Rose Hipp
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In Ireland, where Stevens had been most implicitly believed in, the news of this collapse which reached early in eighteen sixty seven, filled the circles with keen humiliation.
The more dispassionate wisely rejoiced that he had not attempted to keep a promise, the making of which was in itself a crime.
But the desire to wipe out the reproach supposed to be cast on the whole enrollment by his public defection became so overpowering that a rising was arranged to come off simultaneously all over Ireland on the fifth of March 1867.
Of all the insensate attempts at revolution recorded in history, this one assuredly was preeminent.
The most extravagant of the ancient Fenian tales supplies nothing more absurd than
The inmates of a lunatic asylum could scarcely have produced a more impossible scheme.
The one redeeming feature in the whole proceeding was the conduct of the hapless men who engaged in it.
Firstly, their courage in responding to such a summons at all, unarmed and unaided as they were.
Secondly, their intense religious feeling.
On the days immediately preceding the fifth of March, the Catholic churches were crowded with
by the youth of the country.
Making spiritual preparations for what they believed would be a struggle in which many would fall and few survive.
Thirdly
Their noble humanity to the prisoners whom they captured, their scrupulous regard for private property, and their earnest anxiety to carry on their struggle without infraction in aught of the laws and rules of honourable warfare.
In the vicinity of Dublin and in Tipperary, Cork, and Limerick counties, attacks were made on the police stations, several of which were captured by or surrendered to the insurgents.
But a circumstance as singular as any recorded in history intervened to suppress the movement more effectually than the armies and fleets of England ten times told could do.
On the next night, following the rising, the sixth of March, there commenced a snowstorm which will long be remembered in Ireland.
As it was probably without precedent in our annals.
For twelve days and nights, without intermission, a tempest of snow and sleet raged over the land, piling snow to the depth of yards on all the mountains, streets, and highways.
The plan of the insurrection evidently had for its chief feature desultory warfare in the mountain districts, but this intervention of the element.
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