The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-27 00:00:00

while the idlers of the land, who but for the working-
classes would be sent to the treadmill or the bastiles
they had erected for the poor, (for they could not mend
themselves a pair of shoes or weave a shirt if it would
save them), were actually living on the fat of the land.
How that state of things has been brought about
or how it is to be remedied, may cause many dis-
putes ; but the public may be assured that amongst
the millions it has already had a most unfavourable
and enduring influence.
Mr. M'DouALL, in replying to his health, used
language of which the following is a specimen :
My friends and fellow-countrymen, nothing can be
more gratifying to my feelings than to find that the
spirit of the Charter is still alive ; and nothing could
give me greater pleasure than so lead you onward in the
same course once more, cheered by that tune that Wangs
to my country, and which raises in the heart of every
Scotchman such noble feelings and such a determination
to do his duty to his country.—(Applause.) I do not'
intend to speak at all of the dungeons of the Whigs—l '
despise them and their dungeons too.—(Cheers.) They
have laboured hard, and they have laboured long ; but
although they had a small person to deal with, his body
bed the strength of iron, and his spirit has never yet
bent before them.—(Applause.) I value not them, their
persecutions, nor their dungeons either ; and I pass them
by with that contempt which they hest deserve. I
have gone through their dungeons : I have felt their
force, at least in the effect it has produced upon my
constitution ; but yet, having passed through them, I
forget the persecution, and now I begin to remember
them—new I shall begin to pay my debt to them.
That debt is a long one ; and from the moment I left
the dungeon I began to swear in my heart that I would
have revenge.—(Cheers.) I would not have that re-
venge which you may perhaps understand from the
general acceptation of the term revenge : the revenge
that I shall seek will be to see the Charter made the
law of the land.—(Cheers.) The revenge which I shall
have will be to contend =peaceably if I must—for the
great principles under which we are united, and for
which we, I trust, each and eli of us here, are deter-
' mined to suffer, and, if necessary, to die.—(Cheers,)
Friends and fellow-countrymen, I shall have that re-
venge ; and as I have told other judges, so I tell you
again, who are better judges of the law, that it I am
young in years, I shall yet live to see that Charter
established.—(Applause.) Nothing could have made
me a more decided advocate for the principles of the
Charter ; nothing could have given me greater deter-
mination ; nothing could have added more to my reso-
lution than the imprisonment which the Whigs have
given me.— (Applause.) That imprisonment has not
altered my sentiments in the least ; or, if there is any
alteration, I am Melined to go a little further than the
Charter.—(Loud cheers.) The persecutions of the
\Vhigs have done more good to the cause of the
Charter, 1 believe, than the advocacy of all the leaders
among the Chartists themselves. Look at the effects
which that opposition has produced upon us : it has
excited greater firmness upon our part ; greater resolu-
tion on the part of our leaders ; greater determination
i on the part of the people ; the people are more con-
fident in their leaders, the leaders being more deter-
mined to go forward ; and the masses, the millions,
rallying around them, they have been enabled to place
the standard of the Charter a little further in advance.
When we begun this Charter movement we received
opposition from all parts of the nation ; but we have
shown that, when once the tide of popular opinion is
set in motion, there are no barriers over which it will
not step.