New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1873-10-16

George the Third, whose yoke America had
cast of. = the mad king" He was OIL
cially ma2-not that this made much differ
euce in England, since things there seemed
TO 60 on very much the sane whether the
ruler was sane or insane Mr. Bradlauch
explained with especial force that the Eng
li-h republican government dil not look i.r
the accomplishment al IL, object, through
other means than parliamentary action. We
do not want. said he. "A rcIull, through
fore, nor 10y war nor arms. but by the ballot
box. We have no night toiuit5Iic revolution
10y inrCe, but we have i right t. resist iii,sai
force. and IN that case the right 81 punish it,
wrongful users The lecturer then >h"WcI
the vast advantages of the legality ri the
movement in the avoidance al that l,,>S al
power which secrecy involved. "Nn view -
said he, IN voice that filled the hall with
It's volume and electrified his hearers with it,
earue>ine>s; 'un view should he held T., any
man save one that he may carry hlzonrI
upon his forehead through the wn.li." lie
did not doubt the ErIctIeahllity ui a urpublir
in England. But though republican, he
dii not desire n republic there lie rather
feared that it would come sooner than he
and his friends wanted it forced upon them
by the wretched condition 81 the vast ma
louty 81 the agricultural and llhnsnc classes
oil England. One hundred and sixty fami-
hes own half u England and large portion
OF W ales and Scotland Twelve families own
three-quartcrS ot scotland, and thus the
landed ari>tocrats lay waste 1000 600 acres
OF land land which would richly rruay Guilt
walton. but which are withheld from the poor
agriculturalst only Ia be ,lesolated with deer
parks Tor the amusement of the wealthy
lords"
The lecturer asserted that the agricultural
t1.,T - !
condition than auv in Europe, except perhaps
IN Russia. should this be in rich England ?
Many an English llborer works for eight
>hlilIng> week and never tastes meat from
one wears send to another. What produces
the lauper idiots with which the English
w"rkhouse, are filed but propagation hv mo-
theirs whose frames have been weakened hy
starvation and father hose ,irillitN has been
Slapped by want and toll. The speaker IA.
mented the fact that there i in England no
living loyalty. There is there habit at In, :
atty which the people have worn qu,te thread
bare, though they vet try IL fancy It genuine
broadcloth. The Brunswlcks have no claim
upon the peoples loyaty-their feelings are
not ours, their language their literature and
their memories are not ours. They are foul
graftupOn the tree, and they will wither it root
and branch. In the course of his close and
careful argument showing the utility of this
movement Mr.. Bradaugh said it was not his
desire to do away with the Parliament, but To
make 1t indeed a parliament Ofpeers peers in
intelligence, virtue, and statesmau>hip, and
ms Couldnot be under monarchy. "Repub-
llcS, SAID he, are necessarily the growth ui
time and the result Ofcaretul education. Spain
to-day Is no republic, though there are noble
and patriotic men who have come To the front
there (iierc Mr.. Bradlaugh paid an eloquent
tribute to Emilio Castelar, France il not a
republic now, nor was she in rs, nor vet in
l's9. England under Cromwell was not a
republic, for a republic is that country where
the majority of the citizens perform their
political duty az well as enjoy their political
rights" As the lecturer entered upon that
portion "fhia subject in which lac dwrlt upon
the reasons ct his Visit to this country, and
spoke of the reasons which had induced him
To appeal to American audiences he crew
thoroughly eloquent and was interrupted by
cheer after cheer and round after round of
applause. 81 will tell you," said he, "why
| came to speak here. Your English edited
journal warns you not to offend the ENGLISH
aristocracy. But what are they 10 YOU"
What were they to you in 1872 What
were they to you during the cotton famine
and again during the last war: | speak To-
you because we are not alien nations; oar
poets, our thinkers, our great mind are the
same, and | pray that our hope tuI work
In the future may be the same believe in
a federation of all English-speakng people,
but this can never be accomplished under a
monarchy. | am here to speak not for the
English arlstocracy, nor for the English State
Church. When you warred for your indrpcn-
dence these were against YOU. Nearly 100
years ago they encouraged a mad kim t. hire
iieaaians and Indians and beg Czariuu for
Russians to d1scCrate your homes When,
again, you warred for your unity, these spoke
false and fair words to those who would have
dlsmcmbered your mighty federation. For
these may not speak, but | may speak for
those men OF Lancashire, Of Yorkshire, and
Tor The laborers in every mime aud workshop
III England, for the poor, among whom was
born, and for the rough, among whom
lived, wish had the eloqucncc and trained
oratory to do 50 iiltlngly, but hope to make
you understand that when YOU read of
this movement in our prcjudiccd and bitter
English journals and the journal in this city
whose editor ought to know better, il hi, cN-
pericnce in printlng-hOuse Square had left any
memory for the truth in him, that We are not
quite ~ black as we are painted"
With Il vigorous and eloquent pcroratiun
Mr.. Bradlaugh brought his address to close
amid cheers and enthusiasm such rs few
speakers appearing for the first time before a
strange audience i'll strange land are able to
draw forth. Throughout the hour occupied
by his discourse lac chained the attention ui his
hearers, but at lis close an interruption oc-
CURED III consequence of some desire on the
part OF person in the audience to reply Ia
The speaker. His effort was a failure.