wrong.
These letters, taken in connection, are a literary curiosity; and we
find there is scarcely a manufacturer in the place who has not endured
a similar correspondence, and violence at the end of it. This curious
chapter of the human mind really deserves a separate heading, and we
introduce it to our readers as

"THE LITERATURE OF OUTRAGE."

"'First of all comes a letter to the master intimating that he is doing
something objectionable to some one of the many Unions that go to make
a single implement of hardware. This letter has three features. It is
signed with a real name. It is polite. It is grammatical.

"'If disregarded, it is speedily followed by another. No. 2 is
grammatical, or thereabouts; but, under a feigned politeness, the
insolence of a vulgar mind shows itself pretty plainly, and the master
is reminded what he suffered on some former occasion when he rebelled
against the trades. This letter is sometimes anonymous, generally
pseudonymous.

"'If this reminder of the past and intimation of the future is
disregarded, the refractory master gets a missive, which begins with
an affectation of coarse familiarity, and then rises, with a ludicrous
bound, into brutal and contemptuous insolence. In this letter, grammar
is flung to the winds, along with good manners; but spelling survives,
by a miracle. Next comes a short letter, full of sanguinary threats, and
written in, what we beg leave to christen, the Dash dialect, because,
though used by at least three million people in England, and three
thousand in Hillsborough, it can only be printed with blanks, the
reason being simply this, that every sentence is measled with oaths and
indecencies. These letters are also written phonetically, and, as the
pronunciation, which directs the spelling, is all wrong, the double
result is prodigious. Nevertheless, many of these pronunciations are
ancient, and were once universal. An antiquarian friend assures us the
orthography of these blackguards, the scum of the nineteenth century, is
wonderfully like that of a mediaeval monk or baron.

"'When the correspondence has once descended to the Dash dialect,
written phonetically, it never remounts toward grammar, spelling
or civilization; and the next in the business is rattening, or else
beating, or shooting, or blowing-up the obnoxious individual by himself,
or along with a houseful of people quite strange to the quarrel. Now, it
is manifest to common sense, that all this