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ST . .. STEPHENS . "
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., BTSBHEBX JOKES . Sufferers and toilers , Mighty and moek , "Who tend to the spoiler * , ; The itrong to the weak ! Start from your slumbers . Your wrongs to redress , Union and numbers ' : Redg « 5 Q « TOecetS , In luVPark ' ament . palace " Theoligarch" sits , Seltinterest and malice Dictating by fits . - Hate of some faction , Or longing for gold , . Uetring to action - The listless , and cold .
Bat the ? epple , forgottfin , Aresapping his strength , A fabric » o rotten Host crumble at length . " Ketone heart fentfires ' ' Atthetriampb . of knaves ! Sons of free sireR ShaUnever be slaves ! In times of enthralling ,. Ho shrixuangwas there , when Hampden was calling To do and to dare . ' -But mors peacefel your field , And more easy your task ; ; Z % osffi > es bore the shield , ft : i Tours wear hut the mask J
. 'Then hither y » ur voices ! , f And hither yonrinen ! Tin England rejoices - - " In freedom again . In the halls of St Stephen -Ypnrjattle to fight ,, ,. ' - 'Send-the champions of free iata , t \ lposttsbfright .- '' . " , r ' Tfll , " ediypifringfaction , ^ -, ... , ^ y * P ™| fA «^™' { -Jv ! ' ; - "¦ - . AM cheer them to action . For Charter and land .. .
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. jpspfrs ? - ' - - - DUNCOMBE AND HIS STAFF . TO THE INDUSTRIOUS OF ALL CLASSES . My Friends , —I do not bow address you sectionally—mating a distinction between that class of labour the most oppressed and that class least oppressed : I embody all who work for a living , whether witti head or hand , in one general list ; and my object is , to convince all of thai order o f the Indispensable necessity of forming a NATIONAL UNION for the protection of NATIVE INDUSTRY ; as , believe me , that no party oelongingto any other class will extend other protection . to labour than will secure to its own class the largest proportion of its profits .
In the mad zeal evinced by the shopk eepers for FREE TRADE , that class showed great ignorance How often have I told them and you , that the most natural antagonism was the opposition of the shopkeepers to a system which substituted non-consuming machinery for consuming labour ; and yet an unmanly hankering after a bit of social distinction blinded them to their real interest . The Free Traders , with the Dissenting Ministers as a recruiting staff ,
cunningly enlisted female sympathy in behalf of the suffering poor ; and while the husband struggled for anticipated profit , the wife , under spiritual influence , at once gratified her social taste and proclaimed her charity , her generosity , and her love of religionas those under whose influence women acted as FREE TRADERS , made it a religions question , quoting Scr ipture as the devil does to serve his purpose .
I mention this net to show you that the TEAPOT and the DISSENTING PULPIT were the most powerful weapons of FREE TRADE . However , the measure has been earned ; and we learn mm the fact of the Revising Barristers' Courts being attended by Tory Lawyers , Whig lawyers , and FREE TRADE lawyers , that the FREE TRADERS see the indispensable necessity of securing such a House of Commons as will insure the legal application of the principle to the interests of all who speculate upon CHEAP PRODUCTION . Now , keep that " bird's eye" view of the ultimate intention of FREE TRADERS before yon . The position is only taken ; the forces have yet to be recruited ; the battle has yet to be fought ; the
HOUSE OF COMMONS IS SELECTED AS THE BATTLE HELD : and my object in writing this address is to induce you , " the INDUSTRIOUS OF ALL CLASSES , to be prepared for the coming straggle—a struggle npon the result of which the fate of the LABOUR CAUSE—nay , of society , must depend . I do not ask you to perform an impossibility , nor do I set you a very difficult task . I do not ask you to return a majority of the House of Commons ; what I ask you is , to secure the one FIFTY-FIFTH part of the representation by which your country is governed , and to whose LAWS your Eves , your liberties , and your properties are subjected .
I ask but for a junction of both ends of labour the trades , or aristocracy , led on by Buncombe ; and theFUSTIAN JACKETS , BLISTERED HANDS , and UNSHORN CHINS , led on by me ; with the co-operation of those who live by mental exertion , and who render a due share of intellectual profit in return for their just proportion of the produce . If the nation sets itself this task , and resolves upon its accomplishment , THE DEED IS DONE . If it rejects the opportunity and the service , labour will have no just cause of complaint against the worst tyranny of its TOLERATED , ACCEPTED oppressors , but must for ever assume the ignominious title of WILLING SLAVERY .
Buncombe has struggledlong and straggled nobly to sustain a position for awakened industry to rally round ; he has kept your claims alive and has just kept you within the statute of limitation , for , believe me if circumstances should curse the nation with a purely FREE TRADE Parliament , capital w dl imperceptibly , though conclusively , narrow labour's chance of success until every avenue of representation shall be closed against the friends of a FAIR DAY'S WAGE FOR A FAIR DAY'S WORK , which , after all , is our sole—our only object . »
In this struggle you will have much to contend for , and mnch ~ to contend against . It was well enough , in our weakness , to have frightened the enemy , even with the ghost of Chartism . It was a triumph to compel candidates that hated the principle to adopt it as the only means of securing popular support ; it was a confession of popular power , but we have passed that stage , we must now have the substance . Gisborne might have been a better STRAW than young Walter to mark the political current—Sturge might be a better member tlianvoungScholefield—or Parson Miall than
Molesworth—hut none of them are comparable to an unmixed , unequivocal , undisguised , unsuspected Chartist . I would rather , much rather , see W . P . Roberts , T . Allsop , Douglas Jerrold , Patrick O'Hi gs ' ms , Ernest Jones , Dr . M'Douall , James Moir , Jas . Holliday , W . Wilkinson ( Exeter ) , Titus Brooke , James M'Pherson , O'Gorman Mahon , Win . Londsdale , W . Hewitt ( of Manchester ) , and , though last not least , our noble President M'Grath , ( and many more whom I could name if the people were prepared ) , in the house , than six score who swallowed the nauseous pill in the hope of gilding it with the gold of patronage ,
tne pronts of speculation , or the reward of treachery . The democratic party must now assume a distinct anil unmistakealile position , it must secure co-operation from an exhibition of its own strength and not seek toleration by a dangerous and suicidal prostration of its power at the shrine of hypocritical courtship , wooed by the lustful smiles , and won by the foul embraces , of its old seducer aud betrayer . While some of the foolish of your order were speculating upon the prospect of a proud aristocracy—in the death-throes—resisting Free Trade for labour ' s sake , you must have smiled at their amiable sim-
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plicity , and laughed at their childish credulity . I feel assured that all my words and all my writings upon the question of Free Trade for twelve years past , will have convinced you that I made the subject , and the character- and intentions of those who agitated it , no idle " study ; I told you a thousand times that we would be highly criminal if we joined for its accomplishment , while , if we were in a state of preparedness to take advantage of the change , we might lessen its evil . I told you that you would be the greatest sufferers in the adjustment , and that , ultimately , the manufacturers would . ' discover that
THEY had CAUGHT A TARTAR . If / however , yon allow them td'break their fall with ; a FREE TRADE P ^ IA ^^ i ^ ey ^ wiU ; take iafe that the whole weight of disappointment . shall fall upon yom ipnrl ^^ labour has " no yc ^ cs ag ^ capital . But let labour have taelye CHAMPIONS in ' the FIGHT , regand ^;^ "p ^ ir ^ ti ^ fVcwreir niencei' landlords' sufferings , * aiuLcotton-lords ' qieeuUtior ^ tweive -. men who r ^ lli ; each take part in every Labour question , unravelling what class interest has entangled into mystery , and whose
every assertion wiU be confirmed by five miUloniof competent witnesses before hasty faction is allowed to close the debate , and then farewell to the sophistry of Peel , to the finality of Russell , to the logic of Cobden , the ignorance of Hume , the arrogance of Roebuck , and the fabrications of Bright ; then , fresh and vigorous , truth will come with racing speed and electrifying influence from the lips of Labour ' s self upon the deaf ear of heartless capital These twelve guardians would meet together , studying every Labour question , arranging , and agreeing among themselves as to the tactics and-form of
battle , every roan assigned his post according to his ability , and all led on by our indomitable leader and unconquerable chief . The people's : right to the land could then be forcibly advocated , and all Europe and the-world would learn that England lived and had been foremost in the march of mind , although a hireling press had so cautiously withheld the fact And , again , what inducement to the now . Apathetic to straggle for a whole House of Buncombes ! As my countryman said , when he liked the smack o f the quince in the apple-pie , "If one quince makes
an apple-pie so good , what the ? devil- 'would an APPLE PIE be if it was all quinces 5 " , I now declare that the Charter thus gained would be immeasurably better for the labouring classes than if its first Working Was left to the mercy of a parliament hastily elected in the midst of a reason-destroying , thoughtless excitement . The people would be then led by a continuous succession of triumphs for THEMSELVES to a knowledge of the value of the f all measure of justice , while faction would- be compelled to surrender to the OBSTRUCTIVE :
INFLUENCE OF TWELVE AND THE NATION . Then there is another strong fact which you must bear in mind . Twelve of the RIGHT SORT elected by yon , would win many of the imbecile waverers over to a cause that MEANT TO WIN . Twelve Chartist members means at least FIFTY OBSTRUCTIVES . Twelve Chartist members would soon unmask Old Ireland ' s face , and teach the Irish people that justice to England meant justice to Ireland , and that every one of them would vote for a total abolition of tithes and a REPEAL OF THE LEGISLATIVE UNION . Every village , every town , every
borough , every city , every county ,-every house , every cellar , and every'flag-stone' upon which the creature' without God and without hope' rests his weary head , has an interest in this great national movement ; Barnsley as well as York , Middleton as well as Manchester , Kensington as well as London . Let the people only insure twelve Chartist representatives , and their voice will arrest the law ' s vengeance , bind the hands of corruption , and gag the tongue of slander ; whUe , upon the other hand , if they suffer the present opportunity to pass , and a FREE TRADE Parliament should be the result ,
farewell even to the chance of another struggle . I believe this to be the age of practice .. I feel convinced that we have succeeded in completing the two first processes of agitation , the creation and organization of public opinion , and I also believe that the country is now prepared for the last stage—its proper direction ; and further , that it will have but little doubt that representation is that proper direction . If the people succeed in getting twelve REAL MEMBERS , the BKJGEST HALF of the House no longer constitutes a majority , and for this simple reason , because a minority
AND THE NATION would be greater and more powerful . Suppose , for instance , a bad measure proposed by the government—a measure injurious to the rights of labour—an address instantly appears from Buncombe and his dozen ; five million voices speak to the house at once , and should their prayer be resisted , then a national demonstration takes place throughout the country , to meet the third reading with a remonstrance so strong that it cannot be mistaken . Four hundred Free Traders dare not make laws to carry their principle into practice , if the people had twelve members in the house
to aid Duncombe . \\ hen these simple truths strike upon the ear , and speak to common sense , what a huge criminal , what an immense traitor Daniel O'Connell must appear ; who for 14 sessions has had at his back , and under his controul , from 45 to 70 tools to be used for any job , and who have been used to strengthen the bands of corruption . Is it not almost more than mortal man can bear , to reflect that this UNCLEAN BEAST has received from his countrymen ten times as much as the Whig government insolently doles out as alms to a nation upon whose plunder it has lived ? while the
plundering Liberator tells the slavish recipients to receive it thankful ]}' , and beg humbly for more from the SAXON OPPRESSOR , when the step mother ' s scanty bit is gone . 0 2 Mercy , Justice , and Pity , what this cold-blooded bad old man might have done for poor Ireland ! 11 While , after 17 years of EMANCIPATION , and 14 of REFORM , ' which placed a majority of the representation in his hands , his country is a paltry beggar for alms at the oppressor ' s door ; while he lolls in idle luxury , bartering submissive poverty for Saxon patronage . Xot all the Arch-Bishops , Bishops , Priests , aud petty-fogging place hunters on the face of the earth , can much longer screen such open infamy from open exposure and punishment . You , Englishmen , have not yet
reflected on the fact that he signed the Charter to deceive you , and has made a voluntary tender of his physical force to crush you in the field , while he lias cheerfully prostituted his parliamentary strength to the unscrupulous support of your bitterest enemies , and aided in swelling the statute book with laws for your coercion , prostration , and degradation ; while after so long a possession of so much power , I defy mortal man to point me out one clause in one statute of his framing or suggestion , calculated to serve the cause of civil or religious liberty . NO , NOT ONE . The nation ' s task is now set , it is to secure twelve CHARTIST MEMBERS at the next general election , aad the way to perform it is , to sink all distinctions between Whigs and Tories , to resolve that the battle must be betweeenFREE TRADE , WHICH ME 4 . NS
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CHEAP SPECULATION ^ arid the Charter , whicti means * il ^ U < ^ : v '^ M \ J ' ' ^ $ & ¥ A : FAIR DAYS WAGESi FOB , "' &*' AtR DATS WORK . ¦ ,.- .. :,, v ^ Let us concentrate our force wherever we " have the balance of power , in a borough or town . Let us divide England , Scotland , and Wales into twelve electoral districts selecting in each as : our battle ground , that / where we possess most electoral strength andNON ELECTIVE INFLUENCE ^ Let us then say toeitherparty , hereYret »^ eow « UndgWen 3 one Chartist member HERE , and yon shall have every particle of Chartist support in the remainder of this electoral district ; but OUR BALANCE OF POWER shall be retained as the RESERVE to insure fair play . Let
then , the remainder of that electoral district pour in its whole strength to the one place we mean to . contest . Let'that district have its local committee and machinery , and let the BATTLE GROUND , have its Central Committee , acting with the National Committee sitting in London ; and even with the present registration we will . ^ thake the . old bones of corruption . The Executive have provided a good And eligible room in an eligible situation , and the sittings of the National Committee should be for the present one night in the ' weekat least ; and , as the ^ day of battle approaches , should be , SEVEN nights in the week . Tracts should be printed , lecturers should be
employed , candidates should be selected ; but the first step is to divide the empire into twelve electoral districts , selecting in each ONE SECURE SEAT for a TRUE MAN . We will not dictate to the enemy with whom we may coalesce , nor shall the enemy dictate tons in the choice of CANDIDATES . Let the universal shout throughout the land then be—Hurrah !! for Duncombe : And the Twelve , . . ' For Duncombe And the Twelve—Hurrah . !!! Your faithful friend and servant , Fbargbs O'Connor .
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CHARTIST CO-OPERATIVE LAND SOCIETY . My dear Friends , —We receive a few letters expressing great anxiety for the purchase of more Land . Youneed be . under no apprehension . I have visited six or seven estates since I last wrote to you upon the subject , but your anxiety shall not hurry me into a bad purchase . I will not buy anything the cultivation of which will not repay you for your labour , better than if you were working for the best
wages . In a few hours , from this time , I shall be m the train for Birmingham , to visit an estate in Warwickshire , well situated , and if the land is good it will be bought ; if it is not , it wont . And I may now tell you , to satisfy your curiosity , that we are about making a very extensive purchase , but recollect , that although there is plenty to be had , that land is not to be purchased like a hat . You are not half as anxious as I am to set to work again , although I think I have given you the full benefit of my leisure since the bulk of the work was over at Herringsgate , in the improvement of the Star and the circulation of our principles at public meetings . I assure you that the extension of the plan and the anticipations of its success surpass my most sanguine
expectations , and the carrying of it out promises to occupy no small portion of my time . Now , turnabout is fair play , and if you are very anxious upon one point , I am equally anxious upon another—it is this , we have opened over twenty new branches within this week , and I wish this rule to be read at every meeting of the new and old branches . It is , that the secretaries shall transmit the money each week , without holding it until it is supposed to be of sufficient importance to send . This enables the secretary to keep his accounts more regular , and will be a better protection for the members . The members in each branch should ascertain the exact amount paid within each week , and then by reference to the Star of the following-week they can be satisfied as to its correctness .
I give this injunction , because some persons , perhaps not members , hamper us with letters to know why a weekly return is not made , when no remittance has been sent . If , then , this simple rule is observed , there can be no mistake or dissatisfaction . If the amount is not worth a post-office order , it can be sent in postage stamps ; but it should be sent each week . Another subject to which I draw your attention is this—you voted so much levy upon every member for the payment of the Directors , and yoa appointed me Treasurer of the Expense Fund . Now I believe that no men in this world ever earned their
wages more honestly or more hardly than the Directors ; but it was a vote of the Conference that it should be paid out of a particular fund ; and upon that fund , and upon that fund only , can they rely . Therefore , if you are anxious for the purchase of land , I am anxious for the payment of your servants , without whose aid I could not carry out your wish . Those who suppose they have paid in f ull , and who have not paid their Directors' Levy , may be disappointed upon the next ballot , as no name will be put into the ballot-box , unlcss the levy has been paid ; while it will be stopped from those who pay weekly ,
or by instalments . The sum voted is fully ample for the purpose ; and I think that the payment of the Company ' s servants is just as essential as the purchase of land . It may be , that much more has been paid on account of this fund than we a \ re aware o f as the generality of secretaries send their remittances in a bulk sum , without any instruction as to its application . Now , surely , these simple rules may be attended to , and will ensure the success and integrity of what all are now beginning to look upon as the most glorious project ever undertaken for the emancipation of the working classes .
In conclusion , you may rely upon a purchase not only of the 130 acres that have been ballotted for , but of a much larger quantity , being made forthwith ; but it is impossible for me to communicate to you every estate that I am going to purchase , or every one that I am going to inspect ; but this much
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It is scarcely possible that any man can be so stn pid , so completely destitute of sense and understanding as net to see , NOW , what the Irish Uniwwai Suffrage Association pointed out to them so far back as 1841 . Every one sees , NOW , that the Liberator of the brave Forty-shilling Freeholders ; the destroyer of two million and a half of his countrymen , never , for one single moment , ; entertained the slightest notion of repealing the Union . No , no , my friends ; that was the very last thing to be thought of . It was plainly stated ; and deliberately resolved , that
the Repeal was to be left an open question , to be agitated for by the people of Ireland ; well knowing that if they would a & Hatei for it to the day of judgment they would not be one bit nearer to it than they were the day they commenced . But then , agitation brought in the sum of £ 128 , 621 to the coffers of Conciliation Hall . Agitation ' brought in about £ 30 , 000 a-year to the O'Connell Tribute : and , therefore , agitation was to be kept up at all hazards . The ejected tenantry—the poor dupes—are the unoffending sufferers ; they , poor creatures , are the victims of one of the most heartless knaves that ever
disgraced human nature . : The only excuse that can be made for the Catholic clergy—the natural and chosen protectors of the helpless , the widow , and the orphan—is , that they are not politicians ; they have been deceived and cheated themselves : or else they would be highly culpable in wilfully joining , aiding , and abetting , this mad career of wickedness , cupidity , and Whiggism . . Politics are completely excluded from the College orVMaynooth ; so much ^^ thatifj a student gets a newspaperrthe mere fact is a sufficient ground for
expulsion . Besides , all priests teach what they believe , and what I believe , to be infallible truth ; they have , therefore , no idea of the tortuous course . of a wily , eloquent politician , who has spent a long life in making the worse appear the better cause . The palpable sophistry of the deceitful orator is completely lost sight ot in the eloquent and impassioned appeals to their patriotism . It is , therefore , due to them , in common justice , to say , that few , very few indeed , have joined the agitation from corrupt motives . .
I shall , for the present , postpsne my intended remarks upon the second letter of Dr . M'Hale to Lord John Russell upon the conduct pursued by the Rev . Mr . Hearne , towards the Chartists of Manchester ; and upon the political sermon preached by the Rev . Mr . Miley in Marlborough-street Church , on the occasion of Mr . O'Connell becoming Lord Mayor of Dublin ; It can be demonstrated that this sermon contains rank blasphemy , disgusting adulation , and abject slavery ; and is a disgrace to the clergyman who preached it , and an insult to the understanding of those who had tho patience to listen to it .
You have seen that the Catholic Bishops and Catholic Clergy who joined the repeal agitation , were all enrolled members of the UNARMED VOLUNTEERS . Now , I ask you , does it not follow , as a natural inference , that , as the Bishops and Clergy were duly enrolled members of the unarmed volunteers , there must have been armed volunteers ? Unless this were the case why was the distinction made ? Why should there be unarmed volunteers ? Where - fore , then , this ridiculous fuss abjut moral force NO \ Y , when the scheme of physical f orce f ailed ? " Is it eneugh , or shall he , while a thrill hires in your sapient bosoms , cheat you still V
There is not a man amongst you , lay or clerical , that did not . expect , that , in 1813 , theve would be some fighting for repeal . Disowning it NOW , places you in a very unenviable position . Neither Priest nor Bishop should ever place himself in a position to have his veracity called in question . Following a false guide has not only placed some of them in that awkward position , but has made them convict themselves . What is the meaning of that noble expression of the Bishop of Ardagh , which shook the House of Lords , from centre to surface ; and made every Peer tremble , both in and out of Parliament ? "IF THEY- ATTACK US IN OUR PEACEFUL
MEETINGS , IN THE OPEN AIR , WE SHALL RETREAT TO OUR CHURCHES , AND THERE , WITH OUR LIVES , BEQUEATH OUR WRONGS TO OUR SUCCESSORS !" There is language befitting a better cause and a better leader . Why do these Bishops and Clergy , who embarked honestly and sincerely in the repeal agitation , not come forward like men , and acknowledge boldly and manfully that they were duped and cheated by tho arch-deceiver ; and no longer run the risk of
exposing themselves to the pity , and perhaps , ultimately , the contempt , o f honest men , by following the old cheat through all his crimes and contradictions . If their object be to secure for themselves a State provision , and thus become bound by a " GOLDEN LINK TO THE C ROWN , " their support ol O ' Connell , through all his vagaries , is quite consistent But there is a shameful want of morality in the pr ' etencV that the object of the repeal agitation is the repeal of the Act of Union , when , in reality , it is the restoration of Whiggery , and a State
Provision . The Catholic Hierarchy and Clergy who are enrolled members of the " UNARMED VOLUNTEERS , " either know Mr . O'Connell ' s object , or they do not know it . If they do know it , they are guilty of aiding him to deceive and cheat their flocks under the pretence of Repealing the U nion . If they do not know his object ( which is the only excuse that can be offered for them ) they are guilty ef de-
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cemng and cheating their flockBi by pretending that they do know it . In either case they stand convicted , and are morally bound to return to their confiding dupes every penny they wrung from them under the pretence of Repealing the Union . It is well known ( and I could name theparties ) that , even in tha Archdiocese of Dublin , the poor people gave butter and eggs to the Repeal Wardens when , ' they had no money to , give . ' How ; can any Clergyman , Who , fori the last six years has been guilty of calling upon-: the 'people , = from the ; steps of the Altar ,
to - pay the ; repeal ' rent , "_ . ' .. come - forward , and / from the same altar preach morality and honesty to the people until such time as he sets theexample | him ^ whibtfte h ^ pVetenee ? f Itgbes hard with a man who would have Bacri ^ cedhwli & speak ; thusnfihem ; butlthe $ utijmusiantonllbe | 6 M gand ^ ugt ^ Md : ^ ^ . & PP ^» n ^ her'bud ^
^ M ^ M ^ s ^ iiQ ^ isto ^ DvotmEi m & C ^^ mtOVBa DISPOSALS-orushCHari tiem inihe . bud ; ' ' 'aaidrDahjel O'Connell in an . ^ ad " drew iolhe |^ a ^ w , oh 3 rgy ^ m September , 1841 ^ and again in January ,. 1843 . To which the unarmed volunteers , that is to say . that portion of the Catholic cleigy who joined the Repeal delusion , said— "We shall ! wshall ! " and sure enough they did ; Every clergyman knew when he joined the" Loyal National ReBeal / AsBociation of Ireland , that it was composed of four distinct classes . " : , -. •; yFirsfc—The members who pay . one < pound annually . ' : ¦ ' . ' '' .
Second .- —The volunteers who pay or collect ten pounds and pay it in a week . \ Third . —The unarmed volunteers , which is composed , exclusively , of such of the Catholic hierarchy and clergy as have been enrolled members . Fourth . —Associates , that is to say those who pay one shilling annually , but who have no right either to speak or tt vote at any meeting . They may shout or cheer , but can neither speak nor vote . Here , now , we hare members , volunteers ; unarmed volunteers and associates : and the bishops and clergy joined' this unmeaning melange ! They , have
a great deal to atone for , and the sooner they make the atonement the bettor . It is dangerous to forfeit the respect of . even one man , no matter how . humble he may be ; '" It is - 'Impossible' to respect men , no matter how exalted their station , who f orce those who . rely upon' their wisdom and integrity to join such an infamous delusion . Have not those who have paid their money and ; token out an associate's card in a society in which they can neither speak nor vote , become voluntary slaves , and carry about them , on the face of their cards , the badge of their
own degradation ? And is it a part' of the duty o f the bishops and clergy to degrade . their flock . Le * me not he told by some empty- flippant knave that the associates can speak and vote ; because they may be permitted to speak and vote when such speaking and voting answers the purpose of the nefarious gang of insolvents , bankrupts , swindling gamblers and forgers , who manage ' that greatest of all swindlesthe Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland . But should they presume to vote in the opposition they would then discover that none but MEMBERS ,
VOLUNTEERS , and UNARMED VOLUNTEERS have right to vote . Now , my countrymen , why have you joined an association of this sort , and why do you continue members of it ? Have yon not been long enough the dupes of : thoseiwho ; profit _ byyour credulity ? Do you hot see'that your leaders have always treated you as mere rubbish , and that the greatest political right they ever promised you was the mere hope of better and more steady employment from your taskmasters ? If those whom you trusted , and who have led you for the last forty-six years ever , promised you any other
right or privilege than that of working hard for them and their order , and shouting , at the ; heels of those who dragged you along through mud and mire , what is it ? who proposed it ? where or at what time was it ever mentioned ? I never heard of it . Even the Repeal of the Unien , more properly the Restoration of Whiggery , never contemplated any political right for you . . Is it not time , then , that you should look for some political right for your own order . Trust no man , support no man or body of men , but that man or body of men whose object is to achieve UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE . This is your
Charter . Without this you will be nothing but that which you have ever been since you were deprived of it by the Disfranchising Statute , the 8 th of Henry 6 th . From that period to the present time you have been the sport and spoil of every frothy , canting , speech , makingprofessingpatriot . everypoliticalknave ; men who have treated and will continue to treat you as their stock in trade ; men who have sold you and will sell you to any Minister for place and pension . How many hundreds of you have been turned out of the county of Dublin for voting against your landlords and in favour of Christopher Fitzsiraon , the Libera
tor ' s son-in-law ? How many hundreds of you have been turned out of the county of Meath for voting against your landlords and for Mr . Morgan 0 ' Connell ? How many hundreds o f you have been turned out of the county of Kerry for voting against your landlords and for Mr . Charles O'Connell , another sonin-law of Daniel O'Connell ? How many thousands of you have beon turned out of the county of Carlow for voting against your landlords , and for Raphael the Jew , who was not a Repealer—for Mr . Maule , now Baron Maule , who was not a Repealer—for Mr . Ashton Yates , who was not a
Repealer—and for little Daniel O'Connell , Junior , who was not then a Repealer , but a supporter of a Whig Ministry , the pledged opponents of Repeal . Let it not be said that 1 censure any man for voting against his landlord ; far from it . Every man has not only a right , but is morally bound to vote according to his conscience . 1 merely state the simple unimpeachable fact , to show you how you have been duped and cheated—how you have been wheeled about and turned about by your unscrupulous Leader ; aad how your condition has become worse and worse at every turn .
If your condition has not become worse and worse by every movement into which you have been led by Mr . O'Connell , I call upon you one and all , collectively and individually , to let me know what you have gained in any way by enablii'g your friend-Christopher Fitzsir aon , Esq ., the Repeal Member for the county of Dublin , and son-in-law to Daniel O'Connell , Esq ., your Leader , to sell the electors of the county of Dublin to the enemies of Repeal , and leave' them to the tender mercies of their landlords for the sura of £ 1 , 000 a year , as clerk of the Uanaper ?
What have you gained , in any way , by enabling your friend Charles O'Connell , Esq ., M . P . for the county of Kerry , and son-in-law of Daniel O'Connell , Esq ., your chosen Leader , to sell the electors of that county to the enemies ef Repeal , for the sura of £ 900 si year , as a stipendiary Magistrate , including house , coals , candles , and servants ? What have you gained , in any way , by enabling Mr . Morgan O'Connell , the second son of Daniel O'Connell , Esq ., your chosen Leader , to sell the electors of the county of Meath to the sworn enemies of Repeal , for the sum of £ 800 a year , as ' . Deputy Clerk in the Registry Office ?
What have you gained , in any way , by voting at the bidding of your " august Leader , " Daniel O'Connell , Esq ., for Alexander Raphael , Baron Maule , Ashton
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for yeur interest ? He has proposed none WMtayjirv No , not one single measure during his , long / lite ^ hMS he ever proposed ior , your benefit : but on the con " trary , has always made use of yOu to promote bis own immediate interests , Society has become w corrupted and contaminated by the vile teachings of this bad man , that , not one of . his followers , either lay or . clerical , can endure the very sound of any political truth . Truth has become hateful in their ears . " Andthat love of fair play , truth , and justice , f or which my" countrymen were so pre-eminently distinguished , are now banished from the land , and
low trick , ; falsehoodj cunning , cant , deceit , and . hypocrisy , substituted ^ " it grieves me to see society reduced to this abject state Of degradation . It restswith yduj in -a great measure , to restore gdoiety ^ tO ;; ^ h afttn ^^^ anjjT ^^ draw your support ; . at , onco-fromevery man , ; set of ^ Bfen ; iBocietyv or delation ^ 0 r ^ 5 ^ pHni »^^ ec ^ ! rittn 6 t ; b ^ c 3 OTJ ^ dfCernm ^
r ~ " ? s- * y i" . ? v :- ,,,, « H » v » wM » yt . , »» r . fants , insane persons , " andi criminals , onl ^ ^ In ^ m ^ ' & bai ^* irom ^ . and speeches . ^ - ' ; '; \ ' '/ -V ' r ' , ' ' ^¦ '¦ ' - -- ; : ' . ''' ' [ s * : ' ¦ ¦ ¦' ¦ ¦ ' . : '" - - Paibick O'Higgikb . Dublin , September 20 th , 1846 .
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VOL . IX . NO . 463 . " LONDONv SATORDAY , 11 ^ E 1 BEK 26 . 6 . * , ™ m : w «^^ : ^ i : n ' ' ;¦ ' v 3 ; s ; . ; .. . fty ;; ::, v ^ -. :. -:. ;; .-,. : ¦ .-. : .. ¦ . ; . .- * " * SfailllDgg and Sixpence per Quarter .
Accident To The Steam Ship Great Britain.; • ;:;,-.
accident to the steam ship great Britain . ; ; : ; ,-.
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Livbrpool , Thursday . Atternoon . —This morning , about 10 o'clock , the merchants on 'Change and the members of the underwriters ! rooms were thrown into a state of some excitement bythe receipt of an express from Captain Hosken , stating that his noble ship , the Great Britain , had run ashore in Dundrum Bay . On reaching the rooms alluded to we found the following notice posted ;— " . ; " The Great Britain Steam Ship , from Liverpool to New York , ran on shore on the main , near the Cow and Calf , in Dundrum Bay , on east coast of Ireland , county Down , in 9 | hours after leaving Liverpool . Passengers all landed , and the vessel will be got off next springs . The sea was making a complete breach over her after she struck , but the vessel was perfectly tight . " . . ; . The particulars so f ar as they have been learned , are extremely meagre . The following Bummaryi condensed'from Gore's Advertixer , comprises ail of
importance : — " The Great Britain left Liverpool for New York at eleven ' o ' clock ' ori . Tuesday forenoon , with the largest number of passengers ( upwards of 180 ) th & t ever crossed the Atlantic in any steamer . She made extraordinary way after clearing the harbour of Liverpool ; indeed , all accounts agree in showing that she went at the unusually rapid rate of 13 J knots AA hour . There can be very little doubt that she steamed most rapidly , for in nine and a half hours after leaving our quays she struck on the Irish coast . " Many rumours prevail as to the cause ef the accident . Some say that the reckoning was badly kept , and others that the light off Dundrum Bay was taken for some other light . We believe , from what we have heard , that the latter was the real cause of the disaster .
" The passengers and crew were all landed in per * feet safety . By means of jaunting cars , horses , carts , and other conveyances , the majority of them , reached Belfast , and several of them arriv . d in Liverpool and Fleetwood this morning , by the Sea King and Maiden City Steamers . "There was naturally very great confusion and consternation on board when the vessel struck , but through the active exertions and timely counsel of Captain Hosken all fears for personal safety were quickly subdued , and the passengers , as wc have said , were safely landed , and with as much expedition as the unexpected nature of the circumstances would admit of . " The Great Britain , His thought , will be got off , but asyet nothing very positive on this point can be stated . The sea was making a complete breach over her after she struck , but the ship was perfectly tight :
"We cannot conclude this account without ex « pressing our deep regret that such a dreadful catastrophe should happen , and that the fame of this noble ship has unhappily been so greatly tarnished , when she appeared to be in the commencement of a most prosperous career . "
The Late Accident On The Great Western R...
THE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY . The inquest on the bodies of Paul Broome Sar * geant , and James Bonner , the two persons killed by this accident terminated on Thursday . Some of the jury strongly animadverted on the fact of the brackets which connect the carriage with the springs having been , in the luggage van , made of cast iron . These brackets , as well as the springs themselves , were snapped across by the force of the collision . -The carriage in which the deceased men lost their lives was also inspected . Three of the compartments were completely demolished , and it appeared that Mr . Sargeant , who is supposed to have been standing upright at the moment of the accident , was actually forced through the partition " into the next compartment , where he was held in an erect posture , while his head , which was completely severed from his body , was forced backward nearly to the extremity of the roof of the carriage .
Mr . Bnshe , the engineer , accounted for the accident by supposing that the engine and tender got away from the train unobserved by the driver , and that presently after the train struck the tender when under the bridge . As the train would have a greater velocity than the engine , the effect of the concussion would be just what has taken place . The common tendency in such cases is for one of the carriages to run under the other , and it is most likely that the luggage van ran under the tender , and that its back part was thus raised over the passengers carriage behind it .
The Coroner , in summing up , observed , that considering the great weight of the luggage vans , provided as they were with iron sides and wheels , he thought the foremost passenger carriage placed next to one of them ought to have some additional protection , and not be left trusting to the usual slight materials of these carriages alone . It was most probable , that if there had been a piece of iron , er some other protection between the passenger carriage and the luggage van on the present occasion , the melancholy results which had brought them together would not have occurred . \ Verdict—Death by accident in both cases .
A Melancholy Weddixo.—On Wednesday, An
A Melancholy Weddixo . —On Wednesday , an
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inquest was held at Bow , on the body of Elizabeth Johns . The deceased , who was twenty years of age , was married on Sunday last at Poplar , and after spending the day with her husband , returned with him to her father ' s house , and was taken very ill immediately afterwards , so much so that her husband slept on the floor . She continued to get worse , and expired on Tuesday morning about two o'clock . There were no marks of violence on the body , nor did she complain of anything , but a severe pain in her chest . Some of the jury thought a post mortem examination ought to be made , and the inquiry was then adjourned for that purpose . Cjsniral Criminal Coukt . — The Grand Jury
haying ignored the Bill against Captain Richardson , late Chairman of the Worcester , Ludlow , and Tenby Railway , charged with having committed a forgery for £ 5 , 000 on Coutts' Bank , Mr . Bodkin applied to the Court on Thursday morning , to make an order that the prisoner should be detained until the grand jury were discharged , in order that the gentlemen for whom he appeared might have an opportunity of conferrins : with the shareholders in the undertaking , and deciding whether another bill , in a different form to that which had been ignored by the grand jury , should be presented to them , or what other steps they might consider advisable to be taken under the circumstances . Mr . Baron Piatt granted the order .
A SriiciMEX of Frke Trade Liberality . — A manufacturer of Bradford , Yorkshire , who has subscribal a larse sum to tho " League" funds was thus accosted by " " one of his workmen whilst inspecting the man's work . — " Well maister , ye tell ' d us that we were to have cheap bread and good wage when the Corn Laws were repealed , when are wc to get it ? " The answer was ,- " The man was discharged for insolence !!! " This master is a- gwf '^ kler forreli"ion and has given a large sum to support the S . e " i . e attends Let the workmg men draw their own conclusion from this .
A Roiier Exi'LOsion took place on Tuesday at the faeti-y of Messi ' s Thompson , Treforest , by winch one man was killed and two others much scalded , but hopes are entertained of their recovery .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 26, 1846, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_26091846/page/1/
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