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Full Title	Handbill, Irish Petition to President and Congress.
Author	Clan-na-Gael.
Date Added	11 January 2014
Language	English
Publish Date	1917
Publisher	S.l.: [Clan-na-Gael.]
Source	McGarrity Papers
Topic	United States. Congress. United States. President. Ireland > Foreign public opinion, American. Devoy, John.
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Disclaimers	Disclaimer of Liability Disclaimer of Endorsement

OCR 7 : oly oF il | IRISH PETITION TO PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS Six Hundred Delegates Of The Clan-na-Gael From All Parts Of The Country, Assembled In Conference In New York On Sunday Last And Basing Their Action Ou Mr. Wilson’s Great Speech Of Sept. 27, Appeal For The Applica- tion To Ireland Of The Splendid Principles Of Liberty And Democracy Which He Enunciated—tlis Pronouncement Regarded As Creating A Wholly New Situation Favorable To The Small Nationalities And Particularly To Ireland—Copious Extracts From His Address Quoted In The Document And All Fully Approved —Decision Reached To Raise A Fund Of $100,000 To Carry On ACampaign Of Enlightenment In Order To Counteract The English Propaganda Against Ireland And Place The Actual Facts Before The American People—Pledges For $78,000 Received At The Meeting And Confi- dence Expressed That The Rest Will Be Forthcoming—A Splendid Gathering From Which Many Young Men Now At The Front, Or Dead Or Wounded In France Or In The Training Camps Were Missing. . A National Conference of Delegates of the Clan-na-Gael from all parts of at the Central Opera House, Sixty-seventh Street and Third Avenue, New York, on last Sun- day, and it unanimously adopted a pe- tition to the President and Congress of the United States in favor of Self-De- termination for Ireland. Over six hun- dred Delegates were present, among whom were many priests, and the great- est harmony and unanimity prevailed throughout. the sessions, which lasted from 10 o'clock in the morning, with a short intermission .for dinner, until 6:45 P. M. it was a splendid ene fully rep- / ysical man- hood and the intellect of the race. But it was almost entirely composed of men beyond the age which would make them liable to the first Draft. Several thou- d members of the organization are either at the front in France or in the Many men. who were present have sons or younger brothers in the army or navy—one man having three sons and several others two—and more than twenty, delegates have found their sons’, n the a cently killed, and the same kind of story was in. conversation with friends by men from all parts of the country. SATISFACTION OVER THE PRESI- DENT’S SPEECH. was largely the President’s strong pronouncement in favor of the rights of all peoples to overn themselves and his emphatic assertion that no people should be held In face of that pronouncement of the felt that it will give a new impetus to the movement to secure American inter- vention in favor of Ireland, which has been the chief aim of the Clan-na-Gael since America entered the war, as was clearly shown by documents issued in April, 1917, which were read to the gathering. These documents effectually dispose of all the absurd stories of in- surrectionary ts with which the Eng- lish Am n press has been fill- of arousing prejudice against Ireland among the American people. TO RAISE FUND OF $100,000. Although these malicious stories have the minds of many well-meaning Ameri- cans. The English Propaganda against Ireland in the American press has somewhat abated, but enough of it still remains to inflict serious injury on the f absolutely necessary to meet these at- tacks on Ireland, by a vigorous campaign a campaign was decide ried out by perfectly open and legal ——~