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    • DEATH AND BURIAL OF JAMES BOYD OF GREKNOOK.
    • THE NORTHERN STAR, SATtmnAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1818.
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      THE NORTHERN STAR ' September 23 , 1848 . Price

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      MINSTER tOVEL . TO BE DISPOSED OF , to the Highest Bidder , A Three Acre Farm , No . 6 , in full crop , and now ready for gathering in , consisting of one acre and a half of barley , one acre of potatoes , and half an acre iu cabbage , peas , beans , & c . The land is of superior quality , beiag- some ofthe best on the estate . A good substantial Five-roomed House and oat-housing , thehouse wellfitted up , with a pump in the back kitchen , furnishing a constant supply of good soft water , cupboards andchbmey fixtures , and may be entered upon immediately . Application to be made to Mr Dyson , Brizenortoa-road , Minster Lovel , Oxfordshire , or to Mr Wm . Hamer , Schoolmaster , Lower-moor , Greeaacre's-moor , Oldham . S . B . —Iibv letter ( post-paid , with a stamp for a reply .

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      O'CONSORYILLE . TO BE DISPOSED OF , TWO FOUR-ACRE ALLOTMENTS , adjoining each other , in the very centre sf the Estate , with barge Barn , Cart House , Water Tank , and Piggeries . The land is cropped with vrheat , barley , potatoes , Swede and white turnips , and is exceedingly well adapted for a family . For terms , apply ( if by letter , pre-paid , with stamp for answer ) to Mr Keen , 31 , O'Connorville , near Rickmansworth , Herts .

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      SXIG'S END . TO BE DISPOSED OF , the Right of Location on Two Acres of Broke-up Pasture ; tbe crops consisting of potatoes , cabbages , Swede and white turnips , mangel , wurzel , broccoli , kail , ic , with twenty seven apple and pear trees . Inquire of F . Staples , No . 10 , Snig ' s End . Staunton , or Of W . Staples , 68 , Chapel street , Peutonvilie , London .

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      TO BE DISPOSED OF , A FOUR-ACRE FARM at SNIG ' -S E . VD , well cropped , consisting of barley , potatoes , turnips , cabbage , & c ; also , thirteen Jar ^ e fruit tr ^ es , all bearing fruit . It is called by Mr O'Connor , ' the Plum ofthe Estate . Apply to James Cabxw , No . la , Snig ' s End , near Gloucester .

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      T _ „ TO BE DISPOSED OF , WO FOUR-ACKE FAROS , adjoining each other , rerog a Family Ticket , in fall crop , consisting of barley , potato * ., Swedes , cabbage , peas , tares , mangelwurtzel , and onions . There is a quantity of fruit trees on the farms , m foil bearing , four piggeries , and a eood tank , with agricultural implements . Apply to John Leamas Siupsos , Nos . 28 and 29 , Moat , Stauaton , near Gloucester . AU letters mast be costpaid . e N . B . —A Bomber of Figs , rriuc' h mast he taken at a valuation .

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      TO BE DISPOSED OF , A TWO-ACRE FARM , at SXIG'S END , partly cropped . It is excellent Land , aad beautifully situated . Ill-health is the cause ofthe present holder ' s giving it up . Apply lif by Letter , containing stamp for reply ) , to the Directors , at the Office , 141 , High Holborn , London ; L . M . Lamb , Cheap-street , Frome ; and Disbok * , No . 15 , Snig ' s End , near Gloucester .

      Death And Burial Of James Boyd Of Greknook.

      DEATH AND BURIAL OF JAMES BOYD OF GREKNOOK .

      To The Emt0b Of The Hokthehsf Stab. Sir,...

      TO THE EMT 0 B OF THE HOKTHEHSf STAB . Sir , —It is with feelings cf no ordinary description that I have to announce the death of ono of the oldest and most staunch friends of the people , en Wednesday , the 13 : h . The following are the particuhrs . James Boyd , a foreman carpenter , in Steel xnd Co . 's ahip-building yard , while stepping from a vessel lying in the dry dock , under repair , missed his footing and fell to the bottom . When taken up he was quite insensible , and was conveyed to his own house , where medical assistance was promptly in attendance , but without effect ; he lingered a few short hoursand expired .

      For upwards of twenty yeiis he bad been embarked ia the cauas of suffering humanity . He was con nected with the Reform Bill agitation , and since the beginning of the Chartist movement he had been a sincere and devoted adherent . On Sunday the I 7 th he was borne te the grave , on the shoulders of the apprentices employed in the same yard , followed by nearly 800 persons , of all classes , a sight so striking in itself , and one that never before had been witsegsed in Greenock , that it called together a vast number of spectators , each and all speaking of the good man departed . Hia remains wero interred in tbe West Churchyard , a few paces from the grave of Burns a' Highhad Mary . ' James Boyd ( aged fiftytwo years , ) was faithful to the principles of truth and liberty , until death ; a loving father and a ten . der husband ; he has left a widow , and six of an offspring , to lament his dtath :

      J . Peacock . LINES OS THE DEATH OF JAMES BOYD , Who died 13 th September , 1818 . Be gweet and solemn , thou . my plaintive lyre , For sighs will mingle with thy every tone A Nature ' s Noble and a Patriot tire Is gone !—Yes sorrow echoes , Boio is gone ! Friend after friend , as fl iwars that fade away Bsneath the winter ' s chilly blighting breath , Live but to Wooai , and shed a genial ray 0 / truth renndlife—then slumber iato death ; And snch was Born > his name brings forth a sigh His deeds are tkeutht of with a grateful tear That stamps the soul ' s soft language on the eye And tpeaks of him oar bosoms held so dear . He loved mankind of every caste and clime Nor bore he hate—not even to hie foes ; Hia aim was Love and Liberty divine , Te cherish truth , and banish human woes .

      1 or twenty years ho struggled to redeem The human race from slavery and wos , Nor ceased to struggle till thelast sad scene Of lffo had vanished ia diath ' g fiaal blow . He keenly felt far slaves—himself a slave Who toiled through hardships e ' er life ' s narrow span , With heart unchanged he passed into the grave , A worthy Patriot and an Honest Man ! Greenock , Sep . 18 : b . Jonir Peacock .

      Miaicr/Lgos Esavs.—A Man Named James Col...

      Miaicr / LGos Esavs . —A man named James Col ' lins , a miner at St Blaziy , whilst picking nuts at a distance from St Blazsy , on an old burrow mine , known by the * name of St Blsxey Consols , overreached a bush hanging over an old shaft , seven fathoms deep , and tell to the bottom . Having providentially escaped soriuus injury , he resolved to exercise every effort to extricate himself ; and his only means of escape was by climbing up the shaft , Heat once set himself to tbe task , which he happily accomplished in about ten hours , from eight , a h „ till eix . p u Ab the place was at a distance from the public road , and he was , of course , quite beyond bearing , he must otherwisa have inevitably been starved to death .

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      . Price Twopence , THE RIGHT OF PUBLIC MEETING A LETTER Addressed ( before Sentence , ) TO LORD CHIEF JUSTICE SIR THOMAS WILDE . Br Banner Jones , This letter contains the substance ofthe address which Ernest Jones intended to deliver in the court , but whioh the judge would not allow to be spoken .

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      PORTRAIT OF JOHN MITGHEL . Specimens of a . splendid portrait of the first vie tim of the Whig Treason Act , are now in possession of our agents . The portrait will be shortly ready for presentation . That of Smith O'Brien , and those who are sharing his fate , are also in course of preparation . None but subscribers will be entitled to those portraits .

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      MR O'CONNOR'S TOUR . On Monday , the 23 rd of October , Mr O'Connor will be at Aberdeen ; on Tuesday , at Dundee ; Wednesday , Edinburgh ; Thursday , Glasgow ; Friday , Carlisle ; Saturday , Newcastle ; and after the Conference has concluded ils labours , be will make a tour of the North of England and the Midland Counties .

      The Northern Star, Sattmnay, September 23, 1818.

      THE NORTHERN STAR , SATtmnAY , SEPTEMBER 23 , 1818 .

      Ireland. " Alas! Poor Country, Almost Af...

      IRELAND . " Alas ! poor country , Almost afraid to know itself . " " Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not , Who would be free , himself must strike the blow ?''

      The deplorable state of that British province called Ireland , is foreshadowed in our first quotation ; her hope of nationality , as depicted by her great agitator , in our second . To think of Ireland just now , that is favourably or hopefrtlly , is sedition ; to talk of Ireland's wrongs is conspiracy ; to write the history of Irish sufferings is felony ; to contend for Ireland's regeneration is treason . The mind becomes

      familiarised with acts of barbarity and cruelty , just as the appetite becomes palled with delicacies ; and to such an extent have our barbarous rulers carried those barbarous exhibitions , that apprehensions for the highest crimes are matters of every day occurrence , and therefore diminished in interest , until the blood-sucking Press of thVcountry Is , upon the eve of tbe last act of the tragedy , endeavouring to prepare the mind for the execution of those who are to

      be tried for the Irish rebellion . And , strange as it may appear , and although the excitement of the times , or the well known prejudices existing in the public mind , furnishes sufficient grounds for the postponement of trial ; and although the boasted English Constitution ( now no more ) used to declare the fact , that every man should be tried by a jury of his peers , and that every man put upon his defence should be held

      innocent until he was pronounced guilty , and that every man shall have a fair trial , yet , notwithstanding these boasted privileges , it is an undeniable fact that no political offender is tried by a jury of his peers , nor is held to be innocent until pronounced guilty , nor has a fair trial . Nay more , it is an indisputable fact , that he is not tried upon the oral evidence submitted to the jury , but that he is convicted upon the prejudice created by the Press .

      It is impossible to contend against ttose feelings of doubt , apprehension , and fear which may naturally exist in the minds of a jury ; and when the mind-creating press confirms those feelings of alarm , and proclaims that the only means for their suppression is the destruction of the captured victims , those victims are ^ not tried upon evidence , but convicted by cherished prejudice , and upon the hope that their fate may be a lesson to others . But

      however our rulers may cherish the hope of ruling Ireland by the law of the sword , the perjury of suborned informers , the venality of class-made judges , the fears af an aristocratic grand jury , the prejudice of a packed jury , and the salutary example of the gallows and the gibbet , yet we tell them that although the ranks of famine may be thinned , that man pays more obedience to fheJaws of Nature , than to the edicts of Man , and as long as SELF-PRESERVATION continues to be the first law of

      Nature , and until our oligarchy can repeal or amend God's laws , or revoke Nature's constitution , the hunger of man will be a more dreadful enemy than the strongest vengeance of the disaffected . There is no reasoning mind that must not have come to the conclusion that one of two results must have eventuated in the agitation of Daniel O'Connell , and his coadjutors . They had an ignorant but acute mind to deal with they were oracles , whose words were injunctions , whose injunctions were commandments . One result was , prosperity through fidelity ; the other was , prosperity through resistance . And

      can it be denied , that the Irish people have borne oppression tamely and submissively , rather than violate a law in the teeth of that commandment which declared , " that he who violates the law is an enemy to his country , and strengthens the hands of the enemy ? ' ' And , as far as the people are concerned , can it be denied that all honour—all praise—has been awarded to their fidelity , while their only reward has been the aggrandisement and promotion of their false and truculent leaders ? until at length they are driven to the sad alternative of realising by resistance what was denied to fidelity , passive obedience , nonresistance , and long-suffering .

      Perhaps , when Ireland ' s history , since the period of Emancipation down to the desolation of that land by famine , is written , it will present one of the strangest anomalies that the records of the world can furnish . All her woes are declared to be contained in foreign representation , while the panacea for all her sufferings consisted in self-government . And yet will it be believed , that while the machinery by which local power was to be achieved

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      has undergone tbe most minute revision , in the hope of feeding' the locally-great , and crimping them in the service of prostitution ; that during thirty-three years of hot , continuous , and ardent agitation , not one single step has been taken in the road to political or social regeneration , or even amendment ? And hence we find , that in France , in Prussia , in Austria , and other countries , where agitation constituted no portion of popular right ; as if by magic , in those several countries the very principles denounced by Daniel O'Connell and his staff of local place-hunting beggars , have

      been adopted as the basis of political power , while the solution of the vexed Labour Question—tortured and twisted as it has been in all countries—is admitted to be the only solid basis of the social question . And with these two great facts staring us in the face , will any man say that the dying followers of the dead —ay , of the pampered living , too—are to be considered criminal for following that teaching , and obeying those doctrines which were promulgated for the benefit of a class , and turned to profit by a Whig Government , who

      not only tolerated , but encouraged the wildest sedition , and the most fantastic agitation , so long as they relied upon those means to secure their own elevation . A member of that Government , and now the President of the Board of Control ( Sir J . C . Hobhouse ) , declared in his place in Parliament , in 1822 , " That it would be impossible to tranquillise Ireland , though there was a rope round every peasant ' s neck , or a soldier , with a fixed bayonet , ' at every peasant ' s back . " And yet , as if these words were intended to foreshadow

      the future , we find that the boast of the Press now is , that fat policemen and well-fed soldiers cheered joyously when summoned to the slaughter , and that the only drawback is , lest they may not MEET THE FELLOWS-and , although we are assured that thu greatest contempt is entertained for Smith O' Brien and his associates , we , nevertheless , discover that they are escorted by policemen with " capped and cocked pistols , ' and soldiers with "fixed bayonets . " Those very soldiers and police , whose only fear we are assured is lest the fellows would not stand , and who , upon the pretext of a frown , a smile , or a gesture , would establish the treason of their prisoner , " and cheerfully take his life in the hope of honour , distinction , and reward .

      We do not state it exultingly , but we repeat it as a caution to Ireland ' s oppressors , that the woe and desolation , which they are now causing to the Irish poor , will one day recoil upon their own heads ; and , strong as may be their reliance upon the power of the sword , we would warn them that , in these days of quick transit , and when there is a mind upon every passing breeze , which cannot be cribbed , cab

      bined , or confined , stabbed , sabred , or shot , we would warn them , under those circumstances , to put their own house in order while there is yet time for repentance ; to abandon their vicious ways ; to retrace their dangerous steps ; and not , as of yore , to hug themselves in the fond conceit" that England is the world , and her Constitution the envy and admiration of surrounding nations . "

      No nation can boast of strength or selfreliance that has lost the affection and confidence of its people . No island , falsely depending upon foreign trade , can long hope to preserve its superiority , when her chief customer shall have conceived , not her humiliation , but her downfall—and let England , and England ' s manufacturers , draw a salutary lesson from tbe consignment of tea imported , from

      England into the Boston river , and gaining experience from the past , and recollecting that what has been may be—let England ' take heed , lest American cotton , in 1848 , may effect what English tea , exported to America , effected in 1776 ; and then the disciples of physical-force Whiggery will learn that there is more d . inger in the idle labourer than there is security in the armed soldier .

      We learn now that the qualification for the next American President is hostility to England and sympathy for Ireland , and that General Cass , a candidate upon that principle , is the favourite in the field , while Clay , the representative of Commerce , stands hindmost in the list of favourites . And in the present state of Europe—the present state of our finances—and the present state of the Labour mind of this empire , can those who now base their ascendancy upon brute force contemplate , or dare they hazard a guess , as to the effect that an * American war would have upon

      Commercial England ? Next week we shall report the first act of the Irish tragedy , about to be performed on the Tipperary stage , and if there can be a justification offered for the most vio lent outrnges we would find that justification in the admission of the Press , that the present Irish movement is an agrarian warfare , in which the starving and the destitute are the actors , while the landlords , taking advantage of the reign of terror to secure the submission of their serfs , are desolating the fields , laying waste the haggard , gutting the hovels , dispersing the MERE IRISH , and thus constituting the recruiting service of sedition .

      The Irish believe in divine maxims ; they believe " that he who dies by the sword is better than he who perishes from hunger . " It is not long since they witnessed the sad catastrophe of Ireland ' s decimation . It hath not passed from the mind that the putrid bodies of the unburied famished , tainted and contaminated the air ; the sad recfcllection still remains , that mothers have eat their lifeless babes—that pigs and dogs have lived on human flesh—that the land has been one

      seabouud dungeon , a vast howling desert , filled with the wailings and despair of the dying Irish ; while the administrators of English bounty , English charity , and the English funds , appropriated to their own kindly use those alms which were kindly given for thesustainment of Irish life , and thus we prove that Ireland suffers more from domestic treachery and misrule than even from English oppression ; and thus we prove that the plunderers of the lifepreserving fund furnished by England , rather than the Irish people , are the fomentors ol Irish rebellion and the murderers of the Irish

      people . We remember a season of famine , and we remember to have heard a Rev , Mr Smith , Protestant parson , and one of the distributors of English charity , collected from the Opera House and other places of amusement / under the patronage of George the Fourth ; we remember to have heard the rev . parson boast that he had fed his hounds upon the oatmeal supplied for the support of the poor . And , in conclusion , we would ask what punishment beyond exposure has been inflicted upon those pious reprobates ? What justice beyond that vengeance to which distress goads the angry

      mind , have the Irish complainants received against their oppressive landlords ? and it is no answer to us that the land is theirs , that they themselves have been pauperised by poorrates , while their rents are withheld ; for to such an argument , we would answer , that we have never heard of a landlord perishing from hunger , while , in the midst of pity for them , and of national distress , but few have abated aught of their luxuries . But , relying upon the laws ot the God of Nature , in preference to the laws £ of man , and disregardiag the taunts of the disciples of Malthus , we assert , that when calamity comes upon the land , the

      sufferings should be measured by a graduated scale , and that from the monarch upon the throne , to the humblest being—who is as much the object of God ' s love and protection—all should equally bear that calamity . " Hunger will break through stone walls ; " and presu . n"iff that the God of England is als o the God of Germany , , <„„] presuming ; that Prince Albert is imbued with the same parental affec Sr !» * p fi humbler dim > w »»« W ask that Ivoyal Prince , now partaking of the sports of the field , and the frolic of the dance while the subjects of his loved consort are * starving-we would ask him , how fUr the laws or iier 1 arhament would restrain his action if

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      his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales , the Princess Royal , ' and the rest of the Royal family , were crying for food , and were ready and willing to work , buf could not procure em » ployment , and threatened with transportation if he " openly and advisedly" proclaimed his suffering , or banished as a thief if he invaded the rights of property to preserve the life of his ' . fkmily . ? " Oh ! " says the ghost of Malthus , " the poor-house ! " Then , we would ask the Royal Prince , in how far the hope of repose in that sanctuary , separated from his Royal Consort and his Royal babes , would still his German blood , or subdue his German pride ? act of the

      The ^ f matter is , that the solution of the Labour Question is contained in the aphorism of the Yorkshire shoemaker , who said , " that all the stuff ' ee the world wor made for all the folk ' ee the world , and he hadn ' t a share of it ! " And however sophistry may argue—however power may command—and however executions may follow in the wake of the perverted law , it will require more than sophistry , power , and the law , to reconcile the judgment of man to the justice which consigns a brave , a generous , a grateful , and laborious people to degradation , starvation , and the gallows , in a fertile land , calling for their Labour , and willing to render an abundance in return .

      " Oh ! but , ' ' says the Irish reviler , " they are not laborious—they are idle ; " and in return , we ask , then why recruit them to populate your colonies ? How comes it that in other countries they struggle for the lion ' s share of toil ?— -how comes it that they make your best soldiers , your best sailors , and your best policemen i * The answer is apt and easy . Because abroad the field of industry is open , and there is remuneration for toil ; but at home there is a tax upon industry ,-because

      the moment the property of the lord is enhanced in value by the sweat of the serf , the rent is raised by the standard of his industry , or he is ousted from his mint by one who bids over his head atj the auction mart . But fear not , green land of Erin , your cause is not confined to the sea-bound dungeon , it is now agi fating the world , and your poverty , brought about by domestic treachery , sanctioned b y British misrule , will speedily cease , and your woes are fast recoiling upon the heads of your oppressors .

      Whatever may be the decision of the Tipperary juries , we will chronicle every word of evidence adduced against the accused ; and should the verdict be " guilty , " it may be reversed by that tribunal too large to be packed and too virtuous to be polluted .

      The Right To Labour ¦ B Our Neighbours A...

      THE RIGHT TO LABOUR ¦ Our neighbours across the English Channel have , after along and fruitless talk about the " Right to Labour / ' and the " Right to Existence , " at length decided that neither of these " rights' '—if they exist at all in nature—are to have any existence within the New Republic (!) of the bourgeoisie . They have , however , invented a new " right'' which they call the " Right to Succour , " though what is meant by that very novel phrase we confess we are at present utterly unable to comprehend . Wesuspect , however , it means neither more nor less than a juggle , by which the middle classes mean—if they can—to humbug the people , and clutch for themselves all the substantial benefits to be derived from the late

      revolution . It needs no ghost to come from the grave to tell us what the result of such conduct must inevitably be . History is full of warnings and examples . The principles on which the middle classes of France are now acting , have always , and , while they are applied to practice , ever must produce divisions , strife , misery , recklessness , and ultimately bloodshed . " Tho Mob At hat fall sick of imitating Job , '' and past revolutions so misapplied only furnish the materials for new ones .

      We observe that the middle class organs of this country are in extacies with the proceedings of their order in France . But it is seriously worth their while to give this question a little more thought than they have heretofore done , and ask themselves whither their own system is likely to carry them ? We are very much mistaken if the Political Economists , in whom thev have hitherto

      implicitly confided , are not likely soon to realise the saying , ' When the blind lead the blind both fall into the ditch . " Despite of the desperate and cruel methods resorted to for the purpose of repressing Pauperism , it has overcome all their opposition to its progress ; and , at this moment , the rates are but little below what they were under the old law , with every prospect of their increasing .

      Nothing can be more clear than that the New Poor Law Act has been a failure , if it is tried by the expectations held out by its advocates . It was intended to abolish out-door relief entirely , and by the force of a purely coercive and primitive system , make the whole of the labourers of England " independent "" living on their own resources . " It was assumed that there was work enough for everybody who liked to work , and that by refusing any assistance except within the Union Workhouses , under the harsh conditions attached to them , none but idle , lazy vagabonds would accept it . On this supposition

      they prohibited Union Workhouses from having more than thirty acres of land attached to lhem , and also all out-door work to be given to the able-bodied poor . Many parishes that had reclaimed farms of considerable extent , either from forest or waste land , by means of such labour , and thereby lessened the pressure of the rates , were obliged , on the passing of the New Act , to give up these farms . The whole of the policy of the late Commission was studiously directed to discourage , not only out-f ' oor relief , but out door productive labour : and we recollect a case in which an

      otherwise most efficient Master of a Union was discharged , against the will ofthe Guardians , because he was a keen spade cultivator , and made a productive garden of a small field , which otherwise would have grown nothing but coarse grass and rushes . It requires little argument on our part to show the monstrous ignorance of such proceedings as these . . Whatever tends to prevent the production of food , or of raw material on which to employ Labour , is , per se , a positive injury to the entire community . More especially is such conduct to be deprecated and censured , when it takes place in the midst of failing foreign markets , and the 'diminution of

      former means of subsistence . It is now apparent to every man who has given the subject the slightest consideration , or who knows anything of the facts , that our foreign trade , on winch so much dependence was placed , is declining , never to rise again . It has reached its highest point , and henceforth the greater number of competitors—the increasing facilities and advantages of these competitors-and tbe smaller number of neutral or open markets they will have to supply—must render our foreign trade , as a means of supporting any great number of the population , utterly useless end inadequate .

      It is quite clear that the time has come wi . en it is the bounden duty of English statesmen and legators to find some new outlet for the industry of the people , and we know of none at present so retdily accessible , so immediate in its advantages , and so unob jectionable »> every point of view , as the increased and improved cultivation of our own soil , Emigration schemes—whether under the direct sanction of Government , and carried on by its recognised and authorised agents , or instigated bj avaricious jobbing land-speculators—appcar to us altogether unsuitable as a remedy , either for the evils which press upon us at present , or those which threaten us in the future . g It is nothing short of sheer insanity for a great nation to bej fc exporting its labour—the

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 23, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_23091848/page/4/