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THE KOETHERSf STAfi. SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1842.
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SHEFFZEZiD . GREAT PUBLIC MEETING IN PARADISE SQUARE . Tn the course of last weal : a requisition , respactably sikaea , -was presented to the Master Cutler , requesting turn to convene a meeting of the inhabitants of Sheffield , for the purpose of remonstrating -with the HcBEe of Commons upon its rejection of the prayer of U » National Petition , and for the pnrposs of memorializing the Queen to dissolve the Parliament , ta dismiss her present Ministers , and to call to her councils men ¦ who " will make the People ' s Charter a cabinet measure . The Master Cutler having declined to call the meeting , the reqaisitionists proceeded to do so themselves . The meeting was fixed for twelve o ' cloct on Monday last , and some time before that hour some hnndreds bad assembled in Paradise Square .
Mr . Bairstow had been hrtited , and wj& met at tie railway station by a considerable body of the -working men , with banners , &c , by ¦ whom he was loudly cheered ; in the mean tims the Square continued- filling , and by one o ' clock , at which hour business commenced , one of the most numerous meetings ire have seen in Shtfibld had assembled to give their sanction to the important documents left for the approval cf the people by the late Convention . On the motion of Mr . Harney , seconded by Mr . Clayton , Mr . John Kelly was called to the chair .. The Chairman read the placard calling , the meeting , sat after few observations called upon Mr . Haxney .
Mr . mrney said he had great pleasure in appearing before so large a meeting to propose for adaption the remonstrance alluded to in the bills calling the meeting . ( Mr . H . hare read the remonstrance , which it is unnecessary to insert ) . The remonstrance stated first , " that the people of this country were suffering destitution and misery to an extent almost hitherto unknown . " This was now too notorious to be denied by Whig or Tory . The newspapers , day after day , week after week , gaTe the most harrowing accounts of the misery of the ^ people throughout England , Ireland , and Scotland . Famine stalked abroad , starvation howled its agonies , and black despair overspread the land . Though in Sheffield they had not as yet experienced distress to the same feuful extent the people of other districts had , still If
& change came not speedily , the lot of the men of Leicester would assuredly be the lot of the people of Sheffield— ihear , hear ) . Hundreds upon hundreds were subsisting upon parish relief , and many acbild cried for bread , and there was" no one to administer to its wants Stiange it was , but yet most true , that while the middle classes were fast hastening to the same ruin as had already overtaken the working classes , still they obstinately and wickedly held aloof and would not join the people in their struggle for justice . A meeting of the Manchester shopkeepers had lately been held , at which meeting one and all had declared either that they were already ruined or wsre fast hastening to destruction ; and though the Sheffield shopocracy had not lusde this open confession , yet he knew that hundreds of them ¦
were in the same situation as the Manchester * hcpkeepers . Yet were they at that meeting ? Were there fifty in that meeting ? Were there twenty ? He doubted if there we e ten—only ten , to savs their order from , the well merited infamy which was attached to them , for their opposition to the just rights of the people ; though the present system was . ruining them , still they would support the aristocracy against the people ( hear , hear . " ) Did noi this prove that much as fchey pretended to liberality of sentiment , that they , nevertheless , hated nothing so much as that the toiling classes should be placed on political equality with themselves—preferring the rule of the devil himself to the rale of the majority—the sovereign democracy ? ( cheers . ) This remonstrance reminded the House of
Commons that three times had the people petitioned that Hcuse , and three tinea their prayer had keen insultingly rejected . Three millions and & half of the peeple of this country petitioned only for a hearing at the bar of the Boose , ami not content with denying that which was prayed for , the Honourable Members most needs shower calumny , falsehood and slander tiptrn such as . immense body of their countrymen ; charging upon them that they meditated the destruction of property , and the producing el a state of anarchy and spoliation- Such were the lying calcmniea of Mr . Bab Macaulay . His " Honourable Friend , " & 3 the gentlemen of the Westminster tax-trap would say , his Hon-• arable Friend , Mr . Bairstow , had just corrected him .
it -was not Bob , but Tom . Macauiay ; well , the meeting would excuse him . No wander that he confounded names when there was so little difference between the liberal Tom Macsolsy and Sir sliding-scale slippery Bob , cf Tamwortb . Of the two factions it night indeed be said with strict truth and propriety , ««^ r > -ta-ra-ia xogues ail "—( load cheers . ) He indignantly denied that such were the objects contemplated by the people : on the contrary it was the tradaeers of the . people themselves who were the spoliators and plnsderers—( load cheers . ) The fault of the people irsa not thit they were prone to violence , or did not themselves respect the property of others ; no , their iaalt was that they were n&t sufficiently ready to prelect themselves from violence , and their own property
from the spoliaUoa of the wealthy—( caeers . ) The men who voted for this remonstrance would pledge themselves to take such steps to remedy their condition sa the present circumstances of the country required ; te truited they would not idly pledge themselves to this , but having doue so would show their sincerity sod prove their honesty by uniting nnder the fhg of the National Charter Association , and thereby prove to the Government that the demand for the Charter was not made by a few demagogues , but by a people irresistabla in their numbers , mighty , is their nni&n , determined not to submit through future ages as they have done through past co the oppression of the few , and the tyranny of those who trampled alike upon the laws cf aarure and of nature ' s God .
Mr . Edwin Gill seconded the adoption of the remoEst snee—in bo doing he csnid not help stating his conviction that in all prabability the fate of this remonstrance would be that of the national petition . ( Hear . ) But knowing that this was the only means left of peacefully and constitutionally protesting against the tyranny of the Parliament , he took upon himself with pleasure the task cf seconding it , believing that hs adoption would tend to open the eyea of the people more » nd more to the villany of their rnlers . No man could have read the debates cf the present session
without feeling the utmost disgust and contempt for the " honourable members" as they were called . Hardly one among them could , or durst take the test proposed by Mr Dancombe , declaratory that they had not gained their seats by bribery and corruption . Ii was for the people to say how much longer they would allow themselves to be plundered and trampled upon by those their mls-representativsB—he ardently hoped that those to " whom he had the honour to address himself , would swell the ranks of organized Chartism , and thus render -efficient aid to their brethren struggling for the establishment of the rights and liberties of all . ( Cheers . )
The remonstrance was tbca adopted unanimously . Mr . Parkes moved the adoption of the memorial to the Queen . The last time he had had the hononr of addressing , the men of Sheffield he remembered that on that occasion they were countenanced by the reporters of the Mercury , the Independent , and the Iris , but these gentlemen were nowhere to be seen in the present meeting . How was this ? It w& 3 because the factions , for ths fioing of whose dirty work these quilldrivers were employed , were opposed to the righteous ^« . iTn « cf the people—shear , hear . ) - Mr . Parkes then read the memorial , and having done so , observed—We live in most extraordinary times—times in which is seen excess of wealth and prodigality on the one hand , and excess of poverty and degradation on the other ; the former the lot of the idle few , the latter the fate of the toiling many . This anomaly can only be accounted for by the fact that the few have usurped all Ice
power of the state , and by class legislation have built op their own aggrandisement on the ruin and misery of their ftllow-creatures—( cheers ) . This memorial states that three times the people have petitioned forjasiice , and each time their petitions have been treated with scorn and contempt Now the people wonld appeal to the monarch : he hoped , for ice peace of society and the happiness of all classes , that the appeal woald not be made in vain , though he confessed be had iittle hope of success in that quarter . If they were desirous of remaining slaves—if they would not make an effort to redeem themselves and their children from bondage , then let them vote against the memorial ; but if they ¦ would snap the galling links which bound them , and annihilate for ever the odious distinction of tbe tyrant few and the enslaved many , they would give "their support to the memorial , and tell the monarch that it was justice they wanted , and justice they would have —( cheers ) .
Mr . Ludlam , a veteran in the cause , seconded the Memorial , which was adopted unanimously . The weather had been most unfavourable all the marking , though duricg the proceedings of the meeting the rain had hitherto kept off , but just before the conclusion of Mr . Wm- Parkes' address , it began to descend , and was failing heavy when the Chairman introduced Mr . Bairstow , who was received with loud and repeated cheers . Mi . Bairstow said , that having travelled the-whole of a sleepless night , having jsst left the bedside of a sick wife , and being not only much fatigued , but also labouring under sore depression of spirits , he was sure the meeting wculd not fee so unreasonable as to expect from him a lengthy speech upon the present occasion Having had the honour to sit in the late Convention , and having had while in the metropolis the
opportunity of hearing the debates in the House of . Com inons upon the two most important motions of tht present , or . indeed any past session , he could speak s little as to the conduct and argument * ef the " Ho Krar&ble "Members . " ( Hear , hear . ) The first t-f the » debates was on Mr . Sh&ra . an Crawford's motion ; tht second was on the presentation of the great Nations Petition . Ox course it ' was in the latter debate he fel ths most interest Upon the occasion of Mr . Dan combe ' s motion , he attended to hear what would be tin reasons that woald be advanced for withholding fron the people their inalienable lights . And what die be bear ? Why , one Honoarabl Membe ^ i ^ ring that the adoption ol the principles of Chai tism would be the prelude to one wide-spread scene o rapine , plunder , anarchy , bloodshed , and murder ; t waifto Uto bloodiest and mwt too despotism voofc
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D 2 preferable . Another declared that tbe triumph of the principles of democracy could only lead to the destruction of civilizition and tbe plunging of the country into a gtate of midnight barbarism and bnrtal cavalry : such were the sapient arguments of the collective wisdom . But , vile though the calumnies of these men were , still they played an honest part compared with the part played by some cf the traitoroos " shoyhays" who professed to be the friends of the people j from all such friends G ^ d save the people—( loud cheers ) . Of all the men who strove to damage ihe cause of the people , and to throw odium and discredit upon the principles and objects of the Caartist body , Roebuck was the worst ; his conduct was foul and treacherous in the extreme . How dare he denounce the authors of the National Petition as being " cowardly and malignant
demagogues ? " He was himself a cowardly and malignant fellow for makinz such a charge , and then retreating from the responsibility of slandering his superiors —; cheers ) . All tbe arguments of Peel and Russell were drawn from the speech of Roebuck . It was such men as these that the people had good cause to stand most in dread of—hypocrites , who wore the cloak of patriotism only thai under its folds they might conceal the poisoned dagger with which to assassinate liberty , the bright goddess of our adoration—( leud cheers ) . The rain for some time had been falling in torrentB , yet the people stood it well ; at length himself wet to the skin , Mr . Bairstow gave the signal for retreating , and an adjournment to the Association room in Fig Tree-lane , took place . Here not a titbe of the meeting could gain admission : those who were first , speedily crammed the
room . Mr . G . J . Harnet lectured on Sunday evening , in the loem , Fig Trt-e-ltoP ; the unpropitions state of the weather preventitss ? tbe hoUUng of the out-door meetings announced in last Saturday ' s Star .
The Koethersf Stafi. Saturday, June 25, 1842.
THE KOETHERSf STAfi . SATURDAY , JUNE 25 , 1842 .
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STATE OF THE WORKING PEOPLE . NECESSITY FOR CAUTION AND PRUDENCE . Ev £ rt week adds to the horrible destitution endured by the producers of the nation ' s wealth Evidence of this meets the eye and ear at every turn . Whole districts ate enduring the torments and horrors of hunger snd starvation ! The griping system of taxation , with its concomitant , the unrestrained and unregulated use of machinery , have done their work ! The one has stripped the homestead of the labourer of the property he had ; the other ha 3 taken out of Mb hands the power of accumulatin g more !
To raise the £ 60 , 000 , 000 a-year , necessary for the maintenance of the hordes of pensioners , sinecurists , dead-weight m-. n , and the salaried Officers of State ; necessary for the payment of the interest of the National Debt , and for the keeping up of the army to force the taxes out of the people ; necessary to maintain an es ^ ravagant Codst : to raise the £ 60 , 000 , 000 a-year , necessary for the support of these things , every means that earth and hell could devise have been employed . The consequences have been , that property has been silently , but surely , transferred from one possessor to another ; that the middling classes have been reduced to beggary ; and the labourers brought to starve all of a heap .
To raise that £ 60 , 000 , 000 ( made , in reality , by i the alteration in the value of money , by Peel ' s Bill , £ 120 , 000 , 000 !) it was necessary that " the I resources" of the country ( as they have it ) should . be developed . Hence the immense introduction and employment of machinery ; hence the engen- 1 dering , promulgation , and adoption of the suicidal principles of "free-trade "; hence the cheapening ] of all articles of produce , and the glutting of , the maiketj until produce is a drug , and employ- ; ment at an end . Hence the difficulty ; the con- ' fusion ; the distress ; the famine ; the deaths , for \ want of the necessaries of life ! j Here is the cause of it all ! The Government
arsT have , if they continue the Bystem , the £ 60 , 000 , 000 a year ( nominally , bat £ 120 , OW ) , 000 really ) . To have that £ 60 , 000 , 000 , without redacing the strength of the nation to beggary and want , is as impossible as it is to have vegetation without light aud warmth . The ono i 3 necessary to the other ! In struggling to get the amount the tax-gatherer lays hia desolating paw ou . every producer of wealth . He strips the cottage , pulls down the manrion , emptie 3 the till , sweeps up the profits , and carries all into the lap of the debt-annuitant , the army-paymaster , the " steward of the household , " the pensioner , the placeman , and the dead-weight man
To expec : any oiher result than that which now presents itself as the consequence of these doings is to be criminally simple ! And yet when are these things to have an end Who amongst oar State doctor ? dare prescribe the remedy 1 Who amongst them dare propose to reduce our expenditure to £ 4 , 000 , 000 per annum ? Who amongst them dare propose to equitably adjust the Debt , disband the Army , burn the Pension List , chop down Royal expences , reduce the salaries , discontinue the half-pay , and remove the dead weight ? Who amongst them all dare propose this 1 Not one !! And what would be the use of any measures , unless these formed a part ! When man can alter the
nature of water , and make it not to seek its level , then , but not till then , can we raise £ 120 , 000 , 000 a-year in taxation without producing want and starvation amongst the very producers of wealth . ' Our Government biqcires the £ 60 , 000 , 000 a-year . To keep up the present system they cannot do with less ! They cannot afford a single million back again , eren though it is asked for and needed merely to put a mouthful of the " coarsest kind of food" into the heads of starring thousands ! Not a stiver can it Epare ! Only SIX could be found in the whole House of Commons to vote for the people having back again one-sixtieth part of the enormous sum wrung from their very entrails And yet the House " SYMPATHISES'' with the sufferings of the industrious people I
Faugh ! How it stinks !! 1 What , then , are the people to do ? Are they to lie down and die * ATe they to quietly endure the gnawings of hunger , the pains of starvation , till death relieve them from their sufferings ? Are they t » do this I NO ! a thousand times NO ! Perish the thought ! and blistered be tho lips that would give utterance to it in the way of advioe ! Englishmen quietly lie down , and die for want of
food 1 Perish England first 1 Englishmen quietly starve to death ! Sink her beneath the ecu first i 1 ENGLISHMEN die of hunger ! and that QUIETLY too J Burn England upnrstl Como plague ; come pestilence ; cume fire ; come sword ; come water ; come invasion ; como civil war : come all these things a thousand times o ' er ; but come not the day wheu ENGLISHMEN will quietly starve to death !
What , then , are the people to do ! Break the law and commit outrages on person and property ? NO I a thousand times NO J The law of England is , that no one shall starve to death . That law makes provision for the destitute . To that law let eveby destitute man APPEAL ! There is the Oversees . let every destitute man go to him , and ask for support . There are the Magistrates ! let every one who is refased relief by the Overseer apply to them .
If they have not power to grant relief , they have power to communicate with the Lord Leintenants oi the counties ; and , through them , with the Queen If the Ma gistrates refuse to entertain the application , go to the Lord Leiatenant in person . Tell Wm oi your sufferings , of your endurings , of your efforts tc obtain relief : aud tell him to tell the Queen how you are circumstanced . Do all this , quietlj and orderly ; and THEN if r elief is not afforded , SEEK OUT FOR FOOD ! !
Go to the Overseer in the first instance . He i appointed to relieve the destitute . He has the meat to do so in his hands . If he refuses you once , g again , if your necessities continue . If you are vritl out food on the Monday , and you apply t © him , an he refuse to give you any , go to him again on ti Tuesday . If he again refuses , go to him on tl Wednesday ^ Bhonld you still be without food . ' he again refuse , go the next day : and so on , froi day to day , till you get relief .
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Gfo each man , and each woman , for himself and herself ! No acting together ; no blaster ; no threats ; QJJIET DETERMINATION . EacKon © for himself j and each one state his own case . Each one apply for relief to the Overseer personally Should there be more there when you go , wait your turn . If he is not at home , await his coming . Should he refuse relief to one , do not let that be a refosal to you . The case refused may not be as bad
as your own : at all events , the Overseer ought to know of your condition , if you are starving I Take care that you let him know ! Do this quietly , orderly , peaceably , but determinedly , and let us see what -will be the result 1 But" no mobs 1 " no great noises ! no acting in concert . Go each one for food to save you from starvation ; go ask for it from the officer appointed by the law to give it you . Go ask him properly and rightly . Put it not in
the power of any unfeeling monster to get rid of your application by trumping up a charge of conspiracy ! Should the application , or applications , to the Overseer / af / , go , each one , to the nearest Magistrate . Tell him , each and every one , separately , your case . Tell him what your sufferings and endarings are . Tell him how of ten you have been to the Overseer . Tell him what answer you have received . Ask him for his assistance . A 6 k for hi 9 advice . If ho say be cannot aid you , or that he has no power ; tell him that he has a direct channel of communication open with
the Queen , through tier representative , and Aw superior , the Lord Lieutenant . Desire him to do his duty , by forwarding to the Lord Lieutenant a statement of your case ; that you are starving for wank of food ; that you have repeatedly applied to the Overseer , and cannot obtain relief ; that you have applied to the Justice of the Peace , and he has no power to aid you ; that it is right the Queen knew of your condition , that she may take the aecessary steps to afford relief . Desire the Magistrate to do his duty by communicating these things to his Lord Lieutenant ; and then it is his
duty to communicate them to tne Queen herself , in her own proper person , and not through the Secretary of State . When these stepB are taken , and still no relief afforded , get up a requisition to the Mayor or Constable of your Borough or Township , to call a public meeting for the purpose of publicly addressing the Lord Lieutenant of tho County . Shoald ho call the meeting , well and good : should he refuse , let twenty inhabitant
householders call it themselves . At the meeting agree upon a Memorial to the Lord Lieutenant ; let it set forth the fact ? as they stand in your locality ; lot it set forth the efforts made , individually , to obtain relief ; let it call upon him to make the condition of the Memorialists known to her Majesty ; let a deputation of shrewd , intelligent , discreet nun be appointed to wait upon the Lord Lieutenant in person with such Memorial ; and let them communicate to an adjourned meeting the answer they receive !
Now , this is a perfectly legal but an effectual way of bringing the sufferings of the starving poor into public notice ; and will assuredly compel relief S Should it not do bo , —THEN seek out for food " Self-preservation is the first law of nature . " Preserve yourselves ! The law awarda you relief take all legal means of getting what the law awards : if it be refased or withheld—SEEK OUT All the writers on jurisprudence hold that a man is not guilty of theft or larceny who takes food to keep himself from starving to death . Such
has been held to bo tho case by Grotius and Puffendorf ; and the only writers who have denied that that principle applies to Eagtand , have done so on the ground that " by the law sufficient provision la made for the supply of the necessitous by collections for the poor and by the power of the civil magistrate" If , therefore , there ' be not " sufficient provision ; " or if " the power of the civil magistrate " be abrogated , then the law of nature returns in full force ; and a man , according to reason aud to nature , is not guilty of theft or larcency who takes food to keep himself from pining to death !
Again do we implore of tho people to be cautious and prudent ! Spies are / broad J They will entrap , if not minded . Avoid all secret meetings all conspiracies ' , all plottings ! Every thing you say and do on such occasions u known to the magistracy and the Government ! Look at the "little ' debate in the House of LorJs on Tuesday night . Wellington could not give Kinnaird information respecting some places in North Lancashire , because that would defeat the ends of justice , ay Government had information affecting individuals . Just so ! Wherever there are plottings , there are spies and all is known ! Whoever is a party to a plot in England , either to upset Government or to destroy
property , is a ninny , or something far worso Plotting always defeats itself ! It must , inevitably , do bo . Every man , in such circumstances , is in every other man ' s power . Toe more there are of the plotters , the greater ia tho individual danger , and the probability of the success of the plot lessoned . No man who has an act of that nature to perform is safe if he entrust eveu his thoughts to any one else . Avoid , then , all phttings ! Avoid all " secret meetings , " as they are called ; but whioh aTe not secret from the magistracy ! Avoid all breaches of law or order ; take all necessary legal steps to bring your case before the public eye ; ground for yourselves ample defence , should you have , at last , to so and take .
Again , we say , beware of spies ! You may know them bj the recommendatious they give . They will try to persuade you to give battle to the soldiery ; and that you can beat them ! Nevor was there greater delusion ! Why should we fight the soldiers 1 What have the soldiers done ? Poor fellows ! they are the veriest slaves in existonce ! A soldier is better fed than a working man ; but he
is , essentially , a slave . ' Why , then should we fight him 1 In God ' s name , why 1 Working people ; whoever advises you to como into collision with the soldiery , is an enemy that wishes for your destruction ; and is taking all proper means to tfLet it ! or a fool , whose counsels , if sincere , will not the less surely bring you to destruction , if you trust and act on them . Scout all such advisers from you , should they appear !
No ! no ! no fighting with the soldiers ! no firingupon them ; or fixing by them upon the people ! No such firing as that I It would be tha height of combined folly and treachery ! Again we repeat , beware of spies !—they are abroad ! They are seeking blood ! Disappoint them !
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MOST ABOMINABLE . Read the following nauseous and disgusting specimen of exuberant and bursting loyalty with which tha trial of Francis was prefaced in the columns of the hot-bun "Sun .- ""Trial of John Francis for High Treason . —The occasion of tbe trial of this misguided , foolish young man , for shooting with a pistol at our bttlo ? ed Qusen , whilst enjoying an innocent recreation in which the meanest subject in the land is privileged to indulge in safety when the laboursi of the day are o ' er , convocuted at the Old Bailey to-day all those individuals , who , venerating our Queen , for her private and public virtues , for her feeling heart and the interest she takes in everything which relates to the welfare of her people , and which on no occasion she has omitted to manifest ,
and being anxious to obtain a glimpse at tbe heartless miscreant who could harbour a thought of ill against her who reigns predominant in the affections of every loyal Bubject , could by interest or other means obtain admission to the Court . And when we saw the feeling of mingled scorn and indignation exhibited by every person there against thai man standing at the bar , we regretted , though the Court was full , that its limits were net large enough to admit of more being present , that the prisoner and the world might know that the detestation of his crime and him was not confined to a few , bat was general , nay , universal throughout the ¦ whole country . 'Iho arrangements foi admission today appeared to be of an excellent order , and though the Court was nearly filled , it was at no time crowded to such inconvenient excess as on the oecasion of Good's triaL " There ' s a specimen of the loyalty of this great two-fisted adulator ! So ! 'mingled feelings , of
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° soorn and indignation" are those which possessed the minds of the Jury , who , among others , saw "that man standing at the bar "^ and who were called upon to judge dispassionately upon the evidence adduoed I Verily this print haa out-done itself—ita easy 'ta 8 k--in the art of fulsome adulationl It is truly beastly and contemptible ! But while we leara that every loyal subject was '' anxious to obtain a glimpse of the heartless
miscreant , we learn also from the concluding unfortunate little three lines , that the : company was not so numerous as that drawn together by the desire to see Daniel Good { Verily , loyalty must be at a disoonnt , when the Criminal Court cannot be filled upon so interesting an occasion as the trial of an ignorant youth who hoped to gain a livelihood by firing a buUetless pistol at the hind wheel of the Queen's caiTtage !
The youth , however j for his indiscretion , has been sentenced . "The Court , " through the mouth of Chief Justice Tindal , has adjudged hint ' ? to be hanged by the neck till he be dead ; then to be beheaded ; and his body cut into foub quarters , and disposed os asTier Majesty shall direct" A savage inhuman sentence ! and a barbarous law that imposes it !! His life is to be forfeited ! The "Bloody old Times" has sounded the note of blood ! It has been
labouring hard to prepare the public mind for the awfai and astounding fact , that a life is to be taken , as a warning to others not to attempt to shoot at tho Queen ' s carriage wheel ! A youth is to be strangled and b . headed for high treason , because he fired a bulletless pistol in the direction of the Qaeen ' s carriage I And yet we are a Christian people ! and the Queen herself is "Head of the Chobch , under Christ" '¦!! ' ¦! ¦¦
Query *—If \ re hang , behead , arid quarter young Francis for shooting at the Queen ' s carriage wheel with a pistol , in which there is no evidence to prove there was a bullet , and from which shooting neither the Queen , her carriage , nor any of her attendants , nor any mortal breathing , sustained any , the slightest , injury ; what should we have done to him had he shot a bullet through the Queen ' s head ? Talk not to us of ^ the Queen ' s magnanimity" !
If she permit the life of Francis to be taken for this shooting-at-her-oarriage-affttir , the bloody deed will stick to her name through life , and blot her escutcheon in death ! If she allow him to be hanged and quartered , she may " dispose" of his cut-up body as she may please , even to the servingup of the joints at her own table , without adding to ths horror and detestation which the act of strangulation will excite amongst " her ' people 1
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Another victim to the fell MONSTER . Poor Holberry is gone ! He , has escaped the ruffian fang of class despotism through the deathly portal . Another is added to the long catalogue of Whig-made widows , whose occupation it must be to weep over the ashes of the dead ; and surely another and a powerful incentive is afforded to his brethren to call forth all the energies and exercise all the determined perseverance of men , who have resolved that the system which originates these horrid blotches on the escutcheon of humanity shall be annihilated .
On Tuesday morning a letter was received at this office , informing us that an order for his liberation , on finding satisfactory bail for five years , had been received from the Home Seoretary ; and stating that the York Chartists wero unablo to furnish the amount required , being all poor working men . They requested that Mr . O'Connor might bo informed of the matter , and their letter was accordingly forwarded to that gentleman . In the
meantime , that no delay might take place , arrangements were instantly made for tendering tho bail of Messrs . Hill and Hobbon to the acceptance of the York Magistrates . Mr . Hobbon was at Huddersfield , but returned that night , and he and Mr . Him , wew intending to go off . together to York next morning ; when a second letter arrived apprising us that death had already put in all the bail that could be now given ! The poor fellow had expired about half-past four o ' clock on Tuesday morning .
The letter of the Chartists of York was simply sent , without comment or observation , to Mr . O'Con . nor , from whom , on Thursday morning—as early as it could be—the following was addressed to Mr . IIobson : — " Donhara Cottage , Jane 22 nd , 1842 . "My dear Hobson , —Nothing would give me greater pleasure or ( to us more servine , than if you and Ardill would proceed at once to York , and give ball for poor Holberry ; and let this undertaking upon my part be your Guarantee . :
"I do hereby undertake to hold J . Hobson and John Ardill harmless from any injury , damage , or pecuniary demand which may be made upon : them , if they become security for Holberry * s keeping the peace , and that I will pay all such sums , costs , and legal expencea as his violation of the bond shall entail upon them . "Feargus O'CONNOR . " This may serve to shew his disconsolate widow that what his friends the Chartists could do for him , all were alike prompt and ready to do . But it is done , poor fellow ! All is over , and he has escaped . And we fear that even now thousands of honest , good , virtuous Englishmen are almost ready to envy the condition of the cold lump of clay whioh ones was tbe athletio form of Jam es Holberry !
Tho York Chartists bestirred themselves briskly and promptly ; thoy procured the attendanoa of an attorney and surgeon at the inquest , which was held that night , and of whioh the verdict was—" Died by the visitation of God , and we are of opinion that the deceased has had every attention paid to him . " The inquest lasted four hours . Our reporter went off by the next train after the news reached us , to collect all the necessary information oh the spot . He did not return till next day ( Thursday ) , which is our publishing day ; and & 3 the report is likely to be long , wo
have i no alternative but to resorve it for our next number ; having neither space to give it nor time to get it up for this number . Meantime , we think it right to state , that at a meeting of the Association held immediately after tho close of the inquest , a vote of thanks was moved and carried unanimously , to ( jeorqb Lbeman , Esq ., solicitor , for his generous conduct in attending gratuitously at the Coroner ' s investigation on behsif of the Chartists of York . This gentleman , from all that we can learn , has acquitted himself so as to deserve the esteem of all good men .
The Chartists of York also acquitted themselves like men on the melancholy occasion ; they did all that men could do to have the last remains of the victim conveyed to thoir resting place in a creditable manner . A handsome ccffiu was furnished out of their slender resources , and by their own exertions . And , on Wednesday evening , after being consigned to the care of friends who had arrived from Sheffiald for the purpose , the corpse was removed to the latter place for interment , a number of Chirticts accompanying it out of the city .
Entreating our fellow Chariists to regard the manes of poor Holberry as calling loudly for appeasement , and for the prostration of the accursed syBtem of misrule to which and by which he has been sacrificed , we take leave of the melancholy subject for the present week , to return to it next week in full . '
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THE NEW EXECUTIVE . From a return and address inserted in another column , it will be seen that the New Executivb have been appointed ; and that they assume their official duties immediately . To give effect to their labours , it is necessary they should have support . Without means , their hands are tied . With means , they are in a position to take advantage of every opportunity that offers itself to forward and strengthen the Chartist movement * \ -.. ¦;¦ . ;¦¦ . ' . ¦ ¦ ¦' . - ' : ¦ Look at what has been effected by the late Executive ; and remember that they have , all
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along , been crippled for want of supplies . Judge from what has been done , what there might have been , had the neceBsary funds been at command ! Tho Chartist publio have to say whether this state of things is to continue or nok Unless the Executive be placed in a position to > cr , it is folly te appoint them , and worse than folly to expect service from them when appointed . Without means , nothing can be done .
The present , we think , a good opportunity of placing the matter before all concerned . The accession to office of the New Ex econvjb ought to be seized upon , and the necessary steps taken to place in their hands that whioh will enable them to g » to work at once . If they are crippled at starting , they will feel tbe disheartening effects through all the
race . - . ¦ ¦ ..:.. - - ¦ . . -. . . ^ - .: On Wednesday last , a gentleman called at our office ; a middle-class man , but one of the very best friends to the cause of Chartism that we know ; one whose purse is ever ready , and whose money is constantly given , to advance the " ultra' * movement . In the course of a conversation had with Mr . Hobsok on the present po 3 \ tioft andprospeets of Chartism , he proposed , as the best means of inducting theNew Executive into office .
A NATIONAL TRIBUTE , to enable iis members to adopt decisive measures to advance the cause of the People's Charter ; and he further proposed to head it with his subscription , adding that if more was wanted , he was ready .-In three minutes a list was prepared , and the fbl * lowing sums set down : — ' ' : ' ¦ . .. . '¦"¦" ¦ . ¦¦ -. ¦ .. , ¦ ¦¦¦¦ -. £ . s .-d . - A . Londsdale , Manchester ...... 110-William Hill ........................ 2 2 0 Joshua Hobson ... 1 1 0 John Ardill ............. lid
Now then , Chartists , what say you 1 Will you " go and do likewise" in accordance with your respective meansi Let the next Northern Star that we publish shew the sum total on the list swelled to a considerable amount * Let every one do his best . There are our middleclass friends ; those of thatclass whom we / know to be our friends ; let thorn be waited upon by the proper officers in every locality . Proper attention and exertion in this respect , will do much towards the end in view . One hundred friends subscribing £ 1 Is . each—and surely that number can be found —will give the Executive one hundred guineas at
once . To work , then , Chartists 1 Let every locality fix for itself a certain sum , and take the necessary steps to raise it . Let this be a saored duty . The Executive have been chosen by the people to perform the people's work : the people are bound to accord them support i ' " : ¦; . This is a good opportunity , too , of testing ia some
degree the value of general middle-class sympathy They pretend to be converts to Chartism , and to wish to aid in the dissemination of Chartist principles TRY THEM ! Heie is an opportunity of their employing some portion of their wealth to a good purpose ; a righteous Chartist purpose . See that they miss it not ! Wait on them ; present them with the subscription list ; ask them for their contribution ; and—— - take what you can get ! *
To work , then , every one'I We hope for a good list next week . Those of our monied friends who read this , and are anxious to aid the good work , will do well to send their contributions to our publisher , direct . He has offered to become treasurer for this fund . They need not stay till they are waited upon ; but send at once . Let ua see , then , what can be done I
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THE NORTHERN STAR AND THE " DENUNCIATORS . ^ The universality and . unanimity of opinion expressed by the whole people from one end of the kingdom to the other upon this subject , is not less gratifying to us than valuable as evidence of the peoples ' s capability of judging and estimating men ' s actions by the only just standard—that of truth and reason . It was stated in our last that the deliberations of the London Delegate Meeting upon this matter were adjourned , at the instance oi Doctor M'Douall . We attach to the decision of this meeting , given under suoh circumstances , no small importance . The delegates are picked men ; picked for their intelligence and honesty , from all the localities of the Metropolis ; they had had the
advantage of a week a deliberation and thought upon the subject ; they bad had the benefit of all the Doctor ' s statements and arguments ; they had had the opportunity of consulting with and receiving the instructions of their constituents ; they may , therefore , with the most perfect propriety , be said to have represented all the Chartists of the Metropolis , and their opinion to be the opinion of London . We refer , therefore , with some pleasure to the following account , given by our reporter of the meeting : — :
" Mr . Ferguson moved the following resolution , Which had been proposed at the preceding meeting :: — 'That this meeting have full confidence is Mr . Hill , the Editor of the Northern Star , and will support him so long as they find him acting justly in support of the people ' s rights , and that this meeting look upon all those who try to destroy the S . ' ar , or its proprietor , in the manner that some have lately done , without first making a direot charge , and proving tho same to be trKs ^ as enemies to the people , and the cause of freedom ; as men who have entered our ranks from a love of vain glory and the enemy ' s gold ! that , there ore i this meeting are determined
to euppport thei Star , its Editor , ( Mr . Hill ) and . proprietor , ( Mr ; O'Connor ) , so long as they do justly to the people and the cause of freedom . Mr . Ferguson ably supported this resolution and stated that he had seen nothing during the week to induce him to withdraw it . Mir . Caffay ably seconded the resolution . Messrs . Christopher , Wheeler , Drake , Goulding , Longwith , and others Bpoke in favour of the resolution , and complained of the Executive mixing themselves up with the quarrels of Mr . Philp ; aud commented strongly upon the words of Dr . M'Douall at the preceding meeting , instating that they would send no more documents for insertion to the
Northern Star . Mr . Fussell moved as an amendment ' That the Secretary correspond with the Seoretary of the Executive , for the purpose of ascertaining the steps they have taken in bringing tW subject of the Northern Star before the General Council of the National Charter Association and ; the public . ' Mr . Fussell stated that at the previous meeting Doctor M'Douall had stated that the Executive intended to call three Conferences—one at Man ^ cheater , one at Birmingham , and one at London .
He thought that this would be the best plan to adopt . He had perfect confidence in Mr . Hill and the Star , but he thought the Conferences would do much good . If the Executive would not call these Conferences , the General Council could . Mr . Ridley seconded the amendment . For the amendment , three bands were , held up , and the whole of meeting , including the mo » er and seconder of the amendment , for the original vote of confidence in Mr . Hill and the Star "
Votes and assuranees of confidence , equally strongly and satisfactorily worded , have been received from Derby , from the Bristol Chartist Youths , from AsHTON-uNDER-LvNE , from Arbroath , from Leith , from the Clock-House Locality , London , from Heckmondwike and Liversedoe , from Hanley ^ UrPEK-HANLEY , and Smallthornb in the Potteries , from the Trade Society of Shoemakers , meeting at the Cannon Coffee-house , Old-Street , London , from the Camberweli- and WAtwoRia Chartists , from the Chartists of Davy Hulms , from the Chartists of StAtYBRiDOE , of Oldhasi , of Plymouth , ( sent last week but received too late ) of Newcastle-upon-Tynk , passed ; at a great publio
meeting , after '' apeek ' s notice , and sent for oorlast , but received too late ; from Kkighley , from Wadsworth , from Yeovil , from Brimscomb , from Stroud , from Calvbrton , from Chester , from Lambeth , frdm Chelsea , from the City of London , from SouTHAMPxojfi from Tonbridge , from Woodhouse , near Leeds ; from HoHTON , near Bradford , from Finsbuby ; from the Back ' s Head , Bkthnal Green ; from Newport , Isle of Wight , from St . PANCuAsjand from several other places . Resolutions of a different character have beea received from Clitheroe , and from the Bcore of Chartists at WotxoN-ywDER-EDGE , the parties whom Mr . O'Brien represented at the Sturge Conference . It is impossible to devote % necessary apace to the iusertioa of all theeg ^ ea ^ lutious ia full .
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They would drive oat ; much valuable matter from the Star ; and we have had already to put out much that we would gladly have had in . Oar friends must therefore excuse the ennmer&tion , inettad of the insertion , of their several testirnpnies , as frankly borne , as we hope they have ibeen honestly deserved . We thank them all . ¦' . / , We preserve the resolations ^^ for fatnre refereBoev if ' need be , and shall go on our way taking 'fresh hei * t ° ^ courage , " from their recorded sentiments , - ' 'to battle with all enemies , avowed or concealed , in full fearlessnesa of honesty . r -
The same causes which have shut out the resolutionsabove referred to , must also pleid out exirajse to Robert ICNAPtoN , John Douglas , Edward ^ JBradley , A / C . A ., Islington , Wiij . iam Douglas , Radcliffd Colliery , W . S . ^ L . T . Clancsy . Thos . Gibbon , PontyRhyn , and * great number of "Constant Readers , " Who have added their individual testi mony to the general voice . All breathe the same spirit ; all speak the same language ; all tell us that we have not miscalculated in supposing the great body of the Chartist publio able to estimate fully and fairly the public acts of public men .
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The voting for the " new Executive Committee ia over ; and a tabular statement of the places from which votes have been received , and of the number of votes , in each place , for each candidate , has been handed to us by the General Secretary . We cannot publish the document as we received it , for thia reason : there are not half enough of figures in our office to " set" it . We are compelled therefore to cbutent ourselves with giving merely the names of the respective candidates , and the total number of votes for each . They are as follows : —• P . M . Brophy ... 1656 W . D . Taylor ... 784
J . Leach ... ... 10830 M . Williams ... 4410 J . Campbell ... 97 J 2 R . Ridley ... 833 P . M . M * Douall ... 11221 W . Jones ... 1072 C . Doyle .. / ... 1239 J . Fussell ... 82 T . Cooper ... .-. ¦; ' 2454 J . W . Parker ... 231 J . H ; R . Bairstow 4611 J . Mason ... ... 860 J . West ... ... 1537 G .- White ... ... 979 R . K . Philp ... 2656 B . M'Cartney ... 165 W ; Beesly ... 1725 W . V . Jackson ... 1005 E . Stallwood ... 299 R . Marsden ; .. 941 J . Skevingtpn ... 445 E . Clayton ... 250 It will be seen , therefore , that the election haa fallen upon Messrs . M'Douall , Leach , Campbell , Morgan , and Bairstow .
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The following was sent by Mr . Campbell , to follow the tabular statement above referred to : — " It will be seen that 205 places have voted , and In these places , in many instances , not one half of tne members have polled . Tbe following places are enrolled ia the association , but have not returned their votes . Llanidloes Howden Liversedge Shelton flfarket Weighton Holy well MWgley Hazle Grove Morley Ipswich -., Newpor t , Monmonthshire Kendal WeUington Lancaster Nuneaton Longton . . Openahaw Shaw
Penzanoe Halahaw Moor Preaton youths Chatham Redruth Malton Botherham Knaresbro ' Southampton Ripon , Stockton Oakharapton Sittingbonrne Tothesa Saaderland Shaftesfcury 8 kip ton Potty Gio ' Spilsby North ShieldB Stanniugley Winchcomb Stroud water Gainsborough Sheernesa ¦ Ouseburh Sheffield youths Hatherne Truro > Bradford , Wilta
Tunstall Chalford Vintner Alfreton Wortley Newark V Wingate Grange Colliery Hucknall Torkard Warwick Beverley Wigan Heckmondwike Warmlnatet 3 > oncsialer \ Silsden Hattera / london Wedneabnry Manchester Fustim Cutters Wigton Do . Blackamiths Wolverhampton Dawgreen V West Auckland Birstal Birkenhead Littleborougfe Tonbridge Middleton Matlock Newtown , Montgomery ' Bonaall shire ' :: ¦' . ¦
Wimslow Birmingham Shoemalcers Pontypool Hucknall-under-Huth-Aberdare waite Abergavenny Heanor Almondbnry Danholme Banbury Wilsden . Bury St . Edmund ' s West ArdBley Bacap EaatArdsley \ Barnataple . Northampton Shoemakers Bristol youths Peterlow Bristol trades PittsforS Blackburne Yoxhall Bath Oaken Gates Barton-on-Trent Oadley Boston Beeston Brldport Burslem . Brideford : Sodom Berry Brew Ettinshall Lane Kidderminster Daventry Kingston Ihormastoo Chowbent WigBtdn Congleton Whitney Canterbury Brcaeley Cambridge Cleckheaton
Cardiff Shelton Cwydon Princes * End Camborne WUlenhali Cv > ckermouth Brockmore Coatbrook Dale Oisett Chickenley ; Bui well Compstall Bridge Selby Darlaston Swintoa Exeter Tipton Fails worth Overton Greenwich Great Gun Gloucester Anstey Huns let . Great Glenn . ¦ . : . " BEotHER Democrats , —I send you a list of the places that have not polled far the Executive . The ^ re are upwards of twenty other localities in London that have not voted ; and as I have had to write down the towns that have not voted from memory alone It may happen that there are some few maybe inserted a second time ; however , on tho whole , I think the list ia nearl y correct . There are some places , the names ef ¦ which I could not call to mind . : ¦ " There are now upwards of four hundred localities enrolled in our Association , varied in the number of ita raerabers in each place , from a dczjn to two thousand So much for past' exartions—now for the future . We must , if possible , redouble our exertions to extend oar Association ; and hfeTe i would wish respectfully to impress on the minds of the : Chartists to read carefully over a letter inserted in the Star of the 28 th of May signed F . on Propagandiam . Let the new Executive be empowered to send agitators into districts where our principles have not as yet found footiag .
" The mult of the poll is now before yeu , and for mj part I feel proud of the confidence reposed in me by my brother Chartists ; and I hope , by pursuing the same undeviating course for the future , as I have done for the past , still to merit the confidence which must be graiifying t » every good Chartist . " I am authorised to call the new Executive together on Monday , the 4 th day of July ntxb , to meat at Mr . Leach ' s , at ten o'clock in theforenoon . "I remain , ' ; , ¦ " ¦'' " Your brother demoorafc , ' John Campbell , Secretary . " Haworth , June 21 st , 1842 . " " P . S . The towns" names which have hot voted have been written at Haworth . " ::
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BeIEF RCL'ES FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF ALL WH 9 write for this Paper : — 1 . Write legibly . Make as few erasures and interlinestiona as possible . In writing names of persons and places ba more particular than ' uaual to make tveri letter distinct and clear—also in using words no 5 English . -,:: ¦ ; ¦ .., -. . -. ' ;;; : . : ¦'¦ : ; . ; . :- ' 2 . Write > onhjontoneside of the paper . 3 . Employ no abbreviatipna whatever , but write , out every word in fall . ; 4 . Address all communications intended for public * . tion to the " . Editor "; all other ieommunicaaoB * - such as orders , r « mittances of i money , &c—to the Publisher , " Mr . J . Hobson ; all remittances of money to any of the public funds for which books are kept here , to Mr . ArdilL Much nbnecessarj
trouble often arises to ins from a want of P * eition . in attending to these thing * Never s * op these different matters in the same sheet AlwayB prefer to send an enclosure , or even' * separate letter . Much confuwon tf ten ocotrrs , ana many articles of news get overlooked , becsaai of their being written on the same- sheet as contains the order of an Agent , wb ^ goes into ; the PubUshing Office , arid ** liable , in the hurry of the business , to be tongotten instead of being sent up to the EditoR So again orders have been sometimes neg lected , because of their being written oa tne tack « new * paragrapha , which being sent to the EditP 1 b * ve been by bim " put in feaad , ^ withoutr » W »' b 8 ruu to transcribe the order ,- AU tiiete iH ^ W
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The Voting For The New Executive
THE VOTING FOR THE NEW EXECUTIVE
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 25, 1842, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct436/page/4/
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