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LIVERPOOL DEMONSTRATION . { Conducted from our seventh page . ) Mr . O'Beier , who was received with tremendous cheers and wiring of handkerchiefs on his rising , asked leave , on account of the delicate state of his health , to be allowed to advance more rato the centre of the meeting , and to occupy a standing on one of the tables . This was at once conceded , and he proceeded with his address , which occupied nearly two hoars in the delivery . He addressed them as men and women of Liverpool , and hoped they wonld not be offended , because he did not know a more
honourable title in existence than that of mas , nor did he think the females wonld frown because he had not styled them ladies ^ He liked to be among the people—among those with whom he was always the most happy , and he was glad to see them there for a great variety of reasons . He referred to the imprisonment he had undergone , and to the unsuccessful efforts which had been made for his liberation , although the influence of Tom Potter , the Mayor of Manchester , had been successful in the case of the Rev . Mr . Jackson . Ha
mentioned this to contrast the influence of wealth with that of the working classes , for while two millions of signatures could -not procure his release , one man liberated Mr . Jackson . . When he first went to Lancaster Castle , it was attempted not only to place him in the felon s ward , but to compel him to wear the criminal ' s uniform , both of which pieces of tyranny he had resisted and had overcome ; but he Tts thus thrown upon his own resources , and while compelled to provide his own maintenance , was debarred the means of earning five pounds weekly , which he had had offered for writing for two newspapers . ( Hear . ) He had had much bad health , but had been enabled to weather out the storm : and all the time be had been in prison he had
never set his foot on a board , —nothing but the damp stone fldor , besides having only one seat , and that a three-legged stool . * After he had been in some time , by the interposition of some of his wife ' s friends , CoL Yorke had waited upon the Marquis ol Normanby , and remonstrated with him on the hardship to which he was subjected , particularly in being deprived of earning a livelihood by his pen ; to which Ida Lordship replied , " Why , this O'Brien you speak of , is the most dangerous man in the whole partydecidedly the most dan < w" * ns . ( Langbterandcfceers . ) He then referred to the crime ior which he had been sentenced , and glanced , in the course of hi 3 long and excellent speech at the form of hLs indictment—the recognizances he had had to enter into previous to
his liberation—the class legislation which was the foundation of all the bad Government—the economy and retrenchment of the Whigs for the ten years they had been in office—his return as the member for Newcastle , and a hint or two for Mr . Ord—his own lack of bodily strength—his exertions since his liberation , which , though it only took place four days ago , had seen him address no fewer than six pnotic" meetings . He told them what he had never xol&Sfefore , that he was put down by one of Ms own friends—( hear , hear)—it was quite true that he owed his proseemion to the rascality of one of the leaders of his own party —( hear)—he would not mention names , though he could do so , but such was the fact ; he had fallen a sacrifice to a'j ealous feeling among those with whom he had acted . He then went on rapidly to glance at the proceedings of the late convention—explained his conduct on the
national holiday—referred to the proceedings at the Bull Ring at "fi'TT" » " gh * Tn— -ftTpl * - ™ * ft his conduct with regard to the advice which he was said to have given ( Dut which he denied ) to the people to armand "went through the various topics discussed in his speech which we have so fully reported at Lancaster , and which in some measure renders unnecessary a more detailed report of his speech here , did not a want of room , and of time , prevent us from doing that justice to it which its merits demand . [ Our Reporter attended the soiree , and found when be got there that the committee , not expecting him , had engaged a Reporter at Liverpool to furnish an account to the Star ; being unwilling to deprive uim of this engagement , an arrangement was made that he should send a fall report of Mr . O'Brien ' s speech , which , on Thursday afternoon , we had not received , and were thus thrown on our own resources . ]
The next toast was— " The ladies : may they become good instructors of the rising generation , " which was drank with cheering . Mi . Ambleu , in a few ebservitiona , acknowledged the toast on behalf of the ladies , and regretted that at bo late an hour a question of so much importance could not have proper justice done to it He eulogised the duties they were called upon to fulfil , and . hoped the day -was not distant when their influence and importance in society would be felt and acknowledged . The Ch a IBM a >¦ announced that he had been reminded of the object for -which the meeting had been called , by hiving received from Mr . Ellis , the auctioneer , a sovereign for the press which it was intended to present to Mr . O'Brien .
Mr . CBbiex protested against the meeting being converted to one of a pecuniary nature to himself ; it -would detract from the pleasure he bad experienced . He h&d come there to receive honour , and honour he bad received . The CHAIB . MAS then dissolved the meeting , and foB . nVR having been voted to him for his conduct in the chair , the meeting separated at near midnight
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LEEDS . Mr . O'Cosxoa made his public entry into Leeds on Tuesday ; he arrived from Manchester at five o ' clock , and was met on Holbeck-moor by such Bumbers as scarcely erer before followed in the train of hero or statesman . In fact , at no previous period have the principles of which he ia the advocate been so triumphantly—so enthusiastically honoured as on she present occasion . The arrival of the patriot called forth a burst of cheering which made the neighbourhood echo ; while the joyous greetings with which he was individually hailed , stopped the formation of the procession to the town , and delayed its arrival for some time .
A committee had been appointed to arrange the manner of his entry , to TH * -nfo » 1 the procession , and to get up the soiree ; and a very effective committee they were , proving , a 3 at all other places where the " fustians" begin in right earnest , that thev lack not intelligence to manage their own affairs ; but where all are determined to do their best , the management of even so large a party becomes pretty easy . ThiB does Eot , however , detract in the slightest degree from the merit due to the committee ; for if the management became easy to them their entire arrangements were nevertheless of such a nature as ¦ under any circumstances , to have produced a gratifying result .
So soon as the enthusiasm at the Moor somewhat abated , and the people had fallen back from the carriage in which Mr . O'Connor had taken his seat , then the procession was formed , ^ and the trumpet sounded the advance—the head of the column being about half a mile before the carriage , and a dense mass occupying the entire road , the pace was slow , and the approach to the - town was delayed beyond the appointed hour . The procession was accompanied by two bands of music , and a large number of flags and banners , bear ing the usual inscriptions ; and hundreds of persons were decorated with green Tosette 3 . There were numbers of well-dressed females , abo , whose presence seemed to furnish greater inducement to order in the rougher sex .
At the time the procession moved there were not fewer than from fifteen to twenty thousand persons present ; but these numbers formed no comparison with those by which it was afterwards actually accompanied through the torm , while all along the route , namely , along Meadow-lane , over Leeds bridge , up Brigga-te , down Kirkgate , along Ticarlane , up Lowerhead-row , down Brigg&le , along Commercial-street , and d « wn Albion-street to the Music Hall , the windows and bouse tops were crowded with persons , particularly ladies , by whom
the approach of Mr . O'Conner was hailed by waving of handkerchiefs , green ribbons , &c . The progress through the town was triumphant in the extreme ; the Whigs had all shut themselves in back " roomsthe Tories were silent as the grave—the Chartists were every body , and every body were Chartists ; at least every body did honour to the distinguished leader and chieftain of Chartist principles—repaying him richly for the sufferings he had endured , and compelling him to the adoption of still greater esertiens , for the obtainment of still greater conquests .
After the procession had arrived in Albion-street , which was so densely crowded as to be completely bloeked up , Mr . O'Connor addressed a few words from his carriage to the masses by whom he was surrounded , and then retired until the company had become seated in the Music Hall 5 where the Tea and Soiree were to take place .
THE TEA PARTY AND SOIREE . About half-past seven o ' clock , half of the company , to tie number ot upwards of five hundred , being as mar-y s * the ? iloon would conveniently accommodate , beinVseated , Mr . O'Connor entered , and was received with deafening cheers , waving of handkerchiefs , < tc . which lasted for some minutes ; he took hia seat at a table with the Chairman ( Mr . Brook ) and other friends , in the Orchestra , and the tea was serred up , the tables having been previously well stored with substan taalsfor which great credit is due to the
com-, mittee of management , and to those ladies under whose more immediate superintendance . the entertainment iras arranged . We should not forget to notice , also that the room -was very tastefully decorated with evergreens , bonqoets of flowers , & « . No sooner had the guests at the tables partaken of tea , than they retired , and another large party , who bad occupied the gallery , and an ante-room , took their places , and it vas nearly nine o ' clock before the tablet / were finally cleared . A * aa accompaniment , th » Chairman tcaeuoed feat vhJh tt » taUei irew being cleared , M *
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Daffy bad volnnteered a song . This he sung in ( eod style ; it is bis own eompostton , and is as follows : — MR . O'CONNOR'S WELCOME TO LEEDS . COMPOSED AND SUNG BT MR . J . DCFFT , AX THE
SOIREE . Tone— " Rob Roy Mocgregor , 0 !" Welcome , from thy living grave , Brave , bold O'Connor , O ! The suffering millions come to save ; Brave , bold O'Connor , O ! Thrioe welcome here , thou best of men , The widows' hope , the orphan ' s frien " , Our country ' s pride , from bill and glea , We welcome brave O'Connor , 0 ! Tyrants sought , but sought in vain , Brave , bold O'Connor , O ! Thy great and noble soul to chain ; Brave , bold O'Connor , O ! Say , have they tam'd the lion ' s rage ? Or chang'd him in their Whiggish cage ? No , faith , they've not ; I will engage , For brave , bold O'Connor , O !
Long may be live to take his stand , Brave , bold O'Connor , O ' . Among the " workies " . of the land ; Brave , bold O'Connor , 0 I May Heaven bless the sacred cause , And crown bis efforts with applause , And gain us just and equal laws , Brave , bold O'Connor , O ! The prince of patriots is here , Brave bold O'Connor , O ! Brother Chartists rise and cheer Brave bold O'Connor , 0 ! Cheer him as an honest man , Despite of Whig or Tory clan , " My dear" Ray or " royal"Dan , We welcome bold O'Connor , 0 ! The conclusion of this s « ng called forth much ap clause , which having subsided ,
The Chaishas introduced Mr . Westxakk , who presented an address from the associated Chartists of Leeds and its vicinity ; and Mr . W » , Hick , who presented anotherfrom the Charter Total Abstinence Society , from whom also a large and beautiful rosette , suspended by a broad green belt , was placed round hi ? neck by two of the females . It was inscribed , u Universal Suffrage , and no surrender . " An address was afterwards presented from Hebden Bridge . The following are copies : —
TO FEARGUS OCONNOR , ESQUIRE . Honoured Sir , —With feelings of delight and exultation for the adequate expression of which our powers fail us , the Chartists of your own more peculiarly adopted locality , the town and neighbourhood of Leeds , respectfully , heartily , and sincerely welcome you to the renewal of that personal intercourse which the recklessness of despotism has for a season interrupted . Permit us to express our grateful thanks for your long-tried , faithful , and ever ready services in the cause of freedom , and to renew the expression of our confidence that those services will be still continued ; that you will still battle for the cause which you have so long , so powerfully and so nobly advocated—the cause of right , of freedom , and of justice for the working man .
Tyranny has done its worst upon it ; but the good Providence of God has guarded you . Your Efe has been spared ; your fetters are now broken ; and your presence among the people will heal up breaches and dissensions where they may exist ; will raise the spirits of the drooping ; confirm the courage of the bold ; and so invigorate the whole , that factious domination shall soon quail before us , and the reign of righteousness begin-Since you have left the tinsel of your own " order " to associate with us , we have wrought together as one . We receive you this day in earnest of
continued union . We renew our covenant with youa covenant of mutual service and reward . Yours be the service of struggling for our rights—your reward the prood consciousness of patriotism—our heartfelt gratitude—our children ' s blessings : ours be the task to uphold and strengthen you . Thus shall our march be irresistible . The flag of l'berty unfurled shall wave over the ashes of tyranny , and prosperity shall wait on justice . Signed on behalf of the Chartists of Leeds and its vicinity , J . Storehouse , Secretary .
TO FEARGUS O'CONNOR , ES& Honoured Sib , —The Chartist Total Abstinence Society desire to express their unmingled satisfaction at again beholding you free , unmanacled , and nothing dannted in your glorious zeal for liberty . They hail your reappearance among us as an earnest of success , and they feel your exhilarating presence to brace the nerves of their determination , and to urge them onward to increased exertion . We beg yon , as an earnest of onr love , as a testimony of our gratitude , and as a pledge of our attachment , to accept thi 3 simple emblem of liberty and purity , which we are satisfied must always be coeval .
Praying that the time may speedily arrive , when jour glorious efforts shall issue in the establishment , upon a legislative basis , of the Charter of our rights , and pledging ourselves to unceasiDg and continuous struggle , while we express an unreserved confidence in your gallant leadership , which has already done much , we look forward to the speedy accomplishment of all our hopes—the establishment of the throne in righteousness , and the universal prevalence of prosperity and peace . Signed on behalf of the Leeds Chartist Total Abstinence Society .
TO FEARGUS O'CONNOR , ESQ . Mr Deab Sir , —At a meeting of the National Charter Association of Hebden Bridge , on Monday the 20 th inst ., Robert Sutcliffd was unanimously appointed our delegate to represent us at Leeds , on Tuesday next , to assure F . O'Connor , Esq ., of our unabated confidence in him , as our political leader , and of our firm determination to persevere in the glorious cause of democracy . And we hereby pledge ourselves never to rest until the Charter becomes the law of the land . Yours truly . On behalf of the National Charter Association of Hebden Bridge , Hexrt Babbitt , Sub . Sec .
The Chairman then rose and said , they were well met on a most gloriously triumphant occasion , an occasion on which Leeds had shown its power—had proved to the factions that nothing less than their just rights would satisfy them , —that they were determined to have the Charter and nothing less . ( Hear , and cheers . ) All parties were ready enough to admit the existence of great distress—to admit that distress unparalleled prevailed at the present time , but they were not of the same opinion as to the source from whence such distress sprung . Some of them blamed the Corn Laws , and said they were the source of all the ills under which the nation was sinking —( hear , hear )—whilst others had a different opinion , and laid the blame on something
else . But the Chartists traced the evil to its proper source , and they said it originated in class legislation . ( Hear , and cheers . ) They said it originated in all laws being passed for the exclusive benefit of the few , and not for the many ;—in the fact that every thing is protected except labour . ( Cheers . ) To remedy this universal distress , one party proposed to repeal the Corn Laws ; but , whatever might be others' opinions , their opinion was , that the Charter , and iiothing Jess , could ever restore health and prosperity to the country . ( Cheers . ) And this , hefwas proud to say , the people were becoming daily more and more determined to have . ( Cheers . ) He congratulated them that they were met to welcome an unbought and unpurchaseable advocate of
their glorious cause—that they had met to do honour to the now un- caged lion "—Feargus O'Connor—( cheers)—and though they had a great deal to contend against with tho Tories in power , aud the Whigs doing all they can to dispossess them of it , yet he called upon them to uuite ; to let O'Connor ' s mono be their ' s , " Agitate , agitate , agitate . " ( Cheers . ) He called upon them to rally around him whose past conduct so well merited their confidence , of which he had proved himself so well worthy ; and with Euch a leader , and such a union as they had the power to form , success must be certain . ( Great cheering . ) He concluded by proposing the first pentiment , " The people , the source of all power . " The toast was received with great cheering .
Mr . Yeyers who had been delegated to represent the Huddersfleld Chartists , responded to the toast . He vu happy to see that the time had come when the people seemed to manifest some consciousness of their power—that they at last dared to think and to act also . "While their power ¦ vras permitted to remain quiescent , they would always be the victims of oppression . So long as they continued to exhibit themselves in the character of cringing slaves they would never lack a riding aristocracy to sit closely on their backs . I Load cheers . ) He was not a Chartist of yesterday . He had borne the battle and the bretzs for a loBg period of time , he had advocated the principles of right and justice under the personal and living leadership of the
venerable Major Cart-wright ; he had enjoyed the happiness or personal intercourse with that veteran reformer in the year 1822 . He had since then stood up in many conflicts for the cause . He was now approaching seventy yean of age ; but the gratification h « had experienced that day more than repaid him for all the toils he had passed through in a life of service . The speaker then went on to expatiate upon the influence of the female character , and to call upon the wemen , of whom he was glad to Bee so large a cumber present , to add their strength to that of their husbands , fathers , and brothers , mairing firm their phalanx against the enemies of tight , and presenting to oppression an unyielding front The speaker sat down amidst load beet *
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After an air by the bmd . Me Duffy was again announced to deliver a recitation . He said he had been one of those who had been imprisoned , and consequently he knew what the sufferings of the incarcerated were ; bat how severe soever bis own hid , been , it was bo matter ; he was amply repaid by being present at the demonstration of that day , to congratulate in person the " uncaged" lion of ail lions—the incorruptible patriot of all patriots . He was about to recite to them a little doggerel of his own composition ; it was composed in
prison , where he was denied the use of pen , ink , and paper , and it was suggested by having read some splendid cantos of Byron ' s Don Joan , and by the circumstances of a robin visiting his cell every morning , to partake of the crumbs of black bread which composed his food . He begged that they wonld excuse , therefore any inaccuracies in the composition , and take the will for the deed . Mr . Duffy then gave , in a feeling manner , an excellent poem of eighteen stains , which received , as it merited , the applause of the numerous company .
The Chairman then rose and said , that had he been in company of a party of either Whigs or Tories , he might have felt great difficulty in fulfilling the task which hid been committed to him in proposing the next toast , and in calling upon them to respond heartily to the sentiments it contained ; but in the present company , knowing that they had got Feargus O'Connor amongst them —( loud cheers )—he had no such difficulty . He gave them , therefore , ' The health of Feargus O'Connor , Esq . the unpaid , Uie untiring , and the unflinching advocate of the people , and justice to Ireland , by a speedy repeal of the union . " Drank with tremendous cheering .
Mr . O'Connor was greeted with the most vociferous cheers on rising . When the applause had subsided , he said—Who would not go to York Castle for sixteen months ? ( Cheers . ) If that experiment which the Whigs so hopelessly have tried in vain , and if the Tories have in store for me a similar punishment for what I am doing , I only trust that a similar result upon my return to the people will await me . ( Cheers . Sir , before I make any observations upon the sentiment which has been so enthusiastically responded to by all present , allow me , in the first place , to return an answer to those addresses that have been presented to me . To that which cane from the associated Chartists of Leeds , and was presented first , allow me to say , that from it I derive peculiar pleasure , and for this
reason ; that much of the time to which it alludes has been spent among them in person , so that although other persons in other localities might have taken my character upon trust , from the Whig press or from the Tory press ; although they might have been ready to give me credit for the character which it was said 1 deserved at Leeds , yet there can be no mistake about that coming from the men of Leeds —( cheers )—therefore to them I return my thanks , and I only hope that their confidence will be my retaining fee for the future , and that as it has hitherto ( through the very worst agitation , for I consider that th « most difficult part of our work has been accomplished ; for I have dragged the Charter through the mire , even in rotten Leeds ) I trust that iu future my conduct sha ' . l also meet their
approbation . ( Loud cheers . ) As to the address from the Chartist Teetotallers , I receive it with not less pleasure . It gives me great delight and satisfaction to find that I have been driven from the place where I cradled the infant in the first instance from the pitiless storm , to such a place as this . At that time there was no other place open to me ; and willing to seek shelter anywhere , where nine or ten could be called together , it was that or nothing . And now oar cause we agitate in sober earnest , and in consequence of that it is becoming a terror to the drunken factions of Whig and Tory . ( Cheers . ) If I could connect the principles of temperance and moderation , 1 may say , although not belonging to a temperance society , I am entitled to that address . 1 know perfectly well that the cause of the
teetotal society being formed was in consequence of the baneful effects of moderation . Few men know how to use it ; but I , thank God , have had sufficient strength of mind not to allow my judgment to become intoxicated ; and I think , although not a teetotaller , I can say what few men can say who have passed through the exciting life that I have done , that no wan ever saw me tipsy since the day I was born . ( Cheers ) Having thus alluded to these two addresses , let me next turn for a moment to the ladies who have done me the honour to hang my principles round iny neck . ( Cheers . ) Whether it was that I was not prepared for so great an honour or so gentle a touch , or whether it was that I hod had for sixteen months the gallows always within my sight —( laughterj—or whether it was that I remembered
the prediction of the Birmingham Advertiser , which said that I had mounted a ladder to a triumphal car , but tbat perhaps it was not the lost time I should have to mount a ladder—I don't know ; but I confess to you that I did not like to feel anything so close to my neck . iCheers and laughter . ) However , when I turned round and saw the hands who placed this there —( holding up the rosette )—and the motto inscribed on it , " Universal Suffrage , and no surrender , " —( loud cheers)—I said , there is to be a suspension , but not of my body . Thai suspension is to be of all the factious opposition which has heretofore been arrayed , by the poor little creatures calling themselves middle classes , and upper classes , and shopkeepers , and Whigs and Tories , against the
mighty power of a mighty people . ( Hear . ) That opposition must cease . And why ? Because having beaten the one faction who thought themselves sufficiently powerful , by their union , still to hold tho reins of Government , we have now brought them into our ranks ; and depend upon it that they will not adhere so much to their termer principles , as to the means by which they themselves may be restored to office . ( Cheers . ) There are many of you present who will recollect my first appearance as a politician upon the Leeds stage ; you will recollect my after appearance uinong you ; and how , upon each successive visit , the Whigs told us that Chartism was losing ground , that the Kadicals were among themselves divided , and that from their opposition no danger was to be anticipated . How do they
treat us now ? If they find us strong they say that the Chartists are a weak , a divided , an insignificant , powerless body , but if they want an excuse for their own bad deeds they soy , it is not the want of the confidence of the people in tho Whigs ¦ which restored the Tories to power , but it was the Chartists . ( Laughter and cheers . ) See what a thing the acquisition of this great power has become ; is it a tiling to be abused by a divided , inconsistent , and worthless party ? My friends , they should not have told us our own strength . Their great strength , for > ears has consisted in the manner iu which , through their organs , they have been enabled to persuade you of your own weakness , What was my first Btep in promoting this which has become the universal cause of the people ?
It was to overcome that p » wer which the press iiad : to shew the men of Glasgow that the men of Leeds were with them in spirit ; to fahew the men of Nottingham , of Sheffield , of Huddersfield , of Birmingham , of London , of Dublin—( hear)—of Bath , and all those of the same class in the other towns throughout the united kingdom , tbat among the working classes there could be only one view , that for their salvation there could be only one object wurth contending f = r . ( Hear . ) Year after year we saw the Whi ss , while in power , obliged to feed their young by taxation , by commissions , and by places , and augmenting taxation according as the paupers belonging to the Whigs increased , as the law of primogeniture did not allow them to be otherwise provided for ; while the law
of population still went on augmenting the paupers in number . From that period to the present , what has been the result ? You had no King—that is , no monarch , living in London nine or ten years ago . You had no such person as William the Fourth reigning here in Leeds j you were under the guidance and governance of King Baines—he was the monarch of Leeds . ( Loud laughter and cheers . ) He was the monarch of Leeds , and it was almost dangerous for the monarch in London to give his assent to , or withhold his assent from , anything that the King of Leeds thought proper to say . ( Renewed laughter . ) In fact , punishment did not always fall immediately upon the aggressor ; but if King William did wrong , the Queen was threatened with the change of her sex : she was put into breeches . ( Increased laughter . ) I am now shewing you how it is that this local rulo of tyranny has been so long kept
up . I am now endeavouring t # show to you that in each locality there was a petty tyrant wko told the people that the passing of the Reform Bill was quite sufiicient to redress all their grievances . From that time to the present , when you found out that the Reform Bill is a delusion , you began to waver in your allegiance to King Edward , and that mainly because you found he held out hopes and promises that he was unable or never intended to perform . He knew perfectly well that he , along with other shopkeepers and middle-class men , had an equal share with other bad men in -what could be pilfered from the people ; he knew that there waa no staple commodity for those in his grade to traffic upon and speculate in , but what proceeded from labour ; and he said to those around him , if we cannot secure some of that to ourselves we shall all Btarve together . ( Hear . ) Well , what did Edward Baines do ? As soon as he made
money by vending bis spurious opinions , and although he professes to stand by his order , he refuses to give you any participation in the land . I have always thought that what waa sauce for the goose was good sauce for the gander ; and I have heard it said that many persons , who ore good judges , moke the physicians taste the medicines they prescribe before they take them . What then was Edward Baines ' s first step when he got money ? Why , purchase a little bit of Chat Moss , that he might be a landlord himself . ( Lond laughter . ; Though he tells you that the land will not do you any good , he took core to secure a little bit of it for himself , as soon as ever he had the means ; nay , so convinced was he of the value of land , that he pat up with
the very worst description that could be laid hold of sooner than be without ( Cheers and great laughter . ) And as to organic-change , as soon as the Reform Bill is passed , what does Edward Baines do ? He Urns to another piece of cajolery ; and though there is great great strife and dissension in his cabinet ; though there is for some time a great difference between Mr . Baines as " I , " and Mr . Baines as •« we , " eventually Mr . Baines declares for the Ballot . ( Cheers . ) One week he says , in bis newspaper , Uie Ballot is every thing ; and the next week be says that the repeal of the Com Laws , with the Ballot , will do all that is desired . 1 Cheers and laughter . ) I am told that you bad a meeting yesterday in the Cloth Hall Yard , and I am ( old thattke tridatera Weked you again ; and tbat instead
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of putting tho amendment and the resolution , the Chairman pit the amendment twioe , and then declared it carried . That chairmin , an alderman , and a very singular man , though & Goodman too , also put the resolution afterwards , and declared that both had been carried . ( Hear . ) I mention this to you in order to show you the next experiment that will be tried to break up the Chartist ranks . ' Now that the Whigs have lost their power , by their own trickery , by their own deceit , and their own villany , they will endeavour to hurl as once more into an agitation which will have " cheap bread" and "high wages" for its object . I have heard a great deal of those men in my absence , arid their speeches read prettily in Mr . Baines ' s paper , who is very ably represented here by a gentleman who
is taking no notts of what I am saying . ( Cheers and laughter . ) In' my absence I always read in the Mercury that whenever Feargus O'Connor presents himself , we always meet him fairly and fight the question out ; but whenever Feargus O'Connor is present I never see any of that ragged regiment which they have assembled from God knows where . ( Laughter , ) I never hear any of the rhapsodies of those gentlemen who declaim so feelingly upon the advantages of the " large loaf , " and "high wages , " and " plenty to do . " Nowthey may leave out that last point , for it is unfortunately a part of the portion of the poor man that he has too much to do . ( Hear , hear , and loud cheers . ) In an address presented to me from Hebden Bridge , and which bos not been read , they say , " We are
determined never to rest till the Charter becomes the law of the land . " I tell them that they can't , because there is no rest for the wicked . I tell them that they are system-made wicked men ; for those who profess a desire to give them a large loaf , have eaten up both large loaf and small ; they have not only eaten up the public resources , but have thrown themselves upon the public also . If this system be much farther pursued , the public will help themselves ; for hunger will break through stone walls , and men cannot be kept honest by Act of Parliament ( Hear . ) But this Corn Law question is that upon which the Whigs will seek to elevate themselves , and keep out the Tories . It is hard to deal with the sophistries of those who advocate the repeal of these laws . I wish I had some of them here ;
I never can get hold of one ; they are like pigs with soaped tails , I never con catch one . ( Laughter . ) I have , in every shape , laid this question bare in all its nakedness before a well-judging and sound understanding people . But let us take that common-sense view of it which has not been taken yet . We cannot , on occasions ef this kind , enter so minutely into details as not to leave something for captious fools to cavil at But suppose yoa required fourteen millions of quarters ot wheat , or any other quantity , for a year ' s consumption , and suppose yoa grew two er three millions short of the entire quantity , and that the wont of that two millions greatly increases the price of the twelve millions that ore left ; oar object can only be to increase the supply so as to prevent that increase of price . But suppose
that those two millions are introduced from some foreign state ,, we not only reduce the price of the home grown corn , but to the same extent we make ourselves worse consumers of the products of our own trade than we were . The Corn-Law repealers would go all over the continent to seek up the deficient two millions of quarters ; but instead of doing tbat give me half a million of acres of land at home , and I will produce you the two millions required . That would not only make us producers of our own food , independent of foreign importers and foreign growers , but would alsojnake us consumers of the value thereof in our own market ( Cheers . ) The great argument of the repealers is that it would moke bread cheap ; bat I beg yoa to remember that in the exact proportion that bread has been
cheapened , wages have been reduced . ( Hear . ) It is well known that whenever there is an increase of the demand for goods for foreign markets , there is a dismissal of manual workies , and an increase of machinery . If to-morrow they required ten thousand ship loads tf your goods , new engines would be set up , and the workmen would be required to work double tides in order to meet the foreigu demand . ( Cheers . ) I leave those gentlemen that bone to pick , though they may tell you that they do not struggle for themselves alone , but for you . But do you see any of these men wanting a days meal ? Do you see Mr . Marshall wanting a large loaf ? the man who , by reducing bis wages from 15 s . to 14 s . a week , can save £ 2 t ; , 000 a year independent of the advantage arising from speculation
purchases of the raw material . ' That is owing to the wont of the Charter , and that is a fact which must be impressed upon the mind of every working man . ( Hear . ) Mo matter what specious promises the Whigs may make In order to captivate the popular feeling and to get back again to office ; no matter what they may do , unless you have extensive organic changes , farewell to every hope of redemption for tho working class . ( Hear . ) We are now in a position that we never were before . I have dragged this question through the mire . Every political measure has to undergo its own share of slander and disapprobation . I admit that I was scoffed at and spat upon when I carried the little offspring under my coat iu the dead of night ; and my excellent friend , Mr . Duffy , who has to-night entertained you to the best of
his ability , will bear in mind that six years ago , at Sheffield , they cried "Hurrough Pat , what brings an Irishman here ? " Have 1 ( not then lived down prejudice ? I go to-morrow to Sheffield , where , I can tell you . the same men who cried "Hurrcguh Pat , " in 1835 , will be among the foremost to fay " Welcome Irishman . " ( Cheers . ) I started with reminding you of the great strength which the Whigs and Tories derived from the system of delusion they were enabled to practice upon persons in different localities ; and even yut the Leeds Mercury has not given up its old and flagitious practice . Yesterday , you had . I am told , from 1 , 200 to 1 , 400 persons assembled in the Cloth Hall Yard to petition ou the subject of the Corn Laws ; and , you may depend upon it , that we shall have tbat cried up on Saturday ,
as a great demonstration , the numbers being increased in geometrical progression lik « the nails in the horse ' s shoe ; and if the gentlemen from that office to whom I have before referred , will do me the honour to attend , I will dictate leading articles for next Saturday ' s paper , both as to that meeting and the present ( Cheers , and laughter . ) Now , I will venture to assert that I shall either be booked for a prophet , or shall drive the Mercury out of its intention . You will see in tho Mercury all the speeches , with the cheers , and something more , at the Monday ' s meeting ; and , besides tbat , a long leading -article , approving of the spirit of the resolutions , and tolling the faction that the proposer of the amendment was to be commended for having seen the necessity of sinking minor
differences , and consenting to sail ia the same boat And you will have another article about the procession today ; for , if my eye did not deceive me , I saw some one in the cockloft of the Mercury Office , counting the numbers as they passed . They had a man who counted the whole people who came to the Kersal Moor meeting , although they arrived by thirty-seven different roads and he made the number to be just 3 , 339 . ' and I have no doubt but that in the next Mercury our precession to-day will be set down as consisting of 920 persons , twenty or thirty of whom were women . ( Laughter . ) And thus they seek to deceive you . But presently the day ¦ will arrive when the hosts of the Mercury will rise up in juigment against the deceiver , and say , had it not been for your falsehoods .
we should have wedded the people to our cause ; but you persuade us , by lying and falsehood to wait till the time for something like union has well nigh passed by . That amiable , good-tempered , orderly , saintly , quintescence of gentility and good-breeding , Mr . Edward Baines , says that the Tories let me out of York Castle for tho assistance 1 had rendered to them ; but the Morning Herald says that the Whigs liberated Feargus O'Connor to let him I 0039 at the Tories ; and the Leeds Mercury says that it is quite a shameful thing that Mr . O'Connor should now agitate against the repeal of the Corn Laws , when he voted and speke against them seven years ago . In that , however , the Mercury is quite mistaken . Now that the Whigs are out of power , their first move will be , and it is
important to know it , to' join in the suppression cf Chartism . It may be said that the Whigs are dead ; but they are only dead to themselves as a parVy , they are not dead for mischiof . They would rather see a majority of 200 Tories in the Houbo of Commons to-morrow than see thirty men of my principles amongst them . ( Hear . ) We have still much labour before us ; and I believe much of the onerous labour will fall on my shoulders ; and thank God , they are broad ( cheers ); and thank God they are strong ; and , thank God , I am of that constitution , conformation and form , that I neither dread tho oppressors' threats nor the great man ' s scorn . ( Loud cheers . ) Some persona of my position in society would join with you at a general election , and court your popularity when it served their purposes , but I
do not limit my cooperation to such occasions . I am always ready to shake the blistered hand , meet it where I may . Neither do I do it for selfish purposes . I am always to be found among you ; always mixed up with your cause , and ready to advantage it in any manner that I think most conducive to its success . It is a dangerous thing , it has always been a dangerous thing , for a man to stand up energetically in the prosecution of a particular course , which has for its object the amelioration of the condition of the working classes . Yet I have made a just estimate of the danger which I run , and I am determined to persevere . ( Cheers . ) Have I ever once entered upon that one-sided course which faction has pressed me to enter on ? Never , never , never . ( Loud cheer 3 . ) Let me now inform you as to a certain matter , a portion of which you are cognisant of yourselves . You recollect the demonstration which was made in the middle of the snow in the dead of last winter , when the men and the
women from distant parts crowded to Leeds in order to do honour to the principles ef the Charter , and to meet their reviler ; you remember when the flax mill was fitted up , almost like a theatre , and when the people were Marshalled under the auspices of the man worth two millions of money ; yoa recollect that night when the Whigs just really felt my power . I was in a dungeon then ; I was tho caged lion then . ( Cheers . ) And yet Mr . O Connell , who did not venture to come to Leeds , told the people of Ireland that I bad recommended the people of Leeds to assassinate him if he came . ( Stwme . ) I would apptal to all ofyoa who know what I said and did , whether any one can say tbat I ever held oat such an intimation to any one ? (" No , never . ") Were not these my words— " They will endeavour to break the peace , but let every man be a policeman to preserve the peace . " My recommendation vm to oppose the sliding scale of principle , and to accept no instalment
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of jostioe . At the Manchester demonstration , yesterday , the scene wu a most splendid one . All the trades came oat under their own banners ; such a procession was never seen there since Manchester was built ; andanehaeesnee 'will never again be witnessed until I carry them the abstract of the Charter as the law of the land . ( Load cheers . ) Baft what were the circumstances attending this demonstration T Why , some days ago I received , a letter from a repealer , saying , that in case I went to Manchester , I should be assassinated , even if 6009 Irishmen fell In the straggle . Last week they were invited to assemble in Carpenter's Hall , by placards , which clearly pointed me oat as an object for assassination . They asked in large letters , " who incited the people of Leeds to assassinate
Daniel O'Connell ? " and then they answered the queation in still larger letters , " Feargus O'Connor . " Notwithstanding this , the working men of Manchester met in thousands to welcome O'Connor in Stevenson ' ssquare . And sore enough O'Connor was there to meet them . ( Cheers . ) Though I had the letter in my pocket , nobody had heard of it till I had got into Stevenson'a-square ; and when I arrived there , I stood up and asked for the assassin . ( Load cheers . ) Bat there was no assassin at hand . I knew that . no Irishman could be brought to perform so vile a deed . I did not more shew my courage in going there than I showed the opinion that I held of my countrymen . And who were the parties that nocked round tke
carriage for the four miles of procession ? I scarcely heard a word of English ; it was all Irish . ( Hear . ) But mark the moral . If I have escaped whom have I to thank ? But if I had shrunk from going what would have been the consequence ? Why , that I should have received similar letters from Leeds and from Sheffield , and from other places which I might propose to visit , and thus there would have been an end to the Chartist cause . ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) And now hear what was the result We had a very numerous teadrinking which lasted from six o ' clock till near midnight , for the tables were replenished with guests more than three times over . We had manufacturers there , middle-class men , and shopkeepers , for .
"A fellow feeling makes us wondrous . kind . " And what was the consequence of my refusal to attend to this intimidation ? Why , a deputation from the Repealers , saying that they agreed with every word that fell from me in Stephensoa ' s Square , and that now they would join the Chartists . ( Loud cheers for some time . ) What does all this mean ? ( " They join us i" ) They join you . What . ' and you cheer at it ? You ? ( " Yes . " ) What ! the working men of Leeds join in cheering at the union with Irishmen ? ( Loud cheers . ) Well , you astonish met and I do lack words to express not so much my astonishment as ray delight What ! you , the " enemies of the Irish working classes . " ( Never . ) What ! not for " seven hundred years the enemies of Ireland . " What t not" the men
who gave a Coercion Bill to Ireland ? " ( P \ e . ) What not the men who support the power of the law church ? ( We have no power . ) Well ; that is the very answer that I have been giving for the last ten years ; that you have no power to do anything ; and that if you had , it would be applied to make Ireland a nation instead of a province . After some further observations on Irish topics , Mr . O Connor reverted to the subject of Anti-Corn Law Agitation , which he said had been set . on foot by the League with renewed vigour for the parpose of harassing and annoying the new Government And he entered into lengthened details to show that it would be immensely to the advantage of Great Britain to encourage the growth of corn at home , rather than to sanction its being imported from
other countries . He wished for a more extended cultivation of the land and an increase in the number of domestic farmers , as he was satisfied that an occupier of five acres of land would not only be able to pay a reasonable rent , but to save as much at the year end as would equal the rent and the value of the labour expended on the land . In conclusion he said—My friends , neither misinterpret me when I go away , nor misunderstand me in our communings one with another . What I say is , that no power on earth—that no power of man shall ever induce me , by bribes , by coercion , by persecution , or by intimidation , to give up one single fraction of one fractional part of the whole principles contained in the People's Charter . ( Loud and continued applause . )
The Chairman said the next toast did not require any comment to recommend it . It was , " The Charter , and may it speedily become the law of the land . " ( Great cheering . ) Mr . Peter Hoey , of Barnsiey , was received with cheers , and responded to the toast This was , he said , the pleasantest evening he had ever spent in his life , and he rejoiced that he had travelled to Leeds to be a witness to their devotion to the principles cf the People ' s Charter . He was delighted for two re&Bons— to witness their enthusiasm , and personally to repay the compliment to his eloquent countryman for the eloquent manner in which he had ever advocated the people's rights . He bad been imprisoned for his principles , and he could assure them that his opinions bad
not been in the least changed by bis imprisonment ; bat he stood before them a better Chartist , if possible , than he was before he entered the dungeon ' s gloom . ( Tremendous cheering . ) Since his liberation he had visited his native country ; that visit hod not disappointed him ; nay he was delighted to have to announce to them that the great principles of the Charter were steadily progressing throughout Ireland . ( Tremendous cheers . ) He had stood before a meeting of Chartists at Dublin , and he could assure them that were there no other society bat that in all Ireland , it was enough to Radicalise tho whole of the towns in Ireland .
( Cheers . ; They were United—they useatheir influenceand it was not too much to say that with such a union and such powers as they possessed , it was impossible that the spread of their principles could be put a stop to . ( Cheers , ) He had received a letter since his re tarn which fully corroborated these statements , and which said that let what influence soever be exercised ,-it was not in the power of any party to stop the advance of that little band . ( Cheers . ) He would not detain them further than to assure them that what he was , that would he remain , and that under no circumstances could a change be made in his sentiments . ( Great cheering . )
The Chairman then gave " The Chartist Candidates at the late general election . " ( Loud cheers . ) Mr . Wm . Martin , of Bradford , was called upon to respond to the toast He said he was proud of being present on that occasion , not because Mr . O'Connor was there , but because the men and women of Leeds bad that day shown so bold a front in favour of their own principles , proving to a demonstration that they were determined to shake off both the factions , and to take their affairs into their own hands . ( Cheers ) He was proud , certainly , to see the honour which was paid to bis countryman , —( applause )—because in honouring him they bad also honoured his uncle and his principles . ( Great cheering ) Mr . Baines had on one occasien been gailty of tolling the truth . He had said In a
letter that the people of England were determined to do justico to the people of Ireland . ( Hear and cheers ) He did not complain of the number of Irish members , but of their quality , and he was quite determined to do his best to give them an opportunity of choosing members of their own—men who would advocate their principles , and who would ba chosen ou the broad ground of Universal Suffrage . ( Great cheering . ) They did not want men who would legislate for the church , or for a profit mongering faction , —( hear , hear , ) —but men who would legislate for the whole country , and who would give protection to labour . ( Cheers . ) Governments were originally formed to protect the weak against the strong ; but by degrees , and in process of time , the aristocracy gained power , and used
the people as stepping stones for their own aggrandisement , —( hear , hear , )—and drew the labourer from his inheritance , in order that they might obtain possession of it for themselves . ( Hear , hear , and loud , cheers . ) But Mr . O'Connor had proved that he meant to restore to them that which they had been so unjustly robbed of . ( Great cheering . ) The speaker then ,-went on to say that there was more land than was required to support the entire population of the country , from which he argued that were the labouring classes treated and employed as they ought to be , they would be so far withdrawn from the manufacturing districts , and occupied in agriculture , as would render it unnecessary that females and children should any longer labour in those degrading rattle-traps , the factories , because the
earnings of the father would support the mother and her offspring . He could not endure tbat women should be any longer subjected to the brutalities of over-bearing overlookers , or that children should have to endure the tyrant ' s lash . There were some amongst the middle ciasaes who were better tban others , and there were also amongst the aristocracy some better and some worse ; but still these would not give the suffrage to the working classes for fear they should send men who were better acquainted with the circumstances of all classes to legislate for them in the House of Commons . He then went on to expose the pretended superiority of the aristocracy , who style the labouring population the swinish multitude , and spent their over time in the company of prostitutes .
and other even more degrading ways ; though even they were obliged to admit that the working classes were respectable , and possessed great intelligence . The people were now getting too intelligent to be humbugged ; they were not so ready now as formerly to listen to the tales told to them ut the hustings , and to shout in favour of the factions who were ensnaring them ; for they knew now that all the talk was mere humbng , and they were not to be led away with it He ( the speaker ) bad been returned as the Member for Bradford at the last election by show of hands by a tremendous majority , and hod not the other parties demanded a poll he should have token his seat . He regretted that at a period like this the privilege of voting
was vested in bricks and mortar , and not i& the man ; and while the majority of those who lived in such houses , voted in the manner they did , the system could not be different Had the people Uie power , then would a different system prevail , and labour would be the standard of the currency . ( Cheers . ) He exhorted them to unity , and to steer the same peaceful course they had hitherto done , by which the enemy would be prevented from plundering them , and they would he enabled to proceed on to victory . He warned them against being led away by spies , had it not been for them the people would ere this have been in possession of the promised land . He entreated them not to slacken their exertion on behalf of 8 » imprisoned
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Chartists ; and paid * high compliment to the Northern Star and its Editor , bat for whom the sufferings of those who had teen Incarcerated would have been much mere severe , an * , likel Clayton , they might havQ been murdered . His blood still cried pat for ven . geanee , and vengeance it would yet have . He thanked them for the patience with which he had been heard and congratulated them on their numbers and bear ' ing . He hoped what they had heard would be impressed on their minds , and that they would go hoiae with a determination to come forward and join their brethren in the struggle for liberty , by joining the Char , tist Association ; and then , farewell , a long farewel l to the Ifercary pUl in Yorkshire Mr . Martin sat down amidst great cheering . The Chairman next proposed The speedy return of Frost , Williams , and Jones . "
Mr . Skevington , being called upon to respond to the toast , Haid—That after the achievement of the people ' s rights , by the establishment of the principles of the Charter , the object nearest his heart was the desire to see those expatriated patriots restored to their country , their families , and friends . Per . sonally he was unacquainted with Williams and Jones , yet , through the medium of the press , he had learned sufficient of their characters to entitle them to his most strenuous exertions on their behalf . Of Mr . Frost he knew much : he had been a co-worker with him in the cause of political redemption—ha had fought with him , Bide by side , in the campaign against despotism , and he ever found him a man of sound principle and sterling integritv . Mr . S .. afW
passing a high eulogium upon the" public character of the exiled patriot and urging upon the audience the necessity of exerting themselves to obtain the full and immediate remission of the unjust sentence passed upon the three patriots , concluded by inform , ing the men and women of Leeds , that being appointed lecturer of the East Biding with which the Chartists of Leeds had identified themselves , he should have frequent opportunities of addressing them , and that as the time allowed for each speaker on the present occasion , was limited to five minutes , he would enter more fully into the subject at some early period . Mr . Skevington ' e address was well received throughout , and he sat down amid load and long continued cheers .
The Chairman gave as the next toast— " The libe . ration of all incarcerated Chartists . " Mr . Duffy was extremely happybothforhisown sake and that of the meeting , that his time was limited to five minutes . He was little used to address meetings like that ; but his soul must have been indeed dead if , with the promptings of his ] own . experience he could hesitate but one moment to reciprocate the sentiment embodied in the toast . They were all now comparatively happy , their mirthful countenances bespoke a glee of heart , aed their joy at the reception of the lion from his cage , was a temporary overbalance for the sufferings and } > rivations which they habitually endured ; but el him conduct them for a moment from that splen . did saloen to the hells of Wakefield , Northallerton ,
and Beverley , where their brethren were languishing What was the condition of the Chartist captive in those abodes of misery at that present moment ? He was then locked in his cell , and stretched upon his pallet to reflect a midst the gloomy stillness of the night upon the rampant reiga of tyranny—to think upon his wife and oh his little one 3 who mourned his absence , and to curse , in inward bitterness , the iron which he felt within his bouI . If he should dare to uncover but his hands or to thrust his head from beneath the Whig blanket , it would be quickly noticed by a ruffian traversing the room in list slippers . " Hist !" would be all he would hear for that time ; tha number of his bed would be taken down , and in the morning he would be had up before the Governor
and for tho crime (!) fiercely reprimanded , and sentenced , it might be , to a day or two ' s solitarj confinement , or it might be to a deprivation of 1 portion of his miserable food the next day . [ Great sensation was produced in the meeting by this pourtrayal of the miserable condition of our suffering brethren . ] The speaker then went on to state that this was no fancy-drawn picture ; it waa one in which lie had himself formed a figure in the foreground . The Whigs had been mercifully pleased to remit a portion of ha sentence . Why ? because they imagined that by infernal tortures they had got rid of him . They had
brought him to tha verge of eternity . There were those present who saw him and who conld testify that his body and limbs were swollen to an alarming extent—his nervous debility and general Btate of health was such , that they thought he could not live more than three weeks , and so they let him out to die , Thank God they were mistaken . He was now something like his own man again—he was there a living witness against despotism and class tyranny ! and by God ' s blessing he hoped to soa their downfal , and to rejoice , not only at the liberation of his brethren now incarcerated ; but of the destruction of the foul system under which they and so many others have been made to suffer . ( Loud cheers . )
The Chairman then gave as the next toast , " The Northern Star and the democratic press . " ( Great cheering . ) Mr . Hill begged , on behalf of the Northern Star , to thank them most cordially for the oompliment they had paid that paper , in placing it at the head of the democratic press ; nor was it of course the less pleasing to him after the four years' service he had endeavoured to render them in the conducting of thtt journal , to know that this was no idle compliment , but a simp ! e acknowledgement of fact . If the sentiment upon which their proceedings had been based was correct in its expression ; if the people were indeed the source of all power , and that they were so was a truism universally acknowledged : it was
surely then worthy of their best concern to considei bow the real power of the people could be best and most efficiently exercised for their own benefit . Ia the absence of legislative means , which they hid supposed to be filched from them , there was no level so effective in the hands of the masses as a sterling democratic press—and while thiB existed , and wasrightlj estimated and supported by the people , there could be no danger of permanent class legislation . With the liberty to think , to reason , to argue , to inquire , and to communicate freely the results of their cogitation ? , there was ever an amoant of intellectual power in the people to devise the means of effeotuating their redemption from enthralment . He hailed it , then , as one of the best tokens of the times , that the people had now learned to estimate the value of the
democratic press . If there was any reason why the Northern Star should be by them placed at the head of that press , he would seek it not so much in any particular individual talent , or energy em ployed upon it , as in the fact that it was , it ever had been , and while under his management it ever should beg an essentially democratic organ—an organ recognising broad principles and universal rights alonean organ of their own , in which the people could read their own minds , write their own minds , and see their rights asserted , and redress claimed for their grievances . It was thus that tho Northern Star had become a terror to the people ' s enemies ; and upon these grounds he claimed for it a continuance of that upholding favour which could alone make it capable of tearing down the towers of corruption , and establishing the reign of
righteousness . The Chairman next announced that he had come to the last toast of the evening— " The ladies . " He wa happy to say that he had secured the services of" 4 aita a lady ' s man" to respond to the toast ; his remarks would be brief , as after he had dona , the band wonld stay for a while , in order that the ladies , who were very wishful , might on joy the pleasure of a dance . The toast was received with much cheering . Mr . Hick , in a speech of some length responded , after which thanks were voted to the Chairman , and tho proceedings terminated at nearly two o ' clock in tne mornine .
Thus ended a demonstration which will not be speedily forgotten , and the salutary effects of which must te felt to the latest period of time , in the influence w&icb it will have upon the advancement of those principle * which are for the benefit of tho whole human race .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 2, 1841, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1129/page/8/
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