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DE i TH A ND BURI A L O F JAMES BOYD OF GREFNOCK.
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THE NORTHERN STAR , SA.TCIRDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1348.
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TO BE DISPOSED OF , A FOUR-ACRE FARM at SNlG'S END , well cropped , comistiog of barley , potatoes , turnips , cabbage , Sc ; also , thirteen large fruit tr , jes , all bearing fruit . It is called by Mr O'Connor , tbe Plum of the Estate . Apply to James Cabzw , No . 19 , Snig ' s End , near Gloucester .
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PORTRAIT OFJKHiN MITCHEL . Specimens of a splendid portrait of the first vie tira of the Whig Treason Act , are now in possession of our agents . The portrait will be shortly ready for presentation . That of Smith O'Brien , and those who are sharing his fate , are also in course of preparation . None but subscribers will be entitled to those portraits .
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MR O'CONNOR ' S TOUR . On Monday , the 23 rd of October , Mr O'Connor will be at Aberdeen ; on Tuesday , at Dundee ; Wednesday , Edinburgh ; Thursday , Glasgow ; Friday , Carlisle ; Saturday , Newcastle ; and after the Conference has concluded its labours , he will make a tour of the North of England and the Midland Counties .
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TO THE IDITOB OF IBB HOBTHBBH BtA » . Sir , —It is with feelings of no ordinary description that I have to anaouuoe the death of one of the oldest and most staunch friends of the neorle . en Wednesday , the 13 h . The following are the particalirs . James Bojd , a foreman carpenter , in Steel and Co . 'a ship-building yard , while stepping from a vessel lying in the dry dock , under repair , missed hw footing and fell to the bottom . When taken up he was quite insensible , and wai conveyed to hi 9 owa house , where medical assistance was promptly iu attendance , bat without effect ; he lingered a few short hours and expired .
_ For upwards of twenty yesrs he had been embarked lathecauij of suffering humanity . He was con neeted with the Reform Bill agitation , and since the beginning of the Chartist movement he had been a sincere and devoted adherent . On Sunday the 17 th he was borne tette grave , on the shoulders of the apprentices employed in the same yard , followed bj nearly 800 pewonB , of all classes , a sight so striking in itself , and oae that never before had been witeessedin Greenock , that it called together a vast number of spectators , each and all speaking of the tt ? ? pt £ , / emainB "ere interred in Rn ^ S ^ A ^ w '* few wceafrom the graveof Burns a Highland Mary . ' James Boyd { aged fifty , two years , ) wasi faithful to the principles of trath and liberty until death ; a loving father and a ton . derhusband ; hehaslefta wido > , and six of m offspring , to lament his death . J . Peacock .
LINES OS THE DEATH OF JAMES BOYD , Who died 13 th September , 1818 . Be sweet and lolemn , thoo , my platntlye lyre For algni will mlnglo with thy every tonAA Nature ' s Noble and a Patriot lire I » gone !—Tei I « orrow echoes , Botb ii gone ! Friend after friend , as fl , wer « that fade away Bineath the wlnitr ' g chlllj blighting breath Live but to bloooi , and ihed a genial ray ' Of truth reond life—then slnmber into death . And such was Boid ! his name brings forth a il > b His deeds are taen ^ ht of with a grateful tear ' That eUmps the iouI ' i soft hngmge on the eye And epcsks of him oar bosomg held so dear , ' lie Jored menklnd of every ca % te and dime Nor bore he hate—not even to his foe *; HU aim was Love and Liberty divioe , te cherish truth and banish haman woei .
For twenty years he straggled to redeem The human race froa slavery and woe , Nor ceased to struggle tluthelart ud icene Of lffe had vanished la death ' s final blow . Ha keenly felt for slaves—himself a slave Wao toiled through hardships o ' er life ' s narrow span , With heart uechanged he p jised into the grave , A worthy Patriot and an Honest Man ! Gresnock , Sep . 18 : h . Johm Peacock .
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Mihacuwus EtCiPB . —A man named James Col * Una , a miner at St Blacsy , whilst picking nuts at a distance from St Blazay . on an old burrow raine , known by the name of St Blarsy Comoli , overreached a bush hanging over an old shaft , seven fathoms deep , and fell to the bottom . Having providentially escaped serious injurj , he resolved to exercise every effort to extricate himself ; and his only means of escape was by climbing up the shaft . Heat once set himself to the task , which he happily accomplished in about ten houn , from eight , a m ,, till eix , p h Ab the place was st a distance from the publicroad , and he wag , of course , quite beyond bearing , he most otherwise have Inevitably been e ' arved to death .
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IRELAND . " Alas ! poor coantry . Almost afraid to know itself , " "Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not , Who would be free , hircmelf must strike the blow !'' The deplorable state of that British province called Ireland , is foreshadowed in our first quotation ; her hope of nationality , as depicted by her great agitator , in oisr second . To think of Ireland just now , that is favourably or hopefully , is sedition ; to talk of Ireland ' s wrongs is conspiracy ; to write the history of Irish sufferings is felony ; to contend for Ireland ' s
regeneration is treason . The mind becomes familiarised with acts of barbarity and cruelty , just as the appetite becomes palled with delicacies ; and to such an extent have our barbarous rulers 1 carried those barbarous exhibitions , that apprehensions for the hi ghest crimes are matters of every day occurrence , and therefore diminished in interest , until the blood-sucking Press of this ' country is , upon the eve of the last act of the tragedy , endeavouring to prepare the mind for the execution of those who are to be tried for the Irish rebellion . And , strange as it may appear , and although the excitement of
the times , or the well known prejudices existing in the public mind , furnishes sufficient grounds for the postponement of trial ; and although the boasted English Constitution ( now no more ) used to declare the fact , that every man should be tried by a jury of his peers , and that every man put upon his defence should be held innocent until he was pronounced guilty , and that every man shall have a fair trial , yet , notwithstanding these boasted privileges , i ' t is an undeniable fact that no political offender is tried by a jury of his peers , nor is held to be innocent until pronounced guilty , nor has a fair trial . Nay more , it is an indisputable
fact , that he is not tried upon the oral evidence Bubmitted to the jury , but that he is convicted upon the prejudice , created by the Press . It is impossible to contend against those feelings of doubt , apprehension , and fear which may naturally exist in the minds of a jury ; and when the mind-creating press confirms those feelings of alarm , and proclaims that the only means for their suppression is the destruction of the captured victims , those victims are > ot tried upon evidence , but convicted by cherished prejudice , and upon the hope that
their fate may be a lesson to others . But however our rulers may cherish the hope of ruling Ireland by the law of the sword , the perjury of suborned informers , the venality of class-made judges , the fears © f an aristocratic grand jury , the prejudice of a packed jury , and the salutary example of the gallows and the gibbet , yet we tell them that although the ranks of famine may be thinned , that man pays more obedience to the laws of Nature , than to the edicts of Man , and as long as SELF-PltESERVATION continues to be the first law of
Nature , and until our oligarchy can repeal or amend God's laws , or revoke Nature ' s constitution , the hunger of man will be a more dreadful enemy than the strongest vengeance of the disaffected . There is no reasoning mind that must not have come to the conclusion that one of two results must have eventuated in the agitation of Daniel O'Connell , and his coadjutors . They had an ignorant but acute mind to deal with —they were oracles , whose words were injunctions , whose injunctions were commandments . One result was , prosperity through fidelity ; the other was , prosperity through resistance . And
call it be denied , that the Irish people have borne oppression tamely and submissively , rather than violate a law in the teeth of that commandment which declared , " that he who violates the law is an enemy to his country , and strengthens the hands of the enemy ? ' ' And , as far as the people are concerned , can it be denied that all honour—all praise—has been awarded to their fidelity , while their only reward has been the aggrandisement and promotion of their false and truculent leaders ? until at length they are driven to the sad alternative of realising by resistance what was denied to fidelity , passive obedience , nonresistance , and long-suffering .
Perhaps , when Ireland ' s history , since the period of Emancipation down to the desolation of that land by famine , is written , it will present one of the strangest anomalies that the records of the world can furnish . All her woes are declared to be contained in foreign representation , while the panacea for all her sufferings consisted in self-government . And yet will it be believed , that while the machinery by which local power was < So ibe achieved
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has undergone the most minute revision , in the hope of feeding the locally-great , and crimping them in the service of prostitution ; that during thirty-three years of hot , continuous , and ardent agitation , not one single step has been taken in the road to political or social regeneration , or even amendment ? And hence we find , that in France , in Prussia , in Austria , and other countries , where agitation constituted no portion of popular right ; as if by magic , in those several countries the very principles denounced by Daniel O'Connell and his staff of local place-hunting beggars , have been adopted as the basis of political power ,
while the solution of the vexed Labour Question—tortured and twisted as it has been in all countries—is admitted to be the only solid basis of the social question . And with these two great facts staring us in the face , will any man say that the dying followers of the dead —ay , of the pampered living , too—are to be considered criminal for following that teaching , and obeying those doctrines which were promulgated for the benefit of a class , and turned to profit by a Whig Government , who not only tolerated , but encouraged the wildest sedition , and the most fantastic agitation , so long as they relied upon those means to secure
their own elevation . A member of that Government , and now the President of the Board of Control ( Sir J . C . Hobhouse ) , declared in his place in Parliament , in 1822 , "That it would be impossible to tranquillize Ireland , though there was a rope round every peasant ' s neck , or a soldier , with a fixed bayonet , at every peasant ' s back . " And yet , as if these words were intended to foreshadow the future , we find that the boast of the Press now is , that fat policemen and well-fed soldiers cheered joyously when summoned to the slaughter , and that the only drawback is , le > t they may not MEET THE FELLOWS—and , although we are assured that the greatest contempt is entertained for Smith O'Hrien and his
associates , we , nevertheless , discover that they are escorted by policemen with " capped and cocked pistols , ' and soldiers with " fixed bayonets . " Those very soldiers and police , whose only fear we are assured is lest the fellows would not stand , and who , upon the pretext of a frown , a smile , or a gesture , would establish the treason of their prisoner , and cheerfully take his life in the hope of honour , distinction , and reward .
We do not state it exulting !}' , but we repeat it as a caution to Ireland ' s oppressors , that the woe and desolation , which they are now causing to the Irish poor , will one day recoil upon their own heads ; and , strong as may be their reliance upon the power of the sword , we would warn them that , in these days of quick transit , and when there is a mind upon every passing breeze , which cannot be cribbed , cab Jiined , or confined , stabbed , sabred , or shot , we would warn them , under those circumstances , to put their own house in order while there is yet time for repentance ; lo abandon their
vicious ways ; to retrace their dangerous steps ; and not , as of yore , to hug themselves in the fond conceit" that England is the world , and . her Constitution the envy and admiration of surrounding nations . " No nation enn beast of strength or selfreliance that has lost the affection and confidence of its people . No island , falsely depending upon foreign trade , can long hope to preserve its superiority , when her chief customer shall have conceived , not her humiliation , but
her downfall—and let England , and England ' s manufacturers , draw a salutary lesson from the consignment of tea imported from England into the . Boston river , and gaining experience from the past , and recollecting that what has been may be—let England ^ take heed , lest American cotton , in 1848 , may effect what English tea , exported to America , effected in 177 G ; and then the disciples of physical-force Whiggery will learn that there is more danger in the idle labourer than there is security in the armed soldier .
We learn now that the qualification for the next American President is hostility to England and ^ sympathy for Ireland , and that General Cass , a candidate upon that principle , is the favourite in the field , while Clay , the representative of Commerce , stands hindmost in the list of favourites . And in the present state of Europe—the present state of our finances—and the present state of the Labour mind of this empire , can those who now base their ascendancy upon brute force contemplate , or dare they hazard a guess , as to the effect that an ^ American war would have upon
Commercial England ? Next week we shall report the first act of the Irish tragedy , about to be performed on the Ti pperary stage , and if there can be a justification offered for the most vio lent outrages we would find that justification in the admission of the Press , that the present Irish movement is an agrarian warfare , in which the starving and the destitute are the actors , while the landlords , taking advantage of the reign of terror to secure the submission of their serfs , are desolating the fields , laying waste the haggard , gutting the hovels , " dispersing the MERE IRISH , and thus constituting the recruiting service of sedition .
The Irish believe in divine maxims ; they believe " that he who dies by the sword is better than he who perishes from hunger . " It is not long since they witnessed the sad catastrophe of Ireland ' s decimation . It hath not passed from the mind that the putrid bodies of the unburied famished , tainted and contaminated the air ; the sad recollection still remains , that mothers have eat their lifeless babes—that pigs and dogs have lived on human flesh—that the land has been one seabound dungeon , a vast howling desert , filled with the wailings and despair of the dying Irish ; while the administrates of English bounty , English charity , and the English funds , appropriated to their own kindl y use those alms
which were kindly given for the sustainment of Irish life , and thus we prove that Ireland suffers more from domestic treachery and misrule than even from English oppression ; and thus we prove that the plunderers of the lifepreserving fund furnished by England , rather than the Irish people , are the fomentors of Irish rebellion and the murderers of the Irish people . We remember a season of famine , and we remember to have heard a Rev , Mr Smith , Protestant parson , and one of the distributors of English charity , collected from the Opera House and other places of amusement , under the patronage of George the Fourth ; we remember to have heard . the rev . parson boast that he had fed his hounds upon the oatmeal supplied for the support of the poor . And in conclusion
, we would ask what punishment beyond exposure has been inflicted upon those pious reprobates ? What justice beyond that vengeance to which distress goads the an-n-y mind , have the Irish complainants received against their oppressive landlords ? and it is no answer to us that the land is theirs , that thev themselves have been pauperised by poorrates , while their rents are withheld for {;; such an argument , we would answer , that we have never heard of a landlord perishing from hunger , while , in the nndstof iHty for thern , ami of national d ! tressbut few
, have abated aught of their of the God of Nature , in preference to the laws r of man , and disregarding the taunts of the disciples of Malthas , we Lert , that when calamit y comes upon the land , the sufferings should be measured by a graduated scale , and that from the monarch upon the throne , to the humblest being—who is as much the object of God ' s love and protect £ ni a should equally bear that calamity . « Huneer will break through stone wall , ; " and Si » ing that the God of England is alsoX G d or Germany , and presuming that Prince Albert is imbuod with the same Cll 3 E ?
St ? humbler class , we n ^ ld " a . ktluit Koyal Prince , now partaking of the ports of the field , and the frolic of the dance h ule the subjects of hi . fcved consort ^ o * her Pi . rlu . ment would nsl « m ids action if
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his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales , the Princess Royal , and the rest of the Royal family , were crying for food , and were ready and willing to work , but could not procure em . ployment , and threatened with transportation if he " openly and advisedly " proclaimed his suffering , or banished as a thief if he invaded the rights of property to preserve the life of his family . ? " Oh ! " says the ghost of Malthus , '' the poor-house ! " Then , we would ask the Royal Prince , in how far the hope of repose in that sanctuary , separated % n his Royal Consort and his Royal babes , would still his German blood , or subdue his German pride ?
The / act of the matter is , that the solution of the Labour Question is contained in the aphorism of the Yorkshire shoemaker , who said , " ¦ that all the stuff ' ee the world wor made for all the folk ' ee the world , and he hadn't a , share of it ! " And however sophistry may argue—however power may command—and however executions may follow in the wake of the perverted law , it will require more than sophistry , power , and the law , to reconcile the judgment of man to the justice which consigns a brave , a generous , a grateful , and laborious people to degradation , starvation , and the gallows , in a fertile land , calling for their Labour , and willing to render an abundance in
return . " Oh ! but , ' says the Irish reviler , " they are not laborious—they are idle ; " and in return , we ask , then wh y recruit them to populate your colonies ? How comes it that in other countries they struggle for the lion ' s share of toil ?—how comes it that they make your best soldiers , your best sailors , and your best policemen t The answer is apt and easy . Because abroad the field of industry is open , and there is remuneration for toil ; but at home there is a tax upon industry , because the moment the property of the lord is enhanced in value by the sweat of the serf , the
rent is raised by the standard of his industry , or he is ousted from his mint by one who bids over his head atgthe auction mart . But fear not , green land of Erin , your cause is not confined to the sea-bound dungeon , it is now agi tating the world , and your poverty , brought about by domestic treachery , sanctioned by British misrule , will speedily cease and your woes are fast recoiling upon the heads of your oppressors . Whatever may be the decision of the Tipperary juries , we will chronicle every word of evidences adduced against the accused ; and should the verdict be " guilty , " it may be reversed by that tribunal too lara ; e to be packed and too virtuous to be polluted .
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THE RIGHT TO LABOUR n Our neighbours across the English Channel have , after along and fruitless talk about the " Right to Labour , " and the " Right to Existence , " at length decided that neither of these " rights "—if they exist at all in nature—are to have any existence within the New Republic (!) of tlie lourgeoisie . They have , however , invented a new " right" which they call the " R'g ht to Succour / ' though what is meant by that very novel phrase we confess we are at present utterly unable to comprehend . We suspect , however , it means neither more nor less than a juggle , by which the middle classes mean—if they can—to humbug the people , and clutch for themselves all the substantial benefits to be derived from the late
revolution . It needs no ghost to come from the grave to tell us what the result of such conduct must inevitably bp . History is full of w arnings and examples . The principles on which the middle classes of France are now acting , have always , and , while they are applied to practice , ever must produce divisions , strife , misery , recklessness , and ultimately bloodshed . "ThsMob At last fall s-tk of imit . itic b' Job , " and past revolutions so misapplied only furnish the materials for new ones .
We observe that the middle class organs of this country are in extacies with the proceedings of their order in France . But it is seriously worth their while to give this question a little more thought than they have heretofore done , and ask themselves whither their own system is likely to carry them ? We are very much mistaken if the Political Economists , in whom thev have hitherto
implicitly confided , are not likel y soon to realise the saying , " Vv hen the blind lead the blind both fall into the ditch . " Despite of the desperate and cruel methods resorted to for the purpose of repressing Pauperism , it has overcome all theiv opposition to Us progress ; and , at this moment , the rates are but little below what they were under the old law , with every prospect of their increasing .
^ Nothing can be more clear than that the New Poor Law Act has been a failure , if it is tried by the expectations held out by its advocates . It was intended ta abolish out-door relief entirely , and by the force of a purely coercive and primitive system , make the whole of the labourers of England " independent ""living on their own resources . " It was assumed that there was work enough for everybody who liked to work , and that by refusing any assistance except within the Union Workhouses , under the harsh conditions attached to them , none but idle , lazy vagabonds would accept it . On this supposition they prohibited Union Workhouses from having more than thirty acres of land attached
to them , and also all out-door work to be given to the able-bodied poor . Many parishes that had reclaimed farms of considerable extent , either from forest or waste land , by means of such labour , and thereby lessened the pressure of the rates , were obliged , on the passing of the New Act , to give up these farms . The whole of the policy of the late Commission was studiousl y directed to discourage , not only outdoor relief , hut out door productive labour ; and we recollect a case in which an otherwise most efficient Master of a Union was discharged , against the will of . ' the Guardians , because he was a keen spade cultivator , and made a productive garden of a small field , which otherwise would have grown nothing but coarse grass and rushes .
It requires little argument on our part to show the monstrous ignorance of such proceedings as these- Whatever tends to prevent the production of food , or of raw material on which to employ Labour , is , per se , a positive injury to the entire community . More especially is such conduct to be deprecated and censured , when it takes place in the midst of failing foreign markets , and the idiminution of lormer
means of subsistence . It is now apparent to every man who has given the subject t he ^ lightest cons . deration . or who knows any-» ng of the facts , that our foreign trade , on which so much dependence was placed , is declining never to rise again . It hasreached its highest point , and henceforth the greater number of competitors-the increasing facilities and an vantages of these competitors-and ie smaller
« number of neutral or open markets they will have to supply-must render our foreign trade , as a means of supporting any great number of the population , utterly useless and inadequate . It is quite clear that the time has come III . n . , l ) ounden < Kvof English statesmen a , egwUore to find some new outlet for ntnenM } ' ° f ** ^ we know of none at present so > real . l y accessible , so immedute ln It 8 advantages , and so unobjectionable n every point of view , as the increased and improved cultivation of our o : vn soil ? Emigration schemes—whether under the J irect sanction of Government , Ind ^ frried on ' •) its recognised and authorised a . « n > .. ts . « r
instigate d bj avaricious jobbing land-speculatow-. appear to us altogether unsuitable as a remed y , either for the evils which press upon us at present , or those which threaten us in fie future . g a , !! f ? thing s , hort of slieer inanity for a great nation to ^ .. exporting its labour-the
De I Th A Nd Buri A L O F James Boyd Of Grefnock.
DE i TH A ND BURI A L O F JAMES BOYD OF GREFNOCK .
The Northern Star , Sa.Tcirday, September 23, 1348.
THE NORTHERN STAR , SA . TCIRDAY , SEPTEMBER 23 , 1348 .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 23, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1489/page/4/
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