The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-03-04

feated, but still uncomfortable ma
ton, and they applied themselves to
the task of preparing the Irish PEG.
pie to take advantage of them.
At home the condition of affairs
was not such as to discourage them.
The people had not lost heart; the
fighting spirit was still rife amongst
them. The rebellion had been tram
pied out, but it had been sustained
mainly by a county or two, and it had
served to show that general upris-
ing of the people would be sufficient
to sweep every vestige of British pow
er from the land. Then they had
In their favor the evaporation against
the government which was caused by
that most infamous transaction, the
passage of the Act of Union. But
they found their chief encouragement
in the imminence of another war be-
tween France and England. Once
more the United Irishmen put them
selves into communication with
Buonaparte, then First Consul, and
again they received flattering prom
lses of assistance. Robert Emmett OBJ
tanned an interview with that great
man, and learned from him that it
was his settled purpose on the break
ing out of hostilities, which could not
long be deferred, to effect an inva.
sion of England. Full of high hopes.
Emmett returned to Dublin in October,
1902; and as he was now in very heart
OF a movement for another insurrec.
ton, he took every precaution to
avoid discovery. He passed under
feigned names, and moved about as
little as possible. He gathered to-
sether the remnants Of the United
Irish organization, and with some
money of his own, added to consid-
cradle sums supplied to him by Mr..
Long, a merchant, residing at No. 4
Crow street, and other sympathisers,
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 ex-
ertions. To and fro he went from
one to another of the depots which
he had established for the manufac-
ture 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 thou
sand, and ingeniously slowed away
until they should be wanted; rockets,
hand-grenades, and other deadly mis-
siles were carefully prepared; but an
accidental explosion, which occurred
on the 10th day of July, in one of
these manufactures situate in Patrick
street, was very near leading to the
discovery of the entire business, and
had the effect of precipitating the
outbreak. The government at this
time had undoubtedly got on the scent
of the movement, and the leaders
considered that no time was to be lost
In bringing matters to a crisis. En-.
met now took up his abode in the
MISUNDERSTANDING depot, snatching his
few hours of sleep ION a mattress,
surrounded by all the implements of
DEATH" There he made a final ar
rangement of his plans, and commu-
nicated his instructions to his subordi-
mates, fixing the 23rd of July as the
date for the rising.
The history of that unfortunate at
tempt need not here be written. Suf-
flee 1t to say that the ARRANGEMENTS
miscarried in nearly every particu-
lar. The men in the numbers calcu-
lated upon did not assemble at the
appointed time or in the appointed
places, and the whole force that
turned out in Thomas street for the
attack on the Castle did not number
hundred insurgents. They were
joined by riotous and noisy rabble:
and their unfortunate leader soon per.
ceived that his following was, as had
previously been said of the kings
troops, formidable to every one but
the enemy" They had not proceed.
ed far on their way when a carriage,
In which were Lord Kilwarden, Chief
Justice 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
some time previously condemned to
execution. The clergyman also was
pulled out of the carriage and put to
death. To the lady no violence was
offered, and Emmett himself, who had
heard Of the deplorable tragedy, rush.
ing 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 military on the scene, and in
little more than an hour from the time
of his setting out on his desperate en-
terprise, Robert Emmett was a defeat