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BY ROBERT w. NIDDLETON •
ANTI-MASONIC.
RUSH vs. MASCfNRY.
HON. P. HUSH,
DEAR Stn,—The undersigned, acting as the
Anti-Masonic Committee or corrosporniarico Yel
York County, beg leave to address you. They,
in general a hh the party to vc Inch they belong,
view the present, as a period of great importance
in the history Of this Country. : A large body-of
the Freemen of these United States deem th'e
staution of Freemasonry 'dangerous . t& our politi
cal and moral welfare, and have united themselves
in a determination to put it down. In'this attempt
they have been vigorously and systematically op
'posed by another portion, who aro atiached to it,
and it has thus become a mutter of vast importance
for those who entertain the :opinions which wo
profess, to know, who ate for, and who against us.
Thei cline, as it has on the one hand, been stated
in a public newspaper that you are a member of
the Institution, Which has again by. others been
denied; we, together with many other of our fellow
citizerrs, will feel thankful to you, tOr such infor
mation upon the subject as you may think proper
to communicate; and likewise, your views with
respect to the question between Masonry and its
opponents. Addressing you as we do, in the char.
actor of tv public body, it is of course our desire
"that the.reply shotld publie o leo.
ith sentiments or high respect
nu d estevin, me roma in, Sir,
your obedient serv'ts.
WILLIAM AI'ILVAIN,
JOHN UFFE LT,
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111:G11 APDONALD,
'l'llo. C. HA 1113 L
Anti-Masonic Committee of Correspon.
dtnce for York County
YORK, PA., MAY 4, 1831.
GENTLEMEN
hs►ve meeived - he communication ö
the 20th April, which, as *a Cofnn►ittee of
Correspondence Of A ntimasons for this coun
ty, you have done me the honor to address
to me, on the general subject of 111.4.soNiv
and ANTI3I.I SON nr, and making some. in
quiries of me in relation to it.. I do not
-low, that the yiews.which I entertain up
on either topick, can be of more importance,
than those olany'othor private individual;
who may have taken the trouble to intbrm
liiinsclf on tl►e passing events of the day,
and to reflect upon them. But as you are
pleased to invite an expression of those views,
I will not withhold them. When a citizen
. : • •. opted, on sufficiont deliberation,
opinions upon any public question, they
Seem u 1• right, to belong to whomsoever may
think them, worth asking for". My opinions
- having been mado up neither hastily nor
very recently on those which your letter
embraces, I willingly proceed, without oc
cupying time by ally further introduction,
to present them to you, with t)►c grounds on
which they are founded.
seo Objections to sectot u ,Focietie be
cause, pursuing objects not knoWn to the
public, through means not known to the
lie, they act under diminished res'ponsibili
----ti-eirto—tlie
why mit 'state them; if bad, they ought to be
known. thir legislati've halls are all open,
and our courts; so are all the acts of our
people, that may came to oil:et the interests
of the body political; or social. Not a bridge
company, not a turnpike effrepany, no hank; :
associationi3Ctirt - ely - an - ()rani, kind, fonwhaf.
- ever purpose existing, w ier or
vancenient of charity, or learning, or reli
gion, or any of the common business of life,
and whether incorporated by the laws or
not, but renders its statements to the public,
either' voluntarily, or by command of the
Jaws.: If the latter do not positively enjoin
publicity; a competent share of informaticil
regarding the objects of any such associa
tions, is rarely or ever withheld, on proper
inquiry being made. Societies, then, pro.
foundly secret, by the first element of their
constitution, whatever their ostensible ends',
cannot be too closely watched, in a country
- whose primary principles of poli cal and so
cifil action; are all in the face of day. The
mystery uhould appear to have good conic,
and be free from all suspicion of abuse. If
such societies guard Choir secrets by strong.
penalties; if they have numbers and antiqui
ty on their side; if their visible out post's are
but links of a chain stretthinzfrom nation
to nation; if the sense of atliliated attach
ment and union among them is perceived to
be exceedingly energetic and zealous; if
their whole scheme of discipline, improved
throughout ages, has becoine in a high, de-
Wee' imposing, even terrifying, their opera :
tions-ovill naturally have the , more scope,
nml Lthiluid.be wattalled with the more care.
Free Masonry IS such a.;seciety.. Great
and good men have belonged to it, I know;
and do belong to it, at this moment; yet, re
cent AsClosures in the - United States, have,
I think, Shown the danglra of which the
Society. may become the parent, throurrh
the agency of bad men. Wall governments_
'existing ours is the One, *hirit Would be
most justiti4 in watching,: . yith .constant
and scrupulous care, theLcinidnct or socie..
, ties prof;')undly Secret. Most', or'all, -other
v,overnments f admit the pkinciple ofsecreeb
444 themselves practice it, at, least to sotoo,
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AVOR PATRiE PRODESSE CIVIR US-L" THE LOVE OF MY COUNTRY' LEAbS MK TO #E OF AIWA WAGE TO MY Fr.LLow.CrltztNE.,"
extent. Ours, never. All its operations
are, sooner or later, laid before .the grand,
original, constituent body—the people; the
only fountain, with us, of all influence and
sovereignty and power. These are obvious
principles of our __system. Free Masonry
puts forth an exception to them. It is hence,
the right and duty of the people, to exercise
strict CCIISW ship over a beiY, whiCh moves
in an element so contrary . to their own.—
They are the higher power, and entitled to
the undisputed contraul. It is as much a
general ti:uth in Morals as in government,
that it is vice, not virtue, which needs a
In 'saying that recent disclosures have
shown the dangers of masonry in the Uni
ted States, let us see If lam not right. I
desire to be guided by facts, and 'to look at
them rigorously. Your inquiries are broad,,
and should be met broadly. But Cols shall
be my basis, and I wish to deal with them
practically, as I have really beheld them.
You apply to me as citizens, taking an ac
tual
part in the affairs around you. I am
to answer you in that capacity, arid as a
member of the same community.
The public all know, that certain trials
have been held from time to time in the
state of.4.ew York, for the discoveryofthe
authors of the abduction and murder of
William Morgan. Against this man's lib-
erty atialife, an extensive and formidable
conspitacy had been laid, which ended in,
the destruction of both. Ile was a native. ,
of Virginia, and had removed into New
York. It Nvas there, it seems, t hat he com
mitted a certain ollisnre, n''t against the
laws of his country, hut the. Code orllason•
rv; namely, that of revealing its secrets; and
this is the olllnce for which he was made
to suffer death. The conspirators neither
laid against him, nor pretended any other
The case is therefbre purely masonic in its
origin and termination. There is nothing
extraneous to embarrass the judgment, or
lead away the thou: , hts.
When I fetnilrk, that the puLii I know
of the trials, 1 mean that tliev have heard
of them, generally; for I do not believe, that
ono person in fifty knows any thin! , more
about them. 1 have followed up the account
of them, as far as 1 have had the mean , ..';
and especially those that have taken place
at Lockport, within the last feW months.
I have done so in no prejudiced spirit, but
with an earliest desire to understand the
whole case rightly. They- appear to me,
to unfold one of the most extraordinary in
cidents that has ever transpired. All the
circumstances considered, I know not where
we shall seek for its counterpart. It is seen
from these trials, that the laws of the laud '
cannot be executed upon thci'authors of an
audacious and bloody conspiracy, although
its entire theatre was in one of the must
populous parts of. the union, althought at
tempts have been made to entbrce them in
all practicable ways for a period now ex
ceeding four years, although the govern
ment of the state of New York, has aided,
by its immediate countenance and direction,-
the public
_prosecutions, besides.bayiagis,
sued commissions of special investigation;
'and", what is more astonishing than all , al
though the conspirators, with their Milers
nd - a bettorEr, - tureTitrat I - Tires - MN - My , lcuowti
to more than one hundred persons 4clonging
to the masonic body, if not to a larger num
ber. That :they are certainly known to a
great many, masons, if to fiwer than one
hundred, is plain, from lights that must
bring ef mvictiop homo-tcrevery dispassion
ate and sound mind.
SucE - is the case as it meets us on the
threshhold. It is startling. Under a gov
ernment of lawsond in a season of tranquil.
ity, it must be pronounced an anomaly.—
It seems a scandal upon the trial by jury,
t upon the public examination of Witnesses,
upon ourTorros of presentment and ntibt
ment, upon the power of commitment for not
answering legal questions, upon all the
modes heretofore the boat of (air judicature,
fin. getting at the -truth; all of which have
been, so earnestly, solemnly yet fruitlessly
resorteclto. Amidst the din ()farms we are
told, indeed, that the laws become silent;
but that they should so totally 'Use their au
thority, at a period of profound peace and
general - good order, as
.they have done on
tis occasion, must arise; from some extra.
ordinary and portentous cause. The
vic=-
tory of crime is the oppl'bbium of the liar,
and should call forth a spirit.. of determined
inoity - into On - cause.. ' 4O „,
It, has been said .that the human bosom
is not strong enough to hold the secret of a
foul murder. So heavily does it press, that
the stoutest heart gives way, seeking relief
in . the gush of its sin. Hitherto . , also, in
proportion as the knowledge of the filet of
miirder has been shared by' large numbers
of people, has been the' case, the prompti
tude, we may add, the- certainty, of detect
tion. But in Morgan's case, we behold the
frightffil reverse. It stands,l6 this-respect,
elone,4l the records of criminal jurispru
dence. .The law-books -a ancient and mo
dern- tinies, .might safely .be invoked for a
precedent. 'lie difficulty of keeping . the
secret of a murder, , operated as some safe
guard over innocent life. It served in . some
degree, to deter the murderer
making liimOrink froM th'9 fear or his own
thoughts 'after ads, end, to obstruct fell
0444 fitim the:Tab-Aar keeping away. ac
WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 183,1.
complices. As by stripes, the flesh IS made
to quiver, so the whips and stings of re
morse lacerate the heart. They are inter
nal executioners, from whose torture the
guilty cannot escape. Cuthere, we behold
this :safeguard of life put to scorn; one seat
ed in the very conscience of man, and which
nothing but , the most baleful pc:tions,
re admin.
.
admin
istered as it by itifmrals, could ever extir
pate. Every sober minded citizen. will be
anxious to arrive at the solution olthi s ph e .
norflenon. If a train of evidence altogeth,
er irresistible in its direct or circumstantial
application,-force upon his mind the belief,
that its entire and complicated horror, is
Clearly traceable to the confederated and
unholy contrivances of bad men Nl ho are
masons, all his right feelings as a citizen
must be shocked. He must standcontiaind
ed, at seeing human life and liberty. so
sported with, by a power, the more tremen
duous in its victory over the laws, as it rides
in darkness. Good men who are Masons,
will turn from such conduct with ..abhor
rence. Candid mien of the society, on hear
ing the relation of it, may be disposed to
ask themselves, whether all the benefits of
masonry, alleged or real, can be a counter
poise fur the perils which may thus spring
from it, through deluded or depraved zeal
ots, who gain admittance to its sanctuary;
and who effectually silence compunet rit I no
der iniquity, by flying to the misunderstood
or iwrverted ties and obligations of the craft.
If a power shrouded from the day, has been
fou:,d of efficacy sufficient, to interpose a
fatal obqi nction to the great course of pub
lic justice 'Where guilt has been so aggrava
ted, are we to suppose that the mischief]
ends here? That it is a single, an insula
ted, instance? It is irilpos. , siblP. ::-He is
weak arid credidous who believes it. In
the vast and active character and business
of masonry, in its close and diversified con
ne.NieltlS with society at larg• , ., w hose paths
it ucsets every whei.e, wtios:_ movements
rrom behishl its owl:screen it can wat li and
(follow up at pleasure, it must 14.40p0ri, that
the streains ofjustiee will often bo tainted,
On occasions less conspicuous, by the same
power. - A. danger then exist", under the
highest moral and even judicril4ornonstra
uon, which aught to rivit dcoo attention,
and awaken general alarm. Not only has
the, government of the state New York
lent its effirts in aid of flip ordinary pr as
of law, for detecting the culprits
dacious conspiracy. This government of
Upper Canada has stepped forward in co
operation; for it is a ebaracte_gistic of the
conspiracy, that there were strong r•tispi
cions of its embracing depraved meinhyrs
of the fraternity in that fw•eign jurisdiction;
so extensive were believed, and on rittiJnal
4rounds, to have been the hideous workings
of its malignant sympathies. But all has
been in vain. Executive messages, execu
tive acts and proclamations, with the otli:r
of executive rewards, like indictments and
jury trials under special courts and judges,
(for these. too were added,) have all fallen to
. the ground. Tun LAW i 3 Still paralyz_ed_
by a hidden agent, that continues to prove
stronger than the combined force of its ma
chinery and its ministers: the Lodge of this
L agent, fins becorits sepulchre.
lies, a spectacle tbr freemen to look at.
In the whole compass of aflitirs to which
government is subservient, there is nothing.
ofsuch transcendent i mportance, as the fait h
ail and of administration of justice be. j
tweet' man and man, and by the body politic
. ao-ainst:public delinquents. It is of daily,.
unceasing, c mergence. It blends itself with
a I the-wants, duties and necessities; with all
the hopes and all the dangers, that belong to
the political and social condition of the world.
It conies perpetually home to the immedi
atn-bwiiness an d ls,som of mankind, the re•
mark so often repeated from Bacon,but which
on this subject has its application in exact
truth. flume describes it, as the sole end
and aim of all government; awl, certainly, if
such an administration of justice be wanting
it is not going too far to assert, that the rune-
tions of government have stopped in a poin`t
that is vital. If we. have laws without the
power to give them effect, we are in the con
dition of a people having none; which brings
society to a pause. The levy of ship money
was among the causes that produced -the
decapitation of, Chailes I. and a change in
the English' Dynasty. • tax of three
pence a pound on tea, helped to bring_on our
own - reveiutlon. How small such acts in
themselves; yet; in unien with a - quick arid
well understood spirit of liberty, how vast
.their Consequences - throughout nations, and
the posterity of nations. I fear not to say
'that neither of them, were calculated to
press so destructively upon the great fabric
of society, as the fact before us, of a secret
combine tion - iii - the heart of the republic, be
ing able ter' eep the laws at bay in this ease
of the murderers of Ajorgan;. so long to tram
ple bpon,solong.to triumph over thent The
apathy prevailing under the baffled 'efforts
to probe and fully to punish so great an ,e
--normity,is, to my mind, inexplicable, among
a people . WatchfuL of their . rights, and who
woUld . ever lie ready, it might ,have beep
supposed, to.: .embody the
of
power of
sobiety, - Oherevor any one of pembers,
however. 'humble, was seari • _flithlets
ly'struck,down, Intorpnli , oul,l ha o
been,:;tlio,m6Winthiodioto'
the blow Was so bold and terrible; as it was
given - amidst concomitants so unusual, and
indicative ofso supreme, so insolent, a con
tempt for the laws. Ilever an event arose
in the annals of any people, that should have
made the whole body of the public, identical
with the authrwitv of .the magistrate, by a
burst of indignation and a concert-40E0s,
- i - t - Trirs this. - ' No oth - dr - fe - ein ig ever - y et - kept
permanently alive the spirit of public liberty
or, upheld the supremacy and giiindeur of
the laws. Thoy both die as certainly under
orpor, as if cu:lied by open despotism. It
is one of the ways, in which free States
the
gin to lose their liberties. It is a deadly o
piate,ditilising itself th rough the political sys
tem, against th - e instillations of Nihich, the
pat riot-heart should be roused by every con
sideration that can animate it tti its highest 1
duties. Whoa the magistrates . are seen
with the ensigns of authority powerless in
their hands, all appeal is made to the inex
tinguishable allegiance and generous devo:
tion which should bind every citizen to the
common weal. The love of public freedom
must he shown in the inviolable maintenance I
of individual tights. We are degenerate'
RePublicans, we are no Republicans, other
wise. Morgan's case is no common one. It
is of great and inspiring magnitude. Looked
at by itself, it may be called detached or lit
tle, by those who little know how to think,
or are determined not to think.' But proper
ly weighed by its principles us well as facts,
it is momentous and appalling. It is no
ease for County Courts. It is for the Nation.
That is its proper tribunal. Those - who
will lift up their minds to an enlarged and
just conception of it, instead ofkeeping down
to a superficial and imperfect one, will see
it under a connexion indissoluble, with a train
of public principles with which are interwo
ven the interests, the safety and the durable
glory of the nation. Let the law, that sheet
anchor of society, conic to miss its grapple
npon , public felons, handed in league togeth
er by a - principle — that -- e - xalts — their - crimes
into achievements of merit, and every thing
is exposed to wreck and dissolution. The
daring and profligate nature of the conspirl
acs against the liberty and life of this citi
zen; the inflexible and malignant vigor of
purpose with which, step by step, it was pur-'
sued to eonsumation; the cool, the systematic
the inveterate depravity of all the actors, in
it, have no parallel, in the previous history
of our.`dtMnrigy, scarcely in that of any coati
try. I challenge the Spanish Inquisition to
exceed it. 1 boldly invite a Search into the
a relneves of t hat engine °fa ferocious despo
tism, which for four centuries in Eurup
crushed its unhappy victims with a vengeance
so diabolical, uudencolor of vindicating hetv
church, to produce a case that goes beyond
it. Morgan's inunolution was in
nest in form, an Aril° dc Fe. Holy Masonry,
round its vindicators too. The siniilttate is
close and shocking. It should Linn' the
check every American, who contemplates
it. The iron clamps that were probably
prepared for the feet and hands of Morgan,
aptly compare, with the chains iii which the
victim of the inquisition was habited, when
trembling on the verge of eternity; whilst
the pictures of devouring doe's and serpents
triTifwere hung round his nccT, completely
prefigure the horrid gang of murdering cue
spitators who plunged their hands in the
blood of Morgan. .
This case, thus far, is entirely out of the
track Of all events in a free or well govern
ed community: It benefits the grim despo
. tism of dark and superst it iuus_i• igesatiaLconn-;
tries. But I atn now to present an aspect
of it, stilt more extraordinary;still more a
larming. Alow to present it, how to realize
it, lam at aloss. It seems a delusion. It
doubles all my amazement. , I 'would throw
it °fres a phantom if I cotildf Lait I cannot;
and I sink in my feelingsaSan American citi
zen, under the mortified abashed conscious.
ness of its truth. Perlius; tought to pause
ere I advance further. That which lam a
bout to touch, is on all sides encompassed
with hazards. A saving energy it has, in.'
deed,for its friends, and knows howand when ,
to exertit; but it can make its blasts howl
ab(vet the ears of all, who, with unsurictified
steps, approach its precincts; blaStS as 'from
"Boreas and Eurus, and Caurus, and Arges
tes, loud.'..' If. I followed - the counsels of
prudence, I should betuffrie knee in rever
ence and retreat before it, But, I will pro
ceed.. At_your ~ .tukenjwhatJ
believe to be the cause of public order, and
of truth; in hand, and that cause must be my
shield. A saying that we had when I was
at sclool, conies into my mind. I 'scarcely
know how to quote it, and must hope for
ri*
your pardon if I do. It was not,
.flat fits litia„
ruat ecElthn; but, TELL THE 7RIJTII, TRUDDIT
TILE DEVIL BE BEFORE YOU. Let it. he
heard.
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Hitherto, when a murder eopecially eme
attended by any start h 4 or untisaa ClScti3n
stancqs, has been committed by tinwell
bands, in a country where existed a free
pre. a, that great instrument haS never fail
ed Lb raise, and. to keep up, the tarm. It
has done ini)feclar More, than' 'Writs and
depositions, and search warrants; more than
the whol6-pill „idler* and,constables iI
detainee, with the paise comblitatufliat'keir:
wake, to drag the peipetratora froin:their
cover. - By itet! -universal and- . Nrcintaneque
aOtiyity, oporAt nig'hua and
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cry, it helps to point aright, public vigilance,
and suspicion. It minisiert: usefully to pub
' lie indignation, making. fr strong and stir
ring. It put, every thing in,motion,
heading the pursuit. It sharpens scrutiny.
• re.i nv igora tes tlAtertion, smiles •
inward lire upon the tbars mid pantings of
the skulking tidon, and throws out signals of
all kinds a thousand times tunic valuable:,
when its mighty trumpet is sounded•in a
good cause, than any that masonry ever
planted upon its mysterious Lodges., Need
I instance the case of White, at Salem?—=
Need I mention that ofThurtell, inEngland,
a few years ago, when the unceasing clan:
gor of their ptess, reverbated even to our
shores. Paris never had such a police; so
ciety never such a conservative principle.
It is omnipresent. Like flashes frciiii the
heavens, it lights up the entire horizok...
Its sweep is from the "orient to the diVp
ing west;" the whole nation its stage; - thii
whole people its audience. What a power
in society, when directed to proper ends;
how resktless, how awftd! But, in the case
we are considering, with the - e'xo — ep - tiOn
the comparatively low newspapers, anti-ma
sonic in special name and object,tthe press,
as' far as I have bad opportunities of obser
ving, has been shamefully silent. This best
imard of a free state, better than legions of
bayonets, this Lion at its portals, whose no
ble nature, for 'the Trio , it - pad ifis; to spring
forward, enraged and uncompromising, upt
on crime, hiis been lulled to sleep; has been
chained and muzzled; has been faithless, has
been criminal. I say criminal. Silence in
such a cause, is participation. It shows, .
in eflhet, companionship with the murderers
had there been nothing more then silence.
It is keeping bands with when a,
voice, loud, simultaneous and incense
shoul d have rumg throu g h the land.
- gay I not Justly say . . that the whole trans
action, in eve - ry — ltature in which,the public
have a right to feel an interest, an anomaly-
Generally, it has been - the course of the press•
as through a salutary instinct of its nature,
to be ton quick rather than t000sloW; tofly
IA wrong in the remote intention and ten
denev;-tc; err by inflaming too much, rather
than too little. But here, in Morgan's case
with the stain of blood befhre its eyes, with
crime actually perpetrated, and crying for
punishment, it shuts its eyesa It becomes
suddenly and stupidly blind, or it turns trai
tor. There is no alternative. • The press
on this occasion, has fallen into stupefaction
or turpitude;- for it cannot so utterly have
lost its senses as not to know, that the crime
would 'never have been committed and left
unavenged, but tier the full and continued
existence; in our country, of the Masonic
obligation. No sophistry elm gainsay Ilia
position. The e'vid - eiffa of it is fragfant; its
foundation is upon a rock. Had a case like
Morgan's arisen in 1776; had blood been so
atrociously shed, and gone so long unavenged
through any acts of the government then ru
ling us, or the black doings and subtle hid.
logs . of masonry within its borders, 1 believe
that it would have acted upon public opining
like one electric shock, and that our fathers
would have sought no stronger cause for
wostratinff in the dust •tin_. • • • • . „
a secret influence, that could so iniquitowly.. ...._
prostrate justice. Am I wrorg? do I affirm
too much? Am i giving . lvtlY to feerngs .
in place reasoning? No! I speak under the
highest of all sanctions, betbre the Ameri
can public. Turn to the Declaration ()fin.
dependence, that glorious charter of our lib- '
.....-.rties,_and_see_lif it boarint- - • ----- -,--,---4--- -
one. of the causes for dismembering an Em.
pire, that the British 'Ring, by his odious _
acts, .had obstructed the administration of
justice in our country. No single Case.,
comparable in atrocity to this of Morgans,_
' whether as regards the original cgpspitacy
and murder, or' the totatobstructton or the .
laws since,ever disgraced the tyranny of that
era over us. If one like. it had occurred, a -
town meeting in Boston would have rallied
New England to her duty; the-fire of Pat;
rick Henry's eloquence would Italie sum
„moned Virginia- to her's; the deeree would .
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have prie 'forth ;and Monarchy, or. 'Vegan.'
ry, would ,have fallen. -- That the car test
with the latter would baie - been the most
difficult; I have no-mnuner of doubt;--
hut down it would have come. Had .
the universal Press, of the country dOne
its duty, in a spirit resolute and lofty.as-af-t
-that-day,- instead- -of--sluggishly -remaining - -
quiet, or ignominnusly conniving, this con
spiracy against Morgan would long since.
have been laid hare, and public justice been
vindicated. Its voice would have carried -
consternation into the .reeesses'of every
Lodge. Its thunders would have-shaker: .
their very walls and rilfterg; their foundh-
tions underneath would have rocked, their
turrets above would havelrembled, and ma-
germ, in turn, like the _suffering victim of the •
consOraey, would -have. put up _ita prayer-for
mercy. ; Apnalled, - pieruiced - far its -exit
tense, it wool(' have been seewevery where
'itt motion. Then,Yhee, its Activity,..4ti:dilfr. . .
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cipline, its terrors would have been at stoik .. ..
to ferret out the deitp guilt.. Its corckiveiv ..
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olqd have assembled : -no othe r ebreet, . 1 ,
:until - that object had been attpined.' . rrhe
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Institution would. have been placed ander - '
acetraetion;-it would hoe' bOell'.iltr
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