The United Irishmen: The informer. Correspondence of the spies and informers, chiefly of 1798 and 1803, with their employer, Major Sirr. Extracts from the original précis book of the Kildare magistrates' proceedings. Manifesto of the provisional government. Report in manuscript of Robert Emmet's speech. The spy system. List of the names of persons included in the Fugitive bill and Banishment act. Religion professed by persons of eminence, or leading members of the United Irish society. Bibliography (p. 202-235) Chronological outline of Irish history. Index

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Catholic publication society of America, 1916
 

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Σελίδα 98 - ... the man dies, but his memory lives— that mine may not perish, that it may live in the respect of my countrymen, I seize upon this opportunity to vindicate myself from some of the charges alleged against me. When my spirit shall be wafted to a more friendly port ; when my shade shall have joined the bands of those martyred heroes who have shed their blood on...
Σελίδα 101 - I am going to my cold and silent grave : my lamp of life is nearly extinguished : my race is run : the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom. I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world ; it is the charity of its silence. Let no man write my epitaph ; for as no man who knows my motives, dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them.
Σελίδα 102 - Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them and me repose in obscurity and peace, and my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character.
Σελίδα 100 - ... an undeserved reproach thrown upon him during his trial, by charging him with ambition and attempting to cast away, for a paltry consideration, the liberties of his country?
Σελίδα 89 - that the mean and wicked enthusiasts who felt as he did, were not equal to the accomplishment of their wild designs."] I appeal to the immaculate God — I swear by the Throne of Heaven, before which I must shortly appear — by the blood of the murdered patriots who have gone before me — that my conduct has been, through all this peril, and...
Σελίδα 99 - I say this for the petty gratification of giving you a transitory uneasiness. A man who never yet raised his voice to assert a lie will not hazard his character with posterity by asserting a falsehood on a subject so important to his country, and on an occasion like this.
Σελίδα 98 - I do not imagine that, seated where you are, your minds can be so free from impurity as to receive the least impression from what I am going to utter.
Σελίδα 98 - My lords, as to why judgment of death and execution should not be passed upon me, according to law. I have nothing to say ; but as to why my character should not be relieved from the imputations and calumnies thrown out against it, I have much to say.
Σελίδα 85 - ... authority to the people, direct that each county and city shall elect, agreeably to the constitution of United Irishmen, representatives to meet in Dublin ; to whom, the moment they assemble, the provisional government will resign its functions ; and, without presuming to dictate to the people, they beg to suggest, that, for the important purpose to which these electors are called, integrity of character should be the first object. 28. The number of representatives being arbitrary, the provisional...
Σελίδα 98 - Was I to suffer only death, after being adjudged guilty, I should bow in silence to the fate...

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