Chapter I: Front Matter

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CHARLES BRADLAUGH

A Record of His Life and Work by His Daughter.

HYPATIA BRADLAUGH BONNER.

With an Account of his Parliamentary Struggle Politics and Teachings by

JOHN M. ROBERTSON, M.P.

Seventh Edition

With Portraits and Appendices

T. Fisher Unwin London Leipsic Adelphi Terrace Inselstrasse 20 1908

All Rights Reserved

VOL. II.

CHAPTER I.

IN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN 1

The _Parthia_--Mr J. Walter, M.P.--Sumner's opinion
of Mr Bradlaugh's lecture--The Delaware Clionian Society--Milwaukee
--Chicago--Intense cold--Mrs Lucretia Mott--A third
lecturing tour--Dr Otis--The currency question--Religious
animus--Death of Henry Wilson--In St Luke's Hospital, New
York, with typhoid fever--Moncure D. Conway--Return.

CHAPTER II.

MRS BESANT 12

A friend lost--A friend gained--Mrs Besant and Mr Bradlaugh--"Ajax"--The
Knowlton pamphlet--Advantages and disadvantages
of a dual defence.

CHAPTER III.

THE PROSECUTION OF MR BRADLAUGH AND MRS BESANT 20

Appointment to sell the pamphlet--Arrested on a warrant--At
the Guildhall--Application for a writ of _certiorari_--The Lord
Chief Justice--Who was the prosecutor?--The trial at Westminster--The
witnesses--The jury--The verdict--The judgment--Execution
of sentence stayed--The Court of Appeal quashes
indictment--Expenses of defence paid by subscription--The City--Other
proceedings--Mr Truelove's trial and sentence--Effect of
the prosecutions.

CHAPTER IV.

AN UNIMPORTANT CHAPTER 30

Side lights--"Man, whence and how?"--The Turberville legacy--From
Turner Street to Circus Road--Selling the Knowlton
pamphlet--The day of arrest--At Westminster--Mr G. J. Holyoake--The
hearing of the sentence--A riding accident.

CHAPTER V.

MORE DEBATES 39

Rev. Brewin Grant--Rev. A. Mursell--Mr Walter R. Browne--Mr
Robert Roberts, a Christadelphian--Mr William Simpson--Mr
Gordon--Rev. John Lightfoot--Rev. R. A. Armstrong--Rev.
W. M. Westerby.

CHAPTER VI.

SOME LATER LECTURES 52

At Oxford--The Suez Canal--Carrying "consolation"--At
Congleton--At Newman Street, London--Edinburgh--Professor
Flint--Scarborough.

CHAPTER VII.

LUNATICS 59

Letters--"A mission from God"--John Sladen and the Queen.

CHAPTER VIII.

THE "WATCH" STORY 63

The defiance of Deity an ancient idea--_The British Monarchy_--Abner
Kneeland--Emma Martin--G. J. Holyoake--Charles
Capper, M. P.--The _Razor_--Rev. P. R. Jones, M. A., Dr Harrison,
and other clergymen--The _Christian_ and other journals--The
Rev. Basil Wilberforce--Dr Parker--The _British Empire_--_Prosecution_
of Edgecumbe--Reckless swearing--A bad plea,
"embarrassing and unfair"--Edgecumbe missing--The reward
of Mr Bradlaugh's forbearance.

CHAPTER IX.

OTHER FABLES 76

The "cob of coal"--The "old woman"--Story narrated by
the Rev. H. W. Webb-Peploe--Personal slanders--The _World_--Action
against Mr Laker--Poisoning the Prince of Wales--A
"bagman"--A common accusation.

CHAPTER X.

PEACE DEMONSTRATIONS, 1878 82

The "Jingo" fever--Meetings in favour of peace--Auberon
Herbert and C. Bradlaugh in Hyde Park--Preparing for difficulties--The
war party--The fight--Second Hyde Park meeting--Mr
Bradlaugh injured--Ill and depressed.

CHAPTER XI.

THE NATIONAL SECULAR SOCIETY 86

The first general association of Freethinkers--Objects of the
Society--Its President--First secular almanac--The work of the
Society--Mr Bradlaugh's resignation.

CHAPTER XII.

THE LAST CHAPTER 91

Six years of fighting--A record of injustice--Some who help to
find the money to defend the right--Mr Bradlaugh's habits and
surroundings--His commercial pursuits--Money difficulties--Death
of Alice Bradlaugh--Mr Bradlaugh's illness--Plans for the
future--India--Last illness--Memorials.

Part II.

BY JOHN M. ROBERTSON.

CHAPTER I.

PHILOSOPHY AND SECULAR PROPAGANDA.

§1. Meaning of "Atheism" 115

§2. Bradlaugh's statement of Atheism 122

§3. "Materialism" and its critics 127

§4. Bradlaugh's popular propaganda 139

§5. Secularist ethics 154

CHAPTER II.

POLITICAL DOCTRINE AND WORK.

§1. The Republican movement 165

§2. The Neo-Malthusian movement 169

§3. Bradlaugh and the land laws 179

§4. Bradlaugh and Socialism 185

§5. The Irish question 191

§6. Bradlaugh and India 198