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THE, NORTHERN ,^f A% __ September 10, 18...
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FOR THE WORKING MILLIONS.
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PORTRAIT OF JOHN MITGHEL
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MR O'CONNOR AT NOTTINGHAM. Mr O'Connor w...
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THE NORTHERN STAR, SATURDAY, SEPTEHBER 16, 1S18.
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LOUIS BLANC AND THE "TIMES." The "Times"...
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THE NEWEST FRENCH HUMBUG. " The many unm...
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The, Northern ,^F A% __ September 10, 18...
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For The Working Millions.
FOR THE WORKING MILLIONS .
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A _HOHS * OB BVERT ISP PSTRIOPS MAN AND HIS FAMILY . UNITED PATRIOTS' AND PATRIARCHS ' EQUITABLE LAND AND BUILDING BENEFIT SOCIETY , ' Bnrellotl and Empowered by Act of Parliament to extend over tha United Kingdom . _IW-M .-. T 8 Bra- cons-:, _Ee _<» ., M . P . Thoujs _Waklet , Esq ., M . P . B . B . _Cabmil , B « i ., M . P . _loJen C _^ _i—^ o . 13 , Tottenham Court , HewEoad , _StPsncm , London . —Dakiei . _latutJ Rem , Secretary . _AMAtteiD ih THK-i StcTiosB . Valne of Shares and Payments for Investor * . Full Share ... £ 1 M pajmentef 2 s . 4 _§ d . per Wetfc , or 10 s 3 _Jd . _n « Month _HaltSbaro ... 60 - 1 _g _~ | - Quarter Share ... 3 ( 1 — 0 _U — 2 8 _J — Applicants are r _, quested to state in their form the section they desire to be a member of . _Na Sdbtmors _' , Soucixom _' , or _REDEMrnow Fees , _Thanresent Entrance Pee , including Certificate , Rules . & c , is it . per Share , end 2 s . for any part of a Share . xm Pries of Rules , _iucladlas Postage , Is . OBJECTS . _nt-To enable members to build D-relHsg Houses . Sth .-To giro _» f _epultbg membeu a higher rate ef _" *¦ „ . . , .. - _„ Interest than is yielded by ordinary modes of investment . 2 nd . —To afford the means of purchasing both Free . 6 lh < _ (> mHl PdWntg to make _% aaonmeatl tor told and Leasehold Properties or L ind . their Children , or Husbands for their Wives , or for Mar . 8 rd . —To advance Mortgages on Property held by riage Settlements _, members . 7 th . —To pntchase a piece of Freehold Land of suf-4 _tn—To enable Mortgagors being members to redeem ficient value to give a legal title to a Count ; _Yote for Jkeir Mortgages . Members of Parliament . Seotiok I . —Bj joining this section every person in town or country can become the proprietor of a House and Land in his own neighbourhood , witbout being removed from his Friends , Connexions , or the present means _Hmself and family may have of gaining a livelihood . . _« ,.. .. Section II . To raise a capital by shares to purchase Estates , erect Drrelungs thereon , and divide tbe Lima into allotments fram h » U an acre upwards , in or near the towns of the rations branches of tbe society . The property to be the bona fide freehold of the member after sixteen , eighteen or twenty years , from the date of location , according to his subscriptions . Sectiok III Saving or Deposit section , in which members not wishing to purchase are enabled to Invest _smail sums , from 7 Jd . and upwards , receiving interest at the rate of 5 per cent , per annum , on every sum of 10 * . and upwards so deposited . . _Suiwnpffon Office . —* 92 , Naw _Oxroan-STBEKT _, where Meetings are held , and Members enrolled , every Widnesdat _Evenins , from Eight to Ten o ' clock . jI _i j } __ J ? _ro-H £ 300 to jE _& O will be advanced to the nwmbtrs of tbe first Section in December next , when aU « rsons who have and may _bscome mtmbtte for SbareB , orpartB of Shares , on or before the 3 rd of December next , and _ifho pay six months' _subscripiioBB in ndvance , or otherwise , will be eligible for an advance . HH _^ . _^ _HBi _M --- > - _« - > --- « ---- _« - a-- a --- * * - * -- * --ALSO , FOR THE WORKING MILLIONS IN CONNEXION WITH THE ABOVE , THE UNITED PATRIOTS' AND PATRIARCHS' BENEFIT SOCIETIES . Enrolled pursuant to Aot of Parliament . Thus securing to it * members the _protection of the law for their funds and property . _Lrgallsed to extend over the United Kingdom , with the privilege ot appointing Medical Attendants , Agents , & c . An opportunity is now _efiired to healthy ptrsons , up te Forty Tears of Age , of joining these flourishing Institutions in town or country . Loxdox _Office . —13 , _Tottenham Ceurt , New Boad , St _Pancraa , ( thirteenth house eastward from Tottenham Court Boad ) . _—Dahiel Wiiuam _Bojet , Secretary . Patrons . — T . S . Bdncohbe , Esa ., M . P . T . Wakxey , Esq ., M . P . B . B . _Cabbim ,, Est * ., M . P . F . O ' _CoKyoR , Est } ., M . P . L . J . Hansard , Esq . In the shortspace of fear years tbe _& e societies hate paid the following benefits to their members . _SDKMABT 07 CLAIM 3 . Sickness and Superannuation ... ... ... £ 2671 1 8 J Acconchments ... ... ... ... ... 930 15 . 0 Funerals ... ... ... ... ... 7 J 4 18 1 Loss by Fire 34 13 0 £ 4351 7 9 £ Present Capital funded in tbe Bcnkoi England ... £ 1789 12 2 These Sooieties are in six divisions or sections , for the Members to receive tbe following Benefits according to their Subscriptions : — FIRST DIVISION . I FOURTH DIVISION _, ntrance according to age , from 5 s . to 10 s . Monthly Con- Entrance , according to age , from 3 s . 6 d . to 8 s . 6 d _, tribntion for Sickness and Management , 2 s . 7 d . Monthly Contribution for Sickness and Management . . Is . 4 d . £ 8 . d . AHewanee , in Sickness , per week .. .. _o 18 o £ s . d . Member ' s Funeral .. -. •• 28 ° e Allowance in Sickness , per week .. .. 0 9 0 Ditto Wife ' s or Nominees ditto .. 10 0 0 Member ' s Funeral .. .. .. .. 10 0 0 Wife ' s Lyiug-in .. .. — .. 200 Ditto Wife's or Nominee ' s ditte .. .. 506 Loss by Fire , from .. .. jt ? 5 0 0 to 20 0 0 Wife ' s Lying-in .. .. .. .. 10 0 Superannuation , per week .. .. 0 6 0 Loss by Pire , from .. .. £ 5 0 0 to 10 0 6 SECOND DIVISION . Superannuation , per week .. .. .. 0 4 0 Entrance , according to age , from ' s . 6 d _, to 9 s . 6 d . FIFTH DIVISION . Monthly Contribution for Sickness aud Management , Entrance , according to age , from 3 s to 8 s . Monthly Con-• 2 b . Id . tribution for Sickness and Management , is . Id . Allowance _inSickaess , per week .. .. 0 15 0 allowance in Sicknes 3 , per week ,. .. 8 7 0 Membir' 6 Funeral .. ** .. 16 0 0 Member ' s Funeral .. .. .. .. 600 Ditto Wile ' s or nominee ' s ditto .. 18 0 0 Ditto Wife ' s or Nominee's ditto .. .. 3 0 0 Wife ' s _Ljrag-in ... .. . 1 15 0 Wife ' s Lying-in .. 015 0 loss bv fire , from .. .. £ 5 0 0 to 15 0 C Loss by Fire 5 0 0 SuperannuatioD , per week .. .. 0 5 0 Superannuation , per week .. .. .. 0 4 0 THIRD DIVISION . SIXTH DIVISION . Entrance , according to age , from 4 s . to 9 s . Monthly Coh- Entrance Money .. .. .. .. 0 ' 3 0 tribution for Siekness and Management , is . 7 d . Monthly Contribution .. .. .. 0 10 Allowance in Sickness , per week .. .. Oil 0 Allowance in Sickness .. .. o 1 o Member's Funeral .. 12 0 0 Member ' s Funeral 2 W 0 Ditto Wife ' s or _Nominees ditto ,. .. 6 9 0 Wife ' s Lviug-ia l is o No Levies in this Division . Loss by Fire , from .. .. £ _s 0 0 to IP 0 o Superannuation , per week .. .. .. 0 4 0 Levies according to the demands on each division per quarter . N . B . —The only diffeieece _< n tbe two Societies is , the Patriots have an Accoucbment benefit , the Patriarch have not that benefit , therefore do not pay levies fur it . j _ _X" _Applications for Agencies requested fiom all parts of tke country ; information for appointment of Agencies can be obtained by letter , prepaid , enclosing a postage stamp . B ' tack forms and information for tba _admission of oountry members can be obtained by letter , prepaid , enclosing three postage stamps , to Daniei . Whiiah Rem , General Secretary , 13 , Tottenham Court , New Rohd . St _Pancra ; .
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METROPOLITAN COUNTIES and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE , Annuity , Loan , and Investment SOCIETY . ( Incorporated pursuant to the 7 th and Sth vie , cap . Ho . ) Temporary Offices , % _* , Regent-street , Waterloo-place , London . TRUSTEES _, rachard _Soooser , Esq ., I Spencer Horatio Walpole , M . P . " I Esq ., M . P , Edward Vansittart Neale , i Heary Peter Fuller , Esq . _Esej . . I DIRECTORS . Robert Chalmers , Esq ., Edward Lomax , Esq ., St Thurlow-square , Bromp- Johu ' s Wood _, ton . Samuel Miller , Esq ., Lin . SamuelDriver , Esq ., White- coin ' s Inn . ball . Sir Thomas Newley Reeve , _Senry Peter Fuller , Esq ., Richmond . Piccadilly . Edward Vansittart Neale Palk Griffith , Esq ., Esq ., South Audley-street _IrcamODger-lane , Cheap- William A . S . Wcjtoby side . Esq ., Hyde _Park-places
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FAMILY ENDOWMENT , LIFE ASSURANCE AND ANNUITY SOCIETY . 12 , Chatham Place , _Blackfriars , London . CAPITAL £ 500 , 000 . BISECTORS . William BntterworthBajley , Esq ., Chairman . John Fuller , Esq , Deputy Chairman . Kt . Bruce Cfcichcster , Esq . Elliot Macnaghten , Esq . H . B . Henderson , Esq . Major Turner . C . H . Lafouche , Esq . Joshua Walker , Esq . Edward Lee , B * q . _Majsr Willock , K . L . S . BONUS . Trdrtv percent Bonus was added to tbe Societj ' s Policies on the profit scale in 1 S 15 . The next valuation will be in January , 1852 . ANNDAI PBESaOJIS WITH PROFITS .
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NO MORE PILLS FOR INDIGESTION , _ConstipaSon , Torpidity of the Liver , aad the Abdominal "Viscera , persisting Headaches , Nervousness , Biliousness , Despondency , Spleen , etc . Published by Da Barry and Co ., 75 , New Bondstreet , Lotfion ; and to be obtained through all Booksellera _* Price 6 d , or 8 d ( in letter stamps ) , post-free : A "POPULAR TREATISE on INDIGESTION and CONSTIPATION ; the main causes of Nervousness , Biliousness , Scrofula , Liver Complaint , Spleen , etc , and their Radical Removal , entitled the ' Nazubal _Reoene-KATos or tub Digestive _Obuaks ( tbe Stomach and Intestines ) , without pills , purgatives , or artificial means of _« _nykind _,
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A DAY'S PLEASURE FOR THREE SHILLINGS ! THE MEMBERS of the LAND COMPANY and the . 'CHARTIST ASSOCIATION residing in _MarykjjOnS , assisted by a tew cf the Westminster friends , have resolved oa taking a Trip , per VAN , to OCONNOR-? ILLB . nn Sunday , September 8 « th . The Vans _^ to start at Six e ' eiock in the . -. Mornmg , fr « m the Coach Painters ' Arm * .. Circus street _^ New . road .
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A GOOD FIT WARRANTED at the Great Western Emporium , 1 and 2 , Oxford-street _Dbsdel ] and Co . are now waking to order a Suit of beautiful _Superfine Black , any siie _, for £ _l 1 ' b . Patent made Summer Trowsers , Ifs ; Kegistered Summer Over Coats , 20 s . The Art of Cutting taught . Patterns of Garments Cut to Measure for the Trade , and sent ( post free ) for Is . td . eacb , or eighteen postage stamps . Address , Charles Ubsdell , 1 and 2 , Oxford-street London .
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TO TAILORS . Sy approbation of Her Majesty Queen Victoria , and H . R . H . Prince Albert ,
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THE PEOPLE'S CIVIL LIST REFORM AOT ! Sow Publishing , Price sd ., Free by Post , 2 d extra , THE PEOPLE'S PARLIAMENT ; an ACT for the REDUCTION of HER MAJESTY'S CIVIL LIST , and for PROMOTING tbe WELFARE and PROSPERITY of the PEOPLE of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland . With a Political _Hieeoqliphic _, bat no Pozzle , viz \—no-HE-V 8 S-WE-ETA-Nns . OAB-EP-EN . es . London : W . Strange , 21 , Paternoster-row , and may be had everywhere , for the edification of everybody ( who pays taxes ) , throughout every portion of the Queen's dominions .
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TO BE SOLD , A T Lowbands , with or without crops , a THREEA . ACRE _ALLOTMENT in good condition ; pigsties and out offices in proper order ; bounded by a good fence , and a broek _, out of wbich several tens of manure can be obtained Communications to be addressed to Mr O'Brien , Lowbands , Redmarley , ( with a postage stamp enclosed . )
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_O'COSNORYILLE . TO BE DISPOSED OF , TWO TWO-ACRE ALLOT . ME NTS , adjoining eacb other , in the very centre of the Estate , with Large Barn , CartHonses , Water Tank , and _Piggeries . The Land is cropped with wheat , barley , potatoes , Swede and white turnips , and is exceedingly adapted for aFamily . Fur terms , apply ( If by letter , pre-paid , with stamp for answer ) to Mr Keen , 3 , O'Conuorville , neur Kick . man ? worth , Herts .
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FOR SALE AT LOWBANDS , A POUR-ACRE ALLOTMENT , In excellent condition , one acre of wheat , sacked , _oiietuuicof potatoes ; the remaining portion barley , turnips , Swudea _, parsnips , carrots , maugel-wurlzel , onions , cabbages , neat _tliiwer garden , a choice assortment of fruit trees : the _wusliuouic , dairy , and yard paved , a good cellar , two _plgstlel , ortm ( brick built ) , copper , and sink . Price £ 120 . —Address , William Reay , Lowbands , lied _, marby , Ledbury , Worcestershire ; or the Dire-tors , IH , High Holborn .
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THE LAND . TO BE SOLD . TWO _FOUR-ACRE , and ONE TWOACRE ALLOTMENTS , at LO _WBANUS-adjoining each other ; together with the Crops and Implements , fo Apply ( if by Letter , _post-paldi to _Samuki _Atheetoi * , _Loabanas , Redmarley , uearLedbury , Worcestershire .
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THE O'CONNOR TARTAN . TnE 1 K 1 LBARCHAN ) O'CONNOR TARTAN COMPANY have much pleasure in announcing to their Friends and Supporters , and tothe Chartists andMembers of the Land Company , throughout England and Scotland , that they have for Sale , a splendid assortment of Shawls . Plaids , and Vestlngs , all of fine i-ool ; Qala dresses _forBoya and Girls ; alio beautiful Silks and Oregons for Ladies' Dresses , Ladies * Silk Handkerchiefs , aud Scarfs . . , . ' . .,, , The above are all of the very best quality , and will be sold at very moderate priees . The Advertisers are Chartists oi ten years' standing , and Members of the National Land Company . AU communications _andifoney Orders to be addressed to Mr Jakes Gisson . _Now-street , Kilbarchan . Scotland .
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Prioe Twopence , THE RIGHT OF PUBLIC MEETING A LETTER Addressed ( before Sentence , ) TO LORD CHIEF JUSTICE SIR THOMAS WILDE . Br S * nm Jonis . This letter contains the substance of the address which Ernest Jonea intended to deliver in the court , bnt whioh the judge would not allow to bt Bpoben .
Portrait Of John Mitghel
PORTRAIT OF JOHN MITGHEL
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Specimens of a splendid portrait of the first victim of the Whig Treason Act , are now in possession of our agents . The portrait will be shortly ready for presentation . Tbat of Smith O'Brien , and those who are sharing his fate , are also in course of preparation . None hut subscribers will be entitled to those portraits .
Mr O'Connor At Nottingham. Mr O'Connor W...
MR O'CONNOR AT NOTTINGHAM . Mr O'Connor will meet his Constituents on Monday next , in the middle of the day .
The Northern Star, Saturday, Septehber 16, 1s18.
THE NORTHERN STAR , SATURDAY , SEPTEHBER 16 , 1 S 18 .
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LOUIS BLANC AND THE "TIMES . " The "Times" of Tuesday last contains an elaborate and most _ingenious commentary upon a Letter of Louis Blanc , published in the same paper ; and while we quite admit the right of the journalist to canvas and criticise the acls , the policy , and the writings of the exile , we nevertheless reserve to ourselves the right to judge between the disputants . It is a difficult task for a stranger , bowed down beneath the weight of national persecution , and compelled to seek a home in a strange land , where those principles , the acceptance and promulgation of which are dreaded , to defend a life of presumed error against such a journal as the " Times . "
Louis Blanc has not only to contend against tlie concentrated ferocity of his public accusers , but he lacks the defence of those who may be favourable to his principles , and may justify a portion of them . He lacks the defence of the impartial and unprejudiced ; he lacks the mild spirit of toleration , because those attributes and defenders of public opinion are destroyed and silenced by the law of the sword . It is not wonderful that one who has made himself
prominent in the principle of re-organisation should be dreaded , scouted , and persecuted by the parties who advocate things as they are , but as stoutly contending for a change of masters as Louis Blanc has for a change of system . The columns of the " _Timfs" resemble the banquet table of the luxurious , where no cost is ' spared to furnish varied delicacies for varied tastes ; and when the " Times " has adopted its bill of fare , it stops at no expense to procure the choicest viands and delicacies of
the season . If a new question arises , the most inventive genius , or practised understanding that the market can supply , is sure of the best price at Printing-house Square , and , therefore , the humble individual who , in his trial before such a tribunal , has to defend a varied and chequered life , every act charged in a separate count of a complicated indictment , has but a sorry chance against such an array of public accusers . Should one count fail , the accused is put upon his trialdrawnup by another and more practised hand , while the accused has to rely upon his own individual genius for hisdefence . Now , such is precisely the position of Louis Blanc in his
controversy with the "Times . " The"Times" indicts him upon a _larg _^ e _portion of his life , the memoir furnished from acts and writings ; Louis Blanc replies to all in the most ingenuous manner , no dilatory plea put in , but the allegations in each count triumphantly refuted . He gives evidence in refutation of acts , of which he is charged—he gives documents in refuta tion of sentiments upon which he is arraigned ; and having to our mind established his innocence upon those several charges , the " Times '' prefers a fresh iudictment , and according to the Irish system of pleading alleges facts , and relies upon circumstantial evidence for their proof _.
The defence of Louis Blanc , as a noun substantive , can stand alone , while the accusation of the " Times'' requires other words and other proofs to give it substantiality . What country bumpkin who considers his property endangered b j the Writings of Louis Blancwhat parson that dreads the diminution of his spiritual pay—what capitalist that dreads an assault upon Mb profits—what lawyer that dreads the destruction of his professionwhat
shopkeeper that fears the loss of his _custom—wbat _emploj-er who makes profit of the destitution of the employed , will think it neciissary to read the volumes of criminatory _evidence referred to by the "Times C' Will not ono and all be too read y to jump to a hasty and willing conclusion that the "Times '' _wJjetliur right or wrong , is an instrument in llifc hands of Providence to destroy an accuwwl _svstem , by the rain of its accursed propounderr
Ihe " Times , " in ? n apologetic strain , would measure its censure of the accused , not by the amount of evidence preferred , but by the comparative leniency with which it deals with Louw BJanc . The writer says : — - » We should have _thought , indeed , that after what he _hascxpsneucedatthehands of his own cZtrimon ho would have considered our' violence' as a _<™ , , i „„„ , i ' agreeable contrasted form of _SaleapXiS" _^ This reminds us of the Irish prisoner , who when charged with
assaulting a bailiff , replied — " You are an ill-natured villain , for I mhrht have murdered you if I liked . " So , then , if the French Press , under the control of a Dictator , while Paris is a state of siege had charged Louis Blanc with murder , and the " Times" had humanely confined the charge to one of manslaughter , the accused , though not guilty of either , should feel grateful to his more lenient prosecutor . Another most monstrous and unjustifiable
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charge against the accused , is that passage iii which Louis Blanc is to be madV responsible for the every act of every man who accepts his principles . ' The _" Times" says : — . "That these _interesting specimens of last March should have varied in some of their details from the exact sped _, fication of _hlsotvn proper patent , is likely eneagh . " By a parity of reasoning , then , though the details of those who are now incarcerated for sedition , conspiracy , and riot , should vary from the system of Chartism accepted and signed
by Messrs O'Connell , Hume , and others , and adopted and defended by the peace-professing Sturge—yet , nevertheless , the propounders of the system are chargeable with every act of violence by which its professors sought to establish the details . Could argument be more unfair , or reasoning more inconclusive , than the attempt to establish the guilt of Louis Blanc by the act of those who , though professing his principles , sought a different mode for their accomplishment ? Again , the writer of the " Times'' asks : —
"Who were those ouvriers who chaired him round the chamber ?" Here we would use the Irish mode of reply —the only one in such ? case open to us namely , to answer the question by asking another . Who were the _^ three million fightingmen to whose physical strength Daniel O'Connell appealed as a means of accomplishing a _Repeal of the Union ? And upon whom did the Whig government rely as a charmer to lull the storm he had created , and who was the most loud in his denunciation of those who would
use their own details to establish the Liberator's system ? Again , who sanctioned the carrying before an infuriate populace the flag with the king ' s head reversed , and the bloody executioner with the axe ? And yet , these were the details by which the moral "force Whigs threatened to accomplish their system of Reform . The accuser of Louis Blanc is well aware that the propounder of a system is not answerable for the means resorted to for its accomplishment , but that those means are urged upon men , and adopted by men ,
according to the anticipations of benefits to be achieved , and are measured by their own prudence , —their own cunning—their own courage , recklessness , or destitution . The propounder of a system may be attached to life , and cherish life , because he has the means of enjoyment ; and , imbued with a spirit of humanity and philanthropy , he may be" induced , even at the risk of his own cherished life , to struggle for equal blessings for all ; but the acts of those who are destitute of similar
comforts , will not be measured by his caution . " Hunger will break through stone walls ;" and an exasperated and starving people will break through the strongest bounds with which the field of agitation is encircled . And here we make no allowance for the state of excitement in which France was placed at the time of Louis Blanc ' s assumed delinquency—we make no such allowance , because we should thereby weaken his defence , which , without such an excuse , we believe , in our conscience , to be complete . Further on , the " Times'' gives us the most convincing proof of the value of experience , and its reasonable effect upon the mind of Louis Blanc The writer says : —
" But the truth is , that this _eage conclusion never en . tered tbe author's brain , or flowed from his pen , until the utility of this very coup de wain had been moBt thoroughly tested and disproved . " Let us in fairness ask , whether a more flattering tribute could be paid to the sagacity , the wisdom , and judgment of man ? The " Times" delights in scraps of Latin , when they carry with them conviction to the dull mind that does not understand the " dead language ; " and two words of Latin here supply the justification ot Louis Blanc—• ' experientia
docet . ' And what amount of vituperation would Louis Blanc have received at the hands of the commentator , if , in defiance of past experience , he had pertinaciously persevered in error , rejecting the influence of experience . If we were inclined to retaliate , and thus weaken the defence of the stranger , the prudence of the " Times , " gathered from experience evinced from its several changes , would supply the strongest arguments ; but we shall not use them , as we are not prepared to offer the accusation of the " Times" as the justification of the stranger .
Then , if we were at a loss for the purity of Louis Blanc ' s belief in the just and honourable realisation of his system _] we have it in the _admission of the accuser ; and the accused , if in need of it , is entitled to the benefit of the doubt . The " Times" says : — " As to the dealings with the two classes of bonrgeoise and people , we do uot say that he might not have con . vinced imnself that it was _possible to give to one without taking from the other . "
Such in our conscience , we believe , was , and is , not only the fond , but cherished anticipation of Louis Blanc ; and , like him , we as sincerely believe in its practicability . Nay , we go further than the assumption of the " Times" as to possibility , for we assert , without fear of contradiction , that the only practical mode of ameliorating the condition of the shopkeepers is by ameliorating the condition of the people . Emancipated Labour is the fountain head—the source—the only pure spring from which the shopkeeping and all other classes can replenish their reservoirs ; and , although it has been the policy of the league of capitalists to aid kingcraft and priestcraft in the subjugation of Labour , to the end that
they themselves may pillage its store , the voice of knowledge , and the demand of right is , thanks be to God ! becoming too powerful for the cannon of the one , and the thunder of the prejudice of the other ; and the day is not far distant when monarchs will find that the Altar must be the foot-stool of God , and not the couch of Mammon—the Throne must be based upon the affections of the people , and not upon the prejudice of their enemiesand the Cottage must he the castle of the freeman , and not the den of the slave . '—and then . every honest labourer will fly to theory of " My castle is in danger ! " with more alacrity than the mercenary obeys the summons to the slaughter of his fellow-man , for a shilling a day .
As in most similar cases , we find the answer to the accusation in its , concluding paragraph . The writer says : — " We do not assort that he recommended pillage , but tbat pillage was a developemeut of his doctrines which could hardly fail of being produced . M . Louis _ill . uic thought to consummate in peace and pleasantness an object only attainable by . bloodshed and ruin . _loita tout . "' Here we have the complete admission of the innocence of Louis Blanc , and the irrefutable and unanswerable condemnation of the enemies of labour . What , then ! Louis Blanc ,
heretofore charged with the intent to pillage and confiscate , is now acquitted upon this count , while his accuser unblushingly ad . mits the resolution of the terrorist to withhold the just claims of the people , and that they themselves would rather die in resisting justice than concede it to those for whose benefit the revolution was organised , and by whose valour the Republic was established upon the ruins of a profligate and faded monarchy . Oh ! how easy it is to crush a great man—how simple it is to elevate a little man . Louis Blanc , if not the propounder , is tlie energetic advocate of a system whose effi . cacy , if adopted , ii acknowledged by the Times in its admission that the wealthy would resist
it to the death—and he is damned ; while the Prince de Joinville , in his humanity , stretched the ex-royal hand to the blistered ' fist of the gallant Jerome , and titere deposited two fourpenny p ieces , which , by some strange process of alchymy , were transmuted into a handful of gold coin , and the _rojal exile is extolled as a saviour , because he saw the Ocean Monarch burning , and allowed some of the refugees a shelter in his home instead of plunging them into the deep . But heed not the revilings of our Press , brave , and gallant , and persecuted stranger ; it does aot reflect the opinions of our cuuatry , and although you are now the victim of a cruel Dictator , a packed Assembly , and Intolerant prejudice , the day is not far
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distant when the Labour ciuestion you have espoused will be the foundation of a system which may defy the cannon and thd sabre and withstand the assaults of prejudice .
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THE NEWEST FRENCH HUMBUG . " The many unmeaning words and phrases th at have been used from time immemorial , as a solution of the term " Liberty , '' and now brought into prolific use by the founders—or would-be founders—of the new . French Constitution , furnish the strongest proof of the gullibility of man . " Liberty , Equality , Fraternity , " are now translated into the " Protectection of the Citizen , in his person , family , religion , and property _;' ' and recognising his right to instruction , labour , and assistance ; and then we have the most endearing words , actually coined by the falsest lips , to explain and propound duty , rights , and obligations , and all sealed with the kiss of life . In fact the
Freneh Constitution—as it is called—is based umm a bag of wind , and the superstructure must be as insecure as the house built upon . a sandy foundation , while the great architect would base it upon opinion fettered by the annihilation of the liberty of the Press . If the Constitution of France is intended to work out that boasted equality so pompously eulogised , to ensure that delicious fraternity
so amiably paraded , to guarantee that glorious liberty so generally approved of—and if this trinity of blessings is to be participated in by all , why , in the name of common sense , establish the reign of terror during its conception and birth ? Are the French people so uncivilised , so ignorant , and stultified , as to require coercion to reconcile them to this wooing , and courting , and kissing , which is to eventuate in so felicitous a union between the rich and the
poor , the enlightened and the ignorant ? The fact is , that the rich and artful , in the hour of doubt , woo _' their dupes as the love-sick swain woos his lady love > they take advantage of their weakness , susceptibility , and credulity ; so does he—and the flattered people , like the flattered wife , discover their error when too late . The mystic word Constitution , represents the mystic YES in the marriage ceremony—and those whom man have joined together by Liberty , Equality , and Fraternity , are as indissolubly bound together as man and wife , but , like them , sometimes discover the value of the old adage , when it is too
late" Lads , before you marry , mind the _goldenrute , Look before you leap , or else you'll play the fool . " We may paraphrase it thus" Lads , before you ' re governed , mind the golden rule , Think before you speak , or else you'll play the fool . " Nothing is more easy than the construction of a wordy Constitution , except the varied construction that lawyers and cunning men can put upon the most simple words . That the rich can always oppress the poor , is as true as that a landlord of straw can break a tenant of steel . Madame Glass is a very high authority upon cooking ; and , as the French Constitution appears to be a huge heterogeneous mess , seasoned to deceive the
palate , we quote her . She says —• First catch your hare" —but , as Cavaignac is head cook , and as protection to the person is the first ingredient in the new hash , his receipe is first CATCH THE PERSON , transport hire , then protect his family , religion , and property . Again , again , again , we defy , the rich to frame a Constitution for the poorand , whatever boasted privileges may be conferred upon the poor during the conception of the Constitution , they are useless and inoperative , while the capital wherein discussion is held , and where discussion alone can lead to a sound basis , is in a state of siege , while the liberty of the Press is suppressed , and while butchers rule the roast .
Let us see if we cannot invent a sound , a solid basis for a French Constitution : — Article 1 . All menhave blood in their viens . 2 . All men's blood is red . 3 . All men die when their blood is all let OUti 4 . All men have noses who have not lost them ; men have mouths , eyes , legs , arms , feet , body , and a head , if they have not lost them . Such are the fundamental proofs of man ' s existence . Article 5 . All men have feelings . 6 . Those feelings should be respected , and to that end we decree as follows : —
7 . Love , law , and physic ; music , flowers , and dancing— '' Bubble , bubble , toil , and trouble "—liberty , equality , fraternity , harmony , brotherhood , affection , toleration , indivisibility , union , co-operation , intellectuality , spirituality , nopugnacity , prudence , conception , will , mind , understanding , clemency , humanity , philanthropy , invention , persuasion , mild correction , disputation , example , training , education , morality , science , forbearance , virtue , self-denial , brotherly love , rights of labour , democracy , republic , KISS OF LIFE , and silence , submission , obedience ,
prostration . There is as sound a basis , and just as understandable a one , as that upon which the boasted Democratic constitution of France is to be based . Next week we shall give our readers our notions of a free constitution ; meantime , we hazard tho guess that the vanity and deception of . Louis Napoleon will once more embroil the foolish'French people in a bloody struggle , as with them the feeling will shortly be , any change must be for the better ; we cannot be worse off than to be drowned , or shot , or bauished , if we complain of starvation .
POOR DOUGLAS JERROLD . "Aladdin ' s . " lamp burns dim , and poor Jerrold appears to be groping in the dark . If we are chargeable with one failing or error more tban another , it is , Heaven help us ! that amiable weakness which induces us to look lenientl y upon the feeling of others , and if there is one which more than another deserves our humane consideration and compassion it is that of spleen . Spleen is an affliction which disorders the brain , injures the digestion , unnerves thought , and paralyses action ; and no man is a greater victim to this malady than our poor
friend , Jerrold , and , therefore , as long as he fought with ghosts , and Blue Beards , fierytailed devil * , and hobgobblins , and all those supernatural beings which haunt the disordered brain , we smiled at his array of figures but pitied the man . So long as he was the Prime Minister at " Punch ' s" back parlour , and the Lord Chamberlain of the ludicrous group that constituted the staff of Mr Punch , we admired his whimsical genius , and rejoiced that he had discovered so befitting an ' asylum ami retreat .
No man is disreputable in " that state of life to whieh it has pleased God to call him , " but when he emerges from his natural position to one which nature never designed he should occupy , and when he boastfully makes that position the more public by " affixing his own proper name to a political journal , as if the weight and consequence of the man was to give additional importance to the publication , then he becomes irremediably ridiculous , and makes his assumption of power a just subject for criticism .
Contrary to the practice of our cotemporaries , we have given the whole article upon which we are now commenting , the shadow of "Aladdin's" dim lamp , without the omission of a single line or word , not even venturing to correct , some ungfammatical phrases . And we would ask the impartial reader whether Mr Feargus O'Connor , charged in that tirade with having recommended physical force—whether
in his several denunciations of wrong and as- ] _sertions of the people ' s right of _justice , he has crowded into the same space a similar justification for recourse to physical force ? But understanding so much , the reader must be aware of something more . The reader must be made acquainted with the motive and the object of the writer of this justification , for resort to any description of violence to overthrow a
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system thus graphically described , and for which in the concluding paragraph we are gi vet to understand there is no alternative , or hops for redemption , save and except in direct tax * ation . The object of the writer—being the propria * tor of a sixpenny paper , which is beyond _thf reach of the badly employed—is to curry _favout with the employer , in the hope of becoming tha official _org . ? n of the projected new move ; and from _beginnhi'J to end , with the exception off the admitted _injustice practised upon the poor by the rich , it is o . ie tissue , one compound , off folly and fabrication . Let us for amusementrather than for _instracvion or for Mr O'Con *
nor _' _s defence , which wWd be found , if neces _* sary , in the admissions of _vhe writer , repeat & few of the contradictory _Jj _^ _ragniphs in this jumble of nonsense . We must . a 8 K pardon oS the reader , who would consider the . oare perusal of the elaborate article as an antldt / te t (> the poison it was intended to administer , for de _*» voting so much of our space to a criticism Vpou the ravings of a political novice , endeavouring to qualify as an instrument to be used by tht ) people ' s oppressors . " Aladdin" in assigning the cause for _arelaps'fl from Liberalism to Toryism , says : — While the popular party were _struggline to effect tha
annihilation of rotten boroughs and the enfranchisement of tbe large towns , ihey first called the middle classes to their aid , but finding tbis assistance , however powerfal , insufficient to carry out the measure proposed , they called into existence the political unions ; and to ensure their zealous co operation , a distinct pledge wae given to the working classes that they should receive the _suffrage from the gratitude and justice of the reformed Parliament . The victory waegained , ' tbe middle _classeB shared i _' s fruits , but the _mechanics and artisans' were not only forgotten by thoBe whom they bad contributed to raise to power , but their remonstrances were laughed at , and their petitions spurned . The deception that batt been prac tised was now transparent ; it was manifest tbat thereat
object ot the movement was simply to elevate Whiggery on the ruins of _Toryi sm ; that the ? liberty of the _milliona was never contemplated ; tbat tbey wero used as tools with a premeditated design to treat tbem as dupes , It " ' as said of the late Earl Grey that he shuddered on looking at the Frankenstein of his own creation , and as much to quell his own fears as those of others , he soleamly avowed that he would ' stand or fall with his own order . ' Lord Jobn Russell , at tbat time one of his subordinates , took the cue from bis terrified ch ef , and proclaimed finality . He resisted the motions of Mr Tennyson _D'Eyneourt to substitute triennial for septennial parliaments , and defeated Mr ( Jrote on the ballot . Honourable men , _« bo respected the faith of promises , blushed at tbs
tergiversation of tbeir leaders ; the Whig majority dwindled away to an evanescent fraction , for their moral power was lost when their treachery was avowed ; they retreated on _expidiency , for wben men bave violated truth , tbey are not unprepared to equivocate with justice ; they shuffled and haggled ; and , as the laBt _desperate efforts t . _> regain tbeir forfeited popularity , proposed to in . terfere with those Corn Laws which their prime minister , Lord Melbourne , had just before declared were so sacred that none but madmen _Tfould venture to disturb their enactment . Amid' the cums of hate and tbe hissings of scorn , ' they were hurled from office , and Toryism , which the Whigs might have exterminated for ever , once more placed its band on the helm of State .
Now here was a struggle in which Whi ggery and the middle classes proved too weak to contend against Toryism ; here is the admitted fact , that the accession of the working classes gained for both the triumph , and that they were juggled out of their share of the victory But even that is not the equivocation" Aladdin" concludes his castigation of tbe deceivers thus- " AMID THE CURSES OF
HATE AND THE HISSINGS OF SCORN , THEY WERE HURLED FROM OFFICE , AND TORYISM , WHICH THE WHIGS MIGHT HAVE EXTERMINATED FOR EVER , ONCE MORE PLACED ITS HAND ON THE HELM OF STATE . " Now such is * ' Aladdin ' s" assigned and undoubted cause of the revival of Toryism ; while , as his lamp flickers , and as his spleen , his bile , his _rwicour , his hate and hope of gain from the destruction of vulgar Chartism rises , he thus describes the cause oi Tory renovation , " We have seen that Whig treachery organised disaffection , and that the TEACHINGS
OF FEARGUS O'CONNOR HAS REVIVED THE STRENGTH OF TORYISM . " Now which of those positions would f ' Aladdin " seek to maintain ? Upon which horn of the dilemma will he han g ? _Whether upon that which butts at the treachery of the Whigs and the middle classes , or that which points at the teachings of Feargus O'Connor ? No man can be more ridiculous than the man who , not having graduated in politics , has the presumption to abandon an unpolitical profession , and dash headlong into the vortex of political disputation . This puling writer , always buoyed up with the hope of gain from prostitution to the new move , tells us of the excellent agitation of the excellent Mr Sturge , and has the insolence to assert that both his
meetings convened for that purpose , and the meetings of the League convened for their selfish purposes , were disturbed by physical force Chartism ; while we defy him to point out one single solitary instance in which the meetings of either party were disturbed by physical force , or even by clamour , but , on the contrary , although both agitations were professedly originated for the benefit of the poor , and although the principles could be best enforced by discussion , and . although the people for whose benefit they were enunciated were invited to take part , yet did the Complete Humbugs and Free Traders deny the right of the
people to offer an opinion or an assertion ; and when those who were to be especially benefitted by the changes attempted to interfere , they were dragged out and trampled upon by the Police , as was exultingly boasted by their then leading organ , the "Morning Chronicle ; " they were dismissed , by their tyrant masters , they were branded by their cruel overseers , and they were convicted by middle class juries . So much for the charge of opposing physical force to the amiable Mr Sturge , and the immaculate League . As to the charge of physical force against Mr O'Connor , this _crotchet-monger must have an idea , and he must take that idea from the Press , and he knows that there is no such introduction to the cabin of the
steam boat , the railway station , the club room or coffee shop , as abuse of Feargus O'Connor ; but as he has entered the lists without armour he must be prepared for the assault , and we now challenge him to publish one sentence ever written by Mr O'Connor recommending a resort to physical force . As we said in the onset , we were prepared to tolerate the "Blue Beard'' stories , and all the fanciful lucubrations that filled the columns of this fairy-tale journal ; if there was a demand it was just U \ _eve should be a supply , and that the manufacturer should have a stall in the marketplace ; but when he goes out of his depth , and when he presumes to grapple with a giant principle , he must expect to share the fate , of the dwarf .
When this new movement was first organised , not a . syllable was breathed of physical force j every man relied I for success ou moral power . But politicalI sp _. _cukore soon came upon'he scene , seeking to turn the agitation X to P _»™ niary nrofat and personal aggrandisement . Cuti . . _nifig suggested a newspaper as the special organ of the e _inTntS p ld tt " _» _*•***•& intoaft organ of > f ? 3 ? n ? . _? ' . _EwrV n , wh 0 disdained to be the tool of if ™* ** _»» . _hnnted down ; un agent was appointed iu u etery town to invent false reports ; there was to be no _, o , . ne _" tno throne _; the profits were to be unshared ; . ; and , in tte name ef freedom , the press denounced all in- _idependeiicc of thought , all Ubvrty of action .
_k ° » w _, bat a tissue of folly and rigmarole , e . What other paper in the woild , save" the ie " _Norttern Star / ' has published the denuncia- ation of the proprietor ?—while , as to the profits ts being unshared , we should be glad to know w what partner—barring the" barmaid "—shares es the profits , be they much or be they little , of of the journal of the immaculate Jerrold . WeVe . doubt that he even supplies " Aladdin" with oil oil tor his lamp , while we would modestly ask . sk whether any other proprietor , except Mrvlr O Connor , has given the whole of his time , ne ,, the whole of his labour , and the whole of ofE his profits , to the sustainment of his cause ?
Aladdin' says , that those _whohadestablishediedl the Charter became disgusted and abandoneilnedl the cause . Surely the Duke of Richmendjnd _, _' _, whose Charter of 1780 " Aladdin" tells us hadhadi been adopted without change , and who _hashass ong since been gathered to his fathers , did _nojnoM become disgusted—and , if "Aladdin" wishes t « s t « know the cause of the desertion of those whoxhec based their retreat upon disgust , he will _ftad _Ud ill in the words of the honest veteran * -Johiohi Kni ght , when he said—" " Feargus , man , if ypV yom atop the supplies from those , London raewiw
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 16, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_16091848/page/4/
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