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SHEFFIELD . ( From our men Correspondent . J ¦ Ms . Baiustow's Lecture . —Mr . Bairstow delivered his second lecture in the Town Hall , on Wednesday evening , Dae . 29 th . Mr . Lndlam was again called to the chair , and Mr . B ., who 'was received ¦ with load cheering , commenced hia discourse , his subject being , — "The origin , rise , progress , principles , objects , and prospects of Chartism . " It has been said , observed the lecturer , that Chartism was dead ; this had been declared from the lips of a Whig Attorney-General—had been echoed by a corrapt press—had been sounded through the length and breadth of the land—would he dare to gainsay it then ? No ; bnt if Chartism ¦ was dead , or if it had eTer died , he was there
to stand npon its tomb , and bid it , in the people's name , come forth . ( Cheers . ) Chartism , like all great changes , and all great principles , had sprang from the r&Lks of the -working classes—that , people from whom had emanated every beneficial change , every improvement in Boriety ; Chartism owed not its origin to the present generation ; no , in other days , in other times , a Gerald and a iluir , a Cartwrighc and a Hunt , bad , in defiance of persecution , advocated the principles of Chartism—principles which had descended to us a precious heir-loom , which we will transmit acknowledged and established in the land , a heritage to our children . ( Cheers . ) It unfortunately was the ease that so long as the people could exist in cornpar ; trre comfort , bo long were they content to be
politically slaves . Yon never can make the millions complain until suffering under terrible injustice , and all relief or alleviation ef their misery denied them , they fcegia to ask , why is it that we produca and ^ nrasv not enjoy ? It is when the millions find . themselves tri-nting in misery , robbed by the tax-eater and profitmonger , the iron heel of adamantine oppression * crushing them in the dust ; then do they speak in a vbicer of thunder and demand the rights we call Chartismrights that must , that will be conceded whenejer the . millions shall demand their own enfranchisement ,, for the Toic * of the "people is the voice of God . ^ Cheers . ) Oar principles are none the less holy , none the less valuable , though in their assertion , martyrs perish andpatriots fall , oceans of blood may be shed , and revolntion may come . What is revolution ? It iB a change resisted too Ion ; , conceded too late . The oppressors of the poor are deaf to their cries ; the tyrant 3 of the
people scorn their demands : they employ fraud and force to stifle the voice of freedom , and stem the . progress of liberty , antil the people , wearied of . misery and slavery , rise in tha strength of their fearful " might , and with tiger-like fury dash to destruction all who oppose them . ( Enthusiastic cheers . ) Much as the press may calumniate our principles , the truth will triumph , and those principles will yet be the all-acknowledged , and triumphant over every opposition . Many wonder how it is that the working classes can be s * blind to their own interests , as to allow themselves to be led by ^ Pj rigTijpg men—how they can be so itabborn and so stupid as to be led frsm the " big loaf , " with all the attendant ilessings of " cheap bread , " high wages / and " plenty to do , " to follow after- an ephemeral object—a visionary phantom , that must ever elude their grasp . ( Laughter . ) Strange it is , no doubt , especially ¦ when we remember the means , the influence that his
been used to induce people to join the middle class , for the obtainment of " practical measures . " -Manufac turers , shipowners , factory lords , shopkeepers , dissenting ministers , understrappers , pimps , and lickspittles , have all combined—have employed by turns corruption and intimidation to tfLct their ends , bnt all in vain The working , classes , meeting their employer * in the arena of public discussion , have negatived , to their teeth , their humbug resolutions , and quack nostrums the working classes have declared , over and over again , ttmfr they will not agitate for a repeal of the Corn Xaws . ( loud cheers . ) Well , and after all , the Morning Chromde has been forced to avow—compelled to acknowledge that the course pursued by the Chartists was a wise one ; yes , after all the abuse and misreprewas a wise one ; yes , aicer on me aouse ana
misrepresentation—after all the calumny and slander heaped j upon the Chartists by the Whig press , the great organ of Whiggery had been compelled to ac- j knowledge that the Chartists had acted wisely j sad well . Many of the public journals ' were abandoning Whiggery ; it was just he should mention i and give his meed of praise to the Nonconformist , a j paper that had defended the principles of the Charter ] serialim ; that had by its brilliant and convincing argu- { ments , removed a theusand prejudices , and already con- ] Terted to our cause thousands of the middle class , i ^{ Cheers ) If there is not the enthusiastic 22 a ! of the 1 past pervading our ranks , there is instead thereof a : a steady determination hat affords , nay , assures a-better 1
issue cf the struggle- Far be it from him to depreciate ; the exeitlons and labours of the patriots of thirty-nine ;; they were men who encountered terrible obstacles ; they were men who braved no ordinary dangers , and if j they failed in achieving the deliverance of their coun- . j try , tha failure was owing not so much to faults ef their j own , as to the lack of union and resolution amongst j the people . We are told that our Drinriplpn are impxactiattU—my answer is , look to America ; when we see thousands of Europe's oppressed children flying from the homes of their fathers , to seek in the land of j liberty a shelter and a refuge , did not that prove to s i demonstration , not only that our principle ? are . true , i but also thst where those principles were carried out , i
men were anxious to live . After earnestly exhorting the meeting to do their utmost to obtain signatures to' i the National Petition , Mr . B . concluded a lengthy and i surpassingly eloquent addrt ss by warmly eulogising the i character of that excellent patriot , Thomas Cooper , the j leader of the Lsicestsr Chartists , and sat down amidst i repeated and enthusiastic cheers . Mr . Julian Barney , 1 said he rose for the purpose of moving a resolution he j held in his hand . They would remember that some fsw j ¦ weeks back , a meeting of suti- Corn Law delegates "was held at Manchester , at this meeting Mr . Joseph Sturge , ef Birmingham , attended . A conversation upon the subject of class-legislation took place , and the opinion generally expressed , was , that this " was the principal cause of the Corn Livrs - and
all tha other evils borne by the industrious classes ' —a " fact , by the bye , the Chartists for four years , past " bad been dinning in tb . 9 ears of these numskull Re- ; pealera . Weli , " better late than never , " and a new light having Ehone upon the delegates ; they appointed Uessrs . Sturge and Sharman Crawford to draw up a document which should be a bond of union for the ; middle and working classes . Well , aftar three or ; four weels " serious consideration , " this doenment appears , and a precious production it was . It declared-—what ? Why , what every man knew before hand , j that the majority of the people are unrepresented ! i Why there 13 not a Tory in the land but would ac- j knowledge this , but having acknowledged it , would "he- ; go farther , would he kelp the people to obtain iheir
rights ? Xo ; he would say it was not expedient the people should be represented . Aye , and if they &o cot say , so think the Corn Law Repealers—in the mass they are no friends to the principle of aniveraa . 1 representation . Glad he ( Mr . H } was thst Mr . Sharnuii Crawford had nothing" to do -with this hnmbng ; and although > lr . Sturee ' s name was appended" to it , fce had too high an opinion of the honesty of that gen- ' t ' fwi , whom he ( ilr . H . ) respected for" his many libc-rs in the cause of humanity , to believe that this only and wholly was his work . He had a notion , as t as Yankee ' s say , thai the original document had passed ' through tie si * re of certain parties ere it had been permitted to see the light with Sir . Srurge ' s name iffii i ( Hear , hear . ) They knew what parties he meant , the
Cobdena , Potters , Greigs , and Marshalls , fe : lows who would prefer the rule of the devil himself to the triumph of democracy . iCheers . ) Ee iMr . H . ) deemed : 't hi 3 duty t ) warn the peopie against this clap-trap . ; what need was there of giving t « ree or four weeks ' ¦ ' serious consideration" to the drawing up of this of any other document ? Was there not a document already in existence , a document , as the signatures to the 2 satio 22 l Petition would show , thst had received the approval of a majority of the nation—their glojious Cornier ? iCheers . ) If the Corn law . Repealers had becoice converts to the principle of 'Universal Scffrace , let them , being the minority , submit lx > the ¦ will and adopt that document lhat had _ received the sanction of the majority . ( Loud cheers . / -He "would
not be at all surprised but that this document would be followed up by soaie scheme of organisation , " by way of drawing the people from the National Charter Association ; the Repealers would no dsubt want to " gtt rid of Feargus" and the Executive Council , but te trusted thty would faiL ( Cheers . ) Xst the people Tcraeiabtr the fable of the wolves and the sheep ; the troHes entered into a treaty of peace with the sheep , the latter believing the hypocritical professions of -the former foolishly consented to give up their dogs , and receive in return the cubs of the wolves as hostages of the faith of both parties ; it was not long ere the dogs being set upon -were basely murdered , and the aheep ceprivfed of their faithful protectors , attacked from without and betrayed within , fell an easy prey to their
enemies , feuch would be the f 3 te of the people if they abandoned those whom they had tried and proved to be fake . If the middle class are honest let them adopt our Caarttr , and join our association ; he was not . opposed to the nnion of the two classes on the contrary he desired it , but it mutt be a nnion the basis of which was justice , the object of which was the equal richts of all—yield not a hair " s breadth of the Charter—whole find entire let it b « our watchword and demand . Mr . Harney concluded by proposing the adoption of the following resolation : — " We , the Chartists of Sheffield ; having waited with a degree of trustful expectation for the public appearance of a document announced by Mr . Joseph Storge , of Birmingham , which document we had been led to expect would contain the development
of a fair and equitable scheme whereby the . middle and working classes of this country might unite for . obtaininx : universal rights , hereby declare , now Mr . Stnrge ' s document has been published , that we regard it with f seliaf 3 of unqualified disapprobation , as being no more than a mere negation of the justice of political role * s at present exercised in t ^ is . kingdom , and in no way whatever , as a distinct and uneqoivecal acknowledgment of tha right of . every matnre Englishman to the suffrage ; and -we furthermore declare that whatever prapesitions for a fjiitical alliance may , " in future , be made to 113 , as working-men , by tfee inicu :-e exists , we will most unreservedly and nnhsrltatirgly rej . ct them , unless tksj . CQattiS an entire and Learty tcsnowledgment of
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the principles developed in the People ' s Charter . " Mr . Hollyoake considered the document of Mr . Starge an insult to the working classes—here had the people repeatedly declared that the Charter alone would they accept , and now when the Com Law * Repealers found they could not deceive the people , they come to those they have strove to delude , and offer them something less than they have repeatedly declared they insist npon having—he would say , let the people insist npon having their Charter in full , and if the middle-clast would not be content to give them their Charter , let the people
insist upon having something more . ( Cheers . ) If they demanded more than the Charter they might get ft—if they consented to take less they would get nothing , but would be deceived and juggled as they had been before . Mr . Hollyoake concluded an excellent address , in the course of which he was loudly cheered , by seconding the resolution ; one forest of hands declared the resolution unanimously adopted . The thanks of the meeting having been voted to Mr . Bairstow and the chairman , and the last part of the Chartist anthem sung in fall chorus , three cheers was given for the Charter and no surrender , and the meeting dissolved .
The Welsh Mabtybs —In reply to a memorial of the Sheffield ChartUta in behalf of Frost , Williams / and Jones , the following has been received by Mr . Harney from the Hom j Office : — " Whitehall , 23 rd Dec , 1841 . «« sib , —Secretary Sir James Graham having carefully considered your application in behalf of John Frost , William Jones , and Zeph * niah Williams , I am directed to express to you his reg et that there is no sufficient ground to justify him , coasistently with his public duty , in advising her Majesty to comply with the prayer thereof . " The Sheffield Chartists memorialised the Queen—not Sir James Graham : it was the duty of Sir James to have presented the memorial to the Sovereign , and returned her answer—not his own . Tola straw thrown
np shows which way the wind blows . The Queen is the Qneen of the faction in power for the time beingnot the Queen of the people . No mercy , no justice seed the people expect at the hands of the men at present having sway . Well , let them buckle on their armour ; let them prepare for the great moral struggle fast approaching : a struggle in which triumphant , as we shall be , if all will pull together , will realise our Charter law , and restore to their country our banished friends . Rotherham . —A public meeting was held at Rotherham , on Thursday evening , December 30 th , to take into consideration the propriety of adopting the National
Petition . Mr . Ibbetson was called to the chair . Mr Kamsden moved the adoption of . the Petition .. Mr Lindley seconded the motion . Mr . Bairstow supported the Petition , and delivered a most eloquent and truly masterly address , in which he triumphantly refuted every objection brought against the principles of Chartism . The Petition was unanimously adopted . Mr . Harney moved the adoption of the resolution denunciatory of Sturge * s doenment , previously adopted at Leicester , Loughborough , and Sheffield . Mr Steele seconded the resolution , which was unanimously carried . The Chartist anthem was tben sung ; and thanks having been voted to Mr . Bairstow , the meeting dissolved .
MANCHESTER . —Last week a placard appeared on the walls of this town , calling & public meeting for new year ' s day , to petition fora repeal ef the corn laws , and compensation for injuries infficted npon society by such laws . The Chartists seeing this , immediately issued a counter placard , warning the working classes against being led astray , and calling upon them to come forward and prove to their enemies that they were not to be made tools of by any party ; and to agitate for nothing less than a full measure of justice . The placard put out by the league , though it was said to be a public meeting , stated that the chair would be taken at twelve o ' clock , by Mr . Alderman Brooks . —On the Friday evening a number of individuals belonging to the league , who are willing to do any dirty job which may be laid out for
them ; a horde of tool * who are banging about , at one time denouncing the Chartists as Tory tools , and at another professing Chartism to the back bone , in order to glean what they can from them , waited npon Mr . James Leach , to know whether the placard was officially issued—and being answered in the affirmative , they went recruiting for an army for tbe next day , in order to carry their resolutiens by physical force ; their bounty being a good swig of whisky , and a few shilling On the morning of meeting tbe police were collected and marched down the streets , which caused consider able excitement . About eleven o ' clock the ball wae surrounded by a vast crowd , amongst whom were the leaders of the Stepbenson's-square and Carpenters' Hall butcheries . Policemen were at the door to prevent all
but the privileged class from entering , whilst parties were going in at the side doors until the front seats were occupied . Alderman Brooks took the reporters of the Manchester paptrs in by the side doors , whilst the reporter of the Star , wa 3 shoved back by the police and refused admittance until twelve o ' clock ; When the doors were opened there was a general rush into the HalL The reporters for the press for Manchester and district were comfortably seated , whilst the reporter for tne star naa not even sufficient room to lay bIb book down te write , but was compelled to hold it in his band amid the crowd , being all the time crashed and shoved about by the presssure . The reporter told Mr . Watkins , who acted in the capacity of general , that he should protest against the proceedings , and was told in
reply , he might protest and go to the devil if he liked . Around the platform were placed all the leaders of the bludgeon men . The audience seemed impatient for tbe commencement of business , upon which a Mr . Duggan rose and proposed Mr . Brooks to take the chair , a person seconded it and before any person could even have time to speak , much less propose any one else , he proceeded to put the motion to the meeting . Mr . Linney said that he could not tell whether it was carried against him or not , and demanded another show , to which Mr . Watkins , in the opacity of general and prompter objected . Mr . Brook and others were ashamed of his conduct and insisted upon Linney having an opportunity of seeing whether there was a majority or not The audience seeing the fair manner in which Brooks defended the right
of Linney to take the sense of the meeting were highly pleased ; and , as another Chairman was proposed , Linney rtquested the meeting to hold up again , and decided that the majority was in favour of Mr . Brooks . All that the Chartists wanted was free , equal , and fair discussion ; and it mattered not to them who was Chairman , bo that he dealt honestly , and procured every man a hearing . Mr . Brooks , in opening the meeting , said that he had been at a meeting on the night previous till twelve o'clock ; and , when he returned home , he sat down to prepare himself for that day . He had come to the conclusion that the Corn Laws were base , bloody , brutal , and unrighteous . Mr . Rawson moved the the first resolution in a regular anti-Corn Law speech ; and was seconded by Mr . Watkins in a mere echo of a tale a
thousand and one times told . Mr . Falby , of Macclesfleld , was called upon to support the resolution . In the course of a long , rambling , harangue , he uttered some scandalous , and insulting - imputations arainst his townsman , Mr . West , endeavouring to prove him a supporter of the Corn Laws . The cotton masters , he said , were tyrants , and would reduce wages , so long as they had the power . In a short time after , he praised the cottpn ma&ters , far not dropping wages when they had the power . Tbe speaker continued for upwards of an hour , putting forth contradictory positions , and was highly applanded by the respectable class . His address was a complete tissue of spleen , abuse , and nonsense There certainly was one sentence something like consistency , which was , that the working classes had
nothing against machinery , but against the monopoly , and unfair regulation of it Messrs . Leach , Linney , and Candy wished to submit aa amendment ; but , instead of the Chairman soliciting a hearing , he played the same game as Cobden did at the Stephensonsquare butchery , and put it to the meeting as to whether they should be heard or not ; of course , ie immediately decided against them ; he said the amendment was altogether irrevtlent , and asked whether they would allow them to speak , to which the " bludgeon men" replied in ihe negative ; and by the by , every speaker declared himself to be a Chartist , but denounced , in the mott bitter terms , Feargus O'Connor , and other leaders . " Prepare to meet
your God" Finnigan spoke next , and during his speech fighting was going on in all parts of the room in the presence of the Chairman , without the least attempt to prevent it The petitien and resolutions were carried by intimidation and force , and ought t ? be labelled "the petition of the bludgeon men . " Mr . Fleming said , if the proceedings of the meeting were correctly reported , it would not have much weight upon the pnblic mind ; they were disgraceful . The League , in order to ensnre a triumph , and to carry their point , selected Irishmen for speakers -who endeavoured to work upon the prejudices of their countrymen who understood nothing about the question at issue , and thus make it dangerous for any bnt their own party to be in the room . The proceedings ended in great confusion .
ASHTON-UNDER-1 . YNE . —A Chartist tea party and soiree took place on New Year ' s Eve , in the National Charter Association Room , Old Factory , Wellington-road , Charlestewn , in honaur of the opening of their new room . The room was mest tastefully decorated with evergreens , portraits , < fcc Notwithstanding there were a large number of tea parties in the town on the same day , at six o ' clock 300 sat down to tea , which , with its accompaniments , were of the best quality , and were served up with an unsparing hand . Ample
justice having been done to the cheer , the tables were removed , when a large number were admitted at twopence each , to partake in th « evening ' s amusements , consisting of songs , recitations , and dances . Mr . Geo Johnson was chairman for the evening ; after he had addressed the meeting , he called upon Mr . William Aitken and Mr . Wilcoz , who each addressed the company . T = ; e eld year was dismissed and the new year ushered in by singing the Chartist National Anthem . . A vote of thanks were given the Committee for the excellent manner the tea party was got up .
GXiOSWICK , seab . Oldham . —The Instruction Society of this place took tea together on New Year ' s Dsy . Kinety-fiye sat down , and afterwards spent a comfortable evening . WARRINGTON . —A public meeting was held here on the 2 ' Jih uit , when an address of congratulation to her Maj-sty , and prajing for the release vt Frost , Williams , and Jones , and all political prisoners , was adopted .
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CITS' OP LOWDON . —Mr . B . Cameron , of Finsbury , delivered a very eloqoent and instructive lecture on the growth and progress of Chartism , in the Institute , 55 , Old Bailey , last Sunday erenlng , to acrowded congregation of respectable working men and women ; the lecture lasted an hour and twenty minutes . Mr . Cater gave out the following announcements . Next Sunday morning this Hail will be opened at half-past ten o ' clock , for reading and discussion ; and in tbe evening of the same day , Mr . StaUwood will lecture , - Free admission to the public on each occasion . Also on the Tuesday following , Jan . 11 th , Mr . J . Watkins will lecture on the present distressed state of the country . 7-Every Monday night , a concert and ball will take place in this room . Tickets of admission , thr eepence each , to be had of the committee of management—Forty shareholders' cards are undisposed of by the committee of the Institute , which can be taken up by the fi lends to the cause at sixpence per week ; shares 5 s . each .
Masons . —Drtjry Lahe Locality . —This association met ,, as usual , at the Craven ' s Head , on Saturday last , Mr . James Lambert in the chair , when the minutes of last meeting having been confirmed , it was determined to the send five shillings to the Executive . DUBLIN . —The Irish Universal Suffrage Association held their usual weekly m « ettng at No . 14 , North Anne-street , on Sunday , the 2 nd of January , 1842 . At one o ' clock , Mr . Henry Clark was e * lled to the chair . Mr . Dempsey , in the absence of Mr . Brophy , was appointed Secretary pro Urn . The Chairman said , as there were several strangers present , he felt it his duty to explain as briefly aa possible , the objects of the Association , and the principles upon which it was founded . Prior to the formation of this Association , there did not
exist in Ireland any regularly and legally organised society founded for the purpose of petitioning the legislature , in favour of the rights of the working classes . There never was a petition laid on the table of the Imperial Parliament , praying that the Irish working classes of twenty-one years and upwards , be admitted within tbe pale of the constitution . ( Hear , hear . ) It has often been truly said in this spacious room , that the Irish labourers would never be treated as human beings , until every man of twenty-one years of age and upwards , would have a vote , and that is what we are looking for . Our object la to seek , by every lawful and constitutional means for Universal Suffrage , Vote by Ballot , Anneal Parliaments , Equal Representation , No Property Qualification , Payment of
Members , and the Repeal of tbe Union . ( Hear , hear . ) These are bur objects ; they are plain , clear , open , and defined . There can be no mistake about them . We have no secrets . We are most anxious to see all eur acts and deeds published ; and all our bosks , papers , list of members , finances , and so forth , are open for the inspection of the authorities at all reasonable hours We neither send delegates to any society , nor receive delegates from any . We are , in the strictest Bense , a petitionins ; society . We seek for the accomplishment of our objects by no other means than that of petition and we are well advised that our society is lawful in every respect ( Hear , hear , and loud cheering . ) Mr . Clark resumed the chair , amidst great cheering Mr . Rafter called the attention of the Association to a
speech of Mr . O'Connell's , delivered at tha Corn Exchange on Tuesday last , and published in the Morning and Weekly Register , in which he insinuated , in as vile and truculent a manner as ever be ( Mr . Rafter ) bad r ead , that their respected President ( Mr . O'Higgins ) would one day or other appear in the witness-box to swear away their lives . ( Shame , shame . ) He begged pardon—what Mr . OConnell did say was , "he would like to see him in the witness-box swearing against the wretched persons he had deluded ; he would be glad to see him prosecute the objects of his delusion , but he would not like to see the objects of that delusion explode . " This sentence answers a double purpose ; it directs the attention of the Attorney-General to our Association , while at the same time it holds up Mr .
O'Higgins to his countrymen as an infamous character —a man to be avoided by all honest men—to be hunted out tf society—to be utterly destroyed . And let me ask you , said Mr . Rafter , what would be the fate of Mr . O'Biggins under such a denunciation , coming from a man of such power and influence as tbe chief magistrate of Dublin , if Mr . O'Higgins were not so generally known and ao much respected by every man that knows him ? ( Hear , hear . ) There is no doubt but this vile slander—this atrocious libel will sink deeply into the minds ef those who are unacquainted with Mr . O'Higgins ' s character : it will injure his reputation , and was intended to do so . On the part of the Association , there is nothing to fear : we have no " oaths registered in Heaven , " or any other place . We have no secrets .
and therefore we defy the Attorney-General , or his wily , deceitful informer . Why does he descend to lay informations against this Society by inuendo 1 He is chief magistrate of Dublin , and why does he not put us down ? A day is fast approaching when everybody will know hint . He had watched his political career , and he saw but very little to his credit . The mist will soon be dispelled . Mr . O'Higgins Baid he was out of town on Wednesday last , and did not , therefore , see that day ' s papers . He had hoped that Mr . O'Connell , whom he has heard , g 000 to communion once a fortnight , would have come far ward ere this , and made some reparation to him < Mr . O'Higgins ) for tUe grievous wrongs which he had done him . It is now nearly nine years since Mr .
O'Connell first attacked him . He was then in a flourishing trade , carrying on extensively the wholesale Irish woollen trade in that very house where they werei then assembled for the purpose of promoting the real interests of their fellow countrymen . Mr . O'Connells foul denunciation of him ( Mr . O'Higgins ) broke up his establishment at that time . He had embarked all his capital and all his credit in the promotion of Irish manufactures . It was going on prosperously until the foul , false , and infamous calumny , which Mr . O'Connell and his cowardly satellies published against him , destroyed it There is no doubt but that sentence greatly affected all Mr . O'Higgins ' prospecU . It drove him to seek for priva ' je discounts for tho first time in his life . It closed the banks against him . The bills he
received from the shopkeepers for the Irish cloths he sold to them , were refused at the banks , and some of tbe shopkeepers , who were predisposed to act the rogue , bad taken advantage of Mr . O'Connell ' s denunciation , and not only failed in his ( Mr . O'Higgins' ) debt , but were the loudest , and still are the basest propagators of all the slanders -which Mr . O'Connell has heaped upon him ; and some of them , those whom Mr . O'Connell praises most , and recommends to the notice of his countrymen as honest men , actually swindled him ( Mr . O'Higgins ) out of a sum of £ 750 . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) The sum lost in this way and in consequence of those proceedings exceeds £ 3 , 000 . They can well afford to villify and slander him ; his money is in their pockets .
He had suffered deeply , but he paid every body . Ho never did Mr . O'Connell an injury ; on the contrary , he had done him signal service , and he had acknowledged them 6 ven since January > 1833 , the date of Mr . O'Connell's first attack upon him . But , the cause of his ire now is , that he refused to vote for him at the election of 1837 and at the election of 1811 , unless he would sign a pledge that he would support no administration but one that would give its official advocacy to Universal Suffrage , Vote by Ballot , Annual Parliaments , Equal Representation , No Property Qualification , and Payment of Members for their time and services . This is the " Head and front of Mr . O'Higgins ' offanding . " And now , when Mr . O'Cannell deems it expedient to recommend to the Reoeaiera of Dublin a candidate
in lieu of the late Mr . West , who is pledged to civil war in preference to Repeal ; he does not scruple at libelling him ( Mr . O'riiggins ) in the most atrocious terms for the purpose of destroying bis character , lest he might have sufficient influence to give a formidable opposition to Mr . O'Connell ' s nominee , Lord Morpeth . ( Hear , hear . ) This is the root of his present malicious slander . This is the real secret of his having pronounced the flagitious libel which you have heard read , and which shocked you all . As the laws of God seem to have no effect upon this pious gentleman who goes to communion once a fortnight , perhaps the lawa of man may The report in the Morning and Weekly Register is calculated , and was intended , to blast and utterly destroy all his prospects . What , said Mr . O'Higgins ,
am I to be held up by a man of such influence as Mr . O'Connell , aa a person who is deluding the people for tae purpose of swearing away their lives ? There are thousands of my confiding countrymen who read the Register , and receive what Mr . O'Connell says as gospal truth , who deem it a great service to their country to knock the brains out of any man whom Mr . O'Connell would point eut as ho has pointed me out Btar in mind that Lord Morpeth , whom the Chartists of Yorkshire kicked out of their county for political treachery , is now recommended to the Repealers of Da' lin , and they will be called upon tomorrow to ratify the recommendation , in fact to pledge themselves to vcta for this man who at a dinner in New York the other day said that he Would shout
Orange Boven everywhere but in Ireland . Here are his words . Lst him deny them if he dare . The dinner was given by Dutchmen . It was an annual dinner . " If" said Lord Morpeth , " we gave them a navigator , they ( the Dutchmen ) gave England a deliverer and a hero ; and although this is not perhaps an appropriate place to mention a king . I xnay . be permitted here to acknowledge gratefully , the benefits we have received from William , the Dutchman , and I am ready to shout Orange Boven every where but in Ireland . '' Here is an Orange candidate for the Repealers of Dublin . ' Here is Lord Morpeth in his true colours , vouched and authenticated by himself . Will you vote for him ? ( "No , no , never ; we'll oppose the Yorkshire outcast ; no , no . " ) Now , said Mr . O'Higgins , notwithstanding all the injury he had suffered , at Mr . O'Connell's hands , yet he would not only forgive him
heartily , but vote for him , and perhaps be the means of returning him for Dublin , as he had " been upon two former occasions , provided that he would give up the Whigs , stand by the people once more , and give him a pledge , in writing , that he would support no adminiBtration but one that w&uld give its official advocacy to Universal Suffrage , Vote by Ballot , Annual Parliaments , Equal Representation , No Property Qualification , and Payment of Members . ( Great cheering . ) The Repeal Question he would leave in his own hands . ( Hear , hear . ) It is the mere , circumstance of having required this pledge that stings Mr . O'Connell to the very souL ( Hear , hear , and great cheers ) No doubt of it ! Ho is a Whig to the back bone . ) Mr . Dyott said that he thought that the time was now fully come when they should take measures for vindicating themselves against the repeated and calumnious
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attacks made up&D them by an individual whom he need not name . Tbe paragraph jtut read , which so maliciously and so falsely charged thetit ; respected President ; with being a deluder , and all the old cant , superadded to the daring and most malignant assertion that he administered secret oaths . Could Mr . O'Connell have seriously believed such a charge f Impossible I and what must bo thought of » man , who not believing , yet advanced It deliberately , before those who tecelved every word which fell from his lips as gospel ? ; In order to meet thU most audacious assertion he would move the suspension of the standing orders , that a committee might be appointed to consider the most effective means of indignantly repelling the base and groundless imputation , and laying afresh before their fellow citizens the objects and rules of their association . This denial should be presented for insertion to the liberal press of Carlow .
If they refuse to insert it , it would then be seen of what kind their liberality was , ' and they ( the association would pay a neutral or Tory journal for a fair and full repudiation of the absurb , the wicked and malicious aspersion . Of Mr , O'Higgins he would only gay that to adopt the words of the paragraph , he Mr . D ., "knew" him and to " know" him well was to respect him thoroughly To that gentleman he should leave his own personal exculpation , it was' in competent hands , but the society to whom he ( Mr . D . ) belonged , should not be maligned and he sit idle , and he felt the insult more particularly grievous having become : a member of the Repeal Association when it was given . He then moved the suspension of the standing order , and subsequently the appointment of a Committee for the purpose alluded to . —Mr . Dillon Beconded the motion . — -Mr . Freebalrn gave notice of the admission of five members on next Sunday . Mr , Dyott was called to the chair , when thanks were voted to Mr . Clark , after which the meeting separated
BARNARD CASTLE . —Mr . Maw , from Middlesbro " , delivered an excellent address at this place , on Wednesday evening , December 29 th , in ilia . Barker ' s large room .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 8, 1842, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct736/page/2/
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