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Febbu aky 26, 1848^ THE NORTHERN STAR 3 ...
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SONUS FOB , THE PEOPLE . At the present moment , tne following Tension of _»] je Mar seilles hymn may appropriately find a place _ijj onr colnmns : — THE MARSEILLES HY 1 £ X _
Ye sons of France , awake lo glory , Hark ! hark ! what myriads bid yoa rise , Tour children wive * , and _graadsirei hoary , Behold their tears , andhear their cries ! Shall hateful tyrant ? , mischief breeding , With hireling hosts , a ruffian band , Affright and deselate the land , ¦ W hile peace and liberty lie bleeding ! To arms , ti arms , ye hr & Te ! The avenging sword unsheath ; March on marchon , alll'eartsresolved On victory or death . Kow _, how , the dangerous storm is rolling , Which treacherous kings confederate raise ; The dogs of war let loose , are howling , And , lo ! our fields and cities blase ; And shall we basely view the ruin ,
While lawless force , with guilty stride , Spreads desolation far and wide , With crimes and blood his hands embraing To arms , & e . With luxury and pride surrounded _. The vile , Insatiate despots dare , Their thirst of power and gold unbounded _. To mete and Tend thelight and air ; Like beasts of burden would tbey _loadus , Like Gods , wonld bid their slavet adore ; Bnt man is man * and who is more ! Then shall they logger lash and goad us ? To arms , & c . 0 Liberty ! can man resign thee , Onee having felt thy generous fhune f Can dungeons , holts , and bars confine thee ! Or vibAps tb . 5 _soble 6 picit tame ! Too long the world has wept , bewailing
That falsehood ' s dagger tyrants wield , But _freeioet if onr sword and shield , And all their arts are unavailing . To ana » , to arms , ye brave ] The _avenging sword onsbeafa ; March on , march on , all hearts resolved Oa victory or death .
The Doom Of Toil. By The Late Geobgs Bis...
THE DOOM OF TOIL . By the late Geobgs Bisks , of Sunderland . Written during the author ' s incarceration in Durham gaol , forthe crime of baring advocated the right of the people to be represented in the legislature . Time was when England ' s fertile land maintain'd The honest toiler in a peaceful home ; When labour was the price of riches gained , And want ae ' er drove her pe & srmty to roam . The eastern sun awoke the cottage sire , ' To rise with gleesome smile upon his face , With life _nnhnrt by fierce oppression ' s ire , The happy emblem ofa happy race . At eve returning from his toll alone , The Eelf-same _Bmils was visible and bright ; 'Mid bliss so sweet contentment built her throne , And dreamless sleep , _snbroken , crown'd the night , Oh ' thea did blend in _unisoa divine ,
The mighty works of Nature ' s only king , And manhood _seem'd to vie in joy sublime , With Katnre ' s minstrel music on the wing . Oh ! whose could be the cruel monster hand , First raised on high Ambition ' s gory sword ? Oh ! whose conld be the robber rampant band _. First envied honest men their jnst reward ! Por soon—too soon , sUs !—the verdant hills In vain their golden harvests spread around ; In vaia did flow the gashing crystal rills , For sordid avarice her millions bound . As murky clouds of coming night do fl . lt Across the breathless summer ' s sunlit sty , So hearths , which once the purest blessings lit , Are now abodes where slaves do pine aad die _. Frond man seems thirsting for his brother ' s blood Aad Innocence doth tamely bear the chain ' Till "human woe invokes another flood ,
To end its savage life of toil and pain . Ere twilight dims the night ' s bright starry crest , We hear the dismal tolling fact ' ry bells , Commanding baby limbs to quit their rest , And break their tender hearts in British Hells , Fer gold , the rebel few break Harare ' s low—For sordid gold , the blood of Hfe is spilt , The vulture fangs of Hammon , ruthless gnaw The human form , regardless of the guilt . The hol y tear that swells a mother ' s eye , An _3 trickle * to the feet of despetlord ; The plaintive wailing of that ' piecer' boy , Is counted nonght when men hare wealth to hoard Xo hand is stretch _' d to sooth a pang of woe , Xo heart is moved to sympathy for pain ; Content to count the dearest friend a foe ,
Each sordid sonl is still augmenting gain . At times , when madden'd _freaSy speaks aloud , And lights a rebel brand at Nature's fire , To wrap some blood-built palace in a cloud Of flame and Emoke , to sate its quenchless ire ; "finest crushing roofs and Famine ' s mingling yell Half scare the wolfish monsters in tbeir den , Thsy'ii _msst in conclave , like the fiends of Hell , To lull the swelling _etoim of honest men . The trumpet shrill will echo on tha ear , Whilst troops of murdering _roSans drawl And forced along in passion ' s wild career , Tht soldier bathes his savage steel in gore ! Ths ? men are made by pride—that gilded curse-To bind to toil and arrogancy wild ; And armies live upon the public purse , To kill the father who dare love his child !
Then next some haughty eotton lords will meet , To reconcile the outraged father ' s breast , By keeping children healthy , clean , and neat , " With baths , and cleanly linen often drest ; In other words—to coin more guilty gold ! Though oft they tell them itis for their good ; EnliciDg youth , like Burke and Hare of old , With profferM sweets , te drain their deareBt blood My curse upon the mercenary soul That climbs to wealth regardless ofthe means ; May Heaven ' s thunder o ' er himwratbfal roll , And _dssh to dust his base ambitions dreams . There ' s cot a child , however ragg'd and bare , Whose early years are spent in yonder mill , Bat ' s dearer than the wealth that ' s gather'd there , Though ev ' ry brick were gold , and ev _' ry wheel _.
The tear that falls in silent sorrow there Is _rrgister'd by God ' s unerring eye ; The poorest _slavs ' _s despised , neglected prayer Will some day seal the doom of tyranny . Te mard'ring Cains I ye avaricioas few , Wbo flourish o ' er your wretched country ' s grave , A day of fearful vengeance looms for you , Trom which no t 5 ranv '& a « a nor _swaedcan tare . Explore the secrets of yon dismal mine , Where crippled colliers toil in darkest night ; Where poison vapours round hia sickly twine , And half extinguish the pale plim'ring light ; Ten hours of ceaseless labour scarce will bring Enough of food to yield the calt'd for _strength ; Whilst every jroud and cruel coal-pit king Is floating gaily on a sea of wealth ! To see the hardships _tbaUh'se men endure , Wonld move a heart as hsrd as stone or steel 1
And blacker than the coal of Tyne ana Wear , Must he the heart that cannot , will not feel . There ' s scarce a day but sneaking _Av ' rice tries , To chtat hy measure , _weight , or grievous fine ; Arid _tortuses spring frora treachery and lies , Like _mmhrooms in % night , in yonder mine , "Kor So onr laws concede to R _' _g ht its due , For often Vice will triumph—Truth be lost ; And yielded by tbe purse-proud tyrant ftw , An honest man is ruined with the cost . So keenly pressed by want and care are they Th » t children hear the ' caller ' s' rattling roar , Aad leave the village green where others plav _j To keep Starvation from their father ' s door . 2 _> o tunny days to romp aboatin joy , _Xo velvet sward to stretch his limbs with glee , _Ivo merry playmates for the collier hoy , So jocund spirits , healthy , blithe , and free . And then , to fill the enp of direst woe , .
Some unsuspecting hour will bring him home , With Life's last embers burning faint and low , A _scattered son of Toil , almost unknown , Then floods of tears from warm affection flow , But fail to give the throbbing bosom rest ; The parents lay their loved one cold and low—They oft have kissed—so often have caTest , Another victim So the cursed might That shoots its barbed arrows all around ; "Sot gentle _childhood ' s years escape the blight , That keeps such thousands in its fetters bound ( To he cor _. tir . ned . )
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Lord Palmerstos's Coach-Wheels! To The E...
LORD _PALMERSTOS ' S COACH-WHEELS ! TO THE ED 1 T 0 B 6 F THE KOETHEBK STAE . _Sie , —A tew friends to the cauf e of humanity seeing that the brave nun of Tiverton are bestirring fhemseUes to ruise thv necessary funds to pay for Lord Palmerston ' s coach-wheels , ? r . d _agreeing with them that ' all men are brethren , ' and _ouuht to assist each other in all cases of d : s : xe « , we enclose our mite ( fenr _fhillings and sirpince' ) in _footage _statrps _, towards the liquidation of his _Iordstip _' 5 deb " , subject to tbe _tHtne conditions as tbat 01 our _TiTerlon frieudp , _«* i : h this addition , that he app lies for it in _pirion . If tbtfe condi' . ioas are not comp lied with h 3 v < _1 it ( : hc monej ) orer to Mr Clirk for the defence of Mr O ' ConneT ' s _Etatin Parliament . Year-, ia tbe cacseof Chartism , A FEW _CHiETIiTS AT ChCEWELI ., NEAR _LlEDB . [ The stamps have tsen forwarded to Mr Clark . — _Ed . X . S . ]
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MEMOIRS OF A PHYSICIAN . By _AlbxaxdisB Dumas . Vols . I ., II ., ( forming _yoIs . II . and X . of' The Parlonr Library . ' ) London : Simms and M'Intyre , 13 , _Paternoster-row ; and Donegalstreet , Belfast . We resume and conclude our extracts from these volumes . The Dauphin ( afterwarda Louis XVI . ) has wedded Marie Antoinette : — -
THE TWO FETES . The king retired to his apartments at nine o ' clock and dismissed everybody . The dauphin and his bride had also retired to their apartments ; and the immense _grotvd of spectators of the ceremony thronged the courtyard and the terraces ef Versailles , now one _blaee of light , and waited anxiousl y for the fireworks , which were to be exhibited on a scale of unusual magnificence . The evening , at first lovely and serene , by degrees became overcast , and gusts of wind , gradaally increasing ia violence , tosied the branches wildly to and fro , as if they had been shaken by some giant arm ; while Immense masses of _cloudo hurried across the heavens , like _squadrens rushing to the charge . The illuminations were suddenly extinguished , and , as if fate had determined to change the general rejoicings into gloom , no sooner had the first rockets been discharged , than tha rain descended in torrents , as If the heavens had opened , and a loud and startling peal of thunder announced a terrible convulsion of the elements .
Meanwhile , the people of Versailles and Paris ned like a fleck of frightened birds , scattered over the gardens , in the roads , in the woods , pursued in all directloas by thick hall , which beat down the flowers ia the gardens , the foliage in the forest , the wheat and the harley iu the fields . By morning , however , all this chaos wa « reduced to order , and the first rays of light , darting from between copper . coleured clouds , displayed to view the ravages of the nocturnal hurricane . _Versailles wes no longer to be recognised . The ground had imbibed that _deluge of water , the trees had absorbed that deluge of fire ; _everywhsre were seas of muddy water , and trees broken , twisted , calcined by that serpent with burning gripe called lightning . As soon as it was light , Louis XV ., whose terror was so great tbat he could not sleep , ordered Lebel , who had never left him during the night , to dress him . He then proceeded to the bridal chamber , aad pushing open the _dsor shuddered on perceiving the future queen of France
reclining on aprie dteu , pale , and with eyes swollen and violet coloured like those of the sublime Magdalan of Rubens . Her terror , caused hy the hurricane , had at length been _suspended by sleep , and the first dawn of morning which stole Into the apartment tinged with religious respect her long white robe with an azure hue . At the farther end of the chamber , in an arm-chair poshed back to the wall , and Burreunded by a pool of water which had forced its way through the shattered windows , reposed the Dauphin of France , pale aa his young bride , and , like her , having the perspiration of nightmare on his brow . The nuptial bed was in precisely the same state as on the preceding evening . Louis XT . knit his brow ; a pain , _keerer than any he had yet felt , darted through that brow like a red-hot iron , He shook hiB head , heaved a deep sigh , and returned to his apartments , more gleomy and more affrighted , perhaps , at that moment , than he had been dnrin ? the night . * * *
On the 39 th of May , that Ie on the second day after that tremtndous night , that night fraught witb presages and warnings , Paris celebrated in its turn the marriage festival of its future sovereign . The whole population poured , in consequence , towards the Place Louis 5 V . where were to he exhibited the fireworks , that necessary accompaniment to * everv great public solemnity , which the Parisian accepts _scoffiagly , bat which he cannot dispense with . The spot was judiciously chosen . Six hnndred thousand spectators could move about there at their ease , Around the equestrian statue of Louis XV , had been erected a circular scaffolding , which , by
raising the fireworks ten or twelve feet above the ground , enabled all tbe spectators in the Place to see them distinctly _. The Parisians arrived , accordiag to custom , in groups , and spent some time In choosing the best places , an inalienable privilege of the first comers . - Boys found trees , grave men posts , women the railing of fences ond temporary stands , erected in the open air , as usual at all Parisian festivities , by gipsy speculators , whose fertile imagination allows them to change tbeir mode of speculation every day . About seven o'clock , along with the earliest of the spectators , arrived several parties of police .
The fireworks had been prepared on a most magnificent scale : the gazers were in tbe height of their enjoyment wben an accident caused a catastrophe which occasioned the dreadfnl deaths of some hundreds of persons , and the frightful mangling and wounding of some thousands . A stray rocket Bet fire to a mass of fireworks , —a hurricane of flame hurst forth , —the _bottojet , composed of fifteen thousand fusees , exploded ; and the nearest spectators , burnt , wounded , and still more frightened , fell hack in terror : —
The people , at first astonished , then temned , recoiled from the force of mere instinct with resistless impetus , communicating the same movement to the myriads of spectators in the rear , wbo , breathless and suffocated , pressed backwards in their turn on those behind them . The scaffolding toek fire ; children shrieked ; sqnalliug women , almost stifled , raised them in their arms ; and tbe police , thinking to silence the screamers and to restore order hy violence , struck right and left at random . All thece combined causes made the waviag sea of people which Philip spoke of . fall like a water-spont on that corner of the Place where he was ; and Instead of rejoining the baron ' s carriage , as he calculated upon _deing , the youth was hurried away by the mighty and irresistible current , of whieh no description conld convey aay idea ; for individual strength , _increased tenfold by terror and anziely . was again augmented a hundredfold by the junction of the general strength .
At the moment when Philip drew Andreo away , Gilbert had resigned himself to the stream which carried them along ; but he had not gone above twenty paces , before a band of fugitives , _turning to the left into the Rue de ia Madeleine , surrounded Gilbert and swapt him away , foaming with rage on finding himself separated from Andree . Andrea , clinging fast to Philip ' s arm , was inclosed in a group which was striving to get oat ef the way of a carriage dragged along by a pair of furious horses . Philip saw it approaching swiftly and threateningly , — the hnrses' eyes flashed fire , and they snorted foam from their nostrils . He made superhuman efforts to avoid it ,
but all in vein . He saw the crowd open behind him , — he perceived the foaming _hesds ofthe two ungovernable animals , —he saw them rear , like the two marble horses which guard the entrance of the Tuileries , and , like the slave _wt-o is striving to subdue them , letting go Andres ' s arm , and pushing her as far as he conld out of the way af danger , he sprang up to etize the rein of tbe horse that was next to him . Tbe animal reared a second time . — Andree saw her brother sink back , fall , and disappear from her sight . She shrieked , _extended her arms , was hustled to and fro in the crowd , and in a moment _fsnnd herself alsne , tottering , borne along like a feather by the wind , and jast as incapable of resisting the force that was hurrying her away :
The stunning cries , fur more terrible than those of the battlefield , —tbo neighing of horses , —the frightful noise ef wheels , grinding now the pavement , now the bodies of the slain ; the lurid flames of the scaffolds whieh were on fire ; the sinister eleaming _o' [ swords drawn by s » rae of the infuriated soldiers ; and ever all thiB ensanguined chaos the bronze statue tinged by the ruddy reflections , and seeming to preside over the carnagewere more than was needed te disturb Andree ' s reason , and paralyse her strength . Besides , the power of a Titan viould have been impotent in such a struggle—a struggle for life and limb—of one against all . Andree uttered a piercing shriek : a soldier , opening himself a _passege through the crowd , was striking the people with his swerd , and the weapon flashed over her head . She clasped her hands , like a shipwrecked mariner when the last wave is passing over him , and exclaiming— ' Oh , my God ' . ' sunk to the ground . Whcever fell In that scene _muiht give himself up for lost !
But that terrihle , that despairing shriek , was heard and answer , d .- Gilbert , carried to a distance from _Andree , had by _dintof straggling once more npproaebed her . _Bending beneath the same wave which bad engulpbed Andree , he raised himself again , made a frantic leap at the sword which had unwittingly threatened her , grasped the throat of the _st-ldler _whowasgoini ; to strike , and hurled him to the ground . Beside the soldier lay a female form dressed in white , he raised her up and bore her of ? as though he had been a giant . * * * * The pocr fellow , who stood leaning with his hack against the wall , and his eyes turned toward the bridge , had not looked to his ri ; ht . Before tbe carriages ,
wbich , lone ; < 5 e _* a : iied _fcy tbe crowd bat cow hemmed in If fs clopfely , be pan once more to move , aud _foonenmeon galloping as if coachmen and hoTses had been seized with a general frenzy , fled twenty thousand unfortunate creatures , mHtilatod , wounded , braised one against the other . -Instinctively they fled close to the walls , against wbich the near : st of them were _crushed . This _jsisbb swept away , or suffocated all _thoce who , having taken up their position near the _Gards-ileuble , imagined that they had escaped the wreck . A fresh shower of Wows , of _living and dead bodies , rained on Gilbert - He found one of the recesses formed by the iron gateE , and _utntioned himself there . The weight efthe fugitives made
the wall crack . Andree is rescued , but Gilbert ' sunk dying upon a heap of the dead . ' The next chapter introduces Rousseau in search of his disciple Gilbert ; an ! another character who appears in these ' Memoirs' for the first time , the subsequently celebrated Marat—the terrible ' Friend of tbe _People . ' THE FlELn OP THE DEAD . Great storms nre always succeeded by calms , fearful in their very stillness , but bearing healing on thtir wings . It was ahout two o ' c ' K ck in the morning . The mooB , _waging _bf-twetn large white clouds which hovored ever Paris , showed in stran ? relief , by her wan J > nd sickly lipht , the intcualitii s of tbis sad spot , and the pits and holes in which so many & f the fitting crowd had found annntimclv crave .
Here and _thssre in the rr . obnlk'hi _, wbich was obscured from time to time by the large white floating clouds we have mentioned , m ' ghtbe seen on the margin ofthe slopes and in the ditchts _, heaps of corpses with _disos-
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dered attire , stiffened limbs , livid and discoloured faces , and hands stretohed out in an . attitude of terror or of prayer . In the centre of this plaoe , a heavy tainted smoke , emitted from the burning embers of the timber , contributed to give to the Place Louis XV . the appearance of a battlefield . - Orer this bloody and desolate plain , flitted , with rapid and mjsterions steps , shadowy figures , who stooped , looked steathily _round , _bsnt down , and then fled . They were the robbers of the slain , —attr » cted to their prey like vultures to the decaying carrien . They had not been able to rob the living , and they came to despoil the dead . Surprised at seeing themselves anticipated by their fellow robbers , they might be seen escaping sullenly and fearfully at the sight of the tardy bayonets whfch _menaced them . But the robber aud the lazy watchman were not the only persons moving among the long ranks of the dead .
There were some there , who , famished with lanterns , might have been taken for curious lookers on . Sad lookers-on , _alasl for they were parents and anxious friends , whose children , brothers , friends , and lovers , had not returned heme , They had coma from great _diitances , for the dreadful news had already spread over Paris life a hurricane , scattering dismay and horror , and their anxiety bad been quickly changed into active search It was a sight , perhaps , more dreadful to behold than the catastrophe itself . Every expression was portrayed on _thesepale faces , from the despair of those who discovered the corpse ofthe beloved being , to the gloomy uncertainty of those who had found nothing , and who cast an anxious and loBglng glance towards the river , which flowed onwards with a monotonous marmur _. It was reported that many corpses bad already been thrown Into the river by the provoatry of Paris , who wished to conoeal the fearful Bumber of deaths their guilty imprudence had occasioned .
Then , when they had satiated their eyes with this fruitless spectacle , and , standing ankle deep iu the Seine , had watohed with anguished hearts its dark waters flow past nnburthened with the loved bodies of thoso whom they sought , they proceeded , lantern ia hand , to explore the neighbouring streets , where it was said many of the wounded had dragged themselves , to seek for help , or at least to flea from the scene of their sufferings . When unfortunately they found amongst the dead the objact of their search—the lost and wept-for friend- _^ thea cries succeeded to their heart-rending surprise , and their sobs , rising from soma new point ofthe bloody _seene , were _responded to by other and distant sobs . At times the Place resounded witb noises of a different kind . All at once a lantern falls and Is broken—the living has fallen senseless on the dead , to embrace him for the last time .
There are yet other noises in this vast cemetery . Soma of the woupded , whose limbs have been broken by the fall , whose breast has heen pierced hy the sword , or crushed by the weight of the erowd , utters a hoarse cry , or groans forth a prayer , and then those who hope to find in the sufferer a friend , hastily approach , but retire when they do nol _rerognise him . In tbe mean time , at the extremity of the Place , near the garden , a field-hospital is formed by the kindness and charity of the people . A young surgeon , known as such by the profusion of instruments that surround him , has the wounded men and women brought to him ; he bandages their wounds , and while he tends them , he _Bpeaks to them in words which rather express hatred for the cause tban pity for the effect . '• To his two robust assistants , who pass . the sufferers in bloody review before hira , he cries incest _santly : —
' The women of the people , the men of the people , first 1 They can be eaiily recognised ; they are almost always more severely wounded , certainly always less richly dressed . ' At these _wordfi , repeated after each drei & _ing with a shrill monotony , a young man who , torch io hand , iB seeking among the dead , has twice already raised his head . From a large wound which furrows his forehead a few drops ef crimson blood are falling . One of bis arms is supported by his coat , which he has buttoned over it ; and his _couatenasce _, covered with perspiration , betrays deep and absorbing emotion . At these words of tbe surgeon , which he has heard as we have said for the second time , he raises his head , and looking sadly on the mutilated limbs which the operator seems almost to gloat over , — 'Oh , sir , ' said he , ' why do you make a choice among the victims t '
' Because , replied tbe surgeon , raising his head at this interruption , ' because no one will care for tbe poor if I do not think of them , and the rich are always well looked after . Lower your lantern , and search upon the ground ; you will find a hundred poor peopio for one rich or noble . In tbis catastrophe , with a good fortune which will in the end weary even Pr . ividence , the noble and the rich have paid the tribute they generally payone in a thousand . ' The young man raised bis torch to a level witb his bleeding forehead . ' Then I am tbat one , ' said he , without the least anger ; 'I , a gentleman , lost among so many others in the crowd , wounded in the forehead by a horse ' hoof , and my left arm broken by falling into a pit . You say that the noble and tbe rich are sought after and cared for ; yoa see plainly , however , tbat my wounds are not yet dressed . '
'Ton have your hotel—your physician . Return home _,, since you can walk . ' ' I do not ask for your cares , sir ; I seek my sister , a beautiful young girl of slxteeH—killed probably , _alss ! _thoogh she is- not of the people . She wore a white dress , and a chain with a cress round her neck . Though she has her hotel and her physician , answer me , for pity ' s aake , sir , have you seen her whom I seek !' * Sir , ' said the young surgeon , with a feverish vehe . mence which showed that the ideas he _expressed had long boiled within his breaBt , ' sir , humanity is my guide . It ie to her service I devote myself ; and when I leave the noble on their bed of death to assist the suffering _peeple , I obey the tme laws of humanity , who is my goddess . AU this day ' s misfortunes have been caused by yon . They arose from y « ur abuses , from your usurpations . Therefore , bear the consequences . No , sir , I have not _sean your sister . '
And after this harsh apostrophe , the operator returned to his task . A poor woman had just been brought to him , whose If gs were fractured by a carriage . ' See ! ' ho exclaimed , calling after Philip , who was rushing away , ' see ! do the poor bring their carriages to the public festivals to break the legs of the rich V This young surgeon was Marat . Philip goes on his way looking for Andree , and in his search encounters Rousseau , —' a man already advanced in years , dressed in a grey oloth coat and milled stockings , his right hand resting on a stick , while with the left hand he held one of tho 3 e lanterns made ofa candle enclosed in oiled paper . ' Rousseau and Philip examine the dead bodies together : — ' What a fearful sight ! ' said the old man , turning away frora a croup of _corpses clasped together in death . ' Yet it is there _wc must look , ' replied the young man , resolutely holding his light over the heap of dead .
'Oh ! I shudder to look at it , fori am a simple and unsophisticated man , and the sight of destruction causes in me an _unconquerable horror . ' 'I had this same horror ; but this evening I have served my apprenticeship to butchery and death 1 Hold , here is a yonng man of abaut eighteen ; he has been _sufi * jcated , lor 1 see no wounds . Is it he whom you seek !' The old man made an effort , and held his lantern close to the body . ' No , sir , ' said he , ' no ; my child is younger , has black hair and pale complexion . * Alas ! all are pale to-night , ' replied Philip , ' Oh ! see , ' said tho old man , ' here we are , at the foot of the Garde Meuble . Look at these tokens of the struggle . This blood upon the walls , these shreds of _garments upon the iron bars , these torn dresses on the points ofthe railing . '
• It was here—it was certainly here , ' murmured Philip . ' What sufferings !' * Oh , heavens !' 'What !' 'Something white under these corpses ! Jfy slater had a white dreBS on . Lend me your lamp , sir , I beseech jou . ' In fact , Philip had seen and snatched a shred of white cloth . He let go his hold , having but one hand to take the lamp .
' It is a fragment of a woman ' s dress , held firmly in a young man's hand , ' cried he—' of a white dress like my sister ' s . 0 ! i 1 Andree ! Andree ! ' And the young man uttered heart-rending sobs . The old man now appeared . ' It iB he ! ' exclaimed he , opening kis arms . Tbis exclamation attracted the young man ' s attention , ' Gilbert ! ' exclaimed Philip in his turn , * You know Gilbert , sir V ' Is it Gilbert whom you seek V These two questions were nttered simultaneously . The old man seized Gilbert ' s hand ; it was as cold as death . Philip opened the young man ' s dress , pushed
aside the shirt , and placed his hand upon his heart . ' Poor Gilbert 1 ' said he . ' My dear child ! ' eobbed the old man . 'He breathes!—he lives ! He lives , I tell you , ' exclaimed Philif . _> ' Oh ! do you think so !' 'I am certain ef it—his heartbeats . ' ' It is tree , ' replied the old man . ' Help ! help ! There is a surgeon yonder . ' * Oh ! let us succour him ourselves , sir ; just now I asked that man for help , and he refused me . ' * He must help my child ! ' cried the old man indignantly . ' He must . Assist me , sir , to carry Gilbert to
• I b _.-. ve only one arm , but it is at your service , sir , ' replied Philip . ' And I , old as I am , feel strong again . Come !' The old man seized Gilbert b y the shoulders ; the _younjr man teok his two feet under hiB right arm , and in this manner they _advanced towards the group in the midst of which the surgeon was operating , 1 Help ! help ! ' cried the old man . ' The men of the people first ! The men of the people first !' -replied tbe surgeon , faithful to his maxim , and sure , each time he replied thus , of exciting a murmur of applause among the group which surrounded him . ' It is a man of the people whom I am bringing , ' re-
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plied the old man , with vehemence , but beginning to share in the _general admiration whioh the firm and re . solute tone of the young operator excited .. Alter the _womsn , thon _, ' said tbe surgeon : « men have more strength to support pain than women . A simple bleeding will suffice , sir , ' replied the old man . ' r 'Oh ! iR it you again , my young nobleman ! ' said tne surgeon , perceiving Philip before he saw the old man . Philip did not reply . The old man thought that these words w . re addressed to him . ' I am not a nobleman , ' said he , ' I am a man of the P 9 ° Pj e ; _my _hame Is Jean Jacques _Rouaaeau , ' Che doctor gave a cry of astonishment , and makinc an imperative gesture , — ' Give place , ' he sold , ' to the Man of Nature ! Make room for the emancipator of the human race ! Place for the citizen of Geneva !'
_^ Thanks , sir , ' said Rousseau , ' thanks !' Haa any aocident happened to you V asked the young doctor , " ' 'Not to me , but to this poor child . —See ' Ah ! you too , cried the physician , « you too , like myself , represent the cause of humanity ' Rousseau , deeply moved by this unexpected triumph , could only stammer forth some almost unintelligible words . Philip , dumb with astonishment at finding himself n the presence ofthe philosopher whom he admired eo highly , remained standing , apart . Those who stood around assisted _Rous . eau to la , the fainting Gilbert upon the table . It was at this moment tbat the old man glanced at the person whose assistance he was Imploring . He was a young man ahout Gilbert ' s age , but his features presented no appearance of youth . Hia sallow complexion Was withered like that of an old man ; his heavy and drooping eyelids covered an ey « like a serpent ' s , and his mouth was distorted as if in an epileptic lit .
He gently opened Gilbert ' s sleeve , tied a hand of linen round bis arm . and opened the vein . The blood flowed at first drop by drop , bat after some moments the pure and generous current of youth spouted forth freely . « Ha ! we shall save bim , ' said the operator . ' But he will nquire great care ; his chost has been rudely pressed . ' ' I have now to thank yeu , sir , ' said Rousseau , ' and praise you , not for the exclusive preference you show for the poor , but for your care and kindness towards them , All men are brothers , ' ' Even the noble , even the aristocrats , even the rich f asked tbe surgeon , his piercing eye flashing from beneath bis heavy eyelid . ' Even the noble , the aristocrats , the rich , when they suffer , ' said _Roussenu .
' Sir , said the operator , * excuse me . I am from Baudry , near Heufchatel ; I am a _Switzsr like yourself , and therefore a democrat . « A countryman * ' cried Rousseau , * a _uallve of Switzerland ! Your name , sir , if you please 1 ' ' An obscure name , air ; the name of a retiring man who devotes his life to study , waiting till he may , like yourself , devote himself to the good of humanity . My name ie Jean Paul Marat , ' ' Thanks , Monsieur Marat , ' 6 aid Rousseau , * But whilst enlightening the people as to their rights , do not excite them to vengeance ; for if they should ever revenge themselves , you wUl perhaps be terrified at their reprisals , ' Marat smiled a fearful amile .
• Oh ! if that day should happen during my life 1 ' said he , 'If I could only have the happiness to witness it ' . ' _HeiS _^ fe _^^ eard -these words , and , alarmed at the tone in wiheffthey wore uttered , as a traveller trembles at tbe first _mutterings of the far-distant thunder , he took Gilbert in his arm » , and attempted to carry him away . ' Two volunteers tohelpMonsieurRouseeau ! Two men ofthe people ! ' cried the _eurzeOQ _. Here ! here ! here ! ' cried twenty voices simultaneously . _R'msseau had only to choose ; he pointed to the two strongest , who took the youtfi up in their arms . As he was leaving the place he passed Philip . ' Here , sir , ' said he , ' I have no more use for the lantern ; take it . ' 1 Thank you . sir , ' sa'd Philip ; ' many thanks . '
He seized the lantern , and while Rousseau once more took the way to the Rue Flastriere , he continued his search . ' Poor young man ! ' murmured Rousseau , turning back , and seeing Philip disappear in the blocked-up and en . cumbered streets , He proceeded on bis way _shuddering , for he still heard the shrill voice of the surgeon echoing over the field of blood , and crying : — ' The men of the people ! None but tho men of tho people ! Wo to the noble , to the rich , to the aristocrats j We again recommend thia work to our readers .
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COMMEMORATION OF THE CRACOW INSURRECTION . . A public meeting , called by the Democratic Committee for Poland ' s Regeneration , was held on Monday evening last , Feb . 21 st , at the German Hall , Drury-lane . The room was densely crowded by natives of England , Scotland , Ireland , France , Germany , Poland , Scandinavia , ftaly , and other countries . On the motion of Julian Harney , seconded by Carl Schapper , Ernest Jones was elected president of the meeting , Julian Harney read a letter from Brussels , detailing the progress of democratical principles in Belgium . The letter excited bursts oi applause . The Chairman , after stating that the meeting should have been held on the following evening , the 22 nd , but that the circumstance of another important meeting having been called for that evening had compelled the selection of this evening for the present commemoration , proceeded to read
MANIFESTO OF TIIE POLISH NATIONAL GOVERNMENT . Feb . 22 nd , 1816 . Poles _^—• The hour of insurrection has struck , The whole of dismembered Poland rises and _greatens . Our brethren have already risen , and in the Grand Duchy of Posen . in Lithuania and in the Russian provinces , are righting against the enemy . They are fighting for their most sacred _rights , of which they have been deprived by force and fraud . You know well what has passed and is still occurring . Tbe flower of our youth are languishing in dungeons , the old , whose counsels guided us , are given up to contempt ; our clergy is deprived of all respect ; in a word , all
whose actions , or even thoughts , have shown resolve to live and die for Poland , have baen destroyed or immured in prison , or are in danger of being so every moment . The groans of millions of our brethren who perish under the knout , or pinoin subterranean cells , or are driven into the ranks of our oppressors , and subjected to all the _sufferin's which humanity is capable of enduring , have struck our hearts and caused them to bleed . We have been robbed of our glory ; our language has been forbidden to us ; the profession of the faith of our fathers prohibited . Insurmountable barriers have been opposed to the amelioration of our social condition . Brother has been armed against brother , and the most honoured children of our country havo been reviled by calumnies . Brothers , one step more , and there
would be no Poland , not even a single Pole . Our grandchildren would curse our memory , for having left them nothing in one ofthe finest countries in tbe world but deserts and ruins—for having allowed ohains to be put upon our warlke people , and forced them to profess a _foreign faith , and to speak a foreign language , and having reduced them to be _slaves of those who have trampled upon our rights . The _dustof our fathers , of those martyrs ofthe rights of our nation , calls to us from tbe tomb to avenge them ; the infant at the breast calls upon us to preserve for him the country which God has confided to us ; the free nations of the entire world invite us not to allow the sacred principles of our nationality to be destroyed , God himself invites ns , He , who will one day demand from us an account of what wo have done with it .
We are twenty millions . Let ua rise as one man , and no _fe-rce OH earth can crush our power . We shall enjoy such-liberty as never was known en earth . Let us conquer a state of society , in which every man shall enjoy his share of the fruits of the earth according to his merits ( earnings ) and his capacity , in which no ( exclusive ) privilege j of any kind whatever , will be allowed to remain ; in wbich every Pole will find a _full _ guarantee for himself , his wife and his children j in which every man disabled by nature in the use of his bodily or mental functions , will find
without humiliation , the unfailing assistance of tho whole social state ; a state in which those portions of land which have hitherto been merely in the conditional possession of their cultivators , will become their absolute property ; in which all hent ( white and black , according to the feudal acceptation of the term , ) _soccage labour and other similar burdens , ( entailed upon these lands , ) will cease withont any indemnity ( to the landlords , ) and those who will devote themselves in arms to tho national cause , will be remunerated by a grant of land from the national domains .
Poles ! from this moment we recognise no _Idistinction aaong ourEelves ; brethren , henceforward we are the sons of one mother , our country—of one father , God , who is in Heaven ! Let us invoko His support , that He may bless our arms and grant us victory . But to draw down His blessinps we must not Miily ourselves with intemperance or plunder , we must not disgrace our consecrated arms by using them for oppression , or' for the murder of the disarmed dissenter and foreigner , for we do notstruggle against ( the people of foreign ) nations , but against our ( common ) oppressors . Ami now , in testimony of our union , let us adopt the national cockade , and take tho following oath : —
¦ I swear to serve Poland , my country , by counsel , word and deed , I swear to sacrifice to her all my personal views , my fortune and ray life ! I swear obedience to the National _Government , which has been established in Cracow , the 22 nd of this mouth at eight o ' clock in the evening , in Krysztofory-
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House , and to all the authorities appointed by the Government , as God may stand me in my need . ' This manifesto will be inserted in the Government Journal , transmitted in separate sheets throughout Poland , proclaimed from tbe pulpits of all churches , and placarded in all public p ) ace 3 . Cracow , February 22 nd , 18 i 6 . ( Signed , ) Ludwik _Gouzrowshi , John _Tyssowski , Alexandre Grzegorzewski . The Secretary of the Government , ( Signed , ) Karol _Rogatvski .
The Chairman made a _sneech remarkable for its truth and energy . He took occasion to glance at the position of democracy in Switzerland , Prance , Italy , Germany , and Ireland ; that , like chivalrous soldiers , were cheering their sad , silent sister , Poland , with the best comfort—good example . Ho showed how even from Russia were coming the words of cheer ; and democracy was storming the serfs and soldiers ofthe Tsar . He vindic & ted democracy from the charge of _deslructiveneas ; and showed how in the great French revolution , only a few thousand were punished by the easy death of the guillotine , or the noyade , whereas constitutional oligarchy in Christian England had destroyed , by slow torture , one million in one year . The speaker , who was interrupted by frequent and enthusiastic plaudits , concluded his address by calling on Juliah _Habnes to move the first resolution .
Julian Barney , who was received with great applause , then moved the adoption of the following resolution : — That we—Democrats of several Dations—record our unquenchable and ardent sympathy for oar cruelly persecuted brethren of Poland ; we express onr devotion to the principles of the Cracow Manifesto , and our determination to unceasingly labour for the restoration and regeneration of Poland . ' __ Julian Harnrt said ) : Citizens—Again we meet to lift up our voices for Poland , and renew our vows of fealty to the cause of mankind ' s progression . The resolution I have proposed expresses your sympathy with the oppressed and your hatred ofthe oppressors * , your determination to aid in the holy work of
uprooting tyranny , and your devotion to tho principles of Equality , Liberty , and Fraternity . Two years have passed since the Cracow Insurrection , and many noble patriots whose hearts beat high with hope this _night _^ two years ago , nre now the , ' perishing inmates of the silent grave . Tbey bare left to us the duty of avenging their fall , and placing in the ascendant those principles for which they lived , laboured , struggled , and died . ( Applause . ) Talk not tomeof peace , and love , and charity , as long as the Galician victims are unavenged . ' ( ilear , hear . ) Remember tbe patriots who were quartered alive , their legs and arms broken with flails , their heads skinned , their eyes torn out , and _iheir living flesh chopped into minee-meat for hogs . ( Sensation . ) Remember the Polish lady who , _pregnantj-with twins ; was killed with a dung-fork , and the twins torn out of the' corpse ; the assassins committing this hellish abomination that they might get tbe
Austrian price for more than one head . ( Expressions of horror !) It has been said , _| if there were not a God it would be necessary to invent one , but I say if there were not a hell it would bo necessary to invent one for miscreant Mettemich and his murderous myrmidons . ( Cheers . ) I trust , however , that the tyrants of this earth will not be left wholly to the justice of another state of being—I trust that before they depart hence they will havo a taste of justice here . ( Hoar , hear . ) " The execution of _Wiszniewski and Kupuscinski at Lemberg inlthe month of August last , proves that the people of _Galicia had no part with Metternich ' s hired assassins , but , on the contrary , that they are thoroughly devoted \ o the principles far which those patriots were put to death . The march of Wisziiewski and Kapuscinski to the gallows was an ovation—a triumph , tar more glorious than ever a Roman conqueror enjoyed ; proving in the sublime words of our Byron , that
They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore ; Their heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbB Be strnag to city gates and castle walls—But still thoir spirit walks abroad . Though years Elapse , and others share as dark a doom , They hut augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others and conduct The world at last to freedom . ( Great applause . ) Tho Cracow Manifesto is a noble document—the baptismal record of Young Poland . ( Cheers . ) Old Poland , exclusive , aristocratical Poland , died in 1 S 31 . The last effort of the most chivalrous aristocracy of Europe was then made , and made in vain ; and from
that h _» ur all men have seen that Poland can only be redeemed by her Democracy , aided by the Democracy of Europe generally . Konarski ' and his glori . ous _fellow-raartyrs laid the foundation oftho Democratic lifo of Poland , of which the insurrection of Cracow was the first manifestation , but not the last . _Mieroslawski and his noble brother-conspirators _, have been condemned to a life-long incarceration in Prussian dungeons , but they will not end their lives there . ( Hear . )* There is a Bpirit abroad will break through their dungeon-walls and set the captives free . ( Cheers . ) We applaud the Cracow Manifesto because it recognises the equal rights of all classes . and prepares the way lor the destruction of classusurpation . It recognises the social as well as the
political rights of man ' , and holds forth to the _raultittt _^ d , the assurance of a real reward for the sacrifices _tfiiy are called upon to make for thoir country ' s regeneration . ( Applause . ) The social and political elevation of the'people must now be the grand object of revolutionary struggle ? , ( Hear , hear . ) The Emancipation of Labour , is the only worthy object of political warfare . All schemes of so-called Reform : all Revolutions not having for their object the Emancipation of Lahouv are delusions and frauds ; and the pretended reformers who excite the passions of the people for any other purpose , I pronounce the worst enemies of the human race . I mean by the Emancipation of _Labour , not the conferring upon tho poor-man the privilege of being robbed by a
monopolist—instead of a landlord ; not the supremacy of a conventicle Cantwell instead of a _privileged bar son ; not the rule ot the bourgeoisie for thnt ofthe feudalists ; I mean by the Emancipation of Labour that the masses , as the majority , shall rule the state , —that hereditary humbug , and class usurpation shall give place to popular sovereignty ; ( cheers ) thatthe laws shall be few _and'simplo and _lawyrrcraft abolished . ( Applause . ) That those who will have priests shall alone pay for them , and wise men who can be priests to themselves shall Buffer neither plunder nor proscription . ( Applause . ) That those who till the soil shall be its masters . ( Applause . ) That thoBe who raise the food shall be its first partakers . That those who build mansions shall live in them .
That those who weave linens , cottons , cloths , and silks , shall wear them . ( Cheers . ) That those who make railways and carriages shall have the use of them . That Capital , ( he offspring of Labour , shall be its servant and not ita master . That equal _edacation shall foster the intellect of all . That none but the idle shall die of hunger , and none but the vicious suffer reproach . ( Great cheerinp . ) And that the absurdities and usurpations of tanks and _cUssea shall disappear , and men be tbe equal lords of this earth . ( Renewed applause . ) I shall be told tbat I indulge in the dreams ofa frantic Utopianiam . Yes , ' Utopian ' ua long as the millions are blind , disunited , and cowardly ; but no longer Utopian when once the scales shall fall from the people's eyes—when once they comprehend their strength—when once they
unite , and from their intelligence and union derive courage to combat against their oppressors . ( Applause . ) In _a'l _^ revolutions the working men have been the principal workers and sufferers . They have poured out their blood in torrents , but never yet have they reaped a _regard equal to their toils and sacrifices , —they have but changed their masters , and have usually found that change was for the worse . Why has this been ? Because the working men have fought for party cries instead of principles , and abnndoned to _clashes , who could have no sincere _sympathy with thorn , the | rule or _remodelling of governments . Now , thatthe claws of kings are clipped , and aristocrats have had their teeth drawn , the people find in the bourgeoisie their most deadly enemy ; an enaray whieh by turn uses fraud and force to delude and crush the Proletarians . Wc
have , however , more to apprehend from their fraud than their force . They are everlastingly throwing out some new tub to tho whale , But let thera beware . The next time Leviathan bites , it may be with the _bitnof the shark not ofthegmlgeon . ( Hear , hear . ) Proletarians , why should wo follow at the tail of the bourgeoisie , thankful for any bone they may fling to us ? Why should we waste ouv energies _clamouring and struggling for a little bit of cheap bread—a little bit of cheap church—a little oheaper _taxation—a _' contcmptible bit of constitutionalismor a nonsensical bit of nationality ? ( Loud cheers . ) Why ' In a bondsman ' s key , With bated breath and whispering humbleness . '
beg the charity m thofc robbers , when we have but to put forth the gigantic energies of our own order , to take fully and entirely that which is our own ? ( Great applause . ) But , citizen brother ? , to do our work well , with tho certainty of success , we must unite the Proletarians of all lands ' Divide and con . quer' has ever been the policy of despots ; ' Unite find triumph ' must be the policy of Democrats . ( Ap . plause . ) The working mon of any country are not of themselves able m effect their own deliveranco Let . the working men of this country engago in a _doath-strugglefwith their oppressors , and _forthwith
those _oppressors will be assisted by the forces of every existing usurpation . Let the _Pr-letcrinns of Franee again raise tho battle-cry of 'War to the Castle , Peace to the Cottage , ' and _isnmediately the ' holy alliance * of kings , and aristocracies , priests , and _profitmongcrs _. will march to the rescue of their Gillie comrogues . But let the working men of Europe advance together and strike for tlieir rights at one and the same time , and it will be seen—that every tyrannical governnent and usurping _olasi will have enough to do at home without attempting to assist other oppressor-. ( Loud cheers . ) The ago of Democratic _a-cendancy has commenced . The triumph
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of the Swiss Radicals was the beginning of tbe end . ( Applause . ) As yet we hare seen but act the first of the Italian drama , but when the curtain finally falls it wil ! bo amidst the aodataationa of liberated nations , rejoicing at the rending of the Austrian _ empiro and the annihilation of the Austrian despotism . ( Cheers ) In Franoe—glorious France—the Btrugdie has commenced , and will never cease until a _? am _, in solemn conclare , the representatives of tbe people declare that ' tho hist try _ofkings ti tho manyrology nf nations . ' ( _Applause ) But , more than tbat , the rule of the bourgeoisie is doomed ; like Belshazzar , thev havo _bi-en _weighed in the _balance and foua' 4 waiting , and that' kingdom will ba given to the Pro * _letarians _, ( Great applause . ) The hour of conSict between tha millions and their masters is at hand , and , _therefore , I say to the Pole , hope and fear not , —and to Poland ' s oppressors believe and tremble .
'Deem they this an idle throat ! Crimson tears will follow yet !' ( Thunders of applause . ) Carl Schapper , who was received with en thusiastic applause , seconded the resolution , and said they had met to commemorate an event which would be one of the most conspicuous in the history of the human race . The Poles were a brave and gallant people . In ths course of the last seventy years they had suffered many defeats , but they had never yet been conquered . ( Cheers . ) The insurrection of Cracow was a glorious manifestation of popular progress . Formerly , it was the nobles who raised the standard of revolt against Russia , not for the
purpose of freeing Poland , but that they might take the place of the Tsar , and re-establish the tyranny of their own order ; but in the Cracow Insurrection the people were seen coming forward to put down all tyranny—domestic as well as foreign . ( Applause . ) The Cracow Revolutionists declared that they desired to have Poland for the Polesfor all the sons and daughters of Poland , and no longer for a class . ( Loud cheers . ) There were certain Poles in England , as well as in Belgium and France , who are vexed at the demonstrations of our sympathy . They say they don't want our sympathy ; hut he could tell them this meeting did not sympathise with those aristocratic Poles—it was
with the people of Poland they sympathised , ( Loud applause . ) The Democrats of Europe had no sympathy for the Polish aristocrats , and Prince Adam Czartoryski . He could tell them there never would be another king of Poland . ( Loud cheers . ) Honour to the patriots who , two years ago , poured out their blood for the regeneration of their country . ( Applause . ) Honour to those patriots now suffering in Siberia , in Russian mines , and Austrian and Prussian dungeons . ( Cheers , ) From north to south a movement was going on that would shatter the thrones of kings , and destroy tyranny in every shape . ( Loud cheers . ) He repudiated the cant of ' peace . ' He was for liberty first and then peace .
( Applause . ) There must first be a Holy War for the destruction of tyrants , and when they were swept from the earth , then—peace ; but , until then—war ! ( Rapturous cheering . ) England had set noble examples ° to other nations . Two hundred years ago they sent a king headless to his grave . France had repeated the same lesson , and Germany would , before long , perform an equally striking act of justice . ( Applause . ) The last prop of despotic governments was failing them . The soldiers were becoming enlightened , and would no longer butcher their brethren . T"e king of _Naples had ordered his soldiers to fire on the people , but they refused , and then Ferdinand yielded , declaring that he was pleased to grant a constitution .
Yes , he was devilishly pleased ! ( Laughter and cheers . ) The King of Bavaria had been compelled to send away his dear Lola Montes . He , too , had ordered his soldiers to shoot the people , but they refused ; and then he declared that , moved not by fear , but by love , he had resolved to do as the people desired . ( Cheers . ) So it will be with England some day . The soldiers here , too , will become enlightened ; they will refuse to take the lives of their fathers and brothers , and then the English government , ' moved not by fear but by love , ' will be ' pleased' to grant the Charter , ( Thunders / of applause . ) Let them p ? rsevere , and make this earth what it was intended to be—a home of Equality , Liberty , Fraternity , and Happiness for all . ( Great cheering . )
Henreich Btjner supported the resolution in an energetic speech , delivered in the German language . The resolution was carried unanimously . _Chauxes Keen moved the second resolution as follows : — "That remembering the horrid _butchirieu and tortures inflicted upon the people of Poland by the atrocious Russian despotism ; the horrid massacres in Galicia perpetrated by command of the imperial \ uatrian assassins ; and the perfidious crimes of the despotic government of Prussia ; we _inreke against tho _^ e _despotisms tbe execration ofthe human _riw-.. ' C . Keen said , I think that the resolution does
not go far , enough , inasmuch *] as it , in my opinion , does not touch the real delinquents , it blames the governments of Austria and Prussia alone ; now it is well known that no one can perform work without tools and mateiial , —the men who compose the armies are the tools , —the money to pay tbem for fighting is the material )—without it they would not fight , aud who is it that supplies the money ? Is it not the base , money-grubbing , profit-mongering middle-classes ? For though such men as Rothschild may be the ostensible money-lenders , they are but the go-betweens of the tyrants who want money and the usurious money grub who has money to lend ; therefore , considering : this , I assert thafc the
money-nuner is the most criminal of the whole , and especially deserves our deepest execration . ( Cheers . ) Why was it that the insurrection which we are met to celebrate failed ? Firstly , I believe it to be the ignorance of the great mass of the working classes , who do not understand their social rights , consequently the noble men who fought for their liberty were overpowered ; secondly , because it was an attempt to gain the land for the entire people aud not an insurrection to secure middle-class puwer ; however hostile the aristocracy and middle-classes are generally , they perfectly agree upon one point , that is , excluding the people from the possession of the laud . The landholder who possesses it desires
to keep it _-, the money-bag holder desires to get it ; consequently , whenever the working classes shov ? any desire to endeavour to get any of it , the iufluence of the aristocrat and the power ofthe money hag are immediately united , and common cause made by the whole gang of plunderers , for the purpose of suppressing all attempts that may be made by the honest and earnest advocates of the rights of man _towards removing the vice , misery , and destitution that afflict the human race . ( Loud applause . ) And this will always continue whilst the working man remains what he is . He boasts of being tbe Lord of the Creation ; of possessing intellect above tbe other races of animals ; ' tis true he does ; he can
seize the elements and make them subservient to his will ; write with tbe lightning and paint with the sunbeam ; tbis shows that he is the Lord of the Creation ; but the way he uses those powers shows him also iu the light of a wonder of Creation . All his energies are employed for the purpose of creating and accumulating wealth , but not for himself ; he is content , after his day ' s toil , to crawl to the pothouse , or sneak to his home to his hungry children and ragged wife , leaving tbe fat-bellied thief to calculate and gloat over the amount of profit he has wrung from the toil of the ignorant working slave ; who , contented with his lot , waits for a reward when he dies for all his sufferings here , persuaded that the sleek-coated hypocrites , the whole of whose lives are a living lie , would not deceive him ; when , if he were but to think for one moment fdr himself _. he would see
that while be was sucking in their delusions they were laughing at his simplicity , aud enjoying all the luxiiries that the earth was capable of producing . Lord of the _Crealion , indeed ! why the name is all that he has left , the reality has passed away ; the hungry wolf would laugh him to scorn and spurn him with contempt . ; Would the wolf , after hunting down bis prey , giye up the best of it to some fat lazy wolf and be content with his leavings ? No , he would first enjoy the fruits of his toils , and leave the hones to whoever chose to come after ; but man , _-theXord of Creation , the animal with the intellect , —limits down the prey and . thanks God that he is allowed to pick the bones . I shall conclude with repeating a toast that I have often heard in days gone by : 'Liberty for all who dare contend for it . ( Great applause . )
Thomas Clark said : After the brilliant speeches which have been delivered by the gentlemen Mho have preceded me , I feel it incumbent upon me m the outset , to declare how inadequate are my feeble powers to do justice to the resolution which I have risen to support . I am fully impressed with the Teat importance of tbat event which we have met neve this evening to commemorate . To myjndgm nt ; it appears one of the most important occurences which has transpired in Europe within the last half century . ( Hear , hear . ) To Poland , especially , it is important , because it developed a new power in that country ; and to the world at large , is it in the _highest degree important , because it gave birth to a new element in revolutions . I mean that by it
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 26, 1848, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_26021848/page/3/
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