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THE NORTHERN STAR. : SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1848.
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inventions , had not benefited the condition of the labouring classes ; and he justly contended that the working man was entitled to participate largely in the advantages conferred on trade by these circumstances . His conviction was , that ii was in vain to expect their condition to be bettered through the instrumentality of the legislature or the sovereign . They must better it by means of their own , and the chief of these means would be found in union , and funds contributed in seasons of good trade . One important object ni the association was to do away with all " strikes , " and establish a system of deciding differences between the employers and the employed by means of amicable arbitration . With the capital to be raised , it was proposed forthwith to establish
manufactories of every description , for the purpose of flffordimr employment to sueli persons as might be discharged by their employers ; and , as the capital increasen , by means of the profits arising from these establishments , the weekly per centage on wages would be diminished . In establishing these manufactories , the evil of placing them in crowded towns and exposing the men employed in them to baneful temptations , would be especially avoided . They would be placed in the most salubrious situations in the agricultural districts . In London , they had already contracted with the Railway Companies to convey ( he members , at any time , into the country !;
and , although it wss yet in its infancy , having been only twelve months in existence , the society had already established a boot and shoe manufactory ( for turn-outs ) in Di-ui-y-lane , which . had made extensive sales , ami realised fifty per cent , profit onits goo . is . In conclusion , the lecturer called upon the operatives of Scotland to join the society , and expressed a confident hope that they would enrol ten thousand members throughout the country . A resolution in support of the principles and objects ef the association was then moved by Mr . Hollis , seconded by Mr . Bennett , and duly carried ; after which the meeting dissolved .
The Northern Star. : Saturday, September 12, 1848.
THE NORTHERN STAR . : SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 12 , 1848 .
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"THE NATION" AND "THE CHARTER . " " We have- received a printed address from the Chartists of'England to the Irish people , with a request that ice should insert it in . the " Nation . " We desire no fraternisation between the Irish people and the Chartists—not on account of the bugbear of ' physical force , " but simjrf y because some of their fice points are to us an abomination , and the whole spirit and tone of their proceedings , though well enough for England , are so essentially English that their adoption in Ireland would neither be proballe nor at all desirable . Between us and them there is a gulf fixed ; we desire not to bridge it over , but to make it wider and deejier . " From the " Nation" of Jug . 15 , 1846 .
ABOMINATION NO . II . —UNIVERSAL SUFFKAGE . In our last number , under this head , we showed the utter impossibility .. of the patchwork minister of faction dividing the plunder from labour satisfactorily amongst the several privileged orders , wiiose accountant and distributor he is . We traced all the contention , the str ife and dissatisfaction of the several represented classes from their legitimate cause , the disfrauchisement and consequent neglect of labour , and ' we might have gone further , and have proved that everv riot , rout , tumult , conspiracy and
revolution that has taken place within the last three centuries , from the plunder of the monasteries by Harry to the plunder of the cottage by the Whigs , have been originated and perpetuated , not by the people or for their benefit , but by the leaders of faction and for their benefit ; whereas , upon the other hand , if the people had been fully , freely and fairly represented im the Commons House of Parliament , they would have seen , and they would have compelled the higher and middle classes to have seen , that contention aud strife are the bane of industry , anil would have secured the peaceful progress of indusi' -v , arts and sciences , instead of being mere tools
in the hands of faction for the perpetuation of their own inferiority and the superiority of the master cluss . The fact of the desire to possess the suffrage being the thought uppermost in every working man ' s mind is clearly illustrated by the circumstance of al ! parties , from the days of Pox to the Reform Bill , deeming it necessary to make that exciting subject the great rallying cry of factions seeking their own ascendancy , and , perhaps , the principal reason with the working classes for tolerating Sir Robert Peel ' s free trade measures , arose from the opposition of the privileged order , and they , aud perhaps not unwisely , calculated that defeat of the enemy was triumph to them .
As we have recently seen , however , ministers m power receive as new convictions the old prejudices of opponents ; hence Lord John Russell while lookins for power was the uncompromising advocate of a TEN HOURS' J 5 ILL , while ; Lord John Russell in power confessed his conversion to the deeper thought of Mr . Laboucherc , the opponent of the measure . Nay , his Lordship , witli an ease of conscience peculiar to an expediency minister , as even surrendered many of his own HASTY conceptions to the maturcr discretion of t ! ie es-secretary of the Home department , Sir
James Graham . These are glaring crimes , by fashion termed proper caution , which the minister of a [ reu people dare not commit—they are unpardonable sins from which popular vigilant controul would have saved the delinquent minister . We require uuiversal suffrage then , as well for the purpose of developing the genius , the wisdom , and integrity of minister .-, and to enable them to preserve a decent consistency , as to cultivate our national resources wisely , to distribute their profits jnslly , ^ .. fl £ * h ¦ a \« . l' # . l * Ai * JM : « tl T *!*¦• £ * lill'ififirl # " . *¦ / lfl * l * l # > I /\ 11 D and to make rational laws lnsteau of capricious
. edicts fur the government of society aud the preservation of the national honour . We have ever seen more national greatness in a nation of happy iii- ;! ivi ( ii : uis with a collective interest in the preservation of institutions , and the support of the national character , than in the leviathan speculations of wealthy merchants , bankers , and manufacturers , to ¦ whom the blood of the civilized or the barbarian , tnc pence of the ncighbuur or of the foreigner , are fruitful sources of speculation though the iuuocent coin of the realm is tlseir simple tv » e of traflio aud
barter . Domestic industry and national regulations are but as the penny speculations of the Stock Exchange , while the blood , the carnage , the devastation anil suffering of nations constitute their heavier stakes . The marriage of a little Spanish simplctou of fourteen years of age may set the world at war , while a few thousand pounds judiciously administered by faction is esteemed sufficient to keep a
starving nation in peace . Now , if the whole people Wire represented , their comforts would be thought of greater importance t ' nan the marriage of a simpleton . If r . ' . ir representative system was based upon universal siilfnige , we should have the disputes oi nations , like the disputes of inilividuals , submitted for a < lji : it : ! ie ! it to the tribunal of mind instead of the wager of hatllo . If onr institutions were based upon universal representation , we should have a pure
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church based upon pure rehgion , instead , of divided churches living upon state patronage l uponth ' e " orie Hand , or what antagonist ministers can glean from prejudice to it ( upon the other hand . However , although faction seeking for power has made the question of the suffrage the means of willing enlistment in its ranks , yet the same faction possessing power has nevertheless discovered RATIONAL and SEASONABLE objections to the principle in the more mature discretion of their less , zealous and more cautious allies , and the ghost of IGNORANCE and WANT Of EDUCATION ' staggers the faith
and paralyses the exertions of the advocates of the principle . For seventy-five long years , the war of suffrage has been . waged , and . . throughout the objection urged has been ignorance . It is not presuming too much , then , to ask , when a nation of slaves , consigned from inoperative youth to ineffective old age to the longest day's toil , shall be supposed qualified by education for the possession of the suffrage . It is not going too far to ask , when the people will be prepared by education , while those whose duty it is to administer it appropriate to tlieir own sole use the amount set apart by their ancestors for its promotion . .,. ¦
We could attach some faith to the charge ofNignorance , if there was any course prescribed by which the educated could lie distinguished from the ignorant . We might believe in the Justice of withholding the Suffrage from those who are too ignorant to exercise it , if philosophy , had ' ever . prescribed any educational qualification , though never so complicated . But as .-throughout the many years that popular ignorance has been pleaded as a reason for withholding the privilege , we have never heard any course prescribed as a test of qualification , we shall now endeavour to treat the matter by Divine justice . . ,..
The Bible tells us , that there , is more joy in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance . It further tells us , that it is better that ninety-nine guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer unjustly . Now let us try the justice of man by these Divine precepts . When will the Irish working classes , or even the English working classes , as a body , be as well educated as those of Scotland , where ignorance is looked upon as a crime ; and as English Members , Irish Members ,
and Scotch Members , sit together in Parliament , we presume that it would be an injustice to England , and an insult to the Irish , to urge the education of the Scotch people as their title to the suffrage , while their rational and legitimate conclusion is , that the educated Scotch people are subjected to injustice and insult in consequence of the presumed ignorance of the English aud Irish working classes . How does it happen , then , that the pride of the Scotch
members , who rejoice in the superiority of their countrymen , does not claim the suffrage for them upon the plea of educational qualification . The Scotch electors , under the present system , are supposed capable of selecting a fit and proper representative , without the fetters of " property qualification . In Scotland there is no other qualification required for representation beyond the choice , of the " constituents ; they mav elect fiftv-three Scotch members out of a Poor
Law bastile . This distinction , we presume , is a tribute to their superior education , and why not , then , extend [ the Franchise , even as a compliment to THEIR superiority . We' admit that even in England , with its class constituency , the electoral body may be safely entrusted with the power of electing persons without a money qualification ; while we feel convinced that , nevertheless the PEOPLE'S HOUSE would still consist of the
wealthy and arrogant . If the son of the protege of a Minister , or wealthy patron , requires to he qualified for the possession of office , or the discharge of any duty ever so onerous , even although the very peace of society and . welfare of the nation 'should depend upon his fitness , only prescribe the required qualification , and the aspirant very speedily become ? possessed of it . So , then , with the people . Only let them know what the required qualification is , and they will speedily possess themselves of it .- But , as we have said a thousand times before , —Ignorance is but
the tyrant s plea . It is not the ignorance , but the knowledge of the people , that tyrants dread . If they were too ignorant to understand . their rights , they would be entrusted with the franchise to-morrow ; as the ignorance of the people is the tyrant ' s best title to power . The struggle of faction for ascendancy has ever been supported by a cajoled people , who falsely and foolishly supposed that the victory was to be theirs , and its spoils theirs ; but ,, thank God , we have lived to throw faction on its own resources , and have at length marshalled the
nonelective influence for a struggle with electoral power . In conclusion , we repeat our firm conviction , that the possession of political rights must precede education , as the people themselves have the largest amount of interest in the education and knowledge of their own order . They know that the monopoly of learning in former ages led to a monopoly of power , and the suhjuga . ion of mind to the terror of prejudice ; but they have wrenched the dagger from the assassin ' s hand , aud plunged it into the assassin ' s heart .
KNOWLEDGE HAS SI , A N PREJUDICE ; and its enfranchisement must be its reward . 'Of all crotchet-mongers , sve have the most tho rough contempt for the
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the value of extracting the condensed nutriment from rotten potatoes ; have we not here the science of centralised sustentation made practically manifest in this new science of justice to Ireland , which verily and in truth doth mean the Repeal of the Legislative Union . Is not this food and clothes , and fuel and lodging , and comfort , for 1500 of the Irish people at an average of 8 d . per day , for three hundred days in the year , allowing six to a family . The Irish people i vril } require no ready reckoner to discover how j I
many renegade repealers ' , must be thus sopped off to secure the people from famine and the country from degradation . Let them divide £ 10 , which is eightpence per day for three hundred days , into the salary of each menial , and let them multiply the remainder by six , which is the average of each family , and they will be able to discover the amount of Whig patronage by which the starving may be fed , or , which is the same thing , by which they may be retained in starving passive obedience and non-resistance . But this is not all , this is not . the full measure of Irish
joy , for , behold ! the . Hon . Cecil Lawless , a pauper p laee . hunter , and one . who joined the Moral Force Association , upon condition that opposition to Whig , gery should cease , has been gazetted as the repeal member for Clonmel , vice the place-hunter Pigot , who has been appointed Chief Baron of the Exche ' . qtier ; in truth , these rotten boroughs of Ireland , Clonmel , Cashel , Kilkenny , Dundalk , Drogheda , and Dungarvan stand as much in need of reform as did Gatton and Old Sarum in the days of wholesale corruption . We defy the veriest stickler for the Liberator ' s policy to point out an equal number of
boroughs m the worst of the boroughmongering time that have done so much mischief to the cause of liberty and of Ireland . It is in those sinks of corruption in which her degenerate sons have qualified themselves for Saxon patronage . They have filled the bench with partizan judges , or filled offices with corrupt officials , and should this practice of qualifying vice for ministerial favour continue , we trust that the honest of the constituencies , and the whole of the people who are affected by the fraud , will petition for tlieir disfranchisement , or for their purification by universal suffrage , which would create a current
too pure , too powerful , and too rapid for the Liberator s resistance . But to return to the appointment of Mr . Morgan John O'Connell , M . P . for the county of Kerry , to the office of Poor Law Commissioner , we may ask ,-whether the English people will submit to this humiliating degradation as the price of his uncle ' s treason and a portion of the terms of that new coalition which we were the first to announce . We rejoice to find that the repealers of Cork county , born and nurtured in the true faith , have been too powerful for the apostates who have joined for pelf .
Yes , the plunderers feared the last reckoning day , and dare not meet the multitude for the monthly settlement until the great magician ' s presence should ensure the juggler's triumph . But even this is not Ireland ' s only cause of rejoicing . A Saxon usurper , who represents her Majesty in the faded metropolis , has actually ordered one thousand pounds worth of Irish linen , we presume to make shirts and sheets for his beggar household of needy Ponsonbys , who , of all tribes in the world . ^ save the Beresfords and Hutchinsons , have been the greatest enemies of Ireland .
The Repeal Association is fast approaching to dissolution from absolute rottenness . We announced that O'Connell's mission was to break it up ; we announced that the most physical force repealer was as easily converted into a moral force place-hunting Whig as the purest insect of that order ; but little did we think that the Liberator ' s nephew , and member for his native countv , would become an
Saxon Poor Law Commissioner , ] with two thousand live hundred a year as the purchase money of his treason to Ireland , that Clonmel would be once more sold to a place-hunting Whig , or that Ireland ' s regeneration would be manifest in the purchase of a thousand pounds worth of linen by a Saxon viceking ; but we live in the age of novelty . The Repeal is carried as sure as yonder sun shall set , whether Kerry shall be represented in a native legislature or in a Poor Law bastile . . . So hurrah for Repeal ! For Repeal hurrah !!! Ould Ireland for ever !!
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Letter VII . TO THE IRISH RESIDING IN GREAT BRITAIN . Fellow Cou . vtryme . v . —In laying before you the following extracts from Mr . O'Connell ' s letters and speeches , be assured that I am not influenced in so iloing by any ill-will towards him , but , on the contrary . I should lilce to see him rotrnoe his step ? , abandon both the AVhig and Tory factions , and stand by you , who would , to a man risk your Tves for him . To show you that I feel no personal enmity towards Mr . O'Cunnell , I am ready and willing to forgive tta past ; and , hereafter , render him every aid in my
power , upon this simple condition , that he will opoose any Administration but one that will give its official advocacy to a Bill which will place you on a political equality with myself . I am an elector—so should you be . Let Mr . O'Connoll , then , bring in a Bill for your political emancipation ; and oppose any Administration but one that will make it a Cabinet measure . Let him do this , nnd ho shall have ray hearty co-operation . The Bill should enact , " That every male inhabitant of thin Empire , ( infants , ins ane persons , and criminals , only excepted , ) shall fully , fairly , and completely enjoy , possess , and
inherit the Elective franchise . " Let this once become the law of the land , and your emancipation is complete . With this Bill of rights you are freemen at once—without it you are but slave 3 and outcasts . With it you will be cherished and respected—with - out it you will be as you ever were—despised , enst nut , and trodden upon in your o'd age , when the work is out of you . With it you will be treated with kiii ( ino 39 and consideration , while ever you are able to . votc at nn election . Come , then , stand erect ,
like men matlo in the image and likeness of your Creator ! and demand your rights in a voice 7 of thunder . 15 ow down to no man—follow no manrlieor no man . Lend your aid to no man , but the man who will pledge himself to oppose any Ministry but one that will grant your right—the Elective Franchise . There , now , is a simple test for you , by which you can easily know the difference between a true friend and a hollow one ; between a real patriot and a professing one .
It was because Mr . O'Connell refused to take this pledge , that 1 refused to vote for him at the City of Dublin Election , in 1 SLS 7 . It was because he refused to take tin ' s pledge , that I refused to vote for him at the City of Dublin Election , in 18-11 . Ho lost that election ; and it is well known that he would have been returned on the last occasion had I voted for him . I am not boasting , when I tell you that ho would not have been Member for Dublin in 1832 , nor : igain in 1885 , had I not voted for him , and sat up day and nisjht to secure his return . In 1837 ho turned Whig , and came forward aa the Whig Candidate , openly abandoning all his former principles .
This subject is introduced now for the purpose of telliji !; you beforehand , that , notwithstanding the favourable appearances which the City of Dublin Repeal Registry presents , Mr . O'Ctmnull will not be returned for the City of Dublin unless I vote for him ; and I shall not vote for him upon any other condition than that of a pledge , in writing , that ho will support no Administration but one that will make ' Universal Suffrage" a Cabinet measure . There shall he no quibbling about the meaning of thesu two words , " Universal Suflrnjio , " in Uie plain , ordiiiary , ami well-known meanhuj ; of tho terms—means now what it always meau ' t . Let him give this
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pIedge . ami ai'J his crimes and contradictions shall ¦^ mmrMi ^ «^^ ^ ^ T I cannot avoid tsfeWS " ot 5 ce of the gross and ' info , nous libel which Lord Join Russell has pronounced upon the peoplf of Ireland , in his speech on the Irish Ann-Bra , Monday , Aug . 10 th :-Lord John Russell— "I have no doubt , if this Bill is thrown out , that persons will gv about selling their assistance to commit murder , as arty one , who ^ knows anything of trials in Ireland , is aware is the case .
There for you ! That is something to look at , and bear in mind . This' is the man whose administra' tioh Mr . O'Connell is pledged to support . Alas ! my poor countrymen , they are all cheats and you are all dupes . . Why was the Liberator here in Dublin , sowing dissension amongst Irishmen , instead of opposingthe ' lrish Arms Bill in Ma place in Parliament ? Because he had sold himself and his country , a 9 far as he has power over them , to the Whig Ministry . But I am forgetting the extracts . . Extracts From some tew of the Speeches .. Letters , and Resolutions of Daniel O'Connell . Esq . M . P ., the acknowledged leader of the Irish people ; or , as the Archbishop of Tuam " says , in a letter to Lord John Russell , dated " Saint Jarlath ' B , Tuam , Feast of Saint Peter , 1846 . " - ¦ ; n The Patriarchal Patriot of , Haw - *; Century .
Just hear this P atriarchal Patriot ; whom the "Lion of the fold of Judah , " the great teacher of infallible truth , commandsus to follow as an unerring guide . ¦ . " I trust in God the time' is not distant when Irish Btooo will be shed in the name of Ireland . "—Daniel O'Oonnoll ' s speech , in- the Frteman'i Journal , 7 th Julyi
184 G . " The greatest victory that ever was'won was not worth the shedding of one drop of human blood . "—Daniel O'Connell . > ¦ " British valour . will teach the saucy Chinese a salutary lesson at the cannon ' s mouth . "—Daniel O'Connell . "BlesBed be God that a handful of Irish Cathalie raw recruits , under Serjeant Daly , shot down English Protestants , at Newport , in Wales . "—Daniel O'Connell . " Let the British Parliament do us justice and I will undertake to arm and equip five hundred thousand brave Irithmen to put down the Chartists , the Queen's enemies . "—Daniel O'Connell ' s speech at the dinner at Listbwel . . . ¦ ' "I move that my esteemed and venerated friend , the Right Rev . Dr . Cantwell , be enrolled a member ofthe unarmed volunteers . "—Daniel O'Connell ,
" Does the Duke of Wellington rainly Imagine that this right arm is universal , or that this eye . could not look unblanched on the gory battle Beld . "—Daniel O'Connell . . ¦ " The brave Scotch , relying on their trusty claymours , won from a tyrant King religious freedom and . liberty of conscience . Are the Irish less brave than the Scotch . " —Daniel O'Connell . " Neither the Duke of Wellington nor Napoleon Bonaparte ever led- braver troops to battle than I see around , me , nor did both ever command so great an amount of physical force . We shall not be tlie first to attack ; but if they attack us , and I dare them to it , then Vmvictis ' "—Daniel O'Connell .
"Hereditary Bondsmen , know y « not who would he free themselves must strike the blow . "— Daniel O'Connfcll . * ' Let me have one hundred thousand enrolled volunteers of the fighting age , and the Union is Repealed . "Daniel O'Connell . "I move that the Right Rev . Dr . O'Higgins , Catholic Bishop of Ardagh , be enrolled a member of the unarmed volunteers . ' "—Daniel O'Connell . " When the Irish Parliament re / used to fjrant Free Trade , the brave volunteers of ' 82 planted their cannons on College Groeh , the muzzles pointed at the House of Commons with tho inscription 'A Free Trade or else—' It may become our duty to say ' REPEAL the UNION or ELSE— ' "— Daniel O'Connell . " V ., '' ,..
. " Bido your time ! England may go to wan We never got anything from her sense of justice . We may from her fears . England ' s difficulties is Ireland ' s oppor tumty . " " Onwards the Green Banner rearing " On fle 3 h every aword to the hilt , On our side is Virtue and Erin , On theirs is the Saxon and guilt . " Daniel O'Connell . " Give me a parliament in College Green , where twenty thousand Kildare boys could walk in some fine morning with ennbeens on tlieir heads and short sticks in their hands ^ . and whisper gently in the members' ears , " Abolish tithes or else—'" —Daniel O'Connell .
" I move that the meek , amiable , mild Right , Rev . Dr . Blake be enrolled a member ofthe TOabmed volunteers . '' —Daniel O'Connell . "Can the wronged realm no arms supply , But the abject tear and the slavish sigh . " Daniel O'Connell . "Well ! blessed be God ! the Repu . il of the Union is neither so distant nor so difficult as some friends of Ireland may have apprehended . "—Daniel O'Connell , Letter dated 1 st September , 1830 . '' I more thit my revered and esteemed friend , the Lion of tho fold of Judah , the Archbishop of Tuam , be enrolled a member of the unarmed volunteers . "Daniel O'Connoll . " Oh ! Erin shall it e ' er be mine , To wreak thy wrongs in battle line . " Daniel O'Connell .
: " I should prefer seeing this House doing justice to my country rather than any necessity should exist for a Domestic Legislature . I know that this avowal will be turned against me in Ireland , but I adhere to it . If I ( hought that the machinery of the present government would work well for Ireland , there never lived a man more ready to facilitate its movements than I am . THE ONLY REASON I HATE FOR BEING A REPEALER IS THE INJUSTICE OF THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT TOWARDS MY COUNTRY ; AND THE TOTAL WANT OF HOPE THAT JUSTICE WILL BE DONE TO MY COUNTRY . "—Daniel O'Connell , speech in the House of Commons , Monday , 18 th February , 1833—Mr . ror of Parliamei \ t . '
"I request a meeting of my constituents on Thursday , the 21 st instant , at the Great Room , Corn , Exchange , that I may gubmit to them my views on tho total abolition of Tithes , and upon the Bill purporting to be for the relief of the poor in Ireland . "—Daniel O'Connell , Merrionsquare , 18 December , 1837 . ' Resolution passed at this meeting of the Liberator '¦< Constituents . Moved by Daniel O'Connell , Esq ., seconded by Thomas Dixon , Esq .
• " That the Irish people ara deeply indebted to the present Administration , not only for the strict impartiality ofthe Government of Ireland , but for the vigour and determination * hich they have exerted to maintain the dominion of the . law ( the Coercion Act ) and the consequent peace , and tranquillity of the couutry . Aid that our ardent thanks are due to that incomparable' nobleman , the Earl of Mulgrave , for his able , spirited , judicious , and just conduct of public affairs ia this long oppressed country . " ..- „ .
Resolved , " That the present Administration in their Government of Ireland having deserved the zterna l obatitude and unbounded confidence of the Irish people , « ve deem it the duty of the citizens of Dubliii to present to Her Majesty on the throne , on the first favourable opportunity , an address expressive of our gratitude , and most respectfully praying that she will be graciously pleased to continue her support of the sacred principles of right aud justico by which Ireland has beon governed since her happy accession to the throne of these realms . "
What did this Ministry do for Ireland , which caused , or induced , the Liberator to vote the eternal gratitude of the people of Ireland to them ? Do you forget ? If you do I shall jii 9 t refresh your memory a little . This Ministry declared , one and all , that they would prefer a civil war , with all its horrors , to a Repeal of the Union ; but declared also that they would give all the places at their disposal to the Liberator ' s friends and relations , with liberty to agitate any question that would increase his tribute without endangering their tenure of office . This was the compact , and hence the vote of eternal gratitude . Just read what the meek moral force Liberator said a few yenra before this compact with tho Saxon Parliament . " I now come to sketch with a sad and hasty pencil the evils ofthe Union . I can give but a sketch , au outline of those evils . It would require
Ample apaea , and verge enough The characters of Hell to trace . " Daniel O'Connell . Derrynane Abbey , 27 Sept . 1830 . ' Now , youths of Ireland , listen . Catholic young men Of Ireland ., you who recognise this as your own , your native land I attend to me , mark mo well . "The Union has now lasted thirty years . The eiperiinent is complete . It has not produced one single benefit to Ireland , not one . "—Daniel O'Counell , 27 September . 1 SIS 0 .
" The time has eorao , when we must , once and for all experimentally Mow whether ttw Union is to be iiiadi- real , by a perfect identification of the Irish and British franchises and liberties , or the duty be cast upon us of requiring in the voice of seven millions of people tlie ropwil of that obnoxious and degrading Statute Hurrah then for a powerful , a combined , and a last experiment . "—Daniel O'Connell , 29 th September , 18 S 8 . « ' Dr . Blako as ^ ) when the Repeal Association will bring the question before Parliament ? I'll ansvterhis Lordship ' s ijuestion , by telling him . that when this movement has gone throush the length , nnd breadth of tho land , nheu it is no longer doubted that a majority of the Irish people lire for the measure , then , and not till then , will I do so . "—Daniel O'Connoll , 20 April , 1811 . Ukpkaleks turned out op the Great Rooms , Cors Exchange , OruSErT ., IS 39 . « At a meeting ofthe Committee , held on Monday , the 9 tk of September , 1839 , at the Cqvh Exchange Kooms ,
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" Resolved . That a complete and ample Registration of the Libbbal EtiCTOBS being the sole object for which the Peofle or Ireland are now called upon to exert theU best energies ; and a union ' of all classes being iidiRpQn , « i » We , we deem it highly Injudicious ana detrimental to the furtherance of toe Libebal causo , that the public rooms ofthe Corn Exchange , be open for the discussion of any Topics calculated to create a dmion among the friends of Reform , . " T . M . Ray , Secratary "
What topics do you imagine were calculated to create division among the friends of reform ? The . Repeal ofthe Union was the topio objected to upon that occasion . Tha use of these rooms was given bj SfK O'Connell to tlie beggarly , temperising , placehunting Rump of the National Trades Political Union—once an independent and influential body , butwho » short time before had elected Mr . O'Con * nell tlrrir president , and subsequently sold themselves to the Whigs for the promfsa of places in the new police , in the poor law bastiles , and other Whig insti " tutibns . These fellows began to think , when thej saw their old friends getting " places , that were
overlooked ; and in order to have themselves taken notice of , became clamorous on the then repudiated subject of Repeal , for which they , were unceremoniously kicked oat . It will be borne in mind that , about a month before theso worthies were kicked out of tho Corn Exchange rooms , for having tha temerity to renew the " Repeal topic" there , ( it wa only a " topic" ) they mal-ireated Mr . Robert Lawery , tho Chartist Missionary * at a meeting in Henry Stregb and for whick they received the thanks of Lor Ebrington , then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland . Soraa
of those patriots , when applying ' _ to the . Whigs for plncGS , had no grounds upon which they could rest their claims than those of having raa ' gnaniraoualy beaten , overthrown , and torn the clothes of the Chartist missionary . For this signal service these heroes were appointed to various-situations . Some-are policemen , others dotectives ; some collect the police tax , others the poor rates . One in particular , more sue . oessful than the rest , though he cannot spell words of two syllables , is Clerk of the Corn Table—Sword Bearer to the Corporation , and an Informer , * public , notorious informer . .
Basis op thr present Repeal Movbmbnt . You , my countrymen , may have forgotten , but I have not , the Basis of Repeal . Here it is ; and when you read it you will not be surprised that I did not join it . " Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland , Monday , 9 th August , 1841 . John © 'Connell , Bsq ., in the Chair . Resolutions ahd extract from the Report , drawn up by Mr . O'Connell . and unanimously adopted .
" There hat been crime , a grievous crime , committed by the . Whitr Ministry against the Irish people . That Ministry have outlawed the Repealers of Ireland . They have pronounced a civil excommunication upon every Irishman who dared to look for the Repeal of an Act © f Parliament—the Union Statute . It was made an incapacity for any oifi ' re or employment , to be a Repealer . Perhaps in the nnnals of the crimes committed against Ireland , there seldom wai one of mora flippant insolence , thim this prescription of Irish patriotism , by the Whig Ministry .
" No Repealer can be sincere and honest—no repealer can love Ireland and her Legislative Independence , who d 6 e& n 6 t e <\ m 6 t 6 the fis&d determination ueveb xckiu ia scppor . T a ministry , that will not leave the Repeal an open question . " . T 7 e Bujfgrest the adoption of two resolutions . First . Never to support in future any Ministry that sbaU not leave the Repeal an open question in Ireland , that is no s » y , amongst the " people" as contra-djstinguiRhed from the members of the Cabinet .
Secondly . Never in future to support any ministry that does not disc ' aiin " Fhulitt , " and declare in favour of " Further Reform . " No despair—no despondency . Trelnn < l has already achieved one great and bloodless victory —she will achieve another and a greater . Ireland had a parliament of her own ; with the bleating of God cha will have her parliament again . Signed by Order , "Daniel O'Coknell , . ' Chairman of the Commi' tee . " " Mr . O'Connell ; I ' -have now to move that the following resolutions , recommended by the Committee , be adopted by this Association : —
Resolved , " That we are convinced that the Repealeri of Ireland cannot , without treachery to their cause , support any Ministry that does not leave Repeal an open question to the Irish people , so that no man shall be disparaged in his CLAIM ON THE OOVEBKJtEKT for b « lDg & Repealer . " Resolved , — " That we daem it right solemnly to declare our fixed oonvietion that no Repealer should in futura support any Ministry but one that btows FraTara reform , and disclaim ! Finality . " " Mr . O'Couneil announced the week's receipts to b » £ 183 7 s . 9 id . "— Frteman ' 3 Journal , Tuesday , August 10 th , 1 SU ,
Is it not as plain as the nose on the Duke of Wellington's face that the very basi < of the Repeal Association was to keep the Whigs , the enemies of Repeal , in power , " provided that they would , in return , give tlie places to tho Repeal Agitators , " that no man should be disparaged in his claim on the government for being a Repealer . This was then , and is now , the sole end and . ' objeet of the Repeal Agitation . It was openly , honestly , and fairly recorded on the books ofthe Association , and published in all newspapers , Whig , Tory , sham Radical , and honest Chartist . Nothwitbsfcanding all this publicity , and the record open for the inspection of every member
ofthe Loyal National Repeal Association , lay and clerical , aimed volunteers as well as unarmed volunteers : we find a number of elegantly accomplished , and highly educated young gentlemen , most of whom have arrived at man's estate , since that period , August , 1811 , and known by the name , style , and title of " Young Ireuk& , " come forward now , after having done all in their power to restore the Whigs to office , and complain in tlie most exciting tone 3 of eloquence , in bitter invectives against Mr . O'Connell and the Repeal Association for adhering to tho basis , objects , and resolutions of the Association .
Was there ever anything so unseasonable as this * Surely these young gentlemen cannot deny that they were the pliant tools of O'Gonnell for the last aix years . For the life of me I cannot see what he has done to them to excite their ire . now , or cause them to kick up their little heels and leave the Loyal National Repeal Association ot Ireland now , when at the end of six years of fiery , hazardous , doubly hazardous , agitation , a ministry has been restored to power through the means of that agitation , and who does not only not disparage Repealers in their just nnd hard-oariied claims on tho fiovornmQnt : hut
have in the mo 3 t patronizing manner proclaimed their intention of providing for them all , from the great Captain Broderick , down even to little John O'Connell himsel f ^ Are not the resolutions entered into , and the Report adopted by the Repeal Association on the 9 th day of August , 1 S 41 , in perfect accordance with tho resolutions and proceedings of the Association in August , 1846 ? He la but a poor , shallow politician , who could imagine , even for a moment , that Mr .
O'Connell ever entertained the slightest notion of repealing tlie Union . Every sensible man in tha British empire knew this very well ; but some of the wisest and most experienced of them , such aa Dr . Cantwell , Dr . O'lliggins , Dr . Blake , his Graca of Tuam , and Frederick William Conway , Eiq ., tha learned and profound Editor of the Dublin Evening Post , were of opinion that no other subject but that of Repeal could excite the people of Ireland to that degree which would mak « it danserous to auv Government to "DISPARAGE
THE CLAIMS OF THE REPEAL AGITATORS . " For my part , I by no means approve of , but , on the contrary , feel indignant at the thought of any dignitaries of the Catholic Church lending themselves and the great influence they possess , to such a delusion . Mr opinion was , and is still , that the manly , open , straightforward course , would have been preferable . But they have succeeded ; and success always carries great weight with it . A vast number of tho parish priests and curates were as
great dupes as the YOUNG IRELAND party . The second order of the Catholic clergy must feel a good deal disappointed ; but they must , nevertheless , go with the bishops , Few of them have any knowledge whatever of political principles , and fewer still know anything of the Theory of the British Constitution . Une of them was quite offended lately at my having said , that Catholic priests were general ^ M politicians ; that their education was not political , but religious ; and that their avocations prevented
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REPEAL ! HURRA . H FOR REPEAL!—WHO ' FEARS TO TALK OF ' 93 ? This is the year of gathering the harvest of L'rin's lojig and iiicessant toil ; she has had her year of thought ; her year of deeper study ; her year of calm enquiry and angry discussion ; her year of vulgar physical force gatherings ; her year of unbroken tranquillity ; her year of '' As sure as vorxler
sun shai ! set ; " her CLINCHING year , and her Repeal is coming year ; she has had all those years , constituting a whole age of PAYING YEARS , and eternal glory to that . moral force eye which is as a powerful shield against the bullet of tho assassin , and to that tongue which is as a scabbard to the sword of the murderer ; her moral struggle has triumphed over the evil machinations of her covert foes .
Oh yes , thrice blessed be the name of the holy and divine Liberator , the guardian of the widow ' s son on the bloody plains of Pathconnack , the protector of the " slain at Church-town , JS ' ewtonbarry and Carrickshoclc . Yes , Ihrice blessed be his name , and cursed be that recreant blood of Irishmen that was shed in obedience to his will and command . Like the charmer ' s wand , his righteousness covers the earth like a thick veil , and shields hpr
toiling sons from the wrath of the oppressors . Erin ! no longer mourn , but shout your acclamations of joy , sing praises to your Liberator ; let the cymbals and the timbrels sound the story of his name throughout the land , yea , to this farthest comers of the earth , for Ireland is free . Yes , thanks he to God , her deliverer has arisen in the Liberator ' s own native county ; yea ,.. iii the person of its own representative and the Liberator ' s
nephew—Morgan John O'Conneil , M . P . for Kerry ! is a Poor Law Commissioner ! . with the small salary of Two thousand live hundred a-year ! and is not Ireland free ? Talk to us no longer of the blessings to he bestowed upon a starving nation by the fasting science taught us by Cavanagh , m > longer prate about the blessings of centralisation or
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 12, 1846, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1383/page/4/
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