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Investigator_--Political meetings--Hyde Park--Guildhall--Debates:
Thomas Cooper--Rev. Brewin Grant--Dr Mensor--Rev.
T. D. Matthias--Mr Court--John Smart.
CHAPTER X.
HARD TIMES 90
The Manchester poisoning case--Mr Harvey--Rheumatic fever--Elysium
Villa--My brother's birth--Kate--Railway journeys--A
lecturer's profits--An editor's profits.
CHAPTER XI.
A CLERICAL LIBELLER 99
An articled clerk--The Naples Colour Company--Financial
operations--"Black Friday"--Sunderland Villa--The Rev. Hugh
M'Sorley.
CHAPTER XII.
TOTTENHAM 108
Our home--James Thomson ("B. V.")--Harriet Bradlaugh--Father
and children.
CHAPTER XIII.
THE "NATIONAL REFORMER" 119
The _National Reformer_ Company--The coming of Joseph
Barker--Turkish baths and Secularism--The difficulties of a dual
editorship--A house divided--Sole editor--G. J. Holyoake as
chief contributor--More difficulties--Arbitration--Messrs Smith
and Son's boycott--John Watts as editor--My father resumes--The
_Saturday Review_--"B. V." replies--The Rev. Charles Voysey:
1868 and 1880.
CHAPTER XIV.
THE "NATIONAL REFORMER" AND THE GOVERNMENT PROSECUTIONS 137
Prosecution of _National Reformer_ by Mr Disraeli's Government--"Published
in defiance of Her Majesty's Government"--The
Act of James I.--Collapse of the prosecution--The Press--The
Rev. J. Page Hopps--Prosecution of _National Reformer_ by Mr
Gladstone's Government--Abandonment of the prosecution--John
Stuart Mill--Repeal of the odious Security laws--The
Postmaster-General and the _National Reformer_.
CHAPTER XV.
ITALY 152
Earning money for Garibaldi--Mazzini--An eloquent passport--Police
espionage--Carrying despatches--An American sees "fair
play"--The police and the Life Assurance Companies.
CHAPTER XVI.
PLATFORM WORK, 1860-1861 158
Debate with the Rev. B. Grant at Bradford--Dr Brindley--Pursuing
Mr Bradlaugh to New York--Debates with Dr Baylee
and others--"Extended propaganda"--The _Wigan Examiner_--Mr
Hutchings--Dispensing "justice" to the Atheist--More
debates--Norwich and Yarmouth--The Yarmouth Magistrates.
CHAPTER XVII.
THE DEVONPORT CASE, 1861 175
The speech in Devonport Park--Opening a fortnight's campaign--Arrest--
Imprisonment--The Guildhall--A marine adventure--The
case against Superintendent Edwards--Mr Robert Collier,
Q.C., M.P.--Mr Montagu Smith, Q.C.--An unjust judge--The
Court of Common Pleas--Lord Chief Justice Erle--Mr Justice
Keating--The Court of Appeal.
CHAPTER XVIII.
"KILL THE INFIDEL" 189
Religious liberty at Guernsey--Challenging the island authorities
--Bill-posting extraordinary--"Kill the Infidel"--An infuriated
crowd and a shrewd landlady--The courageous Harbour Master--"An
act of natural justice."
CHAPTER XIX.
PROVINCIAL ADVENTURES, 1860-1863 194
Altrincham--Shaw--Sunderland--Rochdale--The Bellman of
Leigh--Warrington Journalism--Dumfries--Burnley--Chesterfield--Counter
attractions at Worksop--At Boardman's Edge,
discussion precedes the lecture--The Dewsbury poster--Leeds--A
dream of Voltaire.
CHAPTER XX.
A FREEMASON 203
The Philadelphs--The Grand Lodge of England--The Prince of
Wales as Grand Master--"To the oppressed of all Nations"--Joshua
B. Smith as Junior Warden to the Adelphi Lodge--"Ill
winds" that blow good to a Masonic charity.
CHAPTER XXI.
DEBATES, 1860-1866 207
The Rev. W. Barker--Thomas Cooper--A frank avowal--The
Rev. Woodville Woodman again--Mr Porteous--A one-sided
debate--Mr Porteous again.
CHAPTER XXII.
"THE WORLD IS MY COUNTRY; TO DO GOOD IS MY RELIGION" 214
Sympathy with Garibaldi--Irish Catholic Opposition--An
attempt to stab Mr Bradlaugh--Lancashire distress--"Viva la
Polonia"--Death of B. B. Jones--Sheffield inundation--Help for
the needy--A Hall of Science Company.
CHAPTER XXIII.
THE REFORM LEAGUE, 1866-1868 220
The National Reform League--Primrose Hill--Trafalgar Square--Sir
Richard Mayne's prohibition--The Derby Cabinet--Hyde
Park--Another prohibition--Fall of the Hyde Park railings--Agricultural
Hall--Bristol--Attacks upon Mr Bradlaugh--Northampton--Luton--Matthew
Arnold casts his stone--On
horseback at Trafalgar Square--Agricultural Hall again--The
_Saturday Review_ and its followers--Hyde Park again--The
Government "admonition" served and withdrawn--Mr Bradlaugh's
resignation--Its result.
CHAPTER XXIV.
PROVINCIAL LECTURING, 1866-1869 238
The Mayor of Liverpool--David King--Huddersfield: Arrest;
Release; Before the Magistrates--The Rev. J. M'Cann--Huddersfield
again--The Murphy riots at Manchester--The New Hall of
Science--Blyth and Mr Thomas Burt--The "infidel" on Portsea
Common--The people who loved my father--A liberal priest.
CHAPTER XXV.
IRELAND 252
English Misgovernment--The Fenian Brotherhood--Colonel
Kelly and General Cluseret--The Irish proclamation of 1867--The
Manchester rescue--The death sentence--The Clerkenwell explosion--Pamphlet
on "the Irish Question"--A Quakers' discussion
society--Lectures on behalf of Ireland--A visit to Dublin.
CHAPTER XXVI.
NORTHAMPTON, 1868 263
Mr Bradlaugh's determination to seek a seat in Parliament--The
choice of Northampton--First election address--Scorn of the
Whigs--Enthusiasm of the people--The election colours--John
Stuart Mill--_The Daily Telegraph_--The Irish Reform League--John
Bright--W. E. Gladstone--Mr Charles Gilpin and Lord
Henley--The press--Dr Lees--Canvassing--The Lord's Day Rest
Association--Mr Giffard, Q.C.--Mr Charles Capper, M.P.--Anti-Compulsory
Vaccination--The nomination day--The poll--Tributes
from the Mayor and from Mr Gilpin--Ministers who
rejoiced.
CHAPTER XXVII.
SOUTHWARK ELECTION, 1869 280
Mr Bradlaugh and Mr Odger.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
LITIGATION, 1867-1871 282
English Joint Stock Bank (Limited) and Charles Bradlaugh--Bradlaugh
_v._ De Rin--The Oath question in different Courts-Confusion
of the law of evidence--A costly victory--The Evidence
Amendment Act, 1870--The _Razor_ libel case--Mr O'Malley, Q.C.--"Outlaw
or Citizen: Which am I?"--Action against the Mirfield
Town Hall Company--Mr Digby Seymour, Q.C.--Mr Justice
Willes.
CHAPTER XXIX.
PERSONAL 299
Financial difficulties--Mr Bradlaugh gives up business in the
City and devotes himself to public work--Our home sold up--A
scattered family--My brother's illness and death--His burial--The
Rev. Drummond Ash--The Rev. Theophilus Bennett--My
father's grief.
CHAPTER XXX.
LECTURES, 1870-1871 304
Freethought and Republican activity--A full lecture list--The
"Impeachment of the House of Brunswick"--A misleading
announcement--Stourbridge and Lord Lyttleton--The High Bailiff
of Newton Abbot--The Sowerby Bridge champion wrestler--Dr
Magee at Norwich Cathedral--Mr Disraeli and the Queen--Mr
Gladstone's "Questionable Book."
CHAPTER XXXI.
FRANCE--THE WAR 312
Mr Bradlaugh's position--Republican France--Madame de
Brimont--"France and Peace"--St James's Hall--Thanks of the
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