"A torrent of human beings rushing through lanes and narrow streets"-- such is Meagher's description of the scene--"surging and boiling against the white basements ...

wild, half-stifled, passionate, frantic prayers of hope ...

curses on the red flag: scornful delirious defiances of death....

It was the Revolution if we had accepted it." But it was not accepted.

The local leaders were unworthy of the people.