We do not propose to divest you of a solitary right you now enjoy...

We are here neither as murderers, nor robbers, for plunder and spoliation.

We are here as the Irish army of liberation, the friends of liberty against despotism, of democracy against aristocracy, of the people against their oppressors.

In a word, our war is with the armed power of England, not with the people, not with these Provinces.

Against England, upon land and sea, till Ireland is free...
To Irishmen throughout these Provinces we appeal in the name of seven centuries of British iniquity and Irish misery and suffering, in the names of our murdered sires, our desolate homes, our desecrated altars, our million of famine graves, our insulted name and race--to stretch forth the hand of brotherhood in the holy cause of fatherland, and smite the tyrant where we can.