ABSTRACT
The third Co-operative Congress was held in April 1832 at the Owenite movement’s headquarters on Gray’s Inn Road, London. The proceedings of all Co-operative Congresses were edited by William Carpenter, a radical journalist and essayist. Along with fellow BAPCK member Henry Hetherington, Carpenter was a defender of the free press, and was jailed in May 1831 for his Political Letters, which he had published that same year as a critique of the stamp duty. Mr. Peter Bishop read a resolution passed by the first society at Birmingham, explanatory of their views of the importance of forming an incipient community, and enforced upon the congress the propriety and necessity of maturing and acting upon some plan for this purpose. The Rev. Mr. Joseph Marriott was also desirous to see an incipient community formed, and if it were necessary he would give up his profession, and with his family enter such a society.
