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attorney " tribune of the people," I mean ; and 

 how a troublesome man, on the other side, could 

 be " hunted down " upon any convenient charge, 

 whether true or false, brought by our Vigilance- 

 familiar ! l 



I entirely acquit Mr. Booth of any complicity 

 in far-reaching schemes of this kind ; but I did 

 not write idly when, in my first letter, I gave no 

 vague warning of what might grow out of the 

 organised force, drilled in the habit of unhesitating 

 obedience, which he has created. 



1 See Letter II. 



