Mr. O'Brien, M.P., who is himself under prosecution for his
speeches at Mitchelstown, took the chair at the meeting of the National League in Dublin on Tuesday, and made a very violent speech. He accused the Government of calling that League a dangerous Association because they had found outthe knack "of boycotting land-grabbers without hurting them." "They had to deal," he said, "with a Land Commission of most contemptible men, who had the land of Ireland to do what they lilted with." "The landlords were doing all they could to intimidate the Land Commissioners. Justice O'Hagan might have raised instead of lowering the rents, unless some wholesome intimidation had been applied. There should be no shilly-shallying, but fair reductions given to the Irish people, or they would be driven back on their own organisation, and go in for some sweeping, radical, and universal Plan of Campaign' all along the line." This is what Mr. O'Brien wants. Mr. Parnell is "conspicuous by his absence" at these critical meetings of the National League."
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