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TiiE JS T OETHEEN STAE. S ATURDAY, JULY 23,1S42.
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3 LAN FOB ORGANISING THE CHARTISTS OF "GREAT BRITAIN . AS ^ BETISED A 2 . D AMEXDED AT X MEETING OP DEXEGATBS , £ PP 0 IK 7 ED BY THE PEOPLE , AND HELD AT THB SaTIOSAL CHAKTEB ASSOCIATION BOOB , T 1 B-SIKEE-I , « A 5 CHESTEB , 1 KB . 20 , 1841 . DESIGSATIOK OE THE ASSOCIATION . 1 . That the Charfiste of Great Britain be incorporated in one Society , te be called the National Charter Association of Great Britain .
OBJECTS . Y 2 . The object of this Association is to obtain a " Radical Reform" of the Sense of Commons ; in other ¦ words , a full and faitbfol Representation of the eiitire people of toe United Kingdom . PBI 5 CIPLES . 3 . The principles requisite to secure such a representation cf the people are ; The right of "voting for Hembers cf Parliament , by every male cf twenty-one yerrs of age , and of sound mind ; Annual Elections ; Vote by Billot ; No-Property Qualifications for Members of Parliament ; Payment of Members ; and a Division of the Kingdom into Electors' / Districts , giving te each district a proportionate number of representatives , according to the number of electors .
UEA ^ S . A . To accomplish the foj-ecoing object , none bat peaceable and constitutional means ahs ' ii bs emjJoysd . CO ? n > rriO 5 S 0 ? 3 TEJISEHSHIP . 5 . Anf person sh&ll be admitted s Member ot thia Association on taking a Card of 2 « Iember 8 hip , to be renewed half-yearly ; for "which he snail pay twopence , and afterwards one penny per iFeek sobcription . kegistbatios op membebs . 6 . A book shall be fcept by the lExecntive Commit ' f e ( heremif : er described ; , in "which shall bo entered the aiames of ttaa Jiuabers of this Association throughout the kingdom .
G 0 TEB > HE > T . 7 . "The Government cf this Association shall te crested in a General Council , to be chosen as hereinafter mentioned ; iive of whom shall sit as an Executive Committee . JELECT 1 OK OF GESEBAX COUNCIL . 8 . Every town or Tillage in "which Members of this Association . ph ^ l be resident , may nominate one or more person * as Members of tbe General Council ; the nomination to ta&s place every twelve montlis—toat is to say , on the 1 st Any ot TU&etnbur in each year j tDe election * f sneb Csaacdllors by all the Membbrs of the Association to be taken on the 1 st day of Jinnary next following- . srB-TBEASTBEBS ASD STIB-SECBETABIES |
9 . Each town or Tillage , in "which members of this Association shall be resident , may nominate one person , a member of the General Council , as a Snb-Treasnrer ; . and one psrson , alsa a membtr of the General Council , as a Sab-Secretary ; to ataist the Generzil Treasuisr and the General Secretary : the nomination of euch Sub-Treasurers a ^ d Sub-Sccretax : es and their election by all the members of the Association , to take place at the same time as the nomination and election of the General CoaneiL - UCT 1 ES Or STJB TB-EASTTBEItS 10 . Each Sub-Treasurer shall be authorised to receive subscriptions and donations for the u ? e of this Association . Ha shall keep an txact account taereof , and transmit monthly to the General Treasurer onefourth of the -whole , giTing notice thereof to tee General Secretary .
DUTIES OP SU 3-SEC 3 EIAEIES . 10 . The Eub-Secretarie 3 shall assist the General Secretary in ¦ writiBg and preserving minutes of . all the tansactieiis of the Association , and in preparing fo ' r publication such reports of those trsasaetioiis a 3 may be deemed necessary to be published , and in sucb othSi ¦ ways as by the General Secretary , wilh the advice of the Executive Committee , cay be rc-quired . ELECTION AKD DtllES OF THE GEXEBAt TBEaSCKEE . 12 . The General Treasurer of this Association shall |
be chosen by the General Council , in like manner cjjd at the same time as xhs Executive Committee hertil ! - afUr mentioned . Ha shall be Tesp-- > nsibl 9 for aif jEonies entrusted to him : he shall fceep an exact account of ill receipts and O . bbuissments of th 3 Association ; gTifi shall , ence in every thits mouths , publish in the northern Star , Scoiiisi Patriot , and in such other of the Chartist sewspapers as may be selected by the Exc-cunT 6 Committee , a statement cf the same , "with a fail ~ balinee-= hest , ^ hich slujl be first examined by auditors , appointed for the purpose bj the Executive .
APP 0 I 5 TJCEKT . A > 'D DUTIES OF THE GE 5 BBAX SECBETABT . 13 . The < rencrsi Secretary shall be appointed by the Executive Committee , He shall keep an exict record of the business , monetary or otherwise , of theXxscnim Committee , « " ^ perform all the general duties of a Secretary , as he may be require : ! .
BS 2 CUJ 1 V 2 CO 3 TMITT 2 E . 14 . Tha GmerJ Council of the Association shallchoose five members cf their own body to sit as an Executive Ciuuiiittfie , in manner as herein follow : — Every sab-Secretary shall be at libtrty to nominate one caEdidate , on the 1 st day of Febiuary In each year , and five persons from aaiocg thci-3 so nr-niiraicd stall be elected by all the members en the 1 st day of 2 J&rcL followiEg . MODE 0 ? BLECTISG THE EXECCTIVB COJIM 1 TTEE _ 15 . The nomination of candidates of the Executive Committee , by the several sub-Secretaries , shall be in accordance with the foiiomngform _ : —?' To the Genera- ' Secretary cf &e Xaliontd Charier Asszdaiion of Great B .-iiain . February 1 ,
ISSib , —I here Bcmunte A . B . { blacksmiths of ( 14 . ; Eigh-street , BaSh , * a member of » he General Council of the 2 va . Uoa Charter Aosociatioa cf Great Britain , ' aa a fit a ^ id propsr ptrBon to be electe-l a memoer j of the Exscatite ConmilM * , on the lit usy of March i Ctxt j Wi&ZA , C . D . .. ' ( Cipent = r , No . 6 , Tithscret , i iu&nchEsttr , ) j Hembtr of th& & 2 hm-a \ Council , ana sut-S ^ reiary of the If adonal CbaaUr Association of i Q-rtat Britain .
A list of all the candidates so nominated , shall be transmitted , per past , by the GtnsnJ Seerstr-ry , to every sut-Secretary , on or befcrs the 10 th day of February ; the election sbill be taken on : ha lrt day of il- ^ rch foDc ^ ring ; an ^ l the nnniber of vi t : 3 siall be iBiinediately forwarded to the GsneTal Secretsry , who Ehall lay the Eame btforu the outgoing Executi-re Committee for examination , and by their ei-2 er publish , ¦ wi tfcm one V'eek of recaiTia ? them . , the whole of sneb retains ; tagether "firith i £ i dsclaraiion of th 3 CTltgoiBE Executive Committee , c-f Use psrsoua OUlf tltttfie .
POWEB A >" D EUTIEs OF THE EXF . CUT 1 TE , 16 . Tiie ExecatiTe Ct-Hisittee sh ^ Il be einpoYrersd to adopt aoy measure for the -aa ^ anceissni of the objects of this Association , consistent "vriih its fundamental laws ; for "which purpose they shall hare the disposal of one-fourth of the moneys collected tbroDghoat ihe society , aud lodged with the Gsniral Treasurer . BEMU > EBATIO . V OF OFFICEES . 17- The Genera ! Secretary shall be paid for his services the sum of £ ' 2 per we * k , and each olhir Member of the Ex ^ catiTe Council , the sum of £ 1 10 s . per week dnriss tae period' of their sittinza ,
. COMPENSATION . IS- The Members ot the Executive thai ] he entitled to compensaiioii . for loss eonfcaquent upon their acccpauce of effise , « tbfer bs tticg employed as missionaries , during any recesl ths * . may happsn -while they continue in their , official capacity , or in suebr other way as may ba most conTanient for tee Association . When Members of the Executive Bhail be employed as missionarifca , their salaries slmil be the eame as when employed in their regular duties- Coaeh hire , and one half of an > other incidental espeoses , ehall be paid to them in addition , by fcte parties who may request their eer-Tiees ; or in the eT «> nt of being employee by the ExecutiTB to open new districts , the some proportion of expenses ehall be allowed out of the general land .
TO TEE SHAKSPEREiN ASSOCIATION OF LEICESTER CHABT 1 SIS , Mt bkloted Combades , —You ha ? e been doing giUantiy durirg my absence . Honour and glory to you ! Honour and glory to Bairstow , and Bseriham , and Smith , for ihsir braTery in leading you en . I hops to be with yon within a few hears after this dsyi Star reaches you , and on « e more to lead on the charge , with my darHus brigada , against the juggting Corn Law Bep&alers , the sham Chartists , and all who dare oppoee . I left yon 3 . 45 * in number , on Thursday ajoming , the 14 & instant . I trust my valiant re- ' crulting wrjesnts haTe been doing their duty , and that I shall find you considerably increased on my return .
I h * T 9 spread ** the real Leicester fire" with &D jut strength during thes * last few days . On Thurs day , th « day that I left you , I addressed a large opensir meeting afc Bdper , just to prepare the way for doing real business the following night In company ¦ with that true-hearted and indefatigable Chartist , Mr Tickers ( who ii at Belpsr what Sweet is at Nottingham , Whit * at Birmingham , Harnty si Sheffield , SkeTJDgtoa % \ Leoghboreogh , &c &c—the stiff and pills ; of Char-Usm in his l » calityJ . I -risited . the splendid scenery of HallOCk , Bons&IL Cromford , &c the next day ; and retnmed to B « lper , inTigorated by the air of the Peak , tod laid to at the heads and heartB of the stout Bc ! - perians , ia tba evening , until I bad enrolled 102 of their naEes , as Chartists , in the open market-place . Uw next morning I entered their name * in a new be ok ,
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which I prepared with a view of improving their organisation ,, aad in " which my friend Tickers . and the Secretary have promised that the members * names shall bs inserted . The dasE-book is formed on the principle of street-districts , with a view to enlisting the Bervicea of collectors , on our Leicester system . ¦ 1 reached Shtmsld on Saturday night , and with that intrepid and incorruptible spirit , Julian Horney , visited the widow of tb 8 murdered Holberry on the succeeding forenoon . I was much affected fey the interview . She is a remarkably fine-looking woman , and ia spite of all her heart-rending euSeringa , "wears a latent fire in her eye , and a dignity in her carriage , that tells you ehe ia worthy to haTe been the wife of the unconquerable patriot , Saiautl Holberry . Great excitement still
prevails in Sheffield , on the subject of his death . They have got plaster busts of him . from a cast , taken after death , by Mr . Demaine of York , a young Chartist of great natural genius . We will have one of these busts at Leicester , my brave Shakspereans . Holberry bears the highest character for integrity . He was a very fine looking man and was a head and shoulders taller than common men : his cciSn measnred six feet nine inches , and was bat two itches within too long fjr the corpse . The poor murdered prisoner was so completely skeleionised , that his widow could only recognize him by his hair us he lay in the ceffin . Poor .-woman ! no wonder that she became delirious ! now , however , she is hap' pfly recovered . May the God of the fatherless and the widow be her support I preached twice to the Shcffieldtrs , in the open air on Snnday last In the
evening , the death of poor Holberry Wiis part of my | theme . His faithful "Widow sat in & chair doss by the table en which I itood , —and with a perseverance and - ardour which prove her to be a woman of no ordinary value , —sat through the whole discourse , surrounded by from six to seven thousand people , and would not move from -the ground till I had enrolled one hundred and Sfteen names as Chartists ! I thought , as 1 gave her my arm to conduct her off the ground , amidst the throngcf hundreds , who crowded round to g ? zt , —that if every C' aartist in England could have se < =. n that brave , bereaved , and noble "woman , —they would have i sworn , as I did , in my inmost soul , either to compass j the downfall of the horrid tyranny by which her hus-! band "was martyred , —or to spead life in the attempt Ia the name of the departed patriot , let this poor ¦ wido-5 ? be remembered , and that effectually , in every
1 Chartist locality . j On Monday night the Town-hall had been hired , for 1 fear of rain ; but wo were compelled to aojeurn to the ! Haymarket , immediately on entering it , thrcugh pres-; sure of the immense numbers . Till ten o ' clock , I I addressed as large a numher as on the preceding night ; J 3 nd I believe the enthusiasm -was so deeply-seated , and i SO widely st > r = & £ , that I should have been able to eurol I tvro hundred more names , if is had not been dork , and I 1 had not been compittely spent Harney , however , ! ' enrolled thirty-two names , at the rooms , after that ! time of night l I should have told you , by beloved Srigade , that I ; introduced onr favourite sovgi " "WV 11 rally around 1 him , " and some oiher snatches , common at Leicester ; I scd the Sfcemelders , as vrell as the Btlperians , learnt -. . them right heartily ,
i I got to Leeds , amu ' . st a disagreeable change of ¦ weather , on Tuesday afternoon , and was compelled to ; lecture in a small room , not capable of containing more : than 500 people , at night . The meeting had been i announced for the open air , but it "was imposible so to : held it- The vast majority of my audience , of course , \ 5 fcie entellsd Chartists ; but I enrolled twenty-two new members , nevertheless , at the close . Mr . Hill , | the invaluable editor of the Star , addressed the meetr ing in a pointed and energetic manner , after I had / concluded .
] On Wednesday , I had the unexpected delight of nsf-eting our great champion . O'Connor , at the Star OSce ; and after passing a couple of pleasurable hoars r in his company , I stt out for Hc-Tbeck , a suburb of - Leeds . The meeting had been called for in-doors , but i 1 persuaded the Holbeekers to turn out , and we had a J pleasant meeting , in the open-air . Sixty were enrolled - at the dese , and I left the Chartists of thia distr ict of I Leeds , full of enthusiastic admiration for our popular Leicester song , " We"ll rally around him , " and also for our stirring chorus j " " Spread the Chatter ! spread the Charter through ! the land ! I Lit Britons , bold and brave , join heart in hand !"
I have been spending another portion cf happy time with-onr brave £ n < 1 untirenble Feanpas , this morning , and have obtained from him a promise to v ' ait us , — aye , and to spend some iims . with vs , too , at Leicester , in Vie month of September . Now , dont go rred with joy about teat , my darting lads , —let me see the " Shaksperean brigade" steady and firm as oaks , when I return . I am jnst off for Todmorden , and will tell yea how I succeed thtre , -when I get back to Leicester . 1 am , my brave comradeB ,-Your faithful " general , " Thomas Coopeb . LeedB , Thursday , July 21 , 1 S 42 .
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Specimens of the Petition Pbocessios and [ Thomas Dcscombe , Esq , M . P . abe xgv > fob ! THE HOST PAST J 5 THE HA 5 DS OF OCX AGKSTS , ASD AT TIIE rEGP . ST BEQUEST OF MAST WE - HAVE EXTENDED THB TIME FOB RECEIVING SL ' b ' aCBlPTlONS TO SaTCBDAT . NEXT , THE SGTII , FOB THOSE "WHO HAVE HECIUVED THEIE . SPECIMENS ; and to Saturday ihe 6 th ov Avgvst , FOB THOSE "WHO , FBOH THE DISTANCE , CAX . NOT BE 1 > " POSSESSION OF THEM TILL M . XT "WEEK . AGENTS ABB BEQ . CESTED TO GIVE TICKETS TO Sl'BSCEIBERS , AS KO > " £ OTHEHS \ TXLL HE ENTITLED TO , OB CAN BECEIYE , THB PLATES .
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ORGANIZATION . Thebh ^ s not , at tho present time , any otter subject of so much or of such immediate consequence to the people as this . It is only by xmioa that our power can be known and manifested , and it is o ^ iiy by organizatioa that our union can become effective .
It is not enough that an uniformity of opinion fbon ] d obtain among the people \ there must also bs an un iformity of energy and determination universally manifested . In EOihicg can tho fixed purpose and determined energy of the people be so well manifested as in the steady adherence to all tha principles and ail the details of their own national plan of organization . We have cever been in the habit of assuming for the lforihern Star , the position of a dictator or a gaide ; vre aa \ e sought rather lo make it a rtfbctor in which the public mind—the people ' s will—should
appear inits own just proportion ?; striviag only to prevent those proportions froia be ' . ug marred cr hidden by the macaiaations of ths treacherous , tha attacks of open fceSjOr the folly of indiscreet and uurtfleotiug friends . We are , however , quite aware that a large portion of our brethren look to us , and depend on us , for the necessary word of cantion , whenever , from any of thcte causes , or from any other cause , danger may be apprehended j acd we should ill discharge the duty which w « owe the people if we neglected so to do . We have , therefore , oh several late occasions , bid the people to remember
-who , vrer © now in power , and who were seeking to znske ico \ s ot them to attain a double objecttho affrighting of the Tory Government and the making of more elbow room for iheir machinery ,. We have seen that there is great danger from the neglecting to observe generally the national organization ; whereby the body becomes liable to the relentless inroads of the landsharks—the lawyers and middle-class jurors . We promised in this matter , last week , to republish iu
our present number the plan of organization , of which some localities and some officers of the association seem really as ignorant as if it had never been published . Thai plan we give in another column ; and we beg that it may be read , learned , and inwardly digested by every Chsrtist iathe kingdom . Wo append hereto the observations made upon it in the Northern Star of the 6 ih of March , 1841 . They are S 3 clear as anything wa could now write npon the subject , and as necessary to be noted nowaa when they were first written .
tt Among the many good tfciags which O'Cohrell has said , we remember one saying of his : that" the next best thing to being rigM yourself is to put poor enemy completely in the wrong . " We fully accord with this doctrine ; and hence we hate eTer been most " anxious that the operations of the people should be conducted peacefully aad legally : knowing that if their moral strength was well marshalled aad . their numbers well organised , they were invincible and . irresistible;—able to carry any measure of a wholesome aad " sanatory tendency , without violating any of those forms and appearances of law with which the harpies have fenced round the carcase of corruption , in the hope of feasting undisturbedly thereon . There is no power in any state successfully to resist the righteous
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demands of a people , united in purpose and opinion , and so organised as to enable them to express their opinion and to prosecute their purpose as one man , Of this the factions are meat perfectly awaTe ; and hence their highest dread has ever been the organisation of the people , and their * greatest care to provide against its existence . It is only by a well digested plan of organisation , generally understood and acted on , that the power of the people can be efficiently made manifest . The isolated struggles of individuals , or knots of individuals , or separate societies or localities , even though all directed to
the same end , are but like water thrown by bucketfullB out of a mighty river against tha walls of a citadel , which expends its force in impotence , producing a splash and nothing more : while a national organisation , enabling the whole people to move at the same time , and in the same direction , bending their energies against the same point , is like the mighty rushing of the whole torrent , against which no obstacle can stand . The vast importance of this subject has been always seen , both by the people ' s friends and by their enemies ; and hence , from the time when the House of Commons was first sought to
ba emancipated from the direct controu ] of the crown , and placed in its duo position as an independent branch of the legislature , to the present moment a period of about 250 years , an incessant struggle has been going on , between those who wished to organise , and those who wished to destroy , the expression of the people ' s will for right . This struggle has been carried on with more or less of spirit , as the parties anxious for right , and understanding it , have been more or less numerous , talented , or
influential . Itwonldbe easy to run over the entire history ; but it would comport neither with our space nor purpose to do so . Suffice it that the lynxeyed jealousy of faction watched every movement ; and , having in their hands tho power of law-making , met every organised movement with new and more close restrictions ; till it was thought that effectual provision had been made against any . possibility of any national organisation exiting , othea ' than such as might accord with the designs and purposes of the dominant class .
Thelaw 8 now in force , m reference to political socieiies and national organisation , are comprised in two most sweeping and comprehensive statutes , the 39 Geo . Ill , chap . 79 , passed in July 1799 , and tho 57 . Gso . III . o . 19 , passed ia March 1817 , und so ¦ well are the meshes of these two iusidious and infamous statutes spread out , that it was doubtless deemed to be impossibla for any " national " organisation to escape them . And so it would be , in the absence of a national organ of
communication . When the scoundrels hatched this infernal piece of villany , they did not calculate upon a Northern Star rising in the political and social hemisphere , and shedding Its rays ovsr the entire surface of the Empire . That advantage the people will now feel , as , by means of it , tboymay bd enabled to make the plan of organisation now offered them , as thoroughly efficient as it is perfectly legal ; and thus baffle all the arts of all the enemies of freedom . .
In calling attention to the plan of organisation propounded by tho national meeting of delegates , and to the mode of working it , we begin with placing before our readers so much of the provisions of tho law upon the subject , as were capable of being broughj to bear upon the former plan . Freemasons , Qaakers , and all societies of a purely religious or charitable character , and in which no other suVject shall , under any circumstances , be discussed , are specially escmp ' ed from the operation of the acts above-named ; and with such exceptions onlv , by the united force of these acts , every society
the members of which , or any members whereof shall , cither verbally , or iu writing , subscribe , or assent to , any test or declaration , nol required by lav , is au unlawful combination and confederation . See the carefulness with which villany has drawn the net strings I Not content with prohibiting such oaths , tests , or declarations as might be against the law , the words nol required ly l \ iw oxwnd the prohibition tD all voluntary declarations of whatever character ; even , a declared dotoraination , by - - 'the members of any society , to uphold the law ,-might by . this clause be construed as illegal .
This made the very outset of the former system of organisation illegal . The fifth paragraph , on " The conakions of membership , " being as follows : — " 5 . All parsons will become members of this Association on condition of signing a dec l aration , signifying their agreement -with its objects , principles , and constitution , when they shall be presented with cards of mtml irship , "Which shall be renewed quarterly , and for which they shall tach pay the sum of twopence .
Now , this signing a declaration was qmto un necc-ssary : every man desirous of being a member Of the Association , of course agrees with its orjects ^ principles , and constitution . The " signing" is no protection against spies or traitors , whom ih ' G . gOOdseuse and vigilance of the members will as easily detect without the " signing" as with it . In tho new plan of orgsuisauon it is , therefore , omit ' . cd
Evtry Charti 3 t is supposed , necessarily , in virtue of his bung a Chartist , lo desire the objects—to hold the principles , and to approve the constitution , of the Association . This is the first great improvement of the amended plan ; by which the fangs of the le ^ al liaTpie-3 are removed from one limb of their prey . Tho next has relziion to the abolition of the clause ? ,, ward divisions , and local effisers and
. By the Acts before n 2 . rr .-3 d , cvay Society composed of dffircnt branches or dioisionS t acting IN any MAN > : EIt separately or < iisl ' -ne ! ly from each oilier ., or of which ant / part thai I hare any distinct President , Secretary , Treasurer , dc ' cgate % or other officer , or any-pj . RS-.-N acting as such , elected or appohi / cd by or for such part , or to act in any oFi"icn / or siu-h part , shall be ueamed a-. id holcien to bo an unlawful combination and confederacy .
Tiiis , of course , brought all the classes , all the Town Councils , all ward divisions , officers , and Councils , all the local Treasurers , and Secretaries , and all the Riding and County Councils , within the meshes of the l . w . Beoausa in all these cases the several part 3 of the Association acted separately aad distinctly from each other , having reference k > their own local arrangements , only , and without any reference to , or any ovtjl cognizanoa thereof by the
whole Society . The Council for Bradford , for instance , vras a distinct Council for that locality . It was elected by tho members resident in Bradford only , and its functions were clearly referable to a part of the Association , separate and distinct from the other parts . In like manner , "the Treasurer and Secretary for Bradford were officers only for that part of the Association , and not for the whole ; and so on for all the other local officers .
Having declared the cases in which political societies shall be deemed unlawful combinations and confederacies , these Acs provide : —That any member of any sveh society , and every person who shall directly or indirectly maintain correspondence or intercourse vith any such spmetif % dr with any division , branch , committee , or other select body , pre sident , treasurer * , secretary , delegate , or other officer , or member thereof , as such ; vr who shall by contribution of money or otherwise , aid s abet , or support such society , or any member thereof , as such , shall incur certain penalties . The penalties are of two kinds . " 1 . By summary process on information before ONE Justice of the Peace ; on conviction , a fine of twenty pouudB , or three months' imprisonment in the common gaol . 2 . BY INDICTMENT ;
ON CONVICTION , THANSPORTATION FOR SEVEN YEARS . " - ^ Thus was it doubtless hoped to render anything like a national organization for political purposes utterly impossible , withoat subjecting all the parties therein concerned , to the full penalties of this master-piece of class-legislative villany and cowardice . Indeed , our opinion was , aHer having carefully and often looked through the acts , that there was no possible mode of escaping their prc «
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visions , otherwise than by , taking advantage of some one or oiher of tho forma and names incidental to someone or other of the special exemptions therein provided . And as we most conscientiously believe the Cnristiari .- . . ieiigtan to inculcate all the doctrines of truth and righteousness , personal , sooiai , and political ; as in fact we hold politics to be pariand parcel of Christianity , and inseparable therefrom , beiug mixed up with , springing out of , and sustaining all its principles and dootrines , we were desirous to have seen , for the first time since the age of the Apostles , a true Catholic and
Christian church , acknowledging , in all the fulness of their comprehensive import ^ the precepts of that religion which being hitherto talked of , but neither understood nor practised , has been , and is now being made , the most fearfully effective tool thkt ever tyranny employed for the destruction of man ' s liberty , and of all clear recogr nition of the principles of moral right . We hold the principles of Chartism to be religious . -principle ? , and every Chartist Bociety to be Consequently a religious sboiety ; and we were desirous to see them so dealare themselves , and leave to the vile held of
despots the option of openly and manifestly trampling undar foot their own laws , or of crushing , along with Chartisin , Methodism in all its varieties of aspect , - ' the association of the Baptist churches , the Society of Friends , or Quakers ^ the confederated unions of Unitarians , the Dewly-orgariised and admitted association of ? ' Rational Religionists , " and every other religious society whose creed s forms , discipline , or worship , should involve , declarations of principle not required by law , or the several societies of which should correspond with each other , or appoint deputies to meet each other
or in any other way transgress the almost all-comprehensive provisions of these two acts . This was our opinion ; it has been our opinion long— -in faot throughout the whole movement . ¦ We . " we ' re spiry to be unsupported in it by O'Connoe , : for whom * and for whose opinions every true Chartist must have respect , amounting almost to veneration ; bat wo permit not even the respect duo to him to shackle us in the entertainment and the expression of our own honest ^ entimehts . We ask , however , for no deference ; we aro quite contented to have our opinions estimated by the people , and to accept for them just
so much influence as they are thought worthy of . The National Delegates refused to shrink from the direct avowal of their political objects and purposes ; claiming the right to consider their principles to be those of religion , they would hot tako advantage of that right to place themselves in any other posir tion than the bold and manly ona of meeting the onecay in front . Their voice said , almost unanimously , " Let us gO right on—legally , if it maybe —illegally , if the law be such as that we ' cannot comply with ^ t—but let os at Xtt events ' . ' go . bight on . " In the spirit ! of this determination they sat down , with the law before them , but without any assistance from its paid mystifiers , to exercise the
shrewd judgment of plain working men , the clear heads of teptotal Chartists , and the earnest auxiety for the "following , of peace with all men , " of Christian Chartists , in the concoction of a plan of national organisation which , while it conducted the people ' s operations on A straightforward and avowed basi ? , should , at the same timo , render strict submission to all , oven the most tyrannous , requirements 0 ? tho ooncantratod essence of tyranny , which lay before thorn ia the two Acts of Parliament so oft reverted to abovo- They have succeeded , we believe , to the very letter ; and right glad are we to opngra ' tulata . them and the people upoa that ' success * 1
The entrapment of the local Counoils has been wisely provided against , by the anjaigamation of all those into one body , as a General Gounoil of the whole Association , provided for in No . 7 , of the new plan . The entrapment of the local officers has been in like manner provided against , by making them not local , but general officers , acting respectively , not for a part , but for the whole , of the Association . While their election , not merely by the members resident ia their own locality , but by all the members of the Association , guards effectually against the wily trap of a part of the society acting ieparalcly and distinctly from the other parts .
Tn © Bradford Councillors are to be now con-Bidfcred , and indeed are , not local Councillors for Bradford only , but numbers of the General Council , by whom tho wholo Governuieht of the whole Association is conducted , and whose residences happen to be at Bradford ; the Bradford Treasurers and Secretaries are , in like manner , not TreasurerB and Secretaries for that locality alone , but Sub-Treasurers and Sub-Sccretaric 9 , actiniE ; under the
direction of the General Treasurer , and General Secretary , and performiug sueri duties as may be necessary te assist them ia conducting the affairs of the wholo Association . Thus , every officer acts as an officer , hot for any part separately or distinotly , but for tho whole . Thus , every mesh of this most elaborately and cautiously constructed legal net , has been avoided by the wisdom of the delegates . ' . - ' ' '' -. ' -.. : ..
Of course , and of npcossity , tho plan , to be legal , is exceedingly ; . genera ' ) , and it taay be somewhat undefined , in its detiils . Wo observe some of its provisions which aro liable to abuse , and which may , unless precluded by ths prudence of the people , ^ ivo nso to some inconvenioEce in its working ; but on comparing those mo 3 t carefully with the tortuous euactraeuts of which its concoctors had to steer clear , we aro fully satisfied thai ' n ' p other svay , or , at
least , no other way so good could have been adopted for securing tho double object of tho delegates , tlve acti vo oporation of the people , and the evitnig of ail collision with tho law ; and wo know too Biuch of iho people not to feel satisfied ,, that whea these puiuts avti fairly laid before thena and explained ' . heirwatchfulness and prudence will come in to the assManco of their leaders , and tako caro that thai shall not be crippled in operation which has been dovised so well and wisely ;
Wo have studied the plan most carefully ; wo think we understand it ; and we have no doubt of being able to show the people that ^ though its form is apparently moro general , and its details less bracing , than the original * but illegal :, plan of orgar nisation , it -may be made in workiug to superadd to tho immense advantage of being perfectly coasonant with the iaw , every praudoal advantage possessed or provided for by the old plan . For this purpose , as we have been requested by the delegates to ' call to it " the attention of the people ia a series of articles , we shall return to ii , probably more than onoe . We shall take up its several clausas . and "
shew the people how we understand thent—how we think they should bo applied in operation—what , means we advise for tbo avoidanoe of any inconvenience which might otherwise arise , freiri any necessary laxity of expression forced On its authority by the tyrannous mandate of the law ; wo shall show them how , so far as we understand this document , they may , by a carefol and universal adherence to its provisions , go on j certainly , safely , tigaUy successfully , and triumphantly , in tho prosecution Of those sreat priuoiples , to whion the benevolent and jast of all classes are ' pledged and bound by their adhesion to the rules bnd principles of moral right .
Thus shall we put our enomies completely in the wrong , by fencing ourselves round with the provisions , not merely of moral , social , and religious , but of legal right ; taking all these upon their own Bhewing . The National Charter Assooiatioa pf Great Britain may then , bid defiance to the Government . It shall stand ; ' it shall ; prosper ; it snail flourish , in despite of all their power , ind in despite
of all their Bophi 3 try , or they shall dp one of two things—they shall make a special law for itB extinotion , as was done with the London CorrespOuding Society- ( the very law now in xunended pper » r Uon , by wMoh It v ? as hoped to extinguish all Politioal Societies for ever ) --dr they shall at once throw off tho mask , which we have no doubt they will do as EOpn as they may deem it expedient , and , trampliug under foot all seinDlance of respect
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for the laws of ; their own making , try the temper of the people by a farther experiment of undisguised brute force . ; ; : ¦' -. ' .. ' ¦ ¦ /¦ . ;; ' ; ' . - . ' . ¦' . • ¦ '¦' . ;¦ ¦¦; - , "" ; - > ' - .: ; We shall retura to thia eubjeot next week , and for some time , week by week- We shall point out exactly wherein the organisation has been wholly negiebted and suffered hitherto to lie dormant as a dead letter ; we . " ebail show how it ^ may and ought to be beneficially carried out ; and we shall also give instructions to those who may choose to follow them for the arrangement and perfecting of local societies , - ' to work hand in handi with , and to ^ "uphold and strengthen , our great National Charter Association . ' ; ' : ¦ ' - ¦ " . . ' ¦ . - ¦ \ ¦ : - ¦ - ' .. ' '' ' ' :: ';¦
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is due to his words ^ in the following yeair he addressed a letter to O'Co ^ bsjl , stating if he would hot answer him " certain , questions , " he would never again act'in . public ooncert with : him ! W > 11 , O'Consem . < iid"nofc answer > him '' sweet enough , * ' and accordingly Mr . Headi Pacificator" Tom ' .- ' "St ' ee ' le , | in the most public manner , resigned both bis Liberatorsafp ' arid his head Pacificatorship of ^^ Ireland ! Nevertheiesa ^ the following week he ^ dresBed a letter toth d Freeman s Journal , ^ ^ SIGNED with all his-pompoua insignia ofonloe !! Again ,, when Mcejuy , thja
C ^ rn Law delegate , was in Limerick , in 1839 i who opposed him 1 The Matoh and Tom Steeie with a mob , and turned him out of doors ! Yet tja following week he received a note from O'CQ ^ MEri , stating that he Daniel P'Conneli . was ^ tha ; fr iend of tife Corn Law League 1 and that he ( Stbbib ) must not interrupt Murray I Mark the ^ change , I The-foUowing week Tom Sieele , actually" presided at a dinner given to Sidney Smith in the - very same city !!! \ Well : might onir correspondent say that he is not worthy the name of man ! The " Mad Tom " , to use a local phfale , that would revile CbartismUhe goose of O ' tk ) NNEr , L for whom when he wa 3 on the spit of a Debtors * Court for £ 14 ., 6 'Connell did not advance even &
penny ¦ itp baste him ! The moral force " head pacificator" of Ireland , who denounced " physical-force Chartism , " while he called on the people of Ireland to appear in " marshal array' *! the head-pacificator , whose lodgings are not 100 yards from where Beajj ; presented a pistol at her Majest y ' scarriage wheel The" pacificator" , who is in London , while the men of Ennis are reeking with gore-l-. ' -The Paoifiqator , wh » raised his tiger-cry of Blood in 1839 , agaiast our lovad brothers in Chartism , robbed poor Clancet of the proceeds of his honest ; industry , and made him an alien to his native land ! Tok Sxeele is a Councillor of the Stohge Men ' s Complete Suffrage . Union . We add to his Bow-street exhibition , and the precious morceaux above , the following from bis speech at a repeal meeting reported elsewhere : —
« 'A tide of thought rtt 3 hea on my soul at thia mo ? meat by reason of the many subjects on which I might choose to address my brother Repeal Wardens in this wardmote—the Repeal itself , the anti-slavery question , the income-tax , the new , noble , and peaceful Chartist movement in England , under Joseph Sturge , as contra-distinguished from Feargusiam , the Chartism of that cowardly miscreant incendiary , Feargua O'Connor- ^ lhear , hear , hear ) . In the Sturgite movement O'Connell is noi only a member of the poviaional council ; put , as a lawyer , he is the Counaellor G'Conheir of the Complete Suffrage Union , as perfectly as he was ever the ' Counsellor O" Council * of the Irish people . " . '¦ ¦'¦ '¦ .: . - ¦' ; ' -. " - . ¦ ¦ - ' - ' \ - ^\ ' . l : [ -. ; " ¦ :---We leave the people now to estimate "the sack " Of the Sxurge men by " the sample , " and to deliver their judgment accordingly . ,
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The Local Council of the Tivebton Charter AsspciATios call loudly and earnestly on the Chartists of Devonshire ; to bestir themselves for the cause . They suggest that letters of invitation be sent from every locality to F . O'Connor , Esq ., praying a visit from that gentleman while on his Cornish tour ; and if . unable to obtain his aid , to secure that of sorne other talented lecturer . Mr Tom Steele and his "Cock and Boll" Stort AT THE BqW STREET POLICE COURT . —The pithy missive slated in . our last to have been sent by a good Chartist to the Secretary of the Birmingham ComplctirSuffrage Union , was transmitted to the head pacificator , who in reply denies that he mentioned Chartists or Chartism at Bow-street
at all . Nobody ever said he : dto . He trumped up the story of ( iisloyal words uttered " at a meeting . '' His frietid , *' the black- ' un" fflfr Crow j staled the meeting to have been a Chariist meeting . Arcades 1 Ambo . The one forges , and the other- directs the chemsy javelin : the ih ' formanty ''' Fairbrother , ' ( vjhat a name to Be connected with a story like this !) having first supplied the unwraught materiel . ; J . C . Beaumont . —// he will keep his temper ^ and giveus his exact address ^ so that iae may reach him with a letter ^ he shall hear from / us , and shaft have satisfactory reasons for thai which he is $ 6 very angry about . . - ' ¦ "' ¦ ¦ * •;¦ ¦ . . - ¦'' ' : ' . ^ BRISTOL : Chautist Youths— Their correction of the
statement matihere-were ; m : ** Fmlpifej } in ; th £ ly r body , appeared in our Notices to < CoirespoiidMi of the'iceek following the st ^ trientv'It'ia received from , the same person wto ' senftks ' jjijeffc graph . ¦ .. ' ; ¦ . .. ¦ : ¦ ; '' ¦ ¦¦' - ' . ¦ ' . ¦ ] J ' : ' [ : ; ' - ~ '' Whitehaven . —We hear that the friend ? of freedom are about to open a localassdeiationif or ( he ' promulgation ofthe ' truths oj'Chartism in ¦ Whitehaven . Heaven speed them !/ ; ;* J v r . : v OiVB OF THE MlVDhB CLASSES , WHO WOULD ^ BE Industrious . — We have received his long letter ; but we do not sec the utility of publishing it . It bears to us the evidence of a mind which greatly overrates its owri powers . We trill try to answer his queries . 1 st . The Chartist body , so for as we know them , have no connection with , nor similarity to , nor affection for , the filthy ribaldry and disgusting Atheism of ^ Publicola , in the Dispatch . PuBLicoLA has written against the Char ' tists with as much virulence ; ignorance ^ and falsehood as any public writer of the day . Our correspondent cannot more thoroughly loathe the diatribes of PuBljcola than we < do . We know very little of the religioussentiments of the body whom our correspondent terms ihe (> VNeil Christian' Chartists ; " but we apprehend that they are not " Catholics or Romanists . "' We rather suppose them to consist of parties holding it may be a variety of individual opinions upon what are usually termed "matters of faith , " but agreeing in their political sentiments , and agree ' ing a&o in the two great religious . ackuowledgrrients - . of the Divinity of the Lord and the
Divxmty Car truth ) of the Sacred Scriptures . Mr . O'Connor has not been caught" in the trap" of " the Labourers' Friend Society . " We do not know whether '" -Mr . 0 '&fteT \ r the Chartist , be or be not , the same Mr . O'Brien to whose writings in Ireland he makes allusion . We know nothing about Mr . Parry , Hie Sturge Conference deputy . The Bristol Chartists And the Stuegites — We have received , a letter from the Bristol sub-Secretaryfin referenceto the'conduct oj ' the Chartists at the late Sturge meeting in thai town , staling that no opposition was offered by the Chartists , to the ' - objects ' - of themeelin q ; that the meeting merely exercised its right of electing a chairman , which was resisted by the Sturgites on behalf of their advertised chairman ; that if even the advertised chairman had been submitted to the vole of the : m ' tetingi he would not have been opposed , but that alt the " opposition" consisted in the contempt : of the usage and orderly proceedings of public meetings evinced by the Sturge pariy . We dill think that , notwithstanding explanation , the Chartists did wrong ; they should have allowed the Sturgites to go on with their own business in their own way , taking any body ' ¦ ¦; or nobody for a chairman , as they pleased , so long as no attack upon , or compromise of ' , our prinriplesf were attempted . Had any such thing rendered it necessary for the Chartists to uphold our principles , and the chairman had refused them a fair Hearing , it would have been quite competentfor the'meeting < to > votehim out of the chair * and some one else into it * -
Carlisle CHARTisre .--TA < # have sent us no trades or residences of [ their council - ¦ . '¦ - ¦ ¦¦¦¦ : ' ' ; ¦ , DAvito M'Millan . —We have no room . f - i BiRHiNGHAJl Chartists . —TA « r address to the Irish - . _ . / Universal Suffrage Associationnext week . Dkvw LnoHvaox .-T-We hape not room ihi $ weeki IiraSTALL Chartists — Their list oj ' councilie omitted . - because the trades and residences are not given . George J uns . —The Bradford Chartists have written us several times , disclaiming all connection with this person , who was some time ago expelled their association . ^ ^
PsoPAGANDisM . T-itfir . Wm . GiUmder , jun ., Mexbro Fitntgldss Works , by Rotherham , writes tc < ex ^ nort the Chartists <\ f PoncasUr , Rotkerham t and Gatnsbro ' i to exertion . He says ;^ ; . " FeUow-Serfsr ^ It is a fact . ; that although Chartisni baa attained a greater strength now tharj ever i * had befora , and that theia are CharHats in every towaand village , yet lo many of the marketftttrag within forty inilea of you there la no ^ Chartist '' society . We find that "whereTer the local leaded « e active the good cause ^ flooridies most i ~ c omeJ - then . let us be active , and do oar own rairtHto ^ f wards our ^ own freedom ; let ua unite , arid send the " ' . our ^ disteS * ^ ^* ° WOTy * ° 9 aii T ^ &fo
' ^ f ^ oncaste ^ furniflh £ 1 , Rotherhanv / ii : G ^ abto ; « 1 . 8 wfaton and Wath £ i , % * %$ ^ iS- ^^ £ * ¥ ** " *** beinade apin the month . : ^ Now these places , yiith a lecturer ^ at their yST ^ i % * $ ^ * " * « e *» to the following f-S ^ . ^^ * ownss- ^ h onie , Goole , Soaith , & ? , * i' % «<** & ¦ ¦ ¦ East Retford , Gri . aley ^ pon H « H ,: Bawtry ; T | cW ^ l , Workapp , ^ " ^ dlwouW ^^^ T I ° ^ J ^ ft **^ ; and If associations ¦ mTi ^ i *^ ^ * Doa ^ arter , & « ., ^; would , I wfk . formed Ift ^ dUtK ^ ^ pnabled to keep a lecturer employed regutujy . There aro m £ a& populous villages which might be acitated with B Ood siic ^ aa ^ _ : - ¦ . ¦'¦ . ; ' : ";¦ : '¦ ¦?'¦ ¦ ' - ;/¦ ' '• : ;"
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REAL UNION WITH THE MIDDLE . - ¦ . . ;¦; ¦ - classes / . ¦¦ : ¦ . ; , ¦ ... ; - ¦ ¦;¦' . ' . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ : We have bnt just time to point attention to the proceedings as reported in another column , of an important meeting of shopkeepers at Burnley . Our effort has been for some time back to show the working portion of the middle classes , the honest shopkeepers , that their whole interests are inseparable , even for a moment , from the prosperity of those . whose pence fill up their tills ; happy are we to see one portion of them apparently convinced ; The shopVeepers of Burnley take the right course . They
apply for the true remedy ; and they do so in the right way . They do their own work : the people very properly not interfering to destroy the distinctive character of their meeting ; ^ With men like these thfere is some hope of an useful becausa honest union . And this is just what we have all along told the people must come if they were but faithful to themselves ; and forbore to go over to the middle classes instead of insisting on the middle classes coming over to them- Let them however yet be wary . The Burnley Bhopkeepera ; are not all the middle classes . The war is not over because
one regiment of honest men have joined us . Tne League are as crafty aioid as willing to lay hold of popular eupport without giving anything to the people as they ever were . Let the people read the following silky , wily , letter to the Chairman of the anti-Corn Law Conference in London : — - "My Dear Sir ,- ^ r thank you for your commuhication . I think you will have another Delegation from Coventry , but hot for repeal only— ( oheers , > . The people here are ripe for a strnggle . We have to-day presented a requisition to the Mayor , well signed , at a short notice , to call a meeting to consider the state of the country . He has done bo , and we meet on Tuesday . Our measMes are not resolved upon , but we cannot keep the people book ; and I think we had better give the reins in favour of demopracy .
Do urge upon the : League fAo propriety arid policy of leading the people . We want but leaders , and we will do anything and everything , but the masses will not restrict their efforts to Corn Lswv Repeal . Our language will be denunciation of aristporaoy and class-legislation , and defiance of the present House of Commons . I shall be glad of the latest information from head-quarters , that our measures on Tuesday may be in harmony , if possible ; will you write On Monday night ? Above ally impress upon the Delegates that if they want the people at their back they must take up the suffrage question . Without that , their efforts aro hopeless , and the people will throw themselves upon more daring and reckless leaders , ¦ ' lam j yours truly , " J . Whittern ;"
Let this letter be well read . It exactly corroborates and substantiates all we have ever said and written as to the obvions purpose of the new-fladged patriot ? in " taking up the Suffrage question "—just to place themselves again in the position of " leading the people . " Let the people submit to be again "led" by them , and whither will they lead them \ To the Suffrage 1 " Not they , indeed ! but to the accomplishment of their own projects of " Extension , " when , with small ( jorempny and less feeling , they will hand over their blind followers to an amount of ruin
even greater and more pitiable than that which now engulfs them . Let the people but keap their eyes open * and their feet steady , and they are all right . ' -- ' - - - ' ' _ ' ¦ ¦ ' : ' " . ' : ' . .. ' . "
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MB . "HEAD-PACIFICATOR" STEELE AGAIN . " The Morning Chronicle of Friday last contains the following morsel ,- —too rich to pass without oar readers having a taste of it : —
• THE NORTHERN STAR—MR . STEELE . " To the EdUor of Ihe ilomina Chronicle ^ " Str , —The last number of that vulgar and stupid rag , the Northern Star , contains a column of abuse of nve , grounded upon a pure lie , invented either bj that wretched tool of ; Feargus O'Connor , the editor of tho paper , or more probably invented by abject Feargoa himsulf , te try to serve a puj'posa . "It is with audacious impudence of falsehood affirmed that , in roy recent evidence at Bow-atreet , before the magistrate , Mr . Jardine , I had alleged that the imputed words—that the Queen should bo got rid pf , had occurred at a Chartist meeting . ¦ ii will be by to the
' . " No ^ perceived reference reported , evidence , that , I never once mentioned or alluded , directly or indirectly , either to Chattistaor Chartism . I could not have clone so , for the person from whom I got my information at Bloomabury , and who was by my side , and who gave bis evidence at Bow ^ street , a perBon of the name of Fairlirotli < : r , distinctly declared that he had heard that the observation was made at a different kind of meetipg altogether . •' ;¦ ' ; V . " The object of this rascally article is qnite transparent ¦ ¦ : : : ¦ ' . ' ' ' ' ;¦ -. ;' - ¦• ' . ' '"
"lam myself a Chastist of the Joseph Stnrge and O'CoaneU echoo ) , and one of the conncil of the National C . implete Suffrage Union , and , therefore , as a Sturgite Chartist , I am , of course , eager to unite the greatest possible numbsr of friends to freedom in sanctiaad , peaceful * and constitutional . orgwaizition , without bloodshed or violence , for general Reform . . . " ¦ ¦ Feargui . " O ^ Copnor , in hia shallow , ill-regulated , and fantastic ambition , on the contrary , labours to keep h ' s delnded dupes , the Feargusites , ill dissaveration from us ; and for thia hateful purpose he , without scruple , speaks and writes all nianner of lies ; -which may tend to prevent union and perpetuate discord .
" And now a word on another subject in relation to this unfortunnte porsbh . lie constantly , at Ins meetings of knavas and dnpes , proposes cheers for Frost , and Jones , and Williams . " Now , 8 u \ it appears to me that if Mr . Feargua O'Connor is of opinion that Frost , and Jones , and WiUiams , ought to bo cheered for , the proper time for hiin to cheer would have been in cheering them on at thOir head in their attack UpoD Newport , instead of skulking from danger , as be always does . " That was the time for dheering them , if he thought them right ; arid not now while they are exiles , instigated to their fate by his own writings and speeches ;
• V Frost , by his cowardice , showed himself worthy to be the follower ot the craven Feargus O'ConaOr , and the poor wretch ia now sufferlag a deep aggravation of hii pvtmittvepanishinent ; very probably excited by hearing of ttiose cheerings , by writing home political iettorai ' -to England , worthy of the disciple of the bravo Feargus !!!' I hayo the honour to be , Sir , '¦ With great respect ; " Your most obedient , humble servant , " THOMAS STEBLE . / ¦ ' JuIyil . V .
Is not that fine ! So the ^ Head Pacifioator " would charge us with falsehood ! The ^ lying fellow can himself speak no truth v and thinks ho one else should .. We never said that he eaid any thing about Chartists or Chartisns . We gave the report from the Tirr . es without altering a word * The report of the Aforning Chronicle was just the same ; and it represented Sir . STiBELE to say that the " tiialpyaHy * was at a Teetotal meetulg , while his witness ^ Mr . Crow Jfixcd it on the Chartista j thus contriving between them to saddle the odium of " disloyalty " pn both TeetotaUera and Chartists . Thia SruRGK councillor Steele is indeed a bright man I" the broth of a boy I "
He merits hot the name of man ! " So said as good a Chartist and as perfect a gentleman as lives j ind we never knew a truer sentence . Tom Stbhck ! what a name lor a Pacificator ! It ia reiliy aB ironical as ** Captain Bock / ' But aeriouBly , '¦ let us . see who this Tom Stbelb is , or if he be worthy the name of man ; in the first place , let us ask ourselves what is man ! the answer ifl , * a reasoning being , capable of jadging between good and tvil , and of acting in aocprdance with hia judgmeat '; but can an individual come under thia head who bound himself neck and sleeves tp P'CoNNEtLin : 1836 , by declaring "That if Q'CoN . neix would order him to spring » mi ^ stand npon it , ani abide its issue , he ^ would : do so "; while by way of shewing how much credit
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 23, 1842, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct608/page/4/
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