Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1882 — Imprisonment of American Citizens in Ireland. [ARTICLE]

Imprisonment of American Citizens in Ireland.

Washington, March 16. The Department of State sent the Committee on Foreign Affairs yesterday copies of the telegraphio correspondence between the department and the legation at London respecting the imprisonment of Americans in Ireland under the Coercion act The cases of McSweeny and Hart are especially alluded to. In his negotiations regarding the former, Mr. Lowell failed to obtain from the British Government any information beyond that contained in the warrant of arrest but was assured by Lord Granville that McSweeny’s conduct brought him under the Coercion act, and that he could not be released. Hart’s reputation is bad, and he will not promise to behave better if set at liberty. Lowell does not believe either of the two is more innocent than a majority of the persons arrested. In answer to the department's instructions to waive, for the present, all discussion of the justice of these arbitrary imprisonments, but to press for early trials of the American “ suspects,” Mr. Lowed states that her Majesty’s Government has promised to give the matter immediate attention.