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CHARTISM
" It never smokes but there is fire."--Old <1Proverb.>1
[1839]
CHAPTER I
CONDITION-OF-ENGLAND QUESTION
A FEELING very generally exists that the condition and
disposition of the Working Classes is a rather ominous matter
at present; that something ought to be said, something ought
to be done, in regard to it. And surely, at an epoch of history
when the " National Petition " carts itself in wagons along
the streets, and is presented " bound with iron hoops, four
men bearing it," to a Reformed House of Commons; and
Chartism numbered by the million and half, taking nothing
by its iron-hooped Petition, breaks out into brickbats, cheap
pikes, and even into sputterings of conflagration, such very
general feeling cannot be considered unnatural! To us
individually this matter appears, and has for many years
appeared, to be the most ominous
whatever; a matter in regard to which if something be not
done, something will <1do>1 itself one day, and in a fashion that
will please n . . .
