... seen in the page of history, we might have wept over oar poor, MISGUIDED, NI: COUNTRY as Jesus wept over'llis. Then the united Irishmen tried to accomplish an impossibility similar to that which the Jews attempted when they challensed the Romans to deadly ...

... connected with religion. No one can doubt that many sincerely loyal men were draw n into the Association which was called the United Irishmen, the very ( object of which was to obtain the redress, by legitimate means of certain real grievances under which the ...

... just outlined gave rise to continuous, deep-seated and universal discontent, which culminated in the formation of the United Irishmen and kindred societies primarily for the redress of those grievances : and finally in rebellion, followed on its suppression ...

... ry. For many years the flow of emigration from Ireland was towards the United States, bu Irishmen have discovered that Canada offers advantages fully equal to those of the United States, and they have directed their steps thither. At the same time there ...

... have been enlisted in the interest of those who have set their hearts on the attainment of that object. Irishmen, and the descendants of Irishmen, are to be found in every quarter of the globe, and to these regions, distant though they be, the seditious ...

... flourished was one of the most painful in our history. The Jacobin government in Paris had its Revolutionary Committee ; the United Irishmen, into which the Defenders merged, had their Assassination Committee ; they had constant and close communication, and exchanged ...

... statement ia simply untrue. Mr. T. P. O’Conner oaya— ** It was Pitt's refusal of Parliamentary reform that transformed the United Irishmen from loyal reformers into revolutionaries. Again And if the Irish are fra* to make their own laws; hav# no irritating ...

... at once The girl's mad, said the colonel, tapping the ground with his whip. I have heard of United Irishmen ; but., me, Pen, if you haven't got a United Irishwoman in your service. What is it you want to do, Norah r asked Miss Chute, who was rather ...

... the savage passions of race and religions hatred which the Rebellion fed and perpetuated, and by acts cam mitted by Irishmen upon Irishmen which both sides should be glad to see buried in oblivion. If political wisdom were as maol, cherished on the Irish ...

... simply oar Established Church, but embraces all truly Protestant Churches. An alliance was proposed in the days of the United Irishmen between the Church of England and the Presby terian Church. But one of their greatest divines then said such an alliance ...

... whom his • daughter aud nephew were the time, Dr. R. R. Madden has supplied full particulars in the third volume of his “United Irishmen; their Lives and Times (London, I860). To his work 1 refer all those who may anxious for more information upon the subject ...

... secured to Roman Catholics themselves, the liberty of worshipping God without civil penalties of any kind. Time was when Irishmen united with their Protestant neighbours to keep holiday on ths Ist and 12th of July, and long processions with flags waring, ...