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THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1843.
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DORKING, Surrey.—Mr. Bravery, the per-
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TO TTTR CHABTISTS OP NOBTHTJMBEBLAIvT AND DURHAM . Brother . Chabhsts—I -was elected your Treasurer for the lecturer's Fond , at the delegate meeting held at ISeiraastlB , 3 > ecember 5 tb , -where a lesotaticm -was passed , that as soon as each locality transmitted five sMlBngs to me , Mr . IBeesley was to commence his tour through the two comities . I ask yon has thia been done ? lam sony to ay it has not Thereareouly three localities that have acted up to that resolution , -siz .. - -South Shields , Onseburn , and the Whole hog Charfckt brigade" of Snnderland . What are the CfcartJstsof-tbetityoftDniham doing , { the tmeinators of the Lectme yund , ) the Chartists of Newcastle , && , fee . ? Brother CharfistB , waiting soaaout ' J for yonr response to Ene above , I am , yonra truly , Johs Hjo-l . Onsebum , Jfe"wcastle , Jan . 23 , 1843 .
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HABHOSY HAU ... £ 0 THB EDITOB OP THE SOJ tTHEKS SI AS . Era , —Tbe residents of tins erf abliEhmeBt hare read irifii much interest , the article in your paper of the 21 st instant , headed , " Theland ; Ox 3 only means of salvation to the starring Troriera . " It gives them much pleasure to see that the attei ition of their Chartist brethren is sot only called to this important subject -, Imt , that the efforts of the Soc jslists are brought fairly and prominently before the public eye lor examination . It-anil be readily seen , by i Jl parties in ths state , that the calfiTatioB of our otrn Is nds , for the use of our own people j and a sound praetf cal educttion for every person in the country , are the- grand leading remedies for the distress-which every Trhae exists ; and the chief topic for consideratian , is , how is this to be accomplished practically , in the shortea t possible time .
Ton justly state that , * . ao single sect of men have had « titha of the opposition to -contend frith that the Socialists have had- 1 m spite of all , they hare secured -jo themselves an ** aba ' odant dinner . ' * Kot only is this true , bnt , that they are determined not to rest themselves satisfied , or to relax their exertions , until they tare ¦ procured an eojtally abundant dinner for every one of their fellow beings ; and in addition to a mere supply dthei » physical 'wants , to afford them the opportunity of developing to tke highest point the mental and moral portion * of their nature . We balieve , however , that the manner in which this -opposition has been -overcome hitherto , has ; been by an adherence to certain dearly defined principles , which ¦ tKvnt * in -within themselTe 8 the basis of unity ; and that the progress has been in proportion as these principles hare becom 8 understood by the members .
You say truly "that we are engaged in an experiment , which , in its issue , may advance or retard the -cause of the poor Tery materially . " Of this we are all aware , and we are also aware that our progress will depend upon the extent to "which we can . procure , and rightly apply , the means of introducing a science of society s for , whatever the public generally may think of our crotchets , or of our talking of extreme circumstances ; Socialism , or as we prefer calling it rationalism , is as truly a science as the mathematics , oi any o&ex .
If the working classes can be induced to lend their aid-to the development of this science , they may immediately command any just terms 'which they shall dictate to the other classes of society , and it will be a matter of great congratulation to all parties when this shall be the case . What has hitherto been done , has been done by a very limited number of individuals , many of them most unfit for the tasks assigned them ; ynd aH labouring under The greatest difficulties ; but a sliong determined combination of the working classes Will be irresistible .
You further state , " The world will now watch us ! The public eye is opened upon us ; and if we are not careful , rancour trill seize upon some false step of ours , and prevent public confidence in as . " That this win occur If we deviate in the slightest manner from our principles , I , for one , am well aware ; feut , if we be tote and consistent to those principles which hire hitherto carried themselves above all opposition , from the emanation of the mind of s . single individual who combined from them a rational system of society to their present advanced position ; there is no fear to ba entertained for all the scrutiny , nor for all the rancour and falsehood , which - the world has to
Onr system is either founded entirely . on truth , or it contains zn admixture of error , and in either case investigation will be alike beneficial ; for , what is bus cannot be injured by being exposed , and no parties can be more interested in discovering what is erroneous is the system , than those who are staking everything upon it Yon promise on some future occasion to enter into a friendly remanstasBes with some ol the Socialists on their " insane" and unaccountable policy towards the Chartists ; and I trust this remonstrance trill not long be delayed . There has Mtherto been too great an estrangement between two bodies having in view the same important objects , and this can only be overcame by a dear understanding rendering the subject intelligible to both parties .
Whenever you remonstrate I shall have much pleasure in explaining how far we can coincide with the -views you taxe ; and , if a closer union can be effected by the explanation , a proportionate good must be the result ; for all that is now required is that the working classes shall ascertain in what manner they can best combine to effect the object desired . You Bay the Sodaiist ought to " aid the Chutist in obtaining the power which i » h »» procure the " salvation of the starving workers , by means of the land ; " but I trust to be enabled to point out , that the working classes have within themselves all the power and all the means requisite for the most entire success ; and , &U thai they are deficient in , is the knowledge how to combine those mesas in such s manner as to exhibit to the world a superior state of society ; and all must of necessity desire to adopt it
Ax the subject of Home Coloniz&tion , or the land gumfian , is an all-important one , and \ nH attract more attention ; and a * we are here combining theory and practice , and acquiring experience on a tolerably extensive scale , I shall have much pleasure in furnishing for your columns a series of letters explanatory of what is contemplated by the Socialists in this experiment , and . the degree of progress they have hitherto made . In the meantime , I am desirous you should bear in mind that the objects of the Socialists are universal , and their practises public ; and any persons who desire to inspect their proceedings , from whatever motive it may arise , will have every facility afforded them for doing so ; all that will be required « t them Wing an attention to those general regulations of society , which tend to promote the comfort and happiness of
Trusting that you wiH not object to the insertion of this letter in your paper , I am , sir , Your obedient servant , William Gaipjx . Harmony Hall , near Stocibridge , Hants , Jan . 23 , 1 S 43 .
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TO THE EDIIOS OP THE jrOaXKESS STAB . " Sra , —Last night I heard a better defence -of Chartism than ever I heard in all my life before . I have heard a few of the big guns , but air . Thomas Davies , of Hawick , has outreached them alL His arguments are -all-poWErfaL His sentiments are short , and dearly distinct . The lectures delivered by him are so beautifully set in order , that his hearer ? can follow Mm with the most perfect ease . The above lecture -was delivered in this locality
where general satisfaction was manifested . The police ¦ were sent to hear and see that all was right But these modem figures had to go away as they came , after hearing a full and masterly development of their ova immoral character . The anti-Corn Law League are kicking up a shine in this locality . There are men here who have had frcm three-quarters of a day to three days * work within the last three or four weeks , and yet their employers have deducted from their wages oneabming per slave to augment the £ 50 , 000 Plague agitation .
At an aati-Com Law tea part ; in Eolton , -when sentlemen (? V were going round for an extra subscription , an ex-offitail gave one shilling in the name of a handloom weaver ; upon which Mr . M—r ^ r , of Manchester , spoke very emphatically , statiug that "if a four shilling * per week hand-loom weaver hated monoponly so much as to give tme-foortb of his weekly Income to destroy such monopoly , how much more " ( not Moore ) « ttrijtthey , aamauufaetBrers , to do all they could to « fert their Goa-like object V A gentleman who Baw ttelaBtrmeHfioued trick played tola me of it himself , -vui one of tto League up to the time , but amce which 2 SLSL " ' ?* *** « » ** = « " » of its pl&guy 8 K * ^ oaja * mm » the mQloTOer eplB , . and for that purpose ha sent tfc « Bck-spimes through the JgS&m % JX vSi a collection , when lo ! at their returnTftpre ^; * £ T 3 * booked for the league , by ^ ftJ ^^ Zni of ** hndrtd «» Z-toteS ™ , / The gen ^ eW ^ Sb * on following / &
a * paday ito ^^ MB-| w *« ( 112 ) , andtoldthemttatif aejoiSf ^ S ^ aeyaight laTe thfiir aaffllng * , andgoabeut tS l > ttsin *»; i and ttat if , thefSoaM aho ^ anfcouuS mace ^ to tt » Charter , *« her by werd or 5 eedTifcey ahouM ; be discharged from Ms « nploy ^ -iAshton-un € er-Lyne . }^ . Th » abpTs gentteman is so pioas , that his SL !! * 118 Bama <* "'&& Saisis' Pactobt . " White intaeof the West Biding-distrlcta , tte follow-^• "" ^ 13 ? ^ *? M a fee ^ tte ™ * erer him'VE . JFSF ' ^ * *» erve months , Ms masterre . tnm ^ Mm islave ) twenty-aix pieces , \ rorked-by h £ aon ^^ at tte Bteam-loom , tot -wMch ha { master > chawed An sHTHnga per piece . WhUs in HanJ * sterinarietthe aame gnality and quanti ^ of gooas -srere sold at 4 s . 64 . per piece . TTienthe alave asked his master -why he thus extortioned Hm 7 The aaster answered , »• We must have tiws Corn LawB repealed , and get free trade and then Mmes will mend . " Tht « gentleman takes an sctiVB part in the religioui (?) movement of the Methodirts . In anpther place , the League are raising a
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Defence Fand , when necessary to be applied —{ the Chartists must take the warning given them by Peargus last week , for another ¦ gmae is at baud)—and every slave in certain mills are compelled to contribute to-Trards the same , "whi \ e at the same time the said slaves are not allowed ? *> contribute towards the Chartist Defence Funds , under pain of being turned oat of employ-By Heavens , Sir , if -we enly watch a little longer , we shall see the defeat of faction , and the triumph of true democraej . While in Manchester , last week , I learned \\ b& following facts connected wit the bleaching department . In lS- ' i 9 , twenty men could bleach 2 , 000 pieces per day , fax which those twenty men received for wages £ 30 p % > r -week , while , in 1842 , seven men could bleach 3 , 000 pieces per day , for which those seven men recejve as wages £ 1-8 per week .
In 1829 , the pieces to be bleached -were only allowed to be twenty-eight yardB long each , while , in 1842 , such pieces are to be to the bleacher forty-fow yards long . There is in Manchester an establishment upon the above improvement , ninety-eight men employed , for ¦ which they receive , in wages , £ 140 . The same number of men , is 1 S 39 , got £ 145 10 s . Let alone throwing out of employ 322 men , out of 420 men , for the performing of the above labour , besides dragging out of the money market £ 483 , out of every £ 630 , without ever mentioning the extra sixteen yards , upon every twenty-eight yards , being bleached for the lesser som . The * b 0 TB labour , in 1 S 39 , cost £ 1 , 350 in wages , while , in 1842 , it only cost £ 140 , tkrowing out of the money market £ l , 21 « a week , besides 532 men out of every 630 men out of employ , to seek an existence out of the pauper list .
The late William Cobbett once said , ' No damned Paupery . " I wonder how soon the shopocracy will learn sense ; never till it goes through their " guts . " By giving the above a place in your next number , you will much oblige an enemy to all humbug . PetbB Rigbt , From Chorley . Staffordshire Potteries , Jan . 21 , 1843 .
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BIBLE SOCIETY OPPRESSION . Of all the cants in this canting world , save us from the combined cant of hypocrisy and oppression . When the powerful exert their power for the oppression of the vreak is individual cases , our blood Etirs ; when they do so upon a scale of wholesale class depression , it rises ; when the sacred principles of justice and benevoleace are openly defied
from avowed selfish motives , we feel indignant ; but when oppression puts on the face of Banctity and clothes itself in the warm garments of benevolence while it outrages the common feelings of humanity with heartlessness , we have no words to express our contemptuous loathing and abhorrence . Hence we do not trust ourselves to comment on the following simple statement of the journeymen bookbinders employed under the British and Foreign Bible Society : —
" The Bbitish jlm > Fobeigs Bible Society is an Institution whose * sole object is to encourage a wider circulation ef the Holy Scriptures , ' in doing which its management professes , in the language of the 2 nd resolution of the 87 th Meeting , Exeter Hall , May 5 th , 1841 ; * that they desire to east themselves upon the continued divine blesang of Almighty God , as on that which can alone sustain them in their present prosperous course . * " About a month since the Committee of this Society thonght proper to reduce the price of their Bibles and Testaments bound in sheep , and in roan , gilt edges , to which we refer .
"As what applies to one sort of Bible or Testament in this binding applies to th _ e whole , we only particularise the ruby Bible , 24 mo ., roan , gilt edges ; they reduced the price of this Bible to Is . 6 d ., and as before stated , the price of all other Bibles and Testaments in this binding in the same proportion , thereby underselling every other trade in the market . " To enable them to accomplish this , they did not , as might have been expected , apply any portion of the ample funds of their Society to that purpose , but SEDUCED THE PRICE OF ITS E 1 SDING for the WHOLE
AMOUNT OP THAT KEDXJCHON . " They entered into a calculation of the price of materials , and of the wages of the labour employed thereon , apportioning so much for ; materials and profit , and so ranch for wages ; and after ascertaining the wages paid to journeymen bookbinders in their trade , considered thai these journeymen were paid too much for their labour , and that , therefore , the low price at which they required
the work to be done might be easily made to pay the employer by a corresponding redaction in the wages of the men , and also of the women in their employment . A reduction , amounting to nearly one-half the wages formerly paid , was therefore made by the employers who bind for this Society to whom remonstrance was nseless , it being soon found that the price they received would admit of no higher wages . " Scarcely believing this of the committee of a society which owes itB existence to the benevolence
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of the pioas , whose object is the dissemination of the holy volume which , above all others , is heaviest in it 3 kenunciations against those who ' grind they faces of the poor / an ^ who profess to cast ' them-i selves upon the continued blessing of Almighty God , ' we determined to make them acquainted with the circumstances in a Memorial ; in the hope that they were not aware of the grievous ruin they were inflicting , and in the hope that what we had heard of their deliberate intention ; to effect a reduction out of the wagea of labour , was untrue . To this memorial , a copy of which accompanies this , —they returned for answer , that they felt the subject therein referred to was one which they could not take up .
" No portion of the funQB of this Society is appro- , priated to achieve this reduction in pxice . Indeed , supposing the discount taken from the printer and the binder to be of equal per centage , this Society must obtain on the book we have particularised , the Ruby 24 mo . Bible , Roan , gilt edgeB , Is . 6 d ., even at this price , a small profit . " We submit that it is a contradiction in the conditions of this Society's existence , that the cheapness of this book should be obtained at the almost utter ruin of those ( male and female ) who are employed in its binding , while this Society reaps a profit by its sale .
" We are aware that wages are regulated by the laws of demand and supply—that whereJ there is a permanent surplus of labour in any trade , wages will fall . But a surplus of labour has not produced this result in the present instance . Worldly-minded men , who possess no zeal for religion , had not discovered that the distress produced by the present unprecedented want of employment , afforded them
an opportunity of increasing their profits by a reduction in our wages . It has been reserved Tor the Committee of the British and Foreign Bible SooieLy , whose professed object is the glory of God , to take advantage of this deep distress—men who , in their last report , p . zvii , ' would adopt the devout exclamation of Holy Writ , and Bay , Let the Lord be magnified who hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servants' !
The Society may thus monopolise the whole trade in Bibles and Testaments ; but will not the scoffer and the infidel triumphantly inquire— ' Do these men really believe in the divine inspiration of the Book they circulate ? Do they really believe that the Almighty has power to infiiot the Wrath denounced in it against those who aggravate the distresses of the poor ? ' And with greater triumph exclaim , * Look to their acts , and judge ye , they have oppressed the poor , in the very act of circulating the Book which denounces its heaviest curse upon them for what they hare done . '" A postcript to this address of the oppressed operatives adds : —
" In the above it will be Been we have only referred to two kinds of this Society's work ; while it was being put into type , as if in mockery of the injury inflicted , and in contempt of those by whom it is sustained , a redaction has taken place , at our cost , npon the whole of the Society ' s work . It is of course in the power of this Society , by means of the great capital it possesses , to overwhelm us who possess nothing , —just in the same way as a rich oppressor devours the peor ; but surely the Lord
will recompense their way . They hope to prosper ; but their hope is not in the Lord . They trust in their riches , and in their worldly wisdom ; they oppress the poor , while they profess to * oast themselves upon the continued blessing of Almighty God , ' ( 2 nd resolution , 37 th meeting , Exeter-hall , May 5 , 1841 . ) But God hath said , ' Tae hope of the hypocrite shall perish , whose hope Bhall be cut off , and whose trust shall be a spider's web . — Jobviii . 14 . "'
We repeat that upon this statement we do not trust onraelves to comment . We leave it to tell its own tale , only pointing the attention of the sleek haired " SaintB" to the following textB from their own book , which the poor men have very properly put at the head of their address : — " He that oppresses the poer reproacheth his Mater : bnt he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor . "Proverbs , xiv . 31 . " Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields , -which is of you kept back by fraud , crieth : and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of S ^ boath . "James , v . 4 .
" And I will come near to you to judgment ; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers , and against the adulterers , and against false swearers , and against those that oppress the hireling in biB wages , the widow , snd the fatherless , and that turn aside the stranger from his right , and fear not me , saitb the Lord of Hosts . "—Malachi , iil . 6 . " Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness , and his chambers by wrong : that nseth his neighbour ^ service without wages , and giveth him not forhta work . "—Jee . xxiL 13 . ... n .. —^^ fc ^—*' .. " . <" u » / <¦»« * * * s + * r rr *
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ANOTHER SAMPLE OF INJUSTICE . The many instances of refined tyranny and barefaced extortion which are almost daily communicated to us , are not only evidences of the extreme degeneracy of the human kind—of the inveterate hatred of man towards his species , —and of the declension existing in our courts of law , but they are manifestly indicative of the speedy overthrow of the rotten system which has too long cursed onr father-land . Our forefathers justly complained of the evils of misrule , but they were only flogged with whips—we are lashed with scorpions . Their prospects were gloomy , but we dwell in the midst of thick darkness —darkness that can be felt—that is felt , and cannot be dispelled , save by the energies of an united people determined to possess their rights .
Arguments the most cogent and incontrovertible have been reiterated in the ears of the rulers of the land , but they have been as the deaf adder . Petitions have been laid at their feet repeatedly , praying them to adopt meiBuxes to Btay . the evilB of which the people incessantly complain , and over which our legislators have , unquestionably , oontroul , yet they regarded not the prayers of the needy . Now , facts which none can veil—not even themselves—are staring them in the face at every turn , and they are
compelled to acknowledge that something is wrong ; but instead of applying the only panacea—a radical reform in the tystem of Government— -they think to amuse the people with their tricks of political jugglery , and thereby perpetuate the reign of despotism . But this cannot be . They have been weighed in the balance and found wanting . The hand-writing is upon the wall , too conspicuous and plain to be misunderstood , and it decrees that the reign of tyranny Bhall depart .
Yes , the petty tyrants , vested with brief authority must be humbled , as well as their masters whose deeds they ape ; for the change must be a radical one , extending through every ramification of the system and to every corner of the land . Aje , even to Middleton , near Manchester , and to Rochdale too , where acts of atrocity are perpetrated which are a disgrace to our country and kind ; one of which we here subjoin : — " A poor widow woman named Aon ZeeB , having six children , residing in the township of Bopwoodin the parish of Middleton , was taken into custody on th » 18 th of January , under a warrant , and pat into thelockups
of the police station of Middleton , by order of the overseer , for owing six shillings for poor rates , together with costs , amounting to £ 1 3 b . 6 ± , and was the day after taken to Lancaster . It appears that , previous to that , the overseer's father-in-law had distrained her goods for rent The sum due he said was £ 3 0 s . 8 d ., and the charges -were £ 2 lls , lOd ; but it appears that after the goods were all sold they bad £ l 17 a . od . in hand after all costs were paid , though the goods diet not sell at half their value . The overseer knowing that thiB money was in hand , summoned her to Rochdale before
the magistrates , and . theu worships asked her if she was Trilling to pay the rates ? She answered , I have nothing to pay with , when the magistrates told the overseer he must be paid ont of the money that was over ; he therefore applied to the auctioneer for the money , but he would not or could not pay htm , consequently he took ont a warrant , as is before stated . The poor unfortunate woman has applied several times to the overseer for relief , but he has as frequently refused to give her any , tellinghBr she might go to tbe bastlle ; which she refused to do . "
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With what feelings the reader will arise from the perusal of this horrible recital we will not say ; but for ourselves we cannot find words sufficiently strong to convey our detestation of such villany . Those fiends in human form who have figured in this deed of infamy ought , for ever , to disown the name of men , and insult society no longer by their presence . They are the wretches which the arm of the law should seize . But , though the principals in this atrocious act are doubtless punishable—firstly , for disposing of more of the widow ' s goods than paid the rent and other
incidental expences , and , secondly , ( if this statement be correct , and we see no reason to dispute it , ) they are actionable for falsely imprisoning the poor woman ; yet , still the piper would have to be paid , for justice cannot be obtained in this Christian land , except at a great and ruinous expence , and not then , in most cases , where a middle class jury occupies the box . la fact , justice cannot be obtained for the poor under the present system . Hence the necessity of laying the axe to the root of the tree , and sweeping the augean stable with the broom of Radical Reform .
it will be but poor consolation to the agonised mind of the bereaved widow to be told that there is an insuperable barrier betwixt her and justice . However , so it is . The underlings of corruption may , under present circumstances , drag the poor from the bosom of their families , immure them in dungeons , and complete their ruin with impunity ; but they have well nigh reached the extent of their iniquity . Right must ultimately triumph over might , and the haughty tyrants kiss the dust . They have already overcharged their infernal machine , and must politically perish by its explosion , amid the joy of a too-long oppressed and insulted people .
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ORGANIZATION . We receive continually from all parts of the country application for advice and instruction as to how the frionds of the cause of good order and good government should proceed , under the anomalous circumstances in which they are now placed ; of a national organization without any recognised head or centre of operations . We see that the metropolitan delegates recommend the immediate election of the General Secretary , in order that the business of the Association—the preparation and issuing of cards , the enrollment of members , the
correspondence , &o . —may go on . We advise the people to be in no hurry . The conduct of the last Secretary should surely have given them enough of a dose to make them very careful in the matter of appointing a successor . The Secretary is the most important officer in the whole movement . He ought , in fact , to be tke very marrow of the movement . Bitter experience must , we presume , have shown the people that a false step in the appointment of Executive officers , and especially of Secretary , may do more mischief than all our exertions can retrieve for a long period . Our
Secretary must be a man of busine ? # habits , a man of comprehensive mind—a man 6 t some information and intelligence—a man who understands the movement—a man who knows the bearings of the law upon political societies , who thoroughly understands our Organization , and who will bare sense and honesty and industry to " work" it . It is no easy task to " work" a national Organization , in the teeth of such laws as we have to contend with and steer clear of . We need for this purpose an educated , intelligent man , an industrious , persevering , and honest man . We do not want an
ignorant , impudent , bully , who cannot return a civil answerto a respectful letter ; wedo not wanta fellow to epend his time in public houses , drinking and smoking and playing at cards , instead of minding the duties , of hia office , and to oooupy the chief part of what time he can spare from the public house in his own private business , while he pockets the people ' s money for doing their work , which is left undone ; we don't want a man to leave his duties , and run up and down the country lecturing every time that he may want a fresh " . drag" of money , more than his wages . We wafifc ? a man
who knows his work , and can do his work ; who will be content with his wages , and content to work for bis wages—a man who will devote to the cause his whole time , energy , and talents , and whose time and talents are worth having . With such a secretary , our organisation could not fail to progress , and our cause to prosper . And unless the people can find Buch an one they had far better have none at all ; a vacant office is preferable to an inefficient or dishonest officer . But such a man must be searched for carefully . There must be no hurry in the selection . The people must take time to think and to deliberate , before they decide .
There is one fact to which we would point attention ; that no honourable , or even honest , man would be Secretaryi under present circumstances ; because it would be to associate himself in office with two men who still , in defiance of every principle of democracy , impudently ding to the tenure and name of office , though covered with a load of obloquy and disgrace which would have paralized and kept within doors any men having a grain of deoency . The country have no right to expect that any decent and good man will allow himself to be brought in
contact with the filth from which the oharaoter of these men stands unoleansed . No man who valued his own reputation would for an instant act in any public capacity with either of them . It wants but a few weeks to the time when they must " go out " by the lapse of their term of office ; and the people should in the interim be looking out for honest men to supply their places , and making such amendments iu the plan of Organization as may render less likely the recurrence of the mischiefs which have resulted from the jobbing and profligacy of the present men .
I Some parties seem to think that no steps can be taken in the matter of amending the organization , because we have in reality no Executive . And because Campbell won't give up the books and cards , it is thought that the enrollment of members can't go on . We think quite differently . For the enrollment of members we advise every sub-secretary at onoe to provide a book for entering the names , trades , and residences of all the members of his own district . Let no regard be paid to the fact of " card or no card , " but let the Society for all
practical and immediate purposes be a local one for that town or place ; every one being acknowledged as a member , whose name is on the Secretary ' s book aud none else . Every newly enrolled member to pay * bis twopence and all these twopences to go to the formation of a fund for the use of a New Executive when appointed , and the weekly contributions to be applied to the furtherance of the cause in the immediate neighbourhood . No cards need be given ; but when a member removes to any other place , he should have a certificate from the sub-Seoretary ia the following form .
« Hull , Jan . 27 th , 1843 . " I certify that John Smith is an enrolled member of the Chartist body . * ' Peter Thceman , sub-Secretary . " Id any town where he presents this certificate , his name would be enrolled among the Chartists-of that place , without any additional fee but the payment of the weekly penny . Thus our Association will become a multitude of distinct loeal societies , all governed by the same lawB and acting on the same plan , and ready for amalgamation into one body as soon as the connecting link , a honest Executive , may be supplied .
We shall next week show how the whole matter of considering and arranging , aod amending , the Organization , may be effectually done by the people in their localities , andageaeral ^ ote taken upon it , andrecorded ^^ tnotffitS ? intervention of the Executive or the expense of a delegate meeting . We shall also suggest such improvements in the plan of Organization as we think it needs . Meantime we advise most strongly that the registration of members be immediately commenced by all the sub-
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Secretaries , each acting as Secretary for his district . This is necessary to be done , and to be done in the first place . ]
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THE POOR AND THEIR " GUARDIANS . " Many , and humiliating , have been the exhibitions made by different Boards of " Guardians , " in their anxiety to " carry-out" the infamous provisions of the New Poor Law Act . But many as those humiliating exhibitions have been ,- > -humiliating to our common nature , —it appears to us that the regulations enforced in the Huddersfield and Dewsbury " Unions" transcend all we have previously heard of for heartlessness and rank oppression !
It is well ( known that one of the operations of machinery in these manufacturing districts has been to drive men out of employment , and to cause them to roam over the country at large in search of work , —sometimes at their own trade , and oft-times at trades and occupations for which they were not trained or fitted , excepting that , for the time , they served an avaricious master ' s temporary purpose , by accepting ! work at a reduced rate of
remuneration ; and thus enabled him to sink all his "hands " in the scale of comfort . The system has compelled men to leavejtheir homes , and betake themselves to distant parts of the country ; where , after being employed for some months perhaps , destitution has overtaken them in consequence of " general depression of trade ; " and they have been compelled to apply to the parish-fund for the means to keep them from the jaws of death .
At the present moment there are many belonging to the Huddersfield and Dewsbury Unions so circumstanced ; and it has been determined that no relief shall be afforded them , unless they go to their respective settlements , and there earn the " relief " they are to receive , by breaking stones on the highways ! I The operation of this determination will be best understood by the following statement of facts : —
Joseph Dawson , belongs to Huddersfield Township . He resides at present , and has done , for some time , at Halifax , with his family . He is compelled , by dire ncoessity , to appl y for parish relief . Before he can have a penny to enable him and his family to exist , he must earn it at the Paddock stoneheap . The wages for working at that stone-heap are 2 s . a day . He is allowed to work three-and-ahalf davs a-week . It is a fact , that for months together , this poor man has walked from Halifax to
Huddersfield , ] a distance of eight miles , every morning , for four days of every week ; and walked back again at night !! It is a fact also , that if he is ten minutes later than the usual timeof starting" work" at the stone-heap , he is not allowed to " work" at all that day ! This Joseph Dawson is fifty years of age ! and for the munificent sum of seven shillings , he has to walk a distance of sixty-four miles , and " work " three-and-a-half days ! 1 Whether are the stones he has to break , or the hearts cf his kind paternal " Guardians , " the hardest ! ;
" Ah ! but , "j we hear one of their sapiencies exclaim , " Why does he go back at night ? Why does he not lodge iq the town 'till his work is completed , and then return to his family" ? Because he has but seven shillings a-week foi their entire support ! Because his lodging , in a common lodging house , would be threepence a-night . To save that threepence for his family , he walks sixteen miles ! And yet the poor are accused of improvidence ! and profligacy ! Who would exchange the heart of this man , for the heart of the most benevolent of his " Guardians" !
The kind doings , however , of the protectors of the Huddersfield poor , do not end here . It is a fact , that parties residing in Leeds , sixteen miles from HudaersfieM , are required to " work" at the Paddock stone-heap , before " relief" can be afforded them ! They are to travel from Leeds to Huddersfield , " work" two days , travel back again , with the remains of four shillings in their pocket , after they have kept themselves at their work and paid for a night ' s lodging ! : and this miserable remnant of four shillings is all that can be afforded them to maintain their families for seven days !! What mockery of "relief" ! and how heartless and insultingly oppressive tae conditions on which it is granted ! !
This practice of forcing the absent indigent poor to go " home" (!!) to " work" for their " relief , " is not confined to the Huddersfield Union , as the following fact but too abundantly proves : — An old man , named Megson , SEVENTYTHREE years of age , and now residing at Huddersfield , is compelled to walk to Thornhill , a township in the Dewsbury " Union , " and distant from Hudderefield eight miles , to " work" for two days , at Is . 6 d . a-day ! It takes him a full half-day to perform his journey , be is so feeble from extreme old age and insufficient food . He start 3 on
Monday mornings , reaches Thornhill by Monday noon , and works till night ; works again on Tuesday , and again on Wednesday morning , reaching home ( Huddersfield ) on Wednesday night , with theremains of 3 s . in his possession , after he has paid for his keep during his journeys , and while at work ! He would have to journey backwards and forwards every night and morning , like Joseph Dawsqn , of Halifax , were it not for the kindness of another of his " improvident" and K profligate * brethren at Thornhill , who gives him a bed for the two nights he is there . !
Reader , remember , that this labouring man , who has laboured all his life ; who has caused more of the good things of life to be than he could possibly have consumed , even bad he " lived like a lord ; " and whose rights are I thus Guardianized ; " remember , that this son of tcjil so used , is SEVENTY THREE years of age ! Remark it well ; too , that while the poor are thus forced to labour ] hard for their w relief , " their relieving officers ; seem to get on very easily
Remark it well , that Needle-Jack , of Huddersfield , has note a horse of his own 11 aud can afford to sit drinking in public inns for hours together , while the poob are kept waiting until he condescends to go to curse them ! Mark these things well 3 and mark , too , that i the authors , and enforcers , and present supporters , of the accursed law by virtue of which these crying enormities are practised , are the Free-Trading , Cora-Law Repealing ruffians , who want to persuade us that they have the welfare and interest of the poor at heart !
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Huddbrsfielb . —John Chapman is Sub-Secretary t this district : his residence , Water-gate , Ma Chester-street ; and to him all communicati ^ must be addressed . ^ Wilxiah Magee , —His communication is ins&tti We are as well aware as he is of the great hut to a journal of typographical errors and cor « 6 printing , and do our best to avoid it ; but hem ^ know that these ars often the effect of bad mam , script and careless writing . 8 * D . Abell . —4 * . 6 d . - Executive Votes of Confidence AGAiN . ~ ireJU » a letter from James Leach acknowledging than had no authority whatever from the Chartist . %
wewpon , m me lste oj wignt , or any o f&etu fL the statement which he made at MrminqhaL during the Conference week , about a vote o / c ^ fidence in him and his colleagues , and aftervu ^ t suppressed by us . He says Campbell toldhim ^ but he knows not what authority Campb ellr * 3 for the statement . From a paragraph in ?? Chartist intelligence , it will be seen thai vL Brighton Chartists have by resolution in pM meeting disclaimed all knowledge of the ri ^ i lion which they at the same time were 'ffirmtiu have passed and sent to us for publication , . { pa the country ever be satisfied with the heneHy Jj truthfulness of these men ?! ¦
The Plotting" and " Conspiracy" Lettess ,., In reply to o ir demand of when the letters ^ to be published , Mr . Leach says , " it will depejl much upon circumstances , when or whether Wff those letters will be published or not . " WeqJu believe this , and we can tell Mr , Leach whatfc circumstances are . The circumstance » jfet prevents their publication , is the little fact jju they are not in existence , and that no such letten ever were in existence . John M'Natjghten . — We cannot give him the a . formation he wishes .
James Websteb ., York . —We know all abom ik . meeting . We know exactly how many ^ present . We know that our statement is cotrJand Mr . Webster has not impugned it . The rein . lutionwas voted by eight persons , and no m , James Leeson . —His letter is forwarded . Chable 3 Stead . —In the National Charter Asxxfo lion there is no such distinction of offices < m * & cretary , " and" Corresponding Secretary ; " ^ every heal and separate body of Chartists mm have what offices they please . The Marylebone Election of Delegates . - ^ do not conceive that any goad can come oj p « j , lishing the letter from several members «/ jj . Committee , which we have received . We gtu Mr . Farrar ' s contradiction to the aUegedfutL and we do not think reasonable men can reman morfi , especially as the mailer is now o « r ^ done with
5 . Peabce . —Never mind the chattering fools . Z them lie till they are hoarse . W . H . Dyott begs lo intimate la his English CharRtt friends , that there has been a wceful absence of &rh . R-light lately in Ireland . In a politicalsinsi Egyptian bondage , and Egyptian darknei& \^ prevail in Ireland . The rays of the Star toujjj do much to dissipate the latter , and light JotIrith men , too poor to purchase , the true rood lo freedom . The address required by the South Wales delegoit ^ . Mr . J . H . Clarke , Surveyor , Ledbury , flert / onj . shire .
Mb . J . Sweet , of Nottingham , is still agent for ( fo Northern and Evening Stars ; he also % j j , acknowledge the receipt of id . from Bleakfo& Buildings , for Mrs . Ellis , and trusts that them of Nottingham , and its neighbourhood , wiMfop ward their subscriptions without delay . The Chartists of Northumberland and Durham , ^ respectfully informed by JamesSincfair , t hatttty communication to him-after the 2 nd ofFebrimj i should be directed to James Sinclair , News Aynl , Chartist Depot , 25 , High-bridge , Newcastle . Bbadford— Stabs to Ireland . —Mr . Joseph AUsrbon calls the attention of the Bradford Charttit to the fact , that very few Stars are now recetwi by the Council for Ireland . We hope with hm that this remissness will be immediately reni ^ iti Manchester . —The cloihes raffle next week .
Mb . Con Murray wishes us to stale that lit friends corresponding with him between this and the ith of February , may address to the can oj Mr . William Smith , 52 , New Market , Neucdslkupon-Tyne ; between the ith and 12 th , kMt James Arthur , bookseller , Rlcker-gate , CatMff after which he goes into Scotland . Thomas Davies . —An " Appeal lo Patriotism ixi Humanity" next week , S . C . S . — Upwards of 20 is above 20 . Cmmlyow fingers . Suffering Humanity . —Their communudmi
John Screaton , Lambley , Notts , and A Fribtom are received , and shall have attention . Manchester Packer . —Next week . Northwich Chabtists . — We really cannot teiltch the 5 s . was not acknowledged in the balance ; thq had better ask Sir John Campbell .
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FOR THE NATIONAL DEFENCE FTOD . £ . it From Mauchline , per John Cunningham ... 0 15 0 Hunslet , per Mr . Longbottom ... 0 10 0 ~ We Smith , New Pitaligo , Aberdeen 0 i 2 FROM THE SOMER 8 TOWN VICTIM COMMITTEB . For Mrs . Roberts , of Birmingham 0 5 0 ~ Mrs . Wild , of Mottram 0 fr 0 ~ Fund for locating Mrs . Ellis 0 5 0 FOR MRS . ELLIS . From Joseph Smith , Hunslet 0 0 $ ~ William Richard , Bedford 0 10 ~ The Chartists of Brighton , meeting f at the Cap of Liberty , per Mr . Flower ... ... 0 6 0
FOB WIDOW RUSSELL , OF NOTTINGHAH . From the Chartists of Brighton , meeting at the Cap of Liberty , per Wm . Flower ... 0 B *
The Northern Star. Saturday, January 28, 1843.
THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , JANUARY 28 , 1843 .
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J Stiven , France . —Eleven shillings and Sevanpewe halfpenny . F . Skillicorn . —We can send the Plates by port fa 6 d , or we can forward them to London , cits i Mr . Cleave . W . ThojiaS , Merthvb . Tydvil . —Apply toD . Mor gan , Malt Mill Square , Merthyr TidVfl , fh » receives tbe Stars regularly for sale . J . Skidmoke . —The Plates are sent to Mr . Haraw . '
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THE ROYAL VISIT TO IRELAND . Her most giaciou 3 Majesty the Queen and her illustrious Consort , the young gentleman who does Great Britain the honour to receive his pay , have announced their intention of visiting the Metropolis of the Emerald Isle ; but for what purpose the deponents say not . On this , we suppose we must Guess , as tbe Yankies say . We opine that it is not for the purpose of alleviating the sufferings of the
two millions three hundred thousand poor victims of misrule , who are perishing in that ill-fated land , for want of the common necessaries of life . No , no ; the Queen and M Albert dear ! " know nothing of all these things . They wallow in profusion at the expence of an oppressed people , and they are too short sighted to see beyond tbe preoints of the Palace . u Majesty , " say the . organB of the Court , M desires her visit to be as public as possible "; which is tantamount to telling Mick and Norah to mount
the chimney-tops and make the welkin ring in praise of the superlative condescension of the illustrious pair . Punch and Judy wast to be seen , and to Bee if folly still holds dominion over the minds of the Irifih people . We trust that the sons of Erin will satisfy the admirers of monkeys , parrots , and dogs , that they are not the asses they would have them to be .
We trust they will avail themselves of this opportnnity to show those sporters of borrowed plumes the manifold . evils resulting from the extravagance of misrula ; and that they will also give them to understand that they are not the dolts to believe that empty pageantry and tom-foolery , —though conveyed to their shores in a bran new yacht , —will give them better food , better clothing , or more comfortable dwellings .
Wealth , wrung from the bowels of poverty , may be displayed by Punch and Judy and their retinue , kut the lot of the poor of Ireland will still be starvation . Sea-weed , [ offa ] , and " the infernal root , " must remain their dish until the system of misrule be annihilated . Flatterers may dilate on the beanty of the sovereign ; sycophants may talk of her amiable disposition ; bnt the one would be more enhanced in our estimation , and the other would be better exemplified by administering to the necessities of the poor than by exhibitions of consummate folly , intended , "no doubt , to feed the unfortunate passion for display of a too-long infatuated people .
The men of Ireland ought to tell the advisers of royalty that they want not raree-show but the comforts of life ; and that it would be far better for the nation if some women would learn to knit socks for their children and mend their own stockings , rather than go jaunting about at other people's expence ; and some men betake themselves to some honest occupation , rather than pocket other men's hard earnings for merely enlarging the brood of idlers , attending majesty J when taking an airing and feeding royal whelp ? . Won ' t Ireland have a treat ?!
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MIDLLE CLASS BENEVOLENCE , ' We are informed , on the best possible authority , that a firmi whose establishment is not one hundred miles from Mabgate , in this town , and who work on material no'less hard than iron , wish to be thought benevolent , ! and to have their names published as men who commisserate the starving condition of the destitute poor . At present , we will not gratify the zsst of those very benevolent gentlemen , by publishing their names —but , on a repetition of their disinterestedness , we may do so .
We now merely state their method of " raising the wind . " One day , last week , they intimated the necessity of their men subscribing one shilling each in aid of the Public Soup Kitohen . This call the men did not feel disposed to respond to , for one very substantial reason—namely , that their wages had been recently reduced , and , consequently , they thought oharity was rt quired at home . However , on Saturday night last a paper was handed to the men , and , nolens volens , the shilling must be paid .
This act needs no comment . It is quite in keeping with the class , aud is a very genteel way of obtaining notoriety as a charitable and liberal firm . No doubt , the Bashaws of the establishment will lay all claim to the generous act . We have heard of aid being rendered , in this neighbourhood , by the same means , to the Missionary and Bible Societies . What purity of Christian principle !
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son whose corn and mill were destroyed by fare , as reported in the- Star . ot the 14 th , died suddenly while superintending his men , who were clearing away the ruins of tbe mill , and preparing for its rebuilding . It appears that the deceased left home in his chaise , about one o ' clock on Thursday , apparently ia good health , and after remaining a short time with the men ! he retired to a stable on the premises , where , in a few minutes after , he was found by one of the workmen lying aoross some sacks quite dead .
Dorking, Surrey.—Mr. Bravery, The Per-
DORKING , Surrey . —Mr . Bravery , the per-
P Grimshaw And Co., 10, Goree K«As» V. Liverpool, Despatch Fine First Class
p GRIMSHAW AND CO ., 10 , Goree K « as » V . Liverpool , Despatch fine FIRST CLASS
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 28, 1843, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct466/page/4/
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