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It breathes throughout a most laudable desire to promote the happiness and to further the moral improvement of the human race; nor do I think the subject to be as visionary as some people imagine.”— (M. Louis Blanc to Mr. J. R. Taylor, April, 1861.) 2.-At the request of many of our friends, we are going to re-publish the articles on the Labour Question, which appeared in the early numbers of the WORKING MAN. 3.-We have secured the co-operation of a Medical Friend and of a Legal Adviser, so that we shall be able to give advice to our readers upon any question they may put to us, and we shall from time to time publish articles from these two talented gentlemen under the headings of "Our Medical Friend" and "Our Legal Adviser." 4.-We have secured the Co-operation of some first-rate correspondents on the other side of the Atlantic, so that we shall be able to report the progress of the Free Labour v. HE Committee of the "Working Man," on Tuesday, the 7th of January, having been informed that MICHAEL BAKUNIN had arrived in London, a deputation was ap- pointed to go and present to this martyr of human progress an address of welcome. On Friday, the 10th, accordingly the deputation waited upon ALEXANDER HERZEN, the celebrated Rus- sian exile and "publiciste," who introduced them to Bakunin, surrounded by a goodly staff of Russians, Poles, &c., all friends of progress, united by the bro- therly love for one common mother-Liberty. The following address was then read :— The Committee of the "Working Man" to the illus- Whilst the oppressors of the human race are busy in by the union of all the friends to that sacred cause that its success can be insured. Whilst, therefore, our tyrants excite our deluded brethren to War, Competition, and Hatred, we want to raise a cry for In the same way, as when the eagle soars high above the clouds, his piercing eyes embrace an immense range where to choose his prey. We have raised ourselves to the high sphere of philosophy, we have been enabled to survey the whole of our common abode the earth, and we have counted our friends-the friends of liberty, of labour, of justice. We have seen them all heroically contending against our enemiesignorance, superstition, despotism, competition, exploitation of labour, slavery and our hearts have been elated with proud joy. Amongst those whom we distinguished from the crowd, you, Bakunin, stood among the highest, by your courage, your uudaunted energy, and your sufferings. We saw you handed from one tyrant to the other, as if each succeeding one was afraid to keep such a prey too long in his hands; at last, we heard you had been sent to the deadly mines of Siberia-a torture that even Dante could not invent for his Hell. We had gone into mourning for a brother lost, for one of our guiding stars dropped from our heaven of hope, when lo !-can we believe the report?we heard that you had baffled all their cunning, broken through all their meshes, that you were free! No, it cannot be; for who can come back from Siberia? We might as well hope to see Prometheus break his chains, and fling them at his torturing vulture. But no, it is true! Bakunin is free! he has landed in America--he is in London. Prometheus can break his chains. Vultures, your fate is now doomed! Fly, and leave us free to love one another, and to labour for all. Bakunin, welcome in the land of freedom. We have forgotten the lessons of our oppressors, who tried to teach us to look upon men as foreigners, as enemies, because they were born on another land, or because they spoke another language, or because their skin was not exactly the same colour as ours. We have felt the warmth of their hearts, and the loving grasp of their hands, and we have called them brothers. Brother Bakunin, welcome to England. Brother Herzen, you have lived already a long time among us; you know our customs, you will guide him and comfort him, and when he will have rested himself from his fatigues, we will, as our forefathers used to do, form a circle around him, and he will tell us the wonderful tale of his struggles, and then you both will help us in our search after truth. The land where you were born, is we think, unknown to us. The customs and struggles of your countrymen we want to be acquainted with; for in the examination of the great problem of labour, which we have undertaken, we want all the light that men like you can give us. Bakunin, Herzen, we tender you the right hand of fellowship. On behalf of the Committee, The Deputation: [A. C. CUDDON, Chairman. W. TURNBull. H. BAKER. W. P. WALLARGE. G. HILL. G. E. HARRIS, Secretary. Bakunin then answered as follows: Friends, I am deeply moved by this manifestation of your sympathy, which I did not hope to have deserved. I ascribe it to the democratical instinct which enables you to recognize a friend, even in a man of a foreign race, because a friend devoted to our common cause. And, indeed, as long as I recollect, I have been passionately devoted to the cause of social and economical emancipation of mankind; I have not succeeded in doing much. Imprisonment and exile have taken from me twelve years of my life and activity. But all that remains in me of life and strength will be devoted to our great cause. The time is come when the Russian people, who have slept so long, are awakening, and will not go to sleep again. We Russians know how much depends upon this struggle for the emancipation of labour, but we know also that its strength is not destructive, but productive. We are persuaded that the Russian element will bring a new idea into the great social question, and that it will, in its turn, stand in the rank of all nations which tend towards the fullest emancipation of mankind, and offer a brotherly hand to those working for our common cause. The hearty congratulations then became general. Michael Bakunin, Alexander Herzen, and several other gentlemen, then entered into explanations as to the economical and political organization of Russia, which, when we reproduce them in our columns (as they have promised to contribute articles upon those subjects) will rather startle our readers. WHAT IS PROPERTY? THE Roman Catholic theologians of Germany a short time since held a meeting at Munich, the capital of Bavaria; and in a document which expressed the result of their deliberation, they declared no less than three times that "the fall of the temporal power of the Pope would lead to the destruction of the right of property in Europe." Not one in ten thousand, perhaps, of the readers of this document could trace the existence of any relation between the Pope's temporal power and the right of property; but as the theologians to whom we refer are men trained from their early years to the use of logic, and are not in the habit of employing a vague and unmeaning phraseology, we shall endeavour to trace this connection; and as we are about discussing the most important problem in social science, we ask for the serious attention of our readers to this subject. Their future, their rights, comfort, and position depend on their having clear and definite ideas with respect to property. It has been said by one writer of great eminence that "property is robbery," and by another, that "every violation of property is robbery." Strange as it may appear, both those seemingly contradictory opinions are reconcilable, as we shall see when we get a clear notion of what property ought to be and what property is. Property, like other general terms, such as glory, ambition, love, is good or bad, according to the form in which it exists in society. The glory which leads one man to take arms in defence of his country is a |