to  subside  willingly  into  perpetual    bondair*-.     li-
the Irish  race  lay  beyond  the  Atlantic ;    ilup     :
at  home,  we  might  serve  our   people  and   help  :    z
them  coherence  and  force.     An  escape   from  t-r*. :..  -
whom  we  had  given  no  parole  was  a  feat  to  Ik-  :  r
From  the  flight  of  Red  Hugh  from  Birminirlun-  7  »
to  the  evasion  of  Hamilton  Rowan,  Ireland  nvv- :     -
of  a  State  prisoner  breaking  bonds  without  a  t>
joy.     O'Doherty  entered  into  the  project  hear:!;.
Williams  excused  himself  on  grounds  which  we  ^i:   ""
wore  adequate.     Arrangements  were  speedily  ma-:-  ^
Confederates  outside  ;  a  small  vessel  was    hirrd  .  s- :
night  chosen  for  the  attempt.     We   hoped  to  •  su>
midnight  from  a  deserted  court  of  the   prison.     I:  *
from  armed  gaolers,  through  armed   sentinels,  ar.  1
high  walls  which  the  eye  grows  dizzy  to  look  u>:i  ::
the  attempt  was  to  be  made.     About   the   noon  • :  '
day    fixed    upon,    O'Doherty  came     into  my   n-.-:::

a  longtraiisport.ition  a^  one  of  tho  ExecutiTe  in  control  of  that  .  -jx:
tioii;  tlio  otlu'r**  Ix'inir  Charles  Kickham.  of  whom  the  rMiVr  Vji«  m
on  thoStnM't>  of  Muliinahime;  Thomaa  CUrke  Labj.  one  of  tb*-  ■.'r»^^
tin'  BI.'ni('hanl>ti>\vn  advoiitiirc;  and  their  chief.  Jame«  Stert-s;^  w:-  <
()  Hrii'ii's  ju«l»'-«I.'-('nn]>  at  BaIlinK»rr}*.  Mr.  O^Lenrr  ha«  nvi«l-*i  ls  ?»
in  latter  vt\irs.  .iml  s'»niotimt»s  wriU^  letters  to  the  Irish  new*p4X«^
]niU\\c  afViiirs.  diMiriiTiii'^htMi  by  a  giHxl  senao.  •  sobrietT  of  t.-^w'.  »»
t'airut>£^s  to  o]i2>out'nts,  which  are  not  too  common  in  poUtienl  entici»m.
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