Another circumstance, apart from their personal popularity, probably facilitated their objects.

Some of the settlements into which they penetrated were originally founded by the Irish.

The bitter heritage of hate to the English, which they brought with them to America, was transmitted with undiminished fervor to their descendants.

It was easy to show that the power which had trampled upon the affections of their fathers, and tyrannized over their rights in the old world, was aiming at the same objects in the case of their children in the new.

At one remove only from the exiled and suffering generation, the sons had as lively a recollection of the tyrannies of Britain as if the experience had been immediately their own.