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Updated: June 13, 2025
The police fled panic-stricken at the first volley fired over their heads by the Fenians, for these wanted to release their chiefs without bloodshed if possible.
When Yates finished the reading of this, he broke forth into a line of language that astonished Renmark, and drew forth the envious admiration of the Buffalo telegraph boy. "Heavens and earth and the lower regions! I'm here on my vacation. I'm not going to jump into work for all the papers in New York. Why couldn't those fools of Fenians stay at home? The idiots don't know when they're well off.
Hazelton, and was consequently avoided by the family. The latter have lived so far in ignorance of these occurrences, and it is to be hoped they will never be undeceived. Among the Fenians. While still young, and unused to the many strange phases of life I had an adventure which, at that period of my career, made a deep impression on my mind.
He said, in the dock, that no man could quit life at less cost that there wasn't one to grieve after him. 'Poor fellow! that was a sad confession. 'We're not all to turn Fenians, Miss Nina, because we're only children and unmarried. 'You are too clever for me to dispute with, said she, in affected humility; 'but I like greatly to hear you talk of Ireland.
The great hall is a grand apartment, and behind the courts is the prison, near which the Fenians in 1867 made the celebrated rescue of the prisoners from the van for which some of the assailants were hanged and others transported.
I was then residing within two miles of the city of Cork, and one night the Fenians came out and encamped all round my house, without offering the slightest molestation or injury to anybody. Two Fenians walked into the house of my stableman, about a quarter of a mile from my own, and asked for food, saying they were ready to pay for it.
Gosh, if I was an Irishman I would see the country that walked on my neck in hell before I would fight for it. It makes me hot under the collar when I think of the brave Irish fellows, and I wonder why they don't come to America in a body and be aldermen and policemen. When I get home I am going to join the Fenians, and raise thunder, just as quick as I am old enough.
This of course was a mere coincidence, but, with all my firmness of will and sound logical reasons for not being afraid, I could not altogether control my emotions as we drove through the lowest and dirtiest parts of Griffintown, which had at that time the reputation of harboring all sorts of Fenians, thieves and marauders.
Now my courage is fallen down, I not to hear you but to be always remembering your ways. Och! my grief is going through me. A thousand curses on the day when Grania gave you her love, that put Finn of the princes from his wits; it is a sorrowful story your death is to-day. You were the man was best of the Fenians, beautiful Diarmuid, that women loved.
Nobody believed that the Fenians would be so foolhardy as to attempt an invasion of Canada; but Yates held that if they did they would give the Canadians more trouble than was expected. "Oh, we'll turn old Bartlett on them, if they come over here. They'll be glad enough to get back if he tackles them." "With his tongue," added another.
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