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THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, JULY 17. 1841.
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SOUTH XAHCMHKmS . --DEl . EGi . TB Meeting . •—This raeetiig m told in the Chartist-room , Brownsftnet , Esst Manchester , whldi bad been called for the < H * b » pmpeae of taking into coMdderatkm the release of th * Chartist prtevnen , ud to adopt means "Which to them nlfht seem best to get up » demonstratkmfor theirreceptionInto Manchester . Itwasagwed fo « t th * committee , which had already been formed tot that pozpoM In Manchester , shenld have a Tok » in the ¦ Wy ** meettag . Present—Mr . John Cartledge , Brown-atreet , Manchester ; Me . Jonah Sehofield , Dnylsden ; Mr . Bichard Hasten , OlAam ; Me Janes Bowers , Btalybrldge ; Me . Roger Green , Middleton ; Mr . James Barlow , Steckport ; Mr . Wood , Manchester : Mr . David Booth , NewUa Heath * Ux . Jean
Tornaon , Hardsun-street , Mancberter ; Mr . Wfflian Platt , Salter-street , Maacnester ; Mr . John Howarth , ftf t . K * Bridge ; Mx . Jobs BaSer , OldhanVCQad , Man . cheater ; Me . Gabriel HwgraTes , Manebeiter ; Mr . Peter Shorrocks , and Mr . Wm-Griffin . Me . Peter Shorrodu tw called to the chair , and commenced busiaess fcy explaining to than tbe reason wfej they bad been eaDed together a week earlier than , their nsaal ttme of meeting , and tben proceeded to read three tetter * wbkfa be had received ; tfce first from Teargaa O'Connor , Ea % . ; theseeona from Mrs . O'Brien , sad the third from Mr . Wbu Benbew ; * fter which a long discudoo commenced , amongst tfe © 'delegates a * to the day on which fee above patriots tfaould be requested to ami re at Manchester . Oa * party eomteDded for Saturday , whilst the other party wufeed for Monday , which term mated in a resouttioa t » the following eflect : — " Thai the Coamittee at Manchester aball again discasa the subject relative to the day on
which the demonstration ahall take place , and that € * ch delegate lay the same before hi * eonatitaents , who shall dedde which day they wish , and to meet again in the same room to-morrow ( Sunday ) , aad when assembled , that day on -which the majority « f delegates come prepared to state -would best nit tfeeir coiutitnenU , the demonstration will be held whether it be Monday or Saturday . " 2 nd . " That three persons be appointed to draw up an address to the prisoners . " Mr . John BaQey , Mr . Riekard Haslem , and Mr . William Griffin were chosen for that purpose . They were reqaested to retire into the Committee-room while the Others discussed other business which would be brought before them . But as nothing definite had been refleired from either Feargns O'Connor er the rest of the prisoners opera the subject of their release , no resolution was passed . Shortly , the Committee entered with Ute following address , which wasread and carried with ^ cclmiBtifjB i *™*
TO FEABGU 8 O'CONNOR , BSO ,, MB . BRONTERRB O'BRIEN , AND MR . WILLIAM BBNBOW . Patriotic Sirs , —We , the delegates assembled in Brown-street , East MMmhflsfrff , on Sunday , July 4 th . 1811 , having heard that you are shortly to be released from your dungeon * , beg moat respectfully to inform you , both on behalf of ourselves a&d oar constituents , that it is with joy inexpressible , that we receive soeh glad tidings . Sirs , we hail with delight , mingled with anxious expectation , the approach of the time when we shall anoe more hvre the pleasure and opportunity of seeing 70 a , and to enjoy your company ; and when your tnuiBcendant talents ahall be called into action ,
unfettered and free , both with your tongues and pens . When 70 a , as you are ever welcome , shall take your proper stand amongst and assist those who hare . fought the battle in your absence . Without flattery on out part , we assure you we bare many times bad to lament the toss of such men as you in one of the most glorious , gigantic , and enterprising straggles , that has ever occupied the minds and attention of the working millions , namely to boret the fetters of slvrery , and stand np in ihe digsiiy of freemen , u > gain those rights , liberties , sad pririleges which of right belongs to uniTersal mas . Deeply hvre we grieved that tyrants st heart should be allowed to torture and insult you , and injure you both bodily and mentally , especially when we are conscious that the rery extent of your crime , has been
because you possessed feelings of sympathy , generosity and affection for , and manfully and indefati-S&bly laboured to better the condition of what &as been termed , by those who lire upon the fruits of our industry , " fee swinish multitude" ;—feeling , as we do , eonTinced that if you had . considered your own individual interest to the ezdosian of ours , aud hid taken « n opposite course , you could and would have been blessed with eTery priTQege—bad you consented to go hand asd glore with those who are now your and our oppressors , you might , instead of being where yon now are , bare occupied the > iigh « * seats in the senate Bouse , extolled asd rewarded for your abilities by those Who , through the rneJinm el an hireling press , brand you -with the epithets of fire-brand * , rebellious , disx&ettoas , * a
Sirs , —We tha working classes , judging from your station in society , are sumdently aware that you hare been actuated by the porest of motfrres ; and seeing the poTerty , misery , tyranny , and oppression , the effects of cImh legislation , eTerywhere abounding amongst the eoalsred millions ef your fellow-creatures—a love for them , yourself , posterity , and your country combined , propelled a&d stimulated you to exertion in the great work of uniTersal redemption , liberty , and happiness to alL We haTe came to this conclusion from an impression wrought upon our minds by watching your conduct for yean ; and , from the bold and disinterested manner you bare proceeded when all the power and influence of tyrants was arraigned against you ; from the jnanner in which you have braved the storm , beth in danger
and out of danger , through erii as well as through good report , bidding defiance to police magistrates , ftfctsroey-gBner&L . judge * , and juries , because you were armed and fortified with troth and justice , and engaged in a righteous and glorious cause . They , poor short lighted , empty-headed fools , fancied that whea youand the rest of tie good and tree , who have nobly suffered like yonrselTes , were taken from us , that the cry against oppression would cease , and that it would hate the thirst for liberty in those who were left behind ; but , alas ! thank God , they never made a greater mistake ; for , in the first place , they have not , by their dnngeens , erased the love of liberty from the breasta of those whom they have bad under their iron grasp ; but , cm the contrary , they , the patriots , have come out of
the furnace purified , and as giants refreshed with new ¦ wine ^ filled with zsal and determination , have entered the field ^ with more vigour , and are going forward , advocating the principles of liberty through the length and breadth of the land . This ought , above all , to eonTinee the despots , that neither the dungeon , the sword , nor the scaffold , will be gnfficient to uphold oppression , or « tifl 9 the cry for liberty . In the second place , those who hare been left behind , those -whom the blood feouads at the law have E « t thought sufficient game , have taken the place of yourselves and others , and have supplied them to the best of their ability —the ill-used working classes likewise began to read think , judge , and act for themselves , and thus it -was thit the fustian jackets , the unshorn chins , and the
blistered bands haTe met the tyrants upon the same atage ; stood forward in the majesty of their cause , sad in thousands of instances havejbeat them in open and fair discussion , until at length , though we as Chartists have suffered more persecution , met with more opposition bosh from the law , the Government , the middle and higher classes , and all those who wish for things to remain as they are , and have had our ranks broken into , and ont of them 450 of our best men Imprisoned ; in a word , history does not record a society so much pBrsecuted and prosecuted as oms has been , from tha eommencenieut of out agU&tion for the C&arter . Ytt , notwithstanding all tnis you have never flinched , yon have not bended beneath your sufferings , snd it is with exultation that we can without fear of contradiction , say , nay -we rejoice ; and pxcfaj ™ in a Toiee of thunder , that we axe in a better position than we were when you left us . That we are now
better organised ; a better understanding exists with each other , and by the drculatien of informatfon through the medium the Star , and the Chartist press , the working classes in every part of England and Scotland , and many parts of Ireland , have been enabled to read our principles , which cannot help but produce conviction in every honest and candid mind of their correctness and purity ; and thas have they become more intelligent And , again , many who once looked upon ua with scorn and contempt , have been led , for the sake of the novelty of the thing , to examine and give those principles a proper investigation ; and as many have acknowledged , with a prejudiced mind , who after have come honestly forward , joined our Association , and have allowed themselves to be put upon the plu of lecturers , to expound those principles which they at one time presumed that- thej were justified in treating with contempt .
Then , honoured Sire , if such has been our progress ^ riihout man like yourselves to advise with and direct us—if this has been asd is now our position if we could meet the factions when we had only a fustian jacket , sad amid all tbt conflicting and numberless difficulties , and when even be ran the risk of losing his employment—if we could make ahead against such odds , what might we now anticipate when 7011 once « aore take yoar post—when yoar presence shall gladd en , snd when yon to&goee , a > it broken loose from
bondage , shall excite our oosflfcrymtn , and stimulate them so that thousand * will step out of the routine of their former energies and be alive to their own interest is poshing forward our glorious and inuautable Charter ? Tea , aoble O'Connor , we , judging from the elements of "which you are composed , expect great things from you in addition to what you have dtne , in rowing the whole nation by your eloquence , determination , persevenncs , and generalship , cutting tight and left at those factions who dread yonri approach .
And you noble O'Brien , termed as you have been by ; yoar companion Feargus , the schoolmaster of England , ! we jadge yon likewise from yoar former conduct ; we ? have a pledge from you written in almost every page of ; the Poor Mmt Guardian , and from your eight years j democratic writings we feel confident that you are np j t © the mark—that your mighty fingers and your pen wfll again be brought to bear against the citadel of cornptton , and that you wil ] bold up the present corrupt ' system to the blase of open day , shewing its foul and j demoalisiBg character ,- that yon will shew the absur-1 dity and imbecfliiT tf oar nlgn , whether Whig or (
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Tory . tatbeiitrjIngtopTOpBP'AlalUi * natloajky artifieis ) mesas , and shew tt » renu jdy for saving a sinking wreck . , TJoble and w * ntr ^» dneTer- ' ' j bnnd . wanting , undaunted Benbow , yxm wfflgWe no q / autet to the enemy . If every one bad takes yoar adv ice , they would all have been elasuned to tieath long dinoe . Judging from your defence , from the ( wtitnde which yoa show under yoar Bufferings , aad from long d"aty performed with honour to yomreetf sat « atfsfaetloM to 70 m fellow-creatures , as recorded saA registered in the democratic press for the tat tweBtyyears . We wish *• convey to y » u , honoured Sir , thai we do not despair in you , hot , on the contrary , you live in our breasts , and , like the aforesaid nobles of nature , possess oar < emfide&ee sad esteem ; sad that we hope scd treat w * ahall be able to convince yon that we appreciate jma exertions on your snd oar behalf .
Sin , we-kmk toward to all three of 700 to join the ranks of H » rest who bare left their dangeom to assist in opening the eyes of the t » wk / w >» u > their true interests ,-to organise them , and raise such s phalanx as will , before bo Terr distant period , wring from a worthless , despotic sad tyrannical Government those rights and immunities which the laws of the omnipotent Ruler of the universe , and the laws of nature entitle as to . Honenred Sirs , there are thousands whose hearts pant with anxiety for the day on which they can pay a hint
debt of gratitade for your past serrlees ; only a that you are about to be releasea , has pat fresh life into file whole country ; and the question universally aakfetg is , how can we sufficiently repay you ? How can we d » to get up such ft demonstration as England never saw , and to carry out which , money has been called for , which comes in beyond our expectation . Flags and banners of the most costly and splendid description are being provided ; and with everlasting credit to the females , we are compelled to eay that they bid fair to be foremest in the field . constituentsof
In conclusion , we , in behalf of oar , ourselves , of our wives and children , return you our sincere thanks foi the past , and place unbounded confidence in you for the future , and temain . yours truly and affectionately in the cause of democracy , Universal Suffrage , and no surrender . Signed , By order of the delegates , Peter Shorbockjj , Chairman . Cbartist-rooms , Brown-street , July 4 th , 1841 . After the reading of the address , it was resolved , " That the Editor of the NartAent Star fee Teqnested to insert the above address in the next publication . " A vote of tfmnt * was given to the three individuals who drew np the address , and also to the Chairman , and thus ended a pleasing and animating meeting . [ This report was received for our last , but was accidentally omitted . —Ed . ]
The Northern Star. Saturday, July 17. 1841.
THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , JULY 17 . 1841 .
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THE MONSTER . After nine years of lisgering hope between life and death , the monster Toryism , refreshed by Wbj £ delinquency , strengthened by Whig treachery , and emboldened by popular hatred of Whiggery , has been resuscitated ; and in the plenitude of its reformed power , will no doubt vainly hope to hold the reins of Government and to rule British slaves according to olden custom and constitutional preroga . tiye . Silly thought ! They most learn , and that » i once , that tie people rejoice in their newly acquired strength only as indicative of their approaching and instant and irrevocable destruction .
Whiggery , which for nine years acted as a foil to Toryism , was not the great opponent of Tories during the past struggle for pre-eminence . No ; those sections of the people who brought Tory strength in advance , in order to have a fair shot at the enemy , whom , for nine years , the Whig ranks had covered , were the real enemies of Toryism , and the real friends of constitutional liberty . The cry of " give us a fair trial" will not for a
moment he listened . to . They haTe had too many " fair trials ; " and in each and all the people have found them wanting ; and however the proud flesh of Whiggery may for a long time have tsoTered and partiaiiy obscured the deep and festering wound of Toryism , jet -vrill the caustio of public opinion very speedily remote the ont ward skin , and expose the running sore of constitutional disorder" The Kisg ' s Evil "—to the naked eye .
GiTe them a " fair trial , " indeed ! Have not our fathers and our grandfathers , our children and ourselves , given them a " fair trial" ? And what has been the results ? In power , they hare been rampant devils ; in opposition , they have been panting bloodhounds ; cautious in every step , lest in a moment of over-zeal to attain office , they should , by a lipoffering to liberty , liberality , or justice , establish a precedent dangerous to the tyrant ' s rule .
To us the plea of Whiggery—ti * t the Tories made them villains , is not good ; to it , therefore , we demur , and reply " Not so ; for had you relied upon popular support , yon would hare been independent of Tory moderation , and guiltless of the villany . " But let not the Whigs snppose , meantime , that they can in turn play the part of negative tyrants , in the hope of again resuscitating Whiggery upon Tory hatred . Let them not imagine that Tory oppression ,
unopposed by them , will of itself replace Whiggery in the ascendant . No , it will not . We have now created the monster ; it is for them in opposition to deal with it inside j while for ourselves we are nothing daunted by its electoral strength , so long as the people have the command of the electrifying machine which is now charged , and ready to cammunicate a shock to tyranny , in whatsoever form it presents itself , whether abroad or at home .
What then have we to fear ? We are aware that the bold Chartist stands in much greater danger than the boldest Whig ; we are conscious that the Whig jary-class will applaud as patriotic all Whig attacks upon Toryism , so long as they , the jurors , look eqnally to Whig and Tory rule as sufficient protection or class legislation , by which the juryclass thrive ; -while the Bame " sworn jurors of our Sovereign Lady the Queen" will have no difficulty in seeiag a gross violation of law , and practices requiring , immediate correction , in the case of a honest Chartist .
What , in SUCh case , then , becomes the bounden duty of the veritable Chartist ! We have over and over again showa that law is a farce ; and that , as Mr . O'CoiraoB has well observed : " There is more danger to the peasant who shoots at the squire ' B hare , than to the Equire who shoots at the peasant ' s head . " This is true ; most true : but , then , unopposed tyranny acqnires the stamp of custom ; and usage and custom are most easily transferred to the country ' s records as common law ; whereas vigorous
opposition to the infant abuse would have prevented the monster ' s strength . Hence have the people been most culpable in olden times . Indeed we hare no right to lay equal stress upon popular acquiescence at present , inasmuch as the storm of popnlar indignation so successfully kept up against the New Poor Law Bill and the Rural Police BUI , is likely , if not to crugh those monstrous iniquities to the earth per se , indirectly to annihilate , not only them , but the power of their Cramers .
' What then , we Bay , becomes the people ' s duty Thej must create a power stronger than oppression '; a national feeling stronger than party or class prejudice ; a sense of justice greater than the laws' persecution ; and if attacked unconstitutionally behind such a rampart of moral strength by physical orce , then necessity , which ifl the mother of invention , will of itself , and npon the moment , create a force stronger than gunpowder . The voice of knowledge has almost silenced the cannon ' s roar , and nature , ever ready to arm right against might , will be prompt in supplying her children with the means of self-defence against their enemies .
The mode of accomplishing all these desirable objects is- by a dissemination of cheap political tracts—the support of that press which comes up to the Chartist principle , not only the support of those principles , but the establishment of a principle j that 13 the English Chartist Circular , for | d . ; the Scotch Chartui Circular , id . ; M'DoaaU ' s cheap publication , which we are extremely sorry to learn is not suppported as it ought to be ; the Odd Fellow ; Vincent ' s National Vindicator , and all the other ; aad though last , not least , the glorious
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Cooper ' s little Leopard , which though compelled often to change its skin , yet rarer changes its flesh ; to meet in downs , Id scores , ia hundreds to talk about tb * Charter snd its Wesangs ; to bold public meetings now and then , to prore the advance of public opinisn ; to insist npon a perfect union between all parties straggling for tb « same end ; to look upon every man ' s brain as having something which nay be beneficially extracUdfrom it ; to
make eTery man who is for the principle agree with bis brother ; to lire soberly ; never to give the enemy a handle over us by any infraction of the peace , bat always to be in a state to defend ourselves against aggression : this wholesome precaution kept the peace at the West Biding nomination , whereas , all moral appeals to physical ruffianism would hare been disregarded . So much for the organisation of a proper publio opinion . "
Let us now see how such a force—presuming upon its completion—could be beneficially applied . For argument ' s sake , we ahall for the moment suppose a possible evil , namely , that the Whigs , who for nine years have played most fantastic pranks before high heaven for the mere possession of office , should now constitutionally deliver power into Tory hands without a just aud constitutional struggle in which the people could and would take part ; we mean without another dissolution and an appeal to thb people , of wbjchmoreanon . Snppose , then , that we have such a force , our duty is to skirmish with the enemy according to our means during the short
supply campaign , which ib to commence on the 19 th of next month . We could not be prepared to meet them efficiently at that time , and defeat would be disastrous . We could not get our forces together so soon ; therefore the country should petition for the restoration of Fbost , Williams , and Joxbs ia the first instance , to try the mettle of the new House . We say for Frost , Wiluam 3 , and Jonbs , because we must keep their case alive ; we never ean forget them ; we never will abandon them : moreover , whoever signs for Bucb . a petition , would cheerfully sign for the Charter ; and this both parties will understand .
Now , although it is highly important that such petitions should be numerously signed , yet as Mr . Duncokbe only moved on one of the prayers of our former petition , and as the restoration of Frost , Williams , and Jones was another of our prayers , he can constitutionally call the 2 , 000 , 609 spirits from the dusty archives , or rather from the burying ground for popular , opinion , and make them plead for his clients .
Should the Tories not commence the shooting season" in Ireland before February , when the House will meet again , and should they allow us to live in peace in England during that period , ( which is very doubtfnl , ) we muBt meet them in full Convention on the 4 th of February , the usual day for Parliament , assembling . We have already more than two-thirds of our -49 representatives ; w say 49 , for still will we remain within the lavrs' sanctuary . We have
O'Bkikn , M'Dodall , Sanket , Vikcent , Hanson , PlTKETHLT , HiBNET , LEECH , WlLLIAMS , BlNKS , Lowery , Col . Thompson , Coopbs , Richardson , John Ddncan , Abraham Duncan , Thomassow Mills , Moir , M'Crae , Ma&tik , young Thompson , and many others ; in fact , Scotland the land of mar tyrs , and consequently of patriots , has nearly filled up the list ; however the deficiency will be easily made good .
If these forty-nine representatives are backed by the country . and supported by 4 , « 00 , 0001 signatures , which they will have and more , it will then become the duty of the people of London , headed by every member of the Convention , to go in procession to the Home Office with an address to the Queen ; and to the House of Commons with a petition to the House , of such nature and quality , as the country shall decide upon . Meantime , as full notice of the day of presentation will be giren , it will become the easy , the pleasing , and the imperative duty of the people of every town throughout the empire to set
one Monday apart , supposing the petition to be presented k on a Friday , —( thus giving ample time for the knowledge of the treatment which it and the procession shall have experienced , to travel to the most distant part of the country)—we say , it will then become the people ' s duty to set that day apart , as the Chartist jubilee ; a&d , without any nonsense of declaring their determination to have recourse to physical force , it becomes their duty to meet and say what nixtI and it becomes the duty of the delegates io remain ia London to receive the decision .
Let these things be done ; and let no funde , not a farthing , be placed in the hands of the Convention , beyond the mere necessary supply for advertising , stationery , and rent of meeting place . Let each delegate receive full and ample wages from his own local treasurer ; and let him receive it , like other honest workmen , on every Saturday night , and none in advance ; and let a detailed account of the proceedings be printed at the close of each week , a few
copies of which should be sent to each town , to be read in different places upon a given day ; and let a Committee be chosen to draw up such report ; and let it , when drawn np , and before publication , be Submitted to the whole body , and its truth and correctness be thus authenticated ; and then the country will have an unstamped national weekly organ , divested of falsehood and party spirit , and bearing the sterling stamp of truth .
Such are the weapons with which the country should be armed to resist Tory domination ; while the Whig alternative should be to transfer all the combnstible elements of popular discontent into the House of Commons , as a national safety valve . To talk now of longer holding power by majorities and gunpowder , is child ' s play—a farce ! We are told that the government of a country is , in general , a correct miniature of popular opinion . In this folly the Leeds Mercury joined during the days of Whig ascendancy ! but what
will the Mercury say now ! We say now , as we before said in reply : " that such was only a political truism , when the existing government did actually represent a majority of the nation . " Will the Mercury now say that the Tory Government represents a majority of the nation ? and if not , will it say that the government is a constitutional government ! aud , if he admits that such is not the case , is it not our bounden duty , and the bounden duty of every good man to arrive at the means of attaining an object upon which all appear to be agreed .
It is plain that the Whigs cut a stick ia 1832 , with which the Tories have thrashed them soundly in 1841 . What , then , can the Whigs do ! Can they go to the shrubbery again and select another Whig switch 1 No ; impossible ; they must go to the forest and cut a Tory wattle , of which they may hold one end and the people the other ; and then all may hope to annihilate the whole power of Toryism . The Whigs cannot regain power by the present constituencies of their own creation ; that is
certain ; they have lost power by traffickiag , experimentalising , and fenoing with Tery opposition ; yielding to Tory prejudice , instead of bending to the national voice . They cannot tOBB up any other " hasty pudding" to catch the hungry electors ; they have gone further in their new cookery than they thought practicable or prudent ; and if reinstated by a majority , it was doubtless their intention to have still relied upon Tory epposition for the non-p « rfbnnance » f clap-trap promises .
What , then , must they do \ They must , as they have tried juggling for nine years , now try a fair game . They must show the people every card in the pack , and tell the people , iu the event of a fresh deal , how many trumps they , the people , shall hold to stop " a bad lead , " or change a dangerous game . They must DISSOLVE AGAIN ! and without appearing ridiculous to all the nations of the earth , by another w vision / ' or " night mare , " they need be at no trouble to go in search for the proper bait for the season . We will bait the hook , and tie the fly , so u to o * tch the tSah ; but the fish must be
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thirty Chartist Members , constituting the anti-Tory wad Chartist et * ff in tie Htuse . At this notioD , whiek we were the first to broach , and which we rejoice to find the Chronicle and the Sun support , too bloody old Times , and our Great Grandmother , are outrageous . So mueh the better . If the Wnigs ftllowthe Tories once to get possession of the gunpowder and the treasury , then farewell all hope of men organic change , short of revolution , as will erer again transfer power from Tory to Whig hands . . _ _ . .. - .. _
Let the Whigs , upon the other hand , do that which the national voice wi& call most constitutional and loyal ; let them appeal to THE PEOPLE , and give to THE PEOPLE a fair representation ; and then let the T imes and the Tories rare away till they are black in the face ; and we pledge our lives that the result will be a wattle to crush Toryism , and for
ever . These are not times to stand en nice prerogative . Society is divided into the landed class , represented by a political majority ; a money , commercial , and manufacturing class , represented by a political minority ; and a people made paupers by both—not represented at all . Can the Whigs , then , m hope to deal with the latter class as to regain power by their exclusion ! and can they hope to persuade them that any act which denies them representation , can be for their benefit !
The Tories , it is true , have been much relieved by the rejection of Herbies , Sir Geobob MURRAY , and Mr . Fitzbot Kelly—all aspirants for office ; but then there are ample combustible materials left for a grand blow up . Peel and his old followers , Knatch-Btrix , GotJLBURN , Egebton , Lord Mahon , Sir H . Hardinge , Lord Ashley , and all the old constitutionalists , will not like to be removed by Lord Stanley , Graham , Tennant , and their expectants ; while Sir Robert Inglis and his disciples will each press for a , curacy , or perhaps a plurality of benefices ; as we are now essentially represented by the Protestant
counties . "A little leaven leaveueth the whole loaf . " Howick and Charley Wood kept continually poking and hiccupping at the Melbourne Cabinet , in spite , for breaking up his papa ' s family circle ; and when one scabby sheep was able to infect the whole flock , what amoant of " scab , " and "foot-rot , " and "blackleg , " aud ?• liver-rot , " may that shepherd expect who has so many infected sheep on one confined pasture t To hold office on Tory principles the whole flock must be kept together ; while to keep the whole flock together , abuse must be multiplied for the seduction of each 1 st .
Now in this state of things the difficulty which stares all in the face dees not appear to have struck any of our contemporaries , who measure public opinion and prosperity by the stamp returns . The difficulty is this . All the money has got into one hand , —the hand of steam ; and a preponderance of political power into another hand—the landed hand ; while , between both , the people are starring . It
has never struck our sapient rulers that the money has got into hands over which they have no controul , and therefore they can [ have no hope from any administrative change . They may marshal , organise , and register , each according to their respective tactics ; but poverty , the Chartist drill sergeant and reorutting officer , will prove the better general , and turn oat in the long run , the most efficient and best disciplined corps .
All legislation which does not regulate supply and demand , and give to labour its fair representation , placing its sterling stamp of value upon the fabric , i s moonshine ! " Want teaches man remembrance what man Is ; The great man down , yon mark his favourite flies ; The poor advanced , makes friends of enemies . " Therefore DISSOLVE ; " advance the poor ; make friends of enemies f' give to Iabonr thirty representatives , and ypu may defy the devil and all his imps : on the other hand , turn sulky with the people , aad farewell your power and for ever . Therefore , Whigs , DISSOLVE I Again we Bay , DISSOLVE ! and , without a blow , the full bloom of Toryism vanishes , and for ever , before the sweet breath of a great nation .
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To this man's power , and its abuse , we trace the weakness of Whiggery , the strength ot Toryism , and the rise of Chartism . The weakness of Whiggery ; because , as we hare stated scores of times , the Ministers relied for existenoe upon his profligate support , rather than npon popular favour gained by good deeds . The strength of Toryism ; because eTery Englishman , from the princely mansion to the poorest horel , must have blushed to see roguery leading folly on to national destruction , at the book of a tramping pauper and eameleon , prostitute politician . The rise of ChartiBm ; _ . . ' : ' , ^ J _ -L .. — . _ . *_ .. _ * 1 .. l
because his end , bis aim , and object has been to remove , from the House of Commons , each men as Colonel Thompson , Roebuck , Sharman Crawford , Whittlk Habysy , and Fjbab » us O'Connor , whose advocacy of popular rights might have held popular feeling for yet a little longer in abeyance , also have formed an incorruptible barrier between him and the people upon the one hand , and between him and the Government npon the other ; thus rendering his corrupt support of less value by exposure . He well knew that to insure unopposed power , he must destroy in the House , and banish from the
House , all honest and independent opinion . He softened down Irish support to the plaee-and-title standard ; and then sold his country wholesale ! What ! does he suppose that the far-seeing people are blind ? Or does he imagine that drowsy Ireland has not opened her eyes to the fact , that the men who were scouted from the hustings , for lacking liberality , in 1832 and 1834 , are now too liberal for the " Liberator" t Does he suppose that the invitation to the Marquis of Kildare , ( a Whig , and
Anti-Repealer ) to become his colleague for the representation of Dublin , passes without notice ! Does he imagine that the Repealers forgot that "Ireland ' s only "—the Duke of Leinster , with the help of his tool , —Pibbce Mabony , got np the memorable anti-Repeal Declaration ; and does he think that they , the Repealers , will not recollect his , O'Connell ' b , recent declaration , that " the Marqnis 0 / Kildare * tas the son of a man who , though he took but little part in politics , teas , nevertheless , always ON THS BIGHT SIDE . "
Pat never bad a patriot , Particularly good and wide . But fell upon St . Slephen ' sjteor , And always on the biixered sick . Again , does the " Liberator" suppose that the extinguishment of Repeal by the return of anti-Repealers , will not penetrate even into the dull minds of his nose-led followers 1 Here we find a Royal navy Captain ; here a Royal army Captain , and there an
anti-Repeal banker , or trader , or barrister , all anti-Repealers ; but none of them poor ones ! Such men we find started , supported and returned for the Repeal county aud bsrough of Carlow , for New Ross , for Ktnsale , Youghai , and for many other places ; while the gallant General who was slandered and defamed AS BEING A REPEALER , notwithstanding the contradiction of the libel ^ by the Newry Examiner Repeal print , is alone defeated .
Here then is a new Irish sum for the solution of Irish Politicians . If it required 2 , 000 , 000 signatures and £ 100 , 000 to earry Repeal in the House of Commons , with 25 Repeal Members aud a Whig time-serving administration , how many signatures , and how much money will it require to carry it with Dariel and his three sons and a Tory House 1 Answer . —Signatures , now no object ; money is everything . But let ub expose the greatest inconsistency of the " Liberator ; " if we are justified in using so mild a term to such a moving mound of rottenness .
Is it not strange that in his celebrated puffs and advertisements for the sale of himself , of Ireland , and of the Catholics of Ireland , addressed to Lord Duncannon , as Home Secretary , in 1836 , he should have stated the non-appointment of Irish Catholics to places of emolument , as the great causes of Irish opposition f Is it not strange that his son , Master John , —heir to the Irish potatoes , ( the skins being for the slaves , ) complains that the Irish bar have not their full share in colonial fobbery;—we say is it not strange that the " Liberator " , notwithstanding all this pleading
for Irish Catholic place , pension , and emolument , Bhould now turn upon the Repealers who have been sopped off , and deolare them place-hunters and soldi Is it not strange that , in the face of Irish denunciation , the miller Baronet , Sir David Roche , and the Whig Baronet , Sir Denham Nobbeys , and the Whig Attorney-General , David Pioox , and the Trinity grub , old Dr . Stocks , and the Right Honourables Thomas WYSE , and Little Dick Shiel—is it not strange , we say , in the midst of all this
denunciation , that the above title-hunters , place-hunters and Bopped-off Repealers , Bhould still be " My dear friend Roche , " " My dear friend Pigot , " " My dear friend the Docttr , " " My dear friend Shiel , " and so forth ! Ah 1 the denunciation is only intended for the poor place-hunter , who cannot " butter the bargain ; " and not for him who can " grease the fist" of the independent " Liberator , " who loves to have his itching palm tickled with the price of office , even at the expence of an ardent Repealer .
Let us now distiotly show why , even in his dying moments , the monster Chartism haunts the brain of " Old Mortality . " It must be matter notorious to the least observant , that Mr . O'Connell for many years has lived upon the very abuses which he professed to desire power to destroy . It must be equally notorious that every abuse complained of has , in turn , been placed uppermost in the showbox ; and that the juggler has invariably produced a new trick , or touched up the old one , for rent day . It must also be plain to the least observant , that the juggler has invariably by some shuffle or other changed the trump to suit his OWQ hatld .
Let his career be followed , more especially for the last four years , and do we not find him just at rent time dealing in abuse the most violent of everything English , and trying to court Irish prejudice which he has endeavoured to foster by such abuse ? Do we not find him stopping short , as though he were shot , the moment excitement has served his purpose t and in the midst of all , do we not find every single abuse of which he complained , and
which he promised to redress , still iu existence , notwithstanding his mighty power ? Nay , more ! after so long a possession of power , do we not find thai the Tories , upou their re-occupation of Government , have now all the machinery of police , and arms Bill , and mitigated coercion , all furnished by the " Liberator , " made to hand and ready for use ? And should the Tories now abuse that power , who is to blame—thosa who finding it , use it , or those who furnished it 1
Why , then , does " Old Mortality" now abuse Chartism ! Simply because in its establishment he sees the "finality" of humbug . So long as he could live upon the wages which Tory oppression would produce , he had no objection to relinquish Whig patronage for a season . To the system of turnabout he had no objection ; but to the complete transfer of all power to the people he is mortally opposed . He never was for any organio change ; he never affected any , the slightest , administrative change . Of what use , then , was " Old Mortality !
Of great use . He has furnished a lesson of wisdom t » all the nations of the earth ; he presents to the living the wreck of prejudice and old opinion , while his downfall will be s > warning to all future politicians ; teaching them that the use of power , and not the means of possessing it * is the one thing to which the people look . The tortuous policy of this natural-bora magician was tolerated as expediency ; and a blind following was a tribute paid to his better understanding , while in search of that power from the possession of which so much had been promised , and so much was expected .
John Lawless , Purcell O'Gorman , Mr . Lambert , O'Gorhan JIahon , and all who honestly opposed , or exposed the " Liberator , " werecheerfuly offered up as sacrifices to expediency : to this blindfold subserviency , and to the fact that Pan being
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paid before the job was completed , we attiikote hit sale of Ireland , and Mi self nomination . . - " Had O'Coiwell never touched cash tffl Ws elient * cause was gained , we uuheaitatlaglj declare , that 3 he had had courage , moral and personal , which he hat not , he might have been a greater man than either Napoleon , Alexander th * Grkax , or Croxwklu Before we notice bis abuse of O'Connor and Char tism at the late Dublin meeting , we may obser ** , that herein lies the great difference Utween O'Cos-NOR and O'Conneuv O'Cojwwt hat , ioora bum * ledge , taken an oath , a solemn oath , never to accept nmiA V ^ tnrm tk * wll WH ftJMUftifltwd . Wf > EJfajfaitfl Tit «
money , © rvalue , to the amouat of one pennywort ^ till his client ' s success shall entitle him to a just reward for his advocacy of their cause . We know that very many persons , and bodies , have felt insulted by O'Connor ' s refusal of presents ; but we hold his determination to be wise . There is little difference between money and money ' s worth ; and if he commenced by accepting fustian , or any other money's worth , he would probably end in looking for money . Had O'Connell made the resolution not to accept anything till his work was completed , and * had he made his interest and the interest of th *
people identical in the completion , it would hav » been done , and well done , long ago . We now proceed to lay before our readers th * venom of the Charter draftsman , as lately spit upoa hia gaping swallowers ia Dablia . After two column of rank nonsense , and praise of Whiggery and oar " lovely young Queen , " Old Mortality" » T 8 : — " A damp bad been thrown on the cause of repeal la this country , by the foolish conduct of Lord Ebringtonat the Castle . ( Groans . ) The Qovernment refused to countenance Repealers , but did it sow refute the support of these Repealers ? Were they not thank * ful for their votes that day ? ( Hear , bear . ) Then , there were the Chartist * in England ; they 4 W considerable damage to the Radical cause . A groan fox
the Chartista . ( The call was responded to by a deafening burst of groaning , biasing , booting , and every possible mark of disapprobation from the immense mnlti * tudej Mr . OConnell continued—I think It right to tell you , my blends , that Feargus O'Connor made a . most deperate attempt to have me assassinated at Leeds ; and I am informed that there are a few ef his vagabond Chartists at present in Dublin . Well , I would like te see what colour these fellows are o& ( Laughter , and cheers . ) These rascally Chartists areoar enemies—they are the enemies of Ireland—they an the enemies of the Queen , whom they nave grossly libelled . One word more , and that tea big word , RepeaL ( Cheering . ) Yes , Repeal . It Is for the great measure of Repeal that I am principally struggling . "
Ofthe Repeal question we have before disposed , in as far as it has been extinguished by the " Liberator . " The groan for the Chartists will be answered tenfold by the Killarney echo , whose response will be " ten groans for 'Old Mortality , ' and the putrid carcase of Whiggery . " As to O'Connor , Old Mortality" knows full well that he told a lie , a wilful lie . But why marvel I Could he apeak truth f Ho knows that Mr . O'Connob ' 8 only observation as to Daw ' s -rieit to Leeds was ,. *• Let no man riot ; and , should any attempt it let him be instantly restrained : our interest is to keep the peace ; their ' aistooreakit . "
Now , what will the old grave-digger say 1 Why , just what we say—that a lie , to him , is much preferable to the truth ; for truth never serves the bad man's purpose . However , in the midst of all this hot contest , it is curious to see how the netted Chartists haunt th * Whig lion at large . Every opponent of the " Liberator ' s , " till he met with his over-match , either fell a prey to the Liberator ' s" slander and abuse , or in disgust foolishly gave him a triumph by changing sides . Bat O ' Connor opposed him from the first , ia 1833 , when he discovered his treachery upon the question of Repeal ; and , without turning a hair ' s breadth from bis : course , he has hunted the " Liberator * into the arms of Ireland ' s bitterest enemies , the
coercing , " the base , the brutal , and bloody Whigs . " O'Connor has never lost an opportunity of meeting him publicly , while at large ; and has more than once challenged him to discussion in Dublin . Bui no ; falsehood could not stand against truth . O'Coxnob alone , of all hid marked victims , has battled him single-handed , for eight long years ; being in the first instance , compelled to answer bis daily abuse by th * slow , the heavy , and expensive mode which the pub * lication of a pamphlet afforded . And let it be borne in mind , that O'Connell was the aggressor } aud that O'Connor wrote him two private letters ^ asking him for an explanation of bis calumny , which might have been erroneously published , thus giving him an opportunity of correcting any errors before he publicly defended himself .
What , then , some person may ask , is O'Connell ' b aim and end ? It is obvious ; it is to keep O'Connor out of Ireland , well knowing that his presence there would be a signal for revolt from the crooked standard of the ' Liberator ;* ' but in this he will fail r for O'Connor will again go to Ireland , and dan him to discussion . While speaking of Irish afairs , we must lay what is positively flattering to our great cause before our readers .
Firstly , then , for negative proof of our strength . We find it in the fact of O'Connbi . i . ' s weakness , and shrinking from public opinion . No doubt it has struck all with astonishment , that the Cobourg Gardens , ( the Palace Yard , the Holloway-head of Dublin agitation , ) has not , during the whole campaign , been the scene of action ; whereas of old , 200 , 000-Irishmen rushed to the spot , as if by impulse , without more than a whisper ' s notice , upon the announce * ment that the Whigs were in danger . Why is this I Because the " miscreant Chartists , " mayhap , would attend ; and , if nob , police officers , attorneys , patriotic barristers , and the tribe of fatted tradesmen who never work , would , if left to themselves , cut but a sorry appearance in the vast space .
For our positive strength see our weekly notices of rising Chartism in Dublin ; and especially do V 7 e > recommend that in our last to the consideration of every English , Scotch , and Welsh workman in the cause . From it th ' ey will learn that our Dublin friends have done just what O'Connor recommended two years ago in Convention—they have incorporated the Suffrage and Repeal Questions . Our gallant friends have united their question with our question " , that is , if Repeal can be considered more an Irish than an English question , which we utterly deny , inasmuch as both countries suffer immense damage from the incestuous union . But it is done ; and let " Repeal and the Charter" go hand in hand , as the united motto of united Englishmen , Scotchmen , Irishmen , and Welshmen .
We have before stated that the " Liberator" hates every man who strengthens hia monster , which he never intended to have slippedf rom its leading-strings , but which , like Frankenstein ' s , has now become too powerful for him . Let "Repeal and our Charter" be now our watch-word and onr cry . Let it be constantly and incessantly repeated ; and before this day nine months , we shall be able to present the
compliments of four millions of Britons to the House , " ( without the money-stamp of a shilling each being affixed to their names , demanding a Repeal of the Union , and our Charter . So for " Repeal and the Charter , " Hurrah i Hurrah for the Charter snd Repeal ; and ten groans for "Old Mortality , " and the patrid carcase of Whiggery , is the responsive echo to the " groan for the Chartists . "
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^ ' ^^ *^™^^^ B ^^^^^^^^*^^^ j ^ j'j ^ ji ^ imji ^^ - ^ - ^^ THE ELECTIONS . The following is a summary of the returns so far as they had been received by us on Thursday : — „ ,. _ t Whigs . Tories . English Boroughs 176 168 English Counties 22 129 Ireland 33 3 d Scotland 28 20
Total ... 259 345 The Whigs have gained 36 seats , one of which is in a Welch County , and two Scotch counties ; and the Tories have gained 72 seats , of which 22 are in the English counties , three in Scotch counties , and one in an Irish county .
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"OLD MORTALITY . " Bat for Mr . O'Connell ' s recent and foulest attack upon the Chartists , it was not our intention to notice the acts of treason of " Old Mortality" ( Mr . Daniel O'Connblio , except to warn him for the future by reminding him of the past . We have followed him through his abuse of every living patriot till his voracious appetite was palled , and at length we have run him to the tombs of the great dead , for food whereon to feast .
We find him engaged in a vain endeavour to deface the epitaphs from the grave-stones of the immortal Emmett and Lord Edward , and trying to substitute the name of traitor for that of patriot , in the vain hope , not more of obliterating all trace of recollection of their noble deeds from the Irish mind , ( which he has debased and brutalised , ) than of furnishing a justification for his own crooked , insignificant , and cowardly policy , made more glaring by contrast with the eelf-devotion of the patriots of 1758 .
He never dreams ( old dotard !) that if it be justifiable to resist Tory oppression with a million of Irish pikes , as threatened by his pacificator-general in 1841 , it was not less so in 1798 . He forgets that the perpetuation ofthe same rule ( which justified rebellion in 1798 ) , after nine years of Reform and thirteen of Emancipation , and during which time he has held the balance of power both in the House aud out of the House , is wholly and entirely chargeable upon his treachery and treason . Of what use
was his power if , after receiving hundreds of thousands of pounds , and after the shedding of much blood in his moral and peaceful struggles , that power has not produced one single beneficial act , or one single beneficial clause in any aot , for a period of thirteen years , during the latter five of which he was all-powerful 1 Of what use , we ask , is that power , when no man can lay his finger upon one legislative act , and say " this is O'Connell ' s , " and " this is good" ?
This rampant Proteus , now for ever dismissed from his position , is frantic ; and , in his madness , he still , even in the heat of election contest , throws bis venom at the only powerful party in the State—the Chartists . We thought he had been taught a lesson by the chastisement recently administered to him by the New York Repeal Association . Our readers are perhaps aware , that in a letter to " the real Old Goat , " ( Lord Chjlblemont , ) " Old Mortality" denounced the Irish patriots of 1793 as traitors ; and that Robert Emmett , the son of Thomas Addis Emmett , late Attorney General
of New York , who was expatriated in 1798 , and nephew to Robert Emmett , the patriot , who was butchered in 1803 ; that this young patriot was chairman of the Repeal Association of . New York ; and , upon reading the insult offered by the Liberator to his father and uncle , he instantly sent in his resignation , whereupon the Association met , approved of his conduct , denounced the " Liberator" for his time-serving , expediency policy ; and , after passing a spirited resolution declaring that more self-devoted or braver patriots than those of 1798 never lived , requested Emmett to resume his office , which however he declined .
Charlemont and the Whigs , the Duke of Leinster , of Anti-Repeal notoriety , and Pibrcb Mahoney , his whipper-in , are now sought to be conciliated by O'Connbll . As Mohammed would not come to the mountain , the mountain resolved upon going to Mohammed . If the cause of liberty derived no other benefit from the expulsion of the Whigs from office , than the destruction of Daniel O'Connell ' s wholesale borough power , the victory would have been great . Talk of the rotten boroughs , indeed , while one sales-master holds forty proxies ; the only difference between them and the hereditary legislators being that the puppets must be present to vots themselve * slaves in propria persona /"
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 17, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1118/page/4/
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