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      These are subjects to which , independently of their immediate importance , we have an especial right to dilate upon , because , unlike the majority of Journals , and especially that edited by a deputy Whig minister , the " Weekly Chronicle , ' the " Star" has predicted the present state of the social and political relations of Ireland , while our friend of the " Chronicle , " in general , foretells events long after they have occurfed . This inclement season , and the dreary iamine now raging throughout a fertile land , overflowing with milk and honey , ant

      IRELAND . HER SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PROSPECTS

      peopled with a generous , industrious , and frugal race , would tempt us to withhold a very critical review of Irish politics , but for the fact that all thought of social improvement for the last fifteen years has been extinguished by the political blaze , now subdued , but , anon , revived with increased effulgence to suit the temperature of a confiding , patient , but ex . pectant people ; a fact which alone warrants us in referring to our political and social predictions regarding men and measures in connection with that ill-fated country .

      When the restoration of the Whigs to power should have been the watchword of Ireland ' s long , looked-for opportunity , and while those vigilant and on the spot were tolerating , if not aiding , Mr . O'Connell in his new policy , we wrote as follows , on the 18 th of July , long before Parliament had been prorogued , Dungarvan ^ disgraced and Ireland dishonoured : then we

      wrote—Ireland is not yet in possession of the following fact : — Mr . O'Connell , before he left London , entered into a definitive treat ; with the Whigs , the sura aud substance ot which was tbat he would go to Ireland and break up the repeal association . Hag he not honourably fulfilled his mission ? But , Satan like , while he and his faction reap the reward of their country ' s dishonour , he will contrive to throw the odium of confusion and disturbance upon those who have beea bold enough to resist his despotism and adheru to the lessons tbat he himself has taught them . lie has sold Ireland once more and will sell her again , if her sons do not rise as one man and for ever trample upon a power that has brought disgrace upon the nation and made Ireland a bye . word of contempt throughout the civilised world , Had we

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      been aware that Dungarvan was to have been 10 dis . honoured , if death , certain death , stared us in the face , we would have met the apostate upon the hustings and saved Ireland the dishonour aad Dungarvau the disgrace of so deep , and we feur , so lasting a wound . " Alas , poor country , Almost afraid to know itself . " Has not this prediction been fulfilled to the letter ? while as regards the social improvements now shadowed forth in the Whig programme , can the most fastidious and critical , reader , or our bitterest enemy , dissever what is good in the project from what we have recommended for the last

      fourteen years , enforced in our several letters and speeches , and detailed in our letters to the Irish landlords , written in 1840 , and more minutely detailed in our several subsequent works . We take the following programme of Whig intention as regards Ireland , as the | uncontraclicted feeler of the daily organs of that party . Parliament will meet on the 19 th of January . » # * "Wo understand , therefore , that governmsnt has come to tho resolution , at the opening of parliament , to meet the tremendous evils of Irish distress , not by one or two favourite measures , borrowed from any of the political

      monomaniacs of the day , but by a clus'er or series of measures embracing the whole field of ill , granting with generous band still more of English wealth to the famished and helpless Irish , but at the same time forcing every class in that country to come forward and contribute its energies and its miians to a permanent provision of employ and of support to the poor . This cluster of new measures is not a poor law , ner a wasteland re . claiming , nor a batch of peasant proprietors , nor an emigratienfund , nor a drainage bill ; but it is all these put together—at least , the better part of all these . And it is much more besides .

      " Neither is it intended to suspend or discontinue the laws already in operation , how much soever the facilities created by them have been abused or overdone . The law which places a large fund at the disposal of the landlords to expend in permanent improvements is to be still at their service . The drainage bill * are to be consolidated into one rendered mora clear and efficient . The relief committees are still to remain in operation , the immediate payment of the rate render , ing those who administer it , and find so great a portion of the funds , no doubt anxious to return as fast as possible to a more normal and reproductive mode of employing the poor .

      1 ' By another law , the action of the poorhouse will be put forward as a check to fling back the loiterer , who could find employ tlsewhere , from burdening relief funds . The workhouse and its test will be put in operation in such districts as will admit of them . But with the repulsive portion of the poor law will he joiued the truly charitable part , which is , tbat in all cases the infirm and the really dsstitute shall receive instant relief . For this purpose the warden of the poor in Ireland will b » aisigntd the same duties as the overset * of the English union . " Emigration will not be overlooked , and the means of it wisely provided . Not only will depots be formed at home , but active and beneficent preparations will be mace in the colonies , so as to ensure those who wish to emigrate against all the risks of the poor , unprovided , and ignorant emigrant .

      " The peculiarity , however , of the present plan of emigration is , that it will be coupled with the choices of settlement at home . " A commission will be issued for the purchase of waste lands , which are to be enclosed , reclaimed , cultivated , and then offered in no large lot * for sale , with such facilities as will reader them a premium for industry and frugality , and the foundation of a class of Irish yeomen . There is no one who ha » reflected upon Irish Anarchy , that has not desired the extension both of tho numbers and the quality of Irish proprietors . For this purpose the soil must be thrown open—not indued given away to paupers , but offered as a reward and a prize to small capitals amassed by industry .

      • ' The waste lands of Ireland , however , in the proportion in which they can be yearly reclaimed , offer but a narrow basis for a class of yeomen . If the waste lan d * are uncultivated there are other lands , not waste , tbat are but half cultivated , and which , in the hands of the poor , encumbered , embarassed landlord , are as profitless to the community as the bog or the heath . To render these more available , liberty will be given to sell entailed property . If reasons be required for so bold a step , they will be found ample enough in such letters as that of the Marquis of Conyngham , who declares' that his estates are too encumbered for him to improve them , and this at a time when , as the Scotiman ' observes , the Blessingtou estates have been sold for 27 years ' purchase , The sale of estates , however entailed by their owners to get rid of their embarrassments , cannot fail to open the Irish soil to capital in largo and in small Masses , The yeomen will have their share .

      ~ Now , we ask the impartial reader , if it is possible o read our letters to the Irish landlords without coming to the conclusion , to the irresistible conclusion , that an embarassed government ha 9 been compelled to deal with its greatest " difficulty " upon ' the very principles , suggestions , and details recommended by an incarcerated rebel . In 1823 we were compelled to fly our country , for thirteen months , for having written a pamphlet recommending five measures for the correction of five Irish grievances ; and , in less than four years , the Saxon Parliament was compelled to admit the existence of those

      grievances , and to legislate for them , as recommended by the outlaw . Hence , the " CLUSTER OF WHIG MEASURES " are " NOT BORROWED FROM ANY OF THE POLITICAL M 0 N 0 MAN 1 ACS OF THE DAY , " but they are a leaf stolen from the book of the OUTLAWED 1

      NCARCERATED CHARTIST . When the advocates of the large farm system were thinning the agricultural population , and driving the healthy mountaineers and Highlanders into loathsome cellars in unwholesome towns , we averred that from north to south , from east to west , from

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      ' - ' ¦ - -T ^ Tpy—^ y ? « u ¦ John U'Groats to Land ' s-end , fifty acres xould no ! be found lying together , cultivated to one-fifti . par ! of their capability . We averred that the waste lands were but the cold m « at in the larder , which should be reclaimed by capitalists employing hired labour , at a standard established in the free-labour market . We averred that the superior cultivation of our now slovenly cultivated soil , would require three times the amount of our present population . " '"" m" ' '

      We averred that famine , poverty , and distress would break down all the aristocratic barriers , with which oppression , monopoly , and tyranny , had fenced the uncultivated wilds of a new race of feudal upstarts . We averred that the Irish landlords , skulking their duty and neglecting their trust , would be compelled to surrender their estates to government management , for the establishment of a small proprietary class ;

      We averred that money should be generously and lavishly advanced for the' accomplishment of this desirable object , showing that every million advanced , at an interest cheerfully paid , would leave a surplus of £ 20 , 000 per annum for payment of the necessary staff for carrying out the projeot ; and we estimated the amount at ONE HUNDRED MILLIONS ; thus at one and the same time creating an agricultural capital of tbat amount , and leaving a residue of Two Millions per annum , to insure its fair and impartial expenditure , and the punctual payment of the interest .

      We averred that' if God ' s gift to roan was too circumscribed to secure to each a nest and a labour field , that then , and not till then , we would acquiesce in the necessity of emigration . We averred that the Irish landlords would remain quiescent , sulky and resisting , until , in the hope of saving a part from famine and destitution , created by themselves , they would accept as a gratuity government interference . which , under other circumstances and in the plenitude of their full blown power and audacity , they would resist to the death .

      When we ventured upon these predictions there was no famine in the land , nor was the monster on his perceptible march . Nay , at a more recent period , when the FULL-FISTED " Times" was cheering us in July and August last with such prospect of "hot rolls' ' and " cheap bread" as induced us to deal from hand to mouth with our muffin man and baker ; we answered with the present state o the poor-houses , which we predicted would be too small for the applicants , and when the impetus to

      be given to agriculture was fancifully pourtrayed by a scribbler in the garret , we predicted that total neglect of all agricultural pursuits , the verification of which has now become the daily subject of newspaper lamentation . "Oh , but , '' says the "Economist , ' " this is begging the question , this is a forced straining of the principle ; this has been the result of famine not of Free Trade . " We answer , that if famine had not done it Free Trade was certain to have accomplished it , while , let the cause be what it may , we have foretold the event .

      Again , when the several scribes were sending their cattle drovers all over the habitable globe , or predicting their non-existence , in a garret , pending the discussion upon Peel ' s Cattle Tariff in 1842 , we stood alone , reviled , contemned , and scoffed at in the Houso of Commons , when Mr . Wakley read our letter praying for a short respite till after Easter , and in which we predicted that the effect of the measure could not be felt until the close of the year 1846 , as no vote of the senate could compel foreign cows to go to Bull , or foreign cattle to get fat , before a certain age .

      We averred that cattle were commodity of which no nation had a surplus ; but that , the rich market being opened to the untaxed world , would very speedily be glutted with the encouraged produce . We averred , that everything which was a substitute for fresh meat would be a competitor against fresh meat . We averred , that a pound duty upon the horns of an untaxed foreign ox was nothing in comparison with the multifarious tax npon the horns of a homegrown beast . * *

      We averred that the first experiment would be tried on old cows and plough oxen ; and when the " Chronicle" and the " Sun" childishly noticed the expense of transmission as a barrier to extensive commerce , we averred , that a new and extensive traffic would give rise to as extensive a competition in the means of new , improved , and cheap transit . We have lived to the close of 1846 . We are now writing , in the last hour of the last day , and we ask our contemptuous revilers to peruse the import lists of foreign food and live beasts , recently admitted by

      the Tariff of 1842 , and say who were the fools , and who was prophet ? We shall close our article the last day of the last year of old time with the prediction , that Daniel O'Connell will subscribe to every Whig measure which guarantees government patronage , upon condition that he shall be the recipient and the dispenser of the lion ' s share ; that he will quarter his Young Hannibals and Repeal

      staff upon Ireland ' s young hope , in the hour of Ireland ' s apathy and increasing misery ; and that he will take shelter from the torrent of national indignation , which is sure to follow his treachery and treason , in a SAXON PEERAGE ; while his emancipated countrymen , released from the trammels of his insolence , peculation , and ASSUMED PREJUDICES , will once more rise as a great nation , stronger for his deceit , and the more s . lf-relying for his treachery .

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      —i ¦ mi — . I-. an the . face of the . earth to make , the . . non-payment | Of debts , alleged to be due to her by another nation the ground-work for ravaging her nei ghbour * ! ter ! ritory with fire ana sword . Debtors should not be duns , and Repudiators should be mercifnl to those who cannot cash up . The Americans laid claim to between four and five millions of dollars against Mexico , the Mexi can Commissioners acknowledged to two millions , but because this has not been paid President Polk plunges the country into a war , which can hardly fail to cost the Republic at least twenty times the sum charged against Mexico . Is not this an imitation of the insanities and crimes of Kingshi p ? Whither is America tending ? ¦ " ¦ ' ¦ I ¦

      President Polk ' a second plea is that " the an * nexation of Texas to the United States constituted no just cause of offence to Mexico . " It appears to us that , of that Mexico must be the best judge ; but passing over that question , we come to the more in . mediate catus belli , the occupation of the territory between the Nueces and the Rio Grande del Norte , To say the least , this territory was "debateabl ground , " and the presumption i » , that it waa Mexican and not Texan ground . The occupation of this territory was , therefore , an act of invasion on the part of the Americans , calculated , and , as wa believe , intended , for the purpose of exciting the Mexicans to an outbreak . The soheme succeeded , and then commenced the war of invasion ; which has

      thus far resulted in the addition to the Anglo-American republic of an extent of territory exceeding that of the " old thirteen" states of the Union ? But at what cost has this been effected ? At the cost of millions of dollars and thousands of lives . Some of the murderous horrors of Monterey hare been laid before our readers . Let us add that one of the American officers writes irom Monterey , that "decencyand shame forbade him to mention what took place after the capture of tbat city !" See the " brilliant achievements" of these wretches so proudly vaunted by President Polk ! Well may Young America ask , — "Hare Mr . Polk and faia advisers sisters and daughters ? Have they hearts of flesh and blood ?"

      We have spoken of the pecuniary cost of this war to the United States . In July last the United States treasury had a surplus of nine millions of dollars j every cent was long since expended , and a debt o * six millions has already been contracted ! This fa not all ; the President demands the raisin ; of « LOAN of TWENTY-THREE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ; * nd , further , an incrbase of taxi . nos ! It is even said that a TEA TAX is to be imposed ! Have the Americans so . soon forgotten Boston Harbour and Bunker ' s Hill ? Young America of December 5 th , published three days before tho delivery of the . President ' s m ssage , presents this war and taxes question in the follow , ing light : —

      Only analyze the idea of sending our unemployed lacklandersto be shot at and to kill women and children in Mexico , because that government owad money to a few rich speculators among us , who chose to venture their property on the ocean in time of war ! Will the ezpemes of this most villainous war be paid by a tariff tax or by a direct tax Will they be paid at all ! or will they be converted into a debt to saddle upon us an army of pensioners ? Be advised , Mr . Polk I Your army have gained three victories , and have rioted almost to their hearts' « ontent in blood and rapine ! You ean never withdraw them with a better grace than now ! Stop the war , or consign your memory to the execration of posterity !

      This war against Mexico is " a war for the ag . grandisement of party leaders , for the enrichment of land-speculators , and for the extension of every form of slavery , " therefore we denounce it ; therefore wo condemn President Polk ' s " message . " But "Wait a little longer ;" the National Reformers will be in the ascendant ere long , and then we shall see the grand reckoning . In our seventh page will be found some very interesting accounts of the progress of this party . Their brief and simple " pledge" is of more importance thin President Polk ' a ten ^ olumn'd " message . " That " pledge" contains the germ of America's salvation , and mankind ' s final victory over class-usurpation , political wrong and social injustice .

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      WEEKLY REVIEW . The note of preparation for the approaching Parliamentary campaign has been sounded by the leaders of the three great parties . Lord John Russell has issued a circular to his supporters , requesting their attendance at the opening of the Session , as business of importance will be immediately pro . ceeded with . Lord Stanley has formally taken up the position of leader of the Protectionist party , and has issued a circular to the members of that party who have seatsin the House of Lords , expressing his hope that their Lordships will give their attendance

      at the commencement of the SessioH . This is the usual course adopted by the recognised leader of a party ; and the fact of Lord Stanley thus publicly coming forward , shows that the Protectionists arc determined to fight a stout battle with an organised force . The Conservative party have , it is said , also been summoned by circular , in a manner which would seem to imply that Sir Robert Peel intends to take the field as a leader of the Opposition . But the " Morning Post" states , that this circular is

      supposed to have emanated from Messrs . Young and Cardwell , ex-Secretaries of the Treasury ; and , though purporting to be from Peel , that it has been put forth , not only without his consent , but without his knowledge . Indeed , the course which theex-Prtmier will take is , at present , matter of great uncertainty . The " Chronicle" states , it is rumoured in well-informed circles , that Lord Lincoln will occupy the most prominent place in the Opposition during the Session . If so , we conclude that it will be but

      temporary ; for we cannot imagine that at the age of fifty-eight , in the full possession of ripe experience and unimpaired vigour , Sir Robert intends to retire into the seclusion of Drayton Manor , fov the purpose of making improvements and planting cabbages all the remainder of his life . Perhaps this temporary concession of so permanent a place to a subaltern of his own party , and brief retirement for * season of repose , may be part of a prudent and foreseeing policy on the part of an astute statesman By awaiting the subsidence of the troubled and fer

      menting elements of party , and leaving the cares of government to confessedly inferior to himself as practicalstatesmen , at a moment when , both at home and abroad , our affairs require the most vigorous , comprehensive , and decided policy , Sir Robert will teach the partisans of selfish and short-sighted leaders , what the country at large is already fully convinced of , namely , that at present he is the only man capable of effectually grappling with the state of the country . A few conspicuous failures vrill render even these who are

      now in power anxious to retire , and deter the dilletante , sucking statesmen of the Protectionist party from aspiring to office . Meanwhile , we understand that the Whigs intend to scramble through the whole Session as quietly as they can , and to raise no great question on which they might be defeated , if they can possibly avoid doing so . Our readers are well aware of their love for place and pay , and this determination quite squares with the popular idea of their character .

      Bue there is another party whose iufiuence has to be taken into consideration in these speculations as to the political future—THE PEOPLE-as cok » tra-distinguisbed from all mere sectional organisa . tious . At the present me . ment it may be truly , though sadly , said , that tb e masses have but one re * presentativo in that Hcuse , which , by a curious misnomer , is called % he People ' s ; " and howet

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      THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE . We believe that it was the notorious Talleyrand who said ! ' speech was given to man to conceal , not express , his thoughts ; " so appears to think Mr . President Polk , for his enormous " Message" can only have been concocted for the purpose of making " the worse appear the better reason , * ' and hiding from the world the truth which must be evident

      enough to himself , tbat his Government is engaged in a most atrocious war of aggression against a weak and injured sister state ; a war utterly opposed to those just and benevolent principles on which the United States Republic was professedly founded . Seven mortal columns of the " Morning Chronicle " are occupied with that portion of the " Message " which is exclusively devoted to a justification of the Mexican war . Of course all through the dispute between the two Republics Mexico his been in

      the wrong . When did the strong fail to satisfy themselves of that when they desired the destruction of ^ the weak ? The English in India , the Rui . sians in Poland , and the French in Africa , have always bean in the right , for they have been the victors , and " might makes right . " The United States follow in the wake of the old despotisms ; superior force yields victory , and with all the unblushing mendacity which Kings know so well how to employ , President Polk , the uncrowned , imitates his disreputable fellow-chieftains , aud employs falsehood and hypocrisy to justify pillage and murder .

      Suppose all that President Polk { says as to the indebtedness of Mexico to the United States merchants is true , does it become America to play the ! bully towards her unfortunate debtor ? We have never Joined in the senseless clamour ugainst the United States respecting their " repudiations , " on the contrary , we have defended the American people when they have repudiated debts which , without i their consent , had been imposed upon them by trafficking politicians and scheming money-mongers , [ but we must say America should be the last nation

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 2, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1399/page/4/