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THE STAR OF FREEDOM SATURDAY, JULY !O, 1853.
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mn THE CAUSE OF LABOUR. THE CITY WORKING TAILORS' ASSO-
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•* - CIAT 1 ON . 23 , Cullam-street , Fenchurch-street , City . A few working men holding the conviction that co-operation is * £ best means of elevating their condition , and that of the class to which they belong , have formed themselvesintq a body for tne purpose of carrying on buainesg for themselves on ti ^ P ™^??' Associated Labour , at the above address , and earnestly aPP » l «> all who are derirous of rescuing the working men from uM » r P * £ sent degrading position attendant upon the ' ^ "Tn tw work statins system . They esprcially depend upon th « r brother worKme men of other associations to give them «« ir aup . port "ey pledge themselves to deal honestly by their customers , in su PP J"jK ris K ^^^^ who may favour them with a trial . Chabh-s Bowen , Manager . _ LIST OF PRICES FOR CASH ONLY . Dress Coat .... * 1 10 ° superfine ditto .. ;;;;;!!;; ... ! ^ w o Best Superfine ditto ? , ? o ProckCoat 1 J » « Superfina ditto ^ 10 0 BestSuperfine IA n Black Doeskin Trousers Horn 0 18 0 Fancy ditto ditto J ** S Black Vests „ J " » Fancyditto „ ° ? ° Oxonians ,, 1 , J X paiewts :....::: „ nog Alpaca and other V sts .., ° f ° Working Men ' s Clothing on the lowest possible terms . The friends of Labour are requested to make known the existence of this Association among their friends as extensively as poBSiDie , as well as the following : — Tailors , 34 , Castle-street East , Oxford street . Branch , 68 , Westminster-bridge-road . Printers , 4 a , Johnson ' s-court , Fleet-street . Pimlico Builders , Bridge-row Wharf , Pimlieo . North London Builders , 4 , All Saint ' splace , Caledoman-road . Piano Forte Makers , 5 , Charles-street , Drury-lane . Boot and Shoemakers , lib , Tottenham-pourt-road . North London Needlewomen , 31 , Red Lion-square , BEast End Needlewomen , 51 , Wellclose-square . Ladies' Guild ( Decorative Art ) , 4 , Kussell-place , Fitzroy-square .
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G 0 T 4 >! GOLD ! GOLD ! N ATIONAL GIFT SOCIETY FOE EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA , , Office , 13 , Tottenham-court ( thirteen doors from Tottenham-court . road ) , New-road , St . Pancras , London . The late gold discoveries in Australia , and the great want of labour experienced in both the agricultural and commercial districts consequent on that fact , calling loudly for an extension of the means of emigration to that country , it is proposed that a num . ber of working men should associate together , and by the gifts of ONE SHILLING EACH , A ceitain number should be enabled without expense to themselves to receive a FREE PASSAGE 10 A U S T E A LI A ! It is proposed the Society shall be divided into sections , and immediately on the completion of a Section of 6 , 000 at Is . each , ; i Free Passage shall be given to a certain number of the members , to be decided by a Public Ballot at iome public place of Meeting , the holders of the numbers declared gifts to be entitled to a Free Passage as above stated . TRANSFERABLE AT THE OPTION OF THE RECEIVER . In no case will the Receiver be allowed money in lieu of a passage . The whole of the money received will be expended in procurii . g " passages at the current ch . rge , with the exception of a deduction of j 615 per cent on the gross amount received , for the payment of expense * of Management , Advertising , &c . Auditors will be appointed at the Public Meeting and the books will be open for general inspection at the weekly meetings every Monday evening from eight till ten o ' clock , at MK . COLLEN' 8 , WHITE HORSE TAVERN , ' 100 , HIGH HOLBORN . All communications , enclosing fourteen postage stamps for Return Ticket , to be addressed to Mr . Ruffy , at the Office , 13 , Tottenham-court , St . Pancras , London . Money Orders to be made payable at Tottenham-courUroad . FEMALES AND CHILDREN ARE ELIGIBLE . On the completion of each Section the Ballot will be advertised in ' Reynolds' Weekly Newspaper , ' Star of Freedom , ' TheTimes , " or * Morning Advertiser , ' one week previous . N . B . —The names and residences of the parties who obtain the Gift will be given on application at the Office . Persons in any part of the country are eligible .
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THE FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE . A few complete sets of the Friend of the People of 1852 , stitched in a wrapper , are on sale . Price One Shilling and Sixpence each set Odd numbers to complete sets to be had of the publisher . THE RED REPUBLICAN AND FR 1 ESD OF TUE PEOPLE . ( First Series . ) A very few sets of the Red Republican and Fbiend of the People , 1851 , neatly bound in cloth , one vol ., price 6 s . Gd ., may be had ot the publisher . London : James Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Head-passage , Paternosterrow .
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LETTKRS FOB WORKING MEN . No . XIII . —The Last Parliament ahd the Next . TO THE KDITOR OF THE STAB OF FREEDOM . Sib , — Now that Parliament has expired , suppose -we write its epitaph . And to that end we will look at a brief summary of its doings . It has lived four years and a half : something over the average time ; and half as long again as that grey-headed youth , Lord Maidstone , pronounces to be necessary . It came into being during the Irish famine . How
little it did even to mitigate that—how determinedly it refused even to consider either the real causes or the mean 3 of prevention , we need not dwell upon . It aided the landlords to starve the peasantry by the million , and it abetted the further depopulation of the country by the transportation ( called emigration ) of the most valuable portion of the community . It came into being on the eve of the European Insurrection ; and throughout that insurrection it offered itself as the complaisant accomplice of tyranny , till it made the name of Britain to stink in Europe . It provided for England ' s safety ' by no act of iustice ,
hat by-the revival of an infamous act of Charles the Dissolute , against treason ; and it , almost to a man , looked on applaudingly while Lord John Russell indecently fouled the tomb of his great ancestor , the friend of Algernon Sydney . It goaded Ireland to revolt ; it insulted the Colonies , denying justice to them , and winking at the dirty tricks and treacheries of its Colonial Ministers . It has done its best to sever every Colony from the Empire ; delaying self-Goverament for Australia and New Zealand , bungling in Canada , blundering in the West Indies , and worse than blundering at the Cape . It has helped a continuance of the old villanies in India . It has
tried a , foolish compromise with the masters in the Ten Hours Question ; it has recklessly carried out the half version of its one true principle—Free Trade —careless of ruining the West Indies—careless of any injustice to our vast agricultural populationcareless , collnsively careless , of all the Hudsonian rascalities of that anomalous issue of Free Trade , the giant monopoly of the Railway . It made great talk of Sanitary Reform when the cholera was almost
in the lobby of the House ; and it allowed some few volunteers to make some progress in the work , taking care to cripple them , to prevent any well-organised national usefulness . It has done its best to prevent the enfranchisement of the people ; it has condoned the iniquities of the electoral class , making a rascally pretence of justice in one or two of the most glaring instances . It has consistently refused to fake the shackles from the Press . la
its last moments it has made some legal reforms , -where it could hardly touch without reforming . It has put on a House Tax in place of a Window Tax ; it has had a Crystal Palace ; it has removed Smithfield market ; and it has passed the Ecclesiastical Tifle 3 Bill . Four years and a half give such results of the genius and industry of the Legislature of a great country ! Even the ' Times' cannot help exposing its impotence . As to Continental Affairs ' Parliament did little except sit still and hope that Lord Palmerston knew more about them than it did
itself . Whether it had any plan , whether his lordship had any plan , and whether either Parliament or Palmerston is better satisfied with the suppression than with the outbreak of a dozen revolutions , do not appear in the proceedings of the British Legislature . ' And at home——' there never was a Parliament which more illustrated the weakness , not merely of statesmen and parties , but of Legislatures themselves . Its labour has been a mere compliance with imperious calla , and its good deeds have been often so done as to reflect but little honour on the doers . ' We will write then for its epitaph , that never since
that shabby and unprincipled bargain with a Dutch schemer , which our stupid Constitutionalists prate of as the * GloriouB Revolution of 1688 / never since that Advent of Whiggery , has there been a Parliament more Whiggisb , more indifferent to principle , more incapable , more wordily worthless , more dishonourable—ihan that fore-damned wretch of a Parliament which ha 3 just given up its dirty ghost . If some devil—turned tutelary saint of Britain for the nonce—had desired , by dint of unpatriotic example , to make the nation forget all patriotism , by continual display of pettiest expediencies ,
( in any inefficient and discreditable manner , shirking the duties of the hour , and escaping inquiry into first principles ) to lead us to systematic neglect of duty and abandonment of principle , by shuffling and sneaking and vacillation , and easy complicity with ¦ wrong to demoralise the generation , and accustom us to low aims , and any sort of dishonesty , by which to reach them , —if our tutelary devil had been anxious to discredit even the make believe of free institutions , to lead us through slaviBhnesa into slavery , and through national degradation to national ruin , he could have invented no better scheme than the putting
us under such guardianshi p—such leading , such instruction , and example , as have been furnished us by this late House of Commons , whose begetter was the unprinci pled Peel—whose incarnate spirit was thefelon-natured Russell—whose heir and executor is the recreant Derby , the tool of Disraeli , the apostate , and do not think we have not had a devil . Since faith m God was abjured at Tyburn , when the bones of Cromwell , Bradshsw , and Ireton , hung gloriously on the gallows , we have but stooped to anothe worship , the Whig worship of expediency , the con * Btituhonal compromise , the contentment with what
shall aerve ' our time . ' The strong and once holy We of England has been Popefied by the Devil of Whigism , and our history through all the sorry chapters of our ' illustrious House of Brunswick ' has been one long disgusting tale of the manifold manifestations of governmental scoundreldom . Let ml pr £ y , ? " * nothJng can be worse than this last . The Parliament that sold European liberty for a Cobdemah mesa of trade-which agreed to the outrage upon Rome , and the intervention against Hungry—which petted Palmerston , and put up with the
MalmeBbury ; parliament which even Jacob Bell could rebuke as hypocriticall y puritan , which dabbled in famine and in Hudson scrip the parliament , m which , from first to last , not * one great prfnciple has been enunciated or referred to , scarcely even by an individual member , unless indeed by some Tory sneering at the inconsistencies of his opponents . £ uch a parliament we well may hope must be the -rery yeakest and the worst . We may hope , but - with what c £ » ncefor hope . ? Your new parliament SI jS- 8 ame < Some Ktfle stuSiSf of seats , some little difference of arrant ™™* in the bill of costs
, offifS ^ Xpen ^ ' Iler 8 and there some ew man next nS ^ f - ^ ^ tfaafc « n be all . ifO * sSSSSv ^**^^ s ^^ fisps lumped it , like t&wSrt . J- ? dnotI * e » it we Hownasty «' -Tn 7 Iff \ , Cned out Patheticall ytherefore ? o SLj St ?* " ?** " ®> «* far from us . WeSlW TZ ? In » hastiness John Bull ' s usuafremTdv t ^ ™*? 1 ^ is equally effectire . T SX ™ 1 ^ ? l ™? a been we deserve . Its Torv tvS * u . e have iswh * t slaves ; its Tn * 2 ^^ & * 2 ! S * ** uiu cuiawTes
se wao cannot evpn Tin t . ~ - « . 7 VF * or ignorance of first SSSTfa ^ WeUj" ~ intheir dualisms ; in their worS ? 5 * . n « rrow individencies , fc the ESESJ . ft" anar ^ cal tenntter Want of faXTndkX ? theiF a . Ctions ' * « hke discipline and or ^ nisaSn'T ° V ^ those most radical oS WhTll w T * of ifsstfi « P their nfl ' i , £ . 5 ??** Coders cannot make to ChartC V tIlfff t ° | m « r communism , ^^ seVonl ^ jT ** ? . d 0 dgej whil * ° « ^ nothing ;^ a ^ «! P ^ eness and to believe eiritothtmiscK / r iaI e 5 P « mentto put an aSS&g ^ SaaS MsaMSSSKga
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Poor Richard ( peace among thieves and th good wiK of despots ) , take their turn of standing in the way of English manhood ;—what wonder that we are as we are , and that our government' is the proper scum of Chaos ! Spartacus .
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fj ^ " All communications for the Editor must be addressed to No . 4 , Brunswick-row , Queen ' s-square , Bloomsbury , Londen . £ S ~ Orders , applications for placards , &c , &c , must be addressed to John Bezer , ' Star of Freedom' Office , 183 , Fleet-street , Lon-- don . All money orders to be made payable to Jolin Eezer , at the Money Order Office , Strand . News-agents and friends desirous of exhibiting Bills of Contents will have them sent post-free on forwarding their address to the publisher . Socm . Reunion . —The Literary and Scientific Institution , John , street , Fitzroy-square , having been elosed three weeks during repurs , the committee intend celebrating the reopening of their excellent Institution by a Public Tea Party and soiree on Sunday . July 18 th . We trust the Friends of Progress of all shades of opinion will rally to what promises to be a most interesting and delightful Festival . Monies Received fok the Refogbe 9 . —Galsahiels , per Walter San . derson , 4 s—J Taylor , Is 4 d . I { S * The members of the Democratic Refugee Committee are requested to assemble at their usual place of meeting on Wednesday
evening next . Henbt Westts , RedhilJ . —Your communication arrived too late for insertion in last Saturday ' s' Star of Freedom . ' Fbank Gbant , Shelton . —Many thanks for your good wishes . We shall be glad of your favours . Theological Catechism . —As a pendant to the case" of Magisterial Bigotry and Intolerance , recorded in our columns the week before last , A Mechanic and Subscriber writes to say that the Bishop of Oxford has refused to admit into the Church a poor curate , resident at Cookham , in consequence of the inability of the latter to satisfactorily answer the followinc questions : — ' What amount of grace , if any , does a child receive at baptism ? If not any , why not ! ' Most of our readers will agree with our correspondentthis is exceedingly rich . If the Bishop of Oxford be a type of his class , and we do not doubt but that he is , ' it shows what a small degree of intellect is possessed by the men who have now the di . rection of the national affairs * Every dog has his day , ' says the proverb . It will be hard if the doq days never end . T , F . Km . —The work shall have our attention . W . H . D . —Many thanks . But we are' over-crowded with election matter .
M . Jcds . —We will endeavour to get the report . Alleged Uhfaibmess of a Cottar Cobbt Judge . —A correspondent requests insertion of the following : — 'On the 13 th of June an action for conversion and detention of goods was heard before Serjeant Septimus Cowling , ' Esq ., at Stokesley . The plaintiff , whose name is ThomasBarugh , and the defendant ' s name Charles Harsh , who was summoned to this court for the value of a pianoforte and two or three other trifling articles , alleged to have been kept back by the above-named defendant , and was represented to be the property of the plaintiff . under amortgage deed , dated in tiie year 1812 . John Jackson , Esq ., opened the case for the plaintiff . J . J . Trevor , Esq ., appeared for the defendant . It was contended , for the defence , that the articles claimed were not the property of the plaintiff , and were never mortgaged . It , however , appeared that the defendant , through unfortunate circumatat > ces , had to pass the Insolvent Court , at Yerk , in March , 1851 . After hearing this his honour told the defendant that " any man who had been « t York Castle was unworthy of credence , as he knew what they would swear . " To the astonishment of the Court he gave a verdict for the plaintiff , * 2518 s Gd . damages and costs-four times the value ol thegoods sought to be recovered . *
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We might allow ' them to do this , to thus expose their total ignorance of an epoch whose history they have never perused , and of men whos e character they have never known , did we not feel bound to protest against the names of the noble martyrs for thei cause of humanity being placed in juxtaposition with that of the most ignoble and cowardly robber that ever disgraced the annals of a nation . What was called the rejgn of terror in ' 93-4 , was indeed a reign ot terror to all parties , to the virtuous as to the evil doer . To the former , there was the continual fear ot uuvn « tv vub iviuiui ) nugio rrcio «»• - - ¦ ationto the
the intrigues of the enemies of tho n , latter was the not less fear of the punishment due to them for their misdeeds . Univers al then , was the terror , but not so the blame . The p lotters against the Republic well merited a thousand deaths ; tor they conspired as robbers , and as murderers—robbers and murderers of the deepest' dye . They did not seek the property or the life of individuals merely , they sought the property and the life of the very nation itself . Where then is the resemblance between these men , the enemies of their nation , and or their
nation's life and liberty , and the victims or tne oppression of the triumphant criminal of to-day ? Now is the reverse of ' 93 . Then the free thoug h threatened nation was master of itself , and could crush the selfish intriguers who , for the most beastly self-interestedness , were endeavouring to place fetters upon their country , that they might sell it to the stranger , the tyrant , or the knave . Now it is different . One man has enthralled the nation , selfishness is triumphant , and virtue and patriotism are scourged . The massacre of September was a terrible , nay , a horrible deed ; but its victims were traitors , unprincipled and unscrupulous enemies of their country , which they had done their best to fetter and degrade for the gold of foreign tyrants , and liberty-hating monarchies and
aristocracies . The dear-bought freedom of the French people was endangered by the presence of invading hordes , who had been brought into the territories of the Republic in great part through the exertions of the doomed of September . These undoubtedly deserved death , and death they did receive .. But how did the victims of the December massacre deserve to die ? They were not intriguing enemies of the people , but defenders of the people ' s right . For sixty years Democracy has been taunted by > loyalists and Aristocrats with the death of the reactionary plotters of 1793 , while not a word have they to say against the slaughterers of the defenders of liberty and'law , on the boulevards , and in the streets of Paris , in December , 1851 .
Every great and noble mind iu France is falling a victim to the insatiable cruelty and blood-thirstiness of this inhuman monster . Above two thousand of the best men in the country have been already transported , during the present year . These , however , are but a trifle to the numbers who were shot by the drunken soldiers during the struggle in December , in Paris and in the provinces , and the far greater number who were murdered in cold blood after the victory .
One would think that at the very thought of the atrocities thai ; have been perpetrated , every Frenchman would rush into the streets , determined to die also , or free his country from its shameful degradation , and to avenge the crimes that have been committed by the tyrant Bonapakte and his accomplices . But we fear that in France , as in Britain , there exists a shameful amount of apathy on the part of numbers of the peo ple , an apathy which it will take much injustice and many crimes to remove .
Bonapakte no doubt thinks so , or that he has already destroyed so many of the determined and unflinching enemies of tyranny , that he may , without fear , indulge his inclinations for cruelty and bloodshed . Accordingly he has raised anew the political scaffold ; the axe of the guillotine has already been stained with Republican blood , and a number of other defenders of justice and freedom are condemned to be sacrificed in like manner to the hatred and revenge of the perjured usurper .
It- was shame enough for our country , and grief enough for the friends of freedom here , when British Statesmen and Legislators , and those whom the people at least suffer , if they do not will , to be our rulers sung the praises of a perjurer , a robber , and an assassin ; but still greater infamy it is when the Liberal Sir' Robert Peel , at the very moment the object of his admiration is raising the instrument by which a continued series of cold blooded murders are to he effected , declares from the hustings , to the electors of Tamworth , that Louis Bonaparte fulfills his mission , that he has been raised to his present position by the voice of the people—by the voice of God / ' It is
an impudent falsehood . Louis Bonaparte has not been raided to the office of oppressor and executioner of the French people , by that people , or by G-OD . He has , for a time , become s ' b by force or by fraud ; but no more by the voice of the people , than the immoral and unprincipled ' Sir' R . Peel has been deputed by the British people to be their representative , or to express their feelings with regard to the traitor Bonap arte . We feel asrured that the day is not far distant when the protege of Sir' R . Peel , the murderer of so many of the noble and patriotic sons of France , will himself expiate his numerous crimes upon that scaffold which he has not vainly laboured to set up .
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" PROTECTION" o !• PREE-TRADE . " Our readers will have heard the anecdote of the Kentuckiau and Indian who went out shooting one day , the produce of their sport being a turkey and a crow ; on their division of the spoil , the Kentuckian plied his cunning sophistry to bewilder the poor unsophisticated Indian in the following manner , Now , ' said the Kentuckian , ' I will have the Turkey and you shall have the Crow ; or you shall take the drow and I will take the Turkey . ' It sounds very well , ' said the puzzled Indian , * But somehow you alway's get the Turkey , and I always get the Crow . '
This anecdote will serve to illustrate most truthfull y the position of the Working Classes , in their relation to the Protectionists and the Free Traders ; their words and promises sound very well , but somehow they always get the Turkey , and we the Crow . With us it is not a question whether Protection' is good , or Free Trade better , we who have no power to ensure to ourselves the fruits of either ! And though the ' whippers-in' for « Protection' and ' Free Trade' may succeed in lashing the popular waves into foam and fury , the tide of Progress will make little or no advance for us , toward ' sweeping away the barriers of Wrong and Oppression , which we
have to destro y in our conflict for freedom , and the rights of men . « Protection' and ' Free Trade , ' as at present understood , are simply the expression of the conflicting interests of the Agricultural and Manufacturing powers ; it matters little to the Working man which is predominant , so long as his interest is not protected , and his freedom is not guaranteed . Some good has been accomplished by the Repeal of the Corn Laws , because , in some instances the wages of the Workers have not been reduced in the ratio that bread has been cheapened ; but even in these instances the Working man has no power to ensure the continuation . of those wages . The present
election is a struggle between Capitalists who fight each other by the mutual cheapening of the labour they employ . By giving our votes , or our efforts to either party , we are as surely fighting the battle of our enemies , and linking chains for the future of Labour , as though we had shed our blood , and offered up our lives , as did our' foolish fathers , and shall surely get the crow for our pains . * Protection' ia not likely to be restored—it in exploded , and what the Americans would term a departed coon . ' It will not cajole the ignorant of the Working Classes as will the fine sound of Free Trade ; ' it is therefore
with the pretensions of * Free Trade * we have to deal . The Free Traders , who are the great bulk of the Middle Classes , are our masters , and will continue so for some time to come . They are indeed the masters of the world . They constitute the power which stands in most direct and deadly antagonism to us . It is the liberty of Labour pitted against the despotism of gold , and between us there is war to the death . They are the masters of our produce , and the whole meaning of our struggle for the Charter lies in our becoming the masters and distributors of the wealth
we create ; therefore we have nothing in common with them . They live b y buying and selling , cheating and competing with the materials we have toiled and sweated , hungered and suffered to produce , and they squander millions of lives in maintaining a fake cheapness and in making [ their fortunes ; therefore , we can have nothing in common with them . We , the producers of the world ' s wealth , have au interest apart from , theirs , who live out of that wealth —rob us at Jevery turn with a knife at our throats ^
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and make laws to consecrate their robbery . The interest of Labour against the ivorld ! That is our position , and tho one alone which we should fight for . We have to produce for ourselves , and reap the full fruition of our industry , instead of paying to society seven times as much as we get ourselves , to be allowed to produce , which we are doing at the presnt time . We have to recast society on such principles that the fruit of a man ' s labour shall be the natural reward of his toil . This ia the root of the matter , working men , aud neither Free Trade ' nor * Protection' can probe to that depth . It is inevitable that the
Free Traders precede us to power . It is a terrible necessity for the people to need the steru lesson which they have to teach us ; but that is ho reason why we should assist them to bind on the chains which they are forging for us . The tyranny they seek to establish under the guise of Freedom , signifies one of the most horrible despotisms that have ever cursed the earth . It means unlimited sway to capital in its murderous warfare with Labour , It sets the hand of every man against his brother , and renders all our interests antagonistic— -it buys and sells us in the world ' s market like cattle , because we are driven to
undersell each other—it sets man against man , woman against woman , and child against child ; in unnatural strife . It makes the poor infant of tenderest years , toil and wear out its young life to increase the father ' s wages by a few pence , and drives its thousands of victims to the streets and hulks . Do not let us be deluded , as in the past , with party words , which have nothing in common with Democracy and the interests of Labour .
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IGNORANCE AND INTOLERANCE . It is truly woeful to see the animosity and fanaticism that exists even amongst those religious bodies who boast their utter freedom from it . The recent riots at Stockport in no wise contributes to the honour of Protestants or Protestantism . The Protestants have always boasted , and , as a general rule , with reason , that they ivere better educated , more thinking , and therefore infinately more intelligent than their Catholic brethren .
Yet , at Stockport , everything went to . prove them every way as . ignorant , and not a whit more thinking , and , if possible , more brutal and degraded than their opponents . They , in our opinion , were the real aggressors , and most brutal and barbarous aggressors they were . On one occasion a great number of English beat an old and iuoffensive Irishman for a considerable length of time . On another they broke into a house where a poor Irishwoman was lying in bed . Notwithstanding that she had been delivered of a child only a few days previously , she was maltreated by the brutal and unmanly scoundrels , and the roof of the house actually pulled down upon her ! Such conduct as this was more than blameable , it was absolutely barbarous .
We do not mean to say that the conduct of the Catholics would have been more praiseworthy and less brutal , had they been strong enough to have matched their opponents . We believe them to be as brutal and debased as the other party have shown themselves to be . To us , who believe in the continual moral and intellectual progress of the human race , it is painful , in the last degree , to see large masses of the people , in the year 1852 , a prey to all the ignorance , reli gious fanaticism , and brutal instincts which characterised the beastly rabble that constituted the followers of that pitiable madman , Lord George Gordon , in
1780 . Why is this ? These thousands and tens of thousands of semi-savages have continued to exist in undiminished numbers , —the place of those who die being filled by their children ; and thus , generation after generation are born , live , and die , without being visited by a single gleam of reason or intelligence . There is no progress for them ; to these miserable wretches , shrouded for ever in the darkness of intellectual night , it signifies nothing what discoveries are made in science , philosophy , or art , they can derive but very little , if any , benefit from them ; and so all the fruits of knowledge and genius do not exist for them , and are only for the favoured few . ' This is a robbery , a most atrocious robbery , on the
part of that favoured few , disguise it as they will . They have no right to profit alone by the knowledge which has been handed down from the past , a grand heritage for all humanity . Had the whole people had their right , the right to participate in the benefits of the conquest of the human mind in all ages , they would be in a very different position from what they are now , and we should havQ been spared the disgraceful and disgusting exhibition at Stockport last week . But this they have not had ; they have been left to grovel in their degradation , the unreasoning tools of designing and ambitious priestcrafr , while the prince , the aristocrat , and the savant , have attended to their own interests or pleasures , and cared nothing
for the education of the nfinnle . ror the education of the people . Who are to be the people ' s educators , since it is only by education , that they can be elevated and ennobled ? Assuredl y not tho king or the aristocrat , who have been borne too long as the ' natural leaders of , the people , and who lead them nowhere , a , nd whose whole endeavours ever have been and still are employed to keep them in ignorance and subjection . Priests also have been unsuccessfully tried ; they give no education , nor are the people likely to be intelleotualy improved by such leaders' as those who seek mere popularity , even if it be obtained by flattering the superstitions and absurdities of the most
ignorant . No ; education for the people is not to he obtained from such as speak of the destruction of a wafer as the 'horror of all horrors ! The Holy Sacrament of Redemption , the body and blood of the Saviour violated and trampled in mud !! ' It is only a Government of the People—a Government composed of the wisest and best in the nation—chosen by all from all , that the people can be really educated . When we have such a Government , the mass of the people will become men , free and enlightened , and not mere tools in the hands of others . Then we shall have no such disgusting scenes as this Stockport riot , for Intelligence and Fraternal equality will take the place of Ignorance and Intolerance .
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Chbltihham , July 7 . —Political hostility is raging in this town almost to frenz / , between Sir W . Jones , a Derbyite , and the Hon . Omen Berkeley , who would extend the suffrage almost to universal , —making , ss ho says , the txclunoH the exception and not the rule . The Liberal party having called meetings for the working men , invited the members of our locality ta take part , which they did , having resolutions to speak to embracing universal suffrage , spoken to by Meisrs Adams , Wlks , and Sharland ; likewise the Ballot , Shortening the duration of Parliaments , Equal E lectoral District , and no Property Qualification for Members ; the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge , Social Reform , and the Nationality of Italy , Hungary , and Poland . Other resolutions in praise of , and confidence in . their
memoer was supported by their own friends . We thought it was an offer worth accepting , to be enabled to speak to hundreds of our fellow townsmen on our glorious principles , all arrangements being made for ua to do so before some of the upper , and many of the middle classes , with perfect freedom of speech , and no reserve . So you see we do not , as the Smashers' say . sell ourselves to the middle clas 3 e 8 , nor give ZZ ? £ ncip S P " locality met on SuDday- when » * fter tranaacting other business , explaining the points of the 2 £ & fn D i ° 37 l M ° £ w friend 8 « our iec « cary ™ instructed to Bend 4 s . to the Esecutive for cards . f «« » * h JO 8 hua r 5 nol ( la P ainted a Portrait of Mrs . BillingtuM J 0 Cal . ! £ rePre ? en « nR her as St . Cectlia-the eyfs turned towards heaven listening tn a ohn \ r nf nnai . it . f . inti . of
= J ° edOn theu PPer ^ rt the painting , llaydn the H ? n ei i u * " ¥ ?* JU 8 t a 8 Sir Joshua ™ 3 gwng it the m « 38 r ° ? > and £ is ° P inion of it 8 merit 8 wa 8 a <> ked by it hn » n « gtOn - , " I , arables you , " said Haydn , " but SiS ? n « f « B " - fault" " And whafc is { t ? " »« *! Mrs - tabi & ?' Wlt Vn ^ metude ' Jarful that the artist might i « nL 5 ? / ' " The painter , " continued Haydn , " has p eted y ° . « as listening to the songs of angels ; he ? n £ nip >? VT edthe ang « l 8 listening to your Inchantffnl wir , Plat'ered by such a compliment , the Beaukissed h ' her arma round Haydn ' 8 neok and
lrnSSft ^ ST Wa 8 hin gton ' s victories over the French and Mgiistt had made his name familiar to all Europe , Frank-, aHn « S t 0 dme with the English and French Ambas-SSSSf . ^ ' , near as we can "collect , the following i » nH ^ , r 8 dr « nk ; -by the English Ambassador , " En K-& « C * ?* whMe b" 8 ht beams enlighten and fructify SSnW ' C 0 rn - of the earfch" The French Ambasn a , f « A ? g Wlth national pride , but too polite to dis-F » iM . ? P 5 evi 0 l i toast drank , "France ,-The Moon , whose ! SmaA «« ? l and oheerin & y * arethe delight of all nations SS"SLv ?? , mthe darkness , and making their drearim ., * lfr ^ l " * Dr F'anklin then arose , and with his usual dignity and simplicity , said :- " George Washington , ITni t « H » u * T °° « n > nanded the Sun and Moon to stand 4 * an ^ they obeyed him "
m . « J « w J ?* Compant . —By a parliamentary paper L ? K ? t . Wedn eaday it is shown that on the several establishments of the East India Company in England there j ? i 9 i aT ^ er 80 n 8 > and the salaries and allowances amount to * 124 , 817 a year .
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i—— ^ * x V ) t qq . ^ THE WHIGSr ^ """^ " ^ TO THE BDIXOR O . ThI STAR 0 F FUEED 0 M biR , —Itisunfortunate that anumerou 8 « Pn ^ , wETd byparfcy n ™ S Sft ;^ which those names represent . Old ttaS , ° na S ^ VfiFff * T ™ " »• " 2 £ r ^^^ 3 Sa& ?^ A and !„„ fS "" havo km ™ ' »» " »* « f p 2 " «„ . * i '"' of principles . The n o ™ ¦¦» ,. " '' , "• ^ ttctwA ©
hoi !? ' pl \ anecd 0 te which v ; e reme mber havm » heard of the polite and witty Lord Chesterfield S \ a person was one day iu his presence lamenting } , IJ ? tremd y pathetic terms , that au acquaintance ! it Lord Laneaborough ) had outlived all his fac ! k * 'Ob ' said Chesterfield , 'You are under a mistak ' for Lord Lanesborough aud I have been dead for h ? last two years , only we did not choose to own 7 < Nov , that in our judgment , is precisel y the ci « . with the old political parties-tli ey have been ' dead ' for all active good for years , but they aud thl friends do not choose to own it . A . cirounwtanM which we sincerely regret . ce
We do not , at this time , think it neceasarv tn much about Tories . They , though not oJJl ? their 'death , ' have been so thoroughl y sup eJ ! H t 0 b y the conservatives , aB to require no fijrthcr tenfcion . ? t ' The Whigs profess to be alive , full of enovn i hope , their leader , Lord John Russell , being » , few months since , Prime Minister of Enghn < j * The term Tory meant Royalist , or on the Koya ] Bi ( ! 0 Whig meant Oppositionist , or opposed to the , ! ' influence of the Crown . Whigs have \ Z i 6 courtiers , and , therefore , their original portion party is entirely changed . Tho name Ws- as a artnlin / 1 f /\ flirt HnnnnU : ^ . „ ,, .. i n ft tt'Aft applied to the Opposition term of a
as a 0 | m rnf * meaning in that sense , ' sour curds '; and tCT- ' has passed into historical fame , its first appluJr •' even now wonderfully correct , the ' Whigs' are fit 1 sour curds '; and hb such are to men of he , S appetites unpleasant and unpalatable Hizlitt not far astray , when he said , < A Whi g \ s proJJ ' what is called a trimmer—that is a coward to I th sides of the question—who dare not be a kuavo an honest man , but is a sort of whiffling shuffl "" ' cunning , silly , contemptible , unmeaning negation ! r the two . He stickles for the letter of th ! . confflo with-the affectation of a prudo , and abandon , if principles with the effrontery of a prostitute '
The Whigs are the authors of our present svst of Excise—a most cunningly devised means by vFhfch labour may be highly taxed without the tax-pavm knowing how or why he pays taxes . A system as iniquitous as it is unjust , as ruinous as it is iniquitous The Whigs changed Triennial to Septennial partial ments ; and some historians contend that it waB thev who- changed Annual to Triennial parliaments . Tq a certainty they are the authors of the Septennial act In the earlier part of the French War , tne ivhiw clamoured loud and long for Parliamentary Reform When for a short time they held the ruins of Govern ! .
raent they forgot all their promises , and , instead of reducing taxes as they professed to be dcairousof doing , they actually iucreased the Income Tax from six and a half to ten per cent . The notorious case of Lord Granville is now all but forgotten ; as it ig however , characteristic of the whole party , we repro ' . duce it . Lord Granville held a sinecure place as Auditor of the Exchequer . It was the duty of the Auditor of the Exchequer to keep a sharp look out as to the expenditure of public money . The Whigs required Lord Granville as First Lord of the Treasury
so they passed an act to enable his Lordship to hold both situations—and of course to pocket both salaries , thus making Lord Grauville Auditor of his own accounts , and paying him £ 4 , 000 a year for his services—a specimen of Whig ' retrenchment and economy ' worthy of its authors . The ancient constitutional law of England does not recognise standing armies as being ' constitutional . ' The Whigs violated that law , aud actually brought foreign troops into England . Tho conduct of the Whigs towards tho Parliamentary Reformers in 1816 and 1817 is matter of history . With but few exceptions they were base , treacherous , and tyrannical . The suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act , and the enactment of the notorious Six
Acts , were openly supported by the majority of the faction . All readers of history know their corruption and hypocrisy during that unfortunate period in the history of Radicalism . The dark doings of the'Whigs in those days cannot bo blotted out : they are written in blood , and he who reads them must be hard of heart if he can still admire the Whigs . The Whigs rose high in popular estimation in 1830 —because of their 'Liberal' professions they succeeded in getting into office . A reference to ' CoV bet ' s Register' for 1835 will unfold their conduct when in power . We give the following extract , as sent to us by a friend , having by examination found the facts to be as stated :- ~
In 1830 there had been some rioting in tVio South of England amongst the agricultural labourers , but not of an nlarminc ( to ractcr . In reference to these , Lord Grey said in the House ot Lords , ' It is only within the last three hours that we have been installed ia our respective offices as members of his Majesty ' s government , and I Lere declare for myself , and also for iny colleagues , that it is my determined resolution , wherever outrages are perpetrated , or excesses committed , to suppress them with severit ? and vigour ! Now his Lordship was not lonp in manifesting this ' twenty mi vigour ; for in a fortnight after this , he issued a special commission to try the rioters , and in one county , his' severity and vigour' produced tho following result : . Transported , mostly for l ife , one hundred andtMrtg-fivcpcrtrnfi Hanged , two . Wives bereft of their husbandsseventv-three .
, Children bereft of their fathers , ( too hnndred and forts three . Parents to bewail the loss of their sons , two huidred and tin . Here was « teverity and vigour' with a vengeance . The reader mil bear in mind that hunger was the real cause of these diiturbauccs . The Dorsetshire magUlrates had just made an allowance of w > shillings anb SEVEN eence A week for a labouring man to work and iive on ; and it was proved , upon the trial of the prisoneri , that they had to go to work every day with cold potatoes in their bags of food , and had to draw carts like horses ! . In the year 1830 , the Whiga added six'tAownHd men to the Blanding army ; and at this very moment there were sixUtn wow «»» military officers on half pay . , - When Lord Grey took office , he declared that ' we " «» « ut 0 "> with an unsparing hand , all that is not dema . ded ior foe f * ' the honour , and theioelfart . nfth * *» . «« . • fin the itli ieo ., «•»
Lord Althorp said in the House of Commons 'I doubt if « Vv . t ° any egtataWe right to ahoilsh any of the pensions on the cmi nn . This was the Whigs' cutting down with an unsparing hand . . In 1831 , the Whigs voted an additional £ 12 , 000 a JM' *™ Duchess of Kent ; £ 100 , 000 a yenr as a dower for tho *«« ; £ 100 , 000 to half pa ? officers at Hanover , and other psrts ? « att ; and £ 50 , 000 for the expenses of the Coronation of ? ' ««» " 2 Fourth , amounting in the whol « to more than the wlioit oi ~ poor rates for the nine counties of Bedford , Berkshire ; «««» land , Huntingdon , Hereford , Monmouth , Northumberland , nun * and Westmoreland '
The career of the Whiga since 1831 musk be kno « n to most of our readers . They passed tho New i w Law Amendment Act ; they increased national expenditure ; they introduced the infamous Master m Servants Bill—a bill which , had it pasaed into law . would have left a working man no chance of escap from the oppressions of an unjust and exacting e ployer . They pensioned their own relatives out oi public purse . In 1839 and 1848 they persecuteai " dupes of their own spies with ai merciless seT e ., uupco ui lilieil UWU op It ! 3 Will ! a iubiv"w » " . i
and vigour . ' They accepted of the Repeal or Corn Laws , Lord Jolm Russell ' s celebrated jw burgh letter being a well contrived p iece of P ° "' jockeyism , intended to forestall his rival , Sir J * Peel , and was , in fact , a bid for power . w ° , jj , e ment which Ireland has received at tho hands oi Whigs may be sumined up in one word— ' Coel ^ The Whigs are tho most conceited and tho mocontemptible of politicians . They talk « 3 w „ alone could govern the country . Lord Jon" \ j ,-pouts and frets , and plays the part of ' " ] 8 ji boy , ' to the infinite amuaemenk and ^^ f ! k cOl . intelligent men ; and when in office he aU gfc tho leagues by their trimming peddling policy disgu
nation . 0 [ The leading Whigs of tho last age wore niei ^ genius and courage . We look in vain among \ - successors for the masterly delineations ot 1 which distinguished Fox—the philosop hical ** of of Sir James ¦ Mackintosh—the sparkling ^ Sheridan—the gorgeous eloquence of ^ ur , fca iid straightforwardness of Whitbread , or tho m ° % o . manly bearing of Rotnilly . Where are the rep B tatives of these great names ? We will » oi ^ the memory of the dead by naming in ord er 3 mediocrity and heartless stupidity which tutof the living would suggest . , ^ e The fulsome adulation of the Whig print 9 . ** & outrageouB impudence of tho Whig chiefs to ^ $ t on us , in this emergency , the fulfilment ot ^ r ^ dut y . We have performed it , and , for tue v [ it leave the wretched remains of a once p «»« j ^ cal party to prepare forfinal digsolution . "
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TERRORISM IN FRANCE . Itwill be seen , by reference to our Paris correspond dent ' s letter , that in unhappy France the work of * stb , the bloody course of oppression , is proceeding ati rapid pace . r s F »> w ' of our rea < ters have not read or heard furious demrav ife- 110 ? 8 £ f th . * Beign of Terror ' during the Irst Fr « ' nfrolntion . Few have not heard the statement , a thousand timea repeated , that the Jacobin ^ vreTea «? loo « thirsty set of wretches , desirous only of 1 'iberty to « o evil , and inspired with an uncon ^ oerab . ' e love for the destruction of human life . They feave heard too , of the September massacres , when fehepoi 'itical prisoners in Paris were slaughtered by the- ear ag ^ ^ people . It would be well , however , if those who * denounce Robespierre , and Marat , and St . Jusi "» would study the history of the period , . before t » ^ ey ventured to pour forth maledictions upon nit n w ^ ° may ^ ave ^ a ^ faults—and what man has con e * ^ a * wno were a ^ so possessed of great and endeari , n S virtues—virtues calculated to win the esteem and tne admiration of all the peoples of the earth . There are men , wh ° ' ^ rom whatever cause , cannot find it in their hearts or to their interests , to laud Louis Bonaparte , the P resent Dictator of France . Some of them think tht ' ^ learned , well read in history , and capable v ^ 2 ni iiag on * u political jystems , governments ' arii * creeds . Many of these n the heat of their anti-B 0 NAPARTIST indignation , lave dared to place theDutcl ' bastard—the mad hero ) f Strasbourg and Boulomjue . i he 8 reat tandit ca P taiD > fthe 2 nd of December in comparison with the Fhermidorean martyrs of ' tha " enwcratio Republic > ans of * 9 i . "
The Star Of Freedom Saturday, July !O, 1853.
THE STAR OF FREEDOM SATURDAY , JULY ! O , 1853 .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 10, 1852, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1686/page/4/
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