I vaguely remember that it was May 2, 1848. The content of "The Times" was like a charge horn that rekindled the fighting spirit of us (Chartists) who had already silenced the drums. For a while, the whole of London seemed to be about to rise again.
To recreate the "grand occasion" a year ago, it is regrettable that the instigator of all this is not a real proletarian, not even a democrat/republican. All he did was to achieve
It's just a tool of his personal ambition.
——"North Star Newspaper and Me" Hani
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In the early morning of May 2, the "Polar Star" newspaper, which was the base of Chartist public opinion and also an advocate of the labor movement, was gearing up to prepare "ammunition" for the next round of assault. The Chartist Movement of 1847 united all Chartists in Britain.
They formed a group to submit a letter to the government in April this year. However, a month later, the coalition government still did not take any action. Minister Palmerston, who was elected to the House of Representatives by their votes, also did not carry out any action against them.
Response. [Note 1] (Lord Palmerston did not think that was the result of the electorate)
The Chartists can no longer tolerate the government's arrogant silence as a confrontational gesture, and they are preparing to give the government a "lesson" in the near future to let them know the power of workers.
At this time, Honey, the editor-in-chief of the "North Star", was sitting in his office, holding a dipped pen in his hand and thinking about the next content. The white draft paper he pressed under his arm was full of traces of erasures.
Editor Hani frowned after thinking for a long time. He lowered his head and reviewed the content he had written before, only to find that most of the content he had written before were cliche content. It was simply impossible to expect these cliche content to arouse the empathy of subscribers.
It's just wishful thinking.
The more Editor Hani thought about it, the more he felt upset. The more he read the unfinished manuscript, the more he felt dissatisfied. Feeling restless, he simply crumpled the white draft paper under his arm and threw it on the ground. He dipped his pen in water and started writing again.
Returning to the original position, he pressed his head tightly with both hands like holding a basketball, his eyes were fixed on the desk made of rosewood, and his mouth made a "crunching" sound.
The writing of the article obviously caused great trouble to Editor-in-Chief Haney.
The worry of not being able to write a manuscript lasted for a long time, until a rapid knock on the door from outside the office pulled Editor Hani out of his worries.
"Come in!" Chief Editor Hani slightly adjusted his movements, moved his hands from his head and placed them tightly on the desk, and his eyes changed from angry to soft.
Don't bring your personal negative emotions to other members, especially subordinates. This is a "truth" Editor-in-chief Hani learned after serving as the editor-in-chief of the Polaris newspaper.
The office door opened, and a reporter walked towards Hani holding a newspaper and said: "Editor-in-Chief Hani, look at this!"
When the reporter came to Hani, Hani discovered that the reporter was holding a newspaper from The Times. The newspaper exuded a faint scent of ink, and it seemed that it had just been printed.
The reporter spread the "Times" newspaper on the table, pointed to the headline on the front page of the "Times" newspaper, gasped and said to Hani impatiently: "Editor-in-Chief, look at this article!"
"From Bonaparte to Bonaparte...? What kind of title is this!" Hani, who saw the title for the first time, read out the title word by word, with a little doubt in his eyes, as if he was asking the reporter what he meant.
thing.
"Editor, keep reading! After reading this, you will understand everything!" The reporter impatiently continued to urge Hani to continue.
Hani put aside the doubts in his heart for the time being and spoke line by line.
Due to the word count and layout issues of the article, Hani read the entire article in less than 3 minutes.
After reading the article, Hani's heart was like a stormy sea. "Equality", "freedom", "democracy", "universal suffrage", this article said everything they wanted to say.
In the final analysis, the Chartists of the 19th century were not a revolutionary party. They carried the imprint of bourgeois reforms from the day they were born. They did not have the urgent desire to overthrow the government and realize democratic dictatorship. Instead, they ran for freedom and equality in office. They have not yet
Realize that the so-called freedom, equality and equality in your mouth are just illusions that can be broken at the first glance.
Although some of the comments about Louis Napoleon in the article are somewhat inappropriate, the so-called "Bonaparte Thoughts" in the article pointed out what Britain needed in a concise and concise manner.
[Haney once met Louis Napoleon in a club and still has some impressions of Louis Napoleon]
"Who is the author of this article?" Hani eagerly wanted to know the answer.
"I don't know!" the reporter said to Haney, pointing to the blank space in the byline column of "The Times": "It seems that the writer does not want to expose his name!"
"Cut this newspaper! Cut it out and give it to Mr. Karl Marx and Mr. Friedrich Engels. I think you should know their addresses!" An excited Hani told reporters.
[As early as the Chartist Movement in 1847, the Chartists had already known Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. At the height of the Chartist Movement, Engels was invited by the Polaris newspaper to serve as a supporter of the bourgeois radical party.]
"I know!" The reporter, who was equally full of admiration and admiration for Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, immediately agreed to Hani's order.
After Hani explained a few more trivial matters to the reporter, the reporter left, and Hani, full of ideas, picked up the pen to write again.
What he wants to write this time is "On Bonaparte Thought and the British Democratic Movement"
"Yesterday, a great fighter for freedom and equality passed away, and he brought us... The British government should not continue to ignore, as Louis Napoleon said, what a government needs is to establish a people with equal rights to choose...
"
This time, Haney was uncharacteristically no longer based on false freedom and equality. Instead, he used the tone of Louis Napoleon to criticize the existing British system from the perspective of universal suffrage and responsible government.
A eloquent 3,000-word article, but extremely poignant.
After writing all this, Hani reviewed the manuscript again and sealed it.
ps: 1. In the 1847 election, Mr. Harney, editor-in-chief of the "Northern Star", was selected as the Chartist parliamentary candidate in the Tverdo district; this district also elected the Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston to the parliament. But when Palmerston
Lord Tonton called for a vote, and Mr. Harney, who had won the primary by a show of hands, gave up his candidacy.