Rose Hipp
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Mr A.
M.
Sullivan, after speaking of the history of the Fenian movement in America, continues.
This brief episode at Ridgway was for the Confederated Irish the one gleam to lighten the page of their history for eighteen sixty six.
That page was otherwise darkened and blotted by a record of humiliating and disgraceful exposures in connection with the Irish head centre.
In autumn of that year he proceeded to America and finding his authority repudiated and his integrity doubted.
He resorted to a course which it would be difficult to characterize too strongly.
By way of attracting a following to his own standard and obtaining a flush of money, he publicly announced that in the winter months close at hand and before the new year dawned, he would sealing his undertaking with an awful invocation of the most high be in Ireland, leading the long-promised insurrection.
Had this been a mere intention which might be disappointed, it was still manifestly criminal, thus, to announce to the British government, unless indeed his resources in hand were so enormous as to render England's preparations a matter of indifference.
But it was not as an intention he announced it and swore to it.
He threatened with the most serious personal consequences any and every man soever who might dare to express a doubt that the event would come off as he swore.
The few months remaining of the year flew by.
His intimate adherence spread the rumour that he had sailed for the scene of action.
And in Ireland the news occasioned almost a panic.
One day, towards the close of December, however, all New York rang with the exposure that Stevens had never quitted for Ireland, but was hiding from his own enraged followers in Brooklyn.
The scenes that ensued were such as may well be omitted from these pages.
In that bitter hour, thousands of honest, impulsive, and self-sacrificing Irishmen endured the anguish of discovering that they had been deceived as never had men been before.
That an idol worshipped with frenzied devotion was, after all, a thing of clay.
The plottings of the head centre, however, were not at an end.
Mr AM Sullivan continues.
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