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THE NORTHERN STAR, B&TURDA.Y, JANUARY 22 . 1818
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AN APPEAL TO THE CHARTISTS O F GREAT BRITAIN.
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. ¦ ¦ GREAT SUCCESS.—TjRUE RECIPROCITY.
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JUST PUBLISHED, fUnifonn with the " I-abouulu" Magazine,) Pvirc 6(1.
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r TOT EiCa , A . VD EACH fOE ALL . TO THE MEMBERS OF THE KATIOffAL LAND COMPANY . Feiexds , —The propriety of establishing a KjXiohal Bekefit Societt has been frequently urged upon our attention aiia a ' strong desire expressed that we sktsuld originate one , in order to afford an opportunity to those of our friends w * -o fea *« a desire of joining an institution under tbe auspices of the movement party , and . established for the purpose of aiding the onward march crDemocracy . With the desire of our friends we cordiaHy sjmpatbisa , and were it not the * oar time i » fully anfi cempletely oceupied in attending to » ur present engagements , we « hould ftel creat jiltawe j * comp lying wirt ( i « r wishes . We hare long been of opinion that the causa of the people WBufd be much * t * "ii *> f the estattfc " hraent of such an Association ; At preieat there are thousands who join o'her societies who weaW prefer becoming members of one composed of persons whose « pitiicus harmonise with tbcirotvn , and -R-hras feds instead'of being placed at the cijp . skI of thtir Enemies , would be applied to benefit thtrosi-lve ' s , a * a the cause nkich Tfeej hate at htirr . We must , hewerer , decline esterlag upon the organisation 6 f gnch a befiy , W . at tfae same time > " ¦<«!<* recommend all who feel iattrestefi in tkc matter , to join tho
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. METROPOLITAN CHARTIST HALL . Capital , £ 10 , 000 , IS TES SHILLING SHARES . Committee of Management . Tearpus O'Connor , Philip M Grath , William Tapp , Bidiard MatUew , Henry Kttt , James Grrsby , Thomas Clark , George Julian Harney , Ernest Jones , John Milne , Joseph Chnpman , John Millward , George Kewson , James Slater , Wi ' . iiam Dison , John Savage . Luke King , Christo-5 > aer Doyle , Thomas Lucas , William Cuffay , William Lee , John SkiIton , John Fussel ! , Charles Turner , Jolin Shaw Robert Cummins , William Allnutt , Elijah Nobba , Th . > mas Antil , George Fox , Thomas Clancy , John Sen-ell , Samuel Brewerton , John Cartwright , John Ford , John Xindon , Fean : u 5 O'Connor , E < q ., Treasurer . Philip il'Grath , Siib- Treasurer . Wiliiam Tapp , Secretary . Auditors . Mr William Rider . | Mr John Cartwright . Solicitor . James Macnimara . Esq ., 9 , Cleveland-row . St James ' . Bank . —National Land and Labour Sank . Ojnce . —Hi , Hi ? h Holburn .
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LAJ 7 D . -nriO BE SOLD , at $ cif ;' s End , a FOUR ACRE ALLOTJL MESI . Persons . tilling to treatfor the same , arc requested to apply to 1 . B . Crews , Sewtoa Abbott , Devon , stating tne higbest ^ mount they will give .
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W ASTED , A THREE OR FOUR ACRE ALLOT . MESj , for which , tte tenant will pay four per cent , extra per annum , to be placed to the credit of the owner in the Redemption Bant ( or as he might think fit ) , t igether with all dues and demands on the said a'lutmt-nt , proTidtng tius owner will grant a lease for not less than eeven $ eart , Aj-pljto ilr Jt ! j ; e 5 Farrell , Cajseau-streef , Liverpool .
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IUPOSTANT HOTfCE . T 3 E 10 XD 0 XERS HATS BEGUlf A HOME VOR HO . VEST I . VDUSTBF . Pntrorj .-I . S . Duncembe , Esq ., M . P ., T . Wakley , . Esq ., M P ., ii . Bond Cabbell , Esq ., M . P . Jt 3 ve you read the Tract oa the Land and Building Society for the Working Millions ? If n « t , get it , read it . Price onJT One Fenny . Published £ » r the Society , by e . Setecr . , Halyifafl-street . Straad . Said by ull cheap booksellers , and tke Society * agent * i al * o io be had , triih foil informttion , of Daniel William Huffy , secretary , offices of the Society , 13 , Totteufcani . cottrt , Netr . road , St ? aucras , London , by sending three postage stamps .
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T PORTRAIT OF FEARGUS O'CONNOR , Esq ., W . P ., HARTir informs Ms friends and the Chartist body .... geaeniiy , that he has reduced the price of his «* o ^ PMc fall-length portrait of their Illustrious Chief SO the followjm ; price :-PrinU . Is ; coloured ditto , 2 s . 6 d . PEOPLE'S EDITION . To be had atthe Nombbsk Sta * office , 16 , Great WindfedSffi' . * BchKtw ' « d ^ bookseller * in th ' e
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Just Published , Price Is 6 d per dozen . A LETTER , addressed to the Trades Orders , and to thepuhlic in general , on the PRINCIPLES OF T « n £ £ RTEB TiIE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY , AND NATIONAL LAND . ASD LABOUR BANK ; with remarks on the character and objects of the ' Whistler . ' by W . 11 . ItOBIKSON . May be had of Mr Thomas Mather , Agent , 51 Hetrodstreet , Ancoats , Manchester .
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A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON SPADE HUSBANDRY . being the results of four years' experience . Br J . Sim . ett . M'Gowan and Co ., 1 G , Great Windmill-street , London and may be had of ullbookseUors .
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Just Published , price One Peuny , A LETTER by FtiRaoa O'Conn « b , Use .., JI . P ., « TO THE RICH AND THE POOR ; To those « hoLive in IdleauB 3 Without Labour , and to those who ure ' Willing to Labour but Compelltd to Starve . ' Price 2 s . per 100 . or 18 < . per 1000 . ( WHAT MAY BE DONE . WITH THREE ACRES W OF LAND , ' Explaitifld in a Letter , by Feakgcb O'CuNJfOB , £ ?« ., M . P . To be bad atthe Office of the National Land Campany HI , High Holborn .
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Now Ready , a New Edition of MR . O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS , To bo had atthe Ncrtfcern Star Office , 16 , Great Wind mill Street ; and of Abel Heywood . Manchester .
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JUST PUBLISHED . PRICE SIXPENCE , HO . XIII OF " THE LABOURER , " CQfJTKRt 8 , 1 . The Funeral of tha Year and its Epitaph , Ernest Jones . 2 . Our New Year ' s Address . 3 . Insurrections of the Working Classes . —The Men of Kent and Essix . 4 . The Scotch Critics and the Land Company . 5 . The Romance of a People . G . The Poor Man ' s Legal Maiuul . 7 . National Literature— The Infernal Comedy . 8 . Our National flefences . 9 . Literary Review . Letters ( pre-paid ) to be addressed to the Editors , 16 Grent Windmill Street , Hayinarket , London . Order * received by all agents for the "Northern Star ' and all booksellers in town and country , .. ' 1 " - ? . V ^ . ' .
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THE PORTRAIT OF MR JONES . This portrait will be in the hands of our Scotch agents in time for issue on tlic 29 th instant . Our agents in or near Edinburgh will have their parcels forwarded to tke care of Messrs W . and H . Robinson , 11 , Greenside-street . Parcels for other parts of Scotland to the care of Mr W . Love , 10 , Nelsonstreet , Glasgow . Our Yorkshire , Lancashire , Lincolnshire , Nottinghamshire , Derbyshire , Cheshire , Leicestershire , Northamptonshire , Warwickshire , and Gloucestershire agents will receive the portrait in time for issue on Saturday , February 19 th . Tho more southern counties , Wales , and Ireland , on the following week . Agents in the county of Durhp . ni must npply to Mr j . Turnbull . Side , Newcastle . Yorkshire , to Mr J . Cooke , 67 , Meadow-lane , Leeds . Lancashire and Cheshire , to Mr A . Heywood , 58 , Oldham-street , Manchester . Those agents having weekly book parcels from London will have the portrait sent in their own parcels .
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Brothers , —The time has arrived wfcen our professions of attachment to the principles of the Peo . pie ' s Charter , must he tested . You have had the pleasure and hi gh satisfaction , for some time , of knowing that that indomitable patriot , and uncompromising advocate of political equality—F . O'Con . nor . Esq ., was returned by a triumphant majorit y over the base and truckling Whig candidates , to re . ' present this important borough in the Commons ' House of Parliament . The nation rang with shouts of joy at th » event . It was echoed from hill to hill , and vale to rale—until Scotland heard the sound , and participated in the democratic song of conquest ! Wales too , listened , and with patriotic zeal joined the British choir in swelling out the chorus
Wc'il rally around him , again and again , But this bursting forth of a nation ' s joy , in congratulation for the return of an honest , virtuous , intelligent , upright , consistent , undeviating , and unpurchaseable raaintainer and defender of the people " rig hts , was too much to be endured . It stood OHt in such bold relief , that the factions gnashed their teeth , and swore revenge . That revenge is manifest in the malicious and disgraceful petition which is now pending against the qualification of Mr O'Connor to sit in the British legislature . The old base Whigs , acting upon the recommendation of Lord Melbourne , in his immaculate administration of public affairs— ' Though we know they are right we must put them wrong , by ruining them with expenses , ' intend to play the same game towards Mr O'Connor .
Brothers—shall we stand and silently look on at this piece of political knavery , and allow our chieftain , either to defeHd his seat out of Wsowh private purse , or to fall a sacrifice to the bloodhounds of misrule and oppression ? No ! no !! no ! !! We believe each , and every one of you , will , as with one voice , answer no . Up , then , to the work in right good earnest . Let us show ourselves' men , who know what is our duty , and , also , how to well perform it . Let every pity , town , village , and hamlet , where Chartism has lifted up its standard , call meetings , and devise such plans as will best conduce to the accomplishment of the intended object—namely , a sufficient fund ; in order that Mr O'Connor may defend his seat in Parliament , without expending a < single farthing of his own . Time presses , but it can , it ought , it must , and we believe it will , be done . Not less than £ 1 , 000 must be raised . Let
bo fame be lost—only think that if only 240 , 000 persons subscribe on « pentty each , the £ 1 , 000 is got To the Land members we say , do what you can . We hope every member will contribute his or iser mite for so goodasi abjeet . Nottingham is all alive to 4 he subject . A committee has been formed to « arry aut the resolutions of a public meeting held in our Guildball , which was crowded to overflowing . W « feel assured this appeal will not be in vain . Our prineiplee as a great democratic party , as well as our possessions , are at stake . Our honour and our character will be measured by the nation at large , in proportion as we do our duty . We hope the next time we address you it will be to congratulate y « u for 60 nobly responding to this call , and enabling our distinguished and honoured representative , F . O'Connor , Esq ., M . P ., to defeat the malicious designs of the miscreant petitioners . We are , yours , In the good old cause of Chartism , On behalf of the Committee , W . H . Mott , Treasurer . John Skerritt , Secretary .
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NEWC AsiLE-OTox-TYNE . -Mr George YoHne and mlmbZTJ ? f ' h ° e ton Deiavalf and another 55 ? ? LS V FT ' whohaTe w « hedto be S * th ? V ?! ^ are respectfully informed tbat the Newcastle secretary has sent the list of Si ? tlC \ etS t 0 « e directors , a correct copy of which may be seen on implication to M . JudTand Tbv Hnnf R ted in futUre t 0 pre r their le « e ™ . 12 s Iloou BiLL .-At a general meeting of the Operative Cotton Spinners of Glasgow » d neighbonriiooJ , resolutions were passed condemnatory of tne conduct of parties endeavouring to induce the operatives to petition Parliament to repeal the Ten Hoars Clauses . A nueting of delegatee from all the cotton spinning localities in Scotland was held on IT I f ' PaM «*> wbea Nation ? were pa £ sed declaratory cf their determination not it !! SJ 5 i i ' ' ? ? ^ . Bub J ° t . until the bill , ae it not ? stands , has had a fair trial .
The Northern Star, B&Turda.Y, January 22 . 1818
THE NORTHERN STAR , B&TURDA . Y , JANUARY 22 . 1818
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JUVENILE CRIMINALS .
Upon no great question has the slow ripening of individual conviction into collective action , heen more forcibly illustrated than upon the means for the prevention of Crime . The injunction " Train up a child in the way he should go , " followed by the assurance that " When he is old , he will not depart from it , " is not more venerable in its antiquity than . ifeis universally assented to ; and in practice , no precept is ' more generally or constantly neglected . It is no stretch of the fancy to say that hundreds of thousands of children annually grow up amongst us utterly ignorant of all that
we term law and morality , and whose only intelligence is of that vicious kind which enables them to break the one , and to violate the other . Is it to be wondered at they are so , when it is remembered that the circumstances in whi ch they are placed from infancy , preclude the acquisition of any other kind of habits and intelligence ? Take the case of a destitute child of this description . To form a correct estimate of the influences by which he is moved , we must not merely look at htm when he is brought under the cognisance of the tribunals for dis pensing" justice , " but follow him from the
beginning of his career . In order fully to comprehend the operation of these influences , it is necessary that we should , as far as possible , divest ourselves of the opinions-arid feelings which have been created by the enjoyment of greater advantages , and try to realise to our minds the condition of a child born in one of those courts , lanes , or alleys , in which the physical and the moral atmosphere are equally impure and corrupt . The squalid and miserable aspect of all external objects upon which the infant eye can alone rest , is only paralleled , in its vitiating influence , by the pollution of the sensualism of
the adults who surround him . As soon as he is able to use his limbs , he is cast off to provide as far as he can for himself , and a new epoch of his life begins . He passes his time cheerfully in the streets with associates more advanced in age , and more deeply initiated in vice—and this at the very time when the mind and feelings are expanding to receive with consciousness the impressions of the surrounding world ; and where , from the suscep tibility of his being , the nature of these impressions is almost finally decisive of his character and pursuits . The stamp of criminality is thus almost
inevitably fixed upon him . In this manner he may grow up to the age of seven or eight years , without coming into contact with any but the associates we have named ; and if occasionally a police officer penetrates into the world of vice , for the purpose of executing the law , the only result upon the imagination of a child so trained must be a ghastly fear of the delegate .- ? from a mysterious power , which inflicts suffering upon those whom lie knows , but why or wherefore he is ignorant . His own experience , however , soon gives him move distinct notions on the nature of that power . His petty p ilferfngs or importunate bejrging bring him at last under the notice of the State . It has suffered the poor victim to grow up neglected and ignorant ,
so bng as he did not meddle with property , or disturb the repose of the " easy classes ; '' but the moment that takes place , the juvenile " criminal" is pushed to the bar of the police office , his head scarcely reaching to the level of the rail , and spectators and magistrates hold up their hands , turn up their eyes , and utter exclamations of horror at the extent and virulence of juvenile depravity ! Why the whole previous existence of the little culprit has been leading him silently , but surely , into that position . The " consequent imprisonment or whipping to which he may be sentenced , neither enlighten his mind , nor diminish his evil propensitiesperhaps add to the latter the feelingof revenge . He comes into contact with older graduates in the College of Crime—learns from them , and is
then turned out into the streets without character or friends , to practice the lessons he has been taught . His inevitable fate is a course of immorality , in which he is interrupted again and again by the arm of the law . To what end ? To save him from destruction ? No ; but to avenge more and more cruelly upon him the consequences of that state of destitution and degradation , of which , culpable as he may be , by far the greater guilt rests upon society itself . Thus ^ he is driven on in the career of delinquency ^ step by step , till he is at length ripe for that last act or barbarity which the
community perpetrates upon its abandoned members , to which it has never stretched out a hand of love . The Penal Colony , or such an exhibition as was given the other diy in front of the Old Bailey , finishes the dismal tragedy . Putting out of sight , for the moment , the moral and social monstrosities involved in this by no means imaginary sketch of the career of a criminal , it is worth while to look at it briefly in a financial point of view . " The breeches pocket argument '' is one which all parties can understand and appreciate . It is estimated that , apart from the loss caused by the plunder of each convicted thief , before he arrives at that
stage which is considered to justify transportation , he has cost the community from 150 / . to 2001 . in law expenses alone . But that is wholly inadequate to give a clear idea of the burdens which we have to bear in consequence of our neglect of the proper and obvious means of preventing crime . The sums annually expended for police establishments , prisons , houses of correction , and similar institutions , are enormous , and there can be no doubt but that a large portion of the amount now expended under the head of jPoor-rate , is attributable to the fact that large masses ave suffered to grow up ignorant alike of industrial and moral habits ,
These considerations show the absolute necessity for the adoption of some efficient measures for the prevention of those crimes and vices , which we now vainly endeavour to suppress by retaliating evil upon their instruments . Instead of institutions for the apprehending , sentencing , transporting , or hanging , those criminals who are , after all , but the victims of the present system , establishments ought to be generally formed in whiclijthe children of the destitute , the vicious , and the criminal may be educated to a contrary course of life , and under different circumstances . The means at present expended upon measures of public vengeance ought to be by degrees
appropriated to measures of public utility , by which the rising generation would be preserved from growing in the midst of deep ignorance , corruption , and vice . Although this might , in the first instance , require a larger outlay , ' it would in the end amply repay itself ; so that , as we have said , even on the mere ground of economy such a course recommends itself . It is a delusion to think that society has the choice whether or not it will provide for all its members . Each individual that grows up in it must Jind a livelihood some way or other ; if he be not put in the way to earn it in a lawful manner , he will seek it by unlawful means . If society refuse to take notice of him as an
object of its care and protection , he will force it to notice him us an object of its self-defence and its vengeance . Such being the case , would it not be wiser that society should give the attention , and incur the expense jnvolved in the adoption of the correct system , at a time when it has it in its power to make them available for the proper education of the individual to an honest
and sober life , and to a useful participation in the Jaboursfwhich society requires than , in the va » n hope of evading such an expenditure of attention and money , leave the individual *« condition in which he must infallibly become an enemy ? Would it not be wiser to . *««* him at an earl y period to society , by the '* " * of gratitude , than to punish him , when it is * ° late , for an alienation which is but the m tural consequence of hisJeetitution ?
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j by boldly facing t ! ie foe , and joining- in t . \ e general cry for redress that , deepening every hour , may grow into a thunderburst if timely recognition of the People ' s Rights , be not obtained . The same destitution alluded to above , is general throughout the country . From Manchester to Norwich—from the Humber to the Wye—behold one scene of miser } ' , while London itself is no exception . Well might the J udge , in summing up at the Middlesex Sessions , on the case of the six men indicted for stealing a loaf of bread to save their lives , after they had not tasted food , nor been in bed lby boldly facing- the foe , and joining- in t i
for eight-and-forty hours—well might he say , "It was dreadful ' to contemplate , that in this great and wealthy metropolis so many unfortunate men should be walking about the streets in a state of starvation , and committing robberies to Ratify the cravings of nature ! " Yes , ye great ! Yes , ye privileged robbers ! and . it is your work . ' See what you have brought this country too —once merry Englandfertile , fruitful , and abundant ; now one great edifice , part palace , part bastile . You have so
changed it , that . ye recommend banishment to gave its people from starvation ; and by your commercial measures , abuse its energies , to grow gold for the rich , instead of food for the poor . And now that , like all liars , you are ever forced to fly to a fresh falsehood to screen the last ; now that you have paraded measure after measure promise after promise , till all fail , and the flimsy garments fall away , leavingyour naked deformity apparent ; now you have recourse to coercion , the last barefaced argument of despotism .
Is it , then , not high time to rally for the Charter—that practical and glorious measure that shall sweep away this mass of destitution ? For admitting , as all must , the capabilities and resources of our country , what is wanted but to take the incubus of bad laws off its breast , that it may breathe the pure air of a strong and healthy life ? How plain , how apparent would be the result , that wealth , lavished in the superflsous luxuries of the rich , locked up in wasted lands , ( we do not even allude tothe " waste" ) , wrung in taxation , to be squandered in prodigality—drained from one part tobe accumulated in another , and then the
RETURNING CHANNELS INTERCEPTED , this wealth alone , equally distributed , would gladden the whole country with one tide of comfort . What prevents it ? Bad laws , class legislation . Who pass the laws ? A privileged few , whose interest it is to oppress , since they reap the benefit . Break down the system , then—raise the Charter , and that which is declared the object of all goon government will be obtained : " the greatest possible good , for the greatest possible number "—for the " great number ; " the people would then govern , and self-interest would make them seek to obtain " the greatest possible good ; " while the enlightenment which even Lord John Russell has so recently recognised , would ensure their embracing the right means to the desired
end . Rally for the Charter , then—every measure that has not this great object in view , is mere political tinkering . The Charter and the Land . And we would say to the men of Blackburn and the destitute districts , " Let not passion get the better " of your judgment—do not struggle for a mere rise in wages—which , if you gain , i& but an April-gleam , that a fresh cloud will overcast as soon as seen —but strive for the Charter and the Land ! Then you will live orr the fruits of your labour , and by your political power secure its continuance , its safety and enjoyment . Be no longer shuttlecock between the battledores of Whig and Tory , of Freetrader and Protectionist . Do not struggle for a mite added to your scanty pittance , but for the command of the resources which you , and you only , created—for the right of your ow thoughts , and the control of your own muscleB and sinews ; in short , strive " for independen t instead of an ALLEVIATED SLAVERY . . '
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PUBLIC MONIES . " We request all Sub-secretaries , and other per » s * na who may have occasion to send public moaiee to the Metropolis , to pay attention to the following direction * : — Monies for the understated purposes must be addressed as follows : — Payments for the Northern Star . 1 Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., JI . P ., 16 , Great Windmillstreet , Hayrnarkct . Nat'anal fand and Lihour Bank .
• The Manager of the National Land aiid LabinTBank , No . 493 , Hew Oxford Street , London . ' National Land Company . ' The Directors of the Na'ional Land Company , No Hi , High Holborn , L mdon . ' National Charter Association , Mr Thomas Clark , No . 114 , High Holborn , London / Central Registration and Eketion Committ «« . ' Mr James Gr *« sby , No . 8 , Noah ' s Ark-court , Stangate , Lambeth , Lmion . ' National Victim , and Widows and Orphans Fund . Mr John Simpt-in , Blun Cottage , Waterloo-Birest , Camberwell . London . '
For Mrs . W . Jones . ' Mr John Simpson , Elm Cottage , Waterloo-street ,. Camberwill , London . ' Metropolitan Chartist HM . ' Mr — Tapp . No . 5 ' ? , Finabury Market , London . ' Def ncc of Mr . O'Connor ' s Seat in Parliament . ' Mr Thomas Clark , No . Hi , High Holborn , London . ** Froscoulion of the Manchester Examiner . ' Mr Thomas Clark , No . 144 , High Uolborn , London . ' The Sleaford Case . 1 Mr Thomas Clark , No . 144 . High Holborn , London . ' The Fraternal Democrats , ' G . Julian HHrnry , No . 16 , Great Windmill-street Haymarkct , London , United Trades' Association , ' Mr Birratt , No . , Tottenham Court Rood ,. London , ' 3 Z ~ Monies sent con ' rary ta the above directive will not be acknowledged .
MISCELLANEOUS , J . Wood , Tiverton . —We do not remember to have seenthe lines . C . Booth , Almondbury . —May be inserted some day . Poetry . — ' A Chartist Father to his Infant Son '— ' Th& Lain ? , '— ' Short Time , '— The Eeal O'Connor Tartan , and ' Song to the men of Scotland '—not admissible . The Belfast M ah . — We have received copies of the-Banner of Ulster , containing two poetical pieces by ' 'Ehe UeVtist Man , which we will , as soon . » s possible ,. transfer to our columns . Stoskport Election Committee . —Will Mr J . F . M'Corinack , late of Stockport , s- 'nd his address to Mr T . Highton , No . 7 , Little Bgcrton street , Heaton-lane , Stuckport . C . Skgrave . —The first part of jour letter ban been
forwarded to Air O'Connor . Ab regards the Poles , there are bad aa well as good , just as there are plenty of baa Englishmen . The Polish cause is quite independent of the good or bad conduct of individual Poles . Public Monies . —A metropolitan reader has sent us n letter complaining of the non-publication of the receipt of monies contributed by him to various public objects . After enumerating several items , our correspondent says : — ' In August last , I conti ibuted 2 s 6 d to the General Election Fund , and expressed a particular desive that it should be propcrUj accounted for in the name that it wus given , however I see that it is hot accounted for in the biiliince fhcet of t e General Election Fund , as civen in the Northern Star of January 1 st . No one can reasonably suppose that the sums given by mo are tho onlw monies that never reach the object they arc
intended for , but it is quite reasonable to believe , from my experience , that there are hundreds of pounds annually subscribed for the various branches of the Chartist Movement , that are not applied to the purposes intended by the giyor . We must express our entire diy-Bent from the opinion entertained by our correspondent concerning the honesty of the collectors of Chartisf monies . We believe that so far from hundreds of pounds being misapplied by the collectors , there arc Dot even hundreds of farthings that ara applied in any other way thtu that dictated by , the donors . If our c'orre ?[ jondmit ' s 2 s Bd has not been acknowledged in the Registration Committee ' s balance sheet , it does not follow that his subscription wag not paid to the committee . It is preposterous to ' expect that every iteno contributed to a fund by thousands of subscribers can * appear in a printed balance Bhect . Why may not tt © man who gives sixpenet or a penny equally insist unon
seeing his subscription in the Stxk ? -and if that We * & granted would it be possible that we could burden the-Stau with a balance sheet , which would cover perbapff two or three pages ? The fair course we consider to bo tins : —A committee i 3 formed tortiise a fund for a certain purposa . That committee from within and without its own ranks appoints collectors , ' each furnished with a properiy . authenticdted book . Each collectorpays over to the committee th « amount collected by him . the committee examining the several items and giving a receipt for the . Minolc Of course no man would giye < his money to a collector of whose honesty ha ent « 7-tuined doubtB . Should doubt « subieiiusntly arise , thocontributor should demand of the collector to tee bis > book . If the ' amount' acknowledged by tbe eoafmittee's receipt , included the aum givoa by the contributor , of course he woald be satisfied ; if not , it wobIA be his dutv to apply to the commutes for inquiry and
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, 1 , 1 e to raise a ILill—of not having a recognised centre of Chartist agitation—and we , furthermore , exhort the Chartists of the country to support their London brethren , that they , too , may be worthily represented in the /¦ . Tiiital . _ - .. ' . " '
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THE METROPOLITAN CHAItTISl HALL .
We have already attracted the attention of our readers to this important subject , and in our present number the Committee of Management have issued an Address , embodying their views and objects . The necessity for a Metropolitan Hall , dedicated to our principles , must long have been apparent , and we consider the plan essentially and eminently good , both as a political and pecuniary investment . We trust that all good Chartists who can afford to take one or more
shares , will be influenced by the first consideration—and , indeed , anything that strengthens the political power of the people IS a good pecuniary investment , since where popular power and popular laws dominate , labour would receive its due , and trade no longer be one great cheat , by the wholesale dealer of the retail dealer , and by the hitter of those he employs , and by either of the public . There is , iudeed , something eminently practical in those
political combinations and agitations , which some shallow thinkers designate as " abstract theories , " or as " froth , " and " noise / ' and " mere excitement . ' These organisations—these combined movements—aiming directly , without subterfuge and circumlocution , at the power of legislating on the abuses of the age—on the bad laws that engender the misery , the want , the oppressive features of a wretched social state—are by far more practical than those which merely endeavour to alleviate the
sufferings of the afflicted . The former is applying remedies to the root of the evil , the latter is merely alleviating the symptom . @Now one of the chief beauties of the Land Company is , that while it alleviates the feymp * torn , i . e . relieves the condition of some , it ^ at the same time stimulates the energy of all , and strengthens the Chartist party in their political organisation . Thus it will be with the intended Metropolitan Chartist Hall . It must not be regarded merely in a speculative point of view—merely as a monied speculation , in the direct sense of the word—though as we have said , highly pro *
raising as such—but as a means to an end—as an evidence of the power , which , by evidencing some , creates more—as , in itself a powerful lecturer , predicating the cause of Chartismsaying , the movement shall be permanent , for here is its permanent home—here is the home within which we are sheltered against the passing frosts of apathy , the blasts of faction , and the storms of opposition—here is the battery whence we can direct" our artillery against the ranks of those who ^ like a wary , but cowardly besieging force , have undermined by double-faced laws and insidious attacks , the rights of labour and the property of the people .
There ma y he some who think that the money , intended to he raised , mi ght be more advantageously applied for the purposes of agitation . It IS applied for those purposes . For what else is the Hall to be raised ? It merely remains to be seen whether the means are adapted to the end . Now , we believe , that a better step in agitation could , at the present moment , not be taken , or one more calculated to be lasting in its effects . We all know what Conciliation Hall did for the party who ¦ ¦ started it—we all know the importarice of a « local habitation" as well as a " nanie " —we are aware of the great expense entailed
on the Chartist body by the desultory meetings , now held , in getting Halls , for which great difficulty exists , and for which Halls most exorbitant prices are charged ; and moreover , we believe , that most of the money paid m shares for the Hall , would not be spent for other purposes of political agitation . We eonfidentl y hope to see a National Ohartist ^ ovention sitting when our great Petition is presented-and we hope that such Convention will sit for as long a period as practicable , to watch the proceedings in Parlijunent , and guide and time the movement in the country .
We wish teflay a few words as to tise organisation of the Committee . It is no body self-arrogating power—it has been duly appointed by the metropolitan Chartists , a * represented by their Delegate Council and with complete unanimity . We understand one-third of the Committee are to retire annually—and we consider this a very wise measure—since , under a general re-election , it is possible that a majority of those elected might be even hostile to the immediate objects of the undertaking , or , at least , unacquainted with the management . In conclusion , we have but to observe , that we see all the elements of success herald the
commencement , and we doubt not that this augury will be verified by a prosperous com pletion of the Chartist Hall . We call , therefore , on the Chartists of London . to rally for this glorious object—to rescue the metropolis from the ' stigma of not being
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THE INCREASING DISTRESS . A short time back fallacious hopes were being raised , that trade was becoming better , that the Free-trade promises would be realised , because , forsooth , a few mills commenced running full time . It has , as we predicted , proved but one of those fallacious gleams that make misery more keenly felt by renewingjdisappointinent . We now receive reports of fresh calamities befalling the operatives with every day—and of fresh aggressions on the part of their employers . At Ashton-under-Lyne , several mills are again expected to commence forthwith running short time .
At Blackburn , the notice recently given by the millowners of a reduction of ten per cent , in wages , has raised the greatest excitement among the operatives , who are on the very verge of a general strike . At Bradford , the destitution continues unabated , and the emigration-bait is being continually held out to the starving . Poor-rates are beginning to weigh heavily on the small shopkeeper , and the millowners , themselves , burdened with the mass of misery they have
created , are now endeavouring to crown robbery by banishment . The people themselves are unwilling to emigrate—they still cling to the dear land of their fathers—and when they go , it is with a broken spirit and a desponding heart . Some say , indeed" We can 't be worse off , than we are now . '' Possibly so ; but their absence '' will not relieve the Poor , it only relieves the Rich of the poor rate , and we advise them to stay in their native land , and to hang the dead wei g ht of their misery on the sinking institutions of monopoly . EMIGRATION RELIEVES THE OPPRESSOR AND NOT THE OPPRESSED . Stay at home , working-men ; you have want and misery at home , it is true—the same awaits you in the Colonies . Remember the letter we published from the Governor-General of Canada to the Colonial Office , sometime since . Think of the reeords of Colonial famine and fever reaching us dail y * of non-employment and competitive labour . By staying at home you perplex monopolyyou strengthen the power of your ^ fellow sufferers—and , with due energy and wisdom , you will infallibly lay the foundation for a better state ol things . It is not by running away that the battle is won—it is not ] by flight you can f scape the ruin that awaits the cowardly—but
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¦ "¦ mi ¦ i "" I We ave aware of the triteness of these obser-! vations ; but such its the snail-like progress of the most important truths towards etncient practical realisation , that it becomes a duty to urge them frequently upon public attention . In doing this , we by no means forget that local and voluntary efforts , based upon these grounds , are now makiner in various parts of the country . The « Ragged Schools '—an ugly title , by the way , and , so far as we have seen them , after being a short time established , not at all applicable—are an exemp lification of the fact , and an illustration of the truth of the importance and the beneficial re-^^^ , " ,,, 7 " ' lT .. T ? 'letun"ZuanaBer > f fhfise
obsersults of the practical application of the prin ' ciples we now advocate . They have excavated some small portions of the dense mass of ignorance , destitution , and criminality , which exist among the densely peopled lanes and alleys of our great cities . They have shown that there is trnly a " soul of goodness" to be found among these victims of evil influences , which it only requires the kindly heart , the frieh'dly word , and the helping hand , to evoke ; but—and it is with regret we notice the defect—the good is seriously impaired , the charity damaged , by being associated with sectarian dogmas and the communication of a number of theological abstractions , which it is impossible the poor little helpless victimsjof past neglect can at all
comprehend , or which can be of the slightest use to them . They are , in fact , looked at more in the light of auxiliary aids for obtaining recruits tor sects , than making industrious , honest , and brotherly citizens . No effective or adequate plan to meet the requirements of the case , can be carried out by voluntary or isolated efforts . The power of the whole peop le must be brought to bear upon it , through the medium pf the Legislature and the Executive Government . But , in the meantime , these voluntary efforts have their value , as showing , by practical example , what can be done . They take the case out of the category of " theories , '' and place it in that of facts . They point out the path on which it is necessary to travel to ensure success .
This has been most clearly done by those Institutions which have acted in the most rational , comprehensive , and unsectarian spirit . Tbe first of these Schools ' was that established some years since at Aberdeen , by Sheriff Watson . He speedily discovered that industrial as well as intellectual training was required by the poor outcasts for whom he laboured in so benevolent and enlightened a spirit . He has just published an interesting
report on Juvenile Crime in that city , in which he proves triumphantly , by statistics of the most valuable and suggestive description , the decrease of committals since the introduction of Industrial Schools . In preference , however , to giving any of these figures , we quote two cases , which affectingly and graphically delineate the unhappy and helpless condition of the class who annually contribute their quota of recruits to the ranks of the standing army of criminals .
A reira'kab ' y hopeful , truthful girl , of twelve years of age ( nays the sheriff ) thus told her story to the matron ofapriRon : — " I used to go about with father to ask for a piece of bread or a bawbee . I ran away from him because he beat me . My mother died when I was a wee bairn . She ia the only person I can remember who ever told me what was right . I could not read at all when I came to prison , but I could say the prayer mother taught me before she died . I have no other relation than my father that I know of . but a sister . I suppose she must be KOing wrong , because we never had anybody to care tor ua and teach us to do riaht . " And the poor motherlees bairn was sent to prison to learn the elementsof useful knowledge , and receive the first lessons in morality and religion . Again :
A very little girl , of nine or ten years of age , appeared to be one of the most unfit objects for prison that could btt well imagined , till her poor deformed sister , smaller than herself though % year or two older ! was pointed out in another cell . They were the daughters of a mairaeddisabled sailor , who in asserting Britain ' ! ory _ bad lost both his legs , and wamlered the country in a cart accompanied by the children , begging « s they went . They bad been sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for stealing
apples . The younpest was an industrious child , willing to please , and finishing her daily taBk of oakum-picking l » ng before evening . The eldest child was more than ordinarily intelligent , and quite iW 8 re of her desolate situation . She cried bitterly as Bbe said '' Our life has been a v * ry sair one . I have heard say , ray mother killed herself with driuking ; and I have just heard that father haB died Bince we have been here , and now we have no friend to care ^ or as ' *
Sheriff Watson s remedy is the Industrial School , not only for young beggars but for young thieves at the beginning of their career , and all experience proves him to be right in his suggestion . V / e must repeat , however , our own deep conviction that the ' evil is of too great a magnitude for any individual efforts to cope with it , while , as we have attempted to show , not only the highest moral and social interests of the community demand an effectual remedy , but also that the nation would gain largely—in a pecuniary sense—by the devising and application of such a remedy .
Looking at the fiscal difficulties of the present Government , and the preponderance of the mere shopkeeping mind in Parliament , we much fear that the time has not yet come for the adoption of such a radical and rational course , with reference to this pressing and important question . But , in the meantime , it is the duty of all who have any influence over public opinion to keep the subject before society , and to endeavour to awaken that universal and vital interest in its success , which can alone lead the way to its final and satisfactory settlement .
An Appeal To The Chartists O F Great Britain.
AN APPEAL TO THE CHARTISTS O F GREAT BRITAIN .
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. ¦ ¦ Great Success.—Tjrue Reciprocity.
. ¦ ¦ GREAT SUCCESS . —TjRUE RECIPROCITY .
Just Published, Funifonn With The " I-Abouulu" Magazine,) Pvirc 6(1.
JUST PUBLISHED , fUnifonn with the " I-abouulu" Magazine , ) Pvirc 6 ( 1 .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 22, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1454/page/4/
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