MR A. M. SULLIVAN ON THE DYNAMITE POLICY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3708, 4 June 1883, Page 4

MR A. M. SULLIVAN ON THE DYNAMITE POLICY.

Mr A. M. Sullivan, under date February 2-ith, has addressed an appeal which appears in the Irish journals of the United States to tho Irish in America against the incendiary project of tho dynamite party. After stating that many of the announcements of the dynamite projects were no doubt made to "frighten John Bull" and "that subscribers should hurry up with the dollars," ho proceeds :— For my own part, I hold that that which is morally wrong can never be truly called honourable, and that that which is neither moral nor honourable can never be really expedient for men who stand by the good old principle of " death before dishonour." Yet I will for the moment pas:; by the higher and nobler moral considerations of this matter, and put it from another _ point of view lam one of nearly two millions of Irishmen resident on this .side of tho Irish Channel. Our homes are in the midst of the cities that are, forsooth, to be kerosiuod and dynamited. Our little ones are to roast in lire's which chivalrous friends (safe and sound -1,000 miles away) in New York or Peori are to send men to start around us. Even at present many Irishmen in England have been dismissed from their employments and had in consequence suffered because of the mere vapouring* in tho press and the tin-canister footings about; the London Mansion House and Liverpool City Hall.

Even between belligerent nalions in time of war such resorts to treachery and murder sis I am alluding to would be forbidden. But "all things'are lawful against England." Are 'they '1 AVhat tribunal of public morality or" religious accountability has settled that point': . And what is meant by "England!'" Is it unarmed English men and women and children': , If so, are we to cut tlio throats of any of " the enemy " we can take at a disadvantage on a lonely road, or in a railway train? If so, are we to "frighten England" by battering out the brains of any little English boys or girls we can catch coming home from school ': What is the difference in morality between employing men to treacherously burn down London, at no matter what sacrifice of human life, and employing them to poison tho water-mains, and so kill " the enemy " by millions? Or suppose some handful of nieu secede from Mr Crowe, and call him "hidf-lioartcd " because ho shrinks from a mnirnilioent scheme for a simiiUiinermn dosing of the Lmdon milk supply with strychnine, would they be entitled to call themselves " Ireland " and to make " war " on "England" after this fashion? If tho world could produce a body of men csipable of any such line of action as that, tlio nations and peoples Christendom would, I Lope and believe, confederate to exterminate them as human monsters. Right well I know 110 such cowardice and atrocity dare be practised or really will be practised. But wliile those men on your side of tho water, who publish such schemes are only think-i'ig °f how to "frighten John Bull,"' or t< > put "Sir W. Ilarcourt in a nitre," as some of them declared to mo last autumn, they are doing horrible injury to Irishmen and to Ireland. They are evicting honest Irishmen from good employments and comfortable homos, and casting them into cruel poverty. They are hurling Irish girls on the streets of English cities, driving Irish children of tender years to mendicancy and crime in tho gutters and slums of London.