Carey has not explained where the money, of which the
In- vincibles had plenty, came from, but he implicates officers of the Land League. Especially, he declares that T. Brennan, Secretary of the Land League, and Mr. Sheridan, whom Mr. Parnell so trusted that he promised to use him in putting down .outrages in the West, were members of the Society of Invinci- bles, which, as a whole, was composed solely of Fenians, though it was outside that organisation. The Dublin Committee was only one of four, each of them engaged in terrorising by murder, and all of them directed by a central association in London, the chief of which is alleged to have been "Number One," who is now actively hunted by the Police. It is believed that a great number of recent murders were arranged by the Invincibles, and that much more evidence as to the real chiefs of the conspiracy has been obtained ; but we would warn our readers to consider all statements not obviously corroborated by circum- stantial evidence with some suspicion. The disposition to credit a criminal society of this kind with ubiquity is very strong, as is also the disposition to forget that treason and assassination are morally different crimes, committed by widely different natures. Let us have the most searching inquiry,
without the slightest respect of persons, the highest being the most guilty ; but let us wait, also, in all cases, for evidence. It is the jealous subordinates of a party, not its leaders, who usually are under temptation to plunge into crime, in order to prove that they are the persons to be trusted. Casco stabs harder than Brutus.
