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THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, MARCH 27. 1847.
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LlBi-ltAL HOOKS os 1'OLITICS. ^HEC-LOGYr LIBERAL HOOKS os 1'OLITICS. THEOLOGYAND SOCIAL HiOGUESS,
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THE PRESENT CRISIS . Now that the great Humbug of the week It s passed by—now that the woriung classes have lost a days employment by way of a boon from the " Church and State "—it behoves us tolrevert to the opinion of the country as to the gross act of blasphemous superstition of which our Legislature has been guilty . Our denunciations of that act have been fully verified by the unanimously expressed opinion of the working classes ; . who here , again , have proved themselves vastly ahead of their rnlers in enlightenment and
common sense . Government must be two centuries behindhand in intelligence , if they think that they can blind the people by such tricks as this mockery of 8 Fast . It would have done in the dark ages , when the faults of the legislators were fathered upon God ; or in remoter times , when every illgotten bantling was ascribed to a Pagan deity . Bui men have learned to reason from cause to effect—and Famine , the bastard child of evil laws , bears plainly on its face the stamp of its ignoble origin—a cross-Breed between the Tory and the Whig . The homoeopathic plan of curing famine by fast not having succeeded by a miracle ,
since manna is not dropping from the skies to-day in consequence , naturally leads us to consider what will be the future growth of the hydra-headed mnnster . Little , indeed , can be the confidence , either in the good intention or in the wisdom of a ministry , that resorts to similar expedients ; and were it not that we have faith in the sense and determination of the " people , we should be compelled to consider the prospect before us as dark indeed . It must be evident to all , that nothing can be expected from any party now holding the balance of governmental power . There was a time in which the masses might
gain advantage out of the discord of party and the weakness of some individual faction : this is the case no longer . Landed and monied interests see the necessity of coalescing against the people ; and thus , while , on the one hand , the array of opposition is increased , on the other hand , the question of the ultimate solution of the difficulty becomes less complicated . There is nothing like a good opposi tion . Men then know what they are about . While they are yet doubtful as to who is a friend , and who is a foe , they will be paralysed in their actions , from the fear of wholly estranging a half-friend , or
turning a supporter into an enemy . We are relieved from this difficulty—we know who are our friends , and who are our enemies—and , what is better still , we have learned at last , that all who are not for us are against us . This is an important lesson , since it precludes the possibility of that temporising and time-serving which has ruined so many a public movement . We have learned that it has come to a struggle between the rich and poor , and a struggle , not for imaginary rights , but for the RIGHT TO LIVE . This , indeed , simplifies the question , and those who once called Chartism a
" hungry howl , " knew not the fearful prophecy contained in their words . It was at first the indignant cry of an oppressed people for their rights ;—woe to those who are turning it into a "hungry howl !" They tell us hunger will break through stone walls , and yet they forcibly take the food from the mouths of the famishing , and sleep amid dreams of security in palace , barrack , and store . Meanwhile they are feeding the public with soraeth ' ing more than M . Soyer ' s soup—they are feeding the public mind with a fresh catalogue of wrong and insult , under which patience would be as much a mockwy as violence
would be unwise arid to be deplored . But there is a medium course—there is such a thing as an organisation of national power , combined with an ex pression of public mind . Governments have used such means to frighten oppositions , and enforce a political delusion—it can be more efficacious in the hands of the people when enforcing a political truth . And be it remembered , that every year , nay , every month , weakens the popular strength . Slavery is a dangerous thing , inasmuch as its habitude enervates , and makes a man feel , think , aud act like a slave . Atfirst a man will struggle indignantly , but after j a time he grows desponding—at last indifferent , and he will say to himself , " It is all very bad , but what can be done ? " May the people of this country v , ' ' 1
never be reduced to such a state ! What is to be done ? To act like men ! To pour petition after petition into the House , with constantly increasing signatures ; to hold such demonstrations as shall baffle factious opposition , and to take our ' stand at every hustings in the empire . Let us do this , and without violence , peaceably , quietly , and in the utmost order , that great revolution may be effected , which shall replace the worn-out constitution of faction , by the great principle of the Charter . Meanwhile , let us not forget that the enemy is constantly undermining our camp . Famine is slaughtering the people by I hundreds of thousands , and the ceaseless and fatal sapping of emigration is going on in the dark . In opposition to this , the Land Company is progressing , it is true , with unexampled success : but in times ' ;
like the present , every man ia wanted at his post ; every hand should be ready for the helm and the soil , to steer the vessel of the State through the shoals f Monopoly and past the rocks * of Prejudice . Once more , then , we exhort the toiling million not to lull themselves into apath y , under the idea that things can " right themselves . " Things did not make themselves wrong , but were made so by
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the men whose interest it is to keep them so . It is the interest of the landlord aik the farmer to keep their labourers at 6 s . or 83 . a-wtek wages , and to keep down the country population . Tt is the interest of the factory-lord to grind his sW even stil lower , and to overcrowd the factory labb , r raarl ( etl it is the interest of the State Church tokeep the people blinded and ignorant , in order that thi y may submit to the three class-harpies . These \ hree causes have been long at work-the effect we u > to-day in famine and misery ; they cannot stay tht
downward tendency of their government , if they would , for that would produce a reaction , and upset all . They are , therefore , Compelled to go on as they begun—to nail the colours of Finality to the mast , and to fight their vessel to the last . Now , then , the question is reduced to this—are the people to proceed from bad to worse , and miserably perish—or are they to subvert a social organization , pregnant with such terrible results ? The answer is obvious—how ? we have . already shown—the
when ? is equally plain . Next year the People will be less able to produce an impression than this one , —if they let the present time pass by in inactivity . If , on the contrary , they now prove themselves equal to the crisis , next year will see them on the way to victory . In a public movement much depends on knowing when to wait , and when to act ; for , as the poet says , There is a tido in the affairs of men , "Which , taken at the flood , leads on to fortune .
That the people are prepared , tkt the public mind is alive to its true interests , is proved by its manifestation at every fresh act of legal injustice , or government absurdity . Such has been the case at the solemn mockery of " the Fast ; " , on which occasion four overflowing public meetings were held in one day , in London alone . Nor has the country
been more . backward in denouncing this insult to common sense . Such being the public mind towards a religious mockery like the one alluded to , we are encouraged to believe they will no less protest against the sad reality of that legislation , which has given rise to misery it thus insults ; and that its authors will have to answer for their HIGH TUEASON-not to the Sovereign , but to the PEOPLE . 1 ^ ^^ ^ ^^" BB 1 h > Mtft j " i o ¦ j ¦ — - - _ < _ _ ..
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^^^^^^^^^" .. ^ SCOTCH JUSTICE ! At the High Court of Justiciary , Edinburgh , on Tuesday last , James Falconer , Angus Davidson , Daniel Sutherland , John Young and John Main , were charged with "mobbing and rioting to prevent the shipment of grain" at Burghead Harbour , county of Moray } and also with having assaulted the procurator-fiscal and q superintendent of police .
The prisoners , no doubt advised thereto by their lawyers with the view of mitigating punishment pleaded guilty , with the exception of Falconer , who did not plead guilty to the charge of assault . The prisoners' legal advocates showed that they bad previously borne unblemished characters , were peaceable and hardworking fishermen ; that some of them had families depending upon their industry , and that even that test ( in Scotland ) of a poor man ' s "
respectability "—regular attendance at public worshipwas not wanting , as certificates from ministers residing in their locality testified . Everybody in- court supposed that a short imprisonment would be the utmost punishment inflicted on the prisoners , when lo ! the judges having retired to consider their sentence returned into court , and sentencing Falconer to eighteen months' imprisonment , sentenced the other four to be each transported for skvbv
years ! This infernal mockery of justice is enough to drive peaceable men mad . The "Edinburgh Weekly Register" states that " everybody in court heard the severe sentence with amazement ; and many persons shed tears . " For our part we are not at all inclined to the melting mood , by reading the account of
this judicial outrage . This atrocious judgment , this base , bloody , and brutal sentence , should rouse other feelings than those of mere pity for the victims . These ruffianly judges should be held up to public execration , and the whole strength of Scottish opinion be exerted to compel a reversal of the sentence , and the consequent degradation o { these pitiless executioners .
When the canting scoundrel of a planter was flogging his slave , and at the same time lecturing the poor nigger on the heinousness of his offences , poor Sambo , unable to stand the double infliction , burst out with " Oh ! Massa , Massa , when you flogge , flogge ; when you preacbe , preache ; but no preache and flogge too . " The poor Burghead fishermen had not merely to stand the flogging , sentence of seven years' transportation , but also the
preaching of their precious j udges . Lord Mackenzie declared— "He never read an indictment which made him more ashamed of his country . " His countrymen may retort , that they never heard a sentence which made them more ashamed of their country ' s laws . This " lord" added that "if the military had been present at the riots , it would have been the duty of the authorities to have ordered the soldiers to fire upon the rioters ! " Lord Medwyn concurred ; and the Lord Justice Clerk added that
" sentence was inflicted ' that others might hear and tremble . ' He was determined to uphold the authority and the dignity of the law . " Of course , uphold the dignity of the law , thou gh that law be Draco ' s , and written in blood . Crush , oppress , beat down the starving poor , break human hearts , but uphold the authority of the law ! Plunder and atatve the Tawlxitnde , deprive them of the corn they have sowed and reaped , if with famine before their eyes they attempt to resist your robberies , why then uphold the dignity of the law ! If your soldiers are at hand , shoot the " rebels " as you would rabid dogs ' r if they are not at hand , give them
the " law , " doom them to worse than death , consign them to herd with felons / to drag out years of misery , to be torn from all the endearments of home , to the agony of knowing that their families have become outcasts with almost a certainty of becoming criminals , and so make more work for the law ; Do this just judges ; do this worthy executioners of the pitiless will of the property-holders . Why should you not ? you are strong and might makes right . You are strong , for the millions you outrage are ignorant or apathetic , bearing with your usurpation , your tyranny and cruelty , and , therefore , deserving the stripes with which you scourge them .
There has been no case of judicial wrong perpetrated in Scotland since the trial of the Glasgow Cotton Spinners equal to this villanous sentence of the poor Burghead fishermen . The tone assumed by Mackenzie and Co ., in passing sentence , may be fairly placed by the side of the bloodthirsty speeches of the rascally judges who doomed Muir and his companions to banishment and death : or
by the side of the brutal jibes of the atrocious Abingen We" trust that , even before this nnmher of the Star is published , some member of Parliament will demand inquiry into these proceedings , with a view of procuring the nullification 01 the sentence ; if not—and we have no faith in Scottish Parliamentary patriotism—we trust that Mr Duncombe will take np the matter and bring this cast fulW before the British public .
" Stand's Scotland where she did ? " In days gone by . wo have witnessed no mean exhibition of public spirit in that country , and we trust that are * rival of that spirit will now be shown . We appeal to you , working men of Scotland , torisefromyourslumbora , and come forward to the rescue of your breth
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The only novelty in the legislation of this week , at the time of writiug , is the introduction of a bill by the Government , for limiting the period of enlistment in the army . Mr Fox Maute explained the general principle of this bill to be , that the period of enlistment ought not to be so long as to deter men from entering , or to make ttiem disco utented
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r . We know , and knowing , honour vouT , your may virtues , but there is one serioj JJ chargeable to your account , you too tamely bear *!? » 1 ! 8 you might relieveyourselvesof , and tooqu 2 submit tooppression which you might cart off M r * if you women worthy of the proud name you bear ' resist this cruel injustice perpetrated by , n 7 tyrants in the nameof "law . " Meet ami LS for instant redress , demand the exercise of the 1 prerogative for the free psrdon of the sentenced fishermen . That no time may be lost , let the Scot tish Democrats take the initiative in rousing public mention . Our columns are at their service and * f necessary , wo doubt n » t that other English aid w'li be fo-thcoming . Let there be no delay . " Now'i the day , and noa ' t the hour . "
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . In spite of th . anxiety and earnestness with which Ministers press t ^ r various Irish measures pro gress is extremely sW . Legislation , even of the " stop-gap kind we have , by no means keeps pace with the progress of misery au ] abuses ia Ireland , u „ quite clear that the opposition offered by the landlords to almost every elause of the Poor Law which threatens , however remotely , t 0 compel them to support the destitute will prfo ent it from being discussed in the House of Lords till after Easter
The Waste Lands Reclamation Bill , the only Other really valuable measure of the lot , small as that value may be , has not yet been introd uced into the House of Commons . Up to the preseu . i \ mt a u that the Government and Legislature have done is to pass a few temporary measures , impewtively called for by their own previous blundering , in . tended to correct , as far as possible , the effects of their own ignorance and incompetency , and t » forward nearly to their last stages , ' those portions of the ministerial programme which go to benefit the landlords , and to pour into their coffers
the money wrung from the industry of Great Britain . The position which these landlords have assumed in these circumstances is by no means aa enviable one . Their selfishness has been quite as obvious as their rapacity . They have striven with a courage and perseverance worthy of a better cause to defeat every clause which had a tendency of a permanent character in the Poor Law ; to prevent the enactment of out-door relief , even under the exceedingly limited and modified regulations pro . posed by the ministry j and , lastly , so to levy the rates as to secure , as far as thev can , their own
immunity from payment . The true object of their opposition to the plan of rating proposed by the Government is to enable them to drive the poor into the towns , aud leave them ultimately dependent on the national treasury , as they are at present . The effect of past ejectments , and the present refusal of relief in the purely rural divisions of the country have produced , even under the existing Poor Law in Ireland , a most unequal pressure , being in some places only 6 d . in the pound on some rentals , and 6 s . on others . In fact , the andlordsespelthe hunger and fever-stricken people from their estates , and throw them in masses
upon the struggling tradesmen and middle classes of the towns . The object of the Ministerial mode of rating , is to prevent such gross injustice as this , by introducing into their new bill a well-known principle of the old English Poor Law , and carried out by what were called " rates in aid . " When a parish became overburdened with paupers beyond its just share and capacity , it was entitled to demand a rate in aid from the neighbouring parishes . It is provided in the present Irish Bill , that as soon as the home rate exceeds a certain amount in the pound , rateable assistance may be demanded from the whole of the union . The landlords may , under
such a regulation , continue their ejectments , but the " rate in aid" will reach them . Looking at th& gross inequalities which are likely to arise even , under the proposed system , some members have suggested a national rate . The same opinion is held by many parties with respect to the support of the poor in this country ; but unless such a system was accompanied by many restrictions and regulations , it would inevitably tend to the complete destruction of the principle of local self-government , which has been so valuable and important an element in the history and progress of this country , and which has been already too much infringed upon by the Whig English Poor Law .
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Limited and inadequate as the Ministerial measures may be , it must be confessed that they are better than any of the suggestions hitherto made by the Irish members for the benefit of their fellowcountrymen . Had Ireland possessed ten men with courage and intellect sufficient to have brought forward and urged an effectual , comprehensive , and practical scheme of reform , such is the present state of parties , such the awful and appalling nature of the calamity , and so great the pecuniary sacrifices
demanded from England , that they might have reckoned with tolerable certainty upon success . But they have done nothing of the kind . Ministers are strongin consequence of their weakness . Incongruous , defective , and petty as the plans of the Government are , they are positive masterpieces of wisdom and benevolence , when compared with every project originated by the Irish members , who assume to be best acquainted with the popular mind , and the Honour of specially representing that mind in the imperial Legislature . What have the O'ConneUa
proposed , worthy of a moment ' s consideration ? Surely for the hundreds of thousands poured into the treasury of Conciliation Hall , some pains might have been taken by the loud-tongued patriots who there assembled to bave prepared and urged earnestly and consistently , a systematic series of measures for the improvement of Ireland ! Instead of that , the " Liberator" has fled to the Continent , and , according to some accounts , from public life for ever ; and his successor , Mr John , either appears in the House as the humble and obsequious
slave of the Treasury Bench , or the proposer of crude , jejune , and impracticable nostrums , which are scouted as soon as uttered . Nor can the "Young Ireland " party boast much more of their recognised Parliamentary leader . Mr Smith O'Briea ought t » have been better prepared for the crisis than he is . Tbe proposal for an Absentee Tar might , in connection with other measures , have been adopted ; but as a naked proposal , its rejection was certain ; and had it been carried , would have produced very little , if any , benefit to Ireland We are not now speakin g of the justice of such a tax , but simply of the practical effects of its imposition . The landlords would have discovered a hundred
methods to evade it if imposed ; and after all , tea per cent ., or 400 , 000 / . annually , from the estates of absentees is a mere trifle , when dealing with a state of things which will take ten millions sterling from England this year , independently of the enormous voluntary contributions from all parts of the empire , and the generous munificence which sends its large subscriptions across the Atlantic . Next year , we have every reason to believe , the same assistance will be required ; and such very paltry proposals as those now noticed , only show , so far as they niani ' fest anything , that poor Ireland has as little to hope at present from her own chosen leaders , as she has from Russell and the Whigs , hi the way of general , permanent , aud radical reforms .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 27, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1411/page/4/
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