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Excerpt from To the State Centres, Centres of Circle and Members of the Fenian Brotherhood
President of the United States holds his office to day. The necessity of this procedure you must have recognized when you signed the Basis of the Union; for had Mr. Mitchell accepted the position tendered to him, by you and Co]. Roberts, the agreement says that he Should be at once installed under the provisions of the sald (phila delphia) Constitution. There is not a line in that Con stitution which states that either John Savage, William R. Roberts, or any committee whatever, have the power to nominate or install a presiding officer for the Fenian Brotherhood. But there is a provision by which the Senate are empowered to elect the President of their own body, which officer, it is declared, On the death, removal or inability to act of the President, shall become the President of the Fenian Brotherhood. Thus, Mr. Mitchel, in order to reach the Presidency under the Provisions of the Philadelphia Constitution, would have to be (and would have been) elected a member and president of the Senate of the Fenian Brotherhood, so that, on the resig nation of President Roberts, he would have succeeded, not merely to an empty title, but to the full power and dig nity of a high and responsible Office. Had Mr. Mitchel accepted that position (as it was hoped he would), the agreement states that he should be at once installed under the provisions of the Constitution as President of the United Brotherhood. In being so installed, he would have had to take an obligation to preserve and carry out the provisions of that Constitution in its fullest sense; and in his capacity as President, he would have to call upon you, as Col. Roberts and myself have done, to send m, for confirmation and election, the names of those whom you desired to place on the Senate as the r ep1esen tative of your organization. I can scarcely believe that you have looked fully into this matter, or you would not now propose to introduce those gentlemen into the Execu tive Council of the United Brotherhood by a process more summary and less legitimate than that to which yo agreed to submit a man whose name stands so high amongst the nationalists of Ireland, and whose intimate associate you claim to have been In former struggles for our common country.
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