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THE 10STIERI STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1851,
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land jlsd cottages for teetotallers only : A VACANCY of a TWO-ROOMED ^ OOTJAfiE aud Two - Acres of s » i » eriai- land , on the KlDdetl Hill Estate , has just occurred , and IMMEDIATE Ms-SKsiOKOsayteliad at £ 8 pa « aii » u , n : an d there is no money wfcaterer to 6 e paid exec-jit £ a for the usual half years renias-advanee , as a security required from all newtenants . Afterwards , of course , the rent will be paid only when due . For further information , ortottav-the Estate , appk-to Mr . Julian EObert , Bibden Hs « . Clialfont-street , St . Giles ' s , Backs , tmomiles from 0 'G ; su . or . ™ He . sufr « m Cxbridge , and ttveaty one from London
Another Estate , derated also b > tfce > & < ne landowner to ttu blessed practice of Total Abstinent , is called riummer ' sFarm , near the Orange Trie , at ColneyKatch , near Whetstone , Middlesex . Tbe chief manager there ( Mr . Hallettj has one Cottage and a . feiract > s of §? iine Lsnd left Rente , of course , are much higher , because yon can go thcreand batk in a few minutes from King's-cross , Lon . don , for nixepence ! by the Great Northern and York Uailwav , which runs through the Estate at < Mne > f Hatch SU tion . But it may be worth while foi-any London Teetotaller , anxious for a rural life , to pay it a visit . ' Every letter requiring an answer from He . fflbbert , or Mr . HaBetti must contain a stamp for the postage .
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StEAM Vessels . —On -Tuesday a , return to parliament was printed , showing that on the lst . of January l « o there were registered 2 * 9 steam teasels in the United Kingdom , about one half of which are built of iron . - . The Earn newspaper , U *» ««« is ucw under the Section of M . de ifiwajie .
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J . Skebbitt , Nottingham , begs to acknowledge the receipt of the lollovring sums towards the expenses of the Delegate to the Convention , viz .: —From the Falcon , New Eadford IBs-Collected by J . Manon Is llJd-John Jacques Is—Cftrrington 2 s-Sutton-in-Ashneia Gs-Bul . well as—New Radford Locality -5 s . Ik our report of tUe Convention proceedings , the following important resolution was accidentally omitted : — llr . Prinjle moved , and Mr . Hurst Feionucil : That , in order to carry out the measures adopted by this
Contention , the delegates urge on their constituencythe necessity of nuking t national subscription of threepence , the iam » to be collected during ; the three weeks , commenoing April 20 th , » nd wding May 11 th , 1851 . ' Carried unanimously . In the Plan of Organisation , under th « head ef Agents , the words' not less than' should precede the words * sewn . ' Under the head Principles , the words ' payment of members' was substituted for ' paid representative ! . Uuties of Exccutixe , the word ' social' should follow the word ' political , ' instead of preceding the word' lectures . ' < J . H ., Leiccster .-Mr . Kydd ' saddressis , ' opposite Inde . pendent Chapel , Novwood , Surrey . '
The 10stieri Star, Saturday, April 19, 1851,
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ST . ALBANS AND PURITY OF ELECTION . Hypocrisy and cantyare invariable elements of a Select Committee of the House of Commons to investigate charges of . bribery and corruption at elections . There is not a member on either side who is not cognizant of the fact , that bribery and corruption are part and parcel of an electioneering contest . The men ¦ w ho are appointed judges seldom come into
court with clean hands . They are expected to discover and condemn in others practices of which they have been guilty themselves , and they do so—when the offender happens to belong to a different party io the majority of the committee ^ The appointment of such a tribunal is a piece of hypocrisy to begin with—the verdict delivered , as it is in all cases by a partizan tribunal , is the result of the political or party prejudices of the majority—in neither case is purity of election the ostensible object promoted or secured .
The termination of the St . Alban'smock inquiry is a stronger coademnation of our electoral system , than any ever pronounced by its most determined opppnent , Thatboroilgll has long been known to be one of the most venal aud corrupt in the Kingdom . The votes possessed by itssmallconstituency constitutes the staple trade of the town , and are as openly bought and sold as if the barter were legal . The last election was like many that had preceded it—a mere matter of bargain and sale ; and Mr . Jacob Bull proving to bo the highest bidder , of course secured the seat .
But the bribery aud the corruption was so open , so notorious , extensive , and unblushing , that he was , as a matter of course , petitioned against . In due time attorneys , barristers , agents , and witnesses—all the tribe who thrive by such proceedings we put in motion—the committee was appointed , proceeded to hear counsel , and then evidence ; but evidence was not" forthcoming ! The .-witncEseahad been seen to leave St . Albans for London ; but on their way thither they were spirited away by some means or other , ' not difficult to guess at , but very difficult to Drove
lne committee was non-plussed . . Rewards were ofiered for the missing witnesses , and the detective police set iu motion , but all in vain . Day after day was wasted in futile sittings and vexatious disputes with the lawyers , until at last the committee were goaded into a rage , and in the heat of excitement were guilty of some informalities which the lawyers contended destroyed their jurisdiction , and put an end to the case At last , in the midst of the chaos , they managed to securethe most active agent in the abduction of the witnesses , whom they forthwith committed to the custody of the Sergeant-at-Anris , and then proceeded to report that the
Bitting member had been dulv elected W «« Bitting member had been dul y elected by undue , improper , and corrupt means , and recommending that a commission should be appointed to examine into the political health of St Albans ! The consistency of the report will not fail to strike the reader , but such , we assure him , is essentially , if not literall y the verdict of these " Daniels come to judgment . ' The agent who caused the witnesses to abscond hag been cent to Newgate , whare
he will remain , we presume , until the session closes . The JSpeajjjjb has issued his warrants for the apprehension of four ot the missing witnesses , and tfee poliee are on their trail . The instruments and i ^ iptents of th e bribery are imprisoned or hunted through the country , while the iadiyidual vto nV ^ t be presumed to
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have sot in motion all this corrupt machinery not only escapes punishment , but absolutely retains the prize won by means such as those condemned by the committee in its selfcontradictory and inconsistent report ! No doubt the commission will be issued as recommended by the committee , and it is quite probable that on their report the borough will be disfranchised . But what then ? . . > .. ___ 11 . 1 . . . 1 *
Will that m any perceptible degree improve the character or the efficiency of parliament ? Not a whit . Hven if the proposal of some of the so-called liberal journals were adopted , and the two members taken from St . Albans given to the immense unrepresented population inhabiting Chelsea , Hammersmith , Fulham , and other western portions of the metropolis , it would be a reform so paltry as to be beneath contempt . But if St . A \ bans was disfranchised , it by no means follows that a new metropolitan borough would be created . Sudbury has been struck out of the list for many
years ; and if the present ministry were in the slightest degree sincerely disposed to promote franch ise reform , they might long ago have granted the repeated request of the unrepresented west Londoners , and given them the two members taken from Sudbury . They have , however , so little stomach for the work , that even that trifling alteration is beyond their power ; and , bearing in mind Lord John ' s cautious but significant intimation , as to the principle on which : he thought any new franchise measure should be founded , wo see small hope indeed that the inherent injustice and corruption of the present system will be dealt with by him or his colleagues .
Iu fact , these small boroughs were part of the carefully constructed machinery by which theframeroftheReformBillsoughttOBecurellis great object—namely , the continued preponderance of the aristocracy , and the monied classes . They are the sewers through which the impure and corrupting elements of our electoral system find their way into Parliament . The representatives of these little and rotten borougliB outnumber , on a divison on any question of
substantial reform , the members returned by large and popular constituencies . The men who have been returned without br ibery are in a minority , because they represent constituencies too wealthy , powerful , and numerous to be bribed . The bribers and the bribed , a miserable minority iu power , intellect , or political honeaty , domineer over the majority , because , according to Whig wisdom small boroughs are , and must remain , part and parcel of our glorious constitution !
While this is the case—while Parliament acquiesces in its continuance—all inquiries into alleged bribery , corruption , treating , and intimidation , are mere farces . We wonder that those engaged in them can refrain from laughing in each other ' s faces . They know very . well it is all " humbug ; " and , however much they may assume an air of virtuous indignation , to " puzzle the vulgar , " they must be conscious it is impossible for them to " confound the wise" ou such subjects .
There is but one satisfactory and strai ghtforward way of settling this question—that proposed by the People ' s Charter . Equal Electoral Districts , of such a size as to be easily manageable , and , at the eame time , too large to be either bribed or intimidated , are the sole cure for the political corruption which now infects the whole electoral Bystem . Mere palliatives are unavailing . It must be a sweeping , thorough , aud radical reform .
Meanwhile , and until this is attained , we suggest to " the House , " that when it sends the agent to Newgate for corrupting electors and abducting witnesses , it ought , at least , to send his employer , who furnished the means , to the same "durance vile . ' ' If any distinction should be made at all , the briber should be more severely punished than the bribed , or the instruments by which the bribery was effected .
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not—as Lord J . Russell most disingenuously asserted in sounding claptrap—involve any abandonment of our position on the high seas , or the protection of our commercial intercourse with the world . The Prime Minister , instead of grappling with the facts in Sir Wilham's masterly exposition , had recourse to pathetic declamation , about the fatal consequences of a policy which—he said—involved € the dissolution of the empire . " How such a result could be produced by rendering our naval aud military stations more efficient , and perpetuating the connexion beween the Mother 1 ' . T 1 •»¦* - > .
Country and the Colonies , by substituting the ties of affection , and a sense of common interests , together with the enjoyment of equal liberties , instead of Downing-Btreet meddling and brute force , we are at a loss to understand . Yet , upon this assumption the whole of the Ministerial opposition was based . The consequence is , we muet come to the conclusion that the present Cabinet is of opinion we hold our Colonies by the tenure of the sword , and that we can only retain the allegiance of Australia or New Zealand by the same apparatus of brute force , as that which binds Poland to Russia , or Hungary to Austria .
But , even if rt were true that Lord Grey , and other Colonial Ministers , had so misgoverned our Colonies as to produce such alienation and hostility to English rule in the Colonies , that the moment we withdrew our soldiers they would revolt—the question remains for the taxpayers of England to say , whether they will keep together a large colonial empire by such means , and at such a price . Let us understand the naked proposition . It is , that we must maintain at least
one quarter of the whole of our army , at an expense of a million and a half a year , to keep down the free action of the Colonists . We must submit to heavy taxation , in order that those who have gone forth from atriongst us to distant Colonies , in search of the subsistence and fortune denied them here , maybe kept in political and municipal bondage . That , according to the Pbemter , is the purpose for which we keep twenty-five thousand soldiers in the Colonies , and pay £ 1 . 600 , 000
per annum . Sixteen hundred thousand pounds a year would go a long way to sweep off the taxes on paper , newspapers , and advertisements , and give us a really free Press in this country . We might relieve the manufacturer of soap from the vexatious Excise interference and restrictions , which prevent improvements in the manufacture of that article , and repeal the tax which makes one of the necessaries of life , at least one-third , if not one-half higher in price than it would he but for the
duty levied upon it . The blacksmith ' s pint of beer , and the sempstress ' s cup of tea , might be both enjoyed cheaper and better , if this sixteen hundred thousand a year was not levied ; or we might relieve the struggling professional men , clerks , and small tradesmen , from the monstrous injustice of the present income tax , by suffering the Colonists to manage their own affairs . As it is , what do we get as an equivalent ? Will anybody tell us when the debate is resumed after Easter ? The babble about " the honour" of extended dominion is as
foolish in a financial as it is in a political point of view . It is , in the first place , paying far too dearly for " honour , " if honour there be ; but we see no honour whatever in reducing our Colonists to abject political subjection , keeping them bound to this country by mere brute force . Instead of honour , we purchase disgrace , by the money thus wastefully and mischievously squandered . But , indeed , it is scarcely necessary to argue this question with the present Ministry . They stand self-condemned upon this , as upon many other questions of imperial policy . While Lord John denounces the-policy of Sir W . Moiesworth as suicidal , and tending to
the dissolution of the empire , Earl Guev has done in Canada precisely what Sir W . Molesworxh recommends . But at what cost has Canada purchased for itself this power of self-government !—rebellion , war , bloodshed , and waste . Lord John says that , ten years hence , other Colonies may be entitled to the same representative and responsible government as that which Canada has conquered for itself . In other words , he will yield nothing to justice . Colonial self-government must be extorted at the point of the sword , and the people of England are to pay those who resist the political and municipal enfranchisement of their brethren and relations in the Colonies !
Now , what is the secret influencewhat the real objects of this most extravagant , profligate , and tyrannical policy ? It is clear that the taxpayers of Great Britain and Ireland do not benefit by it : it is equally clear that the colonists are as little interested in its perpetuation . "Who are the parties that thrive by it ? The same obligarchy that plunders us . at home . The Colonies are kept
up as a fat pasture , into which a host of the scions of influential families may be turned to graxe at the public expense . It is a part of that gigantic system of patronage which enables the Ministry , for the time being , to corrupt the representatives of the people , and to perpetuate , both at home and abroad , a system which plunders , enslaves , and degrades the masses .
Colonial Reform is closely connected with Reform at home . A Parliament elected by the whole people can alone effectually realise both .
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OPENING OP THE GREAT EXHIBITION BY THE QUEEN . By a decision of the commissioners of the Great Exhibition , it appear that we are to make an exhibition of aristocratical hauteur and exclusiveness at its opening , which will make us look excessivel y ridiculous and contemptible in tho eyes of our visitors . The Glass Palace has been raised by voluntary subscriptions . The whole of the expenses attendant upon its construction and maintenance are expected to be paid for by those who -visit it . If ever there was a building or an object that ought to have been kept free from favouritism and exclusivism , the H ydepark Exhibition should have been undented
by both . Not so think the Commissioners . They have solemnly decreed that it shal I be opened by the Queen , in the presence of themselves , the members of theroyid household , the government , and the diplomatic corps . They may mean this regulation as an honour to the sovereign , but inreality it is a reflection both on her character and that other people . "Whatever may be the differences of opinion in this country as to the operation of our political system , we believe that in no class or party does there exist any other feeling than that of high respect for the lad y who now fills the
throne of these realms . During her numerous jouraies in all parts of the country this has been unequivoeably demonstrated ; and they are no friends of Queen Victoria who mako arrangements that impl y distrust , suspicion or alienation on hep part towards the people . With the exception of the conduct of such miscreants as Oxford , and others , to which not the slightest political animus was even attached by any party , the Queen has , at all times , experienced the vaoBtEenerons . cordial .
and respectful reception from them . She will continue to enjoy that respect , and to receive that cordial welcome , as long as she treats them in the same frank and hearty spirit of mutual confidence which has heretofore distinguished her public appearances . The inauguration of the Crystal Palace by a few white sticks , grandees , and foreign ministers , to the exclusion of the public , as proposed by the coiamiB « onerB , will not only be an insult UP the people of this country , but an insult to thtJ ^ oyfiUBWK hwrelf . and an incident cal-
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culated to lower both her and thn 7 ^ the eyes of the world at Woi ^ iu most seem as if the alarmists , vho 1 ! aU cocted such unfounded reports as t « n Con - tempUted outbreak of the .. « ,: r « on « ists and Red Republicans CT ^ the globe , havehad influence enouZ ? <* suade the commissioners to give coin , ! ? er dastardly fabrications by the ata u ? ^ * a course . ^ ° f 8 uch i We trust , however that if the <^ 1 does open the Exhibition , it wffl be fa ™* * 1 raanner as . to show that s 0 t ™ , 2 * 1 indigence and honour of the pj 3 ? * «* | not he driven into the adontion nf' wi ) l I that may suit the execrated despSs *? ^ I small Continental Principals J ? ,. SOni <> I is wholly unjustified by Ehetktt ? I Queen and the People * of affl l \? I other . *» * to each I
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PAYING TOO DEAR FOR THE DOWNING STREET WHISTLE . Two very important questions were placed at issue in Sir W . Moleswortu ' s motion on Colonial' Policy . They were at the same time inseparably connected . To give our Coloaies the power of self-Government would at the same time relievo the tax-payers ' at home of an annual burden of at least sixteen hundred thousand pounds .
The speech in which these two propositions were demonstrated was one of the redeeming events of the Session . Sir William does not often address the House , but when he does it is to some purpose . No individual in this country has so thoroughly mastered in all its breadth , und in all its details , our Colonial system ; and the expositions which , at intervals , he delivers in tho House of Commons , are not speeches , in the ordinary sense of the term ,
but thoughtfully arranged digests of varied and importaut information , culled from every possible source , and pervaded by a philosophical and statesman-like spirit , which gives coherence , point , and purpose to tho details collected and fused together . A collection of Sir W . MoLESWOimi ' s speeches during the last three or four years—they are not manywould give the reader a better and clearer idea of the nature and extent of our Colonial possessions , and their relation to the Mother
Country , than is attainable in any other quarter . In his last , he forcibly showed the essential difference of military and naval stations and Colonies . The former are ostensibly maintained for the protection of our commercial marine , and ave maintained for altogether different purposes to the Colonies . They are the stations of the naval police we maintain to keep the peace on the high seas , the harbours of refuge for our merchant men , from tho storms both of war aud weather ; and in this light aro legitimate objects of imperial
expenditure , seeing that the empireis interested in , and benefited by , their existence . But the Colonies are , as it were , offsets from the Mother Country—English municipalities scattered in various quarters of the globe outside of our territorial boundaries . The only forces these Colonies require in time of peace , are those which may be necessary to guard against internal riots , 6 v aggressions from savage tribes on their frontiers . These aro strictly matters of local police , and the justice as well
as expediency of endowing all such depend « ncies with the power of local self-Government being now generally recognised , they ought ' as a consequence , to provide for the maintenance of their own local police . To this general rule Sir W . Moleswortii made an exception on behalf of the Colonial Settlements to which convicts are sent . As the Mother Country sends these convicts there for its presumed benefit , and as their transportation necessarily involves cost to the community , it is but fair that we , who cause it , should pay it .
Upon this basis Sir William laid down a new Colonial system , by which both classeBof dependencies could be governed with efficiency and economy , to the great advantage both Of the colonists and the people at home . With respect to the military and naval dependencies , he proposed that they should be limited to those that were absolutely necessary , and situated out of the great track of commerce , or inapplicable on account of their territorial
extent , should be abandoned . This , in effect , would reduce the extent of frontier to he defended , and concentrate our force upon the points where it is really required . As to the Colonies , strictly so called , he recommended that measures should be adopted for conceding to them the power of local self-government and , as a consequence , that they should take upon themselves the charge of support ^ anv gffi £ S ** ¦* ""** The adoption of guch a policy M this < fo *
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PARLIAMENTARY . MisfestaL- * as old as the human race a thesc is the French proverb , "Man , T Cor ( % to God disposes- while our owS Sf / p ^ assures us , o * Aoet " There ' s a divinity doth shape or ., Rough hewthera as we 3 > ' W cnd s » Never , in Parliamentary historv i , ft , was the difference between pSaZ ' performance so vast , as in the anti V l session on which the curtain hast in . f , r On the first of February the SoveC ? ^ Ministry , Parliament , and the country uS to
rorwaraa Bnorc , summary , and easv ipatch of the necessary business of tbi >\ previous to shutting up St . StepheaV ^ opening the Glass Palace , that we miirh Lholida y for once with the numerous vhitor ? have invited to our shores . By the fiwf * May it was expected that the bulkof tho W ness would have been disposed of , aud £ * wards all would go "Merrv as a , „„ bell" Never ^ waS g a greater mi iff" * Easter recess has come . Parliament will iS meet again until two days before the ExhiiS tier , opens , and all the important busies tf 1851 has yet to be transacted . Though i !
tew things nave been begun , notkinq ^ hZ finished . From the first of February to 1 fourteenth of April , the machine ^ 7 p i ! ° ment has been utterly unproductive , anl ite uumtantaro been engaged like the treat mill labourers at Britten , fa » churning ? h
Into the future we shall not attempt to peer As every thing has to be done after insteld oi before May ; whoean tellhowlong the Session may last ? or who can say whether , the taxes having been voted , it may , within a fortnight or three weeks , of re-assembling , have the thread of its existence suddenl y cut short aild its prorogation followed by a dissolution ' and a General Election ? Whatever may ' turn out to be the fact
, M . Rittinghausen will certainly have another potent instance to add to his illustrations of the inutility of Repre . sentative Legislation . The English Pallia ment have onl y to continue a little loa » er under the guidance of Lord John RussELiJn order to produce a profound and wide-spread conviction , that Parliamentary Government is the greatest of all modern shams and hum . bugs .
True it talks : ' ye Gods ! how it talks ! ' But that is all . If words could avail we should be the best governed nation in the world—the misfortune is , that the words are not follo wed by the things they should represent . Take the talk about the Cape Colony and the Kaffir War for instance , the night before Parliament separated for the recess . Everybody admits that an urgent necessity for action has arisen Within a comparatively few yearB we find our . selves involved in a seventh war with a hirii spirited native race , in a distant African dependency . Each of these wars may be calculated to have cost us . a million sterling , and there is every probability that now wari ™
will cost double the money . What is to be done ? is the natural question with unsophis . ticated people . But the Government and Parliament are not unsophisticated ; and they ask what is to be eaid ? Instead of acting they resolve to manufacture another blue book . While Sir Henry Smith is play . ing at ducks and drakes with our money and squandering hundreds of thousands in a war , from which we can gain neither honour nor profit , a" Select Committee" is to light the candle at the ther d
o en , duly installed in some of the numerous committee rooms that look out on the Thames , from the river front ot the New Houses , is to send for papers , persons , and records , " even from the colony itself , to give evidence , the applicability of which will have passed away before they can reach England to give it ! In fact , these " Select Committees" will soon become sync mrnoua with the word "dodge . " Whenever Ministers want to stave off an ugly question , or shelve an importunate and "impracticable , " but influential member , a " Select Committee is the ready expedient—another
voluminous , expensive and unread "BlueBook ' the sole result . Reall y this is very sorry work ! Farther inquiry is about as needful in the case of the Cape Colony as a fifth wheel to a coach . In the Blue Books already extant on the subject all the information that can possibly be requisite for efficient and compre . hensive legislation is to be found . The causea
which produce these expensive , disgraceful , and frequently recuring conflicts , are neither obscure nor difficult of discovery—nor is the policy by winch they are to be put an end to for ever at all doubtful . It is because the Ministry know all this-because they are afraid that something substantial would be done , if they did not lead the House astray after a false scent , that they propose farther inquiry . It merely means tha iJU , Mania , {
of al beneficial action on the part of the Imperial Government , and leave and license to spend the money of this country in wasteful , unprovoked wars with say tribes , inMweh we snail reap no honour , and the Colonial jobbers will have , allthe profit Another of the « palavers" in which the . honourable House » indul ged before breaking up Vas a desultory one upon a vague mo . t . 011 of Mr . Disraeli upon a very substautial sub ject-agricultural distress . The division left mvmsters with a small maioritv of
unrteen in a House of five hundred and eighteen members , whereupon the minority cheered most lustil y . But em bono ? Ave the farmers satisfied that Mr . Disbaeli can snow the Whigs how nearly parties are balanced in th at house , and that whenever the time comes he may , if so disposed , put them ma minority ? We canquite understand that this may be capital fun for Mr . Disraeli , but in what way it does any good to the farmer wo are unable to conceive . The whole thing is a nollowpretence . Th e Protectionists areasmuch afraid of action as the Whigs . Sincerity is a virtue woefull y deficient on both sides of the
ilouse . btand-still and make-believe is the highest ^ art alike of the "Ius" and the " Outs . '' A wholesome thunder storm is very desirable , to break the political ^ agnation which now broods over the country , and threatens the extinction of all that is noble , manly , or rational in the national character , > ve are sick of a government and a Parliament , the onl y and highest . achievement of which is to pour forth " aweak , washy flood of words ' and onl y distinguished by being totally devoid of earneutness , meaning , purpose , or practical reBUlt . 6 * *
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 19, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1622/page/4/
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