Chartism

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. To say that it is mad, incendiary, nefarious, is no answer. To say all this, in never so many dialects, is saying little. 'glasgow Thuggery,' 'glasgow Thugs it is a witty nickname: the practice of Number 60' entering his dark room, to contract for and settle the price of blood with operative assassins, in a Christian city, once distinguished by its rigorous Christianism, is doubtless a fact worthy of all horror: but what will horror do for it? What will execration; nay at bottom, what will condemnation and banishment to Botany Bay do for it? Glasgow Thuggery, Chartist torch-meet ings, Birmingham riots, Swing conflagrations, are so many symptoms on the surface; you abolish the symp tom to no purpose, if the disease is left untouched. Boils on the surface are curable or incurable, - small matter which, While the virulent humour festers deep within; poisoning the sources of life; and certain enough to find for itself ever new boils and sore is sues; ways of announcing that it continues there, that it would fain not continue there.

To say that it is mad, incendiary, nefarious, is no answer. To say all this, in never so many dialects, is saying little. 'glasgow Thuggery,' 'glasgow Thugs it is a witty nickname: the practice of Number 60' entering his dark room, to contract for and settle the price of blood with operative assassins, in a Christian city, once distinguished by its rigorous Christianism, is doubtless a fact worthy of all horror: but what will horror do for it? What will execration; nay at bottom, what will condemnation and banishment to Botany Bay do for it? Glasgow Thuggery, Chartist torch-meet ings, Birmingham riots, Swing conflagrations, are so many symptoms on the surface; you abolish the symp tom to no purpose, if the disease is left untouched. Boils on the surface are curable or incurable, — small matter which, While the virulent humour festers deep within; poisoning the sources of life; and certain enough to find for itself ever new boils and sore is sues; ways of announcing that it continues there, that it would fain not continue there.