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THE l^OETHEUN JSTAil. SATURDAY, JUNE 25, IS42.
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SHEFFIELD . GREAT PUBLIC MEETING IN PARADISE SQUARE . In the course of last -week a requisition , respectably Kgafed , -wiis presented to the Master Caller , requesting him to convene a meeting of the inhabitants of SbtfSfc ^ d , for the purpose of remosutrsting -with the Hcuse cf Gammons upon its rejection of the prayer of the > "a : ioRal Pct ' . tion , and for the purpose of memo-T : &l : ' z ' r . § its Quern to dissolve the Parliament , to Alsjuii = brr -nme . t Milliters , and to call to her councils men vbo Triil maie tie People's Charter 3 C 3 bbet meassre . Tee Master Cutler having declined to call the meeting , tee requisitionings proceeded to do so themscItcs . The rnect'ra ttos fixed for twelve o ' clock on Monday Js't . tnd s ; m = time btfere that hour seme hundreds Bsd absembled in Paracis-3 Square .
Mr . Biirs ' oT ? had been invited , and was met at the railway rts-ion oy a considerable body of the-working men , with banptrs , &c , by ¦ whom he was loudly cheered ; in t > e mean tiina the Square continned filing , ar . d by or > e o ' cioefc . at which hnur business commenced , one or tte most numerous meetings "we have seen in SHiffisM had assembled to give their sanction to the important dot unierits left for the cpp : oval of the people bv the late Convention . On ths mct ' . on of Mr . Harney , seconded by Mr . Ciajt--n , Mi . Johr . K-i 5 y vras called to the chair . The Cha-i-mas rend tba pi ? , card calling the meeting , an- ' after few observations called upon ilr . Harcer .
Mr . Harrey said he had grtat pleasure m appearing before so large a meeting to propose for aJ ^ ptioa the remonstrance at ! n lei * . o in the bills callir . a the meeting , ( ill . H- Lrieread the rrfnonstn-Ece , "which iris unnecessary to infer : ) . Tct T-mozis ' -rance stated first , ' that the people of this exu ^ try Were suffering destitution ar . d misery to an extent almost hitherto unknown . " This "was now too notorious to be denied by "Whig or Tory . The ncwiptvptrs , day afur aay , wetk after week , gave the most la .-rowing aceonEts of the misery of the- people t ' " : ron ; hcrtt Esgiand , JrJind , and Scotland . ' Famine stalked abroad , iUiYation bowled ha agenies , and V : ack {? espa : r tverspruid the land . Though in Sheffield tbry h :. l Lot 2 . 3 jet tipcricECtd distress to the same fearful extent the pt- 'vle cf other districts had , BtiU if
a change came not speedily , the lot of the men of Leicester ¦ would assuredly be the lot of the people of Sheffield— . hiar , hear ) . Hundreds upon hundreds -were subsisting upon parish iclit-f , a ^ d uany a chiid cri ed for bread , s . vd th ? re was no one to administer toits -srants . Strange it -pas , but y t n-ost rrue , that while the middle classes were fast hastening to tlis same ruin as had already overtaken fae working classt 3 , still they obstinate lj and ¦ wick ^ o . ly held aloof and "would not join the people in thvir struggle for justicr . A meeting of the Manchtster shopkeepers had lateiy been held , at ¦ w hich nK-etiaj one and all bad declared either tbst they ¦ were already reined or vrsre fast hastening to destruction ; and though the Sheffield shopocracy had not luade this opss cjnfssiion . yet he knew that hundreds of them
¦ We re in the same- situation as the Mar . ehestir shopkeepers . Yet were they at that meeting ? ' Were there fifty in tLa * . ta&eting ? Were there twenty ? ' He doubted if there -we e ten—only tin , to save their order from the we : i merited infamy which "was attached to them , for their opposition to the just rights of the people ; though the present system wiis-ruining them , Etiii tfcey "would support tie aristocracy against the peopls ' hear , htar . ) D . I not ibis piove that niucb , as they prttei-ueA to liberality of sentiment , that they , nevertheless , luted nothing so much as that the toiiing classes should be placed" on political tqua'ity- " with themselves—preferring lite rule of the devil biruself to the role of the insjx .-iTY—tue sovereign democracy ? ( cheers . j This lemonstrance refunded the House of
Commons that three times had the people petitioned that House , and three times their prayer had been jniultiiigly Tej-.-cted . Three millions and & half of the pespie of this country petitioned only for a hearing at the bar cf the House , and not content with denying that which was prayed for , the Honourable Members must needs shower calumny , falsehood and slander npen . such an imintjise bcKiy of their countrymen ; charging upon them that they meditated the destruction of property , tad the producing cf a state of anarchy and rpoliation . Such ¦ were tha lying calumnies cf Mr . Bob MaS 3 ul » y . His " E . courable Friend , " as the . gentlemen of the "Westminster tax-trap v <_ uii say , his Honcurable Friend , Mr . Bairs : ow , bad ins ! corrected him ,
it was not B . < b , b-t Tom Macaulay ; well , the meeting ¦ would excuse him . Ko wonder tost he confounded Barnes 'when there "was so little -diffsience betwetn the liberal Tom Slscsuley and Sir sliding-scale « lippery B > bj tf Tamworth . Of the two factions it Blight indeed be said "wiuh strict truth and propriety , M tan-ta-ra-ra rogues a'J" —( loud cheers . ) He indigjiaiitiv denied that rach "were the cbjrtt * contemplated iy the peopls , on the contrary it was tie t ^ aducers of thfi people tieiDSEivts who "were ti > e spoliators and plunderers— : lond cheers ) Tne fault of tfce people was cot thst they were prore to virtenw . or did cot tisginielTes respect the propasty cf otbers ; no , tbeir fault "was that tb * y were nat suS « tntly ready to protecc theaiserrss from violence , acil their own property
from the spoliatioa of the wealthy—¦; cheers . ) The men "who Toted for thia remonstrcnee "would piedi-e themselves to take such steps to remedy their condition S 3 the present circumstances of the country required ; he tmsted they wonid not idly pledge themselves to this , bat having doie bo would show their sincerity and prove their honesty b 7 unitin ; under the cause of the National Charter Association ! and tceieby prove to the Government that the demand for tho Charter was not made by a few demagogues , but by a people irresistable in their numbers , mighty ix their ncien , determined not to submit through fctnre agss as they , have done through past to the oppression of the few , and the tyranny of those "who trampled alike upon the laws of nature and of nature ' s God .
Mr . Edwin Gill s&conded the adoption of the remoa-£ t anca—in so doing be csuld not help stating his conviction that in all probability the fate of thia remonstrance would b 3 that of the national petition . ( Hear Bat knowing thai this "was tho only means left of peacefully and constitutionally protesting against the tyranny of tha Parliament , be took upon himself with pleasure the task if seconding it , believing that its adontion won'd tend to opeu the eyes " of the people ZROT-i aad more to the viUany of their rulers . No man could have read the debates cf the present session
without feeling the utmost disgust and contempt f . > r the " honourable members" bs they - were cillei- Hardly one among them could , or durst take the test proposed hy Xit Dacojiabe , declaratory that they had not gained their seats by bribery and corruption . It was for the people to say how much longer they would allow tbems . ~] -Fe ? to be plundered and trampled upon by those their tii ! s-rei > rfcS 2 ntritivt . E—he ardently hop&d that those to ¦ whom he ha-i the honour to address hinistIf , would swtll th 1 - ranks of orgnty ^ Zid CnsitLsm . asd thas-rendtr iffi- ' . ent aid to their brethren stmeg'ing for the establi--hmc-n * . of the rights and liberties of all . fCaf ^ ri . )
Ihs remonstrance was taen adopted unaniniousr . Mr . ParktB moved the adopfun of tbe memor ; al to the Q'Jten- The last lime h ^ hrA had the honour of addressing tbe men cf ShtfSild he remembc-rtd that on tint occasion they "were countenanced by the reporters cf the 3 Ie-ciuy , the Independent , and -the-JVfs ; . but these gentlemen "Were nosBere to be sees : n the present mctting . How "was this ? It was " becvase ' -be fcciions , for the kloing of whose dirty Wurk these qulidrivers were employed , were opposed to the righteons claims &f tbe people—shear , Lear . ) Mr . P . irkes then read the itianorial , and having done so , observci—We live in most extraordinary times—ti ^ es in which js sen fxcess of wealth and prodigality en the one band , and exev ^ s of psverty and degradation on tbe other ; tbe former the lot ol the idle law , the latter the fate of the toi'ing many . This anoinily can only be accounted for by the fact that tbe few have usurped all tLe
Tower cf tbe state , and by class legislation have buiJr tip their own a ;« andisement en the ruin and misery of their f- How-creatures—cheers ) . This memorial states that three tini £ ~ tbe p-ople hive petitioned fi . T justice , and taeh tir-: e their petitions have been treated "with scorn and coiiteapt . 2 » ow the ptopla would appeal to tbe raonsrch : hs hoped , for the peace cf society and "the happiness of all cli ' -s-s , that tie appeal- would not be mace in vain , tb 3 u >; h he confeEswl he had lttU-.-b' -pe of succt : ;? in thit qaarteT . If ibry *\ re : e des ^ r . ^ us of re-tnainiRZ slaves—if they would not n-ke s . n tS ' to r-dtem thtiuf' -lves and ih-.-ir children from bondage , thtn Irt them vote a ^ air-yt the memorial ; h-ayif they ¦ wo nid snap the galling links which bounl thtfn , and lir . nibiiate for evtr the odiou 3 distinction of U e tpaLt few mid the fcnslsTid miny , they wou'd give tfceir suppo-t to the- ' incHioiial , and tell tie in . march that it w&s iustice they "wanted , and justice they Would hive —fchf ' rs * .
" Mr . Luilam , a veteran in the cause , seconded the iltmorinl , which was adopted una-. iiuously . Tea weather had been most unfavotnaMe all the nun . in ? , thongh Gmicg the proceedings cf the Hi-.-eting the rain had fcitaf-rto kept off , bat just before the < ocneia > i ^ n of Mr . Win . Park es' address , it began to ^ c&ctEd , a-d -was falling heavy "wtien the Chairman introduced ilr . Biirstow , -who was received "with loud and repeated cheers . Mr . Bairstow siid , that having travelled the whole of a sleepless night , having jirst left the bedside of a sick "wife , and being not only much fatigued , but also labouring under sore depression of j-piriu , he "waa . Bure the meeting would cat be so unreasonable as to expect from him a lengthy speech upon the present occasion . Having bad £ he honour to sit in tbe late Convention , and having had while in the metropolis the
opportnsity of hearing the debates in the House of "Commocjs upon U > e two most important motions of the present , or indeed any past session , he could speak a little as to the conduct and arguments ef the ' Ho-TiouxableMembers . " Sear , hear . ; Tn-5 rst v-f theie debates -sras on Sir . 5 h . tr . Tian Crawford ' s motion ; the second "Bras on the presentation of the grent National Pctiiion . 0 ^ courss it was in the latter dtbate be felt the motl interest . "Upon tie occasion of Mr . Dancombe ' s motion , he attended to hear "whtt -would , be the reasons that "would be advanced for ¦ witlhelding from the people their- inalienable rights . And what did be hear ? "Wbj , one Honourable ilembei tkciar . ng that the adoption cf the principles of Chartism wi old be the prelude to ose wide-spread seine of rapine , plunder , anarchy , bloodshed , and mtrder ; to ¦ w hich J&fi bloodiest and mestizva d cupotlsais-would
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ba preferable . Another declared that the triumph of the principles of democracy could only lead to the destruction of civilization and the plunging of the country into a Btate of midnight barbarism and brutal savagery ; such "were the sapient arguments of the collective -wisdom . But , vile thongh the calumnies of these men -were , still they played an honest part compared ¦ with the part played by some of the traitorous " shoyhoyB" who professed to be tbe friends of the people ; from all such . fxiendBGod Bafethe people—tfoud cheera ) Of all the men -who strove to damage the cause of the people , and to throw odium and discredit upon the principles and objects of the Chartist body , Roebuck ¦ was the -wo ^ st ; his condnct was foul and tre ^ cheronB in the extreme . How dare he denounce the authors of the National Petition as beine " cowardly and malignant
demasocucs ? " He -was himself a cowardly and malignant fellow far makinesucb a chsrge , and then retreating from the responsibility of slandering h ' s superiors —( cheers ) . All the arguments of Peel and Russell -were drawn from the speech of Roebuck , It was such men a 3 these th ; : t the people had good cause to stand most in dread of—hypocrites , "who wore the cloak of patriotism only thai under its folds they might conceal the poisoned dagger "with ^ thich to assassinate liberty , the bright goddess of our adoration—( loud cheers } . The rain for some time had been frlling in torrents , yet the people stood it -well ; at length himself wet to tbe skin , Mr . Bairstow gave the signal for retreatine , and an adjournment to the Association room in Fig Tree-lane , took place . Here not a titae of the meeting could gain admission ,- these who were first , speedily crammed the
room . Mr . G . J . Har . ney lectured on Sunday evening , in tbe rosm , Fig Tree-lane j the unpropitious state of the weather preventing the holding of the out-door meeting * announced in Jast SaturJa > ' s £ tar .
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STATE OF THE WORKING PEOPLE . NECESSITY FOR CAUTION AND PRUDENCE . Ev £ b y week adds to the horrible destitution endured by the producers of the nation ' s "syeaJtb . ' Evidence of this meets the eye and ear at everv
turu . Whole districts aro enduring the torments and horrors of hunger and starvatiou ! The griping system of taxation , with its concomitant , the unrestrained and unregulated use of machinery , have done their work ! The one has stripped the homestead of the labourer of the property he had ; the other h 3 s taken out of his hands the power of accumulating more !
To raise the £ 00 , 000 , 000 a-year , necessary for the maintenance of the hordes of pensioners , sinecurists , dead-weight men , and the salaried Officers of State ; necessary for the payment of the interest of the National Debt , and for the keeping up of the army to force the taxes out of the people ; nesessary to maintain an extravagsnt Covht ; to raite the £ 60 , 000 , 000 a-year , necessary for tha support of these thing ? , every means that earth and hell could devise have be en employed . The consequences "have been , that property has been silently , but surely , transferred from one possessor to another ; that the middling classes have been reduced to beggary ; and the labourers brought to staxre all of a heap .
To raise that £ 60 , 000 , 000 ( made , in reality , by the alteration in the value of money , by Peel ' s Bill , £ 120 , 000 , 000 ' . ) it was necessary that " the resources" of the country ( a 3 they have it ) should be developed . Hence the immense introduction and employment of machinery ; hence the engendering , promulgation , and adoption of the suicidal principles of " free-trade" ; hence the cheapening of all articles of produce , and the gluttinjjs of the market , until produce is a drug , and employment at an end . Hence the difficulty ; the confusion ; the distress ; tbe famine ; the deaths , for want of tbe necessaries of life !
Here is the cause of it all ! The Government must have , if they continue the system , the £ 60 , 000 , 000 a year ( nominally , but £ 120 , 0 & 0 , eOO realty ) . To have that £ 60 , 000 , 000 , without reducing the strength of the nation to beggary and want , is as impossible as it 13 to bare regetation without light and warmth . The one is necessary- to the other ! In struggling to get tha amouiit the tax-gatherer lays
hi 3 desolating paw ou every producer of wealth . He strips the cottage , pulls down the mansion , empties the till , sweeps up the profits , and carries all into the lap of the debt-annuitant , the army-paymaster , tbe ,. " steward of the household , " the pensioner , the placeman , and the dead-weight man To expec : any other result than that which now presents itself as the consequence of these doings is to be criminally simple !
And yet when are these things to have an end Who amongst our State doctors dare prescribe the remedy ? Who amongst them dare propose to reduce our expenditure to £ 4 , 000 , 000 per anntsm ? Who amongst them dare propose to £ ^ vitably adj cst the Debt , disband the Army , burn the Pension List , chop down Royal expeuces , reduce the salarks , discontinue the half-pay , and remove the dead weicht ? Who amongst them all dare propose , this ? Not one !! And what would be the use of any measures , unless these formed a part ? When maa can alter the
nature of water , and make it not to seek its level , then , but not till then , can we raise £ 120 , 000 , 000 a-year in taxation without producing want and starvation amongst the very producers of wealth ! Oar Government re ^ uibes tbe £ G 0 , O 00 , O 00 a-year . To keep up the present system they cannot do with less ! They cannot afford a single million back again , even though it is asked for and needed
merely to put a mouthful of the " coarsest kind of food" into the heads of starving thousands ! Not a stiver can it spare ! Oaly SIX could be found in the whole House of Commons to vote for the people having back again one-sixtieth part of the enormous sum wruDg from their very entrails . ' And yet the House " SYMPATHISES"' with the sufferings of tbe industrious people ! Faush ! How it stinks ! ! '
What , then , are the people to do ? Are they to lie down and die 3 Are they to quietly endure the gnawing 3 of hunger , the pains of starvation , till dejitii relieve them from their sufferings ? Are they to do this ? NO I a thousand time 3 NO Perish the thonght J and blistered be the lips that would give utterance to it in the way of advice ! Eng ! ishme 7 i quietly lie dowu , and die for want of
food ! Perish England first 1 Englishmen quietly starve to death ! Sink her beneath the sea first !! ENGLISHMEN die of hunger ! and that qcitTLY too ! Bum England up first I Come plague ; come pestilence ; come fire ; como sword ; come witer ; come invasion ; come civil war : come all these things a thousand timss o ' er ; but come not iho cay when ENGLISHMEN will qu \ eily starve to death 1
What , then , are the people to do ? Break the law and commit outrages on person and property ? NO 2 . tho ^ and times NO i The kw of England is , that no oue sLall starve to dc-atj . That law makes provision for the destitute . To that law let evert destitute man APPEAL 1 There is the Overseer I let every destitute man go to him , and ask for suppors . There are the Magistrates ! let every one who is refused relief by the Overseer apply to them .
If they have not power to grant relief , they have power to communicate with the Lord Leiutenants of the counties ; and , through them , with the Queen If the Magistrates refuse to entertain the application , go to the Lord Leiutenant in person . Tell him of your sufferings , of your endurings , of your efforts to obtain relief : and tell him to tell the Queen how yon are circumstanced . Bo all this , quietly and orderly ; and . THEN if relief is not afforded , SEEK OUT FOR FOOD 1 !
Go to the Overseer in the first instance . He is appointed to relieve the destitute . He has the means to do so in his hands . If he refuses you once , go agiin , if your necessities continue . If you are without food on the Monday , and you apply to him , and he refuse to give you any , go to him again on the Tuesday . If he again refuses , go to him ou the Wednesday , should you still be without food . If he again refuse , go the next day : and so on , from day to day , till you get relief .
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Go each man ^ and each woman , for himself and herself ! No acting together ; no bluster ; no threats ; QUIET DETERMINATION . Each one for himself ; and each , one Btate his own case . Each one apply for relief to the Overseer personally Should there be more there when you go , wait your turn . If he is not at home , await hia coming , Should he refuse relief to one , do net let that be a refusal to you . The case refused may not be as bad a 3 your own : at all events , the Overseer ought to
know of your condition , 1 / you are starving ! Take care that you let him know ! Do this quietly , orderly , peaceably , but determinedly , and let us see what will be the result ! But" no mobs ! " no great noises ! no acting in concert . Go each one for food to save tod from starvation ; go ask ' fof'itfrom the officer appointed by the law to give it you . Go ask him properly and rightly . Put it not in the power of any unfeeling monster to get rid of your application by trumping up a charge of conspiracy J
Should the application , or applications , to the Overseer fail , go , each one , to the nearest Magistrate . Tell him , each and every one , separately , your case . Tell him what your sufferings and endurings are . Tell him how often you have been to the Overseer . Tell him what answer you have reoeived . Ask him for his assistance , Ask for his advice . If he say he cannot aid you , or that he has no power ; tell him that he has a direct channel of communication open with the Queen , through her representative , and his super ior , the Lord Lieutenant . Desire him to do his duty , by forwarding to the Lord Lieutenant
a statement of your case ; that you are starving for want of food ; that you have repeatedly applied to the Overseer , and cannot obtain relief ; that you have applied to the Justice of the Peace , and he has no power to aid you ; that it is right the Queen knew of your condition , that she may take the necessary steps to afford relief . Desire the Magistrate to do his duty by communicating these things to his Lord Lieutenant ; and then it is his duty to communicate them tu the Queen hersslf , in her own proper person , and not through the Secretary of State , . When these steps are taken , and still no relief afforded , get up a requisition to the Mayor or Constable of your Borough or Township , to call
a public meeting for the purpose of publicly addressing the Lord Lieutenant of the County . Shoald he call the meeting , well and good : should he refuse , let twenty inhabitant householders call it themselves . At the meeting agree upon a Memorial to the Lord Lieutenant ; let it set forth the facts as they stand in your locality ; let it set forth the efforts made , individually , to obtain relief ; let it call upon him to make the condition of the Memorialists known to her Majesty ; let a deputation of shrewd , intelligent , discreet men be appointed to wait upon the Lord Lieutenant in person with such Memorial ; and let them communicate to an adjourned meeting the ansiver they receive !
Now , this a perfectly legal but an effectual way of bringing the sufferings of the starving poor into public notice ; and will assuredly compel relief ! Should it not do bo , —THEN seek out for food "Self-preservation ia the first law of nature . " Preserve yourselves ! The law awards you relief take all legal means of getting what the law awards : if it be refused or withheld—SEEK OUT All the writers on jurisprudence hold that a man is not guilty of theft or larceny who takes food to keep himself from starving to death . Such
has been held to be the case by Grotius and Puffendorf ; and tbe only writers who have denied that that principle applies to England , have done so on the ground that ** by the law sufficient provision is made for the supply of the necessitous by collections for the poor and by the power of the civil magistrate . " If , therefore , there be not " sufficient provision ; " or if " the power of the civil magistrate " be abrogated , then the law of nature returns in full force ; and a man , according to reason and to nature , is not guilty of theft or larcency who takes food to keep himself from pining to death !
Again do we implore of the people to be cautious and prudent I Spies are aiisoad ! They will entrap , if not minded . Avoid all secret meetings all conspiracies ! all plottings ! Every thing you say and do on such occasions is known to the magistracy and the Government ! Look at the " little '' debate in the House of Lords on Tuesday night Wellington could not give Kinnaird information respecting some places in North Lancashire , because that would defeat the ends of justice , as Government had information affecting individuals . Just so ! Wherever there are plottings , there are spies and all is known ! Whoever is a party to a plot in England , either to upset Government or to destroy
property , 1 a a ninny , or something far worse Plotting always defeats itself ! It must , inevitably , do so . Every man , in such circumstances , is in every other mail's power . The more there are of the plotters , the greater is the individual danger , and the probability of the success of the plot lessened . No man who has an act of that nature to perform is safe if he entrust even his thoughts to any one else . Avoid , then , all plotlings ! Avoid all " secret meetings , " as they are called ; but which are not secret from the magistracy ! Avoid all breaches of law or order ; take all necessary legal steps to bring your case before the publio eye ; ground for yourselves ample defence , should you have , at last , to go and take .
Again , we say , beware of Bpies ! You may know them by the recommendations they give . They will try to persuade you to give battle to the soldiery ; and that you can beat them ! Never w » 3 there greater delusion ! Why should we fight the soldiers ? What have the soldiers done ? Poor fellow 3 ! they are the veriest slaves iu existence ! A soldier is better fed than a working man ; but he
is , essentially , a slave . ' Why , then should we fight him ! In God ' s name , why ? Working people ; whoever advises you to come into collision with the soldiery , is an enemy that wishes for your destruction ; and i 3 taking all proper means to effect it . ' or a fool , whose counsels , if sincere , will not the less surely bring you to destruction , if you trust and act on them . Scout all such adviser 3 from you , should they appear !
No ! no ; no fighting with the soldiers ! no firingupon them ; or firing by them upon the people ! No such firing as that ' . It would bo the height of combined folly and treachery ! Again we repeat , beware of spies !—they are abroad ! They are seeking blood ! Diappoint them !
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" scorn and indignation" are those which possessed the minds of the Jury , who , among others , saw M that man standing at the bar , " and who were called upon to judge dispassionately upon the evidence adduced ! Verily this print has out-done itself—no easy task—in the art of fulsome adulation ! It is truly beastly and contemptible ! But while wre learn that every loyal subject was <( anxious to obtain a glimpse of the heartless
miscreant , we leara also from the concluding unfortunate little three lines , that the company was not so numerous as that drawn together by the desire to see Daniel Good ! Verily , loyalty must be at a discount , when the Criminal Court cannot be filled upon so interesting an occasion as the trial of an ignorant youth who hoped to gain , a livelihood by firing a bulletlesa pistol at the hind wheel of the Queen ' s carriage !
The youth , however , for his indiscretion , has been sentenced . "The Court , " through the mouth of Chief Jubtico TiNDAL , has adjudged him " to be hanged by the neck till he be dead ; then to be beheaded ; and his body cut into four quarters , AND disposed OF as her Majesty shall direct" A savage inhuman sentence \ and a barbarous law that imposes it H
His life is to be forfeited ! The ^ Bloody old Times" has sounded the note of blood ! It has been labouring hard to prepare the public mind for the awful and astounding fact , that a life is to be taken , as a warning to others not to attempt to shoot at the Queen ' s carriage wheel ! A youth is to be strangled and beheaded for high treason , because he fired a bulletless pistol in the direction of the Queen ' s carriage !¦ And yet we are a Christian people . ' and the Queen herself 18 " Head of the Church , tinder Christ" /// ;
Query . — -If we hang , behead , and quarter young Francis for shooting at the Queen ' s carriage wheel with a pistol j in which there is no evidence to prove there was a bullet , and from which shooting neither the Queen , her carriage , nor any of her attendants , nor any mortal breathing , sustainedany , the slightest , injury ; what should we have done to him had he shot a bullet through the Queen ' s head 1
Talk not to us of " the Queen ' s magnanimity" ! If fhe permit the xife of Francis to be taken for this shooting-at-her-carnage-affair , the bloody deed will stick to her name through life , and blot her escutcheon in death ! If she allow him to be hanged and quartered , she may " dispose" of his cut-up body as she may please , even to the servingup of the joints at her own table , without adding to the horror and detestation which the act of strangulation will excite amongst " her" people !
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ANOTHER VICTIM TO THE FELL MONSTER . Poor Holberry is gone ! He has escaped the ruffian fang of class despotism through the deathly portal . Another is added to the long catalogue of Whig-made widows , whoso occupation it must bo to weep over theashes of the dead ; and surely another and a powerful incentive is afforded to his brethren to call forth all the energies aDdexeroise all the determined perseverance of men , who have resolved that the system which originates these horrid blotches on the escutcheon of humanity shall be annihilated .
On Tuesday morning a letter was received at this office , informing us that an order for his liberation , on finding satisfactory bail for fire years , had been received from the Home Secretary ; and stating that the York Chartists were unable to furnish the amount required , being all poor working men . They requested that Mr . O'Connor might be informed of the matter , and their letter was accordingly forwarded to that gentleman . In the
meantime , that no delay might take plaoe , arrangements were instantly made for tendering the bail of Messrs . Hill and HomoN to the acceptance of the York Magistrates , Mr . Hoihon was at Huddersfield , but returned that night , and he and Mr . Hill were instantly to go off together to York next morning ; when a second letter arrived apprising that death had already put in all the bail that could be now given ! The poor fellow had expired about half-past four o ' clock on Tuesday morning .
The letter of the Chartists of York was simply sent , without comment or observation , to Mr . O'Con . nor , from whom , on Thursday morning—as early as it could be—the following was addressed to Mr . Hobson : — 1 " Denham Cottage , June 22 nd , 1842 . "My dear Hobson , —Nothing would give me greater pleasure or do us more service , than if you and Ardill would proceed at once to . York * and give bail for poor Holberry ; and let this undertaking upon my part be your guarantee .
"I do hereby undertake to hold J . Hobson and John Ardill harmless from any injury , damage , or pecuniary demand which may be made upon them , if they become security for Holberry ' a keeping the peace , and that I will pay all such sums , costa , and legal expences as his violation of tbe bond shall entail upon them . ' "Feargus O'Connor . " This may serve to shew his disconsolate widow that what his friends the Chartists could do for him , all were aliko prompt and ready to do . But it is done , poor fellow ! All is over , and he has escaped . And we fear that even now thousanda of honest , good , virtuous Englishmen are almost ready to onvy the condition of the cold lump of clay which once was the athletic form of James Holberry !
The York Chartists bestirred themselves briskly and promptly ; they procured the attendanc 3 of an attorney and surgeon at the inquest , which was held that night , and of which the verdict was— " Died by the visitation of God , and we are of opinion that the deceased has had every attention paid to him . " The inquest lasted four hours . Our reporter went off by the next train after the news reached us , to collect all the necessary information on the spot . He did not return till next day ( Thnrsday ) , which is our publishing day ; and as the report is likely to be long , we
have no alternative but to reserve it for our next number ; haying neither space to give it nor time to get it up for this number . Meantime , wo think it right to state , that at a meeting of the Association held immediately after the close of the inquest , a vote of thanks was moved and carried unanimously , to George Leeman , Esq ., solicitor , for his generous conduct in attending gratuitously at the Coroner ' s investigation on behalf the Chartists of York . This gentleman , from all that we can learn , has acquitted himself so as to deserve the esteem of all good men .
The Chartists of York also acquitted themselves like men on the melancholy occasion ; they did all that men could do to have the last remains of the victim conveyed to their resting place in a creditable manner ; i A handsome coffin was furnished out of their slender resources , and by their own exertions . And , on Wednesday evening , after being consigned to the care of friends who had arrived from Sheffield for the purpose , the corpse was removed to the latter place for interment , a number of Chartipts accompanying it out of the city .
Entreating our fellow Chartists to regard the manes of poor Holberry as calling loudly for appeasement , and for the prostration of the accursed system of misrule to which and by which he has been sacrificed , we take leave of the melancholy subject for the present week , to return to it next week in full ..
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TttE NEW EXECUTIVE . From a return and address inserted in another column , ic will be seen that the New Executive have been appointed ; and that they assume their official duties immediately . : To give effect to their labours , it is necessary they should have support . Without means , their hands are tied . With means , they are in a position to take advantage of every opportunity that offers itself to forward and strengthen the Chartist movement . Look at what has been effeoted by the late Executive ; and remember that they have , all
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along , been crippled for want of Bupplies . Judge from what has been done , what there might have been , had the necessary funds been ; at command ! The Chartist publio nave to say whether this state of things is to continue or not . Unless the Exectmvis be placed in a position to act , it is tolly te appoint them , and worse than folly to expect service from them when appointed . Without means , nothing can be done .
The present , we think , a good opportunity of placing the matter before all concerned . The accession to office of the NewExEcuriva ought to be seized upon , and the necessary steps taken to place in their hands that which will enable them to g « to work at once . If they are crippled at starting , they will feel the disheartening effects through all the race . '¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ¦ : ¦ '¦ ' ¦ : ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦• ..
On Wednesday last , a gentleman called at our office ; a middle-class man , but one of the very best friends to the cause of Chartism that we know one whose purse is ever ready , and whose money is constantly given , to advance the " ultra" movement In the course of a conversation had with Mr . Hobson on the present position and prospects of Chartism , he proposed , as the best means of inducting the New Executive into office ,
A NATIONAL TRIBUTE , to enable i is members-to adopt decisive measures to advance the cause of the People ' s Charter ; and he further proposed to head it with his subscription , adding that if more wa , a wanted , he was ready . In three minutes a list was prepared , and the following sums set down : — £ . b . d . A . Londsdale , Manchester 110 ' William Hill ... ... 2 2 0 Joshua Hobson .................... 1 10 John Ardill 1 10
Now then , Chartists , what say you ? Will you " go and do likewise" in accordance with your respective means ! Let the next Northern Star that wb publish shew the sum total on the list swelled to a considerable amount . Let every one do his best . There are our middleclass friends ; those of that class whom we know to be our friends ; let them be waited upon by the proper officers in every locality . Proper attention and exertion in this respect , will do mueh towards the end in view . One hundred friends subscribing £ 1 Is . each—and surely that number can be found —will give the Executive one hundred guineas at once .
To work , then , Chartists ! Let every locality . fix for itself a certain sum , and take the necessary steps to raise it . Let this be a sacred duty . The Executive have been chosen by the people to perform the people ' s work : the people are bound tu accord them support ! This is a good opportunity , too , of testing in ; , some degree the ; value of general middle-class sympathy They pretend to be converts to Chartism , and to wish to aid in the dissemination of Chartist principles . TRY THEM ! Hexe is an opportunity of their employing some portion of their wealth to a good purpose ; a righteous Chartist purpose . See that the ; miss it not ! Wait on them ; present them with the subscription list ; ask them for tneir contribution ; and-r- —— take what you can get !
To work , then , every one ! We hope for a good list next week . Those of our monied frienda who read this , and are anxious to aid the good work , will do well to send their contributions to our publisher , direct . He has offered to become treasurer for this fund . They need not stay till they are waited upon ; but send at once . Let us see , then , what can be done !
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out much that we would gladly have had in . Out friends must therefore excuse the enumeration , instead of the insertion , of iheir several testimonies , as frankly borne , as we hope , they have been honestly deserved . We thank them all . We preserve the resolutions for future reference , if need be , and shall go on our way taking fresh Jheart of courage , " from their recorded sentiments , io battle with alt enemieg , avowed or concealed , in foil fearlessness of honesty . '_; . ¦ :
The same causes which have Bhut out the resolutions above referred to , musfcako plead our excuse to Robert Knapton , John Douglas , Edward Bradley , a . C . A ., Islington , William Douglas , Radcliffe Colliery , W . S ., L . T . Clancsy , Thos . Gibbon , Ponty Rhyn , and a great number of "Constant Readers , " who have added their individual testimony to the geaeral voice . All breathe the same spirit ; all speak the same language ; all tell us that we have not miscalculated in supposing the great body of the Chartist public able to estimate fully and fairly the public acts of publio men . ;
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The voting for the new Executive Committee is over ; and a tabular statement of the places from which votes have been received , and of the number of votes , in each place , for each candidate , has been handed to us by the General Secretary . We cannot publish the document as we received it , for this reason : there are not half enough of figures in our office to " set" it . We aire compelled therefore to content ourselves with giving merely the names of the respective candidates , and the total number of votes for each . They are as follows :
P M . Brophy ... 1656 W . D . Taylor ... 784 J . Leach ... ... 10830 M . Williams ... 4410 J Campbell ... 9712 R . Ridley ... 833 P . M . M'Donall ... 11221 W . Jones ... 1072 C . Doyle ... ... 1239 J . Fussell ... 82 T . Cooper ... ... 2454 J . W . Parker ... 231 J . H . R . Bairstow 4611 J . Mason ... ... 860 J . West . ... ... 1537 G . White ... ... » 979 R . K . Philp ... 2656 B . M ' CaTtney ... 165 W . Beesly ... 1725 W . V- Jackson ... 1005 E . Stall wood ... 299 R . Marsden ... 941 J . Skevington ... 445 E . Clayton 250 It will be seen , thereforej that the election has fallen upon Messrs . M'Douall , Leach , Campbell , Morgan , and Bairstow . The following was sent by Mr . Campbell , to follow the tabular statement above referred to : —
" It will be seen that 205 places have voted , and in these places , in many instances ^ not ; one half of the members have polled . The following places are enrolled In the asaociatien , but have not returned their votts . Llanlidoes Howden Liversedge Shelton Market Weighton Holy well MWgley Hazle Grove Morley Ipswich Newport , Monmouthshire Kendal Wellington Lancaster Naaeaton . Longton Openabaw Shaw Penzince Halshaw Moor
Preston youths Chatham Redruthi Maltoa Rotherhara Knareabrp ' Southampton Bipon Stockton OaUhampton Sittingbourne Totnesa Siinderland Shaftesbury Skipton Porty Glo ' Spilaby North Shields SSanningly Wincbcomb Stroud water Gainsborough . Sheerness Ouseburn Sheffield youths Hathern Truro Bradford , Wilta
Tunstall Chalfotd Vintner Alfreton Wortley Newark Wingate Grange Colliery Hucknall Torkard Warwick Beverley Wigan Heckmondwike Warminster Duncaater Silsden Hatters , London Wednesbury MancbesterFustian Gattera Wigton Do . Blacksmiths Wplverh 3 mpton Dawgreeh West Auckland Birstal Birbenhead Littleborough Tonbridge Middleton
Matlock Newtowh , Montgomsry . Bonssall shire Wimslow Birmingham Shoemakers Pontvpool Hucknall-under-Huth-Abardare waite Abergaveny Heanor Almondbury Denholme Babnry WHsden Bury St . Edmonds WestArdsley Bacup East Ardsley Biirnataple Nbrtbampton Shoemakers Bristol youths Peterlow Bristol trades Pittsford Blackburne yoxhall
Bath Oafeen Gates Burton-on-Trent Oadley Boston Beeston Bridporfc Barslem Brideford Sodom Berry Btew Ettinshall Lane Kidderminster Diventry Kingston Thormaston Chowbent Wigston Congletdn , Whitney Canterbury Brosely Cambridge Cleckheaton
Cardiff Shelton Crjyden Princes'End Cambome Willenhall G > ickbermouth Brockmore Coalbrook Dale Ojsett Chickenly Balwell Cumstall Bridge Selby Darleston Swinton Exetet Tipton Fiiilsworth . Overton Greenwich Great Gun Gloucester Anstey : Huii 8 let Great Glenn .
•• Brother Democrats , —I send you a list of the places that have not polled for the Executive . There are upwards of twenty other localities in London that have not voted ; and as I have had to write dowa the towns that have not voted from , memory alone it may happen that there are some fe « v may be inserted a second time ; however , on the whole , I think the list is nearly correct . There are some placea , the names ef which I could not call to mind . " There are now upwards of four hundred localities
enrolled in our Association , varied in the number of its members in each place , from a dczan to two thousand , So much for past tX'srtions—now for ttie future . We must , if possible , redouble our exertions to extend oui Association ; and here 1 would wish respectfully to im > presson the minds of the Chartists to read carefully over a letter inserted in theater of the 28 th of May signed F . on Propagandism . Let the new Exeontive be empowered to send agitators into districts where our principles have not as yet found footing . ,
" The result of the poll is now before yeu , and for my part I feel proud of the confldence reposed in me by my brother Chartists ; and I Liope , by pursuing the same undeviating course for the future , as I have donei-fct the past , still to merit the confidence which must ba gratifying to every good Chartist . "lam authorised to call the hew Executive together on Monday , the 4 th day of July next , to meet at Mr . Leach ' s , at ten o ' clock iii the foreaoon . "I remain , " Your brother democrat , " John Campbell , Secretary . " Haworth , June 21 st , 1842 . " " P . S . The towns' names which have not voted have been written at Hawortb . "
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that we are obliged to go on filling up the paper its whole week , and that , therefore , when a load of matter comes by the last oneor two posts , it unavoidably happens that much of it is omitted ; andthat it is therefore necessary to be prompt in your communi-- . - ¦ cations . . : v :- ,. - . . ¦ . ¦ ,. ¦ . - • v . ; . . - ¦ ; > ¦ ¦ ; , ; V _ . ,. ¦ ¦ - . ; : ¦ , All matters of news , reports of meetings , &c , &o refewing to occarrences on Friday , Satard » 7 f or Sunday , ; should reach us by Monday ' s post ; such as refer to Mond&v ' a occurrences by taesda ? evenujg ' fl post j Wednesclay ' a occurrencea by tnu / aday ' s post ; and Thursday ' H news by Friday morning's post , for second edition . Any deviatioafrom this order of supply will necessarily subject the matters ao received to the almost certainty of rejection or aerieus curtailment , andtt-e take noblamefori ^
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THE l ^ OETHEUN JSTAil . SATURDAY , JUNE 25 , IS 42 .
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MOST ABOMINABLE . Read the following nauseous and disgusting specimen of exuberant and bursting lcyalty with which the trial of Francis was prefaced in the columns of the hot-bun "Sun- "—
' trial of John Francis for High treason . —The occasion of the trial of this misguided , foolish young man , for shooting with a pistol at our beloved Queen , whilst enjoying an innocent recreation in which the meanest Bubject in the land ib privileged to indulge in safety when th « labours of the day are o ' er , convocated at the Old Bailey to-day all those individuals , who , venerating our Queen , for her private and public virtues , for her feeling heart and the interest she takes in everything which relates to the welfare of her people * and which on no occasion she has omitted to manifest , and being anxious to obtain a glimpse at the heartless miscreant who conld harbour a thonght of ill against
her who reigns predominant in the affections of every loyal subject , could by interest or other means' obtain admission to the Conrt . And when we saw the feeling of mingled scorx and indignation &rftt& # « l by every person there ugainst thai man standing at the bar , we regretted , though the Court was full , that its limits were not large enough to admit of more being present , that the prisoner and the world migfrt know that the detestation of his crime and him was not confined to a few , but was general , nay , universal throughout the whole country , fhe arrangements for admission to-day appeared to be of an excellent order , and though the Court was nearly filled , it was at no time crowded to such inconvenient excess as on the occasion of Good ' s
trial . " There ' s a specimen of the loyalty of this great two-fitted adulator ! | So , mingled feelings of
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THE NORTHERN STAR AND THE " DENUNCIATORS . " The universality and unanimity of opinion expressed by the whole people from one end of the kingdom to the other upon thia subject , is not less gratifying to us than valuable as evidence of the pedples's capability of judging and estimating men ' s actions by the only just standard—that of truth and reason . It was stated in our last that the deliberations of the London Delegate Meeting upon this matter were adjourned , at the instance of
Dootor M'Douall . We attach to the decision of this meeting , given under such circumstances , no small importance . The delegates are picked men ; picked for their intelligence and honesty , from all the localities of the Metropolis ; they had had the advantage of a week ' s deliberation and thought upon the subject ; they had had tha benefit of all the Doctor ' s statements and arguments ; they had had the opportunity of consulting with and receiving the instructions of their constituents ; they may , therefore , with the most perfect propriety , be said to have represented all the Chartists of the Metropolis ,
and their opinion to be the opinion of London * We refer , therefore , with some pleasure to the following account , given by our reporter of the meeting . — " Mr . Ferguson moved the following resolution , which had been proposed at the preceding meeting : — 'That this meeting have full confidence in Mr . Hill , the Editor of the Northern Star , and will support him so long as they find him acting justly in support of the people ' s rights , and that thia meeting look upon all those who try to destroy the « S ' ar , or its proprietor , in the manner that 6 ome have lately done , without first making a direct charge , and proving
the same to be trao , as enemies to tbe people , and the cause offreedom ; asmen whohaveenteredour ranks from a love of vaiu glory and the enemy ' s gold ! that , therefore , this meeting are determined to suppport the Star , its Editor , ( Mr . Hill ) and proprietor , ( Mr . O'Connor ) , so long as they do j ustly to the people and the cause of freedom . Mr . Ferguson ably supported this resolution and stated that he had seen nothing during the week to induce him to withdrawit . Mr . Caffay ably seconded the resolution . Messrs . Christopher , Wheeler , Drake , Goulding * Longwith , and other 3 spoke m favour of the
resolution , and complained of the Executive mixing themselves up with the quarrels of Mr . Phi ! p , and commented strongly upon the words of Dr . M'Douall at the preceding meeting , in stating that they would send no more documents for insertion to the Northern Star . Mr . Fussell moved as an amendment 1 That the Secretary correspond with the Secretary of the Executive ; for the purpose of ascertaining the steps they have taken in bringing tfee subject of the Northern Star before the General Council of the National Charter Association and the public . ' Mr . Fussell stated that at the previous meetine
Doctor M'Douall had stated that the Executive intended to call three Conferences—one at Manchester , one at Birmingham , and one at London . He thought that this would be the best plan to adopt . He had perfect confidence in Mr . Hill and the » S ?< Z 7 ; , but ho thought the Confereiices would do much good . If the Executive wbuld not call these Conferences , the General Council could . Mr . Ridley seconded the amendment . For the amendment three hands Were held up , and the whole of meeting , including the mover and seconder of the amendment , for the original vote of confidence in Mr . Hill and the Slar . "
Votes and assurances of confidence , equally strongly and satisfactorily worded , have been received from Derby , from the Bbietoi . Chartist Youths , from Ashton-under-Lyne , from Arbroath , from Leith , from the Clock-Hqusb Locality , London , from Heckmondwike and Livehsedoe , from HaSlev , Upp er-HANLEY , and Suallthorne iu the Potterie 3 , from the Trade Society of Shoemakebs , meeting at the Cannon Coffee-house , Old-Street , London , from the Camberwelt . and Walwoeth Chartists , from the Chartists of Davy Hclme , from , the Chartists of Stalybridge , of Oldham , of Ply-Smouth , ( sent last week but received too late ) of
Nswcastle-upon-Tyne , passed at a great publio meeting , after a week ' s notice , and sent for ^ bur last , but reoeived too late ; from Keighley , ^^ from Wads worth , from Yeovil , from Bhimscomb , from Stroud , from Calverton , from Chesxbb , from Lambeth , from Chelsea , from the City of London . from Southampton , froni Tonbridge , from Woodhouse , near Leeds ; from Horton , neat Bradford , and from several other places . Resolutions of a different character have been received from Clitheroe , and from the score of Chartists * t Wottpn-under-Edge , the parties whom Mr . O-Brien represented at the Sturge Conference .
It is impossible to devote the necessary space to the insertion of all these resolutions in full . They would drive out much valuable matter from theater ; and we have had already to put
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 25, 1842, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct759/page/4/
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