Chartism PDF
by Thomas Carlyle
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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.
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