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Title: Meeting of Fraternal Democrats, 10 September 1850 (1850)
Description: Report in The Northern Star of a London meeting of the Fraternal Democrats in support of the brewery workers who had thrashed the Austrian general Haynau; Engels thanks them and wishes Haynau the same reception everywhere.
Author: Friedrich Engels
Date: 1850-09-10
URL: https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/originales/1850%20Meeting%20of%20Fraternal%20Democrats%2C%2010%20September%201850%20%28report%29
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*Extract from the report “Meeting of Fraternal Democrats”, published without signature in* The Northern Star*, No. 673, September 14, 1850, p. 1, under the general heading “Public Meetings Approving of the Hearty Reception the Austrian Butcher, Haynau, Met with, from the Men in the Employ of Messrs. Barclay, Perkins, and Co.”: the opening sentence and the passage on Engels’s speech; the speeches of the other speakers are omitted […]. It is not a text by Engels: MEGA² (I/10, appendix) gives it as the report of his speech. In the NCSE facsimile the name is partly covered by show-through (“M. E[ngels]”). Text from the original newspaper (NCSE, Northern Star facsimile). [Traducción al español](https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/1850%20Discurso%20de%20Engels%20en%20el%20mitin%20de%20los%20Fraternal%20Democrats%20del%2010%20de%20septiembre%20de%201850%20%28informe%29)*

MEETING OF FRATERNAL DEMOCRATS.

On Tuesday night, a meeting of Fraternal Democrats was held at Farringdon Hall, Snow-hill, for the purpose of “taking into consideration the noble conduct of the workmen employed at Barclay and Perkins’s brewery, in having given expression to the feeling of detestation felt towards the assassin and woman-flogger, Haynau, by all true Englishmen.”

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M. Engels, a Prussian, next addressed the meeting, thanking the brewery-workmen for setting such an example as would effectually prevent all such atrocious tyrants as General Haynau from visiting this country in future. He hoped he would receive the same treatment at every railway station or steam-boat pier he happened to pass. (Cheers.)