The "Club" man was evidently irritated that these same people who at Hyde Park had refused to obey a police proclamation backed by a free use of the truncheon and display of the bayonet, yet implicitly obeyed the "youth mounted on a brown horse" whose only authority was derived from the love the people bore him. The sneer as to "tone" and "manners" is not worth noticing; you cannot issue commands to tens of thousands in Trafalgar Square in the same gentle tone in which you can ask for the salt to be passed across the dinner-table.
[93] March 9th, 1867.
[94] Times, March 12th, 1867.
[95] The Standard, May 7th.
[96] The lectures were announced for the following day.
[97] National Reformer.
[98] National Reformer, November 4 (1866).
[99] On November 25 (1866).
[100] C. Bradlaugh in National Reformer, March 1867.
[101] No verbatim report of this discussion was ever published.