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_ .,. — " ' ' "" " OCR TRUST . si nssst : ost . e . « srUDK men-ttana by y&ttr order ! r ^ ° « K » t •«* titled marauderb' ^ SSdin tfeeheart of your band . f j-ces » u " . ; f _ of their treason ; \\ li t «* «*» ™ own tands , sod your reason k ^ SrSSeJ *— " notn ^ ' ^ -ice of those who stcoa bj you , W ° t * Vf ££° « ~* ° ^ ' in your nrs ; ; ' sW ^ *« ££ on the dKHasn vtfao ay you , 1 . 3 atijn not to » J ™ t 0 Etrike in their cause .
Is ? - '" " t ,.: ntback . ana worm ™«~ -..= * . — . y ^ % " oS ™<™«* . for » ift& it files . 03 ' . ""' •?„ . nor ' nildinsnrrection , * 1 R- « ° nfi « m . b winnlngits noon . Tt oflons sges is reaching perfects ^ ^ . ' nd . are up lifted to p luck It too soon ! ' " ^ - \ -lkoQhnaa Of tneTile profiMnwger ! ' | CI ' ¦ ' "V for him fee the fruit of the free . B 3 t ' ? , ; ^ nd It , brave children of hunger ! V ? " era ? hRBi only shall plnck from the tree . Vw long hare yon foughtfor the Charter % ' ^ . t ie ^ K of jonr ^ ong and dLteess ; GC 3 1 0 " ot imm ^ the grave of each martyr : 3 ^ arr " g bt ! endno siore ' and Our rights and no us ; : ' , T 01 t « !» a the first pang of poverty presses * ili-ri-t-makin ? miswns who nsde yon bo poorv ^ S-sll J 0 Br haggle—yoar strength-jour du . tTcJSES .
- v-t in making fe ( r orisr secure . C 1 v =- «* . worVi men-stand by your Ctarter-* ; £ . ;*« «» y : wKhmit you their efforts are nought , J ^ " o ' i enl Right ara not things ysu cea barter ; ! Tien » Hy the p halanx cf manhood and thought ! . . ^ ri time of trial J My friends , be you ready , ~ jt s gbip is sfiost , e = d the heaTenc , the ; smile ; V- " « silors , fea faithful—sow , helosmen , be steady' % l brecses of liberty , blow bst awhile . p ., quicksands and breakers I see the calm Haven ; Vn trith your tricolour , nailed to the mast . v ' hes for -. fee valiant , aSa wreck for the craven ! " nirrah ! for tee vessel goes gallantly patt .
1- , too s « k ms to name you the day of yeur power ! 1 0 KaaSe ^ 3 isani 5 e—orgaaise . still ! rf- ' l'H tell yea the day—nay , I'll tell youths host je- 'Jl ' -EUfisintlie Charter , vihtnmr y < w tciK .
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1 HE LA . BOUR . ER . A Montityllagazhie ef ; PoU-£ « Literature , - Poetry , &o . No . XVII . Mat , jLondon-.: Northern Star Office , 16 , Great Windmill-street , Haymarket ; J . Watson , 3 , Queen ' s-Head- ? assage ; Manchester : Abel Hey wood . "We miss some of the nsaal contributions in ibis nmberof-&e Labourer ; bat there 13 no lack of -ssdible matter , both in poetry and prose . To m . fca most interesting article i 3 tie continuation of tne s-Ties Gn National Literature . Mr Ernest Jones , hria » dkoosed of Poland and Russia , now
introdaca " h ' . s readers to the popular literature _ of Germany , the subject of his first rerkw being PrJderiek Von Schiller , Amongst tb . 3 contents of tiifs number are ( the commencement of ^ St John ' s ive : a Romantic Drama ia "Eiree Acts ; ' 'Pride sad Preju&ca . ' which will be appreciated by all trae reformers ; * The London Door-step , ' s picture of one cf the social assassin ition 3 whieh , are erwlastingly « -oin ^ on in this corrupt Babel ; and ' The Wife , a psra , byJace '—rsyrfieaadcypres ? -wreatked . We cuDte a prose article on the political movements of tie hour , and a new poem fay Mr Srne 3 t Jones—both ¦ rill speak ibr themsekes : —
EEFOHiT iHD SEF 0 B 3 £ ER 3 . Therehasgenerally teen a great difference between ? = iann ec 3 Seforraers , and one of the great evils in poliiitsl aovfements hitherto , has been , that the R-. form 133 the S ? f jrmer have Csen considered identical . AH has hi ' astd on a few men—if thej were weak—or fcarish-I-or tiaSi !—the movement was lost , for the p'jpl = had loskcd to them , instead of to themselres . 2 fow a change has come -over political feeling . MeR . rs 4 n . -. t Ken , ' is the motto of the day . The people ' ¦ iVe cntprowB their politieal leading-strings , and begin ts think , jaige , and ait , for themselves . Mr O'Connor hss rreatlv cantaeed to this result , iaasasach aB he has tTsr tried ' io inJoma the popular mind _ to explain his -otiTes and bis octions , to give reasons instead of merely uring opinions , ea 4 thus we find that the people . can no 2 rager bs led astray by any wUl ^' -the-TriaBp , and so iDczerbow slavhKy to any stereotype A idol .
This is cf greater conssquesces than ever , m toe pre-Eict state of the Chartist movement . Strong and procisicg- as is its present positios , swarms of ambitions eeb £ i ^ nsw Etartisg forward , ready to float on the tide cfEMcessiothe haren of their own self-interest ; bat -eho Eevsr toiled in the hour of adversity , who never Joiced as in the time cf dipression .. ^ e cc n * cien ^ oasly beUsve tfcst the people are rips £ e 4 ready to obtain tfessr right *; but if SUjtMng could isste c * ioubt i » , it would be the fact , that every bog-V . zbt tbs . t thus appears on the surface from the mire Cf iristeeratSe or nriddle-elaSS life , is HOt Only hailed "Pita opes aras ( tais is well enon ? h ) , but sctuaUy pro-Eo *« a to i See , over tire heads of deserving workin 5 Hen—old geard ? , ani veterans in the Chartist cause . Ibis sbool i not be . If a man it to wear epaulettes , let him eirn thcin .
We arree , also , that working men must , as a . whole , cerry the rcoveraent of the working : da » S ; bat W » diSQ . free alike wit > t that spirit of class servility , which makes asre of a reeni Jt a few days old from the ranks of wealth sad'birth , ' than of a working veteran—and with that spirit ef cIvE =-bo 5 tiKty on the other hand , which Tronic " exclude ail but working men from participation in tie rrfijt work o £ redemption . This is a narrew spim . This is , indeed , a class spirit — ti » i is the rery quintessence of cleES-legislstien . ' ill men are trctnrin ' . '—and we , who eschew class-. ' eriElation Bhocld bs the last men in the- world to curl •; rscl-eE , ' like a hedgehog , within the bristling limits cf class-t ' xc lusiveneiSE . Hers are two extremes alike daazEToas to our movement : excess of confidence , and eiwwo ' ex-lusivenesB . . .
Kow , we asfeesitatingly . assert , it is the right of the ¦ ROtking classes to bs the most powsrfel and primary Eterest in the community ; to tkis the other classes will ESTer cssscat , until coaipelJed : acd for this it is aecss . ssry that t :-e toilma millions should retain the leadership of th'ir osn cause . We wish to asfc the 'Reform pwtv' in the Hoose of CommoHS , what are they for ? What do i := ej m ? sn to do ? If they want the support of the coscirj " , the conntTy must know whet they mean . Are they for tbe dx points of the Charter ? If not , for haw much ? How do they isean to oltain . it ? Why did they co * join ns before ! What do they want the people to so ! A burnt child dr « ads ths fire—and let them rest altered , ttfore they can stir the people as ttiy were sL-red for the Reform Bill , wgue professions East cease , and we mast have guarantees that they retllj ratin the Cnarter .
We repeat , ws are prepared t 9 waive old animosities , Md toeaisro 3 n . wfrien 3 smp , solos ? es that fri ? B < JsH ! p is bascS un candoBr , honesty , and principle ; bat We will hsrc r . o tracking , timeiervin ? , or temporising . A . 5 the pi . afsrs of reform , we will sot wait for the lig . sards . Th-: working cksses are marching oa the hig h , rsad to pr-isr- 's-ion—tbe middling class are hobbling Liter . W . iv c j tkej cone ! Because we are moving OD , sad they caarot io vrithaut u =. JF we stop , they stay ; Hwego en , ticy wiil spur birder .
THE SOXG OF TH £ GAGGESS . BT EERSar JOKES , Gag—fag—gae 15 lie crj of tbe traitor band , Y < hV , e tfeey try , wirh a priated rag , To ride like a midnight hag On : ht breast of a sleening Icn 3 .
CoTr . e , knave and villaia , informer and ipy , To n . s govenmtEt mint , where yon coin a lie ! Goia—gcia—goia : Is th- > J / 3 J for the ready slave , WLo = ^ word at a breath csn destroy the bold . In the hails where justice is bo'dght and bo 13 , An ^ th" Tr ; rce * i 2 g glance falls keen and cold Oa the heart of the true and brave . ! . « . Qa « -S » S—E » s ! K the crj of the traitor basd Wbi ' e they try , with a priCtei rag , To it Je lite a mwnfigfct hag Os tie fcrenst of 8 sleeping Jssd .
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We'il ttay the stream in its fullest force , " Well stop the vorld la its Oswald C 0 UT 80—Cag—gag—gag ! ThevoJcs of six thousand yjsn Shall begin at oar bidding lo lail and flag- , Not a lip shall breathe , nor a tongue shall wag , And history's page be an idle brag , - Compared to a Russell ' s fe&rs . Gag—gag—gag ! Is the cry of the traitor band , While they seek , with a printed rag , To tide Ufee a mldnigtit tag , On the brrait of a sleeping land \
In vain shall the blooi of as EmnpetthavefloTreai In vain shall the breast of a miser have glowed ! Gig—gag—gag ! The thought in the teeming brain I The pulse in the heart ef the world shall lag , And nations tbe harden of misery brag , And LUiiput trample on Brobdignag , As long as a Russell shall reign , 6 a ?—gag—gag \ Is the cry of the traitor band , Whiie they seek , with a printed rag , To ride like a midnight hag On the breast of a sleeping land .
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Hoivitie Journal , Parts XV ., XVI . London- W Lovett , 291 , Strand . There are many excellent arfcirjiej ia these parts of Howitfs Journal ; atnonsst t . ' oa be ^ ara Hoffitt ' a ' Facts from the Fields , ' ekhVoitiog the depopulating policy of our landed and annaed autocrats , and showing how by the extensisn of tire manufacturing sys . tem men are worked up into malefactors ; ' Scenes and Characters from tiie French Revolution' translated frsm Lamartirae ' s History of the Girondins ; ' Letters from Paris / by Goodwj-n Barmby ; ' Poets of the People ; ' and . biographical notices of Lamartine and Albert . Therowe aUo translations of « The Marseillaise Hyran' and ' Monrir pour la Patrie 'both were transferred to our columns some weeks sgo . We bs 1 p . cS the following extracts >—
ALPSOSSE DE LAHARTIKE . A 5 fthonse de Lsinartine was bom at Macoa , the 21 st of Cfctob 3 r , 1738 ; his family name was De Prat ; he has lately taken the " same of his maternal uncle . Bis father was msjir of a regiment of cavalry under Louis XVI ,, and his mother wes daughter of Msdame des RoU , nnder-RoverBesB of'lhePriaeeB of Orkans . Attached thus to the old order ef ttinji , bis family was broken down by the Revelution , and hig most early recollections carried themselves hack toaeombrejail , where he went to visit his fathes . Soon wag the child obi ^ ed to qui t his paternal roof ; they sent him to finish his education at BeUey , in the colhgatff the Fathers of tbe Faith . The reli ; kmB germs which were sown by his mother , developed themselves strongly , in that HselanGboly Bolitude of the cloister : the beaatffhl episode of Soseiya is foil of rcraembranees imprinted by the calm sad austere life of that holy regidence .
After his departure from college , M . ' de Lamartine passed some ti-ne at lyons , made a firatirief excursion icto Italy , and curse to Paris during tbe last days of the empire . In 1813 , the poet Tevisited ItaSy ; tbo greater part df hit * ifeditations" were Insplrei ! by its beantifal gky , and ¦ that delicionspage of the ' Harmonlfis , "' entitled 'Frrst Xove , ' was soanSed forth , it is believed , by some sweat first mystery of "the heart boried -trfthin a tomb . At the fall of tbe empire ho » 5 tevd his serrices to the ancient race , ttoo had had the blood and the lovs of his fathers , rod was entered in a company of the guards .
After the Hcrfred Days , M . fie Lanartine qnltte ^ the service . Gaa passion absorbed him entirel y—that patiion made history . Love came and agitated thefountain of poesie which sluEbered in the depths Of his soul . It was needfa ! to open a passage for the gushing wave The object of th 3 t mysterious paseion , that loving and Icrrad Elvira , was -snatched from his armB by death , 'Sha lived again in his verses . Lamartice sung lo give eternity to her name , and France consecrated him her port ! This was in 1820 . A -young'i&ec , scarcely recovered from a cruel illness , his visage paled by sufferrn ^ , and covered-vrfth ft Teil of sickness , on which couft ! 'ba read the loss of a worshipped being , vrpnt timidly hawking about , from bookiellef s to bookseller's , a poor little
copy bookef verses , wet with-tears . Everywhere they politely-shifted off tbe poetry and the peer . At last , a bookseller , less prudent , or perhaps engaged by the infiaite grace of the younjman , decided to accept the MS . so oftenTEfused . The good-natured bookseller frss , I believe , nsraca" Nfcolie . Everything possible has been said oh this first work of the poet ' s . All the world knows by heart the ' Ode to Byron , ' the 'Evening , ' ( he 'Lake and Autumn . ' In four years , 45 , 000 eopisa of the ' IT-cditafiens' were circulated . S"ive yearB afterwards the 6 ublime voice of ' Rene , ' found an harmonious echo , and with one bound only 5 f . de tamariiae placed himself on the same pedestal , by fee side of the demi . gods of the epoch , "Caateaubriand , Geethe , andByren ,
This literary success , the most brilliant of the cge Blnce the ffwiuscfCftrisfionflyjOpened-toSI . deLamartine the career of a diplomatist . Attached to tha embassy at Florence , he departed for Tuceinj , and there in Its land of inspiration , ia the midst of the-splendours cf an Italian festival , it is saidthat he heard aforeigc-voicea tender asd melodious voice , murmuring in -bis ear , ^ tbese venes of tbe Meditations * — A hopelees rstnrn of the bliss which has flawn , Perhaps in the future iB stored for me still , And p 9 rfeaps in the crowd a sweet spirit unknown . Will answer me kindly and knew ray goul well . The soul of the poet wasinown , he -found a seeead Elvira , and some months after he became the happy husband of a young and rich English woman , entirely -emitten with his person and his fame .
Prom that tins to 1825 , the post resided successively at Xaples , as Secretary of the Embassy , Bome while in London in the « eme oSce , end then returned to Tcs . cany in the qnaiity of a Charge d'Afiuires . In the in . terval his forton ? , already considerable from h ? s marriage , increased again through the inheritance of an opalentnzele . The * Second Meditations' sppsered in 1823 . Ther-e was noticed in this sew collection , a more correct , mora balanced , mere precise versification . Thejsoet badbeen abroad iE the domain of the soul . Grand historic fac £ 3 had furaiea ^ d him with noble inspirations . The ' O 3 e to Bonaparte , ' ' . Sappho , ' the ' Prelude-e , ' aad the ' Djine Post , * were admired . This volume was also
well followed by the * Foetic Sketch of Socrates , and by the last canto of the ' Pilgrimage of Cbilde-Harold . ' In these verses , intenced to complete the epie of Byron , tbe poet finished with an eloquent tirade on the abasement of Italy : — Fard » n me , shade of Rome ! for seek I mast E s ? where for men , and not in human dust . This apostrophe appeared offcnilve to C . 'lonel P « pe , a Neapolitan officer . In the name of his country , he de . manded satisfaction from K . de Lamartine . The poet defended his paeiry with the sword , and received a ee . vere wound , which for a long while put hi « life In danger . When scarcely recovered . , he hastened to Intercede with tbe Grand Dikeie fsvonr of his adversary .
After hating in 1825 published the ' Song of tbe Sscreu , ' the pset retained to France in 1629 , and in the npDth of May ef the same year appeared the ' Harmoaie ? , Poetic and Religious . ' M . de L ^ martlne was received at the Ac 3 deray , and when the Esvolution of July breke out , he departed for Grcecs in the character of Minister Plenipotentiary . His tribute of sympathy once paid to the unfortunate great , M . de L-jnnrtine dashed gallantly into the new road opened to the mind of tbe Revolution of Ju ' y . The past is nothing more than a drecm , ' scid he , ' must regret it , but we ought not to ! o ; e the day in weeping to no purpose . It is always lawful , always honourable , for one to take hiB share in the unhnppiness vof otherB , though he ought not gratuitously to take his share in a fault whicho&e has not committed * * * He « honl < 3 retam into the ranks of his fellow citizens , to thisk , to sp ^ efc , to Ect , to fight , with bis countrr—tke familv of families . '
S :: me while afterwards be decided upon putting into execution the projic . ef his rrhole life , and on the 20 th of ilay , ! Si 2 , he was aJ Marseilles , ready to embark for Asfe ; Afcer a travel of six months , H . de Lamartine returned from the East , with grand ideas , and a bteutifal beok , Travels in the East , ' a treasure alas ! rightdeBriy bought , ns he had lo ? t there his onlj child , hi 3 fair Julia , whom the noble heart ef the father and of the poet wept for , like Rachel who would not be comforted . Woen in Asia , tidy Stanhope , thstmJoiatara S « mirsmis , half sublime , and bslf foolish , predicted him marvellous des ' -inies , and the Arabs delighted with the beautiful and imposing figure , tall in height , straight , and sparkling with armf , of him who passed at a gallop with twenty horsemen over tbe desert , bowed the head to him they o-AU& th « French Emir , tbe French Prince .
Since his entry te the Chatcber , M . L « m $ -tine , bas not abandoned the worship ef bis first , of his most glorious years , Ee hai attempted to march in rank , the inspirations of the poet , and the duties of the deputy . Id 1825 , be published the poem of ' Jecel jn , ' a magnificent picture of passion iECTificsd to duty . After 'Jacelyn , ' Lamartiae gave us , the ' Fall of an Angel , ' the second episode of thafvast epepeia , with which he was inspired by the east . This was followed by kis poetio recollections . Tneie works were not so wall receives by the critics , and ia the introduction to the latter , M . de Lsmartine professed to drepise mere poetic inactivity , and to aspire to social
labour for tbe advance of society . At the tame time that Limartise thus met nnaccnBtomed r ^ iulslons in tfce literary world , he grew f reater at tbe tribune . The Oriental question furnished hita with an occasion Ur developing his ideas on the bases of a new European iystjm , A warm and eloqaect a'tack on rSe poniehment of death ; some generous w 6 f 3 b in favour of foundlings ; a beautiful improvisation In which he contended for classical studies , asa'BBt a rough jonsttr , , Arago , who combatied for science , made / , Anart « ne krfowe In the r&nk of a ehfcf of a colntnn , collected around him a little plialani of choioe men , and this ^ greg ^ Uon web decorated with the nwne of the SociEl Party . Tne doctrine of Lamsrtlne ajproachw that of Bi Simon , Hdwpud ! at * i aellhlj likeness . DehEdpcO '
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olataed It ione while before . St Simonisin' said hr » hai something In it of the true , of tho grand , and of the fruitful , tha application of Cnriathn ! s-. n to politieal society , and the legislating in fivour of human fraternity . In this paint of view lam a Saint Sim oaiaUj That which was deficient in that eclipsed <^ iC ^ « a 8 not the idea , was not the- disciples : it wa ^ tea , only a chief , a master , a regalator The organiser * of Saint SimonlBtn deceived themgelvea in deelatlp g at once a deadly war , ageisst family , against ttr ^ erty , against religion . They 0 'uld not coBquer the world by tho power of a word They converted , tfyey agitated , they worked , and they changed , but ^ en an idea is sol practicable it is not presentable to tho aecitl world .
These remains to be known , however 'what 1 b the prac tloal system whloh M . Lamsrtiae presents to the social world , that system he thus expresses : You say that all iB dead , that there no longer exists either faith or bellefi There is a faith , —that faith is the general reason , the word 1 b its organ , the press Is its apostle ; It wishes to remake in its Image , religiou 3 civilisations , societies , and laws . It desires in religion , Cod one and perfect as tbe dogma : eternal morality as tho Bjmbol : adoration and charity at tbe worship—in polities , humanity above nationalities—in legislation man equal to man , man brother of man , Christianity made law . '
the poet of Elvira hes in his general appaarance a something which recalls Byron . There is tho same beauty of face and look , thsro are the same habits of elegance and of dandyism , the same tottrnure , a little trimmed , a little English , perhaps , but perfectly noble and distinguished ! If you join to this to complete the resemblance , the train of a great lerd , a sumptuous hotel , horses of pure race , a magnificent chateau , you can then conclude that 6 ince Toeso and Camoens , the times are a little changed , and that one is permitted in our £ ays to be a great post without dying In an hospital .
¦ With the late political position of M . de Lamartine the public Is familiar . The longer h 9 has aatin tho Chamber of Deputies the more he has seen cause to withdraw his confidence from the King and Guizot , to oppose them , and w&rn the country of tbe necessity of a firm stand for liberty . For this bis eloquance has been eealonily and splendidly exerted in theChara&jrjfor this he established the Journal . Bten PuWque ; but above all , for this has be written bis great work the hiBtory of the Girondists , which has unquestionably done more than cny other caase to urge on the era of the Revolution . We now extract the following notice of Aibsrt , ouvrier , member of the late Provisional Government : — ALBERT THE ARTISAN .
Albert is a son of Lyons . There he was born , brought up , aa 3 has mostly resided , By employment he was simply a mechanic , a workiog modeller . Not the leeB for thet ! Bhtos burnt the stubble , before he flamed ferth in Eoog . Massanlello was a fisherman , made up mostly of raaccaroni , and bynomeanB of jellies and ices , before ha was known in Kaples . Hofer was an inn » keeper , before his name raa like a thrill through the Tyrol . Not the legs that Albert is aa artisan I Tke hut with all its holes of disadvantage has produced more fcsroes then the hall , Ever the Cot may match against the Castle "for prophet , poet , saints sago . Never need the Cottage fear comparison with the Court , hot the hovel « f fee hamlet wife the palace of the prince ,
In his education Albert had probably somo advantages shove tbaso of hii brother artisans . Certainly bla in . tellectaaldsvelopmetrtwas superior to that of those ia the midst of whom he dwelt . Koral himself , fcis expe- ; rience among his feilaw workmen showed hita the aeces 8 ltyfor their moralisation . To moralise them , be found , he must caafce them thick . He coalddtscorer no true way to the heart but by the road of tho ^ ntellect . In this intellectualising he entered without -intending K , the province of politics . Therj he found-how much of the SemeralfoatioE of the people was tbe -consequence , direct or indirect , of class legislation—how terrible toiatloa eaHsed morbid misery— how that morbid rnekm * choly misery fled to venal vice as a rascal refuge , — end how that vice cocsequented erlma . He-getetained then of
'towarwithtl ^ elass leg islation which was one the ehief causes of'the demoralisation of the people . By the bard work-of his hands , he saved -suffisient todart , aad ultimately to establish , a publication , which ap . peared under tfee modest title of la'Glaneuse , or The r Bleaner , but which was in truth mostly an tirlglnal political periodical . This . journal was published m his nstiltownofXyonn , and became locally , espeeiaKy papolaf . Its poiitios werefrankly republican ; from the first , it proclaimed without hesitation the wants and the rights of the working population , and'it exercised a con . siderable influence orer tke labouring classes . 'Itsarti . san editor , however , was several timeB under process for his publication , Just previous to the breaking out of the insurrectioa of Lyons , in the year 1833 , he was condemned for this cause , with tfee harsh seHtesce of jifUenmonthS'W ' -prisonmenirand a fin&of 5 , O 0 O / raw 5 . HiB
sin here had not be . n only his journal , but his having assembled all the members of bis p&rty together , at a public political ban < laet . Th 9 celebrated outbreak at Lyons , found him therefore a political msrtyr ; and hailed him fendly aB such . He was then the chief of a section of the'Saciety of the Rights of Man , and necessarily took a oonsidarable . part in that terrible Btrugglo in which so much generous and unfortunats blood was shed . It wag he who thea caused tbe workmen in in . Burrection to adopt for their banners that determined de . vice , that terrible formula which starved stomachs and hnngrj hearts can alone-justlfy : — « To / live by viotang or todie ly fightings '— ' To -edst by labour , or to , ptrtih in conibat . ' This device of his formed the ground of an act of accusation against him after the insurrection was snb . dned . He was also implicated in the process of -April , but was honourably acquitted .
More lately vte find blm-fn Paris . After the tParlslan emeutein 1840 , of which tho writer was an eyewitness , he founded his second publication , under the name of L'AtiiUe ? , or the Workshop . Us editorB ,-or contributors as we should call them , seem-clearly convinced , that no political change can be permanent withoat a new in . dustrial organisation , that no . governmental modification can be-cacsessful without a reformation ef cur present societary state . Tfeey write not only against class'legislation , . and its moaetrous anomalies , but also against competition and its awful incoherency . They writs not alone for uaiversal suffrage , and political enfranchise * menf , but likewise for . universal association and industrial organisation .
VTe next meet Albert At the pstiotic banquets before the late revolution . We then behold him hailed as one of the provisional goversaent of the French Republic , After the consummation cf that grand event , we now see him as Vice-President of the Governmental Commie . Bionfor the Or ^ aaisation of Na tional Employment / or the Labouring Classes of Fraace . No longer now is it to Imm by working or to die by fishtinp , the question now know to organise industry ! I ; is indeed a great question . That which be has been theorising upon , may now be tested by practice . At the head of the commission , of whichheis the Yiee-President , presides Louis Blanc , the author of a remarkable book , on the organlsa . tion of work , ia which he simplified and popularised tho progressive theories oa tnat sabject , The commission of indoBtryhas also just appointed J . B . Krantz as Its agent for the creation of an icdastrial army , with which to wage a truly glorious war of reclamation with the unculti . vated lands ( of France .
I saw Albert , at the Commission of Industrial Organisation , Bitting at the Luxembourg . He is a bearded man , rather above tho middle height , with a sedato air , aad somewhat sombre and pensive look . As Louis Blanchecime impassioned in his addreap , his eye , however , brightened ujs , and you saw that there was a , firc latent there . Be looked straightforward in his cloth coat , and would have appeared to more advantage en blouse . In that brightening eye , however , thero was that which re . deemed ail cite , which vindicated the man in spite of the tailor , and proc ' &imed thepatriot .
Albert at the late eleotion was returned aa one of the deputies for Paris . Oa the meeting of the Assembly , he , in conjunctien with the other members of the * Provisional Government , resigned his power aa member of that government : The re-aotionary character of the Assembly , too soon appeared , and the commission at the Luxembourg wa 3 dissolved . Of course Albert was too democratic to be elected to the ExecutiveCommitteeappointed by the Assembly . The 15 th of May found Albert at the Hotel de Vilb . in company with Barbes , the people bavins named him Al
a member of the CotnHiittee of Public Safety . - most immediately afterwards he was-dragged to fhe dungeoEBef Vincennes , where he is at present lying once more a martyr for the great principles he has throughout life eo nobly advocated . The only mem . ber of the Assembly who rose up against the rastion for his arrest , was Flocon . Honour to that patriot ! If the people of Paris tamely allow the destruction of Albert and his brother patriots , tbey will well deBerve the yeke the bourgeoisie are preparing for lhem . This comes of Lamartine ' s' soothing system . ' Oh ! for one hoar of ' 93 !
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The Charter , what it means ! Tke Ohurthte , ivhat they Want . ' explained in an address to the middle . classes of Great Britain . By Peter MurbaI M'Dotjall , Surgeon . Lsndon : E . Dipple , Holywell-street , Strand . Dr MTJou&II Las in this pamphlet fully and plainly exhibited thettue principles and objects of the Chartists ; and replied to every possible objection to the Charter by arguments calculated to convert all oppenents who are open to conviction . His exposure of the absurdities of the HoneeholdSaffraeistg leaver
nothing to be desired ; and in dealing with both ehatn reformers , and honest—but prejudiced objeotora , the advocate of the Charter will find in this pamphlet a eomplete armoury of unanswerable arsamenta in support . of his cause . Want of apace farblda extract , which we the less regret , seeing that the pamphlet itself may be obtained for two-pence . We recommend Cnartist Councils to procure a supply of Dr M'Boufill's pamphlet for loan or distribution , ia their respective localities . Its wide circulation ia caloo * Iated to greatly advance the good cause , and accelerate the march of the Tnor « mfinfc _
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Tke Midland Floriit , Mat . London : Simpkin Bnd MareLaS . This numbsr of the ' Flot&t , ' watains the mual matter interesting to gftrd . enersand email farmers .
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TO THE PEOPLE . position , of ike Democratic Movement al ^ ome an I abroad-The States General and the National Assembly of France—Character of the Assembly—The \ bth of May- * Progress of the Counter Revolution . The Future—Nil Despcrandum J Frtejjds , Countrymen , and Brothers , In reviewing , or rather glancing at the position of the Democratic movement at home , I fear it must be admitted that Chartism , if it has not retrograded , has hardly advanced since the end of March last . For this the Chartists have
principally to thank themselves . It is true that the systematic lying of the press could not fail to have injured any party against whom its calumnies and falsehoods were directed . On the principle ' throw mud enough and some of it will be sure to stick , ' the dirty diatribes projected from Puddledock failed not , to a considerable extent , in producing the intended effect . The Chartists were covered with the foulness of their enemies , who had craft enough to make the unthinking and politically ignorant lielieve that such was the natural , ' unwashed' condition of the proscribed party . Still it required Chartist folly to complete the work of Whig , Tory , and sham-Liberal villany , and , unhappily , that folly was not wanting . The fearfully mismanaged ' National Petition' was a heavy blow and sore discouragement" to the cause of the Proletarians . The
buffooneries of which the Convention' was the theatre , and the cut-throat quarrellings of the ' Assembly' completed the sad work of CharCist suicide . The Press-gang found it quite superfluous to abuse the ' Assembly' seeing that its members were evidently resolved to talk themselves down . Hence the ' Assembly' escaped the libels of which the Convention had been the mark . To ' write down ' those determined on self-destruction would have been a waste of ink and paper . The press seems to have regarded the ' Assembly' in much the same light as Satan is reported to have regarded the denizens of this [ earth when discoursing with Michael . —{ vide' Vision of Judgment . ) -. —— ' Tbey aregronn bo bad That Hell hao nothing better left to do Than leave them to themselves : so much more
mad—And evil by tfeeir own Internal curae , Heavon cannot make them better , nor I worse , ' If the defunct ' Assembly' has any mourners , let them not charge me with exaggerating the faults of the 'deceased . Anything that I have said , or even could say , must fall immeasurably short of the withering condemnation pronounced upon its acts by « ne of the members thereof— one , too , of the
new Chaitist Executive . Mr James L&a « h : — He ( Mr Lsach ) believed if their constituents ceuld only get to sea them—coald only manage to look in upon them for one half Tioct—they would -sand the Assembly home . Tbey had spent more time in abusing eack other tban tbey bad in transacting the business of tho people . * # * He saw Jthetr pMeeediagj with -sorrow . Ee bad sat disgusted with the 'Assembly , and i \ e hoped that-no such Assembly would ever be taken as representative of England again .
Countrymen , let this be a waruingix ) you . Reflect , that if you appoint incompetent delegates to represent you in a ^ Chartist Assembly , you thereby furnish your enemies with a dangerous 'argument against your admission to the exercise Of the franchiseviz ., your -un'fitness to select fit anfl proper persons to legislate for the nation . Remeitfber that the mere 1 Shibboleth' of ' ( the Charter , ' though sufficient for the ranlts , is not sufficient for -the commanders-Your ' 'leaders and-delegates -should be tried
andapproveS Chartists , and something DOre . You should not only know'them well , and know them to be honest ; you should also know them to * be able , discreet , and energetic ; honesty , ability ^ energy , and judgment , ere the grand requisites for popular leadership . "Wanting any one of these , the beskintentioned man may raarthe hopes of millions . Aglance at tha state of the Democratic movement in Germany , Poland andiltaly must suffice for the-present .
In Germany , the Democratic cause has received ti check from the-defeat of the ill-advised undertaking of the Republicans of Baden . Public attention , too , has been directed from home to foreign questions . The war against Denmark , and the renewal of the conflict-of races inPosen , have reerved to divert the Prussians from questions of home reforta . Seventeen ' wise men , ' sssembled at Frankfort , have concocted a monster-humbug , in 4 he shapeof a constitution for a Ge » manic empire , which might have done for the times of Charlemagne , but which , in these times—if aver erected—will be found leso Stable than a house of cards . Democratic Republicanism is the destined future of Germany , as of every other country in Europe .
Poland is once more the scene of bloody conflict , and ,-unhappily , the .-conflict is between , not Pole and Russian , but Pole and German . Thia is the work of the treacherous . Prussian King ^ After the terrible . conflict at Berlin , Frederick William , terrorstruck at the prospect of losing his throne , promised , not only free institutions to the -Prussians , but also the Polish restoration of Posea , as a first step towardsthe complete establishment « f ancient Poland . But Frederick William is determined to repeat the usual royal illustration of the old adage : — ' When the devil was oick tbe dovil a saint would be , When tbe devil got woil the devil a saint was he /
He has falsified every promise he made to the Poles—decreed another partitioD of Po 6 en—escited the old prejudices of German against Pole—and at this moment bis armed assassins are ravaging the entire Duchy of Posen with fire and sword . The Poles , after fighting with the valour of despair , and performing prodigies of heroism , have been again crushed . The unhappy emigrants , who have been lured from Western Europe by the promises of this perfidious king , are treated as criminals , and the Poles from ' Russian Poland' are driven back across the frontier by Prussian bayonets , where , treated as
deserters , they are knouted to death or sent lo Siberia . Austria is playing the same game in Ga * licia an . d Cracow . The ancient capital of Poland has been bombarded , and hundreds of its inhabitants mercilessly slaughtered . This comes of putting faith in kings ! How long arc the miseries of Poland to continue ? The heartless government of this country will , of course , regard the destruction of the Polish patriots with a secret joy . With heartfelt grief and indignation I must add , that the government of Republican France is apparently equally criminal !
In Italy , Charles Albert is , like a true king , playing his old game of fast-and-Ioose— his one object being to annex Lombardy to Piedmont . It is not unlikely that , after all , he may fail , unless Franca throws her sword into the scale . I come now to France , where Democracy would appear to be destined to once more succumb to the Bourgeoisie . The repetition of ' the 4 th oi May ' has been closely followed by something very like a repetition of ' the 1 st of Prairia ! . ' Fifty-nine years ago , the 4 th of May witnessed a spectacle similar to the one of which Paris was the theatre three weeks since . On tbat day , in the year 1789 , the opening of the States General took place . The procession of the twelve hundred has been nften described . The broad streets of Versailles
failed to contain the immense masses congregated from Paris . Every house was decorated with feathers , flags , and flowers . The sun ' shone on fair women and brave men . ' The inspiring strains of music filled the air , and all ' the pride , pomp , and circumstance' of military power added to the intoxication of the scene . There were the nobles in their p lumed hats , velvets , gold , and lace . There were the bishops in robes of violet and lawn , and the cures in gowns of black . There were the members of the Tiers Etat in their bourgeois dresses , the destined conquerors of plumed hats and violet robes . In that procession was contained men who , though conscious that the hour had come when they could no longer enjoy their foul usurpations unquestioned
and unassailed by the long-suffering victims of their tyranny , were , nevertheless , determined to struggle for tbe maintenance oi their GVil power , even though they plunged France into the horrors of ciril strife . There were others who , determined upon combatting the assertors of hereditary and hierarchical privilege , were only animated by the motive of personal ambition , or the desire to found the empire of the bourgeoisie upon the ruins of aristocracy and priestcraft . Lastly , there were others—alas , how few !—who p ossessed both the wisdom of head and the honesty , of heart to desire the entire destruction of the ancient system , not for personal or class aggrandisement , but for the freedom and happiness of alltbe emancipation of all Frenchmen , and the welfare < jf entire Prance .
In that procession , was seen the had , but not bold father of the cunning tyrant , whose ignominious deposition from the throne of France has created the second ' 4 th of May . ' How strange that the examp le of the terrible result of the father ' s crooked ways should have been no warning to the aon ! In that procession was to be seen the eloquent but
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corrupt , the mean but mighty Mirabeau , bearing aloft his lion-like head ; scorching with his verv glance tke sons of privilege from whose ranks lie had been ostracised . There too were the mouthing demagogues , the popular idols of an hour , Barnave Duport , and the Lameths , whose exterior mock patriotism could not long conceal their rottenness . Lastly , there too was the master-mind of the future , the ruler of the Convention , the Apostle of Equality , ' who died too soon for humanity , ' the incorruptible Robespierre .
On the 4 th of May , 1789 , France desired a glorious and bloodless regeneration . Alas ! the intrigues of the monarchy , the priesthood , and the aristocracy , ar . d still more the dishonesty of the bourgeoisie , prevented the realisation of the hopes of the people . I am not about to review the events of the first French Revolution , but this glance at the past has been naturally called forth by the events passing before our eyes . The spectacle of tho 4 th inst ., was in some respects more imposing tban tbat of the 4 th of May , 1789 . When on the recent opening of the National
Assembly , seven hundred deputies leaving their seats appeared in front of the Hall , and there with uncovered heads and uplifted hands—with the brightly shining sun and two hundred thousand of the people of Paris for their witnesses — proclaimed that the Republic was and should continue to be the government of France ; men fondly hoped that this solemn confirmation of the voice of the victorious Proletarians of the 24 th of February , had made the course of the future plain and straig htforward—that reaction henceforth . had no chance , and anarchy and counter-revolution were equally impossible .
Thus probably thought many sanguine but unreflecting well-wishers of tbe French Republic ; but a little inquiry into the composition of the Assembly would at once have excited apprehensions of the afflicting events that have already occurred , and seem likely to occur . The first exercise of Universal Suffrage in France ' has not called into existence the best possible of representative assemblies . It is a remarkable fact , that with Universal Suffrage , No Property Qualifi . cation , and Payment of Deputies , there are nevertheless not fifty working men in an assembly of nine
hundred members ! The bulk of the members consist of lawyers , hankers , contractors , landlords , military officers , &c . Whether so bad a selection has been caused by a dearth of fitting men amongst the working classes capable of assuming the functions of legislators , or the inability of the proletarians to perceive that their serial emancipation depends principally upon the law-makers being men of their own class , I am unable te say . Probably both causes , but princithe latter , have operated to produce so marked a limitation of the number of ouvriers in the
Assembly . f It is matter for profound regret , that not only are the working men elected to the Assembly very few , hut that also many men wfeo have long made the social problem their study have been altogether excluded . It is lamentable that such men should have been excluded from an Assembly which contains instead men notorious for their championship of legitimate royalty and intolerant priestcraft , like Bep . ryer and Montaiembert ; military adventurers like Lamoric-ikre ; Louis-Philippists like Dvpis ; and political humbugs , like that poor counterfeit of O'Conncll , Odillon Barrot .
Is it probable that the members of the former ' dynastic left' will he-nestly set their hands to the creation of democratic institutions ? Is it possible for bankers and the other traffickers ratiie sweat and blood of the people , named above , te seriously desire such an organisation of labour as would redeem the Proletarians from the slavery impssed upon them by their taskmasters ? ' Men do not gather grapes from thorns , or figs from thistles , ' and honest democratic legislation—political and social—will not be performed by the 'Motional Assembly unless driven in the Tight pattrby the pressure from without .
That pressure has been attempted , but badly timed and unwisely directad ; it has , instead ef weakening the reactionnaires ,- endowed them with iliCVOassd strength . The events of the 15 th of May I need not recapitulate , you all must be familiar with them . My purpose is to defend the principles of the proscribed democrats , and justify their intentions . I judge their principles and objects by the known characters of the lecders , by their declarations in the tribune of the Assembly : and by the documents found at the office of the Commune de Peris . The actors of the 15 th of May are proscribed under the-names of ' -Communists' and' Anarchists . ' The fact is that Cabet and other Communist leaders
tad nothing to do with the movement . Very probably there were Communists amongst the men who invaded the assembly , but Babbes , Blasqvi , Scbrier and Hubert are not Communist leaders , they are chiefs of the ultra-demoerats—the social re . generation democrats . In France Communist' is just now used as a ' cry , ' started by villains and echoed by fools , in the same sense that the term Jacobin ' wa 3 employed in this country fifty years since . ' Anarchist' is aa old cry invariably applied to the defenders of the poor and the champions of eternal justice . Jesus Christ himself was denounced as an anarchist , and crucified as ' a seditious and a blasphemer . '
Barees , Blanqui , Hubert , Sobrier . RaspaiLj Albert , and others of the proscribed , are men who have devoted their lives to the service of the people . They have endured years of persecution and dungeon-tortures . They are the recognised chiefs of the men who , on the 24 tb of February , summoned order out of chaos and enthroned liberty upon the ruins of despotism by decreeing the Republic . When masters of the Assembly , on the 15 th of May , what were their demands ? Bread and work for the people * a Ministry of labour and progress , justice for the Rouen democrats—butchered or imprisoned by the royalists , the immediate formation of a democratic constitution , and a tax on the rich
to enable the French people to express in proper form their generous sympathies for bleeding Poland . Who will assert tbat these demands were not just ? The documnets alleged to have been found at the residence of Sourier , supposing them tobe genuine , perfectly justify the intentions of the party . The first' decree' ( prepared like the rest in advance ) after asserting that the National Assembly had via-Iated its mission and setting forth facts in support of that assertion , proceeds to decree the formation of a Committee of Public Safety , invested with unlimited powers for constituting and organising a truly democratic Republic . The second ' decree' is missing . The third ' decree' abolishes all existing administrative and judiciary powers , public charges , functions , privileges and monopolies , and provides for the establishment of fresh powers thoroughly popular .
The bourgeois guard was to be abolished , and a working men ' s guard established instead under the title of Force Ouvriere . The fourth ' decree' provides that all known proprietors ( landlords and capitalists ) were tobe called upon for a species of property tax , to which the title of 'ImpotFraterneP was to be given , ranging from one-fifth up to the moiotty of their income , in progression , according to the amounts of their incomes , or , in case of refusal , to be liable to confiscation . This decree contains furtber provisions for the distribution of the monies thus raised among the necessitous . Another ' deeree' declares that an organisation of labour , founded upon the best possible bases , shall be promulgated in three weeks , and shall be entirely in tbe interests of the workman , protecting as far as possible the just rights of the capitalist .
Of course tbe respectable robber 3 of society are terribly shocked at the ' spoliating | intentions avowed by the ' anarchists . ' Only think of compelling an enormously rich idler to give up the half of his income , that bread and work might therewith be supplied by the State to the people ! And then think of the monstrous wickedness of arming the labourers and disarming their enemies ! The very thought of such a state of things is calculated to throw all idlers , parasites , schemers , and plunderers
into a cold sweat , and so , of course , these worthy classes denounce Sobrier and his friends as 1 thieves' and ' terrorists . ' On this side of the water , too , much virtuous indignation is expended against the' anarchists , ' ' communists , ' and ' terrorists . ' Why ? Because as the ' higher classes' are in the habit of importing French fashions , it might be , that if the reign of Justice were once established in France , the lower classes of this country might alBO become importers of the fashions o £ their neighbours ! It is asserted that the patriots of the clubs used the name of Poland as a pretext undea : which to * Of course I am apcuking of the present rovoiuUoa , ¦ j I fear a third cause has operated to fili the Chamber with the enemies ratber them tho frienda of Labour ; namely , the negleot of a very large number of tue working men to exercise their right of Suffcege . It is aaid that in the departraunt of the Seine alone a hna * ed thousand v « ters neglected to appear at the polling placer .
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cover their ' conspiracy' against the Assembly . They may have conspired agaiust the As My , but undoubtedly they desired to fly to ib rescue Of Poland . The correspondent of the fc , a bitter enemy to the Clubbists , writing from Paris the day before the 15 th , said : — I must confess that the refusal of the ( jovornment to aid the Polos seems calculated to produce s ; i awount of dissatisfaction which cannot bD conceived b ^ siy person Vfholi 3 s not eeon how enthusiastically tb > .- Frisianstha lower order * above all—have token up tbe cause of Poland . Not merely was the Rue du faubourg St AHtoinolitera % fill"d with groups , bui all tu < lateral stroota alSD . Th » Plnco de la BaStiHo wii 3 «¦><¦•) v ; d with them , and the whole line of the Boulevard raorei . ' kss so .
Again , it is asserted , tbat Barbes and his friends only desired their own personal aggrandisement . If this were true , Bahbes must have aspired to the presidency of the Republic , yet we have been told by the journals of the aristocracy and tbe bmtrgeosie that Barbes and his friends proposed thai no Directory , nor Consulate , nor Presidency : should be created , but that tbe duties of the Executive should be performed by Committees appointed by the General Assembly . Again the press-gang denounce Barbes as a ruffian who desired to give up Paris to the . pillage of bis followeis , yet the same parties have informed tbe world that Barbes ' is a gentleman of education and fortune , with an estate worth £ 4 , 000 or fo . OOO per annum . '
The men who invaded the Assembly osi the 15 th of May are represented by the lying journals of Paris and London as a crew of confederated cut-throats ; yet their demonstration was an unarmed one , and they shed not a drop of blood . The brave uumi who are now denounced as robbers and would-be assassins , are the very men who , at the barricades in Tcbruary last , conquered Louis Philippe . The following descri p tion of theee self-same men was written by the correspondent of the Times on ThuvsrUvy , March 2 nd , exactly one week after the overthrew of the monarchy : —
Those men of tho barricades—those gvlm locking , terrifiu men of Wednssday and Thuriday lasi ^ those nnwaahed , ill-dresaed , tattered men of tbo qcartors of St Martin and St Denis , and of the ShUe , and o ( the Hotel de Yille , and of tha Faubourg St Antoine , whose appeftranea and whoso crle 3 were appalliag— whore are they ? They have returned modestly to their labour ; to tha prnotico of thtir admirable industry ; lo their priTations Bnd their endurances . Let thoae men bo known to the world . Tho groat rnaua of ths combatants of 22 od , 23 rd , and 2 « a of Feb . were the poor hard-working classus of tha Parisians .
They were labourers at the ports , shoemaker !! , sawyers , carpsnters , Bhoe-blacks ; in a word , the operatives and tbe labourers of the capital . "What did they 1 They believed that the late government had cheated them of the frnita of thelt revolution of July . Thty waited tho proper moment ( ov reconquering their rights , and they went at it without arms , taking their chance of finding a dead enemy , and of arming themaelves with hla weapons . And when , by a succession of miracles , thei * courage and their constancy were rewarded by the moat splendid victory ever aohieved by insurgents , what did they ?— ' rob , '' pillage , '' murder ?'
Search the columns of thenewipapers , demand of the thousands of English and other forolgn residents of PariB during the severe Btrugglo , and thty will tell JOU that those men , so hideous &ai eo terrible in tho streets and at the barricades , bo infuriated by tho glaughtor of their friends , seized the earlisst opportunity far leaving the etose publique to bj looked aficr by hon « 3 i competent men , and returned to their werhahops , their hotels , and their poverty , proad—for that too should bs knownproad of havlnj once more conquered liberty for their country . This is not hyperbolo , nor ia it a designing , a cowardly or an interested complimsnt . If it were , I should bo sure to bo contradicted by dozens of letterB to you . defy contradiction .
I could add many a similar testimony , but the above must be all sufficient . If such was the conduct of the working men generally , you may be sure that the cien of the clubs—the most enlightened of the people—participated i » that noble conduct . Notwithstanding that I am prepared to defend the principles and objects of the men of the clubs , I must express my regret at the attempt of the loth of May . It was , I repeat , ill-timed and ill-directed . The clubs should have remembered that although the Assembly was composed of a most unmistakable set of rascals , that nevertheless it was the representation of the Universal Suffrages of the French nation , and should have been respected uniil at least it bad prepared the new constitution . If , when that
constitution had been brought to light it had been found to have been anti-Democratic , then , I say , the people of Paris , who with their blood had made the Revolution , and therefore were the natural guardians of the young Republic , would have been justified in overthrowing the Assembly by force . Had the clubs waited until then , they would have beea a hundred-fold stronger in their moral force , aud , in all probability have been able to have commanded the physical force of the entire people of the capital . Since the 15 th the Assembly has rapidly progressed from bad to worse . The monarchical reaction is in full swing , and if matters progress as of late , they have done , then , indeed , we may conclude with Blanqvi , that ' the regency cannot be far off . '
Barbes , Sobrieu , Albert , and Rasp . vii ., with more than 200 other patriots are in prison . Blan-Qui , Hubert , and Thore are being hunted for like wild beasts . The best of the clubs have been suppressed by armed force . To shoot a clubbiat ( patriot ) is meritorious ; to shoot , in self defence , a National Guard ( reactionnaire ) is murder ! Even the moderate Democrats , such as Caussidiere and Guinard , are driven from power . Louis Blanc is hooted , hustled , and insulted by the National Guard , and his arrest demanded . Fxocon aud
Lediiu-Rollin are threatened with proscription , and even Lamartine is said to have lost his popularity with the bourgeoisie , because supposed to be not sufficiently hearty in erecting a reign of terror against the Democrats . The committee for drawing up the coastitution is composed of three parts monarchists , and includes not one thorough Democrat .. Lastly , the slayer of Armand Carrell openly spits ugon the Republic , and is indirectly advosating tho claims of King Smith ' s son , Joinville , to the throne of t ! ie intended new monarchy !
Such are the melancholy results of the glorious days of February—such are already the bitter fruits of the second' 4 th of May . ' This letter presents a cheerless picture of the present position of the Democratic cause . He is a traitor to himself whu shuts his eyes to the dangers that are visible in his path ; be it our part , therefore , to look present evils iu the face , and resolve to overcome them . At home we are not without hope for the future . The people have recently exhibited an unanimous and stern determination to stand by their long tried friend and leader . This argues well for union . The
energy of the new Executive argues wel ! for action . The cause of Democracy is not lost in Germany , Since the first portion of this letter was written , a popular movement in Vienna has established Universal Suffrage ! What will miscreant Metter ; tich 3 ay to that ? The Poles though defeated and betrayed , will again and again rise until victorious . Shall we not hope for Italy ? It would be treason to humanit y to despair . And France , glorious France , nt ' iIIj de - pend upon it , not be again enslaved without a fearful struggle to save the RepublicVEvery day the acts of the Assembly are justifying the movement of the 15 th of May , and can hardly fail to ere long produce a muck more formidable movement .
Countrymen , in spite of temporary defeats ~ in spite of tyrants and traitors—in spite of aristocratical and profit-mongering conspirators—all the world overour motto shall still be , ' NeveiiDespair !' I / Ami du Pbuplb .
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Frightful Death . —Oh Tuesday last a young man named Benjamin Catchpole , aged twenty-nine , a servant in tho employ of Mr Hare , of FreBton , met with his death under the following lamentable circumstanceB . He had been ploughing , in ' oompany with four or five other men , and upon their leavingJS work , at twelve o'clock at noon , they all proceeded homewards , tho deceased riding on a spirited colt , and leading its fellow horse . In passing into an adjoining field some difficulty was experienced in getting both animals through the gateway ; but thw having at length been accomplished , the colt ho was ridiDg became restive . Alarmed for his safety , the youflg ; man threw himself off . and fell on hl 8 head , through bis foot gettisg entangled in the trace . In this position he was dragged advance of nearly fifty yards , and was ao much trampled upon by the oo £ , that his left leg waB torn completely off at the thigh , a portion of ths pelvis and some of tne inteatmea also coming away with it . When picked up , the poor fellow was quile dead ; and upon subsequent ex . amination by a medical man , he was found to have sustained , in addition to the above frightful injuries , a fraefcure of the temple U 6 n 6 , t © Suiting in eOuOUBaon of the brain . The mangled limb was found twenty yards from tbe body . An inquBBt was held on tho follo-wing day and a yordiot of ' Aooidental Daath ' returned . He was a remarkably steady young man , and his death , under suoh circrimstaacBfi , has created a strong Hensation in tho neighbourhood , t&i elicited much Bympaihyfor his rektiver ,
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And brothers , remember , God rzsileg on tbe right ! li who banished the knave 1 * he whe s&sd the brave ? L ; nfis poor men his mi ; ht ! BraTetirotbers , yosr country For-free 3 om doih cry ! [ 2 ess told eSk * mak ? , and toot " Bondage chains break' " " Or like Britons die !
* L mis Taiiippe . w . W . i God ' s hscd hss guided the revolutions of Europe ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 27, 1848, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1472/page/3/
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