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pence movement $-U.
60.
J. 4iilaon H. P. for the U3olcnfirth
conntituency, Honry Richard M. P. for Methyr Tydfil, and
George Palmer ! 1. P. for
,. Reading, and Ashton Dilko M. P. for
iüewcaetle on Tyne. The anti-Imperialists were lining up in
Parliament against the Imperialists or modoratoc in their
own party; this formation van to be typical for the next
twenty years,
Opposition to tho Government percolated down to local
Liberal parties and Radical ausociationeq Liberal Associations
at Leicester, Newcastle an Tyne, Buckingham and Greenwich
cent protests.
(2)
The Leicester revolution referred to the
annexation of the Transvaal as "one of thooe acts of arbitary
interference with the liberties and rights of others, which
did no rauch during the rule of the late Government to bring,
discredit upon the good name of the people of thin country
an lovers of liberty and justice, and to drag the nation into
diocroditablo and costly wars... "
(3)
All the ingredients of
anti-Inperin1inm were pro ent, # especially in the call for
a moral foreign policy and for non-intervention* Some Radical
Clubs panned resolutions against the Government,
- Soho Social
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(1) Henry Richard wac a Noucont=iat and secretary of the Pence
society.
(2) Reynolds jInwr: +grer, 9th J, 6nuary, 20th H arch 1861.
coo, 14th February 1881,
(3) Leiccu to Liberal Association ! S. ginutea of sooting of
General Committee 20th January 1881.