erittrispan)ltatt. FENIANISM. BY B. B. H It can no longer be denied that Fenianism, with a growth of seven years in the character of an organized conspiracy, has become a formida ble power on both sides of the Atlantic. We are not aware that it has ever given any numeri cal statistics to the light; but we presume that, like most secret associations banded for crime and for the destruction of government, such as the Jacobin clubs of France and the Knights of the Golden Circle in this country, its unknown membership is about as large as that , which is visible. This must be especially the case in Ire land and England, where a connection with the brotherhood is accounted treasonable, and where also its policy is to fill the country at various points, with sworn Fenians, known as such only to one another, all receiving their orders, through some clandestine channel, from a common head, and making their presence known only as armor ies are robbed, prisons mysteriously opened, strongholds' blown up, and government officials assassinated. Those outrages of which we read, following each other in such rapid succession, are far enough from being mobs, and Fenianism is anything but a mobocracy. Everything is done as intended—done with a skill which more and more baffles the whole detective force of the realm, and with a deliberation as cool as it is de moniacal. In that country the power of Fenianism is felt in' the almost universal terror which it has inspired. In Ireland, where the terms Roman Catholic and Fenian, are fast becoming inter changeable, the alarm is naturally confined to the Protestant population, and is especially felt by those whose relations to the government are such that it can be struck through them. Since the programme 'marks down Ireland for protec tion, and it is only England proper that is to be treated as the real enemy, and as such delivered over to a general system of outrage, it is mainly in the latter country that the terror reaches all classes, and the people , live in daily and nightly dread. No doubt remains that England now contains swarms of the conspirators, and what is more fearful, she knows nothing who they are, or where to look far them. She knows not what ranks in life they occupy, or what places in gov ernment they fill. The punishment of the few who have been detected in acts of violence and murder, is felt to be almost futile, because they were comparatively insignificant instruments in the conspiracy, possessed of no important infor mation, men whose loss would,be Unfelt, just the class whom Generals would put forward as "food for powder." The examination of State's Evidence has been barren of result. No weighty information has been obtained from them, for the simple rea son that none was entrusted to them. The truth is, Fenianism has adopted the darkest and, at the same time, the most energetic feature of a conspiracy—that of concentrating all the intelli gence and will at the head, and entrusting its, agents only with such information as relates to their dUty in a given case, The most terrible knowledge which the government obtains, is the fact that it knows so little. The scene of alarm is transferred from point to point, faster than protecting force can follow. The purpose is open ly avowed to pursue this illegitimate mode of warfare, making all homes unsafe, marking every interfering policeman for assassination, and visi ting with mortal retaliation every agent of the government who stands in their way, until the country is worn down with-the annoyance, and cries out to let Ireland go. In our republic, Fenianism is equally felt as a power, but in a way altogether different. Claim ing to be in a state of war with England—a revolutionary war for the independence of Ire land—it means to force our government into just I that sympathizing neutrality in its favor which England adopted, during our late civil troubles, for the benefit of the States in rebellion. The means by which our government is to be made compliant, are very simple—are in fact but a repetition of' the old Irish Catholic game for carrying points in the interest of Popery. The Fenians claim that, in the United States, • they hold the balance of power between the political parties ; and this, in the hands of an unscrupulous Faction always in the market, is about equivalent to a majority. because they can set their price, and some party will be found to give it. They were deeply mortified, by the failure of their former attempt to invade Canada, not, as they said, be cause they wanted the country, but becau• e they hated England; and they attributed the failure to the vigilance of our government in seizing their arms and lining the front er with impedi ments. They claim that, in retaliation for this interference, they produced the great political changes of the next following election, and by this exhibition of their strength, so sobered the zeal of the government to preserve an honest neutrality, that, to • use their own expression, " you may be certain that that experiment will not be repeated." At all events, this is certain, that since then civil officials who were active in carrying out the orders of the government itself for thwarting the invasion, have been removed for no known reason but their vigilant obedience of instructions; no preparations for hostility made upon our soil have been disturbed ; civil functionaries, Mayors and City Councils inclu ded, accept invitations to participate in public demonstrations for crowning gallows culprits with the glory of martyrdom ; and politicians—radi cals, conservatives and democrats alike—vie in claiming for every naturalized Irishman caught on British soil in suspicious Attitude towards the government, the rights of an American citizen. The Fenians claim, as a moral element of strength, that they possess the sympathy of our THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1868. people in their enterprise. To a greater extent than would be desirable, this may be true. It is for England now a deplorable fact, and for the United. States one to be deeply regretted, that the atti tude of the former country toward our own, du ring our late civil war, was such as to provoke a perfectly responsive neutrality. It will be one of the wonders of history, that. there should be, not only so complete, but so exact a turning of the tables in so short a time—that the retribu tion is so perfectly in kind, and follows so swift upon the heels of the offence. Should the Fe nians carry their policy with our government-i - an event against which our most solemn wishei are arrayed ;—should our ports be opened to give to the conspiracy belligerent rights; and should connivance be given while our people furnish them with privateering equipments, and all other facilities for warfare on sea and land, and lay out their redundant capital in " Irish Government" stock, it would be much more the effect of a re sentful feeling under provocation, than of cordi ality toward Fenianism. Americans proper have no spontaneous affection for ,Fenians, but they have a warm love for the Irish vote, and just now a greater lack of love than usual' for England. But for this, Fenianism would find a poor, ac count in its reliance on American sympathy. But, to say nothing of the ethics of the case, does it become the self-respect and pride of a nation like ours, to enslave itself to a mere " balance of power"=---to divert itself from the path of principle and honor, and to give itself over, bound hand and foot, to, a faction constitu tionally and historically unreasonable and bigot ed,—for the mere sake of a pique ? Even grant ing the necessity of retaliation, there are only too many opportunities open, which do not in volve complication with an enterprise which, if a failure, has nothing for us, and, if 'a. success, will be to us worse than nothing.. Who are these people that carry.in their pock ets the fate of parties, and expect with. their "balance of power" to control the action of our' government in the matter in hand? What is their right of 'citizenship, and to what govern , ment do they really belong? - We understand that the Fenians 'have an '"lrish Nation" incom plete organization; an "Irish G-overnment" in. full blast. True, it has not yet been transferred to the Irish soil; but it has been organized, has its organic and' statute laws, its executive and legislature, and affects all the functions of one of the governments of the world. Of this govern ment we suppose every Fenian is a sworn subject. And yet thousands, perhaps, hundreds of thou sands of them, in this country, come up to our polls with their naturalization papers in their hands, people of another government, but al lowed to use their Irish Catholic vote to press the policy of ours into the service of their own. Either the "Irish . Nation" is a myth, or the cit izenship .of these people is not American, and they have no more right to interfere in our poli tics than a subject of Russia. " But they fought for the union." Indeedl Let us take their own record. A late number of Tinsley's Magazine, a respectable British periodi cal, contains a communication from "An Ameri can Fenian," purporting to bring to the- notieaof- Englishmen a correct account of the objects and means of the organization, and opening some views of its preparations and capacities which are more portentous than have generally been supposed. The writer . is evidently one of our adopted citizens; he writes , ably and intelligently, and his article appears to have all the qualities for an authority. The editor, protesting that he has no sympathy with his cortesponde,nt, never theless admits the article as one of information, and vouches for its bona fides. Arguing that the military readiness of the Fenians for regular war is far beyond what is generally Supposed, the writer says : "In estimating the chances of the Fenian force against the English force, it is well to be- ginwith the American 'F.'enians. The organiza tion is very old there. Before the recent civil war, it numbered over thirty thousand armed, uniformed and drilled soldiers. This army was organized by the very simple means of the mili tia system of the United States. In every city a regiment , and in every town, a company of Irishmen were formed and enrolled in the. State militia, just as regiments and companies are formed in England. The State then supplied, arms and equipments and uniforms to these Irish men, who were almost all Fenians. Thus Colonel Corcoran, of the 69th Regiment, New York State Militia, was a General in the secret Fenian army, of which his regiment formed a part. The men were drilled like the other militiamen, and at tained no small proficiency in aims. When the civil war broke out, the Fenians saw init a grand school for soldiers; and at the North,-therhoped that, when the war was over, the Government would attack England." This is frank. The vaunted patri!tism of these precious brethren of our adoption, amounts to this : they use, at our expense, our militia sys tem to arm, equip and drill an army of their own, to fight against England. They , plunged into our civil war, some on the government, and some on the rebel side, (for "at the N,,rth they hoped," &0.,) because they " saw in it a grand school for soldiers," and because they had in re serve a hope that England would be the final sufferer. - The object of the Fenian movement is Irish independence—the re-creating of an Irish nation. Hence it scorns to ask for or accept of lesser parliamentary relief of burdens or disabilities, as answering in the least the thing demanded These have been afforded, until the condition of the Irish has vastly improired, and further re forms are in contemplation. But the purpose of Fenianism sweeps past all such present realities as land tenures, suffrage, and church and educa tional endowments, and demands only an entire political separation from hated England. The writer above quoted says to English readers: " The Irish people want to be rid of England al together. They would rather have bad laws of their own making, than good ones of yours. They would rather be badly governed by themselves, than well governed by you." This to an American, is a peculiarly seductive way of putting the case, because it seems to have the ring of the old seventy six. But as with us, so also with the Fenians, independence of Eng land meant only a means to an end. The colo nies wanted independent e, because they wished for a government which should respect the rights of individuals, a large item in which is religious toleration—a government which should bow to the dictation: of no foreign prince or priest. Irish " independence" on the contrary.means the reign of Popery. Ever , since the defeat at the Boy-ne, the desire for revenge has tain smculL dering in the successive generations, once in a while bibaking out in an unsuccessful rebellious enterprise, but never extinguished. Protestant ism is the object of that revenge, and hence the animating spirit in every attempted revolution has been one which, if carried out, would have given to Ireland the most bigoted Romish gov .errunent in We - Stbrn Europe. Indeed far back of the Orange victory Mentioned', began the era of that Irish implacability' toward Protestantism, which, to this day; renders the Irish Catholic the most fiery religionist and the most violent perse cutor of a "'per'vert" that exists in all the realm of the Papacy. Every Protestant in Ireland knows what his.fate would be under Iri:sh inde pendence, and what place he would occupy in an " Irish Nation." We see, in our own country, enough of, the most unquestioning submission, to the command of the Priest, enough of the' vio lence Of Irish Cdthelie 'bigotry, to' leSVe no doubt of what would come in along with an Irish gov ernment. Rake -it a,-kingilom -or republic in name, the real capital would. be, not •on the banks of the lyiffey , ,,Jnit 'of the Tiber, and' -the Pope would be the menarch. The island would be an eeclesia:stieal fertress, frowning upon the - ProtestantiSin Ofi England. and Scotland, and a base of supplies= for all enterprises in that ,direc tion. The effort would follow—and .we dread to face the question whether it would be likely to succeed—to secure; -through the " balance of power" stratagem, the 'closest; political relations with our country, thus bringing an insidious di plomacy into play - With ani -ffe-sent system of easy and .indiscriminate adoption, for Romanizing ou - Onstitutions. , . But Fenianism has.not yet come into the field of legitimate war which testi the fate of revolu tionary attempts. It'has not passed out from the stage of a secret, underhanded conspiracy. 'ln its present character, it may intrigue, annoy and alarm-; may burn and murder.. But it must form into line of battle, and. its commanders must breathe the- air of• burninc , sulphur and nitre, before: it can conquer. Whether it will ever stand up to this ordeal, is as yet problematical; and whether any success would attend such an effort,, is still more uncertain. ANOTHER WORD ON DECORUM IN THE HOUSE OF GOD. MR.. Eraron. :---I rejoice that some 'one has called attention through your columns to the ir reverent manner in which the, congregations of our denomination too often behave during the concluding exercises of the Church. * Our brethren of other• sects set us an example :by their devout-reception of the benediction and by remaining, in silent prayer for a few moments. In many of our Churches the singing of the . Doxology is the favorite time, forisatait 45ii gfea coats, gloves, tipliets?Acz, &c., and when the con cluding amen of the benediction is pronounced, there is a rush from the pews and a scamper to the doors that would do honor to a menagerie when one of the wild beasts , has broken loose. The bearing of Christians as they leave the house of God is a good proof of the devotion they have felt while in it. Anr,ther point your correspondent refers to, is the attitude in' prayer. Do - Presbyterians generally know that standing was the prescribed position of the early Church ? Kneeling was permitted on other days, but on Sunday, the resurrection day of our Lord, all Christians were required to stand in prayers to signify by the position the great fact of Christ's ris ing from the tomb. The fathers in their accounts of the meetings for worship dwell on this, and the Council of Nice, in 325, decided that it was the proper attitude on Sunday. Believing as we do that our Presbyterian creed and form of worship are a faithful copy of the creed and practice of the early Church, we -should adhere to them closely, and not present the varied appearances that we do. Our attitude is not assumed, as a good -Episcopal brother once intimated to me, because it differs from their's, but because it was the custom of the Apostles and Martyrs. , "-We r have a reason for the hope that is within us." ' LAYMAN. ACKNOWLEDGMENT. SULPHUR SPRINGS, Jefferson Co.; Mo EDITOR OF THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN : DEAR BROTHER : Permit me through the me dium of your ; paper to return my thanks to the • ladies of the Presbyteriin Church in Meadville, Penn., Rev.- Richard Craighead, pastor, for a valuable box of clothino• for my family. The lit: tle folks were so:-happy in their new suits that they wanted to go.to bed in 'thFin. They mani fested their joy on their reception by jumping, and shouting in wonder and admiration. When' our men all contribute so liberally to our Home Missionary Treasury, our Church Erection Fund and all the other grand and glorious enterprisesi of our beloved Church ; when such ladies as those connected with the Church iu Meadville send us aid and comfort, their sympathies and expressions of good will, surely we, who are pioneers in the noble army of the Lord, should take heart and hope and courage. I have been a pioneer from choice for thirteen years in Southern Illinois and Missouri. My family, during this time, has been favored with four boxes of cloth ing—one very valloble one from Buffalo ; two from Meadville ; and one from Rev. Dr. Nelson's church in St. Louis. May the Lord bless all these friends of the pioneer missionary in South- East Missouri. I will add here that I have re ceived one box of Sabbath-school books from Harrisburg, Penn., through Bro. Dulles '• • an other, through Rev. Dr Kendall, from the First Presbyterian_Church in Brooklyn--a very valui ble one—designed for Bros. Jenkins, Shaw and myself; one from Rev. Dr. Nelson's church in St. Louis ; two from Morristown, N. J. —the church that supports me in this field, Rev. Ar thur Mitchell, pastor, and Aorue other boxes, through personal friends—amounting to about $5OO in value—all of which I have expended, I trust judiciously, in this field. In conclusion, I will add that Mrs. Poet joins with me in express ing especial thanks, at this time, to the ladies in Meadville, Pa. Fraternally, W. S. POST. Plitlnt'o Ca It. MOTLEY'S NEW VOLUME. MOTLEY. History- of. the,Netherlands : From the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Years' Truce-1.6 0 9. By John Lothrop Motley, D.C.L., Corresponding Member of the Institute of France; Author of the Rise of the Dutch Republic. In Four Volumes—Vol. 111, with Portraits. Bvo. pp. 598. New York: Harper & Brothers. Phil: adelphia : J. B. Lippiridott & Co. The interest of this most ftuEicinating of recent his torical works is well sustained in this welcome con tinuation. Commencing with the splendid military career of the young Prince Alaurice, its opening pages abound in those graphic and eloquent para graphs, in which Motley is accustomed to describe heroic deeds 'done in a just and noble cause. Through the'whole volume the grand theme of Maurice's great'generalship and' brilliant successes is ever recurring Ondeed; vRe have here the long de layed era of Victory in:the Netherlands. The scene is altogether Changed from the doubtful, .martyr like resistance r of the first years of the struggle; to the decisive military successes followed by perma7 nent historical results. keeping pace with the on ward progress of the Hollanders, the retrograde movement's and disgracefuf close of the career of the once terrible Philip furnish the historian with rich material§ for Toun ding.off` th is portion of the history, which he is not slow norsunskilled in using. And, while-we are made acquainted with the remarkable advances, in the art of, warmade by. Maurice, we are also shown the picture of. zeal zeal and enterprise in maritime discovery carried on by the Netherlanders in the midst of their struggle for national existence and for liberty. The story of the ten months spent •by Barendz and his indomitable . associates - in Spitz _ bergen; is- told in the best style. We have no . donbt that the volume will'amply sustain the , exalted' reputation.of the author. .The- fourth volume. will bring us to the Twelve Years' Truce, And then we. must prepare for the unfolding of another, of f the most stirring pages of the world's hiitory, the Thir ty Years' War. Upon this new section or episodeof. his work, Mr. Motley tells us he is at:present en- "To-day is a . king in disguise." We trust some Motley will, at the right time, be found to set forth, in like graphic style, and with a similar whole souled enthusiasm for liberty, justice and goodness, the great historic struggle in which our generation and country is called to engage. Our struggle, so strangely cOmplicated by treachery, and assassina tion, is , but the continuation of that great World movement for rational Christian liberty, which Cuenzu. Stories of the Gorilla Country. Narra ted for Young People. 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The uniformly devout and pure tone of his writing, makes:the 'book every''Way . debirable. , for' young readers. • Du Chaillu for the Toting, we think r can hardly prove less entertaining or popular than were his earlier books for older readers. The profuseness, beauty, and entire novelty of the illustrations are remarkable, even for the Harpers, who are kings in this branch of book making. PAMPHLETS AND PERIODICALS. GUTEIEIE'D SUNDAY MAGAZINE for January, has continuations of The Seaboard Parish, and The Occupations of a Retired Life; The Puto ral Epistles, by the Dean of Canterbury an ar ticle on Dr. James Hamilton, by Rev." Wm. Ar not, with a very fine portrait, With contributions of a practical . character, by Drs. Guthrie and Hanna; Poetry by Gilbert Tait, Fanny Haver gal and anonymous; a paper on the Jordan Val ley, by Rev. H. B. Tristram, and a story com pleted, The Poor Man's Shuttle. 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Philadelphia: G. W. Pitcher, 808 Chestnut St. CRASE.—The 2Eneid of - Virgil. With Explanatory Notes. By Thonial3 4 'Clittse, A. M., Professor in Haverford College. (Chase & Stuart's ClasA cal Series.) Philadelphia: Eldredge & Bro. LITERARY' IXTg..I.LIGEIICE. . . ENGLISH ANNOUNCEMENTS AND LATE ISSUES.—I n theological literature. says the Beek Buyer, compara tively little is promised, and the most noticeable fact is the steady progress and great success of Messrs.' Clarke' enterprise,—the Library of the An te-Nicene Fathers. Two vOluines of the series fifth and sixth, just published) include the great wo 'cifirWaru - s, -- Bistop of Lyons, on Early Here siei, and the recently'discovered work of Hippoly tusi-" Philosophoumerta," attributed by its finder to Origen, but identified as the work. of,.Vinpolvto , : Bishop of Portus (the herb& orßoine), in the third ;century, by Baron Bunsen and others. They are both pow translated into English for the first time, and will be followed at the rate of four volumes a year, by other works of equal variety and value.— Geo. Adam Young &Co., Edinburgh, publish the Sa maritan.Text-Book, a little band-book of thirty four pages, purporting to contain the principal words in the Samaritan version of the _Pentateuch, written ,by Robert,,,Young,Esq. Other works of Mr. Young are the " Westininster Assembly's Shor ter Catechism," in thirteen' languages. also a " Die tionary,and Concordance," tontainir a , every word in the Hebrew Scriptures, with all itsprefirbs and affixes, and references' to every passage in which these occur, to which is added the Septuagint ren dering of the ,words.—The Poems of Thomas Ful ler, the quaint historian and avine, are being col lected from all his works, to be published by sub scription in London.-1----Max Muller's new work, in two volumes, entitled," Chips from a German Work shop," contains the essays' on the Science of Reli gion, Mythology, Tradition, and • 'Otiatoms.--lifr. Philip Smith, B. A., one of the 'principal contribu tors to Smith's "Classical Dictionaries," has in the press . a " History of the Middle Ages, Civil and Ec eleiiastical, from the Fall of the Western Empire, to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, in A. D., .1-153."----Mr. A. K. H. Boyd.'"The Country Parson,l , has in press" Lessons of Middle Age, with some account..of various Cities and Men-" Messrs, Macmillan & Co., have nearly ready a new edition of Thomas 'a Betupis, with border designs after Alfred Diirer and other 'early masters:— Messrs. Blackwood & Sons announce " The Con version of England," being the third, fourth and fifth volumes of Count Montalembert's " Monks of the West." . , In Natural Science, a stir, will , be made by the new work of Dari Vin, " Variation of Animals and Plant! under Domestication ; or, the Principles of Inheri tance, Reversion, Crossing, Interbreeding and Se lection."---A new edition (the fourth) of Sir Rode rick Murchison's "Siluria : a History of the Oldest Rocks," is announced. Murchison is entitled to the credit of having not only predicted, but poiitive ly declared, as soon as-the discovery of gold in Cali fornia was announced, that it would certainly he found, if looked for. in Australia.---Sir Samuel White Baker's new book, "The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia," is Meeting with great success in Eng land, the fourth thousand being already published. History and Biography.—A new edition of ti"' "Works of Alexander Pope; with a New Life,ln tiodnction and Notes," by Rev. Whitwell Elwin. This work will include about7oo letters, which have never hitherto been collected, and of these nearly 500 are entirely new, and printed fOr the first time. To the prose works will be added the anecdotes 01 Pope, and the records of -his conversation which have been preserved by Spence and others.—Hi'' tory of Ancient Persia; being the fourth and cor. eluding volume of the Five Ancient :Eastern Mon archies," by Geo. Rawlinson, M. Camden Pro fessor of Ancient History; at Oxford.—The third and fourth volumes of Mr. Kingfake's " History of the Invasion of the Crimea.":with -maps. plans, and diagrams were to be published by Messrs. Black wood, of Edinburgh, before Christmae.—Sir Ed ward Geary is about to publish a " History of Eng land, from the Earliest Times .to the End of the Plantagenet Dynasty. Miscellaneous.—" Enoch Arden" has been re' - deredinto Latin by Professor Selwyn, as " Enoch . Arden : Poema Tennysonianum. Latine redditum. —Dr. J. C. Ilueknill, Londem, has 'just brought out a volume of psychological :essaye,:entitled "The Mad Folk of Shakspeare."---Mr,Arminius Varn bery, the Asiatic traveller, is abOut to publish hook for boys, under the - title of ""'Adventures in Asia."--Mr. ,John' Camden -Rotten announces "-Historical cartoons, or Pictures, of the World -History, Troin 'the First to the . Nineteenth Century, , by Gustave Dore.
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