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Cpuiionsof fo «« ji ^ ttG&iiig neu , whereas Us oira Kport shoutf flj ^ gkin ^ n tbatsuch was not the case . The tr ^ th 5 S , the meeting squared with a favourite ewAcbetofthe Chroxide , an < J therefore it snited the pnrpr . sc to nve it that colour . If the Chronicle wishes to know the re&l op inions of the working classes let it send reporters ( and print their report *) to the numerous meetings now held in favour of political cntnuicMshment and iuiostxhA emancipation by means of the operation of Ihe Charlist
Co-opemfivc Land Society . These meetings and thatSociety are neither the iools nor the toadies of a set of crafty mill o « ncrs and moneymongers . As to the object itself , there could be no harm in opening the ports , tut if the statements be true that there is no corn to be had from foreign nations there could be little good derived from it . It is , in short , just one of jhoee will-o'fhe-wisps which lead ignorant and fhoushtless people astray , > nd land them in quagmires instead of conducting them safely home .
The sentence of tlie court martial oh private Mathewson of the 7 th Hussars is a proof that the late agitation on the subject of military flogginjr has not been withont its effects on the military authorities , while at the same time they show the strong animus © f the officers against the poor man who was bold enoug h to iiring to light the torture to which the private soldier is snbjec ted ; the abject degradation to which he roost submit , Six months' imprisonment , two' f tlicm in solitary confinement , is , in their estimation , only ac adequate punishment for a petulan t
expression to a . non-commissioned officer—an expression otter- d when fke offender was smarting nnder exasperated feelings , and his petition for the small favour of « xchanging duty with a brother soldier in order that Le might for a short time enjoy the society of > -is mother and a brother-in-law whom he had Dot seen f « r nine years , had been contemptuously refosed . The same man was formerly condemned to one hundred lashes for calling " Holloa" to a High Mightiness of a sergeant ! The dignity of sergeants seems : an awful and venerable thing ! Though we have not the lash on this occasion , six months does seem io ns rather a severe punishment for coming between the wind and the nobility of a sergeant .
The Poor Law , as usual , has been yielding a crop Of those atrocious offences against all decency and common humanity which has characterised itscntire ojdnenee The case of the imbecile pauper in the BisbridVe Uni <> n , of which we haregiven the leading fads , affords a forcible illustration of the manner in * hieh the fiendish spirit of inhumanity generated by that law seems to seize upon all who are brought tinder its operation . The Jnry deserve all credit for their bold ana truthful verdict on the occasion , and the watchword should be everywhere—Down with the infamous Law , which treats paverty as a crime , tnd murders those whom , as helpless wrecks of humanity , should claim our tenderest care .
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From nearly all parts of the world tuis ween , intelligence is of a more than ordinary exeitin ? and important character . Simple details will be found in our seventh page -which will well repay perosaL Cape of Good IJope papers to August 4 th Teport the progress of the British troops , and it will be seen that some important advantages have been gained over the Kaffirs . Had the defence of the colony not been most criminally neglected by those who are paid the public money , both in England and at the Cape , for the purpose of securing good government and protection to the Colonists , all the recent bloodshed might have been prevened .
Life and property have been destroyed to an immense extent , and now , when the mischief has been done , -we are retaliating upon onr semi-savage as-BailanK The defence of the Cape has been so utterly neglected , that it is morally certain that in the event of an attack from a French or American force , the Colonists must have snrrenered before assistance from England conld have reached them . Let the British public note this , at the same time remembering the sum paid yearly to our secretary Of state for colonial affairs , and the rice pickings of a colonial governorship . The present deplorable state of South Africa is another signal proof of th mischievous incompetence of our aristocrutleal rnlprs .
Xew Zealand is not yet at peace . A smiil body of British soldiers have been surprised and cut off by the natives . The fact is , the natives hate their English despoilers Hypocritical plundering mission * aries , and other rascally land-robbers , have so aroused the hatred of the wronged natives , that the colony h not likely to be at-peace until , proceeding from one crime to another , we complete the work of Christian civilizing colonisers , by adding to robbery extermination of the robbed and wronged .
Our French , neighbours are faring not one whit better with their colonial affairs—perhaps something worse . To say nothing of their pet coleny Algeria , the peace and safety of which is continually menaced by the indomitable Abd-el-Kader , they have just re ceived the anything but gratifying intelligence , that their forces have been twice repulsed by the " barbarians" of Tahiti . The French have placed Tahiti under their onn " protection , " much against the wil ] of the natives , who seem to entertain insurmountable objections to a French " protectorate , " and would much rather be left alone to protect
themselves . To force the natives to acknowledge the French " protectorate , " and give up their arms , a French army , consisting of upwards of 1 , 000 men , is May last , proceeded to attack a native town . TLe natives retired to their mountain fastness . The French troops followed them towards their retreat , but wore soon repulsed , with severe loss , bavin ? tw .-nty-seven killed and sixty wounded . It is said that only fen were wounded on the side of the natives —none killed ! On their retreat from this expedition , " Governor Bruatand his troops returned to the beach ,
pillaged and destroyed the vi'lage . feUed the bread fruit trees , cocoa-imt trees , orange-trees , &e . " This defeat was followed by another effort equally unsuccessful and disastrous , but avenged by the combustion of more orange , bread-fruit , and cocoa nut trees , many thousands of which were levelled with the ground and burned with fire . This is "Glory ; " this is " Civiiising I" How anxious the Tabitians must b for French protection ! Almost as anxious as the Arabs after the burnings and bakings in the caves of Dahra .
On the Spanish question we have given under the head of " Foreign Movements" some lengthy extracts from an article from the pen of a French poet , and deputy , de Lauartise . This celebrated writer placed the Montpens-ier marriage in its true light . Hethows that " nations are no longer patrimonies or properties which follow their possessors , as a house or a field follows the civil proprietor ; and that no Prince or no Princess can bring as a marriage portion , or bequeath as an inheritance , a people , —a nation , —an empire , or even a geographical parcel whatever of a province or a hamlet . Alan has reconquered himself ; nations belong to themselves alone . " That this is rot a time for family compacts , "it is a time for compacts amongst nations . " Of course it would be impossible for M . de Lamaminf . to
write on any political question without being guilty of some strange inconsistencies . It is therefore nothing surprising to find him applauding the general " pacific iendencics" and " moderation " the Government of Louis-Philippe , and yet blames that Government for net engaging Ia a war against all Europe on the Eastern question of ISiO . When ¦ al . de Lansartine approves of the smothering of the
revolutionary propaganda by Louis-Philippe after the revolution of 1830 , and in the next breath confleisiis the same party for not plunging Europe Into a "Far on the Syrian question , he expresses ideas exactly the opposite of our own . The muzzling of the revolutionary propaganda in 1 S 30 was a betrayal of liberh-wliicLFranee nusht rmtto have permitted . The coaelusi / ci of Al . Ue Lamaiitixe's article paints , in TiriJ co ! o irs , the evils which must result to France ,
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« tt ihe fruits of ilie Montpetisiur Tsarriage ; "a " rifice of the peace and the existing alliances of the country to a posthumous dream of 1713 ; the ascendancy of the worn-out house of Bourbon substituting itself In imagination for the permanent ascendancy of France , imperishable and revived by its Revolution . " The Cabinet of the Tuileries " has abandoned the alliances of the Revolution , engaged France , risked peace , sowed rivalries , encouraged civil war in Spain , collected clouds on the continent , darkened the future prospect , drawn the diplomatic sword , not for a cause , but lor a dowry of difficulties . This dowry will press as heavily on the Cabinet of the Tuileries a 3 on the country , and tlie entire affair may be characterised in two words—an unfortunate temeritr , and a giddy deception . "
While , however , poets , politicians , and journalists , have been discussing the probable results of the marriage , the marriage itself has been consummated TheDnke de Montpensier is at this moment the husband of the heiress presumptive of the Spanish throne . Amidst the menacing scowls of the enraged Spaniard * , and guarded by a formidable army , the French princes entered Madrid ; and in the midst of similar signs of the public feeling and similar precautions on the part of the terrified plotters against Spanish freedom , the marriage took place on the 10 th . It is stated ihat , previous to the marriage , Mr . Bulwer presented another protest to the Spanish
Government on thesubject of the Infanta s marriage . This protest ia to the eflVct that the British Government will refu-e to recognise the claims of the children of the marriage to the Crown of Spain . We object to this protest on the ground tbat it i " an attempt to legislate for and bind posterity , this protest looking very like a design to bind the English people to engage in a war in the event of certain contingencies coming to pass . We can see no utility in this protest , as , most likely , long before tbe time contemplated by Mr . Bulwer , Louis-Philippe , or Louis-Philippe ' s brood , will be kicked out of France , when , of course , the Spanish wilj share the fate of the French monarchy .
The great event of the week is the news of the glorious revolution in Switzerland , full particulars of which will be found elsewhere . This great victory of the people will be heard with joy by onr readers ; at present we have not room for comment .
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Mr . O'Connor is now in the country , about the purchase of an estate , and therefore many communications must remain over till next week . J . \ T > . Tii . ucooi . tst . —We know nothing of the " Xational Baking Company . " J . Macpseesun , Aberdeen . —No room this week .
Monday an inquest was held on the body of Mr . Charles Tatham , aged forty-one years , lately residing at No . 52 , Stanhope Street , who had committed suicide . The deceased was connected with a large firm in Holbarn , who carries on business as army accoutrement makers . For some months past he had l « ep . iu a low and desponding state of mind . On Thursday week the deceased left home for a walk , and proceeded to the shop ot Mr . Starkie , the chemist , of No . -4 , Siraud , near Charing Cross , where he asked for &ime arsenic ts kill rats with . Mr . Starkie informed him that he did not keep arsenic in the house iu consequence of ib dangerous qualities , but , at the same time added , that he had a
pnn-der for sale which would answer the same purpose . It was called " Butler ' s Vermin and Insect Killer , " which would cost him sixpence for a packet . The deceased purchased one paeketand then left the shop . He proecded home , and soon afterwards was seized with pains in the stomach , when he acknowledged that be had taken poison , which he had ob taiued from Mr . Starkie . A messenger was dispat -lied for the family physician , who promptly attended , and used every means to save his lite , but they were unavailing . The deceased expired in two hours afterw . nds . Dr . M'Kt-uzie subsequently made a post
mortem examination of the body , and irora the wilamed state of the stomach he felt satisfied that death had arisen from arsenic . He likewise examined the powder , and discovered that one of them contained sufficient arsenic to kill six men . Other evidence confirmatory to the above having been offered to the Jury , proving the deceased to have been labouring under some delusion of tlie mind , they unanimously recorded a verdict of "Temporary Insanity , " with the following addition , " The Jury strongly condemn the sale of poisons in open shops without the best precautions being adopted to prevent the frequent evil consequences of such sale . "
Sacrilege . — Llantilio Church , in Wales , -was lately despoiled of a large portion of black cloth , wi-h which the pulpit had been hung in consequence of the death of Mrs . Taddy . Mr . BUssett , the superintendent of the Kois police , was applied to , tn discover the offenders , and having engaged a person ot the name of Lawrence to assist him , an ingenious stratagem » as put in execution . We quote the result from the Monmouthshire Advertiser . Suspicion having attached in the first instance to a . blacksmith , named Probeit , Lawrence went to Llantilio , dresst-d asiibdl-bangerjwith his basket of tools on his shoulder , to where he worked . lie went into the smith ' s shop , and asked Proberfc to make him a punch ; while this was being done , Lawrence offered
to sail the smith a brown coat , l ' r-ibert declined , and after some time , upon being pressed , he said he did not want any clothes , as he was having a suit of black made at Mr . Jones's , at Ragland . This was the precise clue Lawrence wanted , and he soon afterwards proceeded to Mr . Jones ' s , the tailor , of that village . Of this person , we think it right to say that he lias always born au irreproachable character for honesty and industry . Upon arriving at Jones's , Lawrence asked tiie wife and afterwards Jones himself , who entered the shop , if he could have a brown or a dark waistcoat made there . Jones said he had nut any brown cloth , hut he could make him ; i black waistcoat , for wfeicu he would charge him 10 s . To this Lawrence assented , and preferred sixpence to
bind the bargain , saying he would call on another day for the rest , and pay the remaining & . 6 d . He then asked tor a pattern , which be touk with him , and thus successfully accomplished trap ( he second . Lawrence , with other parties , then compared the pattern with the black cloth remaining in the church , and it was found exactly to correspond . Upon the following day he returned to Kagland , in company with BlisECt , and producing a search warrant they took po « ession of the black cloth , still lying on the counter , and afterwards apprehended both Jones and Probcrt . The examination lasted several hours , and at its close all the prisoners were committed , but bail was immediately tendered for Air . Jones , the tailor .
Singular Discovert of a Robbery . — Samuel Hickey , a sailor , was charged with having stolen a » iurse containing £ 58 10 a ., the propertv of Henry James Russell , half-pay captain , formerly of-the GOth Foot , or Queen's RiSea . The prosecutor stated tuat he was a passenger from Quebec on board the lAHiisa , bound for Waterford . In the storm of the 20 th . and 21 st of September , while off the banks of . Newfoundland , the siiip was dismasted and rendered unmanageable . Her pitching was so violent that every thing of a moveable nature was sent flying in all directions , hia trunk amongst the rest ; in fart he said it was sent to and fro along the cabin like a
we-tvers shuttle , until it was broken to pieces ami the contents strewed about the floor . The most valuable portion of his property—a small black silk bag tied with a piece of shoe tape , and containing £ 5 S 10 s ., which he had deposited in his trunk ior safety , could not be found , although he publicly then and there offered a reward of ten pounds to any man man who would produce it . On the 22 nd , the barquo Lord Sandon fell in with the Louisa , and took off the captain , passengers , and crew , arriving at Liverpool on Wednesday night last . On Thursday afternoon he ( the prosecutor ) went on board the Lord Sandon to look after the remnant of his property , when Policeman Grimlev asked him if he had lose a
purse , confcuniug money , during his passage across the Atlantic ? lie replied that he had , and was then taken to Bridewell , where he was shown the bag aud the prisoner . lie at once identified the latter as one of the sailors of the Louisa at the time of her wreck , and also the purse as the one he had lost . The purse , when taken by the BrideweJl-keeperfrom the prisoner , who bad merely been taken into custody for being drnnk , contained £ 52 Is . Mr . Rushton determined upon sending the case to the assizes
, the offence having been commuted on the JiigU seas ; ami , upon the application of the weatherbeaten half-pay captain , win , said he was quite destitute and wished to get to Carriek-oii-Suir , where he had friends with whom he was going to reside , ordered that £ 30 . should be » iven to him out of the purse , for his present use . He was then bound over to appear at the next assizes to give evidence asainst the prisoner and told that he would have ample notice sent to him as to when he would be wanted in Liverpool , and llmU 11 h ] a ^ ^ y b pai (]
liiEELorEMEXT in High LiFE .-The Lady Rose Somerset , lourth daughter of the DukeofBe-. ufort , andCapyun Iranm Uvcll , whose dopciueiit from l *« taofl f we noticed ma former paper , were marr ^« «« , in ,. « ay last , lue private chaplain of ihe duke iii&insd tee r'naways . '
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TiJE CHARTER AND NO SURRENDER ! PUBLIC MEETING IN ST . FANCRAS . Another of labour ' s gatherings for the adoption of the National petition took place on Tuesday evening , October 13 th , at the Vestry-rooms , Gordon-square , St . Pancras . The meeting was rendered more than usually important from the fact , thut the chief parochial functionary , the churchwarden , filled the chair on the occasion . Athalf-pa « t seven o ' clock , C . E . Wagstaff , Esq ., churchwardenwas unanimously called to the chair , __
, amid loud applause , lie said , he belipyed that the boasted freedom of Englishmen consisted of thoir privilege of discussing questions affecting their rights and liberties . Respecting this privilege , the vestry had readily and unanimously granted tlio U 9 e of the suite of rooms in which they were then assembled , and with equal readiness when requested by his neighbour . " , he had consented to preside over their deliberations . ( Loud cheers . ) Scein » the talented men around him , he would not attempt to trespass upon their time ; he would , therefore , call on Mr . Samuel Kvrld to address them . ( Loud cheers . )
Mr . Kydd rose , and read tlie resolution as follows : — That whereas the system of representation , a « established under the Parliamentary Act of 1 S 32 , called the Reform Bill , excludes from the rights of citizenship six-sevenths of tke male adult population , and whereas such exclusion , is not less injurious to the best interests of the community than unjust in principle , this meeting considers that right and sound policy combine to demand a veritable Ra . iical Re-form of the representative Bvstem at present existing ; therefore , this meeting resolve to petition Parliament for the cnaciinent of the People's Charter—a measure which , einbodving " Universal Suffrage , " "Annual Parliaments , " "Vote by Ballot , " "No Property Qualification , " "Equnl B-presentaiion , " and " Payment of Members , " will restore to the people the active exercise of their inalienable rights , and thereby afford them the means of correcting nil grievances , and enacting all necefsarv measures of reform .
He said , he might , with advantage , have divided the resolutions into sections , but ha preferred treating it as a whole . He did not know that he could better illustrate his subject than by a reference to the past ; and so sure as the past showed us an appalling picture of misery , destitution , and wretchedness , so sure would the future , if tlie resolution he had the honour to submit , was adopted , be productive of peace , prosperity , and happiness . ( Loud cheers . ) So lonsi as brute force prevailed , might prevailed over rights , and property confined to the few . He pointed their attention to the past in order that , for the future , they might eschew the evil , and choose the goad . ( Hear , hear . ) Rome , informer periods , was great by the mere brute strength of her standing army ,
which , for a season , overcame the world : yet , so alarmed was she at the approach of reason ' s light , that she immured Gallileo in a dunaeon . after he had arrived at the age of seventy years , for merely enunciating a great truth . ( Hear , hear . ) Yet did this great principle of brute force p « vail at the present time in England , and by it she boasted that her monarch ruled the world ; but , fortunately , the time had arrived , when mentality would supercede brutality . ( Hear , hear . ) His resolution warred lifet only with mere falsehood , but somethiug more ; it warred with that system than represents money , and consequently renders money all powerful under the reform act , " and that very money power would prove the curse of the countrv , if ' the working classes did not
unite to carry out the principles contained in that resolution . ( Loud cheers . ) Again he asked , was n « t money all powerful ? Go to the Exchange , and ask a . money-monger if he is executing his stewardship justly , and a policeman would he called in , and the interrogator given into custody . ( Hear , hear , ) Money armscountry against country—citizen against citizen , son against the father , ana the mother against the daughter ; and so it runs on until the whole of society is contaminated by its damnable influence . Well , what do we purpose to do by way of remedy . Toonfranchise man . not money . In the words of Julian Hainey . we adopt for our motto , " your rights and no more , our rights and no less" ( Loud cheers . ) But some one might say , have you not tried the Suffrage in America , and has it not failed . He answered no . To give America the credit due to her , much had been done there , but unfortunately she inherited th vices of here forefathers , and they were
a monev making people . ( Uear , hear . ) But as regards education , the state of Boston alone had devoted £ 30 , 000 for that purpose , a sum equal to that the Whigs voted to educate a nation . ( Loud cheers . Put that down in your note books , you who rail anainst democratic institutions . ( Much applause . ) Misht we not fairly anticipate , that did we possess the Charter , our mental qualifications would stand much higher than at present . ( Hear , hear . ) In this respect America was a head of ns . Lord John Russell talked of Education , and Sanatory Reform , whilst the peopleraiscd £ 10 , 000 , purchased an estate , and creeled dwellings and a scliool-liouee , thus improvi ' ns their ventilation , illumining their _ own minds , and bettering their own genera ! condition . fie had much pleasure in moving the resolution , whose principles went to the rout of the disease , and would prove the only effieie . " * r » medy . ( Loud cheers . )
Jclux IIarset , who was received with applause , rose to second the resolution , and said : —This resolution asserts that tlie system of representation established under the Reform Bill is unjust in principle and injurious to the best interests of the community . It is clearly unjust that six-sevenths of the adult populatiftn should be excluded from the rights of citizenship . That they are so excluded none can gainsay , for whereas the adult males ot the united kincdon number about seven millions five hundred thousand , the number of electors does not exceed at the utmost one million . Will any one assert that this is just ? Will any prince , potentate , or peer—any one of the nrivileged , anv priest whose voice is raised to sanctify wrong .
any lawyer whose cunning is devoted to making the worse appear the better cause—will any of these dare to stand here and proclaim the natural inequality of mankind ? For myself , and for my brother Chirtists , I fling down the gauntlet , let any take it up who dare . ( Cheers . ) When I shall see one portion ot mankind coming into the world with saddles on their backs and bits in their mouths , and ( dien I see another portion provided , at their birth , with spurs to their heels and whips in their hands to ride and drive their fellows , then I will believe in the justice and right of the present order of things , but not before . ( Loud applause . ) To enter into an examination of the question of popular suffrage , fully and completely , to answer all the cavillings and
sophisms of the enemies of the popular sovereignty is impossible , seeing that my time is limited -, 1 can but notice one or two points . 1 assert that under the existing system the people are politically slaves ; slaves even according to the meaning of the term as understood by our ancestors . Our opponents assert that Universal Suffrage , as we understand that principle , never existed in thi 3 country . They say , that in the earl } ' period of English history the franchise was confined to that portion of the commonality entitled freemen . The tillers of the ground were for the most part serfs , denied political franchises , whioh were confined to that portion of the people who bore arms , or were liable to military service in defence of the state . Anns and the Vote
were the distinguishing features of the freemen as opposed to the serfs . But admitting this we must remind them that serfage has been long abolished ; nominally , at least , slavery is no longer tolerated in this country ; and we all know that no portion of the commonality arc now exempted from the liability to hear arwsindefcnceof the country . Thusthecxisthig system imposes upi > n the people the duties without investing them with the rights of freemen . To be ivally emancipated from villainage we must , even according to feudalist ideas be invested with the franchises of freemen , if not , then the pretended ab . iliti . m of serfdom is a sham . ( Applause . ) But I found my argument upon a broader basis , and I assert that if the English serf was denied the active exercise
of his rights , those were nevertheless inalienable . ( Cheers . ) God did not make serfs—( cheers )—he made men . ( Cheers . ) God made neither privileged r . or unprivileged , neither kings nor subjects , neither lords nor slaves ; hut men and women , free , and destined to be happy . ( Great cheering . ) As to the worn-out argument , that the people are not sufficiently intelligent to fitly exercise the franchise , that is sufficiently answered by the fact that the people are always in advance of their rulers in opposing bad or demanding salutary changes . ( Hear , hear . ) In 1 S 15 the BoroujdimoiiL'eriiig Parliament passed the Corn Laws against the bill of the unrepresented people , who were hewed down by ruffianly yeomanry cavalry-men on the fatal field of Peterloo ,
when assembled to protest against those laws , and to petition for Universal Suffrage — ( hear , hear ;) — and now after thirty years experience the legislature has abandoned those laws . Subsequently the people opposed the New Poor Law , but they were unrepresented , they had but few friends in the House of Commons , although amongst those few was that noble of nature and glory to the English name , the immortal William Cobbett . ( Cheers . ) The people protested in vain ; that law was enacted , and now ' on all sides it is confessed that the law is a failure . ( Applause . ) That law is the gieat English difiiculty of the present government , and we behold
at this moment a vast organization preparing under the direction of the member for St . Albans , furthc purpose of superseding that law . Again , for years , a number of reforms were demanded liy the peoplefor instance , the abolition of the slave trade , the extinction of black slavery , corporation and postoffice reforms—before the government would so much as stretch forth a little linger to carry out the popular will . ( Applause . ) Now , the people ' s demand for the Charter is opposed and condemned , and the idea of universal suffrage is scouted as absurd and mischievous , ridiculous and ruinous . But " wait a little longer . " Lord John Russell who now declares tbathe will resist the six points to the last , has been
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coyerted before now to believe in the justice and efteaoy ot measures which he had previously opposed and denounced . ( Hear , hear . ) In 1821 . Lord John Russell defended the nomination boroughs , as an useful and ornamental part of our blessed constitut . on ; yet in 1831 , he introduced a bill to disfranchisethose very boroughs . ( Hear , hear . ) He opposed Urn-law Repeal until , he found that Peel was about to offer . amore popular bid , and then , but not till then , he declared for total repeal . ( Hear , hear . ) It may be , therefore , that Lord John Rus-Tf y 6 t Se ° tllC w ! sdom and Propriety of our < lemiuid lor the Charter : and in a few years hence , acknowledge that the people were more intelligent than himself . ( Loud applause . ) If not , if he is not to he the minister for whom ia destined the glory of
assisting at the birth of a regenerated people , if he be unworthy of that high mission , too cowardly , or too dishonest for the performance of so glorious a task ,-why . then , never fear , but if once the Chartist twelve are side by side with Duncombe in the House of Commons , when the hour comes , the man will not be wanting . ( Enthusiastic cheering . ) As respects what is said in the resolution of the injurious results of the present system , no lengthy argument is needed to prove that . The demoralization and destruction of life which repay the toil of our factory workers ; the veritable slavery of our collier and mining population ; the misery of our agricultural labourers , their wretched hovels , tueir ioodlesshomes , their subserviency to the infamous truck system , their punishment in Poor-law ilsKtilcs , the temptations held out and punishments inflicted upon them through the accursed Game-laws ,
—( cries of hear , hear)—the cellars of Liverpool and tin-, wynds of Glasgow—al ; these attest the effects of class-usurpation and class-urisrule . ( Applause . ) Could the so-called ignorant people have by their legislation possibly produced a worse state of things ? ( Cheers . ) Look at Ireland . Would Chartism have allowed a people to subsist for centuries upon the verge of famine ? ( No !) And now that actual famine has come , that despair and frenzy has seized upon the unhappy people , would Chartism give bullets to the breadless , and send bayonets as the means of quieting starving men and hungered women and children ? ( Shouts of "No ! " ) That there are ignorant and slavish men amongst the people who would not exercise rightly , or exercise at all , the rights . the Charter would confer upon them , I do not dispute , but these are not the many , these are not the men who would guide public opinion ; these are not the men who even now elect Duncombe and
Wakley by show ot'hand . i previous to the confirmation of their election by the electoral body . ( Cheers , ) I am persuaded that the great mass of the people arc fully qualified to exevuisu the rights of citizdpliip , and those who are not so qualified would speedily become so . ( Cheers . ) What would be said of a man who having a youth placed under his instruction to learn the trade of a carpenter , should tell the ' youth tliatlie must not think of handling the tools until he had learned his trade ? ( Laughter . ) If you want to make a man a carpenter , you give him the axe , the hammer , the pitue , the chisel , the saw , and other tools , and hu learns how to use them . lie m ; iy cut his lingers once or twice but he will out learn iliat-- ( clieerii ) so , give the most uninformed the suffrage , and they willnotcut their lingers very often by returning
dishonest or incompetent representatives . ( Applause . ) What would be said of a man who would nut allow his ssn tu go into the water until he had learned to swim ? Give the people the suffrage , and they will dive to the depths of society , and fetch up " pearls of great price ; " they will strike out their vigourou * limbs and reach in safety the haven of freedom and happiness . ( Great cheering . ) For the attainment of this great richt we must persevere in spite of all opposition , and all discouragement . * The press will not report us . The magnificent meeting at the Crown and Anchor was totally burked by the Times , and merely noticed in miserable paragraphs by other journals . Tim equally magnificent meeting at the Eastern Institution was altogether passed over , and this meeting will share the same fate . Thus we are
treated by the press . The people mee * and petition for inquiry into their grievances—they meet and ask lor tlmir rights as men , and so long us they do thus legally and peaceably , so long the preas stifles their voice . When , however , goaded by despair , . and wearied of the contemptuous indifference with which their prayers have been treated , the outraged people write the . r wrongs upon England ' s soil in characters of fire and blood ; then the press finds its voice , then it denounces the people , and invokes the vengeance of the law upon the unhappy masses . The press then demands dragoons and hangmen , to smother in blood that agitation which the base press-gang have raainlv caused . If the conductors of the press had done
their duty , long before this the people would have been instructed in the duties of citizens , and long before this would have enjoyed the rights of citizens . ( Great Applause . ) The press-writers are infinitely more to blame for the wrongs and misery of tlie people than either the government or the aristocracy . ( Renewed applause . ) But , in spite of the traitor journalists we will persevere and conquer . ( Cheers . ) Our cause is a cause worth struggling for ; in the words of the Martyr Mnir , when sentenced to transportation for defending the principles of Chartismthe right of universal citizenship- — " It is a good cause , it shnll yet prevail , it shall finally triumph !" ( Enthusiastic and prolonged cheering . J
Mr . Ernest Jones roso amid much applause to support the resolution , and said , Mr . Chairman and Brother Chartists , it appears t » me that we are assembled here more for the purpose of proving to the government and to the world at large our firm adherence to the principles propounded by the People ' s Charier , and our determination to carry those principles into effect than to strengthen our convictions or brighten our own perception of their truth . Indeed , the propositions it contains arc so plain , so conforming with the laws of common sense and common honesty , that I can scarcely conceive how this light has b <;« n kept under the bushel for so many centuries . ( Hear , hear . ) Now , what does the resolution before you say ? It snys that a map has a ri » ht to his own property , and to reclaim it from the
thief who stole it , or the robher Ly whom it was taken . Originally every man had an equal riglit to an equal share in this earth , its produce and government . This is a proposition no political economist can deny . Thus every man must have been , or oii « ht to have been , possessed of an equal portion of the soil , wealth and power . Now wo see land , produce and government in possession of a few hands , while the landless , moneyless , and oppressed millions are starving . How did they lose their property and rights ? It can only be reasonably supposed to have been in one of two ways : either that they sold them for an equivalent , or that they were forcibly or fraudulently taken from them . ( Hear , hear . ) If ' the first , we naturally ask , what equivalent did the producinj ; classes receive , and when did they receive
it . Was it in the shape of property ? Hardly bo Are they not plunged hopelessly iuto a national debt , the interest of which they are forced to pay wiih their very blood . Was it in the shape of good government T Hardly so ! Good government is the greatest possible amount of good to the greatest possible number ; whereas we find a few rich idle men in palaces , mansions , barracks , pleasure yachts , and churches , while we see millions of poor working mon in hovels , garrets , cellars , factories , unions prisons , penal settlements , and bleeding on the tri-. ingle . Was it in tiie shape of education ? Hardly so ! For they themselves accu-e us of ignorance , thus confessing that they never educated us . ( Hear hear . ) We find , also , that this has ever been the case throughout the course of history , from the time
when Cain , the fir .- ^ t soldier , murdered his brother , to the preset day , when we . have armies of Cains with scnrlct coats and glittering bayonets . ( Loud cheers . ) Then it is clear the equivalent has never been given , and the privileged holders of the land , wealth and power of this earth are debtors to the people for centuries of enjoyment and monopoly We now summon those debtors before the tribunal of nations , for we will have buck capital nnd interest ; aye , and compound interest as well , even to the last fraction , since , not content with defrauding you , they have treated you with contumely , goaded you with the lash , at the t-ame time that they held back the food from your mouths , so near when you sowed and reaped , that the fabled punishment of Tantalus of old is turned into a modern reality ,
although their scriptures say , thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treads out the corn . ( Great cheering . ) But I deny that our fathers ever parted voluntarily with their rights and property . They were surrendered at the call of dire necessity . Self-constituted governments , wised by the hand of violence , or traitor rulers who betrayed their trust , robbed them by unequal laws , that as they impoverished the industrious enriched the oppressor . Do you not daily hear theory of "hard times ? " Let us translate the phrase into common sense . " Hard times " means "hard" government and "hard" laws . No times are "hard" when governments are just . ( Cheers . ) Unequal legislation then became tho creator of ignorance , for it knew that enlightenment w : ia its most deadly foe . Therefore it established bad schools , lest others should come and establish good anon . Therefore the working man ' s child is taught little in those schools but this— " reverence your superiors ! Obtry your betters ! " Therefore he
is told to worship the tlironu and the altar ! which means insolcnco and taxation—tithes and idleness Therefore he is told , if in this life he consents to be an abject slave- —if in this life he allows himself to bo degraded below the level of a beast of tho field—he nas a chance of becoming a cherub in the next . Therefore he is told , if he meets : i lady or a gentlemen to bo « - low and step aside , but if'he nieots a far more useful member of society , a child of toil , he may pass whistling ; . nd heedless on his way . But we are going to him , aud when he repeats to us the hellish lesson of his childhood . " to reverence and humbly obey his betters , " we will tell him that he has no betters , and that earth has not a nobler title than that of an honest , independent man . ( Great applause . ) Unequal legislation next beeanic the parent of ciiinc ; for hunger makes a thief , and outrage creates a murderer . No man is born with sin in his heart . Then the thief and murderer , that is , the poor man , who enacts the crime , is punished , and justly so , for in no case can a violation of God's
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law be justiied ; but ulm punishment U thero for the greater criminsil , wh'i , by jhis oppressive legislation , has become the creator of that crime , of which the sufferer is but the actor ? ( Loud cheers . ) Thus has your property been stolen , . thus have your rights been denied you , ' thus might your hearts have been corrupted , your minds debased and your very souls infected by laws that you have been forced to uphold at the cost of your lives . ( Hear , hear . ) 1 hesc laws still exist in their full force ; nay , their hoaryheaded iniquity grows more rampant every day , and it is against these laws that you arc called upon in the Resolution you have heard to make a solemn protest ; it is against theso laws you are asked to defend yourselves ; it is against these laws you are exhorted to elevate the holier statute of the Charter
and what is the spirit of its principles ?—why , simply this , since we find that uiu-qual legislation has been our ruin , we ask for its opposite—equal legislation . Well may the goddess of justice be depicted as blind . Oh , she has beeu blind for centuries , and given all to tne most grasping . Now we will tear the bandage off her eyes , for it is high time she should begin to see . ( Cheers ) I am prepared to prove , that all , or nearly all , the institutions of the country are either unsanctioned by us , or hostile to our interests . We never said we wanted a standin ? army . We never wished men to bayonet their fathers , and , if ordered , to burn down the cottage homes of their childhood . They are of no service to us . We clothe , feed and pay them , that they may stab , shoot and sabre us at the bidding of monopoly . Never tell me the men of this country could not
defend it against any invader without a standing army . Make it a happy land for them , give them something worth defending , and trust me they won't let any mortal take it from them ; but you would find a recruit at every cottage door , and a bayonet in every hand . As for foreign conquest , we like not foreign conquest , we see un glory in war , and nothing religious in bloodshed , though it seems to delight the hearts of the Queen and her archbishops , since in speeches from the throne nnd prayers from the altar they give thanksgivings to God that their fellywbeings have been must gloriously slaughtered . And as for colonies , there is not a great colony that were not hapoier itself and more beneficial to the mothercountry , if this very hour it rere a mighty , allied and independent nation . Witness America—what was our fiommerne with that colnnv ? What is onr
commerce with the empire ? ( Loud cheers . ) We never said we wanted gaudy bishops . We are not proud ; less splendid ministers of religion would satisfy us—men who . should go to their churches on foot , as Christ and his apostles did before them . We never said we thought an expensive court indispensable for maintaining by its magnificence the dignity of the country . We believe , on the contrary , that the dignity of the country is best maintained by the prosperity of its people . We never sent such costly ambassadors to-foreign despot ? . After all , they have not the dignity of the Swiss envoy who came bare-footed before Duke Charles and the mounted chivalry of Burgundy , which fled that very day like dust before the whirlwind of his countrymen . We never invitcil Nicholas of Russia , lie
was no guest of ours . Then why should the food he taken from our mouths to feast him at the roval banquet board . If the Qneen has such rejrard " for that murderous barbarian , let her entertain him with sourcrout and . ' sausages . ( Voni her . ) family . in Germany , instead of taking to feast him the source of strength from the lips of infancy and the staff of life from the hands ot age . Then why , why , in the name of justice , should we pay for goods we never ordered , and guests we never invited ? ( Immense applause . ) And what , I ask , are our rulers about in this time of fearful prophecy ? Members arc bagging game on the moors of Scotland , after having made game of us in a much more barren place—the House of Commons ; though , thank heaven ! they have not bagced us yet . ( Laughter . ) Churchmen
are building churches ' , while those already built ace but half filled . Uncharitable Christians might suppose it was to create more livings , for more parsons If the adage be true , "the nearer the church , tho fuvther from God , " how far we must all be , since we meet a church at every turning ! ( Laughter . ) The Queen , our lovely , gentle-hearted sovereign , is looking out for fresh palaces on the Cornish coast , while the workhouses of the empire cannot hold the starving population . And we!—we are waiting for tho Charter . Waiting ! what for ?—For the Duke of Norfolk to teach Lord John Russell liotv the people ought to be fed . . Waiting ! For the archbishop of Canterbury ' s prayer to avert the famine . Waiting ! For the manufacturer to say to his workman , " I think you work too much , ami earn too little ; take
more and toil less . " Waiting ! For tbe baker to say to his man , " Since the passing of Free Trade bread has risen , therefore it is but justice your wages should rise too . " Waiting ! For the Queen to say , " My palaces are too many and too large , and my salary too high ; 1 will resign so much of both to the poor . " Waiting ! Mr . Chairman !—Good heaven ! These men arc waiting for that which they could take at once . ( Great applause . ) 'If you wait for these , or any of these , you may wait long enough- Now . for my part , I confess I do not like waiting , for I have learned the truth of the adage— " while the grass grows , the steed starves . " But while we desire to reform others , we must not be blind to the ( net , that ive want reforming ourselves . That it might elevate the mind , and
strengthen the triune of men , it they went less to the sin-palace . Rest assured , a man who drinks , however great his talents may be , is worth nothing in . popular movement , in which energy , presence of mind , clearness of head and promptitude of action , are indispensable requisites . —And oh ! if there be any who cannot themselves resist the degrading vice , —why , oh ! why I ask them will you inoculate your children with the same ? The child is sent to tho tavern by its mother , to call the father homo , —it is sent for beer or spirits ;—it grows familiarised with the sight of vice , —it grows familiarised with the way to that accursed door , —and , believe me ! he . that has been sont thero so often for another , when achild . will find the way for himself when a man . ( Hear , hear . ) Ifvou wish to change Clmrtisra into covcrnnient ,
you must break its last lingering link with tlie pothouse and the tavern 1 I have witnessed publ ichouse meetings , where the memberstold me they could not afford to build a hall , or hire a room . Nay , I have seen them spend more in gin , beer and tobacco , than would have paid for a room to contain twice their numbers . ( Qear . ) Again , we must quench envy , petty jealousies and discussion . I believe this is well nigli banished from within our ranks , —but the tempter comes from without;—fresh attempts are being made to disunite you . As we have boon lately told , the separation-cry of Church and State is being raised under the name of religious liberty . Give us religious liberty , as well as every other , —but do not give us religions liberty alone . Will religious liherty give you a leg of mutton on your spits , or a coat on
your backs ? VVill religious liberty give you . 1 vote ? Will religious liberty cut down the pension-list or the civil-list ? Will religious liberty do away with the IJou ° e of Lords ? Will religious liberty aboli .-h a standing army ? Will religious liberty throw open the parks to culture and pass the plough through the preserves ? Will religious liberty give you tlie land ? Then let us have th : U thing first , which gives us those ! Meanwhile via will keep reli ^ iouslibcrly salt ; and alivo ivitliin our hearts and brains . They have seized upun thatonc of our requirements , t . o disunite ami disarm us , which was just the very one that would not injure them nor benefit us ! No ! we want social and political liberty as well , and then we will take good care religious liberty shall not be far off . And we can coin it all , for , to parody the old national distitch : —
Ch-irluti no wily foe shall rue . If Chartists to themselves keep true ! It may have appeared , my friends ! as though through past generations , heaven itself had been agitiuRt the people , and for their tyrants , so many resolutions have been rendered abortive , by triflin . u and unforeseen events . But , Sirs ! it was not Heaven that was against the nations , but the nations that were against themselves ! They have been cowards , —they have been slaves , —they have been unmanly , miserable slaves!—for they have bent with servility to those whom they should have chastised , they have kissed the hand , that smote them on the face . It is only those who deserve to be free , that shall ever win their liberty . Freedom comes not of herself , —you must go and seek her , there is
no time to rest , till you have found her . The corn will grow , while the husbandman sleeps , but he must first have ploughed and sown . You , however , seem to have passed the time of trial ! you are 110 longer confounding the right diviuo of kings with tho divine rights of man ; you no longer givo to the priest the homage that is due to his God ;—you are becoming worthy of vovir liberty , and therefore our father which is in hoaveu , permits his mighty famine to visit the nations , —it conies permitted br God , but created by man , not lo punish , but to stir them on , not to crush them , but to give them strength , — a dreadful messenger , breathing inspiration through their hearts , —experience through their councils , and power through their multitudes . —For romember ! the days arc past , when viatma falls from heaven . Expi-ct nothing but from your own actions !—God aids those , who aid tlieiusolvcs ! Do this ! and in thy words of Cromwell : the spirit of the Lord sha'lbc
with the people ! Above ail expect no siiocour from 11 government , thai although it has « . census tukuis every ten years , —although it numbers tho people as a flock of sheep upon the pastures of monopoly , and finds that they inercahc by hiiit-a-miliion every year , —yet takes no pains to scu , whether the supply of food increases in tuc like proportion ' . ( Hear , hear . ) But in Ireland the step of the livelier is heard ! Oh ! little did they think , that the very ministers of Heaven itself should be sent to confound th « in ! The rotting of a humble root of tho earth shall lame their pride , and overturn their 3 nay ! Thero tho thin hand of famine is grappling with tiuhearts of men . Methinks 1 can hear the voice whispering rebellion—sec her bony linger pointing to tho exported I ' uod—whilu that patient , willing people have been looking on in mute and sorrowful forbearance , trusting , as with the confidence of a child , to the soothing promises of their magistrates anil pas-
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"' iT ' '~ 7 j - ' ' l ' ' ( ieti " ' . 'I'"ins i' ' ' hi'iir uf dHnjicr , till the so . diers of Victoria had time to arrive , and with will 1 ¦ n ,. *! l ' imc thl § ir P ' i confiding hearts VVcll ! Well ! So be it . Those vollies sound the knell thnT n f n f 0 f ^ murdered peaaant ! We will give th buiet for bullet—but our bullets shall be tlr . > baltoof the ballot , cast millionfold by the hand of Universal Suffrage more efficacious in prostrating our enemies , that their murderous weapons in assailing the charmed life of our Charter ! ( Immense cheering . ) Ireland is a terrible lesson held up toyou by theghand of God . OU ! taHC warning by it . eiC it « tOO late . WllAt guarantee hare you that England not become the
may - soon same ? Take pity on the poor Irish people ! Pity ? No ! Do justice . It is under the same government—rated by the same policy—and destined to the same fate , if you d » not interpose . iiud take pity on yourselves . Give them their own bread to cat—you will be saving yours in the end . Drive famine from there , and you will never see her , here . British Hereu ' cs ! strangle the serpent sepd of monopoly , ere it has growth enough to span the channel . ( Great cheering , ) And to what more does famine , that terrible monster point ? To the midnight torch upon the mountain top—to the shattered mansion and the burning cottage—to the loosened hell of a ruffian soldier—to the red blood on the
accursed bayonet—and to the despair of outraged womanhood in Ireland , But more—still more ! that dreadful hand is pointing hither to England ! To the prospective of deserted fields , and stormy gatherings of fierce thousands;—Hunger for their general—Despair for their councillor , and murder for their priest . It is this fruit of Whig government—class monopoly , and unequal laws , that it will be onr duty to prevent—through the means of our Charter . Save us—save your country—save the cause of liberty from this ! You aan yet earn peacefully , more than
Woodshed ever gives to man ! The Charter still can silence the cannon and blunt the bayonet ! Herald of peace and anyel of redemption , it invites you to serve tho eacred cause of humanity ; nnd while the powers of hell sm > sharpening the sword of massacre in the arsenals of kings , it comes like the sunrise , calm , gnat , and glorious , sbeddin ; : an omnipotence of peacu on the earth ; lulling the storms of our tenipcsuious skie 3 , and pouring over the darkened child ( if misery , the broad day of plenty and contentment ( Enthusiastic cheers . ) .
Mr . M'Gellktt , said it was the first time he had ever addressed a public meeting . lie had heard much of the distress in Ireland , but they had yet heard but little of the destitution prevailing in the islands and Highlands of Scotland , of the thousands perishing without either potatoes er meal , in the glens of that country . Look at the hundreds turned from ( heir holdings away from friends and relatives , Or to the weather oi « to the roads to perish . The speaker proceeded to relate suveral " clearances" or " weedings out" of the people of the Highlands , by the Duke of Sutherland and other tyrannical Scotch aristocrats , which excited the indignant outcries of the meeting . Mr . M'Gelloty concluded by announcing his intention to lecture to the English public on the wrongs and sufferings of his Highland countrymen . Thft resolution -vna then put from the chair , and carried unanimously .
Mr . John Arnott then read and moved the adoption of the National Petition . Dr . M'Douall in seconding the motiiin , said he felt as much as his countrymen could do for the prevttiling distress in the West of Scotland , or as much ns any Irishmen could do for the existing distress in Ireland , but the only effectual remedy was to place the means of prevention in the hands of the people for tho future . Competition stood much in the wny , giving full granaries to the rich , and empty clipboards to the poor . ( Hear , hear . ) How was this ! He thought , itmightbe traced to class made laws . ( Hear , hear . ) The law of primogeniture allowed the oldest born to take the estate , and leave the younger son to be provided for by the nati-m , consequently the blackguards of the family are placed In the army and navy , and the fools were put into the church . ( Loud ,
cheer * . ) We have five million acres of waste land , why not send the two millions of surplus hands out of tlie labour market or to the land ? Suppose that it takes six millions of money to support the two millions surplus hands in idleness , could not that money thus saved bs placed to other purposes such as educating the people . Again , would not the two millions thus placed on the soil , want hats , shoes , clothes , furniture , knives , field and garden implements , & 0 t Constitution in the labour market would be lessened , fifteen men would be wanted when only five were to bft fonnd . of course , wages would rise in proportion . You want the power of thus beneficially employing f . he waste lands the Chattel' would confer upon the people . ( Great cheering . ) The late storm in London blew down two houses in High Holborn , and in so doing it blew away two votes , but had it blow away two men ' s heads and left the roof of the houses
s'andinsr , the votes would have remained . Such \ v ;\ s our present excellent representative system . ( Hear , heir . ) The Dr . next proceeds to show the evil produced by the manufacture of goods within the walls of prison , when made to compete with out door labour , and asks , must not our syatem of legislature be defective when simh thinus ate allowed ? ( Loud cheers . ) Our earth was beautiful , God showered hi 3 blessings most abundantly , but the aristocracy of iand and money had built a wall around this earthly paradise , reason would , however , ere long round her empire , and that wall would fall before the brilliance of her lightning rays . ( Loud cheers . ) He had told Baron Gurney , when sentencing him to twelve months impri ' sonmenc for advocating the rights of
uiiin , that fie should live to witness the triumph of rii : ht over might in establishment of the People ' s Charter , and he was now more than ever convinced that he should . ( Great applause . ) Yes , Chartism shnll triumph over tyranny and oppression , and us ; dor its rule vice , mise y and wreichcduess shall not be known , but peace , prosperity and happiness shall cover the earth . ( Vociferous cheering . ) Mr . T . M . Wiiekleu nxe amidst considerable cheering , to support the adoption of the Petition , lie did so , because it had received' the sanction of mnnv millions of his fei ! ow-men , and , because he ,
like Dr . M'Doual , believed it was calculated to produee contentment and happiness . ( Loud cheers . We are all born free and equal . The People ' s Charter is our right , : iud will be ours as soon as we demand ir , with a determination to be its possessors , ( Uear , hear . ) Oh , said s / nne , its possession would injure the present state of the money market , but he said , if it is our right , let us have it , and if thfi present system is so rotten that it will not bear thu approach of right , let it fall , and we will build up another better suited to the present age . ( Loud cheeri"g ) The Petition was then unanimously adopted .
Mr . Stallwood rose much applauded to move tl . e following resolution : — " That , in the opinion of this meeting , the return to Parliament of a few patriotic individuals to act in concert with the small bund of noble spirits already i n the House , an' 1 favourable to the democratic c : iuse , would materially strengthen tlie efforts of the people for freedom . This mteting therefore approresof tho : rumples nnd objects of tho Election and Registration Committee ,, and with a view to render it all the support in their power , hereby elect th « following persons tn nor . as a local committee , in co-operation thuiwith : —Cli ! trlos Efien Wafr srafi- ; John Hornby , Charles lVe , Charles Dmldridyo , Alfred 1 ' eiiit .- William Perry , John Harris , William Ferris , Charles , Hall , and John Arnott . "
He said , the remedy for our political evils , tlie Charter , bad been adopted , the means of accomplishing the remedy was now before them , and he thought it was indisputably the best mode of procedure , aud ibrtunatily , in this district of the metropolis , they would not have much difficulty to contend with . lie recollected attending some times since a meeting at the Exiuouth Arms , Exmouthstreet , at which their respected uhairman was present , surrounded by his colleagues in ofHce , when they offered to place all parsons coming within the meaning of the Reform Act on the rate book , and
see them duly entered on the electoral roll , and he did not baiieve they had become less liberal , ( hear , hear , from the chairman . ) Hence , if they had not the votes and they were legally qualified , the fault would be tlieirown , and lot them bear in mind , that bei'ie on the rate books qualified them to act parochially as well as nationally . lie trusted they would adopt the resolution he had the honour to submit , and act on it , with promptitude , vigour , and determination . ( Loud applause . ) Mr . Joh . x Gathard seconded the motion , which was unanimously adopted . Mr , John IIorkbv moved ,
That the best thunks of this meeting are due nnd arc hereby given to the Vestrymen , for the use of tho HooniB . which was carried by acclamation . Mr . John Arnott moved , The thanks of the meeting to the Chairman , for his impartial conduct in the chair . WhichwassecondedbyMr . IIaiiius , and carried unanimously , amid the loudest applause . The Chairman' said he should be unworthy their esteem did he not highly appreciate the compliment just paid him . The working men had decidedly taken the right road . In 1 S 33 , they were told the v . o oij le were not intelligent enough—however that illicit have been then , it was not so now . If tho
people of France had lost their rights after manfully pining them , from want of tlio knowledge of how to ! ise those rights , it was quite evident the people of England were'betterlinlonneii . ( Hear , hoar ) As an elector so far as liu was concerned , liu pledged himself never to vote for any man unless ho promised to extend the elective franchise . ( Loud cheers . ) lie wus happy to find the working classes" would act with thorn at last in tho matter of registration , and quite sure lie was , that his brother oflicerswould w > w ! er them every assistance . ( Muchapplause . ) ii . j was delighted to find the working ci . isses so z <; .:-lously cultivating : their intellects , and he believed it would bo found the surest way to political power . The Chairman then announced the meeting dissolved , and left his scat amidst rapturous applause . A large number of signatures were obtained to the Petition , as the people passed from the rooms .
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