The terms of the indictment against Mr. Parnell and the
other leaders of the Land League, and against some, it is said, not belonging to the Land League, have been published, and are to the effect that these men conspired to intimidate tenants from paying their lawful rent, and from submitting to eviction when they could not pay it ; to intimidate others from taking the land of persons lawfully evicted ; and to bring the law into contempt by intimidating persons willing to bid from oidding for goods taken in execution. It is said that the defence is to be a justification of such a policy, on the ground of the state of the country and the speeches of Ministers ; but such a defence as that—grounded on strictly political considerations—should at least show that great pains were taken to discrim Mate between the cases of just and unjust eviction, which it may, perhaps, be very difficult to show.
