en
sickness or old age or bad times come, you will have something you can
call your own. Habits of economy will thus grow and strengthen, and the
reward will be sure. Of all luxuries, that of independence is the
sweetest, and that these societies put within your reach. Their failure
is impossible. They are the societies for the age: they will parcel out
the English ground amongst English men: their triumph will be the
emancipation of the working man from the misery and wrongs and
degradation of the past.

We appeal also to men who aim at the moral reformation of our race--who
care little about politics--who believe that in a world of knaves it is
difficult to get a good government at all, and we claim their support.
The mission of the Freehold Land Movement is the same with theirs. The
philanthropist labouring to remove the degradation, which compels to a
life little better than that of the beasts that perish, men made in the
image of their Maker--the advocate of Temperance aiming at the
destruction of a vice which has slain its thousands, and which, like a
destroying pestilence, still walks the land--the Christian seeking to
permeate our age with a living faith--all these we claim as co-workers.
The movement, besides its direct bearings, tends to bring about the
results they desire. Not merely has political emancipation been the
result of the movement--moral emancipation has invariably followed in its
train.

We thus make our appeal for the support of the cause which is yet in its
infancy, and which has a thousand trophies yet in store. Peacefully does
it conduct the people to power, and give practical utterance to the
spirit of the age. The doom of whatever keeps man in subjection to
another has long been sealed. The proud patrician of Imperial Rome--the
feudal baron of the Middle Ages, have passed away. Even Oxford abandons
the faith at one time it armed to defend, and no longer acknowledges the

"Right divine of kings to govern wrong."

Onward to victory is the people's march. The decree has gone forth, they
must be free. For this consummation we have ever hoped and striven.
From the contentions of party we have ever turned to advocate whatever
gives to the people moral dignity and political power; to others we leave
the cause of the privileged classes--the advocacy of existing wrongs--the
preservation of existing abuses. We plead the cause of the
unenfranchised, but of the unenfranchised who ha