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THE ffOBTHERK STAR. Saturday, april 17, iwi.
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-g £ jLEET PAPERS , Not . M * ad 15 . Pavey , ^^ London . irhese two numbers are of as nmttoally stirring Interesting character , and not an admirer of WiirdOastJer shonld for » moment—they witf not B » ** r _ be withont them- 1 t is not that we ** mneh from Mr . Oastler's own pen in either ** Jl what little we hare is of the mrual sterling V Lnd is perfaded with the eloquence and ear-« 2 Ewd- heartwmeBS of the writer ; bat it is on s ** Df the very appropriate and cuttingly severe
g * £ tfs own mills , by way of contrast against his •^ jenuiiclfttions of the landed aristocracy for-JverueUy he charges tbeta with , that the two ten before us are so interesting and valuable . ^ Sfkr- j . G . Marshall haa thundered away his JLjaree of gr&pe shop amongst the aristocracy , for fwfce cail 3 their inhumanity and * r * at of feeling , nrf-srhic a is asserted in vagueand general although H aLr-th significant terms , what will he say to the PBS the "Old King" has . thrown icto his Kr every Aot of whka veils with terrible effect « 5 is taken from bia own store-house ? Oastler £ bs opens and continues his broadside : — ilarehallthe Flax
« At present , Mr . J . Gr- , -spinuer , , tj ^ , mi siintrabury , has m » de hiiaself Ttry profs-ant , i > y taii « i E * 11 Fitz William to task . " Tjt is n ot hit intention to interfere in their quarrel , w »* I aatoi permit such &n opportunity to pass onvedad . I grieve to think that a nobUman should , Jr ^ flTn imprudence , bar * given the millocras a ^ ^ iih -which to assay tie destruction of hi * « jit noble Eari '» never-to-be-sufiiciently-deprecat * d ,-nnuneodarion ' to pay no more taxes — hia close coniSoa and constant friendship with the Leeds ' ns E ^ gj , * who threatened to behead the King , " and "PrT paiaed a : the Quefcn ;'—hia strenuous support jtL ^' * Poer Liw > ^ otaer maUeTS m EaTl jLj ^ fllinu ' * political career , render him a vulnerable
» Althongh I * tall not interfere in the dispnte , I j-n do good sarriee to niv country , if , by his works , I * o * jon wLo a 31 * TrQ 3 t tais champion of liberty is , to its Briifcrttken to thryw a * lance at Earl Fitz-^ jjjuh . Wh « is this friend of the working classes ? fffco is this literal reformer ? The folio-wing sUtejjdUi nay assist yon in calculating the character of this fe » to Toar order . ' They may * Iso serve to convince S , wopk of E ^ ^ d . **»* nothing will be gained tr tbs »» ^ * = b ^ * 00131 - should "happen , unluckily , ^ Hpese&e cor ancient nobility—the disgrac * of Iks hS » B , that tbey have been keeping company with g » ftant miiloc-ats , and haTe taken some lessons rel of their txwk ; else , not a nobleman could hare -sorted snch a cruel , tyrannical , execrable , and jj ^ ona measure , as the sccurs&l Xew Poor Law . -
" 1 ! tot , tin landlords of England , instead of listening fo , usd ' lagivig jewrselres , with the millocrats , had BCBained the righa and independence of your lal&Ttrs , —if , in place of sacrificing tLe latter , by deliwJBj tbem up to tfci ttiidtr mercies of the former , you J ^ eccooiaseu and projected their iabour in your fields , ^ i towddflo ! now hare witnessed s Leeds flax-spinner &riog » charge Sari Eitz-srilliam and his otivt with jtJibey , frasd , and murder ! It is not , however , the fat time that Satan has been charged with reproving a . B » faca which I shall relate , selected , at the jKuaenJ , from many more , will prove how much * brass ' Eta tiTe been rtijaired to enable ilr . J . G . Marshall teippssria the fi ^ iJ as the public champion of liberty Bd tOSSiCr : ... .
" ilJo- ' . ' ^ - t , Sir , in publishing the subjoined extracts , it tbe pressn moaienj . is solely l-emuse I think it cppartaiie to warn the aristocracy , and to induce them tsleiTec . ff ' rAferidliBg with the philosophy of the ' liberal lad enlightened' factory monster . The New Poor La-w p otly ax uracch of the Factory system , intended t » tere the tgrimltural poor icto the faeluries . " 1 isTe not hid to travel far for the extracts which &Jb»—they are all selected from one volume , viz : — QeBepcn of the Select Committee on the Factories ' Kijalitioa Act , printed by order of the House of Compnpy t ± of iuzust , 1 S 32 . " These exrraets all refer toti » " « roTi-pfople of Mr . Marshall , the flax-spinner of Iaeds acd simrwsbary . If more should be required , a = nTr . ' Tokme will supply them . I have no rosin faeanKtist : they need none : —
'Mj isme i « Elin Marshall . I live in Leeds . I was hxn in IXjncasier . I am seTenteea years Old . My fcW is iiL'i . He -was guard of a coach , ily mother oaf to Lee-is when I was nine years old , to seek _ worV fonts . I got work at Mr . Marshall ' s ibx mill , in "Wts-lass . I left there because it was so dusty ,, it itzfcd ne so , that I conld scarcely Bpeak , It an \ cted ffij hsiiti I should not have lived long if I . not te& The ficiorj-bell was a dolefnl sound to me . ily rabsr ira deid , my mother was very poorly off , ind nr Kitsr snd I did what we could for her . I have Bfe& Eicy an hoar ia the factory . I could scarcely piicc : ?; I wis txceediagly fatigued at night . Somet ! B £ « I had to t > 5 ' teiUed' home . I have an iron on BJ DEtt lej—my inee is contracted- It was a great timrj to me to wor * . I was itraight before . My safer las carried : ce np to bed many a time . I have
ism ia oat-pitieat of the Lt « ds Inirmary nearly intTi mo 2 tt « , and this last winier I hav = bren into fts Ifi 2 nn 2 rv s ' x weeks . I was under Mr . Chorley fcey pet irons on to my legs , which cost the lnbJBsrr ^ 3 . 1 havegooe-sFith gr eai difi ^ nlty to the mill , vd oj& $ not tell anyboi ' y what I suffered- They c- > utd b « t > e 3 eTe me , I am rare , if I did . My mother was * nj Bahappy io see me so dealt with ; she cried , but fie tcsli cot keep me at hoiae I was obliged to go , a sis dr » p in tae streets . I went to the mills as long uleoaii At last I cried , and ns ^ d to fail hack in i ^ d'Vi-ea they called me , so that they cou ' . d not find h ibar harts m sena me . I now live with my mother & Qorltjr has examined me thoroughly ; he says it BTithtasg ttaE&mz , and that the marrow ig dried up pate oct of the bone . He s : ys , : hat whrn the marrow pi teed ^ n ; , it will nev = r be formed agaia . ' 8 Oaries Bums , states : —
'IHp . kXi 25 , Dnte-street , Leeds . I am thirteen JsatW . 1 be ? 2 jj to -work in Mr . Marshall's flax mill * kffl I ins near eight years old ; 1 was then a bobhin-&& We worked from six in the morning to seven KBigfa :. TVe had forty minutes allowed fur sinntr : y * had no silDiraEce for breakfas : oi afternoon ' drinkn ? ' I 'was very mueh tired and fatigued ;—as soon as iwEnihome , and sat by tl e fire , I fell ailetp directly i » fterw £ rds itent % o trark si . iir . Li ^ b !» n ' s flax mill We wa » not allowed to sit down in Mr . Marshall ' s niiil toifig the whole d » y ! If we did , we sbonid get « ea ! it is a common tking for the children to be "lea . I hal a sister , who worked as Mr . Marshall ' s Bi the got kjaed there . The oyerlooier behaved very
adtotie children . " When my sister was working * 6 t , he beat her , and the rest of the children also . I * j * BQ t vte to attend a night school , or a Sunday J * wl I had to rest oa the Sunday m-rning . I hbouid we liked u > Lav- eoue to the night si-houl , but I could TJ ? ^ f ^ ° ? and girls that are so over-wurked con-J * ^' "' ^ w be one of rrc&t hards-hip nr . ti suffcr-^ 5- Thej ire vtry nnhappy indeed ; when ihey want »« t tbrir bnaj , it is so dusty , they cannot eat it ; ^ f » od is spoiled , it is so dusty . They lose their * 3 * tites . Scaie of them are ill , and then thty have to Ptose , and many of them die ! They are almost " ** J 5 nisilsg th ^ ir meals Being 30 dusty , they are sw to- ^ ke their meat home again . " "MsriBesta ^ ^
I he abont nfty-six years old . I have been en-W " overlooker in the Six mUl of Mr . Marshall . wererBlai hours of -work art fri > m six to SfcVtn . When "T ^ e ' thrang , " fram five to nine at night I They ? ^* ' *' i- rtyraii ; ntes for dinner ! Xo time is allowed J * w * aifaii or drinking ! ' Tlie children put the fooa ks iAt , &ni tK a M t ^ 7 ^^ Sj 22 £ times , when 6 » J . ^ badl they are Pr = ^ tnted getting it at all ; ¦^ T « Te thvn to take it home again . Sometimes it is jjsfed . that it is rendered unfit to eat . The dust ^~ £ ffl ! till " Ley can scarce ly see each other ! In the g * -K * aa , the refase hangs about their mouths , whilfe TT * ft fc ^ ticg their food ' . Sometimes , in those dusty £ «* > U takes away th ^ ir appetites , and they cannot Inej beat the b . jys and girls wit :: a strap , to make T ™ ^ k ihira Whsn thtv sro fftt . ioned _ and lired . to to
^! * £ ? ot' % e < i use them werse make them keep £ a ! - £ / ' 3 a'JJi « r i Tcnoxc very icell that the children are ± }* ° ^ " ^ trapped ; { hey encourage the overlookers ¦^~ u- Itz straps are about one foot and a half j £ S . a £ a ^ ^ Jii c j . the tnd Qi aQme ot tiiemj iifflf end of iJle Etra P- " srbich ^^ b&iX thcm witk ' ^ cr wt into fire or six thongs- They are regn-• • ^ aae for the purpose ! Unless they are driven . ' '¦ 'Kfcd up , they cannot get tbe quantify of work Jv _ * lsi freni them . They are fined as - « rell as beater , r ^ iare ^ ed for speaking to one another!—for combtV 1 T ilaTT . »_ . fn » ^* . « wV , I _ ™ t \ . ^ mrnl — nA » V » » *•! £ ^ 1 » 1 T W ( 7
^ « tots : __ o r dOiBg an j thing , so as to go home jS * " \ K Ei ght . ' Thty are not allowed to do any such ^ S > u t he t ork was going on ever so well ; profound k ^ T * . enjoined . The children were exceedingly ^^^ Xhe neual hours of bbour are too long for ^ j « i to u = r . yrben they go home , if they get 45 ^^* 3 before the fire , they are asleep in a few jJTt The foe spinning rooms are Tery much £ *« > tnd full of st « un . In winter , the clothes cf jj * " » ho live at z distance will be frozen to their |^* » aod gj ^ jg ^ jg . before Q ^ y i ^ cme . 1 hare ^_ xi& pfcrioQ of long labour , from five to tine , confe ^ " * 7 w " ^ moatL * together . When tbe chil-> 0 ^^ 8 t borce in consequence or illness , from ever-* ta » r * " ^ lon 8 honrs , tke master ceitber pays thfeii * toat the doctor ' ^' ^^ ^ isiicrs are < zmifi& jj" ° * oe ? r ftj tctri , ) fj ^ y msrd gaieraiXy io come round , * J * hour l ^ fore , and leU tis to deea ^ and get tmt ^ Z * ° : exn < o « i tidy against Uu lime . There tc * s *< le ™!; * ° r cmity fffing on vhn tin visitors vxrt
^^• pben Biims , a ^ ed thirty-nice , informed the ccm-^ be ? 5 n to work m the factories when I was aboul j * Jeaa old . I tare worked in nine different fac-£ ?? At ilr . ManSuOi-B factory , tbere u as much Vot ? E ?!! D 5 to the cha < iren spoiled , us will half keep jg ^ enooxir's pig . The vork ^ the mills prodncej ^^^ mthe cMdren—it lames them . Tbewori ft flSo m tile ' ^ df « the utmost possible we can gJ ^^ T-it caano * ^ doEe ^^ 0 ^ jesortirg to flog-¦* » H u ia office for aay to speak to another
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Th » w&te * Bsed far hot-spinning , ia heated to lift to 130 degrees . The children bare almost eonttnnaUy to phmge th « Lf hands and arma in that water . Tbe beat of those rooms and the steam , almost macerates tht ir bodies , and their clothes are steamed and wet When the masters go into the room * , they do not look to the fatigue of the children ; but if every one is sot doing their wort , there is a sharp look out after them . If they fell rick , it f » hardly theaght twice about , but they are sent home directly . The employer * have abundant opportunity of noticing ike excessive faliyue of the c&Odren tmjioytd ! It 1 b sot allowed to have seats at all . They are not allowed to speak to each other . I never knew an overlooker discharged for cruel condact . It » child complains of ill-usage , she gets discharged that is all the redress she can bave . Tee present system is mining the rising generation ; it is sacrificing the children for a paltry consideration : '
" Samuel Djwne , of Hnnslet Car , near Leeds , reports as follows : — ' ' I am tweaty-nine years of age . 1 am a native Of Shrewsbury . 1 was about ten years old when I began to work , at Mr . Marshall ' s mill at Shrewsbury . When we were brisk , we used generally to begin at five in the morning , and run till « igb . t at night The engine never stopped , except forty miuutesat dinner time . These long hours were very fatiguing . The children were kept awake by a Wow or a box ! Tery considerable severity was used ip that mill ! I was strapped most severely , till I could not bear to sitnpon a chair without having pillows ; and I was forced to 2 ie « pon my face in bed at one time ! and through that I left I was strapped on my le ^ s , and taen 1 was put on a man ' s back and strapped ! and then I was strapped and buckled with two strap * to an iron pillar , and flogged !! After that , the overlooker took a piece of tow , and twUted it in the shape or a cord , and put it in my
mouth , and tied it behind my bead 1 He thus jagged me , and then he ordered me to run round a part of the machinery , und be stood at one end , and every time I came round , he struck me with a stick , which I believe was an ash plant , and which he generally curried in his hand , till one of the men in the room came iuid begged me off : ! At one timo 1 was beaten so , that 1 had not the power to cry at all . ' . ' I was then between ten and eleven years old ! It was wiuter time , and T ^ e -worked by gas-light , and I could Dot catch the revolutions of the machinery , to take tbe tow out of the hackles ; it requires some little experience , and I was timid & % it , and pricked my fingers very much with the hackles . I cannot assign ony othtr reason for it ! He was nut discharged from the railL We were never allowed to sit . ' We were rot allowed to taik !—not at all , by no means J If this man heard us , he came to us with his stick ! Young women were beaten as well as young men '
" J . natban Downe ' s statement follows : — ' 1 reside in L ^ eds . I am twenty-five years old . I first went to work at ^ lr . Marshall's mill when I was seven years oM . Very severtj methods were adopted , in order to compel us to work their long hours . 1 have seen boys knocked down with a strap : they have been called from their work , flogged , and then knocked down on the flx > r ; and when they have been on the floor , they have been beaten titt they Lave risen , and when they have rit * n , they have been flofged to their work again . ' That was very common > 1 know many who have been bound to pillars , and then flogged—it is qu te common to do so ! Females were ali * chastised > "o means were taken to remove the overlouker who inflicted such extreme chastisement J If we had
complained to Mr . Marshall , we should have b « wn discharged ; and whatever hand "was turned away from > fr . Marshall ' s , Mr . Btnyon would not employ ; and whatever hand was turned away fro : u Mr . Benyon ' s , Mr . Marshall would not employ ;—and these were the only two mills in Shrewsbury . I have known a mother of two chiluien , in Mr . Marshall's employment at Shrewsbury , knocKed down by the overlooker ! Horseman , the manager , Will go to the overlookers , and , if th ^ y have not done somethi ng stvere , he will say , ' I have never heard cf your dciug anything —you have never quarrelled with any of tht ? hands—do something , that I may bear of it , and I will stand your friend ! ' It is the usual practice to prepare mills , previous to their being inspected by strangers . It is a
frequent thing a . t Mr . Marshall's mill , where the least children are employed , ( there are plenty working at six vears of age !) provided a child snou ' . f ! be drowsy , the overlooker walks round the room , with a siick in his hand , and he touches that child on the shoulder , and s'vyR , ' Coine here . ' In the ccruer of the r ^ jiu , theru ia an iron cistern—it is filled with water ; he takes this boy up by the legs , and dips him ovtrhrad in the cistern , and sends him to his work for the remainder of the day ! and that boy is t « stand , dripping us he is , at his work ! be has no chance of drying himself : That is the punishment for drowsiness . '—for other offences there is a staol fixed np at the end of the room ; the boy who offceds ssput to stand en this stool , sometimes on both legs , and sometimes on one of his legs , with the' other up , and he has a lever to bear in bis hands , raised and stretched « ver his head ; and there he haa > o
stand , for ten , or fiftten , or thirty minutts , jus : as the overlooker chooses ; and , provided he should lower his arms , > aad it is a great weight to bear for a quarter of an hour , ) 1 have seen tho overlooktr go and say , * hold up : ' and somttimes the boy will try to hold it up , and yet not have strength to raise it , an » i the overlooker cuts him with his stick , until be does actnaliy get it up ; and the tears will run down his face when he is there standing ! I have seen this done there fi \ quent : y —it is the regular practice ! We have a vast number of cripples . Some are crippl « l from losin ? their Innos — many from standing too Jong It first begius with a pain in the ankle , after that , they will ask the oferleoker to let them sit down—but they must not Then they begin to be weak in the k < ee-tb « n knot-k-kneed —after that , their feet turn out—they become splayfooted , and tfceir ankles strtll as big aa my fists . I know many deformtd in the Wii deitribtd- '
' The perusal ofsuch horribly disgusting , cruel details , showing by what means Mr . J . G . Marshall has bttn made a rich man , makes the heart iick , and throngs tbe mind with thoughts that require well balancing , before they are expressed in words . " Who does not feel hiB blood creep thrcigh his veins at tbe foregoing recitals of the deliberate , cold hearted , and barbarous slow murder of the youuj ; children of the factories ! Good God ! and is a man in prison for exposing these enormities ; and for advocating humanuy to the pallid , deformed , wasiiog , and perishing victims ! We havn read that our forefathers in Druidical davs made baskets of wicker
work , rudely shaped in the form of man , and then filled them with human offerings whom they burned alive to appease or gratify their savage sods . Here was at ail events sincerity of purpose , fell thoogh it might be ; it had religious feeling for its basis ; and the suffering , though horrible and awful , was not very protracted ; bat this devotion to the God Mammon-. \] olocli is more selfish , is for mere gain only , and prolongs the sufferings of death for day afwr day , month alter month , or year after year , torturing its victims as the tiger does his weak prey , as if feasting on their pangs and leuglhened agoLies .
As Mr . Marshall has figured away agaiott Lord Fitnvilliam , with the aid of a friend in the background , who has served him as the monkey served the cai 3 with the chesnuti in the fable , we would suggest the propritty of his appealing to his friend to give him a beiping hand i <> get him out of the mire iaw which he hai dragged him . We must reserve the plums of No . 15 for oar next .
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« WHO WILL BELL THE CAT !" Oxr& comment upon the new move , in our last number , was neces ? arily brief . We were not taken by surprise ; though we confess our astonishment at the manner in which our anticipations have been realised .
It is the fashion with most political writers to predict events upon their occurrence ; thus npon subjects never thought of we not unfrequently find oar contempcraries launching into extravagant eulogiums upon their intuitive knowledge of facts , npon which , before they were known to all the world , our friends were dumb as the silent tomb-Btone . However , that ire did predict the forthcoming alliance , we shall presently submit what we trust will stand as nnqnestionable proof . In fact , we " belk d the cat" before tlie " cat came out of the bag . "
When we attempt to prove the affirmative or the negative of any proposition for our toil-worn readers , who have not so much time to digest the Whole matter as we have , they expect that we shall proceed to our work calmly and plainly , so as to aid them in the formation of a sensible and deliberate judgment upon the subject . It knot enough that we
say , "«« volo , " " sicjubeo , " thus I will , - and thus I command ; but we must Bhew wherein our will should be their mil ; a-nd then the observance of their command becomes our honourable duty . Such are our reciprocal dependencies . If we are not free , we cannot defend the rights of others ; while our freedom is of little use if not exersised boldly , manfully , apd" i defian ce of all -danger .
We proceed , then , to shew , firstly , that thiB Association is of ( yCossELL , Hote , and Roebuck ' s concoction ; and , secondly , that we predicted it , and iostantly " belled the cat , " in the Star of the 6 th of February , under the head " The Triumph . "
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" Mr . Ham ? submitted a definition of what he considered Houehold Suffrage ought to tw , wMeh was to t » takes into consideration by H » A saoclatian , Hestatad that the leading men of the working classes generally coDeoraed in the definition , and had promised to give their assistance , wan an agitation tor saeh a Household Suffrage to he set on foot " Mr . O'Conn « U cordially concurred in the suggestions of Mr . Hume . He considered it as of the first importance that the reasonable portion of the Chartists should be got over to the aid of tbe Rational Reformers , fie urged tbe necessity of some central body being established in London , for the diffusion of knowledge upon political subjects . Tbe public mind should be saturated with fucis bearing on the present gross defects ia the representation of the people . _• ¦ ' ¦ -. ' . ¦ .
" Mr . Roebuck said that each a body wasat present in contemplation in London , and he trusted that it would very speedily be set in operation , so as to act in conceit with the Heeds Association . " Upan this announcement we proceeded to comment as follows : — " Aye , aye , we were aware that the ecouta were on the look-out for fragments from the wreck ef the good ship , ' Charter , out of which they bad , in their fanciful
imaginations , built a tight little bart for Whiggery to float a little longer on the stream ; but they have been mistaken . We were not asleep ; we knew what was to have been tbe sequel of a Whig triumph at Leeds . We told tbe people that it was to have been followed by a similar side-blow at Chartism at Leicester , Manchester , and Birmingham ; and by a whip in London . Hence we saw the full value of our triumph at Leeds . "
After a few more comments we concluded the article thus : — " Now , this is beld . We challenge them—we dare them—we defy them , and we give them every man they can crimp—every bit of ginger" they can purchase , and our provincial delegates shall outnumber the H-o-u-s-ehold ambassadors . " No , no ; we were not caught napping ; nor will we be so now Xondon is garrisoned ; and no past service , even though it were half-hanging , can reconcile the troops to one single move of a pin ' s point from tbe thine—the ' Ciiarttr . '
" We have long since said that agitation is now too cheap and unfashionable , in its new form , to arrest the attention and command the services of gentltmen too idle to work and too poor to do without it . So much fur the Rotunda meeting , projected alliance , and new definition of H-o-u s-ehold Suffraga " We imagine that no man of sound mind will for one moment doubt that the Association which has now sent forth its " Prospectus of Principle , " and which was to have acted with the Leeds Association
for Household Suffrage had it been successful , if that very Association to which Messrs . Hume and Roebuck referred , and which Mr . O'Cojwell so highly eulogised ; aud that we did not tor one single moment doubt who the parties were , will be abundantly proved by our close watching and immediate exposure of Mr . Collins ' * quibbles , quirks , and shifts upon the question of Household Suffrage . In fact , being upon the spot , aud seeing the part which he acted , it became at once plain and obv . ous , not only to us , but to every Chartist in Leeds , that his object was to get in tho wedge , in order to split the popular party and erect a new one upon its ruins , at the head of which was to be placed the golden image , the " mouey-fiuders . "
That we then predicted what has since taken place , reference to the whole articlo of Fob . 6 th will prove ; and that we would meet the conspiracy on the threshold whenever it presented itseif , the three last paragraphs which we have quoted above pledged us : and now we proceed fearl&ssly to redeem that pledge . Our first consideration in this painful but necessary duty , is to aualyse the pretensions of those who thus lay claim to so much public confidence , as to warrant the hopo that our Wholo temple , which has cost so much in the erection , shall be levelled , pulled to pieces , and destroyed , in order that the new architects may , from the materials , build up a better one , and more to public taste .
Of Mr . RoGEiiS , then , we know but little , and the Chartists know less . Wo know him to be what is called " a consistent Reformer" and disciple of Cobbett—to have been Treasurer to the Convention , and to have resigned his trust : but further of his political labours in the Chartist cause we know nothing . Of his integrity as a man , we have the very highest opinion ;' so we have of Mr . Bainesbut we would be sorry to be placed under his leadership .
Mr . Mitchell . If " not to know" Mr . ' iMiTCHELL ** argues one ' s self unknown , " we must e ' en suffer tho charge of obscurity , and bear it as the penalty of our ignorance ; but positively we never heard of him before to our knowledge ; therefore if he is indeed worthy the appointment which be seeks , or rather which he has assumed—if we are guilty of any offence against him , it merely amounts to a want of knowledge of the fashionable C / iartist world . Mr . Collins we do know , and have known more of him than we could have wished of lato . Mr . Lovett , we also know , and have known less of him than we could have desired of late ; however we have before apologised for his -inactivity ; we could wish it had degenerated even into neutrality .
Messrs . Cleavs and Hetherimston are as well , nay better known , perhaps , to the Chartist world than ourselves ; therefore beyond the consideration of their part in the document under consideration we need make no comment . - < Before we comment upon the dangerous tendency of this document , let us consider whether or not the complainants are altother free from their principal charges , and whether or no they come into Court with clean hands . The complainants , then , charge the Chartists as follows ;—
" We have wasted glorious means of usefulness in foolish displays and gaudy trappings , seeking to captivate the sense rather than inform the mind , and aping the proceedings of a tinselled and corrupt aristocracy rather than aspiring to the mental and moral dignity of a pure Democracy . Our public meetings bave , on too many occasions , been arenas of passionate invectiv , party spirit , and personal idolatry . " Now , with the exception of our very excellent and stanch friend , Dr . M'Douall , we know of no one person upon whom so much "foolish display " and " gaudy trapping" has been wasted of late as upon Mr . John Collins ; and , curiously enough , when M'Douall complained of the waste Mr .
Collins was altogether 6 ilent . We do wish that he had received this stroke of conscience before he put the warm-hearted people of Scotland to the exptnee of so many carriages and four greys , so many tea parties , public eitrie 3 , medals , scarfs , and all tbe insignia of "foolish displayand gaudy trappings , " and before he put us to the expence of some £ 40 in reporting tho honour thus conferred . This complaint from Mr . Collins , therefore , very forcibly reminds us of the thrifty dame , who , after borrowing her neighbour's tea- kettle for twenty years , at length got one of her own ; and then the good dame , good lack J discovered that borrowing was a most injurious practice , and lending just as bad .
" Our public meetings have on too many occasions beeu arenas of passionate invective , party spirit , and personal idolatry . " Our friends , whose answer to Mr . Lovett we embodied in our laBt week ' s short comment , have left us little to say upon this l&ttet charge , to which they havo bo perfectly , and so feelingly , and so justly replied . One portion of tbe sulject , however , appears to bave escaped the memory of Mr . 1 / ov . ett's correspondent , and to which we shall direct his attention .
This charge of " passionate invective , partyspirit , and personal idolatry , " comes with a bad , a very bad , grace from five out of the six complainants . Of late the only meetings , or nearly so , have been npon the subject of the Corn Laws ; indeed all , where any " passionate invective" or " party feeling" were manifested ; and here we ask if it was not the unanimous recommendation of tbe Convention , of which Messrs . Lovett , Coiains , Cleave , Hethbri ngton , and Bogebs were members , that all agitation for a repeal of the Corn Laws should be resisted , overcome , and put dovra ! With vrhacolour of right , or show of justice , then , can they now turn upon those who in thus displaying their " personal idolatry , " have but acted upon the advice of the complainants themselves I
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Bat , parhape , our friends nay answer , « yea , but we meant to meet the questions with coolness and argument , and not with angry feelings and passion ate invective . " We ask Messrs LOVBTT and COLLINS , in turn , what was the resolution for which they Buffered twelve months In Warwick Gaol 1 Was it not for the declaration that the people , while peaceably , legally , and constitationall yiand not pas-Bionately or intemperately ) disonssing their grier . aaces , were brutally , illegally and nnJMAstitotioaallyattacked and dispersed , with " passionate inyeotive " and party feeling !"
Again , let B 8 just enquire who in these " passionate invectives and exhibitions of party feeling" have been the aggressoref whether the Chartists , as the complainants most dishonourabl y and unjustly charge , or those hired bludgeon lecturers and the other interested parties who grew intolerant from Chartist long forbearance , until at length it became necessary to meet invective by inveotive ^ and angry feeling with angry feeling . In every single case the Chartists have nobly acted upon the very suggestion of the Convention , of whioh five of the complainants were members .
Surely Mr . Hetherington could not have joined in this denunciation of tho Chartists ' conduct at public meetings , e ] 86 he must hare forgotten his tetter of justification of their conduce to theSforning Chronicle , so recently written ; and surely Mr . Cleave did not read it , else he must have forgotten his recent part at the most angry meeting we have recorded for a long time , ( indeed , ever we may say , )
held but a few weeks since at tho Crown and Anchor . But , perhaps , being in opposition to Mr . Walter , a Tory , may constitute the difference . We are willing to do most of the gentlemen , indeed all of them , the justice to say that they have never , to our knowledge , evinced any " angry feeling" or " party inveotive" at a single Whig meeting that has been called in the metropolis withiu our Teoollection .
As for the " personal idolatry , " we shall only add , in addition towhat has been already said , — "sour grapes !" When Mr . O'Connor worked himself nearly to death , forming committees of supply and release for Messrs . LovKTr and Collins , we never heard a sentence in condemnation of that respect of which he literally made them idols . But , perhaps , like the temple , the idols too have lost their charm , and new ones are to be aet up in their stead .
There are some who would blend popular idolatry with electoral support to gain Parliamentary honours ; and , we fear , they have become golden images with new worshippers . We think , however , that tho personal idolatry may be strung with the "foolish displays and gaudy trapping , " and hung round Mr . Collins ' s neck with hi 3 various medals , as he is the only one of that party who , of late , has been made an idol of . We shall now consider tho professed object of the parties , and tho means by which that object is to be achieved .
Of course , in the outset , the Charter is the object ; indeed nothing else would do to bait the trap . Any declaration short of the whole Charter , would at once strangle the infant in tho cradle . The object then is to achieve tho Charter , 3 iid the means are by a voluntary tax of two hundred and fifty-six thousand four hundred and eight pounds per annum . Foro Gad , this is coming it strong ! and smells rank of tho old fox , Dan . But to tho object .
Now , is there one single man of the bix , or one man with half an eye in England , who is not aware that the real object of the new movo is to destroy the old move % Do the panics themselves not know , and know full well too , that our last course must bo their first course—that every atone which we have been placing with so much care , one on the top of the other , must be pulkd 'down ; our top atones being thoir foundation stones . Do they require equality ! No ; if they did , they would join in what is already so far progressed ,
and , by their judgment , endeavour to repair what is faulty , instead of attempting to destroy what is sound . They must know that two Associations , holding aloof from each otho when their professed obj jet is identical , must weaken each other . They must know , as indeed they plainly confess , that to arrive at that point where they invite us to atop short , would cost them years of trouble , and tho nation millions of money . They cannot be ignorant of these things ; and hence , we fear that discord was in truth their object , though of course not their professed object .
What claim , we would ask , have they to public confidence , beyond any man now noting upon the Executive of the National Charter Association ) 0 ! " Mr . Roebuck has not yet said it ib a legal body . " True , tniu ; wo forgot that !!! These six gentlemen , while they disclaim all intention of interfering with any Association now in existence , at the same time modestly style themselves " The National Association of tho United Kingdom . " After which in ten distinct clauses , the first commencing with a falsehood , they set forth their objects . They disclaim any notion of interfering with any Association now established , while in section No . I , they commence thus : — " To establish IN ONE GENERAL BODY persons of all creeds , " aud so forth .
Now , here again , our Metropolitan fnend 3 may turn upon us aad say , " O ! but we leave every man to the option of joining as many associations as he pleases . " True again ; but if it requires the enormous sum of more than aquarter of a million annually to carry out the dear objects of one , how many more can each man efficiently support ? Section No . II , is a sprat to catch a mackerel ; as of course , nothing but the whole Charter will now take .
No . Ill , at once proclaims that the organisation is to bo carried on upon new principles , enforced by new missionaries ; as the words " seeing that the intentions of the general body are carried into effect , " has that and no other diplomatic meaning . In fact , this section savours of much authority . These three first sections we may take as declaratory of tho objects set forth in the seven which follow , and in which the " modus operand ?' is laid down .
But then , alas \ we come to the means , £ 256 , 480 per nnurn . Of course , we may be told that this is all TO ] untary , and may , or may not be raised ; that its collection is merely put hypothetically . True again ; but , if it fails the whole fabric of which it is the very groundwork , fails also ; because all the plans in the Ten Commandments arc declared essential to the success of the project ; and the ^ 256 , 480 per annum being the means of their accomplishment , bccomo 3 an indispensable . Therefore , we shall deal , firstly , with the chances of getting the money , and , secondly , with the proposed mode of expending the money if we had it .
We find that the number who signed the National Petition are relied upon , certainly hypothetically as data for volunteer tax-payers . Let us ,- from the natural disposition of man to hare a finger in his own pie , just see in how far this would suit the taste of one of the very best Radical towns in the empire , Glasgow . Suppose , then , that Glasgow f » -a 3 up to the mark and had 60 , 000 signatures , each signature standing for a Id . per week ; this would leave to Glasgow thirteen thousand pounds annually , to be spent in , and for , GlaFgow . It would give them four
district Halls , or Normal or industrial Sohools , at £ 3000 eaoh , * and fifty libraries at twenty pounds each , every year ; whereas if they put that sum into the National Lottery , it would be but the price of a ticket , by which they may , or may not , b « entitled to £ 3000 . Now in the good old times , according to the Grand Lottery scheme , a man got his chance of a £ 40 , 000 prize fora £ 23 ticket ; but here he gets his chance of a £ 3000 prize for a £ 13 , 000 ticket , and so with many other towns . " True , --again , " say the Nationals ; but zounda , death and the devil ! who will argue upon bo cramped and narrow a view of
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patriotism ; should not all work for all ! ' ? Yes , we answer , and so they do ; and work best by working in their own locality , under their own direction , and according to their own judgment ; not by doing what missionaries shall see Jit . But suppose we hare the money . Theobjectia to haveindustrialhalls and libraries . These places have to be built , and the laying the foundation Stone of the . first industrial hall woafcl be iikt the co / tf creation of a new world . Rethink we eee a poor hand-loom weaver looking wistfully at . the slow , fire which is destined to boil his pot , exclaiming with the fox , when he — on heap of stones , "That will be a good fire when it liehtal"
-Will some good fellow furnish us , next week , with an appropriate dialogue between one of tho architects laying the foundation stone of the first halfthe new temple of Liberty , and a hand-loom weaver with nine children , waiting its completion as a mean 3 of relief !< "But we have the money ; the abject is , to carry the Charter , and we are quite sure that none will deny that with the Charter knowledge , temperance , and industry would progress ten thousandfold quicker than without it ; therefore , we all agree that , fit or unfit , tho sooner wo Ret the Charter tho better . " Well , then , we have the money , and now let us try our hand at the expenditure . >
" The value of anything Is jost the price that it will bring . " What would our friends think of the followingapplication of £ 256 , 480 ! [ we love to write the sum , it looks so TEMPTING , and "so worry TICING . " ] We haw , then , the £ 256 , 480 , to be applied as follows : —Wages of one hundred independent Members of Parliament , at £ 1 , 500 each for the Session , £ 150 , 000 ; for the support of a Morning Paper , the game size as the Morning Chronicle , to be sold » fc 2 . jd ., £ 10 , 000 ; ditto , for an Evening Paper , Bumeaize and price , £ 5 . 000 ; ditto , for a
weekly paper , largest size allowed by law , at 3 d ., £ 5 , 000 ; for wages for a standing Parliamentary committee of seven , to sit in London during the Session , and to be elected by the whole people , at £ 10 per week each , * for tweuty-five weeks , and removal at pleasure of the people , £ 1 , 750-tho duties of committee to pay members at the end of each month , stopping salary according to scale of nonattendance , or any other neglect ; 109 missionaries at £ 5 per week , for twenty weeks , £ 10 , 0 G 0 . Balance for election fund , defence fund , tract fund , and other incidental expences , £ 74 , 730 per annum .
Now , what would our friends think of such au " Appropriation Clause , " the enactment of which would , we fancy , put us , in less than two years , in joint possession , of all the Town Halls , Science Halls , Union Halls , Normal and Industrious Schools Libraries , Parka , Pleasure Grounds , Publio Baths , Buildings , and Places of Amusement , in the kingdom , ready built , furnished , stocked , and raised to our hands ; instead of expending annually the sum of £ 240 , 000 , nearly th © whole amount of the annual taxes , in what the economists call "unproductive labour , " piling bricks and mortar on top of each other .
Then the economists did not consult their brethren , although some parts of the address bear evident marks of slight disapprobation recently experienced hy men who were "idols" beforo they threw the idolaters upon their own resources , and would now givethem " vvashingBATHS . " We thought weshould require a dip for an electoral qualification , and next we shall want perfume , what Mr . O'Cqsnor called
the "fashionable stink . ' "True again , say the Nationals , " but where will you get the 100 members ?" We have them ; only give us the £ 1 , 500 a piece for them and we have them , 200 if wo want them , ready made in the market , aye and in the House . Twenty-five ten pound notes , on tbe first Monday of every month , would be a tempting thing ; fifty English , forty Irish , and ten Scotch ; there they are , and a contest , a violent contest for priority .
Do our friends suppose that parties who now vote black white for the mere purpose of getting a paltry commission in the army or navy , a small living in the church , or an appointment to a £ 300 a year commission for a brother , friend , or cousin , would not vote tbat white was white , for tho pleasure of putting £ 1500 a year into their own fob ? Sinecunsts , halt-pay officers , little barristers , small pensioners , ministerial hacks , would scratch each others eyes out in such a contest . Government don ' t givu one half the sum to as many members for slavish work , and by which alone they keep up their majorities .
One hundred independent gentlemen would firstly cut off all the money-mongers who could y . ot leave the Tempk by day , by obliging the House to meet by day . Our hundred would force Government , upon all questions , and upon Supply questions , to keep the House up to a four hundred pitch , at the very least . Our hundred members would have a double barrelled daily press , to annoy the enemy ' s flank and a weekly cannonade to defend their country garrisons .
It is by this very system , at which the French Chamber of Deputies has recently levelled so tremendous a blow ; that our court party is enabled to procure its ascendancy in both Houses of Parliament , by pensioning pauper Peers and bribing pauper Commons . We oould pay 150 , if necessary , but we prefer keeping a sinking fund of £ 75 , 000 annually , for " incidental expences" for which our friends reserve only £ 126 a year .
It must be borne in mind that all our arguments are based upon the presumption that wo have the £ 250 , 480 ; and let it be borne in mind that , failing in its acquirement , our friends' objects are all unattainable ; therefore , the only question at issue is , which plan would most speedily achieve the proposed grand Object— "the Charter V * That is the whole , the sole , the only question . In fact , the naked proposition is just this : —A certain amount of abstinence ,
information , self-respect , and so forth , constitutes so many requisites for the attainment of a certain object . The question at issue , therefore , is resolved into a narrow compass , namely , whether or no the means considered indispensable for the accomplishment of the proposed object are attainable , and , if attainable , whether they could be applied to a more speedy achievement of the end . I is for the country , not for us , to give the answer to the question .
There are some very curious facts connected with this document . It denounces idolatry , while it assumes leadership . It claims co-operation , while it respectfully resolves that , with or without it , it will use every " possible effort" for the attainment of its objects . Let us just ask a question or two . If the names attached to the document had a right to expect so much public confidence , why keep the project secret except from the " Leading Chartists . " Apropos , we imagined that one of the great objections to modern agitation was Leadership . Why
assume leadership 1 Why not call a meeting in London , on ^ he spot , and where the pretensions of the bix gentlemen were best known , and where , if acknowledged by a public meeting , the thing would have bad the stamp of public confidence and the sanction of publio approval , not only of the " Leading Chartists" but of the body of Chartists ! Whyhaveaeelf-eleoted Board of Managem ? ht 1 because we find the following most astounding admission : " It is also intended that the persons
signing it shall form a Provisional Board of Management for aix or twelve months . " Is this Universal Suffrage 1 Is this the free choice of officers ? Is this Election by Ballot f Is this vigilant popular controul ! Here we have bix gentlemen actually nominating a National Board , writing to and inviting whom they please , as members of that 'Board . Monstrous I most monstrous !! and asking them to keep the project a complete secret from the people , until the infernal machine shall be sufficiently
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loaded to be discharged , ( also we suppose in the dark , ) whoa the country would be told , " O , yon are too late , the deed is done ; way did not you Object in time ! " v Let this project betaken in . conjunction with thft eologiums recently passed , upon the majority of 4 ha COmplainantB by the Chronicle , Sun and all the Whig " Establishment , " and also in conjunction with some articles from Tail , ( who has been at the head of the conspiracy , ) and we feel convinced that they have been retained as mid wives to attend the accouchement of " the mountain in labour . " Hera
we have the mountain going to Mahomef , instead of Mahomet to the tnonncain , with a vengeance : hero we have a whole nation surrounded in the dark by half a dozen gentlemen , and handed over , neck and heels , tothe tender mercies of a Provisional Govern * meat of their appointment }! But they are all for Universal Suffrage , aud , as a . matter of course , they have acted upon that principle , and only elected those whom they knew would be acceptable . In faith , it is marvellous lucky for poor O'Consob that he did not even recommend to such an appointment , or oflV funds to a missionary , or he would bd called a " despot , " and would cease to be an " IDOL . "
London is the place that must speak out npon this subject as to the amount of confidence to be placed in those who seek it ; aud the country has but one part to act in the concern , namely , to say whether or no , they ,, the people , are prepared to commit political suicide , ' by cutting the throat of the only association from which they can expect a thorough union , aad which they , themselves , have elected in open day . We think we have done our part calmly , temperately , and boldly ; we say to the people " Do y « likewise . " " Out of evil comes good . "
So far from the new scheme tending to Weaken Or disorganise the Radical ranks , it will have the efftfcl of paralysing the enemy , by evincing the firmness and resolution with which the "idolators" cease to worship their former "idols , " upon the slightestchang of that principle which led to adoration . Our course shall be in this storm , —be it short or be it ltng , be it a squall or be it a hurricane , —just what it has evox bsen , straight forward , * resolved that the good ship Charter , shall not be wrecked even in the dark for want of a good look out .
WE STAND BY THE PEOPLE . Fall they never can , save bt their ow » Btow . ¦ • ¦ We never wrote an article with one half the pain that w « experienced in wrUitig the foregoing ; and if repentance , confession of error , and return to virtue , be any part of a Christian ' s duty , we cannot conclude , without humbly imploring our misguided friends boldly to coufess and manfully to ask pardon , and which , we feel assured , will be cheerfully and unanimously granted . But should it be otherwise , and Bhould the sword be drawn , why then w « throw away the scabbard .
< JS ?* Since the preceding was in type , we bav » learned from Mr . Pitkethly , of Huddersfield , that Mr . Rogers avers his name was appended to tho Lovett-and-Collins' Document without- his knowledge or consent . Mr . Pitkethly saw Mr . Rogkrs the other day , whea ho made a declaration to the above effect . Indeed , He pleaded ignorance of the whole thing . How many more names are thus circumstanced ?
The following list of names has-been sent to us of Mr . Lovett for publication : — William Lovett , 183 , Tottenham Court Road . John Collins , 6 , Court , Bread-strefct , Birmingham . Henry Hethenngion , 13 and 14 , Wine-office Court , Fleet-street . John Cleave , 1 , Shoe-lane , Fleet-street . George Rigers , High-street , St . Giles ' . Henry Mitchell , 67 , Ked Lien-street , Holborn . HenTy Yineent , 5 , Greenland Grove , Cromer-street . Robert Lowery , Nun-street , Nenca&tle-ou-Tyne . Arthur O'Neil , Birmingham . Tliomas Uaynor Smart , 47 , Red Cross-street , Leicester .
John Mitchell , 23 , Queen-street , Aberdeen . John M Crae , Kilbarchun . Charles Jones , Northampton . John Richards , Hanley Potteries . Charles H . Neesoni , 76 , Hare-street , Bsthnal-green . H . Alexander Donaldson , Chapel-street , Warwick . E'lward Brown , Birmingham . W . G . Bui na , Bluckf riar's-gate , Hull . Charles Westerton , l 5 , Park-side , Knightabridga . Richard Russell , Blair ' a-ciose , Edinburgh . William Byrne , 1 , Cloth-market , Newcastle-on-Tyue James Torrfngton , Albion Coffee House , Dudley . Edward Therp , ' Gainsborough .
James B . Austin , cheiaiat , Abingdon . John Bf . 'icham / painter , Cirencester . Pater Layton , tinplate-worker , Banbury . David Buckitey , Mill-street , Coventry . William Allison Whittle , Swan-street , Warwick EdwardDyec ,. Churcb . -street , Stroudwater . William Thomason , Daventry . William Dale , West-street , Dorking . W . J . Linton , Woodford-green , Essex . Anthony Tutton , 32 , High-street , Plymouth . Thomas Parrr , Pontypool . Joseph Welsh . New-street , Ledbnry . Lister Smith , Braintree .
John M'Clintock , Irvine . William Hollis , High-street , Cheltenham . W- D . Wiiitehouse , Studley , Warwickshire . John T . Mlcklewright , Kidderminster . John Jenkinspn , Baptist Minister , Kettering . Rowland Licey , Wotton-under-Edge . J . B . Smith , Leamington . John Peck , Hull . John Garden , Mill-street , Montrose . William Tauntqn , Well-street , Coventry . William Martin , Alverthorpe SchoolB , Wakefield-John Malcolm , West Kilbride . L . Snellihg , Tonbridge .
John Ayre Leatherland , Kettering . William M'Williams , Lanark . D . Scarfe , 14 , Long Wyre-sireet , Colchester . . lohn Booth , Archies Park , Forfar . ThomAS Baml , Kh-kintillock , near Glasgow . JaiiH' 8 Henderson , Salcoats , Ayrshire , James Cook , Morgan ' s Lane , Frome . Alexander Davies , Campsie , near Glasgow . Isaac Bottomley , Hyde , Lancashire . William Bather West , John-street , Sheffield . John Davis , Kidderminster . James Wisharfc " , 300 , High-street , Kirkaldy . Win . Yonng , 30 , Great Windmill-street , Golden-Square
W . J . Osborn , Nuneaton . J . Mann , North street , Ashburton . W . Fietoher , Cheylesmoutb , Coventry . Thomas Webb , Union Place , Dayentry B . Payne , Tonbridge . Stephen Durrant Westoby , Colchester . Robert Reid , Forfar . John Murray , Kirkintillock . Robert Mugate , Campsie . David Shaw , NuheAton . John . Potrie , Loo-street , Plymouth . Thomas Wild , Hull .
Benjamin Huggett , 1 , Chichester Place , Wandswortb Road . Alexan er Smeaton , Almond Bank , Perthshire . James Grant , Luthermuier , near Montrose . John Sandy , 84 , Upper-Nortb-street , Brighton . William Woodward , Union-place , Brighton . James Adam , Large , Ayrshire . J . C Buflis , ditto . John Carne , Fraddom , near Hayle , Cornwall . James Whittle , merchant , Perth . James Robertson , High-street , Perth . Charles Rynolds , Penzmce , Cornwall . David Irvine , Kilbirnie .
These are the gentlemen , then , who constitute the " Board of Management" for the " new move and we ask seriously , with Ithe exception of soma half dozsn names , or less , are these the men in whom tlie " new movers" would themselves h * confidence ! And we are sure that somd of them will nuhesitatingly say " no . " But " needs must , when the devil drives . " They will say , perhaps , that our virtuous league , having
absorbed all that was worth having , they had no alternative . The effect of the project hasbeen to enlist new powers in pnr cause , and to draw forth % naaaof hitherto obscured talent . We haw received a letter signed " Cato" upon the subject , but we regret to say not in time for publication this week . Ifc is ft production worthy of the best days of Romaa independence . a Cato" calls the new Association ; --" The New London Association of Ratcatchjebs "
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leant Murphy , of Itipon , his renewed the appoint ment of Serjeant-Major in this regiment of cavalry vice Smith resigned , and Mr , Sadler , of th . Q HorJM Guards , London , to be peraaaeat Serjeant , vic § Murphy promoted .
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