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extent of ti
ties-and the

were in their extent to the paltriness of the
ag power which was to be put down. It is
true that a moral and physical avalanche was
called down to crush a mouse ; that Pelion was
heaped upon Ossa to darn up a petty drain. Two
hundred thousand noblemen, gentlemen, mer-
chants, tradesmen, and working men of the metro-
polis, presented their loyal services to put down
sedition and threatened outrage. The enemy, on
—r. whose boast it had been that they
.flion strong, mustered only a beg-
now of some ten or fifteen thousands,
aided by the accession of half the swell
,nob and thieves of London. Well, the greater
the disproportion of numbers the more gratifying
the demonstration. Loyalty, we now know, can
command its two hundred thousands ; Chartism
and. revolution a bare twentieth of the number.
There is not a true heart throughout the length
and breadth of England which will not throb at
the proud remembrance of this proved fact. There
is not a republican or anarchist throughout the
world, who will not feel his arm paralysed and his
turbulent zeal checked by this assurance of the
futility of his efforts and the vanity of his hopes to
prostrate. the power, the wealth, and the industry
of En-gland at the feet of the mob.

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Already the best results .of this moral triumph
are observable, in whatever quarter of the European
Continent the, events of the tenth of April are
known, Those events have imparted a ten-fold
confidence to every lover and friend of rational
liberty throughout the work'. They have proved
that there is a sustaining power in those British
institutione; which have so long been the admira-
tion of other nations. They have established the
fact that a peciple may be free, to the very verge of
license, and yet capable of restraining themselves
from the temptation to pass-that verge. The Ledru
Rollins and- Le Blanes of the world may be startled
and disappointed ;by such a result. The abettors
of outrage and' spoliation may be abashed by the
example set them. But real liberty has gained
immeasurably by it; for it has proclaimed to the
world, and to those who are jealous of untramelled
human nature, that a' well-disposed people may be
trusted to defend institutions which they respect.
But, more than all, are grateful for the lesson
the tenth of April,
are capable of teaching, if lightly regarded, to the

the events of Mon

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the Working classes of our
own country:, We admit that they have difficulties
to contend with, sufferings to endure. We admitthat the expectations held out to them of benefit
to be derived from the adoption, as the policy`bf
the state, of their own crude whims are most se-
ductive:- They have been taught to believe that it
is within the power of legislation directly to ensure
"a fair *day!s_ labour fora fair day's work;" and
that this very desirabli result will be achieved by a
Chartist
.Parliament—by body composed of
similar materials to those which compose the Con-
vention at_ present sitting in London. They have
taxed themselves to feed and subsidize these drones.
They have been victimized for years of a portion of
their:hard earnings to pay for committee men's ex-
penses, for deputations and delegates. They have
been deluded with exaggerated notions of their
numerical strength and of the importance of their
Petitions. They will now, however, we trust, wake

discontented portion of

up; and, as the fi

n of returning sanity, but-
The events of Monday, and
subsequent disclosures, ought to be sufficient to
shew them that they have fallen amongst thieves,
and must share the-fate of all dupes, who are sub-
jected to the same calamity. Let them reflect upon
the now ascertained composition of their monster
petition, with its barefaced and transparent for-

up their pocket

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