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4 THE NORTHERN STAR. April 11, 1846.
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THE LAND.
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THE iNOKTHEEN STAR SATURDAY, APRIL II, 1846.
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IRELAND. "IRELAND WILL BE OUR GREAT DIFF...
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CHARTISM. When tho democratic spirit was...
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW. The Easter recess ...
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4 The Northern Star. April 11, 1846.
4 THE NORTHERN STAR . April 11 , 1846 .
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Just published , hy the Executive Committee of the National Charter Association , Parts I ., IL , and III . of TnE POLITICAL WORKS OF THOMAS PAINE : to be regularly continued until completed . This edition of the works of Paine has the merit of being the cheapest aud neatest ever offered to the public . It will consist of five parts , stitched in wrapper , at sixpence each ; and will be embellished with a beautiful vignette of the author , engraved exclusively for this work . London : Cleave , 1 , Shoe-lane ; Heywood , Manchester ; and all booksellers and agents of the Nortliern Star . N . B . Orders executed by T . M . Wheeler , General Secretary ; and by the various Sub-secretaries throughout the country .
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The Land.
THE LAND .
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The names of all who draw prizes in the ballot on Monday next , will appear at full length with their places of residence in the Star of Saturday next .
The Inoktheen Star Saturday, April Ii, 1846.
THE iNOKTHEEN STAR SATURDAY , APRIL II , 1846 .
Ireland. "Ireland Will Be Our Great Diff...
IRELAND . "IRELAND WILL BE OUR GREAT DIFFICULTY" has grown into a ministerial proverb , * a proverb the truth and aptness of which we by no means deny in its qualified acceptation . We admit that Ireland lias been the great difficulty of past governments , but the caprice of each has constituted the difficulty of its successor . The only perceptible difference that a change of government should present is , the substitution of one policy for another . With Ireland , however , change of government means
not change of policy , it means change of masters , and hence we find the problem of difficulty solved . A Tory government creates difficulties which a Whig government finds it impossible to remove , because masters have to be changed , and vice versa ,. Under the old principle of Tory rule , the accession of the Tory party was hailed by their partisans as their license to rule without law , to govern without constitution , and to plunder without responsibility . Upon the other hand , the policy of the Whigs , especially since the passing of the Reform Bill , has been
to introduce an opposition patronage , a partisan conflict , a transfero uncontrolled rights and privileges to THEIR OWN partisans and supporters . This is the policy against whicli Sir Robert Peel has to contend , and which constitutes hiB great difficulty . He has attempted to govern Ireland not by the destruction of this pernicious policy , but by the substitution ofa rival intrigue ; a policy which has deprived him of _ProteBtant confidence and of Catholic respect . There is a striking contrast just now between his risk POLITICAL difficulty and his English
commercial embarrassment , with this single difference , that the same truckling policy that has been so successful for years in Ireland , will not be tolerated for a single season in England . Into whosoever hands the DIFFICULTY of governing Ireland shall next pass , that government may have learned that Ireland cannot longer be governed upon the principle of Tory ascendancy or Catholic patronage . The alternations from Church and State plunder to coercion will no longer satisfy any party . The Irish people have now grown beyond the power of whimsical and capricious government . In the good old times , as they are called , ef unbridled Toryism , the
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accession to power of that faction constituted every Protestant a law-maker . Every village bad its petty tyrant , who set himself above the law and tbe constitution . Every landlord , every parson , every Protestant functionary , every constable , every little yeoman , every spy , every perjurer had each their respective claims upon the government;—claims whieh could not be resisted , and whicli could be only satisfied by a patent of superiority over their Catholic countrymen .
Lord Normanby _, when Viceroy of Ireland , attempted to turn this policy to Whig account , and preserved his popularity by a more transfer of patronage and a capricious exercise of executive powers . ow we would ask Sir Robert Peel in sober Badness whether he has the folly to suppose that his proposed Coercion Bill will destroy those several difficulties of ministerial creation and reconcile the conllicting parties in Ireland to this his new policy of government . We may admit as a maxim that truth ripens by re - petition , while it is equally true that false rumour and misrepresentation gain strength in their
progross . Now it is to the misrepresentation of Ireland through the newspaper press and through Irish absentee landlords resident in England , who , to justify their own oppression , would represent their countrymen as barbarians , that Sir Robert Peel and every minister who has preceded him must ascribe their greatest difficulty . When perfect calm and absence of proodial agitation prevails _^ then is tho season of ministerial quiet , ministerial indifference , and ministerial security . Then Ireland requires nothing ,
because she is peaceable . Whether this quiet is a _conscquenco . of Mr . O'Connell ' s promised fruit from tranquillity , or from a partially bettered state of things , whether transitory or permanent , government does not stop to inquire . One would naturally suppose that the period of calm was the season most fitting for wholesome change , and yet wc defy any man to point out a single in & taiice iu which that calm has not been the tomb of ministerial promise ; a fact which teaches Irishmen that they must look to the minister ' s fears and not to his justice fur the
redress ot their grievances . It is only upon occasions like the present , when Ireland is threatened with the suppression of the constitution , that her real condition begins to peep through the cloud of misrepresentation ; and English members are called upon to perform the almost impossibility of divesting their minds of the fallacy of the fabrications and misrepresentations of the Times newspaper , and interested landlords ; just at the moment when their minds should be unprejudiced , and when they should be prepared to give an impartial judgment between Ireland and her oppressors . But how is this possible , when the fabrications of that journal , and the libels of Irish landlords , have gained strength in their unopposed course , if not " ripened into truths ?"
In his letter of this week , Mr . O'Connor refers to the representation of the Times when there was a DANGER ' of Ministerial interference , and a prospect of some remedies beiug applied to the long-standing grievances of Ireland ; and in these days when the power of the press is admitted to be all but irresistible , we are bound to canvas the manner in which that power has been used . It is well to remind landlords that they have duties to perform as well
as rights to exercise , while the press of England not only fails to perform the duties that it owes to the public , but would invade every _^ legitimate right , whicli should be the governing rule of newspaper a . ction . No man can have forgotten the period to whicli wc refer ; and , as we commented upon the slander of the Times when it was first published , it must be fresh iu the recollection of our readers , that that journal asserted—THAT WHEREVER
TIIE STRANGER TRAVELLED IN IRELAND , WHETHER NORTH , SOUTH , EAST , OR WEST , OR IN WHATEVER DIRECTION HE DIVERGED , THAT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO MEET WITH A SINGLE INDIVIDUAL WHO HAD A SINGLE REAL GRIEVANCE TO COMPLAIN OF . lb is upon such unblushing information that English members of Parliament , being themselves Protestants and landlords , have been led to believe that violence , aggression , lawlessness , and murder , are characteristics of the Irish people , rather than
consequences of oppression and misrule . If people have no real cause of complaint , no real grievances , and if they commit murder , it must be proof of the depravity of their nature ; and may well justify a suppression of the constitution and Ministerial harshness . The old system of clearing estates , of ousting Catholic tenants to make way for subservient Protestant voters , of hunting PAPISTS from the homes of their fathers , in the vain hope of exterminating thc national religion , and converting Ireland into a Protestant colony , was matter of history , and must
have been known to thc editor of the rimes . In passing , we may observe , that Ireland , as a Catholic country , has furnished more plunder to the Church and to the State , than if the people had been Protestants . Had they been Protestants , the moral power of the majority would have presented successful resistance to the misrule and misrepresentation of the minority , * but , when a country is governed for pelf , it must be ruled upon sectarian differences , which ever produce national weakness , and enable the few to lord it over the many .
We now return to the consideration of matters of history—matters with which every child who has heard of Ireland , or read of Ireland , has been made familiar , and of wliich no newspaper could by possibility have been ignorant . The atrocities of the Irish landlords are beyond the belief of English gentlemen . We have published the true state of Ireland times out of number within the last eight years . In Mr . O'Connor ' s letters to the Irish
landlords , he left nothing unsaid upon the subject . On the 2 Sth of last month we summed up the state of the Irish peasant in a brief , but mournful compendium . Tho atrocities committed by the hoary old sinner , Gerrard , had not then been published . They have subsequently appeared , however , and have gone far to confirm our general statement . The facts of that cold-blooded butchery have been published in a clear , plain , impartial , unexceptionable , truthcarrying manner , in the Freeman ' s Journal , from the report of its own Commissioner , who heard , saw , and
judged for himself , rejecting every particle of evidence whicli appeared to be coloured or partial . This statement old Gerrard , living at a distance from the scene of his murders , has attempted to refute ; and here we publish a rejoinder to Mr . Gei-rard ' s reply , from the columns of the Evening Post , and we ask any man to read the rejoinder , ind then to read our article of thc 28 th of March , and say that we have over-coloured tho picture of Irish grievance . \ jllcre follows the rejoinder published in the most moderate paper in Ireland—the Dublin Evening Post : —
" I have read with attention a letter of Mr . Gerrard ' s , and 1 take it for granted that Mrs . Gerrard whose property it is , was fully persuaded that the sheep and the bullocks would be better paying tenants than tliose dispossessed ; still , knowing all the facts as I do , there is one part of his letter I cannot sutler to pass unnoticed , which is as follows : — "' I assert , confidently , that the people who were dispossessed were treated with the greatest kindness and consideration , by my agent and those actim * under his orders , during the taking of the possession and several ot them at the time , and since , thanked him for so treating them . ' "Now , for the kindness and consideration ; and 1 dely one single syllable to be contradicted by either Mr . Gerrard , his agent , or his body-guard —
" 1 st . Were not twelve carts , each having four men , as levellers , and m each cart a supplv of spade * pick-axes , and crow bars , brought out with the mi ] _i- ' taryand police , and were not from thirty to forty ot the men set regularly at each house , with their imp ements until it was levelled with the ground « 2 nd . Mas not the rent forced upon thc agent , and *• 3 rd . Was not a party of police brought down to a hut in the bog , to dispossess one miserable creature in sickness ?
" 4 h . Were not the fires that were taken out of the fallen houses , and settled in the ditches on the ugh road , and off the property , for the purpose oi boiling a lew potatoes , were they not here scattered about and the people driven from them _«
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5 . Were not some of the tenantry who had left the houses the night previous , knowing what was to follow , and who had erected a few sticks , with a blanket over them , for shelter on the other side of the road , was not such torn down over them , and they driven off ? " 6 th . Did not the agent apply for the military and police to be allowed to charge the unfortunate people clean off the lands , after all the houses were thrown down , as he did not consider the possession complete so long as they were allowed to remain in the fields , and whose only offence was weeping over the mouldering ruins of their once happy homes , where more than one-half of thc twenty-eight families were born . "
"So much for kindness and consideration ; so much for ' dry thatch and old rafters , ' worth about 20 s ., the entire roofing of the twenty-eight houses . I speak from what I witnessed with my own eyes ; and 1 think I have placed too high a value on both , and which still remain on thc roadside . " It might be worth theconsidcration of that good landlord , Lord Londonderry , if , inthe Coercion Bill , he would introduce a clause , that in thc event of the Gerrard property ever being placed under the provisions of it , Mr . Gerrard should be taxed for all the expenses .
" I fully acknowledge Mr . Gerrard ' s right to do what he likes with his own , but he must recollect that it is very easy to kindle a flame by which others may suffer . The act was enforced , harshly to a degree , and in thc most tranquil part of Ireland , and on the most quiet and inoffensive creatures breathing . " Let us now ask whether the Irish Coercion Bill is intended or calculated to bring the real offender in this case to justice ? Hero is a case where all the power of the law , the local authorities , the police force , and paid miscreants of the murderer , are enlisted and hired to commit a savage and barbarous act ; and there is little doubt that the same staff would cheerfully take further vengeance upon their victims , Let us then suppose a case under thc Coercion Bill like the following : —
Darby Houseless was yesterday brought before Cai _> i . Squeezetknant , J . P ., by constable James Fuxt , upon the charge that he was found out of his house after sunset . The charge was fully established against the prisoner , and upon being asked what account he had to give of himself , he replied , " Yer honour ' s worship , I have no house , their honours levelled it on mc yesterday , and turned . me out , and the woman , and the little family , out on the roadside , and though I offered the rent to Mr . Grub there .
_Capt . Sqeezetenant : Oh ! I have nothing to do with that . I suppose you were ousted by process of law—you should have given up possession when it was required of you , without putting your landlord , who is a most excellent , amiable , and indulgent gentleman , to the trouble and expense of forcing you out . Darby Houseless : Oh ! yer honour , it wasn't axed of me , and where would I go to , I was looking for a sheltered place agin the wind and rain for the _childer , when this gentleman comes up with his BAG'NETfand makes me a prisoner , and but I ' m frantic , for I don't know for the soul of me what's become of the woman and thc childer .
_Catt . SquEEZETENAXT- . Well , you should have thought of that before . Serjeant Flint has discharged his duty very mildly . You must be transported for seven years . Darby Houseless : Wisha ! transported—for what ? Is it for being turned out of my house to starve ? What law is that ? _Cato . _SquEKZEiENAXT * . A very proper law , A law made for the PRESERVATION OF YOUR
LIFE . Darby : By gorra but it ' s a queer way to protect a man ' s life , to tumble his house down about his ears , and then to transport him because he ' s out of his house . I'll engage if I knew that that would be the way that I wouldn't give up possession so easily , but I'd venture my life first . Squeezetexast : Prisoner , I don't wish to be harsh , but you are now adding to your guilt , for threatening to offer a resistance to the law , which might terminate in murder , for which yonr life would be forfeited .
Darby : What the divil do I care for my life if you take my house , aad my childer , and my wife , and tr ansport me from my country . Shure and wouldn ' t it be better for a man to be dead than to be treated like a rogue ? Squeezetexast : _Seijeant _, remove the prisoner . Stick , make out his committal , and let him be instantly removed to the county gaol . This system of lawless outrage and resistance to the laws of the country must be put down with a strong hand . Serjeant Flint ( dragging the prisoner by the collar ) : Come along , don ' t give his worship any more trouble .
Darbv : Wisha , yer honour ' s worship , I ax _* C 3 yer pardon for giving you so much trouble , but will you let me sec the woman and the childer before I goes to gaol . _Squeezetenant : No , certainly not ; its an indulgence that might have been perraited if you had conducted yourself in a proper manner . Serjeant Flint , remove the prisoner instantly . Darby : Oyea ! blessed be God ! take my life at once if you won't let me-see the _crathurs before 1 go . 0 yea ! blessed be God ! BUT ITS A HARD
WORLD FOR THE POOR . Now , here we stop , leaving the English reader tc reflect upon the horrors likely to be inflicted upon the poor houseless wanderer by this atrocious LANDLORDS' TYRANNY PRESERVATION BILL , simply asking , if he will be a _voluntary participator in those acts by withholding his signature from the petition praying for their prevention .
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CHARTISM . When tho democratic spirit was infused into the working classes , and when their adhesion to those principles which were calculated to place them upon an equality with tbeir oppressors , and to make all men equal in the eyes of tho law , promised one day to be in tbe ascendant , many professed admiration of tke principles while they affected to regret the total absence of PRACTICAL AGITATION . It never struck these nice _discriminatovs that Whigs and Tories , when out of office , were as incapable of showing symptoms of power , except through the medium of agitation , as the Chartists . This objection
to Chartism was offered , however , merely as an excuse for not joining its ranks . In those jdnys the advocates of Chartist principles were invariably met by tho philosophers with , "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE ? Where are we to find symptoms of your strength and progress ? Your forces have been scattered , and your leaders consigned to tiie dungeon . " Tliose sceptics had not the wisdom to see , that those charges , in themselves , were ' proof of the growth of a new principle , and of the terror with which it inspired those who . are called the supporters of legitimacy .
It the Reformers had failed in their last struggle for the Reform Bill , the leaders of that party would have shared the _Banie fate as thc leaders of Chartism , When the battle Was over the victors would have taken vengeance upon the most prominent leaders , in the hope of intimidating the body from another assault . Nothing so forcibly proves the strength of a political party , as the severity with which those in power stretch the laws against tlie _propounded of the new doctrine . Nevertheless , oppression ever has its effect , and does , we confess , paralyse agitation lor a season . It has the same
effect upon the national mind thatmedicine hasupon a patient . If , however , there had not been something durable , fascinating , and convincing in tlie principles of Chartism , it would have been impossible , after the several heavy blows ami great discouragements successfully aimed at the body , to have resuscitated the principle in any practical form , and it is because we can now give a practical answer to those who ask for a practical manifestation of our power , that we think the present a fitting season to use what is now passing in thc Chartist world as an illustration ofthe growth of Chartist principles .
If we are now asked for a distinct and uninistakeablc proof of practical Chartism , if the philosophers should no * say , where is there an appearance of your
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strength , your power , your union , or organization , we point with pride to our Land column and say , ' Behold the ledger of our strength . ' Wil lany man say that the Chartists are not an organised body ? Will any man say that Chartism _wasmeresound _. the howl of the dissatisfied , and the clamour ofa rabble , when he sees nearly TWELVE HUNDRED POUNDS subscribed by the working classes within eight days , for the PRACTICAL development of Chartism . The manner in wliich the Land scheme has progressed , furnishes the strongest justification for those who have been taunted with violence and
declamation . Those were necessary ingredients in arousing an oppressed people ; firstly , to a sense of their own degradation ; and secondly , to a knowledge that of themselves , and without any alteration in the law , or in the system of representation , that they had the power to do much in thc way of social change which must ultimately tend to political advancement . While wc direct attention to this _, new and greatest social move ever attempted in any country , we confess that our feelings are not without a mixture , if not of pain , of great anxiety , as to the manne r in which the power and trust vested in the several
officers shall be discharged . We hint not , we canvas not , their integrity ; we speak solely of their caution , their prudence , and their watchfulness . Under discreet and wise management , the Land Society of itselt is capable of effecting a great social and political change in this country ; while a single false step , or departure from the path of strict prudence , would give a blow to the popular movement which might peril it for years . Hitherto every thing ha 3 been conducted upon the most prudent and straightforward principle-the strictest economy has been observed , while every opportunity has been embraced
to give effect to the general wishes of the society ; and that such will continue to be the course of the ruling body , we entertain not a shadow of doubt . Meanwhile we use the Land plan as an auxiliary in aid of the great principle of national redemption , we must not lose sight of the great political game now being played by thc several parties in the State . Every day ' s knowledge of what is now passing both in and out ofthe Ilouse of Commons must convince our readers that we form no hasty judgment as io the probable treatment and final result of Sir Robert Peel ' s commercial policy .
Very early in the debate , while all was anticipated speed , " hurly burly , " and non-resistance , we ventured to predict that the Easter recess would not see the measure introduced into the Lords , and that it would be late in summer before its fate would be known . Wo went further , we ventured to assert that its fate would seal the doom of Sir Roberi Peel ' s ministry , if not of Sir Robert Peel's fame What we then asserted and now re-assert is
established whether tho measuro shall succeed or fail . If the measure succeeds the landed aristocracy will be routed , disorganised and disbanded to such an extent as to compel them to court popular influence as thc only means of preserving their position in society _. Upon the other hand , should the measure fail , the Whigs , the Corn Law League and the Liberal Irish members will make a desperate effort , a death struggle , to convert national disappointment to party purposes .
It is for this contingency that we have laboured incessantly to prepare and marshal the national mind . It is to take advantage of this emergency that we have besought the working classes to elect discreet and trustworthy delegates so to represent labour , that out ofthe contention of faction their elass may derive a better share of the spoil than reckless pledges and extensive promises . And it was from a consciousness that , in any event , Peel ' s measure would lead to thc necessity for such a representation , that the Executive of thc Chartist body wisely , prudently , and constitutionally deferred tlie holding of the National Convention until such time as the country should be roused to the necessity . of having a full , complete , and satisfactory representation of tbe Chartist body .
We are aware that some , who are not members of the Chartist Association , but who , upon tho contrary , have used their poor endeavours to arrest the progress of the principle by denunciation of the Executive , have expressed magnanimous horror at this violation of the Chartist constitution . "Sow , we hold that the Executive have power , or that they have not . If they have power they have exercised it in our opinion wisely , if they have not power there is no necessity for their existence as a body . If the National Convention had been convened with the
conviction that an extraordinary meeting was indispensable , the Executive would justly Btand charged with the folly of having subjected the country to unnecessary cxpence , and with the imprudence of having exhibited what must have appeared our weak « ness to our opponents . The two Conventions would have spoiled each other , while in the event of an extraordinary assembly being rendered unnecessary , the Chartist cause will not have sustained one particle of damage by the short postponement of the Annual Convention ,
We deem it the more prudent to be explicit upon these several points , in consequence of the wise policy acted upon by tlie Executive of not meeting accusation by recrimination or even by defence , and we feel assured that those by whom they have been elected and for whose interest and whose cause they have manifested the greatest zeal and energy , will hold with us . We rejoice to think that the dissatisfaction upon this point is confined within the narrowest possible limits , and that now , upon thc eve of the first development of practical Chartism , the Executive can meet their brethren upon the public stage with a consciousness that they have performed their duty , and where representatives will ever receive public approval as the reward of public honesty .
Parliamentary Review. The Easter Recess ...
PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . The Easter recess has closed the first part of tho parliamentary campaign . A glance at the position in whicli it leaves affairs does not tell so favourably for the Ministry as was expected a fortnight since . The anticipation then was that Pkei . would have secured at least the passage of the Corn Bill through the Commons , and afterwards , perhaps , the first reading of the Coercion Bill , upon which , singularly enough , he seems to have set his heart , to the risk , and aa it has proved to the delay , of thc other measure .
The battle was in his own hands . He was witkin sight of victory . The motley troop gathered together under his standard—Whigs , Leaguers , Repealers , and Peelites—were unbroken , and the sturdy but smaller force of the Protectionist body had no chance of resisting _tbcni , when ail at once that overstrained sense of courtesy , that reverence for parliamentary usages , precedents , and etiquette , whicli forms Sir Robert ' s weak point , induced him to presg forward the Irish bill . The determination acted like a strong chemical solvent on the strangely combined parties by whom he was supported—resolving them into their primary and simple elements . Each
resumed its accustomed position . Peel was left with , liis own small band on the Treasury benches . The Protectionists and Repealers have virtually beaten liim . Each will return to the defence of their respective positions with redoubled energy after the recess . If the statements as to the imminence of tho impending famine in Ireland be at all founded in fact the ministry will be obliged to puss some temporary measure to meet the calamity . On this point both . the Irish members and the Protectionists are agreed , both promise their resistance , and both sternly declare their determination to fight their respective battles to tlie last .
When , after these protracted struggles in the lower House , the Corn Bill at fast , some time in the month ot May , is sent to the Lords , it is said that its reception there from the Protectionist party , under the leadership of Lord Stanley , is to be of a most hostile nature . The Lords will consume the remaining portion of the Session by wrangling abut
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 11, 1846, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_11041846/page/4/
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