The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-10 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION•

ver.al happiness. Oh, glory, glory for ever to the founder ,
--- of that system of society—of that religion which can at
- • length operate such wonders, such beneficial changes in
the human beret ! and may he; waose anniversary we are
now met to er lebrate, live-to see that system and-that re-
ligion, which are already so tl rurishing in this county,
spread over the Continent, and universally established !
leas one of your Continental brethren,- anti a most hearty
feteird of co-operation, in my own name, and in that of all
the friends of this stupendous system of . soeiety on the
Continent and all over the world, do most•earnesrly thank
you. my-friends, for your good wishes for their health and
prosperity ; and with ycu I join in the hope that the day
te not far (Intern when, not -only in Fiance, where -Socialism
i 4 making (as here) rapid progress, but in Italy, my native
country, and all over Europe and America at least, our
Social brethren may freely and publicly assemble as we
nee permitted to do here, and celebrate, in all their cities
a d villages, on this day, the anniversary of the birth of
tee greatest philanthropist, the regenerator, if not the
fleher, of the great human family. Amen.
. Tio CHAIRMAN there rose to propose health and pros-
perity to their respected friend Mr. Pare, and to their
Ether persecuted Social brethren. Ile thought that on
every occasion like the present, they ought to sympathise
with and uphold all tkosn who had been persecuted in
their cause.—(Creeregamya the old Church religion they
had their martyrs, and they were called upon when young
to pay a certain respect to the martyrs of the Church'.
It was, therefore, their duty to sympathise with those who
bad suffered in mind, body, and estate, for those who did
not think as they did.—( Cheers ) Persecution was not
known in the proceedings of the Socialists, but to the die-
• Oleo of the nation it was allowed in other Societies to
do.its work —(Cheers.) Was this Christianity, or doing
as- they would be done by ?—(Cheers.) No man who
posses.sen a proper feeling would think of persecuting his
fellow man, for holding different opinions fraffli himself.—
(-Cheers.) From what he had stated he was sure
that all present must be aware that he alluded to Mr.
Pare, of Birmingham, who had suffered most grievously in
their cause.—(Cheers.) The hand of power had been
stretched out to do the weak of persecution against him.—
n Cheers.) Not the hind of public fewer, but what was
efailrorse. tibe tongue ci' private slander.—(Oheers.) Mr.
Pare had been held up as a pesdielice that all should
avoid, by the private slanderer, one of the worst characters,
be would vetnaare to say, that disgraced society. The
murderer was lead enough, but be looked upon the private
assassin as a great deal worse.—(Cheers.) That Society,
he warhappy to say, was most successfully triumphant,
notwithstanding all that had been said against it; but its
triumph would be far morn complete when it had laid,
which was not far distant, the tongue of slander in the
dust. In the present instance, the best of brothers, fathers.
hnsbands and children had bean brought forward to be vic-
timised, and the course that had been pursued towards Mr.
Pare, was a disgrace to all who were in any way concerned
in it.—( Cheers.) He, would however venture to predict
that any such attempt would fail in future, if the Society
. only continued to hold the high moral line it did at present.
—( Cheers.) The most trifling circumstances had hither-
to been leid bold of, to traduce the character of the moral
. religionists of Great Britain. Tee worthy Chairman con-
.eluded, by proposing the toast. stating that he was so satis-
led with the principles of the Society, that he should che-
rish them in his heart of hearts.—(Great cheering )
Mr. G. A. FLEMING, Social Missionary, and Editor
d the New Moral World, then came forward to respond
• to the toast, and was most enthusiastically cheered.
lie appeared there as the representative of his highly
valued friend, Mr. W. Pare. lie appeared there to thank
farm for Cho sympathy they had expressed in the sufferings
of Mr.• Pare. Those aufferings had not abated one jot or
salte tittle of zeal in the cause.—(Cheers.) He might
with peculiar propriety be permitted to return thanks for
Mr. Pare, as they. had been for years associates' together
in the. closest., official relations, which had changed
itself into friendship. For two years he had witnessed
• ,that gentleman's enduring and disinterested devotion of him-
near and his abilities to the cause of the Socialists, without
lookaig to any other return than the satisfaction of know-
hie that he was doing goo to his fellow man.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Pare was the main spring of the Society, and to him
they were indebted for the business-like manner in whia
its pioceedings had been conducte&—( Cheers.) He had
ainver heard ,all from his lips one word which could offend
the most delicate and sensitive of their opponents.
110 was an exemplification of charity, and his religion was
to offend nobody by wordiaer deed --(Cheers.) If proof
mere wanting of that it wits given on the requisition sent
by his townsmen, of all parties, to the Secretary of State,
4.,0rd Normanby, begging that he might be permitted to
elateld the situation which he bad filled, alike with
'Abnour to himself and benefit to the Government and the
public.—( Cheers.) Yet such a man had been selected as
she victim of persecution. They could not have selected
abetter victim, fcr the purity of his life and sentiments
wa' a guarantee that that persecution was vindictive,
and would Ultidtately fall on the heads of those who had
originated it.—(Cheers.) But the toast said something
.of their other persecuted friends. Those who lived in
London had very little idea of the persecutions that were
mot with in the country—there John knew what Tom was
dente e. but in London that was not the case.
In ties country it was quite common for gentlemen, dressed 1
in shining black coats and white neckcloths, to go to the
employer of some poor individual, who had attended some 1
Sooialist meeting, and say, " Sir, do you know that you 1
.have in your employ several persons who hold the abo-
naieable doctrines of the Socialists, and it is your duty to
tarts them off; for one diseaesd sheep affects the whole
fleck r" and the result was, they were sent about their
,baaiaessr. red then came hungry wives and starving chit_
alien. There was another mode, also, of persecution in
.the country. It a person was suspected of being a Social-
ist. it was directly spread abroad ; their customers cried
-, Oil, dear, we will neverear into the shop again;" and
thus the party wee ruined. Such was the style of persecution
thalweg adopted in the country. The parties felt that
, they had no argument or reason to offer, and they resorted
to such underhand mean to put down, if possible, those
doe-trines. which, from the weakness of their own in-
tellectithee could not devise any other means to put a
step to.—(Cheers )
- •Mr. FLEMING then rose to propose thi next toast—
s" Prosperity and Emancipation to the Female Sex, the I
re. lecuted portion of the human race." Li doing so, he 1
Arad to complain of the Chairman, for he had sent away all •
the ladies. (The Chairman had a few minutes before
stated that the tea was ready in adjoining room, and the
greater part of the ladies had retired.) However, he
arauld try his best with respect to those who remained.—
' (Cheers.) In this country women were little better than
street. and a good wife, now-a-days meant nothing more
than a gond drudec.—(Cheers.) flow seldom did they
is e the women. as they had that day, mixing in their pub-
;tie aesemblies ?_(Cheers.) A few years ago they had the
',adios in the gallery, at any public entertainment, looking
as tart gentlemen enjoying themselves, and it was thought
guar* antlicient pleasure to them if they saw the men
• —,
her) 1 , Lehter.) It was said by tome parties, an 1 tha
r aue
was vane of the deep and damning sins of the present age,
'Tint women evere not formed with sense and feeling, but
:were mere ',vet.- little playthiege.—(Laughter.) Now,
he could venilre to say, if women cceld only have their
.eeeis open to their own dignity as the femalee of old had,
thee 'would give the mere vain and selfish as they srere. the
lieesani would essert their own dignity.—((sneers,) Way
were t se feinele nortion of the human race to be slighted
as thera• ha-I been? Whose ;sands, he would ask, was it
that "MTkd man through helpless infancy ? Woman's!
(Che sten ) Who was it that tencied man in sickness, arid
ernoothral his weery pillow ? Yuma.. 1.--( Cheers.) And
who wan in when the last agony came. when the cold
.damp of 'eath settled on the brow, tended unrenein
:tingly until the last life ebb had 'missed away ?
.11V1i °man !—(Cheers ) Her cares began with the life of
anon, and orely ended with its termination--(Cheers)—
and for all leis she was made a moral slave.—( Cheers.)
It was time, for e'er owe sake, and man's character, that he
should look back .a the Llesssinge she bestowed, and step
forward to snap the china' which bound woman to such a
block.—(Cheers ) Did they ever expect to see free
men till they hail fro.. women ?—(Cheers ) As long as
their mothers were a:eves, so long would they stamp
tho impress of staves v ripen the children, fur like always
,I essuelit out like.—(t'llieers.) But some people said that
aSocialists worked to se face wo.neu to be the mere slave of
Miens lust. If ever there were a set of men who bad a
.
higi I,er conception of women end female virtue, it true the
Socseelists.—( Greet cheering.) Ii ever there existed men
dispen sd to ,lo justice to them it Wag the Socialists.—
(Chem -,.) If ever there existed men who wished their
moaewe, wives, sisters, and daughters should become as
pure in annul as they were lovely in body, it was the So-
cialists.. _(Cheers.) Tney wanted women to be edu-
cated esaual to themselves ; they wanted to place
.woenewie such a position, as that the lecture-room, the
Nan-room, '.he study of the stars and the earth, might be
Ie her, as ti. others, a sour ch of amusement and pleasure.
(Cheers.) Trey wished her no longer to he the inhabi-
tant of the eallar and the kitchen.—(Cheers ) They
wished Woolen to he free—to assert their own dignity, and
its aw as at.- vaiees and daughters of free men, enjoying
mane' benefits esith them. The worn g
ientleman con-
ceaded with aropoeing the toast, amid leas'
IL'e., .1?1011Y spoke to the toast. He for ore ,el was uem
notg' die
p6,ed do „snow men Jo be idle six days of theweek,h;
order tile they might- tell phut they called truths on the
suaday, ale said his ,antow-lecturers frequently delivered
thirty-five .1 cdures dute eg. tire week, end he knee no good
reaeon why Lie ()then; would not work as aell. He-cor-
dially supported the toast, because unless the females were
emancipated the y would nester peoperly teach their chil-
dren to be men and woman, in the true and natural sense
stia the term.
Mr. OWEN here cntc-ed the room, and was received
. with loud cheers—al: the company standing.
Mr. SOUTHWELL then rose to propose s• Prosperity to
the meassures o. the Annual Conaress, and we live to see
a Social Congress of all the Nations of the Earth." These
Colgressen were rendered necessary by the present eon-
ditioa of meekly. It was impossible for the public to be
sati.fied while the Archbishop of Canterbury received up-
wards of 100/. a day, and hie nerishionsre, or many of
them (Ad not receive 10d. The• only desired that the
empire of truth should be established, and the congress
was the best means of doing so.
'talc. Jevee.Re then rose to propose " The Press, fwd.
cularly the Zv.sw Moral World, the Gazette of the Uni-
versal Common! Society of Rational Religionists, and
Pie advocates otatreth in all parts of the world." It was
tea!' argument only ;hat the Socialists wanted to convince
th. ir opponents, it was by argument alone that they
4 to sec the :roproaement of the New Moral World
Whale. -er the press waseetablished, it le ought out the fa-
culties of she people, it elesrarc'd the human mind. With a
free pre: sth a powers of coil would shrink, and the prospects
eprovement bet:stag brighter; it had always
of virtue and it.
'ear and hatred to the tyrants of the earth.
been an object o 't
• to ii,.. ,1 the Piero <floral World in the
t 7eads,sahseeitt:Wehre, the Bible of
lie was most ha 10
houses of the m; %nballes'—'
:,!.rnek terror
the working class les;`ts 'wine Exeter —(Ldaueutee.) Un-
sn,an. . iato the mind of ti. t '
.Bishop.c s. .
even in tuts country, was not free ; it
Ire i'VSlately the pre ;11, prosecutions, not by sae Govern_
Pill persecuted. k be the intolerant pi iesthood of the
Pin. -,--e „asetn.en,but through then s
':l`e, country..
-., a. • •ed to the toast, Though the
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reat mean,. it were true to their first grin-
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