The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-08-06

cussion, he was represented as the
enemy Of the Government and the
foe Of religion. The French recog~
aized his eminent position as a
champion of liberal thought, and
he was honored by being made a
citizen Of France and member OF
the Assembly. This made him IN a
high degree obnoxious at home, and
was laid hold Of by his antagonists
to convince the people that ne was
an enemy to his country, and thai he
had abjured his rights as an
Engishman, and had adopted the
principles Of the hereditary enemies
Of Great Britain. The clergy Of the
English Church, who began about
this time to be alarmed for heir
establishment, of which DR.. Priest
ley was the open enemy, were psrtic'
ularly active !; the press teemed with
their denunclations. Of him, and the
minds Of their hearers were intismed
against him. This vicious state Of
feeling at length broke bounds and
issued in violence. On the day Of
the anniversary Of the French Revo~
luton, in 1861, there was rot in
Birmingham, in which DR.. Priest
ley's Westinghouse and dwelling
house were burned. his library and
apparatus destroyed, and many man
uscripts, the fruits of years of indus
try, were consumed in the con1agra-
ton. The house OF several Of his
friends shared the same fate, and his
son was only saved from death by
the care of friend who concealed
him for several days. DR.. Pnestley
was obliged to make his escape to
London, and a seat was taken for
him in the mail coach under a bor-
rowed name. Such was the terment
against him thatlt was believed he
would not have been safe anywhere
else; and his friends would not allow
him for several weeks to walk through
the streets. He was invited to
Hackney to succeed the celebrated
Unitarian clergyman, DR.. Price. He
accepted but such was the dread of
his unpopularity that nobody would
let him have house from an appre-
hension that it would be burned by
the populace. He was obliged TO
get friend to take the lease for him,
and 1t was with the utmost difficulty
that he could prevail with the land
lord to transfer the lease to him, as
be alleged that he was not only afraid
that it would be demolished, but
that his own residence. twenty miles
off, would 60 next. When he got
aattlod, lia fr;a-a1- Ling ---ar ruoso
advised to remove their valuable
effects. Servants could not be In
duced to stay with him, and his
neighbors were in fear of damage by
his presence. The members of the
Royal Society, of which he was a
fellow, declined admitting him to their
company, and he was obligedto with
draw his name from the society. His
eldest son was in business in Man.
chester.swith partner who, although
a man Of liberality himself, was so
pain-struck by the state of the public
mind that he dissolved the business
connection. DR.. Priestly was burned
in efigy with Paine, and threatened
and denounced in private letters. AT
dinner of the prebendaries ola cathe'
dral church, the conversation turning
on the riots in Birmingham, and on a
clergyman having said that if DR..
Priestly were mounted on pile of
his publications he would ser fire to
them and burn him alive, they all
declared that they would be ready to
do the same. Or. Priestly had been
a friend of Edmund Burke. who
wrote furious book about the
French. This was replied to by
Priestley 50 ably that the great orator
was greatly exasperated, and in
veig ed against his friends character
repeatedly in the House Of Commons.
DR.. Priestly denied his charges, and
called on him for proof again and
again, but he made no reply, where's
upon the doctor published that Burke
had neither ability to maintain his
| r. ha roe nor uIrt1n RI rafrart IF Dr