History affords no more striking example.
Betrayed to your invaders, deprived of the means of resistance, external slavery seemed to be your inevitable doom. The oppression, the sacrilege of your tyrants became intolerable. Regardless of consequences, you determined at every hazard to vindicate your wrongs. Without arms,without the resources of war, you broke asunder your chains. Your patriotism, your courage, your religion supplied all deficiencies.