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... the third materially narrowed the right of election. By this last ordonnance, not less than 9500 electors were disfranchised in the City of Paris alone. The promulgation of these obnoxious ordonnances was the proximate cause of the revolution of 1830. When it became known in Paris that the Charter had ceased to exist, the indignation the people knew no bounds. The editors of of newspapers ...

... - THE CHARTIST CIRCULAR. THE MORALITY OF PAROCHIAL AND CHARTIST EDUCATION CONTRASTED. We happened one evening to discuss the subject of Parochial Education, at friend’s fireside, with an antiquated dominie, the sub-session clerk of a quoad Sacra diocese in Clydesdale. The Education of Parochial Schools,” quoth the old castigator of juvenile flesh, “is the most moral in the world. For example—l ...

... paper money-making is unjust in principle, and destitute of every shadow of honest and fairdealing, let us glance for a moment at the manufacture. Bank notes, or, to speak more correctly, promises to pay, unlike, totally unlike, all other kinds of money that had preceded them, —utterly unlike all things that ever were exchanged by them, —cost little or no labour to produce them; and, in every ...

... Saturday, April 10, 1841. Price One-Halfpenny. Causes of Disunion among the fiddle and Working Classes. and frequently in polite literature—‘‘the swinish multitude,” which means the lazy, lounging, sensual, fat, and gormandizing multitude, a meaning we should think more applicable to bishops and other idle professors of gastronomies than to the busy hive of working bees who gather honey for ...

... 1840. neath their burdens, and patiently prayed for redress, but pains and penalties have been the only response to their prayers. The reason was obvious—they stood alone. Had the middle classes of society united with them in the sacred cause of liberty and justice, the wrongs of the nation would have been long since redressed, and our country would now have exhibited a flourishing trade and ...

... Political tyranny and injustice are the evil sources of social despotism and oppression; without the existence of the former the latter could never be endured. In America, where white men enjoy political freedom and equality, social despotism and white slavery are unknown; and we hope the day is not far distant when the children of Ham, in the United States, will enjoy equal rights and ...

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... It were well if there were few heroes; for we scarcely ever heard of any but did more mischief than good. These overgrown mortals commonly use their will with their right hand, and their reason with their left. Their pride is their title, and their power puts them in possession. Their pomp is furnished from rapine, and their scarlet is dyed with human blood. If wrecks, and ruins, and ...

... If we examine ihe records of history, we will find that natural genius is no means an exotic plant among the poor; on the contrary, it is indigenous, and belongs almost exclusively to woiking men. In every village we find an untaught poet, a painter, a musician, or a clockmaker, his who either earns their daily bread at the humble loom, or by toiling in the bowels of the earth, or sweating ...

... fOR A NATION TO LOVE LIBERTY, IT IS SUFFICIENT THAT SHE KNOWS IT; AND TO BE FREE, IT IS SUFFICIENT THAT SHE WILLS IT.” M. Dc La Fayette. an«m-sal Annual parliaments ©ole ballot, (©nalta'cattons, panment fttcmfcerS, & electoral JBfetncts. No. 3. Glasgow, Saturday, October 12, 1839. Price One-Halfpenny. by the sheer exercise of brute force. They have violated every principle of nature—set at ...