Henry O’mahoney to P. S.—Kindly let me know if you can demand an impartial trial for me; if not, I shall ask for no other favors. H. O’M, July 21, 1881

Mr. O’Mahoney to Mr. Lowell.

Dear Sir: I quite agree with you when you state that an American citizen should not be exempt from the penalties of a law which he violates and that it would be necessary to show that some injustice had been practiced before your intervention, and I respectfully submit the following facts for your kind consideration:

• That I am arrested charged with a crime.
• That I am detained in prison without a shadow of evidence against me.
• That I am debarred of the right of proving my innocence in connection with the crime that I am suspected of. Therefore all the favors I ask (and I think I should claim it as a right) from the United States Government, through you, is a trial, in order that I may show that there is exceptional injustice practiced in my case. Therefore I respectfully ask your intervention to grant me a trial, and by so doing I will not only be able to prove myself innocent of the charge that I am accused of, but of any other crime punishable by law, except being a member of the Land League, an organization which the prime minister himself declared to be perfectly constitutional.

An early reply will oblige yours, respectfully,