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(Drnankteif nf ifo %tn\t t POLITICAL AND SOCIAL.
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SOCIAL AND DEMOCRATIC WRITING. The sugge...
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National Chartist Association.—In conseq...
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LAND AND POPULATION. July 21, 1851. Sir,...
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The Central Democratic European Committe...
your past misfortunes . The Polish People , to constitute its future life , must eradicate their very roots . Let all traditional hostility disappear from amongst us ; let a grand moral fusion be worked out in a holy common idea ; let the young nationality of the Peoples efface the old dynastic and aristocratic nationalism . Races are now for us only the functionaries of humanity . The hatred which was engendered in the corrupted air of palaces , is unknown in the poor man ' s cottage , in the republican assembly composed of those who have been cradled in the same national songs . The air which circulates amongst the ranks of the People bears with it not hatred but ] ove .
Germans , Slavonians , Latins , we have all but one single aim—liberty , association , justice . There are now but two camps in Europe . Whosoever should attempt to raise a solitary tent between these two camps , would meet with vengeance on the one side , and neglect and indifference on the other . Poles , brothers ! Aristocracy , the country of caste , has perished for you . It perished at Targowica . It was of that country Kosciusko spoke , if it be true that falling he exclaimed , * ¦ ' Finis Polonise . " Arise to new life in equality , in the country of all , in the Nation ; and each European race and People will extend to you with enthusiasm a brother ' s hand .
You have brought a grand idea into the worldthe federation of the Slavonian Peoples . The reign of Boleslas the Great witnessed its birth ; your Aristocracy was unable to comprehend it . By its culpable inaction , it allowed the power of initiative , which this idea should have given you , to perish ; like every Aristocracy , it centred its life within itself , and never departed from it , save in the interest of its own egotism ' .
Evervwhere , abroad as at home , even in the Eussian lands , * the first halting-place of those barbarians who went , unconsciously , to receive the consecration of Rome—caste-nationality—by oppressing , tyrannizing , and stifling the popular inspiration—abdicated the grand mission of Poland . That grand mission must now be renewed , through popular inspiration . The Peasant himself must realize that which the " King of the Peasants " foresaw .
We have said a federation of Slavonian Peoples , not Panslavism . Pauslavism is a pantheistic unity ,- it is not the world of liberty . A monstrous conception—the issue of military despotismwhich all Europe would repulse : has it not been given the lie , in 1825 , even on the banks of the Newa ? Pauslavism is the Czar . It is not with him , but with the martyrs of Russian liberty—Pestal , MurawiefF , Bcstuzew , and their companions , that the Polish People can , and should be , reunited .
What is now wanting to Poland ? An initiative . The day on which , with the full comprehension of her mission , she shall assume her position as an initiative people—that day she will be saved . Poles » wherefore should it not be thus ? Why should not the watch-word of the Slavonian world be given by you ? Why should not Warsaw be the Rome of the North—the centre and focus of the northern races , as Rome has been of those of central and southern Europe I * While France and Italy organize an alliance in the bosom of the Gra ; co-Latin races—while an inward thrill
announces the unification oi the Germanic world , why should not Poland be united with the Hungarians—her friends of old—in the name of the Hervices she has already rendered to Europe ? and in the name of her long martyrdom , raise the fiery cross of the last battle , and shout the last watchword which shall resound along every despotic frontier , even to the eastern shores of the Adriatic ? For this all that is wanting is to will . To will strongly and unceasingly—to will in every limb and at every hour of the day— -to will in love , sacrifice , and constancy . Will then , and onwards . Europe begins to believe you exhausted by the struggle of IH . 'JO . Kepeat to Murope the words of Keytnu : — " There is no despot strong enough to shake me , nor artful enough to corrupt me . " For the Central European . Democratic Committee , IjKDImj Hoi . un . A . llvaii . J . Mazzini . 1 ) . JJhatjano . A . Dakakz . London , July , 1861 . * That part of ltuHsia lying between the Dnieper and tho Dniester .
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Social And Democratic Writing. The Sugge...
SOCIAL AND DEMOCRATIC WRITING . The suggestions here offered have no relation to the usual correspondents or writers to the newspapers , whose proficiency and power are established ; but are addressed to that increasing class of the people who are beginning to express their strong opinions and personal wrongs through the medium of the press . When a man exchanges the hammer for a pen , and the anvil for a desk , it is not to be
wondered at if he betrays some unskilfulness . He will forge out his iron better than he will his thoughts , and , as a consequence , what he produces may not be deemed workmanlike in a literary sense , and so be refused . This the writer will put down to the caprice or politics of the editor , who declines his wellintended communications . He will never suspect his own want of skill . The purpose of this letter is to explain the matter a little .
Every attempt at expressing opinion , however ill it may succeed , is a part of the process of self-education , and often the only mode available to the poor . Whatever shall render this more practicable and common among the people does good , and to this end a few rules are submitted , for the guidance of the uninitiated who attempt writing for the press . In these days of the growth of Organizations , reports of their proceedings and expressions of their opinions are valuable . The pen and the tongue are the newweapons of the popular warfare , and the multitude must be trained in their use . Fortunately there is no direct law against " drilling" the populace to the use of these ? ' arms . "
Nearly all persons who have penned a letter or an article , afterwards desire to see it in print . Literature is a Republic where all eminence is honourable ; for though some may obtain admission by force of wealth , none can maintain station except by force of genius . But by reason of the necessary conditions of admission being overlooked , many sustain disappointment which to them is inexplicable . Such persons may possibly profit by the following directions . Writers too eager to wait on method , or whose genius disdains the observance of rules , can , of course , accomplish success in their own way ; but to the less fortunate a practical word may be useful , and to those only do I speak : — 1 . Use note-size paper , because a large sheet covers the printer's case , and hinders his work .
2 . Do not write on the back of the paper , as that doubles the time of printing the article—while one side is being " set up , " what is written on the back cannot be ' ? gone on with . " 3 . Write with dark black ink ; for an editor will read with reluctance what he sees with difficulty ; and the compositor , for the same reason , will dislike to set it up . 4 . Always write a plain bold hand . Some hands which are elegant are too elegant to be understood . If you send an indistinguishable scrawl , it will be thrown aside until the editor has leisure to make it out , which may not be until the " interest of the article has passed away , ' ' and it may be too lute to print it .
5 . Remember that , whatever gives an editor trouble at his desk , doubles his expense in the printing-olHce . The Printers and Readers waste time in deciphering bad MS . ; and out of any failure in interpretation , commonly grows a charge against the journal for " misrepresenting" the writer . 6 . If you know that the editor will take any trouble to oblige you , why give him any trouble you please ? If you are rich and can send the printers a guinea for making out your letter , you may scrawl like a
gentlemun ; ii you have a great name , so that the responsibility of unything you write ill will attach to yourself and not reflect on the paper , express yourself how you please ; you may scribble with a pin on your butter paper , and the editor will try to make it out ; hut if tin ; editor is under no obligation to you , if you have no guineas to spare , if you are not ho popular that unything must bo printed that bears your name , why cleave to good nen . se , good taste , correct , expression , and a plain hand .
7 . Never fear , uh some do , that nn editor will omit or abridge your communication without cause . If it have value he will be glad of it . If it be , as all relations of facts ought to be , briefly told , without declamation , di m ension , or imputation , it will bo impossible" to abridge it . A well-written letter , or narrative in incupuble of being altered or nhrcviatcd for the better . Hardly anything in ever refused , on whatever side written , if well done . Tho artistic tasto of an editor for the literary perfection of his paper , is a ruling piiHaiou stronger than personal feeling , or political prejudice ; and next tho love of fair play , lie in attracted by that which is well done .
These rules are j ^ iven for the guidance of those who Bend occasional commtmicutioiiH to the cotoinporary preBH , and are not to bo understood as intended for tho correspondents of the Loader . I have no iiiHtructionB whatever from the editor of this paper to refer to this subject . That gentleman will , no doubt , defy
both the laws of nature and of necessity in deciphering letters which , need deciphering—he will persist , as a patriotic editor is expected to do , in seeing what cannot be seen , and in reading caligraphy which cannot be read , as often as he is favoured with such . But , should any one write to other papers , whose editors are under the usual limits of time and patience and optical laws , it may be as well to consult their infirmities . Ion .
National Chartist Association.—In Conseq...
National Chartist Association . —In consequence of the public meeting at the National Hall , on Wednesday evening , July 30 , the adjourned meeting of the Executive Committee is postponed until Wednesday evening , August 6 . —John Aknott , Gen . Sec . Redemption Society . —Propagandism is still in the ascendant . A camp meeting was held last Sunday on . Holbeck-moor , Leeds , which was addressed by Messrs . D . Green , T . Arandall , and R . Jones . At the conclusion of Mr . Arandall ' s address , Mr . Joah Mallinson , Wesleyan Association preacher , stated that he felt it his duty to attend the meeting , in order to warn the working-classes against the " Redemption bubble . " He declined entering into any proof of the truth of his
charges against the society at that meeting ; but stated that he was prepared to meet any member of the society , at any time , and in any place , and there make good those charges . A bill was issued on Monday in which Dr . F . R . Lees accepts his challenge , and appoints the discussion to take place in the Music-hall , on Wednesday evening , July 30 , the proceeds to go to the Leeds Infirmary . Mr . W . Campbell , of Leeds , delivered a lecture in support of the objects of the Society in the Marketplace , Huddersfield , on Sunday afternoon . The meeting was well attended . He also lectured in the Christian Brethren ' s Room in the evening . Mr . Henderson is
engaged to give two lectures in the Temperance-hall , Dukinfield , on Sunday , August 3 , and one in the Temperance-hall , Hyde , on Monday , August 4 , on the Principles and Present Position of the Society . Moneys received for the week : —Leeds , £ 1 03 . 3 d . ; Worcester , per M . Jones , 10 s . lOd . ; Halifax , per R . Buckle , £ 3 18 s . 5 £ d . ; Hyde , per J . Bradley , 10 s . 4 d . ; Building Fund , Leeds , 17 s . ; R . Hollingsworth , 10 s . ; Nottingham , per W . Smith , 14 s . ; Drigglington , per Mr . Clayton , 5 s . ; Hyde , per J . Bradley , 5 s . 6 d . ; Moses Hadfield , 5 s , ; Horsforth , G . B ., Is . 6 d . ; Propagandist Fund , Leeds , Is . 4 d . ; Halifax , 3 s . [ 9 d . —J . Henderson , Sec , 162 , Briggate , Leeds .
The Shakers of New Lebanon . — we have been favoured with the perusal of a letter by David Frazer , of Columbia , to Alexander Campbell , of Alderman bury , London . It is too long and discursive for insertion , but the writer bears testimony that , after eighteen years ' experience , he finds abundant reason to be satisfied with the state of society he finds there , which is in every respect the reverse of the one he left in England .
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Thero In No Learned Man But, Will Confes...
Thero in no learned man but , will confess he hnlh much prolit . ed by reading contro vernier , hiti iii ; nsf ! n awakened , and his judgment , sharpened . If , then , it , be profitable for him t . o road , why should it , not , , at , Jem-it ,, bo toleruble for luu mlvei ' . jai ' . y t . o write . —Mii . ton .
Land And Population. July 21, 1851. Sir,...
LAND AND POPULATION . July 21 , 1851 . Sir , —In a recent letter to you I stated an foliowfl the law of return to capital and labour bestowed on land : — " The law of return to capital and labour employed upon land is , that , in any given state of agricultural knowledge and skill , nn increase in tho capital ami labour employed in not attended with a proportionate increase in the produce : by doubling the labour you do not double the produce ; or , if you double the produce , you must do more than double the labour . ' The proof which I gave of the truth of this law >—namely , tho fact , that an population inerenwH worse land in obliged to be brought under cultivation ; and the plain inference from that fact , that the margin has been reached , where ? , under exiting « gri ~ cultural ttkill , the better sorts of land cun be made to yield , by additional labour , a proportionate additional produce ;—this proof , I say , Mr . 1 ' are " respectfully HiibmitB in no proof at all ; " " for , " nays he , "it is evident that 'II . It ., like ; a true political economist of the competitive school , uhhuiuch that the present form of society is the true one . " To thin I reply l > y b"J ~
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 2, 1851, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_02081851/page/20/
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