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THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1842.
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UNION 1 UNION 1 UNION! TO THE CHARTISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN.
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THE LATE STRIKE , ITS CAUaES AKD EFFECTS . jei : i"& ths simsuiscs or a lectube delivered in L 6 SDQN BT JOHN 'WATKLXS . " Upon these taxations , The elothitrs all , not able to minte *" The JB * ay to them longing , bave put off The spinsters , carders , fallen , wearers , -who , Unfit for other life , eompell'd by hanger And lack of other mean * , in desperate manner Baring the event to the teeth , are all in uproar , And danger aerres among them . " Hexbt VIIL A : length the crisis had arrived—it is the last drop which makes the cap overflow . The people had patiently borne slavery—the utter priT&tion of all their rights—the cruel infliction of every wrong : thousands of them were clamming , out of work , and
the ? a in work were receiving most inadequate ws ^ es j yet with the scanty pittance which oppression and extortion left to them , they had not only ! to maintain themselves , but to maintain their aged I parents , to keep them out of the bastile , that human i pii : fold where the poor are put , not to feed , but to j sts- ^ e , They were moreover compelled to pay towards the maintenance of those who were unable to beep out of tie Bastile ; and compelled moreover i to pay Church and State dues ; for the working men haTi to keep both rich and poor . Guess , then , ye who iiave not felt it , guess the heavy load which j those who labour hard had to bear ; guess what j ifc-j must ha ~ e Mi for their families and fnends ! j "VW -i might Parliament admire their fortitude and '
forbearance ; well might Government express its sympathy for their suffering ?; well might the ( Jaeen go . about a begging for them . The people though racked body and soul to the utmost stretch of endurence ; though nature was ready to sink under their torments , were patient—they were forbearing ; they exhibited a degree of magnanimity never before equalled by mortal man—never surpassed l > ut by the immortal gods . Prometheu 3 smiling serene while the eternal vulture is gnawing his heart , can alone be a fit emblem of the people of England . Bu : zhis was not enough . It was not enough that the working man was wearing himself out before his time with unrequited toil , and , after labouring hard all day in vain , vyas doomed to hear the
means of an heartbroken wife , and the piteous cries of children sobbing for food . All this was not enough , All could not melt—oo&ld not soften—the heart o ] avarice , hardening itself amid the luxnrics which the poor sufferers nad earned for it . The millowners esnjd to the determination to reduce the wages of their oppressed men still further , so that the most remote and uncertain chance—the merest possibiliyof a livelihood should be cut off , and on the gates of England , as » n the gate of hell , should oe written , " fco hope dwells here . " Patience itself was turned into passion by this . The workmen struck ;—they threw down their tools in despair;—they joined tlieir unemployed brethren;—they forced the poor creatures that jet clung to taeir employment to come out- with
them ; they stopped the mills ; those busy hives of humin industry suddenlv became still as the house of death . The water was let eff , the fires were put out ; toil departed ; machinery slept ; every wheel was inu-. e , was motionless . The strike commenced , but who originated it ? Not the men ! Who were in reality the strikers \—The masters ! It was the Corn Law Repealers who struck ; for , said they , if the Government will no * repeal the Cora Laws , we will reduce wages to the continental level , that so we may compete with foreigners , keep up 3 U £ tom , and make fortunes as usual . Ah ! they did not think how the men were to live , who have to compete with foreigners not for fortunes , but for food . But nark the cowardly
cunning of the millowners , they were resolved to strike igainst Government because it would not give up the land-monopoly—they wexe resolved to strike , bur how ? J » ot by dosing their milk as they , bad threatened—that was too bold , too direct a scheme ; bni by an attempted reduction of wages , a plan worthy of them . They did not turn out tlieir men , but they forced the mea to turn themselves out , and thus laid the responsibility on the men and the blame on Government . The men were to be dmen to desperation that they might commit outrages which should terrify Government W-o submission to their masters wishes ; but the masters reckoned without their host—without the men . The men had worked ' for their maeters , but they resolved that they
would not fight for them—they resolved that their Bitlka should no ; be a mere blow for faction—that they would not be made the meTe tools of Corn Law Repealers—the j resolved to strike , not for their n&oteis , bat for themselves ; not for the interests of others , imt for their own int rests : not for Corn Lstt Repeal , bni for the Caarter . Finding that the strike was likalv to extend further than they intended it ; that it would be a strike against themselves & 3 against all other grinding avaricious tyrants , they wouldfain have got the men to . work again . But once opt , ihey were resolved not to rtturu without their rights . Tae time had come when God himself seemed to call on them to strike , and they said , " We wilL" Many of them nad risen that morning from a bare S > or , vh-rs they had laid down Eupperless to sleep away the pangs of hunger , in hope that they should wake no more , or tossed with restless anxiety , had rocked their
heads the livelong night in paroxysms of menial anguish and bodily pain ; many of them had left wives , weak , pining , fl shles 3 , groaning in spirit and praying the Lord to heip them ; many of them hid been kept awake through the watches of the night in ceaseless vigils over dying parents starved to death , « r over children fevered by famine , trying to sootae whom they could not save ; witnessing tho = e nearest to them expiring without medicine , without food or comfort of any kind—themselves locked in stupour ; but they hear the shouts of the tnrn-outs : —they start up ; they leave the dying and the dead ; they dash away the tear of unavailing woe ; they sigh no more ; they riro ; they rush out ; tae terrible energy of despair gives them new strength ; the hope of vengeance re-animates them with fresh vigour ; they clench their hands ; they set their teeth ; they draw a long breath , and a curse " not loud , but deep , " comes forth ; they swear they y have vengeance on their oppressors .
Lancashire shouted " Work no more !"—Staffordshire echoed the cry—Yorkshire reverberated it on every hill , and the cry was carried from mouth to moaih , from town to town , from county to county '; BiiU it rose , " Work no more ! we ' ll work no mere 1 " ( To be concluded in our nest . )
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ARRIVAL OF THE OVERLAND MAIL . IXDIA . The mail from India arrived in London on Saturday . The more detailed aecoouts do not at all bear out tb * disastrous summary previously given by the P / ench telegraph from Marseilles , cf the decimation of tbe British armies beyond the Indu 3 , by heat , "want of food , simooms , kz . There bad been sickness at tie camp of Jellalabad , but the deaths ^ tre &w , so that the " decimation" is simp : y a Gallicism . It is , however , bad enough to tno ' . v that the conduct of the new head of the Indian Government , at a time Then energy and perspicacity waa most needed , has been marked by the most inexplicable caprice and indecision . Tbat Lord E'Jenberough bad at one time issued orders for tbe evacuation of Afghanistan appears no ^ to be admitted , even by the Timn . The Morning Chronicles correspondent gives the following probable version of the facts : —
" Abont the 29 ih May , General Pollock received * despatch from Lord EUenborough , directing . him to return to India , if possible , immediately . Conceiving that by acting on these instructions tbe interests c # nfided to bis ebarge might materially suffer , he wrote to the Governor-Generel , stating bis objections , whtea wae certainly sufficiently cogent , thtre being far too little carriage for the transport cf the troops and stores , no "water on the road , and much difficulty to be apprenended in surmounting tbe heights of the Kiyber at this season , should any opposition be offered . Some few days after the despatch of this Utter , all the preparations which had been making for retirement were
postponed ; and , on the 13 th June , the General received a reply , in which bis Lordship , though by ne means counter-anting the ides of a penaanant stay in AffgnaniBtan , or any scheme of ultimate conquest , 01 rttriDutive hostility , gave him permission to remain until the season was favourable for return , and he should have procured sufficient carriage , cattle , and stores , to insure tbe safe progress of his tioops through the past . Lord EUenboroagh also instructed him to send out detachments for the purpose of destroying the forts and strongholds between Jellalabad and Judnl-Inek , and thus displaying our power to the inhabitants of the surrounding Tillages . " —This account is substantially supported by the Bombay Timts .
In pursuance of th « suggestion to make a show of -rigour , General Pollock bad detached a party to attack Pe&a Bolak a&d Lnghman . Some relics of the 44 th regiment , nearly annfiiflatnrt on the Cabal retreat , ¦ were found by the soldiers of the 31 st at a place called Ali Bogham , and tbey trere so excited at tbo tight that they burned dons the Tillage . —Twentyfour soidieri of tbe 44 th , and a woman , wen at Xagbraan ; and their rescue was one object of the expedition . The Fort of Khelst-i-Ghflrie his been evacuated , and its fortifications blows up by the British . This . as
been done to concentrate General Nott ' s force at Oindahar , and was effected by a detachment from General Ifott ' s army under CoL "Wymer . Previous to the arrival of Colonel Wymer ' 8 force , the Affghans had made a darisg attack upon the fort on tbe lit May , bat had been gallantly repulsed by the garrison under Captain Craigie , with great loss . Colonel Wymer was bnogiBg with him to Cudahar all the stores , gnus , and materials . In the meantime , during the absence f CoL Wytntrt deUchme&t , an Af ^ hx ^ force , 80 * 0 Jtrong , sov&cced bj' < je Candahaz under several chiefs , Aita Kn-n , chief of Scmiadawur , gator Jung
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youngest son of Shah Soojoh , and Atta Mahomed . The notion of finding the British commander sufficiently weakened by the separation of his forces , proved a woefcl mistake . Tiro native regiments , the 42 d and 43 d , with artillery , were Bent out to attack them , followed by the Queen ' s 4 lst and Anderson ' s guns The Afghans -were driven from seme heights they had occupied , and having blocked up a pass in the kills in their flight , a severe slaughter was inflicted by the British artillery and infantry , want of cavalry alone preventing tbe destruction from being more complete . Prince Suftur Jong , one of the chiefs , on the 19 th of June , deserted by bis followers , surrendered as a prisoner .
Orders having been given by the Governor-General to form a large •¦ army of reserve , " 20 , 00 * stroDg , is tbs district of Birhind ( the Seikh frontier ) under tbe Commander-in-Calef , Sir Jasper NichoL The object of this measure is made the ground of numberless speculation * . By some it is thought a precautionary measure to overawe the Seikhs , who are alleged to have shown symptoms of defection , while others maintain the totally opposite opinion , that the Seikhs are to take the Aflfch » p war off our hands , and make a territorial dismemberment of the contumacious borderers , backed by the British from within the frontier . A reinforcement of 7 , 000 Seikhs , under Colonel Golab Singh , bad joined General Pollock at Jellalabad , which certainly does not look like bad faith on the part of tbe ruler of Lahore .
At Cabal tbe Afghans are said to be divided among themselves , some being eager for forming conventions and terms of amity with the British . The delays in the movement towards Cabal , since the passage of the Khyber denies by General Pollock's foroe , had been rather ativut&geons to Akhbar Khan , who , having placed his British prisoners in safe custody at some distance from Cabal , proceeded to attack the Bala Hissar , in which Fatten Jung , the third son of Scbah Soojah , who ia looked upon as attach&A to the alliance with the British , had defended himself and his father ' s treasures with ability . The report of money being collected in the Bala Hissir roused the cupidity of Akhbar Khan and his followers ; they , therefore , laid Beige to that fort , and completed a large mine unOer one of the bastions , which they blew up with such want of skill as to kill numbers of their own men . The Arabs , or
best soldiers in the Bernce of Futteh Jang , being alarmed for their families , of which they dreaded the slaughter from the murderous propensities of Akhbar Khan and his partisans , and terrified by the news that the British had blown up the fortifications of Kbelat-a-GhiJzte , prior to their final retreat from tbe country , induced their young Sovereign , however much against his will , to surrender himself , and his fort , and his treasures te the tender mercies of the notorious Akhbar . It is said , however , that no atrocities succeeded tbe capture , but that the Kuan offered honourable torms to Fatteb Jung , leaving him invested witk the chief nomirjJ power , and appointing himself Tzi It is supposed that the British prisoners bad been removed from the Tezeen valley , and taken by Akhbar Khan beyond , near , or within the Bala Hissar , for the suppositions vatj in all wars .
CHINA . The news from China is marked by fresh victories of the British forces , who hart advanced from Chinhae on the 15 th of March , under General Sir Hugh Gough and Admiral Parker , upon a large Chinese force which bad gathered together on a strong position near the city of Tsckee , about twenty miles from Ningpo . The foree was conveyed sixteen miles up the river by the steamers and boats , and then marched five miles to the city . Sir Henry Pottinger ' s circular gives taa following summary of the action : —
" The chief body of the British troops , fcc , marched round outside the town , and were joined at tbe east gate by the escalading party , wfcero tbs whole had an excellent view of the Chinese forces intrenched oatwo distinct lofty hni « in front and on the left Arrangements were directly made for advancing to attack and dislodge them as nearly as possible at the same inslanL This mannavre succeeded admirably , aud although the enemy disputed the possession of their steep and difficult position bo obstinately that many instances of h&ni to band combat occurred , her Majesty's forces gallantly and steadily persevered in their ascent andsr an unceasing fire , until their eumHiits were gained , and tbe rostof the Chinese army became complete at all poLts , and was followed up by a pursuit which was continued till sunset .
" Whilet these opsrationswere going on upon the heights , the small steamers ( Phlegethon and Nemesis ) acooKipaiiied by some of the boats of her Majesty ' s ships , proceeded by a branch of the main river leading in the direction of the intrenched camp , where they destroyed a number cf gun-boats , and fire vessels ; and shortly after , on tbe fugitives from tbe Chinese camp passing near them , they landed their small crews , and pursued them in various directions , putting a Dumber hor * de combat . " It is estimated that the enemy could not havo lost fewer % htn \ 1 , 000 men fcilied in these different affairs , independent of great numbers that were carried off wouudod , and amongst whom are known to have been many mandarins and officers of rank .
" Her Majesty ' s plenipotentiary has not received tbe return of 9 asualties in her Mcjeaty's land forces , but he regrets to mention that three were killed and fifteen -wounded ( most of them severely ) in the Naval Brigade . " The British forces remained the night «? tbe 15 th in the Chinese deserted camp , and the next day , after the necessary delay of embarking the wounded , destroyed the guns , wall pieces , and matchlocks , as weli as the useless provisions and ammunition ; and burning the camp asd barracks , the Commander-in-Chief pushed forward to a second entrenched camp about seven miles from Tsckee , at tbe Cnanghe pass ; bat It was fuund that it had been evacuated during tbe night , and after destroying the works , and burning everything that was ignitable , including tbe Joss-house and other buildings , -which had been converted into magazines or barracks , her Majesty ' s forces returned to T&ekee the same evening , and to Ningpo on tbe 17 th . "
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THE CAMPAIGN . The struggle still lasts ; the weavers are still unwilling to starve quietly to death at work ; they still think that they may as well die of famine in the streets as in the mills . Never was the viperous power of capital more basely exercised , and its nature more glaringly exhibited , than in this instance . After every effort to goad and drive the people into acts of violence which might
furnish a pretext for slaughtering them has been foiled by the prudence and forbearance of the people , even the very sympathies and kiudly feelings of humanity are fiercely warred with by the monsters that the labourer may be trodden down . The press teems with remonstrances to shopkeepers , publicans , and others , upon the folly and wickedness ^> f giving money or provisions to tbe starving stragglers against the vampire power of wealth ; and that no means might be lacking to cut off the supplies , the following proclamation has been posted upon the walls of Manchester : —
" Whereas pirties are going abont on the highways and streets for the purpose cf begging and collecting contributions ; notice is hereby given to all such persons , that the above practice is illegal ; and tbe constables are hereby requested to take immediate steps for the apprehension of all persons guilty of such offence , in order that they may be dealt wita according tolsw . " The above document is signed by a number of Magistrates who are principally manufacturers , and members of tbe League .
And thu 3 do the " authorities" of a civilized and Christian country give evidence that they regard the peaceful asking of their neighbours for as much of bread as may stay famine , in return for labour , as a warlike declaration . They look upon the poor weavers , seeking an advance of wages , as an enemy ' s army , whom it is their duty to harass at all points , and when they can ' t force them into battle , to starve to death , by " cutting off their supplies . "
Is ever was a more heartless , cold-blooded , abrogation of everything which should pertain to human nature , than this proclamation of the Manchester millocrat magistrates . But if the country—if the Bhopkeepers^—if every man who is not a millocrat and a magistrate , be not as heartless and cold-blooded as the men whose names appear to this document ; tbe infamous proclamation will proclaim merely the impotence of those who issued it .
The poor " lads , ' noble fellows I are still not discouraged j thej are too determined to give in , and too prudent to permit a villainous advantage to be taken of them . The proclamation has therefore been responded to by the following address of the power loom weavers and overlookers , to the trades in general , and the sympathizing public : — " We , tbe General Committ # e , in appealing to tbe sympathy of oar friends , wish it most distinctly- to be understood that we shall consider it ear daty to carry
out those plans most conducive to our cause . We are sorry to find , in doing so , we shall have to lay before a generous public tbe proceedings of tbe authorities of this town , as they are using any and every means in their power to compel us , either by starvation or intimidation , to return to our labour at tbe reduced prices . No sooner bad we formed our plans fur soliciting your aid , indeed before we could get tbin eireplar into type , than they issued a placard to defeat our object , and in this placard we are entirely prohibit *! horn . aoUdting youi
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aid , —yet we hope you will , by your actions , show to them and to ail oar enemies the opinion you entertain of their proceedings—and show to the public at large , that you are determined to 'Stand by the cause of tbe poor . ' " It is the intention of the Committee to keep from all collision with those who may wish to monopolise oar rights . And therefore we lay before you the subject as it stands , requesting those parties -who can make it a matter of convenience , to bring to the Committee whatever their generosity may thitik proper ; and those who cannot , will be kind enough to signify their intention to tbe individuals whom we authorise to call for tbu circular , and in order to detect any fraud , they will exhibit to you an ' impress' by tbe same stamp as that on this circular ; all that do sot are impostors , and such aa -we do not recognize . Tbe time and place of ear meeting is fcom ten in the morning , until two in tbe afternoon ; and from six to nine in tbe evening , at Mr . FallowB ' a Temperance Hotel , Oak-street , Swan-street , Manchester . "BT OBDEE OP THE COMMITTKE "
This appeal , simple , touching , and eloquent in its simplicity , needs no commendation to those who have hearts to feel ; they will take care that tbe starving camp shall not be broken up by famine ; that the rich shall not thus heartlessly and mercilessly lord it over the poor . If this does not try the temper and character of the middle classes , nothing will . We have lately had much fuss about their sympathy with the poor , and about the necessity of a union with them to ensure general prosperity . We shall see by the manner in which this appeal is answered at what rate they themselves value such a union .
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racter they please to ascribe to it . But the rogues may fail in this ; there is yet no evidence that either Lbach or WDovajll had anything whatever to do with that address ; and it may be that even Mr . ToauKB ' s boys may be proof against all the infernal maneuvering and management to which they are subjected . The attempt to obtain direot evidence may fail ; and therefore the next best means for securing a verdict is resorted to . The case is unblushingly prejudged already ; the so-called seditious (!) document , ( concocted , for ought that yet appears in evidence to the oootrary , by the League themselves ,
who conoocted the Strike , and issued in the name of the Executive , ) is published by all the Whig and Tory press as "The Address of the Executive "; commented upon as suoh ; denounced as such . It is well known to every body that Leach and M'Douall are members of the Executive , and consequeutly that if this be the address of the Executive , it must be their address , and they must have issued it . The villains know this to be the only inference which can be drawn , and hence the whole factious press , from one end of the Kingdom to the other , has , ever since
the address was issued , on account of which this conspiracy charge is hashed up , identified that and the Executive together . It has been taken for granted , without the least inquiry , and as a thing that could not be disputed , that the Executive did issue the address in question . No question has been made about this ; it is deliberately talked of on all hands , as a fact ; nobody is allowed to think otherwise ; it is treated as a perfectly settled thing , that , whatever maybe thecharacter of the address , seditious ox otherwise , it is the address of the Executive , and they did issue it , though their names do not appear to it .
There is deep craft and deep villany in all this . The rascals know well what the formularies of the trial are to be . They know that Lbach , and M'Douall if they can catch him , will be tried by Jurors ' selected from the middle classthe parties by whom their villanoua trash is read ; and they know that when the case comes before these Jurors , the main point to be decided will be whether the address was issued by Leach and M'Douall , as members of the Executive ! and hence their careful labour that the whole class of jurymen shall have no chance of being otherwise than , satisfied ia their minds , before coming to the
trial at all , that this address , whatever may be its character , was certainly issued by the Executive , and is to be regarded as their address . To this one point the whole of the middle class press has lent itself incessantly ever since the charge was hashed up , and by no one portion of that press has this foregone conclusion , and prejudging of the case , been so industriously insisted on as by the British Slatesman . His letter of the "Old Chartist" was the least of his efforts in this way . Take from his paper of the present week the following paragraph—nbt from a correspondent , not a stray noto of news , but written Editorially : —
" We should not have concurred in tbe Executive ' s address , believing tbe country to be unprepared to act upon it . At tbt ) same time , we did not blame them for it , nor do we now blame them , seeing that they have the same right to act upon their own judgment and experience that we claim to act upon out ' s . But admitting their perfect right to issue the address , we thick they were decidedly wrong in not putting their names to it . They either ought not to have issued the address at all , or issuing it , they ought to have pat their names to it "
Now let the people ask themselves whit is likely to be the effect of that paragraph upon the minds of the middle-class readers of Jbhe Statesman , the Jurors who are to try whether the address in question be the address of the Executive or riot ? Can as many of them as put any faith ia James O'Brien , do otherwise than come to the trial with the conviction already settled in their minds i Will they not , of necessity , suppose that O'Brien is , from his
position , ukely to know all about it , and that , from his mode of writing , he does know all about it ; and will they not , almost of necessity , seeing this in O'Brien ' s paper , conclude that what ho styles " the Executive ' s address" is , beyond all doubt , the Executive ' s Address ? And will they not , therefore , be likely to set that point down for granted , whether there be evidence to prove it or not ! Is it possible that James O'Brien is so senseless as not to see that this
must be its effect ? Was it stolidity or villany which prompted the writing of this paragraph 1 Had this bean the only paragraph of the kind we might in mere oharity have supposed the former ; but it is not so ; again and again the thing is spoken of with the most perfect sangfroid as the "Executive ' s address . " No doubt seems to exist upon O'Bbien ' s mind , and he seems particularly anxious that the Jury should have no doubt upon the matter . To any mind but that of one anxious to prejudge the case , and to prejudice the accused , it is reasonable to think that tho very fact so strongly censured by
O'Bbien would have suggested a doubt whether this document was ever issued by the Executive at all * It was nameless ! It has not been the habit of the Executive to issue documents in that manner . They have never been previously known to put forth any document without their names . There is nothing ia their character or in their conduot to expose them to a charge of pusillanimity . Nothing which could induce any man who knew them to suppose that they would flinoh from any position they might choose to take—nothing which could justify any man in the presumption that they would ,
at an important time like this , deviate from the steadiness and prudence of their usual course . Wo repeat , then , that the very fact of the document being unsigned ought to have been , by a Chartist writer , regarded as presumptive evidence in favour of the accused ; and the more especially so in the absence of every tittle of direct evidence to connect the Executive with this address at all . With as much eagerness , however , as the most savage Tory bloodhound could evince , O'Brien set himself to tear away this prop from under the feet of poor Leach . He is not content
with jumping to tho conclusion that it mast , of course , be "the Executive ' s Address . " He is not content with inducing that conclusion on the minds of others , by thus familiarly characterizing and speaking of it . All this bad been done by the more honest press iu the direot service of the factions . O'Brien leaves them far behind . He sets on his cowabd " bully , " the "Old Chartist , " in the . first instance , to raise a cry of cowardice against the Executive ; and when he finds this dodge to fail , he turns to work himself , and tries to eke out the charge by asking why they did
not put their uames to tbe address they issued t ! ! The fact , of there being no proof that they did issue it , he does not choose to Bee . We know not whether this may have any connnxion with his brutal attaok upon poor Leach , at the Hall of Science , in Manchester , some months a ^ o , and with the humbling which he reoeived at the hands of Leach before the meeting j we know not whether it may have any reference to his blackguard treatment of Leach in the Convention , and on other occasions . We know not , we say , whether this hounding on of the Jurors to a fore gone conclusion , may be another instance of
the villanous malignity and petty vengefulness which especially distinguishes his character , or whether it arises from a mere blundering incapability of seeing the probable effect of his own acts . In either ease the effeot remains the same . If the blood-money for M'Douall has been doubled , and if he should eventually , in consequence thereof , be taken , and if he and Leach shall be convicted of having issued this same address , the country will be indebted for the loss of their services to Jakes O'Bbien , so far , at least , as tho talent and influence of that grakful gentleman have enabled him to play his part .
And now we suppose that the people must be prfttty well satisfied with the vagaries of the starved viper , James O'Bbien . At all events , we can assnre them that we are quite satisfied ; and we premise our readers that as far as we are concerned ,
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they shall have no farther annoyance from or on account of him . y We think with honest Coopbb , whom the coward ruffian still loads , even in his living tomb , with his abuse , that "it is time for every man to stand without a mask , " and however hateful might be the dnty of tearing off the mask from suoh a f&ee , we saw it to be a duty , and shrunk not from its performance when we perceived how much the safety of our best men and onr cause itself required it . 'Tis the last notice of the viper we shall ever take , beyond the insertion of Mr . O'Connor's promised letter , if he send it .
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A . B . — We have no room . The Fehals Chabtjsts of London . —Susanna Inge calls urgently on all her Sister Chartists of the metropolis to attend a general meeting of the Females * Association , on Tuesday , the lith of September , at eight o ' clock in the evening , for the purpose of taking into consideration some rules and regulations which will be brought forward for the better organization of the Association , and to assist in carrying out the principles , of our glorious Charter . She requests , also , that the arrears of subscription may come up , as the money to the Executive will be due onthe \ bth . Montpelieb Tavehn Tea Pahtt . —The Committee ^ request all persons indebted for tickets , either for
the tea or the theatre , to pay the secretary immediately ; as they purpose to publish a list of the defaulters . Samuel Sidebottom . —If his letter was intended f or insertion it should have been directed for the Editor , and not for Mr . O'Connor . Mr . O'Connor ' s letters are invariably forwarded to him , we can , therefore , say nothing about the letter to which he refers , save that we know nothing of it . B . M'Donald . — We have no room for the letter of his friend . Greenwich and Deptford Chartists . —The best thing to be done with the viper is to forget him . He has no power to sting if the people do not give it him . William Ellis , Brighton . —You must employ an attorney . A Lover of all Men writes , strongly advising the
different associations , olub » , fyc , to open provision and other shops , and become the distributors of ( heir own productions as far as their own necessities and means of purchase are concerned . John Wa . tk . ins returns thanks to God for the restoration of his health , which renders void the ne-. cesxity of his intended tour through the country , and , as London still offers an ample field for his exertions \ he feels called upon to defer his journey for the present . In the mean time , he would return his thanks to those Chartists who did him the honour to invite him , especially to the Chartists of Llanidloes , Bristol , Royston , Halifax , Bradford , Bingley district , Hull , Malton , Bamslep , Ipswich , Ashton-under-Lyne t Huddersfield i York , Nottingham , 8 ( c . 8 [ D . Bradfrd Chartists . —Masons * Arms . —We have no room for their address . Armstrong Walton must excuse us—we have not
room . William Bltth— We cannot insert his letter : it must go to the Paper to whose Editor it is ad ' dressed . Bingley Correspondent . — We have not room . J . C . H . —We believe he must " turn out ; " but he had better consult an attorney . Leicester . —Coopers ' s Defence . —The committee of Mr . Cooper ' s defence have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt o / 3 s . 6 d ., collected in Mr . Curlis ' s shop , at Old Radford , near Nottingham . Mb . Wm . Sutcliffe , of Haigh House , Warlev . — We have received a letter deta iling a conversation had in the presence of William Horsefield with Mr . William Greenwood , in reference to a
report that Mr . Sutcliffe had , while acting as special constable , given to the magistrates a list of the names of the enrolled Chartists of his locality . Mr . Greenwood stated that he had been so informed , but did not believe it . He declined to give up his author at present ; but promised to do so hereafter . Mr . Sutcliffe concludes : —*• / now call upon Mr . William Greenwood , of Yale House , in Midgley , to meet me , and bring any person , or quantity of persons , that he may think proper , at the house of Mr . George Bedford , the Shoulder of Mutton Inn , in Midgley , on Wed ' nesday , the I 4 lh instant , at seven o ' clock in the evening . I will be there to answer to any question , from any man , and may God defend the right ; and may eternal infamy be the portion of
the traitor . James Oakes , Kingston upon-Thames . —His letter should have been sent to Mr . Cook , of Dudley . Probably the 7 s . sent to him , and the is . advertised in Star , may be different sums . A . M . —Received . A Regular Subscriber , Oldham . —We have stated some twenty times , that we never do , and never will , answer questions for the deciding of wagers ^ Mr . Hitchin , Kidderminster . —Let the thing alone ; it willdie of itself . John Rogers , Bristol , must address Mr . Campbell : we have no authority to alter Mr . Campbell ' s report . The " Old Chartist . "—We have received the following : —
" TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR . " Sir , —In your Paper of Saturday lust , you charge me with being tbe writer of a letter which appeared in the British Statesman of the previous week , and signed 'An Old Ctwtist . ' "I shall feel obliged if you will favour me with your authority for making such charge . " Yours respectfully , "Frederick Warren . " Manchester , Sept . 6 , 1842 . " Our authority is Mr . Frederick Warren , of Manchester and the best evidence that can be offered is the above letter . Laneside Chartists . —A licensed place of worship ts , by law , exempt from payment of rates arid
taxes , except it be used for some lay or secular purpose , involving profit to the parties . Its occasional occupation for charitable purposes does not make it liable ; but if it be used for any purposes by which profit accrues , that would be holden to render it liable to the rates . The pinch would be just whether the solons would consider the sick club a charitable or a profitable using of the room . Our friends would , we think , do well to dispute their liability to the rate ; emp ' oy an attorney , and try the case on its merits . They ought to get clear ; but they must remember that we have , in fact , no law , save the dictum of the so-called * . * authoi ities . " The Chartists of Clitheroe , not knowing Mr .
Campbell ' s address , wish ts know if he has received-, a letter from them , dated \ btfi August , with 10 s . enclosed , as it has not been acknowledged inthe"'Star . " J . L . A ., Amblerthorn . —We cannot insert his letter . The disgraceful scenes he describes are sufficiently lamentable—the more so as the actors in them are " professors of religion" par excellence ; but their recital is not within the compass of our ordinary cognizance . George Henmy Smith . — We have , in all conscience , had enough of the starved viper . It is needless to dive further into the dark catalogue . Lei him
wallow in hts own " cess-pool" till its filthy waters snff-tcate him . W . H . Dtoit , 27 , N . King-street , Dublin , has to gratefully acknowledge , on behalf of the people of Ireland favourable to democracy \ the continued favours of his Enqlish friends who continue to supply him with their Stars . He is sorry that duties of an arduous nature preclude , for the present , the possibility of his answering personally severed kind communication * . The Abhy at a Discount . —A correspondent at Nottingham , who gives his name , has sent us under this heading , for publication , a letter ,
from which we gws tlte following paragraph : — "It will be remembered that when a number of starviDg people were assembled on Mapperly Hills , nehr Nottingham , to enjoy a meal in peace ; that they were attwked by the police and soldiers , jast as the provisions which bad been liberally provided by the town ' s people , were coming in sight , and that they took about 500 prisonere ; butthe object which it would appear they had in view was not known until exposed by men woo were taken . After they were placed in the HouBe of Correction , they were visited by a rtcruiting party . They were taken when suffering from the most acute pangs of banger ; they were degraded as far
as possible by being driven to a prison , and with tbe prospect of impending punishment hanging over them as a terror ; and then they were promised liberty if they would enter the army , and that they should have plenty of bread and beef . Here , then , we have tbe honour of being a British soldier , surrounded , as thty said , by the comforts of life , placed injuxlu-position with destitution , the degradation of a prison , and the terror of further punishment ; and these m « n have declared by their conduct , that , bad as their situation was , it was preferable to the honour of being in the Biitub army . Have not the soldiers placed themselves in an enviable position ? Is nottheir ' a an honourable occupation ? I Who will not now enter tbe army ? . ' "
We can scacely credit this statement . We beUeve that the person who sent it us would not knovoinly write us what was untrue ; but we hope that such an amount , of baseness is not predicable even of the factions under whom we live . If any parties Wearing her Majesty ' s uniform have thus acted , we must suppose that they have done it unauthorisedby their officers ot by the magisterial authorities . We deem it right , however , as our correspondent speaks , positively , that his statement should go forth ; while we think that there must be some mistaks about it .
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Thomas Buck . —We know nothing of it : be must write to Mr . Clean : He denres ut to toy that Mr . Campbell will lecture on Sunday , the 18 th , but does not say where . \ ' __ James Warhs , West Bro * , nuneh . —We have no room for the animadversions on the Methodist preacher's prayer . Let the poor fellow alone t it is probably nothing but his ignorant * . The stupid notion that ministers should not meddle with polities keeps , tee doubt not , many a good ¦ man in fear and haired of Chartism , because he knows not what it is . — R . H . —Sixmonths .
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Those Agents who were desired to send Cash last week , and bave not dene so , will not receive their P lates till they balance their Accounts , and will not receive any Papers after this date till mea , Account be settled . Those Agents who receive both Plates in one panel , will give T . Dancombe on the 19 th of November . D . Turner . — Tbose at Mr . Watson ' s ; are back Porr traits , price 7 £ d . The Petition and Dnncombe are not yet sent off , but will both be sent in one par * eel , aa parcels to Ireland are so expensive .
The Petition Plate will be delivered to the Subsoribers at Bradford , Halifax , Hull , Huddersfleld , KeJgbley , Bingley , Wafcefleld , Horbnry , Dewstury , York , and tome other places in Yorkshire , on Saturday next , tiie 17 th instant . The sooner tha other Agents send word bow they are to be sent , the sooner they will receive them . Wm . Worger . —The Is . 6 d . was received , and the Piates will be sent as soon as they are ready for distribution . They have not yet been received from the printer .
FOE MASON AND OTHERS , STAFFORDSHIRE . £ s . d . From the Female Chartists of Da-. , Tcntry ... — ° 8 Charter Association , Holbeck . per J . Davis . » ... 0 2 0 FOR THE EXECUTIVE . From T . Mills , London . « ... 0 2 2 ¦ „ W . B ., Iieeds ... ... ... 0 0 6 ! FOR MRS . H 0 LBERB . T . From the Charfciste of Keignley ... 1 3 3 „ Mr . Clarkson , Bradford ... 0 10 0 For Defence of the prosecuted Chartist Leaders , and for the the prosecution of the perjured wretch of Manchester—Collected fey T . Tevers , HuddersSeld ...... 7 s . Ditto in tbe Association room , ditto . 9 s .
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Friends , —It must be painful to every sincere Chartist to observe the constant bickering that is kept up by our most prominent leaders , men who above all others ought to set an example of union Nothing tends to weaken a popular cause more than division amongst the leaders , for it not only keeps many from joining , but drivts many from our ranks . lam led to make these observations by the
disgraceful and " treacherous" manner m wiidttMr . O'Brien has attacked Mr . O'Connor , in his two last papers , the Statesman . Disgraceful , inasmuch aa he ought to have been certain of the truth of tbe Utttt he inserted , signed " An Old Chartist ; " treacherous , inasmuch as it goes directly in opposition to the resolution moved by Mr . O'Brien in Convention , binding the Chartist press to insert no charge against any man until a meeting had been called , and the person charged had been invited , and the charge proved against him .
No meeting was called in Manchester to investigate the charge , —and this the " Old Chartist , " or rather Old Scoundrel , knew . Yes ,, that man is a soouadrel who will write anything reflecting on the character of a public man , knowing it to be false ! O , but Mr . O'Brien says , " the man has probably been imposed on himself . " Nonsense : be is equally a Bcoundrel to write that whioh he did not know to be true . . I would take this opportunity to ask a few questions , which I think ought to be answered to set this subject at rest , for I see no sense in the people spending their hard-earned money to get information , and yet find the papers which ought to instruct them exhibiting nothing but bickerings and dissensions amongst leaders .
; I am of the opinion expressed by Dr . M'Douall in Convention , that if the cause is to be continually injured by the disputes of two of our leaders , let us , in the name of God , cast them from us until they have settled them . It would be an important duty of the Conference to endeavour to put aside such disgraceful proceedings . O'Brien admits he has been imposed upon by the tl Old Chartist , " and that all he has wrote is false , and calls upon the friends of the injured parties to " denounce the slanderer "—denounce who \ who can
they " denounce" under an ambiguous name 1 what will he care for that if the parties do not know him ? Te ll his name , O'Brien , if you have been imposed upon—you owe him no respect . But O'Brien has no right to complain about being imposed upon if ho allows the Chartists to be imposed upon by him , for , says O'Brien , "If I was to give up his name O'Counor ' s party could injare him in his business f so it appears he is depending upon O'Connor's party for support , whilst he is doing what he can to injure them , and thiB ; O'Brien allows . * Did not Bronterre support the recommendation to exclusive dealing !
T his is a time for union , and it becomes the duty of the people to look after their own cause , and endeavour to keep our leaders united . We ought to have no " parties "; no O'Connor's party , or O'Brien ' s party , but one party , aud that freedom ' s party . Our enemies have their disputes in council , but theirs are only on the best way to put us down ; the only disputes of our leaders ought to be the best way of ( raining our freedom . O'Brien states that he has shewn to certain parties that favour which O'Connor would see him ** d—d
before" he would shew to him . Did O'Connor see Hetherington d—d before he would insert his blackguard letters ! No ; and the greatest fault I can find in O'Connor is the insertion of such blackguard epistles as certain persons have from time to time sent to tbe Star . O Brien has failed to answer the letter of the Manchester Chartists : assertions are not proofs , and he has indulged in nothing else . The question is not whether O ' Connor has behaved kiad or unkind to O'Brien , but whether he has acted traitorously to the Chartist cause ; and he has that yet to prove . Tbe questions I would ask are as follows : —
1 st . Did O'Brien , in Convention , move a resolution , condemning the denuueiation of Chartist leaders through the press , without first having the charge proved 1 If so , he has broken his own resolution . . 2 nd . Did Mr . O'Connor , in Convention , promise O'Brien the columns of the Slur to set himself right with the public , and did ho ever attempt to avail himself of it ! If it was offered , and he did not accept it , then ho has no right to complain . 3 rd . Did the conversation take place' which Mr . O'Connor stated to have passed between him and O'Brien at Birmingham , and Mr . O'Brien states , in last week ' s Statesman , was manufactured by Mr . O'Connor , and is consequently a lie ? Mr . Porter will feel himself interested in answering that question as it purported to have passed in
his house aud in his company . Brother Chartists , it is your duty to see those things set right , and not allow your bust and most disinterested leaders to be iojurcd , and distrust created in our ranks , without great cause ; let us front this day bury in oblivion , all such disgraceful proceedings , and let us commence a fresh course of action , by concentrating all our energies in behalf of principle and not men ; and then , instead of as at present seeing five or six columns of your press taken up in personal warfare , vre may hope to see them teeming with information to the inquiring , and interesting intelligence to the people , that the day of their salvation is at hand . This oan only be done bj union , to promote which shall be the constant aim of your brother Chartist , Edward Burley . York , Sept . 6 th , 1852 .
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CASZJSItE , —In consequence of a very abusive article wnioh appeared in the Whig newspaper here , the Carlisle Journal , attributing the strike and all its consequences to Mr . O'Connor , and Mr . 6 . H . Head , banker here , who took a most active part during the foolish and silly parade of the yeomanry cavalry , which , but for this humane gentleman ' s exertions , might have led to most serious consequences , the Chartist Association have passed and published the following resolution : — "That the sincere and heartfelt thanks of this meeting are due , and are hereby given , to 6 . H . Head , Esq , banker , Carlisle , for hi 3 humane and prompt endeavours to allay the excited feelings of the people , on Wednesday , August 23 rd , and prevent them from oomiiuj into collision with the military , whose pompous ana uncalled-for display , might { bat for this timely interference ) have led to the most disastrous and dire *
ful consequences . Whilst this meeting award their jnst meed of praise to the said 6 . H . Head , Bs $ t tbey cannot but express the disgust and indignatioa they feel at a most vilianous advantage having beet taken , of certain expressions in his address to toe working classes , by the Editor "of the Carliue Journal , in an artcle headed * The Mentor of tor j Strike , " wherein he most unjustly attributes v < a Strike to the eaid G . H . Head aud Feargns 0 'O , anor , Esquires , who had no more to do . with it f Ji » fl the man in the moon . This meeting beg to ex pte a hope , that a consciousness of the integrity > of . hi * motives and uprightness of his conduot , w j ] l encourage the said G . H . H « ad , Esquire , to' ob in his feeling and benevolent career , ia behr if of ^ distressed poor of Carlisle—regardless o / ,- the V ** lignant sneers , and low personal Bcurri' jty , of th * mean and dastardly tool 04 A disappoiuV ^ d and d ** graded faction .. " .
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HOW TO CONVICT LEACH . It is seldom that tyranny lacks long the tools wherewith to work , in its vocation of destroying public liberty . There are always to be found enow of scamps , foob , or traitors , who , for the sake of gain , or to indulge their spiteful personal malignifeyi or to shew off their powers of discrimination , or from the combined action of all these motives , will ( either knowingly or unknowingly ) , do its bidding with most mischievous alacrity . If the object of tyranny be to obtain , against some thorn
in faction ' s side , a legal conviction of some alleged offence , no matter how baseless may be the accusation , there are two ways by which the object sought may be attained . One is , the procuring and adducing of such evidence as , true or nntrue , shall bring home the charge , and furnish a colourable substantiation . The other is the so placing of the matter before that class of sooiety from which the Jury comes as necessarily to induce a confirmed opinion and foregone conclusion on the matter before they come to the trial at all .
We know few men who have more sorely pestered faotioa than James Leach . His quiet firmm ? B of character , and his unanswerable argumentative lectures , alike annoying to the trade monopolists on the one hand , and to tbe land monopolists on the other , exposing the conspiracy of each party , and the joint conspiracy of both parties , to rob labour of its due reward , and to appropriate the produce of industry , have made Leach an object not less of fear than hatred to both Whigs and Tories . They have been long panting for his destruction . Nor has he stood alone in the truly enviable position of being thus the " marked man" of faction . The bold uncompromising energy of
M'Douall , raiting the spirit of the people by declamation as Leach enlightened their judgment by argument and statistical inquiry , caused him to be aot less feared , and not less hated . Never was auspicious moment waned for mere anxiously than that which should give these two men into the power of faction . Others there were , especially Cooper and White , who in thtir own localities , had the merit of being just as much feared and hated ; but Leach and M'Douall , as members of the Executive , had a more general and extensive field of operation , as well as a more important and responsible position ; and it might be reasonably expected , therefore , that more anxiety would be manifested to clutch them .
There never was on our minds a doubt ( and if there had been the events of the last month would have surely served to dissipate it ) that the " strike" was a deep plot : one of its objects being to throw the meshes of a net around the Chartist Leaders , and especially around these men . Whether or no we have been right in that opinion is , to our present subject of inquiry , unimportant . In any case the opportunity was too good to be neglected . Amid the confusion created by the " League " scoundrels , Leach and M'Douall must be laid hold of ; and means must be had whereby to ensure their
destruction . And to eff . ct this both the means above spoken of have been brought into requisition . Direct evidence has been sought to be established against Leach , by means of foul , deliberate , and notorious perjury . The wretch , M'Kenna , swearing with all circumstantial minuteness , to facts which thousands knew to have no existence but in his own invention ; while the two boyB , apprentices of Tdrrer , are , in defiance of the constitution and of al l law upon the subject , in defiance of all honesty , and to the shameless robbery of their master , kept up in prison , doubtless that they may be drilled and
schooled , and teased , and tortured into the parrotting of such statements as shall be manufactured for them , or insinuated into them , for the purpose of ensuring the conviction , not so much of their own master , as of Leach and M'Douall , upon the paltry , blackguard charge of " couepiracy" ia reference to the alleged seditious and inflammatory document . The wretches have sense enough to see that , after all , they may fail . The perjurer , M'Kenna , fails far short of doing all that is wanted to be done . He manages , even if his perjury be swallowed , only to prove Leach ' s presence at a meoting in Carpenters ' Hall , where he exhorted the people to be peaceable .
His evidence (!) does not at all touch M'Douall . The two are wanted , aud wanted to be destroyed at once . Hence the plaoard , issued by some one in the name of the Executive , ia laid hold of as a god-send ; and though there is nothing in the document that any honest man could call seditious , that is a matter of no consequenoe : they will find no difficulty in making it seditious , if they can but succeed in fathering its authorship and publication upon Leach and M'Douall . And hence the false and illegal imprisonment of Mr . Turner ' s boys—an outrage so glaring , that it has called forth even from the Tory Morning Herald the following strong and very just expression of opinion : —
"A man named Turner is charged with having printed a seditions placard . * * * This man , it appears , bad two apprentices , who were also seiz . d by the police ; not as particepg dminis witk their master , but as witnesses agaiust him . They are seicad , and secluded under lock and key ; without any charge whatever against them , and for tae avowed purpose of torturing them by imprisonment Into a proper frame of mind for disclosing the supposed secrets of their master ' s business . Let it be observed that there waa no magistrate ' s warrant for this , and that Sir Charles Shaw , the chief Police Commissioner of tbe district , denies all knowledge of it ; and yet by < meot the subaltern officers under tae contwml of himself and Mr . Maude , bas this gross outrage been committed .
" Now one would bave thought that Mr Maude would have stepped a little out of the line of his strict dnty , if it was necessary , to have brought that kidnapping policeman to his senses ; for tbe fool in his over-anxiety to secure , baa taken the rarest means to thwart the ends of public justice . He is poisoning the very evidence he is so anxious to preserve immaculate ; for no juryman , with a grain of sense , would convict a master upon revelations extorted from his apprentices by arbitrary imprisonment . No jnryman , who understands his duty to ' well and truly try , ' would baas a
dog upon evidence ao procured . Tae excuse li , that if tbe apprentices were allowed to be at large , tbey might be " tampered with ; ' but ia there any tampering like that of tbe lock and key T We care not whether these youths are being dieted into the truth upon prison fare , or whether tbey are being fattened into confession upon roast beef and atrong beer . Any way and every way in which tbe case may be turned , it bas a bad aspect ; and Mr . Maude must be judicially blind sot te bave seen what an ugly look it aust bave in tbe eyes of every Englishman . "
Nothing CLn be clearer than the object of tbe false imprisonment of Mr . Turner ' s boys . It is that , right or wrong , they may be made to implicate Leach and M'Douall in the issuing of this address . That done , tbe work of tyranny is done ; as they themselves will sive to tho address whatever cha-
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Union 1 Union 1 Union! To The Chartists Of Great Britain.
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