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THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1841.
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** . _____ ' - BnnmiffggAg . - - ; IMPORTANT £ EL ? £ G _ EE &EETING . A . ; Hk © eting « f ikJq 5 » iaatA ) CfflizT » rioaB towns in Bim ' mgbutt dktriti , m held in theChartu * room , Urns * pkoat were R « nwt « f i > y >*« V * - «» # _ d letters : — - - ¦ - « . - - « . ?¦ .-. * - ; : > .--- ¦ - - ¦; -- - » ' --- > : •< Birainghaav -RwIm **!**^ ' !*^' -: ®*" * WedaSwry , ' Mr . 6 «»*« = Br *» rMBj ?| V « IsiI ^ "Jfc JamesSeheilnnUrSto—bridge , Mr ^ FraaeisFoifcei , and ife . Job * ' € h _ tee ?* BiisfcoiE ( Mr . Johu ~ C »( fleT Cov « t-, fcyletter ; Bro « B * r * 8 i * it * a , Wwg , ditto . - Tie delegaier- iwi ' iimiini ate * -oBe- o *_ stok * when Mr . John Chance , of StoarbnAgej wm c * Hed to the chair , and Mr . George Whifeft waa requested to ae * M secrets— . - ^ - - - - ¦
ftte **» <»»»»«* Hsaa « d ? stMy « ofsmeBeed * t ! Sfhess , mo 4 said that the present 3 meeting—as © fine highest importance . Hem surprised ? ofmdtbStsoa . * of tbetownain the district , h » d eeglostod to Beatf » delegate , when eaatters of attendee ? import were to be discussed . It was not an easy-matter for a- few xaea to-tramssttt _ e business * © f &e whole district . He nevertheless hoped that wbat they transacted thai day w «« M meet with the sanction and Bupport of those places who had not seat representainreg ,
andthst each thin— would be altered ht future . Tbeyl—i ** w to consider -the business for which th ^ h ^ assembl ed , which , according to th&noiiee gives fc the Star , was to ~ ake arrangements for preening sigfittures * 6 the National Petition for 1842 , to nominate * candidate to -represent the the Bounties of Warwick and Worcester in the forthcoming Conventionj - and also to manage the bosinefis connected with the lecturer for the district . He then called on the -secretary to read the correspondence .
Mr . GBO& 6 B white "teen proceeded to read the letters which he bad received , all appro-ring of the meeting , and signifying their willingness to abide ly the'decision of the meeting . The letter from . Warwick was signed H . A . Donaldson , and g » Te a cheering aeorent of their prospects In that town ; that from Bremsgrove was signed Samuel William Cooper ; and from ijovent— , signed * David Haines . Mr . B&owkih g theught the meeting had best oommenoe with the busineaT oonneeted with the lecturer . Mr . Caui . it would prefer going into the other part of the business first , and take the opinions of the delegates present as to the state of their localities .
Mr . J . Masoh , bating obtained leave from the chairman , addressed the meeting : He thoogbt that they bad better first see . the ar 1 "" 11 of population In each place , and afterwards make a cafrmUtion of the amount of petition aheeU required , when a motion might be made on the subject ' r The CaAraxjLH wished to know how many eigna tens they contemplated getting in "Birmingham . Mr . DAT is stated they had got 21 , 600 signatures to the petition for Feargua O'Connor , bat he thought that the necessary steps , were not taken with it , or it would h » TB been more numerously , signed . He thought it woald be difficult to come to a ^«^ p it «? """ ' > M " . Mr . "RiCHiRD Thompsos said that the petition which was presented by Mr . Attwood bad received 90 , 000 signatures from Birmingham and its neighbourhood ; -he thought they might safely calculate on 40 or 50 . 000 .
Mr . Fo&bes thought they would get 4 , 000 for Stoorbridge , and by the co-operaticn of the neighbouring Tillage * , would probably get six or seven thousand signatures * Mr . Buowsisg said that they expected to get three thousand signatures at Wedhesbury . Mr . Gad let thought they could get 10 , 000 signatures in Bilston and its neighbourhood . They had already made arrangements for that purpose , and had little doubt of procuring that amount Mr . 6 . Scholbfteld said that they had not yet
discussed that question at Watsall , he could therefore give bo positive opinion in the matter . The feeling of the working men was favourable to the Charter , and he thought that 6000 signatures could ~ be procured . A long consultation then took place , in which various members of the association took part The population of each place in the district was considered , and after irmg and rnim deliberation , it was agreed that Birmingft * m tStn ^ iin fee considered t- ^ " * wmtrV point for the j > r < xuir 1 ng of petition sheets , and that each place should remit their money as seen as possible for whatever sheets tbev required .
Mr . Tobbss moved " That 600 sheets and S 00 head ings be sent for to Mr . Hobsan , Leeds , and that Birmingham be the central place to which they should be transmitted . - Mr . Bbowtting seconded the motion . Mr . Tbohpsok thought an amendment necessary . It would appear from the motion of Mr . Forbes , that Birmingham was to pay for the whole of the sheets ; be thought that each place ought to send for their own . Mr . Davis thought the amendment unnecessary , as they could send tar u many sheets as they had money remitted them for . It should be made known to the sab-secretaries generally , that they should forward money for the sheets they required as soon as possible , which would save the expence of earriige , as they could get them np together from Leeds , for a small amount The Chaimiax then put the motion , which was .. nli H ww . Ti . iwm . Ty .
Mr . Davis moved ** that Mr . White as secretary to the delegate meetfrg , be requested to give notice through the Star , that each place requring petition sneetsshould immediately forward fisefir -money to Mr . White , 39 , XSromsgzoTe-BteeeV ' Mr , Cablet seconded the motion , which was unaal-Xftonsly agreed to . A cuuvergation' then " took place oh the method of getting « opief of Ste petition circulated ^ trough the imnlry . ~ - Mr . Dins infensned the meeting that at a crab to which he belonged , they made it a practice to collect small soar on tfedr meeting nighty which were appropriated to the purchase of Chartist publications for dis&ibution . ( Httr . )
Mr . BrowsiXq hoped the delegates would agree to send for one thousand copies ef the pelition . He was instructed to vote for such amofion . Mr , ScHOLirrrBLD , afthough not authorised , would take the respondoility of supporting such a proposition , as he saw its nfflity . Mr . Foebes consented to the motion , which was put tu 3 carried usautmoosty . The Chaibxak then wished th e " to consider whether they would nominate a person to represent the district in the forthcoming Convention . He thought that one of the mam objects for which they bad met
Mr . RifHAiD Thompson then arose and said that be considered it necessary that they should I ave a bold and manly advocate of their cause to fill the important omse of a member of the Convention . He begged leave to propose that Mr . George White be nominated jls a proper person to represent this district in the forthcoming Convention . Mr . Fobbss entirely agreed with the statements of Mr , Thompson , bat doubted whether . Mr . White could be spared , as he eonsidsred him the main centre of the movement in this district He therefore thought that Mr . Mason should be nominated . Mr . Beowkikg agreed with the proposition of Mr . Thompson . He thought that Mr , White or Doctor M'Douall should be selected . He did not mind which , as he thought them both capable of representing the district .
Mr . Maso * declined being put in nomination for Birmingham district He thought that no man had the same claim in that respect as Mr , White , who had to bear all the odium of their opponents of the Nations Charter Association by the course , ha adopted on hu amval in Birmingham , and without whose exertions he questioned whether a delegate meeting would then be assembled ; besides , were he not put in nomination it would be trumpeted forth that he had not the confidence « f the people . Mr . Dat is highly approved of Mr . White , and thought h < " » every way qualified to represent tb « m in the Convention . He bare testimcay to his perseverance n forwarding the cause . His only objection was , that be theoght he could , not be spared as they had still a great deal to contend with . The other delegates present agreed in the nomination of Mr . White .
ThaCHAiKKAH latter a few complimentary remarks on Mz . White ) then put the motion , which was carried unanimously . Mr . BBQWJfLH G stated , that as several of the delegates present represented tow&s in Staffordshire , he thought it would not be out of place if they came to a decision as to the most proper parson to be placed in nomination far the counties of Stafford and Salop . He then passed a well merited eulogium on the conduct of Mr , Mason , and proposed him as a proper person to represent the Chartists of Staffordshire and Salop in the forthcoming Convention . Mr . Sceolefikld seconded the proposition , and coincided with Mr , Browning as to the fitness of Mr Mason to fill the Important office . Mr . Cadlxt supported the proposition and said it was the intention of the people of Bilston to support the clfc # pn of Mr . M ««
nn-The CHAiBJtAJ , in putt ing the motion , ccmpliaented Mr . Mason on the high standing which he held in file esteem of the whole district The motion was snauinoosly acssed \ q The Delegates then agreed to adjourn the meeting to torn o ' clock , ia order to allow time for refreshment
MKBTIKG RESUMED . At fonottoek the delegates again assembled . A bugs number of msmbBii weee present to witness the proeaediagi . The CauutAX stated that they had diiposed of the t—tnesi irf ^ - < i * M with the proposed Convention and the National Petition . The only remaining business wss that which referred to the Lecturer , HeahouW Eke to hen the opinions of the Delegates on the subject Mr . Cadisy stated that the members of the Asaoci atjem at S&ton , thought that the Lecturer did not attend often enough , as his route was too extentive They Jriabsd to have an additional Lecturer , and had s ^ ted to inereaw their weekly payments . Their memben w »» Increas ing * erj fast , and t&ty wished to ten * krtare ofieaer . if it could be slanged .
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Mt . ^ xmDKEFrei . ffTad waont * that if Bwy haiT the lftt ' orar « & * aer s >« WsisaU , tb 9 oaofal inuwssHmii nnran . srs Tsry n » Mhk % - . « af > . u -. « ** -wi r&ij .-. * ? eu . lv- z ^ -ix M-t . CtvutY thea . « a « t a 4 sssriptkaii ? the ob » os » they , hadkdoptede ^ iSlkMB . tp , ffl ^ en * , theiip prino ^ lea A torn ^ pennveris * isrfividmaJs had Hnatmted ail dimjdilties . fie would advise those delegates from piae $ n "Mhere they might be smuggling up-hill to adopt their plan , vte . flsat eaeh maOm t sbwM We a' sabscr iptton card aadendeasoB ^ tp > -feV ^^ aMBi aiee of aU who wer e fa you ntbie to tbetr esssev ' \ , Mr . FoRBKfr sgreei ^ jo the pin laid down by the previeus speaker . He bad witnessed its good efteet Jhe plan of subscription cards would be fxmrei highly beneficial , as each person who gave a peany , ' should eetfaata pin was psieked tbroagh the card , and the person would be expected to prOdmee a penay fo » eaeh pin-boie : ¦ ' ¦ . . - ! -v '• . ••;¦ ¦• • ¦• - ¦ ¦ - ' - "
Mr ^ BROwniKG said that Ws eonsUtsente would give as much as they possibly could to the lectwert futfd , and wtthed to havehim eftener . Mt . Whits explained Ibe manner m whleh ttie memey bsd been forwarded to the Lerturert Fund , and explained his ideas ctf what ahouKl be done iifvtare . He fmpneaed oa the-tfelegfttef the necessity of being punctual in their payments to the fund , as irregularity CKQsMfL -OT&bftRSMSfefeXlte * - ¦ Mr . Kichakd Thompsoh stated th » t Birmingham had not oaly paid their allotted share to the fund , but had paid three weeks in advavee , and would pay stiH mowif Moessary . ; \ .
Mr . Beowsinqagain add »« edtbeawettBg on the poaMom ol nis locality , when it was agreed to establish a good Lecturer * Fund . A scrutiny then took place into the amount of money forwarded by each place , and , on an inspection of the treasurers book , it was found that several places were in arrear . After a long discussion , in which Mr . White , and others who were present , took part , the following resolution was pro potedbyMr , C * J ) LBT , aad ascondedbyMi . BEOWNiKe : — <• That eaeh place in the district be requested to pay their arrears as soon as possible , reckoning ten weeks from the commencement of Mr . Masons Service * , that is , allowing two weeks contributions for coach-tare . We also determine that the present system of contribut ion continue in force until a future delegate meeting shall decide otherwise , and that each sab-secretary be requested to be punctual in forwarding the required amount " The resolution was carried unsnhnousry .
Mr . Forbes moved— " That the present committee , consisting of Messrs . Corbett , CressweU , Wilkinson , Hopkins , and White , be requested to act on behalf of the district , and that Mr . White be empowered to manage the business f ^ wuM *** with tha Petition sheets , fcc , to whom all applications are to be made , directed 39 , Bromsgrove-streeV * The motion was unanimously agreed to . Mr . B . Tbompsoh moved , and Mr . Fobbes secended the foDowingresohition ;—"That this meeting be adjourned for one month , and be again held on Sunday , the 38 th day of November , when every town in the district wiQ be expected to send a delegate . " Carried unanimously .
Mr . Cadlet wished to impress on their minds before they separated the necessity of each delegate exerting hjmfJ ? when he got back ; and if they found any of their committee men dead they should put living men in their places , as a good committee was everything . . A vote of thanks was then given to the Chairman and Secretary , after which the meeting separated on the most cordial ^ j" ^ " « - Previous to leaving the room , Mr . Beowhihg said Oat the article in th 6 Northern Star , disclaiming the use of violent language , had gives great saUs&ction at Wednesbury .
The Northern Star. Saturday, November 6, 1841.
THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 6 , 1841 .
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THE * DAILY BREAD" PLAGUE . In accordance with our promise , we this week give the reply" of Mr . M Da il y Bread '' Hill to our remarks upon his anti-bread tax army of " empty bag ' bearers . Out readers will find it elsewhere , and will probably think it a very good answer to itself . There are , however , a few points in it noon which it may be worth while to say a word . It is an old saving . " that the first blow is the best
half of the battle "; and this Daily Bread" man seems to be a devout believer in the " saw . " He knows the characteristic lore of Englishmen for " fair play , " and their hatred of misrepresentation or falsehood ; and heaoe he opens Jbis tirade with a smart volley about " censoring , " and " abusing , '' and " misrepresenting , '' and ultimately he charges us in the following paragraph with a direct falsehood . '—
" It is utterly false that the words 'People ' s Charter were inserted tn larger characters than the words < Food Tmxea . * « J » Ton Jwve aet it forth . One of tha placards hi question is lying at the office of the Leeds Tiaes , and one at Mr . Heywood ' s , Manchester , that those who choose to satisfy themselves by the evidence of then-own sigltt that the writer of the Northern Star has been guilty of a gross falsehood , may have the opportunity of dofegeo . *'
Now , it may l > e aU very fine for Mr . "Daily Bread" Hill to try to raise a dost ; but we do not intend that the cover of it shall avail him for escape ; or that he shall blind with it the eyes of our readers . Supposing our statement to have been incorrect or false , as he says it is , on this trifling matter of detail , that would by no means have affected the main body of the argument ; it woald neither have made the Sooiety more legal , nor the plan more feasible , nor the object which
the plan was to obtain more desirable , nor the means of obtaining that object less objectionable . We might grant him all the bluster about " gross falsehood" in describing the kind of type in which the wordB " People ' s Charter , " were printed oa the bills , and he would still be no nearer to the only useful object of his letter—the disproving of our arguments against the character and tendency of his society—but we shall not give him even that advantage . We retort npon him that the " gross falsehood" is with him and not with as . We did
not" set it forth" that the words " People's Charter " were inserted in larger characters than the words " food taxes . " We stated orilj that the words " Public meeting , " People ' s Charter , " and " by Mr . Hill , " are printed in the largest type that could possibly be got into the breadth of the sheet ; which statement Mr . " Daily Bread" Hill knows to be true . It will not serve men propennding grave and serious measures for the acceptance of the public , to
meet objections by this kind of shirking . The public are too wide awake . They see through every such artifice at first sight , and seldom fail to give the author of it his own name . Nor will the paltry badinage about the " bulletin , " the form of which is so facetiously given , be thought more satisfactory . It is much more easy to cut jokes than to answer arguments . Mr . Hill seems to know this , but seems to forget that other people know it too .
Like every other imp of faction , the ** Daily Bread" man must have his fling at O'Coknok . He addresses his epistle to the " proprietor" and condnctors of the Northern Star . This he had no right to do . He had the means of knowing that the " proprietor" of the Northern Starhtd no Bhare in the remark * which we thought necessary for guarding the people against the "Daily Bread ** trap . Why , then , this insolent and gratuitous dragging of the great O'Coitoob , " and the proprietor of the Northern Star'' into the business ? It was not CComroB , hut the Northern Star that
was to be replied to . The Northern Star had warned the people against an infamous conspiracy called the DaQy Bread Society "; it had assigned its reasons for its warning ; it had proved the character of the " Daily Bread Society" from the writings of its founder and advocate . Does the H Daily Bread" man show that the warning was unnecessary 1 Does he rebut the reasoning ? Does he ward off the proofs I Does he show that the extracts we gav » from his own writings' have any other meaning than' thai which we say they have Not a bit of all this does he do—for the best reason in the world . Bat failing that , be does the next best
thing for his own purpose . He tries to make such a splash and a splutter , and to raise such adust and » smoke as shall enable hisa to " get away . " Hence the mighty bnster about the sort of type in which the words "People ' s Charter ** and "food taxes" were printed on his bills ; and hence , too this cunning whipping-in of " the great CCohkob , " for the purpose of leading off attention from the subject in dispute by a stupid effort to be witty on the subject of O'Cohkob ' s proposal to tha landlords of Ireland to improve their own estates , and the people ' s eonditioa at tha same time , by the small farm system . He save : —
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it . « , t « ' £ = P" PerhaiisTThilBt on this BObjectrwithottttrting so aMWneouBa 9 t « « k . Mr * QMwmor how they are to ob £ a ihe ls ^ iWiii «^ iD «^ Mij ^ wann 5 ielei 4 : jn ^ od ^ A * a mm pie * e * M » 4 ^ individual haa flw children , it » b calculated , tbw * M sub-divide injto five acres more for each , or u they have discovered thai there would thea the onlroae acre for each ; « K > reover , if each ofkb&se jwonriftkors of one . acre subdivides it again amongst Jus five children . ) ' the sins of the fathers will be visited upon the children even to she third and fourth generation / in a- way that will leave very little land for eachV ? . :. .. . :- . ...- . —/ . . . u .. :. ¦ .... ¦¦ ; . > ¦ >
No doubt the "Daily Br ^* nian thonght this an adr $ meftod pi «^ shall not permit him . * e d »« Oi The ? question is sot aa to the merits of Mr . O'Connor's five acres farm system ; were it so , we shoold , have , little . difBcaltj in meeting and exposing the ¦** Daily Bread" man's puerile and malignant fallaoy ; bat the' question yi of the merits of the "Daily Bread Society . "described by it own advocates aa " an organised plan to break the law " ¦ ¦• • ¦ ¦ ¦• - ¦ ¦¦ - •¦ " -. _ ¦ , ; . ¦ . .
In respect to this description of his society , the B Dally Bread " . mahsays > - ^ ¦' < '¦ ., -, . "I never gave , it thai description . What say * the title page of the book , ' Daily Bread , or Taxation without Representation Resisted , bei ng a Plan / or the Abolition ef the Bread Tax ; ' that ia what I called it , neither more nor less , and probably thia is what the Editor of the Leeds Times might intend , that is to destroy , to break up a bad law . * ° With regard to this opinion , of the Leeds Times , it so happened that I addressed a letter to the Editor of that paper , to correct hiB description of the aooiety } after I saw his phraseology was taken up by the She field Iris ; but my letter was received too late for insertion the week it was sent , therefore I said it might be withheld as rather out of date . "
Now , we cure not what letter the " Daily Bread '' man may have sent to the Leeds Times and withdrawn . We infer his approval and adoption of thi description of the sooiety from these facts : he had at his command a journal which he calls the "Bread Eater ' s Advocate and National Dailp Bread Society ' s Journal . " tn that paper , the organ of the society , he gives iHa description from the Leedt Times ; but he gives with it no correction : On the contrary , he takes up the idea of "breaking the law , " and labours most sedulously to justify and enforce it . But whether he chooses to give it that description or not , the fact Ib not altered . The society is , to all
intents and purposes , what the Leeds Times has well described it , — " an organised plan for breaking the law . " The Bread Eater ' s Advocate and National Daily Bread Society's Journal" is ( besides being in the teeth of the Stamp Act , an unstamped newspaper , ) an illegal publication , from the very fact of its being the organ of a * conspiracy to break the law ; " and Mr . " Daily Bread" Hhjl must meet and explain that fact , otherwise than by lying quibbles about different sizes of type , and about Mr . O'Conkob ' s five acres farm system , if he intends any sensible man to run the gratuitous hazard of either belonging to his "Daily Bread Society" or baying or selling his Bread Eater ' s Advocate . ' *
We have looked carefully through Mb whole letter , and cannot find in it one effort at a reply to our strictures , or even at a fair argument of the question ot ike Corn Laws , to procure the abolition of which he affirms this " Daily Bread Society" to have been intended . His first effort at argument is on the general Corn Law Question , and it is this : — "Are we to be prevented from obtaining a supply of food now , because Mr . O'Connor has for some reason which he knows and which we shrewdly
suspect we know , put his followers en a false scent , by holding out the hopes of five acres of land for each individual , and because another ' patriot' says that we ought not to ask fer a repeal of the Bread Tax , without embarassing the question with equitable adjustments between fundholders and landholders I Can the inhabitants of the country cat the land 1 Will the produce which is to be jieldod from these sterile sous , when reclaimed in the year 1850 or 1950 , feed the people in 1841 and 2 , or keep them from dying of starvationi *
This is the mode adopted by all the enemies of O'CoKNOaand the people . They hatch monstrous schemes for disorganising all sooiety and then turn round and father them on him . The inSpudent and villanous assumption contained in the words "holding out the hope of five acres of land for eaeh indiTu ) n » l" is the »* me as that of bis brother "D » ilj-Bread" man of the Leeds Times last week . It is the assumption that O'Connob , recommends the forcible taking of the land from its present proprietors , and dividing it absolutely as to proprietorship , in lumps of five adres each amongst the poor . Now the rascals knowthatinnosingleline or speech , writtenor spoken ,
either by O'Cokhob or by the conductor of the Northern Star , has any such doctrine been countenanced ; and it is conclusive evidence of the "Daily Bread" men being "dead beat , " that they thus conjure up a ghost to combat with : not to say that fi it were even so , the argument is then unfairly stated , and the question begged . It is assumed , without any effort to adduce evidence , first , that the plan of O ' Connor is a foolish one ; and next , that a repeal of the Corn Laws , under present circumstances , would benefit the people . Upon neither of these questions does the " Daily Bread" man venture to argue for an instant . He asks : —
" Is it not recorded in the very paper which contains the attack upon me and the Daily Bread Sooiety , that there are 19 , 930 individuals at this moment in the town of Leeds , whose average incomes are only Hid . per head per week J less than twopence per day 1 Yet are there places in a still lower state of destitution even than Leeds . Out of this Fcanty income of 11 id . the food tax takes at least 4 { d . It is as clsab as the sow at koon-dat , that not only would the effect of the abolition of the
Corn Law be to relieve these individuals from the tax of fourpence farthing , but that it would increase the wages of the employed and give employment to the unemployed by creating a market for their labour in exchange for the food to be imported ; yet are several of the leaders of wbat they have chosen to call the Chartist movement ( though it has muoh more the characteristic of a Tory movement ) denouncing the repeal of the Corn Laws ; and here is Mr . O'Connor ' s paper censuring me for producing a plan by which they may be abolished . "
Now , this is a very ready and convenient mode of settling things . There is a vast amount of poverty and distress in the country ; and Mr . " Daily Bread " Hill says , " IT IS AS CLEAR AS NOONDAY " that the repeal of the Corn Laws would remedy it all . True ; Mr . " Daily Bread" Hill is perfectly aware . that in the Northern Star this position , which is to him " as clear as noonday , " has been disputed ; that arguments have been advanced to prove it untenable ; that it has been represented as a fallacy which could mislead noue but very fools , and would be advanced by none but very knaves . And of his conviction that these arguments were based on truth and could not be answered , wo have the evidence in this paragraph , in whioh , instead of arguing the question , he assumes it all , and says * rr is as
clkab as noondat" 1 ! No better proof could have been desired of Mr . Hill ' s perfect consciousness that hiB whole scheme is just what we have described it to be , than this empty vapouring about " as clear as noonday . " To us it iB " as clear as noonday " that the heads which can receive this as a reply to all the argument upon , this question that has appeared in the Northern Star , during the whole anti-Corn Law movement , must be as " empty" as the " bags" with which Mr . Hill proposes to arm his volunteers against the preventive service In reply to our exposure of the worse than childish , if not infamous and devilish , project of a procession of ten or twenty thousand men with » empty bags" upon their backs , to land corn in
defiance of the authorities , he states that his « Daily Bread "J ^ * ir " *!«» Teat , age-that it was published in March last-atid t&at the contemplated mode of operation is * ow somewhat different "because what would not haw suited in March would in December . " .. It now appears that the com is not to be imported bj the society ^ but to be boughi in the bonding warehouses , and « formal demand" made fbxitsliBeration , He denies that he advised , or does advise , « ny arming to take it but ho does not'telltlte ' people ho ^ tnay arc to get it without . They are , jrorsootb , to makfl * fotnJal demand upon the Government for the liberation of their corn ! We guega there is not in England bo great an idiot W the man who could haye the slightest
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* doubt as to ^ whaf answer would P given io ^ Bircns ^ Lm ^^^^^^^^^^ ^ . ^ rould be irresistiMe ^ h *^ a demat itffiroin ^ e > 6 r two m 1 ffloh 1 & o ^| l * Ting people ^^ & ^ . pift <|} e ^^ Te £ ,: paW ^^^^ ' ^ T ^^ m ^ - ^ bm . eeife ^^^ the" ijv ^ tfm ^ irf one , o * j two , millions qfj Englishmea for thetertghta , bate treating ; with abso ~ Jute bonteW ^ n -igMi anil igMUMgNltf
A ^ . j »; Nr ; i ^ boot , and ail itbe f ^ aVjdem attf «{ mde . i n ; the only formal manner , that ^ petiii « m and ioemorittl , bj the thousand upon ^ Repeal of ihc Corn Laws during aevagitatiptt | . ah 4 yet Mr , •* Dally . Bread ? ' Hilt would j > eM 5 ^ mi beliefe him so egfcgionssji ass as to think that . * Tory Government , a Eaiidowne ' rsV Government , a " Moriop ^ fist '' ( &Ter ^^ of an 4 jcepresenting person * who-are bound in every way * both by opinion and interest , to Behold the ^ Coirn liaW ^ would' wncede that ¦ tftoe forms
3 eiiiand of one r two millions of penny fiubsaribeis , which an antlmtonopoliBt , liberal , and reforming Government denied to all the bullying throats and all the cwxing suasion , of tj $ . most wealthy and moat influential League « ver formed in this country with all their penny retabew , — " Daily Bread" men and all—to back th ^ in . TJhis i ^ pasd with Mr . Hill for argumentjbut we . venture to assert that few other persons will so consider it ., It . was so olear that the question would occur , what must bei done if the Government refttse'M that the /? Daily 'Bread " maif could not pass it without notice . To this question he replies ;—
"There u one course which perhaps might be right if we were refused , namely , to dissolve the societies , and give the Com or lour in bond to all the destitute and hungry . If they choose to break the law and smuggle it out , I suppose the members of the . Bqciety would not be responsible after the society shall hay 6 been dissolved . If smuggling out was violating t&e lawr , I -would' certainly give my opinion that it Was at least no violation of the law of morality for a starving man to break up the lair of the landowner , which locked up his own food . "
Was ever so contemptible a subterfuge as this 1 How are the hungry and destitute to smyggle the corn out of the bonding warehouse' }! If it be not " as clear aa noon day" that in the event of their formal demand being refused , they have nothing for it but to submit quietly or take the corn by force , we never saw a position that was " as clear as noon day . ' * He denies that his purpose is to advise an armed resistanoe to the law ; And he says : —
" N < jw , I have stated at a public meeting , and I repeat U , that I would deem it wrong . to advise any other party to a course What I had not the courage to practice myself . I certainly would not advise the people to riot at Newport , nor any other port ; but if I had been so unwise as to stimulate them to suoh a course of action . I should have judged it proper to be there to assist them , and not have goue to Scotland to keep out of danger . "
Here again is the assumption that either O'Connob or the Conductor of the S / ar did advise the people to riot at Newport . Now why does not Mr . Hile giro proof of this ! Why does he not adduce some part of this advice f Either he read the Northern Star at the period referred to , or he did not . If he did read it , he knows that the assumption here made ia false ; and that so far from advising the people to tiot , the Northern Star invariably deprecated , and U 8 edall its infiuenoe for the suppression of the riots ; and if he did not read it , he must admit the insinuation to be indeed a truly villanous one . We defy this " Daily Bread" man or any other scoundrel in existence to point out one sentence of Editorial writing ia the Northern Star calculated to induce » breach of the peace , or advising resistance to the law : while we retaliate
upon him hia own charge , and convict him . out of his own mouth , of the cowardly and murderouB intention to bring the famishing poor into collision with the armed authorities—to stimulate them to a physical defiance 1 of the law . — while he himself skulked out of danger , and left them to be slaughtered . We take our evidence from this very letter , in which he tells his dupes ( if he have any ) that the " moral force" of their " demand' 11 would be irresistible to Government—labours so to persuade them that no obstacle will be offered to their progress , as to induce the natural feeling of infuriated disappointment if it should ; and then proposes , in ease of their demand being refused , to break up the Society , and give the ' com to the poor and destitute ; , who may break the law ,
and smuggle it out . Who does not see what all this means ! Whodoesnotsee that Mr . "DailyBread"H » iL and his compeers mean to work np the feelings of their penny dupes to a 6 tate of frenzied excitement , and then coolly to walk away , and say , " We have done all we can ; you must do the rest yourselves 1 They won't give us the corn ; we declare the Society dissolved . We can't break the law , but you may as soon as we shall be safe ; and as the corn ia safe locked in a etone bonding warehouse , and yon are outside and starving , we advise you to go jand smuggle it . To be sure , there are authorities who have it in charge , and these authorities are well armed * aud if you attempt to take it without paying the duty they will shoot you ; but never mind that there is no moral offence in smuggling ' , go and smuggle the coral "
To us it is " as clear as noon day , " that this is the plain English of all Mr . "Daily-bread" Hill ' s talk about the " moral force" of tho "formal demand "—the breaking up of the society , and giving of the corn to the poor and destitute to smuggle !' But Mr . Hill affirms that be never intended his 11 Daily Bread" followers to be armed for resistance to the law . And we affirm that he has in this afforded the best evidence ' . that his whole plan is what we I have before described it—a deep devilish plot , to accomplish two things at once : to obtain a large thinning of the surplus population , ' by the musket , the halter , and . the transport ship ; and at the same time to create ft popular demonstration whioh shall intimidate the Government and compel them to elevate the commercial upon the ruins of the landed interest .
We refer to his " Daily Bread" pamphlet in which he Bays : — " NOW THK WAY THE AMEEICANS OBTAINED THE suffrage , and exempttoh from heavy taxation , furnishes us -with an example WOBTHT OP IMITATION . The English landlords said to the Americans , ' We impose a tax on your tea . ' 'No , ' said the Americans , ' we shall not be imposed upon ; we are not represented , and we deny your right to tax . us . ' A cargo of tea was sent ' . to one of their aea-porta ( Boston ) , and ah , exciseman was sent to collect the tax ; THE EXCISEMAN WAS TARRED AND FE 1-THERED by the Americans , and the tea emptied
into the ocean , rather than they weuld submit to pay a tax upon it Here , then , toe tee a ' praeiioal way of abolishing the Corn Laws , and obtaining the suffraga . When the ship arrives at the destined port—or a few days before—let meetings , of the society be held in every town , and . city in the kingdom , and let her Majesty be memorialised to give an order in council for the abolition of the Bread lix '; ' : —perhaps she may bear and regard the cries of a famishing people , wanting food . The fruit of their own labour has been sent to purchase it , and who shall stand between a famishing people and their food I If her Majesty shall yield the just rights of the peoplewell : but , if she should be ill-advised , and refuse it . a
large number of members of society—say ten or twenty thousand—should go down to the ship—marching orderly , edcti priM «» w ^ fy bag calculated to hold about two peeks or half a boEhel—to procure sampJes of corn which belongs to the members of the society . It may perhapa , noj be necessary , or Judicious , to fellow the example : oit ^ be Americans , by torring aud feaUmiog the ^ to ^ floto . eme ^ the vessel ) they ^ jprojtibV offer v no impediment to the people obV ^ ninl ^ pIes or , their own oo ^ bat if impedimenfB' are "thrown ^ ri' the' way of th | s , sad if those hnpedtments are of a nature , which it is judged better not to remove , then the course is to refuse to pay the tax , tutd to empty the corn into the sea . " ,
We refer to his- * Bread Eater ' s Advocate" published , not in March but in September , and we give agsin his answer to the objection , 'That if the people took thej born out of the ship , or oat of the bonding warehouse , by force , there night bo loss of life *
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rtr That tnc-Corn Law ootild not beimpose ^ witbeat not admutea as a reason why it shoula not exist ; frlgM ^ g@ 9 i ! Sttgtt at JP ^ terlop ip ^ ] 8 iy . m , that ey « n if it were pertain ^ mi tu ^ jf ^^' j ^^^ m ^ "exist . , Eogland , ha £ i ^ 8 Qim « , nobla 'R poianaf [ 1 * to ( y ^ j 0 ^ pi' ^\ f ^ j S ^^ f ^^' i ^ ] ltfi ! m ¦• teijj '; . ^^ : ' . - . - ¦ .. v V '•¦ ¦¦ . . ii- . - " ji-Vv / - ¦ ¦ ¦ w . v- ; >;• -, ¦ . - ¦ a- ' . ¦ . - ,
¦ ¦ ' ofc ! the bss sens that never , never ' ' ¦ * - Will stoo £ ttf brittle landlords slaves ' ' : ' ; : - WWlebkiiTO has light = ¦ - '' = ' - ' . ' -:: ¦ ' .- : ¦¦ ¦ ' '¦ . ''¦ - i : ;; . iI- v ; Of . e >^ : ! bBM : sSi « efc ^' /• ¦ ¦ ' - - :- - <; y ¦ - ^ ¦ / ' « ' ^^ . Wi 5 ^^ b ^ V : |; m ^ thai i hjei TOB 9 jjo ^ fenA . lu ^^ . ^ 'Ui ^ l ^^ itifl ^^ QOi knew how to dTe , ' the call wsi djutckly responded to ; nor ; would such % call ; to ^^ che 5 ^ Jfe 1 | oMg unresponded , to , though , it , ' w , Tippe ^* 'ip inay nofpo nfcWP ^ Wj" ^" ri ' : ' > ' ¦ -oi ; ~' ZJ ^ r , ?'¦ . * , Z ' ^ ' )^ - . ' Werefer to these aad to every other part both of tlie ^ aily' Bread" pampWeti the Bread Sater ' s
Udvftate , ^ lto ... HtttV , w ^; tf ; i > nr ;« flnB iaiji- ot to-day * for pxool ihai his object intheesiajUiahAug of this society 1 is 4 o bring the people into collision With the law . We believe the Bociety , even were it legal , to be useless and mischievous in principle ^ calr oulated only to produce an amount of destitution , and misery—a , perfection of social slavery , and of the rampancy of capital—even greater than now exists . Wo hive proved / over and over again , that this would be the effect of the Repeal of the Corn Laws uuder existing oircumstances . We hare
proved , -again and again , that the Repeal could benefit only the commercial capitalists . And Mr , " Daily Bread" Hill has proved that he knows this ; for he has not attempted one argument in its favour . Shuffle and prevarication j falsehood and bounce , are the materiel ot his letter .. / . ' Hfe asserts that the teichings of the Northern Star have filled the prisons with law breakers . He knows this to 1 be a lie ; and were it true , it would be no argument for his illegal Jconspiracy . He asserts that the conductor of the . Northern
Star wishes to see the people thinned ' by famine . He knows this to be a lie ; and were It true , it would be no justinoation of his advising them to march by ' ten t > r twenty thousand to defy ' ' * he military , and to imitate the Americans , by tarring and feathering custom-hotts * 7 officers . [ By the Dye , he forgets to Bay that when the Americans went to Boston to tar and feather the exciseman , and to fling the tea into the ocean ; they did not go armed with " empty bags" !} He asserts by inference , that Feabcus O'Connob advised the people to riot - at Newport , and then went into Scotland out of the way of' danger .
He knows this to be a lie ; aud , were it true , it would' not juBtHY his project for persuading a half-famished people first to- believe , that a repeal of the Corn Laws would remedy all their grievancesT and fhett' to enrol themselvear'in' the "DailyBread Society , " and club their jwAee to buy corn in bond , ia the confident hope that Grovernment would let them have it diity free , or repeal the Com Laws at their " formkl demand ^ and the *' coolly breaking up the society , ' wHle the * f&nr 6 t M % o f * ntfvdisy appointment - was kt'it « r"fnll height , and walking ; smirking away , with his htmds itthia po « ketfl , ' telling the poor dupes that as the Queen would not let them have th # « orn they might now smuggle it through the stone wall ; of the ) ponding warehouse .
The more folly we examine all the evidences afforded to us by the founder and advocate of this society , the mow fully are we satisfied that the whole thing is a deep , ' devilish scheme , to serve the iaterests , and perfect the douinancy of the capital" men by entrapping the Chartists ; from an attention to their own affairs , by making more elbow-room for machinery in a large olearingoff' * of the people by the musket , the halter , and tfaetzansport ship ; and by raising such a disturbahoe and hubbub in the country , as , whileit compels : the Government to immolate ' the landlords upon the cotton altar shall at the same time induce it to - bind the mass of "rabble" more helplessly than they are even
bow bound . We see all that Mr . Hill says about bis anxiety for the division of the land among ; the whole people—about his wish for Universal Suffrage , and his dissatisfaction with the " PeopleV Charter , " because of its making no provision for the right , of female vothiR ; but we have , in this letter , and in his other writings , suoh proof of his unscrupulousness in the assertion of anything : that may serve his purpose , that We regard it Only as ' the necessary gilding of the pill , which we again advise the people to spit out at once . Let the Charter , and 'the Char ter only , be our present watchword ; and leave the '" Blague" men to fill their " empty bags with " their sunken hopes and frustrated projects .
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"ROYAL , " "LOYAL" LIBERALITYA LESSON FOR THE CHARTISTS . In another part of our paper will be found an admirable specimen of the consistent and manly , character of Master Dan * as well as the best proof of the sore " mess" in which be finds himself involved by the spread of Chartism : we allude to a series of resolutions proposed by Daniklv--. "At a meeting of the Loyal National Repeal Association , held at ithe Great Rooms , Corn Exchange , on Monday , the 13 th of Septomoer , ' 18 il , " acoompaniedl by a letter ' from Mir . Secretary- Ray , in which " m DearRai" says :-r-. ¦ . .,
" It is deemed of importance that you be pleased to oommunioate the purport of the resolutions as widely a 8 you can among the friends of Ireland . " We know no reason why the " Liberator" should not choose his own road out of existence ; and as he seems to prefer the common though somewhat vulgar mode , of Btrangulation , we ehaH not grudge hint any length of rope , which he may deem hecest sary for the due accomplishment of So desirable a purpose . - :.-, ! ., . " ° . ¦
The report informs us that k was . . --" Resolved—That Mr . Ray be instructed to write forthwith to the Repealers in Birmingham and other places in England , cautioning them against any species of connection with the Chartists , and begging of them to exclude all known Chartists from their meetings , and stating that otherwise they themselves must be excluded from being members of our Assooiation , as we can have no connection whatsoever with the Chartist body . ? ' \
And then follows a string of eight " reasons for excluding the Chartists from any communication with them , " the fourth of which is : — . "That the base tyranny of the Chartists , in forcibly preventing the publio expression of any popular opinions differing in any degree from their own , have been the means of securing Tory misrule and tyranny , by stilling the salutary voice of publio opinion . "
From any man but Daniel O'Connell this would have been accounted a marvellously Irish sentiment . Dan charges the Chartists with preventing the expression of any popular opinion not Consistent with their own : and this he designates as" base , tyranny . " He describes this " base , tyranny" as being aggra rated by the support which he avere it to have given to the Tories ; and he forthwith exhibits his patriotiolove of fairplay by a mandate to bis " royal " "loyals , " on botii sides the channel , whioh out-Herods Herod , and leaves this same " base tyranny " of the Chartists far in the back ground ; for he
commands them not merely "to prevent all ; publio expression of opinion ' by the Chartists j but " to exclude alt known Chartists from their meetings " , on pain of being tfleaiEelres " excluded from the "Royal" . ^ Loyal" legion—apitehof "base tyranny whioh we suppose was never attempted to be reached by any but "the Liberator " . Why , what ah object of derision is this old JSabergasted hypocrite I thus practising improvement and extension upon the very principle which he decries in others as "base tyranny "; and this , suppoeing Him not to know his charge against the Chartista to be a base falsehood . But he does know it to be a base
falsehood : he knows that the Chartists , so far from " preventing the public expression of opinion , " havB made themselves feared and bated by Daniel and bis Whig patrons , simply by their assertion of their right to *? . express public opinion " , in opposition to " anti-Corn Law " , " general suffrage" , and other hnmhuKge ^ s , ' twho would have labsUiatod for it the opinion of faction—a small fraction of " Che public " . This the Chartists think to be dishoaeati they- think the " public expression of opinion " should express , the opinion of " the public" ; and hence the discomfiture of the various knots of mouthing « Leaguers" whon Danisl describes as fl Rational Reformers'V and ' wio he sajs have been "driveninto silence" by the ^ Oiartists .
Nothing like a strong farce for the meting of a storm . We question if even neighbour Mefctfry is able to posh Hbo ** entire animal" to » stijier market than Dam haa done in this instance . The
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: S ^^ 4 fliart . Hts ~ p » Y * ntJb ft ^ j ^ J Q ^ iWhy , the very thing is too ridiculous to be IaughedT -at I As though their pea ^ taboar bad not been to prevent Dan and the Whigs from representing ! themaelvea is tbet pabliai Tnank God , however , ¦ iheir labour . has not been ^ a vaia . ^ ^ e bjiv e in Jhi « . ^ manifesto , the acknewlexxxmentiof Dabml that the . Chartists have drivenihelcigi ^ , p * ri ^ o"RaUohal Reformers , " intosflewieT—mtb ^ disuWonj ^ ato apa ^ by that we have " suffocated" > beir > eau » # aj » d ' ^ ' ooja- - pletely" eaocte « ded W patting aa end to all their pieties and Associatiomr ' in England . This is , at least , an aoknowledgawnC of onr , ^ wer , / . thoufj | i | is probable thai ^ tiM , l ^^ ift ^ p f'U hour might . find the "Liberal . rpprpseh ^ Mjthe | e , ' ^
meibrmidable Chartists , who haw : driven « U ^ he Whigs and " Rational Reforflj « ra ' intosilence ; arid broken up all their Socwtlls' * i ^ t . ^ M ^ ions in Eagland , as too small and e « ntemptible a party to merit notice I This is hoti however , his present tack to sail on . He sees ,. in Cbsr ^ aiai * , pow ^ Vagaiasi which all the oily fraud of jngglefy will be in vain exercised . AnSheiw ©^ ^ fids flagitioTia eff « rt to srny against the Chart ^ te bjr . fi ^ toM and vi ^ p ^ ation , their Repealing brethren . The worst fosra of Irishmen are roused by reminiscences of Tory times , and they are instructed that to Chartist auspicea the present rule of Toryism i » to be ascribed , because "Chartists combined with . Tories in the recent
' elections . We need only , in reply to this foolish fallacy refer the Irish Repealers to a much better friend , to them than ever Daiokl O'Connell wasthe consistent , firm , and-gentlemanly , Patrick O'HiGGJNB , who , at a meeting of the Irish Universal Suffrage Association , reported in our last , rose and said thatr- : ¦ ,.-. . . ¦ - " ¦ ;• T - ; ' -. ' . r . ; - ;¦ . ; . , " He would answer the qaesffonawhtch ware putbf the gentleman , who said he was If r . O'bonntll ' s friend , and a member of the ' Loyal National RepeelAaaocia tion of Ireland , namely , ' Did the Chartists of England not show their hatred of the lri * h ,. by returning a Tory
for Nottingham J and by jeetujrnlng Tories In every place they baa power * to do " at the late electionaT And was n » t Mr-OX ^ nwU ' s plan ef General Suflrage superior to Universal Suffrage , and all other planr ? Could hot the people go and vote in several places , if Universal Suffrage , were adopted V To the first question , he ( Mr . O'Hlgglns ) Would reply , that < he Chartists of Nottingham took Mr . p'Connell ' s advfee to the Trias electors , which was , when ) th > y could not " get a pledged Repealer to support the next best The Chartists of England abhor the infamous , atrocious Whig Poot Law Amendment Act , an act which treats poverty a » a crime of greater magnitude than murder , robbery ,
andwpe , because a man guilty of the latter shocking , revolting crimes , would be deemed innocent uhtQ found guilty by " a Jury of bis country , whereas , on the other band , the moment that misfortunes drive an honest / 1 epber , jRopd man , to seek even a temporary asylum ta ¦ ¦ •» union workheuse , hts head in shavedV and a felon's dress is put en him If he has a wifMnd , children , they are all separated , never to . meet acsin , unless some good fortune « leases ( them from the workhouse ; and in the event of death , which frequently and unaccountably happens in those dens of human misery and suffering , the bodies are given up for diasectien to some neighbouring hospital , for
young surgeons to practice upon . Now , the English Chartista always looked upon this Aet of Parliament ai one of the greatest grievances of modern Invention ; aud the electors of Nottingham knew right weUthat My . Walter , of the Times , the Tory candidate , was the consistent opponent of this flagitious Act Bis adversary , the . Whig , was the advocate of that bill , and the Chartists ef Nottingham supported - Mr . Walter , not because he was a Tory ; but because ' he waa the consistent opponent of the Poor Laws Amendment Aet And even now , when the Tories are in power , he is opposed to them , and will continue to oppose and expose them , unless they repeal that Act With
regard to the second question . The Chartists did not return Teriea , as such , but they did return them ia some places on the eani « grounds , and for the Btune reasons , that they returned Mr . Walter . Besides they were so * foolish as to feturn their own friends , when ever they could do so , in opposition' to both Whig and Tory . The plan they adopted Was veryjudidaus one , and one wnieh weshould fallow at out electipns . They made the first offer to the Whig c » ndl 4 atetp _ split 4 bejr votes with him , provide ^ his friendf Would split with the Chartiat candidate . 'Begone , ye torch-antf dagger men , you ndduifht assassins , ' . said the Whlfr Well , they made a simllin offer to the Tory , who said ,
• I do not like your principles , but yon have a right to be heard , and to send as many members as you can to represent your view * , wants , and feelings , in the House of Commons , and I w&l split with yon . ' The result of this wise and sensible policy on the part of the Chartfstt is , ( hat they have upwards of forty friends and advocates in the present House of Commons , whereas they had but three in tha la-t one ; and what ia still better , these . forty English members are pledged to extend the same rights , privileges , and immunities to Ireland , which they hope to obtain for England ; in fact , to treat Ir ^ Jaud , in every respect , as if it were an English county . Dims this . look like hatred of Ireland } INo , no ) . ? " . ' , .
We cannot too strongly recommend to the Repealers geueratiy , ^ nd especiaUy those of Ireland , thia mild , rational , and © Vnclaaivei reply to the raying of O'CeimitLL , ttbovt Outttist support of Tories . Nor can the Irish Repealers fail to pereeire t if they but lef their "jadgments have to play , that hewuat be a masked enemy to their cause , who 5 under the guise of an anxiety forits defence , woald bring its advocates into direct coUisioH wftk a par ^ r so powerful and so well organised as he here represents the Chartists , when the support ^^ of that partj might be had for it . Dam says the Chartists have been strong enough to beat all the Whigs in England
that they have completely succeeded in puttiagau end to all their societies and associations in Eng * land andin causing the Tories everywhere to triumph over them ; he represents them . as having done this in the teeth of the virulent persecuting Whig Government , while the gaols were crammed with their ; leaders and the transport ships were loaded with the victims of treachery and perjury ; he acknowledges that this powerful body arc willing and anxious to lend their aid to the people of Ireland is securing Repeal : he knows that they have
chivalrously wedded themselves to the cause of their fellow sufferers in Ireland—have nailed their Repeal flag upon their own mast , and made it part and parcel of their own colours f and yet he— "the great leader " in the Repeal movement , exhorts his followers to seeka quarrel with this formidable body—te spura tiieirproffered aid with insult ; andinsolently threatens that as many of them aa will not join bim in this base effort to betray their own cause shall , for their adherence to principle and consistency , be branded as traitors , and excluded from his association !
It is ever the forte of villany to be inconsistent , and is always more or less allied to insanity . Of this , this same O'Connell document affords evidenbt more strong than we haye often met with . Intbe first seven of his-elght reasons why all known Qur tists should be excluded from all Repeal meetif tfJ * he paints the Chartists : — . " . i ' . .. Black as night Fierce as the furies ; terrible as . HelL " Every form of vituperation and abuse is layi&fr expended on them . They are affirmed to be the worst enemies of Ireland— "the best friends of tha Tory principle of absolutism "—* making a pretext
of being Reformers , but in reality being the most active opponents of Reform . " And his eighth reason is that the Repealers themselves are all Chartists * This is the capping of the climax ! Thisi 3 "hot and cold with the' same breath" with a vengeance . Of any other man it would have been thought strange ; but from Daniel nought surprisesi ue . Ho . acfeaallj dot * in this manifesto say that the Repealers aw »» and are ready to work out , the same principles of Reform with the Chartists , whom bebas pre viously described aa enemies to all Reform , and asjae worst enemies of Ireland—as persons with whom tbs ^ peaceable , temperate , ;^ orah anat <^ Repeal
of Ireland can have no connection . " - Extremes- so wide meet seldom but in Dah-j b * iiB , ihoweTflr , thef are in fuU cxbibttfon , and the Repealer wW-W ) ^ d this document and ^ not B ^ lr ^ H'to ^ B *^ . is just the thing of wbiah Dak fears . ffie 99 f 0 r pliahment , must be much duller than w& geoeraUy find irishmen to be . ; .,. •• , -. ¦ - ^ ¦ ¦ : ¦ ::, ; bn . _ Wo wish for no beteet otinoro oneeiifttl eTiden * r that Dak ' s " day kcome , " and that he kaow * . ; than is afforded by this document . It ib * e BBgaitt ^ floundering of a stranded wbalo ^^ e ^ . W ^ C the political curfew whioh sitaU pat ' rafc . ^ . w ^ Pan * s greatness , and leave his memory as ** " £ of all gratefnl reflection as his life firi ( n' ^«™ J 4 /! and Mi character of principle .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 6, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct573/page/4/
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