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THE iNOKTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1846.
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. . S SION DURING THE HOLIDAYS !! Ba ; Day Exhibition ... * * t En EreuingDo . ... •* - < _** " _' Chi Children under Twehre Is . St ! Stalactite Caverns Is . extra . _IHE _^ HE . DAY EXHIBITION consists of the Museum o . .. Sl Sculpture , Grand Picture of London , _Alhanibrs msenaservatories , Gorgeous Gothic Aviary , Classic Ruins r ; iss Oiss Cottage and Mont Blanc , with Mountain Torrent a .- ka .- kc . Open from Tto till Four o'Clock .
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I DAGUERREOTYPE AND CALOTYI'E . _innpHE APPARATUS , LESS , CHEMICALS , PLATES , IL ( L CASES , and every other article used in making and lounountiug the above can be had of J . Egerton , So . 1 , _^ temple-street , _fllutefriars , London . _Dessriptive Cataijigucigucs _gratis . LE LEREBOTJRS celebrated ACHROMATIC TRIPLET _IENsENSES for the MICROSCOPE , sent to any part of the _Duntomtrratthe following price : —Deep Power , 60 s ., Low _loweower , 25 s . Every article warranted .
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TO TAILORS . ; ys _] y _approbation of Her Most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria and His Royal Ifighn . ss Prince Albert . ininHE LONDON and PARIS FASHIONS for Winter , ! L L _1845 andl _8 ' 6 , by READ and Co ., 12 , _Hartstreet , _lilooiloomsbury-so-uare , London ; Berger , _Holywell-strect , utraArs & a , London , and may be bad of all Book-< eUeeUers wheresoever residing ; a very superb ;? rii ? rint , representing tbe most splendid exhibition in n Europe , an Interior _View of the Colosseum _'lej _& egent ' s-park , _Londsn . This exquisitely executed and _iieareautimllj coloured Print will be accompanied witli fulliizcizeDress , Frock _. and Riding Coat Patterns ; also , Patterns ]) f tif the New Fashionable Polka Frock , and Locomotive
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HONOUR TO LABOUR'S CHAMPION . I A PUBLIC SOIREE will be held at the CROWN and IJ \ . ANCHOR Tavern , Strand , in honour of T . S . _DDJTCKJOMBE , Esq ., M . P ., who wiU be present , on Wednesday _^ evening , January 21 st , the night previous tothe opening o : of Parliament . The foUowing gentlemen are expected to bbe present on the occasion : —Captain Pechell , R . _N ., 1 M . P . ; J . T . Leader , M . P . ; J . Fielden , M . P . ; W . I ) . C Christie , M . P . ; W . WiUiams , M . P . ; R . Blewitt , M . P .: _3 T . Wakley , M . P . ; Admiral D . Dnndas , M . P . ; E . G . I Barnard , M . P . ; H . Elphinstone , M . P . ; A . Aglionby . 1 H . P . ; and W . P . Roberts . Also the following eminent 1 literary men : —Eugene Sue , Charles Dickens , Douglas _-i-Jerrold , J . JIazziui , and Thomas Cooper . Tea on table ; at half-past five for six o ' clock precisely . Several other i _weU known advocates of the People ' s Rights wiU attend .
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NEW MORNING PAPER . On the 21 st of January will be published No . I . of THE DAILY NEWS , A Morning Newspaper of Liberal Politics nnd Thorough Independence . The leading features of the Paper may be briefly stated under the following heads : — Its CITY NEWS and COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE , collected from the highest sources , will bo scrupulously impartial , and always _earij . Its SCIENTIFIC and BUSINESS INFORMATION on every topic connected with RAILWAYS , whether in actual operation , in progress , or projected , will be found to be complete . An extensive system of FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE in all parts of the World , has been for some time , and is now , in coarse of organization . Its PARLIAMENTARY REPORTS , its LAW REPORTS , and every other item of such matter , will be furnished by "eutlcmeu of tiic highest qualifications . Among the Writers of its LEADING ARTICLES , its Criticisms on BOOKS , the DRAMA , MUSIC , and the FINE ARTS , are seme of the most distinguished names of this time . iit / _JJSb T 0 _EPARTMENT of THE DAILY NEWS will bo under tho direction of Mr . CHARLES As a Journal addressing itself to MEN of BUSINESS in all parts of the World , particular attention will be paid to the arrangement of its ADVERTISEMEN TS . S _^* - The Office for Advertisements intended for insertion in THE DAILY NEWS , will be at No . 90 , Fleet-street , London . All Communications for the Editor should be addressed to the Publishing Office , Whitefiiars .
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DANCE MUSIC FOR CHRISTMAS . —NEW MUSIC FOR PIANOFORTE . § _fTlHE PIANIST A , No . 63 , contains JL "The Royal British Navy , " and "Welsh" Quadrilles , now playing at the Promenade Concerts . The two sets Is ., charged by Jullien , 7 s . No . 62 , contains the "Elfin" Waltxes and two new songs for Is . No . 61 , Music in Marble Maiden , Is . No . 60 , the Mazurka Polka and Qaudrille in "The Devil to Pay , " ( Diable a quatre ) now playing at Drury Lane and aU the theatres , Is . No . 59 , contains the whole opera of " Sonnambula , " 2 s . No . 57 , Ditto , "Fra Diavolo , 2 s , or the Nos . from 57 to G 2 , in splendid binding , as a Christmas or New Year ' s present , for 10 s . Sent carriage free to any part rf the kingdom for a Postofflce order for 12 s ., in favour of the editor , 67 , Paternoster-row .
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FUNERAL ECONOMY ! THE CEMETERY aud GENERAL FUNERAL COMPANY , united with _SHILLIBEER'S PATENT FUNERAL CARRIAGES , respectfully invitepublic attention to the economic and convenient arrangements for performing every description of Funerals complete , atcharges so _msderate as to def y competiti on , and no extras , by which the comfort of bereaved families will be materially promoted , and expenses limited . City-road , Finsbury , next _Bunbill . _nelds BuriaUground ; 21 , Percy-street , Totteubam-conrt-road ; and 136 , Union-street , Southwark . Shillibeer ' s Patent _Fnntral Carriage , with two horses , £ 1 lis . Gd . ; Single Horse , £ 1 Is . A respectable Carriage Funeral , combining every charge , £ 4 4 s . Hearses and Mourning Coaches . Catholic Fittings . Four Horse Funerals , £ 1212 s .
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EXTRAORDINARY ECONOMY TO TEA DRINKERS . THE DESIRE OF ENGLAND . —The PIQUA PLANT , now sold at 3 s . fid . per lb ., is three times the strength of tea , and is also equal in flavour , more delicate iu taste , nfinitely more health y , as is proved by physicians and chemists of high standing , also by persons in great numbers with the most delicate lungs and stomachs . It is most pleasant and invigorating , and is recommended to the debilitated for its invaluable qualities , to advanced age for its strengthening properties , and to ths public generally for its moderate price and intrinsic excellence . Ths Test . —The proof of the efficacy and healthful effect of the plant in preference to tea or coffee : —Let a nervous or dyspeptic patient use two or three cups of strong tea upon retiring to rest , and the effect will be night-mare , disturbed sleep , and other violent symptoms of indigestions , & c
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THOMAS _COOPEK . THIS CHARTIST S WORKS . THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES . A Prison Rhyme . In Ten Books . ( One Vol ., 7 s . 6 d . ) " The most wonderful effort of intellectual power pro . duced within the last century . "—The Britannia . "We hail the writer as a new power in the world of poetry , the ruler of a new domain , as yet but little known , but which the public cannot fail to recognise , when its kings of thought shall put on their singing robes , and with fresh voice and soul speak its praises to the world . "—Sentinel . " The hook possesses mind—mind which make itself felt and understood , and which , therefore , demands respect . _—Atlienomm .
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WISE SAWS AND MODERN INSTANCES . ( Two Vols , 15 s . ) " A . series of _Crabbe-lihe sketches , in prose . They are manifest portraits , and admonish us of the author ' s skill in taking the literal likeness . _"—Alhoutum . " We have read some of these stories with deep interest , and few , we are persuaded , will rise from thtir perusal but with feelings all the warmer for what they have read . Tliey can scarcely fail to be popular with 'the masses ; ' and , upon the whole , we think they deseivo to be so . "—Adas .
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y , , . _A . _UW .. _BUUU _MJ UC . MU . _UU AAV , I , . IU , .. U _. UIUI 1 J , CHEERFUL AND _INSTRUCTIVE FIRESIDE COMPANION . THE WELCOME GUEST OF EVERT HOME ! . THE FAMILY HERALD is not only the cheapest but the most popular and amusing literary Miscellany ever published . It is a compilation of Wit , Humour , Fiction , Truth , and Knowledge , adapted for all classes , tastes , and ages , grave or gay , rich or poor , and contains something of everything , facts and philosophy for Gentlemen , hints and entertainment for Ladies , questions andproblemsforYouth ; interesting Tales ; extraordinary Adventures ; wonderful Naratires ; remarkable Events ; moral , familiar , and historical Essays ; select Poetry ; instructive Biographies ; comic Sketches ; amusing Allegories ; the wisest Sayings ofthe wisest Men ; useful Advice for Self-improvement ; salutary Cautious ; scientific Discoveries ; New Inventions ; Hints to House _, keepers ; Practical Recipes ; diverting Sports and Pastimes ; ingenious Puzzles and Riddles ; facetious Sayings , Jokes , Ac , affording harmless and profitable recreation for ali the members of a family .
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COALS . PROVIDF , FOR WINTER . PROV IDENT FAMILIES , subscribing Is . 'per week te the Metropolitan Coal Company ' s Shilling Club , cau obtain four half tons annually , without further charge , fines , & c . The Company ' s price current is , Best Screened Wallsend , 25 s . per full ton ; Seconds , 21 s ., 22 s ., and 23 s ; Coke , Us . Cd . Office . 279 , High Holborn .
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- PORTRAIT OF PATRICK O'HIGGINS , Esq . In order to dignify and commemorate those who boldl y defy the law , the approver , and the tyrant , when our princip les are at stake , we will , as soon as the work can be completed , present to every subscriber of the
The Inokthern Star. Saturday, January 10, 1846.
THE iNOKTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , JANUARY 10 , 1846 .
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THE PRESS OF IRELAND . When such restraints arc laid on the press that the people are held in ignorance , and from that ignorance know neither their own duty as members of the State , nor yet the duty of those who are set over them , or , to speak more properly , those who have set themselves over them , it may be fairly concluded that tlie country where such restraint prevails is fast verging to vassalage . When a man knows what his duty is , he would be more apt to perform it than if
that knowledge be withheld from him . But knowledge of it is a duty , and ignorance , of courso , becomes a crime . Those therefore who check the communication of knowledge make themselves accessories in the guilt of him that sins from ignorance , or sins without a due and distinct knowledge of his duty ; and even with the principle on which itr was founded . It was better , both in a moral and political sense , that men should act properly with a knowledge and a sense of duty , than not err by accident , or even act right , not knowing what to do . In the one there is a virtue , in the other none , or at
best a virtue of the negative kind ; a virtue from which no praise flows , and for the practice of which no reward follows : there having been no motive to the action , no known PRINCIPLE to guide or govern it . On a truth so evident it is unnecessary to enlarge : we shall therefore proceed to its application , and by trying it as it affects Ireland at present , endeavour to show that an immediate and radical reform of the restrictions laid on the Irish press becomes absolutely necessary to the existence of the
country as a free and independent state . Wc have observed that to insure the right of obedience of the people , they should be made acquainted with the principle on which their duty is founded . This , however , as parties are now constituted in Ireland , it may not always be safe to do ; for it has sometimes happened that those who exercise a ppwor over the press , having no principle of tlieir own , arc very little anxious what the principles are that are promulgated through the press , provided the present convenience be answered .
When Governments become completely wicked their first object is to screen their crimes , and , as with governments , so with individuals ; the exposure of those crimes would tend to shake their power and precipitate tlieir downfall . Thus in all despotic states , the press , where it has found a footing , has ever been an engine of terror formidable to the tyrants . But if vice be the bane of every state , that which tends to enlighten the human mind and make men honest , instead of being checked should be protected and freed from restraint . By laws states are preserved ; that , therefore , wliich promulgates and
preserves the laws should not be restrained . The will of government is promulgated by the press , but the will of tho people , from whom all governments proceed , and to whom they must return , shall not be promulgated or made known lest the power of the source may become too strong for the stream that flows from it and becomes corrupted . Hence , to publish the slow murders ofa landlord class , the extortions of privileged patriots whose dark deeds are cautiously withheld from public notice—the injustice of a judge , orthe folly ofa Whig-made police knight , is a wicked scandal , as we learn from modern interpretation , for the greater the truth the greater
offence in letting that truth be known ; lest if truth be divulged and rendered familiar to the ignorant , the corrupt may fall into contempt and lose thoir authority ; which means , that it were better that mankind should be governed by church tyranny , confederated with blood and rapine and a sufficient amount of toleration to those who denounced the system but dare not shake it , than that honest men should question the integrity or even the motives of those who would discipline them out of their feelings and persuade them they had none . The errors taught to a mob are less formidable to liberty than the toleration of the prejudices of tlieir rulers or their leaders , upheld by a venal and corrupt press .
What demolished at a Wow the throne of France , and _erected on its ruins the most formidable government that ever " perplexed monarchs ? " Not the sudden fury of a mob , but the commanding power of the press , before whose voice the Bastilo fell like the walls of Jericho at the sound of the trumpet . Let those , who , by restraining the press , would keep the multitude in ignorance , and then abuse them for their want of knowledge , say that the people ot France had neither virtue nor understanding when they hurled despotism from its throne , and proclaimed the people ' s rightful ownership in the land Let the conductors of tho Irish press cast their eyes on their own un worthiness , and confess how limited ia _TIIEIlt virtue , how humbled THEIR pride of
talents , and wisdom to govern , while they are contending tor what they insolently term self-government and by which we are to understand the licentious rule of its licentious conductors . The press alone made France what she . was , it made her free , it made her great , while the despots of ignorance trembled at the warning of its voice , and stooped in their littleness to its awful authority . It was not France that terrified the nations . of Europe , it was her press , whose Bound went forth into all lands , and shook the thrones of darkness . No wonder that corruption stands appalled , and would stifle the expression ot truth when the detection , of guilt would lead to knowledge and denude hirelings of their impositions .
If men be honest and pure of offence what have they to dread ? Well , indeed , may tho wicked tremble , for though they are seldom ashamed of their crimes , they yet have cause to deprecate the publication of their guilt . Louis , the fourteenth tyrant of the name , used to say he more dreaded the Amsterdam Gazette than the armies of England . For these reasons tyrants have always endeavoured to destroy the press , and are sure to put it down while they are preparing somo new tyranny for the slaves of their rule . But if the press be tho herald of public virtue and the record of illustrious actions , then is the silencing of its voice the murder of freedom and glory : if it be the champion of innocence and the guardian of genius , its destvuetion is the , abettor of crime—the
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nurse of night _tfad ignorance . One maxim will bo found universally _tjue , that if the laws be good , and tlie _peopteliappy . unaer them , no excessesof tbe press can make either the one bad , or the other discontented ; but it is observable , that , as the Irish people are most unhappy under tf vicious government , the Irish press becomes more licentious , but not more formidable to the tyranny—its licentiousness is but that aid which the crafty require from the innocence of ignorance . _n .. _„ : . „
Having said so much upon the _general topic , now turn we to the more immediate _conssderation ofthe present state of the Irish press . Ol kitcr year _? Mr . O'Connell has been alternately _deosuncing and flattering Whiggery and Toryism . Her has deffea and crouched , he has resisted and yielded , as it served his purpose ; but never has he used his -strength , which is the nation ' s' voice , for diminishing : the lewd power of either the one or the other . In his own personal conflicts with those who would clwck his progress lie used the pre 3 _» as a tool , but never as a national engine to achieve national greatness . He
lias whispered and lisped the wrongs of Ireland _i » the nnrrow sphere of personal ambition , but his soul , that cowers before democracy , has ever shrunk from the destruction of the abettors of wrong , lie ha ? denounced the Whigs , while he has aided them _witlb his might in their every act of oppression , and shielded them from the only power wliich could destroy them . Thai power , however , although withheld from the knowledge of the Irish people by the corrupt and slavish press of the country , has
overthrown silence , stripped mystery of its magic , and exposed the villany , the corruption , and trickery of those who look « _nl upon the ignorance of a people as tlieir own best title to power . Tlie man who would use the press to achieve the triumph of Saxon law should close his mouth against all Saxon abuses . The man who would make a criminal of him who fearlessly exposes error should stand at the bar of justice as the assassin of truth , the destroyerof virtue , the murderer of his country ' s liberty .
What but the press could have placed jugglery in the ascendant over principle , and especially in such a liberty-loving country as Ireland ? and what but the press can hurl the monster from its throne ? Had it not been for the virtue of the Irish press , at the close ofthe last century—that pi ess , to preserve whose purity one patriot lias endured nearly half a century of exile—Ireland would now be in a state of even worse bondage than she is . The vigour , the courage , the power , and the purity of that press _, taught tyrants that Ireland would one day be a nation , and only required a free press to make her so . That
press dreaded not the promulgation of landlord tyranny , of the law ' s oppression and the tyrant's rapine ; that press did not sanction the principle of aiding Saxon law by inviting the Irish people to become approvers and informers ; that press was virtuous , and its founder became a victim ; the press is now licentious , and its abettor may one day share the same fate , but not the same laurels . The one has lived honoured , and will die regretted ; the other has lived fraudulently , and will die unmasked . The historian should be able to note a country ' s
improvement in the increase ot its people ' s virtue ; and what , we should be glad to know , would be the feelings of a Saarsfield , a Harvuv , a Fitzgerald , or an Emmett , if the sanctity of their honoured tombs wcre disturbed by the whisper , that Irish patriotism was measured by Irish subserviency , and that the surest road to popular favour was turning APPROVER to the Saxon government . Thank God , ~ those departed heroes sleep secure from the infamy of that press which dares to commemorate the greatness of their times , but shudders at the mention of tlieir
names . Who fears to talk of ' 93 ? Who dares to lisp Lord Edward ' s name ? Who dares to utter _Emniett's slaughter ? Who dares to mention Harvey ' s fame 1 Who dares to talk of _Curran'S daughter ? Out upon you , you base , degenerate vermin—you foul destroyers of your country ' s liberty!—you prostitutes , you bastard Irishmen , you things that write for hire , and fear the very sight of the impress of your Irish feelings ; if such by chance should find a place in your breasts , you must smother them . Are you not hirelings ? Poor priceless slaves , with
measured conscience , b / rted breath , and fettered hand ? You profess to loose the chains that bind j'our country , while you tighten every rivet and forge such bondage as freemen blush at . You have hoped , by your silence , to procure the downfall of the man whose bravery you should have honoured , in whose intellect you should have taken pride , in whose veins ran the pure stream of liberty , and whose triumph will but mark your impotence , _i ' ou will live but as speculators in the laws of forbearance , while _O'HiooLvs will triumph over the foul coercion lo which you hoped to have consigned him . YOU ARE A SKI OF SERVILE SLAVES !
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THE LAND . The Rules of the Chartist Co-operative Land Association are now perfected and ready for euro ' .-ment , with the opinion of counsel , that they are , in every way , conformable to tiie statute , and we hope , by next _it-eek , to communicate the glad tidings that we have achieved , for all the members , that amount of protection which will secure tlieir funds against the DISHONESTY OF TIIEIlt OFFICERS ; and
thus silence tlie wily and disarm the suspicious . The great value whicli all the movement parties in the state are now either directly or indirectly compelled to attach io the land , not only at home but abroad , should induce every man ( and the very poorest has the means under the Chartist Co-operative Association ) to secure for himself as much of the soil of the country as will make him independent of the caprieious wages ofthe casual employer and the starvation wages ofthe permanent slave-owner .
However the advocates of free trade and protection may attempt to colour tho question of free trade those , for whose benefit the measure is contemplated ] are beginning to see the question of labour , nay , of existence , in the grotesque group presented by the various artists . It matters but little to the slave w _' io toils through the week , whether he is governed by protectionists or anti-monopolists , provided each place an equal burden upon his back , and the only
question with the toiling millions should be , how , at one bound , and at the same time , they could rid themselves of the incubus of landlords and the nightmare of cotton-lords . How they can destroy the usurped privileges of the one class without becoming subjected to the new and mote tyrannical dominion of their successors . We have more than once used the past as a caution for the future . We have shown how , from the proclamation of American
Independence to the Revolution of France , the popular yo ' icc became smothered in the craft and wiles of faction . France gained more by her revolution than America by her independence ; for America , with a twenty years' start of France , is only now struggling for what France has already partially achieved—the sub-division of her land . And however lewd tyranny may have been under the restoration , and however the scions of the house of tbe murdered Bourbon may have been anxious to take vengeance on a people who limited monarchy , and stripped the crown of some of its most valued
prerogatives , yet neither they , nor the king of the barricades , whose desire for _reassuroption is as great as that of his predecessors , yet have not one or all been able to retake a single acre of that broad domain , which constituted the only triumph of the Revolution . Upon tho other hand , it would either appear that land for want of population was useless when America declared her independence , or that the voice of American knowledge was lost in the exultation of her triumph , inasmuch as it is only now that the people of that country are beginning to turn their attention from the shallow to the substance , from the protection of others to TIIE LAND FOR
THEMSELVES . In every instance of which history makes mention , the people ' s share in . _eVWj clwnge _^ vrlieve the possession of the land has not followed , has been a tight _, ening of their _chains Who can torn to Wai , aad
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! behold a conquered country with scarcely a foot of ground for her own _people to rest upon ; who can witness the _supromacy of jugglery and the prostra . tion of common sense in that country , without being irresistibly led to the conclusion that the mind requires something solid to rally _xovuvd ? In England there is a kind of safety-valve for _labour in its capricious employment and in its own noble struggles for its share in its own productions ? In England tbe absurd law of primogeniture is only tolerated by the several outlets that are at the commnnd of the aristocracy ? Were it not for church patronage , _niroy patronage , and all the patronage at Ur _\ . r . _\ A o „ nnmipr < vl countrv with scarcely a foot _n
the disposal of Government , and the great safety . valve of an extensive commerce , added to the n « w respectability assigned to trade , the junior _branches of each aristocratic house would long since have ¦ waged war against their elder brothers and their parents ; as , like Ireland , a country witbrat trade , and cursed by tlie k # * t primogeniture , wwW have led loan ECONOMICAL surplus _populatbn-that is _ajpopulation of young : idlers who are , fortsnately for _tlw peace of the conntoy , reconciled to tkwr dig . inheritance from the land , so Jong as they can _speculate in trade , or be quartered as State pensioners , or worse than useless lumber _ayon the taxes paid" by
the industrious . In reflecting upon the state oi Ireland , to which nature and a longing for her liberty not _unfrequently ( _tompels us , we arc forcibly _struck by the fact , that * all the power of the national will , concentrated , haumonious _, and brave , has never Mice been applied to the destruction of that monster evil—an evil , the destruction of which is now but seMom hinted at , because , if destroyed , it would haver a prejudicial effect upon tlie _monopolists of labour . Through life , it has been our darling object to creaSe a class of husbandmen who should be masters of their own
time , and whole , and sole , and unrestricted possses sors of the produce of their own industry , bat in our way to this holy consummation , the law of primogem ture stands prominently foremost . The working classes of this country require but the _chaace of transforming themselves from hired slaves t » independent labourers . That chance , by the rules of the Association , we can offer seetionally , while _desirue tion of the law of primogeniture would accomplish it nationally . .
The free traders , like the Irish juggler , were wont to mention this monster in their catalogue of grievances , but the strict reading of the grammar of political economy has taught them , that trade ,. with a blighting restriction imposed upon it by protection , is preferable to the opening of a free labour market ; and , like _O'Connell , who to-morrow would refuse the Repeal with a free House of Commons , the free traders , if they had the option , would spurn from them the long _wished-for measure , if it was to be accompanied by the destruction of the law of
primogeniture , of settlement , and entail . To this land plan of ours we attach surpassing importance , the more especially from the confidence that all now seem to repose in its good working ; and , we trust , before many weeks are over our head , to see such a staff of free labour advocates agitating the several rural districts as will teach the especial objects of free trade protection , the clodpoles , the difference between free labour expended for themselves , and labour expended either for the monopolists or antimonopolists .
Tiie question of free trade , and especially the ability of its advocates to raise a quarter of a million of money in the midst of threatened famine , and without the danger of diminished luxury , has , in truth , resolved the question into its proper dt mensions — namely , the position that Labour should hold in the present struggle . That question is now argued in England with surpassing truth and eloquence , and , however long-suffering may le paraded by the advocates ofthe labouring class in the columns of the press , we hold it to be an utter impossibility for that press and the League united , longer
to make the question of labour a mere stalking-horse for their own party purposes . And the labourer cannot disassociate the question of labour and capitalthe consideration of monopolist andantimonopolistwithout taking into account the material ingredient , MACHINERY , whicli is equally used and encouraged by both parties—by the one that they may SELL CHEAP , and by the other that they may BUY CHEAP . This is the great SALESMAN that regulates the price of wages—this is the awful competitor wliich makes its slavish attendant more
obedient to its will than even to the terror of the bludgeon , the sword , or the law . It is this monster that creates strife amongst men who ought to be united . It is this disturber that destroys the peace of families , and that prematurely relaxes filial duty and parental authority : . and neither monopolist nop anti-monopolist wi'l lend tlieir aid in its destruction , nor would wc wish to destroy it if it could be made MAN'S HOLIDAY instead of MAN'S CURSE ; but it must be destroyed , or its injustice and _ineequality must be curbed by the possession of TIIE LAND .
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However childish it may appear to threaten to resign my office , as Deputy Treasurer , I now tell the sub-secretaries that I will not longer be made a fool of for their pleasure . It matters not whether the orders are transmitted to Mr . Wheeler or to me , but I do insist upon all being made payable to W . P . Roberts , and at Charing _^ cross Post-office . It was my intention to have balanced the whole account up tothe end of the year , by placing ali the monies receivedsincel furnished my last balance-sheet into the bank to the accouut of the treasurer , and it will scarcely be believed , after the frequent notices given , that post-office orders have come payable at the General Post-office , at Charing-cross , the Strand ,
Oxford-street , Old Cavendish-street , and Piccadilly , and that my nephew has been nearly the whole of this week engaged in getting them cashed , and on presenting £ 140 in orders at the General Post-office yesterday MO was refused , £ 20 being made payable to Thomas Martin , principally from Pacup , and £ 2 t > not advised . Now these have to go back te the country , whereas observance ofthe simplo rule would have saved all this trouble . My nephew , my secretary , and myself are employed a large portion of every day in transacting your affairs _gratuitously but I will not longer undertake the labour of correcting blunders that need not be made . I have now » large sum of money which I wish to be placed to the treasurer ' s account , and the simple rule of which I
request future observance is this—all post-office orders to be made payable to IV . P . Roberts , and the name ofthe person procuring the order to bo legibly signed in the letter containing it . Fearocs O'Connor . N . B . I thank those persons who have sent mo notice , of estates te be sold , and I wish them from all districts to continue sending such information , as we shall very speedily be in a situation to make a largo purchase . F 0 , c °
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TO AGENTS AND SUBSCRIBERS . All agents and subscribers who havo had their accounts ta rendered , and do not discharge them by next week , k , will liave their papers stopped ; and their readers must ist understand that the _lault is not with us .
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_Mascuisteb .. —New Yeab ' s Dat— Neither the Executive ve nor Mr . O'Connor wcre pledged to attend tho meeting nff in Stephenson ' _s-square _, on New Year ' s Day . Had tha ha Executive attended the meeting , they must have re- remained from tho 23 rd of December , the night when the he convention closed , till Friday , the 2 nd of January , ia ia Manchester and its neighbourhood , instead of attend- iding , as they have done , to tbe enrolment of the rules * les which are now completed , aud are this day submitud U < 1 by counsel to Tidd Pratt for enrolment , and of whbtti _tott there is not now the _slightest doubt . The Execute by _i b »
remaining in Manchester would have entailed aaes-espeneo of £ 1410 s . in salary _alona , which would wot havo iavo given ce . _neuai . satisfaction . Mr . 0 Co . » i » r was was pledged to attend the Kersal-moor _meetijig , had itd it taken place , hut he begs to assure his ' . riends , that that whatever tliey may think , _hu is not rich enough to _run-i run to Manchester and back agiiiu every « w _> _. He attendednded the conference and the _convention , a \ i 1 was obliged tojd t < post to Warrington on Monday ir _" , ght after the con- con _fet-enee , merely to gain _tlvo _li _* _Di \ Ci at Uis daily work _. vork Sow the people should _clenrty understand that lues-lues
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 10, 1846, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_10011846/page/4/
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