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LOU S BLANC'S REPLY TO U. THIJHS.
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And Traihtforward Tw0stockport.—Any Memo...
THE _NORTHE RN- STAR November 18 , 1848 . — - ___—_^_^_ _^^^ _£ JLma _ _mmem * m -am ~ _a _ Wa * — _-mamna ____ maaa _^ ¦ . 1 \
Lou S Blanc's Reply To U. Thijhs.
LOU S BLANC'S REPLY TO U . _THIJHS .
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HowKway . pricMMo- -. Mit « t _K _* _- , ntl 1 * _'nndPortmtof _tbeAuih-QOCIALISM-THB BIGHT T ° The m , tory of _O By M . LOUIS BLAKC . « thoro * _^ _TetYLt . _' _end-The _OrtamsaW _* _?™ H # Solt Published at the _Sriarr a *" Conrt Fieet - _--treet , London .
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_„„„„ - _rrwDER GOVERNMENT . _^ _SKSS _^ * " «*» _«*™ _ ~ mns TO GOVERNMENT SITUATIONS , G c _^ . t-ir . wg Salaries i . iveu in each Office both at coiito' » "b jn w jj ora Vested , how Home and *___ _% _fZ ___;^ _fict-Sumb-r of Clerks _^•^ Q _^ Son _^ _Honrs of Attendance tc . s 2 . t ( fa _* t _. f _** ee ) on receipt of t _* renty-f . ur stamps by _fe ! _tuUUh _« , C . Mitchel , Red Liou Court , Fleet Street , Londoa .
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TO TAILORS . Bj approbation of Her Majesty Queen Victoria , and H . R . H . Prince Albert .
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DO YOU SUFFER TOOTHACHE ?—If so , nse Beanos '* _Esxaei . for filling th » deeayed spots , _renderiog defective teeth sound aad pamlees . rnce One SMllio only , _sitiiiar to that sold at Two Shillings _« nd Sirptnce . Sold by _chrmists ererywhere . Testimonials . — ' It bas _irivea me the use of one side rf my meutb , which luxury I had not enjoyed for about two Tear-. * —E . J . Macdosald , _Belford . _Xortbu-nberland . It fa the most e & ctive and painless cure for tooth _, ache I have ever found . I bave no hesitation m recommenduuitto all sufferers . '—Captain TuoK-S _Waiear , 12 , _Ne-rineton-c-escent , London . « I have filled tnro teeth , and find I can nse them as well as ever I did in my life . I have not had the toothache since . ' — Abraham _Cotus _* . _North-brook-place , Bradford , Yorkshire . See numerous other testimonials in various newspapers _, every one of which is strictly authentic . If any difficulty in _obtaining it occurs 6 end One Shilling and a Stamp to J . Willis . 4 , Bell ' s-buUdings . _Salisbury-sqnare , I / radon , and you will ensure it by return of pest . —Agents -wanted .
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EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA AND THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE—The _eplendid following ship * will be _despatched as nnder : — Tor ALGOA BAT , November « th , the PERSEVERANCE . too tons , P . THOMPSON , Vaster ; loading- in the London Docks . For the CArE of GOOD HOPE , December J , the JULIANA , 586 tons , F . BOWLES , Vaster ; loading in St Katherine Docks . For POET PHILIP and _STD-VET . November 25 th , the 3 EULATI , 57 S tons , J . H . lf . STRUBOS , Master ; loadine ia ihe London Docks . The above fast-sailing ships are commanded by efficient officers , and are fitted with _speeial attention to the comfort and convenience of every class of passengers . They have most _spsdous 'tween decks , _weil ventilated , are £ tfcd with lift boats , carry experienced surgeons , and are provisioned on the most liberal scale . > - Families can have their berths so arranged that they can be entirely to themselves , and n'ot mix with the other
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FREEHOLD LAUD and COTTAGES , the property of a private Gentleman , with immediate possession , "J miles from O'Connorville , may be bought £ 0 as to conier VOTES for the County of Buckingham , or will be let on leases for any number of years—S & 9 , it required . Rent for a two-roomed cottage and garden , 19 s . ed . per _quartrr ; with one acre of land , in addition Scs . per quarter . Persons having a small income , or who can manufacture artides for London employer ; , will do well to attend to this immediately . Twelve families of weaver * , shoemaker ' , tailor ? , ic ., & c , wtre located on this estate through one single advertisement . Applicants who conld not then be accommodated should renew their applications , as they may now r « nt , or purchase , from _cine-eighth of an acre to twenty acres oi rich corn , growing , or building land ; the Freeholder contracting in all case * to take upon himself tha whole of the law ex-
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OS SALE , A PAID-UP FOUR-ACRE SHARE in the Land Company , free from all demands . As the owner thinks of emigrating , and is in immediate want of The money , he will sell the share for £ _4 8 s 4 d , being a sacrifice of ISs npon the whole . Persons desirous of _purchasing , may apply to John _Carnett , Damside , Keighley , secretary to the branch ; or to the owner , Jonas Itiingwortb , Harden , near _EeighJej .
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TO BE SOLD , rywo FOUR-ACRE PAID-UP SHARES ia the -A- _Xational Land Company . Apply , prepaid , to T _. B ., Sl , MiniterLoTel , neflr Witney ,
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FOR SALE , A PAID-UP FOUR-ACRE SHARE in the Kational Lan I Company , with all dnes clear on the Company's book . Price £ 1 Its . Direct , Greenwood Hartley , Grange , _Aceringtoa .
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rpO BE SOLD , AT O'CONNORVILLE , A - » - __ _FOUR-ACRE ALLOTME * ST .-ThiB is worthy the notice of any one desirous of locating on the Land , as the present occupier has spaced no _expense In tee im . provement From unforeseen circumstances he will part with it for £ 1 ¦ ., with the liabilities . For further particulars apply i . y letter ( encloriag a stamp ) to Mr Willuks , No . l'i , O'Connorville , _Bickntans worth . Herts .
Iwm ^Ciui Iouimea Lord Cardigan And The Llth Hcs?Ars.— The John Bull Ha Published Astaetment Rela-Ive To T N-A N — J:— R --»
iwm _^ ciui iouimea Lord Cardigan and the lltH Hcs ? ars . — The John Bull ha published astaetment rela-ive to T _n-A n — j : — r -- »
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v giii , upon a case , the alleged circumstances of which are briefly these : a short time since the Hon . Gerard Noel , a captain in the corps of wbich Lord Cardigan is colonel , baving been late at stables reported himself , expressing regret for his breach of disci pline . He was at once placed utder arrest by the colonel , and the arrest remained in force nntil the regiment left thctOWu , on which occasion Captain Ivoel marched out in the rear of his troop , witbout his sword the usual course
_adopted towards officers under arrest . Soon afterwards Captain Noel was again place ! under arrest , for not returning to his duty during the Easter holidays , tke rule , however , beiog tbat officers in the army who are also members of the legislature , may at any time absent themselves from their regimentwithoat the necessity of obtaining leave of absenceto attend their _parliamentary duties . From tbis arrest , so soon as is was known . Captain Noel was released by the general uf the district . Not long after his liberation from tbe second arrest , Capt . Noel , rwi bekig exactly on the spot where at the moment he
ought to have been , Lord Cardi gan peremptorily called out to him . 'Capt . Noel , go to vour troop , sir ! ' To which _otfer the captain replied « I am with my troop , sir ; ' being immediately answered b y his lordship , 'You are sot , sir ; none of your London mazners here ! ' Hert by the _colocel ' s words he sskea for a private interview , at which he asked Lord Cardigan why _inserting language Aad been applied to him on parade , in the presence of his troop ? Tie answer receive ! was , ' Set oat of my room , sir ! ' Thereupon Capt Noel laid the whole matter before the Commander-in-chief , who , after a considerable coirespondenee with tbe _nerties , directed , through the Adjutant-General , that Capt . Noel should apologise to Lord Cardigan , a
direction with which Capt , Noel , in the presence of the Adjutant-General , Lord Cardigan , sad other authorities , re &* ed lo comply . The Hon . Captain Noel is member fcr the couRt _yof Rutland ; bis father , the Earl of Gainsborough , is a supporter of the government , though th-. captain himself is a Conservative ; bis maternal node is Sir C . Grey , the Home Secretary , and his stepmother ie lady of the bedchamber . Captain Noel writes to the commander iruchief expressing bis wish to obey his grace ' s commands ' but praying inthe first instance for a court of in ! quiry . The . Dnfce of Wellington refuses the court of inquiry upon , principle , and a court martial is i _mpracucable , for _before sneh a tribunal Lord Car . _& gan must prefer hi , charge . Hew the matter
monS ? i _™ , late tbe Bines , who suffered 12 5 _Si rT _! the fatal dne ! witn Kent _SiSff _> ° t 53 lh _Regm-ent , U . it is said , to be appointed _ndm _g-master _rf the 7 th Hussars '
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How Beady , a New Edition of HR O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS
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PORTRAITJH- CUFFEY . The above portrait , taken by his _re'Iow-sufferer , Wm . Dowling , is now ready . Price 6 d . Orders re . ceived by Mr Dixon , 144 , High Holborn .
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TBE VICTIMS . This is cold weather , and the prison is a cold place , but not colder than the tireless hearth of the p risoner ' s famil y . To say much upon their sufferings would he but to wound their feelings and to insult your p ride . You onl y require to be reminded to be roused , and therefore , in God ' s name , in the name of justice and not of charity , I ask all to give a Hide , and to furnish the Victim Comniitiee with the means of g iving some consolation to the cheerless families of the imprisoned victims , so that , though they may spend a cheerless , they shall not spend a cold and hungry Christmas , Feargus O'Connor .
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THE NOKTHEKN STAR , SATDBDAT , NOTE USER 18 , IMS .
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OUR ANNIVERSARY . This day we commence the twelfth year ' s volume of the " Northern Star . " Since November , 1837 , we hare witnessed changes not a few—some of which we Ua * re assisted , and some we have resisted . In both cases the results have satisfied us that we ri g htl y interpreted our duty . We feel no regret for having supported the Ten Hours Bill ; we feel no remorse for having opposed "Free Trade . " In reviewing the past we make no pretension to having exhibited superior political foresight . Both in supporting and opposing public measures .
our course has been straightforward , because guided hy tke common-sense maxim — " Honesty is tbe best policy . " Within the past eleven years we have seen Whigs become Tories , and Protectionists turn Free Traders . We have seen the long continued struggle for the Factory Bill crowned with victory , and Free Trade tried and pronounced a failure— " weighed in the balance and found wanting . " We have seen Whig traitors persecuting Irish patriots , and English Liberals marshalled in battle array against their more . liberal countrymen , the Chartists . We have seen the electors of
Nottingham thrust away Treasury hacks to elect the man of all others most hated b y the men of Privilege , for his indomitable advocacy of the Rig hts of Labour . We have seen emptyheaded oligarchs and purse-proud millocrats humbled on the hustings , and defeated on the platform , by the uneducated but honesthearted sons of Industry . We have seen Chartism survive three great persecutions , and prove its indestructibility by the number of its martyrs . We have seen the vast estates of ducal aristocrats brought to the hammer , and poverty-stricken working men , by the power of their united pencp , purchasing back their natural _heritage . We have seen the
beginning of a movement which , based upon the Land , cannot fail to eventuate in the social emancipation of the down-trodden masses . Abroad , we have seen thrones overturned and states shaken to their foundations by the might of unorganised and unarmed multitudes . We have seen the power of a king , reputed to be the wisest and strongest in Europe , vanish like the mists of the morning before the rising sun of Proletarian power . We have seen—<• Some _nati-us—Ilka overloaded asses-Kick off tbeir burden * , im ailing tbe hi « b _clae-en . "
Lastly , « _-e have seen the " Northern Star " maintain the even tenor of its way , in spite of prosecution and persecution ; and year by year grow in power and popularity , in defiance ofthe assaults of undisguised enemies , and the treacherous plotting _^ of p retended friends . The year now rapidly drawing to a close , has been one of trial and peril , unmatched by the stormiest times in the previous history of this journal . The extraordinary events of February and March—the astonishing victories gained b y the people of Paris , Berlin , Vienna , Milan , and a dozen minor cities , on the Continent , naturally excited popular —
« * I enthusiasm in this country . The agitation for the Charter could scarcel y be said to exist twelve months ago , but hardly had a month elapsed from the 24 th of February , when thousands mi ght beseen thronging to Chartist gatherings all over the conntry . The fiery cross sped from north to south , and multitudes from the mine and the factory , the forge and the loom , responded to the appeal made in the name of the Charter . _Unfortaoately enthusiasm out-stripped organisation , and our friends , eager for the contest , pushed oa to meet the foe while yet unprepared for the struggle—of course they were defeated . Misdirected enthusiasm ever leads to ruin .
The errors of the " Convention'' were enormously multip lied and magnified ' by the succeeding Assembly ; " and hence , what might have been a temporary repulse became a _thorough defeat . Division and denunciation completed the sad work of self-destruction . Over ardent men , seeing the chances of victory rapidly disappearing , threw themselves into a hopeless _strupgh ? , and were of course sacrificed . Despairing men gave fatal attention to the suggestions of the tempter , and our disasters were crowned b y the destruction of Powell ' s victims .
Between friends (?) and foes we have had our share of abuse and danger . We have been abused for labouring to save the Movement from total shipwreck ; and tlie Gagging Bill is sufficient evidence that our course has been a perilous one . Nevertheless , in the darkest hour of tbe stormy times we have just passed though , wenerer despaired of Chartism . Convinced that the principles of the Charter were based on eternal Justice , we defied the tornado of tyranny , and smiled at
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the foam « of faction . We have now cur reward . M the very time of pur anniversary weseeCJhartism rising once more to life and action , Ihe a Phoenix springing from its ashes . Prison-gateB and transport-hatches have scarcely closed upon the victims ef 1848 , when , Io ! Chartism , like Lazarus , bursts the tomb , and comes forth once again to trouble the hearts of the doers of evil ; and _proclaim to the long-suffering- millions the coming of that day—• ' When _senee and worth , o ' er a' the earth Shall bear tbe tree on a' that . "
The Future demands a few words . Every year but adds to the experience of age that the working class have nothing , in the shape of justice , to hope for at the hands of any other class . Their emancipation both from political bondage and social thrall , must be self-wrought . It is no longer a _questiortfo he _argued , whether political or social reform should have precedence . Political reform is indispensable for the ohtaintnent of social regeneration . It is true that Universal Suffrage , unaccompanied by political knowledge almost as universal , will not do much for any people , hut it is also true that knowledge without power is necessaril y useless . To know how to fell a tree is useless , unless one has an axe to go to work with , '
and the mere knowledge of building will not suffice to erect a house , in the absence of hrick or stone , mortar , wood , plaster , & o . A man may see how the poverty of the people mig ht be turned to plenteousness , but what avails that knowledge if the man is unpossessed of power to put his regenerating theories into practice ? Consequently , in the future , as in the pasthistery of this journal , we shall make the political emancipation of the people thegreat object f our labours . We are with all who are / or THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER ; we are against aU who are opposed to that CHARTER . Now , a 6 heretofore , our motto is ( and shall be in the days to come , as it was in the days that are gone ) ,
"THE CHARTER ! AND NO SURRENDER !" Though giving our first attention to the enfranchisement of the masses , social reform shall also have our ardent support . But we must explain . We do not intend to engage in a special crusade against drains and dunghills , churchyards and cesspools , we leave that work to the Cholera—the most sweeping : and successful of Sanitary Reformers . Nor do we intend to render the " Star ' _*¦ particularly notorious b y its advocacy of baths and wash-houses , ragged
schools , or any other of the usual objects of _professional philanthropists . Most assuredly we shall not be caught advocating Emigration , unless it be the emigration of the patrons and preachers of Emigration , whose company might be very well dispensed with . We have no objection to the removal of nuisances , the substitution of cleanliness ior filth , and ihe diffusion of education . It is- * true we have no liking for "ragged schools , " that is to say . we object to the rags not the schools ; we " think , moreover , that the
removal of the rags is the first thing necessary . Our great difference with the self . styled " p hilanthropists" and " social reformers is , that they nibble at the fag-ends of the system , bnt leave the system itself untouched . Ignorance , filth , and rags are the necessary consequences of the system , and as long as the monster evil is _uniformed theee minor evils will increase and multi p l y , much faster than ragged schools and wash-houses . Such remedies hut p laster the sore—not heal it . We demand a
radical cure . We demand the consecration of what our French brethren term , "The Rig ht to Labour . " We demand that the working man shall be placed in a position to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow . Regarding the Land as the natural home of man , we demand that tbe exile shall be restored to his home . w Man lives , therefore he has a rig ht to live , " say our American brethren . We say so too , and we say with them , that te live , man must he put in possession of his heaven-g iven heritage — his native soil . Tbe population called " surplus , '' brought back to the natural labour of cultivating the earth , cities would gradually be emptied of the miserable thousands whose lives are now
spent in ignorance , misery , and disease . Ihe labourer on the Laad , enjoying the lull reward of his toil , would be able to educate his children , and dispense with the services of sanitary reformers . The worker in the artificial labour market , relieved from the devouring competition which at present drags down the labourer to tbe level ofthe pauper , would also be in a position to reject the degradation of " ragged schools , '' and other nostrums of philanthropists , because he would be able by his own independent exertions to provide for the education , health , and
comfort of his family . With these views weRhall continue to advocate the Land Plan , believing , in spite of present discouragementSjthat that Plan , if carried out , is calculated to make thousands independent ofthe tyranny of capitalists , and the destructive revulsions of commerce . Nationall y applied , the Land Plan would , we are persuaded , Jay the foundation of a new and happier state of society ; therefore , in advocating social reform , we mean that before all the Labourer shall be restored to the Land .
As regards the . attitude we shall assume towards other parties , our course is plain . Men may preach what social nostrums they please without in _' erference from us , except the interference of legitimate discussion . We except the _emigration schemers , with them no terms should be kept . They are unmistakeable charlatans , and , as such , should be nnmasked , exposed , and driven from the public arena . As regards political reform , we shall judge of every project brought before the public on its own merits . If men advocate the Charter , we shall not ask whether
they belong to the " Charter Association" or the " Charter Union / ' the object of their advocacy will suffice to command our co-operation . On the other hand , no weight of name or purse shall prevent us opposing schemers of every description . We shall oppose thcni ; however , with the weapons of fair argument and free discussion . When Anti-State Church men , Financial Reform men , or Household Suffrage men , attempt by petition—atTecting to speak the sentiment ' s ofthe people—to obtain national sanction for their schemes , it will be the duty of the Chartists to propose the Charter as an amendment . If
mere is to be » national agitation , that agitation must be for justice to all— -for the government of all , by all , and for all . Frenchmen hare won their Charter at the cost of torrents of blood . Universal Suffrage has received the same baptism in Germany ; and at this moment , the Prussian people are engaged in a death-straggle with their faithless King to maintain their new-born liberties . For a moment the sanguinary hordes of Despotism have succeeded in crushing the gallant people of Vienna ; but th _6 j triumph of the Royal blood-hounds will be short-lived . The coming year will witness over all the Continent the renewal of the struggle—a strmr « _-l « X a a
Tn v - " " ¦ " untiI «» people are finall y victorious . Working men of Great Britain , will you alone tamel y hug your chains _J-Heaven forbid I Without any bloody struggle you may win yeur Freedom if you will but make the effort . You have sufficient newer under the present system to change it for a better , without having re course to the musket and the sabre . Let then the future redeem the errors ofthe past . Let 1849 not _passanay without your rulers being made to comprehend the " _j-reat SOURCE OF ALL POWER
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POLITICAL AND SOCIAL REGE _NEGATION . _- _*_ -, __ - _ a tt ¦ * _Afr \ _ilAntlT T » T _1 V _* _" _** r . 1
THB LAND AND THE CHARTER . Prolixity and repetition often tend to weary the reader , to weaken arguments , and injure a good cause * , while , upon the other hand , the want of explanation and connexion , however prolix the expounder may be , may leave hts readers in the dark as to his object or the value of its realisation , and hence we find that the mystery of interested theorists has so _entang led or left unexplained the Labour Question , as to leave the solution of that great question , a yet unravelled problem .
The Rig hts of Labour have been heretofore , and throughout all time _. attemptedtobehased upon such a political basis as would give political power to the propounders ofthe most fascinating theory , until at length we find the whole continent . of Europe convulsed—nay , revolutionised—in consequence of the most enthusiastic theorists being unable to give a satisfactory solution of the Labour Questionwhich is the life question—and so long as the
working classes are satisfied that their condition should he measured by the comparative scale of comfort , we are enabled to ascribe the present anomalous distress of the working classes to the accumulation of individual capital , which constitutes a destructive despotism . To ' the possession and command -of the monster evil—MACHINERY—we ascribe this fatal error ; and to its unlimited power is to be attributed the present unsettled state of Europe .
We have been censured for opposing Free Trade , * we have been censiaed for withdrawing our opposition at the critical period , when continued resistance mi g ht have enabled the leaders of the Irish people to persuade tl em , tbat , but for the resistance of the English Chartists to cheap bread , all those who perished would have been preserved , and all those who were in want would have been in affluence ,
or at least in comfort . We have been censured for preferring the Free Trade of Peel , with the timely and prudent concessions which were sure to follow , had he remained in power , lo the Free Trade of Russell , wbich but meant the possession of power ; we have been censured by the Anti-Corn-Law League and their MYRMIDONS , for our predictions as to what the inevitable result of Free Trade must be ; and
we have been censured by the most enthusiastic Chartists for having attached aSOClAL SYSTEM to our POLITICAL CREED . The Chartists never having evinced much enthusiasm—in a pecuniary sense—towards the cause , _rtviled the establishment of the Land Company , numbering seventy thousand , and nearly the entire of whom were the oldest , the best , the most enlightened and consistent advocates of Chartism .
The enthusiastic who scoffed at the possession of a cottage and four acres of Land , when all other channels of industry were closed against the individual pauper—denounced the Land Plan as the destroyer of Chartism , while those who did not join in the social move were only prepared , upon the depression of trade and bad times , to _assist * in the Chartist movement , and then only with cheers . However , if the Land Plan—which is the only possible social plan for the emancipation of Labour—has had to stand the assaults of enthusiasm , the meeting of Land Delegates at
the Birmingham Conference , attheShiplavern , has relieved the social question ofthe political odium sought to be cast upon it . Here we find that thirty-seven delegates chosen by the Land members , after nine hours ' daywork , devoting their nights to the resuscitation of the Chartist cause . We find them outbidding each other , not in mock enthusiasm , but in sanguine hope ; we find them bitterly denouncing the errors which led to the partial
suppression of our cause , and anxiously recommending a system of organisation which must lead to its _' resurrection , followed , not b y empty cheers , but by substantial subscriptions . And with that discrimination which will ever belong to , and be found in , a just representation of the Chartist mind , and which proves their fitness for tbe selection of representatives , we find them appointing—if not the most efficientas efficient _asecretary as England could supply —Mr Samuel Kydd .
The great , the paramount duty of a Chartist Parliament would be to see nnd know how to equalise taxation , and to decide upon a just and equitable distribution . And here we find a Parliament elected by the poor to look to the equitable application of their f unds , giving their most anxious consideration to the revival of their political princi p les ; a fact which we fondl y hope one day to see realised , and which now stands as the GREAT FACT , that Landism and Chartism are not only not incompatible , but are as Siamese twins , that cannot be separated without danger to both .
As long as the working classes confined their agitation to political questions , in which they may be resisted by the force ef law , or which—when threatening danger to capital or monopoly—mi ght be taken out of their hands , and reduced to the standard of middle class necessity—so long was their agitation sneered at ; but the moment the social benefit was tacked to the political change , then did the factions and their organs wage " war tothe knife" against the realisation of the system which alone could make Labour independent of Capital , and political power the means of social happiness .
America is already beginning to declaim against the system of Free Trade , which staticians show has paralysed Labour , and caused poverty and destitution to the working man ; while , if the land of America was free , as it ought to be , to all those who were displaced by our present artificial system , universal Free Trade , instead of being a curse , as it now is , would then he a blessing , as machinery wo « ltl then be man s holiday and man ' s friend , instead of man ' s curse and man ' s oppressor . It is a melancholy fact , day after day to read of shipwrecked emigrants , while tlie land of their birth is calling for their labour . Itis
blasphemy upon the part of our rulers and paid parsons , to hear them preaching emigration with the odds of shipwreck fearfully against the emigrant , while they tell their congregations that man was created of the earth after the image of bis Maker , and told to live Hpon the land in the sweat of his own brow , and that the birds of the air , the beasts of the field , and the fishes in the sea , were giren to him as his patrimony . Here is England , in the nineteenth century , with a debt larger than the rest of the world owes , and contracted for tbe preservation of her glorious Constitution , the envy and admiration of surrounding nations ,
with her astounding inventions and improvements in the arts and sciences—with her steam navigation—her railways—her incomparable machinery—her penny postage—her electric telegraph—her printing press—and , above all , the new mind created by those changes—here is England , in this age of progression , hoping to govern upon the old precedents of dead men , whose opinions , while living , were disregarded—and by obsolete laws , made , not for the mere eovernment , but for the subjugation of mind , in the more barbarous ages , when the feudal lord was the maker , the administrator , and the executor of the law .
Here is England still hoping to govern some b y the mystery of priestcraft and others by the terror of the sword , while the more civilised countries of Europe , not possessed of those astounding advantages , are proclaiming changes which our rulers vainl y hope to resist by the suppression of p ublic opinion , The last session of Parliament was wholl y governed by apprehension and fear , and the Ministry was only sustained by those means . It ended its sittings b y indulging its Chancellor of the Exchequer with an additional two millions to preserve peace abroad and at home , but the next session will be of a very different character—the Protectionists have lost their
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leader—their indefatigable and straightforward leader ; and , under the present system , there is no possible salvation for the landed proprietors , and the GREAT GENTLEMEN OF ENGLAND , but the substitution of PEEL for RUSSELL , It may be a source of annoyance to be bitten by one ' s own dog , hut it is a greater disaster to be devoured by your neighbour ' s , * and the Protectionist party may rest assured that there is no possible hope of escape except in timely surrender , as the alternative now is to preserve their position according to the standard of PEEL FREE TRADE POLICY , or by obstinacy to lose , not onl y position , but property—which gives position—by waiting upon the RUSSELL FREE TRADE t . 1 t * 1 _ _•_ i _» ___ . _ . _% _* _«« . J * , w , m . _aal-JLi . C _~ __* - _* ,, _* aa A
PATRONAGE SYSTEM , The Labourer is now the man whose condition requires primary consideration . The Labourer is the man whose toil replenishes the Exchequer , or whose unwilling idleness threatens dinger to the State , and requires more ample means than when in a slate of comfort to make him obedient to the laws . Is it not an anomaly that in the same proportion as destitution increases—does the necessity of increased taxation follow , in order to silence that destitution ?
France has proclaimed its bag of moonshine as its Constitution ; but the power that framed it is yet behind it—is greater than the Constitution , and can remodel it at pleasure . The struggle for a President in that country has yet to come on and the dangers described b y Lamartine , as consequent on the election of that officer b y the National Assembl y , instead of being confined to the anticipation of patronage nnd favouritism within its narrowsphere , will now be measured b y the most diffuse local , sectional , and national bribery , hypocrisy , deception , treachery , and fraud . Napoleon elected , and . thebagof moonshine has
a most appropriate representative . Napoleon rejected , and the bag of moonshine vanishes into air . Napoleon is as fit to hold the office of President as he is to be Prime Minister of England , Napoleon understands as much about the LABOUR QUESTION—which is the VEXED QUESTlON-as an old woman that never saw a field , or heard of a factory . Upon tbe other hai . * d , should Cavaignac be elected , the seeds of eternal warfare between the adherents of the President and the Bonapartists are sown , and will be watered with blood , while Labour will reap none of the fruits .
Prussia ' s monarch is in his hiding-place , his power depending upon the cast of the die ; but never can be 60 resuscitated as again to make him the valuable auxiliary of the British monarchy , or a trump card in the British Minister ' s band , The palace of the Caesars is abandoned by its vacillating Emperor . All Italy is in a state of combustion . Sardiniacommandsits monarch . Hungary , Sicily _. _'Naples , Lombardy , and nearly all the states of Europe , are convulsed . Spain is tottering . Portugal is known but upon the map . Ireland is in a state o f incipient
revolution . England is all but bankrupt , and the rallying cry of parties determined to cling by an adopted fiction is— " Down with the Chartists ! " because they advocate the cause of Labour ; while the want of the proper adjustment of the Labour Question has led to every continental revolution ; but , still clinging to hope , our incapable rulers vainl y imagine that Labour can be still kept in subjection at home —that the _Chancellor of their Exchequer , like a magician , can apply his charmed wand to the chest , cry— - " Open sesame— '' andthat the treasure will jump forth .
Hence we show and hence we prove that the Labour Question must be settled , and that there is no possible mode of settlement except b y locating the ; unwilling idlers upon the Land , and giving the vote to all to protect their inheritance , when all will speedily possess themselves of the means of defending a Constitution which will THEN be the boast of England and the ENVY AND ADMIRATION
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The Last Argument Of Kings. We Direct Th...
THE LAST _ARGUMENT OF KINGS . We direct the attention of our readers to the news from Germany in _ovir Seventh Page . Order reigns in Vienna ! The bombardment of tbat devoted city has been followed up by the daily execution of scores of the patriots . The gallant Messenhauser , commander of the National Guard , has been ruthlessl y slaughtered , and the eloquent , high-hearted Robert Blum , deputy from Leipsic to the Frankfort Parliament , has shared the same fate . This last horrible outrage will , however , seal the doom of the Reactionists . War—war to the knife—to the death— -will he the cry of the German people . The latest accounts from Berlin are of the
most _thrilling interest ; The infernal King designs a repetition of the Austrian tragedy . But the Prussians have the fate of the people of Vienna before their eyes . If they yieldwholesale murder will be the order ofthe da }' . Behold the bitter fruits of that fatal mercy shown by the people in March last . The 'last argument of Kings' cannot fail to be henceforth the last argument of the people . It is the only argument kings can be made to comprehend . May they be speedily enlightened !
The National Assembly And Mr O'Connor. W...
THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND MR O'CONNOR . We have received thirty pages and a half of closely-written matter on foolscap , signed " Robert Cochrane , delegate from Paisley , James Adams , and Andrew Harley , delegates from Glasgow to the National Assembly , " purporting to be the exposition of their opinions of Mr O'Connor ' s conduct in connexion with that body , while , in reality , it contains one huge mass of vulgar names and low denunciation , spreading over a period of time , embracing from 1839 , when the first Convention sat , down to tlie present time ; and even the
supporters of those delegates cannot for a moment presume that five or six mortal columns of the " Star" are to be devoted to a heterogeneous mass of personal abuse and selflaudation . Every single matter mentioned in this long rigmarole , in connexion with the National Assembly , was brought forward by Mr Shirron at Aberdeen , replied to by Mr O'Connor , and published in the "North British Express . " It lias been our custom to allow great privilege to writers , even when the
proprietor of the paper was the subject of the most virulent abuse , but we certainly cannot throw open our columns to the extent required by the trio of Gentlemen above named . There was one important hem omitted in the address , namely , that when denunciation of Feargus O'Connor could no longer be made the stock-in-trade of Scotch delegates , Mr James Adams was appointed spokesman of a deputation who called upon Mr O'Connor at this office to furnish the needv with the
means of returning to their disgusted constituents . The only parallel wt can furnish for the Scotch abuse , is that of the Solicitor , who , nnding that his client hnd a bad case , directed _counsel " to abuse the plaintiff ' s Solicitor , ' *
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J , Sweet _acknowledges the receipt of tlie following 1 bums for Mrs M'Douall , viz .: - £ s . d . Mr Meads .. ,. „ .. -. 002 Mr Broiholtne ., „ ,. .. 6 0 ' . ' Mr Shepherd .. 0 o 3 Mr _Chipindale .. .. ¦ _% •• 0 1 0 AND FOR GENERAL vicrj . M fum * _. From New Radford .. ., « 0 1 2 _8 3 _T" We are informed that in order to raiso fund * for tho defence of the Chartists , to be tried at Liverpool , on tha 12 th of December , charged with conspiracy , Mr Donovan intends visiting Itochdale , on Sunday , Nov . 19 th ; _Todmerdea , Monti ty ; _ticoden Bridge , Tuesday ; Sofrerfey . Bridge , _Wedncjiiny ; _EJlaud , Thursday . Halifax , Friday ; Sunday , Nor . 26 th , DewBbury ;' _lludderifiold _, Monday ; Donc 8 ster , Tuesday ; _Barnsley , YYed « csday ; Sheffield , _TfcuntSty ; _Mottratn , Friday ; and Stal ybridtfe _, Sunday , December 2 nd . B . lloBEBTsos , _Ermington—Wo bars sunt your letter to t ' Je * j « nd Director * .
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T . W . 0 „ Stockport . —Any _memoer may _trangf . _^ shares ob the payment of ona --billing , at the nm hl » the Company , and liquidating aU his local and J ?* ** _duos .-TBOMAS Vita * . 8 « D » r _» _i J ®* In consequence ef the _anaoaieemeat of « w coming mee «*» g" , balls , tea parties , 4 c ., havin i _**•* _lau'jchargedwus as advertisements , wo ha » f _^ vtt compelled to _e _» nde _« _se them as much as _posiibi ? if * hop * our _correspondents will be brief in the' e nounc « _nents _, aad make a distinction between ! and Chartist meetings . Bow-, 1 _neticen of mL , *''' * hare Intel ? been sent to u » witkout the date 0 3 _% meeting . We _receded one from Ashton under _r ° * last week , stating that a meeting would be h iia 6 hall-past ten o ' olock , omitting the day on which * meeting wa « to take place . We have received sB 8 ac '> announcements similar to it this week , and _su-h rS * ties must _blamo themselves if their _me'timr- - ' " _notited . _¦*' « sare tt % t Jonius . —We are Porry that your excellent letUr h .. i excluded from this week ' s Star . It shall _amim .,.- ° » next number . _PF ° " » our T _ W . _O-.. _RtftcVuftrt . — AlW m & mVllQr mow _*__ 7 " _^
Johk _Lowar , Carlisle , _^ acknowledging his _elprr one of the Executive Committee , suggests that th 1 s sons selected by the Birmingham meeting shonM per * elected by their several con'tituencie _* ; _suchl 1 ) 9 Mr Lowry thinks would ensure confidencp in « , „ " l > Executive , m n «» M . _JnoB , _Kewcastle-on-Tjite . —The Landnotice i < i _missible . lna d-A tovBa ok Thou * , Blackburn ; J . White . _Pa'kfrt , L . M ., Thnrnton .-We have no room . _** _'"" *> and J . Putnah _Glenister _, Cheltenham . — Thanks for _« , paper , which wc . hare n _» t jet had time to DP-, , ? shall havo our attention . mm * John _PxAliCBr , _Itotherhithe . —We _approve reneralir « your _seuttmeBts , but their publication would onl » i ., ° to a profitless discussi on . Ultra conciliation Ju I _Z find much favour from ss . We say - let _the-AmS be wise as serpents , and ' not quite' so _harmifs . » doves . ' " * s
rHR Masons . —8 . W . is informed that the solicitor em ployed to defend the masons , whose trial fer _consDirnTo is appointed for next session , is not' William _PrS _.. ? : * _lloberts , ' of the _Adelpbi , the -liners * Attorney _GeS but a Mr Henry Boy den Roberts . We are not _aS whether the instructionB _' were _mis-senti In _consequent of the similarity , of name . * 8
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RECEIPTS OF THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY , FOR THK WBBKS ENDING THURSDAY , NOYEMBEa 9 , & 16 , 1818 . PER MR O'CONNOR , _-BAIES . £ S . d , Bridgewater , Spur- Bristol .. 2 0 0 way .. 2 10 Leicester , Bar . Nottingham , row .. O 2 o Sweet _w 8 4 a _Kocndale „ 1 13 6 Salford - 2 5 0 tynn _. Scott „ 0 12 Q _Llftlielly M 0 2 0 Devizes M 3 15 6 Manchester „ 17 0 Chas Mowl „ 0 2 _Q Leigh M 013 0 Thos Crabb „ 0 1 0 Horninghold .. 0 5 0 Wm Bailey .. 0 19 Mertbyr , Powell 1 14 ll EdmundJacksen 0 10
Westminster _.. 0 4 6 Ceo Don n i _« _AeBtmtnster ., 0 16 Ceo Don 0 10 Birmingham , Jos Richards " ft 7 _n Goodwin M 0 16 2 Thos _D-vonDort n 1 fi South Shields .. _4 U 0 JasButler „ 0 l I Nottingham , Thos Cork . ? 0 5 J Sweet ., H 8 _Jas Whiteley „ 0 10 0 _»? cu , 1 " 5 2 ° _JohnCollison „ 0 10 0 Blackburn .. 0 6 2 Leamington ., 2 0 a _Easington Lane 0 6 2 G Compton „ 0 5 s Leeds .. 4 13 4 SR Salmon .. 0 4 ft Corbridge .. 060 - __ Be _njamiu _Cowll . coo ¦ , _ sha * .. 0 10 s = 3 s-a
KPEN 8 B FUND . Nottingham , South Shields „ 0 6 0 Sweet _h 066 Nottingham , Llanelly .. 0 3 0 Sweet „ 0 9 J Mertbyr , Powell 0 10 , _, _Eiumgton Lane 0 5 0 £ 1 11 9 Thos Devonport 0 2 0 _SSSb LOAN FUND . Nottingham , Bristol „ 0 12 10 Sweet „ 0 16 Snig ' s Bnd H 0 6 7 Blackburn n 0 6 6 _GcoAMsou h 0 1 0 £ 18 9 V . Kossiter „ 0 0 I ¦ 1
BONUS . Birmingham , Newburg , J . Stone I 0 0 Goodwin .. 0 16 6 ——— - Carlisle .. 10 0 0 a ? 12 4 0 Geo Wright .. 0 7 6 — _ TOTALS . Land Fond 38 7 5 expense Fund ... ... ... 111 0 Loan Fund ... ... ... 13 9 Bonus — ... ... ... 12 4 0 m 11 U "Wh , Dixon . Cbbisto ? ties Don ** , Thos . _Clabc , ( Corres . Seo . ) Pair . ** - _M'QBATH , ( Fin . Seo . ) FOR THE EXECUTIVE . EECEIVKD Bt 8 . KYDD . _Todmorfien , per Birmingham , per Isaac Hartley 0 16 i i Sweet .. 3 2 0 Nottingham , per Leicester , per W J Sweet .. 0 2 0 Coltman .. 0 3 6 The Byron Cheltenham per Ward , Ditto .. 0 2 0 JHemmtn „ 0 4 5 Witham , per Mr Northampton , Fish .. 0 5 0 Mrs Jones ., 0 10 Derby , William ——Short 0 10 0 £ 5 6 3 _BECEIVED BT W . BISEB . Accrington , per G Hartley - .. 056 BBCEIVEB AT & AH & OFFICE . Stourbridge - ,, „ 2 II 6 VICTIM FUND _, yjsa _hs o ' conmob . For Mrs Jones , From F . W . per Toll Bar Walsh , Bir . Keeper .. 0 l c mingham .. 0 i 0 RECEIVED AT I . AND OFF 1 CH . Thos Browning 0 l 6 CNippard H 0 9 6 Kobt Cole .. 0 0 6 W Donaldson , of S C , City ' M 0 0 3 Warwick , and Three Friends 0 4 0 RECEIVED BT S . _KIDD . Sunderland , Thre » Northampton , Friends 0 1 6 Mr Page .. 0 2 0 Hanley and Shel- For Defence of J ton , per Mr West . TL .. 0 10 Bevington .. 0 10 0 Congreave Poul . Sheffield , per G toa & F Lever 0 0 9 Cavill . .. 0 10 6 FOR MRS M'DOUALL . BECEIVED BT W . BIDEB . Brighton , per W Merthyr Tydvil , Flower „ 0 7 2 per D K Mor . gan .. 0 11 2 Mr Fish , Witham , .. ., 006 FOR MR CCFFAY , BECEIVED _DV W , BIDEB . Hartlepool , p « rM Parkinson « ,. 0 3 l FOR WIVES AND FAMILIES OF VICTIMS . XCCE 1 VED BT W . EIDER . J Gale Jersey - 0 0 6 Cheltenham , per W Rigg , Hex- J Hemmin .. 9 10 5 ham m 6 2 6 Carlisle , per J Gorton , near Man- Gilbertson - 0 10 0 Chester , per T Brighton , per W Ormeshaw .. 8 7 6 Flower „ 010 7
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CENTRAL VICTIM FUND . Receipts of Week , ondlng Nov . 16 . h . £ _e . d . Land Office , as per Stab ... ... 3 18 Mr Rider , a- per Stab ... ... 4 0 8 _Bcuaiwlck _UaII ... ... „ . 0 5 0 _JTotllnghftm , psr J . _Sweet ... ... O S 0 Mr Kydd 12 7 South Shields , per Mr John Kyle ... 0 5 G
Peterbor » ' .. _.. 0 3 4 Female Ciiartists , p » r Mra Mudle ... 0 7 0 West End Shoemakers ... ... 0 3 8 > City Ladies' _Shoemakers ... ... 0 2 7 _| Globe and Friends , per Mr Knowles ... 0 10 6 I DS . to 0 9 6 _> CMtwright ' s locality ... ... ... Oil 1 . 1 . Mr T . _Wilks 0 2 0 1 Thomas Paiue locality ... ... ... 0 12 0 ) Ernest Jones locality ... ... ; _••• 16 4 4 Mr Kendal 0 1 0 0 _Maraball 0 0 3 3 Cigar M _< k < r _« , per Mr Brick ... .. 0 5 00 Djan Street ... ... ... 0 7 11 _Stmers Town ... ... ... 0 8 0 0 Hoxton ... ... ... ... 0 5 0 0 Crown and Anchor locality ... . „ 10 0 0 £ 15 18 8 . & J . J . HmiHAK , 2 C 6 ? _i Strand , London , Honorary Secretary . Njv . 16 ; b , 1848 . The commime request that ell persons holding ig ticketB for the late bent fit at the Strand Theatre , fflU 111 settle for the tame forthwith , in order that the aecoont it may be at once balanced _.
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_WiSl-li-NCE AND VICTIM FUND . BECEIVED IT _TVILLIAM BIDEB , Wandsworth , p . rG . Bake ... ... Q 6 G 5 Landernean ( France ) _Fiaxdresser , per W . Auchtaloioe ... . „ , |( 1 10 0 0 _CArlile , Caambere" Warpers , par J . GUbertson 0 10 0 0 Monmouth , per E . _Biias 0 4 0 0 Nottingham , ' Newton ' s H _« ad , ' por J , Sweet e 2 6 6 Birmingham , _People ' s Hall 0 14 6 6 D : tto , T . Starlln 0 0 ** Tbos . C . Ingram 0 2 6 G _Offeo Martin 0 1 0 0 _Cbas . B-ames 0 1 0 0 Cbas . Williams 0 0 6 6 _JohnDa-U ... ... ... ... 0 0 6 6 John llanuoi , Tredegar ... ... 0 0 0 6 Bristol , per W . H . Hyatt 0 11 0 0 Brighton , per W . Flower 0 8 99 Hartlepool , per li . Parkinson 0 2 1 1 Kidderminster , per J . Lythall ... ... 0 2 5 ! 5 A few tailors , Covent Gardtn ... ... 8 2 0 : 0 Nottingham , per J . Sweet ... ... 0 0 Gl G Manchester Defence , per ditto 0 0 8 ) 8 Mr _StebWngs , Old _Ktnt Road 0 6 01 0 South Shields , per W . _Gilflllan _... ... 0 10 M 0 £ i 18 2 S i
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 18, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_18111848/page/4/
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