Br 2035.45 1875 April 27 The Publisher. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. ROCKWELL & CHURCHILL, PREFACE ΤΟ FIFTH AND AMERICAN EDITION. THE kindly reception given to me personally throughout those portions of the United States it has yet been my good fortune to visit, tempts me to comply with the request of many friends, that I should issue here an edition of my impeachment of the reigning family in England. The matter contained in these pages has been delivered orally throughout Great Britain, and, with one exception, no reply has been offered to it. Abuse has been plentiful, and threats of prosecution not infrequent ; but although at least one hundred and fifty thousand persons have listened to the lectures, and four editions of the pamphlet have been exhausted in England, only one attempt was made, in the Gentleman's Magazine, to advance any kind of reply. And even in this case, when a formal written discussion had been commenced, the editor of the Gentleman's Magazine refused to allow any rejoinder to his second paper. It is sometimes alleged against me that the pamphlet is a too personal criticism; my answer is that in every case the points dealt with have affected our national honor, or augmented our national taxation. |