William Wilberforce

William Wilberforce ex Wiki
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William Wilberforce (24 August 1759 – 29 July 1833) was an English politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. A native of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, he began his political career in 1780, eventually becoming the independent Member of Parliament for Yorkshire (1784–1812). In 1785, he underwent a conversion experience and became an evangelical Christian, which resulted in major changes to his lifestyle and a lifelong concern for reform. In 1787, he came into contact with Thomas Clarkson and a group of anti-slave-trade activists, including Granville Sharp, Hannah More and Charles Middleton. They persuaded Wilberforce to take on the cause of abolition, and he soon became one of the leading English abolitionists. He headed the parliamentary campaign against the British slave trade for twenty-six years until the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807.

Wilberforce was convinced of the importance of religion, morality and education. He championed causes and campaigns such as the Society for the Suppression of Vice, British missionary work in India, the creation of a free colony in Sierra Leone, the foundation of the Church Mission Society, and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. His underlying conservatism led him to support politically and socially repressive legislation, and resulted in criticism that he was ignoring injustices at home while campaigning for the enslaved abroad.

In later years, Wilberforce supported the campaign for the complete abolition of slavery, and continued his involvement after 1826, when he resigned from Parliament because of his failing health. That campaign led to the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, which abolished slavery in most of the British Empire; Wilberforce died just three days after hearing that the passage of the Act through Parliament was assured. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, close to his friend William Pitt................

Wilberforce was highly conservative on many political and social issues. He advocated change in society through Christianity and improvement in morals, education and religion, fearing and opposing radical causes and revolution.^[48] The radical writer William Cobbett was among those who attacked what they saw as Wilberforce's hypocrisy in campaigning for better working conditions for slaves while British workers lived in terrible conditions at home.^[156] "Never have you done one single act, in favour of the labourers of this country", he wrote.^[157] Critics noted Wilberforce's support of the suspension of habeas corpus in 1795 and his votes for Pitt's "Gagging Bills", which banned meetings of more than 50 people, allowing speakers to be arrested and imposing harsh penalties on those who attacked the constitution.^[158][159] Wilberforce was opposed to giving workers' rights to organise into unions, in 1799 speaking in favour of the Combination Act, which suppressed trade union activity throughout Britain, and calling unions "a general disease in our society".^[158][160] He also opposed an enquiry into the 1819 Peterloo Massacre in which eleven protesters were killed at a political rally demanding reform.^[161] Concerned about "bad men who wished to produce anarchy and confusion", he approved of the government's Six Acts, which further limited public meetings and seditious writings.^[162][163] Wilberforce's actions led the essayist William Hazlitt to condemn him as one "who preaches vital Christianity to untutored savages, and tolerates its worst abuses in civilised states."^[164]
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His face fitted; his Morals are another matter. You doubt it? See the next one.

 

From Christian humanitarian and Royal Naval officer to venomous anti-White Terrorist The Transformation of the Social Justice Warrior
Junghans
3 January 2018
Not to impugn the integrity or sincerity of Sen’s article, but comparing rotten apples to later rotten apples seems rather banal. In reality, the White self abnegating Negrophiles of the Wilberforce Era were essentially very base, two faced hypocrites. Their supposed “concern” about Negro slavery stood strangely (and pathologically) at odds with their utter disregard for the contemporary Royal Navy press ganging of their own people. And, that is to say nothing about the widespread, abusive exploitation of the British White working class at the time. Right there, under their snobbish, conceited noses. Talk about phony White virtue signaling!

Their sociopathic “concern” about far off Negroes was clearly at odds with their lack of efforts, or “concern” in helping to prevent the oppression and starvation of the (White) Irish, or the evil exploitation of White child labor during the contemporary industrialization period in Britain. The early Abolitionist S.J.W. crowd may not have been as outwardly repulsive as the current S.J.W. freak show, but, sorry to say, they had the same warped, self-destructive mind set.
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Where did Wilberforce's money come from? His family fairly recently had their fingers in the till [ The stripping of Aunt Puss ] but they beat the murder rap [ Murder of Simon Dale ex Wiki ].

 

Murder of Simon Dale ex Wiki
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Simon Dale (17 June 1919 – September 1987) was an English retired architect whose murder in September 1987 remains unsolved. Described as "an eccentric recluse", Dale was found bludgeoned to death in his countryside mansion in Hopton Heath, Shropshire, England. The only suspect, Dale's former wife Baroness Susan de Stempel, was cleared of his murder due to insufficient physical evidence. The case is noted as "one of West Mercia Constabulary's relatively few unsolved murders". Though the investigation did not finish with any convictions, there were successful charges of fraud against de Stempel, two of their children, and her new husband. The possible existence of £12 million worth of gold bars remains in doubt with no proof of their existence.
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Money is the root of all evil. Or is it it just most? The Wiki treads lightly on the murder and theft carried out against Margaret Illingworth, the wife of Albert Illingworth, 1st Baron Illingworth. It mentions The Trials of the Baroness, a 1991 book by Terry Kirby, which seems to have disappeared without trace.

 

The Stripping of Aunt Puss [ 2 FEBRUARY 1991, Page 29 ]
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Mark Archer

 Blood Money The Story Of The Baroness de Stempel Scandal by Kate Wharton  

Ebury Press, f14.99, pp. 192

At Boot Magna it was Nannie Bloggs, Scoop readers will recall, who was said to own 'the money'. She got great delight from telling each member of the family, severally and secretly, that he or she was her heir. Susan Wilberforce, Baroness de Stempel, titled by her second marriage and a descendant of the slave trade reformer, had her own Nannie Bloggs in Lady Margaret Illingworth, her 80-year-old `Aunt Puss'. Nannie Bloggs kept her savings in a red flannel bag under the bolster; Aunt Puss put her half-a-million pounds' worth of antiques in store and lived off her cash and investments in the company of two geriatric helpmates in Kensington. The old lady was ripe for taking, which, not to put too fine a point on it, is what the Baroness did:

There she was one day [ her secretary remembers ], next day she was gone — it just seemed so unbelievable to me. . . She was hijacked! I mean, you don't suddenly come along out of the blue and scoop people up to the other end of the country, together with their belongings and papers, if there wasn't something strange about it — it just, as far as I was concerned, it just wasn't done.

Why didn't she do anything then? If fate spared you from playing the villain in this tragedy it seems to have delivered you up to something much worse, not a curse exactly, more a miasma, a moral sleeping- sickness. No one even slightly connected with the Wilberforces appears to have escaped.

The Baroness had spent her whole life selling what family silver she possessed to make ends meet. Didn't all families behave in the same way, she maintained to the police after her arrest?

Stripped of her finery, Lady Illingworth spent 23 months in a state-run old people's home before she died. She was cremated, despite her wish to be buried alongside her husband in the family mausoleum in Bradford. The staff receiving no instructions, they scattered her ashes in the garden of remembrance. The bill remains unpaid. The Baroness' modest cottage, meanwhile, was so full of chandeliers, antique furniture and oriental carpets that the Baron had to sleep in a tent in the garden. Described as a `con-man' at the trial, he was a far more absurd figure, less grand than a Charlus, more a Politic Would-Be. The marriage of brief but not insignificant convenience to the Baroness lasted barely a year. As the popular press said, when he was arrested at the home of another old flame he was wearing silk pyjamas.

Kate Wharton turns the de Stempel case into a compelling crime thriller. Old- fashioned and 'hammy' (decide now if you dislike sentences beginning 'Light came reluctantly to start the day on Friday 11 September 1987'), reporterish and slick, the book observes a stylistic decorum appropriate to the most up-to-date who- dunnit. The best set-pieces are the pen portraits in court and the visit to the accused in prison. I found it impossible to put down.

The one thing the author underplays is the way the Baroness very nearly got away with it. Had her first husband not been murdered (for which she was tried and acquitted), the police would never have made the fateful call at the cottage they were later to describe as an 'Aladdin's Cave' and no one, astonishing as it may seem, would have been the wiser. There are also two morals to be drawn for Spectator readers. If you are asked to witness a will, which may turn out to be a forgery, read it first (the de Stempels chose witnesses who considered it impolite to do so), and remember it is only legal if you witness the will-maker sign it. If you are forging a will, on the other hand, don't get caught.
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It was all about money. Did they care about the honest Working Man? Absolutely no chance.

 

"Two-Penny Trash" (1812–1817)
By 1815 the tax on newspapers had reached four pence a copy. As few people could afford to pay six or seven pence for a daily newspaper, the tax restricted the circulation of most journals to those with fairly high incomes. Cobbett could sell only about a thousand copies a week. Nonetheless, he began criticising William Wilberforce for endorsing the Corn Laws, for his personal wealth and opposition to bull and bear-baiting, and particularly for his approval of "the fat and lazy and laughing and singing negroes".^[61]

In 1816 Cobbett began publishing the Political Register as a pamphlet. It now sold for only two pence and soon had a circulation of 40,000. Critics termed it "two-penny trash", a phrase Cobbett adopted.^[1] It became the main newspaper read by the working class. Radical campaigner Samuel Bamford later wrote:

At this time the writings of William Cobbett suddenly became of great authority; they were read on nearly every cottage hearth in the manufacturing districts of South Lancashire, in those of Leicester, Derby, and Nottingham; also in many of the Scottish manufacturing towns. Their influence was speedily visible. He directed his readers to the true cause of their sufferings—misgovernment; and to its proper corrective—parliamentary reform.^[62][63][64]

This made Cobbett a dangerous man. In 1817, he became aware that the government was planning to arrest him for sedition. With the government intending to suspend habeas corpus, and fearing arrest for his arguably seditious writings, Cobbett again fled to the United States.^[22] On Wednesday 27 March 1817, he embarked at Liverpool for New York on the ship Importer, with D. Ogden as master, accompanied by his two eldest sons, William and John.