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THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1841.
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aim retutsausiactwn aa «ao i SALPORP.—On Sunday last f we held our weekly ;t meeting; our old friend, Mr. William Benbow beaf present, he addressed the meeting at great length** _. _ _A ___„ _ .* A. . — —. A\? -~.^_ _ ^ - ~» fc— * A. —_• ¦ - ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ««dA Jfd ffIB
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SO MB WORKING fa / uqntR OF . BNei » AND JiKD SCOTLAND , AKp HiXBE PARTICTJ . LAXLY TO MI OLD-HMBNDS ' IK MANCHESTER , LEEDS , SHEFFIELD , KEI 0 HLEY , BOSTON , AND THE OTHER PRINCIPAL TOWNS OF LANCASHIRE : AND YORKSHIRE . " * Mi diab Friejtds . —In eonseqnenee of renewed inTiUtions to attend the forthcoming demonstrations , ud of some dissatlrfaction buying been expressed by certain parties , stthe resolve already published by me through the 5 iar , I find mjaelf obliged once more to abow erase why I cannot , if I would , and -why I -would sot , if I eoold , take part in the demonstratioaa . The remit I shall then leave , my friends , to jour candour , and your generosity .
In the first pace , my health is extremely bad , My atomarfi haa diaebarged nearly ererytbing I ate daring the last ten day * I am Tery , very weak ; indeed so -weak , that I am ante I could not make myself heard ifteen yards , ins * a hustings in the open air , though I spoke at th * top of my voice , In fact , I am , at present , a fitter -aspect for a tap-room in some country hospital , h&Tiag . a good look oat into the green gelds , than for anytttageke . ' . Now , I le ** ejon to judge , my friends , -whether such a man be fit to undergo the fatiguing noise , bustle , and exritemeatof a aeries of demonstrations all over the cosatrv ! Yoor candour , to say nothing of yoor hnmanity > trill ,, I am sore , say , he is set / U .
In the seooad place , my private tirenmstaneea are such as to preclude tee possibility of my attending the projected demonstrations unless 1 travelled and lived at the public expense . To that I could . not be a consenting party . I shall oerer consent to trarel and lire at the public expeace , unless 1 can make some better return than the mere presence of a sick , useless man at a demonstration . All the good that « an be done , through the demonstrations , tcaB be so effectually done ¦ without me , as irith me , by Mr . O'Connor , "who will gravel at his o » n expense . My presence at them could therefore aerve no other purpose than the gratification of my own personal "ranity , and for that worse than idle purpose , every city and town I entered should have to pay a tax or subsidy . Now , I ask you , my fflfenrtn , -whether it would be right or seemly in me , t £ have the people taxed in this way on my account ? T latta fLIs question as I did the other , to your own ieodseasesad candour .
T&e " only IKpeace I can conscientiously consent to bsnrto ft » e pVbllc incur ob my account is the expence of j £ » J ) e ** f for each person who may desire to hear 16 dtii . ua or addresses delivered by me within yoor walls . To e * t I can ejmsQst , for the one penny is absolutely adteesarjr to eorer both my own expenees , and those ftrwnt , Egbting , placards , Itc—without the payment of which -re can tare no hall or place to meet in ; and also , becsase I think I can give a poor man the -worth of his pesny in the shape of solid information , -while , at the same time , if the pooj ^ man thinks differently , he seedao % come at all , aztd _ so escape bis share of the expeace . This I take to be a jnst and reasonable view of &e matter . I have still strength enough to address sjnall meetings within your walls . I could do some real good at such meetings , but none at all at demonstrations . And the only merifice to be incurred by any body is but one penny , and not even that , unless at his own option .
If I permitted demonstrations to be held on my account , I should cause the loss of a day ' s wages to erery man < nnt already out of work ) besides the risk of losing his employment altogether , not to speak of the expense of bands , flags , banners , fee—which ia some of our former demonstrations cose upwards of one hundred guineas , and fer part of which expense several towns are still in debt Now , the one penny covers all expenses , leaves nobody in debt , is paid only by those ^* ho can « &ord and choose to pay it , —and , above all , brings nobody into trouble , from loss of wages and
JPTT't ^ * T Ib W *^ Need I say , Brother Chartists , that , if I could afford no man should pay even a penny to hear me ? Now , Isay , that whenever I can get a hall or building for nothing , and the means of travelling at my own expense , no man or -woman shall ever be charged one tetbfrig at acy meeting convened to hear me ? Need I say , in short , that my object in lecturing or delivering addresses to you is not to make money of you , but to do ill the good I possibly can in the only way that my gnenrie * and persecutors hare left it possible for me to do any good at all ? If you have any doubts on this bead , wait till we meet , and then you shall know alL So far I have only shown cause why I cannot attend famcmnffatinna , if I would . Let me sow briefly explain why I would not if I could .
Well , then , my friends , let me tell you frankly and at osce , that I cannot eousent to parade the country in mock triumph , while my heart bleeds with the recollection , of my own wrongs , yet unredressed , — . the wrongs cf hundreds « f my old political friends and wnomtea , -who have been persecuted out of bouse snd borne since the commencement of the present movement , and many of whom ajf now waodapnj exiles in Ajseiicsw ^ -V ^ tftialiaj . and other distao « &JandjL The wrongs of theaegSoa aad . trajjaan ,- « ad ( & » wrongs of the million * of our fftlkJwHiIaves ibejhare left behind aw still unw 3 re «« etf ,-and try- toiearaa toe-vengeance , in default at justice from the oppressor . By aH that is sacred I can have no heart or « tr » m ^ for triumphant ^ processions , or costly orations , while these wrongs are jmredreaed and unreveaged . I find no fault with others w . ho cm triumph under such circumstances . I question not their motives , or the propriety of their
acts , bat I chum for myself the same right of . free agency , which I concede to them and to every other bnmaa bein £ . And in right of that free agency , I fTriaim in the language of my heart—no triumphal entry or public rejoicings for me , waile the country is in ber present tribulation and fetters , —millions ef sons and csoghtera in rags and wretchedness , and myself a bankrupt in health and circa instances— through my hitherto fruitless efforts to stem the torrent of oppression or to raise a fallen people . No , no , let us firsi down both the oppressor aad his system , and then for the orations and the Tfgoicmgt , but no rejoicings /«? me till I Lave first had a victory to rejoice at No idle pageant * or mock trimnphs for me te day , while mj oppressors hold tfc-s power of sending me back to my iungeon to-morrow . No harvest ball for me while the crop is still on the ground exposed to rain and tempest I am for first gathering in the harvest—and then for the harvest tall and rap per .
After saying so ir . _ ch against demonstrations generally , you will wondt r , perhaps , that I am about to make one exception . Yet such is the case ' . Bat I trust the special reasons which induce that exception , will satisfy you cf its propriety . The exception is Manchester ; and the following are my reasons for atuauiag the processien and demosstrafccm is that torn . 1 st I wish to show , by the evidence of my attending one demonstration isad that , no doubt , the largest of thffm all ) tiai it is n <*; from fear or any other an worthy motive , but from priisc ^ le and conscience only , that 1 decline demonstrations intended partly for my own honour aad gratiiicstios .
2 nd- iiafcchtster is the t » wm in whieh I delivered the speeches aad addrfc- ses for -which 1 have suffered tf . gtitf * ' !! months' inc ^ r&aratioa amongst . felons on the criminal side of a coma :, n gaol , and I " hold that stntence to have been bsth tyrannical and unjust I wish to show the largest tx « Ly oi men that can be biought together in Manchester , *> u the 27 th September , that 1 tin hold by every Bentetce and letter of the speeches and id dresses to which I have undergone the unjust ¦ g nfrwrvfip I remain , my dear Friends , In the bonds of Cuartism and Brotherhood , Yo 3 r 3 , affectionately , Jakes B . O'Beiex .
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TO THE MANUFACTURERS AND PUBLIC OF THE STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES . Gkxtlexex A 5 D FB . IEKD 5 , —An unpleasant differesea having arisen between Mr . We . Davenport and that portion of his -workmen called gilders ; the length of tame which has elapsed since its commencement , which is now about ten -weeks ; the improbability of an immediate settlement , together frith the calumnies and misrepresent&tiens -which are afloat in society respecting this difference , induce us , the operative painters and gilders , to lay be ' ore you a correct statement of the whele proceedings , wi ; h a view of vindicating the conduct of the men , and of doing justice to ail parties concerned .
To bring this unhappy difference to a speedy and saleable conclusion , has been the principle object cf the operative painters zn& gilders . Erery concession ( short of an entire abandonment of principle ; which nasen could suggest , or the most rigid justice demand , has been conceded ; but , we are sorry to say , -without
neeess . When it ? & intimated that the prices of the patterns , which have been the csuf * of this unpleasant afiair , should be amended ; but that Mr . Wa Davenjwr t , from the state of trade , ccnld not employ the whole of bis old hands again , the proposal was immediately agreed to , from the conviction that it was not ftc u to dictate the number of hands that Ehould be •¦ ployed , tmt merely to expostulate as to the price at vkkh we should dispose of our labour , and this ,
geaff ^ u . ma friends , is all that his beer exercised from tbt ommeneeiaeot of tkis unfortunate struggle . It * w , then , vitfa ¦ uprise th&t we learned , after we had » mtiiiior 1 one half of the men to go in on the sanded prices , and had come to the resolution to support th * other half , util each time as they should hare proceed new situations , that Mr . Wm . Davenport ¦ would not be dictated to , but that those who wished to be again employed by him must come individually , asd then their »^<"» should be considered .
Far be it from us to dictate to Mr . Wm . Davenport , « any other manufacturer , the nuaber of hands that be , or any other gentleman , shall be compelled to receive into his employ , or otherwise to meddle in the iaUaml policy of his , or any other manufactory , so Imtg as that policy does not encroach oa the a ^ iow todjped rights of labour . ^| Far also be it from us , when thcee xigkts tse eoarsMhed spon > to sit tamely £ < rm , and w : in ? ss the Tidaiioo of claims which the laws of G » d and of civil nolttj call u ? M u to defend . Labcvr is the commomtf , ( tf w » «*/ * attfini lit « , )>/ Ua sale » i
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which the working millions earn those necessaries that supply the physical wants of their natere . The disposal of that labour is as free in their hands ar the pro . ductions of it at * in the hands ef any manufacturer or merchant in the empire ; aad if it should be Bought by any individual to depress the price of it below a reasonable , or living standard , the owners are called upon , by every principle ef moral and natural right , to defend it to the uttermost of their power . But how much , stronger fa the call on the operative painters and gilders of the Potteries , when the extreme reduction in the price of lasour , which has lean attempted at Mr . Wm . Davenport ' s manufactory , did not , we believe , originate ia any desire of that gentleman himself ; but , on the contrary , in an underling , whose only motives for such base attempts most have been the aggrandisement of his own tzmokttng self , and to whom the « y »* fl f * ^ g of that class from whence be sprang , and to which be now belongs , forms but a small item in his code of moral subserviency .
Let it not be supposed that we make this statement out of any desire to propitiate the favour of Mr . Wm . Davenport , or to call down an undue portion of public disapprobation on the head of one wnose every action , as far as the regulating of the price of labour is concerned , is a libel on common justice and common humanity ; for , be it remembered , up to tha time of the installation of this sycophant , the prices of Mr . Wm . Davenport's patterns were such that no reasonable man could complain of : the painters and gilders , therefore , feel called upon , in justice te Mr . Wm . Davenport , and
to the men late in his employ , respectfully to request that the former will condescend to examine for hhaself the original patterns against which his men have expostulated ; and if it should be feund , on mature consideration , that the men had not a just reason to complain ; that they exaggerated , in the slightest degree , to their fellow-workmen , or have attached undue blame to any single individual under his employ , the painters andjeflders will undertake to brand those men as the veriest slanderers ttiat ever disgraced the face of humanity , or imposed on the credulity of a generous trade .
The operative painters and gilders take also the present opportunity to state that , in facilitating an amicable adjustment ef this unhappy affair , they are actuated by no motive or principle detrimental to the interests of their employers . They look upon the potting business as being differently situated to most of the staple trades of this country . They believe that foreign competition—that bane to the the prosperity of the cotton and woelles districts—exercises little qt no influence on the prices of the manufactured goods ef this neighbourhood ; and that a judicious arrangement amongst the manufacturers for the purpose of regulating the prices of tkeir goods , would secure to themselves a reasonable return for the capital invested in their several establishments , an& procure for those under their employ , " a fair day ' s wages for a fair day ' s work , " whieh , gentlemen and friends , is all that they now require , and which , it is to be hoped , common sense , common humanity , and one common interest will hasten to supply .
Thus far , with a single exception , has our task been an easy one ; thus far would we be content to go if justice did not imperatively demand the exposure of villany—villany which , for the sake of eur class , we would otherwise bury in eternal oblivion . Tis a crime to take from the superfluous wealth of another ; 'tis a greater to take from those that have little to spare ; but how much greater is that crime which takes from those that have none the very means of obtaining any . Working men of the Potteries , blush for your order —blush for those that have no shame , no principle , no
feeling—save for themselves—for such are to be found amongst yos . Yes , when a few honest hearts , than wh « m , for integrity of purpose , or skill as workmen , few better con be found . ' When these men had the independence to expostulate witb their employer relative to the price of their labeur , and had incurred their discharge from that expostulation , five creatures were to be feund bearing the semblance , but lacking all the enabling qualities of humanity , who were so far lost to every principle of moral right as to enter on the places of their more honourable fellow-workmen .
We denounce these men as unworthy the countenance of every good man , as renegades to their class , as void of ererj sentiment that should elevate a virtuous heart , and as fit objects for the detestation and abhorrence of every honest working man . In conclusion , we beg to state , that , at the commencement of this unfortunate utrurgle , we pledged ourselves to support , as far as our limited means would permit , the Individuals who have unwittingly been the cause of this unhappy dispute ; for , be it remembered , they were placed in their present position , not by an effort of their own free will or choice , but , on the contrary , by force .
We reiterate that pledge ; and call upon all who have the welfare of their trade at heart—who are alive to the least spark of sympathy for those who hare suffered , and are still suffering , i n its defence , to come forward with their mite , to the end that truth , justice , and the general geod , may triumph over falsehood , tyranny , and truckling self-aggrasdisement We remain , Geattemsn and Friends , Your obedient hajphleeeCTania r The Operative Paixtem asd Gilders . Committee Boom , Sea lion , Hanley , Sept 14 , 1841 .
The Northern Star Saturday, September 18, 1841.
THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 18 , 1841 .
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HORRIBLE DESTITUTION AT STOCKPORT . SYMPATHY OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES . We claim the attention of all our readers to the following letter from our Stockport correspondent , received last week , and Bhut out by an accident from our last number . We claim especially for this document , the attention of all those who are vront to eulogise the ** good feeliug of ihe middle classes , " and recommend that the middle classes be conciliated , and a tinea with them e&cted . Before a ¦ word of comment , let them Erst read the letter , from one on whose veracity and impartial judgment we place the utmost reiiance : —
" This tovrn is one scene of poverty , misery , distress , and discontmeat Hundreds are walking the streets , deivltate of food , who rise in a morning -without knowing ¦ where they shall get a meal betwixt then and night . The hands belonging to tyro Tery large firms are turned cut and piqueta are placed by the spinners to watch the mills , to see if the masters procure " nobsticks" te take the situations of those turned out at the reduced price . The workpeople haye placarded the town , shewing their grievances and exposing , in a masterly manner , the conduct of their masters . There are thousands who have pledged and sold every veslige of clothing to purchase food to live upon , whilst others are selling their furniture , and going to America . Starvation and misery
was never more prevalent in the memory of the oldest inhabitant One large mill , which employed a thoutand people , is stopped altogether , and no signs of it starting again . The weavers of another mill turned out on Saturday ; but such was the eagerness of those -who had walked the streets bo long to get work , that thsir places were filled up by Tnesday morning . Never was tyranny and injustice and brazen-faced villany , cruelty , hard-heartednesa , and brutality , more glaringly exemplified , than it has been by the British cotton lords this week ; such is their sympathy tewards their unfortunate workpeople who are literally starving to death , that when they approach . hem for the purpose of reasoning with
themthey laugh like a host of laughing hyenas . One of these kind-heaxted wretches —[ save the marfef—in the shape of a man , but without any of his attributes except the fer » cioaB and savage portion , had the unblushing effrontery to tell one of his spinners , who haa hands as hard as my desk on which I write , that in order to make up for the redaction , lie would find his wife and children work if he would send them . Another had the impudence to tell one of his spinners that the last tenant he had in one of his small houses had left £ l 1 Ss . owing for rent , and the next persen who engaged should pay that rent whether he had the house or not , besides being reduced as mnch as 12 s . from the original price . Another master told one tf his spinners , who mei-ely
wished to change wheels , that he should do so on condition that be would pay Iti 3 . for the rent unpaid by the last spinner . These , and many others , are the tricks of the Corn Law repealing cotton lords , who are the pillars of the various religious places of worship ; the sons of whom are keeping any quantity of women of loose virtue , hunting horses , aad dogs who live ten degrees better than their workpeople , Socfa are the bad circumstances of one master who was first in offering reduction , that he h& £ h ^ d a span new carriage brought him thia week , and a isan come with it from London to show him how to get in and out of it Every body I meet in the street cries ^ hame of the masters , and declare that nothing is bo likely to bring on a pestilence as hunger , wretchedness , and destitution . "
We ask , and we ask sincerely , how long are these thing * o continue ! How long will it be ere the people will make common cause together , and tell their inhuman blood-suckers that their tyranny and oppression shall proceed no further . These are tat bub wk « prawd (• * efiUiUMr&fc 6 ike dirirtfiSM
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of the poor , who raise the cry of " cheap bread " and who complain that the Corn Laws are reducing them to ike Verge of rain . Yet , though they cannot pay a moderately fair price to the lakxrarer , they can keep their strumpets , dogs , and Imnters , in unlimited proportion , and ean sport their new carriages as if to mock the misery they had caused * We hope that Committees will be appointed to collect and receive subscriptions on beliajf of the starving thousands which now throng the streets of Stockport , and we trust that meetings will be held without delay in every town and village in furtherance of
that object . Especially we implore ihe various Chartist lecturers to devote their energies to it . Let the Chartist preachers lecture themselves . They hare been put oat of the pale of the church by the Scribes and Pharis « es lately assembled at Blanches ter ; let them and their flocks prove their title to be considered Qhristians , by the exhibition of that Christian spirit which will feed the hungry , and clothe the naked . Let the words of the Saviour be on thia occasion not only remembered , but acted upon , ' Ye hare the poor always with you , " and "it is more blessed to give than to receive . "
Since the shove was written , we hare received several other equally melancholy relations . We give one of them : — " Great privation , misery , destitution , hunger , and discontent exist in Stockport ; it is computed that five thousand are ' out of employment , and walking the streets , many of whom have sold both clothing and furniture to support nature , while others are selling off and emigrating to America and Australia . In consequence of the unfavourable circumstances into which two honest men have been plunged , through being out of employment , driven to despair , and seeing no hopeitoecdvery , co cheering prospect before them , w « arfcWrry to say , from striot inquiries into each case , * ha * they have com * mitted suicide , in order to relieve . their distracted mindr . A man about twenty-eight years of age , clean and decent , came t » the door of the writer of this on Monday morning , and appeared much abashed . In a short time , he mustered courage , while the big tears ran oopioaslj ^ down his face , to say that was the first time , and toe first door which he had approached , for the purpose of begging ; he was sorry to do so , but it was out of dire necessity . He had a child in his arms , and another by his Bide , four more at home . There seemed to be an inward
, honest pride , which spoke volumes to an observer ; ke appeared heart-broken , and his face flushed , as his eye caught that of his doaor . On being questioned , he said he was an overlooker for Sir . Bradshaw , at a place not 300 yards from where he then stood , and had tried all the places he could for employment , hut without success . This is the condition of a hard-working factory slave . In a short time after , six young men , respectably dressed , had bundled up their linen , and were starting on a journey of begging on their way to Birmingham . Shoos
are empty ; provision dealers and drapers are idle ; pawn-shops and furniture-brokers are crammed ; beHefit-soeietie 3 are suffering ; roligious institutions can ecareel y be kept up ; poor-houses are filled ; many factories are stopped ; thousands are in a state of starvation ; wages are lowering ; winter is approaching ; and the people are walking the streets with pale visages , sullen countenances , depressed spirits , and aching hearts . There are not two opinions as to the distress , though parties disagree as to the change required . "
It is impossible to read these heart-rending details and not feel that" the beginning of the end" is come When beings , wearing the form of men , can thus openly mock the misery which their infernal system has created humanity becomes impatient of forbearance , and the arm of resolution is more firmly nerved . We cannot hear of such things and not , in our very heart of heart ? , applaud the manly bearing of a people which can bear such
sufferings—knowing too their source and origin—with dignified continuance in the narrow pathway chalked for them by th * laws which they have had no power in orea * ting ; by whose operation , as a whole , all these evils have come on them , and which , by their superior intelligence asd virtue , they will yei convert into the means of accomplishing their own enfranchisement from the foul thraldom in which labour is held down by its ungrateful bastard , capital .
Yet this is the people whom the scoundrels affect to fear iHvesttMtSrith the S ^ ags ^ e&t property should be unsafe ?* " Pitiful driveller * 1 D » you dare to trust your property within arms-length of those by whom it has been made , when hunger , nakedness , and death assail them , and do you affect to suppose that it will be less safe when they are in possession of that power to protect themselves which you now unjustly withhold from them P
There is not a man in the whole batch of plunderers who believes his own hideous cant of the " levelling" and M spoliating" disposition of the working people . They all know that tbeir present property would be much eafer then than it is now ; but they know that the system of unrighteousness which gave it to them will be swept away ; and hence their horror of the Charter . Mouth , however , as they may about it , there is no alternative but one . The middle classes , if not yet convinced , will Eoon be so—it needs but a few more
Stockports—that an obstinate adherence to the present state of things will merely jeopardize their property without prolonging for one day the continuance of the system . The alternative is surely before them ; a peaceful and undisturbed possession of ichat iliey now call thetb property , with just rights for all , and a fair recognition of the labourer ' s share in future , or the dire shock of frenzied over-trampled-patience , which , while it takes no less certain vengeance on the system , will probably be much less inclined to respect present and vested "rights" .
This vre have ever seen ; and this we have ever feared . We have been , and still are , the only true Conservatives^—the only true friends to the middleclasses , in exhorting them to a cessation from their systematic efforts to pluck down ruin on their own heads ; and in our imploring of the people , while they bear manfully their wrongs , to fortify themselves continually with all moral means to bring about a change .
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THE " NEW MOVE" CHAMPION AND HIS "CHALLENGED Mb . Senut Hbthbwnotow has challenged Mr . Feargbs O'Connor ' io a discussion , and Mr . O'Cohnor has accepted the cnajlenge . . We regret for tils own sake that Mr . Hexhkbingxoif should have been so unwise . We have not lost our recollection of the servioos of Mr . HKTHfiMNGTon io the good cause in years gone by ; and we regret much to find him now pursuing a course which must , to some extent , however small ] damage the cause he professes still to advocate , and which cannot end otherwise than in confusion to himself .
We regret not less that Mr . O'Connor should thus waste his time . He really has ' not an evening to spare for any such purpose aa the gratifying of Mr . Hetubrikgton ' s penchant for political annihilation . The challenge , with Mr . O'Comnob ' s answer to and acceptance of it , will be found in another column . We have read this challenge , and can really find no point for discussion in it . Mr . Hetheringto . h talks about " the merits of Mr . Lovbtt ' s Chartism , " and about " Feabgds O'Conkob ' s Chartism , " pretty much in the style of Mr .
Daniel O'Conneuu We are loth to believe Mr . Hethekkgton so very ignorant as not to know that there is and can be but one kind of Chartism . ChartiBm is Chartism , whether advocated by Fearqvs O'Connor , Wiilum Lotett , or Hemrt Hbthbrinqton . ItB principles are contained in a certain document called the People's Charter . Those principles can alone be recognised aa Chartism . Whoever gives up anything from them , or contends for any less sum of justice , is no Chartist ; whoever goes for more than is contained in those principles , may or may not be a
Charti s ^ , according aa the matters which he would superinduce may or may not clash with the operation of those principles . To talk then of " Mr . Lovett ' s Chartism" and "Feargus O'Connors ' s Chartism" ia evidently a mere bandying of words to no honest purpose ; and proves to us quite sufficiently that the only possible object of the "challenger " is to damage the ' eause of Chartism by raising a dust , under the cover of which the enemy may strike it . It was on this ground that we attacked in the first instance the originators of the " New Move . " It is hence we infer their dishonesty . All that they
contend for in the way of intellectual progress is equally practicable in connection with the already established organisation as under any other circumstances ; it is impossible for two National Societies to subsist , without damage to the cause ; and hence it becomesevident that the" New Move" men were either actuated by personal ambition aud a thirsting after leadership , or that they wishe 4 , by weakening the general force of the Chartist army , to give an advantage to the enemy . As long as there remained any probability at all of the " New Move" becoming in any degree general , we ware willing to adopt the more
charitable alternative ; but now that " it has been i& , long dead that by this time it etinketh , " we cannotVegard any attempt to resuscitate its carcase in any other light than that of a traitorous disposition to do harm to our glorious agitation . We believe the oountry ' generally , and London in particular , understand this subject so well that there is no power in these meu to do harm if they are let alone . We think the most effectual damper for them to be just thai sort of contempt which shews them that they are known , but neither feared nor trusted . For this reason we have in this day ' s Star given insertion to a somewhat pompous document , Bigned by
two Savages , " a surgeon and some other parties , addressed to the originators of the " New Move , " and calling upon them M again to take the post of honour . " We have no fear whatever for the cause from this . The people know , now , how to estimate men to whom " the post of honour" is everything ; and who would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven . " Bat all public notice taken of them invests them with an importance not their own , and gives room to the enemies ; yf Chartism to point to our dissensions . We do wish , therefore , that O'Connoa had allowed Mr . Chanticleer Hethkrincton to clap his wings and crow , without taking the trouble to crop them . '
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THE TRADES AND THE CHARTER . We trust every working man in Great Britain will learn by heart the clear , luminous , and ungainsayable speech of Mr . O'Co . nnoh to the LoBdon Trades . The principles on which the reasoning of that speech is founded are clear as daylight ; they cannot but be admitted by whatever unbiassed mind will study them . And they are capable of much greater practical extension thaa is given to them in the mere sketch to whieh our space limits us in reporting this inimitable speech . The very tame process by which the steam monster raises
competition and creates a surplusage of hands in all tirades—the fame infernal rapacity rrhich robs the unprotected workman of his hire to provide the extravagant expencea of mansions and carriages , and parks and grounds , and splendid buildings and costly w s for cotton lords—throws thousands of dependants on the various expedients resorted to by the industrious classes to preserve- themselves in some degree of comfort and independence . Thus trading rapacity creates , increases , and multiplies poverty ; poverty creates and aggravates sickness and disease ; sickness and disease produce death ; and these drain the funds of the various sick
societies , the benevolent Orders , the Odd Fellows , and other secret societies , tho " Free Gifts , " the burial societies , &c . Thus , is every struggle of the poor man to avert destruction met and parried by class-legislation , which upholds the middle man in his petty plunder'and the landed and moniod capitalifit . iu his wholesale robbery . The savings of industry and temperance are swallowed up by fraud ; and the virtuous and the vicious , the industrious and the idle , the sober and the drunken , are immersed in one common whirlpool of destitution , from which there is no hepe of escape but by the People ' s Charter , ''¦ : .
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We trust , then , that we shall see the noble example of the Metropolitan Trades speedily followed through the whole country ; that there will not soon be one trade society in the whole empire that does not lend its whole energies to this glorious objectthe attainment of a " power by the whole people over the law wbioh disposed of the produce of their labour . The Trades ot . London deserve , and should have , the heartfelt thanks of their brethren in the provinces through the whole country ! This is what we have long wished to see . The mighty phalanx of the Trades and of the Benevolent Societies once turned with united energy to any object—thai object is obtained .
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AMERICA . THE BANK MONSTER STRANGLED . All honour to that beau ideal of a bravely honest man , President Tyler . The liberties of his country , threatened by one of the worst , because most insidious , forms of despotism are safe in his keeping . The monster capital , ever grasping at the possession of absolute power , and suiting its sinuous and tortuous forms of advancement to the various peculiarities of time and circumstance , has met with a rebuff which sends it to its own place " in
a hurry . " A Bank Bill hadpassed both "Houses "in the Senate by a majority of one—by which the independence of the several states was de facto grossly violated , though a specious appearance of adherence to its forms , was kept up . The majority , secured by the dollar-mongers in both Houses , was doubtles 3 regarded by them as a " tower of strength , " bnt the worthy and patriotic President , in the following manly sentences , levels it with the dust : — " The power of Congress to create a National Bank to operate per se over the Union , has been a question of dispute from the origin of our government . My own opinion has been uniformly proclaimed to be against the exercise of any sucn power
by this government . On suitable occasions , during a period of twenty-five years , the opinions thus entertained have been unreservedly expressed . I declared it in the legislature of my native State . In the House of Representatives of the United States it has been openly vindicated by me . In the Senate Chamber , in the presence and hearing of many who are a& this time members of th ^ t body , it has been affirmed and re-affirmed , in speeches and reports there made , and by votes there reoorded . In popular assemblies I have unhesitatingly announced it ; and the last public declaration which I made , and that but a short time before the late Presidential election , I
referred to my previously expressed epiniou& as being thoeo then entertained by me . With a full knowledge of the opinions thus entertained , and conceded , I was elected by the people Vice President of the United States . By the occurrence of a contingency provided for by the constitution , and arising under an impressive dispensation of Providence , I succeeded to the Presidential office . Before entering upon the duties of that office , I took an oath that I would preserve , protect , and defend the constitution of the United States / Entertaining the opinions alluded to , and having taken this eath , the Senate and country will see that I could not give my sanction to a measure of the character described without surrendering all claim to tho respect of honourable men—all confidence on the part of the
people—all self-respect—all regard for moral and religious obligations ; without an observance of which no government can be prosperous , and no people can be happy . It would be to commit a crime whieh I would not wilfully commit to gain any earthly reward , and which would justly subject mo ' to the ridicule and scorn of all virtuous men . * * " I regard the bill as asserting for Congress the right to incorporate a United States Bank , with power and right to establish offices of discount and deposit in the several states of this Union , with or without their consent , a principle to which I have already heretofore been opposed , and which can never obtain my sanction . And waving all other considerations growing out of its other provisions , I return it to the house in which it originated , with these my objections to its approval . "
Thus ends the fierce struggle of capital for entire domination ia America . The Washington Globe , organ of the late government , speaks truly of the veto as * a great deliverance from that fatal system of corruption , which could not fail to make dollars , and not votes , sovereign in the United states . '
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WHIG TACTICS . The war-cry of " no taxes" is again raised by the Whigs . The " Plague , " in its last agony , talks of forcing upon the Queen by popular clamour an exercise of her prerogative , intended to coerce both Houses of Parliament , and compel the repeal of the Corn Laws . Don't they wish they may get it ! . '
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We regret much that we cannot persuade our mends practically to observe the very clear and plain directions which we have so often given and repeated about the sending of matter for the Star . The extent of our circulation obliges us to go to press en Thursday afternoon ; and , therefore , our friends seem to think that if their communications reach us by Thursday morning it is quite soon enough . This is a great mistake : They should remember that every word of the paper has to be put together by single letters , and the whole space filled before we can go to press , and it Is impossible to do this in one forenoon . Our men are busily employed in filling up the paper with matter which , from one source or other , we must supmly during the whole
week , aud it seldom , happeaswat more than one or two columns , besides | the necessary space for editorial comment , remav ^ to be filled on Thursday morning . This shews the importance and necessity of all matters of news , occurrences of the movement , reporre j > f meetings , fee ., being sent to us at once , immediacy they occur . Instead of which , it often happens , that on Monday and Tuesday we have scarcely ' any letters , and on Wednesday com " paratively few tUl the night post arrives . The consequence is" that those letters which do arrive in the early part of the week are carefully attended to and given generally at length ; while we are obliged to have recourse to the London papers , and various Bourses , for matter to nil the remaining portion
of ss many columns of the paper as must be set up before Wednesday night Wednesday night and Thursday morning's posts bring as a shoal of letters from all parts of the country ; these come upon us just in the hurry of writing and attending to what are called the leading articles ; while in the early part of the week we have more time to attend to correspondence . The consequence is that one half of these letters are passed over entirely ; and the other half compressed into the smallest possible amount of space—and the next consequence is , that in the following week we have letters of complaint from various parties about their communications being treated with neglect . Some whose letters or reports may have been omitted for
want of space , refer occasionally to the police reports—the column of " "varieties , " or some other portion of the content ! of the 2 nd , 3 rd , « th , or 7 th pages of the paper , which are always set up first—and ask indignantly if their communication was less important than such or such a thing which appeared in the same paper from which it was excluded "for want of apace "—others accuse ns of partiality and unfairness in cutting down their reports to a mere annouoement , while those of other towns are given at greater length . We have had many most angry letters of this description , the cause for which has rested entirely with the parties themselves . Now if our friends will but bear in mind that we are filling up
the paper every day ; that the same eolumn cannot bo filled twice over ; that we must give out such matter as we have just when the men "Want it , or there would be no Star on Saturday , and that therefore we can't wait for the next post—we mast go on ; if they would remember all this , and send tbeir communications promptly —in the early part of the week—all would stand a fair and a good chance ; and if they would also remember that we have only one weekly paper for all England , Scotland , Ireland , and Wales , and that , therefore , no one place can be allowed to monopolies an unreasonable portion of the paper ,
we should have no complaints of inattention to any party—because we know there would be no ground for them . Our anxious desire is to make the Star a truly national organ , equally representing all ; but we cannot de this unless the country will aid us rightly in the sending ol their matters of communication . The above remarks apply , of course , to news , facts , meetings of the people , Chartist intelligence , fee . Original papers , letters to the Editor , personal correspondence , poetry , Ice , must be here at the beginning of the week , or we shall not hold ourselves bound even to notice them .
TopMoaDBN . —The meeting referred to was not reported in the Star , for ike simple reason , that no report teas sent to us . - We never knew of it until receiving our correspondent ' s letter . A Young Chaktist . —J-fw poem , though " set to the best of his judgment ! ' will not do for publication The same remark applies to the . ' Verses en rettiiing » portrait oflwi Byrqni *
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6 . L . Ecclbs . —ifw letter : mat forwarded to Mr O'Connor- ¦ -- ¦ ¦>¦• - : ' ^ •¦ ¦>¦>"¦ A Radical professes himself mvtious for the sruicut of Chartism . We advise bun , therefore ^ to lay aside his crotchets , - and advocate that simpU " reform of ihe CpnalituHon . " contended foY iH the Charter . Several portions of his letter evince ' a good disp 6 sition t biit a verif slight acquaintance with the subjects on which he writes * Wm havb KxcsirsD two letters from ~ Perth , one signed J . M . C , and another bearing the tieni tures of several persons at Ruthumprint xcotki denying the statement of the Manchester Chart , tists , that Mr . B . jr . Richardson " shed er oeodih tears" at a late soiree in ( bat city . It does not
appear front the letters-whether the purpose of the writers btlo deny the fact that Mr . Richard son did shed teara ,- or merely to deny that his tearswere of ' the erocodilecharacter . " The Watsos akd WATKtfrs jhsccssiow . —We havs received from M * M ?^^ Griffiths a letter ia reply to Mr . Arih ^ Qfitou in which thatgen ~ tiemanis renrin&d ± th * rifo : arrangements for thS'OWussion had been made fy Mr . Watson , byy ^ m , he says , MrfWatmfcteas aetuallv dragged into the discussion ; and that by those . arrangements Mr . Hetherington had no riqht to speak ; that having acceded to the defence offered for him by his friend and counsel , Mr . Watson it teas net to be expected that the meeting would
hear both the counsel and Ihe ' client . We haw no desire to see these discussions prolonged : we i think it impossible that any good to the cause can i result from them . If there be in the new-nine * ' men that wanton spirit of mischief which is atlributed to them by some , this eternal stirring of the ? porridge pot-is the very thing to gratify it ; if there be not , it is unfair and cruel to keep them constantly before the public in a false position . Upon the principle of the " new move , " the coantry has long since sptken out ; its requiem-has been sounded , —why disturb its manes—why not let it slumber peacefully in the" tomb of all the Capulets ? " Satisfied that the exhibition of these fierce bickerings does us muoh harm , we cannot
consent to encourage them ; while we are , at the tame time , determined that no opponent shait have cause to complain of injustice . £ fenee y though we published Mr . Dyson ' s letter ; Mr . Griffiths must excuse us continuing the discus * sion . The pith of his present-communication is contained above , in addition to which we may state , that he defends the general character of the meeting against the description given of it by Mr . Dyson , and denounces the attempfafihai gentleman and his brother chairman to deprive the meeting of its " competency , " by declaring it " dissolved . " Of these things the London * Chartists , who are most immediately interested , hapi no been present at the meeting , will be able to forn
their own judgment , and to decide on the amount of credence due to Mr . Dyson ' s statements . ¦ ' J . Smith , Plymouth . —We answered his questiont 1 in our last . , S i G , E . BoGGia . — We gave ( lie report just as tet ' J received it from our regular correspondent , whose \ instructions from us are , to send at all timtt faithfal reports . We have no reason to think ht \ he has not done so on this occasion . 1 J . T ., Rochdale . —Although tliereport with whieh he ) has furnished us might haye been too late for lail \ week , there was no necessity for his driving it till Thursday in this week before he sent it to us : us ' ought to have had it on Tuesday , when it oft would have been inserted . "Stabs" to Cashel . —Mr . W . Russell , of Notting ., ham . is anxious to know if the people of Cathtl ,:
have received a parcel of Stars from him . Be \ does not say how the parcel was directed . y ) "Stabs" to Ireland may be forwarded to Jeremiah I McDonnell , at James O ' Hea and Sons , 4 , Cook * . j street , Cork . i ! A Constant Reaper , Northampton , wishes to hm > the address of the Secretary to the United ' Jour * j neymen Hatter ' s Joint Stock Company , af , Denton or Hyde . / , " " J . PfiARCBY . —Our circulation is higher noir . that last Christmas . In London alone ft has increaief ' nearly one ^ fifth . We know nothing of Dt , '¦ ¦ - Taylor ' s whereabout . s Thos . Mackbning , Mabkkt Weightok . —We have no recollection of ever having received the letters ¦¦ to which he alludes . : ~
A Correspondent has sent us the following , and says that it is an infallible remedy for that painful affliction , the cbolic , under it * most sever * , attack . The mixture is 3 drachms of mtheriand 1 drachm of the tincture of opium . Twenty-foot drops for awomar ^; and from thirty-jive tofortf for a man—to be , "tfiken in coarse sugar . Howdek CHARTiSTsf—JFrrte to John Campbell , « e-j crelary to the Exacutive , 18 , Adderley-slreetf Shaw ' s Brow , Satford . Carlisle . —Their report was resetted at half-past three on Thursday ; it will be given next week . :
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P . B . should have given his name , and the name ( ft the agent thai supplies him . - v In * T . Simmonds , Trubo—Say who the agent wasihtfr sent the papers from London . -. ' : ¦ ' ¦ A Working Man , Durham . —They were sent & Messrs , France and Co . some time ago ,-andif not delivered , it is not our fault . The Committee for sending Stabs to Ireland tri $ , oblige by sending a few weekly to Peter M'Brtphy , Loughrea . . An Old Subscribes , Newport , shall have an answer . - > - . ¦ : WiGioJf . —The / Plates have been sent long ago . £ . n . d .
POR THE DEMONSTRATION AT TOBK , From Colsnanghton ... ... ... . ... < J 5 d FOR THE EXECUTIVE , MANCHESXEfi ? , ¦' From Camberweil , per James Parker ... 0 , 8 i FOB J . B . O ' JBBIEN . ^ From a man with a hard hand and a sympa * ' thialEg heart .... 9 1 » „ G . Hall , cfWakefleld , per J . Watkins , London ... ... 1 9 FOR PRESS FOR i . B . O ' BRIEN . From Mansfield , being collections after Mr . Dean Taylor's lecture C 9 3 FOR PETBK HOET . . > From the Paddock Chartists ... ... 1 0
Aim Retutsausiactwn Aa «Ao I Salporp.—On Sunday Last F We Held Our Weekly ;T Meeting; Our Old Friend, Mr. William Benbow Beaf Present, He Addressed The Meeting At Great Length** _. _ _A ___„ _ .* A. . — —. A\? -~.^_ _ ^ - ~» Fc— * A. —_• ¦ - ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ««Da Jfd Ffib
aim retutsausiactwn aa « ao i SALPORP . —On Sunday last we held our weekly ; t meeting ; our old friend , Mr . William Benbow beaf present , he addressed the meeting at great length ** _ _ _ ___„ _ . * A . . — — . A \? - ~ . ^_ _ ^ - ~» fc— * A . —_• ¦ - ¦¦ ¦ ¦ «« dA Jfd ffIB
gave j ^ . . errur u »«« . - your last number ; it was stated that our Monuy night meetings would be held on Thursday ; it should have been Tuesday . SURREY . —At the Council meeting , on Sunday last , Mr . Wheeler delivered an interesting lectoMj upon the evils of the present system , and the beoem ' , ^ **
that would ensue if the People ' s Charter was to become the law of the land . The lecturer : «« received with hearty applause . A vote of than ** was passed , and the meeting adjourned till Soajrar next , to meet at Mr . O'Brien ' s Academy , Hu # tea ?( Fields , Deptford . The chair to be taken at f «« o ' clock , when all the members of the Council *»« ding in Surrey are requested to attend , a * busiae * of great importance will then be laid before w * meeting . , '
ST . PANCRAS . —The cause of the Charter pw * grosses most gloriously in this locality . Toweb Hamlets . —At the meeting on SuniW night , a committee was appointed to conduct W O'Connor demonstration , the sum ' # fe 7 s . 2 d . ** subscribed for the purpose . The fa&tewt * Monday night , when Is . 6 d . was drawn from U& funds for 4 he same pnrpose ; and a volun tary eon »^ bution , amounting to Is . 7 d ., was raised for tntflaR
occasion . ¦ < i SCOTLAND . —Cbosshouse . —TheprincipJeaWj the Charter are rapidly spreading here ; * . aef u r 1 turn from Kilmarnpck has attended a public " ^ S *^ ing , when an excellent address was delivered . o / j Mr . Wm . Carruth . At the close of the meetm twelve members were enrolled . Since this ° «»?^ several meetings have taken plaoeftgreaVen ^ iB ^ sP has been manifested , and numb ^ rs ^ nave-joinfi *^?^ standard . \ . £ ' . ^ ' - ^ k ' ^ - ^ -M ZaANCHES *|^ --Ag 4 ei ^< to pablio * nouncement , a meetiakwas EelCm . the Tib-streep room , on Tuesday grafcSbLw # » K > d to di 800 ^!? :
man Crawford , M , P ;^ l # e others who vo ted wtt him ., on behalf of tUopec # 5 in the House ofif * mons . Mr . Murry , an Irish Chartist , was calieow the chair , and the following resolution was pas *^? — " That the heartfelt thanks of this meeting « £ directed to SharmanCrawford , Esq ., M . P . I 0 ** ?*" , dele , and Thomas Duncombe , Eaq ., and the K ° " < T thirty-nine , for the manly and straightforward «* ; duct in testing the feelings of the members on »» Commons' House of Parliament , on those a" - C « f tant principles that constitute the groond-woifc- * the People ' s Charter . " An address to shar S Crawford , Esq . was also adopted and the meem * broke u
p . KERTHYR TYDVtt . —At a meeting . ofJ * J National Charter Association , it was unanimoag resolved that & vote of thanks be given * o - » £ Sharman Crawford for his amendment upon »» » £ dress , and also to those members who voted . w him apoi that occasion , and that the samf M c ^ pressed ta Mr . Crawford , and published in w . ^ jjj and also the strong disapprobation with wnscn . - have seen some of the would-be-thought " ^ " ^ the people refusing their support upon so unpon *^
an occasion . ^ ECCI . ES . —3 fr . Linney lectured at Ecdes , on ¥ ^ day evening last , aud such was the topression ^^ that seventeen males and females joined at p ^ To 3 sion , which , in the course of six weeks , will »«» ^ members . They intend to provide a DreaJMB . Messrs . O'Connor and O'Brien , en their entrance Manchester . Persona wishing to be "aVPao bMtai tickets must apply at Vo . 9 , Whittle-street , o » S *** " * next
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THE MOVEMENT . Elshwhere we give from our gallant little friend , the English Chartist Circular , a letter from O'Connob to the " workies , " in which he recommends that the metropolis be made the seat of a representative body , as Manchester is that of the Executive body of the National Charter Association . We thiak the idea to bo good , and earnestly recommend it to the country . We Buppoae that London and its environs can easily furnish a suffineut quota of good men and
true who will gladly give a portion of their time to the work without burdening the already overburdened people . Or , if it be thought more advisable that men from the country should go up , let them then be paid sparingly , and made to work hard . We can net afford to give much to individuals , with whole masses in the condition of Stockport . Above all , let the representatives- ^ be made to keep up a weekly correspondence with their constituents : this will at once enhance their activity , and keep
the spirit alive in tho provinces . The latter portion of O'Connor ' s letter we would , if possible , engrave upon the palm of every " worky ' s" hand throughout the whole country : — " Above all , aad before all , my dear friends , preserve union ! not only among yourselves , but among your leaders , making them pull together , or depart in peace ; for believe me , that our dissension is the one thins now relied upon by the faction , as their
title to rule us by the sword . No man in his senses can doubt , but that we are oa the eve of some great change ; and no thoughtful man but must look with certainty for a union ef plunderers , before they will surrender what we seek for . To meet their union , we have no other means than the formation of as close a union , —rendered more powerful by our numbers . To this end then , let all , one and all , struggle . u Let * Union' ba our watchword , and " Liberty " our war cry ; and let our motto ba " Onward , and
we conquer ; backward , and we fall . "
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THE STOCKPORT SPINNERS AND SHOPKEEPERS . It should not be lost sight of that there are two distinct " orders" of middle class meu in societjthe manufacturers and merchants , and the shopkeepers . The direct aud personal interests of the former class are , always , to have labour at the lowest possible rate , and they are , consequently , always found to be , as a class , the mo 3 t inveterate and consistent enemies to every liberal and honest principle of legislation . It is almost entirely from thia class that the Whig faction is made up . The shopkeepers approximate the working people much more closely . Their profits are for the most part drawn immediately from the poekets of the workies , " and any general destitution among the working people of a locality soon shows itself in the empty till and
lengthened visage of the Bhopkeeper . This ia eo unavoidable a consequence that we are amazed to find any shopkeeper so absurd and ignorant as not to make common cause with his best enstoiners * We commend to the attention of the Stockport Shopkeepers especially the Address of the Spinners ' Committee , which will be found in another column . That address calls on them , for reasons well assigned , to support the Spinners through the present crisis against their heartless oppressors , the cotton lords . We call on them and all other shopkeepers , for the same reasons , to make common cause with their brethren of the working classes generally , and lend all their aid to the enactment of the People ' s Charter , through the operation of whioh exists the only safe remedy for the infernal system which has brought things to the present pass , and will , if not averted , « &use them to be such wcrse .
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THE " NATIONAL VINDICATOR . " This Publication , under the editorial auspices of Vijvckxt and Phiu , is the ablest fellow-worker in the cause of Chartism we now have . It has reached Its fourteenth number , and goes on well , though labouring under some disadvantage f «? m the want of the stamp .
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M The Chartists havb proved themselves mobe acccratb calculators thas the m 1 d » le classes . Whether theib kobtrum would hate mended matters is not kow the question j bvt the besclt has shew * that thet were correct in their opinion—that in thb prese 5 t state of the representation , it was vain to think of a repeal of the corn monopolt . ******* Political power in this copntrt , though it resides ik a comparativzlt small class , can only be exercised bt the sufferance of the masses . "Morning Chronicle ( organ of the Whig Ministers ) Friday , July 16 < A , 1841 .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 18, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct567/page/4/
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