heavy enough, will prove didactic!--




Chapter III

Manchester Insurrection


Blusterowski, Colacorde, and other Editorial prophets of the
Continental Democratic Movement, have in their leading-articles
shewn themselves disposed to vilipend the late Manchester
Insurrection, as evincing in the rioters an extreme backwardness
to battle; nay as betokening, in the English People itself,
perhaps a want of the proper animal-courage indispensable in
these ages. A million hungry operative men started up, in utmost
paroxysm of desperate protest against their lot; and, ask
Colacorde and company, How many shots were fired? Very few in
comparison! Certain hundreds of drilled soldiers sufficed to
suppress this million-headed hydra's and tread it down, without
the smallest appeasement or hope of such, into its subterranean
settlements again, there to reconsider itself. Compared
with our revolts in Lyons, in Warsaw and elsewhere, to say
nothing of incomparable Paris City past or present, what a
lamblike Insurrection!--

The present Editor is not here, with his readers, to vindicate
the character of Insurrections; nor does it matter to us whether
Blusterowski and the rest may think the English a courageous