Think of it! Nearly all those men in America who fought under Washington and won were born in these islands.

They took with them to that far land the memory and love of these old homes.

You and I would have fought for England and with the British troops, because we detest revolution.

Here, in Ireland, we have seen its evils; and yet if we had fought for the Union Jack beyond the mountains of Maine and in the lonely woods, we should, I believe, in the end have said that the freedom fought for by the American States was well won.
So keep this matter in your mind, for my mother and I will soon be gone.

She would not let me come to you,--I think I have never seen her so disturbed as when I asked her, and she forbade me to write to you; but I disobey her.