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236 THE STAR OF FREEDOM. [November 20.
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POLITICAL EEFUGEE COMMITTEE. Monies rece...
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Lectures in BitADFORD. —On Sunday evenin...
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Cononley , near Skipton.-Close op TUB We...
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CO-OPERATIVE.
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THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY. To the Editor...
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LITEBATUHE.
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Wellington and Waterloo. — Ly A. De Lama...
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Letter To The French Peoplk. (Concluded ...
people , instead of being governed , possessed , stupid and famished , enriching , infracting and governing themselves , the people reigning and governing . Tha . thatreignmayarrive . it is necessary that the people resume and hold their soveremty ; that that sovereignty be obtained , it is necessary that they accomplish the Revolution . ' ... Then toalltho < = e who desire the Revolution , and itsprtnciples Liberty , Equality , Fraternity and all its principles , —Association of the Citizens , Solidarity of Peoples Universal Democratic and Social Republic , to those who without system , to
spirit , pride , ambition or egolism , recognise but one sovereign , —the People : time who regard as usurpation and robbery any other power seized or maintained- to those even who have thought only of the honour of the French name , and of ' the strict interest of the country , to all those who hate the Empire , that is to say , servitude and invasion , we cry from our exile " enough principles , ideas , words ! " Action , action , action ! To the work ! forward ! Insurrection and Revolution ! We know enough when we would have no more tyrants . Insurrection is the most holy of duties . Insurrection , has been a right since the 13 th of June , it has been a dutv since the 31 st of May , it has been both right and duty
since the 2 nd of December ! Heaven helps those wiohelp themselves ; union gives strength ; neither resignation nor dispair ; the initiative to each , and the example for all ! Bourgeois , workmen , peasants , let us all rally against the enemy ! You , bourgeois , whose intelligence troubles him ; you , workmen , whose devotion terrifies him ; you peasants , whose votes have not saved you , we are all confounded in the same persecution , which has mingled our blood , and united our cause , let ux all unite our forces against the same enemy ! Let the entire , people of France rise as one man . Let each citizen have no other than the common , the public enemy , the perjured parricide , the traitrous assassin of his brothers , the bankrupt swindler who robbed the Republic in the night , the vile frequenter of London brothels
become the protector of family , religion , and property , the insurgent , the escaped prisoner of Ham become the sustainer of order , the friend of convicts , the restorer of the guillotine and of the lottery ; a foul sphynx that has issued from a false urn , a veritable harpey fouling as he strikes , as venom blackens and kills , man-scourge , the opprobrium , scandal , and terror of conscience , destined to show how far evil may go , which has reached its limits , which has dishonoured even crime by hypocrisy , which has added it to every vice , as it has added usury to the empire , blood to mud , and champagne to holy-water ; Corsican ogre , mixture of prince , priest , and swindler , of buffoon , baud and executioner , a mongrel from Bonaparte and Macaire , MaclriaVel and Mandrin , the Marquis de Lade and
Torquenado ; Napoleon of the night , whose sun of Ansterlitz was the reflected funeral lights of December , Napoleon cut-throat , Napoleon cut-purse , twilight highness , Emperor of moonshine , King of Bohemians , * protector of the lingots , English "Special Constable / ' hero of Eilinton , Boulogne , and Satory , conqueror of Clichy , Bailey , and Clamart ; Napoleon the last , crowned with every treason , coups d'etat and coups de main , charged , God be thanked ! to execute even his name , to render ridiculous all the Napoleon ' s past , present , and to come , to change into a term of hatred and scorn that name already so infamous , to devote it to the execration of the future , to imprint it as an eternal curse upon the memory of mankind .
Neither peace nor truce with that man—no , not man , but monster . It is shameful to grow old under him . We are slaves who let Win reign ; they are assassins who let him kill . To tolerate bis crimes is , not only cowardice , it is complicity . To permit evil is to commit it . His reign is a reproach to our courage , as well as a menace for our safety . Defence is legitimate ; and since he proclaims himself an obstacle , since be places himself in the way , since he bars the passage with the throne and the scaffold , let France do as the daughter of Tarqnin , let her pass over his bodv rather than turn back ! he , with the others ,
will serve to further prove that punishment stifles crime . The throne is beyond tha law , the scaffold is beyond humanity . Then , let the horror be inspires press him on every side ! Let the very earth war with him ! Let the paving stones rise under his feet . Let the tiles strike him on the head , like Pyrrhus I Let the workmen ' s tools become arms , and let them be tempered in the blood and tears of the victims ! Itis not only of cotton and sugar that powder must be made ; no , it is with tears , with blood , with all the most explosive materials furnished by exasperated hearts . Let arms , the means of combat , be in the hands of all . No Cesar without Brutns ! Down with the tyrant .
In the name of the widows and orphans ; in the name of the full tombs and naked hearths ; in the name of the exiles , who cover the mountains and the seas , of the prisoners who fill the jails , of the dead who fill the graves , of all those groaning voices crying for vengeance from the bosom of the earth , and from the four quarters of the heavens , in the name of right , in the name of honour , for the safety of France , and of the entire world ; brothers , to arms ! let us deliver ourselves and others . Let France re » ume her beautiful title of Free people , and the still more beautiful title of Liberating people ! In recovering her liberty let her remember how she lost it ! For not having delivered ' Italy , she enchained her , and has been herself enchained . The 5 th of March caused the 13 th of June ; the I 3 th of June the 31 st of May ; the 31 st of May the 2 d of December . Then , let the Revolution be made for all , if all desire to retain it ! Let her mark the last war , the holy war , the war of right , the war of God , the war that God would
and that the people can , the crusade of the 19 th eentury , no longer for the * delivery of a tomb , of a dead Christ , but for the safety of the living people far the delivtrance of humanity ! Let France rise en masse , let her reconstitute her M armies , let her again find her volunteers , her Marseillaise , her audacity , her fury of ' 9 % all her miracles of former times augmented , if that be possible , according to the greater value of the cause ; let her find herself entire heart and arm , strength and faith , indomitable and invincible , let the people enrol themselves and march , bare-footed and sans-culotte , if need be , no longer merely to succour the country in danger , but for the liberty of the world ; let them put their blouses on the points of their pikes as a a sign of the enfranchisement of the people . Let them repeat still louder than before the great cry of the national convention , " until France , until Europe be free , the French people will stand against the tyrants , will stand for the Universal Democratic and Social Republic ! " Salutation and fraternity !
The Socialist-Democratic-Republicans , members of the Society La Commune Revolutionnire . Voted at London , on the I 5 th of August , 1852 : and published on the 22 nd of September , the anniversary of the first Revolution . Felix Ptat , u Caossidiere \ Commissiaric * elected to certify the copy Boichot , ' I conformable . t That is to say King of gipsydom , or king of the cadgers !—Translator .
236 The Star Of Freedom. [November 20.
236 THE STAR OF FREEDOM . [ November 20 .
Political Eefugee Committee. Monies Rece...
POLITICAL EEFUGEE COMMITTEE . Monies received from November 11 th . to November 17 th inclusive . £ s . d . HohertLc Blond- - - - - -100 James Cantelo , Isle of Wight - - - -010 James Lament , Dalkeith - - - -010 J . Sirley , Eccleshall - - - - -010 W . L . Costine ( weekly ) ~ ] ^ - - - -006 % ¦ 0 0
J . De Cogan ( Do . ) j - - - - 6 T . Skilicorn j . 3 - - - -006 Arnold I g - - - -006 J . Macartney j r- - - > -006 Per Mr . Thornton Hunt : Thomas M'Donald ") rj - - - -010 James Robertson j g - - - -020 James Watt f g « - - - -020 A . C . Steven j ? - _ _ -060 Andrew Jack , Barrhead - - - - -020
Alexander Johnston , Paisley - -020 York : Charles Ernest , Is . ; W . C , Is . ; G . Swalwell , 6 d . ; J . Banks , 3 d . ; T . Silvester , 3 d . ; H . Cook , 3 d . ; Phillips , 6 d . ; W . Harnam , Is . ; Mrs . M . Dunn , 3 d . ; W . Swann , 3 d . ; J . Dunn , 3 d . ; E . Anderson , 6 d ; R . Dixon , 6 d . ; J . Baker , 6 d . ; Webster , 3 d . ; E . Hind , 3 d . ; G . Wilson , 3 d . ; Leopold , a Hungarian Refugee , 6 d . ; Mrs . H . Garnet , 3 d . ; W . Armitage , Is . ; J . Tuke , 6 d . ; J . Barker , 3 d . Total , 10 s . 3 d . Deduct P . O . Order , 3 d . Actual amount of subscription - - - _ -0100 Hinckley : John Sketchley , 6 d . ; J . Parker , 6 d . ; J Jackson , 6 d . ; J . Bate , 6 d . ; J . Wright , 6 d . ; T . Allen , 7 d . ; J / raiey , 6 d . ; H . P ., Is . ; J . Jefcot , 3 d . ; W . Gregory , 3 d . W , Hopewell , 3 d . ; W ; Hudson , 3 d . ; G . Tornhn , 3 d . ; S ,
Political Eefugee Committee. Monies Rece...
Goode , 3 d . ; E . Wood , 2 d . ; W . Fielder , 2 d . ; G . Harris Id . ; D . Gregory , 2 d . ; J . Ginns , 2 d . ; S . Langham , 2 d . Total , - - - - - " -070 The Quarterly Meeting , as per previous announcement , took place at the John-street Institution on Wednesday evening November 17 th . Mr . John Arnott was called to the chair . Alter some assistance had been voted to an Hungarian about to proceed to America , the secretary , in the name of the sub-committee , brought up the following
REPORT . The acting sub-committee , treasurer and secretaries have the honour to present to the general committee the amount of monies received , and monies disbursed in the course of the second quarter just terminated , or to speak more exactly , between the dates of August 9 th and November 17 th 1852 . It will be seen that the total of monies received amounts to 297 . 17 s . 3 d ., which together with the balance in hand from last quarter of 13 Z . 9 s . 2 d . makes a total of 43 ? . 6 s . 5 d . The disbursements amount to 36 * . 2 s . 3 d ., leaving a balance in hand of 7 l . 4 s . ' 2 d . The outlay for necessary expenses , such as postage , stationary , & c , has been conducted according to' the most rigid economy . In affording aid to claimants , the acting committee have decided according to the best of their judgment ; and certainly , with the strictest impartiality .
Nevertheless the acting committee feel how onerous is the task of having to disburse a small sum of money in the attempt to , at least mitigate the sufferings of the most unfortunate of the exiles . In the last quarter the difficulty of their position has been aggravated by the fact of numerous claimants presenting them selveswhocouldnotbe refused ; while others , though not in presence of the committee , had , to say the least , equal right to aid . To avoid the evil of giving assistance to some only , to the exclusion of others equally deserving , the acting committee suggest : 1 st . That henceforth the monies received be paid over to committees representing the several sections of the Refugees ; that is to say that the portion of money accruing to the French exiles be paid over to a committee of their oxm countrymen ; the same as regards the German , Polish , and other exiles . 2 nd . That a division of monies recsived be made monthly ; a quarterly
statement to be rendered as heretofore . 3 rd . That having considered the position of the several bodies of exiles , the division of monies be , made according to the following scale : The cost of postage and the other legitimate and unavoidable expanses of carrying on the operations of the committee , having been deducted , the funds shall be divided as follows : three eights to the French exiles , two eights to the Germans , two eights to the Poles and Hungarians , and one eight to be retained by the committee to meet cases of emergency ; the said one eighth to be accounted for at the close of each quarter , and any portion remaining in hand to be disposed of by vote of the committee . The acting ' committee suggest that the six months' balance sheet of receipts and disbursements be printed and supplied to the contributors to the fund .
In view of the continued persecution of the continental democracy , the constant arrival of new refugees seeking an asylum in this country , and the extreme distress of great numbers of the exiles ; the acting committee trust that the friends of freedom and those who practice as well as profess the , principle of fraternity will not slacken their efforts ; but , on the contrary , will redouble their exertions to obtain that pecuniary aid which will enable the Political Refugee Committee , to give such substantial assistance to the exiles as will aiford them real help , and be worthy the honour of our common cause , and the name and reputation of our country . ( Signed , on behalf of the acting sub-committee , )
John Milne , Chairman , G . Julian Harney , Secretary . The report was received , The balance sheet was then examined by Messrs . Fenwick and Ison as auditors , and found by them to be strictly correct . On the motion of the secretary it was resolved that the six months' balance sheet ' be printed and distributed among the contributors to the fund . It was also unanimously resolved that the balance in hand , £ 7 4 s . 2 d ., be increased to £ 10 , at the earliest possible moment , and that the same be transmitted to the committee of the French exiles . After transacting some other business the meeting adjourned .
- The Shilling Subscription For European...
- THE SHILLING SUBSCRIPTION FOR EUROPEAN FREEDOM . SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITOR OP THE "STAR 01 ? FREEDOM . " Acknowledged in last Saturday ' s paper , 15 names—11 . 8 s . Received from November 11 th to November 18 th inclusive : — £ s . d .
Robert Le Blond 10 0 ALeBlond 0 1 0 S . ABenetflnk 0 10 John Shaw 0 10 David Talbot 0 10 Robert Purkes 0 1 0 A Friend , per J . Milne 0 10 Augustus Piercey 0 l o Benjamin Ison , 0 1 0
lasmer Casher , per Mr . Gr . W . M . Reynolds 0 5 0 Win . Atkinson , Liverpool ,. 0 10 Andrew Jack , Barrhead 0 10 Alexander Johnston , Paisley O l o The following six subscribers , per Walter Sanderson , Galashiels : — William Goodfellow .......... , 0 2 0 Thomas Broad 0 10 Angus Li tster 0 10 Thomas Cleghorn 0 I o George Goodfellow 0 10 Robert Wayness , , 0 1 o Congreve Paulon , Sheffield 0 10 C . Segrave , Farnham , 0 10
Lectures In Bitadford. —On Sunday Evenin...
Lectures in BitADFORD . —On Sunday evening Mr . Broom contrasted the American and British forms of government . He shows that the American is the best and cheapest . We , he said , permit men to appropriate the results of a people's industry , without giving an equivalent . The Americans will have work done , when the revenue is spent . The highest functionary in the States has not a salary equal to many of our colonial judges . He next alluded to the laws of the two countries . In America the poor can have divorces , in England only the rich . There , property can be transferred for a few shillings , here only at the cost of many pounds . He concluded by giving instances to prove that the English aristocracy are not intelligent , useful , nor just .
iiNSBuaY Mamhood Suffrage Association . —A meeting of this association was held at the Magnet Coffee House , Clerkenwell , on Sunday A ov . 14 th . Mr . Lombard in the chair . Mr . Johnson reported that the committee were unable to complete the arrangements lor the hall , owing to the landlord refusing io sign the agreement unless the committee pledged themselves not to hold public political meetings , which they could not consent to do . On the motion of Mr . Gough , it was resolved that this meeting approves of the conduct of the Hall committee , and empowers them to take other premises as soon as they c , obtain them . The discussion on the formation of a . National Party was resu med and after an interesting conversation , was adjourned for a week , when the nl ' of organisation will be brought forward . The secretary begs to ac-knowi !? the receipt of a donation of 2 s . from a Friend at IAm « house ge
Teades.
TEADES .
Cononley , Near Skipton.-Close Op Tub We...
Cononley , near Skipton .-Close op TUB Weavers Stmkb . —The committee ot Mr . Turner ' s weavers of this place have great pleasure in informing their numerous friends and supporters that the strike has terminated satisfactorily to the weavers , their employer having conceded their requests . Mr . Robinson of Wilsden lectured in the Oddfellow ' s-hall of this place ' on Wednesday evening week to a numerous audience . Subject : « The Wrongs of Labour . " Mr . Robinson proceeded to address the meeting , aud spoke for the space of an hour and a half . tie said there was no question of greater importance than the question of labour but there was no question less understood by that class whom it most concerned LdT ™ 1 U * Th 0 haPPi " " 0 H , y ot En ^ d > ^ ot t he wor d de ! pended on the proper solution of this question ; and it w » hi » h time that Veopte * t about it in earnest ; It was impossible to point 0 « t Z ? iol ^ nabour
Cononley , Near Skipton.-Close Op Tub We...
unless we first went to first principles , and sought out its rights . If there was one thing more evident than another it was this , that all men , from the mo narch upon his throne to the humblest beggar on the streets , required food , clothing , and shelter to sustain life . Man was sent into the world with all these wants , he could not shrink them ; they were inherent in his constitution ; they must bet attended to or man would perish . He argued that if a man had a right to life at aU , he had a right to the means which sustained life—The Land— " for he tha , takes away the means whereby I live , takes away my life . " If , therefore , life be sacred , all the means to snstain that life ought to be equally sacred . He contended the land itself would not support us unless \ va obeyed the conditions imposed upon us by the very nature of our constitution , and the material world of
which we formed apart . That condition was Labour , without labour we die . This is the condition imposed upon all men , not upon a class only , but upon all , rich and poor ; nay , it is by labour we become rich , for labour is the source of all wealth . They who violate this condition , leave them to themselves , and they will die . He who obeys not this law , and still obtains the means of life , does it by becoming a burden to the rest of his fellows . Were evury man to act the part of an idler , the human species would starve and die , therefore he who does not labour violates the first law of nature : self-preservation , and the fate which nature awarded to such criminals is death , so that we set the just application of the passage which says , " He that will not work ought not to eat . " Whoever evades the law of labour , and still continues to live , does so either by fraud .
charity , or force . All who evade this law , are enemies to society , for they devour the fruits which others produce , and all who do these things are a curs- - and a plague to the rest of mankind . The only remedy for the wrongs of labour , he contended , was the nationalisation of the land . The only real and happy state of society was , where all laboured according to their ability , aud consumed according to their wants , society was a unity of heads and hands for the benefit of all its members , and not for a class . The perfect slato of society was that state in which its members were agreed to combine for the purpose of production .
Thev had already learnt how to produce in unity . All the property of the country was the produce of combined effort ; you work your factory on the principle of Communism ; you cut through the mountain and fill up the valley by an unity of effort to attain a common end ; you have already learnt the productive part of association ; your next steps must be to learn the distributive part , so that drones alone may not find labour sweet . The lecturer concluded amidst loud applanse . On Saturday evening a tea party took place in this hall . Mr . Robinson was invited to address the p . abliQ after tea , and was loudly -applauded throughout his address .
Co-Operative.
CO-OPERATIVE .
The National Land Company. To The Editor...
THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY . To the Editor of the Star of Freedom . Dear Sib , —In the last number of the Star op Freedom there appears a letter from Thomas M . Wheeler , on the position of the Land Company . Mr . Wheeler gave as far as concerned O'Connervile , Lowbands and Snig '* End , I think a proper and correct statement . But when he says of the Minster Lovel Estate— "At the last named estate the Company have been successful in Ihe action against the mortgages , on account of the property illegally sold ; but an action is still pending relative to the costs , which amounts to upwards of £ 2 , 000 ;"—he seems to know nothing of the facts . I wish what he states were true , but he cannot be as conversant with Minster Lovell matter as I am . The truth is that the official manager , though having taken sufficient evidence to
defeat the mortgagees in the masters court , has not yet brought the case to a , bearing in the Court of Chancery , and , until he does so , the case cannot be decided . I feel it my duty to correct that portion of Mr . Wheeler ' s letter , as otherwise persons | whom I correspond with , may be led to believe that I mean to deceive | them . The trustees , however , are certain of defeat , and they know it ; and . I believe , are hoping to compromise the ugly job with the Company as Mr . Gobdchap may now be termed . They have sold upwards of £ 7 , 000 worth of the estate , their mortgage being only . £ 5 , 000 . I find thev would now give Mr . Goodchap the surplus over the bare mortgage , and pay all costs if the sales were permitted to stand so as to secure the trustees from actions to which they are liable , both by the parties ejected , and also those to whom they illegally sold the property .
This is exactly how matters stand with Minster Lovel Estate , with perhaps , I should say , this addition , that I have taken such steps as are sure to prevent any compromise . Respectfully year ' s , JAMES BeATTIE . 10 , Hunter-street , Dover Road .
Litebatuhe.
LITEBATUHE .
Wellington And Waterloo. — Ly A. De Lama...
Wellington and Waterloo . — Ly A . De Lamar tine . London : Vizetelly and Co ., Fleet-street . A shilling brochure reprinted from Lamartino ' s " History of the Bestoration of Monarchy in France . " Making the necessary allowance for the author ' s proneness to picturewriting , in which fidelity is not seldom sacrificed for tli 3 sake of high-wrought colour and scenic eftect ; this chapter from , despite its faults , a really great work , may be accepted as a graphic and most interesting description of the terrible battle of Waterloo .
Let us indicate the outline of this matchless tragedy . At day-break on the 12 th of June , 1815 , Napoleon quitted the palace of the Tuileries , never again to re-enter it . He threw himself with confidence into Ihe midst of his army , which would give him everything if it only gave him a victory . At Avesneshe issued his " orderof the day" in which
hereminded his soldiers of Marengo and Friedland , Wa < 'ram audi Austerlitz ; and asked "Are we no longer the same men ?'" He reproached the princes of the coalition with disregard of their r oaths and protestations ; and even dared to denounce them as s " enemies of justice and the rights of nations , " aud devourers'S of 12 , 000 , 000 Poles , 12 , 000 , 000 Italians , & c . The accusation came badly from him !
At two o ' clock on the 16 th of June , Bonaparte and the mainn body of the French entered Fieures , and there found withiimi sight , the Prussian army . The conflict between tiic hostile ^ forces commenced at St . Armand . General Gerard , orderecbd . by JNapoleon to dislod ge Blucher ' s left wing from Li <* uy proceeded with alacrity to execute the Emperor ' s cSmmand . d ., His sheds and those of the Prussians set fire to fehe farmsis ; and nearest houses which lined the broad avenue of the villagcgc : and the battle raged amidst the flames which from streefeell
to street separated the combatants . The vihVe was takecer and retaken four times . " " Lhigy , in flames , was atlengtbth carried by the French , the fury of the combatants havinana transformed it into one vast heap of ashes and of dead bodies . ' s . ' ^ More fighting followed , and ultimately , Blucher having lost the whole line of his fortified positions , and twentntv thousand men , ordered a general retreat . At Gembloux ' ux : two leagues from Ligny , he fell in with the army of Bulowow his colleague , just arrived from Liege , and which covered Jiimim during the night , lhus terminated the battle of Ligny , ththi presage , as Napoleou believed , of a greater victory in stortor for him ! < ° J
Lamartme next takes the reader to the celebrated ball of th tin Ducness of Richmond at Brussels . This was on the night ct « the 14 th of Jane , at the moment Napoleon was crossing tb tbi Sambre , and driving the Prussian out-posts before Jiim . TtTlt i ) uke of Wellington was chatting in the recess of a windortow amidst the noise and gaiety of the scene , with the Duke ce << Brunswick , when an aid * de-eanip approached , - ' and commuaum
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 20, 1852, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_20111852/page/12/
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