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  A Cheerful Invalid and his Neighbours--The Starving Children in the Schools--Public Confidence in Crooks--Left Smiling


id: 36796
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  "The Origin and Nature of Secularism: Showing that where Free Thought commonly ends Secularism begins"--saying that as I had the honour of his correspondence, I ought not


id: 39104
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  The Holy Land"--the former, a beautiful record of her own experience and reflections while suffering


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id: 8685
title: Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1
author: Hunt, Henry
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  five years; nay, I always said this, seeing that a poor labouring man is shall state facts as they have been handed down from father to son by old In the confident hope that we shall live to see better days, our Country life time of his father, that this was a very poor property to live upon fathers to his son, a child of five years and a half old, and it speaks My father dropped the subject at that time; but he took an early several days, in order to give time for Mr. Gresley to send to my father. The day was fixed for the party, and my poor father little thought that time her voice returned, to the great joy of myself and all her friends. As my father''s house lay in my way home, I called on him, to inform him of


id: 8463
title: Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3
author: Hunt, Henry
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  times assisted in turning Hunt out of the room at public meetings. In the mean time Mr. Cobbett published a second letter, as follows:-time having offered to poll for the said Henry Hunt, which votes were called the meeting, having taken the chair, Mr. Benett addressed appeared that the parties calling the meeting only intended to petition Exchange Hoax, a dead set was made by the Westminster Rump to get Mr. Brougham elected in his place; and many private meetings were held at Some time in the spring of this year, a public meeting was called of the the soup committee met, and called a public meeting in the city, for the and should return on the following day in time for the meeting. having, _before the meeting took place_, been called before the meeting called for that day; that these persons came


id: 8461
title: Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2
author: Hunt, Henry
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  right to perform an act of public or private duty, having once made up day when Sir Francis Burdett brought forward his long-promised, County Meeting, I called on Mr. Cobbett the first time that I went to monster, jealousy, in the Baronet''s breast, a dinner meeting of Mr. Paull''s friends was advertised for the next day, at the Crown and read a letter from his brother, Sir Francis, addressed to the meeting, On the other hand, I sent copies of our proceedings to Mr. Cobbett, who lived at that time at Botley, expressing a wish, if he riots took place in London, which lasted two days, in consequence of Sir Sir Francis Burdett was at this time the most popular man in England, at the time, I felt great pleasure in having it in my power to oblige the county of Wilts; almost all the country people having a great


id: 36796
title: Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2)
author: Holyoake, George Jacob
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  A few years later it came into my mind that my expressions of respect days the house of John Chapman, the publisher, was the meeting ground known the publication of his work to persons whom I knew to be friendly would fill the ear of the world." He thought for a time on what I said end--as I have seen done in the House of Commons many times in my day. years later, at the House of Commons, Mr. Forster asked Mr. Cowen to Newcastle in the same train, Mr. Cowen said to him, "You know, Mr. Beaumont, we all like you personally, but you do not go far enough addressed mostly to working men, and to persons whom it was not thought "Sir,--No right-minded person can fail to be deeply impressed by Mr. Holyoake''s touching letter in your impression of to-day. For a time I sent presents of books to working-class friends in America


id: 36795
title: Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2)
author: Holyoake, George Jacob
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  part of working men of London, that I was one of their way of thinking Mr. John Morley wrote an article in the _Fortnightly_ on Mr. Chamberlain, which first gave him a position before the public. day at a public meeting in the town hall, they drew an ass''s head on a Chartists of real life whom I knew, who were current in Kingsley''s days, Chartists--like the Co-operators--sought self-government for the people At a meeting in Castle Street, London, the Rev. Charles Kingsley and Mr. Thomas Hughes were present, working men comprising the audience, an old into politics than any other public man in my time. One day when Cobden came, he walked to the House of Commons after the Mazzini one day said to me, "A public man is often bound by his past. Knowledge of public life, law, and government, come as part of


id: 39104
title: Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland
author: Stanton, Henry B. (Henry Brewster)
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  reforms in Church and State which have so blessed the common people of corn laws, Catholic emancipation, Parliamentary reform, and every other slave trade, and advocating the cause of Catholic emancipation, Mr. Canning sustained the worst Tory measures from his entrance into years'' labor of Jeremy Bentham in the cause of law reform. Law Reform--The Penal Code of England--Its Barbarity--The Law Reform--The Penal Code of England--Its Barbarity--The On the death of this great man, the cause of Catholic emancipation fell during the intervening ten years, a great reform meeting was held at general education, complete suffrage, church reform, corn-law repeal, Lord Brougham said: "I have always great pleasure in listening to Mr. Thompson, who is the most eloquent man and the most accomplished orator The next year after the passage of the West India abolition act, Mr. Thompson visited this country, where he remained till driven from our


id: 41023
title: From Workhouse to Westminster: The Life Story of Will Crooks, M.P.
author: Haw, George
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  even remotely suggests the real labouring men of London; and that is Mr. Will Crooks. "I owe something to an old man who went round the poor people''s houses This time Crooks determined to try to find work outside his own trade. Crooks told the man to go home, promising to come to him presently. The day came when Crooks was offered work nearer Poplar. How came it that a working man like Crooks was able to give his whole So the Will Crooks Wages Fund was formed by the Poplar Labour League. London County Council, which was only three years old when Crooks joined The good people of Poplar expect Crooks to meet all their needs. All who labour and are poor in Poplar look upon Crooks as the unfailing As the two men came away, "I''m proud of the poor," said Crooks. Crooks''s Poor Law Policy Attacked--How a Local Government Board


