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PROGRESS 05 THE REPEAL MOVEMENT . 3 ) BMO 2 ? STBA 22 O 2 f AT ATHLOXB . On Sunday Jasfc , & dFmonEtration in favour of the ajovement to proenre for Ireland a Parliament of leroirn ,-ffssmadeat Aihlone . ' Tne meeting took place 5 b ihs extenHve lawn facing Mr . Mnrphj'e i ^ denee-at Summerloll { three miles from Athlone ) . Tast numbers , headed bj their clergymen , came from ^ iistant places . The-. ground adjoining the platform -was occnpied by a- dense body of friezeeo&ied listeners , who -were pricked ( to sse a simile of ^ iheir own ) as closely as "ienajgs in a barreL " Ontside these irare a nnmber of horsemen , and abontiiftyor sixty private Tehicles called " cars . " Scattered over the rest of the fidd were several thousands more . A considerable portion of these ¦ were -women , who being for the most -part attired in light-coloured gowns andre ^ shawls , gare t © the scene rather an imposing aspect .
Mr . O'Connell arrived about ten o'doek last night from ffiiT"s and having slepi at Mr . Murphy ' s , came into Aihlone ihia morning to hear mass , after ¦ which he repaired to an open pars of the town , called She Sootch Parade , where he received from the trades of Athlon e an address of gratitude ** for Ms giant strnggles to restore their robbed Pariiameat , and place Ireland -prondjy amoBj ; the nations of lha Barih . " Mr . O'Cenneu , a ^ oinpaisied iy Tola Steele , came from Athlone io Summerhill , at the head of a procession of the trades , who . carried large banners * and were preceded « nd followed by bands of ransc Tbey did not arrive at the place of meeting until near three o ' clock . On the trinmphal arch placed across the road , near the entrance to
SuiamerhuL , "was the following inscription : — " The slave-Easier nsay brandish his whip , bst we are determined to be free . Beware ! Physical force is a dangerous experiment to try upon the Irish people Hepeal shall not he pnt down by the bayonet . " 3 jbere were two platforms—one for gentlemen , the other for ladies . On the former were inscribed . "God save lhe Queen . " ° A British Monarch , but an Irish Parliament . * ' * The ipan who commits a crime gives strength to the enemy . " And on the latter , the declaration of the Fleming Chronicle , that * " a population of 9 , 000 , 000 is too great to be dragged at the tail of another nation . " There were present at the meeting npirards of 100 Roman Catholic clergymen . On tbB motion of Mr . R . D . Bso"ktjb , M . P .,
Lord PrBSKfH took the chair , and on doing so said that he accepted with pleasure the high honour of presiding over an assembly distrotjuisfaed . as was the present by every attrlBnte calculated t © give it immense importance , and hallowed by the sacred cause in which it was engaged . Where was the Irishman who would forego his country for a commissioa of the peace—tebeers)—or find a counterpoise to her interests in official distinction ? ( Cheers . ) Arouspd By the great leader O'Cennell—( cheers)—they wonld gladly doff off the liveiy of the Saxon rulers , and dad in the ample dress of Irishmen , they would bear to be divested of rank and consequence , whilst
they looked forward to the joyous day of Ireland s resurrection—icheers . ) They were there that day to free their conatry from thraldom , and restore her to the dignity of a " nation ; to shake off the yoke of alien injustice and oppression , and acquire what they had beforetime possessed , and as free-born subjects were entailed io—the blessings of self legislation . It was absurd to suppose that an Imperial Parliament would do them justice ; and they would no longer be deceived by premises to that effect . England had never yet made concessions of justice xo the people of Ireland , except when they were extorted ficm her in her xaemenis of weakness . And
rf concessions were again extorted under similar circumstances , what security was there that she wonld not perfidiously Cfbr her character was inscribed in letters of blood with perfidy towards Ireland ) revoke those concessions , and renrw their oppressions 1—( cheers . ) I ? was clear , then , that there was ao remedy against English monopoly and oppression but a domestic tesislature—no other remedy against the ali-impovershinj ? grievance of absenteeism , which drew from the country £ 9 , 000 , 000 a year to be squandered in foreign countries—no other means by -which their " country could be rescued from that frightfal poverty and abject degradation to which she bad been reduced by the cruel and oppressive mis-legMauon of the united Parliament- * An united Parliament was an
insnlang mockery of representation to the neople of Ireland . H 3 : ezr enemies genght for eivil war ; their objects beic ^ spoliation and massacre , and to keep Ireland as ihe abject slave of England . Let them violate no la's-, commit no crime , and obey tht voice ef their laheraioTj and they would disappoint , baffle , and overcome those bloodthirsty enemies . ( Cheers . ) As for the large military force which had "been sent into Ireland , they rejoiced at lhe event , as calculated to scatter a-little money amoagst them , which was very much wanting . ( Cnecrs and laughters ) ! cfeey should not mistrust thote brave soldiers , { Hear , hear . ) In their . raEks they beheld their relatives and friends , and should therefore receive
them with kindness , cordiality , and fritiidship , Three cheers for the brave soldier ? . ( Loud cheers , and cries of They ' re welcome , " &c"i How could England , -with a defalcation of £ 3 . 000 . 000 in the Exchequer , k = ep up such a vast armament in Ireland . , He would say that she could do so , indeed , bnt for 3 very shorttime . The resolve of the JU ish people to keep within the constitution and violate no law demonstrated the absurdity of such a movement , and showed that its direct effect would be to accelerate ihe Repeal ; while F . njgTiyh weakness wcaid continue to be their best security , until they Eaeceeded in obtaining the fostering protection of a native Parliament . ( Cheers . )
Mr . D . Beowse , M . P ., proposed the first reso ' nlion , to the effect ** that the union was obtained by corrupt and crnelineans , and onjiht to be repealed . " Peel and Wellington ( groans ) had by their vapid threats endeavoured to intimidate the people of Ire land , and check the progress of Repeal ; but he ¦ wished they were there , and he wonld ghew them 500 , 000 fighting men—flond and reiterated cheerim ? —men of manly bearing and irreastable attitudepeaceful , moral , and sober , but determined constitutionally to Repeei the Legislatrce Union—resolved to bt gmliy of no indiscretion , to spill not a drop of blood —( hear , hear)—to commit not a single aw Against the crdinanc « s of society or the laws oi the « onntry , but at ihe ssine feme resolved to stand upon the threshold of the constitution and resist invasion ^
She Hon . Mr . Fthexch ( son of Lerd French ) in Seconding the resolution , addressed the meeting at conaderablj lecgth . Hs coaridered it not only legaL bni tbsir inherent righ * to assemble for the pHrposeiXjf p ^ riaonisg t he L ^ islature to Repeal the Union , widch had bsen found so oppressive to Ireland , and of Midi vast advantage to England . Notwithstanding tha threats of their present rulers to crush tfce expresaon of pubhc opinion-and keep from Ireland a native Parliaiseni , it was the firm determination of the people to persevere constitutionally and energefiealijf to obtain it—( cheers . ) They had outgrown ihe tyranny of iheir oppressors—they had increased and multiplied nniil no chain could surround them . The * masters conld aot forge manacles as numerous s « Jaeir unlestersd arms ; and they defied audacious Britain to awe their maniy souls ( loud cheering . )
Mr . CCosxexl then presented hioi = el £ He was , hailed with tae most deafening cheers . Be cocgratulated them npon tse fact tuat Irishmen , north , south , e&Ei . and west . Were up and stirriiig on the OTesfionof whether ir *" atd sheuld . btiong to the Irish or the Saxon straB « iT . In th = ? whole course of his political career he aevsr heard so vigorous a M hurrah 3 ' as ^ ie peop le sow gave for the Repeal of ihe Union . O I Icey were © ircain of it—( cheei * . ) Their enemies first tried tfce vfVct of treating them and ihe-gnasn&n with esntejroi ; then they tr . ed i :: e forceof vituperat : <» nand calut y . Boih faiied and ihe EnglishB&wspapers b ^ gan u » sxpress as ; - ^ Eis } imeni at the detenEiaation of lhs peorle to h ^ ve a Parliameat of their own . Tees resa Wellitston of
" Waterloo sipcc them—tgroaus ) . Was it cb th- 18 « h Jnneibey woBliJgrosnhiinin dirt say !—( Jac-httr- ) Bat " WeiSngun vreB . knew ; hzt ji was not r be red cost-that inade tie solditr c-u-isg , but ihe naiiTe braTsry of the Irishman , vrbo was as brav ** iu a frkze coat as iss wtnid be in a red oae—( fiters . ) Ee began by threalening iheia with civil war . Then case Pesl whb . the ssma threat- Hoi est Bocbv lic-ssETtr , told a lie upon theouaKcn- He said ? hai the Qaeaa declared again ^ i Repgai . He knew : "; . ai Dip w-aid despise his tfcrest of civil war ; and i ? e knew that they held in veneration the exedieu * judgE 2 it and the --xastaiced character of : hej Wovec Qnsen . Hence the inirodncrion of Jb--r naae . X ^ ow , he-had ii from a person who could nof be deceived , and who heard some oaesav in a tok- rather Eke the Qaeen'Sjihatshenever made any such ^ *> claiapon , aaa ihai she complained ihat Sir R . P * . - ' had
misreprcjcct . -dher —( cries of" God Wesslicr . ") ^ ^ Ifirests o , siTil war consequenflj stood alone . Bax * o people cflrfeiiEd would v » lateitc law , wouM cr ^ ¦* * £ * £ * : * J i ^ . Brbanee of any kind ; aad be 1 at oerefore ^ itfied the Governmeit to proceed with . * £ ** £ . ^ afing a » t a red coat did not make * TfevLS *?™ f fct 2 eco & * a coward . ( Cheersv i ^ K ^ £ t 0 - dlrink <) ni 0 fthescrape . Next - ^ r- ^ ijagoen . He would teB them a secret ; The i Minuter ^ had sent for Sir EdwardTUo ^ rted by the packet last night for England , to gelalood ^ jcolding forh ^ foUy und aT « urdi ^ , ^ rf pibablji aererto comeback agan ,. ^ Tha » ie bctJS ^ I trtm a vraee in tie cr <^ . ) Then they were attacked edited by a » . cf the most oaaagcouB Ecopndrfls ; thai eKT stood a shoe-Jeaa . er . ( Alangh ) A more ' depraved , a nisrecreeeies , s mare conscienc ^ irisi 1 set of blactraaniB ware Bever congregated imrrt"i . »
They pnKisasd a msmf ^ to sating ihat Ireland was almost in ast 2 i « of rebeOisn ; that the remnant cf ihe Orange faction ought tc be armed ; and that ftrongh . them war ought Iayssdiaiely to be oj&de
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upon the Irish people . He was at Mallow when he received the newspaper containing that sentiment . It brought intelligence at the same time that the Ministry had made no Honae on | the preceding Thursday , being busily employed forging chains for Ireland . Knowing that ; the people of Ireland would violate no law , they were threatened to have their throats cat by those Saxon—hei would not give them a bod name—bnt again he Bet them at defiance . < Cbeers . ) He had now the pleasure of informing the p ? ople of Ireland that those who had the hardihood to issue such threats had gone npon another tack , that of conciliation . If that meant a Repeal of the Union , he wonld be satisfied , but no conciliation would satisfy him short of a- Parliament in
College-green—( oheerg . ) . Ministers had a great majority in Parliament , but they were not a bit the stronger for it . They were anxious to attack Ireland , but they would not , for it would not be good for them while there were funds in the market . A man gave £ S 5 for what was called £ 100 in the funds . It was down to £ 92 now , and if they made war -unjustly upon Paddy , that which was worth £ S 2 to-day would not be worth £ 35 to-morrow . So much for the Tories , whom they set at defiance- As for Brougham , he was not worth talking of ; he was a despicable and a selfish monntebank—a man who betrayed his friends asd fawned upon his enemies . He would aliow them to groan him-4 ( groans . ) Then came the Whies . savinff . that as thty had already
benefited Ireland , and kept her quiet , the Queen had only to turn out Sir Robert , and bring in Lord John . The Whig 9 had certainly promised ) much , and undertaken to do mnch ; butthe people placed a confidence in them which they did not deserve ; and he new told them that no change of that kind would drive the people of Ireland from their determination to have s Repeal of the Union —( cheers . ) He would put Whigs and Tories into a bag , shako it well , toss tbtm cut , and from first t&last tberejwould be found no friend to Ireland amonpst them . Ireland had but one friend , and that was htrself-p ( cheers . ) The Morning Chronicle , the organ of the . Whigs , said it was quite true that it might be useful to Ireland to have n separate Legislature of her own , but that it
would not be useful to England , and that therefore they should not have it . Would they abandon their apiiaiiuu for Repeal on that ground !—( cries of " No . ") The same paper Eaid if the people continued their straggle , they were likely l < j jcbiai&all they wanted in the moment of England ' s weakness . He thanked ihe Chronicle for the hint . : lt coniained a strong temptation tothem to pray of an afternoon " may England soon be weak that we mayicarry Repeal . " "With regard to fixity of tenure , he [ should like to explain that by it be meant that no landlord . should be entitled to recover rent tinless he made a lease of twenty one years at lea c t . No lease * no rent—( cheers ) Then the poor man wouid not be afraid bf being turned out of his cabin next May . li might be said
ihat the landlord would put too much rent in the lease . For ihat he was not withont a care . The Ordnance Survev had made a valuation of land , and he would not allow the rent to be any higher than that valuation . If there was no Of dnanco Survey , ba would givo ihe tenant the test : required upon registering his vole—namely , what a ^ solvent tenant would give for the land . That wonld be tried by the assistant barrister , with an appeal to the judge of assize and a jury , who would ascertain what would be the fair Tent , and that Tent the tenant would have to pay and no other . He was a landlord , and did not want to take away their right , but that they should perform their duties to the occupying tenants and not hunt them like wild beasts . ; hi the county
of Clare , a misbegotten fellow named Wyndham was tnrning out family after family . A number wt , re now under notice to quit , and trembled for tbfir txisienee . He gave some of them money to eo io America . The miscreant J Were they not Irish 1 Were not the graves of their ancestors ia Ireland ! Was not Ireland their birth-place , and thai of iheir children J And who would £ 2 y that a iitvie money to send them to America was a reeampence for driving them from the land of their fathers , from their altars , and their homes h- ( hear . ) He wonld give power to every occnpyiBg tenant who laid out money or labour in improvements , to register those improvements in the ; Clerk of the Crown ' s of&ce every yeaT ; 30 that when the
twentyone years lease had expired the landlord should tot nj > and and pay to the tenant in money the price of hisinraroversents , or £ rani h > m a new lease of the farm . Taey might in that case build a better house for their pig than they now lived in themselves . These were the solid and lasting fruitahe anticipated from Repeal . In civilization Ireland exceeded every oilier eonnsry on the J ; ice of the globe . The virtue of her dangbters and tbe religion of ; her SODS Were of the highest order of civilzatioE ; and thesB he claimed lor them . If their enemies attacked them , ae knew who would have the worst of it . Why , they were em-ugh to take them in their arms and throw them into the Shannon . But he would carry Repeal as he earrifc ^ i emancipation , without violating the law , committing an offence against morality , or shedding ono drop of human blood . Would they
not meet him again , if he wanted them 1 ( Loud cheera and cries of " Y&-. " ) He might want thorn again ; but he did no : think England would be mad enough to reiuse their duinand . Sne was the weakest Power in the world at the present moment , by rea-Fon of the dissatisViiCtion existing ia Ireland , and if f = he wanted strengih she had only to co justice to Ireland . After advising the people to peace , and recommending that no man in the Repeal ranks should ever return a blow , but bring- his assailant , Ji he met with one , to the pefr sessions . The Hon . end Learned Gentlemen concluded with a glowing eulogy npon the beauties of the Shannon , which he wound up by saying a Saxou river was no more to be compared than the wai-r of a dunghill to a Irving welL He retired amidst several rounds of enthusiastic applause .
TffE BIN 5 E& . About 500 persons sat down to dinner at seven o ' clock in a marquee erected for the purpose in a freld adjoining the town . Lord Ffrench was in the chair . On the cloth being removed ; his Lordship gave the n ? O 2 l loyal toasts , and after them the ** People , for whose good alone sovereigns reign , " to which Mr . D . Browne , M . P ., responded . Letters of apology were read from Dr . M'Hale . of Tuam ; Dr . Higgins , of Ardsgh ; Dr . Cantwtll , of Meath ; and Dr . Brake , attributing their absence to professional duty or ill health , but not to any abatement in tieir enthusiasm for the Repeal . " O'Connall and Repeal" being the next toast , Mr . O'Coxxell said that they had met net to advance a party , but to turn a province into a nation , to make serfs freemo , to give liberty to their fatherland , io strike eff ihe shackles of the slave
and let man walk forth in the majestic dignity ot his creation , equal with his fellow man , and equal ie the management of ail that belonged to human beings , s-jd amon ^ et those mighty [ concerns the national concern was the first and greatest . It was deli-hLiul to address them on an occasion like the present , when their difficulties were vanishing , aad when it had pleas-ed Provioej ; ce to mix tiitiaiLj n the councils of their enemies with the certainty of strength in the csusa of Ireland . They had come there to be free or uie . ( H < re tno the company rose , waved their hai ^ , s ^ d cheered for some time . ) Bui he thought they might pnt dyiag out of , the question He always preferred ons living patriot to a flrzen dead ones —( laughter ) . He talked of dying in the
fins frenzy of an orator who sasr iba possibility of an attack , and showed iho entni ; tbfy were ready for them , bus , whose solid jndgaitnt convinced him there would he no dying at ail . They were not tho Jess ready for ihe conisst chwnltl it he forced upon them ; and every hour taught him that there would be Je .-s peril in it—fbe-ur , hear . ) He believed they had bren bronght there fay one great principle and one nnaidmous dtterrciba'Jon . He beUev ' ed they had conis there one and all io saj— " IreJand is a province , and she bhallbc a na - . k-r . " ( Here thecompanj again rose , and tfcpered in an tatbusiahtic manner ) As for the IL-.- ^ d , it was nothing but , a . parchment Union . It ntv ? r was u real Union ; but even if it were made of arismant , beng ur justthey
, w < _ -ald rend it asunder— ( cheers ) . T ' ue Hon . Gent . UH 2 r then referred io the disability & u ^ er wJi-eh the Roman Catholics laboured from 18 'X ) to 1829 , during which time the mass of lhe LI&i people , he fcSad , were in a state of practical fervhude . But ever since then , what portion of miolio liberty had ihfcy got t < jual to England ? Tcey had noi the szzze franchise , for in the county of Kerry th- re was a mrai pcpuUuon of 720 , 000 , and li- y had just 2 , 000 voters , whib Wales , wuh ouiy 80 !> , DDD intsbiujliI ^ , baa iJS ^ -. C'O voters . England and t ~; Ct > : land ^ oi carporado It-. form . Ireland got a liiiU . tvI and r ^ - striexed corporate Reform . Was that a Union ? C So" ) God forbid ihat it wjs , let if it were it would be bhkh more difiicuh io brtak it . The
WLi ^ s did a liitle fcr them , end iho ' gi : > uiude of ibe Irish people vras great . Lord J . Kns =: eli had adxnituc the generosity of the liiih pepj'ie , Lut he Oir . O'Conaell ) wonld not throw back ihs eomplimii- % for he saw lo generosity either in him or his . vileagues— ( laughter ) . They certainly put some dcstr \ iDg men into office , and kept out some sconn-Qrtit . which was stiil better—men , however , w- o were immediately thrusi in when Peel ; became Minister . But even daring the Whig regime tue bur-Ixin of the Union pressed heavily npon them . A fitadish cry was raised against them in England . The Times called the people of Ireland ' a filthy and ' rebellions multitude . It called their priests sur- > piiced ruffians and
sanguinary tyrants—( groans ) . Tnwwastbe language which was , day after dayJ employed towards Ireland , and i £ was not employed j in rain ! It inspired the English mind with an i natred and an antipathy that told trumpet-toagned \ at the last elecfione . There was , added to that , the interests of the landlords ; ihe interests 6 f any class was nevu so potent as when envenomed * and sharpened by i . bigoted and fiendish spirit of religious animosity . The Times succeeded , and tie consequence ' wastha . ih . y had now a Parfiam-nfc which was ' peraaps , ihe most degraded that ever sat in Eng- ' ( and . Ciass interests aj . d bigotry of fteling were spenly manL ' esung ihxi :: 6 felves in uureitricted r *?' r Xt * 'dBrtted ° n both sides . Peel aitett of the exttnj and grosaieBB of bribery , aad
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Lord J . fiusEcll , in punier accents , admitted it . It was that bigotry and that bribery by which Ireland was now governed . What chance , then , had they of theleastmifigatien of any of their grievances from an English ] Parliament ! Even the small fragment of their righija which they still possessed that Parliament was attempting to filch away . By the Poor Law three-fourths of the guardians were to be elective , bnt that was too much for Ireland , and one-fourth ex officio guardians had been turned into one-third . The number of ex offitio appointments had been augmt ated , and that was the Government ' s amendment of the Poor Law . The people complained of the tyranny of the Poor Law Commissioners , and Lord Elliott ' s remedy was to double their power .
What chance had the Irish people of resisting it Some of his friends who had done themselves the high honour of attending in the Saxon Parliament divided , and mustered just eighteen against it , while 205 Englishmen , who did not hear the debate , came down from ! Bellamy ' s smokiPiS { -ro 6 m , and threw out the only mitigation of the law that had been moved by a glorious majority of 187 . He was blamed for distinguishing between Englishmen and Irishmen . Mr . Ross , of Rosstrevor , said it was a folly to make a distinction between Saxon and Celt . Bat who began the dfetinction 1 It was not he ( Mr . 0 'Conneli ) . It was first made use of as an instrument of tyyanny . He himself hepfd Lyndhurst describe the Irish aa aliens in blood , in language , and
religion—Igroans . ) He it was who began tho batUo : but it nerer should end until Saxons governed England and Irishmen Ireland ; for , if a contest should take place between them ,- they would die before they yielded—( loud cheers . ) He would attend these multitudinous mef tings until all Ireland had spoken with him ; and then he would take his nsxt step , recollecting always that the Union , in point of con 6 tittition . al principle , was a nullity , and that Mr . S&urin , who was Attorney-General for twenty-two years , and Chief Justice Bushe had said so . Nothing had taken away from the Queen the right of issuing writ ? . She reqivired only a statesman to advise her to that step , and , as a matter of course , the Irish . House of Commons would start : into life .
To obtain that end ho should have 300 of the gentry to meet him in Dublin , each with £ 100 from his own locality . The ensuing day he would request them to meet him at a public dinner ; and there was nothing to ^ prevent them from meeting again , and calling upon the Queen to issue her writs . Ob , they would J carry repeal with the greatest facility , tacked as he was by the millions , and supported as he would be by the gentry . ( Cheers . ) Mr . O'Counell concluded by proposing the health of Lord Ffhekch , who briefly returned thanks , and proposed " , the Catholio Hierarohy of Ireland , " to which toast , TheRev . iMr . Dawson responded .
Mr . O'Consell apologized for leaving the company early ( a quarter before ten o ' clock ) , having , he said , to be at the ; associ » tion next day at one o ' clock . The Han ; and Learned Gentleman then retired amidst the cheers of the assembly , who followed in abeuij an hour after . TiBfTaobps at Athlone , dukino the Demon-STHixioN . f—In addition to two troops of the 4 th Dragoon Guards , and a dep&t of tbe 46 th and 90 th RegimentSjthree companies of the 69 th , from Mullingar , and another troop of tho 4 ih Dragoon Guards from Longford , arrived in Athlone on Saturday .
REPEAL ASSOCIATION . —Monday . The Association met to day , Mr . O'Mahony in the chair . Although Mr . O'Conuell was not expected to be present , having attended th ^ Repeal meeting and dinner at Athlone yesterday , the room was very much crowded . Mr . John O'Cqnsell , M P ., announced , amid loud cheering , that the sum of £ 1 , 008 19 ^ . lOd . had been received from the county of Clare , and that a large sum was expected from the same quarter . From the county of Limsrick £ 652 7 s . 6 d . had been received , being the product of the receat meeting at Murroe . The suras bf £ 105 from Kilkenny and £ 74 from Ulster were also announced as having been sent to the Association , and a great number of members were proposed and admitted whose subscriptions were included in these sums .
Soon after two o ' clock Mr . O'Connell arrived at the Corn Exchange in a travelling carriage and four , having posted up to town from Athlone , m order to attend the ; Association . He was received by ihe meeting with long continued cheering . The Hon . Gentleman proceeded to congratulate the Association on tho majestic progress of the R . 'peal cause . Since he last saw them , he bad attended several meetings of great magnitude—the last , in fact , always appeared to him to bo the greatest . He proeeeded to describe the meetings at Kilkenny , Mallow , and Athlone . The assertion of Lord Chancellor Sugden , that in these meetings there was an "inevitable tendency to outrage , " was met by the fact that at none of them was there used
even an uacivil word by one person towards a : io ; her . The demeanour of the people was peaceful and loyal , but determined—( hear . ) It seemed almost lhe rpsuJt of magic that so many thousands could congregate without even the occurrence of an accidental injary ; iu short , he would say that in the best managed assemblies of the nobility and gentry there was no insiancc in which the regulations of civilized society were better observed . He had addressed 2 . 000 , 000 of persons at those meetings , and every individual , from the youngest to the oldest , was thoroughly convinced that any breach of the peace , assault or offence of any kind , was destruction to the cause . He next had to congratulate them on tho late Anti-Repeal meeting , and he was
delighted to perceive that no one opposed m opinion to those who held the meeting had interfered with them . They had the privilege of being Anti-Repealers , as the Repealers had theirs , and having met to exercise the sacred right of petition , it was quite right that they should not be interfered with . He had anxiously looked over the reports of that meeting , in the hope of finding some arguments in favonr of the Union ; but he was disappointed , for thespeakersdid not even attempt that species of rhetoric called a lie , to prove that the Union was a benefit to the country . They had abused him to be sure , bnt he hoped to earn much more of their abuse as he ; Went along . They had also abused the Catholic religion ; but he would not be more
ready to give it up , because half-a-dozen fellows cried ont" no peace with Rome , " and attributed conduct and objects to them which never entered their minds . What had Rome to do with Repeal t—it was not a Roman , but an Irish question —( hear , hear ) and the endeavour to make it a no-Popery question showed that its opponents had not a single argument which they could advance . The Evening Mail , to which he returned thanks , as one of his best assistants , had lately said that Sir Robert Peel must know that Hepeal would do much good to Ireland ,, and would prove exceedingly useful—( hear , hear ) . And further , that it could be carried without endansyrring Protestantifem , because nineteen cut of every twenty of the Lords would be
Protebtantfi—( bear , hear )* HaviDg commented at some length on tie proceedings of the anti-Repeal meeting , the Hon . Gentleman proceeded to advert to tho late affray at Carland , and stated that it had been ascertained that the fellows who commenced the riot by a-n attack on several Protestants who were quietly proceeding along the road were not Repealers . If he could a&ccriain that any of them had been enroilfcd , he would feel it his duty to move their expulsion . The vrum by which these Protestants were preceded had been broken , and he would propoi ? thai a better cne be supplied to them from tho fuiidsof tho association . A roan named Morrow bad been beaten on the snino occasion , and he should cove that a sum be given to him out of their funds .
to compensate him for tte loss of time he had suffered . These petty conflicts were most disgracoful , and , ) n fact , were almost the only thing that could retard the progress of the csuse . What he wanted was to rrstore Inland , not to a particular party or section ai trK- ' peopls , but to all Irishmen . That was the tri : « ia « iniij £ of ihf > phrase " Ireland ior tho Irish" —( hear , hear ) . Why , some of the highest Conservatives were joining th ? rn . In Claro one young gentleman , a aeeidua Conservative , . came to their meeting at the head of 60 ft horsemen . He meant Mr . John Malony , of Giaig , a gentleman of family and fortune , and a magistrate of tho county . Ho was one of the magistrates who attended that meeting to proiesi against the condact of the Lord Cl-. ancc-llor .
Mr . O'Coskeli . concluded by moving the reBOlationsto which he referred , and tiiey were carried unanimously . A letter from Mr . Bu ^ gy , the editor of the Belfast Vindicator , wss rc :-d , in which ho stated ihatsrere : soeieuc-s were threading in Ulster . Mr . O'Co'nell sa ; d , that If he i . ud time , he would writcan address to tj . e people oi Ulster , on lhe subject , but he feared that his i n ^ a cements would not permit him to do so . To-morrow he sl . suld go doyrp w GlopmeU and the nex : day he should be in Skibbereeu . On Friday ho should pass ihrough Limerick on Ins way to Galway . On Saturday he should be in Kilgorey , and , after mass on Sunday , he would enter Gal * vay . On Monday there wa .- to be a meeting there ; sad on Thursday he should be in Dundalk . It was ihc * n scarcely possible he should have time to pn pare this address . He should , therefore , content himself tMth moving
that the Association condemns illegal soci ° tie 9 , and oaths of all kinds , and implores the people oi * Ulster to be on their guard against persons seducing them into such practices , and , if possible , to bring their tempters to condign punishment by exposing thei > machinations . 1 After handing ia several large bubs of money froia various parts of the country , the ihe Hon . Gentleman proceeded again to congratulate the Association on the advances which Repeal was making . He had not yet had time to read Sir J . Graham's silly and impertinent speech through , but he had seen enough of it to glean that it was not intended to do anything for Ireland . ( Hear , hear . ) H * , cou-jratulated them on this candid avowal of S ; r James Graham . They thould now look to tbf-Eselvcs . They haa inscribed on their bannorf , peace , iaw , ate order , but were at the &aoc time deteirnintd not to continue the a ' cject slaves oi Great Britain . Tho feeling was ascending to the highest
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places , as the vast accession of resp-ctabla persons to that Association showed . He had had difficulty in convincing somo people that the Repeal was the only hope for Ireland ; but now Sir James Graham had come to his assistance , to show them that every other hope was denied them , and he ( Mr . O'Conuell ) thanked him for having ; done so—( hear , hear ) . A Whig newspaper had lately stated that an enlightened despot would ba the best governor foe Ireland . Iu reply to this ho would say , that ifsuoh an attempt were made , they would stand on the law and the
constitution m defence of their liberties—they might deprive the people of Irelandiof those , but ouly with their lives—( loud and protracted cheering . ) The Rev . Mr . Hackett , an American clergyman , addressed the meeting from one of the side benches , and , inallustbri to an article of the Globe newspaper , in which it was said , that " perhaps an enlightened despot for the next quarter of a century" would be the ; fittest governor for Ireland , said that if such an experiment was to be tried , the sooner it came to that extremity the better . If force and despotism were to be adopted , the sooner the people were prepared for it the better .
Mr . Steels rose and ; said , he felt it a solemn duty , ia the face of he&vou and earth , audin the presence of his great moral leader , to protest agtfinst the doctrine broached by the gentleman who had last addressed the meeting , and whe-m he had not ; the pleasure of being acquainted with , "the people did not seek &uch extremities . They hoped to sachitve their objects without force or violence . ( Loud cheers . ) Mr . O'Cokneli , said he could net too strongly repudiate anything in the shapo of an incentive to force . ' In the treat popular struggle the people relied upon ( ho legal o-id peaceable assertion of their demands for justice . They contemplated no other means ; and it was his conviction that they would succeed by those means- ( cheers ) . He totally repudiated the contemplation of any other—( continued cheers ) .
The Secretary proceeded to wad a great number of communications enclosinc : subscriptions , amongst iheinwere £ 40 from South Carolina , aud fifty franos froia some parties ia Paris . At the termination of the proceedings , Mr . O'Connell announced , amid great cheering , that the Repeal rent for the past week amounted to £ 3 , 1103 7 s . fiid . The largest buuv received in one week by the Catholic Association was £ 2 , 700 , and that was' during tho height of tho agitation for the Claro eleotion . In general the average of the receipts did bot exceed ^ £ 350 . The meeting then separated .
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Leeds Corn Market , June 20 . —We have good arrivals of grain to this day ' s market . The weather has been very fine since last Tuesday , and it has had its effect on the market . Wheat has been slow aala at a decline of Is . per quarter . Oats and Beans very little alteration . the av £ kage prices of wheat , fob th * week ending June 20 , 1843 . Wheat . Barley . Oats . Rye . Beans . Pen Qrs . Ore . Qrs . Qra . Qrs . Qr « . 4461 31 415 0 228 1 £ a . d . £ s . d . £ s . d . £ s . d . £ a . d . £ a . d 2 9 3- 1 14 10 * 1 2 3 $ 0 0 0 1 9 11 £ 1 IS 0
Leeds Woollen Mahkets . —There were very slack markets both on Saturday and Tuesday last , on the latter day particularly . The enquiry after manufactured goods wa 9 limited in the extreme , and some of the small manufactureis from the country wero loud in their complaints , not only onaccoautof the lack of business but at the fery low prices which were offered for the better kinds of goods , fne recent revival , of Which sanguinary hopes were entertained , appears to have entirely subsided , and the trade to have agaiu relapsed into a state of stagnation . Hoddersfield Market , June 20 . —The anjount of business done this day was considered equal to last week's . There is at present a greater aejoaud for fancy waistcoatings than for some time past . Fancy woollens are not in so great request . Wools » oils , &c . steady . decided
Yokk Corn Market , June 17 . —A most and benefisial change in ihe weather took plaeain the early part of the week , which has enabled far * mers to work their land , and proceed with turnip sowing , we have , consequently , a thin atfeadauce » to-day ' s mar-ket , aiid but little Grain c-iLring . Wheat mun ! , bo quoted fuliy Is . per quarter lower ; r ^ eaas ar > . <] Oat : > dull sale ; Barley nominal . At . the close of last weeks market , millers advanced Fiour 3 ^ . V sack . Bradfgud Markets , Thursday , June 22 , 1843 . — - Wool—Tfcis market has become more abundantly supplied with middle and lower qualities of Combing Wools , and the stocks may now be considered an average . In prices , there is but little variation . Yarn—The demand continues very steady , and iate prices fuJiy supported . Piece—We cannot learn that there is any alteration in any brrnch of the Piece trade . The demand being very steady , stocks low , and prices fira . *
State of Trade . —There was a very quiet marie * yesterday , both in goods and yarn ; with a slight decline of price in some descriptions of reeled yarn- Manchester Guardian of Wednesday , Malton Corn Market , June 17 . —At this day's market there was aot an a , veiage supply of Wheat , the farmers still showing a disposition to hold , but in consequence of the dulness of the Wakefield market they could not obtain much advance on last week * prices . —Wheat , red , from 43 s . to 56 s . per quarter of 40 stones . Barley 40 s . per quarter . Oats , Obd . to lOd . per stone .
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Middlesex , by JOSHUA HOBSON , at his Print * las Oflfoa , Nor . 12 and 13 , Mnrket- » twet , Briggatai and Published by the Bald Joshua HobsoK , ( for the said Fear « us O'Connor , ) at bis pwel * ling-house , No . 5 , M * rket-Btt » et , Briggato ; ( U > internal Communication existing between the No . S , Market-street , and the said Nos . 12 and 13 , Market-street , Briggate , thus constituting the whole of the said Printing and Publishing Office one Premises . All Communications must be addressed , Post-paid , to Mr . Hobson , Northern Star Office , Leace . ( Saturday , Jane 24 , 1843 . )
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The Armt . —The second division of the 5 th ( or Northumberlaud ) Fusileers , under the command of Captain Sponce , arrived in Cove , in the Boyne tranport , on Friday , after a passage of 18 days , from Gibraltar . They were immediately conveyed to Cork in the Tug Bteamcr . The first division of this highly distinguished regiment arrived in the Pastoujoe Boma-ojee , on Friday , the 12 th of May , from the same quarters . This dirision ( the 2 ud ) marched on Saturday for Fernioy , to join the head-quarters . The Note of Preparation . —Two more war steamers have arrived at Cove fr ^ ui Portsmouth . The Meteor , 2 guns , Commander George Butler , aud the Myrtle . HerMajesty ' a ship Tyne , 26 guns , Captain W . I ) . Glasscock , is also added to tho strength of
tht . squadron in that arbour , which , if rumour is to be credited , is to bo further increased by the addition of several vessels of war , first and second rates . Rear Admiral Bowie ? is hourly expected in the Shannon river by the Lightuing war steamer , for the purpose of inspecting the several ; forte and batteries in the Lower Shannon , which are to be garrisoned by detachments of the Marine Artillery . Further note of preparation is thus announced by the Limerick Chronicle : —** Several loads of timber have been received into the vard of the new barracks for the purpose of erecting stockades and other defences inside tho walls , and two pieces of heavy ordnance are to be planted in the old Gastle of Limerick , as a matter of precaution before the county of Clare side of the river Shannon . "
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TO THE CHARTISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN . ON THE " LAND SCHEME" AND " THE CHAUrER . " " Between two stools you come to the wound . " Old Proverb . Fellow countrymen , —We have been contending for our freedom ; for the emancipation of ourselves and of our suffering fellow-countrymen , from a system of tiyranny and pillage which is more exacting , more grinding and oppressive , than almost any other people in tbe world ever endured ; our unfortunate brethren in Ireland alone excepted . The poverty and const quent misery engendered by thia system , have long been a Bourc < Sj not on 5 y of reproach , but also of serious ahum , even to our selfish and greedy oppressors themselves ; and schemes , therefore , of all sorts and sizc-s , save the plain and honest one of abating the pillage , have been devised and carried into operation by them .
Hiia notorious that for full fifty years ' post , the press , the . various places of worship , and the Houses oi Parliament have teened with projects of relief ; and our country has abonnded with benevolent and charitable institutions ; yet have the poverty and misery continued to increase , and their natural consequences , crimes , disease , and death . And why ; why is this ? Why , bat because the artfully contrived , the multifarious , the searching system of taxation to which ; we have been subjected is persisted in ; because the fruits of honest industry are filched from the working people , it is because tho millions of labouring people are short of the nece ? Fariea of life ; and because the classes next above them , the tradesmen aud dealers an « l professional men generally , are struggling together to avoid the same fate of destitution and misery .
It is cot that out Government is , ot has been , indifferent , or regardless of the condition of the people . It is the pride , as it ever has baeii the interest of Governments to have their subjects prosperous , well-provided , healthy , and contented . Tyranny , whatever may have been its freaks in ancient days , and in other regions ; tyranny , in modern Europe , and most especially in our country , has taken this shape and i no other whatever : it is a thiDg of searching , of grinding exaction . It is a system ef takinsr , —some little by open and direct means , but chiefly by certain round-about , indirect , aud underhand ; contrivance , — the fruits of industry from the millions .
Not that our Government has been indifferent te the poverty and sufferinjiB of the people . On the contrary they have encouraged and carried , into effect all sorts of schemes for repairing the evils they itflict by their everlasting exactions . Aud yet , as we all see and feel the evils for the remedy of which these schemes have been devised and patronised have continued to increase until they have reached their present intolerable aud alarMiIng extent . And , why is this ? Again I ask , why ? bnt because the proper , and the only remedy has never been tolerated , much less applied . Tbe remedy which we have agreed on , the remedy which alone we had resolved to listen to , was the same as has been steadily recommended by Major John Cartnjright , by Granville Sharp and other worthies , for aboat seventy years last past , it is that which we have embodied in " the People ' s . Charter . "
This remedy is no other than tho possession and the free exercise of out lights , as men , in checking or controlling the measures of the Government ; and especially in controlling the hand of taxation . For it is clearly the numerous and heavy taxes ; it io clearly the numerous pillages committed on the honest and industrious millions of the people , that causes their poverty , their degradation , and their misery . In favour of this , our remedy , we Chartists , who had long eeen thefruitlessness , the folly , ai . d the fraud , of all other schemes ; in favour of this , we had unanimously come to a resolution that we would neither countenance nor listen to any other scheme ; that setting ourselves against all other projects , and confining our energies to the attainment of this one , we would concern ourselves in the furtherance of no other pnblic measure , " until tbe Charter shall become the law of the land . "
This was wise and good ; and to this resolve we were constantly exhorted , and enjoined , by our leaders . But , behold , now a scheme of quite another complection , far enriching the labouring peoplo , for making them prosperous , and even powerful ; a scheme ivhich we are told can be carried into effect immediately , without waiting for the Charter ; and all this propounded and uri ^ ed by © ur chiefeBt leader Mmaelf , with nil his constitut ; onar zeal and activity , and through all his extensive channels of publication ! " The general distress of the working classes , " says Mi . O'Connor , iu one of his recent letters in the Northern Slur , " is admitted on all hands , while each has his peculiar nostrum for their relief . MINE IS THE LAND . " And , accordingly , Mr . O'C . proceeds , sis you have seen , with the details of his plan , and with description of the splendid results to be derived from its adoption .
Into i the particulars of this scheme , or as Mr . O'Connor has chosen to call it > " nostrum ;'' into toe particulars ot it , and the ( to me ) manifest futility thereof , both at to the practicability and promised results , I may not here , be permitted to enter . At present , I take leave only to point out to you , my brother Chartists , and to [ Mr . O'Connor , if behave overlooked the fact , that if j what he hw Bald of his scheme be correct ; if be have a remedy , and especially so very efficacious a rowdyias he pronounces this of his to be , for "the of the
gen ^ ai ; diatreas working classe * , " and this temeu vibe something other than that prescribed by ear Charter ^ tben have we Chartisms been all in the wrong ; as indeed » r « ** ' otb ** P 0 *** 1 ^ reformers . If his echemo en ttu * J »» a •» 8 Ucb ** he tplls w ' ** " » ls * & ««>» clearly , no occ ^ whatever for the Charter , nor for ntiy o'hir reform of the Parliament ; and we who have busied ourselves in t'emanding each reform , have bean a factious ; and senseless ?*\ 0 f agitators , well meriting all the odium , expense , ana enffering that we have endured . Let us proceed , howe ? 6 * > yet a little closer int the matter .
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In his letter in the Northern Star of the 15 th of April last , Mr . O'Connor , in announcing his scheme , says that his " chief aim and object is bo to locate the honest working man that he ma ; uninterruptedly enjoy , the proceeds of bis natural labour . " In the same letter he also tells as that [" he hopes to prove irrefutably that the people have jit now in their power to present a large practical illustration" of the result of his plan ; and then he proceeds to assure us that bis is " a scheme in support of which no law beyond that already in existence , shall ] be required ; " adding " that in this scheme every farthing raised will go to the benefit of the society ( of labourers ) itself . "
Need I quote more in order to show , that according ; to this new light * of Mr . O'Connor , all our efforts to obtain what we have called our righto , all our " agitation" in behalf of jthe Charter , now prova to have been but superfluous and mischievous impertinence ; seeing that" we have it ! now in our power , " as be tells ua , even " before the 12 th of May , in next year , so to locate the honest working man , " that " every farthing" he earns shall be secured to his benefit ; and tbat his earnings shall be three hundred , two hundred , or at the very lowest , one hundred pounds sterling a year ? If this be so ; j if we can indeed thus immediately enter into such splendid results ; " so fascinating and so free , " as Mr . JO'C . eaya , then , what peed of tbe Chatter ? What Bcase is there , ia postering ourselves and others abont j ¦ what we call out rights , 'wben the road to prosperity ) and fortune thus stands to us ?
I { ut , we are told , this scheme is not to supercede our agitation for tbe Charter . Indeed ! Why , this scheme we are assured jwiil be a remedy for our distress ; and we surely need not two remedies j we are not , it is to be hoped ' , such unreasonable dogs as to want to be doubly cured . The Charter we have found is somewhat difficult of achievement ; and , although I am perauadeoT that the time for winning it , if we-do but keep together and Bingle- in our purpose , is now pretty near at hr . ud , yet should I , and I think all sensible men , if what be B . iyn of it have any true foundation , prefer the more immediate " nostrum" of
Mr . O'Connor , V 7 hich be says cun be adopted aud carried into effect without delay , and with little or no difficulty ; and which is not merely to relieve distress , but to raise « p tojprosperity and fortune . Tbe putting foryrard of this scheme , or of any other , as a remedy for tbe prevailing distress , sav « tbat for which we Chartists have beta contending ; the putting forward of anything , as a remedy , is clearly playing into the hands of our oppressors . To admit that there is more than one remedy , is to admit that there may be a thousand . ' and then what wouid become of our integrity of purpose ? what would become of our sole remedy , the Charter ? It is lost amongst tbe Babel of projects , and we become split-up , divided , and scattered .
We want not two remedies , did two exist , which , however , I stoutly deny . But however this may be we want to be cured only once . We want only one remedy . It is dangerous to listen to two—if we do no we are sure to be split into two or three parties , sosie for one , some for the other scheme , and sunie for both . ' Remember tbat " Between two stools , &C , " and stick to the Charter alone . J I remain , Yours faithfully . Thomas Smith . Liverpool , June 19 , 1843 . P . S . —If any more be to be said of this project about the land , I should ] much like to occupy a single column with what may be termed tbe Btutiatics , and the rationale of the scheme , irrespective ot its bearing on Chartism . Ma ; I hope that the Editor will yield me a column for the purpose ?
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SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED BY MR , CLEAVE . GENERAL DEFENCE AMD VICTIM FUND . 1 . £ s . d . Previousl y acknowledged 526 14 112 By error in entering subscription from Old Basford , ] Nottingham , twice , viz ., as froTn Old Basford , and also lroui Nottingham 0 10 0
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. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAB . Sir , —The Hyde Chartists are determined to awake from their long slumber , and show the plundering , tyranica ! , Anti-Corn Law League , that Chartism , in Hyde is neither dead nor sleeping . Although the Whigs succeeded in depriving them of the Hall that cost the poor operatives £ 700 to erect , yet they are determined to ] keep up a peuceable aud legal agitation until they see their country what she ought to ba—" great , glorious , and free . " During the last strike , the men o | Hyde stood forward manfully in demanding tbe Charter ; and , although they were seven weeks without doing a hand ' s stroke of work , during which period they ] experienced extreme poverty and
distress , yet who ] can say that the ? destroyed one pennyswortb of property ? The League very " liberally" rolled out iu the public streets ban-els of beer to induce tltem to drink , in order to justify their malicious designs . To tbe honour of the Hyde men , nobody would drink it , eajve a few drunken " hauvies , " who cared not a straw about their characters . The League have carried their ! meetings their own way since last September . Tbis was just what they wanted ,, and sought for , by the j" strike . " But I am determined to meet them at tbeirjown tbreshbold , aud show up their fallacies aud knavish designs . Yes ! the " red cat" of
Hyde will still discharge the duty he owes to bis God and to his country 1 that is , to bring truth and error into conflict and competition , that the minds cf men maybe capable of } seeing what is wrong and what is right . The WbAgsjof Hyde laid every plot , uaed evety scheme , to procure for me banishment ; and for what ? For endeavouring to keep the peace , and preserve Hyde from their revolutionary designs ' . I huve recoraod a vow : ' to keep to jtlie Charter , and work on public opinion , until a majority of the people of England demands it . Then ] according to Sir Frederick Pollock himsulf , tbe Charter must become the law of the country . Hurrah for ihe Charter , and no surrender ! I remain jeura , in tbe good cause , J . M . Leacii . Hyde , June 19 th , 1843 .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 24, 1843, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1218/page/8/
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