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      I * The Northern Star, January % 1847. ^...

      I * THE NORTHERN STAR , January % 1847 . ^———————————————— - . " - .. ,,, „ . . ¦ ¦ ¦ . ; ; _^ ____——«— , — - — «¦_« _ i » l _« l _—_«_ J—it——3 C 3 = __ gg- ~—¦ ¦' .

      Ttdlldtttal Books Oh Politics, Theology, And Social Progress,

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      Tbe Northern Star Saturday, January 2, 18*7.

      TBE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , JANUARY 2 , 18 * 7 .

      Ireland. Her Social And Political Prospe...

      IRELAND . HER SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PROSPECTS . These are subjects to which , independently of their immediate importance , we have , au especial right to dilate upon , b e cause , unlike the majority of Journals , and especially that edited by a deputy Whig minister , the "We e kl y Chronicle , " the " Star" has predicted the present state of the social and political relations of Ireland , while our friend of the " Chronicle , " in general , foretells events long after they have occurred . This inclement season , and the dreary mniine now raging throughout a fertile land , overflowing with milk and honey , and

      peopled with a generous , industrious , and frugal race , would tempt us to withhold a very critical review of Iri s h p o li t ics , hut for the fact that all thought of social improvement for the last fifteen years has been extinguished by the political blaze , now subdued , but , anon , revived with increased effulgence to suit the temperature of a confiding , patient , but expedant people ; a fact which alone warrants us iu referring to our political and social predictions regarding men and measures in connection with that ill-fated country .

      When the restoration of Hie Whigs to power should have been the watchword of Ireland ' s longlookcd-for opportunity , and while those vigilant and on the spot were tolerating , if not aiding , Mr . O ' Connell in his new policy , we wrote as follows , on the 18 th of Jul y , long before Parliament had been prorogued , Dungarvan disgraced and Ireland dishonoured ; then we wrote—Ireland is not yet in possession of the following fact ' . — Mr . O'Connell , before he left London , entered into a deflnitive treaty with tbe Whigs , the sum and substance ot

      which was that he would go to Ireland and break up the repeal association . Has he not honourably fulfilled his mission ? But , Satan like , while he and his faction reap the reward of their country ' s dishonour , he will contrive to throw the odium of confusion and disturb ance upon those who have been told enough to resist his despotism and adhere to the lesions that he himsel . has Uugbt them . He has sold Ireland once more an . will sell her again , if her sons do not rise as one mat and for ever trample upon a power that has brough disgrace upon the nation and made Ireland a bye . won of contempt throughout the cWiliied world , Had w *

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      been aware that Dungarvan was to have been so dishonoured , if death , certain death , stared us in the face , we would have met the apostate upon the huttings and saved Ireland the dishonour and Dungarvan the dit . grace of so deep , and we fear , so lasting a wound . " Alas , poor country , Almost a / raid to know itself . " Has not this prediction been fulfilled to the letter ? while , as rcgan ' s the social improvements now shadowed forth in the Whig programme , can the most fastidious and critical reader , or our bitterest enemy , dissever what is good in the project from what we have recommended for the last

      fourteen years , enforced in our several letters and speeches , and detailed in our letters to the Irish landlords , written in 1840 , and more minutely de . tailed in our several subsequent works . We take the following programme of Whig intention as regards Ireland , as the uncontradicted feeler of the d a il y organs of that party . Parliament will meet on tbe 19 th of January . * # # * * " We understand , 'therefore , that governmsnt has come to the resolution , at the opening of parliament , to meet the tremendous evils of Irish distress , not by one or two favourite measures , borrowed from any of the political

      monomaniacs of the day , but by a clus'er or series of measures embracing the whole field of ill , granting with generous hand still mora of English wealth to the famished and helpless Irish , but at the same time forcing every class in that country to come forward and contribute V . & energies and its means to a permanent provision of employ and of support to the poor . This cluster of new measures is not a poor law , nor a waste land re . claiming , nor a batch of peasant proprietors , nor an emigration fund , nor a drainage bill ; but it is all these put together—at least , the better part of all these . And it is much more besides .

      "Neither is it intended to suspend or discontinue the laws already in operation , how much soever the facilities created by them have been abused or overdone . The law which places a large fund at the disposal of the landlords to expend in permanent improvements is to be still at their service . The drainage bilU are to be consolidated into one rendered more clear and efficient . The relief committees are still to remain in operation , the immediate payment of the rate render , ing those who administer it , and find so great a portion of the funds , no doubt anxious to return-us fast as possible to a more normal and reproductive mode of em . ploying the poor ..

      " By another law , theaction of the poorhouse will be put forward ns a check to fling back the loiterer , who could rind employ tlsewhere , from burdening relief funds . The workhouse and its test will be put in operation in such districts as will admit of them , But with the repuhive portion of the poor law will bo joined the truly charitable part , which is , that in all cases the infirm and tbe really destitute shall receive instant relief . For this purpose the warden of the poor in Ireland will be assigned the same duties as tbe overseer of the English union . " Emigration will not be overlooked , and the means of it wisely provided . Not only will depots be formed at home , but active and beneficent preparations will be mai e in the colonies , so as to ensure those who wish to emigrate against all the risks of the poor , unprovided , and ignorant emigrant .

      " The peculiarity , however , of the present plan of emigration is , that it will be coupled with the choices of settlement at home , " A commission will be issued for the purchase of waste lands , which are to be enclosed , reclaimed , cultivated , and then offered in no large lots for sale , with such facilities as will render them a premium for industry and frugality , and the foundation of a class of Irish jeomen . There is no one who has reflected npon Irish Anarchy , that has not dtsired the extension both of the numbers and the quality of Irish proprietors . For this purpose the soil must be thrown open—not indeed given away to paupers , but offered as a reward and a prize to small capitals amassed by industry .

      • ' The waste lands of Ireland , however , in the proportion in whieh they can be yearly reclaimed , offer but u narrow basis for a class of yeomen . If the waste lanos are uncultivated there are other lands , not waste , that are but half cultivated , and which , iu the hands of the poor , encumbered , embarassed landlord , are as profitless to the community as the bog or the heath . To render these more available , liberty will be given to sell entailed property . If reasons be required for so bold a step , they will be found ample enough in such letters as that of the Marquisof Conyngham , who declares' that his estates are too encumbered for him to improve them , and this at a time when , as the Scotsman observes , the Blessingtou estates have been sold for 27 years' purchase . The sale ol estates , however entailed by their owners to get rid of their embarrassments , cannot fail to open the Irish soil to capital in large and in small inasses . Tbe yeomen wiU have their share .

      Now , we ask the impartial reader , if it is possible to read our letters to the Irish landlords without coming to the conclusion , to the irresistible conclusion , that an embarassed government has been compelled to deal with its greatest " difficulty " upon the very principles , suggestions , and details recommended by an incarcerated rebel . In 1823 we were compelled to fly our country , for thirteen months , for having written a pamphlet recommending five measures for the correction of five Irish grievances ; and , in less than four years , the Saxon Parliament was compelled to admit the existence of those grievances , and to legislate for them , as recommended by the outlaw . Hence , the " CLUSTER

      OF WHIG MEASURES" are " NOT BORROWED FROM ANY OF THE POLITICAL MONOMANIACS OF THE DAY , " but they are a leaf stolen from the book of the OUTLAWED 1 NCARCERATE D CHARTIST . When the advocates of the large farm system were thinning the agricultural population , and driving the healthy mountaineers and Highlanders into loathsome cellars in unwholesome towns , we averred that from north to south , from east to west , from

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      John O'Groats to Land's-end , fifty acres could not he found lying together , cultivated to one-fifth part of their capability . We averred that the waste lands were but ihe cold meat in the larder , which should be reclaimed by capitalists employing hired labour , at a standard established in the free-labour market . We averred that the superior cultivation of our now slovenly cultivated soil , would require three times the amount of our present population .

      We averred that famine , poverty , and distress would break down all the aristocratic barriers , with which oppression , monopoly , and tyranny , bad fenced the uncultivated wilds of a new race of feudal upstarts . We averred that the Irish landlords , skulking their duty and neglecting their trust , would be compelled to surrender their estates to government management , for the establishment of a small proprietary class .

      We averred that money should be generously and lavishly advanced for the accomplishment of this desirable object , showing that every million advanc e d , at an interest cheerfully paid , would leave a surplus of £ 20 , 000 per annum for payment of the necessary staff for carrying out the project ; and we estimated the amount at ONE HUNDRED MILLIONS ; thus at one and the same time creating an agricultural capital of that amount , and leaving a residue of Two Millions per annum , to insure its fair and impartial expenditure , and the punctual pavment of the interest .

      We averred that if God ' s gift to man was too circumscribed to secure to each a nest and a labour field , that then , and not till then , we would acquiesce in the necessity of emigration . We averred that the Irish landlords would remain quiescent , sulky and resisting , until , in the hope of saving a part from famine and destitution , created by themselves , they would accept as a gratuity government interference . which , under other circumstances and in the plenitude of their full blown power and audacity , they would resist to the death .

      When we ventured upon these predictions there wa s no f a mine in t he l a nd , nor was the monster on his perceptible march . Nay , at a more recent period , when the FULL-FISTED "Times" was cheering us in July and August last with such prospect of " hot rolls" and " cheap bread" as induced us to deal from hand to mouth with our muffin man and baker ; we answered with the present state o the poor-houses , which we predicted would be too small for the applicants , and when , the impetus to

      be given to agriculture was fancifully pourtrayed by a scribbler in the garret , we predicted that total neglect of all agricultural pursuits , the verification of which has now become the daily subject of newspaper lamentation . "Oh , but , " says the "Economist , ' " this is begging the question , this is a forced straining of the principle ; this has been the result of famine not of Free Trade . " We answer , that if famine had not done it Free Trade was certain to have accomplished it , while , let the cause be what it mav , we have foretold the event .

      A g a in , when the several scribes were sending their cattle drovers all over the habitable globe , or predicting their non-existence , in a garret , pending the discussion upon Peel ' s Cattle Tariff in 1842 , we stood alone , reviled , c o n t emned , and scoffed at in the House of Commons , when Mr . Wakley read our letter praying for a short respite till after Easter , and in which we predicted that the effect of the measure could not be felt until the close of the year 1846 , as no . vote of the senate could compel foreign cows to go to Bull , or foreign cattle to get fat , before a certain age .

      We averred that cattle were commodity of which no nation had a surplus ; but that , the rich market being opened to the untaxed world , would very speedily be glutted with the encouraged produce . We av e rred , that everything which was a substitute for fresh meat would be a competitor against fresh meat . We averred , that a pound duty upon the horns of an untaxed foreign ox was nothing in comparison with the multifarious tax npon the horns of a homegrown beast .

      We averred that the first experiment would be tried on old cows and plough oxen ; and when the " Chronicle" and the " Sun" childishly noticed the expense of transmission as a barrier to extensive commerce , we averred , that a new and extensive traffic would give rise to as extensive a competition in the means of new , improved , and cheap transit . We have lived to the close of 1846 . We are now writing , in the last hour of the last day , and we ask our contemptuous revilers to peruse the import lists of foreign food and live beasts , recentl y admi tt ed b y

      the Tariff of 1842 , and say who were the fools , and who was prophet ? W e shall close our article the last day of the last year of old time with the prediction , that Daniel O'Connell will subscribe to every Whig measure which guarantees government pa t ronage , upon condition that he shall be the recipient and the dispenser of the lion ' s share ; that he will quarter his Young Hannibals and Repeal

      staff upon Ireland ' s young hope , in the hour of Ireland ' s apathy and increasing misery ; and that he will take shelter from the torrent of national indignation , which is sure to follow his treachery and treason , in a SAXON PEERAGE - , while his emancipated coun t rymen , released from the trammels of his inso lence , peculation , and ASSUMED PREJUDICES , will once more rise as a great nation , s t rong e r f o r hi s deceit , and the more s : lf-relying for his treachery .

      The American President's Message. We Bel...

      THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE . We believe that it was the notorious Talleyrand who said '• ' speech was given to roan to conceal , not express , his thoughts ; " so appears to think Mr . President Polk , for his enormous " Message" can onl y have been concocted for the purpose of making

      "the worse appear the better reason , " and hiding from the world the truth which must be evident enough to himself , that his Government is engaged in a most atrocious war of aggression against a weak and injured sister state j a war utterly opposed to those just and benevolent principles on which the United States Republic was professedly founded .

      Seven mortal columns of the " Morning Chronicle" are occupied with that portion of the " Messag e" which is exclusively devoted to a justification of the Mexican war . Of course all through the dispute between the two Republics Mexico has been in the wrong . When did the strong fail to satisfy themselves of that when they desired the destruction of ' the weak ? The English in India , the

      Russians in Poland , and the . French in Africa , have always been in the right , for they have been the vic to rs , and " mig h t makes ri ght . " The United Slates follow in the wake of the old despotisms ; superior force yields victory , and with all the unblushing mendacity which Kings know so well how to emp loy , President Polk , t he u ncrowned , imitates his disreputable fellow-chieftains , aud employs falsehood and hypocrisy te justify pillage and murder .

      Suppose all that President Polk says as to the indebtedness of Mexico to the United States merchants is true , does it become America to play the bully towards her unfortunate debtor ? We have never joined in the senseless clamour ugainst the United States respecting their " repudiations , " on the contrary , we have defended the American people when they have repudiated debts which , without their consent , had been imposed upon them by trafficking politicians and scheming money-mongers , but we must m America should he the last nation

      The American President's Message. We Bel...

      on the face of the earth to make tbe non-payment Of debts , alleged to be due to her by another nation the ground-work for ravaging her neighbour ' s terl ritory with fire and sword . Debtors should not be duns , and Repudiators should he merciful to those who cannot cash up . The Americans laid claim to between four and five millions of dollars against Mexico , the Mexican Commissioners acknowledged to two millions , but because this has not been paid President p ik plunges the country into a war , which can hardly fail to cost the Republic at least twenty times the sum charged against Mexico . Is not this an imitation of the insanities and crimes of Kingship ) Whither is America tending ?

      President Polk a second plea is that " tho an . nexation of Texas to the United States constituted no just cause of offence to Mexico . " It appears to us that , of that Mexico must be tbe best judge ; but passing over that question , we come to the mora im , mediate casus belli , the occupation of the territory between the Nueces and the Rio Grande del Norte , To say the least , this territory was "debateabU ground , " and the presumption is , that it was Mexican and not Texan ground . The occupation of this territory was , theref o re , an act of invasion On the part of the Americans , calculated , and , as wo believe , intended , for the purpose of exciting the Mexicans to an outbreak . The scheme succeeded and then commenced the war of invasion . which has

      thus far resulted in the addition to the Anglo-American republic of an extent of territory exceeding that of the " old thirteen" states of the Union ? But at what cost has this been effected ? At the cost of millions of dollars and thousand * of lives . Some of the murderous horrors of Monterey hare been laid before our readers . Let us add that one of the American officers writes from Monterey that "decencyand shame forbade him to mention what took place after the capture of that city ! ' * See the " brilliant achievements" of these wretches so proudly vaunted by President Polk ! Well may Young America ask , — '" Have Mr . Polk ' and his ad . visers sisters and daughters ? Have they hearts of flesh and blood V

      We have spoken of the pecuniary cost of this war to the United States . In July last the United States treasury had a surplus of nine millions of dollars every cent was long since expended , and a - debt o six millions has already been contracted . ' This ia not all ; the President demands the raising of a LOAN of TrVENTY-THREE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ; and , further , an iscriask of taxation ! It is even said that a TEA TAX is to be imposed ! Have the Americans so ; soon forgotten Boston Harbour and Bunker ' s Hill ? Young America of December 5 th , published three days before the delivery of the President ' s missnge , presents this war and taxes question in the follow . ing light : —

      Only analyxe the idea of sending our unemplojfd Iacklanders to be shot at and to kill women and children in Mexico , because that governmpnt owed money to a few rich speculators among us , who chose to venture their property on the ocean in time of war ! Will the expenses of this most villainous war be paid by a tariff tax or by a direct tax ! Will they bo paid at all ! or will they be converted into a debt to saddle upon us an army of pensioners ? Be advised , Mr . Polk ! Your army have gained three victories , and have rioted almost to their hearts' eontent in blood and rapine ! You can never withdraw them with a better grace than now ! Stop the war , or consign your memory to the execration of posterity !

      This war against Mexico is " a war for the a ° . grandisement of party leaders , for the enrichment of land-speculators , and for the exiension of every form of slavery , " therefore we denounce it ; therefore we condemn President Polk ' s " message . " But "Wait a little longtr ;" the National Reformers will be in the ascendant ere long , and then we shall see the grand reckoning . In our seventh page will be found some very interesting accounts of the progress of this party . Their brief and simple "pledge" is of more importance thin President Polk ' a ten ^ olumn'd " message . " That " pledge" contains the germ of America ' s salvation , and mankind ' s final victory over class-usurpation , political wrong and social injustice .

      Weekly Review. The Note Of Preparation F...

      WEEKLY REVIEW . The note of preparation for the approaching Parliamentary campaign has been sounded by the leaders of the three grea \ parties . Lord John Russell has issued a circular to his supporters , requesting their attendance at the opening of the Session , as business of importance will be immediately proceeded with . Lord Stanley has formally taken up the position of leader of the Protectionist party , and has issued a circular to the members of that party who have seats in the House of Lords , expressing his

      hope that their Lordships will give their attendance at the commencement of the Session . This is the usual course adopted by the recognised leader of a party ; and the fact of Lord Stanley thus publicly coining forward , shows that the Protectionists are determined to fight a stout battle with an organised force . The Conservative party have , it is said , also been summoned by circular , in a man n er whi c h would seem to imply that Sir Robert Peel intends to take the field as a leader of the Opposition . But the " Morning Post" states , that this circular is supposed to have emanated from Messrs . Young and

      Cardwell , ex-Secretaries of the Treasury ; and , t hough purporting to be from Peel , that it has been put forth , not only without his consent , but withou t his knowledge . Indeed , the course which the ex-Premier will take is , at present , matter of great uncertainty . The " Chronicle" states , it is rumoured in well-informed circles , that Lord Lincoln will occupy the most prominent place in the Opposition during the Session . If so , we conclude that it will be bu t temporary ; for we cannot imagine that at the age of fifty-eight , in the full possession of ripe experienc e and unimpaired vigour , Sir Robert intends to retire into the seclusion of Drayton Manor , for the purpose of making improvements and planting cabbages all the remainder of his life . Perhaps this

      temporary concession of so permanent a place to a subalte rn of hi s own p ar t y , and brief retirement for a season of repose , may be part of a prudent and foreseeing policy on the part of an astute statesman By awaiting the subsidence of the troubled and fcr menting elements of party , and leaving the cares of government to confessedly inferior to himself as practicalstatesmen , at a moment when , both at home and abroad , our affairs require the most vigorous , comprehensive , and decided policy , Sir Robert will teach the partizans of selfish and short-sighted leaders , what the country at large is already fully convinced of , namely , that at present he is tho only man capable of effectually grappling with the state of the country . A few conspicuous failures will render even these who are

      now m power anxious to retire , and deter the dilletante , sucking statesmen of the Protectionist parly from aspiring to office . Meanwhile , we understand that the Whigs intend to scramble through the whole Session as quietly as they can , and to raise no great question on which they mig ht be defeated , if they can possibly avoid doing so . Out readers are well aware of their love for place and pay , aud this determination quite squares with the popular idea of their character .

      Bite there is another party whose influence has to be taken into consideration in these speculations as to the political future—THE PEOPLE—as contra-distinguished from all mere sectional organise tions . At the- present moment it may be truly , though sadiy , said , that the masses have but one representative in that House , which , by a cuijioujj misnojtteVia called "the People ' s" and howev

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 2, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_02011847/page/4/