An Irishman cannot become loyal to English domination, without divesting himself of the last attribute of his nature, not as an Irishman, but as a man.
The knowledge of this fact was my "base of operations." Ten thousand armed men successful against a garrison of five hundred would produce a more abundant crop of avenging warriors than the fabled dragon's teeth, and that simultaneously through every square mile of the island.

In ten days there would be two millions of Irishmen in arms.

It may well be asked, what arms?
But even instinct will reply, what arms would be needed?
England had in Ireland less than forty thousand men, and, without hazarding the question, how many of them could she rely on, it requires no consummate military genius to suggest how they could be dealt with by a simultaneous rising of the country.

The arms of her enemies would then be hers.

She would have time to form a regular army to aid her undisciplined strength.