The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-26 00:00:00

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LONDON:
FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 26, 1842.

Every effort which can be ought now to be
made to re-unite in peace and love the separated
classes of the community, and every effort made
with that object deserves the kindest considera-
tion and the most effectual support. From all
quarters we hear one opinion expressed. It is
emphatically said "England will be ruined if
the middle
_and working classes be not recon-
ciled.", As long as they are at enmity, a large
military force will be required to keep the peace,
and in its presence liberty is an empty name.
We see, therefore, with satisfaction, that Mr.

JOSEPH STURGE, as Chairman of the National
1•• Coniplete Suffrage Union, has issued an address
to the. ",middle and enfranchised classes,!' in
order to heal, if possible, our unhappy dissensions.
It is quite natural that for undertaking this
good work Mr. STURGE shou'd be assailed
by all those who love riot and disorder

as the justification of tyranny. He who has
Mood firm amidst showers of paper bullets
poured on him by the bribed Press of the slave-
owner and the tyrant iu every quarterof Europe

and America, will tearlessly, we are assured,

defy all the missiles of the monopolist Press of
England. In alluding to hiM, therefore, we feel
confident that he does not require us to lift up a
shield before him. We shall undertake no such
unnecessary task, being assured that he despises
and CollteillU4 attacks of which the mi.Jice
plagues only their authors. It is our duty, how-
ever, to notice some of the points of the Address
and recommend them to the deep consideration
of the enfranchised classes.
With Mr. STURGE we agree, and we have on
this point the whole Tory Press on our side--that
the labouring classes are an ill-used and much-
-wronged set of men. The soil, and all political
power, have. been monopolized ; the bulk of the
woduce of their labour is annually, by some
menus'or other, or by some class or other, ex-
torted from them—while those who undertake
to teach them, and to proVide for their welfare,
in return for wealth and power, have given them
no useful instruction whatever, and have taken
no care of their health or their welfare. All hu-
man institutions, every political contrivance—
the whole duties of Government on the due hand,
and obedience on the other, have for their object
the promotion of the earthly happiness of man.
They are to give health and strength of body, peace
of mind, and security for enjoyment. That being
the intention of them, and the working classes
being neither properly fed, properly clothed, nor
properly lodged, they have a great right to com-
plain. They have done their duty to society.
They nourish it, they provide amply for others;
but they are, by some means or other, denied
their fair share of the wealth they produce. So
says Mr. STURGE and the Council of the Complete
Suffrage Union; but they place their remarks at
the conclusion of their Address, while we think
the immediate should be the ground-work of
every appeal to all classes. The Address con-
cludes thus—
•

The poor are wronged ; it is for you (the middle
classes) to come forward at this awful crisis of your
country's history, and to give your solemn pledge that
you will see them righted.
Such a declaration on your part would instantly act
as oil upon the troubled waters,
We implore you by all the regard which you have for
the honour of your country, bY the interest you take in
the preservation of peace, by the affections you cherish
for your own wives and children, by compassion tur a
starving and oppressed labouring population ; and iastly,
by the solemn obligations imposed upon you by the ever
Just and Almighty God, to give a peaceable expression
of your sentiments in favoar of the political entrancnise-
ment of your brethren, and thuS to stay the progress of
that devastating plague which now threatens universal
ruin.
In another place it says :

Either the just requirements of the people must be
granted, or their impatience must be controlled by an
armed despotism. There is no Other alternative. With
you it remains to decide whether the institutions of
Britain must be based in the affections of the people, or
upheld by the power of the sword ; whether society
shall be rent in twain—one party mounting guard tq
check the turbulence of the other, or whether our pre
sent unhappy di►isions shall be healed, and order, spring-
ing out of respect for law, shall be restored.
Be assured, fellow-countrymen, that injustice invari-
ably draws after it its own punishment.. You can only
keep the millions in perpetual slavery at the cost of in-
cessant fears, increased taxation, periodical commercial
derangements, and the cession of a large portion of the
civil liberty which you yourselves enjoy.
We trust that such exhortations and,adMoni-
tions will nut be thrown away, and that the
middle classes will think it is a duty to them-
selves and their children, that they may hand
down to posterity the civil liberties of England,
now fiercely assailed in behalf of a sordid mono-
poly, to see justice done to the working c!asses.
11r. STURGE is a strenuous advocate for the ex-
tension of the suffrage; the bulk of the people
demand it as a means to an end—and that end is
a fair share of the annual produce of labour.
Whether the extension of the suffrage be the
best means of obtaining and securing that is an
intricate question which we will not decide; but
if the middle or upper classes, including espe-
cially the clergy of all ranks, cannot find any
means of securing to the working classes a larger
share than at present vf lbe benefits of society,
we are afraid that even a military force will not
be able long to hold the community! together in
.peace.

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