Even now the feudal usages are scarce extinct.

The lower class have been regarded as animals rather than men; and the increase of civilization which you speak of, and from which they have received no benefit, makes them hate even more bitterly than of old those in position above them.
"I am a reformer; I desire to see sweeping changes; I want a good, wise, and honest government; and I desire these things because I fear that, if they do not come peacefully they will come in a tempest of lawlessness and vengeance." "Well, they are getting all they want," the marquis said peevishly.
"They are passing every law, however absurd, that comes into their hands.

No one is opposing them.

They have got the reins in their own hands.

What on earth can they want more?
There might have been an excuse for rebellion and riot two years since--there can be none now.