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THE NORTHERN STAR , SATPRBAY, AUGUST 26 . 1848.
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Just I'ubiished. „ _ THE MISSION OF R B P O R M E »S. Price One iennr. _ Airacuor
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FORTHCOMING MEETINGS . Sheffield . —Tqs Little Sheffield branch of the Ivatiocal Charter Association Lave remored their place of meeting from Ciark '? , to Mr Syke ' a , Temperance Ilotel 56 , CoaJpit-lane . where ' the coaEcil meet e ? ery Sauday afternoon . A soiree will be held to celebrata tho re-turning a Chartist to the Town Council , next Tuesday evening , at the Hall of Science , Worhingham street . Stocsbridgs . —An adjourned meeting of the LaDd rnembire , will be h ?! d at the Crown rooms , oa t his , ( Saturday ) evening , at sev e n o ' clock , for the consideration of important subjects relative to the Land Plan . DtWrBrar . —A cHetriet ; delegate meeting wiil be held in the Chartist raeetins-r- 'em , Dewsbury , on Sunday , AagE 9 t 27 ch , at two 6 'lock in the afternoon . Daleaates from each locality are requested to attend ) and to brio ^ t-roper credentials wi' . h them .
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Price Twopenee , THE RIGHT OF PUBLIC MEETING A LETTER Addressed ( befere Sentence , ) TO LORD CHIEF JUSTICE SIR THOMAS WILDE . By E&kut Johss , This letter contains the substance of the addrefB which Ernest Jones intended to deliver in tbe court , but whioh the judge would not allow to be spoken . Also , price Threepente , A V 2 BBAT 1 U BEPOBI O ? THB TRMil OP ERNEST JONES AND THE OTHER CHARTIST LEADERS . Now Ready , a New Edition of
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THE REIGN OF TERROR . On Thursday last , in the sixteenth year of Reform , and during the administration of the Reforming Whigs , who have been traitors to the Crown , traitors to the People , and traitors to the English Constitution , another Coercion Bill passed the Commons , with the title of "Unlawful Oaths ( Ireland ) . " We cannot sufficiently express our horror and disgust of those truculent men , who , though professors of constitutional liberty , have thus destroyed every vestige of the constitution , as regards
Ireland ; but we cannot confine our observations to the state of Ireland alone , we must , in justice , extend them to the present state of England . Every country in the world pressed down under the weight of kingcraft and priestcraft , is awaking as it were from the nightmare , and throwing off the incubus of this double pressure ; while England , more oppressed than any other country in the world , is , at the present moment , under a more severe despotism than any other country in Europe .
The philosopher shall not refer to our glorious constitution , in its entirety and integrity , as a refutation of our assertion , because we honour and respect the old Euglish constitution , when man was allowed to live en the land of his birth , when the natural client was nursed and fostered by his natural patron ; but it is no part of the British constitution that cla « s should live upon class , and that Government should continue their rule upon no other principle khan that of exciting- alarm in the
minds of one class , that they may live upon the false fears of that class , while they hold the other , and the most valuable , in a state of bondage , famine , destitution , and want . Can it be denied that profligacy increases in the exact proportion in which the demand for liberty progresses ? Can it be denied that liberty , tempered with reason and discretion , and not that liberty which would be likely to degenerate into licentionsness , is now the one great object sought by universal Europe ? And can it be denied that the administrators
of the much-boasted constitution of England , are now attempting to meet this universal demand by increased profligacy , increased patronage , and increased terror ? The servile and corrupt Press of this country would hound the Government upon all who profess Chartist principles ; while , without the same thought , discussion , and consideration , which has led to the adoption of those principles by the English people , the people of all other countries of Europe , without the same discussion and pre-concert , are adopting the
same principles—thus preving their legitimacy , and showing that , from their realisation alone , the dissensions now prevailing amongst the human family , canbesuppressed and destroyed . The name of Chartism may have become odious , as the name of every progressive movement does , the object of which is to establish right upon the ruins of might—like every other principle , it must pass through the ordeal of ridicule , contempt , and persecution , until it arrives at that giant strength and threatening magnitude which deserves discussion , legislation , and acceptation .
What boots it , that a people starving , a people deceived , a people taxed to overbearing to support a profligate Government and an expensive system , should break out into physical resistance , which may for the time and for the nonce entail odium and disrespect upon the professors of thafpolitical creed—those ebullitions , though suppressed by the appliances of a strong Government , but mark the growing discontent . Like themaenet , the creed attracts all the dissatisfied , until , at length , the resistants are obliged to bend and yield , and , with a bad grace , they yield to fear much more than would have been accepted if conceded to justice .
We are not chargeable , the stausch Chartists , the Old Guards , are not chargeable with any of those crimes which are now attributed to the prefessors of Chartism ; and , however the struggle may end between the privileged jury-class , possessing power , and the outlawed class , looking for power , we will still maintain the whole principles of Chartism inviolate and unadulterated ; and we will do so because we consider them to be the basis of peace , contentment , and plenty , and because we consider them to be in strict accordance with every principle of humanity . What is crime ? Now-a-days crime is not what man does of his own free will . Crime now
is what the agents of Government compel a man to do . In London , scores of Chartists have been arrested . Some are now eking- out the time of their solitary imprisonment , while their families are starving and their oppressors revelling ; while others are living upon the slender hope of deliverance from the hands of their persecutors . We , however , notwithstanding the charges of profligacy urged against
usby Drammond , Hrme , and Lord Arundeland Surrey , cannot charge ourselves with being in any way instrumental to the persecution of our Chartist brethren . We cautioned them in season—we cautioned them through all time—to be cautious of traitors , of spies , and informers . We announced that all the appliances at the command of a desperate government would be put into operation ^ to destroy their most
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dreaded assailants . We told them that thei every act , and their every word , would be sub " ject to the construction which a hired desperado might put upon them ; and our readers will believe that we formed no unreasonable conclusion when we publish the following letter , received by Mr O'Connor from the informer Powell •— Hoxton . Sib —I have been the mean 9 of sending missionaries
to the north of England , for the purpose of bringing the men oftho north out . and when they return It is our intention to hold a delogafe meeting of London Chartists , and to require your ittttitdance , when we are determined to make a bold stand , our men being resolved not to wait longer for their rights ; and if you are not prepared to attend tbat delegate meeting , and 3 hare the dangers of the Chartist itody , you will bo ons of the first victims to younown cowardice . Y o u r obedient s e rvant , Thomas POWELL .
Besides the above communication , Mr O'Connor received a letter from this same Powell , impressively inviting him—nay , commanding him—to attend the meeting in Miltonstreet , and for speaking at which Shaw is nsw in custody . But , still further , when the time arrives we expect to be able to prove that this said Powell had laid a scheme'for the assassination of Lord John Russell , which nothing but the indomitable courage of Mr O'Connor could have prevented ; and which he did prevent at the risk ef his own life , and in which some of the staunchest and oldest Chartists in London , co operated—that is , they co-operated with Mr O'Connor in overturning the foul attempt .
Even apart from this , we give the following evidence of the character of the said Powell from fellow-labourers , who have worked with him , who know his character , and abhor his vices , and these are taken from the orig ina l documents signed by those men : — Ricluxrd Pennell , of Si , India Cottage , itonyers-street , Hoxton New Town . I havo known Powell ; for thirte in yeara , am aware he committed forgery on his father . Ho informed mo that he lias been employed nt IPs , to 15 s . per . dayas a decoy to thimble-rigftern , to draw other purtieo in to fcet and play . About five years ago he used to le engaged in watching the thieves about Regont-street and the Strand . He got tired of it , aB he only gut 3 s . fid . a day . He told me ho
could get more out of the thieves to keep quiet . He told me he was continually » n fear of the counsel that they would bear of the thimble ri g aff a ir , and bo damage his evidence . The last time I taw him was about four o r five month s ago , when he wish « d me t > . join tho Association , at he wouM propose me , as he was one of their head men ; and wanted ine then to propose him aB a delegate , as h « should get S . 1 or £ i p > r week , w hich would be bettir than humbugging about at old Smith's , as he could make out of carpentering . He then told ma tbat if I would come to List houi-e next Sunday
he nvuld show mo matt-rials that w uld blow London to the devil in half-: in hour ; ami he » eant that Sir George Grey , Lord John Ru-siT , th e Q u een , and Prince Albert , would have their b - y brains knocked out first , and if I , as an individual , did Dot join them , he would point me suito them , should have bullets put through . thcm . I have frequently heard him eay he wished his old father ' s soul was in h—1 , and he should like to pull the old b—r out of his grave . I have known him maliciously to chop up the men ' s tools , and put others in the fire , becauso tbej would not associate with him in his villuuous conduct . ( Signed ) Richakd Pin . vell .
Henry Watson , No . 5 , Barton-court , Hoxton Old Town . A fellow workman , carpenter , About ttventy . three years ogo he committed forpery on his father , on the Moorfield ' s Bank , and was obliged to fly to Americi ; in about two years he came back ; about eight years ago he turned common informer ; and about five years ago his occupation was watehing people , and endeavouring to prevail on others to appear as witnesses against parties for passing bad money . Since thea he lias been employed bj MrSmitli , and during that time he has endeavoured to prevail on me to join this secret meeting , and never to go without a dagger and other deadly weapons , as be was armed with a brace of pistols , a sword , and a dagger ; ¦ I bout ten weeks ago he tried to pravail on me to go ( to Webber-itreet and Golden-lane , to facilitate the getting up of thoje meetings . ( Signed ) Heh 6 t Watson .
Now , the Smith referred to above is brotherin-law to the said Powell ; he is a highly respectable man , employing from fifty to sixty tradesmen , and the foreman of that establishment , if necessary , is ready and willing- to come forward to depose to the infamy of this miscreant . But , suppose Mr O'Connor had been weak enough , or so cowardlyias to yield to the threat of this ruffian , what then would have been the result of his treachery ? It appears , also , that this ruffian was the fomentorolthe whole conspiracy ; and after so many years of practised villany , associated with the greatest miscreants , and practised in
the art of deception , was it wonderful that such a professor should have been , able to secure willing and enthusiastic followers ? It further appears that the whole of the Lancashire conspiracy was brought about by one who , we are credibly informed , is now ready to tender evidence on behalf of the Crown against his associates . In 1843 , the principal witness against Mr O'Connor and fifty-nine others , at Lancaster , was a reporter of the Northern Star , to whom the proprietor had rendered signal service , and it was natural , therefore , that Mr O'Connor should not only have felt suspicious himself , but should have
warned others against the machinations of such villains . And as of yore , so now , and so it will be always , according to the Free-trade principle—where there is a demand , there will be a supply—last week we ; dismissed one of the reporters of this establishment—not Mr Stallwood , —from the fact communicated to us that he was in constant communication with the detectives and police , and not wishing , however great the danger may be of being associated with an outlawed principle , to be in any way mixed up with treachery and deceit . However the Whigs may be able to use a jury class against British subjects , in the hope of suppressing Chartism , and however they
may have the ce-operation of the Hume and Cobden quadruped alliance , both factions may rest assured that Chartism , though struck down now by the bloody hand of tyranny , will rise , not from its ashes , but from its slumber , and will overthrow despotism and establish the rule of justice in this country . Does the present administration suppose , that the fears of Euglish landlords are as usable and as useful as the profligacy of Irish members ? and do they imagine that the Saxon blood of the aristocracy of England will not revolt against that perfidy which now but maintains itself by the profligacy and co operation of traders , who
speculate in human blood ? The heart sickens when Ireland is the theme ; the blood recoils when we find that upon Thursday llast , when Mr O'Connor moved the rejection of the last act of Coercion for Ireland , that there was not an Irish member to second it , although the " fat young gentleman , * ' the leader of the " moral jforce humbug , " ( Mr John O'Connell ) was in the lobby at the time . If ever there was a period when it was necessary for the Chartists to be on their guard against the plots and intrigues of government spies and informers , it is now ; and if ever there was a Government which deserves the execration of
all classes , rich and poor , it is that Government which has found its way to office upon pledges of extensive reform , and lifts destroyed confidence by the violation of those pledges .
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deny fc but wil 1 aI 1 the conspirators be brought to trial ? No ! The worst will escape . The Press-gan # hzve conspired to misrepresent the working classes , and excite prejudice « g « i «« t their principles ; and , successful in their conspiracy , have driven . men in their despair toseek the means or escape fro . m their m . sery , even by violence . The supporters of the Gagging Bill , and the employers of spy ing reporters and spying detectives , have , by rendering the ancient right of public meeting a nullity , conspired , too successfully , to drive a portion or the people to favour secret societies ' , against the advice and warnings of their true friends .
Lastly , Powell , the informer , conspired with the police to take advantage of the misery and madness of his dupes , of course with no other object than the public goed in view , and not that he misfit earn the customary " thirty pieces of silver . ' And now we warn the London Chartists that Powell is not the only deceiver ! We have accurate information of the doings of at least one other informer . A creature who twelve months ago was unknown to the Chartist party , but who within that time has made himself notorious at the east end of London by his apparent morbid craving for notoriety ; but his real motives are now known to us , We warn the London Chartists that such a
creature—in personal appearance a satire upon " physical force" —is amongst them . He has urged on others to the talking of violent nonsense , and preparations for violent deeds , and has then communicated every word and act to the police . Spies are amongst you , men of London—beware of them . Villany and folly have done their work well , and , in consequence , every Chartist is menaced with public and private persecution . No matter , we shall continue to defend and
advocate the principles of Chartism , in spite of both fools and knaves ; convinced that those principles are founded in justice and truth , and that their establishment is necessary for the welfare of society . The Chronicle says , that " no honest raan will henceforth allow himself to be classed with Chartists at all . " But , " come weal , come woe , " the name of Chartist shall ever be dear to us . Though the hurricane of p ersecu t ion is o n c e a g ai n rag ing , we nail our flag to the mast— "THE CHARTER AND NO SURRENDER !"
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . It is very painful to see such a waste of labour and good intentions as that exhibited by the debates of this protracted Session . Though the 12 th of August has lured away the more confirmed of the sportsmen to the pleasures of field and forest , there still remains a goodly number of senators , old and young , who are quite ready to sacrifice themsekes , in day and night sittings , for " the good of their country . " But the fates are against these patriots . Not all their enthusiasm and perseverance can move the vis ineriice of a Whig administration—not all their efforts remove the frightful nightmare of Whig incapacity , which presses upon the Legislature , and benumbs its energies .
As it is , the debates serve merely to Indicate the vast importance of the subjects left untouched—sabjects which press imperatively for settlement , but are neglected by a Government which has neither the ability nor the energy required to grapple with them , and which is laboriously elaborate and busily idle with such small matters as fall within the range of their limited intellects . By way of compensating for the absence of one or two great measures , which would produce appreciable and beneficial results , they heap on the table of both Houses a host of legislative trifles , which have at least the effect of occupying the time and attention of our legislators , and to make a show of work , if the reality be wanting .
It is not considered sufficient that Ireland should be afflicted by famine , pauperism , and landlordism . A few bigots wish to inflame a little more violently the already too great religious animosities which prevail in that unhappy country . In 1832 , a system of national education , based upon a principle of respect for all conscientious relig ious o pinions , was introduced into Ireland , It was under Lord Stanley's administration , and he has , therefore , received the credit of originating the system , which , we believe , is really due to Mr Thomas
Wyse , the late Member for Waterford . The object of this Bystem was to " afford a combined literary and a separate religious education , which should be so far adopted to the views of all religious persuasions in Ireland , as to render it in truth a national system of education for the poorer classes of the community . " The schools were to be kept open for moral and literary education , only for four or five days in the week . The other days were to be set apart for giving separately , such religious education to the children as might be approved by the clergy of their respective
per-. One would have imagined that a system so obviously just to all parties , would have met with hearty support—the very contrary has been the case . The bishops and clergy of that monstrous incubus on Ireland—the Protestant Established Church , not content with robbing the Roman Catholics of the revenues they receive , have set up s » continuous hovel against these schools , and done all in their power to deprive the Roman Catholic children of their benefits , on pretence that they were a violation of the rights of conscience , and that all education should 'be based on the use of the Bible as a school book .
Lord John Russell effectually disposed of this flimsy pretence in his reply to the application of Mr Hamilton , on Monday night , to interfere with the system established in 1832 , by making a separate grant to the Established Church . He said—The Roman Catholic says , ' It is a violation o my e-mscience to oblige my child to receive religious instruction of which the Roman Catholic church disapprove ^ . ' That is a very intelligent proposition ! But when the Protestant clergyman snys , ' It is a violation of my conscience to promote education , unless I can coirpel Roman Catholic children to receive religious instruction according to the forms of » he Church of England , ' the ^ word ' violation ' of conscience becomes bo vague aud unimportant that I for one cannot attach an ; meaning at all to it . ( Loud cheers . )
' 1 he best argument in favour of the system is , that ever since its establishment it has gone on steadily increasing in public favour , and public utility . At first there were about 1 , 000 schools , and 100 , 000 scholars ; there are now upwards of 4 , 000 schools , and about 450 , 000 scholars ; and this in spite of the most inflexible and persevering hostility on the part of the Protestant Clergy . Every traveller who has visited Ireland and examined the working of these Schools , speaks of them as the only green spot in the history of that unhappy country , and as the only feature which pro ' -
mises a better future . We think , therefore , that the Ministry were right in refusing to interfere with a system which has , for sixteen years , had the support of every successive Administration ; which has , during that period , made such a steady progress in usefulnessand which is calculated to be of such future benefit to Ireland , by removing those religious prejudices and animosities which are the greatest bane and curse of human society . It is also gratifying to add , as a proof of the decadence of reli g ious intolerance and bigotry , that onl y fifteen membera were found to vote for such interference .
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RECEIPTS OF THE CTATZOSTAX . LAN » COMPANY , FOR THE WEEK ENDING THURSDAYAUGUST 2 t
, 1848 . PE 3 MB O'CONNOB , BABES . £ s . d . York .. 2 14 6 Shiney Row .. 1110 Bermondsey .. 0 13 0 Wm Daniels .. 0 8 0 Nottingham , James Ashtou .. 0 5 0 Sweet H 0 7 6 Tho » Thornberry 0 5 0 Worcester M 8 7 0 C Movrl .. 0 I 0 Oldham „ o 10 0 J Collison .. 0 10 0 Hexham „ o 14 o H Towers „ 0 18 0 Sheffield ., 10 0 0 £ 26 16 0 BXPEN 3 B FUND , Nottingham , Worcester ., 1 16 6 Sweet „ 0 3 6 Shiney Row M 0 16 £ LLJ Land Fund 26 16 0 expense Fund 2 16 28 1 7 6 Bank 41 13 g £ 1011 0 Wm . Dixox , Cnsisxopngg Doiwr , Tnoa . Ciirk , ( Correg . Sec . ) Pejlip lt'Giivrn , ( Fm . Seo . ) RECEIVED AT BANK . By J . Goodby , Secretary , Auxiliary Bank , Leicester „ .. .. .. .. 100 First Branch of Land Company , Leicester .. 2 0 0 T . Paics , Manager . THE LIBERTY FUND . . Mr Jeffries .. 0 12 9 Newcastle , M . Leeds , George Jude .. 8 8 5 Heap ,. 0 9 0 Todmorden , E . KontiBn Town .. 0 5 0 Close .. 18 6 JB 8 8 _ 8 John M'Cbae , Secretary . FOR FAMiLIEs " 0 F VICTIMS . BECBIVID « r V . KIDE 1 . Newcastle Char . Bristol , per W . tists , per M . Hjatt .. 0 10 0 Jude .. o 6 9 Cheltenham So . Halstead , perB . ciety of Shoe . Payne .. 0 5 0 makers , per E . Pilkmgton , per Sherland .. 10 0 J . Eastwood .. 6 6 0 Leicester , a Few A Few Friends , Shareholders , Brownstone . per z , Astill o 2 o gate Factory , Ditto , a Few iiJTh " ^ ~ ° l 0 8 Females , per U . GaUty , Ventnor 0 0 6 Mm AstUl .. 0 4 0 £ 3 i 11 BBCZIVBD AT LAND OFHCS . Bloorasbury Lo . J , T . Crowthcrs , caht , late of and Friends „ 0 3 6 the Orange Tree 0 i o M . C . Mowl » 0 0 6 £ 0 7 11 BECIIVED BY J . H ' Cft&E . Cupar Angus , Doncaster , Anne Charles Don 0 3 9 Swift .. 0 0 0 £ 0 4 3 FOR DR M'DOUALL'S DEFENCE . RECEITED BT W . RIDSR . Barrhead , per Halsteaa , perR . J-Russell .. 0 5 0 l ' ayne .. 0 2 0 Yentnor , per II . Shiney Row , W . Norman . 0 16 County Dur . ham , per T . Blakey „ 0 7 7 £ 9 18 1 TO EXEMPT ME J 0 NE 8 FB 8 M OAKCM PICKING . """"" PuBhco , per R . Cole 0 5 ft MB 3 JONES' C 0 NV 4 IANC 8 IDND . TwoCbartisu . Yaloof Levsn « .. .. 010
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EXECUTIVE NOTICE . In future all monies and correspondence for the Executive of the National Charter Association must he directed to John M'Crae , National Land Office 144 , High Holborn . It is hoped all parties will attend to this , and make no monies payable to John Sewell , except paid excluaively for Liberty Fund . John M'Crae , Secretary .
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DEFENCE FUND . Received by Wa . Ridbr . £ s . d . Amount already published ... 314 7 7 A Liver of Liberty , Pelton Fells 0 2 6 F . S . H ^ K ^ nt ... < # J 0 8 6 W PuHeyn , York Por ^ , Crofftlier ' . " 0 2 6 C Epworth , York ... 0 5 0 National Cturter Association , Yoik " . ' . " . 0 5 0 Pilkinjton , per J . Eastwood 0 6 0 Coventry , per W . Hojtar « 6 0 Brldiington , per J . V . ckerman 0 2 0 J . K ., an English Cuartiat , B ; lfa »« ... 0 5 0 £ 816 10 1
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Abkedeev . — In reply to Mr Smart ' s letter , Whj Ph peored in tho Stab of August 5 th , we have TtL K letters from two well-known Chartists in Aberdi and also from a body of workmen in that town , refnr ' Mr Smart's s tatemen t , and exprpesinj ? approbateT our previous comments on the conduct of the «¦> . defended by Mr Smart . We decline publishing ?> , * letters , as they contain severe strictures upsn cert ? persons in Aberdeen , and we have no inclination to fin the columns of the NobtHebn Stab with personalI a nunclations . de - Q . P . earnestly recommends that the Northfru a should be sent to Ireland . 8 lA » Cheltenham . —Mr John Hemmln earnestly calls on th Chartists of this town to do their duty , and rallv rL * the banner of Chartism . y T 0 Uai Mr G . Adams , Glasgow . —We do not supply the Labodd ** to country agents . Mr M'Gowan supplies the London publishers , through whom you can procure it . Mr Kay , Motherwell . —You will obtain the 'JPiftepn r sons'from Mr J . Watson , Queen ' s Head passaaa p ternoster-rotv , London . ° ' '
The Liberty Ftj » D . —We understand that SB many an plications have been made for postponement , and th » required number not being made up for the ballot fon the four freehold honsen , with votes , for one shilliD , a » Holt , in West Norfolk , the committee have postponed the same till Monday , Sep . 25 th , 1848 , which win Zz thgae who are desirous of supporting this laudable undertaking an opportunity of doiiig so ; and when the depresstd state of the said fund is taken into consirto ration , this is highly desirable . Every information can be obtained by applica ion to the secretary , j o jj n A r nott , Bricklayers ' m s , Tonbridge-street , Keir- road London , if by letter ( pre paid ) , with stamp enclosed for reply . Mr J . Giiisor , Merrington . —Received . Mr H . Ghapple , Portland . —If a post town the charge is
illegal—if not , the demand is proper . They are posted in time for delivery on Saturday . Mr Ooslino , Congleton .-Must apply for the portrait of Mr O'Connor , to Mr S . Boonham , IU , High Holborn . Mr Lkzs , Gorebridge . — It expires on the 23 rd of September . Ipswich . W . G . The advice shall be attended to . A SUBScniBtR , Burnley . —Yes . Notice . —Agents and subscribers will please discontinue remitting their accounts in postage stamps , as we are quite overstocked with them . Mr Bubrill , Greenoch , —Received , A notice Of J 0 UT liberation was already in type . An English Chartist , Belfast . — Received with many thanks .
ABBnDBEN .-The Aberdeen Bubscrihers to the Noetbebm Stab , and to the Nobth Bhitish Expbess , are i n f orme d thattbe Chartist committee have resolved to undertake the eale of those newspapers—tho profits arising therefrom to be devoted to the purposes of the association . Subscribers favourable to tbis object , will please giro th « ir orders to J . Shirron , 48 , SUene-street , where the papers can be had oh the day of their arrival , until far . ther notice . J , Sweet begs to acknowledge the receipt of the following sums , for the defence of Dr M'Douall : — Prom Bingham .. ,. .. ,, 0 2 6 Mr Chipindale .. ,, .. ,. Oil )
From the ' Lord Holland ' .. .. .. 0 e 8 i MrLoverseed .. .. .. o o s MrDalton .. .. .. .. 0 0 6 Mr Shepherd .. .. .. .. 0 o 3 Mr Broxholme .. .. .. .. o o 3 Mr Kirk . .. .. ,. 0 0 2 From the ICoIonel Hutchinson' .. .. « 4 < By Mr Proctor 0 1 10 } Mr Clabk ' s second communication is unavoidably post . poned . Aberdeen Land Members , aud T . Plumb , Lond < jn . ~ It shall appear in our next . A CobbsspoNDEXT at Lowbandsjasks- ' What is best to do with potatoes that are diseased ? ' also , ' whether it I | is better . to dig those which are partially 80 , or leave them in the ground V
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The Northern Star , Satprbay, August 26 . 1848.
THE NORTHERN STAR SATPRBAY , AUGUST 26 . 1848 .
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THE « CONSPIRACY . " Our town edition of last Saturday contained a report of the examination of the persons arrested in London on the preceding Wednesday . That report supplied to our country readers this week , is accompanied by notices of subsequent arrests and examinations . Two or three of the persons arrested , or said to be implicated , are known to have professed Chartist principles , and on this foundation the Press gang have been howling for a week past , over what they have called the " Discovery of a Chartist Conspiracy . " " Conspiracy" there may have been , but not a Chartist conspiracy . The onl y known Chartist agaiust whom that charge is brought is Cuffay .
Now , taking the evidence against Cuffny for granted—which , in fact , considering the suspicious sourc e it coxes from , we are not " . inclined to do—it is rather too bad that one man ' s folly should be made the pretext for invoking ven geance against the entire Chartist party . The prosecuting counsel , Mr Clurkson , admiit * d a distinction between the veritable Chartists and the misguided men who , as he said , "took upon themselves the character of Chartists , " and ' affected to be Chartists' '—a distinction which the Press would have imitated , had its conductors any regard for truth and
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honour ; but when did a regard for either characterise'the unprincipled Press-gang ? According to the evidence of Joseph Thompson , sergean t of police , he picked up a paper at theOrange Tree public house , which paper certified that George Greenslade and William Byrne had been elected delegates to the National Chartist Convention for the " Thomas Paine Lodge . ' Without raising the question as to the genuineness of this " paper , " we solemnly declare that the men named , George Greenslade and William Byrne , were never members of any " National Chartist Convention . " All delegate meetings known by that or any similar name , have been reported in this journal ; and the names of these men never apappeared in connexion with any such "
Conventions . " ^ there ever has been any secret delegation assuming : the title of < l National Chartist Convention , " we know not where or when that : delegation met ; and if there was any such meeting , we declare , in the name of the Chartist party , that that meeting had no authority to take to itself any such title . Again , if there is any knot of men calling themselves the ""Thomas Paine Lodge , " they are unknown to us . The Chartist Organisation includes neither " lodges , " nor anything in the shape of ' lodges . " The Plan of Organisation adopted years ago , and revised in public by the late delegate meeting calling itself the " National Assembly , " repudiates secrecy in every name and form .
Some of the prisoners had " Chartist cards " on them . It is not stated whether the whole of these cards were the tokens of membership issued by the National Charter Association . It is not the fir 3 t time that persons have taken up cards of the Association for purposes of their own , quite foreign to the interests of the Association , For instance , a certain person ( whose thirst for notoriety broke out all over him at the time of the C ' ocbrane Revolution in
Trafalgar Square ) , was elected to the Chartist Convention , which met in London on the 3 rd of April last . He was challenged to show that he was a Chartist , which he very soon did by producing his card of the National Charter Association , which he had taken up—two or three days before the Convention assembled ! That person ' s name has figured two or three times of late in the Bankruptcy Court , and on each occasion the penny-a-liners have announced him as " Mr , the Chartist leader 1 " The man was wholly unknown to the Chartists previous to the meeting of thelate Convention ,
and since the dissolution of that assembly ha 9 never mixed with the Chartists , yet the vile Press-gang proclaim him a " Chartist leader . " Sir Robert Peel or Lord John Russell has as good claim to that title . The man , Thomas Powell , is utterly unknown to the Chartist party , and the veritable Chartists , the men who have borne the b . ? at and burden of a ten years' agitation , would never have reposed confidence in a man without public name and reputation . How he rewarded the confidence of his dupes , the following revelations , when under cross-examination , will show : —
" I entered the Association for the purpose of getting information , and communicating it to the Police Commissioners . I encouraged and stimulated these men in order to inform against them . " And again — " I gave the men some bullets ; I gave balls to Gumey ; I gave him half-a-pound of powder ; I also cast some bullets on purpose for him , and g ave them to him . "
It appears also , aceording to his own account , thai ; when at the secret meeting , the night previous to the arrests , the chairman put the question to each so-called ' delegate /' " Are you prepared ?"—that is , " are you prepared to come out with your men to-morrow night ? " Powell answered in the affirmative . "He ' ( the chairman ) " put the question to one before me , " says Powell , " and he said
' Yes . He then put the question to me , and I said ' YES !!! ''' No wonder he trembled violently whilst giving his evidence—no wonder he drank quantities of water—no wonder he had to be accommodated with a chair . Poor wretch ! But comment would be superfluous . "The approver ' s " own damning admissions do more than even the pen of a Cobbett could do to exalt this Powell to the goodly com panionship of those saints of Sidmouth ' s
era—OLIVER , CASTLES , RICHMOND , and EDWARDS ! " Spies , " says the Morning Chronicle , " are necessary evils . " But was it necessary , after Powell's dupes were in custody , to send him amongst them to glean information from their own confessions to a man whom they yet snpposed worthy of their confidence , and imagined came to them as a friend ? This whs done , at least in the case of one of the prisoners—Gurney . Such a mode of obtaining evidence against the accused is thoroughly disgraceful , and ought to have been repudiated by the government prosecutor .
This affair has b ^ en made the pretext for another furious outburst against Chartism , on the part of the Press-gang ; the Times , as usual , taking the lead . With a recklessness of depravity nowhere to be found out of Printing-House-square , the Times asserts that Chartism is " a compound of burglary and arson , with murder superadded . " Again" Modern Chartism has but three points—fireraising , bloodshed , and plunder . ' ' Is not this horrible ? With how much more justice might we charge upon Whigism and Toryism the robberies , burnings , and murders , accounts of
which fill so much space in the public journals . It is notorious that robberies , burnings , and murders , are nearly always to be traced to the destitution—physical or mental , usually both —of the perpetrators of those crimes . Whigs and Tories of the present or past generations make , or have made , the laws and institutions which have moulded society to its present shape , and neither the Whigs nor Tories hare done anything to emancipate the multitude from ignorance , vice , and misery . The Chartists have been and are powerless , and have had nothing to do with creating or perpetuating
the general causes of crime . Can the same be said of Whigs and Tories ? Those parties have refused to provide adequate means for the education or the people ; they have established a . political system which , in a great measure , owes its stability to the vices of the people —witness the beer shops and gin palaces—and by taking no steps to put an end to the desti * tution of the unemployed , although possessing ample power to do so , they have kept alive and yearly aggravated the strongest inducement to crime . It is not true , as the Times
asserts , that England is " cultivated to the top of its power . " It is not true that the present " regulations of society , " which constantly leave a massof humau beings to the temptation to commit crime , are " inevitable . " All this might and would be changed , if the " six points" of the Charter—not the " three points " of the Times—were in the ascendanti One word more . If Chartism is to be held responsible for Powell's plot , what ism should be saddled with the Derby riots , the burning of Nottingham Castle , and the sacking of Bristol ? An answer will oblige .
The Ch / onicle ' s description of the prisoners explains how it happened that they became associated in their mad enterprise : — The prisoners were all in the garb of mechanics au ^ labourers , and in the entire body there was not a single individual whoso appearance indicated an approach to even ordinary physical strength , or whose countenance displayed any of that ferocity of disposition which tho atrocious character of the crime imputed te them would soem naturally to betoken , It was not "ferocity of disposition , " but starvation , as evidenced by their utter want of " phjaical strength , '' which had induced them to lend an ear to the tempter , and combine for —their own ruin . There has been , a ] " Conspiracy / ' we cannot
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Among the numerous matters talked about , we note one significant omission , No one says a word about the state of the country , as indicated by the numerous arrests which are now making in every part of it . Is it fear of probing the real weakness of the present system too deeply , which imposes this prudent silence ? We had prepared comments on the Bank , Sugar , and Slave Trade questions , which have constituted portions of the week ' s debates , but press of matter compels the postponement of the remarks till our nest number .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 26, 1848, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1485/page/4/
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