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THE I01THEBH STAB, SATURDAY, IYOVEMBE3S S. 1851.
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By approbation of her Majesty Quean Victoria , aud H . B . H . Prince Albert . NOW BEAD ? . THE LOKDON and PARIS AUTUMN and WINTER FASHIONS for 1851 ana 185 . ' , pub listed by Messrs . Read < fc Co ., 12 , Hart-strcct , liliiorosburysquare , London , and Broadway , New York , America ; also hy Geobge Bkger , HolyvteU-strcet , Struud , London . The View , represented in the pmst tor the present Season , has been taken ui Kensinpton-gardens . intlie Sight of the grand Crystal Palace , which is considered ( with its contents ) tbegreatest-wonder in the world , showing it from a point of sisht quite different fioin that exhibited last sea-
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Brother Chartists beware of youthful Ten Shilling Quacks who imitate this Advertisement . PA 9 N 8 IJV TlfE KA « : K , GKATEIj , IjUJIJEAftO , Rheumatism , Conf , Indigestion , Debility , Stricture , Gleet , etc . CAUTION . —Ayouthfulself-styled ten shilling doctor ( unblushing impudence being his onl y qualification ) is now advertising under the assumed name of an eminent physician , highly injurious imitations of these medicines , ami an useless abbreviated copy of Dr . lie Uoos * celebrated Medical Adviser , { slightly changing its title ); sufferers will therefore do well to see that the stamp heaving the proprietor ' s name , affixed to each box or bottle is a bona fi de govebssiest stamp ( not a base counterfeit ) , ' . and to guard axafast the truthless statemeits of this individual , which are published only for the basest purposes of deception on invalids , and fraud on the Proprietor .
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In iVo * . at One Penny each , splendidly Illustrated , A HISTORY OF THE DIFFERENT EXPEDITIONS ENGAGED IN THE SEAECB FOR Sill J . FMJKLIN CONTAINING AU- MB __« . « ..-RECENT VOYAGES TOjHE POLAR REGIONS . Including in particular * J » gf * " » 8 ent ° ^ OF SIR JAMES ROSS JO DAVIS' STRAITS Of Commander Moore and Captain Kellott , to Behring ' s Straits . Tfith an authentic copy of the dispatches received from SJB GEORGE SIMPSON , OF THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY \ YHU other important and highly interesting informa-
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Now Publishing in Nos . at One Penny each . By the Authoress of' The Gipset Gutr ,. ' Each Pesnt Ndmbee of this Novel will contain Sixteen 1 ' ages of solid print . TiHE TRIALS " OF LOVE ; -L 08 ,
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Just Published , IN NOS . AT ONE PENNY EACH , THE EMIGRANT'S BUfiFfo THE GOLDEN LAND . f lALIF OENIA , U ITS VAST HISTORY ; ITS PRESENT POSITION ; ITS FUTURE PROSPECTS -. with a minute ASp AOTBBSTIC ACCOUNT OF THE DISCOVERY OF THB GOLD REGION , AND THE SUBSEQUENT IMPORTANT PROCEEDINGS . In the course of the work will be given PLAIN DIRECTIONS TO EIIGMNTS TO CALIFORNIA , OR THE UNITED STATES , oa to CANADA ; AUSTRALIA ; NEW ZEALAND , OB ASS OTBEtt BRITISH SETTLEMENT . SlieWlXO . THEH MN TO GO . WHERE TO GO . HOW TO GO-
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READ T < HE CHRISTIAN SOCIALIST , a JL Journal of Association and Register of the Co operatire . Movement throughout the Country . Price , One Penny . CONTENTS OF TOIS WEEK ' S NPMBER , The London Coal Whippers . By Thomas Hughes , Esq . Notes of a Co-operative Tour through the North . By J . M . Ludlow , Esq . Hindrances to Associative Labour . By tbe Rev . T . G . Lee . The Autobiography of one of the Chartist Rebels of 1 S 48 . . Chapter the Seventh . A Slap at the Church . Co-operation and the ' Weekly Dispatch . ' By the Editor . High-ways and By-ways of Scotland . Gazette—Association Neivs—Poetry , & c ., & c . With last week ' s Number was given away a list of the Co-operative Associations and Stores , with the business done throughout the Kingdom .
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THOMAS COOFEE , A-o . th . oY of . 'TUeTusgatory of Scicides , " & c , Dehtcks Obations on the Fom . owi . nq Subjects : — The Genias of Shakspeare , as displayed in his ' Hamlet ; ' with Readings and Recitations from the Play , the Music of Ophelia ' s Songs , & c . The'Life and Genius of ililton ; with l . eeitatioiisfrum ' Varadise Lost , ' & c . The Life and Genius of Bums ; with the Music of some of his Songs , Recitations of ' Tam O'Shanter , ' & c . The Lite and Genius of Byron ; with Readings illld Kocitationsfrom Ms Works . The life and genias of Shelley , with Readings and Recitations from his works . Civilisation : What it was in the Past—what it efivcts for Man in the present , and the universal Human Happiness ic must produce iu the Future . The English Commonwealth : Founders Of the Struggle—Coke , Selden , Elliot , l ' ym , Hampden , & c—Despotism of the King , and Tyranny of Laud—Civil War—Death of Hampden—Battle of Naseby—Imprison-
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Tp PATRIOT KOSSUTH . The Portrait of this eminent man lias been reprinted and is now ready for delivery . It has been pronounced , by persons well able to judge , to be a most admirable likeness . It is exquisitel y engraved , and is printed on thick royal Quarto paper . Price only Fourpence . Northern Star Office , and G-. Pavey , Holywell Street , Strand .
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THE CRYSTAL PALACE . The following Engravings of this unrivalled edifice , are now ready , and may be had at this Office : —
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IMPORTANT SOCIALIST PUBLICATIONS ! ROBERT OWEN ' S JOURNAL , THIS JOURNAL ( Published weekly , price One I ' enn , and in monthlJ parts , price Fourpence ) , Explains the means by which the population ol the world may be placed within new and very superior circumstances , ana provided v ? ith constant Doncnciftl employment , and thereby enahied to enjoy comfort and abundance , and great social advantages ; and the direct means by which this change may be effected with benefit to all classes . The addresses on Government , on Education , to tue Delegates of Ml Nations to tbe World ' s Fair , and on True and False Religion , which have lately appeared in the pages of this Journal , have been reprinted in the form of cheap pamphlets , and will be found to contain information of the deepest interest .
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„ m ^ , . 11 , ——~^^~~ 3 > K . CTJLVERWELL , ON THE PLEASURES OF HEALTH , A series of popular works , is ,, each , by post Is , Gd , tach . ENJOYMENT OF LIFE . Health , recreation , and rational use of time . ' Contests . — Early rising ; SprhigaDd Summer mornings , Excursions about the JEmirons of London—the Parks , Lanes , Hills , Forests , Fields , High-roads , arid oth 3 r plea , sant places , Country Trips and Ktmbles ; the tfea ; London at Night -, Evenings at Home ; Mu » ie ; the Drama ; on Eating , Drinking , Sleeping , Batbinjr , Air , Host , Ease , Occupation , & c . ii . and rtr .
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NOTICE ! TO READERS , SUBSCRIBERS , AND : FRIENDS . ; We have lately issued a circular to all our agents , intimating that , on and after Saturday , the 30 th ult ., the publishing arrangements of the' Star' would he placed on tiie ' same footing as those of all other metropolitan weekly journals . From that date no papers would be supplied except for cash , i In carry ing out this arrangement , it is quite possible that some of our readers may be disappointed in receiving their papers for the first week or two . If so , they will knowwhere the fault lies , and they can easily remedy it . They have only to give their orders to another news-agent , who is in the habit of observing the trade rule , and sending his money with his orders to his wholesale agent , either in Londoner in the country . If no such person be available , a quarter ' s payment in advance , or the remittance of the . price of a single number in postage Stamps weekly ,, will ensure the paper regularly from this office by post .
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Mr . Mabk Pahkinson , Hartlepool . —Address to Mr . Geo . Greenslade , Secretary to the Central Defence Committee , Bell Inn , Old Bailey , Lonnon , to whom all sums for the Defence must be forwarded . „ ,. - ,. Stocki-out Mr . Greenslade , of the Isational Association of Trades , has received a money order for £ '¦! , trom the town of Stockport , but the party sending having neglected to furnish his name and address , is requested to forward the same to J ! r . Greenslade . ^ Municipal Eiections . —Mr . 6-. Demain , of Bradford , informs us that Oil Saturday hist the Chartists of this borough , with the assistance of the National l'arliamen . tary Reformers , succeeded in carrying six thorough-Koing Chartists into the Town Council , which , he feels confident , could not have been done but for the sup . port rendered by that body . He expresses his surprise that any of his brother Chartists should disapprove Of the policv adopted , at the same time stating that , with-. out such " assistance , his body could not alone have ¦ achieved so signal a triumph . If the Chartists would look back at thfcir policy ior Ac last ten years , anil ask themselves the result , they would see sufficient reason
The I01thebh Stab, Saturday, Iyovembe3s S. 1851.
THE I 01 THEBH STAB , SATURDAY , IYOVEMBE 3 S S . 1851 .
Kossuth On English Foreign Polio I R . I...
KOSSUTH ON ENGLISH FOREIGN POLIO i . In spite of dissuasions from many of his ' respectable' friends , M ; Kossui'H adopted the inauly , and at the same time politic course of meetin g the ' inhabitants Ot the Metropolis , ' , iu the open air , on Monday last . It was well known that the ' demonstration' had originated with , had been organised b j , anrj would be under ihe management of , the working classes , not because those who took an active part iu the matter would have refused to co-operate with the admirers of M . Kossuth among other , classes , but simply for the reason that no such co-operation was proft ' erred . But though the procession to
Copenhagen-fields , on Monday last , could boast of few names of ' celebrity from theranksofthe 'Liberal Tarty ; ' though even the Dudley Stuahts , Cobdeks , Foxes , Gilwss , and Wires , sent apologies for non-attendance—which were as true as such things usually are—we have no hesitation in saying that it was a more powerful aud genuine manifestation of public sympathy with the Hungarian cause , than any that has yet taken place . The very absence of the parties we have named , the lack of distinguished names , or the presence of ' political lions , ' only served to divest the demonstration of all extrinsic or meretricious
attractions , and proved that Kossuth and the cause of which hois the representative and advocate , are sufficiently understood and appreciated in this country to be able to stand alone , and to need no puffery or make weights whatever , The inhabitants of tho metropolis poured forth iu tens of thousands towards the rendezvous , or joined in the procession , without for a single moment inquiring whether it hiiu been appointed and organised by lords or labourers ; and the enthusiasm displayed along tho whole of the route from Russellsquare , was such as to satisfy the most sanguine friends of Hungary—to fill with fear and rage the enemies ol national liberty and independence .
For that immense assemblage and spontaneous demonstration of public opinion had a meaning and an influence far beyond its immediate object , great and important as that confessedl y is . It told of an advance in the political education of the people within the last twenty years , which comparatively few persons could have been prepared for . Twenty years ago there were numerous processions in every part of the kingdom in support of the Reform Bill , and others of triumph after it was passed . Eighteen years since there was a monster demonstration of
the Trades' Unions on the very spot where the flags and banners of the Kossuth procession floated on Monday . But , in these cases , the aims , objects , and ideas of those who took part in thorn were purel y national and local . In the interval , the national mind has expanded . We are now able to see that nations are connected with , and influenced by , each other , just ns individuals are in the private rclft " lions of Mo , ami tbatitisimpossible for anyon e
nation to enjoy perfectliber ty , or securefreedom , while other nations are oppressed , tyrannised over , or robbed , by brute force , of their rights . There is a cruel and a bloody necessity on the part of the tyrants , to follow up one . act of tyranny , one sanguinary aggression with another , They cannot stop . To secure their ill-gotten dominion they must go on , because , while any liberty of speech or action remains there is no safety for them , no permanent tenure for their usurped and hated rule .
The English peop le , have at length learned that fact . They know that they cannot any longer stand ? isolated , or hold aloof from the struggles which are going on around them for free institutions . They must either take part in them , or be prepared to be crushed with others , when Despotism may think the time has come to adventure upon their conquest , The principle of non-intervention , and isolation from European politics , as preached by the Cor . DEN School , however applicable it might have been during thelast great European
contest , when England was reall y insular , has lost all relevance iu our present position . Railroads , steamships , and electric telegraphs have made us part and parcel of the Continent ; and if the unholy alliance of Absolutist Monarchs are permitted to carry out thendesigns unopposed , the time must necessaril y arrive when wb shall find ourselves hemmed round on all sides by the forces of the allied despots , and called upon to stand up singly in defence of our liberties against overwhelming odds .
Wo are no fanciful dreamers about what is called the Balance of Power , but very little consideration is necessary , to show that the aggregation and concentration of power in the hands of a single despotic and military Government must be dangerous to the liberties of mankind . We need not say to what an alarming extent this has taken place within tho last year or two . Russia is , in fact , master of both the other two Great Northern
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Powers . The Emperor of Austria is his serf—the vacillating and weak-headed KlNG of Prussia is his subservient tool . In the Sohleswlg Hohtein question , Russian diplomacy has triumphed , and its influence is predominant in almost every one of the petty courts of Germany . With the exception of Piedmont , Switzerland , and France , the Czar is lord paramount on the Continent , How long the latter will remain untrammelled is a q uestion that presents room for serious consideration . The state of affairs in that country
avowedly excites great uneasiness and apprehension in the Absolutist conclave , who have planted their iron heel upon the neck of Europe . Already vast armies are moving towards the French frontier , with the avowed object of interfering by force of arms , should the despots think their interests demand it , LOUIS Napoleon is the favoured candidate of Schwartzenbez-g . We need not say for what reason ; and should he be rejected and a real Republican President elected instead , the allied despots would soon show that non-intervention is not their policy .
Had the people of England been as much alive to these considerations when the Austrian Government called in the assistance of Russian armies to suppress Hungarian freedom , we could have interfered with more effect than we shall . probably be able to do in future . By succouring KossuiH and his compatriots in their noble warfare , we should have retained a powerful barrier against the encroachments of both Russian and Austrian autocracy . Each of the despots would have had enough to do at home , and the people of Prussia would have then been powerful enough to ' compel their faithless monarch to keep his solemn oaths , and respect the constitutional rights he had sworn to
maintain . The battle , however , though lost for the time being , is certain to be renewed . The mission of Kossuth at the present moment to this , and to other free countries , is to teach in what , way we and they are immediately and directly interested in the struggle . This he is doing nobly . Tho masterly and comprehensive grasp of his policy is not less admirable than the simple , yet forcible and straightforward style in which he expounds it . Taking his various addresses as a whole , since his arrival in England , we have no hesitation in saying , that they present a consecutive series of state papers , containing a progressive development of views , -which
stamp him as ono of the most profound , and , at the samo time , practical of modern statesmen . M . Kossuth combines all the elements of a ruler . He unites the highest attributes of the man of thought with those of the man of action . He has a definite object before him , and he aims to attain it by manly and direct means . Happy is the country , which , in the time of difficulty and danger has such a man to rely upon . To the hereditary claims of some ' tenth transmitter of a foolish face , ' he can oppose the patent of nobility given by the Deity , the right to lead men by the possession of the faculties necessary for the occupancy of that proud but awfully responsible position .
It would be well if our own public men could deduce the proper moral from the reception which has been accorded to Kossuth by the people of this country . No more practical lesson as to the nature of the real qualities which give a man real power over his fellow men , was ever given to those who aspire to occupy an elevated position , Lofty and disinterestedness , profound ^ and nnshakeaMe attachment to principle , devotion to the public good , and the will to use great mental powers most worthily by devoting them to the promotion of Freedom , Intelligence , Industrial and moral Progress—these are the qualifications which raise men above either Kings or Kaizers !
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WHOLESALE BOROUGH BRIBERY . Upon no single subject has the Legislature exhibited greater apparent industry than Bribery at Elections A succession of Acts of Parliament have been levelled at the practice , and no small amount of the time of members is , every session , taken up by Committees upon petitions complaining of returns procured by bribery and corruption . Some simple people
were deceived b y all this fuss and bustle and surface activity , into tlie belief that Ministers and Members of Parliament really meant to discourage and put down bribery ; and they cried ' Shame , ' when others , more clearsighted than themselves , denounced the whole machinery as a sham , and as being in fact a mere contrivance to gull those outside by the appearance of respect for purity of election , while in fact it gave the most perfect immunity to corrupt practices .
The proceedings before the Si . Alban ' s Commission has set the question at rest for ever . . The most obstinate sceptic must now be convinced . Election Committees will henceforth be synonymous with humbug , and { hon . members' will deserve great credit for command of their risible muscles , if thev refrain from shouts of laughter when such committees are ever again proposed . Nobod y can be deceived by them . They are meant to conceal not elicit the truth .
Most of our readers will recollect the frequent and stirring debates which took place in the House of Commons last session on the presentation of several reports from the St . Alban ' s Election Committee ;¦ great was the lore pf ' standing orders' and ' parliamentary practice' expended thereon by those who affect to be ' Sir Oi ' acles , ' on those topics ; and time after time important debates
and still more important business were thrown aside for the discussion of the nice hair * splitting definitions propounded by tho parlia mentarian martinets , who took part in'theii debates . The result was that the Committee was set at defiance , and Ultimately , for want of evidence to formally establish facts as plain as daylight , the sitting member was declared duly elected .
The case was however felt to bo really ' too bad , ' or , perhaps the offender not belonging to either of the two great factions , had no influential friends to prevent its going further . At any rate , Parliament waxed virtuously indignant at the spiriting away of witnesses , and departed from its usual routine . It gave up its tenderly cherished ^ prorogativo of inquiring into and deciding upon these matters itself , and invested a Special Commission of lawyers with power to proceed to the guilty Borough , to investigate the whole matter thoroughly ,- and if need be , punish any one who refused to give evidence with imprisonment , uutil his obstinacy was subdued , and he told all he knew .
This common sense mode of getting at facts has been eminently successful . More so , we suspect , than will suit those who set the machinery in motion . It has established before a judicial tribunal , : and in an authoritative lorm , what was formerl y generally asserted , but never proved . Under the Reform Act , the borough constituencies of this country are , with few exceptions ,. rotten to tho core , and
bought and sold like-oxen , or horses , and pigs at a meat market . The purse is the omnipotent . influence b y vluoh access is gained to larlmment . Principles , ability , character , are secondary and subordinate considerations with the immaculate ten pound voters . The first , almost the last , question is ; Has the candidate plenty of money , and is he prepared to spend it freely ?
In St . Alban's we have the whole machinery of these small borough elections now laid bare . The process is an exceedingly simple one . A man , possessed of considerable tact and determination , places himself in such a position as to be able , between elections , to
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minister to the momentary want * o ^ poor and the unprinci pled portion of th t !) o tors . By these means , he gets then ^ debt and iu his power , and when atipV " ' " arrives is enabled to command their ^ In many boroughs a very few vo ters ar ^ cient to cast the scale on either side e f ^ - man who can dispose of them jg virtnu l k c master of the situation . » lie can JJ y th & to whoever makes it * worth his white * ^ l bye and by , he , in fact , becomes the ¦ i rhi / 'H Parliamentary fate within its limits , of the voters themselves , thoy have is ' ,, , do with the selection of . the member i « have with the appointment of the r 9 Lama . Once the bargain is struck J ?** l the jobber and the candidate , aud the n site funds aro supplied , there is an P „ rl Jf ! " " matter . eua of %
It is , however , truly saddening , „ d , . Hating , to read of the manner iu whfrf | 3 " infamous traffic is carried on . It ; ' ' "J * debasing to the poor miserable wretclro ° 7 accept these filthy and paltry bribe * i V ) ° all tiiose who are in any way im > , if „ ' i , bribing thorn , from L US ^ supplies the money down to the m agent who distributes it . The system " like a curse upon them all . All are tai'fj with the same spirit of falsehood , trie ? equivocation , and rascality . ' e ' - ' The way into the House of Common . shockingly filthy ; and we don't wonder a ! ' hou members' becoming despicable tools to those above them in the same manner as tl ) ev have made others . The whole of the practices connected with the system of wholU 5 ; , i 0 bribery are calculated to demoralize the minds and to destroy the self-respect of every one engaged in them .
Mr . Edwards , the real holder of tho voteswe won ' t say consciences— -of tho majorit y 0 f the St . Alban ' s constituency , coolly pointed out on the register , tho names of two or three hundred to whom . he had paid bribes , varyiuo from five to fifteen pounds . Every lnuu j ,. ^ his price , and every one was determined \ Q have it . Respectable' shopkeepers and tradesmen were as regularl y bought is ' tli > poorest workmen . St Alban ' s is mendy the sample of the sack . Mr . Com > ock ' the 'Liberal agent —the right-hand man of the
Rcform {!) Club—to whom every aspirant for Parliamentary honours is referred , « s the only man who can put him in the way to a seat , openly told the Commission that to his own knowledge , the same system prevailed throughout the whole of the boroughs hi tho Kingdom ! "We presume , of course , that he meant to exclude the larger conatituoncies such as the Tower Hamlets , Finsbmy Marylebonc , Lambeth , Manchester , & C , - J ^ to speak of the generality of boroughs which have comparatively small constituencies , aud aro thus accessible to money-bribery .
The utter and complete corruption of our present electoral system having boon i ) lUs authoritatively blazoned to the world , the question is , what is to be done ? It will HOt do simply to disfranchise St . Alban ' s , as i ; ag already been done in the case of Sudbury . Neither will it promote the object in view to shovel into the new schedule A . a few of the small rotten boroughs , created by Whi g tendencies for its
own interests , by thclicfw m Act of 1831 . The time has come when this depraved and demoralising system must be cut up root and branch , and tho elective franchise be fairly and equitably apportioned among the whole population , by dividing them into such sections as shall not interfere with the efficient exercise of the right , while large enough to prevent any candidate tampering with them by money-bribes ,
In reply to any specious excuses for not adopting this radical and rational re-distiibution of the franchise , thero is one short emphatic and unanswerable reply ; It cannot possibly produce so many evils as the existing system , which you , the factions in power , liavo supported for the last twenty years . Tour pretences that you desire to maintain the order well-being and morality of society , and , therefore , to maintain the present representative system as a means of doing so , aro now known to be as unfounded as thev arc
impudent . Tho morality and tho good faith of societ y are sapped at the very foundation by the system you have created . Its destruction is absolutely necessary to the production of a health moral tone among all classes of the community . If the British Parliament be really iu earnest in its professions to put a stop to the
shameful and disgraceful practices , now openly confessed at St . Alban ' s , aud perpetrated among the borough constituencies generall y , they will not hesitate to give , in conjunction with a large extension of the Suffrage , Equal Electoral Districts , and the Ballot . That will lay the axe to the root of corruption , and we shall neither have Bribe nor Bribor .
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THE LAST TRICK 01 ? IT . BONAPARTE . The message of the PltBSIDEKT to tllO French Assembl y , as a matter of course contains nothing iu the way of novelty as to the policy he had to propose . The " curiosity of those who listened to it , and of those who kail it , was directed to the terms in which he would couch his proposal to repeal the law of the 3 ist of May . His language is conciliatory to the reactionary and despotic majority , but firm as to tho necessity of the measure ; ' while the arguments by which he supports the repeal are precisel y those urged by the moderate and rational opponents to the passing of the law at all .
It is important to keep in view tllO ICiitllHg filCts connected with that great inroad Oil tllC fundamental principle of the Republican Constitution of France . By the Revolution of February , 1848 , the vllolG of the French people were invested with the franchise , awl empowered not only to select representatives iu the Assembly , but also to elect the Executive Head of the State , There can bo no doubt that in a constituency thus composed , the industrial classes were the vast majority . Hov * did they use these powers ? Did they exclude the public men who had served the monarchy ? Did they select men of extreme vi » ws , united
and inexperienced in public life ? or g ive licence and charter to mere political adventurers and agitators ? Nothing of tho Tciiul . At the electoral urn , as in the heat of the revolutionary contest , the people of 1 ' rancc proved themselves eminently conservative , constructive , and practical . Thev did uot seek to destroy , but to build up . They were content to avail themselves of ' the practised abilities and the superior intelligence , of any man who was prepared to serve the Republic ; and , as it subsequently appeared , they trusted many whose professions were but lip-deep , a ';" who sought for power under the Republic in order that it miht be used to overthrow it .
g The result , however , was , that by Unire « j " Suffrage a decidedly Conservative Assembly was returned to represent the nation , acd . Prince , the nephew and representative ol tlieu " Creat Ejipebor , was placed in the President ' s chair . These facts should have been a guarantee to the exclusive and the wealthy classes of French society , as well as to Europe nt large , that the French people were not destructive anarchists , wild revolutionist
whose only notions of liberty were licentiousness of property—universal robbery , and spoliation . It was clear , that had the newly-creatcQ administration and legislative bodies acted i " good faith to those who placed them in poffer > that social and industrial reforms would haVfl been developed gradually , peaceably , ia harmony with the general permanent interests of society . But this did not square with the ideas and the interests of the majority . TM
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 8, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_08111851/page/4/
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