Incidents of my life, professional, literary, social, with services in the cause of Ireland / by Thomas Addis Emmet.
- Thomas Addis Emmet
- Date:
- 1911
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Incidents of my life, professional, literary, social, with services in the cause of Ireland / by Thomas Addis Emmet. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![print with individual differences of opinions; and consequently we recalled the resolution of the Liverpool Convention, which expressed similar views. We interpreted the unanimous resolution of the party as a guarantee, if not, indeed, an honorable and binding pledge, that such public discussions shoiild cease, and that on the faith of such a pledge we could renew our efforts for Ireland. In spite of these resolutions and assurances we find another outbreak of the same proceedings. To us the great point of importance is the unity and dis- cipline of the party. To maintain these it is absolutely essential, in our opinion, that all such public discussions as those recently initiated should finally be put a stop to. In our opinion these discussions should never be heard outside the doors of your party meetings. We in America have all the more difficulty in understanding these scandals, as we have perfect confidence in you as a leader and in the party as a unit, and we are ready to stand by and support you to the end of the struggle. Neither the patience, the generosity, nor the patriotism of your friends in America is exhausted. We have the same warm hearts to give you support now as during the past. In the two or three years’ existence of this organization we have been able to send you some $68,000, and if it had not been for these periodic and recurrent outbreaks of public discussion you could, I believe, count on a regular annual subscription from our organization of $50,000. The principle of majority rule and unity in political organizations is so well established with us that no attempt of a minority to rule or to disunite the party will ever receive the slightest countenance from us. I appeal, then, to you, to all your colleagues without exception, and to the Irish people, to put down these disastrous discussions, to support the unity and discipline of the party, and to no longer paralyze the efforts of the best and warmest friends of the Irish cause in America. Very truly yours, Thos. Addis Emmet, President Irish National Federation of America. Note V See page 2Q4 [The following letter was printed in the Dublin Freeman's Journal, October 20th.] 89 Madison Avenue, N. Y., Oct. 4, 1894. Esq., M.P., London. Sir: Your letter of the 21st of September reached me but a few hours before leaving London for the steamer. I had then only leisure to acknowledge its reception, promising to give it my early attention upon reaching New York. Since you and Mr. have decided, for one reason and another, not to put in writing a statement of your complaints against the majority management of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28034776_0575.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
