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TO THE INDEPENDENT ELECTOHS OF THE BOROUGH OF NOTTINGHAM.
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THE STAR OF FREEDOM SATURDAY, JUNE 13 , 1853.
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LETTERS FOR WORKING MEN . Ho . TIII .-THB Leh ^ Opeser at Carlisle . TO THE EDITOR OF OT «« OF FREEDOM . Sa . -The ordinary absurdities of British ' repres entation » aw bad enough , but berets an anomaly eyocd the ueaal run . Sir James Graham , of unhappy post-office notoriety , is a candidate for tbe representation of ' Merry Carlisle . ' This is one of those matters of more than local interest , on which
gome words need be said . If Galcraft tbe hangman should , put up for some borough or county , I think it would be rfrht for us to separate the man from bis office , to consider whether he might not be a very estimable politician—very fit to represent many lovers of justice , in spite of bis unpleasant vocation . After all , he is bat an officer of the law , taking rank below a judge— -the honestest not always having precedence If one of Calcraft ' s condemned should by some favour get repr ieved and offer himself at the hustings , we might not ba altogether disgusted at his assurance . The convict is not always the worst member of society . There are robbers , aye , and wilful
menslayers , too , who never had a chance of the gallows neighbourhood , and the escaped convict might find at least some whom he could fitly represent . 2 ? ay , even if a Marquis of Lansdowne could become a commoner , and he candidate for the Lower House , on the strength of the murder of his poor Irish tenant Denis Shea , the other day , certain landlords , certain Ogrish millowners too , for that matter , might very consistently vote for him . But if a Burke or a Hare should pat up for Parliament , I take it tbe true answer to their impudence—if any answer beyond execration could he given , —the true reason for rejecting
their serciees would be that really , with all our vices , there icos nothing for them to represent . So , when a Border Thug , with no fanatical excuse of faith , offers himself for our suffrages , tbe ostracism of contempt should he as universal . Sir James Graham , of 2 < etherby , formerly Home Secretary , stands before Carlisle in the position of a Burke or a Hare . He and Aberdeen may settle between them which . He stands before Carlisle unblushing , hut red with a blood-stain , fooler than that even of the Edinburgh murderers . Hie stands indelibly marked as the spy , the common informer , who led on Neapolitan assassins to the murder of the noble brothers Bandiera . Like
Burke and Hare , he cannot represent any English constituency . Some select Neapolitan constituency might fit him , if his friend King Bomba has a pocket borough , in which the voters were all shirri or assassins , bat he can represent nothing English . Many of his forbears may have been hanged at Carlisle , in old Moss ' s trooping days , for , doubtless , neany an old-fashioned thief of those ' good old times' has helped to fashion the glory which culminated iu our Home Secretary ' s Office in 2844 ; but never a receiver among them but would have held it foul shame to become a sneaking letteropener at the bidding of a foreign bravo . Men of
Carlisle ! cast this unclean thing out from among ^ on . It is needed that we tell our Government , both for its own behoof and for that of its friends , the continental despots , what we English people think of foreign affairs ; but with what face should we rebuke the visits ^ of a Malmasbnry or a Normanby , at tbe Tuileries , or the receptions of a Nicholas , a Haynau , or a Kosas at St . James ' s , if they could point at this creature of the Austrian and Neapolitan police as one of oar representatives ? I have been told that the working men of Carlisle will rote for him . For him . ! the men of that class who spoke England ' s hatred of
infamy in the ears of Haynau ; for him , the men of that class for which the Bandieras bled beneath his Xflife— -for the Republic that the Bandieras sought Iras sot a , class Republic for ' all but about a million ' > -that class for which Mazzini is still an exile ; and watched by the police ; for him , the men of that class which he and all his party would keep down as helots . Can the working men of Carlisle be so besotted ? I trill not believe it . I care not to notice his political qualifications : for the real question is not there . If he could be the professed friend , instead of the proved enemy , of the people—if his political conduct had been as consistent as an honest man's should be—if his
ability was really equal to the composition of those first pamphlets issued in his name , — -still the man remains foul—un-English—unfit to represent au English constituency . The dirty tool of Austrian and Neapolitan villainy is not fit for any English work , however hard we might be put to it . It was an old superstition that tbe blood would rush out from the wounds of the murdered when the murderer dared confront his crime . Let the blood of the
Bandieras choke this Graham on the hustings ; let the execrations of the honest men of Carlisle boot him from that scaffolding which his presence must make a pillory . This may be scandalous . ' Be it eo ! It is true . I shall offend the mealy-mouthed and smooth-mannered . Be it so ! Nevertheless , when the public hangman forgets , or is forbidden , his duty of branding the greater malefactors , the public writer must do his work , however distasteful . I have
sot sought him in any obscurity . He comes in my way He is thrust offensively forward by tho ' Times' as one of a new triumvirate , to succeed tbe Derbies : Eussell , Graham , and Cobden . Belial , Moloch , and Mammon . God deliver ns ! So if he will expose himself , like Barnard Gregory , before ns , it becomes our bonnden duty 'to whip the rascal naked through the world . ' But to turn from him to the question of the elections involved in his address to the electors of Carlisle . We are told ( I care not to repeat the wretch ' s name again ) that the only question for candidates at the hustings should he—Are you against Word Derby ? If so , then you must be eligible . No
other qualification is needed . I say this is not enough . It is very far from enough . Against Lord Derby . What is that to us ? Keep your factious squabbles to yourselves . "What is it to the people that tbe ' Free' Traders are disappointed at the Ministry hosing given tip Protection 1 Of course not disappointed at Protection being surely given up ; hut disappointed at the prospect of the people , seeing that too soon—seeing it before them , the 'Free ' Traders , have used a sham-fear of Protection to get themselves brought into power . Nay , let us not play catspaw quite so softly . The woolsack must be a cotton-bag yet , before tbe People ' s Cromwell shall lack out the Manchester Ramp : but let us not help
Manchester to the place of power . Answer , all you Brtizans who know what reduced wages mean , why should yon choose the millowners even in preference to the landlords ? Oh but ' vote fora Tory—let a Tory in !* Do not vote for him ; and do not vote ei : her for his fellow , the Whig , of whatever denomination . Vote for neither ; let them fight their own battles . Do yoa treat them both as enemies ; and gather your power against the day , when feudalism being laid with its fetters , 'Free' Trade , the new monopolist , shall he your master . You will need strength then . Now , every blow you strike for the trade faction is welding the iron for your own fetters . And you will find the new tyrants with their stronger ' garrison' more intolerable than the old . There
are some , I know , who will say , that this is inexplicably flaying the game of the enemy . The more Bhortsighted they . It is no longer a question , as in years far hack , of combinations of anything that dears the name of 'Liberals , ' against a rampant Toryism . Toryism is dying out . The Lib . rals . ( I beg pardon ) , the Moderate Liberals , have left ns i they hare coalesced with tyranny . It is now simply two sorts of tyrants-Tory or Whi g-Right Divine or Rule of inumb—contending which shall devour the nation ' s carcase . As before , as ever , there must be two
camps ; bat woe to us , if ^ e choose our leaders from volunteers of the other side . A test indeed for the people—LordDrrb y ' sfriend * ' No . ' Whosethen ? Sir , 'My Lord John Sneak ' s . ' It is the same thing . Or 'Mr . Richard DeeiWurt's . ' What is he to us ? Ground between two millstones , it is not enough to find fault wiilrone . No ! no ! Let us , who are of the People ' s party , of the National Party , wear no factious badges , utter no party cry , cast far from ns all the discreditable policies and catchwords of these manoeuvres , keeping straight to our home question—¦ A * 6 ypa for or against the Peopltf What mean you by
wra reopie ? How will you prove your fidelitv ? Let us , w course , if called upon , refuse to go back to Protection pastimes ; let ns be candid as regards Lord Derby , and not deny our jasi abhorrence of his government ; let ns pSniL ? - ny ae ? * f . opinion we may have formed concerning eoucaiion of Religions Freedom or Papal Aggression ( two Ew ? J % 9 mt 9 *•» a *™) ; let us scout the fools * b ° ^ £ & i ° ™ lnt 0 ToInnteering , and the opposite how nrSSUfK , ?? ? , " * roSm ' s mercy ; Siet ns ^ eart . f et loathing ! for the Malmesbnrrs , Vho
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make oar name a shame and reproach in Europe ; but let ns not forget that the most important , tbe first question for us is the franchise , —our right to freedom , as tbe sole ground upon which we can fulfil our duties to each other , ensure just rule , and again become honourable and honoured by the world . I come back alwava to my first point : whatever else you do , count the names of those who are with you for the right—the birthright of a freeman . There is talk of here and there a People's Candidate . Well , if we can find and elect one or two , or more ; but , whatever votes we may number for the few who will be our own representatives , let us not fail to vote against [ all those who do not represent ns on this vital question of freedom . And let us fling our protest , from every corner of the land , into the face of the usurping parliament . It will not be thrown away . Spartacvs .
Errata in letter 7 :-For ' kill a son' rend ' kill a cow ;' for « thus all matters' read this all matters ; ' for ' a full conscience' read « all conscience ; ' for ' let from God ' read ' lit from God ; ' for « become a duty' md ' because a duty ; ' for « rights evil' read ' rights civil . '
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To The Independent Electohs Of The Borough Of Nottingham.
TO THE INDEPENDENT ELECTOHS OF THE BOROUGH OF NOTTINGHAM .
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G < ENTLEMEN , —In soliciting the honour of your , » Votes at the nest Election . I am bound to gire an explicit declarallon of my political opinions ; and , in so doinff I shall endeavour to avoid th . it disgraceful quibbling and vague generalities so frequently resorted to in Election Addresses . Such , for example , 'As Iain for a liberal extension , & c ., ' without saying how liberal or honfar ; 'lam for the gradual reform of abuses in Church and State . ' without sajiag how gradual ; or where the abuses are ; ' A friend to a sound and religious Education , ' meaning nothing and applying whatever you please to imagine . Bat with re-rard to myself , I frankly , and imdifguisediy declare that I am fer Slanhood Suffrage , considering the man even as a mere animal more worthy to be represented than e ^ en the Hen-pound House or the Forty-shilling Freehold . 1 am for the Ballot , as an expedient to preserve Electors from the intimidation or undue influence of Landlords , Cotton-lords , and Money-mongers . . ,, . both the
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HENTRAL CO-OPERATIVE AGENCY , v Instituted under Trust , to counteract the system of Adulteration and Fraud now prevailing in Trade , and to promote the pHncipIeof Co-operative Associations , Trustees—Edward Yansittart Keale , Esq ., ( founder of the Institution ); and Thomas Hughes , Esq ., ( one of the contributors ) . Commercial Firm—Lechevalier , Woodiu , Jones , and Co . Central Establishment—70 , Charlotte-street , FHzroy-square , London . Branch Establishments—35 , Great Jrarylcbone-street , Porfandplace , London : andl 3 , S * an-stveet , Manchester . The Agency intends hereafter to undertake the execution << i all orders for any kind of articles or pr-duce , their operations for the present are restricted to Groceries , Italian Articles , French Wines and Brandies . A Catalogue has just been published , containing a detailed list of all arde ' es with the retail prices affixed , with remarks on adulteration . Price 6 U , or sent free by post for ten stamps . Also a wholesale price list for Co-operative Stores gratis , or by post for one stamp .
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'This is the Medicine of Nature . '—Sir John Hill , M . D . He-issue of the SecondEdition of Two Thousand of DE . SKELKXN'S ' FAMILY MEDICAL ADVISER , ' now publishing , price 2 s . 6 d . A brief but comprehensive treatise of the vegetable practice of medicine . Also the first and second Ncs . of the'MOXTHLY BOTANIC RECORD AND FAMILY HERBAL . ' price Id . May be had of all baokseUers in town and country , the first Saturday of every month . Published by Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Head-passage , . Paternoster-row , London . Agent for Bradford , W . Cooke , Yiear-lane , Leeds . In the press , and shortly will be published , price Is . 6 d ,, A PLEA FOR THE RESTORATION OF THE VEGETABLE Practice of Medicine .
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Lately Published by Jobs Bezeb , at the Office of the Society fo 1 ' romotiEg Working Men ' s Associations , 183 , Fleet Street , London , Labour and Capital . A Lecture by EdwaFiD VAKsrrrAET Neaie , Esq ., Barrister-at-Law . Price Od . May I not Do what I "Will with My Own . Having especial reference to the late contest between the Operative Engineers and their Employers . Price Gd . By the same author The Characteristic Features of Christian Socialism . A Lecture . Price Cd . By the same author . The Message of the Church to Labouring Men . A Sermon by the Kev . Chamis Kisgsiet , jun ., Rector of Eversley . Fourth Edition . Price 3 d . The Application of Associative Principles to Agricul-
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To IHE DexooUTIC Franc—Brother Democrats —In again alluding to the Manchester ' Conference' allow me to recapitulate a few of the leading points in my last letter . I showed that Oie leading object Mr . Jones bad in view had been to make tbe en tire Chartist organisation subservient to his interest ; that he had , in the mast underhand way been using his influence to undermine and destroy the character of every man who was likely to prove an obstae'e to his ambitious designs ; that he endeavoured , when Mr . O'Connor was at the bead of the moveu . eut , to . destroy hia character and influence in an underhand manner , but as soon as he found that gentleman fallen he commenced bedaubing him with his praise , in order to gain the support of Mr . O'Connor ' s admirers , and that having , by the most barefaced system of falsehood , succeeded , as bethought , in destroying the character of every public man in the movement , he proceeded to set aside all ¦ win and all law , and , iu violation of every principle of Democracy and good faith , proceeded to call upon a few misled mm in Manchester to assist in carrying out his base designs .
The next act ofthe body , which was thus clandestinely called together , which I BhaW notice , is the resolution making Jones ' s paper the sole and only organ of the Democratic movement . I look upon this as the main object for which the Conference was called together . The executive which were appointed are merely the instruments by which that objectis to be accomplished . This question is one which must be met and exposed , as there is a vast amount of delusion abroad concerning it . Though nominally helonging to Jones the paperis supposed to he virtually the property of the people or at least , the Chartist body . It is assumed that that paper will speedily release the mem ers of the Chartist Association from all pecuniary burdens , hy paying into the Chartist exchequer a fund amply sufficient to carry on its affairs . Jfow these are fallacies which should , nay must , be met aud exposed . I snail , therefore , treat upon this su ' .-ject under the following heads : — 1 st—I * it the people's paper , or does it belong to the Chartist body ? 2 nd . —Supposing that it will ever be able to supply the Chartist hady with funds , will that supply act beneficially or injuriously for tie interests of true Democracy ?
Srd . —Are the basis on which it proposes to rest , and the powers which it claims , in accordance nidi the principles of justice and equality ? To atate that it belongs to the people is a most impudent assumption , while to father it upon the Chartist body is something worse . It is a downright imposition . Tbe paper is , to all intents and purposes , a private * peculation . The pardes who have advanced money towards starting it , have done so under tha idea that they will receive four per cent , interest for their cash . Mr . Jones has had more to say against . profitmongering than perhaps , any other man . But of all the attempts at profit . ' mongarmg on record , this is the marter-piece . this , which claims
the entire ana aotoiute monopoly of the democratic public . Supposing that the shareholders of some Co-operative Store had put forth an ukase forbidding any hut themselves in the town where had set np , to sell anything to the working classes on tbe ground claimed by Jones and his supporters—namel y , that their object was to emancipate the people ; and therefore , whether the people believed in the *• power to do so ornot . Uhey must , On pain of being denounced as rogues and fools , bring all the grist " to the mill 1 If fuels a thing had been done , there would hnve been no end to the virtuous indignation which Mr . Jones would have hurled againrt the unprincipled monopolists ; jet it is demanded of us , on pain of political damnation , chat we shall go to his shop far cur mental food , and to his only .
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The idea , that hy supporting his paper it will supportus ,, is very captivating to some , especially those who want to get the Charter , but who are too lazy to labour for it , as they will have to doS they eet it It was one of the t ^^)* " ™ which I had against the scheme when it was firat —need That ohjec ion -van not kept to ^ jj * $£ ' $ * £ > % eoaall , It Halifax , that the ma * twhoJ * W P »« e st ° e „ oftw advocatesof a movement would always * « em «« ers of that movement , and would alw ^ tttt we *»*^ "ou £ J ™ S"J on far Ms persons ! advantage , and that thj >« $ « J » ¦*»«? would dwindleddwnto the position ' ^ T ^ X te the man who paii them their wag « . Im ^ J l ev woSfdhel time to spreadinphe principlesof Dem cracy tte , wouWhea mere canvassing and adverting Booy , » » BrtncinlB machine , and their waees would be Pj Mi « tta same P «™ Pie that the venders nfflollowav ' s Ointment , and Parrs tins , . ,
say ibfltoaaierttmaent fees . Does any one douot tms ? Let him observe the care with which Jones u roota ng out a „ d des troy . inS all and every one opposed to his ^ ntmajwten £ « d « rlth which , likewise ; he is trying to ^ WW ^^™*'* Chartism with his own tools . Some of his fellowa * *« ' « « - not having the Charter from the middle classes !> V "ffi } «» thatlhave a very great repugnance to having It »«» ™« M w got by aneh leader ^ and such follower * asi Jones and bis disciple * , for it is such followers and leaders that have built up every despotism in t' « e world . A man who can claim to govern anassoelation by dictation , would , had he the power , 'o iba same by a nation . The Wlk about the salvation of the movement js so much hosh , to blind and deceive the people . Does not Louis £ apofeon eover all his black and damnable deeds with the cry of the wKa
tion of France ? ' ., „ . , . . When we consider the system on which our Bonaparte claims the right to found his pepeft the force of theftbove observations will become more appeased : , it is to be as free from the controul of the Chartist body as possible , and y « t is to aot as censor over the Executive . By what principle of Democracy any man can claim the right to beind ^ pendant and above the controul Of the movement , and yet , at Ihe same time , claim the right to act as censor over the officers of the Society , 1 nm at a loss to conceive . Now what is censorship but dictatorship ! -and does any one suppose that under such outrages and unjust powers it would 09 possible for any Executive to live , except as the mere tools and sycophants of his motflinate ambition ; make his paper the sole organ of Democracy , declare him to be independent and above the coatroul of the " Society ,-and , in addition to this , make him censor over yoar officers ; and whathave you but one of the most odious despotisms thai ever disgraced humanity . Nicholas of Russia , cv the Fone of Rome , claim no more power than tH ? .
I fearlessly assert that it is utterly impossible for such a aesu * to spring up in a Democratic mind . It is the very essence of despotism : and he who claims such powers is a despot in his heart . Under such a system none but the most arrant slave in mind would he left in'the movement . Its influence , and respect would be gone , and its names forgood utterly destroyed . " There can be no ' freedom or liberty where there is inequality of condition , or power ' , and if one man is to he set up over the heads of every other man , no man of talent or influence will stay in our ranks—for Democracy and Despotism cannot live on the same soil . Had tbe men who are now exerting themselves to raise up a king In the Chartist ranks , been born in Russia , or Prance , or Rome , they would probably have been engaged in defending the tytants viho rule over those afflicted countr ' es . Before concluding this letter , there is one known point to which 1 wish to allude , —and that Is the case of Frost , Williams , and Jones . If some enemy to those men had racked his brain to devise a plan to perpetuate their exile , he eould not
havo hit upon anything more effectual than that proposed by Mr . Finlen , which was to get up an agitation , and to use the names of the = e men for . that purpose . Now , evovy man who known anything of the history of the attempts which have been raa > le to obtain the release of the above patriots , knows that at the last great attempt that was ma < le for thsir liberation , the there following reasons were ui'gcd why the government would not release them at that time : —Firstly , Because teeir term of exile had not been sufficiently long . Secondly , That the country was in an agitated state , and they must not ri lease them in a time of political excitement . And thirdly , Because they were ceupled along with John Ellis , and ns the cases were different , they could not consider them t gethcr . Now , even a Tory ministry may admit that their term of exi ' e has betn 'sufficiently Jong , ' The country is in a state of calm inertnesg on political suhjeets , and all that is wnteiHs the proper madhincry , and the proper men and means , and the liberation of th <> s & men may he calculated on as certain . But if we are to wait until Afr , Finlen & e . have raided an acitation on the strength of the names
of these suffering individuals , and then to p'e ? ent a memorial from the said Finlen and Co ., in which is to be included in all the political prisoners , both English and Irish , which he proposes to do , they must drag their chains to the . end of their dqys . "Such arc the busindss notions of the man who is to tramp through the county for the purpose of popularising Democracy ! Mr , Iones tells us we do not want men of thought and reflection at the eead of the movement , but men of energy and action . Energy an 3 action are well enough when under the control of thought and re . flection , but witnout these last thej rua wild , and do an incalculable amount of harm . If ever there was a . time when wise , discreet , and experienced men were wanted at our councils , that time i-the present , Lrtthe old and tried friends of the cause see to this , and do their duty . C . Siuckhton . g hies BxcavED vob Tire Befcgebs A , few Friends , Orimsbcj 2 s , Gd . ; Dalkeith , Robert it'Arthur , Ss . fid . ; James Thomson Is . ed ; Thomas Dncroir , Is . J Gmvjsb , Cheltenham . —We have no room for the report this week . .
miiuit Jutwood , Norwood , —If yonr news agent obtains the town editions of any of the leading papers , he will have no difficulty in obtaining the town edition of the ' Star , ' which is published every Saturday afternoon at three o ' clock .
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THE STAR OF FREEDOM SATURDAY , JUNE 13 , 1853 .
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THE 'STAR OP FREEDOM' SOIREE . It was a glorious ' -gathering- ! the elite of the Democracy of London—ay , and . ; of the world , too--was there . Our hearts beat high with hope for the future , as we looked upon that proud re-union , and grasped the hands of old friends , who had been somewhat estranged . The real representatives of the European nations came to meet us heart to heart , and bind up the peoples in the holy bond of brotherhood , and nurse up that mutuality between them , without which they cannot hope to conquer the combined forces of Despotism . Like the Magi of old , who came to worship at the cradle of infant Liberty , some
of the world ' s bravest and wisest men , had gathered there to hail the rising of the young ' Star of Freedom , amidst the surrounding darkness of the political firmament . In good sooth , it was a glorious gtnttoving , and a noble earnest that the good work of assisting our suffering brethren , the Refugees , is in the right hands , and that such , a worthy beginning must bring a fitting consummation . That prond hope of Democracy , and the Christ of Labour ' s Redemption , Lows Blanc , was there , and would that our readers throughout the conntry could have heard his thrillingspeech—spoken in our own mother-tongue , too—which he has learned to wield with marvellous power . How his eloquence can rouse the soul to arms , or melt the heart in tears !
Pierre Leroux , the Socialist chief , and the grand old veteran Cabet , were also there , in no wise discouraged by all past defeats . There is victory in their very sadness ! they spoke to us in their own language , and exchanged their greetings of fraternal sympathy with us . And Nadaud , the working man and representative of working men , received such a demonstration of exulting welcome , that he could not fail to understand , even though he does not know our language . When heart speaks to hearfaftd eyes to eyes , they generally communicate their meaning , even without words . Ifc was also' a proud and pleasant thing for us to have been the means of calling such men together—for us , the common soldiers in the ranks of Democracy , to speak words of comfort and cheer to its glorious chiefs while they are
suffering in exile . We take it as a propitious omen of success for the Star of Freedom . ' There were some cheering announcements of contributions for the refugees , from Mazzim and others ; notably one of ten pounds from Lord Godekich , which was worthy of a descendant from Hampden and Cromwell , as lie is . Altogether , it was a noble effort to serve a noble cause . There was but me disagreeable drawback to the felicity of the evening . It was the interruption of the person mentioned in our report of the proceedings . And we humbly submit to our readers , that such conduct is calculated to disgust all the friends of Democracy , and mi ght win the patronage of a Malmesbuiiy , or the pay of our foreign police department . r
We have received numerous letters of indignant remonstrance against that gentleman ' s proceedings ' It is an old trick of hie , ' says one , which he has been practising for years , and which he has at last perfected himself in . ' A second suggests , 'What would he be in a Revolution ? Who would not postpone the triumph of Democracy to all eternity , rather than such a man should reign « why such « lie , with his pothouse blackguardism , blatant brutality , and sickening scairility , would drive any nation to seek its safety in the arms of anv Despotism , no
matter how iron , cruel , or bloody , rather than hazard a change which might lead to such a tyranny as he would inevitabl y inaugurate . ' What can the man meanwnat is he aiming at V was astounded Louis Blab ' s question to ourselves . While insufferable scorn and disgust was depicted on the faces of the foreigners who could understand him . They were nanny who could not . We would tell this obstruction that , contraryto what he affirmed , we can do something to aid the Refugees , even before we have accomplished the Social Revolution . r
We tell Um that that was not the time to fling fa the apple of discord , and to foment dissension . That was no time to place his portion of truth ( which had nothing at all to do with the subject of the sentiment he had to speak to ) in direct antagonism to all the other truth which had been enunciated during the evening We havo ourselves said as much against middle-class tyranny , in this very paper , as he can say . lhat was no time to insult friends and make enemies . We had no quarrel with him . We shall not gnaw at the other end of the bone of his contention . If the People do not choose to follow him .
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app an Martyr , we are not to be held accountable ; no doubt there is something wrong . Moreover , we protest , in the name of Democracy , against snob language being used by her assumed Champions . Low , vul gar curses—such as « S ohelp me God ' JByGoD . Iwill , ' and'Be damned if I do , ' -which that person diatributes with all the fluency of an irate Billingsgate fish-fag , are not fitly associated with the holy principles which we cherish and seek to propagate . Democracy i 8 pure and onnobling , and the lives and words o ? her disciples should be earnest , hallowed , aud pure . We say with Brutus— No , not an oath 1 What need we r . ny spur hut our owa cause , To prick us to redress ?
Let priests and cowards swear , OM feeble carrions , and such suffering : souls , That welcome wrongs . Unto'bad causes swear , Suih creatures as men doubt , but do not stain The even virtue of our enterprise To think onr cause or our performance Did need an oath .
The Stolen Property Of The People. But L...
THE STOLEN PROPERTY OF THE PEOPLE . But little property exists other than that which has been stolen from the People . However , we vow speak only of that particular species of property , the most important of all , whose possession alone can render the people free and independent , and the loss of which has been the main cause of tho continued debasement , misery , and slavery of the People . We allude to the land . The late decision in tho G-len Tilt case is very
important , inasmuch as it shows that the idea of the age is worming itself into the minds of men , who , it might have been thought , were proof against all its attacks . It is significant of tho fate of landlordism , as it Is significant of the . spread of the holy principles of Democracy , which we advocate , that the insolent AthoIj Bhonld have been finally defeated—that a glimpse of truth should have penetrated the self , interest , the ignorance , and the prejudice of the lordly judges , aud induced them to make a step in the right direction , by declaring that a man , whether or not a coronet cover his brainless pate , has not the right to do what he will with the land of the country .
The long-pending dispute regarding the passage of Glen Tilt has been of use . It cannot be but that any matter , however trivial in itself , relative to the great question of the rights of landlordism , the right of property iu land , will have more and more the effect of bringing the attention of the People to the dam . nable system of robbery of which they have so long been , and still continue to be , the unfortunate victims . We do not doubt that ultimately tho cause of truth and justice shall triumph , as well in this matter of the material inheritance of the whole People as in every other . We cannot doubt ; for even those whose interest it is to allow the origin of their wealth , and the rights by which they , . possess it , to remain in unassuming obscurity , must needs display their knavery and shame in open day , and loudly demand protection for the one , and respect for the other .
Thus it was with the Engineers . In their haughty insolence the Employers positively refused to concede the just demand of the workers ; they determined to give up , not even the most trifling of the unjust advantages they have acquired , but to compel the men to sink at their feet , their miserable and undisguised slaves . They have achieved their object . The men are again subject to their inhuman will ; they are at least utterly baffled if they be not beaten , for they
have owned their want of power to cope with the banded tyrants . But at what price has this victory been gained ? Confident in tho protective power of their golden god , and gleeful in their success , the selfish Employers may not have perceived it ; but wo hopefully saw , in their mad and rascally attack upon the Workmen , a blow struck at their own supremacy . Had they acted in . another manner—had they shown some small amount of solicitude for the welfare of the
men who have produced all the wealth they possess—; their benevolent rule might have long remained unquestioned . But they did not do so ; they treated their workmen as enemies as well as slaves , and raised , as a reasonable consequence , in the minds of the working men , an undying determination to labour to achieve their freedom , by the total annihi . . iatiou of the Master class and their atrocious system . A similar effect , though , perhaps , in a lesser degree , has been produced by the dispute with the aristocratic bally , Athoi ,. We have heard ' Liberals' ( poor little souls ! how small a portion of truth are they capable of grasping at a time !) with all the little enthusiasm they ever knew , declaim against Atdol , not merely
as a discourteous savage—not merely as a ' stuck-up ' titled jackass—but as at \ Tisvvvper—a shameful robber of the descendants of the kindred of his fathers . They ground their argument npon the fact , that in earlier times the -land upon which the Hi ghland Clans resided , was ever esteemed the property of the Clan , and never exclusively that of the Chief . Did these same Liberals possess less selfishness , less apathy , and more enthusiasm , to lend them energy enough to struggle in the cause of Right , they would have taken steps to bring to an issue the question , as to whether these Highland Chiefs legally hold possession , as individual property , of the territories of the Clans .
May they do so ! We see witb pleasure these men arrive even at this half opinion . Once establish the right to inquire into . the origin of private property in land in one case , and no man possessing a single grain of intelligence could shut his eyes to the justice of a similar inquiry in every other . Truly , this principle is one by far too true—by far too valuable and needful , to allow of its being confined to the mountains and glens of the Highlands . It is a principle for universal application , and one which a People's Government—when we shall have a People ' s Government—will know the value of , and will know how-to apply .
England Is Not On The Side Of The Reacti...
ENGLAND IS NOT ON THE SIDE OF THE REACTION . The poverty-stricken masses of the People may care little for Freedom ; for ignorance and misery have so fatally done their damning work upon them as to crush all the better feelings of human nature out of them . They are a dead mass which we are unable to move , and constitute the drag-chain on the wheels of the chariot of Progress . The spirit of gain , the lust for gold , is fast destroying all the old heroic spirit of their forefathers in our middle classes ; their infernal system of competition is fast trampling all the noble chivalry and fellow . feeling out of them . Our assumed aristocracv
—who are not the nobles of the land , nor the nobles of nature ' s making , but wretched shams and impostors—they have little or no love of Freedom , little or no sympathy whh the friends of Freedom , But , in spite of these things , England is not on the side of tho Reaction . There is a pulsein the heart of her that is beating akin to the heart of France , Hungary , Germany , and the o ther oppressed nations , which are yearning for Liberty . There is some noble life in Old England yet . Our statesmen and rulers may league with the Camarilla of Austria , the spiritual ruffianhoodofthe Papacy , and the blackguard bravo gang of BoNAPARTE-they may plot together , and weave their webs alike for the mutual purpose of ensnarin g Mid murdering all who love Freedom , and of extinguishing all these glowing ideas ofLibertvin
tfifl Wood other martyrs , but they do not represent the nation . They are none of us ; we loathe and curse them , and m spite of them and their works , there is something of the olden fire and spirit smouldering amongst us . Let it bear witness that we still love b reedom , if but for the boundless joy we felt , and the passionate tears we shed , when those thrilling words woke the world , « Paris is in Revolution . ' Let it bear witness that the love of Freedom is not altogether dead within us , if but for the rapture and triumph we felt for heroic Hungary and gallant Italy , when they were battling for the nations which stretched out no
arm for their assistance , proudly cheerful ' to sacrifice themselves so that others might be saved . We were with the peoples in all their struggles for life and Liberty , and had we been represented , the sharp ring of the English rifle should have been heard in the passes of Transylvania , and the thunder of British cannon should have resounded in Rome . We shared heir aspirations , we felttheir common wrongs , ana although we could not strike a blow for them , nor Jitt the strong arm for their rescue when -1 « u ere dyin S in battle , oar hearts were with them , and all our sympathies bought for them . Ihere is some love of Freedom in England still , or what should call forth such a whirlwind of
England Is Not On The Side Of The Reacti...
enthusiasm when Kossura p ^ oT " ^ Jt was not simply the mm ^ 2 tbro ^« tW 7 hon oured but iW ^^ J * H ^? and for which he had fought and ** re P * W frant c cheers had a deep ? r m ^? 5 ^ . "ft 1 . Plaudits of the multitude Thev ?„ ,- than me « bring * the heart of the ffi ^ t » W wth intense hatred for tyrannT' & tf < 2 hot from the heart , for vervwj ^ leaPt f J apathy for all whohad si LfeA ^ S ' and monstrated that Freedom still ? , * ^ - ? ^ g land ' s muffled heart andI flJHfr * * X freeman could kindle it into at „ h ° ^ of ' flame . They also nroved tlmtti S . ] ^ cWv * "h ich the bLe JZX et * ^ ^ out in actual life , is living and iirlir ^ to * S versal human heart , and that tojfef V « from the tyranny of circumstance to trt ^ neousl y from millions of lips , wbfcU ^ 'jLW down by ties and fears . There are S ^
^ uguaiimeu vno nave not forpotton ti ; £ " % t has had great and heroic tiSffSd ^ > 4 were also great , heroic , and mi ghty-i-tV" * " * . forgotten that England has taught the 2 L 1 ? ° ^ glorious lessons , and don e good service in »? ^ of Progression and Preedom-that ah . i ! V ™* van of nations , and they would fain , 0 ? ?^ the foremost position again . There Jl » ' eu remember that they \ re of the b ] ? ^ lineage of the men of the CommomS ^
that those defiers of KinwJTS'SN and that those defiers of Kingcraft ZTTl , ' ^ Priestcraft , left to us , asour prondheriic 17 ot ment of their grand purpose , which was deluloi fil Wood and tears And if bat for such SVi & land is not on the side of the Reaction f If ' % to the world that England is not at hoZ J ^ the old , cruel and bloody Despotisms o „ 7 to readiest means for doing so may be in mirtr ° / ^ of the Refugees . They * come i us as XJSR * same cause , and brothers in the same hum ™ tn ° V he
the outcasts of Despotism ! That should be Z r T " passport to our hearts and homes , and it were * thing for them to say of us , in the future- ' AY ' ° to them hungry , and they fed us ; thirsty ^^ gave us drink ; naked , and they clothed us 1 , y Jess , and they took us in . It will not bo fori The triumph of Democracy is but a qtJfaJZ * -it is slow but certain . This is our sure lioue w ? the darkness of defeat . It is not only 5 cS 1 the fanatic , and the mirage of the Utopian W n earnest faith of every true child of Proerm >? 8
old nnwAra of Wwm « « . „ V „;\ ™ .. _ . » , ' . . Tha old powers of Wrong and Evil may wrestle villi . 1 tide of Destruction for a time , but their full j . J the less inevitable . They may ape Canute of ? and cry to the rising -waves , ' Go HACK'' bnUl tide of Democracy has set in , its waves flre J cendmg—always ascending—and « they glial ] « nT engulfed in the flood . ' And when the nation , , m assemble together in the great day of the futon Z marchall for
, each and each for all , against their common oppressors , would that England might 2 ready to cast in her lot with them-stem the on coming tide of Despotism—and work out their deli ' verance mutually , or fall together . May she be readv to give the cause of Universal Freedom a rusn with the British bayonet , { and its enemies too , for Ihe matter o f that , ) and prove , by tho invincible logic of sword and cannon , that she is not on the side of the Enaction
Hope For Europe. Disunion Has Been Our W...
HOPE FOR EUROPE . Disunion has been our weakness in the pastdisunion has clogged the chariot wheels of progress ' kept us still in our misery and bondage , and made us an easy prey for the banded tyrants . Th is disunion too , is , in almost every instance , but the effect of ignorance , for through the ignorance of the people do the interested calumniators work ; falsehood and misrepresentation are had recourse to , in order to raise in the minds of the masses , prejudices against all and every idea tending to elevate the minds smd better the material condition of the people , and , therefore , calculated to destroy the supremacy of selfish and hypocritical tyrants .
We will ever hail witb pleasure any symptom of a better understanding amongst the people , and amongst the peoples . We will ever hail with hope anything tending to dispel the mists of ignorance and prejudice from the minds of men , enabling' them to see clearly how , and by whom , they will be most benefitted , and b y giving them a knowledge of toe opinions of all , allow them to see , that when men devote time and labour , and even life , to spread some principle which they believe to be true , they ought not to be sent away unheard ; for , if they be listened to , their doctrines will ever be found to contain truth , and those who cannot wholly accept them will yet be thankful to the workers for truth , and respect them and their conscientious opinions .
Nothing has ever been more xnisuiulerstouc , and unjustly denounced in this country , than "Socialism . " It is with the greatest pleasure , therefore , that we see announced a Journal , having for its aim the dissemination of earnest knowledge on that subject throughout Europe , and more particularly in this country . It will be conducted by LOUIS Busc , Cabet , Pierre Leroux , and other democratic . So cialists , now exiles among us . It is a brave work , and we wish them success . Such a Journal , conducted by such men as Louis BLANC and his colleagues will do much towards healing the dissensions which now tear the European Democratic party , and which give so much joy to the enemies of human liberty and progress
, Louis Blanc has been a gallant worker in the cause of Humanit y ; he continues to be so to-day . Free Europe' will give him an opportunity of spreading among tho Peoples of Europe all his great thoughts , and all the thoughts of such a master-mind must needs be great . These men , who have toiled and suffered iu the cause of Humanity—these men who have been soldiers iri the foremost ranks of the army of Freedom , and who have sacrificed social station and material
welfare , in order to work out a glorious destiny for mankind in the future , and to accomplish the hig ll 0 Pe which animates all the enslaved peoples , come to us snd ask to be heard , and to be allowed the moans of laying before ns an exposition of their piiacip lea and their experiences—of their wishes and their hopes . Every Democrat , every lover of his kind , every toiler throughout the length and breadth of the laud , should aid this noble undertaking , which the leaders of European Freedom have begun . By doing « J they will confer a benefit not upon tho gteat-nvudea and patriotic exiles , but upon themselves , upon ® B people—the veritable people of Britain—and upo humanity at large . , „ -.-.... — u . v j , »„ « i *« et « ( II p
We daily see the necessity for social reform , » social organisation , to replace the sickeniug i ™* h which is now crashing so many noble hearts , an is trampling'the weak beneath the feet of the stron ^ as they press on unheeding in their selfish stru # 8 for gold . Li this country , more than perhaps in «« J other , exists the need for the immediate s ° Jutl 0 " . the social problem . It is in this manufacture country that it will , as it ought to be , wroug ht out . u us clasp , therefore , the hands of our Continents brothers , who come in their intellectual greatness t ^ aid us in working out our freedom , social as we political . If we but do our duty , Free Europ e > be the harbinger of a glorious day , v b ea am will indeed be free—when all the nations « " ^ . burst their chains , and shall know hunger , s & aig ranee , slavery and misery , no more .
Bonaparte Baffled. Ltwillbejseen By Refe...
BONAPARTE BAFFLED . ltwillbejseen by reference to the lette , rof bS Belgian correspondent , that the ' Nation has » acquitted ; and that the manifesto of the w Granier has been utterly fruitless in tf i ® ° « Li intended to be achieved bv him , and by his \ » n \ ni 0 employer . That object was to convert Be ^! oUble a province of the future Empire , without the w ^ and the danger of a war ; to make the Belgian * slaves of tbe French brigand , alth ough W »' ft them to retain for a time the dishonoured name
an independent nation . Al . „ oDen Too cowardly to flin ^ down the gauntiet 01 r ^ war to the free men of Belgium , unless he ^ V ^ support of the tyrant serfs of Kussia , and 01 d Autocrat himself , he had recourse to € sfaic » nery fraud to work out his abominable project ot cru * Re the hated freedom of the neighbouring people- _ has had recourse to that vile and debasing s / V . ^ composed of threats and of lies , by means 01 " $ he conquered the straig ht-forward and ^ " 7 " -jfr defenders of the cause of liberty in France , to id .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 12, 1852, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_12061852/page/4/
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