"Besides," said Caillaud, "we hate Liverpool and all his crew. When
I think of that speech at the opening of Parliament I become violent.
There it is; I have stuck it up over the mantelpiece:
"Deeply as I lament the pressure of these evils upon the country, I
am sensible that they are of a nature not to admit of an immediate
remedy. But whilst I observe with peculiar satisfaction the
fortitude with which so many privations have been borne, and the
active benevolence which has been employed to mitigate them, I am
persuaded that the great sources of our national prosperity are
essentially unimpaired; and I entertain a confident expectation that
the native energy of the country will at no distant period surmount
all the difficulties in which we are involved."
"My God," continued Caillaud, "I could drive a knife into the heart
of the man who thus talks!"
"No murder, Caillaud," said Zachariah.
"Well, no. What is it but a word? Let us say sacrifice. Do you
call the death of your Charles a murder? No; and the reason why you
do not is what? Not that it was decreed by a Court. There have been
many murders decreed by Courts according to law.
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