human
The Chicago Irishmen stayed right where they were, he said.
gpt
I don't know what they did with the money, but they bought no rifles--they weren't blame fools. The moral is that what an Irishman looks at twice is too big a thing for us. No, sir, you wouldn't raise ten dollars in a month down there. America has all the trouble she has any use for already. What we want to do is to put up a good big bluff--and no more than that--on the British Empire.
human
How's the Empire going to take it?
gpt
Patiently, I think. That is, if we go just far enough and know when to stop. They move slowly in England--I was born there--and I'm not sure they're very much quicker in Ottawa. In fact, they rather like an energetic protest, and you very seldom get anything without it. Once we show we're in earnest they'll send over a special commissioner with instructions to make any concessions he thinks will please us.
human
There are Slavin and his troopers to consider, said the man who had spoken first.
gpt
They're not going to sit still, and if any of them got hurt during the proceedings it's quite likely we might be visited by a column of Canadian militia.
human
That eventuality will have to be carefully guarded against, he said.
gpt
Slavin seems to be a man of ability and sense, and he would never pit his handful of troopers against a hundred men. In the meanwhile, everything depends on secrecy, and no move must be made until you are sure of everybody. I will answer for the Green River men. I am going back there shortly.