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TO THE MANGETESTER COUNCIL.
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FRANCE. DcEEnr Tdouars asd his Swokd.—Th...
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To The Mangetester Council.
TO THE _MANGETESTER COUNCIL .
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r . « cE *»" . —B J _^ aar _**¦**' - ¦! _¥ _! ¦ « ow _^ _-, ' _-yoor ~ Z- _y _^ _Tmmiw \ _$ i ymr vatoMamess , ai \& your ' _^ _Sx too have succeeded in making tiie _i-ause of l _^ n _-tnnmp bant in your locality , and throughout I _^ _T _jjgjsife district influenced by your example . _^^^^ _dervonrpoation , so < a _^ yandpolitic : dly , — _^ _jSjy with reference to those powerful interests _ar-*^ Ls an < A yon , and politically as , regards the _in-^^^ ahostile press , —I cannot too much applaud Sf _^ bination of those-virtues by which you have £ L _esi _& led to hold year position in the worst of ¦*! 5 L When circumstances have warranted bold-• _• _^^ _J _^ oa haTe been the first to move ; and darin g thc f _^ dark nig ht of despair you have never desponded . _tSetiSemen , for these and many other reasons 1 . _JLji _nreat importance to your body : and when , _^ _SV vSw a S ° _> J expressed my willingness at all { _Stb submit my conduct to tic judgment ofthe _^ mg classes , 1 was _ptafecflypeisiuided that I and _X-thers would receive impartial justice at tho hands inouiiau wawi _lov 1
„ ( jay _uy _peopie : nor nave rt- reason to reverse my opinion up to thc present _ijmeat . Having a great _^ respectfor yon , and _anx-S _as io inspire all others with a similar feeling , I left T _endon on Saturday night last , in direct violation of A * reeoinmendation , nay , the injunction , of my _Svaesa . to aid yon by my evidence in thc _investi-Ltion ofthe charge of M'Douall against Leaeh . _^ _Genflem eu , no Business of my own would have indued ? as to take the journey ; while the expense _^ _jscquent upon it , nearly eight pounds , would have QUf n _raoretlmnp _^ d the dis puted amonnt ; not that j sh ould have objected to the risk or expense , had Ay . jnziicr ended ihere ; but the developemcnt of wand systematic abuse of myself , rather than the _jujrits of the case upon wliich . you were called on to js & le , did , as far as I was concerned , and indeed as t as the whole Chartist body were concerned , present to you , to iue , and to the audience , fresh matter jk . which to be silent would be criminal .
Gentlemen , before I refer to the matters more _gajecaally concerning myself , I think you will agree _£ _jtb me wLen I say that neither surprise , vexation , _jjor horror in a moment of great excitement , induced me to stray from the point before you ; and that I gave , my evidence fairly , impartially , and without _f-tas- _* - _Geoftemen , I cannot conceal from myself the fact that your feelings appeared to be highly wrought _, mo 3 , and much excited , by the aevelopcmcnts _juade to you ; and to them I now beg to direct your attention- Mr . leach stated , that Dr . M'Douall told lum that on his return from France , and on _visits -cue , I snapped my fingers and said , "there ' s _^ _otlung for you at Manchester . Leach has spent « vnr money . " That 1 had told him to publish Leachs
_Jjdia quency to the world ; and that I had written _j _* q letters to Dr . M'Douall , to France , denouncing I _^ ach as a rogue . These circumstances having been teminuni catcd to me by Leach upon the appearance ef Dr . M'Donafl's letter in the Northern Star , I Very _jBtnraDj thought they would be lugged one way or other into thc investigation ; Mid therefore I took the precaution of aiming myself with evidence on the _sEDJectwhieh I read for you , and which you will find a tthe foot of my letter . Gesdemen , I had been long aware—aye , for four rears—of the manner in which I have been secretly _^ d artfully denounced : but I fe ared that any complaint or _justifirafion might have been termed _"desvMisdm" upon my part , as I have always found
that " _» _ien I am attacked , and have attempted to _tej & y io long and systematic treachery , the conflict has always ended with _"Eeargus O'Connor ' s denunciations . Gentlemen , dangerons and unjust as those _asotions made by Dr . M'Douall were , I should still have borne them , relying that Leach , who was the onlvindindual concerned , would receive my contradictioE as a satisfactory answer , backed , as it was , fc- the udmmon of Jit . M'Douall himself , _Hiat Utc _allegations were unfounded and ¦ untrue ; but , gentlemen , there were other communications made to you by Mr . Leach , io which thc whole Chartist body are as much _foiif-Ciaed as myself—communications _whic-i must be true or false : and the truth or _^ falaity of which I am now determined shall be _estabnshed .
Genilemen , Mr . Leaeh told you in my presence , that Dr . M'Douall assured him that " I had sold the Chartist cause at Lancaster to Gov ernment , - ' and "that I received money for many years from the Government for destroying the Chartist cause ; and that he ( Dr . M'Douall ) had good and irrefutalle authority to substantiate these charges . Dr . M'Douall did not deny them ; but attempted to qualify them ; _-shcreapon ' Leaeh said , "If yon attempt to deny them , 'ihere are many persons in this room who heard you make tiie charge as well as mc ; andlean get people iu every town in Lancashire and Yorkshire that you have been in . since your return , to prove that you have areulated the same reports everywhere ; and throughout Scotland as well . "
Gentlemen , it is quite true that your countenances told aie that you did not believe those reports : but then , while you have known me personally and inihuately for nearly ten years , there are others amongst whom they have been circulated who do not knowmc as well or as intimately ; and their minds must be disabused , or the' truth of thc allegations must be established . Gentlemen , Mr- leach _ateeqaenflv _infikniedme , _beforesome of the council and many valued friends , that he ( M'Douall ) averred that" he derived his information from a Government officer whom lie met in France , and from the counsel who defended him at Lancaster , " and that "he ( M'Douall ) was bow determined to crush me , and to take ihe movement ont of my hands . "
Mr . Lonsdale , an amiable , adear , and valued friend of mine , was present and said , " it really is too bad : _MT _^ _uaUcametomejWhenonlu _^ _tom-. _andgaid , in talking of Mr . O'Connor , ' Well , have you found him out yet ; if you haven't you will in six months fixnn ibis time : I have found him out long agoand I don't go behind his back to tell it , for 1 called npon him before I left London to _tefl hurt that I had _nocouSdencein Iuiuloxg ago . '" Now , Gentlemen , I trust that _giving this wide publicity to assertions made by Dr . M'Douall Trill be considered rather aidmghimmthe circulation of matters whichhe says he can prove , than " tfeau 7 _B-- « _-ttW onmypart ; and I think you would say that I was deficient in _theco-nmon feelings of a man , if I was to remain
silent lora single hour after Ihad the o _^ oor tunity of-nrdlcating myself , or at least of exp laining : nay more—I think that yon yourselves would le fully justified in believing th ' osereports , was I to leave them unnoticed , as you cannot be miaware of the deep impression such tilings are calculated to make upon a- -very suspicious , because often deceived people . Gentlemen , I produced my cash-book for your inspection . I showed you the date of Dr . M l ) ouall ' s tret application to me , from France , for assistance . I showed you that , by the London post-mark , it reached me on thc 11 th of January ; and that by the ainepostIsenthim £ 5 . That upon that day month I sent him £ 5 more ; and in tiie following month £ 5 more—all out of m v own pocket : and I also showed
you that upon the very eve of his leaving London , upon ibis tour of " _denmiriation / ' that I had given hun uihat he is pleased to call a " loan" the small ann of £ 50 , to establish him in his profession , and an advertisement , duty free , in the Northern Star for twelve months , or as long as he liked . _Gentlemen , IkvemadeimwyattemptstoestablishDr . M'Douall in his profession : and upon taking leave of me , when he had got my £ 50 , instead of telling me he had no confidence in me , he thanked one most heartily , and _•^ ookiands with me most warmlv . Onhb observing thai ie had decided to establish himself at Manchester , I said , "then I will give you a letter of introduction to Mr . Lonsdale , fie is a good friend of inme ; and if you arc steady and determined to get on , he'll be a friend of yours too . "
Now , gentlemen , what must hare been my feelings upon learning that I had been held upas a rogue and -a deceiver hy one to whom I had thus acted ? And what will you say when I tell you that I have now before me aletter of Dr . M _* Douall' s , bearing daxethe llthof Octoberlast , thanHngmefortheprevious £ 50 , and Assise -as tor £ 50 hobs ; and aU lids at the $ ac that he teas "denowadng" « ne on information _Tthich he had received long before ! Gentlemen , when Mr . Leach charged Dr . M'Douall withaavimjstated that Isold the Chartists at _Lancaster , I put yon in possesion of a fact which I never before made public , but which I can now proudly Pubh \ - _& and honourably substantiate . I told you that * fter the evidence of Turner ' s aDDrentices . we had a
_OMKullation of all the counsel engaged in the case , _£ h »< _-h Mr . Roberts and I attended . The evidence bang very "dead" against Dr . MlkmaB , counsel _Rested that as he was away and stood in no danger , _* ™ _•» it was impossible to get over the evidence _^ _"w him , more weight might be thrown on his ~ f _^^ m _ordertlmtlandothersmight escape . _Iin-^ y jump ed _xip , and said : "Serjeant Murphy , W _counsd f ° Dr .-M-DouaH . Though he is r _' _- ' _-SR i I am in the boat with him : and if you , either _^• _zs-eiamination or in speech , attempt to damage * " * •»¦ the poorest meat at the bar with me , for the _^ ° f _savut g me , _IviSl instantly get tip , p lead j _^ _ty _» the whoTe indictment , andfailter the Executive J _™ _waa , and svesvOdnq else , as I jm _beiehmined
_-f _SS- IO BE _riffilT SATED , OR TO SESK . _WTXH THE _feSL - _^ eant _Mnrphrtold me the next morning _Zfttt that 1 had won the heart of Mr . Dundas _r ?' way one ofthe counsel , who declared that they _" _* witnessed more sincere or honourable devotion I _^ a _?? _* - ° f a gentleman , hazardously situated as i _^ ° _8 set of poor working-men . _a-atS senflemen , I ask yon , after the farago of ofS _^ te fool , John Walking , about the sale _aas _^ _T _^ s at Lancaster , and after *& _eTeite-rated T to _^ _f _^• M'Douall on the same subject , am W _. T *\ i not _honnd to demand , and entitled to _^ _ttsiT' t _^ _Bewwhlng inquiry into the o * n _aSr _* r A aU events , my own feelings , my mine ma L" ?™ my own conscious innocence , _deter-***•? htt _£ jr mana' that justice at tout Bands which _*^*^ _f _ttnitt England , no matter to what
\ ma _^ _^ _m , vm _^ ylameahtle £ L _J-ap _^ _cttrf'l _^ iio longer be made the bhtt and _f ? _wffiSLS ; My character shall no longer he _% _*} _aaftv t *•* counhy « merchandise for _poh-^ _ie « _Lt .- _^ e abstained for years from _trou-^• _smg classes with ccumulation of in-
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sult that no other man living would have tamely borne . _NopoUticianhasevcrm-idetheattempttostart any description of business—depending upon popular support for success—without making the destruction of Fear-pis O'Connor the first step in that career . Gentlemen , for now nearly six years I have-been Dr . _M-DoualTs friend : and , will you start when I tell you , that during his imprisonment in Chester Castle , and during my imprisonment in York Castle , when I was borrowing-money to live upon , he never wanted his pound on Saturday night for fifty-two weeks from my purse ? It was paid to the day , but perhaps I gave it to boin him . I should not now announce the fact , had not reports of my " cruel" treatment of Dr . M'Douall been extensively circulated throughout the country .
Gentlemen , I have injured myself to serve Dr . M'Douall , and to serve others too : and I have reaped a handsome reward . Gentlemen , you have heard that I have been extensively , charged * with high treason by Dr , M'Douall ; this fact being spoken to by Mr . J . Leach , ashonest , as upright , and as useful amembev as ever belonged to the Chartist ranks . Tou have heard me denounced and vilified ; and one of these courses you must now adopt . Dr . __ M'Douall Acts recognized your authority , by submitting his case to your decision ; Mr . Leach has recognized your authority , by holding himself bound by that decision ; and I have recognized your authority , by appealing as a witness before you . And now I demand that tou irt me , or that you publish to the world your unanimous resolution , that every word uttered by
Leach , Lonsdale , and othera , is false and calumnious , or that you allow me to retire into private life , leaving Dr . M'Douall in thepossessionoi that prize which he anticipates from my rain . Gentlemen , it has long been the custom to judge mc by very different rules to those applied to the conduct of others—others who , when they exhibit a very sensitive feeling , even about a " pot-house rumour , are highly applauded for their " nice honour ' and " timely exposure : " but if I remonstrate against repeated slanders , lama "denouncer . " Surely when you have considered a pounds-shillings-and-pence _, dispute worthy of public exposure , you must look upon a charge of high-treason as demanding instant and searching mquiry : and I beg further to remind you , that although cognizant of what was _goins- on ,
I never once complained , or made my grievances a subject of party dispute . I was silent , relying - on time as an antidote to the extensively _administa-ed poison : but now that it has reached your ears , and the cars of tens of thousands , " Investigation" is the only antidote—as my every exertion , while under such a charge , must but tend to increase the belief in my hypoericsy . I can only he useful so long as I am believed to be honest : lam worse than useless if even _^ suspected . You must , therefore , give me an opportunity of establishing my honesty , or you must confirm the charge of my accuser . Gentlemen , I shall attend no more Chartist meetings until you have decided on this matter . I shall remain a paying member of your body , and I shall continue to act as Treasurer ( without funds ) to my colleagues , because , after nearly eighteen months of
service together , I have found them to be sincere , honest , upright , and _trushvorthy . Such , gentlemen , is my resolution—not hastily eome to , But calmly deliberated on . I shall have been amongst you for twelve years on Tuesday week next ; and during that period it has been my aim , my object , and my ambition , to stand out from my order , serving you honestly , facing perils and dangers with you , and lighting the common enemy , to w _& end that Labour may achieve its rights ., I have worked as man never worked before . I have paid as man never paid before : but I will not longer work and pay , and receive slander and denunciation as my reward . Gentlemen , trusting that this reiteration of _caliirimy _. thathasbeenaireadymdustriouslyandextensively circulated , may not be set down to * ' denunciation , * " I beg to say that I wait your pleasure ; that I will obey your summons ; that I am ready for trial ;
AND I DEMAND _TOUB VERDICT . I remain , your faithful friend and servant , Feargus O'Conkor . P . S . The following is thc testimony of Mr . William Hewitt , alluded to in the beginning of this letter : — 18 th January , 1815 . I was in Mr . O'Connor's _sitting-room one day last autumn , when Dr . JI 1 ) _ouaU visited Mr . O'Connor , Br . Jl'DAuall Introduced thc sutgect Of monies due to him by James Leach of Manchester ; and said that "there was nothing for him there ; . that Leach had expended the fund , and that when , he went down to the country he would expose his delinquency , as he was determined not to he a party to such a trick . " Mr .
O'Connor reminded Dr . M'Douall that Leach was poor , but honest ; and if he would not press him , he ( Mr . O'Connor ) would either accompany Dr . M'Douall in his forthcoming tour , if he thought two lecturers would he more attractive than one ; or , if he { Dr . M'Douall ) preferred it , Mr . O'Connor would follow , and give a course of lectures , fhe proceeds to be devoted to the pajmentof Leach's debt , npon the condition that Dr . M'Douall was , neither pnblicly or privately , to expose or denounce James Leach ; and that Mr . O'Connor , though not then in cash , would undertake to pay Dr . M'Douall himself if his lectures should fail to do so , provided Dr . M'Douall did not quarrel with Leach about it , or publish it to the damage of the Chartist body . Dr . M'Douall , on parting , shook hands with Mr . O'Connor , and pledged his honour that he would not press Leach , or make his debt the
subject of public or private comment . T heard Mr . O'Connor more than once say to Dr . M'DoualL " you shan't suffer for the want of Leach ' s debt f and subsequently , on procuring a sum of money for Dr . M'Douall , I heard Mr . O'Connor , upon handing him some document , say , "there now ; I told you that you should not suffer for Leach ' s debt , or for not exposing him , " These conversations I have set dorm from my own recollection out of a great niKiy that took place on the subject between Dr . M * Donall and Mr . O'Connor . The latter portion , as to the handing of the document to Dr . _M'DouaUand the observation of Mr . O'Connor , I reminded him of myself , as I was present when it was handed over to the Doctor : and if this document should be required in aid of any investigation _^ I am willing to attest its contents , just as it is written , upon oath . _VfiiwAK Hewitt .
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VOL . VIII . NO . 376 . LONDON . SATURDAY , JANUARY 25 , 1845 . Wr . 8 t , _!^ L _/^ g _^ _^
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France. Dceenr Tdouars Asd His Swokd.—Th...
FRANCE . DcEEnr _Tdouars asd his Swokd . —The National announces , with what feelings may be easily conceived , that the " enemies of England , " " haters of perfidious Albion , " in a word , the penny and . _fivepeiuiy _Hntecribers to the fund for _puwhasmg a sword of honour ( 1 ) for Admiral Dupetit Thouars , had figuratively had their proffered present thrown in thenfaces . The admiral , very frankly and very sensibly , told the deputation of the subscribers , when they waited on him last Saturday , that his sense of duty would not permit hun to accept the intended bribe to break his oath of allegiance and refuse obedience to his superiors , nor , consequently , to lendhimself to an attempt to embroil his Government with that of Great Britain , and what would , perhaps , be worse ,
to contribute towards perpetuating in France the diabolical spirit of enmity towards this country which has been the undisguised aim of a large portion of the French press throughout the last five years . The Chambers . —Paris , Thursday Evening . —The Chamber having passed yesterday from the general discussion to the paragraphs of the address , M . de Came proposed the following amendment to the first paragraph : — " Our labour ended a few months ago in the midst o f complications that clear-sighted and firm conduct might have prevented or terminated in a more satisfactory manner . " The amendment was to-day sustained by Messrs . Cremieux and Billault , and opposed by M . de Gasparin and the Minister of the Interior , after which the question was put to the vote , when there appeared—Against the amendment , 325 ; for it , 197 ; majority for Ministers , 28 .
SPAIN . Accounts from Madrid are ofthe 13 th inst . Ministers were actively engaged in preparing thc new electoral law . The Cctstellano announces that upwards of eightv inhabitants of the valleys of Hecho and Anso , wio had taken part in the recent revolt and emigrated to France , had claimed the benefit of the royal amnesty , and returned to thefr fomilies . Madbid , Jax . 17- —The Gazette contains ' a Royal ordonnance appointing Baroh de Meer , nowComte de Gra and vlcomte de la Loyante , President of the Supreme Council of "War and Marine . Manuel de Concha is named Captain-General of Catalonia . Rodil is condemned to ihe loss of all his titles . It was said that the _Jferquis de _Tilqjna had no chance of _behTgre-eieetedfo * Madrid . Zurbano was about to leave Lisbon for London .
WEST INDIES . SonraAMPios , Jaxuart 39 th . —The Mcdway , royal mail steam-ship , Richard Rivett , commander , arrived this afternoon , at half-past four o ' clock , with the usual mails . The Medway does not bring any news of importance . The fever is represented to have been very bad amongst the civilians at Jamaica , and was 9 tifl raging when the Medway left . Mr . Freeman , fhe collector of customs at Kingston , had had a severe attack , and was not expectedto recover . . Ihe milittay _, generally speaking , had escaped , and the whole of the troops were healthy . The weather had been extremely hot
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_r— - morocco . ;¦ - '¦;_' _Anarchiai . State or thb _Couniet . —News from Morocco had been received by way o f Gibraltar , giving the most deplorable account ofthe internal state of the empire . The Kabyles were pillaging the towns , while the emperor is described as having lost authority since the battle of Isly .
UNITED STATES . THE NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE IRISH O'CONNELLITES . ¦' _.-., - _^ Great Axti-Ikish _Excitement is tub Umteu States . —The < mti-Irizh feeling in thc United States , which first manifested itself in the tumult at Philadelphia _. -and which appeared subsequently to be excited to the highest possible pitch , has , as we find , been "blown to seven-fold rage" by the speeches of Mr . O'Connell and thc Rev . Mr . Moriarty at the late Limerick Repeal meeting . The Philadelphia and New York papers , received by the latest arrivals from the States , overflow with denunciations of the " monster mendicant" and the priests . We select a few extracts , the first of which is from the Philadelphia North _American , Dec . 23 rd : —
Repeal , O'Connell , Db . _MoaiARTi , and Libels on our _Cocntbt . —By the Acadia we have the usual record of repeal meetings , ' donations , and subscriptions . We extract the following notice of the weekly meeting , held Dec . 2 , at Conciliation Hall , Dublin , in which it will be seen that the old and well-known libeller of our country , O'ConneU , has been assisted by Dr . Moriarty , late of our city . _TVe can well imagine with what feelings of just indignation every true American ivUl read these mendacious slanders on 6 ur city . O'ConneU has caught the spirit of some of our journals , and falsifies in every important particular the origin ofthe Kensington riots in May last . Here follow the _^ offensive speeches of Messrs . ' O'Connell and Moriarty , delivered at the Limerick banquet : —
The doctor [ Mr . Moriarty ] in this address has certainly given ns Philadelphians news from our city , via Dublin ! He took occasion before he left this country to caution his people against reading the North American . We , however , are willing to give him the opportunity of advertising his views through our columns . We have no wish to say one word detrimental to the character of this doctor , for the falsehoods which lie has uttered in relation to the character of Philadelphia must sink him to a depth of infamy _Hwhich will need no thrust of ours to send him lower . "His life three times attempted in the streets of Philadelphia" ! A fouler libel was never penned nor uttered . The rev . slanderer would not have dared
give utterance to a statement so utterly destitute of even the shadow of truth whilst remaining in the United States . Conciliation Hall , in wliich ribald abuse ofthe United States from the lips of O'ConneU forms a large portion of the . proceedings , was a fitting place for the utterance of this falsehood . We forbear further comment . At the same meeting-a considerable sum-was received from this country . We wish only some Irish gentlemen could be present at one of the Philadelphia repeal meetings , in order to judge f « r himself how many " ofthe educated , enlightened , aud civilised men of America , " described by the speaker as friends of repeal , were present . We have yet to hear of the first man of any weight of character in " this community who ever took part in them . Our next extract is from thc Philadelphia Daily Sun of Bee . 23 : — _'
Fbesh Slandeb 8 eeoh O'Connell . —Not an hour passes but brings the true issue of the conflict between the foreign Boman Catholics and the native Americans before the eyes of the world—and that issue isProtestant freedom , or Roman Catholic slavery—whether mankind shaU profess and exercise the rights revealed to them in the Bible , or bow down in abject thraldom to the infallible dogmas of the Papal Church . Religious rights are involved in this question—but the main question is political power . By the arrival ofthe Acadia from Liverpool , we are furnished with a fresh importation of select slander from the foul mouth of that ¦ ' ¦¦ [ here we are compelled to omit a very gross epithet , but it is to be feared a not undeserved one ] demagogue O'Connell—ac- ' companied by a choice specimen of Papal anathema from the lips of Dr . Moriarty , who has come forward , withhold aud open front , to declare a war of extermination against the Protestant natives of the United States—and this
declaration of Papal hostilities comes wafted to us from Limerick , in Ireland , by the mouth of a rev . doctor of what professes to he a Christian Church ! More inflammatory and incendiary language , to deluge a country in all the horrors of civil and religious warfare , was never before made use of . He exhorts his countrymen in America "to raise up the cross , to be encircled by a wreath of shamrocks ! " "He trusted he would be heard across the Atlantic . " "He would make them ring through the United States . " Here , then , we behold a Roman Catholic priest of Philadelphia , in a foreign land , acting the part of an incendiary , to stir up the citizens and aliens of the United States to insurrection , violence , and bloodshed . He pledges himself that his brethren wiU never be frightened-from America , bnt die battling for their " cross and
fatherland ! " They are not to fight for this country—not to die for this country—but to fight for the Pope , and die for Ireland . Here , then , we behold the love of _liberty , which we are so often told animates the bosom of the foreigner . If this be an illustration of it , and who can doubt the word of one so deeply interested , what does it amount to but devotion to a foreign land , and a death struggle for the Pope of Rome 1 ' "Yes , " with their dying breath these patriotic aliens are "to cry aloud for their cross , and their glorious fatherland ! " These are the very words of the Rev . Roman Catholic Father , Ds . Moriarty . Why did not this reverend father _fidminate his incendiary appeals here , that his military allies might have shown him the value of that "law and order " decree , which made it unlawful to flunk or speak of the causes of the Popish riots ! No doubt he felt more secure in Limerick fr _» m the military , for in Great
Britain they seldom employ such coercion , to put down Winking and speaking of any kind—much less philosophical speaking—of causes . We rejoice that O ' ConneU and the rev . father from this city have thus openly declared their intention to wage a foreign Popish war of extermination against the natives ofthe United States , because while we have no fear of their open war , it gives us so signal an opportunity of showing , from their own mouths , that they design the subjugation of this country : to the Roman , Catholic power of Europe . Who can now doubt the plot of the Popish Crowns of Europe to empty all thc -refuse population of their own crammed poof--houses , on our shores , under the whip and spur of monkish discipline , to exterminate Protestant natives ? Who will nowmaintain that we have no dangerous foreign
influence lurking among us , to be fanned into a flame by Popish priests and Irish demagogues ? And this country must be libelled and slandered as wanting in " gratitude , " because native Americans will not tamely submit to be butchered like sheep , as a sacrifice on the altar df Popish ambition . The graves of some ten or more American martyrs afford an appropriate commentary to this insolent abuse of our beneficent Republic from the black mouths of monarchists , bigots , King and Pope worshippers . . Yes—it ' . is ' oyer the new made grates of native American martyrs to the Bible cause—the cause of liberty—and the cause of mankind—that O'Connell and his co-conspirator dare to charge us with want of " gratitude . " But we must pause The heart of a native is ready to burst over such insult and indignity , which transcends all former vituperation
from this foul source . We pass over the artful misrepre sentations of O'Connell aud his colleague . Who- could expect facts from O'Connell when addressing the peop le of Limerick in relation to a republic of heretics ? - T ? hear O'Connell discourse of bigotry and fanaticism remiuds us of the old saying , that Satan , when he wants to do most mischief disguises himself in the cloak of a saint . When will the Americans acquire the dignity of selfrespect , and spurn the votes of these foreign monarchists as fraught with infamy and pollution ? . The time has come when this must be , or we shall cease to be seen . The same journal of the following day proceeds in a calmer mood , but with _ihcreased vigour :- — The Tocsijf or 0 ' _CotwzLL _^ m When we consider that the Object h & d in contemplation by theRev . Father Mo-
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riarty and Darnel O'ConneU was the buUduig of a church , wc become better able to appreciate their libels upon the American people , and the defamation of our laws , government , and institutions . A church is to be raised on the foundation of slander ,-misrepresentation , and calumny against a people who stand out against the world as a solitary example of free republican government ! O'Connell denounces us as the worst people that ever blackened the page of history ! And he lives , and feeds , and fattens in idle luxury , like a monk , on money-tribute , daily extorted from the American people , under the shaUow and miserable mountebank trick of " Repeal . " Yes , O'ConneU denounces us , the Americans , as more ferocious and bigotted than bloody Roman Catholic Mary of Englandand if he means the Irish Catholic portion of our
population , he is not so . far from the truth ; but when he has the insolence to apply such a comparison to tho American people , he ricblymerits universal execration for his audacity , especially when he applies thc term " luiscrean murderers" to the whole American people ! - But what can be expected of a vain , bloated mountebank , whose ribald invective would dare to pollute by his foul tongue the sainted Washington ! Noris the Rev . Father Moriarty behind O'ConneU in traducing and libelling the American people ; He says that "his life had been three times attempted in the streets of Philadelphia . " Now , we ask , where was the mayor ?—where the sheriff?—where the police ? -where "the military , " whose wings were extended with more than maternal Iove over everything Roman Catholic ? Who can believe such a monstrous fable ofthe
Reverend Father Moriarty ? Why not cause the assassins to be arrested ? - But is it possible that so flagitious a crime should be thrice attempted in Philadelphia , and no one-hear of it but the reverend father himself ? According to this reverend father accuser , our whole population is made up of cut-throats , and it is for our constituted authorities to vindicate themselves from a charge of collusion with these " miscreantmurderers" of theRoverend Father Moriarty . We repel the whole charge with contempt and indignation , as one known to be false in every particular by the reverend fabricator , himself . He does not even exhibit the skill and dexterity of the Reverend Father Dunn , who did receive an " anonymous _lettei " from "Mary , " one of his Sunday-school teachers ! But the audacity of O'Connell and this martyr to his own fears
does uot stop here . .. The former claims a part on our city as au " Irish quarter , " in which Americans have no right to intrude ! How dare Americans hold a meeting in thc " lrhsh quarter 1 " cries O'Connell . " They went out looking for a riot , " says the repeal mountebank , " and the person who went among Irishmen for such a purpose was not likel y to be disappointed . " Here we have the bold avowal that Irishmen wiU make a riot against aU Americans who attempt to invade the " Irish quarter . " Already is our country parcelled out in sections ' as belonging to aliens , exclusively , to be governed by the Pope himself , and under the imperial nod of that rank monarchist O'Connell . If we have an "Irish , quarter" in which no American . dare . show- his face -without being-shot down hy
" miscreant murderers , " we may for the same reason have a " French quarter , " and a " Dutch quarter , " where no Protestant dare show his face without receiving in his brain the ball of a Popish rifle ! Is this to be the tenure of our American liberties ? So says O'Connell--so says tlio Rev . Father Moriarty ! But what say the people of these United States ? What say you , natives ? Shall we surrender up our country , piecemeal , to foreign domination and Papal supremacy ? Shall O'Connell rule us ! Shall a monk rule us ? Shall the Pope interdict us from penetrating " the Irish quarter , " to which our constitution secures us ingress and egress without let or hindrance ? Never has so wanton and galling an insult been offered to this ' country in any previous era of our history , and justly
has it roused a spirit of indignation among all parties and aU classes , that gives unfailing promise of our speedy redemption from the royal outbreaks of insolence and slander , by aliens abroad , who claim , by patent from the Pope , an " Irish quarter ! " The tocsin of war , sounded in Ireland by a Roman Catholic priest and a Papal demagogue , to ring over , the United States , must certainly create a new era in American feelings highly favourable to the-. disruption , of aU tics between this country and Europe ; . . Let us cherish the recollection of this indignity only to nerve us in still more determined resolution never to surrender one iota of our rights to the bullying of any foreign " miscreants , " whether cunning demagogues or fiction-dealing-Jesuits .
REPUDIATION JDSTIFIED .-THERE ARE
NO STATE DEBTS .. We extract the following able letter , written by the Editor of the New York Working Man ' s Advocate from that paper of the Tth of Deeember , 1844 : — . To _Fbarous O'Ookwor . Sir , —Certain gambling clubs , in London , it _apiiears , have resolved not to admit American blackegsinto communion , because some ofthe latter have refused to ; pay their debts . This is all very well , for even thieves cannot get along without some sort of a standard of morals . There is some apology , however , for our . gamblers : there is no doubt that they would have paid the debts to the uttermost farthing if they could have got the people of their States to have furnished the money ; but there lies the difficulty . The people have too much morality to encourage this gambling , especially till there is a reasonable assurance that , if the debts are paid , there will be no more such immoral practices earned on .
Seriously , however , this question of _Kcpudiation is asuming such importance ; and there is no _politick topic so important as this is , on which so much error prevails among well-meanin _*^; men . ¦¦¦¦ .- ' : The first error . _is in calling certain debts contracted by parties invested with limited authority State Debts . I take the ground that there is not and cannot be such a thing as a State Debt in a Republican government , unless in a case of necessity to maintain its own existence , and it is doubtful whether such an emergency could ever arise . The power of a Legislature to contract a debt would completely nullify the right of suffrage . Suppose a case-: the people ' are divided into parties , one in favour of making a certain improvement , the other
opposed to it : the party in favour of the improvement get the majority in the Legislature by one vote ; they decide to make the improvement , and borrow monoy _, for which they agree to pay interest for twenty years , to doit with . Next year , in consequence of new voters coming of age , the other party get the ascendancy , and desire to put a stop to what they were opposed to ; but they are told that the work is done , and . they must abide by it ; they are bound to pay a tax for the whole term of their existence for an object which they were opposed to ! Of what use , in this case , would be their ri ght of suffrage ? Remember , that all who voted last year for the debt _, are now out of power , and those are in power who
have had nothing at all to do with creating it . Is it not evident , then , that it would be unjust to make a set of men pay , through life , for a work to which they were opposed ? It would be wasting words to argue this point . Again : Congress is invested with authority to borrow money to carry on thc government , if necessary . Suppose the States have run in debt to the extent of their credit ; then suppose the emergency to arise when it becomes necessary for the general Government to borrow money to maintain its existence ; if the States have gone in debt singly to the extent of their credit , would it be likely that they could borrow money collectively . ? ,.-The TJ . S . Constitution gives Congress the power , "; Sec-. TIII _, . 2 . To borrow money on the credit of the United States " . .. . '" . " .
And it prohibits to the States the power to borrow money , as follows : — Sec . X . 1 . No State shall enter into any treaty , alliahcejj . _or confederation ; grant letters of marque and roprisal ; coin money ; emit _HOsof credit , ke . 3 . No State shall , without the consent of Congress , lay any duty on tonnage , keep troops , or ships of war , in time of peace , enter into any agreement or _ecmj _> a « t with , _ano-& _erSt _& te , _w with a _foi _^ n p _< neer , _Jic ... i Ah . Art . 10 . The powers not delegated to theUnitea States by the Constitution , nor prohibited by it to the States , are reserved to the States respectively , or to the ttMpl *
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The power to borrow _money is delegated to Congress , and " is , therefore , prohibited t _» the States ; and yet certahi State authorities have usurped the power to " borrow money , " to " emit bills of credit , " and to " make compacts " with the subjects of " a foreign power ¦ " all m direct violation of thc Constitution arid of the right of self-government ; and yet nearly all the prcsscs . of one party , and many of those of the other , are endeavouring to stigmatise those patriotic voters and legislators who have refused to sanction violations of the Constitution for a purpose wliich strikes at _^ the vital principle of Republicanism , n otaxaHon without representation ! is said that foreigners have lont their money in good faith , and therefore they ought to be paid . Certainly , thev ought to be paid by those who
borrowed , the money ; but not by people who had nothing to do with the business . The constitution was before them ; [ and if not the constitution , common sense ought to have told them that a Government of the people had no right to saddle their burdens on generations unborn , or not having a political existence . But it is said that poor widows and orphans are sufferers : . so much the more heinous , then , is the offence of . those who have conspired to carry on this fraud . Innumerable widows and orphans would have to suffer if it were successful . The manifest adsurdity of the system ought to have prevented men with brains in their heads from engaging in such speculations . To suppose that seventeen millions of people , with a territory capable of supporting all the population of the globe , and
with all the elements of wealth , could not diteli their own fields and make their own roads , canals , and bridges without aid from a foreign country ! Was ever absurdity like it ? If the money was really lent as a business transaction , the lenders must have been destitute of the ordinary sagacity of professional ' usurers , or they would have asked the lenders why they wanted to scatter the population all over the continent ? why they did not settle the country compactly , and , like prudent men , pay their way as they went on ? But tWprobability is , that certain "forreign Dowel's , " jealous of the example of a people free from debt , and in possession of a -vast unoccupied territory , anticipated what is coining to pass , and thought , bv an evasion of our constitution , to get the lands ot this country pledged to cany on gambling .
speculations , thus perpetuate the curse of land-ownership among us , and thereby prevent their own people from turning their attention to their only means of emancipation . European caiptalists and Governments may rest assured that there is a large and rapidly growing party in this _ country who look upon a public debt as a publiccurse ; who deny the right , cither moral or constitutional , of anyGovernment to get in debt ; and who will only consent to pay any unconstitutional debts that may have been contracted tothe extent that the money has been applied for the public benefit , and when they can have a guarantee by alteration of the state constitutions or otherwise , that no further attempts on the rights of the people will be made through such means . As I have seen it announced that an agent has
recently gone to England to endeavour to make further swindling loans in the name of the State of Illinois , and as there appeal's to be a general movement among the loan-mongers and rag money swindlers here to revive the game , which they had hoped to succeed in through the election of Henry Clay , I think you would do well , sir , to republish this article in the Northern Star , in order to prevent any more poor widows and orphans from being duped by the loan-mongers , and at the same time to vindicate the character of the people of America , who , being scattered widely apart , and without proper means of education , by the system of land traffic , are liable to be imposed upon by usurping speculators
who get into their legislative halls . The people of England should know that those who deny the validity of State debts contend for the honest principle , that improvements should be paid for as they are made ; that if all men had their right to land restored to them , and no monopoly was allowed to scatter the population unnecessarily , abundant means might be obtained by a tax to make all desirable improvements ; that each generation receives more from its ancestors than it can transfer to posterity ; and that it is dishonest to attempt to saddle upon our children the burden of supporting a set of ususures _, native or foreign , who Uve . by the interest of capital wrung from honest labour . George H . Evans .
I New York , Dec . 1 , 1844 . . . . More _Sputs among the Cathohcs , — -Frankfort , Jan . 19 . —The Magdeburgh Gazette states that some influential inhabitants of Dusseldorf have formed the idea of establishing a "Christian Catholic Communion" in that town , and have held conferences recently at Cologne with several pupils and friends of the late Professor Hermes , in order to arrive at a full understanding ofthe doctrines of Hennesianisnl , and to reduce them to a system applicable to their new designs . The reported Death of the Russian Miscreant . —Brussels , Jan . 20 . —It is now ascertained beyond the possibility of a doubt , that the report ofthe death of the Emperor of Russia was an unfounded one .
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HONOUR TO T S . DUNCOMBE , ESQ ., M . P . A _p ? _^? _?^ _*; ni be held atthe . Whitc Conduit House Tavern , Pehtonvike , on Monday Evening , , _tebruarvthe _Srd ; the evening previous to the meeting of Parliament , in honour of "the People ' s lepresentative . The Mowing Members of Parliament are invited and expected to attend : —T . Wakley , _jh J _-Pattls T on . Esq ., J . _Fielden , Esq ., A . Johnson , Esq ., J . Hume , Esq ., W . S . Crawford , Esq ., J . T . Leader , Esq ., J . Humphrey , Esq ., and Sir B . Hall , Bart . * ' - T . S . DUNCOMBE , ESQ ., M . P ., WILL BE PRESENT . Tha ox the Table at Six _O'Clock . Precisely . s Tickets to Soiree-single , Is . 6 d . ; double , to admit a lady and gentleman , 2 s . ( Id . The Ball Room will be open at nine o clock . Tickets for Ball only—single , Js . ; double , to admit a lady and gentleman , Is . 6 d . n _^ f _!^ he obtained at the following p laces : —Messrs . W , Balls , 49 , _Coppice-lW : ' Thome , 2 , Prospect-placc _, Upper Barnsbury-street ; Mason , Clerkenwell-green ; R . Cameron , 12 , Dorrington-strcet _, Brookss-market ; J Toome , 20 , Guildford-street ; Stembridge , 12 , York-street , City-road ; E . Medley , 42 , Brick-lane , St . Luke s ; Guenigault , 11 , Lower Wharton-street ; Henley , Pultney-street , Islington ; Weedon , b 8 _, Ohapel-street , _Pentonville ; Sharp , 47 , Tabernacle-walk ; Coleman , 19 , Aylesbury-street ; R . Fuzzon , Aiargaref _^ treet ; Gabbctis ,. Swan Inn , Highbury ; Kennilworth Castle ; Hopkisson , Temperance Coffeehouse , Little _Saft-on-hill ; _Tam-ell , U , _Smith's-buildings _, City-road ; T . Barratt , Secretary to the Associated _v ' _- _Mes otLondon , 20 , Greenfield-street , Commercial-road ; Ganunan , Secretary to the Cork Cutters , 15 , _Northumberland-street , Marylebone ; Grassby , Carpenter , Running Horse , Duke-street , Grosvenor-square ; J . Bush , Secretary to the Carpenters , 1 , York-street , York-road , Lambeth ; T . M . Wheeler , 243 i , Strand ; _*^; 5 _^ _on _.-PaVl ' s-alley _, Paternoster-row ; Hornby , 16 , _Northaw-buildings , Somers Town : Brown ' s , Hope totfee-house , King-street , Snow-hill ; Colliver _' s Coffee-house , Holvwell-street ; W . Dear , 22 , Fleet-lane ; lillmans Coffee-house , Tottenham Court-road ; Doolcy _, Bell Inn , Old Bailey ; Clark ' s Coffee-house , Edgeware-road ; Green , Saville House , Leicester-square ; Rogers , Cooper , Lambeth-walk ; J . G . Dron , Oakleystreet ; Simpson , Elm-cottage , _Caniberwell ; J . Scwcll ( opposite the Elephant and Castle ) , Kent-road ; Packer , _N-jws-agent , Harrow-road ; and at the Bar of the White Conduit House Tavern ; J . Bushby , oheshire : Cheese , Grosvenor-row , Chelsea ; Brown , Little Coram-street , : _- - - ' - - " ¦ " ¦¦•¦ ¦ : - - . _; . ¦ ¦ - ¦¦¦ - ¦¦ . ¦¦ - , , :. _¥ . _* _--- ' _.- - . .. _% > -- - _' •""
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STRANGE PROCEEDINGS IN GLASGOW . [ The kind friend who has for a length of time reported for us the meetings and other proceedings at Glasgow , and whose public spirit and truthfulness we have so often had to acknowledge , has sent us the following account of a strange proceeding in that city by Dr . M'Douall , in relation to the letter of Mr . Smith , the sub-secretary of that locality , to a member ofthe Executive Committee , and which _wasrecently inserted in the Star , in an address from the Executive itself . For some time we hesitated whether to insert the report or not , having announced our intention of closing our columns to the dispute , after we had given insertion to every word of reply and explanation that came from every source ; but when we reflected on the fact , that the Doctor was not content with his full ' _- ' say " in the Star , but had determined to appeal
to the Glasgow people—( under circumstances too , that _evtoce anything ' but a disposition to secure due inquiry by the Glasgow Chartists , or fair play for Mr , Smith , )—the parties most cognizant of the facts that led to the original complaint ; that an attempt was made to cause the Star to be condemned , because it had done that which was its duty—insert the official documents of the Executive ; that a false and lying report of the meeting ( as our correspondent states ) was published in the Glasgm Saturday Post , stating point blank that a resolution of censure on Mr . Smith , onthe Star , and on thc Executive had been carried , and which report is used by certain parties for certain ' purposes , to the injury and disadvantage of those so abominably lied oil : when we reflected on all these things , we no longer hesitated , but felt it to be a duty incumbent on us , to all the parties concerned—to the Doctor who had received the judgment of the Glasgow people , which he had asked for ; to Mr . Smith , who was most unfairly treated in not
receiving notice of the meeting , but whose character was maintained spite ofthe unworthy attempt , to , run lum down ; to ourselves , who had given no cause of offence , and who ought therefore not to have been dragged into the dispute in the unwarrantable manner we were , —to give the report . We therefore publish it ; and in doing so , feel that wc are but foUowing up the . course of policy laid down by us at the last Convention . We then openly stated , and the remark was applauded and acquiesced in , that we should discountenance all quarrels and bickerings , and close the columns of the Star ¦ against them -. but that this should not prevent us , in cases where one part } - had access to the local press , and used it to the disadvantage ofthe other , from setting the wronged party right . The present is a case exactly in point . The Glasgow Saturday Post has published a report stuffed full of falsehoods—falsehoods affecting Dr . M'Douall , Mr . Smith , ourselves , and the Executive Committee j and we publish the following to set all in their true light before the country . ]
In common with most of our friends , wc cherished the hope that Dr . M'Douall and our worthy secre tary , Mr . Smith , having laid their respective complaints before the country , the . matter would end there ; in this , however , we have been disappointed . The Doctor arrived here , on hia way to England , on Saturday , the llth instant , but made no communications to his friends who had got up his meetings , and who were responsible for the same . However , with these matters I have little , to do .: My object is , the safety and success ofthe movement , not individuals . On Monday evening he lectured to the Power-loom Dressers and Tenters , and at thc close announced his intention of lecturing again on Wednesday cyening , admission free ; no subject named . On Wednesday , bills announcing the lecture were posted aU . over the
town . These bills neither stated the subject to be lectured upon , nor bore the _printers name . ' The cause of all this ambiguity is now thoroughly understood and duly appreciated . The attempt to wrong our secretary , though hot seen through at the time , has utterly failed . At the hour of meeting some sixty or seventy persons were in attendance . The Doctor commenced his lecture about half-past eight o ' clock ,-and concluded a few minutes past nine , when he commenced a most unwarrantable attack upon our excellent « ecrefary _, Mr . James Smith / than whom a more pure , laborious , and disinterested patriot does not breathe . The'Doctor was pleased to brand Mr . Smith as a mean , cowardly , sneaking spy , and he concluded by calling . on ; those presentio express their opinion on the treatment which he had received at the hands of the Glasgow secretary .
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. Mr . Rc _« _J _^;^ en- » ppomte _^ which _MfviColguhbun _^ _roseand stated that his friend . " Mr . ' Smithy was absent , ' biit _would-be present . in a few . ininutes . He was gone to Lis own house for . ther purpose of procuring _^ . copies of the letters of wluch ' f they had just heard so much . He assured the meet- ;' - ing that no man respected the Doctor more than he ; . ( Mr . C . ) did ; but much as he respected the Doctor , he loved his country and the cause in . which they _, were engaged much more . He was there , not only ready to defend Mr . Smith against the attack made \ upon him that night by the Doctor , but he . would go faither ; he justified the conduct of
Mr . Smith . He knew nothmg of the letter till it appeared in the Star ; neither did he know anything as to the Doctor ' s views regarding the National Charter Association at that time ; but he knew something more now . What had the Doctor to complain of ? Nothing . The Doctor accused Mr . Smith of being a spy . Mr . Smith was no spy . He was incapable of a dishonest action . The Doctor ' s opinions . __ and conduct were no secret ; he had lectured in Irvine , and other towns in the west , on the subj ect , expressing the views _chai-ged to his account by Mr . Smith . Where then was the awful enme on thei part of Ms . Smith in conununicating the tacts to Mr . Clark , who has said so much , in public and in private , recommending the Doctor as calculated to render valuable service in assisting to establish National Charter Association . Was there anything more natural under the circumstances ,
than that Mr . bnnth _, m writing to Mr . Clark _, should deem it his duty to state to Mi ' . Clark his disappointment at finding that the Doctor was endeavouring to undo what Mr ; Clark had been sent to-do ? The Doctor told them that he had a right to state bis opinions freely and independently . No doubt he had ; but he appeared to liaye forgot that Mr . Smith was entitled to the same privileges . 'What the Doctor claimed for himself , he must be prepared to extend to others ; and in the exercise of that privilege , Mr . Smith , Mr . Clark , and the Executive , had only discharged their duty in giving more extended publicity to what the Doctor had publicly advanced in certain districts in Scotland . In conclusion , he had to remind them that that meeting was not a meeting of the Chartist people of Glasgow ; consequently , whatever conclusion they might come to , could not in the slightest degree affect Mr . Smith .
Mr . Smith said that he felt no inclination to enter into a wordy warfare with _tfcc Doctor ; so far , however , as his letter to Mr . Clark was concerned , notwithstanding all they had hoard from the Doctor , he ( Mr . S . ) was prepared to defend every word of its contents as being strictly true . Not having intended the letter to be a public document , he would rather that it had not been published ; but now that it was published , he ( Mr . S . ) was not prepared to withdraw _anythingthat hchad saidof its contents . The Doctor was pleased to charge hhn with being a spy . That he emphatically denied . The Doctor made _HOSCCrctof his opinions during the conversation in question ; besides , he did not seek the Doctor—the Doctor sought him . For the truth of what he had written on the subject , he referred to those who were present . He called upon Mr . Robert Bun-ell , who heard all that passed ; to state whether-he ( Mr . S . ) had stated anything but what was strictly true .
Mr . Burrell corroborated evcrv word stated bv Mr . Smith . Mr . Sherrington said he would endeavour to bring the meeting Sack to a calm consideration ofthe subject . So far as Mr . Smith ' s letter wa 9 concerned , the Doctor had nothing to complain of . There was not a word in that letter reflecting on the character of Dr . M'Douall . They had heard a vast deal that evening about private letter-writing . The Doctor forgot to tell them that there ivere more than Mr . Smith in the habit of writing private letters . He ( Mr . Sherrington ) had seen b y accident , a letter addressed by Dr . M'Douall to a friend in Glasgow , wherein the most dastardly attacks were made upon Mr . Smith . The Doctor told them that in every town he visited in the north there was a letter from the Glasgow secretary there before ' him . When he met with so many of those private letters , why did he not produce one of them in evidence against Mr . Smith . The reason was obvious ; it did not suit . Mr . Smith had
written nothing but what was true ; and what ; under circumstances in whicli he was placed , it became lum to communicate . Very fortunately , Mr . Smith kept a copy of these letters . That of the onesent to Dundee , and upon which the Doctor had laid so much stress , he ( Mr . _Sheiringtan ) held in his hand . He would read the letter ; and when'he had done so he would challenge the Doctor to point to a single word or syllable reflecting on his character ; and he defied the Doctor or any other man to produce anything different from what he ( Mr . S . ) was about to read to the meeting . Having read the letter , Mr . Sherrington continued : That is one of the letters , for writing which our excellent secretary is charged with being a cowardly liar , a spy , and a betrayer of confidence . Did that letter justify such abuse ? The letter wa » written to serve the Doctor , not to injure him . But the Doctor says there was a postscript to the letter Bent to Dundee .
; - The Doctor .- ' No suehthing . " Mr . Sherrington . — " Do you deny having told me privately that there was a postscript to the letter sent to Dundee ?" The Doctor . —• " I deny that ever I told you anything ofthe kind , either publicly or privately . " ' Mr . Sherrington . " After that , you may say anything . " Mr . Smith was charged with having sneakingly insinuated himself into the Doctor ' s confidence . That was , the Doctor ' s gratitude with a vengeance . The truth was the Doctor wrote to' Mr .
Smith , not only regarding the getting up of hia meetings , but also to procure suitable lodgings for him . Mr . S . did so . He not only got up his meetings , but he acted as door-keeper at the whole of them . He did more to serve the Doctor than any other man in Glasgow . They now heard what his reward was . But the Doctor need not attempt to get out of his dilemma by abusing Mr . Smith . The Doctor spoke publicly in other places what he says was only private conversation in Glasgow . He made no secret of his " private opinions , " as he called them in Irvine and other places . J
The Doctor . — " That is another specimen of your private letter writing . " Mr . S . — "Itwas no private letter writing : thepeople there told Mr . Colquhoun that you had lectured upon the subject . " The Doctor . — " 0 ! I was not aware that Mr . Colquhoun had been at Irvine to get the news . " Mr . S . denied that Mr . Colquhoun had been to Irvine to gather private news ; he went there at the request ofthe friends in that- locality , to address a meeting got up for the purpose of helping to defray the expense incurred during _^ the Doctor ' s late visit there , and at which he ( the Doctor ) was to have been present . There was . no use in the Doctor attemptin _£ to get out ofthe difficulty by charging other parties with a design . to _; destroy his character by private letters . Mr . Smith was not the party to blame ; he had done nothing but his duty .
.. The Doctor , then made ( what he considered ) a reply , in which he pictured Mr . Smith as one of the most atrocious wretches that could disgrace society : The Doctor no doubt by this time had found that lie had compromised himself : his speech was that of a _desperato man . It was evident that he was sensible of his position , but too proud to acknowledge his error ; and therefore , to save himself , his whole energy was brought to bear , in order to destroy Mr . Smith . But he mistook his man . He failed , and he knows it . I am sorry to be obliged to speak thus of the Doctor , but truth and justice require it . Every friend here is sorry for him ; but they know then * duty too well to allow personal feeling to influence them in matters of sueh grave importance as thc success of the National Charter Association .
The Doctor having concluded , a motion was made , calling for direct censure upon Mr . S ., the Executive , and the Star . Mr . J . Walker moved an amendment , differing only in so far as he wished to exonerate Mr . Smith . Mr . Adams moved an' amendment of a general nature , disapproving of all private letter writing regarding the actions of public men . Mi \ Burrell said something more definite was wanted than Mr . Adams ' s amendment , to which he proposed an addition , expressive of their approval of Mr . Smith ' s conduct . Mr . B . ultimately moved what he intended as an addition , aa a direct amendment . Now , let those who may have read the lying report that appeared in the Evening Post , where it is stated that " a resolution was carried , conveying a
direct censure upon the Executive , the Glasgow Chartists who had belied Dr . M'Douall , and the Northern Star for publishing the same , " read the following true statement of the numbers voting for the original motion and the several amendments : — Original motion , 2 ! Walker's amendmend , 4 ; Adams ' s amendment , 30 j _Burtell ' a amendment . 19 . Thus , even in this meeting , gotiup under the auspices of men with whom no mail having the least regard for his own reputation would even think of associating ; and the object of which was kept a profound secret from Mr . Smith and his friends till the moment when the Doctor made his grand attack—only six voted for censuring the Executive and tlio Star . For the truth of , thi 8 report , I with confidence appeal to the chairman , Mr . George Ross . —Correspondent .
John Bunt Done Nr Johkst Crapaod.—We Rea...
John Bunt done _nr _Johkst Crapaod . —We read in the Presse : — " Two Englishmen , after supping at the Maison-Doree on Saturday night , took it into their heads to goto the masked Ball at the Opera . Not knowing that the rue _LepeUetier was close at hand , they sent for a hackney-coach . The driver , on setting them down , demanded 3 fr . for the course , which the Englishmen refused to pay , deeming it an attempt at extortion . An altercation ensued , in which one of the Englishmen offered to box the coachman , and for that purpose threw off . his paletot ami hat , which he placed near him oh the kerb-stone . The battle was , however , positively declined , 'and i the Englishman , on proceeding to put on his paletot and hat , found that spmebody had stolen both , "
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 25, 1845, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_25011845/page/1/
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