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ADMONITIONS AND PROPHECIES CONTINUED.

May 1.-Most of the Newspapers in the country will about this time be discussing almost every subject but the right ones. They will be talking about almost everything except those things which most concern the interests of the people. We shall find their columns full of TALK, but almost empty of GOOD, SOUND, PRACTICAL, REFORMING TRUTH. Words, words, words, are what you shall find; and principles, reforming principles, great practical truths, striking at the root of old abuses, and tending to regenerate society, you shall look for almost in vain. It is a sad thing that the people should have trusted the work of political enlightenment, or of political regeneration, to the newspapers. It is time that the people were roused, and made acquainted with the fact, that the newspaper press in general has betrayed their interests; that both the metropolitan and the provincial papers have, with few ex ceptions, devoted themselves, not to the overthrow of political error, not to the establishment of political truth, not to the annihilation of political abuses, not to the reformation of the laws and institutions of the country, not to the advocacy of popular rights and interests, but to personal and private inter ests, to the extension of their own circulation and the increase of their own profits, to the neglect of the interests of the people. I wish the people were made acquainted with this fact, and that they would take their business into their own hands, and be themselves the expounders of their own principles, and the advocates of their own cause. I wish they would unite their efforts, and by public meetings, lectures, dis cussions, tracts, and books, diffuse the light of truth through the length and breadth of the land, rouse the hearts of the masses, and enlist their energies in behalf of popular princi ples and popular measures. We have trusted to the newspapers too long. We have trusted to popular leaders too long, We must henceforth trust to nothing but the truth of our principles, the goodness of our cause, and the blessing of God on our united, vigorous and persevering efforts.

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2. This is a dreadful day for practising injustice. The man that cheats his neighbour, the landlord that cheats his tenant, the aristocrat that plunders his country, the kings and queens that live in luxury at the expense of the poor, better put their fingers in the fire to-day, than continue their deeds of injustice. No evil deed that may be done this day, will either escape detection or punishment. It will be punished both in this world and the world to come.

-3.-In the House of Commons we have talk, talk, talk; but very little work. How slowly do the measures introduced for the relief of the people pass through the House. And what are the measures worth after all? The principal measures, the measures most needed to relieve the distress of the nation, and to prepare the way for permanent improvement and prosperity, are hardly hinted at, and never discussed. Even the radicals themselves scarcely seem prepared to explain the needed measures to the House. Many of the members, who miscall themselves the representatives of the people, have as yet not opened their mouths. What are Marshall and Becket doing? The Tory and the torified Whig, the would-be-Aristocrats, what are they doing? Nothing; just nothing; nay, worse than nothing. They are filling the places of men that would have done something worth doing; or at least would have attempted to do something worth doing. How can they, for shame, retain their places? How can they, for shame, put themselves forward as the representatives of a mass of people, four fifths of whom are panting for reform, while they, poor shiftless or faithless creatures, can content themselves with not even lifting up their voices in favour of reform? Shame on them; and shame on the handful of men that sent them; and shame on the men that can support a system which gives to a handful of men the privilege of choosing for a multitude their public servants. Yes, shame on the men that can support the system, which enables the few to impose upon the multitude as their servants, men whom the multitude know to be, in fact, whatever they may be in pretension, their enemies, their plunderers, their oppressors.

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4.- Hark! did you hear that whisper?' It came from the soul of a radical member of the House of Commons. Hark what he says. O, I wish I could speak here as I spoke on the hustings. I wish I could feel here the same freedom and power that I felt when addressing the multitudes and at *-- and at *. and at *. What in the world is it that cramps me, that paralyses me, that stifles me? There is surely witchcraft in the air of this house. The spirit of oppression fills every corner. An Aristocratic incubus weighs upon every spirit. An infernal influence paralyses, neutralises one's energies, and makes the strong feel weak, and the brave feel timid. The popular breath must sweep through this polluted house, before the people's friends can do their duty in it. Their petitions,

their complaints, their memorials, their remonstrances should come like ceaseless breezes, and their united cries from public meetings should be wafted through this den like hurricanes, or the filthy infection of aristocratical corruption will never be thoroughly purged away. If the spirit of oppression, if the infernal influence of long established abuses is to be neutralised, the people must be up and doing. We are losing time. The day for regenerating the nation is passing away, and little or nothing is doing. I must arise, and go to my constituents, and tell them how things stand. I must go to the people generally, and explain to them in what a predicament their friends are placed in this house of corruption. The people must be roused. They must be brought to demand their rights as one man. They must speak and write in such a manner, as to fill the hearts of their oppressors with fear. The Government will busy themselves with trifles for ever, if the people will be silent. The people must be roused.'

My readers, I dare say, were not aware in what a position the friends of the people often find themselves in the House of Commons. The people must above all things be made to understand, that neither newspapers nor members of Parliament can do their work for them. They must do their work themselves. O ye people of the land, be instructed. Would ye have the days of oppression to come to an end? Would you see the power of the tyrants destroyed? Would you have freedom and plenty and peace? Then lift up your voice as one man. Assemble in public meetings. Draw up petitions and remonstrances. Publish your thoughts and your feelings to the world. Send up an abstract of your claims to the legislature; and send an abstract of your claims to every man living in the empire. Then shall you make the oppressors feel your power. Then shall you make your faithless parliamentary servants do their duty. Then shall you feel your fetters falling off. Then shall you feel your burdens growing lighter. Then shall you see the dawning of prosperity, and rejoice in the approach of happy days.

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5.-The work of reformation is going on in France. The masses of the people are becoming more powerful, and the exclusives are becoming weaker. That nation has already set us a good example in the roformation of many of its laws and institutions, and it will set us a still better and brighter example by and by, unless we ourselves make haste, and do our duty to ourselves and to the world without such example.

-6.-There have been strange plottings amongst the Aris

tocrats of late, with respect to France. Those ever watchful tyrants, and those eternal and infernal haters of the popular cause, are viewing with alarm the progress of reforming prineiples in France. They see the people gathering strength. They see the tyrants losing ground. They know the spirit of improvement will be wafted by the winds across the waters, and diffused throughout the masses of our countrymen, and they are filled with horror. They are mustering all their powers to check the progress of reform in France, and to guard this country from the spirit of progress that is so powerful there. Awake, O ye people, from your slumbers. Arise, and shake yourselves from your sloth. We shall never be redeemed from our distresses, we shall never see our country free and happy, unless we join our efforts for the destruction of the Aristocracy, and for the establishment of equal and democratic principles in the land. It is not enough to oppose the movements of our tyrants; we must destroy their power. It is not enough to guard against the plottings of the despots; we must remove them from the Government. The Law of Entail and Primogeniture, which creates and perpetuates an aristocracy, a tyrannical oligarchy, must be abolished. The monopoly of land and power must be abolished. The land and the power of the empire must be unfettered. Unnatural and irrational privileges must be done away, and principles of a rational and just equality must be established in their place. -7.-Many of the Aristocrats will begin to find out about this time, that in grasping at too much, they have perilled their all; that in placing themselves so high above the masses of the people, they have insured their fall; that in making themselves so enormously and unconscionably rich, and reducing the people to such horrible and fearful destitution, they have prepared the way for a terrible convulsion. They will begin to see that they must of themselves come down from their high eminence, and raise the people from their degradation, or be struck to the ground by the lightning of popular indignation; that they must either begin to employ their enormous wealth, not in impoverishing and oppressing the people, but in supplying them with profitable employment, and opening to them the way to plenty and prosperity, or be deprived of all. Happy will it be if the discoveries which the Aristocrats are beginning to make, should lead them to some speedy measures for undoing the evil they have done, and for curing the wretchedness they have created.

8.-Some of the Aristocracy, alas, are still as blind as bats, and as unconscious of their true position as the frozen

adder. They are dreaming that their unnatural privileges are to remain for ever,-that their houses and lands are secure to their offspring through all generations. They know no other than that the masses of the poor are to be always poor, and that the millions of the oppressed are to be oppressed for ever;-that the principles of reform are to be stifled, and the cry for improvement silenced. They are dreaming that powder and steel are still to be dealt out to the famishing instead of bread and liberty. Miserable dotards! Little dream they of the changes that are coming. Little dream they how soon the breath of popular wrath and reprobation shall scatter them, and how terrible will be the reverses that shall shortly overtake them. O ye aristocrats of our land, ye tyrants and despots, ye oppressors and plunderers, for such ye know yourselves to be, if you be not given up to utter blindness, if your minds are not entirely undiscerning, if God's just judgment has not made you incurably mad, and given you over to inevitable destruction; I beseech you, reform your ways: prepare to meet the wishes of the people: prepure to give to the people of this land their rights. The people as yet would gladly accept from you their rights, and many would even thank you for them, if you would grant them speedily; but if you still persist in your partial legislation, in your unjust taxation, in your career of plunder and destruction, then will an unseen hand lay hold of you, and drag you from your eminence, and doom you to the wretchedness and degradation to which you have reduced your countrymen. You have it in your power, as yet, to win the hearts of your countrymen by doing justice; but by and bye, if you persist in your iniquities, you will not have it in your power even to save yourselves from insult or destruction.

DOGMATISM CENSURED.-Maintain a constant watch at all times against a dogmatic spirit: fix not your assent to any proposition in a firm and unalterable manner till you have some firm and unalterable ground for it, and till you have arrived at some clear and sure evidence till you have turned the proposition on all sides, and searched the matter through and through, so that you cannot be mistaken. And even where you think you have full grounds for assurance, be not too early nor too frequent in expressing this assurance in too peremptory and positive a manner, remembering that human nature is always liable to mistake in this corrupt and feeble state.-Watts.

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