A TICHBORNE KENEALY DEMONSTRATION.

Dunstan Times, Issue 690, 9 July 1875, Page 3

A TICHBORNE KENEALY DEMONSTRATION.

At a meeting held in Hyde Park London, on Easter Monday last, of the friends of the Claimant, Dr Kenealy said “ This is probahly b tho most magnificent sight ever beheld in Hyde Park, because I can hardly conceive any spectacle in this world of greater majesty and grandeur than the spectacle of half a ■ million of human beings assembled together in order to demand justice froia’their rulers for an innocent and unhappy man. Gentlemen, you may not be among the wealthy, or the aristocrats of the land, but you are all made in the imago of God. You are all parts of this great empire. You are all intelligent freedom loving, and brave Englishmen, and I should be sorry indeed if I thought that the government of this empire was to be left in the hands of a powerful oligarchy arrayed against Sir Roger Tichborne. His friends are not insensible of the magnitude of the cause they are pledged to support. You here have not come out to day to see the princes of the earth, but you have come out to rally around the banner which we are raising here for the purpose of summoning all England to our side. We have had a procession through the City of London, accompanied by magnificent banners brought up by various trades associations at their own expense, and not a single policeman has been needed to prevent a breach of the pence. lam glad that you are all met in that spirit; and lam fpiite sure that when lam able to state, not only in. Parliament but at the various public meetings throughout the country which I am about to hold, that half a million people assembled in London on Easter Monday, and that every one was as gentle as a child but as earnest as giants, it will have its effect in prospering the o ruse we have all at heart. The sight we are now presenting to the world is sublime in its grandeur. I do not believe any other country in the world could produce such an assembly as this—-men drawn together inspired by one desire namely, that the administration of justice should be as pure as Heaven itself; and each and all of you appeal to {lie justice of the Imperial Parliament and the Queen to have the man released who is now unjustly imprisoned in Dartmoor. 1 believe that no one in the world is so well calculated’ to pronounce an opinion upon that man as I am, because I was his counsel for nearly 12 months, and I had the best opportunities of knowing him. 1 was determined not to be deceived by him, and I am as sure as lamof my own existence that he is the undoubted Sir Roger Tichborne. I was determined to work indefatigably in his cause, and I will not cease until he is free.”