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THE CHRISTIAN HEROD. The Morning Chronic...
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THE EMIGRATION CONTROVERSY AT BRADFORD. ...
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means any or all of these things , it is foll y and mischief . But if the " No-Popery feeling has yet a deeper root amongst us—if in the hearts of the English people , or of any portion of them , it means the annihilation , by argument and agitation , of that most aged of earth ' s intellectual f allacies , the belief that a certain unmarried man , living in one of the peninsulas of the Mediterranean and professing to have a charter from tho Apostle Peter , is necessarily the supreme link between this planet and its God , and the lord of European , Asiatic , African , and American thought then , let the speculative platform from which this cry of " No-Popery" is raised , be the
narrowest and most sectarian possible , it is so far respectable , and it ought to have power . A __ nd if , farther , this " No-Popery" feeling should pass the bounds of a mere contemptuous personal dissent from the fallacy , or a mere readiness to do battle with it in its intellectual shape , and should assume the form of an active political digressiveness , a desire to employ the whole resource of the country , its diplomacy , and its statesmanship , in honestly dissolving and weakening those worldly institutions , whether in Italy or elsewhere , in which the fallacy has embodied itself , or round wliich it has wound itself — then the feeling amounts to a right instinct of England ' s political place and duty among the nations . In short , the
" No-Popery" cry is not yet defunct for England : all that it wants is to be corrected up to the present time . Every nation , like every man , is strong only in the line of his ancestral sentiments ; and if the greatness of England for three hundred years has consisted in , or has been identified with her Protestantism , then it is precisely in spreading abroad this Protestantism , and making it prevail over the earth , that England will discharge her natural and hereditary duty . England and the Papacy are natural enemies now , as they have always been . True , Protestantism is not
what it was , and we must take Protestantism as corrected up to the present time ; but that correction surely consists in no diminution of hostility to Papal institutions , or the essential Papal dogma . Many Englishmen , disgusted with the sectarian associations that have gathered round tho name Protestant , would almost abjure it ; but in the original and true sense of the wordas _meaning a desire to see the whole earth
relieved from the thraldom of believing , or of being oreed to seem to believe , that the aforesaid unmarried man of Ital y is spiritual lord of the earth , and sole spokesman for it to God—all Englishmen are Protestants , and may surely exult in being so . The " No-Popery" cry , as corrected up to tho present time , consists , we should say , in the
persuasion now gaining ground among us , that the ( rue battle-field between England and the Papacy is not in Exeter Hall , or in English Law Courts , bui in Ital y itself ; that , in short , tho question of _Wrigland _' s relation to the Papacy is involved in the question of . England ' s relation to the Italian peo ple . () that our statesmen had perceived this bun- years a , go ! On this point hear tho Society <> f the Friends of Italy : —
" If the _Seiciety can thus congratulate itself on _hav"' _£ done . something to disseminate correct information , "nei to promote an expression of just opinion in regard ' _<> Italian allairs , it cannot pretend to have yet _iiccomptisliert any direct or _measurable step towards that great _« ' _|» d of al ! political discussions—the initiation , through _U'lianiemt , of an appropriate eeiurso of national action . Nor in this to bo wondered at . Let us only consider ' ° r a nimiimW _, _i .. _! ... _( ........ : / .... _ j .. ' . 1 ;* : " ; i moment at whatpointin reference to politi
, , , emr - ' _'d relations to Italy , the official unel diplomatic , mind this country , oven under a Whig aelministrntion , "" "il three yearn _agei . No _llril . i . sh friend e . f Italy _'j 'onlel _« ver forged , anel this Society eif the ) Friends of ' \ y will newer be tired of repeating , those ! weirds iu whic h o „ Whig _ainhassaeleir at , the French court , Leird _^ "niiHuby , at the time e . f the negotiations for French ""< _Tlenmeo te . put < _lown the Roman Republic and re-• ' _»' e the . !» _„ , _„ , „ lm ( ; > () I | tho 1 ( Hh of A ] n , > ] 8 4 _<)__ ' _Mire . _ssctl the wishes and tho policy of the _government e . l ( ii ..... * i > .. . j . ' ' 444 . Ht Ihitaiii
" '' "' in that _hciiimIuIoiih _itllkir . The words , < s quoted from the < 7 e . _rrespeiiieleiie ; e laid beforo _Parlia-^'"' a are these : - < I ( Ii () ni Normanby ) told M _l / t ' e < l " _- 'l ! i (< h (! ' _^ eneh Foreign Minister ) , that «¦ ' ob je . el which the . French Government , professed to in " . ' "'' vt / ' w—tAf rest oration of the Pope under an ¦ ltd ! " form of government — was precisely that Ih / , Md "Iwa _- ' l lm ' _- > 1 instructed to state , was also udiio ' l 1 _Mn J " > ' fy _' s Government ; ( hough , for reasons lo lr , iad th < n vx V lainiid to him , wo had not wished un _"otive share in the negotiations . ' This
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passage , we repeat , ought incessantly and everywhere and on all occasions to he quoted ; it ought to he learnt by heart by all citizens of Great Britain ; it ought to be engraven , as a sentence of shame , on a pillar of brass in Downing-street—for it represents the crime of our land against Italy , and it reveals , in one glimpse , that depth of bad statesmanship , from which the official and parliamentary mind , even of our Whig administrators , has to be brought up , before England and Italy shall stand in their proper relations to each other . And to bring up the official mind of a country from such a depth , is not the work of a day or a year . The Papal policy , with regard to our own country , and the spectacle of the horrors consequent on that very
restoration of the Pope in which we so hypocritically implicated ourselves , have indeed contributed to open many eyes ; perhaps there is even now a touch of remorse in the official heart ; and , at any rate , it is not likely that a Whig ambassador would again write such a passage as the foregoing were the same circumstances repeated now . Still we are far from any promise of such a Parliamentary or ministerial policy with regard to Italy as would answer the demands of sterling justice—a policy to which we could trust for the expiation , on a fitting occas on , of the fearful blunder indicated in that Normanby despatch , and for the indemnification to Italy of the wrong so done , by nobler conduct towards her at any similar juncture that may yet arise . "
May such a juncture soon arise ! All is calm now , and it looks like irrelevance to present events and pressing sorrows to talk of Italy at all . But the time will come ! Some morning , — and who knows how soon ?—a spark through that electric cable which connects England with the Continent will fetch once more into our cities and streets the intelligence , " The Continent is in arms ; " there will again be enthusiasm , and public meetings , and councils of Cabinet ministers ,
to discuss the policy , and prepare the answer ; may we then profit by our past errors ; and may the answer w hich we flash back through that electric cable , to be sent trembling along the telegraphic wires , and by the mouths of couriers , to the remotest extremities , where despotism rules , and Papacy lingers , be someanswer such as this : — " England will act , on this occasion , like free and Protestant England — corrected up lo the present time . "
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The Christian Herod. The Morning Chronic...
THE CHRISTIAN HEROD . The Morning Chronicle returns to the subject of " infanticide , " with new arguments , and a new fact , in support of its old position . The new fact is , that at a recent trial in Hampshire tho court was crowded with girls , who undisguisedly made common cause with the prisoner , who loudly applauded when she was acquitted , and who are reported to have said , as they left tho court , " Now wc may do as we please . "
The last point must be regarded as apocryphal , and the acquittal may have been a just acquittal ; but the exhibition in court , if the report approaches to the truth , is painful enough . The mere assembling of the girls indicatos a too lively interest in the question at issue . The argument of the writer who notices this fact is curious . As a number of the women arraigned on tho chargo of murder are married , it has been presumed by another critic , that poverty must be the immediate incentive to the crime of
infanticide . Admitting the probability in some degree , the Chronicle contends that the . crime itself , originating amongst the unmarried women from other causes , is copied by tho married women of the agricultural elans , under tho . pressure of poverty , and that it is likely lo-extend from them to the industrial classes of _* towns . Hence the Chronicle comes back to its old position , that jurors must be made to inflict a severe example , in order to cheek the progress of the crime ; in either words , _Punisli the girls , and tbo married women will learn how to behave properly .
Tho letter of an esteemed correspondent at . Leeds , however , shows that tbe crime has already established itself in tho towns . It is computed that three hundred children iu Leeds , unregistered , are murdered annually ! Tho crime , wo believe , is not to bo checked b y preaching Draconian principles to jurors , nor by transporting tbo uneducated girlH of Iho agricultural districts . Education wdl be a more effectual cheek . Jlcproductive employment still moro promptly effective , as that js ihe moans by which the Slate secures that each individual born may make good his own position on tho surfaco of tho land . Our
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correspondent is mistaken in supposing that we think it mere cant to demand a remedy ; but his challenge deserves something better than a hasty response , and he shall have what occurs to us , deliberately and outspokenly .
The Emigration Controversy At Bradford. ...
THE _EMIGRATION CONTROVERSY AT BRADFORD . In a paper of courteous moderation and candour , but of inordinate length , the Bradford , Observer challenges our arguments respecting the ' * transportation of the condemned Woolcombers . " The main object of the paper , we conceive , is , to show that the movement is one originating amongst the working classes themselves — is for their benefit—is not an employers ' -scheme , and is only aided by certain employers from benevolent motives . Other communications which we have
received from Bradford , incline us to believe that this representation is in the main correct ; and it is not contradicted by anything which we have received before the remarks we wrote , or since . If we have been at all misled , it was by the language of the Bradford Observer itself , which was conceived in a tone very different from that which the writer now employs . He still , indeed , adheres to one or two assumptions ; amongst others , to the idea that he knows the name of the writer with whom he is in controversy ; but on that point we doubt whether he has not fallen
into a natural mistake . According to the present position of the Bradford Observer , thatrpaper is to be regarded as the adviser and friend of the working class , and of the wool combers in particular ; and wc do not repudiate its friendly intentions , but it was difficult to detect the friendly heart through the language which inxputed to the woolcombers a variety of misdemeanours and depravities . He spoke of them as "degraded , " as having " morbific habits" of life , as lowering the tone of society , and " increasing our poor-law rates . " The report of thc woolcombers' committee is now quoted to show that these p hrases are derived from that , document , in
which mention is made of a system leading thousands to " deep degradation "—of woolcombers as forming " the main portion " of applicants for parochial relief—of pauperism as the nurse of " contaminating influences , " and so forth . It is one thing , however , for a man , or a class , to speak of self in disparaging terms , and another , for a second person to use even the same terms . But it will be perceived that the phrases quoted from the report _undez'go a species of inversion when they become adapted by the Bradford Observer . When men complain that their inevitable circumstances- ; ire contaminating , that their fellow workmen are liable to _degradation .
and become dependent on poor-rales , it is retorting , rather than adopting their language , to say that they aro contaminating , morbific , or degraded ; and to echo flic complaint about poorrates has a moral effect exactly reversed when it comes from fhe rale-receiver , or from tho
ratepayer . Our contemporary accused the men of wasting their means and not providing for a rainy daya position which , 'throughout tho immense reply , he has omitted to defend ; anel Ave are not ourselves inclined to dwell again upem that point . To Hay that emigration might be advantageous to tho woolcombers is no more than a . truth _, wliich we admitted in the paper now challenged . Probably thero is not a , Avoolcombor in Bradford Avho would not find himself better in Australia , than in England ; but there is a . manner in dealing with these ; things . To _npeak of the expatriation of a whole class as a destiny entailed by tbe heartless operations of trade , is an ofie-nee
against social feeding . To _npeak of men in terms only applicable lo rubbish that ought to be ; removed , is what avo now believe _; the writer never intended ; but undoubtedly his first paper had that appearance ; . _Immigration is a , good thing Avhen it is absolutely spontaneous , anel tei furnish facilities for it is an excellent service ; but tho choice shoulel lie wholly witli' each individual emigrant , and it should bo a choice determined by no indirect compulsion . The _woojeombork are our countrymen , and wo are bound to stand by them in misfortune ; , while tbey elect to remain in their native _e-eiuntry . If tbey choose to emigrate , let us help them ; but absolute willingness is tho first essential' to all interference in such matters . We are represented as uttering a threat , in case fhe woolcombers bo subjected to language
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 18, 1852, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18091852/page/15/
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