It is clear that the proceedings of the Dynamiteurs are
ex- citing the anger of Americans. The Pennsylvanians have a terrible experience of Irish secret societies, the struggle with the Molly Maguires having been carried on in the mining district of their own State, and consequently the State Senate has passed a Bill prohibiting the manufacture and sale of explosives under severe penalties. It has been sent down to the Lower House. General Grant, also, who represents an immense party, has made a speech directly menacing the Irish. He condemns "adopted citizens of the Union" for refusing to feel the obliga- tions placed upon them by their citizenship, and for claiming immunities not accorded to the native born, who, it must not be forgotten, by the latest census constitute 82 per cent. of the population of the Union. The greater journals are all favour- able to extradition if murder is proved, and even General Butler, who has been elected Governor of Massachusetts by the Irish vote only, asks that the immigration of paupers shall be stopped. He does not venture in the face of public feeling to demand that the use of dynamite against the foreign friends of the Union shall be deemed praiseworthy, or even be pro- tected. It is stated that the party of violence are convinced that they have traitors in their midst, and are profoundly alarmed by the intimate knowledge which the British Government possesses of their plots. They suspect treachery, probably with justice, in very high quarters in their organisation.
