| THE FENIAN PRISONERS AT MANCHESTER AND 
THE INTERNATIONAL WORKING MEN’S ASSOCIATION ! 

At a special meeting of the General Council of the I.W.A. held 
at the office 16, Castle Street, East, W., on Wednesday evening? 
the following memorial was adopted: 

‘Memorial of the General Council of the International Working 
Men’s Association. 

“To the Right Hon. Gathorne-Hardy, her Majesty’s Secretary of 
State. 

“The memorial of the undersigned, representing working men’s 
- associations in all parts of Europe, showeth: 

“That the execution of the Irish prisoners condemned to death 
at Manchester will greatly impair the moral influence of England 
upon the European Continent. The Execution of the four 
prisoners” resting upon the same evidence and the same verdict 
which, by the free pardon of Maguire, have been officially 
declared, the one false, the other erroneous, will bear the stamp 
not of a judicial act, but of political revenge. But even if the 
verdict of the Manchester jury and the evidence it rests upon had 
not been tainted by the British Government itself, the latter would 
now have to choose between the blood-handed practices of old 
Europe and the magnanimous humanity of the young Transatlan- 
tic Republic.? 

“The commutation of the sentence for which we pray will be an 
act not only of justice, but of political wisdom. 

a November 20, 1867.— Ed. 
b Edward Condon, Michael Larkin, William Philip Allen, Michael O’Brien.— Ed. 

“By order of the General Council of the I. W. Association, 
‘John Weston, Chairman 

R. Shaw, Secretary for America 

Eugene Dupont, Secretary for France 
Karl Marx, Secretary for Germany 
Hermann Jung, Secretary for Switzerland 
P. Lafargue, Secretary for Spain 

Zabicki, Secretary for Poland 
Derkinderen, Secretary for Holland 
Besson, Secretary for Belgium 

G. Eccarius, General Secretary.” * 

November 20, 1867