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      \ & o * , exclusive , egofetica ) 1 Saying like Cromwell , after 1642 : « all for ! lfld « nd by England ; " like America , still reeking y * th the generous blood , U * " beC ° gWI * mUSt rema ! n nwtfiP" Par *<»« that , she : ^ A- * SaW t 0 tll ° ° ples ' be free ' ™ * brothers ; she said to her lnU " r ' ° ° ™ ° Ur anM iR th ° C 0 Hntr ? es in ^ ed for our defence J til tl . e nation stall have established a free and popular government ; " and above J a « * tax only the princes and their agents , the abettors or adherents of the ^ arcl'f . « h" ' * " ° MB the pe ° P ' than tlle c »» cer tlmt rots the fah U the t # an body . " Such was the character of our Revolution ; profoundly devoted Roundly cosmopolitan , profoundly humanitarian ; thus see wherefor . the seed ; hasSown in Europe has borne fruit , see wherefore the peoples have finished by ^ ersfa ^ inga nill 0 Vin S lier > see wherefore , they are ready to rise to defend her ¦ j ^ vo , bravo !) And now that I have shown her active part in the destinies of p wld . - < Ii « Ml have » eed f ° reca 11 whafc ^ e has done for the country . -l wouli ^ itate citizens , if I spoke only for you , whose souvenirs are a faith in the Revoyj »; W J »« we not bee * called t ^ Voltigeurs of ' 93 , the stupid plagiarists , n inansp ieious time , without greatness—without institutions > -and who have < Z ,. elusive , egotistical ? Saying like Cromwell , after ll

      ,- * „„ mark in history , but by a pool of Mood ? Oh ! undoubtedl y we reply to ^ - menu ss , who calumniate our gratitude , we ignore nothing , i » nature or in l efWiy , w «!>«>*«« * un ( j 81 ' ^ e same image , and we have seen too much ste ady , devoured too many books , not to know that it is necessary to take into acorn * ihe time , morals , and science , in the thesis to be successful . But we love Revolution ; ifctt is not paying enough ,, in my opinion ; we should incline aasive * brfore the devolution , because , firstly , that , in the defence of the tori a ,,,, d « lias presented to the worid a spectacle of heroic enthusiasm , of super-Hainan devotion , ™ & of indomitable energy , which ha < drawn cries of admin un even frmn her nmst implacable enemies , and who still confound at the mi * ^ lime , the most audacious minds . - ( Prolonged A pplause . ) -We still incline

      . missives before her , as one inclines before a mother , because that clearing sVfral eentnrfes as by a .-ingle bound , at a time when Europe scarce whispered thpvrordsof political liberties she resolutely examined and partly resolved the problems which others have since reproduced , believin- that they invent the thine dpnthey only invent the word . What ! it was not social , that Revolution sbidi . in the political orders of equality said : — " The sovereignty of the citizen is &Kt , ami incapable of delegation ; it is free in his COiwcience and in the exprft-sion ofhisliopesjand it was at this point that Dan ' ton , between civil and foreign war . cried , " Liberty of the Press , or death ! " Slavery is abolished All

      sre eGjnble to the offices of state . There are duties , and no longer any distinction ? . Ever ) ' citizen is armed to defend his right . It is his duty to strike down iheusurper of l" 3 sovereignty . Education and justice are gratuitous . The con-. limriim maybe revised , ; or one generation will be excelled by the generations to me * W w * nnt snc > al *»* resolution which proceeding in the economical civj-1 ? of the common happiness , held the right to work as a social right * which flmaqaently and provisionally opened workshops in every canton ; which to give sfonmiation for the . Republic , created with the goods of the clergy , of the nobles and of the counter-revolutionaries , three millions of new nronrfet * .- ' . ™ i . ' i ! and ol Hie counter-revolutionaries , three millions of new proprieto which

      rs- uwhfed the value of the land by the assignnt ; which re-established credit amidst te general disaster , by the formation of the Grand Llvre which organised public dmueilary succours , established foundling , hospitals , accorded assistance to fannlie . burdened with children nnder age , and protected OUT UXtel'ior commerce ad our marine , by the famous Navi gation Act , which was the starting point of iteir future development . Citizens , it fatigues my . memory to follow it in all those social reforms , the decreeing , the codification and simplification of the laws , die uniformity of weight * and measures , the appijeationpf the decimal system ! ite foundation of the Institute , the Ecole Norraale , the Ecole Pol yteehniqne , the itorenu ilPi Longitude * , the Conservatoire des Arts . et Metiers . . Ah ! be sure we still livfiin her , and Europe lives in , us .. Be not then u » gratefnl . ~( Xo no

      !)—flnubiless , notwithstanding so many great thing * , everything is ; far from being said ; for progress , which stays no more than time , advances . science , and study has discovered means of credit , which , by the larger circulation of labour and capita ) , conducts more surely to equality . But always the convention was the erafleof true popular principles , and it is , for that , that instead of denying that holy tradition , we venerate it , it is for that the people love it , it is for tfiat , that the ppopK who are ne ^ er deceived , gave vent in the inauspicions days of the Prairial , when the curtain fell on the Revolution , to that last cry , "Bread ; and the Constitution of ' 93 ! " That is to say , direct sovHrnment , ami tlie right to work . The right to work ! Eternal . problem ! , wliieh was working before February , and which will be working to-morrow . Wherefore lias not February resolved it ? Is it , as it has been said , because it wanted an aim 1 Oh , no ! there are some men who well know that the asseneeof

      ill -evolution is to disperse the mass of interests , to destroy some , in order to create a greater number . What was wanting to the Be volution was the sirugjile , Hie an « er which eng « nuev ? strength , it was the breath , the life , the faith > not the I ' airli which sings , but the faith mute , robust , and persevering . ( That is true-rihat is true !) How crush some interests to create new , when all forgot and iiitaaced enchoiber , when it was thought that all was finished because a corrupt power had given place to one of probity and integrity ? It is true that it . has 'sen said that , the Provisional Government failed in the initiative . A reproach lamented , perhaps , if it . be considered that a revolutionary government , which Jiss « n ' y a moral ascendancy , is perhaps but the country itself . Like the sail , it

      "i * n » power other than rise wiml which fills it . Then say whence would COUie ¦ isat jmppiuous wind of t \ w Revolution which would overthrow the institution of l'ie past , wnen the people themselves brought the priests to bless the trees of Wwty , and we had to forget the dying words of Mirabeau , " Nothing will be tone for the Revolution so long as , failing to separate tne clergy from the state , mnre . shall not have been de-christianised . " How transform thearmy , submerge it in the levee en masse , when the frontier was not menaced ? How realise that * i * hof Danton , "That after the Right , a musket should be the most sacred ilwig amongst us , " when it was necessary to seize one by one the 150 , 000 muskets wh which I had armed Paris ? How reform the magistrature , when it cried fonder than everybody else , " Yivela Republique ! " and the whole nation would

      I ? ave it as it was ? . How destroy parasitism , stock-jobbing , and usury , when the Honrsp , that great den of thieves , closed for an instant , could be re-opened , and !} " 'fi people never close it with their nil-powerful hand ? How constitute the immune in enlarging it , making it a point of instruction , of credit , and of national strength , a centre of resistance to every coup , de main , to every tyranny , wen the country had but one wish : the meeting of an assembly to which every-« in& should lie reserved . Again , where were the dangers , tho anger , the hatred , "' e ardent breath which feeds the furnace of revolutions , and permits , in the jnittst of gnat circumstances , the accomplishment of great thinss ? . --No , no ; , from '"a t Involution there could come hut one institution—Universal Suffrage , ^ nere fnre ? Because it was taking from no ^ e and giving to everyone . Without

      ^ nw , it had its waverings and its errors . But what institution has not needed ! me » what other , embracing ten millions of men , has so soon finished its educau » that it needed nothing less than the law of the 81 st of May , and later , the namelass crime of the 2 nd of December , to arrest its irresistible , victorious i ° 5 lrSe ' . Citize nsj in less than four years to put a nation in fall possession of ^ rspi f jS a thing unheard of in history ! Thus , how many serious minds in ^ iTOpe has not that spectacle won to the Repubjio ! ( Prolonged applause . ) at leave , citizens , the devolution of February , considered henceforth powerless d CTtnR to the redoubtable problem of the age . What is it 1 This is how I un « ^[ Mand it . Mould into one , the three classes which at present divides France ; rinS the two extremesthat is to sav the parasitismwhich lives in opulence and

      , , productive consumption , and the proletariat which live * in absolute subjection o cr « shing misery , to the medium point , to that middle class which , composed emanci pated workmen , speculators , overseers , shopkeepers , manufacturers , ^ 'cultiirists , servants , and artists , lives much more on ite personal production , an on its capital ov privileges . ( Bravo , bravo !) Cause , in a word , not by J * 1 ^ 1 "PO'lations , but by wise institutions , that all , without exception , have in Ig " P Portion , capital , free labour , and competence . ( Unanimous applause . ) ^ 'i possible ? ( Yes , yes \) With you 1 reply , ye * , since the counter-revplu-^ nists , prntpcted by the great clemency of February , have shown how they play J l tlle forrune , the labour , the natrimonv of the republicans ; yes , the revoiu-r bich is

      { ^ brewing , will have wherewitli to amply satisfy her new interests . Te plj "» yes , if 1 judge of the strength of the projection she will h ? ive , by the es-% " * e 3 emenfs that are gathered together and compressed continually . Ah ! let l ; m char % e ihp TOl « e well , that in bursting it may carry , the farther . Citizena , tho * * . '" ^ ^ t 5 mt if ' that all revolutionary action is in direct consequence of .-:. ' . ' ) iunst : P'i , the sufferings , the pers ? cution . « , and the miseries which have ftM " b ' * Thus is tHat for lm ' ee ye ^ ' ^ e ry bl 0 V 7 of - adyersity which revo ? " ? UFDn m * ' f n ; lTe « aid , so much the better , it is a new force for the '" 'isQ UUOn ' ° " ue ! l the Dett *" f a * fv'iry new proscription , at every closing - - •« on dcor , at every heaci that falls , at . ewry new ; grief , yes , so much th

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      stnt Sn tr ^ ° r 8 eCU ^ ' haVe hcari 8 of ™' bronze f Wc ^^ TShl " . ^ - Umt f ° r the ^^ we have heart o Perso nal , to make us In nf T ° U"e ^ ^ '" W ° rking to render « 3 »» - Once again , Tmucli « , e beS / ' tV ** " us the bet ^ *« « rv humanity . ( Bravo bmrnif 2 r > ' Stnke aw « y . we multiply under your blowsJ ^ S ^ SSSi ^; ^ i ^ sa ^ yart Mf ^^ - ^

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      , ^ '" . _ BRADFom ) .- SECUiAit Lectures .-Oii Weduesdav 29 th Mr Broom Quir ed at Shipley , on Secular Education , w £ fim Wtuvedehveredin tkvillage . Last Sunday , m Br ^ dfl ^ t econdlectuvc on die . life of Thomas P ,, ine . He traced th hhCtf ^ l obla ft-eethmker from the close , f the . American warTldf death . He also exposed a lying tract that lias been printed and circulated m the town . On Monday evening- } le anaweid the auesL ' whatisGoffinismf in the Temperance Hall , Leeds S S qne ^ tms were asked at the close , whicn ^ Ir . Broom satisfactorily vl « hip LoCALiTY .- ^ Moved by Mr . Stratton , received bv Mr . Evans , That the member , of this locality-one cf the oldest in tile

      Chartist movements—ire determined to stick » o the whole six points name and all ; but at the same time > vili assist any other shade of Reformers , who will agitate ibr any ; pf tlie points of the i eople ' s Charter . A discussion will take place at this locality on Sunday evening next , subject , " military and political career of the late Duke of Wellington , " Ship . Tavern ,. High-street , Great Garden-street , VVhitechapel ; George Smith , Secretary .

      Mesmerism asd CLAiRV 0 YA * cE ^ Mr . Gerald Massey delivered his second lecture on Mesmerism and Glairvoyance at the John Street Institution , on Tu&sday evening last . There was a large attendance , and the experiments made after the lecture , were as successful as on the former occasion , notwithstanding the evident illnegs of the clairvoyiinte .

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      &t The Secretaries of Trades * Unions ^ and other bodies associated to protect and advance the interests of Labour , .-will oblige by forwarding the reports of Trades' Meetings , Strikes , and other information affecting the social position of the Working Classes . FROM THE -EMIGRATION COMMITTEE OP THE AMAL . GAMATED SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS , MACHINISTS ; MILLWRIGHTS , SMltHS , AND PATTERN MAKERS . ; Committee Room , Crown Tavern , Obelisk , Westminster-road .

      Fellow . \ VoRKsiES , ~ Tlie late cqntest in \ yluch we have been engaged , whatever may have been its usefulness or its tendencies , has left some of tlie members of the Amalgamated Society in a . poai . tion of dependence and deprivation . This result is brought about by the fact that those who have taken the greatest interest in their trade ' s affairs have been singled out by the employers , their names have been published and sent to all the employers of the country , with an especial request not to employ any of them . Without at all saying one word with respect to such conduct , for it speaks loudly enough for itself , we may be indulged if we attempt , by the formation of a committee and by obtain ^ g subscriptions , to promote the emigration to another country of those who cannot find employment in their own .

      . There are some who cannot submit to sign the masters' declaration , which calls for an abrogation of those rights of association inherent in men of altranks and grades of > wealth . There are others who , from having taken a prominent parjtiiitheagitation , are marked men , destined to be kept in continual idleness and poverty . To provide for these is an object of earnest consideration . For this purpose a committee has Deselected out of the various branches of tlie Amalgamated Socifcty in London j to assist those who desire to carrv . their skill at | d industry to distant lands , where labour fefe *^ ¦ »• % ^ ^^ - ^\^ ^* »^ ^^ »* »»^« - ^ — - - _ ¦; . h ( * W i . 1 ^^

      * is yet too scarce and too yaluablejo reduce the workman to the goridition . of a serf . To collect funds to cany out tliat oKject , appeals have already been made with partial success . Some are already on their passage to the ferule shores of yiuatralia , others remain ; who need assistance . In their name , and upon their behalf , the committee how appeal to you for subscriptions towards raising the necessary amount , in , the full confidence that you . wjll not be backward to aid those who have suffered , not only for themselves , but for the assertion of the . general rights oflaboiir .

      It is . for the good , not only of the Amalgamated Society , but of all that the surplus labour should not remain here , while Other countries offer a field for it , of which mivny adventurous and independent men are . " anxious to take advantage of . To aid them by contributions appears to us to be the duty of every man who willies well to his trade , and those who have struggled hard for its independence ; and if a willingness is shown on the part of those who are more immediately interested to assist the committee in their present object , and if we should not be enabled to get sufficient means to carry out that object , there are gentlemen Who bear us sufficient good will to subscribe handsomely towards making up the necessarV amount , to aid all those who are deprived by the injustice of their employers ^ of ^ obtaining work in this country .

      We have said sufficient to show every one the necessity of assisting us -and- ' ' witli great-confidence we leave . the matter in ypur hands , strongly hoping that our appeal for aid in a cause tlia , t not only pro poses to confer an advantage on those who go , but also on those who stay behiiid . will not go uriresponded to by our fellow workmen in all parts of tlie country . ; , ,. ,, . m The comniiitee is < actively , engage ^ lii , compiling rules for the efficient working of a general organised plan of emigration on an extensive scale . Bt Order of . the . . Committee .. : .

      . j ^ B . . —The committee meet every Wednesday evening , at the Crown Tavern , Obelisk , Westminster-road , at eight o'clock , where all communications will be addressed .

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      NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF UNITED TRADES . 259 , Tottenham-court-road , London . We have received numerous letters of inquiry iis to our progress and prospects in our efforts to arouse our fellow working men from iheir indolence and apathy to a slate of manly activity , and to convert the present gleam of commercial prosperity into a means of preparation for ipeeting that inevitable reaction vfhich " looms in the future , " with almost the same certainty as the alternations of summer and winter ;

      . . . Wliatever are the causes which have produced ( he present traqing and agricultural prosperity ( for that those proverbial grumblers ,, the " agricu ltural interest" are pretty well to do , is apparent from their unwonted quietiiess ) , it may be taken for granted that this general prosperity , as it is called , being the enVots entirelyi . of . fortuitous circuinstance ? j rather than the result of a wise , just , and enlightened comm whialpeiicyj in wliicli the well "being-of the people was the eod in view ,

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      the causes which have for the last half century acted so diaaUrously upon the industry of the nation , being still in full activi-y , any seeming prosperity , which is the effect of accident and not of cesign can be but transitory and uncertain in its continuance , and partial in its effects . 1 he craft of the political and commercial jugglery of the age , when time has enabled it to comprehend and adjust itself to the present temporary disturbance in its relations with labour , will soon discover the means , through its twin monopolies of-capital and legislation , to appropriate to itself the lion ' s share of the gold and the prosperity . &

      Alread y , has the editorial index finger of the Times , that atant couner o new men and of new measures , pointed to a source whence the deserted labour field of England is to be requited . The continental states are to furnish its willing contingents to fill up the gap made by the emigration mania , so singularly patronised by arnne olf labour s most petted champions . But , perchance , the proleiaires of Germany may prefer the wild liberty and independence of gold hunting to the mild and paternal sway of our mill owners , iron lords , and coal kings , lt strikes us , however , that a forced importation of coolies and sepoys from our vast and populous East Indian posses-S i ° i lld be * re « mtale speculationand an infinitelmore

      : _ . T > , y congenial substitute for the dogged , obstinate , grumbling English workman . The Hindoo character is so meek and inoffensive their , habits and modes of living so simple and inexpensive , and then what they lacked in energy and application could be read . ly compensated for by an unlimited supply , and a non-observance of inconvenient ten hour bills . However bright and cheering a complexion our prospects may wear at the present juncture , by hook or by crook , the capitalist ascendancy will be maintained in this country as long as the existing partial and unjust political and social arrangements continue . Any partial emigration of British labour must , we think piove ultimately and highly injurious to the interests

      ot those left behind , by subjecting them to a more heartless and grinding competition than any they are now exposed to . In the event of a labour famine caused by emigration , there would be as little difficulty in importing Indian labour , as there was recently Indian corn ; and we can readily imagine the keen and lively competition with which the Perrys and Platts of the manufacturing world would outbid each other for a supply from the first live black cargo which the acumen and patriotism of our merchant

      princes imported from the East . The Hindoo , how admirably adapted for the atmosphere and discipline of the cotton mill I Passive beings , slaves in everything but the name , who would diet luxuriously upon two feeds of damaged rice , enlivened with a pinch or two of the Duke of Norfolk ' s condiment , pepper or curry powder , at a cost perhaps , per day , including lodgings , of a few pence . What a real godsend to the high and mighty satraps of manufacturing England , and what a visitation and death-blow to the independence of British industry !

      All levity apart , we are really pointing to a possible and we believe a verypro&a&jg resource for meeting an unexpected and very embarrassing contingency . We shall take a future and tarly occasion to return to this subject , and at present content ourselves with a general reply to our numerous correspondents referred to at the commencement of this article . We are happy to say that from the reports of our colleagues , Messrs . Green and Winters , who have just concluded very pains-taking tours in the midland and northern counties , that amongst the masses wherever our friends had an opportunity of meeting them , the feeling in favour of a National Protective Confederation of Labour was universal . The

      only important objection which it appears can be brought to the constitution and laws of the National Association is its rigid centralisation of power and action . It will be the duty of the executive o consider hovr far this objection can be lemoved without impairing its efficacy and usefulness . To the present apathy and distrust of all movements , we feel assured the time for a reaction is not far distant , when the patient and successful endurance of the National Association will powerfully recommend it to the consideration of the working men of England . The fidelity and

      siedfastness with which this executive amidst the opposition of avowed and therefore manly opponents , and the insidious and concealed stabbings of pretended friends , have struggled to maintain what they conceive to be a valuable movement , will , we are sure , be appreciated . In that great faiih which never deserts the honest in purpose they invoke the future to balance and compensate the trouhles , anxieties , and disappointments of the past . William Peel , . Secretary

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      THE ICARIAN COMMUNITY , , From a recent number of the Popular Tribwe ,-published at Nauvoo , U . S ., we take the following particulars of the progress of this association , designed to realise the speculations of Citizen Cabet , the proscribed French Communist : — The Icarian Constitution compels the Gerance to make a report to the general assembly every six months , giving an account of all that has been done during the six preceding months . The following is the report which the Gerance has just made for the first six months of 1852 , commencing the 1 st of January , and ending the 1 st

      July—Personal . —On the 1 st of July there were in the community 365 members ( 177 men * 7 of whom were from 15 to 20 years old ; 101 women and 88 children , of whom 45 were boys and 4 $ girls ) . Letters from Paris notify us that about 100 new emigrants will depart for Nauvoo this fall . Agriculture . —4 'he colony has rented three . farms ., one of 30 acres , another of 200 , and a third of 225 . It owns 8 ploughs , 11 horses , and 8 yokes of oxen . The colony has cuUiva \ ed—in wheat , 150 acres , which yielded over 1 , 500 bushels of very beautiful wheat

      which has been cut and thrashed with two machines j in corn , 240 acres , which will yield probably over 8 , 000 bushels , as Americans agree insaylng that our crops are the most beautiful of the country ; in potatoes , 30 acres , which appear sound and healthy , and will probably yield over 1 , 500 bushels ; in sweet potatoes , 2 acres , which ivill yield 200 bushels . 24 men have been-employed on the farms for cultivating them , or for cutting hay on the open prairies for feeding our beasts during the winter . Our mowing machine was a failure , but still we have a fine quantity of fodder .

      Gardening . —We have 25 acres in gross—vegetables , peas , beans , cabbages ( 20 , 000 heads ) , &c . &c , and 12 acres in 5 gardens , wiih 8 gardeners for other : vegetables ( salads , radishes , sorrel , spinach , carrots , onions , &c . &c ) , which have furnished the kitchen . Our twelve milch cows have given , milk enough for the breakfast pf the women , and , at times , of the entire community . Our essays , to cultivate tobacco , maider , and thistles , have been very successful . Some of our young vines will bear grapes this season . Our young fruit trees , apple and peach , look very beautiful , but do not yet bear any fruit . , The chase" has furnished some game for our workmen on the islands and on the iarms ; and to the sick .

      Industry , WoRKs . rr-During the months of January , of February arid M $ tch ; thirty men remained at the island , to cut vood , where the ? hilt k large cabin . Ttey cut $ 40 ' . eu ' rdi of wood which U ?

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 9, 1852, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1699/page/11/