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Show Another !rish Nationalist Is Coming. HJORK. The scene. at the railway station immediately prior to Mr. Redmond's Red-mond's departure for Queenstown was one of extraordinary enthusiasm. A large crowd with bands swept down the barriers, erected to exclude the public pub-lic from the platforms, planted flaming tar barrels in front of the saloon carriage in which Mr. Redmond was seated, and played "God Save Ireland," and "The Star-Spangled Banner." Addressing the crowd from the platform of the car, Mr. Redmond referred to the attacks which the London Globehad to apologize for last session at the bar of parliament, characterizing these as "scurrilous attacks upon the Irish party." "And now, boiling with rage," he exclaimed, "this paper is grossly insulting insult-ing our brethren in America and asserting that we are going to the United States to get subscriptions from American murder clubs. "This shows the blind, unreasoning hatred and opinion held by its representatives rep-resentatives held by the British government, notwithstanding the - fact that through the long list of officials and public men in America from the President down, there have been representatives of our race." John Dillon and Timothy Harrington were among those present at the railroad station. Mr. Redmond, in the course of a general reply to the numerous addresses presented to him, laid particular stress on his contention that his mission to America could be taken as proof that the reunion which had occurred in Ireland Ire-land had also occurred in the United States, and that England hereafter would have to fight the world-wide Irish race of 20,000,000. "whose action is only limited to one consideration namely: that all means were honorable and just in the sight of God, and who preferred to be linked to the meanest free country on earth than to the Briish empire." Mr. Redmond also said that his mission was to show. England that she would have to count hereafter on a united Irish race, backed by the public opinion and the support and sympathy of 70,000,000 of free people in the American Am-erican republic. i |