the heavens and say you have borne 35 a part, and no unworthy part, towards hastening the day which shall see Ireland’s social and political regeneration. 21 {^C((i'i'i('J^-on-!Sh(tiin<)ii . — OcAohcr '1 \4h, 1 8S().) / Mr. Francis Beirne (Local S(a rclary). (JcnilciiuMi, I have bocii asked io day to second the seeoud rcvsolntion, and 1 feel it one ol' the proudest honours of my lile to do so. No Irishnnin, no matter who, is worthy ot t;he name il he does noi; stand np lor his lcllo^^ 5 countryman when he linds that countryman 0j)pr(5sse(l and turned out h_\ a few of Cromwell’s followers and a lew oJ the Jlritish . . . (inaudihic) who are found in the market, without a penny in their pocket to hny property, and then raise the rent of the unfortunate people tliey have under them. Fellow countrymen, every man here knows a lot of them; we hav(‘ 10 Avretch called demmy Atcheson (groans) . . . (inaudihic through tumult) no wickedness could exceed it. lie in several eases threw the poor unfortunate tenants of the county into the law courts, and by going ther(‘ he knew he had friends, I say Mr. Wicken Lambert. I declare before God and man to day that no unfortunate tenant of tbe country ever got justice 15 before a court of huv in this country. In tbe first case, fellow countrymen, the chairman on that bench was in favour of the landlord ; he would use all his influence as chairman upon his side, and the officers of the court in like manner are in favour of the landlord, and the buckshot warriors. Fellow countrymen, in the court where nothing but magistrates would be 20 there was no justice for the tenants; some of them are persons Avho are acting the part of castle spies going up to the castle Avith all the vil- lany, they are going up with all the bitterness they can make up, and they Avant to get our leader, the honourable Charles Stewart Parnell and a good many of his followers, they want to swear right and wrong 25 everything they can, so as they can get him in prison, if only for a week. They want, if possible, if they cannot crush out this movement by another cause, they Avill use their home position, and say, “We will act no longer as magistrates if you don’t protect us.” FelloAV countrymen, if this Avas done there Ai’-ould be one of the greatest curses of Ireland wiped aAvay. 30 It is a shame to have these landlords at all magistrates, for I tell you truly they are not fit for the position they hold. It is a mockery, it is a delusion and a snare to have a poor unfortunate tenant summoned by his landlord there. It is perfectly impossible to get any justice in it. I was by myself at a trial in this court house here beyond, the stipendiary Avas an honest man, 35 every maiiAvho Avas brought thereby trickery and roguery and villany, e\eiy magistrate upon the bench tried their skill to get that man go against his honest convictions. The man that did succeed, I can name him, he is gone to that place Avhere there is no account of him, that was Pichard Lalor. FelloAV countrymen, there is another thing I would wish every man would stick to, and firmly 40 stick to. Let every man in Ireland avIio is a tenant farmer bind together and bang together against the landlords. The man that is able to pay rent let him offer Griffiths’ valuation for the present, and stand firmly to it, and under any circumstances whatsoever not to give a penny more. There is another class in the community, and they have no rights whatsoever to pay 45 a penny rent, those men who have neither cow nor calf, neither sheep nor goats ; they have nothing to sell unless they sell the product of the land in the Avay of oats and potatoes, and if they do not hold the harvest they are murderers, before God and man, of their families. We cannot expect that all the nations of Europe will this year give relief to the people. If any man owes 50 for the land let some of our landlords go begging. When we started the Land B 2 11 {C-s to Ca;sar, hut it is iiard to know what does helonj;- to Cmsar, I believe it is pot i^iving- to Ctesar what ])elongs to Cuesar it the landlord t^ots any rent at all. I believe that Caesar never gave any elaiin to the landlords of Ireland, who got their land from eonliseation, 10 robbery, and murder, from war and bloodshed. I believe Mr. Gladstone is said to be a very good man, be lias interfered very much for the Monte- negrins, and I believe now he wants to inquire and give the peojile their own land that was taken from them by Cromwell, and given over to a lot of eutthroats. 15 This other class of people who ihavc purchased the land and charge an excessive rent, if they charge an excessive rent for 10 or 12 years I say thev are well paid for the property, and the only Bill that I would like to see passed next session would be one that would sweep the whole of them out of the country and leave us some other mode. I believe that the Land 20 Commission is a mockery, a delusion, a snare, and a humbug. Anything, fellow countrymen, which is principally done by landlords Irish people have a right to know what they can do. We do not believe in the O’Conor Lon, we believe him to be a man of a kind of petty tyrant in Boscommon . . . (interruption and confusion.) I hope, I sincerely hope, 25 that when we have another election in Leitrim we will have no rotten members. We know (?) old whisky blended from that castle up there and we will have no dictation from landlordism, or any other thing, the people must determine for themselves . . . (confusion and uproar, sentence inaudible.) 30 I have been asked to speak upon a few occurrences which happened in our county in our immediate neighbourhood. If I were to do that it would take up too much of the time of the meeting, and as there are several clever men to come after me I would sooner that the people would stand determined together, and show by their action that they never will show cowardice, nor be afraid of 35 anv one, no matter who that man is. If they stand shoulder to shoulder and arm in arm, and go together as one man, no man to go behind his neighbour and to betray him. There is some class of men who, when they give in their money and think to join the Land League, think they have the privilege to do what they like. This I tell you they have not, because if I find there is 4 j 0 one in this town I will move it in the committee that this man be wiped out and not be allowed to remain in it. We will not allow any man to remain in it who is a traitor. No, we will leave him where he is, and if he has a daughter let no man marry his daughter (interruption). We have what is called a amongst us, that is an agent who has brought the 45 principle of the English acre into our midst. That, feUow countrymen, is simply adding about 75 per cent, in the case of rent, and it is an example which should be stamped out with the same vengeance as the cattle plague was stamped out of England with. We are bad (?) enough to see the land- lord looking for the rent he is pleased to demand, but to see an agent comiog amongst us demanding the rent of the English acre in our country, that should not be tolerated under any circumstances ; and if the people stand 12 ( C(irri(‘li-(m-Sh(f>niot /. — Oc/ohrr 21/'//, 1 BSO.) (h'ionuiiu'dly, and will not allow llu'msolvcs to irarnj)lod upon by tlu'so nuMi ; if (>v('ry man slands sliouhU'i- lo shouUU'r, and (Uib'rniinod to ^ct rt'ins, nolhini^ (^au slop tlu^ way for Iho pcioplc al; pn'sout. You arc; al)lo to siicoml ir the leaden- of llio Jjand liCa^-ue was iinprisoncd to-morrow; yon 5 are able to suee(;ed in your ri<;-lits if you arc; only true to each otbc;r. I ask you now, fellow eouutrymc;n, lo bold np your liands and promise raitbrnlly no man to bo traitor to bis fellow man (ebeors). I hope, fcllbw countryman, that from this day forth you will bear of no man goinu^ to the agents in a private way for a beneiit lo himself and ])aying the old rent. Let them stand 10 firmly, go in a body and olfer the Government valuation. If not accepted let every man retire and hold their money. If you go on in this way, fellow countryman, there is no power on c;arth can put you down. You cannot all be turned out, there is not workhouses enough in the country for every man to be turned out (confusion). We do not care wdiat is said of us, as that we arc; 15 demagogues, that we are this, that, and the other, but I tell you that we stand here to speak and fight for the people. We are not cowed liy the Government prosecutions, and we cannot help the Government in one way, because they are urged on and goaded on. Some of the bloody Whigs that are amongst them will say that they will vote against them on every motion 20 to get them turned out, to get a Government prosecution against the people. But it is useless, you cannot retreat. I hope, fellow countrymen, that this meeting will not be useless, that you will stand determined together, pull together with a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together. The resolution having been put — B 3 13 ( Carrick-uH-lSh(tnitoii. — Oclobcr 2 l/A, 1 880.) Mr. Sheridan (I^hiuI Lcaj^uc, Dublin) : — iMr. Cliairjuan and fellow countrymen. The resolution vvhieli L am asked to support here to day, has been so strongly spoken to, and so well recom- mended to you, that 1 have hut little to say upon it. The i-esolution 1 have 5 only to express my hearty approval of, it already has elicited yours. It is one that must recommend itself to every man who has to earn his living by the sweat of liis brow ; and from such a cohort as this the labouring class or the mechanic cannot he excluded. If this movement had for its object the exclusion of the mechanic or the labouring man, I should he very slow 10 and sorry indeed to take a stand upon this platform ; hut it was never oontcmplated at all that the workins: man should he excluded from this great national movement, which has for its object the social elevation of the Irish people. And the reason need not he mentioned, for who throughout the length and breadth of the land has earned better the gratitude of Ireland 15 than the mechanic and the working man. Who is it has fertilized the fertile plains which surround you by the sweat of his brow ? Is it not the working man ? Who is it has won fame for Ireland on the battle field. Is it not the working man. Who is yet destined to raise a prostrate people from serfdom to freedom ? Is it not the working man and the mechanic. Then my fellow 20 countrymen, such people must he the leading consideration in this great social struggle, in which the tenant farming class have taken a prominent part. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that the working man and the mechanic should pitch themselves with as much ardour into this movement as the tenant farming class themselves. Tor, as has been already well 25 remarked, the tenant farming classes of Ireland are the resources which ail grades of the Irish community have to look to for support. When the tenant farming (class) goes down, down with it goes all the interest of the working community of this beehive of industry. Without a healthy system of land tenure in Ireland, it is an utter impossibility that either the working 30 man, the mechanic, the professional man, or any other save the landlord could flourish in this unfortunate land of ours. Therefore, my fellow country- men, let the enemy when he tries to raise a rival cry amongst you, and shouts out for what he calls “ the old stock,” aad says that the tenant farmers and the Land League are forgetting the Avorkiug man and the mechanic, I say 35 disregard the hints and the suggestions that come from the enemy’s camp that are calculated to create a difference in your ranks, and to weaken your strength, when evidently they are calculated to set you at each other’s throats, that a chance might he left for the enemy to go in, annihilating your efforts. 40 No matter who the man, no matter what profession in life he belongs to, no matter what altar he kneels before, or what other recommendations he has, when he raises his voice and says that Irishmen must differ with Irishmen in this great national struggle, believe you me, that either secretly or wilfully or maliciously that man is in the employment of your enemy. There is no 45 “limbo” in Irish politics, there is no middle state, all who are not with us are against us ; it is the Irish people struggling, struggling to rescue their rights and to win their rights from an alien foe, who, hacked up by foreign laws, have so long ground you under their heel. All who do not aid and assist you in this movement must necessarily belong to the enemy’s camp. 14 (C(irricl--oi/-Sh(nn/on. — October 'l\Lb, 1880.) ' j Now, inv IVIlow countryiiuMi, if I vvoro to try to (l(!tiionstrat(; to you tlic ahsurditv ol' ('luloavouriu”' to aoooinplisli anythin”' tor your (jountry throuj^li ‘ anv otlior luoaiis tluin tho moans vvhioli tlio Irish National Land Loafifuo has propoundod, 1 holiovo that 1 would ho trying- to divert your attention just 5 IVom the one course, which appears above all others capal)lc of bringing within its embraces the entire national people. A¥e have been long getting u[) rival agitations, and we have bc-en long the victims of bigotry and rival feelings both in religion and in polities. Wo have waited long and we have worked hard and earnestly as Irishmen in trying to win our rights by these 10 means. The history of our connexion with England proves that we have not hit upon the right way ol‘ accomplishing our objects. Now, my fellow countrymen, this is a l)i-oad platform, it is open to men of every religious persuasion, it is open to men of every political conviction, it is open to men of any creed or colour, provided that 15 they arc Irishmen, that they wish to raise the social position of the Irish people, and shake off all allegiance to that accursed system that has been so long the bane of Irish society and of Irish prosperity. Then I say to you, men of the different branches of the League who surround me here to-day, that you must forget the old antipathy that you had to men of different creeds 20 and men of different politics. And any man who professes being an Irishman who wishes Avell to his country, and who wishes to join in this great national movement, receive him with open arms, cherish him as a brother, and give him a place in your ranks. So far this programme has succeeded wonderfully well, so well indeed that it has shaken landlordism 25 to its very vamps. As yet, when we come to consider its age and the length of time that it has been before the public, I cannot help considering it as little more than a political baby, and baby though it be, it has struck down a system in the land, which no other movement ever attempted in Ireland could accomplish. Then, my friends, cherish that baby, give him food, rear 30 him up till he is a man, and by the time he is it shall be but short and pleasant work for him to strike down for once and for ever the accursed head of landlordism. Too long has it been the lot of our unfortunate countrymen, rival countrymen, to be holding the cow by the horns, whilst the landlord was milkiog her. Now, my fellow countrymen, let us see if we cannot place 35 the landlord at her horns, and we ourselves do the milking. Man was born to live. Your experience of the past was bitter, bitter indeed, too bitter indeed ever to be forgotten. If you are incapable of benefiting by that experience, I say you richly deserve your lot ; but benefiting by it, rising to the height of this occasion, no longer going into the landlord’s or agent’s 40 office with trembling knees and trembling voice, I say, no more of that unfortunate slavish practice ; rise to the height of the occasion, and with folded arms shoot forth from behind those shaggy eyebrows the fire of your manhood. Eemember that when you meet those men you are addressing fellow men who are at the best but your equals, and your inferiors in many 45 things. Tailing back upon the consciousness of your own strength, buoyed up by a spirit of righteousness and of proud nationality, which always has given a feeling of vigour and strength to the Irish patriot, look these men in the face, and then you can tell them that too long you have been their slaves, but that that has been a thing of the past, but that that day is over in 50 the history of Irish manhood. Tell them in plain speaking that you have already resolved that you must have your rights, if possible within the lines B 4 15 ( C(()')'ick-())i-Sli(tnnoii . — Odoher 2 li/A, 1 880.) of ilio coiiir'iitiition, hut Hint if you caiiuot ^’ct tluuii vvitliiu the litu's of tlio coiistitutiou, that you, rather than suhiuil to such a system, arc ])r('parcd to have them or fall iu tlic attempt. Thes(5 meetings, my fellow (iouiitry- men, if we were only to consider them as iiua-ely gatlieriiigs to hear 0 specclies from platforms, 1 should think v(u*y litth; of them, and very rightly too. For this reason, if the doctrine propounded from t lujse plat- forms were nothing more than sentiment — sentiment that is never going to he reduced to practice, it was hotter that you should not he imposed on, that you should not have been wasting your time iu going to the trouble to (‘rect 10 this platform for mo or anybody else to come here making speeches, which at the best were little more than so many hubbies tossed into the air to amuse you for a moment and hurst, not leaving oven a trace behind them. But, my fellow-countrymen, reduce these speeches and doctrines to practice, carry them home to your firesides, to your farms, to your workshops ; hind 15 yourselves together and organise like men, and before God and Heaven proclaim your rigid and stern determination to no longer submit to a system which has left your children and your wives eating the bread of charity, and the bottom of the Atlantic whitened by the bones of your friends. By these means, fellow countrymen, by this sort of organisation, and by strict and 20 rigid adherence to the principles propounded by the League your voice shall rise into the air like the rumbling thunder that shall agitate the atmosphere. And if the British Government, and all others whom it may concern, do not take the hint from us, the hour may come when you will be asked to hurl the thunderbolt of your defiance in the teeth of any who should dare to 25 {inaudible through cheering). I have been informed that the leaders of this movement are going to be put upon their trial and cast into prison. W ell have Englishmen yet to learn what Irishmen are made of ? Have they not yet learned that we are not cowards. Have they not yet learned that we have the courage of our convictions, whether on the jilatform, the hill-side, 30 or the scaffold? If they have not, the men who took this platform shall once more prove to them and to the world that we come out here to give utterance to our convictions, to demand the restitution of our plundered rights, and to have them, or know why. Now, my fellow countrymen, if such a crisis should come upon you as that the leaders of this move- 35 ment are to be hurled into prison, I quite agree with my friend Mr, Brennan that for every one that is struck down ten shall spring up. I know you too well. I know the material that is in you, and I know that it may by-and- bye be said of you, as it has been said of the faith, that it was sowed in the blood of martyrs. If it is necessary that the men who are upon this plat- 10 form are to become martyrs to tbe cause, I do not believe there is one amongst them who should flineh from discharging his obligations to you and to his countrymen. If we are taken away I do not pity you. I say that it is but what you deserve if you men allow this principle to fall to the ground. If you do, the curse of generations yet unborn shall be upon your heads, and 45 if you do the curse of all that are upon God’s earth shall descend upon you as cowards who have neither the courage of your convictions nor the pluck to fight and win your rights. But, my fellow countrymen, you have in you material for an effort, you have the experience of the past, you have a keen appreciation of the sufferings of your neighbours and yourselves, and 50 you have, I know, the intelligenee of men to complete all that is necessary to make this movement a sueeess, notwithstanding the fact that its leaders may 16 [C((rrick-oit-SJi((iuioN. — Onfobn- 2 \lh, I HHO.) 1)0 sopanitod from you. Tlioii, I say, if sucli a crisis should lx* hroii^lit about, at onco to select from your ranks tin' besi,, the |)lu(;kiest , tbe most earnest of your men, let tbeni take our place on tbe |)latrorm, and even tboui^b Ave sbould i^o into prison tbere are plenty of mateiials for relays in 5 the Irish people ; and let them g'o on with the movement until every prison is filled with the Irish people, and then console yourselves that though so many have been removed from you still the principle remains, and it will never he incarcerated no matter Avhat measures may he adopted by England for its suppression. In tlie meantime, my friends, it would he Avell that 10 apart from the programme of the platform you Avould turn a little of your attention to some other local matters, and you will find as a result that you Avill accomplish a great deal of good. Now, there are many posts, many offices, throughout the country, particularly poor law guardians and those sort of things, towns commissioners, and so forth. It is 15 a horrible thing to find that people who have the franchise in their hands, such as that franchise actually is, send in to those hoards or those representative bodies, men who commit a libel upon their character, their wants, and their aspirations every day that the opportunity olfers. Noav, let me see that in future, at the next election of poor law guardians, no man 20 shall go in to represent any division but a Land Leaguer ; let me find at the election of town councillors that no man will get a place there hut a Land Leao-uer. Let me find that when a brewer or a distiller in Ireland shall begin to vend his whisky or his porter you shall not diink it if they are not Land Leaguers. If any man declares against the principles of the Land League 25 shut his house up, if he dares. If any fellow should go behind the hack of an evicted tenant and attempt by any sort of means, direct or indirect, to seek the possession of the evicted farm, let him he pointed at at fair and market ; let him be hissed ; let him he hooted ; do not strike him ; do not break the law. You can point him out, too, as I saw done the other day at the 30 fair of Tohercurry. When a land grabber sent in his cattle to he sold there, the bellman went out and said, “ Mr. So-and-so has sent his cattle to the fair ; “ is there any man to buy them from the land grabber.” They were moved around from one part of the fair to the other, a crowd of farmers followed them, the land grabber’s cattle. They had to be taken home, I believe, and 35 turned out on grass, or I do not know what else he might have done with them ; but when he wanted his . horse shod there was nobody to shoe him ; when he wanted his potatoes dug he had to go out and to work his burly little carcase at the potatoes himself. When he Avants some turf to boil his potatoes for dinner he has to go and put the creel on his hack \ nobody Avill 40 sell to him ; nobody will buy from him, and by-and-bye, Avhen his stock-in- trade is consumed he will be able to pack up his bundle and to get out. By this sort of organisation you will be able to break down this system Avhich an armed revolution might fail in prostratiug. But above all things there is one thing I must tell you. You have to rely upon yourselves as men. You 45 have to organise the strength and manhood of your country together, and while moving along in this constitutional agitation you must make up your minds that come weal or woe, that once we are a united people, if we do not •j^et our riffhts and our liberties constitutionally, like earnest, stalwart men, conscious of the dignity of then demands, conscious of a feeling that moves 50 AAuthin their breast, and conscious of their own rights of freedom and inde pendence, that you must at any cost have Ireland a free and independent country. The resolution being put to the meeting was carried nem con. Q 3366.-27. C 17 CLONMEL, Co. 'I'ipiicrnrij. Siiiidoji, 'l^lh Octohcr ISHO. '-i'- “■ men of Uio county of Tipperary can meet in tlieir tliousamls to as, their ii.»t riglitsi constitutionally and legally, witl.out committing a lireacl, Ol the peace (cheers), and without insulting anybody. I do also l.ope you, will show to the press of Ireland which is adyerse to your cause that they shall not make food for their journals out of your conduct here to-day, except by praising and extolling your good conduct. You wil show. I hope, to them that you meet in thousands legally and constitutional y. IP and that you will, when this meeting is over to-night, go home quietly am ,ronerally discussing the matters which may have occurrea. I have no doubt Whatever for the result, that you will act as Tipperary men should act. (Cheers.) I have no doubt there still may he some among you who when they hear the brilliant eloquence of the orators who will speak to you to-day, ,, may in the excitement of the moment, express some feeling or give way to some expression that may be insulting to some person, and m^ay injure your cause materially. You will, I hope, go home to-mght well pleased wi i what you have heard, and what you will hear, discussing he d.tterent matted and the speakers, and see how far they have advanced your cause. 20 Remember the great O’Connell has said ‘He who commits a crime gives strength to the enemy. I move that Father Flavan take the chair. Q 336 6.-54. A 1 {CliHiiiiol. — Oclohi')- ISSO.) Mr. A. Moore, M.P. “ 1 Ikivc! to III'OIIOSO this vcsoliitioii to you. (Ih^ad tlic same.) .. |,VII 0 « count, ■v.nou, I have t.'avoll,.,! fa,- to l,c with you iic-c ay. iCiicci-s ) 1 IVit tiiat ti,is nnicii was ,iuc to my constituents, and l.iiat, dcc|, - •esncct wiiicii i iiave tor tiicm-tl.osc constituents win, iiavc iionourcd me ■’ 1,; sendim; me to l>a,-iiamcnl to ..epresent tiiom. 1 (eit also ,t was due to that deep' sympatliy wldel, I liave and liave always l.ad lor every generous impulse and every lofty aspiration that wai-ms the heart or n’os , le i oo( of Tipperary. (Cheers.) You arc mot here to-day to pi-otest agams , . n ,,, systematic ■and long-continued misgovern, nent of the country -a mis- /ovornment that has resulted o,dy in poverty and nnsery .n frequmitly recurring famines, and dire misfortune in every shape. (Cheers.) Now. the causes 1 want to lay stress upon, as at the root of these evds, .u, ahsentcolsm, which drains the country of so much capital each yeai. jy Another cause th.at you do not hear from overyhody-the poor aws a,-e harsh ; an inelastic poor law, that never adapted itselt to the wants of the labourer or small farmer, hut absolutely in the present day places a premmm on extermination. (Cheers ) Then we come to the land laws. 1 say the e is no parallel tor the land laws found in any civilized country, ihey a e .,0 not the same in Scotland ; they are the same in England, hut under totally different eireumstances. In Scotland a man takes a farm for dl years A the end of 16, when he has five years of his lease to run if he does no g cood terms, he will rack his land, and give it up to the landlord. It is Ldlord’s interest to treat him well. In England they possess capital and or, have improvements. In Ireland the farmer has to stock his far m, leliui i , and drain, and fence, and then can be put out at 12 months no ice. (Cheers ) I look on the defect at the bottom of the laud laws, that the people never had security. Without security there could be no i^spenty^ The land laws have paralysed industry, and too often legalized robbery and an oppression (Cheers.) As a landlord myself I assure you I am per teetly staoerely desirous of drastic measures of land reform. (Cheers.) I tell you, YOU areOT the eve of a lasting and a happy settlement of the land question. I firmly believe it. (Cheers.) Our Government will do it, because they must. (Hear, hear.) Everybody is calling lor it. The tenants are calling aa for it and the landlords themselves are only too anxious, I believe, to get out of the difficulty. (Cheers.) I believe myselt the landlords are only too anxious tor any just and fair settlement, such as fixity of tenuie tail lents, and free sale; and I tell you my only anxiety is that Mr Gladstone is a little too fond of reforming the Grand Turk and Pachas of Constantinople, to and the sooner he turns his attention to the reform we want in our own country the sooner he will gain the respect of semible and wise men. (Cheers A voice; ‘Three cheers for Mr. Parnell,’) Now, what is the condition of the ooimtry ? There are 10,000 owners of land here, and 600,000 tenant-farmers holding from year to year. I sy that is a most ir uuhapov position for the tenant-farmers, and it is not a happy position foi the So landowners. I am anxious to. see not 10,000 but 200,000 owners -the farmers of Ireland holding their own farms. Well, my fiiem s, e you frankly I am not in favour of expropriation I do not want to see the Lndlords driven in a body from the country (Cheers.) Some have iieen .ood men, and many have been bad, I do not want tins. I do not think it 50 -21//', ISKIl.— .I/,-. I. .U.J’.) is iusl :in(l I ell. nol. tiuiil- tl>'- luvu'Idl'CMlIiolic livliind uoi.ld iisk I'or Mi'V- Ihii,.' uniusl. Now, ytUo>i, M.P.) .tnvil.iiK- which will justil-y ilicir culragroiis languagi*, l)ul- wc do need i., show Ihai tiic people this t:nnc are detennined, and they wdl not he delndnd ,itlu*r hy Whi,^ orators, or ]>e iohl to trust to the (Jovernnumt which lias Moihino- to -ive to the people hut eoercion and prosecution hut wd tiust .o r, their own eves and their hands. 'Diey will show th(‘. huidlords and (^<>vcin- nient in spite ot their teeth they will retain (he lands ot 'ripporary, and will hold the lands of Tipperary, and Avhen we have told them that lesson lor vears to come you will lind that the landlords of Tipperary will ijo not to the Cast le to ask for coercion, hut to Westminster, and say, ‘ Tor God s sak.i settle 10 the land question.’ Give them somethino-, abolish landlordism, and let t-hem be rid ot‘ their tenants.” (Cheers.) 1 ) 2 21 {(’loiiliK'l . — Oclohcr 21'///, ISSO.) Mr. T. D. Sullivan, M.P. : “ K('V(‘r(‘iid Chaii‘in:in and Icllow’ coimirviiu'n. 1 lliaiil< you for <^ivin!^ iru* tiu' opportunity of addrcssiii”’ to-day tliis splendid ass(MnI)Iag(; of tlie hravci and stalwart men of 'rippc'rary and Watcriord. I (longTalulatc you on your iiiun- 5 hers and doiueauour, peaceable, oi’dcndy, and good tempered. ^I'Ik; landlords oC Ireland are losing temper, and so well they may ; but you ar(5 not losing tc'inpcr, because though you have seen hard times, and though you arc; having hard times, you know you have right on your side ; and you believe', in this glorious and righteous struggle, you are on the winning side;. (Che;e;rs.) 10 Now, just fancy what a state of panic the landlords have got in through the length anel hivadth of the; lanel, tilling the newspapers with their eia'es, se'iiding over the land the me)st alarming a(;eounts of the mortal fear and peril of their lives they are in. They say, we cannot walk out at all without three or four of the Iloyal Irish Constabulary to take care of us (laughter 15 and cheers) ; and that at night we have to barricade all our windows anel double bar our doors ; and when we go to bed we do not know whether we will rise up alive in the morning. (Laughter and cheers.) Now, what makes those men so fearful r What makes them affected by this panic ? What shakes their nerves ? Bad consciences. (Laughter and cheers.) 20 Why, I know one of those gentlemen, down in the county of Kerry, who has got into such a nervous condition that if he hears a cock crow he jumps ; and two nights ago, about the witching hour of 12, a servant maid was passing along with the water jug in her hand, and she let it fall ; and he gave a bounce, and he fell on the floor. ‘ Oh ! Julia,’ says he to his wife, 25 ‘ I am shot ’ (laughter and cheers), and it took the poor woman half an hour to bring him round. (Laughter.) Well, my friends, these men are crying out for prosecution and coercion ; but you and me are not afraid of all they can do. (A voice : ‘No.’) One of the complaints they have against — I do not know who —against Heaven itself, is the fine weather we are getting 30 for our meetings. (Laughter and cheers.) Now observe, my friends, this : Whatever happens in the w'eek days, the Sundays have been floe ; and last year, it is very remarkable, when we wanted bad weather to bring down the rents, we had it. (Laughter.) I stood on the platform with Mr. Parnell in the town of Tipperary this time 12 months, and there was a storm of 35 wind and rain. We could not see the beautiful fields or mountains of Tipperary so great was the deluge that came on us, and we spoke from under umbrellas, and Mr. Parnell said words that rang through the land. He said, ‘ The elements themselves are fighting for us.’ And so it was; for down the rents came, 10 per cent., 15 per cent., and 40 25 per cent. (Laughter and cheers.) Now we want the fine weather for the spreading of the Land League, and, thank God, we are getting it. But I tell yon what, if the Attorney-General could find the name and address of the clerk of the weather (laughter), he would have him indicted for conspiracy. (Cheers and laughter.) He would have him up in 46 the Queen’s Bench next week with Mr. Parnell and your own representative, and Mr. Dillon, and other friends of the people who will be called to render an account of themselves. I do not know what shape or form they will throw their charges into against Mr. Parnell. I do not know with what plenitude of barbarous legal verbiage they will fill their monstrous indict- 50 ment, which is said to he from 15 to 20 yards long. I do not know what D 3 23 7 : ^Clinniirl.— Oclolirr-lillt. ISSO.— J/y. T. I). S>ft/iiutji, M.P.) |(vhni(*al and l(>-al diarovs I hoy 'vill |)iii into ll'd. (locumaiit a^-aiiisl him and his rricmds; l)uri will toll you what aro iho. (d.ai-os lhai- thosc^ mcu hav(^ in ilu'ir hoai-ts n-aiiisi iMr. I’anudl. And ihc liust oouni in iludr indicdmmnt a-ainst him "will ho, wilfully, as limy say, wilfully and maliciously, o and insti-aicd hy the devil (laughter), heeaus(' wlum any ma.n commits any ollcnee against Jh-itish law in Ireland, the lawyers say he is instigated hv' the devil. Now, on earth, 1 do not know why the riders should sja^ak so unkindly of their oldest and best friend, that is, the Old Boy. (liaughter.) But I will tell you what the charge against, Air. Banudl U) is d'he first count in tlu' indictment they have against him is that In; sa,v(‘d the lives of thousands of the Irish people. This is the sort of work these men do not want to have done, for they seize on every opportunity that oilers for depopulating this fair and fertile land of ours. (A voice : ‘ Bravo.’) To-day they dare to tell you that Ireland is over-populated. (A voi(;e; 15 ‘ With cattle.’) There are almost as many people in the city of London as in all Ireland to-day, and yet they tell us this country is over-populated. AThcn Charles Stewart Parnell saw the clouds of famine darkening on the Irish nation, he rose to their relief. He went, not to the British Parliament, he went across the broad Atlantic. He appealed to your fathers and sons, 20 brothers and sisters, to your sons and daughters, for help for the Irish people threatened wdth famine, and over whom there was no Government for their relief. He appealed to the generous American people ; nobly they responded to the appeal. His every word was turned to gold, and it was sent across to the Irisli tenants that they might have seed in the earth, that they 25 should have fruits in the harvest time. That is the first charge they have against Air. Parnell and his friends. What is the second count? That he put a check on evictions ; for though there are evictions going on to-day, heartless and cruel, yet there would he ten times as many hut for Charles Stewart Parnell and the Laud League. And now what is 80 the third count in the indictment f It is a count that touches the hearts of the landlords very deeply, because it touches their pockets. It is, he reduced the rents of Ireland. He did. He and his friends have reduced the rents in many parts of Ireland, and kept many thousands of pounds in the pockets of the people who earned it, and who had the best 35 right to keep it. These are the real charges they have against him ; and he wdl face them like a man. Now you have heard here to-day some very praetmal speeches asking you to bear your part in the struggle before you. Porm branches of the Land League. (Interruption.) All the prosecutions, and all the informers, and all the constabulary, and all tlie force of the to British Empire will not put down this movement. What is it we claim ? Is it any unjust or dishonest cause ? (A voice ; ‘ No.’) It is the cause of the rio'ht of the people to subsist in peace, comfort, and happiness on the abounding wealth that their own hands produce out of the soil of their own country, with the help of the good God. This is one of the objects of the 45 Land League. This is not a thing of yesterday. The principle prevails in ^ almost every country in Europe, except this country here; and many years ago the patriots of Ireland were putting before the Hash people the same idea of their peasant proprietary we are putting before you to-day. I came across lately some lines of Gavan Huffy, written in 50 1848," which will show you we stand on the platform here to-day that the bravest and best men of vour race occupied years ago. (Read the 24 ^(>l„„m<‘l.—(h‘lnl>rr 'lUh, 1 SSd.— J/y. T. D. S/fl/lrnu. l/.P.) s:nur dou .. lo Hu' uonls) ; ‘ Hui wo a.v sorfs in oiu- own laini, llav.l ini.sln-s U'll us why.’ ^Vo !>!•(' asking- iluit (luoslion Iumv lo-day, and W(i mown lo have an a’nswor to il. Now, my IVionds, ndy on this: yon liavm. lo save Yonrsolvos; in vonr own Inmds it rests, not in tin. hands ot yonr loaders, 5 so oallod; not' in the hainls of (iladstono and Ihd-ht and t\)rstor. All Ihosi'* men will ho powerless to ludj) yon if they had the wdl il yon do not show yon are ivsolved to Indp yonrsehms. (Chw'rs.) VV(‘ asK you to rorni h'^ul eoinhinations aguinst raekrenimg and evietioiis over'tlu' length and breadth ol' the latul. Stand together like men. Never 10 mind what they are doing in Parliament; they will have to do tin. right thing hy-and-liy it you do yonr own shave. Now, the organisei-s and "leaders ot the Laud League will stand heton. the judges ol ^ the land in a tew days to he tided tor their aetiou in this matter. They say, we stand, not only before yon, gentlemen, but before the trish race 15 and before the people of the world, and heaven ; we say our hands are clean, and our hearts are pure, and we have no motive in the struggle except that which is honourable to human nature; the motive ot patriotism: the love of our oivn race and people. If it be these men are stricken down, as your member told you here to-day, see other men take their places. It they 20 be struck down, let other men come to the front, and show whom it may concern that the Irish race have set their hearts on this cause, ami they will never desist till victory crowns their efforts ; ‘ The axe, the gibbet, and the chain Have done and do their work in vain ; 25 ***** We yet shall see The green flag wave triumphantly.’ ” (Cheers.) D 4 25 {(Uoiniirl.—Oclohcr '■iMh, ISSO.) Mr. Michael P. Boyton “ .M(mi Mild WOIIUMI of 'rippcMViry and W'liicrrord, I did iiol, coriK! Ik'i-c lo i'iak(> M spei'ch. Siudi was not luy inioniioii. I came here to jierform :i |)l('asiii^‘ and an hoiioui'ahle duty, and a duty that i hava; already perloriued 5 oil 20 ])!atrorms in the county ot 'Pipperary. (Cheers.) d'hat is, Cuit you have now taken up tlie li'ssons that you have luaird troni tiie ('loquent lijis ol your owu re])rosentativc, the r(^presentativ(' of AVaterlord and Westnieatli here to-day. 'Pliesc^ nu'etin^'s, as you were told, will have no r('sult unless you are det('rniin(Hl to work. Already in the land movement we have had K) too much talk and too little work. It will he a proud moment for nui if the British Government puts me side by side with John Dillon to prosecute me for doing’ your work. Now, in pursuance ot my duty as an organiz(‘r of the Irish National Land League, 1 call on every man here to pledge himself before God and in the sight of his fellow countrymen nev(;r to 15 take the farm from which his neighbour is evicted for nonpayment ol unjust rent, never to purchase crops or cattle seized lor rent, and never to Avork on such land. Every honest man Avho is prepared to take that pledge manfully and determinedly to keep it, hold up his right hand.” (Hands Avere held up.) (Cheers.) 20 The meeting concluded Avith a vote of thanks to the chair. 26 BALTINGLASS, (V>. !!7( AA>/r. SfiiKlau, 24//t Oclohcr, 1880. The Inspector General, when sulnnitting tl.e Government file respecting this meeting, stated that tliere was no Constabulary roporter available to attend it. The papers included a communication by Sub-Constable John Carty (Baltinglass, 3lst October, 1880), and another by Sub-Constable 5 Daniel Donovan (llollywood. County Wicklow, 31st October, 1880), to the effect that a report which appeared in the Leiaster Leader newspaper of the 30th October correctly gave the speeches made at the meeting, these were referred to the Attorney-General for directions whether any notice of the proceedings should be taken in the Brief. His minute tliereon 1 0 was ; “ Let reports of the meeting (such as they are) be transcribed and printed” (10th November, 1880). This was referred to the Inspector- General of Constabulary to obtain such reports as the Constables would be able subsequently to depose to if necessary. He thereupon gave them the following directions : — 15 “Let the two Sub-Constables who attended this meeting write out fully all the notes taken by them at the meeting— and submitted, in order that they may be printed in the Crown Brief. Nothing is to be stated except what can be sworn to on the witness table. The following are the reports submitted in obedience to these 20 directions ; — , . , Baltinglass, 13th November, 1880. I beo- to state, that I am prepared to prove on oath, if necessary, to the accuracy of the annexed transcript of notes which I took at the Baltinglass 25 Land League meeting. Signed John Carty, Sub-Constable, 33,755. transcript of notes TAKEN AT BALTINGLASS LAND MEETING. 30 “ Mr. Sexton said of the two classes connected with the land in Ireland, one or the other must go. , • t r i n m “ There is no cure for the land question except to get rid of landlords altogether.” „ ^ i “ The day is not far distant when you will be free from the tyranny of 35 despotic landlords.” (Signed) John Carty, Sub-Constable, 33,755. 5 Z 2 /' {/iulthujlass. — 2ith October, 1880.— i/?-. Sexton.) Hollywood, IStli Noveruber, 1880. 1 i-csj)ectfully beg to forward the annexed transcript of notes which I took at Baltinglass Land League meeting, on Sunday, 24th October, 1880. 5 1 am i)reparcd to prove on oath as to the accuracy of the notes I lierewith submit. With reference to the last paragra])!! of notes, which is incomplete, 1 beg to state that 1 could not, owing to the cheers of the people assembled, hear what Mr. Sexton said after the word “withstand,” but I believe the 10 report published in the Leinster Leader of 30th October, 1880,contains the continuation of said paragraph. (Signed) Daniel Donovan, Sub-Constable, 39,314. TflANSCTlIPT OF NOTES TAKEN BY ME AT THE LAND LEAGUE 15 MEETING AT BALTINGLASS, ON 24tii OCTOBER, 1880. Mr. sexton, M.P., said ; — “ Of the two classes connected with the land in Ireland, one class or the other must go.” “ There is no cure for the land question except to get rid of the landlords 20 altogether.” “ Outrage is the child of the agrarian system, which forbids the people to live on the soil.” “ Outrage is a symptom of the agrarian system, we have nothing to do with it.” 25 “ We, in going into this movement, accepted the responsibilities and the risks.” “ The day is not far distant when you will be free from the tyranny of despotic landlords.” “There is no power on earth which could withstand 30 (Signed) Daniel Donovan, Sub-Constable, 39,314. O 4 {Galway. — 24 <^ October^ 1880 .) Mr. Charles S. Parnell, M.P. Mr. Chyiriiuin ainl pc-oph* ol tiic city and county of Galway, it gives me -rcat pleasure ro stand in tlie county wldt^h was the second in Ireland to n.ke up the great niov. nieiit which was started last May twelvemonth hy Michael Davitt, iit Irishtown. You have nobly uplield that cause from that 5 day to tlds day! in the face of every dilHculty and discouragement, despite of the famine that thnnitened to carry you oft in thousands last winter ; and you will uphold that cause to-dav in spite of ttie thousands of police and military that that hypocadtical Cliief Secretary ami pretended Liberal Go- vernment have hurled into this country (groans). If famine was not able 10 to sulxlue you last winter, neither will the threat ot taxation for additional police conquer you to day ( “ Novel ). Now, your chairman has deprecated assassination and violence as being un- necessary to win your cause, and vi-ry properly and justly deprecated it (hear, hear), and at all the Land Meetings which had been held up to the 15 time when extra police were jilanted down in the county ot Mayo, 1 also took care to join in that condemnaiion (hea'y hear, Long may you live ) ; but I utterly refuse furrlier to allow any credence to be attached to th e_ charges whictr~lTave been made ag-unst us and our people by the Englis h press, by in future deprecating outr a,^e and cri , 20 1 i ot listed ; and if it were otherwise, 1 say that the conduct of the Govern- ment, in violating the engagement upon which we gave them the votes for the Constabulary, after seven nights’ debate, and in sending these extra police into the famine-stricken counties of Galway, Mayo, and Kerry, disentitles the II to mv advocacy in assisting them to uphold an unjust and an in- 25 famous law (hear, hear). What is lesponsible ? Who are responsible for the murders of landlords which have from time to time, at all times in our history, taken place in this countrv ? It is admitted lyv everybody that English made law is responsible- (cheers), and I say that the people who are primarily responsible for the 30 murder of Lord Mountmorres, if it was an agrarian crime, and of that I have very great doubt, are tlie House of Lords, who, by rejecting the Com- pensation for Disturbance Bill, took the arbitrament of this question from the Courts of Law, and placed it in the hands of the people ; and the man who is secondarily responsible is this pretended humanitarian Chief 35 Secretary of ours, buckshot Forster, who, when the House of Lords kicked out his Bill, and smote him on one cheek, turned to them the other cheek to smite also. He foresaw then, and he publicly stated' in the House of Commons, that ne anticipated an increase of crime, outrage, and loss ot life in Ireland, and yet in the face of that he deliberately refused to keep 40 Parliament together, and to force through the House of Lords, a measure which would prevent him from being made the instrument ot landlord tyranny and injustice. Well, you are left to your own resources, as the people of Ireland always have been left, as far as anything that the Par- y. jjJ^ 4 X 4 {Galway. — ‘Zitli October, 1880. — Mr. Charles S. Parnell, m.i>.) liiuiKMit of ever Inis dotic or is ever likely to do for you ; atid I sti)i[)ose thnt we sliivll witness the usual crop of prosecutions tliis winter (lanehter), the return to the old policy of coercion, which has always heeii the resort of I'liirlish statesn\(*n after they have found out that Fiigland is 6 unable to govern Ireland. I anticipated this wlien this great Liberal Ministry eanii’ into power, of which we have heal'd so much, and of whose professions we have heard so many I expressed my belief at the beginning of last session, that the pi'csent Chief SecretaTV, who was then all smiles and promises, would not have proceeded very fitr in the duties of his office before 10 he would have found that he had undertaken an impossible task to govern Ireland, and that the only way to govern Ireland is to allow her to govern herself (cheers). And if they prosecute the leaders in this movement, it will not be because they wish to preserve the lives of one or two landlords much the English Government care al)out the lives of one or two landlords 15 (‘‘ nor we — awav with them all”), but it will be because they see that behind this""^novement~TFiere~Ts~a more dangerous movement, to have a hold over Ireland, because they know that if they fail in upholditig landlordism here, and they will fail, thev have no chance of maintaining it in Ireland, because they know that if they fail in upholding landlordism in Ireland, their power 20 to misrule Ireland will go too. I wish to see the tenant-farmers prosperous ; but large and important as is the class of tenant-farmers, constituting as they do, with their wives and families, the majority of the people of this country, 1 wo u ld not have take r} off my coat and aone to this work, if I had not known that we were laying 25 the foundations by this movement for the recovery of our legislative inde- pendence. Push on then towards this goal, extend your organization, and let every tenant-farmer, while he keeps a firm grip of his holding, recognize also the great truth that be is serving his country and the people at large, and helping to break down English misrule in Ireland (cheers). X 5 4X2 {Galway. — ‘Uth October, IBBO.) Chairman. Yim luivo lioard this rosulutioti, tlie first resolution, so ably spoken t.. by tl,e learler of this p<.|.nlar eat.se, Mr. I'arnell. Those who are ... fiwoi.r of this rosohitio.. will say aye. Is there ..nybody asai.ist it ? (“ No. ) Allow me now to |.resent to your attention the able, ...fluential, and 5 honest inouiber, Mr. 1. P. O Connor. Mr. T. P. O’Connor. Fellow countrymen the resolution winch I have to propose is in the following terms : — “ Resolved that such leLnslation must deni with the soil of Ireland as the property of the commonwealth, to be directed chiefly, if not exclusively, to 10 the welfare and happiness of the cultivators of the soil. I am proud to-day, not only of the town but of the countv of Galway. Yon have emne here from almost every district of the county to show your enthusiastic devotion to the principles of the Land League, to the leadership of Mr. Parnell (cheers), and to the action of the Irish party. You have 15 come here from Athenry, you have come here from Carraroe, that placti of heroic men, and still more heroic women ; you have come here from Killanm, where you have a priest who is settling the land question ; you have come herefrom Castlebar, from M;ayo, and from Barna, to show that you are a united in standing by your rights and by your chosen leader. 20 Now, what is the principle for which we are fighting ? We are j, itiii^ for this, that two millions and a half of people shall no longer be governed by 8,000 or 10,000 landlords, and if there be a part of Ireland in w iie i this fight should be carried on with energy and to the end, it is in this counUg and in this town of G.lway, for there is no part of Ireland which 25 has groaned so much under landlord oppression as this very place where am now standing. Have not the landlords of the county of Galway inflicted duty labour upon you, and are not they ever inflicting lashes on the Irish tenants, as sore as were ever inflicted by the South Carolina planter upon the slaves under his control ? Is it not true that in this very county, during 30 the famine years, landlords have murdered the tenants of the county of Galway (hear, hear). Is it not true (it is true), and is it not also true that many a landlord in the past has used the power which the English law gave him, to destroy female virtue, and to send virtuous girls that have been in virtuous Irish homes to the asylums of vice in Liverpool and the New 35 World? Are not all these things true, and if they be true, have not the landlords of the county of Galway proved themselves the enemies of the people of the county of Galway (they have). I heard, like my friend, Mr. Parnell a great deal of the friendliness of the Liberal Ministry when they came into office, and the chief of that 40 Ministry, and the Ministry generally reached their power by destroying the power of the Turk. Well, I believe that was a noble and holy object, but if they want to destroy a worse oppression than was ever exercised by 6 (Galway. — iUhOctoUr, 1880.— T. I'. O’Coimur.) ,ln. 0.mstaL.tiu..|,U^ over the people tif BalRaria, let their, co.no and nholUi the Uiidlonls of Irelnnd (np|ihuise). In Hulgnrni, ns you know tl.e people of n villnste enlled Itntnk were all murdered, and the murder of these people in Bntak seltle.l the Tui'kish rule. Wliy, we have 5 had llataks in every county of Ireland. In the tniddle ol all the so erin;. in the mid.lle of all the deaths, the daily deaths, the hourly deaths l.y fatnine in this county, Mr. and .Urs. Gerrard turned 270 families out of a village in tills county. She was offered the rent, she refused the rent, and I Indieve that some of the (leople that she tnrneil out died upon the load- 10 side. Were they not uiurdeied liy Mr. atid Mrs. Gerrard ? (“They were ). Well, I helieve that we are going to win this great victory. Tlie^ spirit which reigns in Galway at this moment is a proof that the people of Ga w.n are aroused to the magnitude of the situation (hear, hear). ^ ^ e mean to kill laiidlordisiu in the end, we have already killed the spirit of lane - 15 lordism in this country (applause). In the very streets of this town in my boyhood, I have seen tenants standing while It was pelting with ram, with their hats off, talking to the landlord. If any tenant do that in future, denounce him as a eowanl and a traitor (cheers). In this very town when I was a hoy, I asked an Irish tenant for whom he was going to vote. 20 He looked like a frightened sheep when I asked him the question, and he told me that I should first ask his landlord Is there an Irish tenant who ^vill crive a cowardly answer like that now? (No). I therefore say that we have scared the spirit, and by-and-by we will bury the corpse o 25 For us who have entered into this great tight not with light hearts, no in a spirit of levity, but in the full responsibility of our actions for us it remains to hold the .‘Standard of tenant freedom aloft m spite of the attacks of the Government. We are animated by the sublime hope of killing a worse desDOtism than ever reigned over the negro slave, for the negro slave SO was fed, and the Irish tenant is starved. We are anmated by t le lope o puttino- down a despotism as atrocious as the despotism of t le as as, a despotism, whicli if not backed by the unmerciful swiftness of the Turkish sword, is backed by the cold and calculating cruelty ol the notice to quit. We are animated by the hope of finding a iiatiou of paupers, and leaving a 85 nation of prosperous men. We are animated by the hope ol having found a nation of slaves, and leaving a nation of free men, ano, animated by that hope, we appeal to the impartial verdict of every just and generous mind, arid we will go on to the bitter end (cheers). Mr. CRADDOCK. — I second that resolution with much pleasure 40 CHAIRMAN.— All of you gentlemen who are of opinion that that resolution should be passed will say “ aye. The resolution was carried unanimously. 7 (GaUrwi. -%Uh ()cto!»r, 1880.— yl/r. J. H KiDm.) „,unlry n,ust, work to^iother. lor kho woakooss of the ...untry noco».arily b,...,.,noa the woak.u.ss ..f the tow n. We .oust all pull t..gother, cty, an, town, and country, all with one pull (“8,. we will”), and never for one n.o.nent hnagine that there is any contlict at all hetween tins n.oven.ent and the 5 .Treat .novo.nent for the restoration ..I' our independence No. N.. man say that this country has ever given up those hopes which for contunes have .:heered her. No person will ever say but that Ireland s history for 7(10 years has been a continual i.rotest against the degradation of foreign Govornnients. Will you now Hing away the hopes that have been t e 10 olory of our country '-Never. I know that the last men who would ever take up such a doctrine would be the men of Galway (cheers). They have proved themselves hitherto to be men, and I am perfectly confident that they will prove themselves to be so in the future (cheers). CHAIRMAN.— Mr. Harris, of Ballinasloe, the tried friend and advocate 15 of the people throughout the province of Connaught and all over Ireland, will now address you (cheers). 12 4 Z {(j'alwai/.—'Mth October, Mr. Matthew Harris. |,„|i.«an,l Gcntl,.,u.m, I think wn have all rnanon t„ bn .m.l / ( :„hvav unm. that Calway is nnn ,.l' tbn tbrnn count, e» that the (a„v - ,„n„t has thonoht Ht to in,|,osn thni,' conn-ion laws n,,o,,. (K. ,s ,.snln»s). 1 4 - I iiroiul tint ill the t'aet' ot the ainiouiiceiiu.iits Wo have roasiMi - 10 FeUow-co„ntry,„en, .M,-. Parnell, in the course of Ins spnenh, stated t Galw-ay was second to Mayo upon this great ,novement, but tell ^ - Parnell, that for three years before they co,nme„ced ,n Mayo we advocating the cause of the tenant-farmer in the county Galway , and during that time, Galway .nen (we have now an association 15 we put forwai-d the clearest and the vitalest prine.p es upon this land ques- tion We put it lorwar,! as a question of right, and we put , forward as a question of expediency. Well, my fi iends, though we asserted the rights of the people at that time, we were willing to accept the very moderate. the very poor. 1 iniglit say the very worthless measure winch Mr. Isaac 20 Butt brounht forward. We were willing to accept that measure- we were _L-we were moderate-we were everything that ge.itleinen ,n hioh places are alluding to at present. « hat was the lesu o our rea sonableness i what was the result of our nioderat.on '! Bid we ® “T converts amongst the landlord class ? U.d we bring forward the support 25 ol the hierarchy of Ireland upon onr platforms ? No, gentlemen, they held aloof, and, when we found that reason and moderation were not effec- tive we tui-ned round and appealed to the manhood and to the courage f the Irish people, and to that appeal we had a noble response ; and to ,„-.i ,e that appeal doubly effective, we gave our support to Mr. Parnell, an e 30 has sustained the platforn, of courage and independence throughout this great movement as he has sustained it on this platform here to-day *°'weU o-entlemen, what would be our position if now, in this great crisis, we had’ such men as Mitchell-Henry (groans), or that we had such men as 35 Mr Shaw to lead us, who were dining with the Chief Secretary, and wi the namby-pamby work forsooth. They talk about moderatmn and good sense, and people quiet, and so and so. What position would we he n. to-day if we had those men in the front ? 1 tell you we would be in a worse position than we were in 1844, when the O'Connell party shi-ank bac ■ 40 from the contest that was forced on them by the Government Wei liny friends we have succeeded at all events, notwithstanding all the cavil bugs and all the objections that have been put forward against us ; we have .succeeded in rousing up. not alone the public mind of England, or the 13 4 Z 2 :/ .j i^(htlway.—^lUh Ocfohcr, ISHO.—Mr. Matthew Ham.) pv.l.lic press of Eoolaiul, l.ut ibis ^n-caf cause has exteiulod itself novvr tbroiuduu.t the w..rl(l. In (>very country of the worhl-in places where IrishmeTi are not^the Irish (piestion is the question of the day. And as ao-rariau crime has been alluded to by your c‘hair,uan, and has been dwelt , upon by nearly all the s])cakers that have addressed y<.u, 1 shal say a few words upon that very ini])ortaut subject, for, jj^entlenien, t iu> •w n le is not one man in Ireland knows more about the nature and the proceedm-s of what they call aj^nurian crime than T do. 1 remember in the year 1 fi43, when Dan O’Coiiuell and Mr. I homas, otu LO Steele, the Head Pacificator, when all their effbrts were exerted to j-ut down aorariau crime in Ireland, and it took all their efforts, and it too t le efforts of the Catholic clergy, and it took the efforts of every good man m . this country to put down agrarian crime at this time ; and I may say, my friends, that 1 myself, though a very young man at the time 1 wen 15 out into the country at the risk of my life, myself and a young friend of mine- I went out to the Ribbon Lodges and tried to persuade those men to give up their evil ways. Through the instrumentality of O’Connell and thixnicTh the instrumentality of every good well-miiided man, agrarian crime was put down at that period. What was the result? No 20 was agrarian crime juit down than the exterminatoi came in, an Poulett Scrope, whose speech has been read by Mr. Killen, a gooe anc a moral man, he had to take his choice between two monstrous evils, f e haithe agrarian criminal on the one hand, and he had the doubly agraiiaii criminal, the exterminator, on the other (hear, hear.) And,^ my rieiu s, 25 when I came and looked round, and when I seen the desolation that was caused by the exterminator, when I seen the plains that weie toiniei y inhabited by contented and happy people, when I seen such men as Polloc , when I seen the smoking ruins of hundreds of thousands, and when I seen a fine fertile happy country left desolate by a man who is more merciless 30 to his fellow men than the wildest of wild beasts is to his fellow species ; when I seen this, I had to say to myself, which is the greater evil— whether is it better that one had man should be shot down than hundreds and hundreds _I believe it amounted to 1,200 families -that hundreds of those families should be driven from the face of this fair Island ; and when I see this 35 extermination, and when I see the weakness of our people, and when see tyranny triumphing over right and justice, and when I see my fe ow countrymen driven to the four winds of heaven, I say to myself, an say it here to day, that if the tenant farmers of Ireland shoot down landlords as partridges are shot in the month of September, that Mat. Harris never 40 would say one word against them. w ii Now, my friends, they are going to commence their prosecutions. e , let them prosecute away. The truth is the truth, and as long as I stan upon a public platform I shall proclaim it. 14 Octoher, 1 RfiO. - .1/r. .]f((f.flH'w rTarris.) Well now ., wai .. i.a ulW n-, 1 .!« .-td.ml. IIkU I will .lotaiu vuu v«,v l.-s l s|„«l, uftl-day isU,.- in youv .mml-K. uotwitl.stal,.^ i o IliiaateiHHl jnusecutioiis wliicli tlie (.loveriimont- moan o on oice the in.l.lio opinion of Troian, I Aftor the spoool, that yon have hoar, r,.,„n vour ,.1,1 votoran, Kathor ( 'leroy ; after the n|,eo,.h yon have hoar,l on the hthourors- ,ino»t.ion, and this is roally the most .mportant ,|nost.on. von oonhl deal with, for it oo.nos ho.ne to the lives ot the |-o,. o 10 All,.; the speech yon have hemal fro, n that trne ,‘7’','* Nationality. Father Sheehy— nationality of no spuiions uni , . , anil true model of what nationality onoht to be, an, w' la '' (cheers). This vesolntion pledges yo„-[here he read the reso ution.J The other resolutions have been nnpo.tant, l.nt I assure yon. this is the most important resolution that eonld he put betore yon at ns meetimr. We have m Ireland several theories for settling the lainl qiies- thm. Many of yon have heard of the scheme of what they call hxity of teiiui't;. fail' rents, and free sale. J Ftnce. — “ We don’t want that.” i • 20 Mr. O’i’iiffic,™.— Now, we have examined that scheme, an we n, it wantino.. What vou would be really doing would be fixing tlm poor nan an.l tli: rich inai'i that the rich may prey u,,on the poor, . on woiiU be fixing the people in a state of chronic mendicancy. Ymi would be d g precisely what Castlereagh did for Ireland when he effected the Fnion. 25 wd!ii to know is there any man on this platform, or in this aud.enie to-dav who will make Castlereagh his precedent and act as he rastoii , N.d even, as Father Sheehy said, m the matter of cutting yonr own throats. We mean to keep them safe for the present, an i "i 000.1 and powerful Government that we will let cut them “t'e" “ 30 tcheers). T'he only scheme tlieii tliat you will have ; t ie on y sc leiiie tf w have advocated from every platform in Ireland is the scheme ,hicl, gives the land to the people ; that is. which g^e and to the Irish (cheers). You can do that in only one way.JTt is by i oing away with that system which has impoverished, which .’“’F V" ' w l.lt-h 35 demoralised the people, that hideous infernal systein of landlordism has been a burden upon you and upon your fathers for ages an ‘ e ^ You must do away with that system. You mus. make every iiia.i who t s the soil and earns from it his daily liread ; you must make hi... ti e ’ 1 1 +• +1 ot 0^1 i-ip fills (cheers') e have been told proprietor and the owner of that soil he tills (^cnee ) 40 that landlordism is not a thing intrinsically had. j Yoice . — “ Down with the heggnr.s— shoot them. ^ ^ 'fhi- cry was immediately condemned by a clergyman, and i . O feu n a eoil.lliuhi said:-l»o not d^ You do such a thing at the present stage of our movement, even though a man considers he i» doing w la ( A 1 / nnillocl'. '2\f/i (frtnhrv, IHSd. .)//•. .1/. .1/. O'Snllh'oi,.) ' riolit. :uh 1 ('vcn in accord with tli.' otonial justice whi.-li rccouni/.<‘s sclf- ,„vscrvation. (In- man that does such a tliiu'c- at the present sta^e of our nioveiiu'iit iloes wliat is inipolitie and wrou^. He c.iitimu'd Let us examine the system of landlordism, tlu' sy.Heru f) wl'ieh we arc told is not intrinsically had, let us see wlcit it has done for ns and our fatluas iiefore us in tlu- past. I A't us see- -and you here in these rich and heautiful vales, in these fertile plains of yours, you do not know and cannot fully uiuh'rstaud all the misery which is pi-educe.d hy landlordism on the harren hills of (V)nnemara, and in the mountains and hogs of 10 my own native Kerry (cheers). Hut even here in these heautiful vales winch could produce food lor millions, even here we have the ])oor man di iveu hack from the rich ami fertile valleys into the very mouths .if these hogs your tiithers before you fertilized hy the sweat of their hrow. These lau.ls'they rendered them pro.luctive, and what was the result? The landlord, 15 aided hy T.ritish rule, or rather hy British misrule, drove i.ack the people ste]i hy step from fertilized land to hog land, and drove them from that into the workhouse and into the emigrant ship, until the Atlantic Hcean is crossed from end to end of it hy the V.ones of Irish emigrants. We mean to put an end to that state of affairs in Ireland. That has continued for the 20 past, but we will, we vow here before heaven, and before men, that it will not continue for the future (cheers). We vow — in the might of our numbers here to-day— we are ten thousand strong, and seven thousand people own three-fourths of England. Ireland and Scotland. We ten thousand vow here to-day that these seven thousand people must go out 25 of the lands, and that we will resume the original rights of the people. We vow it. We are millions, they are units. Heretofore we have been disunited ; we have been looking t(. every class above us to lead us, but we have never depended upon ourselves, and this movement, which is essentially a democratic movement, this movement springing from the 30 people, guided by the people, looking only to principles which are immortal and not men, men who may be changeable, with these principles fixed before us, fixed as the Eock of Cashel, we will go on until triumph and victory are secured. No matter who tells you to swerve to the right or left from this movement be not guided by him, because he is no friend of yours. Take 35 the advice of those tried and true men, upon whose word, uponwhose honour, upon whose political honesty you can rely, be guided by them, they show you as plain as daylight what is your duty, and lie guided by them, and follow that duty. But not only is rack-renting, not only is the confiscation of the tenant’s property in the soil, not. only are these the results of Irish 40 landlordism, but we must live, and feel, and see a worse system still ; we must see, as very many of you have seen the poor man and the widow woman who built the house and reared her children on the little farm, we must see that house burned as houses lately have been burned in Kerry by Mr. Hussey. 45 [Eev. Mr. Shcehv here called for groans for Mr. Hussey, which were loudly given . o, I ss„._ M M. O'.SW//,.,,,,.) Mr.O^W/;m,..-\V.■n,ust«,.n..ss That, w.,n,a„ wUI, lior el.^vc.,, .•iMl.lru.,, wo .nust wltno.s llwn, ti.row,, ..uts„lo tiu, I, ..use w . ,l,on,.olvos la.ilt, tl,c lan.l wl.ici, M..,y .■,■.1 u.no.l wo ,m, at look at oan,oatly look,,,,- back at that bouse wbiob was buruo.l, uo tb j c nor tbov bavu« one uoascl ot loo, I to a,,,,oaso tl.o va.o,UK^ el b m u Mutt b„;-u at tbe.r boarts. II au.youo uu tl.is |.la, lorru or ,u ^ ' ,,,,.1 ol- suol, a s..euooaaol.,l iu tl.o streets ol l.oua.,,., roa.l ol |o. ),ouseless, luuueloss oue, wa.alonu, ..utsale the ,loor built but oveu a slrauovr, seoiuo ibat |.oor wouiai. aiul be, c. , i.,o OU the door steps wl,o ooubl ,op,-oss toa.-s, ..adu.w . eve., , a „o e wl^. fould .-ep.-ess e.uot.o,, . a„.l, r.-adiug, wl.ose blood woul.l uot be I. r. I . red,ess tbe wrougs el suob a wo„.a„, but wbeu we see ,t .„ real.ty bob., our own eyes uot i„ lieti,,,. but i„ lact, who is ,t that w.ll stand he.e .„u tell YOU that the systeu, that perpetrates sucl. act.ons ,s not bad. ,,pi«al 16 to auy righhminded i„a„ to look into that system au.l hud one wood hu.t aeeruing irou, ,t. livery tree is known by it's Iru.ts, lUe ru.ts ot laudlordisu, have been b,,d, a.al the.ebae the t,ee ,tse,T being bad we our .nigbt will transplant it. New to stake > systen., as we n.ust strike It down, and as we are here to-, ay to . . g 20 ou.-selves that we will strike it dewu. those who a.-e ,nte„t-t hose who a.e really in earnest in striking down that sysieiu wi 1 htt their with me before Heaven ami swear there all han.ls we,-e htted up] that a lone as that system continues, as long as a vestige of it remains in tins ol.l land of ours, to wo,k au.l lahonr to abolish ,t once and tor ever. 25 .1 V«oe.-“ 1 hope we will have more than blackthorns to sti.ke ilown.” (The person who used this shout was instantly callei oo.ie u, a cleroymaii on the platform). Mr y ; cocks of thi majesty of the people. It is now that ignorance has be dispelled and a|.atl.y given place to action, that the band, an organisation Unit is the means that will crush - ^ It is only now that the Irish people have gone out lor a new depaitine \ (h taUr, I KK(i,— .1//-. M, M. O'Snlhmni.) ,l,.narluiv|-..l-tl,cirTi-tils a ,1, |.a,lin.' wl.i.-h, will (ollow, aii.l il they arc ,latanni...'q„allv sacro.1 t.. them, no malt. a- u'l.at llnx-bj.-rt may b.,‘. I !).• l.am Laaoue wishes to throw open the lands of ireland-to sw^eep away thoso laws^)fprlnu.ireniture. entail and eon veyaneino laws winch every ol y.>u know ^ ou km.w that the law of eonveyanciiiir enpplos the poor man. an.l oives the rich monopolist an undue, a very harsh amount of-well, 1 won t say sympathy, because it is something stronger-au amount of i)re prietarv were opposed to Ireland for the Irish; hut, on the contrary, it is the first step towards obtaining Ireland for the Irish. Ireland for t le 20 Irish is a grand and noble idea. It is that idea of national independence ^ for which Emmet died and for which others have struggled. ^ A Voice — Peter Crowley.” ^ It is a dream worth fighting tor. It is a dream winch we should try by everv and any means in our |)Ower to realise. It will not do to come 28 to meetings and to cheer. That is only the first step in the onwaro march. We have come here to-day, you have cheered the various speakers, remem rei that that is not enough, remember that yon must hand yourselves in one or, mil union ; that you must organise yourselves in branches of the Lam Leaoiie, that above all that you will look to each other, that you will assist 30 each other, and that vou will not be those slavish men that you hitherto Iwve been to landlords and other people. 1 1 you wish to pay rents to land- lords go to them as man to man, oiler tlien, a fair rent, come together amoid yourselves, propose that, if the landlord does not accept it go home and look to the interest of your wile and family first (cheers. ) Look to the 39 shopkeepers who have led you and your childreii, pay them, and if you have anything left after allowing yourselves a fair profit on your capital, give i t,„ the lindlord. Then if any man is to he evicted, let no man take that farm let no man take the goods, the cattle or the produce sohl tor the rent. If no’ man takes the farm we will make it desolate and idle to the landlord, 40 if it is not useful to the bread producer (cheers). If no man buys goods, or cattle or produce sold for rent, the landlord and the sherlti may hold the sale hut they will realise nothing. If you adliere to that, landlordism can obtain nothing for rent. No Government can prosecute you for not going .|iul biddiiiv at a sale, no Government can prosecute you for not taking a farm 48 from which another has been evicted, no Goverinnenl. can prosecute you for shunning the man who traitor like does so, no Government can co,„i,el 6 (Irl.thrf, ISSi..— !/r. U. M. (I'Sulhni.n.] -/ V„„ an, I al.aUuln.inU will, him, m. I h.vonmmnl can c,.m,|.oI v.m I" ;,,,,,,,,ri,,,v..r«clll,,.hi,,,. in.linvcnimcnt cu, .■.„n|,ol y.m tn ml l.y inn iwnn al, I h'c place where wo got., wovship ou,’ Oo,l. If you »hnn sn.-h a „„,„.ilvonl..akal l.i.nasifh,. ha,l Ihc wor.l " Irailo,- " l.nnl,.,! on hia rop.heaci, if yon a,, tlnd. if yon wai.-h l,oW U,al man goes on t u'ough hie, slp.nne,! hy'his lellow-nam-hate,! il you will- yw his eowar.hee an.l h,s ti-aifonsin. If yal look at him in that way l.elieve mo he will he .i nio,!. aii'l Y^'ii will Hiul very tow to We like him. It is, my frienas, injhjs way, an, I in this way only, that you can strike (iastriah detenuined union that you 10 down laudlordisni. \ It is hy a grand 111 , i i can strike an.l aw'Sep it for ever from this fair an.l fertile lam ..I ours, anc havino str.iek .low., the lan.llor.l garrison, liav.ng struck that down what is vour neirt step? the gaining ot the “ dhl H.anse at Home (c heels , tlm gaining of Ireland for the Irish; the i.eople to be goven.e.l by the l.y (lovernment of the peoi.le, an.l for tl.e benetrt of the people, btrike ,l.,wn the system ,.f landl.n-dism as it will l.e struck down by .irgaiiizatum and tl.e y.a.ng men that are growing up will l.e iiioi-e manly than t lei. a lers. We 'have been looking to the past. We have been too cautious, to,, pru.lent if Vou will, and we have gained nothing by it. It is only now 20 that the people have at last resolved to he nren, and have dete.-n.ined to stand t,.gether as brave men, and it is only now that we have shaken tl.e foundations of society in the country ; that is the society which is based on a bad. corrupt, and evil foundation. Let, then, the people o Limerick stand up in line with the rest of Ireland. 25 A Fo?ce.—“ And the women of Limerick.” Mr. O’SvUivan. -And the women of Limerick who have ever been the ideal of Irishwomen, the vi.-tuous, tlie proud, and tl.e brave women o Limerick, let them encourage the men by every means m their powei. Let them vow not to get married to any young man who wil not beeo.me 30 a n, ember of the Land League, and who will not vow to take her home to a farm of which he himself is the landlord. The police have been mentioned by one speaker. Now, the police, while they wrnre attending those meetings, have got a very line political education. In youth they were neglected very much in that way, and hence, I believe, rhe cause 85 of many of them joining the police force at all. However, we must always Lmember that the police force in Ireland are men drawn Iro.n he ranks of the tenant-farmers, and that very many of then, l.a e helped more than anyone else in the community to support landlordism by paying over to their poor people at home what they should keep tor themselves 40 and their families. Let, then, your watchword be, onward people ot Li- rick Yon have taken the first step ; will every other step you take b backwards or onwards, f Inwards, then, in the cause of enslaved onwards in the cause of unre.nunerated labour ; and u you do on the cause must go, through joy, or weal, or woe, until we make our nation free and grand (cheers). 7 liawnbon. — 30//i Oclohcr 1880. Mr. Joseph G. Biggar, M.P. “Mr. (MiiiiniKin, ll( 5 V('rciul l)(‘;iii, and J^^rionds, tin; nisoliition which 1 hav(^ been ask('d to Ksnj)|)()ri is the one on which i-his ([iicstion ol land tenure in In'land is based. Yon are asked to sni)j)ori a resolution 5 with rc'gard to tlu^ land systenn nnder which you groan, and ninha- wliicli yon are tyrannized over il‘ yon wish to have I'c'lorni. How is this reform to take place? Kow, I may say that as a rule it is better to attach yourselves to an agitation which is in existence than try to get any other one instead of it. So that even suppose the propositions laid down by the Jjand 10 liCag'iu' Tor the relt)rm ol the land laws ol' Iri'land weie not the best, it is better to light in support of that, even suppose that you saw one that you might think a little better. However, I am prepared to argue this reform, as proposed by the hand League, is the best that ean he proposed. It is liable to fewer ohjeetions than any other system that I have heard j)roposed, 15 and for that reason I ask the Irish tenant-farmers unanimously to go in support of that reform which is recommended by the Land League at the present time. Now, the proposition that the Land League lays down is that the occupier of the soil and the man who cultivates the soil and raises the crops from it should he the owner of that soil. (Cheers.) 20 That, my friends, is a very simple proposition, hut the Land League does not lay down the principle that you are to get this land without giving anything in return for it. (‘ Hear, hear.’) They say a class of men called landlords, who, of course, we know very well, in the majority of cases, liave got the land by fraud and violence ; we know the present landlords or 25 the predecessors in title have got the land by fraud and violence, and that they have no just rights ; hut they have what is called a vested interest; that is, they and their predecessors have been in the habit of levying a tribute from the occupier in a shape called rent ; and it is not considered desirable, from the landlords point of view, that a revolution should take place, or that 30 the land should be taken from them without getting fair and reasonable compensation in return for that which they have been for some time past in possession of. (Interruption.) The question arises, on what basis are you going to value the present interest of these landlords ? Some people say that you must compensate them on the basis of the rent which they have been chaig- 35 ing the tenant in time past. Now, in some cases that would not he so very unfair a proposition, because we know in some cases the landlords are not extortionate. In many cases they are not extortionate and they charge less than the Government valuation ; in those cases we do not mean to say that the rent which they now charge would he an unfair basis. But we know 40 that in a great many cases the landlords are charging not only the Govern- ment valuation, but a great deal beyond the Government valuation, and any sum of money claimed in the shape of rent by the landlords beyond the Government valuation bond fide clear and simple extortion and robbery. (Cheers.) We say the Government valuation is even too high a 'valuation 45 for this reason : because the valuators take not oidy into the account the natural value of the land, but the improvements on the land, which were the work of the occupying tenant. So that if the landlord gets compensation on the basis of the Government valuation he is getting compensated on an extraordinary high rate and not in accordance with fair play between man 50 and man. We are disposed to say that, in morals and fair play, if the land- lord has been charging for a great many years past more than the Govern- A 2 3 jS,„m, 1,01/.— ■Mil,. (Moher WM.—Jllr. ./. <1. Uiijijiu-, M. V. rucnl. valualion. I..' sl.oul.l Ik> askc.l to rotund a part ol’ wind. Iio lias cxtortod IVoin l-lio oociipvin- toinmt lioyond wliat was a roasoiialilo and lair rent, o that rout. 'I’liis^s the morality of the ease; and the prinoipic that would he aecoplod hv the Land Leasuo agitators tor makini; the Govornnient 5 valuation the n'ominal basis would ho a hotter one for the, landlords than they would got ; if they are not wise enough to enter in the compromise with the representatives ot the |iooplo on such a basis as is proposed ; il these 1110,1 are foolish enough to press the light to a greater extent than we proiiose, the result will he they will get a great deal less ; lieeaiise a man who 10 iloes not accept a lair olVer,-as it does happen, -the bidder draws hack, and lie vets less than he otherwise would have had. (Cheers.) We. in point ot tact as reiircsontatives of the Land League wish to deal with these men on very liberal terms, and I think they are groat tools it they do not accept «ic terms ottered by my friend Mr. Parnell, and thus get the land question 15 settled on such a basis. It you take the Government valuation as the basis of a tail- value, what is proposed is this : tor the Government to buy out ttie landlord at 18 or 20 years’ purchase on this Government valuation, paying him in bonds paying 3 per cent, interest. The landlord would then be certain ot payment by the State at a rate ot interest paying 3 per cent. If he did 20 not like the rate ot interest, he would heat liberty to sell this Government stock, tor which he would get about par, and put it into other security w iic would promise him better security or a higher rate of interest. In that way the landlord would he settled with on liberal and fair terms. What it is proposed to do is to give the occupying tenant these holdings he paying 95 41 per cent, for a limited number of years on the sum paid by the Govern- ment to the landlord ; the 3 per cent, would repay the Government tor what they had paid to the landlords, and the remaining IJ per cent, as a sinking fund; so that at the end of a limited number ot years the present tenan or successor would become the owner of the land, having paid in full the full 30 value of their holding. (Cheers.) Now, I have pointed out what we helicve to Iw a reasonable and fair settlement ot this question. But the next point is, h'ow are voii going to get a reasonable and fair settlement ? The eustomai-y way ill the country with regard to these questions is to hold large pubnc meetings, to influence what is called public opinion in favour ot certain reforms, 35 and to° instruct your parliamentary representative to press those particular views on the Parliament ot the day and the Government of the day. Now that is one way to come to a certain conclusion, but at the same time it is more or loss of a slow way, because you are in this position, your enemies the landlords arc constantly telling the most atrocious lies with regard to ,10 your conduct, and all the circumstances ot the case. These men have large means at their disposal ; they influence the newspapers and poison the people ,vl,o— (interruption)— and the result would be different. In Hiis country certain members ol the tenant-farmer class are the worst enemies ot t leiii- selves. They act on the pernicious system ol playing into the hands of the .15 landlords by giving extortionate rents. ’ A Voice : “ Down with them.” Mr Bio-o-ar : “ And hy taking land from which tenants have been evicted because they would not or could not pay dishonest rents which the landlords tried to extort trom them. Now, I will tell you one case which took place 50 with revard to land in county Leitrim, not far from here. The tenant had a controversy with the landlord or his agent. The people in the neighbourhood ‘ 4 ISaiimhoy.—MUh OMm-, 1K80.— Afc. J. O. Jliffonr, M.P. ,.v,Tcis«l llioir inllucr.co cm tl.cc in Uic ncMsIilmm'lHXxl, and Umy n-solvc'd they wcmid not assist in tlic cnttin- cd' tlio Icay and indtms »> the liay c>n a imi’licidai- I'ann on tliis landlonl’s iiropcrly. What was (licc rccsu t 'I'liis landloi'd lived in eouniy Cavan. A Yoiee : “ Dtnvu n ith him.” Mr. Bigi'-ar: “^Pliis landlord misled his neighbours as to his real character and as ^^11^ facts of the ease Avith rc^gard to this controversy m county Leitrim, and my friends of Cavan very injudiciously went and assisted the laiidlord in removing the hay from the land. 10 A Voice : “AYe arc sorry for them.” My. Biggar : “ Now, what shonld have occurred with regard to that land t The grass^’lliould have been left on the land. (‘ Hear, hear.’) Any tenant- farmer or any labourer who assists to take the grass from any land from Avhich the occupying tenant has been evicted, or in any case in which the 15 landlord has acted unfairly towards the land, is a curse to the country in Avhich he lives, and entitled to the reprobation of every one who knows him. A Voice : “ LoAvn Avitli him.” Mr. Biggar ; “ What is the difference with regard to a case I was told of this morning? In Beltiirbet no one could be got to bring the crop off the oo land to be '"sold in the market. M^e know that in Limerick a similar case occurred where a man brought his crop to the market and not a person could buy it, and he had to take the crop home again. If this principle of action AA^as carried out by the people in different districts the result would be, forcing up rents not only against yourselves, but your neighbours would be put an 25 end to, and nothing but a fair and reasonable rent would be had by any landlord. If instead of being as at present in a disorganised state, which you are in county Cavan, if you had a branch of the Land League in the district to which I have referred, as soon as our friends in county Leitrim had pointed out the facts of the case, the League in Dublin would have 30 allowed the people in county Cavan to know the conduct of this landlord, and the result would have been instead of having his ^ hay carried into the country by volunteers it would now have been rotting in county Leitiim, and he Avoiild have derived no benefit Avhatever. (Cheers.) This landlord got an unfair and dishonest triumph over the people of county Leitrim, and 35 the people who supported him in county Cavan were the parties to blame for that conduct ; and I say, if branches of the Laud League spread in every town land in this county, these cases would be impossible ; and if you had a proper organisation of the Land League you would be in^ a position to say. The rents on this property are too high ; Ave will not give more than the ,10 Government valuation for this land ; and the result would be, each landlord Avould be forced to come to the terms which you would suggest, that they Avould take a fair and reasonable rent, and no more; and this is only the principle carried out in England. In particular mines and miUs they com- bine and say. The Avages offered are too low ; we insist that we shall get so 45 much in advance ; and in the majority of the cases the occupiers or employe’s have to submit to the terms imposed by the employees. The employees always succeed when it turns out they were right on the facts ; the facts at issue being Avhether or not the employer was offering fair and reasonable Avao-es. If the employer was offering fair and reasonable wages he will suc- 50 ceed, because no employer can afford to give more than is fair and reasonable, because in the end he would have to give up. You arc not organised. You A3 5 \ liawHboy. — IJO/A October ISHO. — Mr. J. (L Blfjfjdr., M.I?. have been iyninnised over by (be laiidlords. d’lu; resnli is that cacb and many ol' yon on many properties and many estates an; ^'iving an extra rent, and you are sullering- i)overt,y instead ol’ l)ein(t toil hoi/. — ‘M//i Ov/ohei' 1880. The Chairman; “IMr. Siicridan, rc'prnscnlativo oF Uio Land League of Dublin.” Mr. Patrick J. Sheridan. , “Mr Chairnian and rellow-countryinon, it allords nio no small pleasure 5 to see so many enthusiastic sons of the North assembled to raise their voices with the rest of their fellow-eountrymcn demanding reuress of tl.eir .vvievanees. (Cheers.) ddic North has long since sealed its devotion to tlm cause of the country, and to-day I feel that all that is necessary is that some one takes the initiative and shows the way when the tenant- 10 farmers, the lalioiirers and mechanics of Ulster are ready to liand topther their might for the assertion of their right. It is to he deplored tha this gre^t agitation, which has already accomplished so much, has not been Lrlier and more warmly taken up in the province of Ulster, hut Letter late than never (‘ hear, hear ’), and, perhaps, hy-and-hye, we might say, 15 though last not least. However, now my friends you see what it is you have got to do; and, seeing it, I have no fear hut tluit you are the men to do it. You see that your fellow-countrymen from the centre round to the sea have, as it were, with one voice declared that they can no longer submit to the tyranny whieh they have submitted to in the past. You see they have 20 banded together their might for the assertion of their right. You see that on the public platform they have solemnly and unequivocally pledged them- selves that landlordism should be unearthed, and peasant proprietorship and nothino- else should be established. (Cheers.) Mr. Brady has made reference to fixity of tenure, free sale, and fair rents, and properly remarked it 25 only signifies fixity of landlordism. Landlordism ! The Irishman who can receive^he utterance of it without emotion must be dead indeed. What is it like? Your little ones in rags. What is it like ? Your wives eating the bread of charity out of the length and breadth of the land. What has filled your poorhoiises and workhouses with the noblest specimens of God’s creation ? 30 What has left a whitened track across the Atlantic with the bones of youi kith and kin. Is it not landlordism ? ” A Voice : “ Nothing else. Aw^ay with it.” Mr. Sheridan.— “ We want the man who tills the soil should own it. In other words, every tenant-farmer of Ireland must be his own landlord, and at; every landlord in Ireland his own tenant. This, and tins alone, will satisfy the tenant-farmers of Ireland. The resolution wliioli I support makes referenee also to two very important sections of the comnuinity the labouring class and the artizan class. A Voice : “ Hurrah for the labouring class.” 40 Mr. Sheridan ; “ If this platform was erected for the purpose of ignoring the rights and claims of the labourers and artizans I should not take my stand'^upoii it. No, I say that the brawn of our race are the working classes. It is they that have fertilised the soil by the sweat of their brow. It is they that have won fame and name for their race and their country, 45 not only in the battle fields of their native land, but the battle fields of any land (Cheers.) As to the noble artizan who toils from early morning to late at night, and who works hard at his hammer and chisel when the thieves, the robbers, who have plundered our i)eople of the earnings they won by the sweat of their brow are revelling in luxuries in foreign states, at the expense 50 of the little ones and their wives— those two classes the landlords have souo-ht to make use of. Against this platform and this movement they have B 9 Q 3366.-68. Jiawnhoy October 1880.— Jfr. V. J. Sheridan. tried to disseininato tlu' ain()nf,M,hc ix^oplo of In^land iliat the Irish National Land Loai^no i|:,‘norf‘d ovorything- but the icinani-lanriin^^ (dass. I'liai is a lie and nntruo in every sense of the word. TIk^ irisli National Land Lea^'ue has lor its end and ohjeet the eoni])lete enianeipation ol the 5 Irish people, without rei-^ard to elass and ereed (cheers), and until the I rish National Land League has established the eoinjilete and entire ernaneijiation of the Irish j)eo])le, t he jilatrorni may be sup[)ressed, but the Irish National Land Ijcague will not he suppressed.” A Voice : “ Never.” 10 Mr. Sheridan : Until the complete emancipation of our people as the price of its clforts and energies, wliether yon work in the artizan s shop, or tenant- farmer, or shopkeeper, whether Catholic or Trotestant, no matter what you be in Ireland, as long as you have to earn your living, it becomes a national important duty you owe to God and your country, you should throw your- 15 selves into this movement, and to add volume to its strength, and believe me you shall sweep before you in onward strides to independence not only landlordism but everything else that would obstruct your course. No matter what a man’s creed or position in life Avho comes and tries to create a discord, let him be pointed out, not only as a suspect, for that would not 20 be a name bad enough for him, but as the enemy of the people and the country. A Voice : “ Down, and away with him.” Mr. Sheridan ; Stand together like one man. Too long have you been placed on the horns of the Constitution, pulling at the throat of rivals, 25 while John Bull and the landlords let you ; let us see if we cannot put John Bull on one horn and the landlord on the other. (Laughter.) If I were to refer to the reason why you should do so, I have no further to look than Cavan, before my face. Look at its whole neighbourhood, at its roofs shattered, but what is it but a specimen of the thousands of what were 30 once happy homes throughout the length and breadth of the land ; but to-day landlordism and its designs have been the whole cause. Yon see the evil, you see the cancer that has been eating into the vitals. It is not the poultice, but we want the surgeon’s knife to cut /it out. We want not fixity of tenure, but the total abolition of landlordism and a peasant proprietary- 35 ship in its stead. Now with regard to the bearing of this agitation upon the feelings of men of more advanced views and those of more moderate views. I Avould, with your permission, remark that I am a late ac(][uisition to the platform myself. And why ? Simply because I see that I came into this world as a man that owes a duty to myself, my kind, and my country. I 40 have a right to make myself useful as I move along. I should much rather, if I could do it, sweep away with one fell stroke the accursed lot of unholy connections with landlordism, but by no measures for Avhich I have not got the means, that is an effort for which our people are not prepared, and taken in connection with the fact of the advanced influence of the times, 45 the great power that moral force has assumed, the great influence it exerts on all educated minds, I am prepared to merge my views in the majority of my countrymen who think that movement is worthy of a trial, and to give it all the aid and assistance I can contribute. Standing here as a man imbued with a strong national feeling, as a man who never from his birth 60 to the present moment, and I hope to his last — I shall ever formulate the one grand idea that Ireland is fit to rule and govern itself, and it is fit to be a nation, free and independent, owing allegiance to nothing but to God 10 U(twnh(>y.—‘i(^lh Ocloher ISHO.—Mr. l\ J. (Sheridan. and to our coimtry. (Cheers.) 'I'o those who think with me I would say double your ell'orts tor eo-oi)('ratiou. AVe liav(^ been so r(ii)eatedly told if we xv('r(‘ only oue(^ uuitc'd, and ask('d for our ri^hls, tlu^y would he e.ouecMhal to us; lhat 1 think W(' an* shaping- pretty well towards Ixdug united; and I 5 hope and trust they will he eutindy and eoni[)let(dy unihai as one Irish ])('oph'. 'rhen from Ihe plat form W(^ shall make known our wants and leelini’-s and demand them, and if they are not eoneeded to ns it is for yon to devise the nu'ans hy whiidi we shall attain them. In tryin- to hrin- about ibis grand eonsummalion of a united people, it is neeessary 3^011 should 10 not onl}' become members of the League, hut Ix^eome, in every sense ot the xvord, each a proj) of the cause, a prop in tin; constitution ot the Irish National Land League'. Yon must entirely adhere to its teachings and principles, and when anyone among you is thrown adritt on the world, let no man he got who will he mean or degraded enough to go and possess 15 Idmself of the land from whiedi ho has licen evicted ; for remember while we stand here to endeavour to blot out the iniquitous system of landlordism, we were ourselves the men and instruments hy which to work out its evil purpose. If we did not yield to the various cravings of our nature, and hid for our holding more than it was worth (laughter and interruption). But 20 I hope we will have no more. AVoice:“No.” Mr. Sheridan : If perchance any man among you should forget himself as to go and hid for the holding of his neighbour, or take possession of it 25 A Voice : “ Never.” Mr. Sheridan : If anyone among you should do it, I will tell you how I wish to see you treat him. I do not want you to commit a breach of the law hy assaulting him or hurting him ; hy that means you serve the cause of your enemy than your own cause ; I want you to bring down the force of public 30 opinion upon him. A Voice : “ Bravo.” Mr. Sheridan : If you see him at church or chapel, fair or market, pass him; hate him. Let him he a thing of loathing ; a leper so unclean as not to he lit to he touched or associated with liy any of his fellow men. If he 35 has cattle to sell, let no man hid for them ; or cattle to buy, tell the unclean wretch to move away from you. (Laughter.) If he has potatoes to dig, or stubble to dig, or corn to cut, or anything else, let him go out and do it himself. (Laughter.) If he has a shop, and offers goods for sale, let no man who has respect for God or country leave a penny in the house. (Cheers 40 and laughter.) Let him eat his stock in trade ; when that is done, let him go away. (Laughter.) By these means you will do infinitely more good than if you went out and committed a breach of the law, and took his life. You do 500 times more good than hy committing a breach of the law. I would exhort you to keep within the lines of the law. No such thing as 45 burning hay or straw, or houghing, or anything else repugnant to civilized humanity; so that any man who commits a wrong is tit to receive the contumely and indignation of the people. Just as well I may try to stem the onward tide as stem the tide of public opinion. Sweep him away until he is cast in the slums or alleys, out of which he should never have moved 50 one pace. In addition to that, I would only repeat the exhortation given hy your worthy and esteemed member, Mr. Biggar. B 2 11 llamuhoi/.—Wlh October 18S0. — I//-. l\ J . Sheridan. A Voice : “ 'I'liroo clu'crs for Mr. 15igf^:ir.” Mr. Sheridan: That niau Avho, amon^- all the men that Ireland has sent in (o the Hritish rarliainent, deserves well, not oivly of ('avan, hut ol Indatid. ((dieers.) (dicers for Josi^ph and every day of his life, may he he 5 hii-’^er and hi-ger still. ( Langhter.) lie gave to you an advice which I. here repeat to yon, that is, that when you leave this platform and this place to- day go home, that you turn yonr attention to organization. Jlelicve me without organization all these meetings, all these speeches, alt these platforms are only like so many huhhles tossed into the air to amuse the spectators for 10 a minute, to hurst, and not leave a track hehiiid ; hut show the world it has left a track hehind it, and an organized people, and the platform can estahlish this much, to show a united Ireland ; for a united people can never he held in chains and never will. When you go to meet your landlord at the land otlice, or his agent, I earnestly hope that instead of going with a whispering 15 humhleness and trembling knee, so peculiar to Paddy, that you should walk in like men who are equal in every shape, and superior to men that they tremble before. When you approach the landlord or rent ofhee, and you come to address the gentleman, you will rise to the height of your condition, you shall shoot from hehind the shaggy eye brows the fire of your mien, and 20 talk to them as one man to the other. If you now are educated into a sense of your rights, and if you have not conceded to you those rights, you have the heart and the arm to assert them. (Cheers.) Let there he no more of that craven slavishness which has made Irishmen a hy-word with the English, Scotch, and Welsh people, nothing so despicable as the typical Irishman. 25 As has been well explained to you, he was placed in such a position and all through his own fault for a want of organization, and under that he was unfitted individually to confront the power and influence of the landlord or agent, and, as a result, had to bend his knee to the inevitable. But now the landlord must bend his knee to the inevitable. Band yourselves 30 together like one united body, eaeh having an interest in the move- ment. (Interruption.) You will bring about a ehange of affairs m a short time ; instead of being an Ireland of rags and tatters, he an Ireland of free and independent men. I cannot retire from this platform without making a reference to one other feature that eonfronts me. It is remarkable what a 3.5 number of fair faces have eome before this platform. Those fair girls eau do a great and grand serviee in this movement. They have a part to play in this movement Avhich will serve the ohjeet we have in view in this way. I earnestly trust that after this day has passed over that any young man who has not his certificate from the local branch of the Land League will 40 never he eheered by the smiles of any other fair girl. (Laughter.) They have a part to play in the politics of the eountry that they shall not wed such slaves. Such a movement, my friends, requires aid from all among us. It cannot afford to miss the fair girls, for I can tell yon that if the rising generation are only true to the sense of obligation which the women of 45 Limerick believe they owe to their eountry, if they are ready to take a place in the movement, and, if neeessary, to fill the breach, ive will shortly have an opportunity of congratulating our struggling people on having achieved our liberties, which no patriot ever failed to attain, and the tree and complete emancipation of their own, their native land. 50 The Chairman : “ The resolution is passed.” 12 (^'/'Ippci'ari /. — Oc/obcr JJl.v/, IBSO.) Mr. Charles S. Parnell, M.P. “ I'Vllow foimiryiiuMi, wht'n 1. Iirst had ili(' lionour of addrcissiii^- a ill this town ()!' 'ripperary wo wi're told that wo W(m-c siiireriMg- iVom tlioelTects of a very had harvest, and it was predicted that as soon as wo had had a good 5 harvest, the agitation, which it was said had lioon eansod by the liad harvest, would disappear. 1 am told that the season and the harvest in Tipperary has now hoen good, and i am gdad to see that this meeting, after a good harvest, I exceeds hy live fold the meeting of last year. (Cinders.) (‘ We thank you for it.’) AVhen you have a good harvest, then is the time to hold it ; you had 10 not anything to hold last year, and perhaps the necessity for exertion was not so great as it is to-day. (Hear, hear.) Jhit the people of Ireland are at last coming to see that when they have sown the seed and reaped the harvest, it is their duty also to look after themselves and their wives and the little ones. Somebody told me the other day that- the Government had taken 15 a large force of police out of Tipperary and had sent them into the county of Mayo. This has been a mistake which has been made at different times in our history. Agitation and organisation have been confined to one or two or three particular counties or districts, and it has been possible for the Govern- ment to crush the agitation in detail, by crushing the counties in detail 20 (hear, hear), and I confess it is not a very good sign to see the Government | taking police from Tipperary and sending them into Mayo. (A voice, ‘ We Avill make them send them back again.’) The constabulary are used, not for the purpose of preserving law and order, but for the purpose of intimidating the people (hear, hear), and preventing them from organising. And because 25 Mayo is the best organised county in Ireland, the Government have sought to terrorize over Mayo by taxing them for additional police ; but if Tipperary and every other county in Ireland organise themselves as well as Mayo, they will not be able to send 1,700 police into Mayo, they will not have them to send, and they will not be able to inflict an additional establishment upon 30 any county in Ireland. They have only 11,000 police in this country, and that gives an average of about 300 men to each county. Well, you see, therefore, that if it requires 1,700 policemen to intimidate a well organised county, it will be an utter impossibility to intimidate all the counties in Ireland if they are organised, because it would require an increase of some- 35 thing like 55,000 or 60,000 policemen instead of only 10,000. I have gone into this little arithmetical calculation for you lest you might be afraid that if you organised yourselves in Tipperary the Government would attack you with extra police. Now this, as I have shown you, cannot be so, because when all Ireland is organised, it will be utterly imposible for them to get 40 enough policemen in Ireland to intimidate the whole country. The two chief planks in our platform are, firstly, that the tenants shall not pay rack rents, and secondly that no man shall take a farm from which a tenant has been evicted u nder s uch c ircumstances. (Cheers.) Now, if you carry out these two principlesTTWwill be utterly impossible for any Government, no 45 matter how strong, to prevent the march of progress in Ireland ; you must win. (Cheers.) It is a thing which must happen, and you must ultimately succeed if you simply stick to these doctrines, refusal to pay unjust rents, and refusal to take a holding from which your neighbour or anybody else has been evicted. Don’t allow yourselves to be diverted by a discussion as to the best 50 method of settling the land question. (Hear, hear.) Some gentlemen, no doubt with the best intentions, have sought to introduce disunion amongst 6 {Tippri'an /. — October '<\\st , 1SS(>. — Mr. C. tS. Poniefl, 31. P.) t] J Irislimcu l)y iislvina' us to rorniulatc ouf plan. Now avo intend to lonnnlatc om- plan when the tinu' is rip(' lor the settlcnient ot tin; land (jiiestion. (Cluiers.) 1 do not know Avlieilua- that will l)o next year or not, hnt it is siini)ly AA-aste oi time to talk about lormnlatino- plans as lonj-- as tlie peoi)le T) and Parliament ot England exhibit the temper Avhieh they have been exhibiting toAvards ns. When the ([iiestion must he settled it Avill l)e settled, and it is hi yonr ])OAver to liring things about so that this ([uestion must he settled. (‘ Bravo ’ and eheers.) I have been asked it I Avill not approve of a scheme of Government valuation of the rents Avhieh the tenants shall pay ; 10 and Ave, Avho believe in the principle that the land of this (;ountry ought to belong to the people, have been told by some men Avho think that the best system of land tenure is a Government valuation or re-valuation of rents, Ave have been told that we are unpatriotic because Ave desire to make the people the owners. But the same men Avho tell us that Ave are unpatriotic because 15 Ave desire to make the people the owners, and the Government the landlord for a limited period of years, do not see their OAvn inconsistency when they propose that this same Government shall have the arbitration of what rents the tenants shall pay. (Hear, hear.) To my mind it would give the Govern- nient very much more power ovei* tld^ country to alloAA" it periodically, eveiy 20 nine or ten years, to revalue the rfes of the tenants and to fix the rents that the tenants shall pay rather than to fix some sum to be paid by the people to the Government for a certain period of years, and at the end of that time there should be nothing further to pay. (Hear, hear.) I do not, however,^ wish to be drawn aside into any discussion as to what is the best method ot 25 settling the Irish land question. The nature of the settlement entirely depends upon our OAAm exertions, and all I ask you to do is to push on, to organise yourselves, to establish a branch of the National Hand League in everv parish, to bring back the police from IVIayo into Tipperaiy (Heai, heail, to take your share with the other Irish counties in the noble aa oik which is gQ going on in every direction ; and so enable us, when the time comes, Avhen tlie question is ripe for settlement, to claim such a settlement as shall be a lasting one, and as shall secure the prosperity of Ireland.” (Cheers.) A 4 {Tipperari/. — Oclohcr 31.v/, 1880.) Wc *» Cliaii-maii, aticl to aslc llui-lcy, rinirman of the ^'oAvri Commissioners, to take his place. (Cheers.) lavc ZsL in nsUin, yon to cnvry l.y aoclamation a vote of tinanles to our r> wortliy and reverend Chairman to-day, Dean (iuirkc. It is a good sign ,ee the priests and tlic people of Tipperary togetiicr. It would 1>« for the priests and people of Tipperary to be separated as long as Aroldns p Crolce lives, and I say that it is a good thing that Ireland has an archbishop Mho Archbishop Croke, who is neither afraid nor ashamed to 10 and show his Hooks the right way. (Cheers.) Let us, then, return our thanks to Archhishop Croke and the clergy of Tipperary for the way in which they are standing by the people in this struggle (eheers), and now toravote of than to Dean Quirke by acclamation.” (Great cheering.) 24 { T}})})C)'((r (/. — Odobct' liUV, ^^^LnllcnuMi, allow mo to inirodiioo to you Mr. Loauiy, M.J\ for Watcrlord, who is ”'oius^’ to ad0 ^^len there is the pauper’s grave. (Groans.) This, felloAV countrymen, is the system of Irish landlordism, and this is the system whieh we invite yoii^ to help us in destroying. (Cheers.) Do I, standing here to-day before a Tip- perary audience, need to become an accuser of landlordism ? Landlordism has been accused by periodic famines. Landlordism is accused by desolate 05 hearths, broken hearts, and desolate homes. Landlordism is accused by hundreds of thousands of exiles’ graves scattered far and Avule throughout the world ; and if you need living witnesses to accuse landlordism, summon from the poorhouse of English or American cities those who were once men, as brave, as hopeful, as God-feariag as you, but who are now miserable, moral and 30 phvsical wrecks, dragging out a wretched existence where the name of God is scarcely ever heard except in blasphemy. (Groans.) Accusers of landlordism ! Landlordism needs no accusers. Landlordism stands self accused and self condemned. Oh ! its offence is rank and smells to heaven. Yet there are good men in Ireland who would ask us to make a compromise with landlordism, but 35 there are also many men who put forward moderate schemes, men who, affect- ing to be your friends, would win you with honest trifles to betray you in deepest coLeciuence. Eor centuries your ancestors have struggled against this alien land system, and that struggle they have handed down to you. Are you Avilling to abandon the struggle now ! (‘ Never.’) Are you willing to give it over until -10 landlordism is destroyed ? (‘ No, no.’) Do you desire that your representative should approach the landlords in your name with some moderate proposal, the bearer of a flag of truce to declare that you are wearied of the war, and to sue for terms (‘ never ’), to crave for compromise. (‘ Never.’) If compro- mise is to be craved let the landlords crave the compromise ; if terms are to be 45 dictated, let you make the terms. (Hear, hear.) Now, is there then a man here in Tipperary who does not know enough of landlordism to be able to pro- nounce his verdict upon it ? Are you for or against it ? (‘ Against it.’) Are you willing it shall be maintained ? (‘ no’) or, are you resolved that it shall go ? (‘ Yes/) M^ell. if you are so resolved, you have only to be true to yourselves to 50 stand together like men, to lend no easy ear to suggestions of a compromise, 8 [Tippcran/. — Oalohor ISSO. — Mr. rjcamn, M.l\) :iiul Inndloi’disnv must and will "o as suv(dy as a storm dropped into tiro water will sink to the bottom. (Cheers.) Now, Tedlow couiitr-ynKm, it has berui said l hat in advocatinpj.the expi-opriation of the landloi’ds, compensating them, we are unjust toAvards them. Now let us consider Tor a moment the value ol this .5 objection. 1' do not Avant to call in question the title ol‘ any landlord to his lands, and neither I am sure does anyone here, hut I suppose that il there is one title that is clearer or better than another, it is the title acquired by pur- chase in the opeir court. Now let us take the case then ot a capitalist who went into the landed estates court and invested his money in land. What do we 10 jiropose to do A\dth him ? W^e propose to compel the man who bought to sell again. We propose that he shall receive for the interest of Avhich he disposes the fair money value. As we would treat the landlords by purchase so also would we treat the landlords by confiscation. We indeed would compel them to take their claims olf the land, simply because we believe that it is m the m- 15 tcrests of the land question, and we are determined that they should do so. They can find 50 other securities, if they wish to draw their incomes still in idleness, in which to invest their money. I have also seen it stated that the scheme of peasant proprietorship, I have also seen it stated that if our scheme be carried into law, and that if for 35 years the rental of Ireland goes into the English 20 exchequer, our country wiU be thereby seriously impoverished. ^ I have seen it also asserted by eminent agricultural authorities that the soil of Ireland, if properly cultivated, would produce twice what it is producing now. We all know that the soil of Ireland is not properly cultivated. ^ We all know that it never can be properly cultivated so long as the tiller of the soil 25 labours for another and not for himself, and so long as our great agri- cultural industry is subjected to the restrictions to which it is now subjected. We propose to get rid of these restrictions. (Cheers.) We propose that the tiller of the soil shall become the owner of the soil. (Cheers.) We believe that by giving him ownership, making him the owner of the soil, we shall 30 supply that impetus to incessant industry which ownership alone can supply. And let the farmer know that with every harvest comes nearer the time when every blade of grass and ear of corn will be his and his alone. Let him know that every harvest brings him nearer to the time when the corn shall bloom and ripen and fall beneath the sickle, the fair reward of his 35 untaxed industry; and I am perfectly convinced that the increased pro- ductiveness which would result from that industry would enable Ireland easily to bear that drain. But I should like to ask what will become of the millions that the landlords are to receive ? Holt has said, ‘ Oh, they will ‘ emigrate en masse, subject to their treatment by the Irish nation, they will ‘ emigrate en masse and will go away to London and Paris. Why rest to look upon these men as Irishmen, these men that require to abandon their country, if in the interests of their country they should lie shorn of some of their privileo’es ^ Well, if they will go, let them go, Ireland can better afford to spare them tLn she is able to spare the 3,000,000 of toilers whom these idlers 45 almost Avithin a generation have destroyed or driven from our shores. (Cheers.) “ Now, felloAV countrymen, I have also seen it said, and by one for whom I entertain the highest respect, that if you make the State yom* landlords, they shall be the lords direct over the Irish soil, not merely for 35 years, but for all time. Men of Tipperary, in the barracks in your town there are 50 men to-day that wear the scarlet uniform of England. ^ Why are they there, if not to maintain the alien system of land tenure ? W^hy are 40,000 fellows Q 3366.-67. B ^ 40 {Tippcmrif.—Oclohcr 81.v/, lb80.— J//*. Leumn, MJ\) , hii^luM- purpose (hoar, lu.ir, aud choors), h)r I, loroiuvlo uol care io holiovo iharwhon llio Irisli rarnicr lias socniriHl his homo ho shall ho lourid uuwillmj-' to'oiiior upon the nobler and more inspiriiiii!^' siru-dc tor the recovery ot his troedom.” 5 Chairman. “ (lenth'men, you have hoard iliis rosoliil iou pro])OSod by Kcof‘-b, and socondod by Mr. John llog’an. Those who are Iho resolution Avill say aye.” the Jtev. heather for the passini; ot The resolution was (tarried unanimously. 10 Mr. John Conway. i r - “ Gentlemen, I have the honour to propose the tollowmg resolution “ That we unite Avith the whole people of Ireland in expressing a dec]) sense of gratitude to Charles Stewart Parnell for the noble and chivalrous services ho is rendering the cause ot our oppressed country. That we hearkly 1 - plcdo-e omselves to sustain the chosen leader of our people and his working "" followers in any emergency that the hate or cowardice of a desperate landocracy may compel a so-called Liberal Government to create; and while to-day concentrating all our energy and devoting all our efforts to the material welfare of the victims of an iniquitous and oppressive land system, 9 () we declare self-government to be the inalienable right of the Irish nation, and proclaim to the world om- unaltered and unalterable adherence to the undying principles of Irish independence.” (Cheers.) Chairman. t i “ Gentlemen, allow me to introduce to you yom* young member, Mr. John 25 Billon, the worthy son of an illustrious father.” {Tipperary. — October .‘il.v/, 1880.) Mr. Dillon, IVl.r. “ ll(Wor{Mul Cli!iinu;in and men oF Tipperary, it g-iv(;s mo very great phiasut to eome Forward in support oF this r(;solidion. It has haen {issertcnl, men o IMpperary, thal the Nationalists oF Ireland aw, liostiU', to the movement to set 5 Iree the toiiant tarnua-s oF Ireland and make them Freemen in the land oF their hirth. (Cheers.) Wo (romo h(‘ro to-day to a town wlicre no movement can show its head tliat is hostile to the Nationalists ol Ireland ; and I say that when the Irish Land League has assembled in Tipy)erary a meeting so large as this that the man who will, in the Face of this meeting, tell me that 10 the Irish Nationalists are against the Land League is nothing hotter than a common liar. (Cheers.) No, neither are the Irish Nationalists hostile to the Land Loagiio, nor is the Land League hostile to the National organisa- tion. (Hear, hear.) Our movement and our organisation is a temporary organisation got up to remove one of the greatest evils of English misrule in 15 Ireland, got up to remove an institution which has always been hacked up by the power of England’s Government, by the English bayonets on which it rests, and which has always acted true to the spirit in whieh it was founded as a garrison to hold Ireland down under English misrule. (Cheers.) I, speaking in this county last Sunday, asked the men of Tipperary to judge the 20 landlord system in Ireland, not hy what they had done this year when they were hrousht faee to face with the organised masses of the people. I asked them to jud 2 ;e the system of landlordism hy what the Irish landlords had done in the years when no Land League was there to oppose them. I pointed out that within the last 20 years Irish landlordism had reduced the 25 population of Tipperary hy 120,000 of her children (groans) ; and in the face of that they tell me that Irish landlordism is an institution which is good for the Irish people, and whieh the Irish people ought to preserve. All I can say is that if you wish to see the last remnants of the people driven away out of Tipperary, if you wish to see this eounty cease to he populated hy Christians, by gQ men and women, and turned into one vast bullock range for the markets of Lon- don and Manchester, then keep on landlordism and do not allow us to pull it down. But if you wish to see Tipperary the home of tall men, as it always has been, and if you wish to see it with a population as strong as it had 25 years ago then give us a helping hand and help us to drive landlordism out of 35 the eountry (eheers), and ha nd over the land of Tipperary to the men who are the Nationalists of Tipp erary ; heeause I never knew before until lately tKaflhe Arish ‘landlord^ are the strength of the national party. It was not till lately that Tipperary knew what landlordism was, and I am happy to say that it is not the first time that Tipperary rose in rebellion against landlordism. (Cheers.) Many of you know that in the last century for three years this county was in open rebellion against landlordism, until they pomnd their troops into it and smothered the resistance of the people in blood, when they killed poor Eather Sheehy at Clonmel. (Groans.) Erom that day to this the people of Tipperary have been either in open or in smothered rebellion against that in- . K stitution, and to-day you have assembled, I suppose the largest meeting that ever gathered together in Tipperary, to deelare that we are now going to make a new departure, not to forget or to make terms with landlordism, but to raise the banner again, and enrol every man in Tipperary, who is not a land- lord or an agent, under the banner of ‘ Down with landlordlism,’ and the land of Ireland will be given back to the tenants. It has been said by our enemies” that this movement is nothing more than a vulgar attempt to rob one \ {^Tlp'pcTnTi/ . — Octohcv lil.v/, 1880. — Mt'. .Dillon^ class of its property and to i:;i VC it, to another class, ft is nothing' ol the sort; hut the landlords have h(H'n so loii^ accustoiruid to have the laws madij to ('nal)le them to roh the farmer of his prop(a'ty that they (lonsidor that any law which will protect the farmer in his own property is rol)hinf>- the landlord. 5 A man may have an interest in his farm which, in tlui open marked, woidd sell for 1, ()()()/. ; and if ho is one year Ix'hind with the rent the landlord will evict him and give him nothing for his iritcrcst ; rol)l)ing that man, who is a ])oor man, of all that he has in the world, and leaving him naked on the road- side. We seek to secure to the tenant his property as the landlord always has had secured to him his. We do not repay the landlords in their own coin, that is to say, when wo have got the power, wo are uot going to roh them as they rohhed the people Avhen they had the power. (Hear, hear.) No, we arc not going to follow their had example ; we are going to give them what they are justly entitled to, hut we are going to give to the people their property 15 also. (‘ Bravo.’) Now, in conclusion, let me point out to you that this time if you do not pull down landlordism nohody is to hlamc l)ut the men of Idp- })erary themselves. You want no leaders to lead you on this path, you know the policy and you have hrains enough, and I hope, courage enough to carry it out. (Cheers.) Organise yourselves ; let there he two people to organise 20 each townland. Let them go round and ask every farmer in the townlaud Avill he join the league and stand up for his class. Lay before them, at your weekly meetings in each parish, the policy of the League. Stick to that policy, and if the Government begin to arrest just go on steadily, and never mind the arrests. I should hope that the county which 25 I represent will not he the first to turn the hack when it comes to its turn. Don’t let yourselves he driven by the bullying of the landlords into what they want you to do, which is this. They want to get an excuse to let those soldiers and police out on to the people. Don’t allow the landlords to take you off the path, hut if the Government arrests, put other men in the places 30 of those arrested, and go on with the work. Go on with it until the gaols arc full, and teach them that no prosecutions will break the spirit ot Tipperary, and teach the Government that if they wish to keep up landlordism in Tip- perary they can only do it by choking the gaols with the whole population of the county. This is the way in which you can go along ; and this movement 35 has this advantage over perhaps some others that went before it, that, as I said before, you want no leaders. You ought to have intelligence enough to go on with it, no matter how many men are arrested ; and all I say, in con- clusion, upon that point is, that if the Government go on arresting, do you go on lowering the rents ; because I must say that I do not think it is fair 40 play that the landlords should be allowed to run our men into prison while they themselves are enjoying their full rental. Eor every man that is put in do you knock off a certain per centage of the rent you arc going to pay . With regardlo the rent, I think that the time has come in Tipperary now \vLen~we~ought7^ the ^me of the^tional Land League to proclaim all over 45 this county that Im - this year the people shall pay no more rent tham Griffith’s valuafionTth^t they shall paT'^riffith ’Onruati^ and no more. (Cheers.) I thi^ that ii'aboutlh^airest thing that Ave can come at. If the landlords do not like that, let them go over to London, and go down and make a petition to the London Parliament to settle the question. The people 50 of Ireland have petitioned to that Parliament too often. The people of Ire- land will not petition to an English Parliament again. (‘No, No.’) But they B 3 13 {Tippcrari/. — Oclohcr ‘Msl, 1880. — Mr. Dillon^ M.-l •) i / „.ill llicir own ,, Host, ions on Irlsl, »oil, in Tipporary nn,l tin, onunUcB «1 / h.' K.,.l and il- tin, Irisli laiullonlB don't like tl.o sidtlcnont wlind, wo ,,(l(n l.> ,l„.n, wl.y lot tl,oins» <«oi- to Ungland, wiioro tlicn- Inonds aro andaak cn a |„.|tor adinstinont. In conolnsion. Ikon, I would ask that you, the people o -I'ipporaiy, will show that yon will not hcholund any other oounty m Irolarul. .,„d I may say that, ir the Goyonunont think it would ho advisable to u - tinddatothe people ot this eonnty by police, I would advise them togetica, y iiboiitSjOOO wilbontany rurtber delay.” (Cheers.) 14 (^I'lppcnu'i /. — Octohcr -‘ns/, 1880.) ( Mr. Michael P. Boyton. [•forni a duty as ilio organiser of the B alr('a(ly performed before 100,000 “ Men of Ti})perary, I have now to perform a Irish National Land League that I have alr('a(i 'pjpppy'wy men. (Hear, hear.) I know that you here in the premier town 5 will follow the adviee given hy the illustrious prelate who told you in addressing the Kilhury land meeting to take no pledge that you were not prepared manfully and determinedly to fullil. Those were the words of Dr. Croke, and following those words we have already administered that pledge to 17 large meetings in this county. (Ilcar, hear.) To-day I shall give you 10 a second pledge, or, in other terms, I will add a line to the pledge already taken throughout Tipperary. I now call upon every honest Irishman in the sight of God and before his fellow countrymen to pledge himself never to take land from Avhich his neighbour has been evicted from non-payment of an unjust rent, never to work on that land, and never to purchase crops or cattle seized 15 for non-payment of rent. (Cries of ‘ Never.’) I also call upon you to pledge yourselves that if the British Government raise a vile hand on one of your leaders you will pay no more rent than the Government valuation, (Cheers.) Every man who is willing to take that solemn obligation hold up his right hand. (Every right hand was held up.) I think that the show of hands is an 20 evidence that the men of Tipperary mean what they say. I will close with a few words to tell you while you disperse orderly to your homes to fold away the green flags, for we will want them again. (Cheers.) Don’t think for a moment that you have done the work. You must go home, and you must do that which we are unable to do — organise yourselves in every parish in the 25 county. Take the initiative yourselves ; don’t wait for men to come from Dublin or elsewhere, and don’t wait for public meetings to go on with your work. The work is yours, you are the Land League yourselves. (Hear, hear.) It is not the meetings, it is not the bands of music, the banners, and the speeches, it is that you will go home and keep your word of honour pledged before high 30 heaven. That is what will settle the land question, and it is here in Ireland that we will first settle the land question in our own way, and, please God, will go on with another league when this has ceased to exist that will put the Irish people on the right road to settle another and a greater question. (Cheers.) When I saw to-day the solid mass of marching manhood on the broad road 35 that comes here from the junction, when I saw those flags flying over the heads of ‘ true men, like you men,’ and when I saw the green flag of Tip- perary town and the Nationalists marching ahead for Mr. ParneU, I tell you i"- heart beat, and I thank God for it. (Cheers.) I am grateful personally my friends in the town of Tipperary. I wish that they will judge me o lO day not by my words, but by the work that I have been enabled under Gc and by the direction of that body organised by Mr. Parnell, to perform 1 the people of Tipperary. (Cheers.) Mr. Parnell has no doubt heard a gr( deal of cheering. Now, as an evidence of yom* success, I want Mr. Parn to hear a real ringing Tipperary cheer.” (Immense cheers.) C 4 23 Kniloiiglt . — Oclohcr 'Ms/, 1^80. Mr. J. G. Biggar, M.P. : llcvei-eiul latlicvs, ladies, and gontlonicu, T must apologise to you i'oi- coming to Kinlough to talk to you on a subject wbicli you understand very much better than I do. This (question of the land is one with which you have been intimately acquainted from your childhood, and know all that can 5 ho said on the suhjeet ; at the same time it is desirable, perhaps, that some of those who arc connected with the land agitation should come occasionally before you. There is another matter I should apologise to you for coming to speak to you upon, seeing that I am not able by any means to speak so well as other gentlemen who have spoken, and some among you whom you 10 will hear. But at the same time I know some little of the movements of ]iolitical parties, and something of the way in Avhich public agitations arc carried on, and I am exceedingly well pleased to have the opportunity of speaking to my Kinlough friends. The resolution that has been placed in my hand is one that is vital to the people of Ireland— when I say the people 15 of Ireland, I mean the people who cultivate the land of Ireland. This is an am-icultural country, and the only general means of occupation which the people can have in such a country as this is the cultivation of the land, and I hold it the duty of a law-giver, and of a person who has the government of the country in his hands, to try, if possible, to make as large a number of 20 people happy and comfortable as possible. (Cheers.) That unfortunately, for the time past, has not been the case. The whole object of the Governments of this country for time past, and unfortunately, so far as I am able to see at present, the grand object of the present Government is to make the few happy at the expense of the many. That is perfectly contrary to all sound 25 principle, and it is a principle which I am disposed to protest against, and ask you to protest against in as vehement a manner, and as effective a manner as you possibly can do. Now I ask my friends in County Beitiim are they disposed to be continued to be governed by the Corscaddeus and the other tyrants of the County Leitrim — when I say Corscadden, I do not know 30 whether he is or not a tyrant, but all landlords have it in their power to be tyrants. As our worthy father, who has preceded me, has said all landlords are not bad, and good ones deserve a certain amount of credit, and especial credit, for this reason, that they have power to be bad if they wish it ; and I say it 'is contrary to what is right and proper that any small number of men 35 should have power to tyrannise over the great body of the people, and I ask you whether or not you will use the exertions which are thoroughly within your reach to become the possessors of the land which you cultivate. Now it has been truly said that this Government valuation — this Griffiths’ valuation — is too much ; but allow that it is not too much, we know that in a great 40 many cases— the great number of cases— the landlord gets a great deal more than Grifhths’ valuation. Well, now, the principle on which the Land League has gone heretofore has been this : they say buy the ground from the land- lords on the basis of the Government valuation. They want to let the landlords off exceedingly easy, but if landlords are so foolish as to say we will 45 not settle upon the terms that are proposed by the Land League, which they, as arbitrators between the tenant farmers on the one side, and the landlords on the other, [say] are extremely reasonable and moderate, why then let them fight the matter out and see whether they will not ultimately 10 KinJoitgli.—Oclohcv ISSO. — J/r. J. G. IGugar, M. P. get compensated lor ilio land on a very much smaller ])rinciplc Ilian the princiido of valuation ecpial to the Government valuation. I hav(^ no doubt a largo majority here have heard what is the plan jiroposed hy our leader, IMr. J’aruell, as to the settlement of this ([uestion. Mis idea is this: that 6 the land should he bought from the landlords at 20 years’ purchase on the Government valuation, paying them in a stock which Avould ])ay 3 [ler cent, interest. They would then become perfectly free from the tyranny of their landlords. 3'hcy would have nothing more to do with them. They would probably leave the district. You Avould cease to he crushed hy the tyranny 10 of these unpaid magistrates, Avho in all political and party cases commit the most atrocious injustice under the name of the administration of justice. You would get rid of those ex officio guardians if they left the neighbourhood in which they job in the most atrocious manner at your poor law hoards, and also in their capacity of grand jurors, on which they use the poAver 15 placed in their hands for the purpose of carrying out their party and political jobs, and for the purpose of giving positions of profit to their sycophants and retainers. ^Vhat jVfr. Parnell proposes is this : that you pay per cent, on the amount of the purchase money to the Government as a sinking fund to pay off the principal sum. Then at the end of 35 years, by paying 20 one-tenth less than the Government valuation for 35 years, you or your suc- cessors Avould become the actual possessors of the land of the country, or the laud you till. Now that is a very simple proposition, my friends, and it is, so far as I am able to form an opinion of the different schemes laid before the public, very much preferable to any other scheme for settling the land 25 question. It is not unjust to the landlords ; in fact, so far from that it is letting them get an exceedingly favourable settlement, because in those cases where landlords have had for time past a great deal more than the Govern- ment valuation — the letting value of their land — they, instead of that, should refund the money they have dishonestly and unfairly received for the time 30 past. So that in point of fact if these landlords do not agree in a short time to the terms AAdiich are proposed by the Land League the result must be they will get exceedingly worse terms. Now I can tell you, my friends, that my friend, Mr. Parnell, and a large number of the public men connected with the land movement are ex- 35 ceedingly anxious and Avilling to do the best they can to get a good settle- ment of this question for the tenant farmers of Ireland, but at the same time they cannot do everything. It is your duty and it is your interest to give your assistance in such a manner as you can easily do — in certain Avays — which manner I Avill now point out to you. We do not recommend shooting 40 landlords. That is an extreme measure, and certainly we cannot recommend it, and besides it is held undesirable for the interest of the cause that it should be done, for this reason : that Avhen such a thing takes place it is blazoned forth in all the English newspapers, and prejudice is excited in the EnMish mind against the Irish tenant farmers, which is calculated to 45 interfere to a material extent Avith the advocacy of my friend, Mr. Parnell, and others on behalf of the tenant farmers. But other things yon can do. The first thing to do is to become members of the Land League, Avhich is a thoroughly constitutional association. In becoming members of the Land League what will you gain by that ? I will tell you some of the ad\mitages. 50 Suppose a landlord attempts to dispossess any tenant farmer, in fact, in Ireland, the Land League in his particular neighbourhood will supply information to C 11 Q 336G.— 55. KiHhi((jh.— October 'Mst, ISSO. — Hr. J. (J . lyl(j!jwy/()/r.— 31.S'/ Octoher, 1880.) •lAMKS DUFFY inove.l to the cluiir hy Arthiif Mulloiioy. .Ml! WALSllF proposed ilie first resolution : ■■ That, as the l.reaent system ef huallenlis.u is tlie cause of ear eouniry s ,,„vert v,wo .lemaml its almlitim, ; a.al declare that no scttlemeut of the lan.l .liicstion .sliall l.e a>-ce|.te.l as liual, that ea not make the cul1,ivat... of the soil its owner. Thomas Brennan snpiHirted first resolution iitul said . ... i x ti F,c no lono-er the willing slaves of a few Idlers joining together for the destruction of power of those idlers. I am not an advocate for strong 10 words, unless we arc able to give practical effect by strong deeds. If we are to meet prosecution, let it be in upholding the banner of right thundering against the wrongs of outraged humanity. Ihey talk of assassinatbn, but who are the real assassins-on what side does the balance of assassination lie ? (a voice, “ With the landlords). The landlords are 15 not less guilty, protected by the English law (a voice, “Down with buckshot Forster”). It the present men be swept away, men will be go to take their places, more dangerous enemies to landlordism than any who yet appeared on the scene in Ireland. All the workingmen should get together and put down this state of things. A grander cause a man cannot lie 20 engaged in than to raise the people of this country from misery ant degradation. God never intended those who labour the land to live on chm-ity meal, while landlords spend their earnings in the gambling liells <.f the Continent. A^ou should resist (a voice, “ We’ll give them a pill^ ). You should enjoy the fruits and pledge yourselves to give up that tnck 25 of pulling your hat for every little brainless stpiireen in the countiy. oui case is hi your own hands. This movement does not depend on a few leaders, it rests with the intelligent democracy of Ireland. I have no faith iu agitation unless it taught people their rights ; hringing people togetlier was very little use if something practical does not occur. 30 On Sundays in chapel-yards and cross-roads form Land Leagues, and discuss the news of the day. My advice is to pay no unjust or exorbitant rents. Before you surrender you ought ask yourselves what are you doing to o-o either to the grave or the workhouse. The legal thunderbolts that are^bout to burst hi Dublin, will not have the effect of retarding the 35 people, act determined, and your cause will triumph, and the da.ke.t social evil will be destroyed. M {Knockniore. — 'A\st OctoJxr, 1880.) Mr. Arthur Mulfeny suj){)orto(l third I’osolution. The Govoniiiioiit will bring prosecutions on Land League, but we will meet them, who stood by the ])eoj)lc, wbat you the English Government have not done, and saved a million living, in sjtite of the English Goveinment you will increase and multiply. Who were those landlords, the soldiery of Cromwell, those who are no Lords of the soil. Tory papers cry murdei’ when a little landlord is shot. Wo are barbarians — look to the record of Englaiid — we are far beliind in crime the Land League counsels you to hold the harvest, and pledge yourselves before God and your country, that you will not take a farm from which 10 another has been evicted. You can carry and use guns and pistols. You may shoot ground game and over-ground game, such as rattle snakes, which vou may ]K)int your gun at, and if they liite shoot tliem. 3 LOUGHGLINN, Co. llo.scowjnou, Sffiidfft/, fM.v/ Oc/ohcr 1(S(S(). Mr. M‘Dermott in the cluiir. The Chairman. “ I iliaiik you, lor the kind lioiioiir wliicli you litivc coiilt'iTcd oil luc ill taking- t he chair. I thank the jicoplc alhigcther lor the assemhiy. 5 I am heartily pleased to see all that is gathered together to-day. Mr. M‘Nullty read the first resolution. ■‘That we exhort all tenant farmers who have fearlessly joined the ranks of the Land League to adhere to their laudahle undertakings till equity is done them ; and also to use every moral force that in them lies to induce 10 their less ardent neighbours to hcconic raemhers of the League.” Mr. James Grogan : “ Mr. Chaii-man and fellow-countrymen, from the extent of our meeting here to-day it is quite evident that the men of Loscominon are determined to share in the battle that is now raging throughout the length and breadth of 15 this land against landlord aggression, against landlord tyranny, and against landlord injustice (cheers). Landlordism is at the root of our present poverty, our present distress, onr present degradation, and our present misery (‘Down with them”). Landlordism is pronounced to he one of the most unjust, the most intolerable, and the most indefensible insti- 20 tution on the face of God’s earth. It is emphatically condemned by dis- tinguished English statesmen of every shade of politics. Lord Clarendon, a former Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, compared landlordism in Ireland to a felony. John Stewart Mill, the greatest writer on political economy that ever England produced, says the Hindoo, the Kaffir, and the Hottentot had some 95 interest and protection in their homesteads, hut the Irish tenant farmer had none, for there was no law to protect him. Eichard Cohden, the once o-reat Eno-lish reformer and advocate of free trade, says that so foul, so polluted, and so corrupt were the landlords of Ireland tliat they stank 111 the nostrils of the civilised world (cheers). Again, we have John Bright, a 3Q member of the present Government and also a member of the Cabinet : speaking not long ago before a meeting of his constituents at Birmingham, he compared landlordism in Ireland to a cancer that is eating away the very existence of the people (cheers and ‘ Away with landlordism ’ ; ‘ Down with the robbers’). Now in the face of all this, in the face of such strong and just A 1 Q 33G6.— G5. {Lowjhonmu--i)dobev 'Md, \my—J\lr. JmvcH arogov.) I con.inf*- Iroin the lii)s cl’ English statosnn.i and in Iho race of the whole world, yea, and in tli(‘ lae(5 of cnnimon instiee and riglit, landlordism in its present shap(‘ and form in this eountry or in any shape or form ean no longer last (eheers). Go it must, and e, 5 us all here to-day wish it a hearty God speed never to eome haek (eheers). You are all aware that the pinsent Government hrought in a small Eill tor the proteetion of the lives of the tenant farmers of Ireland during tlie present and eoming season, ddiis Eill was only a temporary Eill, a limitial Eill, and not even a shadow of a settlement of the land question ; hut, hccause it horc 10 on the face of it a semhlanee of a concession to the down-troddcii tenant farmers, after it passed the House of Commons that great assembly called the House of Lords, hut more properly speaking the house of alien landlords as far as Ireland is concerned, they rejected that Eill hy a majority of 221 Not alone did they reject this Eill hy such an overwh dinning majority, hut 15 they called it hy every name that language could employ. They called it an invasion of the rights of property ; they called it contiscation, plunder, and rohhery ; hut when they speak of contiscation, plunder, and rohhery, let them go hack to their own history, and they will find those deeds written in letters'^oi hlood. How did they acquire those vast estates ? How did they 20 come in for those dignified and lordly titles ? Was it not hy the violation of solemn treaties and compacts? Was it not hy rohhery, confiscation, and plunder (cheers). Now, fellow countrymen, there is one to which I wish to draw your attention and which I wish to impress upon your mind as forcibly as I possibly can, and it is this— and it is the key to 25 the whole agitation : that no farmer will take a farm from which another has been evicted (cheers, disturbance, and cries of ‘ Order, order.’) The man who takes a farm from which another has been or will he evicted is worse than a man that evicts, is a powerful weapon in the hands of the landlord, is a traitor to his country and an enemy of our cause, and 30 should he denied recognition of every man ; no man should buy from him, no man should sell to him, no man should lend to him,^ no man should borrow from him, no man should speak to him on the highway or byway, at mass or meeting, or even a Land League meeting. (‘ He is a devil among them.’) Every man’s hand should he against him, his life or should he made miserable until he is obliged to surrender his ill-gotten prey. ■ ^ We are told hy those Irish landlords that the only remedy for our present poverty (interruption) hut let them remember H7 and ’48 are not ’80 (interruption) There is not a people on the face of God’s earth who have suffered so much hunger and privation as the 10 Irish have for the last 50 years. ( ‘ Their own fault,’ disturbance, and inter- ruption.) The famine-stricken people of Ireland assemble in their thousands to assert their rights, to demand reformation of the iniquitous land laws of the country. We have that ignorant press of England, that intolerant wooden- headed press of England, calling out for paternal government, and the Govern- 45 ment instituting Government prosecutions (interruption) .... the life-blood, the hone and sinew and youth of our country (interrup- tion), especially the landlords. All, and more than all, should he happy, prosperous, and contented. I say then that not a man in Ireland to-day, from the humblest peasant to the highest functionary in the land, that should 50 not raise their voice in solemn protest against emigration (interrup- We have no nationality, we have no people, I say we have 2 (h,„!,h,irnw.-Oolohe,- -Md, 188(>.-.Wr. Jamni, Oronau.) „„ pfospevily oilluT «.■ <-.).n,.uM-.nnlly. In speak,.,;; this way 1 L 1«, l-o.-cil.ly staack hy (la, w.-.-ds <.i; U,„ poet, t,M,ly savs, ‘ That la-inees aa.l peers ,„ay p.-nsh a.,. I .„ay a.l^ a la at , ,„ak; the,,, as a lavalh has ,„a,le ; hat a |,easa„t,y. I„ar .-eaaU-ys ,vhe„ ye.l <■„„ „eve,- he sappl.eil. (Ch<.e,-».) A 2 3 — Oclohcr ;}l.s7, ISSO.) Mr. Matthew Harris. * “ Mr. Cl.ainuan, ladies, and -enihaueii. Th(‘ relVreiieo whi(di ilie sp('akor il.atlmsiusi addressed you lias mad(‘ to a-rariau eriine nuniuds me tliat 1 iKive not been very well treated by tlie imblie ]m‘ss, in referenoe t() statii- 5 ments which 1 mad(‘ at a meetin^^ in (lalway (‘ Groans lor them,’ groans), r made use at that i^Teat meeting-, 1 made use ot an expression which pm-hajis [ should not have made use ot, hnt i was nnsnnderstood as regards the meaning- whicli T myself attached to that cxiiression, and the late Attorney. General, Mr. Gibson, and very many of the English papers have takim 10 advantage of that expression, and have used it in order to bring opiirohr.nm upon the cause of the tenant farmers (‘ Down with them ’), Alter nsmg that expression the ehairman of our meeting remarked upon it, and I was happy to seize upon the occasion in order to say,— and I request that the gentlemen of the press will put down my words here now, -in order to state 15 that not only was I opposed to the slu-dding of human blood, hnt that I was actually opposed in feeling to the shedding of the blood of the lower animals. No man could make a clearer or a fairer recantation than that was. Gentle- men, tlie expression which I made use of was this. I said, after giving an account of the endeavours that I had made in 1843 and 1844 to put down 20 agrarian crime, I had before my mind the honest endeavours that I myself and that the great Liberal party and the priesthood at that time, had made to put down ^agrarian crime in Ireland, and I had also before my mind the exterminators who came in after we had succeeded, and who used the state of peace and harmony which we were striving to induce in order to exter- 25 minate millions of the people (cheers). When I spoke I had this matter before my mind, and I confess here before you to-clay that the expressions I made use of were liable to misinterpretation, for I say, gentlemen, that if landlords, that I never would again do what I had done in the past, and I was unlmppy in stating that if landlords were shot down like partridges in 30 September, I should not interfere to save them (cheers). Well, now, gentle- men, that was a strong statement and it was a wrong statement, for it would be the duty of me and of every other good citizen, in case the people were to turn round in an inhuman or a merciless way for to exterminate or shoot down landlords, and I say my expressions were open to that interpretation, T it would be an inhuman and unmanly thing for_eL her me _OTjn^- boflv else to stand un and allow su ch actilTb e committedr But, gentlemen, mTl^^t^retation of it was tl^ I said I had in my mind the idea of the e'iWinator, who is inhuman to apparently thousands of people on the one hand, and I had also in my mind the poor victim here striving to defend 40 himself against that exterminator, and I said myself that I would not tie down the hands of the one and allow the other to do his work of extermina- tion and crime (loud cheers) ; and perhajis I should not, I know I should not. have used the expressions I did use, because an excited people, perhaps a people labouring under grievous oppression, may misinterpret what I say, 45 and I take this opportunity to tell you now, ray friends, that honestly in my mind, I believe that the crime of mm-der, if attacjied to our cause, wouj^ T '-V — r— p • brino- the wrath of GocTdown'upon it I tbinkWhS is as honest and as fan a recantation, if ■'recantation werel^uired, as it is possible for a man to make with reference to agrarian crimes. Now, gentlemen, having gone so' 50 far, I shall turn round and address myself to the subject matter for which this meeting has been called together (cheers). 4 ( Lou(jh()lhin. Odohcr IM.sY, ISSO.— :^/r. Malllicw Harris.) “Tlu' s|u':il<('r who (‘Muu'lK'fon'nK'al Inch'd lo ('ini^'nil ion. VVoll, my rnc'iids, oinio-rnlion is a (M-nc'l mid !i divadriil thin-, hni it has its t^'ood ])oinis afior all. 'I'lu' cinii>'rat ion ol' onr ri'icnds t,o Amorica, and ilio sont inmnts t hc'y liavo iid'nsc'd in those' who ri'inain al home', has rousc'd the' spirit ol mdopondoncc' 5 amon- the pooido of livland (cheers), lias inrnsc'd into them a nolde r(']mhliean spirit that 1 fear Ave never should have had had it not heen lor our exiled brothers; and it is also a consolation to us liere at homo to think that one half of the Trisli race is outside the grille oF a tyrannous -ovc'rn- ment (hooting). Onr Friends abroad are teachin- ns the great lesson hiF TO ecpiality by their cxamiile in the United States, where every man is Free and ecinal, and our tyrannical landlords at home are teaching us to ^detest aris- toc'ratic goA'crnment here among ourselves. (‘ Down Avitli them, and hoots.) AVe are taking this lesson to our hearts, and the people of Ireland every day are becoming ni ore and more republican, more and more independent, more 15 and more free, more and more able to grapple with the tyrants who are trampling upon and oppressing them, and I tell you, my friends, and it is eonsoling to have it to say, that tliis great movement is progressing so rapidly, is advancing with sncli rapid strides throughout the country, that Avithout agrarian crime or any other crime the people AVill he so united 20 together, the organisation will he strong and so universal, that the power those tyrants possess Avill drop from their coArardly, enfechled hands (cheers), and the people wall rise up emancipated, and wondering hoAV it Avas that m the midnight of their slavery they had lain down so long under the foiillcst oppression, and under the meanest oppressors that ever trampled upon a 25 noble people (cheers). Gentlemen, emigration has heen alluded to, and I myself have alluded to it. Previous to the revolution in Prance there Avere only 25 millions of people in that great country. The cry of the Prcnch nohles at that time Avas that the country Avas over-populated, and the cry of every tyrant aaPo tries to devour the food that should go into honest 30 men’s stomachs, the cry of every tyrant who Avould strip the clothes from the hack of tlic' poor, and take the food from out of the mouth of the poor, and take the hlanket Avhich covers them at night from the poor (hoots, and ‘ They Avill never do it any more’), and pull down the humhle cahin, and pull down the humhle cahin that shelters the poor man, and that Avould 35 quench the poor man’s fire, and oppress him in a. thousand, in a thousand ways, even to the very grave itself (cheers) ; the cry of these men h and ever has heen that there are too much human l)eings in the lamy Everyj other animal associates with its species ; every other animal is content to live in harmony at least with its own species. The laAV of prey only prevails 40 hetween one class of animals and the others, hut the Irish landlord and the landlord class they refuse to live in harmony Avith their felloAV man ; they refuse to allow their felloAV man to exist even in the humhlest and most abject state. No, it is not enough that they take from them everything that gives comfort to a poor man’s home ; they must come with their vile agents 45 of oppression, they must come Avith their bailiffs and their crowbar brigade (bootings), and they must’level the homes and they must drive them from this fair country to go as Avaifs and strays and toilers throughout the world, from home and kindred and everything that makes life dear to them. Well, my friends, I hope we are fast approaching the end of this horrid system ; I hope 50 Ave have come to an end of all the plausible talk that used to he about the master and the landlord (cheers and laughter) .. . (interruption) . . . A3 5 ( rMUjhiilhm.-Oclober !! I »/, I m).-Mr. Mollhew Jlurrk.) ,v„ul.l sav, ‘ Al,. lu, would 1,0 a ^ood nutu only for s.ud, and such a i>ci'son,’ an.lanoU,o,'ConU,iu|,(ihlo. slavish wndch wdl come h„-wa,-d and he wll . ^ von ‘Ah, mind yom own husiucss ; look l» youv la,'n., nnnd you,- 1 tU - huuily, do not look to anybody hut you.-scir.’ Well, vvhen^ the i.eoidc took that a.lviec, when they hell nml sav you sent, them ihiilua- ’) ; if he says that, and d’ h(‘. do(n(l(>.s, and d ho (loos that, why then (intorrnption) ho is donioralisod. Ah, lu'. is ono ol tlu*. lowest wrotohos in the world, h(‘. is not at all lit, the oountry is ^-oinf.- to nun, 5 c>nMwthinoAs oxnno- astray, anil the nuwal nil turned topsey-turyoy, b(H*anso that man i^i'ts np and is a man. Now, ?:?entlemen, I hayo to o-o all t he. I,) j}. i su])poso I will hayo to ho trayolling- all nig-ht, and I won t detain yon any longer, Init hotbre leaying-, hivforo li^ayin-, let mo impress upon you tho ahsoluto necessity of extending your organisation (cheers). 10 The Goyernmont, it is said, the Goyernment are about prosecuting tho loaders of this movement. AVell, I tell you, my friends, that when this movement beo’an it had very little leaders, and if your loaders be taken up, instead of turning to bad men who, perhaps, may betray the cause that they pretend to deComb I ask you myself instead of turning to other leaders, and perhaps bad 15 leaders, I ask yon to bo your own leaders. I ask you to join together and form your branches in the various localities. You know the programme of tho Land Leao-ue, you know what you have to do now, and you will soon learn that the bosUeaders tho people can have are tho people themselves (cheers), and you will soon learn your own strength, and what is better, you will teach the oo Governincnt that neither their prosecutions, nor their bayonets (‘ Nor their buckshot nor their buckshot, nor any other law, nor any other device that ever tyranny devised to enslave and rob mankind will avail against tho Irish people when united by organisation (cheers). Put land grabbers from you like some evil. If we are not strong on that point all is over ; if you are not 25 linn there, let no amount of plausibility, let no professions of either nationality, or this, or that, or the other, induce ye to countenance or to allow any man who is’a land grabber to touch upon your organisation (‘ Never ’). You must taboo such a man, ye must isolate such a man, ye must leave him that he and his friends will come to their knees for to beg, to beg to bo apologised for 30 the crimes they have committed against the people and against tbe country. Gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, I beg now to second the resolution which has already been proposed, and to thank you most sincerely for the veiy kind hearing you have given me.” (Cheers.) ^ A 4 {Kealki/L—Oclohcr 'Ms/, J/y. i^icxlon, M.l\) Mr. Thomas Sexton, M.P. iM(Mi of West Cork and fellow eountrjnuoi : 1 am hero at the si)ecial request of the Irish National Land League to give what huinhlc assistance lean in the important work of this day (hear, hear). J he Land League, 5 feeling the importance of those proceedings, and leeling how much the public attention of Ircdand and of other countries heyond the sea is dircchal upon . us here to-day hy some incidents which have recently occurred in this locality, have heen unwilling that this meeting should go forward uitliout their representative hciirg present (hear, hoar). I have therefore felt groat 10 pleasure in coming from Duhlin at some inconvenience and at the cost of some fatigue to he present here to-day, not only because of the importance of the proceedings in themselves ; hirt also because of the deep personal inh'rest I feel in the two gentlemen whoso names have heen, and will he for a considerable time to come mixed irp with this locality (cheers, and 15 voices: ‘ Three cheers for llealy,’ ‘ Three cheers for Walsh ). I am proud indeed to have the opportunity of addressing so iirtelligent and so substantial an assemlrly of my fellow countrymen ; and I know that the assembly would liav'C even been more majestic in its numbers and more imposing in its intelligence than it is, but for the unfortunate circumstance that some mistake 20 arose as to the hour for the commencement of the proceedrngs. The consequence is that a large rrumber of peo])le after waiting here for two hours have been obliged to depart for their homes ; and though we begin the proceedings at a much later hour than intended we are still without the reporters of the Cork or Dublin press, who seem to have fallen into some stranffe or unaccountable error as to the time of the commencement of the proceedings. “ Now, my friends, as I drove along to this meeting to-day, I could have wished to have in my company some intelligent foreigner, — some man from China or Peru or the most distant parts of the earth, and to have shown him 25 80 the district of the country through which I came to attend this meeting. I would have liked to point out to that man the stony wilderness, the marshy wastes, the shallow soil — a few inches resting on a solid body of rock and a scanty growth forcing its way. I should like to show him this, and ask him whether the lands of this district can do more than sustain the people who :f5 till it (‘No, no’). The most the land can do is to give thin and meagre subsistence to the tillers of the soil. And what is true of Ireland generally is particularly true of this district, and that is, that the land is not able to support the tillers of it, and at the same time maintain a class of persons who do nothing (hear, hear, and voices: ‘ Dotvn with landlordism’). As I to passed along the road I observed at one point two constables marching along the road with shouldered rifles. Now, I remember very well, not long ago in the House of Commoms we felt obliged to protest against the custom of sending the police about in Ireland with deadly weapons in their possession, and we were then informed by the Chief Secretary of Ireland that it was not 45 the custom to do so, and that if it were found to be the custom it would be discontinued. Well, I inquired of my driver why it was these constables were marched abroad on a Sunday with the rifles at then shoulder, and I was informed they were engaged in guarding a landlord (hoots). At the same time the driver (interruption). I would ask that what I have to .“O say be heard without interruption (hear, hear.) The driver then pointed out to me a gentleman going along the line of rails immediately beside the 2 (Kcilldlt.- OcIiiIh-i'-MxI, ISSd.— ,1/r. Hcxlou, ,ona nna inf..nuo.l .no U.al U.osc o.mstal.Ic. on ll.o 1,1.1, nn,l-n»,m «t Monday ,vi(l. II, oi.’ .-ill.'S to tl.on- .l.onidcrs wc.o ongaso,! in gna.-dn.g that, gonticnnan. loan only say that, sl.ooking as that ino.idont was ,n oneway ,n anothov way it is el,eo.'rnl and rnll ol' l.o|.o, l.ocanse wi.en, n, tl.o rnnUt ol an o.do. y B neonic. in the n.idst of a ,,co,,ic religions i.y natn.o, in tl,o m.dst ol a people Udlons l,y to.npova.nent, in ti.c midst of a people who by them pnne.ples are ol,o,lie.d to all jnst laws-whcn in tl,e midst of suel. a people ,t l,ceonms necessary, or is considered necessary, Cor any geutle.uan to take alnoad wi . l,i,n ,ne,‘, armed witl, deadly wcapons-wUen such a state oC Iceling and sue . ,0 a state of public conscience has arisen, I say that the .noment must have arrived, and l.as arrived, wl.on tl.c rigl.ttul settlement ot tl.o Insl. land niio“eeting shonld"not pass over without some reference being made to those pioceedm s Lich are iLeuding (groans and interruption). I would ask the people to 35 regard any hostile " .7u tTL ^ invention of the enemy (a voice: tine w o a ^ one mind here, and we will show to-day that ^^“""'’^y^^^Lnbrken excitement we are capable of conducting our proceedings with^ that unbio order which has marked this great movement from the beginning (cheers and “ “LotTim not in a position to enter upon an examination of the circium- stanees with which my friends Mr. Healy and Mr. Lin- aid action «:“teLllhL.rt toot him “L 45 Ind dauntless spirit (hear, heai-), but yet a man !nlted “n controlled by a cultivated prudence. I ’^"™.L”''L LwLife to Maud, some of the most delicate and difficult negociations of public lite m iiela^ ITl have never for one moment in my experience of many years known toLdtoretir to fail (hear, hear). I also have «.e pleasure to enrol 50 Mr. Walsh among those whom I call my friends (heai, iear> n him to be a man of sound intelligence and wide experience of life, a A. 2 {KeaUcill- — Octolicr :51s(, 1880. — Mr. tScxlon, M.l’.) «ei'o askc'd in tl.c vvliolc circle of my a<-(iuainUncc, wlii(-li includes men m cmmlics or Irelan.!, to point, ont U,c two who were least hkely to bo •nulty of any indiscretion or of going beyond the limits ol ‘j';, Conduct of this public cause, I would point to Mr. lloaly and M r Walsh D (cheers) They have the right, as we all have the right, to o ei a rtoo Lhortation to any countryman of theirs who is ivill.ng to consider their exhortation or their advice (hear, hear). I am not awa that ill this case thev have done anything further. I believe they used 1 1 H t L pirit of desire for the public peace, the public ^ 10 public iiitist (hear, hear), and it remains to he seeii-it — proved by the strict and thorough investigation which my ^ demand when the law takes this case iip-it remains to be proved whet even the man to whom they offered their advice will say that ttiey offered i to him against his will, or that they went beyond their right in 15 (hear hear). Because of Mr. Ilealy’s connexion, his lionouiab e a fctincuiished connexion, with the leader of the Irish people m bat grea . . ” , A wliicli is one of the great historic facts of the present r::; and:ncr’e:nferred not only a refleeted fame upon Mr. Healy as the companion of Mr. Parnell, but the fame that was directly and rightly hi 20 own, because of the intellect, the ability, and 'the devotion played in that honourable public service (hear, hem) , lecau ronLxion with Mr. Parnell, the question in this locality has attracted extr - ordinary attention, and I am in a position to say that even from P”'® ^ from Madrid the capital of Spain, instructions have been sent to supply t 25 people of those countries with particulars of what happens here to-day La bear). I am therefore glad to be able to anticipate tba we may S the riult of the proceedings without disquiet. As I have said, it is not our duty and it is not our legal right to anticipate or to prejudge in any way IZ rZhiot those proceedings, but I say deliberately, from all I have heard 50 i1 all that I know of the character and mtelligenoe of the two me Tolerned-and I am entitled to hear my testimony on this public platform _T sav from all I know about tliis fact, that you, my Iriends, and e friLds of Mr. Healy and Mr. Walsh, and all the friends of this great movement in which they are engaged, may await the result of the pio- 35 ceedin- in this locality without a particle of apprehension (hear, near) tL m^ountain may have heen lahouring. but it will only bring forwaid a LL^tmV «ends, you are aware that according to puhlic rumour Mm Parnell and L others ol the men who have heen in the habit of advism 4A von for some time past upon this great question so vital to your interests, six of whom I have the honour to be one, have, aocordmg to public rumour, r elected bvthe government for prosecution. (‘Three cheers for the 'Ll I repeat what I have said on other platforms in Ireland that I, for my *, 1 fUat act of the Government (hear, hear), that I, from my hear , part, we come that »t of the formation upon this 45 regard the the Government could confer upon me if thCT set their hearts upon doing me honour (cheers). I would be dispirited woS he depressed iu heart, if I thought that the taking away of any man from voJ pLform for a time would deprive this movement of its energy and force 50 P Not at all ’) But this movement is one of simple principles, of pimcip es lul are now embedded in your hearts and which eanuothe taken from them {KedUcill- — Ocliilier 1880 . — Mr. Sc.rton, ^l.l ■) ( 1 , I.oor). As was justly said by a ualional ,«isu- just.wclay a I-apor , by a .uau who is an bunouv b, Cosk, tbo paper , bveeto,! by li e ,00 Ibe uaLual bant that Jlautry gave to Irelau.l (cheers), tius ,s a .uove uon’t that now eau do without leaders, or. as T have put .t ... more bomdy 3 Ts o who., the school has lea.a.t tbo lesso.., it is too late for hose who to k..ep the schools iu ignorance to take aw,.y the schoolu.astor (d.ee« .and la..ghte.-)- The object of this niovcnicnt is to place Irclanr ... ^ iiie w , the other great civilised nations of the earth (hear, hear). le o )jec o; i is to declare, and to obtai.i the force of law for the dcclarat.o.1 that .u Irelan 10 as in other great centrios, the people who till tho soil shall bo the the soil they till (hear, hear). Wo boar from one quarter or Irom anothei of I s udof intlitions to eonipro.niso this question. Wo na.l o..r flag to too mast and we say, ‘No compromise.’ (‘Bravo’ and cheer ). And why do we say this ? Well, my friend before me has given one good reason^ 15 we must do away with toe begging-box. We will not have our oountry any longer a me.idieant; we will not, if we can by any effort of ours put an em to Tt allow the p.'olo..gation of a state of things which, whenever hy a naiural call y this country :uffer.s from even one year of bad crops, plunges the masses of the people into absolute pauperism, into unspeakable suffering, into 20 deo-rading hiu ger. and places their very lives, the lives of their nives an tt ell own help es children, at the mercy of the charity of the world (cheers) I7lrieml,in toe past we have been content to try conapromise upon this landlord question, and we have always found that no matter how m. seeniino- the Acts of Parliament were which professed to settle the lush -25 uuestion upon the basis of keeping the landlord class in the.r pr sent Iltion-that every such Act, when it came into Iten at the core (cheers). We have found, “"7!“’ ^ ^ of Ireland, instead of applying themselves to give fan play to t^se Act Parliament, as we might expect men who boast so qo to do we find they have been always ready and determined to apply t tifly. and all L skill of their legal agents, to defeat uhatever benevoto nmpose L law may have in it (hear, hear). Again, to turn to the question of Lsant proprietary, we have found that in every country in the world where peasant proprietary has been established, it has resulted 1.1 the pros- 35 perity Id the comfort and in toe peace of the people ; and is it n , smo.Ir thing that in all the great countries we look upon this lesu t o pea'knt proprietary has been arrived at by various roads, but all temhng to toe same reLlt. In Prance it was achieved by a revolution ; 111 Russia it was achieved by an act of despotic benevolence; 111 Prussia it was the resu 0 40 a system of State purchase siioli as we want to be applied to Ireland and in America it was the result of a system which we find enforced m al new countries namely, the svstem of planting upon the virgin soil, not lamlloids, bn"’er propr etors (hear, hear). Whether we look to the experience 01 landlordism in Ireland, or whether we look to the resu ts of peasant pro- 45 pltarv in other countries, we have come h-resistibly to this one conclusion, piiexaiymoL _ ^ n plnss who like the Irish landlords, that there can be no compromise with a class who, ime have proved themselves to be still foreign to the oountiy in spirit and n heart they have no sympathy with the people; they never prove by a y T iw thev have I of the uses which the aristocracy have in other action that t y ./ hort as Mr A. M. Sullivan has said, that they . ’Therefore the National Land League asks you to per- A3 {Kcalkill.— Octubcr WUl, 18b0— J/v. k>exl<))i, M.T.) soveiv -vvitli on(> si)irii and oiu; mind in this movement, and it reeommends to youv iid,ellig-cnce three f^-rcat rules of aetion. It says to you, in the first plaee, that none of yon should tak(; a farm from whieh any man has been unjustly (‘vieted (hear, hear). That is the first of the thna; eornmandments 5 of our political salvation (cheers). Have you not the right to abstain from taking tliat farm? (several voices: ‘We have’). T think you have. If you have the right to do that, have not I the right to advise you to do it ? (voices : ‘ Certainly ’). Very well ; we come to the second rule. The second rule is that you shall not buy any cattle nor any produce raised upon a farm 10 from which any man has been unjustly evicted (hear, hear). It is of no use to abstain from taking the farm if the cultivation of that farm shall be allowed to bo profitable ; but if you will not have the produce of the farm, the farm will practically remain idle. Very well, have you not the right to abstain from that produce ? You have. Have I not the right to ask you 15 to abstain (voices in the crowd: ‘Groans for Manning ’). Now I come to the third and final rule, and it touches upon the question of those who despise the verdict of your judgment, and who, without regard to your opinion, go into possession of farms from which men have been unjustly evicted. This is the pivot of our movement. Ho I say that you should 20 indulge in an act of violence, or in language of threat ? (‘ No.’) No ; your voice anticipates me. I do not. I say that not only is violence forbidden by the law of God, which we all revere, and by the laws of civilised society, but that it is useless and unnecessary, and therefore hurtful to our move- ment. I say that the peaceful rules of action which we have laid down are 25 amply sufficient for our success; but when I hear men endeavouring to couple this movement with the name of outrage and of crime, when I find the English press lecturing our people upon the baseness of shooting, I say to these English moralists, ‘ Look at home’ (voices: ‘Groans for them’). I look upon the face of then’ land, which boasts of its open Bible, and I say 30 that scarcely a day passes without bringing its hideous chronicles of crimes — not upon men, but upon defenceless women, upon young children — of crimes of minder, of crimes which, as the great Apostle of the Gentiles said, should not be even mentioned amongst Christians. I look to that polluted com- munity of England, and I say to them, when these crimes are of perpetual 35 occurrence amongst you, when they spring, not from a system which grinds and provokes the people, but from perpetual impulses to crime existing in the nature of the community, I say to them, ‘ Beform yom'selves ; pass Peace Preservation Acts for the lives of women and children, bring in laws to protect your own community, then talk to a virtuous and law-abiding iO people.’ But, my friends, I say this, that this movement is not in any sense responsible for any acts of violence that are committed. I think that the National Land League, if it was to cease to exist to-day, has a glorious, historic record in the good it has done for the Irish people ; and I say that if we had fewer outrages, as we have had, than in former years, when there was 15 less distress and less provocation, that this is in great measure owing to the National Land League, which, every week for the last twelve months has sent sums of money to keep from hunger and despah* the poor people turned from their homes (cheers). Therefore I fling back in the teeth of any man I care not what his position or character may be — the imputation that this •5 0 movement has any responsibility for outrage. Our great peaceful, public national movement has no community with violence (hear, hear). 6 ■u {Kealki/l. — October ai.v/, 1880. — Mr. Sexton, M.l\) “ And now, iiiy Irlc'nds, with iTg'iird to tlicso prosccutioiis, it i.s still (loul)tlul, it is still not (inito c('rt;iin, wlictlier tlicy may proceed. It is doubtful wbetber, iJ’ they proceed, tlio Government may arrive at the conclusion they desii'C. The public conscience is profoundly agitated ; the ])ublic conscience is singularly 5 roused upon tire question wbetber the Irish people shall be allowcid to live upon the land which God gave to them, and which God intended to bo their natural home, or whether they shall be driven from that land into exile, and Avhother, while all the great nations of the earth are increasing in prosperity and in population, which is the one true test of prosperity, the population of 10 Ireland is dwindling year by year. The tide of emigration has once more begun to flow. Our young men and onr comely maidens arc still flying aAvay, flying from hunger*, flying from the land of their birth and their love. The question is whether our virtuous people, our thrifty, industrious race, shall be allorved to live at home or not. Into that question we have thrown 15 all the efforts of our souls and intelligence. Upon that question Ave have staked our liberties, upon that question Ave are AAnlling to stake our lives (cheers.) We ask you, my friends, to catch our spirit ; Ave ask yon to inspire in your own bosoms the determination Avhich fills your leaders. Let the Government succeed if they will, for it is hard to say what the couscience of 20 n peculiarly constructed Dubhn jury may not effect ; but let them succeed as they will. I tell you that the sentence which Avill send us into prison would be the sentence which would be the herald of the emancipation of our race (cheers), because the result would be to stimulate the people to enthusiasm, to rouse the wavering, to draw the faint hearted into the 25 national union, and to communicate to our movement such an energy and a force as no earthly power could resist. My friends, I anticipate with con- fidence of heart the day of an early triumph (hear, hear). I belicA^e that the law of reason, I believe that the principles of justice, I believe that the rules which govern the progress of civilised society, are all upon our side 30 (hear, hear). I know that the energy of the people is on our side. The past has been against us, but the present is on our side, and assuredly the future will be ours (cheers), for whether you have leaders or whether you have not you have principles in your hearts. Your success depends upon the assertion of principles and not upon the help of man ; and with God 35 for your leader, and with justice for your rallying cry, you cannot be long denied your rights (loud cheers). I have to speak to-morrow at a meeting at Gorey in the county Wexford, so you will excuse me if I leave the meeting to go to Dublin” (cheers). A 4 7 / k {Kealkill . — October 3l6-/, 1880. — Mr. ,J. If'. IFulsh.) Mr. J. W. Walsh, of Balia : “]\rr. Cliairnian and fellow oouutiymcii, I thank you sincerely for this inaL’Miilieent/ reception, and 1 am not so vain as to think that it is due to any act of mine, hut to the great cause which 1 represent. You have assembled 5 here to-day to protest against the arrest of myself and my friend Mr. llcaly and not alone for that purpose ; you have assemhled to demand the final settlement of the land question (hear, hear), and I must say that I am to a great extent thankful to Mr. Corley Manning for having given us this op})ortunity of again appearing among the people of Bantry and the locality, 10 hecause, I believe, in God’s earth there is not a people so landlord ridden and doAvn trodden as the people of this locality. On to-morrow we will he called on to appear at the court house in Bantry, on the charge of intimidating Mr. Corley Manning, MYll, Mr. Corley Manning in my opinion had very little to do with this business, for I believe he was made the tool, the miserable 16 tool of that miserable man Mr. Barrett, of K . . . . But if Mr. Barrett, of K . . . . fancies he can intimidate Mr. llealy or myself from fighting the Irish people’s battle he is making a mistake. I have heard it stated that there were informers in the family. Perhaps the people have advanced so much now that he does not wish to do dirty work, but he wishes to do it 20 through Mr. Corley Manning. Well, be that as it may, should they im- prison ns, they will make, as I said before, a great mistake if they think that they will prevent ns from fighting the people’s battle (hear, hear). I was asked by the Irish National Land League to visit this locality, and to visit this locality, and to invite your assistance and co-operation in this great 25 battle which you are now engaged in, and I thank you, men of West Cork, for the response you have given to our call, for I believe that the spirit of the Irish people, notwithstanding the oppression of ages is to-day what it always will be, indestructible (cheers). “The object, as you are aware, of the Irish National Land League, is to 30 prevent eviction, rackrenting, and landlord oppression. Well, the Irish National Land League is only in its infancy. MY have tried to keep the Irish people in the soil which God meant for them, and I am glad to say that for the last twelve months we have succeeded to a great extent. The object of the British Government towards Ireland for centuries seems to be — 35 or the policy rather — ^a policy of blood. If you take up the history of Ireland and look over its pages, you can trace it among the history of nations like the track of a wounded man from the streaks of blood, that it leaves behind (cheers). I care not whetherit be Henry II.’s edicts of outlawry or the swords of feudal barons, or Henry the Third’s grim statutes or Elizabeth’s disci])line 40 of fire and steel, or the guiles and of the Stuarts (interruption) or the Satanic malice of the penal code, or the butcherings and transportings of Oliver Cromwell, and last, though not least, the famous evictions and Coercion Acts of Queen Victoria (groans). The means may be different employed during that time ; but the object was the same — to root out the 45 Irish race ; but I am glad to say that the manhood of Ireland has at last sprung to its feet and is determined to assert its rights. John Stuart Mill, one of the greatest political economists who ever lived, has told us that when the inhabitants of a coimtry quit that country in tens of thousands because the Government will not make a place for them to live in, that Government 50 is already judged and condemned. “ Now, I care not whether it be a MYig Government or a Tory Govern- ment, I hold that any Government which is not for good government stands 16 {KoalkilL— October 'M hI, W. Jk'olsh.) c()iuI(Mun('{l in the oyos of tlio Irish people (hear, hear). We have done our (Muh'av()nrAviihinihepastl2orl8inonths to prevent evictions; aruUvli(n-e rvielions have taken ])Iace we have done our endeavour to sui)port the lamilics of evicted persons. Now you, many of you, may not have witnessed the 5 nnmhi'r ot evictions tliat I have. T chanced to come from a part ot Ticland, the eonuty of Mayo (‘ Cheers for Mayo ’), where the music of the crowl)ar is ramiliar to my ears, and I say fearlessly that I look upon the man who goes io evict a fainily, tumhlc down his cabin, and set it in flames, that 1 look upon him as nothing short of a burglar ; hut he may he protected, as the iO burglar is not who wears a mask ; he carries a lantern and crowbar, hut the law of the land protects this man to come and evict a family. He need not w('ar a mask, he does it in the broad daylight, he takes care to bring a crow- bar. I hold that a man that evicts a family, throws them out on the road- side, is nothing short of a burglar (a voice : ‘ A murderer ’). It is true we 15 have been promised a Land Bill, I believe, within the coming session. M- ell I hope it will be a good one, and that some provision at least will be made against absenteeism ; for let me tell, you in the locality of Castletown Bere- haven, where I went, accomjjanied by my friend, Mr. Healy, the other day, we learned that in that locality alone the sum of 30,000Z. was extracted 20 annually from that place, while 30,000 farthings were expended in Ireland. How can you expect any country to prosper under such ^ a system ? How could you expect a man to be strong who has been suffering from an unstaunched wound ? So it is with Ireland. Those millions of her very life blood have to be spent in Paris, Baden Baden, or Vienna (interruption). Out 25 of the money taken from the half starved tenants of Ireland, nine-tenths ^ of it goes abroad. Are the rights of our so-called territorial autocrats to give away to' justice and humanity ? I ask you, are you prepared to say to-day that this system will last ? (‘No,’ and interruption.) I ask you to boldly stand up and assert your rights, to become members of the Land League. I 30 asked you in Bantry a fortnight ago to do it. Have you done^ it ? You should have done it before this. There is no use standing at this meeting crying, ‘hear, hear,’ and ‘ No, no,’ and ‘ Three cheers for Parnell and the Land League,’ we want you to work ; there is work for every man to do. It is needless for me, as it is now so late in the day, to enter more fully into this 35 question. You have been asked not to pay exorbitant rents. “ Now I ask you again here to-day to pledge yourselves, every man of you, that you will not pay beyond the Government valuation. (Here there was’ a show of hands.) That you will not take a farm from which another has been evicted ; that you will not do the ugly work of Mr. Corley 40 Manning. (‘No.’) The man who does that, as I said at Bantry, should be looked upon as the enemy of the human race. You should not buy from him sell to him. You should not speak to the shopkeeper who supplies him’ with goods (interruption). Well, I regret for poor Corley Manning’s sake, and for the sake of the peace of the locality, that he has been forced 45 to take the course he did. It will do no good; on the contrary, it will strengthen our cause ; and I trust that when a farm is surrendered in this locality in future that you will leave it there to rot (hear, hear, and a voice: ‘Let them do the work themselves ’). With regard to Manning, I have to ask you not to break the law or do any bodily harm. IVe simply 50 want you to let Corley Manning pass by. Ho not speak to him ; do not recognise him ; and I promise you his children and his children s children Q 3366.-82. C i {Kcalkill—()cl()bcr\\\Ht,im)—Mr.J^ IF. IFalsh.) j will have the stain on thorn— ‘ 'riiore ^^oos one ol* the; family of Corhiy Manning, the land - grahher ’ (groans). The Govcrnnuiiit have been threatening iisAvith i)roseentions outside of this business of Corley M anning s. Mr. rarnell, Mr. Sexton, Mr. Jirennan, and the other friends of the peoph; 5 have been threatened with ])roseeutions. We are told they will bo Hung into gaol; but if they do, not one, but twenty, fifty and hundreds will ste]) into the gap. Some stalwart pioneer will be got to earry on the battle, and Av here the vanguard stands to-day, the will rest to-morrow, ihen let me ask vou, in eonclnsion, not to pay a rackrent. Beai this in mind. 10 Ask yourselves the question, ‘ Can I pay my shopkeeper, can I pay the mer- ‘ chant Avho supplied me with goods last July ? Can I educate my family and ‘ clothe them, and live in case and comfort— not living in hovels unfit for ‘ English pigstyes, or subsisting on food unfit for English tram horses ? ’ Ask yourselves, ‘ Can I do this, and can I pay a rackrent ? ’ (‘ No, no.’) Then 15 vou have promised that. Secondly, you will not take a farm from Avliich another has been evicted. (‘No.’) Well, then, if you unite and become members of the Land League your cause is vvon (cheers). And should there be found amongst you* luke-warm men, good-for-nothing men, avIio will say, ‘ Ah, I am well enough off ; leave me alone ; I don t care for the Land 20 League ;’ the next year we may have a succession of bad harvests ; within the next few years foreign competition may bring the man down, and ho does not know the day or the hour when his turn will come to be thrown on the road (hear, hear). ‘ Knaves and traitors stand aside, 25 ‘ Slaves and despots (Interruption, during which the remainder of the quotation was lost.) 18 (^sh 3 1 .si ( Ictohrr, 1 SSO.) Mr. Michael Kyan said Mci> of( Jal\vav and Mayo, F feel oR,at |.lcasurc tdr ir.y fli-si tnn(> of iuia.-cssino- you „n Mil’s platfonn in Slinilo, an.l it is with tlio ,,oo|.lu s voico that I addi ■(iss you licro. llesolved— “'Hiat in tlie interests of the Land Leaoue, this nieetino- feels 5 hiiund to accept tenants of tlie eause, the surrendering of land taken hy land grabbers in tliis jiarish, and that we heartily accept their apology, and coniinend to others the adofition of this course ” Fellow countrynien.fcr the last twelve or eightieii luoiiths 1 have attoiided meetings. Uj) to this I have not the iileasiire of addressing you.^ Lut as 10 the old proverb says (here he made use of some Irish words.) Now, as I have told you behire for my first time, 1 don’t wish to advance too far on the subject that 1 am really aciiuaiuted with. 1 am going to tell you now that is my owii case, although it does not look well on my ].art to tell my own. Well, my father and forefathers have been for the last fifty -five 15 years in possession of a farm of land, containing sixty -three acies. ^ Ihey paid their rents punctually, and up to May twelve months last, owing to the agitations they declined any paying when they were not able to pay, owing to the depression of the years. Well, the valuation of the land being £60 1 5 ^'., and the rent being £86 case (referring to 20 a process of ejectment) was appealed to the Castlebar Assizes and again dismissed Now, that he is served with notice to quit by his agent om Burke of Cornfield (groans^ down with him”, ‘‘robber”.) It I tliink is a veiy mean situation f' |)r()|)ei'ly coiinnenccd, asceiulcd the platrorin and , spoke tor a few ndnutos. In flic course ot his remarks he said : — No mat t('r ahout prosecutions ; I will say that the |)arties will ])ay no I’eid. Then' is one thiipo- certain that the prosecutions of Healy and Walsh down 5 in Hantry, there are thousands there to-day to protest ag'ainst that ai'rest. 1 am here to-dav as an advanced nationalist to protest against it. 1 wdl see, so far as hlood flows in my veins, I will see that the Irish peasant stick to his own soil. I will see that the money is kept at liome. I don t care from what side, wdietlier he he Catholic, Presbyterian, or otherwise, 10 as lo)ig as we cling together, so long as you will not organize total se])aration trom that hated and blasted Government that we are under at present. There is a resolution that 1 am in the habit of jiropiosing. It is this : “Resolved, that any man who would take another man’s land will be looked upon as a robber, and he would be worse than the robber soldier 1.5 that pierced Christ on the cross.” I proposed that resolution, and it was carried unanimously I suggested on one occasion pills. I have found out that pills have got mild, and they are nothing fait sweets. But now I suggest something stronger — dynamite, gun-cotton, that is the only thing I suggest in future. 1 don’t tell you to shoot anyone. 20 But you can shoot them if you like. I will not be deterred by the prose- cutions that are going to take place. I hope there are no parties here that will cheer for me. [At this stage the platform fell to the ground. After some time a few planks wmre got in position, and Mr. Nally and a few speakers got u}) on them]. 2.5 Mr. nally continued — I was told this would be done to me by my friend Walsh. Let them do it ao'ain. T w^as damn near coming down. Well, tenant-farmers, you see the thing that w^as done to me, and to my friend here that has suffered. When Ave were out night and days, when we were organizing meetings, it 30 was not known wdiere they were. They have done the very thing that I have been told befoi'e I came to town. As long as we have strength and patriotism, so long will we continue to do away with land grabbers. Well, my friends, it is useless for me to continue to talk. You tenant-farmers know wliat to do. Ye have been advised, and not alone that ye have been 35 advised .... that you will not pay no rents, stick to your home- steads, and any man that evicts you, you know what to do. As I said before there are pi'osecutions in the air, I care not for prosecutions or persecutions, but as long as blood flows in 1113^ veins, as long as I see peasan- trv" liefore me, as long as they go to England and come fiack again with a 40 few sovereigns and give it to these thief scoundrels, so long will I continue to agitate And no v I ask vou once for all, to unite and join and continue in ^ Eke one man, like the bundle of sticks, that none of 3^011 will separate, and that 3m beat down the land grabbers, land sharks, and land thieves. 2 Limerick. — Novcmhcr lat, 1880. — 31r. Parnell, 3T.V . I Mr. Charles S. Parnell, M.P. “ Fellow couiitrynieii, I iliaiilv you for this grand and niagnifieent demon- stration, one whieh I think was not even exceeded in size and entliusiasm l)y that with whieh the l)eautifiil City of Cork, which I have the honour to 5 represent, favoured mo. I will come at once to the resolution which you have under your consideration. I am one of those who helicve that the labourers of Ireland can only he raised from their present degraded and sulferiug condition hy making the land free to all. (Cheers.) However, I have mf objection to the Legislature giving them an acre or two of ground 10 on the farms on which they labour. (Cheers.) At the same time I think it o>oes a very short way to meet the question. My friend, Mr. Synan, has, I think, expected a little too much from me. He has rather invited me to enter into a discussion with him as to the best way to settle the Irish Land Question. I have so often refused to lay down plans until people who can 16 carry out my plans will listen to us that I think Mr. Synan’s conscience must almost have pricked him a little when he asked me to break through a rule I have so repeatedly and lately laid down with the intention of adhering to. I will, however, say shortly, in reference to the very able and brilliant speeeh with which he has favoured us, a speech which is founded as he has told you 20 upon the experience of 20 years, that I wonder that that experience of 20 years, has not taught him the futility of expecting an English Government to come down and fix the rents between the Irish tenants and the Irish land- lords. (Hear, hear.) We have seen that every action taken by the English Liberal Government towards a settlement of the Land Question, every declai- 25 ation by all the foremost statesmen of to-day, by Gladstone, Bright, Eorster, and now Joseph Cowen (three cheers for Cowen), repeatedly renewed at all times during the discussion of this question. IVlien the Land Bill of 1870 was first brought forward, and again during the last Session of Parliament, when the Compensation for Disturbance Bill was under discussion. I say we 30 have seen that every declaration from these statesmen has been a refusal on the part of the State to fix the rent between the landlord and the tenant. (Cheers.) They have told us that they are willing by indirect action to put the tenant in a better position to make his own bargain by fining the land- lord as they do under the Land Act, when he acts unjustly to a tenant. 35 They are willing to give the tenant an opportunity of making his own contract on better terms, but they have always refused and declared that they will never make the contraet between the landlord and the tenant. (Cheers.) These are some of the considerations which have influenced me to abandon the old platform of the thr(ie E.’s. (Down with them.) I believe that platform 40 to be unattainable. You have got ten men ; Mr. Synan had ten men to vote for it in 1870, ten men out of 650. Has he been able to press his claims with such force and with such vigour since then that he hopes to convert that minority of ten to-day, in ten years, into 650. (Cheers.) No. The Legislative wiU do this for you It will ratify the settlement that you achieve for your- 45 selves. (Bravo.) It will not reduce your rents for you, but when you have reduced them yourselves, it will come in and by Act of Parliament render a continuance of this agitation unnecessary, for the purpose of getting them reduced. (Cheers.) “ Let us then adopt a sensible land platform. (Hear, hear.) Let us adopt 50 a platform which will enable all classes in this country to benefit by it. Lhuci'ick. — ^ovamhc)' l6‘/, 18b0. — 3lv. PurnGll, 31.1 • I ho laboiin'v as well as tlic tenant- larmoi* (hear, hear); wliich will get rid of a system Avhioh has heen tried and found wanting in eveiy countiy in (he Avorld, They got rid of their landlords in Traiujo ; they got rid of them in Trussia, and they got rid of them in Jlelgium. Why should not f) wo got rid of (hem in Ireland? (Cheers.) Are they worth the keeping? (‘ No.’) lias not their maintenanee in this country rendered almost necessary, (hey tell us, the exile of hundreds of thousands of our people? (‘ Yes, it has.’) But our people arc not to-day powerless as they were in 1848. An imcxamplod series of had seasons, Avhich in 1848 was used hy the landloid 10 class to exterminate the tenantry, noAV finds the tenantry handed together for the assertion and the pressing home of their rights. (Cheers.) Do not then let us waste these enormous forces in trying to effect what is both an impossihility, and what, if obtained, AV'ould only perpetuate contusion and disunion between classes in this country. You have noAV an oppoitunity of 15 getting rid of the landlord system, not, as my friend, Mr. Synan, says, after a generation or so, hut very soon. (Cheers.) I believe, that within two years you aa 411 see part of the work Avhich Avas done hy the fa/mine undone. I believe that you will see within that period the resumption hy the State of the titles in the land, which it has granted, through the Landed Estates Court, to land jobbers, (cheers); and do not let anybody for a moment suppose that these things are impossible, or are for such a remote future They are A'ery much nearer than many of us suppose, hut the nearness and completeness of this settlement must depend entirely upon your own exertions, and what we ask you to do for this AAnuter iFTn push down the 25 rents, lower the rents (hear, hear,) to combine amongst yom’s elves. (A voice, ‘ They have us procfiaaed.’) 1/Yhy, if you are afraid of a process you had better go out of the country altogether, to combine amongst yourselve s, and to offer the landlord a just rent, to bring the^ strong force of puhiic opinion to hear upon any man who dares to take~a farm, and in this way 20 30 you have the power of settling the land question this winter in Ire land (cheers,) and when you have done that, and not till then, the English Parliament will do it for you.” (Loud applause.) % Q 3366.~7-’. B 9 Liiiir/'lck. — A'ovrui/jdr \s/, 18S(). — J/y. Dillon, 3/./*. K { Mr. John Dillon, M.P. “It is not lU'ccssary, lollow comitryinc'ii, lor iiio to say many vv'ords to you here to-day, bc'oausc the gnait valiio of the demonstration by you this day hero, bas been that you come berc to-day in numbers, the like of wliicb r A\'ei‘e not seen in this eountry sinee the days ol O’Connell, to declare tliat vou, the people of Limei-ick, Avill stand on the ])latform of the National Land Lcagaic of Ireland, and that you Avill adopt the means wbieb the National Land I.eague bas ])roposed to the people of Ireland to settle the Irish land (question. Let me tell you that the National I.and League of K) Ireland does not propose only to prevent the landlords raising the rents, but it proposes to teach the landlords of Ireland th?\t the day has gone by when they are to tlx the rents of Ireland (cheers,) that until they come to a just settlement of this question, the L^nd Leagues, the farmers of Ireland, shall hx the rent at a fair value and pay no more than AAdiat is fair. We 15 propose to bring tlown- the rents of Ireland to Avhat Avill be a fair value. We propose to take back from the landlords Avhat they robbed from the people in the days of their poAver. W e propose to settle the Irish land question by sheAving (A Amice, ‘ American principles,’) the Irish landlords that Ave, the people of Ireland, have the power, AA ithout appealing to Parliament at 20 all, to dictate to them what rents Ave shall pay, and to pay no more. Now 1 Avant to ask the people of Limerick, are they going to submit to tyranny while Tipperaiw, and Clare, and Kerry, and Cork, liaA'^e raised the banner of revolt against it? (‘No, no.’) If you are not going to submit, show you are men, and let there be before Christmas, before three weeks, a branch of 25 the Land League in every parish of the County of Limerick. (Cheers.) Go over the rent-roll on CA^cry estate in Limerick, and AA'hen the next gale day conies, have agreed amongst yourselves what you are going to pay. In Tipperary they have pledged themselves to pay no more than Griffith’s Anluation. I think you AAmuld do well to take the same pledge in Limerick. 30 (‘ We Avill.’) When you have taken it, stand to it like men, and stand to each other, and if any man goes hack on his neighbour, t hen let him be an outcast in Limerick. (Cheers.) Now is the time for every county to organise and pull together in this cause. Do not allow the Government to beat down Mayo or Galway AAdiile Limerick is quiet. They Avill come to you 35 afterwards Avhen they have defeated Mayo. When they attack them in the rear, show them that they will require as much trouble to levy rackrents in Limerick as to levy them in Galway. Keep the police, if necessary, marchino’ from one end of Limerick to the other, as they have got to march from one end of Mayo to the other, and before a year is out, you will bring 40 things to such a pass that it will take, not 11,000, but 50,000 police to levy rackrents in Ireland. When you have brought about such a condition of thino’s that 50,000 police will not levy rackrents, then the Irish land question will be settled, and the landlords will come to reasonable terms without any more pressure. I will only say, in conclusion, that if you do not play the 45 part of men now, do not ever complain again of bad laws, because if you alloAV rackrents to be levied in Limerick this year, all I can say is to the landlords of Limerick ; ‘ Kackrent the tenantry of Limerick to your heart’s content.’ (Cheers.) Act like men now for the year to come, and you will brino" the landlords to reason, and you Avill bring the rents down.” (Applause.) 10 A i id lib I FAmcrick. — November \sl, 1880. — 3Ir. 31. P. Boijton. Mr. Michael P. Boyton 10 evicted for non-pay nieiit of an unjust rent, nevci' to work on that land, and never to purchase cattle or crops seized tor rent. (Cheers.) Lvery one who can inant'ullv and honestly gave that pledge, and in addition pledge hinisell ‘r to purchase cattle or crops seized lor rent. (Cheers.) Lvery one who inant'ully and honestly give that pledge, and in addition pledge hinisell never to pay more than Grillith’s valuation, hold up his right hand. The pledge teas taken witli raised hands. 15 “ Three cheers for the Limerick Branch of the Land League. (Cheers.) I have heen reej^uested hy the secretary ol the meeting to read the third reso- lution, Avhieh is a very important one : ‘ Third : TV hereas the English Govern- ment has hitherto refused to protect our interests from unscrupulous land- lords, we hereby, in public meeting assembled, resolve to protect ourselves 20 hy the adoption of the following proposals : 1st. — Never to take a farm from Avhich a tenant has been unjustly evicted, to hold no communication either with the man who violates this rule or his family. 2nd ; To withdraw our custom from any shopkeeper either in Limerick or in any other town or village in the county who either sells to or in any other Avay accommodates 25 such a person, and, tinally, to refuse permission to all rackrenting landlords and had agents to shoot or hunt over our lands.’ (Cheers.) Our worthy chairman has asked me to put this resolution for him in its entirety, therefore I Avill read the next two paragraphs. ‘ Fourth : That this meeting condemns the conduct of those members who violated the pledges given by them at the 30 General Election to support Mr. Parnell on all important Irish questions, and that it earnestly ajApeals to their constituencies to call for the immediate resignation of those pledge breakers. Fifth : That the many thousands ol farmers and labomers and others comprising this great meeting hereby pledge themselves to become members of the Irish National Land League, and to 35 establish branches in every parish in the county, and we hope that the priests of every parish in the county will actively assist their parishioners in this holy work.’ All in favour of the adoption of those live resolutions give their assent by saying ‘ Aye.’ ” The Besolutlons loere carried unanimously. C 3 15 I.s7 {Piivijoiinon. \.'rkoui>iui; cvervtliiiio i iolit. ,..,11 Mr .Mr,, O'Nnll p.oi.osod tlio lir»t rosolutiou. uauioly Kosolvod- 6 Tliat in tlie «,.iuion of tliis uieotiug tlio only satisfactory Irial, LamI Question will be one wliiel, renders (he man that tills the sod the owncT’ ot the Ifiiid. Mr. Jo.'ieph Rankin secoiidecl tlie resolution tornuilly. d'he same being put to the meeting was carried, nern. con. 10 C/.ama«». - 1 will put the second resolution—" Let no man take the land of any tenant who has been unjustly evicted. The same being seconded, was carried, nern. con. The third resolution was proposed by Mr. John Mulgrew, as follows- u Resolved— That we call upon Messrs. Litton and Dickson, the representa- 15 tives of the County and Borough, to support Mr. Parnell and his policy on all Irish questions.” . The same being seconded by Mr. Neil Mulgrew, was put and earned, nern. con. .. , Moved by Mr. Patrick Conway— “ That we condemn the action ot the 20 Government in prosecuting the leaders ot the Land League in the interests of the Irish land tyrants.” 3 G 2 {Dungannon . — l.s^ November, 1880 .) Seconded by Mr. David MacAteer, as follows ; — KEr. David MacAteer. 1 am a farmer, and an Orange farmer, and 1 believe that tlie tenant- right which is good for an Orange! farmer is good also for the Catholic farmer, and 1 believe that all men that ])retend at all to be made in the forn\ of a human being, should all have charity, one with another every 5 man should unite- what is good for himself, 'fliere is no religion in the matter. It is a question whether we are to exist or not to exist ujK>n the pT‘inci]ial question now, 1 believe, that the great evil of Ireland is this that the principal (question is the question of rents. I believe, now, at the present time, that the rent is, to a great degree, a tax upon the 10 farmer’s inqnovements, and when me, or any other farmer, has improved the land and cultivated it, if it yields us any increase, we have a right to that increase. I have great pleasure in seconding this resolution, but, at the same time, saying that any valuation of the land should be a valuation without including the tenant’s inqnovements. {Diint/tninott . — I.sf Nov(n))J)<‘i\ ISHO.) Mr. J. Gr. Biggar, M.P. Kellow countrvineii, the iiieetiTi^ licre to-day Is of special i)ii])ortaTiC(3, for this nuison, that tluM-e is such pi'ofound isj^noraiKH' on the part of the Kno'lisli and Scotch people, and Eni^lish and S(^otch public men, that tfu* mmeral idea in thcnr minds is this — that all the; Province of Ulster, alt the .') northern part of Ireland, are in favour ot the present land system of Ireland, and ai'e op))os(Ml to the prinei])les of the Irish Tiand League. Now, my fViends, you have belied that statement, because ycni have agreed to the resolution in which you say that you approve of the princi])les of the Land League, and the voice of this large meeting will 10 to a far greater width, and it will have far greatei' influence, that) a meeting of the same size in one of the other three provinces of Ireland. The cry of the landloi’ds of Ireland, and of their sycophants and su|»porters, always is, that the North of Ireland is thoroughly un-Irish — thoroughly ttpposed to the Interests of the [teojile of Ireland (“ No, no. ”) 15 Now, my friends, you have declared by your presence here to-day, and by your vote here to-day, that you do not agree with that principle, and that you are j)repared to throw in your lot with the othei' parts of Ireland, to sup[)ort the intere.sts, not of a very small cla.ss in Ireland, namely, the landlords of Ireland, but that you are disposed to cast your lot in favour ot 20 the other thi-ee })rovinces of Ireland, and also in favour of yourselves ; because the great fallacy of all these arguments is this, that the northern farmers who followed the old ascendancy faction had conveyed the idea, unfortunately, to the English and Scotch })eople that the people of the North of Ireland preferred England to themselves, in fact. I do not think 25 we prefer England to ourselves, because this (piestion of Ireland first, and England afterwards, is simply this — .Are you in favour of yourselves, or do you prefer somebody else ? In my personal experience with different parties in this world, my general experience has l)een this, and I think it is the general experience 30 of all the world, that most men prefer themselves to other people. Unfortunately, prejudices have been raised in the minds of a certain section of the peo[)le of this province by designing politicians. When 1 say designing politicians, I don’t mean designing politicians of the Toiy })arty, but I mean by designing politicians, people who have got authoiltv 35 to speak on the part of the people of the North of Ireland, and have misstated the opinion of the people, upon a question in which people in the North of Ireland are to a very great extent interested. Now, I will refer very shortly to the question raised as to Mr. Litton— at the same time I will say, that I have some hope that Mr. Litton will 40 put the interests of Ireland in preference to the interests of the English section. You have passed a resolution calling u|>on him in time to come, to represent you and not to represent the interests of the Whig party i)i 3 r {/ — 1 oi'ciiihc 1 S(S(). Mr. •/. Ili(/mitted to any amount of in- justice that was possible for them to bear. Nowy you first of all organise, and, when you have organised, then, when you live upon a property where the landlord is extorting an unreasonable rent — that is, anything 30 beyond the Government valuation — let all the tenants join together, and say : “ You are asking an unreasonable r ent, and we wall not pay anything more than the ( Jovernment valuat iondl- That will make it very plain sail- ing”; but, if hWlx)TTtihues^t(^do so, what is the Land Leaguei' to do next ? The Land Leaguer should use every exertion to beat the landlord in every 35 way he can be beaten. First of all, if he briii^ an eviction, or brings a clalni for rent,^letend the” action in a court of law. If you are beaten in the court of law, and he actually seizes the crop of the man for an un- reasonable amount of rent claimed, take care that none ot you yourselves, a nd take car e as far as possible t hat no one else, bi ds for any of the produce 40 of that seizure. If he can get tio rent beyond the Goverpment value don, unless he is a very wealthy man, he wall naturally get scarce of money, and will naturally be disposed to compromise with the occupying cenant. Then, suppose he goes a step further and ejects the tenant — suppose he carries the thing to the bitter end— w-ell, subscribe among vourselves. and 6 {Dungannon. — Novemhcr, 1880 . — Mr. J. (>. Ihggar, m.p.) support the tenant who is evicted as far as yon possihly can, and theri do not any of you take the land from which a t(;nant lias heen evicted, and, as far as your influence extends, take care that no one else takes llie land from which your friends have heen evicted. I need not point out to 5 yon I, he means which should he used — you all know them there ar-e iifty — (lo not s])eak to him — do not s])eak to his family hoot him, and l>o the other side of the road -{tumult)— do not huy from liim— do not sdl to him— put him entirely in what is called “ Coventry” ; and the result will l.e that it will hecome so unpo|)ular in the country for any man to take lami 10 from which another has heen evicted, that, the tact is, the thing will hecome impossihle, and it will cease to he practised. Then, suppose the landlord attempts to cultivate this land himself — well, I need not tell you, there ate many ways in which yttu catr make it uncomfortable for him in regar-d to cultivation hy himself. Let him plough the land himself let him sow it 1.5 himself — then, after it is ])loughed and sowed, let him himself gather in the crops, and take care that any one who works for him gets no countenance from any of’ you. In that way you will make it impossible for this man to make anything out of’ the land. Now nry friends these are different ways in which this Land League 20 may he beneficial, hut above all things, if possible, make the Land League general through every tenant farmer- in the county lyrone. Do not he led away by party cries. I am ver y glad to see that my friends here in getting up this meeting did not get up any party cr-y. If they had banrrers and music they would probably have had a larger meeting, but this is not 25 a party question. It is a question, this, in which the occupiers of the soil, the men who make the wealth of the country are interested against the " 7 ^ most worthless class that lives upon God’s earth. Now my friends I perhaps have said as much as I require to say upon the subject of joining the Land League. I do hope, as my friend who 30 spoke before me says, that this will he looked upon from a purely peisi>nal interest point of view. It is not a party question. It is a question^ whether or not you get leave to live upon the land, and without talking of good landlords and had landlords there is one thing certain, that every landlord has the iiower to he a bad landlord, and even on the properties 35 of what are called the best landlords the system has a tendency to make the peoide slavish, '' e hear a great deal about the sturdy independence of the N(u-th, hut 1 say this without fear of contradiction, that the North of Ireland peo})le are a precious deal more slavish than the South of Ireland people. 1 say they are proliahly more sluvisfi upon the properties of wliat 40 are called good landlords tlian they are upon the properties of what are called had landlords, and for this reason, they are getting what they call a take (0 from the landlord, that is the landlord in his own interest, or of his own kindness, is thus starving the unfortunate people who have the fortune to he his serfs, so the great thing to make the people of Ireland (l)i/ii(/aniioii . — l.s'^ \(>r(‘t)ih('7', IWSd. Mr.J.d. liiifiia r, M.v.) iii(l('lt('ii(l('iii in pocUc^t, iind iiKkipc'iulont in s])i»ii, is to niako ilnnir |)r(>])ri(‘tors of tlioii' own kuuk Now lliorc' is one tlnn,t>' I fdrt’’ot to mention and that is this (|uestion ot valuation. Now in o'<»in<>- from nu^etino' to meeting’, it has h(;en told me f) often that tlu' (Government valuation is too high a valuation in many eases that it is unreasonahle to huy up the interest ot the landlord upon tlu^ basis of a yearly vahu' equal to the government valuation. Now I very much agree with that opinion and 1 will tell you why. When (jrifHths \aluation was madi' it was made to include not only the original value ot 10 the laud in its unimproved state, but it also iiieluded the inqtrovemeuts of the tenants. Now it must be thoroughly clear to you all that the landlord in strict justice has no right to get any ])ayment foi’ the inqirfivements fit the tfuiauts. 'that is thoroughly clear, but, at the same time, after all, the Land League want to jiropose what are exceedingly tavoiu’ahle terms for 15 the l indlords, in point of fact they want them to be got rid of on the most favoiu’able terms possdile, and I think the landlords should be under a very deep debt of gratitude to the Land League for encouraging the tenant farmers of Ireland to settle with them upon such very favourable terms, d'he second resolution, which lias been agreed to by you, is one in 20 which you have called upon Mr. Litton and Mr. Dickson, the member foi' the Horouf^-h of Ihmo-annon, to throw in their lot with the Irish Parliamentary IMrty, and to follow the leadership of Mr. Parnell on all Irish questions. Now, my friends, I do not wish to be too hard on Mr. Litton and on Mr. Dickson. It must be a question of policy and of what you want. Mr. Litton, 25 I suppose, when he was elected for the county Tyrone tf>ld you that he was opposed to Conservatism, and that he was in favoui’ ot what, in general terms, is called Liberalism. Now these are very vague words. No doubt he said he was, more or less, in favour of a reform of the land laws. No doubt he was, to a cei’tain extent, in favour of a reform of the land laws, but what I 80 want is this — a man who becomes a leadei’ (inaudible) how long would it be liefore you get a reform of the land laws in Ireland ? I will quote you one authority upon the suliject of the Land Act of 1870, and the authority I will quote is that of Mr. Gladstone. Mr. Gladstone told you plainly, that if it had not been for the Fenian rising, or the Fenian cxcite- 35 ment, he would not have passed that land bill. Now, of course, it is not at present — 1 will refer to that subject again, but at present I offer no opinion upon the subject of physical force or anything of that sort. It is at the present time no part of my argument, but Mr. Litton and Mr. 1 )ickson and these men are, unfortunately, '‘V higs first, that is they are followers of the 40 English Whig party first, and they are Irishmen afterwards. Now I do not think that is what you require — what you require is men who are Irishmen, who are county Tyrone men — men who are in favour of the tenant farmers of county Tyrone without any regard foi' whether they are ( 'atholic or non-Catholic, but only men who will encourage the Government 45 to do what you want. 3 I 8 (DiiiH/ninioii. I.s7 Xorernhcr, 18H().— i/r. I{i(f. Ih o .. . . ^ _ I .30 would support the brutalities of the English governing classes, and ot the | landlord class in Ireland, against the wishes and the will ot the Irish people, j but I do know this that no hoi/a p'de real true Irishman will ever give a ; conviction against anv one of the men who advocate the cause ot the tenant-farmer in IrelaTid. 35 Now, with regard to this prosecution, what does the Government pro- pose ? I may tell you this, that Mr. Forster, who is primarily responsible for these prosecutions, is a shuffling politician. It is not generally known, though it is known to me, that Mr. Forster, who calls hiniselt a Liberal, and has had the support of your member. Mi-. Litton on a great many 40 occasions, was put into Parliament in 1874 for Bradford, the place he re})resents, by a coalition of the English Whigs and English lories of Bradford, so that in point of tact the man is a fraud. In point of fact he has pledged himself to do one thing : he has ])ledged himself (and I expect he is going to break his word, and whether or not he does, I do not care 11 5 ilu' Irish Land Lciui^ucrs ; .hut it is not pi'oposcd to have a special Session of I ’ai'liaiiH'nt on pui’poso to push throu<>’li reforms of tin; Irish Land l^aws, so that, in |)oint of fact, Mr. Koi'sL'r, it tins pi'osecution cotmnences to- morrow or next da\', Mr. Forstt'f will have oihlxited | or’ exhibited] himselt as a delihiu’ate liar’. If he (dmo.ses to hold that jrosition ])ublicly hefoi’e tlu; 10 world, of course he knows the estimation in which he deser ves to he hc’ld himself, and 1 need not otfer him any advice. However, the conclusion of what is projrosed is this. It is proposed by the (Tovernment that freedom ot speech shall cease in this country, becau.se, in jroint of fact, what has taken jrlace has been this. The Land League rei)resentatives in ditiei’ent 15 places, ot whom I am one, have gone to public irreetings and have advo- cated the cause of the tenant-fai’iners in the face of day, itr open meetings, and I understand that it is also pr’oposed to jrrosecute under a very peculiar statute, not that each person shall be responsible for what he says himselt, but that each member’ of the Land League shall Ire responsible for what 20 every other member of the Land League has said. Now, what is the result if Mr. Forster succeeds in breaking down free sjreech iir Ireland? Ihe result is that the cour’se advocated by O’Donovan llossa is the only remedy which ]\Ii’. Foi’ster allows to the Irish people, because we must have some means of trying to redress our grievances. The way we have done and the way 25 we wish to do is by public meetings, by legitimate and peaceful agitation. Now, I do not advocate physical force, and I do not agree wdth the principles of O’Donovan llossa ; hut I love O’ Donovan llossa, and I tell you why I love O’Donovan llossa. I love O’Donovan llossa because he hates the Lnglish and the fmglish system of govei’iiment, and he hates the tyrants 30 that live in this country and who are identified with and supjiort the ])rin- ciples of Englisli tyranny ; but, at the same time, I do not recommend physical force to you, because it is not an equal fight — because you cannot succeed in fighting against the Government ; but if you carry out the principles of the Land League, and what we advocate in connection with Now I have gone over to some extent the different points of the | resolutions to which we have agreed, and I will beg to thank you very | much for the kindness you have done me in listening wdth so much patience | to what I have said, and I do impress upon you the desirability and the ' 40 importance of becoming members of the Land League and becoming organized in such a way and connected together in all controversies and all ; questions with the landlord power and with the land question in every ] form. Continue as you are, disorganized, scattered like a flock of sheep, j and the power of the organized systeni of landlordism must beat you and | 3 K 12 {Duiu]annon . — l.s< Noreniher, 1880. — Mr, ,/. (}. Bi-u(n’s with i^ross ny|) 0 (!risy. If tlioy eared al)out kocf)- ini? i^'ood-will or proinotini-- !^•ood-wilI ladweeu tlie differcait elasses of Jlor Mai(^sty’s subjeets, tliey would have ])ut a stoj) Ion" a^*o to raekrenting and 5 eviction. (‘ Down with them.’) Do you -think it is speeches or resolutions that can create ill-will amongst mow that have a right to ho rri(mds ? (‘ No.’) But when one class of men are o])pressors and the other class of men arc their victims, then tliere will h(^ ill-will hetwetm them. I'lnwe is more ill-will created between landlord and tenant in Ireland hy one heartless eviction XO than hy all the s])eeches that ever were made upon a |)latform. (Cheers.) So I say they are hyi)ocrites and schemers. If they warvt good-will between all elasses of Irishmen, let them reform their infamous laws which set Irish- men at each other’s throats, those laws that enable a few thousand men to rob and oppress many thousands of Irishmen. Now they may slander as 15 they choose ; they may abuse us in their press as they please ; they may get their lawyers to assail us, as they choose, in their courts ; but we stand here before Ireland and before the world to assert that our motives are not base but are high and holy. (Hear, hear.) We stand here to-day in the centre of Ireland and under the canopy of Heaven, and we are not afraid to say 20 that our desire is not to promote ill-will, not to produce disturbance, not to bring about anarchy in the laud, no, but to make Ireland a great, a peaceable, and a prosperous nation. (Cheers.) Now, my friends, how can we have a nation in Ireland until we have a secure basis for that nation ? (Cheers.) No man will build a house upon a shifting foundation (‘ No, no ), and until 25 we root the Irish people in the Irish soil there will be no substantial and fixed basis for an Irish nation. (Cheers.) -When we have that done, and not till then, Ireland will grow up to be what she ought to be. It is not merely agricultural prosperity that we will have in our country, but we will also have'" the prosperity of trade and manufactures and commerce. How can 30 there be trade in your towns when the people are being swept away ? Here we arc to-day in a most glorious site for a grand and a thriving community ; here we are by the side of that magnificeut river ; here we are m a spot that nature seems to have marked out as the site for a great and a prosperous city. (Bravo.) And what have we here ? What have we ? A small town 35 with a British fortification covering nearly the half of it. (Groans.) My friends, Athlone instead of being what it is, because the country round about it has been depopulated, Athlone, instead of being what it is to-day, should be a city of half a million inhabitants, a thriving and a great city with Bs manufactures and its trade, with its institutions, with its libraries and its 40 reading rooms, and its art schools and museums, instead of being the poor village^ that it is. But with the blessing of the Almighty God, when we "He the Irish people the holding that they are entitled to upon the land that bore them, then our country will flourish. And, my friends, let us abide by this cause ; let us carry it out ; let us work it out m spite of all 45 opposition. (Hear, hear.) This is a cause that rests not in the hands of leaders, but in the hands of the people themselves. (Hear, hear.) Dean Swift long ago said to the Irish people, oppressed and persecuted as they were, ‘ the remedy”’ said he, ‘ is wholly in your own hands.’ To-day those words are more trim than ever they were. (Hear, hear.) And I am sure the people 50 I see about me here to-day have an intelligent appreciation of the facts and of all the circumstances of the case. Keep on, then, my friends, in the way that voii are "oin", steadily, firmly, and determinedly. We must bring down the {Aihlone.— November Hh, T. J). Sullivan, M.J?,) rac^kronts of Ireland. (Cheers). We must put a stop to eviction, and if some of ns meet with persecut ion, if sorm* of us meet wil li im[)risonment, we care little for those thin{?s. (Hear, hear.) it can hardly he that, so great a movement, as this will he (tarried to success without the Government giving 5 some troiihlc to us and some trouble to you. But we will lace all this and maintain our cause, because it is the holiest cause that tongue or sword of mortal ever lost or gained. (Cheers.) Chairman. “ You have heard the resolution proposed and seconded. If you approve 0 of it say ‘ Aye.’ ” The resolution was carried. 9 Q 3366 — 75. B CUO'(niey. — NoiK^mher 7///, 1S8(). / i { I Mr. Sexton, M.P. Mr. Chiiiruuin, luou and woinou of Sli^-o, Lcatrim, and .Doncj^al, L led it. a crivat ])leasur(^ and disiino-uisluHl lionour to talvo part to-day in this magnilicent demonstration of the feeding and resolution ot the people, a demonstration cxeelled in no element of greatiiess hy any that 1 have witnessed within the 5 past 12 months. We have herci (he strength and the intelligence ol‘ the people, we have here the one power which must eventually win in all political movements. (Cheers.) And what care we whether the men of wealth, the men of rank, the men of what is called social dignity are present or whether they are absent ; and, before 1 say another word, I would express the delight 10 I feel at the lesson that is conveyed by the decorations which I see on the caps of these young Irishmen before me. At a crisis like this, when a class of men in Ireland who have been always cruel and always selfish, are endeavouring to excite for theh own base purposes in the north of Ireland the passions of religious hatred, I am glad to see that the yomig men of this and the sister 15 counties have the sincerity, the liberality and the tolerance to unite in the decorations that they wear here to day, the two colours, which, if intelligently blended, might make an invincible nation. My friends, there was a reason why I felt specially called upon to be present here to-day. It unfortunately happened througb that pressure of time which waits for no man, that at the 20 time of my election I \T’as unable, as I intended, to come to Clilfoney and address you face to face, but I know that I received in Cliffoney a support as cordial and as thorough as I received in any part of Sligo. I am here to-day after the first round of my political battle to ask you whether you think that you did well in electing me, and to ask you— (Cheers.) Well, there 25 seems to be some diiference of opinion regarding me and some other men in Ireland, for though I come before you to-day for the first time, I find myself coming before you in the charactr of one who has been pubhely described as ‘ an evil disposed person.’ Myself, and 13 other evil disposed persons, have been called upon by Ucr Majesty’s Attorney-General to appear in a short 30 time before the Court of Queen’s Bench in Dublin. Well the Attorney- General describes me as an evil disposed person, I would remind you of Marc Antony’s speech in Shakespear, where he told the Homan nation to believe what Brutus believed because Brutus was an honourable man. Well, I suppose you will believe what the Attorney-General says : (‘ No, No,’) 35 because he is something more than an honourable, he is a Hight Honourable man. I have often heard of persons who by dint of repeating an absm’d story a great number of times began in the end to believe that it was true themselves ; and in the indictment launched against us, an indictment which I may call a Chinese puzzle in language, those phrases and accusations against 40 us are repeated often in the hope, I suppose, that the frequency of the repetition may make up for tlie want of truth. Well, my friends, especially you men of Shgo, I have a constitutional duty to perform here to-day. There is no usage known to civilised states, there is no law which has any higher sanction than that which calls upon the representa- 45 tive of the people to account for his public acts to those who sent him into public life. I now propose as briefly and as plainly as I can to lay before you some account of my conduct and of those who have acted with me, not only since the period of my election, but also that previous period of the action of the Land League, which has been connected with / (JllOoiic'i/. — ^oventhf'r IbbU. — Mr. M.l*. / ilio ('vouts oT tli(5 last. 12 lUonUis. You know liow the Land Lcagau! round Ireland, yon know to what a dos])crato pass the people had keen driven, when that organization was raiscul up to give them reliel and hope. ’ ()])i)ress('d hy three had years, three* l)ad years coming to complete 5 the ruin eireetc'd hy a system oT law which swept tin*, hard Iruit ol the tanner’s labour into the pocket ol tin*, landlord, oppressed hy those three had years, the farmers o I’ the country had a millstone of debt about their necks. Not only had they nothing, hut they had less than nothing, for they had paid away the |)roduee of the soil to the landlords in the shape ol rent, 10 and they themselves had been obliged hy this false and unnatural system to resort to debt for the Ibod they ate, for the clothes they wore, for the barest means of sustaining life. That was the position of the great masses of the small farmers of Ireland. What was the position of the labourer? Still worse, if that were possible, for the labourer could not resort to credit, the labourer 15 had to depend from day to day, and from week to week, upon the produce of his daily labour, and when the farmer had no longer a shilling to pay for labour, the labourer found himself driven to the ragged edge of despair, and found himself, from day to day, without the barest particle of food to feed his wife and children. 30 That was the position of Ireland, strictly and accurately described, at the time when the Land League took its rise. And how were the landlords meeting the emergency ? By sullen inactivity, hy proudly and indifferently holding aloof from the people, hy not spending a penny upon any species of work that could bring relief to the poor, and I am sorry to 25 say, for the sake of humanity, I am sorry to say that in many cases, at a time when the most ordinary impulses of humanity might have hade them to come to the relief of the people, even at that time they were hurling forth their notices of eviction and putting their crowbar brigade in motion. (Groans.) The Land League at that awful time, the Land League, the 30 messenger of charity, I would say the ambassador of Heaven, came to the rescue of the people ; the Land League showed the people how they might apply to the case of the Irish farmer that principle of intelligent combination which has been employed all over the world, in the ranks of labour, in the great cities and towns. You met together, under the guidance of ttie 35 Land League — you intelligently and peacefully insisted upon the reduction of your rents ; and I say that, in the conscience of man and at that great accounting day when all will he known and made manifest, to the credit of the Land League will stand this great fact, that last year, a year of absolute famine in Ireland, millions of money that, hut for the Land League, would 40 have been swept into the pockets of the landlords of Ireland, and spent either in luxury at home or in luxurious riot in other countries, were transferred from their pockets (cheers) to the pockets or to the hands of the people who hut for it might have filled the graves of those who were even more wretched and more helpless than the pauper. One other thing the Land 45 League did last year, it taught you lessons of prudence, it taught you lessons of public action, it taught you that, without resorting to any act of violence, without inflicting the slightest injury upon the property of any man, it was within your power, hy public and by unquestionably legitimate means, to bring such pressure to hear upon the landlords and the law as must 50 eventually win your rights. That was the action of the Land League before the meeting of Parliament, and when I and others were called away to Parliament to do our duty there, what did we do ? A 2 We, wLo are 3 (jlllJont'i/. — November ll/i, 1880. — Mr. iSexlon, M.P. f accused, an.l accused l.y some wl.o ougl.t to have had the conscience am intcUi'-eiicc In know lietlcr, and to sjualk more truth ; we, wlio are accused o attemnts and desisns to disturb tlie lud.lic iieace and .u-der of tins country- we hv our course iu Parliament, showed that no men were more ardently 5 desirous of niaiulaining [leace and order m this country than were we. What did we do ? One thin;; we did was this, we kept the attention ol the Govemmeiit lixed, and steadily llxial, upon those points in Ireland where distress was keenest, and where it hud even developed into disease and threatened the lives ol the people ; we kept pressure upon the Government 10 until wc forced them to make a lai-ge grant, for the English larl.ament a wonderful grant, of puhlie money for the pui-poso ol enabling the Poor Law Boards in Ireland to extend the system of outdoor relict. We did more than tills, wc introduced a Bill, and pressed it forward with all our force, to relieve the tenantry of Ireland who might ho unahlo to pay rent, to relieve 15 them for a brief time, while wc might be considering a Laud Bi 1, and ..ettimr it passed-to relieve them from the danger of eviction and from those '’social horrors which spring from the fear that flUs the sou o the poor honest man when ho finds himself and his family turned helpless out upon the cold charity of the world. Everything wc did had one fixed 20 obiect. Along with endeavouring to relieve the immediate wants ol the people we had always in view the duty that lay upon us as chnstians an L thoughtful men, of keeping the people from those extremities into which men are driven by despair, and from those extremities which lead to con- sequences in which the stronger power, the greater empire, can always he And how did the Government treat us ? They refused to accept our BiU, hut they presented a weak plagiarism, a clumsy imitation of that Bill, and they asked the House ol Commons to pass it. Now, what did that Bill ask? It only asked that until the end of next year any tenant in 80 Ireland who might satisfy the officer of the English Crown, the county court judge, that ho was unable through the failure of the crops to pay his ren^t might be protected against eviction. That was the beginning and the end, that during a period which the Government themselves acknow- ledged to bo a period of distress, amounting to famine, the tenants w o 35 eoidd not pay their rents through the failui-e of the crops might be protected-and. what was the fate of that small, that miserable measme .? I heard the ministers of the Crown night after night rise in the House of Commons, and with all the eloquence and all the energy at their command, implore the House to pass that Bill. I heard Mr. Eorster, the^ Chief 10 Secretary for Ireland, who now prosecutes us,— I heard hun say m t e House of Commons, that unless the Bill was passed, unless the people got some protection and some reason for hope, he could not himself with a good conscience administer the law in Ireland. C So far, cheers for to Well, the House of Lords refused to pass that Bill, and, although that Bi 46 has not been passed, and although no protection has been given to the tenants, what has become of Mr. Forster’s conscience ; Miv Forster has got into the atmosphere of Dublin Castle, he has got into that official atmosphere which is one of the strongholds of the landlord class m Ireland, he is sur- rounded by the sons and the nephews and the cousins of the landlords, 50 and the result of his brief sojourn in Ireland is this; that his eonseience has become flexible, and he is now enabled to initiate and to conduct a 4 CllU'oucy. — Noocmber *lth, 1880. — Mr. SexloHy M.P. prosocul ion, altliou^'li lie said three luoutlis ai^'o that he eoiihl not aduiinistei the law' wilh a g-ood eoiiseieiiee unless the tenants were [n-oteeiod. I heard Mr. (lladslone say in the House of Commons, asking- the House to pass tlie Hill, that sneh was the distress, sneh was the excitement in Ireland, that tlic 5 people oT this country had lionie within a measnrahle distance ol civil war. Yet nothing has heen done to quiet the people — nothing- has been done to satisfy them. Nevertheless, Mr. (Uadstone can find it in his eonseienee to direct or to permit a prosecution against us who have heen and who are endea- vouring, and who will to the last moment endeavour not to excite the people to 10 civil war, not to incite them to disorder, ])ut to show them and to prove to them that if they stand togcthei* on the lines which we have laid down, there is no power in the laAV or in the Government or in Parliament to keep them from their rights. Now, I wish to point out to you in a few words, why we have thought it necessary to advise the 'people to pursue a line of action which 15 will practically settle this question in Ireland, no matter what Parliament may do. We have advised you to this course, because we have heen com- pelled to the conclusion, that the Parliament of England will not act with the rapidity and with the radical reform that is necessary to settle this ques- tion. Although, as I have told you, Mr. Gladstone himself and his chief 20 ministers appealed, I may say, in piteous terms to the members of the House, to pass that little Bill which I have mentioned, yet such is the influence of the landlords, even on the Liberal side of the House of Commons, that that majority of 150 with which Mr. Gladstone came into office, melted away from him on that Compensation Bill. The Whig landlords deserted him, some 25 of them went into the lobby, some of them ratted across the floor to the Tories, and it was only by the votes of 60 Irishmen that that small Bill was passed through the House. But what happened to it when it came to the House of Lords, which, I may on this occasion, more properly call the House of Landlords ? The Bill went into them affecting what they believed to be 30 their rights, and they rejected it with indecent haste. As I have said already in other places, I sat in the gallery of the House of Lords dmang the whole of the evening, from seven o’clock till midnight, and how they were debating and dividing on that Bill ! I came away that evening with a fixed and ^saddening feeling upon my mind, that it was hopeless to appeal to that 35 arrogant and selflsh class Avho appear to have learnt nothing from the lessons of popular effort and popular exasperation in other countries, Avho appear to be still in a frame of mind only worthy of the middle ages, who appear to be determined by their obstinacy to drive the people into courses which the best friends of the people would lament. I saw those peers that evening. I saAV 40 and heard that when any man said a word for the Irish tenant, said a AAmrd m favour of protecting him, he was heard in dead and chilling silence, but when any man rose and spoke about the rights of the landlords and associated the name of our people with outrage, and endeavoured to prove that we were deficient in civilization and intelligence and in virtue, to other peoples —whenever any 45 man threw discredit upon us in order to enable the landlords to keep our rights from us, that man was heard Avith such uproarious cheers, as I did not think the aristocratic peers of England would indulge in. That was our experience of the Parliament of England. When we found that a small Bill, a miserable crumb of the loaf to which the tenant is entitled, was treated 50 in such a way by both the House of Commons and the House of Peers, how could we in honesty advise the Irish people to rely solely upon that A3 5 C/iJ/biK’i/ . — j\ lfli> liSbO. — j)It. Saxton ^ JSl.L , I’arlianicui for ivlic'f. No, wo oariK^ lack to Irclaiul aral wo roimd tlic situa- tion i.racticallv unchanged; wo round distross still provaJont in many parts of the counliy; we lonnd a millstono ot debt still hanging about tho nock ol iho fannov; wo Ibund the landlords on our ladurn a low woiiks ago still 5 rosolvod to oxeroisc wbat they callcal tb(;ir rights ; wo lound thorn in largo nuinhors exacting tho pound of llosh ; and what my rrionds wore wo to do ? Wore wo like oowards to skulk away Irorn tho ])Ooplo? No. Were wo to stay at homo and Avero avo to alloAV jn-ooi'sses of law to ho carrual out to tho hitter end ; were we to allow tho people to ho tianptcd down that dangerous 10 declivity which loads to acts that would plac.o them in the hands of their enemies. If wo had done so, I say we would deserve to he pilloried in history as the most contomptihlc set of cowards and poltroons and drones that ever holiod the confidence of a people. No, we felt that the occasion Avas a vital one ; wo felt, and we foci, that it concerned as a matter of fact 15 the life and death of the people, that it was really a question whether tho produce that God sends us out of the soil should he given to one small class, or Avhether it should ho enjoyed by the hulk of the people for whom God intended it; whether they should he relieved from the miserable condition in Avhich life is a burden to many of them, and death would he to many of 20 them a mercy. The Land League came before you. It said to you If you, the local hranches of the Land League, and the tenants on the properties consult together, and if you ascertain what rent you are able to pay, remem- bering always the supreme obligation of sustaining your wives and children and those who are naturally dependent upon you, the Land League told you 25 to ascertain what that rent was, and to offer to pay that rent, and if that offer were not accepted, to allow the landlord to resort to legal means for the assertion of what he calls his rights. We told you to sustain, as well as you could, any man who for carrying out your principles was crushed by the hand of the oppressor; we told you that in that attempt to sustain that man 30 you would have the assistance of the League. We further asked you to pledge yourselves, one and all, by a solemn public vow, not to take any farm from which a man had been unjustly evicted. We asked you not to become parties to the great national crime of the English State, and not to become parties to the despotism of the Irish landlords ; for the English State, by crushing 35 your manufactures in Ireland, threw you into the hands of the Irish land- lords, and left you no other means hut the land to live; and you yourselves in past times by your foolish and reckless competition for land, enabled the landlords to keep up an unchecked tyranny. We asked you not to take any farm from which the tenant had been unjustly evicted. We did this because 40 we wished to bring that competition to an end. We further advised you not to purchase any cattle or any produce raised upon a farm from which the tenant had been evicted unjustly. In the last place, we advised you that if any man were found who so far disregarded the verdict of your judgment, and who was so far false to the interest of the people as to enter upon a farm 45 from which the farmer had been evicted with injustice, that you were not hound to hold any social communication with that man, and that your duty and your interest would lead you not to hold any such communication with him. Now, because of this advice to you, we are told by the lawyers of the CroAvn that we have entered into an illegal conspiracy, and this charge is repeated again and again in the voluminous indictment in all possible forms 50 Cl'i'lJ'o'ticy • — NoiH'VnhdT IhSO. 3lv, ^ccvloa, A[.l • of words. Well, i tell you delibeniiely Huii 1 eaiuiot eoiieeive liow any sueli eliart--e eau possibly aris(‘. out ot tli(‘ pul)lle aeiion W(‘. l.ave taken. Tl.cr(^ is a oTwii sag-e of tiie law who says, that lor every wrong Iheiv. is a remedy. AV^ell it we have been doing wrong, there must he a remedy lor it m the law. 5 No’w 1 want to ask you one or two praetieal (luestions ; and 1 would iirst say, that this movement of ours dilVers essentially, from its very foundation, from all other movements that have ever taken plaee in Irish history. In all former movements the people were obliged to take active steps,— were ohli<’'ed to take the oltensive ; they were obliged to go out, and directly and LO actively to eneoimter their enemies; ahd their enemies being mhnitely stronger in brute force, always heat them. But this is not an active— this is a passive movement ; it is not what we ask you to do which will win your cause; it is what we ask yon not to do. There is the whole secret in one word You may he prevented from doing a thing by superior force, hut no 15 force can make you do a thing that you are determined not to do. Now I want to know what Parliament can conceive a law that will make any man before me go and take a farm if he docs not like to take it ? I should like to he informed what law can make a man go to an auction for rackrent, and buy cattle and hay ? And I should further desire to he enlightened as to 20 what possible law could make any of you go up to a man that you i-eprd as a traitor to the public interest, shake that man by the hand, bid him a kind ‘ Good day,’ and invite him to your fireside to toke a glass of pundi? It is perfectly evident, according to the nature of things and to the constitu- tion of society, that people have a perfect and unquestionable and incon- 25 testible right to do everything that the Laud League has advised them. Can the law prevent the waves in the sea from beating upon tlie shore ot bligo . Can the law prevent the river from rolling to the sea ? Can the law keep the rain from falling? Well, I tell you that the law might as well attempt to do any one of those things as to force the people of Ireland to go into a 30 farm or to hold social communication with a man whom they conceive to be as infamous as an informer. Now, there is the sum and substance of the case; there is the whole secret of the success of our cause: that if we only put our hands in our pockets, persist in standing passive and dmng nothing, that we must eventually, and before a long time has elapsed, win all that we 35 desire. „ And now let me point out to you what a matter ot slight importance these prosecutions really are to the country. If this were a movement like former ones, where you needed continual stimulation, continual impulse from speeches from the platform, it might be a calamity, it might be a 40 disaster ; it might, in fact, be fatal to the movement if a few of our leading spirits were withdrawn from you for a time. But the rules are simple, the rules of action are easily learnt, the most stupid boy on the lowest form in the national school can understand them in five minutes; and therefore it matters nothing for the success of your cause whether we are on the 45 platform or in the prison. , . , ^ I tlierefore regard any possible result of the action which the Government have taken, firstly, with tranquility, and secondly, I would say with positive ioy. I regard it with tranquility because, in the first place, I feel that to be selected by the English Government for prosecution because ot my action in 50 this cause, is the best and most lasting evidence upon the page of histo j of the honest and effective part that we have taken; and I regard it with A 4, 7 Cl't D'oiicy . — H^oiU'iuhci' Ithy ISMO. —Mv. ^cxlon, . 5 positive joy Ix^ctiiise L Teel tliiit, in cas(; the Governnient should by any chance liavo their way, the reeling- (;ommunicat(;(l to the minds of the peoph^ by the knowhnlge of what w(^ hav(^ darc'd and risked on their beliall, will communicate whatevcn- may b(^ m'ccssary to the w(^ak and wavering minds, and will add that hist impulsi; ol' popular ])Ower and sti-(mgth which will swec}) the movement on to victory. We are to be, I believe, tried under what is called the Law of Con- spiracy. Well, they might as well almost try us lor being born. I am responsible for what I say here to-day. I am not resyionsible, I should hope, 10 for what any man says anywhere else, neither is any man anywhere else responsible for what I say here. Hut the principle upon which the Government is going in these prosecutions is this : — that every man of us who is at any time a member of the National Land League is responsible for every act done by every other man,— for every word spoken everywhere 15 by every other man,— for every line on a placard,— for every word on a banner,— for every incident, every act, every motion made in connexion with the movement in any part of the country since the movement began. That is so odious that I am inclined to believe that any jury, any possible jury, will feel its conscience recoil against such a principle. But, however that 20 may be, I tell you that we shall await with the utmost tranquility the result of the action of the Government. And now let me say that, whether the Government meant it or not, the Members of Parliament whom they have selected for prosecution in this case have been, I think, very happily selected. The first of them I may call 25 “ the Member for all Ireland.” (Cheers.) The second, my distinguished friend, Mr. Biggar, represents the sturdy men of Cavan, and through them the patriotism of Ulster. The next whom I shall mention, my friend and fellow-labourer, T. U. Sullivan, represents the men of bold Westmeath, and through them the spirit of Leinster. The next, John Dillon, a patriot both 30 by his distinguished lineage and by his own high nature, represents the men of gallant Tipperary, and through them the men of Munster. There remains but one other province in Ireland, and to my lot has fallen the great and the unexpected honour, — an honour that I shall cherish as long as I live (cheers) the honour which seemns to my hutfible name a place upon the 35 page of history,— the honour, in this conflict with the law, with the power of the English Government — in this conflict, — to speak in the name of Sligo, and to bear the flag of Connaught. I do not know, as I have told you, whether the Government meant to produce this effect, but I tell you that the effect is this : that by 40 selecting one elected representative of the people from each province in Ireland to stand before the judges, they have proved to the world in the plainest and simplest way the national character of this great agitation. Now, my friends, I do not think it is needful for me to continue to address you at greater length. I think I have shown you that a stern and 45 imperative necessity called the National Land League into existence. I think I have shown you that the League has accomplished a great national work in saving the people from the horrors of starvation, and in rescuing them from the counsels of despair. I believe I have also shown you that this movement is not the result of the action of any number of mclividual 50 men, but that the men have been, as it were, upraised by the resolution of CIlljoiK’i/. — Norctilher Ilk, I HSO. — Mr. Se.xlott, M.P. (lid i)0()i)li', and carricMl on by a ciin-i'nl wliicli IJicy did nol. ini(ia(,(‘, and wbicli ilu^y could not ('vcn coidrol. Lot ibis bo known to cwory nuiii and to oviu'y (Hmniiy, Avitb ro<^-avd to t lio pri'siMit inovoinont, that w(', who may bo (tailed its loaders, aro really not, its T) h'adca’s, but are only, as it wore, the straAvs upon tlui current A\diicb sIioav its volinno and its I'orco — avo arc' only, as it Avere, the organs that give' a voici; to tlio feelings of the jieople. And this I knovA'', that so far is it 1‘roni being true that avc have ondeaAa)ured to load the people on beyond the bounds of prudence or ot peacefnl action — this I kuoAA% that our cndcaAuiur has been 10 from the lirst to restrain the rightful AAn’atli of the people, and to teach them that violence aaus useless as Avell as being immoral — that it Avas useless because it aa^s unnecessary ; and that Ave, instead of applying the spur to the people have endeavoured to bold them in by the rein. I tell you tinally that I am ready, — ^ready Avith a calm mind, and ready Avith a glad heart for any 15 eonsequences that may come to me because of my publie action. I did not come into public life in Ireland for any purpose of my oavu comfort, for any purpose of my oavu advancement. I did not come in as a politician of the old typo. I did not go into the House of Commons to lounge there, or to get into AAdiat is called ‘ good society,’ or to make myself a snugger nest in the 20 Avorld. I came to Sligo at the request of the leader of the Irish people, aa ith a single motive, to do Avhat one man could to put an end to these miseries of the people Avhom I love, Avhich arc a disgrace to civilization, and to endeavour as far as one man and one life could to help to raise my country up to an equality Avith the other nations of the earth. 25 And this I tell you, as my last words to-day, that Avhenever I pass out of politics, Avheuever I pass out of life, be it soon or be it late, that in those last moments, when every man clings hojAefully to the thought of Avhat was best and purest and Avorthiest in his life, I tell you that in those last moments, be they fiA^e or ten or fifty years from this day, I shall be cheered, and I shall 30 be rendered hopeful in going before the bar of the Eternal by the thought that, while I represented this gallant county, it Avas represented l)y a man Avho loved the people, by a man Avho honestly sought the people’s good, by one, Avho having found it, laljoured on in the endeavour to achieve it, who never faltered and never paused in the service of the people through any fear 35 of Avhat might happen to himself. / Q 3366.-74. B 9 1 CliJj'otioij. — Novcmbci' Hh, I 8S(). Mr. Joseph Lockhart. IMr. Clminuan and !^-on11cnian, I l)Og‘ to second this motion in favour of our Avortliy representative, Mr. Sexton. Mr. Sexton, M.P. I can sav without any a.n’cctation, or the least departure iroin strict truth, that the moment in winch T now stand l)eforc you and address you is one of T) the piTuulest and one of the most full of satisfaction that I have ever experieneed in my life. I have had my share of trouble since I was in Sligo last. I have spent some mouths in a strange land among an unsymjaatlietic people. I have spent some months in the ediief city of that people who take us over there against our will, and yet, wlien tliey have us there, appear as if 10 they Avished that we Avould come l)ack. There may have been a good deal of digiiitv iu being an Irish member in London, but I can assure you that there is very little practical comfort. IVell, the arduous labour of my political apprenticeship, including, as our friend told you, going down to hear a gentle- man in a black gown say prayers at four o clock every day, and staying there 15 until Mr. Speaker, having yawned himself almost out of existence, took it into his head to h^ave the chair at two or three o’clock in the morning, the effect of that Avas, in fact, that in a short time I did not feel quite so strong, in fact, I almost sacriliced my health to tire labours of the first two months of the session, and now I am in a position Avhen I have staked my liberty, 20 and it is no figure of speech to say that if the occasion arose I would be glad to sacrifice my life. I have here my political godfathers and godmothers, and Avhat I Avished to say to you was that it did not need the last resolution to convince me of your approval and your confidence, because, Avherever I have juoved in the county of Sligo I have found, by the same unanimous affection, 25 and warm and cordial regard, and the ringing cheers with which you have welcomed me and have greeted mo all through this speech, that the resolu- tion passed on the motion of my friend, only put into a form of a speech, I may say, the feelings Avhich you had already expressed so Avell and so com- pletely by your cheers. 30 I Avish to refer briefly to one element of this meeting, Avhie'h is more conspicuous than I have noticed at other meetings elseAvimre ; I allude to the presence of Avomen, young and old. Of course this is a stern battle Ave have to fight, and it is chiefly a battle for men ; but it has been shoAvn in many cases in the Avest of Ireland, that the Avomcn of our race do not forget 35 the traditions of Limerick. There is no better proof that any movement in a country has gone home to the people’s hearts, and to their very marroAV, I might say, than Avhen you see the Aromcn Avaking up and taking an interest in it. It is our special pride, and the particular glory of IrisliAVomeu, that their homes are their Avorld ; they are not given to gadding alrout, or being lO strong-minded, but that their glory is at home AA^ith their fathers, their husbands, and Avith their children, to give a grace and beauty to home life, be it ever so poor. But at a time like this, it is a good sign of the strength there is in the movement ; it is a good sign of the nearness of the victory that Ave arc sure to Aviu, Avhen we see the women leaving their homes and J5 I (Jlljfoiiri/. — November *llh, 1880. — Mr. Sexton, M.l\ / (U)niing' out and tal- llieir siarul anuui^-si ilu; nu'ti. I would apologise; lor savinii’ so luucli about the avouu'u, but 1. will say so muob as this, IbaX you may bavo slh'u iu tbo lu'wspapcrs in those short para<^-ra|)bs about the traversers that [ am uumarru'd, and tUerel'orc 1 cannot bel|) takiii'; a ])cculiai 5 iub'n'st in t he women. 1 now move that Mr. McIntyre leave the eliair, and that Mr. Ib-(muan take it ; and I have great pleasure in moving that the thanks of the meeting be given to Mr. ]\Ielutyre for taking the ebair. lie was pr(‘-emineutly the right man in the right place. A¥e have been too much, on ])ublic occasions 10 in this country, in the habit of hunting up men with names for presidcuds. AVlicther a man have a name with a handle before it or Ijcbind it, I think a name Avitbout a handle at either end of it is just as good. And when you go looking for a remedy for your grievances, I say you need not go looking for a chairman, like the man in the Bible Avbo Avas looking for guests for tiie 15 Avedding feast, but take an honest sensible man and put him in the chair, and go on Avith your business like sensible men Avho have given up all slavish ideas. A fornnd acknoAvlcdgment terminated the proceedings. Having comparcHl the foregoing transcript Avith my original shorthand 20 notes, 1 hereby certify that it is a tru(j and correct copy of the same. 16 [Killalue. — Novetnher llh, 1880.) / Mr. John Dillon, M.P. “ Kov. c‘liainn:in, and nuni of Clavn and Tipperary, 1 am very ^dad to see that the men of this eonniy are not al'raid of a liltUj rain in tin; eainpai^-n ne are i^'nini;- in Tor. (Cheers.) Terhaps it is all tin; Ixdier that it did rain 5 to-day, heeause it will show the landlords that it will take somethin^^ more than rain to turn us haek trom the path. I Avant to l)egin hy askini,^ you, the iarmers oi‘ Clare and ot Tipperary, to rememljer how lon^^ it is that Ave have been strug^ding-, that you have keen strnggding, to save your homes and to AA'in your rigdits from the landlords ol Ireland. Is it not true, 10 is it not true that for 80 years uoav you and your fathers before you have been llgditing- that battle, and that for 80 years you have been lying under the foot of landlord oppression, ])owerless to defend yourselves, and at the mercy of everv raek-renter and cA^ietcr aa'^Iio cbose to ruin your homes and to drive you out homeless and hopeless on the Avorld ? Why is 15 it that the manhood of Clave and Tipperary Avas unable to shake itself free from the tyranny Avhich Avas exorcised over it by a fcAv men, and no very great men to talk of, either t I Avill tell you AAdiy it is, and I Avill tell you Avhy that day is gone by for ever. It was because the men of Clare and Tipperary and of all Ireland Avere led to trust to members of 20 Parliament for protection ; it Avas because they were led to believe that by sending' men to represent them or to sell them in the Biitish House of Commons that they AAmuld save themselves from rack-renting and eviction and from tyranny ; it was because they Avere told to believe that an English Parliament Avould ever do them justice, and because the people Avere led 25 to exhaust their efforts and to risk their lives and their property in struggling to obtain justice from a place from which Ireland never yet received justice. (Cheers.) What have Ave done ? One short year ago we told the people in Ireland that they had gone on the AAUong path, that they never Avould get justice from England’s Parliament, that they never AA^ould get justice from 30 members of Parliament sent over to represent Irish constituencies. We told them that if they wanted justice, and if they AV'anted freedom, that they should fight the battle in Ireland. We told them that they should learn their own strength ; that they should band themselves together ; that they should meet the landlords of Ireland on the fi elds of Ireland foot to foo t 35 and hand to hand ; that they should teach the Irish landlords that the day was gone by when the landlord AA'^as to fix the rent j and that they should teach them that the day was gone by when an Irish landlord could drive an Irish family out of its borne ; and that they should do that by following out a determined, a resolute, and a combined policy of self defence, and by 40 gathering into one mighty organization the Avhole manhood of Ireland, and pledgins^ us never to turn back from the battle until the whole institution of landlordism was sAvept away. (Cheers.) When I look back over the histoiw of Ireland since the Union AA^as accomplished, and Ireland lost her independence, I have no hesitation in saying that it Avould be better for the 45 Irish people, and that Ireland Avould be to-day a prosperous nation, if no man had ever been sent to represent an Irish constituency in an English Parliament, but if the people had refused to send men or to trust any man into that House, and had resolved 80 years ago, as they are resolving in their meetings and in their thousands to-day, that they would make a law 50 unto themselves in Ireland, and would not submit to British W. (Cheers.) {KUlidoe. — Norcmhcr llh, 18S(). — Mr. John Dillon, J/.P.) Hid tluM-c is an old sayin<>', — tlua-o is an old saying- wliicli I would ask you/ mon of CUare and Tijiian-ary to taki^ to lu^ari to-day —and tliat^ is, ‘ It is luwor loo late to mend.’ Foi* 80 years we have keen f^'oing on the wrong- path, and looking io liondon. Look to I reland now ; look to yourselves. For 80 5 vears the Irisli landlords have ke[)t the men of Ireland on their knees at the threshold of an alien rarliament, begging for mercy and for rights that were denied them. For 80 years the Irish landlords have looked on in scorn while the tenantry ol* Ireland were spurned hy a hostile and an alien IIousc Let the maiihood of Ireland rise to-day, and resolve that wo Avill bring the 10 Irish landlords on their knees before that door. (Cheers, ‘Never to rise again.’) Let us resolve that the tenantry of Ireland will never again ask for justice at the hands of English ministers or of the English House of Commons, but that hy their action in Ireland they will drive the Irish land- lords over to London to beg for protection and for justice. (Cheers.) Let 15 me tell you that you can do all this. It only requires you to play the part of men, to follow the doctrines of the Land League, and you will teach the Irish landlord that not he, hut the I^and League, will settle the rents (cheers) ; and you will teacirthe Irish landlord that lie will noTevict one man out of his home until the Land League has given him leave. (Cheers.) The English 20 Earliament has been always the friend of the Irish landlords. Let them go to their old friends now and ask (Interruption.) I say here to-day in the name of the tenantry of Ireland, that it has come now to that pass that we do not care about legislation. (Cheers.) We do not want (Inter- ruption). All we want is what was said 50 years ago hy a Tipperary priest, 25 Father Davoran, when he wrote to Daniel O’Connell, and said in the Tithe War, ‘ The Irish farmers do not want protection ; they do not want legisla- ‘ tion in an English Parliament; all they want is a fair field and no favor, ‘ and to leave them face to face with the tyrant. All that the tenantry of Ireland want now is a fair field and no favor, and to leave them face to face 30 with the landlords, and we will give a very good account of the landlords and of the rackrenters in Ireland. Let me say then, that the man who comes to you now, and tells you to trust to any British minister, or tells you to trust to the present Government because they have promised well, is an enemy ; and do not take his advice. Follow the Land League, which has 35 shown its power hy protecting the farmer of Ireland; follow the Land League, which has already forced, to my own knowledge, seven men in Ireland to resign farms which they had taken over their neighbours heads. In the town of Middleton, in the county of Cork, there was a man evicted and his neighbour took the farm. He had gone behind his hack, and bribed Ih the agent and I sent down there last week, at the request of the Laiici League to the town of Middleton, that I ivould hold a meeting there on Tuesday nest, and request him to give up the farm ; and on Friday last the Land League, got a letter saying he begged to state he would resign the farm. (Cheers.) I did not need to go down there at all, and so 4i5 now we are going to give it back. By and hy, when the landlord gets tired of keeping it empty, we will give it hack (Interruption.) Then I say do not mind Land Commissions, do not mind the English Pailiament, do not mind the Government ; follow your own course, and protect yourselves; and when the Government have got through with Hares 50 and Babbits Bills, and when, as I said before, the Irish landlords ask them then thev will settle this question. But before I leave this subject, A 3 5 [KiUaloe. — Nore'))il)cr 'llli, LSHO. — Mr. John DU lor, ! Avill say liiat avc, as lUo ]>i(‘inlK'rs of ilio Land la^aguo, ai-c dolnrminod llial when it 'roat Htai(;Hnian, an inspirinij^ mind in tlio j>ri‘S0iit (Jovornnu'iit, wlion we 1iave tlic united vonai nt‘ I r(!land ])ro(‘laiinini 2 f tlie land ior tlie people then we muII ,<»'et the land lor the peojile (cdieers). I )o not allow men to stand upon platforms and f) thrust forward to you their peculiar idea ot settling this (piestion. I hey do that tor no other jmrjiose than to create disseusiem amonp' .vou to-day. 'the peoi)le of Ireland want the laws that have depf)]»ulated this counti'y, that have impoverished them, they want them ahsolutely blotted for ever from the Statute Mook. Do not allow men to come here to tell you, “ Wliy 10 do you not formulate your plan — what do you want?” Mark my words to-day, we want the laiul for the {)eople (hear, hear). Let the 1 arliameii- tary lawyer provide what Ihll he may, for in the long run he is the man -who pirovides the Bill, or the man on the public platform excite the cheers of his synniathetic audience — we want the united voice of 1.5 Ireland to say in unmistakahle language to the British Government, land- lordism must go, or else (cheers). I trust, therefore, that you will not be turned aside from following the true banner; and, for mine own jiait, though your worthy chairman said to-day that there was an attempt made to raise a false issue, in this Land League movement there can he neither 20 schism or heresy. There is no room to-day in Ireland for an\' party hut the one, and that is, in the words of this resolution, “ Ihe voice of the people must be the law ot the land ” (cheers). Do not imagine for a moment that the British Government is ready to come forward and propose a settlement of the land question. Ihe British 25 Government never gave you or yours anything that was not torn out ot them by force, and we p)ro|)ose to-day to tear a settlement of this land fjuestion out of the throats of Irish landlordism, and that means the Biitish Government. If Irish landlordism was not what Parnell says it is, the mainstay of misrule and oppu'ession in this Island, why does the Biitish 30 Government come forward with the prosecutions to supiport a doomed and infamous system (cheers). I will not detain you longer. I did not come here to make a spieech. I came here to-day to repiresent the man who is with you heart and soul, though he be not here in person, our illustrious chief, the leader of the Irish jieople, Parnell (cheers). Mr. Parnell is 35 worthy of all the trust that you can repose in him, and Mr. Parnell is the first man, I think I am safe in saying the first man this century, that the incelligent British Government fears (cheers), because Mr. Parnell has other means at his dispjosal than the shouts of the pieopde of ah Ii eland. Mr. Parnell has at his back a reserve that they little dream about (cheers). 40 A reserve that will one day, pilease God, make its mark on the history, on the page of Irish, history. Mr. Parnell has got you money from your kith and kin that have been driven by Irish landlordism beyond the seas where I came to manhood, and where, thank God, I expect to die, until the Irish people give me the right to live as a free citizen in the land where I was 45 born. Mr. Parnell has not even yet shook the stick at them. I hey know 8 V ( {iyeirc((sflc—7th November, ISHO.— Mr. Michael P. liotjton.) that liiniscir and his tried and trusted toliowiiiL;' have means to-day to assist you in your struj^gle in the courts and on the vuilleys and hdlsides. 1 hey have attempted by an insincere ])rosecution, tor neither' (xladstone, Bright^ For'ster, or tlieir iurniediate following, can he anything else than insincere 5 in that jn-oceeding, unless, indeed, they he hypocrites heart and soul. These men wish to-day to exhaust our means that were got for the toiler, in America, side hy side witli the means that were sent over here to keep the people not only from starvation, hut to keep them in the country that (lod gave them for thenrselves. fhey want to waste every farthing 10 tliat we got ; hut, thank God, thei'c is a reserve heyond the sea, arrd whetr that reserve is exhausted thei’c is sonrethirrg else (cheers). Men of Liurerick, I will not detain you longer whatever he the terrr[)tatiou to go on speaktrrg to you. dhere ar’e men corrrurg after nre who have sperrt their lives in your midst j men to whose words 1 am sure you will hearken with 15 the attention they deserve, but mark this, 1 tell you, and I speak to you in the presence of God. and side hy side of your fellow men, it you aie to- day, and the touch is now put to you to see if there he anything true in the Irish nation, if you ai'e to-day true to yourselves, as sure as to-morrows sun succeeds the night, one day you will see the glorious work commenced on 20 the soil hy the hand League, accomplished when Ireland takes her place,, the place she has never forfeited, amongst the nations of the earth (cheers). Fourth Resolution. — That we protest in the strongest terms against what we consider tlie unconstitutional action of the Government in institu- ting State prosecutions against our leaders, and that we look upon such 25 conduct as an attempt to stifle public opinion, and to prevent the Irish people from peaceably assembling to proclaim to the world the giievanoes under which we labour.” Mr. Matthew Harris Supported the resolution. He said; — Ladies and gentlemen, I did not come here to-day from the West 30 Mr. Boy ton. — Mr. Harris is another of the men prosecuted by the Govern- ment. Mr. Hu-m'is . — I did not come here from the West to speak, but to en- deavour to organize the county Limerick (cheers). We have been so successful in organizing in the West — we have brought this great movement 35 to such a pitch there that it was thought by my coming here to the South that the same state of things in a short time might be in the South that already obtain in the West. It is unfortunate, my friends, for the history of our country we have not all pulled together as we should have done. Sometimes when Leinster came to the front, as in ’98, the South and the 7 F 9 {yeu'castle. — 7lh Novctnher, 1880.) Mr. Michael P. Boyton iiLniiii came forward and said, amidst cliccrs : — Men of Jarnerick I tliarik von for yonr cheers, hut all the ])ur}»ort of this meetinfi; and the sjteeches is work, and the work is now about to he ])ut to y(»u. You have declared vour voice unanimously for the resolution. It now heconies niy duty to 5 administer to every honest IrishmaTi jnesent the laind League ]»ledge, and if there he any man in this assembly who cannot conscientiously tak<; that pledge let him withdraw (cheers). 1 want you to know that this ])ledge is one that has been administered already to nearly one-half of the five or si.\ hundred thousand farmers and fhe tillers of the soil in Ireland. 10 It is by keeping this pledge intact, and like good men and (Christians, that we ex]»ect you to settle the land question. 1 want every labourer ]>resent, and since 1 have been on this ])latform some three or foui- acts of op}»ression against the labourei's, not by landlords Init by tenant farmers, has been thrust in my hands, and 1 wish you to know that this organization is not 15 a I and League, but it is a Land and Labour League, that is our true name, and 1 myself here in jtledging you pledge myself if any labouring man or woman has a complaint and they will get some person to put it in writing, to the Four Courts or the Land League in Dublin, I will make it my s]>ecial busii.ess to attend to it (cheers). You have been told again and again that 20 it is not the meeting, the banners, the bands, the platform, or the s])eeches, it is you youiselves. L on cheer for Parnell, Painell is nobody without his followers, and his followers are nobody without a leader. 1 now solemnly call upon every honest Irishman present to pledge himself before God, in the i^resence of his priests, and side by side with his fellow-countrymen, never 25 to take, hold or bid for the land from which his fellow tenant has been evicted for non payment of an unjust rent, or surrenders on the ground of excessive rent, never foi' any man, labourer or farmer, to w’ork upon that land, and never for any man, be he what he may, to purchase cattle or crops seized for non-payment of rent. In addition to that pledge, we are to-day 30 engaged in pledging the whole people of Ireland in a stiike. I also call upon all rent-payers to pledge themselves solemly never to pay any more than Griffith’s valuation (cheers). All in favour of that hold up his right hand. Here all hands were held up as directed. Mr. Boyton then said, I now propose, I have the honour, by acclamation, a vote of thanks with three 35 cheers to the Chairman (cheers). 7 G 13 1 i {\ewcastle.—7t/i November, 1880.— .I/?'. Matthew Harris.) >\'est wc'iv soinowhat iKU^kwiinl ; at other periods the South liad come to tlu' front and the Hast remained idle. At tlie present time it so happens tliat the West of Ireland is to the front in this orcat movement, and to wliat avail in the past? My friends, yon have allowed the full power and all tlie 5 ag'cnts wl\ich the tyi’anny of the British Government have at their power- yon have allowed them to he (Centred at the west of Lreland. It you had had a similar movement through the South and the otlier provinces, we coidd not have had in ever}' village in the West, as we have Inul we could not have had an iron hut, we could not have armies of police ])araded 10 throughout the country, we coukl not have had a l)ayonet at every mans breast and throat, but while you are cheering, the agents of tyranny were endeavouring to trample upon us in the west of Ireland (hear, hear). But, 1 tell you, my friends, that the more they persevered, the more tyranny they exercised, the more determined tlie men of the West proved in oppo- 1.5 sition to that tyranny (cheers). The resolution, gentlemen, which I have been called to si)eak to is a resolution condemning the Government for the State ])iosecutions. Now, it is dithcult, lieing prosecuted myself, it is very ihfficult for me to speak on such a delicate subject. It I weie to denounce and defy the English Government from this platform it might be 20 said tliar 1 was using the language of braggadosio. If I were to speak with moderation and good sense it would be said that I perhaps were a coward and sneak. Well, I do not pi'ofess to be a braggart on the one hand or a coward on the other, and, gentlemen, I have no desii-e to pose as a political inartvr. I have no desire whatever to look for sympathy on the 25 grouml of being a political martyr, for, unfortunately, oui country is the martyred nation of Europe. For the last three hundred years whenever I looked around T seen the martyrs of English tyranny and English power, and we have been so familiar with the sufterings of our people, and have seen so many forms of it, that the thoughts of wdiatever may be in store 30 for myself is the last thing that occupies my mind. But, gentlenien, it is most important that you youi selves should look seriously on this prosecution, for the simple reason that it is a blow that is being struck by the enemy, and if they succeed in that blow other blows will follow after, and after, and after. (A voice, “ They won’t.”) If you 35 do not meet them, as Irishmen have always met the enemies of the people in the past, and show that you possess within yourselves a spirit of re- sistance, of self-reliance, independence, courage, the Government of England will strike you down by the first blow ; but if you show that you have this spirit in you, that these prosecutions will be a failure, demonstrate to them 40 that their prosecution will be a failure, then all their efforts will end in nothing, or rather, I should say, will be a benefit to the country they are striving to ruin. A gentleman, Mr. Synan, the member for this county, has spoken about the question of the labourers. Now, I would be very sorry that it should be thought that in this great movement for one moment .10 7 F 2 {Neiratsflc. — 7th Xorciiiher, ISSO. — Mr. Mattheir Harris.) the labovircr was iie.ulected. I sec upon a banner lu're upon ibis platforni, I ibink it is ilie (diarleville banner — I see inscribed on tbai banner, Liberty, K(iualit V, Fraternity (chc'ers), and I say, luy tViends, there can be no approacii to ('(|ualit v, even in the sense of Divine justice to all around, except the /) labourers of the country are taken care ot. but there is onetbino we have to o'uard aoainst. There has been a cry raised in the North about the labour- ing man and in other places about the labouring men, but 1 sboidd like that those peojile who raised their cry would show their sincei’ity by pointing out what they wish to have done for the labouring classes. 1 have 10 on more than one occasion said tluit the agricultural labourers in Ireland they are the most downi-trodden slaves on the face ot the earth. I have often advocated that each of the agricultural labourers should have a cottage, an acre of land, and the grass of a cow. I f, instead of speaking aliout these things, gentlemen would come forwaixl and do it, if they would substitute 15 acts for “ deeds” (cheers), then, indeed, the labouring men of the country would be in the state they ought to be. Gentlemen, I am sorry to say that coming through this great country I saw that great enemy of the labouring man, the grass farms, everywhere. 1 want no\v to ask, how can the labourer be well to do except he has em- 20 ployment, and where is he to have employment if the lands of the. country are kept in grass; and I would say, and it has been stated, and it forms, or vrill form a portion of the programme of the Land League, that instead of taxing small towns, where poor people congregate after being driven from the grass farms, I say that instead of this the grass farms which prevented 25 the tillage of the land should be abrogated. If this be done, and if it be insisted that according to the size of the farm a certain amount ot labourers should be made comfortalde on that farm, if this be done and the land is made free to all to purchase it, and put into the market the same as any other article of produce or industry, then the state of the labouring man in 30 this country would be changed in a very short time. Now gentlemen, I come up here to endeavour to assist in organising the county Limeiick. 1 see a great deal of young men with green sashes here to-day, and I am proud to see them waving the national banners, but at the same time I would wish to remind these young men, and other men here, that we are 35 encaged in a great practical work and not a meie thing of sentiment, a mere thing for the purpose of amusing ourselves with songs and green banners or anything else. We are engaged in a great practical work, we are encaced in endeavouring to put food into the pool man s belly and clothes upon his back (cheers.) We areengaged in a great contest, we have 40 thelandlords on onehand and thepeople on the other, and it is yourduty, my friends, not only to come forward yourselves as men with thenational colouis, but it is also v our duty to organise yourselves rapidly through the country, closing vour ranks (puickly and showing an united fiont to the enemy. 1 am going to do a portion of this work, so far from disintegrating the great 11 [\(’ivc(istle. — 7th Noremher, 1880. — Mr. Matthew II arrm.) work which Mr. lioyton and I rc[)rcsciit to-day. So far froiri weaUeniiii^ or disiiitc' it lias ooiie to the hearts of the incii of‘ Ireland. lictdrc I'on- chidino-, my friends, I would just hy way of e.xample point out to you the state to which we have reduced landlordism in the west ol Ireland. 5 There were not a more des{)otic class of men in the world than the landlords of the west of Ireland, and when they saw the determination of the people they soon o-ave in, for these men that strut about with sueli airs, and pride and dignity, they are the rankest cowards on the face of the universe. We have them in such a state now on the face of Ireland, that the 10 exterminator wdien he comes into a fair that he is looking about watching Idmself, not that ho might be struck down by the assassin, but that the opprobrium of the ])eople wandd rise up against him (cheers). Well gentlemen, as Father iSheehy has come on the platform, it is time for lesser men to give way to liini, but before I have done I must congratulate the 15 men of the county of Limerick on the patient and determined manner they have waited here to-day. I'heyhave stood in the torrents of rain listening to the resolutions and the speakers, and as one of them, Mr. Synan (groans), when he was winding up his speech, as Mr. Synan mentioned in concluding his speech, this is a very wet and very severe day, but the wettest day and 20 the severest season is not so dangerous to the tenant-farmers of Ireland as the landlords, and as Mr. Synan said also, this wet, this moisture will clear away, the sun will again shine out, and so will the landlords be cleared away from the face of the earth, and so will the sun of liberty, which brings with it peace, prosperity, and plenty to the farmers of Ireland, 25 supply their place (cheers.) The resolution was carried. Mr. Michael Leahy proposed the next and last resolution : — “ Whereas we have been taught by past experience that undue competi- tion amongst the tenant farming class, has been one of the most important 30 factors in bringing about the present exorbitant and excessive rents? therefore be it resolved that we pledge ourselves not to take land from which another has been unjustly evicted, or which has been surrendered by reason of rent being excessive ; and we further pledge ourselves to have no intercourse, whatever, with anyone who violates the foregoing resol u- 35 tions.” 12 {Jiollecl-. — '‘Mh Noncnihrr 1880.) 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 Clinu’man ; — 1 now to introduce to you Mr. rariicll. Mr. C. S. Parnell, M.P. Men of Ulster, wo open to-day the land eampaig'ii in tlic north ot Ireland, and this meeting' has hccn convened to deelarc tliat the land move- ment is not a sectarian movement, and thatnpon this platlorrn ol ‘ 1 lie Land for the People,’ all creeds and classes of Irishmen may uidte. I, as a Pro- testant, a member of the Synod of the Protestant Church of Ireland, one of the paiochial nominators of my parish, feel proud that the Protestant north has oi)cncd her arms to this land movement, and I am convinced that the day is not far distant when, Orange and G reen being united together, wo sliall see the dream of every Irish patriot accomplished. The Ulster custom has hccn tried and found wanting. Yon have seen that in times of prosperity it allows you some interest in your holdings, hut that when the had year comes and the had times come round the whole of the interest of the tenant is whittled away and destroyed before the landlord comes to suffer. A custom then which throws the burden of the had seasons upon the tenant class must he a useless one, and we ask you to-day to adopt the principles of the National Land League of Ireland, which declare that landlordism as an institution lias fai led an d must be cut away, root and hrancln e do n^ Avish to fix rents. We want to reduce them first, and finally^ abolish them. IIoAV are you to do this ? By combination amongst yourselves. Let me tell you that your position is one of great power, and that if the tenant- farmers combine and organize themselves, landlordism must go down before you. We have seen combinations of workmen in England in trades unions, hut your power is much greater than that of workmen combining against their employers. The employers can lock the workmen out of their factories and starve them to death ; but you have possession of your holdings, which is nine points of the law. Keep the nine points of the law, and in a very short time the Legislature will give you the tenth. Combine, therefore ; | organize amongst yourselves ; protect yourselves against the landlord con- sphacy, Avhich has condemned this country to poverty and degradation. Laugh to scorn the junction of the Government Avith this landlord con- spiracy. Stand by your rights ; be determined ; and depend upon it that the day is not far distant when free land in Ireland will enable our country to be first prosperous and then free. 10 [NdiHtn. \\^/i N^veinhcr, ISSO, M)'. •/. ^V. II r l Uh, 1880.— J/r. T. ScxUm, M.F.) (l(^al less. And why ? Be(!aus(^ the Land League eame forward to counsel and advise the ])eople. Now, my friends, I wish to iinprc^ss u[)on you that your movement is striding on to victory, and that the bright and piercing light of truth is 5 bursting its way through the fogs and mists of opjmsition. Now an attempt has been made to set the labourcirs of Ireland against the farmers. But the labourers know who cleared away the live-aerc farms. The labourers know who swept themselves and their families off their little holdings into the back lanes of the towns {the landlords). The labourers know that Mr. Parnell and 10 every man of his party are willing to struggle might and main to give them comfortable homes and suitable plots of ground. The labourers know that we are struggling to break up the great estates, those monuments of family ambition, to break up the country into small farms, and to abolish those law costs which at present prevent the poor man from getting a bit of land, and 15 in course of time to bring about in Ireland, as in other countries, a system whereby the labomer who saves a few pounds may be able to purchase an acre or half an acre, and be enabled to become not the holder but the land- lord of that bit of ground. An attempt has been also made to keep the shopkeepers out of this 20 movement ; but the shopkeepers know very well that whatever they sell, whether food or clothes, or requisites for the house or for the farm, it is not upon a small class of men, no matter how wealthy they may be, that the shop- keepers must depend, but that they must depend upon the bulk of the people, upon those who in every country are the only true and steady supporters of 25 commerce and trade. And still another attempt has been made to throw the brand of religious discord into our camp, and to set Protestant against Catholic. Our movement has nothing to do with religion, and I tell you this that it touches the Protestant just as much as the Catholic, for if the Protestant farmer has emptied his purse in paying the rent to his landlord he 30 feels just as uncomfortable as if he was a man who acknowledged the supremacy of the Pope. You have seen the manifesto of that stupid and ferocious body the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland ; they have said that our object is to uproot the Protestant religion, I reply that some of the worst landlords in Ireland are Catholics, and that Protestants are to be found 35 amongst the tenants who suffer from the landlord system. I tell you that I am against every bad landlord, whether he be Catholic or Protestant, and that I welcome to my side every tenant whether he be Protestant or Hebrew, or Parsee, or fire worshipper ; I care not what he may be. Now, my friends, all these falsehoods have been cast to the winds. And 40 with regard to the Protestant question, I take the voice of protestant Ulster, not from the Grand Orange Lodge, that assembly of cov/ardly bigots, but I take the voice of protestant Ulster from the protestant tenant farmers who gathered around my chief and yours at Belleek and Enniskillen last week. It is quite too late in the day, the world has grown too intelligent now for 45 these interested men, these clergymen and landlords in the north to endeavour to blind the people any longer to their true interests by waving the old vile flag of religious bigotry before their eyes. Now, in order to show you what effect this movement has produced upon the Government and the country, I wish to tell you just one thing. Sometime 60 ago a deputation of landlords went to Dublin Castle ( Up the back stairs), they crawled, as my friend says, up the back stairs, and they tried to murder 10 i^Titllconorc. — Noccmhct' \A4li, 1880. — 3[i‘. T. Sexton, 3T.I .) tlu' pul)li(! peace of Ireland by cowardly wbisp(‘rs in ibe c'ar ol Ibo Ib-itish minister {and some of the Alitfs Count n magnates too). Anoilnn- deputation went last week, and wbat rc'ceptioii did they meet ? Idicy eudc^avoimal to persuade the Lord Lieutenant that tbis was a movement of Catholic against 5 I’rotestant. Ibit the Lord Lieutenant is not a fool, and be replied, to them, ‘ Ob, bnt my friends, tliere arc Protestants in the Land League.’ The next tiling they heard was tbis, the Lord Lieutenant inrormed them in very polite language, which T will put in plain terms for you, that they had told so many lies, the landlords had, about what happened at the Castle when they 10 went there before in private, that the Lord Lieutenant would not speak to them any more except in the presence of witnesses, and those witnesses, he said, should be the reporters of the public press, so that every one might know what the landlords would say to the Lord Lieutenant, and what he might reply to them. 15 Now, I think it is a great gain that in this national movement we have displayed such a force that we have induced the Government to drag these landlords into the light, and to make them crawl out of their cowardly holes and ambush places, and to say what they had to say in the light of day and in the face of the world. 20 I shall only refer to one other incident of the past and then I have done. All have heard of what has been called “ the invasion of Mayo well, the first remark that any sensible man would make with regard to that trans- action, and it was a remark that has been made to me by more than one landlord was tbis, that Captain Boycott (groans) must have conducted him- 25 self in a very extraordinary and unparalleled manner towards the people in order to force and goad the people into adopting such retaliation towards him. I am not in a position to say exactly what Captain Boycott had done, but this I say without hesitation and without fear, that if Captain Boycott proved himself to be an unjust man and a bad neighbour, the people of 30 Westport and of Mayo had a perfect right to turn their backs upon him and to refuse to buy from him, or to sell to him, or to take his wages, or to have anything whatever to say to him. (Cheers for Mayo). TJiidoubtedly he brought himself into a very ugly position, but I take leave to doubt that his friends the Orangemen have improved it. Those 50 gallant warriors, the 35 Orangemen, who went from Monaghan and from Cavan were all possessed with very great love for Captain Boycott, but as soon as they went down to Lough Mask House this extraordinary fact turned out, that though they loved Captain Boycott, they hated one another, for the 25 Orange warriors from Cavan refused to pitch their tents in the same field with the 25 Orange 40 warriors from Monaghan ; and the 25 from Monaghan would not stay at the same side of the ditch as the 25 from Ca^an. I hear that by this time they have eaten poor Boycott out of house and home, so whatever chance he had before of a comfortable life in Mayo he has made up his own mind that he has but a very slight chance now, so he means, I believe, so I am told, to 45 pack up his traps and leave the country. Now, four nights ago the Prime Minister of England spoke at the London Guildhall, and he referred to the state of Ireland. He said that Ireland had reason to thank God for a bountiful harvest, and he added that if it turned out that a reform of the Land Laws was necessary the Government would give 50 attention to the subject. Well, I tell Mr. Gladstone this, that if he was an Q 3366.-78. C H great deal ol' douLt about the abundance of tlie harvest tbero nc('xl not be 5 the slig’btest doubt Avbatcvcr al)out the necessity for a relorni ol the laud laws. Bat, be said, ‘ The iirst duty of the Government is the maintenance 12 months been the best friend of order that Ireland ever bad. They starving Irish peasant ; they clothed the naked, and they fed the hungry , they soothed the despairing, and they brought hope to the heart of the desperate. And I tell you that I Avho have sat at the table of the Land League AA^eek after Aveek for the past 12 months have heard tales of woe and 15 misery poured out from all parts of the country, and have knoAvn how the money that Ave Avere ahle to send the poor people has saved them from despair, from that Adolence into Avhich despair may tempt even the most patient people. I tell you that it was the Land League in the course of the past year which saved Ireland from the horrors of disorder and violence. Mr 20 Gladstone further said that some of the objects proposed by the land move- ment were legitimate, but that some of the means proposed were such as could not be allowed. Well, I say that our objects are simple and lawful, and that our means are such as we have a right to employ. Our first object is to brinff down rackrent to a fair moderate level, and Ave have advised you 26 in order to bring doAvn rackreuts to combine in the various branches of the what rent you find that you are able to pay, and if they AAdll not take that rent to hold it and allow the landlord to go to the law for the reeo very of League of Ireland, will combine together with the moneys at onr com mand , and Avill sustain that tenant and his family until this~cr]ims overW But let taken by anyone else ? There is the secret of the cruel, the unchristian, the 35 shameful despotism and tyranny that have ruined this country and planted bullocks for English stomachs where happy families formerly dwelt. When the farm became empty the landlord always found someone, some avaricious or some crawling creature ready to go into it and promise any rent. | So long as that system was kept up, so long it was in the power of the 10 landlords to grind the Irish people into the dust. My friend, Father Donoghue, quoted Scripture. Well, I would remind you of one verse in the ' book of Isaiah, of him whose hallowed lips were touched with fire, and in | that verse he denounces what I may call the modern land grabber, for he i says, ‘ Woe unto him who goes on adding house to house and field to field.’ 45 No, my friends, you must not only resolve to take no farm yourselves from which a tenant has been evicted, hut you must further resolve to buy nothing | whieh has been raised upon that farm ; and, last of all, you must determine | this, and you must carry it out with an even mind ; that if any man be I found amongst you to violate the law which you have made, to act in i 50 defiance of your judgment, and to do that which you believe to be the great (Tul.l((Uiorc. — Nuceinbcr 1 1///, 1880. — Mi'. T. Sr.v/oii, M.P.) operating’ cause ol' llic ruin of llic ag’ricull ural interest; il you lind any man "’oiitii' and takinn’ that I’arin, yon will not do him any viokmce, you will not injure him in his person or in his property, you will not even speak a woid of threat against him. No. Von will let him live in peace, hut you will 5 let him live without any help or any fricndshii) of yours. ( JFc’ll Boycott Mm.) You will not invito him to your lircsides ; you Avill not exchange with him a Avord of friendship ; you will not allow him within the eirelo of your Iricnd- ship or oven of your ae([uaintance. Noav, if you carry out these rules all over Ireland the land question will he settled within one year, and it is not within 10 the poAver of Parliament, or Government, or class to delay that settlement from you. You have only to aet together and you must win. Purther, I wish to point out to you that this movement of ours dilfers in one radical particular from every Irish movement that ever Avent before it. In all previous movements the people sought to win by active means ; they sought 15 to Avin by Avhat they did ; biit Ave say you Avill Avin by what you will not do. You have simply to let your arms drop by your sides, take no evicted farm, hold no communication Avith the man Avho acts against your interest , anti if xou simply abstain from doing Avliat is wrong you are sure to Avin in a short time ; and I tell you that if you are determined to adhere to your own 20 interest there is no poAver on earth can make you depart from it. I was glad to hear the member for the county inform you to-day that he accepted without reserve in its entirety the programme of the National Land League. And after the declaration Avhich he has made, I am sure that as an Irishman and as a man of courage he will not any longer delay his formal adhesion to 25 the League, but that he will uoav come forward and give the best reply in bis power to the despotic action of the Government by coming forward and formally enrolling himself in the ranks of the League. Now, my friends, farmer and shopkeeper, Protestant and Catholic, toAvn and country, I ask you to stand together. The Government cannot imprison your cause. No 30 Government can put a nation under lock and key, and with regard to myself and to the other men who have been selected by the Government for pro- secution, we simply say that the verdict of the nation, the verdict of humanity, is upon our side ; the verdict of history Avill be upon our side ; and Ave await with quiet minds the verdict of any jury which the Government 35 may liaA^e to try us in Lublin. I/Ye know that we have helped to lift the people out of famine. We know that we have taken the best means in our poAver to saA^’e the people from falling into famine when another bad yeai comes. lYe know that we have pointed out to the people the only cuie for the radical ills of Ireland — to make the tillers of the soil the owners of the 40 soil they till; and we know that, so far from setting one class against another in Ireland, we have endeavoured to strike down this liarrier which evil laws have set between one class and another, and to unite all classes in the great Irish nation by the only solid, safe, and lasting bond of mutual interest and reasonable affection. {Illdcldion. — \'Mli Novo'inher^ I8S0.) Mr. P. J. Sheridan, Tubbercurry, sh()|)kce|iei-, said : — Rev. Oiiainnan and fellow-eountryiiicii — Staiidiiij^- on tills plattonn to-day, I have to conoTatnlate yon upon the intensity of your feidiiii^s on tliis throat national movement. When 1 consider the incle- menev of the weather \ must be a oveat deal hi-ieter than I wish to lie. 5 ddiereforc, my friends, yon will excuse me if I confine myself in a few re- marks into a few minutes. It is merely the actual exjierience on the platform, and liviny among’ my countrymen, the im|n’ession 1 would wish to inijiress upon vour minds is that this platform is bereft of anvthiniy sectarian. It is ])ractically and jnirely national, and with open arms it invites men of 10 all creeds, men of any colour or section who have to earn their tiread by the sweat of their brow, regardless of creed or class. 1 would be sorry that anything should be said on tlie jilatforin tliat would prevent your Protestant fellow-countrymen to join this movement. It would not be tolerated in the West, and 1 hoiie it will not lie tolerated in the North. 15 It has been too well proved on the pages of your history that Protestants have . . . freely and bravely, and again they will go to the front and fight the gnuiil Irish fight against English tyranny. What they did in ’98, if you only meet them in a spirit of brotherhood and as Irishmen, they are prepared to do m 1880. I don’t mean that they are to take to the 20 hillsides and win the liberty of the Irish people, l)ut to stand on this plat- form to attack by their voice and yours . . . and if tliose ominous forebodings be not enough, the day will come when you shall hurl a thunderbolt in the teeth of those wlio dare refuse you your rights (cheers). 25 The other day an Orangeman tlirew up his farm because he had to pay tliree pounds an acre for it. He threw up his farm and refused to pay this desperate rack-rent, and a Catholic neighbourot Ids came and took it (groans). This Protestant gentleman brought the question under the notice of the local branch of the Irish National Land League, and laid his case liefore 30 them. ITie only defence for the land-grabber was that when this man threw it up he had a right to take it. The first thing I would do . . . . from the platform and insist upon this grabber throwing up the land and give it back to our f'rotestant fellow-countryman. 1 hope that the result ot this day’s proceedings may be that you will grasp the hands of fellowship 35 in this great movement against the tyranny which only Irishmen could have endured so long. By this means you will create a power in the country that will sweep before it like a mountain torrent anything that would impede your onward march to independence (cheers). {lildck/ion. — '[‘Mh yovernher, IHHO.) Mr, ^Biggar, M.P., ^vll 0 ^^as received with cheers, said ;-llcv. Father an.— J/r. 3Uchael M. (X Stillivmt.) (‘ licnv, lioar.’) With all tho noble aspirations of a human mind, lot th(^ Irish (Icmocracy se(‘ themselves in this li^'ht, and think themselves no hethir nor Avorse, and vietory is sure to them. (‘ Itear, hear. ) Lo-day I won t go into diseussion ; the weather is unpropitious, and neither am I able ; l)ut 5 I will call your attention to the object that has brought us together, and caused the flag to lly ; and I will call your attcmtion to that, and I will ask you Avhat is the object of this meeting ; and I will answer, to denounce the land-grahhcr. (Groans and cheers.) I will ask you to concentrate all tho powers that God and nature has given you to denounce that wretch, 10 the land-grahhcr. (Cheers and groans.) I will ask you to return good for evil, and ask you Avhen you are engaged in a warfare with an . evil power that has rohhed you of your ancestors for centuries. I call upon you to-day to look upon that aspect of the question, and on that alone. I call upon you to look upon the widow and orphans, and upon the wretch who taking 15 advantage of their troubles and tribulations to crush them, as far as it is possible for him to crush them. I will ask you to think only of the man who has entered Avith you into a solemn covenant not to betray your eause ; and I ask you to look at that man for having betrayed your cause. Oh, for a tongue to curse him ! (‘ Oh, the robber and groans.) It is a great 20 pleasure for me And when he looks about for a shelter— a shelter such as he has robbed the Avidow of, do you deny him. And may Heaven deny him of it. These are hard things to say of humanity. It is hard to say them, but when we see the poor Avidow and her children Avithout a home, without a shed to rest in, except that which you have raised here 25 to-day ; oh, God, the sight of it puts our brain to madness ; does not it determine us to curse the man, to curse that system, aye, and put an end to that system. (Cheers.) To-day, before I leave this platform, I want to know whether you are going to put an end to it or not ? (‘ No, no. ) I want to know is that from your heart ? (‘ Yes.’) No matter how many police- 30 men, with their buckshot, and soldiers ; no matter how many. I want to know to-day are you determined to put an end to eviction, such as this, or not, and determined to have your rights ? (‘ We are, we are.’) Whether you are determined that no man will be found amongst you to take the farm. If such a person is found amongst you to take the farm, no Government 35 can prosecute you for not buying, or selling to him. No Government can prosecute you for branding his name for generations. (Cheers.) No Government can force you to act to him as one man acts to another. No, you must look upon hun as a traitor. As a man you could not commune with. As a man of whom you could not think, except to curse 40 youi’ God. As a man condemned before your fellowman, and vsdth whom it would be treacherous to No Government can prosecute you for acting towards him as a traitor should be acted towards. Will you act by that man ? {' No, no.’) Will you act by him as a man who stood Avith a razor to cut your throat? Will you leave the shop in which he buys? 45 (‘ We will.’) Will you take one side of the road when he takes the other ? (‘ We will,’ and cheers.) If the man who has taken the farm of this Avidow and orphans, if he does not give up that farm to the original OAAmer, will you look upon him as an outcast? (‘ We Avill,’ and cheers.) Let that man alone, don’t speak to him; his own conscience Avill be his guide. 50 (‘Look at him here,’ and groans.) Let him alone. Night or day let him have no peace, he has a conscience, no matter hoAV he may go on ; he has a {Kylcbetj, — November 15^/t, 1880. — Mr. Michael M. O' Sullivan.) heart, he has a eoiiseienee whieh will smite him when tlie honest man sleeps. Ho has a conseienec that will know no rest, and he will have that conseience, and let him have it. The strongest aetion yon ean take is to leave him to hims(‘li‘. (‘ He is going to run to Ameriea to riight.’) Tity him when he 5 rests, for no rest has he. (‘ Ho won’t be able to do anything.’) If the widow, the owner of this house — how can he look upon her to-day with his conscience pricking him. Don’t you then interfere with him, lot him be. Don’t look at him, don’t intcrlerc with him, lot his conscience be his monitor, that monitor will settle him. Don’t interfere with him, and see how he will 10 go through life. (‘ What will he do with the rotten sheep ?’) Don’t you interfere with them for ho has no feelings, but that Hod must surely have hardened his heart — the heart of this man — who can see this widow sitting on the walls of this house, the house that has been thrown down by the vile hands of landlordism, that power that you have determined shall cease, no 15 matter how many police may be present, that power an English Government may approve. But it will have to come down. You see this and you are determined that it will do its work.” (Cheers.) Mr. M. M. O’Sullivan then came forward amid great cheering, and said : — 20 “ I think before we part that we pass a vote of thanks to Mr. Kennedy for his action in tliis matter. He has recognised his error, and he has come forward and renounced his farm. It is an example worth following. It is an example that will never be forgotten for him. (‘ No, no.’) Your grand- children will look back with pride to this day. You will look back to see 25 that when an honest man recognised his error he has the manliness to come forward and tell you to your face that he was wrong, and that he would never tread on that path of wrong again. It is an example which everyone of you should teach to your children from generation to generation. It is an example which should go from this platform over the country to-day and 30 teach every man. And I am sure that from the north to the south from the east to the west of our own dear motherland that you to-day rejoice in the end which we have attained, no matter what the faults of our brothers may be there is still nobility ; that nobleness of heart to recognise an error and recognising it proclaims it to the world.” (Eoud cheers for Kennedy.) 36 Mr. M. M. O’Sullivan “ I feel half ashamed to come forward after the manner in which Mr. Kil- "•nartin proposed the vote of thanks to the Irish jNacioiial Eaud Eeague, and coupled with it my name. He has given me credit for doing things for which I am sorry to say I have not the power to do ; but the intention I had 40 of carrying out the principles of this Land League. You will help me to carry out these principles. Mr. Kil martin and Mr. Harris have reaUy been the authors of that association, — the Ballinasloe Tenants Defence Association and not I. When I begin to see the effects of the National Land League, I thank God I have taken that part however humble in it. It is powerful 45 despite ten thousand soldiers ; powerful, despite any number of policemen with their buckshot (cheers) ; powerful despite the threats of prosecution which have been thrown down by the Chief Secretary. Why, .... I for one don’t 4 [Kylchcg. — Novcmhcr 15/A, 1880. — 31r. Michael M. O' Sullivan.) cave a straw for thorn, and I speak the feelings of those with me. It is })oor honour, although I don’t deserve it. Never have I deservcid the lionour of being hanged, hut I may desc’ivve it l)efore the night of my death (;om(;8. But tlie Irish i)eople will have a duty to do. Never mind these men, they are only 5 II in number. Lot not the cause of regenerated humanity suffer because II shall go down to ho dishonoured in an English gaol. Dishonoured in this sense, hut respected in your mind and hearts, our principles work l)efore and let you follow after. Let men tall or live, let them ho glorious or ignoble, never mind ; let them he good or bad, but remember that you will follow 10 the path of principles only. (‘ Bravo.’) When I come forward to speak on behalf of the Land League I feel I am too small in face of that organisation, it will do more by its principles which looks first to rising the tenant-farmers to positions of manhood, and then look upon a future nationhood of Ireland. (Cheers and the band playing.) Before we part to-night I ask you to pledge 15 yourselves here before God and man that you will never take a farm from which another has been evicted. (‘Never.’) I will ask you hold up your hands. (All hands up). I ask you never buy goods or chatties seized for rent. (‘Never.’) Never take a farm from which a tenant has been evicted, and never buy cattle or goods seized for rent, landlordism must come 20 to an end if you keep up to these principles. (Cheers.) I 5 MAYO BEIDGE, (hnuty Down. SnuiUty, 2\st Nornnher, 1880. SPKKCn OF MK. .lOSKPH G. HlGGAll. MA\ The Eev. Mr. O’Neill, P.P., in the cliair. Mr. Biggar, M.P. ilevcrend ( 'haii niaii and Gentlemen, the resolution to which 1 have been asked to refer is one in which 1 take a very material interest. It is one which really affects in a very great degree the decision of this question, as 5 to whether or not you will get a real and bond fide retbrm of the laud laws or not. 'I'here is one word used in this resolution, namely, the return ot Liberals.” Now, there is no word in the English language, so tar as 1 know, which has been so often misapplied, and which has been persecuted to such dishonest means as the word “ Lilieral ” politician. We have at 10 present what is called a Liberal Government. We have, at present, in the province of Ulster, several members who are called Liberals.^ But among men who attach tlieinselves to what is called the Liberal English faction, we have men who are at heart thorough and undisguised ioiies, and 1 ask you, my friends, and I shall ask, inside the next month, 1 hope, 15 the electors of other counties, as well as of county Down, to read a lesson to these so-called I iberal representatives of the different constituencies m the province of Ulster. I will first refer to the so-called Liberal Govern- ment which exists at present. We, in that so-called Liberal Government, have JoJin Bright, Mr. Chamberlain, Sir Charles Dilke, and perhaps one 20 or two others, who ha^'c real sympathy with progress, and true and real Liberalism ; but, on the other hand, we have such men as Forster, the present Chief Secretary, who owes his seat for Bradford to a coalition ot the \N lugs and 'I’ories of that constituency wlio have voted and kept out ot Parliament a man who is a real Liberal. Uiat man Forster is a hypocrite in his politics. 25 He uses plausible words, and tells us that he has great sympathy with the down-trodden tenant tanners of Ireland. But what does he do to redress the grievances ot the down-trodden tenant farmers ot Ireland i He assists the landlords to carry into operation a law whicli he acknowledges to be unjust ; and, on the other hand, he prosecutes the advocates ot tliese 30 unfortunate tenant farmers in a most unjust, and, I believe, in a thoroughly illegal manner. Lhen in connexion with this Government you have men such as Loi-d Hartington, who by main force put down the right ot public speaking in Phoenix Park when he was Chief Secretary for Ireland, and 1 (Mayo Hridge. — November, 1880. — Mr. Hitjyar, m.p.) toll you this, that a more deadly enemy of the rii^hts of the i)eople does not exist aTiiongst the goveridmg classes of fmglaiid than that same Lord Ilartington. You have other men in the Ministry of the same (-alihre as Lord Hartington, who are yonr deadly enemies, ami who use all the inlhience :> which they unfortunately possess on purpose to lessen the amount of good which Gladstone, Bright and the other true members of the Government would like to do for the tenant farmers, and thus neutralise the great power and the great g’ood which exists in the tiiie men of the present Government. Again, my friends, you have another so-called Liberal in 10 the person of the Attorney-General for Ireland, who is now prosecuting my friend, Mr. Barnell and others. 'Phis Mr. Law— you don’t happen to know— was one of the executors of the disreputable and disgrace- ful man, Tjord Leitrim. Now will any one tell me that the confidential friend and adviser of Lord Leitrim deserves the title of Libera' ' 15 I say that a man who holds office under a Government, who was the intimate friend of Lord Leitrim, makes it impossible that you can give more than a very doubtful, and very lukewarm support to that (govern ment ; and I say that you should criticise veiy carefully, and very narrowly any of the acts which may take place on the part of that Government, oi 20 the followers of that Government. I say this, that as soon as that Government found out that Mr. l.aw was mixed up on such confidential terms with Lord Leitrim they should have made it impossible he should ever hold a place under the English Crown. Now, what is being done at the present time by these so called Liberal membeis of Bailiameiit, in 25 Ulster— these men who are wolves in sheep’s clothing? I'hey find a powerful and valuable organization and agitation carried on by the Land League, an agitation of such poAver that it has done enoimous good in different parts of Ireland ; an organization which has had support declared to it by three-fourths of the tenant farmers of Ireland. What do these 30 people do? They insidiously come before the people of Ulster, and they say, AA"e are in favour of a scheme which is onlv nominally diflerent from the scheme of tlie Land League, but which Ave propose to carry out in a different Avay. Well, now, will you tell me that this handful of men Avho do not use any determined means, Avho simply go to a feAV meetings, who 35 do not propose to bring forward any pressure to bear on the Government or landlords — Avill these people say they have a right to supersede the influence of the Land League? And I say more, that men who do so are not honest advocates of the rights of the tenant farmers, d'hese men knoAv, or ought to knoAv, that Avhat they propose is different from what the Land 40 League proposes in three vital Avays ; and I will very shortly point out the vital Avays in which the plan proposed by them is different from Avhat Ave propose. In the first place they speak of fair rents. Well, the Avords “ fan- rents ” is a perfectly ambiguous term. They propose to find out what fair 2 yMaifo Hridgi'. — Noremhcr, 1880. — /Tit. m.p.) rents aro l>_v a Land Court which would i^ive rise to an endless amount of litie-ation, and opportunity tor any amount ot fraud oti the [)art of tfie landlords : because these landlords being men, in many cases, of wealth, and in most cases of considerable intluence, could influence the parties o w ho had the decision ot the matter of fixing the rents. But tlie Tjand League says differently. It says that the tenant farnieis should pay nothing aliove the Government valuation. 1 hat Government valuation was fixed I'V iinjiartial valuators ; they fixed this rent not for the purpose of favoring the tenant or lanulord, but to find out 10 what was a reasonable and ftiir rent some thirty years ago, on which taxation should be charged to the country. Now T say on this very vital piunt tliese men are frauds and wish to impose on the people who listen to them at different public meetings, and wish to impose on the Government of Bhigland, leading the Government to believe that people will be satisfied 15 w'ith what they recommend, and that siudi a projiosition would lie accepted as a settlement of the question on tliat particular point. Then again there is another material difference and it is this : they say they are in favour of peasant proprietorship. That appears to be exactly the same as the Land League proposes, but the difference is in this way : these Whig tenant 20 righters so called, say they are in favour of a peasant proprietary when the landlord chooses to sell his interest in the holding. We take a different course. We say that the tenant shall have the power to buy whenever he chooses to buy, and the landlord shall be bound to sell (hear, hear). Now 1 have pointed out to you twu) of the differences, and I am glad to see you 25 so clearly see the distinction on these two particular points with regard to the settlement of this land question. But there is a third point and it is, perhaps, the most important point of all, and it is this : the Land League goes further than trying to influence the Government to pass a good Land Bill. Tire Land League says in addition it is the duty of the tenant farmers 30 to combine and insist that they shall have a word in fixing this thing c.alled a fair rent. Now that point is most vital, l)ecause, as Mr. O’Kelly pointed out, if the tenant farmers ot Ireland combine and act together they are masters of the situation, they can do as they please ; they can fix a fair rent, and can make the landlords take it as a settlement of the question- 35 On the other hand, if they take the advice of these Whig tenant righters the result will be you will not combine, you will not organize, and you will continue to be at the mercy of landlords, and if a Land Act were passed to-mQiTow, as it may be, on the basis suggested by these gentlemen, the Wliig tenant righters of the north of Ireland, the duty of the Land League 40 would not stop, and the absolute necessity for the Land League would continue as strongly as ever, and I will tell you why. This alleged fixing of a fair rent is an operation which would require at the very least ten or twelve years to bring into operation. What rents would the occupiers pay 3 {Maifo lirld(ie.—l\st November, 1880. — Mr. r>i\s‘ CoiDitif. SiDiddfj, ^l\st h’oroH her 1(S(S(). Mr. T. D. Sullivan, M.P. : - “ llovon'iid Cliairiiiaii, men of the Kind’s County, and mon of Tipperary. (Clieors.) T (‘ono'i*atnlatc yon upon tliis magnificent assemlily, on('. ol tlic larj^est that lias assemhled in any ])art of Ireland during the whole progress 5 of this agitation. (‘ Bravo.’) The sight before me here to-day is one that will give gladness to my heart, and is one that will give gladness to the heart of every lover of Ireland upon the Irish soil and elsewhere all over the world. (Cheers.) Yet, my friends, I know there arc some gentlemen in this country to whom this meeting will not give any thrill of pleasure. At this present 10 moment the telegraph wires have conveyed to certain people the news that the square of Barsonstown is full of patriotic Irishmen assemhled to do their share in putting an end to the curse of Ireland. (Cheers.) I have said that the news of this meeting will give no sort of pleasure or satisfaction to those people — (a voice : ‘Not the smallest’) — to the tyrannical landlord, and to 15 the tyrannical agent — (groans) — no pleasure is it giving to them ; but I can tell yon it is giving them a touch of a pain in the stomach — (laughter) — and to-morrow morning, when those people read in the newspapers the account of this meeting, and when they read the eloquent and the admirable speech that has just been spoken to you by the reverend gentleman that preceded 20 me, — (a voice : ‘Long life to him,’) — I tell yon that these men will feel as if it was necessary for them to take a few antibilions pills. (Laughter.) Well, now I can tell you this, my friends : 1 can tell yon this, m.y friends, that there are landlords in Ireland who hoped that, wherever else this agita- tion might make its way, it would never get into the King’s County. 25 (Laughter.) ‘Oh!’ they said, ‘as for these Tipperary fellows, you know they are always at that sort of thing, and as to those men in Mayo and G-al- way, ah 1 they are a wild lot of fellows ; but yon will find that into the sacred ground of the King’s County it cannot enter, because we have ground the people too well there. We have terrified them and oppressed them 30 too long, and you will find,’ they said to themselves, ‘ that it wall never enter the King’s County, and, at all events, it cannot shew itself in the towm of Birr.’ (Laughter.) Well, now, here we all are assembled to-day with the hanners of the Land League waving over our heads, and I can tell you, my friends, that those gentlemen to wdiom I liave been alluding think that the 35 Land League is the author of all the wickedness that exists not only in Ireland but everywhere else. (Laughter.) Nothing goes wrong in Ireland, from one end of it to the other, that is not put down to the credit of the Land League. If, in the morning one of these men gets up and finds that one of his hens died the night before, ‘ Begad,’ he says ‘ it is the work of the Land 40 League,’ (laughter) ; and I heard of an agent two or three days ago wLo got a bad attack of influenza, and he said it was the Land League that gave it him. (Laughter.) Well, now, these people have got up an indictment against the leaders of the Land League, and I had the pleasure of being served with a copy of it, and I pasted the leaves of it together, and it made Q 3366.-84. A 1 ( Pavsouslowu . — 21 .s7 N^ovciiiho' 18H(). — 3r>’. V’. /)■ Sullivan, Jff. P.) ahoiil' six or s('ven yards ( Laiigliti'r. ) 15ut, my Irii'uds.H 1 was (o (toiii- iiuMico to draw u]) an indicinuMit of llio Irish landlords, how -long' would it 1)(‘? I toll yon it Avonld streloh Ironi tlui S()naro of Itirr out to the (lapo of (iood Hope (laiiL^htor), it* in that indictnumt was to ho s(d Torth all the 5 orinios that have hoon committed in Ireland by this system and under tin; slu'lter of this system of Irish landlordism. If we were to writ(^ down in that indictment all the ruin, the devastation, the robbery, and the misery that has been created in this country by that accursed system, 1 tell you the lenf*'th I have spohen of would be too short, to contain the indictment, it 10 should be written, and every letter of it should be written, in the blood of the Irish peo])lc ; it sliould be written with a pen of lire. But no human elo- ; ([uence Avould sulfi-cc to treat that curse according to its merits ; it would , re(|uire the pen of an inspired prophet to put down upon that record the , nnscries, the sorrows, the griefs, and the sulferings created and imposed upon 15 the Irish people by the system that we are here to-day to doom- share in put- ting an end to. (Cheers.) Well now, they are lilling their party newspapers Avith threats of combination against us, and they say, ‘ Come,’ they say to one another, ‘ the people are combining against us ; let us combine agains^j them, ‘ Let us make,’ they say, ‘ let us make common cause, and if a bad landlord or a 20 bad agent is assailed in one part of the country, if his lands are left idle on Ids hands, let us come to his relief, and AA'ith our Avealth and our means aa’c j aaIU sustain that man against the people.’ Well noAV, I think avc can easily stop their hands at that game. (‘ Hear, hear.’) With their Avealth they say | they AAull sustain these individuals. Where does that Avealth come from ? (A 25 voice, ‘ Brom the poor.’) Who gives them the money that they call their ^ Avealth? It comes from the pockets of the people (‘hear, hear’), and the people can stop the supplies upon them. And I tell them here now, that if they combine in this fashion against the Irish race, the Avhole Irish race Avill combine against them, and AAn will have a complete strike. (A voice, ‘ We | 30 Avill.’) We will organise a strike from end to end of Ireland a gains^the—, payment of all rents (‘ Bravo ’), until avc bring those people to their senses . , Now, my fHendsi I ask you to consider for a fcAV moments what are the pretentions, Avhat are the assumptions, of that class of men ? I undertake to ' prove to you, or to auy assembly, that since the Avorld began there was | 35 never a greater race of tyrants on the face of the earth than the Irish landlords for the last 100 years ago. (‘ Bravo.’) They talk of their rents. ; Why, my friends, the rent did not suffice for them. Did they not \\ attempt to interfere Avith the lives, the social life, the happiness of the people, and the freedom of the people in every detail of their life ? Did they not claim 40 your votes as long as the laAV permitted them ? Did they not drive the people to the palsied cattle ? Did they not in many cases go further ; did they not Avant to get possession of your souls ? Have they not upon many estates in Ireland interfered with the ordinary course of human life ? Have they not forbidden charity and hospitality ? Have they not decreed that marriages shall take place 45 only Avhen the agent chooses to give a licence ? (Cheers.) Why, my friends, I knoAV cases in the South of Ireland, and they are upon record in books and papers and histories, Avhere tenant-farmers have had to turn out of then houses their oAvn flesh and hlood, their OAvn sisters, daughters, and relations, 1 because the laAv of the estate forbad them to give them shelter. (Groans.) ' 50 I know a case recorded to have occurred on the estate of the Marquis of Lansdowne — (groans) — under the agency of Mr. Trench— and you know i 2 {^ Pny.sons/oiivi. — 21.s'/ Noi'>o)iiho)' 1S8(). — /!/>'. 7'. 1). HiilHoau^ M.P ^ instances of the same kind. These are absolute facts, my friends. We know tliere are instances of the same kind, whieli I will not detain yon by relatinj^ ; 10 ])nt have I not made good my assertion — (a voice, ‘ You liave, ) that tliese iiK'n, not content Avith pnlling the fruits of your hard earnings out oi yonr pockets, not content with stripping your hacks, not content with keeping your ehildren hare-footed, not content with taking the scanty meal olf your hoards, hut tlicy also tyrannise over you in the very dearest and nearest 15 * * * of the human heart. Well, we are told that there are good land- lords. So there are some good landlords ; so there were good slave-owners in South America. (Laughter.) But I tell you the system of landlordism is rotten ; it is a tyranny ; it is the remains of harharism ; and it is high time tliat the Irish people, uniting together, taking courage, lifting up their hearts. 20 standing shoulder to shoulder, shall pronounce before God and man the verdict of execration ujmn that ahominahle and accursed system. (Cheers.) Ah ! my friends, you have hardly any idea of Avhat that class of gentlemen (groans) you have hardly any idea of what that class of gentlemen say ahoiit you and think about you. They are somewhat civil when you go to the 25 rent office, especially if you are going to pay them the full rent ; hut if you olfer them Grilhth’s valuation, why that is another thing ; they look very black at you just then. But you have no idea how they talk of you at their own tables, and in raihvay carriages, and at hunts, and other plac^es like that. They seem to imagine that you were made simply for their use 30 and benefit. (Laughter.) Tdiey seem to think that all of you were horn with saddles on your hacks, and that they Avere horn AAuth hoots and spurs. (Laughter.) Well, noAV, I find that these gentlemen arc beginning to come a little to their senses, and they arc talking about the three L s ; and they say there is something, the tenants have some little thing to complain of, 35 and that indeed they are and aHvays Avere A^ery willing to listen to any j reasonable rec|uest. But I say that this statement of theirs is not true. j When AA^e ask for the three L’s, avc would not get them. When we ask for | one of the B’s, Ave Avould not get it. But now avc ask the abolition of the ! system, Avhich puts poAver into their hands, which they grossly misuse, and | 40 Avhich they should never possess ; and noAV, indeed, they begin to tell us j that they Avill think about the three L’s. Well, I tell them that it is a j little too late. (‘ Hear, hear.’) “ Now, the resolution which I am here to support is in condemnation of the system Avhich is known by the name of land-grabbing. I can tell you 45 that the land-grabber is the chief agent in raising the rents upon the Irish people. (‘Hear, hear.’) When a landlord sees a farm that has been improved by the labour and the expenditure of a tenant farmer and his family, and when he puts his covetous eye upon it, and says I can get more rent from another tenant, therefore I will evict the family that are 50 noAV occupying it, what does he base his calculation upon ? Upon the fact that some land-grabber is ready to seize that farm, and to come in and occupy it. (Groans.) Well, as long as that system is alloAved to continue. A 2 o {^I*avso')islow')i . — 21 '’s Ooinity and of l'i})|)('!r:iry, I can only ro-oclio the scntiinonis wliicli Tell Iroin the lips of jny hroilicr conspirator, iMr. Sullivan, and say that I am proud to see you here in this stronghold of 5 landlordism — (‘hear, hear’) face to face like men to take your place in lino Avith your hrothers throughout Ireland, face to fac.e in line with the ancient euemy of justice and humanity to Ireland. (Cheers.) I listened intently Avith the ho])e of liaAung heard from the li])S of your junior repre- sciiTatiA'c in the British House of Commons the ])rinciples that are set forth in 10 the resolution Avhich he supported. I heard those principles never in my life so clearly, so emphatically, or so eloquently spoken to as they fell here to-day from the lips of the Avorthy clergyman avIio preceded Mr. Sullivan. (Loud cheers.) The language of truth is ahvays the language of eloquence, and Avlicn a man is in earnest he cannot hut speak that AAdiich he knows to he true. 15 The principles of the Irish National Land League to Avhich you have been called upon in that resolution to give your adhesion are the principles of justice and of humanity — (‘ hear, hear ’) no less than they are the prin- ciples that, please God, Avill one day lift our oppressed country to the place she has never forfeited — (cheers) amid the nations of the earth. (Cheers.) 20 The principles of the Land League are in the word of the Creator, who said lie created the earth for the children of man. Here the principles arc the principles of that eminent philosopher who said, ‘ The land of every country belongs to the people of that country;’ and Ave have summed them up to- day in the one sentence that forms our Avar-cry, and that you, the men of the 25 King’s county, have come here to-day to shout with no uncertain voice — ‘ The land for the people !’ (Cheers.) Those are the principles, the objects, of tins mighty organisation — this organisation that is spreading throughout the length and breadth of Ireland in a way that no political or social organisation ever spread before. (Cheers.) The objects of this mighty 30 organisation arc in the first place to keep the people in the land that God made for them (‘ hear, hear,’) to put an end to rackrenting, to eviction, and to landlord oppression of every nature. (‘ Hear, hear.’) I wish that the gentlemen Avho are listening to me here to-day, who may possibly favour the old-school methods of trying to settle this great land question, I wish 35 them to know that it is neither the duty nor the business of the Irish people to put forAA^ard Avhat measure of land reform they require. (‘ Hear, licar.’) It is the duty and the business of those who claim that they have a right to government. That government being for the good of the governed, it is the duty of the British Government, so soon as we have made the question 40 sufficiently ripe for settlement, to find the way to settle it. (Cheers.) And the man who to-day upon any platform introduces debateablc matter as to questions of settlement, as to the Ulster custom, or any other custom, as to any of the other various panaceas that I begin to see are being thrust forward by the landlords themselves, that man is no friend to your cause. (‘ Hear, hear.’) 45 We are engaged in making this question ripe for settlement, and the means by which we propose to attain the objects of the Land League are very simple, and I believe that they involve no infringement of God’s laAV, aye, of even the unjust laws that are being made to rule Ireland ; it will not be necessary to infringe those laws in the slightest degree a hair’s- 50 breadth. We are teaching you that the settlement of this great question lies, A3 5 {Parsonslowu. -2,\sl Nooctnhcr 1880.— i/r. M. P. Pof/lou.) ^ :is Ml’. 8ulliv:in. Iuin told you !ii oiujc'. in your own lips. You Inivi. ilu X/a-^ ])(nvm’, uol, only lo sotilo wlnii shall ho a, lair and jusi rcnl, hnt, if you kru’W it, yoii have th(' pow('r to hold the land and o.iv('. uo r(‘nt. d'hat is not onr dootrino ; hut avo want to toll you tho stroni>’th you havo. YVo ar(' tryin^^ 5 to ai-’itato llu' Irish i)copl(‘ into the simple doidriiu' that British law has already sanetionod on Buglish soil a Track’s Unionism. Wo uni'ortunatoly, throuo'h tho instrumeutality of a eursed. land eode, avc; have only one Uado in Ireland, and that is the trade that (lod himself ordaim'.d one of llis earliest memhers of the g'reat Imman family should have all his days-- to 10 till the earth, and to take from a fair and fertile soil the ])roduoe that God gives for the sustenanee of all mankind. AYe have Imt one trade in Irolaml, and that trade eomes from tlie land— it is agrieultiire— and Ave are toaehmg tho tillers of the soil and all Avho are depeiuhmt upon them to eomlmio m one single Trades Unionism and settle the iiiiestion, as every otlier trade and 15 husiness and profession has settled their fees and their Avages in Groat Uritain. (‘ Bravo.’ ) Tho English Government have taken the leaders of this move-- ment and they havo indicted them as conspirators. Conspirators tor Avhat ? Eor conspiring Avith you, the people, to get you to crush first in your OAvn heart that greed and avarice Avhich has, in a large measure, brought the 20 tenant-farmers of Ireland to the position they now stand in. ( Ileai, hoai. ) IVc of the Land League do not attack any landlord as an individual, hut Ave attack the land-grahlier as an individual (clieers), and we want to make the crime of land-grahhling and the crime of going hehmd a man’s liack to betray the cause that yon have publicly pledged 25 yourselves to stand hy,-we want to make that crime as odious as was the crime of the man who was an informer or a betrayer in the past history of Ireland. (Cheers.) We Avant you to knoAv that it is treason, and treason against the people is the worst crime that can curse humanity. I Avill not detain you longer than by complying Avith the duty Avhicli prm- 30 cipally brought me here to-day. (A voice, ‘ You are welcome.’ ) I Avish you to know that this is not merely a political agitation. I tell you again that it is not an agitation ; and if it were merely an agitation, and that this great crowd, this splendid demonstration, should fade away to-morrow and leave no results, not leave a permanent working organisation of men determmed to 35 £^o on Avith the Avork when the banners are gone, Avhen the music is gone, wdien the speeches are gone, aye, and when the leaders are gone to British prisons, Ave Avant you to go on. (A voice, ‘ We will.’) We have laid the track for you, and you have not anything to do but to go on. (Cheers.) Already, throughout some 19 or 20 counties out of 32, God has gratified my heart, 40 and God has blessed my eyes Avith the sight of nearly 60,000 or 70,000 honest, manly, right hands lifted up in His presence. I have seen throiigh- ont the well-organised and magnificent county of Tipperary (cheers), I have seen already 100,000 hands lifted up to pledge themselves to be, Avhat they always were, true Irishmen. (Cheers.) I know from what I have seen to- 45 day in Birr, that this meeting, and the spirit of enthusiasm, the manliness, the -ood order, and the determination that is everywhere visible, will not even be second to anything in Tipperary. (Cheers.) I feel sure that when you "ive your pledge you wdll go home and keep it. (‘ Hear, hear. ) I iioav call upon any man who cannot conscientiously give the pledge to remove 50 liimself on the outside of this vast crowd; and as there seems to lie no movement in that direction, I call upon you men of the King’s county 6 ( V(irmnslow)L—^nsl Norewhcv ^ HSO.— il/A J/. 7’. Boylon.) Miul North Mhppcrnry to pledge youvsehes solemnly Ix'lorc (Jed and your (•l(M--y, and side hy side with your IVllow-oonntrymon, never to tak('. the land 'from which ymir nei^dihour has heen evicted lor non-payment of an unjust rent. (Cries of ‘Nev('r.’) Never to purchase or hid for cattle or 5 crops seized torrent, ((h-ies of ‘Never.’) Never to purchase grass lands that are the property of a landlord having evicted the t(-nant. (Cries ol ‘Never.’) And I call* upon you, that class of nuni whose interest m this st ru<;'gle is no less t han that of the fanners and the lahourers, I eall upon you, in giving this pledge, to pledge yourselves never to work for that man or on 10 that land. (Cheers.) Now, every man who can conscientiously take that ])ledge, and keo]) it in the name of God, hold up his right hand. (ihc right hands of the people were held up.) “ I have hcen informed that there were a numher ot gentlemen repre- senting the land interest in this county came here to this town ot Birr 15 to see a l.and Lc^ague meeting. I hope that sea of up-lifted hands will do them good. My good friend Mr. Sullivan said that he thought some ol them mightgiossihly have a pain in the stomach after the procession. I think that that sight, and the result of which it is a forerunner, will give them a pain in the mind. (Laughter.) And when you go to your homes it is your 20 duty to give them and their tools and understrappers a pain in the pocket. (Laughter.) I ivill not detain you longer. (A voice ; ‘ You are welcome. ) I heatd our gospel here to-day from the lips of a clergyman; and I trust, as I have cherished his words, for I never heard that gospel so eloquently propounded yet, and I trust, as I am taking his words home with me, that 25 you ivill do likewise, and that you will follow his advice. And one ivord now, in conclusion. I ask you, let there be no violence in word or deed, and whei’i we lift the unsullied green silk Hag of Ireland into the blue orb of Heaven let there be no stain of blood on its folds.” (Cheers.) A 4 7 / / BALLINTO&HER, ( V>. SlUfo. Snn(laif,2\sl Noremh(n\ (880. Mi\ Sexton, M.P. Moil of Sliii'o^'riiorc uro men of throe counties represented here, so 1 will have to amend my lirst address to you hysayino' '‘Men of Leiti-im and Donegal” as well — 1 thank you very lieartily for this magnificent rece|)tion —for this great demonstration ol‘ pojmlar teeling which adds one other to 5 the claims wliich my constituents of this count}' and their neighhours have estalilished upon my affection and regard. This is the second time when I have had the pleasure to visit Ifallintogher, and I tell you that none of the many pleasant memories that cluster around the Sligo Election of 1880 are more pleasant to me than the memories of my first visit to Baliintogher. 10 On coming here 1 found myself in the midst of a brave and warm hearted and an intelligent people, 1 shall never forget the reception I exjierienced in that little village where I was an entire stranger ; and to the latest moment of my life I shall remember as 1 went back that evening to the town of Sligo, liow the peo})le gathered at the cross roads, and reished to the doors 15 of their houses with cheei'S and blessings, and with the ])redictions of that victory by which we smaslied tlie landlord clique. .My fi'iends, it is no wonder that my heart rises, on coming back amongst you here to-day, 1 tell you that it rewards me for anything [ may have done on your behalf, and it nerves me in advance for anything 1 yet may have 20 to undergo in your cause, to kmnv as I know to-day, that my }dace in your hearts is as sure and as warm as it was in April last, and that the J,G00 men who made me member for Sligo would be orlad to do the same thing again to-inorrow if it were necessary. Now my friends, the land question of Ireland was an obscure question 25 two or three yeai's ago. The world knew' little or nothing about it, but thanks to the energy of the Land League, thanks to the spirit, to the courage, and to the indomitable energy with which the Irish })eoj)le have seconded that League, the land question of Ireland is now' familiar in its facts, and in its merits, to the very ends of the earth. The Prime Minister 30 of England in his s})eech a few' days ago at tlie banquet of the Lord Mayoi- of London, took occasion to refer to Ireland. The Prime Minister of Eim- land w'as speaking after he had eaten a good dinner. The table was groan- ing under the good things of this life, there w'as nobody hungry at the table, and w'hen a man speaks under such circumstances and speaks to 35 such listeners, his words are apt to have a very cheerful tone about them. Mr. Gladstone accoi'dingly in a large hearted sort of w'ay, thanks God for having given Ireland an abundant harvest, and at the same time he said that if it W'ere found that the interests of Ireland re([uired an amendment of the land law's, the Government w'ould be jn/epared to attentively con- 40 sider the question. 1 wish to say that if Mr. Gladstone wmre an Irisli farmer, having to live on the last harvest and to pay his rent out of it, anti to try and file away fi’om arf)und his neck the millstone of debt tliat the 1 (> L 2 ( I XornJm-, I bHO. Mr. M. i’,) nu-l-l>-nts.,rtlu' l:i»l thrcb yc'.rs l,av,. Irlt ..|.|.vcssiM- ,H,r I t„.|| y..u I,,' inighl IH.I. I.avr laa.., iva.iy (n (al. branches, but tear u]. 10 the verv root. Mr. Gladstone said that some of the objects winch are now aimed at in Ireland, are legitimate olyects, but he said that some of the means that we ])ropose are such as cannot be defended. 1 do riot it I woic d teiiani larinoi-, and if 1 Itad to deal with siicli an a,<>eiit as that type winch 1 have ski'tched out to you— I would refuse to pay him any rent (cheers). Yon do not hold your land fi-oni the ao-ent ; you hold it from the landloid. 5 Who is tlu> ao-ent ? Why are yon hound to i-eeognize the agent ? You are not hound to do so and 1 tell you that where any agent outiages the imblic feeling, and behaves as a tyrant or as an insulter, it is your interest to yourselves, from this ans l)y which that can l-c .lone, cxc(>|.t hy rcinoyiny ilw land- lord .'lass from their coidcl ..fihe land. We hav.' a long experion.-e n..\v my fri.'iids, l).)lh of English law an.l ol‘ Irish landlords, and we know that Imw- ever fair and iiromrsing an English Act of Parliament seem to he, when is W(' came t.) examine it and to try it hy the one sure test of exi)erience, we found it rotten at the core. .\nd with regard to the Irish landlords wlm boast themselves to he such loyal men, such dee]) respecters of Ihighsh haw. we have found that when ever the Ihiglish Parliament j.assed an Act to do some little go.xl for the Irish tenant, those loyal Irish landlords were 10 the first to turn round and set all their wits, and all the cunning of their agents, and all the lethal lore of their lawyers to defeat that Act and de])nve the iHK.r Irish ].eople^even of the little benefit that the English Parliament had intended for them. Now therefore, T say to all who are concerned, and I resjiectfully submit to 1 5 Mr. Gladstone that if he means to add new lustre to his career as a statesman and if he means to close for ever what has so long been a ga])mg and a horrid sore in the wounded side of Ireland, he had better give up all idea of tinkering or mending the Land Act of 1870, ami that he had better start clear upon the great and enduring principle of making the tillers of 20 the soil tlie owners of the soil they till. d'here v as one thing Mr. Glad.stone said that attracted more attention than anything else. He spoke of “ law and liberty.” W ell with regard to law and liberty, we have had a great deal of law in Ireland for the ])eople, but very little liberty exce])t for the landlords. The liberty we had was 25 the liberty of the landlord to do what he liked with the tenant, and we want a little law to ])ut an end to that sort of lifierty. But the Prime Minister said— The first duty of the Government is the ])reservation of order. By all means let order be preserved — but do they mean, or will they dare to attem])t to ])reserve order by applying to a great public movement 30 like this, peaceful, orderly, and constitutional, the handcuffs and the manacles of coercion, because some one or other goes in the dark and secreBy commits an act against the law. Such a principle has never been applied to a great movement in any country. Tlie ])eople are behaving i)eacefully, their jirinciples are such as tliey can defend ; and T jirotest with all my 35 force against any idea of restricting our libertie.s and interfering with us, so long as we conduct ourselves in a peaceful and a legal manner. I'he first dutv of Government we are told is the ])reservation of order. What ])reserved order in Ireland for the last twelve months. J Tmw'c.— The Land I.eague. 40 You have anticipated my answer, the Land League which helped to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, and to show the despairing man, driven mad by the hunger and the suffering of his wife and his little ones, that he need not resort to the terrible logic of the blunderbuss ; but that there was some chance of mercy and of justice for him in peaceful and in public 4 G M I { linlh nioijhor. — 2 I n/ \ nro r, 1880. — Mr, Sr.r/on, M.i*. ) ^ lA';\i>U(' lins |)i'('S(‘rvc(l oi'dci', niid I ;isk \ ( mi' ;d i.oiii ion ( Ids aiiKizin^' fact, that, lasf, yi'ar in T) claiid, w hen di,si,i'(^ss was af. if,s keenest and agitation Itad reached its hio'hesi, point, that class of acts ao-ainst the law Icnown as oftonces apuinst the person, wei'e less nmneroiis f) in Ireland than they were in eitliei- I 877 or 1878 wlien distress was not so keen and when there wais ne ap'itation. And tliis proves clearly that tlie existence of the Leapme in tlie yeai's of great trial ])revented the people front resorting to a.cts against the law. Now r will tell yon of one ainazing thing— tin; city of Londoi; contains 10 about a million oi' a niilhon and a half of peojile less than this country, and last \ ear, in that one city of lamdon, the indictable offenci's against the law, committed in that one city of Ijondon were more than twice as many as the ■whole number of indictable offences of every kind committed in the whole year in freland, and yet we liear of (\)ercion Acts and Peace Preser- 15 vation Acts in Indand, but nobody ever talks of applying hamlcufi8 or manacles or coercion to that modern I’abylon the city of London. The London papers in considering Mr. (-fladstone’s sjieech came to the conclusion when he said that the first duty of the f lovernment was to preserve order, tliat he meant at once to launch a (loei'cion Act agam.st Ireland, and our 20 wise friends of the London press, our Avise and g’enerous fiiends, fell into a state of great delight at the idea that coercion "SAms again to be applied to the Irish. Put Avhat happened since. Tavo of Air. Gladstone's ministers, Mr. Lright and Ah'. Chamberlain — the ( haucellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and the President of the Hoard of Irade, Avent down to meet tlieir consti- 25 tuenls in Lirmingharn anr('}ith(‘r, I H80. -M r. Sc.iiou , to N’ou with I'iirl uuilar lofcc' how iiii|>oi't.aiit it is dial you should [lorsovota; (h'h'nuiiu'dl V and sto.ulilv iu the woi’k of this oryaiiizatioii. Suppose a i>dl is passed next year estahlishiug a (^oiuniissiou, giving that (^oniiiiission inoiu'V t'roni the State, a.ud giving it power to ])urchase every jiropert}' Xv'here 5 die landlord is willing to sell, it is evident at once that it would lie ot great iiiijiortanee to the Irish people to hring the Irish landlords as a body into such a frame of mind that they will be willing to sell. Now, how are you to do that, just by holding on your present course. It you in Ireland refuse to pay a higlier rent than the lair -I dc' not caie lO whether it be (Irithth’s valuation or such a rent as you can pay, but as soon as the landlords tind that you are resolved to pay that leiit and no more, as soon as they find that their power of despotic tyranny has gone, as soon as they find that they can get only a fair and moderate income out of the land, 1 tell you that when they discover these things, they w ill he lo very glad to go to the State, and to say, \ve are willing to sell our properties. Now, let me tell you what the tenants ought to do. The tenants on tw*o projierties came into Olonmel to see their landloid, and although (lounaught has been in the foremost ranks in the process of educating landlords (they have got a few’ sensible lessons too in Munster) these 20 tenants came in to their landlords and they said we have come with our rents — we are willing to give you Griffith’s valuation wfill you have it"? The landlords not only took it but expressed themselves extremely thankful, and wdiat is more, treated the tenants to what the new’spapeis call a sumptuous dinner, and at parting promised them to send fiee of cost 25 a supply of seed and manure the next Tuesday. A Voiee. — They are not doing it here. A boy on the fifth desk at a National school does imt know so much as a boy who has lieen more educated, at the first desk, and by the time he has got to the first desk he will know a little more. However, all you do have to do is to go on unitedly informing these gentlemen of your own accord that you will not pay more than you can afford to pay, and I think that in a very little time you will probably bring them into as reasonable and proper a frame of mind as that displayed by those judicious landlords in Clonmel. d.5 Well, the third point of Mr. Bright’s plan was this. He said, the Abyssinian war has cost ten millions ot money. Is it not worth while to spend ten millions on reclaiming the waste lands of IrelaiKH He proposes that if necessary ten millions shall be sjient in reclaiming one million of those acres which the neglect of the State and the indifference 40 of Irish landlords have left in a state of nature, 'fhat million acres would make forty thousand farms of twenty-five acres each, and you could take forty thousand tenants from the poorest and the worst parts of Connaught and plant them in those farms where they would have a comfortable living. That, I think myself, is a wrong principle, because what Mr. Bright aims G ( ii)to' tlu' tonrti'on miles homo. He had a young heart. 5 Now mv tric'uds, wlum the young men and tlu; old men, and the women and the girls, join together as tluiy haye joined in this movement, 1 toll yon there is reality, and thei’e is force in it, and there; is no law and mr poW('r on the ta(;e ot tin; earth to prevent the ti'inmph of the determiiu;(f will ot the peo])le. d'hey have attem|)ted to discourage you hy ])utting a 10 few ot us on our trial. NVell, they have not discouraged us, and it would 1)0 a strange thing it they discouraged you. ddie}^ are tollowiug the jier- uicious and stu]>id example otthe proceedings taken against that great son ot Ireland, the illustrious Daniel O’Connell. But rememher this — they attacked O’Oonnell at the end ot his days, wdien the hand ot age w'as 15 heavy u])on him -when his enei'gies and his powei’s \yere tailing, and wdien he had reaidied the limit ot that sjian, as T may say, allotted to luimau life. But they attack Parnell in the prime and vigour ot his manhood. D’honnell was a man ot seventy — Parnell is a man ot thirty-five: and wdiatever the consequence ot these trials may lie, T ti'ust and I feel confident, 20 that Cod, wdio has a great mission tor Parnell to execute, wdll spare liim many years, and tor the lapse ot a long lifetime, that the Irish peojile may count u])on his help; and the enemies otthe Irish people on his enmity. Now wm, the fourteen men accused — the toui’teen evil dis[)osed persons - - have given the Government every chance tor going on wdth this trial. 25 We asked them tor particulars of the acts of wdiich wm are accused, and they gave us a list of [larticulars wdiich tells nothing at all any more than if a man wmre to ask you his w^ay to the Giant’s Causeway and you w'ere to tell him that it he followed his nose he waiuld find it. I hit we were determined to give them no excuse for putting off our trial, and we 30 accepted those particulars, and on Friday last we handed in our plea, [lutting ourselves upon the country ; and now' from this liour forth we awaiit the convenience of the Government to go and take our trial. And wdiy do w'e do this? T shall tell you. We have very good reason fir it. We have cause to suspect that the Govei’iiment have an object in jmtting off 35 our trials until tlie month of danuary — they mean to summon Parliament in that month, in the first or second w'eek in January — they mean to hring forwaird a Land Bill then, and attempt to rush it through tlie House ; and if our suspicions be true, they intend to peiqietrate the mean and di.s- reputable trick of endeavoui'ing to legislate for Ireland in the London 40 House ot (Amnions, and at the same time to put the leader ot the Irish ])artv and .several elected rejiresentatives ot the Irish peo])le upon their trial in the Court of (Jueeu’s Bench in Dublin. Now' 1 tell you my friends, that trick wdll fail. If the Government think that hy such a disrejiutable trick W'e w'ill let them distranchise the city ot Cork, and the counties of 3 {lidMinUxjhcr. -2 I .s'« yorcuilx’r, ISSO.— .l/y. ,Sr.,tnii, m.i*) 5 \V,-.slnicatl., <'nvan, TipiHTary, ainl Sli-.., I tall Ha'iii t.laU they are .nuel, inistakoii. If they ask us t.. oo an 1 stand in Mu^ Conri ef Queen s Iteneh, hen we feel that our puhlic duty to you calls us to the 1 louse of (J..nnnoiis ill la.ndon, 1 tell von that we shall o-ravely, fully and eoura,eople of the neigh- bourhood ot Westport, or of the neighbourhood where he lives, Balhnrobe 9 6 N 2 / { litiJIinloijher. — 2!.s'' \ov(’inl>('i", ISSO. — Mr. SexIoN., m.i'.) — haA'c provi'd that if’ tlu'y choose to turn their l)acksu))oii a man it is (jiiitc as useless [to try] to set up tliat man in his old position as to set up “ I rumpty I )umpty”ou the wall. 'I'he ca[)tain was had enough, hut the lielpof the < fi’augemeu haveruinod him for ever, and I see hy tlie letter he haswntteu f) to the papers that iu' means to pack uj) his traps and leave the country. Yon can ap])ly the same principle. You can turn your backs upon aTiy man, landlord, agent, land-gral)ber, labourer, or instrument of any degree who presumes to have hand, act, oi- part in the vile system of eviction and extortion that has ruined this country so long'. You '. John AYillon., MJY) jiwuy ri'oiu tlio on£^n^('iuoiit iiiul ptiys Iiis rout, :ill you liavo got to do is to turn iho cold shoulder to liiui, and have no eornuiuuieation with him. Tlie (piestiou then arises as io Avdiat the laudlord will do, or the ageut, when thid oiler is made to him. 11(' luay serve you witli uotiee ol (3vi(‘tiou, and il he 5 does vou must then ]Hit down your toot and hav(5 it out with him. You must hold the rent, and kec]) that lor your own use. It he serve you with a notice of eviction eoino into the Land League here, submit your ease ; send up the notices to Duhliu ; wo will take them up and defend them, and we Avill hack yon up through the struggle. (Cheers.) But do ]iot you sec 10 you sec the advantage of holding on hy the rent, heeausc if any man should he evicted he ■would want some means to support him until he gets hack to his farm, because you must remember,, and you must he prepared to run some risk, and, if necessary even to submit to eviction. If you arc evicted, as sure as there is a sun above you to-day 15 you will he hack again before the year is out. Mayo has taught a ^ lesson to the rest of Ireland in the policy of the Land League, and the word | ‘ Boycott ’ has gone all over the country. (Cheers.) Now, what we propose j to do is, every evicted farm — we will Boycott the farm, and it will iec[uire an English army, such as that which has come down to Lough Mask, to hold 20 any farm from ivhich a Mayo man has been evicted. So long as they keep the arinv on the farm, well, we will support the tenant who has been evicted somewhere in the neighbourhood, and as soon as the army evacuates he can. go hack to his own home. (Cheers.) Now I wish to say a word as regards the amount of rent which ought to he paid. This is a question which we must 25 leave to each branch to decide for itself, hut if high rents have been chaiged for ! the past years, where the people have been rackrented for some years past, they oug ht to pay nothing at all this yea i\ Where the rents have been more moderate, I think that' where they are able to af ford it they ought to nav Griffith’s valuati on. W e~i^e that to tlie~executive of each braS to 30 decide according to the circumstances of the tenant. Well, now I would ask you to compare the condition of the Irish farmers to-day with what it was two vears ago, and when you have made that comparison let every man who does not like to be a slave take his stand by the Land League, and determine to remain a member of it. What were you two years ago ? Is 35 it not true that the agent and the bailiff exercised a terror over every farmer on an estate ? Is it not true to-day that you are no more afraid of the agent or the bailiff than I am ? (Cheers.) Is it not true to-day that the agent and the bailiff are a great deal more afraid of you than you are of them ? 1 (Cheers.) And I ask you what is it that has done all this for you ? What 40 is it that has made you free men to-day instead of slaves ? What is it that has made you, as I said, — the agent and the bailiff civil and very much obliged for whatever you will give them ? It is the policy and the action of the National Land League. It has taught you how to emancipate yourselves without having recourse to the tender mercies of the English Parliament. 45 You were told before that your only hope was in the Parliamenfrof London, but we told you that your hope was in your own manhood. EorSO^ye^ you knelt at the do o r of England’s Parliament, and you got no redrespTor 30 years you crouched, or you were afraid, before~tEe~agent s~o ffice or th e , bailiff of the estate. But we told you: ixr-band yourselves Together, and to 50 stand on your own rights and vonr^o ^ manhood ; and where are you to-day ? | You are in a position not to beg for reduction of rents, not to ask foi favours • 3 [liallaifhadcrbi.— November 21a7, 1880. — 3fr, John Dillon, Troni landlords or agents; yon are in a ])osition to determine wliat your riglds ar(‘, and when you have ma(h^ uj) your minds, to stand on them, and to insist on them. Then, it ever again tlie landlord or the ag(mt tram})les upon the tenantry of iredand, it will he their own rault and their own cowardi(;e. 5 You are free men to-day ; before you leave this meeting, resolve that you n ever will he trampled on again, unlcsnri)e over your trcacrbo’dles. (Loud clicers.y But rememher also that your rreedom“oan. bo" only kej)! by the strictest ) organisation, hy the eourage, hy the determination, if the hour sliould come, \ tliat you will stand to your rights as men. (Cheers.) We confidently 10 expeet that this struggle will go on to the end without bloodshed, without vioienee, and without danger ; Init shame on the Irishman who woulc^ bo afraid, if the neeossity arose, and if the risk eame, to take his stand by liis now that the Irish nation, having onee ascertained their power and their 16 rights, will never again submit to be trampled on, unless their life-blood has been spilt at first on their own threshold. Prepare then, I say, and organise for defence, if defence be i^cessary ; but meanwhile let your poTicy be a policy of defence and not aggression, iSttacki no man, and commit no violence ; Imt, Avhen you are attacked, sl mw the ma n who attacks you that 20 he tins o-ot to deal with men and not with women. (ClieBi^.') Now, and t he most determined and the best organised branches of the Land League in Ireland.” (Loud cheers.) Mr. Dillon : — 25 “ I will conclude this meeting by proposing a vote of thanks to our reverend chairman, who has so kindly taken the chair to-day, and presided over this great meeting. I wish to say, what I omitted to say before, that I was requested by my friend, Mr. T. L. Sullivan, of t^ ^Nat ion,’ t o apolo- \ A gise to you for not being present to-day as he had promised to be. We have, , 30 to-day, twelve great meetings like this, and we were compelled to send only ! one speaker to each meeting ; in fact w^e were obliged to leave some very j important meetings without any speakers at all, except local ones ; and so Mr. Sullivan was requested by the executive of the League to go to Parsons- j town, in the King’s County, where a great meeting is taking place, and this 36 will be his excuse for not coming here to-day. I now ask you to return thanks to Pather Stenson for presiding over this great meeting, wdiich has been so great a success.” (Cheers.) I f BALLAGHAMEEHAN, Co, Leitrun, . Sff?i(i((t/, 2\,s‘t November 1880. P. J. Slieridan, Tubbcrcurry, CO. Sligo, delegate from the Land League, said : Lev. Chairman and fellow countrymen, this large meeting plainly shows that honest men find landlordism uncndurahle, and that they were revolting 5 constitutionally from a system propped up hy the British Government. (Cheers.) The Government had no more pity on Orange than on Green. But now Orangemen would no longer he used as a tool and catspaw. Would it support the system morally, or otherwise, any longer ? (Cheers.) Too long had the serpent whispered disunion hut that was now over ; the Orange and 10 Green now joined would swell like a torrent and overcome all before them. The uprising of the Irish nation, regardless of creed or class, shows when a people rise, as you are rising, in face of the Government and in face of the inclement weathers that your trials and troubles are too great to endure them any longer, and the system of landlordism against which you 15 are rising must he abolished. I am glad this day to see the Orangeman agree with his fellow Catholic to upset the rotten system of landlordism, and at the last, with one solemn warning, to tell the British Government that it is not coercion we ’want, but justice. Too long has the apple of discord been cast amongst us ; but thank God, that day is gone ; no longer can they with ■ 20 hold our rights and privileges. (Cheers for Parnell.) Join heart and hand in order to assist in this great movement. You should bring the teachings of this platform home to your firesides and disseminate them as well as you possibly can among your friends and neighbours ; and that is one of the means by which you can forward this movement. The League wanted, and 25 they would have, land-grabbers helpless. The League prescribed a remedy, and it was being carried out ; they could do this inside the law. Let Boy- cotting be brought into force against these men ; you can punish the land- grabber constitutionally. There is no law on the Statute Book, black as its pages are, to compel you to work for him, to buy from, or sell to him. 30 Laws must be based on justice and not on iniquity. Yet if a ruffian should turn up, it becomes you as men to despise him, hoot him at fair and market, cut off all intercourse from him. If a landlord does waste a farm, let his land be left unfenced and uncared for, and thus he would be punished. All men present who have not already joined the Land League, I conjure 35 them to join at once. The leaders of this agitation will soon be in prison, but your leaders do not care one jot for all their machinations. I trust that fifty leaders will rise from the ranks of the people for every one of the leaders that will be imprisoned. You can do a great deal towards furthering the objects of the League in choosing your representatives for Parliament, for 40 the to’wn council, and board of guardians, by electing tenant-farmers who are members of the Irish National Land League, and who the eleetors are Q 3366 =— 93 . 1 {Ballaghamcehan. — November 2167, 1880. — Jfr. P. J. Sheridan.) convinced will look after their interests. Unite and stand by each other, and with the help of God you will soon sec Ireland second to no other country on the face of Europe. n 1 ’I? ■■ ,,j .‘•i -A ‘ TRIM, Co. Meath. S/f?i(/at/, Novemher 28///. 1880, Mr. T. D. Sullivan, M.P. “ Men of Trim, i have come down amongst you here to-day (a voice : ‘ You are welcome ’) because I believe that the people of Trim and the people of Meath are as willing and as anxious as any people in Ireland to help the 5 cause of Ireland and the cause of the Irish tenant farmer. (Cheers.) Meath used to be in the van of the struggle for Irish freedom. I w^ell recollect in years gone by that when other parts of Ireland were tame and quiet and apathetic Meath held up the banner of tenant right (hear, hear), and that the priests and the people of this county set a glorious and a brilliant example 10 to their brethren all over the length and breadth of this land. (Cheers.) And now, my friends, when the cause of the Irish tenant farmer is being advocated and nobly sustained in all parts of this country, when a movement more widespread and more universal than ever any such movement was in Ireland is going on in this country, it would badly befit the noble county of 15 Meath to lag behind in the race. I rely on the patriotism of the men of Meath. I rely upon it, I say. I depend upon it. I know every good work requires a beginning, and this good work is about to be begun in Meath ; but I know that when the men of Meath put their shoulder to the wheel they know how to give it a good push forward. (Cheers.) In the west of Ireland 20 and in the south of Ireland and in many parts of Ireland we have the people all united in this great movement. Ah ! even in the north of Ireland it is making (cheers) — even in the north of Ireland it is making glorious head- way, and can it be supposed for a moment that here, in the old home of patriotism, here in a county the very traditions of which speak the spirit of 25 self-sacrifice, of noble daring for Ireland — can it be supposed, I say, that when the whole country is aflame with this bright and promising and benefi- cent movement for the benefit of the Irish race — can it he supposed that here the people will lie down quiet, unmoving, unsympathising, and be satis- fied to look on at other men winning the rights of their country ? (‘ Never.’) 30 No, my friends, I am sure that the movement which we inaugurate amongst you here to-day will spread, will be sustained as it should be, and that the name of Meath in the future of this movement will shine where it always shone, in the very van of the Irish struggle for freedom. (Cheers.) Well, now, what are we seeking for? You know well that what we are 35 seeking for is what you want, and what you need, some settlement that will make the Irish race secure in their homesteads and give them a fair chance of enjoying the fruits of their own industry. (Cheers.) You know that what we want is to end a system which turns over the whole wealth of Ireland into the laps of a couple of thousand men — a very few thousands, at 40 all events. You know that while you are the toilers and the wealth-producers in this country you do not enjoy the wealth you produce nor the comforts Q 3366.-86. A Trim. — November 28^//, 1880. — ]\Ir. T. 1). Sullivan, 31. P. / / / you deserve and that you liave earned. You know that a class of idlers who do jiotliing for you, and who do noihiuj^ for Ireland, are livirii^ on the fruits of your toil and squandering' the w(;altli tliat you have liardly and lionestly earned. (Cheers.) 5 “ Now, my friends, Ave want to end this unnatural and immoral order of things, and with God’s blessing we will end it. (Hear, hear.) What do these peoj)le do for you to whom you pour in the treasure of your wealth — what do they do for Ireland? (‘Nothing.’) In England and in other countries the men of capital turn it to some good account. They cstahlish 10 trade, they establish manufactures, they employ the people. But what do the Irish landlords do? (‘Nothing.’) Nothing, except to squander your money in dissipation and in luxury, and to cry out for coercion whenever you complain of them. Now, observe this, my friends, that short as this movement short a time as this movement has been in existence, we arc 15 rapidly bringing those gentlemen to their senses. (Laughter.) Two years ao'o if vou talked of tenant right, they scotfed at you. If you talked of any claim upon your own improvements, they called you had names and said you Avere communists and revolutionists. Two years ago, if you asked for what are uoav called the three E’s, they despised and abused you. But what are 20 they doing now, because the Irish people are saying, ‘ Gentlemen, your cup ‘ of ill-doing is full, and we will bear you no longer. Ireland cannot support ‘ you and us together. The profits of farming in Ireland will not enable us ‘ to live in comfort and you in luxury. One or other class has to go from ‘ this countrv.’ (Cheers.) And so when they hear these bold, determined, 25 defiant, and honest words they begin to come down from their high pedestals, and they begin to see that the three E’s would not be a very or unreasonable thing at all. But when we asked for the three E’s, or for two E’s, or for one E, they Avould not give it to us. They refused it, and they refused it with contempt and scorn, and now they are beginning to grow a little wiser 30 in their generation. But I tell them when they come to offer us now what they call the three E’s that they speak too late. Had they made terms with the Irish people some years ago, we might have had such a settlement ; but thev refused it, and now Avhen they offer it we will not accept it. (Heai, hear.) 35 “ Well, they talk of confiscation ; they say we are endeavouring to effect confiscation. I say we are doing nothing of the sort ; I say they are the con- fiscators. They are in the enjoyment of lands that they and their forefathers got, not by honest labour, but by confiscation. They are in the enjoyment of revenues raised out of improvements made by the hard-working tenantry 40 of Ireland, and I call that confiscation. (Groans.) They are in the enjoy- ment of rents that they raised over and over again according as the people fertilised the soil, built upon it, and reclaim(id it, and I call that confiscation. (Groans.) No, Ave are not confiscators. We offer them fair terms, and I tell them noiA’ from this place, as they have been told from other places, that tlie 45 sooner they accept them the better for them. (Cheers.) We offer them an honest settlement, and if they do not accept it in good time the farther they o-o the Avorse they will fare in this matter. (Cheers.) ^ “ Now what is this system of landlordism ? Some people regard it as merely a claim for rents and a claim for high rents ; but I say it is a great deal more 50 than that. You all know well that the landlords of Ireland — I speak of them as p class • of course there are good men amongst them, there are kind-hearted 2 Trim. — Nuccmhcr 28///, 1880. — Mr. T. I). iSntlioaii, M.T. men amongst them ; so there avcu’o amoiigsl. tlui slave owners in South America. But the system is bad, and this l)a(l system will make had rmm, and a good landlord of to-day maybe succeeded by a bad landlord to-morrow, and you have no security for your property, you have no security for your 5 homes, you have no real security for your lives iu your own country until this system is abolished root and branch. (Cheers.) They were not only tlui rent receivers of Ireland, but they were the tyrants of Ireland along with that. They tyrannised ov('r you day and night, at home and abroad. In every as})eet and in every department of your lives the terror of the landlord 10 and of the bailiff and the rent warncr was upon you. It was not only a sys- tem of tyranny, but it was a system of demoralisation ; it made hypocrites of honest men. Many an honest farmer, to my knowledge, had to put his name to addresses of gratitude and of congraf ulation to some of those tyrants, when the man in his heart knew that he deserved no gratitude, no congratulation, 16 but something very different. (Cheers.) You had to welcome them home when they came home after a tour of spree and debauch upon the continent. You had to light bonfires on your hills to welcome them, and when every little landlord was born you had to illuminate your houses and to subscribe testimonials, and to go dancing round bonfires to show what joy was in your 20 hearts (laughter) because another tyrant was born to rule over you. Now we revolt against all this state of things. We revolt peacefully, legally, and morally, and we say that without one single act of violence, without one single act of crime, we will uproot this institution which confers no benefit on Ireland but which sucks the lifeblood out of its veins. (Cheers.) How shall 25 we do it ? The example is already set you. Look at the county of Mayo, what it is doing ! Look what union is doing there amongst the people ! See what even one county can do when they make up their minds and they re- solve to stand like brothers shoulder to shoulder ! Why, my friends, there is no power on the face of the earth can draw out of your pockets the money 30 that you have fairly earned ; can draw any more of it than you wish to give to those people, unless you are base enough yourselves to rackrent and to destroy and impoverish yourselves. If you make up your minds to strike against rackrents down they will go (cheers), and the heart of man and the power of the British Government can never get him up again unless you are 35 slaves enough to co-operate with them yourselves. (Cheers.) “ I need not tell you that one of the reasons why these idlers, why this idle and tyrannical class of persons has been able to beggar you, and to evict you, and to banish you ; one of the reasons of all that is this, that whenever a poor man was turned out of his holding because he broke down under the 40 burden that was laid upon him, whenever that happened, I say other men of his own class came in and rushed upon it, and bid up and up, and forced their money into the hands of the landlords. As long as that system is continued there is no help for you, there is no safety for you. The landlords will have the whip in their hands so long as you bare your backs for it and put the 45 scourge into then’ hands by your own conduct. But foUow out the prin- ciples laid down for you by the Land League, engage to one another as honest men and as Irishmen that you will not drive your ownselves, your own children, your own race, your own friends to ruin, beggary, and despe- ration by this system of competition for farms (a voice, ‘Never’). Do that, 50 and the game is in your hands. Stand together as the men of Mayo do stand, and the men of other parts of Ireland do stand; strike against these exorbitant and unjust rents, which have no moral basis whatsoever ; strike A 2 8 f ■ ^ Trim. — Novcmhcr 1880. — Jllr. T. I). Snllioau, If.F. against thora, and whc'n you do, let no man bdray his nciglihour. No violence or crime is at all necessary in this movement. Violence and crime would not serve it, hut would harm it ; and 1 know well that the Irish people ol‘ this day are so thoroughly educated to these facts 5 that they will follow out the directions and the rules that 1 have now spoken of to them; that hy peaceful eomhination, hy self sacrifice, hy resolute, true, and loyal action to each other, they will save themselves, ohtain for themselves the peace and the comfort they need, and bring down to their proper level the class that has so long been grievously oppressing and 10 impoverishing them. (Cheers.) “ Now, my friends, the county of Meath is, I am sure, about to join in this movement with its sister counties. (A voice, ‘ Every one.’) There is no part of Ireland which has more severely felt the evils of this despotic system of landlordism than ' this very county in which I am now standing. There 15 is no greater spectacle in all Ireland of the ruin and desolation created hy this system than is presented hy this very locality in which we stand. What are these recipients of your wealth doing with it ? Why have they not mills and factories along the hanks of that noble river that runs through your town ? Why have they not commercial and trading establish- 20 ments to give employment to the poor people ? They know that the Irish race is industrious. They know that they are the hardest workers on the face of the earth wherever they go to. They know there is an abundance of cheap labour in Ireland. There are men and women and hoys in Ireland ready to .turn their hands to industry if they only got the opportunity, 25 and whv do not these men who are in receipt of thousands, tens of thousands, and twenties of thousands, why do they not do something for these people ? My friends, it is not in them to do it. They were brought up in had associations. They were brought up to regard themselves as lords of the creation, who need do nothing hut enjoy them- 30 selves, and when they chose to consider that there were too many of you in the land, they considered it was their right to scourge you, and banish you out of it. Well, we will have an end of that order of things. There is no stronger right in the world than the right of a people horn in any land, to live in it and to enjoy the fruits of their own labour, so long as it affords 35 room and scope enough for them. There is room enough in Ireland, not only for its present population, hut for twice the number of it, but we must get rid of the blood-suckers before the people can prosper in this way. Now, we offer them fair terms. As I have already said, we offer to make fair terms with them. Although our land has been confiscated hy them and hy those 4,0 Avho went before them over and over again, we ask no confiscation. We are willing to labour for the emancipation of the soil and willing to pay out of our earnings the fair price that can he put upon it, but we are resolved that these two classes shall no longer have any copartnership in the soil of Ireland. Their interests are antagonistic ; the landlord class like to 45 have as few men as possible in the country, and to get as much money out of it as they can. That is not the interest of the people. We want to have thriving and prosperous communities, and the opportunity of living in Ireland as God intended that the Irish people should live in their own land. We want to have opportunities of education and advancement] for 5 Q our children. We want to have secure homes for our wives and families ; and these things we are entitled to have hy the law of God, and hy every just law that was ever made by man. (Applause.) 4 , Trim, — November 2H///., 18H(». — 31 r. T. JJ. (Stillivan, 3L1\ “ Now, wliui have you to do, luy Iriiaids, (dr 1 will not detain you in the raiu? r ask you to (brin in this loeality a hraneh of tlu^ Irish National Land League, whieh is eniaiudpating you at this nioniont ; t-he Irish National Land League, whieh has hianiglit the Cioverninent ot Lngland alr(;ady to its g senses, to its kneels, 1 might sa}'. Yes, he(;aus(^ to me it is notorious that a Land Bill is being framed by tlie Government, and although that Hill may not be all that we desire, it is, at all events, sueh as tlui Irish people would not have got two or three' years ago. (Cheers.) Whom have; we to thank for it ? You have to thank the Lanel League, that is te) say, you have to thank 10 yourselves. The Land League is only a number e)f Lrisbmen baneleel together for the common gejoel e)f their country. I ask you to join with them, anel I ask you to establish in this locality a branch of the organisation and te) keep it up vigorously and well. I ask you te^ spread it through the length and breadth of your county, because we mean that there shall lie no county in 15 Ireland that will not be in the midst aiding actively and assisting in the movement inaugurated by the National Lanel licague. It is only by such united action that we can win. In olel times many a good cause was lost in Ireland because it was one county at a time, or two counties at a time, that engaged in it. Ireland would be free to-elay, free and independent, if all the 2Q counties of Ireland had stood together at a particular crisis, but they did not. The weight, and the burden, and the heat of the day was left upon Wexford, or upon some other county, and the rest stood by with their arms folded. Now, we want union. We want all the counties and all the parishes in Ireland to pull together, and I tell you, my friends, that when we have 25 brought that state of things to pass our victory is won. I will not detain you longer. I did not come here merely to make a speech, or to hear cheers ; I came here to try and do some practical work. I came to try to start a movement in this county, which, as I have already said, is winning your cause, and would you like your cause to be won without your having a hand 3Q in it yourselves. (A voice, ‘ No.’) Well, then, my friends this evening or to- morrow, a branch of the National Land League will be established in Trim, and I ask you to join it. (‘ We will.’) I ask you to sustain it ; I ask you to mind its rules and regulations, they are meant for your benefit, to raise you from the abject condition in which you find yourselves, to the position of 35 a bold peasantry and the country’s pride, and confident are we that the suc- cess is in the hollow of your hands if only the Irish people be true to themselves. I undertake to say that the ^men of YEeath and YYestmeath, which noble county I have the honour of representing, will do their part in this struggle. And let me say one word before I retire for your member, who 40 is my brother. (‘ Three cheers for him.’) He would be amongst you here to-day, but, as you know, he is working as hard for the interests of this move- ment in the middle of the camp of the enemy as he could work if he was here in Trim to-day. A few days more and I hope he will be amongst you, but whether he is here or there, this you may rely upon, that while life is 45 spared to him he will be proud to spend his time, his talents, and, if need be, his life in the cause of his constituents and of the Irish people.” (Cheers.) 5 Xrim. — Noveinbev 28^4, 1880. — Alt'. T. 1). l^uUican, Al.l^. Mr. T. D. Sullivan, M.r. “ I como forward, my friends, to propose a resolution wdiich I am sun; will meet Avitli your liearty aeceptance. Often when we go to meetings of this kind we have some diffieulty in finding what we call the ‘ man in the gap.’ 5 Wc have him here to-night in the person of Mr. Plood. IVe want a man who Avill have the eourage and the manliness to come to the front and to begin the good Avork. Wc wanted a chairman here this evening, and wc found one, and a good one ; and, moreover, he was not only a good one, but, as you all know, he is a big one. I have seen a great many chairmen, and I 10 never saw a man fill a chair better than he does. He comes forward, my friends, as Ave are all coming forward here, for no personal purposes. We come forward all of us here who arc engaged in this movement, not to gam any ends for ourselves, but to try and do our parts as honest men and true Irishmen to lift up the race and the country to Avhich Ave belong. It is not 15 popularity wc come to gain amongst you. We do not want your shillings or your pence. We want nothing from you, only the satisfaction and the com- fort of feeling that we are doing something to aid and serve you. (Cheers.) Whatever strain this movement may put upon your little resources, either of time, of labour, or of money, are all meant for your own use and benefit. 20 We all know that this country is not in the condition it ought to be in. We all have come to the conclusion that in order to make it a pros- perous and a free country we must have an end of the present system of landordism. We do not want to quarrel Avith the men themselves; Ave do not want to hurt or injure a hair of their heads, but we say the or; system is a bad one and that under it Ireland can never thrive or prosper So, now my friends, I am sure having pledged yourselves here this evening to take your part in this movement, I am sure you will keep your words. I am sure you will be loyal to each other, that you will decline and refuse to pay these unjust rents which are starving and beggaring 30 the country, and that once you pledge your words to one another to do it, you will keep your words. Moreover, mind you this. Here is a little dodge of some of the land agents and some of the landlords. When they find that the tenantry upon any estate have pledged themselves not to pay this hi-h and exorbitant rent, but have pledged themselves to offer Griffith’s 35 valuation, or some other rent which they consider reasonable, and when you all come to the rent office, the agent says, ‘ My good fellows, would you kindly step in to me one by one, I would like,’ he says, ‘ you are a very decent fellow, and I would like to have a little talk AVith you in private. But mind you, if tenants get in one by one, the landlord or the land agent 40 will o-et the better of them. Now you must go all together and be^ all on Your'’o‘uard. You must say there is the sum that we can afford to give you for it,'’a fail- rent, and if you do not take it we know how to keep it. It is the old story of the spider and the fly, ‘ Will you step into my parlour says the spider to the fly.’ Will you step into my parlour, says the land 45 ao-ent to the tenant, and the tenant says, No, sir, but we wfil all have a httle meetino- and speak our minds to you all together. Union is strength. That is exactly what they are all doing in many parts of Ireland, almost every- where, and they Avill do it everywhere in Ireland, and they will find the 50 “ Now some of the writers and the speakers in the interest of the landlords, say and they are saying every day in the press, ‘ Oh,’ they say, ‘ we object Q 3366.— 86. B ^ 'Prim. November 28///, 1880. — 3Ir. T. D- iiiullivcm, M.l^^ ‘ to any sudden and forcible expropriation of the landlords, but wo ^ e ‘ satisfied with the law which will enable tenants to buy from landlords who ‘ arc willing to sell.’ Well, you know, I like that very well, but let it bo oi^ endeavour to bring about that state of things which will make the landlords 5 willino' to sell and make the tenants able to buy. (Cheers.) Now, how are you to°do that ? By stopping the rackrents. When you stop the rackrents for a gale or two or three, you will have the landlords willing to sell, and the tenants will be able to buy. “ I did not intend to speak at such length to you. I came forward to 10 propose a hearty vote of thanks to the courageous and honest Irishman who has presided over the meeting this evening, and I am sure you will pass it with your heartiest acclamations.” (Loud cheering.) 10 'Trim. — Nooembcr 28^//, lS8f). — Mr. J. Mr. John W. Walsh (lUlla). “Mr. Chairnmn and ])c()i)lc of royal M oath, after the very able speech which you have heard fnnn the patriotic lueinher for W estmeath, I do not intend to detain you very lon^- here to-night hy attenii)ting to explain to you 5 the objects of tlie Irish National Land League, and the benefits to he derived from the combination of the Irish people. (Bravo.) But I have to ask you hero to-day to join hands with us in fighting this groat l)attle which we have waged against landlordism. There are many reasons why I should feel proud of the action of the men of royal Meath. Pirst of all as a Land Leaguer I 10 thank you, and again as a Mayo man I thank you, on behalf of the struggling tenant farmers of my native county. (Hear, hear.) And I assure you it is gratifying to me to see that that small flame which was lit on the hills of my native county has to-day developed in such a magnificent movement throughout the length and breadth of the land, and not alone in Ireland, hut 15 wherever an Irishman is to he found to-day, his heart heats for you. (Cheers.) He is thinking of you and watching the action of the Irish people, and expecting you to fight out this battle with determination to the end. I may tell you in a few words that the object of the Irish National Land League is this, in the words of Mr. James Bedpath, to make every landlord his own 20 tenant, and every tenant his own landlord. I need scarcely tell you that if you act true to yourselves, true to each other, and stand shoulder to shoulder and show a hold front to the enemy, you will succeed in abolishing one of the vilest and the most damnable systems which ever cursed God’s earth, landlordism. (Cheers.) A great deal will he said to you in favour 25 of fixity of tenure and fair rents, hut I warn you here to-day not to give ear to such a scheme, to strike boldly at the root of the evil, and not to rest satisfied until the Government grant a measm*e which will enable the tenant farmers of Ireland to become the owners of the land they till. I agiee with Mr. Michael Havitt that fixity of tenure is fixity of landlordism, and if you 3 Q believe that landlordism is a had system, why should you stand calmly hy and advocate a scheme which tends to prop up that system which you admit to he a had one ? I call on you here to-day to raise your voices, to speak out trumpet-tongued against this vicious system, and to pledge yourselves that you will never rest satisfied until this wretched system is rooted from the 35 land, root and branch. (Cheers.) And I thank you men of Meath for having come to the rescue in this our hour of trial, as one who has been doubly honoured by the Government with two documents, one inviting me to stand my trial at Cork in a few days, and another on the 28th in Dublin. I thank you sincerely for your presence here to-day under this downpour of 40 winter rain, to protest against the action of the Government, which in my opinion is an attempt to stifle free speech and to misrepresent the character of our peaceful public movement. (Hear, hear.) I do not think there is a spot in God’s earth which should rush to the standard of the Land League sooner than the men of royal Meath. As I travelled along, throughout the leno-th and breadth of this county I saw vast tracts of land ; where are the people, where are the homesteads ? The houses are levelled, the people are gone. (Groans.) The hones of many of them beneath the waters of the Atlantic, the remainder banished to the slums of the great cities. Along the highways and byways of the world are to be found men banished from the land of their birth, because the Government will not leave them room to live in it. Then I ask you to assist us in striking against this vicious system, in striking against rackrents, and landlordism oppression, and above all, the Trim. — November 28///, 1880. — 3Ir. J. W. Welsh. eviction of the Irish race. There is scarcely a man amongst yon wlio has not some fricMuls in America, in Australia, or in some part of the world, banished from the land which the Almighty God ordained that he should inherit, i believe that this gn'at (juestion is the very marrow of all Irish 5 grievance's. The land of Ireland belongs to the people of Ireland, and no Government nor no power has a right to dej)rive them of it. (Cheers.) Mr. John Stuart Mill, one of the greatest political ceonomists that has ever lived, has told us that .... beeaiiso the Government will not leave thcjii room to live in it, that Government stands already judged and condemned. 10 I care not whether it be a Whig or a Tory Government, Liberal or Conserva- tive, in my opinion the object of the English Government for centuries has been to root out the Irish race ; but I ask you here to-day to stand firmly, and to tell the exterminator that you will not go, the Irish race, you shall not go, the Irish race : ‘ Come, gallant Celts, and take your stand, The League, the League will save the land.’ And I only think it right before I conclude to ask you men of royal Meath to work peacefully and within the law. You have ample scope to do so. I may tell you that I believe there is not a man in the League to-day who 20 would sanction that the hair of the head of any man would be injm-ed wdiile this battle is being fought out to the end. I must, along with my co-workers in this great movement, raise my voice in condemnation of the crimes which have been committed in other parts of the country, because I need scarcely tell you those crimes do an amount of injury, they injure your cause. Any 25 man who commits a crime now' is an enemy of the eountry, and I need scarcely tell you that we have to face the reptile press of England, aye and of Dublin too, to face a hostile Government, and with us it has been for eenturies a war of races with the English people. Now that we have the manhood of Ireland determined to fight its battle, I ask you, men of royal 30 Meath, to join its voice to-day in this great struggle. And I further ask you that you will follow out the programme of the League, that you will pledge yourselves not to take a farm from wliich another may be evicted (a voiee, ‘ Never ’), or which has been surrendered for the non-payment of an impossible rent ; and should there be found a man amongst you mean enough 35 to do such an ugly act, I ask you, as I have asked from many platforms throuo-hout the length and breadth of the land, not to speak to him, not to buy from him, not to sell to him, not to recognise him in the public market plaee, that you will leave his corn uncut, his potatoes undug, and himself to wither under a people’s curse. The land laws may be bad, the landlords 40 worse, but in my opinion the greatest enemy of Ireland is the land grabber. If you leave those lands idle to rot on the hands of the landlord, you will find that ere long he wall be glad to come on terms with you. You have, as Mr. Sulhvan has told you, already brought them to their knees. The hour of your triumph is at hand. Then I ask you again to give with us a long pull 45 and a strong pull and a pull all together. You know the old story of the bundle of sticks. You may break one, but put the bundle together and you will find it hard to bend them. We have to-day a united Irish from Pair Head in Antrim to Mizen Head in Cork, and from Loop Head in Clare to Howth Head in Dublin, and the voice of the people is to-day demanding the 5 Q land of Ireland for the people of Ireland. As Mr. Sullivan has told you, this evening or perhaps on to-morrow should you call down to the secretary of the Land League in this town and enrol yourselves as members of this A 4 7 1 , I \ : 91 I - / Trim. — Noocinhcr 28///, 1880. — 3Ir. J. IV. JValsh. gTcai social luoveinont, you will be assisting in striking another nail into the collin of landlordism. (Cheers.) Onrs is a great social movement embracing men ot all religions persuasions, embracing tbc kibomei, the tenant larmer, the shopkeeper, the merchant, the mecbaiiie, the brain worker, aye, men 5 of all Avays of livelihood in our movement. Then we ask you to come forward boldly and assist this grand march of freedom which has hecn started under the auspices of ^Mr, Charles Stewart rarncll, the leader of the Irish people. (Cheers.) I also ask you here to-day not to pay an exorbitant rent for land. You have been paying exorbitant rents for years. Now I ask you what be- comes of those rents ? I will tell you. They are brought across to London, to Paris, to Baden-Laden, Vienna, and on the Continent. Of the money wrung from the half-starved, half-naked Irish iieasant, fully nine tenths of it goes abroad, enriching race-courses, gambling dens, and other haunts of vice. Is this system right ; is it justice ? Are you prepared that this system shall last ? If not, then strike at the root of it, strike for the abolition of rack- rents and the abolition of landlordism root and branch from the land. I am only sorry that my Lord Darnley is not here to-day, that I might ask him what he did Avith the memorial which was sent to him through one of the priests of the neighbouring parish, signed by, I am told, 40 or 50 of the OQ tenants. My Lord Darnley did not think it Avorth his while even to reply to that document. I would like to ask my Lord Darnley what right he has to that property ? (Cheers.) I Avould like to ask him under what title he holds it ? I Avould like to know whether he held it under the title of Oliver Cromwell, Queen Elizabeth, or the broken treaty of Limerick ; but as I have 05 not the pleasure of meeting his lordship to-day, should there be any of his tenants amongst you, I ask them, as I have asked you, not to pay my Lord Darnley that rackrent which he is trying to exact from you. Enite as one man, and say to my Lord Darnley, ‘ Me Avill not pay you this rackrent ; we ‘ are Avilling to pay you a fair rent, child of confiscation though you be. We gQ ‘ are willing to give you all Ave can after we support our families in ease and ‘ comfort and educate our children ; after we pay the shopkeeper and the * merchant Avho supplied us Avith goods last year j but in future we will not ‘ pay you the exorbitant rent Avhich you have squeezed out of our bones for ‘ centuries or for years.’ And should my Lord Darnley, or any man of his gg class, evict a tenant on the property, I now ask you to go fearlessly in a body to that landlord and say to him, ‘ AVe will not pay you one penny of rent ‘ until you reinstate that man in his holding.’ (Cheers.) If you do that, if you stick to the principles of the League, and act true to each other, true to the cause of Ireland, true to the tenant farmers and people of Ireland, your qO cause, which is a just one, must ultimately succeed. And should there be found amongst you men who will say, ‘ Oh, I don’t care to join the Laud ‘ League ; I am well enough off ; I can pay my rents ; I don’t care for any ‘ man I would ask that man to look at the condition of his fellow workers in other parts of Ireland, felloAV tenant farmers in other parts of Ireland, to q 5 see them struggling from early morn till late at night, living in cabins unfit for English pigstyes, subsisting on food unfit for English tram horses. I would ask him to look at that picture and say to himself. Is it right that be should stand calmly by ? And I say he knows not the day or the hour when a succession of bad harvests may bring him down to the level of those poor 50 people, when he will be forced to come to the Land League and ask for its protection. (Cheers.) * * =5= * * 8 SLIGO, Co. SUgo. Sf(ti(/(ff/, N(weiiifj('r 28 ///, 1880 . Mr. Edward Gayer in the Chair. Mr. Thomas Sexton, M.P., said “ Men of Slig’o, I proceed to address you to-day with something like a feeling of despair, hccausc I know that no voice that God ever 5 planted in man’s breast could reach the limits of this vast assembly. (Cheers.) I have often felt proud of you, but never was I lillcd and thrilled with such emotions of pride and joy as those I experience to- day. (Cheers. ) From time to time in the past, from one part to another of Sligo, I have gone to address the men and the women of this great county, PO and to-day it is my happy lot to sec the crowning of the work, and to see the organised manhood, and the organised womanhood (cheers) of this great county marching in force and in good order upon the town of Sligo, and conducting the citizens of this town into the saving fold of the Irish National Land League. (Cheers.) The vastness of your numbers to-day, the enthu- 15 siasm depicted in your faces, the good order, and the intelligence of your whole proceedings, the national decorations, and the beautiful banners which adorn and grace this meeting, are all proof of the spirit, the energy, and the thoughtfulness which you are devoting to this movement, and I only wish that I could take the twelve gentlemen who form the English Cabinet, and put 20 them upon this platform for one horn*, and I could tell them that they would learn more in one hour upon this platform of the true method of dealing wisely with the affairs of Ireland, than they would ever learn from the bigoted press of London in the term of their natm-al lives. (Cheers.) If you were not sternly in earnest about this movement you would not be here to-day, for the weather 25 is inclement enough and stormy enough to deter any but men with a passion and sternness in their hearts. But little you think of the inclemency of the weather when yom’ hearts burn with the thought of the tempests of desola- tion which Irish landlordism has caused to sweep around your homes. (Cheers.) My friends, the County of Sligo to-day has set the crown upon 3 Q this great work ; the County of Sligo to-day formally takes its place in the foremost rank of the patriotic counties of Ireland, and I feel a pride that will never fade and a nerve that will never falter at the thought that I am the representative of this manly and gallant county. (Cheers.) Now, my friends, if anything were required to prove that the power of the people in this movement was irresistible we can find it in one melancholy little incident reported in the papers of yesterday. Poor Captain Boycott has gone away (laughter), and he went in such a hurry that lit forgot what is customary on these sorrowful occasions — he did not even leave us a lock of his hair (laughter) ; but he knew we would be very anxious about him in 40 Ireland, and so he wrote a letter to the papers explaining that his doctor ordered him a change of air. (Laughter.) The name of his physician, I believe, is Dr. Mayo. (Laughter.) Well, that incident of Captain Boycott has proved beyond yea or nay to all whom it may concern, that Orangemen, or any other men in Ireland, are fools for their pains when they range them- Q 3366.— 87. A I {SI'kjo. — N ovcmher 1S80. — Mr. Thomas Stwion, JII.T.) / bolvos on the side of any man Avlio has oniragx'd |)nl)lic opinion, and endoavonrod by anv dovicHi ov by any iriclc ol sid)s(!ri[)iion or ol a s[)ad(i immii^-ralion, to uphold and maintain any man ag\'iinst the dclil)ci-atc will and jndgnumt of the pooph' ; and the fate of Captain Boycott, a(;complisbcd selves on the side of any i endeavoured by any device or and jndgment of the peopb' ; and the fate of Captain Boycott, a(;complisbcd 5 l)y legal and by peaccfnl means, bnt by a steadfast and determined unity amongst the people, will be the fate of any man who ventures, as be did, to insult, the self-resi)ect of the people and to injure the people’s interest. (Cheers.) Our movement is a movement resolved and set npoii one plain and evident point, and that is the abolition, root and branch, of landlordism ^ 10 in Ireland. (Cheers.) Landlords arc very anxious now to talk of compro- ^ mise. Ten years ago, Mr. Gladstone said that notices to quit ^vere as plenty as snow-tlakcs in Ireland. Now the notices to quit are very few. , (Laughter. ) They would not make the ghost of a snow storm ; hut I tell you what have become as numerous as snow-flakes : plans put forward by i 16 landlords for the settlement of the question. They arc exceedingly anxious to settle the question; and if they had proposed 10 years ago, or five, some of the plans that are put forward now, if they had proposed these before you learned yo ur own irresistible strength , and before you were taught how to use it, you would have accepted those plans with rapture ; hut now our 20 wrongs are made manifest to the world ; the secret of our strength is out ; our blood is up, and we arc determined to have no compromise, f How long have they had the land of Ireland in their hands ? They began to get it — the confiscations w-hich placed the land of Ireland in their hands began in the reign of that mild and gentle virgin, Queen Elizabeth, and extended up 25 to the reign of the glorious and pious gentleman from Nassau. (Inter- ruption.) The land of Ireland has been in their hands for between 200 and 300 years ; and if they had any wisdom of statesmen or any of the natural impulses of manly or humane men, I say the landlords of Ireland would have made themselves a class as beloved as any upon earth, because they 30 were planted with great powers for good in the midst of a people as gentle, as tender, as warm-hearted and affectionate, and as grateful, even for small kindnesses, as any people upon the face of the earth ; but so foully, so vilely, so cruelly have they misused those great powers that I believe that if institutions, as well as men, could be judged at the last day, the record 35 against Irish landlordism, the record of the sufferings, of the bloodshed, of the unspeakable pangs of the widow and the orphan, that the record before God on the last accounting day would be the blackest in the book of the recording angel. (Cheers.) No compromise for us : for what have they done with Ireland? They have kept one fourth of the arable soil of Ireland 40 as waste as when the world came out of chaos. They talk of over- population, because what they want is a four-footed population in Ireland. They object to a population with two feet ; but if they had expended in the reclamation of the land of Ireland a small part of the money that they wasted in roystering and card playing and luxury in old times, Ireland would T5 not be over-populated hut under-populated at this moment. And then the rents of another fomHi of the soil of Ireland are taken out of the country every year. They sweep away four millions as that wind is sweeping across the field. They sweep it out of this country ; they spend it in England, and as far as the rents of that fourth of the soil is concerned the country might ofl be as well without it altogether. And then, with regard to the rest of the soil, they have rack-rented the poor tenant until his life became an agony. 2 [S/i(/o. — Ndcemhcr 2S//i, 1880. — Jlfr. Thomas h>cxloii, M.P.) I^hoy have fri^'htoiicd Iiini until lui was alVaid to rocdaiui or improvo Ills fields ; and wlicii ho did voclaiin or improve his liclds what liavc they done? ^ 'fhey have either raised the rent above the point where lie (^mld get a living or else they have sold llieir estates, and one set of landlords (iiiterrnptioii) .... to another hy a trausaetiori the most desineable (interruption) in the history ot the world ten millions worth of the toil and sweat of the nrirortnnate tenants of Ireland. We shall have no eompromisc and we will have no courts. I hclievc from iny heart that whatever court or trihnnal would he elected in Ireland lor the settlement ol 10 the tenant’s claims— that that court in the course af time would gravitate hy social influence to the interests oi the landlord s. J It is impossible for the poor people living npon the soil with small incomes and Avithout social influence for to counteract the tremendous iufluenccs that Avealth and social position give the landlords, and therefore I say that Ave will have no comd 15 to settle the tenant’s interest in Ireland except the court that he holds hy his own fireside.j Let them do in Ireland Avhat they did in Prince Edward’s Island. What happened there ? After tli(3 American Avar of independence English officers had that island parcelled out between them very much as Ireland Avas in the days of Cromwell. They came aAvay home to England ; 20 their descendants inherited that island, and in the course of a hundred years that have passed since then, the English landlords oppressed the tenants so much that a movement like this was started in the island to get rid of the landlords altogether. Prince EdAvard’s Island became a part of the Dominion of Canada, and the people of the island made it a condition of joining with 25 Canada that the landlords should be expatriated from the country. The Parliament of the Dominion of Canada accepted that condition, and a Com- mission was appointed with a (interruption) landlords of Prince EdAvard’s Island. They were told that they had received their estates on the condition that they would plant Protestants on the soil. They all 30 broke their compacts just as the Irish landlord did, for there is not a landlord in Ireland that in strict laAV has any title to his estates. 7 ^. Thev^ air broke their pledges, and the Parliament of Canada told them | that unless they were AAulling to accept the terms offered their titles would he broken altogether, and they would be turned out without any- 35 thin O’. Well, the terms offered hy the Parliament of Canada to these landlords were something varying from 20 year’s purchase or from 4 to 7^", an acrej^e of the Land League, though we are much abused by the landlords, are offering considerably more than that ; but I warn them that if they persist in the stupid and obstinate coiuses upon AAffiich they 40 have entered, if they continue to keep their eyes closed and their ears plugged Avith cotton wool, that every day that passes will lower the terms that we shall offer to them, and in the end they will have to accept the lowest terms of all. am delighted .hpse to see here to-day the representatives of society, not in the fashionable sense of the Avord, but in the political sense ; 45 for I see here the farmer and the lahoruer, the artisan and the merchant. The farmer is here because he wants no longer to live his life, to draw his breath at the mercy of any man ; he wants to be the arbiter of his own destinies and the builder of his own fortune. I was waited upon to-day by a deputation of national teachers, who asked me to support their claim for pensions when they grow old. I told them I was very glad to do so, because I thought a man who spent his life in the public serAuco and did not get sufficient salary A 2 3 V stai^tion and tlu) workhouse hclorc I go every inch as far as Mv. Davitt did. Landlords in Eng lan'cTa ro satisfied to get three per cent. 10 on the money they invest in land. Landlords in Ireland are not satislied witli six (‘Nor 20’). Well, Isay that the tenant in Ireland is entitled not only to live decently and comfortably, not only to clothe his wife and family and to educate his children, not only to do all that, but he is entitled to do this also ; he is entitled to lay by from year to year 15 such a part of his income as will provide him in old age with a pro- vision like the pension which the State affords its servants in old age. That is the stand I take upon the rent question ; and I say , too, that you farmers, when you are going to offer the landlords all the rent you can afford to pay, ought to offer it upon the basis of keeping for yourselves this 20 necessary part of what you get out of the soil. (Interruption.) lou ha\e been kept in ignorance of your interests ; you have been content to dress very often like scarecrows and to eat food in this country which no other people, English or Scotch, would give to the beasts on their we must change all that (loud cheers). We must change farm. I tell you we must change all that (loua cneeisj. vve mubu 25 all that. We must live like human beings in Ireland. We must have food that will sustain the body, and houses and trousers too that will keep out the ( rain (laughter). The labourer is here to-day because he knows that when the farmers of Ireland are made the owners of their farms there will be waste i fields no longer. Every inch of ground will be turned to account ; eveiy 30 inch of ground will be submitted to careful cultivation ; the market tor labour will develope ; the labourers will be in demand ; the rate of wages will rise, and when we break up the large estates and throw small farms into the market, there will not be a labourer in Ireland but may, by the savings of a few years, become the owner of a little phff of ground himself. The artisan 35 is here to-day because he knows what killed our Irish trade. He knows that i our trade was strangled and murdered by foreign, by English laws, and he knows , that the only way to counteract those English laws is by unity and determined \ action, and that one result of our movement, when we plant around our towns a prosperous peasantry, masters of their own destiny, is that the | 40 cheerful hum of industry will be heard once more in the factory and the ^ workshop. And the merchant is here to-day, because the merchant knows that his trade, whether it be in food or in clothes, or in the ... . of houses, or of farms, depends, not upon a law or a landlord, but upon the mass of the farmers and labourers of the country ; and if any merchant in 45 Sli-o is inclined to doubt the fact, there is a very easy and practical method y of convincing him. /if there is any merchant in Sligo inclined to crook his \ backbone too much before aristocrats, or if there is any merchant in the | to^vn whose money bags reach so high that when he is perched upon them ^ he can no longer see the people, if there be any such man, it is your interest 50 and your duty to convince him that his interest lies upon your side. Draw him away from his error by withdrawing yciir custom from him, and I tell 4 (Slino — Noccmhcr 2S//i, 18S0. — 3I)‘. Thomas (^cxtoHj M,JP.) you that berorc many months arc ])ast, ho will hccomo an ardent momhor | oC the Land Lcagii^ Noav, my IViimds, T comdude hy saying that wo arc ^ swooping on at a galloping jiaco to victory, ddioso who wore onr enemies, landlords and agents of the English Government and the l^nglish Press, arc 5 now li‘»'htin<'‘ with one another like a lot of lovers round a very pretty and dcsirahle girl, to see who would gain her Tavour ; hut, to follow the metaphor, the girl has a lover in lier eye and she docs not care about any of them. (Laughter.) Now, h(' tiaie to that love which you have declared upon a thousand platforms, and to which you have pledged yourselves in 10 multitudes of resolutions. Stand together, as I have often told you in Sligo, and the victory is close hoforc you. There is no power in the land- lords or in Parliament, in any clique or any class, to withstand the verdict delivered hy the united will, determination, and intelligence, of the people ; and the verdict that has gone forth from the Irish people on this question 15 is that the reign of landlordism must end, and that the farmers of Ireland must he at liberty to use the soil for the good of the Irish people.” (Cheers.) Mr. Charles M’Gowan and the Rev. M. Conway then addressed the meeting, after which \ A 3 (^Sl!(/o—^'oc^’nlfJcr 2^/h 1880.— J/r. John Dillon, M.F.) Mr. John Dillon, M.P. said “ Follow oountryinoJi, it is too laic and loo wet for me to address you at any leiuj;tli, so I need do notliine; more than eong'ratulal(i you on the ])erse- veranee with which you have carried througdi this meeting to-day in spite of 5 the tierce weather which yon have had to encounter. Mi*. Davitt, speaking to YOU, told you how you were to determine upon the amount of rent wJiich you should olfer to your landlords during this season. There is one point in connection with that which I would wish to point out to you before this meet- ing hreaks up. I have seen it stated, and I believe it to bo a fact, that the 10 grand jury of this county arc about to jiresent a sum of 3,000/. for extra police (quartered on the county of Sligo. I know that in the barony of ^ Bclcarra, in the county Mayo, the grand jury have presented the sum of 2,000/. for six months for extra police. Now it comes to be a (question for the people, what arc they to do when this Bill is served to them along with 15 the Grand Jury cess and Poor rate. I tell you what we advise you to do. Having calculated, according to Mr. Bavitt’s directions, the amount of rent you can afford to pay, deduct from that amount the extra police tax, and charge it upon the landlord. You will thereby be doing common justice, because you will be making the landlords pay for the disturbances which they 20 created. You did not require the extra police to be brought here; they did not come to protect you or to protect your interests. lYho did they come to Xirotect ? (‘ The landlords.’) Let the landlords pay for them then. (Laughter and cheers.) When you go into the office and offer whatever rent you are to offer, hand on apiece of paper ‘ Less so much extra police tax.’ Well now, 05 we have done Avith the extra police tax, and before this meeting separates there is just one other point that I would wish to say a word on. I have heard and read it often our movement characterised as a movement of dis- honesty and a movement which would rob a man of his rightful property ; but now I would wish to put this question to those landlords who are so very 3Q hiirh-toned in their morality that they cannot noAV bear Avhat they call the demoralisation of the people. Here is a case, and it is one amongst a number which has come under my notice. I know a parish in the possession of an absentee landlord, and last winter when a famine was coming on, and a famine was very severe in this parish, the landlord levied off that parish 35 more than 1,000/. in rent. I should say probably he got 2,000/. "What did he do then? In that same parish out of the charity contributed in America and Australia, nearly 3,000/. was spent of public money in feeding the tenants whom he had stripped naked. I would ask you, what would the men in Australia and America, who contributed out of their hard-earned money to feed the people of Ireland do, what would they think if they knew that their money had not gone to feed the tenants, but had gone to pay their rents to an absentee landlord, the man that (Interruption caused by the heavy rain.) Is that justice ? Is that morality ? This man had drawn out of that parish 2,000/. a year for the last 50 years, and in the year of famine, in spite of our appeals, he insisted on his pound of flesh. But let us finish the picture. That man is, as I say, in the possession of (Interruption.) He is called a good landlord, and when the tenantry whom he had levied rent off last year were starving, and when the money of America and Australia was being spent to keep body and soul together, how much did he give to the charity fund of that district ? Not one farthing out of his 50,000/. a year, and the man avIio had drawn within 6 {Slifjo, — NolU’iiiber ‘28///, 1880. — Mr. John Dillon, M.P.) 25 yoars, wlio had dnuvn 25 times 20, 000/. in ail, you may (aihuilahi that how much it is wlio likes, lu' could uot ilud oiu; pound lo spare wlum the |)(!ople who liad earned this moiu'y, and paid it over to him Tor too lon^^ wesro left to starve, heeause they had paid more than the land could give them. This 5 is the morality of the landlord, and he turns round now, and in Enf>Iand is ]U)t ashamed to accuse his people of dishonesty, heeause now, warned by their experience of last year, they have resolved that they will keep as much out of their land and their earnings as Avill support them if starvation conies this year ns it did last, that he will turn his cold shoulder on them, and 10 iilloAV them to ])erish. If they call this dishonesty, I do not call it dishonesty, but I call it the highest form of honesty. I have advised those people to pay nothing if they cannot ailord it over and above their oivii food. I believe they null take my advice. 1 defy him, backed up by all the power of English Ministers, and Mr. Euckshot Eorster at his back. What Mr. Eorster 15 asserted he ivould do ivas that ho would lot the law have its course. Eet him come into Mayo, and try if the law Avill have its course. (Interruption.) IIoAvever, I believe that the higher law Avill prevail over the laAv of England this year; that law which says, to use the Avords of the most illustrious and the noblest prelate of the Irish Church, that law which Ave read written in the 20 words of the great Apostle, and Avhich says, ‘ The man who labours on the soil shall have the first fruits that law which he (juoted in a critical time to justify our doctrine, that the man who has taken the fruit out of the soil must be fed and his children must be fed, before the landlord or any other man has a right to partake of it. That is the law which we have proclaimed in Ireland this 25 year, and the people are determined to uphold it, and if English law runs counter to that law, let the people declare that they Avill stand by the law of God in preference to the law of England, and that the law of England will not prevail when it goes counter to the law of God. Let us now in concluding this great meeting, let us everyone determine that we will go on Avdth this 30 work steadily, resolutely, in the work of organisation. Very soon we mean to give up holding monster meetings, and then it will be for the j)eople themselves, having learned the lesson and the policy, to call together meetings in every parish month by month. They need not have subscriptions coming*^ from Lublin, they need not have any more monster meetings, but go on AAntli 35 the policy which has been laid out for you, and landlordism will very soon be tamed do\A’'n to a far more reasonable mood than ever was heard in Ireland g j] 2 ce the day when English landlordism first set its foot on them. (Cheeis.) {Sligo. — Novimbfr 28///, 1880. — Air. 1 \ J. Sheridan, M.V) Mr. Patrick Joseph Sheridan, M.P., said “ Mr. Chairiuan and Ccllow coiinirynieii, 1 thank you for your chocr.s, not as a pcn-sonal favour to me, hut as the warm outeorne of your |■eeliugs towards the principle with whieh f am espoused, towards the l)ody of which I have 5 the honour to he a memhcr, and towards tlie stand that .£ liavc taken on the platform for the assertion ol^ your rig’hts and tor tlie dcsti uction of land- lordism. The resolution that has been entrusted to me to propose to you is one that possesses a little novelty compared with those with wliich we started. It is one that is found at this stage of the disease which has been eating into 20 the vitals of the social system that it is absolutely necessary to bring out another subscription or prescription, for it is found that, notwithstanding the great strides that this movement has made throughout the bicadthand length of the land, that yet everybody has not thrown off the apathy which should be a load and a burden to every honest Irishman, and come into the ranks. 25 Yet some of them have stood aloof from the ranks, and we want just to^ve you a little blast that will try to set the mercury moving in them_^jThe resolution says that in future we confine our dealings with those that arc in political union with us, and that we will cease to extend our patronage to those who do not sympathise with us in this our struggle to ameliorate our 2Q condition, and who prefer to sit politically with those who would perpetuate i that slavery to which we have been so long and so unjustly condemned, My friends, apart from the necessity there is for this measure, it has common sense to recommend it, it has honesty, it has the principle of justice to suppoit it. 'Who is there that would try and bestow favours upon his foe? None 25 but a fool. Mlio is there that would go in with a shilling to any apathetic merchant in Sligo who refuses to lend his voice or his hand to this movement ? None but a fool and a slave. Who is it would look at such individuals as those who stand outside of our ranks and are hobnobbing to aristocrats, and who join heart and hand with those men who have adopted it as the rule of their 30 life that twopence halfpenny is entitled to look down on twopence ? Who is it would deal with them or give them the preference of their money P None but a man who was unworthy of a place in the ranks of the Irish National Ijand licague would do it ; and therefore I hope that those who have taken their stand in the ranks of the Irish National Land League will just mete 35 out to them as few of their coppers as possible. (Interruption.) No man can force you to do it, on the contrary, every honest man would condemn you for doing it, and by this simple process you will try to straighten the crook backs of those apathetic, slow sluggards where they are in the background and have not come forward to give a helping hand to stru^'^lin®'' Ireland. N^ow, m.y friends, apart from that resolution I think I owe to the many who have assembled here to-day to give a tew words of explanation why it is that the camp you expected was n ot erected on these grounds last night, lest other constructions might be placed upon it. (Interruption.) Some of the principal originators of this meeting decided it would be too severe upon men who are making so many sacrifices and travelling over. . . . (Interruption.) Therefore we had decided to forego the thing, and to leave the camp at home and to march, at whatever inconvenience it might be, ‘Dense, resolute, and stiong, to Tvar against and wrong.’ There is one other feature in this movement which 50 I think is richly deserving of mention from this platform in Sligo. Sectarian feelino' and bigotry has run riot with each other in this part of the county of 8 I (iilUjn.—Noeemhci- 2S//<, 18S(I.— .V/-. J. ShcrhUm, M.!".) Sli-o for some line! lack. .As one ol' llioso idcniilicd with this srcai national nhitlorm 1 have hove to give uttenmee t.) the tact as one of its ri'iircscntativcs, that tliis platl'orm is ci-eetcd I'oi' men of all creeds and all .sections ot the com- munity and with open aims it invites into its cmhi-aeos any and every man 5 who has to earn his hread hy the sweat of his hrow, rogardle.ss of creed or class so Ion- as Ireland is his eoiintiy, and that the Land League can ho considered a^satety plank for his (Interruption.) l have recently addressed a meeting which 1 was solemnly assured consisted ol at least 60 per cent, of enrolled Orangemen down at C and 10 Ehicklion 1 have hoeu assured that they were as earnest and as zealous in\vorkin- .... (Interruption) heen hiiricd for once and for ever in that district beneath the feet of this uprising population on. ilie borders of Ulster. Let us hope that we assisting it hero shall assist also in diffusing that spirit of toleration, hrothcrly love, and national feeling, which 16 alone can pilot this great movement to that harbour of safety in which we soon hope to see the flag of a united Irish people flying over in peace and prosperity. Now, our distinguished guest here, Mr. Dillon, that worthy and hold repre- seutative of the gallant Tipperary men (cheers), he told you that this paternal government of ours is calling on us to give them 3,0001. for the 20 accommodation they have atlorded us of having policemen marching round about through the country, without knowing what they had to do or what their business was. AVell, ray friends, this is hut one other lesson of the many that have heen taught us hy the British Government. We have long since learned to know that when we asked for relief or for succour rate 25 days of famine or days of distress in Ireland, that it was coercive measures we had -ot from England instead. Nowit just occurs to me what a contrast these two features must form before the mind of any moralist, any civilised educated party or Christian man. Last season, when poverty stalked broadcast over the land, what sum did the British Government send into 30 County SHgo to furnish food for the starving? I am not aware that the Government sent us 30 penee. Now, my Mends, they send you 3,0001. for huekshot, so that you can fatten on that. (Laughter.) [,11 remains for you, by a persevering, steady, manly, constitutional attitude, to show for once and for all that you are determined, without waiting for the opinion of as British Ministers, or without waiting for the Acts of Parliament, that you have got to make and to frame your own laws hy your own fireside , and that once ySn^rSnSitiaiieople, have made up your minds to the com-se that you are to adopt, confiding in the Land League, you will so go . . • (lote- runtion.) (TNow, about valuation. The reason why I at all refer to this k— ,P0 forreallTi short speech is the best one this evening-it appears tt'erej » sort of conflicting idea as to the justice or injustice of paying Griffith s valuation. I have put in an appearance on a platform the ot ei dav down in Ulster; no, I believe it was the lower end of Leitrim; thL a resolution was brought forward, which was first submitted to a large 1.6 committee-a large committee-several respectable clergymen had a voice and the result of the discussion between this respectable and intel igen committee was that Griffith’s valuation in that part of the country was a raekrent- and a vote was put that a resolution should be put m shape demandin- of the landlords who were only asking Griffith’s valuation one- go tod of an abatement beneath Griffith’s valuation, and that even then it “ was a raekrent. Let this cry of ‘ Valuation ’ not get too much scope ■R 9 Q 3360.— 87. -D k (^Sligo.—Novemfjc)’ 28///., 1880.— J/y. P. -/• Sheridan, M.P.) ;vinoiii?st iis. [t is ii (lani^oroiis toy to play witlu Hy and l)y it may 1)C ^ takoirup by the Log'islal lire (inha-vuption), ‘ and it inust he fair and just, they will say, to the Irish tenant, therlore we seal it as the law ot the land, 'rivat might he a relief to a few, hut would he a eurse to many. It would he 5 unjust. And what I say to you here is, let Grinith’s valuation ho the maxi- mum rent you will pay to any of these gentlemen. Do not pay them one penny more pending the settlement of this question; and, on the oGier hand, where GrilTith’s valuation is a rackrent, hy all means assert your right to a reduction thereof. Now, my friends, I will not detain you any longer, 10 hut let me impress upon you here solemnly and earnestly the al)sohitc necessity there is of forgetting all feuds, all political distinctions, all religious animosities ; and, in God’s name and the 'name of Ireland, in future when- ever you enter into the rent office that you go in with erect heads and ex- panded hreast, and that with folded arms you look your landlord in the 15 ffice ; and Catholic and Protestant taking up that stand together (interrup- tion) shall with united voice agitate the political atmosphere until, like a thunderholt, it shall ring round the breadth and length of the land, and if this ominous foreboding he not ample to win the objects that you have in view, the day may he not far distant when an educated, upright, and intelli- 20 gent Irish people may for once and for ever hurl the thuuderholfc of manly Lfiance in the teeth of (interruption), which no patriotic or united people ever failed to win.” Cheers. 10 / THOMASTOWN, Co. K flic it /iff, Stfitdftff, 2S/// Norcm/icr 1880. In coin])liancc with instrucjtions received, I proceeded to Thoiiiastown, county of Kilkenny, to attend at and report the proceedings of a Land League meeting ])nl)lislied to 1)0 held there on Sunday, the 28th Ko\emhei 1880. On my arrival there on that day I found a platform erected in a 5 small field outside tlu' town, and a green arch spanned the street as you the platlorm. The Thomastown hrass hand attended, and enlivened the proceedings with some national music, f hey cairicd a large green hanner trimmed with orange, on which was in golden “Thomastown Young Elen’s Society,” harp, “ God save Ireland. llicie were hetween 10 1,500 and 2,000 persons present. At about 2 o’clock p.m., on the motion of Edward Eorestal, of Jerpoint, seconded by Michael Holden, of Powerswood, the chair was taken by Pev. Edward Helahunty, P.P., Thomastown. There was great crushing on the platform, which prevented me taking 15 notes ; and as Mr. Marum speaks rather fluently I was unable to follow him correctly. Thomas O’Pohke, Mr. Michael P. Boyton then came forward and said : — 20 “ Eellow countrymen and women of Kilkenny, if there be anything that ean repay a man for the work that we have been actively engaged in for the last six months, in bringing the people face to face noth their enemies, it is to see such an assembly so orderly and so law-abiding as this assembly. You eannot look to me to-day for a speech. Your members have given you 26 the true gospel of the Irish National Land League you are nou^ called upon min. I am not equal to the task of explaining the doctrines of the Land Leao-ue to-day. Within 14 days this is the eleventh public meeting I have attended, and I tell you, men of Kilkenny here to-day, were it possible for you to know the power of the people as we do from Donegal to Cork, from ■30 the east to the west — if you knew hoM’’ united and determined your brother Irishmen are— you would go with them hand-in-hand in this war, for it is a war, against this unholy system, and we will never cease until this system is destroyed for ever. (Cheers.) Your parish priest told you in words of burning eloquence that which landlordism did in the past in your midst— 35 your fields rendered wastes, your chapels left without a congregation. But never mind what was done in the past ; but, now, let it not be done in the future by that accursed system of Irish landlordism, and that system we have to-day by the throat, and we look to you here at home on your own soil, and we will appeal to you to help us to strangle it completely. Eighteen 40 months ago on the wild slopes of Mayo every acre of reclaimed land there has been watered by the tears of your brother Irishmen. Eighteen months ao-o a handful of shattered serfs listened to the advice of the real father of Q 3366.— 90. 1 {Thomastowv . — November 28///, 1880. — Mr. Miehael P. Boylon.) a lla^- l)()lbro this laud movomcut — INlicluiol Davitt. I'li/'y lliorc' raised hi^-h heaven, and on its folds weiv inscrilx'd tliat war cry. Do you take it'^up to-day ? (‘We will, wc will.’) It is, ‘The laud for the pooide ’ and ‘ Away with laiidlordisui. root, and hrauch.’ I call upon you to beware of the 5 base and bloody Wbigs. I tell you there is a wbiggery here in your midst. Do you stand up like Irishmen and say, ‘We will never sully the cause oiir brothers are fighting to maintain to-day.’ Have nothing to do with land- lordism, or it will 1)0 like the wolf and the lamb. Now let no wolf come in amongst you. Listen to no scheme, for there is no scheme but one if you be 10 L good Land Leaguer. When these men come to you, tell them come to us and we will dictate our terms. To-day the question wound up in the question landlordism must go — we Avill have the land for the people. (Cheers.) Listen to no man who tells you that we are rushing the Irish people head- long into a swamp at the bottom. Drom the knowledge I have of my 15 countrymen on the contrary we arc working up the mountain s side for liberty (there is no liberty liere, we are all slaves.) We arc engaged in lifting up the condition of our people. (Cheers.) I tell you again, men of Kilkenny, in joining hands with your brothers you are a long way off fiom where this county should be. Come in with a rush and take the place that 20 belongs to Ossory-rush to the front if you are to be members of Ireland’s National Ai-my— the Land League. It began by attacking that greed that lies in their own breasts — the greed for land. I tell you that an individual landlord may be a bad man, but you, the Land League have nothing to do with an individual landlord but with the whole accursed system. ^ The individual 26 landlord may be a bad man, but the man who upholds him is ten times worse ; and we want you to put down that man as a prelude to the whole system. I will now give you the pledge of the Land League, and I ask you if you are not conscientiously able to take the pledge, don’t lift your hand, for you will be worse than a traitor. I ask you now never to take land 30 from which another has been evicted. Never to purchase cattle or crops seized for rent, and never buy from or sell to the traitor who breaks this pledge ; and anyone who can do that let him hold up his hands. (All hands raised.) If you adhere to that pledge, if you keep that pledge faithfully and honestly, so sure as to-morrow’s sun rises so 35 sure will you exterminate that accursed system of landlordism. You may when you go home think you have done your duty to your country. It is the duty of every man here to go further. Mr. Mariim addressed you to-day, and I tell you it is not by sending your subscriptions to keep me out of gaol —that will not do— I am thankful to you who contribute for my liberty, 40 hut I would sooner a thousand times take the hand of the man who would be a member of the Land League of Ireland, for when we are swept away there will be no injustice. Dor the British Government is capable of any injustice ; and we want you to remain to work. Good and tvne men will spring up in your midst, and never lower your standard, for it is the good 45 old cLse that lifts this isle from chains. Dor Ireland’s good old cause, my friends, gird up yom loins and boldly face the work that yet remains to do. (Cheers.) You have here to-day established the Thoniastown Branch of the Irish National Land League. I will read the names of its officers. Presi- dent, Bev. Dather Delahunty, parish priest of this parish ; treasurer, Bev. 60 Dather Coyne, curate of this parish; honorary secretaries, Mr. E. Dorestal and Mr. John Cantwell. The organisation is now in existence, and all you {nommiuion.— November 28lb, 1880.— iS'. Jlicimel I’. Birijtmi.) have te ,lo is to Rive your .uunes and suliscriptions at any time co.mmicjt to YOU Vlready tlirouhdiout tlie vvliole of the county ol Liiueriek. two-tliirds ol Tiniierarv and Watorlbrd, the i.eoi.le have pledged tlieraselves to pay no rent over Griffith's valuation. Now if tliere he any nunfficr of tenmrts m the .5 county of Kilkenny come together and say we wdl otter Grilhth s valuation and not one I'arthing more. (Cheers.) If these men do tha , I pledge you you will have the national organisation of Ireland at your hack to hgh your cause. If your landlord refuse to adopt that, take the advicc of Parnell and keep a grip of your farms and homesteads, and keep a grip of your len . 10 (Loud cheers.) I certify that 1 have compared this with my original shorthand notes, and that it is now a true and correct copy of them. Thomas O’Rorke, Constabulary Eicporter. 3 WATERFORD CITY, Sunddjj, December 181 c oI IvcOand wonlil liiivc been di-ivcii away as Uiay woiw driven in ’ ll and ’18. (Uliecn-s.) 'I In; laedlnrds wonl.l nndnnldedly have taken advantage of tlio (.[(perlnnily tliat nas given tliein if tliey laid not I'onnd llieinsclves face to lace with a iiower 5 whieh no oligavehy e.an resist in tliese days— (elieers)— the Ibree of eonl- hined iinlilie oiiinion and of a nat ion anting togetlicr as one man. (‘ JSr.avo. ) “ Now, I do not wish t.o make you despair of tlio futni-e, liceause t.hcrc is no reason to despair of it (‘ I tear, liear ’), hut I wish to warn yon not to expect too mneh from tlie present I’arliamont. (‘ i tear, licar.’) 1 was a very carol ul 10 olisorver of (he events of last session, when Mr. Ciliulstone was trying to pass a miserahle little Bill of one clause called the Ooiiipeiisation lor IJisturbancc Bill' (hiiightcr), and I saw then that he had not the forces hehind him to carry any iiicasiirc of real value to this country. Ifo has got m tlie first place to contend with the Wliig territorial iiiflaenoe in his Cahiiiet heforo he 15 ever drafts his Bill; and from the very start any measure that he lirings forward must ho a compromise with the great Whig English and Irish landowners (‘Hear, hear.’) When he brings it into the House of Commons ho finds himself face to face with a determined and powerful Tory ohstruetiTO party (a voice; ‘Howu with them’), and behind Ins back he finds 20 airain arrayed those same Whigs in his own party, whom he is scarcely sure of for 21 hours together. (■ Hear, hear.’) Consequently to secure the passage of even his compromised measure, compromised m its mceptioii, he has to airrco to still further compromises. And when at length liis Bill strimo-les’into the House of Lords, if he hopes to carry it through, it must 25 he atttie price of still further compromises and concession. I ask you then, in the face of these difficulties, what is the use of expecting a really satis- factory measure of land reform from the Parliament this session? (Cries of ‘ No use.’) No, you will he left at the end of the session as you were left at the end of last session, to depend upon your own determination and 30 organisation for yourselves. (Clieei-s. and a voice : ‘ We will cling to the Lmid Leao-ue.’) This is one of the chief reasons why I have always resisted what has°heen called the three P’s. The three E’s necessitate valued rents Whether the results of a re-valuation would he fair to the tenant w'ould depend entirely upon the basis of the re-valuation, and the tribunal which had to cany it out. And I ask you what is the use of expecting from Parliament, constituted as I have just shown you it is constituted, any basis of re-valuation which will not be enormously in favour of the landlord airainst the tenant. (‘ Hear, hear.’) Let us take our stand upon our just nVhts (‘ Hear, hear.’) Don’t let us ask for anything that is impraoticahle oiAmpossihle. Don’t let us ask for anything which has not been sanctioned hv the successful example of almost every other European country. ( ‘ Hear hrar ’) And taking our stand upon our just rights of ownership of the am for Hie people of Ireland (cheers), let ns leave to the enemy the offer of compromise. (‘ Hear, hear.’) Let the first ofier of compromise come from 45 them, for they are the heleagured and isolated garrison surrounded by their enemies ; and I warn them that it they waste too much time, if they delay too lone- to settle with the enemy when he is in the gate, when he is still m the gate, the day will very soon come when they will find that their power of proposing or obtaining any compromise has been taken away from them 50 CHear hear’), and they will bitterly lament that they have thrown away their opportunities when the people of Ireland were still willing to allow 35 40 {tratcrjord Cili/- — December 5/4, 1.880. — Mr, (Jharlea aS'. Darnell} M,1 ,) lliciu to (lojinvt ill peace, with such coinpcuisaiion tor their interests as might seem to h(^ fair. (Cheers.) .... “ Before I eoiielude I wish to remark upon a matter which is oL eoiisider- ahlc jiraetical importance. The larmcrs who olitam ahatements in their 5 rents— and it is that farmer’s own fault who does not obtain an abatement in his rent, heeause every larmer who lies down now at the Icet of the landlord is a traitor to his country— farmers, I say, then, who obtain an abatement of their rents should use, at all events, some of that ahatement in -iving employment to the labourers during the coming winter. (Cheers.) 10 LlirycarVe hadl^^cg in evci^ (luarter of the world to keep the small farmer and labourer from starving. (Cheers.) You are placed in the position of being able to do without any more liegging, and, please God, the Irish people shall never again ask alms from anybody. ^ (Cheers.) And, therefore, I appeal to the farmers who obtain ahatements in their rents to 15 sive suitable and generous e mployment to J hejahQjirers during this coming winter (cheers), so that there may he no distress or suffermg m the countey ; and meanwhile I ask you to organise yourselves. As I said at the beginning, you have been very late in the held ; but I feel conhdent, from what I have seen, that in no other county in Ireland does there exist better material 20 for organisation than in Waterford. (Cheers.) Push on, then ; organise branches of the Land League in every parish in Waterford, and we^ promise you on our part that, once you are organised, no cutting off or imprisonment of the leaders will do you the slightest harm (cheers), and that before a very long time has elapsed, perhaps much sooner than many of us expect 25 now, the people of Ireland will be enabled to enter for the hrst time on the path of prosperity and national independence (cheers), and that we shall have succeeded in destroying one of those last props of British misrule in Ireland which still exist amongst you.” (Immense cheering.) 3 {^ Fothard . — Docomher 5///, 1880.) / FETHARD, CV. Tippcrmy. SiDuhtij, ’’ith December 1880. Archdeacon Kinane in the Chair. Speakers : Clrau-man, Mr. John Crowe, Mr. John M‘Carthy, Very Rev. Dean Qnirk. Mr. Dillon, M.P. „„ 5 “ Pellow countrymen, it gives me the greatest possib c p easure o s vast an assemblage of Tipperary men hero to-day to carry on the peat wor • in which we have been engaged now for upwards of a year ; and it gives me pleasure to sec by the men who marched in to-day in column, that the men of Tipperarv arenot cooling in the cause. We have been taunted, and it 10 has been cast as a reproach against the men of our race, that tlicy can do something in enthusiasm, but that they can stick to nothing ; hut I see ttot the men ofTipperaiy are determined to stick to this cause of Ireland tor the Irish people, and down with British landlordism (cheers), and I am to-day in the proud position of being enabled to say that the county which 15 I represent is second to none in the number of its Land Leaguers, and in their determination to can-y through the cause. Within the last month t us movement has made an immense advance, and the position of affairs in Ireland to-day is such that our Governors have only got two atenatives before them ; either they must now yield to the demands of the peep e, 20 formulated by the National Land League, which speaks on behalf of t le people, or they must resort to brute force to coerce the vast majority of the Irish people. No middle course will do, because we have Land League controls the public opinion of Ireland, and that the Bntis Government does not control that public opinion (cheers) ; and the law 25 can only prevail when it is a law which has been approved of can on y peaceably prevail when it is a law which has the approval and the respect of the majority of the people who are bound to obey it. (Cbeers.) But the question which we put to the Irish people at the beginning of this agitation was ‘ Have the Land Laws of Ireland the respect of the majority of e 30 Irish people ? ’ And three-fourths or four-fifths of the Irish people have replied that the Land Laws of Ireland have neither their respect nor then- sympathy, and what is more, that they do not propose to obey those laws so long as they-can possibly resist them. Now the question is, is the British Government going to once more repeat its acts of the past. Is it 35 o-oing to resort to blind and brutal force in order to coerce the lush Lopk to obey a law which is detestable to them ? The Government of L-Hand has great force at its command, and of course it can impmson us, and it can imprison all the men who are prominent m the Land ^ague movement; but if this movement is suppressed by force it is well for the 40 Government to know before they enter upon that course that such a course will leave in the minds of the Irish people a hatred so intense to the name Q 3366.-88. [ Fethard . — Decewher 5///, ISSO. — Mr. Dillon., M.P .) and to tho laws of Eno-land iliat noihin^- l)ut an onormons niiliiary force will cv(M- compel tlio'rrisli ])Coplo to submit to tlicm ; and 1 say that il the Jbiglish Government enter upon a policy of (;oercion and attempt to use brute Ibia^c against tbc majority o( the [risb people to-day, that that 5 cours(^ will render tlu^ _conncction between the two countries an impos- sibility in the 1‘uturejand I say furthermore to the landlords of Ireland that the Land Law, if this movement is suppressed, that its supjwession ^>y force and violence will beget in the minds of tlu; people so desperate and bitter a hatred to landlordism and to the men who live 10 by it, that the house of every landlord in Ireland will be built over a volcano, and he cannot tell the hour when that volcano may burst and sweep him and all that belong to him to a far worse fate than that which the National Land League of Ireland dealt out to him. (Cheers.) If the landlords of Ireland had been wise, as they never were, they would have 15 made terms with this movement a year ago. They would have got better terms a year ago than we will give them to-day; and I say to-day, and remember my words, — if we go on with this agitation for a year, that they arc offered better terms to-day than we will give them this time next vear. Therefore it is in the interest of the landlords to get this question 20 settled in a way to please the people as soon as they possibly can, and I have always held and said that there is no chance for the Irish people to get a just Land Law passed through the English Parliament mitil they made it the wish and the interest of the Irish landlords to get that law passed. We have done that to-day. (CheCTS.) We have 25 made the Irish landlords anxious to settle this question, and there- fore there is some chance that it will be settled; but if they arc foolish enough to resist its settlement, if they are foolish enough to press on the Government into a course of violence and coercion, then I say that next year the terms which we will offer them in the name of the 30 people will not be half so good as the terms we offer them to-dav- Now let me say a word on the question of the reductions of rent which we have demanded through the west and the south of Ireland in the name of rhe National Land League. Three months ago we were accused of extreme demands, and we were told that our policy was a policy of dishonesty and 35 robbery ; and then the advocates of landlordism held up to us as patterns of honesty and of what tenantry ought to be, who, but the Protestant tenantry of Ulster. Well, now what do we find to-day? We find the Protestant tenantry of Ulster meeting together on the great estates of Ulster and demanding more than we told you to demand : we find the tenantry of Lord 40 Lurgan meeting the other day, I suppose three-fourths of them Protestants, and”demanding from Lord Lurgan half a year’s rent off this year and a large reduction for the future — more than Griffith’s valuation. We find the^ tenantry of Sir Pichard Wallace’s estate, one of the largest in the whole province of Ulster, meeting together and demanding that the rents be 45 permanently reduced by 50 per cent., and when Sir Pichard Wallace sent back a reply that he would not grant that reduction, the tenantry met again and stated that they should have it or else they could not five. Now these are the people who were held up to the tenantry of the south and the west as models of honesty. I wonder would the landlords like us to follow in 50 their footsteps now. (Cheers.) The mistake perhaps we made was, we told the people to pay too much. (Laughter.) Next year is a new year, and if they do not wind up this question before next year we will have had time to (ylMImrd.—Deconiborm., issO— Tl/r. mUnn, M.P.) ivy, jnul i)(n-h:ii)s wc; will Inid iluil. wc wciiii loo lav in ollovino- (ivilliilvs valuaiiou. (Laugiitov and oIkhhvs.) Now 1 would lik(>. hciovo 1 close on this (juestion of the noviliovn tonanivy io say a wovd oi- two with regavd to l.he action of the tenant-ravnievs of llui novtli. 'riicvo is vevy litth; dillcvenco 5 in point of pvinciplo hc'twcon the favniovs of the novtli and the lanners ol the south ; no diirovence at all in principle. Idie only dilfevencc is this, that the lanners of the north are still under the delusion that they can got justice from the English Ministers. Well now, I do not want to quarrel with that vi(;w. I am quite willing to let the Presbyterian farmers of Ulster aslc for 10 iustice from the Englisli Ministers. When they have been refused it thej- will come and join the National Land League, and I am very glad to see that with one voice, at all the meetings which they have hold, they have raised thcii- voieos in condemnation at the infamous attempt, as they call it, which was made to sow religious dissension between the farmers of Ulster 15 and the farmers of Munster and Connaught,— between the Catholic and the Protestant ; and at meeting after meeting of Protestant farmers resolutions were passed denouncing as tools of the lancUord any man who would raise the cry of difference of religion, or raise the question of religious dissension. (Cheers.) Let us then go on with our movement as we have carried it on up 20 to the present. Let us secure that every man is enrolled and disciplined, and organised in the movement, and let us be perfectly content in the belief that if Parliament does not settle the question before next year it is quite possible that the result may be only to reduce the rent still more. Now, if Parliament had settled the question last year would you have got the 25 reduction to Griffith’s valuation? Not a bit of it. You would have been very glad last year to go on paying the old rent. But you got some instruction during the year, and a new policy was preached to you, and now you are in a better position to-day than if Parliament had passed a Bill last year. So, what you have got to do is to work for the League, to maintain the League, 30 and organise yourselves most strictly, and to subscribe according to your ability to carry on this great movement to a successful issue. Let me say also, that the Irish race all over the world is now thoroughly aroused to the greatness and the patriotic and national character of this movement. The Irish of America and Canada and Australia are up in sympathy with us, 35 and money and sympathy wiU pour in from these countries to lielp you ; but you must remember that the amount of help you will get from America will be in proportion to the amount of work you do for yourselves. Stand firm; show that you are able to help yourselves and your friends in America will be at your back ; but if you do not work hard, every man 40 of you, in the cause, why you won’t get the help from abroad, nor you don t deserve it. You ought to work, every man, every individual man, as if the cause depended on him alone ; and if you work in that spirit you are masters of the situation, and the Government cannot put you down. (Cheers.) This cause is the cause of every man, except the landlord, in Ireland. The 45 labom^er is just as much interested in it as the farmer, and so is the shop- keeper in the town, and every man ought to be asked and called upon to join in the movement. In the west of Ireland so greatly has the movement spread that the bailiffs on all the estates and the rent warners have joined in the League (laughter), and a very curious difficulty has arisen on that account. 50 Becently, some evictions were going to be carried out, and large bodies of police were put in motion, but when they got out to where the houses were A 2 3 / / {^Fethavd . — Dencmhov 5/4, ISSO. — 3'lr. hlHon, M.F.) with ilu'. writs it was fouiid that nolxxly Icnow wlio liv('(l in (xich liousn. 'riu', hailin' and tho rant warnnr a,nd all tha imai who know tha loaahty ware in tha Leai^na, and they would not tell, and tlu; troubles was that tlu*. writs were all served on tha wront«- man. (Laug'hter.) That has added a eonsiderahla 5 dillleulty to the ])roeess oC eviation : in faet, 1 am inelined to thuds: that it will take them a mouth of thought hefoia; they ean devise a plan to get over that dillleulty. (Laughter.) Well, by various means of tha.se Iduds we eau defeat the evietiou without resorting to violence, and my belie! is that this movement, if the peoi)lc Avork earnestly and organise systematieally, can go 10 on to a successful issue, even without a stroke of violence at all ; and 1 will only say in conclusion that though I am not a man who am too much given to telling the people not to shed a drop of human blood, or that all liberty is not worth a drop of human blowl— because I believe it is worth a groat deal of human blood, I believe^^I Avould like to say in conclusion that I 15 think that the interests of this movement, particularly as regards the good name of the Irish race in foreign countries, would be best served by the people maintaining a strictly defensive policy, not injuring any man either in his person or in his property, but simply Boycotting any man who turns traitor on the people : Boy cott Av as — never a liair of his head was hurt^ nd 20 no man raised his hand against him— and Avhat Jias been the res^ ? He has been obliged to By tTTe countryTand yet no man could be touched by the law or punished for anytliing that was done to him. And furthermore, no crime was committed in connection with him. Let then the people pursue this policy of defence, and there is no doubt in the Avorld but that, as I said 25 before, they have the game in their own hands, and they can insist on having fair and just terms conceded to them ; and furthermore, that if the landlords adopt a policy of bullying and repression, that it will be in the power of the people to punish the landlords and bring them to reason.” (Loud cheers.) 30 Mr. John Doheny moved a resolution. Mr. James Kenrick seconded the resolution. Rev. Mr. Marr addressed the meeting. Rev. Mr. O’Keeffe addressed the meeting. Mr. Boyton i , 35 “ Men of Tipperary and brother Land Leaguers, for I find myself face to face with the representatives of 20 branches of the Irish National Land League. (Cheers.) Six months have passed since that bright Sunday in June last when I heard the cheer from 20,000 willing throats that greeted the immortal vow of Tipperary. (Cheers.) That vow was spoken off the 40 fields of Kilbrn-ry, at the foot of Slieve-na-Mawn. That cheer has found a response in every patriotic Tipperary heart, from Carrick streets to Shannon shore, aye, and far beyond the Atlantic ; and every Tipperary man beyond the sea has echoed on that cheer a key-note that tells him at last the Irish people are learning sense. They have determined to begin with practical 45 measures to lead up to the grand finale— their independence. (Cheers.) The 4 (Fcfhard . — Docomhcr 5///-, 1S80. — Mr. Boy Ion.') words of that vow you roiuoiuhou well, hccauso it was never more to lilt a hand exeept in war Tor native land, yth I )(•(■< nuher 1880 . Mr. Thomas Brennan Mr. Cliairniaii and men of Meatli, I have been asked to propose the next resolution, and it is a very important one. It runs as follows . “ That as the cause of the tenant-farmer is the cause of lahour, we plcdp ourselves to aid hy every means in our power, any movement having for its 5 object the social emancipation ot the working classes. M^hen Ave see this magnilicient meeting of all that is left of the manhood of Meath— of all of it that has escaped the heavy hand of the destroyer, Ave may conclude that Meath has at length taken its proper position in the ranks of the army of redemption, for although you have never failed to answer to 10 the call of country, or of humanity, it was sometime before you stirred m this great uprising of Ireland’s democracy. It may be that the memory ot the ancient history of your country, which you have just heard painted m such brilliant Avords by Mr. Sullivan, caused you to look with suspicion upon the movement that was originated, not in “Tara’s Halls,” but in the humble 15 cabins of Mayo ; a movement that owes not its existence to princes or lords, but to the hard-working sons of toil. However that may be, I think we liaA- e evidence to-day that royal Meath has gone on Arith the Hadical tide that is sweeping over the country, and that henceforth your ambition shall be not for kings or thrones, but nations ; not chiefs or lords, but men. We have had 20 enough of kings in Ireland, both native and foreign, both crowned and un- crowned, and the only sovereign to Avhom we should to-day owe allegiance is the king of intellect, or the king of labour. We have had enough of move- ments that were started in gilded palaces from which the people were excluded Ave have had enough of leaders avIio glorified themselves and 25 despised the people on whose backs they climbed to power. We have had enough of leaders who taught the people to repeat what John Mitchell called the btany of slaves. We have had leaders enough (and Meath has had a bitter experience of them) of the brass band class who did not hesitate tn invoke, even the sacred name of religion, in order to condone their 30 own apostacy. And it is now time that the people should try what they can do ndthout leaders, and by the simple force of their own power. Too long you have liearkened to the counsel that submission to every wrong Avas the chief duty of life. It is the slave that makes^ the tyrant, and the more you crouched down to them the more they despised you, the 35 more yon bent your backs the heavier they inflicted the bloAV, till the A\orking jj^an the man Avhose sAAnat draAvs forth all the fruits of the earth, the man whose skill fashions life’s luxuries — till the Avorker in the fields, and the' artizan in the workshop, came to consider himself what his oppressors had long considered him to be, a mere instrument for ministering to the comfort 40 of idlers. But the voice of truth has gone forth proclaiming in thundering tones the rights of man, and the slave AA^ho yesterday touched his hat to Q."36G.— 89. A I /' — 5/4 Deccmhcr 1880. — Mr. Tlionut.'^ Brannan.) sonu' lu':!]) of clay, liiuls to-day that, ho is Ids c(|ual, and li(5 will not insult the (lod who inad(‘ all men equal by bowing- down Ixdofc him. 1 have seen what an ('xiraordinary chani'’e a knowledge ol tlu'ir rights has wrought i)i. men. 1 hav(' seen, the hewers ol wood, and tlio draAvers ol water the iium 5 Avhose bodies and souls AV('r(‘ at, ihe imwey ol a lew Connaught s(iidre(!ns men Avho considered it a privilege to he alloAved to live ou the earth that the landlords calhal theirs,—! have seen i.hcm sudchmly take courages wlum. they cauu' to knoAV Avhat Avere men’s God given rights. I have seen old men standing lor hours Avith heads uncovered in the presence ol niy loids age nt 10 as thcy'^came to tender him the tax which in the sha])e of rent he levied upon their I'ahour. Ihit all that is now changed ; they have dispensed with that ceremony Avheuever they do come to pa.y rents, and I assure vou that Avest of the Shannon at least the drones of society must he very respectful towai-ds the Avorkers. 15 It is a groat fault AAuth the Irish people, and I think, and I have alAvays thought , that it should he more the duty of any person to whom his country- men consented to listen, rather to point out their faults and shoAV them hoAV they can he corrected than, extolling imaginary virtues, and bringing contumely upon our country hy claiming a monopoly of qualities that we 10 do not possess at all ; one of our great faults is that aa e leave too much of our husiness to other people to do instead of doing it ourselves. We are too apt also to judge men not hy their Avorth hut accoiding to theii titles or their birth. But the mighty proportions which this movement has assumed, this movement started hy the people and conducted hy the people, 25 is a healthy sign of the change in the temperament of the people. In one short year the fire kindled in Mayo has illuminated the entire country, and bids fair to burn out that evil of religious antagonism that so long ruined ' and distracted our country. M^e see the people of the north of Ireland, the descen dents of the men who fought AAdth your fathers on the hanks of 30 yonder river, we see them ready to enter into a hiotheihood of labour hy which the rights of the industrial classes can he protected from the greed of the merr Avho liA^e hy others labour. M ill yorr rrreet them irr ilie spirit oi correiliatiorr ? During the next week, I am happy to tell you, rrreetirrgs will be held every day irr the Province of Ulster. On Tuesday next I hope - to 35 have the pleasure of addressing a meeting in Perrnanagh that will he mostly composed of Orangemen. Shall I he the hearer of a rrressage from you to them ? Shall I tell them the merrrory of the past is forgotten P Shall I tell them that the memory of the fight ahorrt Kings, the one a tyrant and the other a paltroon is forgotten, and that you invite them to join Avith you iir 40 emarreipaiing labour from the oppressiorr of idleness ? The most hopeful sign in connectiorr with this rnovemerrt is the rrniversal hold it is taking orr the public mind. It is no longer confined to the people of one province, or one county, hrrt everyAvhere a platform of the land for the people is erected. And strange indeed woirld it he if Meath did not join in this holy Avar, — Meath that has 45 within the last 30 years lost half its population hy the evil effects of the system that threatens the race with extinction. A’ou have hut to look upon your county that once supported an industrious and prosperous people, noAV hut a cattle AA'alk, and Avhen you have seen it do you not feel that you have an account to settle with that system. I ask you to-day to think of the many 50 homesteads that have been levelled, of your kith and kin that have been sent to foreign countries, or left to die in Avorkhouses or ditches, and tell me will you not devote your lives to the destruction of the system that caused 2 [Ndiui/i. — iilli Dcc(H)ih(‘i‘ 1S8(). — J//’. T/iodijih lii'oniKdi.') that ruin. IT latidlonlisiu had no otlua* sins to answ(M' for hut what it has conuuitlod in this county alone, it would he (Miough to damn it Ix'lorc; any eiviliz(Hl ])('o|)le. In every corner of the land it. has l(!lt its bloody tracdc from every ruined lioniesb'ad, froin (wery desolab; lu'ai-lh, from (‘very spot 5 that, has l)eeu stained with the l)loo(l of the murdered millions ol our race, there goes forth to-day a voice to Heaven crying for v(nigeanc(5, and this is the system that tlu^y tell us uccmIs only to he patched up in order to settle the land question, lint no amount of patching up, no amount ol tinkering, will satisfy the people, nothing hut the total destruction of the system will 10 ever stop this movement. And if you hut take your stand hy what is right, and doggedly mainkiin that stand, this movement must go on, hut if you commence to tcm})orisc Avith the enemy — if you commence to ado])t a ])olicy of compromise — this movement then will end as all weak-kneed movements have ended hitherto. When AA^e take our stand hy Avhat is rigid and just Ih and advocate it, as long as wo claim what Ave have a just right to, our move- ment Avill he resi)ected ; hut when Ave commence to claim loss than aat have a rio'ht to, our movement Avill be scoffed at and derided. You are here to-day, I take it, to take your stand by what is right, Avhat you have a just claim to. You are not here to beg for any patch work legislation upon this subject, or to 20 advocate the fixity of landlordism. No ; you are here to declare eternal Avar against that system, and to declare that any man who at the present moment comes forAvard to patch up that system is, Avhether consciously or unconsciously, an enemv of the people’s cause. But mere denunciation will not kill that system. If it were vulnerable to words it would be killed long ago. But it 25 is not words, it is not banners, it is not bands that aauU kill it ; but it is the earnest action and determined organisation of the people. The tramp of determined men is not very soothing music to the nerves of tyrants, but when they know that that steady tramp is the result of steady organisation it will make them tremble in the very plenitude of their power. It is that 30 orsanisation that Ave now want. You must commence to do now what the people in Connaught commenced to do 12 months ago, and but for the people of Connaught having commenced then, you would not have the land question, as Mr. Sullivan has told you, the question of the hour to-day ; yon would not have the awakened manhood of Ireland that defiantly ansAvered 35 the threats of the Government during the last session. In combination lies the secret of the success of this movement. Yes, from the shores of distant Lough Mask there comes a voice to-day telling you how to Avin. The ])eople of that district have added a name to the English language, and the next lexicographer will have to insert the Avord “ Boycotting,” Avhich Avill mean 40 “ starving out tyrants.” This movement is for the social welfare of the country and all its people ; it is not merely a farmer’s movement, it is a movement that enlists the sympathies of every man who lives by honest labour ; it is the fight of Avork against idleness. 45 There is one class in the community avIio especially feel the Aveight of the present landlord system, and that is the agricultural labourers. Noav we do not merely advocate the emancipation of the tenant farmers ; we also advocate the emancipation of the labourers, and I trust that the labourers themseNes will have sense enough to see through the ruse of the landlord party by which 50 they try to estrange them from the cause of the farmers. In the words of the Resolution aaIucIi I have the honour to propose, the cause of the tenant 3 (X(frTound. VV'e Avaiit to bav(‘. tliein A\dtb a boiue ibat is lit for a buniaii liabitation, and Ave Avant tlu'iii to be as inueb 5 lord in lhai bonu' as are tlu^ oAvners of tbc stat(dy mansions and Imnting- lod"’es of Mcalb itselT. Wo advocate tbc cause of tbc artisans in this inoA'cnient, lor aa"C want to crc'atc labour in ilic country ; and tbc OA'cr stocked labour market ol* our (owns, and tiicir consequent misery can be traced to the presc'iit landlord system. Tlic cry for broad that goes up from many a 10 garret in tbc toAAUis and cities ot Ireland to day is due to the fact that this country has to sup])ort a class of idlers instead of paying its Avorkers. To do aAA'ay AA'iih — to get rid for ever of that class of idlers is the object of the Land League, and if you are but true to yourselves, if you but act on the advice Avhich avc have given you, away they Avill go. If you but organise 15 and act in a determined manner you Avill sAveep everything from your course just as the ripple of the Boyne SAveeps a reed that may fall upon its bosom. If all Ireland but acts for the next 12 months in the determined manner that Connaught^ single-handed, has acted for the past tAA^elA’e, before that time aa'c can sound the death knell of landlordism, and sing a de Deum for a 20 regeuerated Irish nation. V i, i TEMPLEDERRY, ('o. 'Vippvmni. Suitdafp \"lth Dcccniher ISSO. Speech of Mr. John Dillon, M.P. Men of Northern Tipperary : I am very glad to see you liere to-day in sneh a vast meeting. I am very glad to see that the whole population of this northern district has assembled here together, almost,! suppose, witliout an exception, to declare themselves that they will join in this great move- 6 ment, and will stand together and band together until they have completely broken the power of landlordism in Tipperary. ^ I do not know that I could commence my observations better than by teUincr you some good news which I am glad to be able to tell you from the northern part of Ireland ; from the province of Ulster. I have spent a wee - 10 and have but just returned from that groat province, and I was warned by the organs of the landlord party in Ulster that if I or any of my “ gang, as thev called us, divred to show our faces in the province of Ulster, Wie men of Ulster would rise as one man and ehase us from the province. Well, I and another of the “ gang ” did dare to show our faces in Ulster, am 15 will tell you what happened in the county of Monaghan the other day. m the very heart of “ loyal Ulster.” as they call it. Two of the great magnates of Monaghan. Lord Rossmore and Sir John Leslie, assembled not from Monaghan alone, but from every town in the province of Ulster.-they callet upon the loyal men of Ulster to come to their assistance, they telepaphed to 20 Belfast, they telegraphed to Lurgan, calling upon men to come, and as I have proof, which I will produce at the right hour- they called upon them to come, with arms in their hands, to meet us who were assembled peaceably, and to drive ns from the field. These gentlemen came into Monaghan the same niobt that I came into Monaghan accompanied by a gang of their followers, 25 and when I was leaving Monaghan on the following morning to go out to Scotstown where the meeting was held. Sir John Leslie and L"ssmore were standing outside the rent office of the estate-with what? How many do you think they had collected? They had about 150 very seedy-lookin„ iudivkluals around tliem. 30 Well, we set out for Scotstown, which is just nine miles nor^h of the town of Mona-rhan, and we expected to be followed by this great paity of the oy“r:f Ulster; and wLn we arrived in Scotstown I found 12 000 men assembled in Scotstown to receive us. Never have I seen even in Tipperary a larger or a more enthusiastic, or a moi. -^gnificent ga^ring o^ he 35 manhood of Ireland. And what did Lord Rossmore do? I say is that if he bad come out to Scotstown to chase us from oil the held it would have been very much the worse for Lord Rossmore. but wise y he summoned the loyalists of Ulster together in Monaghan, and he advised them to go quietly home, and that was the end of the great war in Ulster. 40 WeU, the next day we went from Scotstown into Tyrone, that p-eat county Tyrone, the largest in Ulster, the veiy heart and centre of Ulster, and we {Tcni})lc(lc>'ry . — Dcccmbw 12///, 1880. — Mr. J)il Ion, M.V.) ! j siuninoiu'd ;i incoliiifi; ilu'rc and 10, ()()() nicn mot ns in Pomeroy and doclai'(;d with oiu' voice that ilu'y would stand by tin; l/ind Leaf>‘U(5 ihroug'b tliiek and thin. 1. asked the men of Ulster — s])eakinx /']d;j-iao:.::ro') £ i>r'jp7i . -W.i.} -lAi R-}?^-) iil n.Ai-nUf «’i{ .:aiiD o1 i..;oi> z^XOd ';M -t !}•);>» jii^. «.>vi.i;ju;o;;.;io I hx j i'ji’i ^ J. /; , ,t ■.. , -....oj <■ .v>^ ^ J -> s-oAA o^> nU^uul . ;o ii A’ *./ \iMU i.a-j iA%A n ; ,]» ; A/- .);u:v/ y. >' >.[) rr n‘l - ^ l -J;r; , o,f:,^ JiUi.U'’,) ;-; o-jjr, hr n rh.^:/! it Al si .; f^o. so. jfe' ''.T' ':u ' r ■jC.J '.' 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