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      THE SOXG OP HATRED . nr rrgRWEGB" . [ Translated by Clabesce Mjujgas . ] Yes , Freedom's war 1—though the deadl y strife Makes earth one charnel bone-yard ! The last kiss now to the child and wife , And the first firm grasp of the poniard ! Blood soon shall run in rivers above The bright flowers we to-day tread ; We have all had more than enough of lore So now for a spell of Hatred ! We have all had more than enough of love So now for a spell of Hatred ! '

      How long shall the hideous ogre , Power Rear column of skulls on column ? ' Oh , Justice ! hasten thy judgment-hour , And open thy doomsday volume ! So more oiled speech!—it is time the drove Of despots should hear their fate read"We have all had quite enough of love , Be our watchword henceforth . Hatred ! We have all had quite enough of love , Be our watchword henceforth Hatred ! Cold steel 3 To that it must come at length Nor quake to hear it spoken ! By the blows alone we strike ia our strength Can the chains of the world De broken ! Up , then ! So more in city or prove

      Let Slavery and Dismay tread ! We have all had more than enough of love , Let us now fall back upon Hatred ! We have all had more than enough of love Let us now fall back upon Hatred ! ' My friends ! the f rememdous time at hand Will show itself truly in earnest ! Do you the like!—and take your stand Where its aspect frowns the sternest ! Strive now as Tell and Korner strove I Be your sharp swords early and late red ! You have all had more than enough of love-Test now the talisman , Hatred . ' Yon have all had more than enough of love , Test now the talisman , Hatred !

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      THE DEMOCRATIC REVIEW OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN POLITICS , HISTORY , and LITERATURE . Edited by G . Julian Harney . No . 4 . September . London : E . Mackenzie , o Wine Office Court , Fleet-street . Thirteen distinct articles attest tbe variety of the contents of tins well-filled three-pennyworth of politics and literature . "The Editor ' s Letter to the "Working Classes" is

      de-Toted to a commentary on tbe new Reform Movement—a commentary likely to attract the attention of both "Reformers" and Chartists . The "Letter from Paris" has but one fault—it is too brief . ' Terrigenous " continues bis examination of tbe all-important Land question ; aud under tbe bead of ' * Social Reform" is continued the very interesting account of the principles and projects of Loois Blaxc , from "which we select the following extract : —

      EVILS OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM . Science i * incessantly developing new means of replacing , by the powers of nature , the painful toil of man . The division of labour multiplies a hundredfold our productive forces . The commercial barriers thatseparate nations tend constantly to disappear . Production is daily concentrating more and more its resources and its action . Industrial relations are continually extended by the development of credit . Now , of all these facts , each stamped with the character of pi-ogress , each susceptible , under a less deplorable regime than ours of being tumed to the advantage of all , there is not one which , for a time at least , does not tend to aggravate the sufferings of a great number of workmen .

      Each new machine is a source of profit to its possessor ; but it expels from the workshop a multitude of artisans , whose sole property it destroys , in . super seding their labour . The unfortunates thus displaced knock at the doors of the workshops in which their comrades are employed ; they offer their labour at a discount ; their eagerness for work brings a ' . iout a reduction of wages ; and until the disturbed equilibrium is entirely restored , until the influence of the new invention has become beneficent in becoming universal , the weak bear all the burden of tbe innovation , which has mad 5 the fortune of one or of a few . The division of labour in a well-regulated society , would be ot incontestable advantage . Under the present regime , what is its effect on the operative ? It tends to degrade and brutatise his nature , by concentrating his whole powers on the turning of a handle , or the fabrication of a pin .

      As commercial harriers fall before the development of free trade , each in succession determines a sudden influx of foreign produce , and an equivalent depression of the home market . On whom does the momentary crisis press ? Almost invariably on the artisan . Do we not see unscrupulous speculators turning to their personal profit , with only too much success , these periods of tcneral misfortune ? Tfiey reduce wages on the plea of diminished profits , they ware house instead of selling their products , and on disposing of them at the end of the crisis , they are enriched by what should have been their loss - by what has been the loss of their unfortunate workpeople . These are historical facts ; can anything more heartrending be cited ?

      The concentrat-on of productive toil economises manual labour ; but on the other hand , it imposts on the manufacturer an excessive extension of his trade , obliging him to seek distant consumers . wh"se number he cannot ascertain , and whose varying wants escape his appreciation . And is it not obvious that , in this perpetual clash of interests , impelled by competition to wage mutual war , eorumccial catastrophe * must beenme more treq < ient and formi ' able in proportion as the theatre of commercial operations becomes more vast ? Count , now , the victims that our vast factories , as they fall , bury beneath their ruins .

      The extension of credit is , in itself , an excellent thing , and yet in our system of indivimalism , what disasters d < es it not engender ? An artisan fortunate enough to have gained , in the sweat of his brow , bread enough for himself and his family , finds himself suddenly thrown into the street . Why ? By in whose fault ? His employers ? No ! The factory in which the workman earned his livelihood may fall hy no fault of its proprietor . The stoppage of a factory in France may be occasioned by the bankruptcy of an English fiin , which may itself have been determined by an analagous f . iilare in America . In a prudently organised associative system , the influence of such disasters would be limited , and over a whole community , its effects would scarcely be appreciable ; and we should be . spared the scandalous spectacle of thousands of honest and industrious workmen involved in ruin by the distant operation of a few fraudulent or foolhardy mil ionaires .

      As for the cheapness said to arise from competition , what after all does it represent ? Economies resulting from a saving of human labour , or from the employment of improved machinery . Cheapness , then , does but give to the affluent consumer what it has taken from the penniless producer . Under the competitive regime , which employs cheapness as a means of conflict , every diminution of prices corresponds either to a general redaction of wages , or to the exercise of a homicidal monopoly . So that what is a progress and a profit to some , involves for others an aggravation of suffering . And thus , alas ! do the fortunate unconsciously construct their happiness with the augmenting miseries of the poor .

      Competition , it is true , does not always prove dis ' advantageous to the artisan . When commodities are in demand , and workmen few , the relative positions we have described are reversed . The master has to submit to conditions dictated by the workman , and the oppressed of yesterday becomes the oppress-r of the morrow . Here we might remark that such cases ns these are exceptional ; and that the rich have resources , denied to the poor , enabling them io evade the pressure of a momentary desnotism- But no ; I prefer

      to let the objection stand in its full force—to admit the fact alleged into my chain of reasoning . For to me it matters not whether tyranny proceeded from above or below ; in either case it is abhorrent to tne . Champion , not flatterer of the people , I denounce alike the disorders by which workmen exceptionally profit , and those under which they habitually groan : and I proclaim doubly fatal every system which , to the trampled workmen , leaves no refaration but vengeance—nofelei but the saturnaliaoi udustry . Mr . Samuel Ktdd contributes an ably written article on " The Queen's Visit to Ireland . "

      « c subjoin the following specimen : —

      THE PHESE . VT AXD THE FUTURE . Oh ! Irishmen ! was it yon who tvro years . ago cheered Meagher for his denunciations of Whig" misrule—who read John MitcheFs famous sentiment , " The life of a peasant is as dear as that of a noble —who echoed Smith O'Brien's words , and sun" the heroic songs of the " Nation ? " Is it you whohave licked the dust from the feet of Royalty , and kissed the hem of the Whig garment ? I say to yon , Eng lishuien , take warning . Look to your sister isle , rich in all the resources of wealth , yet s prey to every evil . Her fate threatens to be yours . Alreadv Irish miserv , like the Asiatic cholera , paralyzes or kills all it touches : it has seated itself in t ' ae midst of yon . and will gooa envelope you ia its

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      gulf . Your every city and town has its "Little Ireland , " as a portion of Manchester is so significantly called . Do not deceive yourselves , and sav " England will never be like Ireland . England has capital , skill , industry , and intelligence . " " Did all these save you in 1842 , 1817 , and 1848 ? England hath capital , and it is at the command of those who never toil . She has skill ; it is a source of sain to the few , and misery to the many . She has industry ; and , like fever in the veins of the invalid it maddens activity to ensure exhaustion . Intelli ' gence she has not , or she would proclaim death to a system-industrial , judicial , and legislative—that injures the masses and must lead to certain ruin not too to listen ^

      Be proud to tho voice of warnin g portions of your population have ere now be » ged for a crumb from " royal favour . " The Spitalfilfs ' weavers ( at one time the most independent and spirited of your workmen ) have before now humbly petitioned for the patronage 0 f even a marchioness The " ^ magnificent charities" of the benevolent rich cannot approach the real necessities of the working poor In times of commercial depression , your workhouses are filled , and you are clamorous with your misery ; in times of prosperity , you forget bygone sufferings , and toil bke oxen , performing their task without thought . I know there are many exceptions , noble , honourable , exceptions . These exceptions serve to prove the ruleand are often

      -, per secuted and destroyed ; because of the ignorance and apathy of the multitude . Ireland had , and has still , many noble exce ptions ; but havo they saved , or can they save , the ignorant and apathetic from destruction , and their struggling country from decay ? Ao , countrymen ; the many must save themselves or they must perish , as the punishment of their sins . If the vessel be not sea-worthy , she must sink in the storm : no life-boat can save her crew , if her crew will not strive to save themselves . Feeling for Ireland , and not forgetting her occasional efforts to obtain redress , I must write of her , as of England , "A small number of robbers demur the mul titude , and the multitude suffer themselves to be devoured I "

      A strong effusion entitled "Democratic Progress , " is followed b y " The Hungarian Struggle ^—Part 2 " in "which is narrated the killing of Count Lamberg—the defeat and flight of Jellachich—the insurrection in Vienna—the battle of Schwrechat and fall of Vienna—tbe abdication of Ferdinand—the concentrical invasion of Hungary—the wonderful labours of Kossuth and his generals in organising the forces of Hungary , & c , & c . An account of the principal " Places of note in Hungary'' is succeeded by that curious and important document , the "Will of the Tsar Peter , Emperor of Russia * " "Poetry ; " a neatly written article on the late "Henry Hetherington , " and a "Political Postcript , " conclude the contents of this number . In the last-named article the Editor observes : —

      The prediction of Napoleon is being rapidly fulfilled , not as we had hoped by the triumph of Democracy , but by the victory of Despotism . The reaction is , everywhere triumphant . The bourgeois terrorists reign in France , the monkish terrorists rule in Rome , tho royal terrorists are masters of Germany ; and now Hungary lies writhing , bleeding at every pore , crushed under the heel of the Cossack . In France dungeons , in Rome the Inquisition , in Germany murders by martial law , in

      Hungary desolation and massacre , menace tho defenders of Democracy with universal destruction . But defeat , ruin , despair , lends new force to our hatred of the tyrants , against whom wo invoke the vengeance of the human race , By our frustrated hopes , by our proscribed and slaughtered brethren , and by the hatred we cherish towards their destroyers , we cry ONWARDS ! There are wrongs to avenge as well as rights to win , therefore OSWARDS !—and remember that—Freedom ' s battle once begun , Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son , Though baffled now shall yet be won .

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      SUNSHINE AND SHADOW ; A TALE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY . BT THOMAS MARTIN WHEELER , Late Secretary to the National Charter Association and National Land Company . Chapter XXII . " A hundred fathers would in my situation tell you , that as you are of noble extraction you should marry a nobleman . But I do not say so ; I will not sacrifice my child to any prejudice . "—Kotzcbue ' s "Lover ' s Vows . "

      Lord Fitzherbert was tbe eldest son of the Earl of Altringham , a peer whose ancestors came over with tho conquering Norman , and whose possessions are recorded in the Doomsday Book of the succeeding reign ; his progenitors are also honourably mentioned in the records of the battles of Cressy and Agincourt . Lord Fitzherbert was now in his 45 th year , and the father of as fine a girl as ever Dame Nature nursed in her fruitful bosom ; left a widower at the age of twenty-seven , when his daughter was only a few months old , he devoted his whole time to the education of his only child , and to the improvement of his estate . To say that she was beautiful would be too common-place an expression to do justice to her charms . Her form

      was tall for her sex—features almost eastern , in the rich olive of their complexios , and in the majestic style of their outline , her dark hair flowed in luxuriant curls over her ample shoulders , and her figure rather inclined to enbonpoint , but exquisitely moulded , was in perfect keeping with her large and oval countenance , and her full dark eye of sparkling brilliancy ; a more gorgeous being pencil never painted , nor poet imagined , than Clarence Fitzherbert , now at the period of our tale in her nineteenth year . Brought up in retirement with her father , she possessed but few of the courtly graces of the fashionable lady , hut in all the okarras of unsophisticated loveliness she abounded . Pore and simple in her maimers , as the svlv . in tribes by which she

      was surrounded , sho lived the life of a flower , glowing in the light but closing to the shade , flourishing alike amid sunshine and darkness , drawing the sweet elements of her beauty alike from both , and both seemed to disrobe themselves of their hnrshess , and mingle their purest influences in her creation . She was truly Nature's child ; she had no desires that the quiet retirement of Newland Hall would not gratify—no wishes which strayed beyond their domestic circle . Never was there a greater contrast than between the appearance and the manners of the wealthy heiress ; her queenly brow and lustrous eye would seem to speak of homage rendered and admiration demanded , whilst her voluotuous form seemed moulded to exact a world's

      wonder , instead of hiding its brightness in a small village in Derbyshire . Since the death of her mother , her father could never be prevailed upon to quit the retirement of Newland Hall , which was endeared to him by many recollections . It was there his childhood had been passed , ere his father inherited the family property , and there too he spent the short but happy period of his wedded days . Time had not dulled his passion , nor satiety effaced her charms , when the hand of Death removed its object ; he was indeed a real mourner . His sole amusement was the infant Clarence ; years passed on , and the lovely cluid unfolded new attractions to the doating sire—he was her nurse , her playfellow , her tutor and her physician ; and beneath these

      united cares she gradually developed a form as perfect as it was enchanting , and by degrees the parent felt consoled for the lossof the mother in the charms of the treasure she had with her dying words bequeathed to his care . Until her fourteenth year her father was her sole tutor , and a more docile or affectionate pupil heart could not wish for ; and it was only in compliance with the positive request of his parents , the Earl aud Countess of Altringham , that he was induced to accede to the engagement of a governess for his youthful charge . Under her careshe acquired theaccomplishments thought essential to her future position in society , and rapidly matured from the gay and mirthful child to the gorgeous woman , who won an admiring gaze from it for the

      every passing observer ; fortunate was purity of her character that the complete retirement in which she lived rendered her inaccessible to the flattery and adulation that the world would have heaped partly on the handsome woman but chiefly on the wealthy heiress . In the world she must have learned that painful lesson to the young and pure girl—the language of deception ; teaching her to hide her heart's feelings beneath the cloak of hypocrisy—to throw the mantle of pride over the features of Love—to burn with false shame if a tone of fondness or a glance of free delight escaped her bosom in the very artlessness of youthful feeling . But upon the world ' s teaching , rendering the fairest forms in creation the most deceptive and unreal . What can wc expect ' . in after-life from those who , almost from infancy , arc taught to cloak aud disguise their feelings , and to smother feelings alike 1 natural and honourable ? Away with such deceit

      and double dealing I the pure love ot a pure heart is naught to he ashamed of ; if girlhood ' s bosom flutter at the name of her lover , it is a feeling as natural in her as in the opposite sex ; and why should its expression be smothered to make it hurTT more intensely within , giving fresh fuel to that destroyer ofhei-happiness—yclept , " womanly pride ? " The daughters of poverty are exempt in a great degree from this false delicacy , and their social homes are far happier for this exemption . But we must cease moralising , and proceed with our story . The Earl of Altringham was one of the few old Whig peers who supported the Free Trade policy . Walter North , prior to his becoming a candidate for Parliamentarv honours , had been slighted acquainted with the " Earl , owis ? to the similarity of thenpolitics bringing them into contact m tbe county in which they were both resident , hut it was tlwt evciitwhichparticularlvint ' ro'liced him to the Earls notice . Iho borough he was" canvassing TO near

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      the seat of that nobleman , and the property he had purchased was the adjoining estate , ana in fact had once formed a portion of the Altringham poperty ; it was owing , in a great measure , to the Earl ' s influence that his election was secured , and the connexion thus established betweenthem soon ripened into something approachnig to intimacy . It was during a casual visit at the Earl ' s that he first saw Clarence Fitzherbert—a brighter vision could not possibly have opened upon him ; beauty , wealth , and titles were combined in the lovely being ho now for the first time beheld . To say his was love at first sight would be a pel-version of the term ; it was ambition , avarice and lust combined into one passion , developing all the power and

      intensity , but destitute of the softness and purity of genuine love . Exerting his every effort to please , he speedily wormed himself into the good graces of the calm and melancholy Lord Fitzherbert , and could not possibly have obtained a betterpassnorttothe good graces of the daughter , who loved her father with affection almost as great as his filial cares deserved . During the fortnight to which Lord Fitzherbert ' s stay was limited , Walter North was a constant attendant at the Earl ' s mansion , and so well did he improve this opportunity , that at the expiration of this period it would have been difficult to say in whose estimation he stood highest , that of the father or the daughter ; unaccustomed to society , her father being her sole male friend , tho |

      handsome person , and tho bland language of the young member of parliament , had an undue influence on her imagination . Love of homage and admiration , though hitherto undeveloped , could not fail to be latent in a frame like hers . Artfully did he raise these feelings within her , and minister to their gratification , whilst praise of the daughter was music to the father ' s ear ; thus his suit prospered to his heart ' s content ; and ere the visit expired he was formally invited to bo their guest at Newland House , a favour denied to all save near relatives , since the death of Lady Fitzherbert . The Earl of Altringham , proud of his ancestral honours , would willingly have chosen a more exalted match for his loved grandchild , but gave way before

      the expressed wishes of the lovely Clarence , and Walter North was his neighbour and friend ; his settlements were as liberal as could be desired , and his property combined with the Altringham estate , would re-establish the old family domains of the Fitzherberts , and repair the ravages which time and the extravagance of his immediate ancestor had effected upon the property ; his consent was therefore speedily obtained , and ere a twelvemonth had elapsed from his first introduction , Walter Nerth led to the hymeneal altar the beauteous Clarence Fitzherbert—a prize which greater and richer men might have strove for in vain , but which without trouble , almost without exertion , fell into the hands of the lucky bridegroom . Fortunate man ! thou hast won a prize in the matrimonial lottery worthy thy heart ' s true

      devotion—mayest thou prove thy gratitude by rendering her after years as peaceful and happy as those that have flown , ore she became thy brido . ' The cup of Walter ' s felicity was now filled to the brimthe stake for which he played was nearl y gained ; the lowly born publican ' s son was the son-in-law of an earl , and nobility to himself was a result almost within his grasp ; he had but to throw off his allegiance to his League friends , and prove himself a devoted supporter of the Whig administration , and his ambitious projects would speedily be realised . Truly is Dame Fortune represented to be blind ; her favours are showered indiscriminately around , worth is no criterion of posterity ; industry cannot secure success ; talent oft times is only a burthen to its possessor , whilst cringing mediocrity mounts the ladder of fame , and bland assurance reaps the harvest of undeserved promotion . ( To be continued . )

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      THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE HENRY HETHERINGTON . This ceremony was , in accordance with his last " will and testament" conducted without the least show of mourning , pomp , or ornament . The procession started from Jndd-stroet , Brunswick-square , about half-past two o ' clock on Sunday , August 26 ; itconsistedofahearse bearing the body , the two sides hung with blue silk , on which were silver letters bearing the following inscription , quoted from his last will and testament : "' Tis our duty to leave the world better than we found it ; " and on the back of the hearse was inscribed in a similar manner the name of the deceased . The procession consisted of about thirty carriages , cabriolets , « fcc ., and a walking procession four a-breast , of from four to five hundred persons , and on the arrival of the procession at tbe cemetery there could not be less than two

      thousand persons present . At the gates the coffin was lifted from the hearse and borne on men ' s shoulders to the grave , followed by the numerous friends of the deceased . The grave is situated next to the one in which the remains of " l ' ublicola" are interred , iu a piece of unconsecratcd ground , the property of W . D . Saul , Esq ., around which the friends congregated . The body was lowered into the grave , and " PublicqlaV tomb formed an appropriate pedestal from which Mr . E . J . Holyoakc delivered the following very appropriate ovation ;—" It seems to me that he who is appointed to spsak on an occasion like this should prepare what he will say , that no effort of memory or art , in recalling a fact or turning a sentence , should interrupt that simple expression of feeling which alone is suitable in this spot—and that no inapt word should occur to mar the unity of that regret , which is the only tribute left us to offer at the grave of our common friend .

      " The usual church service on these occasion is omitted , out of obedience to the wishes of the friend whom wc lament—audits omission also meets with our own approbation , as that service is little instructive , thvows no light on personal character , and is , in some respects , a libel both on the dead and the living , And to say this much is in accordance with the wishes of Henry Hetherington , whom we inter here , and whose indomitable opposition to clerical error he desired to be perpetuated after his death . " Henry Hetherington , around whose grave wc stand , was the well known publisher lately residing at 57 , Judd-strcct , Brunswick-square , lio was a native of London , and was one of the early members of the London Mechanics' Institution , founded by Dr . B ' irkheek , to which he owed many advantages . Henry Hetherington first became known to the public by the stand which he took when he thought that institution was about to be perverted

      from the designs of its founders . A printer b y trade , he became afterwards a publisher , and during the struggle for the emancipation of the press from the fetters of the Newspaper Stamp , he became an accredited leader . He published the Poor Man ' s Guardian , to try , as he said , the strength of Right ' against 'Might , ' and he continued it in defiance of prosecutions which extended over three years and a half—during which time five hundred persons were imprisoned in the struggle ; at last a special jury under Lord Lyndhurst , declared it ' a strictly legal publication . ' They ought to havo declared thatthe brave and resolute editor was strictly invincible , and that his Guardian became legal because it could not be put down—for Hetherington continued to conduct it , in gaol and out , and no accumulation of imprisonment , nor amount of loss , intimidated him . It was he who was appointed to d aw up that' Circular' which was the foundation of the'National Union of the "Workinff Classes '

      The Charter Newspaper , of 183 D , gave his portrait as one of the delegates to the 'National Convention . ' And since ho has constantly been—when not in prison for the people—working for them through the press and in connexion with public institutions . "In conjunction with his valued friends and old coadjutors , Watson and Lovett , he exerted himself for the establishment of the National Hall , Holbprn . For the last few years his ardent services have been given to the Literary and Scientific Institution , John-street , Fitzroy-square , which has embodied in its management the developement of his most cherished ideas of religious liberty , political

      enfranchisement , and social reformation . How profoundly he was esteemed in that institution tho arrangements of this day , and the presence of the John-street friends testify . In the parish of St . Pancras , of which he was a Director of the poor , he has commanded , even amid those who dissented from him , esteem for his benevolent views , his practical ability , and good sense . And it is not a little gratifying , that the last public body which enjoyed the honour of his co-operation was the Newspaper Stamp Abolition Committee , who are associated to acornplish that reformation with which the name of Henry Hetherington is so honourably and so indissoluoiy connected .

      " Whatever may be useful to others , Hetherington would desire to be said of him ; hence it may be remarked , that though he has fallen a victim to the prevailing epidemic , it is highly probable he might havo lived had not a fixed aversion to medicine prevented him seeking proper aid in time . He calculated , as he had a right to do , on a life of temperance as a great safeguard . But though a wise temperance wul save us from half the maladies of the day , it does not supersede the necessity—when really " in danger—for that hel p which the observation and experience of the physician can afford us . As respects our friend's death , lean bear personal

      testimony how much it became hislife . As soon as he found himself in danger , I was summoned to his bed side , and , with few interruptions , I was with him till his decease . Having always believed to the best of his understanding , and acted to the best of his ability , he had no reason for fear , and he manifested none . He alluded to his probable death with so much good sense , and his bearing to the last hour was so quiet and so full of equanimity , that I could discern no difference between his death and his life , save in his failing strength . As sickness could not alter the evidence on which his principles wsted , they underwent bo change , He died .

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      T > lK . , o the ex Plicit » tl , e unchanging foe of iriestcraft , Superstition , and Oppression ; and he teW " ^ included that a life devoted ™« : I ?? ro of humanity in this world , was no unsuitable preparation for any other . viewed m his public relations , Hetherington was an exemplar of the school of politicians amid which he was reared . We are now verging on a phase in which we chiefly affirm positive principles . The school of politicians ( to which , indeed , we owe our P « . . bert > ' ) -now going a little out of fashion IT n ? m w " icl 1 averted a right and antagonised it . ui this school Hetherington was the most period type which remained amongst us . Ho did not look upon a political viotorr as something to be v . on hy exposition so much as ' by assault . Hence he

      SK I ? ?» tkui advocate ; and it must be admittea that political corruption never had a more chlmSon ° nentj norP ° PuJar right a more doughty tw ^ f ? m Y admiration of mv friend to kn ow that ho desired no blind eulogist to illustrate his So ^ " ii ? * oc « ment which he put into my i ,, nivfJ T { 5 ? . reh , ' ^ cease , he expressed a manly wnm that his faults as well as hiV virtues S * tv " ^ minister to the instruction of ? S '« f w < ? aWos m ° to explain the two-fold K , ( fuHn n CbaVac , tel" He had ft two-fold cha-OD ? fri ££ oUy j ^ rk 0 d - Mai , yin the ranks above ? £ moS wl ' fU % u ? dcrs toou him . To them he ores ion tlZ if * , 0 pulsiTO air " He 8 ™ that imwbK ^ hT tUat , err 0 r of P ai'ty Politics , in Zfin ea ,, ^ nrCgard l an ^ PPOnent , as an opponent in consequence of nnwinnni ;„(! . ( -JL

      „ than through difference of understanding and ! ff ! 52 S 7 ^ i ^ frora tho * 8 K 2 f biS , and wrapped himself up in the integrity and noverty and ruggedness of his own order . Kmed tofedthatto iwipwcato blandiBhments wS ^ Sth was to betray his cause . Ho regarded it as the nclined plane , polished as marbfe but slLpery as glass upon which if the foot of tho paffi 7 * X tZ ?^ Za Y £ - had an in tesW wb 4 could Sw f e * f ^ as p voo { a e ainst amuesas against frowns ; but it was not his temper to trust it . loose , however ,. who approached him on his own ground , who had the honour of working or suffering with him , never knew a more eeniaf nature

      allied to so stout a spirit . He was a personification ot good-humoured Democracy . The very tones of his voice bespoke tho fulness of honesty and pleasantry . And beneath his uncompromising exterior and jocular speech , lay the diamond ore of courage , and truth , and toil . He had a hand as true as ever friendship grasped . In the hour of political danger every coadjutor knew that the secrets of life and liberty could be entrusted into Hetherington ' a keeping . As for toil , he was unwearying . Ho worked till his last days . He carried out in practice that exalted creed of duty , of which Home ' s great Triumvir , Mazzini , is the exponent and highest typo . With him Hetherington seemed to hold that « ease is tho death of the soul , ' and when he enlisted in the

      army of progress he enlisted for life ; and , as he never faltered , though he served without pay or pension , let it be remembered to his honour , ' For to side with truth is noble , when wo share her wretched crust Before her cause brings fame or profit , and 'tis prosperous to bo just . ' " The publications which ho edited , and pamphlets which lie wrote , attest his great industryand something more : for , when he was an author , it required not only ability to write , but courage to defend it . And he not only defended tho liberty of tho press , he defended the liberty of conscience and the liberty of speech . When tried on an indictment

      tor blasphemy , in 1840 , his defence was so well conceived that Lord Denman paid him the compliment of saying that' he had listened to it with feelings of interest and with sentiments of respect , ' and this tribute he won , no loss by his unassuming but firm bearing , than by his judicious address . " Those who know what political trials and imprisonments arc , at the hands of an oppressive government and vindictive priesthood , know that language is inadequate to express the losses and sufferings which are included in those familiar but frightful words . But Hetherington knew not only how to work , but how to suffer—nor has it been in vain : — "' Carelois seems the Avenger ; history ' s pages but

      record One death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word ; Truth for ever on tho scaffold , Wrong for over on the throne—Yet that scaffold sways the future , and , behind tho dim unknown , Standeth Progress in the shadow , keeping watch above its own . ' " No less remarkable than his political consistency was the fervour with which our friend cmbraced and advocated the views of Robert Owen . They fell on his paths like a stream of light ,- tliey mellowed his manners ; they interested his practical understanding ; they gratified his humanity , and filled him with hope . "' The old world is effete : there man with man Jostles , and in tha brawl for means to live , Life is trod under foot . '

      Hetherington felt this deeply , and he never ceased to reverence Mr . Owen for his benevolent and ceaseless labours and his remedial proposals . "My co-operation with my friend has extended over many years . But now ; as at the first hour of our acquaintance , there are two qualities of his which I have been struck with mora than with others—his utility ana his bravery . He was decidedly the most useful . public man I ever met with . At a public meeting ho was of unexampled service . He would do a man ' s duty at a moment's notice . lie woufd take the chair or speak . He never hesitated to do what everybody else declined to do . He hud no vanity to ha consulted—no egotism

      stood in the way ot his co-operation with othershe had no ambition but to bo useful . And ho was as brave as he was devoted . lie never shrunk from danger . To the last day of his life he would have suffered his home to ho broken up , and himseli dragged to prison , to champion an important principle . Many men can he patriots in the fervour of youth and in the presence of applause . Hetherington had a spirit which was neither chilled by age nor damped by neglect . But we have the satisfaction of observing , that the respect paid to his memory by tho public , the press , and his coadjutors , early and late , is a proof that private worth and public service bring with them individual esteem and general honour . A life spent like his

      ' Will rear A monument in Fate ' s despite , Whose epitaph will grow more clear As truth shall rise and scatter light Full and more full from Freedom ' s height " ' Let it be graven on his tomb : — ' lie came and left more smiles behind , One ray he shot athwart the gloom , Ho helped one fetter to unbind ; Men think of him and grow more kind . '

      " In Henry Hetherington the people have lost an advocate and truth a resolute partisan . Every honest politician has lost an able coadjhtor , every patriot an exemplar , and evcry true man among us a friend . In taking our last Farewell of him at this grave , we should tell him ( could he hear our voice ) that wc do it with mingled feelings of joy and sorrow . We even feel a triumph in his life while we part with profound sadness at the loss of so noble a friend . Iu those social reunions , where he has been so great a charm , we shall bo all the merrier as we remember his unclouded humour : and as we continue that struggle , to which his life has been devoted , wo shall take new courage from his example—we shall inspire new confidence in what one man can do , as we remember what one man has done ; and when in future times the pilgrims of Industry shall visit this shrine , they will

      exclaim'UEUE LIES A POOn MAJT . 3 OVAttDlAH ;' and poor men will drop tributary tears over his grave . " Ho was followed briefly by Mr . James Watson , in a most feeling address , during which many were affected to tears ; after which the numerous assemblagodeparted , pleased with the moral greatness of theiroeceased friend , and regretting the loss of a consistent advocate . We understand that" The Will and Testament " of Mr . Hetherington will be published by Mr . Watson ; and his " Cheap Salvation " is also on sale . We would recommend a perusal of these works to all inquirers after truth . " The Will and Testament" is the best test that Henry Hetherington died as he had lived—a lover of truth and hater of falsehood , the friend of the millions , and tho determined foe of the oppressor , be he king , lord , or priest . All honour to his memory , and may his many manly virtues prove bright examples .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 1, 1849, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_01091849/page/3/