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UNION! UNION I UNION! TO THE CHARTISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN.
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THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1842. THE CAMPAIGN.
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THE LATE STRIKE , ITS CAUSES AND EFFECTS . BEI > "& THE SUBSTLKCE OP A LECTURE DELIVERED IS
LeifDON BT JOHS "WATKIKS . " Upon these taxations , The clotbisrs ill , notable to maintain The many to them 'longing ' , hare pat off The spinsters , carders , fullers , wearers , who , Unfit for other life , compell'd by hanger And lack of other means , in desperate manner Daring the eTent to the teeth , are all in uproar , And danger terrea among them . " HESBT Till . At length the crisis had arrived—it is the last drop which makes the enp overflow . The people had patiently borne slavery—the utter privation of all their rights—the cruel infliction of every wrong : thousands of them were clamming , out of work , and
those in work were receiving moat padrquate wages ; yet with the scanty pittance which nppressioi and extortion left to them , they had not only to maintain themselves , bat to maintain their aged parents , to keep them out of the bastile , that human pinfold where th » poor are put , not to feed , but to star-re , They were moreover compelled to pay towards the maintenance of those who were unable to keep out of the bastile ; and eempelled moreover to pay Church and State dues ; for the working men havs to keep both rich and poor . Guess , then , ye who have not felt it , guess the heavy load which those who labour hard had to bear ; guess what thev most h&f e felt for their families and friends ! Wei : might Parliament admire their fortitude and
forbearance j well miiiht Government express its sympathy for their sufferings ; well might the Queen go about a begging for them . The people tuough racked , body and soul to the utmost 6 tretch of endurence ; though nature was ready to sink under their torments , were patient—they were forbearing ; they exhibited a degree of magnanimity never before equalled by mortal man—never surpassed but by the Immortal gods . Prometheus smiling serene while the eternal vulture is gnawing his heart , can alone be a fit emblem of the people of England . But this was not enough . It was not enough thai the working man was wearing himself out before his time with unrequited toil , and , after labouring hard ail day in vain , was doomed to hear the
mos . zis of an heartbroken wife , and the piteous cries of children sobbing for food . Ail this was not enough . All could not melt—oould not soften—the heart " of avarice , hardening itself amid the luxuries which the poor sufferers bad earned for it . Tne millowners came to the determination to reduce the wages of their oppressed men still further , so that the most remote and uncertain chance—the merest possibiliyof a " livelihood should be cut eff , and on the gat » 3 of England , as on the gate of hell , should be written , u ~ So hope dwells here . " Patience itself was turned into passion by this . The workmen struck ;—they threw down their tools in despair;—they joiDed their unemployed brethren;—they forced the poor creatures that yet clung to their employment to ccme out with
taem ; they stopped the mills ; those busy nives of human indnstry suddenly became Btili as the house of death . The water was let off , the fires were put out ^ toil departed ; machinery slept ; every wheel was mute , wa 3 motionless . The strike commenced , but who originated it f Not the men ! Who were in reality the strikers ?—The masters ! It was the Corn Law Repealers who struck ; for , said they , if the Government will not repeal the Corn- Laws , we will rednce wages to the ccniinental level , that so we may compete with foreigners , keep up custom , and make fortunes aa tisual . Ah I thty did not think how the men were to live , who have to compete with foreigners not for fortunes , but for food . But mark the cowardly
cunning of the millowners ^ they were resolved to strike igainst Government because it would not give np the land-monopoly—they were resolved to strike , but how I Not by closing their mills as they had threatened—that was too bold , too direct a scheme ; but by an attempted reduction of wages , a plan worthy of them . They did not turn cut their m = n , bu ; they forced the mea to turn themselves out , and thus laid the responsibility on the men and the biame on Government . The rten were to be driven to ' desperation that they mijiht commit outrages which ahouid terrify Government into submission to their masiers wishes- ; but the masters reckoned without their host—without the men . The men had worked for their masters , but they resolved that they
would not fight for them—they resolved that their strike should not be a mere blow for faction—that they would not be made the mere tools of Corn Law Repealers—the j resolved to strike , not tor their masters , bat for themselves ; not for the interests of others , but for their own interests ; not for Corn Law Repeal , but for the Cnarter . Finding thai the strike was likely to extend furtier than they intended it ; that it would be a strike against themselves as against all other grinding avaricious tyrants , they would fain have got the men to . work again . But once out , they were resolved not to return without _ their rights . The time had come when God himself Beeiaed to call on them to strike , and they said , " We will . " Many of them had risen that morning from a bare floor , where they had laid down supperless to sleep away the pangs of hunger , in hope that they Ehould wake no more , or tossed with restless anxietv , had rocked their
heads the livelong night in paroxysms of menial anguish and bodily pain ; many of them had left wives , weak , pining , fleshless , groaning in spirit and praying the Lord to help them ; many of them had been kept awake through the w&tehes of the night in ceaseless vigils over dying parents starved to death , » r over children fevered by famine , trying to soothe whom they could not save ; witnessing those nearest to them expiring without medicine , without food or comfort of any kind—themselves locked in stuponr ; but they hear the shouts of the turn-outs -. —they start up ; they leave the dying and the dead ; they dash away the tear of unavailiBg woe ; they sigh no more ; they rise ; they rusn out ; the tsrrible energy of despair gives them new strength ; the hope of vengeance re-animates them with fresh vigour ; they clench their hands ; they set their teeth ; they draw a long breath , and a curse " not loud , but deep , " comes forth ; they swear they ¦ y have vengeance on their oppressors . l
Lancashire shouted ' Work no more !"—Staifordshire echoed the cry—Yorkshire reverberated iron every hill , and the cry was carried from mouth to znoHth , from town to town , from county to county ; still it rose , " Work no more ! we'll work no more 1 " ( To be concluded in our next . )
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ARRIVAL OF THE OVERLAND MAIL . I >* d ; a . The mail from India arrived in Louden on Saturday . The more detailed acconnts do not at all bear ent tb * disastrous summary previously given by the French telegraph from Marseilles , of the decimation of the British armies beyond the Indus , by heat , want of food , simooms , &c There had been sickness at the camp of Jellalabad , but the deaths were f « w , so that the " decimation" is simply a GaliiciEm . It is , however , bad enough to know that the conduct of the new head of the Indian Government , at a time when energy and perspicacity was most needed , has been marked by tbe most inexplicable caprice and indecision . That Lord EUenborough had at one time issned orders for the evacuation of Afghanistan appears now to be admitted , even by the Timtt . The Morning Chronicle , t correspondent gives the following probable version of the facts : —
" About the £ 9 th May , General Pollock received a despatch from Lord EUenborongh , directing him to return to India , if possible , immediately . Conceiving thzt by acting on these instructions the interests c « nfided to bis charge might materially suffer , he wrote to the Governor-Generef , stating his ot-jections , "which ¦ were certainly sufficiently cogent , there being far too little carriage for the transport of the troops and stores , eo ¦ wa ter on the road , and much difficulty to be apprenended in suratunting the heights of the K&ybcr at this season , should any opposition be offered . Some few days after the despatch of this letter , all the preparations which had been making for retirement were the General
postponed ; and , on Ihe 13 th June , received a reply , in -which his Lordship , though by no means countenancing the idea of a permanent stay in Afghanistan , or any scheme of ultimate conquest , or retributive hostility , gave him permission to remain until the season was favourable far return , and he Ebould have procured sufficient carriage , cattle , and stores , to intare the safe progress of his troops through the pass . Lord Ellenborongh also instructed him to Bend out detachments for the pHrpose of destroying the forts and stronghelds between Jellalabad and Juduilnck , and tfcn * displaying our power to the inhabitants of the Burroundlng Tillagei" —This account is substantially supported by the Bombay Times .
Is pursuance of the suggestion to make a show of vigour , General Pollock had detached a party to attack Peso Bolak and Lughman , Some relics of the 4 ith regiment , nearly annihilated on the Cabal retreat , were found by the soldiers of the 31 st at a place ^ iifld a ] x Bognam , and they were so exdted at tbr sight that they burned down the village . —Twentyfour soldiers of the 44 th , and a woman , were at IiOghm&n ; and their rescue was one object of the expedition . The Fort of Kbfilat-i-Ghiljne has been evacuated , and Its fortifications blown np by the British . This as
been done to coneentrate General Nott ' s force at Csndahar , and was effected by a detachment from General Notfi army under Col Wymer . Previous to the arrival of Colonel Wymer ' s force , the Afghans had mads ft daring attack upon the fort on the 1 st May , bat sad been gallantly repnlsed bj the garrison under Captain dalgie , with great loss . Colonel Wymer was bringing with him to Caarinbar all the stores , guns , yn ^ material ! , la the meantime , during the absence ef CoL Wymer ' a detachment , an AfigLan force , 80 « 0 strong , aCvasccd u ^ cc Ca ndahar under several chief * , Aktax Kiisii , chief of Zttticdawur , Softer Jung ..
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youngest son of Shah Soojob , and Atta Mahomed . -The notion of rinding the Biitish commander sufficiently weakened r > y the separation of hia forces , proved a woeful mistake . Tiro native regiments , the 42 d and 43 d , with artillery , were sent out to attack them , followed by the Queen ' s 41 st and Anderson's guns . The Afghans were driven from seme heights they had occupied , and having blocked np a pass in the kills in their flight , a severe slaughter was inflicted by the British artillery and infantry , -want of cavalry alone preventing the destruction from being more complete . Prince Suftur Jang , one of the chiefs , on the 19 th of Jess , deserted by his followers , surrendered as a prisoner .
Orders having been given by the Governor-General to form a large •¦ army of reserve , " 20 , 000 strong , in the district of Sirhind ( the Seikh frontier ) under the Commander-in- Chief , Sir Jasper NichoL The objeet of this measure is made the ground of numberless speculations . By some it is thought a precautionary measure to overawe the Seikhs , wke are alleged to have shown symptoms of defection , while others ro ^ ntftin the totally opposite opinion , that the Seikhs are to take the Afghan war off our hands , and make a territorial dismemberment of the contumacious borderers , backed by the British from within the frontier . A reinforcement of 7 , 000 Stikhs , under Colonel Golab Singh , had joined General Pollock at Jellalabad , which certainly does not look like bad faith on the part of the ruler of Lahore .
At Cabul the Affghans are said to be divided among themeelves , some being eager for forming conventions and terms of amity with the British , The delays in the movement towards Catul , since the passage of the Khjber dtflles by General Pollock's force , had been rather advantageous to Akhbar Khan , who , having placed his British prisoners in safe custody at some distance from Cabul , proceeded to attaek the Bala Hissar , in which Futteh Jung , the third son of Schah Soojah , who is looked upon as attached to the alliance with the British , had defended himself and his father ' s treasures with ability . The repoit of money being collected in the Bala Hissir roused the cupidity of Akhbar Khan and his followers ; they , therefore , laid seige to that fort , and completed a large mine under one of the bastions , which they blew up with such want of skill as to kill numbers of their own men . The Arabs , or
best soldiers in the service of Futteh Jong , being alarmed for their families , of which they dreaded the slaughter from the murderous propensities of Akhbar Kcan and his partisans , and terrified by the news that the British had blown up the fortifications of Ktielat-a Ghilzie , prior to their final retreat from the country , induced their young Sovereign , however much against his will , to surrender himself , and his fort , and his treasures ta the tender mercies of the notorious Akhbar . It is laid , however , tint no atrocities succeeded the capture , bat that the Kban offered honourable terms to Futteh Jong , leaving him invested witk the chief nominal power , and appointing himself T'zL It is supposed that the British prisoners had been removed | rom the T «» ien valley , and taken by Akhbar Khan beyond , near , or within the Bala Hissar , for the suppositions vary in all wars .
CHINA . The news from China is marked by fresh victories of the Biitish forces , who bad advanced from Chinhae on the loth of March , under General Sir Hugh Gough and Admiral Parker , upon a large Chinese force which bad jatb&red together on a strong position near the city of Tsekee , about twenty miles from Ningpo . The force was conveyed sixteen miles np tb » river by the steamers and boats , and then marched five miles to the city . Sir Henry Pottinger ' a circular gives the following summary of the action : —
" The chief body of the British troops , ice ., inarched round outside the town , and were joined at the east gate by the eEcalafiicg party , where the whole had an excellent view of the Chinese forces intrenched ontwo distinct lofty hills in front and on the left Arrangements were directly made for advancing to attack and dislodge them as nearly as possible at the same instant . This mat eravre succeeded admirably , aud although the enemy disputed the possession of their steep and difficult position so obstinately that many instances of hani to band combat occurred , her Majesty ' s forces gallantly and steadily persevered in their asctnt ander an unceas ing fiie , until ihtir summits were gained , and the rout of the Chintss army becamn complete at all poi ^ . ts , and was followed up by a pursuit which was continued till sunset .
" Whilst these operationswere going on upon the heights , the small staamera ( Phlegethon and Nemps . ' s ) , accompanied by some of the boats of her Majesty ' s ships , proceeded by a branch of the main river leading in the direction of the intrenched camp , where they destroyed a number cf gun-boats , and fire vessels ; and shortly after , on the fugitives from the Chinese camp passing near them , they landed their small crews , and pursued them in various directions , putting a number hors de com&ai . " It is estimated that the enemy could not have lost fewer than 1 , 000 men killed in these lifferent affairs , independent of great numbers that were carried off wounded , and amongst whom are known to have been many mandarins and officers of rank . " Her Majesty ' s plenipotentiary has not received the return of casualties in her Majesty ' s land forces , but he regrets to mention that three were killed and fifteen wounded ( mott of them severely ) in the Naval Brigade ,
" The British forces remained the night of the 15 In in the Chinese deserted camp , and the next day , after the necessary delay of embarking the wounded , destroyed the guns , wall pieces , and matchlocks , as well as the useless provisions and ammunition ; and burning the camp ai ; d barracks , the Commander-in-Chief pushed forward to a second entrenched camp about seven miles from Tsekee , at the Cha&ghe pass ; but it was found tiiat it had been evacuated during the night , and after destroying the works , and burning everything that was ignitable , including the Joss-house and other buildings , which had been converted into magazines or barracks , her M » jesvy * B forces returned to Tsekee the same evening , and to JfiDgpo on the 17 th . "
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The struggle still lasts ; the weavers are still unwilling to starve quietly to death at work ; they still think that they may as well die of famine in the streets as in the mills . Never was the viperous power of capital more basely exercised , and its nature more glaringly exhibited , than in this instance . After every effort to goad and drive the people into acts of violence which might
furnish a pretext for slaughtering them has j been foiled by the prudence and forbearance ! of the people , even the very sympathies and kindly : feelings of humanity are fiercely warred with by j the monsters that the labourer may be trodden j down . The press teems with remonstrances to j shopkeeperPj publicans , and others , upon the folly j and wickedness of giving money or provisions to \ the starving strug ^ lers against the vampire power ¦ of wealth ; and that no means might be lacking to . cut off the supplies , the following proclamation has ' . been posted upon the walls of Manchester : — ;
" Whereas parties are going about on the highways j and streets for the purpose of begging and collecting ' . contributions ; notice is hereby given to ail such per-: suns , that the above practice is illegal ; and the con- j stables are hereby requested to take immediate steps for the apprehension of all persons guilty of such ; offence , in order that they may be dealt with according ; to law . " | The above document is signed by a number of j Magistrates who are principally manufacturers , ! and members of the League . t
And thoa do the " authorities" of a civilized and I Christian conntry give evidence that they regard the j peaceful asking of their neighbours for as much of ] bread as may stay famine , in return for labour , as a j warlike declaration . They look upon tho poor '[ weavers , seeking an advance of wages , as an j enemy ' s army , whom it is their duty to harass at all j points , and when they can't force them into battle , j to starve to death , by " cutting off their supplies . " j Never was a more heartleBs , cold-blooded , abrogation ! of everything which should pertain to human nature , I than this proclamation of the Manchester millocrat magistrates . But if the country—if the shopkeepersif every man who is not a millocrat and a magistrate , be not as heartless and cold-blooded as the men
whose names appear to this document ; the infamous proclamation will proclaim merely the impotence of those who issued it . The poor " lads / ' noble fellows I mre still nob discouraged ; they are too determined to give in , and too prudent to permit a villainous advantage to be taken of them . The proclamation has therefore been responded to by the following address of the power loom weavers and overlookers , to the trades in general , and the sympathizing public J—
" We , the General Committee , in appealing to the sympathy of our friends , wish it most distinctly to be understood that we shall consider it eur duty to carry out those plans most conducive to our cause . We are sorry to find , in doing so , we shall have to lay before a generous public the proceedings of the authorities of this tewn , as they are using any and every means in their power to compel us , either by starvation or intimidation , to return to our labour at the reduced prices . No sooner hftd'we formed our plaos for soliciting your aid , indeed before we could get tbis oir « ul 3 r into type , than they issaed & placard to defeat «« otject ; and in this placard we are entiT&ly probIt > U&d from solicititg > &ur
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HOW TO CONVICT LEACH . It is seldom that tyranny lacks long the tools wherewith to work , in its vocation of destroying public liberty . There are always to bo found enow of scamps , fools , or traitors , who , for the sake of gain , or to indulge their spiteful personal malignity * or to Bhew off their powers of discrimination , or from the combined action of all these motives , will ( either knowingly or unknowingly ) , do its bidding with most mischievous alacrity . If the object of tyranny be to obtain , against some thorn
in faction's side , a legal conviction of some alleged offence , no matter how baseless may be the accusation , there are two ways by which the object sought may be attained . One is , the procuring and adducing of such evidence as , true or untruo , shall bring home the charge , and furnish a colourable substantiation . The other is the so placing of the matter before that class of society from which the Jury comes as necessarily to induce a confirmed opinion and foregone conclusion on the matter before they come to the trial at all .
we know few men who have more sorely pestered faction than James Leach . His quiet firmness of character , and his unanswerable argumentative lectures , alike annoying to the trade monopolists on the one hand , and to the land monopolists on the other , exposing the conspiracy of each party , and the joint conspiracy of both parties , to rob labour of its due reward , and to appropriate tho produce of industry , have made Leach an object not less of fear than hatred to both Whigs and Tories . They have been long panting for his destruction . Hot has he stood alone in the truly enviable position of being thus the " marked man" of faction . The bold unoompromising energy of
M'Douall , raibing the spirit of the people by declamation as Leach enlightened their judgment by argument and statistical inquiry , caused him to be not less feared , and not less hated . Never was auspicious moment waited for more anxiously than that which should give these two men into the power of faction . Others there were , especially Coopeb and White , who in their own localities , had the merit of being just as much feared and hated ; but Leach and M'Douall , as members of the Executive , had a more general and extensive field of operation , as well as a more important and responsible position ; and it might be reasonably expected , therefore , that more anxiety would be manifested to clutch them .
There never was on our minds a doubt ( and if there had been the events of the last month would have surely served to dissipate it ) that the " strike" was a deep plot : one of its objects being to throw the meshes of a net around the Chartist Leaders , and especially around these men . Whether or no we have been right in that opinion is , to our present subjeet of inquiry , unimportant . In any case the opportunity was too good to be neglected . Amid the confusion created by the " League " scoundrels , Leach and M'Douall must be laid hold of ; and means must be had whereby to ensure their destruction . And to effect this both the means above
spoken of have been brought iuto requisition . Direct evidence has been Bought to be established against Leach , by means ot foul , deliberate , aud notorious perjury . The wretch , M'Kehna , swearing with all circumstantial minuteness , to facts which thousands knew to have no existence but in his own invention ; while the two boys , apprentices of Turkee , are , in defiance of the constitution and of al ' law upon the subject , in defiance of all honesty , and to the shameless robbery of their master , kept up in prison , doubtless that they may be drilled and schooled , and teased , and tortured into the
parrot-1 i ' i : j i ting of such statements as shall be manufactured for them , or insinuated into them , for the purpose of ensuring the conviction , not so much of their own " master , as of Leach and M'Douall , upon the paltry , blackguard charge of " conspiracy" in reference to the alleged seditious and inflammatory document . The wretches have sense enough to see that , after all , they may fail . The perjurer , M'Kenna , falls far short of doing all that is wanted to be done . He manages , even if his perjury be swallowed , only to prove Leach ' s presence at a meeting in Carpenters '
Hall , where he exhorted the people to be peaceable . His evidence (!) does not at all touch M'Douall . The two are wanted , and wanted to be destroyed at once . Hence the placard , issued by some one in the name of the Executive , is laid hold of as a god-send ; and though there ia nothing in the document that any honest man could call seditious , that is a matter of no consequence : they will find no difficulty in making it seditious , if they can but succeed in fathering its authorship and publication upon Leach and M'Douall . And hence the false and
illegal imprisonment of Mr . Turner ' s boys—an outrage eo glaring , that it has called forth even from the Tory Morning Herald the following strong and very just expression of opinion : — "A man named Turner is charged with having printed a , seditious placard . * * * This man , it appears , had two apprentices , who were also seized by the police ; not as particeps ciminis with their master , but as witnesses against him . They are seized ,
secluded under lock and key ; without any charge whatever against them , and for the avowed purpose of torturing them by imprisonment , into a proper frame of mind for disclosing ihe supposed secrets of their master ' s business . Let it be observed that there was no magistrate ' s warrant for this , aud that Sir Charles Shaw , the chief Police Commissioner of the district , denies all knowledge of it ; and yet by one of the subaltern officers under the controul of himself and Mr . Maude , has tliis gross outrage been committed .
" Now one would have thought that Mr Maude would have stepped a little oat of the line of his striot duty , if it was necessary , to have brought that kidnapping policeman to hiB senses ; for the fool in his ovcr-anxicty to secure , has taken the surest m « ans to thwart the ends of public justioe . He is poisoning the very evideccd he is bo anxious to preserve immaculate ; for no juryman , with a grain of sense , would convict a master upou revelations extorted from his apprentices by arbitrary imprisonment . No juryman , who understands bis duty to < well and truly try , ' would haag a
dog upon evidence so procured . The excuse is , that i ! tha apprentices were allowed to be at large , they might be " tampered with ; ' but U there any tampering like tfeat of the lock and key t We care not whether these youths are being dieted into the truth upon prison fare , or whether they ate being fattened into confession upon roast beef and strong beer . Any way and ever ; way in which the case may be turned , it has a bad aspect ; and Air . Maude must be judicially blind not to have seen what an ugly look it must have in tht eyes of every Englishman . "
Nothing can be clearer than the obj « ot of the false imprisonment of Mr . Tcbneh ' s boys . It is that , right or wrong , they may be made to implicate Leach and M'Douall in the issuing of this address . That done , the work of tyranny is don ?; &s they themselres will give to the address ffhateyer cha-
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racter they please to ascribe to it . But the rogues may fail in this ; there is yet no evidence that either Lbach or M'Douall had anything whatever to do with that address ; and it may be that even Mr . TuBNEB ' s boys may be proof against all the infernal manoeuvering and management to which they are subjected . The attempt to obtain direct evidence may fail ; and therefore the next best means for securing a verdict is resorted to . The case is unblashingly prejudged already ; the so-called seditions (!) document , ( concocted , for ought that yet appears in eridenee to tho contrary , by the League themselves ,
who concocted the Strike , and issued in the name of the Executive , ) is published by all the Whig and Tory press as " The Address of the Executive "; commented upon as such ; denounced as such . It is well known to every body that Leach and M'Douall are members of the Executive , and consequently that if this be the address of the Executive , it must be their address , and they must have issued it . The villains know this to be the only inference which can be drawn , and hence the whole factious press , from one end of the Kingdom to the other , has , ever since
the address was issued , on account of which this conspiracy oharge is hashed up , identified that and the Executive together . It has been taken for granted , without the least inquiry , and as a thing that could not be disputed , that the Exeoutive did issue the address in question . No question has been made about this ; it is deliberately talked of on all hands , as a fact ; nobody is allowed to think otherwise ; it is treated as a perfectly settled thing , that , whatever may be the character of the address , seditious or otherwise , it is the address of the Executive , and they did issue it , though thvit names do not appear to it .
There is deep craft and deep villany in all this . The rascals know well what the formularies of the trial are to be . They know that Leach , and M'Douall if they can catch him , will be tried by Jurorsjaelected from the middle classthe parties by whom their villanous trash is read ; and they know that when the case comes before these Jurors , the main point to be decided will be whether the address was issued by Leacii and M'Douall , as members of the Executive ? and hence their careful labour that the whole class of jurymen shall have no ohance of being otherwise than satisfied in their minds , before coming to the
trial at all , that this address , whatever may be its character , was certainly issued by the Executive , and is to be regarded as their address . To this one point the whole of the middle class press has lent itself incessantly ever since the charge was hashed up , aud by no one portion of that press has this foregone conclusion , and prejudging of the case , been so industriously insisted on as by the British Statesman . His letter of the " Old Chartist" was the least of his efforts in thia way . Take from his paper of the present week the following paragraph—not from a correspondent , not a stray note ofnewa ^ but written Editorially : —
" We should not have concurred in tho Executive ' s address ; believing the country to be unprepared to act upon it . At the same time , we did not blame them for it , nor do we now blame them , seeing that they have the same right to net upon their own judgment and experience that we claim to act upon our ' s . But admitting their perfect right to issue the address , we think they were decidedly wronj iu not putting their names to it . They either ought not to have issued the address at all , or issuing it , they ought to have put their Lames to it "
Now let the people ask themselves whit is likely to betheeffeot of that paragraph upon the minds of the middle-class readers of „ the Statesman , the Jurors who are to try whether the address in question be the address of the Executive or not ? Can as many of them as put any faith in James O'Brien , do otherwise than come to the trial with the conviction already settled in their minds ! Will they not , of necessity , suppose that O'Bmen is , from bis position , likely to know all about it , and that , from his mode of writing , he does know all about it ; and will they not , almost of necessity , seeing this in
O'Bbien's paper , conclude that what he styles " the Executive ' s address" is , boyond all doubt , the Executive ' s Address ? And will they not , therefore , be likely to set that point down for granted , whether there be evidence to prove it or not I Is it possible that James O'Brien is so senseless as not to see that this must be its effect ? Was it stolidity or villany which prompted the writing of this paragraph ? Had this been the only paragraph of the kind we might in mere charity have supposed the former ; but it is uot ao ; again and again the thing is spoken of with the most perfect sang froid as the " Executive ' s
address . " No doubt seems to exist upon O'Brien's mind , and he seems particularly anxious that the Jury should have no doubt upon the matter . To any mind but that of one anxious to prejudge the case , and to prejudice the accused , it is reasonable to think that the very fact so strongly censured by O'Brien would have suggested a doubt whether this document was ever issued by the Executive at all * It was nameless I It has not been the habit of the Executive to issue documents in that maauer . They have never been previously known to put forth any document without their names . There is nothing
in their character or in their conduct to expose them to a charge of pusillanimity . Nothing which could induce any man who knew them to suppose that they would flinch from any position they might choose to take—nothing which oould justify any man in the presumption that they would , at an important time like this , deviate from the steadiness aad prudence of their usual course . We repeat , then , that the very fact of the document being unsigned ought to have been , by a Chartist writer , regarded as presumptive evidence in favour of tho accused ; and the more especially so
in the absence of every tittle of direct evidence to connect the Executive with this address at all . With as much eagerness , however , as the most savage Tory bloodhound could evince , O'Brien set himself to tear away this prop from under the feet of poor Leach . He is not content with jumping to the conclusion that it must , of course , be " the Executive's Address . " ' He is not content with induoing that conclusion on tho minds ol others , by thus familiarly characterizing and speaking of it . All this had been done by the more honest press in the direot service of the factions .
O'Brien leaveB them far behind . He sets on hia coward " bully , " the " Old Chartist , " in the first instance , to raise a cry of cowardice again&t the Executive ; and when he finds this dodge to fail , he turns to work himself , and tries to eke out the charge by askiug why they did not put their names to the address they issued ?! ! The fact , of there being no proof that they did issuo it , he does not choose to see . We know not whether this may have any connexion with hi 3 brutal attack upon poor Leach , at the Hall of Science , in Manchester , some
months ago , and with the humbling which he reoeived at the hands of Leach before the meeting ; we know not whether it may have any reference to his blackguard treatment of Leach in the Convention , and on other occasions . We know not , we say , whether this hounding on of the Jurors to a foregone conclusion , may be another instance of the villanous malignity and petty vengefulness which especially distinguishes his oharaoter , or whether it arises from a mere blundering incapability of
Beeing the probable effect of hia own acts . In either case the effect remains the game . If the blood-money for M'Douall has been doubled , and if he should eventually , in consequence thereof , be taken , and if he and Leach shall be convicted of having issued this same aJdresa , the country will be indebted for the loss of their services to Jambs O'Bbien , eo far , at least , as the talent and influence of that grateful gentleman have enabled him to play his part .
And now we suppose that the people must be pretty well satisfied with the vagaries of the starved viper , Jahes O'Bbien . At all events , we can assure them that we are quite satisfied ; aad we promise our readers that as far as wo are concerned ,
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they shall have , no farther annoyance from or on account of him . ; We think with honest Coopeb , whom the coward ruffian still loads , even in his living tomb , with his abuse , that "it is time for every man to s * and without a mask , " and however hateful might be the duty of tearing off the mask from such a face , we saw it to be a duty , and shrank not from its performance when we perceived how much the safety of oar best men and our cause itself required it . 'Tis the last notice of the viper we shall ever take , beyond the insertion of Mr . O'Connor's promised letter , if he send it .
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A . B . — We have no room . The Female Chartists of London . —Susanna Inge calls urgently on all her Sister Chartists of the metropolis to attend a general meeting of the Females' Association , on Tuesday , the 13 th of September , at eight o ' clock in the evening , for the purpose of taking into consideration some rules and regulations which will be brought forward for the better organization of the Association , and to assist in carrying out the principles of our glorious Charter . She requests , also , that the arrears of subscription may come up , as the money to the Executive will be due on the 15 th . Montpelier Tavern Tea Party . —The Committee request all persons indebted for tickets , either for
the tea or the theatre , to pay the secretary % mme ~ diately ; as they purpose to publish a list of the defaulters . Samoel Sidebottom . —If his letter was intended for insertion it should have been directed for the Editor , and not for Mr . O'Connor . Mr . O'Connor ' s letters are invariably forwarded to him , we can , therefore , say nothing about the letter to which he refers , save that we know nothing of it . B . M'Donald . —We have no room for the letter of his friend . Greenwich and Deptford Chartists . —The best thing to be done with the viper is to forget him He-has no power to sting if the people do not give it him .
William Ellis , Brighton . —You must employ an attorney . A Lover of all Men writes , strongly advising the different associations , clubt , $ c , to open provision and other shops , and become the distributors of their own productions as far as their own necessities and means of purchase are concerned . John Watkins returns thanks to God for the resloration of his health , which renders void the nc cessily of his intended tour through the country , and , as London still offers an ample field for his
exertions , he feels called upon to defer his journey for the present . In the mean time , he would return his thanks to those Chartists who did him the honour to invite him , especially to the Chartists of Llanidloes , Bristol , Royston , Halifax , Bradford , Bingley district , Hull , Mai ton , Bamsley Ipswxch , Ashton'Under-Lyne , Huddersfield , York , Nottingham , S ( c . S ^ c . Bradprd Chartists . —Masons' Arms . —We have no room for their address . Armstrong Walton must excuse us—we have not
room . William Blytk—We cannot insert his letter : it must go to the Paper to whose Editor it is addressed . Bingley Correspondent . —Wehave not room . J . C . H . —We believe he must "turn out ; " but he had better consult an attorney . Leicester . —Coopers ' s Defence . —The committee of Mr . Cooper ' s defence have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of is . Gd ., collected in Mr . Curlis ' s shop , at Old Radford , near Nottinqham . Mr . Wm . Sutcliffe , of Haigh House , Warley . — We have received a tetter detailing a conversation had in the presence of William Horsefield with Mr . William Greenwood , in reference to a
report that Mr . Sulchffe had , while acting as special constable , given to the magistrates a list of the names of the enrolled Chartists of his locality . Mr . Greenwood stated that he had been so informed , but did not believe it .. He declined to give up his author at present ; but promised to do so hereafter . Mr . Sutcliffe concludes : —** / new call upon Mr . William Greenwood , of Yale House , in Midgtey , to meet me , and bring any person , or quantity of persons , that he may think proper , at the house of Mr . George Bedford , the Shoulder of Mutton Inn , in Midgley , on Wednesday , the 14 / 4 instant , at seven o'clock in the evening . I will be there to answer to any question , from any man , and may God dejend the right ; and may eternal infamy be the portion of
the traitor . James Oakes , Kingston-upon-Thames . — # t > letter should have been sent to Air . Cook , of Dudley . Probably the 7 s ~ . sent to him , and the 3 s , advertised in Star , viay be different sums . A . M . —Received . A Regular Subscriber , Oldham . —We have stated some twenty times , that we never do , and never will , answer questions for the deciding of wagers . Mr , Hitchin , Kidderminster . —Let * Ae thing alone ; it will die of itself . John Rogers , Bristol , must address Mr . Campbell : we have no authority to alter Mr . Campbell ' s report . The "Old Chartist . "— We have received the following : —
"TO THE EDITOIl OF THE NORTHERN STAR . " SIB , —In your Paper of Saturday last , you charge me with being the writer of a -letter which appeared in the British Statesman of the previous week , and signed 'An Old CUartiat . " "I shall feel obliged if you will favour me with your authority for making such charge . " Yours respectfully , " Frederick Warren . " Manchester , Sept . 6 , 1842 . "
Our authority \ s Mr . Frederick Warren , of Manchester and the best evidence that can be offered is the above letter . Lanesjde Chartists . —A licensed place of worship is , by-law , . exempt from payment ef rates and taxes , except it be used for some lay or secular pwpose , involving profit to the parties . Its occasional occupation for charitable purposes does not make it liable ; but if it be used for any purposes by which profit accrues , that would be holden to render it liable to the rates . The pinch would be just whether the solons would consider the sick club a charitable or a profitable using of the room . Our friends , would , we think , do well to dispute their liability to the . rate ;
employ an attorney , and try the case on its merits . They ought to get clear ; but they must remember that we have , in fact , no law , save the dictum ef the so-called" authoiities . " The Chartists of Clitheroe , not knowing Mr . Campbell ' s address ^ wish te know if he has received a letter from them , dated \ bth August , with 10 s . enclosed , as it has n 9 t been acknowledged in the " ^ Star . " J . L . A ., Amblerthorn . —We cannot insert his letter . The disgraceful scenes he describes are sufficiently lamentable—the more so as the actors in iliem are " professors of ' religion" par excellence ; but their recital is not within the compass of our ordinary cognizance .-
George Henuy Smith . — We have , in all conscience , had enough of the starved viper . It is needless to dive further into the dark catalogue . Let him wallow in his own " cess pool" till its filthy waters suffocate him . W . H . Dyoit , 27 , N . King-street , Dublin , has to gratefully acknowledge , on behalf of the people of Ireland favourable to democracy , the continued favours of his Enqlish friends who continue to supply him with their Stars . He is sorry that duties of an arduous nature preclude , for the present , the possibility of his answering personally several kind communications . The Abmy at a Discount , — . 4 correspondent at Nottingham , who gives his name , has sent us , under ( his heading , for publication , a letter
, from which we give the following paragraph : — ' It will be remembered that when a number of starving people were assembled on Mapperly Hills , near Nottingham , to enjoy a meal in peace ; that they were attacked by the police and soldiers , just as the provisions which had been liberally provided by the town ' s people , were coming in sight , and that they took about 500 prisoners ; but the object which it would appear they had in view was not known until exposed by men who were taken . After they were placed in the House of Correction , they were visited by a recruiting party . They were taken when suffering from the most acute pangs of hunger ; they were degraded as far
as possible by being driven to a prison , and with the prospect of impending punishment tnTi ? it >>{ ovei them as a terror ; and then they were premised liberty if they would enter the army , and that tb > ij should have plenty of bread snd beef . Here , then , we have the honour of being a British soldier , surrounfied , as they said , by the comforts cf life , placed in juxtaposition with destitution , ihe degradation of a prison , andtht terror of further punishment ; and these mun ' aave declared by their eonduct , that , bad as their aitv ^ tion wm , it was preferable to the honour of being ir . the British army . Save not the soldiers placed then * selves In an enviable position 1 Is notthelr ' s an honour able occupation ? 1 Woo will not now enter the army ? i »
We can soacely cr * edit this statement . We believe that the person w ] i 0 sent it us would not knowinly write us tb r liat was untrue ; but we hope that such an amou nt of baseness is not predicable even of the fact" ^ ns under whom we live . If any parties weari' tig her Majesty ' s uniform have thus acted , we ' must suppose tliat they have done it unauthorisrjd by their officers or by the magisterial autho-V . iies . We deem it right , however , as our correspondent speaks positively , that his statement should go forth ; while we think that there must be some mistake about it %
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Thomas Buck . — We know nothing of it : he mutt write to Mr . Cleave . He desires us to say that . Mr . Campbell will lecture on Sunday the I 8 rt , but does not say where . __ . James Wabbs , West Bromu > ich . —We have no room for the animadversions on the Methodist preacher ' s proper . Let the poor fetioto alone : it is probably nothing but his ignorance . The stupid notion that ministers should not meddle with politics keeps , we doubt not , many a good man in fear and hatred of Chartism , because he knows not what it is . R . H . —Sue months .
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Those Agents who were desired to send Cash bat week , and have not dene bo , will sot receive their Plates till they balance tbtir Accounts , and will - not receive any Papers after this data till such Account be settled . Those Agents who receive both Plates in one panel , will give T . Dancombe on the 19 th of November . D . Turner . — Those at Mr . Watson ' s are bacfe Por-, traits , price 7 £ d . The Petition and Dancombe are not yet sent off , but will both be gent in « ne pareel , as parcels to Ireland are so expensive .
The Petition Plate will be delivered to the Subscribers at Bradford , Halifax , Hull , Huddersfleld , - Keighley , Bingley , Wakefield , Horbury , Dawabury York , and some other places in Yorkshire , on Saturday next , the 17 th instant . The sooner thd other Agents aend word how they are to be sent , the sooner they will receive them . Wm . Worger . —The Is . 6 d . was received , and the Plates will be sent as soon as they are ready for distribution . They have not yet been received from the printer .
FOR MASON AND OTHERS , STAFFOBDSHIRB . I £ 8 . d . From the Female Chartists of Da-Vrntry ... ... ... ... 0 8 0 Charter Association , Holbeck , per J . Davis — ... ' 0 2 0 FOB THE EXECUTIVE . From T . Mills , London 0 2 2 ¦ '< . „ W . B ., Leeds ... ... ... 0 0 6 FOR MRS . HOLBERRT . ' From the Chartists of Keighley ... 13 3 ¦ „ Mr . Clarkson , Bradford ... ' 0 10 O fOR- Defence of the prosecuted Chartist Leadeia , and for the the prosecution of the perjured wretch of Manchester' Collected fey T < Tevers , Huddersfleld ...... 7 s . Ditto in the Association room , ditto 9 s .
Union! Union I Union! To The Chartists Of Great Britain.
UNION ! UNION I UNION ! TO THE CHARTISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN .
Friends , —It must be painful to every sincere Chartist to observe the constant bickering that ia kept up by our most prominent leaders , men who above all others ought to set an example of union Nothing tends to weaken a popular cause more than division amongst the leaders , for it not only keeps many from joining , but drives many from our ranks . I am led to mike these observations by the disgraceful and " treacherous" manner in which Mr O'Brien has attacked Mr . O'Connor , in his two last papers , the Statesman . Disgraceful , inasmuch as he ought to have been certain of the truth of the letter he inserted , signed " An Old Chartist £ ' treacherous , inasmuch as it goes directly in opposition to the resolution moved by Mr . O'Brien in Convention , binding the Chartist press to insert no charge against any man until a meeting had been called , and the person charged had been invited , and the charge proved against him . . ....
_ No meeting was called in Manchester to investigate the charge , —and this the " Old Chartist , " or rather Old Scoundrel , knew . Yes , that man is a scoundrel who will write anything reflecting on the character of a public man , knowing it to be false ! 0 , but Mr . O'Brien says , "the man has probably been imposed on himself . " Nonsense : he is equally a scoundrel to write that which he did not know to be true . ¦ I would tako this opportunity to ask a few
questions , which I think ought to be answered to set this subject at rest , for I see no sense in the people spending their hard-earned money to get information , and yet find the papers which ought to instruct them exhibiting nothing but bickerings and dissensions amongst leaders . I am of the opinion expressed by Dr . M'Douall in Convention , that if the cause is to be continually injured by the disputes of two of our leaders , let us , in the name of God , cast them from us until they have settled them .
It would be an important duty of the Conference to endeavour to put aside such disgraceful proceedings . O'Brien admits he has been imposed upon by the "Old Chartist , " and that all he has wrote is false , and calls upon the friends of the injured parties to "denounce the slanderer "—denounce who ? who can they " denounce" under an ambiguous name ? what will he care for that if the parties do not know him Tell his name , O'Brien , if yoa have been imposed upon—you owe him no respect . But O'Brien has no right to complain about being imposed upon if he allows the Chartists to be imposed upon by him , for , says O'Brien , " If I was to give ap his name O'Connor ' s party could injure him in his business ; " so it appears he is depending upon O'Connor ' s party for support , whilst he is doing what he can to injure them , and this . O'Brien allows . Did not Bronterre support the recommendation to exclusive dealing ?
This is a time for union , and it becomes the duty of the people to look after their own cause , and endeavour to keep our leaders united . We ought to have no " parties" ; no O'Connor ' s party , or O'Brien's party , but one party , and that freedom ' s party . . Our enemies have their disputes in council , bat theirs are only on the best way to put us down ; the only disputes of onr leaders ought td be the best way Of gaining our freedom . ' O'Brien states that he has shewn to certain parties that , favour which O'Connor would see him "d— -d
before" he would shew to him . Did O Connor see Hetherington d—d before he would insert bis blackguard letters 1 No ; and the greatest fault I can find in O'Connor is the insertion of such blackguard epistles as certain persons have from time to time sent to the Star . O'Brien has failed to answer the letter of the Manchester Chartists : assertions are hot proofs , and he has indulged in nothing else . The question is not whether O'Connor has behaved kind or unkind to O'Brien , but whether he has acted traitorously to the Chartist cause ; and he has that yet to prove . Tbe questions I would ask are as follows : —
1 st . Did O'Brien , in Convention , move a resolution , condem&ing the denunciation of Chartist leaders through the press , without first having the charge proyed ? II" so , he has broken his own reso * lutibn . 2 ad . Did Mr . O'Connor , in Convention , promise O'Brien the columns of the Star to set himself right with the public , and did ho ever attempt to avail himself of it ! If it was offered , and he " did not accept it , then he has no right to complain . 3 rd . Did the conversation take place which Mr . O'Connor stated to have passed between him and O'Brien at Birmingham , and Mr . O'Brien states , in last week ' s Statesman , was manufactured by Mr . O'Connor , and is consequently a lie ? Mr .- Porter will feel himself interested in answering that question as it purported to have passed ia his house and in his company .
Brother Chartists , it is your duty to see thosa things set right , and not allow your best and most disinterested leaders to be injured , and distrust created in our ranks , without great causo ; let us from this day bury in oblivion , all such disgraceful proceedings , and let us commence a fresh course of action , by concentrating all our energies in behalf of principle and not men ; and then , instead of as at present seeing five or six columns of your press taken np in personal warfare , wo may hope to see them teeming with information to the inquiring , and interesting intelligence to the people , that the day of their salvation is at hand . This can only be done by union , to promote which shall be the constant aim . of your brother Chartist , Edward Bubley . York , Sept . 6 th , 1852 .
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; CARLISLE . —In consequence of a very abusive article winch appeared in the Whig newspaper here , the Carlisle Journal , attributing th » strike and all its consequences to Mr . O'Connor * and Mr . G . H . Head , banker hare , who took a most active part during the foolish' and silly parade of tho yeomanry cavalry , which , but for this humane gentleman ' s exertions , might have led to most serious consequences , the Chartist Association have passed and published the following resolution : — "That tha sincere and heartfelt thanks of this meeting are due , and are hereby given , to G . H . Head , Esq ., banker , Carlisle , for hia humane aud prompt endeavours to allay the excited feelings of the people , on Wednesday , August 23 rd , and prevent them from coming into collision with the military , whose pompous as * uncalled-for display , might { bat for this timely in * terfersnoe ) have led to the most disastrous aad dire *
ful consequences . Whilst this meeting award their just meed of praise to the said G . H . Head , Esq . they cannot but express the disgust And indignation they feel at a most villanous advantage having been taken of certain expressions in his address to tbe working classes , by tbe Editor of tbe Carlisle Journal , in an artcle headed " The Mentor of th « Strike / ' wherein he most unjustly attributes tha Strike to the said G . H . Head and Feargns O'Connor , Esquires , who had no more to do with it than the man ia the moon . This meeting beg to express a hope , that & consciousness of the integrity of h » motives and uprightness of his conduct , will « ° * courage the aaid GcH . Head , Esquire , tog « 2 . ^ his feeling and benevolent career , in behalf of tne distressed poor of Carlisle—regardless of the ma lignant sneers , and low personal scurrility , of «• mean and dastardly tool oi a disappointed ana w * graded faction , ' *
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aid , —yet we hope yon will , by your actions , show to them and to all our enemies the opinion yoa entertain of their proceedings—and show to the public at large , that you are determined to ' Stand by the cause of the poor . ' " It is the intention of the Committee to keep from all collision with those who may wish to monopolize our rights . And therefore we lay before you the subject as it stands , requesting those parties who can make it a matter of convenience , to bring to tha Committee whatever their generosity may thiiJt proper ; and those who
cannot , will be kind enough to signify their intention to the individuals whom we authorise to call for this circular , and in order to detect any fraud , they will exhibit to you an ' Impress' by the same stamp as that on this circular ; all that do not are imposters , and such as we do not recognise . Tho time and place of eur meeting Is from ten in the morning , until two in the aftersoon ; and from six to nine in the evening , at Mr . Fallows's Temperance Hotel , Oak-street , Swan-street , Manchester . " Br ORDER OP THE COMMITTEE . "
Thi 3 appeal , simple , touching , and eloquent ia its simplicity , needs no commendation to those who have hearts to feel ; they will take care that the starving camp shall not be broken up by famine ; that the rich shall not thus heartlessly and mercilessly lord it over the poor . If this doeB not try the temper and character of the middle classes , nothing will . We have lately had much fuss about their sympathy with the poor , and about the necessity of a union with them to ensure general prosperity . We shall see by the manner in whioh this appeal is answered at what rate they themselves value such a union .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 10, 1842, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1178/page/4/
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