While we leave those things to time, circumstances and the future, we must each one of us resolve in our own hearts that we shall at all times do eve… - Charles Stewart Parnell

Stand together in face of the brutal, cowardly enemies of your race!

[Y]ou have an expenditure of five or six millions of pounds sterling—nearly all of it paid by the English taxpayers, and all for the purpose of screwing rack-rents out of the Irish tenants. I am very sure that that sort of thing will not be allowed to go on. Would not it be a very wise thing for the Irish landlords to recognize the situation in time, to see that if they do not be reasonable they will be chucked overboard altogether?

The government, with its bayonets, will learn in a single Winter how powerless are armed forces against the will of a united determined, and self-reliant nation.