Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. So hopeful were the leaders of the rebellion in the success of this, their project, that they did-hot deem it necessary to keep their intentions a secret. Many weeks before their at. Tempted invasion, their newspapers freely referred to it as an event that would surely happen and boasted loudly of the manner in which they would fatten on the spoils they would take from the rich farmers and well-filled storehouses of the North.