Sentence:  Nay, was it not to be feared, that these continental democrats would prove utterly unproductive to the perfidious island, which had so often cajoled them, for months on months, to deliver them, in the end, <WSD>naked-handed</WSD>, to the vengeance of its monarchical and congenial allies? 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Defenseless.