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The grand annual -1-11"—;--estival commemoration of the
70th birth-day of Robert Owen, the philanthropist, and
the sixth Annual Congress of the Universal Community
of Rational Religionists, was celebrated yesterday at the
Highbury Barn Tavern, by a dinner, tea, and ball, at which
from 1,000 to 1,200 persons were present. The proceed-
ings of the day were commenced with a grand overture
and a procession round the grounds. After which
Mr. SotrinwELL, a missionary from Birmingham, ad-
dressed the ladies and gentlemen assembled on the green,
near the large room, where the dinner took place, to
nearly the following effect .—My dear Friends , and
Brothers and Sisters in the great cause of Socialism—
(Cheers)—The earth has run its annual course since we
het met in this pleasant spot for the purpose of stating
the progress we had made, and also to enjoy the feast of
reason and the flow of soul. They had met to-day (conti-
nued Mr. Southwell) under most interesting circumstances.
As they were going to have a good dinner, he hoped all
would have a good appetite. He had just left Man-
chester, and he was happy to•say that their cause there
was prospering admirably. Their opponents were doing
all they could to put them down, and Mr. Brindley had
stated that if he did not put the whole of them down in
nine months he would suffer himself to be tarred and
feathered.—(Laughter.) They were still, however,
thank God, loving Socialists ?. but if they were not, he
thought he might truly say there was more strength in
their ghosts than their bodies.—(Laughter.) They
were met there that day to give vent to their free
thoughts, and to enjoy themselves rationally—they had
met there to state the progress they had made, and the
progress they were likely to make.—(Cheers.) They
lived in eventful times, in times when all men were
called upon to play most important parts. It was necessary
that he should call the attention of those assembled
around him to politics, as they were at this moment
every man's business, because the statesmen ort both
sides • Were playing their last trump card for office.
At the present moment the machine of Government was
at a dead lock, and neither Whignor Tory would do any-
thing for the benefit of the people. The time had
arrived when the co-operative principle must be adopted ;
instead of that principle which set nation against nation
being made paramount they must adopt that principle of
action on whose banner was inscribed, "Each for all and
all for each."—(Cheers.) There was a great deficiency in
the revenue in consequence of a profuse and increased
expenditure, and with Whigs, Tories, Socialists, and
Chartists, money was the sinews of war. He had no
wish to make that a political meeting, but let them re-
member that the weakness both of Whigs and Tories
was the real strength of the people.—(Hear.) They had
been told repeatedly during the past year that the social
body were averse to discussion, that in peace they were
as bold as lions, but in war as timid as hares.
Facts were stubborn things, and there were abun-
dant facts to prove that the reverse was
the fact. He had recently attended a meeting of the
Manchester Town Mission, having had reason to sup-
pose that certain statements would be made injurious to
the character of the Socialists. Those statements were
made ; and, singularly enough, by a gentleman to whom
ho had previously applied to hold a discussion with him
either in the public streets or within the walls of the
Manchester Institution. This gentleman, not imagining
that he (Mr. Southwell) was present and listening to
him, said he had attended at the Social Institution with
a little band of fdllowers, to challenge discussion, but
they (the Socialists) were afraid of discussion ; and in
order to prevent it had used physical force. The moral
feelings of those who could utter such falsehoods were
in the most lamentable condition, and he (Mr. South-
well) and Mr. Campbell rose and wished to put a ques-
tion relative to this mis-statement ; but the Chairman
would not hear them. After several vain attempts to
obtain a hearing, they wrote on paper a challenge to
those parties who had made false and injurious state-
ments against the Socialists. Of this the Chairman took
no notice. If they were to be put down at all it
would not be by such Means, but by sound
reason and argument adduced in the face of
the people. That whatever was true must be
triumphant was acknowledged by. all parties. They
had nothing to fear from fair discussion. They desired to
educate and improve the people ; they held that the
great sources of human misery and degradation was
poverty, and that the only remedy for the multifarious
evils of society was to be found in a sound education,
based on the principles of truth, and on deductions from
innumerable facts relating to the great business of hu-
man life and to universal nature ; and with such objects,
pursuing such ends, they must be successful. When
they were tempted to find fault with the vices of society,
let them ever remember that people were made to be
what they were by the organisation given to them at
their birth, and by the effects of circumstances acting
upon them from their birth upwards. When they under-
stood this philosophy they would have the philosophy of
philosophy.—(Hear.) Ho could not concha ic without
pointing out the absolute necessity which existed for se-
parating the wheat from the chaff of socialism, its phi-
losophy from any mere speculative philosophy. It had
been the custom of certain parties to mix the two to-
gether ; he referred, of course, to the clerical party; that
party which, in country, as in all others, had been
opponents of human improvement.—(Hear, hear.) Op-
ticians told them that, all bodies . upon which light was
reflected became themselves luminous ; but the clergy
were an exception to this universal law ; they had abun-
dance of light reflected upon them, but they did not shed
its lustre around • and until the people should raise up
teachers who should go forward boldly to speak the truth,
they would never obtain that happy state of society to
which they all looked forward. Let them.then separate
the things of faith from the things of philosophy, specu-
lative dogmas from the truths of science ; morality would
be found all sufficient, and morality could have no other
basis but truth. They were charged with throwing down
the bulwarks which kept back human corruption. Let
those who made those charges be told that they had
been tried and found wanting, that their system had pro-
duced famine, war, vice, and misery, and that they (the
Socialists) proposed another system, giving to all parties
the fruits of their labour, distributing the produce bene-
ficially for all, and a system based upon truth, and both
in its principles and practices diametrically opposed to
that by which society had been so greatly injured.
At half-past two o'clock the company present, to the
number of 450, half of whom were ladies, sat down to a
plentiful and excellent warm dinner, Mr. W. D. Saul in the
Chair. On the platform were Mr. Owen, on the right
hand of the Chairman, Mr. and Mrs. Gulpin, Mrs. Bug-
den, Mr. and Mrs. Fleming, Mrs. Austin, Mr. and Mrs.
Carrs, Miss Gracock, the Misses Pearson, Mrs. Glen-
fell, and several foreigners.
A large and able body of professional singers were in
attendance, and Messrs. Griffin, James, Benedict, &c.,
after dinner sung the chorus of " Nature's Bounty" in a
powerful and very pleasing manner.
The CHAIRMAN then rose and said, as loyal subjects,
and as friends of social order, as well as good Socialists
—indeed none could impeach their loyalty, and never
would have occasion to do so—they would therefore
commence the toasts with the usual loyal one. The
first was the health of the Lady who was placed
" He also
at the head of the administration of afthirs—
the Queen, the daughter of his Royal Highness the Duke
Her Majesty's
of Kent, the friend of the cause of Socialism. Joined to
grateful to
it, he would propose " Prince Albert, the Duke of Sus-
pro-
r e meeting—he
ri
rationalists
ast s alluded
by
13\s)eioxisne,
Ministers."
t ent and
or s
joint.he rTlle,lisittehyotfirantsheemal
toastslnoy things
tihnFagatsmoitlfoy ,
feel
them for, but more especially for their endeavours to
otfhastucthheya
educate the people—(Cheers)—and even within the last
few days they had made an attempt that was well de-
servingto their attempt to feed cheaply those who were pining
in destitution.—(Cheers.) In a rational meeting like
of the gratituodiev
wills sincerity but without noisy.
ion of the Chairman attended to.
that, he trusted they would not make the usual noise on
such an occasion. They would stand up out of respect
ttiorili:ll
gtteoctiosil
tvobi
aenTstittisttlit
Chorus—"
Hail smiling morn.
The CHAIRMAN said on that happy festive occasion,
which he hoped
.would be repeater;
formany years to

come, for it was his highest gratification to meet them ;
they had met for the purpose of congratulating their ex-
cellent friend, on his 70th birthday, on the possession of
health and strength of mind equal to that he displayed
in his younger years.—(Cheers.) They would all loin
with him in wishing health and prosperity to ..Robert
Owen—(Cheers)—when they remembered the obloquy
which had been thrown upon his exertions—when they
had seen those exertions continued through good and
through evil report—when they saw him rising in piers
—when the time was fast approaching when they wouid
see him no longer—but how would, then, his memory
be revered not only in this country but in other nations.•
They would join heartily in the toast. His life had in-
deed been one of most anxious labour and treuble, but at
last it had been attended with success. The numbers
present that day proved him to have been the most effec-
tive reformer that England had ever produced. Politi-
cal reforms sunk into the utmost insignificance when
compared with the new arrangement of society which
Mr. Owen had brought about, and without which becom-
ing general the happiness of mankind would never be fully
accomplished. He knew they were all most anxious to see
his views carried fully into effect, but how much were they
indebted to the great perseverance of their Social father
for the introduction of those principles, which would
carry universal happiness to all mankind, without dis-
tinction of country, colour, creed, or class ? He had,
during the period of his long life, been deeply ma-
ligned, but, knowing the truth of his own principles, lie
laughed to scorn the shafts launched at him by unin-
formed bigots. He hoped many years would elapse
before he was removed from the sphere he so nobly
filled. He could praise him in energetic, but still ade-
quate strains, but he knew he would only distress his
worthy friend ; he would, therefore, content- himself
with hoping that all would leave that meeting with a full
determination to follow the great, glorious, and noble
example of their Social father. He would conclude with
proposing, " Health and prosperity to Robert Owen, the
great founder and father of Socialism."
The toast was responded to with enthusiasm.
Mr. OWEN rose and was received with much acclama-
tion. He felt deeply thankful to them for the manner
in which they had received the toast. For the last three
weeks he had been speaking from morning to night, but
at that moment he really had nothing to say.—(A laugh.)
Their worthy Chairman had said that there had been
some interferences in his progress, and he would confine
himself to that point. They all knew full well that his
object and theirs was not merely the happiness of a class,
or sect, or party, in any one country, nor was it confined
to the inhabitants of any country ; his object had always
been the happiness of the human race, now and during
all coming ages, and to accomplish it, he knew it was
necessary at the beginning of his career that he should
determine that he would turn neither to the right hand
nor to the left, until there was some prospect of his end
being attained, or that he should sacrifice his life in the
attempt.—(Cheers.) He had persevered without turning
to the one hand or the other, until he had the gratifica-
tion of seeing that large assemblage around him. His
worthy friend in the chair had said that he must
' have had many anxious moments ; he never was
more mistaken in his life. He (Mr. Owen) had
never suffered any anxiety at all. At his out-
, set in his Social career when he had
not an individual thinking with him, he calmly and
coolly looked at the justice of his principles, and conse-
quently the justice of the proceedings he contemplated.
He was then well aware that former reformers, even
those who had not attempted one tithe of what he con-
templated, had suffered persecution in fine, imprisonment,
and even in death ; he saw all that before him. He 'never
expected that he should have passed through life without
suffering all these ; but instead of meeting those formid-
able obstacles, his path had been a flowery one.—
(Cheers.) From an individual standing alone he had
gone forth, and had been aided step by step by friends
on all sides, until now that his new, extravagant, wild,
mad notions had made almost all of the old world mad as
well as themselves.--(Cheers and laughter.) Their mad-
ness was that of cool, calm, consideration.—(Cheers.)
It was a madness that induced them to investigate the
fundamental principles on which society was based, and
to find out whether they were principles of nature,
or whether they were founded in error and prejudice,
By such an investigation they had found out the cause of
all the misery existing in the world. Man, the noblest
work of an incomprehensible Power, under the old sys-
tem, was said to be bad by nature. There never had
been a greater libel spoken than that. Fortunately for
themselves, and for all generations, he had lived to dis-
cover that man was good and excellent by nature.—
(Cheers.) Why had such an error become so common
as to make it an axiom that man was bad by nature ?
Why, solely because man, throughout all past ages, had
been badly educated ; that was the simple cause of all the
misery which man had experienced from the beginning
of the world. Were they and their children to be in-
structed in a proper manner, happiness must be their
portion, but they might be instructed for thousands of
years in the system of the old world and they would
never know what charity and love for the human race
meant. The Socialist principles alone could instruct man
in the manner in which he ought to love our neighbours as
ourselves, and to bear charity to the human race. It was well
known that we had now fallen so low as to look at only
what was agreeable to ourselves, and to dislike what
was disagreeable ; but a change was rapidly taking place,
and the time was not far distant when each would look
upon his neighbour as himself. But to bring about that
period—that happy and much longed-for period, they
must adopt prompt and decisive measures, so to bring up
the rising generation as to oblige them to love them.
Hitherto we had had much of precept and but very little
practice, but they had now come to times when they
would have practice, and they would leave the precepts
to others who knew not how to carry them into effect.
He had just returned from a Congress held in Manches-
ter, which had been sitting for nearly three weeks, and
there for the first time they had laid the foundation—a
solid and immoveable foundation—for the success of
those principles by the unity of all parties professing
themselves the disciples of Socialism, which must
succeed. Hereafter, when any one showed anger or in-
dulged in hasty or degrading language, let them at once
say that that person is no Socialist, for with a knowledge
of, and acting upon their principles, such conduct would
be impossible.—(Cheers.) When they found love and
affection for man, whatever his country, his colour, or
his creed, there let them sing " Oh, be joyful!" for the
time was then come when the old moral world would
die, and they would be entering upon a now one, in
which peace and good-will would predominate—a new
world, in which charity would prevail—a new world, in
which there would be no fear of poverty—a new world,
in which all misery would disappear ; and in place of
all these evils would arise a new combination
of external circumstances in which poverty, disease, vice,
crime, and misery, would find no cause for their pro-
duction.---(Loud cheers.) He had investigated the cause
of each of these things, and he had found what they
were, and that they could be removed from society ; and
as soon as Socialists would unite and practice these
principles, when he heard that the members of each
branch were cordially united, when he heard that the
branches acted in union with the Central Government,
from a knowledge of their principles as Socialists, to for-
ward the good work, then would he know that the time
was come when all those troubles would cease, when
swords would be turned into
.ploughshares, when every
man would sit under his own vine and fig-tree, and there
would be nothing on earth to make him afraid, for every
one would be studying the happiness of his neighbour.
Let them all leave the meeting with the determination on
their minds that the happy period was near at hand.—
(Loud cheers.) He was going on to say,—but he was a
visionary, he was a
,madman, he was wild,—but
still lie was going on to say that they had held
within their own hands the means of obtaining that
state of society which had been described under the ap-
pellation of the Millennium.—(Cheers.) They had land,
capital, labour, and skill—they had all the materials that
could be desired ; there was only one single ingredient
wanted— that was unity amongst all. Be trusted that
unity would become universal during the year. He
would not detain them longer ; but with the kind per-
mission of his friends, he would propose the health of
their kind friend the Chairman—might he live many,
many years, and might he (Mr. Owen) be there to see
him:—(Laughter.)

The toast was drunk with applause, and
The CHAIRMAN returned thanks, and promised to be
a Socialist for life, because he was one from conviction,
and he would use his utmost endeavours to promote the
objects of the Society.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed " Prosperity to the
Universal Community Society of Rational Religionists
throughout the World," which was drunk with applause.
Mr. BocHesert said it afforded him much pleasure to
see so many of both sexes assembled to promote a moral
reform that must in a .very short time regenerate
the whole world ; which must, before long, extir-
pate all ,the evils—the many evils which now
existed in society. After highly eulogizing the charac-
ter and perseverance of Mr. Owen, he said that it was
now impossible to put down the Society. In consequence
of the late persecutions they had sent out many faithful
and able preachers, who worked the whole seven days of
the week; and they had:now Halls of Science in Manches-
ter built at an expense of 7,0001., another in Liverpool,
which cost nearly as much; and they had balls in Hall--
fax, in Huddersfield, and many other places, built at an
expense of 30,000/. Besides, they had an estate in Hamp-
shire upon which 5,0001. had already been expended,
and 3,000/. more was about to be laid out ; and all that
having been done by a Society of only five years' stand-
ing, showed that they had a strength that would enable
them to combat with and beat all their enemies.
In succeeding as they had through the last five or six
years, they had much encouragement for the future, for
they had done more than they could have expected when
they took into consideration the giant prejudices with
which they had to battle.—(Cheers.) As Mr. Owen had
truly said, the world was a great lunatic asylum, it was
a field of error and crime so gigantic as to frighten the
boldest mind from its propriety, and reduced man to the
lowest state.—(Cheers.) Man was, by nature, cold and
cruel, and required regeneration ; and those that did
not acknowledge that there were errors in his nature,
must be wild indeed.--(Cheers.) That regeneration it
was the business of the Socialist missionaries to endea-
vour to effect: and in that great work, . notwithstandia7
tl:c difficulties that had :surrounded them, they had been
eminently successful.—(Cheers.) The thorn might tear
the branches from the tree, and scatter its foliage, but
it could not destroy the seed, which would ger-