But prison and money penalties vanished into thin air, for the writ of error was granted, proved successful, and the verdict was quashed.
Then ensued a somewhat anxious time.

We were resolute to continue selling; were our opponents equally resolved to prosecute us?
We could not tell.

I wrote a pamphlet entitled "The Law of Population," giving the arguments which had convinced me of its truth, the terrible distress and degradation entailed on families by overcrowding and the lack of the necessaries of life, pleading for early marriages that prostitution might be destroyed, and limitation of the family that pauperism might be avoided; finally, giving the information which rendered early marriage without these evils possible.

This pamphlet was put in circulation as representing our view of the subject, and we again took up the sale of Knowlton's.

Mr.Bradlaugh carried the war into the enemy's country, and commenced an action against the police for the recovery of some pamphlets they had seized; he carried the action to a successful issue, recovered the pamphlets, bore them off in triumph, and we sold them all with an inscription across them, "Recovered from the police." We continued the sale of Knowlton's tract for some time, until we received an intimation that no further prosecution would be attempted, and on this we at once dropped its publication, substituting for it my "Law of Population." [Illustration: CHARLES BRADLAUGH M.P.] But the worst part of the fight, for me, was to come.