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Updated: May 6, 2025
Such of the remaining labourers and artizans as had not been converted into soldiers, found their most profitable employment as brigands, so that the portion of the population spared by war and emigration was assisting the enemy in preying upon their native country. Brandschatzung, burglary, highway-robbery, and murder, had become the chief branches of industry among the working classes.
This August assembly is selected from the people by universal suffrage, in the most approved manner, and ought to be a very important and useful body, but unfortunately can do nothing but talk and issue decrees, which no one else cares about. In consequence of the alarming increase of highway-robbery, steps are taken to diminish the evil.
Will you make your "American Presbyterian," and your Presbyterian House, effect that great change in the religious literature of the land whereby the subject of slave-holding shall be approached precisely as you deal with "theft, highway-robbery, or piracy?"
I hope to see the day, when not Southwark alone, but London itself shall become one Mint, when all men shall be debtors, and none creditors, when imprisonment for debt shall be utterly abolished, when highway-robbery shall be accounted a pleasant pastime, and forgery an accomplishment, when Tyburn and its gibbets shall be overthrown, capital punishments discontinued, Newgate, Ludgate, the Gatehouse, and the Compters razed to the ground, Bridewell and Clerkenwell destroyed, the Fleet, the King's Bench, and the Marshalsea remembered only by name!
Physical exercises give to energy and daring a legitimate channel, supply the place of war, gambling, licentiousness, highway-robbery, and office-seeking.
After amusing myself all day taking different bearings, and calculating each inch we made, got disgusted at last, and about midnight crept into bed, praying Heaven henceforward to be kept clear of all bars, from this of the Balize to the bar of the Old Bailey; although I do think, if I had a choice, I should prefer being arraigned for highway-robbery, or any other gentlemanlike felony, at the latter, to the being kept for a month weltering in mud upon the former.
Of these, two were imprisoned for horse-stealing, and three for having stolen a sheep, one for shop-lifting, one for coining, two for highway-robbery, and two for burglary.
Highway-robbery was frequent; and many a worthy man fat farmer and wealthy commoner was eased of his purse in despite of all his armed precautions and the most sturdy resistance.
Indeed, it appears as though the officials in the country had of set purpose hindered in every way possible the work so necessary to the working of the industry on profitable lines. Agencies were established in all the neighbouring territories. Some of the tribes declined to work in the Transvaal on account of the risks of highway-robbery and personal violence which they ran en route.
You shall be, from this time on; I won't take it again!" "One thing I'll promise you," said Gilbert, with a meaning look, "that I won't let him walk into the bar-room of the Unicorn, without hindrance." "I'll bet you won't!" Barton exclaimed. "All I'm afraid of is, that he won't try it again." "We'll see; this highway-robbery must have an end. I must now be going. Good-bye!"
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