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It is not the meeting and talking about Reform which pleases us half so much as the general stir to prepare the people for resisting aggression . Last year the Premier got up an imaginary aggression , and did contrive to evoke something like a public manifestation to prepare that resistance which he has never seen fit to enforce . This year the threat of aggression has been , less puffed for domestic use , but it is more real ; ' and the feeling ,
jf as yet less formally expressed , is evidently more general and more genuine . The journals of all parties join with it ; excepting one or two , which scarcely venture to oppose , but insinuate qualifications in the Peace and Manchester school sense . Peace ought to have nothing to jsay against the movement , which is one to prevent our land from being macfe the scene of war . But besides the direct object of the stir to get up rifle clubs , to arm the People , improve the fortifications , summon the Channel fleet to its duty , and so forth , there is
the agreeable incident of its uniting the severed sections of our population—an incident which we have already noticed , and which becomes more apparent every day . There is something heartily the reverse of that selfish and calculating spirit which has beset our public life too long . Even the Reform agitation is improving under the influence of the Parliamentary Reform Association , as the policy of that body widens . We think we detect a continued disposition to desertion among some of its " friends , " who wish to play a
separate game ; for the Manchester men take their aristocratic stand upon a ratepaying qualification , excluding " lodgers "; and Leeds is for the day misled by its own Baines : a charge for admission secured a " respectable" audience—and but narrowly rejected manhood suffrage . The success at Nottingham and Derby is due to th « broader E olicy of the Parliamentary Reform Association ; ut that at Birmingham ought to be especially instructive . The two members were against the meeting . For Muntz—his costume , currency , and crotchets—who could account ? But the defection
of William , Scholefield , though probably with a good-natured eye to Ministerial difficulties , causes a genuine feeling of regret . However , the two members stopped away , and protested ,, against " extraneous" intervention , the meeting being truly spontaneous ; nevertheless the Town-hall was filled . The meeting was better than unanimous—it was animated and hearty ; arid the broader policy of the Association more than succeeded , for the eloquence of George Dawson ended » n seouring the adhesion to universal suffrage / A he bold policy is ever best . George Dawson has never been a demagogue or flatterer of the people ; but in a community where every man , even the humbler he is , has to do the drudgery of the I Town Edition . !
nation—especially to pay the debts of the na- > tion , and to defend it , if need be— -he did not dare to say to any one such man , " You are excluded from the suffrage y you are of the kind unfit for it . " ~ And George Dawson does not dare so to say precisely because he is a bold man and a truthful man . The pretence of " unfitness" is a-sneaking untruth . The Association makes no such pretence , and it appears to be gradually finding its way to that broad policy which would win for it everywhere such popular success as at Birmingham .
The strike of the engineer-employers continues , without the slightest prospect of . reconciliation . The masters , by their agents , carry on the war with steady attempts to misrepresent the facts , with vituperation , with discharge of men not implicated in the quarrel , with threats that the business will leave this country . Possibly it may—by whose fault ? Who really did strike ? Meanwhile the men persevere in quiet adherence to their demands , and in their endeavours to establish cooperative
model workshops . One will open in Southvvark ; another is contemplated at Manchester . Lord Cranworth ' s extrajudicial dictum against the men has been met by a brief and calm statement from the trustees of the working fund—Lord Goderich , Mr . Thomas Hughes , and Mr . Augustus Vansittart . Altogether , the progress of time presents the case of the men more and more favourably to the public . There is a new strike , on the part of the men , among the shipbuilders of Hylton . It would be awkward if suoh demonstrations were to become
general ! Ireland is again the field of industrial disturbance . The existence of a Riband conspiracy in the North is still disputed , but is specifically asserted by the Dublin Evening Mail , with strong corroboration from the known facts . There are proposals to increase the constabulary , and to try agrarian offences by the special jury panel—coercion , and trial of one class by another 1 The conference called by the Irish Board of Manufactures to consider , inter alia , the means of rendering the Poor Law self supporting by reproductive employment , is a far more hopeful process . Perhaps our Governors will hit on the right course in time ? Men in earnest generally adopt popular modes of disseminating their ideas and principles . Thus the High Church Party , represented by the Reverend Canon Trevor , appeared this week in the Metropolis ; publicly lecturing , and converting the pulpit of St . Paul ' s , Finsbury , into a tribune for tho occasion . Both Houses of Convocation also , we observe , are to be petitioned , and induced ( if possible / to exert themselves for the recovery of their " Constitutional functions "—that is , solicited to make a stand for honesty ' s sake . This is well . France has indeed fallen among thieves ! Drained of her very lifeblood by the exile and proscription of her best and bravest citizens- —of all her ' illustrations " in arms and arts , in literature and
statesmanship—ravaged and ransacked by a terrorism that spares neither age nor sex—that consigns to the ingenious tortures of torrid swamps unconvieted batches of political opponents—she is now , it seems , condemned to sink into the " old rut" jobbing and corruption . We had always foreseen that the Dictator would ^ fall between two stoolsvested interests and popular expectations . Even were he disposed to " originate large measures of socialr reform , or of mere financial economy , he would be arrested by the claims of the moneyed classes—the stpekjobbers and speculators—to whom Louis Philippe sold himself as to a Mephistopheles ; only your Mephistopheles of revolution is not so courteous in biding your time as well as his own ! His demands are apt to be sudden .
Like a naughty boy who , having told one lie , is obliged to fortify it by many more , Louis Bonaparte is rushing from bad to worse with a fatal felicity of which , perhaps , he is scarcely conscious himself . Violence succeeds to violence—folly to folly—cr ime to crime . He cannot stir a step towards ameliorations without creating a host of malcontents . The enormous credits for public works to . keep the faubourgs busy are eating into the heart of the Exchequer ; not to speak of the increasing costliness of an Imperial " household , " and donatives to unruly Praetorians . No one now
believes that it can last . Our private letters from " Parties of Order , " eschewing details , say , " Heaven only knows when or how it will end . ' The Prince and his men are using up the sensations of power like so many desperate gamblers , condensing into ever so few days all the atrocities of all the despotisms , and all the faults that have sapped nil the regimes of the last half century in Francethe iron-handed compression of the Empire , tha bigotry and insolence of the Restoration , tha of the MonarchofJul
jobbing and corruption y . y , seasoned and spiced with the reckless effrontery of professional burglars in possession of power which they once coveted , and now handle like a " strong box . " As for the Constitution , it only wants tt preamble ; vulgar but sincere— " What ' s the odds so long as you ' re happy ? " All the rest is but a pale copy of the Consulate . The difficulty will be to get any decent names to accept Senatorial or Legislative functions . It is not so noble to be perpetually " assisting at" your own interment . disciline is to citizens and to
The same p applied the Press . Obnoxious persons and obnoxious papers are prdered to " cease to appear" But in tho former case , the method and the consequence are not to bo contemplated without shuddering . To have once belonged to a secret society—an elastic expression—is a sentence to Cayenne I The only choice lies between trans-, and de-portation . Meantime , M . Bonaparte and his friends are making a purse , before there is a Legislature to " hold tho purse-strings . " The gentlemen who once landed at Boulogne with a sick eagle and a case of bad champagne , would now , we suspect , bf
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"Thb one Idea whichhistory exnibita as evermore developing itself into greater ^ distinctness i 3 the Idea ot Humanity-the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided ^ ewTTand by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object-the free development of our smntual nature . "— Humboldt ' s Cosmos .
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VOL . IIL—No . 96 . SATURDAY , JANUARY 24 , 1852 . Price 6 d .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 24, 1852, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1919/page/1/
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