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TO THE ELECTORS AND NON-ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF BRADFORD. waisea
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THE IN OETHERN STAH SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1841.
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GENTLEMEN , —A Deputation naving npon CAPTAIN WOOD , of Sawdal , to ascertain whether he would allow himself to be put in Nomination for the Representation of this Borough , in case of an Election , he has declared his willingness to stand on the following Principles :-A full and real Representation of every Male Twenty-one Years of Age , of sound Mind and nnoonvicid of Crime ; Annual Parliaments ; Vote by Ballot ; No Property Qualification for Members of Parliament ; and equal Electoral Districts ; Repeal of the New Poor Law ; Abolition of all Monopolies ; » od a Redress of all practical Grievances . EtECTOES OF ZHZ Bo&OUGH OF BRADFORD ! Reform is now in its Eleventh Year , and yon and the Masses have been in vain looking for its beneficial Resnlts : yonr Prospects are becoming increasingly beclouded , and the Condition of the Working Classes more wretched than ever ; the Non-enfranchised feel degraded by their Political Disabilities , and that there is no hope for a substantial Social Improvement for them , but through ^ Rsdical Reform iff the House of Commons . Such a Reform , it is evident , cannot much longer be delayed ; it is for the Electors of England to render such a Reform peaceably practicable , by returning such Men as CAPTAIN WOOD : the alternative it fearful to contemplate . Act , then , like Wise Men and Patriots , by giving thiB Gentleman yonr Support , and you will hare the consciousness of having done yoHT Part towards the Salvation of your beloved Country . Noh-Electobs ! - Give proof of the Truth of the above Remarks as to your ViewB and Expectations , by standing nobly by your Man : you have no Vote , but you have a certain Influence which joa can exercise . Do your duty like Men who respect tneir own manhood . By Order of the Committee , THOMAS ROBINSON , Chairman . Committee Room , North Tavern , North Street , May 25 . 1841 .
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TO PIANOFOBTE PZu&TESS AN 3 > SINGERS ! MADAME YESTRIS'S NEW SONG ! JIJLLIEN'S FAMED NIGHTINGALE WALTZES !! A > T > TAGLIONI'S NEW GALOP !!! AU for Is ., in the " Pia > -ista" for May , No . i . Published Month' y , Price One Shilling , THE PIANISTA gives all the Popular Song 3 , Ballads , &c , with Words , Symphonies , and Accompaniments ; and all the Walize 3 , Quadrilles , Galops for Piano , &c , which obtain , by their excellence , great popularity in London . These are given every month , at a price scarcely one sixth of . the charge made by Music Sellers ; as , for instance 'No . 1 , for January , 1841 , contains tbe _ EIizer d'Amore Quadrilles , " The Banks of ATlan Water , " popular song , with words , and an Original Ballad , words by Miss Costello , and music by Lady AndoTer I The whole of these are given in _ N , 1 , Ur-ts . Ho . 2 , \ for Febxnaiy ^ -eOTrcstar-fna Kbyal Christening Solo , \ ( arigmal >— " The Old Oak , " wi ; h words , - sym-i phonies , and accomDaniments—and two of Strauss ' s Waltzes . All these for Is . No . 3 , for March , I contains the whole of the celebrated " Tarentella , " by Jullien , ( now the rage in London , and selling at 3 s . 6 d . )—an Origiiial Song , by Thomas Moore , Esq ., with words , symphonies , and accompaniments —and two of Strauss ' s most popular W-altzes . The whole of No . 3 , for Is . The Morning Herald , of Thursday , March 4 th , says : — " The Pianista No . 3 , outstrips our previous commendations . Every page is-studded with g « ms . " No . 4 , for April , contains Juliieu ' s Celebrated Quail Waltzes ; Cnarles Horn's last beautiful Ballad , with words , symphonies , & . c ; a ^ ew German Air ; and Musard ' s favourite Galop . " The Pianista 13 a charming work , and as cheap as it is charming . "—The Times . For contents of No . 5 , for May , se « above . Published in London by Sherwood and Co ., 23 , Paternoster Row ; and to be had by order of any Book or Music Seller in the Kingdom . Any Number , as a specimen , sent to anv part of the Kingdom , free , for Is . 4 d . Addres ? , " Editor of Pianista , 23 , Paternoster Rcw , London . "
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EVERY NUMBER NOW IN PRINT . BEAUTIFUL NEW MUSIC . To Flute , Flageolet , Violin , Clarionet , Kent Bugle , and Cornopean Piayeis . That Celebrated Monthly Periodical , THE PLUTCO' ICCCN , gives every beautiful Tune that becomes popular . In its page 3 will be found , for the small price of Eightpence Monthlv , not- only every Tune that is popular , but every Tune that is likely to become so ; all new copyright melodies of merit being inserted here . Nc-s . to 90 are already published ; any of which may be had at eightpsnee per Number , or sent , post paid , to auy pan of the Kingdom , by enclosing I 3 . As a specimen of tbe contents of some of the Numbers , the following is submitted , namely : — No . 1 . Rise , Gentle Moon , Meet me by Moonlight , and seven others . 11 . Faretrell to the Mountain , and ten others . 13 . The Sea ! the Sea ! and tea others . 17 . The I > eep , Deep Sea , and seven others . 20 . The Brave Old Oak , and eight other tunes . 26 . Pretty Star of the Night , and ten . others . 53 . Happy Land , Land of the West , four Quadrilles froa Rorj O'More , and t ^ ro others . 54 . The hour before day , I leave you te guess , and nine others . 55 . My Bea-otifnl Maid , Cherry Ripe , and seventeen others . 66 . In the days -when -we went Gipsying , Brae Bonnets , Crusader ' s Waltz , and ten other delightful airs . ' 60 . Bless'd be the Home , Eory O'More , and "ina ethers . 69 . The celebrated Echo Quadrilles , Philomel Walta , it 74 . Mt Moore ' s popular song , The Language of Flowers , Linley * B Lost Rosabel , and ten others . - 75 . Mr . Moore ' s Musical Box , QraeoTiak , and tenothers 78 . Where the Bee Sacks , Foir Airs by Prince Albert , and twelve others . 77 . Eight Airs , by Prince Albert and ^ Ernest , Tis the Shepherd's Evening Bell , and five others . 78 . Oft in the stilly night , Rory Tories ( Jack Sheppard ) , Jack Redbum ' s Solos ( from Master Humphrey ' s Clock ) , She Wore a Wreath of Roses , Mr . Lodert new song , Down in the Deep , and four others . 79 . The Dasois Quadrilles , Taglioni ' B new dance in the Gipsy , three famous Chinese airs , Mr . Balfe ' s new popular melody , The dawn is breaking o ' er us , two more Solos by Jack Redbun , and five others . SO . Foi July , contains Jsck Bedbum ' s Gallop and Race , in honour of the Derby , the -whole five melodie ' s of tke Falstaff Quadrilles , popular airs from Weber ' s Enryanthe , Sphor ' aFaust , and Beitnovens Fidelia 8 L For August , contains Oh ! God preserve the Queen ; the celebrated Tarantella itho -whole six movements ) : seven Am from Gluck"s Iphigenia ; and three ethers . 82 . For September , contains My Dag and my &nn , We all love a pretty Girl , He that loves a rosy cheek , the whole » et ( five ) of the Nightingale Waltjej aad six Airs from Gluek ' s Iphigenia .
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83 . For October , contains—Twas Kature ' s G 3 y Day , the popular Song ; tbe whole five of the Tete de Bronze Quadrilles ; the celebrated Doncaster St . Leger Race , described in Music ; and six others . 84- For November , contains Two Melodies from Aubefs new Opera , Zanetta , Linnet ' s Six Spring Waltzes , the oelebnted Marseilles Hymn , Claude da Val , sad Three others . 85 . For December , contains Six Melodies from-Zenetta , I kn » w a Bank ; and nine others . To purchasers of No . 85 is given gratis The Royal Lullaby , the words and music printed on rose coloured paper . 80 . Happy New Year ; the whole aet of L'Elirir D'Amore Quadrilles , by Musard ; Lovely night ; The Days that have Faded ; Fairy , lead them np and do-wn , and others . 87 . The lee Song ; Love in Idleaess ; The Beeper ; We are Spirit !; the two papular ongs of Miss Hawes , I'll Speak of Thee , and Tboa art Lovelier , * nd four often . 88 . Ten « f the Witches' Songs in Macbeth ; Over TTili over Dale , in Midsummer Night's Dream ; Russian Air by Thalberg ; L » 4 ye mine , Ladye mine ; Merrily goes the Mill ; and others , 89 . Three Ain from Mr . Balfel new Opera of " Keolanthe ; " the -whole ol JulUen ' B Five Quail Waltzes ; and Six aore beautiful Airs from Macbeth . 90 . For May , contains one of the greatest atttnetions ever offered in music , vis .: —A description of the Easter Htmt , in a set of Qaadrilles ! No . 1 , Meeting ; 2 , Start , yelping of dogs , and gsJlop of horses ; S , The River , the Check ; 4 , Stag at bay ; 5 , Death of Stag . To this extraordinary novelty ( which is copyright ) there -will be added ten other beautiful melodies , amongst -which will be the new comic song called " Jim along Jos « y , " with the music , and -whole eight verses of trerds ; and this nsmber will contain a catalogue of contents of the whole ninety numbers of " Flotonicon . " Orders should be given early for this number ( No . 90 } . No . 9 t is for May , 1841 , and is the last Nnmfier published . Everjr -wimd instrument , as well as the Violin , can play tkese tunes . Any number can be sent , p * st free , by enclosing Is . to the Editor , pre-paid , 23 , Paternoster-row . fS * The Examiner says , 'No musician , whatever instrument he may profess , ought to be without thiB tasteful , correct , admirable , and cheap work . Such another collection of beautiful melodies does not exist in Europe . And the Herald , in a long article upon it , says , ' The Fiutonicon is as much a standard work amongst musicians as the Penny Magazine , or Chambers' Journal , amongst readers . ' Published in London by Sherwoods , 23 , Paternoster-row ; in Liverpool , by Stewart ; in Birmingham , by Guest ; in York , by Shillito ; in Manchester , by Hey wood ; and may be had of all the Agents of this Paper ; in short , by ord ^ r , of every Book and Musio-Eeller in the kingdom .
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I . EICESTSP . —The deepest indignation ib feu here at the conduct of the Tils WTrigs , as displayed in the murderous catling vole business . The universal feeling is , thai if any Chartist shouH be base mad treacherous enough to support a Bassellite . ai Ihe approaching election , banking and gibbettiog Trill be too good for \ nm .
To The Electors And Non-Electors Of The Borough Of Bradford. Waisea
TO THE ELECTORS AND NON-ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF BRADFORD . waisea
The In Oethern Stah Saturday, May 29, 1841.
THE IN OETHERN STAH SATURDAY , MAY 29 , 1841 .
" IRELAND " AND " GREAT COMMEECIAli REFORMS . " As the co-operation of Ireland is most emphatically required and flatteringly courted by the "Liberator" on behalf of her Majesty ' s advisers , in what is called their attack upon " monopoly , " we are bound to consider what the result of Ministerial success must inevitably produce , not for the majority of the nine millions , but for the very class who are , unfortunately , armed with the "life preserver , " and which they are now requested to use for self-destruction—we mean the electors .
Ireland returns sixty-four County Members , two University Members , and thirty-nine City and Borough Members ; and , without the shadow of a shade of difference , the interest of the whole of the constituencies , be they county , university , city , or borongh , is identical , as one great whole , in the approaching contest . Nay , more , to such an extent would the proposed alteration in the Corn Laws alone affect the whole agricultural , commercial , trading , and labouring interests of Ireland , that the greatest good anticipated by English speculators , even if realised , would be more than over-balanced by the blighting effects which tho victory must inevitably produce in that conntry , and which must extend to this side the Channel .
With Ireland , the Ministerial question is one of life and death . It \ % not br . sed on mere theoretic or speculative dogmas of political economists . It is not to be followed by any adjustment which may be rendered requisite and necessary , according to the subsequent working of the experiment . It is not to be accompanied by any protective power , or retributive accompaniments , to be placed in the hands of those who are asked to embark their all in the Government hulk , without masts , pilot , or even rudder , for the poor satisfaction of giviDg faction a triumph over party .
PfiTBOTerance in the path of error has reduced the old and respectable party of English Whigs to a mere faction , whilst their awkward management of their own measure , " Reform , " has actually revived the embers of their factious rivals , and blown them into a powerful party . The same breath which was to have extinguished Toryism , has but resuscitated the monster . Is the part , then , which the Irish are now invited to take in the war of self-destruction , for the mere purpose of party extermination , worthy of a great nation \
But , after all , upon what will depend the success of the working of the measures in Ireland , should the Whigs succeed \ Why , upon the law of wills , — not of testaments , —but of landlord ' s wills ; upon the will of the broken and driving landlords of Ireland . Upon the law of " sic volo , " u sic juleo . " " Thus I will , thus I order . " Upon the will of men in whom is now incorporated by the lauded Tithe
Bill , all the power of landlord and parson , for the purpose of rent-screwing . Upon the will of magistrates , who can select whether they will distrain as landlords , or as parsons , for the pound of rent , or the five shilling of tithe , and for whose purpose the Whigs have supplied a large distraining staff of | *• civil power" with muskets , bayonets , and cutlasses , I and commanded , in most instances , by half-pay officers .
This , then , is to be the adjusting machinery placed in the hands of the " measuring cast" majority of Irish landlords . But , being a great , a very great question—in fact , an entirely national question , a wholesale and real " Irish manufacture" question , we are bound to enter fully into a consideration of what its effects must produce in Ireland . In order , therefore , to relieve the subject of all those technicalities , mysteries , and absurdities , with which political economists free traders and trafficking poMtitians would enshroud it
we start upon a simple basis—upon their own foundation Btone . Upon one point only do the several sections of" anti-monopolists , " as the " monopolists " whimsically call themselves , agree . They all agree that the alteration in the Corn Laws trill make bread cheap ; that the alteration in the sugar duties will make sugar cheap ; and that the altering of the timber duties will make timber cheap . We here , then , admi : the fact , as to corn ; and join issue as to the result . We ask , then , does not the whole project fail of it 3 anticipated benefit ,
if bread is not reduced in price ? and , we ask , if bread is reduced in price , must not wheat , of which bread is made , be also reduced in price 1 and if wheat is reduced in price , must not laud which prodaces wheat , as its most valuable crop , be reduced in value ! and if land be reduced in value , must not rents be correspondingly reduced , as a fair accompaniment to the scheme ! "O , yes ; yes , of course , and so they would ; everything finds its proper lerel , " answer the monopolists . True ; we admit it ; bat why cot look for your level first—why select the
most uneven and hilly line , when you can pass over a plain without injustice to any , or damage to the State I And what , we would ask , is to happen while the Government eBgineer 3 are levelling * We will tell our friend , Geoege Hexry Ward , who is so fond of precedent , just what happened in 1821 , when every house was fortified , when the working classesof Ireland were Whiteboys toaman ; when the whole strength of England ' s army , and Ireland's Orange yeomanry , could not resist the determination of a people roused to madness , by the very same causes which the success of the ew Government
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plan would once more create in Ireland , and for the adjustment of which , 1821 furnishes & precedent And , let it be borne in mind , that bad aa it . was , yet did Whiteboy Union and perseverance , compel the Tory GouLBtran ( being the Chancellor of the Exchequer ) to surrender to popular will , and oblige him to pass his Tithe Commutation Bill in two years after , by which all the Protestant grass-land of Ireland , theretofore exempt from tithe , was brought to beat its share of the Protestant Church impost .
Let us now see what led to the White Boy revolution in 18 * 21 . In 1815 we had peace proclaimed , and a partial return from high war prices for agricultural produce ; speculation npon capital made in war time , and anticipation of more blood-letting still kept the farmer afloat , and he paid the same rent without any abatement . The harvest of 1816 , however , gave high rents a " heavy blow , " and two other bad harvests , between 1816 and 1821 , caused a demand npon the Landlords for a reduction of rent , and npon the parsons for a reduction of tithe , commensurate with , the fall consequent upon agricultural produce and a return to
" cheap bread . " How was this demand answered ? By calling ont the yeomanry ; by proclaiming martial law ; by appointing special commissions ; by shooting without colour of crime , and hanging without colour of law ! " 0 ! true , true , " say the politicians ; " but it was the Tories ! 1 ! " No , no ; it was not ; it was the landlords , the parsons , and the magistrates , Whigs as well as Tories . It was that force which in every country , when its interests are attacked , either compels the existing Government to assume the lead in despotism to preserve its order , or deposes the Government upon refusal , and establishes one of its own in its stead .
How did the landlords and parsons meet the omergency 1 There were two classes of landlords , without distinction of creed or politics : one class was very , very scanty indeed ; the Class who made tardy reductions ; but even in the mode of making those reductions they completely paralyzed all industry among their tenantry . It was this . They held them to the old condition in their leases , and gave them receipts for the full amount , upon receiving the reduced rent , and held the old arrears over them as a drawn sword , ready upon a war , or any other
godsend , to have the full pound of flesh . " Thus were the farmers out of all heart , while the Irish labourers were compelled to have recourse to opera benefits patronised by the Royal Family , needlework performed by Maids of Honour , proceeds of fancy balls , and subscriptions from the English humane and charitable , for support ; and the plague partially terminated , by an influx of Irish agricultural labourers into the English manufacturing market ; an influx greater in four years than the whole swarm of poor creatures who had been banished for the previous century .
The other class of landlords were those who held on by the terms of the lease as long as tho last goose had a feather in her tail ; middle men , in most instances , but well backed by fee-simple proprietors . This system , coupled with Sir . Goulbukn ' s Tithe Bill , of 1824 , gave rise to the plan of knocking small heart-broken farms into pasture ground , which led to another irruption of displaced labourers .
In 1326 , the Irish currency was . assimilated ; that is , land held by small farmers was again raised by 8- $ per cent . ; the old Irish pound was compounded , being demanded in the new coin , £ 1 Is . 8 d . This the small cottier tenants , bore , as they would bear anything for a hiding hole and a " spot to work on . " But it also dislodged many . Then came the Catholio Relief Bill in 1829 , and this measure relieved the political traffickers of 330 , 000 of their live stock , whose little holdings of an acre or two wore knocked into large farms of fifty or a hundred acres ; and then had wo an immense exportation of the life ' B blood of the country—of the real wealth of the nation .
These 380 , 000 heads of families constitute the whole mass of Irish pauperism , at present so humiliating to those who witness it without a struggle for its removal ; and also have greatly augmented the reserve in the English market . During these tiying periods for the farmers , the parsons , as a body , tried shooting upon a large scale , rather than reduce one fsrthing of their accumulated demand , or abate it in future to peace
prices ; and although they justifietf ^ ejMpfiasat-by " tho ikust imposed upon them forlheir&ucdessors " —tho never failing plea of Churchmen , as expediency is of tyrants , —yet did they , in many , very many instances , refuse to take fifteen shillings in the pound of the arrears from the Catholio occupiers , while they leased them out to Protestant proctors for ten shillings in the pound , upon a strict promise not to abate one farthing of the legal demand .
xsow such are the parties to whom the Irish farmers and the Irish labourers are to loek with confidence , for the adjustment of any inequality which the " GREAT COMMERCIAL MEASURES " may create—to a party who have systematically plundered , in violation of all laws human and divine , and who , in compliance with a Government measure , will not , we imagine , surrender in proper season , the right of " doing what they please with their own . " To such a tribunal are the plundered to appeal as a last resource .
If this calamity does not come , then does the project fail ; for bread will not be cheaper ; and if this calamity does come , then will it be met according to precedent , by shooting , hanging , and transporting , in the first instance , and then by the exportation of another million of Irish agriculturists as a further reserve for the masters ; and tlien another million of a loan from England for Irish parsons .
And then , perhaps , may be applied the lever which if used in time , would have spared the weeping the wailing and the guashing of teeth . That lever is the Charter ! which by depriving the landlords of the power of annexing destructive conditions , would oblige them to give leases for ever at a corn , rent , and to bring their land into a valuable retail market to meet the wants of God ' s own flock .
This , and this only , can make a people independent of all foreign growers . This , and this only , can insure peace , plenty , and " cheap bread : " but this they will not do till forced to it , because upon the monopoly of the land depends the existence of a lucrative church establishment , a lucrative army and navy establishment , a lucrative place and pension establishment ; one and all of which are so many hot beds—nurseries and provisionsforthescions of the landed aristocracy .
" Well but , " says an " anti-monopolist , " " would you not crush that faction . " We answer , No ; Jiot if by crushing that we crush those who would bftSfr nocent sufferers , and create in its stead a ffifcre heartless set of " quasi" landlords , what the Irish call" Sky farmers "—domestic jobbers—who would purchase the produce of the land from Germans Russians , Turks , Prussians or Americans , as cheap as they could , and sell it as dear as they could to those whose own land they had rendered sterile in order to hold complete dominion over their working slaves .
We would crush them by making them rich , whether they would or no ; by taking from them the power of making themselves paupers , by impoverishing their oouotry and their fellow-men . That we call Christian justice , and we much prefer it to the justice of political economists . The great anomaly of the corn branch of the new " commercial exotic" is this , that the Irish people are asked to join in reducing the price of the only thing they produce—for the purpose of cheapening the thing of which they never consume a particle ! " O but that is a part of our complaint , " say the humanity mongers ; " we mean to make them consume more bread . " To this general fallacy we shall reply under the head " Timber Duties . " Cheap bread , then , must make cheap
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land ; but cheap land will not follow cheap bread , so long as one of the old tenants upon any estate has one fraction left , whereby he can be " keptto his ' bargain ; '' while the desolation , expectation , and misery caused while the thing was finding Us level , would be indescribable . So much for the "fixed duty on corn ? and now for
« SUGAR DUTIES . " Upon this subject , as regards Ireland , we require but a word . Wewould feel obliged by the " cool Mr . Basing" furnishing us with a ** sliding scale , " by which a lot of jolly Irisit boys in a frolic may estimate the reduction to be made upon each tumbler of punoh , according to the "GREAT COMMERCIAL REFORM . " We want that ; because it 1 b the only manner in which Irish labourers or Irish
farmers use sugar , from the 1 st of January to the 31 st of December . " O , but they must have sugar , " say the monopolists . " They shall have the Whig ' Balm of Gilead , ' the great sweetener of life ! the joy of the poor man ' s heart ' . and the refiner of his morals !" Fudge , blarney , bother , humbug I Give them enough of" praties" first , and they'll find the sugar and timber afterwards .
"TIMBER DUTIES . " An Irish farmer , holding fifty acres of land , and even more , does not use twenty pounds' worth of imported timber in the whole of his life and what he does use is Canadun , upon which the additional duty is to be laid on for his relief . An Irish labourer dees not use one plank of foreign timber in the whole of his life . He is rooked in the arms of some native oak ; he trips through manhood with a native shillelagh , leans in his old age upon a native staff , and is borne to the grave upon a native <( bier . " Every stick in his " mud hovel" comes from " hia honour ' s wood ;" and thus begins and ends his use of timber !
" 0 , but , " say the " anti-monopolists , " " we mean t » pat an end to this . The farmers surely would use foreign timber if it was placed within their reach . " Yes , they do use foreign timber , but not much , and as before stated , it is Canadian . The shafts of their carts are made of " treble deals , *' the bodies of their carts are made of " treble deals , " and that is all they use , and that the great reform is
to make dearer for them ! "O but Memel or Norway red deal is much better , and our GREAT COMMERCIAL REFORM' will bring the latter article within their reach . The Baltic trade , you know , the Baltic ! " No ; it will not . As well may the economists tell us that a tax upon frieze would force the peasant to wear broad cloth , or that a tax upon " jaunting cars" would oblige the Irish tradesman to drive in his carriage .
The smallest tax , injudiciously laid on , may amount to a total prohibition of the use of the taxed artiole . The new school of calculators would impose upon npon us the belief that the true way to make Irish farmers purchase a better article is by raising its price , while at the same time they reduce their means , by diminishing the value of their exchange . For what , then , are the Irish people te join in the " new move . " Hear it , ye good men , struggling for freedom , and sorrow ! Hear it , ye bad men , contending against justice , and blush ! " O ! OUR RELIGION WILL BE ATTACKED BY THE
TORIES ! " Sacred liberty ! what an insult I O , Mighty knowledge , what a folly ! Merciful Crea ~ tor ! i what a sin ! This , then , is the real casus belli ; this is the mountain ; this is the crutch of limping , truckling , blighting , blasting , hypocrisy ! But , O knowledge ! thou idol of the good man ' s worship ! thanks be to God ! thou art fast unbinding the tight bandage which has so long obscured man ' s visionI Thy magie influence conies like a mighty torrent in the midst of the calm , and will sweep away all the ignorance , superstition , and bigotry of darker ages . Yes , knowledge will expand the mind , mature the judgment , and unite the mighty masses in one overwhelming band of freemen .
Under such a combination of right and might , with the knowledge which the English and Scotch now possess to direct us , wo will gain liberty without a blow . But should tyranny , strong in long possession , made courageous by unopposed sway , and confident by passive obedience and non-resistance , still resist ; we will then , with one mighty blow , strike the . Hydra-headed monster to the earth to rise no more !
The tactics of Ireland as recommended by the "Liberator , " are the most dishonest , base , and flagrantly mercantile and treacherous , of his many political speculations . Must not every man with half an eye at onco see that the return of Whigs by the Irish people , is the cutting of so many sticks to beat themselves soundly , when they shall first have gently whipped the Tories from the Treasury benohes for six or seven years longer \ Then will Mr . O'Connell have entirely succeeded ; his object being to throw another stumbling block in his own way , the removal of which will be a fair excuse for raising the supplies for years from a poor deluded starving people . Never was there so rascally a juggle , and well may the Irish patriots
exclaim" Alas ! poor country , Almo 3 t afraid to know itself . We beg , in conclusion , to give the following heartrending scrap , exultingly paraded in Monday ' s Chronicle , as the first Irish instalment of the very : anticipation of the " Great commercial Reforms " —
" EXTENSIVE EMIGRATION . Up to the 15 th of the present month , thirty vessels have sailed from the port of Cork alone , with 4 , 662 emigrants , for Canada , the United States , and Isew South Wales . " There " anti-monopolists , " won't that rate of transportation satisfy your hellish lust for removing the pressure upon subsistence ! or what more do you require , you infernal fiends !
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DANIEL O'CONNELL AND " THE MISCREANT CHARTISTS . " By our report of the Crown and Anchor Meeting , reported in our last , and convened by Mr . O'Connell and his friends under a sixpenny protection , and ostensibly for the purpose of blarneying about Repeal but r eally with a view of feeling his way once more into popular society for the purpose of foisting the
" bloodieB for another term upon us , it will be seen that the miscreants" can find their way even to a ticket show in sufficient numbers to upset humbug . Never were insolence and folly more conspicuous than in the combination of both , which the learned gentleman exhibited upon the occasion . The blind followers hoped to give tone to the country by the trick ; but Martin and others opened his eyes .
It appears , however , that a Mr * Duggan , rent collector in Manchest er , has insured Dan a favourable reception
IN MANCHESTER ; and we learn that the walls of the town have been covered with bills , announcing Dan ' s intention to meet the factory operatives of Manchester in the Carpenter ' s Hall , on Tuesday next . The indignant excitement which this threat has created in Manchester , Oldham , Ashton , Stockport , and the surrounding districts , is intense ; and the Chartists are resolved to rive Dan a benefit !
Now , be it remembered that the Leeds working people are the most Master-ridden in the North of England ; and yet did they , in the depth of winter , with snow upon the ground , turn out well to meet the reviler of . the " miscreant Chartists . " Manchester , therefore , owes Leeds a return of the compliment ; and Manchester , we have no doubt , will do its duty . The Pilot , Dan ' s tool , and the other tools of the Irish liberal press , have paraded Dan ' s thrashing at the Crown and Anchor as a complete triumph over Chartism . Now , we a 6 k if this is fair to our Irish
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brethren , who are just now struggling to throw the monster from their back f Is it justice to them , we ask , while they nobly straggle against corruption , and corruption in the very citadel , that we should allow them to suppose , for one moment , that we are aboni to receive the traitor whom they have expelled from their ranks 1 We rejoice to find that oar London friends and others have so warmly taken up the cause of the aged Mrs . Mellon , and have recommended a relief
fond for all persecuted Irish Chartists . This is as it ought to be ; and Mr . O'Connor , notwithstanding his many annoyances , has commissioned us to publish his willingness to act as Treasurer for bis oppressed csnntrymen . He says that he will look upon every farthing given as a gift bestowed upon himself . We ask , then , is this the time to admit the arch traitor amongst us , just as he is imposing npon the people the additional task of supporting his victims in his native land 1
The Irish Chartist Association u likely to become the mostpowerfnlbody ever organised in that country ; and we expect ere long to have the inexpressible pleasure of announcing their first grand procession , and open air meeting . Can We allow such indomitable perseverance to be checked by courtship , here , of the common enemy 1 No , we cannot . The country , and our Irwh brethren would very properly hold the Executive responsible for any damage done to their cause by tolerating the enemy of the miscreant Chartists" even to attend one of their meetings .
Have we not had enough of his oppression , and his support of the " Bloodies , " or are we , like fools , now to pardon the greatest of all our enemies!—the man whose sole aim is to fill his pockets at the expence of a starving people , and whose only object is to purchase a renewal of confidence for renewed traffic . Men of Manchester ! you were among the first and the boldest to demand a proper reception for the miscreant" in Yorkshire ; and now , upon behalf of
Yorkshire , we have a right to demand from you a return of the service which was so nobly performed , and so cheerfully undertaken , in defiance of all opposing obstacles . Up , then ! and meet the enemy . Let him see that you are what you profess to be ; and if a slave class , not willingly so . Ireland expects every man to do his duty ! We expect , in our next , to be able to publish a list of subscriptions for the relief of the persecuted Irish Chartists , and the proper reception of their persecutor .
SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS . It is really amusing to Bee the lucubrations of the " Artful Dodger" and the Tap-tub , served up by the immortal Sun , for our evening repast , in one hash , under the title "Spirit of the Press , " and seasoned with the Palmerbton piquant sauce , extracted from the columns of the little " Globe . " A bit of French and a bit of Latin , and a bit of a
joke , to constitute the balance of power of a great nation , and to guide our destinies , is quite characteristic of the "OldBeau . " It does to serve his purpose , and , in truth , as we were some time ago favoured with specimens of the poetic productions of members of the Cabinet , we see no reason why every Right Honourable Gentleman should not have his own particular paper for chronicling his own peculiar views .
In fact , it would be but justice to others , inasmuch as the Noble Lord , whose trade is diplomacy , has certainly out-jockeyed his colleagues in his press-gang manoeuvres . By his fascinations he has won the columns of all , while he is most heartily ridiculed by each . Yet we-must bear in mind that Editors are but men , and that they may be flattered like other men ; hence we find , that' since poor Easthope stretched his legs under the Premier ' s mahogany ,
he has lost all decency as a journalist in his duty towards his host . From that fatal day to the present , if Melbourne committed murder , rape , or arson , Easthokpb would justify the act by the necessity , and would not even ( as Fouche had the honesty to do ) call his master's greatest butchery by the gentle title of "a political blunder . " No , Easthorpe would not allow crime in such case to be even a blunder . Well may the conquering journalist exclaim , "but one such dinner more , and I am undone !"
In the meantime , the Great Geographer continues to dot his surface with the names of newly discovered depots of popular strength heretofore unknown beyond the parish boundary , save to the literati , but now swelled into frog-like importonce , and paraded under the head
" GREAT DEMONSTRATION ON BEHALF OF THE GREAT COMMERCIAL REFORM . ' Ala . " !! the attempt creates no more excitement than Vie mere curiosity produced by a first glance at a new " atlas . " The people are not there ! The people will not be there ; because the people don ' t want a HOUSE OF MASTERS to complete their ruin . So the poor Chron . may dot , and dot , and dot away ; but the close of the poll will dot him out of Leicester , and his masters out of the Treasury .
O , what a god-send the Whitsuntide holidays would have been in 1832 1 and how dry the old timbers of Bristol and Nottingham would have been for a Whig cracks ; but now , alas ! the tears of tho hungry have moistened them , and even in the dogdays they would not ignite , though struck by a sudden flash of Whiggery ! The devil himself , be he black or be he white , could ' nt save the poor " bloodies ; " and as a last hope they are calling spirits from the " vasty deep ; " but alas ! the spirits are too deeply sunk in Whig poverty , Whig bastiles , and Whig dungeons , to hear the summons . " When poverty comes in at the door , love flies out at the window "—when Whigs came in at the window , principle went out at the door .
O , the poor , poor " bloodies !! " what will become of the " bloodies ? " What shall we do with the " bloodies ? " How will it be with the " bloodies V " Noboby coming to help " the " bloodies . " Nobody coming to woo" " the bloodies . " So down down ! down ! with the bloodies !" We are irresistibly compelled to append hereunto the most recent discoveries of depots of popular feeling by the "Artful Dcdger . Hear , ye uninstructed in English localities , the places relied upon to carry Reform in 1841 ; and ask yourselves if the Reformers of 1832 knew of the existence of one half of them .
" GREAT DEMONSTRATIONS at Carnarvon , Corshatn , Chippenham , Peterborough , Brampton Moor , Brampton , Tynemouth , Southampton [ again ?] , Gosport , Rigg of Gretna [ who the devil is the Riggi ] , Honiton , Chatham , Canterbury , Epping , Dartford [ great open-air meeting , thirtynine present !] , Anna , " and so on ; but they were licked wherever they dared to meet the sinews : Stroudand Birmingham , to wit . Its all up , Chron . so you may map away , old boy , till you are black in the face ! You may just as well whistle jigs to a mile-stone , as offer your "commercial Reforms" to the people of England now .
THE ELECTION CRISIS . At this most important and momentous period , we feel that the following nervous and well-timed address , is worthy of attention from all parties of the producing people ; and we therefore call to it their especial notice . "TO THE OPPRESSED MILLIONS THROUGHOUT THE LAND . " Huddersfield , 26 th May , 1841 . "My Fbiends , —Monopoly or no monopoly has taken the place of the old Whig cry of 'The Bill , the whole Bill , and nothing but the Bill , ' and with the same Whig intention , namely , to dupe , to delude , and to cheat the unsuspecting and unwary .
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"A bill , dated the 25 th fast ., and vxuL * Huddersfield , headed-VMonopoly or no SEEL * that Is the question ' -in favouVo ? WhiijSr £ ly » very truly , * That the inhabitants should \ % ! be any longer befooled by party cries fa » L' ** partyV rmmfm ^^^ X t ^^ i faction ; we should have had no mock Keform ^ we shoW havehadno anti-Poor LwS * ^ i paid or implfti because we ehonlfK ^ j none ; that « BWr would nerer have had the now * inflict a lawao bloody , so cruel , and so tortmi ? That hypocritical banditti could not hST * flioted npon us so many Commissions , so n , ¦ Rural Police ; they could not have createdV ? immense burdens for the industrious commnnit-T bear ; , they could not have added so heavy ankm « * ° to the National Debt ; they could not £ v ?^ S £ 100 , 000 to the old Queen , nor would SeW
recipes , and pubUsh them ^ as Baine * . fiorX has done , to the free and independent labour ^ n this enlightened conntry , by which , from acoiw- of garbage , eight pints of soup should be m-oHniS jfor 4 * d . ; or that from rubbish , not fit ^ forSf mess should be made , which should make « . 5 ^** for five able 4 > odied labourers , Tor « he c £ i 2 > ff Those ingenious starvation mongers—those >* r ^ inventors of «* i // jtt ? ofe * , and advocates of fwlirr -those Judases , who , forthe last nine yeaiS k 6 been engaged in contriving the best mede of BriT * the people labour harder , and produce more anrf ^ * onless ^ andcoarserfare—whohaTebroughtth ' em tn «[ starvation point , and from thenoe to thefil ? ineir
ana mrougn mese » graves , by thoosanT —those vile monsters who have been go conri ^ and so successful , in the work of lowering ^ w ' enslaving starving , and extirpating the indtSl community ; may , with their common , audariJ , and barefaced effrontery , nowthat the tradesmen S brer the country , are becoming bankrupts bvwfcfr sale , and the teak is at a stand still , wkeTrntt starvation is all but universal—when theiroira r « Sr less cruelty and extravagance have cast than un ™ their beam ends—when they cannot progress their work of havoc one step further , tLVm now challenge the devil to equal their 1 * 5 effrontery , when they come to us and « « That a bold attempt has at length been a ^ bjr her Majesty ' s Ministers to revise our partiilT ^ S
oppresMve , &c , Laws . " , Why , I ask , did they 7 ot begin there ; and keep improving , instead of ret * n ! grading during the whole nine years of their bl £ government t Why at the last moment do they «** forth with the olive branch . I tell you plainly jib to allure you—to bring you again intotheir mwieJ . to . induce you to seat them again in uwer And if you do ; if you permit yourselves to be deluded you must bid farewell to liberty ; you must expect * continuance of their heartless inhuman system ¦ von must look for a renewal of their systematicarronanfteyou must look for starvation , rags , Oa ^ m and premature death—you must expect i well clad and high fed army of Wm bludgeoners , backed out by a red army with troika and bayonets , and a land covered with bastiles commi 8 sionersand Government
, spies , with the foreign system of passports and centralisation , by which every germ of mercy , justice , ( to the poor ) and benevolence will be annihilated , and we are shveafor ever ! Then up , Britons , up , ' Now is the day and now is the hour , ' and if it is the last day and the last hoar the last opportunity which will ever be afforded von ' let it not pass—let it not slip , for the sake of mercy- ! for your own , and for the sake of yonr families—for the sake of posterity , be up , be at your post and let Whiggery be utterly destroyed—yea extirpated—at al risks , and at all hazards , from this land , and from the face of the earth . Fear nothing but the restoration of the baneful influence of Whig faction ; drive that pestilence from the land . " I am most truly " And most faithfully yonre , " L . PlTKETHXY . "
The tone of this appeal breathes more of honesty than of refinement ; but we are persuaded with Mr . Pitkethly , that the most effective step to be tw taken for liberty , is the crippling of the Whigsno matter how . The people's prospects look well , so far as the election is concerned . Several Chartist Candidates are already in the field . Election . Committtees are formed and forming everywhere , to watch the movements of the time—to bring out and support Chartist Candidates wherever it is practicable—and Tories wherever it is not . Any thing to beat down the " bloodies t "
Colonel Thompson at Hull , Sharman Crawford at Rochdale , and Captain Wood at Bradford , are all in a fair way for invigorating the rotten carcase of St . Stephens with some really patriotic life . Let bat the peoplfl bestir them , and the votes of the Chartist electors , and the power ( rightly directed ) of the Chartist non-electors , shall now prove itself to be all sufficient for the utter annihilation of one of tto two great factions by making the other worry itand then hurrah 2 for the simple tug of right against might ; of a united people against the . single foe 1 !
We informed our readers some time ago , that Mr Baines did not intend to bid again for Leeds . We think the following extract from the Convention report will shew them that Sir William Molesworth need not : — " Mr . Cullen called upon Mr . Leader , but did not see him . He then waited upon Sir Win . Molesworth , and requested his support of the petition in favour of the imprisoned Chartists , and to present memorials for the restoration of Frost , Williams , and Jone 3 . He first said that he would deliberate whether he would present the Leeds petition or not . He then said that he could not support the petition , or present the memorials . "
Will that satisfy the Chartists ! Will they permit the " Goose Club" to return Molesworth again ; even if they should dare attempt it ! We calculate not . Two Tories will go in for Leeds , to a dead certainty , if the people do their duty . Thfl " bloodies" talk something , as we hear , about Josr Hume ! We just think we see Brows Bread Joseph , walking arm in arm with Herring-Soup Neddy , and escorted by a procession of Hand-loom weavers carrying a small brown loaf and a rotten red herring , on a pole , and playing " the Rogues March" upon " Rough Music ! " How very fanny !
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THE PRESENTATION OF THE NATIONAL PETITION AND THE MOTION OF MB . DUNCOMBE . The National Petition was presented on Tuesday . to the " House . " The number of signatures w « announced by Mr . Duncombe to be more than one million three hundred thousand ! At an early hour in the morning , the Convention Hall had been crowded with persons anxious to fesst their eyes with a last view of the stupendous evidence of devotion to tho cause of liberty afforded by tie people in this petition , which measured upwards of 1 , 460 yards in length , and which , though got up in a very short period , and with little or no expense or excitement , had in reality been signed by MORE
THAN TWO MILLIONS OF PERSONS' ! By one o'clock , the front of the Old Bailey w » blocked up with human beings , breathing deep and anxious prayers for its success . At a quarter pas three , the petition being placed upon a handsome frame , covered with green baize , and having * splendid flag waving over it , was mounted upon to « shoulders of the bearers . It was borne tethe " House" on the shoulders f eighteen " Fustian Jackets , " who performed their duty well—preceded by a procession of the memoew of the Convention , and other leading Charts 3 ' amidst the deafening shouts of congregated thousands , which , by the time it reached Charing Cross
had , rendered the streets unpassable . The procession passed the Horse Guards , and np Parliament-street to the entrance of " the House , where the interference of the police , who seeme anxious to quarrel with the people , would in ^ probability have caused a row , but for the promP * and decisive interference of Dr . M'Docali , « some other of the leading Chartists . .-. w »
Police were of the A division , ol JJ » mingham Bull Ring notoriety ; and the . -deeds former days seemed to cling round their spirits , give them strong desires for a little more blad ^ exercise . However , the knaves were di ^ PP " ^ The good temper of the people P ^ f / " having any pretext on which to use the bladgeo which they insultingly displayed to the numoer
3 Q 0 or more . r . {\ , After a short delay the procession ***™ . lobby of the House at four , amidst h ^ tn-ri J cheers . Arush was made by the Members ftoau * House to see " the Prodigy . " Mr . *™» f * JL sent for . He obeyed the summons , and , w charee of the Petition , directed it to be forwaru
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 29, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct708/page/4/
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