Rose Hipp
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 7 Aug
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At most, there is but the difference of degree in the guilt and malignity of the leaders who urged on impetuous youth to such risings as those of the snow-storms in 1867, and of the scoundrel who planned assassination, entrapped and excited the same kind of youth to execute it, and then swore their lives away.
body to save himself from his justly deserved doom.
I am led to this conclusion inevitably from the account given of the Fenian rising by one of the purest Irish patriots of this century, one just gone amidst the tears of his fellow countrymen, with stainless name and a career of glorious labour to his eternal reward.
Mr.
Alexander M.
Sullivan, in his interesting story of Ireland, says there was up to the last a fatuous amount of delusion maintained by the head centre on this side of the Atlantic, James Stevens, a man of marvellous subtlety and wondrous powers of plausible imposition, crafty, cunning, and
and quite unscrupulous as to the employment of means to an end.
However, the army ready to hand in America, if not utilized at once, would soon be melted away and gone like the snows of past winters, so in the middle of eighteen sixty five it was resolved to take the field in the approaching autumn.
It is hard to contemplate this decision or declaration without deeming it either insincere or wicked on the part of the leader or leaders who at the moment knew the real condition of affairs in Ireland.
That the enrolled members, howsoever few, would respond when called upon, was certain at any time.
For the Irish are not cowards.
The men who joined this desperate enterprise were sure to prove themselves courageous if not either prudent or wise.
But the pretence of the revolutionary chief that there was a force able to afford the merest chance of success was too utterly false not to be plainly criminal.
Towards the close of eighteen sixty five came almost contemporaneously the government swoop on the Irish Revolutionary Executive and the deposition after solemn judicial trial, as prescribed by the laws of the Society, of O'Mahony, the American head centre, for crimes and offences alleged to be worse than mere imbecility.
And the election in his stead of Colonel William R.
Roberts, an Irish American merchant of high standing and honourable character, whose fortune had always generously aided Irish patriotic.
for charitable or religious purposes.
The deposed official, however, did not submit to the application of the Society rules.
He set up a rival association, a course in which he was supported by the Irish head centre, and a painful scene of factuous and acrimonious contention between the two parties thus antagonized caused the English government to hope that
Nay for a moment fully to believe that the disappearance of both must soon follow.
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