There will then be hope for such poor wretches as crowd this region; or if most of them are so far lost as to be without hope, their places, when they die, will not be filled with new recruits for the army of perdition." "If the laws we now have were only executed," said Mr.Dinneford, "there might be hope in our legislative restrictions.

But the people are defrauded of justice through defects in its machinery.

There are combinations to defeat good laws.

There are men holding high office notoriously in league with scoundrels who prey upon the people.

Through these, justice perpetually fails." "The people are alone to blame," replied the missionary.