ABSTRACT
This chapter in the radical The Northern Star and Trades’ Journal gloats that at the same time Prince Albert’s Great Exhibition was touting England’s greatness, a meeting of ‘Red Republicans and Socialists of France’ as well as the ‘Irish Repealers, the English Chartists, and the American double-distilled philosophers and reformers’ was planned to take place in London. It will be easy then for the conspiring social and revolutionary leaders in London to organise a descent upon Manchester, simultaneously with a riot in the metropolis to divert the attention of the military from the real point of assault. By a confidential communication, received by the last packet, the people are advised that a number of leading men in Liverpool are seriously contemplating a scheme of secession, from the whole complicated machinery of the oppressive government in London.
