[102] West Sussex Gazette, June 24th. And these are the people who affect to believe in Mr Bradlaugh's violence and coarseness! "Even so ye outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity."
[103] C. Bradlaugh, in National Reformer, July 1869.
[104] Of these Darwen lectures all the Preston papers gave long reports. The Conservative Preston Herald thought that "the burning words of eulogium [on Mr Gladstone] that fell from the lips of the clever advocate" laid Mr Bradlaugh "open to the suspicion of having accepted a retainer and a brief from the astute statesman"! About 1200 persons attended each lecture, and the "quiet village of Darwen was rendered as throng as a fair" by the influx of people from so many of the surrounding villages.
[105] Autobiography.
[106] Headingley, p. 105.
[107] Weekly Dispatch, November 16, 1879.
[108] Headingley, p. 104.
[109] Pamphlet on the Irish Question.
[110] National Reformer, October 20.
[111] When he republished this as a pamphlet it was read by Mr Gladstone, who wrote to him the following autograph letter:—