ly for not conniving at these Trades
outrages, which the hypocrites, who have voted him out, pretend to
denounce. Foul play is still rampant and triumphant. Its victims were
sympathized with for one short day, when they bared their wounds to the
Royal Commissioners; but that sympathy has deserted them; they are now
hidden in holes and corners from their oppressors, and have to go by
false names, and are kept out of work; for odisse quem loeseris is
the fundamental maxim of their oppressors. Not so the assassins: they
flourish. I have seen with these eyes one savage murderer employed at
high wages, while a man he all but destroyed is refused work on all
hands, and was separated by dire poverty from another scarred victim,
his wife, till I brought them together. Again, I have seen a wholesale
murderer employed on the very machine he had been concerned in blowing
up, employed on it at the wages of three innoxious curates. And I find
this is the rule, not the exception. "No punishment but for already
punished innocence; no safety but for triumphant crime."

The Executive is fast asleep in the matter--or it would long ago
have planted the Manchester district with a hundred thousand special
constables--and the globule of LEGISLATION now prescribed to Parliament,
though excellent in certain respects, is null in others, would, if
passed into law, rather encourage the intimidation of one man by twenty,
and make him starve his family to save his skin--cruel alternative--and
would not seriously check the darker and more bloody outrages, nor
prevent their spreading from their present populous centers all over
the land. Seeing these things, I have drawn my pen against cowardly
assassination and sordid tyranny; I have taken a few undeniable truths,
out of many, and have labored to make my readers realize those appalling
facts of the day which most men know, but not one in a thousand
comprehends, and not one in a hundred thousand REALIZES, until
Fiction--which, whatever you may have been told to the contrary, is the
highest, widest, noblest, and greatest of all the arts--comes to his
aid, studies, penetrates, digests the hard facts of chronicles and
blue-books, and makes their dry bones live.

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