of Boroughs to vote wrong. We pay respect to those
worthy of no respect.

Is not Pandarus Dogdraught a member of select clubs, and admitted
into the drawingrooms of men? Visibly to all persons he is of
the offal of Creation; but he carries money in his purse, due
lacker on his dog-visage, and it is believed will not steal
spoons. The human species does not with one voice, like the
Hebrew Psalmist, 'shun to sit' with Dogdraught, refuse totally to
dine with Dogdraught; men called of honour are willing enough to
dine with him, his talk being lively, and his champagne
excellent. We say to ourselves, "The man is in good society,"--
others have already voted for him; why should not I? We
_forget_ the indefeasible right of property that Satan has in
Dogdraught,--we are not afraid to be near Dogdraught! It is we
that vote wrong; blindly, nay with falsity prepense! It is we
that no longer know the difference between Human Worth and Human
Unworth; or feel that the one is admirable and alone admirable,
the other detestable, damnable! How shall _we_ find out a Hero
and Viceking Samson with a maximum of two shillings in his
pocket? We have no chance to do such a thing. We have got out
of the Ages of Heroism, deep into the Ages of Flunkeyism,--and
must return or die. What a noble set of mortals are we, who,
because there is no Saint Edmund threatening us at the rim of the
horizon, are not afraid to be whatever, for the day and hour, is
smoothest for us!

And now, in good sooth, why should an indigent discerning Freeman
give his vote without bribes? Let us rather honour the poor man
that he does discern clearly wherein lies, for him, the true
kernel of the matter. What is it to the ragged grimy Freeman of
a Tenpound-Franchise Borough, whether Aristides Rigmarole Esq. of
the Destructive, or the Hon. Alcides Dolittle of the Conservative
Party be sent to Parliament;--much more, whether the two-
thousandth part of them be sent, for that is the amount of his
faculty in it? Destructive or Conservative, what will either of
them destroy or conserve of vital moment to this Freeman? Has he
found either of them care, at bottom, a sixpence for him or his
interests, or those of his class or of his cause, or of any class
or cause that is of much value to God or to man? Rigmarole and
Dolittle have alike cared for themselves hitherto; and for their
own clique, and self-conceited crotchets,--their greasy dishonest
interests