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F TO LQBXLPALMEESTON . I " Rightly to be great I Is not to stir 'without great argument , I But freaily to find quarrel in a straw I Wisea honour ' s at the stat « . " SHAKSPEAB . E . ' X ? Lobd , —It is a melancholy subjeet of reflection * jt the gates of peace have never been suffered to BBja dosed during the whole reign of any of our gfB&gna , from William the Conqueror to Victoria . ., ^ - ^ y is to be blamed for this- However short the -j » n—however young or old , feeble or powerful , or -kfXeiei the Bex , still has ti » monarch' s Tokse ,
tfied " Haroc ! and let slip the dogs of war . " jhe history of England is a history of the -wars of its jings and of the sufferings of its people . To revenge % joift , to pleise the priests , to gain a bauble , or to ^ tiotain spiritual or worldly pride , or the imaginary jaJiEoe of power , or the " Bight diTine of tings to govern wrong , " fte blood of millions has been poured like a flood—the j ^ rs of millions have been shed like rain . Hell itself » peals to heaven against the absurdities and enormities practised on earth by worse than fiends . Of what benefit is tot but to make peace pay for it ? _ to make the innocent suffer for tite guilty T Men fiiht till they are exhausted ; and when their strength
is a little recruited they fight again . All the furious passions , which law ties up , are let loose and indulged to madness ; murder and rapine become sport . Our tings have the darling prerogative to decree this state of things whenever they pkase . Nations tear % ach other to pieces for the good of their rulers . The subjectpeople mnst do the bidding of their snperiora ; men showed no consideration for themselves by parting with their pawer , and cannot expect to find any from those into whose hands they unwisely entrusted it . In former times the king headed the army in person ; he exposed himself more than his subjects ; but now the sovereign keeps out of " danger , and is , therefore , more lavish of the blood and treasure of the people , and less ariDulons about the casss belli .
" War is a game which , were their subjects wise , Kings would not play at " It is seldom a nation ' s wish to fight : it is ne \ er for its benefit Few are the causes which justify war ; I &oald S 3 j one only , the rights of man—liberty . ' But k indly led to believe that they were fighting for their effmrry , when fighting for its king , how many of God's Extorted images have destroyed one another : kings , Eke the devil , have been the common enemies of man .
Military heroes are honoured most . Whenever was a p hilanthropist or philosopher made a Duke ? " Snccess $ -the army and navy ! " is a standtng toast ; it follows the Royal family . '" and precedes " the agricultural , pinimercial , and manufacturing interests !* Soldiers ire the support of the former and the protection of the ljiter : Protection ? We pay dearly for it . We hare inferred & ruinous debt on account of safety . It is such jrotecnon as sheep find from wolves , who preserve fliem from others that they may prey on them themrjlyes . But soldiers are kept and must do something in
to justify their ci ^ ft ""** - are danger , danger must be provoked that soldiers may be employed to fieht for us . 2 f o opportunity of signalizing thempelves in peace , except upon us when we grumble at iheii expenea ; but they like better to kill foreigners ; to then they g * in more glory ani more pay . If we oust keep soldiers , let them be the liveried lacqueys « f joTereigns , to bwcII out their pride and pomp in idleness , let us not be embroiled in war for the sake of Pf ii . The people have suffered so much and pay so much for glory , that they would r&ther dispense with that " sort of thing . "
The worst feature in our case is , "that our wars have generally been , not a people ' s war for freedom , but a serereigu ' s "war for despotism . Wellington re-instated tyranny in Spain , Portugal , and France , together with superstition , its dose ally . The fact is , manarehs love ¦ War because it wastes the resources which democracy gathers up in peace for a different purpose—they dissipate the strength of the people when they fear it is about to make head against them . Princes are not slow to perceive thai they are useless except as plagues to their people ; like a ¦ water-spout , they suck up the power of the people , to let it fall open them . Monarchy is a bsn»—a national nnisacce .
The hprripT that soldiers fight the harder citizens must work , and the more pay for soldiers , the less pay for working men . War exhausts trade and cripples it War is imperious , and makes all other arts cea ^ e , or supply it In the name cf the king , goods are seized , and men impressed . Private necessities are made to give place to the wants of the state , and wkat is the issue ? Groans , ¦ wounds , and death—a nation ' s bankruptcy ! Soldiers fight for " Church and King ; " the priest prays for their
• access -, the king rewards it , but the people pay . All ihi < i ¦ was felt and seen at the dose of the French and American ¦ wars : the nation grew ¦ wiser ; and the Whigs » ere placed in po . wer because they ple d ged themselves to keep the peace . The people fondly hoped that there would be no more wars ; that soldiers would doff theii blood-red garments , and put on the garb of peace ; that swords would be turned into sickles , and spears to pruning hooks ; but , alas . ' the time has not yet arrived for the lion to lie down with the lamb .
Tou , my Lord , were ose of those whosa honour was pledged to peace . Think you Ur \ preserv 6 your place and not peace ? Was your pledge \ merely given for a purpose , and broken when that purpose was effected ? Bo yen deem yourself irresponsibleboth to man and God . ' Are the lives of millions to be sacrificed at the shrine of your ambition , and you to escape with impunity—with additional honours and power ? But we are to blame : we should have remembered what an aristocrat ' s promise is -worth—what the honour and humanity of a nobleman now-a-days is ; and your Lord-Bhips ' s versatility in particular . Tou have been called Cupid . Cupid is the God of love and of money—do you aspire to be Mars ? « which species of cupidity governs you ?
There were several occasions , my Lord , in which it iras said , that you were disgraciag and endangering your country by tamely submitting to foreign insults and acts of aggression . It appeared as though you were determined to keep your pledge at all risks ; that you would rather suffer wrong than go to war to redress it You were nicknamed " Protocol Palmerston , " en account of your frequent use of written negotiations Tour oaly weapons were " quips , and sentences , and paper bullets of the brain ; " and your only wars were waged on paper . How comes it that you now rush into m opposite extreme—that you now fight , when , indeed ,
toitration might settle the dispute ? We can have no clue to your conduct but in your cowardice- It was cowardice made you decline a war against potent Russia , and declare war against peaceful China ; and what was it but cowardice that made yon take odds of four to one against Egypt ? With such odds you thought you might defy Prance . Tou did not wish to offend France : k >; but you took care to do so—you took care to make the stipulations such fha * . she could not agree to them , and then you lay the blame on her . The French
lore civilisation ; and they know that the people of "Rnglanri love it ; and are wishful to pursue it in alliance with them . The French can discriminate between the acts of a government and the will of a people . They cannot detest our Ministers Bore than we do ; and , were they to join with America , they might offer your Lordship a treaty too honourable fc * Ton to accept , as yours wai too base for them to aei * pt , and yet make you tngn it , though it made you look »• rueful ai King John did -when he signed the Magna Charts .
I am not one that wishes the French to declare war ¦* 8 * iasi our Government , not even for the purpose of ¦« elpiag us to gain our Charter . If we einnot gain ¦ freedom for oirselves , we do not deserve it , nor could 1 * 8 keep it No ; 1 st the French enfranchise thenaelvea ¦*» their Government is secretly in alliance with ours , ¦ h « m is an open ally of the other despotic govern-^ Ptgfo of Europe ; lei us likewise Anfr * . nf . ti ? afl ourf ^ *> and then , form & triple league with the Ameri frw to enfranchise the world . H ^ ant of principle in your Lordship appears to have ¦*® the true cause of the wan in China and Syria , J * n > » ed at you are in the selfish luxuries of aristo-^ F * life , how can yon farm a Christian or a humane Wr ° * "J" subject Worldly expediency is your ^ B ** " The Duke approves of your policy ! aye . the 'SLl lltOreamffii the * centof fclood - Peel > too ;' but iM ** fc Peel bat the Dnke ' s cad ? Ho greater censure
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can be passed on 70 a than Hie praise of the Tories—it ought to make your conscience a scorpion to sting you to death . Tou are said , little Lord , to have raised yourself a monument of everlasting greatness—yes , as the daughter of Cheops did when she bunt a pyramid with the traits of her own prostitution . It will be proper for me to examine your conduct more particularly on the Opium and Eastern Questions Toe Emperor of China , with an exemplary regard for { his subjects which European sovereigns would do wel 1 1 to imitate , destroyed a quantity of contraband , and i confiscated opium—a poison which destroys the mind as weil as the body . The diabolical
smugglers of this poison were Englishmen who apply to you , knowing their man , to enforce compensation . Instead of telling them they had been rightly served , and sending them to the Emperor to share the fei £ of their poison , you comply with their wishes . A fleet is sent out eo grossly in violation of the laws of nature and nations , that we cannot but suspect some weighty argument , some private consi derations ^ unknown to us , determined you to t . hfa measure . The petitions of the people of England for a redress of grievances are mocked . We cannot understand the r otent magic which inclined you so readily to listen to those smugglers . We want food . I wonder that poison is not forced down our throats .
Good God ! what becomes of our Christianity ? WaJ ^ . may the Chinese call us barbarians . Of what use will the efforts of our missionaries be in future ? Will not this abominable transaction counteract all that they have done ? Opinion versus the Bible ! Because the Chinese wont take our poison , we will exterminate them . It is like the alternative wittily remarked on by Dr . M'Douall ,. 6 f the bowl and the dagger . Tou maie Victoria a second Eleanor . The virtue of the
Emperor is to be as fatal to him as was the beauty of fair Rosamond . Why not force teetotallers to swallow drops of brandy or of laudanum ? The Emperor , yon will say , should compensate . Be will die first ! Better to die by the rword than by poison . To compensate would be to legalise the traffic—there would be no end to it—no putting a stop to it . There are onstanding claims upon other countries ¦ which might justify armed interference ; but those ceuntries are warlike , and the poor Chinese know nothing of war . . " Cowardice is ever coupled with want of principle- Prize fighters do not challenge
tradesmen—but policemen invade the passive Quaker for church-rates , which he had as lief be poisoned as pay , for they are ah abomination to him . Were the demand ever so just , as it is just the contrary , the cowardice of the proceeding would condemn it in every honourable mind , even if deaf to moral persuasion . When we depart from the straight line of principle , what horrible blunders we may commit The most that could have been done in this case , with justice , wouldjhave been to make reprisals ; but we go on massacring a nation to make it submit to our injustice . We shall for ever frighten them from having any dealings with us in future . What must other countries think of us ? The name of Englishmen will become odious throughout the world . Xot so : you , my Lord , may boast of
butchering the unresisting :- Chinese—of sending your degs to worry a flock of sheep—but the people of England will take care that no part of the honour falls upon them . Tour policy , my Lord , may be Palmerian ; but it is not English ; we disclaim it ; we denounce it ; thank God , we protest against it Some malignant minds will no doubt be delighted at this wanton slaughter , at this unmerciful exercise of power *[ for cowardice loves cruelty when practiced with impunity : but ne brave men will sanc tion it , or would be implicated in it Captain Cook might have slaughtered all the friendly inhabitants of tie Society Islands withont the loss of a man ; but he left it to the Spaniards to boast of such deeds . He had some regard for honour and humanity—you , my Lord , have shewn none .
I pity the men-engaged in this " just and necessary war . " 34 uch glory they will gain by it . ' A poison smuggler ' s war ! Better take the drug ourselves , than for ^ e it on the Chinese . What a vile use of valour Some of the " hired cutthroats" have been flogged , and they deserve it , for engaging in such a shocking and disgusting war . Will the smugglers pay the expenses ? 2 io ; we must do that—more taxes will be laid on . The Chinese would expect that our Government
wowd not be permitted to do this " great thing ; " that no people would suffer themselves to be inculpated by and with such a Government ; that foreign nations would interfere , or that God would prevent it Such a blow on the face of man is enough to rouse the world in aims . Blush ,. England , that thou hast a Palmerstcn ; binsk , Englishmen , that Palmerston has England . Oh , drop ! sink into the sea—cease to be one of the nations of the earth—let the ocean hide us—or make a Jonah of this PalmerstoiL I am sick at heart and must pause before I enter upon the subject of Syria . Jrxius Rusticus . Tillage , Dec- 10 , ISiO .
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¦ " ¦ J ~"""" ^^ B ^^""*'" "" - '" - ¦ " ¦¦•"' MR . J . B . O'BRIEN . The following letter to a friend has been handed to us for publication . Lancaster , December 12 th , 1848 . Ml DEAH M'Ceae . —I have duly received your kind letter through Mrs . O'Brien , and beg you to transmit her and my best thanks to our good friends the females of KUbarchan , for tha repeated proofs of sympathy and good will I have experienced from them since niyimprisounitnt ; and be sure to state to them that if after my long confinement the state of my health be such as to permit me to visit Scotland , I shall not fail tu pay them a special visit in order to make my respects to them iu person , '
1 am delighted to hear that the " good cause prospers in your quar ; er , " and I am happy to say Uiat I receive , almost every day , similar gratifying accounts from other parts of the ^ jngdo m . From what I can collect , however , I incline to believe that tLere is far more zeal and perseverance on your side of the berder than on ours , ily worthy and faithful friend , John Duncan , of Edinburgh , who accompanied Collins and White in their recent Scottish tour , writes to me as follows : —" The people in ni « st places where I have been are allsoundthey really want the Charter—hut I have been in very few places , -where there are leaders—and have not found them biting at one another , and doing mischief . In Edinburgh , at this mnaent , there can scarcely be said to be an association in existence , and report says that Glasgow is very litt . e better . Perth is very flat Fifeshire is all good—a :. d so are many places in Ayrshire and Steriing . « hi ^ e ; but , in fact , the people are in the best condition wfeere their locil oraters are scarcest , " ic .
r » ow , M'Cme , I have ths greatest confidence in Duncan ' s veracity , anu therefore I believe , implicitly with him , that all that is wanting in Scotland is to get all the people " up to the mark "—h a good definite plan of action , and good fellowship amongst the leaders But re&Uy 1 haTe seen so much jealousy , so much petty squabbling and slamier , and so iiule of charity and friendly feeling amongst the leaders , generally , whereever I hive been , that I have sometimes been tempted to abandon the cauae altogether in despair , and even now can see littie Iijpe 3 of success while such feelings predominate . I never visited Manchester or Brighton , or several other places I mighs naaie , that I did not find most of the leauers at loggerheads , and though I generally succcedeu in making peace amongst them . and
keeping it wMJe . remained , yet no sooner was I gone , th ^ n the old feuds broke out again , or were succeeded ^} ' new ones worse than the old . J never knew an association to exist in London sand I have known manyi which was not neutralized while in being , and finally broken up by dissentions amopgst tlie leaders . Is there no remedy for this evil ? If th ' tre be not , I fear we shall never succeed . If there be , ¦ whyf is it not searched for , and appl . ed ? Good heavens : —how can we expect to succeed without an united people at our back . ' and how can we expect those , who look up to us as leaders , to be united , if we be not united amongst ourselves ? Have you not « bserved that the moment dissentions began in the Convention , that moment the country became divided also , and then , also began the system of arrests and
persecution ; by the Government Kay , before the Convention met , did not the denunciations of Stephens and O'Connor , by the Birmingham leaders , and the Calton Hill delegates , embolden the Government to arrest Stephens ? and are cot all the local jeaders of both parties now languishing in gaol in consequence ? How much better would it be to settle these differences in private ^ or if that be impossible , then to shew up the originators of the quarrel , or the aggressors , to the public , who , if properly appealed to , would , no doubt , do them justice by casting them out of oar body altogether Had the Birmingham leaders aad the Calton Hill delegates , instead of openly denouncing Stephens and O'Cozmer , appointed s private interview with them , and
then and . " there come to a friendly understanding with them , what a world of mischief might have been prevented ' - And had the wranglers and everlasting denouncers in the Convention , adopted a similar course , what scenes of misery and doiaestic affliction might have been spired to several hundreds of poor families But let us hope that steps will be taken to put a stop to this sjstcm of squabbling and mutual crimination amongst the leaders and , if , on trial , it be found impossible to have uiiuj&s or associations without them , then in God ' s name let us have no onions or ussociations , for , I am sore , we could do infinitely better without , than with them , so long as they are only hotbeds of dissention and disunion .
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My accounts from Manchester , Brighton , and the Isle of Wight , and several ' other places , are , on the whole , cheering . In Manchester great numbers of fresh members are feeing every -week enrolled in the Associa tion , and , what is * still more gratifying , a majority , of the new members are Irishmen ! Bad news for Dan , that . ' These irishmen , I am told , send great numbers or the Northern Star , Liberator , and other Chartist papers , * every week to Ireland , where , no doubt , they will do an immensity of good . Let Dan ' s camp be but once stormed in Ireland , and back will . have to march the troops that were brought over here last year and the
year before from the " Green Island , " to put down the English Chartists . What a glorious day it would be for the Chartists here , to see the troops called back to Ireland to put down Chartism there!—and what a pretty turnout we should then have here on our own account ! If the Irish resident in England will but go on as they have begun , you will hear of glorious sport on both sides of the Channel before long , for when the Irish take any thing up they go the whole hog at once , and go it right gallantly into the bargain . And though the " boys" I allude to would rather fight for the Charter than talk about it , I don't , God forgive me ' . —love them a bit the less on that account
I am sorry to see , by the advices from America , that the probabilities are strong in favour of General Harrison ' s triumph over the Tan Buren party . If so , it will be " a heavy blow and great discouragement" to the cause of democracy in France and England , as well as in America . Harrison represents the ibfernal Whig , « r middle-class rag-money interests , which have done more to bring panics , bankruptcies , and desolation on th « American people in less than thirty years , and which have wrought more real insecurity and peril to her democratic constitution , that a century of boroughmongering government has even effected against the rights and prosperity of the British people . No doubt , Europt ^ in gold , and English gold in particular , has been liberally plied at the American elections ; but ,
should the vampire Whigs sneceed against the democrats , by carrying Harrison ' s election to the Presidency , it is the general opinion in the States , and tis my moht earnest hope , that a geDeral insurrection of the American democrats will be the consequence ; for , you mast know , that there are millions of American democrats who are resolved to perish in the ruins of their republic rather than suffer it to be filched from them by the bribery , perjury , and treason of Whig middle-class assassins in the pay of the American banks , and in league with the monied murderers of European society , from whom the means of corruption are being supplied . I have seen extracts from some American journals of high repute , which bear me out in these opinions and surmises .
I need not say , my dear friend , that I shall be mnst happy to hear from you as often as you can spare time to write . Tell me all that ' s passing in the West of Scotland , and I will take care to let you know what I may learn from other places , should you desire it . I find , in spite of all that false friends , and open enemies , and jealous calumniators have done to ruin and depopularise me , ( in order to render me useless to the cause , ) I find , in despite of all , that I still possess the confidence and affections of the thinking Chartists in all parts of the country , where my name and public conduct are known . God knows , it ought to be bo , for never did man strve the people with more aeal and self-devotion than I have endeavoured to do , though , I regret to say , with very , very little benefit to the public , in comparison with what would have been the case , had I been more fortunately circumstanced . he Jj m- for I ] ie he
Please give my best regards and affectionate remembrances to my good female friends of Kilbarchan , and to our brethren in the good cause , and accept the same yourself , from Tours , very sincerely , James B . O'Brien . P . S . I am delighted with what you state in reference to the progress of Chartist Christianity ( which is primitive Christianity ) against the long-faced , hypocritical Pharisees of the day , whose religion consists in making long prayers , devouring widows' houses , and preaching slavery to the poor under the name of humility , and dutiful submission to the " powers that be , " which powers , they -would fain make us believe , are " ordained of God , " although the sleek vagabonds well know that , without the devil and his works , such " powers" would never bave been beard of . By all means get rid of the " black slugs ; " by all means protect the consciences and cabbages of the poor from the black slugs . " J . B . OR . n ( j me ice ri . 5 a !
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TO THE KD 1 T 0 B OF THK NORTHERN STAB . Dear Sir , —A report having been raised in this town , that I have resigned the honourable office of secretary to the Birmingham Restoration Committee , and the Birmingham National Charter Association , through fear and want of principle , in contradiction to such report , I beg it to be distinctly understood , that the sole reason of my resigning is a severe indisposition , and an order by my medical advertiser to keep myself , for a short time , as private and as quiet as possible , as a means of restoring me to that vigour and energy which was once the predominant feature of my character ; when that is done , I shall be ready and willing to take the field for the advocacy of those rights , and am ready and willing to assist as far as my means will « . llnw .
By giving insertion , dear Sir , to these few lines , it wili be the means of preserving the character of oue who has nearly sacrificed his all in the causa of liberty , and who , when his health returns , will prove to the world , that it is neithtr fear nor want of principle that compeis him to resign the offices he held . I remain , The firm adherent to democracy , and Tonr obedient Bervant . W . H . Cotton . Birmingham , Dec . 28 , 1840 .
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^ _ TO THE EDITOR OF " THE DISPATCH . " Sir , —Relying upon the assurance , expressed by you , in an article of this day ' s Dispatch , in reference to the Chartbts , that you " always adopt the principle of h ^ ariDg all tides of every subject of importance , " I intend to offer a few comments upon the closing sentences of the article referred to ; and , Sir , presuming to be a man of " probity" some " understanding , " arid therefore fulfilling the conditions you require , I have , 1 think , a elaim upon your attention . With all deference to your " usual moral courage and zeal for the popular ciuse , " and to your ability of discriminating between sense and nonsense , I must tell you that it is my opinion that there was a more confnsed "jumble" of idtas in your head when you were commenting upon J . B . ' s letter than there was of
absurdity and misrepresentation in the cranium of the latter . Tun . deny the assertion of my fellow working man , White , the Chartist lecturer , that " there is abundance everywhere . " Go ask the manufacturer the middle-man—the retailer—if these have empty store-houses and unstocked shelves ? But , perhaps , it is the materials that are wanted ; then let your inquiskiveness traverse' the Atlantic , enquire of the American if he have no cotton—no corn to exchange—and tell him , oh ! tell him , with ejaculation , that " population—that is labour- ^ -evt-r presses upon suppiy , " every where presses forward to offer itself in exchange for labour ' s worth . " But , oh !" you will exclaim , ( "to have these advantages we must have the Corn Laws repealed . " And who are they who won't have the Corn Laws repealed ? Are they the Chartists—that is , the thinking portion , and that a numerous portion of the working class , who are totally unrepresented , and therefore have not had the power of
iciUiitg ? Are they not rather among that class , a Kreat portion of whom your journal represents , who , possessing the franchise themselves , have selfishly and tyrannically prevented their rellow-couutryiueti from participating in the same rights ami advantages . If the electors have the pwwer to cause tho Corn Laws to be repealed , then are they inconsistent in not exercising that power—if they have it not , then are they inconsistent—insane—intolerably tyrannical , in refusing the non-electors their political rights . It is idle to talk of the tyranny of aristocratic landlords . What aristocracy could resist the middle and wsrking classes united ? Jf the landlords are tyrannical to the middle and working classes , then are the middle class most absurd , that , not p-isie-sing the power themselves , they do not HO . VESTLY join the working class to repress the tyranny , —if they be not , then are the middle class hypocritical , and their pruceedings tend to give the impression that , if not tyrants themselves—worse , they subserve the cause of tvranny .
But , Mr . Editor , I have rather diverged from my purpose ; which was , not so much to show the absurdity of the middle class , as it was to point out how very absurdly you think when you suppoBe that the working class are so absurd as to entertain the belief that " were all the fat and lean rich of England t © be killed to-morrow , and their accustomed food to be gratuitously distributed to the whole people , it would give them a better dinner for one week . " But though the working class do not thus think , they are and have long been thinking upon the validity of that conveutialism which has heretofore secured to " the idler , who ought not to get one farthing of the produce , " , dominion ov « r the body and soul of the labourer .
The working class are enquiring into the legitimacy of that system which dooms them to be " every where pressing upon Bupply , " they , themselves , possessing , in their bones and sinews , the means , ani the raw material surrounding them on every hand , of furnishing the " supply .- " and tke result of the enquiry will be to prove the present system altogether fallacious , and that " the Charter it required to completely remodel society , and raise up the working raan , " and to " give him full power over hit own labour . " And now , Mr . Editor , havin g " full power his
over own labour , " would the working man , do you think , care yhether " the rich man ate less than he , or whether his viands were of a different quality . " No ; but he would care that the rich man should not be so circumstanced , by the operation of the Corn Laws , for instance , and by doubling the price of A is property , while he reduced that of the workman—his labour—four fold , as to have the power of creating around him a host of idlers , in the * shape of lacqueys and ladies maids , and all the ci ceieras of fashion and of folly . The working class of Great Britain could afford to feed to satiety all the aristocrats of the earth , did the
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evil end here ; but they am ? afford to feed those vampires who minister to their J / udrloasnead and profligacy—who subaerve their tyranny , and aid in their oppressions . The working class can't afford to feed the lesser aristocrats , who " toil not , neither do they spin , " but who live luxuriously , and fatten upon the poor man's spoil ; and whose tyranny in the aggregate is the bane that is penetrating to the heart ' s core of society . Aye , Mr . Editor , the people are fast finding out " the secret enemy that devours them . " We shall shortly see realised the anticipation of Volney . The rich oppressor will be pardoned his past misdeeds to the oppressed ; but he will be prevented from farther oppressing . Industry will proclaim , in a voice which will be echoed by the billow and the rock , and resounded by continents and by islands , to the richto the wealthy of the earth , " STAND TE APART AND FORM NATIONS OP TOURSELVES . "
As , with little reservation , I have given expression to my opinions , I shall trust to your candour and consistency in giving them a " local-habitation" in a corner of the Dispatch ; and as my brother Chartists will be interested to know that a journal , so widely circulated as the " Dispatch " , has , however feebly , attempted their defence against scurrility and mis-representation , I shall infjrm them , by sending for insertion , a copy of this letter to their invaluable and especial organ , the " Northern Star . " I am , Sir , Tours , very respectfully , Thomas , Ireland . London . 9 , Evangelist Court , Broadway , City , December 27 , 1840 .
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MEN OF LONDON , READ THIS . THE APPROACHING NEW TEAR'S DEMONSTRATION IN BEHALF OF FROST , JONES , AND WILLIAMS . , , Ought , or ought not , every man attending the above solemn demonstration . to wear partial mourning ? In my opinion they ought ; and I trust no man , calling himself the " friend" or " advocate" of these injured men , will appear , either at the procession or meeting , without a black crape band round his bat , and another round his right arm , as a mark of respect due to his exiled friends .
Men of London , —Tou who so often have wore deep mourning on the death of your royal oppressors , will you hesitate to exhibit this slight token of respect for martyrs who have sacrificed their all for you ; and who , unlike kings , would fain have seen both you and yours happy ? No , I am sure you will not , and if you would you cannot ; 'tis gratitude demands it ! Believe me , yours respectfully , H . Griffiths . Edgware Road , London , Dec . 25 th , 1840 .
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? CHARTIST REPORT FROM WHITBY . " Nothing extenuate , Nor set down aught in malice . " There is little that is favourable to report of th progress of Chartism in this district ; but as the fault is not in the cause , but in tho men , that little cannot operate as a discouragement to Chartists . The seed ppruntf up vigorously in this stony soil ; but , after the firsC bloom of novelty had passed away , it languished for lack of nourishment at the root , and has had no increase . Dissensions within , sjnd the apathy of those without , led to this state of decline . More opposition might have strengthened it ; but it neVcr presented an appearance sufficiently formidable to provoke much wra , % h or fear . The men of
Whitby ( with the exception of a few of the best ) / inii'l A Tint r \* i nrniinhf it % tfi \ t nikV 11 \ / lioAiiaa ni < t ^ vor » Aou Whitby ( with the exception of a few of the best ) could not be brought together to , discuss grievances whic . they were insensible of , or which they deemed out of their reach to remedy . Willing slaves do not seek freedom ; but keep the places assigned them by their taskmasters . Only one subject could move their zeal , The national cause seemed too great for them to grasp ; but a local tax , laid on by their " betters , and collected with rigour , to modernise the streets and to widen them lor carriages—this petty impost , whieh picked their pockets of the little left in them by Government , roused their indignation more than all other and heavier taxes . On this subject they could be brought together ; but on no ether .
Like the old Jews , the men of Whitby had got it into their heads that their liberation should bo achieved by a man of great wealth and power ; one from among themselves would hardly bo listened to . And yet , in no town can Chartism flourish unless the working men be able to furnish and to support a leader , lecturer , and preacher of their own grade . Sucji an one knows their wants and wishes best , and can best address them . What one of themselves can do , another might do ; at least , he feels as if he could : whereas , if they nely on a superior , they are
apt to expect too much from him , and to do too little themselves . It is not what is done for them , but what they do for themselves , that ia truly done . A spirit of emulation makes inherent strangih , and fits for success . It is very well for a friend to visit them now and then—but more to advise and encourage than to assist . A friend will do them more good by bciug au intercessor for theu > , than by identifying himself with them : in the one case , he may deprecate opposition ; in the other , he will be liable to increase it : for the man who descends froM
a privileged and prejudiced class to join those who are termed his inferiors , draws up ' himself the concentrated wrath of his compeers , who regard him as a desener and traitor , and , make him th « butt of their scorn and malice . Tho indiscretions of the people ( if they happen to commit any ) are visited upon his head , and lie is proscribed , excommunicated , interdicted , banished , to the world's wilderness , or , in other words , " beut to Covputry . " Such an one , by going over entirely to the people , can no longer stand in the breach between them and their oppressors—he will be spited as a partisan—not hateued to as an advocate . Instead of helping them , he wili suffer with them , or suiier for them , and probably need their help . Noir , though he may be
willing to endure all this for the sake of a good cause , and may feel himself sufficiently compensated and rewarded by the BatiKt'actioiirt which will flow into his conscience , yet he will not bo so useful as he might have been " na ' d he kept his higher position ; and , moreover , ho must stem , not merely the oppo bition of the enemies cf the cause , but . also the hatred of his own familiar friends—of thoso in his own household , as weil as those abroad . Backed by the people , he may easily stem and overcome all this ; but if they fall from him and ltavp him alono!—this is the thing to iear ; lor he mustt'tlieu become
anathema for their sake . All the opposition and enmity in the world , public or private , is a . s nothing—is exhilirating compared with the disheartening desertion of those for whom he willingly encountered all , and with whom hu uii ^ hi have overcome all . Who so forlorn as he who must hope against hope ? What is left for him but to think of th <; cause—the cause for which he forsook all , and for vvnieh he is forsaken by all—the cause which , enough he perish , shall yet Bucceed . A working wan , standing up for himself and his fellow-working men , has to make no such sacrifices . He gains respect and consideration , where the other lose * it . ? to the
From tho foregoing premisewe may come conclusion , thai uo working men ' -i association can prosper unless it be able to supply itself with a leader and to support him on ail occasions , whether of attack or defence . But an association must first be able to pay its way bc-tore it oan do any goad to the general cause ; it it cannot do this , it , will bring discredit on itself and , through itself , upon the cruise , and , thereby , do more > harm than good . It requires numbers and zeal to establish itself ; numbers , or the burthen will fall too heavy on the few , and zeal , that the preaching and teaching may not devolve upon a single individual whose spirit may be
willing , but whose flesh will become weak . The asso ciated atWnitby lacked both , and , consequently , the person who had been called to lecture to it , and whose softness of spirit rendered him not the most suitable forthetasK , became involved in its embarrassments . This was the more distressing to him , as his former resources had been cut off tor taking part with the people . Difficulties accumulated and blocked up the associated . 80 reflection is to be cast on the members who did their duty , and more than their unassociated brethren could expect . Their assistance would have helped the vehicle on with ease to all ; but , when tho bystanders saw it stuck fast , instead of coming forward , they retreated
further off . Thus , so far from being able to send funds or delegates in aid of the general cause , this association could not keep itself a-goiug ; and , moreover , disabled the friend it had requostod to come forward to organise , instruct , and direct it . His time , health , spirits , friends , and means , wero sacrificed in vain . What was he to do ? He saw that nothing was to be done in Wiiitby- But not wishin g to remain idle , he need his pen , tnough his toiigue was lucked . He wrote frequently in the Star : audihad the happiness
to receive many assurances that his labours m the cause were not in Tain elsewhere . To Stookton , Sheffield , Sunderland , Leeds , York , Birmingham , Bradford , &p ., he iB particularly indebted for grateful testimonies * which sufficiently console him for his disappointments in his native town . To those cities and towns ho feels , bound to give this explanation , which may account , in part , for his non-appearance when invittd to them , n The time may come when he will have more liberty and confidence . But to revertto home again .
We read in Scriptures that one place , which did not pour forih its inhabitants to fight in their country ' s cause , was accursed . " Curse ye Meroz , " sang the patriotic and triumphant Deborah ( w » uid that there were many Deborahs among the Chartists ) curse ye Meroz ! for they carne not up to the help of the Lord , to tho help of the Lord against themighiy j Wjiea the victory is obtained , such places as Whitby maybe proposed to be left out ot the Charter for not doing tlieir duty in the great struggle to gain it . The stupid defection of any place makes the duty | harder for others and the dan-
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ger greater ; and is often more trying to the temper of those who are toiling and suffering in the common cause , than even the bitter and barbarous hostility of the heavy-metalled and exulting enemy . U ' e frequently read in history that men , who turned front the strife , were slain by their own party , and those who refused to come into it , have been dealt with as Lord Wenlock was by the Duke of Somerset , who , " with his heavy battle , axe in both bands , ran upon the coward , and with one blow dashed out his brains . " This seems to be but reasonable ; for those who do no good , do harm by the ill example which they set . But there are natural as well as political reasons for the inactivity of Whitby , and these I would plead as some excuse to avert the just indignation of more spirited places .
Wnitby is an isolated town—the moors behind , the sea before . It is twenty miles distant from any other town , and contains no large bodies of working men congregated in factories , consequently it lacks both communicated and internal agitation . O'Connor did not visit it to throw the Charterinto it , his "talisman" to wake the tide ; nor has any other missionary paid it a visit . Whitby contains about 10 , 000 inhabitants , and affords a fair and almost a fresh field for the labours of a Chartist missionary . An itinerant lecturer might make a good impression ; but to render it lasting , the efforts of a stationary , or local oue , would be continually required . John Wesley could not have preached Methodism into success by his own unaided endeavours : the best part of the work was done by laypreachers .
The men of Whitb y are not poor in purse _ ; but poor in spirit—they dislike to subscribe . Whitby is a Tory town—A . Chapman is the member . Tory towns , after all , are behind Whig towns . The working men are dupes as well as slaves—they have been urged in vain to sot up for theinselve * , by establishing a joint-stock shop . It is true that a Teetotal Society ha 8 got forward here ; but the priests , who opposed it at first , now make a hobbyhorse , of it . The Chartists are favourable to thr teetotallers ; but not all teetotallers are favourable to Chartists .
But WhHby ,-though it falls far short of Sunderland , and even of Stockton , it is still in advance of Scarborough . Nothing could have prevailed on the men of Wnitby to disgrace themselves as the men of Scarborough have lately done by unyoking the horses from the carriage of Colonel Phipps , ( a brother of the Marquis of Normanby ) and yoking tho . mselves to it in their place . The very horses must have luuuhed ai them . Whitby takes in a few Stars—were it not for them , We should hear little of Chartism . But the press at Leeds , like a sky rocket , weekly shoots its stars in all directions—and those that fall here must , in time , not only enlighten the minds of the people , but enkindle them .. As I challenge confutation of anything above set down , and as I also challenge the whole town to meet me in discussion upon the Charter , I append my name . John Watkins . Aislaby , 26 th Dec , 1840 .
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TO THE CHARTISTS . Working men are no better thought of than the tools they work with—they think no better of themselves , or surely they would not tamely submit to be regarded in this contemptible light . When wanted they are used— -when not wanted they may perish . The great are toe much taken up with themselves to think of them . Working men must make themselves feared , if ever they hope to be respected . If the poor think as little for themselves as Government thinks for themif they take , as little care and thought of themselves , they will long continue to envy the dogs and horses of the rich . Those they have worked for enjoy all the comforts and luxuries that can be procured , and would make a terrible outcry at the diminution of the smallest
superfluity—while they whose labour supplies and enables others to live are themselves suffering every hardship and privation , and must not complain of the want of the commonest necessaries of life . If it is their work that supplies others , it is strange that it should not supply themselves . Those whom they work for have everything from their work , and are treated with respect by everybody—thoso who work have nothing , and are treated with scorn . In infancy and in disease they must work , though every task is then doubly dangerous . They must work whether they have strength or not—spirit or not—and whether they eat * r not Death is a refuse from such a life . A futhet ' s love tot his wife and children is made a torture to him . He art or mind must fail . Oh , what a heavy
lead of affliction this world is to him who must bear its weight ! Virtue sinks down under misery . A working man thus grouud to the earth by unmerited want koks up to Govermnejt for relief , and is laughed at—sure proof that Government is his oppressor ! He appeals from the State to the Church—he cannot get admission to the Queen—he goes to the Minister , and n . * ks him what he must do . The parson tells him he must suffer contentedly , for his sins have brought it upon him . He looks to his fullow working m * n . Some of thom are better off and regardless of their diy of c ' . ou . n—otheis are fellow-sufferers and sympathise with him . He needs substantial relief—nor that so much from alcis as from his own exertions—he enquires into the cause of his condition and be finds it is becausa he has been robbed of his rights—becauso lie is unrepresented . Tbe rich have power to rob him , and he has not power ta prevent them . The rich have as much dominion over
him as over the beasts of the field . He must regain his birthright—he must unite for the suffrage if he wishes no longer to sufi ' er—he must look after his own rights if ho ¦ wisUes to be released from wrong . T ' lere are some willing to aid and counsel him—who came forward to do this and were clapped into prison for it—because those whom they came to assist were not sufficiently zealous to nssist themselves—were backward in their own cause . This ought to teach them , not merely for tlieir own sakes , butfor the sake of thyir fiieuds , to be more unanimous in future . They havu this reproach to wijio oft ; Gond God . ' that such men as Fox Maule should bo living in affluence and honour , while the noble and tiie good are pent up in prison—that he shonld have the power to put thwn then * and to insult them when there . The system that permits this must be changed , or England will become a " hell upon earth . " J . W .
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JULIAN HARNEY" IN THE NORTH . TO Tilt : KD 1 T 0 R OF THE NORTHERN STAR . SIR , —On iMonday , December 14 th , I addressed a meeting in the Trades' Hall , Elgin . The meeting was comparatively numerous coni-idiiring that it had been anything but timely and properly announced . I found some little prejudice existing here against me , created by the falsehoods of my " learned friend" ( as the lawyers say ) the editor of the New Scotsman . Those prejudices , I flatter myself , from what I have since seen and heard , were entirely removed by my lecture in the Trades Hall . Tuesday , December 15 th , left Elgin , and after a walk of twenty miles , reached the clean and wellbuilt town of Forres . I here passed the evening with a few good men and true , and made arrangemeuts with them fora meeting on my return from Inverness .
Wednesday , Dec 16 th , " marched again , " passing through Nairn . After a walk of twenty miles I reached Canipbelltown , where I passed the night at the house of a worthy Highlander of the Canierba clan . Thursday , Dec . 17 th , after a' fine walk of ten miles reached Inverness . Alons ; the road us the peasantry passed me or I them , they were addressing each other in Gaelic , which sounded not a little strange , yet interesting , to my southern ear ; in re ply to my Sassenach compliments , " a line day , Sir , " was the courteous answer given in good Saxon by the passing Gael .
With the appearance of Inverness I was disappointed . I had figured to myself a town far more splendid in appearance than I found the Highland capital to be ; of the inhabitants , so far as personal appearance goes , lean speak more faveuraWy , health and stren ^ h characteriesiug the great majority ; the lasses , though deficient in symmetry of figure , » re amply compensated by the possession of blooming cheeks t and sparkling e ' en ; they are emphatically " bonnie , " and unless gallantry is very deficient iu Highland hearts cannot want for lovers . I found , as I had anticipated , that any knowledge of politics among tho working- class was confined to a very few ; the middle claas are partly Tories—partly Whig Corn law Repealers .
About eighteen months ago an attempt was made to agitate Inverness by Mr , M'Kenzie , of Aberdeen , but failed , owing to the want of an ih-door place of meeting . Mr . M . did all it was possible to do in holding a meeting on the Castle Hill , and from that time some few have nourished in their breasts the principles of Chartism . After being refused the Trades' and other Halls , I at length managed to get a room attached to a Temperance Coffee House in Castle-street , and announced a meeting for Monday Evening , Dec . 1 st
Owing to certain circumstances which I need not explain , , it "was out of my power to give the meeting full and timely announcement ; hence very few of the working men were aware of th < 3 intended lecture . ¦ The Whigs , taking advantage of this want of due intimation , and of the but to » well known apathy of the labouring people toward everything political , determined to make an effort to crush Chartism in the bud , and put a stop to the visits of such unwelcome persons as myself for the future . : Accordingly * , on proceeding to the Hall , I found a considerable mustwr of the " respectables , " whose intentions could not be mistaken . To the right of the platform waa posted » ' body of " Workies , " who I could see at a glance , were my friends .
With some few interruptions I was allowed to > Ieliver and conclude my address . At its conclusion , I was attacked by some five or Bix of the Whigs at oace , they being regularly marshalled for a row by one M'Pnerson , employed as whipper-in of the party . Their principal speaker was one Muntoe , ¦ Whainduige'il In a long eaiogiaia of the anti-Corn Law League , and an equally lengthy tirade of abuse ef the Churtists , whom he charged as being supporters of the " infamous Corn Laws . " To enlist the working men on his side , he descended to the low artifice of appealing to their national prejudices , lauding the working classes
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of Scotland as being an intelligent , industrioufv loyal , and contented people ; and abusing the English working men as being an iignorant , dissolat * , intemperate , and rebellious raca He failed in accomplishing &is object , the honest ¦ working men expressing their abhorrence of his trickery in sounds no way pleasant to his ears . IHy . reply'to this worthy waa received with applause iy'ttae . working men , and the most disgraceful abuse on the . . part of the " well-educated" " gentlemen . " Mr . Slunroe now proposetlaresoluttontotheerltjct that the Chartists in seeking the attainment of those ends by means of violence and bloodshed , had impeded the progress of rational reform , and proved themselves to be wholly unworthy of the franchise . To / . this an
amendment or counter resolution to the effect that the meeting had full confidence in tuu Cbartisx leaders , and considered the establishment of the Charter imlispensibly necessary to the good government of * . b * country , was moved by Henry Burrell , a . working Bason , and seconded by a working shoemaker , both wover and seconder giving expression to their feelings , in Iru . ^ uage which did honour to head and » heart . Dr . Porhea , a member of the Town Council , ashamed at thecoaduct of his own order , insisted upuij being heard ; he indienautly denounced the conduct of the , . " respectables , ' riiarging them with packing the meeting , which they w . uid . not have dared to have attempted , but that they kiu w the working classes were ignonvnt of the meeting beirc held . For this stinging rebuke the worthy D . ) Ctoi was rewarded by the abuse of same of the worthier , i . thera not quite so harden-. ; . ;! in villany slunk nut of tb > - vor . in ;
seeing this , and afraid they wouW not Citrrj-their irrtolution , the " shopocrata "' made' a general bolt , lea viiig tie " workies" in possession of the room , iwho with three cheers for the Chark'i :. fihree for Frost t . ' ircu for O'Connor , &c , concluded the evening struggle . The working men present at " tbe netting , u-w but true , deserve for thtir conduct every praise j virile the conduct of the middle-class . ruffians tell-plainly theit hypocrisy in pretending to be the friends of liberty and the people . Villains , th < gr would Mv deceive the " wovkies" as they have done before , mafce us ; - . f the people's strength to humble the landed aristocrat ;! , and then trample upon tho clijss by whose help tlify b » 4 attained their ends ; but that they will never do more ; they may prate about the " horrid bread tax" tiii black in the face , i « ut the Charter , the whole Chat tar . and nothing less than the Charter , will still be the or ; of tho toiling masses . . '
After tUe meeting I partook of" coffee with a number of the working men . and h : wl some conversation with them relative to th <; formation of newspaper cluks and other matters connected with the caiise . In Inverness 1 saw fur the .- _ first time a copy of the " Western Star , " published in . Bath anxLLomlon , and conducted by the friends- " of the perseroteU v ^ triot , Henry Vincent . It appears to be an excellent advocate of the unrepresented millions , and I heartily hope will receive the support which it merits , and which it is the duty of the Western Chartists to afford .
While at Inverness I paid a visit to the batcl ^ -neld of Culloden , famous for t'ic blood there spilled <> n the altar of monarchy ; as i trod the graves of the men who died worthy a better cause , I could not help reflecting on the folly of the human race in -desolating this fair world with violence and carnage , riat the ambition and villany of princes and kinga mi ^ ut ha gratified ! O for thy spirit ,, gentle yet dauntless Lochiel , to rouse thy countrymen from their si '« p of slavery , not to set My n Stuart in the steaA of a Ouelph , but to vindicate their own-rights , assert tl ... ; own sovereignty , and esrsiblish republican equality on tlia ruins of caste , privikge , and class domination ' If you , Sir , can afford room , 1 should feel oWis « d by your printing the following lines , the production i .-f the late Mr John Grieve , of Edinburgh , bearing , :. ; they do , ( in my hnmble opinion , ) the sump tf true a .-niuabreathing pure poetic fire : — ; Culloden , on thy swarthy brow ,
Spring no wild flowers , nor verdure fair Thou fee ! ' » S not summer ' s , genial glow , More-than the freezing "wintry stir ; For once thou drank'st the hero ' s blood , And war ' s unhallowed footsteps bore ; The deeds unholy nature view'd , Then fled and curs'd thee evermore . From Beauly's wild and woodland glens How proudly Lovat's banners soar : How fierce the plaided highland clans Rush onward with the broad caymore ! Those hearts that hitfh with honour heav ' The volleying thunder here laid low ; Or scattered like tlie forest leaves , . When wintry winds bepin-to blow ! Where now thy honours , brave Lochie ] ? The braided plauie ' s torn from thy brov What musfc thy hiuehcy spirit feel
When skulking likethe mounta n roe ! While wild biTds chaunt from Locby ' s bov On April eve , their loves ami joys , The Lord of Lechy ' s loftiest toweia To foreign lands an exile flies . To his bluo hills thit- rose in view , As o ' er the deep his jTallcy bore , Ho often look'd . andciied " Adieu ! I'll never se ' e Lochabcr . mnr ^! Though now thy wonnita I cannot heal , My dear , my injur'd native land ! In other climes thy'foe shall feel Tho . weight of Cnmeion ' s deadly brand Land of prouii hearts , nml mountain ' s iiv Where ! Fingal f » ut ; bt , and Ossian sung ! Mourn dark Cullotien's'fateful day , That-from thy chiefs tho laurel wrung . Where once they rul'd and roani'd at will .
Free as their own UaVx mountain game , Their sons aro slaves , yet keenly feel A longing for their-fathers' fame . Tuesday , December -2 'intl , at twelve o ' cItv left Inverness , and alter a WMlk of nineteen miles notched Nairn , at five o'clock . I here took a seat at lL » Klgin Cyach , and , after a ride of eleven miles , reacht ¦; Furres at seven o ' clock . At eight o'clock I addressed a meeting ii . ;!¦¦• St . Lawrunce Masonic Lodge . ' I mel with no interruption ; my audience being mainly composed of the working class . There are a few excellent men in tlii .- town , whose zeal in the good cause is truly iumv .. yrious ; they have my warm thanks for the kind b \ p they rendered ma .
Wednesday , Dec . 23 rd , left Forres at one o clock , and after a walk of twelve -miles , found uiyb . it again in Elgin . At eight o ' efock , I addressed a ^ .-cond meeting in the Trades' Hall ; the Sheriff of E . ' shishire formed one of my audience , and it is to he hop . ; « mid profit by the plain wonis- of your humble servan : A t the closu of my address-, a Chartist Associatioti w : i < formed , not very strong in point of numbers ( at the outset ) , but strong , I trust , iu principle ; though few , th m are some tru&-heu . Ttod men here . Let them persevi : < . and faint not ; they will hare their reward iu the ; . ] w-uval of their own hearts , and in hastening , by their . ¦ .-. « . the emancipation of themselves and the regfcner . < ti n of their country . Gi ? 6 rge Julian Haj :. ; . y . Elgin , Dec . 24 , 1810 . ;
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¦ «¦ BZfUWI ? rGHAM . —We understand that i ; i > tho intention of a i ' evv fneuds of tae Charier to roiivene a public meeting of thei ' rienis and lovers off re ^ iom , to establish a National Chavser Total Absikionce Association ; the meeting to be held at Mr . G <> rge Landy ' s , No . 17 , Little C arles Street , Birmt . ' ^ l , im , on Tuesday evening , Jan . 0 ; the cha'r will I" taken at half-pa . st buveu o ' clock . EiSK . O ** TODr , near Stockton . —After ev-ny oppuBitibu from the pai&oiis aiul farmers , with th : exemption of one honest j ifear-ty yeoman of the tr-isa old English breed , the worKing / moii iu this viib ; .: e have at length openedtheir Joint Stock Store shop , u ,. ni met with a run of success wiuoh , though extrenu-r . gratifying to them , is auj . tjiing but pleasiuj ; t-j their selfish and bkotted opponents . This shoo , i » v the
tangible good it is doiu& is liiaiiin ^ iuaay coi . v- . csto Chartism , for it is showing that Chartism : s i , ot a mere matter of specuia ' r . ivc opinion , but of-pj-j- 'Jcal benefit to the working classes . Goldsmith sa >; -, that to meet his fe'lows in a . public-house used to ^ v . eaa hour ' s importance to tho doov man V heart . Tlii . vorking men now- meet at their shop , and find not rherely an " hour ' s importance , " but lasting ^ o ^ d ettl-ctisomething that will evontuaSiy raise them from the degraded ai . 'd SHifin-ing condition into which bad government has plunged'them , aad would fain keep them . The men are resolved to be no longer trampled down by tho ho . pfs of an Apollyoii priesthood aud oligarchy ; buj to resist- theitj deviloppressors ana make them Hee from then . May 3-11 towns and villases do likewise—they inist , or they will all be shamed . . ! .
TCCaRE ( Wilts ) .- National Charter Association —The members of this association met asiudualat th « house of Mr . Stephen Mills , on Monday evening , at seven o ' clock , when some new members ' were enrolled . The cause is progressing here slow but sure , and new members are coming in , old and yomfg , every meeting night , who are all alixiuusly lookin ^ 'forward to tho glorious demonstration on New Year ' s L > ay . The agrioaltura ! labourers ' iu this district hive heard something about Chartism , but never had its principles fully explained to them , and the great faraera and clergy do all in their pbwei to keep them froh it , but they are beginning to see and hear them tiemselves , and do their own work . William Ctfuch , Chairman ; John Morgan j Secretary ; Stephen ^ ills , Treasurer . -. ' $ ¦' ¦ : . '
DBKS'S' . —National Chaoteb AssociaJon . — The "members of this body had a tea p ^ y on Monday evening last . Thfe aitBudanee far aypaaaed our most sanguine expectations . Mr . John ^ ohnsou was unanimously caiitsd to the chair , when /» 6 song , "Huzzafor O'Connor , Jtho ; brave , ' ? wasst * K ( composed by one of the party ) . The pretty 14369 , and the merry lads , began to '' trip the tantluo 4 oek " The large room at Mr . Tcgg ' s . Tanners' . irtnfij i was most beautifully decorated : with ttvergre ^ B ; apples , oranges , cfcc , which had a most pipasuig / fect * . The portraits of Feargu 3 O'Connor , Gfci !* i Arthur O'Connor , John Coliin > , ; Dr . M ^ Dam il BroRterra O'Brien , and last , not le ^ st , thjEuijtredfexiU , John FrpBt , decorated the walls , j Dandn * P songs , and recitations of the first order were kwfap wM high glee until a late hour . , . j ¦
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