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'
Oh
,
my
friends
,
the
down-trodden
operatives
of
Coketown
!
Oh
,
my
friends
and
fellow-countrymen
,
the
slaves
of
an
iron-handed
and
a
grinding
despotism
!
Oh
,
my
friends
and
fellow-sufferers
,
and
fellow-workmen
,
and
fellow-men
!
I
tell
you
that
the
hour
is
come
,
when
we
must
rally
round
one
another
as
One
united
power
,
and
crumble
into
dust
the
oppressors
that
too
long
have
battened
upon
the
plunder
of
our
families
,
upon
the
sweat
of
our
brows
,
upon
the
labour
of
our
hands
,
upon
the
strength
of
our
sinews
,
upon
the
God-created
glorious
rights
of
Humanity
,
and
upon
the
holy
and
eternal
privileges
of
Brotherhood
!
'
'
Good
!
'
'
Hear
,
hear
,
hear
!
'
'
Hurrah
!
'
and
other
cries
,
arose
in
many
voices
from
various
parts
of
the
densely
crowded
and
suffocatingly
close
Hall
,
in
which
the
orator
,
perched
on
a
stage
,
delivered
himself
of
this
and
what
other
froth
and
fume
he
had
in
him
.
He
had
declaimed
himself
into
a
violent
heat
,
and
was
as
hoarse
as
he
was
hot
.
By
dint
of
roaring
at
the
top
of
his
voice
under
a
flaring
gaslight
,
clenching
his
fists
,
knitting
his
brows
,
setting
his
teeth
,
and
pounding
with
his
arms
,
he
had
taken
so
much
out
of
himself
by
this
time
,
that
he
was
brought
to
a
stop
,
and
called
for
a
glass
of
water
.
As
he
stood
there
,
trying
to
quench
his
fiery
face
with
his
drink
of
water
,
the
comparison
between
the
orator
and
the
crowd
of
attentive
faces
turned
towards
him
,
was
extremely
to
his
disadvantage
.
Judging
him
by
Nature
's
evidence
,
he
was
above
the
mass
in
very
little
but
the
stage
on
which
he
stood
.
In
many
great
respects
he
was
essentially
below
them
.
He
was
not
so
honest
,
he
was
not
so
manly
,
he
was
not
so
good-humoured
;
he
substituted
cunning
for
their
simplicity
,
and
passion
for
their
safe
solid
sense
.
An
ill-made
,
high-shouldered
man
,
with
lowering
brows
,
and
his
features
crushed
into
an
habitually
sour
expression
,
he
contrasted
most
unfavourably
,
even
in
his
mongrel
dress
,
with
the
great
body
of
his
hearers
in
their
plain
working
clothes
.
Strange
as
it
always
is
to
consider
any
assembly
in
the
act
of
submissively
resigning
itself
to
the
dreariness
of
some
complacent
person
,
lord
or
commoner
,
whom
three-fourths
of
it
could
,
by
no
human
means
,
raise
out
of
the
slough
of
inanity
to
their
own
intellectual
level
,
it
was
particularly
strange
,
and
it
was
even
particularly
affecting
,
to
see
this
crowd
of
earnest
faces
,
whose
honesty
in
the
main
no
competent
observer
free
from
bias
could
doubt
,
so
agitated
by
such
a
leader
.
Good
!
Hear
,
hear
!
Hurrah
!
The
eagerness
both
of
attention
and
intention
,
exhibited
in
all
the
countenances
,
made
them
a
most
impressive
sight
.
There
was
no
carelessness
,
no
languor
,
no
idle
curiosity
;
none
of
the
many
shades
of
indifference
to
be
seen
in
all
other
assemblies
,
visible
for
one
moment
there
.
That
every
man
felt
his
condition
to
be
,
somehow
or
other
,
worse
than
it
might
be
;
that
every
man
considered
it
incumbent
on
him
to
join
the
rest
,
towards
the
making
of
it
better
;
that
every
man
felt
his
only
hope
to
be
in
his
allying
himself
to
the
comrades
by
whom
he
was
surrounded
;
and
that
in
this
belief
,
right
or
wrong
(
unhappily
wrong
then
)
,
the
whole
of
that
crowd
were
gravely
,
deeply
,
faithfully
in
earnest
;
must
have
been
as
plain
to
any
one
who
chose
to
see
what
was
there
,
as
the
bare
beams
of
the
roof
and
the
whitened
brick
walls
.
Nor
could
any
such
spectator
fail
to
know
in
his
own
breast
,
that
these
men
,
through
their
very
delusions
,
showed
great
qualities
,
susceptible
of
being
turned
to
the
happiest
and
best
account
;
and
that
to
pretend
(
on
the
strength
of
sweeping
axioms
,
howsoever
cut
and
dried
)
that
they
went
astray
wholly
without
cause
,
and
of
their
own
irrational
wills
,
was
to
pretend
that
there
could
be
smoke
without
fire
,
death
without
birth
,
harvest
without
seed
,
anything
or
everything
produced
from
nothing
.
The
orator
having
refreshed
himself
,
wiped
his
corrugated
forehead
from
left
to
right
several
times
with
his
handkerchief
folded
into
a
pad
,
and
concentrated
all
his
revived
forces
,
in
a
sneer
of
great
disdain
and
bitterness
.
'
But
oh
,
my
friends
and
brothers
!
Oh
,
men
and
Englishmen
,
the
down-trodden
operatives
of
Coketown
!
What
shall
we
say
of
that
man
--
that
working-man
,
that
I
should
find
it
necessary
so
to
libel
the
glorious
name
--
who
,
being
practically
and
well
acquainted
with
the
grievances
and
wrongs
of
you
,
the
injured
pith
and
marrow
of
this
land
,
and
having
heard
you
,
with
a
noble
and
majestic
unanimity
that
will
make
Tyrants
tremble
,
resolve
for
to
subscribe
to
the
funds
of
the
United
Aggregate
Tribunal
,
and
to
abide
by
the
injunctions
issued
by
that
body
for
your
benefit
,
whatever
they
may
be
--
what
,
I
ask
you
,
will
you
say
of
that
working-man
,
since
such
I
must
acknowledge
him
to
be
,
who
,
at
such
a
time
,
deserts
his
post
,
and
sells
his
flag
;
who
,
at
such
a
time
,
turns
a
traitor
and
a
craven
and
a
recreant
,
who
,
at
such
a
time
,
is
not
ashamed
to
make
to
you
the
dastardly
and
humiliating
avowal
that
he
will
hold
himself
aloof
,
and
will
not
be
one
of
those
associated
in
the
gallant
stand
for
Freedom
and
for
Right
?
'
The
assembly
was
divided
at
this
point
.
There
were
some
groans
and
hisses
,
but
the
general
sense
of
honour
was
much
too
strong
for
the
condemnation
of
a
man
unheard
.
'
Be
sure
you
're
right
,
Slackbridge
!
'
'
Put
him
up
!
'
'
Let
's
hear
him
!
'
Such
things
were
said
on
many
sides
.
Finally
,
one
strong
voice
called
out
,
'
Is
the
man
heer
?
If
the
man
's
heer
,
Slackbridge
,
let
's
hear
the
man
himseln
,
's
tead
o
'
yo
.
'
Which
was
received
with
a
round
of
applause
.
Slackbridge
,
the
orator
,
looked
about
him
with
a
withering
smile
;
and
,
holding
out
his
right
hand
at
arm
's
length
(
as
the
manner
of
all
Slackbridges
is
)
,
to
still
the
thundering
sea
,
waited
until
there
was
a
profound
silence
.
