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THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1843.
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HoBsoy , Northern Star Office ; John Lleavk , l . shoe Lane , Fiee ; Street , London ; Abkl Heywood , Manchester ; Patoh & . Love , Glasgow ; and all Booksellers , — HYMNS FOB WORSHIP ; Without Sectarianism ; adapted to the Present State of the Church : with a Text of Scripture for Each Hymn . No Charti 3 t Association should be without these Books tor the conducting of their Sunday Meetings They breathe the pure spirit ef genuine , practical Christianity—pur « Political Truth , without an atom of theological , sectarian dogmatism .
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Great Attracti wj . —Mr . O'Connor will lecture on Tuesday evening , at the City of London Political aud Scientific Institution , 1 , Turnagaiu-lane , Skinner-street . Subject— " Tbe Land . " On the following evening ( Wednesday ) Mr . O'Connor will lecture on the " Espeal of the Legislative Union with Ireland . "
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TO F . O'CONNOR , ESQ . Mt DEAB Sib ., —As treasure to tix Ctiartisi DeleBce Fund , permit me to present to your no : ice two Tery deserving victims , -who ba-re traversed fr . m the Bpecial commission at Chester , and ba ^ e taken their teals it the late assies without say aid from onr body , and axe now undergoing xhevt sentence of ewe We montbs imprisonment in Chester Castle . John Burgess , a man of BBhapsasaasie integrity , Has ^ -wife and th ree small ca 3 dr « i . and tbe pai . sh refuse than acy aid unless snob e ? a bastile will afford . Hn father keeps a tt * r shop in this town , and m » v * ne-» bl ° Rsdic »? of the Cirt * risat school ; it has cost him twenty-one ponnds , &nd -ue has his daughter-in-law an * the ttrsft children to beep . The otter man ' s naee is Thomas Bemfiford ; he has two motherless childiva ltft in the like state of
destitatioa . - I think the cue of these two patriots ought not to rs Ion risbt of , ano therefore take the hbett ) of representing it to you , through the medium of the Si < tr , aDd oar ot&er Caanist friends will thns al * o become acquainted wita it by the aame means . I remain , " my dear Sir , Most respectfully , Is the lore of onr common cause , E , P . Mead . Your Old Commodore . CoBgtetos , Chfcshire , Hay 11 th , 1 S 43-
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TO THE 31 EHBEBS OF TEE . NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION , RESIDING IN SURREY . I regret that I am obliged ts call your attention ones more , to the necessity of making some arrangements ¦ whcifeby the anu-uat of money cue to £ everal individuals on account of the late demonstration , and also of the late tea party held at the M ^ ntpeUer Tavern . I bave eade * voared to acconjDiish this for a long time pa > t , I have spent much time , and yet am blamed by many . I trust ibis will t-3 a sufficient hint to those whom it aay concern , ar . d that they will pay the amount which tLey owe , or I Ehsl ! be compelled to send the lis ; of the individes . !* far uubiic&uuu in the Star .
Tbs money to be p&ii at my residence , 3 , Pagoda Terrace . Bemiondsey , New-road j or at We Browne ' s East-lane , Walwouh . Yours to serve , Jobs Matkasd . No . 3 , Pagoda Terrace , Bennondsey , New Ro&d .
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ATROCIOUS AND ALARMING OUTRAGE . Maxcuestsz , Wsdsssoat . —About eleven o ' clock last nig&t an outrage of » most alarming character ¦ was perpeirated in the immediate neighbourhood of this iowa , by a pany of betwien 300 and 400 person - , chiifly brick -makers , srmid with bJuDderimssps , guns , pistol ? , bludgeon * , -and almost tvery description of weapon , who in a mo ? i savage manver forcibly em-Ted the brick-croft of Messrs . Pauling aad Henfry . with the evident intention of ¦ destrovini ? the propcrtj , and either murdering or maiming every one who might oppote their violence Same disputes which arose betw ? xt Mr . Pauling and his -workmen , some months ago , led to a turn-out of the brick-makers . Their places were of course supplied by other men , and ever since & systrm of annoyance and intimidaiion , accompanied with occa sional acts of violence , has been practised towards the new hands .
Tbe brick-croft , which has been the scene of this outrage , is 5 ito * te on tbe Tight-band side of the Eeeled-new-road , about 200 yards beyond the Crosslane toll-bar . It runs for about a quarter of a mile long tbe side of the road , and is perhaps 100 yards in breadth . Near tbe centre of the ground is a cottage , which was occupied by Mr . Kaiph Fletcher , the manager and overlooker ; also a stable , and another Email building called the office . " Close to the house are two large kilns of . bricks containing about one hundred thousand , which they had juBt commenced burning . A tkird kiln , at a little distance , contained about 50 , 000 more . Oa the night in question there were eleven
men on the premises , along with Mr . Fletcher , who had been led to apprehend that an attack oa them would be mzde . Two of ihesj were private watchmen , one , Isaac Lomas , late of the Manchester police , the other a soldier casied Peers , who had been discharged from the 3 o : h regiment ; the remainder were workmen employed oa the ground ; and about ten o ' clock this small force was augmented by Butierworth , one of tbe Saiford beadle ? , being sent up , n a representation from Mr . Fieicher to Air . Diggles , the deputy-constable , that danger was apprehended . Thus the whole fore * for tbe defence of tbe property consisted only of thirteen men , tw ^ ve of whom were armed , they having among th * a Jour blunderbusses , five guns , and three brace of pisiols .
li was about ten minutes after eleven when the attack WE 3 made . The parties on the ground were first alarmed by hearing two guns fired ax . the top of the croft , the end nearest Manchester . Reports were heard at intervals for ten minetes after , when between 300 and 400 men , all armed , foriously rushed upon the ground , and orersDread it in ail directions , tramp-ing &otsti tfce bricks that were lying in a soft Etate upon the ground , ee i destroying everything that they could lay their hands on . Seeing the m * n who belonged to the ground drawn op near the house , the mob firrd upon th : m—the men returned their fire ; upwards of ten volievs were fired on each side , and the affray lasted' fifteen ttinuies . The mvb separated -them : elves inio
two divisions , one of which stood aloof firing at the men , as above described , while the other division forced their way into Fletcher ' s house . They broke open the door with a large pickaxe , which they had brought with them for lhe purpose . Having thus obtained an entrance , the house was in a moment filled with th ~ mob , ali of whom were armed with guns and pi 5 to ; s . The only persons in the house were Mrs- Fieteuer , and a ¦ poor Irish woman , who > -ad been sheltered , ont of I eharity , for the last xhres days . Mr =. Fleteher was on a chair near the bottosi of the stairs ,-and several gnns * nd pistols were immediately presented to her ; she would undoubtedly have been shot , but one &f tbe ^ called ou *— "D— n you . '
don't kill & woman . " She was , however , ' thrown down , her head dashed against tbe flags , and afterwards dragged out of tbe house by her hair . One of the ruffians ran up stairs to look for Fletcher , and came down exclaiming " * tbe b y ' , h—r is not here ; he ' s given us the slip . " Mrs . Fieicher was able to identify th s mjn as Michae ] Bag ' -y , commonly called B : g Mick , " aud he was I afterwards apprehended on her information . The i poor Irishwoman being observed looking at oue of ' the ruffians was also knocked down and ill-treated . I Tney then smashed the furniture to pieces , threw \ the bread into the brick-eroft , threw a small table : upon the fire , and afterwards broke into \" he ifiice z ^ jjlnintC , which vh r y attempt € d to set on fire ; lasj- ' also carried off some portions of the furniture . i
Ail this was going on while the thim-eu men were engaged outside with the other poniou of the taob , t who spread themselves over tee ground ai . d at- ' , tempted to surroucd Mr . Fjetcher ' s P = rty , but wiih- ; oai effect . They were kept off by the coutiuual firing ; indeed , the place was kept in a ' perfec : blaz ^ li-r up- \ wardB often minutes . The soldier , one or the pri- ' Tate waichmerj , was knocked aown and waiMi . « abled ; and another of tbe party fell into a gutter , &sd his jjun getting wet he could render no further service . A portion of the mob attempted to pul ] dowa the ' newly-raised kilns , bat the firing was too hot for i tbern ^ and they were driven off , without tio-r g much < dam * ge there . Tbe whole of the mob at kiuih r « rtreaied , those in the house as well ; snd it was
iortuna ' . e they did bo , for Mr . Fletcher ' s little party had expended their last shot in their gallant cefenco of-the property , and must have been left almost at the mercy of tne mob . Probably their ammunition was also expended , and hence their precipitate re trtat , which was effected at the cotnmarid of" one who appeared to ecs as their leader . Tmj qaiued the croft -by the lower end , and took the road u > wards Eccies , taking tbeir " killed and wounded , " if any , alwjg wi » k them ; bu ; owing toihe random finng of tke men on both sides , less injury was done than m ? £ ht hi ^ e been expected from the number oi i-hots . Of lhe defenders of the properly , only ; v-o wtre geriously wounded , Lomaf , the watchman , and tbe soldier , uid the latter only with the bu : ei . d of a
As seon as the mob were faily out of tbe grouse , ftnd Jdr . Fielder had ascertained tbe little itjury which his party had suffered , he and Butterwor-h , tbe Saiford police oflber , set out in pursuit of the ttob . After proceeding a little way on lhe Eeclesrcad , they iad halted opposite to Triff . rd park-Tiew ; and Fjeleher and Butterworth , bav . ni got behind ike hedge , overheard them in tee act oi counting themselves , or calling over the roll , from wkich it appeared they were in six divisions , with leaders to each ; an 4 it eemed they were a / jreat many missing . They then retreated towards Eccles . At Eecles , which I *^ 1 \ u El ^ a hilf off » the W" 111 ! eonst&bnl * rj faftdhewi the firing , aud two of them were coming towards th « spot ; but being warned that a £ reat number « f men were coaurg along the road well armed concealed
, they them-elvrs until the i gaob had passed , aud then followed them . When ihey got to the laae which terns off to Seedley , the O 69 Eeparated , the greater poriion taking the road , Oat tfiree "were traced to Eecies aad there sppreicfided . They ware not armed , but one o : them had his boats full of blood , and was found to have reeeired A wound abore his knee ^ and the boots of ftnothsr , who w * s not woooded , « orresponded wkh impresBoas left in the chtj in the brici ^ nus d . j infQimztkm was speedily conveyed to : ) . ; -. S i ! ford police-uffiee . A party of c&cers wss ^ --: . r . Tte ; rpor , and by iheir exertioos two mere pn . i-rsi were secured . r Tais morning seren prisoners were bro ' - rbt b ? fore the ms . girtrx \ vs at the Isevr Baiiey , charged with ' having takes pjrt ifl * he attack , but ^ rera all r- _ - ' msndsd . cnt for of
Tee p&liee are oa ibe loo ^ cti ; c ? = t ' r * tnrnou're , many of whom , it is sv ?' c ^ : - , w-rt w < uiu . ed , and ttJJ be traced wirbcar rr-. ch ^ : fE- culty .
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TO MR . B . RIDLEY . Sir , —Although I hrrebren remiw In the payment of money matters , to my sorrow , in a few instances through bavins ? teen tyrannically deprived of my work , for having bten sc ? n in the Petition procession , of to ^ i May , but . in the instance of feeing a defaulter , as you have in last weeks * Star been pleased to represent to the amount of 5 s . fot dinner ticket , I will herw remind yon , that I told you that a man named Tcsfon , owes you that sum , and not me , You promised me that y 6 u would tnll on him for it , for he still persists in it , that he will not pay me that sum , bnt when you call on him in your official capacity as Secretary , he will pay you . Day id Cater . 32 , FleeHane , City of London , May 16 th , 1843 .
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR . Mr . Editor , —Id your last week ' s publication , I find my name wes insertci by Mr . Ruff-y Ridley , as a defaulter for three dinner tickets te the late Demonstration Committee . Mr , Ridley charges me with fourteen tickets . I never received but twelve , for which number I settled with him , excepting one ticket which was had by Mr . Thomssaon , Iat 2 Delegate to the Convention , and ¦ which Mr . Ridley eng ?; ed to receive tbe money for and vrair-. d upon him for that purpose . Mr RUley Ms also inserted a balance sheet in last week ' s Star , of tbe money received on behalf of the Co-.-gpirators , in which I am made a cit iitor for Is . 3 d ., ¦ srben the sum I paid him was 8 s . 3 d . Trusting that in fairntrs yon will insert the aboTe . I remain , yours , Samuel Ford .
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REPEAL OF THE UNION . Tbe Union , indeed ! What a fascinating title and by what endearing and mutual courtesies it has been preserved . The blood-stained bridegroom wooed the trembling bride with sword in one hand and faggot in tbe other , and while both were dyed with the blood of her children dragged her amid bristling bayonets to the altar ; and calls the rape an union ! Union indeed ! ! Union of what ? Of
hearts . 0 ! no ; of thought 1 no ; of interest ? no ; of religion t no ; of love ! O ! no ; but Union of all the elements of hate , of prejudice and revenge upon the one side , and of bitter suffering woe and sorrow upon the other ! And can it still preserve its name , while those who fatten upon the compact , threaten to maintain it holy , pure , and entire , by the force of arms and martial law , should the ; bride press ( or a divorce ? The Irish have learned many useful lessons from their Saxon task-masters . They have
received some measure of promised improvement , not as a part of the contract , but as a growling dog receives a bone from the hand of an affrighted child . Measures grauted from fear , contseded to stuTdy demand . The Irish feel , firstly , that the measnres = o conceded are involuntary gifts , and , secondly that without a national representation the nation could not receive any benefits from them . What a reluctant Parliament surrendered to fear , & factious aristocracy rendered useless . However , that portion of society which is now in spite of mother-Church
and Dissent-Church , beginning to educate itself , to think for itself , to speak for itself , and to act for itself , is also beginning to ask the simple and pertinent question on i its own behalf . " Where is our share of this Union ? " Yes , the industrious portion of Irish and of English society with a marvellous coincidence of thought , ask these questions ? " Are our rights better preserved ! " " Are our liberties more secure I" " Are our estates raised in value !" " Is our capital better protected ! " M Are our , morals improved ? '' M Is our religion strengthened ^"
* Are our children eligible to all those places , pensions , and offices , to uphold which this Union rou 3 t be preserved by Phvsi « al Force ? Can the shade of an affirmative be given to any of these questions ! On tbe contrary , is it not obvious to the friends of peace and of real union , that Ireland was conquered by fraud and treachery and ue ^ er by anus , and that the blood-staiaed standard of the Siate Church , has ever been the rallying-point of the invaders , and , the " Church is in danger" the war-cry of the Irish siaff !
From the time of tbe second Harry to the inauspicious moment when the bloody tyrant Cromwell set hia fooi on Irish gronnd , the plunder of the natives , to inrich the foreign invader , was the " caius belli * &nd from the moment that the English people ( that is a few livery men of London , a handfull of Lords Spiritual and Temporal ) made a present of Ireland , together with their own country , to the Dutchman , the enrichment of the Protestant
Church , at the expence of the Irish nation has been the sole object of the English Oligarchy . For more than a century and a half , the leech , in its new character has sucked the very vitals , the heart and marrow , from Irishmen , until at length , vainly hoping that exhaustion had brought about despondency , weakness , and despair , the monster would now fall upon its withering victim and crush it for ever .
We heed bat little what state politicians and their press may say or threaten . How they may promise the subjugation of Ireland by the powers placed at their disposal , or invent new means of torture should these fail , but when we find the Irish Church organ , the Standard , hallooing IriFhmen of the North upon their disarmed countrymen of the South ; when we find that print recommending tbe Church staff to compel Sir Robert Peei to set the men of the North at the rebels , then we say that Ireland ' s greatest enemy , the English Law-Church ( which
means , simply , tbe parson-staff ) , has taken its propez position at the head of its troop * , shouting aJoud the Church-union cry of " tear to the Knife ! " The offensive position taken by the Lords , the Commons , and almost the whole press , would lead the IriBh to the belief , that in these threats the English voice was heard , and the English mind pourtrayed ; but it is not so ; the English people will not allow the fomeuters of popular discord to turn the sober mind of England from the consideration of A great national question
to any recollection of individual delinquencies . No ; never had the English people ft more glorious opportunity of proving to the world that in a national struggle they can lose sight of ail smaller considerations . We will not mince the matter ; we eay that if Mr . O'Connell evince earnestness of purpose now , tae reeelleetion of hiB former racilktions will be buried in the glorious struggle and still more
glorious triumph of a people in their moral might We eay in their moral might , because we well know , with the history of former rebellions before us , that & 1 1 Ireland would be mortgaged to insure the ready appliances of subjugation ; while , if the Irish people , with their patriotic Priesthood , will but use the moral means at their disposal , they may baulk faction of its prey , gsm a triumph for ihcir country , fiid leave opon record iheimpcr , ^ . ' - ] ,- lessen , " Th 3 t to be Irze a r . atLc n .. e , v , w ,: i u "
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and to be powerful a people need bat be unitedand peaceful . Opinion , is sharper than the sword , more powerful than the cannon ball , and a more deadly enemy to tyranny than both . We shall cautiously abstain from mixing up the question of the Charter with that of Repeal , while we would , at the same time , most earnestly implore the working classes to bold the shield of their protection , which is might , between their struggling Irish brethren and the tyrauay with which they are threatened . Fcr however the Duke and Sir Robert may pledge themselves to
no more than the use of all tbe constitutional powers of oppression at their command , yet will the Rodew ' s , the Jocelyn ' s , and the Londonperb y ' s ( which is the new title of the CastleftEAGH ' s ) as the champions ofOrangeism and the church force them if possible into a war of extermination . The Irish love their homes , their families and their hearths ; they approach death with the cheering reflection that their bones will be laid alongside the remains of those who in life were near and dear to them ; to insure these things they seek to relieve themselves from a state of provincial degradation and to place themselves in a position of national
independence ; and for these just , these holy , these vii tuous and patriotic aspirations , shall the blood of another , race of Irishmen manure the soil of the spoiler , while it irrigates the fair fields of freedom to mature a harvest of "dragon's teeth" for future years . Do those who have carved ap the interests of the weak as spoil for the strong stand in need of another partition of " the oft divided" Ireland And is young England now powerful in her moral strength to receive a stab through the side of her Bister ? for be assured that every new bolt placed in the chains of Irish slavery rivets the manacles of Englishmen and makes them harder to shake off .
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TO THE RBSCUE . An earnest of the "tender mercies" in reserve for " the 59 " has been given in the persons of Cooper and tbe venerable old man Richards . It had been hoped that they would be permitted to wear out the long period of incarceration assigned them in the Queen ' s Bench , where in some degree the rigours of imprisonment would have been modified from the immediate surveillance of Government , as compared
with those provincial hell-holes over which the reigning spirits are the sympathising local " lords of the ascendant" in the " middle classes . " Memorials to that effect were presented to Government , but vainly ; they were removed on Saturday without a & moment ' s notice , at five o ' clock in the morning , from the Queen ' s Bench prison to that infernal den , Stafford Gso ' , there to experience the fate of Clayton and Holberry , unless rescued by the determined expression of the people ' s honest
indigna-. A letter from an excellent Chartist at Stafford informs us that they are subjected to the gaol diet , " which consists of coarse mixed meal bread with thin skilly , and some few potatoes , half of which ar « rotten . No animal food—no wrap—nor anything else . " Cooper has memorialised the visiting Magistrates for permission to provide his own food , and to have books and writing materials . He is denied all . Shut out entirely from all communication with the world , he is not allowed to correspond with any one , —not even with his dying wife—for six months to come .
Cooper ' s constitution was undermined in early youth by severe study—two year ' s treatment like that to which he has been consigned , will murder him . Richards is an old man . His silver hair tfud querulous tones of voice and faltering footsteps 6 hew that , under any circumstances , his home must shortly be " the one appointed . " And these are the men on whom the hand of savage vengeance is laid thus heavily ! Capfer is also subjected to like treatment . What cau be done ! They must perish if the people do not stir . Will the people let them perish without effort ? or will they raise , from one end of the
empire to another—from city , town , village , household , chapel , church , and workshop , such a shout of indignation as shall make even vengeance pause in its career ? Remember , no time is to be lost . About it , then , at once ! We learn that on Monday next , at 12 o'clock , in Leicester Market Place , a Petition will be submitted to the public of that town . Let every city , town , village and hamlet , and individual in the empire , follow the example , iand pour in their petitions to T . S . Duncomie , Esq ., M . P ., 6 , Albany Court , Piccadilly , Lendon , by whom tfcey will be presented to the House of Commons . *'
There must be no trifling nor dallying in the matter . Every day is a day ' s bitter misery to them . The antmw of Government is manifest . The time approaches nearly when the fate of others will be decided by the Same arbiters . Much , therefore , in many ways depends on prompt exertion . Let the effort be made now and at once . We have made reference to the animus of Government . If it needed further confirmation than from these horrid facts , we have it in a letter which now lies before us , from one of the poor fellows who gave evidenee against " the 59 , " at Lancaster , and who affirms that because he chose not to load his conscience with a lie , the paltry meanness has been resorted to of refusing to pay him the poor value of his time occupied in " public service . " He says : —
" I was the second witness called upon against Feargns O'Connor , and fifty-nine other prisoners . I spoke the truth to tbtbost of my knowledge , and would not take bribe . I was called by Gregory Lewin a d—d scamp , and he told me if I wanted my wages , I might go to Feargns O'Connor for them , and if I did not return home , he would have me placad among tbe test of the prisoners , as he bad better given me £ 100 to have remained at home , for a d—d scoundrel as I was . "
Coupling this testimony with the factB of poor Cooper and his maits , there can be no mistaking the purposes of Government ; and the simple question is , whether the people will let their friends be murdered and their cause trampled on beforo their eyes without moving .
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TO-. T 3 . i 5 PEOPLE . My Dear Fkif . h » > 3 , _ i have now lying before me a shoal of letters from all part 9 of England and Ssotland ; fiU ^ d with the most kindly expressions Of good feeling and regard , and requesting me to preach here , to lecture there , to attend soiraes yonder , and to p > all over . And all press their claims for early visitation . To reply to all by post would occupy much of that time for which your servioo finds me quite sufficient of employment . Some few , where circumstances required special answer or explanations I have answered thus ; the rest must consider this as a general reply in which all are alike interested .
Firstly , then ; I can take no tour till after the argument in the Queen ' s Bench . That is quite clear . My tour for health , recreation , and agitation may be out short in its commencement , and I may find myself alongside Cooper , Richards , and Capper , in a stono coffin , studying sermons on Chartism and Class legislation , with"tkiHy" and "rotten potatoes'' for my texts . Until afier " My Lords the
Queen ' s Justices" shall have signified their pleasure as to my being allowed to uae my powers of locomotion , I can go nowhither save to Bury , and Bolton , and Rochdale , to all of which places I have been long pledged , and whore ( D . V . ) I shall preach on Sunday 21 st , at Bury , on Monday 22 nd , at Bolton , and Tuesday 23 rd , at Rochdale . I must then " wait for further orders "—or at all events for permission to make further arrangements .
Secondly , I go no where , where I am not wanted ; I take no individual invitations ; I go nowhere but at the request of the people themselves ; I never obtrude myself . Thirdly , I am desirous to cause no disappointment . In many of the places to which I am invited , I shall be personally a stranger . They have been been uaed to have lecturers of all sorts among them ; and it is common to estimate speeches by the yard .
I am no long-wiuded speaker . The etato of my health utterly precludes the possibility of my doiugit . I have not physical Blrength to speak two or three ho rs at a stretch . One of my principal inducements to quit for a time my ordinary seclusion is the hope of being able thereby to repair my shattered health . I am broken down—worn out—as nearly as mi » y be , and I cannot stand very severe labour . For this reason as well as because I am one of those who think that
religion is the best policy , and that True Christianity is the only true politics , I bhall make my several tours , both South and North , preaohing touro ; endeavouring to shew that every consistent Christian must be a Chartist , and that all will be the better Chartists for being Christians . I know there are some to whom the word " Christian Chartist" bears an unpleasant sound : I cannot help that ; I must not let complaisance lead me into hypocrisy ; ( they would like me no better for it if I did ;) I must be honest : I am a Christian
Chartist , aud I hope also that I am a Chartist Christian ; I believo Christianity to be the soul , of which Chartism is the body ; and I cannot consent to separate them . I am aware that my profession has been bo much abused , by many—made eo powerful an accessary to all the evils of class legislation—that many of my good friends think it , per se , an evil , and would be glad to see me altogether "drop it "; , I think not with them : and cannot consent to oblige them at the espence of my conscience . Whenever I come , I appear in my own character . I sustain no doubles .
Fourthly , I shall not take a farthing from the people beyond the bare expenoes of the route . It is my doctrine hat no man ought to take pay from the people who can do without it . I cannot travel at my own cost : I am too poor . But I can labour " for the love of it "; and I shall despise myself when I consent to do otherwise . If there be any thing in these things , in the least degree unpalatable to the people of any of the towns which I have promised to attend , I beg that they will write at once and say so ; that I may knowj to arrange accordingly . This is my reason for now referring to them .
Those things distinctly understood , if it so please the lieges , and if Providence permit me health enough , as soon as June puts in , I shall arrange my ton is going first south , to She ffield , Derby , Loughborough , Nottingham , and all the other towns in that district from which I have invitations ; then North , to all the towns in Northumberland and Cumberland , to which I am invited ; and then for the very nursery of sober , thoughtful patriotism , " bonnie" Scotland ; towards whose oloud capt hills my soul yearns with an anxious expectation . I shall , of course , lay down the routes distinctly , and communicate with each place , so as that every town shall know exactly when to expect me .
Devoted as I have ever been to your cause ; which is no less my cause , I am , Your faithful friend and servant , Wh . Hill . Northern Star , Leeds , Thursday , May 18 , 1843 . P . S . —For Stockport . —Friday morning , 19 th . — After my letter had gone to presf , yesterday , I received a litter from Stockport , reminding me of an engagement to that town . I have been long promised to my Stockport friends ; and I was to have seen and lectured to them on Easter Monday , but , some how , it happened that my vifit was not properly announced ; very few people knew of my being
there , and consequently very few attended . I then promised to visit them again in about three or four weeks time , and give them my opinion on Mr . O'Connor ' s land scheme , Mr . Owen's community scheme , and on the general question of land , labour , capital , and their combination by the people for tbeir own benefit . However , instead of going to Stockport to koture to the Chartists I was obliged to go to London and hear lectures ifrom the lawyers . Since my return , I have waited for the full development of Mr . O'Connor's p ! an iu his letters which I must bave seen before I can redeem my pledge to the Stockport men . I was intending , therefore , to write them as soon as I should be ' able effectually to serve them when 1 received the following : —
" Park-street , 8 tockport , May 17 th , 1843 . " MY DEAR Sir , —S ^ oing the announcement in the Star of Saturday hurt , of your intended visit to Bury , the Council have concluded you intend giving us a call on Monday night . We tauve announced it An early answer or a notice in the forthcoming Star would be deemed a favour . " I hope sou are in good health . The Queen ' s Bench business looks well . " Yours faithfully , "Thomas Clark . "
Now , I am sorry that the announcement should have been made wi hout first writing to me , particularly A 3 I distinctly said that before coming I would write to the Secretary , naming my time exactly . Under the present circumstances , it will be utterly impossible tor me to be in Stockpori on Monday evening next ; as I am pledged to Bolton and must go there . I will visit Stockport as soon after the decision of the argument as 1 may : I will take care to give timely nouoe of my coming , by writing to the Secretary to prevent misunderstanding ; and I hopu that no future announcement will be made without my knowledge and concurrence . I hate disappointments . W . H .
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Ashton Shoemakers . — We cannot interfere . K . T . Osborn , Silstom . — We know nothing of Mr , Pepper ' s letters . J . H ., Darlington . — We have no room . Thomas Heanes , Manchester . — We cannot insert the address . We have seldom seen a worse specimen of the very spirit which it affects to reprove It is a virulent and unprovoked attack upon parties whom Us authors have not the manliness to name , and who , if they should reply in their defence , u'Bii / d be immediately accused of denunciation . The Nottingham Fkamkworkers' Petition . — This document is onlu in course of signature and has . not been presented . —as stated ly us last week .
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Reading Chartists . —A report of tehat took place on the 20 tft of April would be rather stale now . C . B ., Newton Heath —His communication came too late for insertion . We think it better to stnd it to Mr . Linton . Those Sub-Secretaries in South Lancashire that have not corresponded with Mr . Wtri . Dixon concerning the new lecturers' p ' an are requested to do so on or before Wednesday nest , and send their answers to the following questions ;—First , uo you intend to be on the plan for the next quarter ; second , the number of plans that will be required by your locality : ¦ third , the opinions of your mernb ' rs as it rei / ards engaging a
lecturer for this division of the county . All must be addressed to Wm . Dixon , No . 2 , Crossstreet East , Bank Top , Manchester . The Slalybridge and Hyde localities are particularly requested to correspond Mr . Hakihson , of Nottingham , is requested to communicate his address to T . J . Crowther , Gloucester Coffee-house , Church street , Shorediteh , London . Bath Chartists . —The report of Mr . Marriott's lecture on the 11 th instant did no' reach us till
Thursday , 18 > A , too late for insertion , even had it not been too long for insertion under any Circumstances . We cannot , except under peculiar circumstances , give lectures al length . Bernard M'Cartnet writes as from Charingcross Hospital ( t < & which we regret to hear that he has been confined ever since his arrival in London i to ask certain questions in reference to a letter which appeared in a recent number of the Star . If he be not captiously disposed , he will see , on again looking at that letter , thut his questions are unnecesaaiy : if he be , we have nothing to say to him .
Home Truth and Homely . —7 b the working classes and others —My friends , there never will be any change in this country for you until you act differently to what you have done yet ; and you will suy how happens that 1 Well , I will tell you : you are keeping a set of idle , drunken publicans . There is not a week in the year but what you are giving hundreds of pounds weekly to this set of idle ruffians ; and , my friends , this money goes to tyrants—yes . tyrants to the very core : and so long as you spend your money in this manner , so long will you have tyrants to tyrannize over you . Yours , John Lawford , delver . Highlo'vn , May 17 , 1843 .
To the Colliers of the Wear . — Will any of the colliers wishing to have the services of William Beesley , of Accrington , send their addresses to Mr . George Charlton , sail-viaker , 2 , Filter's-row , Sunder land , as soon as convenient .
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W . S . —The potatoe article is Mr . O' Connor ' s letter of lost week was from the Leeds Mercury of April 22 , 1843 .
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FOR THE NATIONAL DEFENCE FUND . £ a . d . From three friends at Harrogate 8 1 3 „ Croyden , C . Segrave 0 10 0 ^ silk mill at Horsforth o ill „ Knaresbro " , per J . D 0 0 3 ^ „ an old Kndical 0 0 6 „ J . S . Callen 0 0 4 ,. J . Farmswortb and J . Twist , America 0 4 0 .. Delph , Saddleworth , per W . Hirst ... 0 11 0 „ The Cap ef Liberty , fifth subscription of Gne pound each 10 0 . Brighton , per George Giles 0 10 . 0 „ W . T . L ., London 0 5 0 „ The Rancliffe Arms , Nottingham , per J . Sweet 0 5 6 .. Wear Pottery , for Mr . Campbell Suiithwick 0 7 0 < . Clitheroe , per James Heaton 2 0 0
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XJ 3 EDS . —A Mare ' s Nest . —On Monday last , information was given to John Blackburn , Esq ., the coroner for this borough , that the arms of a human body had been found in tha canal at Knostrop ; and a policeman , ( No . 9 , we believe ) , who had got them in his possession , aud who waited upou the coroner , told him that a piece of the blade bone was attached to one of them , from which he had no doubt that they were the identical arms belonging the trunk of a female which it will be remembered was taken out of the same cut some months back . The worthy
coroner did not evamine the remains himself , but told the policeman , if he was sure they were human arms , to take care of them , and he would send a surgeon to examine them . Great care , of course , was taken of the precious r ^ maim , b y the policeman ; he borrowed a rug to wrap them in , and set apart a roam for their erpcc'ial reception . A consultation of the medical profession was sucimoned , and an examination was made , which ended in tho discovery that the roonin 3 were no arms at all , but two tegs of a large dog . The sapient poHceman , of course , gets heartily laughed at for his superior knowledge of comparative anatomy .
Death by Burning . —On Monday morning , an inquest was held ai the Black Dog Inn , East-btreet , Bank , before John Blackburn , Esq ., on the body of Mary Sharp , seveu years of age , whose parents reside ar Knostrop . The deceased was sat by the fire on Friday last ., when a oinder fljw out and set firo to her clothe * , by which she was so much burnt as to cause her death on Saturday . —Verdict , " Accidental Ddath . " Funeral of a Policeman . —On Tuesday , the remains of Robert Ellis , who has been upwards of twenty years in the police force , were interred in the burial ground at tho parish church . The wh # le disposable force , amounting to about a hundred men , attended his remains to tho grave .
Scdd .- > Death . —On Tor-sday morning , an inquest was ! (> at the Barley Corn Inn , Armley , before John bla'kburn , Esq ., oa tbe body of Mary . Holdsworth , ag i 49 , who died suddenly on Saturday last . The dccv ; t-ed it appears has lived on comfortable terms with her husband , but rumours of some foul play were current , strengthened by the appearance of bruises on various parts of her body ; the coroner , therefore ordered a , post mortem examination , from which it was evident that the woman had died from purely natural causes , and the jury returned a verdict tt » that effect . There was not the slightest ground for the Busptcion that her husband had ill-treated her ; bub it appears that from some cause or other , she had laboured under indisposition , and , mistaking the cause , a small dose of laudanum had been administered to her by her friends , which , from a fail , had ensued in conjestion of the brain .
Another Buhnino Case . —Ou Tuesday evening , an inquest was held at I he Court House , before John Blackburn , Esq ., on the body of Helen Ramskill , who expired in tho Infirmary on Mouday last , from injuries received by being burnt . She was removed to the Infirmary on the 28 th of April , bein&theb very bad from the effects of tbe burning , which was caus-ed by falling into the fire , at her mother ' s house , in Shannon-street , Black Bank , eighteen weeks ago . The jury returned a verdict of" Accidental Death . "
DRolTNirfG . —On Monday morning , an inquest was held at thu Black Dog Inn , East-street , Bank , before John Blackburn , Esq ., on the body of Wm . Terry . 39 years of" age , who resided in Spring-street , Bank , The deceased left bis housu on the morning of Friday week , and , although every inquiry was made for him ha was not again seen or heard of until he was found on Sunday last , floating in the cut , near the coal staiths , at Knostrop . There was no evidence to shew how he got into the water , and a verdict of " Found Drowned" was returned .
Stealikg TnousERS . —On Monday last , two men named | Samuel Newlove and John Caliaghan , were committed for trial at tbe next sessions , for hating stolen a pair of trousers from a stall iu Vicar ' n Croft , on Saturday night , the property of Mr . Wm . Talboys , taiior . Joseph Wilson , a companion of the above , was fined £ 4 and costs , or two months' imprisonment , for assaulting the police in attempting to rescue the prisoners . Daring Street Rohbert . —On Monday last , two men , of desperate character , named Conehus Whaling and Wm . Daker i were charged before Griffith Wright and W . Parson , Esqa ., at the Court-house with having about two o ' clock on Sunday morning , assaulted John Rowbotha . ni , in High-street , and
stolen from hia person eight shillings in silver . The prosecutor resides in Lemon-street ; he is employed < tr . Mr . Roinhardt ' 8 , drugrgist , in Briggate , at whose shop he was until nearly twelve o ' clock , after whioh he had some calls to make . He was on his way home , when he was first stopped by the prisoner Daker , whom he knew , and who began sparring in front of him . He was then knocked down , when Whaling and another man , named Gavins , came up , and , after the struggle , Rowbottom found that he had been robbed . A policeman came up while the parties were struggling , but in consequenoe of aot knowing that a robbery had taken place , the men w ? re set at liberty , but were afterwards recaptured They were both committed to York Castle for trial .
Pockkt Picking . —On Monday lajt , a young man named Thomas Wood , was committed for trial at tlie next borough sessions , for having , on Saturday night , picked the pocket , of Mrs . Mary Cowling , of Wortley , at an auction room , in Kirkgate , of a purse and eighteen pence . The prisoner was seeu by policeman Hartley to enter the auction room , and knowing him he waited until he came out :, when he stopped hira and searched him , and iu his pocket found the purpe , which was at once identified . Lekds Police . —Johason v . Hepworth and Others . —We understand fcnat notice has btea given by the plaintiff to the defendants in this case of his intention to prosecute a fresh action against them a . i ih « taxi as ? z-s , for an afsaaltcommitted by ihcoa upou bis wire in January last .
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Burglary . —Durin * the night of Sunday last thB house of Mr . John Wainwright , cloth weaver of Armley , was broken into , and a large quainny of men ' s wearing apparel was stolen . WHAT NEXT ! Whigs , in the Council , are so lazy , *• Stiew up" so late and thin ; Whig " organs" cry ( don't it amaze ye 1 ) Whigs want a— " Whipper-ix . " But who will take the " imposing" p lace ' 'Tis difficult to tell : " There ' s none would do it so much grace As Alderman D L .
Begging Impostor . —Yesterday , a man named James Bum ? , was committed to Wakefiefc 1 Hoa £ « of Correction for three months , as a rogue and vag » bond , having been found soliciting alms , witW fraudulent document iu his possession , purportine that he was empowered to collect money for the sufferers by a coal-pit explosion at Rose Hili , in the West Riding , by which several lives had been , lost and others severely wouuded . ' Public Meeting . —On Tuesday last , a large Borough Meeting wai held in tho yard of the
Ciloured Cioth Hall , to take into consideration the propriety of pstuioning Parliament anaimt th » Factorir . s Bill , and for the Separation of Church and State . The Mayor refused to call the meeting , aud tho Reqnisitionists , therefore , called it tbemsekea . An attempt , was made to seat Mr . Hamer Stansfeld in the chair , buv ho was defeated , aud Mr . Joseph Jones was called upon to preside . The " lads * however , although they carried their Chairman lost an amendment which they submitted , by a large majority , and the petition of the Dissenters vras
carried . HtJDDERSFIEIiD .-On Thursday last , a little boy , four and a half years old , the son of Wm . Mills , iron-founder , Aspley , walked into the works unobserved , whilst the whole of the men were oat In a short time the father went in , and to hia astonishment found the boy crushed to death , by a largo paice of iron which was lying across his body His death must have been instantaneous , as the weight of the iron was considerable . An inquest has since bf en held , and a verdict of " accidental death" recorded .
HAwlCK ,-Truck System . —At the general meeting of the stockmg makers , a few weeks ago , which was noticed in the Star , a resolution was passed to use every means in their power to put a s op to the truck system , which was making rapid strides to supersede the payment of wages iu money , with some of the manufacturers , to the great injury of the workman and the honest manufacturer . The meeting elected a Committee of five , with instructions to prosecute those manufacturers who had glaringly violated the Truck Act . Tiie Committee immediately weat to work and selected three of the manufacturers , who were considered the worst in that respect for prosecution , two for the penalty , and as for the third , one of his hands spontaneously offered to
prosecute for his wages . The two former , however , wrote to the agent employed by the Committee , and pledged themselves to discontinue the practice of paying in goods in future if the prosecution were abandoned , the Committee ' s object being merely the putting a stop to the system , was thus attamsd The third case came on before the Justice of Peace Court , ou Thursday last ; Henry Stones , pursuer , and Peter Wilson , manufacturer , defender . On the Bench appeared the Earl of Minto , the Honourable John Elliot , — Chesholm , Esq ., of Starches , and — Grieve , Esq ., of Brauxholm Braes . The action was for the amount of wages which the defender had deducted from the pursuer for a number of weeks , and which amounted to upwards of £ 15 , but the claim was
limited to £ 5 , to bring it within the jurisdiction of the Court . From the investigation it appeared that Mr . Wilson had a shop which he called " HawickStore , " where hia men were furnished with goods during the wef k ; that each man ' s account was kept in a small book , which was sent to the warehouse on counting days , and the amount deducted from Ms waxes ; that one means of inducing his workmen to take the goods , was the limiting the supply of employment to those who declined dealing in his store , &c ! &c . The defender , who has long enjoyed the cognomen of " Crafty , " notwithstanding his pretended ignorance of the law , his regard ( or the welfare of his men , whom he was so anxious to oblige , and all h s doubling and twisting , iu which
he displayed a good deal of " craft , " was desmed to pay to the pursuer the wlwle sum sued for . Lord Minto , who presided , and his brother , appeared uncommonly anxious that the pursuer should not in * sist on taking the money , which , said his Lordship is not morally yours—the letter of aa Acfc of Parliament gives you a legal claim , but it is scucelj henest to taka advantage of the letteT of the law , to take what does not beiong to you . Very good , mj Lord , after that wo expect to hear of your refusing co take advantage of an act of Parliament any longer , and give up your pension of £ 324 per annum , which never morally belonged to you , and which you hare meanly pocketed for a great number of years , although you know it to be wrung from the hard . earnings of tho working men . While delivering the decision of the Court , he hoped it would be the
last case of tho kind that would be brought before it , as the Court woulu be more disposed to look upon it as a means of extorting money , rather than respect for the law . But in spite of this threat of his Lordship , the men are determined to bring the rery first case they can # et hold of before the same tribunal . What has procured us the honour of Earl Minto ' s presence oa this occasion ? is & question often asked 6 ince the Court , as he has not appeared here on the bench for at least a quarter of acenlury ; and we think a solution of the query may bfl found in the fact that Mr . W . has always been a thick and thin supporter of tbe Minto mterert , in their contests for th representation of the counij . The Court-house was crowded , and the audience received many of the remarks of the Elliots with marked disapprobation .
MA . KCHESTEH , —Fxchange vo Robbery . —One day last week three respectably-attired females entered the shop of an extensive diaper , residing iuthe Borough Buildings , London-road , Manchester , and , after making a few trifling purchases , left the shop . In a short time after their departure , the shopman found that a iarge Paisley shawl , value 30 s . was missingvaud no o-her persons having oeen in that part of the establishment but the above-mentioned females , it was suspec . ed that they had stolen it . Information was immediately given to thepoliW . of
Inspector M'Muliin , from tho description given the three females , succeeded in taking them into custody ; but , after the mo 3 t minute search , could not find the stolen , property ; the females , however , were brought up for examination before Mr . Maude , the sitttng magistrate , at the Uorough Court . Tiw shopman , that served them aud j * i'MHllin were examined by the magistrate , as witnesses for the prOsecutioa ; Mr . B . at , solicitor , appeared for the defendants ; and in cross-examitiing the shopman * pufc the following questions to him : —
Mr . Bent . —Now Mr . Shopman , I believe yon are fond of kissing a pretty # iri ! Shopman . —Yes , sir , under the ro e . Mr . Benc—Yes ; and behind the merinos , too . ( This made the poor shopman look unutterable things . ) Now , Mr . Shopman , did not yoa steal » kiss from one of the prisoners at . the bar in toe shop on the day that this shawl was lost I Shopman . Yes , sir . . Magistrate—Do you mean to eay thaHbe sbftwl wasgiven in return for that favour ' Mr . Bent . —Certainly not . Tnere is no evidence against my clients . But if it had beea the case exchange is no robbery . The Magistrate dismissed the case .
SOUTH CHURCH .-The workmen on tha Deanery Colliery returu their sincere thauks to the following places for assistance during thet ' r 3 tragg » i with the masters tor their rights : —Woeohouse Close , £ 1 5 j 10 . M ; Greo : Ketton , 6 i 7 d ; Tnmdea 4 « 8 d ; St . Helen ' s . 9- > 8 d ; Biaesc Boy , 15- fU Wingate , l < k 9 . J . 1 ; Kallo , 8 d ( Md ; Thornley , 9 * 4 * d ' , QuarrirKton hill 4 s lOd ; tfzac , 2 a 2 i < i ; V ** W Eden , 19 s 8 d ; Etherley and Witten ParK , 5 i 7 d . CLITHBROE . —Mr . David Ross lectured in the large room of the Swan Inn , on Saturday evening . Subject : — " Elocution ; its gross neglect , and abuse in the pulpit , tho bar , and the senate . He was listened to by an attentive audience . The lecturer treated his subject with such a degree of precision as to give the greatest satisfaction .
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Wilful Muedeb . —A serious investigation has occupied the atteotion of Mr . R . Fcwke , coroner and a jury , ftt Eccieahall , two entire days , wwett terminated on Friday in a verdict of" Wilful Mulder" against Charles Higginson , labourer . Hi * g u »* eon , who i 3 a widower , is supposed to have n » or * dcred his child , a boy about five years of age , in tM Bishop ' s-wood , near Eccleshall , and to bave bunea him there , flijrginson , who had been working u » Shropshire , made some extraordinary statements w his fellow-workmen and master respecting his cnuo having been taken ill and dying in his arms , an « that he had buried him in the BishopVwood . a » proposed to go and point out tho spot where H » child was buried on the following day , but inhte& since
of-keeping his word he absconded , and has not been heard of . Th& parties , however , gave " »* "rm » : tion to the authorises ; the wood was searched , ana the body of a child was found buried there , wmcO has been iceatifiid as the body of IJigginson s cnuo . A post mortem examination of the body was ma « by Mr . Greatrex , surgeon , wiio was of opinion . ton the child had como to its death by violence , s iracture occasioned by a blow from some bloat ' ' ** J ment , or a kick , being discovered on the inner troutai bone , and an external brutes corresponding WJfa . * V The case , altofjetntr , was a very strong one . A description of Ri < Mk >? on has l . rc- ft iven at t / ie , J' ° , * I buiary-offioe , at Stafford , and there w but wttle dflnDi that he will ba speedily appKheudod . —SwfforMun Adverlizcr .
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THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , MAY 20 , 1843 .
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THE FACTORY BILL . We give elsewhere a long report of a most important meeting of Millownew and Members of Parti a meat in consideration of the labour clauses of the Factory Bill . We invite special attention to the speeches of the partizans of labour and money rciptciivtly . We say lhe speeches ; we c&unot say j ¦ ; u arguaunU of both ; because the argument wasj ali ou one eide . j
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THE LAND QUESTION . Wb have been surprised to receive two or three communications from which it would appear that some Chartists look upon Mr . O'Con . nor'b proposition for the appropriation of the land to its legitimate purpose of supporting the people in comfort , as calculated to lead away the people from the straggle after political right , to a mere consideration of their social position . We are amazsd to think how such an idea can have entered any body's head . If we have not greatly misunderstood Mr . O'Cunnok , nothing could have
been further from bis head at any rate . There is no possibility of Bevering the political and social condition of the people . They are cause and effect . The one produces the other as naturally and necessarily as fire produces heat . Who thinks that the Charter would be valuable to the people , if its achievement rested in itself ; or if it did operate as a cause to produce social amelioration and individual benefit as its effect ! Can Mr , O'Coknor , or can tbe People be better occupied than in the investigation of the mode through which the
cause may best operate to produce the effect proposed ! For ourselves , if we conceived the purpose or the tendency of the land scheme to be in the least degree detrimental to the progress of the Charter movement , it should instantly have our most determined opposition . We do not so regard it . On the contrary , we it thiak if duly understood aud acted on , calculated to be tbe most powerful collateral aid to the enfranchisement of the whole people that has yet occupied the people ' s mind . We shall recar to this subject again and again . f -, . ,- _ -r _ r _ .. i- . » J ^^^^^^ fci
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 20, 1843, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct482/page/4/
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