The Great Republic is as severe on anarchists as any
Empire. Seven of the men who broke out at Chicago and threw bombs at the police have been sentenced to death,. while one, guilty only of incitement, was condemned to fifteen years' im- prisonment. The Court laid it down as a principle of law that incitement to murder followed by murder, was legally murder also. The condemned all made furious speeches, denying the justice of their sentences ; but all ad- mitted their doctrines, and one professed his readiness to die for them as Christ had done. The criminals may still be par- doned by the Governor ; but American opinion is utterly hostile to them, and they have not, like the Irish dynamiters, the support of a heavy vote. Their pardon is therefore im- probable, and if pardoned, they will probably be lynched by the friends of the killed and wounded.
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