conquest, when achieved, would be almost worthless in his eyes. It is
with this element that England, at the present juncture, has to deal
at home and abroad; and now that the avalanche, after rolling down
the steep of seven successive centuries, has accumulated in magnitude
and force most tremendously, and sufficiently to overcome every
obstacle that happens to lie in its path, ere long we shall find it
leaping in thunder upon the plain, and overwhelming those who so long
mocked at its approach, and who now so vainly attempt to stay its
resistless course.


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RIDGEWAY.

AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE

OF THE

FENIAN INVASION OF CANADA.




CHAPTER I.


On a gloomy evening in the early part of May, 1866, and while astute
politicians were struck with the formidable aspect of Fenianism in