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Mr. John Watkins, formerly of Aislaby Hall, near Whitby, is, we regret to learn, in a state of health so dangerous as to leave little hopo of his.re-
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Pinder's Blacking. —The money due this week to. the Executive, from tbe sale of Pinder's blacking, is as follows:— \ - ¦ -.:-'
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THE JN T OE-THEE^ STAE. SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1842.
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2To laeaTrcrjS anrr Corv^jKrtttJtnrtjS*
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TO MR-JAMES WILLIAMS, SUNDERLAND.
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KTD 33 ERMIWSTEE . GLORIOTJS TKITTSIPH OF PRINCIPLE OTER MR . 5 TT 7 RGE S SUFFRAGE HUMBUG . A public meetin , convened by the Complete Suffrage gentry , was held in the large room of the White Horse Inn , on Munday last . The chair was announced to be taken at seven o'clock , at a quarter past , there being no sign of a cbairmMi being proposed , - Hi . Crouch rose and said it is now considerably past the time announced , I will therefore propose that Mr . Holloway do take the chair . Mr . Sharp seconded the motion . The metion "was put and carried unanimously amid loud cheers .
Mr . HOLLpTFiT . —Gentlemen , haying been called by you , and being "Willing to render my hnnlble services in aid of any good cause , I consent to fill the chair , and as far as I am concerned , everybody shall have a trir ind imrwrtTal hearing -who may offer tceniselvea to your Botice-rltheers . ) He then re&d theBiU , convening the meeting , and said he did not know -who was about to take part in the proceedings or what the prerise business was , but those ^ ho intended or had anything to tiring forward would do so . After a long pause , Mr . W . Charlton , ex-Chartist leader , rose , and . after a long speech , asked the mover and seconder of the chairman if they had signed the declaration . Both said " No . " Mr . C—ily purpose is answered .
Mr . Howabd then rose and said , he could hardly nnderstand the matter—he never knew anything' like peotile appointing a chairman as they had done here . He W&sin favour of Universal Suffrage ; but be thought no one ought to take part tuS those who had signed the declaration —( confusion , and cries of " Do you call that Universal Suffrage ? " ) Mr . Qtisx—To prevent eonfusion , I -will now move that 2 It Holloway do take the chair . Mr . Davis seconded the motion . Ko one opposing it , it was carried unanimously . Mr- Eowaeb—Jsow I should iifee to fcnow -upon Trtnt principles this mating ** to be conducted , and for what special purpose ve meet I cannot conceive that any one vrhe have not signed the declaration has any right to take part in the proceedings—( loud shouts of "Oh , oh I ")
Mr . Hitchis—I protest against having a padlock ¦ put upon my mouth . Those gentlemen profess liberality —talk of complete Suffrage ; and yet " want to prevent iks people taking any part in the proceedings . I am a man , and a democrat , and claim the right of a man ton myself and my fellow-men—( lond cheers . ) - air . Dadstfell—I agree in the . sentiments of JIx . Sowaxd . ( Locd cries of " Oh , oh" from all- parts of the room , "which prevented Mr . 3 > 3 cLswell from proceeding . ) The Chairman—I think everybody should be heard , and therefore reqaestyou to preserve order .
Mr . Hot ? ARD—I shonld wish my question to be answered as to trho are to take part . I came hers decidedly in favour of "Cnfrersal Suffrage . I have r £ &d and beard thB Chartists with attention often , bat I do not like their proceedings this evening . I think no" one should take a part unless they had signed the declaration . Suppose a few persons assembled in my parlour Id sinjj glees , would you have any right to go and interruptthem ? iLoudcriesof " That wont do , that ' s private this is a public meeting . ") Mr . W . ChaELIOX—It is the conviction of my mind that the purport ct tbi 3 metting is not nnderstocKl About eight days ago tfor I knew nothing" of it before ? , Mr . Dadswell came to me , and asked me if I should have any objection to move a resolution at such a
metiing as this , convened , as it is , for the pnrpose of a reconclliati&a between the middle anfi " trcrkirig classes . I told htm the object was good , but we must not barter principle , but if I am ehesen I will go to Birmingham and serve to the best of my ability . But before I consented I consulted the Rev . H . Price , I considered it to be an augury of good the middle classes comics to me , and who used m so differently before 1532 ; they find they cannot effect good for themselves , ( hear , hear , ) so now come and consult with us . ' I S 3 y I look at it as an augury of good . If we cc n't unite after the Birmingham conference we shall itand were we did—then why object to allow those men to carry on their meeting ? Th-jy had a right to carry en their < j ^ m
Business . ( He then read extracts from the Reverend Eumphey Price ' s letter , a 3 fallows , ' The odds are in favour of your going to BirmiEgham , as regards that , that is , and must be , the consideration with working men , the money , that will be right The stir of Mr . Sturze , like that of Mr . Biggs at Leicester , will work fhwr effects , and old although I am , I may yet live" to see tta Q 3 y [ ol England's liberty -awn . ~) in taking Etich 8 stir as Humphrey Price for my guide , T can ' t do wrong . Because certain persona are not able to look into ny deep thoughts , they declaim against me . I see five points of the Charter granted here—; pointing to in-. bill convening tbe meeiiug laying on the table . / Mr . StaLL"R"O 0 D—That isnotthe declaration .
Mr . Chaeltox , in continuation—A stranger S 3 ys that is not tie declaration ; no . km it is the- opinion of the gentlemen mooting the declaration . He then spots & ths principles of tlie Charter as though the declaration also contained them . He ecsduded as follows : — . My respected fellow-townsmen , leave the election of ; delegates to those who have signed the declaration ; let them do their own business , and watch them nar- i rowly ; and if they deceive you , never trust them again i —{ cheera from the complete sttSragers ) . Mr . Sharp mo red that any person wishing to speak , I should be heard . I arr . c&ovcb seconded the motion . j Mr . i > atis moved as an amendment , that none but ; inhabitants of Kidderminstsr should be permitted to ' . address the meeting . i
Mr . Aitderson seconded the amendment , which bang put , about five hands were held up , and all tbe rest for the original motion , amid tremendous cheering , j Mr . Hiichis rose loudly applauded , and said , the preceding speaker has the gift of double sight—( loud \ Uagihter . ) He speaks of eminent men . ¦ Now , we have our O'Connors , O'Briens ; BairstowB , -and > OB Chartist agitators in general , all eminent men— none of whom can £ cd more than one point in Sturge's j declaration 5 yet my predecessor sees five \ rfiere there j is bat one—( loud laughter and confusion from the , Sfcorgites . ) Mr . Hitchen—I have a strong voice , and j good lungs , and can make myself heard without" the aid of an orange . ( Loud cheers , and cries of go on . ) j "Why , you may as well cut off my right arm as cut offi -one single detail of the Charter . These gentlemen j talk about the Parliament settling the details—a very i pretty sattling it would be—( heal , heat ) The pro-1
perty qualification always reminded him of the basket ' of rotten eggs—you may take which you please ; yet j l > ut take which you will , you are sure to have a rottea i one . ( Loud laughter . ) So it was with these pro- perty gentry ; they were all rotten . A true Chartist j would stick to principle ; they are sincere or they are not ; if they are , let them show it by joining "us . ' ( Loud cheers . ) Did Mr . Charlton require counsel 1 ' Why go to Hranphery Price ? True , the eld adage " says j two sheep-heads are better than one . '—( loud laughter . ) i but why not come and take counsel among and with his own erder . ( Hear , hear . ) You have no occasion to j send men to Birmingham , as our own Convention meets ] next month . The great mass of the people baVe declared Sturge ' s declaration to be a complete hnnifeug . ( Cheers . ) Follow the example of Birmingham , t-j&it no delegates . mmnaers of applause . )
Mr . shah ? said he entered cordially into the feeling ; of the previous speaker Who is Mr . Starge ? Is he ; not the greatest eom factor in the country ; has he not stores and warehouses : n Birmingham , Gloucester , j Iiverpool , and Bristol and finding he cannot get a ' repeal of the Corn Laws , goe 3 for complete suffrage ; hut esM yon be in two rooms at once ?—( no ;)—neither j can you be in two Conventions at once ; the purpose , must be division . ( Lond cheers . ) Mr . Sharp concluded by proposing that no delegate be sent from Kidder- j minster . Mr . Crocch seconded the motion . '
Mr . Qrixs said the Charter mea ^ t freedom all ; —thear , hear , and cheers , )—but when he heard pistol , gun , sword , and aye , if he must ray it , murderers , advocating Chartism I am disgusted . Who sent Frost , Williams , and Jones across the seas , but such men ? Mr . Sturge is a Tery benevolent " ^ -witness tia exertions in fa-vouT of the black Bl&TcS . I came hei-e wiih a little prejudice—I came here detomiiied to oppose William Charlton going to Birmingham , but I find he Is not going to throw overboard the six points , then where is the use of our coming here with a deal of bluster ? bui I was called a black sheep , so I thought I would walk by myself , and left the association ; but 1
find the great number will not let me , thty will know , and refuse to come to my shop because of my being a Chartist The name of Feargu 3 O'Connor has-always been dear to me . I like the leaders of the Chartistsmany of them ; but while we admit this , we mnst not 8 ay * we admire Yincent , Lbvett , & Co . I see no reason why Charlton should not be sent to Birmingham . 1 do not see why we should not have one thing that is good—( cries ef " let us have the six points . " ;—the suffrage is no good by itself . I hope you will send ^ Vm . Charlton to Birmingham , for I suppose jou "will allow me the privilege of proposing him ; &how year respect to W . Charlton by electing him . Messrs . Crouch and Howard both rose . The ChairBiMi declared Mr
Crouch first caught his eye . . Mr . H . then sat down . Mr . GROrcH . —You have been listening to some talk about physical force , but the speaker forgot to tell you about Mr . Sturge ' s physical force ; he says the Charter cannot be obtained without the sword , and when the country is prepared , my arm Is at their service . As to ¦ Universal Suffrage by itself , you have had pratings about its advantages , but instead of the electors having a conifonl over the elected , the member wonld controul the Toter —( hear , bear)—taking £ 01 instance the maateia who employ two or thiee hundred men , as Silcock had in this town ; he would say a Mend of his was coming , and I should like you to vote for him . If the men refused they would lose their employment , which is so simple that a child would know it , therefore the Charter , the whole Charter , and nothing less ¦ would prore a remedy for existing eyils . —( great cheering .
Mr . Hqwajjd—What a good thing it is that hard ¦ w ords break no bones , I now address thosa who have corns heze honestly , as I have done , and I hope tfeey will not Tote as they cannot recognise this as a meeting of ours , He desired a corroboration of the Birmingh * m peopled refaia to elect delegates .
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Mr . Stallwood being requested , gave them the report from the Star , amid loud cries of hear , hear . Mr . HOWAED then required a proof of Mr . SturgeB physical force . Mr . Crovch read the paragraph from the letter by F . O'Connor , to the Imperial Chartists , from the Star , amid loud cheers . After again protesting against any one taking part but those who had signed the declaration , and imploring bis own friends to take no part , he sat down . Mr . Stall-wood now rose , which was the signal foi great cbeerJngfrom the Chartists , and tremendous uproar from the Sturgeitea . The people having insisted on a hearing for Mr . Stall wood , the Chairman at length obtained something like order . Mr . S .
commenced—Men of Kidderminster , you have decided , although I am not an inhabitant of your town , that I am still your fellow-man . I am equally your brother Chartist—( loud cheersi;—and the free traders , although so fond—so clamourous for free trade in corn , do not like freedom of speech ( hear , hear . ) The gentlemen around me are chjiitably throwing out their da k hints and insinuations : some ask , who am I ? I have been before the public these last thirteen years : I have , during that * time , been fined and confined , persecuted and prosecuted . I have just been elected by the men of London , out of sixteen a member of the people ' s parliament Let this be my answer—( loud applanse . ) Mr . S . then showed that it was impossible there could be a " full , free , or fair
representation" of the people unless the whole Charter was granted ; and asked , will you allow men to go to Birmingham to settle details , you can now settle for yourselves—( loud cries of ' No , no . "') Well , Trill you allow the first Universal Suffrage Parliament-to settle the details ?—( shouts of "No , no , " from all parts of the room . ) I emphatically say no . The first parliament elected by the people will have something else to do . I expect them to find the means of relieving the distress and the miseries of the people , not palliatives but restoratives ; such means as shall put an end to the present etate cf things , and prevent their recurrence ; in other words , to procure for the people health , wealth , happiness , and liberty—( great cheering ) ¦ : —l > ut we have been told that the advocates of the
Charter are pistol , gun , sword , 3 ye , and murderers , and that those advocates were the cause of the expatriation of Frost , Williams , and Jones—was it not the secret service money that caused their expatriation , in the employment of spies like Harrison , who is now confined for horse stealing ? ( loud cheers . ) Was it not spies employed by the Whig Government that caused the affairs at Bradford , Sheffield , and elsewhere ? ( hear , hear . ) He defied any one to point out , during the last three years , a single case of Chartist incendiarism , the slightest particle of Chartist physical force . As to the charge of their being murderers , he repudiated it with indignation and scorn . What and who was it , when the disappointed Corn Law Repealers , Cobden , &c , counselled physical force , and exho-ted the starving
people to violence , that kept them from making the towns a heap of ruins , and laying waste onr cities?—what bnt the columns of the Northern Star and those very calumniated Chartist agitators who kept them alive by a well-grounded hope of obtaining , and that soon , t ^ e People ' s Charter , the Jrue and only means of removing the many evils under which they now labour'enthusiastic cheering ) . We were told of what individuals had done . He , as a Radical reformer , thanked them for what they had done . Eat if it should so happen that they had or should now desert us—( great clamour from the Sturgeites ) . I do not charge any one with so doing , I only say , if they should , we must march on without them—( great cheering ) . Mr . S . then reviewed tbe various reconciling promises ma ^ p by the
middle classes , and showed the base desertion of them l > y their propoanders , instancing Manchester , Wolverhampton , &c and read a paragraph from No . 3 . of the Free Trader , denouncing Mr . Sturge , ic and calling the Chartists by a many pretty names , and asked , are those men what they professed to be—in favour of Universal SnfTrr ^ e If they are , let them act upon it , and , being the minority , bow to the majority—( great applauses . —3 Ir . Stall wood csncluded by exhorting them to stand firm , a 3 men , to their own Charter . They had agreed to details—floud cheersi—and consequently required no conference to seVtle them—ihe . -vr , hear . ) Follow the good example of Bradford , Birmingham , Reading , and London . Elect no delegates ; but be determine J a 3 ever to Etand by the Charter , details and all . That or nothing—( immense cheering . )
At tbe conclusion of Mr . S's speech , three rounds of applause was given , three ditto for the Charter . Mr . Qrixx proposed that Mr . W . Charlton be elected a delegate . In so doing , he made a variety cf charges , insinuations , &c , mentioned Cardo , &e-, when a man in a enow- ¦ white Emoek-frotk , stood forward and said , " Why ib . ee has belraged to all factions , theo would " sell thyself anytime fora day ' s W 3 ge—for half-a-crown . ; Loud laughter . ) Mr . Davis seconded the amendment The Chairman then put the amendment . Twentyfive hands were held up for it , a forest for the original motion , amid the most , vociferous cheering . The CHAlBMAS declared the original resolution to be carried .
A -s-ote of thanks was then proposed and carried by acclamation to the Chairman ; three cheers was given for Ptargus O'Connor and the Star ; three for W . B . Perrand , for exposing the Whig humbugs ; three for the direct taxing Bndget of Peel ; three for Frost , Williams , and Jones , Thus ended one of the most important meetings ever held in Kidderminster .
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THE SYSTEM WORKS WELL ! -SHALL WE EXTEND IT ! We call the attention of our readers to reports of three coroners'iBquest in our columns of to-day-These reports add fearful links to the already almost interminable chain of evidence that the -whole Bystem of society in one of oppression , cruelty , and blood . Week after week and day after day do Ecenes resembling in the main facts those to which
we iow allude occur in almost every county , but the majority of them ne ver reach tbe public eye , and consequently fail to produce the fall measure of their horrifying effect . Yet , the system works well ! and the blood-mongers raise a fearful outcry against any change other than such an one as might turn to the extension of it . Judgingj indeed , by the base rule of morals of a shopkeeping middleooracy , the system has worked well for them . They have had
their day ; and they have made the most of it . Houses have been added to house , and fields have been joined to field ; they have taken the toil of the poor without wages ; their blood-cemented palaces cover the land . For them the system has ¦ wo rked Vf ell ; for it has gathered into their cofFtr s and their storehouses the wealth of all lands . But how long can it be reasonable expected to costinue thus % o work , when scenes like these are of perpetual recurrence \
Industry has made onr land the glory of all lands , bnt oppressive laws and the dominion of bad principles haw crushed the son 3 of industry beneath the hoof ; have left them Etricken and wounded , to perish in the streets , or to seek shelter in a prison from the still more gloomy horrors of a workhonse . Yet are the horse-leeches ill contented to disgorge a Eingle drop of the blood with which their stomachs are distended . They have been warned of their danger . They know the precipice upon which they stand . Again and again have we reiterated cautions meant in Mndiiess . We have but
provoked their hatred ! The warning has now come from other quarters . Sir Robert Peel has sung the same song to them , though in a different key . He has practically told them that the cords have been already drawn around tha neck of industry so tightly that another twist must strangle . He has warned them that one more turn of the screw will npset the whole machine , and briiig certain ruin ¦ upon the oppressor , not less dire than that of the oppressed . This is the plain English of the whole matter ; and to those who are not determined to close their eye 3 to facts , and their reason to inevitable consequences , nothing can be plainer .
The infernal game of oppression and robbery and starvation may be carried out too far . Snch facts as these , and many others recently recorded , will not , and cannot , and ought not , to be unproductive of their natural effects . The system which engenders them must soon come to its final end . It was but the other day that poor Lixas , driven to madness by our diabolical social arrangements , sought refuge in the horrible alternative of murder , made doubly awful by its violation , or rather profanation , of the dearest and most sacred ties of natnre . Then we had
poor Marshall , a man of colour , found starving , having had but one penny loaf to subsist upon for 2 ve whole days , sent by a brute in the Commission to a prison and hard labour for seven days , bnt released ia iwenty-foar hours afterwards by death ; more merciful than the living savages who legislated for him . And here we have again a youth of eighteen years , unable to obtain employment , and brought to the most piteous destitution ; yet having once tasted the good things provided for unwilling
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idleness , declaring that he would rather be hanged than again enter a workhouse ; and yet , so firmly principled iu honesty that he resists even the loud calls of cold and hunger till bis limbs literally rot from his body . In this case the Jury returned a verdict " that the deceased diedjrom mortification PRODUCED BY COLD AND HUNGER / ' And this in a laud of Christians , exporting coal , and having Bhops and stores innumerable , filled to repletion with all manner of necessary comforts
Another youth of nineteen , is thrown out of employment by his services being no longer needed ; thefather , out of work too , cannot help him , and he is driven by the well-working syBtem to a state of madness—to a twice repeated effort at self-destruction , and finally to death ! And this pooroutcast , all forlorn and wretched aa he was , was yet too much a man to brook the iron despotism in which faction and . middle-class legislative power , has eugulphed the wretched victims of its infernal domination by the cursed Poor Law system .
What a picture of our " glorious Constitution " does this tale , in connection with the verdicfc " That the deceased died from the effects of a wound in the threat , inflicted by himself while in a state of insanity , produced from hunger and destitution , " present to an admiring and delighted world ! Bad as our prisons are , it appears by the third of the cases which have called forth these remarks , that they are preferable to our bastiles as asylums , for the destitute . A poor woman and daughter are in a state of destitution they apply to the West London Union Workhouse and axe Tefused relief ; they then break a window in order to obtain the shelter of a prison ; in this place the mother die 3 suddenly , and what is the
testimony of the daughter ? "Wo were very civilly treated in prison . " We never heard of any one being civilly treated in a Union Workhouse No ; at the gates of the Workhouse these destitute females are refused relief ; they commit a petty offence , for which they are sent to prison ; and there the victims of Poor Law brutality are kindly treated . The coroner , Mr . Payne , very properly intimated to the jury that the charge of refusing relief might form a proper subject for further investigation , and a Guardian was present who , as far aa we can judge from the report , was willing to have lent his aid to elicit the truth ; but no ; the Jury deem any further inquiry on their part unnecessary , and return a verdict of " Natural death . "
But it may be said this is a solitary case , an extreme case , one that does not often happen . Is it sol What says the Governor of the prison ! In reply to a question from a juryman as to the reason why two prisoners were permitted to occupy one bed , the Governor said the prison was so full that not only were three per sous compelled to Bleep in one bedj but many , who could not be provided with beds , were compelled to lie upon the floor . This was owing to the number committed in a destitute staieywho broke icirtdotvs , < £ c , to get the shelter of the gaol .
The first inquiry necessarily forced upon the mind by the reading of these awful recitals is , " Huw come these things to pas 3 ? What cause ? destitution to be so frighful and so general in a land so plentiful V The only answer which the query can receive is that the system of society is one of robbery and fraud ; that the produce of the land is swallowed by the " lean kine "—the " locusis" of
the earth , who , in the shape of tax-imposers and taxeaters . destroy every green thing , Thereatmongors . tho money-mongers , the profit-mongers eat up the earth } till there is neither place nor provender remaining for the poor . Yet this is the system which the " Liberal" Reformers are most anxious to maintain and to extend . What say the people ? Do they like the symptoms ? Will an extension of this system "he a good "?
Let them ponder well upon it , and remember that the only way in which they can bring about a change is through the acquisition of that power which the Charter only can give them , and which the great object of the factions , maugre all their " Liberal " pretensions , has ever been , is now , and will ever be , to withhold from them .
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DEATH OF HENRY FROST . Most sorrowfully do we communicate the intelligence that this yeung man , the son of our beloved patriot Frost , has been snatched by death from the arms of his now doubly widowed mother . He died , after a lingering illness , at the home of his widowed mother , in Bristol , on Wednesday , March 22 , 1842 . We cannot , on this melancholy Subject , otherwise than cordially re-echo the following sentiment from the Vindicator : — " We hone the bereaved mother wili
not sink under the agony of despair . Let the breasts of Englishmen be re-animated , and their efforts redoubled , to restore the husband to the wife , the father to his children—or it may be , that grief , and the sickness of hope deferred , will consign to the dark tomb a family . good and virtuous , that should even now be living in the happy presence of each other , hononred by the good and just , and blessed by seeing the freedom of their country , and the prosperity of their fellow creatures . "
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State or Trade in StirUXG . —In this town and neighbourhood , at present , business of all kinds is at a lower ebb than it was ever known before , and manufacturing , in particular , is at a dead standstill—nobody working above two or three days in the week , and many hundreds idle altogether , and that at a season when , on ordinary occasions , there is usually a good deal of briskness in manufacturing . —Stirling Observer .
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Dear ^ illiams , —If my letter of a few weeks ago startledihe country , I must say . of your two letters of last week , that the one astonished ine , while the other must have amused the country . Now just read the first paragraph of your letter to the Editor of the Star , and ask yourself if it is not a complete answer to the remaining portion , to which you ask me to reply ? Let me place that paragraph before you . It runs thus : — ' A few weeiM ago Mr . O'Connor Btartled the country by exposing a yillanous scheme which had been concocted for the purpose of saducing the leaders of the people . It appeared from that letter , that the party had been so far successful as to have secured four places which were to be made the grand points of attack , These were Glasgow , Sheffield , Leicester , and Sunderlaud . ¦ ' . ¦ ' ' ¦ ' ' : '¦ ¦'¦ ''¦ " :: " ¦ ' ¦ : ''
Now , then , in your Becoiid p&ragraph , you represent youfsel ' fi and Mr . Binns as the Chartist leaders of Sunderland ; and such you are , and as such I have ever delighted to consider you , never losing a single opportunity of holding you up as the Castor and Pollux of Northern Chartism . Just read these two paragraphs together . In the first , you admit that my letter pointed to an attack which was to be made for the purpose of seducing the leaders while in the second , you admit that you and George Binus are leaders , and' you call my announcement an imputation upon , one or other , or both of you ; and in the third , you call for " the name of the parties . "
Now take these three paragraphs together , and read your own letter once more , and ask yourself how yon could have been eo blind as to have seen an imputation where a caution was intended . Don't you admit that I merely stated that . an attack was to be made UPON the leaders , and not BY the leaders ; and you and Binns beiug leaders : whether was mine a warning voice TO , or a side thrust AT , you and Binns , or either of you ? You ask , Who are the traitors ? Read my letter of last week , and you will have the answer . The answer is contained in the following passage of that letter : —
" And now , behold , we are threatened with a junction of all the routed forces under the most delusive form in whieb .. treachery has been as yet attempted . The Sturge move ia to include the Whigs generally—the Attwoodites , the Corn Law Repealers , the Christian Chartists , the " new movers , " and , above all , the waiters upon that " new move , " some of whom were among us and professed entire loyalty to OM principles , but with jess courage than the originators , thinking it more prudent to remain and undermine , than boldly to meet us . " Does this satisfy you as to the three first enquiring lines of your letter f And how could you have bo far misapplied my meaning as to have placed yourself in the very position of those against whom 1 wished to caution you ? Again ask yourself whether or not , my announcement was justifiod by subsequent facts ?
In Glasgow , Sheffield , and Birmingham , the other ttiree places to which I sounded the alarm , the attack was made UPON , and not by the leaders ; and were the brave Chartist leaders of these place 3 equally fired with indignation , as you appear to have been ? No ; they in common with the rest of the country were " startled , " were aroused , and prepared and marshalled themselves for the defence of 1 ho cause , instead of attacking the herald who from tho watch-tower proclaimed the traitors approach . My Dear Williams , I think you will believe me , when 1 assure you , that had I suspected that treason would have received assistance from you , or Binns , or from any other person associated with Chartism , I should not have gone about the bush , but should have mentioned you or them by name .
My letter , then , was not in the slightest respect , aimed at you , or Binos , as likely parties to the plot , but was intended as a warning to you . You have asked an explanation from me , and you have received it . I trust it will be satisfactory . Having now disposed of your letter concerning myself , I must fee permitted to read both of your letters as one whole ; and while in the one you manifest great sensitiveness about yourself , in the other you appear to have hut a very slender respect for the opinions of the rest of the Chartist community . I consider your second letter as a very presumptuous disregard of public opinion , so much . ' ¦ 0 , that I feel confident had I ventured upon such a
course , you would have been amongst the foremost of my accusers . You will bear iu mind , that in 1838 you had a sly thrust at me , in consequence , as you stated , of my opposition to Wm . Lovett and the London Workmg Men ' s Association . In 1840 , you took another dig on behalf of those with whose conduct at the memorable Fox and Goose meeting at Leeds the Editor-of the Star found fault ; and now your third encounter—by no moans warranted , and very iil-timed- ^ -ia accompanied by a high eulogium upon persons whose conduct I have not criticised , leaving that to the country , and also accompanied by an attack upon the reporter of the Star . In your second letter you
say" For my part , I cordially subscribe to the propriety of their -whole proceedings , as those proceedinga are explained in the letter of those gentlemen inserted in last week ' s Star . " , Now , in answer to the above , I shall only say upon MY OWN PART , that if YOU sign the Sturge Declaration I will surprise and astonish you , by moving a vote of censure upon you inyself * as a member of the National Charter Association . I am sure , however , that your good sense will convince you of the fact , that two agitations entirely differing in their object cannot go on simultaneously with advantage to both .
You must bo aware that the sole object of Sturge and his party is to create an indirect agitation for a repeal of the Corn Laws and the restoration of the Wiiig faction to power under the false light of Chartism . You must be ; equally aware that every working man in the empire has set his heart and soul upon the Chatter , and upoii that alone ; and if you , or I , or any other person , shall dare to oppose , thwart , or deceive them in their glorious movement , they will , with God ' s blessing , stamp traitor upon our front , and make us a mark at which each passerby will indhjriaritly point the finger of scorn .
Believe mev W illiams , that those who work hard for a living and yet cannot procure it , have appetites so whetted by adversity , and eye-sight so sharpened by long watching , that they can now see into every ihan ' s motive , however glossed over . They are honest arid BingJe-minded ; and they look for precisely the same qualificatiocs in their leaders ; and , with the blessing of God , whether I live to see the success of their glorious cause , or die in its advocacy , I will fight the battle under the flag of pure and ^ unsullied . Chartism , not allowing one tinge of light or shade to be mixed up with the brightness of tho fast colours of my order . lam , Your faithful friend , Feargus O'Connor .
Mr. John Watkins, Formerly Of Aislaby Hall, Near Whitby, Is, We Regret To Learn, In A State Of Health So Dangerous As To Leave Little Hopo Of His.Re-
Mr . John Watkins , formerly of Aislaby Hall , near Whitby , is , we regret to learn , in a state of health so dangerous as to leave little hopo of his . re-
covery . He is , by the advice of his medical attendant , about to leave London for Aislaby , as a last resource , to try the effect of his native air . He has sent us the following valedictory address to the Chartist body : — " London , March , 1842 . " Brother chak . xists > —Having suffered my z ^ al for the cause to carry me on regatdlesa of ail other considerations , it has brought uie to a fatal decline ; and 1 now adtlyess you probably for the last time . Ab the farewell words , then , of a dying man rlet me solemnly exhort you to union , for ¦ without brotherly love all your efforts will do more injury than service to tha cause . As I have sacrificed everything to our
principles—as I shall die a martyr to them , it is natural , in me to wish that you who have honoured ms while living , should respect my memory when dead- ^ -that so , living or dying , I may still serve you . Though born and nourished in the lap of class distinction , I gave up all , and thoroughly identified myself witlj the working classes . I married the daughter of a working niahi '; a mason , the " poorest and prettiest" girl in Yorkshire , and for the honour of the class to which she belongs , I would record that never man had a more faithful , liffectionate , and devoted wife . I must leave her , with an infant daughter , a most gracious little creature , te the tender mercies of the " system" which h » s murdered me ; but I trust that they will be respected for the sake of your dying brother , "John WAtkins . "
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All personal correspondence , poetry , literary com munications , and articles of comment to be here by Tuesday , or their chance of : insertion for that week will be Very small indeed if not here by Wednesday we don't bold ourselves bound even , to notice Uiein . ' . 7 . Finally , remember that we have paly forty-eight columns weekly for all England , Scotland , Wales , and Ireland ; that we have no interest in preferring one town or place to another , because ours is not a local bat a national paper ; that we are bound , therefore , in dealing with the masses of matte * yrhick coiae to iis , to hold the scales of Justice evenly—our first ebject being the promotion and enhancement , according to our own best judgment , of the success of the great and good cause ; ancl our second , the distribution of our time and space so as to give ( east cause of complaint ;
that we are alike bound to this course of action fry inclination , interest , and duty ; and that , therefore , it is useless and senseless for individuals to fume and fret , ana think themselves ill used because their communications may not always be inserted , or for societies to trouble their heads and waste their time in passing votes of censure upon us for devoting too much space to this , or too little to that , or for inserting this thing which they think should have been omitted , or for omitting the other thing which they think should have appeared ; All these are matters for our consideration , and for the exercise of our discretion and judgment , which , we assure all parties , shall be always used , so far as to ate , able to perceive , honestly for the public , without fear or favour to any one * and without being allowed to be turned for one instant from its course by ill-natured snarls or bickerings .
Books fob Review may be left for this Office at Mr . John Cleave ' s , x , Shoe-Iaue , Fleet-street , London . To Agents , —A great portion of the Orders of our Agents which should be in our office on Thurs » day , at latest , have for several weeks back come on the Friday ; nearly all the Scotch Agents ' Orders have come on the Friday often . This may be occasioned by the delays of the mails , owing to the weather , but there certaiulyis no reason why the Agents at -Hull , Liverpool , and even Barnsley and Bradford , should send their Orders to reach tho Office just at the time the papers are going out of it . Amr OaDEBS NOT IK TUB OFFICE ON TaUBSDAYS cannot be a ttended to : and aay paoers returned in Consequence of orders being late will not be credited .
Correspondents op the Northern Star . — London—T . M , Wfaeeier , 7 , Mills Buildings , Knightsbridga . Manchester—W > Griffin , 34 j Lomasstreet , Bank Top . Birmingham ^ -QeoTg * White , 29 , Bromsgtove-street . Nervcastle— -IVIr . J . Sinclair , Gtateshead . Smderland—Mr . J . Williams , Messrs .. Williams and Binns , booksellers . Sheffield—Mr ( J , J . Harnoy , news agentj'&& , Campo-lane . Btiih —Mr . CK M . Bartlett , 8 , Trinity-place , Wahiet Chartist Addresses .. —The General Secretaiy— -Mr John Campbell , 18 , Adderley-streefc , ShaWa Brpw ,
Manchester . Chartist " Blacking Manufacturer—Mr . Koger Pinder , Edward ' s-squar 9 > Edward ' splace , Pottery , Hull . Secretary to the Frost , WiU lianis , and Jones Restoration . Committee—J . Wilkinson , 5 , Cregoe Terrace , Bell ' s Barn Road , Birmingham .-TJ . T . Smith , Chartist Blacking Maker , Tavifltock-street , Plymouth . NOTICE . —Any Stars , or oaber papers , sent to the Irish Universal Suffrage Association , to be addressed to E . F . pemp ^ ey , No . 14 ^ N Ann-street , who nas been elected in the room of Mr . P . M . Bropay , who has resigned .
DERBY . ——The friends of this neighbourhood having communications for theSi&r , orother ~ wise affecting the Chartist movement ,. are requested to send them to Mr . Thomas Briggs ^ eare of Mr . John Moss ^ shoemaker , Plumptre-sguare , J ) arley-lane , Derby . Public Funds . —To prevent mistakes , let it be especially noted that all monies received by our Cashier for the various Chartist funds are acknowledged by him in tho column of «• Notices to Correspondents , " and that he ia answerable only far the sums there advertised to have beea received . Monet Orders to this Office . —Our cashier is frequently made to endure an amount of inconvenience utterly inconceivable by those who have not multifarious transactions like his to attend to , by the negligence of parties not attending to the plain instructions so often givenyto make all money orders sent here payable to Mr . JoHIf
ArdilI . Seme orders are made payable to Mr , O'Connor—some to Mr . Hobson—sometoMr . Hill—some to Star Office : ail these require the signatures of the person in whose favour they are drawn before the money can be got . This causes ail attendance at the post-office of , sometimes , several hours , vihen a few minutes might suffice if all tvere rightly given—not to mention the most vexatious delays , ' of payment sometimes caused by it . Several old agents , who certainly ought to know better , have often thus needlessly inconvenienced us ; tpe , therefore , beg that all parties having money to send to the Star Office for papers , by order , will make their orders payable to Mr . John Abdill ; if'they neglect this , we shall not hold oxirselves bound to attend to them ; if \ there fore j they find their neglect to produce inconvenience to themselves , let them not blame its .
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A Constant Reader , Brompton .- ^ -yaw must give six months' notice , in such soft that you g ' uit at the end of an exact year . To the Chartists of the East and North Rl DINGS *— Those places that have not already sent their amount of Convention Fund are particularly requested to do so immediately , to the district treasurer , Air * Wm . Croft , joiner , fyc , JDundasrstreet , York , that the whole amount may be forwarded at the same time to the proper quarter . Messrs . Campbell , Leach , and Cartledge particularly request that each town in the Northern Division of Lancashire will send a delegate to meet them at the delegate vieetinfftobe held in Accrinqton . on Sunday ., the 3 rd of April , as
there will be busi ? iet > s of very great importance to be tramaeled . ' ¦ The present Executive came into office on the 1 st of July , 1841 ; and as soon as it meets in London immediate steps tcitl be taken for the election of the new Executive , which will come into office on the 1 st of July , IU 2 . Mr . N . Morling has become agent for the sale of Dr . M'Dwall's medicines in Brighton . To Mr . O'Connor . —Having heard it slated that you intend to visit Roehdale and the surrounding towns before the Convention meet in London , the Rochdale Chartists wish to know if such is the fact ? If you answer by letter , direct "John Leach , Temperance News Room , Reed Hill , Rochdale . "
All Persons having any communtcahon with the Chartists of Kidderminster will please address to Mr . Samuel Hilclieyi ., suh-Secreldry , Blackwell-slreet . It is earnestly requested that Devon , Dorset , and Cornwall willsendin their petitions to Mr . Smith , bookseller , Westwall-street , Plymouth . They must be allprepaid . ' j ; The General Secretary wishes to stale that lie never received Mr . Rainstey ' s rfficial resignation . He also says that he posted twenty-four cards to George Didiburif , stocking-maker , Skegby , near SuUon-in-AshJield , and has had them returned . The postage has cos ! \ 0 d . He wouldfeelextremelyi obliged'to any Chartist that could send to him the following twenty-seven Stare : r-Nos . 157 , 1634 , 578 . 917012 , 3 ,
* , , ,,, t aaSof ¦ ¦ ¦ * > ^ fiw&w * ' « Wm . BoYD , ^ " iwr-ORT Pagneli .. — ' Willhetorite again and give his exact address I Some Chartist Friends at Sheffield , recommend a general ( urn-out of the coiners , to be organised , md supported till the Charter be obtained . : E . u . —Mr . O'Connor ' s many engagements preclude the possibility of his attending to legal questiojis . Notice of this appeared some time ago in the St&r , The Editor makes no pretensions to such legal knowledge as may enable him to give an opinion which could berelied'on . James Wilson must take a like answer .
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Mr . "VV ' estwUIobligethe friends : of Hazelgroveily writing to : Mr . Joseph Brooks , Chappell-streetf as to wten he can give them a call . A Working Man , JTew port , Isle of Wight ^ --. You may lecture or prgach in your own house and will most' Melgnever be'disturbed , ifyour lahquagebeat ail guardedand orderly . But ' to make all quite sure , you had better get your house and yourself licensed . The expense is trifling and you are then safe .: H . Powell—We must presume thatHe never reads the Star x or he would certainly never think of ^
asking m whether we think it wise for the Char ' Hits to sign the Slurge Declaration . True . ; the " Conference" is to be elected by the signers What then ? why need the Chartists trouble their heads about Mr . Sturge ' s Conference ? } Vho does not see that it is meant only to injure and weaken the pouter and inj ^ uence of the Convention elected by the people t We cannot afford to divide our energies . There is nothing like con ~ centrationy and none know this better than tha factions ; hence their continual throwing out of new " tubs to the whale "
Dr . M'Dotjall and Mr . John Duncan .- * At tho request of Dr . M'Douall we give the following explanation of his reasons for the new channel into which his professional talents are directed : >—"I am very Unwilling to give Air . Duncan , credit as a man , a Chartist , and a parson for the malicious intent of destroying the poor prospeet Of subsis tence which I have before me , and conceiving that ignorance rather than malice moves him to fall foul of my pill box . I will ¦; endeavour to give . him the reasons why I have come into competition with quackery of all sorts : " ^ irst The Medical Profession from time immemorial have made a perfect mystery of their profession , have covered their bottles with fantastic figures .
and have spoken ^ written , and pmcrifeed in an naknown'l-. inguage , therefore the public in taking their medicinea had to trust to the character , popularity , or honesty of the profession , and were utterly ignorant of the cause of their disease , of the virtues of the physic prescribed , or of the effects to be made apparent on the constitution . As a natural consequence the public couid not and cannot jadgo and decide between the claims of science or the cores of chance , therefore mystery has bred quackery , that has encouraged ignorance and pre < sumption , and" both have preyed upon public credulity . The public mind being totally darkened upon the science of medicine by one act of medical men , we cannot wonder at , or blame them if they
purchase the medicine which is : most paffed , or employ the niedical man who is most popular . " Secondly . I am ashamed to say that which every apotheicary ' s apprentice can bear testimony to , that , under the cloak : of mystery ,. the medical profession do prescribe medicine in large quantities , as much for the sake of making up a large bill as for the purpose of cure ; therefore , the quacks have followed such a profitable example , and have palmed upen the ^ ople the most impudent frauds which an enlightened public mind would &V once throw into the street ? . v : " Thirdly , the pride * nd conceit of the Medical Profes sion have taught them hitherto to look to the law for a remedy , and even at this moment , associations
are formed to effect by legal means , the destruction of imposture and fraud . ; : "It is needless for me to say that I ant utterly opposed . to such ah antiquated mode of . doinj battle with a system , whichbas se seriously impaired tbe incomes of medieal moB , who have , like myself , paid £ 1 , 000 - for the requisite eQucation ^^ and qualifications to practice medicine . "I am opposed to persecution , because that would lead the public , medically ignorant , to suppose the Profession in the wrong and Quackery in the right , lam an advocate for a wiser course , and in my bumble epinion a surer and certain one , bat on * which I regret to say , few Medical men have the moral courage to resort to .
" I would bythe publication of tracts , enlighten in a familiar manner , the public mind on the science of medicine . I would by lectures disseminate without dog-latin and absurd technicalities ^ as much information , as could be cohveyed on the practical operation of medicines , and the structure of the human frame , together with the diseases to which particvLlar dassea of men ate subject , and tha fenown and admitted remedies . . " Lastly , I would at the risk of being called quack mercenary , or any other na » es , issuej ^ a medicine for a particular class of diseases , and stake name , profession and cbaractsr , on its efflcaoy . ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ' . . " If every Medical man would iu his own localij ^ r , adopt this course , the benefit which the public
woold derive would be inestimable . I have taken up niy position on these grounds , and nonght , save abject proverty , "will drive me from them . 1 Will struggle to gain an honest living , and strive to do good , whether I am sneered at by Parsons or . denounced by Physicians . " Boden and Morley ' s bobUn-net weavers . —Their address next week . ;; . ' .- / •' ¦ Thomas Dunning . ^ - We have never understood it to be illegal to ' adjourn a church-ratemeetingfor ' twelve months ; but we do not pretend to legal lore - He had better not depend onour opinion . " citizen editor , —Will you inform 'A Woolwtcli Cadet , ' through the medium of your Answers to
Correspondents , that the answer (?) which he has been pleased to give to my remarks on hia maaworsbip articles , and about the presumed suppression of which be expressed such uneasiness in the notice to that effect which he had inserted in last ¦ week ' s Star , was inserted in the 20 th number ol the National Vindicator tot the weekending Saturday , the 26 th ult , and that I shall reply to it very shortly in that paper . I remain , Citizen Editor , opposed to every speciea of man-worship , and every thing approaching to it , respectfully , &c Henrt DowELi , Griffiths , Chartist and Republican , No . 11 , Winchester Row , Edgware Road , London . " .. " ¦ : -- - ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ •" ¦ ¦ ¦ - ¦ ' v : v ¦ ¦ ¦ . " ¦¦¦¦
-Pat up , Pat up : — " $ && . Editor , —I have frequently seen it inserted ia - the Star that those Agenta who do net settle their accdnntswhett required -will have their papers stopped , and that the SubscMbers may know where the fault U (^ But , Mr .-Editor , I thfak there is some responsibility rests with the Subscribers ; fox though there are some who pay up honourably there are ethers from whom to get the money requires more labour than ^ it is worth . I hope this hint will be sufficient to cause these parties to ¦ be more punctual in their payments , and thus enable the Agent ; to pay without having to run up and down borrowing , money to pay for their papers % If you will insert Uiis in your paper you will * greatly oblige , yours , && , Robert Sutcliffe . — Booth Towni March 29 , 1842 . " The Address 0 / the delegates of the West Midland , Districts of'Scotland istoolong for insertion .
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D . France , Newcastle . —We have been out of F . O'Connor's large pottra . it fox a few weeks past , and could not forward the parcels very well till they came : the whola will be sent off during the next week . . ¦ -. ¦ ¦ -. ¦ . ' ¦ ¦ ... / ' : ¦ '¦ ¦ • ' . ' :.- '" _ : ^ \ A . SsirTH . —The cover refers to our quarter end , March . - 26 tb . ¦ . . - .. ¦ ¦• ¦ ¦ -. ;¦ ¦ '¦' :: ¦¦[ : ¦¦ ¦ - - ; : l ¦ ¦ ' , ¦ Mr . Halton , Preston , and Mr . Whitelaw , Airdrie , ' must please make their post-office orders payable to John Ardill . .
A . Fuller—Yes . , A London Chartist should have had two in twelve weeka . Abk the newsman for them , and pay the . price . - '" ... ; v ¦ '¦• ¦ . - ¦ :- ¦ ' ' • '¦' . . ' J . Skevington . —Yes . T . Walker , Bermondsev . —A letter was sent to th « . address ho gave . ^ ' :: ¦ \ W < Wpoi ) ward , Brighton . —the number of medals were ssni to Mr . Cleave for both parties—^ eighty * fivcinalL A . letter has been sent to Mm .
FOR THE MANCHESTER SUFFERERS . ¦ : ' ' ¦ ' ¦ : ; / ¦ ¦ - ' ' , . ' ¦ ¦ ¦ v- . £ a . d . From the Chartists of Morley- ... 0 2 0 „ two middlerelass Chartists at Mansfield , perT . Gt . Hibbatd ... e X 0 ^ Armley , per Lawtbn ... ^ ...: 0 0 8 ^ FOR THE WIVES AND FAMILIES OF THE INCARCERATED CHARTISTS . From the Chartiala of Morley ... e 10 6 MRS . FROST , MRS , WILIUXS , AND MRS . JONES From a friend from Swain Green ... 0 1 fl
FOR THE CONVENTION . From a mental slave , Chepstow ... 0 12 ^ . the Chartists of Ha wick , per J . A . Hogg ... ... ... 0 10 0
Pinder's Blacking. —The Money Due This Week To. The Executive, From Tbe Sale Of Pinder's Blacking, Is As Follows:— \ - ¦ -.:-'
Pinder ' s Blacking . —The money due this week to . the Executive , from tbe sale of Pinder ' s blacking , is as follows : — \ - ¦ -.:- '
¦ ' ¦ - ¦' ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ' : ¦ ' ¦ ' ¦ ' ' ¦ ' ' - ¦ b d . . Mr ; Lancaster , Wakefield ... 18 Mr . Driffield , Spilaby ... 0 3 Mr . Padget , Hull ... ... 03 Mr . Pigott , Gainsborough ... 0 3 . '• ¦ ¦' - ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' .. ¦ ; : : " - , ¦ ¦¦'¦ 2 , ; 5 ¦ "¦ - . ' ; Due to the Convention Fund , from / Win . Breisford , Ghartist blacking maker , No . 18 , Royla-road , Biireley , March 28 th , 1842 : — ^ ¦ ' ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ' '' : -. : - ' ' ¦ ¦ . ' ¦ ' ¦ ¦ " ¦ ¦ ' . ¦ ' ¦ . " . ¦ ¦ ¦ s- "' -d . ' Mr . Samuel Magson , Mytholmroyd o ' ¦ U , Mr . Henry Wood , Sabdea ... 0 T *
¦ . ' ' ¦ - . ' : : ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' .. . ¦ :- ¦¦ :. ' ¦ . - ' ¦ . I- -0 :,:. " Lord Plunkext and Mr . Gordon . —The arrest and imprisonment of Mr . Samuel Gordon , by Lord Flunkett ' s order , has beea brought , in part , before the House of Gommons , by Thomas Duncombe- Two other petitions detailing more of the case are to H presented by Mr . Buncombe , and Mr . Gordon intends , when some documents whioh have been stolen from the offices of the Court , are restored , to take legal proceedings for malicious and false imprisonment , against Lord Plunkett :
The Jn T Oe-Thee^ Stae. Saturday, April 2, 1842.
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PEEL'S INCOME TAX . The people may expect shortly to be called on to give their opinions at publio meetings respecting this measure . The middleooracy will magnify its enormities with words of fire and incitements of the fiercest character . Let the . working men remember that it is they and they alono who insist on the maintenance of the system which makes this measure necessary . That Peel has declared , after a laborious and minute inquiry into tho wholo condition of the country , that the expensive system
cannot be carried on without more money , and that no more money can be raised directly from the working people , and that therefore this is the alone alternative . Let them not tken be bamboozled . Let a steady uniform line of conduct bo pursued ; in everyplace alike . Leave the factions to fight their own battle ? . Let the people take no part in the agitation of the matter , further than ia just necessary to preserve their own position . But let no lying resolutions , petitions , or memorials be adopted in their name .
The course for tho people to take is this . At every public meeting , called for the purpose of considering this Income Tax , take care to be present in your full strength . Remember that every thing there dona , is done iu jour iiamo , and said to be done by you . Negative every proposition against tae Income Tax , at once and unmistakeably ; leaving by the largeness of the majority no room for cavil . And follow it immediately with a resolution for the entire Charter as the only just basis on which to rest the power of taxing the country . Make no propositions in favour of tha Income Tax
by any means ; but if any one else do bring such resolutions , effer no opposition . And in any case , and above all things , see that no public meeting ever separate without a resolution for the entire and unmutilated Charter ; and see that no memorial or petition ba adopted at any public meeting , without including a prayer for the enactment of the Chatter —whole and unaltered . We are anxious that the people should not be taken by surprise Wo wish to see them fully ready to act when needed , and we bid them therefore to be ready , to be firm , tobe united , and nothing can or shall resist them .
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IS MR . FEARGUS 6 'CGNNOB , A WORKING ¦ ¦ ' ¦ : - .. : ' ¦ - ¦ ; ¦ : . - . \>/; MAN * f . - '¦ ¦ ' : ' ¦ ¦ ¦ " ¦ ¦ ¦ .. Oa Thursday last , M > . O'Connor left Brighton at three o ' clock p . Mt and returned to Brighton at four o ' clock p . m . on Saturday ; having , as he states , stood up in an open Carriage for nearly three hours daring the maroh of the procession through Manchester , addressing the people at considerable length , after laying the foundation stone of Hunt ' s monument ; then attending a splendid coiree in the blood-stained Hall of Science j and starting from thence at seven o'clock to meet the gallant Dr . Fletcher , of Bury . ThuB it appears that in forty-nine hours Mr . O'Connor travelled SCO miles , addressed three meetings , and joined in a procession which continued for four hours . Who sayB Mr . O'Connor is not a working mani
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Hosielt Truth . —A gentleman wiio was importaned by a sturdy beggar , answered him , — My good man , I am nearly as poor as yourself , with only the difference that what 1 have I work for . '
2to Laeatrcrjs Anrr Corv^Jkrtttjtnrtjs*
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