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The * Gathering of the Unions , ' the worthy welcome of more than a hundred thousand men to their banded brethren as they arrived on the plain , in the great Birmingham meetings , is as poetical in its construction as elevated in its spirit , and breathes the feelings of those who are leagued in what may truly be called a holy
cause . 4 Lo ! we answer ! see , we come ! Quick at Freedom ' s holy call , We come ! we come ! we come ! we come ! To do the glorious work of all ; And hark ! we raise from sea to sea , The sacred watchword , Liberty ! * God is our guide ! from field , from wave , From plough , from anvil , and from loom , We come , our country ' s rights to save , I And speak a tyrant faction ' s doom : And hark ! we raise from sea to sea , The sacred watchword , Liberty ! * God is our guide ! no swords we draw , We kindle not war ' s battle fires ; By union , justice , reason , law , We claim the birthright of our sires , We raise the watchword Liberty—We will , we will , we will be free /
The heart of our excellent friend , Hugh Hutton , of the Old Meeting , Birmingham , must have swelled in his bosom , when , on behalf of the mighty myriads around him , he blessed the God of heaven for averting from our land the confusion which had been
impending . How like the roll of the billows of a wide sea on a long and echoing coast , or the multitudinous choruses which were heard by the exile of Patmos , during the visions of the Apocalypse , must have been the deep murmured response of that immense assemblage !
How long will it be before we may speak of the nation , the people , the many , without there being any antithetical term to words which ought to be all-comprehensive ? Better were it for the few if the many were all . But this is the very question now at issue ; or rather , the ultimate pr inciple which has raised that question ; and which is , indeed , none other than the Christian
doctrine of universal brotherhood . Reform is one phasis of the universal struggle between appropr iation and community , domination and freedom , class privilege and public right , the gratification of individuals , and the greatest happiness of the greatest number . There can be no doubt generally as to the mode in which it is the tendency of events and the plan of Providence ultimatel y to decide . But with the intelligence of the community clearly against them .
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The Recent Political Crisis . 397
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1832, page 397, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1814/page/37/
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