The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-05

| chief encouragement in the imminence of
another war between France and Eng
land. Once more the United 1rishmen
put themselves into communication with
Bonaparte, then first consul. and again
they received fiattering promises of assist
ance Robert Emmet obtained an inter-
view with that great man. and learned
| from him that it WAS his settled purpose.
on the breaking out Of hostilities. which
could not long be deferred. to effect an
invasion of England.
q Returns to Dublin.
"Full of high hopes Emmett returned to
| Dublin in October, 1902; and as was now
! in the very heart of a movement for an
other insurrection, he. took every precau
ton to avoid discovery. He passed under
| feigned names and moved about as little
| as possible. Fl gathered together the rem
nants of the United Irish organization.
| and with some money of his own added
| to considerable sums supplied to him by
| "A Mr.. Long, a merchant residing at No. 4
| Crow street and other sympathzers he
| commenced the collection of an armament
and military stores for his followers In
| the month of May. 1903. the expected war
between France and England broke out.
This event. of course, raised still higher
| his hopes and gave a great stimulus TO
! his exerions. TO and fro he went from
| one to another Of the .depots which he
| had established for the manufacture and
| storage of arms in various parts of the
| city, cheering directing and assisting his
men at their work. Pixies were got ready
| by the thousand and ingeniously slowed
| away until they should be wanted: rock
| cts. hand-grenades and other deadly mis-
siles were carefully prepared: but ac-
| cidental explosion, which occurred on the
| 10th of July in one of the manufactures,
|
| leading to the discovery of the entire bust
| ness and had the effect of preciptating
| the outbreak.
| THE government at this time had un-
| doubleday got the scent of the move
ment. and the leaders considered that 10
| time was to be lost in bringing matters
| to crisis. Emmett now took up his abode
in the Marshalsea Lane depot. snatching
| his few hours sleep on mattress sur
rounded by all the implements of death
There he made final arrangement of his
| plans and communicated his instructions
to his subordnates, fixing the 23d of July
as the date for the rising.
The Unfortunate Outbreak.
"'rhe history of that unfortunate at
tempt need not here be written. Suffice
it to say that the arrangements mscar-
| ried in nearly every particular. The men
| in the numbers calculated upon did not
assemble at the appointed time or in the
| appointed places, and the whole force that
turned out in Thomas street for tn. at
tack on the castle did not number Il hun
dred insurgents. They were Joined by a
| rotous and noisy rabble and their unfor-
tunate leader soon perceived that his fol-
lowing was as had previously been said
of the kings troops, formidable to every
one but the enemy They had not pro-
ceeded far on their way when a carriage.
in which We're Lord kilwarden, chief JUS
tice of the kings bench, his daughter and
his nephew, the Rev. Mr.. Wolfe, drove
into the street. The vehicle was stopped
and the chief justice was Immediately
piked by a man in the crowd, whose son
he had sometime previously condemned 10
execution. The clergyman also was pulled
out of the carriage and put to death. To
the lady no violence was offered. and En-
met himself, who had heard of the de-
plorable tragedy, rushing from the head
OF his party bore her in his arms to an
adjoining house. No attack on the castle
took place. The insurgent party scattered
and melted away even before the appear
ance of the military on the scene, and il
little more than an hour from the time OF
his setting out on his desperate enterprise
Robert Emmett was defeated and ruined
man. a fugitive with the whole hos; a
British spies and bloodhounds employed tC
hunt him to the death.
His Love.
yet he might have foiled them and go
: clear out of the country, if his persona
safety was all on earth he cared for, bu
ia that noble heart of his there was on,
passion co-eXisting with is love for Ire
land and not unworthy of the companion
ship. which forbade his immediate flight
= With all that intensity of affection q
l which nature so pure and so ardentsa
4 his was capable he loved a being in ever,
e way worthy of him, a lady so gentle an
t god and fair that even to a less zpoeti
{ imagination than his own she might seen
+ TO be personitication Of his beloved Erin