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(To the Editor of the "Working Man.")

SIR,-I am glad to see that you are working hard in the good cause. I highly approve of the Working Man, and am sorry that the Bee-Hive should appear as a rival, instead of being an assistant; however, yours is the higher and nobler stand. Soon, I am confident, there will be work enough for many more honest advocates of the right of Divine labour.

I expect to be in London at the commencement of the Reform Conference on the 15th of April, and will certainly call on you; but I expect you will assist at the meetings, which, I trust, will not end in a sham, like most of those held hitherto. I remain, sir, Yours in the cause of humanity,

Belfast, March 13, 1862.

(To the Editor of the "Working Man.”)

J. S.

SIR, It is almost a waste to send me copies of your valuable publication, as I rarely have time to read anything but professional" matters. What I have seen of it impresses me with a high idea of its excellence. You are right in supposing that my principles are unchanged; they will never change. Excuse haste, remember me to all friends, and believe me,

Manchester.

Sincerely yours,

(To the Editor of the " Working Man.")

ERNEST JONES.

SIR, A friend of mine has sent me a copy of your cheap and inestimable journal-I suppose journal is wrong, therefore say publication. It is just the thing the working classes want, and I call upon them to rally around it and give it the necessary support. I ask this of them, not as a favour, but as an act of justice to themselves; and you may depend upon it, I shall do my best to get it widely circulated among my brother toilers here. We have seen the Bee-Hive, but it does not, will not take. One page of yours has a higher order of ideas stamped upon it, than appears upon an entire broad sheet of the Times or the journal alluded to. The style in which your "Labour News" and "Month's Parliament " is got up is exceedingly pungent, clever, and instructive. It might be called the "Politico-socio-microscope," for it deals with and brings to light all that necessarily affects us as working men. I have read the "Annals of Labour" to many of my fellow miners, and I can promise the Working Man a welcome and a large circulation. Keep your stand, and descend not to be an imitative scourge or pest of the press, whose noisy and abusive articles are only fitted for a "Reynolds." Yours faithfully,

Cardiff, March 13, 1862.

HARRY PASCAL.

DEATH OF JAMES RIGBY.

(To the Editor of the "Working Man.")

SIR,-That old friend and advocate of Co-operation, James Rigby, has at length ceased to complain of the affairs of what he used to call, after his old master, Robert Owen," the Old Immoral World."

For the last few years he has occasionally called, in the winter especially, for me to prescribe for chronic bronchitis, which troubled him much.

I had not seen him for some months, when last evening his son called for me to go and see his father without delay. I went, and found him with cold damp feet and hands, and pulseless, with just enough of consciousness to recognise me and feebly move his hand towards me. I administered what, in my experience, I thought best, but there was no reaction.

I led poor Mrs. Rigby out of the room, and explained to her his condition.

She was overwhelmed with grief, as you may imagine, at hearing her worst fears confirmed.

I returned to his bed-side only to have further evidence that our poor old friend was going. His eyes seemed now to be shut to the world. Taking my leave hopelessly, I recommended her to send for his intimate and also medical friend, Dr. Travis, who might desire to see him before he departed.

It appeared that he had been better of his cough during the past winter than he had been for years. On Sunday morning last he took a walk in the cold east wind, after bathing himself in tepid water. At night he had cough and laborious breathing, such as he had often had, but which slowly and steadily increased in severity until his wife's alarm was excited. But when I saw him, unchecked congestion of the lungs had already done its fatal work. Yours very truly,

8, Great Ormond-street, March 6.

J. DIXON. The following note, from his good friend Kenny, completes the short history of his end :"March 6, 7 A.M.

"Dr. DIXON.-Dear Sir,-Poor Rigby gently breathed his last at 11.45 last night. I fetched Dr. Travis to see him, but nothing could be done. He died in less than ten minutes after Dr. T.'s departure.

"2, College-place, Camden-town, N.W."

"Yours truly,

"JOHN KENNY."

The remains of James Rigby were laid in Kensal Green Cemetery. A number of old Co-operative and Socialist friends attended, and Mr. Holyoake addressed them.

NOTICE. We solicit information for our "Co-operative Guide," which is to appear in

our next.

THE AMERICAN LABOUR QUESTION.

(Continued from our last.)

With this key, the history of American politics is easy to understand. It explains the passage of the act for the three-fifths representation of the slaves, the votes being owned by the masters. It explains the memorable bill known as the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which drew the line of 36 deg. 30 min., declaring that slavery was for ever prohibited in the territories north of that line, but might exist south of it, by the will of the people. It explains the doctrine of "manifest destiny, " which declared that the whole continent belonged to the United States, and carried it out in the annexation of Texas, the filibustering in Nicaragua, and the negociations for Cuba. It explains the repeal of the Missouri Compromise as a preliminary step towards the re-opening of the slave trade and the war in Kansas, which grew out of that repeal, another step towards the extension of slavery. Taking this review, and following the more minute particulars of the history of the country, we see a systematic education of the people to one end; let us see how thorough this education has been.

The great exponents of a people are its literature, its politics, and its pulpit. These are said to be its teachers; but whatever of sentiment, of conviction, or of prejudice there is in a people, it finds its reflex in the three great branches which go to make up the rational education. What, then, are the tendencies of the literature of the country?

John Wesley was an outspoken man, and when he left a testimony against a sin, he left it in words of fire; so he spoke of slavery, when he called it" the sum of all villanies." He was the leader of the Methodists, and the Harpers published an edition of his works; they issued it, and they called it back. It would not do, to publish John Wesley, whole, so the works were reprinted, expurgated for the market, leaving John Wesley revised and corrected by Harper, This is one case out of several which have occurred with this house,

but the objection may be raised that these proceedings were the work of a firm whose object was to make things pay-turn then to men of position and trust, Take Edward Everett, standing foremost among the American literary men. By almost unanimous consent he bears the reputation of being the first scholar, the first orator, and the first essayist of the United States. He has been placed among the honourables, and, what is more, is among the honoured. During 1859 and 60, Edward Everett went through the length and breadth of the land, delivering an oration of Washington. Its object was to help the funds which were to purchase the grave of Washington for a national property, and the appeal was made to each individual to add his mite, and become an owner in the national keepsake. Washington, in his letters to Lafayette, had, written a protest against the sin of Virginia, in plain and bold terms; but the words which he had so unequivocally expressed, Edward Everett as unequivocally suppressed. Now, these words treat of the very kernel of American politics, still they were not repeated at a time when the discussion was raging high, and could have been quoted as testimony in it. Edward Everett, with a reputation acquired during the course of many yeara, could not afford to risk that reputa tion upon this point. As has been well said, "he could go from city to city, and from state to state, and remember to forget the bravest words the father of his country had ever uttered." Here we have Washington suppressed by Everett.

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So of John Pierrepont. If Everett is great, John Pierrepont was greatest. He published a second edition of a New England Reader for the use of schools, which he had compiled some thirty years before. It was a collection from the best of English literature. In the preface to this edition, "he hopes that it will be more acceptable to the republic." It was so, every anti-slavery line was left out: English literature revised by John Pierrepont.

(To be continned.)

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

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BARKER'S REVIEW has favoured us with a lengthened notice, which we cannot, for want of space, reproduce in extenso. It says, "Many of the articles in this monthly are well written and many of the sentiments are good; but some of its sentiments savour of injustice and border on extravagance. When J. C." says that "those who represent the nation only notice working-men, now and then, to see how far they can tax them," he is unjust."-J. O., in the "Annals of Labour," added: "or how far they can bear a little more governing;" he also, in the opinion of " Barker's Review," must have been very unjust, when he doubted the possibility of calling the attention of our legislatore to those trivial subjects, the protection of the working man's life. It turns out, however, that the legislators have rejected the bill of Mr. Ayrton at its second reading. Who here is unjust to our legislation but themselves?-they are disparaging their own character of representatives of the people. "Barker's Review" thinks our correspondent, "W. D.," is extravagant, and adds, that all this talk againstinterest, rent, and property, is deplorable." What will it say to the authorities quoted by our correspondent, John Robert Taylor, in the work we begin to publish in this number?

THE WORKING MAN.-The February number of this very useful monthly continues to discuss from its own point of view the various phenomena of labour. It contains an interesting account of an interview had by some London workmen with the Russian exile, Michael Bukunin, articles on property, reform, together with a considerable amount of co-operative and labour news.-Newcastle Daily Chronicle, Feb. 21st, 1862.

This is decidedly the best publication advocating the co-operative movement and political progress that has appeared. The present number contains several well-written articles and is teeming with co-operative news from all parts.-Illustrated Weekly News.

This is the second number we have received of this useful periodical. It contains several good articles relating to political economy, and a large amount of intelligence on the subject of co-operative stores. The editor has our permission to make what extracts he pleases from the tract which he has kindly noticed.—Cardiff Times,

In future all letters not duly pre-paid will be returned. We ask a little care to be observed.

OUR Correspondents are particularly requested to address their letters to the Editor of the Working Man, 335, Strand, and not to the Publisher, as it causes confusion and delay. Our space being, now that we appear but once a month, very limited, we must beg our friends to be as concise as possible, and to send their communications early in the month; all that reaches us after the 14th has very little chance of insertion. W. H. PEAKOME.-We are unable to insert your article, "What is Natural Liberty, &c.," this month. Our next meeting takes place on Wednesday, April 2, at eight o'clock. We should be glad to see you.

GORDIUS.-Yours, on-t n the Origin of Government and the English Constitution, must also wait for its turn.

W. P. WALLARGE.-Our space is so much taken by co-operative news, that we are obliged to lay aside a great deal of interesting matter.

G. E. H.-We have received a letter, too late for insertion, from our friend G. E. H. Alluding to the "Bee-Hive," G. E. H. calls it our "dying rival." The "Working Man" has no rivals-it has only co-operators in the cause it advocates, or adversaries on the other side. If the "Bee-Hive" is one of our co-operators, we are sorry to see it involved into difficulties by what seems to be some blunder of management. If the "Bee-Hive" is one of our adversaries (in disguise), it would be ungenerous to throw a stone at a drowning man.

J. BENDALL (Guernsey).-Thanks for your kind letter. There was no rudeness, but a mistake. You are right-co-operation must not take heed of sectarian, religious or irreligious ideas.

A sack of flour (280 lbs.) will make, we are told, from 90 to 94 quartern loaves. We shall send you models of rules.

LEVINGSTON.-The idea seems good. Let us try to put it into practice.

JAMES BENNY.-Your letter came too late. We shall try to find room next month. W. CAMPBELL (Manchester).-We have not yet received advice about the shares we requested you to get for us.

JOSEPH BAYLIS (Croydon).-We are inquiring for you, and will write.

H. CLINTON.-We could only find room for one. Send earlier in future.

J. C. FARN, Lecturer on Co-operation, wishes to purchase, for historical purposes, a copy of the periodical, published many years since, entitled "The Brighton Co-operator." Address, stating terms, to J. C. Farn, Oxford-street, Eccles, Manchester.

G. J. HOLYOAKE.-Your answer to "Socialism on the Defensive" reached us too late for this month. We shall make room for it in our next, with pleasure.

F. RUSSELL.-We could do as you propose. You might, perhaps, call some Saturday evening. Send your article, but be as concise as you can. Do not depend upon insertion; we are overwhelmed with contributions.

THE WORKING MAN'S CENTRAL CIRCULATING LIBRARY.

Three hundred valuable works are now collected to begin with.

Weekly Subscription, One Penny for each Subscriber.

Working Men's Societies and Institutes, Co-operative Societies, Reading Clubs, &c.. can be supplied with a weekly parcel of Books for Half-a-Guinea per annum. For particulars, rules, and catalogues, apply to W. P. Wallarge, Librarian, "Working Man" Office, 335, Strand, W.C.

IMPORTANT NOTICES.

1.-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. 2. 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."

3. 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. Slavery movement which is going on in the States.

CO-OPERATIVE AND LABOUR TRACTS.

We propose to print on a separate fly-leaf as our tract No. 1 our page on the Annals of Labour Co-operative Societies can be supplied with these tracts, and have their name, address, etc., printed at the back, for distribution as hand-bills, at a charge of 68. per 1,000. Apply to the Editor of the Working Man.

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A rapidly increasing business; 2,217 Life Policies Societies, &c., &c. Estimates free by return of post. having been issued during the past year.

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