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THE STAR OF FREEDOM. SATUBDAF, JPJLY 24, 1853.
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GOLD! GOLD ! GOO> ! NATIONAL GIFT EMIGRATION SOCKET V. ¦ __
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TO AUSTRALIA , OR ANY OTHER PART OF THE WORLU . ' Many can help one , where one cannot help many . ' Office , 13 , Tottenhamcourt ( thirteen " doors from Tottenham-courtroad ) , New-road , St . Pancras , London . The late gold discoveries in Australia , and the Bf" * ^ " * ,. ™ labour experienced in both the agricultural ana commercial dis . Mm conKqnmton that fact , calling ^ loudly « J » the meang of emigration , it is proposed that a number of working men should associate together ; and by the gifts oi ONE IHIUIHS EACH , A certain number should be enabled without expense to themselves to receive a . FREE PASSAGE
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NOTICE ! CO-OPERATIVE CONGRESS . A full report of the proceedings of the Cooperative Congress which will assemble in London on Monday , July 26 th , will be given in the Star of Freedom of Saturday next , July 31 st . . ^ " Orders for extra copies should . be notified by or before Thursday , July 29 th .
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IfiTTERS FOR WORKING MEN . No . XIV . —5 ms Political Beavers . tO THE EDITOR OF XHB STAB 0 * FREEDOM . Sib , — Thomas Carlyle picks oat Hadeon , the great railway rogue , aa the pattern man of the age . I woald rather choose Feel . The present age is not so much a deliberate swindler as an apathetic obector to do good except upon compulsion . Like the bearer , which bites off its nasty bit of Self , to fling as a bribe to the pursuing destinies , only when itslife is in danger . In this secse Sir Robert Peel may be worthily exalted as the fit hero of an age of compromisere and wonihippers of instalments , and the slowest possible progress . Caat your bronze Btatnes frfTZTTOUC T ? fkT > TST / YRXTTNfl- 1 APLW
fry the dozen to him , ye good people of England , and , of course , let the working men subscribe largely , if . only to oblige Joe Hume , their old hin-< 3 erer and betrayer . He 1 b just the sort of man for jou to honour ; he is so like yourselves . Look at the * toff he is made of . The « Westminster Review' for 2 Mb month has a flattering appreciation of him ; but the beat the writer can say is that he was prudent , decorous , and a thorough man of business . Shrinking from risk , especially personal ; with no f&neeingplans ; his policy based upon no profound or well-digested system , upon no philosophic principle ; yielding when it became obviously necessary to do bo , when resistance might endanger the establishments that I wish to defend . Beautiful political beavership ! What he was is well expressed by Disraeli , —he was the greatest Member of Parliament that ever
lived ! Not a statesman nor a patriot , but a mere M . P ., the first of the Unprincipled . . And the amonut of merit due to him for his one ' great act , ' the Repeal of the Corn Laws , may be estimated by his own vords on opening Parliament in 1846 : — 'I hare thought it consistent with true Conservative policy that thoughts of the dissolution of our institutions should beforgotten in the midst of physical enjoyment . ' There is your idol , your representative , your pattern beaver . Te 3 ! the physical enjoyment of cheaper bread to men whose wageB are reduced to ten shillings a week ought indeed to make them forget the necessity 0 / altering ' our institutions . ' This is your
'benefactor , 'working men ! This is the knave whose lessons you are learning , taking , your turn of physical enjoyment , setting your , hearts on that , and forgetting that man may not live by bread alone . The chivalrous spirit of the working man seems to have died out with brave , devoted Henry Hetherington ; the spirit that remains is a sheering , conceited , atheistical spirit , which mocks at . honour and endeavour , provides for its young knavee , shakes dirty hands upon occasion with Hume or Graham , or any other of the master-profligates , and strikes onl y for advance of wages . You may well - -boose to worship and revere ( with such poor faculty
• 1 sham reverence as remains in you ) , a contemptible . tmnhng like Peel , our real English Jesuit , our poliidoal Archdeacon Paley , as plausible and as dishonest . Nor is it much to be wondered at that you should stoop to this Golden Calf ; little wonder that faith and high feeling have gone out of a race of politicians whose leaders know no faith , but the Devil ' s ' Gospel of Expediency . When the Utilitarian BenthamiBt Roebuck ,: and Bentham-abhorring Carlyle , agree on the one main point—that mights are the onl y rights , so apologizing for every despotism since the world began ; when Professor Newman preaches the proprieties of cowardice , and Ernest Jones the policy of
smashing in upon our opponents ; when our great atheistical apo 3 tles amuse themselves with silly definitions of duty as only a sense of obligation for some yalae received ; when poor * Punch , ' the age ' s satirist , is scarcely funny ,: and when that great political baby , the 'Leader , ' wanders in its leading-strings ;—what wonder , then , that the mass , so led , and so befooled , become maundering , unprincipled , weak , incapable , and worthless ? What , else should such doctrines make them ? So life becomes a mere dirty scramble ; ihe lights which our illuminati hold over us do but show , the filthiness of our avocations ; and all that endures of the old high spirit of Freedom ( once dwelling in English liberalism ) , is the occasional whine of a protest against some particular injustice . Our worst tyrants now are our own vices . As a people we
nave neither honour , nor religion , nor sense of decency . Honour is declared to be a mistake in politics , impossible in trade , an absurdity altogether as far as national relations may be concerned . Religion is but an idle dream . We * are told to attend to ' secular ' concerns , and instead of believing in God , andmakin « r our lives accordant with a worshi p of the Eternal , to Babscribe to foolish controversies between the Grubs and their worthy antagonists , and waste in polemical follieB the time that might suffice to redeem a nation Poor vapid trash , a weak dilution of the vigorous infidelity of a . paBt 8 ge , supplies the place of religious teaching ; and for political creed , the one in vogue is that of the very poor Richard of whom Frankiin prophesied . ; We need no George Jacob Holyoake to
make atheists of flie npnn ! p fur afhoiem ;» ni _ ~ . i .. ;_ make atheists of the people , fur atheism is alread y in their 3 iveB and daily actions . We need bo Peel to ffiake them forget truth and justice in physical' enjoyment- But we need some few brave men to front the plague of the time , and by their heroically consistent lives to show that Atheism and Compromise are not the gods of earth . We need that men should shun the example of those who have neither far-seeing plans nor principle ; that men should -earn what principle JB , and piau their Jives accordingly . We protest against Tyranny . Of what use is & protestwhen all
, we do beyond protesting is to endeavour to make vet deeper and wider the rut , in order ; hat we may have 1 © Gin m it ? If knaves are to rule the world , why uot Derby , Russell , Cobden , Graham , Falineroton as weU as any new invention of knavery ? If thereis no such thing as duty , —nothing . higher than some aow and then foolery » t elections , or au odd shilling reluctantly given to the worn soldiers of freedom , or ¦ a quibbVmg sense of obligation' for value received . then i ? i" v ' hat do we co : nplaiu .-ig-tinst oi < r masters ? If w « . - .: ; u * t ' . ojrn what duty i . « , -. vljv should thev *
« 2 ay * r !» y sli « ald we teach slum ? if « Inty does not move > r . - . r livfE . what riaht have * .: « -. < snt * ; . i : thi that ihegnvic are of our own stamp * onl y cli .- uuiiutifuL aen more prominent We stick the ' Peels on pedestals , and so are better able to perceive their faults That is all the difference . Get up , 0 Working Man irom where thou kneelest in the shadow of Expediency ;—lift thine eyes again to God , to Truth , and so learn to walk uprightly . Kings , and Parliaments , and Sham-Patriots will not then be able to mislead Sfcee . Make thine own life true , or cease to "rumble « t the falsehoods of others . Spartactjs .
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will relinquish the task in despair , and seek , like the noble Townshend , to build up in another land that temple of liberty which they could not raiae in their native land . It is a . noble task to labour to make the young American Republic really Democratic , and to obliterate from the banner of the sons of the Pilgrim Fathers the foul blot of Human Slavery . For Betting himself to this great work , Townshend is worthy of all love and honour ; but can it be that it is impossi-« i »; if MMi : MM » * _ v xi _ t * - " -. j - «« i . ISVa 4-Tia
ble to abolish Slavery , and make Democracy tnumphant here also 1 Republicans of Britain ! ye who are worthy to be called the countrymen of Townshejid , and the descendants of the men of the Commonwealth —do not leave your native laud—the land of Shakespeare and Miwon—to' degradation and Slavery , ; but persevere in your endeavours in the cause of -Flight —and our country shall yet be worthy of the great men who have lived and fought for her , and become really free through the establishment of the Democratic Republic .
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< LET'S EMIGRATE !' Nature is inexhaustible . The world is as rich in resources now as it was six thousand years ago . It is as full of poetry and plenty to-day , as was the fabled Eden of the fore-world , though that poetry is shut from hearts that ache with the pangs of their own travail , and the eyes that are blinded with the bitter tears of misery , and though that plenty is wastefully lavished upon the few lofty and lazy ones of the earth , while the poor toiling creators of wealth are sent empty away from nature ' s bounteous feast . No sooner is Europe—by reason of man ' s blindness
and selfishness—comparatively used up and over crowded , than straightway new continents of wondrous wealth burst upon the astonished old world , teeming with loveliness and laden with all the riches of nature , and smiling a welcome on humanity like a new paradise of plenty . Thus , when England , the mother country , has become the prey of a horde of land and gold tyrants , and is apportioned out as spoil to the interests of feudalism and capital—when her children Of labour have no' other tenure of existence than ceaseless toil , and endless suffering—when they do not live but only vegetate and crawl upon the ground—when they are mulcted of seven-eighths of
the produce of their labour — when they have no tnistin the present , and the Bastile— . that last item in the catalogue of the poor man's miseries—looms up huge and grim in the distance , blotting out all hop from the sky of the future . When England is no longer the poor man ' s country , Australia , with its golden glorious sunrise , starts up glistening and glad , dening to the eyes of thousands , who have . been straining their weary sight upon the . surrounding gloom for some burst of promise or 4 » unp .-e <> f hope , welcome
as the new world to the gaze of Columbus and his heart-sick mutinous mariners . And what a world of the future this Australia bids fair to be ! If it be not destined to be the home of humanity in its golden age , it has certainly opened up to us an age of Gold !—and how rich it is in all the beauties and blessings of nature , undefiled by the lust , and unappropriated by the tyranny of man . Looking on 'thisside and on that , ' of the Pacific Ocean , one cannot marvel at the tide of Emigration that has set in for the latest New World ,
We have always been opposed to Emigration , especially when it was merely a matter of personal gain . It has wrung us to the heart , to see the best and bravest of the working men quitting the country by hundreds , and thus leaving their brothers the victims of an increased arid lengthened , slavery . To us , it savoured , somewhat of selfishness or cowardice , in slinking from the contest for freedom and right . We would have had them stay , and strengthen our hands in the struggle which we still maintain on behalf of the trampled poor . We have called upon them to help us in putting an end to this tyranny and slaveryiwhich are eating the noblest
life and the bravest heart out of England—to tear down this badge of Serfdom from the brows of the unenfranchised millions , s . o that they might lift them up in all human nature ' s nobleness as sons of one father , brothers of one family , and stand in heaven ' s blessed li ght as free men . We would have had them stay , to help in the on-coming European conflict , which must ensue between the oppressors and the oppressed , the right of peoples and the wrong of tyrants—for such a struggle will require the assistance of all , the aid of the weakest is not to be despised , therefore we could'ill spare the strongest .
¦ T V e Mould have had them , the Workers , to remain and do their part in the redemption of the time , and in accomplishing something towards ending the horrors which make up the life of the poor . But , at times , we lose heart in our struggle , though we never lose faith in our principles , nor in their ultimate triumph , only it may be ao long first ; meanwhile , Hope has grown grey by the watch-fire , and wearies of her long watching . And what wonder that we at times lose heart and are driven to echo the cry 1 Let ' s Emigrate . ' Let us glance at our position , and weigh our chances in the Old Country .
The first fruits of Labour are taken as an offering to an useless Monarchy , which squanders every week as much as would keep ten thousand poor men's families in measureless plenty , and whose parasites and satellites are like a devouring troop of ravening wolves lapping the life-blood from the heart of the people . Then , there ia alarge , !» xuviou 8 and accursed aristocracy , who drain all the resources of the land , which shouid be the property of the nation , and pay the expenses of tho state , who fatten their rotten carcases ou all life ' s luxuvies , and wallow in mad riot with drunken courtesans and pimps and parasites , and who curse the land , pauperise the people , and plunder the poor ; England is also darkened bv a
locust swarm of priests , who , like a multitude of vultures , prey on the heart of the chained Titan . Labour , in one capacity , and in the other , like a pack of spiritual 'flings , iufest the road to Eternity , and strangle souls , to get what treasure they may carry . Theu comes our Moneyocracy , or PJutonomists , the Middle Classes , which have inuogurated the greatest tyranny of all , tho filtered sediment of all other tyrannies ! They have all tho organised forces of society at their command , and set at work their millions of engines of torture to rack and wound , degrade and destroy tho people , heedless of how much humanity may be sacrificed in filling thei r money tills and flushing their coffers .
These four powers of tyranny are linked together , aud bound up in a bond of ruffianhood for the mutual protection of stolen property , and for perpetuating the slavery of the creators of wealth . These bo thy Gods , 0 Israel!—these be lliy Tyrants , 0 England ! and , unfortunately , not these alone ; if they were it would not be so ' badj ' . and our prospects would not bo so darkly forbidding . With all the power of the Monarchy , Priesthood , Aristocracy , and Middle Classes united , we , the masses , could defy them all , if we were but au onlighteued people , with but a spark of the old heroism in us . and bound up together hand in hand , and heart to heart , in a phalanx of might , determined to become free , and to
accomplish our glorious destiny ; and nothing short of this can release the people of this country from the manifold tyrannies which surround and conquer them . But , instead of this knowledge and unity of purpose , among the masses , the Tast majority neither know nor care for the principles we cherish , nor the freedom we aspire to , and work for . They are thoroughly imbued with the damnable doctrine of 'Be content , ' and willingly lick the hand that scourges them , and kisB the foot that spurns them . They are content , [ though thousands of humanity ' ssuffering sons and daughters are born to be starved , transported , or hung annually , as surely as corn is grown to be eaten . They are content that their
children shall be born amid scenes and circumstances , which will certainly efface all resemblance to God ' s image from heart and brow , and rob them of all the noble attributes of humanity , the pleasures of intellect , and the sweet treasures of love , in Poverty's human hell . They are content to weave robes of splendour , and build princel y palaces for rich robbers and titled paupers ; yet house themselves in huts and hovels , clothe their limbs with rags , and shroud their heartwith the
s pall of Misery . They are content , though fathers and mothers be sundered in their old age , and crushed out of life in the parish poorhouse—though they have brothers whom hunger may drive to theft , and society hound them to the hulks—though they have eaters ,, who , if they cannot resist stai-ration ; may be thrust beneath the feefc of . the trampling town . They are content , though their young may perish in dens of horror like that of Drouet ' s . They we con
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tent , though noble nations are murdered because they strove for life and liberty . Though the A poirtJeB of Freedom are crucified , though heart and mind are crushed , and the whole world is turned into a shambles that reek with the blood of slaughtered Humanity . These constitute a dense mass of ignorance , crime , and indifference , which we cannot pierce or move ' . And the Democracy , what there is , is broken up and fragmentary , or consists of those who only entertain a speculative freedom . We are all isolated , and divided into antagonisms , while those who oppose us ave bound up in an organisation and ah interest which are welded strong as iron . This is almost t /> nf : flinnorfi nnWft nfltinnc Ara mnvii / w ^ J k ««« -, «_ it . .
enough to make the bravest fearful , and the most gallant quail . It is enough to weary the steadiest perseverance , make us halt before the dark uncertain future , and clutch even at emigration as a means of escape from the terrors , and tortures , and miseries of the old world . We have cherished hi gh hopes of the future of this England of ours—we have sacrificed our all , as the world goes , and laid out our lives to aid in the destruction of the evils which are preying on the vitals of the country . We have loved England with the patriot ' s love , and would have diedoheerfully to make her all that the most exalted patriotism could desire . We are proud to belong to the land of
such heroes and martyrs , and to fight in the cause for which the noblest and bravest of the earth have battled and fallen . But , what awaits the aspirations and endeavours of the few ?—their efforts seem to fall like flakes of snow in a river , or brief bursts of li ghtning swiftly swallowed in the darkness of night . Could not oar democratic friends who are casting longing looks to that world of marvellous wealth , organise some plan of emigrating . and working in concert , so that they might live somewhat in common , instead of going out isolated to perpetuate the war of Competition , and the reign of Individualism ? Australia offers a splendid chance for forming and testing the working of a Democratic and Social Bepublic . There , the poor man is-no longer plundered of the
fruits of his industry . The masses are not trampled in the tnire of misery by the rich , and made the living record of their cruel and bloody fame . There is room , plenty and leisure . . In such a soil , and with such means , might not the beautiful flower of Fraternity be reared ? We may return to this subject . Meanwhile , almost anything is preferable to the slavery which thousands are suffering ; life is not worth having on such terms ; and better were it to be rolled together in the dust and darkness of death , than to be bending the divinity which is within us , at the shr ine o ? our four-fold Tyranny . BeBide , what better occupation or future can there be for the me o Progress than in aiding manfully to eradicate the oi of all Evil . '
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THE 'PROSPERITY' CANT . Dryasdust , who is as fond of dates as an Arab , will prove " to you by columns of figures gigantic enough to support the burden called the National Debt , that we are the most prosperous people on the face of the earth , and emphatically pronounce us ( through his nose ) to be a ' most wonderful nation . ' And , indeed , our statistical prosperity aud abstract plenty , would seem to prove that we are just upon grasping the tail of the Millenium . In material progression , and figurative civilisation , John Bull beats that venerable dame Antiquity hollow ! It cau be demonstrated indisputably that we are better off than
we ever were . Working men have comforts and luxuvies unknown to the glorious times , of Alfred , or the reign of the Commonwealth . The poor man ' s wife can wear as fine and elegant a gown as ever adorned ' good Queen Bess , ' and we can have a Bible for one shilling , which used to cost Borne three or four hundred pounds . If you do not believe it , reader , just listen to what our political 'fee-losophers ' have to say . Government and Custom House Returns , and Reports of Trade , tells us that we consume twenty times aB much sugay now as in 1700 ; roll that like a sweet morsel under your termagant tongue ! We consume fifty times as much coffee as
in 1801 . They do not say how much more baked liver and coffin boards ! Since 1821 the consumption of Tea has increased by 24 , 000 , OOOlbs . Tobacco , Malt , and Spirits , in as great a ratio ; The consumption of Soap has been doubled in the last twenty years , and that of Bricks during the last ten . In 1821 , the wnsumption of Cotton was 137 , OOO , OOOlbs ., iu 1846 ,. 428 , 000 . 000 . Wool in the same time has advanced from ten to sixty-five millions , while Silk and Flax are more than doubled . Our imports in 1821 were £ 29 , 750 , 000 , in 1846 , £ 76 , 000 , 000 . The deposits in the Savings Banks were in 1831 £ 13 , 719 , 495 , in 1841 , £ 24 , 474 , 689 , in 1846 f 33694
,, 642 , increasing proportionately . And in almo st every department of production we are assured that we have been equally prosperous in language that must abolish all distress , misery , and discontent —that is , upon paper . Yet , after all , we are driven to exclaim , ' How the Devil is it ? Where does it all go to ? What has become of all the wealth V We know that the masses have had little other share itt H , save in producing it . They are very little better fed , housed , and clothed , and comforted . If they ask each other where the wealth and prosperity have flown to , they will find themselves in the position of that company who sat down to a game of cardsand
, when they rose up each one declared himself a loser . The fact is , that with our present eocietary system , Labour k onl y working to increase the power of Capital , which is invested in a thousand ways , and works in a thousand channels for the subjugation of Labour . Thus , the more Labour produces , the more it enables Capital to crush it , by supplying it with those means wherewith Capital compels it to produce more and more at a lessening price of remuneration , and the eternal cheapening of flesh and blood . Year by year , and week by week , we are adding more strength to Capital , and enabling it to plunge us into a deeper slavery . With our own hands we are
building up a system which is daily narrowing upon us , and crushing us like that criminal who was immuved in a prison , the walls of which contracted daily until they crushed him . We have only learned the science of accumslation , and have neglected the distribution . We have worked for others , instead of creating for ourselves . We have devoted our energies to build up a fossilising tyranny of Money , and altogether lost sight of Humanity . We have forgotten that hearts brimming with happiness , and homes gladdened with the beauty , blessings , and Peace of Plenty , are far richer national wealth than overflowing granaries of corn , miracles of Mammon , and banks of buillion .
We have sacrificed tho human species for the golden specie . That is , as a nation we have done these things , the workers get but little of this same golden species , Though in the midst of it , aud standing in the golden flood up to the lips , like Tantalus , they may not drink of it . And beside your statistics , which prove our prosperity , O Dryasdust ! place the following . In 1837 , the Poor Rates of Euglaud and Wales amounted to £ 4 S 300 , 000 ; hi 18 i 8 , they had increased to £ 0 , 180 , 000 ; in 1849 , the numbers relieved were 100 , 000 more than in 1848 ; while over the whole kingdom crime increases four times as faBt as population ; aud insolvency and bankruptcy
increaso as enormously as our prosperity . While , tt > pi'ove how small a proportiou of the good things of the land accrues to t , he poor , lot us quoto the signifi . cant fiiet , that as the wealth of tho country lias in creased , tho revenue , which is composed mainly of taxes on the articles of the people ' s consumption , and of which the poor man ' s necessaries are taxed the moBt heavily—has shown symptoms of decay , aud has had to be muAo up with fresh taxes . Verily , boastful England is somewhat like the miserable
Louis the XI ., of France , who , when struggling in the grip of Decay and Death , simulated a fictitious joy , painted to hide his pallor , would walk without staggering , assumed to speak cheerfully , and said to his Physician , ' Look , I never was better in my life . ' Or , like the Spartan boy , who concealed the fox beneath his robe , and smiled while it was gnawing out his entrails , England boasts her health and prosperity , and assumes to wear a smiling appearance , while Decay is striking at her with ' silent blows , and Death is working at her heart .
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-- •»««• ' «» ot Protection . ' Wo v . ural Mr . . Disraeli may enlighten the farmers on Pe - hat of finance . He has promised £ i ZV ^ burthens ; we hope that he wi 1 iL ?• otl « that may tend to increase the burtKs of i axatiou factunng portion of the commS 45 f J "" * - S = # ci *« SrS £ ^ his difficulties will begin . Tto'S ^*™** accept or oppose his measures JuSuS" , ami were he ' even to be bold and hoJe * S *\ Parliament that the fundholders we 3 ™ dte 11 uonai creditors
, and that the NatiomlinTu reac na * great difficuly in the way of a reiSl 5 ** tk propertied classes would raise I ZlUM ^ 1 \ ? stroy the ministry , and place and nmver ! n if de * more fall into the hanas of Lonl lu p ° nce Though Mr . Disraeli has pledgedlimt ]?^ 11 ' and adjust taxation , and to ' phce it SL , J » 'that the . producer will find iugtW , V ° Fitzroy Kelly ,-Her Majesty * ffiugj ? & has endorsed the doctrine of the cCSh ? W Exchequer , by assuring the farmere « ££££ that < it is the-firm and solemn determina J ft Ministers now to dedicate their best effort T J the whole faculties of their minds to SSjS W -the relief of the suffering agrtodtaSM ? impossible not to remember that , previous to the , 1 cession of these gentlemen to office thri ? . j principle was Protection to Nrtt h t 7 T that it is possible that those men wLX ^ &u from Protection to compensation , in the £ of J reduction of taxes , may chance from m . ^
to something else , and , in time , box the 233 political renegadism . . . p or
We are quite aware of Mr . Disraeli ' s denial of in consistency ; but we know what Protection mean . and what a revision of taxation means ; and it \ 2 remained for Mr . Disraeli to affirm that a wt of taxation and Protection are convertible terms Com pensation is the favourite word . Compensation £ what-for the loss sustained by a withdrawal of 1 rotechon ?—which is , most certainly , uot a reistora tion of Protection . Mr . Disraeli confines himself to ' he owners and occupiers of laud . What compenaation has he in reserve for the tens of thousands of working men , the value of whose labour was reduced by the Free Trade policy of Huskisson and PbpI to ™
ere the effects of that policy were felt by tho owners and occupiers of land . It is time that the Spitalfields Silk ^ Weavers and London Shoemakers , &c , &e ., put in their claim for 'compensation . ' Mr ! Disraeli assertB that his opponents say , ? Ask only for that which it is impossible to get , and then you will occupy a sensible position . ' Wo say , 'You , Benjamin Disraeli , profess to be guided by a sense of
"justice ; " if Protection be based on justice , adhere to it—if not , give it up ; but do not change it jor something else , and with the same breath declare it is not changed at all . The farmers of Bucks may admireyourclever feats of politicalte ^ mfemaiujbutjin the end , they will find you out , and tell you to your race , as you tola the late Sir Robert Pee ) , that you have practised on them an " organised hypocrisy , " and that you , Benjamin , have " betrayed" them . ' '
We recently so discussed the character of the Whigs as to render lengthened notice unnecessary . They are , beyond dispute , the moat treacherous and trick y of jugglers . They can throw the cups and balls of religious toleration , fight sham Protestant battles , do the Reform trick , vomit Radical fire , exhibit the prosperity dodge , dance on tho Free Trade wire , turn the Constitution upside down , cufc numberless Suffrage capers , and show the gaping crowd ii wonderful variety of feats , but cannot , for their lives' sakes , be honest .
• The Peel party '« re evidentl y on the decline ; they had not salt enough among them to prevent their decay , though but of yesterday ' s birth . When the son of the founder of the party ( Mr . Frederick Peel ) p aid the * Knight of Netherby' a visit , and then joined the Whigs , it was a sure sign that there was treason in the camp . The Peelites are political hermaphrodites ; they attempted to unite commercial
Libertinism with constitutional stability ; they were too aristocratic to openly follow Cobilen ; too proud to fight under Russell . As a separate party thej had no defined limits ; they originated in treachory ; and though composed of clever men , they represented no great priuciple ; were powerful only for evil ; were from the beginning dishonest , and are now dcsert ( 4 by their second chief , Sir James Grab . au ! .
At Carlisle , Dr . Lonsdale said Sir James ( irnhttm had shown that he was neither ' a Russeliite nor a Derbyite . ' Then what " ite" was ho ? ' Siv i&m * replied : < It was true he wns not a Derby ite , a ^ what Mr . Hodgson had stated must have satisfied them that lie was not a Russellite . He did not vote for Lord John Russell ' s Militia Bill , because lie did not approve of the scheme as he announced it . Dr . Lonsdale asked what " ite'' he now was . lie had been a Peelite , but he was now resolved not to Wno
himself in the fetters of any party , but would do his best as a private member of Parliament , or in any situation which it rr . i ^ ht bs the pleasure- of ( lie Crown to call upon him to fill , lie would ' not bind liimfic-. i in the fetters of party , go as to prevent him / I'ora exercising an independent judgment as to the litter mode in which his country could lie nerved , 'therefore ho was jjoither u Derbritc i ; or n EuucUitc ; t » t his object was to bs the iadoppiidoist member for Carlisle , free to express his opinions in the Houso o Commons on all important questions as they mignt ¦
arise . Thus Sir James Graham , who has officiated in all chnrnctere , from Harlequin to Hamlet , is IieBcerarUi to regsrvo to iiUacalf tlie privilege of playing « '" «• ever part may be to him most convenient . Sir " 3 ' » ^ is no longer the head of the Ftc-i < ., ;• . ; iv . One ts , d o we venture to predict , Sir Javn ? z w ' ii . slv ^ f I * '"" on the side ot the ' Mar . elsyitcv uwa ; ' »'"' , ' great question of tfio use of machinery lie Ii" * " _ cided in favour of unlimited competition . He i »»»
the l-Iandloom Weavers of Carlisle , but comp lacency assures them that tlioy are engaged in a ' h ° P f ' competition' against machinery . A ^ ec . la . ra pfltB which proves his unfitness to legislate fortheiot ^ f ' of Labour . Sir James is the princo of poUM " Bcowndrelism—he is bland , insinuating , cool , oal < *! . ting , proud , baugbty , defiant , base . Taking »¦» from first to last , he is a Graham , a border never ,, » fit man to borrow : cattle , without the owner «»«» " ' and levy 'black mail' from his weaker neig hbour-Mr . Richard Cobden has had a quiet walk over t " West Riding . On being questioned about tne ± « Houra Rill hn omi ™ nO * od with the cunning ° f , _
, professional policeman . He would recognise » 'Ten Hours Bill' as a system of ' medical doUW . but nothing more . Richard Cobden , ia his pw » Parliament , opposed the Ten Hours Bill byej « ; means in his power ; and when the unfortunate u don bakers prayed Parliament to abolish nigW » ft in bakehouses , offering to mrk fourteen hour day , Bright and Cebden insolently insultedtnjB j and hi ? friend Johp Bright sneered at up-gw" ™ , asking ParlMment to regutete t&elr Hours o . and brutaHr spurned tho eppressed & »» * "'r , Ool the House « f Commons , nfahard Cutdefl ^ accept of the Ten Hours Bill' as a question of w police , ' he accepts of it because he has not wei « to re ject ; humanity 1 ms triumphed orerJ »» S
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THE MEN OF THE COMMONWEALTH NOX EXTINCT . The noble speech of Mr . Townshend in the American Legislature is one of which every Englishman may well be proud . Those among us ( and they are many ) who have beoome a prey to despondency and despair , aa they have wituessed the degeneracy and spiritless apathy of the British people may cheer up when they see that the true-hearted men of the Commonwealth are not extinct ; that there are still those in whose hearts burns the pure flame of patriotism , and a holy aspiration for freedom , and who still bless the names of Hampden , Piny and Take , the earnest and energetic combaters for their and our country's freedom .
It is no doubt true , as Townshend says , that men bom within the limits , of a Monarchy are hot necessarily Monarchists ; and that those who have lived under a tyranny , and have suffered beneath the rod of the oppressors , are thoae who , of all others , are most capable ' of appreciating tho blessings of freedom , and most likely to be inspired with an undying hatred of despotism and slavery . In the seventeenth century there was only needed the encroachments of Charles Stuart , to awaken the English people , and to cause them to ariBe , to overthrow the insolent and corrupt monarchy , and to cut off the head of the traitor who had dared attempt to place his foot upon the neck of
a people . Chables fSTUAUT sought to establish a despotism , and the nation rose and crushed him in its indignation , and . established a Republic There was uo deception on either side . The only fraud ( if that could be called a fraud which was so openly practised by Charles ) , was the teaching of himself and his prieBts that absolute power pertained to him as a right , and slavery to the people as a duty . . But it is not so in our days . Now those who most hate liberty , ami set themselves against all progress , are the very wen who never tire talking of freedom , and abusing despotism . The people of the present time suffer
themselves to be soothed aud quieted with the opiates of falsehood and flattery , aud bdieve themselves to be free , while they are in reality victims of the moat fata ! oppression . The raen of privilege , tho oppvea . sors of the myriad toile vs , have become more numerous , and , also , far more wise in their generation , than the tyrants of earlier time * . Had our oppressors but the candour of the Kings and Aristocrats of the past , the people would not continue so apathetic iu regard to all questions of political freedom . We have need of a Cham . es Stuart now to unveil the disguised slavery of the people , and show them iu its real colours the base and contemptible position they occupy .
Yet , notwithstanding , ifc is not to be deuiad that there is a vast difference betweeu the Ilritish people of to-day , and the ikiti&U people , or the days of MlLTON and CkOMWELL . Then debasing commerce and selfish competition had not had an opportunity of crashing and narrowing the manly sentiments of the population ; nor had their } . hysk ; sl powers been weakened by over toil in the unwholesome atmosphere of factory and workshop . In our time the people have to suffer from all those evils . Instead of tilling their
mother earth , amid the pure air and the hallowing beauties of nature—to procure an honourable subsistence—men , women , and children are weakened , degraded , and killed by thousands in the noisome dens of the manufacturing towns , and the healthy feelings and pure aspirations of as many more are cramped and withered by a vampire education , teaching them to live by preying upon their brethren , and to prosper by a course of the vilest chicanery and fraud ; they have also suffered an armed caste to be created and
trained in our midst , at wnose mercy we consequently place ourselves . The people are told by their deceiving tyrants that these Prsatorians are kept for the protection of the people , and the poor credulous dupes believe it , and smile with pleasure at the thought of being so cared for by their rulers , ' never questioning the probability of a large armed force being constituted specially for the protection of those who have nothing to protect ! But we count the army for nothing in the way of
the people's enfranchisement . Had we not to deplore the physical degeneracy of our countrymen , we would look upon the trained band , who have been set upon them as a gnard , as a paltry and easily-overcome obstacle in the path of the nation , were it to rouse itself and determine to be free . What we fear is , that the causeB which are destroying its physical power , will also pull dawn Us intelligence to perfect brutishness , preventing the formation of euch a determination ; and that the able and courageous few , who might regenerate the people and lead democracy to victory ,
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Surplus Public Income . —It appears from a return just issued that the surplus public income over the expetidi " iure wan Id 1841 > , SifiW . m ] In 1 B 50 , £ 2 , & 7 »/ J 0 G ; T > od in J 851 , £ 2 , 726 396 ; . \ . ¦ WEST KEM ELECTION . Mr . Hodges reBigt ^ d , and Sir E . Filmer and Mr . M , Smith , the Coneemtf ^ candidates , wre consequently re toned .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 24, 1852, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1688/page/4/
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