Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-12-16

.Emmet travelled and cemented' relaS
tiqns with and between the exiles, in
terviewing Napoleon, and obtaining
new hope. Returning to Ireland in
1902 with plans for another revolt in
arms.
An explosion at one Of his arms
depots in Dublin made 1t necessary
to carry out the revolt earlier than
he had originally planned, his plans
miscarried miserably, he was be-
trayed by those upon whom he might
have expected most confidently TO
depend, and what was to be a rebel
lion degenerated into the murder by
handful Of rebels of Lord Kilwarden,
Emmet making his escape when the
futility Of further efforts was obvious.
Lies in Unknown Grave.
After months Of hiding, he was
captured by the same officer who had
taken Lord Edward Fitzgerald. At
his trial he was defended and betrayed
by the, Infamous Leonard McNally,
convicted Of treason and, hanged on
Sept. 20, 1903. In, an eloquent speech
from the dock he bid no epitaph be
written upon his tombstone until Ire
land was free, But the location of
his grave is a asInystery that may never
be solved, for the British refused to
make it known.
TRomas%Ridts En1rnet was regarded
as among the most prudent leaders OF
the United Irishmen, who, embraced
conspiracy and intrigue only when
convinced that parliamentary reform
and Catholic emancipation were not
obtainable by constitutional methods.
Imprisoned after the Rebellion of '9S,
he was released in 1902 and went to
France and Belgium to seek support
for a new rising, but when he learned
of the failure and death Of Robert, his
brother. he emigrated to the United
States, Joined the New York bar, be-
came attorney general Of New York
and was declared by Judge Story to be
"by universal consent in the first rank
of American advocates" He died
while conducting a case in 1927. His
wife was daughter of Rev. John
Patten of Clonmel.
Theobald Wolf Tone, next to Robert
Emmett, is. probably one Of the most
romantic of Irish historical figures.
Born. In Dublin in 1888, he became
early attached to the Young Irish
revolutionaries and in 1895 wrote the
original declaration of the United
'Irishmen Society. A year later he went
to Paris, where; he obtained the con-
sent Of the French republic to send an
expedition to Ireland under General
Hoche, hero of Dunkirk.
Zone was attached to the expedition
as chef de brigade, but the enterprise,
afterward known as "The Expedition
of Bantry Bay,v was dismal failure;
the Irish Directory was not ready
and waiting for signals from the shore
the French fleet was dispersed by a
terrific storm. OF Tone, it is said he
committed suicide while in custody OF
the British awaiting a trial he felt pos
tive would result in his execution.
"The Great Liberator
OF the Catholic leaders developed in
Ireland Daniel O'Connell stands the
peer. The Great Liberator" is the
other name by which any Irishman
would know him. Born in 1775, he be-
came the spokesman for the Catholic
claim to political emancipation, which
was achieved under his masterful and
eloquent leadership. He too was the
father of the Anti-C Corn law movement
He suffered Imprisonment and frequent
humiliation for his brilliant advocacy
in the British parliament of measures
for the relief of his countrymen, and
his career spanned a period of enHh',s
Gus suffering among the Irish, not the
least of which was a great famine in
which hundreds of thousands perished.
Millions of Irishmen in the course of
twenty years fed the country to the
four corners of the earth. Ruin was
everywhere. Now for the first time in
600 years." said the Times, England
has Ireland at her mercy and can deal
with her as she pleasos.'
Parnell a Great Leader.
But thirty years. after O'Connell'
Parnell took up his work. The Land
League had been formed by Michael
Davitt to relieve distress and fight for
tenants rights. Parnell used the Land
League to strengthen the nationalist
movement, and in his fight he held the
people as no other man had done, not
even O'Connell. Parncll fought in the
British parliament against every coer-