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A LIST OF BOOKS now rouLisaiNO ur R. D. COUSINS, IS, DUKE-STREET,
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THE NORTHERN STAK SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1818.
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The Hiemed Cbibtibtb—Jojjw O'Cohbeli.'B ...
and gladness . See whero a few ebort months ago ( the Utds whitettashsa cabin stood ; the blue smoke caraag rom its wicker chimney , and its little foar-psned mn dow reflecting the rays of the mornisg sun . & -e no whatmeets your aching eye-ball .. »•?»« " * % ™ heen burned or levelled by the « agent , or h ^ dons the « bawn-gap' is fencen up ; tee tauten garoen fa 'let In' with the neig hbouring sheep walk , and notb £ ? sW b « U a stump of ft . * -Is /¦_<¦ _„ . » * ,. . .-. 05 the case may as , ) niacin b-iu ItT ^ nId , of I ? " «» snue . and peaceful and Zpy ^ asan t hon ^ e . And what has become of the tamata ;! Ab , do not , in mercy , ask that question . What has become of them ? Where are they gone ? The father and mother , probably , laid nnoofBned and enshrouded in an unblest grave— for they eUd of bangsr , and there was no one to relieve them ; er the ' sickness' laid hold on them , and their wretched neighbour * Aid is terror and disgust . And their
childrenwhat Of teem / Probably dragging on a joyless existence ia the district poor-h & use—if hsppy enough to find admittance to this grave of living skeletons—or perhaps they have Aid to the country town , to sweU the mass of squalid , helgless misery with which every Irish town is now infested—or , lo ! see that ragged wretched-looklng group of children , squatting at the ' turn oi the roadthere , not pinching priaroses or bluebells , or chasing butterflies , or ' hawking strawberries , ' as children used to do in other years , but exhibiting their wretchedness , and stretching forth their shrivdled hands imploring that
charity which few of the passers-by have to bestow . Ihe-e , probably , the children of those parents of whom I have spoken , andthe once joyous , light-hearted inmates of that ruined cabin ahieh I have been describ-Ing . Ah , yes-and this is no fancy sketch J Such scenes as this met my view in many a parish—nsy , io almost every villaga through which I passed . The country is half depopula ted . In many districts there is not what can ba fairly called a ' peasantry' at all . The famine took away thousands . The emigrant ship floated sway eith hundreds . Pestilence shook its dark win ^ over the decimated villages , whilst
• Savage men . more murderous still than they , rushei recklessly on tha survivors , and the landlord , the agent , and the balUffput the eoup de grace on the fonl deeds which hU forestalled , in tha work of ruin , had left unfinished . And this is Ireland under the Whigs . ' THIS IS OUR CONDITION AFTEU SEVEN HUN DRBD TEARS OF SAXON TYRANNY AND GLORL OUS * BRITISH CONNEXION !!!' Throughout every district which I visited , the crops are most . ' usurious . The wheat , in particular , is splendid . Ths oats sad meadowiag , though healthy , pro . raised to be rather * short , ' but the fine showers , which tell during the latter days , will be of vast benefit to bo'h grass and corn . A largo breadth of potatoei have been planted this year , and they , too , promise a fine crop Same affirm that the potato has been planted this year
es extensively as ever , but such , I am sorry to say , is rot the fact . Many of the poor people could not get seed sufficient to plant , according to their wishes , whilst ¦ sany of those , who might secure seed enough , were afraid te set them in lar ^ e quantities , dreading a recur rence of ih « list two or three years '' failures . ' How ever , there is a large potato crop planted , and , so fa ? ae tke season has gone , there sever was a more cheering prospect of success . Many fields , indeed , have ' missed , but these partial failures do not spp ; ar to proceed from tbe regular ' murrain' or ' rot' of the bj-gone years . On tbe whole , there is good ground to hope that tha potato will again Sourish in Ireland , and that such of the peasantry , as may be left on the sail , will no more saff i the horrors of hunger , to which they have been exposed for the last three y » ars .
Bat , in other respects , the condition of Ireland if ' mending worss * every hour . To nso their own empnitie litifusga , the people now * hare nothing ' . ' All is gone' Cattle , swine , poultry , sll ' seizad on , ' and * canted' fer rent , ' or sold ti buy provision , or stolen and eaten np by those more wretched and more daring than the original proprietors 2 Such is the situation of « he surviving Irish peasantry ! Aad , as I gsid bfc ? Lr 3 , this state of things is not merely confined to tbe peasant classes—those , heretofore in good circumstances , are now as helpless , as naked , and as miserable , as the Common labourers and ' quart er-acra' folk . AU are paupers —? Jl clamour for outdoor relief ; and , in the houses of those whoare denied this assistance , nothing is heard be : the wail of hungry children , and the raurlanrs and despair of agonised and hopeless parents .
The rural peasantry are thirsting for vengeance , and , no matter hew confident the Whigs may feel , tke people are arming—nay , in most cases , they are armedthose , not having means to procure rifles or muskets , being provided with pikes , swords , bayonets , and other more rude , but not less destructive , weapons . They prsmad for war . With all their icflaence , the Roman Catholic clergy cannot subdue the wild rebel lion ' s fire which b ^ rns from shore to shore at this moment , Tho people only want a leader and ' the call , ' and a million ofmea would be ' up' in fjrty-eirhthours !
The tide of emigration still rolls rapidly . Everybody who csn amass tha requisite means , is going away , whilst some of ihe landlords are driving- oil their pauper tenaa'jy in cargoss . By and by we will have little cau « e to complain af a ' superabundant population , ' and a yesr or two hence , if matters go on as at present , the man who roams over ths desert fields and along the desolate highways of IreUsd , may truly tx claim , with our own sweet poet Goldsmith' Tho peasant treat , withou *; an arm to save , Ths country blooms—a garden and a grave !'
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The London Repealers. The Clubs Are Now ...
THE LONDON REPEALERS . The clubs are now folly organised , and Englishmen and Irishmen are united In the dctermiaatioa to obtain for themselves the rights so lonj denied them by a section of the oligarchic aristocracy . Crowdea meetings of the clubs have beta the result of the arrest of Frank Ljoaey , and subscriptions feare been freely entered into for the defence of the incarcerated patriots . The 'Davis' Club , on Honday evening , acting under tie advice of ttssir solicitor , e-psJlid froa the rooin in which they met all £ pies . A caliisioa was the result , for particulars of which see police report .
Tiie Fraternal Democrats To The Democrat...
TIIE FRATERNAL DEMOCRATS TO THE DEMOCRATS OF GREAT BRITAIN . 'EaCALITY , LlBERTV , FRATERNITY . ' Brethren , Thsre are truths which , like the fertilising streams of earth , instruct and benefit mankind in the ratio of their circulation . As the flowing streams gather and impart in their course , the elements which minister to vegetable life and luxuriance , so truths
flowing between men conduce to that moral growth , which is at onca ] the essence and beneficence of life , Not the ieastsacred of these truths arethose r chicb . express * that when one member of the social body is attacked , the whole are outraged , ' and ' that he who permits oppression , shares the crime . ' Oa , that these truths were as readily acted upon as they are tacitly subscribed to ! Then , indeed , would tyrants tremble , ere they outraged the rights , or trampled upou the dignity of men .
ihe recognition and realisation of these truths are sacied duties . To the performance oi these duties we exhort yeu . We invoke your sympathetic aid for those of your friends , who have become martyrs to their patriotism , and victims of class misrule . As you love liberty and hate oppression , we entreat you to render that pecuniary assistance to your persecuted friends and their families , which the necessity of the case and your sense of duty alike dictate . To the sufferings of imprisonment must not be added the mortification of ihe people's callousness . To the torments arising from the deprivation of personal liberty must not be added the consciousness of those resulting from family privations . Therefore , ffello-. T democrats , we exhort you to contribute , according to your means , for the defence of your advocates , the maintenance of their families , and the honour of the cause in which we are all
engaged . While circumstances do not admit of our con . tributing as an organisrd body , individually and as members of the Chartist party , we are performing our share of tha duty we have appealed to you to discharge . The Committee expect that every memberof this Association , in town and country , will . consider it his bnunden duty both to contribute to ihe Defence Fund , and obtain the contributions of friends and strangers .
Our esteemed , eloquent , and chivalrous brother , Eenest Jones , has special claims upon our sympathy ; but mindful of the great principle of Fraternity , we appeal to you in behalf of all—all who are under the ban of persecution . Let your contributions be sent to the General Defence and Victim Fund . There is not a moment to lose ; to wor ti then at once , and prove to your enemies that you knos- how to protect your friends , and that you will Ki'Iy arosnd them again and again ' . ' By order of the Committee , G . Julian * Harney , Secretary . / . > ndon , June 14 th , 1848 ,
Madam.: Limittsixe.—It Is Said That Ltma...
Madam .: LiMittsixE . —It is said that LtmartintV wife , -.-ho is aa Erj ^ Jirh-ronjan , no ! u . r ' r ; q ; : e : K' \ actiiva r . arc cfsab-tdit ' -j is prayarin . ^ ht - fcuib-Ml ' s workt f . ~ i ll ? \ 'Ks , aad fcvt ' i « luic p . i ^ cs ot v e k-s ? - iaif r ; ., ; :: px . r i ar = > ::-: j ; ^ d ^ t-ikj of htr ; -e / i . . SLc is a :-., a-: ¦ . x ¦ c-enl ;> sln ' . ii . ~ Boston Trav .-cr ' ti-l . Cua =. i : y . —0 » d whom vc deihjht to idlvw- but cii ^ i ts ¦ -: . - . Life . —A eotapu ' S ' . ry journey over a prccirisuro .-i - ! , on whi-ja ths mire luj ^ age ycu have , the mor ^ li f ibtly you trivei . Ttiu :--sy —Knocking pciole on their knees for the crime of aland ? t sziri .-ht ^
A List Of Books Now Roulisaino Ur R. D. Cousins, Is, Duke-Street,
A LIST OF BOOKS now rouLisaiNO ur R . D . COUSINS , IS , DUKE-STREET ,
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LISCOLsVlNN . FIELDS , LOUDON . THE SHEPHERD , by the Rsv . J E . Smith M . A . Vol . I , price 5 i . Gd . —Vol . II , prico 3 s . —VoL III , price Gi . ( Jd . r-loth boards ; or the three volumes in CEe , half-bouod in calf and lettered , price 16 s . Refutation of Owenlsm , by Q . Redford , of Worcester ; with a reply , by tho Rev . J . E . Smith , M . A . Is . New Cari 5 ; ianity ; or the Religion of St Simon , with a co ' oured Portrait of a St Simonian Female ; translated by the Rev . J . E- Smith , M . A . Is . The L ttle Book , addressed to tho Bishop of Ereter and Robert Owen , bj the Rav . J , B , Smith , M . A . 6 J . ; by postlOd . Legends and Miracles , by the Rav . J . E . Smith , M . A .
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WAVERLEY , TEMPERANCE HOTEL . 43 , PBINCES-STBEET , BDINBOBQH , ( Opposite the Scott Monument . ) ROBERT CRANSTON having REMOVED from 129 , High-street , to 43 , Princes-street , begs respectfully t <> call the attention of his customers to tho superior ac commodation and more central situation of his new promises . Pv . C . respectfully submits that the WAVERLEY will be found most comp letely adapted to the wants of the Commercial Community . His long experience also enables him to assure them that , combined with a strict attention to their comforts , it shall be his study to have every article supplied of the very best quality , and that , in short , while tho accommodation and attendance will be equal to those of a fikst-batb hotel , the usual reasonable charges will be continued . R . C . also directs the attention of TRAVELLERS to the tact that
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Now Ready , a New Edition of MR . O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS T » bo had at the Northern Star Office , 16 , Great Wind talll Strett ; and of Abol Heywood , Manchester .
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NORTH BRITISH EXPRESS , AN ADVOCATE OP THB BIGHTS OF LABOUB , Published erery Saturday Morning , Price Fourpence Halfpenny , The Only Democratic Newspaper published in Scotland . WORKING MEN OF GREAT BRITAIN , THE ' NORTH BRITISH EXPRESS' is tho property of working men . It has been established to make known your wants . Its principal mission is to enforce your claims , and form a fortress for the protection of labour . Are you misrepresented ? -then , here is a remedy . Are you stigmatised with the foul brand of ignorance ?—then , here is an organ of your own , or channel , through which you can wipe off the foul stain , by making your calumniators feel the truth of your arguments , and the justice of yom cause . Do you want such an organ ' —then give your strenuous support to the
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WANTED IMMEDIATELY . SEVERAL PERSEVERING YOUNG MEN , of good address to CANVASS for NEW PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS in shilling parts . A commission will be given , and no ono need apply , who cannot enter into immediate engagements . Address ( by letta- only ) , to W . E ., 1 G , Great Windmill , street , Haymarket , with postage stamps for answer .
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TO THE RADICAL BEFOilMUS OK QBKAT BRITAIN . CARPENTER'S PEERAGE FOR THE PEOPLE , containing » lO pages , bouni in cloth , is reduced in price , from los fd to 3 s , ( sent post free Is extra . ) This work contains historical and biographical sketches of the members of tbe irresponsible house , and an account of the places and emoluments distributed amongst their families . It shows , also , the enormous expense of what they please to eall civil government , under their corrupt sway , and also some ot tiik most pbomi-KENT CAUSIS OF THE POVEBTT OP TUB C 0 MMDN 1 TI . W . Strange , 2 i , Paternoster-row .
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Price One Penny . THIAL AND POltTRAlT OP JOHN MITCHEL , T HE IRIS H PA TRIOT . A full report of the trial of this heroic man , under the odious Gagging Act . Contain , iitg the speeches of counsel , the summing up ofthe Judge , and the prisoner's noble defiance . Every patriot should purchase this trial and portrait . London ; Yf . Winn . Manchester : Heywood . Lore , Glasgow . Robinson , Edinburgh , and all agents of the Nokthsbn Stab . William Wish , Bookseller , Publisher , and News Agent , also takes this opportunity of inviting the support of the trade in town and country , and assures them that he can supply them more satisfactorily than any other person in the trade . His stock contains the best and most extensive assortment of back numbers and parts of all the weekly and monthly periodicals , and saleable works ; and he always secures the new numbers the first moment th : y issue from the press . The country trade may rely on their orders being punctually and carefully executed . Cash in advance for the first two months .
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ALLOTMENTS ON SALE . A FOUR ACRE at Brorasgrove . - A FOUR ACRE drawn in the November ballot- — A THREE ACRE at Lowbands . All cf which is cropped . Amplications to be made to the Directors , at their office , Ui , HL-h Holborn , London .
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TO TAILORS By approbation of Her Majesty Queen Victoria , , and H . R . H . Prince Albert . . NOW READY , TAB tON * DON * AND PARIS SPRING ANZ > SUMMER FASHIONS for 1848 , bv Messrs BENJAMIN READ and Co ., 12 , Kart-street , Cloomfibury-square , near Oxfordstreet , London ; and by G . Bejigsb , Ilolywell-street , Strand ; a : id all Booksellers , an exquisitely execrated and superbly coloured PRINT . The elegance fofthis Print excels anybcforepnbUshed , accompanied with the Newest Style , and extra-fitfing Frock , Riding Dresa , and Hunt . ing-Coat Patterns ; the most fashionable dress Waistcoat Pattern , and an extra-ittlng Habit Pattern of ?» he newest and most elegant style of fashion . Every particular part explainad ; method of increasing and diminishing the whola for anj size fully illustrated , manner of Cutting and Makinjr up , and all other information respecting Style and Fashion . Price 10 s . post free lis .
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EMIGRATION . EMIGRANTS can obtain a Free Gift of Forty Acres of the best Land , in the most healthy and productive portion of the United States . Also , Land tor Sale or Barter , from One Dollar per Acre . Passengers shipped to all parts of tho world , and supplied with Bonded Stores , Provisions , ic , on toe lowest terms . Apply ( prepaid ) to the General Passenger Shipping and Land Agency Offices , 15 , Eastcheap , London , and 32 , Waterloo-road , Liverpool . It is also the finest part of tho globe for consumptive persons to resort to .
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A GOOD FIT WARRANTED at the Great Western Emporium , I and 2 , Oxford-street . Ubsdell and Co . are now making to order a Suit ot * beautiful Superfine Black , any size , for £ j Is . Patent made Summer Trow , sers , 16 s ; Registered Summer Over Coats , 20 s . The Art of Cutting taught . Patterns of Garments Cut to Measure for the Trade , and sent ( post free ) fur Is . 6 d . each , or eii ; hteea postage stamps . Address , Charles Ubsdell , I and 2 , Oxford-street , London .
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Hull.—A Tea Party And Ball Wai Held In T...
Hull . —A tea party and ball wai held in tho Assecably rooms , Jirratt-sh-jot . on the 30 th ult ., to celebrate the anniversary of tho allocation of members at O'Connorville . Speeches were delivered by Msswb Taito and Connington . Dancing was kept up till a late hour , whin the compan ) separated , having given three cheers for Mr O'Connor . Ba-sbury . —At a meeting held at the Butchers ' Arms Inn , on Monday night , June 12 , the following resolution was carried , moved by Mr Ilaigh , and secondej by Mr Oniraan : — 'That tho raembeiaof the
Banbury branch of tha National Land Company , do approve of tha suggestion of the Manchester branch , in recommetding the Directors to give proper notice to the successful allot ' . ce previous to his taking possession of his allotment ; likewise in holding tho next Conference in the nearest market town to thelast location ; and for the Directors to give out the pragiamme of the business of the next Coufcranco , and to give tho monthly report of tho progress of the Company also tbat two oi the directors shall assist Mr O'Connor on the estates , and the other two attecd solely to tho buuaesa of the office .
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Burt . —The Shareholders of the Bury Branch of the National Land Company , aro hereby informed that a Shareholders' -nesting , on bu 9 ine 5 a of irnportauce , will bo held in their usual meeting place , C Cfke street , on Sunday evening next . To commence at 0 o'clock . National Registration and Election Committee . —A meeting will bo held at the Agsembly Rooma , 83 , Diaa-iteeet , Sobo , on Tuesday evenin * nest ' June 20 th , at 8 o ekek precisely . Dkehv . —There will lea county delegate meeting ol lha Chartist ;' , on Sunday the 25 ; li inst ., at 10 o ' clock in the morning , at Mr Ik'Seld '? , Temperance IIous ? , G-een-strect . When tho followins places are requested to fend a d » lea ; ate : Belper , Alfre ' on Ilkistow , Ilolbro ^ k , Driffitld , Swan wick , Codnor Park . B .-rrowash . Bierton , Teetbury , Church Greslcy , iieanor , Melbourne , But ' erly , to on ; aiiic the above places , and forothu' importast bushes .
Hull—On . Monday last a pi b ! ic meeting was hold in the Town 1 I-. H , when resolutions condunnin " the trial if John Mitchel by a packed jury , p . nd denouccins the govf-rniuent " . 'iippression of public opinion , wore unanimously carried . The meeting wag addressed by Mcssra Lake , Taito , Biirnhan " , and Jackson . A collection was msdo in aid of the fund for the wife and family of tho Irish I ' fttrioS .
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FAMILY ENDOWMENT , LIFE ASSURANCE AND ANNUITY SOCIETY . 12 , Chatham Place , Blackfriars , London . CAPITAL £ 500 , 000 . DIBECTOKS . William Butterworth Bayley , Esq ., Chairman . John Fuller , Esq ., Deputy Chairman . Rt . Bruce Chichester , Esq . Elliot Macnaghten , Esq . II . B . Henderson , Esq . Major Turner . C . II- Latouche , Esq . . Joshua Walker , Esq . Edward Lee , Esq . Major Willock , K . L . S . BONUS . Thirty per cent . Bonus was added to the Society ' s Policies on the profit scale in 1815 . The next valuation will he in January , 1852 . ANNUA * PBEMIOJIS WITH J > BOMT 3 __ "TgelolAge 25 Ageaif Agc 35 | Age 40 Age 45 jAgo 80 Ago 65 jeTT £ s . d . £ s . d . £ s . d , £ s . d . £ s . d . | £ s . d . £ s . d . 1 17 9 | 2 8 1 * 9 7 2 16 213 5 9 3 16 2 | 4 10 6 5 7 6 " INDIA . ~ " The Society also grants Policies to parties proceeeding to , or residing in India , at lower rates than any other Office , the Premiums on which may be payable either in London or at the Society's Office in Cah-utta . Annuities of all hinds , as well as Endowments for Children , are granted by the Seciety . The usual commission allowed to Solicitors and others . John Cazenove , Sec .
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JUST PUBLISHED VSICB SIXPENCE . HO . XVIII . OF " THE LABOURER , " COKTAININa < B Qxtntiw on ti ) $ ' Ha & ott * 4 $ ni 0 ttoii / By Fkarous O'Cohsor , Esq ., M . P . Letters ( pre-paid ) to be addressed to the Editors , 1 G , Great Windmill Street , Haymarket , London . Orders received by allagcnts for the "Northern Star " and all booksellers in town and country .
The Northern Stak Saturday, June 17, 1818.
THE NORTHERN STAK SATURDAY , JUNE 17 , 1818 .
The Reign Of Terror. "A Special! A Specl...
THE REIGN OF TERROR . "A Special ! A Speclol ! My Kiugdom for a Special' . " When the reader remembers the importance that the forlorn Richard attached to the possession of" a Horse , " when he exclaimed , "A Horse ! A Horse ! My Kingdom for a Horse ! " he can well imagine the Queen of England , on the 10 th of A p ril , whose " Crown anil Dignity " was supposed to depend upon the loyalty of the " Specials , "—exclaiming ,
"A Special ! A Sp cial ! My Kingdom for a Special !" On that fatal day , when the weakness caused by the corruption of her Government , compelled not only the British People , but Foreign States , to believe that England was a nest of traitors , ready to rebel against their Sovereign , to sack the Palace , and destroy her life _ on that fatal day the Whigs proclaimed a war of the rich against the poor ; they have armed class against class , and , in their weakness , rely upon the falsely-created terror of their foes , to preserve them in power .
While England boasts of being at peace with the world—in its present state of convulsion—her Ministers have embroiled her in domestic wai * . The People , led by their teaching , and by them taught the power that the Constitution conferred upon all , have sought their rights pointed out by that Constitution ; they have humbly petitioned , and their Petition—made obscene ; by Policemen , by Excisemen , by Pensioners , by Spies , and hired traitors—has been scoffed at by Parliament . They have assembled , according to
the Constitution , to pray Her Majesty to dismiss Her Ministers , and they have been bludgeoned and dispersed by brute force . They have spoken in the language taught to them by Whigs and Free Traders , and they have been persecuted by that law which Whigs and Free Traders relied upon as their protection . They have said , " that Taxation without Representation is tyranny , and should be resisted , " as taught by the Whigs—the Whigs who now say , that the mere threat of resistance is Felony , and that the Felon should be transported .
The Free Traders have headed their articles with " Bread or Blood : " their principal organ , the " Morning Chronicle , ' ' reminding the wives of those win opposed Free Trade that ladies' heads were dragged in the gutter aforetime , and that they should be cautious how they resisted the people ' s demand for bread . These are the lessons that the pupils have learned from their teachers seeking power , while the transport and the dungeon are the reward of those pupils for proclaiming their Whig lessons . Butwo would ask our Whig rulers whether , in the present state of Europe , when excitement all but closes the markets of
the world against us—when every other country is nettled by our insolent interference , or jealous of our presumed power—in our present financial state , and in the distracted state of parties , we would ask them if they still hope to preserve tke old system of terror , to extract taxes from the fears of those whose rights , they tell them , will otherwise be destroyed , and whose properties will be confiscated ? Do they rely upon the profligacy of their Press—upon the bribe-money of the aristocracy—and upon the intrigues of banished kings , ministers , and diplomatists , to whom we have afforded shelter—to destroy the effect of the French Revolution , andthereby wed the people of his country more strongly
than ever to the present system ? Are they aware , that although the people of England may be behind other countries in the art of creating ententes and erecting barricadesthat , nevertheless , the cause of real liberty , and the means of establishing it , and its value , is more firml y implanted in the English mind than in the mind of any other people of any other country in the world ? and are they yet vain enough to hope to stab the mind which oppression has made national—to shoot that sentiment which persecution has made unanimous—or to bludgeon that opinion which universal suffering has concentrated ? No ; the mind of England , now , is gathered into one volition—a volition which will be realised in
spite of a suborned press—of a corrupt government—its spies , informers and armaments ; in spite of this unholy Trinity of a bribed newspaper , a corrupt Government , and an affrighted aristocracy . The " Times" newspaper , the fears of the aristocracy , and the depression of tradefalsely said to he created by Chartist violence—is now the stock in trade of the
expiring Whig faction , and but for those appliances and the subtlety of Peel , who is urging them on to that point of destruction from which there will be no hope of retreat , they could not hold office for twenty-four hours . Fear and an empty Exchequer is the tenure upon which they hold . When a complaint is made of the brutality of the police , the flippant Home Secretary extols them for their forbearance , and he is cheered to distraction .
Chartist violence is held to be the justification for destroying the Constitution , and the Chartists are fancifully told that their cause would better prosper if they confined them selves to a legitimate discussion of their grievances , an * 1 the agitation of their political princi p les . How p hilosophic—how toleranthow sublime ! Have not the Chartists for now thirteen continuous years discussed their grievances , and agitated their political princip les ? And hits there been a paper , with one single exception , to proclaim those grievances beyond the limits of
the Chartist ranks J On the contrary , have not Chartist meetings been scoffed at as insignificant and unworthy of notice * and their petitions mocked , until the Chartists assumed a bolder front—until at length , as we prop hecied , the silence of * the Press would make Chartism one day appear as a monster to those who doubted its very existence ? and that , instead of being met in its progress by reason ' , and timel y uud prudent concessions , at last it should be met in its giant strength by force , until at length not only is the open and advised speaking" of the hungry and the destitute designated and punished as felony , but . the Whi g
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liavernment hopes to oase us tenure upon popular silence , by the total suppression of public opinion . Like cowards , they are brave where there is no danger—they are crouching where they dread resistance . They dared not interfere with the gathering of the whole population of Sheffield and its district , notwithstanding the remonstrance of the magistrates ; while upon Wednesday they showed their vigour by occupying the town of Loughborough and the railway station with police , specials , and dragoons . This is vigour , hut Sheffield was cowardice j and yet they presume to withhold the legitimate rights ot the people by armed force , with an empty Exchequer , and declining trade . They imagine that the aristocracy and the middle classes will still furnish the means
of perpetuating a civil war , that an incompetent ministry may live upon its fruits ; while they unwittingl y and tyrannically throw every obstacle in the way of the poor to release themselves from poverty , by becoming purchasers and cultivators of the soil . And even this they seek to do by a conspiracy of the darkest , the blackest , and the most hellish nature , but in that they will not only be foiled , but exposed . They were told . in the House of Commons that the effect of the " Gagging Bill" would be the establishment of clubs and secret
societies , and we now warn them that the suppression of public meetings and of public opinion , will be the means of creating a state of things which the best friends of the popular cause and freedom will not be able to resist . They may make martyrs and felons , but from every drop of the martyr ' s blood , and from every sigh of the felon ' s heart , will spring ten thousand patriots to avenge the martyr ' s death and the felon ' s sigh .
Is not every man of common sense in the kingdom , aware that the Times newspaper is hired to get up those emeiites , for the purpose of affrighting the enemies of government ; while the Chronicle , the quondam advocate of Free Trade and of Liberalism , and the propounder of Colonel Mazzaroni ' s system of street warfare , is nibbling with its decayed teeth at the fortress of Whiggery , in the hope
of preparing the country for the restoration of Peel to power . \ Ve know not what " Ready Reckoner' * this " fascinating financier " may be prepared with to replenish the exhausted exchequer / 'We know not what further extension of Free Trade he may be prepared to recommend ; but this we do know , that if it is not Free Trade in politics , he will find that the genius of the age is resistless , and has gone beyond him .
As we predicted , thirteen years ago , the bidding between the auctioneers , Peel and Russell , has commenced , and Russell , in the true spirit of competition , has put it up " at any price , " and " as loiv as you please , gentle men ; " the abolition of the ASSESSED TAX PAYING CLAUSES inflicted by the Reform Bill — not the rate-paying clauses , which would be a benefit to the poor voter : but
tha tax-paying clauses which will be a benefit to the rich voter , and will press hardly upon the non-voter , as he will have to make good the defalcation in the Exchequer consequent upon this boon to the favoured class . In conclusion , we would again warn the Whigs not to goad the people into resistance and then torture them because they do resist ; we would remind them of the iruisms and the follies of their leader .
W hen Lord John Russell proposed his J w Bill he said , " that those who bore the burdens should share . ' the honours of the state . " In glorifying himself and congratulating the country on the 10 th of April , he said , ''that the people to a man were ready to rally around their Queen and the constitution . '' In supporting the Alien Bill , he declared " that the English working classes were loyal to a man . '' What , then , will foreign nations , who have achieved all the reforms that the English people look for , say to the denial of those rights to so loyal a people , who are ready to rally round the Queen and the constitution ?
He threatened the Irish people with resisting Repeal in " the field of battle . ' ' He advocated the " Gagging Bill , " as necessary to suppress sedition and prevent treason in Ireland , and when its first effect was evident in a temporary lull of politics and sedition , he turned with , a sneer to his backers , and , as if iu lamentation and sorrow , thriving best upon sedition and treason , he said , tauntingly and contemptuously , that since the en . actment of the measure the accounts of sedition and treason from Ireland were "VAPID and UNINTERESTING , " « FLAT , STALE and UNPROFITABLE : " as
though the real object of the minister of England was to goad the Irish people into rebellion , as he mocked them in the House of Commons when bis measure failed to produce the anticipated result . But we warn the noble lord of the folly of those undignified taunts , and yet secure threats . We tell him that the trodden worm may turn—" thatthe generous soul forgives an insult , but never pardons a contempt '* — "that the Irish people do not acknowledge his dominion , " and let him beware how he tempts them to rid themsehes of it in the "battle field . "
While , as for the English Chartists , he may rest assured that neither the " Times , '' the bludgeon , nor the bayonet—the fears of one class , nor the presumption of the other—can much longer withhold from the English people those rights which are now becoming the basis of the Constitution of all the other countries of Europe ; and let those who dread the result of those measures bear in mind that tho ignorance of the Labour Question has caused distraction abroad , in the first instance , and has led to reaction ; while | the English mind is fully prepared upon a principle — not of
plunder and spoliation , of idleness , dissipation , and dissolution—but that they are prepared to live in the sweat of their own brow , making the rich richer , and the poor rich ; making idleness a crime , when the Labour field is open ; and this , we believe , they are determined to accomplish , and , in its accomplishment , they shall have our best , our every , our incessant , and untiring co-operation , in spite of the "Times , " the Whigs , and their bludgeons ; and again we caution them not to tamper with a starving people , as , " Hunger , '' we are told , " will break through stone walls . "
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EMIGRATE ! EMIGRATE ! EMIGRATE 11 Breathes there a man with soul so dead , Who never to himself hath said , This Is my own , my native land !" Those are the words of the poet . " Honour thy father and thy aoeher , that thy days may bo long in the land which the Lor , , thy Gad , hath given thse !" This is the commandment ofthe Lord , OUR God .
AGITATE ! AGITATE !' . AGITATE ' . !! These were the words of Lord Anglesea , the representative of his Monarch in Ireland . Here we have shown the love of fatherland , as described b y the poet , and the injunction to abide in it , as comm ; inded bv our God . But . so completely has the system under which ive live destroyed the finest feelings of man ' s nature , and so opposed is it to the injunctions of the Creator , that the tyrant oppressors , whose luxury presses hardly upon the means of subsistence , would now propose the Emigration of the poor and the industrious as the only re
medy For the evils they themselves 3 Jiave created . They have enlisted ; i foreign Prince , who found shelter in this hospitable land , to marshal the emigrant army , no doubt ( giving him credit for kindly feeling ) under the impression thiit all would bo Princes , Field M ; irshals , Colonels , or Pensioners , in the land of their adoption . However , when the realisation of the principles of political economy have puzzled the first writers upon this abstruse subject , it is some compensation to the contrihators to find that our Prince Albert ha & solved the problem . As aa ^ migrant * himse ! f , " anu ' a -jt ^ ce ^^ fta
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one , doubtless he anticipates the same happ reception for others who leave their native shores . If we had not an objection to the principle of Emigration because it is repug . nant to the feelings of the emigrant—to the pride of the outcast , and the injunction of his God—what we have seen of late years of the details of carrying out thi 9 system of transportatian would justify our opposition . When we find that speculators in human blood will commit the lives of human beings to frail and shattered vessels to which they would not commit their merchandise ; when we hear of
the disasters that have happened ; of the smo . therings—the sufferings — the wrecks and starvations—the blood recoils when we find a prince , a luxurious hierarchy , and professing philanthro pists , in the face of these notorious facts , still urging Emigration as tbe last means of salvation . But these may be said to be casualties—untoward events—events which frequently happen to other cargoes as well as human beings—events that could not be provided against . This argument , however , canno longer be quoted by the philanthropist as in Wednesday ' s " Times , " we find a letter signed " Ah quis / ' actually recommending the transportation of the English people in ships
of war that have been condemned to be brolcen up ! I his writer , like most of the writers in the " Times , " who scribble hurriedly in the cockloft , would lead us to suppose that the emigrants would be transported in ships that are alread y broken up ; but being decipherers of newspaper hieroglyphics , we gather his meaning from his mumping , and give him the benefit of the most humane construction of his abstruse sentence . But what will the reader think of committing human beings to a condemned vessel , not fit to carry guns , and re « commending that one thousand emigrantsbesides the necessary crew—should be stowed away in this floating pest-house ?
Is it not monstrous that this doctrine should he preached by idle non-preducers to industrious producers ? Is it not monstrous that the bone , the muscle , and the sinew of this country , should pine , and wither , and decay , while millions } of dross are hoarded in our bank as the fictitious emblem that is supposed to represent the commercial wealth and speculation of the country ? Those objections only refer to the dangers of a voyage , while to them we may add the despondency , the destroyed hope . and disappointment , of those who are allured by the anticipation of immediate and
remunerative employment , of comfort , contentment , and happiness , when the slaves shall reach the promised land . Who cares for him , —who cares for his wife and little children , — the moment they set foot upon the deck of the condemned cell ? And is not every man of common sense aware , tbat the humanity of these philanthropists is measured by the calculations of the actuary , showing the profit between the expense of transportation , and the amount of poor rates that it would require to sustain them at home . But our
doctrine is , that when God ' s ordinances shall have been fulfilled , —when the lordly oak that presses hardly upon the means of subsistence -shall be levelled , —when thfe wild and . the heather , the wilderness and the barren spots , the race course and unproductive common , shall be subdued to man ' s purposeswhen the pampered war-horse and surplus pleasure steed shall cease to press hardly upon the means of subsistence—then , if the English people shall be an over population for the English land , we , in common with others , will cheerfully draw lots and take our chance of finding a home in other regions : but so long as
we see the profits of one class measured by the destitution of another—and so long as we see soil enough to give remunerative employment to all—we will hold fast by the principle of God ' s economy , believing in our souls that he has never created a mouth without creating wherewithal to put into it , earned by the sweat of the parent ' s brow , until his offspring is capable of maintainingihimself , and also his parent in old age . That is divine political economy , and that is what is meant by the command to " Honour thy father and thy mother ; " it means , that as thy father and thymother sustained thee in weakness and in
infancy , thou shalt be the prop of their old age , and support them in return . That is what is meant by God ' s injunction to the husbandman , when he says , " Tliou shalt not reap all the corners of thy field , neither shalt thou gather all the grapes of thy vineyard , thou shalt leave them for the stranger , the widow , and the orphan . " This was a system of Communism propounded by the Creator , when he intended that his children should be members of the same family , all equal in his sight , and all partakers of his gifts j and until those Hol y ordinances are . religiously carried out , the terms
LIBERTY , EQUALITY AND FRATERNITY , are a mockery , " " a delusion , " and a snare . '' Emancipation was a by word ; agitation was the means of its accomplishment recommended by the Mavquis of Anglesea . " PEACE , RETRENCHMENT , AND REFORM , " was the next bubble ; then HIGH WAGES , CHEAP BREAD , AND
PLENTY TO DO , and now comes , LIBERTY FRATERNITY , EQUALITY ; while those , whose courage forced the adop tion of the unmeaning motto upon the aristo cracy and shopkeepers of Paris , are now par taking of the literal meaning of these inspir ing words in
THE SWORD , THE MUSKET , AND THE BAYONET . Thus we show that all those rallying cries have failed to produce enough of potatoes for the starving Irish—enough of bread for the starving English—or enough of work for the starving French . And with these damning facts before us , whereb y we incontestibly prove that fools and 'dupes have been gulled by some " will-o ' -the-wisp , " got up by designing ! factions , are we now to adopt another Trinity of delusion—the greatest that has been yet propounded—the cuckoo cry of
EMIGRATE ! EMIGRATE ! EMIGRATE ? Will any man emigrate from choice I and is it just that he should emigrate from coercion ? Is the poor man to break up his humble home and drag his family to the condemned hulk , to brave the dangers of the deep and rel y upon the philanthropy of those who starved him at home to secure a happy home for him abroad ? torn from his friends—estranged from his native land—a houseless * wanderer—an outcast and an outlaw—elected by favour and by choice to be a consumer of the produce of his brother English slaves , produced while they themselves are starving ? Is he , we ask , to be placed in this situation while the land of his birth , upon which his God commanded him to live in the
sweat of his own brow , is calling for his industry , and is read y , in return , to y ield its abundance , whereb y lie may live in the land of his birth in happiness , contentment , and peace ? It is the evil distribution caused by an evil system , that renders this fallacy necessary , and never was it better illustrated than in the dialogue between the childless Bishop of Chester , and Daniel the Chartist Shoemaker . The Bishop would fain impress upon ^ the Shoemaker that the destitution of the poor was ; t
cur .-e from God , and was a consequence of their immorality , and , he added , " Are you not a ware , Daniel , —are you not aware , —that Gud never created a . mouth without creating wherewithal to fill it ? '' " Yea , " replied Daniel—who waa blessed by God , but cursed by man , with t ; n children— " I know that as well as . thee , ' out the differ lies here , God sent all the mouths to my shop , and the Devil sent all the meat to thine . " Who cany deny that , under a just and , equitable system , there may he enough for ; t (! . 14 all are . Plowed , ^ pwfluw
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 17, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_17061848/page/4/
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