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The sleeper hns been at . length . aroused , and the men of Norwich who have hitherto . been , as observed by one of the speaker ^ , like grasshoppers , to he heard but not seel ) , citme forth on Monday last iu joyful thousands to lift up their voices in concert with their brethren of the North in demanding the concessions of their rights . The Mayor gmnted the we of St . Andrew's Hall , and at about twelve o ' clock the speakers and a great number of the brave men of Norwich arrived in procession , with flags , placards ,, andhandsofmnsie . TLose who were nboiit to take pan in the proceedings ascended the orcliestra , winch was soon occupied , with men « n , J women ; , the whole of the Hall , the area of which will hold more than 3000 persons , was also filled .
Mr . Biughtwkll , was called to the chair , and opened the iiae > mi ) g with a speech in which hedetailed the purpose for which the assembly was called together . Amongst ether objects they had in view was to free themselves from the corrupt rotten State ChuTch . ( Loud cheers . ) The people were recognised , he said , as free ; it was a common saying that Britons never would be slaves , bin . if they were freo ft consisted in the minority ruling the majority . lie believed the People ' s Charter would effect for the people those benefits which they were so justly entitled to receive , and as a nation they had only to say they will have it and they shall have it . Mr . 'J . W . ( iiiEEvns congratulated the meeting on the numbers assembled . He hoped the men of Norwich would come forward and carry out the great principles of the People ' s Charter , that rather than
live like slaves , they-would die like freemen . The want of the right to vote was one of the principal had a right to vote in making the lawshe was called on to obey * If the people had the Suffrage there would have been no oppression ; Ireland would have had justice , and no Poor Law Amendment Act would ever have been passed to separate a man from his wife en account of poverty . The day was not far distant when the people would knock oft ' their chain ? , and rise in the majesly of freedom , when they would causes of the distress ; ewry man of sound judgment send men to Parliament who would do their duty . Let the people be up and doing—let them join the men of Alanchester Birmingham , and the men of the North , in the struggle lor liberty—h-t the people arm themselves in defence of their rights , and if it became necessary use those arms to obtain their liberty .
Mr . Hall addressed the meeting in the same way , urging a union of the people ; the necessity of obtaining Universal Suffrage , Ac , as a remedy for existing evili . and deprecating the Poor Law as a wicked aud unjust enactment . ;¦ •' ¦ Mr . Stephens then presented himself to the meeting , and was received with loud cheers , and spoke for near an hour and a half . He said , Men of Norfolk , Fellow Countryman , All!!—You have heard from your townsmen what is the object of this great and important uieeting ; will you hear a stranger who has come amongst you unknown , save only as he may hare been heard of from afar , always in the cause of the oppressed , and as the unflinching aslvocate Of the suffering portion of his countrymen .
You , my friends , have . been assembled this day , not in the ranks of faction or under the banners of party . I speak to you not as Whigs , or Tories , or Radicals , but as a portion of the great people of England , met together for the purpose of deliberating on the present state of things , to make known the grievances under which you suffer , and to devise what is to . be done in the present most alarming" crisis . If any man came here with religious or political bias , be he Whig or Tory , Catholic or Protestant , 1 am assured he will on such an occasion , rise above the prejudices with which from birth , education , or other causes he happens to be surrounded , and with us wing his flight in the glorious cause of British benevolence . Our object is to strike the death blow
net of one party alone , but of all parties , and to unite the mass of the people in one great bond for the general welfare . If we go on . much longer quarrelling amongst ourselves , struggling for the mastery who snail be ; up and who down , while the millions are perishing for , want , it vill be impossible to keep back the tide of popular revolution , which will burst the bonds by which the people are now governed , and snap the chains by which society is now held together . Never in pr ivate or on the platfonn have 1 endeavoured to a'dvance the cause of revolution . I ain hpt come to do so now ; but 1 am come to tell the Tories and the Whigs , apd the : ricb ~ and the Spwe rfnl , that unless we , abandon our differences , nd out the evils by which the people are oppressed
and make good laws for the remedy of those evik , ' the people will before long be too many for them . This kind of work will not do much , longer . Let them ; look at this assembly of the working classes ; they are not collected here because it is a Sunday or a holiday , \ ihen the operative classes are disengaged , ; this is no time of an election , no gathering of the forces of the Whig ' s arid . Tories ; it is not a time when , to the shame of Norwich , i * 120 are offered for a vote , when men are brought together through the influence of their masters and employers , and by canvassing and intimidation , but it is the spontaneous rising of the masses of Norwich- ^ -of 10 , 000 men and women who have come here to make kiioWn their grievances—who liavt ; come at the sjicrifice of Is . or ' : 2 a . of their wages , and against the
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inflriferiee of the middle arid higher classes . I tell those classes that a meeting like ithia is no joke in Norwich—I have been hard at Work for three or four years trying to show the people of wealth and station that their property ia at si ^ e ^( heaiyhear ) ¦—BhWss they come and mingle ^ amongst the people , unite with them in obtaining a redress of grievance ^ and stand at th eir head . I have been tyonqnred by addressing youv'Mfc Ch ^ irinan ^ ns a working man--bat when I [ look round me itr this H all * and see its walls adorned with the portraits of those who have held the seat of honour and di gnity , and as such should have been the . friends . and prot 6 ctorS " oi the-peor , > tca bn 6 t- helpsaying th ' aifT think the Mayor would have been best in his place . ' * ^^^^ .. ¦ ' "''
and it would most have become him , ii" he had presided on this occasion . I revere and respect with all my soul the constituted authorities of the land , from the Queen seated on the throne to the Mayor and constables tinder him . I respect all according to the station in which they are placed , when I ' find them adorning their stations by their private virtues and the consistency of their public conduct—but when I see tradesmen screwing the last farthing from the poor in the shape of profit ^ manutacturers extracting from the earnings of the poor the gold dust with which to fill their coffers—merchants amassing wealth from others ? labours and toils without an adequate return-r-when I see the Common Coanicilmeri and the Mayor exalted to their
stations on the shoulders of the people , and Members of Parliament , in order to secure their seats , wickedly holding the honied words t > f promise to the ear only to / be broken to the hope , pretending to feel an interest in the distresses of the hand-loom weavers of Norwich , and m the North , pretending to commiserate the sufferings of the factory children , and professing to lend their aid in obtaining a redress of grievance—and when I see these men , alter haying secured their ends and raised themselves at the expense and by the influence of the people , tarn their backs upon that people , and tell them with scom they might go to the dogs or to the devil if they liked , then I tell them they are traitors to the Constitution , to the Commonwealth , to the neoule .
and to their God ; on taem hangs the wickedness of civil outrage , and if revolution follow they must answer and they must suffer . Let them hear another word of warning . I will tell them the feeling , not of the men of Norfolk , for of that I know little , but of 100 . 000 men in the North , who would thank God if a revolution were to break out to-morrow , And why ; Was it because these men were longing for plunder , or thirsting far the blood of other men , or anxious to pull down and destroy this Garden of Eden , and convert it to a wilderness ? No ! it was for none of these causes . It was because other men had left them no property to lose—because the men whose houses and factories they have built , whose wealth they have created .
have reduced them , like the Israelites in Egypt , to make bricks without giving thein straw . It is not because they are anxious to take other men ' s lives , but because their own lives are become a burthen •¦ they are not worth keeping , and they are ready and willing to lose them in a righteous cause : it is because these men have children who are dear to them , and they say to themselves , l > There is no chance of things bettering for us , let us strike the blow ; if we lose our lives in the effort , there is for our children at least a better hope of futurity . " I put these things to the men of wealth and property in Norwich , in Manchester , and Birmingham , and Leeds , and other manufacturing places , and I tell them those great towns are not worth twelve months—twelve months
did I say—not twenty-four hours' purchase . England stands on a mine—a volcano is beneath her ; you may dance on it—you may pluck the flowers from its surface , but it only sleeps : the match in lighted , the train is laid , and unless the misery and distress of the poor be met by good feeling and speedy remedy , no man can tell what a day—what an hour may bring forth . ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) The truth is , John Bull will not be humbugged any longer . He says , " Tories , you have gulled us long enough ; Whigs , you have humbugged us till we are tired . " What with the wars , and the Civil List , and the debt , and the Poor Laws , we may say to the Tories ta ta , and to thy Whigs good bye ; but if it is ta ta to the Tories , and good bye to
the \ Y bigs , it is hurrah for the people . We would as soon hav « Peel as Russell , or Dan O'Connell . or neither one iior the other ; the day is come when no Government can e . \ i > t—no Government " shall exist , that will not repe . il the Poor Law Amendment Act . ( Loud cheers . ) We -nil ! not give ourselves any trouble . ahout it—we witl not petitionwe will not ask lor it , but neither man nor devil shall prevent its repeal . ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) I have a word for the rich—they know not what they are doing ; I advise them to make their wills . Th <; rich think to oppress the poor and to keep them down and trample on them by their power , but there is a great , a just , a more powerful God in heaven ^ who takes care-of the poor ; thev think to crush the
widow and the orphan , but tlu-re U one Being abow all who has s ' . \ om to lie the father of the fatherless , and the husband of the widow . The thunders and lightnings and brimstone from heaven will come down on the oppressors of the poor , and a fate more dreadful thiin that which awaited Tvre and Sidon in the day of his wrath , will await the rich and powerful if they coiitinuo to trample on the rights ' of the people . If the poor have no right to the rut .-s , then the rich man bus no right to his rents ; if the poor man has no right to his maintenance from his labour , then the rich man has no right to the -wealth wbicli he possesses , and every one has a right to do wh . it seems good in his own eyes . There is oiie pin on which all titb to property is hung , and that is the
unchangeable right of the poor man to a comfortable subsistence . What is the case ? All property is held originally from some person . If I l :: ke of you a portion of land , for vrljiich I pay £ 50 rent , I may relet it to another for £ 100 , who may again let it to others , till the rent amounts to £ 5 , 000 . You are the ground landlord ; whatever chances happen , whatever circumstances may arise , whoever goes without his rent , you , as the ground landlord , must be paid yours , or you will come down on ail thoseAvho are in possession . The poor mini , then , is the ground landlord of all the property in the kingdom . His is the pepper corn ; give it him ; if he has it not , if he comes to suffer , then he has a right to come down on you till his right is obtained . All the people want . fair
all they ask is , a «' ' s wages for a lair day ' s work—they want no more , they ask for no niore , b * ut they will be content with nothing less . The resolution which has been moved , tells you the people are distressed , and it tells you truly—from the Landsend to the North-west points of Scotland , and thence passing throughout Ireland , one out of three are destitute of any thing like work , and those who are employed , obtain such wages , as leave then worse fed than the benst of burthen , aud with less provender to satisfy the demands of nature . When tlie Parliament meets , its members will have something else to talk about besides the affairs of Canada , or the eternal subject of justice to Ireland : a subject nearer their own homes will
demand their attention . The men of Norwich , of Manchester , of . Birmingham , the poor of the towns and in the country have risen to demand their ¦ rights , and they must be attended to . No doubt every means will be tried to keep things as they are till the great men c . nn make their escape , but it will not do , the time is come , and redress must be given . The resolution which , has been moved recommends Universal Suffrage , Vote by Ballot , and Annual Parliaments . 1 shall not say how far I agree with this . I corns to the men of property , to the Mayor of Norwich , and I tell them the wrongs of the people must be redressed , and unless they can find a speedier way of doing it , it shall—it must be done by the people themselves , for the
people have risen , and they will sit down no more until the work is . accomplished . Working men , I am not your advocate , 1 am the advocate of the rich and powerful ; but 1 repudiate the principle that that fbi ' m of government is uest which secures the greatest happiness to the greatest number . 1 hold that tlie end of all law arid government is to secure the greatest happiness to all . If we do what is right—if we act towards each other as God has directed -us , then we shall all be blessed and bless one another . I wish the men of Norwich to come forward and say if there be another way of settling this business*—if there , be , let them do it . If the Parliament—if the Ministers—if the Queen in Council can devise any means of remedying the evil , in God ' s name let them
set aboutit . All I say is , only let them make haste , for we cannot wait . Hundreds of houses in Norwich are at this moment without beds for the inmates , without chairs on . which to rest themselves , or tables , or victuals to put on them . I have been round amongst the people—I have seen it is so . This morning , as I came with the procession to this Hall , I saw from a broken lattice window a poor old couple , who looked down upon us as we passed ; they gave me a smile , but the tears fell from their aged cheeks—they lifted uptheir hands and gave me their ; blessing—they offered up a prayer for my success , and that prayer has loosened my tongue this day to advocate the cause of the people . I have very little more to say ; others will address vou , and after listening to all and hearing all opinions , you will be better able to form you judgment . " The movement which has been made will spread till it embraces the whole of the British
people , the principles which I have propounded have already taken possession of the minds of some of the upper classes ; the military are not against us . I have communicatedwith many of them and they , with me ; they have attended my preaching and my addresses . Tlie army of England knows what we are about , and they are ready to say to us * go it , go it ,. if you cannot do it yourselves , tell us , and we will come and help you . A poor old soldier had broken a window of a public building with a stone ; he was taken before a magistrate , aud asked what , he had to say ; he at once admitted he had done it , and told the magistrates if that ^ tone bad failed , he had others in his pocket ; on being questioned as to his reason he said , Sir , 1 am an old soldier and , the son of an old soldier ; I am starving , , and now myf poor father and mother are dead ; I " nave spout my strength ' -aiid ' - the inin . e of mv life iufi-hting the battles of my country ,
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scornedffiS ? f ? e mes ? « f ^^ tence ; but I SiS ^ f ° ° ^ rable act ' aildiI determined SSS ^ me to prison , where at least ilhWa ?™ www 5 ° * " * the soldiers will ofd » f > fdI ™ hth ? 8 treat 8 them when they are MMMmm ^' H m ^^ M ^ m wifc ^ his children , his sister ^ and his sweetheart ^™ ? J ¥ « oops were called otitrat Bradford : and directed to fire on the people , an old « nW ;» r ' ¦ " !!! ¦ — . — .--. ¦ - ¦¦ . '
ww ^ A We ** f ? r mrbkttle , m never ^ rhnV froimhis duty , told-melfe never till ttat moment Ua ^ bontT ^ * ' * " ^ ^« ^ 8 aid te ' > S was about to fire one man opposite to me bared hia Sfffcn A ; CaU ? ' T ? « P ^ end it in , there ; S leart failed me for the first time in my life ; I snnt g ^ ine ^ dthat cha ^ e ^ cS horned iS ^ fk ^ ment knows : this ia the feel § £ SSSift A ^ ' ^ J ° tn R « ssell would hZ SS ^ - ™**™ S-at Kersal Moor . Soldier , IteuSe ^ f ^ . ^ tteu would not stand it i tell the lories that it is ont of the power of the great Duke himself , Hell the Whigs U ^ out ofthSr n SnT ^ ^ pe ° P ' ^ Sg ^ thifaS fn j Path of . peace , meeting m peacl , and S h ^ P " * > Mch God his ^ plaited in thel josoms . We -want the English workman t !» be restored ^ to his happy home ^ njoybKhe just reward of his ; labour ^ i th his wife orW ^ S smging . hymns of gratitude to heavL fhr ^*
Diessmgs bestowed on him . We want good * o £ men and good masters-good pr iests and > good people ;• the senantto do that wiiich is right , iwlthe inaster to do justice to the servant . I willsay ^ , Se 1 ones , is that what you want ? to the Whigs ; is that Si wSr a % ^^^^ P ^ e visfhatwha j on want ? ( Loud cries of yes , yes . ) The peoule answer yes . Then 1 ask the Whigs and th ^ Torief how will you give it us ? Allis wellifyou do , S we w , l take it . We . bavathe power to dcI "S Si ? i ? P ° * t «>' the people has been held in eash , but it can be kept back no longer . I know he . people love me and I love them ; I hive advocated their cause : when I betray them let tBm -nit T ~
OH ; they ^ re oppressed ; their wrong * : must be redressed ; I do not advocate violence , but With it oT without it their wrongs shall be removed : for God is great and just and powerful , and his blessing i 3 amongst them . Mr . Stephens then retired amidst loud cheers . Mr Love moved the second resolution . He denounced the Peor Law Act in very strong terms ,, contending it was inconsistent with Scripture , and as such , the people were not bound to obey it . He called pu the meeting to unite hand and heart in obtaining the redress of their grievances . Mr- Fox seconded the resolution . He contended the poor were the victims of bad laws , which only operated ta the benefit of the money-mongers , the speculators , and the monopolists , to the exclusion ot the producer . All interests were protected except the interests of labour . He nr ^ erfthft n ^ r ^ Jn
JPF ^ PPv ^ g to physical force , as moral force had fulled . . Mr . G . J . Harney then addressed the meeting . He demanded Universal Suffrage as the right of the people , and the only means by which their grievauces could be removed . It was no use to petition . I bey had already petitioned too long , and their only course now was to demand if . He called on the meeting to swear by . their homes and every thin * dear to them , that they would not rest till their rights were obtained , and before the earth had made another annual circuit round the sun the People ' s Charter should become the law of the iand . They would have it , or die in the attempt to obtain it , because it was their right . He did not come there to discuss the question—it was the people ' s right , and their tyrants knew it was so , but they would witliold it as long as they could .
Mr . Lixes moved the third resolution , and addressed the meeting on the evils of the present mode of election , and the necessity for their being remedied ; he was seconded by Mr , Thrower . Mr . John Cleave , of the London Working Man ' s Association , next presented himself and addressed the meeting in an excellent speech of considerable length , after which speeches were made by Messrs . Snape , Purland , Darken , and others , all of which we should have been happy to insert , but the length of space occupied by the iiiany other meetings we ¦ this week report , render it impossible . The following are the resolutions unanimously adopted by the crowded hall .
1 . 'I hat this meeting is of opinion that the cause of all the corruptions and anolamies in legislation as well as the distress' and difficulties of the commercial ,, manufacturing , trading , and working classes , is , that our representative system is based upon exclusive and unjust privileges , aud we therefore believe that the time has arrived for establishing that system on a foundation more in accordance with the principles of justice , brotherly love , and with the increased knowledge of the people . ;
2 . That the principles of representation as defined by the Peoples Charter are just and reasonable , embracing as it does Universal Suffrage , No ' Property Qualification , Annnal Parliaments , and Vote by Cttliot , which in their practical operations would in , the opinion of tU-Weting , be the means of returning , just reprcEeutatiVes tortnei 3 ^ kaiojjs House of Parliament—persons who , being responsible to and being paid by the people , would be more liv ely to promote the just interests of the nation , than tliLw who now constitute that assembly . 3 . That this meeting adopts the NationalPetition as-agreed to at Birmingham , and that the persons now present at this meeting pledge themselves to sign the same .
4 . 1 hat Mr . G . J . Harney , tVe Rev . J . R . Stephens , and James B . O'Brien be appointed by this meetiDg to unite with the delegates that may be selected byother meetings iu different parts of the kingdom , to watch over the Charter and Petition when they are presented to Parliament . . 5 . That this meeting returns its thanks to Lord Stanhope and Mr . John Fielden , for their exertions in Parliament in favour of the working peoole ; also to Feaigus O'Connor , Rev . J . R . Stephtus . Richard Oastler , J . P . Cobbett , J . B . O'Brien , aul other friends of the oppressed . G . That the thanks of this meeting be given to tlier Worshipful the Mayor , for the use of St . Andrew ' s Hall on this occasion .
In the evening , at six o ' clock , about 120 . persons sat down to an excellent dinner at the Queen ' suVnnS t Magdalen Street . After # ra <« haying been said and the cloth removed , Mr . J . W . Greaves was caUed . upon to preside , assisted by Mr . Cleave as vicechairman . The h ' rst toast proposed was "The people , the source of all power , " which was loudly responded to , and a song appropriate thereto sung . The next toast was , " To the memory of the iminorr tal Thomas Paine , Cartwright , Cobhett , I lun ^ Washington , and all the illustrious dead of every nation who , by their writings or their actions , have
contributed to tbe cause of freedom . " The next toast was , " The health of our distinguished visitors ^ the Rev . J . R . Stephens , G . J . Harney , and Mr . John Cleave , who severally responded to their names being announced * in SDeech-. s of great length , which it is impossible to do justice to : suffice it to say , that every one was highly satisfied , and separated about twelve o ' clock . Several songs weresong , and the band enlivened the scene by . playing several popular airs . About eighty persons enrolled theinselves as members of . an Association to forward the objects in view , and to meet next Tuesday evening to commence active operations .
A deputation from the Working Men ' s Association at L ynn , waited upon the delegates in Norwich . Mr . Stephens only could accept the invitation , and on Tuesday moniing he started for that place , where m the evening he addressed , in their meeting-room , above 500 persons , in his usual eloquent and impassioned language . There were not fewer than 10 . 000 persons present , at different times , at the Norwich meeting . < ' . - .- ¦ .: .
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RADICAL DEMONSTRATION AT DUNDEE . A public meeting of the inhabitants of Dundee wa held in the Magdalene Yard , upon Monday the 29 th . of October , for the purpose of adopting the People's Charter ^ and electing a delegate to represent the county of Fprfar in the National Convention shortly to assemble in London . The deputations from Kirriemuir , Forfan Cupar-Angus , Penh * and various other places in . the country , assembled in the High Street , about two o ' clock . At that time there were seven bands of mosic , ; forty-five flags ; .. of the most gprgeous description , withbeautifuld ^ svices and appropriate mottos , ready to acpompany the procession ta the place ofmeetin ? ,. Wmch , they reached in excellent spirits , and good order . ; It was . thought hy m ^ y ^ that the , division ^ w , hich have « o
long prevailed aniong the Jeadmg Rjadicals in Duiit dee , would hav ^ i been hi g hly mjuripuii to the demonstration . M ' any , prediqted that the procession would turn out an entire failure onthe part of the poor Radicals . The event has disappomted their fond expectations , for the ^ adicals-haa a coniplt ? t * triumph every way , The sun shone during . the-. whole time the meeting lasted , with meridian splendour ; and the enthusiasm of the people exceed « deverythingever witoessed in . Elunaee .- When the Committee reached the hustings ^ and took their place , there could not Be less than 15 , 000 pre : ent , independent of children . vA number of speeches were then made , evincing the same spirit of bold and determined virtue , and embodying the spirit of patriotism in the richest forms of nenous eloquence .
Mr ; Burns , an able and consistent Radical , was elected to represent the county of Forfar in tue National Convention . —True Scotsman .
Guea'i' Demonsthation At Norwich.
GUEA'i' DEMONSTHATION AT NORWICH .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 10, 1838, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1031/page/2/
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