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4 THE NORTHERN ' STAB , _' . _ F £ _BBUAfiYj 2 , 18-18 ,
Oa Saturday, The 12tk Day Of P-Bruary, Wiubep-B" Lished,The First Number Of A Dublin Weekly Joubnal,
Oa Saturday , the 12 tK day of P-bruary , _WiUbep-b " lished , the First Number of a _DUBLIN WEEKLY _JOUBNAL ,
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_ESTIXIZD 'THE UNITED IRISHMAN , ' EDITED BT _JOHX MITCHEL , _Ai-ed bv TnoMAS _Devix _Reillt , John M _ btis , of _Loiyhura , aad otber competent Contributors . 'Oa-i-. i * epcr . aanee must be bad at all _bazirds . If the _men ' of pro _. _erir will not support us , they must fall : we caiisni > p » rt " onrselr <_ by tbe aid of that numerous ar _ respectable class of the community , the Men of no _Pijperty . _'—fnEOBALD Wolfe _Ton'E . The Projectors of ' The United Irishman' believe that the world is weary of OLD IRELAND , a _« d also of YOUXG IRELAND—that the day for both these noisy _fnciionsi _^ P _is-t n nd gone—tliat Old and Young alike have _n-ro-. vn superannuated and obsolete together . ° Th .-y believ - that the Public ear is thirsting to hear Fome Voice , bolder , more intelligible , more independent cf panics , policie _., and cliques , tban any iihas heard for a Ions while . They believe that Ireland really and tt-uly _jcanfs to be freed from _English dominion . Ti _:- _"T know not how many o- how few will listen to their voice . _Tllfjliave no party prepared to halloo at their backs ; and hare no trust , save in the puwer ef _Truih , and the immortal beauty of freedom . H _, tbat hat ' :: < :.: _i-s to hear , let him hear . The Principles ou whicii ' The United Irishman' will be conductt-il * are shortly _tln-se : — 1 st . That t _.-Ifish People havo a just and indefeasible ri-ht i < - » tliis IshnJ , and to all the moral and material wealth aud resources thereof , to possess and govern the same for their own use , maintenance , comfort , and honour , as a distinct Sovereign State . 2 nd . That it is in their power , and it is also their _manifest duty to make good and exercise that right . j 3 rd . That the Life of oue Peasant is as precious as the Life of < me _N _' oblemanor Gentleman . _ _tJj . That the Property ot the Farmers and Labourers of Ireland is as sacred as the Property of all the Noblemen and _Gentlemen in Ireland , and is also immeasurably more valuable . Sth . Tijattbe custom called _Tenart-right , which prerails _jiaitially in the north of Ireland , is a just and salutary custom both for Xorth and South : —that it ought to be extended and secured iu Ulster , and adopted and en-1 ' orccd . by common cousent , in tbe other three Provinces of the Island . 6 th . That every Man in Ireland who shall hereafter pay : __ cs for support ot the State , shall h : i ve a just right to an equal voice with every ot ! er Man iu the government of that Vtate , ami the outlay of those taxes . 7 th . That no Irishman at present has any ' legal' rights , or claim to the protection of any Law ; anu that all legal and constitutional _agitation' in Ireland is a delusion . Sth . That every free man , and every man who _desir « s to _become free , ought to have Arms , and to practise tlie n' _. e of them . 9 th . That no 'Combination of Classes'in Ireland is desira- le , just , or possible , save on the terms of the Kights of _t-: e " indusfr .-iis clasfes being acknowledged und seen 1 . lil . _i . That 110 good thing can come from the English Parliament , or the English _iovernmeut . To viifor-e and apply these Principles—to make _Irishnie-r _thi _.-r . _ugh'y understand them , lay them up in their _hezi -, _practise theni iu tneir _lives—wili be the _soKacd _.-oustant _siudv of the conductors of the ' USITED IRI-HMAN . ' Fur the rest , the ' _United Irishman' will ba regularly _supplied with Historical and ' . iterary Articles , and Reviews _L-f all Books published ir . Ir- land , or _spaciallj velathi ;; io Ireland . As a Newspaper , it will _bu carefully _EeSt-eied und compiled , so as to present its readers with a coiiinlete Summary of each week ' s news . ' SUBSCRIPTION ( payable in advance ) :-£ s . a . Yearly 110 Ha'f-Y-ar ' y 0 Id 6 Quarterly 0 5 a _fc-i _^ le Paper 0 0 -5 Office , 12 , Trinity-street , Dublin . . . i _ cnt 5 for all the Towns in Ireland wanted . ) I I
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_ Ow " PUBLISHING . rp : POLITICAL WORKS OF THOMAS PAINS . JL . •• r , ple : o in one thick volume , price 5 _^ ., iu _whit-a wli i . _; - _:-. ! . md -several pieces never before published in J 3 n !;!> - ! _.-i ; a _ d an _sppendir , containing the Trial of Thomas Peine , with a portrait of the author . "VOLTAIRE'S ROMANCE AND TALES , in one vol ., price 3 =. Si . THE DEVIL'S PULPIT , By the Rev . B . . _ - £ _ T T _ T-_ OB , _*« o _vol-s , _prie-io . _- ! ., published at 9 s . TEE _DIAG-SIS . By tho same author , price 5 s „ pub . lished .-. ' _. One Guinea . THE MANUAL OP _FREEUASONRY . Ey Carlile , published at 15 s . asd now reduced to 6 s . This is the Ofily -d :: ion _tfeat contains tnec ? _lebrared Introductions , _ ein ? a _eoardlete E . _? y to tha science an _ mystery of Ha = fiiry . Three parts in one volume , handsomely bonne . THE MIRROR OF ROMANCE , one thick vel ., 400 _ps : je = 4 to , double columns , price 5 * ., _containing the followin _g : —Leone _Lc-oni , by George Sand—Physiology of Matrimony , fifty cut ? , by Paal ue Kock—White _Hiuse , a B . _o--. - t _^ ce . and the History -f Jenny , by the _same _anthor—Simon , the Radical , a Tale of the Fieneb Ke _toIuj _' _oi : —Memoirs of an Old Man of Twenty-five , an _atnusin ? tale , & o , W . Dugdale , IS , Holywell-street , Strand .
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THE O'CONSOR TARTAN . Me JOHN GREGORY , Draper , Eccles , near Man ¦ ¦ ¦ , - = ter ,-cgs respectfully toiuf _.-rm his Democratic frien _-= i ; - . ' . '; : ! _K-hester , Stockport , Ashton , Hyde , Oldham , Sarv :: _i-. ... , Bolf & n , and Leigh , that he has become Ai-eni for- the sale of THE O'CONNOR TARTAN , and intends to wait upon his friends , in the above-named £ laces , in the course ofa few days , with a seleet stock of adit ? , - Shaw ' s , Scarfs . Handkerchiefs , Silk and Woollen _Dresses G _ itlenK-n's Testings . <_ e . _& c .. when he trusts lie shall _r-.-c = ire the patronage and support of his numerous friends .
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PO ' . RAIT OF FEARGUS O'CONNOR , Esq ., M . P ., Fjp > . 5 All ri >* informs his friends and the Chartist body § ; _r-:- _»* raljy . that he has _reduced the price of his _lithojirai ; . ir _fuiiuength _imrtruit of tbeir _Illustrious Chief to tile following price : —Prints . ! _.- > : coloured ditto , 2 s . Cd . PEOPLE'S EDIT 1 UX . To b : had atthe Noeth __ x Si _ b office , 16 , Great WindmiU-ttreet , Haymarket ; Sweet , Goose Gate , _Nottingiam : Heywood , Manchester , and all booksellers in the United Kingdom .
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THE MEMBERS of the First Society of CARPENTERS aua _JOIXERS , anvl the Trade in general , are respectfully informed that the Society is removed from ihe Marquis of Granby to Mr Thomas Jenkins ' s ' Blue lost , corner of Newman-street and Castle-street , Oxfordmarket . Hours of meeting every Monday evening at seven o ' clock . Geo . _Hoopke _, Secretary .
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J 01 ! . ' : COOKE , B _^ - KSELLER , NEWS-AGENT , AND STaTIONEU , 67 , _Meaduw-iane , Leeds , begs to re . torn ; •; i . .-inks for past favours—hopes to merit a continuance a : tub same . Ah the London _peii-idical publications - _ iv _, _-. tUd to the- trade ou the most reasonable _tertnSi Th M _< _ir . TU £ RX -Stab , _Labo-heii , & _o ., may be had on the d . _-. v -af publication . _J ' . r r'C - . \ 'N 0 ? v _* 3 Work on Small Farms , & c , _always tef % _v-n hand .
E-Tsaobdij-Abt Is7_St10atios. — Blkmltigham; Saturday Mori-.Ing.—A Ycry Painful Sensation Has
_E-TSAOBDIJ-ABT IS 7 _ ST 10 ATIOS . — _BlKMltiGHAM _; Saturday _mori-. ing . —A ycry painful sensation has
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_pievaiitd during the past tew days by the circulation ofa _report that a child only eight years of age had i _ -reared another by placing it upon the mv : Tke _foliowisg is a summary of the evidence taken befor _. lb-. ' _sKirouih coroner-. —The name oi the _decess ' _-- wa . Roiauna Morn ? , a weakly child , between twelve _* nd thirteen years of age . On Sunday , the 19 th ot i _ . _? t month , the deceased , her broiher , aud the _accused ( a girl named Caroline Perry . ) were together in the upper room of the houeft belonging to the _ . ; cea * ed ' 3 parents , when the attention of the inmates was attracted by violent screams proceeding from the apartment . A young woman ran up stairs and fi . 'uud the clothing of the _deceased in flames . Sb < - put the fire out , but _n-. _it _before the deceased was most _i ' _rkhtfnllv burned . She was taken to tbe
Genera ! Infirmary , where she expired from the effects if tbe injuries on Friday se ' ni » ht . The deceased save the following account of the transac tion : —She staled that she was _dividing _sirae sucks ( sweetmeats ) and was about dividing oae for the accused , when she swore at her , ; : r . d said she would bave -he whole , if not , she would burn deceased to ashes . The _deceased teli her brother to go and call her toother up stairs , bat the accused interposed - , having nulled the stool from under deceased with One hand , she pushed her agaast the bars of the grate with the other , and her _clothing speedily became one mass of flame . J .-imes Morris , the brother cf "he deceased , gave a precisely similar account ef the _i-raasactso-. The jory returned a verdict , * That _da'c & . aed came by her death from having fallen into the fire _whilst engaged in a stiu _^ gl _. witfe Caroline Perry . '
Thb _ _* uhb _ bo _ Deaths is Lonson during the week endiae February 5 was 1 , _ 7 _' , the _weekly avera » e _ ekl _ 1 , 107 . The excessive mortality is Shown in the return of ibo _registrar-general to bave arisen from diseases ' _> f the tangs , influenza , scarlatina , typhus , and small pox . The number of births during the week was 1 , 367-Fashijxable _Dfi > ae _ ures . —"¦ The _^ Fame , the Influenza , ar . d the Jewish Disabilities , trom being _objecis _' -f absorbing interest , to make room for the French invasion . —Liverpool Lion . _Sorrir London Chartist Hall . —A public meeting will bs aeldnn Wednesday evening _n-.-xt , F « _-b . 16 : h , at eieht o ' cl ck _, to elect _delegates lor the _MitropoiitanDelegate Council . _Loco'iaORonGH—A special meetinj : of the Land members-will be held at the Wheatslieaf , on _Taes _.-dav , Feb . 22 nd , at eight o _' elock in the evening .
Pewter Platter , Nortos Folgat _— A general meeting- _t _' the m _ i _ bei _ will take place oa T _ esdav next . Ashtok . —The members of this branch arerequested _io meet on Sunday rest , at two o ' clock , _aiid pay np thoir Jevie-. The _Auchbishop op Castbbb-BI died yesterday ( Friday ) morning , after an illness of eight weeks duration . Tae deceased . Dr William Ilowlev , was born tne _12-h of Februarv , 1765 , and was , theretore , viitbm tvrenlj-four hours of attainine his S 3 rd year . , _- r , ?_ _f _^~ n IirC 1 l S 3 ett v , m lectnroin the Work . _mK 9 XSn . UIlday UC _—>' at _™**
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J-ST PIIBLISHEB , ( Cmform with the " L _ Bo 5 REs "_ fagafina , ) Price 6 d . A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON SPADE HUSBANDRY , being the results of four years' experience . Br J . StLtETT . " - _'Govern and Co ., 16 , Great Windmill-street , London and may be _ ad of all booksellers .
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Just Published , price One Penny , A LETTER by _Feabgcs O'Connoe , Esq ., M . P ., 'TO THE KICH AND THE POOR ; To those who Live in Idleness Without Labour , -and to those _wlao are Willing : o Labour but Compelled to Starve . " Price ? _s . per 109 . or 18 s . per 1000 . i _T _17 _"H _ T MAY BE DONE WITH THREE ACRES VV OP LAND , ' Explained in a Letter , by _ £ ABacs O'CoSsob , Esq ., M . P . To be bad at tbe Office of the National Land Company 141 , High Holborn .
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Now Ready , a New Edition of MR , O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS To be had at the Nsrthem Star Office , 16 , Great Wind mill Street ; and of Abel Ileywood . _SlancheEter .
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3 Tj-T PUBLISHED , FBICE SIXPENCE , HO . XIV . OF " THE LABOURER , " CONTAIWINO A TREATISE ON THE SMALL FARM SYSTEM ABD THE BANKING SYSTEM Br WHICH II IS INTENDED 10 BE DEVELOPED , BT FEARGUS O'CONNOR , ESQ . , M . P . Letters ( pre-paid ) to be addressed to the Editors , 16 Great Windmill Street , Haymarket , London . Orders received by all agents for the " North era Star " and all booksellers in town and country .
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I T . S . DUNCOMBE , ESQ ., M . P . We have no ordinary pleasure in communicating the glad tidings of the _iroproTement in Mr Duncombe ' s health to our numerous readers , and his numerous admirers . Of late we have been literall y inundated with letters asking for information upon this head , and niw we are pleased in being able to communicate the glad tidings , that with tbe improving weather the physicians promise our General improving health , and that after Easter they indulge a firm hope tbat he will once more be able to resume the office of leader of the people in the House of Commons . We feel convinced that this intelligence will be received by all , as it has been received by us , with inexpressible and heart-felt jov .
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HANLEY POTTERIES . Mr O'Connor accepts the invitation of the men of the Potteries , and will attend their soiree . He requires notice in next- week ' s Star of the day , so that he may kill two birds with one stone , by appointing the same time for inspecting an estate in the neighbourhood .
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PETITIONS . Mr O'Connor having received numerous applications to support petitions when presented to the House , begs to inform the uninstructed of the rules relative to the presentation of petitions . When a member presents a petition , ihe rules of the House do not allow bim to open his lips upon the subject—he may read the prayer , and that ' s all ; and when one member presents a petition , no other member is allowed to say a word upon it ; therefore the several applicants will at once see the impossibility of their requests being complied with .
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Tbe ship carpenters of Dundee may rely upon Mr O'Connor ' s best support of Mr Hume ' s motion .
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ENROLMENT OF THE LAND COMPANY , On Tuesday night next , Mr O'Connor mates the following motion in the House of Commons : — " For leave lo bring in a Bill to extend to the National Land Company the provisions of the Act 9 & 10 Vic , c . 27 , entitled ' An Act to amend the laws relating lo Friendly Societies . ' "
The Northern Star, Saturday, February 12, 1818.
THE NORTHERN STAR , SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 12 , 1818 .
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CANT CASTIGATED . DRCAMPBfcLL _. _ventu THE CHARTISTS . '' A robe of _seeming truth and trust , Hid crafty Observation ; And _secrethunff , with poison'd crust , The dirk ol Defamation : A mask that like the gorget show'd , _Dye-varying on the pigeon ; And for a mantle large and bread , He wrapt him la _Religion . " If , amongst the vile characters to be found on this earth , there is one more loathsome than his fellows , it is an intolerant priest assuming the mask of liberality and the cloak of patriotism . Such an enemy we have this week to
uncover . We lately observed , attached to some of the monthly periodicals , a prospectus of a new weekly journal , entitled The British Banner , announced as under the superintendence of John Campbell , D . D ., a notorious Calvinistic preacher and writer . The Doctor is reputed by his admirers to be an exceedingly clever fellow , and his paper was to be the very pink of patriotism . Only ensure his Banner a circulation of 100 , 000 copies weekly , and lie pledged himself to regenerate the world !
This Dr Campbell , or Cantwell , who is in that hopeless condition described by Solomon , < c wise in his own conceit , " has signalised the unfurling of his rag by a foul and false attack upon the Chartists . We are not in the habit of seeing the Banner , and it was only a few days ; ago—our attention having been called to the subject—we obtained a copy of the number containing Cantwell ' s calumnies . " In the People ' s Charter / ' says Cantwell , " we see much , very much , to approve , and very little to condemn ; in the conduct of its principal advocates we see very much to
condemn , and very little to approve . " The same is with trnth said of the gospel and its preachers ! whose onl y fitting and appropriate type is the guide-post pointing out the track it never goes . Reviewing the points of the Charter , he says , " Of tliis Universal Suffrage , were the nations thoroughly prepared for it , we highly approve , and to hasten it on , is a main object of our literary and Christian labours . " He approves of Electoral Districts ; would concur in the Ballot , where the majority of the electors may require it ; considers Annual . _^ Parliaments
would be injurious ; and heartily approves of the abolition of the Property Qualification , and Payment of Representatives , But , says the Doctor , "Wisdom dictates that these points should be sued for one by one , and , where we cannot get the whole , that we should accept a part , and continue to demand the rest . For example , go for Household Suffrage ; then for Triennial Parliaments , & c ., & c . " It will be seen from this , that the Doctor has a great horror of " going the whole hog ; " he is an " instalment'' seeker _; hej does things by degreesthe way lawyers are said to get to heaven .
The entire article is one of tbe most _wretch--dly-uritten productions ithas ever been our misfortune to read . According to the quotations just given , the Doctor sees much to approve of in theCharter , and has no objection to Chartism , if administered gradually , in small doses and it is a main object of his literary and Christian _labours'to hasten the coming of Universal Suffrage : yet in another part of his article he describes the Charter as calculated , " not to reform , but to destroy . " " Were a _Sesate to decide for it , the deed would be one
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of national suicide ! Again , " Such trium ph would be the signal for all that remained of wisdom and virtue to leave the land , and seek for refuge in other climes . " Let our readers note the beautiful consistency of all this ! And this Dr Campbell is a great li ght in the Calvinistic world ! Were we one of the " elect , " we should be strongly inclined to exclaim with poor Caliban : — " What a thrice doubltj _ifss wan I , To take this idiot for a go > _t , Aud worship this dull iool . "
Dr Campbell levels five accusations against the Chartists . "First : —The project of physical force is worth y of Bedlam / ' Presently be says , " Nothing in extent equal to it [ the Charter ] has ever been effected by peaceable means , in the history of nations ; and it may be safely affirmed that it never will . " Well , then , if the Charter is a good measure , if in it there is "much to approve and very little to condemn ; '' and that there is no hope of obtaining it b y peaceful means , is indeed the project of physical force worthy of Bedlam ? But we must put a few questions to Dr Cantwell . Do you believe that the obtainment of Magna Charta was a good thing , even at the cost of physical force ? Cromwell is your demi-god . Was he amoral force man ? You are not
ignorant of Oliver s advice to his troopers " Put your trust in God * _, bat mind to ' keep your powder dry . " Did the Scottish Covenanters win religious liberty for themselves , ' by any other means than physical force ? In your prospectus you announced , that ' * the . conductors of the British Banner will wage eternal war with Rome . " By-the-by , if the war ( is to be eternal you have small diance of the victory , unless you calculate on clapping your
wings the day after eternity ! A bitter enemy of " Rome , ' ' of course you honour * ' the pious , glorious , and immortal memory'' of the Royal Dutchman , who saved us from Popery , brass farthings , and wooden shoes ;'' and laid the foundation of the National Swindle , the Bank of England and a good many other bless _injjs , as well as " Protestant ascendancy ! " Permit us to ask you , O 1 Cantwell , if the " Battle of the _, Boyne" was a moral force demonstration ?
« ' July Iho first , in Oldbr . Mgo town , _ h > re wat- a grievous battle , Where many a mnn _lny on tho ground , By cannons lhat did rattle . " Tims sing the Orangemen , and it strikes us that their '' Hymn of praise" smells very strongly of physical force . We might multiply these examples , but we forbear . But if you have such a horror of physical force , why [ not assail those whose unjust power is upheld by physical force ? Why not denounce the privileged orders , and their government , who have caused rivers of blood to flow , and p iled up mountains of slain ? who have desolated
nations and ravaged empires , and who maintain tlieir usurpations by the cannon , the musket , the sabre , the bayonet , the chain , and the gallows ? whose supporters and defenders are the soldier , the policeman , the gaoler , and the hangman ? Where are the thunders of your denunciation against the oppressors of their fellow-creatures , who recognise no right hut might , and with whom the longest sword is the best reason ? If the " project " of physical force was worthy of Bedlam , shall those who have employed physical force have a niche in Fame ' s Pantheon ? Will you condemn Cromwell and Washington to infamy ; or do you only denounce the unfortunate ? Is
"Kosciusko the object of your malignity because he failed and fell ? Is success , with you , the test of the righteousness of a cause ? Are your sympathies only with the victors ? Harkye , Dr Cantwell , we shall " make no bones " about this physical force question ; we declare—and we defy you to prove _^ the contrary—the right of every people oppressed to relieve themselves from oppression by any and every means consistent _viith honour . If the working classes of England were in a position to achieve their deliverance by arms , they would be fools if they did not do so . Under present circumstances sound policy dictates another mode of operation , but the mere question of right would justify an appeal to force .
" Secondly . — -By severing themselves from the ranks or the middle-classes , and constituting themselves into a distinct community , and , in that capacity , arraying , their order against the other portions of society , they took a step fatal in the extreme , & c , & c . " We deny this . In the first place , as soon as the middle-classes had , by using the physical force of the people , obtained for themselves the Reform Bill , they ( the shopocrncy ) severed themselves from the working classes ! Secondly , the working men took a step wise in the extreme when they refused to be again made the tools of the bourgeoisie in the pursuit of Free Trade and similar schemes of delusion . In
looking to their own class-organisation for their own emancipation , the labourers of England gave the best proof of their intelligence , and a guarantee for their ultimate emancipation , in spite of such impostors as Cantwell and Co . " Thirdly . —Their rancorous and irrational hatred of the Whigs , and their proclaimed preference of the Tories , & c . " In this charge against the Chartists the gentleman in black exhibits the cloven hoof , horns , tail and all ; in fact , Cantwell stands , self-unveiled , a Whig ! What more need we say to condemn
himjustly condemn him to the execration of the working classes ? Is it rancorous and irrational to hate the footpads and assassins of the political world ? Highwaymen and brigands are , at least , bold-faced villains , but the Whigs 1 A nation ' s curse be on them ! They humbugged the people with their "glorious revolution ; " they laid the foundation of the National Swindle ; set the example of public profligacy and tax-wringing rapacity ; passed the Septennial law ; were the pretended
friends of peace and Ireland when out of power , and all for war and oppression of Ireland when in power they deluded the people with the Reform Bill ; passed the Irish Coercion Act and the New Poor Law ; filled the gaols with the advocates of free knowledge ; embarked in a crusade against the Chartists , and by the lies of hired calumniators in the press , prosecutions , fines , imprisonings , and transportings , did their best to crush the democratic movement . Was it irrational to hate
such enemies—enemies who had combined fraud with force , and delusion with _persecution ? When the Nottingham election gave the last blow to the Melbourne administration ; when the election of 1841 hurled tbe Whigs from power—the wisdom of the Chartist policy , whicbjso largely contributed to both , was proved by the results : —the progressive measures of Peel , and the new-born liberality of Russell . Cantwell has yet to learn the A . B . C . of politics .
" Fourthly— -Their adoption of the rallyingcry— " The Charter , the whole Charter , and nothing but the Charter , " forms another most momentous element in their system of mismanagement ! " What does Dr Cantwell say to the cry of" Tke Bill , the whole Bill , and nothing but the Bill ? " The Charter embodies the political faith of the Chartists , therefore their rallyingcry is "the whole Charter . " Dr Campbell believes in the " Gospel _.- " has he inscribed upon his banner , The Gospel , the whole Gospel , and nothing but the Gospel "—or will he be content to make an "instalment" of the Gospel his rallying-cry ? We pause for a reply .
" Finally . —The last , worst , deadliest error of our Chartist brethren is the inscription of the Charter with—Lnfidelity . " _* In plain English , Dr Campbell , you assert that which is false . There is nothing concerning Infidelity in the Charter . That document is thoroughly a political measure , taking no account of men ' s creeds—of their belief or disbelief . The Charter recognises neither Christian nor Jew , neither believer nor Infidel , neither Protestant nor _^ Catholic . The Charter proposes to confer upon all men of mature age , sound mind , and not under punishment for crimejthe rights of citizenship—or , rather ,
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the power to exercise those rights which are the natural and inalienable property of all . But the " proofs'' of his accusation may , says the Doctor , , e be gathered in abundance from its [ Chartism ] Lectures and its Literature ; " and as one proof he cites a long list of publications advertised by Mr Watson in the Northern Star (/)—including the writings of Holyoake , Carlile , Taylor , Paine , Mirabaud , Diderot , Southwell , Owen , & c . This clever Doctor cannot even quote from an advertisement without making a nice mess of his handywork . He speaks of Holyoake as a
Deist ( . ' ) , confounds the reputed author of the " System of Nature" with Mirabeau , the great orator , and classes " Bronterre _' s Life of Robespierre" amongst Infidel works . This is sufficient to show that the Doctor is utterly ignorant of the books he condemns . But mark the knavery of this holy calumniator in attempting to fasten upon the Chartists responsibility for the principles and sentiments of publications advertised in this journal . The
Doctor well knows that such- advertisements are inserted merely in the way of business . Our publisher will be happy to advertise the publications ofthe Religious Tract Society ; orthodoxy , as well as heterodoxy , will find our advertising columns open " on the usual terms . " If Mr Watson supplies the "bane , " letDr Campbell furnish the " antidote . " But we request our reverend friend to look at home . What if we make him responsible for the advertisements in the Banner ? In the in he
very _^ siime number which raises howl of " Infidelity" against the Chartists , he advertises " The Vestiges ofthe Natural History of Creation ; " a book written to show that the Bible account of the Creation is all fudge ; and , as a consequence , that the superstructure raised upon that foundation is one vast Fraud . Do you not see , 01 clever Cantwell , that , by your own . rule , we have proved you a rank Infidel ? But Holyoake , Owen , and Southwell are not Chartists . Carlile , Taylor , Mirabaud , and Diderot were not Chartists . True , the great
man whom ' you insolently term " lorn Paine _fiiv-t popularised those democratic principles on which Chartism is based ; but his " Rights of Man" and his" Age of Reason" are works thoroughly distinct . Chartism recognises the principles ofthe former , but leaves every man to judge for himself ofthe latter . Chartism has no more connexion with " Paine ' s theological works" than . it has with the canting trash of the editor of the banner . A word of advice , Jock Campbell , —when next you have occasion
to speak of the author of " Common Sense , " call him Thomas Paine . Remember that that great man numbered amongst his friends such men as Washington , Franklin , Jefferson , and Lord Edward Fitzgerald ; and assure _jourself , that longafteryou have returned to thevile earth whence you sprung , and your name and works are alike forgotten , the name of THOMAS PAINE , will be held in veneration by millions , and his works will be numbered amongst the choicest gifts ever bestowed by genius upon mankind .
The ranks of the Chartists , no doubt , include " Infidel-, " ' as - well as Episcopalians , Methodists , Presbyter ians , Independents , Unitarians , Roman Catholics , and persons who are neither believers nor unbelievers . What then r In this age of liberality , when scheming , money-mongering Jews , who denounce Christ as an " impostor , ' ' * find sympathy in the eyes of the dissenting Liberals , is there still to be one section of the community reserved for priestly persecution ? You persecute when you seek to excite public odium against a journal for advertising the works of that section . But why stop there ? Be consistent . If it be a crime to advertise a set of books advocating
certain opinions , it must be , at least , equall y a crime to print and publish such books , or even to entertain such opinions . Act , then , as your class acted in days of yore ; resuscitate the stake and _tshe axe—the rack and the thumbscrew . Hang , burn , decapitate , impale , embowel , torture and slay , as once your order did , "for the g lory of God . " You cannot ! Popular _' enlightenment and public opinion are too strong for you ! But you- do your little worst . " I will not kill the _ , said tbe Quaker to his canine victim , " I wilt only call thee mad dog . " Precisely in the same spirit , and with the same object in view , you , 0 ! Cantwell , raise the shout of " Infidelity" against the Chartists .
You conclude b y declaring that you have written "the truth in love . " If what you have written be evidence of your " love / ' let us henceforth be favoured with your " hate . " For the future , we recommend you , Dr Campbell , to remember the ninth commandment of your religion ;— " Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour ! '' A command in which wa see much to approve , _lokilst in the conduct of the advocates of that religion we see much , _vern much to condemn .
Progression. Glorious News. How True The...
PROGRESSION . GLORIOUS NEWS . How true the saying is , that , when a true principle is once _propounded and embraced by the people , all classes will be obliged to sail in the wake of Progression , more or less _aetirly , indeed , but still following the policeman ' s advice , to " Mnve on . " Democracy is tke great policeman of the age , that keeps the drones ® f society " moving on along the thoroughfares of life—and , accordingly , we find that the piinciples of the Land Plan have affected even the Irish landlords—and have won the support and patronage of the Lord-Lieutenant . From a letter of the Dublin correspondent ofthe Times we take the following : —
After mature deliberation , a number ef noblemen and gentlemen , interested in the welfare of thnir country , have come to the resolution of starting a pr < ject which , upon the face of it , at least , has tho appearance of being capable of effecting an amelioration in the condition of the farming and _agricultural classes generally . Aa soon as the necessary arrangements are completed , an application will be made to Parliament for the incorporation ef a company under the titlo of " The Farmers * Estate Society of Ireland , " the objects of which will be found defined in the following extract from the prospectus , issued this day : —
" Tho Farmers' Estate Society propose purchasing _elifiible _eistates in fee , as they come into the market , and selling ttiem afterwards in small lots of not less than forty statute acres ( 21 a . 2 r . 31 p . Irish ) , the preference being given to tho tenant in possession , it unobjectionable in other _respects , and tho _purehasemoni-y taken in half-yearly payments . The purchase money being thus taken by instalments , the purchaser can expend aHy capital he possesses in the cultivation Of the land , erecting buildings , and
making other improvements ; and as he improves he will be the better enabled to pay larger instalments until the purchase shah be completed—asystem ma * terially different from the present , under which the farmer generally gives all he possesses to get _posses-Bion of a farm , and has no capital left for cultivation or stocking . Provision will be made to prevent the sub-division of any farm so purchased to less tban twenty acres , on the principle of the Act 31 st Elizabeth , c 7 , which was passed before tho introduction oftho Poor Law into England . " The project , I learn , has met with the decided approval of the Earl of Clarendon ; and the provi-
Progression. Glorious News. How True The...
sional committee already comprises the namea o Earls of Courtown and Devon , Lord Monteagle , Sir Edward Borough , Sir David Roche , Mr _MoniseH , M . P , Mr Fagan , M . P ., Mr Guinness , MP ., and several other influential country gentlemen . The capital sought to be raised is _£ 1 , 000 , 000 , in 50 , 000 shares of £ 20 eac _ _i The above plan is , indeed , an encouraging instance of the calm victory of Truth , and we hail its appearance as an omen of better times , while we hope that no party influence will be brought to bear , for the purpose of crushing the promise in the bud . There has , however , been an invariable contest between the Irish
Executive and the _English Government , the latter always shackling tbe actions of the Lord-Lieutenant , when in the direction of improvement , and only aiding in Coercion and oppressive measures . We cannot promise to expunge recollection of so unconstitutional an act as Coercion' but if this social reform be carried out in its entirety and integrity , it will go far to create oblivion of the past . In that case , however , and here is the rub , it must be for the benefit of the producers themselves , and not a landlord
or a middle-class stop-gap . Let us no more hear of ii burden of ten millions on England , as last year , for the support of our Irish brethren , while employed in mischief . If their confidence in the present Government is not sufficiently strong , or if their inclination is not sufficiently powerful to raise one million at four per cent ., upon security of this social reform , we can only say that Lord Clarendon will have done his duty in this direction , and that the _^ Government , if opposed or listless in the matter , had far better abdicate .
With reference to the plan itself , it is more the excellent principle involved , than the several details , which meet our approbation . The amount of acreage to be contained in each farm , for instance , is one of our grounds of difference , We think it is far too large , and for obvious reasons . We should not object to see an extension in the holdings greater than in our Small Farm System—say . to ten acres—since the amount of poor is so immense in Ireland , and since we bave always held that the best poor law was Nature ' soa-j ; the best guardians , the relatives of those in want ; the sweetest relief , thatgiven by a kindred hand and a congenial heart . Tenacre allotments would , therefore , be
advantageous for the present in Ireland , since the fortunate holder would have it in his power to extend relief to others , to whom the land market was not opened , as itis by the National Land Company to all . As we have said , however , this " Farmers ' Estate Society" is a move in the right direction , and , as suoh , we hail it with considerable pleasure . And , indeed , what does it prove ? Who , now , was right ? Those who looked to foreign competition , or an overgrown landed interest at home _? Are our opponents not obliged to come round at last , and admit the truth of our teaching ? We told them that their foreign trade was a bubble , and that they must look to a home trade , based on the land . They are driven to do so .
We told them that they would bave to place the people on the land , to quit their old Large Proprietary system , and to revert to small farms , if they wished the resources of the land to be developed ; they are confessing us in the right , and forced to resort to our measures . We now tell them they must do so without afterthought or side-winded dealing ; the people desire the land for their own , and will not have the concessions made cribbed , cabined , or confined , by the spirit of party or restriction ; and as one step in the path liberty ever follows another—as a strong people will be a free people—we now tell them further , they must knock down the restrictions ofthe Franchise as
a necessary consequence , since the character of a slave and a yeoman are incompatible , and the holding of the land must become synonymous with the enjoyment of the vote .
* Sinco Tho Abova Wab In Tjpe, We Hate B...
* Sinco tho abova waB in _tjpe , we hate Been tht Banh-B of Wednesday , Feb . 9 th , in which ia an arlich on ' the Jews . ' In this article Dr Campbell strong '} denounces the ' outrageously insulting' exclusion of Baron Rothschild from Parliament . Tbe _Dnetor expresses _bia ' Indignation and disgust at t __ e spirit mani tested by florae of ibe _leaders of _Voe Church of England in their capacity both of clergymen and _jnurnaUstB , 'in relation to the Jew-question . He interrogates tbe _opponenta ol _Hubreiv emancipation an to why they would exclude from Parliament ' oii « of ihe wealthiest of human kind ' aud having wound up bis virtHous indignation to _ pitch of frenzy , he exclaims : — « Ye abettors » f
_wrougl ye advocates of persicutionl wo wait jour reply . ' Yet this liberal clergyman and journalist would persecute 'infidels , ' who at any rate were not the _cruciflers of the founder of Christianity ; and worse still , persecutes with sis calumnious pen masses of his fellow men , upon whom he falsely throws the odium of infidelity . ' In another article , devoted . to a furious attack upocthe Roman Catholics , he _spoaks of Catholicism as * tho grnnd enemy of the ton of God . ' This consorts well with his laudation of the Jews ' . But Flu . tus is the God of Cantwell ; and , therefore , ho rejects Peter and follows _Caiphas ; he denounces Pius and worships Rothschild ! _« II
Free Trade Quackery. The Philosophers Of...
FREE TRADE QUACKERY . The philosophers of Laputa , described in Swift's admirable political satire , and the Optimist in Voltaire ' s Candide , have , like straws in amber , been preserved by genius , to show to successive ages the nature _^ of the prevailing delusions of the times in which these two celebrated writers lived . . Every generation has its own favourite delusion , assuming the garb of philosophy , and professing to be based upon amversal principles , as well as
capable of universal application . In the majority of cases it is useless to attack these quackeries by sober reasoning ; they must either be permitted to tiie a natural death , or be assailed by the pen of the satirist . Cervantes , by his Don Quixote , did more to restore Spain to a state of sanity , than if all the preachers s and moralists in the country had discharged their heavy artillery against the folly of knight-errantry .
The race of Philosophers , Optimists , and Knight errants , similar to those of the eminent trio of authors just referred to , is not yet extinct _; but unhappily the quick perception , the profound analysis and the brilliant style—which enabled the Satirists to put an extinguisher upon them—does not exist amongst us . Hence the fact that Quackery is as prevalent among politicians as
pillmongers . Cobden ' s recipe of Free Trade stands in the same category as Morison ' s Universal Pills , and Holloway ' s Universal Ointment . Like them , it is an infallible remedy for " all the ills that flesh is heir to , " and , like them , it has an immense number of believers in its efBcacy , whose faith is great in proportion to the slenderness of the grounds on which it rests . If ever , indeed , the line of the Poet ,
" Man never is but always to be blest , '' was applicable to any body of men upon earth , it is to the Free Traders . They indulged in predictions of peace , plenty , and prosperity , of the most glowing descrip tion , during their agitation , and now that success has crowned their efforts , and the whole of the great interests of the nation are in _almost wretched and deplorable condition , they meet in Man—Chester and Bolton , not to confess their errors , or to moderate their anticipations , but to find excuses for the past failure of their panacea , and raise false expectations for the future .
There is scarcely a single branch of trade with which they have interfered , which largely and profitably employed home labour and depended upon the home market , that has not been either greatly injured or wholly destroyed by their meddling . The trade of Spitalfields , for instance , is ruined . Within a few years we have seen its looms condemned either to total idleness , er when employed , the rich and costly tissues formerly woven , by them supplanted by the coarsest fabrics , produced from " waste knabs and husks , " and sold at a price which can neither afford a profit to the manufacturer , nor a living wage to the workmen . The buyers for the large houses no longer wend
their way to Spital-square , but to the continent , for the goods intended for the wear of the aristocracy and wealthy classes . Instead of being the makers of rich silks and > velvets , we are now becoming merely retailers for the maimlacturers of Lyons and Rouen . As a consequence , eighty looms out of every hundred are , at this moment , standing still . The povertystricken and hunger-bitten victims are vegetating upon the degrading charity of the soup kitchen—on the scanty halfpence picked up by selling sprats , shoe ties , blacking , or lucifer boxes in the streets—or dying the slow deaths of paupers in the workhouse , oyer their allotted task of four pounds of oakum per day .
But it used to be said , that if there was not work in S p italfields , it was because the weavers there were too proud , saucy , and unreasonable . Instead of being cooped up in one district , the silk trade had migrated into Lancashire and Cheshire , and the change was for the better . We should like in the present state ofthe trade , everywhere , to hear such fallacies repeated . The bubble has in this case clearly burst . We
Free Trade Quackery. The Philosophers Of...
have ruined A trade which gave remunerativi w employment to thousands of families , vtiihovu having any tangible benefit whatever to _show inr _^ urn ; for we imagine it will scarcely b ba co _^ pded that the transference abroad of thh _mdffify of the classes who in the first place raisis _; it by the toil of the other sections of thh , ! , working classes in this country , can be anni national benefit . It may enable these classes t ( t « wear goods ofa more brilliant dye than can bfou produced under our sun , at a lower price } 0 r oM more elaborate design than the present state oM Art will permit in this country ; but disguise
. ' the fact as you may under a cloud of genera _ _--lities , such a process is an impoverishing one . In the _ otton , '; woollen , and other trades , _toooi the depression continues , and reduction oloii wages is the order of the day . Mr Cobden add _. mitted , in making a speech at Bolton , when i a piece of plate was presented to _Aldermanry Brook , that he had never known the trade obil that town in such a depressed state beforee ,, Similar admissions were made in the Frees : Trade Hall at Manchester , and yet the _oratory
who assembled to glorify each other , and rejoice in the number of Free Trade members in _Parliament , one and all shut their eyes on the non-ifulnlment of tlieir former predictions , andi ascribed the present state of things to any and ! to every cause but their own favourite nostrum ,, of which we can say nothing more condemna--toiy than that it neither _averted the deplorable * crisis into which the nation has been p unged ,, nor does it , to all appearance , in the _slightestfc degree help us out of it , now that it has come ..
Yet , notwithstanding the utter inefficacy off this quack medicine , they advocate it with _asj much effrontery and confidence as _theMorisoBi and Holloway tribe . Not content , as prudent ; men would be , to wait and try the effect of the t late changes a little more closely before pro- ceeding further in the same course , they announce a new budget of changes , which materially affect either large masses of home operatives , or important colonial interests . They speak as , if the adoption of Free Trade unreservedly , and wholly , was to be a species of " open sesame " by which property of all kinds is to flow in a continued stream through the country , and foreign nations be made to lay down their arms , and commence wi / hout further notice the long promised millenium .
Would that we had a Swift , a Cervantes , or a Voltaire to put down quacks , and awaken dreamers !
Parliamentary Review. The Condition Of T...
PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . The condition of the Sugar growing Interest , introduced into the House of Commons by Lord George Bentinck on the first night of the Session , was re-stated with more ability and effect , by Lord Stanley in the Peers on Monday . That our West Indian Colonies are in a most deplorable state no one denies , and that if something effectual is not speedily done , utter ruin must ensue , seems to be admitted by all parties . It would be unjust to charge the Legislature with having caused all the misery and loss which undoubtedly has befallen
these colonies of late years , and especially since the passing of the Sugar Bill of 1846 , which abolished the last remaining vestige of protection , the differential duty of ten shillings per cwt . Moral as well as political causes have largely contributed to the production of such a disastrous state of things . In one light , indeed , it may be fairly looked ° upon as a portion of that retribution which inevitably follows injustice and oppression . The giant wrong of slavery—subversive as it was of all morality and justice—could not be expected to
be committed without expiation of some kind or other , and the planters of the present dayare suffering for the sing of their predecessors . When the Slave Trade to our West Indian Colonies was abolished in 1807 , Canning told the planters that it was expected they would gradually improve the condition and the treatment of their slaves , in order to lay the foundation for their subsequent complete Emancipation , without danger io the interests of the state , or the order and welfare of the manumitted labourers themselves . But this
warning fell unheeded . In 1823 not a single step had been taken of that description . All the horrible cruelties and gross immoralities of slavery continued undiminished , and in order to remind them of their duty in the gentlest way , Lord Bathurst , in 1823 , sent out recommendations from the Privy Council for the Houses of _Assembly , which they were requested to ' give the form and authority of law ; these recommendations included , " amongst others , the abolition of the flogging of women , the separation of families , and other equally obvious and humane provisions . Lord Bathurst ' s recommendations shared the fate of
Mr Canning ' s warning , and it is no wonder , therefore , that when Emancipation was carried ten years later , the Legislature should have little faith in a body of men who had shown themselves so stubborn , and loaded them with restrictions as to the treatment of the manumitted negroes , which subsequent experience has shown to be incompatible with the prosperity ofthe planters , however much they may have tended to the benefit of the emancipated blacks .
But making every allowance for the misdeeds of the West Indians , it must be confessed that the treatment they have received from the Legislature , during the last fifteen years , has been of the most inconsistent , injurious , and unjust character . The planters have been , in fact , crucified between two opposite parties _^ First the Anti-Slavery party were uppermost in Parliament—they abolished slavery , giving to the planters 20 , 000 , 000 ? ., for a property in human flesh valued at 45 , 000 , 000 / . But they , acting upon high moral principle , placing man and liberty far above all pecuniary
considerations , guaranteed to the West Indians the monopoly of the British market , and sundryprivileges in the shape of protection , meant to aid the great experiment of free labour , and to prevent the introduction of slai'e grown sugar from other sugar growing countries . _By-andby the Free Trade party , with its huxtering cry of "Buy in the cheapest and sell in the dearest market , " became predominant , subjecting everything to the magic test of pounds , shillings , and pence , and caring not one doit
whether a thing was just , moral , and humane or the contrary , so long as it saved a penny . This _piwty gradually broke down the fences with \ v ___ cfi the Anti-Slavery party had hedged round the West Indians . First , the almost complete exclusion of slave produce was superseded by a differential duty , which admitted it under some disadvantages ; and lastly came the Act of 1846 , which substituted for these differential duties , a vanishing scale of duties for a short period , after which the West Indian planter will have to bear open competition with the Cuban slave owner . It is the
conflicting policy of these two parties which bas mainly conduced to reduce the West Indian interest to its present wretched plight . The planters , we think , have a just right to demand from the Legislature that it will act firmly aud consistently upon either one principle or the other , and not . continue to subject them to the cross-firing of these two parties . If England still retains its horror of slavery and slave-grown sugar , let us discourage these things in every possible shape . Let us redouble our efforts to _putjdown the accursed traffic _, and rigorously abstain from tasting the
bloodstained products of slave-owning planters , no matter what the direct cost of our repressive efforts _mayjie , or the indirect taxation to which we subject ourselves , in the shape of protection to free labour . If the Legislature is not prepared to do this—if cheap sugar is more important than the Suppression ofthe Slave Trade , then we say it isbound to act distinctly , unequivocally , " and consistently upon that principle . Away with all cant and hypocrisy . Tell the West Indian planters that we do not ] care where we get our Bugar from , or by what kind of labour it is produced , so that we get it cheap : and at once abandon the useless
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 12, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_12021848/page/4/
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