Landor.—That is somewhat after my own heart, I own; but he does not go far enough in his hatred of them.
North.—You do?
Landor.—I despise and abominate them. How many of them, do you think, could name their real fathers? [69]
[Footnote 69: Vol. i. p. 61.]
North.—But, surely, Charles was a martyr?
Landor.—If so, what were those who sold [70] him?
[Footnote 70: Vol. iv. p. 283.]
Ha, ha, ha! You a Scotchman, too! However, Charles was not a martyr. He was justly punished. To a consistent republican, the diadem should designate the victim: all who wear it, all who offer it, all who bow to it, should perish. Rewards should be offered for the heads of those monsters, as for the wolves, the kites, and the vipers. A true republican can hold no milder doctrine of polity, than that all nations, all cities, all communities, should enter into one great hunt, like that of the ancient Scythians at the approach of winter, and should follow up the kingly power unrelentingly to its perdition. [71] True republicans can see no reason why they should not send an executioner to release a king from the prison-house of his crimes, [72] with his family to attend him.
[Footnote 71: Vol. iv. 507.]
[Footnote 72: Vol. i. p. 73.]