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3ainst my own rule in thus venting my croakings upon
you, | |
“P.S. ‘You hint at the possibility of Manchester taking
Me in case of poor Potter's death. I don’t think the offer
Will ever be made, but I am quite sure that there is no
demonstration of the kind that would induce me (apart
from my determination not at present to stand for any
Place) 40 put myself in the hands of the people who
Without more cause then than mow struck down men
Whose politics are identically my own. To confess my
honest belief, I regard the Manchester constituency, now
that their gross pocket question is settled, as a very un-Sound,
 and to us a very unsafe body.”
September 22. ( ,, )—1I am glad to see your handwriting
8%ain, Although I knew our minds were busy in one
®nd the same direction, yet L abstained from sending you my
Cogitations, for I was fearful of adding fuel to fire. These
Indian horrors give me a perpetual shudder. The awful
Mrocities perpetrated upon women and children almost give
tise to the impions doubt whether this world is under the
Sovernment of an all-wise and just Providence. What crime
bag they committed to merit the infliction of tortures and
death 7 Verily the sins of the fathers have been visited on
the children to the third and fourth generations! And how
an it be otherwise in the case of a nation ? For if a collecfive
 crime be perpetrated, and a community be visited with
retributive justice, even an hour after the commission of the
deed, those who have entered life in the interval must participate
 in the penalty. We can see that it must be so, but
Rot that it ought to be.
“These fiendish outrages upon the defenceless—the pro-Pensity
 displayed in so many places to unparalleled cruelties
~have amazed me more than anything that ever occurred in
ny time. We have read of something of the kind in St.

1857.
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