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Updated: June 26, 2025
But the orators of M'Cracken's day spoke seriously, with a sense of responsibility, because all of them Flood, Grattan, and the rest spoke to armed men, who might at any time draw swords to give effect to the speaker's words. M'Cracken spoke to men with swords already drawn and muskets loaded. Therefore, he had some right to be eloquent, and his hearers had some right to cheer.
Among them was Phelim, the blind piper, whom Neal had seen in the street of Antrim. They did not care to be silent or to lower their tones when Neal came within earshot. "The place of the muster," said the piper, "is the Roughfort. Mind you that now, and let them that has guns or pikes bring them." "And will M'Cracken be there?" "Ay, he will. Did you no see the proclamation?"
Orr, they hanged him; M'Cracken, they hanged him; Monro, they hanged him; Porter, they hanged him. And many another, many another. And the rest are gone across the sea. You and I are left, with one here and there besides a very small remnant, a cottage in a vineyard, a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, a besieged city." "It's hard to tell," said Hope, "why they did not hang me, too.
Another body of pikemen, true almost to the moment of their time, marched in along the Carrickfergus Road and joined M'Cracken. The whole body moved forward together. Down the street to meet them thundered the dragoons who had brought the cannon in across the bridge. Hope's musketeers fired again, but no bullets could stop the furious charge.
Perhaps some new sense is developed in the blind. Anyway, night and day are alike to him. If he takes you as far as the neighbourhood of Ballymoney you'll be able to find the rest of the way afterwards yourself." That night, while M'Cracken marched the remnant of his army to Slievemis, Neal and blind Phelim set off on their journey north.
While in prison in Downpatrick he addressed a letter to Miss M'Cracken, a sister of Henry Joy M'Cracken, one of the insurgent leaders of 1798, in which he speaks as follows: "Humanly speaking, I expect to be found guilty and immediately executed. As this may be my last letter, I shall only say that I did my best for my country and for mankind.
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