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Enr faria cotMw * fisre * snffinent security for her forties ^ b £ e Irishmen vere stores . ILondsnd con-^ The motion to 3 aen rea ^ carried by acdar ^ MtvAubed Mast ? rose and znored the second ^ solu tion , - , .. ,. " That in the opinion of this . meeting , the exercise of the eleetn-e ; franchise should be warded ij erery voter as the mesas ofpromoting interestsbut the
not personal or party , common treal ; and that , therefore , with a -estricted constitnency , it should be open to the inspection of those from whom it is unjustly withholden , while at thi same time this meeting is of opinion , that with an Universal Constituency , every individual should be protected therein from the possibility of influence or intimidation ; that this meeting consequently deems the Ballot Box a necessary accompaniment of Universal SnSrage , bnt trill not consent to its enaction en * any other terms . "
Jlr . Joseph Joms seconded the resolution . Dr . Tatxor , of the Glasgow New Liberator * rose and said , Men of England , Working Men of Leeds , it is indeed a trinmph Tor me to see snch a meeting as this , assembled lor some purpose , and under such auspices , and at a thne trhen the political aspects of the country look so threatening—when we are called upon to witness poverty and starratien at home , and vw and desolation abroad . As a delegate from my native land , 1 come here at your request "to witness your proceedings , and see in . how far the spirit of freedom animates the breasU of Englishmen . This splendid hall—this crowded audience attest anxiety to press onward in the march of liberty ; and the cheers with which vou have responded to the sentiments of others who have " preceded me , are alike honourable to them and to yon . To me there could be no higher gratification than after many year . *
straggling , almost alone , to make head against a tyrant . Aristocracy in defence of-the inalienable rights o f man , thus to find myself welcomed by the working men of Leeds ; I have been at Newcastle —have witnessed their enthusiasm there , and yours is not the less . It shows the spirit is abroad—that yon are fully alive to your just nshts—that knowing them vour care assent them—and this assures me , that vou will not be long ere you attain them . 1 haretravelled a good deal in my day . I hare rioted other lands , and conversed with many distinguished men , but I have felt myself more honoured now in standing forward along with that truly noble man , Sharman Crawford , - "who deserves so well of Ms country and mankind . - Throughout the whole of Ms career , Ms character has stood out in bold relief , pure and uusullied amid the apostates around him , —one of the very iew who unawed bv the breath of
facaon—unchanged by clamour—uninfluenced by praise , he has held on " Ms underiatin ^ course—the patriot and xhe man . —{ Tremendous cheering . ) I might fear to turn over a ^ ain the ground trMch he has occupied with ability and effect , and the resolution to ¦ wnieh I am to speak allude to a subject on wMeh he has already addressed vou ; but as a good blow cannot be given too often if it hits in the right place . I shall take the liberty of saying a few words upon Universal SnSrage . I hale all money qualific-itions , for they necessarily lead to absurdities once no amount of wealth can ever be a tost of intelligence or virtue . The man who possesses a ten pound house has a voter—the man next door , his equal in knowledge and virtue , his . superior it may
be in political acqtiiTeinents , pays only -nine pounds , nineteen shillings , and elevenpencrtthree farthings—he have no vote ^—the difference then is , - just one farthing—therefore in tiiat farthine consists the political qualification . ( Cheers - au 3 laughter . ) Lord John Jlussell must be a cleverer follow than 1 take him for—if he has succeeded in so measuring out mens' sense , that he can distribute with such exactness a farthing ' s worth of political power . All money qu alifications are liable to the sscie . absurditv , " and . until it pleases Heaven to draw such a lice of demarcation Detween the virtue antiintelligence of the rich and the poor a 3 cannot be mii'tiken . I wDl never consent to any man being denrived of that right which he inherits along witti
his existence , the right to have a voice in the . choice of representatives wko are to legislate over his properry , "his labour , and his life . ( Cheers . ) I stand then on the broad , the only honest principle , upon Universal Suffrase , and I shall never cease agitation ¦ an til 1 see it secured to thf community at Iarg 3 . ' ( Cheers . ) Before the Reform Bill . was proposed you were a firm and united bodv bound in the adamantine links of interest and friendship ; you pressed , forward with one accord , and victoiy crowne-i your efforts , now however , how different is the scene ? Societv is divided into casts ; envy and jealousy have taken the places of affection and esteem and" the the "bonds of equality and fellowship jeni ainndpr . since-one man has power to tyrannize , while the
other i # under the necessity of submitting . As 1 insist that the suffrage is the natural ri = ut of erery one , so 1 insist has he also the right to be protects ^ in the conscientious exercise of it . And I know up means bv wMch fMs can be more simply or effectually dt-ne than by the ballot . Tell me r . ot that it ii ineffectual , and will not ensure secrecy , it is because osr enemies know that it will be too effectual that they oppose its introduction . Tell me not that it i * - ¦ n n- ' jEniish and unmanly . 1 know nothing that is so , but what is dishonest , and this the conscientious discharge of a sacred duty ne-ver can he . —1 admire as much , as any ™ n can do , the fearless devotion to principle which a man shows in voting in the tseth
of oppDtirfon , but I mast regret the temporal ruin winch is too often the-only reward of-such devotion to princi p le , and therefore along with Universal Snimure 1 demand the Ballot . The speaker then denounced in no measured terms tha atrocious Poor Law Amendment Bill , and declared that every man ought to ^ strikf ilown the villain who dared to put it in operation to separate jiinan from hi ; wife or family 1—He then passed a hig h , eulogiuni on the noble conduct of the workmen of England towards the Cotton Spinners of Glasgow , and in energetic and glowing oxlours expressei in liieir name his grateful sense of a rapport which had enabled them to proceed to trial with some Lope of jnstiee , after which he resumed Ms stat amid areat cheering .
Mr . Hill , Editor of the Northern Star , was Tesreived-vdth cheers . He said he must be allowed to congratulate himself , the chairman , and the meeting , on- the noble demonstration of sound , honest , and Radical feeling evinced by this large assemblage of true hearted working men . This was as it should be . This was the position -which , ¦ under present circumstances , working men ought to as » nme ; and , as an Englishman , he was indeed proud to contrast the bold spirit , and determined character of coolness nnd intelligence now manifested by & * > toiling millions of this much lauded , but ill-starred , country with the quiescence which in former davs had been foreed into the chains of thraldom and moulded into " the fetters of bondage ,
in which they had been holden , thence to the present fen * . —( Cheers . ) His habits , Ms observation , and iis experience had convinced him long , that the salvation of the people was in their own hands , and eoold be wrought out only h y themselves . He was not of those who lecoinmended the people to take the redressal of their grievances into their own hands , or to seize bv the hand of rudeness or physical violence even that wMch appertained strictly to them , and was their own . G od forbid that ever he should live to see the sabre glitter and the firebrand f lare upon the peaceful homes of Old England . There was enough , of moral force within the grasp and management of this great people to strike tie chill of terror into stouter hearts than the milksop
sucklings of a Government like ours , without * esorrin £ to the musket , the pistol , or the pike . Leave the contemplation of violence , and the threatening of bloodshed to the leeches , the ' Taltures , and the harpies with whom rapine is a trade , murder a profession , and Tobbery a virtue . The men of England desire not the destruction " of the persons of their « nemies—they wish not even to interfere with the property wMch , by the operation of unrighteous law % nas been accumulated from the nweat of their brow , and the waste of their bones and sinews in excessive labour . They ask " n > Jt tnren for a restitution of their rights , for that ¦ would include far more than is demanded by the boldest Democrat of whom he had any knowledge ; to of
but rhev ^ o seek regain that footing equably with others of Eke form , and flesh , and blood , on which God andnataw placed them , -which hes been wrested from them by the subtlety of vice , practising upon unsuspecting virtue , in the first instance , and elevating itself to a position , l > y * he assistance of that virtue which enabled it with shameless front to overthrow the structure of society as constituted in its origin , and victimize its benefactors . Thi * was w " head and front of their offending . " They sought to destroy the dominion of wrong—to hurl oppression from her eminence , and to restore the CruTTO to righteousness , and the Sceptre to justice in the landl ( Load cheering . ) They had lately heard tie sacred name of " Eternal Justice ' desecrated by the most hollow and deceitful leader d the most base and treacherous faction that ever soiled the ann . ils of political intrigue , or cuced a
confiding country with the name of freedom , which , though swrrife -upon their lips , was their heart ' s o ^ ad and fear . They had beard the -words "Eternal Justice , " glibly gliding from the mouth of Rice and echoed by the tonest Peel , in reference to a measure of the moat unblushing fraud and barefaced robbery , that could be practised on any Gan try , or endured by any people . What was H Eternal Justice ? " Was it for one man to hang a Kuial of ill-bred , idle , and dissipated Lordlings ; and tor another man to cast the burdeu of a few *^ aadoned women ) as an addition to the millstone haagiug TOnnd the . people ' s necks ; while that people , when their , eosgies have been expended , * o < f their lives worn oat , in the support of these waste , are thrust into a dungeon , to spin oat the " JQi semble remnant of existence upon black bread wm ! hard cheese doled out in starvation morsels hree times a day , from Monday morning until
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Saturday night ?—{ Load cheers . ) Is this an exMMtion of ^ Eternal Justice ? " — - ( No , no , and cheers . ) Is it" u Justice" that the coward ruffians , " who look Kg when danger 'bides afar" should lavish the resources of the country , collected from the labour of the ' people ^ that they shonld di p their hands into your pockets and into mine , and take out our money for the porpase of . keeping up the establishment of moneymongering despotism in Canada , when thousands of our countrymen at home are , through Ithe operation of its tender mercies , famishing with want , . dying with hnnger—which a portion pi that money might relieve for the moment , while the destruction of the system under wMch th « ir misery is induced , wonld afford thain permanent salvation . ( Hear . ) Is this the operation of "Eternal Justice ?"
( Loud cnes of No , no . " ) Vt ell , then , if none of thesa . be " Justice , " what is it that the principles of " Eternal Justice" dictate ? If the praters of " Eternal Justice" had been as conversant as was their duty , and might yet be found to have been their interest , with the depository of that religion , which they affect to tell us is " part and parcel of the law of the land , they wonld have known that " . Eternal Justice , " teaches us to " render unto others that fuB measure of right which we require in return . " Eternal Justice" disclaims all deeply studied guise—it seeks no pretext of dissimulationits theory is simple , and its tactics are " each for all and all for each . " These are the sterling -democratic principles of jnstiee . These are the principles
maintained b y every honest Radical , and , because they are so , it had been his glory , ever since Ms name became associated in the siighrest degree with the public movements of his countrymen—that he had been known and stigmatized by " the enemies to the principle of "justice" as a red hot Radical . " Sncli had been his character ever since he had been known to the public , and such , a character lie hoped to carry with ^ iim to the grave . The principle of " Eternal Jnstiee , " while thev accorded to every man , his" right would also protect him in the exercise of thatright . Hence , therefore , the Suffrage and the Ballot box , were twin sisters , whom " Eternal Justice had joined together , and whom , if he rightly estimated the intelligence and spirit of the working
men of this kingdom , they would never allow to be separated . ( Cheers . ) There were not wanting those who , prating about justice , and talking louJlr of . an adherence to principle , aye to Radical principles , had yet the bold effrontery to tell the working millions , still" holden in political thraldom , that the Ballotwas the *• ijuestion of questions' "—and " the one thii : ^ needful now to be straggled for . " Needful for what and for whom ? Wasit needful for the large portion of the audience whom he saw before himr ( No , no . ) Was it needful for 128 x > nt of the 130 householders named by Lord John RusseD , in . Ms famous speerli ? Was a protection for the vote ¦ needful for him who had no vote to be protected ? ( No , no . ) Or need he , for tlie result of publicity , wLo voted for the maintenance and establishment of ~ eternal justice ? " T \ ras weE , and perfectly
consistent for those who sought to uphold the tottering faction cow in power ; or to upraise the prostrate faction now gasping for power—' twas well enough for those who studied not the public good , but the aggrandizement of party at whatever cost—' twas -natural that they should asVpermission to indulge in ti ; e ismuseaiVnt of public spoliation secretly . But were the people ready to allow this ? Were Thev ready to confer the cloak of secrecy , on those who wanted no other refuge lo "make " them independent of the people , and euable them to spurn with safety the bridge that saved them ? Let them not be deceived into the lying supposition that the ten pound voters were favourable to their interests , and would return more liberal members , v . uuer the protection of the Ballot . Ik nnisr , indeed , know little of the turpitude of human nature who couid perpetrate the conception of a folly like this . Everyman ' s observation must have shown him That it was
contrary , to tlie very nature of things to expect it , raid it lie had not wilfully shut his eyes , in passing " ihrough the world , he must have known that all experience was against the supposition . ( Hear . ) Every . man in this world is naturally desirous to cet -what he c ; iu , and to keep what he has totten ; and so ionir as this pr inciple is inherent in hum ; ui natsre , so long will you find a large majority of men " acduff under us intluetice and developing it in e ^ ry action of their lives , whether political or otlierwise . Away tlien with the cant about those vriin new possess the franchise being desirous to extend it to their neighbours if . their landlords would permit them . He had had some experience , and some opportunity of observation among the very
parties , lor whom tlie . Ballot was most -c-nreutly implored , and he " could tell them that the landlords , " whether-Whig or Tory , from whose coercion liberty was prayed werenot morehostile to Universal Suffrage than tlie tenants who complained of their tyranny . With Universal Suffrage the Ballot woull be necessary as a defence against individual acts of tyranny an-i . iutimidation , because the franchise being thi « n placed in the hands of the whole people , co man would ; or ought to be , responsible to another for the way in -wliieli he exerciseu it . But so long as thu Suffrage was restricted , within whatever bounds the restriction might be confined , tbat portion of society which had the franchise , held it in trust for the wellbeing of the whole community and was answerable
to ercry one who had it not , for the . way in wlrich the m . 6 ? t sacred of all trusts hid been discharged . The present elective body was answerable to the people , whose trustees they had been improperly constituted , and it was only . under the surveillance £ . iid wholesome control of tne people , that tlie trust could evwr be honestly , and faitrifuliy , executed . The people had now a moral jorce , in tlie control widen : tnev could exercise over the vote of tlie electors , which , when w « ll directed , was irresisribl ^ . and scSicieiit to overturn the machinations of -any faction a hundred timed more powerful lh . au tliux avitli which they now had to deal , but if th > 'y once parted with tMs moral endeel they wonld soon liud
the battle to be lost . If they once consented to throw the ' mantle of secrecy over any restricted francLL < e , their . "moral power was annihilated and the only resource then left to them would be an appeal to that physical force we so earnestly deprecated . After further enforcing thenecessiry of resisting all attempts to carry the Ballot without Universal Suffrage , Mr . H . sat Sown r . mid the applause of the meeting . . . Mr . Y » JLiiiM Fillister , moved the third resolution . " That in the opinion of this meeting , long Parliaments have a necessary tendency tocorruption ; and , are contrary to the spirit of the British Constitution ; and that , therefore , Parliament ought to be elected every veer /'
Mr . David Valteb had great pleasure \ n seconding tfie resolution . - The Chairman then called upon Mr . O'CosxoRi ¦ who was received with tremendous cheers . lie then sai-d ,, —Mr . Chairman and brother Radicals , Lord Johi > Russtll ( loud cheers ) is a very clever fellow—( cheers and laughter ) and be knows the state of Leeds xnucli better tliiin you do ( hear , beaT . ) because the twa hands tliat were held up in that comer against the first re .-olurion were the two first iudi-iduals in Lord John Russell ' s . list of Mghly favoured ¦ friends who had had the franchise bestowed upon them , ( hear , hear ) . These were the two men who have the francMse themselves and do not want to "give it to yon . ( Cheers . ) That ' s the poet ' s corner .
If you recollect some two years ago when from this spot I " showed yon my infant Radicalism , these were iLj ' two-men , and the only two men who hissed in that corner . ( Continued laughter . ) Now _ my iriends , I stand , before yon upon difiereut principles , and 1 may say that 1 am new a prouder man . I showed you tlie infant ihen % nois behold it a monster grown to gigantic size , and let WMgs and Tories , or both unite in their endeavours to defeat those principles which all honest men have at heart . We bid them deiiance , and tell Lord John Russell that all Ms attempts at opposition will be fruitless , feeble , and vain against tae great majority of a determined people . The lust resolution that was proposed , was proposed as one of the most important measures tiiut
are" to be- acquired by Universal Suffrage . Let us obtain this , and we shall thiiu be put in the same position as the Connaught man was in reference to his horses : he said they had two great faults—one that they were very bad to catchj and the other , that when he had caught them they were good fprnothing . ( Cheers . ) So would it be with the WMg >\ Once let the mass of the population obtain the suffrage . and we are very much mistaken if we shall catch many WMgs in office ; and we are sure tbat whenever we do catch them they will be good for nothing , for they will at best have only one ysas ' s plunder ^ ( Loud cheers and laughter . ) " This meeting makei me prood , because , but a very short time ago , tl-e . men of the west ward had one political creed—the
men of , Holbeck another—and the men of Leeds another ; but the three divisions are now united , and we have only one political creed . ( Tremendous cheers . ) If you had annual parliaments it would destroy that damning system so ably described b y mj worthy countryman , SLarman Crawford , that petty fogging system of paying by instalments ( Cheers . ) Instead of having those who are vieing in the march of corruption , it would be to rais » for tus men who would be most anxious to exalt themselves by " performing the greatest services to their country . Why is it that the Radicals of Endand have been blamed ? W'hv is it that the anathemas
o WMgs and Tones in their indignation , have been hurledagainstnsr _ Why ? bnt because we would not submit to their pettifogging system . ( Hear , hear . ) And then we are to be charged with disobedience , because we will not sacrifice principle to expediency . ( Cheers . ) Mr . O'Coxsor honoured the men of Leeds for their steady adherence to principle ; he honoured them becanst ? they had raised . the standard of freedom , and had inscribed in lasting- characters , the motto of « qual justice Upon that banner , andletthe advocates of justice to Ireland , and of Universal Justice , aid the cause of Ireland , and if necessary draw aside the veil of moral force from that of which it was" only the shadow . , And let them show the physical force that
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would be found concealed tinder that veil . His friend Mr . Crawford had made one mistake , but he perhaps after all might be right . He might wish to forget and forgive ; but he ( Mr . O'Connor ) could not do « 6 . ' Mr , Crawford said , give the WMgs another trial . If he could bring back the men of Dorchester , if he could set at liberty the men of Glasgow , yrho had been so shamefully imprisoned , and were in all probability now before their jndge ; if he could resuscitate those who had been deprived of life , leaving others helpless and defenceless to mourn their loss ; if he could recall those who had been banished for adhering to their country ' s interests , and in whose bosoms had bnrnt , as ah inextinguishable fire , the flame of patriotism , he would
then say give to the Whigs—the condemned Whigs anothert rial . ( Hear , arid cheers . ) We had tried them session after session , and for year after year ; but in spite of all our indulgence their own acts had been their own accusers , for after all they had promised , they had brought forthpeasnrea wliich at best had been ill sustained and which ultimately . they had never been abl < 2 to accomplish ; ( Cheers . ) He would ask what the WMgs had done for the people ? They had literally done nothing : and they had not only done nothing but they had actually been . carrying measures in unison with the Tories wMch the Tories could not carry themselves . ( Loud clieers . ) While the Whigs were on the opposition side they woul . l not have allowed the Tories to carry such measures
as they hadlately carried , but would have joined wit a . the people in opposing by all their power those very measures . which- they . themselves had passed . But he thanked God that she loud storm of politL-al indignation washanging around them , and that "_ at . last it would consign them to that ' oblivion and disgrace in wMch they would meet with the loudest execrations of thep ' eople . TheWliigs had tried us , and had seen what we had been able to do for them . Wo had carried the Reform Bill for them when they were not able to carry it for themselves ; and ihsy had even said to the Radicals " Come , you have had the benefit of the Reform Bill , do take -a little journey with us , do accompany us a little further , " and if you do not feel disposed to go all the way to Keigliley
do escort as-as far as Bradford . ( Laughter and cheers . ) We ? kad gone with them many a weary jnuniey but we had always found that when we yot to the end of Whig lane , thej- had •¦( nlveljod with" a dark " lantern , and " having accomplished their wishes , have turned round upon us and llashiiig thfi light in our f ; u-es had bid us good night . saying they couLl tind the Test of the journey themselves . ( Cheers and lauehter . ) Such \ vas the position in which we were placed . We had tried the Whigs " . as repre » v > nt ; itiviis , and we had condemned them for . their performances . Thev had loosened their powers of agitation and fonn ' d what their principles were , and ' . tlint' tliey seemed as determined ' to struggle for wielding authority in this land of freedom as ever they had
been . But thev had deceived us and it was tune to appeal to the industrious classes of the country to co : timcnce setting up business on their own account . ( Hear . ) It gave him pleasure to attend this meeting because the working nieu hud taken the responsibility of it entirely into their own hands . ; they had consulted" no one as to what course they sUould pursue , or-what measures they should propose , lie had been told that Leeds ' was a rotten place , but they saw what could be done in a short time , and that meeting wa . s a sufficient proof of the unanimity and determination of the men of Leeds to depend upon their own resources and to put into operation their Hottest fxenions in the cause of freedom .- lie -hail never interfered with their arrangements , for his interference was altogether uawcessary "* , tliey
wenable to mauace themselves . Since he hrul come amoiiiTst them lie foun . 1 lit ; had come to a good school , where lie could learn many useful lessons , and . in-ieed where he . had already obtained iiiuck valuable inlbrmatiou . He ov . vd mnch to tlie opinions vt '"' tbes ; men , and he was . determined to stand by them at-all liaiards to assisr th ^ ni in the protection of their rights ; and he would appeal to the opj ) o .- * ers ' of tbis svslem , whether it was not much sa ^ ' er lor the general good of tlie country that working men should enlighten each other and come forward in tlii .-bold , manly ,, and iiidependcut iiuinner . to iu ;> . ivitain thiar " principles ratlit-r than plod tn ^ erlu- 'r in ifrnoniuce and auger when God knew where it wov . ld > top . ( Cheer * . ) Had they had Aimm : ! Parliaments v . ouid they have had the Whins in
ofrice for the last five . years , under tin ? guise , ot hemg the friends of Reform ? fljetir , hear , hear . ) No . iiu . Thev would have taken better care of . thciuseivfS s and ' would have looked more clusely- niter their friends , the Whig . * , than to have alli / . ved them t > usurp tliose places and that power-which they h : . ;! thus < o shamefully abused . Wlio , he would . ask , had been beiiefitted"b ' y the Refqnn- Bill ? If there was tiijvm . il ! in that assembly that hud felt-his condition in the slightest degree amended by the measure , let Mm acknowledge it by holding up his ru'ln hand . ( A lansh . ) - . It appeared ^ then , that the "Reform Bill had l > ei " . i of no advaiilaire to those whom- 'he .-then addressed , inusmuch ns it was . not acknowledged by a single individual . That bill was only intended to of
be oi advantage to a very limited cla ^ s British subjects ; and it was an undoubted fact , that instead ot " siring an additional share of political iufluejice to the manufacturing population , it had diminished that influence by extending . the' franchise amongst fanners aud others more iinmediately conuecteil with tlu * landed interest . Had the people had- Universal Snfirap-t' and Annual Parliaments , they never wonld havesrjiYer ^ d surli a measure ; 1 . * the Starvation Art . as it had been justly tenned , t « have passed into a . iaw ; nor wonld they have snnXnvd that still more iniquitous system of transportation under the name of emigration . How many thousands , of whifH slaves were annually transported to the American . Colonies for the purpose of cnltivatiiisr the land , and thus to
increase its value to the American Land Company . The ' pjrssing of th : s nnd such like fraudulent aud oppressive measures was not the act of the people , nor had it been done with their sanction . The : nl > use of machinery , too , by which human labour had been rapplanted , was the result of the want of that political power wMch the people had a right to enjoy , lie did not undervalue machinery . He was of opinion that whatever tended to abridge humau labour mvst be adyautageouf to man ,-if its-advantages were fairly and properly distributed . But'it was not necessary-for him to tell them that the advantnses of macbinery had been moiiupolized by a fewgrinding capitalists , who sei-med eager to grasp : at every o ' . jportunitv for increasing their wealth withoi ' . t
the slightest regard to the interests oi those who ought- 'to ' ¦ reap the advantages of those improvement ^ . ( Lou d cheers . ) Tlin - - , . then , by this niono-P = > 1 t of the advantages of machinery , a complaint had been raised about n surplus population . It was said that the inhabitants of the country were more than it was able to " . support : and why ? Because machinery had supplanted human labour , and the whole profits of-these , improvements-had-been monopolised by the mnnwfactnrers . ( Cheers . ) It was useless to talk to . him about a surplus population , when gentlemen cultivated their lands forthe purposes of pleasure , when they had their parks , their gardens , their race-horses , and their hounds . ( Hear , hear . J Let the land be cultivated for useful
purposes ; let its produce be fairly divided amongst those who had . a right to live upon the soil when other means of subsistence failed them : and if it was found that ihe-pro .-iu . ee . of the land , together with the profits nf labour , were not sufficient to support the population , let them then cast lots for emigration , and seek that subsistence in other conn tries which could not be afforded theni in the land of their birth . ( Loud cheers . ) [ Mr . . O ' Connor , iii a very . animated style , continued to address the meeting for above an hour . ] He said that he had never recommended the people to adopt a coarse in which .-he did nor heartily join with them ; and so long as he continued to be an inhabitant of Leeds , the people would ever find'him-ready " , to lend his-aid m any measure calculated to promote their interests and happiness , lie i-xliorted- th ^ m to ^ uiiity , and perseverance in their holy warfare , and " never to fwrget that the conteot in which they were engaged
was ' a contest of \ irtue against vice : a struggle wherein knowledge was opposed to bigotry , and justice to oppression .: . The people had never complained of a single act which did not press hard upon the working classes ; that it was folly and impudence for sither WMgs or Tories to talk of plunder and injustice , for thu working classes were alone those who had been plundered and deprived of every enjoyment of life . liife was but liberty , and liberty was but the enjoyment of life . ( Cheers . ) He would leave the cause in their own hands : they hud already erected the standard of liberty , around which they should rally ; -and the day was fast hastening when injustice and oppression should be hurled from their dominion , and the cause of freedom , justice , and humanity should rise to that glorious triumph to wMch it was ultimately destined to at ' ain . Mr . O'Connor retired amid the loud and continued applause of the mueting .
Mr . "Joshua Hobson * moved the next resolution . He would not detain them by any observations-as there were others who would support it . u That a Property Qualification for Members of Parliament is absurd and unjust , unless it can be shewn that property confers taleat or honesty on its possessor ? Tbat everj \ man is equally interested in the safety and prosperity of the state with all his fellow men ,, and that , therefore , every man ought to be equally eligible for a Member of the Commons' Honse of Parliament ^ every man equally represented by its Members and equally protected by the laws . " *
Mr . David Green secondedit . Capt . Woon supported the motion in a very able speach , in wMch he showed the necessity of th « Suffrage and the Ballot , and spoke at great length on the absurdity of the Property ( Qualification . ; . He was received with much applause . Mr . TEMPLETON v ttie reporterfor the Northern Slur , moved the next resolution , which he accompanied wiih a speech of some length , and which , elicited couf-iderableappla-ase .
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" That , while . tlus ; yme > ting- "' cpn't ^ i iiipja ^ '' wi ^ h feelings of -the / deepest regret ^ the civil : discord which now unhappily rages in Cahadai it also rejoices at the noble ^ heroic , and independent spirit which the , Canadians have manifested in their opposition to the unconstitutional "' . - interference- . of . ' - the British G-oyernment ; and that-it hereby pledges itself to oppose by every constitutional meaho , any measure which may he proposed either by the-present or any other Ministry ,- ' : for the purpose of coercing the Canadians into subjection , until their real grievances are satifacborily redressed . '' Mh ' -ATJa ' usT ; us PEA . yMONT .. . c ' ame ^ fqrwari to sTipport the fifth resolution . He snid that after the eloqnent speech of Ms yonng friend , who--had-prev
ceded Mm , -little was left to be . said . He stated that he should tprove ; that the Ministry ^ in their coiidnct to Caiiaaa , were guilty of treason , - ¦ robbery , arson , and murder ; Be should not have recourse to any oratorical arts , Ibut by a reference to the laws of the land > p'Vove that the Ministers ; were guilty of all those crimes in Canada ;¦ and if the people of this country should ever : be represeiittjcl by an honest Parliament , one of its first acts would be to bring to the block Lord . John Russell , Lord ^ Melbourne , and all their -Tory and / noble supporters , ( Cheers . ) What was treason ? Not . merely violating allegiance to the . Monarch . There was an allepance due to the people , and Monjirclis only existed on the supposition that tliey were beneficial to the natuin .
It was the duty of the'Ministers to sup . p 6 r . t-the cons ' titntion of ..-tha . ^^ colonies not-les i than of ihe parent state , and every act ofy > i 6 lence committed by tlieiri'dn coionial rights , which iiece , ssari ] y compelled them to revolt irom the pother country , was aii act of treasnn to the nation . The colonies were ns much entitled to the pliservance of the common principles of justice , as Great Britain and Irelaiid . Tlie Ministry bad ho inqve ri g ht to commit , robbery , arson , and ninaler , in Canada , ^ thaa tliey ; Iiail in Leeds , To violate ¦ tlie constitution of Caiiacla ^ mid so to compel tliem to t . Uie up amis , . wasiva violation of tlie alle ^ 'iauce due by the sovereign to the people ; and uiion the priheiphs - of miiiisterial respoiitjibi-Ety ' . ; - thelv Lori John lluc-sell , Lord Melbourne , ar id Lord ( ilBiiel ^ ough t to be tried , couilemijed and executed
l . ovd-Gosfoi-J , "J ? 'd Sir Ji > hn Colbiirne were equally liable to ext ; ci . Ui 6 iv'fov the murder and ' ari- 'on they lirul had perpetrated i : v Canada , and which Whig . and Tory papers alike gloried iiii ^ e should strictly . refer them to the lav / on the subject . Anterior ' to thsi rebellion ( as it \ v : is then , called ) of the Britiilt Jvorth American . Colonies , wliicli are now the L ^ nited States ¦ "' of Nor . tli . j-A'iiie ' ricn , ' ( ohce ' rs , ) f [ the British y \ iiiistr y- hpji . claimed the right ol ' tjixiiig the colonies . When the American rebels : ' about J 77 ^ 'wre on the povit of a . cinevingt \ ioir independence , -the ' . Miuisters of the day , iinding that all chance' of success on their part was at an eiid , passed a statute of" Parliament tor the Ipui ^ osa , as they s « vvd , ; cf qnieting hiij ¦ M ajesty ' s " subjects in his Mojesty ' s plantatiims in North 'America . Bv this statute tliere was a ssolfnvn
de ' rlaratiph thatIJritaiii would never tax the colouiys , nor apply the proceeds of any impost to aiiy othsr tlirin colonial purposes . This . statute failed of its purpose to conciliate the American fcvolt . i—tliey regarded' the act "is-a Iraudulent piece of parchinejit w . lnch ' wasp asstvdia _ a uiomertt ' ol' ff «» r t <> be violated in the hour . of rapacious c ' onfidoare and -tjTiilirucitl piiwur . They steadily . pursued t ! ieiv ennrse of rebellion , and became a . great repubh ' c . ( C ( vj ^ rs . ) This statute "'as , ( however , still the -law of the liuiJ , nnd it had finally . settled tho long-disputed question between parent- state and tlie colony , by ahahdoiiiug all piviiumyd riglit . ' -oii tije part ot ' the former to : tux 07 plunder the latter . So stood the act of -1 . 7 ^ .. In t ] : e year 1701 , Avlien Great Britain , or rather her Tory Miiiisters were on the ' . point of entering into nii . fliy list war ' with France , —they in pricier to conciliate Canada , ctmrefled a cbn . s ' titntiou to that
coluny . L-y tlus . liitoi 1791 the soie povyer tothx the colonists was . lissighiuTto the House u . t' Assembly of th : i ; t country . He iimiieil the- power of Parliament to alter that constitnii . inwithout the coiisont of the colony : bin , ior . tlie ' afgumont . ' s sake , jidmittiiig the sitppusetl riiiht -of the- . Le < tislatare o ( this nation tii nher the Canadian Constitution-, ¦ ¦ Wi thnut the will ot tiic inhubitauts <«! ' that :- country , it \ vaa- evident it ciKild only , berepoaled ormodilii'il byhhother statiite ot Pur iament . Now , what have the Ministers done : They had proceeded-to deeds of -robbery by means ' of- the rosDliitions—r-the very act charged atrainst the long Parliament . / a * one of ¦ itis most atrocious nets . . A statute oi' Parliament had been i » as 5 ^ d- ' which vested in the Canadian Assembly
the . ' power -of levying t : ixcs , and huving the exclusive ' control of their public money . A -. precifdir ' jg statute )» iil- . soleniiily ; ubandoneU ail claim on the part . of ; tlie lVritisli'jl-ition-to appropriate '' -the nioiit-y of thiicoimiios . Thu ' se . statutes were rendered nugatory' byrnefe . resolutions of the . Hou ' s « of Comuious , authorising the Ministers tt > plunder jthe people of Caitiidii . ' The Huuse yf-- "Lords- sjuictinnyfd ibese . resolut ions— - \ vheii did . tiiay evev refviie their assent trviiiitact of public robbery ? ( Cries of never . ) Tliese resolutions mLtu however no repeal of the statutes to- which he had adverted , -and when Lord John llussell , and Lord Melbourne were arraigned lur treason ,- arson , Jobbery , and iiainier , ' they .. could not i ) I jud these resolutions as a justification for their
cmnes . TheWlng Ministers , having obtained ; the cpiiseiit of tlieir Tory allies to rpb the people oi Canada , proceeded t ;> carry out theiv conspiracy t ' 6 plunder . They seized , the money of the Canadians ^ and tlie defence sut up for them by the Morning C '/ tro / iwlejwas this ; ' ¦ ller Majesty ' s Miiiisters liud a _ teiupiirarj' occasion for the money , to prty coloni : vl sinecuriits , and ll ' ad .. therefore taken it ' as if h . e were to put his hand ' ia the pocket of the gentleman next him , take out h : s money , and calruly remark " Oh , I have a teuuiorary- ^ occasion tbr the inoney , but yon must uot ihiuk-this ; aiobbervi'V Such was the miserable pick-pocket excuse set up by the Ministry of this great nation , 'for robbing the people of a distant p : ; rt ol-1 the JCmpire . ( Cries bf sluuiie . )
P 3 is friend O'Connpr hud well told them what were the class oi persons who ; were benefited .. by the plunder . They were Colonial , retainers of Lords and Lordliiiffs who were fed on colonial plunder , so that their . relations . in the Parliament Houses here , might sell the mercenary votes of twenty or thirty M embers of the House of Commons anil the . House of Lords , to ^ eii-. vbie thein to plunder the people iuthiscountry . The Canadians wiire ivatura . lly indignant , at this robbery , and demanded redress . The Miiiisterg proceeded from robbery to murder . . They had ordered their inerc ^ nary ; soldiers ^ nnd more mercenary soldier- ofiicers , to murder the . people , to burn them ' alive , and , for vengeance' sake , to burn down whole . villages . fThiiik of thiit ( said he ) ofthe -hundreds , of bnr -fellow men burned alive in one house ! . Mad
ivny one here any interest in that atrocity . '—( Cries of no . ) Had any working man in Eugland , Scotlaiid or Ireland any wish- to sea such . a deed . of hell' ? ( Cries of no . ) It was perpetrated toplease ap&rtof that same gaug of people—jiJufld ' ere ' rs which desolate this nation . -It-. was ta gratify them that 100 meh , each of whom was-worth a thousand Russells , Peels , of Melbournes , were burned alive !—^ possibly ainongst them the father , or brother , 6 f my young friend , vvho has ad dressed : you with so much , feeling and elbquence , arising from the fact that iilVhis family are emigrants in the Colony which the Whig ¦ Ministry ' have embroiled in ' -. civil war ! What must be his feelings when he thitik s of the father whom he adored ^ whose voice , ¦ after years of absence , he
hoped again to hear , bunied to deathV and of the brother of his . love ii \ ictim to tha llames ' - ?¦ What must be the mother's sensations , when ¦ . * she remembers of her glerious sojj , her pride and stay in life—* no lunger to be folded in hor maternal embrace—no more in all the joy and gladness of life , but a bliickeued coal ! What inust be . the agony of tha faithful wife , vrhen thv body ahe has so often / folded in the warmth of Iova—pure and holy love , is nothing now bnt a heap of aslies—tlie limbs and ibrin that father , mother , wife , and sister have so often conteinpiatod with loTe ' are reduced to cinders—after pasting through the agony of death , by fire . Heavens , this is ^ the work of the British nation .-- ( Cnes of no . ) You are right , it ig not ihe work of the British
nation , but of the nccursed A \ 'hig Ministry and their detestable Tory allies ^ Hear . ) Think not my Ineuds , that these aicts . sliall go unavenged . Lord ( jp siord and Sir John Colborue shall yet be put upon their trial at Westminster Hall ^ and being condemned , be hanged for their xrimes , under the same statute under which sijllerea Governor Wall , albeit , he too was protected in his atrc'ciovis act by the Ministers of the day . As was Wall'hangedisp shall be Gosfoi'd , and Colborne ,: ( cheers ) j and justice will not be done them unless Russell , aiidMalbounie , and Peel are hanged along with them ; ---( Great cheers . ) The day of retribution and . ' vengeance shall yet come for hutises and \ iUages bunied in avowed " vindicdveness j . ' . ; -fuji'd men murdered . and
burned alive to please ; Ministerial despot * . As for the declaration of Martial Law by Ministers , that procuediug was clearly iUegal , the onl y power which coiiR" . put a Colpny having a ; Constitutiph under Alarttai Law , was a council of War cotaposed of the Governor , the LsgislativeConncil , and the Legislative Assembly , in other words , the Parliament of the Colony .- - - / That formality had not been complied with , and therefore the usurped authorit y of the ( lovoirnorinpntiing the Colduy under Martial Law at tlie unlawful prder of the Whig Ministers , was an additional crinie and no palliation of the treaspns , niurders , robberies , and arsons , for which he shall
yet be tried jaid : h ! iuged . r- ( Cheers . > No \ y , my friends , you are here tiierepreaentatives of British justice—you know the defence set up by the Ministers through their hired advocates of the Pressy ; iu have heard my charge against theia and liavtt weighed the evidence ^ How say you—are John llussell ¦ ¦ c ommonly , called Lorf John Rugsell and Lord Melbourne guilty of treason ) tobbery , aradii , .-vndninrder , orare they , uotgitilty ?' . ' ( Griw of guijty , guilty . ) Such of you us giye your vcrdjctoiTguilty then 'hold-u ' pyour-haiidsv- ^ lle ' re :-: theyiple ; mee& ff 'fi ' eid up their hands . )—Hearken to your verdlct- ^ yod say the Ministers are guilty of treason ^ murder , ; robbeiy , and anon and so you say all ? ( Cries of yes—yes
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we dd . ) Oh ! my friends , how I do vikh . that I could giva effect to your most righteous verdict by pror Houncirig judgment of : death and execution according to law on these detestable violators of the laws of ; God and- man . —( Cheers . ) Never . shalj we have peace in England : till the . precedent set in the reign of Ileijry ; the Eighth , when Empsey and Dudley , two mi ^ stewyn . oVhalf-8 p ; bad- ^ npt / liali \ i ? o ' -cnmin 3 J —were Iianged : by the neck ; oh , it was a glorious precedent .. ( Vehement cheers . ) Anerishewni ^ how the ' . Canadian cirilW ; ar must affect our commerce and so bring dowii the wages of working men , ami eulpr ' gising _ the Canadians for . their manly assertion of their rights , he -concluded ' . by :-expressing his detestation of all war as beiug only an acciimulati () ii of niurder , but in struggling for liberty it was glorious to . spill the life of the enemy ' : bf n ; eedom , or to yield up one ' s own ,
" . , Blood like thia " For , liberty shctl so holy is ; " -lt . wpiild not stain tho purest rill " Which spii . rkles ainidst the Lowers of blt-a . ' . '¦' : " "Oh ! if theru be on this earthly Kphere ¦ ¦ " *' . A bunn , un offering , Heayou holds dear j" 'TL ; th-3 last libation liberty draws " Kroiii--thbieatt which bleeds andbrealbin her caiiss . " ( Loud and reiterated cheering and snoutine . ) The fifth resol ' utiou was then put aud carried unanimously . ; ' : ¦" . ; ' : - ;' . ¦¦ ' ¦¦ , / ¦ •¦•• " . ' ; ' .- ¦ A petition embodying the preceding resolutions was afterwards moved , seconued , -and unanimously adopted . Thanks were then voted to the Chainnan , and the meeting separated , : This was one of ths most lively and interesting mee ' tinrrs we ever remember tohavo ' seen ' . ¦ '¦¦ ¦¦
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The Editors of "The ^ Jcrtliem Stay ' wisli to be » 3 istiiictly u&deraiopd taal in affording a vehicle for the discussion pjjv ' great Public Questions , they are not to be ideatiSed witli tiie Schtiiacnts or tlie Xiangruage of Slieir saver&l Correspondesits .
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TO THE RIGHT HOSOVRABLK LORD JOHN&USSKU ., liKR MAJKSTVS Sl'XMUOl'ARY Oi ' ' STATE FOU t-li-K
• HO . ME DERAR'lV . lK . NT . ; My Lord , —Her Majo ^ ty has been plense . il " . to entrust yon ' with the management oilier domestic affairs ,- In your keeping , she lias lodged the responsibility of domestic peace or civil war . Itis Uyt / oic that she looks to advance the prosperity of England . If auveraty should prove the nation ' s " portion , then will she justly charge i / ou v . ithiucompetency or treason . I ackuowledj'e that your station is high—^ -that y . 6 nt post is honourable ; I y ; -ould . approach ytoU-with deference ., but this , iny { jorJ j is not the . time , when an hunible hi dividual : n a private station need opologisi ) for chiiming tke attention-of-one who must inevitably shortly , if not removed from oJficn , be . ' tha suvibur or . drsifroyer of his couutfy .
My Lord , ifthecours . eofGovern : nentbe notchanged , England is at this lnoniunt on the brinlt of a civil war . Tu ' e institutions of the countrj ' are-shalcen to tlieir ¦ f puiiVlafcion . v ^ -ai ) d'ii'iier Majesty ' s ministerri are resolved to-.-cpiitiivue de : ; f to the representations oi her people , if tliey . resolve to be deluded by the . false stuteuieuts of . hireling . Commissioners- iiad their liaiigers on , —then , very . shortly , they will be destroyed . My Lord , —The people of England lining passed through the "jielbrai" delusion , —have opened their eyes . The only benefits which they htiye derived : are the-knowjeuge of their own strength—and that the Whigs , .-after : all their professions , ire th ^ ir inost tbatlly enemies . The _ expectations tliut had . been raised in the ininds of the people , under the name
of ^ Refona , " have ended in disappointment . That ministry , which promised . them peace—has sent them tlie sword ! Instead of bread ,, it has given them . separatio-n , starvation , and iinprisoinnent ! The ; refusal , jn the " Rel ' ormevl" House of Commons to allow any discussion ou the presentation of the petitions of the people , proves that there is now no sympathy on the part of .. ' that ' House towards the people ^! T _ h « bungling piece of legislation about the ; registries proves tae . total . incapacity of its a-athors . —Tlie law which was passeilin siltmce at midnight , empowering lier Majesty ' s Miiiisters to send strangers as spies and police-men , into our towns and villages , has satisfied the people <; f the uu- -English spirit of the .: ' - ' . informed '' Ilonse , —• a-iii'l . that unnatural , unconstitutional ^ and tinchristiiin law—called the " Poor Law Ainendinent
. Act , " has proved to-the people , that the iate \ tio . v of the - Vm itefoyjitetl" Government is to reihwe the liihourers of EsukAXD iou level with those o / Irkland -r-aaid to uestroy all thtor local attachroeiifs to'ihe : tuivgistrates and local oiheers of their districts ; - —to place spies undur different names , in all our hamlets , village , and toivns ; £ iid to cover the country with an unconstitutional police t- ^ -thus establishing the hateftil system of Irench-Centralizatitiii by Freniih-Espionajfe!!—My horA- ^ Englisi ' iVieu will nutsuLmit tbity-WyyMi . i ^ l % eliJiefin-minif \ -iiovfirnvieHt , caHUi } t enforce it . Vour strength « in the people- ^ you hnve shorn your own locks . —You may ^ still have the power tp brer . k down the pillars of the constitution— - hut by so doing you will iiiostundpubtodly . perish in the ruins ^ -. The people who carried yourself and your
comrades into ot lice , are now laughing when they henryou declare "thaton your own responsibilityyon will force them to submit to the power of theT'hvee Somerset House Kings ' . " Do not depend upon the army , my Lord , if you .. do , ; you will soon n ' lui that yoii are -leaning upon a broken reed ; The British spldiers are much opposed to the Now PoorLawyas the British labourers are . —They knoiv that they are as litely to c ^> nie to poverty as any of the operatives . They lim'c ^ poor parents , and wives , and children- ^ -arid ttvey have Uo wish to fight—to force their nearest rel& * tives into bastiles . Besides , my Lord , they know that many of their former coirimdes , who hav » earned their pensions in the field of battle , haver been depviveatijtheirhonovr able yUtunce ^ and have been lodged in these hateful workhouses !!
My Lord , — 'las soldiers of the British army can guess , without being told—that the same principle , which requires the destruction of the alms houses of the ] Mor undlhe withdraical of out door relief , ui / i very soon require the destruction of Chelsea Hospital , and the u-ithtirawal of the veterans' pensions . It you wish to creato a - ' -mutiny , in- the British army , your roost Jjiire and efficacious plan will be , to eviploy them against the . people in the enforcement of the Neva Poor Lau : . Look at Brapfoiid , my Lord—that eXi > erim » ntproved-that the soldier * must be . made drunk before they will fight against their brethren . But , my Lord , there is no need ; that you should thus disgrnc * the British soldier , —we have other modet of warfare than caimoiis , guns , and swords . We are now , for the last time , petitioning for the
repeal of the Poor Law Amendment Act . We shall see what eftect those petitions produce on the " Reformed " House . If they should fail , we have other meazia ready for adoption : —it will be time enough to inform your Lordship what they are when circumstances shall require their use . They' will prove invincible—I know they will , ^ l y Lord , the people of England are not for blood shedding—they are loyal to tlieir Queen—they have no wish to remove : the coronets from the Aristocracj-, nor dp they envy them their estates , —but they mill Hot fall down and worship the three kings :- ^ -they will not submit lo be taxed , imprisoned , and divt / rced by laws , made and ja-omitlgatedbi / three strangers to the constitution . No , my Lord , Engliihmen know their rights , and they have still the courage Jo maintain them . ¦¦ . - ;¦ . ¦ - ¦ ;¦' . ' " ' ' . ¦ ' . ' ¦ ¦ .
" Englishmen shall not be imprisoned except by the legal juixislent of theijl peers , or by the law ov the LA 5 b ; " and , if it has pleased the "Kt ? fyrtned" Parliament , to revoke this essential principle of Magxa Charta , then , in the wonte of the same document , "It shall be null ahd void , - ^ -NJKiTHER SHXhh THE CROW . V E > 'ER ' &IJLK ' G USE OF IT . E 1 THEH BY ITSELF OR ANY OTHER . " My Lord , We know that , by the Bill of HigHts , " the Crown HAS KO POWER TO IEVy aiOAEV , WHICH IS NOT orawted by PAnLlAMENT ; " and if the crown be deprived of that power , how can Englishmen be expected tp subinit tothe taxation of thre » traitors ' They neither pan , nor will . The three kings are not so ( irmly seated as was James' the Second . Let
tnem remember | nsiate ,. and the cause . Aeain , my Lord , it is curtain that marriage is as bindin ^ iu poverty as in wealth ; mid : that b y the law of God , which is interwoven in the law cf this land , it is declared— « For this ciush shall ; a man l « ave his father and mother , and cleave to Jtis wife ; and they tuamshall bei / nejiesh : so then they are no more tit : ain , but oncjiesh : What , therefore , God hath JOINEP TPUCTHER , LET NOT MA > f PUT ASUNDER . " £ n ^ r L ° rd , ^? ' standing in your place in the " . Reformed House of Commons , holding the seals f'the Homo Qmee from our virgiu Queen , has giv « n the he to Jesus Christ , andhasresolved , by " force , " TO oivpiicE her pauper BUBJECTS—and " tp take the .-responsibilit y upon ^ yourself I" The people of hngland havey however , resolved that a second
Russell shall . bleed , rather than that the marriage umoii shall be dissolved b y poverty . Yes-, my Lordj the words of God are still of more authority than tiioso ' of a i-etpnning '' Minister ! Y < iur Lordship may , perhaps , think that it is impertinent for aii uidivi ^ ualiike myielf , tp address one in so high a a station as you are . I am in the secrets of millions , my Lord . 1 love my country , uind I would avert th » threatened doom . This is my lirst * letter to your Lordship outhpsubjHct . I . wishj in the iirst ir istancw , to impress upon your mind that it is because the Poor Law ' Amendment Act is nnconstUultonal in its principle , that the people of England ar&deleriitinea ' constitutionally to resist iti You have courted the " responsibility "— -on your head let it rest . —For the present , I have the honour to remain , Your Lordship ' s most obedient Servant , ¦¦
: r .: , ¦ , ';¦ :- R 1 CHARP OASTLER . Fucfa ( Hall , near HuddersHeld . . ; . Mw . 20 . 1837 . ' ..: ¦ : .. ' ,., -y ^ ' U .: ' . ' . - P . S . —My ' . 'Lord , the people of Englan d are disgustjid—when they rBflectup 6 ntli » insult which you
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offijred to tti 8 . Quean andto ^ her Majesty- to congratnlate her , Parliament ia b » x-r first royal speech , " oi ^ domestic peace and inteniaSv tranquillity , at'the j very . tnoment when you kne »* that the troops and her people were in bloody cott *~ llict , by yorir orders ^ in oae of her maaufocturing' . towns . ¦ ' : . ' - '' ¦ ' ¦ ¦ * . ¦¦ ' - ¦ - ' . - ¦ . ' ¦¦ :- -- < - ' ' . : ' ' - ' - ' " - - ' ' : ' . Rk . 'O . - ' - . - ' '
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; : ¦ ; ' ;' ¦ ' , ¦ QO-OPER ^ ION . TO THE ^ EDITORS-OP THE KORTHBRJT STAR . < There was a piece of information about Co-operation at Huddersfield , in your paper o f last Vreeil which delighted me not a little . Though a shopkeeper ,-. I teel hone of that alarm which some-of our short-sighted brethren expe'ience at the-progrcssorthe above Society . On the contrary ,- ! ' think it oirers : the strongest reasoss ibr rejoicing to everv shopkeeper and manufacturer in the countrj ' . IfthV co-operatiye state of society can once be estabh ' shed * not only the wprkingclasK , but the shopkeepers andv mahii faeturers will henceforth be secure froni poverty ^ but if it bft not establislied : who can say iUaihieis ihdeminSed and beyond the reach of waiit-e-whc can promise fiimseh " ainidst the continual bani :-mptdcii and fiulnres tlint snrround as on every-sideithat his fate' shall not be the next .: I will speak to
my felloiy-shoplreepers and manulacturers who have hitherto beenV . coinparatii'ely speakintr , well pftVan « I have brought up . their families in a genteel mannehaud fitted , thcni ! to movein - . . ' the renned circles o £ middle . 'life , and IwJHa . sk them what niust be tlieu : feeliugs when cast from tlve pinnacle of their ele—A'atVd . iife , and . plunged iuto the common walk & £ hard-earned poverty and degradation by the ruthlfiss' \ yorkings of our social evils . And do tbe ^ e thiiigs ^ ne ' ver- happfcu ? .. ' Alas ! it is not a thing pf the -iniagination- -a ; tiilp ; "tofi > ighten babes , withal , "butoneo £ coristaut occurence . ljiy looking over the Gazette yois ( iud that'a . day seldom passes , but some family , AvitK feeh ' hgs formfid . for the summer walks of life , is " rfimorselessly flunginto that froizeh path of existence ,-wiiich blasts every blossom , and freezes every , bud o £ present p . assion or-ftiture hope . : ¦"¦' . ' . : :.:
Fellow sliopkeepeK niid manufacturers , loolt not with mistrust on the humble efforts of the Jiudderslield Co-operatives , for their , cause is oursy Q ay ; we are -more interested in , . 'their success than the ^ worliiTig Mien theiuselvesi fur when v / e fall , we suffer ten-fold liiisery in comparisun to those whohave beeis inuvad to priyatito through out a lifei of want . - But you may . probably asiv , how or in what manner is Uie success of cn-pperation coimectedwiih our ^¦ wett fkre or liiisery ? I grant yon a right -to an answer before you entertain the pacitic cousiderations whiclt I am urging upon you . As I have madethe priijciples a part ' " o'f my study , 1 hope-I shall be ablets
ans % ver this querj' to your satisfaction . The objecK is to make property national , instead of . iodividu ^ and ¦ -personal .,, and all the people are be . joiuiVnr » prictors . . ¦ •' .. - . ' v . ' ' .- ¦¦ ¦¦ , ¦ •¦ ' ''' ¦ '' ¦¦ , " ' ¦'¦ " This gteat change is to be wrought gradually ^ by first ^ stiiolisluug . a trading society , which has beefe doite , tliex purchasing : ho \ isu £ , until they have got district ; from a district theyHyill buy aparish ; from & parish a county ; and froma county akiugdom . Aay man uiny became a member of the sociefcy , ! dare s ; iy , and iis thesociety v / ill want all sorts , ot tradesmen shoplceepers , aud managei's , all these various branches will : iind profitable : employment , alid- ste person . will be excluded who iswilliiig to join .
Now , it .. will be ' perceived fromthis plan , . thatmetkind of violence is iiitended to the possessors of prs » - perty , for ail ' . property is to be bought ; thereforev > the ' (¦ hange . must be gradual , aud in some measnrejiinperceptible , but certainly uniujiirioi'is tp any perspn .. ' Let '; i ! p one ie . ar 6 fhn . viug to mix with what are now c .. " . ; siilered the common people , for according tdtbis plan , all are . to . be educated , m a much superior manner to what the best iuformedvftnci most polite of tli middle classes are at jir « . sent ; therefore , the fear of having to mix with a vulgar and ignoraut inob > . altogetlier groundless . There , will be no such
characters lourid in the country ; all the people will b « ticnial in politeness aud . intelligence to those youesteem the-iiiost for their properties . . Drunkenness ,, tiifft , debauchery , and licentiousness , will be yootea . out bt- the -laud ;; and iiotliuig but ; ' pleasing sights and souids ; will , be seeii > and heard . Sncli are-tae ? objects of the ( Jo-operators of Iluddersfieldi and . I now ask my orpther shopkeepers , and the mann--facturer ? , ; whether they ought to be looked upon w eneiuies or friends ? Certainly no man , or any bodj ? ofineii , csui view these . Co-operators as eneniiea ' -ii * their fellow-creatures but as their best friends . ;
If I had ueyer looked beyoiiii the till and counter ; , Imight have been , alarmed . But I have , and thoughis . may seem at first si g ht coutrary to uiy interest . I ¦ sincorelyhope v that I shall live to see the day whenthiqr willnotoulypossess what tliey ^ ndwhavebut the wholecounty of "Vort to boot ; and should that day fortunately come , I shall be glad to change the banfth ' te © F shopkeeping / oT a pcrmauent situation in the great social republic .. - - ' -r- 'V . f- : \ Vhen society shall have been moulded int » this form , no man will have to labour above three honra a day , aud this will command a suinciency of evesy ; necessary , ind every philosophical refinement inlife . ; I have shown you what may take pkee if co-operation be estabustied : let me noir show : you what wil ? take place , if it , orsomethinglike it , Snot established . If tv * consul thistbry f vve shall ilud that where ever a . suiall poTtion of tlits people have become inunensels :-rich , a vast bodyr of tli « people , on the other hand " ^
havebeCanie extreinely poor ; and we further find , that the richVas a body , have invariably become corrupt , eft " emiuate , iand * weak ; thatthe-vast bodyof the poverty-stricken race have- nadtheir spirit of nationality , patriotism , and ; mauliuess— -those qualms oil . nations ,- juiii pedestals of ernpires— -absorbed iathe ~ base passion p tpetty turbauce , and slavish imitation of the efietninate rich , till domestic broils aiid civii strife have rendered them an easy . prey to the firat vigprous people , or invading army , that took the trou-r ble- to prbhounce their denatjpnaiity .. Eiigiand is " now treadiiigin thispath . One portipE ; have become rich and effeminate , the : remaining ^ vast body ara becoming every day poorer . Thenatural cPiisequence of this state of things mustfolbw ; and denationalisation will . . be- 'theresultj "¦ : ¦ ¦ - ¦ . Co-operatiqn , pir Korggthing like it , iijiust step ia . and distributeinbre equally thewealth of the country , and make . it the interest of every man to maintaiiiour nationuh ' ty entire . '''¦ . ¦' . ¦ . ; SHOPKEEPER ^ Iluddersfield , Jamtartj 8 , 1838 , ! *
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TO THE EDITORS OF THE NORTHERN STAB ^ Gentlejiex , —I was not a little urprised Upoct ' reading the account of bur excellent meeting in th& last week ' s Northern Star , to iiiid myself represe ^ its ^ as saying , that •" . there is a royal pauper receiving £ 150 , 000 ; & year ! I" I ani at aloss hoyeto acconat for your having got such a report ; for I find Mr ^ Cjreaves' speech , . Mr . Haliday ' s speech , and Mri _ Knight's speech , all properly reported- ; and mine * aud Mr . Ales :. Taylor s almost entkelyjsuppressed ^ and inine- very , much misrepresented , even in the fe-vr senteiices retained . I did not say there ' was a Toyar pauper receiving £ loO , 000 a year ; bul that therev were on the Pension List 1018 , including three royal paupers , receiving that sum amongst them ; and that that sum would keep 44 , 665 poor persons at laid , per week , for a year ' , and that Parson Lowe said it was' ijuite z . sumptuous : fare ; that he himself had lived upon it for a month , and found that be was much' lairer , and in better 6 ealth : than whea living upon his o wn income of i ^ , 000 a jear . Had > it not been 3 ( br the mis-stutement in this respect , I should not have ; intruded sp ; far upon your . valuabletime , for I care , nothing at all about my speech na being reported , because 1 did not gp to the meeting ; for the niere purpose of inaldug a speech , But to assist in opposing the Poor Law Amendment Act . . If you will have the goodness to insert thesere marks ( ifter such correction us you miy deem ne » cessary ) ia ' this week ' sNortherii Star , you will greatly oblige , :. ¦ ' ' . ' . '¦/ V . ! - : - . Yours obediently , J . L . QUARMBY . Eagle Street , Oldham , - ¦"¦ Jan ; 4 , 1838 . : V / ¦' . ' '¦ ,: - --
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THE TEAR OF BEAUTY .. The tear thit falls from l ^ auty ' s eye , ¦ ' - - . ¦< ( Morevalu'd thiin aa eastern gem , ) Rivals the spanglcta of fteskj ' , — : l ¦ Ou&' oines the cosdy diadetn . India may toast her mines of gold , — Wind * waft Arabia's spices aero , — BTltlijjTit , ani worthlesa . aW we hold : Weigh'd and cpinpar'd with I > eaut / s Tear . . ' ... the tea . rthat wets her lovely check , Jlore precious than an onenjt pearl , * Teua of the teelingspxare and inieek , ¦ ' ¦ " ¦ ¦ ' ¦ \ Vhich in her stamk'ss bosom dwell .: When fill'd with thoughtsbatnalfexpress'd ,- ¦' , ' . Of bye-gone scoues , and distantyears ; Why on tJuitprrtrait oil h ? r ; breast : Unbidden falls her silent tears ? : Perhaps , a father ' s form she views , Or absent bvother meets her eye ; ' . ' . ¦ . ' .:. Perchance the ivory tJiblet shows ¦ : ¦ Some secri : t cause for sympathy . : perhaps a fa vour'd lover claims ; : : " . ' . " - ; Her fontl regrets , her anxious pare ; . By violence ; lbrc d to qnit her aniis , A prey to anguiah aid despaiy . ' - ' ¦ ' .. : " " : ' ' ; OT , if % fondlBv'd-wifeissiie ~ : ; : : Wer partner ' s . abaencfiduijm'a to mourn Her tea « bid tiine moie arnltly flee And hijat ^ bacJcherlprcT a return . ¦ v ^ ^^ e ^^ e cai ^ as ^ iherrest ,-i " - - v ¦' ¦ ' - ' ' ¦'¦' - : v ,. -VV hate er the scents tfli memory ^ dear , t . OigKet , oi ^ transport swells Her&easti ^ ' - ^ ? - . ; . ' . Qntranc'd ws gaaB : oniJ « hitys Tear . ^ ' ' - " ¦ : ' . - am , i& 3 , > ¦; '' ¦ ; ; , ;¦ ; ' . ; . -v . \ :. . ; r , ; / ^ 3 I 1 Ta . ; .: ' v ;' ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 13, 1838, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct337/page/7/
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