-'I don't believe
in your Parliamentary ideas, I don't accept Home Rule, I go
beyond it; I believe in an independent Irish nation'--if any
man says this, I say that we don't disbelieve in it. These
are our tactics--if you are to take a fortress, first take the
outer works."--(_T.M. Kettle, M.P._)

"We want to carry on the work that the Fenians tried to do to
a triumphal issue. The Fenians stood for an Irish Republic,
and so do we. No policy which left England in control of the
Irish Nation could be regarded as final. There is only one
way, and that is to get the absolute and complete independence
of Ireland, free from English rule and English domination. The
Fenians did not go to the Prime Minister for concessions.
No: they started into arms, and if people of the present
day believed in that they should arm themselves to get
the independence of Ireland."--(_B. Hobson_, speaking at a
demonstration at Cork, on the anniversary of the "martyrdom"
of Allen, Larkins, and O'Brien.)

"Should the Germans land in Ireland, they will be received
with willing hearts and strong hands, and should England be
their destination, it is to be hoped that they will find time
to disembark 100,000 rifles and a few score of ammunition for
the same in this country, and twelve months later this Ireland
will be as free as the Lord God meant it should be."--(_Major
McBride_, who organized an Irish force to aid the Boers
against England, and has consequently been appointed to a
municipal inspectorship by the Corporation of Dublin.)

"I appeal to you most earnestly to do all in your power to
prevent your countrymen from entering the degraded British
army. If you prevent 500 men from enlisting you do nearly as
good work, if not quite so exciting, as if you shot 500 men on
the field of battle, and also you are making the path smoother
for the approaching conquest of England by Germany."--(Ib.)

CHAPTER VIII.

THE REBELLION.

Early in 1797 it became evident to all but the most shortsighted of
politicians that a rebellion, of which none could foretell the result,
was imminent. As one shrewd observer wrote: "I look upon it that
Ireland must soon stand in respect to England in one of three
situations--united with her, the Legislatures being joined; separated
from her, and forming a republic; or as a half-subdued P