text:  At length whether emboldened by a conviction that the non-interference of the Government was occasioned solely by their incapacity to grapple with an agitation becoming hourly more formidable and that thus his schemes were succeeding--or impelled onwards by those whom he had roused into action but could no longer restrain--his movements became daily characterized by more astounding audacity--more vivid the glare of sedition and even treason which surrounded them: still the Government interfered not