al recognition and for
self-government. There are very few American citizens who do not
sympathize with that effort. I justify every legitimate and
honorable endeavor of every Irishman to better the condition of his
native land, but let it be done as Washington did it; let it be
done as Emmet attempted to do it--in honorable, open, manly and
legitimate endeavor to establish self-government, and not by making
war upon defenseless men and women and attacking the lives of
non-combatants.

"For the past nine or ten years, when these acts have been charged
on the triangle, and when these lawless, fruitless and destructive
acts of the Irish cause have been charged against the triangle----

"I except to these remarks," said Mr. Donahoe. "There is no
evidence to that."

"I suppose that the speech of Tom O'Connor," said Mr. Hynes, "that
these men had been sent to English prisons, is not considered in
evidence by the gentleman."

"There had been conversation of that kind," remarked the Court, and
the objection of Mr. Donahoe being overruled, Mr. Donahoe took an
exception.

"I apprehend," continued Mr. Hynes, "there has not been a rational,
thinking and intelligent Irishman who has not recognized the fact
that every one of these acts was embarrassing if not destructive to
the cause of Ireland; that every one of them simply met as an echo
a new penal act or an act of coercion on the part of the English
government, and crippled the hands and silenced the voices, even,
of the true champions of Ireland making their fight under Mr.
Parnell. Anything of that kind, I am willing to join with Mr.
Foster in saying was a perversion of the purposes of the
organization to which these gentlemen belonged; a perversion of its
intent; a departure from its policy and its methods; and, as I said
last night, invented by them, not for the cause of Ireland or to
serve its ends, but simply as a means to excuse and cover up the
disappearance of money that had been stolen.

"Some allusion has been made by Mr. Donahoe to myself. I do not
propose to refer to it, except in one respect. What possible
personal motive could I have, except the motive that every citizen
should be actuated by, and that should control the conduct of every
lawyer engaged in the prosecution