Mitohelstown Riots.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 69, 19 November 1887, Page 3

Mitohelstown Riots.

Tn following letters and reeolation were reed at the inquest of those killed in the Mitchels, town riot

Mr—, You are doing ths devil in this unfortunate country. Your decision in most eases ie final; but in a short time, as sore as you read this, and as sure as God is over me, I will have yon eent to the North in a 8 feat Binoh. We will not bury you here. Your thin-looking face and eyes are too powerful for any taste; but I will satisfy my mind by losing my breakfast to slaughter you in your lodgings ; in spite of all, Dalys and all, you will die in Cloghens, a quiet place too. I will not oarse or pray for you ; but, you dog, you must feel this, and believe me, I am in earnest. Grabber . I am informed authentically that you have grabbed a fellow's bit of land, by the name of Timothy O'Flaherty, a poor unfortunate, who left his blood and sweat in it. Now, Mr , you think Captain Moonlight is dead; but, indeed, we have him and plenty of lead. This will be your future likenets. (Here there is a rude sketch of a corpse in a coffin.) If you do not give the land you hold, do not think yon can be left. Do not think for a moment that yon can escape. If you had all the forces the Queen has at her back, death would be the result.

We solemnly and earnestly protest against the unconstitutional and tyrannical policy of the present Government in their endeavour to suppress freedom of speech, the right of public meeting, and the right of political combination in this country, and that we call upon all liberty loving men in these Kingdoms to aid the Irish people in their assertion of those constitutional rights, that we denounce before the world the outrageous attack made by the armed forces of the Crown on a peaceable meeting at M itohelstown, on Friday, 9th. fast., whereby lives have been sacrificed, and grievous injuries inflicted on a large number of people ; that we consider the speeches of Mr Wm. O'Brien, M.P., for which he is now being prosecuted, to have been patriotic and praiseworthy under the circumstances of the case; that we thoroughly endorse and approve of them, and recommend all Irish tenant farmers who may be placed in circumstances similar to those of the rack-rented tenants of the Countess of Kingston to act on the advice which they contain ; and that we offer to Mr O’Brien our hearty sympathy in the peiseoution to which he is being subjected by our Tory rulers for his endeavors to defend his fellow countrymen from rack-renting, eviction and exterminatian.