GOVERNING AND NOT GOVERNING.
[To sus EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."I
SIR,—In his letter on " Governing and Not Governing " in your issue of August 14th, Mr. P. E. Roberts writes that " men are ceasing to regard obedience to Government as particularly necessary or desirable." A good illustration of the truth of this remark is afforded by the trials for Irish outrages as reported daily in the newspapers which still condescend to notice such trifles. It is common form for the accused in such cases to state that "as a soldier of the Irish Republican Army he does not recognize the Court." This, of course, is tantamount to an admission, or rather to a boast, that the accused is guilty of high treason. But unless the particular charge against him can be proved, nothing comes of it, and he is set free to resume his treasonable activities, with some additional prestige among his fellow rebels.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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