Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 29, 1882, Page 2

s AN IRISH LEADER. The Story of the Lifs of Michael Davitt, A Childhood in Poverty and a Youth 1in Prison. No man who has appeared in Irish politics for half a contury, saysa Dab- lin correspondent of the Boston Her- | it ald, appeals with such force to the! Trigh he: as Michael Dav The average Irish mir me, The story | , 0 may be t Ho was born in [ oo Ho ¥ Mayo yoar 1845, He was|gorive £ thia loarue, In ¢ the son tenant farmer, ar i A inter acarcely 15 years when his o cution in ily underwe 1ful | ati azal by the all the cx easnit | joyornment of J Boac —eviction but not for long.& cut when landlords, ¢ heir | Sied only & W # two, wnd RTEeF It estates of human bein; 1| the agitation only grow the more in sheep and cattle insteac their | ganse ani {oap 1 tenants out, whether tl ir[of 1830 cams the genoral rents or not. lo country sides | h,yitt threw himself into the contest were thus depopulated, and the un- (i, seyoral places, and always with com fortunate people deprived of home and 4 tly afterward he the menns of living sither wentto Eng land or Amertca, or into the poor houses, carrying with them a hatred for Irish landlordism and the British government by which it was backed, and the determination to be one day or another avenged for the terrible wrongs they had endured. Many of them, 1t is needless to add, perished by the wayside, their children going to recrnit the rauks of the laborers who have eince been, as they wero befora, the chief agents of Captain Rock and Captain Moonlight, Mich- ael Davitt's family having seen the humble, but ancestral house at Straide, leveled to the ground, emi- grated to England, and he, with somo other young Irishmen, got employ- ment thera in o factory. The goddess of ill-fortune which had attended him in his youth did not desert him in his opening manhood. Before he was cighteen years of age he met with a terrible accident. His right hand one day beoame entangled in the mashin- ery of the establishment in which he was cngaged, and was 8o horribly mangled that he had to submit to amputation or die ina fow days. 1o chose the former alternative, and his arm was cut off at the shoulder. He was now obliged to seek somo other than wanual labor, and, in order to fit himself for it, began to study. He was a youth of no common intellect, and, in » shorter time than might have been expected, was able to take a situation as clerk. Soon afterward he obtained a placo in the postoffico of the little town of Haslingden, in Lan- cashire. It was then that the current of his life was determived. He read the sorrowful history of Ireland, and the narration, conpled with his own surpassingly sad experiencos, fired his soul with a desire to do what he indi- vidually could to free his country from Enghsh rule. At that time Fenian- ism was enlisting in its ranks all the young mon of his agoe and way of thinking. He, too, BECAME A ¥ N, and an active one, But it was not t:11 after the Fenian movement had been checked 10 England and Ireland by the convictions of the Fenian leaders in 1865 and 1867 that he came to the front. Betwsen 1867 and 1870 ho ap- plied himself systematically to the dis- tribution of arms among his fellow en- thusiasts, or, as some would call them, fellow-rebels. He carried on his dan- gerous business under the guise of a commercial traveler. Of course he could not and did not long escape de- tection, and in the spring of 1870 he was arrested on a charge of aiding and abetting in the levying of war against the queen. againgt him was the informer Corydon, who perjured himself. In July he was tried before the chiet justice of Eagland and an English jury, con- victed and sentenced to penal servi- tude for fifteen years. After sentence had been passed an incident ocourred which served to show that the man was not 80 black as he had been paint- ed, With him had been tried, tor the same offense as that laid to his ac- count, an Eoglishman named Joseph Wilson, This latter was absolutely innocent, though Corydon swore point blank to the contrary; and Davitt, knowing the truth, and thinking it a cruel hardship that the man should suffer for a crime which he had not committed, appealed to the judge to let Wilson go and add his sen- tence to his own, The chief justice did mot comply with the request, though he said that it did honor to Davitt, and hoth prisoners accordingly were sent to a3 British penal prison, Davitt's life injMilbank, Dartimoorand Portland has already been described in the Herald, and it need not be re- counted now again, Suflice it to say that the one-armed Irish political prisoner was treated with even greater aardship than the robbers, forgersand wmurderers with whom ho was obliged to associ His treatment was, in fact, revolting in the estreme, and for more than seven years ho was obliged to put up with it After many efforts on the part of the Irish mem- cers of parlisment to obtain his re- lease, he was at last set freo on a tick- et-of-leave, toward the cud of the year 1877, During the long period of his incarceration his political ideas seom to have undergonea considerable modifieation. Ho still believed in the right of Ireland to national independ- ence, but he seems to have thought it expedient to labor first for the eman- cipation of the farming class from which he sprang, and to do so, more. over, on constitutional lines, The distress which prevailed in the year 1879 opened up anopportunity for try- ing his new policy. &n the spring of that year there were already symp- toms of the terrible state things wh succeeded in the autumn and winter, He who had known by bitter exper. ience what agricultural distress meant determined not only fo raise a yvoice of warning in time, but to set about the TREMENDOUS TASK of achieving such a reform in agrarian legislation as would once for all put an end to the periodical famines to which the Irish ‘peasantry had been subject. In the spring of 1879, there- fore, he went to his native Mayo, and commenced at Irishtown, in that county, the great land agitation which ever since has rocked Ireland from the center to the sea; which has disturbed Tho " principal witness | once more, the most significant mani- the polities of Koeland, and which, despite all that may be said to the | coutrary, is yet far from having reached its termination. Davitt was soon joined by Parnell, and in autumn they founded the land league. As the winter progressed the threatened scarcity rapidly developed, and while Parnell wen' to America with Dillon to collect money for the land league and for keeping the people from star: vation, Davitt remained at home, or ranizing the west and distributing the relief funds with his own hands, Ttis personsl knowledge of the 1 within l‘w tor America, where he remained till the winter. One of the reasons which chiefly induced him to return to Ireland was the increase of out which followed on the rejection | house of lords of the bill to protect the poorer tenantry from eviction dur- ing the famine period, and immediate ly on his arrival, he set himself, with ¢ stic vigor, to denounce all kinds of outrage and intimidation, He had, howover,scarcely been twomonths at this ocoupation when, as ho wasone day crossing O'Connell bridge, in Dub- lin, he was accosted by a detective, asked to walk to Dublin castle, and thence carried off by that night's mail to Portland prison. Knowing all that had gone before, and which I have en- deavored thus briefly to tell, the vast mass of the Irish people was exasper- ated by what was popularly called THE KIDNAPPING of Michael Davitt, The demonstra- tion made over the event by the Irish members in the house of commons was of such a character (hat it brought on their expulsion en mgse for the sit- ting; but it was only @ mild represen- tation of the feoling roused in the minds of their constituents at home. Men swore and women shed tears, ana outrages oceurred in greater number than over, as if in retahation, Itis hard to say what would not have hap- pened, m the shape of popular vio- leace, had it not been announced that, though Michael Davitt had been sent to a penal prison he had not beon sent back to penal servitude, and that, in fact, ho was kept merely in honorable detention, theugh obliged to wear the convict’s uniform; but even as it was, the people never ceased to feel sore becauso of his rearrest, and nover ceased demanding his release as one of the conditions precedent to the pacifi- cation of the country. His was the first name in the Land league martyro- logy; it was that which always at pub- lic meotings evoked the loudest, tho hearticst, and most long-continued ap- plause. Half the excitoment of which his fate was the cause would not haye existed had Davitt been arrested under the coercion act and thrown into Kilmainham, [t was his be- ing reconsigned to the penal cellar of Portland in England, with the prospect of serving seven years more in that *“living tomb" that most struck the popular imagination and most an- gor of the poular heart and mind, From all this it may be guessed that, when he was once more set free, on the 6th of May, tho nows was balm of Giilead to the overwhelming majority of his countrymenand countryw men. Bofore he was actually out of prison festations of joy were witnessed all over Ireland, and they would have continued afier his liberation but for tho goneral gloom caused by thoe bloody deed in the Phanix park. That shocking and untoward® tragedy stopped all rejoicings for a time. It also kept Davitt silent for a fortnight, On Sunday list, howover, ho spoke out once more, in Manchester, and his utterance, bracing and stirring, waked up all the old/enthusinsm his name and words had been accustomed to evoke. The Manchester spee was reported fully in all the Irish pa- pers, and, indirectly declaring, as 1t did, against the so-called Kilmainham treaty and for continued war of an uncompromising character against landlordism and English misgovern- ment, it was universaly read—with genuine alarm by the landlord party, with eager hope by the thousands in the popular ranks. His vow to never lay down his arms while he had a head to plan orahand to dare for Ireland was repeated in a thousand peasant homen, and hos become THE WATCHWORD OF THE IRISH MASSE Tad Mictincl Davitt then put him- self onee more at the head of the Trish democracy, there is little doubt that a renowed fempest of agitation would have burst over the land; but he re- solved on keoping quiet, and when he did go to Dublin to visit Thomas Brenan, tho secretary of the land league, in Kilkenny jail, he went, us it were, incog., and ‘genuinely strove to return to Kngland without eausing any public commotion, But it was impossible for him to escape public recognition in Kdkenny, and, conse. quently, impossible to esoaps & public reception, In the space of an hour three thousand people had assemblod in front of his temporary resting place, and to them he was obliged to address a tew words, When he showed himself the pent-up enthusi- asm broke out in a manner to be for- gotten, The three thousand seemed to be delirous with joy. But more significant of the strength and inten- sity of the popular feeling in his ro- gard is the fact that while he stayed in Kilkenny, there waited upon him all the Catholic clergy of the town and diatrict, beside other men who would never have paid him such a mark of respect had not the community, as a whole, been stirred to its depths by his arrival, The question is now as 10 his future, When I saw him on his return from Kilkenny to Dublin, Lo had not made up his mind on the point beyoud that he intended to speak " at Liverpool early in June; h;n to-day 1 see that, after a consultation with Mr. Parpell ax Mr. Dillon in London, he will iu’x:x:‘- distely return to Ireland onco more, LARaa s aana. ASAN A AA N dition and looking after the wants of TELE the evicted people in Connemara, who now wumber thousands, and to those flPP&Y Ion on S' ranks it is certain that a considerable J Burlington lowa. addition will be made within the next Semi Portable few weeks. 1t is not probable, I should say, that Mr. Davitt's tour will be in every degree devoted to speech-mak- Engines, FOR CREAMERIES, ing, and, at its close, it is pretty cer- tain that the distinguished agitator will proceed to America and remain there for the winter, It remains to add a word as to his vie I have already cable Herald the substa tion with him in ref ¢ d a tion of Mr. Parnell; but it may do 1o 1 0n cur 1, Printine Dffices, topices. | exertions on that occasion, for he thinks that in Mr. Parnell and his | Kendas Spavin followers Treland has at last got a na- | spavin for eighte tional parliamentary party that can be 'T"m "rm-r‘:v. : g ) " il § 5 | 8l lameness and enlargement and a largo splin trusted in every emergency. At the | jrom another horse, and both horses are to-day same time he believes there is work |sesound as colts, The one boitie was worth to outside as well as inside the house of [ one hundred # “\ Rt {"t;‘l")';'!'[t;\‘) commons, and that that work will be 0 i S ORIt , ocd having 8 v ich had been lame jonths, I sent to you for, hich 11 #ix woeks removed o, b P 1 1 Hv-v’\ri l;l‘ "l,\luh'lltn‘l el t]»’mfll\'(‘ hetter done, and more surely com. |proof. Pricodl. Al Dro o1t or can mand tho co-operation and confidence | Kot fesserch Fais, ve . o cor Fros of the people, if undertaken by men|SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. who, like himsclf, would be above| dw-ly the suspicion of parliamentary aspi- | - — rations, ‘I have endeavored, he s1ys, | GRAY'S SPECIFIC MEDICINE ‘o prove myself one of euch men; ‘The Great afid T thinkiths history Of thol IAnA | T o e S Rapilsiren o ama league movement will show how much i can be done for Treland by an or ization that is wielded in conjunction with, but not in subordination to, the labors of its advoeates in the English A - parliament, while showing what field | ATRCIN§E Diccsthat : of labor there is for the yonth and | BEFORE TARING,scquence of AFTER TAKING. patriotism of our country, in which | Sell-Abuso; 0 Locg of Memory, Universal Laasi- honor may be reaped in substantial | W ” ' of Vision, Pro- seevica rendered to its cauzo without either coming in open all particulars fa on bl conflict with the raiers of and or e troe) [yiman) toTe doing violence to the sensitivenes of | #2The Specific Medicine Is sold by all dr 3 nationalist convictions.” This policy | f & per package, or 6 paciages for 86, or will has undoubtedly a look of commol senso about it, and 80 has Mr. Davitt's theory regarding the probable effect of the new coercion bill. If this meas- W Sporm thea, Impot- ency, and all re ure is used to put down agitation, he belieyes that it will lead to the multi- plication of secret saciotics; **f spair will seo in the only defense against an open vio- lation of every privilege of citizenship, in the interests of a merciless and vin- dictive class.”” Lastly, as to the land question, be believes that it will never be settled by the new land act, ‘‘by which landlord and tenant, instead of being legally divorced, are both turned over into the hands of the lawyers, while the country is invited to place all its prospects of peace and prosperi- ty in universal litigation.” The truth is, I imagine, that Mr, Davitt is more radical on the land question than any of his colleagues of the Land league. 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