Note: Project Gutenberg has the other volume of this work. Volume I: see http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45130 Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). [Illustration: CHARLES BRADLAUGH Born Sept. 26, 1833 Died Jan. 30, 1891] 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