text:  What are all the cotton bales of Manchester in comparison with such considerations as these? O Devil's-dust--Devil's-dust! Have we really declined so far that _you_ are to be the Sinon to bring us to this sorry pass? Is the poisoned breath of the casuist to destroy the prosperity of those-- "Quos neque Tydides nec Larissaeus Achilles Non anni domuere decem non mille carinae!" It may be so--for a small shard-beetle can upset a massive candle-stick; and it will be so assuredly if the protective principle is abandoned