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down " upon any convenient charge, whether true 

 or false, brought by our Vigilance-familiar! * 



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 or- 

 ganized force, drilled in the habit of unhesitating 

 obedience, which he has created. 

 ♦ See Letter II. 



