Author: John O'NeillPublisher:
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Category : Fenians
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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To the State Centres, Centres of Circle and Members of the Fenian Brotherhood
Author: John O'NeillTo the State Centres, Centres of Circle and Members of the Fenian Brotherhood (Classic Reprint)
Author: John O'NeillPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331125627
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Excerpt from To the State Centres, Centres of Circle and Members of the Fenian Brotherhood President of the United States holds his office to day. The necessity of this procedure you must have recognized when you signed the Basis of the Union; for had Mr. Mitchell accepted the position tendered to him, by you and Co]. Roberts, the agreement says that he Should be at once installed under the provisions of the sald (phila delphia) Constitution. There is not a line in that Con stitution which states that either John Savage, William R. Roberts, or any committee whatever, have the power to nominate or install a presiding officer for the Fenian Brotherhood. But there is a provision by which the Senate are empowered to elect the President of their own body, which officer, it is declared, On the death, removal or inability to act of the President, shall become the President of the Fenian Brotherhood. Thus, Mr. Mitchel, in order to reach the Presidency under the Provisions of the Philadelphia Constitution, would have to be (and would have been) elected a member and president of the Senate of the Fenian Brotherhood, so that, on the resig nation of President Roberts, he would have succeeded, not merely to an empty title, but to the full power and dig nity of a high and responsible Office. Had Mr. Mitchel accepted that position (as it was hoped he would), the agreement states that he should be at once installed under the provisions of the Constitution as President of the United Brotherhood. In being so installed, he would have had to take an obligation to preserve and carry out the provisions of that Constitution in its fullest sense; and in his capacity as President, he would have to call upon you, as Col. Roberts and myself have done, to send m, for confirmation and election, the names of those whom you desired to place on the Senate as the r ep1esen tative of your organization. I can scarcely believe that you have looked fully into this matter, or you would not now propose to introduce those gentlemen into the Execu tive Council of the United Brotherhood by a process more summary and less legitimate than that to which yo agreed to submit a man whose name stands so high amongst the nationalists of Ireland, and whose intimate associate you claim to have been In former struggles for our common country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
To the State Centres, Centres, and Members of the Fenian Brotherhood of North America
Author: Fenian Brotherhood of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fenians
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Proceedings of the First National Convention of the Fenian Brotherhood held in Chicago ... 1863
Author: Fenian Brotherhood of America (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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The Secret History of the Fenian Conspiracy
Author: John RutherfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fenians
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Proceedings of the Second National Congress of the Fenian Brotherhood, Held in Cincinnati, Ohio, January, 1865
Author: The Disestablishment and Disendowment of the Established Church in Ireland Shown to be Desirable Under Existing Circumstances ...
Author: Frederick Fitzwilliam TrenchPublisher:
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Rebels on the Niagara
Author: Lawrence E. ClinePublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438467532
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
In what is now largely considered a footnote in history, Americans invaded Canada along the Niagara Frontier in 1866. The group behind the invasion—the Fenian Brotherhood—was formed in 1858 by Irish nationalists in New York City in order to fight for Irish independence from Britain. At the end of the American Civil War, Fenian leaders attempted to use Irish Americans, many of them combat veterans, to seize Canada and make it the "New Ireland" as a means to force the British from "old" Ireland. New York State was both the epicenter of Fenian leadership and a key support base and staging area for the military operations. Although relatively short-lived and with some of its military operations being somewhere between farce and tragedy, the Fenian Brotherhood had a very important impact on nineteenth-century New York and America, but remains largely forgotten. In Rebels on the Niagara Lawrence E. Cline examines not only the Fenian operations and their impact on Canada, but also the role the United States and New York played in both the initial support for the Fenian movement and its subsequent collapse in America.
Fenians, Freedmen, and Southern Whites
Author: Mitchell SnayPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807135356
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
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After the American Civil War, several movements for ethnic separatism and political self-determination significantly shaped the course of Reconstruction. The Union Leagues mobilized African Americans to fight for their political rights and economic security while the Ku Klux Klan used intimidation and violence to maintain the political and economic hegemony of southern whites. Founded in 1858 as the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood, the Irish American Fenians sought to liberate Ireland from English rule. In Fenians, Freedmen, and Southern Whites, Mitchell Snay provides a compelling comparison of these seemingly disparate groups and illuminates the contours of nationalism during Reconstruction. By joining the Fenians with freedpeople and southern whites, Snay seeks to assert their central relevance to the dynamics of nationalism during Reconstruction and offers a highly original analysis of Reconstruction as an Age of Capital and an Age of Emancipation where categories of race, class, and gender -- as well as nationalism -- were fluid and contested. After the American Civil War, several movements for ethnic separatism and political self-determination significantly shaped the course of Reconstruction. The Union Leagues, which began during the war to support the northern effort, spread to the South after the war and mobilized African Americans to fight for their political rights and economic security. Opposing the Leagues was the Ku Klux Klan, which used intimidation and violence to maintain the political and economic hegemony of southern whites. Founded in 1858 as the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood, the Irish American Fenians sought to liberate Ireland from English rule. Mitchell Snay provides a compelling comparison of these seemingly disparate groups in Fenians, Freedmen, and Southern Whites, illuminating the contours of nationalism during Reconstruction. Despite their separate and often opposing goals, the Fenians, Union Leagues, and the Klan, Snay reveals, shared many characteristics. To various extents, they were secret societies that sought to advance their mission through both political and extra-political means. Both the League and the Klan employed elaborate rites of initiation and secret passwords common to nineteenth-century fraternal organizations. They also shared a similar political culture of secrecy, conspiracy, and countersubversion. All three groups were quasi-military in structure and activities and shared a desire for the control of land. Among the three organizations, Snay shows, the Fenians provide the clearest case of nationalist aspirations along the lines of ethnicity, though the rise of racial consciousness among both southern whites and blacks also might be seen as expressions of ethnic nationalism. According to Snay, the political culture of Reconstruction encouraged the nationalist ambitions of these groups, but channeled their separatist impulses along civil rather than ethnic lines by focusing on questions of freedom, citizenship, and suffrage. In addition, the Republican emphasis on color-blind equality limited overt expressions of national identities based solely on ethnicity or race.Unlike southern whites and blacks, Irish Americans are seldom mentioned in Reconstruction histories. By joining the Fenians with freedpeople and southern whites, Snay seeks to assert their central relevance to the dynamics of nationalism during Reconstruction and offers a highly original analysis of Reconstruction as an Age of Capital and an Age of Emancipation where categories of race, class, and gender -- as well as nationalism -- were fluid and contested.
The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year ...
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 878
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