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 THE FOUR 
 
 P's, 
 
 ABOUT "WHICH EVERY BODY IS COXCEEYED, 
 VIZ.— 
 
 Princes. Peees, Priests, People 
 
 BY GEORGE HOWS. 
 
 What I think of the present state of things 
 this:— 1 Tis a G.nre at Gaiujs ! Princes, Aris 
 cracy, Priesthood and Eulers, shuffle, cut, a 
 deal the pack, and by some swindling trick ke 
 all the court cards and trumps to themselves. 
 
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 “David’s Sling at the State Church Goliath.” 
 
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 “The Authority and Philosophy of Scripture.” 
 
DEDICATION, 
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 THE STYLE. 
 
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 the lively and 
 
"HE SUBJECT, IN WHICH WOMAN IS OF COURSE. 
 
 CONCERNED. 
 
 We have to treat of Princes, Peers, Priests, and People. 
 Among the last-named class, Woman is of course included. We 
 hail our wives, mothers, daughters, sisters, and sweethearts, as 
 Sisters of Mercy—as Sisters of Charity. We would qualify 
 Women to become fitting teachers of the rising generation. 
 Woman, who is equal, in many respects superior to Man, has 
 been neglected, slighted, and undervalued. Men have suffered 
 much through the neglect they have evinced towards their wives, 
 mothers, sisters, and daughters. Let us strive to elevate our 
 Women; give them equal justice, equal influence, equal inde¬ 
 pendence. Why does not Woman occupy her proper position ! 
 Because in strength of body Man is her superior; hence, he 
 originally usurped, and now withholds her rights. Awake from 
 your lethargy, oh, Woman 1 and no longer be content to remain 
 as a toy and a slave. Improve your hearts and heads, in order to 
 be better able to discharge the important duties which devolve 
 upon you. Remember, oh, Woman! you are the chief educators 
 of what will one day be Men and Women. Mothers form the 
 characters of the rising generation. Oh! try to qualify your¬ 
 selves to become good mothers. Society wants more of the gentle 
 and inspiring influence of Woman. We shall never have a much 
 better world till Woman’s power is more felt than now. Women 
 inspire men to action. 
 
 Now to our test of the Four P.’s, viz., Princes, Peers, Priests, 
 (Parsons if you like it better), and People. We must have 
 Princes and Peers, viz., Nature’s aristocracy of virtue and 
 intelligence, and Priests who perform labours of lore—not hire¬ 
 lings, who, as now, make a trade of the Gospel. The system of 
 Royalty and Aristocracy is founded in Nature; it dates back from 
 a very rude age. Originally, the strongest man, the most valiant 
 in battle, the swiftest on foot, the best marksman, was by com¬ 
 mon consent chosen as Chief or King. Nature placed her regal 
 mark on chiefs and kings of old; their sovereignty was acknow¬ 
 ledged; they were obeyed, because they were superior. Look at 
 the domestic economy of the honey bee; the queen carries 
 unmistakable evidences of majesty about her royal person; she 
 is sovereign of a willing people; she reigns in the hearts of her 
 industrious subjects, because she is not a sham. How many 
 European Princes, Peers, and Priests, can say with the queen bee, 
 “ I ah not a sham?” We pause for a reply. * * * - 
 
 We live in an age of electric telegraphs, steam presses, and 
 railways. The People are going forward; if Princes, Peers, and 
 Priests, stand still, they will be snuffed out—extinguished. If 
 they don’t move on, they’ll be moved off. 
 
 Now for a word or two about 
 
 PEACES. 
 
 In his coronation oath, the King swears “ to govern accord¬ 
 ing to the statutes; to cause law and justice in mercy to be exe¬ 
 cuted in all his judgments; to maintain the laws of God, the true 
 
profession of the Gospel, and the protestant reformed religion ; to 
 preserve onto the Clergy and to the Church all such rights and 
 privileges as do or shall pertain unto any of them. Some of the 
 prerogatives of the King are the sending Ambassadors, making 
 war and peace, creating peers. The King is declared to be 
 superior head both Of Church and State, and accountable to none. 
 The law also prescribes to the King absolute perfection. It is an 
 established maxim that “ the King can do no wrong.” But 
 Kings do that which is wrong by right divine; they profess to 
 reign by divine right; say they, the powers that be are ordained 
 cf God? A third attribute ascribed to the King is perpetuity. In 
 his political character, the “King never dies." Thus the bells are 
 muffled at one moment, intending thereby, to express lamenta¬ 
 tion for the demise of a prince; the next hour a merry peal is 
 heard on the accession of another. ’Tis all sham! all pretence! 
 abounding with contradictions, falsehoods, and inconsistencies 
 innumerable. The life of a modern sovereign comprehends one 
 great falsehood from the cradle to the grave. The history of 
 Royalty is written in blood! Alas! the misery it has inflicted: 
 the tears of sorrow it has caused to be shed. Oil! the persecution 
 and wrong it has perpetrated. ’Tis a huge pyramid of A’icc com¬ 
 bined with a small pebble of Virtue. * * * Whoever lieavd 
 of hereditary doctors, lawyers, .or cobblers! Then why have 
 hereditary rulers? If it would be absurd to have hereditary 
 doctors, lawyers, and cobblers, it is more absurd to have heredi¬ 
 tary rulers. 
 
 Now turn we to our nobles by courtesy, the 
 
 PEERS. 
 
 Of whom Blackstone very gravely says, “The lords are an aris 
 tocratical assembly of persons selected for their piety, their 
 wisdom, their valour, and their property.” How very funny nil 
 this sounds in this year of 1849. Selected? By whom? Self- 
 elected is the proper term, Mr. B. Their “ piety,” too; the piety 
 of the peers of England! In what does it consist ? Why, in 
 maintaining the State Church for the purpose of clutching for 
 their order, the highest prizes. The “wisdom,” forsooth! Who 
 ever heard of hereditary wisdom ? Wisdom is neither inheritance 
 nor legacy; wisdom oftimes walks in clouted shoes. Oh! let us 
 hear no more about hereditary wisdom. But they have been 
 selected for their property also. Too true is it that they have 
 been so selected; yea, they have regarded, do regard property 
 more than they estimate the flesh and blood of men, women, and 
 children. Sweet indeed might be the use of property, in teaching 
 the ignorant, in delivering the poor from the fangs of the oppres¬ 
 sor, in binding up the broken-hearted, in visiting the widow and 
 the fatherless. But property in the hands of the aristocracy is 
 greatly used to effect the moral and political degradation of those 
 to whom it owes its value. With our nobles (and others too), 
 property too often accumulates to crush and to corrupt. Truly 
 has Lamartine said, “ The epoch when aristocracies fall is that in 
 which nations regenerate themselves.” Another French writer 
 
bus said, “ The English aristocracy is the last remnant of the 
 feudal institutions in Europe; and England is the battle ground 
 on which the contest for its extinction must be fought out.” And 
 M. Passy thus writes, “ Woe be to those nations when the mag¬ 
 nificence of the few displays itself at the expense of the many! 
 Such is the state of Great Britain.” * * * 
 
 Our so-called aristocracy— 
 
 “ That generation born—merely to eat up the corn.” 
 are the greatest obstacles we have to the advancement of the 
 people. That body of sapients, more conspicuous for the small¬ 
 ness of their hands and feet than remarkable for the largeness of 
 their sympathies with the people, require to be shorn of much of 
 their power. The House of Lords, that hospital of incurables, 
 sadly wants re-modelling. These relicts of the wisdom of our 
 ancestors must be uprooted, and their places occupied by the true 
 aristocracy of nature,—virtue and intelligence. 
 
 “ That old boast 
 
 Of blood, is but opinion’s idle brag, 
 And Nature knows no scutcheons.” 
 
 * * * As we shall devote our next* tract exclusively to the 
 consideration of 
 
 PEKSTS, 
 
 We intend to say little about them here. It appears that all 
 animals have au innate weakness, and become the prey of other 
 animals. Priests prey and feed on men and women. You, reader, 
 with the rest of your kind, have an imaginary ring passed through 
 your nose, and are led about by Bishops and Priests. Don’t be 
 angry, dear friend, it’s a great fact. If you doubt it, if you prove 
 restive, it don’t alter the case—look at your tithe system, your 
 church rates, your proctors, ecclesiastical courts, &c. &c., and 
 deny the statement if you can; in addition to this, think of all 
 the “ religious ” machinery of dazzling crowns, thrones, &c., and 
 the theory of inferualism theological, adopted alike by Papist, 
 Protestant, and Dissenter, and acknowledge till you know and 
 act better the truth of the ring metaphor. One word, however, 
 about our Church of England Priests in particular; it is this: ' 
 The more influence State Priests possess in any given locality, the j 
 more ignorant and vicious are the people. I dare say it appears 
 strange to some folks, that here, in England, where we pay so 
 much for “religion,” the people and priests are so irreligious; 
 but the most useful and virtuous are not always best paid. 
 
 " Woe unto you scribes and pharisees, 
 
 Who eat the widows’ and the orphans’ bread, 
 
 And make long prayers to hide your villanies— 
 
 Said he who had not where to lay his head.” 
 
 *David’s sling at the State Church Goliath. 
 
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 We wilhnow glance at . • 
 
 " ■ Tlli-i-PEOPLE, ; ; 
 
 Wliom Butler thus quaintly hits off in his inimitable.style—-says he.. 
 
 “How various and innumerable 
 Are those who live upon the rabble; • 
 
 ’Tis they maintain the Church and State, 
 
 Employ the priest and magistrate, 
 
 Bear all the charge of government. 
 
 And pay the public fines and rent; 
 
 "Defray all taxes and excises, 
 
 And imposition of all prices ; 
 
 Bear all the expense of peace and war, 
 
 And pay the pulpit and the bar; . 
 
 Maintain all churches aud religions, 
 
 And give their pastors exhibitions.” 
 
 * * * We live in eventful times. Royalty is luxuriating in all 
 the dazzling sumptuonsness of riches, wrung from the hart! earn¬ 
 ings of the despised, over-burthened, and ill-paid toilors. Yea, a 
 monarch’s goblet is wrought out of the hones aud sinews of his 
 subjects, chased with widows’ tears, and filled with sparkling wine 
 compressed from the sweat and blood of the people. The aristo¬ 
 cracy monopolise the land, give gorgeous entertainments, squander 
 their thousands on useless baubles; whilst the poor, uncarecl for, 
 faulter and faint by the road-side of very hunger. Our Priest¬ 
 hood, cold-hearted and hypocritical, blaspheme the name of 
 Heaven by robbing the hard-working man in the sacred name of 
 Religion. Fail'd enhn villum speck vhiutis et wnhra. Our mer¬ 
 chants, tradesmen, and manufacturers are bankrupt; pawnbrokers 
 prosper, poor-houses are beseiged, lunatic asylums are crowded, 
 gaols are full. Our artizans, our handicraft men, and our labour¬ 
 ers,.alas ! alas! for many of them; they are doomed to involun¬ 
 tary idleness! they beg, they endure, they weep, they groan, they 
 starve, they thieve, they are houseless and homeless; they are 
 wanderers and pilgrims in the land of their fathers; their pillow 
 is. the'cold, cold ground; they are clothed in rags; their food is 
 the very husks of the earth; they pray to Death to relieve them 
 from, their sufferings, and the monarch of the grave in mercy 
 hears their supplications. Oh! most startling and awful fact; 
 the last stage that ends the strange eventful anomaly of the work¬ 
 ing, man—even the sober and industrious—is the union work- 
 house,and a pauper’s grave. But we murmur not at the dispen¬ 
 sations of heaven ; we look around on the beautiful. face of 
 Nature, and exclaim, “God is good.” Let us understand things 
 aright; it is bad laws made by Princes, Peers, and Priests— 
 Fntgex consumere nati —which stand between the good things of 
 this world and the starving population. God sends seed time and 
 harvest, but eternal winter pervades the habitations of the 
 peasant and artisan. ..The brightness of the sun and the beauties 
 of nature appear to" mock the misery of the unfortunate millions. 
 God sends abundance of good things for his creatures, but man 
 too oftens,-in-reference to his fellow-man, counteracts the benefi¬ 
 cent influence of the 1 Creator. We say, God help the people ! 
 
God help the poor toilers who received this fair earth from the 
 hands of the Creator, and have rendered its-surface productive 
 and beautiful to look upon. In truth, the ends of a divine and 
 those of a human legislation are vastly different. 
 
 ANOTHER CHANGE OP STYLE. 
 
 Now for another change of style. “Variety is charming,’' 
 as Nature and school copy-books say. Too much of one thing is 
 not good-. Change of pasture makes fat calves. Change of air, 
 scenery, diet, and society, is good for man, and woman too; and 
 change of style is at times pleasing to a reader. * * * Just 
 by way of a remembrancer to critics and reviewers (from our 
 heart of hearts we say, God help those poor hapless mortals who 
 are doomed to obtain their daily bread, and pass their living death 
 in reading books, merely to criticize and review them), we say- 
 
 ideas always forerun their realization: theory precedes prac¬ 
 tice. The dreams of the fact of one age, become the realities of 
 the future. Header! may you profit by the perusal of this tract, 
 by embracing that which is good and true. The spirit of all truth 
 has not yet come among us. 
 
 i A GEXEEAL, LOT A PARTICULAR VIEW OE 
 | THE FOUR P’S. 
 
 All men are made of the same 
 hud of materials. 
 
 1. All men are made of the 
 same kind of materials, the prince 
 and thepeasant wereboth produ¬ 
 ced from the dust .of the earth. 
 
 2. Each in the course of time 
 will crumble into ashes again; 
 when it will not be known which 
 particles formed the prince, or 
 which the peasant, 
 
 8. They are both subject to 
 the same natural laws ; they 
 both require to breathe the same 
 kind of air; the sun shines on 
 each of their countenances, and 
 
 . 4. Strip the prince of his ar¬ 
 tificial trappings, his crown, his 
 [robe, his coronet, his sceptre; 
 and who w;ill know which is. the 
 [prince and which the peasant. 
 
 [ 5.' A. peasant is frequently a 
 |prince in mind;, a prince is 
 Sometimes a mere scavenger of 
 
 (i. Let us not confound the 
 trappings and paraphernalia of 
 kings and courts, with the man. 
 
 7. The man, and the sham 
 prince, peer, or priest, are two 
 distinct things. Man is as na¬ 
 ture produced him; the crown 
 and sceptre, the robe, the court, 
 the mitre, is the prince, the peer, 
 or priest. 
 
 8. Which is the most noble 
 part of a king? the dazzling- 
 crown, the ermined robe, the 
 costly sceptre : or the soul and 
 body which he received from the 
 creator of all things? 
 
 0. Many attach more import¬ 
 ance, to and hold more sacred the 
 gew-gaws and trinkets appended 
 to so-called royalty, than they 
 estimate the flesh and blood be¬ 
 neath, common to all; 
 
 10. Nature makes men and 
 women : men . and women in 
 their ignorance make and permit 
 
11. There must be govern¬ 
 ments and rulers: in order to 
 have a good government, we 
 must be ruled by an aristocracy 
 of virtue and intelligence. 
 
 We are deceived ly appearances. 
 
 1. We are too much dazzled 
 by forms and ceremonies: too 
 much deceived by appearances. 
 
 2. Greathouses donotalways 
 contain great folks; fine coats do 
 not always cover fine gentlemen. 
 A blackguard is a blackguard 
 still, whether he lives in a splen¬ 
 did mansion or in a miserable 
 hovel. 
 
 3. A fool is a fool still, whe¬ 
 ther attired in the height of 
 fashion, or encased in a smock 
 frock: the house and coat too 
 often set off the man, not the 
 man who sets off the house and 
 
 4. Nature’s gentlemen and 
 nature’s nobility are confined to 
 no particular class of society. 
 They are to be found in palaces 
 and cottages. 
 
 5. The true nobility are made 
 up of noble minds, filled with 
 native worth : endowments of 
 the heart and mind make the 
 chief difference between men. 
 The King of Kings was born in 
 a manger. 
 
 6. The noble by courtesy, 
 what are they too often that is 
 not opposed to true greatness. 
 
 7. Fairly and fearlessly ana- 
 lize titles, creeds, forms, and 
 ceremonies, and give honor to 
 whom and to that to which honor 
 is due. 
 
 Banish Sectarianism and Party 
 Spirit. 
 
 1. Henceforth knowaot thy 
 brothers and sisters in human¬ 
 ity as sectarians and partisans. 
 View them only as members of 
 one great family. 
 
 2. All men are brethren. 
 God hath made of one blood all 
 
 nations that dwell on the face of 
 the earth. 
 
 Oh ! what a delightful world is 
 this ! 
 
 1. Oh! what a delightful 
 world is this! In Spring, Sum¬ 
 mer, Autumn, and Winter, lion 
 glorious! 
 
 2. Yet, many of the sons of 
 men heed not, feel not, its glory: 
 they are ignorant, they are weary 
 and heavy laden with cares anil 
 sorrow: they view each other as 
 enemies. 
 
 3. Behold the magnificent 
 oxen, as they quietly graze in 
 the green pastures; and sec how 
 bountifully they are provided for. 
 
 4. Man careth for his cattle, 
 his horses, and his hounds; but 
 his fellow man is frequently des¬ 
 titute of a place where to lay 
 his head, or a crust to satisfy 
 the cravings of hunger. 
 
 5. Yet, how beautiful, gay, 
 melodious, bright, and ever 
 young, is this buoyant earth! 
 
 6. So deeply involved is man 
 in the mists of ignorance, that 
 he is not aware, to the full 
 extent, of his highly artificial 
 state: so saturated with error, 
 that he knows not how to extri¬ 
 cate himself from the labyrinth 
 of evil by which he is beset. 
 
 7. So ill-informed, that in 
 many instances he mistakes good 
 for evil, right for wrong, virtue 
 for vice; and thus he is wretched 
 and irreconciled, not adapted tor 
 his high calling. 
 
 8. Behold nation at war with! 
 nation, family against family:! 
 see parents lamenting over theitjj 
 children, and children deploring! 
 the evils of their parents. Ij 
 
 ,9. Why is this? Because]! 
 they possess not the spirit ojj 
 Love and Wisdom, as taught bjj 
 Jesus of Nazareth. I 
 
 10. Men and women are evera 
 as captured birds, they at time| 
 
escape from their prison houses 
 and view the beauties of nature. 
 Their minds then soar above the 
 things about which mortals are 
 
 11. At such periods they en-1 
 deavour to throw off the artificial 
 and put on the natural, and 
 with all their hearts and souls 
 exclaim, “ Oh ! what a beautiful 
 world is this!" 
 
 12. Alas! they return to 
 their cages; put on their funer¬ 
 al cloaks and church-yard coun¬ 
 tenances ; act the artificial, and 
 breathe and mourn, and mourn 
 and breathe, on. 
 
 13. Man is acting in a world 
 of stern realities : he has carried 
 does carry, will have to carry, 
 his cross; but in the Christ spi¬ 
 rit, (wisdom and virtue) he may 
 find a Saviour, even in this vale 
 of tears. 
 
 14. But we rejoice to know 
 that all things within and around 
 us are not altogether dark and 
 obscure. 
 
 15. Ofthas our mind mount¬ 
 ed to the “third heaven”, in 
 contemplating the beauties by 
 which we are surrounded, and 
 in witnessing the harmonious 
 arrangements of nature. 
 
 The People are for the use (7 ) 
 of Princes, Peers, and Priests. 
 
 1. From the present aspect 
 of affairs, we might conclude 
 that the multitude are sent into 
 the world expressly for kings, 
 princes, dukes, lords, bishops, 
 squires, parsons, and lawyers to 
 prey—to feed upon. 
 
 2. Millions of half-starved, 
 mentally and bodily stinted sons 
 and daughters of labor, are 
 viewed as only so much of the 
 raw material of workable hu¬ 
 manity, brought into existence 
 for the purpose of upholding, in 
 unhallowed pomp and grandeur, 
 a certain numberof factory lords, 
 
 commercial princes, gentlemen 
 farmers, and railway kings. 
 
 3. For the people to be apa¬ 
 thetic and indifferent, in so vici¬ 
 ous and unnatural a state of 
 society, would be an insult to 
 God, to nature, and to humanity. 
 
 Behold the Times! 
 
 1. The people of the nations, 
 even the hewers of wood and 
 drawers of water, are in agitation. 
 
 2. The genius of advance¬ 
 ment, the spirit of Good, has 
 thus whispered to the masses of 
 Christendom: “ Behold! ye arc 
 not mere noods and chattels, ye are 
 
 3. As such ye now long to 
 clothe yourselves with the rights 
 and privileges of humanity. 
 
 4. The new-born spirit of 
 the millions floats on the surface 
 of the earth, now bewitching 
 with its sweet tones; anon am 
 nouncing to tyrants its dread 
 presence with a voice of thunder. 
 
 5. But the common brother¬ 
 hood of man must be preached, 
 till universally acknowledged. 
 
 6. Behold the times! The 
 thrones of monarchs have fallen. 
 
 to-morrow, lo! they are exiles 
 and fugitives in a foreign land. 
 
 7. The multitude have fairly 
 entered on a new era—the age 
 of dawning freedom; we are ap¬ 
 proaching the good times fore¬ 
 told by prophets of old, and 
 sung of by poets and good men 
 of all ages. 
 
 8. The time for cleansing the 
 sanctuary is fast arriving: this 
 is one of the periods of the great 
 shaking of the nations, but all is 
 working for good to the many. 
 
 9. As storms by agitating 
 water are calculated to purily 
 that element, so will these great 
 political struggles ten d to rec¬ 
 tify the stagnant and corrupt 
 state of existing institutions. 
 
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 10. Institutions and customs 
 outlive their usefulness. Insti¬ 
 tutions and customs founded in 
 the ages of barbarian ignorance, 
 must recede before the light of a 
 superior intelligence. 
 
 The hading thoroughfares, and 
 the bach streets, lanes, and alleys. 
 
 1. Behold the grandeur of 
 England; herpalaces, mansions, 
 parks and public thoroughfares, 
 railways and shops. 
 
 2. Behold the splendour of 
 royalty and aristocracy, the army 
 and navy, of priests and mer¬ 
 chants. 
 
 3. Behold the glitter of her 
 shops, the riches of her ware¬ 
 houses, filled, yea crammed with 
 every luxury and necessary of 
 life. 
 
 4. These riches, these monu¬ 
 ments of apparent greatness, 
 meet the eye in all our leading 
 thoroughfares 
 
 5. The men and women of 
 our back streets, lanes, alleys, 
 cellars, garrets, fabricate and 
 erect all this partial glory. 
 
 6. The rich men and women 
 of the leading thoroughfares, 
 and the poor men and women 
 of the back streets, are alike 
 constituted. 
 
 7. The men and women of 
 the glittering drawing room, 
 and the men and women of the 
 noisome cellar, are sons and 
 daughters of humanity. 
 
 S. Men and women all the 
 world over are brothers and 
 sisters; God hath made of one 
 blood all nations of men. 
 
 9. The privileged men and 
 women, the consumers only, of 
 the leading thoroughfares, are 
 comparatively few: the men 
 and women of the back streets, 
 lanes, alleys, cellars, and garrets, 
 are very, very many. 
 
 10. The best off are least 
 useful and most idle: the worst 
 
 off are most useful and most 
 industrious. One produces all, 
 the other consumes all. 
 
 11. This is not according to 
 the gospel of Christ; this is not 
 on the divine principle of each 
 for all, and all for each; this is 
 not doing as we would be done 
 by. Thesystem is corrupt, there¬ 
 fore must perish. 
 
 12. * * * But this is not 
 an agreeable subject; a fairy¬ 
 tale, a novel, a romance, or play, 
 is much more pleasant. 
 
 13. But see! here comes a 
 splendid cavalcade, made up oi 
 royalty, aristocracy, priesthood, 
 princely merchants and manu¬ 
 facturers. 
 
 14. How superb! how glo¬ 
 rious ! hotv glittering 1 how 
 pleasing to the eye is this 
 procession. 
 
 15. What do the great of the 
 earth think, when they look on 
 the figures, faces, attire, and 
 dwellings of the poor ? 
 
 16. Comeforth! come forth! 
 ye men and women of the back 
 streets, and witness this glorious 
 sight. 
 
 17. Why do ye not come 
 out, ye sons and daughters of 
 Industry, and shout forth your 
 loud huzzas as such a magnifi¬ 
 cent cavalcade progresses ? 
 
 IS. Why thus unwilling, why 
 thus gloomy, why thus morose! 
 from whence proceed these mur¬ 
 murs of disapprobation? what 
 say ye ? 
 
 19. “ This cavalcade is made 
 of our blood, bones, and sinews; 
 we starve, work, and pay, whilst 
 they eat the bread of idleness. 
 
 20. This is why we men and 
 women rejoice not.” * * * 
 
 21. Pool fellow! say ye that 
 ye have just quitted a sick and 
 beloved brother lying on a littk- 
 of straw ? He would have work¬ 
 ed, say you, but work he could 
 
not obtain; he is now dying for 
 , want of food; I tried to rouse 
 him to come forth, but he said, 
 
 22. “ Oh! brother,disturb me 
 not, mock me not, let me oh! let, 
 me die inpeace,orgiveme food!’’ 
 
 23. Alas ! poor man. 
 
 24. Yea, thousands and tens 
 of thousands are there, like my ' 
 poor brother, thus pining, dying 
 lor want of food. this is no true 
 grandeur. 
 
 23. ’Tis merely a glittering 
 cavalcade of idleness, and might, 
 and wrong, the sight of which 
 only the more aggravates the 
 sufferings of the honest, but ill- 
 ill-paid sons and daughters of 
 industry. 
 
 26. And so he departed, after 
 relating this, his thrice-told, but 
 alas! too true a tale. 
 
 27. But hope on, brothers 
 and sisters, hope on for the hap¬ 
 pier day. Look up, ye distress¬ 
 ed and unfortunate poor: tho’ 
 clouds o’ershadow you now, it 
 will not always remain so. 
 
 25. The time will come when 
 every man and woman will be 
 valued not for gold, but for his 
 or her virtue, well-directed in¬ 
 dustry, and intelligence. 
 
 29. Then people will be re¬ 
 warded according to merit; and 
 
 ' labor will be remunerated in 
 proportion to its value. 
 
 30. Yea, hope on, ye toilers, 
 your children will rejoice. The 
 earth is the Lord's, and the fulness 
 
 j thereof : the state will hold a 
 j portion of the land in trust for 
 i the people, for your children's 
 ! children : the meek shall inherit, 
 the earth. 
 
 Rejoice, ye sons and daughters 
 of industry. 
 
 1. Never since the recorded 
 . history of man, was the civilized 
 world so convulsed as now. A 
 mighty change is at hand. What 
 ? will the change be like?—that 
 
 is the momentous question, 
 
 2. We cannot change for the 
 worse. According to the eter¬ 
 nal laws of progression we must 
 advance. ■“ On 1 for ever, on!’’ 
 is the motto of humanitv. 
 
 3. * * * The sun of in¬ 
 telligence has just begun to dawn 
 on the minds of the multitude— 
 it is yet early dawn. 
 
 4. The small glimmering of 
 light which has shone on the 
 people of the nations, the prin¬ 
 ces, aristocracy, and priests of 
 the world term darkness, 
 
 5. And the gross darkness in 
 which the masses have for ages 
 been involved, princes, aristoc- 
 raev, and priests term glorious 
 light! 
 
 6. Princes, aristocracy, and 
 priests term darkness light, and 
 light they term darkness. 
 
 7. Ok! may the great Power 
 which governs all things hasten 
 that glorious light and life to 
 humanitv, which shall prove 
 darkness and d eath to the sham 
 princes, peers, and priests of the 
 world! 
 
 S * * * Rejoice, ye sons 
 and daughters of industry; the 
 long, long night of the people is 
 far spent: the day is at hand. 
 
 2. The multitude are awak¬ 
 ing from the slumbers of igno¬ 
 rance which have for ages para¬ 
 lysed their intellectual faculties, 
 and rendered them the slaves of 
 those who have been placed in 
 authority over them. 
 
 3. The people resemble the 
 mighty ocean : their oppressors 
 a running brook ; the people a 
 stupendous pyramid, their op¬ 
 pressors a tiny pebble. 
 
 4. The rulers of .the land 
 must listen to the voice of the 
 poor, demanding justice and li¬ 
 berty : they must endeavour to 
 place the toilers in a position to 
 help themselves. 
 
5. If the sires turn a deaf ear 
 to the voice of the people, their 
 sons will in vain shut themselves 
 up in their drawing rooms to 
 escape the demands of millions 
 of injured men. 
 
 6. Their unwelcome cries for 
 justice, their demands for right, 
 will, if unheeded, be made in a 
 voice of thunder. 
 
 7. The wrongs of the people 
 will haunt their rulers whilst 
 reclining on their luxuriant 
 couches. ; 
 
 9. The effects of the music to 
 which their richly attired bodies 
 may be gracefully keeping time, 
 will he destroyed by the waking 
 giant of oppressed industry. 
 
 9. Oh! may our rulers, in¬ 
 spired by a spirit of Love and 
 Wisdom , concede, in order that 
 the masses may not, through 
 Wrath and Revenge, compel the 
 powers that be to surrender that 
 which is just and proper to the 
 people. 
 
 CONCLUSION. 
 
 And now, kind reader, adieu—the best of friends must part, 
 so must we, to meet again I hope on the first of next month ; and 
 may our friendship, the older it grows, prove the stronger. * * r 
 How beautiful thus in the sanctity of my own quiet, comfortable 
 home, (oh! that all were as well provided for as myself and mine), 
 to be enabled to address the millions. Thanks to the Printing 
 Press for such a boon! The press is doomed to expose and 
 destroy all shams, whether they be sham Princes, Peers, and 
 Priests, or other counterfeits. *'* * * 
 
 Once more, adieu friend. IVc have talked of many and. im¬ 
 portant matters in a small space; there- is, however, one subject 
 left of far more importance than any we have treated of. I will 
 leave it with you to meditate upon till we meet again. I allude 
 to that life of life, the inward life of man. Were all the riches, 
 splendour, and pomp of the world collected together into a gorge¬ 
 ous and brilliant heap, there is one thing of infinitely more import¬ 
 ance than all this glittering pyramid of external wealth—it is the 
 inner life of man; yea, the soul of the most humble, the most 
 despised, the most depraved human being is of far more import¬ 
 ance than all the accumulated grandeur of the external world. 
 Dear brother, dear sister, have you thought of this important 
 subject! If you have not, pause now, and ask yourself this 
 momentous question, “Have I the precepts of Christ and good 
 names in my heart? (the having of which is the light pf the soul.) 
 Is my spirit striving to place itself in harmony with the great and 
 universal spirit of God and nature, or am I iu spiritual darkness; 
 and is the great spirit striving in vain with my spirit? Oh! think 
 of these things, I have only just mooted this deeply interesting 
 topic. I will return to it on some future occasion:—my duty as a 
 minister of the Church of Humanity in Christ and all good names, 
 prompted me to direct your thoughts to this great subject. For 
 the present, adieu, may Heaven bless you and yours. 
 
 LINCOLN: PRINTED AT THE “TIMES” OFFICE, CORNIIILL-,