Pigs' meat; or, lessons for the swinish multitude: Published in weekly penny numbers, collected by the poor man's advocate (an old veteran in the cause of freedom) in the course of his reading for more than twenty years. Intended to promote among the labouring part of mankind proper ideas of their situation, of their importance, and of their rights. And to convince them that their forlorn condition has not been entirely overlooked and forgotten, nor their just cause unpleaded, neither by their maker not by the best and most enlightened of men in all ages. [pt.2]
Spence, Thomas, 1750-1814.
ONE murder makes a villain,
Millions a hero.—Princes are privileg'd
To kill, and numbers sanctify the crime.
Ah! why will kings forget that they are men?
Why delight in human sacrifice? why burst the ties
Of nature, that should knit their souls together
In one soft bond of amity and love?
Yet still they breathe destruction, still go on
Inhumanly ingenious to find out
New pains for life, new terrors for the grave;
Artificers of death! Still monarchs dream
Of universal empire growing up
From universal ruin.—Blast the design
Great God of Hosts! nor let thy creatures fall
Unpitied victims at ambition's shrine.
BISHOP PORTEUS.
And let all the people say, AMEN.
