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OK THE PROJECTED UNION . EEIS—OB THE UAID I LOTB . rt > r ^ isaByjM « feted in Ste Trea , anlriA oew ^ aper j ^ K Aad by 4 r »« r OtSwidr , o / fer ft * pkytie&Jtmx jeaok&tm of the IriA ¦• Northern Star , - by ft pjnBfctou ofgoventnemQ 0 fairest maid that o ' er w Been , My sweetest Erin , dresstt in green , Thoaartmyeaiiy , onlylovs , AM stfflto thee 111 constant prove . Tii true thy sister , in hear spite , Woa'd fain eonesal thy beauty bright , For she with envy sore it stung , Because ( he ' s old , and thou art young . But tho' she ' s rich ud dresses fine , And her jewels bright do shine , . — —^—~ ^ L ~ Ljs
Still she never can prevail To make my Iotb for Erin fail ; For thou , dear maid , full well I ween , Art fairer far in simple green , Ko jewel ' s lustre e ' er can Tie With my lovely Erin ' s eye—Fall of feeling , full of tenth , Full of the gen . " rcus fire of youth . In rain thy sister shews her wealth , She ne'er can gain my heart by pelf ; Bat then she tells me of the sport Which with her I'd find at Court ; ¦ With this she think * to torn my brain ; And yet she labours all in Tain ; For while I live I era mean
To stay with Bnn dressM in green . She too employs more subtle art , To draw away my faithful heart—Yile slanders tells to wound thy fame , And rob thee of thy honest name . But when thy open mien I Tiew , Sare . well I know thy Tirtue ' s true : Thy simple air , and artless smile , Can ne'er conceal base fasehood ' s guile . Hature has form'd thy face bo fair The image of a heart sincere ; And Nature ' s child thou still hast bees , Dress'd all in her favourite green . But to do mischief still intent , And on my Er in ' s ruin bent ,
This enTiouB aster much I dread , When art cannot her wish bestead ; By force , by brutal force , may try , Toridher of her jealousy . O l yes , my fears too just I find , She means my Erin ' s hands to bind ; That then she may , with barb * rous joy , Her opening beauties all destroy . O ! corns then , Erin , come away , 0 : haste , my lore , nor longer stay . 0 : haste , this cruel sister leave ; Her words are false , her smiles deceive . Union ! she cries , with TipTons breath ; "Union with her—is Erin ' s death . 0 ! come then , Erin , come away , O . ' haste , ay loTe , nor longer stay . See where in yonder golden clouds , The western sun his glory shrouds ,
There lies on Bcrope ' s skirt an Isle , Where cahrre sheds s > genial smile . My Erin thither -will 1 bring , There cull for her the sweets of spring , And when fierce summer Sun ' s inTade , With her 1 'U court the grateful shade , With her the fruits of autumn taste , And shield her from rough winter ' s waste . There envy shall not wound her peace , For there her sister ' s power shall cease . 0 ! come then , Erin , come away , Oi haste , my love , nor longer stay . O ! haste , thy cruel sister leavei Her -words are fal 3 e , her smiles deceive . Union } she cries , triih Tip"rons breath : "Union with her—is Erin ' death . 0 . ' come then , Erin , come away , 01 baste , my Iots , nor longer stay . Z .
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CHESTER CASTLE . Bffl turnkey has retired ; lie Sun has set ; T-ha xnasive bars environ me * nee more . Of Whig conspiracy , my thoughts ; for o ' er Thank Heaven , they cant confine , in the dragnet The world they range wherever slavery reigns ; Although I can but the hard fate deplore , Of such as I . who "bound by tyrants' chains , Would willingly remain for evermore In durance vile , could they to mankind , libertyrestore A year has fled ; since , from my happy hearth , L , by the myrmidons of law was torn , Chained like a felon , made the jest and mirth Of perjured policemen , who would adorn A gibbet post , if they must e ' er be paid What they deserve . The children yet unborn Will rfce in vengeance to appease the «>>«/ i «» 01 those "Who suffer contumely and atom ? OI freedom ' s cause , when shines her glories , dear unshorn .
And rid the savage Whigs think these stone walls Would cure me of the glorious malady Of tMnirag for myself ; or stop the calls Of millions more for genuine liberty ? Ai easy eonW they stay the march of knowledge , As with their voice stop Niagara's falls , Or keep tteir learning all ¦ within the college . S ? . ch ftolish fallacies their minds enthralls , As ffcit we "will be enisled by their Russell ' s or their ilanle ' s "Up , act , awake , ye truly fearless men ; On , persevere , sod never fear a gaol : If we can bear oui sufferings , and again Will strike for freedom , surely you wont quaiL Tidte , determined be to agitate ; Hstb but one win , and then you cannot fail Is carrying out tie great decree of fate , That sll m&nshall be equal ; quick . assail Our foes , and their resistance will them nought avail
Tie world is quaking with the cursed load Of tyrants on her surface ; haste . ' arise ! Join with , each other ; practice every mode Of argument ; make every sacrifice ! A splrl ; seems to say , we " shall succeed , " Sent here to comfort us out of the skies , Thoogh for our families our hearts should bleed . Our persecutors ne ' er shall hear our cries , Though every one of us for love of freedom die *
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TRHI . f tW p AJTD ITS FE 0 TZRED ' OSTBVA 1 TCBS . Thb people of tnia country are more ignorant of the state of Ireland than they are of the state of Mj- forefen countries , and their I g noranoe is « f the won * description , arising from the calumnies of the pwss . The Irish are ever represented aa a treacherous and a heartless race , wMle they possess more leal philanthropy than any other people that we M * d © £ . 53 » iOsiory of the Irish reroiution igainrt English oligarchical despotism has been manufactur e d b y hireling scribes , in ord e r to j u s t i fy th e < m BtrA *> v * B «
murderous oppression of their party . It shall be our task to lay the real causes of the revolution of 1798 before the English people ; and , from incontrovertible facts , they will learn upon whose side oppression and upon whose side too much forbearance las been . We give this week the following extracts from the Beauties of the Press , a work made up of extracts from the Press newspaper , a paper established , by the uncle of Fkabgtjs O'Coraor , for the purpose of giving a tongue to Irish grievances . We commence with a picture of the blessings of civil war and physical-force-class domination drawn by the heanstricken widow of a murdered husband : —
" The following letter , the simple , unadorned and genuine expression of misery , may serre better than the most laboured strains of eloq uence , to shew that the hideous system of Marat was never practised in fall riC / ow , but against the innocent and unresisting Irish % OtSt t ! £ *** ° ~ mment * P °° « ; om hearts are full of tlie sorrows of the poor sufferer-may Hea-Ten comfort her in those afflictions which notamg but the grave can cure . " ^^ " Moyvore , Jane 23 , 1797 . "Dear JAMES ,-Tomy great grief and sorrow I hare to inform you of the untimely end of your two brothers , and alas i deprived me of a good husband . It is tedious to insert all the miseries the enemies to United Irishmen has brought on this neighbourhoodbut
partica-, larly on the town of Moyvore , whew there was forty houses and tenements burned , and levelled to the ground , on Monday night last , totally , by a boy of Pat Ward ' s , who was taken for robbery , and to avoid being shot , turned informer , and brought in guilty and innocent He first discovered whje there was found arms , and that was found true , they gave his speech credit afterwardfl . The same day , after shooting three men , the father and two sons , where they found the arms , they took poor Jack and Harry , together with one Mick Murray , and when they could not get any information from them , after getting the rites « f the church , they were shot on BaUymore- green . We waked them in the Chapel of Moyvorewhen no man
, dare go near us-and applied to the Scullys , to shew us where we would bury them in Moran ' s town , and not one of them would come near us—nor could we get one to- carry them , until Pat Flancgan gave us a bed to carry them to Teaiplepatrick , where we buried them . Harry ' s little effects were saved , bat on account of my going backward and forward to Ballymore , all m ? effects were consumed to ashes , as there was no one to carry them out So , my dear friend , I have no shelter here , and I will impatiently wait your answer , or if you can afford me any relief let me know it , as poor Jack relied on you to relieve his children—so no more at present from your poor disconsolate widow , who subscribes herself your loving sister-in-law ,
" Mast Shith . " We follow this by a story which , told of any other times or people , would have been discredited .
"ANOTHER BLOODY PARSON . "( Who no doubt thinks the war " beneficial to religion and Christianity . ) " Murder most foul , as in the best it 5 s ; But this most foul , strange and unnatural 0 villain , villain , smiling damned villain . " "A few months ago the following atrocity happened in the county of Longford ; we know the truth of the facts now stated and do submit them to this outraged nation . The reverend Mr . M— , a person magistrate , dined at the house of a ilr . Ku—t , near Newtown , and was hospitably entertained ; another gentleman , named F—ns , was present . The parson drank punch , and having mentioned that a man in the neighbouring village had remarkable
good whisky , the servant was dispafcehed at nine at night for a bottle of it ; the poor man went accordingly and " soon returned , and made the bottle into punch for his master's guests ; -when it was finished the parson took his leave , having called for an orderly constable , named Rawlins , who always attended him . He then told Mr . K . that that rased lalluding to the poor servant who had slaved a mile in the dark to procure liquor for this monster ) -was a damned United Irishman , and be must take him up , Mr . K . Temonstratsd , and , as well as Mr . F— , informed Parson Justice M "— that dnring two years he had lived -with him .
he had no tacit ; they keliered him to be a harmless , honest man . Mr . M— insisted on his prisoner going with him ; the gentlemen , after using every remonstrance , and offering bail , were obiig-d to give up the servant Mr . F— was to go part of ihe same road that M— tonk , and accordingly went wi : h him and witness td the horrid transaction that shortly happened ; when they had gone about half a mile , th ^ parson , who had been using every sort of opprobrious language to his prisoner , desired an immediate confession . The poor man eouid not make any , on -which he ordered tho police constable to shoot him . Answer—Not I , really , Sir .
"Then give me your gun—on your knees , villain—I give you but two ir . inut € 3 to pray ! The man fell on his knees and prayed for mercy . The constable and other gentlemen interfered ; but the parson directly shot his victim and left him there . "A coroner ' s inquest found a verdict ; and the Grand Jury of the county Longford found a true bill for wiiful murder ; and yet there has been no trial , end Parson M — is still at large , and no doubt ready to continue the system of murder , burning , and transporting , for the sake of religion and good government : — " Oh ! nation miserable , When shalt thon see thy wholesome days again ? "
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J £ ' *** * " ¦** Ministers demolished tiwNortftem Star ; no paper in Ireland , either from bain * bought up , or $ » < k » adand horror of being destroyed , would Hrtvllah an account of the enormities wbien theee very Mbdrtettfead been committing : whew they not only «« fered a lawless banditti of sworn extirpators to destroy the property , to rase , the habitations , and to drive thousands of ruined families to the most distant parta of the epuntry , ft * want af protection ; but where the strongest suspicion * reited , that th * y had given vaconragoawat to neh diabolical acts ., under the name of loyalty , and the mask of religion ; where toey let loose an emvted soldiery to commit acts ofbutrage which no invading army of any country in Europe would have hare practiced , without violating thowlaws established * < ££ ?' . ^^^ J ' . ? . ! l * ? .. ^ ** . *• Northern
amongst civilized nations ; where the torch had consumed tteir houses and property in entire districts , and nmmary murders had been wantonly perpetrated ; where thousands have been hurried into those multiplied dungeons , and thousands sent to the gallows , on "' swpieim ef being suspected" of Reform and Uni « a ; and above all , where torture has been applied in numerous instances to extort confession , of what by the Insurrection act has been judged worthy of death , but as I read it , by the strictest rules and injunctions of Christian morality has been enforced as a paramount duty . " That torture" which our ancestors held in such in-. veterate abhorrence , that its utter exclusion was esteemed so fundamental a part of our constitutional code , that neither that Stuart , nor his Ministers whose heads
paid the forfeit of the crimes they committed , nor the Ministers of that Stuart who was expelled , durst introduce it I could cite myriads of facts to substantiate the suppression of the publication of these enormous atrocities ; but I will confine myself to the mention of one , which was come within my own knowledge . Whilst I was confined in the Tower , the soldiers who were stationed all around it , fired up at the prison ; and on being asked why they had fired , without having challenged , or any pretext for bo doing , they answered , "thai they had acted according to the orders they got , " As I was the only person confined in the prison , no doubt could remain that these ordure were issued for the purpose of assassination . A gentleman who had been an eye-witness of the attempt , took a statement of facts to
the Evening Pout , which was at that time esteemed the least corrupted papfer in Dublin ; but the Editor told him , that fearing that his house and hia press might exper ience the fate of the Northern Star , he would not insert it ; although the nert day not only that print , but every othtr paper in town , contained an account of the transaction ; in which there was not one word of truth , except the admission that the shots had been fired ! From the moment I was enlarged from the Tower , I determined to free the Prtss from this dastardly thraldom ; that the conduct of those Ministers might be faithfully published ; and whilst a beloved brother is confined in a cell nine feet square , against every form of law , and the plighted faith of this Administration , I take this opportunity to call on Lord
Camden to tell ? ou and the world , what inquiry has been made , or what punishment baa been inflicted , on the perpetrators of an act , which , if broueht home to his Administration , must affix a greater stain on his name , than the ever-memorable days of September have indelibly left on Robespierre and his gang of assassins ; whose government wss supported" by burning of houses ' , destruOia » ofproperly , mas 9 acringthe people , and crowding the galleys and duxgeons . hxit for which he , Kven ROBESpieb he , disdained to employ torture to extort confessions of patriotism , which this sanguinary usurper punished as treason . Whenever it shall happen that one or a few base usurpers shall have seized on a nation ' s civil and political rights ; and that they shall hive sold them to a neighbouring country , in the rankest and
and foulest corruption and treason : whenever it shall happen that to heal religious dissention , to promote universal philanthropy , true Chtistian charity , and national union ; and to establish the imprescriptible right of being represented , which no people can forfeit , shall be punished by lawless or legalised murder ; trust me , the most drowsy conscience , stung by public exposure , will male every effort by bribery , by violence , by persecution , and ev * n , by bludgeon and robbery , to put down the Press . But , in regarding it as the great luminary which has dispelled the darkness in which mankind lay brutalisod , in ignorance , superstition , and slavery—regarding it as that bright constellation , which , by its diffusion of light , is at this moment restoring the nations , amongst whom it has made its appearanceto
, knowledge and freedom ; -whilst 1 can find one single plank of the scattered rights of my country to stand on , I will fix my eyes on the Press , as the Potor-star which is to direct us to the haven of freedom . With these sentiments engraved on my heart ; ali ? e to the honest ambition of serving my country ; regardless whether I am doomed to till by the lingering torture of a solitary dungeon , o * the blow of the assassin ; if the freedom of the press Is to be destroyed , I shall esteem it a proud destiny to be buried under its ruins : But if tbere bo any men m base or so stupid as to imagine that they can usurp or withhold your ciril and political rights ; that they can convert truth into sedition , or patriotism into treason- —if they imagine that this is a period favourable for abridging the freedom of mankind , or
establishing despotic power on the ruins of liberty , let them look round tlitm , and they will find , thataraongat the old and inveterate despotisms in Europe , some have been destroyed , and that the rat aro on the brink of destruction . They , may make mariyrs , and liberty ' s roots -will be fertilised by the blood of the murdered ; but if their deeds and their blunders have not made reflexion a liorror , let them look back on the five years that are passed , and they -will see that they have been the most destructively rapid revolutionists that ever existed ; they -will see that Great Britain and Ireland , from the portion of rights they eDJoyed , which were the nations of Europe -where revolntion was least necessary , and where it might hav « been moat eaaMy saved , are now nearest the danger . But let them n fitct ere it is too late , and it is never too late to abandon a ruinous course , that if they could establish without opposition Mires de
cadict in place of habeas corpus and trial by jury ; ir the galleys and bastiles of despotism could be erected in place of the prisons of law ; if they could abolisk every idea of representation , and establish chambers of registering their requisitions and edicts ; if instead of the press of the nation , they could set up the gazette of the court ; if they could abolish that frrerit constitutional principle that no man could be forced to his own crimination , and establish the terture to extort confession ; they should recollect that , like France , instead of preventing a Revolution , they would bnt create so many powerful causes to oxcite the people to make one ; und whilst tyrannic despots talk so touch of supporting the constitution they hare done so much to destroy , let them remember that if it owes much to obedience , it owes more to Tvsistance ; and that the feelings of a people must determine where crimes and sufferings shall end the one , au'i begin the other . "Arthur O'Connor . "
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ling spies and informers have attempted the lires of omeor on * members , their efforts were rendered ineffectual , by the TirtuouB integrity of those to whom ueu country bad entrusted their condemnation « r acquittal . F *»»»*~» m < w ™ i " ! 2 i ^ fc ' ta ! w made * dee p Impression upon our minds , from our consideration that as our fellow men in IrelandJive nnder the same farm of Qovwnment , and *» , ta fi ^ ct , governed by the same men , we entertain U * e WeU-gtoonded fmt , that what ha * been done in pWAttdjlBaj be done in Britain . TblBweawoonflrmed 2 i ™ we ^ pare ""> systematic exactness between ling spies and Women have attemDtad the ««« « f
tHe measures formerly pursued in Ireland , and thorn now pursuing in GreatBritain . Among you religious dissections have been fomented ; among us , the seeds of distrust have been scattered . But as is commonly the fate of bad men , their measures have recoiled upon themselves , they have strengthened the bond of union among you , till neither hopes , feaw , rewards , or punishments shall ever induce you to forego it , and they have enabled us so clearly to discern the genuine friends of liberty , that no unesse , no glitter of counterfeit patriotism can dazzle our eyes , or mislead our judgment .
"Penal staUtes have been multiplied against us , as well as against you , and those rights hitherto held most sacred have been attacked , yet have we not ceased from our exertions ; we have persevered , and we will persevere , though military law be proclaimed , and trial by jury suspended . Tis true we cannot boast of our sufferings with equal propriety , bufc if circumstances shall place us in a like aituation , we trust wa shall not be found inferior in virtue to the people of Ireland . You have borne individual wrong with unparalleled patience and forbearance ; with a view to promore collective happiness : you have convinced the world that you possess passive ceurage to a great extent , and should the omnipotent voice of necessity call upon you to exert it actively , we doubt not but you will evince that you possess it in as eminent a degree . .
, . "We embrace the present opportunity of appealing to our armed countrymen in Ireland—Soldiers I we have with the deepest concern learned that you have on Borne occasions been induced to vlelate that humanity which -has heretofore characterised British soldiers . Weconyue you by the love , you bear your country , and by- the affection you feel for your relatives , and by every thing tliat ia dear to man , to forbear committing any outrage , however you may be promised protection therein ; we entreat you , if you value the national honour of Great Britain , or the reputation of her arms , to disgrace not the one or sul | y the other , by acts of cruelty or brutality . Remember , Britons , that were it possible for you to descend so vilely low aa to become
the agents of enslaving Ireland , and were it possible for you to sucueed therein , her inhabitants may be made the instruments of subjqgattng the liberty of your country . If you , massacre the Irish , will not the Irish in some measurebe ju&tified . in . retaliating upon the British ? If good offices demand oongenial returns , does not offensive cruelty palliate defensive barbarity ? But why should we predict calamities which we hope will never happen ? You will , we trust , behave with the manly firmness of British soldiers , not the desperate fury of freebooters and assassins ; such conduct will endear you to your relatives and . friends , by convincing them that their happiness is dear to you ; it will * satore peace and liberty to Ireland , and consequently to Great Britain . •¦¦ : ¦¦ . ¦ ¦¦ ¦
"Generous , gallant Nation!—May the present address convince you how truly we sympathize in all your sufferings , and how much wo should , be gratified at being able to alleviate them . May nations bo instructed by your example to mark , the , wily schemes by which governors Induce a people to barter away tb . 8 ir liberty under au idea of presorting pwi-ant quiet ; may tliey learn that " existing circujnataace-i" h ^ ve been the watchword of despotism in alt ages aud in all countries ; and that when a people ones psrSiWts' GoveronWt to violate tho genuine principles of liberty , encroachment -will be grafted upon encrpachment , « vil will grow upon evil , violation will follow violation , and power will engender power , . tiii the liberties of all will be held at . the despotic command of aiyrant or tyrants , who will soon throw away even the mask of law , and undisguisedly violate what they for a while politically seemed to respect and . venerate .
"May yoorgovernora be warned by historic " experience , ' and leara . that governments are niinie for tho ' people , and not the people for governments ; that the voice of God ia always to be gathered from the congregated will of his rational creatures ; that the just TevengBof a people is ever proportioned to the injuries which they have received ; tint the irritated feeltngs of the injured cannot always be repressed : that forbearance beyond a certain point becomes cottarSitse ; that a courageous people may be driven to despafr ; and finally , that an unanimous , and united nation never eau rebel . '
' In thy behalf , oh Ireland ! do we supplicate the great Author of nature ! May ho look with compassion upon tfry miseries ! May h « J wipe away the failing tear from the cheek of affiiction-l May Mbe a "father to the fatherless , " and » foieud to him who has hone to help him . ! Maybe strengthen the feeble , invigorate the weak , encourage the ; timid , unite the disunite ! , energies tho virtuoua , enorvato the Vicidns , paralyse - the efforts of the wicked , and crown Mrith SueceM the struggles of the brave and valiant } Ultimately-w e beseech him to inspire you with that nndaunkd courage and persoverance , which is essential to the attainment and security of rational freedom—that freedom , without which life is only a miserable existence , and death a happy releast from boudage .
" Signed in n .-irae and by order of , the " Loui ' on Corresponding Society , " R . T . CKo $ sBishD , President . " Thomas Evans , Secretary , " Committee Room , London , ' 1 January 30 , i 798 . " - We shall c m | . ! ii ; o lo givo copious extracts each week ; a-w , when nompViui , vv 0 shall have furni . ^ hud ou r u rt -iers rai «' ' ih .- ; country with the best ?! istory of : h « liw ' , rov . ; - . a ^ inst despotism . ^ In this revolution the lamily of O'CoNNOB suffered as much a 3 any family ever suffered , or could suffer from oppression . Next week we ' ehall publish the speech of Arthur O'Connor , delivered in the Irish House of Commons in lJPS ' npon Catholic Emancipation , which may b « iruiv oi ^ d " a Radical
speech ; andono which may bo read us depicting the crievances of both count :-i « 3 at tho r . resent ( lay . Many persons have been led to consider the Irish revolution as a Popish plot ; whereas , \ ve learn from data before us , that of nearl y ono hundred state prisoners , aud many more connected with the revolution , there were only the four following Catholics , named W . James M'Nkvin , a physician - John Cormac , laoe-niOTchant ; John Swikky , a cloth-merchant ; John Sweetman , merchant and brewer . Our blood literally boils as we read of the suffering of the brave , th « generous , and insulted Irish ; nor , should we wonder if their hatred to the Established Clergy was ten-fold as great as it is , as from their atrocities appear to have sprung all the woes of Ireland . But , surely , a day of retribution ia at hand I
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TO THS EDITOR OF THE NOETHKRN STAB . Sib ., —If you would be so kind as to insert in yrur nest brilliant Star tho following letter to the men Of Durham , you will greatly oblige Your obedient Servant , Edward Lawson . East Pasture , Aug . 10 th , 1840 . MESSRS . BYRNE , OWEN , WILLIAMS , AND BINNS , KOW PRISONERS IN DURHAM GAOL FOB RIGHTEOUSNESS' SAKE .
To the Working Men of the County of Durliam , " Respect tioodness , find it where you may . Honour talent -wherever you behold it unasBociatod with vice ; but honotir it most when accompanied with exertion ^ and especially when exerted in the cause or truth and justice ; and , above all things , hold it in honour when it steps forward to protect defenceless innocence against the attacks of powerful guilt "—Cokbttt . Friends and Fellow Countrymen , —To you I appaal , snd shall an appeal be in vain , to the men Of Durham , when mad © in behalf of sufferine humanitv
in the cause of right against wrong , of innocence against guilt , of manliness against barbarism , in behalf of Messrs . Byrne , Owen , and your own Williams and Binns , versus the Whig Magistrates , with Sir Hedwortli Williamson at their bead , the , stupid and demented juries who convicted the in , and . the base fawning , canting , and soulless huinbngs , who feel such exquisite pleasure in th 8 ir incarceration ? No , I know that any appeal , no matter hov ? feeble it may be , will have ite effect , and find a warm response in the breasts of the working men of this county .
You wUl be perfectly well aware that your friends have been put to enor . moua expense by their trials . What with long attorneys' bills , large court dues , witness ' s wages" of attendance , aud otter incidental expenses , make the sum unpaid about £ 30 ; an account of which , w ^ th , every other minuti * . connected with their trials , win be giten to the public as early as possible . The money collected will be ' applied in defrayipg the expenses of all tae . above patriotic gentlemen ; tbat ia , the fund willbe aconimon defence fund for tbemall . Y « u wull know that theix condition in life 1 b not above that « f
working men , ( aafar a ? money is concerned ) , and it will be a tremendous weight for their comparatively narrow shoulders , if they have to bear it alone . But you will not , I am confident , suffer it to be eo . Your worthy friends are allowed to victual themselves if they are able , and will you allow your eloquent and upright defenders of justice and denouncers of injustice , to feed upon Whig skilly , " like your hogs , which nMiseous food for a human being could only be thought of by the infamous Tories , and their more infamous coadjutors , the " base , bloody ,
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and brutal" Whig reforming faction . You can , by a little exertion , raiso a subscription to pay their Court dues , lawyers' fees , and so on ( and this vask sum of £ 30 to be pard merely for the JtfBdn *» of the Juries who convicted them , and sent them to such a pleasure able abode ) and to enable them to live on proper food . And will you not make an effort ! Will you not assist with your mites ? Then , I say , most solemnly and emphatically , you will disgrace your character , your manhood , and are fit slaves to be flaeced and scourged by your present implacable and savage tyrants to the end of your lives . But I hope better ; I know better than to imagine that the men who held their hands up for resolutions declarative of rights , and to be a perpetual " wall of fire - between their leaders and the merciless Government ; and who huzzaed by thousands idi ^ i * . MM .. «^ .. v ^
and tens of thousands at the utterance of glowing and impassioned sentiments in favour of the emancipation of British slaves , will allow those leaders to be ruined by pecuniary expenses , when a trifle from each would pay all . Why , 6 , 000 men at a penny each could raise £ 25 , and there ia not a working man in the county who is not obliged , not in humanity , but ia juatux , to aid the subscription . Other societies can raise any given sum of money for almost any purpose , and will you bo the scorn and the laughing-stock of others by the smallness of your collections ? But the fact is this , all the expenses fall upon , a very imall section , whUe the mass seem to think that holding up their hands , aud bawling at meetings , are all that they have to do for the obtaining of the CsJu&YtCl * *
Men of Durham , the everlasting complaint against you is that you allow your leaders to be sacrificed ; prove the accusation to be false , by aiding subscriptions in your towns and villages , with an honest and a manly zeal Coal-miners of Durham , what is the crime of Williams and Binns ? Their crime is travelling amidst the lashings of winter storms , and tho burnings of summer heats , to denounce your wrongs , and teach you your rights ; their powerful declamations against the ' Oppressor ' s wrong , and the proud man ' s contumely ;" their showing up the tyranny of your " Coal Pit Kings ; " and , in the beautiful words of my motto , thei * " stepping forward to protect defenceless innocence against the attacks of powerful guilt "
This , you will exclaim , is no crime . Morally , it is only not a crime , but a praiseworthy deed ; and instead of being visited with punishment , ought to be rewarded as the best of excellent actions . So common sense says . But I assure you it ia the most heinous crime that can be committed , in the eyes of those abortions of the creation , under whose iron rule you have the misfortune to live . What have they gained by the agitation ? Nothing ! The agitation to them has been a dead loss , for they aro nearly swamped by pecuniary difficulties incidental to
such trials , and immured in a prison . They can bear their imprisonment without reputing for the glorious cause of liberty ; but you must come to their aid by your pence , or they are ruined . If Williams and Binns had used the same energy and never-tiring zeal in almost any business , they would have been differently situated ; but their great love of mankind , Cheir love Of working men , has placed them in their present condition . Yon who have been charmed by the iiupasaioned elequence of Binns , and the heavenly and sublime logic of "Williams , I say aid the subscription .
¦ Will the men of South Durham not aseist their brave and undeviating apostle ? I know you will , because you know bis sterling worths An attempt was made by Nature ' s paupers , the Whig Government , to . seduce your friends from their allegiance to you , to their country , and to their God . Did they , for a moment attead to the temptations of the Whig eyrens ? No 5 they scornfully and manfully declared that they would support the cause of the people ( Which is the cause of God ) to thei * dying day .
Their treatment in gaol 5 s much better than the vast ^ otUy pt . Chartists who are imprisoned for what is called political " offences . ' But they are , notwithstanding , surrounded with large locks , iron bars , aud spiea The friends of those four gentlemen would read an excellent and effective lesson to those who wished to silence and ruin them , if they would Visit them by tens , twenties , and fifties at a time . There would be admittance for alL .. . ... ; r : . You bava-jreadj , and read with enthusiasm , ¦ of the " glorious demonstrations" of the people of Birmingham and London , in favour of two working men , Messrs . Lotvett and Collins "; and will you , the working men of this county ; force your friends to bd tied down by the chains of a debt ( your debt as much as theirs ) , and -to be compelled to live upon " skilly , " wh 6 n a ¦ mere triflo fromeach' e < rald break that chain to atoms , and cause them to live on proper food for human beings ? No , I am certain you will not
Then set to work in your towns , your villages , and your hamlets ; and you will gratify every son of liberty , peace , plenty , and happiness , but none more than Your obedient servant , - ¦ _ ... Edward Lawson . East Pasture , near Coxhoe , August 10 th , 1840 . , P . S . Subscriptions will be received by Mr . Nattrass , of Coxhoe ; Mr . Shipley , of Comforth ; Mr . Raco , of Quarrington Hill ; Mr . Wilson , of Cassop Moor ; Mr . Unwin , of Broomside ; and I hope the Defance Committee of Sunuerland will immediately appoint persons at all places in the county to receive muney , at least where Chartism has placed its giant foot E . t . < ifc
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TO THE EDITOR OB THE NORTHERN STAR . Sib , —The following Is a letter I received from the Whig dungeon , Notthallerton ; by giving it insertion in the people ' s paper you will oblige yours , &c Walsinghak Mautim . " House of Correction , Northallerton , "August Uth , 1840 . " DEab BROTHER , —I received yours on yesterday , and was glad to bear of the spirited manner in which the cause of working men was defended in the Commons . I have stated more than once since I came to this house , that I ought notbe treated as other prisoners , who have been convicted of crimes ( for I have always asserted tbat mere words ought not to degrade a fl *" so as to place him on a level with , ty eonunou faion , )
but should I be confined in this mansion for the ensuing winter , I will have matter HUfflcient to enable me to a * k for inquiry . I could « btain one from the Horn * Office at present , but it would be of no utility ; but if I am removed from purgatory to the hole under the fire place , ! mean York ; my tongueisstopped . for the answer of Maule would be , "he has been removed six months , why not ask for enquiry when he was confined there . " I ought to have told you that on Tuesday last , I asked the magistrates for a particular favour . You will applaud me for my loyalty when you hear it It was to have our Queen prayed for upon a working day as well as Sunday , for the chaplain , thtugb . he has taken the oath of supremacy , has thought proper to omit her , and he told me that he would not be dictated to by a piiaonec I mutt own that the conduct of the magis
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trates was more clerical than Ms ; in fact , his was quite magisterial My petition has not been granted , so-that It seems as if the sublime prayers of our Liturgy , that are offered up for the Queen , if I am to take Mt Bolus ' s conduct for an example , are all a bottle of smoke . nm \ « raeif you < " * to wrlte again to the Home Office ? My answer is no ! If I am continued here the winter , it will be the means of proving , though injurious to ma , serviceable to my fellow prisoners . "Hoping that you will deem those briefobservations sufficient fora reply , "lam , dear brother , "Yours truly , "William Martin . " Mr . Walsingham Martin , " 39 , Saint Andrew-gate , York . " _^ .. . . ....
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CHARTIST CHRISTIANITY v . LAW CHURCH
. CHRISTIARITY . TO THE REV . FATHERS OP THE PRESBYTERY OF GLASGOW . Gentlemen , —Perceiving in the columns of the Glasgow Ar ^ us of the 6 th instant , your anxiety for tb * immortal souls of the parishioners of St Ann ' s , whom 'ou left like sheep without a shepherd , I take the > liberty of expressing our anxiety for their eternal welfare too , aud , with all due deference to you , I have to acquaint them that we will do . every thing in our power to instruct . and to encourage them Zion ward . Oar church seats are free , tho Gospel Is preached without money aud without price , freely we have received and freely we giye ; come , therefore , we say , and join us in worshipping the one living and true God . . Thus we have not only a profession of our dear Mas * ter , but we are wishful to show to the world that we are sincere ia our professions both towards God and towards man . »
I also take the liberty of offering our services to the Church Burlding Society ; we will Bupply any of their vacant churches without money and without price , if they only give' us due notice , which we think would soon relieve them from many of their present pecuniary embarrassments . This is no vague supposition of you ; compare the drawings of St . Ann ' s , previous to our occupancy , With those of it at present , you will see that our preachers are by far the most popular and the most likely to relieve them . . " ¦ , If then you should consider the above worthy of your notice , you can state in reply to me , aud I will lay your communication before our committee . ' I remain ,
Gentlemen , Your obedient Servant , W . Walker . 21 , George-street ; , Glasgow , 7 th August , 1840 .
Thicks Of Pawnbrokebs.—John Gilbert Cor.
Thicks of Pawnbrokebs . —John Gilbert Cor .
shopman to Mr . Garrat , a pawnbroker in Long-acre , was charged' with obtaining the Bum of 83 , under false pretences , from John Beaven , a private in . the Coldstream Guards . The complainant stated thai on Wednesday last he saw a watch key exhibited in Mr . Garrett ' a window for sale— -it was ticketed"this fiue . chased gold key , &i . 6 d . ? Witness went into the s ^ iqp and offered 8 a . for it , at the same time stating he was no judge of such articles , and asking : if it was gold ; to which the defendant and two other shopmen replied in the affirmative , saying it was as good gold as any in London . Witness bought tho key on these representations , and gave 83 . for it .
tie afterwards showed it to another pawnbroker , who told him it was brass , and worth about twopence . Charles Wood , a shopman to Mr . Lightmore , a pawnbroker , stated that he had examined the key , aud tried it with aqua fortis . It wag mere brass , and not even plated , but was polished in a manner that would deceive the generality of persons . The defendant , in repl y to the charge , denied that he was the poreon who actually sold the key , but said that it was slightly plated with gold , quite sufficiently to justify him in calling it a gold key . Mr . Hall'You mean there is just enough gold about it to swear by . " Defendant— "There is enough gold to warrant me in calling it a gold key . He (
complainant ) could not expect a solid gold key for the money . The manufacture of that key coat 5 a . " Mr . Wooa—* It is not worth two pence . " Defendant—1 1 admit that it h brass very thinly plated with gold . It cost 53 . 6 d . in our acock . " Mr . Hall asked if defendant was willing to return the complainant his money . Defendant said he wap , and immediately handed the complainant 8 s . Mr . Hall— " Now the case is over , I will tell you that I only allowed you to settle it in this way because there is a defect in . tho proof that you were the person tbat sold it . Hau that proof been adduoed 1 would most assuredly
have committed yon for trial . You appear to treat the matter very lightl y , but I consider it a very serious offence . You had better not play these tricks again ; if you do you will tret yourself into a very serious difficulty . " The defendant , who did not at aU relish the worthy Magistrate '? observations , Baid he had done nothing but what was daily practised by half the pawnbrokers in London . Mr . Hall—** And . if any case of this kind is proved before me , I will certainly send tho parties for trial for obtaining monay under false pretences . "
Raising o-iib Wind . —It is disgraceful to the Whigs not to abolish the goandaloua fraud of proroguing Parliament to a day on which it cannot meet , and this , solely with a view of proroguing it when the . Gazette day of meeting arrives , so that further days of Gazette meetings may appear , all of which aro fraudulent , and intended to swindle the p ublic in favour of certain Government officers , file most . rascally monopoly of Great Britain is that of printing the Gazette . The Parliament is prorogued to the 8 th of October , and there is no more ohance , necessity , or possibility of its assembling in October , than there ia of its being summoned to meet at St . Petersbnrgh . "When the 8 th of October arrives another adjournment will take nlace . and
then another , and another , until about five of these dirty tricks put fees into the pockets of the monopolists of tho Gazelle ; and then at last comes out the real day on which Parliament is about to meet . This is not the worst of the case . On all adjournment days the Commissioners of the Crown go through ihe despicable humbug of repairing to the House of Lords in order to meet the assembling Parliament , which they know is not to assemble . For this they take fee 3 . Is riot this gross and scandalous swindling exposed to the people in a most offensive shape ! Parliament always meets at the very latter of January , or the beginning of Febuary , except in years of a General Eleotion . And why publish in the Royal Gazelle ficticious days of meeting , merely to put fees into the pockets of Government siaecurists]— Weekly Dispatch .
KEIGHUTSr . . pEimoiM Feast . —At the celebration , of this feast , which took place on Monday week , many of the inhabitants conducted themselves in a manner that would have disgraced a tribe of savagos . Two iruiterers from Keighley , who attended to sell their fruit , were aesailed towards evening by a large rabbleof what ia there called the respectable part of the inhabitants . This body , amongst whom were Sunday School teachers ,, and others engaged in religious instruction , commenced a species of diversion peculiar to themselves , by pricking their galloway with sticks , and pushingagainst them to foroyr them down . On the men remonstrating with them
on their conduct , a volley of stones was thrown at the horaej and hampers of fruitfby which a great quantity was damaged , which aftpeajred to afford excellent entertainment to the natives . Some of the Sunday School men next stripped their coats oft and challenged battle ; but not meeting with duo e&oouragement , one of the party ( lately tried for his life , for causing the death of a man by kicking him with his dogs ) seized hold of the hone , : * ihile other attempted to seize the men . The poor feliowTm S ± Sf * S ^ . J ^^ ft ^«*! N 5 ^ " * uwu ui ai
"w ^ « , m ou < ne koou . monta *" to effect their escape by making a-audden rush from --si the savages . Amongst M number who attended io-V ?* sell their merchandise , only one person cot off " ' " without injury , whieh was owing to hia being en- ' trenched in a bam , 5 ttB waTls offering ^ tob fotinidabio a resistance to any common attack Oo « f <* tho . - ^^' sufferers had a narrow escape of havl |« bjSB&l « : l * TSr . tail cut off at a DanholmFFsm w ! ob 23 S& ^*^ 1 to&thvmthhinlateusage , bascrnxnas ^ a ^ B ^ ^< the Deuholmites oughttobevisited tfr ^ S ffigm miasionanes wh ^ wsr ^ ndingtheir &s ^^ a ^*^^ n ^ cj ^^ untso ^ ew ^^^ ^ ^<^^ naavasMSt
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Bms to Wp-es .-Make yourself bo agreeable to yonr irarband , thai he will see there 1 b no true happaes absent from his home . Be always becomingly dressed , and have your household and yourself perfecuy elean and comfortable-looking . Bui beware how you Ehow too earnest a desire to keep him at tome , as mem are selfish creatures , and seldom feel Emcn beyond what relates to their personal con-Teaiense . If he thinks yon suspect nim , and are ** Sfig a part , there is an end to all your influence , if your solicitude flows from real affection , so much we better , as yon will be impelled by your love to B ^ dy M 3 -wis&es and tasteswhich is the surest
, way J « i most men to secure their regard for you in retoa . .. Many a man has been mortified , broken wmn , and ruined , by having a slattern for bis wife . } ¥ Tei 7 T 3 Ie that a man becomes intemperate and Jiaoas wbe ^ i his wife is thoroughly neat and tidy ^ ne r person and her house . As long as she is infiriag and tasteful in her appearance , and folly » t"i&sher early attractions , serves nirn -with sweet ted wholesome food , and diffuses an air of comfort * od pnriiy around her , ft is hardly in any husband , tot previously brutalised by vice , to stray from the J * ndise which he creates , in Bearch of happiness diewaere . —Mrs . Maxwell .
l . TDCIATIO . NS OF IXMORTALITT . —Who WOuld USVe Stneipated a butterfly from the form of a caterpilw 1 Who would have recognised in both one . and tile same being , had not experienceproved it to us ! * ai both forms of life are only different periods of toe and the same existence of one and the same ar& , where Ihe organic circle commences anew a ^ responding source . What new forms , then , of ~< £ A > tftil development must be slumbeHng in . the t *» ffl of Nature where hex circle of organic life Epreius wider , and the periods which she succesl ^ elj enTelves , embrace mors than one world ! ^ Pe , then , 0 man ! and prophecy not ; the prize is Before thee ; labour to secure it . Cast from thee * & ** is na-srorthy of shy nature ; aeptre . after truib , g ^ uess , and heavenly beauty , so canst thou not miss "fflie immortal aim . —Herder .
u ^ 41111 ^—A person ' s understanding is as much « owb by the books he reads , as his taste and morals *« oy hifi company . yjjo se who take pains to be singular , have only ^" selves to blame if they should be accounted fcai cnloos . To u&Jgiiie that a weak enemy cannot injure you , ^ 0 btut ve that a spark of fire cannot cause com-Our temper is tried more by trifling crosses than " 1 Sfeat losses fcttsJr * 1 wiihout Kflectinfo ia ^ o saKag wi&otit ^ axpence honestly earned , is worth » shilliuf jj ^? tasies are often checks as powerful as our
otIt ^ 4 st&nding should always be able to eoae the irregularities of an uneven temper . ^ ktQde is only beneficial to the wise and the e J ^ oran ee &nd indolence are die invariable coo-** utsat * of vice aud wickedness . ine friend ships of the world are often oonfedaraj " ^ or leagues of pleasure . » illlkU ? * * * from whatever occasion it may arise , * ° W » of all narrozu m « iiein «_
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These instances of barefaced murder without forms of law are "well supported by the system of judicial assassination evidenced in the following .
" AFFIDAVITS OF THE JURORS ON THE TRIAL OF WILL tAM ORR . " Arthur J ohnson , and Archibald Thompson , two of the jury who were in ? panelled to try "William Orr , depose on the Holy Evangelists , and say , that after they , had retired to their jury-room to consider their Terdict , two bottles of very strong whiskey spirits were conveyed in their jury-room through the -window thereof , and given to , and the greater part thereof , drank by the said jurors , some of whom became very sick , and unwell , which occasioned their vomiting before they gave their verdict . And deponent ( Thompson ) says , that he was , by age and infirmity , and intimidation used to him by Mr . Jame 3 M'Neighton , one of the said jury , induced to concur in said verdict contrary to his opinion . "Sworn before me this twentieth of Sspt . 1797 . in
, " YZLV £ KTON . " AKTHtTR JoHXSO . V , "Aech . Thompson " " George Crooks , of Innischcloujrhlin , in the county of Antrim , farmer , making oath and saith , that hej this deponent , was one of tbe jury who was on the trial of William Orr , who was charged with administering oaths . Deponent saivh , he Va 3 retired tu acquit the same William Orr , but r ' or the representations of Borne of his fellow-jurors , ivho infonne > i this deponent , that in case they , the said jury , rhculd
return a verdict of guilty , the said Wiiiiutn Orr would not be punished with death . Deponent further saith , that if he had at tha . t time knowu , thai the returning a verdict of guilty on the said William Orr would be pnmsbable with death , he , this deponent , in that case , would not have consented to such a verdict , but would have insisted and persevered in returning a verdict of the said William Orr ' not being gnilty . M -Sworn before me this twentieth of S ? pt . 1797 , in court , " Yelterton . " Geoege Crooks . "
To show the entireness of the system by which Ireland has been made what it is , we subjoin
" THE ADDRESS OF ARTHUB OCOXXOH TO THE IRISH NATION . " COTJMTRTHEN , —Since the conviction and sentence passed on the printer of the Press , a clause has been pointed out by the commusrioners of stamps , which lay lurking hi one of the late Parliament ' s acts , unknown , to the lawyers ; -whereby a printer convicted of a libeil shall be deprived of hi * property , in the paper in which it bad been inserted . By this law , in such perfect conformity with all ihe other acts of a Parliament , which in the words of a great and a good man , " has taken more from the liberties , and addtxl more to tbe burdens of the people , " and I may say , stained tbe Statute book with more penal laws , than any Parliament that ever yet existed ; it has become necessary that on the spur of the instant , from this unforeseen clause , another proprietor should come forward to save ths Irish Prest
from heing put down . To perform that sacred office u > this best benefactor of mankind ,. has devolved upon me ; and net assured I will discharge it -with , fidelity to you aud our country , until some one more versed in the business can be procured . Every engine of force and corruption has been employed by these Ministers , into whose hands , unfortunately for tie present peace , and the future repose of the nation , unlimited power has bsen invested , to discover whether I was the proprietor of the Press . Had they sent to me , instead of lavishing your money amongst perjurers , spitse , and informers , J would have told them , what now I tell you ; I did set up the Pnm , though in a legal sense I * -&& not the proprietor ; nor did I look to any remuneration ; and I did so , because from the time tbat , in violation of properry , in subversion of even the appearance of respect for tbe laws , and to destroy not only the freedom of the Pros
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" ADDRES 3 OF THE LONDON CORRESPONDING SOCIETY , TO TH £ JJR 1 SH NATION . " What are fifty , nay , a thousand slaves , ' * To the nerve of a single arm " That strikes for Liberty . " " Brate and Suffering Nation , —The London Corresponding Socu-ty , animated by tl . e desire of promoting universal liberty , and alivo to the general interests of humanity , have beheld with inexpressible regret the enormous cruelties which have with impunity been practised in every corner of your devoted country .
" Jealou ? of the honour of the community of which we are member * , and feeling for the dignity of the British character , we deem it our duty to address and assure you . whatever atrocities may have been committed by misguided men , however the sentiments of the people of this country may have been represented by interested ones , there are few in Britain who do not shudder with horror at a recital ol the sufferings of the Irish people . " Did We rfeaJ that In any foreign country , or at any remote period of antiquity , the governors of a populous and civilized kingdom had laid waste with fire and sword large tracts of land , bad murdered the innocent traveller on the ioad , Lad turned womea , in the agonies of child-birth , naked into the fields at midnight ,
there to behold , with additional pangs , their little all consumed by the fliiues which persecution had kiudkd , and their dearest relatives murdered by sanguinary malice ; whilst others were tortured at the wiil of a licensed banditti—Did we read of all those cruelties , and that they -were exercised , not upon rebels , but under the pretext of preventing rebellion , -we should Bhut the book with horror , and execrate the guilty peijpetrators as monsters , for whose atrocities language had net a Earjie . Yet much do we fear that when the historian of Ireland shall pen the history of the presant times , he wiil , in obedience to truth , be nL-ccsssiutisd to stain its pages with crimes equal to any we have conjectured . Has not popular privilege , upon all occasions ,
been obliged to bow t \\ e obedient head , and bend the suppliant knee to the imperious bohtats of privilege and prerogative ? lias not every barrier between privilege and prerogative been overthrown by power , or overwhelmed by corruption ? Have not thy laws been perverted ? Thy penal statutes extended * to acts to fcrhich justice cannot attach criminality ! Have not Jwies been packed , threatened , and Intoxicated ? Have not Judges received , and caused to be executed , verdicts where malice and prejudice have been proved ? Have not witnesses been permitted to give evidence , whose perjuries were open and manifest ? In fine , has not justice , and the forms of justice , nay , eveu decency , been disregarded ?
" And why has all this inhumanity , this savage barbarity , been committed ? " Because , " say our governors , ' ¦ some men formed societies , calling themselves United Irishmen : who swore in the most solemn manner to persevere in endeavouring to form a brotherhood of affection amongst Irishmen of every religious persuasion , for the purpose of effecting reforms which we do not t ! iiak expedient " These are the crimes of which you are accused , and to support these accusations , fire , torture , and death , are to ravage the once peaceful plains of Ireland . " If to wish for the bappy union of mankind , when their religious opinions shall be no obstacle to tho performance of their moral duties , be criminal , vrs also are guilty ; and if to unite in the cause of Reform upon the broadest basis , be treason , we with you are traitors . " We cannot ( thanks to our more enlightened Rn g ) "h juries ) pursue the analogy further . For though hire-
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FEARQTJS O'CONNOR AND A DAILY PRESS . TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR . Sir ., —For some years past it lias been , the settled conviction of my mind , that while labour remains unrepresented in the daily press it never can acquire representation within . the walls of Parliament : Tories au < t Whigs , property classes of every shade of opinion , know right well that it would be utterly impossible to keep labour still chained down—a despicable , imploring slave , at the mercy and caprice of capital—but by means of the representation given to capital , and the influence it commands in the daily press .
Before the close of the year 1835 the Tories , as a party , would have ceased to exist had it not been for theirownworldlyprudonce , and more than ordinary good luck , in buying up the energUs of the Times newspaper . Look at their position now : a party that seemed all but extinct ( God knows they ought to be what they then seemed to be—but that is not now the question ) can , in the course of five years , not merely lift up its head , but beard both Queen and people in the bargain : and all this new lire , and strength , and vigour , is mainly owing to a daily press .
To mate the matter aa short and m expressive as I well can , 1 would beg of the unrepresented millions to bear in mind , that , however political party men , in either House , may seem t ® attack each other ' s measures , in principle and detail , the political staff of the Chronicle and Times , with their secondaries in the daily press , finally settle the business , and poiBe tho balance of power for their different factions in proportion to their tact and aptitude in managing a series of daily articles , upon any given subject , Whigs and Tories know right well , that if the labour classes are careless about representation in a daiiy press they cannot be very solicitous about electoral rights , as the same amount of political knowledge , sufficient to appreciate the one , would readily establish the other .
But the working classes "will ask—How are we to acquire thia new instrument of power , and how keep it in motion ? Right easily . One penny a week fromsay one million of subscribers , would give to a daily paper ( flvepence a copy ) a circulation of thirty-three thousand a day . Thia immense circulation would enable its proprietor , or joint proprietors , to commaDd the first literary talent in the political market—the moral and political philosopher ; the splendid declalmer ; the satirist , humourist , and wit , all leagued together in the cause of suffering humanity , representing and championing the rights of labour , in what may be well called a people ' s parliament , that is , a national daily press .
Tbe subject is new to the great bulk of the people ; but surely , if the matter were brought fairly before them , they would not—could not be insensible to the many and mighty advantages it would bring within their reach . Why , a daily paper , -with a circulation of thirty-three thousand a day , would not only bring Universal Suffrage within our reach , but would change the face of all Europe in the course of three years . I am , Sir , Your most obedient servant , One of ihe Unrepresented . Clwi-street , Ipswich .
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR . Sir , —The committee who conducted the dinner to Messrs . Lovett and Collins instruct me to express their extreme regret that any event should have occurred at the dinner calculated to give annoyance to the London Correspondent of the Northern Star , and they unani mous ' y disclaim any intention to offer insult either to the Star or its representative ; if such were offered , it was wholly unauthorised by the committee , and is not participated in by them . While so doing , they wish me to notice a complaint ;
in last week's paper , that dt olicate tickets -were sent to other papers , 'While only a k-. ngle one was sent to the Star . The fact is thia , that t * o tickets were sent to such of tho London daily journUa who were thought likely to report the proceedings , and a single ticket to each of the-weekly papers , so that nothing invidious could be intended in the distribution of tickets . Had the committee been aware that more than one reporter would have attended for the Star , they would hav « cheerfully forwarded as many tickets as were required .
The committee are sorry that inconvenience was felt by the reporters ; how that happened it ia not necessary to explain , further than to say it was common to the whole of the reporters present , and certainly was not premeditated , and would gladly have been avoided if it had been foreseen .
Your ob-dient Servant , R . Moore . 20 , Hyde-street , Bloomrtrary , August 15 th , 1840 .
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