Chapter 15

Enters politics.--Advocates extreme political views.--Republicanism.--Foretells the French Revolution of 1848.--Great political excitement in England.--Government alarmed.--Get arrested.--Lodged in prison.--Trial.--Triumph over Government.--Great rejoicings.--Elected member of Parliament for Bolton, and Town Councillor for Leeds.--Exhaustion from excess of labor.--Health fails.--Terrible Pains.--Voyage to America and back.--Removes to America.--Objects in doing so.--Settles on a farm.--Gets into fresh excitement.--The Abolitionists.--Women's Rights.--All kinds of wild revolutionary theories.--Go farther into unbelief instead of getting back to Christ.--A mad world, with strange unwritten histories, and awful, nameless mysteries, 241