THE SPY 
 
 OF 1848! 
 
 “ Spies are necessary evils !!! ”—Morning Chronicle. 
 
 “ As some affirm that we say, Let us do evil, that good may come; 
 rhose damnation is just ."—Netc Testament. 
 
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 THE SPY of 184S, 
 
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 recognised r by the stinking breath that issues from his foul mouth.' This 
 Spy really exists; he; has sworn to it on the New Testament ;..Jie heard 
 the words “So helfrymuGod!” arid helflssed the book, and then by God’s 
 help pronounced Himself a liar and a Spy. Some say he is a carpenter : 
 at any rate he chiselled his own father ; others, that he watched for thieves 
 at the West-end, honest man that he was, but struck for wages, and took 
 money of the thieves to burke his honesty; others that he acted as a 
 decoy to thimble-riggers; others that he expressed a wish to act the 
 resurrection-man to the body of his father, not, indeed, to sell the body, 
 but to gloat on the rottenness of his own parent, or perhaps to sell the 
 bones at the first “Black Doll’’ shop, for the price of a pot of “heavy.” 
 Now, however, he has left the service of the “chip,” the police, the 
 thieves, the thimble-triggers, and the dksftnan. Why ? Has he seen the 
 error of his ways j has he shed the penitent’s tear ? No; he is still what 
 he was, and what lie ever will be, so long as the money chinks. In 
 whose service is he P Gentle reader! in that of ITcr JJust Gracious 
 Majesty Queen Victoria!! In. what capacity ? Not as Prime Minister,— 
 though he did once talk of slaying Lord John Russell; not as Court Fool, 
 —lie's too much of .fyknave for that; not as a GoverriraeikClerk,—he was 
 once a, fugitive forger; not even as lacquey,—that is not dirty enough' for 
 > his,mature. What then ? Why, as a Spy !—a wretch who holds you in 
 -Con versa tiorG&ghile he “tips the wink” to a wretched Government that, oil 
 such evideq®, robs you of your liberty,—a wretch who deals out bullets to 
 any whom he can persuade, in order that when he has put the police on the 
 .scent, those bullets shall prove you guilty of sedition,—a miserable spalpeen 
 who,after dealing out blood and thunder towards the present Government 
 of Her Majesty, pretends to such csaltcd patriotism, that lie leagues with 
 physical force agitators (we don’t believe them to be Chartists), plunges 
 • with them into the vortex of all their mad schemes, and thus having wit¬ 
 nessed the deplorable condition into which the country is likely to sink by 
 their means, he splits against his seeming “ pals,” gets them convicted 
 of a crime he instigated some of them to commit, and pockets the wages of 
 Judas! .Exalted Patriot! Sidney, Russell, Hampden! hide your 
 diminished heads,—a greater than either of you is here. You never 
 frequented low beer shops, or cast bullets in order that you might pre¬ 
 serve your country from anarchy; you never took money of thieves not 
 to “blah,” lest the country should he put to too much expense in trans¬ 
 porting them. Poor milk-and-water patriots that ye are,—the scroll of 
 fame on which your names arid- afefls are emblazoned shall crumble to 
 dust in the attempt to unrol it; while in the archives of a nation's heart 
 shall he imperishably inscribed, the self-denying patriotism of 
 
 THE SPY of 1S4S! 
 
 We only regret that the law of this country, which is called Christian, 
 and therefore professes to be based on the law of the Bible, does not per¬ 
 mit tlie truth to be spoken and constitutes truth a libel,—we regret that 
 on this account we cannot allude to this miscreant by name. Christianity 
 seems here to act very forcibly on its professors. 
 
 Such is the creature who is now the adopted of the Whig Government, 
 and set up to speak “ the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the 
 truth,” in a court of justice of a Christian country, in the reign of Her 
 “ Most Religious Majesty.” 
 
. Now, how will religionists look on this matter,:’. 'Will they ho content 
 that .their booh shall be . blasphemed by the kjs&cf this wretch's lips ; or 
 rvill they stand up for the truth, and demand thaChe at least shall not be 
 put upon his oath ? Religious men ! what says your hook P “ The 
 Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful men.’' “ Be not a witness 
 against thy neighbour without cause, and deceive not with thy lips." 
 “ As a madman who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, so is the man 
 that deceiveth his neighbour.” “ What fellowship hath righteousness 
 with unrighteousness ? what concord hath Christ with Belial P or what 
 part hath he that believcth with an infidel p" Have you faith in your 
 own principles p Will you rest the safety of your country on truth, im¬ 
 mutable truth ?—or ’will you still be satisfied to have falsehood and 
 deceit as handmaids to the truth you love P Are the principles you hold 
 so powerless and feeble, as to be unequal to the emergencies in which you 
 may be placed ? Is your God, in all his attributes, so imperfect, that you 
 must needs call in the Devil to help you out of the mire ? Religious 
 men! what will your verdict be on 
 
 THE SPY of IS ISP 
 
 Ye Whig Government! that was a most laughable caricature you set up 
 at the Bank of England, with your sandbags, and bullet-holes, and timber, 
 on Kennington-Conunon-day, to make an appearance of active preparation 
 against—nothing: your “ Specials,” though not exactly of the same height 
 or hearing the same uniform, were really a most imposing and over¬ 
 whelming array against—nothing; your Secretary of State’s constant 
 labours, and your ceaseless anxiety, were above all praise in preserving 
 this country from an avalanche or a tornado of—nothing; John Bull 
 himself, when repeatedly plied with the question “ What is it ?” could 
 bring out naught but “ Nothingtill at last, fairly spent, he went to 
 bed in perfect, security on that memorable night, and, dreaming of the 
 same question being put to him, repeatedly ejaculated “ Nothing” to his 
 bed-posts. Now, Whig Government! there are some men, and we sup¬ 
 pose there always will be, who only want the initiative given them, and 
 they are up and doing ; easily led, hut never acting independently, these 
 men, if a Government plays at soldiers, think they cannot do better than 
 play at soldiers too ; show them a fortified Bank of England, and they 
 will dream of nothing but fortifications ; show them the muzzle of a gun, 
 and they naturally think what you believe heapliju/Hn their eyes must be 
 equally so in yours, so a gun they will have, and you shall see it if you 
 like; staves and saw-hacked cutlasses, say they, must be as good for the 
 gander as the goose ; nay, some of the former, belonging io “ Specials,” 
 have been appropriated to private purposes already 1 .; only the other day 
 ws saw one of the fair sex belabouring a greasy pie-crust with her 
 “ Special” husband’s badge of authority—pretty good practice against the 
 field day ; while children are frightened into comers at sight of that up¬ 
 lifted instrument of tile law with which the father was ready, on Kenning- 
 ton-Common-day, to break the heads of—nothing. Whig Government! 
 some people will he mimics, and you can’t help it. We believe, if the. 
 members of a Government were to be all thieves and thimbleriggers, even 
 so would these people he ; if a Government were to promise and never 
 perform, even so would these people promise and he as lax in performance ; 
 and if a Government were to hold league with the Devil or the Pope, 
 even so would these sell themselves to die Devil, nr play the fiddle and 
 
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 THE SPY of IS-tS ? 
 will you take the assurer 
 
 ceivc his evidence? But will vou 
 an Attorney-General may frowr 
 Spy, is not io be believed on his 
 and dirty feet are not to tread in 
 who, fir thirty pieces of silver, v 
 
 is now busy cducrJimj the youth of our 
 master of'.hulas. What better influer 
 England can be at work ? Lock at 
 father’s hand of blessing be upon their 
 pieces" into the maternal'lap-Gcd bles: 
 But think for a moment: perhaps thev i 
 
‘Who would have suspected that the man woo cost millets and gave away 
 gunpowder for the purposes of seuition. was —a rolrioi of the first water 
 —a lover of peace and order " So crivs un vouv mend, and wait for the 
 revelations of the last Judgment. 
 
 Here is a condition of social hi" 1 <■ r r h istian country, in the 
 year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-Eivht! The 
 binding principle gone ; ties severed : afiection repulsed ; confidence re¬ 
 fused ; helplessness left to help itself; vouth afraid of age ; age dreading 
 the lightsome trip of youth ; man despised ; woman distrusted ; a nation 
 of incongruous atoms ; and Satan o’ershadowing earth with the blackness 
 of hate. Such is what might prevail under a system which has had its 
 
 beginning 
 
 THE SPY of 1843 
 
 But it may be said “ Spies are necessary. What would you do without 
 them in the case of secret sedition?” Is it then come to this, that 
 treachery is necessary ? does the safety of a country depend on one man 
 putting on a mask to deceive his fellows ? Against the denunciation that 
 " all liars shall have their portion,” is it absolutely necessary that there 
 shall be liars ? Must it he—is it an inevitable alternative, that man must 
 forswear himself, and is there a positive virtue in such e-dl doing ? Then, 
 
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 ye'martyrs'fur Christ, ami yim palriots wlm have gone to the block tor 
 principle, wlmt lirraut fools yc must have been ! Why ilii] ye not do the 
 evil that the good might come ? Why did ye not d eny your Lord, though 
 the cock crowed a thousand times, and thus escaped the fires of Smithfield ? 
 Ye plumed yourselves on having your names inscribed on the martyrs’ 
 roll, and to hear at last the “ Well done!” from your Lord; while, in the 
 judgment by which you shall he judged, if there is any soundness in the 
 morality of 1848, you richly deserve to he tormented of the Devil for not 
 doing evil that good might come, and thus have saved your flesh from 
 being burnt, and your bones charred by bloody Mary’s blazing faggots ! 
 Blockheads that ye were. Ye would-be martyrs, learn from hence, that 
 truthfulness is not always virtue, and that if ye persist in it, posterity 
 will duh you “Fools.” But what is poor England to do without thimble- 
 riggers, thief-watchers, recanting seditionists, and paid Spies ? Alas! 
 poor England, and is it come this With a virtuous Queen, a paternal 
 Government, liberal Institutions, erpial laws, a noble house of real repre¬ 
 sentatives, Christian in your religion, easy in your circumstances, the 
 “beautifiil isle of the ocean,” where, Oh where has been your good 
 Genius, that ye are now at the feet of a forging fugitive, a traitor to his 
 fellows, and a paid liar p Why is it ? A nation demands the answer; let the 
 paternal Government give it. Let the withholders of man’s political rights 
 give it; let a greedy Church, who imprisons men for the fees of a Church 
 of Christ, give it; let a bloated aristocracy, who can look upon starva¬ 
 tion without a generous emotion, give it.; let expatriators of their fellow- 
 men give it; or the answer shall one day ring loud about their devoted 
 heads, that it is only chicanery and faithlessness that needs the protection 
 of lying lips. 
 
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