Lofin, & Whinny, with fifteen constables, who laid an injunction on all
the shanties, and quietly, revolver in hand, drove off the three hundred
horses to the county town, to secure those contractors in their pay for
the debt into which they brought all those men whom they got to deal in
their store, or who had any property. This is the way thousands of men
were deceived, betrayed, and robbed of all they possessed in the wide
world. And this is the way in which Messrs. Van Stingey, Timens,
Kitchins, Whinny, & Lofin supplied themselves with horses, carts,
shanties, and all other necessaries for carrying on the work according
to agreement. The plan had so far succeeded; the only question now was,
how to deprive these poor men of all legal redress, and have them
exterminated from the neighborhood. This was not difficult to effect
with poor men who were half starved, and who had to look out for work
somewhere else for the support of their families. Those men who had the
means left had quitted this cursed ground already, and Mr. P. Lofin
struck on an expedient by which others, the more bold, were soon
compelled to follow them. He proceeded some eighty or a hundred miles
into the State of Massachusetts, where he represented to several hundred
men from the part of Ireland to which himself belonged, which was
Connaught, that several of their countrymen were driven off and ill
treated by Munster men and _far-downs_, and that now they had not only a
chance of defending the _honor_ of the _province_, but, by driving off
their _far-up_ and _far-down_ enemies, they could have a year's job, and
a dollar a day.

This was enough; one thousand men immediately started for the scene of
action, breathing vengeance against their fellow-countrymen, and
determined on establishing the "anshint ghilory of Connaught." Every
unfortunate Munster or Ulster man they met on their route was knocked
down, and left senseless on the road; and shouts of victory were heard,