We are indebted to Messrs. Melchers Qo., the Agents for the Norddeutscher Lloyds, for Buglish papers of the 16th and 19th April. We take the following from the Times of the 18th. Mr. Parnell denied the authenticity of the letter in a speech in the House on the day of its publication, describing it as a villainous and barefaced forgery, an odious and unblushing fabrication, &e.
In concluding our series of articles on Parnellism and Crime' we intimated that, besides the damning facts which we there recorded, unpublished evidence existed which would bind still closer the links between the constitutional' chief and the contrivers of murder and outrage. In view of the unblushing denials of Mr. Sexton and Mr, Healy on Friday night, we do not think it right to withhold any longer from public knowledge the fuct that we possess and have had in our custody for some time documentary evidence which has a most serious bearing on the Parnellite conspiracy, and which, after a most careful and minute scrutiny, is, we are satisfied, quite authenie. We produce one document in fac-lo to-day by a process the accuracy of which cannot be impugned, and we invite Mr. Parnell to explain how his signature has become attached to such a letter, It is requisite to point out that the body of the manuscript is apparently not in Mr. Parnell's handwriting but the signature and the Yours very truly' unquestionably are so; and if any member of Parliament doubts the fact, he can easily satisfy himself on the matter by comparing the handwriting ith that of Mr. Parnell in the book containing the signatures of members when they first take their seats in the House of Commons.
We particularly direct attention to the crastre in the manuscript as undesigned evidence of authenticity, and should any questions be raised as to the body of the letter being in another handwriting, we shall be prepared to adduce proof that this peculiarity is quite consistent with its genuine character, The body of the letter occupies the whole of the first page of an ordinary sheet of stout white note paper, leaving no room in the same page for the signature, which is placed on the fourth page near the top right-hand corner. It was an obvious friends, on his own part, and he believed, on the part of every Irishman in whatever portion of the world he might live, their most unqualified detestation of the horrible crime which had been committed in Ireland. (ear, hear.) He could not now refer to the steps which the Goverament proposed take. He did not deny that it might be impossible for the Government to resist taking measures such as had been mentioned by Prime Minister. Buthe wished to express his belief that the crime had been committed by men who absolutely detested the cause with which he had been associated (hear, hear), and who had devised that crime and carried it out as the deadliest blow in their power against his hopes and the new course which the Government had resolved upon.'
Particular attention may now be drawn to the wicked suggestion here made that the Phoenix Park crimes had been the work of the enemies of Parnellism and the League, devised and carried out as the deadliest blow in their power against his hopes and the new course which the Government had resolved uy 'Has that infamous accusation ever been recalled or even qualified, and to what benevolent construction of m tives is a public man now entitled who made such a charge at the very time when Egan's friends' for denouncing them 18 he was smoothing down the anger' of
murderers in Parliament?
To the country at lange Mr. Parnell, Mr. Dillon, and Mr. Davitt addressed on the day after the murder the following manifest to:—
To the People of Ireland, On the eve of what seemed a bright future for our country, that evil destiny which has apparently pursued us for centuries has struck another blow at our hopes, which cannot be exaggerated in its disastrous consequences, In this hour of sorrowful gloom we venture to give an expression of our profoundest sympathy with the people of Ireland in the through horrible deed, and to those who calamity that has befallen our cause, had determined at the Inst hour that a policy of conciliation should supplant that of terrorism and national distrust. We earnestly hope that the attitude and action of the whole Irish people will show the world that assassination such as has startled us almost to the abandonment of hope for our country's future is deeply and religiously abhorrent to their every feeling and instinct. We appeal to you to show by every manner of expression that almost universal feeling of horror which this assassination has excited. No people feels so intense a detestation of its atrocity, of so deep a sympathy for those whose hearts must be seared by it, as the nation upon
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