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THE NORTHERN STAR , BATUBDAY, NOVEMBER 18,1848.
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_ ~- ¦- LOUtS BLANC'S EBFLY TO M. TH1ZRS.
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row Read ; , price 4 a ., io a neat wrapper , with a MemoS and Portrait of the Author . SOCIALISM—THE RIGHT TO LiBOUR . ^ By H . IOTJI 3 BLASC , author of 'The HUUry oJ lea Years , ' and' The Organisation of Labour . '' . PaWished at the Srisn or the Ask office , It , Bolt Court , Fieet Street , London .
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EMPLOYMENT UNDER GOVEBNMBNT . Now Beady , price Two Shillings , New Edition ( the 7 th ) of the GUIDE TO GOVERNMENT SITUATIONS . containing Salaries given in eaen Office , botb . a Home and Aljroafl—Patronage , ia uhom Vestea , how Disposed of—Account of eaea Office—Number of Clerkt —Duties-Qualifications—Hours of Attendance &c Sent ({ wst-free ) oa receipt of- twenty-four stamps by the mihlisher , G . Hitchel , Red Lion Court , Fleet Street Loaios .
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TO TAILORS By approbation of Her Majesty Queen Victoria , and H . H . H . Prince Albert . HOW BEADT , rpHE LONDON AND PARIS WINTER J . FASHIONS for 18 * 8 . 19 , by Messrs Benjamin BEAD « nd Co ., 13 , Eart 8 tre « t , Bloomibury square , London ; ana by Q . BtMext , HolynelUtreet , Strand ; a ? ery splendid PBIST , superbly crloured , accompanied with the most fashionable , novel , and extra-fittiag Biding Dress . Hunting and Frocfe-Coat Patterns ; the Albert Paletot . Dress and Homing Waistcoats , both single and double breasted . Also , the theory of Cutting Cloaks of every description full ; explained , Kith diagrams , and every thing respe-:-fingstjleand fashion . illustrated . The method of in . creasing and diminishing all the patterns , or any others jsarticslarly Explained . Price 10 a . kead and Co . beg to inform tuOEe who consider it » ot right to fsj tne foB price for the new ay stem of Cut
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DO YOU SUFF . BR TOOTHACHE?—If so , use Biakde's Bsajch ; for filling the decayed spots , rendering defective teeth sound and painleis . Price One -Shilling only , simitar to that sold at Tiro Shillings and Sixpence . Sold by chemist * everywhere . Testimonials . — It has gives me the use of oae side of my mouth , which loxurr I had not enjoyed 'or about two "year * . ' —E . J . Macdosalb , Belford . Nortbtmberlaud . 'It is the most ( fiective and painless rare for tooth--ache I hare ever found . I have no hesitation in recommending it to all sufferers . '—Captain Thomas YTsioht , 12 , NewiDgton-crescent ,-London . I have filled two teeth , and find I can use them as weUaseverldiditt myttte . Ihsve nothad the toothache since . * — Abrahah Coluks , North-brook-place . Bradford , Yorkshire . * * See numerous other testimonials in various news , posers , ever > one of -which is strictly authentic . If any difficulty in obtaining it occurs send One Shilling and a Stamp to J . Willis , 4 , Bdl ' e-bnildings , Salisbury . square , 1 / mdon , and you will ensure it by return of pest—Agents -mated .
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EMIGRATION . TO AUSTRALIA AND THE CAPE OP GOOD HOPE . —The splendid following ¦ bins will be despatched as under : — For AXGOA BAY , November 25 th . the PERSEVEBAKCB . 400 tons , P . THOMPSON , Master ; loading in the Xondon Docks . For the CAPE of GOOD HOPE , December 1 , the JULIANA , 569 tons , F . BOWLES . Master : loading in StKafterine Docks . S For POET PHIUP sad . SYDNEY , NoTember 25 th , the BEULAH , S 73 tons , J . H . M . STEU 30 S , Master ; loadinjj laths London Docks . ¦
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THRESHOLD LAND and COTTAGES , the ¦* - property of a private Gentleman , with immediate pcssessuHj , 2 J miles frots O'ConnorviUe . niay be boncht so as to coaler TOTES for the County of Buckingl . in , or wiU be let on leases for any number of years-ss 9 , if retmred . Bent for a two-roomed cottage and garden , « s . 6 d . per qnarttr ; wiUi one acre of l « nd , in addition 36 s . per quarter . Persons having a smallincome , or who cacmanufectoe article * for London employers / wiU do well to attend to this immediately . Twdre families of ve&rers , shoemakers , tenors , &c , &c , were located On tlas estate through ons single adrertUemait . Applicants Tdio could not thenX&
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OK SALE , A PAID-UP FOUR-ACRE SHARE in the Ja . Land Company , free from all demands . As the owner thinks of emigrating , and is in immediate -want of the money , he will sell the share for £ 4 8 s 4 d , baine a - acrifice of 16 s upon the whole . Perions desirous of purchasing , may apply to John -Gamett , Damside , Keignley , secretary to the branch . ; or to tha ovraer , Joans uiiDgwortn , Harden , near . Eaighley .
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TO BB SOLD , > pWO FOUR-ACRE PAID-UP SHARES in the - ¦¦ National Land Company . " « A I * P KDaid » « B - » 31 , ttinsterLovel B 6 ar " w * itney , Oxford .
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FOB SALE , A PAID-UP FOUR-ACRE SHARE in the -XI . National Lani Company , witfl all dues clear on the ( Jompanj ' sbooi . Price £ 4 it * . Direct , Greareooa Hartley , Grange , Acerington .
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TO BE SOLD , AT O ' CONNORVILLE , A FODR-ACRE ALLOTMENT—This is worthy the notice of any one desirous of locating on the Land , as . the present occupier has tpared no expense la the Im-¦ provsmenfc _ From unforeseen circumstances he will part ^ tha for £ « ., with the liabilities . v For further particulars apply by letter ( enelofiBga - atamp ) to Mr Wiluaiu , No . 12 , 0 « Connorvaie , BiekmaLi vorih , Herts .
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A . Laud Ballohxs Society inroixid by Tidd Pratt . —Emigbaiion to America . —A lecture wai delivered on Monday at the White Conduit House , by Mr W . Coates , in explanation of the Potters ' - Emigration Society ' s plan for providing employment for our surplus labour . The lecturer , a working maa from the potteries , commenced hy reading the pro-peclusof the society : ' the operative potters of Staffordshire offers fo their fellow-workmen of the United Kingdom twent y acre farms and an efficient means of protecting the value of their labour without resorting to ruinous and expensive strikes . Contributions to be payable sixpence per week for each share of £ 1 Is 6 d ., giving the right to a ballot for
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How Beady , » New Edition of 1 ttK . O'COMOR / S WORK 6 N SMALL FARMS . THE OBMTHT EDITION BYlft IIBII 8 H 1 * . Price is . M ., A new and elegant edition , with Steel Plate ef be Author , of PAIHE'S POUTIOAL WORKS . Just published , price 3 d ., THE ET 1 DENCE GIVEN BT JOHN 5 ILLBTT . In his Examination before the " * Committee on tbe National Land Company . ' This important bndj of evidence forms sixteen cloaelv pricted pages , and conclusively proves what may be done , to explaining what JohuSillctt hat done , with Two Acres .
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PORTRAIT ^ GUFFEY . The above portrait , taken by his fellow-sufferer , Wm . Dowling , is aew ready ., Price 63 . Orders re . ceived by MrDixon , 144 , High Holborn .
The Northern Star , Batubday, November 18,1848.
THE NORTHERN STAR , BATUBDAY , NOVEMBER 18 , 1848 .
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OUR ANNIVERSARY . This day we commence the twelfth year ' s volume of the " Nwtkern Star . " Since November , 1837 , we have witnessed changes not a few—some of which we have assisted , and some we have resisted . In both cases the results have satisfied us that we rightly interpreted our duty . We feel no regret for having supported the Ten Hours Bill ; we feel no remorse for having opposed " . Free Trade . " In reviewing the past we make no pretension to having exhibited superior political foresight . Both in supporting and opposing public measures ,
our course hag been straightforward , because guided by tlie common-sense maxim 1 " Honesty is the best policy . " Within the past eleven years we have seen Whigs become Tories , and Protectionists turn Free Traders . We have seen the longcontinued struggle for the Factory Bill crowned with victory , and Free Trade tried and pronounced a failure— " weighed in the balance and found wanting . " We have , seen Whig traitors persecuting Irish patriots , and English Liberals marshalled in battle array against their more " . liberal countrymen , the
Chartists . We have seen the electors of Nottingham thrust away Treasury hacks to elect the man of all others most hated by the men of Privilege , for his indomitable advocacy of the Rights of Labour . We have seen emptyheaded oligarchs and purse-proud millocrats humbled on the hustings , and defeated on the platform , by the uneducated but honesthearted sons of Industry . We have seen Chartism survive three great , persecutions , and prove its indestructibility by the number of its martyrs . We have seen the vast estates of
ducal aristocrats brought to the hammer , and poverty-stricken working men , by the power of their united pence , purchasing babfe their natural heritage . We have seen the beginning of a movement which , based upon the Land , cannot fail to eventuate in the social emancipation of the down-trodden masses . Abroad , we have seen thrones overturned and states shaken to their foundation ! by the might of unorganised and unarmed multitudes . We have seen the power of a king , reputed to be the wisest and strongest in . Europe , vanish like the mists of the morning , before the rising sun of Proletarian power . ' We have
seen" Some natUuc—like overloaded asses—Kick off their bnrdem > , meaning tbe hi gh claeiei . " Lastly , we have seen the " Northern Star " maintain the even tenor of its way , in spite of prosecution and persecution ; and year by year grow in power and popularity , in defiance of the assaults of undisguised enemies , and the treacherous plottiDgs of pretended friends . The year now rapidly drawing to a close , has been one of trial and peril , unmatched by the stormiest times in the previous history of this journal . The extraordinary events of February and March—the astonishing victories gained by the people of Paris , Berlin , Vienna , Milan , and a dozen minor citieson
, the Continent , naturally excited popular enthusiasm in this country . The agitation for the Charter could scarcely be said to exist twelve months ago , but hardly had a month tlapsed from the 24 th of February , when thousandsmightbeseenthrongingto Chartist gatherings all over the country . The fiery cross sped from north to south , and multitudes from the mine and the factory , the forge and the loom , responded to the appeal made in the name of the Charter . Unfortunately enthusiasm out-stripped organisation , and our friends , eager for the contest , pushed on to meet the foe while yet unprepared for the struggle—of course they were defeated . Misdirected enthusiasm ever leads to ruin .
The errors of the " Convention" were enormously multiplied and magnified by the succeeding Assembly ; " and hence , what Ulight have been a temporary repulse became a thorough defeat . Division and denunciation completed the sad work of self-destruction . Over ardent men , seeing the chances of victory rapidly disappearing , threw themselves into a hopeless struggle , and were of course sacrificed . Despairing men gave fatal attention to the suggestions of the tempter , and our disasters were crowned by the destruction of Powell ' s victims .
Between friends (?) and foea we have had our share ef abuse and danger . We have been abused for labouring to save the Movement from total shipwreck , and the Gagging Bill is sufficient evidence that our course has been a perilous one . Nevertheless , in the dnrkesthouroftbe stormy times we have just passed though , we never despaired of Chartism . Convinced that the principles of theCfaarter wer « l « 8 edoneternalJuBtice , we defied toe tornado of tyranny , and smiled at Jfeft > . N ,.
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the foam of faction . We have now our reward . - At thevery time of our anniversary we see Chartism rising once more to life and action , like a Phoenix springing from its ashes . Prison-gates and transport-hatches have scarcely closed upon the victims of 1848 , when , lo ! Chartism , like Lazarus , bursts the tomb , and comes forth once again to trouble the hearts of the doers of evil , and proclaim to the long-suffering millions the coming of that day—* " Wien aenie and worth , o ' er a' the earth ; Stall bear the tree » n a' that . "
The Future demands a few words . Every year but adds to the experience of ages , that the working class have nothing , in the shape of justice , to hope for at the bands ol any other class . Their emancipation both from political bondage and soc ial thrall , must be self-wrought . It is no longer a question ^ be argued , whetherpolitical or social reform should have precedence . Political reform is indispensable for the obtainment of social regeneration . It is true that Universal Suffrage , unaccompanied by political knowledge almost as universal , will not do much for any people , hut it is also true that knowledge without power is necessarily useless . To know how to fell a tree is useless , unless one has an axe to go to work with ; '
and the mere knowledge of building will not suffice to erect a house , in the absence of brick or stone , mortar , wood , plaster , &c A man may see ho w the poverty of the people might be turned to plenteousness , but what avails that knowledge if the man is unpossessed of power to put his regenerating theories into practice ? Consequently , in the future , as in the past history of this journal , we shall make the political emancipation of the people thegreat object of our labours . We are with all who are / or THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER ; we are against all who ave opposed to that CHAlt-TER . Now , as heretofore , our motto is ([ and shall be in the da ys to come , as it was . in the days that are gone ) ,
"THE CHARTER ! AND NO SURRENDER !" Though giving our first attention to the en . franchisement of the masses , social reform shall also have our ardent support . But we must explain . We do hot intend to engage ln a special crusade against drains and dunghills , churchyards and cesspools , we leave that work to the Cholera—the most sweeping and successful of Sanitary Reformers . Nor do we intend to render the " Star " particularly notorious by its advocacy of baths and wash-housesragged
, schools , or any other of the usual objects of professional philanthropists . Most assuredly we shall not be caught advocating Emigration , unless it be the emigration of the patrons and preachers of Emigration , whose company might be very well dispensed with . We have no objection to the removal of nuisances , the substitution of cleanliness for filth , and the diffusion of education . It is true wehata no liking for " ragged schools , " that is to say , we object to the rags not the schools ; we think , moreover , that the removal of the rags is the first tbiner
necessary . Our great difference with the self , styled " philanthropists" and " social reformers " is , that they nibble at the fag-ends of the system , but . leave the system itself untouched . Ignorance , filth , and rags are the necessary consequences of the system , and as long as the monster evil is unreformed these minor evik will increase and multiply , much faster than ragged schools and wash-houses . Such remedies but plas . ter the sore—not heal it . We demand a radical cure . We demand the consecration of what our French brethren term , "The Right to Labour . " We demand that the
working man shall be placed in a position to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow . Regarding the Land as the natural home of man , we demand that the exile shall be restored to his home . " Man lives , therefore he has a fight to live , " say our American brethren . We say so too , and we say with them , that to live , man j must be put in possession of his heaven-given heritage—his native soil . The population called " surplus , " brought back to the natural labour of c ultivating the earth , cities would gradually be emptied of the miserable thousands whose lives are now
spent in ignorance , misery , and disease . The labourer on the Laad , enjoying the full reward of his toil , would be able to educate his children , and dispense with , the services Of sanitary reformers . The worker in the artificial , labour-market , relieved from the devouring competition which at present drags down the labourer to the level of the pauper , would also be in a position to reject the degradation of " ragged schools , '' and other nostrums , of philanthropists , because he would be able by his own independent exertions to
provide for the education , health , and comfort of his family . With these views we shall continue to advocate the Land Plan , believing , in spite of present discouragements , thatthatPlan , if carried out , is calculated to make thousands independent of the tyranny of capitalists , and the destructive revulsions of commerce . Nationally applied , the Land Plan would , we' are persuaded , Jay the foundation of a new and happier state of society ; therefore , in advocating social reform , we mean that before all the Labourer shall be restored to the Land .
As regards the attitude we shall assume towards other parties , our course is plain . Men may preach what social nostrums they please without in f erference from us , except the interference of legitimate discussion . We except the emigration schemers , with them no terms should be kept . They are unmistakeable charlatans , and , as such , should be nnmasked , exposed , and driven from the public arena . As regards political reform , we shall judge of every project brought before the public on Us own merits . If men advocate the Charter , we shall not ask whether
they belong to the " Charter Association" or the " Chatter Union , " the object of their advocacy will suffice to command our co-opera-, tion . On the other hand , no weight of name or purse shall prevent us opposing schemers of every description . We shall oppose them , however , with the weapons of fair argument " and free discussion . When Anti-State Ohurch men , Financial Reform men , or Household Suffrage men , attempt by petition—affecting to speak the sentiments of the people—to obtain national sanction for their
schemes , it will belthe duty of the Chartists to propose the Charter as an amendment . If there is to , be a national agitation , that aVitation must be for justice to all—for the sovernment of all , by all , and for all . renchmen have won their Charter at the cost of torrents of blood . Universal Suffrage'has received the same baptism in Germany ' ; and at this moment , the Prussian people are eng ged in a death-straggle with their faithless Jiing to maintain their new-born liberties Fora moment the sanguinary hordes of Deal potism have succeeded in crushine the mlW
people of Vienna ; but the ; triumph of the Royal blood-hounds will be short-lived The coming year wiU witness over all the Conti . nentthe renewal of the struggle-aslruggle which will not ceasa until the people are finally victorious . Working men of Great Britain , will you alone tamely hug your chains ?—Heaven forbid 1 Without any Woody struggle you may win yeur Freedom if you will but make the effort . You have sufficient power under the present system to change it for a better , without having recourse to the musket and , the sabre . Let then the future redeem the errors of the wast
Let 1849 not pass away without your rulers being made to comprehend the " irrpit fact / ' that THE PEOPLE ARE THE SOURCE Of w ALl » POWER , XHE
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leader—their indefatigable and straightforward ieaa ' sr ; and , under the present system , there is no possible salvation for tlie landed proprietors , and- the GREAT GENTLEMEN OF ENGLAND but the substitution of PEEL for RUSSEL Ly I * may , be a source of annoyance to be bitten b > one s own dog , but it is a greater disaster to bft devoured by your neighbour ' s , * and the Protectionist party may rest assured that there is no po 8 & ! hope of escape except m timely surrender , a » the alternative now is to preserve their position .. according to the standard of PEEL iFREE TRaJ > E POLICY , or by obstinacy to Jose , not only position , but property—which gives position—i > 7 waiting upon the RUSSELL FREE TRADfi
PATRONAGE SYSTEM , The Labourer is now the man whose condition requires primary consideration . The Labourer is the man whose toil replenishes the Exchequer , or whose unwilling idleness threatens danger to the State , and requires more ample means than when in a state ef comfort to make him obedient to the laws . Is it not an anomaly that in the same proportion as destitution increases—does the necessity of increased taxation fplUw , in order to silence that destitution ?
France has proclaimed its bag of moonshine as its Constitution ; but the power that framed it is yet behind it—is greater than the Constitution , arid can remodel it at pleasure . The struggle for a President in that country ha 3 yet to come on , and the dangers described by Lamartine , as consequent on the election of that officer by the National Assembly , instead of being confined to the anticipation of patronage and favouritism within its narrow sphere , will now be measured by the most diffuse local , sectional , and national bribery , hypocrisy , deception , treachery , and fraud . Napoleon elected , and the bag of moonshine has
a most appropriate representative . SFapoleon rejected , and the bag of moonshine vanishes into air . Napoleon is as fit to hold the office of President as he is to be Prime Minister of England . Napoleon understands as much about the LABOUR QUESTION—which ia the VEXED QUESTION-aa an old woman that ^ never saw a field , or heard of a factory . Upon the other hand , should Cavaignac be elected , the seeds of eternal warfare between the adherents of the President and the Bonapartists are sown , and will be watered with blood , while Labour will reap none of the fruits .
Prussia ' s monarch is in his hiding-place , his power depending upon the cast of the die 5 but never can be so resuscitated as again to make him the valuable auxiliary of the British monarchy , or a trump card in the British Minister's hand . The palace of the Caesars is abandoned by its vacillating Emperor . All Italy is i n a state of combustion . Sardiniacommandsits monarch . Hungary , Sicily . ' Naples , Lombardy , and nearly all the states of Europe , are convulsed . Spain is tottering . Port ugal is known but upon the map . Ireland is in a state of incipient
revolution . England is all but bankrupt , and the rallying cry of parties ' determined to cling by an adopted fiction is— " Down with the Chartists ! " because they advocate the cause of Labour ; while the want of the proper adjustment of the Labour Question has led to every continental revolution ; but , still clinging to hope , our incapable rulers vainly imagine that Labour can be still kept in subjection at home —that the Chancellor of their ' Exchequer , like a magician , can apply his charmed w and to the chest , cry— Open sesame— " and that the treasure will jump forth .
Hence we show and hence we prove that the Labour Question must be settled , and that there is no possible mode of settlement except by locating theunwilling idlers upon the Land , and giving the vote to all to protect their inheritance , when all will speedily possess themselves of the means of defending a Constitution which will THEN be the boast of England and the ENVY AND ADMIRATION OF SURROUNDING NATIONS .
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THE LAST ARGUMENT OP KINGS . We direct the attention of our readers to the news from Germany in our Seventh Page . Order reigns in Vienna ! The bombardment of that devoted city has been followed up by the daily execution of scores of the patriots . The gallant Messenhauser , commander of the National Guard , has been ruthlessly slaughtered , and the eloquent , high-hearted Robert Blum , deputy from Leipsic to the Frankfort Parliament , has shared the same fate . This last horrible outrage will , however , seal the doom of the Reactionists . War—war to the knife—to the death—will be the cry of the German people .
The latestj | accounts from Berlin are of the most thrilling interest . The infernal King designs a repetition of the Austrian tragedy . But the Prussians have the fate of the people of Vienna before their eyes . If they yieldwholesale murder will be the order of the day , Behold the bitter fruits of that fatal mercy shown by the people . in . March last . The 'last argument of Kinds' cannot fail to he henceforth the last . argument of the pepole . It is the only argument kings can be made to comprehend . May they be speedily enlightened !
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CENTRAL VICTIM FUND . Receipts of Week , ending Oot , S 9 ib , Land Office , ai per Stjji , „ ttt 3 { g Mr Rider , at per Sta * 4 0 5 Brunswick Hall 0 5 ft Nottingham , per J , Street ... 0 8 9 M ** jM 1 a z South Shields , per Mr John Kyle ... 0 5 8 Prtwbow 0 3 € female Chartists . pwMraMudle . ... 0 7 O Welt End Shoemakers ... ... 0 3 6 ciiy Lsdiei' Shoemakers oat © lobennfl IriendB , per Mr Knowles ... 0 10 6 ¦ Dlltt > ... 0 9 « Cartwright ' s locality ... ... „ . OUT M' T . Wilks ... 0 3 O Thomas Paine locality 0 12 4 Ernest Jones looallty ... „ . ... 16 4 MrKential Old Marshall 0 0 5 Cigar Mak «» , per Mr Brick ... „ 0 5 « Dean Street 0 7 1 Semen Town „ 0 8 0 ° oxton a 0 5 a Crovmoua Auoho * loe&Uty , „ „ , 1 0 9 £ 15 18 8 3 . 3 , MmncAK , 266 j Strand , London , Howaturj Secretary , Nov . 16 tb 1848 . The committee xeqaeit that all persons holding ticket * for the late benefit at the Strand Theatre , w . ll settle tor the same forthwith , in order that the account ma ; be at once balanced .
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—^^—THE VICTIMS .
This is cold weather , and the prison is a cold place , but not colder than the fireless heanh of tbe prisoner ' s family . To say much upon their sufferings would be but to wound their feelings and to iusult your p ride . You only require to be reminded to be roused , and therefore , in God ' s name , in the name of justice and not of charity , I ask all to give a little , and to furnish the Victim Committee with , tbe means of giving some consolation to tbe cheerless families of the imprisoned victims , so that , though they may spend a cheerless , tbey shall not spend a cold and hungry Christmas , Feargus O'Connor .
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POLITICAL AND SOCIAL EEGENERATION . - THE LAND AND THE CHARTER . Prolixity and repetition eften tend to weary the reader , to weaken arguments , and injure a good cause ; while , upon the other hand , the want of explanation and connexion , however prolix the expounder may be , may leave his readers in the dark as to his object or the value of its realisation , and hence we find that the mystery of interested theorists has so entangled or left unexplained the Labour Question , as to leave the solution of that great question , a yet unravelled problem . '
The Rights of Labour have been heretofore , ani throughout all time . attempted to be based upon such a political basis as would give political power to the propounders of the most fascinating theory , until at length we find the whole continent of Europe convulsed—nay , revolutionised—in consequence ef the most enthusiastic theorists being unable to give a satisfactory solution of the Labour Questionwhich is the life question—and so long as the
working classes are satisfied that their condition should be measured by the comparative scale of comfort , we are enabled to ascribe the present anomalous distress of the working classes to the accumulation of individual capital , which constitutes a destructive despotism . To the possession and command of the monster evil—MACHINERY—we ascribe this fatal error ; and to its unlimited power is to be attributed the present unsettled state of Europe .
We have been censured for opposing Free Trade ; we have been censured for withdrawing our opposition at the critical period , when continued resistance might have enabled the leaders of the Irish people to persuade them , that , but for the resistance of the English Chartists to cheap bread , all those who perished would have been preserved , and all those who were in want would have been in affluence , or at least in comfort . We have been censured
for preferring the Free Trade of Peelj with the timely and prudent concessions which were sura to follow , had he remained in power , to the Free Trade of Russell , which but meant the possession of power ; we have been censured by the Anti-Corn-Law League and their MYRMIDONS , for our predictions as to what the inevitable result of Free Trade must be ; and we have been censured by the most enthusiastic Chartists for having attached a SOCIAL SYSTEM to our POLITICAL CREED .
The Chartists never having evinced much enthusiasm—in a pecuniary sense—towards the cause , rtviled the establishment of the Land Company , numbering seventy thousand , and nearly the entire of whom were the oldest , the best , the most enlightened and consistent advocates of Chartism . The enthusiastic who scoffed at the possession of a cottage and four acres , of Land , when all other channels of industry were closed against the individual pauper—denounced the Land Plan as the destroyer of Chartism , while those who did not join in the social move were only prepared , upon the depression of trade and bad times , to assist ^ in the Chartist movement , and then only with cheers .
However , if the Land Plan—which is the only-possible social plan for the emancipation of Labour—has had to stand the assaults of enthusiasm , the meeting of Land Delegates at the Birmingham Conference , attheShip'favern , has relieved the social question of the political odium sought to be cast upon it . Here we find that thirty-seven delegates chosen by the Land members , after nine hours' day work , devoting theif nights to the resuscitation of the Chartist cause . We find them outbidding each other , not in mock enthusiasm , but in
sanguine hope v we find them bitterly denouncing the errorg which led to the partial suppression of our cause , and anxiously recommending a system of organisation which must lead to its ' resurrection , followed , not by empty cheers , but by substantial subscriptions . And with that discrimination which will ever belong to , and be found in , a just representation of the Chartist mind , and which proves their fitness for the selection , of representatives , we find them appointing-if not the most efficientas efficient a secretary as England could supply -Mr SamuelKydd . . '
The great , the paramount duty of a Chartist Parliament would be to see and know how to equalise taxation , and to decide upon a just and equitable distribution . And here we find a P arliament elected by the poor to look to the equitable application of their funds , giving ttais moat anxious consideration to the revival of their political principles ; a fact which we fondly hope one day to see realised , and which now stands as the GREAT FACT , that Landism and Chartism are not only not incompatible , but are as Siamese twins , that cannot be separated without danger to both .
^ long as the working classes confined their agitation to political questions , in which they may be resisted by the force ef law , or which—when threatening danger to capital or monopoly—might be taken out of their hands , and reduced to the standard of middle class necessity—so long was their agitation sneered at ; but the moment the social benefit was tacked to the political change , then did the factions and their organs wage " war to the knife" against the realisation of the system which alone could make Labour independent of Capital , and political power , the means of social happiness .
America is already beginning to declaim against the system of Free Trade , which staticians show has paralysed Labour , and caused poverty and destitution to the working man ; while , if the land of America was free , as it ought to be , to all those who were displaced by our present artificial system , universal Free 1 raue , instead of being a" curse , as it now is , would then be a blessing , as machinery wohW then be man s holiday and man ' s friend , instead of man ' s curse and man ' s oppressor . It is a melancholy fact , day after day to read of shipwr ecked emigrants , while tlie land of
their birth is calling for their labour . It is blasphemy upon the part of our rulers and paid parsons , to hear them preaching emigration with the odds of shipwreck fearfully against the emigrant , while they tell their congregations that ir . an wa 9 created of the earth after the image of his Maker , and told to live upon the land in the sweat of his own brow , and that the birds of the air , the beasts of the field , and the fishes in the sea , were given to him as his patrimony . Here is England , in the nineteenth century , with a debt larger than the rest of the world owes , and contracted for tbe preservation of her glorious Constitution , the envv and admiration of surrounding nations ,
with her astounding inventions and improvements in the arts and sciences—with her steam navigation—her railways—her incomparable machinery—her penny postage—her electric telegraph—her printing press—and , above all , the new mind created by those changes—here is England , in this age of progression , hoping to govern upon the old precedents of dead men , whose opinions , while living , were disregarded—and by obsolete laws , made , not for tbe mere government , but for the subjugation of mind , in the more barbarous ages , when the feudal lord was the maker , the administrator , and the executor of the law .
Here is England still hoping to govern some by the mystery of priestcraft and others by the terror of the sword , while the more civilised countries of Europe , not possessed of those astounding advantages , are proclaiming changes which our rulers vainly hope to resist by the suppression of public opinion . The last session of Parliament was wholly governed by apprehension and fear , and the Ministry was only sustained by those means . It ended its sittings by indulging ^ Chancellor of the Exchequer with an additional two millions to preserve peace abroad and at home but the next session will be of a very different character—th © Protectionist * have lost their
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THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND MR O'CONNOR . We have received thirty pages and a half of closely-written matter on foolscap , signed ' " Robert Cochrane , delegate from Paisley , James Adams , and Andrew . Harley , delegates from Glasgow to the Rational Assembly / ' purporting to be the exposition of their opinions of Mr O'Connor's conduct in connexion with that body , while , in reality , it contains one huge mass of vulgar names and low denunciation , spreading over a period of time , embracing frem 1839 , when the first Convention sat ,
down to the present ' time ; and even the supporters of those delegates cannot for a moment presume that five or six mortal columns of the " Star" are to be devoted to a heterogeneous mass of personal abuse and selflaudation . Every single matter mentioned in this long rigmarole , in connexion' with the National Assembly ,, was brought forward by Mr Shirron at Aberdeen , replied to by Mr O'Connor , and published in the "North British Exptess . " It has been our custom to allow great privilege to writers , even when the proprietor of the paper was the subject of the most virulent abuse , but we certainly cannoi
throng open our columns to the extent , required by the trio of Gentlemen above named . There was ene important item omitted' in the address , namely , that when , denunciation of Feargus O'Connor could no longer be made the stock-in-trade of Scotch delegates , Mr James Adams was appointed spokesman of a deputation who called upon Mr O'Connor at this office to . furnish the needy with the means of returning to , their disgusted constituents . The only parallel wt can furnish for the Scotch abuse , is that of the Solicitor , who , finding that his client had a . bad caae , directe < counsel "to abuse the plaintiff ' s Solicitor , * ' .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 18, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1497/page/4/
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