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WEEP ON , WEEP ON . BT THOH 1 S HOOE ' , Weep on , weep on , your heur is past ; Your dreams of pride are o ' er ; The fatal chain is round you cast , And you are men no more ! In vain , the hero ' s heart hath feled ; Tbe sage ' s tongue hath wnru'd In vain : —• Oh , Freedom ! once thy flame hath fled , It never lights again ! Weep on—p ; rSaps In after days They'll learn to love your same ; ' And many a «! eed may w ; ke in praise , Tbat l ^ ng hath si-p : in blame ! And when they tread the ru ' . n'd isle ,
VTfcsre rest , at length , the lord and slave , They'll wondering ask haw hands s » vila Could conqner hearts eo brave ! <» Twss fite , ' they'll say , ' a wayward fate Tour web of discord wove ; ' And wiiis your tyrants jsin'J in hate , 'You neverjo n'd in love ! * But hearts fell off , that ougbt to twine , ' And zn ± a profaned what God had given , ' Till soma wera heard to curse the shrine , ' vTters others kuelt to heaven !'
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TEE LIGHT IN TBE WINDOW BY CHAELES hackat . Late or early home returning-, In the starlight or the rain , I behelj that lonely candle , Shining from his window pane . Ever e'er his tattered certain , Nigbily looking , I could Bean , Ay icdt'iBi ? , Writing—writing , The pale figure of a man ; Sill discern behind Dim fall The s = m = ; shadow t-u the wall .
Far be ; ond the murky midnight , By dim burning of my oil , rilling aj his rapid leaflets , I have watched him at bis toil ; Watched his brosd and seamy forehead , Watched bis white industrious hand , Ever passing , AnS rip using ; Watch- d end strove to understand What impelled it—gold , or fame , — Bread , or bubble of a Dame .
¦ Oft I ve askeri , debating vain y In the silence ef my mind , What tue services ha rendered To his couatty or nil kind ; Wheiher tones ef ancient music , Or the sound of modern gong , Wisdom holy , Bomoura lomly , Sermon , essry , novel , rong , Or philceopby sublime , Filled the measure of his time .
Of tie mighty world of Loadoa He was portion unto me , Portion of my life ' s experience , x used into my memory , T-fiiUgbt saw him at his folios , Morciag saw his fiaaeri run , labouring ever , Wearying ntver , Of the taik he had brgun ; Placid and content he seemed , Like a man that toiled and dreamed
\ o oca sought hita , ao oQi kasw him , UadisunguUhed was bis name ; Never had his pr & ise been uttered By ths oracles of fame . Scanty fare and decent raiment , Hamb ' . e lodging and a fire—These he sought for , Th « e he wrought for . And he gained his meek desire ; Teaching men by wri ' . ten word—Ciingiug to a hops deferred . So he lived . Atlait I missed him ; Still might evenirg twilightfalL , But co taper lit bis lattice—Lay no shadow on his wall , la the winter of his ssasons .
In tbe midnight of cisaay , 'Mid his writirg , And inditing , Death hath beekoned him away , Ere the sentence he had planned Found completion a ; his hand . Bat this man so old and nameless Ltft behind him products large , Schemes c f progress undeveloped , Worthy of a aa -ion ' s charge ; Noble fancies uncompleted , Germs ot beauty immature ^ , Ooly ore ^ iiij , Kindly feeding , To hsva flourished and endnrad ; Meet reward in golden store To have lived for evermore .
Who shall tell what schemes majestic Ps ' . ish in ths scilre brain ! Whit hn-macity is robbed of , Ka ' er Jo be restored again ! Whet we lose , because ws honour Overmuch the mighty dead , And dispirit Living m = rit , Heaping scorn upon Its beid ? Or perchance , when kinder grown , leaving it to die—alone ?
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EMI GRATION AND EMIGRATION SCHEMERS By ' Stickfast . ' London : A . Dyson , 5 , Paul'salley , Paternoster-row . "We quite agree with « Stickfast , ' tbat it would be ' really no jake for the working men of England to be enticed away from their country , and to travel some thousands of miles towards the 'far west , '—to see what they never shall see—to eat what never shall pass their lips—to be clothed with what never shall cover their backs—and to live in houses which never will be built . ' And we also agree with our wide-awake friend that it is too bad for reformersay , ' social reformers (!)—to be seen linking themselves with heartless aristocrats in working the
dodge of emigration . \ Te should like the celebrated 1 social' regenerator who officiates as secretary to the 'Great Canadian Land and Railway Investment Association , ' to enlighten us as to the grounds on which he makes the amazing assertion , that the welfare ef the working classes has long been ' a matter of anxious interest with the government , who have repeatedly expressed a desire to aid all rational schemes of relief to the utmost of their power . ' We should like Lim also to explain his confidence in the philanthropy of cerlain of his aristocratic patrons , to wit : the Duke of Argyle , the Marquis of Blandford , the Earl of Harrowhy , & c , together with certain untitled , but not the less aristocratic gentry , who attended the late meeting at the London
Mechanics Institution , and delivered their sympathetic outpourings on the sufferings of the working classes and the advantages of emigration . We should be glad if tie same gentleman would also explain how he reconciles with his long-avowed principles , his -hostility to the sensible amendment moved but not carried at the said meeting , ' That the waste lands in this country should be applied to the purposes of colonisation . ' The mover of the amendment complained : bat the lands in this country had got into ths hands of too small a number of individuals , and that they were applied io the purposes of parks and hunting " grounds . He spoke ' the truth without mystery , mixture of error , or fear oi man / notwithstanding which , that truth had not the support of the ' social' secrefarv to ihe ' Great Canadians . '
The 'Great Canadians' modestly ask for a capital of £ 2 , 000 , 000 in four hundred thousand shares , of £ b each , fer the purchase of government lands , and for investment in public works in British North America . The scheme includes a railway from Halifax to Quebec , six hundred miles long . Down with your dust , boys ; the first instalment 10 s , with fid for ' preliminary expenses . ' Now's your time , if within twelvemonths you are not all ' railway kings' the fault will be your own ; blame not the * Great Canadians . '
We must rrfer the reader to the pamphlet under notice for a show-up of this scheme . It would be unfair to the author to quote the entire dissection of the ' Great Canadians '' prospectus , and we don't like te do things by halves ; we will , therefore , quote a paragraph or two devoted to an examination of the philanthropic motives of
TIIB ASISTOCBAT 1 C PAIBOSS OF EHIGBATIOW . It is m le .-. J siring- than cruo , tbat ta . ee anxious promoters ofisrgrst ' cn are . largely , oor nobles , our eris tocrats , and our mtfionaires ; these are tho men at wots to get tho poorer class- s cut of the land , which , whilr itgsrgestbem with wealth , they p : ofes » cannot support her teeming population . L iok , re » der , at cne instaner of this . Lit . ! y , tbe D ^ ke of Athol was announced to take tfce chair at a put >»; c meeting f jr tb = > promOtioa o ! tha expatriating fjsttm . Who end what is this Cube of A-. htl f He is a mighty Liiri of Caledonia , and at it is who has beta encroachirg on men's rig % t of waj . lopping up the passei to the Highlands , and driving ratneff bis sstitss , and turaia ? those Iaudi into deer walk * aud game prtservte ! PtUov-men , whs can wonder to so the Duka at Atbol in the chair of an emigra . Hen mwtiaj ! Hi » brother maa aa ? go , nay , he must
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go , to Australia , or the Canadaa , or New Brunswick , er io the Styx ; whib his lordshi p ' s deer and rabbits , the one shall stalk over the boundkas park , and tho other eat the bread cf man , in poor impoveriehed Britain which is unable to support man up . n its eurface ! Doa ' r fsrget thai it U tha Duke of Athol who promotes emi . graiiin . ButL rd Palroerston also is on emigrationiBt , —not by word , but In deed and of a truth . Ha has cleared his estates , and sent snip-loads off . Ye fiho may bo t :-mpt'S by a scheme now before the public , mark well , frcm facts we are about to adduce from Parliamentary documents , what yon may expect to experience when yon get comfortably settled in New Brunswick . Lord Paltnc-rston , and Sir Robert Gore Booths , Bart ., in thc ! r pity and in the exuberasce of their benevolence , sent cut a vast namber of emigrants * o New Brusswlck , from their Iri * h estates , Tery kind , was it not ? But slop ! Read the following : —
' Extract of Resolutions passes' by the Common Council of the Ci ' y of St John , ( New Brunswicl- ) , on the 3 rd Siptr-mber . 1 * 817 . ' Resolv . d , —Tfcat the Bwrd cannot but view with serious apprehension and alarm the grievous burdens te which the inhabitants of this city and iu Its vicinity have became * u'j ct by rf ason of thu large influx of pauper Ii ish emigrauta during the sense n . That in consequence of ths debilitated and broken down state iu which msay of them smbarked in the mother country , and the dis ease cngend . rel thereby during tho voyage , hundreds , not only in the passage , but also on their arrival here , hav . ^ fallin victims to fever of a most Infectious ani ? maiignant dweription , whi ! e tbe almshouse , hospital , and other buildirgs are crowded t » ith thousands , in a most debilitated siate , very many ef whom no human skill can
possibly save . That this board anticipate a frightful in . crease of tho burdens now erlsting In the commtraity durlny the rapidly approaching winter , and they feel that such calls , to prevent even the horrors of starvation , mast inevitably l ^ e made upon tha people as cannot be endured without great privation . * * * * That the teartless fyatem pursued ty somo of tho Irish landlord " , in shipping entire shiploads of paupers frcm t ' jeir respective estates for the purpose of relieving tbtm . se iVfs frr . m their undoubted and legitimate liability of providing the requisite support , and thereby placing their own burthens on tie people of this province , calls lonely for a remonstrance to tbo Home Government sgaintt a repetition of such unheard of practice * , and also for legislative action io prevent such proceedings in fa ' . are . '
The jurors of the M . dlaad District of Canada , on their oath . Oct , 2 . 1817 , thue present : — This jury are ot a lo ? s to findlaagutge sufficiently strong to express their d > pre cation of the > aioral turp i , tude ef leading men and landlords who have ndvisod , ccouraged , and eseieted to leave their native heme , tho kind sympathy of friends , and even their best chance of prolonged existence , sach large bodies of their destitntw countrymen , many cf tbem too old to work for their living , others eibaustrd by famine and sickness , and some of them even blind and cripples , who , cosgreiratec Into i " en « o mass *! on board ship , without wheletoise fosd sud fresh tlr , bave generated such contagious diseate as usually accompanies such complication of misery , and without any refereico to the evil consequences resulting to ths inhabitants of this province . This conduct is most cru < -l to the immlgrsnts themselves , ren . ie-rln ? m ^ re bitttr tha last gerrows of a shortened Ufa , by cast , ing tbemcut from their na ' . lve country to die In a distant li = d *
New , the facts broupht to light here may teacu us sons icstractlra lessons . They show that a man may profess on a pablic platform all the philanthropy of a Howard , while in practice he is nothing but an exporter ofdiseaie aad pauperism , for anybody but himself to care acd relieve . And is may te-11 to thosa who may be cherishing in their minds the idea of gelng to for off l & ndg to reap there th ? reward of industry and enterf ri » e , that it is at the risk ofhavinj , at anytime an-1 without notice , ship-loads of diseass and penury cast upon their resources , at tbe i ^ afure of any Lord F » l-
mtr ^ ton or Duke Athol . Oaly conceive—afifrtbat yon shall have cleared your forest land , built jour house rendered the soil productive , got comforts around you , and jus : settled dorrn with some prospect of success and happiness , j ast emotive of a great monster e « % rant ship from Irelani dlschargteg its cargo of wretcitdnefs upon your newly productive land , cot only to eat the bread ( to them ) of idleness , and to you of many toilsome days » ndni ^ ht watches ; but also fro engender disease ammgyoa , aad te bring into your at list happy names the pestilence : tut walketb . in darkness .
But it is not only the poor ibat the rich arc seeking to drive out of the land , Of latejeara , and to a great ex . tent , by the cheapness and diffusion of the issues from the press , working men bare become intelligent and thinking men . The working man now wants to know why , when thou sands are fqaandared for the luxnries of tbe great , the producing classes een hardly get food to eat , r . iiment to put on , or shelter to cover them from the rule blast , the piercing cold j cr tbe violent storm ; and he demrmds , ' Is this doing as you would b 5 done by ? Is this as Christ wonli hkva it ?'—and he remembers that the Bible sajs , Let Gad bo true and every man a liar . '—aud then , to tbe chagrin of those Pharisees who are godless and
sonlles' , hi gees into tbo highways and hedge * , anrt preaches CbriEt ' a own gosp 3 l , telling the people that ell men are brethren , that they should do to othsta asthsy would " se done by ; and the wealth-hoarders , and the landlord * , sad the game « lorde taka fright—tbsy can no Ionjri r revel because tbe masses are ignorant and un . thinking ; if thsy can in some measure gig the lips , they cannot annihilate mind—man will think , he does taink , and he must fpeak , and their only alternative is , at least , to tots the mind aveay from too elose a proxi mi-y to their hoards of ill-gotten wealth—and thus we fiad the Dakeof Athol , and the Puke of Argjlo , aud tie Eirl Harrowby , figuring at meetings to advise the people to eintijraie .
We have not room for further quotations , but we earnestly recommend this pamphlet to our readers . Let us add that were we desermined to emigrate , it would not be to any British possession . The ' system ' which so heavily curses the masses here , is in course of growth in every colony owning the British flag ; and a few generations more will serve to bring that system to its full perfection from Canada to Australia . A pleasant prospect for those who have any regard for the happiness of their descendants \ Even if their own happiness is tbe one consideration with persons intending to emigrate . they are not likely to attain their object by pitching their tents on land alread y monopolised b y English aristocrats , and in countries subject to the classes who have made of England a pauper rarren , and of Ireland a charnel house-
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Tracts . —Political , Philosophical and Moral . By R . D . Owen and Frances Wright . London : j . Watson , 3 , Queen's Head-passage , Paternoster-row . We do not profess unqualified admiration of Mr Robert Dale Owen . His bleod and thunder speech on the Oregon question , and bis refusal to identify himself with the Agrarian Reformers of the United States , testify to a change in his ' moral man , ' not at all to tbe advantage of the cause of progress . We do not insinuate apostacy , but we deplore the death of enthusiasm . Such is life ! With regard also to Frances Wright , it is very evident that to a certain extent a change has come over the spirit of her dreams But shutting our eyes to the present , and not caring to anticipate the future , we are content with the past . These tracts were written years ago , and are to be judged on their own merits , not on the present opinions and views of their authors .
In this list there are Fables by Frances Wnght , of which—we must ungallantly confess—we have not a high opinion . ' Neurology '—an account of some experiments in cerebral physiology , by Dr Buchanan of Louisville , communicated by R . D . Otven . ' An Address on the influence of the Clerical Profession . ' This tract is already widely known , and as widely admired . It is one of the very best exposures of priestcraft ever penned , and contains passages of unsurpassed eloquence . From an aiticie aimended to this tract , we quote the following : —
TBCTH AND EBB 03 . There are , besides tha great test of consistency , otbfr tests cf truth and error . Truth can send ai < me ; gSu n qnir a n « t that men ihould bolster ter up ; see needs no prop to prevent her foiling ; she is willing to be seen and examined ; nor is it necessary for h = r , in crder to maintain her dignity naiong her votaries , to retire , like eome east-. rn iyrmt in his patoca of state , bebind the ancient bulwark of l . 'gititn-: cy , or in the time woru stronghold ef orthodoxy . The vulgar axiom regarding tho ii-flutnce of fs-siliai ity , easy n ^ p-y to the great msa of this worl d bat t > Truth it applies not ; tho more familiar wo are vith her , the less likely era we to contemn or neglect ht-r . Truth is a plain republican , who trusts for respect snd power to the Influence cf I : r own simple character ; strong ia its unpraien ling txcelltncn , unaided by the pomp of c-rcuaistance or the dszzlo of ceremony .
Bat Error is a true aristocrat—a despot sVut np in his missy fortress , surrounded by outworks and d-fendei by redoubts—unwilling to be approached—tearing to be teea or knows—looking for hia dreaded stray to the influence of mysterious dignity , and nninvadi-d seclusion . ils declares it to be a crime to enter his presence uuk-fe it be on bended kneie and with submissive heart . Ho 1 .-SU-S his con-mands to bo obeyed , while Truth publ' -.-lios her pres p : s te ho txumlne-l . Ha is haughty afci inlo-Icrant , impatient of intrusion , and ^ freid of diecusf-ion ; sh « is miid and courteous , tolerant of the opinions of others , nrr ever violent in support o ? her own .
Tnnj U happens tbat wa hrar of opinions so universally admitted that it is deemed unaecessary to prov-j thtm rational , aud of doctrines so Siored that It is im pious to doubt tbem . Oa the other hand we see m + n cf sM * nce , [ mathematician * , pbyriologijts , astronomers , chc : nis : s , sjatlrg their opinions without dogmatism , and hearing them questioned without acrimony . Norn ? tho m » tci ± n ever lmpe-acbod the rceptic who thou d deny that in a right-angled triaagie the equare of the hypothec u » o is iqaal to the rqarare of the other two steles ; he Is to thoroughly convlaced of cho truth cf this propo-Rieion , that inoreluiiij provokes a smile , not an anathema : sod if yon speak to bun of persecuting the iufi-Jel ,
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and vindicating tho offenled oiuseof truth » nd matae . matic ? , you will excite hi * astonishment and hia pilyastonishment , at the supposition that there is not in his science evidence sufficient to establish its tiuth without extraneous support—and pity , for the ignorance thut would produce conviction by force . Men are opt to forget whera human power ends . One man io no more able to regulate tha optni-jns and doe . trlaes of another , than to regulate tbe weather . Public opinir . n may say , It Is true , ' Thus Bhalt thou bolieve •/ but will belief arise ot the command ? Legislators and governors may issue their commands , and may fir tho penalties of nonconformity , but the extent of their power is but to creata hypocrisy .
In the tract entitled an « Address on Free Inquiry , ' Mr Owen puts forth & U his extraordinary powers of argument and eloquence in defence of the great natural rights of free thought and free speech . In reply to the assertion that freedom of thought and speech is now permitted , Mr Owen exhibits the operation and results of
HODBEK PEKSECtJTIOH . Will you remind me that freedom of thought and speech is permitted ia these latter days ? To a certain extent it is . Tbo dissenter from established creeds speaks not now with bis life in his hand . Honesty ia no ltnger a capital offVnce . A man may bo ft Uljitle , yet be suffered to live ; ho cay even publicly disclose his heresy and be allowed to eurvlve the diboloaure . This is something ; ay , it is mucts ; to tho independent anl tha fearless It is a costly heritage ; a privilege that has at last been purc ^ astd for mankind by the martjrdom of the best and tho boldest of all former generations . But it is not everything . A man has many things to loae beside a hia life ; he has his popularity , his fair fame , his livelihood . To msny these are gritvaus forfeitures —with all they weigh something ; and popularity , fair fame , a lirtlibood , are , at this day , tho common forfei . turo for honest heresy .
I say for hontit heresy : a man may be a sceptic and welcome , If he will but wear a fashionable cloak over his scepticism . His heterodoxy may bo of as dark a dye as he plcaseB , so he consent to mix a due share of hypocrisy a ' ong with it . Bit let a mm dlsiont , in the dcp'ha of his heart , from those dogmas on which public opinion bos set her arbitrary seal of approval ; and let bim step forward , in conscious rectitude and honest simplicity , openly to czprest such dissent , it Is an effduco which orthodoxy but rarely forgets or forgives .
Men may cay what they please of such a state of things , It is immoral ; it creates vice—it represses virtue . We complain tbat the rarest of nil estimable things is a human befog in whom there is no guile . It is very idle to complain of it ; aa idle as it would be In a farmer who had sowed tares , to find it strange t at he Hi not reap wheat . We sow tbe tares of hypocrisy thickly and deeply over the land ; is it matter of wonder that wo do not reap the wheat of honesty am ] upright-UiBSt Those who are partial to preachings will do well to read the ' Sermons on Loyalty , '' Free Inquiry ' tke . That they are orthodox nobody can deny , ' Darby and Susan : > Tale of Old England , ' is a sad story of the ruin too often wrought by priestly fanaticism . The purport of the tract entitled ' Galileo and the Inquisition' may be gathered from its title . There is much curious and instructive
matter in the sixteen pages of this tract . Prossimo ' s Experience' details the mental atruggles of a child io escape the thraldom of superstition . ' A Lecture on Consistency' demands the consideration of all thinkers . The tract on ' Situations' illustrates the truth that' He is immorally situated , whose apparent interest tells him one thing , and his duty another . ' The legal , clerical , and medical professions are cited as examples . The tract entitled ' Address on the Hopes and Destinies of tbe Human Species , ' is extensively known and justly admired for the eloquence and hopeful views of the author .
Perhaps the most valuable of the series is' Wealth and Misery . ' In this tract Mr Owen strips Political Economy of its wordy disguises , and in the compass of a very few pages lays bare the causes of the wretchedness of the millions , surrounded by the superabundant wealth they create . Any extract would be an injustice to the author , for the whole must be read to appreciate his argument . Every reformer should study this tract . ' Republican Government and National Education ' are the subjects of the last tract on this list . Speaking of the wealth-producing classes in the American Republic , Mr Owen shows the all-absorbing importance of
NATIONAL IDUClTMN . Where is , at this moment , the great difficulty to the working classes iu obtaining just laws , such as ohtll defend tfetlr rights and advanoa their Interest ? Their rliiBsnlty may be trace-d to the fact that they can hardly find suitable representatives . A id why not find them S Because men la other racks of lifehavaintereats opposed to those of tha working man , and men in hia own rank have not ihe educational advantages that enable them easily to compete with the sophistry of tho learned student , or the eloquence ef a classic scholar . And will act this difficulty remain , until a National Education remove it ? Ha J eqaal Instruction been accorded la the last generation to tha child of the mechanic as of tbo
president , bow could there now exist iho slightest difficulty in selecting from among the product rs of all wealth intelligent representatives of their own class—men who tak * n from among the people , woald legiolato for the people ; and who , uniting common sense to literary ecqaircm : nt « and practical knowled ge to theoretical refinement , wouH act with the plain dealing of an honcft republican , think with tbe enlarged and liberal views of a disciple of sclcnea , and speak with tha eloquent p > r . spicuity of a man of letters . Thu ? are our fmimJiate difficulties , equally with all tha thousand evils which ignorance has evsr produced , to bs traced to tbe caralesfness tf mankind in neglecting to train up children when yoang , in the way tbey should go , that , when thoy aro eld tbey may not depart from it .
The real interests of tho working classes are not ihe same as the apparent and immediate interests of what are called the privileged classes . Yet , ia five casss out of six , the representatives of the people are chosrn from among lawyer ? , bankers , large lanaid proprietors , and rich merchants . In five cases out of six , then , our representaiives ( as they are inaccuratel y called ) are tempted to do wrong ; and if they do right , it la im cplte of the temptation . * * ? * In despotic countries , where It rosts with the autocrat to comraanS , and with his slaves to hear and to tbey in lands where the power e . f one Is supported and the obadiencaof ths many enforced , by lanco or bayonetit is not tnoogb to open the p ^ oplt ' i e-yea to their real situation ; they must a it onl y bj enlightened , they muse be nrmsd also . FjT their nil is bnt of small weight ajt & iust his who has an army of mercenaries in hia pay and at bis back .
Not so in tbls cimmonwealth . Whenever the eyes of the psople are opened—whenever they know wbat tbl J desire to 'fftct , and know how to quite their efforts and make effective their acknowledged pow < -r—xhey mr . y carry what measures they will . They have the jioiocr . They may be cheated into a belief that ibey have it not they raty be urged onto jealousies and internal dlasensions , and party feuds , that waste each other ' s Blrengiti and neutralise etch otrer's influence ; and thus the propls may be shorn of their rights , without perceiving how they loss thea , But the power they have . They can dictate their or-. B laws , nnd carry t ' -u : ir own mea . surts ; can ifgislate for ; h msalves . And if thty be ppresatd , ai . d if richer ana i . riseocracy legislate for tbem . and often lojdelate against ihom—it Is ihe people ' a blindness , noi thtir impotence , that gives their adversaries ths day .
How shall a mass of abuses be remedied by piecemeal 1 How shall thsy be remedied at aV , If wo reach not tbe Beat of the disease—tho human heart ? Whit avails it that our present monopolies are destroyed if . he ignorance remain that first permitted and may again bo cajoled to permit them ! Waat would it profit us that all pr-euoiary inequality ceased in a momtnt . if the ignorance remain that first produced , and would soon reproduce it . How shiuld we be advantaged by razing to the ground our b . ivks , our hw courts , nud our gin . shops , if iho spirit or spicu'aiion , end of t ' ruokenHess , which at first erected , wore still thevo to rebuild them ? Ia a word how shall the ahu-re-a that mar ail the boauty Of OUT nations ! inslitu ions , the vices that stain the fame of our national character , and the miseries that depress or destroy oar national hnpplneas—how shall these be remover ) but only fey an tqail , national , IntilH'ctu . l , and practical education for ail ths young citrus of our republic f
Wo bave ba 3 enough cf declarations ; let us have r . alitios . Wo have said wo aro free and cqusl ; let us become to . It nctdi not tha otain or thu msnacb to const ! ute " tbo slave . There Is a slavery beyond tbat of fett . ro and dungeons—tho slavery that bends not the body only , but tho mind , to oppression ; that pu's man ' s reason in Irons , and abuts out from hia reach common sense and practical knowledge . This is the oppression we must destroy ; and in tha human mind , wuoro it dwell asd reigns , thtro we must destroy It . Had bat equal education bac-n spread over tha nations of modern Burops , how altered should wa read the ann » l « of tho dark mWdle egfca . Where did iha feudal barons
find their p ^ wer to ens lave , if not iu the cowed spirit and loyal ignorance of their degraded vassals ? How did the Catbolio clergy , that proud spiritual arialocrae-y , that am its sQnlalcd feet on tho neck of kings , mi in its robes of sackcloth , entered unushertd tha cabinets of tho masters of th-j world—how did theso preloaders to holy humilitv , ob-aln their despotic away ? Was it not becBUfs science bad retreated io the ell of tha monk , and opene d h « . r treasures only within the walls of the monastery ! Cjuld feudal or ae'iritualtyranny hove la ^ ol for on < 3 year beyond tho tl ^ e that all serfs and all catholics had beea tuujht to find iu real hnopledge at oocd tbolr safetytheir frceaom , » - d their happ iness !
, Let us lsave the branches then , and str . ka ot tho root . They will wither aud dla of themselves , when the 8 onre 98 nro cai off whinoe tbey have derived thtir nourishment . I hava stated tho rsasons that in 4 uce me to regard a S 6 it « Education as the first object tj obtain which the p 33 l . le should combine their exertions , and nni'B thalr rotw , Iftfcesere * 8 < msfe 9 g » i tae P * 8 pl 9 ^ fak 9 t 0
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action . As they value the nabla Institutions o ? America , as they would save their country from the convulsions of a bloody revolution , as thoy would refo ? m tbo crying abussa of inequality , as thoy would chock the frightful enormities of-vice , as they would build up virtue iu tha human heart , cherish kindness in tbe human bosom , and cultivate Intelligence in tbe human mind—in a word , as they value their own and thsir children ' s enduring welfare , let them awokd to aoti n . Lot them unite for action . The strangle is for n ^ paltry prias—it is for to * reality of tboaa bletsings which < vere declared ours half a century ago . This la the time and this the country for such a struggle ' . Soon may It comctenca , and speedily as happily may it terminate .
There is appended a ' Plan of National Education' by Frances Wright , which regarded merely as an outline may be pronounced admirable . This tract should be widely circulated by the friends of popular progress . These tracts , which only number thirteen , are worth more than a waqgon-load of the trash issued by the self-styled ' Religious' Tract Society . Pity it is that no society exists for the conversion of parsons and rich men to a knowledge of truth and a regard for humanity ; did such a society exist , it would find these tracts excellent auxiliaries in the carrying out of its mission . But they will not be lose if they reach only the woiking classes . Were the masses once enlightened it would matter little as to the course pursued by priests , nobles , and usurers . The ignorance of the many is the usurping few ' s best safeguard .
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THE FRENCH ' REPUBLIC TO THE WORKING CLASSES . Brother Proletarians ' , The Report of the Committee appointed by the French Assembly called 'National , 'to inquire into the caueea of the Par ^ s Insurrections of May » nd Juxe , published in the Nobthern Star of Aug . 12 th , dtserves a few words of comment . Not the patriotism and justice of the authow of that documont—fcr they are innocent of any connexion with either of those virtues—but tbe reverse , their trea ? on and villany , entitle their [ -recioua handywork to y ? ur notice .
A veritable inquiry into the causes of the terrible combat of June would have been a work worthy of legislators anxious to hsal the wounds of society and prevent such frightful catastrophes for the fntura . An inquiry into the causes which induced thousandi of despairing men to sternly offer up their lives in a fearful struggle with their own countrymen , such an inquiry honestly conducted would have been of immense benefit . But no such irquiry has been gone into . The pretended investigation has had but one object—tho proscription and destruction ef the fewvery few men who , sympathising with the proletarians , have not already been disposed of in the dunijeona , or by the muskets of the terrorist bourgQoisie . Of the men who were borne to power by the revolution of February , tho only two who may command « ur unqualified respect are AtnanT and Louis Bl 4 kc . I can believe that Lamaivtine meant well , but his ' good intentions' have bsen the ruin of the
revolution . lean behove , too , that Ledrtj Rollin and Flocon strove to do well , but iai . ' cd bscause i-verborne by their traitorous colleagues , I should , however , feel more respect for the Rkfobmb chiefs could I satisfy myself that all that has been said of their assumption of aristocratic airs has been pure lying on tbe part of their enemies . Under no circumstances should the palaces and equipages of kings be appropriated by professed Damocrats to their personal UJ 6 - . No ! men who in the rectitude cf their sonls , and tho pureness of their hearts , devote themselves to fave er die for mankind , do not hanker after the dross of royalty , and the debauching luxuries of aris ' oirncy . He who would faithfully serve the poDr must hare felt the woes of the poor , and under all circumstances must abide with the poor . * It is easier for a camel to pass through tbe eye of a needle' than for a rich man , or an upstar : revelling in newly acquired luxuries , to beathorough demicrat .
Whatever their ei »; s of omission or commission , still this must hi said for Lsdbu Kcllin and Ftocow , that the former laboured to secure to the working cla sea veritable p & litical power , and the lat ' er in proposing a scheme of agricultural coionies , in whieb tsett ' . b iah a landed democracy formed from Ihe unemployed town population , did at least take a step in the right dirf . osion for tha abolition of want and pauperism . It is , moreover , n i fault of either Fi / icon or Lr . DKU Rollin that the National Assembly is com [ 03 cd nine-tenths of the remorseless enemies of Labour ; for that result of Universal Suffrage , the working classes of France may in a great measure blame IhemteiVfa ; that h if any one can re justifi-id in blaming ignorance worked up-n by
knavery . Those worthy or blame and hatred are undoubtedly the acoundrela who traded on popular credulity . The letter of Ge ^ roe Sand published in the Nobther . v Star of August 5 b , Jets in a flood of light upon the horrible conspiracy of the aristocrats and usurers of Frarce to damn the work ing of Universal Suffrage , a conspiracy in which they too well succeeded You will remember that in that letter it wag shown by what lies and calumnies the enemies of democracy gulled the simple people of t ! e rural districts into electing thsm to the Aaaemb ' y Every truly democratic candidate wai represented to be aCommunist , asd tbe Communists weredescribd as a set of miscreants , who wished to kill all the oh Urenunder threo years ofaze , and al the old
men above sixty ; abolish marriage , and establish the promiscuous intercourse of the sexes ; and , finally , reducing tbo labourer to live on six sous per day , live themselves upon the spoils of tho rest of the community . Theee are but a few of the lies too successfully employed to poison the minds of the ignorant peasants . You who can think for yourselves will probably bo inclined to doubt that any set of men on the face of thia earth cauld be brought to believesuch insensate calumnies : but nfhet that even amongst tho English working olasse ? , particularly in the agricultural districts , thera are thousands who from their lameatable state of ignorance , could , ii p ! ayed upon by their employers , parsons , and preachers , bo brought to bolieve lies equally at ; ocious . and not Jess ab urd .
When yeu bear in mind that the rural population constitutes tbe immense majority of the French people , and when you tske into account the diabolical means employed to dupe that majority , yon will be at no loss to understand how it ia that sueh scoundie ' B aa Thiers , Barbot , and Fauchbb are taking the lead in the Assembly , supported by an overwhe ' ming majority of landlord ? , bankera , manufacturers , generals , lawyers , and political charlatans , a * l the s « om loss of labour ' s rights , and the bloodthirsty enemies of every man who , by voice or pen , has over said or written one woid in defence of Man against Mammon , and in opposition to tbo present cannir-al htue of tbirg — doneminated by Drummed , Humb , and Co ., — ' Civilisation ' . '
To return to'he ' Report : ' Ledru Rolus ia charged wirh the responsibility of the insurrections of May and June , on the strength of the bulletins issued froir tbe office of the Ministry e » f tho Interior during the time of the Provisional Government . It is aWo alleged that he stimulated or connived at plots to overthrow the Government , of which he was a member , with the view of getting himaelf made Dictator ' Louis Blanc is fiercely eler . ounred as the principal auth' r of the ' disorganising doctrines , ' which , it is asserted , induced the Patia ouvrkrs to rebel against their' vpiy woitby and approved 4 , oodmasters . ' tho bourgeoisie . A labcurod attempt is made to exh ' . bi ' h'm us one of tha concoctors of tho movement of the 15 . h of May , aud to prove his presence at the Hotel i e Ville on the occasion of Bakbiu and others
attempting the formation cf a Commi't ° e of Pubiio Safety . Lastly , a lame and impotent tft ' irt ia rmde o link him with tho barricaded « f June . CAUssiBiEitE , though no philosopher , ia an hone ..-t Democrat , a sufficient offeree in the eyes of Bar hot and his gaiis—be , therefore , ii accused cf participating in all tho phta , red or imagined , sot forth in this ' Report , ' and also of a rich variety of ambitious and destructive projects , including the dictatorship and the burning of Pario ! Finally , he is accused of having been teen behind tho barricades in the days of June , Lastly , Piiounn ^ H ia accuaod of having preached war against property and family , aud of having gone to view the combat of June as a spectacle ! These charges aro based , partly upon anonymous and secret denunciation ? , and partly upon evidence extorted by terror or volunteered by treachery !
When the accused attempted to defend themselves , they M-ere silenced by tha President—the traitor Marrasi—or ho vied down by the clamour of the RyyaadiH . Ledru Rollin , by his superior enerey , wis enabled io obtain a brief hearing , and delivered himself of an outburst of indignant elrqueuco , which told with crmhina : effect upan hia accusers . But no amount of truth or forca of eloquence can save him from tbe destruction phttedby nia enemies . Baruot , Thighs , and Co ., will never forgive the part he took on tho 24 oh of February , in insisting on tho proclamation of tho Rspnb ' . io . If be had aimed at obtained it tha
ihe Dictate-ship , he might have on 17 th of March , and at tbe head of the then vie ' onous proletarians , bo might have trampled tbo bourgeoisie in the dust , luotfad of so doing , ho sided with LuuniiNB and ' m'jdera'ion , ' and so saved the usurers from the wrath of tho people . Behold his reward ! What a lensoa for temporises *! The * disorganising doctrine . ' imputed to Lcuia Blanc , entitle him rather to your applause than your condemnation . He is charged with having , at the wo ; king-okiis delegate meetings , at the Luxembourg , said , ' My " friends , understand this J well and take »> -i ,
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t along with you : you are the only power—you are all kings ; for in a republic all men are equal and are kinga . In a republic there aro no longer the odious diatinctiona of rich and poor , the deadly system on whioh ia based the oresent unfavorable state of ' f ,- A repul lio lhe » ought not , and in a real republic there would not , be th « .. dious distinctions ot rich and poor . But what say Odillon Babsot and his gang to th is wholeaome and truly republican oS / ^ „ l ' The commission cannot conceal from itself what a poisonous influence such Klf s , r ^ b ? ° I ? the mind « of the great body of the workmen . ' Mark those werthiea ; thev have no objection to 'Liberty , Equality , and Fraternity on a government placard , but let any one show that he entertains
the idea of establishing a state of veritable Equality—without which' Liberty and i ratermtv ' are mere phrases—and forthwith they eet upon him as a ' poisonous' disturber of the order of society . In the words imputed to Loms Bunc you see unveiled his ideas of Equality , and very noble idess tbey are . He does not aim at an equality of bsegan ; he doea not desire to pull down , on the contrary , he desires to mise up . He would bave all men kings ; that is , he would elevate the working men in their social position , until gradually social distinctions should disappear and the empire of caste' be for ever abolished . I beg the preasgtng of this country , who are stimulating the French bourgeoisie to destroy Loois Blano —I bej ; them to understand that his personal destruction will nob
ensure the destruction of his principles;—principles not now confined to France , but adopted by men throughout Europe who hope to one day—by the force of popular intelligenca , virtue , and unionsuperBedh : theory by practice . The charReg against Proudhon are perfectly contemptible , but then he has already a bad name , and is , therefore , fair game to te run down by the bourgeoisie . Has he net proposed to confiscate one third of tbe piopeity of the rich ; and has he not declared war against ' property' aad ' family V Terrible ! But stop a minute , the chirge of ' confiscation' amounts to thia : ' he has proposed that the possessors of land , houses , funds and every other description of realised property—excluding the small
lacdbolders and others , who really ti'orifc for their incomes—be has proposed that these idle consumers , together with placemen and pensioners , bs compelled to contribute , for tbe next three years , one third of their incomes to the state—one h . ilf of the proceeds to be appropriated to the public service , and the other half to be applied to the relief of tbe workmen and humbla shopkeepers , at present in a state of destitution and bankruptcy . For making fh ' s just and wholesome proposition , ho wa » insulted , abused and calumniated in tbe most atrocious manner , and all but driven from the
Assembly . Although Thiers had delivered a long and lying report , professing to show the injustice and folly of Pboudhon ' s proposition , yet , when the accused representative rose to reply , a hearing was toall intents and purposes denied bim . He spoke amidst a storm of groans , taunt ? , and hyena-like laughing , and at every ten sentences was violentlyinterrupted—often by the president ; finally tho Assembly voted his proposition ' an odious attaek on the principles of public morality ; a fl is ; rant violation of the rights of property ; an appeal to the violent passions , & s . & c ., ' and passed to the order of the day .
Pboudhon ' s proposition ia but an amplification of the principle of Sir Robert Peel ' s income tax ; that taxis a ' confiscation' of property to the extent of three per cent . In fact , our whole system of taxation is in reality ' c ^ fijeatior . ' If any man daubts thia let him try the question . If direct taxes are levied on him , let him refuse to pay , and be will soon find his goods and chattels ' conuscatvd' by the government auctioneer ; if he refuses to pay indirect taxes he can only do so by abandoning load , clothing , and shelter , and then he will soon find his life ' cun fiseated . ' The difference between Sir R . Peel and Citizen Pboudhonjs this : —the former upholds our grinding system of taxation ( i e , ' confiscation , ' ) fur the benefit of tho cormorants of society ; the latter prgposea his plan of' cocfiscntion , ' ( f e , 'iaxation , ' ) for the benefit of the bankrup t , unemployed , aad starving masses !
Aa regards the ou ' . ory aboul properly' and ' family , ' I am not in a position to state what are tho schemes suggeated by Proudhon for the regeneration of society . Probably be would entirely change the present system by which all property ia monopolised by those who are the con creators of property ; and possibly he may entertain the notion that somo system ior the education of children in common , ii necess-ary to break down tbe spirit of arifctooiv . cy . Whatever hia vievrs , he has acknowledged tbat socie ' y is not ia a fit state for tbeir full application at present ; he , therefore , contemplates no violence ti tho wealthy end exclusive classes . But ba hia ideas wise or the reverse—and , as I have
ju ? t said , lam not ia a position to criticise tbem , a » d , therefore , cannot take upon my . 'eif to defend or eomdemn them—this I will say tba * . I have no doubt tbat PnouDimN is iu hia heart and soul devoted to lbs interests of the unhappy children of industry , and therefore he is hated by tho plunderers and oppressors of ths masses . It is on all sides acknowledged th ^ t Proundon ia the reverse of a fool , he must , there , fore , be eitber a clever bid man or a clever good man . The character of his enemies settles that question ; their hatred is the best testimony to his virtues . Show me a man hated and denounced by that accomplished scoundrel Tbiehs and held up to execration ly the ' respect able' p ress of France and England , and I will show you an honest »»« i /
Tbo claptrap cry of ' property and family Ia danaer , ' when raised by the press gang of this country , is only tbe oid dodje of Tne Church in danger aliered to suit the present times . It never mattered a straw to the working men of this country—at least since the suppression of the monasteries— whether or not tbe church was in danger ; but as long ai Brummagem roobi could be 'tad by tbe nrseaa asses are ' that' cry' was just as good or rather bettor than any other , for exciting a bulabaloo against every man
who epened hii raouth about ' Re orm . ' But that day has gone never to return . The great majority of the working classes of this country would certainly , at thia time of day , not lift a finger to save ' the Church' from what the Yankees call ' everlasting smash . ' Pkiestlet , wero he alive new , might there fore feast with his friends to his heart ' s content with out fear of even a broken pane of glass . 'Cburcb and King , ' and 'Church in danger' will not d . i now , So hurrah for a still batter cry : —' Property and family in danger . '
Before any working man joins in this cry , let him ask himself whether he has anything to fear from any stct of French Social Reformers on the soore of of' property' snd ' faraily . Supposing all the lies told of the French Social Reformers were truths , it would puzzle Provdhoh himself to strip the working men of this or any other country of their piopertj . To take the brerks off a bigblandman has generally bees held to be a feat soraethinfi like a * pessible as eating one ' s own head , but either would be as easy of accomplishment ai to take ' proptrry ' from the majority oi the working classes not only of France but Europe generally . Suppose ' pr . pertyin danger , ' what h * s the English agricultural labourer , the Scottish weaker , and the
Irish unhoused peasant to fear ? Were the Cossacks in London , they would not think of takihg up their quarters in SpitalBelds , and were Ca * vaionac s African brigands to pay us a visit , tbey would find little ti tempt their cupidity in Bi-thr . aU green . ' Property' indeed ! When an agricultural labourer bai toiled forty y < ars ; wlist property bus be accumulated for himself ? He baa produced property , but the landlord , farmer , and grain monger bave reaped tho produce ; at the beat tho labourer ' .- ! reward is a claim on thn union woikbouse . Precisely tbe same is tho lot of nine-tenths of the workin *? elates employed in manufactures and trade . What ' property' have the multitudes of paupers in Irulaid . supposed to nurubw btt ^ een two a ^ d three millions ? I must correct raynK ; tho Irish paupers were supposed to amount to that number , but sii co that cal' -ulatinn was mad ? , iho ' surplus' hs-ve be ^ u
1 thinnid' by famine , and lamino . cip . ated pestilence to the number of somo say ha'f-a-raillion , sstua a mil in , and si me say a million ar . d a half . These victims u ouv beai-ptasib' . e social system , perished inaluiid which contains of soil fit ter cultivation , iwo acres for every man , woman , aad child , in ths country . Lsnd abounded , labour was incalculably ' surplus , ' and capital could hav « been had if tho government had asked for io . Even had tho government had no other s'esn . irce than Pboudipn's scheme , or the ' confiscation' of ono year ' s interest on the debt calb-d ' N , it ' onal , ' one or thu other should have baen adopted , ratuer than a million and a hair ' , oreveuhalfa million of ' hornan b . iogs should hava been allowed to perish of fao . ino The hunger stricken victims in Ireland hid not a ' property' even in their o < vn ims ; or if they bad that property was ' confiscated . '
But 'family ; what will a man not suffer , rather than have 'he sanctity of his domestic circle invaded ? Alas ! my fris-nda , you know that the domestic ciic e has no existence for tens of thousands of your order , or what of it tha * . does exist is a curse and not a ble . ^ sin ? . Tha ' llapppy lljmos of Englaod' road very pretty in the charming poem by Mas Hema ^ s , so entitled , but the poetry widuiy diffora from the prose . I might enlarge on the family miseries of thousands in this Babylon ; I raicht repeat tho revelations nf tha brute state of tha ' happy h = imds' in Doiso-shiro and other agricultural districts , to siy notaiug of Irelund , but want of sp- * co forbids ; I r ba'i therefore confine myself to one illustration of ' tho Bineiity of the family , ' under tbe exining system , aa exhibited in tho manufacturing distric ' s .
The ? PiOTAT -u , perhaps the ysry ab-tsi of t ' vj journals devotsd to tha theories of the politicilcconomistsand the interests of the manufacturing and trading proprietors , contained raits impre .-sion ot July 29 ib , a remarkable article heAflcd 'Tho Trade in Children to Bury . ' This article was written for the purpose of directing public attention to the poisonings which it is alleged have become a practice nmor . g icarsain classes ot tha papulation , for ths Bake uf ' gain , by frauds on imaracoe offices aad burial oittbt .
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• Thus ' s ^ ys the Spectator , « ihe habit * of provi . denca wh : ch arc mculeate-d on the ir . dusirionsclassM become instruments of depravity , * * „ , gaco » The factory sj stam givci is cheiip cottons , makes us the workshop of the world ; aujraecta iho national wealth , enables ( ho factory di . itri is to dictum free trade and decree cheap bread ; bu' - . a ' oap with it sees this hideous depravity ^ tint perverts the strensejt and most saerad of insimafca . ' Tho Spectat or Then goes on to show that the 'division of emp loyments , ' and ' the competition of labour' hare ' ? iven ! o tha millowner the pick of the labour market , ' and ha
selects ' young persons—and women to take upon themselves labour which beforetime wa * performed by men . ' Tho natural head of tbe family is deposerf , and the young persons are prematurely independent . Boys and girls marry in ha * te . The whole day is spent in the faoiory ; th ' . re is no home . Children ara an infliction : they are put out t 9 nur ? e at a s > t charge nicely reducsd to a minimum by the higgling of the Riavket—to have a child raeans io pay hilf-acrown a week to a woman who trades in nursing , until the child be old enough to enter a factory ; unless a burial society should offer a more ready source of prr-fit . In short , throughout large sections of our popidation , tub family is biu > k . rn up and the
family instincts AKK DK 1 TB .. TKD . Such are among the incidents of our boasted fnclcry system !' Such are tbe confessed results of a syafem not the work © f Proudhoh . When the supporte-s of that system raise the howl of 'faiiily in danger , ' do they not ptoehim themselves hypocrites ? Judge je to whom truly applies tho accusationthat' they make war against property and family . '
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This letter was thus far written , and in type , for last Saturday ' s Star , but was withdrawn to make way for matter of more pressing importance . Tbe Britannia of Saturday last contains a lengthy sketch of Proodhon , from the pen of its Par ' s correspondent , in which that famous writer and popular tribune is described as ' » . ha most remarkable , thi most dangerous , the moat terrible , tho most hated , most pestiferous , most obnoxious , and most te ba dreaded man in Franca . ' Again : — ' All admit that he possesses intellectual power of the hishest order . His power of intellect , indeed , is undeniable , ior it makes itaelf / W * . ' Of coprse , tho worthy comspoa . dent of the Britannia denounces Proodhon aa tha most pestiferous and most to bo dieaded man in
France , because , as I have already said , h eie devoted —heart and soal—to the interests of tho unfcappy children of industry . The editor of the Briianma joins chorus with his correspondent in denouncirg the object nf tbuir indignation as a perfect monster , a second Marat , and so forth . Thev admit hia extraoniinary and almost matchless in ' t < -l ! ecc , and they admit , too , that he is as fj ) od in private life as be ia great in pul lio . Tbo ' corresf ^ dent' eavs , ' Proud ^ hon in private life is perfectly blameless , and lives in a style of austere simplicity . ' Yat auch a man is held up to execration by the press of 4 hw country ! The correspondent of the Bmtanma devotes a counleof columna of that paper to an exhibition of Procdhon ' s doctrines , di-ur-uaoed by tbe editor as ' horrible' and ' revoking . ' I quote two sain t la : —
• Tho government was inspired by Millbu ? a \ en , h-. vicg one hundre-1 thousand worknv-n to whom it gave ( jra . tultous woges , it rtfused t <> employ them in useful works —wsen it suBSfquently , atVr thu civil war , demnnJsd a lucre ! lrmi 3 ;> ortution-for thorn . With the t spins not tbe protended national workshops , wi ' . li tbe cost of war , ofprosecutlm , of prUfn , of conveyance , vro-k might hsva been « ivn ts th < 3 insurants for six men hs , av . d so hava ohang .-id oil our economical regime . But vcrk U a monopoly—rerclutionnry in- ! untry coule ! not be allowed to enter into cotupetiiin with thu indus - . ry of privilege —In the workshop of tbe natirn there is nst ro ^ a for
every one . Tfie r ; r » at branchra cr'in-iustry le-ave no . blnj to bo done by ! he lit' . l- —it la t !» u Uvr of onpi'a ! , it I » Maltbu 5 . WlioJes . ilo trade possesses itself lit ' . lo by little of , the retail tride—it is Miitius . Grent pro . porting invade and swrillow up t ' e ^ little—it is Mal-hu ? , Soon ono half of tbo peopia will ssytothe other 'Tne earth and prodnclfl are r > . y prop . riy—Industry and Itg products aro my prop » rty— tra'le au 4 convey-ncftn are my property—tfic eta » e U my property . You « ho pos . 8836 neither reserve nor property , who are not a pnb-Io fuiu'ionary , and chose labour Is uaelcw t « a , ' Go awy xoUhyou ! ' jou tro really in ths way on tbe ea ' rih—i ; i : ha sun of the Republic thera Is not room for ev > ry one !'
In an trtlcle published thin week , in which Prou Ihoi labours to thow to tha workmen tbat they hf , ve cot ™ . coeded in obtaining the It v' > lio for which tbey fou . ht in Ftbruisy—tho R public , ih * i U , as tbey unli'rs ool it— -a R-puhltc which should give tbem work and fojii- — a < observes : — AUs ! we cm bow no Ir-n ^ r s ? y to fio vrorknrD , as we oaid som . ) time buck , ' Gi Einr ' n ? wltb jny . < o tha conquest of tie uaw world , predestined racj ' . ' For , now Vbereisno more work , there aro no p . or a coivs ! Wa had rather say to thim . 'Q- > in mourning with e : rape 00 your arms , the black fl ig fl . at ng . your wives in le : era , your cMMrcn rep > atln (? in cborus tfe-j cry of rsi ^ ry— jo ,
drfpsiring race , and ask what hra b coaao of the- Republic ! ' The- hay harc-et has been fin < - , t » --o com hur . vast is rich , tbo vin <; is luxuriant , t ) o fi h ' . b j ) j ful . Tbe pretty poasant on ' y wants t . > eichnni ™ he-r fruits , bar Cheeao , hzv fowls , for the f prions » nd roanu ' scTur .-sai your workwomen . The countrymen bit-see * , with cbun . danca i » rsady to purchasa the produc a of your Industry and arts with tha gifts of nature .. But prlviifgo v . ith . bcldinjf its moiuy bis plamd on interdict !* n on labour end o ' j exchange ; communicationi nra rue e-iTb > : ween ths town and tbo country . And that is why abucdmja ruins tho puasaut , nbi ! a ; vrnnt of work eleys the- work * men Go—zo and ask you ? rulars when they vrill ple : se to give you the-It public !'
I am not surprised to learn that these ' dootrinea ' are producing an immense effect , '— ' have ^ t . iined immense popularity , and avo t-rowing m- ^ a and mere in favour & very day nmon ^ the lower cl-nsta ot the community . ' It would indeed bo it strange were it otherwise . I am hap ? y t- > earn tint Procduon U a child of the people ; he is tha con of a cooper , and h ; s w < rked as a corapositir . ' lie has r . very lo'ty forehead , nnd carries on his features the imurint of a thinko- ' Hia courage U great , and enables him to defy the h-. iw ,: nfs of the banded kasves by whom he is surrounded . Oa tbe occasion of tbe recent , discuss : sn ot' hi * finsncial proposition he ' treated the interruptions and impatience ef the Assembly with contemptuous c'is * doin . '
The Britannia ' s deouncV . k-ns sf Proudfson ara qui'ein keeping with the character of iha ' . jo-nnil . In the same number from which I hsv <> quoit d portions of its ketch of the celebrated F-e ' n-fcmar-, tba editor declares that tho famine in Ir .- ' . vnd « us ' th . 3 basd of God punishing ths land for yci . -j i . f . issa ' -sU nation and centuries of idola ' ry . ' And ; h s -HtOff has tha assurance to denounce IVa-on . - * ¦ a < a ' Va 3 " « pheraer ! ' He declvei that the v ; riteb ' e f ' ri mil of the _ people in France ' \ ro sanguinary mis . ' -aanlg , whilst in the- s ^ me > c-pv of hia paorr he < irra-. rdS death as the doo-Ti of the ' Irish rab >! a [ ' ' To Us-. eti to Ike oiy f . r pardon , ' wb tbi « editor . ' w n ! d b- ia » excusable we : ikrc 9 =. We must crush the viper it ' wa would bi secure fr ,-m its i . oipc .-i . ' A wq ' i ! -1 nowa parson cf the EuUhli , bed Chinch is replied io ba the editor of { he BRiTavjfM ; wrnrver tip editor , his sentiments—to use his o .- ™ expressions co-cemirut Piioi'DBOx ' s doctrine . —no ' Ihv nomo 1 ^ ' horrib . e , " and ' revolting !'
I purpose to re ' . urn in my nest letter to th « French c ^ mraisteti ' s ' report , ' snd r ! u ' ev ^ ivc , " ¦ in course of publication , ou which it is lu-zu- ' -d . Fjf the present , let rue observe , ! , bat f . iia - ( . •¦ c'i , i i qieui-m in Franco i .-i not yet deposed cf . In flu town of Elboiifaloso , qui of a population oi U . UCO -Mirkt-isii , 11 , 000 are in a slate of destitution . The iinempL-yed in Paris are numbered by Sens of th iUj-iuU , ^ nd this , ton , in s ; . jte of the vast lumbers br .-. ^ ercd in tho coi-fPci of Junr , as . d . in addition to im thou « Bands transported or vat lin ^ trin ^ i : i tbe ! o . ts and prisons rf fie capital . A i ' e * eiivs a ^ o k w ;» g-. Jt-d that 7 000 failure wero imp . ndiii ? in 1 V ; . 1 " ! - - - . a ! Cavaignac ' s sobr * may by ' . n keen s \ v . ;; . . UiXiN « dks ' s 5 word , but I v : r ,: ' . re : o o-.-dkt ln . it k will net cat tho Gordian i . n . iiol his ditlie-uitiea . G JULIAN iiAkNLY . August 22 id , 1313 .
Fatal Accident At Dai.Ry. —A Melancli ;L...
Fatal Accident at Dai . ry . —A melancli ; ly accident occurred in ihe nei ghbourhood > . f Dairy on . Monday morning last , by which James i ' at / L- !; , FI < q ., of Thirdpait , factor to Captain W . F . Iran-, ol " Blair , lost his life . Mr Patrick bad left home f . u-. ' . day ' s praise-shooting , accompanied by ' -is coiun , David Patrick , Esq ., banker , Dairy . The two gnulemetl had reached JJiaiipork Moor , and wc-re walking in company with the gamekeeper a- i .-author in . dividual , when Mr Patrick , crosiing hazily before the party , his leg came in contact iw' -h tiie muzzle of bis cousin ' s gun , whereby the dea < i ! y svesiion was discharged , and tbe contents lodged in thu calf of his ri g ht leg , a little below the knee- joint . The main artery was fatally lacerated , producing v ' olent hemorrhage , followed , of course , ! . y a liwrougb .
prostration of strength . Mr Patrick was carried to the Park farm on tbe estate , in a very exhrmated condition . Messengers were dispuched to i . irgs and Dairy for medical assistance , 1 ) ,- i :. i > kic of the former place , arrived in about an hour , and was joined by Drs Peebles and Young , t .. f D . iiiy ; but the sufferer was beyond th * reach oi t : u . ir skill . Lock-jaw iupirvciu-d , ai : d be snm \ vi ! imly four hours , lie bas ltft a widow and fonr c ' . i ! drsa to lament bis fate . Tboir feelings , or t ! m ; o of ih-air afflicted relative who nas the innocent cans . ; of jhis melanchol y i vent , it in impo .- ' siblsj ' to tlescnba . Mr Patrick was a gentleman mncli respected in tha locality in which he resided . IL ; was an cntefjirisinj coal-mas er , employing a large nu : uhsr r-i men . His loss cannot hut be severs ;! -, felt . In ail » -. ch
sase . s the plan tuat ou ! ghl to be ? , u > p ea ia , «« - < mediately io bandage the limb ti ^ -i ' . lj' a . l .- "jva th , $ wounded nart . —/^ r Adwtuer .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 26, 1848, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_26081848/page/3/
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