The Irish-American Convention at Philadelphia on Friday week passed unanimously
a number of resolutions, declaring, among other things, that the English Government" has no moral right whatever to exist in Ireland "—the consent of the majority of Irish representatives having apparently no meaning—and that it is the duty of the Irish race throughout the world to secure "national self-government" for Ireland by all " legitimate " means. The Irish-Americans, therefore, merge all Societies in one" Irish National League of America," for "the purpose of sup- porting the National League of Ireland, of which Charles Stewart Parnell is President." The members of the Convention also resolve that they honour Mr. Parnell the more because Mr. Forster attacked him ; that they sympathise with the Irish labourers, and demand on their behalf from the farmers a fair day's wages for a fair day's work ; that Irishmen ought to buy only Irish and American goods ; that the English Ministry, in first reducing Irishmen to pauperism, and then sending them as emigrants to America, is unnatural and inhuman, and should be resisted by the Government of the States, who should pro- hibit the despatch of Irish paupers ; that Mr. Patrick Egan is "a sturdy, undaunted patriot and prudent custodian "—what of is not stated—and finally, that as a "brutal Government" compels large numbers of Irishmen to emigrate, they must be warned of the snares of poverty in large cities. A governing Council, with one member from each State, was appointed ; and Mr. Alexander Sullivan, of Maine, thirty-five years of age, and born an American, was elected president. He is a lawyer, and has once, the despatch-writers say, been tried for murder, but was acquitted.
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