By the fear of the lash and the gallows kept under
Henceforth, who shall venture to stand in your way?
Run riot, ravage, kill without pity,
Let any man how he molest you beware;
Beholding how hard the Jamaica Committee
To ruin are trying to hunt gallant Eyre,”
wrote Punch, and it represents the feeling of a large section of the community, a section to which I know I should have belonged. Punch does not enter into the question as to why there should be “savages thirsting for bloodshed and plunder,” and “miscreants burning for rapine and prey.” Those were not the question of the moment. They are questions for all time.
We think now, we are all agreed, black and white, that there must be no bloodshed and plunder, and there must be no section of the community to whom such a state of things shall seem desirable.