| Show IRELANDS ILLS manifesto of athe the homo home enle rule leaguers to the irish people ny BY W V U telegraph to the NEW YORK nov atho alic heralds dublin special learns that ilia following manifesto addressed to tho the irish people by tho the home rule 11 leaguers erg is to bo be discussed at to days meeting efing eft ng F fallow countrymen on the eve odthe of the centen nary of the accomplishment of irish freedom brought about by the tile glorious man of dungannon Dun gannon wo we would be base and spiritless irit less should wo we acknowledge griat that the fron iron of slavery lias has eaten into our vitals andee and we were not stirred at such a time to admiration by the deeds of 1782 if the th irish people have not utterly lost the tho spirit which animated their fathers they will not fail fall to make issa memorable in their ill air annals for their determined and successful efforts to reconstitute ill clr fabric raised years ago by ilia public virtue of henry grattan and the volunteers un and destroyed in 1800 by the bribes and bayonets of pitt and cas tle reagh the state of things which now prevails in this thid country would bo be an eternal disgrace die grace to the worst tl the e most u uncivilized country on the face of tl the le globe in no country of the world except berb perhaps in russia is there so little p public u alic ari liberty lerty left or so iauch t despotism t i r in exe exercised rc ased by the eulid ruling L executive acu t i ve as there ia is here in ireland irelan in 1881 thirty five thousand soldiers and military police garrison the country they allow no day to pass without making the people feel that now as in the days lays of elizabeth cromwell and william the tile sword is after all the only argument with which england seeks to answer all that the irish nation dA demands mands cannon are planted in public places in our cities public meetings arc are prohibited and dispersed the police invade even private dwellings to disperse assemblages every mans liberty is at the morcy marcy of the chief secretary who 19 is acting on the secret denunciations of paid spies and informers informer every day numbers number of persons of the highest respectability and many occupying representative jiro arrested and fl flung lung I into nto tho ilia common jails Is wi without phout trial among those eo so deprived of liberty are four members of parliament ono one of whom is acknowledged the leader of the irish people and would under free institutions bo be the prime minister of his country the poss possession of arms the birthright of or every member of every free commonwealth not civilly incapacitated is a crime punishable by a heavy fine or imprisonment I now two question arise first can it be for one moment pretended ej that a system of government under which occurrences such as just have been named habitually take place lias has any moral right to exist second would a people who did not endeavor at tho the earl earliest lest moment a available by every loyal and constitutional tut ional means to put forever an end to such occurrences deserve anything any thing better than the scourge of their driver our manufactures since 1800 have been nearly extinguished we hao had since ilia union four or five famines our country has been depicted depleted by three millions since 1840 while england is relatively to taxable ability the ilia most lightly taxed in europe ireland is the most taxed since 1800 t there hero b leavo ave been fifty nine nino savage coercion acts in force here we were promised at the time of the union equal rights and privileges with the people of england but today dak fourteen years after the establishment lis lish ment of the household suffrage and of the compulsory registration of the voters in england and scotland wo we are still denied those important rights so that while the proportion of the vote to the mile population in n E england n land i ia is ono one to four the pro proportion portio n i in fr ireland cland is one to twenty four the municipal franchise as compared ed with that of scotland d and england far an d is likewise a complete mockery it is needless to go through the ilia liba of our grievances it is sufficient to add that in scarcely ono one maiter matter of public concern for ireland has the will of the irish people had its way that every department of our business no matter how little it co concerns n others than ourselves is managed by irresponsible and autocratic boards appointed by englishman englishmen and composed to a large extent ifeng of englishmen and Scotch men despite this however wo arc are to told id that we must be governed by another people and that for our own sak sake anarchy it is baid said would overtake us if it the lenient restraining hand of england were taken off from us A more impudent pretense was never advanced our trouble sprung from the government of ireland by E england ng and from that but bu also for the interest of I england it is that the policy of coercion ia is said to bo be necessary Is the present state of biege fruit fruitful tul in anything any thin but hatred ill will loss of treasure and life what we ask for is only what is enjoyed by every other british dependency inhabited bya by a white race itis it ia only what the states of the american union possess viz the power to manage those matters w which awer ilch I concern themselves alone those affairs which concern the ilia empire at laye large being left to the care of an Ini imperial peria senate in which we would bo be represented |
