+-------------------------------------------------+ |Transcriber’s note: | | | |Obvious typographic errors have been corrected. | | | +-------------------------------------------------+ [Illustration: Decoration] [Illustration: J Bronterre] A man who lived for truth, and truth alone-- Brave as the bravest--generous as brave; A man whose heart was rent by every moan That burst from every trodden, tortured slave; A man prepared to fight, prepared to die, To lighten, banish, human misery. The mighty scorned him, vilified, oppressed; The bitter cup of poverty and pain Forced him to drink. He was misfortune’s guest Through weary, weary years; his anguish’d brain Shed tears of pity--wrath--for Mankind’s woe; For his own sorrows tears could never flow. He loved the people with a brother’s love; He hated tyrants with a tyrant’s hate. He turned from kings below, to God above-- The King of kings, who smites the wicked great. The shame, the scourge, the terror of their race, Those demons in earth’s holy dwelling-place. Thou noble soul!--around thee gathered those Who, poor and trampled patriots, were like thee. Thou art not dead!--thy martyred spirit glows In us, a band devoted of the free; We best can celebrate thy natal day, By virtues, valours, such as marked thy way. WILLIAM MACCALL. THE RISE, PROGRESS, AND PHASES OF HUMAN SLAVERY: HOW IT CAME INTO THE WORLD, AND HOW IT SHALL BE MADE TO GO OUT. BY JAMES BRONTERRE O’BRIEN. [Illustration: Decoration] LONDON: WILLIAM REEVES, 185, FLEET STREET, E.C. G. STANDRING, 8 AND 9, FINSBURY STREET; MARTIN BOON, 170, FARRINGDON ROAD, W.C. SOUTH AFRICA: HAY BROS., WHOLESALE AGENTS, KING WILLIAM’S TOWN. 1885 TO THE PEOPLE! This little Work, by an eloquent denunciator of the manifold evils of Profitmongering and Landlordism, whose entire life was devoted to the advocacy of Social Rights, as distinguished from Socialistic theories, is now given to the world for the first time in a complete form. The Author, in his lifetime, was frustrated in his design of finishing his History through the ceaseless machinations of working-class exploiters and landlords. This has been at length achieved by the aid of his various writings preserved in print. The object steadily kept in view has been to give the _ipsissima verba_ of the Author, so that no foreign pen may garble or mislead.