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WATKIKS'S LEGACY TO THE CHABTISTS . IJECTCBB IT . —CONCLUDED . We have seen that trades' unions , even if general , -would afford but an inefficient protection against the tyranny of capitalists , still less against the capital tyranny of Government Pot supposing that masters gave a fair days wage for a fair day ' s -work , what would it avail while Government can tax at "will » Working men fiave need to unite for mutual protection , for mutual . snpporf and information—bat they have greater need to unite not merely as fellow-woiking men , but as fellow men . —not only to protect their interests as labourers but to gain their rights as freemen—they -should join their fellow men of whatever trade or denomination ; yea , all trades should unite in one grrad national union—they should chip their trade-shells and take a flight for freedom , then would they sain power to protect themselves , to defend themselves , and to do QiemselTfisgood in spite of t&e evil which , others would do them .
Oh , but say some we haTe nothing to do with polities , we have a maiim not to meddle with politics —yea and what has been the cons&quencs , politics have " meddled with you and meddled with a vengeance . Such a maxim was fit for slaves alone to adopt , and the 'worst kind of slaves too—willing slaves—it was a blindfolding of yourselves and offering ymr necks to the joke—a gagging of yourselves ; and was just what y # nr oppressors wished . Government woold look with an eye of favour , the eye ef a hawk after a sparrowcpon all trades who bound themselves by such aresolutien , for by it they gave op their rights , including the Hiostimportant right ; the right of free inquiry—they gave them up without a word , without being asied to doit—and submissively resigned themselves to whatever wrongs Government had a mind to irnict on them . It is a ¦ fnwiTn tn full scc 9 rdaiice with , the maxim of tyrants , namely , that tha people have sotting to do "WiSil tie IaWB but to obey them .
Uot discuss politics ! If we won't discuss politics ; they will leave us nothing else to discuss—if we won't see them or hear them , they will make us feel them . "We are bound by tyrants—let us not likewise be in bondage to ourselves . Politics are now a question not merely ef liberty , but of life—tbey are the question of all questions—they should be the Alpha and Omega , "the first and the last He who says we have nothing to do -with politics migbt as wen say we have nothing to do with eating or drinking , nor -with wherewithal ve shall be clothed—that we have nothing to do with work and with wages—for politics affect all thess vital interests—politics rulb or ruin them , make or mar them . Can truth be found if we refuse to search for it ? —evil be cnred without inquiring into its cause ?
What ! were we made to be blindly led by the nose as asses are—to work and . be beaten for it ? Are we to go like torses in a mill , the same dull round , and know no other—not allowed to see even that—but guided by the very engine which -we turn roundslaves to the very system which our labour upholds . ?—lor know that it is the working men who keep Government agoing . I * ft to itself the mill would stand still ; but what comes of the com which they grind ?—the firsts is alloted to the higher classes , the Beconds to the middle classes , and the coarsest of all , the mere ref ose of the othere is considered good enough for those who do the work—nay , it is reckoned too good , for we are told that the working classes should be taught to live on coarser diet—on mere bran . Alas . ' many of them mow would be glad to get even that
Not discpss politics ! and when the men are out of 'work ihey must tramp or beg from trade to trade , whereas , H they had properly discussed politics , they would always have had work and good wage ; but they forbid themselves to discuEs politics . Who would have thonglit that they could have been so simple ?—for their masters , mind ye , are always discussing politics ; and the masters live luxuriously on the profits of the men ' s work , and laugh at the poor men , who never having discussed politics , have to go a begging—have to wander about a burthen to eack other , weakening the strength of their unions . Yes ! the mastars have discussed politics , and they have wine to discuss—while the men have not so much as potatoes and salt
The motive for not discussing politics might originally be a good one . I believe it was thought that politics would introduce difference of opinion , dissension , and division amongst them , and they wished to discuss their pints and pipes in peace . This might be the case formerly , when politics were mare a matter of speculative opinion ; but now they are becoming the bread of life itself—they are making all working men of one mind—they are consolidating unions , concentrating opinions , and laying all on the true scent- We are all seeing the necessity—the absolute necessity there is for the Charter , and all are going fall cry for the Charter . The Charter , is & Tallying point f or all who differ on otha points ; all must meet in that centre : the Charter is a grand nations ! standard hoisted by Britannia herself , and she stands with her shield of defence , hex sptar of attack to guard it—the British liGn at her feet ready to arise and proclaim , with a VGice of thunder , the Charter and no surrender '
Yes , we'll discuss politics— we will not forbid curselves , nor shall any # ne else forbid us . Politics uie becoming the breath of oar nostrils . I am glad that the masons are resolved to discuss politics—that tha masons have come ont—that you are the first of the trades in the field . Yes , masons , jen have led the-way —you have won an honour of your brethren—you are the vanguard , the foremost for freedom . Yours is the post of honour , though not of danger : keep it , masons ; the other trades must follow you , or lose the name of men . Must , did 1 say ? They have followed . Have not the coppersmiths followed ? they are no longer as sounding brass , &c Have not the shoemakers followed ? —are not the taiiors rising ?—the pipemakera awaking ? —the carpenters girding np their loins ? and all the ethers stirring ? all are on the mo-re . Jf any one should remain behind—fifaonld . refuse to come out—to go up $ o the struggle in thia goodly cause , let that trade be cursed as ilercz was bv D = borah . who said— " Curse
ye , Mercz , curse ye the men thereof ; for they came net np to the help of the Lord , to the help of the Lord i against the mighty . " ' - J * ow , I wonld ask , what avails aman ' s strengthwhat avails his skill—what avail 3 it that be has served s seven years' apprenticeship to a trade and made hims ; If a complete workman at it—what avails ali this , if ! Government be suffered to paralyse his strength—to render his skill useless , by depriving him of work , and finding eo other work for him but in a Bastile—at the ' .
treadmill ? How macy carpenters are there , men capable of making or Lailding ships and houses , who Nevertheless are compelled to make nothing but matches and go absut the streets to sell ihem ?—how many co » - perHmiths must make toys f <* r a li-ring?—how many ¦ weavers sing byniis for bread ?—how mMJJ t&EoTS live on sc-cp ?—hovr Eiany "working men of all trades are forced to take tbur faniisliKig children in their arms , and with a pining wife and naked offspring must traverse the strifct > ia cold or wet , to move compassion for their wants by exhibiting their woes ?
£ zd government turned these men cut of work , and if tfcs-y beg the brrad they are prevented from earning , a bad govemajcEt claps them np in prison ; if they steal it , tbey are transport s-d . They cannot buy it , they cannot borrow it—government s . ays , starve . Shall they starve ? Hjw cs . n they fce ; p thexselves ? When in work they thought not of these things ; they cared not for them ; they would sot discuss politics , and eo long as they fait iot -w-ant iitmselves , they felt not for those wh o did . A ll , therefore , who have foresight , who have feiiins , -aria join the National Association- of C v « -v ; . ^ - Blaise zoi the Queen . " There is a rower behind the tirrane greater tfcan the throne itself ; " nor are the
ffij = k : i jjizjc to cJais-.- ; in many cases tcey can ao do other ; &i--i -wbe ^ t tij could do right , they are tempted , thrj srt emoun ^ ed , they are supported in wrong by tha powers abov = them . Witness tfee masons' strike . TV ell , therefore , cots it become the masons , acting from the wisdom gained by experience , to cohib forward i : ; the cauis of Chartism , which ib the cause of good government They wcuil be told , and wonld , pa L aps , belicTo that the Chartists would only lead them into danger , would lead them into trouble ; and some " , perhaps , may have kept back from fear ; others from tLinking it impossible to obtain the Charter . ' Banish ill such nnwoithy thoughts . ' L * t men think
lorlfc-. riseivcSj . and see wxai their-fellow , men do in the cuse , and they will find no cause for fear nor for sagli but satisfaction . A Chartist knous that when he is se-kir-e what is light , b e is do : . ng -what ia tight , aa 1 bis co ~ scleusnt £ 3 of tLIs makes Lim that was a slave fit ! lite a man . Tee masons are "winning for tli £ ins = lTes thB title of freemasons ; not free in the Slavkll ££ ji& 2 bl the ts-ori , Stcs in naxne only , but ires ia reality . Xhcj are vindicating their right of thought , of thinking for themselves . Oh ! if we lose all else , let us keep that ; for by thit we may gain back all else .
Nothing U impossible to God , nor to the people By anion th ^ y can render what is possible probable , and what is prokible certain . Methinks I have bow said sufficient to shew t&e in ^ mcacy of a mere trade-union to do more than temporarily , or imperfectly , benefit the members . A union of all unionists for the Charter would procure a lasting benefit , and this is the assistance that each and all Bhonld seek and give to each other—this is truly to support ard strengthen etch other , not fo weaken each other—this wonld render trades-unions needless—all would be swallowed np , as the leaser serpents were by Aaron " s all would merge in one with the power of all to protect each . Aye , gtt the Charter , and it will do more for us than all besides . What makes trades unions ineffectual ? Because ell in the trade do not 3 oia- Wbst alone can mafce Chartism ineffectual ? Ail
¦ working men not joining . But I would not wish it to be inferred that when you come ont of your trade onion you are to abandon it No , keep it -xip as a harbour of refuge , should the Etorm of persecution drive you back . Keep it np as a hiva or a nest to settle in , after your flight in the open air . Keep it np as a small benefit to help yon to get a greater with . Come ont , bnt come out as trades , with the signs of your own callings , in the colour of your clans . You have hitherto been sailing in a bounded river , now launch boldly forth into the limitless ocean—yon . have been wading , now strike out and swim . A bold Ca&rtiEt is flie best Chtrtiet . Come cnt , but come out as trades ; you will do more good to the cause ; you will be more likely to bring the other trades cnt None but trades can do it . Do not mingle ^ distinguished among the mass of CbarEsts . Let it be said , " -There go the Masons ! they were the £ nt to move , the first to draw the ethers cut *
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The Masons have come out } and with their rule of right , their plummet of justice , they will measure and mete , and fit and fashion the outwork of tha great temple of liberty . The carpenters will do the woodwork , and the rest of the trades will all do according to their trade . Competition increases trade , and it will increase Chartism . Let ene trade vie with the other , and each strive which can bring most men into the field . Let each make a muster of their moral force , and by that overcome physical force , as evil is overcome by good . Carry London , and the country will be carried—the Charter will be carried . It is a shame to leave the work of the many to be done by a few ; what is hard work for a few , would be rendered easy by the many . We want more hands , but they must be
handa with hearts in them—hands directed by good beadB . Come , then , ye who have not already come . We are -wotting for you as well as for ourselves . It is haid not . to have you -with -us—to have you against us . We have worked the ship through storms and tempests , in spite of adverse winds and contrary currents ; we have steered clear of xocks , and shoals , and quicksands ; we have beat back the pirates that would have boarded us ; and refused to listen to the syrens that would have tempted us . We have now come in sight of port with our glorious freight of freedom ; but we are few and almost exhausted . Let us net be driven back-to sea again ; let us not perish is sight of land . Throw us a rope ! tow us in ! One or two can't do it Let all lay hold—all lend us a hand , and see how easily they will walk the good Bhip np to the mooring post . '
Ijn-ednotat this time enter into the principles of the - Charter , nor describe the plan of organizition . Those who wish to become acquainted with these things can have them explained by the intelligent Secretary ot this Association . But I would wish it to be known that those -who do not join ¦ will be thought to cave less spirit or less intelligence than their brethren . Intelligence giTes 3 DIM spirit Yet I would advise no one to join hastily , lest he fall away as hastily . Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind before he suffers himself to be personated . Imbibe the great principles
of freedom , and they will make new and better men of O 3 . It is great principles that make great men . They enlarf e the mind , they expand the heart , they make giants of us common men . How else is it that working men can confront Lords or Bishops and dumbfound thenfc How else happens it that workiDg-men without any education bnt self -education—which to be sure is the best—that unlearned mechanics , with no advantage on their side but every disadvantage , can rise and refute the sophisms of college-taught masters of art ? Aye , they may be masters of art , but net of nature—the nobles of nature are their masters there .
Masons , let us lay hold of the Chartist plough , and not look back—let us not stop , but go the whole length of the Lmd . Follow not custom , which has led you into a barren pasture , but follow those Wkp break through the hedge of custom , and get into a field of plenty . Ye would be more silly than sheep if ye remained behind . He who engages in this cause has more reason to be prond of himself than if he had fought at Waterloo—and the Chartist medal of victory will be far more honourable . This is a fight , not to put down , but to raisa up freedom . Ah ! had our forefathers not aided the stream of corruption—had they resisted it before it grew to a flood—had they stemmed it at first , it might easily have been turned ; and now , instead of stru 5 gling for our rights , we might have been enjoying them ; but we shall gain them for oorsslves , or for our children . The stream cannot be
turned except by the tide of the people—by the undercurrent of tke millions—individuals will strive in vain '—the woik must be done by the masses . For my part I feel more pleasure in struggling for my rights , than I shonld have done in enjoying them—if won for me by Others—for there ia more z ^ sfc in the enjoyment of what we gain foi ourselves , and more honour too . Many old men wiah themselves young again , that tbey might join in this glorious cause—many women wish themselves men . that they might stand forward to vindicate it—nay , many women , and even children , have stood forward ; and shall we lack the spirit that is found in old men , and women , and children ? No ; I answer for ye—no ! We will all be Chartists . As for myself , I wish no better name—no nobler title than that of Chartist—let me be known as a Chartist , or known not at all—let my epitaph be— " Saered to tke memory of a Chartist "
> ow masons , now for the Charter . ' Lean on it , as Hope leans on her anchor—bold it up as Faith holds up her cross—give of its benefits freely , as Charity gives to all her children . The worid is deluded with crimes and miseries of every description , resulting from class legislation . The Charter is our ark—the dove with the olive branch—a life-boat to serve us when the ship is siokiD £ . The Charter is the ang . il thafc troubled the waters—that agitated them to give them a healing property : it 13 the rainbow that bespeaks a calm after a ^ storm-. it is God ' s covenant with his people . Lst it be -written on our hearts and bound round our brows
The ground has been cleared for you masons , the foundation dng ; be it yours to build—to lay on the corner stone , an ;! we will have nchea for the statues of -the champions of Chartism all round the edifice . The Goddess of Liberty—the free Britannia shall be placed at the top : in tie ore hand the scales of true justice , in the other the Charter . Her spear shall be rendered pointless by the cap of liberty ; and a nation szved—a people glorified will uplift the universal song of praise and thanksgiving to the God of freemen . Yes , Great Britain will t jen sit enthroned on her rock the 0 ; ean Queen , and a kneeling world shall beg of us to mak-a all nations free . J . W . Battersta , Surrey .
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TO SIR ROBERT PEEL . LETTER 12 . Cpon the necessity of an immediate remedy for the present unparalleled distress , and provision against the future calamities inevitable to our artificial system . " If political society , in whatever form , has still made the many tha property of the few ; if it has introduced labours unnecessary , vices and diseases unknown , and pleasures incompatible with nature ; if in all countries it abridges the lives of millions , and renders those of millions more utterly abject and miserable , shall we still wor&hip so destructive an idol ? " . ¦ . Lord Bolingbroke on Societt .
SIR ROBERT , —1 / the gaiety snd sorrow , the grandeur and wretchedness , the pomp and penury , the wast « and ¦ want , the pampered luxury and the squalid misery , the ill-paid toil and the profusely gorged idleness , the lounging ennui , and the narrowing death-beds of slavery and starvation now so prevalent in onr richly ruined country , testiSeth to the truth of the above propositions of the honourable writer , how can you as a professed Christian , as the Premier of a proftased Christian Government , preside over such an inhuman , unchristian Btate of things , without applying those remedies which are abundantly in your possession , which ths starving have an undeniable rigLt unto , being the gifrs of nature to all , even our common country and its increasp .
The mines are the people ' s , the land is the people ' s , the cattle is the people's , the corn too and all vegetation is tb € people ' s . Nature laid forth all before them , and for them , publishing in its passive Invitations , its subservience to their will . Who hath taken it from the people ? fer the people toil and starve . "Whoever they be , Ifct them come forth and ansrwer for their crinitS . They have transgressed against the Goi ot ia ture and his children , in that they have robbed their fellowmen of their inheritance in his gifts . Whoever these impicua criminals arc , I shall leave to you , Sir , and for the prc-sent , the punishment of their counties crimes Leaving for a while the question of justice and restitution , let me proceed to lay before you the means whereby ample provision may be made for onr scarring fellows , without proceeding to a measure so wounding to the pride of the legal constitutional plundered as justice demands .
In ray letter of last last week I drew your attention to the parks of the aristocracy whereon to employ the starving thousands to obtain their daily bread , but fearing that you throngb the stnnted feeHng 3 of corrupt education and training should have more consideration for tie pride of the rich , than the lives of the wealth producers , and that you should have no excuse for your apathy , I here draw yocr attention to other land . TilB road Bides throughout our country are edged with from three to nine feet of , st present , almost unprofitable waste ; in cany places there are square and angle patches , of several lugs ; this land will pay well for cultivation , Ltt tbo poor snd starving operatives be set to -work thereon ; they will rear their own f ood , and a surpln 3 to pay for the outlay . Give them the means , and they will rear their own dwellings , and every other necessary ; they would keep the roacs weli
cl e aned , as the dirt would be good manure for their corn gardens ; they would save the counties the expense of a rural polic 3 ; for were the roads thus lined -with a contented , because a well-fed peasantry ; there would be no chance for robbers to carry on their depredations ¦ without detection . I assert , without fear of proof to the contrary , that the land by the road sides throughout Britain would , if cultivated by them , produce a sufficiency of food for the present starving operatives . Then there are the yet open commens ; let these bo added to the roadside farms ; the filth sf ^ the towns near some of them -would make them good com fields , if hauled on to them . Then there ar-e the moors and faiza grounds of the landed , game , and bunting gentry , mere burrows for foxeB , harbours for birds , of which the wretched unwilling idlers may say , in the werds of Jesus , " TLe foxes have holes , and the bird * cf the air have nests , but the sons of men have not where to lay
their heads . " . . . Sir Robert , the country is filling with unwilling beggars . Your Government must do something for them , or they will become unwilling though desperate thieves : no , not thieves , for tbey have a right to food in the land of their birth ; and if the rich have taken from them their land , they are justified in talcing back & portion of the prodaoe te > prevent themselves andtheir little ones dying of hunger . But if you , Sir , through your criminal callousness , should leave them to this only alternative , then woe to the rich when the poor man , goaded to desperation by hunger and the cries of famishing children , becomes the rover for food , hazirding tia life against the laws and the murderous
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weapons of the rich , the contemplation of his hazards , and their power , will make him much more desperate ; and in what scenes of horror the conflict between plundered poverty and bearded wealth will end ia sickening to contemplate . But , in the hope that yon will make , ere it is too late , proper provision for the wide-spread and spreading distress , seeing you possess abundant means in the plans I have directed your attention to , and thus prevent the day of horrors , I remain , In the cause of my suffering fellows . Your humble servant , Homespun .
P . S . Sir Robert , I have sent you the Northern Star ot last week , per post , to the Home Office , as I shall this , that you may be ia possession of the humble , yet homely and honest plans of national economy for national distress , Of your humble servant ,
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAB . Glasgow , July 11 , 1842 . Friejcd of my Suffring Country , —Your inser tion of the following outrage on religion and the com mon rules of decency and decorum will oblige , Your much injured brother , Con Murray .
TO THE IRISHMEN OF CAMPSIE . Mr Dear Couxtbymen , —I wish , through the columns of the people ' s paper , to lay before an enlightened public , one of the groBsest acta of tyranny that has for many yearB found its -way Into ' a newspaper . In doing so I will content myself by a simple statement cf the facts , leaving the toiling millions to supply the comment . Yon aie aware that I delivered a lecture in the Chartist Hall of your village on tho evening of the 2 nd inst Subject—Chartism : its past history , present position , and future prospects . You are aware , also , that my remarks on that occasion—as at all other times when I appear publicly—were pnrely political : not in the least possible degree mixing them up with any theological question , and not giving offence to any religious b » dy .
So well were you convinced of this , of the truth ef » y statements , and my devotion to our unfortunate country , that many of your number there and then pledged yourselves to the principles contained in the People ' s Charter by joining the Carapsie Charter Association . I invited discussion . None appeared t « dispute the correctness cf my ideas . In a meeting crowded almost to suffocation all was harmony and good wilJ . TV e separated that night with the firm deUrmicaUon never more to foster the accursed spirit of national and religious prejudices which bo long separated the rnisei able slaves of Ireland and Scotland . One might think that this brotherly feeling would cheer the heart of every Christian man who longed for the regeneration of our fallen country ; but the sequel will prove that such was not the case . .
On the following day , Sabbath , I went with two of ray brothers to our housB of worship , tho Catholic chapel , under ths guidance of the Rev . Charles Green . I had just knelt down to offer a short prayer previous to the commencement of divine service , when I was seized by the collar from behind , and gruffly asked what brought me there . Surprised and confounded at such an interruption and in such a place , I turned round , when who should present himself to my astonished eyes , but the above Rev . Gentleman in the
physical attitude of pulling me to the door . It was in vain I asked him to allow me to remain until the conclusion of the service , aB tbere y ? 8 b no other church in the town where I could conscientiously worship the God of ray fathers : he told me I should neither pray nor worship there , at the same time pulling me out as if I were a dog . It was in vain I asked his reasons for this extraordinary comluct ; be would give no explanation further than that I had published lies , and that I went about the country telling lies and gaining a livelihood thereby .
Now , my countrymen , with a pleasing satisfaction refer you to all my Utters in the late ScoUis ' i Pulriot , and to all my lectures ; if you and one single wilful or malicious lig , I will submit to be branded with the above charge ; and with rcganUo gaining a livelihood by my politics it is equally uutrue ; if any person doubt me , let him ask Mr . Alexander D : ivie , treasurer to the Chartists of Canipsie ; he C 3 n tell that I refused the money voted by the Committee ts defray my expences . Nay mere , he can . tesVify that 1 furnished th © bills , calling the meeting , from my own hard earnings . Ask the men of Gorbals , Rutherglen , Bridgeton , Baarhead , Ayr , Kirkintillock , and numerous other districts ; they will also tell you that I have not been a political pedlarthat the little I could do in support of our holy cause has been done gratuitously . JVo , my countrymen , so far from gaining a livelihood by Chartism , I have , like all those who have taken a leading part , injured myself to a considerable tx . ent in a pecuniary point of view .
In csncmsion , my friends , I cannot look on Mr . Green's coniinct in any other light than a following up of the Corn Exchange calumnies for the anti-Christian purpose of injuring tha poor Chartists . It is to me a painful task to be thus compelled- to bring any dispute befora the public where a Catholic priest forms a party . I have been driven to it in Belf-dtfence , for this case is only one of the many attempts made by the blind followers of the apostate Dm to stop me In my humble advocacy of tee rights of labour , but my persecutors little know with whom they are contending , for never until that feour when my Creator shall call me from
the cares and troubles of this life , -will I cease to de-. raandformy native Erin , the restoration of her-rights and privileges as a nation , by the enactment of ' the People ' s Charter , and a Repeal of the act of Union as the basis of all her laws ; and standing as I do , on the firm rock of democracy , I hurl defiance at the enemies of my " order , and tell them to their very teeth , that the day is not far distant when the moleskin jackets shall teach the drones that Gad made of one fiesh all the nations of the earth , that he ia his wisdom , m ade man after his own image and likenesa , and gave him the eaith for his inheritance .
In your hands , then , I leave the treatment I have received from Mr . Green , relying on that str . se of justice which nature has planted in your heart *; and iii the meantime I will subscribe myself what my respected father has made me , A Uue and real son of ould Ireland , A Catholic—a Chartist , And a real democratic Bspealer of the Unl . m , Coy MlliiiAY .
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR . SIR , —The insertion of the foiiowins ! in this-week ' s Star , will oblige the members of the National X'haiter Association of Stofee-upon-Trent . To those vrho are inclined to observe the golden nisxiw , " By doing uuto ovhtrs as they would that men should do unto thtin : "—¦ This is to certify that a brotber Chartist of the Stoke Association , in coustquenco of over exertion in the cause of Chartism , has bten ordered by his medical attendant to the Isle of Man for recovery cf health , and as fce is bnt a working man , and has a vtife and four children depending on donations from those who may feel inclined to assist him in his present extremity . The following" persons are appointed to receive subscriptions for hiaj : —TViHirun ( Jirratt , Berry-strtet , Stoke-upon-Trent ; Thomas Vernon , Boothen-road , ditto ; George Evans , Honty Wai ! , ditto ; John Johnston , North-street , ditto ; Thomas Starkey , Liverpool-road , ditto , Treasurer .
N . B . The person who is the subject of this call is the man , Samuel Robinson , who was . mentioned by Mr . O'Connor after his visit to the Potteries . All donations will be thankfully received and duly acknowledged . By order eftte Association , J . O'Connor , sub-Sgcretary . Stokc-upon . Trent , July 12 : h , 1 S 42 .
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TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR . Dear Sir , —In the columns of your journal of yesterday ' s date appear statements relative to nij self iu conjunction with a ball and concert held in the Temperance H ali , Lower George-street , Sloane Square , Chelsea , on the 3 rd of January lust . Thtre is also another statsment , a ' Boit of prelude to thB foregoing , in winch I am charged with asserting that a stroke from my pen would hinder the insertion of anything detrimental to myself in theS . ' a / -. 1 bvg leave to assure you I never made use of any such assertion . All that . I ' -have ever ' said ; in-this matter , upon the masy threats of publishing in the Star , was that I should reply So it . But to the statements .
No . 1 . That Mr . Stall wood did appropriate the -whole profits to hia own use until the 28 th of April . Not true , inasmuch as the monks were not paid that constituted the profits until a long time after tho ball . One of the witnesses , Mr . S . Ford , corroborated tJsis by admitting he paid one shilling , the balance of his account-, during the sitting of the Convention , Statement No . 2 . Balance-sheet . A tissue of fabrications ; not true , inasmuch as it never was put forth as a . correct and true account of the i-ffiir of tbe 3 rd of January , such a correct and true account being rendered a matter of utter impossibility—impossible , because the Commif . ee neglected their duty .
Thm , on the evening of the ball , Mr . Ford and myself went to the hall , carrying between ua a portable stove , to waim the arena ; by the bye , one we had borrowed for the occasion . When we arrived at the door ( four miles distant from my house ) we found the door locked , no one there , and tbe time for opening the doors just at hand . Then I had a walk of about a mile in quest of the key : one of the members had by this time arrived . When spoken to on the matter , " Oh J he thought it was
all a hoax ; he did , indeed . '" The doors being opened , the Hall was found in a duty Btate ; the avenue leading thereto contained great heaps bl filth ; what was to be d one J Why , Mr . Stallwood became scavenger—procured shovels , brooms , &o ., a » d cleare lit away ; while Mr . Ford lit the fire , decorated the hall , &c . Wtll , persona began to arrive . Who is to sell tickets ? Oh , Mr . Stallwol-i 3 ; but who is to take cheques ? cb , Mr . Siallwood ; -who ia io ba door-
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keeper ? oh , Mr . StaUwqod . Time arrives to commence tne merry dance ; no master of ceremonies arrived ; what is to be done ? oh ,, Mr . Stallwood you must see tO % X « ¦ ' .- ¦ ' ¦ - .. ' , ¦ ¦ . '¦ ; ¦ ' ¦ . ¦¦ ' ¦• ' '¦ ¦¦' . . - . - ' ' - ' ' . ' " .. _' - •¦ ¦ . ^ Now , Sir , this Is no randoHi statement ; of iny own ; the witnesses , one after the other , called by the accusing party , affirmed this . Admitting , in addition to all the above , that I was secretary , treasurer , printer , and bill distributor ; theu , Sir , I a ? k any rational man , how is it possible that I should or could give a correct balance sheet after all this ? Nayi what rational being wonldexpect it ? Besides all , the accusingparty
were fully aware that , up to the sitting of the Convention , nothing of the sort had any existence ; that the statement drawn up was fromrecollection , after a period of something like thirteen or fourteen weehs ; after a tour through the counties of Berks , Oxoh , Warwic k , Stafford , Worcester , Gloucester , ic . by me . They also knew that I offered in a letter to explain anything they might wish explained , if they would Bommitit to writing ; but instead of committing anything to writing , and forwarding it to me for my explanation , the following inorceau was transmitted to Mr . John Cleave , who most honourably transmitted it to me forthwith — '
" Stallwood charged foiw shillings more than he paid the musicians that played afc a ball for the benefit of the political victims at the the Teetotal Hall , Georgestreet , Chelsea . . ' ¦ - ' . '¦' .. ¦/ .: - . . ' . - ¦ ' ¦ ¦ " ' ( Signed ) '' ,, : . ' * ' William Matthews . " " 88 , Westboume-street , Chelsea / ' f But I am charged with robbing the Victim's Fund of four shillings . Mr . Ford engaged the musicians at i-6 s ; » bow was it they received but 12 s . ? because the hall was but thinly attended ; that Was tha cause of the reduction . The balance sheet , aa it is called , contained the IBs . simply becausa I asked the question what it was they were engaged at , and was told 163 . ; and did not know until afterwards , or , in other WortVs , did net recollect , until reminded , that I hail beat thein down to twelve . ; So much for the so-called balancesheet '¦ : ¦ ' - ' : ¦ - ¦ ' '¦' . ¦ . ' - ' ' ' ¦ - ¦ . ¦ . "¦ ¦ - ¦ ¦ ¦
Statement , No . 3—refused to attend meetings of the Brompton locality . V Yea ; ample reasons for so doing ^ First , they did none of the labour in getting up the ball and concert , and , consequently , I could not conceive they had any business ; to call nie to account respecting it . . .-. ' '"' Secondly , I was most grossly insulted in the Convention . Hall , by one of their deputies ; Thirdly , ih the letter sent to Mr . Cleave , after the courtesy I had displayed , I felt myself grossly illtreated . -..- ¦ ' . ' . ¦ ' •¦ ' : . - .. ¦' . - ''¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ .. ¦ ¦¦¦'¦¦¦ : ¦ . . ' : ¦ : ' ¦ : ' . ' ' Fourthly , I thought it my duty to give ruy services , in aid of the cause , to large bodies , instead of going to meet a few individuals in personal squabbles . Statement No 4 . —That after a patieut investigation , and every privilege of defence , I was found guilty .
Not true . I had no such privilege . I had not the privilegea allowed at the Old Biiley , or a t Sessi o n s of Operand Tenniner . First , 1 had no list of the Jury supplied mo . Secondly , I had no charge or charges put before me , until the moment of the investigation . Thirdly , I had no list of the witnesses supplied me , nay , it was the result of accident j the whole affair , so far as the London Delegate Council are concerned , was eccparle—ik portion actually having transpired in rny absence , viz . [ that portion transacted at the Three Doves , Berwick-street , having taken place during my Visit to Herts , ; Bedfordshire . Bucks , arid Northamptonshire , without tbo possibility of my knowing anything about it . J . M . Wheeler , in his
letter , states , r It is reported you are gone into tbe country ^ but I am requested to send it . No doubt J 4 rs . S . will send it you inimoduitely . " Mr . W . wrote on tbe Monday ; it arrived at Hammersuiith too late to be transmitted by that evening ' s post . It was posted oh Tuesday , arrived at Bedford on Wednesday morning . I was then at Northampton ' , and consequently did riot receive the 1 ' etUr until my arrival in town , a fo r t n i ght from the time 14 was written . . Had I the priviJego allowed to a prisoner at the Old Bailey , the jury would not have been constituted as it wns . Oho of the accusers would liot have be « n in the , box—neither would one of tbe parsons , who a < Jniit : ed he took a tickeJ , and owed for it at that time ; neither would those who had previously made up their winds on the matter ; and ,
Sir , I humbly submit that when a person is charged with robbery , if another a « ta with him , h <» does not generally appear as evidence ; but i 3 placed at the bar aa an accomplice , which would have been the case had the investigation taken place at the large building opposite 55 , Old Bailey ; neither , i Sir , under such circuuistances would one of the jury have been allowed to get up , and make a virulent speech ajainat tho accused , after having . admitted , ' as a witnens , that he refused to act on the comrniiteo . for getting up tha ball and concert , because he believed it would be a failure ; Further , Sir , when I called two witnesses , one of the most disgraceful scenes , I think , ever : witnessed occurred / One of the witnesses being a member of the Council
for the accusing local . ty , said , if Mr . Stall-wood persisted in calling him , be would comply— - then abusing tho Council , for not throwing their shield of protection around him , by refusing to allow titru ' . to give the evidence . During this time saveral witnesses and others were declaiming agains' his being allowed to give evidence ; thon a member of the council Wld defenderit he ought to be ashamed of himself—the confusion was , --oil-- 'his' fault , by calling the witnesses . To conclude the scene a member of : the Couucil , at the end of the defence , made a most virulent speech , mixing Up the . fiffdir that took placa oh the Srd of January last , with the death of Hoi berry , that had just taken place , and bis wife and the victim's wives starving in thtir huts .
Now , Sir , if I , by my exertions and : labours , gained an overplus of five shillings and ninepence , was the cause of starving them to . death , ; . ' , what must those be doing who professed so much kindness and sympathy for them up to that time , and have notraised tkem . a single farthing . : : Sir , I canriot , under such proceedings as these , allow it to go forth to the public , that I Lave robbed the political yictim Fund , when at the flame time I c 6 nceive I am their benefactor . If it shall be thought fit I am ready to let the waiter go to a fair and impartial jury—six appointed by my accusers ' , and six by myself . If they conclude that I am guilty , ' then , and not till then , sball I acknowledge or bow to the decision , or believe that the matter lias been before an impartial tribunal . i
Sir , you in a note state that if Mr . Stallwood confine hiniBelf strictly aud solely to the matters in this statement , he will be at liberty to reply . I have done so , anq . thtrtfore claim and expect the proffered liberty . Sincerely and faithfully , Yours , iu the cause of democracy , EuML-iM > Stallwood . Sunday , July 17 th , 1842 .
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DEAD COWS , DEAD HO R SE S , AND THE PLAGUE ! Wo know we shall distress the phUanthrapie sympaU . ies of the Holy Leagua (?) by recounting a little antcdote -which occurred in this neighbourhood -last wefeb , and -sfeUich we are sure . -will cause bursts of inrtignation from Brown ' s Hotel , Pdlacerjard , the KJysium or Pandenioniuni of tha Conference , and suffuse -with tears the cheeks of tender-hearted Cobden , and deepen into a rnora fearful blue the nose or proboscis of Billy , In the North , the ineritsand exertions of Billy may be unknown . In the . Smith , he is the right-hand ma i and
chief ktir of the Corn . Law Leaguers . He collects information from the agricultural districts , and ljaya before his masters in the Hotel the various devices and means by which the people are deprived of bread , and ; dying in heaps for want of it . He was a ci devaut butcher in this - city , but as ii " knight of tuo cleaver" faUed . ih gaining more celebrity than attached to him by appear ^ ing in the Gazette . But lie bad a soul beyond marrowbones , and for several years since ¦ . has entered the arena of politics under the denomination of a liberal . He now rec * ive 8 thirty shillings a week , with some few snaps and hcrapingsfrera the worthies of Brown ' s Hotsl . He has been sent down here for more information
( they are not glutted yet ) , and , it will be cooked up to nauseate the Btomacn of Sir Robert Peel , frighten him into concessions , give us "free trade , " " extension of coinnieace , " " a totalrepeal of the Corn Laws . " Give their advocates more money and power , and " ttove off the Charter . " Thank you kindly , Mr . Acland—you are a Cbirtiat and taeaat well—4 id'nt you ? But we grieve to say Billy is only a liberal . But as he is occupied in the Palace yard , we have talieri the liberty of sending to the . Stor ihia little account of agricultural distress . His ,: perhaps ; might not meet the North , so we give it in few words , —• " At Crockie Hill , the residence of the brother of a worthy inagiatrate of this city , by the Same of Freeteud , a cow chanced to die . This was a chanceHotto be met vdth
every day , to obtain , among the labourers , u taste of biiteherV ) meat . . Thefelid-tidiug ttoib heard with jay amongst the hornestDads of the cottagers , whose caska , or tuts / were in want of pork , and whose chimneynooks were devoid of bacon flitches . They had a conference ( like the League ) and the result was an application to Mr . Freelandto allow tbim to have the dead cow and partake of its spoils . Tbey : "were : permitted to do what they pleased with it . Gratefully and thankfully they acknowledged such an ; unlooked-for boon , aad proceeded to ekia and dissect secundemartem , the horned animal , in a majanet that would nofc have disgraced Billy himself . Ono nian : congratulated himself on having obtained fourteen pounds weight of the
meat , and said it woald last hisfamUya fortnight , and glad enough they were of it Fortune also shed her beams in this fortunate neighbourhood , and a dead horse had yielded up his breath somewhere near . But tho owner wasi a man of scruples , a bard-hearted Christian , and not like the trne-iiearted cpm-regealiug Ms . Cobden . H « refused tne carrion to fill tbo bellies of ErigiiBhmeJi , and on the preteuca of its bebg cm the Sabbath-day , he Jut it away and seut it to sbtue hounds in the vicinity ! There , gentlemen of the ; Nerth , what think you of the condition of the agrijiuhurista of the Ssuth , within a few miles ,:. ¦¦ - . of . the Lords of Goodwood and Tetwotth . the Lsnnoxes arid Wyndhams ? In this city we are so completely priest-ridden , lacdlord-ridden / and middle class-riddeh , that the
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working classes dare not have a room to hold their meetings in , or fora any complete association for the Charter , but we are bold to say that better or more determined Chartiata , ( and in no very small nuttiber ) iare not to be found throughout the length of the kingdom . They want a little fire to keep up thebltzi , and they would rally around O'Connor in thousands . A lecturer is much wanted , and wouVd be hailed most heartily , teaving dead cows , dead hors 8 B the Plague , Billy , and other carrion , for the present , we must look about / for other information , and it shall ' be forwarded in due tiine ; and wishing every cuckoo bawler about a big loaf may be choaked by a dumpling , or fed upon doBghboys for the remainder of his life , washing dowri the same with ia draught of , acqna pura , we take present leave of the Northern Star , its woithy Proprietor , and indefatigable Editor . ; A . Wbox . wtcn Cadet . Chichester * July 18 th , 1842 .
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TO THE EDIT 0 U OF THE NOHTHERN STAR . Honoured Sir , if tha following address ia worth printing , its insertion will Oblige , . ¦¦ . " : Yours , respectfully , Caroline Maria Williams .
A FEW WORDS TO MY CIIAKTIST SISTERS EVERYWHERE . SlstERS ,-r-A few thoughts have just occurred to my mind which I am ansiious to communicate ; there are a few things I wou d auggest , and press upon your most sextottB consideration , which ; if acted upon , and fully carried put , would , I am fully convinced , in every wrty , aid on our glorious movement , and would more s pe e dil y put us in possession of our birthright , the Charter . ¦ _ ' ¦¦'' . ;¦ . ' ,. ; ¦'¦•¦ . .. - . ., " ¦ . . , . ;¦ Sisters , I will reveal to you a secret r but let it be such no longer ; spread it ; through , the length and breadth of the land , that echo may vibrate and revibrate the sound ; for time wilJ substantiate the fact , that it depends upon us -women whetber the ChaiUr is ' . " 'to be had o ? not . I repeat it , the Charter will never beconie the law of the land until we Women ate fully resolved that it shall be so . But in order to bring this about , we must be up and doing ; -we must not merely talk great things , but do them . '
Sisters , do hot let those who ignovantly deem themselves our betters have any just canse to accuse us of inconsistency ; de not let them point at us the finger of scorn and say , " Look at these poor wretches ; what a fuss they make ; they talk , talk , talk , and that is all they can do ; they say but do not . " No , my friends , but let ua' by God ' s help resolve that from this moment our apathy shall cease * that from this moment -we will arousa ourselves from our lethargy , and with untiring z ^ al begin not only to talk ,: but to work out pur political salvation . Be it understood I am taking it for grafted that you are all out and out Chartists , whom \ am now addressing , t would not give a straw for five thousand half and half , luke-warm-dead-all-bul-nanie-Cbartists .
Believe me , Chartism is all , or nothing . Take it for better or . worse , or havo nothing to do with it , I say , Well , then , to you , my unflinching SIsterSi I would . suy ' 1 st us prove that we ore what we cnll ourselves—un ^ flinching—let us not swerve from our duty . Permit me to suggest a . few ways and means , which I believe would assist us greatly in the attainment of pur rjashts . I will just draw yuu . out a line , which I doubt not your zealous philanthropic minds will fill up , and act upon quickly . It is this-r-let us each resolve that we will dp what ; we can ; and . 1 st all strive to find out what that ia . Perhaps eome of you are saying , "Oh . I am sure , any thing I can do for the furtherance of the cause I -will niost gladly . I have long thought ! should like to do something , but I did not kdow what . Ptrbeus
haps you will point out in wha ^ way I might eful ?" Certainly I will , with the greatest pleasure . Permit me , then , to ask you a few plain questions . Do not all of you know how to use your needle ... ? , . ' Cannot many of you make fancy articles ? Cannot same of you draw and paint ? If so , I have cnlytoi say that we ought not to ask what we can do until we have tried every means by , aonie or all of these acquirements , to get something for tho Charter . Can't my swter there who says she knows nothing of ornanitntal work-: can't she make an iron-holder ? Can't my sister that says she knows nothing of making fire-screens , 'watch-guards , watch-papeTs , chimney prhaments , and such like- ^ can't shemake . a few doll ' j bonnets , and sell them to aid the
cause ? Ob ,. * you may find a thousand Ways to help on the cause , if you really--wish to do 80 . Aud some of us can make pin-cushions , needle-cases , arid drawings . If we can , let us do it—do it cheeifully and promptly , aud do it now . Dipend upon ; it , the very poorest of us can do something in this way . Should we be so poor as not to be abla to cast even a mite into the treasury , we may , if we will bnt be in eamett about the matter , be the means of sending many a shilling there . Cannot we urge others , to buy ? I repeal it , only let us be resolved that we will each do our best , and we shall find tho work half done . Oh ! yes , iii spite of ; all the demons in hell , and in ; defiance of all the incarnate ones on earth , we must , we shall
conquer . j Sisters , it is of no use to mince tbe matter . It ia folly in the extreme forany of us to flitter ourselves that we nre free-born Eaglisbmen ' s daughtersi ; we are not . j I and ycu . are slaves , whito slaves , in our fathcr-lar . d . i Oh . ' it is very pretty reading " a'ayes cannot breathe iu j England , ' * and the Queen arid all the Court may sing it j but to tell us of its being a laid of freedom , ia to j insult our misery . A land of liberty , indeed . ! What stuff—rWhat nonsense ! Talk of freedom , whilst the , ' land is reeking with oppression i might ; make a devilblush ;¦; ¦ but ii -would take much . more to iuaka our ' tyrants do so . '; Poor . -slaves ! the fetters cf taxation werO ; put upon our tiny limbs the hour we were born ; they have been j increasing ever a ' wee . Are we not bound , hand and
foot , with these cursed taxation cnains ? Are not I Government tools - ^ perpetually forging new oues for us , j whilst they plainly perceive those we already wear are i unbearable ? Si / oppressive are they , that thousands , j unable to live under tho weight , aro continuRlly trying j to throw off the inferniil fottera , by Eei-king in foreign . ' . ; climes tlio liberty denied them in their' own . Are these j things so ? W bo daresay they are not ? j - ¦ ' Sisters ' , ' it is for us to say -whtther or no this state of , things is to remain . I tell you , and I ] aii >; h to scorn , j all who wickedly would frighten us into the belief that j ovir efforts are vain , that if we do but unitedly , z ; alously , j persevt-riDgly , one and all , resolve to break our chains , the thing ia done ., K ^ meniber this ,
and iu heaven ' s namo let ; us do our duty ; any tbiog aii . d ; , every thing that wo can do to hasten the day of free- j dom , let us ut . flinchingly do it ; by any and by all the j ways and means that we can get an honest penny to break off our fettfrs , let us ba inBtant iu season and j out of season , in looking after it Reinembc-r that . we are slaves ; and that tho Charter is the only way toj freedom . Let uh vow , by all that is good , never to ' rest till we havo it . I ^ et us bring our talents , our all , to the attaiument cf our rights . Sisters , let us provoke each other to love -ansl good works . Let us each act so tliat it may be said of all— ; " she hath done what she could . " Whilst weil-fed '
well-clothed hypocrites , are trying by . their cant of " heathen darkness abroad" to drog thelittlo morjey , or what will feteh money , from you , to send .. to thoso whom they afect to pity , whilst they will see you perish at , their doors without offering to relieye jou , do jh ; u look at h' * nie ;¦ lot us look to ourselves , and lesoiVe that , from herieefrHh , not one farthing ol our hardearned money shall bs Riven to foreign charities , whilst the i-fbito slaws at home , unheeded , are ttirv ' ms , ¦ whilst our best friends ' , in prison , are left to perish , and others of them to languish in exile ? No , no ; -we will nowr lookat home , : ittd help ourselves ; and let usses ; what we can collect from this saintly boani .-wlio would have us believe their hearts oVifiow with the milk of humanity . Let us have missionary boxes , and '
collecting books ,, and let us visit those pious souls , and ask them to perform tbeir duty at home . I am fuliy convinced ; that if we did but patiently , and in a straightforward : wanner , ssekto get money to iiid ourselves , ; half 83 z-niouslyaa others strive for one charity and another , we should get hundreds , if not thousands of pounds in a year , to help on onr cause ; only be lesolved that you ; will give not a . f-iTthing to anything else whilGti in a state of slavery , and only Jet us in right down earnest . -set about doing an'd- ' getting all ivc can fur ouraelyea , s > i ) d -We shall be truly surprised to see in a very Hhorb time what wo shall be able to accomplish . Let us . 'begin now , be ^ in weil , and never grow weary in welldoing . : Let us get all wecanto help on our glorious causs—from Gur parents , our brothers , our ¦ ¦ . '' . sisters ,
our husbands , ; our sweethearts ,, our kindred , our friends , yea , and from our enemies , for let them give what they will , it is only our due . Dbn't 1 st us feel ashamed of our cause , or c « re -what we may be called upon to suffex for it . Think of 'icjba . t good the money you get 'will , do thofamiles of Govornment victims . -.. ' . Think , of those who counted not their lives dear imto . them , so that they Hiignt emancipate us from our ; shackles . Think of a Hunt , a CobbetS , a pioyton , b Hblberry , and , alas , top liiariy others ^ Think of tbo ^ e who , now pine away in prisons , for merely striving ta break asunder cur fetters . Think of Frost , Williauis , and Jones , who languish in exile for nobly standing up for our lights . Think ' of the very niany . others ; who are suffering for us .
Oh * think of those brave , thbBB truly nobler thoso right dqwii honourablea , and then say if we ought ever to grow weary , iu well doing , Rfirnember ¦ the eyes of the men are fixed on ua , and if they can but see we are in real earnest about tho matter , there is not a man of them who wonld not rather die to attain -with us our freedom , than turn aside ingloriously . Btmeroticr , " they conqaer who balievo they ean . v Let U 3 : each " corae ; np to the he ) p of tbe Lord , to thahrip of the Lord against tbe mighty ; " and depend upon it ; womeD , our influence and exertions will soon pull oppression down . Unity is strength . Oar aid added to tne men ' s , will soon make our tj rants yield to us onr 'rights , or perish . Oh ! yes , if we will , we reust arid shall prevail .,: - ¦ ¦ , ; '¦ ¦ ¦• . . - ;;; . ' ' :. ¦ . .. ' . '¦' ; ' . ' .. : ; . ; -. " ; : '' . '¦ . ; ;; - ";'*
My sisters , let neither of us rest until tt can be said with truth of us , each and all * " Many dattgliters have done virtuously , but thou eicellest them all . ' Yours sincerely , ; ¦ - ... ¦ : ' . " : ¦' - ' : ¦; . In the great ca use , ; Cakoli-ne ; Maivu Williams , 4 G , Oollege Bow , Camborne , July 8 Ui , 1812 .
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XONitJON .--CftOBE Fields : —Mr . Wheeler lectured here on Sunday evening ; f our niemfeers were en . " "ip ' lled . ' Mr . Maunder cf Kingston , addressed ttemeeting aithe close of the lcctnr « . The chair was occupied . by Mr . Wilson . Mr . Cooper tepcrrted from , the Co-operative Store , Btatirig that they were willing to devote ils . cf their funds towards getting up a public raeoting on ^ Stepney Green , on Monday , August 1 st . 'Mr 0 Connor bad pledged himself to attend . Mr . Pickfrsgill reported from tfce delegate meeting . Other busiuesa wa 3 tlwn transacted , and . > rr ; . -E . ; Pick « rsJciU was ue > aniincusly elected to serve on the new delegata meeUiig .
Ki ^ GStoS ' -yPON THAMES .- ——On Tuesday evening , Mr . Maunder from London , read portions of the Northern Star ¦ ' . to- the company , arid eloquently "' ad- ' dressed them On behalf of the Staffordshire victims , arid excited much compassion for them amongst his amlit lice . He then urgently entreated them to join the National : Charter Association , as tht ? only remedy to remove the uiariy evils which afflict society . Mr . Favey moved , a » d Mr , Wyeth seconded , in an able m ; vnr ^ r , ' that a subscription ' of one " penny ' pur . month from each-niernber of th » locality should he raised to assist in riiaintainiKg their-wives and chiWren , aiid shield them from the horrors of want , " An . amendment was mjived that it be a peTany per week ; but after some conversation , the original mbtioia was unanimously carried , and the surn of 2 s . ' 3 d . w » 8 imniediat ^ y collected . tl : e int-eting then adjourned , with a vote of thanks to Mr . Maunder .
' . . London Delegate coexcit ——Tais bo < iy met to -wind up Us accounts , &e ., pruvioua ... to its'dissniutianj en Sunday afternoon , Sir . Satmon in t'io cl ; u' ! r the committee appointed to audit tha uccoiint ttvnnty . received , for the Convention , . reported it 3 covtca : cs 3 rr Mr , Wbfeeier laid before the Couucil the balance theet for the portion of pe quaittr ; auditors ^ ere appointed who Teported ita correctness . A dtputatioii -was . appointcd to wait on tbe Three Crowns , locality rtgarding fifty-one cards due by that body , the Finance Cotumittee -Wjis authorised to receive all monies cuo to the Council , and . discharge the debts connected with the same . The balance &aetta were ' ¦ ordered to be ii ; 3 crlfed in the NormemStdr . A certificate of abiityjind inttgrity
was given to . Ruffy llidley as a lecturer . Mr . Whteler maved and Mr . Cuff <; y seconded tho : following resolution :-- " That previous to the dissolving of this cbuniiil { inbrdeftp form a central united council for the metrepdlitan counties } we faanot avoid txprfesiins : pur cratitude % o the editor and proprietor of . ; tUs . Enyliili Chartist Circular for the assia-ance they have furnished them by instating their addresi-es . &c . in ti » at tak-nTLed ii . ttle periodical ; and they-earnestly i ^ convffiffrid to their brethren throughout the kicgiiom the propvitty of ensuring-by their patronage the triumphaat success of tbis cheap , / yet able arid ' . t . ifficitfet advocate of the democratic cause . "' Carried unanimously . A vote of tbanks was giyeB to the Chairman , and the Council dissolve
Hammersmith : —A numerousily attended public meeting -was held on .. ' ¦ -Monday , eveuin ); , at tha : Biack Bull Inn , Haniniersniith- ' road , at which tha following respiution was passed ; -- ^ " That this Hutitinj ? view -with alarm ,: the-jiwful distress nowprevailiuatbrtu ^ hcut the length and breadth of the lantl , and ara fully convinced thfatiit " * i \ I lifcvet be- pttrma-aeittly revnuviid ut ; ti \ sucb , time as ' tbe people shall be fuliy represiutetl in Parliament , and therefore renew their pledga never to ceasa agitation until the People ' s Chartor shall becoms the law of . theland . " Mr ^ JO ^ ES of Liyerpocl , dfelivered an elcquerit leo tur 6 upon the evils of tho pTeseiit iEj-s-ttm . on Sunday evening , at the TV « 3 rkjng . Man ' s Hail , Circua-steet , Marylebpne . \ : " ' ; * -, ' ¦ - . ¦ ¦ .,.
An Open-ajk . Meb . ti . vg was held on . Mondny evening at-the" terminus ' of t . lio Great Western }; ail' . T : iy ,. Paddi n g ton , to petition P .. riiaruent and mtinorialise the Queen in favour of the liberation of Brocks , Pedcie , and the other political prisoners . The iii « -: ting was very nujnerous , and a petition and meinsiial were unanimously ; adopted . , ¦ BEyWOOD . —Mr- James CarUedR-c , of Manchester , delivered a lecture upon the land , to a large and respectable . audience , in the Chatter Association ( 2 ijom . The lecture . gave great satisfaction .
ARBilOATH . —there was a large public meeting held on Monday night , in the Chaitist P : \ -yilioni v ^ hen Mr . Abram Duncan gave a lecturB upon th % •;¦ Factions . " : ' In axleaVand ' masteTly UiannerLe showed up their unholy -workings iu both Church . ind S : at -. . ' Tne Icciarer was listened to -with tbe greaUst cntliuMnsTn , for about an tow - ; ancl'a half . At tne ciosa of the lectu- « the followirig resolutions We're propesf ( 1 hy Mr . William Lundie , and seco » d « d by Mr . Ai ^ ximler Crighton : " That thfs meeting having ta 3 ; ennjto consideration the many iricitements ntWrfifised to the peoplei by thu Wliig press > for " the purpose of creating an outbreak aniong those people for the pu . -posa -e . f roalorirg this faction to
povrer , declare tiiet they will H'tnd by thoir \ pivsenfc orgau : z-iti « ri , founded upon the principles of p ; ace , law , and order . for tke ciitira'Charter . hanie ^ and . all "' . '" That we , the Cnurtists c f Aibroath , . wiil give r . o ; countenance to any of those deoeivcra who ta'k of goinp ; to the death for the . Charter , but who nt ; the sama time do not bdoiig to any Chartist Association . " " That " we , ' the Chartists . ' of Arbroath , place pur entire confldenca in the Northern . Star , as the only paper at present standing firmly- by the principks of the Charter , audthe [ . fop' ^ a orijanizVtion , and v . ill ; do everything in our power to increase its circulation in this placa au-1 elsewhere , aa we shall iiave opportunity . "
CAIit-XS&E . —A meeting of the : Council of the Carlisle Chartist A&sociation , Was held at G , J » V : n-slreet , CakleWjgale , onS < iturday eyeninj !! ¦ . list . j . Mr . J elm Armstrong in . the chair . CoHeetions were paid in to the treasurer , Mr . James . Arthur ; after which some other routine business was transacted .
RCfCilDAIiE . —O . i Syndaylast , accjrdsng to previous anpouncement , a large meutii ; * was held on Blackiitone E : lge . Mr . Magsou open ? ' ! the p ' rcKStedints by giving out a hyuin from the Chartist Ciicu ' ar , which was enthusiastically sung by the aHsemtlett ; thtus ^ nde . Mr . Sutcliffe , from-Haiifix , then delivered sin * xcei ' ent discourse , addressed chitfly to professors cf Christianity . Mr . John Leach was next introduced , -who sp > -l : e at considerable length , showing the existing ¦ ¦ a . Huits in Clinreh and S-. ate , the causes of tbeir { thp ¦ people's ) distrtss , by being . « cluded from political power , and the totaHiiefficacy of a : repeal of the Corn La-. rs to perlnanen'ly benefit-tho ' . people- ;' - . and . '' concluded by . . tiicrg 6 tical ' 7 appealinc ; to tho ineeting to stand by the .
Charter , which would give a fall rnea'Urd ot ; ^ ustica to the whoifi people Mr . Heliiwell , of Toiinioxdtn , spoke on the points of the Ciiarter . Mr . 'Wh ? H . ! vright ,.: ot Mytholmroyd , then addressed the rheetiiu in a speech of somo length , replete with sound reasouijig and con-Vincing argument , which was well recrivid . ' Mr , Ashley foilQwed in a siioit Bpeecb , urgini ? . the ; . p > -epic to increased union and perseverance . A Icttf . r "v ^ s then read from- Mr . Bairstow , stating the ro'sonif his jionattenfancs at the meeting . ' - ; M ; v PjTiUfj-sct , from Saddieworth , then "wound up the procce rings iu a brief tmt excellent pp ' - 'sch . TIier < i wtra a l . ir ^ e number of females ' -present , find not a drur ;? rt ! i or ( ii ? ortier ' y 2 > er 3 on ; to be set-n during the day . ; tlia n ^ rabeis vvure computed from 15 OUO to 20 . 000 . ,
BROCKWippil . — Mr . Lynney iccturod in a . large room ' bfclongius to tho Kock Lin . oa Wcanvmlay tveninij , to n crowded . audience . " The lecture g'ivd genaral satisfHcti ' oa . . . . ' . ¦ ABElipA ^ E . —A public uioistinR w . cs'hFli * . Iiei'e on Monday eveniug last , the Hth riav i ; f July , on Hirwain Coifl . mb . ri , opposite tne Mwint PL ; t " .-mi . cal-e .-l-hy . rtquis ' vticn -to the C'jitf O-mstabl y . for the purpose f adopting the remonstrance to thd House , of Co : ian « as , and the ^ memorial to the Queen . About six o ' ebek , Mr . Jenkia Kees was called u .-: a : iimuus : y to the cljair ,
who , after reaclincr the rfyuisitlou , tailed upon Mr . Wm . Mires , who then addressed the niectin ? at gre \ t length : The meeting was . further addressed by Messrs . Pu ^ b . Tiioiiias , Joiin , jun ., G . j 1 < 1 . and VVilliahi-v frbm Metbbyr Tydvil , who marie exceilerit speccbe ? . The remonstrance arid i-nemorial beln ' s !" . put by , Mh Morgan Willianis , were carried uiianiniOusly . After a vote of tha ; uks being given to the ctiainuan . aad cheers for Frost ,-Williams , and Jont 3 , aii- ' . for E <; sf > : u 3 QConner , and ; -tiie ^ ^ Charter , the meeting peacoubly iscpiirite'l about nine o clock . ' - '¦ ¦' ¦ .. ¦" . ¦¦'¦ ' . '¦' -. ¦"¦¦
BRISTOIiA " At -a sermon preached ; hy Mr . . B iir 3 . to-y ini 3 iear-Wne ' -ChhvV ^ ' ' stol ' - ' pn- S ' unHay , - 'Jiiiy . 3 rd ' , on the death of . Ssriiut-1 Hplberry , '' -tfc'O i > u : il xfi iJfreen Sf )!> lings , cltar of expences , was collected in behalf of tho WidOW . ' ; . ¦ '¦ ,. - ' ¦ .- . .. . .. ' . - ¦ '¦ . " ' . ¦ : ' . '' . ¦' ¦ ' ' ' BFATiFOHp . — FrXEKAL -Sziiiiox — On Sunday last , aa inipressive eeniion > vas preached by Mr . BK RushtQaof Halifax , on th . 3 death of S-unuelHolberry , who died a martyr to liberty in York Cattle . He spoka for upwards of an hour "with thriUing effect on the Charter of . cur liberties ^ and advised ' .. thtnt . 'ito units for the accomplishinent of- ; their object , and never rest ; satisfiod , but be . determined at aU h-JZK . ts to tnik-3 it the law of the land . Tho hymn , composed by Mr . Cooper of Laicesleiv and inserted in lh * - £ kurlisl : GirbU ' lur , .-irid the one surig at the grave sidfr of oui ; ' depsrte . A brother , were used on the ocsasior . A coilecVioh of upwards of £ 2 was niiide at the clofo of ; tfto- 5 frvice ' . 'f « r thebsreaved widow . The congregation was yery large
and attentive . ^ ; ; Cou > xii . > lKicTiKG — On TMonday eytninj . ' t' msbody met ^ s usual in tho ^ Counci l .. T ' Oom , " . Bultcrworth " s-biJiluinWs . Tbe mec-tlp ^ -was a riuraeTO-aa one ; ; Kr . Hnriey was called , to the chair . After ; receiving tbe ^ cdjvtributions cf several localities , arrangenieuts were made for Mr . dConnor" 3 lecture on Thursday evemng , alter which was brought before the mesuug by Mr , \\ hitehead , the noUcQ he bad gives the previous week , ' -rhaS a delegate shon ! d be seat fci Manchester to represent tha Chartists of this locality « n the lfith of August , " which was confirmed , and Mr . H . Hodg . on , was fie .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 23, 1842, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct608/page/7/
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