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4 " THE NORTHERN «TAR. ^ June C me
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THE NORTHERN STAR SATUllDAY, JUNE 6,1846.
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¦ ... On fuxd after the First of Jane , LONDON MORNING NEWSPAPER , . .. AT . ' _! , " . .,. ¦ .-. ' ¦ - ¦ ' TWOPENCE HAM * BNNY . 1 THENewspaperistheintelleetuallife ofthe Nineteenth Century .. So t to speak oftiie , moraland political safe . _guards ivhich it-affords , it places all whatever their varieties of fortune , on _aleyel as to _^^ tion . By r _ts means _dIjthteesI Of a fact so startling , what is the cause ?—r bice . That fhe public know the advantage of having a London Daily Paper is manifest , from ; the thousands who pay _ttre _^ nce _- _forapapertlieaayafterlablicationT "Wliat , then , are the causes winch maintain the high price ? First , 5 _^ 3 _^ , * _V , F , _£ nV _* 9 _l wwiiiirpd to he invested in a "Newspaper speculation . Next , the various talent and experience _thleTmTst _combined p _^ S e _theStfV number of the _Teqdrenienfc have , in truth , occasioned something _^^•^^ _Z _^ _v » _nd mononolv always commands its own price . Thus , whilst capital and competition have _ftSSSi _^ _ffi _^ _SiirX ? _tinhgl nothing has been attempted , in the direction indicated , fo ? the political _^ S _^ _SSS _^ a DaUyPaper stm remains a costly luxur _> - in which _^ wcaUhy <» n indulge . ., _tjip PTnPriment is about to be tried of establishing a London Daily Newspaper , on the highest scale of completeness ¦ vSn _^ shM lookfor support , not to comparatively few readers at a high price , but to many at a low price ; therefore . _raSer the First of June ,
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A GOOD FIT WARRANTED . UBSDELL AN © CO ., Tailors , are now making up a complete Suit of Superfine Black , any size , for £ 3 ; Superfine West of England Black , £ 3 10 s . ; and tbe very best Superfine Saxony , £ 5 , warranted not to spot or _change colour . Juvenile Superfine Cloth SuitB , 24 s . * Liveries equally cheap—atthe Great Western Emporium , Nos . l and 2 , Oxford-street , London ; the noted house for fond black cloths , and patent made trousers-. Gentlemen an choose the . colour and quality of cloth from the argest stock in Louden . he art of cutting taught .
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WISDOM _AtfD _CHEERFITLNESS . THE FAMILY HERALD . Part 37 , Price fid . Contains " The White Rose ; the Coquette ; the Yellow Domino ; the Love of Kang Ky ; the Tempter Tempted ; the Death KneU ; the Skeleton ; Titles of Honour and different Modes of Address ; Hints on Etiquette ; Beauty , with how to Create and how to Preserve it ; Hon- to make the Married Life Happy ; the Dip of Ink ; the Madona ; and several other charming Tales ; with a variety of useful , moral , entertaining and instructive reading for the intelligent and reflecting of all classes . " Everybody reads the FAMILY HERALD , the most universal favourite ever published , and just the kind of Periodical for whiling away a leisure moment agreeably and profitably . To be had of all Booksellers .
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TO AMATEURS OP MUSIC , Now readv . THE MUSICAL HERALD , Part 1 , ' Price _Tenpence . consisting of 24 large quarto pages of select Vocal and Instrumental MUSIC , and 48 columns of entertaining and instructive MUSICAL LITERATURE' edited by an eminent AVritur . Tins is another step towards the promotion of a musical taste in this country ; and , notwithstanding its unprecedented cheapness , is well worthy the inspection and general encouragement of all lovers ot music The paper aud print are excellent , and the music is both beautiful and correct . The Musical Herald is also published in Weekly Numbers , price Twopence . To be had of all Booksellers throughout the United Kingdom
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ON WEDNESDAY , JUNE 3 , WAS PUBLISHED , THE ItEASONER : ¦¦ Price 2 d ., Containing 1 G Pages , same size as tlie "People ' s Journal , A Weekly Paper—Communistic iu Social Economy—Utilitarian in Morals—Republican in Politics—and Antitheological in Religion . J . Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Head Passage , Paternoster-row .
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TWELVE REASONS why every one should read the LONDON PIONEER ; " 1 . Because it aims at the greatest happiness of the greatest number , by augmenting social good and diminishing social evil . 2 . Because it both amuses and instructs all who read , and tends to make aU readers the wiser , the better , and the happier for wliat tliey read . 3 . Because it gives good advice to all classes , teaches the ladies how to getgood husbands , the gentlemen how to getgood wives , and makes all
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WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE . WAKEFIELD ADJOURNED SESSIONS . NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , that the SrHiNO Genebal _Qdabteb Sessions of the Peace , for the West Hiding of the County of York , will be held by adjournment , iu the Committee-lloom , at the House of Correction , at Wakefield , on Thursday , the Eleventh day of June , at Twelve o ' clock at noon , for the purpose of inspecting the Riding Prison , ( the said House of Correction ) and for examining the Accounts of tlio Keeper of tlie said House Of Correction , making Enquiry into the conduct of the Officers and _Servants bulonginij to the same ; and also into the behaviour of tlw Prisoners , and their Earnings . C . H . ELSLEY , Clerk of the Peace . Clerk of the Peace ' s Office , _Wata-field . 28 th May , lo 46
The Northern Star Satullday, June 6,1846.
THE NORTHERN STAR SATUllDAY , JUNE 6 , 1846 .
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THE REVOLUTION . While legislators and working men are enjoying a short respite from their respective labours during the Whitsuntide holidays , it will not be amiss to consider the future work which the new commercial policy of Sir Robert Peel is likely to cut out for the respective classes . The Corn Law question has tended
more than any , or all others , to create not only political feuds but angry feelings amongst the working classes , while it lias also furn shed materials for the respective parties struggling for political power whereon to rest their claim for popular support . The candidate who not long since relied upon his advocacy Of the ballot , OT Some mysterious profession of liberalism or abstract notions of progression , as an ample bid for popular favour , would now find himself a mere
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laughing stock if lie _based . h ' is claim for _Sufpblt " u | on So long as the question of . protection was supposed settled , bo long-wore the respective parties compelled to seek some captivating ELECTION CRY as " ameans of preserving their ascendancy , Wot only because the knocking of this crutch from under landed Toryism and exhausted Whiggery has compelled . the two parties to assume some defined and intelligible position , but because it will test the
wisdom and foresight of politicians do we admire it . Should it fail of giving the anticipated satisfaction , which it assuredly _wilij its promoters and supporters will be compelled to resort to something more definite , something more intelligible , and something more democratic , as the means of acquiring political power i While those who have opposed it from no other consideration - than the damage' that it threatens to their order , will gain neither character nor honor , as their prophecies of failure were based upon selfishness , not upon foresight .
It would have been impossible , wholly and entirely impossible , to have combined the industrious of all classes into a league against the MACHINE MONOPOLISTS so long aa the gaping mouths and watery teeth of the ignorant shopkeepers and aristocratic trades were strained to receive the ripening fruit . " High wages , cheap bread , and plenty to do , " inferred more money to be expended with shopkeepers alter the support of the working man ' s family , —it promised something more equable to the labour market than partial seasons of activity and long periods of : idleness . The " plenty to do" implied never ceasing toil . •¦ Cheap bread and high wages" meant the ability to spend a large surplus , after living , with the middle classes .
We have laboured assiduously to _conviriae * the working classes and the shopkeepers that cheap and dear are relative terms ; and that before the labouring man can purchase , at any price , he must first ' sell his labour to procure the means . ' We have kept the real object ofthe League incessantly . before the eyes ofthe middle classes ; we have shewn that the primary advantage to be derived from free trade was , that by the reduction in the price of' bread the master manufacturers may so reduce the rate of wages , as to be enabled to sell the produce of
English labour at a lower price in the foreign markets than the speculators in slave labour could afford to . sell it in their respective markets . And we have proved that of all the hostile interests existing' in this class-divided country , that there were no two i nterests so really opposed to each other as that of the shopkeepers who thrive by high wages , and that of the manufacturers who have brought competition to so disastrous a pitch , that their profits are wholly made up of wages' parings , without any other reference to the value of the marketable commodity .
By this time it has struck some shopkeepers in many parts ofthe North pf England , that £ 50 , 000 a year divided more equitably than it ia at present , between the Two Thousand and ONE , who by their combined capital and labour make so much annual profit , would be better for their order than the present system , which allows THK ONE to devour tho lion ' s share , while the Two Thousand , subject to strikes , struggles against reduction , casualties , and
uncertainties , subject the shopkeepers to increased poor-rates , increased police rates , increased litigation , increased poverty and increased danger . However , the party was rallied by a cry and supposed to be united by a principle , and it mattered but little to the wild expectants whether public opinion had compelled their interested leaders to abandon one or more of their positions ; the promise was made , and its fulfilment depended upon their blind devotion .
Did they ever turn their attention to the fact , that the whole commercial policy of Sir Robert Peel aims at fixing some ascertainable standard of value between foreign corn and the produce of English labour . And did it never strike them , that this surplus money , to be so profusely expended at their counters , would become more and more valuable in proportion to the reduction of the priee of those two articles ; and did it uevcr strike them , thatthe parties who command the wealth , the capital , THE MACHINERY , and the government of the country , were hot struggling for a measure the effect of which would be to . leave them THE CHAFF FOR THEIR SHARE , and
to confer the CORN UPON THE UNREPRESENTED , which would be the result ofthe realization of free trade promise . And we _ars now about to show , that the very shopkeepers who have so assiduously struggled for the emancipation of rich customers from the restrictions imposed upon trade , will be among the first sufferers from the new policy , Perhaps , apart from the consideration ofthe whole question , the present period is the most favourable for the ministerial experiment . Had the measure passed in spring or autumn , the disastrous effect upon the labour market , and consequently upon the
shopkeepers , would nave been immediate , nay , we go so far as to assert that , but for the propitious season , the agricultural labourers would yet combine with the farmers and protectionists to overthrow the measure . The elements are doing more for the minister than the belief of converts in his wisdom . A very wet spring has led , not only to an early , but to an unusually abundant hay time . Last year , the Irish flocked to this country at the usual period of the year for commencing hay and harvest operations , while the inclement state of the weather consigned thousands of them to starvation , in consequence of
the lateness to which those operations were deferred . This year , upon the contrary , has acted as an estoppel to Irish emigration , the hay harvest has TUMBLED in , as if by magic—the market is confined to native industry alone—tbe crop is in together and must be made at once—a circumstance which gives the agricultural labourers the command of the market , and not only weans them from the after thought of free trade , but will actually convey the impression that the increase of wages is a consequence of the measure , an argument which we have no doubt will be fruitfully used hy freetraders in their future skirmishes .
When the hay time is over , then commences the harvest and hop-picking , and with their close will set the sun ofthe agricultural labourer ' s hope . Then will commence the discharge of hands , who must now be employed at the value that the scarcity in the market gives to them , as , no matter what the price of hay , hops , and corn , may be , they are always worth the last and most expensive process of saving . This millenium may last till the middle of Augustthis spurt will give activity to brewers , shopkeepers , MANUFACTURERS FOR THE HOME TRADE , and to almost every branch of native industry , and will , no doubt , be artfully set down by the supporters of tho measure , not to the real cause but to the blessings of the principle .
The _agricultural labourers not having the same hope of becoming capitalists , shopkeepers , or traffickers , and not having any market open beyond that of labour , are the least thrifty in thc season of prosperity , but become the » _most suddenly destitute by adversity . They have been always taught to look to parish relief , as a last , though a dishonourable resource . The season inviies them to dissipation , whilst the increase of wages enables tiiem to become better customers in the market of manufactures . Here then is dangerous ground ior a minister , who must look beyondtheday . Here isadangeronsrule by whicli the Chancellor of tbcExchequer has not measured his anticipated revenue . The effect of free trade will be
a panic in the corn market . The effect of the panic will be a reduction in the price of bicad , which cannot , under existing circumstances , be accompanied by a cotemporaneous reduction in the wages of the agricultural labourer ; but , nevertheless , those very fascinations which wiUnotonly throw protection round , but will add a false lustre to the projector of the measure for the time being , will weave the veil of his future obseurity ; while tho failure ofthe experiment will hold Cobden , Bright , and the League , up to the derision of those whose fortunes were supposed to hang upon the success of the measure , and the disappointed of all classes will look round once more for some resting place from party delusion , and will find
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_Mentation op the ;; whole _^ _^ people . in pA _* RLIAMEN _* r--ihe ' only ; _meana ' by _wius _^ . tihe' _piiprjnouaiy increasing national property-can be so di 8 tri . _butedVas to _pu'ge the _lini _iil _^« _fiBe » . _^ _^^ _^ t ' luxury on the one hand ; and heart-breaking " penury upon the other . _, _; _.,,. . ; ..
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. " . _.- ; THE DISPATCH . - litis a fact that few know the value of a thing _possessed until it is lost . We were sometimes re _freslied _, and not urifrequently charmed , by the rollicking effusions of the DEPARTED Publicola , whose weekly letter gave a zest to the Dispatch , and whoso keen eyes kept such watchfulness over tlie editorial department , as to reconcile even rank and
rabid nonsense to tliose who are doomed to its weekly perusal . In those days the Dispatch was a national dial , by which public opinion was extensively regulated under poor Publicola _' s management . Ifc not only _indulgsd in wholesale denunciation of the present system , but he selected the several offshoots for weekly exposure and reprobation . Class legislation was the master evil selected for assault , while the only charge brought against Chartism was , that its professors did not go far enough .
Republicanism was then the avowed principles of the Dispatch ; but Publicola IS DEAD . Tho Norwich weaver boy ( Fox ) supplies his place , and has substituted the most damnable principle of
NONINTERFERENCE WITH ;' THE RIGHTS OF CAPITAL , for _theAbroad principles of Republicanisni .. Before we analyse Fox ' s article of last week ( which we have printed entire ) more critically , we shall first devote a word of comment to a consideration of the consistency of the writer , ( a candidate for the supporfof the liberal constituency of Oldham . ) Fox was editor of the Daily News , ( Hudson ' s narrow gauge champion , ) and which , from his maudlin and trashy articles 7 ie wrote down from . 5 d . to 2 $ d . ' He
was a member and spouterof the Complete Suffrageprinciple , advocating Chartism , anil only _. boggling at the NAME . He was the hired lecturer of the League , and even condescended to fill the office of teacher at the Sunday School of the . National Hall Association , FOR A CONSIDERATION ; so tbat , mayhap , the denunciation of this well paid knob-stick clerical mountebank , of the 30 s . a week paid to the Chartist BELLOWS BLOWERS arise- * from the injurious influence that their underpaid labour is likely to have upon his trade as an agitator .
Having so far glanced at the consistency ofthe pious bladder of wind , we now turn to a more critical examination of the most unscrupulous , false , and cowardly attack ever made upon the rights oflabour ; an attack , however , blunted by the blundering ignorance of the writer . After telling us that " apple sauce" is ate AFTER " roast goose" ( we always thought they went together ) , the WEAVER BOY tells us that a Trades Union does not fairly express the thing which the words imply , inasmuch as . "it entirely excludes from the LIMITS of its definition the capitalists nnd masters . " We do not understand the meaning of the word LIMITS in the sense which it is intended to convey ; however , we cannot help smiling at the folly of tbe writer , who had not
brains to see that Trades Unions were rendered ne - cessary by the tyranny of the very masters and capitalists whose ' exclusion from the order The Fox so pathetically laments . Did he not understand that the very admission of those masters to an anomalous power already possessed and abused by them was the very thing that led to the necessity of a restrictive body ? The writer tells us that the combination is uniformly confined to "THE ONE SOLE BODY OF WORKING OPERATIVES . " A pretty large class we imagine ; much more extensive than we were heretofore led to believe , and the very class for whose protection the writer advocated the charter as the means of counterbalancing the unjust power of the pitied masters and capitalists .
Though a little out of order , we may here consider the numbers constituting THE SOLE BODY OF WORKING OPERATIVES . Fox tells us that there are FOUR MILLIONS OF THE
POPULATION PERMANENTLY WITHOUT EMPLOYMENT , AND THAT THEREFORE TIIERE NEVER CAN BE EITHER OCCASION FOR A PROTECTIVE UNION OF ARTIZANS OR FOR A STRIKE TO REGULATE WAGES . If the word " either" had come after instead of before the word " occasion , " it would have been English , but as it iswc can understand the writer ' s meaning . We are told that there are "four millions permanently unemployed , " and if we estimate the number employed so low as two millions , we have six millions , and if we estimate
tliose six million families at three instead of five to a family , as infants are included in the census , we have a population of eighteen millions , a pretty considerable SOLE BODY seeking representation ; a number exceeding the whole population of the kingdom by five millions , leaving a small margin less than nothing for the landed aristocracy , merchants , bankers , manufacturers , masters , capitalists , shopkeepers , taxeaters , pensioners , army and navy , police , publicans , sinners , and idle editors , and sufficiently large to exclude capitalists and masters from the limits of its definition .
To go back . The Weaver Boy supposes that labour should give up its PROTECTION , because the Peers have been compelled to abandon theirs . A very fascinating argument from a rabid hired fre e trader , who assured the people of the necessity o leaguing themselves against the monopoly of those very Peers . The ignorant wholesale manner in which the Norwich Weaver Boy now assails the denouncer of class legislation will be met , even by his former friends , with anything but cordiality . It is the shadow ofthe new policy of wliich Fox is the hired champion . It verifies our very worst predictions of the designs of the masters and capitalists , but we will , nevertheless , overcome , and finally overthrow , the enemy in their new character .
We cannot resist giving tho following passage in full , and we feel convinced that , however the struggle may end , every artisan operative and slave , of all creeds and colour , will cherish it as
TUE NORWICH WEAVERS' LEGACY . This union is a class combination , for class objects , to enforce class legislation by class _ci'gamaation . It is to create a class monopoly in favour of an exclusive class , by thut order which was the most vehement in its denunciation of class privileges ; and contrary to the advancing spirit of the age , to the impartial and Catholic tendency of modern government and of public opinion , it is not more necessary tor tlie character of the working classes themselves than for the safety ofthe State , and the security of the public against dictation and exaction , that the conspiracy should be exploded and the bubble exposed . It is an Association for practically carrying out an impossible
object , and whiuli , were it possible , would be pernicious . We are , indeed , surprised that tho intelligent urtizans of this country should , in the face of every principle of political economy , and every dictate of experience and common sense , yet suffer themselves to be magnetised by tlw gesticulations of quacks into tlie day dreams in which thoy now indulge . They have tried to put down machinery l > y Act of Parliament , to prevent women and children from earning their own subsistence , aud masters irom the liberty of making contracts with them ; they have struggled to prohibit the working of factories for a longer _pi-riod than ten liours per day , thus confiscating a sixth of incomeInterest
tho whole , on cnpital and property ofthe owner , without remorse or compensation—they have limited the number of apprentices whom masters are to instruct , in order to preserve a monopol y of tlieir trade , and now , nt last , they have organised a grand universal National Union , into the joining of which every working man is to be waxed , persecuted , threatened , and bribod , in order to lay the nation prostrate at their feat—to place the consumers , masters , and capitalists , at the mercy oi the workingclasses , and to dictate to every other order of society whatever conditions they please of remuneration for labour irrespective of the legitimate demand , and the value ol tho commodity .
Was libel equal to that ever penned by the most bitter and professing enemy of labour * A libel which proves our assertion , that , until the whole system is altered , the weeds that spring from the labour bed are the foulest enemies of tho order . "We have uot one single instance upon record of a working man cheating himself , or mouthing himself , into riches , and above his class , that such fellow is not far away the most insolent , overbearing , proud , and intolerant . Indeed , it is by such pranks that the mushrooms seek to recommend themselves to their new associates . Thia scum of clerical dung reviles : the tailors for
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, stri ! dBg , foxa .. Bhare . of _4 he _. maski _^ profits ? and tells us thatJQs , " is six ; iimes ; a |) much _W" 12 ? _f ; : « ld , after I ' amenlbih gthe loss o ' _rfemale work , curiously _enougK again repines at the increase in this branch . The j Weaver boy was tried oh the True ' Su % and wrote it down ; he experimehtalised ' uppn the -Chronicle , and damaged ifc . Lord ' _MfflaouffliB asked _Eibthope why ; he did not get " an editorthat could write EriglisK , at all events ? He began with and finished the now de- ; parted Dail y News ; he has now . got the Dispatch into his destroying clutches , and irbm"theungrainmatical style of the expcrimentalisfcj we can how see . why he was
NOBODY'S CHILD . _-.- _¦¦ . ; The Weaver boy , -like the masters , has no objection to local clubs ; because the masters can deal with them ; and goes on to tell us that there is a "UNIVERSAL CONCURRENCE IN HIS OPINION , ' ' By the Pope , Weaver Boy , but Mrs . Malaprop was a fool to you for jawcrackers . A UNIVERSAL CONCURRENCE running through a weaver ' head it something new . However , he has it there , it is a UNIVERSAL CONCURRENCE in his opinions that the present strike was ILL-TIMED . Now , then , what becomes of all the logician ' s general
reasoning against the principle of clubs , when he is compelled to reduce his , wrath to a mere objection to time only . Is ; not this what we have shown to labour , that these serpents will always coil themselves around some limb of the slave . The . WIND-BAG goes on blowing about 't he . GUILDS of olden time : would that we had them back ? And thus . concludes the most insolent , beastly , ignorant , and cowardly attack ever made upon the working classes . He quotes the letter of hiscomrogue , Mr . Holmb _, whose name he cannot even spell ; and thus winds up with a panegyric upon Hoime , and a blow at . Mr . _JDowcombe and Mr . Roberts : —
This is the language of justice and common sense . The primeval curse sentenced man to a _Ufe of labour , ' and hard labour too—earning his bread : only by the sweat of his brow-and every scheme for getting large wages for little work , and aU royal roads to leisure , ease , and comfort , and allindustnal luhberlands of nothing to do and _plently to eat , are the visions of quacks , and the delusions of imposterB . They may fiim £ 1 , 000 a year for Mr Roberts , a landed estate for Mr , Duncombe , and 80 s . a-week . for a score or two of Chartist peripatetic bags of wind , to help to blow the . bellows of their disinterested and indignant patriotism but their only eilect upon the fortunes of the working man must be to help him out of his money , and into a union of a very dif . ferent kind from wh _.-it which he has been asked to joiuwe mean the Union "Workhouse _.,
There , working men , the language of Holmi , the midnight briber , is the language of JUSTICE arid COMMON SENSE . As to the £ 1 , 000 a year for Mr Roberts , arid an estate of Mr . Buncombe , we ask the tramping League bellows , the clerical knobstick , the penny-a-liner , the National Hall £ 1 a-week Sunday teacher , the free trader , the complete suffragist , the candidate for Oldham and assassin of the Dispatch , whether it is more fit that labour should reward its real advocates with honourable distinction , or that it should be fooled with the purchasing of estates for Mr . Thief-catcher Attorney Ex-Alderman Harmeri Proprietor of the Dispatch , who has purchased many estates by a fraudulent and TIMELY support of the rights of labour ; and now hires a renegade pauper to disprove his title to those estates . Our onlv con
solation is , that , with few exceptions , we have received assurances from our several agents , with the glad tidings tbat many readers have given orders to discontinue the BEASTLY DISPATCH . Cowards will repeat their boastings until they believe in their own courage , but are humbled at last upon the first appearance , nay by the mere shadow of resistance ; so with politicians , they assume a position which they vainly hope to maintain , upon no better title than general ignorance upon the one hand , or a disinclination to controvert their arguments upon the other . HIRED PATRIOTS have a strong inducement TO LIE , and are strengthened in their evil
propensity , not only by the interest that those who are benefited by their fabrications have in calculating them , but by the fact they are the most profitable FREE TRADE COMMODITY . We commend the Weaver Boy ' s last web to the Liberal Electors of Oldham ; we will meet him there , and we request that it , and our reply , may be read from every Chartist platform in the kingdom . The Times is a privileged ruffian , the Fox is a deserter from labour ' s ranks . The Dispatch is a professing friend of labour ' s rights , and yet never was a more deadly blow aimed even at the UNIVERSAL CONCURRENCE in general opinion , than that of
THE NORWICH WEAVER BOY . The length to which we found it necessary to cut this rampant Fox's tail , has precluded the possibility of commenting upon the Trades Conference until next week , when we shall have the whole proceedings before us .
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THE TRADES' CONFERENCE . We refer , with pride and pleasure , to the proceedings of this body . The Trades are evidently awakening to the true perception of their interests , and rapidly advancing in the path which will lead to a triumphant issue oi * the struggle , to place labour in its rightful position . The period at which we write precludes anything like lengthened _camment upon the policy of the measures they have adopted , whicli can be more amply done on a future opportunity , but in the meantime we cannot help adverting to one great movement made at this Conference , the admission of women and children to
participate in the struggle , and to share the triumph we anticipate as its consequence . By means of this measure the swarming millions in the great hives of industry ; the young tenders of that maohinery which ought to be man ' s blessing and has heen perverted into his curse , will be enfolded in the mantle of the young association , whose gigantic capacities are rapidly developing themselves . The renewed struggle for the Ten Hours' Bill will be accompanied by an addition of strength , and an organized direction of that strength which must render its advo > cates irresistible , and its victory secure . It will
no longer be in the power of timid friends or open enemies to delay its passing into a law . The enthusiastic reception experienced by the intrepid and noble-minded man who presides over the Association of confederated trades * at public meetings , both in Leeds and Manchester , and the bold uncompromising manner in which these meetings declared their determination to have this long-sought measure , are proofs , not only of the sincerity of the working peopie in demanding it , but also of the powerful support they will give an honest leader and advocate in Parliament .
The large number of trades represented at the Conference , and tho intelligence exhibited by their representatives in tho discussion of the important questions to which tbeir attention has been directed , is another unmistakeable sign of the growing influence ofthe association and the certainty of its ultimate triumph . One peculiarity in the constitution of the Conference distinguishes it from all its predecessors . For the first time in the history of the working classes , the aristocratic and the poorer sections of the array ef industry , have cordially held out the hand of mutual help and friendship to each
other . The starved , oppressed and suffering handloom weavers , and the still more miserable slave of competition , the frame-work knitter , had sat down side by side with the joiner , the mechanic , and the engraver . England , Scotland , and Ireland , have sent their representatives to this holiest of Parliaments , and in the temper with which the claims of all classes of trades have beeH considered , the justice and prudence of the adjudication , and tho unanimity with which the decision was arrived at , we seethe most cheering prospects ofa Union among the working classes themselves , such as never before existed in this country .
The ground is almost cleared for the operation of a new great national party . The work of the NATIONAL Anti-Corn Law League is nearly done . The commercial classes have had their reform ; now for the turn ot LABOUR . Let us replace the League by a grander one ; a League that shall struggle not for freedom of exchange in the inani-
The Trades' Conference. We Refer, With P...
mate productions of _manVskill arid indnstry ' ; _' _^* for the freedom ofyman _' _-bimself . Let us form mighty confederation of the . good and true of all classes and sections . _te _. wagc war against an m _^ and unequal distribution of the products of labour and skill , to put down the abuses springing from th 0 unrestraine d power of Mvidual capitalists ; t 0 emancipate labour from thraldom ' by ' making it j _' own employer , and to destroy inequality in laws and institutions , by destroying that on which it restsclass legislation and exclusive political powers vested in sections of the community . '"'"' :
The Whigs have leng been defunct , the Tories by their own confession , are destroyed as a party—the League has proclaimed its intention of dissolving as soon as the Corn Laws are repealed . Now then is the time for The People ' s Party to take the field and prepare for that contest which must end in a victory over the evil influences which have hitherto placed honest industry at the bottom ofthe scale of society . __ We shall revert to this subject more at length , and in the meantime congratulate the Trades and the Conference on the proud position they have assumed . Never was there a better or fitter time for a bold ' determined , and forward movement , and led by suCu a general as Thomas _Slinusby Duncombe , the cause of labour and of political freedom will assuredly triumph .
Joun Frost.;; ' "We Eall The Attention O...
JOUN frost . ;; ' "We eall the attention of our readers to Mr . Cooper ' s letter given below ;' the subject matter thereof is ofthe most distressing character . ! . ; John ; _Fbos _^ is sick and destitute . The man who sacrificed his property , position , and liberty to serve the people , is homeless and friendless on a penal shore . The man who risked'his life , and has endured suffering infinitely greater than any the executioner could inflict _w-the suffering of being wrenched from his country , his home , his family , to bear years of bondage , chains , and insult in a felon land ; and who suffered all this For the people , now demands the people's aid . Personally he demands nothing , but his cause , his wrongs speak for him . We demand that sympathy whicb _^ he
has not solicited , but which unasked for the people should rush to afford . Readers of the Northern Star , Brother Chartists , Democratic Friends , Working Men , Friends of the People , Philanthropists of all parties and classes we appeal to you—let not the grievous sin rest upon you of turning a deaf ear to this cry of our good , generous , noble-hearted martyrbrother . We perceive that the National Victim Fund Committee hold a Meeting on Sunday afternoon , to take the necessary steps in this matter . Wherever this paper is read , we trust that means will be immediately adopted to procure pecuniary aid forthwith . Of course we will gladly receive subscriptions at this office . Observe , there must be » o delay , tlie money must be gotten at once . The case is urgent , therefore to the rescue . '
TO THE CHARTIST BODY . My Bkkthren , —A letter has just been received by Mr . Rogers , from our beloved exile , John Frost , which contains matter demanding the instant and earnest sympathy of us all . After undergoing various probations , Mr . Frost was permitted to engage . himself as manager to a large commission-agent in glass and | earthen-ware , at a yearly salary _^ f _213-, withboardand lodging . He fell ill—was necessitated to go into an hospital—and his situation having been entered on by another , when he left the hospital , he was constrained to live on the little savings he had accumulated from his . brief managership . His scanty fund
is now spent , he is ill , —out of employment—and destitute . With that noble independence which has ever distinguished his large heart , he asks that his few books in the possession of his family , be raffled , and the proceeds sent him . He utters no word of request that you subscribe for his relief ; bat your own hearts will tell you that it is your bounden duty to fly to his assistance . You will not—you cannot—suffer one whose yearning pity for the suffering and oppressed , led him to risk life itself for tbeir rescue—to perish in his _neeessity j ner will you consent that his few books —( which the poor exile hopes one day again to open , perhaps , tbe solace
of his venerable age)—shall be sold to meet his wants . You will strain every nerve to help him . You will not suffer your generous Frost to pine under the thought that you are ungrateful . ' A friend quits England for the plaee of John Frost ' s exile in the course of one fortnight . There is not a day to he lost . He must be relieved . Mr . Rogers gives two pounds , I give one , Mr . Moore gives another ; and let every workingman who loves John Frost for his benevolent heart , rather pawn a shirt for a week , than neglect to send his mite for
the exile ' s relief . You all know my address : Mr . Rogers , tobacconist , 58 , High-street , St . Giles ' s ; or Mr . Moore , carver , 25 , Hart-street , Bloomsbury , —will also readily receive anything that may be sent : or , if you prefer to send your contributions to any officer connected with the Chartist body , —do so , but do not , I conjure you , neglect to exert yourselves—even for one day , — I am , dear Brethren , 134 , Blackfriar's Road , Yours affectionately , * _2 June 4 th , 1 S 46 . Thomas Coopeb , the Chartist
Bbotheb _Democrats , —I would have preferred to have given my mite silently and without publicity but for the reason that by taking the opposite course I may aid the good example of doing instead of talking . Private and pressing circumstances prevent me at this moment giving more than Ten Shillings towards the fund for the assistance of our noble martyr Frost ; but that small sum I give with sincere regret that I cannot give pounds instead of shillings . ___ Fraternally your ' s , G . Juuan _Harset . Northern Star Office , June 5 , 184 G .
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J. S. Asks Wby We Did Not Purchase The N...
J . S . asks wby we did not purchase the Northampton Estate when it was so cheap . A butler once , who bad just entered upon his place , attended table in boots , bis master said , John you must wear shoes at dinner , why do you wear boots % "Why , sir , I could give you twenty reasons . In the first place I have no shoes . There , there , that will do , that ' s as good as twenty . Then we could give twenty reasons for not purchasing the estate . In the firstplace we had not the money . There , there , that will do , we hope , for our friend .
Veteran Patriots' akd Exiles' Widows' _ano _Chiidben's Fond . —Received , per Julian Harney , a eon tribution , from Huffy Ridley , of 10 s . —Thomas CoopEB , Secretary , 131 , _Blackfriai &' . road , _MaOCHmne . —On Thursday last we received a Post Office order from Maucbline , without any note stating either the name of the sender or the purpose for which it was sent . WiU the person who has forwarded it esplaiu . Mb . Julian Habnet returns his thanks to a number of friends from whom copies of the Star of May 23 rd have been received .
The German Democrats.
THE GERMAN DEMOCRATS .
In Pursuance Of A Good Old German Custom...
In pursuance of a good old German custom , the members of the " Gorman Democratic Society , for the Instruction of the Working Classes , " took their annual excursion to Hampstead Heath on Sunday last . The day was beautifully fine , indeed such a summer ' s day as makes the shade of a green tree , ( with a " pot of beer , " german sausages and other et ceteraes ) the moat perfect realization of Elysium , we mortals are competent to conceive . The view from Hampstead Heath , with its noble panorama of London , is , take ik fer all in all , decidely the finest of any in the neighbourhood of the great metropolis . In a shady knoll the pilgrims pitched their encamp
ment , where they transacted and enjoyed the va _» rious duties and pleasures of the day . Immense German sausages , enormous piles of bread , and & jolly-looking butt of beer , almost rivalling the farfamed Heidleburg Tun , were amongst the good things provided for the occasion , and were done ample justice to by the hungry and thirsty souls whose eating and drinking capabilities had been not a littleinvigorated by their toilsome march from the huge-Babel of bricks they had left behind them . Of course these grosser delights occupied comparatively but little portion of the time . Speeches were made , and such speeches as would have given Ferdinand , Frederick-William , and the rest of the gang of German tyrants the belly-ache for twelve months
to come could they have heard them . Amongst the speakers were Messrs . Carl _Schappec ,. _Pfaen * der , Bauer , Holme , and Julian Harney . 'lien there was singing of German , _I-rencb ., and Italian Liberty-songs , and beautiful the : singing _was too ; the whole concluding with the inspiring Mar * seillaise . The society mustered _abote two . hundred strong , but iltogether there must have been between three and four hundred persons , present , including besides Germans , English , French , Italians , _Scandinavians , & c . A considerable number ef the wives and sweethearts of tho members were present . AU conducted _themselvea soberly and decorously , afl _« altogether Uie sight was one to gladden the hear ** and strengthen the " hopes _oiall who believe in ** i fraternity and _progress oi mankind .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 6, 1846, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_06061846/page/4/
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