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Edited by James Napier Bailey . And Published by ihe " Society for the encouragement of Socialist and Democratic Literature . " Contents : —Fanaticism—Lelia , a Tale , by George Sand—The Magna Charta of the People : an appeal on behalf of Union—Extract from an Unpublished Work of Paroy Bysshe Shelley . J . Watson , 5 , Paul's Alley , Paternoster Row ; and , all Booksellers .
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CLASS-MADE LAWS HAVE MADE THEIR VICTIMS : LET US ENDEAVOUR TO RELEASE THEM . Fellow Working Men ,- " > WHEN I sent the Advertisement to be Published , which has appeared for the last few weeks , and which Btates that I am willing to give four shillings to the Executive and one shilling to the Victim Fund out of every one hundred pounds weight of beverage , I say , my friends , at that time it struck me very forcibly that the Victim Fund stood much need of augmenting , and I think so still
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jHB EDIXOB OF THB " KORTHERN STAB" TO HIS HEADERS . jiV Peiesds—On VbB first page of ftiB present nmnv er of ike S * ar » y ° B hsTe a letter ftxJm 2 ax > Ottonnor , jujod a matter -jrlocb I am -wIlliBg to believe must haTe j ^ jome snfiaentiy distasteful to von . 31 * . O'Connor Toy properly seeks to set himself , - » - Qg js anxioas not to be misnuderatood ; not to v e msfie to occupy a false position . He is right lam equa lly anxious that , so far as I can hE 3 p it , neither he sor any o * " * man ifconld occupy a false position , or a — ¦ ' ' " ——
position to which he Is not entitled- 1 therefore very ^" jially corroborate Mr . O'Connor ' s statement , that je has been no party to any sy ! lab ] e that I have ^ ji iign npon the condnct of fee Executive ; on the cfx &arj , is has always , in his private conversations -th me , held a similar tone to that of his letter . Sat tria ls 3 cheerfully do this jnstica to Mr . O'Connor , 1 nms t also require justice for myself ; both from him sod from yon . 2 claim the right of an opinion upon all Ba iters of public interest ; a right which J concede to erajwsn and -srffl yield to no man .
j thiut Mr . O'Connor in error , in supposing that my jemarfc s npon the proposed appointment of a new jgneial secretary vere xaleniated to place him at all in fte Egbi in -which he seems to think they might place fcjm- eer tsiidy they were not so intended . Mi . O Conjgj met and aetei iritb Mr . Leach at a pnblic meeting , as an opponent of the Anti-Corn law League ; and he -aHTOlimenced him npon his talent and his honesty . I T , ot aware that either the talent or the honesty of leach , as an opponent of the Anti-Corn Law rJ gne , has erer been disputed . Bat both the talent —& tfcs h onesty of the Executive , in their capacity
pf aa Executive ., have been disputed ; and they v-yelicen by a very large portion of their constituents ^ Sea npon to resign : but , though the gross charges ^ jjj st them have never been met , tw © © f them , B , contempt of these charges , and in defiance of fte caU o ? ^ constituents to resign , still retain ^ sj ^ Ih 5 s I t ^ ld to be utterly incompatible -with rt uriiji p rinciple ; and it was in reference to this that I ., ataman conld be expected to associate himself - jaaaB on She Executive , until they had first cleared -asgrdsratterB . I saysostffl . But 3 Ir . Leach may be tbtt b oost * ^ Teiy t 3 * ^ & * opponent of the
ibS-CoR *** League , and yet very dishonest and --ar iMompetent as a member of the people ' s Execug ^ . la the former capacity , I have never said a lord to fc ^ disparag ement ; in the latter rapacity 1 hare brought no charge against him , individually ; I tire merely impeached him as a party to the acts of & £ Executive as a whole body . Mr . Leach has never fliscl aiiaed any of thB acts ol the Executive as a body ; 3 » sn bound therefore to suppose that he consented to them all ; and 1 hold every man responsible for every act to which he consents . I am made
to know , to my « at , that the law holds a man j 6 gponsWe for acts te which he did not consent : but I So not apply that doctrine to Mr . Leach ; I charge npon him ody the things to which hB did consent . Of the paKk ads and condnct of the Executive , I have not a scgle word to retract of all that I have Bid . 1 have said nothing without due thought and rsBsiaeration . I have said nothing foi » Mch I have not given proofs as I have gone along . I hive said nothing which I am not prepared to rob-* u tate before a public meeting , though I deny the Bght of any party to require me to do so . I have no ¦ gi sh to interfere with Mr . O'Connor ' s judgment : he has « much right to his opinion as I have to mine . To bis criHrisni on my mode of expressing my opinion of the
Ixeentive , I havs tk > reply to make : I am a plain Bin and call a spade a spade . But though I respect Mr . O'Connor as much as any man ought to respect him , I lespeet yon and the cause of Chartism stall more ; and Imttr t beg that in this matter , which is most essential aaaimporant to your interests , you will not permit your personal regard lor him to blind you to the merits of the cuse ; Jhat yon wHliom yonr own judgment by the facts and by the evidence and not by the opinion of any man . 1 lave never asied you to take my opinion upon any siiject , further fft I supported my opinion by proofs 1 fio not ask jot to 3 o so now . I ask you , as I always have doae , to form yonr own judgment of ths case npon jit own maHts , independent of any other consideration caterer ; and I blame you far not having , long since ,
deKrsed ttatjndgmeatBo generally and bo conclusively at to predsde farther bickering . There uffineii in Mr , OXkBrnofs letter to "which it ToolZ bevery easy for me to reply ; but I have do decn to keep up the jar . I Is&ve : nevei had . s » y sncb . ctere . If the charges against tie Executive had been B& st first by fair , argument , simple explanation , or aa £ a acknowledgment , instead of personal abuse and isSablj falsa counter accusations , there would never fare been any jar at all j the whole matter would have ben been settled very speedily and very quietly . Hie blame of its not having been so , belongs not to me .
Jal to those who found it more convenient to keep np the tomoU by attacking others , than to settle it by flpfcmfjTig themselves . Justice , however , compels las to say that I think Mr . O'Connor ' s strictures on Hz . John Watkitfa letter mnch more unnecessarily KToe fh *™ anything that 2 di . Watkin ' s has written apinst the Executfrrs . Mr . Watkins iss man who has aons much Bervice , and sndnred much suffering in the tsnii 1 know no t ™ t » in ths whole movement who baigiTenmore decided evidence » f his thorongb devttedn&BS to Chartism * h « n John TTatkins . I know no
au is the whole movement more folly entitled to the people ' s good opinion and their thanks . 1 know no San in ths whole movement who has preserved &TGQghout bis "ahole career a more stern honesty , ud a more strict and honourable adherence to principle « aa conssteney tfean John Wattans . I do not say that Ob opinions are , therefare , entitled to any other weight ¦ fiaa that which they may have from the reasons * pon which they are lonnded ; bet I do say that these things ought to induce us to examine those rea-* m wellbi 2 arew . e censure him either for ike holding fir She expressien of his opinions .
I am as tired of seeing the discussion in the Star as Mr . O'Connor or yon can be . I -had closed the columns t 4 &e 5 to-against its further continuance some weeks - * £ & This did not sdt the Executive . Their friends * fcn » d me for it ; and they themselves procured them to itreope sed fax it , by applying t * Mr . O'Connor and obiainmg his pledge to that effect , at Birmingham . I do not think that Mr . O'Connor acted wisely , or rightly ^ ia grrmg that pledge j but when informed by himself « st he hid done bo , 1 did not choose to give cause for » aag thought obstinate or factious . I am now anxious , a » 3 always havebfcen . to haTe done mth it . I kave
^ ° M my duty in it - ana j fcayg dOBe do more t > t « n my ^ SJ' The duty w ^ s a most unpleasant and a painful « te ; bat it wss a duty , and I have done it I cordially &naa in the opinion of Mr- O'Connor , that it is time&r & V > be utterly exUuosd from the Star , and I therefore eu TEti Tepress tiie publication of Eeveral communi-** Sodb , —one of them a most important and arjumen-*« rn letter , which 1 have bad by me some -weeka , and « e a £ Qvaiof which has written to me three times . Te' ' ^^ its publicafion . I will not publisi anyUiing
^^ ^ P the matter from any parties whatever . The * &&& of the Northern Star may perfectly rely upon » J promise that its columns shall be no further occu-P »* -wi th this subject ; and my chief reason for this fl tfenmation is that the continance of the controversy b !^ * ' - ^ s tbat 6 an ** doDe l > yn «» t » en dons . The people ' s minda have been ^ tfirected ^^^ fac t *; and they will use their infor-7 ~** I ( a tbwr future guidance . Thai , the " ^ cce of the mis chief may Ije prevented ; and * " * " * 1 that 1 wish for .
« m charge by some with having beenactnated in this ^ j ^ a fleBandstionB by personal motives . I declare ^|® « JQai 1 fcaTe not ; that therftisever has been a man tfiJ __*^ e Ch irtut movement against whom I ever ^^^ iidntilla of perso nal ill feeling ; and that , H ^ , ^ ° * » there have been no more ttian three men bea ^ T ^ Mn the movement , whom 3 have ever \ t bo , ^ T ** t 1 " ^ politically . One or these three f » a ug ~^^ out of the movement , and the other ff lyp ^^ 1 ^ 7 have been ever since 1 knew them , ^^ TheS fi 5 fiOds - 31 iere was , therefore , no possibility * & « e 1 sri S Clllated i * peisonal mofivea , even if my ^ Jtere b a P ^ tf it , which I hope it is not .
&Ji » r ^ * ^ regard as a brother , and whom I Jo j ^ . / j ^ ^^ upon every opportunity of serving fe PriEd T ? Smmmi ** itnuence , nntil my regard ^ btsT " ^ P ? 16 ' « H"se cried ' ¦ halt" This I fcar . g ^* coar « > = Ed I trust it ever wHl be . *** 3 hark * ' MgI 7 icflhi Z' &ongb 1 ca ^ ot k * J 2 i 3 l *» L > ? f ^ ° P ^ - Their oirn conduct *—¦ cj . ui . ou ¦ aj . -oa ins , withon .: any cunicn ;
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on my part ; for I would mnch rather have been able to think differently . However , as I have often asaid before , I now « ay again ; the chief thing the people have to do is to let the past be s beacon for the future , and to watch better hereafter , those whom they install in office , tliat this disagreeable dutymay not again devolve on me . And now , before taking leave of the subject , a word or two about the " counter accusations . " There has been a great deal said about ' plots and conspiracies " against the Executive ; a great deal about some letter or letters from Leeds , sometime abonfc the time of Cooper ' s being here , last summer ; about a letter from
Hull , affirming that the Hnll Chartists were about to pass the Balance Sheet , When I came into the room and put a stop to it ; and about an extract of a letter from Cooper to Mead , written in July last , which was stolen from Mead , the week before Christmas , at Hull , by a man named Fraser , and which has been since printed and circulated all over the country as proof of my being concerned in the alleged " conspiracy . " Now , nret , as to Caper ' s letter to Mead . Leach and others are now most industriously affirming this to be one of the letters to which he he alluded at the South Lancashire delegate meeting . Kow , in the first place , neither Leach nor any other member of the Executive knew of the existence of that
letter , any more than I did , until the week before Christmas . It was b private letter from Coaper to Mead ; it was shown by Mead , while at Hull , to Fraser , who seeing a paragraph of which ha thought a villanous use could be made , contrived to steal it ; it was directly after printed , and has made no small stir in a little way ever since . Here is Mead ' s own explanation of the manner in which it waa obtained , —sent to me for publication .- — " The paragraph which Mr . Fraser in such a very unhandsome manner extracted from a private , letter without leave or licence , cannot implicate me in any conspiracy ; and being written so long back as July last , could not , I conceive , implicate Mr . Cooper in
the present afiaii of defalcation , because at that time a knowledge of it did not exist Mr . Fraser came to me as a brother , and as such I received him ; and with my Chartist brethren 1 am above suspicion of any mean or sinister designs . 1 did not tben know that he belonged to the discontented clique in HulL j scarcely knew there was any dispute between Mr . Hill and Messrs . Padget and Co . I prized Cooper ' s letters , and those of Oastler , as so many portraits of the minds of their respective writers , and as such 1 showed them to "Mr . Fraser , and so little did I notice the 7 neanly extracted paragraph , even when I received the letter , that 1 never even mentioned it at Nottingham or elsewhere . "
You see , therefore , that this could not have been one ol the letters alluded U > by Mr . Leach , at t&e South Lancashire delegate meeting in November ; because Mr . Leach could not then have known of its existence . But supposing it had been one of them , how does it affect me ! The extract is as follows : — " Yon will see how we have spoken out abont the humbug Executive . George and Julian , with tht Editor at Leeds , and our Generalissivio , all go with rnc I give yon the hint . Johnny Campbell w O'Brienizing , he must be stopped , or we shall all strike on the breakers together ; jjet your Notts chapB to approve of the resolutions of our delegate meeting . "
Now the only part of this which can affect me ia that which is printed in italics ; and the question is in tchat did I " go with" Mr . Cooper ? Now I have before stated that when Mr . Cooper was at Leeds he named to me bis scheme of an Annual Convention ; and that I approved the idea , though 1 doubted its practicability under existing laws . If Mr . Cooper had meant anything more , or anything other , than simply this , when he spoke of my " going with" him , he would have been guilty of gross falsehood in asserting it As far as this goes , I dirt " go with" him , bat in do other way . So far from plotting with him against the Executive , 1 earnestly nrged him to use his influence with the
Leicestershire delegates not to make any public attack upon the Executive , but to write to them privately , as we had done at HulL After the factious publication of this extract , I wrote to Mr . Cooper , informing him of the use that was being made of it , and requesting him , as an act of justice both to himself and me , to write a letter for the Star , Htating truly and exactly what it did refer to . For some reason best known to himself , Mr . Cooper did not think proper to do this . However , when plainly asked the question by Mr . O'Connor at Birmingham , he did give his testimony to the truth , as appears by the . following paragraph in the report of the meeting called by the Executive : —
" Aye , said Mr . O'Connor , that is just the thing . A more dastardly production never appeared . Here stands Mr . Cooper and here am I , and now I ask him if my acquiescence or if the acquiescence of "the Editor at Leeds * or of the other parties , in bis suggestion amounted to more than this : —Mr . Cooper suggested the propriety * of selecting five business men from an annual convention , who should act as an Executive ; he said he did so because not one half of those who voted knew
anything about the business habits of the men put in nomination , whereas , all elected aa delegates , would have the confidence of the country , while the Cnventlon wonld be the best judges of their business habits , and could suggest the names of such men to the people—( hear , hear , and cheers . Now will Mr . Coeper say that my agreement or that of the Editor with him went further than tbii ? " Mr . Cooper . —Certainly not "—( cheers . )
I have & letter from Mr . Cooper now by me confirming the truth of this statement . So much , then , for the proof which this extract affords of the " plotting and conspiracy" charges against me ; and of the veracity of thosa who make them . ' Now for the letter or letters from Leeds . € > f these I know nothing . I do not say that there may not have been letters sent from Leeds . I do not say tbat these letters may not have aUuded to some plot or conspiracy against the Executive . I do not £ eny this ^ because I know nothing about it It may or may not have been so . I am no way concerned in it . Bat here are the words which concern me : —
" The Execut ive received letters from various parts , informing us that a conspiracy was being formed against them , and particularly a letter from Leeds , which stated that Mr . Hill and othira agreed there in a certain bouse , to pursue a certain course of condnct aaainst the Executive , the basis ol which was^—that the character of the Executive teas to be sufficiently shaken in private , an 3 then by a simultaneous public assault ' . !" * * Here , then , is the direct charge against me ; and this has been repeated and reiterated again , and again , and again . It is , in fact , the constant thema of invective . It is the Executive ' s defence . Now I do say that if
the Executive have received any letter containing this statement , the writer of that letter is a liar . I h 3 ve not ceased to call for the publication of tbis letter , and of the writer ' s name , ever since the statement was first published . And I have a right to demand that after my solemn denial the people shall refuse to hear this charge repeated in my absence nntil it BhaO have been sustained by the publication of the letter , with the Tenter ' s name . Then with respect to the letter said to have been received from Hull -, I most again bring to your recollection the resolutions both of the Oouneil and of the body of the Hull Ch&rtista . The resolution of the CoundllorB contains thess words : —
" That the General Councillors resident in HulL having seen a statement in the Star attributed to Mr . James Leach , of Manchester , that ' in the month of July lastthe Hull Chartista were about to pass the Balance Sheet , when Mr . Hill entered the room and put a stop to it ; and a friend that waspresentat that meeting wrote io Campbell , stating that there was a plot hatching against the Executive , * do most oneqnivorally and unqualifiedly" affirm tbis statement to befalBe : that there never was any such thing aa far as we know , as any body of Chartista belnit at tbat time about to pass the Balance Sheet and being stopped by Mr- Hill on bis coming into the room ; that Mr . Hill was not by any
means the first of the Hnll Councillors to start objections to that Balance 8 heet ; tbat the first council meeting to consider that Bslance Sheet was specially convened by Mr . Bobert Jackson , at the suggestion of ' several other councillors , and every councillor was pre- ' sent save one : that , notwithstanding oar just dissatis- j faction , there was not amongst n » any ' plot hatching ; against the Executive , * and that consequently no person could have truly sent to the Executive any letter to ; that effect ; that we , the councillors of Hull , are not in ¦ the habit of hatching plota , * but of speaking our minds freely epos such subjects as we have a right to take i
cognizance of ; that we are not in the habit of being led < by any individual , whether Mr . Hill or Mr . Leach , in the formation of -our opinions , but that we endeavour j to use our own judgment : and , farther , that we demand I from Mr- Leach or Mi . Campbell the publication of the ] letter which Mr . Leaeh BayB was received from a friend , j who waspresent at the meeting when the Hull Char- \ tisto were stopped from passing the Balance Sneet by Mr . Hill , together with the writer ' s name ; and that if this our demand be not complied with , we shall believe this fctatement of Mr . Leach ^ to have been invented either by ^ or Campbell- :
This was published in the A ' oraw "* 5 /« . of December 10 th , and the Star of December 24 th , contained a resoiari-m » f the ^ hole body < f the CfcurUrj of Hall , j of wliieb the follo-sios is part : — i
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" That we , the Hull Chartista , in general meeting of members assembled , have beard with surprise , a statement read from a late number of the Star , purporting to have emanated from Mr . Leach , at a meeting of South Lancashire delegates , that ' The Hull Chartists were abont to pass the Balance Sheet , when Mr . Hill entered the room , and put a stop to it ; ' and we hereby declare tbat that Balance Sheet was never submitted to the Hull Chartists , except individually , through the columns of the Northern Star . "
I suppose it needless for me to add anything in refutation of this charge . At the same meeting at which he made these " plotting and conspiracy ' statements , Mr . Leacb gave a grossly false version of a private conversation between him and me , in Mr . Hobson ' s kitchen ; manifestly for so other purpose than wantonly to injure me in the estimation of those to v ; hoi » be spofe ? , as a means of lessening the fores of my charges against himae-f and colleagues . I have publicly charged this wickedness upon Mr . Leach many times , and bo has not ventured even to deny it I am sorry that such
practices have been resorted to . Tbey compel me to a course which I would willingly have been excused adopting . But however others may affect to despise calumny , 2 cannot afford to do sd . I calumniate no man . I never in my whole life made a charge of any kind against any man without adducing my proofs at the same time . And I wonld despise myself as the veriest wretch alive , if I could bring a serious accusation against any man and refusa to give my authority for it when called for bat yet go on repeating the accusation .
I refer to these matters now because I know that this is the regular practice wherever the people will tolerate it I have a letter fr .-m Mr . Leach , received this week , in which he states his intention to bring np these and other such matterB at every pub'ic metiing he may hereafter attend . Now this can never hurt me , otherwise than as it Beriously hurts the cause by disgnsting and nauseating all decent men . I therefore remind the people—more for their own sakes than for mine , "that fair play is a jewel ' , and that I have as much right to it as any other man . I a . « k themnot to pay me any deference or to give me any
advantage—but to do justice ; and not to permit me to be wantonly calumniated in my absence . In what I have written upon the condnct of the Executive , I have not used the language of invective , bat of argument I have given proofs for every word . 1 gave fair and ample scope fox reply . I permitted them to say what they pleased in reply , however offensive and whether at all connected with the subject or not 1 answered their call for public discussion by a fair offar to meet them in their own town of Manchester and prove every
syllable I have charged against them . They have not accepted my offer . I challenged them to meet me before the pnblic and prove their charges against me . They have not accepted my challenge . I now repeat that I am ready at any time ( as soon as the necessary arrangement * can be made , as stated in my former letters , ) to meet any man in England , and prove my charges . I am ready , at any time , to meet any man in England who has any political charge to prefer against me ; let him but give me fair notice of his purpose , and tell me beforehand what I have to meet
I have now been before the public nearly fourteen years . Daring tbat time 1 have preserved , unbroken , my consistency , I have never yet found it necessary to eat my own words , to shrink from my own statements , or to- fly from the consequences of my own acts . I never yet found it necessary to deny , retract , or explain away , any single word that I ever said , or any single line that I ever wrote . I was never even required to retract an assertion tbat I had made . I hope always to preserve the same consistency . I ask
the people to give me fair play . I ask no mure , and I ask that—not so much for my own sake aa for theirs . I am tied here at the deak ; 1 can't run ali over the country to meetings . I have no other means of serving the people than through the columns of the Star . 1 have no other means of defending myself when nEJasUy attacked . It ia not too much , therefore , if when I tell the people that 1 will not hereafter employ these columns , even for my own defence , upon this subject I at the same time reqaire them to sec that that circumstance be not taken an unfair
advantage of . A In order thatthe people may have the whole merits of the whole question of this Executive business fairly before them atone view , I shall shortly publish the whole discussion in a pamphlet Io that pamphlet I will deal fairly . It shall not be a one-sided thing ; I will not pnblieb my own comments alone , but I will also give all the letters , statements , and explanations of the several members of the Executive that have been
published ; bo that the whole tbing may be seen fairly . My object and my wish is that the men should receive no injustice ; that they should be fairly known and fully understood , and fairly dealt with , by the people . I have no anger against any of them ; but I have a full determination , while I have any influence with the people , to use it not only for the advancement of our principles among those who do not recegnise them , but for their enforcement amonc those who do .
One more word and I have done , Mr . O'Connor says that if the letters of the Bull Councillors had been written for publication , the Executive should have been warned of it They were not written for publication ; had they been so , they would have been published at the time . Their very style and tone tells that they were intended only as private remonstrances : had they been heeded as such , all this " hubbub" would have been spared . It was the subsequent conduct of the Executive which rendered their publication necessary . And now , my friends , I have done with this snbject The whole thing is in youi hands , and you will deal with it as yon please . I am , as I have ever been , Your faithful friend and servant , William Hill . "Northern Star" Office , Leeds . February 1 , 1843 .
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Metropolitan Victim Committee . —We have received their address , but cannot insert it . Like appeals from every locality having victims would Jill up almost the entire Star ; and , it nnyshouldbe admitted , we could deny none without rendering ourselves liable io be charged with partiality . The Star is a national organ ; and tee think its columns , therefore , a fair channel for general appeals on behalf of all the victims , but not f or special and local ones for particular cases ; unless indeed their individual cases have something peculiar about them so as to give them a fair claim to more than common interest . Bihmisgham- —Mks . Robebts ' s Fvnd . —AH communications , in future , for Mrs . Roberts' Committee , must be addressed for John Newhouse , secretary No . 11 . Upper Tower-street , Birmingham ; Mr . Charles Thorp having resigned acting as secretary . Will Mb . Bbopht send his address Io W . Dove ,
Nottingham ? Ws . HiGGiHBOTTOM , and OTHEBS . — We have sent their letter to Mr . O'Connor . A Stanch Oastlebitb , Bradford . —Never mmd the brawlers : we have no room to waste on them . B . S .-Queries-l , Yes ; 2 , No ; 3 , false . "Wm . Emebson . —It was neither of them . T . M . Whkeleb . —The answer to Ihe Enigma next week . Chartist Addresses . — W ; have received several oj these , this week , from different places , and on different subjects . We have not room for any of them .
R . Knowles . —No room , A Poob Chartu > t . — "Don ' t you wish you may yet it ? " j J . Bbown . —The case of Mrs . Ellis is sufficiently well known to the Chartist public : it is not eloquence , but money , that is wanted for her . S . J ., Bbistol . —His letter on organization was received . One of his recommendations would vio- ] late the law ; the other use wishJiis permission to embody in our next article on the subject . He j will see that we have , in our present number , j inserted his letter on the Benefit Society . Ms other letters we shall be glad to receive , and to
insert as we may have room . Thanks for the paper he sent us , and for similar favours heretofore . Will Mb . Wm . Jones , of Liverpool , send his address to James Atkinson , 17 , Plough-court , Fetter-lane , Hotborn , as he wishes to communicate with him f Rjchab » Hawjkins , New Inn Yard , Nottingham , makes the same request . John Skebwtt , - Nottixgham .. — We never saw the notices he writes so warmly about . As Mb . John West is now residing in Hull , all communications for him must be addressed , care of Mr . Seward , Carton's Entrf / , Market-place ,
Hull . John Robinson would suggest to the Chartists oj Manchester the iiUu vf yetting up a play for the benefit of the Jjefei . ce Fund , an * i-ffcrs to gitc hii persona : u * . -i * iance in the gelling oj it out .
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Joseph Goodsl— All the fellow wants is to provoke us into a controivrsy to bring his paper into note . We shall not gratify him . Mobb Middle Class Sympathy . — We team from a Correspondent at Ma , 'lock , in Somersetshire , that it is a general custom smong the opulent of that parish to sell coals to the poor , at half price , at Christmas . Friday , Ja nuary 6 th , was the day announced for the poor t v assemble , at the house of one of the contributor ' $ , to receive a ticket each to procure the coalsprovided the
contri-, butor thought them entitled to the same . The tickets were given to all that made application out two , Samuel Maunder , aged eighty-four years , and Hannah Rayson . The reasons being , that Samuel Maunder allowed his grandson , a Cbartiat , to live in his house , cend to offe r fo r *«/ , ia his window , such publications as alluded to the " wicked principles' of the Chartists . They felt it a duly incumbent upon them to refuse Samuel Maunder a ticket so long as he encouraged such wickedness in his house .
Oua Week ' s Correspondence . — }^ received on Thursday morning a vaU amount of correspondence which we h , ve not had even time to read . It is reserved for another opportunity , n-hen such as may be necessary wilt be inserted . We wish we could ever get our numerous correspondents to send us their favours a day or two earlier in the week , be fore Ike columns of the Star are pre occupied . We have been obliged to curtail all reports so received that we have made any use of . Thomas Clarke , Stockpdrt . —We received his reguest at too late an hour to be attended to . Bolton Chartists . —Send the resolution to Isaac Barrow , by letter . J . H . —Thanks .
Edinburgh . —The long report of the proceedings of a meeting held on the 19 th of January is of no use to us on the 2 nd of February . Reports , to be of any value , should be sent at the time the meetings are held . P . O'HiGGiNS . —We did not preserve Ike report he alludes to ; we most probably had good and sufficient reasons for curtailing it . We cannot get more into the Star , than the columns will contain .
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Me . Sykes , AlMONDiiuiu . —The letter received , dated January 31 st , and posted at Huddersfield , February 1 st , was not prepaid . Mr . N . Greaien . —Both the last remittances have been but 53 each . Mr . Ro « E , Northwich . —The Petition Plates are at Mr . Heywood ' s . Mr . Fletcher , —The 10 s . from Colchester should have been Brightlingaea , near Colchester . E . Spencer , Melksham . —If the 5 a . has not been noticed , it has not been received at this office . Thomas Holbrook . —Yes . Dunfermliwe . —The persons writing from this plaee can have the Plates by sending 10 s ., and saying who the the parcel is to ba addressed to .
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FOR THE NATIONAL DEFENCE FOND . £ a . d . From Bobert Hutchin , flixdresser , America 0 4 0 „ tiie female operatives at the Fabric , Boulogne-sur-Mer , Franco ... 0 14 4 ^ „ the Chartists of West KUbride , proceeds of a rafflj for the Petition Plate ... 0 4 4 . J _ T . B Hylton , per J . Williams ... 0 16 „ a few friends at Easington-lane , per J . Hunter 0 6 10 J ^ J , Williams ( donation ) ... ... 0 1 7 h „ James Norman , Leeds o 0 6
FOR MRS . ELLIS . From the Chartists of Newport , Isle of Wight ... ~ fl 10 0 „ the Chartists of Leeds Oil 1 „ a female friend at Bampton , per Mr . Spencer ... 0 1 o FOR MRS . ROBERTS . From the Chartists of Newport , Isle of Wight ... 0 5 0 „ the Chartists of HuddersfleU , per J . Chapman 0 5 6
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BRADFORD . [ From Out Evening Star . ) Bradford having responded to the general call to send delegates to the Conference lately held at Birmingham , and further having resisted the insidious schemes of Bome of those Chartists' into whose eyes a portion of the League gold . dnst had been thrown , by refasing to elect & " whole hog , ' * and two " sacking pig" Chartists , Mr . O'Connor visited the tovn on Friday last , for the purpose of reimbursing the fond out of which the expenses of Bending those delegates had been taken . The working men having heard of Mr . O'Condor ' s intended visit , issued circulars challenging the League to discussion .
At eight o ' clock , the time at which business was to commence , the Social Institution , an immense Ball , capable of holding from 2 , 000 to 3 , 000 persons , was not only wedged in every part , bat the stain , staircases and every avenue was literally blocked up , so that when Mr . O'Connor arrived at the entrance , it was with difficulty be could be forced through the dense mass . In fact , we presume that even our short-sighted friend of the Observer will admit , that so crowded a meeting never has been seen in this town . After Mr . O'Connor had concluded an address , under the several heada set forth in the bill calling the meeting , and having laid bis views upon the subject of free trade and the land clearly before the meeting , and when the resolution passed at Manchester , Rochdale , Ashton , Stalybridge and Bolton was proposed and seconded , and without anyprevious notice whatever to Mr . O'Connor or the Chartists , a
Mr . SMEDHi ' RST got up , and after attempting for three gnartera of an hour to grapple with tbe arguments of Mr . O'Conuor , he proposed , as an amendment to tke resolution , " That a repeal of the Corn Laws Would be a positive benefit to th « shepkeepingand working classes . ' Preserving tbe latter part , which went to pledge the meeting not to join in any agitation for a repeal of the Income Tax . Mr . C . WiLSON seconded the amendment . Mr . Hodgsoh , oueof the four delegates to the first Birmingham Conference , moved , and Mr . Fletcher seconded , another amendment , " That that meeting send no resolutions to Parliament , for or against tbe repeal of the Cora Laws .
In the course of his speech Mr . Hodgson read an article from the Evening Star of the 17 th of Oct ., which he declared was in favour of a repeal of the Corn Laws , and , as Mr . O'Connor was the editor , of coarse he was the writer . Mr . Hodgson and Mr . Fletcher were received by their brother working men with universal and almost continuous disapprobation from the beginning to the end of their appeals . Mr . H . stated , that Mr . O Connor would noti dare to suggest a petition to th - meeting founded upon the resolutions , and why stop the resolutions , and contended that the people should go on for the Charter , without reference to the agitation for the Ltazue .
Mr . O'CONNOB very briefly replied to all the arguments of both parties . In answer to the charge of having advocated the repeal of the Corn L » wa , in the Evening Si * r , or any other paper ,, be defied any man to show a line having that tendency . " Facts were chieis tbat wirina ding , " as - Burns said , and bo were dates . With respect to the article in the Evening Star of tbe 17 th of October , and referred to by Mr . Hodgson , the date was a fact that " winna ding . " On tbe 17 th of October , Mr . O'Connor waa in his bed , and bis doctor was in Liverpool ready to swear to his incapacity from Ulness to move ; but that should not be his only answer , be would pledge himself to place the assurance of the Proprietor in the hands of their Secretary , that he I Mr . O'Connor ) neither saw , wrote , nor heard of the article referred to—( long-continued cheering followed this announcement ) Mr . O'Cnmor then referred , in no measured
terms , to the part acted by some Chartists whf > had become freetraders fora job ; and now , said he , let us just inquira into the whys and the wherefores of thin said resolution : all would admit that the Chartist cause must be kept alive , and before tbe public . All would admit that it was not practicable to get op a petition this session , declaring our strength and determination . In this state Acland and Cobden for the League bad gone through the country , declaring that the Chartists were down , and bad joined the League—( hear , hear ) . The press re-echoed this , snd the cause was likely to be damaged should the Chartista or the House of Commons believe the assertion . Here , then , was the only moda of giving a flat contradiction to the falsehood —{ load cheers ) , —here was the cheapest way of keeping Chartism alive and unsullied , and of defending tbe people from the charges that would otherwise be unquestionably made in the House by Cobien aad Co—( renewed cheers ) .
After tbe close of Mr . O'Connor ' s address , the several resolutions and amendments ware severally pat by the Chairman , when about twenty bonds ware held up for that of Mr . Smedhorat , and a forest against it . The amendment of Mr . Hodgson received precisely a similar fate ; aud upon the original resolution being put , the whole meeting , with tbe exception of about thirty , held up their hands , and it was declared carried , amid thunders of applause ; and thus were the machinations of the repealers undisguised aud the repealers disguised frustrated in Bradford .
The resolution tbat tbe foregoing fee transmitted to Mr . Duncombe , signed by the Chairman , as the resolution of the meeting , and to be presented by him to tbe Uousa of Commons , was than put and carried : and that pledging tho people to suppon , the Evening , S <« r wad carried vmiioui u single UiiSuuUfcHt .
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A unanimous vote of coafldetce in , and thanks to , Feirgus O'Connor , was then carriei by acclamation ; aa < i after a few words from that gentleman , the meetirg separated , and at twelve o'clock Mr . O'Connor started for Leeds .
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HTJDDER 5 F J E | d » . RECEPTION OF FBARGUS O'CONNOR . On Saturday ni ght laat we had a visit from Mr . O'Connor , when the Pailoaophicai Hall , the largest building in the town , was procured for the occasion . At eisht o ' clock , Mr . O'Connor accompanied by his friends , and preceded by a splendid band , left the Swan Hotel , and proceeded to the place of meeting . The gentleman , npon ascending the | platform , wa » most vociferously cheered , and shortly i after that uncompromising veteran , Mr . Vevers , w a ^ unanlmoasiy called to tbe chair ; who after a Boul-stirring appeal to his audience on behalf of their ri ghts and liberties , introduced Mr . O'Connor to the meeting . '
Mr . 0 Comkor spoke for two hours and forty minutes , replying to the fallacies of the Anti-Corn Law lecturers . He introduced the question now so prominently relied upon by the League tojsbelter themselves , namely , the immensely incre . tsud value given to agricultural aud landed property by the spread of manufactures . This position , said he , I an * not going to deny , but I am going to combat and to expose the League deductions , namely , that they , the landlords , have received this accession of wealth from profits unjustly withheld from rapitalists —( hear , hear . i I am going to admit tea foot , ' that landed property has received great augmentation from the increase of manufactures ; but I undertake to prove that the increase has come from the pockets of the people ,
and not from those of their masters—( loud cheers . ) Now the great augmentation to landed property eonsiste not in the increased value of farming land—( hear , hear ); the great increase has been derived from groundrents , where new towns have been built ; and houserent in towns which have been augmented in the number of inhabitants by the rapid increase of manufactures . Could I select a better jspot wberein to illustrate my argument than just where I now stand ? This town belongs to Sir John RamSden . Before you were drafted here , some ground for which now a large price is paid by the yard , was then let fora mere trifle by the acre—( bear , hear , and loud cheers . ) Now , then , who pays the ground-rent , and the house-rent , of every warehouse , mi ! I and shop , aud residence here ?—( We
do . ) Of course you do , and for the sas and oil—( cheers . ) Suppose there are four { thousand or five thousand , or an ; number of operatives' cottages let for ten pounds a-year , and worth but six pounds , who pays the whole , Firstly upon the six pounds , or official value —( laughter . ) Sir Jonn has his profit ; of ground rent ; and tben upon the house-rent the master has his profit of fourteen pounds a-year ; and thus I am ready to contend ana to prove , that while I admit the fact tbat Sir John Kamsden ' s property within fifty years has had an increase from the operation of manufactures by at least £ 70 , 000 a year , I will also contend , that on this increase the master * have had an increase on this article alone of three times that amount ( Cheers , and To be sure they have . ") This is ; a branch of the
whole question of free trade much relied upon by the League , who would blind us to their own active enormities by directing attention to the passive process by which landed property has been increased in value ; tbe fact being , that so long as you could bear the burden of both they never complained , but now that one or other must be taken from your shoulders , they Bay , "Oh , take the land-sharks by all means" —( cheers . ) Mr . O'Connor then went into tbe question of small masters , and showed the injury done % o society by the ruin of men whose interests were more nearly identified with those of their men , than those of tbe leviathan machine owners could possibly b « . Twenty years ago .
said he , there were 28 small masters in Paddock , an adjoining village ; they made from five to eight pieces of coarse kerseys a man , a-week , and they employed from nine to twenty-five hands . Now , where ate they ? —( " aye , indeed , " and cheers . ) I will tell you ; three out cf tbe twenty-eight are still struggling against smoke ; and tbe remnant of the capital of the remaining twenty-five , driven from the market , has been , for want of protection to them , transferred into joint-stock bank shares to consolidate a fund for the very mea who broke them to gamble upon —( cheers ) . ; Jossy Crossland has swallowed up the whole twenty-five , and now with less than half ths hands makes more in a week than
all the others made twenty years ago —( loud cbtevsK Why , then , do the shopkeepers of Paddock wonder at their impoverishment , which must continue till Mr . CrosslantVs mules and jennies and spindles are seen going on Saturday night into their shops for bread and cheese , and bacon , and bonnets , and niu £ F < t and boas , and tippets and caps , and ahoes and beds , and coats , and gloves , and watches —( laughter and cheers ) . Now , said Mr . O'Connor , will you hear the plain and simple fact from me ? Euglaud is at the present : moment like a large hotel in a watering-place or in a race town . It is built for the accommodation of the ; casual visitors only , and is empty during tbe recess . Tbe sudden and anomalous progress of manufactures produced as sudden and anomalous an increase In all those departments in
trade and commerce , and from whieb the increased luxuries were to be supplied . The new commercial society was an artificial society , and , ia fact , like the manufacturing department , become , from sudden demand , competitive in its transactions . | The great improvements in machinery , by degrees enabled tbe largest capitalists to drive the smaller J ones from tbe market ; and with every commercial failure , there came a corresponding ' sectional failure of that jelass employed ia producing or vending luxuries or necessaries —( cheers ) . The failure of a bank or of a large manufacturing concern at first but presents the single misfortune to you , whereas , taken in all its beariugs , it should present to you the failure of a corresponding portion of that society eetablished for the production and vending of those luxuries and necessaries —( cheers ) , j Thus like the
large hotel it is merry for a moment and dull for an hour . When times are said to mend , by the receipt of fresb orders from abroad , instead of those orders giving & yearly impetus to trade , or requiring more hands , they are perfected , as if by magic , and the hotel is again closed —( cheers ) . See how this shakes confidence ; at present the sum of 3 d . is demanded in Huddersfield for a Leeds £ 5 note before you get change for it , ( aye , 6 d . ); well , say 3 d ., and so of a Huddersaeld note in Leeds—( hear , hear , hear . ) Well , tben , why ? simply because gambling has rendered everything precarious and uncertain ; until , for the first time in this great nation , machinery has compelled the monarch to submit to a tax upon her income . ( Cheers . ) Now , do you understand me ? ( "Aye , every word of it , " and cheers . )
After a vote of thanks to Mr . O Connor , ami the veteran Chairman , the meeting broke up ; an < 3 at twelve o ' clock Mr . O'Connor departed far Normanton Station , seventeen miles , having spent the remainder of the evening in company with Mr . Pitkethly and bis friends .
SABBATH MEETING . On Monday night last , a public meeting was convened by the Rev . F . Bateman , vicar , for the purpose of taking into consideration , the best means of promoting a due observance of the Lord ' s Diy , that he ( the Vicar ) would take the chsir at half-past six , and that the meeting would be addressed by Mr . Wilson , Honorary Secretary , and the Rev . Mr . Bailey , C . erical Secretary , a deputation from the Parent Society . ; The people of this town had , on seeing the above announcement , a most vivid recollection of a similar
meeting when it was the intention of the Church party so to arrange matters as to compel , if possible , by any means , however unjust , tbe concurrence of all to their most sublime , beautiful , meritorious , and pure doctrines , upon which is stamped the impress of the image ef Christ This recollection excited in many , a desire to attend , as tbe o ) jecta of tbe meeting appeared v * ry similar , and at the appointed time , many were present and others contrived to come until the Philosophical Hall waa completely filled , not less than twelve bundr ed being present . :
The Vicar took tbe chair , and on the platform , was seen tbe Reverends Messrs . Aldersoa , Manning , Topham , Metcalfe , Hessey , and a few other ! clergymen ; T . Starkey . Esq ., magistrate , T . C . Lay-cock , Esq ., attorney ; Mr . J . Hobson , Btationer ; Mr . J . Smith , from Manchester , and Mr . E . Clayton , news agent . Tbe meeting was opened with prayer , after which the Vicar addressed them at sprue length , in a very calm and guarded manner , stating the object of the society to be of such a nature , as when once understood and appreciated , would prove of incalculable benefit to all , bat to che working classes in particular .
He bad no doubt that the deputation would satisfy them when they spoke . He was quite sure they were not sent down to scold them , but to l ay before them the true orjacts of the society . He said he must confess that so often as he had paced the streets of Huddersfield on the Sunday , he had never witnessed any shop open for traffic of any kind , neither was he aware of one solitary instance ever occurring , yet he did not know that each and every of his parishioners , conducted themselves with that degree of propriety , ! which is ueeessary far a dua observance of the sabbath . —( A voice " who rides to church in their carriage ?";
The Vicar then called upon the Rev . Mr . Alderson to open the business of the meeting . Mr . A . rose and said in % very low tone , that he had come from a neighbouring parish for the purpose of hearing the nature and object of tbe society , ¦; he would , therefore , not longer detain them , bat call . upon Mr . Wilson as one of their deputation . | Mr . Wilson came forward and stated tbat tbe society , of which he was honorary secretary , had for its object tbe increased happiness of the working classes ; tbis he endeavoured to prove by stating that many were obliged , in direct opposition to the dictates of bis own conscience , to labour on the Lord ' s day , by which
practice they neglected their religious duties ; nay , more , from this baneful practice they were precluded from learning what tboBe duties were , and so were lost to all eternity . He instanced the men employed ! upon the canals , and those in the iron mines ; also the breadbakers of London , who , he said , had requested the society to obtain an enactment for tbe purpose of suppressing all such immoral and irreligious proceedings—( a voice from the gallery , " we haven't Wark for't work days ) . Mr . W . continued , with now and then a little interruption from one or two persons in the gallery , a little lonuier , a ^ H then sat Oown . ; ' In- Vh-. * r iwx ; n se and s ; 4 i-l , b « would just advert to a ciue that bail recuutJj hapteiud in ' ttua town ,
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shewing the deadly influence Sabbath-breaking had upon its votaries . One of his curates bad waited upon a poor man who was about to die , and who lived in a dark and damp collar ; and what do you think was the first words that struck his ear?—( a voice from the gallery " has he paid his Easter dues ? " The Vicar had rendered himself obnoxious by summonsing all for Easter Dues , who did not desire to pay them . ) "lam lost—my aoul ia lost tor ever . " The Curate inquired the nature of his fears ; when tbe poor man answered , " I have laboured on the Sabbath for a many years , and there is no hope for me . " The Vicar tben called apoa Mr . Madden .
Mr . Ma »» E 3 came forward and observed , be waa extremely sorry that persons should be found in thai vast assembly , r aet for so desirable an object , tbat would by the expressions he had heard endeavour to interrupt the speakeis . It is quite evident the body of tbe meeting are with us , tbey take no part in the interruption , and the only surprise I have is , that so vast an assembly will allow two or t&ree individuals to annoy them He thtn said that he had been in the army for many years , and during some of his engagements he had fought on the Sunday —( a voiee , " The Lord warn't wiyou then . —and as s'ich be could bear testimony to the deadly influence of Sabbath breaking . He had been engaged in thia manner for twenty-six years previous to taking holy orders , —( a voice , " Which side gave you best pay ? " )—and bis experience taught him to know the value of a due observance of the Sabbath . Ha concluded by calling upon Mr . Biyky , the Clerical Secretary .
Mr . Bayley said he had do doubt a misapprehension as to the nature and object of the society-existed in the minds of many , yet he deabted not tbe co-operation ol all good men whea they heard and understood the true nature of that society . It had been said that the gentry rode to church in their carriages . This he declared was not countenanced ; neither did they fear the rich because of their superior station , but that he should declare openly and freely bis opinion upon whatever he considered tended to desecrate the Sabbath , regardless of any man ' s contumely . Ha then waded through the same track as did his colleague , but in a more dignified and impressive style . The whole waa listened to with great attention .
The V ica a next rose to conclude the meeting ; he said that in consequence of the little disorder be had heard he feared very much whether he could , prudently , in future call a public meeting , even for a benevolent purpose . He , living amongst them could readily bear it ; but when foreigners came amongst them , they expected to be treated as gentlemen . I have taken this room , I have paid for the room , with my own money—( a voice , " That ' s a lie ; Easter dues helped thee to do that ")—and he could not , therefore , think of the deputation being sent empty away ; he had arranged for a person to be at the door to receive whatever they choose to give , add those who choose to ait still would
be waited npon for their contribution ? . The Vicar then requested them to join him in singing the Doxology . At this moment Mr . J . Hobson stepped forward , and observed he did not think it right the meeting should conclude so abruptly . Alarm immediately took possession of the whole of the clergy . The Vicar inquired of Mr . H ., in a low tone , was he a friend ? Answer—Yes . What is your name ? Answer—A Friend . The vicar showed great trepidation and fear , but allowed Mr . H . to proceed , when be said that to the objects of the society all present must he friendly . Some one here whispered into the vicar ' s ear that the speaker ' s name was Hobson , the Socialist . This waa sufficient The vicar turned to the audieuce . declared
the meeting dissolved , and requested bis friends to retire ; this they did through the back door . At this moment the scene was the most ludicrous we ever saw . The confusion of the clergy , the throwing their coats upon their backs , the cocking « f their hats , and tbe general run from the platform , amidst the cries of " Hear both sides , "' which ended in one unanimous burst of indignation , and the yells and the hootings were so laud and protracted as to make the stoutest heart quake . Mr . Madden kindly stroked Mr . Hobson on the back , and requested him to desist , as he knew he could not co-operate with them . He answered ha did . Mr . VeVers was next proposed as chairman , and on ascending tbe platform , and about to take the chair , the Reverend ( I ) Mr Hesiey , principal at the
Collegiate School , deliberately drew the chair away ! The old man did' not fall , but he might have done and sustained serious injury , and Mr . Hobson remonstrated with him for so iow an act , yet he would not replace it . After silence was obtained , Mr . Hobson observed that it was with extreme regret be saw the clergy leave the meeting in that unhandsome , nay insulting manner he thought it was but right that as tbe Vicar had called bis parishioners together to hear their opinions , thsy ought also to allow the lay members to express th . ir opinion , in order that they might thereby understand each other , and co-operate , as far as possible , for the purpose of obtaining a just and due observance of the Sabbath . He would conclude by moving the following resolution : —
" That this meeting , duly alive to the necessity , policy , and wisdom of the ii st . itutert Sabbath , or day of rest , pledges itself to promote , by every means in ifcs power , whatever can conduce to its due observance ; but white it will resist , by all legitimate means , whatever may lead to undermine and uproot that institution , and thus take from the toiling millions the only chance now left them to rest aad ' recruit exhausted nature , it will resist , in no less degree , the setting up of any standard or mode of observance by any peculiar sect to which all others may be required to bow , inasmuch as the acknowledgement of such a principle might lead to tbe entnralment of fanaticism and bigotry , should these
from any cause acquire the wielding of power . Ths Protestant Reformation established " the right of private judgment" not less respecting the usa and utility of farms and ceremonies , than of modes of faith and truthfulness of creeds , aud the recognizer of that principle will see on equal due observance of the Sabbath by the man who worships the author at all Being ia the natural temple of tbe universe communing with nature and her wondrous works , ; ind looking ' through nature up to nature's God , " as bylU ^ Han who worships in tbe temple made with hands , ancruses ail the forms and ceremonies be deems most acceptable to the object of his worship . " '
The above was ' seconded by Mr . J . Smith , of Manchester , and carried unanimously . A vote of thanks was given to tbe Chairman , and the meeting separated peaceably .
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D&ATHS . On Monday last , after a long and painful illness , aged 67 years , Mr . John BuUerwiok , bookseller , White Cross Yard , Briggate . in thia town . He was a Radical of the old eohoo ' .. On . Friday , the 27 th ui ;< ., at Huddersfield , after a short illness , Mr . Edw * rd Manners , painter , lately of Bradford , and formerly many years foreman to the late Mr . Fredf , fiek Wilson , paitiJer , Upperhead Row , Leeds .
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Triumphant, Meeting Of The Working Classes, And Defeat Of The United Forces Of The League Uindlsgusled, And League Disguised.
TRIUMPHANT , MEETING OF THE WORKING CLASSES , AND DEFEAT OF THE UNITED FORCES OF THE LEAGUE UiNDlSGUSlED , AND LEAGUE DISGUISED .
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Registered , Thomas Emmett Silence , son of George and Mary Silence , CharUon-atreet , Somers Town-London . On Sunday last , the infant son of John and Catherine Rawcliff was christened by tba Rev . J . Council , at the Catholic Chapel , St . Wilfeeds , Preston , John Frost Rawcliff .
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THE NORTHERN STAR . _____ _ _ . __ __ _—___ ^ = "s . .. . ¦ , — l : jl ¦ ¦ ¦¦ .. .... _ .. , ¦ . . —» . y ,... i . ¦ ^
Just Published, Price 2d, No. 2, For February, Of The Model Republic,
Just Published , Price 2 d , No . 2 , for February , of THE MODEL REPUBLIC ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 4, 1843, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct467/page/5/
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