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January 30,1849. THE NORTHERN STAR, 5
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"LAWS GRIND TIIE POOR, AND RICH MEN RULE...
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The Vicrim*._Jolin Ai-Nntt, Somerstiwn. ...
Swiiir Glass ; Mr Bidcwell , ditto , one dozen of Brushes and forty-five Trints ; lire . Windier , ditto . Packet o Fleet laper . s .-did Tracts ; Tom Paine Localitv , Pope ' s Essay on Man ; Mr . Holers , Westminster , farmer ' s J . Sweet acknowled ges the receipt of the following sums , vh " - : —For Victim Fund : —From Hyson Green . Is . Gd . from Laaibley . 5 s ; Mr . Wilson , ( Jd . For Mrs . M'Douall —From a few Land Members , 2 s . ; Mr . Green , 3 d . j ^ lr . Brown , Kd . ; Mr . Wliitlev , 4 d . ; Mr . Joynes , ad . For Mr « VThite : —From Mr . Whitley , id . Mr . Sweet . Nottingham . —The charge for the advertisement is 4 s . fid . Mr . Uroamient , Staleyhrichre ; Mr . Holt , llochdulc ; and Air . llESKi ? . Halifax ; shrill have our tart y attention . I ; have not allowed their wmmunivatiuns to be thrown aside . —W . IIider . Mr . J . Blasd , Chester-le-street . We can send them if you have a hook ]« arcel from L < > ndi . n . The Victims is Kissdale Uaol . —The Female Chartists of Todmorden , per J . U <> liius .-. n , 2 » 3 . ; Kk-hard Palmer and a Few Friends . 2 b . —T . OitUKiim . secretary . W . Webb . —Xo such list has aji ] rf-. ired in this paper . J . W ., Plymouth . — Yes , you are liable to be taken at any time . 6 . A .. Winchester . —Arrested , hut not tried till 1 & 43 .
January 30,1849. The Northern Star, 5
January 30 , 1849 . THE NORTHERN STAR , 5
8eceipts Of Tfhe National Land Company. ...
8 ECEIPTS OF TfHE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY . For tiie Week Ending Thursday , Jam-art IS , 1 * 540 .
SHARES . £ s . d . £ s . d . "Westminster .. 0 10 Coventry .. 0 IS 0 Cardiff -. 0 2 0 Hristol * .. 1 5 « Backburn t .. 313 a Manehij . ntor .. 17 0 Bermonds-T .. 0 fi 0 Altcrpivenny .. " i 0 V Falkirk .. 0 15 « Mr llenernian .. 0 2 (; Lamlftfi .. 0 10 G Mr . Stewart .. 6 10 U Carepris .. 0 Hi 10 Mr . MiKire .. 0 10 Chej * t « w .. - 2 ; fi E . Hancock .. 0 ii 0 Hyde .. 3 11 0 Mr . Arthur .. 0 10 JotttiiiRliam . Mr . Lewis .. 0 10 Sweet .. ( I 15 2 B . Moss .. 0 14 0 Biffcopwewmouth ft 14 0 P . TruinUc .. 0 10 Frastuo , Brown 2 S 1 Horniuifhold .. 0 4 0 Hull .. 1 14 6 Hochdale .. 1 IT 2 £ 2 <> 15 0
EXPENSE FUND . CockM-mouth ' .. 0 2 0 I ' reston , Brown 0 4 o Westiainster .. 0 3 6 Bristol .. o 12 l'J Camjisie .. 0 4 O M . Swales .. o 2 « Ch «|^ ti . iw .. 0 5 0 jtathi ^ haia , £ 1 1 ( 3 1 Swxt .. 0 2 0 iS = S = 5 i TOTALS . ? Land Fund 20 15 0 Expense ditto ... ... ... 1 16 1 Bonn * ditto 21 13 10 Loan ditto ... ... ... 1 10 5 Transfers ... ... ... ... 0 19 0 £ 55 U 4 Xotics . —Tiie person wiio last week sent a Post Office Order ft > r £ l ., from Stab / bridge , without any address or advice , will oblige by immediately corresjKmdin" with the Directors as to its application . "VT . Dixon , C . Doti-e , T . Clirk . Cor . Sec . P . M'Grath , Fin . . Sec . j
Executive Fund. Per • >. Kydd.—Norwich, ...
EXECUTIVE FUND . Per > . Kydd . —Norwich , Conrad Springall , 5 s . ; Hudders-Bdd ( forwards ) , 5 s . ; Sheffield , G . CavilL Is . ; Sorthamp . ton . jter Mr . fijmell , " s . NEW YEAR ' S GIFT . Per S . Ktdd . —Huddersfield , E . . Sykes , Rs . & L IBrIi Burton , ditto , 6 s . 2 id . ; Hoidey , ditto , 5 s . 7 d .: Greenwich , J . Morgan . 2 s . ; Norwich , C . . Siiriuipdi . 5 . c . ; Hyson Greeu , , 1 . Sweet , Is . ; Mr . Lygo , ditto , Is . , Mr . Hunt , ditto , 3 d . ; Alnwick , J- Younjr , 5 s . ; Hampstead , Mr . Lund , 5 s . M . ; Greenwich . Mr . Paris , Is . ; Burnley . W . lJutterwortli , 4 s . ; Brighton , W . Flower , 6 s . ; Clitlieroe , J . Hvberfson . Is . ; ltob * rt Knowles , Is . ; Commerciiil Hall , Cs . ; Winchester , 8 s . : Star and Garter , 2 s . 9 d .
DEFENCE FUND . Per " VT . Rider . —t . Smith , Kidderminster , Is . ; S . Lyall , ditto , 3 d . ; G . Derbyshire . Leeds , Is . 4 d . ; W . Coltanan , Piano Forte Tuner , Leicester , 3 s . 6 iL ; Eastfield Side , Sutton , per T . Xajlor . 5 s . ; Nottingham , per . 1 . Sweet , os . ; V . Ash . worth and " T . Howartli , Is . 6 d . ; Council of Leicester Ifatioiiiil Charter Association , per 1 L Green , Ills .: Stoiesley . per W . Coates , 4 s . ; Midpley , l * r « T . Savior , 12 s . 6 d . ; "Worsbro' Common , i > er R . Ellison . l *< s . lid . ; Alnwick , jht J , Young ; 16 s . Gd . ; * JIolmfirth , ] kt II . Marsden , 2 s . Gd . ; Mr . Eirtwistle , Ashtoii . per Mr . Taylor , 2 s . ; Lincoln , per Mr Budd . 2 s . Cd . ; Swindon Xew Town ( proceeds of a Ball ) , per P . Thomjison , £ 1 « s . 2 d . ; Carlisle , per Mr . Gilfeertsou . I 0 s .-Tot . il , £ 6 3 s . 2 d .
VICTIM FUND . Per S . Ktdd . —Sheffield . G . Oavill , ' - ' s . ; HuddersfieW , Mr . Jessop . fid . ; Norwich , W . Tuffs , 2 s . Ud . ; Aslacton , Uriah Woodeivft , Is . fid . ; John-street Institution . Three Friendis , i ' s . Sd . ; Mrs . Blake . ? d . Per Lam > Ofhce . —Birkenhead . Is . ; G . Cocik , Lambeth , 2 s . ; Mr . l'anis , Gre » n \ rich , 3 s . ; Robert Jervis , Is . ; Georjre Dempster , 3 s . ; An Old CliartiBt , Is . ; Win . Butterwortli , Burnley , 4 s . ; Daniel Broad . Is . ; James Hewart . Is . fid . ; Thomas Bitmead , Is . ; J . Davies , Whittingtijn and Cat , fls .
FOR WIVES AND FAMILIES OF VICTIMS Per W . RlDEB . —Easttfeld Side , Sutton , perT . Xaylor , 5 s . : Holmfirtli , per H . Marsdea . 2 s . Sd . ; London , Mr . Wood , 2 k . 2 d .: tBrighton , ptr W . Flower , £ 1 12 s . Cd . FOR MRS- JONES . Per W . Rider . —London . Mesdames Sewlev , Magee , Aclan , and Simmons , 2 s . fid . FOR MRS . M'DOUALL . Per W . Rideil—Loudon , Mesdames Xewlej , Magee , Adan . and Simmons , 2 s . fid
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" The sum of 4 s . 2 « L , acknowledged last % veek from Holmfii-tli , for Executive , was for Defence Fund ; and the £ 1 10 s . from Hamilton , was intended for Families of Victims . t This sum ( with t ! s . sent for Executive ) was the produce of a concert held , in commemoration of the aged patriot's natal day , at the Artichoke Inn . Mr . Flower is "S years of ace , and " can yet battle the enemy like a " good ' unr "
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LETTERS TO THE WORKING CLASSES . XXXL " Words are thins ? , and a small drop of ink f : illins—Eke dew—ujkhi a thought , produces That which makes tliuucands , perhaps millions , think . " ETSON .
"Laws Grind Tiie Poor, And Rich Men Rule...
"LAWS GRIND TIIE POOR , AND RICH MEN RULE THE LAWS ' . ' ' Brother Proleweuks , The destruction of human life at the Infant Pauper Establishment at Tooting , is another frightful example of the working of that blessed system , which has of late been so often eulogised as "the admiration of tfce world and the envy of surrounding nations . " By the " system" 1 mean not merely ihe Government of Queen , Lords , Commons , feather-bed Field Marshals , Maids of Honour , Judges , Bishops , Soldiers , Policemen , and Spies . I mean the system in its social , as well as its
political , character . A system I pronounce villauous and murderous . " Walk , " said ihe Timer , addressing Locis Blakc , a few minths ago : " Walk along Regent-street , and view the sh ^ ps filled to repletion with the produce of this country and tho wealth of the world . Gaze thereon , and contrast therewith the hilf-ruincd capital yon have come from , and you will thea be compelled to acknowledge our greatnes as a nation , and the wisdom of those who founded , and those who haye preseryed those glorious institutio * . ? , which ensure the stability of 'Order' with ifa consequent blessings—national riches , and general contentment !"
Such was the meaning ( if not the precise words ) of the insolent address of the Times to Louis Blanc . All the while the Itmrs well knew that the person it addressed had but to diverge a few streets from the line of promenade recommended , to find misery fully equal to -perhaps excelling—anything of the sort to befound in Paris . The Time * knew that almost within Bight of the Pimlico Palace , and under the yery walls of the Hall of the Legislature , the most deplorable poverty abounded , and brutal ignorance flourished ! to an extent unknown in the French capital . "Where Want and Ignorance have their habitations Vice naturally reigns . Westminster Cathedral is too pure to admit the statue of Byron , trat not too delicate to receive the wages of infamy , in the shape of rental for brothels . The grim gaol of Tothill Fields is a fitting accompaniment to palace and abbey .
And east , north , and south , as well as west , Louis Blaxc might have found overwhelming evidences of the rottenness of the much-vaunted English system . That superannuated buffoon , Punch , contains in its impression published this week an imaginary picture of John Ball and his family , Jnxuriating in allthecomforts ofa model English home . Johnisas plethoric as a prize ox , and as happy as a well-fed idiot . Of course the rest of the family are to match . Surrounding this picture there are caricatures of the French , Spanish , Italian , and German nations ; the whole breathing of civil war , murder , and misery of every kind . " Communism " is made to wield the torch and dagger , and all is havoc , ruin , and desD & ir . You see the contrast intended to be made
manifest to the naked eye . But to prevent all mistakes , like the artist (?) who had drawn ( what at least he intended for ) a horse , and then wrote under It , " This is a horse ! " Cunch writes under his central picture , '' There is no place like home ! " Now turn your eyes from the fudgeries of this Z ^ att / . w-buffoon to the horrible realities of the Tooting pest-house ! In - *^« f ^ fancy picture of an Englishman ' s home , the children , surrounded by everv comfort , not to say luxury , are some stud y _ in-, ' « ome romping , all appar ently happy ! \ ery ft- perhaps , ot the interior of Pimlico palace , but he yen reverse of the actualities of Droueft faf Jen in that pefhouse the unhappr ehddren have been sacrificed at the altarof . Profit ihe »™„^„ i .,.- v . ^ a \>~ " farmine" pauper bo \ s ana giri ^ on the
andiu ^" he famedthem , the e ^ ence ing will inform vou . Over-crowding , lack oyentuation , insufident clothing improper and iterant food , damp , cold , and foul eiliala ^ ons Pjodacrf «« w natural results-first diarrho ^ then ^" i'KS days elapsed between the appearai ? c 0 I l f F { 1 , monitory symptoms' and the breaking ° ™¦ " . ' Plague , yet no steps were taken to arrest < ae " . border , and prevent the coming of to J * : |"„ i ^•• " Se . The surrounding nuisances re ^ aiEeu
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unabated—there was no improvement in clothing , food , or ventilation—no amendment in the medical department of the establishment . The Destroyer came , and within a fortnight eighty children—so says Mr . Wakley—were carted away to the grave Ilappy were the unfortunate children when death terminated their sufferings . Imagine the poor creatures , two , three , and even four , in a bed , some just seized with the disease , some far advanced in suffering , some in the extreme state of agony , and others dying ! Imagine these wretched little beings , vomiting and purging with that violence and torture which are distinguishing marks of cholera , with no adequate convenience or attendance . — "I found , " says Mr . Grainger , "four of the female
!( ' «)• * under the care of one nurse . " Messrs . Grauvser and Popham relate that the floor and bedclothes were soaked with the evacuations of the suffering children , owing to the total insufficiency of nurses and attendants . Amidst these horrors upwards of a hundred of the victims perished . The records of voyages on the fatal coast of Africa could alone furnish any parallel to this wholesale destruction of human life . But the victims of the Niger expedition encountered death with their eves open . They were not compelled to brave such ' a doom . The Exeter Hall Philanthropists" projected and the Government patronised that insane enterpiige , but the men who engaged in it , knew the character of the climate they dared to encounter . Moved by
the love of adventure or tho hope of reward , they went on their romantic expedition with their lives in their hands , and too manv of the brave fellows paid the fatal penalty of their temerity . But , in the case of the " pauper-children , " the poor victims were not free agents . They did not voluntarily take up their abode at Tooting . In encountering the privations and abominations which led them to death , they were anmated neither by the love of adventure , nor the hope of fame or reward . The helpless victims of a pitiless system , they were "farmed out" to live if they could live , and if not to die . And such a death ! " Marcus'' was a philanthropist , compared with those who , at present , proride for the "Extinction of Pauperism" by
extinguishing the paupers lives . It is true that that ' philosopher" proposed a legalised systtm of plain , downright MURDER , but then he showed himself not utterly mercile s when he proposed to murder by " painless extinction . " What father but would rather tliat his children , if they raust perish , should die by an over-application of ether or chloroform , than by the horrible disease engendered jn the Tooting pest-house ! Marcus must be regarded as a minister of humanity , when compared with the inhuman traffickers in the lives of " pauper-children . " Behold the fruits of the blessed system glorified by the truculent Times and the rest of the vile Pressgane . Ilappy England ! " There is no plate like home . ' "
The Tiw ha » recently started on a crusade against mendicants and begging-impostors . No one can doubt that the street shams are a numerous c ' ass , but to condemn all who appeal to the passer-by for alnw , would be gross injustice . Many impostors are not to be mistaken , particularly the preaching and psalm-singing vagabonds , who of late years have so much infested the streets . But undeniable facts attest that too many honest men are driven to mendicity as their last resource . A few days ngo , it was stated , at a meeting of the rate-payers of St . Andrew's , Holborn , that fifty thousand artisans in London alone were out of employment . Will th ? Times assert that these fifty thousand men , or any portion of them , driven to the streets , are impostors ? A
correspondent of the Builder having suggested that the arches of the South-Western Railway at Lambith might be floored and boarded at the sides to serve as night refuges for the houseless poor , the Athemeum remarks thereon that" Few of the sons and daughters of luxury in this " metropolis know how many of their fellow-citizens " are homeless amid all its homes —have no other " place in which to shelter their heads from the " north wind than door-ways , benches in the parks , " railway arches , cold stone steps , and gutters . " These homelm ones map 6 « counted in thousand ? " They embrace women and children — infants of " tender age — ivho absolutely never knew the meaning " of the word 'home . ' "
Are these homeless thousands impostors ? And how does it happen that if mendicity is the thriving calling it is asserted to be by the limes , that these unhappy denizens of the streets , cannot obtain sufficient from public charity to enable them to procure a night ' s lodging ? Believe me , brother proletarians , there are more impostors , than those who hail from St . Giles ' s . There are impostors in " purple and fine \ inen , " in silk and broad-cloth , in wigs and shovel-hats ; and I fancy you will agree with me , that
" Arogite in rags is twice a rogue m lawn . Street-beggars , too , are not the only persons who live by lying , otherwise certain gentlemen in Printing House-square might go hungry . Of all impostors , assuredly those are the worst who cry up the present system as the perfection of wisdom , and who insult the wretched by reminding them that " there is no place like home !" L'Ami du Feuple . London , Jan . I 8 th , 1819 .
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PUBLIC MEETING . THE LATE CHARTIST TRIALS . — CHARTIST ORGANISATION . A crowded public meeting convened h-y the Executive Committee , was held at the Literary and Scientific Institution , John-street , Fitzroy-square , on Monday evening , January 15 th . Mr . Henry Ross was unanimously called to the chair , and said : He thought it right that every man should have the opportunity of scanning the conduct of those in power , and pronouncing an opinion thereon ; if we had not such a power , or such liberty , then wore we slaves . It was little use railing at the measures of the government , as the government was invariably the reflex of the middle classes . Wo meet to-night not to impugn the right of any—but , on the contrary , to maintain , defend , and demand
rights for all . ( Loud cheers . ) We belong to no party—are of no faction , but are of the people , and lor the people . He would introduce Mr . Dixon to move the first resolution ;—" That , in the opinion of this meeting-, government prosecutions instituted against individuals for the expression of their political opinions , have been in all ages odious and unjust ; and have , in most cases , originated with the governing faction from a desire on \ heir part to check and lessen the liberty of the subject . That the evidence adduced during the late state trials at the Old Bailey in London , and in the courts of York and Liverpool , clearly prove a disgraceful system of espionage to have been practised by the Russell Cabinet , and their emnlovers . for the basest of purposes , and calls loudly
for the opposition and censure of every enlightened and liberal-minded citizen of the realm . " Mr . Dixox , on rising to move the first resolution , was received with loud applause . He said , that it was now a dangerous thing to stand upon a platform to enunciate political opinions since the passing of the Whig Gagging Bill , which measure had been passed for the express purpose of circumscribing the liberty of the subject . He , however , thought that the people had vet some privileges left , which they could and should exercise , one of which was to ' lueet in public , and mark with their severest censuro such despotic measures . For such a constitutional purpose they were met on this occasion . The resolulution which he had read called in question the
conduct of the Russell Cabinet-, as manifested in tho late state trials , and he , Mr . Dixon . hoped in discussingthis matter that they would do it calmly , but at the same time firmly . For his part , he considered the conduct of the government highly reprehensible ; and when he called to mind the way in which the Whigs in days gone by used to point out to tho people the conduct of tiie Castlcreagh and Sidmouth administrations in the use of •?/> ¦«* and informers , he was almost surprised ( if anything the Whigs did oug ht to surprise him ) to find Russell and Grey in the late prosecutions , acting a part more derogatory and despicable than even Castlereagh and Sidmouth . He charged them and thoir creatures with getting up those conspiracies , and he thought merr man who attended the trials at the Old
Bailey would be of the same opinion . It is now a matter of history , brought out in the evidence of Powell ( or lying ' Tom ) , who stated that he was in constant communication with tho authorities long before anv steps were taken tp prevent the conspiracy but everv thing done to entrap a few enthusiastic men ; then we had Barrett or' Hell fire Dick , ' who said he-joined the Chartists on purpose to entrap them—he joined them in the last weekm May , and he was in communication with the authorities the first week in June . If this conduct is to be tolerated no man is safe ; hc saw no hope of a change from this imjnst and disgraceful state , of things , untU the people in the liiajesty of their mtelligonce say that nusrule and oppression must cease Mr Dixon then read the resolution , and resumed his seat amid the plaudits of the meeting . the resolution After tho
Mr M'Giutii seconded . Whig reign of terror through which thev had just pastf it ^ s a matter of complacency to the friend * of the movement , to witness so numerou s ain assem bly , determined once more to rear aloft tbfl br ^ t banner of tiie Charter , with the motto Of ao Surrender . " ( Cheers . ) The infamous conduct of the Whig Ministry had imposed a sokmn duty upon all honest citizens . ( Hear . ) And that was a distinct and manlv repudiation of that perfidious state poliev which concocts consp iracies , and maK . es pimps , spies , peijurcrs , and ^ informers par . anil parcel of the inachinerv of government , ( - - " ^ j He resolution which had been so lucidly Mibmitteu to tbe mcctinc bvMr . Dixon , pronounced , in unmistakable lang uage , sentence of condemnation upon J : « < lv insid ous , anti-English policy , lyiants tore m ri : ' ^ failed tWefres of the odious
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services of spies and informers . It is said , by a Roman historian , that the decline of the glory of the Eternal city was characterised by the employment of spies ; w ' hat delight the millions of Great Britain would experience , could they assure themselves that the utter and eternal downfall of Whiggery was portended by the same sign . ( Cheers , f We have heard from time to time much eloquent denunciations of the . unjust rule of Sidmouth and Castlereagh . More worthy in my opinion , of condemnation , is the sway of Russell and Grey . ( Hear , hear . ) In the davs of the first two worthies , espionage and subordination wcro uiiblusliingly practised . Madden , the Irish historian , informs us that from 1790 to 1 S 0 U , abandof profligate wretches were suuoortcd in Dublin at the public expense ,
whose horrible business was to swear away the liberty or lives of those whom infuriated authority marked as victims . These monsters occupied a house opposite Kilmainham jail , and a part of the prison , which are to this day known respectively as the stag-house and stag-yard . But the greater portion of them were lodged" within the precincts or the castle , and under the ey « of the Lord-Lieutenant , drilled by Majors Sirr , " Swann , and Sandys , to expertness in their hellish culling . ( Hear . ) * Many a noble Irish spirit languished a long life in chainsmany a . patriotic heart hl « d mpon the scaffold through the perjury of these detested fiends . But which are the most infamous , those dregs of hnmanjty who take the blood money and murder by
perjury , or the master monsters by whom they are fostered , paid and instructed I Our Whig government have been recently indulging themselves in some of theso pranks of despotism . They have sent their spies among society , who have concocted and fostered conspiracies , to * the end that they might receive the reward of tbeir betrayal . It will ever be the case , that as long as the » py is encouraged , even when not special ^ instructed to do so , he himself will get up plots and explode them , to show his masters his worth and utility to the public eervice . Such has been the conduct of the villain Powell , ali « s lying Tom , one of the blackest monsters that ever disgraced the witness box , or polluted the Evangelists .
Poor , honest , and enthugiaetio Caffey —( loud cheers ) inwho so often stood upon this platform advocating — his rough , but fervid a ' nd truthful manner , the princi p les of Democracy , with ucvernl others , is the victim of this Whig-inxtructed fiend . Another of the allws of her Majesty ' s jridviscus in their crusade against Cliartism , is Mr . Barrett ; a convicted thief . Next come sa particular protegee of Sir John Jervis , whom he introduces to tho notice of the court as a r # epectable man . His respectability was , however , considerably dimbiishcd before he left the witness-box . Sine © his debut at the Old Bailey his stock-in-trade was sold up by his landlord for twelve shillings , and liia household furniture for lef t than a pound . ( Laughter . ) Before
tliis filthy wretch bectiKio a Whig crssader against liberty he supported himself upon the guilty profits of a brothel . Such were the instruments wielded by Whiggery to entrap , degrade , and crush enthusiastic but incautioiu Chartiste . But , thank God ! instead of degrading and crushing our cause , they recklessly loaded themselves with an amount of obloquy under which they may stagger for a time , but which must ultimately crush them as a political party . ( Cheer * . ) The conduct of the judge in passing sentence upon Cuifey and the other victims of espionage , was most mnbecoming . Every man
is interested in driving froai power a faction which endangers the lives and liberties of the community . Mr M'Grath proceeded « till further to comment upon the atrocity of the spy syetein , during which Mr O'Connor , accompanied by Mr Clark , entered the hall . No sooner did the audience get a sight of the champion of democracy , than he was greeted by the most deafening cheering and waving of hats and handkerchiefs , which lasted during his progress to the platform , and was renewed with the greatest enthusiasm on his taking his seat . On the subsidence of the cheering , Mr M'Grath concluded his address , amid loud cheering , by secoading the resolution .
Mb . S . Ktdd , who win rc « eivcd with loud applause , then came forward to support the resolution . On coming forward he read a lstter of apology from Julian Harney , expressive of his sympathy with the political prisoners , and his regret that his pressing duties , in connexion with the Northern Star , prevented him attending the meeting . Mr . Kydd then proceeded to say , that the mover and seconder of the resolution had said , with a great show of justice , that government wci' 9 the promoters of the conspiracies that had been complained of . In Bradford the middle classes had suffered themselves to be frightened almost out of existence—spies had been employed—riots and tumults had prevailed ; yet , in Leeds , a manufacturing town only ten miles distant , hi which the same species of trading existed , and with a much larger population , no riots or tumults prevailed . Why ' ( Because Mr . Carbut , a highly intelligent man , propkling as mayor ,
respecting public opinion , and calling public meetings for its expression on all occasions—refused to be a tooland , consequently , no spies were employed , and the peace of the town wag preserved . At Bingley , in the same county , an ignorant magistracy suppressed public opinion—spies were employed—victims were made—and gaols were filled . At Eeighley , a few miles off , the people refused to have anything to do with police and constabulary , but were their own protectors , and no disorder—no scenes of riot prevailed . Did not these things bring the conspiracy home to the government ? ( Loud cheers . ) It was a proverb ; " That curses , like chickens , came home to roost , " and he thought that the curse of spyism would fall upon the Whigs . Those who wanted the Charter must do something more than ask—they must show their faith in their good works . Then up , and by your wise words and virtuous actions show vour faith in the words of the poet ,
that" Freedom ' s battle once begun , Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son , Though battled oft is ever won . " The resolution was then put and carried unanimously . . Mr . Stallwood rose to move the second resolution as follows :-- " That government , to be of practical benefit to society , securing protection to the life , property , and interest of all its members , ought in justice to reflect the intelligence , probity and will of the majority of the people ; and we , in public meeting assembled , are decidedly of opinion that such result would be eventually secured , by ihe enactment of the People ' s Charter as the basis of the representative portion of the British constitution . "
This resolution asserted the great principle enunciated some fifty years ago bv that astute Englishman , who by his severe simplicity and moral grandeur , aided by his " Common Sense , " had called up a great people and erected a great nation : he said " that every man had a right to one vote in the choice of a representative , it belongs to him in right of his existence ; his person is his title docdi" ( Ap ^ plause . ) Where was the danger of . Universal Suffrage ? The danger was the withholding of the right —not in granting it ? Was there danger in the late Parisian election , at which Rasjiail , then Juid now a prisoner at Vincennes , polled upwards of seventyfive thousand VOtCB and was returned a member of the National Assembly ? Was danger shown in the recent Presidential election , in which upwards of seven millions of persons recorded their votes without so much as ruffling a hah * on a lady ' s poodle ? (? Laughter and applause . ) Ay , but say they the
people of France did not show much wisdom in electing under Universal Suffrage , a prince for a president . This he granted , the French were novices * . they had recently undergone the transition from serfdom to freedom , but their approximation to . Chartism would permit them at the end of four years to take advantage of their increased knowledge , and , profiting by their experience , make a choice probably more favourable to the interest of democracy . ( Cheers . ) The . Charier destroys the Property Qualification and g ives you a free choice iu the selection of your representatives , it enables you to select from "the order of industry" and in Labour ' s ranks . Let no vestry , parish or public meeting pass over , without raising your voice in favour of the principles of democracy . Persevere , and depend on it your legitimate exertions must result in establishing universal liberty and social happiness . ( Great cheering . )
Mr Clakk , in seconding the motion , said ,, tins resolution asserts that government- was designed to protect the lives and properties of all the members of the state , without distinction ,, and it is upon this presumption that tiie demand . for the Charter is based . ( Hear . ) The theory of the . Charter is , that where there is no protection given there is no allegiance duo . ( Hear , and cheers , ) I hold the doctrine of government to be by the majority of the people , and will strongly protest against the exercise-of the governmental functions of this country by any powerless democratic . ( Cheers .. ) Like the preceding speaker , however , I am not disposed to offer any factious opposition to those Reformers who are now contending for a less measure of-suffrage than thatcontainedintheCharter . ( Hear . ) Uppntheoontrary , I am delig hted to find that at last the-middle elapses are movinsr in the matfer , and hail with
pleasure their accession , as .-far - as they go . ( Hear , hear . ) They are yet in 'the infancy of polities , and are onlv now beeiiiniu ^ to foci tho . ettects of that enormous taxation of which we have so long complained . Mr Cobden , in his recentlypu blisheirbudget , has proposed to reduce the taxes , tlO , ( KiO , annually , aud his efforts will be sustained by the middle ' classes . The hon . member for the went Riding seemed well to understand the men with whom he has to deal ; and in seeking to procure the co-oporatiou of the middle classes , he has with great tact addressed himself to their pockets , knowing that quarter to be their most sensitive point- ( hcar , and laughter)—and with ali my heart I wish him successf ( Cheers . ) But whilst I am not inclined in any way to interfere with those who advocate a morc ' limited suffrage than that which I advocate , my earnest recommendation to you is to Btand fast by the People ' s Charter , whole and entire . ( Loud cheers . ) 1 am determined to uphold the Charter ,
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in preference to any other measure . Even if th four points proposed fev Mr Hume were mado law ' there would still be a large number of the people unenfranchised . The resolution which I am now supporting affirms the principle that the protection ot property is one of the nm duties of a government . This principle I fully assent to , aiufin reducing it to practice , would take care that as the institutions of the countrv are mainlv designed for the protection of property , that the taxes necessary tor the maintenance of such" institutions should be principall y levied \ ii » on property . ( Cheers . ) Industry IS not a fair ofpject of taxationand therefore to be and
, ough ^ left free untrammelled . Fort unately the countrv is at length arousing itself upon this question of taxation . ( Hear . ) There are the several Financial lleform Associations of Liverpool , Manchester , Edinburgh , and other places , all in active' operation ; and although they are not exactly with us , yet each one of them is' dealimr ablow at our common foe—the dastardly Whig Taction , with whom wo will wage deadly war until their final extinction . ( Loud cheers . ) * When the settlement of the suffrage question takes place—as it
must be ere long , for we cannot live in close connexion with the French Republic and the other continental democracies , and tolerate the existence of the present aristocratic and plundering institutions Of this country—the ease will not be left entirel y in the hands of Richard Cobden . Joseph Hume , and Lord John Russell : but if we are true to ourselves and our great principles , the genius and intelligence of the working classes will make themselves felt in the bargain , and , at last , our fondest hopes will be realised , by the enactment of the People ' s Charter . ( Loud cheers . )
Mr . O'Connor said : Mr . Chairman ana my friends , I am a modest man , and Mr . Clark shonld not , in my presence , have reminded mo of my triumph , because , so far from looking upon my incarceration in the felon ' s cell in York Castle as a degradation , or even an insult , I look upon it asa victory , —( cheers )—as you may rely upon it , that the persecution of the tyrant was measured by my valuo to the people . ( Cheers . ) This is a causo in which I havo boon engaged , iu England and Ireland , for now twenty-six years , and it was fifteen years on the 21 st of last September , since I established and organised the Chartist movement iu England—and , however fearful the recollections that those
side galleries bring to my mind , when occupied by Government spies and detectives , dressed as navvies ; yet , however apathetic and terror-stricken a , portion of the working classes may be , and however dangerous the advocacy of their principles may be , neither their apathy nor the threatened danger shall induce me to abandon the advocacy of those principles and tho cause of tho labouring classes . ( Cheers . ) I do not agree with Mr . Kydd in attributing your weakness to your ignorance . It was the charge brought against you when Fox and Richmond advocated the
principles ofthe Charter in 1780 , anditwillcontinue to be tho charge until you possess political power , and manifest ability , capacity , and discrimination in its exercise . ( Cheers . ) It is not to ignorance or to tho power of your opponents that your degradation is to be ascribed—it is to your own jealousies . ( Hoar , hear . ) It is to the fact that the well-paid trades have established the standard of wages by the comparative , instead of the positive , scale of value ; the man earning £ 2 a-week looking with contempt upon him who can earn but 15 s . ; while , in turn , the man with 15 s . looks with
scorn upon the unwilling idler , who is dragged from his family and consigned to the Poor Law Bastilo . ( Loud cheers . ) That is the competition , and you arc the competitorswhereas , if you were as united as your opponents are , the man who now congratulates himself upon receiving £ 2 a-week by the comparative scale , would then receive £ 4 by the positive scab )—while there need not be a willing idler in the land ; and if there was one when the free labour market was opened , instead of making him the child of the State , and entitling him to an idle subsistence ^—if nobody else would undertake the task—J would
volunteer to whip him through the marketp lace myself . ('' Hear , hear , " and cheers . ) Well , you cheer that , but see how many bloated idlers , with ruddy checks , fat jowls , and bursting corporations , live , luxuriate , grow rich and fat upon the blood and sweat extracted from the lean bodies of those who furnish the moans of luxury and wealth ? ( Cheers . ) Well , but whose fault is it ? You , if in the same situation , would do the same . It is their union and your disunion , through their ability to make laws to distribute the lion * 8 share of profit amongst the chosen few , while , if you were united , that power would very speedily cease .
( Hear , hear . ) But you cheer those who would raise the labourer to the seventh heaven b y proclaiming tho labourer ' s right to life and happiness ; while in France , Prussia , Austria , Rome , and Italy , where the dissensions of Labour have created the most bloody revolutions , you have not heard a word spoken , or read a sentence printed , upon the solution of the Labour Question . ( Hear , hear . ) Yes , there is one exception , the Address of M . Harkort , the Chairman of tho Berlin Conservative Electioneering Committee—an address that should be printed in letters of gold . He says , "See what the enthusiasts have done for vou—and
see what the Ring proposes to do for you . They have squandered your money in excitement , while the . Constitution given by the king destroys for ever all feudal and barbarous rightsallows the flock to elect their own shepherdmakes every child of the State entitled to education at the-expense ofthe State , and divides the royal domains into peasant allotments , to employ the hard-working men . " ( Loud cheers . ) Ah ! „ you smell the Land , do you ? But ho g oes further , and shows' that the amount of money . spent by-parsons , place-hunters , and lawyers , if expended upon the location of the
hard-working men upon their own peasant allotments , would provide habitations and labour fields for 6 , 500 labourers . ( Loud choera . ^ Xow , there ' s the acceptance of the reviled Land Plan ; Free Church , Free Education . Distribution of the Royal Domains , Universal Suffrage , aud the Charter , accepted in the most Protestant country in Europe—tho very principles and the very objects "Tor the advocacy and achievement of which I have suffered so much obloquy , persecution , and slander , aud for the want of which you have suffered such privation , destitution and misery . ( Cheers . ) But to
come nearer liome ^—ti ? come to Ireland : what : do you find there ? Why , a million of human beings dying of starvation in one year!—piled in heaps like can-ion , for dogs and pigs to fatten upon—with a fertile soil , ready to yield its abundance , if there was not a premium for idleness ; and then think of five and thirty mortal y ears being spent in trafficking agitation ; while , if the amount expended upon jugglery and moonshine , ' of one-tenth of it , had been applied to the location of the poor upon the land of their birth , they would not be compelled to fight for the Repeal of the Union , or
any other measure ;¦ it would then be— " Ask , and you shall have . " ( Hear , hear . ) Well , then , notwithstanding this suffering of the millions , all the sympathy of the Press and the factions is devoted to the landlords and the oppressors ' , while not ; a word of sorrow for the lingering , starving , murdered people . ( Cheers . ) Tins , in the main , is the fault of the landlords ; . but think of a base , bloody , tyrannical , ^ and savage Government , urging the enthusiastic , the feeling , and the brave , to attain by force what is denied to justice , and then treating them to tho vengeance of
classmade law .. ( Loud cheers . ) Ah f / my friends : you had no right to invite me here to-ni ght . You had iio right to provoke ino to express the feelings of my heart in the teeth of the Gauging Bill ; for , when I think of the disasters to which my country has been subjected , my Irish blood boils in my veins , and it requires more than , human cowardice to apply the altered law ' s letter to the description of my country ' s misery , and her oppressors' tyranny . ( Tremendous cheering . ) But do you suppose that this league of tyrants is to * be for ever perpetuated ? No ! The Saxon manacles will be struck off , After March the Saaon gaoler can
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no longer incarcerate the Irishman for frowning or looking crooked at bis Vice-regal dignity ; and as Hannibal to his father swore , I have p ledged myself to seek justice tor the sufferings of mv countrv from every earthly tribunal ; and altliough ' lier dungeons were filled with Whig victims , and although her Press should be marshalled against mo , individually , I will once more land upon her shore and raise the standard of liberty and nationality . ( Tremendous cheering and waving of hats . ) But I tell you , labourers , that notwithstanding any importance that you attach to any other ( question or measure , that Labour never will be free until Labour represents itself ; and it is for that reason that I ask the labourers of
all classes , not only not to oppose , but by every means in their power to assist , the present movement of Richard Cobden and tho Financial League . ( Loud cheers . ) Now , let me call your attention to Labour ' s greatest enemy . It arises from the fact that every popular demagogue , like myself , hopes to preserve and uphold his own popularity by opposing tho schemes of all other parties ; but , as I pant for retirement , and only struggle for equality , which would render my longer services unnecessary , 1 yield a cordial and ready support , even to my bitterest enemies , when in their policy I recognise Labour ' s justice and Oppression ' s fall . ( Cheers . ) I seldom base my
own views updn complicated comprehensive questions upon my own opinions or knowledge ; my duty , as well as my character , prompts me to consult the ablest—the most zealous—the most sincere , and persevering leader and advocate that the working classes of any country could ever boast of , —of course , you are aware that I mean Thomas Slingsby Buncombe . ( Here the whole mooting rose , and the cheering mid waving of bats were indescribable . ) Mr O'Connor continued : ! Xow , don't you think it is cheering to mo to' hear the name of that distinguished man , now suffering from illness contracted in your cause , received with such warm affection and enthusiasm ? and I will now read vou an
extract from a letter received from hnn this morning . He says ;—"I am much pleased with tho Manchester move , and especially the resolution Milner Gibson proposed . I think it of great value . Let us only sec that principle established , and then we shall sec it carried out far enough to insure a benefit to tho people . Encourage this new Cobden move . I would , were I in the House . It must destro y the Whigs ( God be praised ) for ever and . ever . "
( Tremendous cheering . ) Now , working men , the Cobden move came upon us with a hop , step , and jump . 1 was compelled to comment upon it without having time to consult our leader ,- ^ a circumstance , which , I assure you , grieved me ; and you may judge how consolatory it must be to you and me , to find that he entirely accords with the policy I suggested . ( Cheers . ) In order to carry out the battle against the agricultural constituencies , they also propose to create a number of forty-shilling freeholders—well , even that is the miniature oi our lovely cottages and larger labour-fields ,
and they are the full length portrait of England ' s future greatness , —the difference is , that , in the one case , serfs are selected for voters ; and in the other case , thev are left free and independent . But , is not the selection of voters from the most indigent class , a proof that ^ in the opinion of the selectors all are competent to exercise the right . ( Cheers . ) Ay , and if to-morrow every man in this vast asssmblage was enfranchised , and if they were to constitute the constituency for an electoral district , those who would now make your ignorance the justification for your disqualification ,
would praise your shrewdness , applaud your knowledge and discrimination—while the candidate of your choice would boast of representing the most enlightened constituency in Britain . ( Cheers , and laughter . ) Nay , more , if knowledge became an exciseable commodity , as I have often told you ,- the officials from tbe Excise office would perambulate the countrv with a BRAIN GAUGE and THEN , if , a mere idiot pleaded ignorance as his exemption , the official would tell him that he was the seventh wonder of the world . ( Groat cheers , and laughter . ) 1 tell vou that the ignorance
of a people is the tyrant ' s best title to power ; and if your ignorance could be made the basis of their power , they would enfranchise you tomorrow , but it is your knowledge and not your ignorance they dread . ( Cheers . ) But if you were ignorant , to whom does the blame attach ? whether to those whose ignorance proceeds from the want of the means of procuring education , orto those pious revilers , wjio appropriate to their own kindly use the stock
fund which was originally applied to the education of the poor ? ( Cheers . ) Oh , but our pious , charitable , Christian , and philanthropic Kings , not only have the power of accepting or rejecting laws , but they have the power oi altering the Church Service . Upon one occasion , the celebrated Sidmouth , and his pions coadjutors , had the duty imposed upon them of adding a new prayer to the Church Service , —of course the prayer , like the Gagging Bill , should receive the Uoval Assent before it
became Divmc law . \ V ell , the officials manufactured the prayer , they took it to George the Fourth ; the first gentleman of England , and the head of the Church , but the biggest blackguard in Europe . ( Hear , hear . ) Well , the Monarch , as was his custom , was drunk , and when the divine law was submitted for his signature , when he heard it read , and his opinion was asked , he burst out laughing and said , " Oh , b y G— it ' s ad—d good prayer . " ( Tremendous laughter . ) Now that was the head of the Church ; while our present pious Monarch bountifully bestows
a few pounds of your money for the best Essays upon Religion and Morality the saints of Exeter-hall being the judges and distributors of the prizes , while Joseph Surface would have been the proper person . ( Cheers and laughter . ) Now , ( said Mr , O'Connor ) , the Labour Question is this , —the League enunciate and defends the theory that , when one industrial' channel is closed another is opened ; so , when improvement in fm . ichinory i
disinherited thousands , railway and building operations opened a new channel to industry , but now these arc closed ; and what I contend is , that Nature ' s channel—the onl y channel large enough to embrace the disinherited of all classes—is the Land . ( Loud cheers . ) You have not capital to become manufacturers , bankers , merchants , watchmakers , silkmcrcers , wine merchants , grocers , or shopkeepers ; and as long as the employment of Labour is confined within the narrow limits of chance
requirements and caprice , so long will the wages of the employed be measured by the destitution of the starving unemployed . ( Cheers and " That ' s it . " ) Well , then , every man with two legs and two arms has capital in his labour to appl y to the cultivation of the soil ; and every competing slave who enters that channel , when all others are closed against him , is a competitor removed from the Labour market , and ceases to be a burden upon industry . ' ( Hear , hear . ) And observe , and bear well in mind , that I do not ask all to abandon their profitable trade ; but what 1 do ask is , that
those belonging to overstocked trades should bear the fact in mind , that every unwilling idler removed from that trade has its effect in destroy ing competition , while it releases the " CHEST " from the support of the located man . ( Hear . ) Then let them bear in mind , that the men thus located become bettor and cheaper producers of their fowl than tbe Ameican or the Pole—and Letter customers for their . labour than the Indian , the Chinese , or the Australian—and the more aristocratic shopkeepers have yet to learn the " great fact , " that the burden of class legislation falls heavil y upon them : as , no matter whether
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v \ lugs or Tories , those who constitute the staff of each party will take care that the national resources are cultivated to thai exact point which will enable the supporters of the existing Government to distribute the lion ' s share amongst their own partisans . ( Cheers . ) And you , labourers , never lose sight of the irrefutable , fact , that those locusts of patronage , and these traders who live by profits , measured by cheap wages , established b y the destitution ofa competitive rosorve , will ever prefer the smaller amount of national wealth with the lion ' s share for their portion , to that national wealth being trebled , the poor and the industrious liavinir their fair share of the increase .
( Cheers . ) Then , again , bear in mind , that every man freely employed upon the Land is a better customer with every class of society , from the baker to the watchmaker , while he relieves the overstocked Labour market of a competitor , and the rate-payers from the burthen of supporting him in idleness . ( Cheers . ) Ay , you may cheer , but I do not value your eh o ors a pinch of snuff ; if a man got , up upon this platform and told you that he had his heart in his hand—that you were the gods of creation , and that he was ready to put his head upon tho block to establish your principle- * , you would cheer him to the echo ; but I
tell you that I am not prepared to sacrifice that much of my little finger for men who are not prepared to make tho sacrifice ofa very trilling exertion . ( Cheers . ) Now , when men get up to talk such rubbish , put your tongue in theside of your cheek and shut your eves , and sing out , " Tell us something ' about Labour . " And if they continue in tho old strain , cry "Bah , wc don't want any more of your rubbish . " ( Hear , hear . ) This country is said to be overpopulatod , while I contend that it ia not populated to the one-fifth of its requirements ; but population , like labour , is measured by the capitalists' necessity . Prince Albert
is a great patron ot emigration , and so was the " Times , " until its readers began to feel tho loss of their Irish slaves , and then tho " Times " began to weep over the departed Irish , andi Prince Albert should bear in mind that if we were overpopulated , he had no business to come here . ( Great cheers and laughter . ) But , as I observed hoforo , tho philanthropic Prince no doubt imagines that every emigrant will become a Field-Marshal , Colonel of Dragoons , and King Consort , with handsome pocket money to amuse himself . ( Great cheers and laughter . ) I lore to talk ofthia
despised Land Plan of mine , and 1 love to remind my London hearers of what I have stated in the country , and that is—if Prince Albert had built 300 cottages , and four school houses for tho poor , there would bo an office in every street in London , with agents to issue tickets of inspection . ; all tho nobility would apply for permission to visit the lovel y cottages of tho philanthropic Prince- ; but now , if Lady Susan , with her mother Lad y Dorothy , happen to drive past those cottages , and if Lady
Susan , struck with their beauty , and the magnificence of the school house , ' should say to Lady Dorothy— "Oh , mamma , look at those lovely cottages , " Lady Dorothy , iu horror , would exclaim , " Pull down the blind , love , they arc the beastly hovels of that beastly devil , Feargus O'Connor . " ( Great laughter and cheers . ) My friends , some ofthe speakers have reminded you of tho danger of secret meetings , but I did not wait for the inevitable result to convince me of that fact , because when the Bill was under discussion in the
House , I asserted that the effect would be , the establishment of secret societies , and assassination clubs ; while , if meetings were open , tho good sense of the ma jority would curb and subdue tho insanity and wild enthusiasm of hired spies and informers ; for , as Burke stated , " Open speaking is like tho Hue and Cry , that puts you on your guard , and' announces the thief ' s approach . " ( Hear , hoar . ) However , you may rest assured , that the Whigs have not heard the last of their nine months'
barbarities and atrocities . ( Cheers . ) I may stand alone in the House of Commons , and it is nvy pride that I do stand alone , and that I am the reviled of all rovilors ; and the value that I u tiaeh to my seat is not tho patronage that it confers , but the power it gives me of advocating your principles as boldly in the Senate House as on the platform . ( Cheers . ) And ! although Lord John Russell twitted me with my oath of allegiance in tho House of Commons , yet I tell that noble lord here , as I told him there , that there is moro allegiance in the desire to preserve peace and hannonv , through
contentment and industry , than in preserving tyranny by brute force and oppression . ( Cheers . ) You , working men of England , must bear iu mind that it has been through foreign agency that the greatest changes have been forced from tho British Minister . Upon the breaking out of the French Revolution , in 1 7 ^ 3 , the Minister of that day , looking with a jealous eye upon Ireland , promised the Irish Catholics a great relaxation of the penal
code ; but when Dumourier sold the cause , the English Minister withheld the promised boon , created a Rebellion , and bought the country . So in 2830 , the three glorious days in Paris laid the foundation ofthe Refoim Bill , which had been fruitlessly agitated for forty-one years ; and you may rely upon it that England , surrounded by a population of nearly one hundred millions , contending against the league of kings , with a dissatisfied popula » tion at home , will not be able to measure her
policy by the satisfaction of tho INS , and the promises of the OUTS ; but if her foreign relations arc to continue with those foreign ua » tions , her policy must be moulded in accordance with their adopted systems . ( Cheers . ) During the last session of Parliament , Kennington Common —( loud cheers)—and the dread of Chartism , was the stock-in trade o £ the Whigs . They said to tho affrighted country gentlemen— "See what a condition the country would bo brought to , if , in the mid * c of continental revolutions and domestic A-
( quietude , the country should be left without a government ; and the landlords , very foolishly and very ignorantl y believing the representations of the IIome ' 6 ' ecretary , as regards the disturbances he created through spies and informors—( loud choe ** a )—f « r thp very purpose of jt / fi'ighting landlords , and maintaining office - —remained calm aud quiescent—hut that dodge can't be repeated . Thoy now look to quarterday . Peel ' s young staff of expectants will not wait upon his policy if it is slow , while the Protectionists' mouths are watering for the good things of this life ; for you mav depend upon it
that the terms Whig aud Tory are all moonshine—the proper name will be catch-penny those in having patronage , and those out looking for patronage . ( Cheers . ) Working men , in conclusion I have only to say that I am not crest-fallen or cowed ; that you are , of all peop le in any country , the best instructed in th « Labour Question ; and although the Whig fangs may clutch Smith O'Brien , Meagher , M'Manus , O'Donoghoe , Cuffey , and others , yet if they perished in their struggle for liberty , mark the future in their fate . Byron at * said : — .
They never fail who die In a groat cause ! The block may soak tbejf goro ; Their heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbflf Be strung to city gates and cnstlo walls—But still their spirits walk abroad . Though rear < Elapse , and others share as dark a doom , They but augment the deep and sweeping thought * Which overpower all others , and conduct The world at last to freedom . [ Mr O'Connor resumed his seat amidst tremendous cheers , waiving of hats , and clapping of hands . ] The resolution was put and carried , amidst send ral acclamation .
A vote of thanks , on ' tho motion of Mr Kydd , M »& 8 given to the chairman , and tha meeting sepratea-, many on leaving the hall tnk ; out- their cam o membership .
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