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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The United Irishmen : their lives and times, with several additional memoirs, and authentic documents, heretofore unpublished, the whole matter newly arranged and revised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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eland,and that, through its means, the government might be embar-rassed, and the people might be prepared for a general junctionwith an invading force. Tone objected utterly to this proposi-tion. He said, in the first place, that it would lead to unavailingatrocities, in the promotion of which no good man could assist;and that, in the second place, it would produce a barbarous andirregular warfare, which it would be extremely easy to suppress,and which would give the government the opportunity of passingcoercive laws, of introducing a military police, and crushing thespirit of the people. That Wolfe Tone was right, events havefully proved. The supporters of ascendency ought to look palein turning over the memoirs of Tone. I would fain commendthem to the nocturnal vigils of the cabinet; and if there be anyman who, in reading what I say, shall be disposed to smile, Iwould bid him to recollect that a fleet, composed of seventeensail of the line, with 15,000 Frenchmen on board, an immense
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tN FllANCE, AND ITS RESULTS. 279 park of artillery, and 50,000 stand of arms, to support an in-surgent population, ought to awaken reflections, of which scornshould not constitute a part. I allude to the expedition fromBrest in the year 1796, which Tone projected, and which wascommanded by Hoche. It is necessary to be in possession of theexact circumstances in which Tone was placed, in order to judgehow much was accomplished by a single man in the midst ofdifficulties, which it is almost wonderful that he should havesurmounted. In the year 1795, Tone retired to America withhis wife (an incomparable woman) and two children. He had£800 in the world. At first he formed an intention of remain-ing in the United States; but Tone was one of those restlessspirits who feel that they are born for great undertakings, if notfor great achievements, and who, though they may not be ableto wed themselves to Fortune, woo her at all hazards. He setsail for France with no more than one hundred guineas

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