Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 63, No. 391, May, 1848Various
General
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 63, No. 391, May, 1848
Various
England -- Periodicals; Scotland -- Periodicals
"Between ten and eleven o'clock on the night of the attack
on Mr Newman's house, I was called upon by
Shoui-yschwr-fawr, and went with the party. On my way I had
a conversation with Dai Cantwr. Thomas Morris, a collier, by
the Five Cross Roads, was walking before us, with a long
gun. I said "Thomas is enough to frighten one with his long
gun." Dai said, "There is not such a free man as Tom Morris
in the rank. I was coming up Gellygwlwnog field, arm in arm
with him, after burning Mr Chambers's ricks of hay; and he
had a gun in the other hand, and Tom said, "Here's a hare,"
and he up with his gun and shot it slap down--and it was a
horse--Mr Chambers's horse. One of the party stuck the horse
with a knife--the blood flowed--and Tom Morris held his
hand under the blood, and called upon the persons to come
forward and dip their fingers in it, and take it as a
sacrifice instead of Christ; and the parties did so.' And
Dai added, 'that he had often heard of a sacrament in many
ways, but had never heard of a sacrament by a horse before
that night.'
"The other instance was told me by one who witnessed much of
the Chartist outbreak. He said that 'the men who marched
from the hills to join Frost, had no definite object beyond
a fanatical notion that they were to march immediately to
London, fight a great battle, and conquer a great kingdom.'
I could not help being reminded of the swarm that followed
Walter the Penniless, and took the town which they reached
at the end of their first day's march for Jerusalem."
We could point out several districts in Wales, in which few gentry
reside, such as the south-western portion of Caernarvon, and some
parts of Anglesey, where the most republican and levelling doctrines
prevail extensively among the farmers and the labouring classes, and
where resistance to tithes, and not only to tithes, but to rents, is a
subject fondly cherished for future opportunity. The town of
Caernarvon itself is a pestilent hot-bed of discontent; so is Merthyr
Tydvil; so is Newtown; so is Swansea; and so are many others.
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