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TO THE OLD GUARDS . f Valiant friends and comrades ! It has ever _fceen my delight to remind you , that , whenever oar banner has heen struck down b y tyranny , _c-e have watched our opportunity again to march onward from that spot which tyrants _intended as our grave ; and if ever our glorious ¦ cause did make rapid advance , it has been since Monday the 10 th , when , armed with the _constitution , we laid tyranny prostrate at our feet , and , guided by prudence , we threw the -shield of _protection over our battalions and their children .
Old Guards , it was intended that London should have been an unroofed slaughter house , and that tyranny should have its last feast upon the remains of constitutional libertybut they were foiled . Mark , when * I use the « s * ord tyranny , I do so in a more comprehensive sense than is applicable to the mere government of the country . I apply it to the pressure of faction upon the Government . I always speak of communities , not of individuals , and in justice to Sir George Grey , the Secretary of State for the Home Department , I _unhesitatingl y assert _, that no living r oan would more regret a single act of unnecessary cruelty , than would Sir G . Grew A more tender-hearted man breathes not : but , sis 1 have often stated , MEN WILL
COMMIT ACTS ASA BODY , WHICH THE BASEST AMONG THEM WOULD BLUSH TO ACKNOWLEDGE AS AN INDIVIDUAL . However , it is consoling to me , and must he cheering to all . that I have received communications from all parts of the United Empire , expressing the hi g hest thanks and gratitude for my conduct on Monday , the 10 th , while we , & ave erven disarmed _thePtess of the factions - , . and now , as I predicted , the Charter fills every mouth , and is the one topic which interests all -classes .
Having , therefore , secured this triumph , and having increased yoHr confidence in my judgment and resolution , it becomes my liounden dut y to improve the advantage that oppression has given us . Old Guards , without selfishness , or without looking for too much sympathy—having made np my mind to brave the battle and the breeze —I think I may exultingly call your attention to the manner in which , despite of the preconcerted plan to damage my fame aud overawe mv resolution , I have sustained myself against the howl of faction and the taunting jeers of rampant tyranny .
M y veracity was assailed upon two points . Firstly—Upon the number of signatures , and the descri ption of signatures , attached to the National Petition ; and , secondly—as to the numbers that congregated upon Kennington Common . Now , I will divide the first subject under two heads : —Firstl y , as to my own responsibility ; and , secondly , as to the conduct ofthe _Government ; and then I shall make a fewgeneral observations upon those two points .
As to my own _responsibility—it was , as 1 stated in Parliament , morall y and p hy sically impossible that I , or any other man , could critically scrutinise the signatures to a great National Petition , and if it had been possible for me to do so , I would have struck out every oppressor ' s name , and every obscene word , as , if my knowledge of those forgeries could be presumed , I would hold myself unworthy the name of man if I allowed the constitutional
appeal ofa virtuous people to be thus denied . Secondly , as to the conduct of the Government , I " charge the Government , upon the most perfect circumstantial evidence , of having conspired to damage your cause , by throwing an uDJust , ungenerous , and unjustifiable disrepute _ujion your Petition . Now , mark , how I apply the evidence in support of this charge , The forms ofthe House require that fourteen days' notice shall be given of any motion that is submitted to it —tbat is , that no motion can embrace a longer period . Aware of this fact , I denied myself
the pleasure of witnessing the ( to me ) gratifying spectacle of seeing the occupants taking possession of their castles and free labour fields on Monday , the 27 th of March . I was in my p lace upon that day , to have the first chance of bringing on the motion on the 10 th , as an amendment upon supply—Monday heing , in general , devoted to the voting of taxes out of your packets ; but , as no question of suppl y . lad been entered upon the order book , I was
debarred , and purposely debarred , of this opportunity ; meantime , with a hypocritical magnanimity , characteristic of hypocritical Whiggery , Lord John Russell would not give me up the Monday , but pompously conceded the following Friday , lor the mere purpose , as I stated in Parliament , of discovering and bringing to light those obscenities and _forgeries , which had been practised b y spies , as I shall presently prove .
On Thursday evening , it was announced to the House by the Chairman of the Petition Committee , that the signatures to the petition were only one million nine hundred thousand four hundred and fifty-two , and there was evidence ef a most critical review evinced in the fact that the Inspectors of the Petitions had discovered the several repetitions of different names , as well as the different ridiculous names and obscene words . This , 1 say , proves a very critical inspection , and yet , we are told that thirteen law-stationers' clerks counted
the whole of the signatures , and discovered the whole of the forgeries and obscene names , in the space of seventeen hours . Now , I resort to figures in refutation of this assertion , and I find that each clerk , besides the critical inspection of names , must have coanted about 147 , 170 names , in round numbers , within the prescribed time ; each clerk must have counted 8 , 660 within the hour , or 150 names in every minute , for seventeen consecutive hours , or two names and a half in each second , for that period of time . This calculation only applies to the number of signatures stated by
the law clerks ; and my position cannot . be disturbed , or my argument refuted , by the re joinder , that they counted them in she « ts ; and for this reason , because the sheets were not uniform , even , from any one town in the kingdom , while the minute inspection which led to the discovery of forged and obscene names , establishes , firstly , the impossibility of performing the work within the time ; and secondly , the certainty that those names were inserted
by the enemy . If they pervaded the _whele petition—ten , twenty , nay , thirty tiroes , the number of clerks could not have performed the work within tbe time ; while , il those forgeries and obscenities were confined to a few sheets to which immediate attention was directed by the perpetrators , was it fairwas it ju _> t , or honourable , to cast reproach upon the National Appeal for justice upon so weak , so disreputable , and so disgraceful a subterfuge .
Old Guards , keep the thread ot this argument before you : —it is , that thirteen law stationers , for seventeen consecutive hours _, counted two and a half names in every second , and criticall y inspected 147 , 170 names within that period . ' 2 ww , I ask , if there is a sane man in England who believes such an assertion ? And then , mark the period of time within which those seventeen hours were devoted to the work . 1 presented the Petition at live o ' clock on Monday , and at twelve
o ' clock on Wednesday a member of the Government—as I stated in the House—informed me of the discovery ; that is , within forty three hours after I presented the Petition " , as the announcement was made to tlie House on Thursday evening , amid such yells and groans as . I never before heard in my life in the most disorderly assembly . "Well _^ in the midst of all I neither lost my resolution nor mv presence of mind , because I was sustained by my own consciousness of innocence , and the guilt of the Government , as I wholly
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exonerate the House and the Petition Committee , the latter merel y making the report which they had receiyed from the Clerks , and the former receiving it as proof of my _negligence , _; or an attempt to practise a delusion , time not being allowed upon the spur of the moment , to calculate the impassibility of arriving at the conclusion stated to the House . Well , then , I ask , whether or no Friday was pompousl y given up by the noble Lord for the purpose of making a parade of this hidden treasure , and thus affording an opportunity to many mock supporters of the principle to creep eut of the dilemma ?
So much for the signatures ; and now for the numbers assembled on Kennington Common . I confess that the marvellous coincidence of opinion that pervaded the whole Press on Tuesday morning , led me to the inevitable conclusion that some extraordinary influences had been operating upon their dreams on Monday night ; but , without a single comment of my own , I g ive the * _following letter , as proof of the genius by which this coincidence was produced . Read the . following letter , Old Guards , It comes from one of the most efficient short-hand writers , who is in the habit of attending public meetings , and who was in the car upon the 10
th;—Dkik Sn _. —Afact h * B just come to my knowledge , ¦ which may _perhup * bo interesting to you , and wbich will in some measure explain how all the d _=-i ! y papers on Tuesday last stated that there were only 15 , 000 persons present atthe meeting on Monday last ; -which somewhat surprised me , as 1 am certain there were upwards of 200 . 0 CO . The Commissioners of _Folice on Monday evening last _, sent round to the papers a document marked privat e , requesting them to state ihat there were only 15 , ( 00 persona present atthe meeting . Kow , I think you ought to ask the Home Secretary , whether the police are paid for the purpose of supplying the newspapers withlie * . Of course I do not wish yon to mention my name in _connection with the matter , hut you may place the greatest reliance upofi my information . I am , dear air , faithfully yours ,
To Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., JI . F . _XW , then , what say you to the virtue of your government , and the justice of your Press ? I leave those two disgusting subjects of the Petition and the assemblage with „ this single observation ; namel y , that there never has been a large petition presented to the House of Commons in which fraud has not been practised in a tenfold degree to tbat stated to
have occurred in the case of your Petition ; and 1 am aware of the fact myself , that parties were employed by the day to affix signatures to Petitions both for and against Catholic Emancipation . A charge of a similar nature was made against the League , and against those who got up petitions for the admission of Jews into Parliament ; but at those assertions the Government sneered as they were in favour of the cause they espoused .
Old Guards , I now leave this disgusting subject , and I come to tbe consideration of a matter of paramount importance ,
namely—THE DEATH OF LIBERTY . . On Saturday next the corpse of the _Constitution wilL come in funeral attire to the House of Lords , to lie in state for a few moments , and thence to be conveyed to the sepulchre where the remains of the Lord William Russell now lies , and there will the fri end of liberty , and liberty itself , rest entombed until the ioud voice o an _indignant people shall proclaim the henour of the one and the joyful resurrection of the other .
Old Guards , I never addressed you at so critical a period in my life . I have carried you successfully through the turmoil of * 39 and ' 40 , of -42 and ' 43 , and have piloted the good ship safel y on the loth of April , ' 48 , through the ranks of our armed assailants ; but the voice of knowledge silenced the cannon ' s roar , and the vessel with her crew came safe to harbour . Then , Old Guards , at whom do you think the present stab that killed liberty is aimed ?
Can you doubt that it is at the p ilot who has so often steered the vessel between the shoals and the quicksands , and who has stood foremost in the battle , and received the lion ' s share of persecution . I have suffered for the foll y and indiscretion of others , but I have ever kept with firm footing upon the constitution , and within the limits of the law—narrow and limited as they were—and now , Old Guards , will you allow folly or indiscretion to drive me from my vantage ground . I hear vou respond , •« No !"
A THOUSAND TIMES "NOl " Hear me , then , and if you are valiant he discreet . The National Assembly proposes to violate the law , as the law only permits an assemblage of forty-nine persons to sit as a Convention ; and if that assembly meets , it will not onl y strengthen our opponents , but will deter the thousands—yea , millions—who ure now preparing to join us from entering into our ranks . I bore , and without a murmur , the
indiscretion and the folly of some members of the late Convention , and my reward was the payment of 1501 . towards their expenses , and insults , _contumely , and reproach in the House of Commons for their every act of indiscretion _. Will you just imagine men getting up at public meetings , in London , and announcing that they were prepared for battle 1 You remember how Parson Stevens was prepared . How Peter Bussey was prepared ; and you know what has become of these valiant
heroes . Now I tell you , with more courage than they possessed , that I am not ready to " tuck up my sleeves and go at it ; '' but I tell you what ! have done . I have suffered more in health and constitution within the last three weeks than I have within the ten years previous , and still I am more read y and prepared to " go at it , " in the rig ht way , than any one of
our immaculate heroes . You are aware that I have always told you that the existence of three parties in a state was incompatible with the existence of peace , law , and order—that we would drive Peel and Russell to unite ; and having thus reduced parties to their proper dimensions—the oppressor and oppressedthat the voice of the Jmultitude brought to bear upon the votes of the representatives , would overwhelm and finally overthrow
tyranny . Well , notwithstanding the boasted triumph of Whiggery , its pointed cannon and ' - ' specials , " on Monday , the 10 th . inst , so rarel y great is our victory manifest in our consummate courage , judgment , and skill , that one half of my time since has been devoted to reading the most kindly and affectionate letters from shopkeepers , tradesmen , and others ofthe middle classes , tendering their hearty co-operation to the popular cause , and expres sing their determination to urgej their representatives in parliament to assume a bold and manly position after Easter , and to propound measures which , six . months ago , they would have scoffed at .
Oid Guards , have I not always told you that the shopkeepers would fraternise with you when thev understood their real interests ; and now that we have won them by our prudence , our judgment , and our courage , shalL we repute them by our folly , our indiscretion , and our madness ? Old Guards , have not I always _^ _bf-en in front of the battle , and will you allow | - the madness of the intemperate to baulk us of the service of those recruits , and once more _tfarew them into more deadly hostility ? - -
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One week after Easter will test the sincerity of the Opposition . Upon my banner shall remain , _*• THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER AND
NO SURRENDER 1 * But in the name of God ! in the name of Justice . ' of Libert y and of Common Sense I let us wing the foe , and not scare the friend . Not only from all -parts of the kingdom , but in the House of Commons , I have received assurance that the People ' s Charter will be the adopted principle of tbe Opposition ; and the landed aristocracy of this country having proved themselves the greatest enemies of liberty , a prompt assault will be made upon their unconstitutional and worn-out privileges . Old Guards , you are not aware of the
appliances at the disposal ofGoYernment , especially in London ; but I will give you one significant proof of the fact , it is this—as I was leaving London on Saturday the 8 th , to discharge my duties as yonr bailiff , a man watched me , and followed me from _Jolm-street to the Bank . He ran after the eab ; Mr Price , the manager of the Bank , was with me , and he observed , " What does that fellow , dressed lit en * nnwie _, ' mean by running after us ? " When I came
out of the Bank , he addressed me thus— " Your honour , you don ' t know me now , but my name is . ., , > and you got me into the police when you were member for Cork , and for God Almighty ' s sake take cure of yourself on Monday , for there ' s orders to shoot you ; and you should know that half pf the devils that ' s cheering in the gallery in John-street is sent tbere by the Commissioners ; and ould Wellington ( bad luck to his soul ) is to be the Commander-in-Chief on Monday . ' '
Now , Old Guards , I did not require this statement to convince me of the fact that spies were sent to John-street ; and fortius reason—having- a sharp eye and a sensible ear , I always found that the most ridiculous and violent speeches were cheered by those wolves in sheep ' s clothing , while the sensitive working-class-looking men shook their heads and hung them down .
Old Guards , there is another class who have recently joined us—I mean the Irish Repealers —but yoa must never lose sight of the fact , that not many _montlis ago the then leading organ of that party designated the Six Points of the Charter as an abomination—the editor , Mr Duffy , declaring that his stud y should be "to widen the breach between the English and the Irish , and that he would be the last to bridge the gulf . '' He has only recently becornea convert to the' _' abeminations /' and would now proclaim a very unequal division of labour —assigning to the ABOMINABLES tbe duty of fighting , and to himself the more easy task
of talking about It . "his champion of liberty is nut quite satisfied with the result of our Demonstration of the 10 th : but you will read in another part of the paper , a very different opinion , given by the editor of the " freeman s _Journaluyon the subject , and to whom I invite y our attention . Add to this the fact , that all the pure Republican French papers declare that valiant Chartism had a noble triumph over armed tyranny on the 10 th ; but , what is more gratif y ing than all , while oppressed with sickness , with rheumatism , and debility , reflection tells me that the gathering upon Kennington Common was the recruiting service of Chartism .
Thus , I show you that the middle classes , the shopkeepers , and Irish Repealers , are but recent converts to our principles , and that , thus augmented in force , it is our bounden duty to try its pressure upon the House . If you doubt the present temper of the former _supporters of Whiggery , you should have been in the House on Friday ni ght last , when every member ofthe Government , as well as the Attorney General , was received a 9 he rose , with the hootings , the bowlings , and the yells of their former supporters , though not one word of it is reported b y the Press , although they were actually hooted down every time they rose .
Old Guards , I assure you that declining trade , failing manufactures , empty tills , increasing armaments , increased taxation , additional placemen and pensioners , increased pauperism , and growing insolence on the part of the Government , has taken the gilt off the Free Trade gingerbread ; and that the former advocates of that measure are now amongst the most strenuous opponents of the Government .
In conclusion , then , what I have to implore of you , is to postpone your National Assembly , whose enthusiasm may be operated upon b y spies , until you see the effect of this new combination of disappointed hope , when arrayed against an intolrrant liberty-slaying Government . You who have followed me so long , and whom I have served so faithfully , will not , I am convinced , f or the gratification of any passion , refuse obedience to my advice , and should its following fail , then command Your faithful and devoted friend and servant , Feargus O'Connor
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THE KENNINGTON COMMON MEETING . The ( Dobeih ) Weekly Fbeemas _' s _Jiimmr , of Saturday last contains an excellent artiele on the late Chartist demonstration , from which we give tbe following extract : — Wo hare beard tbe result of this movement classed by the _adrosatet of oligarchic domination aa a triumph over the people . We bold tbat the triumph ii on the other side . Had the people contemplated an immediate revelation by force of arms , then , ladeed , might tho oligarchy claim a victor / in the result , bat the hardworking , holiest people contemplated no such thin ; ; and , in the fact of tbeir holding the meeting , regardless of threats , but still more in the fact of their refusing to be dragged into giving battle where thev meant not f _jree , and where even an armed enemy would have to force positions sueh as few ever suceeded in forcing , they have won a signal triumph for themselves and for constitutional agitation .
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MR O'CONNOR'S VISIT TO HIS CONSTITUENTS . Nottingham . —F . O'Connor , Esq ., M . P ., will make a pubiie entry into Nottingham , on Easter Monday , on which day a tea party and ball will be held , to celebrate the triumph gained by him over tbe taction that presented a petition against hia return to Parliament . Mr O'Connor will enter the town from the railway station precisely at twelve o ' clock at noon , and the peoplo will assemble in tbe Market-place , at half-past ten o ' clock that morning —to start at eleven o ' cloek . and proceed down
Wheeler-gate , Albert-street , Uster-gate , and _Carringtun-Btreet , to the railway station , wbcro the _procession will await Mr O'Connor ' s arrival . Theroute from the station will be along the _Leen-side , Bringsstreet , Fisher-gate , Carter-gate , _Sneintm-atreet , Hockley , Goose-gate , Broad-street , Parliamentstreet , Chapel-bar , round the Market-place , where Mr O'Connor will address the people . The tea party and ball will beheld in the Exchange Hall . _Duow to be open at _half-pasf four o'clock in the _afternooa . Tea to commence at five o ' _clock , and dancing at nine . Tickets to be had of Mr W . II . Mott , _Gboaegata ; Mr D »\ iae , Carrington ; Mr Saunders , Rid ford ; and Mr Thornton , _llyson-green .
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Hetwood . —Mr Clark Cropper , of Manchester , will deliver a lecture in the _ChartiBt-ro- _* ra , flirtleystieet , on Sunday evening , the 23 rd _inat . Chair to be taken at six o ' clock . IlAZti < GuovE . —Mr Clark , of the Executive , will attend the camp met ting on Sunday afternoon , at two o ' clock ; and ths _SrccKFOBi meeting at six o ' clock in the evening . Si Helen * , —The members of this locality are requested to attend their _Weekly meeting on Sunday , April 23 rd ,
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_2 £ _T Three subjects : —the parliamentary debates onthe Gagging Bill ; tho proceedings of the Convention ; and the great demonstration _ohKenhinston * " _^—occu pied th ? columns of our l ast _rumber _, w the almost , total _exclusion of all other subjects Very unwillingly we were compelled to leave un- ' noticed , a host of important _meeting a , hel A in differ ent parts oi the country . Wo now prefix to this week ' s reports , abridged notices of the meetings excluded from our last . Is will bo seen that we havo adopted an . _- rrangement by which the reports of the people ' s meetings will appear te greater advantage . Let tbe enemies of Chartism read the _contents of tbe following columns , and remember tbat _« THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE IS THE VOICE OF GOD !'
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MANCHESTER . —On Sunday week , amonster demonstration , supposed to have numbs ed nearly a hundred thousand persona , took place in Smithfiold Market . The assemblage was divided into two distinct meetings . _Amoneat the speakers wore Mr Grocott , Mr Dorioynn , Mr Nuttall , Mr Cropper , Mr _Rnnkioo , and Mr John Murray . Resolutions were passed , pltding the meeting to support the Convention in any emergency . An _irhmenae meeting was holden in the People ' s Hall , in the evening . Thb Special _Consnvi-S —A numerous body of special constables signed a requisition to the mayor for the use of tho Town-hall , to consider how far _tV ¦ y were justified , In case of riot , to ill-use their customers . Of course tbe Town-hall was refused . Tbe _crn-stables then engaged the Corn Exchange , and held two _meeting , and passed resolutions to support the People ' s Charter .
Thk Trades . —Tho trades delegates of Manchester have held two meetings and passed resolutions in favour of the Charter , and protesting against the Gaecine Bill . The Unemployed , 0 pehative 3 . —A meeting of tbe ' unemployed operatives' was held on Saturday evening las' * , in St -venson ' _ts-square . W . II- Chartwick was called to the chair . Thoy were told tha ' they were not yet prepared to receive their rights ; that tbey were too degraded and _ignorant . lie believed they were prepared . As a class , tliey were as moral as any other people in the world ; and it they were not , it waa the fault ofthe government . If government chanced the laws , they would _a's-o change the conduct of the people . He believed tha * the peopb were intellectually and physically
prepared to receive their rights . ( Hear . ) James Abram Ball declared , that he was determined to speak bis mind , in spite of what the authorities might say . They had , however , had plenty of talking ; and it was now bi » h time for acting . They were told to be cententeL But could they be contented in slavery ] (' No . ' ) Now , then , was the time for action . He was determined to resist the oppression under which ho had suff : rcd . —William Soflofield aaid , the mayor of Manchester had put out a proclamation in which he alluded to ' unprincipled agitators , ' who were inciting the people to the destruction of property . Had he ever advised tbem to destroy property ? ( No . ) Then the mayor must be a liar , and , as such , stood confounded . The proceedings terminated about _etiht o ' clock . —Abridged from the ' Manchester Guardian ?
Mektisg a ? the _Pjj'pib s Inshhitk—On Monday evening last , a meeting was held at the People ' s Institute , to protest against the ' Gagging Bill' of Sir George Grey . Mr Burton , umbrella maker , Oldham-road , was called to the chair ; and after stating that it waa the object of the bill in qse : tion to prevent the people complaining of their grievances , _lesaid , that if the Chartists were determined to respect persons and property , it waa tbe duty of ali the middle classes to join them . ( _Applause . ) The interests of the middle classes depended upon the working classes getting their rights ; for tbe middle classes depended upon the _prosperity ofthe working classes —Mr James George dark then moved the first resolution , denouncing the bill , now before the Ilouse of Commons , as the most flagrant a * tempt
made in this country for centuries to deprive the peopleoftheirright to complain of grievances . This bill , he said , was an attempt to stay the people of this country irom _pasBisg that Rubicon wbich roust , would , and should , be passed by the people of this country . ( Applause . ) lie then described tho suffering of the working classes , which , he alleged , had arisen from the oligarchy having prevented the laud from being opentd to thera . The hill of Sir George Grey was unnatural , tyrannical , and oppressive . _Shodd the lion , the fierce tiger , the lamb , the sheep , and everything be _allowed to send forth their plaintive cries wben distressed ; but should not man have the power to send forth his plaintive cry ; to send forth hia wrongs in < 2 _nunciations or imprecations agaiust the tyrants who
not only robbed him of the produce of bis industry , but were obstacles to the working classes producing abundance of wealth for themselves . The people cf England would not submit that one million and a half ut them should be sent to death like the Irish . (* No . no . ' ) Rather than submit to this he would proclaim hia wrongs , if he were sentenced to transportation for life or for death—Mr George Archdeacon , insecondingtheresolution , said they had not sent a petition against this bill of Sir George Grey , _beoaHse , afier what had passed with reference to the N ational Petition , they believed that it would have been of no use . There was nothing for them but to enter their strong protest _against it . and to tell theso men of blood that they repudiated it . t A Voice : 'Wewill never volut . tier
against Ireland again . ' _Crieaof 'Never , ' and great applause . ) Never before were the people of England and Ireland both up at the same time , struggling for tlieir liberties . He exhorted them in conclusion , to avoid any fc reach of the peace , and to put from among them all who wished to commit petty crimes . The resolution was then put and unanimously agreed to , Mr Thomas Whitaker moved a resolution expressing joy at the union between the middle and working _classes _. andpledgingthatmeetingto preserve that union inviolate , and to use all the means in their power to obtain the People ' s Charter . The time had now arrived when the middle _olaasea saw that their prosperity depended on the nrosoerity of
the _working classes . A committee of shopkeepers and middle class men had been formed to carry out the union which took place in the Corn Exchange , who would exert every means to convince the middle classes who had hitherto entertained prejudices again & t tbe princip ' _es and opinions of thc working classes * and to bring about a better understanding between the two classes . —Mr George Chambers , in seconding the resolution , said that the people wero wedded to the Charter , and that it had become the topic of the day , from the Now Cross to tho Mayor . The resolution was carried , and a vote of thanks having been given to the chairman , the proceedings terminated about teno ' chek .
A _Mbetikg op Shppkbbpebs in favour op Chartism . —A publio meeting of _shopkeepera was held on Monday evening at the Temperance-hall , in Jersey _, street , to take into consideration the best means of carrying out the resolutions passed at the meeting of the Corn Exchange , on the 10 th instant . The chair waB occupied by Mr George Chambers , provision dealer , of Allocate street . Mr George II . Smith , shoemaker , said several private meetings of shopkeepers had been recently held , with reference to the new movement now commenced by Mr . Joseph Hume , Mr Cobden , and others , and they had come to tho resolution that it was inexpedient to aid that movement , because it excluded principles that were ofthe greatest importance in securing the freedom ot the people , and it successful would not do away with the present By stem of class _lenislation . At i ' _flew last meeting it waa resolved , ' That this meeting
form itself intoa provisional committee , with power to add to its number , for the purpose of cavfiying into effect the objects of tbo meeting of Monday , April 10 th , in the Corn _Exchange- -namely , a union of aU classes for obtaining the _rights of tho people . ' Several names were then received of shopkeepers present , who were desirous to form _aaooiety te carry out _theobjeotsmentionedihWie resolution . ABu 0 _» coraraittee was then appointed consisting of Messrs Thoroaa "Whittakw , William Barton , Thomas Barr _* QW , George 11 . Smith , and George Chambers , lo . draw op rules for the guidance of tho society , and submit _thorn to a future meeting . -Mr Thomas _liey . wood reminded tbo meeting that in ' , all probability when they next met they would not be permitted , to express their sentiments with freedom , and therefore advised them to say what they had to say now . — Thomas Rankin , aa operative , said he miA answer
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for the working classes that they " would" go ori _jiust _* _- the same as before , _totally _heedjm _' of Sir 'George ' Grey ' s bill ; and , if the government imprisoned -toy of tben * v it would bafor the people te say whJather < they would suffer that imprisonment or Bot ; -i- _* _Tlie j Chrirraan said the new law had not made a _aifiglb impression on his mind ; it never for » mdraen ' '? entered his brain ; and he should continue "to ex- '' press his sentiments as fearlessly as ever . —The meetim * then adjourned , shortly before eight o ' oloob * to Tuesday next , to consider the rules to he drawn up by the subcommittee . — -From tbo Manchester Guar ' dian .
Open aie _Mbeiisg _.- _—Anopen-air meotinz _was'held on Tuesday evening , in _Oldfield Road , Salford , ' to consider the _bestmeaneof opposing the bill now before _Pnrliamont- called the ' Crown and Government . Security Bill , ' and to petition her _Majesty to dismiss her present ministers , and call to her councils such men aa will _p ive'justice to the people . ? At a quarter past seven . _o ' clook , the chair wae . taken . ~ by a young man named James Hoyle . The Chairman baring ' stated the objects of the meeting * ' said that the Maw- . CKtrsTER Guardian told the world only last week that Chartism was dead , but he rather thought that piper would find that Chartism _was ' uot dead , nor yei sleeping . Mr John Flinn moved the first resolution , declaring that SirGeorge Grey ' s bill would ' do more
to alienate the affection ofthe people than any other meafiure for the last _fitty years . What ' claim h ' ao thb crown and government upon the people , whom they treated as aliens ? Did the Eovernment think that tbe people would sit quietly down while they ( dundered them . The govemment _» aid that tbey were enemies of peace , law , and order ; but that order was the union bastile and misery . The resolution was senondtd by a Man-named Norris , who said he was an advocate of moral force , and called on the middle classes to come forward aisd join the working _casBea in gaining the People ' s Charter ; The resolution was carried . Mr Charles Littler moved the
next resolution , calling on the Queen to dismiss her present ministers , arid to call to her councils men who would grant the Peopla ' _s Charter arid _Repeal . — Mr George Archdeacon seconded the resolution . He aaid that the government had pretended that thej triumphed last Monday , -but the people would show thera fiat it was the Convention _anctthe people that sained the triumph . ' ( Cheers . ) ; tot them do ali that they could to prevent the earning out of the bill , and not put themselves in the power of 'detectives' and spies . —Thanks being voted to the _ohtiirman , the proceedings terminated at half-past eight o _' _cleok .- ' - Abridged from the Manchester Guardian .
Camp _Mketiso . —A Chartist camp meeting was held on Sunday last , at Hurst Green , _Ashton-under-Lyne . Many thousands were present . — -Mr Richard filling , of Ashton , waa called to tho chair , and in opening the proceedings he commenced by _d-mouncin « the gauging bill , and said that if _a'l were of his mind thoy would , on the morning that that bill received a third reading cease labour until the government had conceded their juat rights . . The bloody and brutal Whigs had most unscrupulously and contemptuously investigated the _Naiional Petition ; but although they Baid that tbey had found the names of * _Pujuoue , ' ' _Longnoae , ' ' _Snubnoge , ' and ' Wellington' attached to it , was it not more likely that these names had been put there by the
thirteen clerks who were appointed by tbe government to investigate it , than by the Chartists ?—( Appiausc . )—He had no doubt in his own mind that that was the fact . If the working and middle classes united together , then the Charter would bo the law . of the l * nd in three months , and that by moral means too . He _concluded by adverting to the meetings which had been held , which , in his opiniou _, showed tbat the middle classes were about to join tha working classes ia agitating tor the Charter ; and by calling on the meeting to swear that they would not abandon their agitation till every male of twenty-one years of ago , untainted by crime , had a vote . Mr George Candelet , of Hyde , moved a resolution expressing contempt for the
statements made by the committee of the House of Commons , charging the people of this country with _keing a nation of forgers , and retorting the charge back on tbe Houso of Common ? , as it was the opinion of tbat meeting that if the names had been forged to the petition , they had been forged by spies paid out of the secret service money , that the government might bo ablo to reject the petition al < together , by saying tbat it'was ' , too _ei-xitemptible to be taken notice of . The people , said the speaker , were now treated worse than slaves ; th y werr treated as criminals . Would they snbm . it to be thus degraded ? Let them tell the delegate whom they sent to the National Assembly that they were _determined to continue ths agitation in a peaceable
lawful , aad constitutional manner ; that they were prepared to go up to the Queen with a memorial praying her to dismiss her present advisers , and that upon the rejection of that memorial , they were then prepared to say what tho next resource should be . lie then proceeded to denounce the ' gagginp bill , ' and expressed his opinion that the committee who had found the curious names attached to the National Petition had put them there- Mr Abel Duke called on all those who had signed the Petition to hold up their bands , in order that ( that meeting being taken to represent tbe publio opinion oi Ashton ) it might be seen what proportion of the population were really i » favour ot and had sigBcd
the National Petition . ( A show of bands was then taken , and every hand in the crowd appeared to oe held up . )— -Mr Robt . Wild , the delegate Irom _Ash _* or _> to the National Convention , next _addressed tht meeting . He implored them to be united , and not to commit any breach of the peace , because by this they would jeopardise their eause . The resolution was then put to the meeting , and _sarried . —Thotna ? Medcalf Jenkins , of Stalybridge , then proposed a resolution denouncing tho gagging bill , and recommending that a petition should be Bent to the House of Commons' against it . The resolution was _seconded , and passed unanimously . The proceedings theu terminated . —Manchester Guardian .
_Newoastle-ufon-Ttse —A very large and _iiifluential meeting took plaee on Monday , April 10 th , to adopt a petition to the House of Commons ibr the Repeal of the Legislative Union between Great Britain and Ireland . The petition was adopted unanimously , amidst the greatest enthusiasm . North Shields . —Two _numerously-attended meetings wero held here on tke 10 th and 11 tb . Resolu tuns , in support of tho Convention and denunciatory ofthe Gagging Bill , were unanimously adopted . Hull . —A splendid meeting took plaoe iu the Temperance Hall , en the 11 th . Dr Gordon presided . A resolution viaa adopted , _approving of the course taken by the Convention on Monday , the 10 th ; _alao a resolution , condemnatory of Sir George Grey ' _o Gagging Bill . The meeting was crowded to excess , and numbers had to go away , unable te gain admission .
_Bunr . —On Monday evening week a large meeting took place in Union-square , in _suppoit of the People's Charter . In spite of the raging of a piti . less storm about three thousand persons were present . Mr Bowker was called to the chair , and delivered an excellent _addreBS . Mr Roberts moved the first resolution , which _expresied confidence in the Convention . Mr Rankin , from Manchester , and Mr Bell , from Heywood , -supported the resolution , in energetic and eloquent speeches , whioh were loudly applauded . The _resolution was adopted , and tbe meeting then _separated , after having given loud cheers for the Charter . During tbe time of the meeting the military v * ere kept in the barracks , the soldiers having been ordered to be ready at a > mo _ment's notice .
Liverpool—On Friday sight a third _wseklj gathering ofthe Ghartiata of tt is town was _hsdd at the Music-hall . Mr M'Leaa was called to the chair . He adverted to the _unneseseary military _preparations made in town , and remarked it aa singula * that the Peace Society , who had _poeted a phmrd oi > the walls , warning tha people ag & inat anarchy , should not have levelled ! it instead at _(~ e armed butchers . Being united ,, neither an armed nor anj other force would keep * _tae Charter from-them . —Mi Thomas Jones _censaraii cne or two & f tho looa papers for the attacks whioh they had made up . n the Chartist cause . There were butt four _honeai
papers in the kingdom—the _Neiwussts Stab , Edk _. _biukgh _Expsksj , _Kation , and _TXtiras Irishman ( A cheer tor Mitebe ! . ) The speaker condemned _ttn commercial system , as' done and gone for ever - , ' am am ounced thai one measure , which would be passe whtn the Charter became law _,,-aonld be the rtrwsse _* _sion of the _caclosed waste lands of this country , _twhich they had been _unjustly robbed . Alluding _ttho _goveriiEient bill for _th & suppression of sedicioi . Mr Jones warned Lord Joan Russell that the ¦ c \ r of thi & _wautry would imitate those ot France , iu . send him adrilt , _lika M . Guizot .-Dr _Reynolo addressed the meeting amidst lOud _applause . " Th meeting then diaai > lY & cl .
_WiniKHAvan . — _Fuatbrnisatioj- * . — Recently ; largo mtating of Chartists and Repealers was held ii ? he Theatre _R'tval . Tho chair waa taken by M John Byrno , chemist , and the utmo st _cnthusinsi and order prevailed during tbe entire proceedmg > A resolution was passed declaring the belief of u meeting , that nothing would satisfy the united peop . vi Ireland and _E-ngland , orcure the ills under _wnL i frith wero labouring , tava a Repeal of the Union i . irtUad , and tha adoption of the Peorio a Charter
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tor _Engtend r end that ia this belief fche / y pledged themselves to _brinss about both by aU tha means is tbeJe poww , ~ MrII . O'Hahlon , " ia a ' _utrong and well delivered Bpeeeb , proposed the resolution , and was most Heartily greeted by the entire audierjee , wita whom' he appeared to be a special favourite ; It waa _aeoWded by Mr Swift . Mr Finnigan from Manches . ferj _nbo , b $ d < _jf ) iao there npon _inVitatloh , ; wa thaa _mtirodaqeof _vMu ' idBtgreat applause . He said , site * _speftkiagiileugth upon-Ireland ' s rig ht ta _self-govermtie-Mt , tbat-tW _indcatrious classes had mora _poweriulXriBfepnatMatt _snfothera to keep tbe' _peaca of iW _rjo _^ _Silv ; H _^ _Contended for Universal' _Sufstui fo ? _EagLuid _^ and t hat ia this belief _theyy pledged themselves to _brinss about both by all tha means is
_ijrasey _^ ao _^ _wmueci _& tna . _iawine prevalent ia . Ir « JM _$ , _^ there Jfad * d . _ajnMI & li _&^ _hS _^ thecase , ; He ¦ . flft _^^ _tfi _^ o _^ _ntnieaiwilh taunting the . Irish for : theirJgb . _QrinceV . _JiSthoi } gh _ithad _done ' all _in-its power ? to ; ; h _^ p thefflj ; faj _|!^ _; ot hatid , and if the _goyerhijie-ti _^ _Sjd _wl ' _p _kXjpjfcerly in time , tho peoplo migbV imitate _French fashions * He \ . trusted „ da 6 wever ; _\ hax \ . all ) WOxild end peaceably , when tbe full amount oi public opinion was brought ite ? bear _' _ispon _tboae subjects , he was confident th © people _united tar . ' Hgh weal and woe , would march * shoulder to ' _sbou'der , -until : the Union waVrepiealed * and the Charter achieved . Mr Finnigan resumed \ and the Charter achieved . Mr Finnigan _rfBDmed \
. ' . his _iteat whilst _peala of _approbation shook the , roof \ . tree . _—Mril . Uandcock _, oi King-street , amoaf sea- v dons Chartist and Repealer , moved the adoption ofa N 'petition asking for the Charter ind Repeal , which , ' was seconded hy Mr Valentine Fox , a member df tha 'Conciliation llall body of Repealers , when the chairmas got up and said , he badjdeasur _^ in introducing to tbe meeting Mr George Archdeacon , the _othee gentleman-who had been-invited there , to assist ths men of Whitehaven . —Mr Archdeacon said ; ' The march of _Dsmoeracy , for the last * few _wet-ks was _raoatf _Bignificaist _. _' _andJ ffit warned' not tyrants he knew npt . wh . at would . 'He looked at _pansiug _erente as if ths finger ofthe _Altaighty _. like _Retire pillar of _^ _ldea times ; was pointing the way toIreedonV : aa if . _ia-fact _*
the Godhead was weary of the persecution- oi the people ind determined to crush despotism alt over the , earth .. ' _;^ declared the . utter abhdrreBce 61 the people W ' _wards . the destroyers _* f property , _Street brawlers , and petty-robbers . He exphfiied _^ h ' e _gln > _riona position otithe : men oi Manchester since then ? union , to whioh happy - union he _attributed the stoppage of the intended _caraage in Dublin upon the Monday after Patrlck ' s-day . Mr Archdeacon thea briefly but energetically adverted to the Indecent and insane _marner in _vshich the House of Commons received Mr O'Connor ' s notice of presenting the Chartist petition . He said as an Irishman , tho Charter had his warm support , and would have that of ail his countrymen , but too long kept' from
fraternity with the democrats of England by bad , selfish , interested advise's , and by the macbih ' ationa of a vile , hideoupl y . * tyrannical , and treacherous government , lie appealed to the Englisbmen .-there _' if it would not be"better for the Irish people to be * sabred down than ' have another million of . corpses _tossed _through fields and in ditches'to be devoured by dogs '—( great ' _fensation)—and asked- _thens _WOOldHuey n _* . t _oledgo' themsekvVi _* , like , unto ibe men ' at : Oldham Edge - and . Manchester , to _( Bhield from danger the prosecuted patriots—Smith _O'Brien , Meagher , and Mitchel . ( At this' p , art if the _jpeaker ' aaddress . all in the theatre stoodnp _, ' a ' ndimphatically cried out We will . ' ) Mr Archdeacon con _» eluded by _stnling that' the prospect lor all waa
brightening , and that union , such ae he saw around him , such as he trusted should ever more prevail ia Whitehaven , would vnable them to grasp liherty , and re-model institutions in accordance with ths spirit of the age , The lecturer after stating that h © would have tho _Uonour of _adddressiug them the next evening on ' the necessity and beauty of temperance , * sat dov _» n much applauded . A vote ¦ of thaiika waa moved to the chairman , which was seconded by M ? Finnigan , who observed , that he would next night move ah _address to the gal / ant Pr _« _noh oeoiil *; . Thiea cheers wore given for Repeal , three for the Charter , and three for F . O'Connor , M . P . The meeting
indeed progressed and terminated gloriously , _notwithstindiug the petulance which the Earl of Lonsdale * exhibited , when informed that agitation was about being carried into Cumberland , and up to the very gates of Lowther Castle , notwithstanding the bringing in quietly in twos and threes by his agent and relative , of 250 yeomanry , and swearing in another 250 specials— notwithstanding also this individual ' s direction to the polios , to take down the placards * which the obedient functionary proceeded to effect until warned that he would be prosecuted f . r felony r when he desisted . As in every other case the ' peopleproved _themaeltea tho proper special constables .
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LOUOUBOROUGH ClIAUTIST DEMONSTRATION . — On _6 f of the _greatest meetings ever held in _Loughborough took plaee on Sunday . A preliminary _mieting ¦ _ras held on Mount Sorrell Common , about hue miles trom Loughborough , at ten o ' clock in ths morning , at which about 3 , 000 persons were present , 1 , 000 of whom had walked in yr cession , six abreast , rom Leicester . _Addresscg were _delivered by _Mossrs Roberts of Nottingham , _Skeviugton of Loughborough , Timms and Coulson ot Leicester , and Dr MiJQouall . Two or three _troups of Yeomanry Cavalry were _oisr the common _during the time the meeting was held , but their services were not _needed . At about
halfpast eleven o ' clock the people * igain formed in prt ,-cession , and walked to Loughborough . Dr M Douall walking in from , and Air Roberts , of _Nutti / _u-haro , ir * the rear . They arrived at Loughborough about oneo ' clock , and at half-past two a publio meeting was commenced in the market place . Mr Skevington _* was called upon to preside , and firm but _temperate addresses were delivered - by the Chairman , _Messrs Roberts and Barber of _Nottingham , Coulson of Leicester , Mr Paasmore Edwards ( a lecturer for the Peace Socitty ) , and Dr M'JDouall , The following resolution was carried unanimously : — ' That this meeting , representing ; the _Chartistsof Loughb ' _-rougb _, _Leicester , _Nottingham , and various other adjacent p ' acos , do _duclaie that _whilst they are _detetmined to
agitate for , and accept nothing less than the principles of the Charter , they will do ao in a leval , constitutional , and _peaceful manner ; that they are , and shall be , the _deterininsd opponent- ) of all who may injure * or attempt to destroy property . ' A number of peiiceiaenand pensioners , and about 500 _special _GOu _^ tab . ea , were not far away from the meeting , but there was not the 8 _lij > hie 3 t breach of the peace . There wera about 6 , 000 person ? present . Ou _Monday evening the women ut _Loughborough made a spirited deraonsira * tion . by _vsalkicg in _procession round tiie town , and holding a _mtetiDj- ia tbe mcrkot place . — On Tuisday morning informaiion reauhtd Loughborough ttia & twenty or thirty Chartists had been taken into cuet- dy by the police in London on Monday evening *
A few of the Chartists immediately ran to * various parts of tbe town with the information , aHd a _-frseetiDg was conventd in the Market-place , in an incredibly ; short tiine . It waa here thought proper to send messi _ngers into some of the neighbouring _village ? * tocall a meeting for two o ' clock in the afternoon . This was accordingly done , but before the people bad dispersed , a troop of Dragoons rode into the _Marketplace , and were received with cheers . They were ihen put through their various movements with . swords and muskets , and the pensioners and special constables who had been on duty on Suuday ., were summened to attend forthwith . Three magistrates * and an armed bod > oi policemen , were also in the town before the time fer ti . _a afternoon meeting . Between to
two and three the villagers b _^ _an muster strongly . _Amsngst tho 3 e trom the Mount Sorrell aide were nearly one hundred quarry men . who , on hearing that a number of Chartists had bsen apprehended ia London , left their work to join in a demonstration at Loughborough , and brought their hammers with them , but did not display the »> . A large procession moved through a good part of the town , a _« d the meeting was held in the Ward _' s End . It wou & i have been held in the Market-plaee , but Mr _Sktvingtom thought that in that case some of the many special constAbles who were there might make remarks woich would tend to exasperate tbe people , and lead to a disturbance . Mr _Skuvington wid the people that they were ealled _tosjether to show the _government that
they were with the people oi London . Ihe-rumour that Mr O'Connor wae taken into custody _wasialse ; the _governtaent had not dared to touch either , bim or any other member of the Convention . _frOueers . )* While Mr- Skevington waB reading a _pasagraph or two from the fourth eduiintt of Monday ' s ' j 53 Jvmiraph , Charles _Ularck PhillippB _» Esq _., a county _magistrAte , and brother of the _Under-Secretary of Sta & _ejrode up , and read a telegraphic despatch from . Sir'George Grey to tho magistrates , stating that London was perfectly q _* _iiet , and there had been no diatuibatic < s ; he therefore desired ... b \ _r bkevingtua to allow tha meeting to disperse . Mr Skevingtoivsaid they would disperse in due time , and in the _presence of Mr Phillippstested tbe _itelmg ofthe _piople aa _t-t their
_, _deterniicatifin to _rcsptct li . _'e and property , while seeking their rights , and asked all who would go homo when he told thtm to hold up their hands , a vast number ef hands wore held np , and there was a cry jf' We'll come again when you war _. t us . Mr bivevington told them that ho learned how to _aetata-• rom Mr Phillipps and Mr Dawson ( another _niagw-• . rate ) in 1 S 32 . Mr Phillipps aaid he never agitated or tbe ' F _. ve Points' of the Cbm ter . . Mr S fccywijiaa _« _idheu _* ed more _violcn ; _language in _agua ing tor he Reform Bill , than he ever had dote m _aetata . *? or the Charter . Mr Phillipps did not appear _dc-su-wu
f EOin" fuither with thia matter , but _ayam suggested nt _propriety of the _mertingdisaolving . Mr _bUvin _* . _M-a'd it womd _prabably h . _-. ve been _d'ss _^ vul by _uit time if Mr Phillipps had j olcorrc . Mr _hhillipps etired on he aring this , and tho meeting dissolved in i _poscefnl and orderly manner in : _* . lew mir _. utea ¦ ttenvaidi . There vere abmt 2 0 _( . ' 0 _persons at thia neeting . During thc afternoon the principal _-baik ii the'Town , and _n'any of the . tradesmen ' _d shops wera . ostd _, but no attempt _wh-itevtr was rude to it jura > io property of any person . Such _*> , demonstration aa ot nf this day , _« a _» . perhaps , r _^ ver made at so short _, a notice in any other town ,. ' ( Conti m ed _, _} o ovrfifth png * , )
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 22, 1848, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_22041848/page/1/
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