Identifier: unitedirishmenth01madd (find matches)
Title: The United Irishmen : their lives and times, with several additional memoirs, and authentic documents, heretofore unpublished, the whole matter newly arranged and revised
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Madden, Richard Robert, 1798-1886
Subjects: United Irishmen
Publisher: Dublin : James Duffy Baltimore : J. Murphy
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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ed todissuade him from it. On the accuracy of the information givenrespecting this matter, the most implicit confidence may be re-posed. The person in question, W. M., met Lord E. Fitzgerald byappointment at the Shakespeare Gallery, Exchequer Street, aboutone month before the arrests in March, to confer with the dele-gates from the different counties respecting the projected rising.After Lord Edward had received the different reports of thenumber of men ready for the field in the different counties, hecalled on the gentleman above referred to for his opinion. LordEdward said, he deeply regretted his friend should have with-drawn himself so long from any active interference in the busi-ness of the Union, and that one in whose judgment he so muchconfided should stand aloof at such a moment: if he unfor-tunately persisted in so doing, the friends of the Union might beled to imagine he had deserted them in the hour of need; thathe, Lord Fitzgerald, had determined on an immediate and gene-
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Prom an ori8±nal Drawing; by Herbert. Dublin,, James Duffy 7 Wellington,Quay. OF THE UNITED IRISHMEN. 285 ral rising of the people, their impatience for which was no longerto be restrained, nor, with advantage to the cause, to be resisted.He then appealed to the delegates for the truth of this assertion,and his opinion was confirmed by them. His friend, it is well tostate, had withdrawn himself from the Union about the beginningof the year, when the system was changed from a civil to a mili-tary organization. He could only regard this change as one likelyto direct the attention of their opponents to their proceedings. Infact, the people had not been sworn in exclusively at this time, ex-cept in the North, and no great danger was apprehended by thegovernment from them. But. when the system was changed, andsecretaries, and chairmen, and delegates, were called captains, andcolonels, and adjutant-generals, a military aspect was given to thebusiness of the Union, the government became nec

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