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Illinois vs. August Spies et al. trial evidence book. People's Exhibit 111.
Fäckel (Newspaper) article, untitled, 1885 Mar. 22

2 p.
Introduced into evidence during testimony of E. F. L. Gauss (Vol. K p. 721-732), 1886 July 31.
Transcript of translation of article.


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PEOPLE'S EX.111.

From "Die Fackel" of March 22nd, 1885.

Account of a meeting at North Side Turner Hall of the day previous. Comrade Fielden delivered a speech which was very well received, in which he spoke about as follows: (Says the paper)

X X X The speaker praised with eloquent words the love of sacrifice, the unbounded heroic courage of those who shed their blood upon the barricades, upon the altar of the people, during the commune of Paris.

It was now the duty of our Communists of to-day to omit all the mistakes that might have been made at that time and to profit by them. He sketched our so-called civilization as a miserable lie and called upon those present to enter the fight which our comrades of Paris had begun with such great sacrifices and to help to overthrow a system which keeps the greater majority of men in an unworthy slavery, in horrible want and dreadful misery.

He was followed by Comrade Holmes who gave a short review of the history of the Commune of Paris in the year 1871. He described the horrible murder of the masses committed upon the Champions of freedom of those days in ghastly but realistic


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colors, and called upon those present to complete the work which those had commenced, with unending sacrifices; then would dawn the day of freedom, equality and brotherhood for oppressed humanity.

Both speakers harvested the livliest applause.


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