text:  When we recollect that such is the vehemence of party feeling produced by these disastrous combinations that it so far obliterates all sense of right and wrong as generally to make their members countenance contumely and insult sometimes even robbery fire-raising and murder committed on innocent persons who are only striving to earn an honest livelihood for themselves by hard labour but in opposition to the strike; and that it induces twenty and thirty thousand persons to yield implicit obedience to the commands of an unknown committee who have power to force them to do what the Sultan Mahmoud or the Committee of Public Safety never ventured to attempt--to abstain from labour and endure want and starvation for months together for an object of which they often in secret disapprove--it may be conceived how wide-spread and fatal is the confusion of moral principle and habits of idleness and insubordination thus produced