But when, in the following year, after a meeting in favour of the Polish insurrection, which was held in St. Martin's Hall under the presidency of Professor Beesly, and at which some of the French delegates of 1862 were present, a committee was appointed to follow up the suggestion, this committee asked Marx to prepare a programme and statutes for the proposed association, and he impressed upon it at its birth the stamp of his own revolutionary socialism.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
The author has not to inquire what is said of his performances in the coffee-houses, where the Wits gathered under the presidency of Addison or Swift.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
Blaine had just been nominated for the presidency by the National Republican Convention.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson