The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-09-22

cefaln socs,t'eo by name, and rnacts that every
society, CONFUSED Of different divisions, or dillcr-
ent pa Is, shall be illegal, and the members inish
able. This act was evelled at political societies
but was so wo;ded that none should escap. By
sec. il, any two magistrates are made Judges OF
what politics are sedluous; and by the 18th sec
ton, every lecture room, or reading room, or field
or place where lectures are read, books ere lla
te6for money, shall be deemed dlsorderly house,
&c. unless specially licensed Political agitation
was struck at the root by this act, under heavy
penalties; and persons offending may be co lyicted
summary, by two justices: wi'ho atany jury.
The act 81. Geo. ILL.,, chap, -, suppresses GER
tain clubs, and prohibits socel es having any com
pili,e, &c from meeting or communicating with
any committee, nc, a any other society, or per-
suad!ng persons to become members The object
OF this act was TO prevent the possibility OF rvlti-
cal cooperation. o
The act 60, Geo. Ill, chap IS, prohibits meet
lngs OF more than fifty persons Except called by
government ofiicrrs) for considering any public
business, unless the parties 1--we in the parish, &c.
and II househoders, must give six days notice to
justice, who may alter the time and place OF meet
ing. II any person at such mretlng stir up hatred
or contempt Of the king, government or constitu-
ton, he may be seIzed at once, and It there he any
Resistance, the justice may dissolve the meet ng,
any person remaining afterwards can be trans
ported The object OF thus act was 10 suppress
public meetings altogether, and It's words compre-
bend every meeting, for every purpose.
1t is further TO be observed, that every assembly,
(xlthout aid from these statutes,) is contrary to
law, IT likely to create alarrh; and 1t would be
held sufficient to support a prosecution, that some
old person or child had been frightened. or hurt IN
the crowO, or W lndow had been broken. Aud it
Is the law 10 hold all present responsible for every
thing said or done at such meeting.
The act GO, Geo. Ill, chap. l, torblds all meet
lngs tor military training or The use OF arms; thus
to the rank of Africans, Chinese and Hlndoos, to
all of whom the present English people, so highly
advanced in other knowledge, but so Ignorant OF
seli-defence, may, without Injustice, be compared
| militia force sSeiltIOn' awning the
Judges please, and Americans should look at the
report OF Tomnson's case at York, 9th July, be.
fore Cresswell, where defendant was imprisoned
eighteen menths, Tor complaining, Of the govern
ment, and the execrable Judge held that 1t was se-
dlious to speak so as to raise the inference that
'ihe speaker intended to excite disafiecon to-
wards the government of the country!' The &C
cused had referred the evils of society to the bad
administration of the government. See also YIN
cents case, 9, Carr and Payne, %; G. |. TindaPs
charge to grand Jury, In Stafford, in 1872 !; Carr
and Marsh, 6G4. C. |. Peterborough in Cobbetts
case, Holt on Libel, Ia note; and any OF the cur
rent charges In the newspapers
My space does not allow me to protract this ex-
pose OF the law which Is every day, and with most
sangulnary cruelty, enforced to maintain the pre-
sent position OF the people OF England, and their
tyrants. ! only refer to the alien vote, the sus-
pension OF the habeas corpus, and the new traver
In America, we know with what infamous cir
cumstances these laws are practically administer
ed. The trial by jury, OF political offenders, Is
farce, not catholic act, on either MitchelPs or
Martins trials. A mans religious or political OPP
ponents are packed together in the box; they are
infamcd by counsel, and bullied by the court; and
bounded on by the rrcss. Besides which, they are
coerced by starvation, and actually set upon IN the
room by some juror in pay of the government, and
| frightened into u verdict. Foreman Waterhouse
did this thing In Martins case, beyond doabt;
probably because the Lord Lieutenant had smiled
on HIM, hie lady bought RUG, or given an Or
der at his watchmaker's shop. 1t Is a great pity
young Martin (he brotheD did not kill hum, in
stead of challenging him, because that would have
ended the farce OF Irish jury trial In an appropriate
1 tragedy. The brother would have lost his life,
perhaps, but what of that; he would have been
/ immortal. Now, he is Imprisoned for contempt
! of court, and Warehouse will get thanks and pa
tronage for his loyalty, while the cause of Irish
/ liberty viii retloerade and be Frustrated by his
corruption and IMMUNITY.
Is il not pretty exhibition, that with such laws
and such an adm lnstraton, the English press and
people should echo the Recommendations about
liberty and constitutions There are not only
none, ut such things prepostcrous in the very
suppositcn Is it not dreadful, that the Amer can
Minister, at the Royal Agricultural Society ami
versay, should have Crant!y stood up more mis-
cradle than the blinded Sampson, at the dinner, 18th
| July last, among the assembled arstoeracy, and
! sacok, to their very foundation, the columns OF
republican liberty. equality, and prosperity, which
| be was sent TO uphold, by endorsing the English
| fabric OF society. "Ths Is the country accord
restraint" That egiegious speech is completely
unjustiilable, and should be resented by the whole
American people, who only quoted here to be
laueh' d at, as when MIR. Hume spok Of the Con-
| qressional rules in the Commons; or to support
abuses as by the Premier, in late speech against
the ballot.
America is, to the nations, that fire by night aud
smoke by day, which led Israel through the VIII
demess; but she has no Influence in England.
There alone, she is exile, and her representa-
tives do her TO honor. There exists comblna-
ton to keep her unknown against which her MN
listers record no protest nor indignation. The
statesmen dread her XamDIP. the masses Seutl-
lousy kept in ignorance by them, and by the news
papers and with us. OF the world encirclng
British Empire, which has so long and recklessly
gyasped the limbs OF its people, you al
most see the muscles swelling under your eye,
when are TO burst the chain OF slavery, and cast
Its iron links TO the winos, at the moment when the
masses ale said, by IN American minister, in the
tace OF truth and heaven, to be contented, and not
even to have cause of complaint. MARCUS
Our Berlin Corresp ndencs.
BERLI;, August q, 1915
| dDaus IN Germany.
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