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THE NORTHERN STAR , SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1843.
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THE LATE,EXECUTIVE AND THE EDITOR OF THE " NORTHERN STAR."
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BALANCE SHEET OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF THE NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION, ENDING DEC. 31st, 1842.
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MB . COOPEB'S PLAN OF OBGAMZATlOJS - Jo the Editor of Hut Jxoixrq Star . Sr& , —I iisve nffwinclud . ea in my proposed "Plan , " aQtbeemeBaaficns wlacli seem to me desirable / after having tire advantage at my 'brethren ' s opinions of this important matter . Among the delegates "who surveyed my scheme last Saturday morning , -were -comprised some'Of the soundest heads and most -energetic minds in the movement j and is addition to the authority -which their names affords me , I might , once more , add , fiatin private conversation I nave , long ago , received for my proposed scheme , or for the , major part sf it ,- approvals on the part of Mr . O'Connor , Dr . 2 I * 3 ) 0 Tialli Mr . Bill , my friends Baiistow ami Barney , and many other weU-ino-wn advocates of onr cause .
On the advice of my brother delegates , and to avoid entirely the legal difficulty of & Convention leaving an Executive behind it—the word " Executive" ia entirely left out of the Plan . The five chief officers of the Animal Convention , it -will fee seen , exercise all the necessary functions of an ExecntiTe body—bnt do not lie under the illegality of being specially appointed for such a purpose -when the Contention breaks tip : the functions of each member of the Annual ^ Convention , officers included , remain in them throughout the yearso that they r ? "i fill up vacancies , &c , or give other counsel for the "welfare of the general body . Praying my hrethren to take up the subject earnestly , and instantly , I subscribe myself , Sir , Tours respectfully , TPtVMAS COOPER .
Leicester , January 2 nd , 1843 . ; . HHtVTES OF A HJSETIXG OP CHABTIST BEIJSGATES , HELD 35 BIKMI 5 GHA 34 , OH THE LAST DAT OP XH 2 YZX& , 1842 . " 1 . Besolred , that the Plan of Organization , submitted to this meeting , by Mr . Cooper , of ^ Leicester , be commended to the consideration of the members of the ^ National Charter Asseciation throughout the'localities , sni that Mr . C . t& requests to send % copy of bia jlan for insertion in the Etesdng Star , Northern ; Star , and CharRst Circular . " 2 . Besolved , that Mi . Cooper be employeJ tojnake ray esendations Tthich have suggested themselves to ftiTn fig dfarable , darinc this discussion .
" 3 . BfesolTed , that the members , in their localities , le desired to ccme to a decision on this subject as soen ss possible , and that the conntry be . recommended to prepare for electing represeBtatrres to serve on the First AbjuioI Contention , ' to be held in Ijondon in the ¦• month of April next . " 4 . Sesolyed ., t&at the country be recommended to elect their delegates to the said Convention on the same plan , xnd in the same proportions to the localities , practiced in electing delegates to the Convention , held in London in the month of April , 2842 . " 5 . Besolved , the -country I * lecommended to empowerthe delegates to the " First Annual Convention , ' to take the "whole Plan of Grgsmzinon , ' again into eensideration . and to give it the stamp of full reprelaitatiTB authority . " :
( Signect ) James Leach , of Manchester . George "White , of Btaningham . John "West , of Derby . "William Jones , of Liverpool John . Mason , of Birmingham . Christopher Doyle , of Manchester Thomas Claike , of Stockport James Tickers , of Belper . ~ E P . Mead , of Birmingham . Edward Clayton , ef HnrlaereSeia Sammel Paries , of Sheffield . Be ) Jamin Bushton , of Halifax . Thomas BsHton , of Manchester . Petar Hoey , of Coventry .
Moses Simpsen , of Banley ( Potteries . ) Inke Thos . Clancy , of Brighton . Ed"srard Bailey , of York . James Green , cf 2 ? ortb . widi . Samuel Cotran , of Liverpool . Tvm . If - MilBom , of Cheltenham , Joseph Sturmey , of Stonrbridge . Charles Thorpe , of Birmingham . Bernard Bromgoole , of Warrington . "WnL-Talbert , of Birmingham . Alfred Anthony , of Arnold { Notts- ) John "Wjlnioi , of Ketterine .
"William Feast , of Brighton . G 20 . Ktcnardson , of Birmingham . Charles Gwilliams , of Liverpool . DiVid Pott , of Birmingham . John Chance , of Slourbridge . James Sandera , of Birmingham . John Allinson , of Stockport . Mellin Moore , of Blackburn . Thomas "Welsford . of Birmingham . " W 3 L Waxkiss W ? ys , of Hammersmith , ( Chairman . ) Thomas Cooper , of Leicester , ( Secretary . )
PLA 5 OF ORGANIZATION OF THE RATIONAL nTTAttTKR ASSOCIATION OF : GSEA BB 11 AIS , { Recommended for Vie consideration of the People " by a body of Deltgaies . assembled at Birmintfiam on Vie las : Oay of the year 1 S 42 . ) OBIECI 05 TSS . ASSOCIATION * . 2 . The object of the National Charter Association of Great Britain shall be the obtaining , by lawful and peaceful means , all those political rights aet forth in the document called " The People ' s Charter . "
JtEHBEBSHIP . 2 . Each member ef the Association shall SV 07 an entire approval of the principles of 4 he People ' s Charter ; shall liave his or her name enrolled in one of the yearly ^ registers of the Association , by one-of its sub ^ ecretariea j shall receive a yearly card of '? ' The Kationsl Charter Association , '' paying for it one penny ; and shall contribute , if able , one penny per calendar month | to the General Fund of the Association . -
GEXEBAl G 0 TEB . HMESI . 3 . The general government of the Association -shall be vested in sa Atitvdb ! Convention—to fee assembled hi London , in the month of April of eacfc ^ year , and to close its sittings at the end of three "weeks , or earlier , if convenient ; -i . The said Annual" Convention shall be composed of delegates from Chartist districts ; tbe deltgates to be elected by the people in public meeting assembled ; the districts , and the number of Tepresentatives from each to be arranged by the first Annual Convention , ajpd re-arranged by succeeding Annual Conventions , as need may arise .
5 . The £ izt business of each Animal ConTenuon ihall be fiis election of a President , Yiee-Presfaent , Treasurer , Sacretary , and Ties-Secretary ; the powers of each of these oficers , and also the powers of each member 11 the Annual Convention « fr" ^ be resident in them for one conventional year . 6 . The President of Convention shall hold Prasideniial sittings , at the several periods of three months , six months , and nine months , succeeding each Animal Convention : that is to say , in Manchester ) for one week , in the month of July ; in Birmingham , for ope week , in the month of October ; and in Bristol , lor one week , in the month of January . At the said Presidential Sittings , the Vice-President of Convention , the Treasurer of Convention , the Secretary of Convention , and the Yics-Secretai ^ of Convention , *>»] i attend Kid assist the President in ^ e discharge of his duties to tfes Association .
7 . The secretary of Convention shall be the o > ily fltiTmal officer occupying his entire time "with the general business of the Association ; all questions relative to the government of the ABsocadon , arising in the periods j inierTening between the several Presidential Sittings , j or between any one of those sittings and the sitting of i Convention , shall bs referred , by the localities , to the said Sacretery of Convention . 8 . Appeals , on qnestions of government , shall , if thought aecessary by the localities , be made from the Secretary of "Convention to the next ensuingjpresidential Sitting ; and a final appeal , on such questions , sh ^ i . If thought necessary hj the localities , bs onade . from the Prssidental Sitting to the next ensuing Annual Convention , : "
tOCAX GOVEBSME 5 T . 3 . The local government of the Association shag be vested in a body of General CouncOlora of the ^ ssocinTion , ' ehossn on the first Monday of Daeember , in each year , in tasir lespectivfr localities , in anch numbers , and after such shxIb , as the resident members may judge fit ; and the said General Councillors « b » H enter on office on the first day of Jsnnary following their election . 10 . A sab-secretary aad sub-treasurer of the Associa tion , members of ihe General Council and selected from It by &e members of the Association , shall alas reside in each locality , and shall assist the Secretary and Treasurer of the Convention in the general government of the Association .
SEG 1 SXSATJ 03 . 21 . Bach sub-Secretary shall be furnished by the Secretary of Convention "with a yearly register ^ and \ sith monthly class-pipers , arranged on a uniform-plan , from time to time , at the October Presidential Sittings In the yearly xejgisten the sub-Secretaries shall en&r the names , residences , trades , age , franchise , and amount of family of the members in their respec tive localities , and the amount of pecuniary pay ments by each member . The monthly class-pap ^ ra shall be formed to receive from twelve to twenty names "with columns for pecuniary payments .
12 . The Secretary of Convention shall receive from each sub-Secretary a monthly classified account of the number of ciambers in his locality , and siiall publish fhs same for the information of the Association at large , in suci a mode , and at such periods , as shall fee deterjBined bb , r fnnn fene to t ime , by the Animal Gonven « ans , aidibs PrEaidenBal Sitting . j :
- ' - ; v 7 CHTBB *! . FDJCD . 13 Thfl'GWr 3 l-P ^ rf ^? fafio i ^ Gltarto - 4 K > - « aiaon ahaH be fonsed bj tt » collection of one penny on the first Jflonday ^ l each- , calendar mongi , f « an each membetel : fte : Aswdttion vho oax afford the sms ; by aw « ba ^ e of one 2 &a > y to eachcxrd ol
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msmberablp , renewed on the first of January in each year ; by the payment , on the part of the localities , of such sums for the yearly registers and monthy « Ussbooks as shall be agreed upon , from time to time , by the ATynnM Conventions , or the Presidential Sittings ; and by such ether voluntary contributions on the part of the members of the Association as may be devised and agreed to by their general good-will in case of emergency . 14 . From the said General Fund shall be defrayed the travelling expenses from and to their localities , of the representatives to the A-nnmrt Conventions , together with the allowances , during the period of Conventional sitting , of sixty shillings per week to the Secretary , fifty shillings per week t « the President , Yice-President , Treasurer and Tice-Sscretary respectively , and forty ahStingsper ¦ week to eacbjother member
ef the A . TiT ) n » l Convention . Prom thesaid General Fond shall also be defrayed the travelling expenses , from and to their localities , of each officer of the Convention attending the Presidential Sittings mentioned inBule 6 , together "with the allowances during the said sittings , of fifty shillings per "wetk to the Secretary , and forty shillings per "week to the President , ITice-President , Treasurer , and Vice-Secretary reapecti-yely—provided each of those officers attend the Presidential Sitting . From the said , Genera ) Fund shall also be-defrayed the -weekly salary of forty shillings which the Secretary of Convention shall receive throughout the remainder of his year of effice . And , from the said General Fund shall be defrayed all other contingent expenses of the Annual Conventions , Presidential Sittings , printing of registers , cards , and , in brief , all the general expenses of the National Charter Association .
15 . The Treasurer of Convention shall receive from each Sub-Treasurer a monthly remittance of the pecuniary payments made in his locality for the purposes of the General Fund , —and shall publish an account of the same , as "well as of his enrrent disbursements , for the information of the Association at large , in such mode , and at such periods , as shall be determined on , from time to time , by the Ayi-nm ^ Conventions , and the Presidential Sittings ,
LOCAL 7 UNDS . 16 . The local funds of the Association shall be raised by the collection of one penry on the remaining Mondays of each calendar month , from each member of the Association who can afford the same , and by such other means , and after such mode , as the members of the General Council resident in each locality may devise . GE > IKA 1 iECTCBEBS . 17 . The Annual Conventions and Presidential Sittings shall have the power of employing general lecturers , either tot breaking up new districts , or for the performance of agitating service for specific purposes in districts already organized : the number of such general lecturers , the periods of their engagements and the amount of their remuneration , to be determined by the state of the general fund and the necessities of the Association .
PESALT 1 ES . 18 . * Any general or local officer of the National Charter Association found advocating a compromise of Chartist principles , joining any society having fer its professed object a less measure-cf Taolitical justice than that contained in the People ' s Charter , or signing any document testifying his willingness to receive a less measure of political justice than that contained in the People ' s Charter , shall be forth \ rith deprived of office by the body of members in general meeting assembled , in or throughout their localities . 19 . The general and local officers of the Association nhatt each and all be liable to deprivation of office by the body of members in general meeting atsgaibled , in and througnont the localities , for defalcation in accounts , misappropriation of the Association's funds , or gross and wilful neglect of duty .
srppir of tacascies . 20 . In c * se of the death , retirement , removal , or d ^ pmSRs ^ i of the President , Vice President , Treasurer , Secretary , or Vice-Secretary of Convention , or any or all of them , before the expiring of toe Conventional year , their office shall be filled by those members of the Convention respectively , who had the next highest number of votes for either of the said offices , and in case of the death , retirement , or disqualification of any of the said members of Convention who had the next highest number ef votes for either of the beforementioned offices , the members of the Annual Convention shall address public letters from their residences , respectively , to the members of the National Charter Association , declaring for what member of the Convention they vote to fill the vacant office ; and the vacant office shall be filled by the individual named in tie majority of such declarations .
21 . All vacancies occasioned by the death , retirement , removal , or dismissal of snVSecretaries . sub-Treasurers , or General Councillors of the Association , shall be filled up by the body of members resident in their respective localities , in general meeting assembled , 'within one fortnight of the occurrence of such vacancies .
MEA 5 S FOB . THE ATTAISMEST OP THE GHIAT EHD . 22 . The members of the National Charter Association shall actively promote the Parliamentary election of candidates espousing the principles of the Pesple ' s Charter , preferring such Chartist candidates as are lcgnlly qualified to sit in Parliament . 23 . The members of the National Charter Association shall also attend all public political meetings , and there , either by moving amendments , or by other legal and peaceful means , eufoice a discussion of the People ' s rights and claims—so that none may remain in ignorance of what Chartists seek , nor any have the oppor tunity of propagating or perpetuating political ignorance or delusion .
2 i . The members of the National Charter Associa tion shall earnestly recommend each other , by precept and example , to the practice of temperance and uprightness;—to cultivate the intellect and moral feel ings ;—to fulfil the golden mwriTn— " Dd unto others as ye would they should do unto yon j "—to trade with each other , and assist each other in case of sickness or distress , and in finding employment;—assured that the growth of each and all in intelligence and virtue will be thB best and surest guarantee for success in the pursuance of their great and grand object—the establishment of liberty and happiness for the millio : s , by the passing of " The People's Charter" into the law of the land .
The Northern Star , Saturday, January 7, 1843.
THE NORTHERN STAR , SATURDAY , JANUARY 7 , 1843 .
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We presume that , by this time at all events , the miBd of the people will be pretty well settled npon the fact that our worst suspicions of the Stukge men have been more than realised ; and that onr often expressed opinion of their policy was the result of a pretty clear perception of their true character . The Conference being over , and the excitement it was calculated to produce having had some little time to subside ; it will naturally be expected that it should occupy some portion of our attention and remark , as a passing circumstance a historical record of the day .
"We proceed therefore to point the attention of our readers to the facts of this Conference , ^ 3 they successively occurred , in proof and corroboration of what we have always thought and said of the motives and purposes of the parties by whom it was projected . We always suspected the sincerity of those parties ; we never supposed that they had any such purpose as that about which they affected to seem anxious—a onion with the working classes , for the object of "fall , fair , a » d free" representation . We believed them always to be enemies in their hearts to the principles they pretended to
espouse ; we believed ways that their purpose was , nnder the pretence of seeking Union ,, to make and perpetuate division in the Universal Suffrage ranks . We never concealed our suspicions from the people ; bat we did not magnify those suspicions into facts ; we left that for the Complete Suffrage men themselves to do . We advised the people not to trust them ; bnt we also adfised them not to interrupt or denounce them . We advised the people always to deal with them cautiously , bnt yet kindly , and with friendliness ; that if our suspicions should be wrong .
and if they should turn out , after all , to be honest , no obstacle might be thrown in the way of their achieving the beneficial purposes which they avowed . Onr tone npon the matter has been sorely annoying to them . They have seen the probability of its frustrating their wily projects , and they have ^ een very restless under the apprehension . Hence the incessant efforts" of their secret emissaries , as well as of their avowed advocates , to break down by any means ,
no matter how vile , the plaguy " watch tower . " We have been also much carped at for our "illiberal jealousies " and " unworthy suspicions" by a few honest and good natured , but very shortsighted persons in oar own ranks . We doubt not that the erents of this Conference will have folly Bhowu these latter parties " who's who , " and " what's what "; while they justify the derisive smile with which we have regarded the exertions of the formergentry . The whole facts of the Conference , and the whole bearing of its authors , from its ? ery first
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opening , afford evidence that no design for aaion m pursuit of a common object was entertained by any but the Chartists who had gone there ;—that Stcb . gb and hiB whole" clique of movers , so far from wishing union , were , from the first moment , determined not to anite . Their plans were well laid , and their operations craftily conducted , for moulding the Conference to their own ends or destroying its
efficiency ; for successfully cajoliDg or defying that publio opinion of which they had courted the expression . And in case of their being unable to do this , their dernier ressort , the leaving of the Conference en masse , was determined upon before ever they came to it . We prove this out 6 f the mouth of Stubce himself , whoBe opening -speech anticipated and contemplated a retirement from the chair .
The first move of the Sturqe men was to defy public opinion ; and impudently to block ! ont by wholesale such delegates as they despaired of making tools of . This had been craftily provided for in the circular convening the Conference , which made it imperative that the credentials of each delegate should be sent to the Council some days before the Conference . This move did not escape our notice at the time . We suspected its purpose and watched the result . The result was just what we anticipated . The Council , finding a large number of the delegates returned to be men with whom it was
hopeless to tamper , resolved on the bold step of refusing to them tickets of admission ; and score after score of Chartist delegates were told as they arrived , that thsir elections were disputed and that the Council could aot give them tickets . The ferment which this produced showed the Council that "it would not do "; that it displayed the cloven-foot too nakedly , and that it was consequently sure to defeat its own purpose . After many meetings , therefore , and much consultation , another " dodge " was had recourse to , the " list" system was invented ; " list number one" was manufactured as " the
Conference , " to whom and to whose sense of right , tlte admission or rejection of all the other delegates shonld be committed . Tickets were therefore given to the objected CbartistB ; but they were to sit conditienally on the vote of the selected " list , ' who were to have power , if they thought proper , to reject them all at once and in a ma-s , without further inquiry or ceremony , by a single peremptory vote . True , the Council made the shew of liberality m recommending that a portion of them should be admitted by vote ; but we are wicked enough to suspect that they calculated pretty strongly that the
prepossessions of their friends would be too powerful for the " recommendation " , or that their shrewdness would see through the " dodge , " and that therefore despite the " recommendation , " they would be rejected . We are by no means sure that secret instructions to this effect were not circulated among the Complete Suffrage delegates , in any case , I never was proposition more insulting to a deliberte body made than that of the Complete Suffrage Council , thus to constitute the Conference of their own picked men , many of whom had no right , by their
own rules even , to sit there at all , and to recom * mend that these parties should admit the rightful representatives of the people by a voteJ It was certainly as finished a piece of impudence as we have lately seen . It was met , however , as it should be , by the Conference ; and the " artful dodgers" were shown that "the trick would not take "; that the Chartists whom they had invited , having too much spirit to be impudently shut out , had also too much sense to be thus insolently and degradingly " let in" .
It is quite clear , as we have already intimated from the opening speech of Stubgh , that all this had been anticipated in their " councils " , and tint they had made up their minds to the course of action which they afterwards adopted , m case of M the worst coming to the worst " . That fact might , so far as they are concerned , excuse our further notice of the matter ; but we hold that every circumstance rightly used , is fraught with valuable information to the people . We shall proceed , therefore , to analize the doings and sayings of the Conference with a
view to public benefit . We proceed to tell the people what we think of it ; what we think of the acts done by it ; what we think of the several actors concerned in it ; and what we think of the results of it as a whole . We shall do this honestly and candidly ; dealing unfairly by no one ; having no purpose to " denounce" any one , but without any regard to the " denunciation" howl . For the proceedings of the minority Conference , and generally of the Complete Suffrage parties , we shall , as we did before , take their own organ , the Nonconformist , as our text book .
The next point offnete after the constitution and opening of the Conference was the appointment of a tribunal before which all contested and disputed claims should be tried ; and here again the " dodgers" showed themselveB " wide awake " . The ** Complete list" of the Rev . Mr . Brewster was to be sure a little too bad ; " it was seen at once to be beside the mark , and was scouted by his whole party . Poor Beewsteb is a sad mar-all ; wherever he appears , he is sure to " put his foot in it" ; and , simply because he is too honest for the party with whom he works . He carries his whole character
engraven oh Mb front ; and tells people at once what he intends . This policy fits ill with the wily amalgamation of hypocrisy and cunning which constitutes the basis of the Sturgemen ' s operations . HiB straightforward proposition to appoint at once a committee of friends was seen to be no go , be cause it was sure to do the very thing it did doprovoke a counter list ; and the Council well knew that if a Greek must meet Greek " they would find themselves behind . Designing men always prefer stratagem to struedes ,
The Sturgemen saw that another " dodge" could be played here . The functions of this committee were all-important ; they might yet decide the game . And hence the cunning motion of the Suffrage men , " that the nine names first drawn out of the hat should be the Committee . " Twenty-six nominations had been made—only nine were wanted . A little dexterous shuffling might manage to secure them by this process the whole , or nearly so , of the Committee ; at all events they had chance luck in their favour ; while a vote fof the Conference upon the meritB of each man was almost sure to constitute
the Committee of men who would do right . We saw a few of those who are called Chartists , voting on this motion with the " artful dodgers , " among which were three of the delegates from Leeds , and two of those from Hull . We understand the excuse made to be , that it was a matter of minor consequence ; and that the time of the Conference would have been saved by the hap-haurd mode . The constituents of these parties will , of course , give to this excuse what weight they please . Tous it is only , in the mildest view of it , an evidence of gullibility , that should make the people very careful how they again trust the judgment of parties who have shown that they can be so easily imposed on . Fortunately , however
the majority of the Conference thought differently , and a Committee was appointed in whom that majority had confidence ; that the matters to be bronght before them would be honestly decided ; and judging the character of the Complete Suffrage men from the conduct of their body as a whole , we might probably conclude that that vote saved the Conference . This was evidently Mr . Brkwstbb's opinion , who in his ravings of disappointment at the rejection of his " Complete list , " warned his "Sucking Pig" friends most bitterly that they would find enough of room and place for repentance of the course they were pursuing ; and who , as the best next thing to his own " list , " supported the " hap-hazard" motion of his more subtle friends .
We come now to the grand struggle of the Conference upon the resolutions of Mr . Beggs and upon Mr . Lovett's motion . Upon this we shall have so much to say illustrative of the real animus and character of the " Sucking Pig" party ; g much to say of the many ingenious pitfalls dug by
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faction for the advocates of principle ; so much to say of the clear developements of middle class character ] ; and so much to eay of the oily faces and yet treacherous hearts of some seeming and pretended Chartists , that we apprehend it might protract this article to a length greatly beyond what our readers would desire . We therefore , for the present , break , off . and shall return at this point , next week .
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THE EXECUTIVE'S LAST . —MR . COOPER ' S f PLAN OF ORGANIZATION . Wshad purposed to have no more of the Executive brawl ; save what might appertain to the fulfilment of their challenge , if they ever do fulfil it , which we don't expect . But it eeems that , like the Irish Soldier undergoing punishment , " there is no pleasing them . " The opening of the Star to an exposure of their delinquencies was a mighty offence against which they andtheir / mn ( fo , the " expectants , '» have bellowed long and loudly . The closing of its columns to the " brawl" which they had contrived to be raised , suited them still worse ; and , as will be seen from the report , they required that the report of their own meeting , called by themselves , should
beinse ? ted . Now we have shutout very many columns of whpleBome strictures on their conduct from nearly all parts of the kingdom , simply because of the cry of " unfairness" set up about the using of the Star against them , notwithstanding that it was at the same time open to their replies . However , wo will please them if we can . We have great pleasure , therefore , at the especial request of Mr . James Leach and his colleagues , in again opening our columns for the insertion of this report . Let them , however , remember that they have now cancelled all the voluntary obligations entered into by us to them . The mantle of silence is no longer over their defections .
The report reached us only to-day ( Thursday ); we have , therefore , no opportunity to comment on it this week ; but reserve our right to do e ^ j if necessary , on : a future opportunity . With respect to Mr . Cooper's Plan of Organization , which our readers will perceive is recommended by some of the individuals who were present at the Conference , we can only at present refer to it , and request that its provisions may be carefully read . Wo can give no opinion on them now ; but may probably do so in our next . The matter is one in which the people should not act hastily . They should mind what they are about ; as a false step generally taken might entail fatal consequences .
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TO THE CHARTIST PUBLIC . My Friends , —Because I love justice under all circumstances—because I would not wink at that in our own body which I denounce in others ; I have thought it my duty to call your attention to certain gross and flagrant violations of our constitution by our own officers . The duty was a very painful and a very unpleasant one ; but I saw it to be a duty , and therefore t did it . I never yet shrunk from duty , because it might happen to be more pKasant or more profitable to evade it : I trust I never shall . I never yet ' slunk from my post , because it had become difficult or dangerous to maintain it : I trust I never shall .
For the performance of my disagreeable duty in commenting honestly and boldly , giving my reasons for ^ everything I said , upon the public documents of the Executive Committee , I have been loaded with every species of abuse aud vituperation by all the respective members of the Executive , save Mr . Williams . ' Not one of my allegations has been met ; not one of my arguments has been answered ; but I have been abused , vilified , and slandered . Counter accusations of the most malignant character have been got up . Tho most atrocious falsehoods have
been asserted about my being concerned in divers plots and conspiracies . I have demanded the proofs : no proofs have been offered ; but the parties have travelled from place to place , repeating the statements , as though they were true . This ia not right : it ik not fair . After the proofs of the " plots" and " conspiracies" in which I am alleged to have been , concerned , had been demanded , it was not right in any Chartist audience to listen to a repetition of the statement , until those proofs had been furnished . " Fair play is a jewel ; " and I have as much right'to it as any other man .
If the Allegations against me can be proved , let them be provbd . And then the question stands juBt where it did . Call me " assassin , " " villain , " " rogue , " " traitor , " and every other choice name which has been applied to me ; and what then ? Does that prove that the Executive have not violated the principles of our constitution , and of Chartism ; that they have not neglected the one single
duty they were appointed to perform ; that they have not makppropriated the hard-earned pence of the poo | people committed to their care ! These are the matters to be answered ; and they will not be answered by mere abuse of me ; and if you permit abuse of me to be substituted for an answer to them , or if tyou permit them to pass unanswered , you forfeit the consistency of your own character , as a publio body .
Some members of the Executive , not content with venting their abuse at me through the columns of m , y own paper , have " bounced" and " swaggered " not a fittle about " dragging me before a publ . ic meeting" —about " walking barefoot" for the purpose of doing so—about " following me to the gates of Hell" —and such like rubbishly bombast . This may " take , * ' when delivered , in my absence , to the people , while their blood is just warm from a onesided speech—fraught ) perhaps with
misrepresentation asp falsehood—and while they are thus prevented from reflecting fairly on all sides of the matter . It may serve , under such circumstances , to bring down a clap ; aud , perhaps , in some minds , to excite a prejudice against me . But the reflecting and discriminating will estimate it at its true worth . They will know that it is intended merely to close their eyes to the fact , that though ample opportunity has been given for every allegation againBt the Executive to be answered , they have not answered one of them . '
1 deny the right of either the Executive , or any body else , to represent the inquiry now going on into the conduct of tho Executive as a quarrel between me and them . It is no such thing . In the Northern Star 1 have merely , as a journalist , given honest comments upon facts and documents . I had a right to do this ; and no man had a right to complain of it . I ask nobody to take my opinions for more than they are worth , and I have as much right to express my opinions as any other man . I have done more than most journalists would have done in giving free admission to coarse and scurrilous vituperation in reply . I have given the free use of my own columns to the Executive , not only
as a body , but to every member singly , in reply to every thing I said . They have us ^ d them for that purpose . They have said and written in the Northern Star , both collectively and individnally , whatever they liked . What more do they want ! Wiiat more have they a right to ! I have already given them muoh more liberty for defence than they were at all entitled to ; because my observations oq their conduct were general and directed against i ; e body ; while I have given free room to , them to reply in both capacities ; both as a bodyjasjjd a ' s individuals . And I deny the right of any man , or set of men , to expect me after that to waste time in publio discussion with them .
But to leave no room for escape ; and lest it may be said that I am valiant only in the Star , and that I fear discussion , I am quite ready to meet either Mr . Leaoh or any other member of the Executive , as an authorised representative of that body , at any mutually convenient time and place ; and then and there , as a member and councillor of the National Charter Association , to make good hy charge AGAINST THE EXECUTIVE CliP HAViriG VIOLATED THE
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PLAN OF ORGANIZATION WHICH THEY WERE APPOINTED TO ENFOHCE , AND OF HAVING THEREIN MANIFESTED A . DISREGARD OF CHARTIST PRINCIPLE AND OF MORAL AND POLITICAL HONESTY . i I make the charge against them now ; as a body I have proved it in the Northern Star ; &nd I am ready to prove it before a publio meeting ; stipulating only for a free , open , and fair discussion before ! the people—a clear stage
and no favour , j Fair play is all I ask . If any Member of the ; Executive be prepared to meet me upon that question , having authority from the other members of -the Executive to appear as the champion of the body and to defend the acts of the body , he will find me quite ready . I will meet any other man in England , on the same conditions . But mind : I deal jwith the Executive , as a body ; not with any individual ; my time is a little too valuably to be wasted in individual
squabbles . I deny , the right of the Executive , or any of them , to claim from me -any other opportunity o ' f defence than that they have already had . I repeat that even that has been made more ample than they had any right to . But if pub ^ lie discussion of the matter will gratify them—and they talk loudly about it—I am quite ready . Let them appoint their man ; no matter to me whom "• Leach , M'Douall , Bairstow , Campbell—or even any volunteer , in whose powers of eloquence and tact they may have more ) confidence than in their own ; I am ready for any man , let him be but duly authorized , the arrangements fairly made , and the discussion fairly and openly conducted .
Whenever either or asy op them may be ready authorised to appear for the executive , he has only to apprise me . i will then name a few friends , ane | the executive shall name a like number by whom all the preliminaries FOR THE DISCUSSION ; ' SHALL BE AGREED ON ; and I fancy I am quite able to give them enough of it . If the " boiuncing" of M'Douall and of Leach have been authorized by the Executive , they will take this as the acceptance of their challenge ; if it have been only individual "bounce , " I have something else to do than to notice it .
And now mind ; let us have no misunderstandings and no shirking nor shuffling . I have been forced into this position , very unfairly , and very much against my inclination ; I am not now to be forced out of it again . If the Executive mean discussion , I am their man ; arid whether they mean it' or not I do . I have been challenged ; and : I accept the challenge . As the challenged , I have a right to fix the place of meeting ; and I fix ifcat Manchester , where the Execntive will surely have every advantage ; where Mr . Leach , if he be their champion , will be at home and have no expence in
travelling ; where the Executive should be best known and have most influence ; where ChaTtilm has a stronger hold ton the population than in any other town in England ; where they have had the full opportunity during all this time of making a party lor themselves by telling their own tale their own way , with none to contradict them ; where Mr . Leach has had full swing at me in my absence , to vent whatever fabrications aud perversions he pleased , in private circles or public
meetings , ad libitum ; at Manchester ; in the very midst of his own friends , disciples and admirers ; where the people have ] at their own command a spacious building in which they have been so long used to be delighted with his eloquence , and to hear his denunciations of me , I am quite ready to meet Mr James Leaoh , or any other champion , of the Executive , and there prove—j 1 st . That the Exeotive have neglected the duties of their office . i
2 nd . That they have violated the organisation they were appointed to enforce . ' 3 rdly . That they have done so wilfully , after repeated caution and remonstrance . 4 thly . That they have wrongfully appropriated the monies of the Association to their own use and benefit . 5 thly . That they have both manifested ia their own conduct , and countenanced in that of others , a disregard of Chartist prinoiplo .
I offer to prove all these things against them in Manchester—their own town ; where their sittings have been holden ; where their popularity as lecturers is greatest ; and where , as an Executive , hey should be best known . I ask only " a clear stage and no favour "; that one full week's notice , in the Northern Star , and by whatever other means the Executive may please , shall be given of the meeting ; I that it shall be holden in either the Hall of Science , or Carpenter's Hall ; that free admission be given to the people ; that no effort at " packing ? shall be made , but that the meeting be fair , free , { and open . I will pay one half the rent of the room , if held in the Hall of
Science , ( if held in Carpenters' Hall , I presume there will be no rent ) , ! and my own travelling and personal charges out of my own pocket ; I will advertise the meeting in the Northern Star at my own cost ; the other half of the room rent ( if in the Hall of Science ) , their own travelling , if any , and personal expences , and | whatever other mode of advertising they choose to adopt , to be defrayed by them —also out of their own pockets ; not touching the people ' s funds for it . The meeting to beat sjme time mutually convenient for attendance . All other matters relating to the discussion to be settled , without ' either their interference or mine , by a committee of five friends on each side to be named for the purpose .
Now ; is this fair ? 1 repeat that they have no right to expect this . My meeting them in discussion at a ^ l is a pure work of supererogation . But notwithstanding that , as they talk much about itand as they would fain have it believed that they attach much importance to it , there ' s the chance for them . Let them appoint their man ; ( I care not who it may be ;) let him telljme when he is ready and I will instantly name my friends , aud the arrangement shall be made . \ After this matter is settled , let them bring their counter accusations if they dare . I am ready to answer in like manner to ANY CHARGES which they , or any of them , or any man in England , may be disposed to bring against me .
" A public meeting is the Justice Hall for me "; and to that tribunal I dare the whole pack of yelpers , whenever they have the manliness to put their charges into a tangible shape , as I have done , and " come fairly out" ! \ l Earnestly desiring to see consistency of character among Chartists ; and to see our movement purged of the ranting , mouthing locusts , who have done it much harm , I am , my Friends , Vour's , faithfully , William Hill . Northern Star ofilce , Leeds , Dec . 20 , 1842 .
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Tar . Secretaries of the ; Shoemakers Societies held in Sunderland , Oreenock , and Newcastle- on-Tyne , will oblige by \ immediately communicating with S . Clark , Pied Horse , Chiswell-street . Finsbury , and state their \ address . Ma . Peter Foden , of Sheffield , would be glad to know the address of Mr . Peter Shorrocks . Will Caroline Maria } Williams send her address to Susannah Inge , \ 23 , Great Warner-street , Clerkenusell , London , as she wishes to communicate with her 1 j A Political Martyr . —{ His second communication hat been received , i John Mooney , Colne . —; WV have a / ready stated that
we cannot insert lists of Council received at this office after Wednesday mo'ning . He will find the list he sent on Thursday in the Star of this week . With respect ] to his other report , we can only " cut our coat according to our cloth , ' and curtail long reports it hen we have net room for them , nor time to set them up . Correspondents must remember that we have only a given amount of space and timefsA everything . Falkirk Chartists . — - \ Ve do not preserve copies of communications when not inserted . We do not remember the one they allude to . B . Butterley , Halifax . — H ' c only received the report of the Halifax election after the delegates had gone to Birmingham . It was then of no use .
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D . M . Millar , Glasgow . —The Idler of Daniel O'Connell to which he refers was in our second Edition ; it was only omitted from the fint by being accidentally left out of his parcel by our Reporter and consequently not recieved soon enough . R . and J . —We have no room . ' J . C . Grady must stand over till our next . " A Chartist'' must consult an attorney . O . P . Q ,. — We have no recollection of the matter . H . B . Marley . —We decline answering ; not conceiving the question to be a fair one . We have already given Mr . Farra ' s statement , and think that ought to satisfy Mr . Marley .
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J . Brewer . —Send the money to Mr . John Cleare , 1 Shoe-fane , London : be ia treasurer . * T . Mills . —Call again about the 10 th : they will be sent by first parcel , Thomas Holbrook . —Six weeks for each . To Agents . —Those Agents who have received their Accounts are requested-Jo send the amounts due immediately . FOR THE NATIONAL DEFENCE FUND . £ s . d From Inverness , collected by a few friends during the Christmas Holidays ... 0 is 0 ^ Sanderland , per Q . Esplia ... ... 0 19 5 w . Qaick Stavera in Sowerby ... « , 0 11 0 „ the Chartists of Hoibeck , by John Davies ... # 50
FOR MR . ELLISS DEFENCE . From Henry Shann , Wortley 0 3 a FOR MRS . ELLIS . From an aged Female Teetotaller , Tavistock e i . 0 FOR THE CHARTISI DELEGATES TO THF BIRMINGHAM CONFERENCE . From C . T ., Britons do your duty 0 1 S „ Fiah , Witham ... 010
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RECEIPTS . Cards . £ s d Ahnondbury ... ... _ 0 1 D Birmingham , Ashton-strcet — 0 10 4 Steelhouse-lane — 110 Uarnstaple ... ... ... 50 0 0 0 Bristol , Youths ... ... — 0 6 © Broomsgrove ... ... 50 0 0 0 Bristol , J . N . and J . George — 0 2 0 Belper ... ... ... 100 0 0 0 Barnoldswick ... ... 70 0 0 0 Bilston , Mr . Linney ... ... 200 0 0 0 Bingiey ... ... ... — 0 3 4 Bath ... ... ... — 0 4 6 Burnley ... ... ... 50 0 8 4
Brighton , Mr . Morling ... 50 1 2 10 Mr . Flowers ... 50 0 8 4 Basford ... ... ... 50 0 14 6 Clithero ... ... ... 50 0 0 0 Cheltenham ... ... — 0 J 3 4 Cocker mouth ... ... 60 0 0 0 Coalbrook Dale ... ... 700 0 11 1 Crow and Tyrrell ' s Beverage ... — 3 0 0 Crockford ' s ditto ... ... — 0 5 0 Carlisle ... ... ... 200 10 0 Chelmsford ... ... ... — 0 2 6 Carrington ... ... ... — 0 4 0 Cullingworth ... ... — 0 8 0 Chatteris ... ... ... i ; 0 2 0 Dalton — 0 13
DenhoJme ... ... ... — 0 2 0 Deptford ... — 0 12 0 Exeter ... ... ... 25 0 0 0 Friend , Sussex ... ... — 0 2 6 Mole ... ... ... — 0 0 8 Hanley and Shelton , Mr . Simpson 50 0 0 0 Upper Hanley , Mr . Richards 300 0 0 0 Honley ... ... ... — 0 2 6 Haslingden ... ... ... 50 0 0 0 Hatvonh ... ... ... — 0 10 Idle ... — 0 18 Kirkheaton ... ... ... — 0 4 8
Kettering ... ... ... — 10 0 Keighley ... ... ... — 0 4 2 Kingston , ... ... .. — 0 2 6 London , Wheeler , ... ... 110 0 18 4 Simpson , ... ... 84 0 14 6 Islington , ... ... — 0 2 0 Tower Hamlets , Females , — 0 5 0 Westminster , Southie , — 0 2 9 Clerkenwell ,... ... 36 0 6 0 Marylebone , ... ... 100 0 8 4 Bermondsey ,... ... 25 0 5 0 Cleave , ... ... 100 0 0 0 Bootmakers , Brittain niaCoffeehouse , ... ... — 0 2 0 : Stuff Hatters 6 0 II 0 Brompton & Knightsbridge , 0 10 9 £ Rock Locality , Carpenters , 0 2 1 Shoreditch , ... ... — 0 3 0 Milend , Shaw , ed . cds . 4 0 2 0 Lambeib , Youths ... ' 12 0 2 0 Gold Beater ' s Arms ... — 0 2 0 Camberwell ... ... — 0 2 6 Tower Hamlets ... — 0 2 6 Star Coffee-house ,
Goldenlane ... ... — 0 17 5 Bloomsbury ... ... 12 0 7 0 Three Doves , Tailors ... — 0 2 0 Marylebone ,... ... — 0 3 0 i King and Queen , Foley-st . ^— 0 8 0 St . Pancras ... ... 25 0 4 2 j Hammersmith ... — 0 9 0 ? Finsbury ... ... — 0 4 0 Carvers and Gilders ... 18 0 5 0 Clockhouse ... ... 36 0 6 0 Leicester , Cooper ... 540 0 0 0 Leeds- ... ... 200 2 , 0 0 Liverpool , 12 ed . cds . and ... 80 0 0 0 Lougbboro ... ... ... 300 0 0 0 Longton ... ... ... 120 0 0 0
Lewes ... ... ... — 0 3 0 Llanledoes ... ... ... 20 0 0 0 Manchester Youths , ed . cds . ... 6 0 0 0 Manchester Fustian Cutters ... 80 0 0 0 Manchester Mechanics ... 52 0 0 0 Manchester Smiths ... ... 50 0 0 0 Manchester Painters ... ... — 0 11 0 Manchester Shoemakers . ' .. — 0 8 0 Nottingham Democratic Chapel — 0 10 0 Nag ' s Head ... — 0 10 0 Rancliffe Arms ... — 6 10 0 . Robin Hood ... — 13 0 Norwich ... ... ... — 0 10 0 Preston ... ... ... 35 0 0 0 jRothorham « . ... ... 100 0 0 0 Ross ... ... ... ... 100 0 0 0 Richmond ... ... ... — 0 5 0
Salisbury ... ... ... — 0 4 2 Sowerby ... ... ... — 0 5 5 Stafford ... ... ... — 0 5 0 Star Coffee-house ... — 2 12 Oi Sheffield ... ed . cds . 12 448 0 0 0 Political Institute ( Harney ) 300 0 0 0 Sunnyside ... ... ... 90 0 0 0 Sheerness ... ... ... — 0 2 0 St . Albans ... ... 16 3 0 0 0 Shipley ... ... ... — 0 0 8 Todmorden ... ... ... — 10 0 Tavistock ... ... ... 18 0 10 2 Worcester ... ... ... 64 0 0 0 Wilton ... ... ... — 0 3 0 Wilsden — 0 13 Yew Green ... ... ... — 0 3 2 Yeovil ... ... ... — 0 6 0
; ! Total Income ... £ 34 16 0 EXPENCES . To 5 . 000 Cards printing ... ... 5 10 0 To 13 weeks' wages for Leach ... 0 0 0 Ditto , ditto M'Douall ... 6 0 0 Ditto , ditto Bairstow ... 7 12 0 To Postage for 12 weeks ... ... 2 ) 7 2 To Stationer , ditto ... ... ... 0 17 2 To Newspapers ... ... ... 0 8 6 Secretary travelling from Liverpool to
London ... ... ... 2 2 0 Error in Tavistock account ... ... 0 11 0 IPue to Treasurer last Balance-sheet ... 113 3 $ Secretary ' s wages for 15 weeks ... 7 4 2 £ Total Expences £ 34 16 0
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BALANCE SHEET OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF THE NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION , ENDING DEC . 31 st , 1842 .
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TO THE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . Friends and Fellow-labourers in the cause of injured humanity , —Ia taking the liberty of addressing you on a subject in which t feel as much interested as though I was one of your members , anil with which men are connected , on both sides , for whom I entertain the highest respect ; my object is not to take any particular side in the matter , but to point out to you what 1 told many of your friends at Birmingham , what I consider your duty to be . Hot only to yourselves , but to all concerned , and the-only means by which the matter can be set at jesi While at Birmingham last week , attending the Conference , I observed with painful feelings the spirit created by the disputes between the Executive and other parties . This spirit , I am sorry to find , is not confined to tho Executive on the one hand , and an individual or two on the other ; but on tho one hand are found large numbers complaining agapnst tne Executive , and , on the other , as ni&j naturally be supposed , others complaining of what tliey consider unjust attacks on the Executive , pan be shewn that Mr . Hill is guilty of what is insinuated against him , let it be done iu due course ; but do not mix up that with the charges against your servants . Let Mr . Hill be as base as he is represented , that is no reason why you , as an Association , shouild not look strictly alter your own servants . Mr . ' Hill ia not the only one who charges them with not having done their duty : the matter is not between
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 7, 1843, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1194/page/4/
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