The Fenian Manifesto.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 119, 26 April 1883, Page 2

The Fenian Manifesto.

The folio win * extract from a letter recently published" m the Irish World shows that Fenians will not stick at trifles :—" V^hen we begin to fight we must make war, not on Englishmen or English women, but war on English capital, war on English palaces, on English warehouses and . manufacturing establishments, on English shipping, on her dockyards anil ports. Now, the easiest way to do anything is the best way. Mrs O'Leary's cow did more damage by kicking over a coal-oil lamp m a stable m Chicago than did the German army, with all its artillery, to •Paris m four weeks or more, while they laid siege tok: Therefore I hold that coal oil judiciously applied is, a million times more destructive of property than the ' villainous saltpetre.' ! Now, for this mode of warfare we ou<?ht to have fire hundred sober, .brave men ; and we ought to have 500,000 dollars for their support aDd maintenance for one year ( m the field— three hundred of these __ men to occupy London, fifty for Man^T Chester, fifty for Liverpool, fifty fop ' Bristol, and fifty for Glasgow, Each' of these soldiers on entering the respective battlegrounds to secure a room a furnished one. To that room he ought to convey a five-gallon can of oil m his trunk, and a box of matches. On a stormy night, on a signal from the officer commanding, three hundred fires should b'aze out m difhrent parts of London, and, fanned by an equinoctial storm, they would make a blaze that would be the wonder of the world. Moscow and Chicago would not be a patch to it m grandeur and magnificence. Fn its light we should read the charter of our independence as a nation.'*