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" AU»! •?»** e&untty. alowit afraid W know iJ*elf"
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TO -MRS MITCHEL. • AN - D Honoured Heroi...
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METROPOLITAN ORGANISATION. DIVISIONS COH...
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EXECUTIVE NOTICE. GREAT DEMONSTRATIONS D...
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NOMINATIONS. POR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Jo...
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ADDRESS TO THE TRADES OF ENGLAND. Labour...
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TRIAL BY JURY. Doblin, 28 th May, 1818
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THE LAND AND THE CHARTER.
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THE RIGHTS OF LABOUR. ASD HOW TO ACHIEVE...
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(From tho Lincoln limit.)
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" Au»! •?»** E&Untty. Alowit Afraid W Know Ij*Elf"
" AU »! _•?»** e & untty . _alowit afraid W _know iJ * elf "
To -Mrs Mitchel. • An - D Honoured Heroi...
TO -MRS MITCHEL . _- Honoured Heroise , _D ' _« ' tne tongue dare not lisp what the f ] 5 cet it not down to fear for self , but _^ _ious ' _consideration foryou . _* ° , jjj . se not unfrequently arouses the most f . 1 courage - because it comes like an elec-8 s Wfc , and is sustained until action _tertt t « in death or vlct 0 I 7 > _* slavery or rrjin _**' "
TJpon ' ' the other hand . it not unfrequently _* , ' that thought and reflection summon _dence—that cowardly monitor—to our aid . _? r lla 5 , 1 nna i _tdifficull t 0 address you . I have ' j _. _ri- _^ _-pn a task which the _courasre of others , _i _j _^ ve rendered unnecessary , as the t- ' uniph of courage should have been the subtitrte fi * T cold condolence ; but pardon the Lrd . Madam , it does not apply to your caseou do not court it . No , the bare supposition L ,, jir > . give a triumph to the Saxon assassins .
' Madam , but for the hope-inspiring speech of Mr Doheny , delivered in the county of Meath , I would h ave headed this Letter , " Ales I BASE country , JUSTLY ASHAMED to know itself . " From Saturday ni g ht at twelve o ' clock . _srfcen I learned trie sad news at Birmingham _^ _jjje _remainder of my journey , till five , was disturk d and restless . I hoped and feared . I honed tor the realisation of the nation ' s promise , if her hero was convicted . I feared for th e n ation ' s valour ; and , from the time that _aiV fears were realised , till I read MrDoheny ' s speech , I cursed my country and her sons , and preved that her oppressors may rivet their chains m ore tightly ; but , when I read the cD _* ei * h of Mr Doheriv , I came to the conclusion
that intemperance might have hazarded ultimate success , and I became hopeful for the future . Madam , that speech convinced me that , though the verdict has been given , and the sentence passed , that yet the judgment will be reversed , and , to accomplish that , those who sit iii the Court of Error have but to command my humble service , and it shall be cheerfully rendered—no matter _whatjtherisk , the penalty , or the result may be—and , you may rely upon it , that the Saxon people , so foully belied by Irish patriots , will not fail in the 2 ealous _discharge of their duty .
Madam , the Saxons sympathise ; while your patriots hunted the lone deer from the herd , and hounded the bloodhounds on the scent ; and now they would divide the nation into avengers and sympathisers , thus weakening the national will , and tendering to you their sympathy in the promised adoption of yourself snd family . I know what a Felon ' s feelings are , when he becomes the badge of his oppressors' triumph ;
and I am aware that this triumph of the _5 axun enemy , and the oppressors' law , stings vour heart and wounds your feelings . Perhaps you are not aware that I have spent nearly seventeen months in a condemned cell , ia solitary confinement ; and that the Irish patriots , of that day , scoffed at me , and called me a convicted libeller . Well , then , heroic woman , let it be your consolation that your devoted husband has taken the stain off felony , and that vou glory in being called ;
THE FELON'S WIFE . Madam , I wish you would make that magic name the title of a new newspaper , and yourself the registered proprietress . The position would not be a novel one , as a lady _. is one ofthe registered proprietors of the Times newspaper * and as the Irish people have in all ages been distinguished for their gallantry , I would be curious to see hew * the brave * Irish people would receive a verdict of GUILTY against Marv Mitchel . and the sentence that she be
_TRANSPORTED FOR FOURTEEN YEARS . Madam , let me assure you that there is a feeling in England both for you and the noble Irish felon , which language cannot describe _^ snd their sympathy as well as devotion will be msne manifest next week , when it is my intention to request your acceptance of the whole profits of the " Northern Star" newspaper for that week .
~ Madam , the " United Irishman has cost your husband his liberty , and has hurried you into premature widowhood , and made orphans ofyour babes ; and , believe me , that for more thin ten long years the " Northern Star' has caused me oppression and persecution which pea cannot describe , bnt whose triumph you IXXA witness in the amount of _which its readers "ill request your acceptance . Oh dear . ' " oh dear i It wrings my heart , to think that a devoted Irish patriot should be branded as a felon , and chained like a thief ;
but heed it not , dear lad y ; when his country is free , he will point to the tyrants' brand as tbe ransom paid for her liberty . Lord Bolingbroke _, a Tory _^ and high authority , has told us tbat it is as much the DUTY _of-a people to rebel against a corrupt House of Commons as against a tyrannical prince . And I stated in the House of Commons , that t ' nere was no statute of limitation which precluded the right of a conquered peop le to recover their liberty b y the same means that thev lost
it-Good lad } ' , do not suppose that Englishmen professing the princip les of Democracy , would find protection in a Saxon middle-class jury _^' o . Let the issue upon a trial , under the 11 WHIG TREASON ACT , " he Chartist , or ao Chartist , and he would be a convicted felon therefore , you see , for the present , my mouth is gagged ; * but believe me that the gathering ofthe pent up passions of the multitude becomes an irresistible army too powerful for
_oppression to put down . They cannot stab a ¦ sentiment or shoot an opinion "; and if . 1 feel ! the necessit y of being wary and cautious , it is ! least the oppressor should have another _i triumph which would baulk the people of _itjfcirs , for you may rely upon it that the _united mind of England and Ireland , will 'iorti y overthrow the citadel of corruption , land laugh to scorn all the physical power that : - ' -n be arrayed against it .
Madam , it would be indiscreet on my part tt " * weaken the resolution _cr destroy the " power ' - of those in Ireland who appear resolved upon ' your husband ' s liberation ; but as 1 told him , so r -l now tell you , that when their resolve is made _sknown , I will travel throug h the country until \\ __ strengthen Irish resolution with English , 5 _Scotch , and Welsh co-operation—and I feel ' = ¦ _assured that my Saxon constituents will tos { -srate my absence from a place where their _0 order is not represented . Dear Madam , you will pardon me , if I do 1 tt insult your heroic pride by any expression 0 c , ; sympath y ; my feeling is one bf wounded f ? _ride that an _Irishmanfshould be expatriated
, ¦ ' ¦ ' _! - " a packed jury , partizan judge , and a _mongrel Papist Attorney-General . Believe me , Madam , that my feeling for you ' - ; 5 " ° " ** orphan children is one of mixed p ride 1 i : " _-d _sorrow ; pride that my oppressed and _en-™* ved country ean still boast o f such a he"" ; ; _sorrow that the Saxon oppressors ' tri-• ; - !';!> i' should be measured by an Irish heroine ' s ; ; - -f : but fear not , your widowed days will be "'• ' - " ' _•• *• ¦ _* your oppressors' hours are numbered . Adieu , Dear Madam , and believe me _.
Your sincere , devoted , and obedient servant , _Fj-AllGUS O'COKKOI * .
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IU 1 Mb MEMBERS OF THE L _4 ND COMPANY . Mt Friends , What with politics , revolutions , and no small share of abuse , I have latterl y had but little time to address you ; however , you may rest assured that every circumstance that has tr anspired at home and abroad since the late earthquake shook the world , has tended to wed me still more closely to the ' castle and the labour field , ' as , after years of thought and study , I can devise no other possible means for the redemption of Labour .
On Monday , the 12 th , I shall reap a portion of my reward in the location of ei ghty-two of my children in their own castles , upon their own _laboar field ; and if Whit-Monday is a fine day , I invite all who are anxious to judge for themselves , to come and see and then tbey will behold a wilderness turned into a paradise . Independent of those to be located at Sni g ' s End and Minster Lovel on the 12 th , there will shortl y be five more four-acre allotments at Snig ' s End , and six more two-acre allotments at Minster Lovel readv for location .
Now I tbink , when it is remembered that I did not commence operations at Minster Lovel till October , and at Snigs' End till _Februaryandjwhen it is recollected that'February _. March , and April , were three such months of rain as the oldest man living has never seen equalled —1 say , I think , when these facts are borne in mind , you will say that I have not been idle , when you remember that I have erected over a hundred and sixty cottages , and two
magnificent school-houses knocked down all the old buildings , and made gardens upon the ruins ; grubbed up the old fences and trees that pressed hardly upon the means of subsistence , and made several miles of road , giving a high road frontage to each cottage ; ploughing , harrowing , and burning the ground ; and at Snig ' s End planting a half acre of potatoes for every occupant , and _sowing barley according to the size of the several allotments .
My friends , it is wholly impossible that the slaves who see this miniature of what may be made the national picture of England ' s greatness , can entertain any other feeling than that of vengeance against the tyrants and oppressors who denounced the Plan untried , lest , if successful , it should end in the destruction of their monopoly . Let me ask you a simple question . Suppose a few noblemen , or wealth y landlords , or even a company of land sharks , bad tried this experiment as a money speculation , where in
such case would the laudation of the Press , the Country , and Parliament , have fixed the bounds of admiration ? But because it is done for you , every snivelling cur who can hold a pen , and write broken English—to be corrected by a reader—undertakes to criticise . Veril y the insolence of the larger fish has so emboldened the smaller fry , that a knobstick who writes in the Northampton Herald for twenty eight shillings a week—finding his own coal ' s in winter , and who would not know a cucumber froma hand-saw—has had the hardihood to enter the lists .
Well , my friends , this anti-Land mania , and the contagion , has reached the House of Commons , although not one of its sapient Members can shake its stability , or disprove its value ; however , a sore feeling is entertained against it , aud Sir Benjamin Backbite , the honourable Member for Marylebone , has made himself the organ of their opposition and distaste . This man , in the outset , professed not only a kindly , but an anxious feeling in favour of the Plan , but on Tuesday ni g ht—as murder will out—he showed himself in his true colours . He is not aware that I am acquainted with his correspondent , and the reputable source from which he derives his information and has imbibed his prejudice ;
however , on Tuesday ni ght , when there could be no anticipation of a debate upon the mere nomination of a select committee , he came to the charge with his brief in his hand and repeated Mr Hobson s guesses against the Plan . And this Whig-created baronet , in the most spiteful tone and maimer , evinced a dreadful hostility to the Plan—though covered under an objection to the management—and pompously declared that he ( Sir Benjamin ) the protector of the poor , would have a rigid and searching inquiry , and he was anxious that more members , representing the manufacturing districts , should be placed upon the committee , of course with the view to protecting the interests of their clients , the operatives .
However , I have got the committee of fourteen gentlemen and the hon . baronet , and he shall examine every man with whom I have dealt , every man whom I have employed , and he will find that he has allowed himself to be the dupe of an artful and designing rascal . I assure you , my friends , that the most strict and searching inquiry is the very thing that I have always courted , while I will take care that neither malevolence nor spite towards the propounder shall be made the pretext or justification for condemning the plan itself ,
1 hope some of Sir Benjamin ' s constituents will send him a copy o the June number of the " Labourer , ' ' and that they will advise him to make himself master of the subject before he enters upon the discussion ; as at present , with the exception o Hobson ' s assertion as to the course pursued with regard to certification and registration , the hon . baronet is as innocent of the plan as a sucking babe ; but I should not censure him : the Whigs made him a Baronet for services rendered , or to be rendered . He
appears to be a Whig censor of Whig opponents , and sometimes does me the honour to read my letters to the " Old Guards " for fhe edification ofthe House . To this I bave no objection , if he would read them with a little more Sp irit and unction * as really , when drawled out in his sepulchral tone , my figures appear like an afflicted family stepping out of a mourning coach , and quite give me the blue devils , while I am oppressed with sympath y for the chief mourner .
However , myffriends _, you may rely upon it , that there must be something essentially good for the People in a plan which has secured for itself and its propounder the undivided hostility , vituperation , and opposition of the Press , the Monopolists , the Government , and their tools . But for you I established it , and with you , and for . you , I will carry it out ; assuring you that opposition but spurs me on to
increased resolutfcn , and assuring you that , if I cannot succeed in having you protected by Act of rarUameut—which , " however , I have every reason to expect—but , should that fail , so _resolute am I , that I will have the Company completely registered at my own expense ,: and out of my " own funds , _ccsst what it may , as I am determined to live usefully and die a pauper , and that not a farthing shall be abstracted from the pence supplied by the poor man ' s
savings . Now , this Sir Benjamin has pricked me up a bit * , and let me just tell him what I will undertake to do , within the next three months , for the National Land Company . I will undertake to realise between £ 8 , 000 and £ ' 10 , ( 100 profit for the members within the next three months , and without postponing the location of the members balloted 'for by a sing le day . Thus I show that , if the present was a Landjobbing Company , that I would undertake , in less than a year , to return them interest , at
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the rate of cent , per cent ,, for their capital , or double the amount they have paid , My friends , there is one view in which this Land Plan has never been presented to you yet , and from it you will learn the identity of interest which it may yet create between the small capitalist and the labourer , without other capital than his labour . 1 will explain it for you in the most simple manner . You are aware that I performed the functions of unpaid auctioneer in Lincoln , on Monday last , and , in order to prove to you the value of land in the retail market , and the amount of interest that the small capitalist would receive from money invested in the purchase of small parcels of land— ¦
Firstl y — Some sold for 120 Z . 105 . per acre—some for 100 Z—some for 95 ? ., and none under 70 _f . ; while a cottage , precisely similar to those I build , and four acres of land , _pold for 430 / . 10 s . Secondly—Many parties with a little capital , but not sufficient to purchase , offered to pay a year ' s rent in advance , and 20 / . a year for four acres without a house . Now , estimating four acres that would have brought that rent , at 751 . per acre , or 3 Q 0 l . for the lot , it would have left the capitalist nearl y seven per cent _, in land and labour security , the land becoming every day better and more valuable—and , therefore , every day increasing his security ,
Several other propositions were made to me , to this effect—that the purchaser would pay a fourth of the purchase monev , and pay off all by instalments , being allowed five per cent _, upon the amounts thus paid . M y friends , it was not ignorant operatives , unpractised in agricultural operations , that offered these terms . It was gardeners and agricultural labourers , who , you may presume , are pretty good judges of the value and capabilities of the soil . However , on Whit-Monday , I will show yon a specimen of my country plan , as compared with your present state of bondage , and I hope to be surrounded with thousands and tens of thousands of my children upon that day , when I will submit the plan to their impartial consideration and decision .
On Monday night , after the auction , I had a glorious and highly respectable and attentive meeting in the Town-hall , in the Cathedral city of Lincoln . It was crammed in every part . Mr _Budd , a working man , was in the chair , and the meeting passed a unanimous and enthusiastic vote in favour of the Land and the Charter , and it was never my fate to address a more attentive , intelligent , and enthusiastic meeting—thus proving that we have taken the foul aspersions off Chartism , and made it fit to be preached in Cathedral towns . My riends , I told you that the day would arrive when Ministers of the Crown would talk
more about manure and less about allspice , nutmeg , ginger , and mace ; and as I have set the example in theory , I have been the first to carry it into practice ; and , perhaps , you will be astonished when I inform you that I have made , at _Snip ' s End alone , over five thousand tons ofthe very best manure ; an amount , and of a quality , that actuall y flabbergasts the farmers when they see it . Now , my children , that s money—in short , it is what you couldn't purchase for money—and yet tbe honourable member for Marylebone would look upon it as an unsightly nuisance which should be removed .
In conclusion , I trust that all who are in doubt as to the description ofthe Cottages and of the Land , will visit Sni g ' s End , on Monday , the 12 th and I promise to show them something worth living for and worth dying for . Always bear in mind that it has never been my object to set class against class , nor the poor against the rich ; but my study has been to make the rich richer and the poor rich , by the better cultivation and more equitable distribution of the national resources . Ever your faithful Friend and Representative and unpaid Bailiff , Feargus O'Connor .
Metropolitan Organisation. Divisions Coh...
METROPOLITAN ORGANISATION . _DIVISIONS _COHHISSIONEBS . 1 Tower Hamlets John Shaw , A . Sharp 2 Lambeth and Southwark James Basset 3 Ci _HoXtoT bUry ' and Charles M'Carthy 4 St Pancras , Maryle-i bone , Paddington , I William Vernon and Westminster J 5 Greenwich
6 Chelsea , Brompton , ' Fulham , Kensington , Pimlico , Hammer- -Henry Child smith , Bayswater , and Notting Hill 7 Hanipstead , Highgate , Holloway , Kentish Town and Camden Town Each district will form itself into localities ; each locality into wards of one hundred each ; each ward into classes or sections of ten each . The district councils and local committees are particularly requested to observe , that as the Executive have not as yet received ' sufficient funds to pay Commissioners , they must have their actual expenses paid by the localities requiring their
services . The Liberty Fund must be forwarded to the Executive as directed , and in no way interfere with the subscriptions fer thc payment of Commissioners . All contributions , levies , or collections , to be under the control ol the district and local committees .
Executive Notice. Great Demonstrations D...
EXECUTIVE NOTICE . GREAT DEMONSTRATIONS DURING
WHITSUNTIDE . It is urgently requested that immediate notice be sent to the Executive of all intended great central meetings during the Whitsuntide holidays , together with the exact time o f meeting , the place , and the name and address of secretary , or other person , upon whom the members of the Executive or Commissioners may call . Mr Erne _? t Jones wiU attend the great camp meeting on Blackstone Edge , on Sunday , the llth , and the West Riding Demonstration during the same week . Mr Kydd will attend the great demonstration for the Midland Counties . Mr M'Crae will attend the demonstration for the Eastern Counties .
Dr M'Douall will attend the Metropolitan great demonstration . Mr James Leach will be in Dublin . We recommend the men of Scotland to invite Mr West to Glasgow , and other great aggregate meetings , and to make arrangement s for the attendance of the Scotch Commissioners at the demons trations during the Whitsuntide week . All the Commissioners who have accepted invitations are requested to notify the same to the Executive ; those who have not made such engagements to attend the camp meeting nearest to their place of residence . The localities , in all instances , to bear their expenses .
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Somers Tows . —Ob Sunday afternoon , _Juno-tthia public meeting will be held in St Pancras fields , at three o clock . Mr M'Crae and other friends will attend and addresB the _meeting . Mr M'Crae wiil also lecture at the Bricklayers' Arras , Tonbridge-streot , New-road , on Sunday _evening , at half paBt eight o'clock ; also at the same time , Mr Hanible will lecture at the Nottingham Arms , Ossuteton-street ; Mr Mr Child at Mr Pollard ' a , | Northam's-bui : dings ; and Mr Weeks , at the Masons' Arms , _Britannia-Btreet _, G _sjs-inn Road .
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AND NATIONAL _ TRADES' JOURNAL . ___ VOL- XL No 554- LONDON , SATURDAY , JUNE 3 , 1848 ~~ ™ m _^™ b _~^ - . * . _"' _AU'SJU . Five Shillings ana taixpence pe _* _Qnarier
Memorial To The Queen. The Following Is ...
MEMORIAL TO THE QUEEN . The following is Sir George Grey ' s reply to the letter of the Executive , as published in the Star : — 'Whitehall , May 17 th , 1848 . . . . mr , —I ara _dj _rected by Secretary Sir George ,. ey _^ knowledge the receipt of your letter of this day ' s date requesting to have a definite reply to the subject matter of your communication of the 15 th instant . And I am to inform you , in reply , that Sir George Grey ' s answer to you of the 16 th instant , must be considered as definite . ' I am , Sir , your obedient Servant , ' G . CORNEWAIX LEWI 8 . ' - Ernest Jones , Esq ., ' Literary Institution , John-street , ' Tottenham Court-road . ' The Executive have since forwarded the subjoined letter to the Queen : — . TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY .
May It Please Your Majesty , We, The Und...
May it Please your Majesty , We , the undersigned , being the chosen representatives of a very considerable portion oTyour Majesty ' s faithful subjects , who haye entrusted us with the presentation of certain memorials to your Majest y , feel very much grieved that your present Ministers have refused to grant that which time and precedent have consecrated—viz ., the royal right of your Majesty to receive in person the prayers , memorials , and petitions of your People . We protest against this violation of your Majesty ' s will and , we believe , pleasure . We have heard of vour affability , but we are not permitted to
know it . We have read of your Majesty ' s sympathy for the sufferings of the People , but are denied the painful duty ef stating to your Majesty what those real sufferings are , and of imploring your Majesty to command your Ministers to adopt immediate measures for their removal , or to call to your Majesty ' s councils men who will do so . We are particularly anxious to express to your Majesty our deep regret that you were advised , previous to the 10 th of April , to remove from your Palace , in London , and subject yourself to the danger , inconvenience , and unnecessary trouble of a journey to the Isle of Wight . We wish to assure your Majesty , that you would have been perfectly safe , if not better protected , in the midst of your People . _t
We are anxious to convey to your Majesty our opinions in the most loyal and respectful , but at the same time dutiful and distinct
manner . We wish to assure your Majesty , that your People will not consent any longer to be taxed , unless they have a voice in the imposition of the taxes . We wish to assure your Majesty , that your People will not consent to obey laws made without their sanction or assent , b y a contemptible minority . We wish to assure your Majesty , that such has been the decline of trade and wages , that your people cannot pay the present Taxes .
We wish to assure your Majesty , that there does not exist in any factory , workshop , or mine , a feeling of hostility towards your Majesty , but against the present system of Government . We wish to assure your Majesty , that the safety of the . nation demands that this system should be changed , and we are your Majesty ' s most faithful subjects when we tell you so . May it please your Majesty , your worst enemies are those who leave you in ignorance of the true feelings , sufferings , and OPEN and ADVISED complaints of your people . We do not ask your Majesty to visit the cot , ' -but to hear the cottager ' s complaint .
We do not ask your Majesty to enter the factory , workshop , or mine , but to reoeive the memorials of the working classes , praying for redress of grievances , removal of wrongs , and establishment of rights . May it please your Majesty , we conceive the recognition of your people's rights to be the most important , and their establishment the most imperative of duties . These rights , your Majesty , are expressed in the People ' s Charter .
We desire to state so much , and to pray your Majesty ' s interference , least your people may be driven by the ill-advised acts of" your Ministers to the same extremities , which similar counsels elsewhere have urged other nations to adopt . We implore your Majesty to grant us an audience , and to receive the memorials ofyour people for the sake of justice and humanity —for the better improvement of this country , —for the honour and glory of your reign . And we shall ever remain , Your Majesty ' s faithful subjects ,
P . M . M'DOUALL , ERNEST JONES SAMUEL KYDD , JAMES LEACH , JOHN M'CRAE .
Nominations. Por Executive Committee. Jo...
NOMINATIONS . POR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE . John M'Crae Henry Child Dr M'Douall T . M . Wheeler Ernes * Jone 3 P . M'Grath James Leach J . Sidaway Samuel Kydd D _» Donovan Feargus O'Connor Wm . Dixon John West Richard Marsden Wm . Vernon Riohard Pilling FOR COMMISSIONERS , T . M . Wheeler F . Clark Alexander Sharp Jno . Mason H . Child G . White J . West W . _Cuffiy Ja 3 . Shirron T . Richards
A . B . Henry W . Byrne D . Lightowler W . Hansom J . Shaw , Tower Hamlets Wm . _Pussell , London T . Jone ? , Liverpool R . Wild Wm . Vernon — Wilkins D . Donovan Dr M'Douall W . Lacey Wm . Insell W . Brook Wm . Damer R . Pilling D . Shaw M . SteveDson — Donaldson J . Cumming — Hosier W . Bassett C . M'Carthy J . Shaw , B . G . Buckby J . _Tattarsall R . Burrell
J . Moir J . Ironside ( Jcb . Linney II . Rankin A . FusseU , Birmingham J . Dawson J 88 . Adams J . Leach Wm . Boliwell , B . Dr Reynolds R . Cochrane J . Barker J . D . _Steveneon — Parker JaB . Sweet F . Webb D . Rosa A , Hanley j W . Bell Jas . Street —¦ Dickenson T . Bedon Thos . Cooper T . Lund J . Savage F . Reynolds J . Dixon
Tho _Proviuiouol Executive will publish on or bef ore June 3 rd , a list of all the candidates _nonrimated for the Executive , and for Commissioners . The secretary of each locality shall causo the same to be mado public to the members , and an election by ballot shall take placo under tho superintendence of _tlin local officera on some day from Thursday tho 1 _/ V _. h _, to Monday tho 19 shof June . Tha number of vote *! obtained by eaeh candidate shall be sent to the _Provisional Executive , duly authenticated by the signature of the secretary and chairman , on or before Wednesday , June 21 .
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A Public Meeting of Females ia held at the Albion , corner ot _Willmott-street , _Bethnalgteenro-id , every Tuesday evening , at half-past seven o ' _clock . Women , assemble and proolaim your rights . _HiUi-AX . —Mr Alders-en of Bradford is expected to lecture in the large room , _Bullclose-lane , to-morrow evening at six o ' elook .
Address To The Trades Of England. Labour...
ADDRESS TO THE TRADES OF ENGLAND . Labour , skill , and direction , are the great elements of progressive wealth and civilisation . You are every day told that labour is the parent of wealth—the truth has been proclaimed in all agesbut at no age in the history of England has the declaration been involved and practically embodied in the framework of society . Feudalism , in its dark and g loomy era , held the labourers as slaves , feeling and knowing the value of labour , but treating the workers as part of the property of the chief or ruler ; it is truthfully _written , in ' Turner ' s History ofthe Anglo-Saxons . ' ' Let every man know his team of
men , of horses , and of oxen . ' Feudalism , barbarism , and slavery , are inseparable , nor can it be otherwise ; untutored man is the child of impulse and of passion—and though romance may clothe feudalism in the daring of chivalry , ? nd the poetry of fiction—yet stern necessity , an allegiance to truth , commands an acknowledgment of the fact—that the labourers were serfs , and the serfs were slaves . Feudalism never conceded to the labourer the free exercise of judgment ; the right to buy and sell ; still less could its spirit recognise the doctrine of a free enfranchisement of mind ; the ri ght to be heard on labour ' s interests within the councils of rulers ; or in any way to possess , regulate , or distribute the
wealth created by the _pawer of labour . Such demands have been reserved for a later period of our country ' s history j and it is gratifying to read the sound sense and intelligence of the London stonemasons , as shadowed forth in their address to the metropolitan trades , and to the labourers and work _, men of England generally . Such an address is an answer to all that may be written by mistaken men , on the policy and intention _^ of t he producing classes , and indicates that honourable independence is the heart ' s wish of England ' s workmen ; and that the men whose skill constitutes the glory of our country , and conserves the security of the state , are preparing to do their part in the coming age of social
and political emancipation . As English society has progressed toward a state of self-independenee , her history is burthened with accounts of poor laws , imply ing the existence of a class who were dependent on the industry of others for their support : such a class are clearly slaves , for if the labourer earns not his bread by the sweat of his brow , he fulfils not nature ' s law to man , and cannot be free to claim his right among the affairs of men . Parocbial relief is parochial slavery , and is no improvement on baronial seifdom . Sometimes the maintenance of the poor has been intrusted to the Church , at other times to the State , but under either authority the degree of vassalage has remained
unchanged . The Church could acknowledge the worth of the industry of the labourers , and the old ca _' _-hedral edifices are standing monuments of their skill . The skilled workmen of the past may not have been of the degraded caste of villeins or slaves , but they were of the people and of the labourers , and their handicraft is honourable to their genius , and creditable to their memory . But though the skill of our forefathers gave to religion art , the Church gave not to the poor independence . No , auch a triumph over ignorance has been reserved in the womb of time ; to be born , when man shall have discovered that to labour is honourable—and to live , when man ' s knowledge shall have taught him the
worth and duties of civilisation and independence . From the nature of commerce , as now conducted in England and all other commercial states of Europe , the skilled workmen are subject to periodical recurrences of pauperism , unequalled for severity in the history of the past ; and in fact it is to be feared , that the causes leading to such results , are every day becoming more aggravated . The government , as at present constituted , has shown no aptitude to deal with this increasing malady ; and it is as clear tome as the sun at noonday , that if this heirloom of the past and present be not fairly met , that nothiug can
save England from one of two fates—either decline as a nation , or a struggle of blood between the supposed oppressors and oppressed . A revolution of the stomach is inevitable , provided there be not a change in our social system—hunger is a hard taskmaster ; men , women , aud children , must be fed , and it is for the true interest of all , that every association shonld be cultivated and encouraged , that will tend to throw light on the greatest of all questions , the organisation and direction of labour ; and there is much to be hoped for , from so practical and intelligent a body as the organised trades of England would be .
As it is my intention to resume this subject on an early day , on which occasion I will relate , more immediately to the commercial and industrial history of the working classes , I conclude , by recommending the project , propounded by the stone-masons of London , to the attention of the trades ; the scheme may be rendered perfectly practical and utilitarian . The government of Lord John Russell is an incumbrance on industrya drag-wheel on social improvement . If the trades of London alone were partially organised for political and social purposes , and supported by tbeir brethren of Manchester , and Glasgow , no
government could resist tbeir influence , and the llussell Cabinet would either have to give way to the spirit of revolution and change , or make way for other men . Society properly organised for good and useful purposes , will prove too vast , too powerful , and unmanageable , to be materially retarded in its progress for improvement by any government . The organisation of the trades is a great step in the right direction . See to it , workmen of London and England ; and thanking the Editor for the privilege of addres sing you , I am , ycurs fraternally , Samuel Kyed .
Trial By Jury. Doblin, 28 Th May, 1818
TRIAL BY JURY . Doblin , 28 th May , 1818
TO TUE EDITOR OP THE NORTHERN STAR . Dear Sir , —The speech of the immortal John Mitchel after sentence was passed upon him , should be printed in letters of go'd . Let every honest man get a copy of it framed and glazed . Every school book and prayer book should contain it . But no language , painting , nor even tha moat fertile imagination can coavey an outline ot tbe dignity , defianee , and utter scorn with which that speech was delivered . The judges tied from the betca , the accursed jurors hid
their heads , the perjured sheriff shrank into half his size , and in a faultering voice iro phired the protection ofthe benc h . While the friends oftho bold , the brave , the magnanimous Mitohel , sprang on their legs , as if they had been suddenly inspired by a voice from Heaven , and all rushed forward to the dock , stretching forth their hands in the hope cf touching even the clothes of tho victim of jury packing , trick , jugglo , and perjury . No word 3 of mine can do justice to the noble character of my esteemed and beloved friend .
May God preserve him ! May ho soon be restored to hia country ! He was prejudged by thejury that went through the mockery of a trial . It wa 3 well known , and can te proved , that one of them swore an oath , that should he be on his jury he would convict him , or die in thejury room . A l the Irish papers have been guilty of an unpardonable omission , by omitting the residence and occupati 9 n of the jurors , whom the sheriff , the perjured sheriff , represented as respectable . The only man of the least pretensions to respectability , or oven decency of character , is Ilalwood Clarke , the _wholeaalo hosier ; he is an ill-tempered , _notu- ' _ous bigot ; and theo ! her eleven aro low , _vulvar , _ignorant , _struggliug tradesmen , haters of _everything national .
1 forward you a list of that jury which convicted John Mitchel of a ' Felony , 'fer having written and sooken that which all honest mea have declared _t-i be' God ' s _Tbcth . ' I am , truly _youro , but _sorely sfSicttd , Patrick O'Higgins . The following is a list of tho Jury : — John Wbitty , 8 , _College-greeii , Tailor—William Fletcher , 16 , _Bolton-streut _, _Uarnoss-maker—li _ilicrt Thomas . 10 , Henry-street , Coaoh-malwr— William Horatio Nelson , 10 , _Lqwer _Ormond-quay , Optician-Frederick Ilarabaut , 77 , Dawson _sirtet , Merchant-William Manstield , 19 , _Gfafton-strcet , Perfumer—Ilalwood Claika , 48 , Ma < _-j-street . _ifceier—liicbsul Yoakley , G 5 , Graf ' _toc-sti-uet , China Merchant-Edward Roth well , 19 , Upper Ormond-quay , Shoemaker—Jason Sherwood , 22 , Earl-stveet , Plumber—Thomas _Bridgoford , _iS , Lower Sackville-Btrcet , Seedsman—John _Coluer . 10 , Parliament-street , Woollen Draper ,
The Land And The Charter.
THE LAND AND THE CHARTER .
The Rights Of Labour. Asd How To Achieve...
THE RIGHTS OF LABOUR . ASD HOW TO ACHIEVE TflBM .
(From Tho Lincoln Limit.)
( From tho Lincoln limit . )
FEARGUS O'CONNOR , _hSQ ,., M . f _., Addressed a large meeting at the Corn Exchang Room last evening . Amongst those present were t great number of _strangera from Nottingham , Newark , and Other places . The admittance was one penny , and the gallery at the West end of the room was filled with the fair sex . On Mr O'Connor *!} amt > al with hia friends he was loudly cheered . Mr SHABPDroDosed that Mr Bubd . a working matM _k _. _k . Milan * _fVJ _> _WlW VU » V . IA _** _W"M , l . w _... " _« Io — W ¦
. . * , take tho chair , which was carried unanimously . The chairman read tbe bill by whicb tbe meeting waB called . He observed that they had heardotheff subjects _discusued _, bat they bad seldom an opportunity of hearing the rights of Labour ; , and how ts achieve them , explained and advocate * . They had now amongst them that unpurchaseable- friend of ths , people , Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., and- he would address them on _tbiusubject which waa t _* ae fraughtwith the well-being of every son of toil . He could not detain thsm from hearing that gentleman , as by so doing he should bs doing them an injustice . ( Cheers . ) He wouldat onee introduce Mr O'Connor to the meeting .
On Mr O ' Connor coming forward he waa received with deafening cheers . —He said , tbat he remembered the time when he would be thought a bold man who came into this cathedral city to preach the doctrines of democracy to the people . If the ministers of religion did their duty as the Bible taught them , it would not he left for him to have to instruct the people in their rig hts . There were around hira many who had' followed him from other towns , who for fifteen years had had the same views in common with himself , and had the same
A . B . C . of politics , but he had no new views to propagate , different to what he had delivered in other towns . He supposed they all went to church on Sunday , and he was not going to preach more radical principles than they heard there sometimes . ' God made man , and gave hira the earth for hia sustenance and inheritance , ' that he might till it for the common benefit of all . God made man to labour , that by the sweat of his brow he should gain his daily bread ; and he did not make placemen , pensioners , and idlers . ( Hear , hear . ) The parsons taught the doctrine ' that the poor were the especial objects of God ' s providence . ' Many of the middle classes associated the idea of anarchy with the
present Chartist movement , but he could' assure them that whenever the people of any country were driven to riot and bloodshed , it was because they were driven to it by persecution . It was necessary that labour should understand its position . That trade and aristocracy should also understand their positions . He told the men of Lincoln that if they were not crouching sycophants , he should not have to come amongst them to teach them the nature of their rights . The working men only agitated for these rig hts when times of adversity came , not when they were in full work and laying by for a rainy dayonly when they _^ were powerless—not when tbey were powerful , ( Hear . ) Now he would suppose thafc
out of the present population of England there were three millions of labourers . These three millions of men , sufficiently employed and fairly remunerated for such employment , would enable a government to screw out of them sufficient to keep up the present extravagant expenditure of this country . The government pensioned all kinds oi paupers upon them according to the times , and the improved state of trade . Well , suppose one million out of these three became unemployed—became unwilling idlers in the labour market—why then the goiernment was compelled to squeeze the same amount out of two millions who were badly paid , in consequence of tbe million competitive idlers , as they did out of the three millions well paid . When trade was bad the working people suffered and were
driven to reduced wages , but did the parsons , placemen , ministers of the state , judges , admirals , generals , offieers of the army and navy , soldiers or sailors , suffer by a reduction of their salaries ? No , they were very dangerous customers to try experiments with . Men who had arms in tlieir hands , and power , through their political influence , were the last to be lowered , and until the working classes were represented in the House ot Commons , labour would continue to be the bugbear of those in power . They were told that labour was ihe source of wealth ; true , it was so , for it gave the standard ot value to the raw material . This labour question was convulsing the whole < of Europe , but no man except himself , had yet devised a plan sufficiently wide as to embrace all Nature ' s children . He wished it to be understood that he did not want
them all to go upon the land . Suppose a district where there wero three thousand artisans , but where only two thousand could find employment ; by placing the remaining one thousand idle competitors upon the land , they would more than support the two thousaud artisans in employment . Hi wanted the free labour field that a man might be employed from if . Was is not a better _market than the public house and the dram shop ? ( Cheers . ) He wanted free trade in legislation , as much as any . thing . They were continually being told that agriculture and r aanufaciures must go hand in hand , but he said , they must both shake bands first . With a constant increasing population , the . number
of agricultural labourers in the United Kingdom had decreased to the amount of two hundred and eighty thousaud within the last eleven years , so that in the very same proportion that population was increasing , lhe means of supporting it was decreasing , lie would take two square miles of land on which , according to his plan , he could locate eight hundred members of five members each . Placed upon the land , they would be four thousand customers for the manufacturers . The writers on polttical economy would tell them that if these eight hundred men were
sent five thousand miles away they would form a colony of customers . But why not ' bc customers at home , close by ? Under tbis system he ' . etieved that every agricultural labourer would support a tradesman or artizan . He had shown , in a calculation he had made with great caution , that England , if properly cultivated , would support two hundred millions of men , not in comfort merely , but positively in affluence . ( He then detailed his views at some length regarding education , contending that the present system only unfolded the vices ra . her than the noble virtues of mankind . He then passed on to review the conduct of lhe middle cksses at
election times , showing that they _supposed ihe interests of the aristocracy , who gave Ihem a _i . ili at six months , rather than those of theworking classes who paid them ready money , and thereby enabled the tradesman io give credit to the bill man . ) He advocated the Charter that the people might Income nationalised . Labour could not do good for itself alone , and he assured those tradesmen who had attended that night to hear him , that they were much indebted to the working classes for their ready pence , as an empty till on a Saturday night
made an ugly wife on Sunday morning —( laughter andcheers . ) ( Mr O'Connor then alluded to his imprisonment in York Castle for eighteen months , expressing his doubt of the honesty of paid patriots , statin _? that he had never travelled a single mite nor aie a single meal at the expense of the people . ) If he was asked by any one present how it was that he presumed to talk to tbem on labour . Ue told them _, that it was because he worked _haroer than any of them . He worked regularly for thirteen , ( _iuirti'en , and sometimes fifteen hours in the dav . He then
reviewed the proceedings whicii had just taken place respecting John Mitchel , and rebuked the hundreds who said tbey would stand b y him to thc last . He deprecated those leaders who recommended physical force , and respecting the Crown and Government Security Bill , which he termed the ' g ag _^ in _^ bill ' he said that Sir George Grey had told hun _thattfea bill was only intended for tke leaders , _: _;¦ . ! her . . j plied to him that' a live dog was better 'ha alia \ duke , and that he was too old a bird to Im cp . _ug ' J _, with chaff . ' ( Laughter . ) After a speech of about an hour ' s duration , during thc delivery of v . Inch Mr O'Connor was often vociferously cheered , the speaker resumed his seat .
Mr Sh . _aup moved 'Tba ; this m ? _etin- » _i- _« ; : fM > _irnon that the Gagging Bill , f ' . _ilaoly calu < , _um 0 ;> . vij . anil Government Security Bill , baviuj- hce _.-lllc ilio law of tho laud , furnishes additi mi um . >; _nw tho Home of Commons dues _nijt _rciirestuc ti . e _iiiinroiils and feelings of tho people of this _couniri' , ? nd tho _bfftt means of doing' m , _tronl-l ho by mr . _Uiu-j ; tha People ' s Caartc . " tho laiv o ; ' ths hiud . _t-tvoijiUii by MrL ? . nn worth . A vote ot thanks was r . ftoi wares a waul dro Mr 0 _'Co-., nor and also to M- Kuud , the cha r . _r . ui _, and _themoetiijg then _sup-intta ' .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 3, 1848, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_03061848/page/1/
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