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"Mordieu!" exclaimed the abbe, the first one to speak, "run M. Colbert through the body." "Monseigneur," said Pelisson, "you must speak to his majesty." "The king, my dear Pelisson, himself signed the order for the execution." "Well!" said the Comte de Charost, "the execution must not take place, then; that is all." "Impossible," said Gourville, "unless we could corrupt the jailers."
Of all religious ideas, the grandest is that which lay at the root of the monastic system, that religion is the wedlock of the soul to God; although the method in which this idea was exemplified was a faulty one, or, at any rate, one which rapidly became corrupt, even if it was not so at first.
Scarcely any rank or profession escaped the infection of the prevailing immorality; but those persons who made politics their business were perhaps the most corrupt part of the corrupt society. For they were exposed, not only to the same noxious influences which affected the nation generally, but also to a taint of a peculiar and of a most malignant kind.
"You need only be inclined to it: such is your merit, you will accomplish it: and he is capable of being won; and on that account the first access to him he makes difficult." "I will not be wanting to myself: I will corrupt his servants with presents; if I am excluded to-day, I will not desist; I will seek opportunities; I will meet him in the public streets; I will wait upon him home.
We adopted a Corrupt Practices Act, the reasonable foundation of which no man could question, and an Election Act, which every man predicted was not going to work, but which did work, to the emancipation of the voters of New Jersey. All these things are now commonplaces with us. We like the laws that we have passed, and no man ventures to suggest any material change in them.
The power of life and death was in their hands, and in many instances they used it in the most unjust and arbitrary manner. They were themselves, of course, natives of Old Spain often the pampered favourites of that corrupt court. They were treated by the Gachupinos with contempt and insult.
Out of 228 prisoners, only 59 could read, write, and cipher, and 60 could do neither. The chaplain of the Ohio penitentiary remarks that not only in the prison of that state, but in others, depraved appetites and corrupt habits, which have led to the commission of crime, are usually found with the ignorant, uninformed, and duller part of mankind.
To those who respect the authority of God it is a matter of no small moment that those who rule over men should be just, ruling in the fear of God nor will men, accustomed to revere this solemn declaration, lend their aid to elevate men of vicious and corrupt lives, without some dismay.
"Oh, money! you corrupt the porter to go in when you please, wretched sinner! But what strange money!" "An effigy of the heretic, with a hole through his heart." "Yes, I see it is a tester of the Bearn king's, and here is a hole." "A blow with a dagger. Death to the heretic. He who does it is sure of Paradise." "He is not yet drunk enough;" so thought Chicot; and he filled his glass again.
His friend, John Clarke, was elected Governor, upon the demise of Governor Rabun; but his day had passed, and other and younger men thrust him aside. Parties were growing more and more corrupt, and to subserve the uses of corruption, more tractable and pliant tools were required than could be made of Dooly.
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