Their whole life has been
most assiduously and successfully devoted to a general violation of the
ten commandments, as well as to the perpetual commission of the seven
deadly sins. Nay, the 'reserved cases' themselves can't escape them, and
it is well known that they wont rest satisfied wid the wide catalogue of
ordinary and general iniquity, but they must, by way of luxury, have a
lick at blasphemy, and some of the rarer vices, as often as they can,
for the villains are so fastidious that they won't put up wid
common wickedness like other people. I cannot, however, wid anything
approximating to a safe conscience, rest here. What I have said has
reference to the laws of God, but what I am about to enumerate relates
to the laws of man--to the laws of the land Wid respect, then, to them,
I do assure you, that although I myself look upon the violation of a
great number of the latter wid a very vanial squint, still, I say, I
do assure you that they have not left a single law made by Parliament
unfractured. They have gone over the whole statute-book several times,
and I believe are absolutely of opinion that the Parliament is doing
nothing. The most lynx-eyed investigator of old enactments could not
find one which has escaped them, for the villains are perfectly black
letter in that respect; and what is in proper keeping wid this, whenever
they hear of a new Act of Parliament they cannot rest either night or
day until they break it.
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