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    • THE NOETHERN STAE SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1843.
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      -MRjF O'COSyOR ' AT NEWCASTLZ-UP ^ Njg ^ S ^ r . TY 5 E . ™" Hr . O'Connor keinred In the _ 2 ? ew MnsJc Baft , on Saturday evening , Mr . Sinclair in the chair . Mr . KTim , in a Tery able manner , moved the following rtsomticn , using many arguments showing the necessity of carrying it into immediate practice , « s tlie > est means of commanding that respect and ii'Sn toe © in society to "which they "were entitled as the TrfSducers of all thoEe comforts which the more comfortably-situated clasesenjoyed androV bed thent-oL . . .

      At this moment Mr . O'Connor entered the Hall , in company "with Mr , ^ Roberts , and was received Tvith deafening thunders of appl&nse After it had subsided , Mr . 3 L read the resolution : — M That in the opinion © f this meeting the plan of appealing to lie difftrest trades which has bten adopted in several districts may , by proper managejneot , become highly nse&l ; we do , therefore recnmanend the various trades to callmeetingB of their different bodies to bear deputations from the Chartists , and ^ to form themselves into bodies

      for the carrying owt of the same—That it is the duty of the Chartist public to encourage their Mends amongst the middle classes by exclusively dealing with ihem ;« nd we recommend that a canvass be immediately Bet-on foot , and that such electors as ¦ agree to support - ~ & Chartist candidate only , shall have the snpport « f a Ch&nist puhlic ' Mr . Roberts ki a very eloquent speech seconded the resolution , acd was fondly cheered at the -end of each sentence . He declared his unchangeable attachment to the cause of equal rights , and contended that nothing short of the "whole Charter could remedy the existing evils . He fully concurred with the object of the resolution moved by Mr . Kjdd , and begged to second the same .

      Upon being submitted to the meeting it was earned unanimously . The Chaisjiax then introduced Mr . O'Connor , ¦ mho was received with the most enthusiastic cheering and clapping of hands . After it had subsided Mr . O / Gokkok said , he felt great pleasure in again addressing his friends in Newcastle . Se was sorry that it should be said that his absence affected the cause of Chartism in this district . He could not believe that principle could he affeeted in any Each TT » y . It might affect the appearance , hnt never the principle . He approTed of the resolution proposed by Mr . Eydd . Mr . K . had referred to a letter of his ( Mr . O'Connor ' s ) on the subject . Mr .

      O'Connor said he always urged npon the Chariist 3 the utility of exclusive dealing ; it was a great means of bringing people to their ^ senses—fhear ) . The real object of the Charter was social happiness to all . He would not think it worth his while to spend the best of his life in sacrificing the more congenial pleasures of domestic felis 3 in agitation , if he thought it was to end in what was commonly called a mere politioal change . There are oiher agitators in existence , who > e sole » im is the aggrandisement of monpolizang capital . They never talked about the powers of that earth which God gave as an inheritance to man , without crossing to the continent for the baas of their assumptions . It were

      * misconstruction of iangnsge to eall them arguments . He VAi . O'C ) looked at home for the means of accomplishing his object . Land and labour were all he asked for his purpose . They asked money for theirs from those who * ere , by the social influence of wealth , coerced into their measures . They went xonnd their factories , begging shillings from their starred operatives . They have already thrown to the cocks £ 47 , 000 . Now , he believed they wanted another £ 100 . 000 ; and what did they promise in jetnrn . for it ! Long speeches for the peoplegood dinners for themselves—( hear , hear , hear)—and •? plenty" for the gullible about " big loaf , " and high wages . " He ( Mr . 4 > 'Connor ) said to the

      working classes , you are poor , and I want nothing from youfor my _ elf ; but I say , if you have anything to spare , give it for that object which is for jour benefit—namely , a ^ ecurity against want , and the fear of want . I say , take the working classes out of-the slave-labour market , and establish for them a free-labour market . I contend , when one ehannel of trade is closed , open another . The one I propose is , to locate the people -on the land . If this was accomplished , it would then remain with the masses to choose betweUT- the healthful vocation of agricultural labour and commercial misery i they could then please themsdves about living in their comfortable cottage or the miserable cellar . At

      present there wasnosnch choice ; every improvement in machinery was a sure forerunner to an additional surplus in " the labour market . The master then said , •* Accept my terms , or starve . " The operative had-no " power in the matter ; it was despo-Msm , and that , too , of the -worst description . His soul sickened , when he Tvalked the streets of our manufacturing towns , at the misery he everywhere beheld . " He felt warm when he Baw those who caused that misery pretending sympathy for the objects of their own creation . Many of the mill-© craey had made almost incalculable fortunes 5 and could no portion of that wealth be spared to relieve the distress they themselves bad caused ! The dirty rascals ate , drank , and rode at the expense of their slaves . AH classes of politicians "were turning their

      attention to the qBtstion of the Land ; they were dragged to it . He ( Mr . O'Connor ) would take this opportunity of correcting a mistake into which many honest men had fallen , and a few rogues had taken the advantages . It had been raid by EOme that He bad deserted the Charter for the question of the Land . This was not the case . No one who haa read his speeches attentively could come to such a conclusion . He would not give a pin for the Land in the end , if it was not hedged in by the Charter . All he asked was , a few practical experiments , by which to prove the benefit of the Land to the people when they gained their-political privileges . Mr . O'Connor continued in this strain for nearly two hours , and was loudly cheered throughout . After the cheering at the conclusion had subsided , he eoroHed 200 members of the National Charter Association , all of whom took eards of

      member-Jar . Ktdd moved a vote of thanks in his nsnal energetic style , to Messrs . O'Connor and Roberts , which was carried by acclamation .

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      THE DONCASTER FREE-TRADE MEETING : On Saturday last , the Great West Riding Free-Trade Meeting iwaa holden in the Cattle Market , where a large and commodious hustings had been erected . The meeting was called for two o'clock , in the Town Hall . At that hour Messrs . Cobden and Bright , accompanied by Earl Fitswilliam , > Ir . ChilderB , M . P ., W . S . Wrightson , Esq ., and others , proceeded to the Hall , and Mr . Johnson , an extensive millowner , was called to the chair . The meeting was then adjourned to the Cattle Market . There might be from I , 50 *) to 2 , 000 persons present . Great exertions had been made to procure the attendance of the farmers : bnt there were very few present . Mr . Bright was the first speaker , and dwelt at great length on the Jirjurious operation of the Sugsr and Cofi > e Monopoly . He advanced no new arguments ; but broadly asserted that every approximation to

      Free Trade had been attended with blessings to the country ; and that England ' s existence as a nation depended on the establishment of Free-Trade principles . A Farmer on the hustings several times interrupted Mr . Bright during his speech . Mr Cobden next appeared , and in a long speech endeavoured to shew that the farmers gained nothing by the Corn Laws . The boasted protection of the political Landowners , was no protection at all . The farmer most not be frightened by the bugbear of foreign competition : for the foreigner could jtct bring his corn into this country > t a less cost than the farmers paid for the whole of their rent : thus they bad a protection to the whole of their rent . After stating that tithes wire no burden ; and that our taration vas no greater than other countries , owing to our means of producing wealth , he concluded along speech of sophiBtry and fallacy , by calling on Earl Firzwflliam and the other

      landowsers to come out for " Free Trade . " Mr . " West then requested permission to address « e meeting , when Mr . Cobden said , O . for God's sake dontlet us have any more speeches to-day . " Mr . west —>» I think your principles erroneoo 3 , ^ t ^ SnS ^ miSChief ; imdIwiEh to ? r ° i ^ dS ^ : ^* ™™** *«*; _^ ' * ^ P ^ 5 ° ? . ' *> e meantime came forward to resolution in

      propose a faxonr of Free Trade He spoie at lengA on the usnal topics . Earl FiLz = rilliani seconded it in » 1 OB ^ speech . prmcpaUy condemnatory of ihe sliding scaleTHe said he had made inquiries how many quarters of wheat passed through Donc&ster , andi up theDon navigation , to bhemald ; and he found it to be 100 000 quarters annaally- and if the Sheffield trade was « Ar *^ , there wooia be more whest consumed , and they ^ wonld be benefirted in proportion . After some further remarks about Sheffield , he retired amid . great cheering .

      Mr . West and Mr . Gillenden , a working man , noi wished to speak ; but Mr . ChilderB , M . P . presse forward , evidently to speak against time , to tire tl people , and thns prevent the Chartists from maids an impression on the farmer ? . At length , whe they saw that West would not be put off , Mr . Briet said * * All parties should beheard . " Mr . Gillenden then came forward and faid , -tha as a working man—one who felt that he was a slai in hiB native land , he would never shrink from doii

      his duty to Mb country , even though surrounded ] titled peers and wealthy commoners . He had bee cat of employment for two years , and , in eommc with thousands of bis countrymen , bad suffer * irocger and destitution . He knew full well that ti cause that produced this state of things was claj leoblatioit j and that there coild be no permanei prosperity until thai was destroyed , which cou only be eftectually accomplished by the enactment < the Peopled Ch » rterafi the Uw of tboland . He won move tbefollowiBg amendment : — ** That while this meeting enters ite protei agaiastmoDppoly «> f a » j satf eTtry \ ii £ ; jci , Jed

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      it incumbent to declare that there is no hope for the destruction of monopoly until the monster monopoly of class-legislation is destroyed by a thorough Radical Reform of the Commons' House , on the principles contained in the People ' s Charter . " Mr . We 3 t came forward to second it amid considerable confnsion . He said he came forward fo * the purpose of statiDg to them his opinion ! on the question of Free Trade ; bnt as their % tience must be nearly exhausted in listening te the long speeches of the members of both Hon ^ s of Parliament , it was impossible for him to eiiter inio the subject to the extent thai Its impcrtancB demanded . Before , however , replying to some of the fallacies they had

      that day heard } be would state his honest conviction , after many yews' study , that the establishment of Free Trade principles , under the existing arrangements xX society , would be a curse instead of a blessing , « nd bring ruin upon hundreds of thousands of indastridns men . Mr . Cobden has laboured hard to prove to you that the Corn Lawa do you no good ; but we bid a right to expect him to point out the benefits that ¦ would follow their repeal . Has he done so ! tCries of " yes . ' ) Well , he < Mr . West ) did not hear him . Pray what were they 1 Are we to have " cheap bread 1 " ( CrieB of " no , no , " from the Whigs on the hustings . ) Well , that it something gained ! They used to tell ns in have

      the manufacturing towns we should " cheap bread , Bit » H wages , and plenty to do . " We denied it . Many of us were persecuted -for cur opposition to them \ and now they are coming forward and admitting all our positions to be tntf ! and appearing before the world as mendacious deluders of the public !! ( Mr . Bright : — w Come , now , West , don't be too hjvrd . " ) Are you to have extended markets ? Earl Fitxwilliam says I M Yes" ; that "if the Sheffield trad * is extended , } you will have more eorn come throngh your town "; [ but -whatsavsMr . Cobden ? for he is thb authority . ! Why , " if we have Free Trade , the Sheffielders will send their goods to America ; and the Americans will send their corn in return " . This will come into Liverpool , or Hull , and be conveyed up ] by railway ; and not from the farmers of Yorkshire ^ or by your ** Don navigation "—{ great interruption ) .

      But Mr . Cobden says , tithes ash so burthen " to you , because other nations have to pay for their religion as well as yon . Yes ; but they don't pay as much as you do ; and I think you will agree with me that tithes , which are a tax upon industry should be abolished , and that speedily too . Bnt will a Repeal of the Corn Laws do It ? No . Mr . Cobden knows this , and so he would fain persnade jou that tithes are ne evil . He also say 3 taxes have S 0 THI 5 G to do tcilh your competing with the foreigner ; but how stands the fact During the war , when paper money was plentiful , and prices high , the farmer had to give so many quarters of wheat , or ihe price of it , as his share of the taxes : when Peel ' s Bill was passed , prices felt ; Birr taxes did sot fall in the sake pbopobtion !

      and the farmer has to give to the tax-eater nearly one-half as much more of his produce than he did before ! Has the foreigner this to contend with ! No ; and Mr . Cobden knows it . The tax-eaters , the drones , the locusts , the fnndholdera , the parsons , the placemen , and the pensioners , are the great incubus that presses down British industry . The interest of the National Debt , at 3 per cent , is £ 24 , 000 , 000 a year ; or equal to the earnings of nearly one million of labourers at IO 3 . a-week ; and

      if those labourers had , on an average , only three to a family , there are three millions of persons handed over as , slaves for ever and ever to the fundholders ! Mr . W . t&en went into the " extension" question , quoting a Tariety of tables , and proving that reduction of wages had accompanied every " extension of commerce . " He concluded by asking Mr . Cobden if it teas true that he had been selling MoussRn De Lainesfrom his print tcorks , at about 100 per cent , of profit ; AND AT THE SAKE TIMS KfcDECUNG HIS WOBKHEff 5 & OUr OP ETKBT Is . 5 d .

      The Chairman then put the amendment and the original motion to the meeting ; when the amendment was lost ; although it was cheering to witness so many hands held up for it in such a quarter of the world . Mr . Cobden then came forward t « answer Mr . West's question ; and said , that " otto the profits he vas getting , he wished he could mike Mr . West prove his words ; and , as to the othkb , he always PAID AS HIGH WAGES AS AUT OKE EM 6 AGED is the trade , and would continue to do so . " Mr . West— " That is no answer to my question : Have you reduced your workmen of late hd . out of CC ' cobd ' en— "I CAN GIYE NO OTHER ANSWER" !!

      A vote of thanks to the deputation was then carried ; and , after three eheers for Free Trade and Earl Fiixwilliam , the meeting separated . It is but fair to state that Mr . Bright , Mr . Cobden , and Earl Fitzwilliam treated Mr . West with every courtesy and respect .

      The Noethern Stae Saturday, October 21, 1843.

      THE NOETHERN STAE SATURDAY , OCTOBER 21 , 1843 .

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      THE REPEAL PROSECUTIONS . THE BASE COHFBOUISI 11

      THE IRISH PEOPLE SOLD FOR THE PERSONAL SAFETY OF THE - LIBERATOR . " The all-important intelligence , given in osr last , will'have in some measure prepared onr readers for the " second blow" of the Government struck * within the last week j which blow , if Ireland had been *• ferf ^ by honest •* leaders , " might have recoiled upon those who aimed it ! bnt which , as it is , bids fair , even without the promised H blows" to follow , to

      annihilate the Repeal agitation , and send , —not back to its cradle , for it has outgrown ihatj—but to its grave , the giant power that might have won a nation ' s feeedom ; bnt which , misdirected , or rather treacherously sold by its leaders for the Bake of personal safety , seems to be doomed to add another to the long list of popular failures , which , in every country tinder heaven , have so often been recorded : strength ening the hands of rampant despotism , and burying in the tomb the hopes of enlightened patriotism !

      We again present our readers with a mass of information taken from the best sources , and giving the views of opposite parties ; by comparing which they may arrive at something like the exact truth . Indeed we may safely challenge comparison with aoy Weekly Journal in the empire , for the wellselected and ample intelligence to be found" in our pages , on all matters connected with the " Irish Movement , " or indeed of any * Movement" affecting the masB of the people ; placing us as it does in an unrivalled position compared with our contemporaries . Our readers will lack no means of judging whether our remarks this week are warranted by the events

      that have transpired . First , then , Mr . O'Coknkll , his son John , the proprietors of the JFr ^ eman and Nation , certain members of the Repeal Association , and two Catholic priests , have been held to bail to appear in the Court of Queen ' s Bench , next term , on a charge of * Conspiracy , " w Sedition , " and ** Illegal Meeting , " and with sundry other offences : all , however , coming under the vague and undefined charge of " Conspiracy ?

      Here we have the game of 1859 40 and 1842-3 played over again : ihe scene being now Ireland . 'Tis true there is some difference in the mode of * playing the gone" ; and " ploy" it iB , compared with the treatment which the ChartistB have suffered at the hands of both Whigs and TorieB . We-have said Messrs . O'Coknell and Co . have been " arrested . " We were not correct in so saying . First , a " very polite note" was sentto Mr . O'Conseix , from the -Crown Office , apprising him that " the Crown Solicitor had been directed to take proceedings against him , " and " requesting to know when it would suit Mr . O'Conkell ' s convenience to

      attend to enter into recognizances . " Then we are told that * Mr . Kehmis waited npon Mr . O'Con-» m , to know at what hour it would be convenient for him to give bail . " Mr . O'Connbll " goes in his own coach to the Judge's house f ** inspects the splendid and extensive collection of paintings f and , quite at home , shakes lands with the Jndge" 2 Now we dont envy Mr . O'Cohmell big good fortune ; stDlwe must congratulate him on his beinga Repealer webegpardon ; a FEDBSAZJST' ' we mean ,- and not a Chartist . Had he been the

      I latter , he might not have fared so welL He will ! remember that there was no "polite note" sent to I Mr . O'Cossoa , nor any anxiety shown to consult his i convenience . " On the contrary , he was waylaid by I a common thief catcher , and trapped on the road as j if lie had been a highwayman . The only " gentlemanly calls" made at the houses of Chartist victims , have been those of brutal policemen ; in many cases dragging men out of their beds , and tearing Jbeoi from their families without a moment ' s warning -Ujb only coaib" Sot English lictims has been the *

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      prison van , in which mea have been linked together like wild beasts , hand-crSed , and leg-chained ! In-Btead of " shaking hands with the Judge , " we have seen Magistrates insulting and oppressing , and Judges fulminating their coarse-abuse and political spleen against the men they were required ^ , honestly and impartially try . Instead of M iur pect . ing paintings in Judges'houses , " Chartist * offenders have been crammed into filthy and abominable dungeons , made to herd with felony ; aiuj treated with the ntmost indignity and cruelty : and all this befoke trial ! befobe EXAMINATION !! before being ALLOWED to enter into thkik recognizances !

      When the Chartiste , the poor Chartists , spoke their minds , they were persecuted : and Mr . O'Connell and his party denounced them for having brought themselves within the power of the law . But then it was Whig law : the law which was necessary to keep the Whigs in office . Now he gets a taste of Tory law : and cries out against the injustice i Have we not often told him , that the law is held in leash by the party in power , ready

      to be slipped at their caprice ! each using it for their own respective purposes . The l&w which persecnted the Chartists , Is the same law that now persecutes the Repealers . When it persecuted the ChartistB , it was justifiable ; but now that it persebutes the Repehlera it is tyranny 1 and instead of trying to alter the law , Mr . O'Connell is even now actually trying to make merchandize of Ub abate .

      We remind Mr . O'Connell of these things , because many a time and oft has ha made brutal jest of the treatment of the Chartists ; and hounded on the Government to their persecution . We remind Mr . O'Connell of these things too , because , when the Chartists were in his present position , and suffering brutalities and grievous wrongs , to which he is not subjected—they did not shrink and whine ^ hb is shbirking and whining ! They did not fat their own words ! renounce their solemn pledges !! offer tO TAKE LESS THAN THE WHOLE OF THE

      PRINCIPLES FOB WHICH THET HAD PREVIOUSLY CONTENDED ! 2 AND DASTARDLY COMPROMISE THEIR CAUSE joe the sake of personal safety ! ! !! No ; they were men : and stood stedfast in the hour of trial ! We request our readers to peruse attentively the copy of the warrant on which Mr . O'Connell and the others have been held to bail . They will there find that the Government-m / has been so widely and dexterously spread , that Daniel , with all his popularity amongst the jury class , will be fortunate indeed if h © obtains a verdict of acquittal . First , it will be

      seen that the accused is charged with "having unlawfully and seditiously conspired with certain other persons to excite discontent and disaffection ;" thus , as in the case of the "Lancashire Conspirators , " Mr . O'Connell maj be made amenable for , —because made to be connected with , —persons whom he never heard or saw ; but who may be charged with sedition uttered at Belfast , or Cork , or anywhere else ! We say " may be ; ' for it may be that the arrests are not over yet . The hdsteh" -order for the Clontarf gathering , and for which Mr . T . Mokoas , the Corporation Solicitor , Bays he is alone responsible , may be made to support the charge of M demonstrations of physical force , " to Bay nothing of the " monster "

      meetings themselves . The denunciations of the "SAXON , "—now cringingly , but too late , withdrawn , —may be&r oui the charge of exciting "jealousies and hatred between her Majesty ' s subjects . " All the harangues , laudatory of the private soldiers ; all the talk about "fixity of tenure "; is met in this document . The "Arbitration Courts" form a striking feature in the warrant ; on these ia grounded a charge of assuming and usurping the prerogative of the Crown" ! H Illegal meetings " follow ; " seditious libels" are lumped in with " seditious speeches "; and finally , the collecting and obtaining of the ** Repeal rent" is made an accusation , as having been a means to promote and effectuate " the alleged objects of the alleged ** conspirators " .

      Here is , as we have said , a net large enough ! We shall see whether Mr . O'Connell will make of that net a cobweb ! With the wicked and treacherous conduct of Mr . O'Connbll still fresh in our memories , when like snares were laid for the reviled Chartists , we still will not designate him and his friends as " WBKTCHES WOBTHT OF THE NOTICE OF THE Attobnst-Gsnebal . " Hoi Had we do other cause of dislike towards the " Liberator " , we should be content to forgive , and , if possible , j » obgxt . Bnt we have other and weightier charges against him .

      These prosecutions , if the Government . can procure a conviction , may serve it for a time . O'Connell may succumb under the lash of the law , as indeed he has already done . He may calculate on shelving the agitation , with a few lawyers' clap-traps in the Four Courts , and a few months of " martyrdom " in Kilmainham Gaol ; bopiDg that this will do for "his time . " Aye , and he may succeed , too . But will ihe struggle for freedom end ( here 1 ! Will the now awakened masses be for long content with such

      a return for their " shillings , " which , like drops from the heart ' s blood , have been wrung from their miserable incomes ! Will " Young Ireland" unlearn its " war songs , " and the " Spirit of the Nation" wither or die with the treachery of O'Connell ! We shall see ; but it strikes us that persecution , —found bo utterly powerless to crush Chartism in this country , —will not be found more efficacious in dealing with the democratic spirit of the people of Ireland , suppressed though the ery for Repeal may be in a whine for

      " FEDERALISM" ! ! . ' Do the Tories suppose that the means by which Whigs immortalized Chartism in England will suppress Repeal in Ireland 1 When did persecution ever yet change the current of opinion , except indeed it was to divert it for a moment from the principle , to the consideration of the best means to destroy the oppressor ? Chartism was persecuted ;

      and appeared for a season to slumber ; but it rose , not so much to advance its own principles , as to destroy the Whigs , who persecuted its votaries ! So with Repeal . The unjust and extravagant use of the law may for a Beason arrest the external progress of Repeal ; but the moving hind will go on ! and when it again breaks out , it will be in indignation against those who used persecution as a substitute for law I

      How has Mr . O'Connell met" blow the second ? We have before seen bow he met " blow" the first . We announced in our last , the astounding intelligence , that he , who had solemnly pledged himself never to enter the " Saxon" parliament again , had backed out of that pledge , and announced his intention of petitioning the " Saxon" parliament for ( "justice" upon those who had signed the Clontarf Proclamation . We announced that after all his revilings of the people of England , he had at length , in the hour of his adversity , implored the help of the English people ! These were strange tidings , no doubt , to our readers ; but we have stranger revealments this week to disclose ! Last week Mr . O'Connell was yet a " Repealer . "

      HiB language then was" The only tyranny he disliked was the tyranny of the Union , and the only oppressor he recognized was the enemy of Repeal . " w The Repealers would not shrink from their duty to obtain a National Legislatube again—( cries of No , never !*) No , they would not ; and he requested that those gentlemen who presented him with the address from the Loy *} RepealerB of Manchester , would inform their friends in that town that they were dbtesminsd to dsb etsby bffobt to effect x Repeal in a legal way , and to say that he ( Mr . O'Connell ) had no doubt of success , if the people took his advice—no more doubt than he had of the rising of to-morrow's sun—( great cheers ) . '

      ** It was manifest the Repeal was coming /—it was perfectly manifest they must hav « it on one condition —their not putting themselves in the power of their enemies . Bat this he told . them—to hava confidence in him —( cheers ) . Let him be sneered at , but he deserved their confidence—( enthnsiaetio applause ) . " Again"The more they proclaimed , the store prudent they would bs in adopting the meant ftr rffeclually

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      carrying thb ^ £ P £ AL . far , at least , he ( Mr . O'Connell ) w a 8 HOt n , uoh abashed by a proclamation —by the iastblow of toe sword—( great applause ) . No , p ; 0 was not in the least daunted , Upon the COI >' vrary , he was doubly sure of success , and he Called upon the people of Ireland to listen to him while he said that they then had an opportunity of making their country o nortonagain-r-doud cheers ) . All they had to do was to obey him—( loud cries of We will , we will . '") And he concluded in these very ¦ words : —

      " Hurra then , for Old Ireland and Repeal—( tremendous applause )! Whoever ( they would remember ) committed a crime gave strength to th « enemy ; therefore let Repealers pledge themselves to a perfect obedience to the law , and ho would pledge himself , and vow solemnly before the inhabitants of the empire , that he would never be taken away f rom the legal pursuit of agitating for a Repeal or the Union until he saw an Irish Parliament ONCE MORE silting in College-green—( # reat applause , which lasted for a considerable time , after which the Learned Gentleman resumed bis seat ) . " At the Repeal Banquet in the Rotunda .

      11 Mr . O'Connell said , —The next toast , gentlemen , is one that you will respond to with rapture , — "The Repeal of the Union "— ( long-conlinuod cheering ) . Having spoken so often on this toast , he should not trespass at length on the theme . One thing he would say , 1 HELAHD WO TILD NEVER ACCEPT

      OF AN INSTAIiXttENT OF THB REPEAL . THAT JUSTICE COULD BE OBTAINED FROM A LOCAL LEGISLATURE ALONE . " Now we think here are proofs enow of O'Connell ' s sentiments as a Repealer ! There is no mistaking anyone of the above sentences . Notwithstanding his absurd talk about "petitioning , " and " going back" to the " Saxon" Parliament , he was still an avowed Repealed "IRELAND WOULD NEVER COMPROMISE . " " Never accept an instalment of the Repeal . " Such was his language . But now , —only a week intervening , how shall we astonish our readers when we tell them that MR . O'CONNELL HAS AGREED TO COMPROMISE !

      Has offered to take an "INSTALMENT" OF REPEAL !! Yet so it is ! u 'Tis true , 'tis pity ; and pity 'tie , ' tis true . " We complimented Mr . O'Connell last week on the wise discretion he had shewn in forbidding the Clontarf meeting , rather than ri ? k the shedding of the blood of the unarmed people . Mr . O'Connell , in so doing , did perfectly right ; and had that been his worst offence , he might have laughed at the taunt of cowardioe flung in bis teeth by the bloodhounds of the Tory press . Again , on his " arrest , "

      he issued a letter to his followers , which will be found in our " Irish News , " imploring of them to observe "the strictest and most profound tranquillity . " This , too , was perfectly right . This it was his duty to do . But what then I His appeal to the people to join the ranks of the Repeal Association was responded to by hundreds of thousands . His demand for more " rent" was answered by the collection of hundreds of thousands of shillings , and the accumulation of tens of thousands of pounds . His requirement of the exhibition of the physical strength of his party was enthusiastically met by the

      assemblages of immense multitudes , numbering , according to the Repeal organs , from one hundred thousand to one million of enthusiastic and resolute Irishmen . And lastly , —hardest task of * all , —when the crowning demonstration was suppressed by Proclamation , ¦ and the people insulted by the spectacle of two or three thousand men-butchers trampling npon the rights of millions ; and again , when ¦ the u sacred person" of their darling leader was outraged by the grasp of

      the law , and that leader bid them preserve " profound tranquility" they'obeyed his orders . They have been profoundly tranquil ; and thus carried out to the very letter all his requirements , lho people have done their duty : is O'Connell prepared to do his t The people have fulfilled their part of the contract : is he ready to give them their reward f Is he leading the way to " College Green ! ' Is he ready with his machinery to carby the , REPEAL" and give to Ireland "herIndependent aud purely Irish Legislature " ?

      What haa been bis conduct ! What his speeches since the striking of this ** second blow" ! We refer our readers for tho answer , to his speech delivered last Monday , at the usual weekly meeting of tha Repeal Association , in the Cora-Exchange . Let every man peruse that speech attentively ; think upon it ; and then say whether ( the offer to " compromise" has not ( been made f First of all Mr . O'Connell attempts to wriggle out of his abuse of the " Saxons" t He " pledged himself that he would , in accoidance with the Chairman ' s suggestion , drop the word * Saxon' ! " This announcement was met by " laughter" and "

      cheering , " and " continued laughter and cheering . " The Corn Exchange patriots aro notorious for cheering anything that falls from Dan ; and truly we are not surprised that they should indulge their risible faculties with " continued laughter" at this Jim Crow jump of the "Liberator . " O , what a glorious revenge have the long insulted , long reviled , Saxon population , in this self-prostration ; this dirtlicking humiliation of . their foul-mouthed libeller ! But Daniel does not stop here . Having , as he thinks , made his peace with the " Saxons , " he forthwith eets about forming an "holy alliance" with them . He first announces that he " was ready to

      TAKE A DEPENDANT PARLIAMENT , if " offered him by the British Government" I- —[" . don't he wish he may get it'MJ—and thtn , by way of steadying { his ] t eaters , and allowing them to recover from the shook such announcement must have been , he proceeds to say that : — " He had received a proposition from a gentleman of high station in the popular cause of England , who was exceedingly anxious for the well working of any system that would give freedom by means of their own representatives to the Irish people—( cries of hear , hear ) . " We refer onr readers to the speech its ? lf for the above proposition . Mr . O'Connell proceeded to say : —

      "He met these suggestions in the spirit in Vf RICH THEY WERE DRAWN AND DICTATED ; and Jig told them what had occurred in the Association already ; and that if thb people of England , or RATHER A SUFFICIENT PORTION OF THEM , CAME FORWARD ,

      THESE WOULD BE NO DIFFICULTY * IN ARRANGING THE RE . PEAL ON THOSE DEPENDANT TERMS ALLUDED TO . It might be said that consenting to take a dependant Parliament was shrinking ; bwt iib cared not what taunt was MADE use OF . It was no shrinking . On the contrary , it took away from their enemies every argument that they could use against them . He repeated again that that Association WERE PLEDGED TO THIS . " And again : —

      " tie had spoken particularly of a federal Parliament , as 4 > meant by which Repeal could by obtained , and also likely to conciliate both nations , 'but it was not snch a one as he HAD looked for—( hear . ) He had before delated himself ready to accept a federal Parliament . ¦

      HE WOULD NOW REPEAT , THAT HE HAD BEEN ALWAYS , AND WAS NOW , READY TO ENTER INTO A 7 ARRANGEMENTS WHICH WOULD GIVE IRELAND SUCH A P ARM A mbwt , It had been hinted to him that many parties iu England would readily meet his views ou this point , if on the completion of Repeal , their arrangements should be of a popular nature . He would tell them in England that as soon as they had formed a parly strono enough to assist the Irhh people , HE WOU LD JOIN T . HJSM IN OBTAINING FEDERAL 1 ZATION —( oheere ) . HE W READY TO MAKE A CONCESSION so as to find out a common point of unity . "

      Now , let the reader go back , and read once more this man ' s solemn as ^ ervations , repeated ever and over again , only ou the previous Monday ; to keep in mind these sacred vowa" " registered in heaven" ! that" Ireland would never compromise ; " " would accept no instalment of Ru'Eal : " and that "he

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      would never bo taken away from the legal pursuit of agitating for a Repeal of tile Uuion , until he saw an Irish Parliament Onoe more sitting in College Green "; and then say whether thia man is not trifliug with the holiest feeling 9 of humanity ! Bartering a nation ' s aspirations , that the game of delusion may be continued 1 or "his time' ' Betraying the cause of which he is the all-powerful

      chief , to save from a gaol his own cowardly oarcase 1 We call this shrinking , " ietj him aay what he will . Peace and " profound tranqiiility" on the part of the people say we : but we falso Bay " measurespractical , peaceable , constitutional measures , to carry the Repeal" ! Not a betrayal of it ! Not a shrinking from those measures . '! Not a whining about "FEDERALISM" ! lj «

      But our readers will be anxious to learn who the " illustrious unknown" is , that " high in station in the popular cause in England , " has offered his assistance to the "Liberator" to obtain Federalism . Know ye , then , [ 'tis Joseph SturgeI the Brummagem Solon , whose legislative system is so " complete , " that it can be made to work either with a majority or minority ; ja man who did his little best to bring the principles of Democracy into con *

      tempt by setting at defiance the voice of the 5 people expressed through their representatives , and violating the principle that the majority shall rule . This is the man that is now helping Dan to hoist the rag of "Federalism . " Ah ! Joseph , it wont do ! Thr&e Millions of Chartists petitioned for REPEAL I and they will not allow you to hand them over to Dan , for compromise , as quietly as Dan hands over the Irish people to the Tauries !

      O Connell cannot blame us for his position . We have , in spite of himself , striven to aid him , and to promote the professed object of his agitation . We have borne patiently with his scoffs , and eoorn ; his calumnies and falsehoods . We have passed unnoticed the pitiable scurrilities of that miserable sycophant , Tom . Steels . We have refused to reply to the libels of his bribed press . We hare striven to undo the mischief he was doing in setting race against race , by labouring to promote a kindly and fraternal spirit on the part of the

      English and Scottish people towards their Irish brethren . And we beg to assure the gallant people of Ireland , that however much we may have felt it to b 8 our duty to comment in severe terms upon the conduct of Mr . O'Connell , we have but one feeling towards them , —that of sympathy j but one wish , —that of seeing them successful in the struggle for self-government . With them we will struggle against coercion , and against treachert ; against the despotism of their oppressors and the falsehoods of their leader . And we

      now tell that leader , —and m so telling him we speak the sentiments of the British masse . " , —that he shall have no assistance from them FOR thb humbug of federalism . If he has his " measures , " peaceable and constitutional , " " prepared for the carrying of Repeal , " let him go on with them ; and we are with him . If he cannot carry Repeal under present legislative arrangements , let him say so , and hoist the banner of the CHARTER as the means of rendering triumphant th « nig of Repeal . If he will do this , we are also with him . But no compromise ! No instalment ! ! NO FEDERALISM ! !! DOWN WITH ALL HUMBUG ! ! !

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      there would be no Labour at all , or social existence at all , if . " all taxation" was repealed I But while the League have developed this queer ' * new move , " we do not hear that they have moved to let the dapes who gave them the £ 50 , 000 know what , has been done with their money ! Now snob , a motion as that would be atteaded with some practical good . We should get to know how much John Murray has fobbed ! We should learn what has been the amount of his " taxation *'' , and should also be in some wise able to judge whether it would not be advisable to apply his doctrine of " freedom from all taxation" to himself .

      How comes the £ 100 , 000 on ? Does it come m fast f or only dribblingly ? 2 We fancy that folks are asking " what ' s the good of it !"

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      SHEFFIELD . —The Trades . —The Type-Founders still continue out on strike ; the masters in Sheffield being with those in London , bound in a heavy bond not to accede to the men ' s demand : although there is at present symptoms of a division

      among them . The men get well supported , considering that there are four trades out besides . The Table Blade Forgers continue out ; the masters stating that some of their demands are more than the state of trade will allow them to comply with . This has forced the Table inife Hafters out ; and as their demands are said to be reasonable , the masters promise them their prices as soon as the settlement of the disputes with the « ther trades will enable them to find them employment . The Fork Grinders are likewise out ; and in their address , which gives a horrible account of the pernicious effects of fork grinding upon tho human frame , they state that a very numerous class who work at the common articles

      CANNOT EARN MORE THAN SIXPENCE A-DAY , OF FOURTEEN hours labour ! when all the necessary « rpehses are deducted . C a WAR Angus . —Ou the evenings of Saturday and Monday last , a Miss Helen M'Donald from Edinburgh paid us a visit , and gave two addresses on " FtMALE Education . " The fair instructor drew the attention of her numerous audience to the prejudices that exist against females taking any part ia public bodies , either Secular or Religious , denounced the employment of the fair sex in Factories and Coal

      Mines , reprobated the System of Education as at present taught to al ! classes , both rich and poor , and brought to those present a comprehensive view of the evil effects of war , called on all to come forward and lend their aid both individually and collectively iu assisting her to give her sisterhood their social and natural rights , and to join the Temperance Movement as a means of freeing the mind of all from bigotry and superstition . Such lectures cannot out do good ; and soon may woman be in possession of tha * kn " owled ^ e and station in social society she was s 6 ciearly desigued to occupy !

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      THE NQRTHIBNS ^ ' ~ 1 " ~ ' ¦* * % . IV } : .

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      NEW MOVE OF IT HE LEAGUE . REPEAL OF ALL ] TAXATION !! We must call particular [ attention to the " new move" of the League , as developed at Wakefield on Friday last . j For years we have been expounding the doctrine that our difficulties , including the w verge of Bankruptcy" and " ruination" have sprung from excessive taxation : and that it was hopeless even to

      dream of being better , until we dealt with an almost untparing hand with that ticklish question . We have oftentimes Bet ) forth the gross injustice that would assuredly be inflicted on all classes of fa * payers , by any measure that would further depreciate prices of articles of produce , while our tax-engagements remained fixed in money-amount . We have also , times without number , demonstrated that any measure of free j trade must inevitably enhance the burden of taxation , unless the amount of taxation was reduced , bo as to meet the M altered circumstances of the country . "

      Hitherto , however , it has been impossible to get the Leaguers to touch the question . They have fought most exceedingly shy of it . Look it in the face they would not . Tackle it , they dare not . Now , however , the Rubicon is passed ! Now , however , the League have touched ! Now , they have handled ! and handled to some purpose , too Be it known , that on Friday , Oct . 13 . h , 1843 , Mr .

      John Murray , hired tool of the League ; paid emissary of that body ; and representative extraordinary of the League in Wakefield on that particular day ( having been sent down from London expressly J ; this said Mr . John Murkat , being hired and paid as aforesaid , did , before the face of hundreds of British subjects , and when acting on behalf of the League , propose that "Labour should be freed from all monopolies , and ALT . TAXATION" !!!

      Now that ' s what we call going the " whole hcg with a vengeance . ** Labour freed from ALL taxation" ! What will Sir Robert Peel say ? There is a blank look out for him ! Labour necessarily bears the burden of " all ' taxation . " Nothing ; nor nobody else , but Labour and the Labourer , can by any possibility pay taxes . "Labour is the source of ALL wealth . " "Free Labour from ALL taxation , " and you have ! no taxation at all !!! Again we ask , what will Sir * Robert Peel say ?

      We now get at the meaumg of the League , with respect to taxation . They are for maintaining " National faith" ** with a hook " . Johw Murbav , specially representing and acting for the League , proclaims that " Labour ought to be freed from ALL taxation . " What is the DEBT-man to do ! What is the army to do ? How ; is the navy to be paid ! Where are the " pRETtv misses" or the pension list to look ! How is the : civil list to come on ! Where is Albert to get his £ 30 , 000 ! What are 0 become of the peivy copacillors ? What of the iNircuBisTs ? And what of the salaried men ? O ! John Murray ! and O ! you the League ! What a hornest ' s nest you have thrust yonr ugly hoof into &t last ! 1

      For ourselves , we have never dreamed of"freeing labour f / om ALL taxation . " We have maintained that taxation ought , in justice , to be monstrously reduced : reduced from £ QQ , OQQfiQO to £ 4 , 000 , 000 a-year : but that is the extent to which we have sought to go . John Murra y and the League seek to sweep taxation away altogether ! ! ! Mr . Cobden once talked ^ of " arresting the wheels of Government . " John Murray , the paid representative of the League , has shown us how the League are to accomplish the " arrest" !!

      Say not , that this is not the intention of the League . Every Loagucr jin Wakefield voted that such was his intention ! jEvery mother ' s son of them voted that " ALL ^ taxation" ought to be abolished !! ' We must mention another extraordinary circumstance connected with jthis Wakefield meeting . AH the reports yet given ! to the world have been

      furnisked by the Leaguers themselves : and yet not one of them has set forth the wording of Mr . Murray ' s resolution ! They say | he moved one , " embodying the principles of the F | ee Traders . " The " em bodying" was suoh as we have set forth : it therefore follows , even according to ] their owu Bhowing , that it is a principle with tho Leaguers that Labour ; j . e . thb nation ; " ought to be freed from ALL TAXATION" ! 1

      What say the Labourers themselves , to such a doctrine ? Labour now seeks ; protection . Labour is taxed , —heavily enough God knows : and for that taxation Labour ought to wtli-protected . But what protection could Labour expect ; what protection would Labour be likely to have , if it was "freed from all taxation" ? Labour is badly off as it is :

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      THE LEEDS MERCURY AND THE LAND . The Mercury has given up the controversy ! To us "hehas not another word to say . " How could he 1 We have pinned him down so completely , that he cannot make another shift : so he is compelled to " give in" with as good a grace as bis saturnine nature will permit of . But when " giving is , " he reiterates his opinion , that in the " wordy" article to which he took exception , we " ruteuded to support and uphold the statement , that a profit of £ 300 a-year might be realized , after paying the rent of the land , and the wages of labour , from four aores of land ; " and he again avers that" no one could read the language of that article , without

      entertaining the Bame opinion . Now this we must again rebut ; even at the risk of being deemed " destitute of decency aud good manners . " We again tell the Mercury that this iB •* misrepresentation . " We again defy him to shew from our " words ? ' that any man could by possibility come to such conclusion . We again tell him , " vulgar and low-lived" as it may be , that he cannot , for his very soul , derive such an " opinion" from our " words . " We again tell him , . that the " statement" was manufactured by himself ; palmed upon us ; and he then ( most honestly > proceeded to combat , and refute it !! leading the world to believe that he was combatting and refuting our ** words . "

      His conduct , during this controversy , has been most disreputable . He first misrepresented ns ; wilfully misrepresented us . Of this we complained , and asked him to explain . We told him that unless he did vouchsafe such explanation , we should be justified in interpreting his silence into acquiescence with our accusation of wilful invention . He did essay an explanation" . In doing so , however , he passed ov « r our " words" entirely , and adduced a portion of a letter written and published four months before our " words " were penned , as

      his justification for attributing to us the " statement'' he put iuto our mouth ! We then exposed the . " trick . " . We called it an unworthy shift . We designated his conduct as dishonest ; we said he was a turning , twisting , eel-like opponent : and because we did so , the Mercury now says that we " are bo entirely destitute of decency and good manners , as not to be able to conduct a controversy on matter 0 ? fact without vulgar and low-lived abuse " . It i » " decent" to put u words" into the mouth of your

      opponent which he never used : it is " vulgar and low-lived" to expose the fraud . It ia" decent" to try to wriggle out of the mess , by bringing other people ' s " words" to uphold your assertion that your opponent made the statement you attributed to him : it is " vulgar and low-lived" to designate this as trickery , and to follow your shameless and dishonest opponent fully up , and lay him sprawling on his back in the dirty kennel of invention and falsehood !

      If the conduct of the Mercury throughout this controversy has been in accordance with " decency and good manners , " we are quite content to be considered as ?* vulgar and low-lived . " We know where his conduct has landed him ; and we know also that he has enabled us to crow " cock-a-doodledoo" over him most lustily . The Mercury ^ avers that we shrink from upholding the statements of Mr . . O'Connor , respecting the £ 300 CLEAR PROFIT , from four acres of land ; and that " we leave Mr . O'Connor and Mr .

      John Linton to their fate . " We do neither one nor theoiher . In the first place Mr . O'Connor never made such a " statement . " He gave a rough calculation from mehort , of what Mr . Linton had done . Mr . Linton , seeing that there were inaccuracies in that calculation , forwarded to us a plain and clear •* statement" of what had been the actual result of his experiments upon some three quarters of an acre of land . That " statement" bore out Mr . O'Connor ' s rough estimate in the main ; and on that " statement" have , ever since , been all

      our reasonings , calculations , inferences , and conclusions ( as well as those of Mr . O'Connor in the Star ) been founded . We have not " left" either Mr . O'Connor or Mr . Linton , " to their fate . " " The " statements" which we have made on the authority of either of those gentlemen , we are still ready to uphold , if the Mercury should again venture to gainsay them , or try to refute them . And in doing this , we will not try to pin him down , eyen to "decency . " He may be as " vulgar" and as " low-lived" as he pleases . The public

      will know how to discriminate between the argument and the "abuse . " The more of the latter , the less of the former . And , whenever we see a man shy off on the pretence of " vulgarity" and " Iow-livedne 8 s , " we always set it down that he is conscious that he is beaten ! Were it not bo , he would stand his ground , and triumph . Were " vulgarity" or "low-lived abuse" resorted to against him—the exposure of the one , and the exhibition of the other , would ba his justification . None but the really contemptible ever affect contempt .

      For the present we must desist . Other matters claim both time and space . Some other day , we will return to it . We have another Report of Mr . Baines ' s to bring before the public , to show that " the Land ; THE SOIL , is our only resource . " We shall dish that up for him some day ; and give some other matter that will tend to manifest the soundness of his advice .

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      LATEST NEWS FROM IRELAND . Mr . O'Connell has announced that he will defend himself on bis trial . Mr . Shiel is one of the counsel retained for the defence of the other defendants . Chief Justice Pennefather will preside on the trial of Mr . O'Connell .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 21, 1843, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct824/page/4/