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THE STAB OF FREEDOM SATURDAY, JUI-Y 10, 1853.
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rr rit refused even to consider either the real causes or Lhefcbe means of prevention , we need not dwell upon . It iidaided the landlords to starve the peasantry by the miknillion , and it abetted the further depopulation of tfiethe country by the transpof tation ( called emigration ) if of the most valuable portion of the community . It aansame into being on the eve of the European Insurrecwofion ; and throughout that insurrection it offered ttsatself as the complaisant accomplice of tyranny , till tt rit made the name of Britain to stink in Europe . It unprovided for England ' s ' safety * by no act of justice , rtutrat by the revival of an infamous act of Charles the DiDissolute , against treason ; and it , almost to a man ,
oodooked on applaudingly while Lord John Russell iniiedeeently fouled the tomb of his great ancestor , the irifriend of Algernon Sydney . It goaded Ireland to rrarevolt ; it insulted the Colonies , denying jnstico to ihthem , and winking at the dirty tricks and treacheries » fof its Colonial Ministers . It has done its best to Hesever every Colony from the Empire ; delaying self-EGiGovernment for Australia and New Zealand , bung-Ilirling in Canada , blundering in the West Indies , and swrworse than blundering at the Cape . It has helped a sccontinuance of the old villanies in India . It has tti tried a foolish compromise with the masters in the T Ten Hours Question ; it has recklessly carried out iflthe half version of its one true principle—Free Trade
——careless of ruining the "West Indies—careless of saany injustice to our vast agricultural population—( c ; careless , collusively careless , of all the Hudsonian m rascalities of that anomalous issue of Free Trade , Hi fhe giant monopoly of the Railway . It made great tti talk of Sanitary Reform when the cholera was almost Hi in the lobby of the House ; and it allowed some few tt volunteers to make some progress iu the work , taking ic care to cripple them , to prevent any well-organised m national usefulness . It has done its best to prevent It the enfranchisement of the people ; it has condoned if the iniquities of the electoral class , making a rascally ; j pretence of justice in one or two of the most { glaring instances . It has consistently refused Ito take the shackles from the Press . In
i its last moments it has made some legal reforms , i where it could hardly touch without reforming . It ] has put on a House Tax in place of a Window Tax ; : it has had a Crystal Prface ; it has removed Smithfield market ; and it has passed the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill Four years and a half give such results of the genius and industry of ihe Legislature of a great country I Even the ' Times' cannot help exposing its impotence . As to Continental Affairs « Parliament did little except sit still and hope tbat Lord Palmerston knew more about them than it did
itself . Whether it had any plan , whether his lordship had any plan , and whether either Parliament or Palmerston is better satisfied with the suppression than with the outbreak of a dozen revolutions , do not appear in the proceedings of tho British Legislature . ' And at home ' there never was a Parliament which more illustrated the weakness , not merely of statesmen and parties , but of Legislatures themselves . Its labour has been a mere compliance with imperious calls , and its good deeds have been often bo done as to reflect but little honour on the doers . '
We will write then for its epitaph , that never since tbat shabby and unprincipled bargain with a Dutch schemer , which our stupid Constitutionalists prate of as the * Glorious Revolution of 1688 , ' never since that Advent of Whiggery , has there been a Parliament more Whiggisb , more indifferent to principle , more incapable , more wordily worthless , more dishonourable— lhan that fore-damned wretch of a Parliament which has just given up its dirty ghost . If some devil—turned tutelary saint- of Britain for the nonce—had desired , by dint of unpatriotic example , to make the nation f orget all patriotism , by continual display of pettiest expediencies ,
( in any inefficient and discreditable manner , shirking ihe duties of the hour , and escaping inquiry into first principles ) to lead us to systematic neglect of duty and abandonment of principle , by shuffling and sneaking and vacillation , and easy complicity with wrong to demoralise the generation , and accustom us to low aims , and any sort of dishonesty , by which to reach them , —if our tutelary devil had been anxious to discredit even the make believe of free institutions , to lead us through slavishness into slavery , and through national degradation to national ruin , he could have invented no better scheme than tbe putting us under such guardianship—such leading , such
instruction , and example , as have been furnished us by this , late House of Commons , whose begetter was the unprincipled Peel—whose incarnate spirit was the felon natured Russell—whose heir and executor is the recreant Derby , the tool of Disraeli , the apostate , and do not think we have not had a devil . Since faith in God was abjured at Tyburn , when the bones of Cromwell , Bradshsw , and Ireton , hung gloriously on the gallows , we have bat stooped to anothe worship , the Whig worship of expediency , the con " stitutional compromise , the contentment with what shall serve ' our time . ' The strong and once holy life of England has been Popefied by the Devil of
Whigish , and our history through all the sorry chapters of our « illustrious House of Brunswick , ' has been one long disgusting tale of the manifold manifestations of governmental scoundreldotn . Let ns pray that nothing can be worse than this last . The Parliament that sold European liberty for a Cobdenish mess of trade—which agreed to the outrage upon Rome , and { fee intervention against Hungary—which , petted Palmerston , aud put up with Malmesbnry ; the parliament which even Jacob Bell could rebuke as hypocritically puritan , which dabbled in famine and in Hudson scrip ; the parliament , In which , from first to last , not one great principle has been enunciated or referred to , scarcely even by
an individual member , unless indeed b y some Tory sneering at the inconsistencies of his opponents Such a parliament we-well may hope must be the Tery wfefeest aad the worst . We may hope , but with what chance for hope ? Your new parliament will be the same . Some little shifting of seats , some little difference of arrangement in the bill of costs ( for election expenses ) , here and there some new man of the old sort , another mask : that will be all . If the next parliament is to he less infamous than the last it will be through the permission of circumstances ; not through , any possibility ofinherent virtue . And vrbj ? Because after allow talk this deadparliasaeat was , and this new ( perhaps still-born ) parliament wll bp , the real representative of the nation . If we did not ' ehoose it , we . chose to suffer it . If we did
not umte it , we let it stay . If we did not like , it we lumped it , like the hoy with his nasty dumpling . We made occasional wry faces , cried out pathetically—1 How nasty !'—but we had bo strength of will , and therefore no strength of arm to fling the nastiness far from us . We swallowed it and grumbled . It is John Ban ' s usual remedy , and has always been equally effectire . The government we have is what we df serve . Its Tory tyrants are the fit governors for slaves ; its Whig swindlers the fit representatives of those who cannot even be honest to themselves . Even the best of our Radical members typify well , —in their ignorance of first principles , in their narrow individualisms , in their wordiness , in their anarchical tendencies , in the inconsistencies of their actions , in their utter want of faith , and in their aversion to anything
like discipline and organisation , —the conduct of those most radical outside . While working men subscribe to statues for Peel rather than for European freedom while any catch word can draw them to the nestings ; while Carlisle Chartists can vote for a murderer and a branded knave ; while Ernest Jones nuns followers ; while our wiia Leaders cannot make ? rnf * - " m ^ 3 to wnstitutionalism or communism , to Chartism or the household dodge ; while Our Measonergtm only teach us politeness and to believe m not hing ; while any « social' experiment to put an ena to the mischiefs of competition , by combining to fi » m rt , anPrecedented prices , ' may detach men r iafi £ - * Si * ft ? w , td P ™^ course of political ^ fcS 0 tl ^ 0 ne 8 ttest J rord *&*>* « V Vet of •^ I ^^ rsJS *? - pro , ! ? a scHsm > aad 4 «> » ise ¦ -- . ¦ : v . /" : ' ^^ ' Atheism , aud the Gosoelof
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GOLD ! GOLD ! GOLD ! MA . TIONA . L GIFT SOCIETY x \ son EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA , Ofiice , 13 , Tott ° oham-court ( thirteen doors from Tottenham-courtroad ) , New-road , St . Pancras , London . The late gold discoveries in Australia , and the great want of labour experienced iu both the airricultural and commercial districts consequent on that fact , calling loudly for an extension of the means of emigration 10 that country , it is proposed that a number of working men should associate together , and by the guts of ONE SHILMNG EACH , A ce : tain number should be enabled without expense to themselves to receive a
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THE FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE . A few complete sets of the Fbiesd of the People of 1852 , stitched In a wrapper , are on sale . Price One Shilling and Sixpence each set . Odd numbers to complete sets to be had of the publisher . THE RED REPUBLICAN AND FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE . ( First Series . ) A very few sets cf the Red Republican and Fbiend of the Peofj < e , 1851 , neatly bound in cloth , one vol ., price 6 s . Gd ., may be hud oi the publisher . London ; James Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Head-passage , Paternoster row .
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Social Beiwk > k . — -The Literary and Scientific Institution , Jobnstreet , Fitzroy-square , having been closed three weeks daring repair . ' , tbe committee intend celebrating the reopening of their ex . cellent Institution by a Public Tea Party and soiree on Sunday . July 18 th . We trust the Friends of Progress of all shades of opinion will rally to what riomisea to be a most interesting and delightful Festival . Monies Received fob the Refugees . —Galichiels , per Walter Sanderson , 4 s—J Taylor , lg 4 (? . JS * The members of the Democratic Refugee Coromi ' tee are requested * toasseinWeatfheriusualpIaceofmeelingon Wednesday evening next . Henbf Westis , Redhill . —Your communication arrived too late for insertion in last Saturday's' Star of Freedom . ' Feank Gbant , Shelton . —Many thanks for your good wishes . We sbiU be glad of your favours . Theological Catechism . —As a pendant to tbe case of Magisterial
Bigotry and Intolerance , recorded in our columns tbe week before last , A Mechanic and Subscriber" writes to say that the Bishop of Oxford has refused to admit into the Church a poor curate , resMent at Cookham , in consequence of tbe inability of the latter to satisfactorily answer the followinc questions : — ' What amount of grace , if any , does a child receive at baptism ? If not any , why not ? ' Most of onr readers will agree with our correspondentthis is exceedingly rich . If tbe Bishop of Oxford be . a type of Ms class , and we do not doubt bat that he is , it shows what a small degree of intellect is possessed by the men who have now tbe di . rection of the national affairs « Every dog has his day , ' says tbe proverb . It will be hard if the dog dats never end , 1 . F . KEB , —The work shall have our attention , .... W . H . D . —Many thanks . But we are over-crowded with election matter . M . Jons . —We will endeavour to get the report . Alleged Unfairness of a Count ? Coubt Judge . —A correspondent requests insertion of the following : — 'On the 13 th of June an
action for conversion and detention of goods was heard before Serjeant Septimus Bowling , Esq-, at Stokesley . The plaintiff , whose name is "Thomas Barugh , and tbe defendant ' s name Charles Marsh , who was summoned to this court for tbe value of a pianoforte and two or three other trifling articles , alleged to have been kept back by the above-named defendant , and was represented to be the property of the plaintiff , under a mortgage deed , dated in the year 1812 . John Jackson , Esq ., opened tbe case for the plaintiff J . J . Trevor , Esq ., appeared for tbe defendant . It was contended , for the defence , that the articles claimed were not the property of the plaintiff , and were never mortgaged . It , however , appealed that the defendant , through unfortunate circumstances , had to pass the Insolvent Court , at York , in March , 1851 . After hearing this his honour told tbe defendant that " any man who bad been at York Castle was unworthy of credence , as he knew what they would swear . " To the astonishment of tha Court be gave a verdict for the plaintiff , j £ 25 18 s Cd . damages and costs—four times the value oi the goods sought lobe recovered . '
The Stab Of Freedom Saturday, Jui-Y 10, 1853.
THE STAB OF FREEDOM SATURDAY , JUI-Y 10 , 1853 .
Terrorism In France. It Will He Seen, By...
TERRORISM IN FRANCE . It will he seen , by reference to our Paris correspondent ' s letter , that in unhappy France the work of death , the bloody course of oppression , is proceeding at a rapid pace , Few of our readers have not read or heard furious denunciations of the' Reign of Terror' daring the first French Revolution . Few have not heard the statement , a thousand times repeated , that the Jacobins were a blood thirsty set of wretches , desirons
only of liberty to do evil , and inspired with an unconquerable love for the destruction of human life . They have heard too , of the September massacres , when the political prisoners in Paris were slaughtered by the enraged people . Is would be well , however , if those who denounce Robespierre , and Marat , and St . Just , would study the history of the period , before they ventured to . pour forth maledictions upon men who . may have had faults—and what man has none ? but who were also possessed of great and endearing virtues—virtues calculated to win the esteem and the admiration of all the . peoples of the earth .
There are men , who , from whatever cause , cannot find it in their hearts , or to their interests , to laud Louis Bonaparte , the present Dictator of France . Some of them think thsmeeltea learned , well read in history , and capable o f judging on all political systems , governments , and creeds . Many of these in the heat of their anti-BoNAPARiisT indignation , have dared to place the Dutch bastard—the mad hero of Strasbourg and Boulongue , the great bandit captain of the 2 nd of December , in comparison with the Thennidorean martyrs of the Democratic Republicans of ' 94 .
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^^^ m ^ m ^ e W ^^ f ^ i ^^^^ haveneWkcowrj ^ did } ^? " not feel lwuna ? : tOcprot 6 flt against the namisof the noble martyrs ? for the . cause of humanity being placed in juxtaposition with ; that of the most ignoble and cowardly robber ; that ever disgraced the annals of a nation . What was called tho reign of terror in ' 93-4 , was indeed a reign of terror to ail parties , to ihe virtuous as to the evil doer . To the former , there was the continual fear of the intrigues of the enemies of tho nation , to the latter was the not less fear of the punishment due to them for their misdeeds . Universal then , was tbe terrorbut not so the blame . The p lotters against ^^ t ^
, the Republic well merited a thousand deaths ; for they conspired as robbers , and as murderers—robbers and murderers of the deepest dye . They did not seek the propert y or the life of individuals merely , they sought the property and the life of the very nation itself . Where then is the resemblance between these men , the enemies of their nation , and of their nation ' s life and liberty , and the victims of the oppression o f the triumphant criminal of to-day ¦? Now is the reverse of ' 03 . Then the free though threatened nation was master of itself , and could crush the selfish intriguers who , f or the most beastly self-niterestedness , were endeavouring to place fetters upon their country , that they might sell it to the stranger , the
tyrant , or the knave . Now it is different . One man has enthralled the nation , selfishness is triumphant , and virtue and patriotism are scourged . The massacre of September was a terrible , nay , a horrible deed ; but Us victims were traitors , unprincipled and unscrupulous enemies of their country , which they had done their best to fetter and degrade for the gold of f oreign tyrants , and liberty-hating monarchies and aristocracies . The dear-bought freedom of the French people was endangered by the presence of invading hordes , who bad been brought into the territories of the Republic in great part through the exertions of the doomed of September . These undoubtedly deserved death , and death they did receive . But how did the victims of the December massacre deserve to
die 1 They were not intriguing enemies of the people , but defenders of the people ' s right .. For sixty years Democracy has been taunted by loyalists and Aristocrats with the death of the reactionary plotters of 1793 , while not a word have they to say against the slaughterers of the defenders of liberty and law , on the boulevards , and in the streets of Paris , iri December , 1851 . Every great and noble mind in France is falling a victim to the insatiable cruelty and blood-thirstiness of this inhuman monster . Above two thousand of
the best men in the country have been already transported , during the present year . These , however , are but a trifle to the numbers who were shot by the drunken soldiers during the struggle in December , in Paris and in the provinces , and the far greater number who were murdered in cold blood after the victory . One would think that at the very thought o f the atrocities that have been perpetrated , every Frenchman would rush into the streets , determined to die also , or free his country from its shameful degradation , and to avenge the crimes that have been committed by the tyrant Bonaparte and his accomplices .
But we fear that in France , as in Britain , there exists a shameful amount of apathy on the part of numbers of the people , an apathy which it will take much injustice and many crimes to remove . -Bonaparte no doubt thinks so , or that he has already destroyed so many of the determined and unflinching enemies of tyranny , that he may , without fear , indulge his inclinations for cruelty and bloodshed . Accordingly he has raised anew the political scaffold ; the axe of the guillotine has already been stained with Republican blood , and a number of other defenders of justice and freedom are condemned to be sacrificed in like manner to the hatred and
revenge of the perjured usurper . It was shame enough for par country , and grief enough for the friends of freedom here , when British ; Statesmen and Legislators , and those whom the people at least suffer , if they do not will , to be our rulers , sung the praises of a perjurer , a robber , and an assassin ; but still greater infamy it is when the Liberal ' Sir' Robert Peel , at the very moment the object of hisadmiration is raising the instrument by which a continued series of cold blooded murders are to be effected , declares from the hustings , to the electors of Tamworth , that ' Louis Bonaparte fulfills his mission , that he has been raised to Ms present position by
the voice of the people—by the voice of God ! ' It is an impudent falsehood . Louis Bonaparte has not been raised to the office of oppressor and executioner o f the French people , by that people , or by God . He has , for a time , become so by force or by fraud ; but no more by the voice of the people , than the immoral and unprincipled 'Sir' R . Peel has been deputed by the British people to be their representative , or to express their feelings with regard to the traitor Bonaparte . We feel asrured that the day is not far distant when the protege of * Sir' R . Peel , the murderer o f so many of the noble and patriotic sons of France , will himself expiate his numerous crimes upon that scaffold which he has not vainlv laboured to set un .
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" PROTECTION" v " PREE-TRADE . " Our readers will have heard the anecdote of the Kentuckian and Indian who went out shooting one day , the produce of their sport being a turkey and a crow ; on their division of the spoil , the Kentuckian plied his cunning sophistry to bewilder the poor unsophisticated Indian in the following . manner , 'Now , ' aid the Kentuckian , ' I will have the Turkey and you shall have the Crow ; or you shall take the Crow and I will take the Turkey . ' . 'It ' sounds very well , ' said the puzzled Indian , ' But somehow you al way ' s get the Turkey , and I always get the Crow . ' This anecdote will serve to illustrate most truthfully
the position of the Working Classes , in their relation to the Protectionists and the Free Traders ; their words and promises sound very well , but somehow they always get the Turkey , and we the Crow . With us it is not a question whether ' Protection * is good , or * Free Trade' better , we who have no power to ensure to ourselves the fruits of either ! And though the' whippers-in' for Protection' and' Free Trade' may succeed in lashing the popular waves into foam and fury , tbe tide of Progress will make little or no advance for us , toward sweeping away the barriers of Wrong and Oppression , which we have to destroy in our conflict for freedom , and the
rights of men . 'Protection' and 'Free Trade , ' as at present understood , are simply the expression of the conflicting interests of the ; ' Agricultural and . Manufacturing powers ; it matters little to the Working man which is predominant , so long as his interest is not protected , and his freedom is not guaranteed . Some good has been accomplished by the Repeal of the Corn Laws , because , in some instances the wages of the Workers have not been reduced in the ratio that bread has been cheapened ; but even in these instances the Working man has no power to ensure the continuation of those wages . The present elec tion is a struggle between Capitalists who fight each
other by the mutual cheapening of the labour they employ . B y giving our votes or our efforts to either party , we are as surely fi ghting the battle of our enemies , and linking chains for the future of Labour , as though we had shed our blood ^ and offered up our lives , at did our foolish fathers , and shall surely get the crow for our pains . 'Protection' is not likel y to be restored—it is exploded , and what the Americans would term a ' departed coon . ' It will not cajole the ignorant of the Working Classes' as will the fine sound o f Free Trade ; ' it is therefore with the pretensions of Free Trade' we have to deal .
The Free Traders , who are the great bulk of the Middle Classes , are our masters , and will continue so for some time to come * They are indeed the masters of the world . They constitute the power which stands in most direct and deadly antagonism to ns . It is , the liberty oC Labour pitted against the despotism of gold , and between us there is war to the death . They are the masters of our produce , and the whole meaning of our struggle for the Charter lies in our becoming the masters and distributors of the wealth we create ; therefore we have nothW in mmmon
with them . They live by buying and selling , cheating and competing with the materials we have toiled and sweated , hungere d and suff ered to produce , and they squander millions of lives in maintaining a false cheapness and in making their fortunes ; therefore , we can have nothing in common with them . We , the producers of the world ' s wealth , have an interest apart from theirs , who live out of that wealth « rol > us at ; e ? ery turn with a knife at our throats ,
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and make laws to consecrate their robbery . The interest of Labour against the world ! That is our position , and the one alone which we should fight for . We have to produce for ourselves , and reap the full fruiti on of onr industry , instead . of paying to society seven times as muck as we get ourselves , to be allowed to produce , which we are doing at the presnt time : We have to recast society on such principles that the fruit of a man ' s labour shall be the natural reward of his toil . This is the root of the matter , working men , aud neither ' Free Trade' nor * Protection' can probe to that depth . It is inevitable that the Free Traders precede us to power . It is a terrible necessity f or the people to need the stern lesson which they have to teach us ; but that is no reason why we make laws to » tu ;« j . ^
should assist them to bind on the chains which they are forging for us . The tyranny they seek to establish under the guise of Freedom , signifies one of the most horrible despotisms that have ever cursed tho earth . It means unlimited sway to capital in its murderous warfare with Labour . It sets ihe hand of every man against his brother , and renders all our interests antagonistic—it buys and sells us in the world ' s market like cattle ,. because we are driven to undersell each other—it sets man against man , woman against woman , and child against child ; in unnatural strife . It makes the poor infant of tenderest years , toil and wear out its young life to increase the father ' s wages by a few pence , and drives its thousands of victims to the streets and hulks , Do not
let us be deluded , as in the past , with party words , which have nothing in common with Democracy and the interests of Labour .
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IGNORANCE AND INTOLERANCE . It is truly woeful to see the animosity and fanaticism that exists even amongst those religious bodies who boast their utter freedom from it . The recent riots at Stockport in no wise contributes to the honour of Protestants or Protestantism . . The Protestants have always boasted , and , as a general rule , with reason , that they were better educated , more thinking , and therefore infinately more intelligent than their Catholic brethren .
Yet , at Stockport , everything went to prove them every way as ignorant , and not a whit more thinking , and , if possible , more brutal and degraded than their opponents . They , in our opinion , were the real aggressors , and most brutal and barbarous aggressors they were . On one occasion a great number of English beat an old and inoffensive Irishman for a considerable length of time . On another they broke into a house where a poor Irishwoman was lying in bed . Notwithstanding that she had been delivered of a child only a few days previously , she was maltreated by the brutal and unmanly scoundrels , and the roof of the house actually pulled down upon her ! Such conduct as this was mote than blameable , it was absolutely barbarous .
We do not mean to say that the conduct othe Catholics would have been more praiseworthy and less brutal , had they been strong enough to have matched their opponents . We believe them to be as brutal and debased as the other party have shown themselves to be . To us , who believe in the continual moral and intellectual progress of the human race , it is painful , in the last degree , to see large masses of the people , in the year 1852 , a prey to an the ignorance , religious fanaticism , and brutal instincts which characterised the beastly , rabble that constituted the followers of that pitiable madman , Lord George Gordon , in
1 J 80 . Why is this ? These thousands aad tens of thousands of semi-savages have continued to exist in undiminished numbers , — -the place of those who die being filled by their children ; and thus , generation after generation are horn , live , and die , without being visited by a single gleam of reason or intelligence . There is no progress for them ; to these miserable wretches , shrouded for ever in the darkness o f intellectual night , it signifies nothing what discoveries are made in science , philosophy , or art , they can derive but very little , if # ny , benefit from them ; and so all the fruits of knowledge and genius do not exist for them , and are only for the favoured few ..
This is a robbery , a most atrocious robbery , on the part of that favoured few , disguise it as they will . They have no right to profit alone by the knowledge which has been handed down from the past , a grand heritage for all humanity . Had the whole people had their right , the right to participate in the benefits of the conquest of the human mind in all ages , they would be in a very different position from what they are now , and we should have been spared the disgraceful and disgusting exhibition at Stockport last week . But this they have not had ; they have been left to grovel in their degradation , the unreasoning tools of designing and ambitious priestcraft , while the prince , the aristocrat , and the savant , have attended to their own interests or pleasures , and cared nothing for the education of the people .
Who are to be the people ' s educators , since it is only by education that they' can be elevated and ennobled ? Assuredl y not the king or the aristocrat , who have been borne too long as the ' natural leaders of . the people , and who lead them nowhere , aud whose whole endeavours ever have been and still are employed to keep them in ignorance and subjection ; Priests also have been unsuccessfully tried ; they give no education , nor are the people likely to be inT tellectual y improved by such 'leaders' as those who seek mere popularity , even if it be obtained by flattering the superstitions and absurdities . of the most ignorant . No education for the people is not to be
obtained from such as speak of the destruction of a wafer as the 'horror of all horrors J Tbe Holy Sacrament of Redemption , the body and blood of the Saviour violated and trampled in mud ' . 1 ' It is only a Government of the People—a Government composed of the wisest and best in the nation—chosen by all from all , that the people can be really educated . When we have such a Government , the mass of the people will become men , free and enlightened , and not mere tools in the hands of others . Then we shall have no such disgusting scenes as this Stockport riot , f or Intelligence and Fraternal equality will take the place of Ignorance and Intolerance *
Cheltbnhak, July 7.—Political Hostility ...
Cheltbnhak , July 7 . —Political hostility is raging in this town almost to frenzy , between Sir W . Jones , a Derbyite , and the Hon . Craven Berkeley , who would extead the suffrage almost to uuiversal , —making , as he says , the exeluiion the exception and not the rule . The Liberal party having called meetings for the working men , invited the members of our locality te take part , which they did , having resolutions to spsab to embracing universal suffrage , spoken to by Meem Adams , Wilks , and Sharland ; likewise the Ballot , Shortening the duration of Parliaments , Equal Electoral District , and no Property Qualification for Members ; the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge , Social Reform
, ana the Nationality of Italy , Huugavy , and Poland . Other resolutions in praise of , and confidence in , their member was supported by their own friends . We thought it was an offer worth accepting , to be enabled to speak to hundreds of our fellow townsmen on our glorious principles , all arrangements being made for us to do so before some of the upper , and many of the middle classes , with perfect freedom oUpeech , and no reserve . So you see we do not , as the Smashers ^ say . seli ourselves to the middle classes , nor give up oar principles . Our locality met on Sunday , when , alter transacting other business , explaining the points of Hie S , S f « i 25 / ° i A ? ' lS ' fribnd 8 ' secretary was instructed to send 4 s . to the Executive for cards .
Sir Joshua Rcynolds . painted a portrait of Mrs . Billington , the vocalist , representing her as St . Cec * lia-the eyes turned towards heaven listening to a choir of angels , faintly introduced on the upper part of the painting . Haydn , the Sn ' r i ? n er ; 7 w pr ^ e ?^ Ju 8 t » 3 Sir Joshua was giving- it the m JSftSn - i- ' ° ? ' m i l ° Pinion of its me « ts was asked by lfhL . ^ I ? Dgton * ' " *'* esembles you , " said Haydn , "but f . ti fc « ^ UIetude ' Jarful tbat the artist might ™ L ° J ^ - Th V pain . ' continued Haydn , -has SEK y -V , , i , 8 tenin 8 t 0 the 60 Dgs of W ; Ho Sinti" P ^ " f ^ ang ^ listening to your enchant-Ml wmB „ Z « ered & such a compliment , the BeaukisVed him hct ama «> nnd Haydn ' s ncok and
nflft m'JW !?*^ victories over the French and Kffni- ? , madehj 3 »« a > e familiar to all Europe , Irank-S ™ » i B dme wi ! ^ ^ e English and French Ambas-£ if ?» j £ / I !! W 8 ca ° recollect , the following SX Th ! « lV ' ~ b ? ^ English Ambassador , « & n £ - ffi ^ oteftST * W beams enlighten and fructify aZ ^ ' ^ corners of the earth . " The French Ambas-Ifir ' b ! 3 L ! * " 1 n ^ ionar pride , but too polite to disffi XJK 5 l oast . r * nk , " France . -Tbe iloon , whose SStitS I ™\ ° \ iemf rays are tne flight of all nations ^ SSS ? . fffif ?™^ 'i arkM « " . making their dreari-S ™ . ffiSL 1 ? r * , ? ranklin then arose , and with his usual dignity and simplicity , said :- " George Washington , m !& S obeyed ° Sr ' " * ** ¦ " * * " * ^ « . i ^ l < i n A n SI w ^ ? 0 MPANY- -By a parliamentary paper !?»& lS ?? t £ ' « is 8 i / oVn that on the several . eitablnhmentaof the East India Company in . Engkupen * fof a 1 ? er 80 nB ' the 8 alaries and aHowaocesamount to * i ^ 4 , oiV ayear , - ¦
Cheltbnhak, July 7.—Political Hostility ...
the whigst ^^^ to ^ editor of 7 h 7 sta re taSSS ^ tRwU wnicti thoeo names represem . Old w- factl « i « ^ es are inadequate to new wants \? ^ « fi want to say that old principles Me ^« fiJS > "ot mes , for princi ples are indestruct ble anH ? f ° r De * 23 \ r ? V havo kD 0 Wn too ^ fi f a » and too little of nrincinlps ti « of Parties tives of Hitical W ? btr ^ t ^ il 7 ^ attention , and oblige us to wast * J es ° " < % t > me , Which ) but for such obstmctiot - ^ usedto-a greater advantTge Ut , ° ' ' ^ t be 1 here is an anecdote which we ™ m „™ i , beard of the polite and *\ ttjZScb ££££ ^ a person wm one day iu his jw ^ a ^ SSr ^ tremel y pathetic terms , that an acouS " * - Lord LanesbnrnimM - L / L * 7 :. T ^ . ? nC of hi .
_ for Lord Laneshorough and I have been Sfr ' last two years , only we did not choose Zl ^ Now , that , in our judgment . i 8 PTOci « iv « n " >' for all active good' forbears , but they til ^ friends do not choose to own' it . a iL , « ! which we sincerely regret . '• . u ^' - « 3 tan ce We do not , at this time , th inkftncceaa * rv i " much about Tories . They , though not cv U ° ^ their ' death , ' have been so thoroughly 2 ^ V ° by the conservatives , " as to feuuire-uo f , v . i . ed tention . «^ . . . IdUll « at . The Whigs profess to bo alive , full of ' oi , ^ hope , their leader , Lord John Russell , boii" i m few mouths since , Prime Minister of Enahni The term Tory meant Royalist , or on the R . 0 « ' t * i
" uigmeauv / pposiHouist , or opposed to tlm T influence of tho Crown . Whigs have hZ \ courtiers , and , therefore , their ori ginal portion party is entirely changed . The name WluV a applied to the Opposition as a term of opprobrium meaning in that senso , ' sour curds '; and tho » l * has passed into historical fame , its first apnlfcaSS ¦* even now wonderfully correct , the ' Whim' an > ni ' sour curds '; and as such are to men of hoVi appetites unpleasant and unpalatable . Haziht not far astray , when ho said , A Whig ispmiJ ?' what is called a trimmer—that is a coward to \ J sides of the question—who dare not be a knave an honest man , but is a sort of whiffling sWh ' ' cunning , silly , contemptible , unmeaning neeatimTfr the two . He stickles for the letter of tho wnWun with tbe affectation of a prude , and abandons H * principles with the effrontery of a prostitute . ' " 8
The Whigs are the authors of our present system of Excise—a most cunningly devised means by which labour may be highly taxed without the tax-on ™ knowing how or why he pays taxes . A svstom as iniquitous as it is unjust , as ruinous as it is ini quitous The Whigs changed Triennial to Septennial uarlial ments ; and some historians contend that it was tbey who changed Annual to Triennial parliaments , To a certainty they are the authors of the Septennial act In the earlier part of the French W ; ir , the W % clamoured loud and long for Parliamentary Reform
When for a short time they held the reins of Governrnent they forgot all their promises , and , instead of reducing taxes as they professed to be diwousof doing , they actually increased the Income Tax from six and a half to ten per cent . The notorious case of Lord Granville is now all but forgotten ; as it is , however , characteristic of the whole party , we rcprol duce it . Lord Granville held a sinecure place as Auditor of the Exchequer . It was the duty of the Auditor of the Exchequer to keep a sharp look out as to the expenditure of public money . The Whim
required Lord Granville as First Lord of the Treasury , so tbey passed an act to enable his Lordship to hold both situations—and of course to pocket both salaries , thus making Lord Granville Auditor of his own accounts , and paying him £ 4 , 000 a year for his services—a specimen of Whig ' retrenchment and economy ' worthy of its authors . The ancient constitutional law of England does not recognise standing armies as being ' constitutional , ' The Whigs violated that law , aud actuall y brought foreign troops into'Engkud .
The conductofthe Whigs towards the Parliamentary Beformers in 1816 and 1817 is matter of history . With but few exceptions they were bnae , treacherous , and tyrannical . The suspension of tho Habeas Corpus Act , and the enactment of the notorious Six Acts , were openly supported by the majority of the faction .. All readers of history know their corruption and hypocrisy during that unfortunate period iu the history of Radicalism . The dark doings of thcWhiga
in those days caunot bo blotted out : they are written in blood , and he who reads them must he hard of heart if lie can still admire the Whigs . The Whigs rose high in popular estimation in 1830 —because of their 'Liberal' professions they sut * ceeded in getting into office . A reference to * Cobbet ' s Eegister' for 2835 will unfold their conduct when in power . Wo give tho following extract , as sent to us by a friend , having by examination found the facts to be as stated : —
In 1830 there had been some rkting in the South of England amongst the agricultural labourers , but not of an nlarainf cl * racter . In reference to . these , Lord Grey said in ( he House of Lords , ' It is only within the last three hours that we have been installed in our respective offices as members of'his Mnjestj ' s government , and I here declare for myself , and also for my colleagues , that it is my determined resolution , wherever outrages are perpetrated , or excesses committed , to suppress them with sevebiti and vinous !' Jiow hi » Lordship ivns not lonir in manifesting this ' tewity and vigour ; for in a fortnight after this , he issued a special commission to try the rioters , and in one county , his ' severity and vigour' produced the following result : —
Transported , mostly tor ( ifi , one tat fved an & thirtyfiwptnmr Hanged , two . ' Wives bereft of thtir husbands , seueuei / . tftree . Children bereft of their fathers , two hundred a « d / o > ty three . Parents to bewail the loss of their sons , two hundred and ten , Here was '? c « enty and tjfoour' with n vengeance . The reader will bear in mind that hunger was the real cause of these disturbances . The Dorsetshire magli . rat . i bad just raada an allowance of two sEii / MNcis and seven PENCE a . week i ' or o > labouring man to work and live on j and it was proved , upon the trial of the prisoners , that they had to go to work every dnv with cold votalaes in their bags of
food , and had to draw carts like horses " _ In the year 1830 , the Whigs added six thousand men to the standing army ; and at this very moment there were sixtetn Mwnn military < $ mm on half pay . " ff When Lord Grey took office , he declared that ' we will cat o » , with an tttiipaWng hand , all that is not dema ded ! orlheiii ( e" « i the ftonoitr , and the welfare of the country . On the ith Feb .. }» i Iiwd . Althorp said in the House of Commons 'I doubt if we ; Dave » ny equitable right to aboilsh any of the pensions on the civil list . This was the Whigs' cutting down with an unsparing band . ' 'In 1831 , tho WhiM voted an additional £ 12 , 000 a year to tt «
Puchess of Kent ; £ 100 , 000 a ye ? r as a dower for the tJuee " : £ 100 , 000 to half pay officers at Hanover , and other parts abroaa . And £ 50 , 000 for the expenses of the Coronation of U | 1 ' , ™ jJr Fourth , amounting in the whole to more than the whol « ot ! m yoor rates for the wine counties of Bedford , Berkshire , w"J ™ J " land , Huntingdon , Hereford , Monmouth , Northumberland , Ilutwnn , and Westmoreland . ' The career of the Whigs since 1831 mult be knowa to most of our readers . They . passed the New Pt ° Law Amendment Act ; they increased national expenditure ; they introduced the infamous Master ana Servants Bill—a bill which , had it paaned into hv , would have left a working roan no chance of escape from the oppressions of an unjust and exacting e * oi i
ployer . They pensioned their own relatives out »" public purse . In 1839 and 1848 they persecuted tM dupes of their " own spies with a merciless * sev ?" , * and vigour . ' They accepted ' of the Repeal of tne Corn Laws , Lord John Russell ' s celebrated E < J ' { burgh letter being a " well contrived piece of political jockeyism , intended to forestall his rival , Sir Robe " Peel , and was , in fact , a bid for power . The treatment which Ireland has received at the hands of tne
" Whigs , may he summed up in one word— ' C oercion . The Whigs are the most conceited and the mow contemptible of politicians . They talk as if they alone could govern the country . Lord John Bus ^" pouts and frets , and plays the part of ' the sulKT hoy , ' to the infinite amusement and laughter ot » intelligent men ; and when in office he and lus cmleagues by their trimming peddling policy disgust tne
nation . The leading Whigs of the last age were men of genius and courage . "We look in vain among thei successors for the masterly delineations of }> o 110 ; which distinguished Fox-the p hilosop hical acurneu of Sir James Mackintosh—tho 8 PavklinS . tl , Sheridan —the gorgeous eloquence of Burke-- * strai ghtforwardness of Whitbread , or the modest anu manl y bearing of Romilly . Where are the represe " tativosof these great names ? We will not idjJJ the memory of the dead by naming in order tlie o mediocrity and heartless stupidity which the name of the living would suggest . . The fulsoma adnUticm « f the Whig prints , and tM
outrageous impudence of the Whig chiefs have wwj on us , in this emergency , the fulfilment of a pwj duty . We have performed it , and , for the pwjgft loavo the wretched remains of a once powW' ^ JJL ,. cal party to prepare for final dissolution . bHAC ^
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 10, 1852, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_10071852/page/4/
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