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Barnave had said, "Perish the colonies rather than a principle!" The men of the 14th of July had no right to condemn, in the heart of Ogé, that revolt which was their own title to independence. We may believe that the secret wishes of the friends of the blacks followed Ogé, who returned to San Domingo.
"Shure, you do not forget your own Eily the girl you made into the picthur, your colleen oge! But maybe it's the jiwils and the clothes that has changed me; it's mighty grand they make me, to be sure, but it was so you should not be ashamed of me I put them on. Arrah, shpake to me, and let me hear the sound of your voice!" She looked pleadingly into his eyes, but he was speechless.
Move bounce! and you, Rose Oge, if you're not behind Dudley Pulton in less than no time, by the hole of my coat, I'll marry a wife myself, and then where will the twenty guineas be that I'm to lave you? "God rest his soul, and yet there was a tear in his eye all the while even in spite of his joking!
Madame Oge stopped too, and put in an intercession that the young lady might be excused studying this evening, and permitted to return to her pretty fancy-work in the parlour. The colour rushed to Euphrosyne's temples a sign of ardent hope of a holiday in Madame Oge's eyes.
Oge, one of the colored deputies, an energetic and shrewd man, was in Paris, watching political movements with intense interest, resolved to maintain the rights of his oppressed companions, "quietly if he could forcibly if he must." Oge became exasperated. His friends in France recommended the only medicine ever offered by the white man to the heart-sick African, patience patience.
The government replied to this eloquent demand for liberty by sending a body of troops to disperse the persons assembled, and Ogé drove them back. A larger body of troops being despatched, they contrived, after a desperate resistance, to disperse the mulattoes. Ogé escaped, and found refuge in the Spanish part of the island. A price was set upon his head.
The cruelties inflicted on Vincent Oge had interested many influential persons in Paris in the cause of the mulattoes. Great zeal was exorcised in attempting to put them in a condition to protect themselves by equal laws, and thus to restrain the tyranny of the whites.
I thought our miseries had arisen out of men's wrath with each other." "If ever," said Madame Oge, in a low tone, but yet so that every word was heard "if ever there was a place set apart by cursing if ever there was a hell upon this earth, it is this island. Men can tell us where paradise was it was not here, whatever Columbus might say.
During the last months of 1594, Mynce, Sheriff of Carlow, informed the Lord Deputy of warlike preparations in the Glen, and that Brian Oge O'Rourke had actually passed to and fro through Dublin city and county, as confidential agent between Feagh Mac Hugh and Tyrone.
During the course of their brief journey, three different and inconsistent reports were circulated by him on their account namely, first, that Tressilian was the Lord Deputy of Ireland, come over in disguise to take the Queen's pleasure concerning the great rebel Rory Oge MacCarthy MacMahon; secondly, that the said Tressilian was an agent of Monsieur, coming to urge his suit to the hand of Elizabeth; thirdly, that he was the Duke of Medina, come over, incognito, to adjust the quarrel betwixt Philip and that princess.