The resolution relates to Edward OMeagher Condon. a naturalized citizen of the United States. who for eleven years and more past has been under sentence of imprisonment for life in a dungeon in England. having been convicted of taking part in a murder in the city of Manchester. growing out of an attempt to rescue and liberate certain prisoners in the hands of the officers of the law. who were charged with being in a Fenian conspiracy. For several years past the executive department of the Government has been engaged in making diplomatic representations to the British government having in view Condons release on various grounds. on the ground that he had already suffered enough even upon the supposition of his guilty complicity in the offense. on the ground of his failing health. and now circumstances are alleged and form the basis of the action of the House of Representatives. going to show that he was illegally convicted : not convicted by any illegal violation of the forms of law. but convicted at a period of great excitement and projudice and upon insufficient evidence. Several of the prisoners. of whom there were a great many. indicted for being concerned in the same offense. were acquitted on the same testimony upon which this man was convicted.
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