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THE STAR OF FEE ED 01. SATURDAY, JUfii: l?, 1852.
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THE CAUSE OF LABOUR. THE CITY WORKING TAILORS' ASSOC1AT1OK.9S f!1iilnm.«treet.Fenchurch-street. City.
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A few working men holdhig the conviction that co-operatiou is the best means of elevating their condition , and tisat of the class to which they belong , have formed themaeJvesinto a body for the purpose of carrying on business for themselves W fe principle o £ Associated Labour , at the above address , and earnestly appeal to auwho ara desirous of rescuing the working men from their present degrading position attendant upon the infamous slop and sweating system . They especially depend upon their brother workins men of other associations to give them their support . They pledge themselves to deal honestly by their customers , in supplying only genuine articles , and charging a fair and moderate price ; and no effort shall be wanting on their part to give satisfaction to those who may . favour them with a trial . Chables Boweh , Manager .
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G 0 I . D ! QOX . S ! C 5 OM 9 ! RATIONAL GIFT SOCIETY X 1 for EMIGRiTION TO AUSTRALIA , Office , 13 , Toltenlwm-coart fthirtsen doors from Toltenham-court . road ) , Navr-road , St . l'ancras , London . ssssss ^^ ssjss ^ aSSJ ? ber of working men should associate tosetherfaud by the gifts 7 " ONE SHHI . INC EACH , A ceitain r . uaber should be enabled without expense to themselves to receive a
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HPHE FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE sa tafcsASSKBSaMa m umte " ° "aaffis " ¦ " •«• AND FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE . . _ . . . ( First . Series . ) 1 S 51 * JZ fn i ^ ? ° KEPI ! BU (! 41 ' F"IE ««> OF THE PEON * , thepubSf r ! m clotn ' one ™ ' * ri <* Gs . Cd ., may be had ot London : James Watson , 3 , Que 2 n ' s Head-passase , Paternoster-
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LETTERS FOR WORKING MEN . NO . XlIL-YOT ^ EmSESTATIYES . TO THE EDITOB OF THE STAB OF FREEDOM . SIR , —Tlie scam is indeed uppermost this time . If last ' Parliament was bad , what is this ? And what is t he character of that constitutionally-qualified electoral body , which chooses Bach a Parliament as its 'fit and proper' rep resentative ? What shall wo say of the qualifications of constituencies which unequivocally reject such men as Ewart , Cardwell , Vox . Horsman , and Czeorge Thompson ; which put
the pgople ' s candidates , jxewton ana uomngaam , in minorities of one to seven and one to three ; which throw out the truest of the true-hearted , brave old Color . el Thompson ; which place an approved Mend like Daucombe only second beat ; which , even in Manchester , can poll , on some special ground of bigotry , four votes for five , against the very fittest of fit men for Manchester—their own John Bright ; and which pride themselves on a stroke of clever policy in Carlisle by identification of pious peacemen with the bloodstained letter-opener—the man who would not vote against Hogging in the militia , and subserviency of Chartists to the man who is The electors h
opposed to Universal Suffrage ? ave Bhown themaelvea-as I said lastweek , quite fit tobe wretchedly represented ; have shown themselves incapable of patriotism , ignorant of principle—not very knowing eTen in most commonplace matters of policy—fickle , tricky , poor-spirited , mean , and slavish . And the non-electors ? Have not they done their duty ? Did they not hold op ' perfect forests of hands' in favour of the men of their choice ? Certainly , and in lots of places ; and generally , the bigger the non-electoral forest for , the greater the electoral majority against . But how big is a ' forest V Seven thousand " nien assembled , it . / is said , on
Stepney-green , on the day of nomination for the Tower Hamlete . * Every hand in the densely-packed assembly was held up for Newton . ' What then ? A poor Whig idol— ' with front of brass , and feet of cTqy '—comes in with ? , 728 vote 3 , at the head of the poll . Add all Newton ' s voters to the assembly on Stepney-green—supposing that there were no electors in that—and you hardly can be sure that Newton was tho people ' s man . There is so little difference in the numbers , that , even with Universal Suffrage , on this showing , Clay might have come in . I am not speaking here of my own opinion of what lay ¦ underneath , but referring to what comes out upon the surface : and I say there is little to sluno that
Clay might not have beaten Newton , even ¦ w ith Universal Suffrage . And for this I blame the working classes . There was , perhaps , some use in putting up Newton , in the face of the certainty of his reject tion , if the object was only to ascertain how many of the electors would standby him ; but there would bave been infinitely more use had there been any showing of the real numbers of the people for him * . Near eight thonsatii fox Clay , and , adding non-electors , about eight thousand for Newton—is no argument for Universal Suffrage . But if you had held a people ' s election at the same time , and polling places for non-electors , and polled your eighteen thousand for Newton , that would have been some
argument for Universal Suffrage . It is not too late , even m > w . Let it now be clearly shown —let it he clear , not onl y to friends , bat to opponents—that the majority , and not a mere majority , bnt an overwhelming majority of the adult male inhabitanis of the Tower Hamlets , elect William Newton , ar . d refuse either Clay or Butler , and one step at least will be taken toxrards the enfranchisement of the people . The same thing might be done in Yvcstir . iiister , iB . -ilcing the question clear—Coninghatn and Manhood Suffrage , against either Shelley or Evans , and a restricted Suffrage , no matter whero tha restriction . « Thousands of hands'
, says the * Leadrr , ' ' were " flourished aloft in the air" for Mr . Codngham . ' . Is it too much trouble for these flocr ] slii ; i ; ' hands to . sign a petition , against tho ' represoHtatires" who . da not represent them—a petition showing -arho and what the petitioners are ; and let Sir J . Shelley or Sir D . L . Evans deny tho right of these petitioners , all or [ some , to be consulted in a matter of their own Government . Give names and adilres-f-s in proof ' f the misrepresentation now imposed upon you . Even tbat once setting yoar hands to papor will be of nioreuso than fifty times * flourishing aloft '—a process of which honest men . wifh » nr
little amount ot carnestcess in them , mav well get ashamed and tirad . And now , will any oue consider whut tho people have gained b y this election , whether by the acts of the electors or of the non electors . They havo gained the disgrace , the damning dishonour of Carlisle , the proof that working-men can be Whi glsli , can ally themselves with rascality for the sake of eome poor promise of advantage ; they aava gained tiho opportunit y of a few election speeches on the hustings ; they have gaiued tlie almost need-Jess proof that privileged electors no where care to any great extent for the wishes of the non-electors
tney Have gamed such credit as is due to men whose highest sense of public duty seems to consist in yelling at their opponents and flourishing their hands in the air for their friends . As all this is experience , of however unhappy a aort , wo will hope that there is some gam in it . But however necessary the lesson of trtia election , it is a necessit y most disheartenin g and deplorable . You . ask for ri ghts , and you show no understanding of duty ; you declaim against your governors and your inactivity and careless apathy prove yon to be just fit for such Government . If Universal Suffrage means anything , it means the opportunit y for every one to serve his country it is the £ f' ? w T " ° U haTe * ° Pa ^ tLrnt plant in that so , l , your clamour for the right is little
S « f * an « fi aU ™ P erfanence > and your incapacity almost justifies the usurpation of the privileged . « £ S £ "J M ° > worWng-raenl Owd I am not forgettmg that there are some patriots among you ) if the mass of you will be Wiriggish or selfish in your conduct , Whig representatives and Whi * Ministers are the fittest for you . If you cannoi distinguish between brave princi ple and the shirW aptitudes ofanuapnnc : pled cowardice , Lord John Russell and his gang , or D . rb . r , or Cobden , by wav of changeTare IZ FT T ter 3 " ThG P ° litic W Peel , SS filled | p ^ i KfXi- ^ --Uecocw knocked to pieces between the tvo faction * - jeudalism and capital : set thoronirhlv * m «« i ? . S £ ? L .
wmsm wms K m that »; ° H ? f . P <> ^ es . Show by some honest daring Bil ^ s » tf sass fc = ^ ttsn&szzSLirsszs Cease to wake Tourselves worthy ouy of the J 1 . S nysjsr ** ^ ^ ai B& -Sri iJ ^ &Tbiff ^ SSL ? ! atter of surprise - Spabtaccs .
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ihe Chkese axd tiie Last Dat ofJthe Year Thehqt iT , ? ^ r * " ordinarily , with ' the Chinese d , ™ of » f and of mutual annoyance ; for , bavin- at this period m » de np their accounts , they arc vehement !? engaged Si gettagtjBm in ; ana every Chinese being at once creditor and hu 3 hr ?? ° " eSe ! s J Mating hi * "ebtoM an * *™ £ I- V f " - He returns from his neighbour's % ** £ fhJf- dmands for whaLtbat a neighbour C ^ hi ^ f ^^^^ ^ e rnsh ; nuu Sr ^ S £ ^^^ ± !!* — — < - « u
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In the Matter of an Act to diasoUe the National Land Company , and to fepoie of the Lands and Property belonging to the Company , and to Wind-up the undertaking , and of the Joint Stock Compaiies' Winding-np Acts of 1848 and 1819 . T WILLIAM GOODCHAP , of No . 67 , Cheap-- » 5 . side , in the City of London , the Official Manager , appointea to Wind-up the affairs of this Company , ao hereby give notice , tnat under and by virtue of the power and authority for that purpose delegatcdto me by Richard Richards , Esq ., the Master of the mgn Court of Chancey , charged with the Winding up of this Company- ^ - shall , on Wednesday , the eighteenth day of August next , and sucn followin ? . lays respectively as I shall find necessary or « ped « mt , at ten of ths ciock ia the forenoon on the said days respectively , now sittings at the Swan Hotel , situate at Rickmansworth , in the w »|« J of Hertford , in the cases in which I have received notice , according to the provisions of the first above-mentioned Act trom any person or persons to whom any part of the land ana hereo « aments of the O'ConnorvUle Estates , situate at , or near , i « ckmansworlh aforesaidin the said last-mentioned Act referred to ,
, _ has been allotted in manner in the said Act mentioned , rehnqmsninsall title to such allotment or allotments , and claiming compensationfor his , her , or their expenditure anftloss in respect tueteot , to proceed to ascertain b y the best and most economical means in ray power -whether and to what amount the value of the capital ana labourexpeoded by such aUotteeorallotteesouhis , her , ortheir allotment or allotments , andother the loss incurred by him , her , or tnem by reason of his , her , or their occupation of such allotment or allotments , have exceeded the value to such allottee or allottees of his , her , or their occupation thereof , and the advances of Aid money , seed , stock , or goods , made to him , her er them , out of the funo * oj the Company , and to ascertain the amount of such excess . And also to investigate and adjudicate upon the title of every person who shall come before me at such time or times , and in such manner as I shall direct , claiming title to any allotment of any _ part of the said lands and hereditaments at Rickmsnsworth aforeside , as having at
any time be ? n made in accordance , or in presumed accordance , with the rules of the Company , for the time feeing supposed to be in force , and to whom no conveyance or demise thereof has been tnaue in manner in the said last Aot mentioned . And further , to determme the sum ( if any ) , by way of rent for his past occupation , to be paid by each antl every such claimant who shall so prove his title after making all just allowances ( including an allowance for the subscri ptions pawl by suth claimant ) . Ana I farther gne notice , thatany ofthecontributories , or alleged contributories of the said Company , will be at libertpto attend such sittings respectively , and tbat all person or psrsons claiming any such right or title , as aforesaid , must come in before me at the time and place aforesaid , and eHtablishsuch claim , or they will be excluded the benefit of the said Act to dissolve the National Land Company . Dated this fourteenth day of July , one thousand eight hundrefi andfifty-two .
William GoodchAp , Official Manager , 6 T , Cheapsida . Tucker and Son , Sun Chambers , Threadneedle-street , Solicitors for the Official Manager .
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i ^ T All communications for the Editor must be addressed to Kb 4 J ?™ tt Jwick-row , Queen ' s-equare , IJloomsbury , London . ' ' ^ Orders , applications for placards , &e , &c ., must be addressed to JohnEezer , 'Star of Freedom' Office 18 ^ , rieeUtrTefton j ^ M * $$£ X ££ ade Payabl 6 to J <* a ** er , atthe Kews-agents and friends desirous of exhibiting Bills of Contents will jgv athem sent post-free on forwarding their a ^ dressl o the pub The lat e WESj-mnsT £ a Electiok . — We have received th efoHowine from a correspondent : — . ^ " Uila ctu £ ons fact > b " . s 0 ! t . - ? u lar S constituencies are ma . naged by a clique ; aud this arises from the simple cause , th :. t the representation is every one ' s buaine . -s ; and ' hence na one inter fereBwith those who choose to make it theirs ' "In theCity of London , Sydney Smith and Mr . Ledffer . nnflertho ot
uue one icegutration aociety , manage Mr . travers who through twin , manages the City Constituency . lraTer 3 » ™ ° > "In Wdltminslcr the represenbuionisnow macaRedbv CoT >» oek Drumagen : Parkes , whose antecedents could so well be exnlained by Mr . Muntz ; and Patent RU » , tho last joint in the tail of the old defunct rump . It is true , in 1816 , these worthies did pretend to cansultan association , then in existence , but rapidly decomno sing ; and through them the aged Mr . Lu 3 hington was fastened upon Westminster to prevent the success of a popular candidate who , however , did succeed at another place . This object beinir Rttamed . thjngs have been allowed to sleep uniil . from some cans unexplained , he ( Mr . Lushwgton ) desired to withdraw from Par liament ; but he , un'itie Mr . Leader , did not openly and honour ! abl his intention to withdraw
y announce , but , true to the instinct OJ his class , communicated his secret intention to his elfnnp « -Hh sever breathed the subject , but covertly negociated with Kerm . 1 Oaborne to supply the vacancy ; he , however , declined to leave the county , but . recommended an Irish friend . ' Somehow or ofti this escaped , but not before the astute Patent Pills had opened ™ a private communication with Mr . Shelley , andthu ^ uffidthe cunning attorney , now Master in Chancery . This brought out Charlfy Napier , who was disposed of by being informed that Mr Sheley was adopted by that ' large and influcS boS- u £ Westminster Reform Society , and Charley instantly wiiLJr not bans awaieef the fact , tbat the said soSHhL ^ S ' alde . to bold a mating for the past thrwi yea « owZfn ?>« paucity of numbers and that , in truth , the saM mri « - i-5 ^ BM ^ vU ^ t ^ ^ p ^ in&S ^ Si ^ SS
"These circumstances not having been awrf-. ! ,,,,, * « m r . Lord Maids-one h :. d been decided uponat theSSr ¦ , a HI * f'W popularity of General Evans rendering ft ^ osgfble tl »^ T - £ Eiicceed , Mr . Coningliam , without preparation " let erli i T . whether Westminster had left her priSe 7 or wl . PTwl F tors were , as Sir Francis Burdett kid J phmVes ^ fL ° i f i " sioadrawnU , that Sir Frai . cis was right * But " nJw ? i- *" hardiy fair , for Mr . Coningbam had not tiae to faW ? l ^' issue , and this difficulty was accompanied whTatS ¦?? X ^ cry , instigated by secret Atheists and libeS ^ eS ^ hSS ? pose was answered , and most successfully , but nX !« » t Sall fb « e ffiaulT . atages , Sir De Lacy Evan ' s ^ ffiSg ^ ftS him the tlnvd place on Uie po'l , the Derby candidate-,, \ himattwooVlock ,:: ccoruingtooneState meI S K both agree that the Whig candidate was lowest Then i ? operationtl , epreviouSlvcoscoctedmovement , ofa 3 nianv a ? Cm , ifl ba R ot . togosftpamelj , and tecder their disinteresfe ^ ad Jc 1 « Mr . Coningham to withdraw ; and this was crowned with a SJm deputation to advise Mr . Comngbam , for his own renmSl witnoxaw
S : « e , TO , or the Uerby raan must come in . Dorine tui process a poster was being got reaSy to post on the boards 'Hasten to the poll , Mr . Coningham has not a chance VoteL Evans and Shelley , or the Tory must succeed ' ° ^ aqs-iaasss
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local committee rooms , ' not to spare expense for cabs , and to repay voters any sum that cab 9 might cost them for going to the poll ; ' or was it the cry of' awalte thou that sleepest , and arise from the dead , ' which caused voters , who for years had been sleeping in their graves , to present themselves and record their votes for Evans and Shelley , and then evaporate into thin air ? if dead men tell no tales they may vote nt elections ! " It should be recollected that Mic Whigs and Tories wasted no monev in printing to defame each other , but directed all tUeir slander to prevent the success of progress represented in the lieform candidate . ' We have no case , " said the attorney , ' abuse the P "Solomon advises , 'In all your gettiogi get understanding , ? ov knowledge is better than riches . ' This is all very well . . ^ in election matters money will obtain votes , and morality mil not . It was well remarked by one of Evans ' s committee , after tue election— 'I now see , after all , that Evans and Shellej only reprewnt the bricks and morter ; it was ths house iu which 1 live speaking ; my manhood had nothing to do with it . '
" The contusion , then , is , dispute it how we may , that cunning is , lor the purposes of this life , better , far , than integrity and un derstanaing . " Monies Received for the Refugees and handed to tlie committee . —J . Livesey , Preston , £ 1 ; Cheltenham Republican Committee , par J . Glover , 6 s ; Wra . WhUeUeaiJ , Braco , 2 s . fly Dehocbatic Refdoee Committee . — The members are hereby respectfullj informed that the committee will henceforth meet every Monday evening , instead of Wednesday . Members are re . quested to attend on Monday evening next , July 19 th , at the Committee ' s regular place of meeting , the Institution , Johnstreet , Tottenhara-court-road . Jons Motes . —AVe will write . G . March , Briyhttingaca . —Receiroa . lhanks . Family . Colonisation Society—In answer t . o several correspondents , we have to say that , any information respecting this society may be obtained by applying , personally , or by letter , to Mrs . Chisholro , 3 , Chnrlton-crcscent Isl [ f "' ,,, Ui London ; or at 29 ,
Buckiersbuvy , City . If application be made by lettir , two stamps must be enclosed for a reply . Emigbation by Government Aid . — Applications for governmental emigration assistance should be addressed S . Walcot , Esq ., Government Emigration Office , Park street , "Westminster . The Subscription fob Eubopean Freedom . —Sir . —In one of the last Nos . of the " Friend of the People " you kindly published the address of the Committeo , calling the people of this country for a " Subscription for European Freedom . " The terms of the Subscription are;— ' One Shilling each from every earnest friend of Freedom ; oue shilling yearly , if the continuance of the struggle shall require it > md the sum so collected shall be paid iu' 0 the London and Westminster Batik to the joint credit iu Joseph Mazzvniand Louis Kossuth for the us > e Of the European Democratic Committee . ' Other good arraWments of this excellent plan U , that t ' ne money so suuat . 'J ? * U « U not be \ ised for any particular nation , ' nor for any local preparation ,.. *)! . fov any par-Val attempt but for the European war whenever and wherever
that shall again break out . ' The subscription is wisely ' Umitod to a shilling from each person , in order to obtain the greatest possible number ot subscribers . ' 'To see how many of us really care for the freedom of nations . ' I had hoped , af ' . er such publicity had been given to this nobleundertaking , andaf teryou had de . voted an article calling upon all democrats to subssribe , and expressed your willingness to receiVS subscriptions , an immediate aud energetic response would bave baen tl ?? r ? 9 « ltr I thought tho sacredness of ths object would have come home to the minds of thousand ^ and n high sen » e of duty would have prompted to itnmediate action . But sadly have I been disappoiuted , a cold in . differentism and apathy appears to pervade on this all-important undertaking . I have anxiously sought to discover whether tha project itself contained any reasonable obstacle te its success , but in vain . I can find nothing but what should command the
sympathies ana co-operation of the moat lukewarm worker in the "Jorious cause ofnutnan emancipation and progression . It is notyeit !> la . 'V its triumphant success , if all those who be . lieve in the Eguai ^ J . Liberty , and Fraternity of nations will but bestir thora 8 elyes in this matter . Let us P ' ove out' devotion to those holy principles by obtaining material moans for those brothers who will yet ere long have to renew the combat against the leagued iniquity of despotism and c ^ e-for us , and for vt ! a ™™ . v le w y are enSa 8 ° a in bftttle the least we fcaft ( Jo Sm OSSfcbefow Uiea 8 Ilt Iet us P''ePare- ' let It not be S ^ S ^ it ^ ffl' ^^ wia not i » oteslprac « cally against our ' goyernmenffor the dishonourable part it took iusilontly permitting , and seeretely conninngat , the subjugation of heroic Hungary , martyred Poland , and the glorious Koman Republic . Let it not , above all , be said we are negli Kent of our dutv to God and to tha truth . —jAMEs Gmtes , Cheltenham , July Hth . " — ' — — J ^ -.. - » f , » r w-,-, if- if- ii j-r , | , i ^ i —* r ~ IT i ill mi
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QN raUBSfflSaifflh ,, M , n «« n r ^ e ^ t P ublic Meeting will be held at the Globe Tavern ari ^ Tea Gardens , Me End Road in honour nf M » w ««? £ rnan > - who onbehalfOftl . AaiS ^ tfciJte 2 ' ¦ f % S # gitlfjH sfSSSSar SMSSws ^ t ^ o ' o aPph . "ation should be made for tickets to the underBiBned at the Comnttttee-room , London Hospital Tavern , WhitXpeS Wsr . Davis . Sec .
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TO THE ELECTORS OF WESTMINSTER nExNTLEMEN .-Permifc me to return you my tVelaK ' teS ° rthe SUPr " ° ° ** * tffifl * ed me !» The zeal you have displayed , and the ' kindnoss with which vou a ' futuTc deft !!" " * > l inlerprct aS tOkCns Of W ^ ccess > O a t fr « m it ! l th w pMse l l r n iinit 6 d fran ^ iisB ttie P ^ ple iaVirtuallv excluded from the House of Commons . I shall therefore make and 1 ein on you to make , Manhood Suffrage our watehnwd ftr he foiure The advocacy of this great principle , and of other praSicklnwa . ot 1 arhament , and the re-afljustment of constituencies I con « ider Btitutions ary these ; uri'y ^ dpeaceful maJntotowc ' e ofTurto-I beg toi reiterace my conviction of the necessity of a « vstem of S ^^^ "S 5 t ^ - rfal ^ •^"""• WoW
Relita » T , ' pS 1 ''n" mcairain to thank you for the courteous treatment I have experienced at jour hands , and to assure you that , however ? reat may have beea the provocation , I haveS intentionally exceeded the bounds of faif discussion . . I have the honour tote , pentlem ' en , 26 , Sussex-square , Brighton , WtttUK CoNI - SOIIAMl July 12 th , 1852 ;
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THE PEOPLE AND THEIR PRECIOUS PARLIAMENT . Wo have been twitted with our indefensible op . position to the Middle Classes , and assured , upon the most ' respectable' authority , that the Middle Classes were with us in spirit , and willing to use their political privilege iu assisting us to attain our Rights . What think you now of your friends , the independent voters , most sagacious informants % Is our opposition any longer inexplicable to you ? Were our fears &
and warnings justified ? Are not our predictioas too fatally verified ? We never believed that the Middle Classes were any other than the sworn enemies of the unenfranchised . We had no faith in their honesty and sincerity , when we were asked to join them , and go for the suffrago in part , not because the vote was an universal right , but because expediency was the wiser course , and a movement in the right direction . We know that if the Middle Classes tere with us £ i ! < * W ° Sho »! d l ^ e political freedom '
SS , ,. , they would not have enabled the treacherous Whigs to pass their infamons Gagging and Alien Acts in SS l * V UPPOr i ° ^ i ' could ™* ter one huudced thousand special Constables in the streets of London . If they had willed us to be free in 1848 when the heart of all Society was yearninir for change , and the spirit of Revolution was stirring on the face of the deeps , they would have assisted us to sweep away a miserable mockery of . a Government which was bolstered by bullying Wromr » d ufvl
bum up one which should have been based on the hearts and suffrages of the whole people ? But ! no der thesWy of the t £ 8 alHhe SSelVTt 55 fi PnflWe ' the pre 8 ent 8 tat 0 « f things for tl " Middle Classes to _ give us Universal SuffiXJ ?^
swamping tuemselves ; therefore , it is not like v tha once they were in power they would onen VaTi gates of their ow / politic / deStruc £ ^^ have iterated and reiterated , and if L «•„« . Z doubt as to the accuracy of our asser ons L I Election will have solv / d the qSstbn \ t Si Classes have pronounced : if there hud « £ tod anv earnest desire to aid us in thn ™ r ^? iatea , y K < r ^ a ™ , n ; ho ,. <;^ ««! ^ , realisation of ouv Rihts andlibertiesif
g , they UA Ls ^ T ^ conviction of the justice of our cla m " ^ * wish to grapple with the problem of l' i ? ^ l reconciling the antagonist ^ interests ST' T ° and Employed , this Election S Employers their own , would have aJSelt ^ f ^ l glorious opportunity of X ? tfr * ? ' world . We had but dI II \ 11 «"• rfto the country in whom we especTallftLT ^ ** ? they might have aided in reS " ! ti ' " SUFely liament , so that oneor tI ? S 2 XSl ?? f ar-I 51
num . worKiugmen tnemselves in S * «* i . , ' " "" they had noiuch desire , oSfiS" ^^ 5 , ° *' have returned one of the most rnfL ' and they incapable V ^ mJ ^^^' ^^ »•> which was ousted by Ckomwett ^ . theone farce of appealing to \ he p 2 " hJ £ * mlserable the mass lie b / en permiSft alt TS fi tion in the capacity of scene shifters JS , , EIec ; every instance the ' ehoice of the verilbk ^ ft " been scouted for some Sham OrJl P !? p l ° ha ? their election has been reveiSby \ SST ' " 4 the Middle Class . 7 tbeir friekd 3 of Never was the voice and infcerPRtn * c treated with more utter disregard | S \ $£ pe 0 ? le -S ; KA ^ fe 53 S
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chised had been at the hustings with a pulse of the old English fire in their hearts ; had such been , it would not have been quite so Bafe to have spurned the elect of the people . Thoy would have listened to our arguments ; but , like cowards , who always select the weakiest opponents before they commit themselves to fight , they know that the masses of the people are thoroughly emasculated , and have not the heart to resent insult , or wrong , and oppression . They are right ?; thoy may do as they pleastj—spit upon us , kick , cuff , scourge , and torturo us , we shall not turn upon them , we havo too much deference for our superiors , and too much respect for the Laws which it hath pleased them in their infinite graciousness to make for us .
Smitten stones will talk with fierjj tongue * , And the worm when trodden will turn-But , Cowards ! we cringe to tho cvuele ^ t wrongs , And answer with never a spurn ! Our Fathers ara praying for pauper-pay , Our Mothers with Death ' s kiss are white ! Our Sons are the rich man ' s serfs by day , Aud our Daughters his slaves by flig'Vc ! We are a people without spirit , p vnd if we had the spirit we have no time to § R 9 \ v it } and then , r ^ ch avo the beautiful arrangements of society which surround us ! You can afford to disregard us . 0 , Tyrants , you may whip us , and work us , and wear us to death , we shall only grin and bear it ; there is no danger of au explosion , nor of retribution ! Good
God ! what will not Englishmen eubmit to and suffer ? poor , miserable , servile slaves , as they are , They will work ten times tis hard as ~ gali 6 i ^ P negroes in the Slave States Or America ; they " will stoop to do that which a savago would consider de-^ S . uation and pollution ; they are content to toil and suffer barbarities unknown in workhouses or prison , in order that they may live ! They are content to see one man consume at a meal more than would suffice to purchase them provisions for a life-tim « ; they are content to pass by preserves of game , and look upon nature ' s feast of plenty , which they must not touch , even while their wives and children do not taste meat from month to month . From the time of
infancy to untimely age , their lives are one heartsickening round of toil ; they wear tho harness of Life mili ! H cuts into the very heart strings , atid what they atw in ifeats tWir children will reap in misery ; they ai ' e used up , bought , sold , and destroyed , even before birth , for they are pawned before they are born , to an inheritance of the old serfdom . They are the veriest slaves on God ' s earth—ignorant slaves , and cowardlv because they are ignorant . Truly , tjere is a mi g hty woi'k for tn « C hoseS rew to accomplish , in arouslSg this people to a sens'd of tbeir degradation and misery , and in preparing them for the journey up out of tho Egypt of their slavery , and they wiii u ? ed a zeal that is un wearing , and a faith which never tires . In our New Parliament the Middle Classes will have made one more tremendous
stride toward their throne of power , and we have no meatsB to arrest or frustrate them . It is necessary that they should exhibit the darkest side of their tyranny in the clearest , broadest light . We have only had a glimpse of it yet ! The consecration of civilised cannibalism , aud the terriblest tug of illimitable Competition ' s warfare have yet to come . This Parliament will not give us an identity of interests ; it vr . Ul do nothing towards abolishing the proletariat slareiy of speculation in man by man j ft will not legislate to better * human misery by freeing human nature and
giving it a fair vantage ground for its fight , with the tyranny of circumstances . That ia our work—that is our combat—and our turn will come . They cannot grapple with the iron and inex'orab e logic of the nineteenth centuyy . They have nothing but nostrums and expediencies , where tho crying miseries of the injured masses demand remedies and principles , Oar turn comes next , and though it may be a sorry consolation , it is a certain one , that tnoagh we can do no better than they will , it is impossible we should do worse . For the present , we have to work and wait , to sow the seed in certain faith that the harvest will come .
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THE AUSTItlANS IN ITALY
The atrocities of Austrian tyranny in Italy as revealed during the past week , are such as to awaken feelings of horror and indignation i n the breast of every man not altogether devoid of natural sympathy with his fellow creatures , or degraded to the lowest depths of the most brutish selfishness . The cruelties perpetrated by these merciless monsters would mako us blush for humanity , were it not that wo cannot ook upon such brutal assassins as members of the human family ; their crimes exclude them from the pale of humanity , and they can only be considered as demons in human guise , inveterate enemies of
manin S ? K 1 fV Ita ¥ Imd batLed th ™ ^ Uds m the blood of some of their oppressors , though assassmation is never to beapproved , there would have been Some excuse for the commission of the crime Italians are dail y treated with insult and contempt , hey are driven about like dogs , they are cut 2 imprisoned , or shot , by a brutal soldiery , and tha soldiery composed of foreigners . In such a state it would be very natural that they should seek by all and 8 ttf
every raean revenge themselves upon their dastardl y oppressors . But the Austrians have for their assassinations no such excuse . They are not oppressed and trampled on . They are not Uzed in their own houses , and torn from the arms of their lamiuos , to be cast into dungeons , while innocent of r ? L T- ' T ^ , ? allaDS ar e all that ; parents are torn fiom their children , children from their parents , husbands from their wives . No matter how guiltless they may be , they are seized and cast into nrison for
a word , a look . It is enough that it be discovered rt £ i tl £ ™ f beea ins P ired ^ P atriotic thought , to have heaved a sigh for the triumph of justice , and the freedom of their native land , to be pounced upon , and hurried away , bound in chains , and loaded with the insults and violence of their cowardlv conuuctors . J We have heard how tho Austrian terrorism was supported not onl y by the most abominable and most savage cruelty , and b y a whole host of spies . We i'l ° i }\ mheendea to / ork
^ : ^ JJ ™ F upon the fe ars and hopes of prisoners , and their relations , and of persons suspected . They will put the prisoner to the torture , in order to make him reveal what he knows , and wishes to conceal , or what he never knew They will promise him life and liberty on condition of revealing to them the conapiracy in which he took a part ; or under physical tortures extort an . accusation against those whom , perhaps , he never saw , so that they may have a further opportunity of gratifying crtuv * ' tf T > \ eXercisiD S their £ oni « J cruelty . By threats or bribes thev endeavour t « mnVo
toe vita or the betrothed divulge the secrets of her husband or W , or bid her save him from the exe 5 . Son ^ an ? 8 ing a " v She kD ° ° tat %£ , tw t ' k j 1 ? 001 ^ 1 ^ and S then inform her ^^ 32 £ && & , s * ^^ £ jr ^ - ^ * - ^ P 5 Some may wonder that such a state of things con tmurstoexst . They may say , thatifthe SflwJ wwlyeaort to bow their necks to the yoke o such au abommable despotism , they are worthy of infl&W f * W the W 1 "P from which Siey suiter should be turned into scorpions
. T > ,, t , i \ T , ¦•• -wvr-. J »» WUW , Italh ^ % f r , are . C 0 Dtent t 0 te «> > the Italuns will ( to be free if thoy had bat the power . J ^ TT erm lTlyrS attest the truth of * S * t ™ thL , * ? Tf 1 * Ua £ coas P ires ; everywhere throughout Italy , have there been combats-the beginmngof the great combat which shall result in a final triumph of Freedom . Overwhelmed by brute i ° Sv \? , iaV ° f ^ erwilliogly rested in their slavery . of Kli Tt - T ^ watered *** tho bl ood N , 2 i wll !~^* - nih 0 haVebeen ^ streetsof Naples , Milan , and Venice , and the b attlements of old
a , ioJ «« ! f fv ° ' m ° A martFS now ; drunken with success , the dehnous despotism is goading Italy on before We doubt not but that that struggle will speedily commence , and end in the triumph of the Italian Republic , one and indivisible , and the bravery and devotion of the Italian people be repaid at S with freedom and with happiness *""* . «" WnV ' i S ° f Italy are no * coward 3- ^ there be cowards , they are we , they are the British people , who are sunk m the mire of degradation and apathy their groveling minds conceiving no higher object for which to hve than mere material welfare . If they would rouse themselves , and taking possession of that power which is theirs when they will it , they could to-morrow drive the Aurtrian murderers from
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Italy , and establish there the ri ght of JurtilTT inaugurating the Italian Democratic Republic . y
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our municipal institutions , ann p arochial « jacks * , in office It must have been very apparent to our countrv friends especially , that when the Hungarian hew Ivoss-uth , trumpeted the virtues of our Munici pal In * stitutious with such praises and laudations , he know very little about the working of thorn . Thoy are doubtless , very admirable machinery to counteraer the centralisation of power in the bauds of a tyrant ' supposing they are held by a virtuous , onlightencf
mm iiDerty-ioving people . But the Peon \ O-tU masses who are unenfranchised-have no more ream sentation in the Municipal Government than thev have in the House of Commons ; and their Local Governments aro far more oppressive than the national one . For instance , tho tyranny of the Na " « tional Legislation works blindly , and crushes tha People in the gross mm ; but the Lo ? . al one oruuV . thorn iu detail , andean ein ^ lo out , any obnoxious M ( iivmual tor 8 pecQ puuiehment . In most parishes almost everybody is known to everybody—his
business , Ins opinion , and everything respecting hhn _ much better than he knows himself . Anulp become known that a man will not go ch «» JV * ° . ? with things as tV 1 ; • Clleek-by . ] oxvl in Po liH- ; -f y , a ^ e , and that he is a free thinker ^ s or Behgion , and he is at once a marS man , a black-sheep , to be persecuted then ceferft even to the third generation , in all kinds of petty 2 miserable ways . We could adduce innumerabS illustrative instances of the working of this parochial oppression , and there is not a parish in the land but is rife with them . We remember a most painful anil mournful one which occurred at Uxbridge , whe-e » conscientious tradesman , who dared to proclaim h \ 8 political convictions , was ruined in business by tho parochial powers taking the initiative in canvas <« n «
too "Higher orders' to aign an agreement not to deal with that man . Poor Fellow ! he was driven to seek a home where the free daro to be—in tho Land of the West—and where the insults and oppression of Parochial « Jacks' in Offioe could no longer reach him We should like all those who glorify these institutions to get a taste of their working . In this wiselet them stand in the condition of a poor man , or weeping trembling woman , solicitin g aid of a set of bullying Poor Law Guardians , and
wia-^ ue ath their observations a . nd . contumely , u . ] li (> , - ^ mat * ?« .- " - ' . : • - ? ww * i « > 7 * » iu — . « v u \ o na rush hot to tuu ~ vmi , aiiactimgoa to the brow ; Or let them stand before a bloated , pi < r . headed , hard-hearted specimen of our Great Unpaid ^ the Magistracy , charged with the . commission of some trivial crime , and guilty of the far more fatal and punishable crime pf Poverty—and if they think highly of the working of our Municipal System after that , we will forgive them , TneY do just as tkey please with the poor—rob them , ^ be tuem > imprison them , transport them , just as suitJ their choler , or their eagerness to satiate their gluttouoC 3 lust - The y never administer Justice with the bandau ' 9 over llor eyes—not they ; they like to see what they are ' about «
tnougn us a desperate struggle for them to do so •/ * the belohings of wine , or the fumes of fatness , viu continuall y rise from their stomach and blind their eyes , as well as their mental vision . There Is no public opinion to bear upon them , and question tlieir wisdom ; no newspapers to assail their unfitness ana , injustice , as there are in the Metropolis , andao they have their full swing . Would to GOB they had ours it should often be a hempen one ! And we are quite sure that it would be impossible to empannel a jury ot the poor , in any one of the counties , who would kio ? return a verdict of * Justifiable Homicide . ' tC look at the way m which our Bastilles are managed A . coin / act is entered into to keep the paupers for 3 s . 6 d . per' week a head , and they are starved on
about eighteen pence , the contractors pocketin * tue profits . And to iu ° ar the revelatious which thc ° poor have to make respecting the treatment of their rola * tiros in those devilish de ^ s , is horrible—most honl-We . We havo listened to tht > " recital of honors which the dying and the dead have befiP subjected to , und which have made our flesh crawl , and caused us to invoke any vengeance , even were it that of Captain bwiNG , who should again make the midnight skies Maze with the consuming property of these Parochial Jacks m Office , and Municipal tyrants . Once let uie
poor get power , and wo shall have a long and fearful reckoning with these country magnates and local oppressors . We know them . Their tyranny ia persona ! , and not a vague shadowy system , which murders us m the dark , and with which u-e cannot grapple , because it is invisible . Theirs is a personal tyranny , and we shall have to deal with it personally And what a tyranny it is ! Feudalism never sub'ected humanity to so much degradation . It was left to our enlightened civilisation to crush human beings out of existence in the Workhouse , or frighten them from going there by means of their ferocious bulldog bullies , called « Rolieviug Officers . ' We have just met with le of these
a samp fellows in the person of the < Relieving Officer ' of Tring . in Hertfordshire . A rare mixture of the Fox and Bloodhound , most admirably fitted to do the villanous work at the gang called the 'Board of Guardians , ' who sit at Berkhampstead , in the same county and a most wooden board they are , too . This « Jack ' m Office is a professing Christian withal . A devout man , one of Calvin ' s lost and miserable sinners . He does the work of the parish at a Tow ? £ If t arves ' / at a lower mini ™ of expense , than any of his predecessors , and there were some cruel scamps among them ! And so the despicable poor devil keeps his place . He betrays 'Seed V !? - With a kiss > - ffllen « 'i 11 Jl ' * L ? ve th evirtue to hang himself ? He
>> . worms mto their confidence , learns what relations hey may have in the world , and then iaforms the JvSt \ ° l ' ' thafc so and so ha * no need 51 ' If - ' T f such and such a relative doing ZffJJ * ' ln f L ° ndon or elsewhere , and generally 52 f ds , . , g ^ S them cut off from the scanty pittance which might have been allotted to them . " But jew only one amon g many such -Jacks' in Office , in nine parishes out of ten , you will find the same evils at work , and all because the people , the poor , are not represented , and have no share in either national or municipal government-,, We can also assert for a fact , that at this same town of Tring , the Church Parson prevailed on the proprietor of the siik manufactory not to close his works nn th * Anv
ot the recent election , so that the workmen might not vote against the candidate supported by the parochial authorities . And the people , blind slaves ot their ignorance as they are ! submit to be ridden by priests and parsons , and parochial < Jacks' ia Utbce , almost without a rtiurmur . They are taught to believe that it is God ' s will that they should suffer , and that poverty is a kind of purgatory necessary to them for the glory and happiness which awaits them m the world to come ; and they believe it as devoutly , and fight for their faith as heroically ami as blindly as the followers of Mahomet sacrificing themselves in buttle to win the promised paradise of Houris , or the infatuated Hindoos , who lay down their devoted bodies beneath the bloodv wheels of the car of Juggernaut , to gain the heaven oi their aspirations .
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The Star Of Fee Ed 01. Saturday, Jufii: L?, 1852.
THE STAR OF FEE ED 01 . SATURDAY , JUfii : l ? , 1852 .
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DR . P . M . M'DOUALL .
I hero was a time , and that too during many years , when the name of Dr . M'Povau was never absent from the columns of this journal ( the Northern Star , ) m connexion with addresses , written and spoken , as able and eloquent as anything in the way of writing or oratory to be found in the annals of Chartism . Of late his name has been unheard of in connexion with what remains of the Movement , owing we believe , to tho twofold fact : 1 st . That there has been little in the way of ' Movement * to servo j 2 nd . That his time has been occupied in the laudable work of struggling to obtain for his family tbo means of honourable subsistence . We sincerely regret to learn that his efforts have been in vain . Included m the multitude of Britons forced by misgovernment and the cheerless prospect of the future to quit their native land ; for the most part » enot good heads and skilled hands , men of health , energy , and enterprise-the very 'bone aud smew of the stake-linked with tho names of theso voyagers to the Southern El Dorado will be that of Dr . M'Douall . Writing to us the Dootor says :-Deab Habnet , ^^ is ^ s& ^ ss ^ for mj sociT SS ° m ' £ X * Z fierce prejudices of mwelf ° Th eTw 0 Srt ? . ef 0 rmyf < lmily on even the 8 an * level witU U ^ Kj ; 3 iS ri ! itsMste
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, THE STAR OF FREEDOM . July 17 i
The Cause Of Labour. The City Working Tailors' Assoc1at1ok.9s F!1iilnm.«Treet.Fenchurch-Street. City.
THE CAUSE OF LABOUR . THE CITY WORKING TAILORS' ASSOC 1 AT 1 OK . 9 S f ! 1 iilnm . « treet . Fenchurch-street . City .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 17, 1852, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1687/page/4/
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