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    • THE NORTHERN STAR , SATDBDAY, JANUARY 1, 1848. y- - »
    • BUUK.S f UHlASnEU AND S>UL1» M J AMES WATSOK, 3, Qtieen'a Head-pw»g«, Pstecnoster-roT.
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      J 5 ST PUBLISHED .. PBICE SIXPENCE , NO . XIII . OF " THE LABOURER , " WifiH a Portrait of F . O'Connor , Esq ., M . P . CONTENTS , 1 . Th « Funeral ofth « Year and its Epitaph , by Ernest Jones . 2 . Our New Year ' s Address . 3 . Insurrections of the "Working Classes , ' —The Men of Kent and Essex . 4 . The Scotch Critics * nd the tand Company . ' 5 . The Romance of a People . C . The Poor Man's Legal Manual . 7 . National Literature— ' The Inforaal Comedy . 8 . Our National Defences . - 9 . Literary Review . tetters ipre-paid ) to he addressed to the Editors , 16 Great Windmill Street , Hajrmarket , London . Orders received by all ageats for the "Northern Star" ; and all booksellers in town and country . '

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      PBOGRESS . . ' : '

      DEMOCRACY AT HOME AND ABROAD . At the commencement of a new year , when the knell of its predecessor is still sounding in our ears ; it appears to us a fitting moment to inquire what has been the progress of our principles , in the course of the past twelve months , and what are the hopeful prospect * ' or those principles in the future . The general election in Juh—August last , greatly advanced the cause of Democratic progress . The election of the Chartist-Chief , Feargus O'Connor , was alone worth far more than all the cost of the struggle . A number of M . P . ' s pledged to , at least , the principles of

      the Charter , were also elected ; and the foun-. dation laid for Chartist triumphs on the occasion of the next struggle . From accurate information we are enabled to state , that the public feeling in favour of Chartism , in Halifax , Sheffield , Derby , Greenwich , Tiverton , and other places , contested unsuccessfully at the late election , has wonderfully advanced since July last . Bud trade has brought not a few of the electoral class to their senses ; arid the heartless indifference of the Government and Parliament to the wide-spread ^ distress and suffering , promises to make speedy converts of many more .

      We candidly avow that we are not overflowing with pity at the sight of the embarrassments of toe electoral class . The present House of Commons , as avowed by that choice specimen , of the bourgeoisie , John Bright , is essentially a mkidle-class house , and the ministers are at the back of that class . A more incapable set of rulers than Lord John Russell and his colleagues never pretended to administer the affairs of a nation , and a worse body of

      misrepresentatives never assembled in the "Westminster tax-trap . According to friend Bright , we are indebted for both these blessings to the respectable gentlemen of the ' shop , " who would elect lords and lordlings , bankers and contractors , millocrats and railway-kings , fools and " snobs / and would not elect men who grounded their claims to public confidence on their integrity , talent , and political wisdom . The poet has written

      that" He who hatea truth , shall be tho dupe of lies ;" and this the intelligent shopocracy have exemplified in their own persons . The truths of chartism were too strong for their stomachs , and , therefore , were rejected for the quackeries of free-traders , currency-reformers , and bifc . bybit progressionists . They had their choice , and they deliberately chose the evil and rejected the good and they are rightly punished . — " They would be fools and victims , and they are . "

      But as experience is said to make fools wise , we trust that even the bourgeoisie are not incapable of improving on the past , and doing better for the future . ' We trust , too , that the working men will be better prepared for the next struggle , than they were at the lute Election . What was done was done well ; but better things might have been done had the good work been set about in . good time . There must be a greater number of Chartist Candidates in the field next time ) . and they must not delay their appearance therein till the eleventh hour : there must ,, moreover , be

      ample funds in hand-to enable the Democratic Candidates to carry the struggle to the polling booths .. We are glad to learn from the Address of the Central Registration and Election Committee , published in another column , that after paying all . demands , a surplus of Sixty Pounds remains at the disposal of the committee , which surplus has been wisely banked for future use . Thus should a vacancy occur in the Representation of any locality , and should the Committee consider the chances of success favourable f « r a Chartist Candidate , the means exist of bringing . forward a man of the

      Peop le at a moment ' s notice . Of course it needs no argument to show that the Committee ' s Funds at present in hand , however useful for any emergency , will be perfectly useless to meet a General Election . The next struggle may be far off , or it may be much nearer than most persons imagine , but in either case the collection of funds should not be left till the last moment . As general appeals for money are not often attended to , we suggest to the Election Committee ; . that the first Saturday , Sunday , and Monday in the month of May next , be appointed for a general collectioa . amongst the Chartists , members of the Land ^ Simpany , and friends of Democracy

      generallyV ^ ir ' the benefit of the Election . Fund " We also Buggest tha , t . theCommittee should send printed circularei ^ all the Chartist and Land localities onei naosath previously , calling upon the said localities'to make the said collection , either by levy , general subscription , proceeds of public lectures ; or festivals , or anyj | other mode eacii locality" may deem the best . Should Parliament ]} not-dissolve before May , 1849 , then the like collection to take place at thai time , a . nd so on , every year in . the month of May , unt . 'l a dissolution of Parliament . We are ri <> t in the habit of praising or puffing either public individuals or public bodies but we must take this occasion to say that the members of the Centrr . l Registration and

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      . Election Committee have , by . their untiring and patriotic labours during the past year , " deserved well of their country , " and tairty entitled themselves to the gratefurthanks ot the unrepresented classes of these realms . We may here allude to a matter which is alreadv , and very properly , exciting the attention of the friends of Chartism—we allude to the threatened attempt to oust Mr O'Connor from his seat . The petition against that gentleman may be only a waste-paper pellet , intended to annoy the People ' s member ; it may , however , be something more—it may be the effort of an infernal conspiracy to ruin Mr O'Connor with expenses . If so , there can btf . no

      doubt that the conspirators will be foiled , and have " the poisoned chalice returned to their own lips . " Of course we take it for granted , that every man who , by " resolution" or otherwise , expressed his joy at the return of Mr O ' Connor to Parliament , will sell the shirt off his back rather than allow the hon . member for Nottingham to be beaten , or compelled to defend his seat to his own pecuniary injury The blow aimed at Mr O'Connor is intended to strike down up-rising Chartism . If Mr O'Connor is defeated , we are all beaten ; if he is immolated , the peop le are sacrificed . Should he fall , then might we say with the orator over Caesar s

      body" Then you , and we , and all fell down , While cursed trsasen triumph'd o ' er u « . " But we have perfect faith in a very different issue . We are persuaded that we have but to sound the trumpet " to the rescue ! ' and the People will rise as one man , to the help of their friend and champion . ¦; Throughout England lectures , public meetings , and assemblages of local delegate . " , attest that the " dry bones" are once more quickening into life and action . The very numerously attended and enthusiastic meetings recently holden in the metropolis , exhibit a ; '

      most hopeful sign of the times . The very energetic labours of the Metropolitan Delegate Council ( which includes the members of the Chartist Executive ) , have mainly , produced this cheering revival . , We now entertain sanguine hopes that when the misrepresentatives of the nation re-assemble , they will find the people less disposed to quietly submit to their useless talking and evil working . The renewed agitation for the Charter opens a field for ihe exercise of the people ' s virtues . If self-reliant , courageous , and persevering , they must and will succeed .

      We must direct the special attention of our metropolitan readers to a prospectus issued by a Committee comprising all the known and trusted leaders of Chartism residing in' the capital , which prospectus sets forth a plan for obtaining for the Chartists of London a Commodious and central hall for public meetings , &c . We recently expressed our strong conviction that the project set forth bv the

      Committee above alluded to , was of primary importance to the cause of Democracy , so far as London wasconcerned , ; mdon the present . occasion it is not necessary that we should do more than reiterate the expression of that conviction , at the same time appealing to oar . metropolitan friends to take up the matter promptly and earnestly . There must he no doubtingno fear of failure ; like Carnot , we must '' organise victory , ' and victory will be ours .

      The National Petition demands a word . It ii a duty the people owe to Mr O'Connor , to prove by their signatures to that petition that he is indeed their representative ; it is a duty they owe to themselves , to prove by the same meims their earnestness in repudiating the misgovernment of their rulers , and the sincerity of their desire to be represented in the Legislature . We leave to the Chartist Executive the question of calling together a representation of the Democracy in a National Convention . In our opinion , such a Convention is highly necessary , and its early " . sitting as indispensable . Energy must now be the order of the dav .

      Of course , the Executive must be powerless , lacking the sinews of war . Is it too late to suggest a " New-Year ' s Gift ? " Many individuals anticipated the new year by contributing largely , considering their means Shall their patriotic example be followed ? Let the honest and earnest men of every locality see-to this . In this political review of the past , the present , and the future , the Land movement hardly comes within the scope of our remarks ; nevertheless , it is a proof of unexampled progress , and a subject for gratulation , that the members of the Land Company may say , — " WE ARE FIFTY THOUSAND ! ' !

      Fifty thousand future freemen—fifty thousand organised Chartists , or to be made Chartists—made by £ he force of reasonmade by the instinct of self-interest , which must fetch even the most thoughtless that the certain means to make . the Land Plan national , and secure to the Land members and their children the full blessings of that Plan , lies through the obtainment of the Charter . Our remarks upon Home Progress have left us but little room for comment upon the progress of Democratic principles in other lands . In France , the Reform Banquets have

      succeeded each other with startling rapidity . The French Chambers have just been opened , and the Fagin of the Tuilieries has spit his spite against the Reformers , by alluding in his speech to " the agitation which hostile and blind passions are fomenting j" and he has appealed to his Peers and Deputies to "firmly maintain , according to the Charter , social order , and all its conditions . " His Citizen-kingship croaks discreetly , but his words , tliouejh few , sufficiently betray his fears . The Reform discussion will now be transferred from the

      banquetting halls to the Chamber of Deputies , where , of course , Guizot and Co . will find a majority to support them in violently voting down emy attempt to reform the present infamous sy ^ th . The result will be a more powerful renewal of the agitation " out of doors ' , " then will come arbitrary attempts , on the part of Ministers , to put down the Banquets ; resistance will ensue , and revolution commence . The truth is , that these Reform Banquets are ' the beginning of the end , " and that end will be the destruction of Louis Philippe ' s throne and something more .

      Switzerland has passed through the ordeal of a civil struggle , and has , like the Phoenix , emerged from the flames of civil strife stronger than she was before . Freed from the conspirators and-traitors who benumbed her energies , Switzerland now presents the spectaclelike Palla&ljpting from the brow of Jovefe natiof ^ Vtoed to the teeth , ready to mea-^ S ^ wordl ' with any of the Despotisms who ma ^ are to '" dispute her claims to perfect independence , and her guardianship of the sacred principles of Democracy . The triumph of the Su-iss Diet has given an impetus to the cause of Democracy throughout Eu rope , but particularl y in Germany and Ita'v . The addresses sent to the Diet from

      a n umber of German citie ? , and the subscriptions collected by the German people in aid of the widows and orphans of the soldiers of the Confe deration who perished in battle , proves that the German people have wisely identified Swiss Radicalism with their own cause . The anti-Jesuit demonstrations at Milan , Tur in , Genoa , Florence , and in Rome itself , prove that the Catholic people of Italy understand that the enemies of the Swiss Radicals are their enemies , and that the conspirators against the Swiss Diet are also conspirators against the cause ol Progress , in all rations . Italian freedom is everywhere advancing , in spite of Metternich ' s menaces , Ferdinand ' s ferocious proscription of his subjects , and the timid and temporising policy at present pursued by Pope Pius . "The die is cast ; the Rubicon is crossed ; " Italy must and will be free ! The struggle forWberty in Portugal is on the eve of recommencing-. In Hungary , Bohemia , and Gallicia , theSdomination of Austria totters to its fall . PuJand is agitated by the throws of coming convulsion : and even the

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      ¦ IW II—IHMII — — - ¦ « HDB ^ £ 2 jl Russian . despotism is undermined , and my , aj a moment when men little dream of such a catastrophe , be blown to destruction b y unseen hands . We commend to our reader the extraordinary and bx ' AYiant speech of M . Bakounine which will be found in our second page , frem * . which our readers will learn that a democratic revolution in Russia , is neither hopeless nor problematical , but certain , and that , too , at nn > distant day . Yes , " Poland is not yet lost , " and Russia will vet be redeemed .

      Across the Atlantic , our American brethren aie at length beginning to get their eyeg opened to the Folly and wickedness of their murderous crusade against Mexico . That horrible sentiment , " Our country , right or wj- ong , " is fast disappearing before the march of Fraternity—a principle once adopted by the Young American Party only , but now becoming generally recognised . In proof , we point to the report in our seventh page of the great meeting holden in New York , in support of Italian liberty . The Ame"icans are ,

      thank-Heaven , beginning to find out that it wonld be wiser , nobler , holier work , to help to crush thft Despots of the Old World , than Jto cut the throats of Republicans in the New—to hel p tofree the nations of Europe , than to enslave those of America . We shall have something to say shortly of the progress of the friends of a Landed Democracy—the "National Reformers / ' Their success is a guarantee for the preservation of the institutions of Jefferson and Washington , an&a pledge for the political and social redemption of the human race . Lastly , the project first enunciated by the-Fraternal Democrats , and then definitely proposed by tne Democratic Society of'Brussels , namely , the holding of A DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS of all nations , is another and most important : sign of Radical and Cosmopolite progress . I ; is proposed to assemble the said Congress i Brussels , on the anniversary of the Belgian Bvolution , in ^ September next , at the very the that the united * schemers , the free-trades , will hold their Congress in the same city . lie proposition is , at this moment , exciting earnest discussion in France , Germany , and Switzerland ; and in this country , has been already unanimyusly and enthusiastically adopted by the Metropolitan Delegate Council , at which

      two members of the Chartist Executive assisted , and has been since ratified by several of the London localities . At ! a future time , we . shall return to this important question , which , in the meanwhile , we commend to the calmi consideration of the Chartist body throughout Great Britain . Hitherto " a chain of moun - tains , a river , an arm of the sea , a quickset hedge , or an imaginary line , " has served to disunite nations and keep them enemies of each other ; but the " march of mind" is convincing of

      each and all the folly of these divisions . Congresses of kings have been holden to divide and enslave , mankind , but the Congresses of the people will unite and free the human race . In such Congresses will be found the " cheap defence of nations'' against both popalar vanity and the bloody designs of royal conspirator ? . In vain do tyrants plot in their secret councils , and marshal their homicidal forces , the handwriting is on the wall decreeing their doom . In spite of their force and their

      fraud" It ' g coming jet for a that , When mau to men , the warl 4 o ' er , Sball blithers be for a' that I "

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      COERCION IN IRELAND . / . _____ On Wednesday the new Coercion Act of the Whigsgcame into operation in the counties of Limerick and Tipperary , and in certain baronies of the counties of Clare , Cork , Waterford , King ' s County , Roscommon , Leitrim , Cavarj . and Longford . In the county of Cork , one barony , that of Ossery and Kelmore , has been proclaimed . The Lord-I / eutenant has thus shown little delay in putting the last precious spsirn of surface legislation in force—with what effect

      remains to be seen . The landlords and their organs generally , predict a failure , because of the mildness ( Heaven save the mark !) of the measure . They are quite prepared to urgfi more stringent and sweeping measures , under cover of which wholesale extermination and expatmtijn could be carried on . The people ' of Ireland are vermin in their eyes , and it is only because there exist certain restraining influences in public ^ opinion , and in modern civisation , which prevents them from having open > recourse to a vrar of utter extermination .

      We have protested , and we repeat our protest , against the monstrous infraction of th& principles of natural justice , and of sound policy , which the whole legislative career of this country towards the Irish people involves . If the landlords , the Church Establishment , and the Executive Administration , have reduced that people by their monstrous , unjust , and tyrannical conduct , to such a condition that society is utterly disorganised , and there is neither safety for life nor property , that is pnma facie evidence of their unfitness longer to continue its rulers . Instead of our adding

      cruelty to cruelty , injustice to injustice , by punishing the helpless victims of their fatal and ruinous policy , let us remove them at oncefrom the position in which they have been enabled to work so much mischief , and commence a ne ^ radical , enlightened , and practical course of remedial measures , altogether unimpeded by the obstacles which these parties might throw in the way , if suffered to retain the position and influence which they have already so grossly and grievonsiv abused . A

      whole people cannot , and ought not , to be sacrificed to the maintenance of any class or classes whatever ; where the existence of these classes has utterl y failed in producing any of the results forjeffecting which they are professedly established , it is time to sweep them away . Man is greater than institutions . It is only so far as any institutions develope the latent capabilities of the soil , nnd give free scope to thefaculties of those who dwell upon it , that they are-valuable .

      That society in Ireland has utterly broken down , is so self-evident a proposition , that it needsnoargumenttoenforceit . Whatthenouglit to be done ? Extreme cases demand extreme remedies . Either repeal the legislative union at once , and permit the Irish people to work out their own redemption unfettered by En gland , oe , if we still insist upon ruling that country , let us . fake it into our own hands at once pension off the landlords ; pay off the mortgagees ; abolish the Anglo Irish Church making equitable compensation to the present incumbentsand

      ; commence with & tabula rasa . It we had a Government bold enough to do this , and practical euough to introduce the necessary measures for developing the latent resources of the country , and training to industry and order the population , bv giving them a direct and permanent interest in the improvement they were instrumental in carrying out , very few years would elapse before that which is now the disgrace , would become the glory of-the British Empere ; and instead of a urain upon the finances , an inexhaustible storeh ouse of real wealth . But it is the curse of the age to be afflicted by " small men" and small

      measures . The shopkeepW spirit possesses it entirel y . The far-seein | calculations «» the true , statesman are unknown to our rulers . It is sufficient for them if they can m ake the thing last their time ; " and thus , uy alternate coaxing and coercing , they manage to tinker up a worn-out and miserable system tor the time being . Have a care , masters I Unless the foundation be looked to , the old ncketty edifice must tumble about your ears ; some day . '

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      Sufi ? TW ? ' ? ° r the "Woval of the Jewish DiBS ^ ssMaasasasasas bP « l £ LMt ^ S ' > « w e " astheJe « r , to sit jgs ^* £ &&fcS S * S Bense-ilijotwme ^ ing wiw . j _ fflLi ¦ -

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      - * p u as ttf >/* ra re * wr w m % f SfAlt , JANUARY- 1 , ' 18-48 . * l

      Buuk.S F Uhlasneu And S&Gt;Ul1» M J Ames Watsok, 3, Qtieen'a Head-Pw»G«, Pstecnoster-Rot.

      BUUK . S f UHlASnEU AND S > UL 1 » M J AMES WATSOK , 3 , Qtieen ' a Head-pw » g « , Pstecnoster-roT .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 1, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1451/page/4/