human wolves, well deserving to be eaten, as thou soon wilt
be!

My humane friends, I perceive this same sacred glow of divine
wrath, or authentic monition at first hand from God himself, to
be the foundation for all Criminal Law, and Official
horsehair-and-bombazine procedure against Scoundrels in this
world. This first-hand gospel from the Eternities, imparted to
every mortal, this is still, and will forever be, your sanction
and commission for the punishment of human scoundrels. See well
how you will translate this message from Heaven and the
Eternities into a form suitable to this World and its Times. Let
not violence, haste, blind impetuous impulse, preside in
executing it; the injured man, invincibly liable to fall into
these, shall not himself execute it: the whole world, in person
of a Minister appointed for that end, and surrounded with the due
solemnities and caveats, with bailiffs, apparitors, advocates,
and the hushed expectation of all men, shall do it, as under the
eye of God who made all men. How it shall be done? this is ever
a vast question, involving immense considerations. Thus Edmund
Burke saw, in the Two Houses of Parliament, with King,
Constitution, and all manner of Civil-Lists, and Chancellors'
wigs and Exchequer budgets, only the "method of getting twelve
just men put into a jury-box:" that, in Burke's view, was the
summary of what they were all meant for. How the judge will do
it? Yes, indeed:--but let him see well that he does do it: for
it is a thing that must by no means be left undone! A sacred
gospel from the Highest: not to be smothered under horsehair and
bombazine, or drowned in platform froth, or in any wise omitted
or neglected, without the most alarming penalties to all