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THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 23, 1841.
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PUBLIC ENTRY OF FEARGUS O'CONNOR INTO CUMNOCK . Monday , the 18 ; h October , will be » a "» y ever ttemorable in the annals of oar village history . I ] » nearly five years since O'Connor first visited us , and when we heard of hia intension to be amongst as © nee core , every Char tist vied with Ins " brother to sake Ms reoepaon Bach as we deemed bun worthy « £ Our Association has a splendid band , and a resolution was come to to turn them out in first rate style . According ly new dresses of rifle green were sroeured . and made gratuitously by the patriotic Jailers who « e members of the Association . The doth is rich , and the trousers and jackets being also richly braided with scarlet lacing , and each man keiaK prorided with a new military sash and blue
bonnet , gare to the patnov . e musicians a very imposing appearanee . It was agreed that the whole population should proceed in procession to Auohinleok , about a mile from Camnock , and where we met O'Connor upon his first visit . The day was the first jute one we had been blessed with for a long time ; aad great was the delight of the female Chartists , and all , when everything seemed to give earnest of satisfaction . Three o ' clock was the hoar appointed for meeting our friend ; and , although O'Connor had come from Glasgow , by Irvine and' Kilmarnock , a distance of nearly fifty miles , ye : sa punctual was ke , that all met at the very spot , without , a halt . Many true and zaalous Chartists from Sanquhar and New Mills , each distant seventeen miles froa
Camsock , joined in the process : op ; and four of the most respectable ladies of New Mills cauw for the -purpose of doing hoEcar to Mr . O'Coiaor . Abaat ten . jninntes * &ei three , the cavalcade began t * biot , « under their own banners . The eld DrumcJog fi > . g , under which the Covenanters of « ld fought * nd c jaqnered , and under which CConaor bad "frequently addressed as , floated in the bracza . Tfea Association band was in frost of the carriage , followed by the committee—then came the Scotch bagpipers and drummers , mode to wkiea the descendants » f Wallace are particalarly partial , la the rear followed tbe Tillage band , a splendid set of musiciaes , and the whole population « f the district ; and in tads order tke prooession marched , with a light step and
hearty « heering , orer the bridge to the Square , where a hustings was erected for tke speakers at the back « f the Market Place , and tastefully earpetted © rer . When Mr . O'Connor mounted the platform , the « hesrBig was deafening ; the multitude flocked to the fronts the day was Berate and calm , with a cimmct eua , and every window in the Square was instantly thrown up , and crowded with well-dressed ladies , aad the middle class men of the place . Only ome master , who , by quill-driving and banking , is emabled te employ ten Blares in a pottery speculation , refused a holiday to his men ; and never did we ¦ wi tness aaore sincere sorrow than that which was evinced bj those whem tyranny cooped np , when they would tare given worlds for a day ' s freedom .
Mr . Crawford , one of the Cumnock Association , was called to the chair . A truly patriotic and epirit-stirxing address was presented to Feargus O'Connor . A resoluti on was passed , approving of a great National Petition , and a determination to sign it ; and also one of unbounded confidence in Mr . O'Connor , who addressed the aeeting at considerable length , pointing o * t ibe general resulte which must flow from the Charter to all classes of society , and -especially to the middle classes , who 38 Tery existence depends upon the -eonsaiHmg powers of the working men . The whole of our middle class neighbours were in attendance ^ aad it was remarkable that as Mr . O'Connor w&raei in his Eubject , they pressed onwards to tke hustings . He spoke of his own position as a leader , aad asserted that there were better men thaa himself at the the head of the
movement . He entered fully into the grievances of his own country , and showed what the oppression of Ireland « ost Scotchmen and Englishmen . He made some smashing hits at the finality Whigs , and tally exposed the fallacies of the Corn Law Repeakrs , wbo would sere all means to arrest the present agitation . He ridiculed the idea of the existence of eoeh a thing as a Whig party , and said that now the battle was between Tories and Chartists only ; and , after a glorious display , concluded an address which gave general Batisf&ction , by observing that be had pledged himself to term an honourable union with the middle classes ,-but not such a one as the snbii * and yrilj require ; but one in . which the people shwdd give op pot a fraction of principle , bat for which the middle classes should surrender their ^ wtebe ts and opposition : and he begged to have it understood that in that union the middle
dieses should kaow that their places were in the rear , and the people with their Charter in the front . They bad lea the people into eocfUgrations , destruction , -violence , physical force , and plunder in 1831 ; bat they sever should do so again . He rejoiced that tbe ** hlood-ihxnly Chartists" had not shed a drop ot human blood—that the ** destructive HJhartisli" had not "violated the rights of property or destroyed & particle belonging to any human being . And cow , aid he , I will put this question to the middle classes around me : Has not the great opposition to the Charter arisen from the strained upposition that the people would become licentious and unmanageable , in short , a kind of freeboaters ? while I point their attention to the fact that even they and their servants in parliament admit that never was there a period 4 > f equal distress , to that which the whole people have calmly and peaceably
endured fa two long years , and until the philosophers can prove to me that more danger is to be apprehended-from a well 'boused , well clad ,, well fed , aad ontented people , than from a houseless , aakei , starring , dissatisfied-community—until that paradox is Botr&d , I , at all events , shall contend for the bouse , tbedotbes , the food , ancFthe contentment . Id fact , sakLfae / those whom we have too long trusted with pernicious power , which they knew not how to ose , aow refuse to the people the only power which can sare-all classes . He made a home eharge upon these who would trump np the ghost of physical force , lor tie mere poxptee of disorganizing our "ranks , with the intention of marshalling a tail of moral force working m * n as an appendage to the middle class Whist ,-to force their own political party o&ee Bore into office upon a clap-trap administrates questioner upon the general principle of
"GREAJ COMMERCIAL-REFORM . ' This portion of Mr . O'Connor ' s speech has gone iunfeer to disarm a party in this town who ' was actually laying the foundation of each a union , than if he bid spokea for a month . At the close of Mr . O'Connor ' s address a vote of tkanks to our -excellent Chairman was carried by acclamation , and after tkree cheers f « O'Connor and the Charter , 4 be procession again formed and proceeded to the hand inn , the u . Dumfries Arms , " where an excellent dinner was laid out in ite largest room in the hotel , and wfckk was crammed . Our opponents say that ws have fe * eoine aristocratic , as the present is the first occasion apon which we could get acees 3 to the baant of the aristocrats < tbe head inn ) , but now our friends are beginning to discover that the ready pence of the nrillreni is preferable to the stray pounds of the nobs , which , like angels ' Tisitg , are not only few and far between , but are also like aageb , hard to be caught . '
THE DINNER . Nothing could have been more creditable . than the Banner in whieh the poor men arranged their repast , which consisted of everything that the season afforded . Not only wa 3 everything served in the best style , but , what seldom occurs at the aristocratic feasts , the attendance was unexceptionable . After grace was said by the Chairman of the meeting , the noble u workies" bf gaa the feast ; and . with the exception of a good appetite nninjured by dissipation and the nightly revel , they ate with knives and forks , and carved very like other men , none either cutting their throats or poking out their eyes . One thing which might be said to distinguish the banquet from those of the aristocracv , was not the total absence but the very moderate use of wines , spirits , and intoxicating drinks , the greater number being teetotallers ; aad those who did indulge , doine » with the greatest moderation . 6
When the doth was removed , thanks were returned to the beneficent donor of the feast and all other things , by the Infidel Chabtists , as the most religious people are designated ; and the company , again beaded by the band , proceeded to the Cnartist Hall , to spend the evening in the enjoyment of " the feast of reason and the flow of soul ? ' So gTeat was the desire of the middle classes to bear Mr . O'Connor more in detail , that when the doors were opened they for the most part appeared to have provided themselves with tickets . The hall was crowded to suffocation . Mr . Cbawfoud again resumed the chair . "" The first toast was ** The people , " which was ably
responded to by one of © ur Association . The next was ** The health of Feargus O'Connor , " whose services having been briefly spoken to and eulogised by another of our body , Mr . 0 * Co 5 kok presented himself , and was greeted with a cheer that made the village ring . He opened a hot aad bitting battery upon toe fortress of corruption , and finding the middle classes present , h « made the most powerful appeal we ever heard to their lsTe of jntcee , lore ef country , love of peace , and hire of self-interest , on behalf of the misgoverned petple . He traced from them , as the source , every grievance under whieh the people laboured . He adrerted to theiureee&t woeition of Spain , and the part
which France and Rose * would take in the European itruggte which , the revolution now threatened to provoke . He also referred to the proclamation of tin President of the United States , for the purpose « f suppressing ( hat hostile feeling ' which the acquit * tai of M'Leoo . Bright engender towards England , aad which promised to end in retaliation upon the C * ztadi « a frontiers . Ho pointed oat the danger of Stopping the expression of public opinion , which iras society ' s safety-valve , and adverted to the consequence of tyranny in France , and other countries , where the people were not allowed to assemble for $ e purpose of discussioa . There ( said he ) the ¦ citecfol community may go to bed in conscious peace , mad rise ia revolution ; a dub , a school , a college , an ABoeiftties , can provoke an emcuic ; but . as
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Burke said of English agitation , it is as % 9 "Hue and Cry , " which alarms the inhabitant ^ m ^ . cls : m 3 the thirf ' s approach . After a r ^^ shockin g sad heart-rending account of the opfVattves of I * nr cashire , Yorkshire , and England ' xftttBrally . which crew tears from many an eje . fc , £ a pUlia and simple statement be fore the middle classes , not having machinery themselyes , of the effects which it must inev ' i ^ bij ^^ npon ^ persons with small capU- ' / s of real money , who being driven fronrtbe If /^ j gambling table , wore ccmpelled to vest their ^ ^ banking speculations , railway speculations , ^ wdng speculations , foreign funds , and small ga- Ab& * , and over wbioh ttey had no oontrool ; a 4 the first intimation of profit and loss which th' jy received , after having paid np taeir snares and « MMnttt&d th&ir mmmraont tn
directors , was , d » at the speculation had not been successful ; and -fcctr capital was divided between attorneys , asr ^ Mn ot t ke concern , eoBuaissionera of bankrupts , , azftall the tribe of tultaaeB who tari ** upon man ' s aoatWea ^ e aad his inaHUty to make profitable tra £ o with a small capital of real money ,-wnen ob liged to contend against the -Leviathan of fictitious , wealth . In speaking of the Whigvaad weir s ' / a ^ | erB % he wid how paltry , Jiow despicabto , how ' ieceijfol , after ten years of Knparalleled pro * niga ej and useless expenditure ; after tickling every risi ^ Ve feature of royalty and the aristocracy ; afte r having eshauBted the Ezeheqaer ; after having T oted £ J 0 , 000 , —having proposed j £ 50 , 000 a year to the Queen ' s hoaband ; after having given £ 74 , 000
to royal horses ; then to ask that the Parliament should not be prorogued until the cause of the prevailiag distress had been ascertained . Why , said he , < epen the Whig ledger , even to the secret service moaey , and therein you will find the cause of distress . You will find compensation to idlers for loss « f office which was a sinecure ; you will find comsensation to the lordly batcher and aristocratic tyrant ; but when machinery displaced man from his natural position , we heard not a word -of oompensation for the deposed , the starving , the aystemmade the virtuous , bat unwilling idhr . Mr . O'Connor spoke for nearly two hours in a rapid strain of the most brilliant eloquence , and was rapturously cheered all through , the middle ola&ses joining in the applause , and paying the most unwearied attention . At the close of his speech , three cheers were called for , and three times three
were given ; aod though considerably exhausted and Overpowered by the heat of the eufiocating meeting , he started for Kilmarnock in an open carriage in the dead of night , a distance of sixteen miles , through a cold bleak country . The band and procession accompanied Mr . O'Connor out of the town over the bridge , and followed him with chsers which echoed from our hills through the stillness of night , and roused the sleepers from their repose , telling them that while they took rest their friend was working for their country ' s regeneration . The effect of O'Connor ' s visit will be long remembered ; and the result ha 3 been even already an anxious inquiry among the middle classes , whose rancour ia not only abated , but has actually softened down into promised co-operation . It would be impossible to attempt a description of the delight of the working classes which Mr . O'Connor ' s visit has caused .
Kilmarnock demonstration tekes place to-morrow ; and so great is the enthusiasm at Kew Mills , that the whole people arc determined so go in procession , a distance of eight miles , to do honour to their friend .
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ANOTHER TRAP FOR THE PEOPLE . s the early part of the present week , a fine exemplification of the tricks resorted to by the enemies of Chartism and the people was brought to our office , in the shape of a very large and attractive placard , printed at Manchester , and purporting to be a convening of two meetings in Carpenter's Hall , for furthering tho objects of " The Daily Bread Society , " an infamous conspiracy lately Bet on foot by A section of the Plague" men to entrap the people into an illegal combination , and so lay them open to the raking fire of a " stroBg Government . " The placard in question was most gorgeously " displayed , " and the following iB a copy of it : —
tt PUBLIC MEETING of the Men of Maicchestkb will be held in the Carpenter's Hall , Garratt Road , on Thursday evening , Oct . 21 , 1841 , and a Public Meeting of the WOMEN OF MANCHESTER will he held in the same place , on Friday evening , Oct . 22 nd , 1841 , on the former of wkich occasions an address will be delivered on the best mode of obtaining the repeal of the Foed Taxes , as the road to the PEOPLE'S CHARTER , or to something better , accompanied by some statements respecting the conduct and proceedings of the Man Chester Anti-Corn Law League , which it is hoped they will attend and hear .
" On the second occasion will be delivered an Address on . the Political and Social Rights of Women , pointing out the means to their attainment through the Repeal of the Bread Tax , by MR . HILL , Honorary Secretary to the National Daily Bread Society , Author of Daily Bread , the Bread Eater ' s Advocate , &c &c . M Admission to the body of tlie Ball , One Penny ; Gallery , Twopence ; Platform , Sixpence , to defray expences . u Geo . P . Jennings , 6 , Blue Boar-court , Manchester . "
The tricks to which these Anti-Corn Law gentry are compelled to descend to get an audience together to hear their fallacies and sophistries , is good evidence of the progress of sound and honest enlightenment on these subjects among the working men . In this placard , the words Public Meeting , " M People ' s Charter , " and " by Mr . Hill , " are printed in the largest type that could possibly be got into the breadth of the sheet ; doubtless with the idea of inducing parties to attend , from the supposition that it was a Chartist meeting , to be addressed bj the Editor of this paper . We have not heard the result of this palpable ruee ; but it requires
not much penetration o see that it is eminently calculated to defeat itself ; because parties who might have een thus entrapped were not likely to > be long in discovering , or slow in resenting , the cheat practised on hem . The people are not now to be led by men . Past services and established reputat jon are not now received as substitutes for principle . If the Editor of the Northern Star should pres ime to prate the nonseus 9 of the " Daily Bread Socit tj" to any meeting ef the men and women of ilanc bester , he would be very deservedly treated with a b little ceremony a 3 we dare say was bestowed upon t . us p&eude " Bread Eater ' s Advocate . "
The t ail of the placard tells us , that the " Mr . Hill" th « rein referred to , is the author of " Daily Bread" z « d the " Bread Eaters Advocate , " &c . ice-Two num bers of this "Bread Eater ' s Advocate" have been sent to us by some friend , whom we thank ; and their conk nts induced us to buy the book referred to under th i *«!« " Daily Bread . " We find it to be a rascally i . isidious plot to take advantage of the
extensive nn popularity of the corn laws for bringing the people into collision with the law . That we » may not be suspected of misrepresenting the character of this "Daily Bread " pamphlet , and ; < be society to which it has given rise , we give its character from its own champion , the Leeds Times , *« quoted in large type , and with no small air of triu mph by the Bread Eater ' s Advocate himself . The Leeds Times then says i—
w There need be ' ao mistake' abont tho Daily Bread Society . It is : AN ORGANISED PLANverfect ' y legal , and i ' notifiable we think , in a moral point olview-FOR j 1 SEAKING THE LAW ] 3 " And this , too , from the ehiet organ of the " philosophical Radicals" ! the" Uonl philosophers" !! the "Rational Chartists" 1 J . I * i » e mveighers against the physical force doctrii « s of Feajujos O'Comjsob and his wild associates" III ' We Bay nothing about the logical consistency of a ¦" legal organised plan to l . * eak the lav " . ' We leave that plume to adorn the £ &P of our " learned " neighbour , along with his bells' i
This " organised plan for bre iku ? g the law" has been also highly spoken of by . ^ s Morning Chronicle , and other Whig papers . Thus it nai ever been that our greatest task is to combat the incitements to viole * ee of the lying scoundrel * , who are ever ready to d wrj their own doctrines , and to hand over their dupes to punishment . In his introduction to . " Daily Bread , the Author
says , that he M i 3 in no way connected with the persons who hare taken the name of physical-force Chartiste . " To what " persons" does th e " Daily Bread" man allude ! Wenever heard of such pereonB . Wehaveheard much outcry and much denunciation of physical force item " vendible scoundrels , " " i \ iffian slaves , " " conspirators , " and " members of revolutionary clubs , " such as they of the Morning Chronicle , the Globe , the Leeds Times , and the Bread Eattr ' s
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Advocate ; but we have seldom found more direct incitements to physical tiolenoe than those which abound in 00 many of the missives of this u Daily Bread Society , " as have come under onr notice . The object and purpose of the " Daily Bread Society" as stated by its found ** , is to "resist , " te . f * evade , " and * break through " the law ; and the following ia a brief sketch of the mode in whioh they propose to do i * .
Societies are to be started in all the large towns , having tor their object the abolition of th * Corn Laws . These are to be called "Daily Bread Societies . " Everybody who contributes one penny is a member : he receive * a printed card , or ticket , which constitute * bis membership ; and these pennies are to be employed in sending out ships te bring over foreign 4 OL to our shores , to be landed noknt volens ; and the people are gravely advised , if the Queen should object to repeal tlie Corn Laws , to march np to the water side ia companies of tenor twenty thousand , armed with " empty bags , " for the purpose of defying the preventive service and landing their corn without paying the duty I Is there a mooncalf in existence so foolish as not
to see that the author of this atrocious plan means one of two things ? He either means to organise an armed resistance to the law , or he means to lead the people into collision with the authorities , for the purpose of haying them slaughtered 1 We care not upon which horn of this dilemma he may choose to hang himself ; from both he cannot escape . We guess his ten or twenty thousand ** empty bag "
bearers would find something harder and heavier to carry than corn , after but a very short altercation with the military . And hear the cool manner in which this fearful consideration is disposed of by the Bread Eater ' s Advocate . In No . 1 . is an article containing an enumeration of " objections which might be urged against the National Daily Bread Society , with answers : ' one of these objections is the very natural and obvious one : —
" That if the people took the corn out of the ship , or out of the bonding warehouse , by force ; there might be loss of life . " This objection the writer , " who is no way connected with the persons who have taken the name of physio al force ChauislB , " and who considers it " a mistaken course to stimulate the people to acts of violence , " replies to in the following terms : — " That the Corn Law could not be imposed
without bloodshed , nor continued without bloodshed , was not admitted as a reason why it should not exist ; for be it recollected there was Corn Law blood shed in Westminster in 1815 , and Corn Law blood shed at Peterloo in 1819 ; so that even if it were certain that it could not be repealed without bloodshed , it by no means follows that it should be suffered to exist . England has some noble ' Romans' wbo would willingly lay down their lives in such a holy cause .
" Oh she has Sons that never , never Will stoop to be the Landlord ' s Slaves , While Heaven has light Or Earth has graves . " " When Barbaroux sent a message to Marseilles that they were to send him * six hundred men who knew how to die , ' the call was quickly responded to ; aor would suoh a call to Manchester be long unresponded to , though it is hoped it may not be necessary I !"
After this sample of the " moral force" teaching of this Bread Eater ' s Advocate , it is quite unnecessary that we should caution our readers to have nothing to do with any Bucb " perfectly legal" enterprises as that of the Daily Bread Society . We have always counselled the people to regard as enemies those who would bring them into collision with the law . We do so still . And we tell them that the founders and abettors of this " Daily Bread Society" are either the most incorrigible fools , or amply deserving of the mild epithets , vendible scoundrels , " " ruffian slaveB , " " conspirators , " and " members of revolutionary clubs" which they belch out by wholesale againBt the people who have more
sense than to be gulled by them . We strongly suspect , indeed , that their vocabulary is the result of a somewhat close acquaintance with their own characters . But , in either case , whether knaves or fools , they are unfit to be trusted . And that they are one of the two , can be doubted by no man who has read the Bread Eater ' s Advocate and its grave recommendation , that an indefinite number of starving men shall put their pence into the fob of some " Daily Bread Collector , " without any guarantee for seeing or hearing anything more of their money ; and that if perchance it should be rightly appropriated , they should march in groups of 10 , 000 or 20 , 000 , with " empty bags" upon their backs , to ask the military to shoot them 1
We should not have noticed this contemptible abortion of the Plague , but or the trick to which it seems they are resorting , of attempting to pass off their illegal " conspiracies to break the law" as modes to be adopted by the people for obtaining the People ' s Charter . Of course we need not say that these " Daily Bread" men , have no more intention to do any thing for the attainment of the Charter , than
they have to bring down the moon in one of their " empty bags . " Lest , however , there should be any doubt upon this matter , the Bread Eater's Advocate has very kindly pnt it beyond doubt . In No . 2 , is an article be-praising Col . Thompson , not for his support of nnivereal suffrage , for which he really deserves praise , but because " Col . Thompson had the judgment to see the advantages of a repeal of the Com Laws before most other men . " From tbafc article we
give the following extract , which settles the question of what the Daily Bread men mean to do with the Chartists , if they can hook them into an unition : — " If the operatives and the Chartists of Lancashire and Yorkshire , the men of Birmingham , and the men of Scotland , want to kill two birds , the Corn Law and the restricted Suffrage , they are actiDg wisely to choose for their leader the best man for shooting woodcocks . He will be a good man to decide , too , whether we ought to try to kill two birds at one shot , or . if we abk to havb two shots , which WE SHOULD BRING DOWN FIBST . "
The question needs not the talent or the shrewdness of Colonel Thompson to decide it . Let the Chartists do one thing at onoe , and that with all their might , or they will assuredly find themselves unable to do anything worth doing . Let them keep on the high road of Chartism , and beware of byepaths . And , above all things , let them eschew the " empty bags" of tne "Daily Bread Society" ! Let them adhere to their own legal and peaceful acits , tk » n for their own Charter . Let them—we
again repeat it—spurn from them , as a poisonous viper , the wretch who counsels them to break the law . Never were 60 many cobwebs spread for the poor flies as now t The oppressive hand of faction has heaped npon the people misery and destitution almost beyond bearing ; the grasping hand of Capital has folded in its vile embrace almost the whole media of production ; the l abourer , supplanted at his hearth and become a surplus drag , must be got rid of ; and the soil must be rendered valaeless that the ** merchants , who are princes , " may tell their oonntless hoards and revel
in their luxuries without the presence of the hated competitor ia tie person of the landlord , or the stili more hated drawback in the person of the breathing , starving , but not needed slave . To accomplish these objects many have bean the effort * of the monster ; crafty and subtle his devices , bat all eruel and relentless in their nature ; and of all these the crowning one is this same ¦ . •* Daily Bread Society , " which literally seeks , in the crafty langn » ge of its founder , " ' to kill two birds with one stone I * There can be no doubt that the iatention of the " empty bag" processions
is to accomplish two things at once : to obtain a large thinning of the "surplus population , " by the musket , the halter , and the transport ship ; and at the same time to create a popular demonstration which shall intimidate the Gorernment and compel them to elevate the commercial upon the ruiua of the landed interest . 'Tis a deep devilish plot , aud well laid ! The rascals well know the character of those with whom they have to deal . They know that a strong JEary Government may not be trifled with ; that ^ ifcrili stand no nonsen se ; that it will bear bat Ittfle l ^ geririg . t « fore it " shows fight " :
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that any demonstration of physical reaistanc « will at once bring the well-trained and organizad physical force of the ruling power into play , and the people will be shot , Babred , hung , and transported , with brief sirjft and little ceremony ; while they know also the character of Sir Robert Pan . ; they fcbbw his conduct oh ¦ previ 6 u 8 occasions ; they Ichow bis connection with , and ; dependanoe on , the Money-Monster—the funded and cotton-spinning interests ; they are quite aware that if they o » n bucceeflfully organize suoh a rebellions display of physical violence , as this they hint at , Sir Robert ' s Gorernment will <* first quell the outrage" and then
repeal thetbrn Laws ; frue ; it is all but certain thata repeal . i 0 yb Coxa . Xl ^^ j ^ er ' suc > circomfiianees would be attended with farther measures for the more perfect knee-banding of the people ; most likely by a restriction of the franohise—and certainly by some measures of oppression wkioh would make the condition « f the people even yet more unbearable than it now is ; This iff what tted money-monBters , the masters of the " Daily ^ re * i linen want They want to soe the social sUv ^ of the people perfected ; and this vile concoctioni oife ^||^ m 6—a "legal ' scheme—to break the Uw % ib 44 *|> B , as a hopeful means of accomplishing it . ;^ , ? " % .
Chartists , beware ] there can be no such thing as a "legal" society whoso object ia "to break the law . " " The Daily Bread Society ^* te an alto gether illegal conspiracy . As an illegal Boclflty , its public aots involve all its members in their consequences ; the possession of one of their penny tickets makes a man a member , and exposes him to all the consequences of belonging to as decidedly illegal a society as ever
existed in this country ; every member is liable for all the illegal acts committed in the name of the society by the self-appointed committee of this conspiracy against the law . No man , therefore , who has common sense will be a member of "The Daily Bread Society ; " whatever difference of opinion may exist apon the merits of the " plague" question , " THERE NEED BE HO 4 MISTAKS' ABOUT THE DAILY BREAD Societt . "
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« SAVE US FROM OUR FRIENDS . " It i 3 our maxim always to nip an evil in the bud . Elsewhere we have given a caution to the people against a new trap laid for them by a section of the anti-Corn Law men . We have now to caution them against over-zeal , or that form of treachery which is often hard to be distinguished from it , in our own camp . We hare suffered severely from this cause in former times . Let us " stand away" from the beacon which has been erected . Let not all we have done , and all we are doing , b » rendered useless by the treachery or folly of a few individuals .
We have been induced thus to write from a perusal of the speech of Mr . Black , at Sheffield , reported in our last number . The hurry of business caused it to escape our particular attention last week ; but , on deliberate perusal , we find it fraught with most mischievous sentences ; such as , while we doubt not that they emanate from a very honest and good feeling in the speaker , are capable of being wrested by our enemies to the damage of oar
cause . After speaking of the state of Wales , and the necessity of lecturers , he goes on to say : — " That men , like Harney and himself , must not be employed , for they were not fitted to preach patience to an oppressed people burning fob vengeance and FftKKDOM . " Again , speaking of the Welsh mountaineers , he says ;—" Aye , they have sworn to die rather than bear with iujustice much longer ; and their ardent hope was , that the day would speedily come when they would hear that their English brethren were risen to a man to demand their rights ; and when that hour came , Englishmen might be assured that Welshmen would not ba found in the back ground . "
Further on he says : — " Should the Tories attempt to do the same as the Whigs , and seize our Champion , O'Connor , I trust the people will proclaim their resolution ; and act upon it , too , to have man for man . " , Now , we ask , seriously , are we to have the follies , absurdities , and denouncements of 1839 over again ! Are we to lay ourselves open to prosecution merely to pander to the self-conceit of persons who , like Mr . Black , suffer their i ; al to outstrip their prudence !
And if we permit the honest and well meaning thus to " run riot" in imprudence , and cheer them in it , where are we to stop ! or how are we to distinguish a simple honest man , which we think Black to be , from a mouthing , desigaing knave—who has a point of treachery to serve f The history of popular agitations in England shew this remarkable fact : that whenever they attain a powerful position , the Government always tries , by means of spy instigators , to entrap the people into premature outbreaks , for tchich the honest and enthusiastic are always sure to suffer , and the spies to be rewarded . The " Cato-street conspiracy" for
which Thistlewood , Ings , Davisom , Bbunt , and Tidd , were hung and beheaded , and for the getting up of whioh Edwards and Castles , the spies , were rewarded , is an instance in point ; the risiags and outbreaks in Yorkshire , Derbyshire , and Lancashire , in 1817 , for which so many hundreds were imprisoned , Bbandbeth , LcoLOW , and Tobmer were hung , aud many were transported , but for whioh Oliver , the spy , was sent out of the kingdom by the Government , with a snug commissionership , is another instance in point ; the career of Richmond , the spy , in Scotland , is another instance ; and wo tell our readers that the-late disurbances at Newport , and Sheffield , and Bradford , and Dewsbury , for which Frost , Williams , and Jones , so neatly lost
their heads , and for . which they are now banished their couutry and forced to herd with the veriest outcasts of society , and for whioh so many good men and true have been imprisoned , is another instance . The truthful and honest wero there punished ; but the instigators—the getters-up , where are they ? Have they been sentenced to be hanged and beheaded ! Have they been transported \—Have they been imprisoned eighteen months in York or Lancaster Castles \ No , mo I not they , indeed ! Have they not rather been suffered to slip off the political stage into retirement ia effectual as if the broad waters of the Atlantic trolled between some of them and us ! Yes , wo heard not of those who planned the whole affair—who proposed " secret societies ;"
who entrapped Frost ; and who would have sent hundreds more to the gallows but for our discovery of the hellish plot and instant note of alarm ; we heard not of these parties being apprehended and prosecuted for " high treason , " though we happen to know that evidence was in the possession of the " authorities , " whioh would inevitably hate convicted them , had the govsrnment dared to prosecute . What , then , with these instances before him , is Mr . Black about t He must surely be demented ! Does he not know that his " mighty myriads " ( if they resorted to physical force ) could all be routed by a regiment of soldiers I—
Has he not seen enough of 1838-9 , to witness how the palsy ef weakness comes over as the moment we outstep the law 1 Any how , if he does not , we must show him that such follies shall not be tolerated . We are astounded at the men of Sheffield cheering such 8 entuBettt 8 . Where has our cause suffered more from the ' talk" of physical force than at Sheffield ! We implore the people , for the sake of Ire land , —just beginning to see our principles —; for tne sake of the thousands who will be planged into
misery , if men Jike Black be listened to , resolutely to set their faces against all allusions tcCorceand bloodshed . Good God ! are we again to reach the very threshold ot freedom , and again Ur have our hopes blasted by thetreachery ermadnessot ' onr own party ! What good will the War of last wttek do in Ireland ! Will not the O'ConNEtLirEa point triumphantly to Black ' s epeooh at Sheffield as s proof that we are torch and dagger men ! How can HioaiNS aad Bboput disprove them when they bare sedition in black and white ! These tirades must
BB DISCOUNTENANCED ; OR EYEBY GOOD AND VIRTUOUS MAN WILL F 0 B 9 AKE US , AND ALL OUB EFF 0 BT 8 WILL BE VAI , H . Nothing on eacth can stop us , if wb only keep within the law l The middle classes of the towns
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will very soon be Chartists to a man . The Specta ' . or and NmcomformUt are coming out : everything around us is full of hope and promise . Shall all this be blasted Sy some foolish outbreak ? Heaven forbid ! What would PbbI , give for another Newport 1 Let us beware , them Let us be as cautious of ourselves as of theeneiny * Let prudence govern , and determination actuate , and nothing can resist our efforts .
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THE LEEDS HOUSEHOLD SUFFRAGE
; : # Vi _ . MEETING . . .. . . We hava had many glorious triumphs to record in the onward struggle for the Charter , but we never remember to . have witnessed a mow decided defeat of the most deep-laid piece of sophistry ever attempted by the Fox and Goose Club , than th * t obtained over them , in their own meeting , held on Monday evening , in the large room , Commercial Buildings , Leeds .
The meeting was professedly got up for the purpose of agreeing upon such grand principles for agitation as should have the tendency of uniting all grades of Reformers ; but , unfortunately for them , although the first resolution , which attributed all the misery in this country to the want of the Suffrage , and was allowed to pass ; the second , which wa * to the effect that the Corn Laws was the greatest evil resulting from the defect in . the Suffrage , and ought , therefore , to demand our immediate consideration with a view to their repeal , appeared at onoe to have let the cat out of the bag ;
for long ere the mover and seconder had finished their harangues , the ire of the meeting was kindled ; and as if to arrive at the climax of dissatisfaction by design , a Mr . Curtis , an American , and professing republican opinions , added fuel to the fire of discontent already kindled , by inflicting the usual rigmarole bo much in rogue among the Corn Law repeal hireling agitators , and speedily brought down upon the whole tribe of tricksters a well-timed and judioious Chartist amendment , to the effect " that this meeting pledges itself to agitatefor nothing short of the People ' s Charter "
Much good speaking was the result of this amendment , and which , on the part of the Chartists , deserves the highest praise ; but we cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of congratulating Mr . Frederick Lees on the noble stand which he made , and the able manner in which he exposed and refuted the sophisms of the repeal party . This is the more pleasing to us , because we have long had to lament—shall we say the apathy!—nay , not only the apathy , but the determined opposition of the teetotal body generally , in Leeds , to the principles of the People ' s Charter . Latterly , however , a great change has been working among that class of men and we trust that this , noble example of the great
and clear-headed champion of Temperance , will be the means of bringing into our ranks many of these sober self-denying and practical revenue destroyers and Gorernment Reformers . We have long known that truth with righteousness must unite ; or , in other words , that teetotallers must become Chartists as well as that Chartists will become abstainers from intoxicating drinks ; and we thus picture to ourselves a phalanx of muscle , might , mind , morality , and voice , by the exertion of which , the old rotten systems of tyranny and despotism shall tremble and fall . Let them kick and writho and flurry as they may , our will and power will then be irresistable , and our triumph speedy and glorieuB .
The majority in favour of the amendment was at least three to one . Every shift to avert this denoument was made by Mr . Plint , the Corn Law Repealer ; but to no use . The meeting was divided , and the majority was so great that the Chairman immediately declared the amendment carried . It is worthy of remark , that no preparation whatever , was made by the Chartists to obtain this great victory ; the whole affair appears to have been entirely spontaneous , and done at a time too , when every effort had been made by the Foxes to assemble their friends from among the working men ; proving at once their real insignificance as a party , and tho influence and spread of Chartism .
Surely James Gabth Marshall , Esq . Mr Hamer Stansfeld , and their admirers , will see by this time the utter inutility of wasting their energies in attempting to satisfy the people with mere segments of Reform and class crotchets . The people are far a head of all such men and measures , and may no longer be tampered with .
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[ Omitted last week . ] David Smith . —We fear nothing can be done in the matter : the payment of the annual rent of four shillings , and afterwards the increased rent of forty shillings , was an acknowledgement on the part of your father and brother that the properly was not their own . Punter ' s case was altogether , a different one . D . N . —fJis communications shall always be attended to provided we receive them in time . J . P ., Camberwell . —The assertion that Mr . W . is shut out from the columns of the Northern Star is utterly untrue . Hit communications are subjected to precisely the same scrutiny and discretion as those qf every other corespondent . One of two articles from him have been omitted when
our space was full , and one which we thought exceedingly injudicious Was refused insertion . But this by no means warrants any one to say he is excluded from the columns of the Northern Star . The columns of the Northern Star have always been , and while under their present management shall always be , fully and freely open to the advocacy of Chartism , by any and every one , so far as may comport with our circumstances and honest judgment . Did John Conboy , of Montmellick , Ireland , receive a letter and six postage stamps from Rochdale 1 Mansfield . —If tlw friends have read the notices to correspondents in our last , they will see why their nominations to the General Council are omitted .
Bristol . —We do not think it would be well to publish the letter we have received from " <«? o members of the committee . " Let every possible means be tried to restore harmony and peace . Mb . Michael Hyland , foreman mason , Cashed county of Tipperary , Ireland , will please to state , throuyh the medium of the Northern Star , whether he has yet received the parcel ' of ' Northera ' Stars , tracts , fyc , from W . Russell , Nottingham , through Deacon and Wade ' s effice , andfor which he paid carnage through to Cashel , bs . 2 d , near two months ago 1 If not , claim wi ll be made for value . Thomas Easton . —The letters he alludes to were never published separately . Mr . George Ellis , of Sheffield , requests the Secretary of the Chartist Association , or agent for the Star , a ( Stralford-upon-Avtm , to favour him
with their addresses through the medium of the Northern Star . Edward Burley , the North and East Riding District Secretary , wishes to have the address of some one of the Chartists of Burlington and Driffield , being desirous to correspond with them on business of importance . Address : No . 19 , BiUm-street , LayerUiorp , York . Ip Mb . NicoLS , Bradford , Wilts , will forward his address to Redruth , his request shall be answered by letter immediately . We hats received a notice of lectures to be delivered by Mr . Knowles , qf Keighiey , in Halifax , but without any specification of the day . The report of the District Delegate Meeting was not received . H . Beal . —His letter has been handed toMr .
Sketnglon . C . W . T . —Xtdepends upon the terms and thenature of the agreement . , : . ;• . Abraham WHiimEiD . —His letter to Hfr . OCmhor next week . ¦' ' ' > : ' \ ¦ ' ¦ - ¦ ¦ : < - - ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ :- ¦' - ¦¦•¦ f - ' Ax Iujm CnjL 3 . Ti 8 T . ~ rWe have no room . \ . A Tfl « E BbOTHKB . IN TBS GOOD : F 4 QHT-, FOB THE , CBAWCiOL ~ The ttdtment < i » Mr ; ffHiggvu ' s UUer Uretmot . - We have ^ ot the date just at hand , nor can we afford tim * to turnover Partia mentarp files for them , r " -ut ... i : K : ¦' : ; . ;•' . ' ,, ' ' : Thb Mabch of Tbuih . —Wr ka&e no roonu , :. Thb Poush Exiut ' s Lahbrtv- ^ - We have no room . PinsB M . Bbophy , of 12 , Btresford-ttreet , Dublin
, . has received a parcel of tracts , Cucul&rs , and Stars , in weight about 6 < M 6 * . » vihieh cost him 6 * . 9 d ., and which he supposes to 6 e the one sent bit Mr . Jame * Walker , of Leeds . P . tf . Brophy t'akesjhis opportunity of in forming thereadersof th * Star , that he has it from official authority , that any newspaper published in Great Britain or It yland can be sent through the post-office * , freedom any town in Great Britain or Ireland ioanyo . ^ ( own in the same countries ; but thai such neu > ' * papers cannot be sent to foreign countries withoM charge ajter they are seven days old .
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A Suggestion . —A correspondent writes thus : — ' 3 g "In order to unite the people we must first unite the press , which I think may be done by destroying . the , competitive principle amongst the editors and * proprietors of the Chartist press in " tho following way •— -I ^ eaUblij&h a dally paper to be called the < Saven Stats , ' and to be , printed at seven different . parts of the empire , each * o be thfl private property of the diffluent proprieton , and each employ their o * n editor *; but to employ their reporters jointly to attend both Houtei of Parliament , and to pay them juinUy , exwtly aeeordlng to their different circulation . Tbi * plan would wears to the people the whole Chartist editorial talent . of the nationt the repMtew in London to supply them with the Parliamentary intelligence , according to their dates of circulation . " - ... ' .. ¦ - *
Punctuality— We thxnkth * following Utter worths qf attention . "— , , ' ! 'London , October 8 , 1 » 41 . " Sib , —The Korlhem Star of the hat week ttated that Mr . Clancy would ooHtinue l > ia lectures at the room , No . 55 , Old Bailey , on each Thursday evening , at eight o ' clock . Not without some inconvenience I attended last evening ; but at half-past eight o ' clock there was no indication of business : not a creature about the premises . Supposing that the exact'time of commencing the lecture had been necessarily postponed , I called again at' half-past » ine o'clock , but still no ajmptom of . a meeting ; and again at ten o ' clock , with a similar result : and I then returned heme , mortified and disappointed . Ought we not to have in London some daily organ of communication with one another ? Really the want of order ani of organisation is too palpably fndfcated by the circumstance- to 'which I have taken the liberty to direct your attention . A notice of this may be serviceable te our Chartist brethren of the metropolis . I have heard nothing recently on tlie subject of a daily Chartist newspaper . I trust that the project has been only temporarily relinquished . With the sincerest wishes for the aucoesa of the people ' s paper ,
" I am , Sir , yours respectfully , "A CHA . BTIST OF THE SCHOOL INDICATED BY THB MOTTO" ' Suavlter In modo , ' Fortiter in re , *" "A Word to Tyrants . " —We have no room . Scraps for Radicals received , and shall appear . A Lover op Truth , Justice , and Equality . —We have no room for his "Letter to the aristocracy sf all Nations . " J . B . Smith will see that his letter- ii answered by the petition itself , which is now published . James Stewart . —The advertisement , \ f inserted , will be 3 s . 6 d . Mb . O'Brien requests us id announce for him that he
. will not deliver any more lectures or addresses whenever the charge of admission to the body of the hall , or assembly-room , exceeds one penny ; but he has no objection to managing committees making an additional chargefor reserved seats Whenever this rule has hitherto been departed from it was without Mr . O'B ' s previous know ledge , and against his well'known arid oft-de-, dared wishes . He particularly requests hie over zealous friends to attend to this . JeHN Thomson asks— "Are Members of the House of Commons paid while sitting on committee ? and , if so , what is the rate of their remuneration } " They are not paid . We suppose that we must have answered this question more than
twenty times . J . D . Devomside . —Yes , Mr . Hobson can supply hint . He has but to send , either by post-office order or in postage stamps , the price of the box , and twopence for the postage of it , and the pills will be sent to him by the returning post . This answer will also apply to several who have enquired respecting Parr ' s Pills , advertised in our columns , Samuel Wilkinson . —His communication shall ap * pear ; but we are at present crowded . Wm . TillmaN . —His communication shall appear . A Coventry Christian Communionist . —His com' - munication shall be used . A Radically Honest Rbfobmeb . —TTe have no
room . A Friend is desirous of sending a small sum of money to Stockportfor the benefit of the distressed operatives , and asks us to furnish the secretary ' s address . Will the friends of Stockport send it us I Thb Edinburgh Committee for the O'Brien Testy monial Fund teish us to notify to the Chartists in that city and neighbourhood , that subscriptions for the laudable object they have in view are still taken in ; the books having been allowed to remain open for some time further , in order that such as have not already subscribed , may have an opportunity of doing so . Mr . Blackie , secretary . to the Chartist Association ; the secretary to the O'Brien Testimonial Committee , at 114 , Highstreet , or any of the members , will receive subscriptions .
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The National Petition . —We announce with pleasure that our publisher , Mr . Hobson , has printed the National Petition for 1842 , on a neat sheet , for the purposes indicated in our short leader of last week . He is ready to supply them to the associations and to individuals al the following charges : —100 copies for 2 s ; 1 , 000 for 15 s . Petition sheets , of good strong paper , ruled in four columns , and holding two hundred names when filled , may also be had , price 2 d . each . Secretaries and persons who need them hsve only to send an order addressed to Mr . H ., enclosing a post-office order , or stamps , to the amount , and they may have sent to their address any number they require .
Our numekous Correspondents will oblige us , m all cases , if they will for the future write on one bide of their paper only . We wish this to be adopted as a general rule , in no case to be departedfrom . , Joseph Hobnbloweb . —His acrostic is not sufficiently poetical for publication . A Female Chartist , Aberdeen . —/ J , er stanzas are not sufficiently correct for publication . S . Torres . —His lines will not do . General Council . — We have received several lists of nominations to the General Council , none of which contain the residences of the parties . We have again to repeat that they cannot be inserted . The Christian name , sirndme , and address of each member must be given at full
length . In the Northern Star of October 9 th , the address of . Richard Marsden was desired by some person in ' London . It is No . 27 , Back-croft-street , bottom of Marsh-lane . Preston . All Communications intended for the West Riding Secretary must , for the future , be addressed to Wm . Mosley Stotl , hair-dresser , under the Cooperative Stores , Market-place , Dewsbury , Mr . Slott having removed from the Town End . Chartist Addresses from different bodies have been . received . They are unavoidably omitted . The Address to Hugh Pabkeb , Esq ., front the prisoners confined in Scotland- street Gaol , Sheffield , shall appear next week . Arbroath . —Mr . O ' Connor is requested to viiit tht Chartists of this place on his tour .
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Mb . Simpson . — We do not know anything further ¦ than what has appeared in the Star . Some Pekson at Merthyr-Tydvil sent us a pott office order last iceek , and the letter accompanyit has been mislaid . Witt the person send again * and say what the money was for , and also the amount sent . Will the Committee for sending Stem to Ireland send a few regularly to M Dan Daly , baker , Leitrim , Cork . " Mb . A . WKKnziK of Bristol , has sent us 5 s . 3 d . for Northern Stars , to be seat to Mr . 0 'Higgins , fo r the Irish Universal Suffrage Association , «* Dublin . T . W . H ., Stroud . —Send word what thefifly-wM stamps were for , and we can then say how ow when they were applied . R . Watson , for H . M . G . —Received . FOB THB WIVES AND FAMILIES OF THE IRCA * - CHEATED CHARTISTS . £ l > <*•
From Mr . CoUrnan , pianoforte-tuner , Leicester ... 0 3 o „ Mr . Kichei , Brightlingsea 0 5 0 .. Newcastle-apon-Tjne — collected by Mra . J . Mason and Miss Wilson 0 19 *
FOR MRS . PEDDIE . From a few Flax-dressers , at Boulogne France ... ... ... ... 0 6 FOR MR . BICHARDSON , SALPOBD . From John Seal , Leicester ... ... ... 6 * * „ a few friends at Rochdale , per John Leach ... ... .-1 ... ° * ¦ ' ¦ * . Ledpud Green , per Mr . Alderson ... •; . ? « the Amateurs of Sutton-in-Aahfield , : per J . Tomlinson ... ... ... 1 *
FOB UBS . FBOSf . , From a . few Flax-drcssers , at Boulogne ' . . , ¦ " . ' - ' Fiance ' ... . ... . ... ¦ , ... ¦••¦ : * " FOR O ' BBIBK' 8 PBB 8 S . ' ' From a few Fiax-dressert , at Boulogne . ~ Fimoea ... ... :.. — « « P w EdiDgburgb , ( in part , all the books ' ., not being made up ) ... ... ' . ... GeorgeHackett , Leeda ... " ° J * FOB THE UNEMPLOYED AT STOCKPOBT . ; From Messrs . Grias , Cramb , and a livery servant , Bamsgate . one shilling each ... ° * w
FOB THB EXECUTIVE . From Finabury , per J . Watts ... o 1 * .. „ Camber wen , per J . Parker , be ing one month ' s moiety ... ... *
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 23, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct866/page/4/
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