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 their fellow-men. I could name twenty or thirty of them who had each built & church, or school for the religious instruction of their workpeople and workpeople's children, and individually bore its annual expenses. These were the men who, according to the Standard, were actuated only by sordid and selfish motives!

With £60,000 of fresh subscriptions; with full faith that the whole $250,000 fund would be realized; with hope excited by the declared conversion of the most distinguished leaders of the whig and tory parties in parliament; with determined resolution to accept of nothing short of justice; and with renewed spirit for action during the great parliamentary struggle which was sure to ensue, the members of the League looked forwards, from their advanced post at this end of 1845, to the accomplishment of their object within the approaching year; but fully prepared, and with ample means, to carry on their work of instruction, and their operation upon the constituencies, for five years more if necessary. The prompt subscription of that Quarter-of-a-Million fund made many converts.