Since our last meeting* the object of our discussion, Fenianism, 
has entered a new phase. It has been baptised in blood by the 
English Government. The Political Executions at Manchester 
remind us of the fate of John Brown at Harpers Ferry.” They 
open a new period in the struggle between Ireland and England. 
The whole Parliament and liberal press responsible. Gladstone. 

Reason: to keep up the hypocrisy that this was no political, but a 
common criminal affair. The effect produced upon Europe quite 
the contrary. They seem anxious to keep up the Act of the Long 
Parliament.*'* English [have] a divine right to fight the Irish on 
their native soil, but every Irish fighting against the British 
Government in England is to be treated as an outlaw. Suspension of 
the Habeas Corpus Act.*!? State of siege. Facts from The Chronicle. 
Governmental organisation of “Assassination and Violence’’.” Case 
of Bonaparte.?"” 

Il. THE QUESTION 

What is Fenianism?‘