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¦¦ Brompton. -- On Tnesaay evening, considerable Ioj3l '>[ business connected with the ensuing baU-and concert,
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THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, JULY 16,1842.
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TilE BlllGSTOX CHARTISTS " A > "D THE ' - - ' ¦ . HORTHERX STAR . TO THE EDITOR 0 ? lUS JiOB . THEB . 1 ? STAR . Peak Stb . — -The enclosed address vas ictrodnced * t our usual -weeVij meeting , tli 3 Brigfifcoa Caariists being anxiuus to express their opinion cf yourself and cur 0 Connor , earnestly requesting you to give it insertion . * ' We , whose names are attached to this address , being members of the Gsiura ; Council , and laemDers of the ¦ Natson . il Cnurter Association , reJsvA ' . az in Brighton ,
hzving -sfijeessea vrita cetp regret tee divisions caasea in this toT 5-n , and tcrocgbcat the country ReneraUy , by the conduct of Bcme men -whora we bad reason to Tespi-ct fox thsir advocacy of cur principles , and being anxious to ¦ use oar itflaecce to Testrain either good or bad inen from injuring trat csuse "ffhich is as dear to ns as oar liTts , as well as to check any " new move " that may re m-i ^ e by I&terested inuiYiduils , have coesJ . iered I ; to becnr cnt ; . " toinirorlnce and support at onr s-etfcly meetine the foilovin ? resolutien , proposed by H . Z . Allen , seconded by Sir . Flowers : —
" That -sre . ths Chartists of Brighton , earnestly desiim ? tu eea that nnion and brcihtrly attachment exist betsreen til those vbo are striving to obtain political freedom fur the people , tfelievirg it to be , essential to the success cf tha cat ^ e . lis . ve reati \ rith deep regret the pampbltt entitled ' A Vindication of Mr . O'Brien ' s C-uCnct a * , the late Birmin s hain Conference , ' and containing a variety of ether articles which , in enoj-: cion , miisl Lare the tendency to cause disseneion in car ranks , to thertfjra respectfully , but carz ; e 5 t ? y , rtqcsst that Mr . O'Bitn , "with ever ? other fritr . 4 to oar wmss . "will abi ' . aln , acccrdin : ; to tbe r « rso ~ . nr . en ax . d rfceoiiraienda ' . ic-n of the lata Cos-• venticn , frora e : ib = r -writing , savins , or doirg any tiling that may hiTe the tSkct of c . ~; as : cg d ^ unicn smche tie CLartUt body ; "but that through the
anfslr c .-nduct and abusive langnire of th- ^ sj -who vere « ppa > v « i to this resolution—such a 3 representing our ifcspfCte « l and venerate friend Flower , as a traitor , and -usiag Iss ^ cags dlssrsctfui to ar-y boOy of m ^ nths Cszirzaza 4 is * civ .:-d tl : e mc-eting , sfter five cvenxegs ' s Cifcnaion , -wuncut patting either ths a"x > ve resolnti-. a . cr ih ? ir amendment , which -was an unqnal ; £ e : i vots cf tbaTi ^ s , fro ' -n all parries . Any Enbstqnvctprocetdiri ^ -w e h aTa h * . i nothing to do vi ih , neither do we rsce ^ nise any ; and ¦ we fctreby expres s car n . tire confidence in Mr . Hill , the editor of the Horikem Star , and Fergus O Connor , ' E-q ... its noble propristDr , and are fnliy resolved to stand by and support them , to thi utmost of our power , "while tbsy parsru the persavtriug straightforward course they hate hitherto dene . "
John Pa ? e Jime-s Afbnra Georg-j T . a £ 3 John Kai * ht William Flower Jtkn Croadird Jnnf 5 Williams Thomas Fisher Wiiiiam Lewis "R ' iUiosj FisLer George Gi ^ es Hesry illtciisU JiHica FlcilHJlIl , E& 21 . John . Alien John PHlins Gs-jr ^ e Rarasey j £ snrv Tniett TTilliaia li-.-ad Siiward Fenxer WiHiam Esjd " Wiliia ^ n Sunlry S ^ phen Button John Bjse G ^> rge Thomson AbrsmUani Ernry Browne 1 Vi « liau ; E ; lia Edmund Pjundeabnry Joseph Fii&man Rictard GoodcTe "Wilikia Feist G-TT ^ e Giles , Chairman . " \ VUUam Floorer , sub-Treasnrer
There are many stheia of ths Tery best Chartists in this town "Bho vrisli to Ekn it , bnt -ffe are afraid cf dating the list too lune for your coitusns . BrigLtca , June £ 7 ih , 1842 . [ The &XtOTH fcldrrss -was duly received in accordance ¦ wi ^ its date ; but we -were desirous to hava done wlih the nuiiter to -which it refers . Having teen twice 'written to by tha parses , -c-e give it at their ezTsesi request , and have only new to add to it our o-w-i reqsvit that , - nfcV . eTeT ny be- their opinions r& = pectiTcIy en matters of inferior consequence , the hc ^ sst friends of ChartiiKi in Brighton Trill at least let the c-seinits of freedo : a knosr that their private diszzrtenienis do not senars . t-3 them from tbe
ecacvueacy of public principles . "We think enr frienas for ihe expression of thtir good opinion ; and trust thai th ^ y -wiii as readliy fo .- £ « t the m ^ tur vf differtni > - ? s -s-e hare already f- r ; rtten it , r . nd foigivtn iis authors . We are awar ;? that erery possible effcrS is baing made to " teep up the Eteamj" bat the fcrcest £ re will burn cut , if no fa-. i bo tupplt .-d : and " 3 ? e ess detcruined thct the irJeseslcS parties to this I ' . is ^ rac ^ fal £ ca 3 bble—disgracsfn . 1 oniy t-i its origicitors—shall drag so more fuel from t 3 . "STe recemmend a like coarse of forbearance to oar fritcdi L ^ t us £ 0 straight on gut way , and treat ¦ fcc "b- "a-s-jTi 3 -oith conttinpL They Trill bs qaiet ¦ w ttii iiK-y find ibat their vcd £ eiatioiis jjTo" ? ufco no restKJUse . —ED . X . 5 . ";
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THE MA ^ CEESTES MEEriXG OF THE SE ^ T EXECUTIVE OF THE KAIIOSAI , CHARIER ASSOCIATION . On Morday , the iLh day of Jaly , tbe EsscatiTe aESsHitiled to perff-iin thesa cutlra -which tare cefolTfd upon them by tbe stfiraja of the members < I the 2 » atiosai Charter Associatica . ; Tke follo-K-isg sa > -J 2 cts were diKassed . snd tbe subjoined resolutions unanimously adopted , and ordered to be p : inted ia tbe organ of the nioTemrnt for the con-Bideratioa and edoptien of the mtmbers of the
Associa-O ¥ FJCB BEASEES . It —is resolved that James Leach , do continue to € X-jrcite tks duties of Presidetit of ihe Ex ^ eniive . It ^ as reaolied thai John Campbuii do act as Secretary . It was TesolrsZ that the tharts of tha Ezecutiva be giTfcn to jIt . Hsywood , Treasurer of the Association . It ~ as ies- Ired that in c ^ nsequeiice oi the removal of the Secretary from Mar-chc ^ t ^ r to LonJcn , 2 > Ir . John Cleave be Eppoinied Titaiarer to ths Association for ths enmina year .
ELECTION OP EXECUTIVE CQr > 'ClL . Tt "was iigrss-d to sppeal to the nsmberi of the 2 Catioiral Charter Ass- ^ cLition on the question cf altering the date of ths aiaiual tl&ction cf the Exesutive , and to prevent future complaint , to havs th ^ ir sanction to icsfrt in the rales and regstlaliocs , J ^^ e . instead of February ; July , instead of iT-Jaieh . Tic Council are therif ^ rs requested to brirg this Bnbjsrt ttf ^ re the Ascciavicn . assccBJuji ,
0 E . GA 5 JZ 4 . TI 0 S . Thfi asr ^ -3-t of tbe movement and the sfcre ^ gih cud posruon of tie Association , -fffre taken i .. > to Ji ! 2 > are e-nssiaiT ^ iioiL , a-ili : vas r-: s 5 : T £ -J t-j draw ud i \ dUbict -. ' en for the whole ns . ion , to r-r ^ are a plan fcr &ecmizz cnicnioiionT rnc-titg heni ' . -s , to r ; ci ; n ; : nc-Ed srajs b- ; -. C means of defi-yiug the riiten ^ ant es . " * fnccs cf th-i DijVinseat , sud fc-r the pemc-ss cf p ) : ct : ci ; y "SF"il ; rii : ihzes nieasurta . s ^ id stke ^ sii ^ i ; frtljer-s of t' ji ' i
iniyoTt-nc-i , s . sd r-i dtvisirs . Sl-c ; azJ mtans tf r ^ Tcating di-.-jiicDs •¦ n d fqiabbliS f . r ^ i ? fu ' u ..- « in tkv Xr . ional Ch ^ r ^ tr Ass ; cation , it -sras rssolved tc ss ~ moas TKI . ES GKEAT COSFi ; RE > CLS . U »? C ' 'virs . l ibat each conferee ? do c-. 'Uiist . of d ^ I * rates frum esch locality , th »; ncrnbtr of dt > j * -. tr 3 to be T-fLm :. ' ~ l z-c-rcing to the rcsoarce of the localities . s :-. d - ; ach fielagate tobs a nieinber of the General Coaiici :. rns Fissr coxfesence w ^ l * n mra-r ; oT : ? d to meet in -danehes ty on ths 36 : h day cf AT 2 gust . THE SECOSD -COrFEar ^ CS ¦ will 1 e snmniDnt-d to meet 5 n London on ths p ? £ Ss 2 tati ^ s of the ri&i : ocal Memorial to the Q , ac-en .
T THIEJ ) CQSFSS . SJCE will be £ 322 sioDed to meet in BiminrLiin-POLITICAL PE-ISONESSTheExecatiTe ate . fr < Tn the general snii- ' . aTince of the country , -nd inf ^ rE-ttlon rcceiyt-i , fisy natUSed that ihe coTcrain--r . t h-Ta resolveil to prcsteat * , arr ^ t , and imprison tLe le& =. itrs of ths mcTfcir .-nt on tha leaaioppor ^ r . jtj-be ing igbrded them . TLe Es-ic- j tivt thrjfefi-i- » 5- csa : ' im the me ~ . bt ? s of the A ^^ ciaticn agai £ t tb- _ i . lcption of ar . y sscret plans of re .--: st £ inca to
Eno 3 < _ v » sstfc- ^ T ; ( iiic < niii » 3 DiEC 5 ill rscomise ^ iiatio . ' i to tht- xue of ph ; eLcsI force . S = Tesil cf tiiu tieiub ^ rs have h ; c-n ains . £ y arrssttd r _ r . d iniprL'O ^ ed , an : t the Erecutiv . -.- tbercf-jre recommend a levy to b-j n ; sir" ^ oar ; each n ; £ s = r-ber-c : ona p * nny , to be paiti at two d : S \ rsi . r tinies ; rbe -srsc-la amount « j collected to be c- "cd tse Ifitioasl Yictia-. Fund , and to be applisd to the >? opf ort cS . ihe fiiii '; ies cf all poliiicsl prfscsers , £ nd n ; r . r ^ eypeciilly to xbs xrjaiatesaiice of tLe famUK of ihfi tsiied £ &txicts . a = d of ihe = 3 ij < ier « i Clajton snd Holbsrrv . The CcEcil are , therefore , Called upon to adopt this ^ rithont delay , and to fortrard the aisonnt to the geceral Treasurer , Mr . John Cleave , rpedslly nx-c tijning the purpose for -which it is Bent , -co that distinct accounts raay be preserved .
FJIOST , WJiLIJ-i-JS , A > Z » JO > "ES . The Executive most earnesUy call npon the CQsmbers oftbfi Kational Chsitez As * oeb » ion to bring the Bat terings of the exiles and their nnprotected feailiea unstaatly before the notice of the people , and at aH pubiie meetings te testify thdr sympathy for the » , not only by &s U 3 ual votrB , but liieTri ^ by peCTniary -eoBtiibatioe * . IHJB XiTIOSAL EEM 05 STHASC 2 XO IHB H 0 DSB--OP C 031 H 0 SS .
Eith locality is requested to prepare their remon-Ktrance * , to attach the Chairman ' s nams to each akeet , cud farstri the same imniediateJy to I . & Itancombe , *•?• , Sie Albany , l 3 n-Jon ( 111 S >' -iT » ON-J . X MEM 0 BIAX . The date fixed for the presentation of ths memorial is Monday , Ssptembor Jivh . On that occasion , a great proc « -idon -fffll aceoapaBy tbe memorial to tht Qaeen ' Palace ; ami as the iondan membfra b&ie u- * tual expecos attendant upon the prcsectat : cn of the Xational PrtJnoxs , it u recommended that tu « country Uod « imytiieexpeBC 9 &tter . d 2 Et epea tbe pn-senat'on cf ths memorial . Ths Eiccctivs tbertf- ^ re reMm-
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meud ^ cblocaUty to forward , one fortnight previous to the presentation , subscriptions , not lesi than fire shillings , to tha General Treasurer , particularly stating the object fer -which the money is to be expended .
LECTCBERS . Tha Executive took into their Berious consideration the numerous complaints -which have bsen niade concerning tke present loose and unsatisfactory manner in which lecturers are appointed . " They are apprehensive of the danger to be incurred ahould unknown and unqualified men ba recognised as belonging to , and holding responsible offices in , the National Charter Association , and have therefore recommended that in futara no person ought to be received as & Chartist lecturer ; who does not bear with him a clear end satisfactory appointment to that office , issued b 7 the General Cyancil , and signed by the leading members of the locality in -which he has leaded , and -where bis character and principles are best knoTTn . It -was also resolved , that the General Council , after the nomination of lecturers , do forward a list of the appointed lecturers fcr publication , and to enable the Execnti ? e to choose from the wiiole men , to agitate the
UNORGANIZED DISTBICTS . For ¦ which purpose an agitating fund hbonld be established , by devoting the proceeds of one lecture , ball , . or soiree for that especial purpose , every Chartis ; lending his gratuitous aid for that important end .
THE CHARTIST PRESS . The Executive are BDxious that every encouragement and support be given to the organs of tbe movement , and that the Star , the Stalesman , the Trumpet of Wales , and every other publication inserting our documents and advocating our principles , should be read and circulated . The smaller organs have invariably been allowed to die , ar . d it is trtth regret that the Executive perceive that the English Chartist Circular is almofit about to
expire for vrant of dne enconragfemaui to snch a tai « ntfcd , cheap , ar . a instructive sheet . It is important , ihar . a halfpenny publication should belong to onr movement , jf it -were for no other purpose than to enable the poorest to read , and the richer to purchase it , and circulate , by an e « sy medium , the principles of tbe Peopled Charter . The Executive therefore call upon the Council and the members to aid them in upholding this the smalle&t av . d cbeapset of our Chartist papers , iiot on " : y on account of its merit , but of its utility to the csnsc .
STATE OF THE CoC . VTRT . The Executive have seriously deliberated upon the distress of the peopie , and deplore tha absence of the S-offrage , -which cou ! d so speedily exchange ccnJort for poverty , plenty for starvation , and freedom for sub-Taissios . They do cot sea any just or viso remedy in violence cr insurrection , dither do they k-i -wisdom in uncomplaining obfediecce and servile silence . Therefore they are prepared to le ^ onuniad peaceful and constitutional
CXTEKI 0 H JIEAStJEES , as soon as they have gained the legal opinion of an eminent barrister , at the bead of the movement , -whose judgment -will not be biassed by tie fear of government , But vrheso opinion -will be tempered by anxiety for the success of the cause , and cara for the safety of the peopie , the leaders and tbe Chaittr . The Espcntive will , therefore , be prepared to recommend T 2-ar . Txic 3 of peaceful resistance t « the assembled conferences of the Association , -where they -will have the binen : of the opinions of the leading councillors of the National Charter Aassociation .
FINANCE . The Executive proceeded to examine the accounts of the Secretary , and discovered that every debt of the old Executive vraa dtfrayed , and that a considerable sum v » as clue to tbe present body for cards . It is to be hoped that the Executive of the present t > o < iy -will taeet -with the same support , and on the termination of tceir annual term of office , have as Itttle reason for complaint . The strength of the Executive lies in the command of funds , and their weak-Eeas consists in not being supported ; but the expeiierce of the psst afiords no reason for apprehension in the future ; and tbe present body throw themselves entirely upon the judgment of a people who -will hsTi ; sagacity enough to protect and Buppoit them in the performance of a duty bo sacred and responsible . Joh . v Campbell . Sec .
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THE MIDDLE GLASS MOVEMENT AND THE B . IGHT MODE OF TREATING IT . Nothing can be mcra important than that the people should rightly understand and duly appreciate the disposition novr manifested by a portion of tbe middle classes to raise an outcry for extended , Eufrrage . W © ate quite a-waxe that by some ( it may be honest-minded bat we must thick shortsighted ) Chartists , we have been thoDght a little too sceptical of the intentions , and too suspicious of the motives , of the new-fledged middle class " Giariists-in-prhjciple-bnt-not-in-naine . " It is argued by some that the character of the middle " classes is not now what it was ten or twenty , nor even what it was five or seven years ago ; that
whereas they were then mjirersally opposed to the granting of the people ' s light ? , many of them , now , adsu that the people have rights , and ought not to be dispossessed of them ; that this is to be regarded as a step in the r ; $ hi course—as an advance tovrards ths recognition of jast principles , and that those advances should by no means be repelled , bat , on the contrary , encouraged ; that we have nothing to do with their motives ; that their sincerity
or insincerity is of no moment to us ; that it matters not whether they moan good to us or whether they only mean good to themselves through our i&strumenialiiy ; that our business is to accept their advances and preffered aid in a frank and friendly spirit—to give them credit for good intentions while their act 3 tend manifestly to our good , and to reciprocate such acts by every moans in our porrer that involves no compromise of principle ; shewing ourselves as disposed to conciliate as to lie confii-ia-rr-d .
Now , we arc as ready as any not merely to admi : but . t-o in : ! st that wheneTer their acts tend manifestly to our good , these acts—no matter what may have b ^ en their motive—shonld be reciprocated and encouraged . We merely wish the people to make themselves quite sure , before they Sv into the arms of those who profess themselves almost persuaded to be Chartists , that their acts do tend manifestly to our good . We have not yf t been abb to satisfy ourselves that any of the many " new moves ? , which have successively enjoyed the sunshine of middle-class countenance , has either had or been in-ended to have this tendency . We see nothing in the character asd conduct of the middle classes now
that doesnotdegignate them clearly as thesame selfish , Krcrpfsg , crafty , cowardly , dishonest politicians and sociviarians that they hare ever been . It certainly 13 not ia such details of injustice , and oppressior ., and wickedness , £ 3 abound in our present paper , and in every honest Teeord of passing eTcuts j it is not ia the locking up of the . wnite slaves by the Whig iai ] lovraers cf Bingley , lest they should hear the truth respecting the cause of their degradation , at the late visit of O'Con . ^ oji to that town ; it is not in the compelling by the master coal and ironstone miners
in Scotland , of their men to sign a new code of rules—the- very first of which is , that they s ) all not , luting the time of their engagement , attend any meeting , by eight or bj day , above ground or balow ground , and especially tb . 0 QeetiS £ 3 of the " Caal Miner ' s Association , " besides plundering their labour through the medium of fraudulent weights , against which the poor fellows are now petitioning it is cot ia the brutally abasing and discharging ' from his employment of a good man for attending poor Holbesbt ' b funeral ; it is not ia the thousand different forma under which the infamous truck system of robbery manifests itself thronghont the » hole of the manufacturing and mining districts ; U
is notm the iieartlessness with which the poor tgricultural ^ ooKis Ideoejed from -their own districts during the transient jampaBcy of an inereased foreign trade" by lying promises for th , sake of keeping down wages ) are now left to die of famine ; it is not to tbe devotion , at a single breakfast , of nearly £ 2 fioo to the carrying of zevrds abroad while their next door neighbours are dying- of hanger and robbing swill tuba for ood ; it is not in their recent exhibitions of sympathy with us as jury-men , when onr best men were , by shoals , committed to the dungeon's gloom for the assertion of our principles ; it is not in the judicial murder of Clayton and Holberry 3 tho all bat aurder of Duffy and Hoey , and
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the now slowly perpetrating murder of . Poddie and Brook , through the malignity of middle class jurors ; it is not ia their utter refusal to co-operate with as ia demanding the recall of the nDJnstly and illegally expatriated Welch patriots ; it is not in the sufferings of the savagely and oowardly percecufced i and unjustly convicted and expatriated , victims of their own riot in the bullring at Birmingham ; it is not to
any of these prominent marks of middle olasa character , nor yet to their more recent evidence of sympathy in thecase of &f ason and his Chartist brethren at Stafford , that we can look for any . amelioration of the character which appertained to them in years gone by . It may be that our vision is beclouded , but to us , they wear the same aspect of dogged , unreasoning , and unreasonable , sordid selfishness as they have ever done .
Well , bDfc " va 3 t numbers of them" dow , not only recognise us as an integral and important part of the body politic , but they have actually , in some instances , paid court to us !" If this had been a new point in their character , we might probably have been . more easily deceived by it ; but we are old enough to remember that this is not the first occasion on which these parties , — -not simply the middle class of that day , bat the middle class ot thi 3 day—have thought it necessary , for the attainment of their own objects , " not only to recognise us as an integral and important part of tbe
body politic , but actually to pay court to ns" ; and , knowing this , we are the less disposed to give them credit for any purpose now but that of again playing the same game . While , therefore , we , as well as the advocates of the middle class suffragists , " should deem ourselves criminal in the sight of the people , and traitors to the cause , if fre offered them any the slightest obstruction , when disposedno matter from what cause^—to give a helping hand towards carrying the Charter " , we wish , before
lending ourselves to them as tools ia their bauds , to know that they are giving a helping hand towards carrying the Charter j and that they are not , while amusing us with talk about the Charter , securing our help for the carrying of their own '' free trade " and "extension" projects , by the attainment of which our bonds would be rivetted more firmly , our poverty and degradation made more appalling , and the carrying of the Chartor indefinitely postponed .
We have never offered them any obstruction . We have never recommended that the slightest obstruction should be offered to them . We have never repelled any one of their advances in the right course . On the contrary , we have given them every encouragement in our power . Wo have continually laboured to show them that their real interests wero effectnally bound up with ours , and have invittd them to join the people in demanding that universal right which must , eventually , issue in universal good . We have been always most anxious to see the middle
classes join the people , and nothing could have given us bo much pleasure as the consummation of this great good ; but we see a great difference between accepting tne aid of the middle classes and suffering ourselves to he used by the middle classes ; and hence we have been just as careful to avoid the latter as to obtain the former . For this reason we have watched always , and watched narrowly , the movements of these middle class gentry . We knew that no jot of the full measure which was the object of our righteous contention could be abated " without a compromise of
principle , " and that therefore if any honest coalition took place between us and the middle classes , it must be by their coming to ns , and not by our going to them . Thi 3 has always been our dactrine of "conciliation . " We know nothing of any "disposition to conciliate " which could induce us to give up on *) tittle of our full principles , or to Blacken one breath of the fulness of our demand for right . Hence our continual warning of the people , against the "Ballot , " the "Foreign Policy , " the "Household Suffrage , " tho "Short Parliaments , " the "Education
Suffrage , " the "Repeal of the Corn Law * , " the " Repeal of the Poor Law , " the " Manhood Suffrage , " the "Universal Suffrage , without , details , " and all the other crack moves of the middle class men , whether Whig or Tory . Wo have sung always one song . We have Baid to the people , " Keep where you are ; stir not an inch ; and when they see that they can't fetch' you , they will come to you .- " The event has justified us . The very same parties who have successively tried all these moves have taken the last position prior to an amalgamation with the people . They have admitted all
the principles for which we contend ; but they still stickle , and would still divide us on tbe paltry matters of inferior details—of leadership—and of a designation . This is , to us , evidence of insincerity ; and we must see better reasons for it than we have yet seen from its warmest advocates , before we can consent to regard it otherwise . But it is said that their recognition of our principles , whether sincere or not , tends to the enhancement and confirmation of those principles ; and must , therefore , however it may have been intended , be a great good , if we don ' t prevent it . Just so . And this is just
what we have always said ; the very doctrine first preached , and often repeated by us on this subject . Immediately on our learning that the Complete SuiFragijt 3 had admitted all our principles , but yet refused to make common cause with us , we at once stated the opinion which we now repeat , that the conference men had proved to a demonstration their own insincerity , aud that the people ought not by any means to unite with them ; while at the same time we most strongly warned them against
offering any opposition to the new-formed "National " Complete Suffrage Union ; but exhorted them , on the contrary to protect and assist them on all occasions of their public assertion of our principles . Incur leading article of tho 16 th of April , which we wish every Chartist would again read , after reasoning the whole questicm and proving the insincerity of the new " new-znovers , " we gave oar opinion to the people in terms which we now repeat , having carefully reviewed and seeing no reason to repudiate them : ¦—
M The people shoald have nothing to do with them . They should leave them alone in their littleness , and laugh at them . The people must not oppose them , for tkey profesB to . be seeking the . advancement of our principles ; let them , therefore , go on their own way ; and if they are determined to go alone—if they are determined ; 'to make a foot-road for themselves alongside the people's turnpike , in God ' s name , let them walk on it until their accles ache , and they begiu to feel their loneliness ; but support them against the factions in all their assertions of the great principles of liberty .
If they should be weak enough to take the open field in defence of our principla ? , relying on their own strength , rush to the rescue , lest the enemy should overcome them ; let them not , by any means ' be beaten by the open and avowed advocates of class legislation : on every public occasion when , the Complete Suffragites muster for the assertion of our common principles , there let the Chartists muster with them to a man ; let there be no such division in our ranks as tha enemy can take advantage of ; let them be well protected , and by our assistance made triumphant , in en'ry public assertion of oar principles which they masv attempt ; bat ffewr Ieato them
without letting the \ iJ . know / to / ' ^ hpijii' ^ ibey ' . ^ ar e indebted ; neverleavt a meeting without a . resolu tion pledging the people to their old leaders bo long as these remain faithful , to their trietf friends , who have br&Yed tha battle aiu I the breez ^ j to their own national organisation , whia h they know to be legal and efficient , and to the evidence of Bmoerity to tho cause by enrolment in the 1 National Charter Association . This is the advice wo ffive the people ; wo give it in all sincerity and earne . stness ; and we tell them , that if it be not heeded , \ bey are likely to have bitter and abundant reasons for repentance . We wish to recall attention to this advice , and to intreat the people never to losesi ^ t of it . We do
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so the more particularly , because we hear that during the past week a meeting of Complete Suffragists at Bristol , was disturbed and opposed by Chartists . If this was so , it was very wrong . It was affording , so far as it went , just . . ' cause for the very complaints of intolerance and violence 'which the Complete Suffragists urge as a pretext for dividing the strength of bur common body by refusing to unite with us . Again we say , " the people must kot oppose them . " They profess to assert and advocate cur principles ; and when they meet for that purpose , as seems to have been the case at
Bristol , they should surely bo allowed to do so peaceably , and in ' -their own way , The duty of Chartists in reference to the Complete Suffrage union is very clear . It is their duty , while they carefully avoid joining or in any way actively assisting the union , to avoid , as carefully , the offering of any opposition or annoyance to thern . Attend all their meetings ; and , so long as they assert without compromising our principles , take no part in their meetings ; leave them to do their own work ,
unaided , but unmolested ; but if any compromise be attempted—any shirking or burking of any of our great questions , or any making of them subservient to " Free Trade , " or "Corn Law Repeal , " or " Poor Law Repeal , ' or any other isolated matter—or if either Whigs or Tories take the field in opposition to the Complete Suffragists , then let the Chartists do their duty ; let every other consideration merge in the great consideration of the assertion and upholding of the glorious principles of Chartism .
This is the only way in which the Charter movement of the middle classes can bo made to subserve the interests of our cause . Let the Chartists thus act , and , if the middle class bo sincere in their'movement , they will soon discover their own weakness and the absolute necessity of laying aside their fastidiousness and coming to the people ; that they may have power to attain their object ; if they be insincere , they will be fast nailed to the pillory of their own shamoj and compelled either to exhibit their true character , or to go on aiding the work of righteousness against their will . In either case , the people will thus make the most Of tho middle class movement , by merely adopting the right mode of treating it .
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extremely valuable . We shall-try , some day , to place it before the public in alight Mr . Mabshale little thonght of when he gave it ! In the mean ¦ . ' , ' time we just barely mention the fact that tiie list , as given in by Mabshall himself , gives an average _ of 6 s . ll ^ d . per week for the whole " hands " , he ' -: employs !! 3 ^—and that 16 s . 7 Jil . is the utmost average he pays to 'Vhan ^ s" of twenty-one years of age and upwards ! Just mentioning this fact , and Just < reminding the reader that this man , who contended before tho Committee that his men-^^
weavers , ( who he showed were only receiving 10 s . . fid . ' per week !! t ! for a whole week's work , ) were " exceedingly well off" . 'that '' their wages were as high then as during : the war ; and that , as provisions were much cheapened , their wages would produce to them more comforfcV I ; jost reminding the reader that the man -who thus " evidenced"had then bagged for himself upwards of two millions of money , we leave the subject for the present . " Some day or other we shall have a pretty expose in connection with it . ] V : V
To accomplish their object—the forcing the Tory Alinister either to give them " Repeal " or to quit office , the " Extension" men have .-j what they call a Conference now sitting in i London . This Conference is composed of parties selected by the . members of the anti-Corn Law League . When , this move was determined bn t it wa . 9 also determined to get ; the Shopkeeping class to squeak- . -put , so as : to frighten Peel , ' ; if possible ,, into the demanda of the confederated Exten-£ ionis " ts . ' Ready tools were set to work ; and ^ under
the pretext of ^ serving no party i" " havingnothing to do with politics , " pointing out no remedy , ' * they succeeded , in one or two instances , to get the shopkeepers to give mouth . Leeds was one instance . Before that meeting some of its eonedctors had depar ted for London , to sit on the " Conference "; and after the meeting others of them , who had merely been left behind to do the " humbugging" portion of the business (" no politics I ") joined their colleagues , and used the Squeak so as to forward the ends of the " no polities ' - Corn Law Repealing gentry IS
In-another portion of our paper will be found a . paragraph descriptive of an interview tho confede- *' rated humbugs have had with the Minister . THERE they : used the Shopkeepers' Sqhealcs in accordance , with their present cue ; and although the poor brokenspirited humble TiLL-ocracy " coald '¦ ¦ ' not presamoio point out a remedy , " ¦ ' ' ¦ the dextrous pullers of the wires that set the "humble" ones a-dancing , took care to represent it as " their belief that a Repeal off \ the Corn Laws was-the only means of relief "J !! j ( 01 how well the " no politics" dodge answers !) Disappointment was the result of this interview ; for they found that Peel too ¦? SYMPATHISED " with the distress occasioned by " Extensions of Com- -, merce" ! and tbey determined to " continue their .- ! sittings , and to use every constitutional [ of ^ courseJ means for the attainment of their objeot . " .
Now then , for the " CoNSTmrrioNAL Means '' the confederated Extension men . In their organ , the Sun , of Thursday , July 7 th , we find the fpU lowing . ;— .. ; " ¦ . . . . . ; ' ¦ .. ¦ ¦; , ' - .. ¦ ¦ : ¦ ¦ " . :. . ' - .. ¦'¦ ¦ | ¦ " The proceeclings yesterday at the ariti-Com Law f Conference speak for themselve ? . Gentlemen who-DECLARED THEF WILL PAir NO TAXES TfLt THE CORN LAW BE REPEALED , were vociferously cheered . The recital ' that workmen have said .-it was riot words would move Parliament , but force , and they would have it if they did not change their 1 system / was beard with no disapprobation . ¦; In the
manufacturing districts men declare that' no good can be done until they riot , ' and in the metropolis the information is received with approbation . To-day and to-morrow it will be spread ; throughout the empire , and ( Ac ' ideas ofrising , of ' noting , and ofrefusingtopaytaxes , will be presented at one and the same time to many thousand persons . The sanctity , once belonging to the law , which prevented such conceptions , ta at an end ; the minds of the peoplei are becoming familiarised with the idea of REStstAKCEt and , If their misery b 9 not relieved , It'wli not be ibag before corresponding DEEDS wit . ! spring BKOJI THE IDEA . T " . /¦ ' ' ... . - . ¦ ¦ ¦' :. ¦;¦ '¦ [¦ ^ ¦ - \ ' ; - : ¦ '¦ ¦ . - ' . I ' . ' - -:- :- - . ¦ .- -1
.. ' " In common with many , members of the Conference , and with the memorialists tcoin Hinckley , we have become convinced that it ia useless to place before the Parliament and the aristocracy evidence of the Bufferings of the people . Politicians rejoice ttoi the nhrnly Workmen of the manufacturing . ' . towns : are tamed Into , obedience by ^; 'banger . ^ j bigots exdlt that th « natf pagan , > half fres-thinking towns-people are for their sins visited by a judgment vrnich . th ' reatens annihilation . To bigots and politicians , pictures of distress in the manofacturihg diatricts are not ciisagmable ; and vre will not contribute to their p ! eas » : e by repeating them . We turn 1 rather to Mr . Taunton ' s speech , who said-r I
• " It appeared to him that the time was past for talking . The time was COME to DO something , and 'he "would tell them what ' :. to do—^ cheers . ) : He . thought'tliey [ ought ' to proceed : at onci to appoint a Co . M ^ 1 UTXEE- OF PUBLIC SAFETY IN THE METROPpLJS , and induce every delegate from the country to pour in such factsfas would organise such a body of public opinion as would Gr&ate the utmost odium against those . > in power , and COMPEL them to ' - ' TrEiiDi ' . " . '• ¦ "•'• . Famous"Constituhonai . MSans , " gentlemen ! Ex- "';¦
cellent ! Mo 3 C excellent !! One could almost fancy we were reading ona of the " Constitutionai " speeches of the Refoum time ! - . ' . " Pat no more . \ taxes" 1 "Risiag" . m RroxiNG " . "Committee : op . public Safety" I "COMPEL them to yield" ! . ¦' . Q--T ? hai . '*' ' t > ona ? i ^ Wionorm ' eah 3 '; M- '' -W-herd- ; " .: was the Queen Groaner ? He ought to have been present . Ilis absence is unpardonable ! There only wanted his one ingredient to make * the budget of ¦ - .- il Cottstituiional means" perfebt .- !'" . ; Where , O where ! wasgroauing NhddyI v ;
Reader f look ; over the extract from the Sun once more . Repress the almost overflowing : indignation that arises from things are . said and done by a set of the most cowardly and most selfish miscreants the light of day ever shone upon ; aud said and done for tho purpose of completely and utterly KDJNiNG the nation that they may have an opportunity of picking up the spoil . Repress the choking indignation that the remembrance of this fact calls up , and contemplate for a moment , their ludicrous phrunzy . aud pitiable antics . Remember that the vapouring detailed by the jSmw . is mouthed out by a . party who
dare not call a public meeting in any part of England in support of their measure of relief . ' Remember that all the abovo-reported froth proceeds from those who are obliged to skulk into holes and corners to do their business ; to * ' humbug" and deceive even the Shopkeeping class with their " no politics 7 ' dodge ; to : hire men to sign their petitions , with vamped up . : name 9 , by thousands : ¦;' . to send their prowling hireling lecturers over the country , to per-, V suade the people ( where they can meet with any that will listen ) that another Extensiob of Comm 8 rce will do a // good : remember that the proposals and threatsof '" ' not pay ing taxes "; of' ! rising "; of " rioting "; of ^'¦ •? DEEDS springing from the idea of resistance" ; remember that these threats come from a paity who are scouted from the public gaza the " ¦¦¦' ¦ ¦
moment they show themselves t ; The very / day after the above exhibition had ^ been made ini / " Conference , ^ they determined to try , in an / outiofthe way place , the : pubiic mind ; and accordingly - appeared before a portion of them : as " SYMPA- TlilSERS" with public disiresa . Let the reader ^ refer to thereport of the proceedings on that ocoa- ; sioo . Hevwili find it in tho Jfirst cbluma of tha second page of our prestBt Bheeti . He will find too , that the whole herd were routed , scouted , diuv £ & from public gaze 1 Pretty fellows these to taJkvof . "' rising ? ' 1 of " rioting" ! of " d ^ da" 7 of a "Committee sf Publio Safety" ! Moderate your tempers , gentlemen % ! Persuade yonr passion 1 pray do , now . •* Do not TEAtt took shibtI" Take it coolly 1 > " ¦ Drawit mild ! l " - ¦ ¦' :, ' : ; . ' ' .: ' . '' " ' ' ¦ ' : . : "' . .-. ¦ : . ¦ ^
Ah ! butAwhen is the " rising ? ' and the " rioting ? ± to take place ? When is the ** Committee of Pubiiaif Safety" to be appointed 1 And wfto are they ion ? savei 1 Letns knowthesethings , prettygentlemen ! : We will find you a band that shali satw'Ayonl ^ rom ^ a even attemping to pat yonr vaponring threatfrinto execution ! Will your " rtsth ^ i" and jaar ^^ dHTigtP s } be , like your meetings , in holes and oorneta ? , Will , a you venture to come forth oat of your hiding olaeftA / nn If you do j the Charti 8 t army shall keep you saYe' * , 7 enough ! . ;¦' .: ;¦ . •' . " :,: ' : '¦ ..:. . ¦¦ ; ¦ , ¦¦; - : '¦ ' : ^ -:: - : ^ - . -
¦¦ Brompton. -- On Tnesaay Evening, Considerable Ioj3l '≫[ Business Connected With The Ensuing Bau-And Concert,
¦¦ Brompton . -- On Tnesaay evening , considerable Ioj 3 l '>[ business connected with the ensuing baU-and concert ,
was transacted ; the no of sixpence pet week ¦ . ¦ & »' ; voted to the wit « s of , ^ he SUffotOBhire ^^ violins . _^ Committee appointed to draw up the statemant iregaVd' 'V ing Mr . Stallwood reported , and -were ordered tbsend 1 ¦ it to the Northern Star and British 5 toton » a « for insertion . Tnia locality will meet on the ensuing Tneaiiay evenings ( until'they have procured a suitable lecture room ) at Mr . Wright's , the Eagle . North-street , Newroad , Chelsea . ... ¦ '• . - . ¦¦' . ¦ ¦ •";' . - . ¦'¦¦"¦ ' - ;' ' ""¦ ¦ ' ¦ '¦ : ; ¦ ¦ " - . ' ¦
The Northern Star. Saturday, July 16,1842.
THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , JULY 16 , 1842 .
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THE NEW EXECUTIVE AND THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION . We direct attention to a letter from tho Hull members of the General Council upon this important subject , and also to the first official document of the New Executive , which we now publish . Both these docutaents are important , and deserving of attention . We are glad to see the New Executive awake to the importance of their position and the critical character of ' the times , as evidenced by the following extract : —
" The Executive , are , from the ge : ierav appearance of the country , and information received , fully satisfied that the Government have resolved to prosecute , arrest , and imprison tbe leaders of the movement on the least opportunity being afforded them . The Executive , therefore , caution the memb rs of the Associatiou against the adoption of any secret plans of resistance , and ndvise them to discountenance all recommendations to the use ef physical force . "
We know that the Executive have good reason for their apprehensions ; and while we rejoice to see that the brave : fellows who lead on the people are not a whit daunted by the prospect , but , maugre the " example ^* ke Pore them of Frost , Williams and Jones , Clayton , Holberry , Brcok and Peddio , still " hurl "defiance at the tyrants'heads , " we should be ill performing lour duty , did we hot give sHch timely and necessary counsel as may tend , if heeded by the people , to make abortive all the efforts of the people ' s foes . And hence our prayer that the well-timed caution of the Hull councillors may be attended to . Our
organization in its present state is perfectly legal , and should be perfectly adhered to . Wo havenqfear of the people being led , by tho rascally spies of the Government , into physical outbreak . They have had enough of that . But we cannot shut our eyes to the fact , that the Tory lawa agalnut political societies—so long and so carefully preserved by Whig conservatorsare yet upon the statute book , and that the same party by whom they were enacted , to put down the riBing spirit of democracy , are now in power ; and we dofeel , therefore , that if our organization be not strictly and perfectly adhered to—which it certainly
is not , at prosent—a handle will bo given to the enemy , of whioh they will not fail to lay hold . We purpose next week , if all be well , to call attention to this subject at some length . We shall reprint the plan of organization , and probably some of the comments we made upon it at its first promulgation in the amended form . We Bhall point the attention of various localities to practices existing among them , in direct contravention of its provisions , and show thorn what might bo the consequence . We shall endeavour to give plain and clear
directions to the GeneralCounoil , to the BUb- $ eQretaries , to the Executive Committee , and to the General Secretary ; pointing out the respective duties of all these parties . We shall give all necessary information to the members for the conducting of the election and nomination of their officers , so as to escape any legal hazard ; and show hoW , spite of all the cunning of the factions , the whole society may with the aid of a national organ , bo made to work harmoniously and simultaneously as a national body while every locality shall havo all the briskuess and impetus of resident self government and local
exern . This , in tho present state of the law , is not an easy thing to be so done as to bid defiance to an Attorney-General ; but it may be done ; and therefore it , by all means ^ should be done . Wo never acquit ourselves of duty by encountering needless danger . Meantime , we entreat the Chartist body to beware of any tampering with their organisation . Restless spirits must be ever meddling , and it is not unlikely that in reference to the " Conferences" recom mended to be called by the Executive , mention may
be made by some parties of certain alteration !} in the plan which they may fancy would work more efficiently and morei Bystematically . The people must bear in mind that the question is not whether a better plan than the present one could be devised 1 but whether any better plan bo , safely practicable in the present etate of the law ? We say unhesitatingly "No , " tho amendment of the plan was the result of the most anxious , careful * and painsful consideration of tho whole question , by a large body of intelligent men , selected from the whole nation for the purpose , and having before
them every Act of Parliament bearing on the Biibject . Let the people be assured that the plan can ot be again amended , ^ as to any of its main provisions , for active operation without spoiling it . We are anxious to see it in full operation ; and as our Hull friends say . adhered to , to the very letter ; and hence We should give our individual voice against even , the trifling alteration suggested by the Executive : namely * the alteration of the period of election from March and April , to June and July . We hope that the next election of the General Council will be made all throagh the country at , the proper time , and in due form , as both are specified in the organtzation , and that the election of the Executive will also be taken at the proper time . The members of the present
Executive have had the best proof they could have of the people ' s confidence in the fact of the re-election of four of them , after their fonner period of servioe ; there can be littlei doubt that their services hereafter witt be . eqlially estimaWe to , and estimated by . the people with thei * saryices heretofore ; and there can , therefore , be no reason why they should not Bubmit themselves to re-election at the proper period , though a full twelvemonth may not have expired since their last re-election ; the more particularly ; as it will be a twelvemonth since the time when the last election ought to have taken plaoe . There is , to be sure , one member of the present Executive newly eleoted ; and who will not therefore have had his year of office ; but we know that member tPO well to Jtuppow that he Will
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not be glad to cff > rd proof of his thorough attachment to the democratic principle by making personal consideration at once bend to public consistency . Let us not be accused of * ' denouncing" the Executive . We have an opinion on the : matter ; we have a right to state that opinion ; and there it is . Every other member has an equal right to have his opinion ; and we only wish our ^ s to be taken for as much as it is worth . It is quite competent for the
people to make the alteration the Executive wish ; but itcan only be done properly and legally in one of two ways—either by a general ballot , as in the election of ^ the Executive , or by- a National Delegate Meeting . It is certaiuly not worth the expence of a National Delegate Meeting : and a general Ballot would be jast the game trouble and expence as reeiacting : tho Executive at the right time ; so that nothing would be gained by that , save a perfectly useless alteration , merely for the sake of change .
With respect to tho "three great Conferences " proposed to be called by the Executive , we really think that in the present depressed state of the country the people ought to have more information as to the necessity for these Conferences than we have yet seen , before they are put to so tremendous an expence . It i 3 a very easy thing to talk of summoning NATrONAL Conferences ; but the poor people , who have the money to find , and upon whom there are just now so many , many drags , ought . to be well satisfied of the absolute nucossity for them before
they agree to them . Our own opinion is , that there is no necessity at all for these Conferences " . '•; at least we have not yet seen any . If the plan of the National Charter Association be duly acted on , the Executive can obtain the opinions of all its members upon any subject much more effectually by proposing the subject to their consideration , and requesting a general vote upon it , than by tho much more expensive , and much less general expression of opinion , which might be obtained from a National Delegate Meeting ; because id the former case all could vote , and consequently all opinions
would be expressed ; whereas in the latter case , very many localities being prevented , by distance aad expence , from sending delegates , would be utterly unrepresented . We trust , therefore , that if the necessity for these three conferences be apparent to the Executive , they will make it apparent to the people before calling them , and that if by any means the expense can ' - 'be avoided it may be ; that so the people may be all the better
prepared to uphold the hands of the Executive with funds for lecturiug , publishing , and other absolutely necestary purposes . We cordially reciprocate their opinion , that" the strength of the Executive lies in the command of funds , and their weakness consists in not being supported . " We trust to see thorn much better supported in this way than thoy have ever yet been ; and for that reason we are very anxious that the resources of the people should not bo subjected to needless drains .
In concluding our remarks , we again beg that the spirit of them may not be either misconstrued or misrepresented . The last Executive , in their valedictory addrors , admitted their public document to be fit subjects for observation and comment . We hope the present Executive will not find anything here than fair comment in the-few observations we have thought it our duty to make on this their first publio document .
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THE "EXTENSION OF COMMERCE " GENTRY . THEIR CONFERENCE . THE LATE MEETING OF THE LEEDS SHOPKEEPERS . "NO POLITICS" ! The " Extension" mem of Leeds are sorely provoked at the remarks we thought proper to make upon the recent meeting of the Leeds shopkeepers ; and more particularly that portion of them where we stripped the '' no politics" portion of the concoctors' humbug of its very thin and awkwardly contrived veil . They cannot disguise their chagrin . It peeps out , notwithstanding all the attempts of Mother Goose to smother and hide '' it .
It was an adroit attempt on the part of the "Extension men" to turn to their own selfish account th 9 very distress and privation they have themselves caused ! and there is no wonder at their grief and rage at being foiled . " Extensions of Commerce" have done their work They have reduced the working portion of the population to starvation aud death ! and they have brought the middling , the shopkeeping , class to
beggary and rain . But while they have done this , they have given MILLIONS and "HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS" to our Marshalls and our GoTTS ; our Peels , our Arkwrights , our Strutts , bur Boultons , our Grants , our Smiths , our Gregs , our Cobdens , our Dvers , our Walkers , and our Dhnns . ThoHgh they have yeilded such bitter fruit to two ; entire classes of the community , the above-named individuals and a few others have
made " a pretty penny" by thorn ! It ^ a ill wind indeed that blows nobody good : V and the interested hi" Extensions of Commerce" have raked up to themselves immense treasure from the nation's ruin ! Their Ayealth has given them powers That power they have used , and continue to use , to acquire to themselves more wealth . To do this it is necessary for them to have further " Extensions of
Commorce . " The workings oi their own system have brought their t » ade almost to a stand-atill . They have immense sums " invested " in mills and machinery . Unless these are " running " , that '' investment" makes no " return . " To find employment for their machinery , they Want " Extension of Commerce . " They have got it into their noddles that a Repeal of the Corn Laws would give them such "Extension ; " and they , therefore , use every means within the compass of their well-practised abt and
wile to procure the " Repeal . " One of their means ia to pretend to deplore tho Buffering they have occasioned ; to " SYMPATHISE" with the starving ; to counsel and advise the beggared and ruined ; and to press upon the Government the wretched state of the working and middling classes , with a view to the devisemeht of measures of relief : they taking good care that the only ' measure : brought under the notice of the Minister shall be that one they have determined to carry for their own selfish ends!—Corn Law Repeal ! I ; .
Ever ' since the dismissal of the W ; higs from office , the cue ot the Extension men has been to cry up the distress and sufforing everywhere abounding . Before that period they denied its existence ! There is lying before us , at this moment , a large " blue book '' of 7 JJ& * foliopages , crammed with" evidence" taken before the " Select Committee on Manufactures , Commerce , and Shipping , " in the yoar 1833 i That Committee examined Marshall , of Leeds , Greg , of Manchester , Lewis Lotd , . KlBKMAN Fihlay , JosHOA Bates , Henry HtOHts , John Brooke , Timothy Wiggin , Geohoede H . Labpent , and a
whole host of other millowaers and merchants ; and the whole point of their evidence was to prove that the condition ef all classes of society never was so good as at that time I that wages were as good &a they were ever known to be ; and that the workman was able ; to proqure everything that was necessary to enable him to live in comfort and " iadependence . " Then , ueyer were there such prosperous times , " was the cue ; and this continued up ti )•¦' this ! period of the Whigs being tbrustj out of power J Nowt it is with these same parties , * bankruptcy , "" rnin , **^ starvation ^ " death ? J
tBy . the'bye the blue book" just spoken of contains some queer things ' ¦'} . some T ^ BY o «« crthings . Amongst others it contains the new mode of dis-TBiBUTioM , under the millowners' eystem . To make out their then case , j ^/ r , FrospenVy Marshall , of Leeds , was imprudent enough to give to the Committee a list of the respective rales of wages he paid his mill "hands , " iverring that he had paid according to that rate for more than twenty years previously . This list enables us to Bee who has had the lion ' s Bhare of the wealth produced in Mabshall ' s mill ! . This list lets us into the secret of "MILLIONS'' of money to the ' * proprietor /' and of paltry pence to the worker I ! This list is
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