whether temporarily or permanently, whether he be a citizen or a mere resident, is subject to the operation of those laws so long as, in the case of the alien resident, no treaty stipulation or principle of international law is contravened by the proceedings taken against him. Mr. P. C. O'Connor has also, since the change made in the Cabinet, addressed quite a long communication to Mr. Frelinghuysen on the same subject, calling his attention to cases of a similar character in years gone by, with the action of various Secretaries of State in each case. To this letter no reply has as yet been received. No. 26. Mr. Lowell to Earl Granville. LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES, London, March 6, 1882. (Received March 6.) My LORD: I have the honor to acquaint you that I received yesterday from Mr. Frelinghuysen a cable dispatch in cipher, of which the following is a translation: "Referring to the cases of O'Connor, Hart, McSweeney, Walsh, McEnery, and Dalton, American citizens imprisoned in Ireland, say to Lord Granville that, without discussing whether the provisions of the force act can be applied to American citizens, the President hopes that the lord lieutenant of Ireland will be instructed to exercise the powers intrusted to him by the first section to order early trials in their (and all other) cases in which Americans may be arrested." In transmitting this dispatch to your lordship, I venture to hope that, considering the importance of the matters to which it refers, it may receive the early attention of Her Majesty's Government. I have, &c., No. 27. J. R. LOWELL. Earl Granville to Mr. Lowell. FOREIGN OFFICE, March 6, 1882. SIR: I have the honor to state to you that I have lost no time in communicating to the proper department of Her Majesty's Government the letter you have addressed to me this day, communicating a telegram you have received from your government relative to the cases of citizens of the United States who have been arrested under the protection of person and property (Ireland) act, 1881. In reply I beg leave to assure you that this matter will receive the immediate attention of Her Majesty's Government. I have, &c., No. 28. Earl Granville to Mr. Lowell. GRANVILLE. FOREIGN OFFICE, March 7, 1882. SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 24th ultimo, forwarding a copy of a resolution of the United States House of Representatives, calling for information concerning the arrest and imprisonment of American citizens by the British Government. In reply, I beg leave to acquaint you that this matter has been referred to the proper department of Her Majesty's Government. I have, &c., GRANVILLE. No. 29. Mr. Frelinghuysen to Mr. Lowell. (Communicated to Earl Granville by Mr. Lowell March 18.) WASHINGTON, March 16, 1882. About two weeks since I cabled that President hoped early trials of Americans imprisoned in Ireland would be ordered. Without wishing to seem unreasonable, President will be relieved if, without delay for general action in Great Britain he can inform Congress that the request as to the Americans has been granted. No. 30. Mr. Lowell to Earl Granville. LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES, London, March 27, 1882. (Received March 27.) My LORD: I have just received a telegram from Mr. Frelinghuysen, in which he desires me to communicate to your lordship the action he has taken in the case of one William Lane, a British subject, who is held for trial in the prison of Detroit, in the State of Michigan. Mr. West has asked Mr. Frelinghuysen to use his good offices to secure for Lane the trial which Lane asserts he is unable to obtain. The Secretary of State has accordingly telegraphed to the attorney-general of Michigan to inquire into the facts, in order that they may be fully reported to Mr. West, and has also said that the President desires the Attorney-General to use his best endeavors to procure for Lane an early trial. In acquainting your lordship with this, I am instructed to say that my government are still without the information respecting the trials in the Irish cases, in relation to which your lordship was kind enough to lead me to expect a speedy reply, as I telegraphed to Washington on the 17th instant, and in regard to which the President hopes Her Majesty's Government will see its way to an early and favorable answer. I have, &c., No. 31. Mr. Lowell to Earl Granville. J. R. LOWELL. LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES, London, March 28, 1882. (Received March 28.) MY LORD: Referring to my note of yesterday, I have the honor to acquaint you that I have received this morning an additional telegram from Mr. Frelinghuysen, requesting me to inform your lordship that the British subject Lane, on whose behalf Mr. West intervened on the 24th instant, asking for a speedy trial, is now being tried. It appears that all the delays and continuances in this case have been made on the motion of Lane's counsel. I have, &c., No. 32. Mr. Lowell to Earl Granville. J. R. LOWELL." LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES, London, March 29, 1882. (Received March 29.) MY LORD: I have the honor to acquaint you that I have to-day received a dispatch from Mr. Frelinghuysen, instructing me to inquire into the circumstances attending the arrest of Mr. James L. White, a naturalized American citizen, who has been for some months imprisoned in Naas jail, in Ireland, under the so-called "coercion act," on a charge of being "reasonably suspected" of offenses against this act. Mr. N. P. Hill, a Senator of the United States from the State of Colorado, has represented to the Secretary that Mr. White was for two years a member of the city council of Denver, in that State, and is said to be a peaceable, quiet man, well-disposed toward good government. He left Denver about the 22d day July, 1878, and returned to Ireland for the purpose of visiting his aged father, and staying with him the remainder of his life, Very respectable persons in Denver offer to vouch for the intelligence, sobriety, and integrity of Mr. White. I have the honor to ask your lordship that inquiries may be made into the circumstances attending the arrest of Mr. White, and if it shall appear that there has been any mistake or undue severity in his case, that he may be released or granted a speedy trial. I have, &c., No. 33. J. R. LOWELL. Earl Granville to Mr. Lowell. FOREIGN OFFICE, March 29, 1882. SIR: I bave the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 27th instant, informing me of the directions that have been given both by the President of the United States and by the Secretary of State, upon the application that has been made by Her Majesty's minister at Washington in order to obtain for William Lane, a British subject, who is detained in prison at Detroit, a judicial hearing of his case, which the accused asserts he is unable to obtain. In reply, I beg leave to express to you my thanks for the information you have conveyed to me respecting William Lane, the particulars of whose case have not yet reached this department, and to assure you that the action of the President and of Mr. Frelinghuysen with regard to the representations made by Mr. West are cordially recognized by Her Majesty's Government. With reference to that portion of your letter in which allusion is made to the cases of those citizens of the United States who are now detained in prison in Ireland under the protection of person and property (Ireland) act, I greatly regret the delay which has arisen in replying to the representations you have already addressed to me on their behalf. This delay has unfortunately been unavoidable, and has only occurred from the necessity of communicating upon the subject with the responsible advisers of Her Majesty in Ireland. I trust, however, that I may very shortly be in a position to communicate to you the views of Her Majesty's Government in this matter. I have, &c., GRANVILLE. No. 34. Earl Granville to Mr. Lowell. FOREIGN OFFICE, March 29, 1882. SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 28th instant, requesting that inquiries may be made into the circumstances attending the arrest of Mr. James L. White, a naturalized American citizen, who has been for some months imprisoned in Naas jail under the protection of person and property act (Ireland), and I have to state to you that your application is under the consideration of Her Majesty's Government. I have, &c. No. 35. GRANVILLE. Earl Granville to Mr. West. FOREIGN OFFICE, March 29, 1882. SIR: With reference to your dispatch of the 15th ultimo, I transmit to you herewith, for your information, copies of the correspondence, as marked in the margin,* *Nos. 23, 29, 30, 31, 32, and 33. relative to the arrest and imprisonment of American citizens by the British Government, and the trial of a British subject named William Lane, who is detained in prison at Detroit, in the United States. I am, &c., No. 36. Earl Granville to Mr. West. GRANVILLE. FOREIGN OFFICE, March 29, 1882. SIR: The United States minister called upon me this afternoon by appointment. I took the opportunity of handing to him my reply to his note of the 27th instant,* relative to the case of William Lane, at the conclusion of which an answer is also promised to the representations of the United States Government with regard to the American citizens detained in Ireland under the protection of person and property act. Mr. Lowell said that this latter question was one which was causing considerable excitement in the United States. I am, &c., No. 37. Earl Granville to Mr. Lowell. GRANVILLE. FOREIGN OFFICE, March 30, 1882. SIR: With reference to my letter of yesterday's date, I have the honor to express to you my thanks for the communication which you were so good as to address to me on the 28th instant, in which I am informed that the trial of the British subject, William Lane, who is detained in prison in Detroit, is being now proceeded with. I have, &c., No. 38. Earl Granville to Mr. West.t GRANVILLE. Foreign Office, March 31, 1882. SIR: I told Mr. Lowell in conversation to-day that the communications which he had addressed to me, and of which copies were forwarded to you with my dispatch of the 29th instant, with regard to the suspects imprisoned in Ireland, who are alleged to be citizens of the United States, involve principles of such importance that Her Majesty's Government would prefer to convey their views on the subject to the Government of the United States through Her Majesty's minister at Washington. I hope to be able to send you the necessary instructions for this purpose in the course of a few days. In the meanwhile, I stated to Mr. Lowell, as you will have learned from my telegram of this day, that the imprisonment of suspects under the protection of person and property (Ireland) act, 1881, is not a measure for the punishment of crime but for its prevention. In many instances prisoners have been released by the Irish Government upon reasonable belief that this could be done without risk to the public safety. Her Majesty's Government, I added, are not desirous of unnecessarily detaining in prison any person from whom no danger to the public peace need be apprehended, and they will be prepared, therefore, to take into consideration the circumstances of any citizens of the United States now so detained who may be willing to engage forthwith to leave the United Kingdom. I am, &c. * See No. 33. + Substance telegraphed. GRANVILLE. No. 39. Mr. West to Earl Granville. WASHINGTON, March 13, 1882. (Received April 3.) My LORD: I have the honor to inclose to your lordship herewith copies of resolutions respecting the protection of American citizens abroad, which were introduced for reference to the Committee on Foreign Relations by Mr. Crapo, Representative from Massachusetts. I have, &c., L. S. SACKVILLE WEST. [Inclosure in No. 39.] [Extract from the Congressional Record of March 11, 1852.] PROTECTION OF AMERICAN CITIZENS ABROAD. Mr. CRAPO. I ask unanimous consent to introduce resolutions, which I send to the Clerk's desk, for reference to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and that they may be printed in the Record. There was no objection, and it was ordered accordingly. The resolutions are as follows: At a meeting of the specially-delegated representatives of the Land League and Irish-American Societies of Fall River, in the commonwealth of Massachusetts, the following resolutions were adopted: Resolved by the Land League and Irish-American Societies of Fall River, Massachusetts, That, in view of the despotic incarceration of Irish-American citizens by the British Government, we believe the time has fully come for Congress and the Executive to demand the immediate trial by a jury of their peers of any and every native or naturalized citizen of the United States, now incarcerated in British dungeons, or their immediate release. Resolved, That we appeal to the American Congress and to the Executive to take snch action as will vindicate American honor, protect American citizenship, and establish justice. To this end we pledge loyalty and united support. Resolved, That in the language of The Citizen, of Chicago, "Europe, not England, is the mother country of America," and that every citizen of the United States, be he American, Englishman, Irishman, Frenchman, German, Russian, Italian, Spaniard, or Turk, is personally interested in this demand. T. DWIGHT STOW, On behalf of the Young Men's Irish-American F. A. and B. Society, numbering 438 members: Thos. Donahuy, president. Benj. F. Mebaney, vice-president. John J. Lannegan, recording secretary. John C. Sullivan, financial secretary. In behalf of the Sarah Curren branch of the Ladies' Land League: Mrs. Neary, president. Miss Mary A. McFadden, vice president. Ladies' branch of I. N. L. L. : On behalf of St. John's Society: Miss Mary A. Guilfoyle, recording sec'y. Miss Bridget A. Leary, recording sec'y. Maurice Shaughnessy, secretary. |