This bad and partial law, occurring in a country that has tasted impartial laws, revolts common sense and the consciences of men.

Whenever this sort of thing occurs in any civilized country, up starts that pioneer judge we call Judge Lynch; in other words, private men combine, and make their own laws, to cure the folly of legislatures.

And, mark me, if these irregular laws are unjust, they fail; if they are just, they stand.

Rattening could never have stood its ground so many years in Hillsborough, if it had not been just, and necessary to the place, under the partial and iniquitous laws of Great Britain." "And pray," inquired Little, "where is the justice of taking a master's gear because his paid workman is in your debt ?" "And where is the justice of taking a lodger's goods in execution for the house-tenant's debt, which debt the said lodger is helping the said tenant to pay?
We must do the best we can.

No master is rattened for a workman's fault without several warnings.