RIDGEWAY.


AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE

OF THE

FENIAN INVASION OF CANADA


By SCIAN DUBH.


"_On our side is virtue and Erin; On theirs' is the Saxon and
guilt_."--MOORE.


1868.




INTRODUCTION.


In the dark, English crucible of seven hundred years of famine, fire
and sword, the children of Ireland have been tested to an intensity
unknown to the annals of any other people. From the days of the
second Henry down to those of the last of the Georges, every device
that human ingenuity could encompass or the most diabolical spirit