It is
impossible such a monstrous doctrine as this can stand. It will
pass away, and probably in a few years it will be remembered
with some astonishment; but oppressive and persecuting laws
are only got rid of by the spectacle of an impaled victim.
'By the light of burning heretics Christ's bleeding feet I track.'
The impaled victim is now Mr. Foote. It is a disgrace to England
that his solitary confinement--twenty-three out of the twenty-four
hours are solitary--or indeed, that any punishment whatever is
possible for a man's style in religious controversy; and to a
Liberal it is profoundly humiliating that such a proceeding
takes place under a Liberal Government and without one word of
remonstrance in the House of Commons. Where are the Radicals?--
Yours obediently, FREDK. A. MAXSE.
"April 30th."
Let me take this opportunity of thanking Admiral Maxse for his courageous
generosity on my behalf. Directly he heard of my infamous sentence he
wrote me a brave letter, which the prison rules forbade my receiving,
stating that he would join in any agitation for my release, or for the
repeal of the wretched law under which I was suffering "the utmost
martyrdom which society can at present impose." I have always regarded
Admiral Maxse as one of the purest and noblest of our public men, and
I valued his sympathy even more than his assistance.
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