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When the People have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. No secret espionage is more intolerable to a free spirit than the broad glare of the American eye. "A rural republic is but a patriarchal tribe no emulation, no glory; peace and stagnation. What Englishman, what Frenchman, would wish to be a Swiss? A commercial republic is but an admirable machine for making money.
He betrayed nothing, however; and she wrote to General Belch that she had disguised herself so that he did not recall her in the least. Abel was intensely amused by the espionage of the Honorable Mr. Ele and the superb Jones.
He had made several attempts to read the thoughts of the young gambusino, but the latter was on his guard, seeking in his turn to identify Cuchillo with the assassin of his father. No opportunity offered, however; and in this game of mutual espionage, neither had the advantage.
Pratinas had had considerable espionage kept up over his intended victim, and the last results of this detective work were to be reported to Phaon by the slaves of Ahenobarbus performing it. Perhaps there would be no real harm in driving straight through to Præneste in the open daylight, but it was better not to show himself until the right time.
In addition to the various branches of spying which I have mentioned, the Germans have also practised commercial espionage on systematic lines.
The Prince knew, too, that the King was very sincere in his determination to maintain the inquisition, however dilatory his proceedings might appear. He was well aware that an armed force might be expected ere long to support the royal edicts. Already the Prince had organized that system of espionage upon Philip, by which the champion of his country was so long able to circumvent its despot.
He also annulled his former similar decrees granting pardon to insurgents, and placed under martial law all those who were guilty of treason, espionage, crimes against peace or against the independence of the nation, seditious revolts, attacks against the form of government or against the authorities, and against those who disturb public order, though only by means of printed matter.
Women of the greatest delicacy, suspected of sympathy with nationalistic ideals, were thrown into the filthy pens of town prostitutes. Everywhere a limitless system of espionage was combating the gathering of circles, tertulias, for the planning of a Cuba liberated from a bloody and intolerable tyranny. Were these men, Charles pressed his query, really as young as himself?
An apparently well-informed contributor to Blackwood's Magazine for September, 1829, in an article headed "Colonial Discontent," comments on this retrograde system in the following terms: "A system of espionage assumes that there is something which ought to be watched and to be prevented; and as the existence of such a system probably did exist in Upper Canada during the administration of Sir Peregrine Maitland, it may be said that so far his Government was led to act on false principles.... We do not suppose that there was anything like an organized system, but only that tales to the personal disadvantage of the Anti-Ministerial party were too readily listened to.
It would not be possible here to give even an outline of the nature and constitution of this extraordinary society of its secrets and mysteries of the deep dissimulation, consummate hypocrisy, and shocking impiety of its founder and his associates of their Jesuitical arts in concealing their real objects, and their incredible industry and astonishing exertions in making converts of the absolute despotism and complete system of espionage established throughout the order of the blind obedience exacted of the novices, and the absolute power of life and death assumed by the order and conceded by the novices of the pretended morality, real blasphemies, and absolute atheism of the founder and his tried friends.
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