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I.OUIS TfAPOLEOIT IN" HI8 I'LACE. In ro}...
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THE AUTHOBSHIP OP THE "AMICUS" I/ETTEES....
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POLITIC A r, MISItKlMUJSKNTATrON'. Ovti ...
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A TJWT l'OR 'III 10 I'liACK HOCIICTV. Wi...
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THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE. {To the Editor of ...
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in the heart of an exile ?) as for tlie extreme cheapness of living , and the French language and habits of the population . The last barrier against a relentless persecution is not England but tho local rights of that dangerously situated English dependency . Decidedly our retention of Jcrsev will bo considered an inconvenience which tho next sea fight , so ardently anticipated by M . Ducos , the French Minister of Marine , will have to re-adjust .
924 Tije Leader. [Saturday > . - -¦ ¦ ¦ ...
924 TIJE LEADER . [ Saturday > . - - ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ * - ¦¦ ¦ ¦ - — ..... - — - " * "" . * - ^ ^ w
I.Ouis Tfapoleoit In" Hi8 I'Lace. In Ro}...
I . OUIS TfAPOLEOIT IN" HI 8 I'LACE . In ro } T al and ambassadorial appointments it is common to say that such a man is appointed to an office " near our person , " or that ho is appointed to be Minister " near the Court of St . James ' s , " or the like . The Paris correspondent of the Times appropriately informs us that , at Lyons , " the triumphal arch , painted in the Prince ' s colours "—in blood , we suppose— " was raised in the middle of tho quay , ¦ near the slaughter house "
The Authobship Op The "Amicus" I/Ettees....
THE AUTHOBSHIP OP THE " AMICUS" I / ETTEES . It would seem that the authorship of these letters has influenced the fate of an election . During the struggle of the Amalgamated Engineers , one " Amicus" indited in tho Times certain letters against the rights of labour , of which letters the workmen had just cause of complaint . We did not ourselves hesitate to express titter dissent from the language and tone of "Amicus , " whoever he might be . These letters have been imputed to Mr . W . J . Fox , about the last man wlio would have condescended to write them . Those letters , both in sentiment and style , were so
utterly beneath Mr . Fox , that it may be said that he could not have written them had ho tried . But the unscrupulousness of the electioneering imagination imputed them to him , and though ho emphatically denied " any knowledge of them , " the imputation continues to be repeated . Mr . Charles Hindley , of Ashton , wrote to Mr . Samuel Fieldcn , to inform that gentleman that he knew who Amicus" teas , and that Mi * . Fox was not he . But Mr . Ficklcn has made no retractation of the averment upon which ho had ventured . A correspondent who has frequent intercourse with the northern towns , assures us
that the impression diffused among working men , that Mr . Fox wrote those letters , continues general . The correction has not had the currency which party spirit has " -iven to the calumny . If the life and services of a man like Mr . Fox are to be disposed of in this manner , and the people arc to bo imposed upon by such llagrant fabrications , what has become of the intelligence , not to sav generosity , of the working class , whose interests Mr .
Fox has so long promoted ? The Council of the Amalgamated Engineers could arrest this dishonourable imposition—and we think they ought to make it a point of honour ! . o do so . They conducted their contest with great credit to their order ; they might add another instance of their supcriorily to conventional prejudice , by refusing any longer lo lend the countenance of their silence to an imputation oa Mr . Fox , which continues to bo received because workiiur men believe that the Council believe it .
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POLITIC A r , MISItKlMUJSKNTATrON ' . Ovti attempt in : i recent aWicle to distinguish bef ween the good cause of democracy iind the travesties of it , got up by certain " red" republicm . s abroad and at home , bus been in Koine , quarters tortured into an opponency of a wine political progress . Hut avo doubt , not that our intelligent readers will nee ( lie ( lillerence between a protest against the extravagancies perpetrated under the '' red" designation , and that manly anil heroic championship of freedom which in the guarantee of national deliverance . It , is because these < 'xtntv / i , ' ^ ttirie . H have never been disowned by the friends of i \ ic people , that , the real patriots remain widely unrecognised by the public I f we render wmie Hervieo in thin direction we shall not , care to have been made tho tuihiecl , of misrepresentation .
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A TJWT l'OR 'III 10 I'liACK HOCIICTV . Wio commend the following brief paragraph to the especial notice of the exceut ivo of the IVhco Society : — " II a m I'Hii i me . " ( I'Voin a Correspondent ,. ) Tim county police hiivo received strict orders to destroy and Niippress all placards and bill . s published by l . ho I'oaco Society and other parties , of a tendency to prevent men from vojuntooring for Mio two rof ^ i ' jionttt of Jiiilil . iu to be raised in this county . " " Correspondent of what journal P" Tho Mornimj ' Humhi , gentlemen . Hero you have n county magiHtraoy , offering , through u correspondent , of the Ministerial Organ , a challenge , and presentintf tho whole county of JltunpHliiro as u batl . lo-iiold ; and if then ; lie any pluck in tho IVnct ) Society , which in not . to be , doubted , horn is an occasion which will tent tho well-Jinown sincerity of its convictions . Wo pu ( , it , to them as u question i ' or deliberation ; ought , they not , to placard Hampshire at once P
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[ IJT THIS DEPARTMENT , AS ALI . OPINIONS , HOWEVEB EXTREME ARK ALLOWED AN EXPBBSSION , THE ED 1 TOB JTECBSSABII / S HOLDS HIMSELF BEBPONSIBLE TOE NONE . ]
There Is No Learned Man But Will Confess...
There is no learned man but will confess he hath much profited by reading controversies , his senses awakened , and nis iudsjment sharpened . If , then , it be profitable for him to read , why should it not , at least , be tolerable for his adversary to "write . —Milton .
The Temperance Cause. {To The Editor Of ...
THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE . { To the Editor of the Leader . ) II . Leeds , September 6 , 1852 . Mr . Editor , —I concluded my former letter by showing that " Ion" was himself guilty of that " exaggeration" and " extravagance" which he ascribes to the Teetotalers . As regards the Temperance Movement itself , " Ion " has confessed its vast importance—acknowledged its immense usefulness—its capability for still more magnificent results . Under that avowed conviction , he professes to have written for its—reformation ! Was it not imperative to have drawn his materials from official documents and accredited authorities ?—unless he is warring with those who will not hear him—the Camp-followers , not the army and its real captains . How otherwise can he give the movement true expression , and realize his dream of liberating it into higher power ? If teetotalism be the blind and imprisoned Sainson that " Ion" represents , to deliver the captive he must be spoken to in tones and a language which will be intelligible and applicable to him . He stirs not else .
But the speech of " Ton , " where it is not laughed at as a caricature , either rouses scorn by its misrepresentations , or excites sorrow—sorrow that a writer with so much power and so great a theme , has done such signal injustice both to himself and to his subject . I protest against a great cause being judged by individuals and accidents—by vague report or popular rumour . It is a test which no cause could stand , and no set of persons will allow , when applied to themselves —however it may be applauded by people of " Earnest " ta-stes and intolerant temperaments , who revile our convictions as " sloppy consciences ! " Anv man of
talent might apply such a test , and with infinite mischief , to the cause which had the misfortune of his polite attention . Though no paid agent of the Temperance Society , my knowledge of it extends through eighteen years of active connexion with it , and over many parts of England . I am personally acquainted with most of its leading advocates , and with all its standard and periodical literature , —and on thin knowledge of tho men and the movement , I declare that the representation given by " Jon , " is NOT TitUE . Miarcrepresented as we art ; by our foes , it needed not that we should bo more ko by professing friends . VThroughout Ion ' " first ticlebesid
. " s ar , es an abundance of nicknames , arc scattered tho words " rudeness , " " disagreeable , " and their co-partners . I begin to . suspect that it in with " Ion , " not ko much a question of principles as manners . The whole , in short , in a development of Kgoitun—an over-refinoinent , or morbid state ; , of tho msthetieal organ—an attempt to reduce a great social and moral question , involving not only scientific , principles , but lift ; and happiness to some artificial standard of taste which u self-appointed HhiidainantbuH may choose , to set up , or some fastidious purvenu to imitate ! One is incontinently reminded of Sbakspearo ' s " trim Lord , " who talked so like a waiting gentlewoman . Ah the soldiery , hot from tho uhodc of earnest battle , — " Horo dead bodies by vmtninnerhf ,
Jlo called them , nutuut / ht kniwoa . Jtiirf for Uio " villanous saltpetre , " the noise , anil wounds , " Ho would himself have- been u soldier !" Yet " Ion ' s" written discourse is besprinkled with very distasteful flowers of rhetoric : " Orators of the Tub , " "bigots , " insolence of Temperance , " " ginger-beer Church , " (!) •• Pharisees of tho vow , " & c , are epithets which flow fresh and last from tin ; pen of the Man who
has expressly come forth to teach the ignorant T totalers better manners !— ^
" What in the captain is a choleric word In the soldier is rank blasphemy . " ' In this way , on the score of taste , I can understand th scene described as taking place between the LorJ Writer and the Temperance Hotel-keeper ; and I -n confess , that if mine host were hah 01 as rude as a guest is reported to have been by his friend , he * utterly inexcusable . The poor hotel-keeper is ' cleari treated as nobody—a mere machine—a pump-handle t be worked up and down at the caprice or convent ° of others . The " celebrated" Writer seems to ha thought that mine host ought to have had no con science—that it was a luxury which he should n I afford to keep , —for when he audaciousl y lays claim to
one , our author peppers him with a volley of polite curses and ridiculous nicknames . It may , of course b a fair question for Casuistry to determine , in each particular case —( whether of an ojmm-smoking Turk and an arseme-eating German , on a visit to an Englishman or of an afcoAo & c-tippler , on a visit to a Teetotaler )—! how far morals will permit you to observe conventional manners—but certainly there must be a limit some . where , and it is only for the principle of the thing that I am at present contending . If , residing in Ohio a genteel " Ion" from the slave-states should require roe to feed himself and his horse , or to help him , in any way , while in pursuit of his slave , whatever " manners " might dictate , the " morals" of my heart and head
would give a stern denial . He might stand before me , the very incarnation of the frigid and polite JReasoner , but I would stand up- still , immovable , in my Humanity . If the conversation be correctly reported , the Gingerbeer had the best of it in good taste and in argument . A man has surely the right to set up whatever he pleases as the rule of his house—to play the fool and fanatic , if he likes . No matter as to its wisdom—the right and the conscience are sacred , and I shall feel bound to respect his right and his rule so long as I place myself voluntarily within its range . Dictation , in such a case , is insult , and even criticism is impertinence . In my opinion , the London writer was insolent , and had he treated me in such a way , I would
have had him shown to the door . If a stern , orthodox Puritan , for example , who happened to be quartered in the house of a Deist , were to insist that his host should summon the inmates of his house to hear read certain ( to him ) obnoxious portions of the Bible , and to go down upon their knees in worship of Christ—wh : it would he think of that ? Will " Ion" say that " Lemonade" ought not to have made the drinking of wine a case of conscience ? I answer , that what he ought , or ought not , is a matter of reasoning in his as in any other case , but so long as it is a question of conscience , the conviction ought to be respected , not flouted and ridiculed . If the notion is wrong , get it out of him , not by calling names , but by fair argument .
8 . But the real pinch is here . " Ion's" notions about " Temperance" differ from tho Teetotalers ( if " Ion " prefers the designation , " Abstainer , " we do not object ; " the rose will smell as sweet by any other name' ) . To Mr . 'Brummagem I ' okto temperance is « m y * o question of convention and convenience : to Mr . Lemonade ( why not Spring Water ?) it is a dull / and n principle . To him the dietetic use of intoxicants ( ot opium , tobacco , or alcohol ) is a demonstrated violation of that law of the physical and moral nature happily defined , by a writer in Jilachwood , as " adaptation \ W the organ . " He beholds the innumerable evils wine " have flowed from that violation , and w thoroughly
impressed with the conviction that these evils miwt continue to How until men come to acknowledge tavl «> ¦ ¦* this law . Now , to « h 1 c him to bo a party in it * ° " tion—to turn druggist for sick Christian , or « r "" " man for sensuous Turk—to supply physic at the <»» ^ table , or opium in the drawing-room , because hw B ^^ have acquired a liking or a prejudice for them ,, »> _ tilt ? clear sacrilice of u Principle and a Protest ( ot ^ the Pledge is the motto and tho symbol ); wlllC ^ ,, my opinion , if made , would display u queer and «> ^
compromise , rather than a " quaint courage- ^ this stand-point , the Teetotaler cannot consist , ^ > ^ otherwise than lie does , you would despise "" ry t , 0 ditl . If that stand-point be wrong , let " ' ° " j ^ remove it , not quarrel with its leg itimate coiihw | ^ Lot him ntovjc that alcohol »* adapted to the oifc ^ ^ of man , and that its general use does not ( l > y of narcotics ) tend to evil , and issue in evil . ^^ 9 . What strange confusion of thoug ht , " / to that differ , to denounce the Teetotaler , who t - ^ . ^ violate his own . convictions in his own sp here , ^ ^^ like the bigot who will not allow ( mother nion ^ in his sphere , his natural rights , but dictatewlint ho shall think , and how ho bIhiII wortfJ » l
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 25, 1852, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25091852/page/16/
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