Colonies, depend upon it, you shall be led to your work!

"To each of you I will then say: Here is work for you; strike
into it with manlike, soldier-like obedience and heartiness,
according to the methods here prescribed,--wages follow for you
without difficulty; all manner of just remuneration, and at
length emancipation itself follows. Refuse to strike into it;
shirk the heavy labor, disobey the rules,--I will admonish and
endeavor to incite you; if in vain, I will flog you; if still in
vain, I will at last shoot you,--and make God's Earth, and the
forlorn-hope in God's Battle, free of you. Understand it, I
advise you! The Organization of Labor"--[_Left speaking_, says
our reporter.]


"Left speaking:" alas, that he should have to "speak" so much!
There are things that should be done, not spoken; that till the
doing of them is begun, cannot well be spoken. He may have to
"speak" seven years yet, before a spade be struck into the Bog of
Allen; and then perhaps it will be too late!-

You perceive, my friends, we have actually got into the "New Era"
there has been such prophesying of: here we all are, arrived at
last;--and it is by no means the land flowing with milk and honey
we were led to expect! Very much the reverse. A terrible _new_
country this: no neighbors in it yet, that I can see, but
irrational flabby monsters (philanthropic and other) of the giant
species; hyenas, laughing hyenas, predatory wolves; probably
_devils_, blue (or perhaps blue-and-yellow) devils, as St.
Guthlac found in Croyland long ago. A huge untrodden haggard