Show rey rev baptist noel on prize fighting in A letter to the noblemen and gentlemen who attended the fight between heenan and sayers the hon and rev baptist noel says pugilism like pistol practice makes strong and practised practiced men bullies in common life ready to D insult others because they know that men without muscle and no practice cannot fight with them at the same time it tends to make all others quarrelsome for if fighting comes to be considered the best way of settling a dispute a man who has any strength will always be disposed to fight for any army trifle leand and our cities towns mandvill and villages ages will be filled with fighters your support of these fights will set your own villagers all fighting 1 I suppose however that much as you aavo date d a alte this way of invigorating the poor poo r IOU pou you OU do not propose to adopt it yourselves you would indeed draw some monster trains to your ring we were re you to announce that the earl of A and the duke of orb B would on such a day for the improvement of their country strip and fight and assembly an a still till more aristocratic would probably crowd round the tho ropes to see which should first blind or disable the other but that not bein being intended vulgar blood alone is to flow the he earl does not mean to be smashed himself because he smiles at seeing heenan smashed and the duke does not mean to have his right arm broken or turned into blue jelly because he comes to see the arm of sayers to be treated la Is not this to make poor men your sport while you do not mean to be made their sport in turn but if it is beneath gentlemen to settle their disputes by the fist it is equally beneath working meny meni men and I 1 believe working men are becoming too well educated in genera general V to make their bruises and their blood a spectacle for your amusement 0 0 you sa say that you wish to make the people m manly anly ilow how can they be made manly when they work all day in ill ventilated workshops work shops till exhausted and then poison themselves aith with drink if you wish them to be manly improve the ventilation of their workshops and cottages raise their wages by encourage ing emigration teach them self respect by a good education then with good food te temperance erin and a sense of duty you may make tiem them the bravest and manliest nation in the world |