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THE ^OUTHERK STAE . SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1842.
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR.
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TO THE CHABTIST' OF GRSAT BRITAIN . Mt Dear Fhiixes . —I zm sarry that any disarjjn should exist iu the Chartist ranks , aiii fcaving a sincere desire that it may soon be de = ' . rc ; ed , I beg to Isy before yon the foliowins suggestions , topics , tiat i ' . acted upon , thev-will restore us to that us :: rof . ictk-: i soe-sentikliy ceciEsr .-ry to accompli ^ &r an ezsiLiT _ d peop le their fr& ^ oia . I rilrain fr .- > m skiing ay ovn opinion '; r-spcctme the cause of the cUnaioa , lest « -ms mi ^ ct suv that 1 ¦ wa ^ fi to Drcjndice the minds of the -people sgv-ast or in favour of either the Execctirs or these members of cur Association ^ bo feel disni' s 2 ed -with their COnGCCt . . .... . . '
In order that the disunion may be healed , ^ I snecest for yonr adaption , that a CommSrt-re of 3 tc or " s = Tea persons be elected to examine the plan of GrgacizirUn . a-d take into coasiueration the cc-r ^ cc : -of the Executive , and if 3 majority of the Committee a ? ree t £ s : they haTe r « ctei ae ; ordjn ? to the Pian of Oresnizit ' oTi , lot them still hold cScs , and if not , let " the Committee call npon the Executive innn ~ - diately to resign office . Let the Committee have a rip ^ rcer present to report their proceedings , eo that their constitseiits 11137 see how they hive acted and Toted . Tmsti-n ; that the Executive -srill see the propriety « f adoptrsg some measure themselves to bring this c = f >! = asact t&a so a close , I remain , fours , Acillit all vesthc-a ar . d ioii : ical storm 3 the sr . rr . 8 , >~ oy . ii-ih . Iii 2 . VT . Bxeslet .
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TO TEE CHARTISTS OF THE TJNITED KINGDOM . Fellow-libcnrers in the caTise—Among the many subjects whici merit yonr attention , and ih&t of the wcr £ - iag-ehssrs generally , there is one to which we briefly though sincerely invita yonr immediate consideration . It is now generally kno'sm that for five months we hava tad a pc—erful and consistent daily advocate in the " EvtrJas Sia ) " newspaper , the j-r-.-prietos of -which has made , and is stiil mating , immense sacrifices for the food of the c&E = e ; but it is nsrec ^ onible in us to hope orexrvect these pecuniary sacrifices to be ma ; h longer continued . In order , therefore , to sustain the above patriotic iadividtisJ , we urgently call npon the centra ] council of the different localities , and . through them upon all T 7 CO Trisi ! their "srrongs exposed ana tceir few Temainiu ? riccts protected , to arouse tbeir-best energies and derias zieans to increase ih = circn ; n £ ioa of such a va ' nable : mx ; iiarr to the Chartist cause . If each locality
throughout the kinsdom took upon an average five papers dsily , we are given to understand th-. t the proprietor would then b : able to compete succsssfnliy with any daDy 5 carnal . If only three copies "were , t'ken by etch Jor ^ lity , the tircalonon thas increased woiild free the proprietor fr : m any and every embarrassment . "Under these clrcarssi&ncis we trust thit ao locality , however poor it msy be , will fail in coming immediately , to the Tcbcub . Who TTonid m * h that the Evening Star should thine do more ? Who would net regrrt the lo = 3 of so brilliant a luminary of the political hcr ' zon ? Tet it is useless to conceal { he fear that its light ¦ will be extinguished nnlf-ss you ecrne forward , and that too without delay , to gire an impetus to its ' cireu ' . ation . and thereby advance yonr own interest and that of one of yonr firmest and most devoted friends . Tours , on behalf of the Metropolitan Delegate met-tin ? , THOUiS M . WH £ li £ E , Secretary . . X- £ 3 < IS-U _ & O . U . * It n t . r . 1 , i ~ i l » j r Tli It i J *
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. ^ THE EXECUIIYE . r TO . THE EDITOB OF THE > 'OETHE £ > " 5 TAX . Deab Sif . —The recent disclosures must have convinced the country of the nseiessr . ess of a permanrnt Executive in the existing affairs of Char ; : sm . A general Secretary is all that seems wsnted . The saluics of the rest mi § ht be saved and the money applied to more needial purposes . Tfee business o £ the Secretary thoula te to condnct the correspondence of the Association , rid for th : « purpose he shonld have a fixed residence in some C £ ntm \ place , to draw up addresses and to give a quarterly , hilf yearly , or annual report of the progress of the cause . A ye ?~ ly conference might be held in landon , attended by delegates from all the localities . If these hir . ts meet the approval of our brother Chartists , I tinsfc they "will act npsn them , asd I remain , Yours , in the cood . canse , A ilZHBEE OF THE XaTIOXaL CHARTER Association . London , >" oy . 25 , 1 S 42 .
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THE EXECTin-E BALANCE SHEET . TO THE EDITOB OP THE " > "OB . THE £ >; STAR . Sib , —Your Editorial comments , in last Saturday ' s Star , abound -with unsupported allegations against the Executive , and contain sneh evident misconceptions , inar ; uKicies , ani perversions , that I should deem myself criminal ^ ere I not to attempt a reply . ilay I ask , why was my explanatory letter thrown into an obscure corner of yonr paper , while the Hull Councillors' correspondence with Mr . Campbell was pompously paraded on the front p 33 e , knowing , as 1 do , that yon received mine by the Eame post that conveyed their communication ? "Was there no design in this ?*
Possibly , too , ilr . Editor , you may find it inconvenient to couch your strictures on our conduct in no leaa ' courtesy of expression aiid kind- 'y in tor . e" than such Tery polite terms as " robbery , " " embezzlement , " 11 fisni , " & £ - ifi- W fa&teVfc * our StJisitJveiiesB msy infiifitD of being " thin-skinned , " stich a tone snd phraseology c ^ rt-inly " speak volumes '' for the school in ¦ which the "writer received his education ! But to your remarks on my own case . Yon are " sorry" my explanation is unsatisfactory ; and £ ~ st yon quarrel with my receipt of wages ¦ while in the West of England . Yoa he surprised I should find " Bath , Bristol , Cheltenham , and Wiltshire" classed among the new
districts . You seem willing to forget the reason of my ; oing thither . It is true they are not new districts—I never stated they were . The plan of ot ^ xhizition does not limit our receiving vagea to brfaticg up new districts , but extends the right to us while enfployed as the Association may think best—the Assoc ation having lodged in us the power-of esi ^ ating its mIL An application being made for my Srrrices in that district , and the Executive comp l ying tritk that rtqnest , and finding the West of Eoglani in a disorganized state , and division rampant in many loralit- ? s , they justly deemed that compliance in strict conformity ¦ with the powers given them by the plan of organizitior . And , so Sir from my thiniing it a shams in my brother Chartists of the West to accent inv labours on
those terms , I deem them highly laudable for evincing so stem a determination to uphold the agitition in the teeth of defection , opposition , division , and persecution . Bat I askfoTwhatpurposedocsthcAsso ^ iation ex ist , if it is not to strengthen ths weak , re-ive the drooping , inspire the languid , irflame the torpid ,- ai ; d encourage the few brave and noble spirits EtruggUr ? am : £ vicissitude to perseveraccs and csnqnest ? This was out C 2 UTS 6 , and one -which , however some may cavil , wiil recommend itself to the intelligent and the wise . And 1 cannot leave this surjret without retumiug my heartfelt gratitude to the ' men of the west" for the courage , e ^ trcy , prudence , and firmness with which they ever supported and cheered me on .
Yonr next objection urged agaiDst receiving the sum in travelling by Loughboro * to Bristol to attend mj Efilcted partner is to absurdly preposterous , tint I coald BcarceJy credit my eyes in reading it . " Yoa cannot for the life cf ycu discover bow I have any right more thoa oxfctT man to chars ; e upon the country the expent 3 of such a journey . " Had this journey been solely for that purpose , and net on my way back to Bristol , your objection would have had some force , as it is , and as I ttas on my way back ihither , and the expence wss incurred on that account , your objection is a : terry void cf point—the extra sum over my former journey frum Bristol to ilanchestor wi the point oj : which txplanation was solicited . I gave it , and ypu have not even attempted to show its nonconformity with « he plsn of organizitkra . Your text paragraph is a fioundering onr—it is palpab ' . y and grossly contrary to fact . 2 Jy fir ^ t journey from Bristol to Manchester trr" hoi to the Manchester Conference as yen " believe , " fent to the first s ' . iiirjg of the nvwly ^ lectr . l Executive in Ju " y , tie Coniercrce hiiag held in Au ; nst- 3 Jy second j ^ craey ic-ij to that Confererce , at which I appeared as a : mtmtir of the Exccutivf , end as u representative of -Bristol , Gloucester , and Cheltenham , being elected » t those places , i-s t ring kncTFn tiit I -was going there in-my capacity as a mfeinber of the Executive , f did not slate u > ere that 1 lepreseuted 2 u 0 . i ) 00 Chartists , but that I represented towns containirg nearly that population . With regard to the plea of my being a fugitive , and that being ' no plea at all , " probably you -wi'l allow the country to judge whether harassed , hunted , and pursued , as I ¦ ws s I hid a right to claim expencss while I was engaged in evading the lynx-eyed eJr- ' ssrrirs of despotism , and in s feebie state of health . f
AgiiD , let me a&k , in what part of the plai : of organisation do we find it svated the Executive should be " a aorcf C'Oaj / in a riai-d p ' ace . " I presume ihis is tut ont .-of your own assumptions for the purpose of fisteninj a stigma npon ilr . Campbell for his removal to London . If it was so , why not have shown it , prior to the last election , so as to have Eecored the return cf nve Manchester m-n , or prepared' the people for our removal to that tow * by disclosiEg your present extraordinary discovery ? 1 know that the question was mooted at the plan of organisation meting , but it was ltft oat of the plan to fee settled by the discretion of the future Executive "who might hold office .
I baTc bow tafcen probably my last notice of your remarks , howeTer gross and false you may make them . I leave tie issue to the Chartist body throughout the cenntry . I abide by what I have cone , and by what the Executive , body , have done in these matters Honourable and just as I believe my coaojutors to be , ¦ jrith the Charter in my hard , and by their tide I will stand 01 fall . Leeds , Nov . 30 , 1542 . J . R . H . Bairsiow .
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* Certainly not- We knew no more than Mr . Bairstoir where either of them won'd be till we faw the paper in print . f Weonlyfeope that justite wiiJ be dese by allowing like claims to eTery msn und- > r i : £ c circumstances . — ED . XJS .
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RECEIPTS OF THE EXECUTIVE FOR THE WEEK ENDING NOV . 25 th , 1042 . ' , London—Oockhonse 0 5 0 ' „ Richmond 0 5 0 ; Letrcs 0 3 0 i Star ofice ~ 2 12 0 J j ^• 3 5 0 J
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THE EXECUTIVE AND THEIR DEFENCE . Elsewhere vre give the document named in our last , and which would have been then given had tt 3 received it in time . We commend it not merely to the reading but to the careful consideration of the people . Nothing could be further from our principle ? , or from our purpose , than to deprive any man or men accused of anything of the full opportunity of inikiag defence . We have accused the Executive of various mal-practices ; of misappropriating the hard-earned funds committed to their care of disregarding , in their ofnciai practice , their own avowed principles ; of determinedly and wilfully violating the rules of that organization which it is
their one duty to enforce and carry out ; and of attempting ta set themselves above law , and s in the name of democracy , become pure despots . We proved al ] ihese grave and serious maiters ' out of their own mouths . We offered no hearsay evidence ; no hired testimony ; we submitted no interested witnesses to the credence of the public : we rested the whole case against them on the comparison of iheir own published accounts with the plain printed words of those rules which they aTe appointed for the sole purpose of enforcing . It is the duty of the people now to read this defence of the Executive to read along with it the " grave charges" to which it makes reference ; to compare both with the rules of the organization , and to say whether or not the " charges" be answered .
As an individual portion of the people , we have a right to an opinion ; we shall give that opinion , and the reasons upon which we hold it ; and the people will attach to them as much or as little value as they like . Wo have seldom known a document more difficult to comment on than this defence of the Executive by Messrs . Leich and Campbell ; for the simple reason , that ihere is nothing at all in it . The greater portion of the " long yarn" is made up of persoDa . 1 abuse of Mr . Hill about the " denunciation" of ilr . P hilp and the insertion of the " Executive Sop" resolution . Now supposing
every thing which Messrs . Leach and Campbell may be disposed to say upon these subjects to be true as gospel ; suppose that Mr . Philp had really bec-n ill-treated by Mr . H ill ; suppose that Mr . Hill had never received the " Executive Sop " resolution from Merthyr Tydvil at all ; suppose he had manufactured that resolution for the purpose ; what then ? How does it ; affect the question ? If we should make Messrs . Leach and Campbell a present of all that iheir utmost noisiness can ask in reference to the Philp and " Sop" matters , does that meet any one of the present " charges " against them 1 Does it prove that they have not
for a longtime back been pajing to one of their body ten shillings weekly out of public money without the authority of any public vote ' : that they have not continued to do this in spite of both private and public remonstrances , and of their own pledges to the contrary 2 Does all that can be said about Philp and the " Sop" afford any reason why this transaction should be " hailed by the -whole country with delight , " as Mr . Campbell says he expected it would have been I Does all that can be Slid about Pinxp and the " Sop" exonerate the Executive from the " charge" of disregarding , in the matters appertaining to their own office , all
the principles of Chartism ? Does all that can be said about Philp and the " Sop" prove that the Executive have not wilfully set aside in their own transactions the organization which they are appointed to enforce ? These are the matters and things to which the Executive should have addressed themselves . fin thair defencs ; and if all the abuse they can possibly heap upon ilr . Hill about P hilp and the '• Sop" cannot answer any one of these questions , the fair inference is that it is resorted to for ths mere purpose of diverting the attention of the reader frorn the matters really at issue .
All thai part of zhe defencs which is occupied in praising Mr . Leach ' s eloquence and Dr . M'Douall ' s patriotism is alike beside the mark . The question at issue is not whether Leach be an able debater on the Corn Law question ; the question is not whether M'Docall have baen an active and energetic Chartist , or whether he may or may not , at some time , have given hi 3 last shilling between two poor wea ,-vers . The qnestion is . whether the Executive did or did not , without a > t due authority , dip their hands into the bag containing the hard-earned pence
of poor weavers , and take out thence ten shillings weekly for many momh ? . Aad this question is not at all aiLcied by anything which may be said about Dr . M'Douall ' s patriotism , or about his generosity , or about the improbability of either his or Leach ' s acc ? ptance of a ' * sop . " Though whole pa £ e 3 should La occupied vriih . declamation about these aad lika matters , it renders the fact of appropriating the funds of the Association without a vote of the Association , nos a jat tha less unprincipled and unwarrantable .
Iu like manner all their personal abuse of Mr Hill , all tbeir laudations of each other and themselves , and all their talk about Philp ar . d the " sop , " affords no explanation of the many matters so much and seriously requiring it . Ii does uot all show why the enormous sums charged for " travelling" and " agitating" expeucas should be charged to the country at all , or what rale of the organization jjstines them . We thought our observations on these items could not be misunderstood ; but where people wish to misrepresent , it is easy to affee : a misunderstanding . We are spoken of as though we had positive !/ stated thesa items to be fraudulently charged . We have done no such th : ng : we merely asked for information respeciing them . AH we sav , or have said , is that , on the face of the balance sheet , they ought to have appeared so plainly as to shew for themselves that they were not fraudulently charged . This was not the case . There was no information given to the conntry as to the business by which they were incurred , so as to enable the p ; ople to see that they were charged according to rule .
We said that this mtonnation ought to have been given ; that the absence of it leu them floating in a mist of uncertainty and vagueness , which , until it was removed , might warranty the suspicion that there was something unfair about them . If the Executive knew them to be all right , and if their accounts had not been so kept as to prove their Secretary to be ntterly nnfii for his place , it was in their power to have so explained every one of them as to remove all the liability to doubt which ought never to have existed . Instead of thus explaining , they " spin a long yarn" about Mr . Hill ' s mischief-loving propensities , their own eloquence and patriotism , and . various other matters totally irrelevant .
Another portion of the Deicnce is a laborious reply to an objection that his never been started , about the Secretary's salary . We never for an instant denied that the Secretary is s permanent officer , and should hare constant wages . We think him well
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entitled \ q ^{ 3 wageE , and are quite sure 4 hat there ' is enough of work for him at all times if be ^ ere able and disposed to do it . But wo do t ' jink that his own published accounts , and the s' . ate of the society generally , of which he is the chief officer , afford sufficient evidence that ho is utteriv- -unfit for that ofSce , becanse utterly incompetent to discharge its duties . This is our opinion ; we ara sorry to be compelled to entertain it ; we have gvfen our reasons for it ; and the people will , of courso , g : re it as much or as little weight as they like . The only part of this long rarabliDg document which bears at all upon the question , and offers for themselves any defence is the following : — " And now let us tell you a a few facts as to the treatment we have received as an Executive . :
" The 22 nd rule Bays , ' When members oJ the Executive shall be employed as missionaries , their salaries cfrn'l be the same as when employed in the Council : coach-hire and one-half of any other incidental espences shall be paid to them in addition by the parties who may require their services . ' Now we can prove that the above clause ha 3 not been adhered to in the localities where we have acted cs lecturers . We give the following samples ef its violation : —We went to
Birmingham , after many strong invitations , a-. d -with the understanding that our travelling expences would be paid . On ihis point , however , vre were complexly deceived : instead of our expences being paid , the Local Council came to a vote that they would nst aliow us tne halfpenny , but that we should be paid from the general fusd , and after being at considerable expense of co-ich hire and living at Birmingham , -we vrtre indebted to the kindness cf a friend for the means to get home acain .
" We rrsemb' . ed again in London , and met exactly with the same treatment as in Birmingham , with the exception of the vote : in fact , we were obliged to borrow money from Mr . Cleave to bring us home . We could lay before you scores of such cases if it were necessary , but we think the above quite sufficient " This , like all the rest , is sufficiently blunderingly stated . There is no twenty-second rule in the organisation . The eighteeenth rule does say , nearly , but not exactly what is here quoted . It perhaps might not be too much to expect the President and the
Secretary to quote correctly from the rules of the association ; but we will take the quotation as it stands . The observations following and founded upon this quotation seem to us to contain a tacit admission that the sums charged as " travelling " and " agitating " expenses , are , some of them at least , improperly charged to the country , instead of to the respective localities , on account of which they were incurred : and the effort is to shift the blame of this irregularity from the Executive to the localities . This is , at best , but a lame effort . It is the dutv of the Executive to
see that the localities do comply with the rules of the organization ; that is the single one duty for which they were appointed—the single one duty of which , as it seems to us , they have never attempted the performance . Kad they carefully regulated their own acts by the rules of the association ; and had they rigorously insisted upon a compliance with those rules by all its officers and members , we cannot think that they would have found much difficulty in obtaining that compliance from particular parties , under such circumstances as they state in reference to Birmingham and London . Giving , then , all credit to their statements of the treatment they
receive ! from all these places , they do not , on their own showing , justify themselves . There can be no doubt that if they had appealed against ill-treatment to the body by whom they were appointed , that body , if it could not even have redressed , would , at all events have prevented the recurrence of such things . If the Executive went to Birmingham as missionaries , at the invitation of the Birmingham people , their travelling charges , their salaries , and ome half of their incidental expences ought , by the plain rule of the Organization , to hate been paid by the Birmingham members , bo long as they were so employed . And if the Birmingham councillors refused to
comply with the organization , it was their duty to have then and there appealed to the Birmingham members ; to have shown them the plain bearing of the rale , the necessity of its being complied with , and the injustice that would be inflicted on their much poorer brethren , in many other parts , if those expenses , which of right appertained to that locality , should be charged to the general fund . This is what the Executive ought to have done , if their statement be correct . If they had done so there can be no doubt that the whole matter would have been set right- The wnole question ,. Kowever , of the liability of Birmingham hinges on the point of whether they went there
as missionaries , ' and at ihcrequest of the Birmingham people . If they did there can be no doubt that Birmingham ought to have paid , and ought yet to pay , those expences . If they did not ; if they merely went to Birmingham because it suited their own pleasure and convenience to remove their sittings there , they ought then to pay their travelling and other extra charges out of their own pockets . The country has decided by the resolution of a National Delegate Meeting that the Executive shall sit in Manchester ; no power but that of another National Dslegate Mesting , or a general vote of all the members of the Association , can alter that
decision . It is quite clear , therefore , that it' the Executive chose to move from Manchester to Birmingham , not as Missionaries , but as an Executive to hold a session , thay had no right to charge the country with the expence . If , however , they went there at the request of Birmingham , if they had been solicited to go and agitate in and around Birmingham , because there was a prospect of doing good to the cause , and if , in consequence o *" such solicitation , they went there to hold a portion of their session , sitting as a committee during the day , and labouring as agitators in the evening , which we rather think to have
been the case , it then appears plain that their salaries might be charged to the general fund , but that their travelling and all extra expences ought to have been defrayed by Birmingham . And any refusal on the part of Birmingham to do- this , was a gross violation , not only of the terms of the organ , iiation , but of the principles of equity and justice . The same remarks will , of course , apply to London , and every other place ia which the Executive have been treated as they say they have in these two . We are informed by Mr . Bairstow that the localities in and around Manchester never defray any expences incurred by members of the Executive . ia lecturing ,
and that , consequently , all these expenses are of necessity charged to the country under the head agitating expenses . All we can say is , that , if this be so , it is shameful ; it is a gross fraud upon every other part of the association . Our observations last week , in reference to Mr . Bairstow ' s lecturing in the West of England , arc equally applicablo here ; we think it a shame that North Lancashire , Leicestershire , Nottinghamshire and other poor districts which pay their own local lecturers , should also pay lecturers for such places a 3 Manchester , Birmingham , London , Bristol , &c . It is clearly unreasonable to suppose that the Executive can defray out of their salaries travelling or other expenses incurred in lecturing .
If , therefore , these be not paid by the localities , atd if their services be still required as lecturers , we see not what else they can do but charge to the general fund , though clearly unwarranted by the or ^ aniEation . If this be ths true statement of the case , it is clearly in the power , and it is as clearly the duty , of the Association to remedy the grievance for themselves . All the members , and all the general councillors , either know the rules or ought to know them . Let them see that they adhere ! o them themselves , that the Executive may have no excuse for deviation . If no attention is to be paid ly any lody to the organisation , it may as well be given up at once ; there is no use in merely tantalizing ourselves and the country with it .
While , however , we enforce upon the members and General Councillors especially , their share of attention io the requirements of the organization , we do no : forget that the one single duty of the JEiccu'fcc , the sole thing for which they are appointed , w ' 0 attend to this very business . Their great fault s- ems to us to be , that they have been always jabou :: ng a ^ rcr usefulness as lecturers and agi ; a : ors , instead of aiicsding tothe simple duties of
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their office ; the consequence of which is , that while by them and others , our principles have been widely extended throughout the whole country , our Association is , in facl , no association at all , but a huge mass of crude , shapeless elements , without form or comeliness . There is ko regular correspondence , and dup undersranding kept " ' nftJimongst us , there is no samenes 3 of system and adherence to midland consequently no power , which there certainly onght to be , of bending and directing ' the whole energies of the whole people towards any given point at any given time . This is to be effected' by organization
and only by organization . All the agitation in the world will never do it . The organizationlof the National Charter Association , worked by an efficient Executive—aye , even by a Secretary alone , of clever and business-like habits , and who would mind his own work , and keep to it , might in a few weeks , with the co-operation of the people , be made so perfect , as that that Secretary might at any time , in two or three posts , have the opmion , upon any given question , of every member of the Association . But he must be a Secretary of a very different caste from the one vre now have ; he must be a man who knows the organisation , and i 3 able to instruct others in its management .
Wo hope the people will take the whole matter into consideration . It is high time . Nothing is bo vital to the movement as a due attention to organisation . It is clear tliafc the persons now composing the Executive lack either the disposition or the peculiar kind of taleut for attending to it . Their forte is agitation . As agitators they are energetic and useful . There may be enough of occupation found for them in the sphere which is most suited to them . It is more reasonsblo and more right for each distinctive locality to pay its own lecturer than for : U 3 to have a body of men under the name
of an Executive , who are , in . fact , merely lecturers occupying the best and most cultivated grounds of Chartism as the oxpence of the poorest and least cultivated . We suggest , therefore , that in future the Executive consist of a Secretary and four unpaid members resident in London , Birmingham , Nottingham , Leeds , or any other place on which the people may determine . We are decidedly of opinion that an efficient Secretary is the only paid officer needed in our movement , and that with such a functionary—an efficient man—having the advice and assistance in the concoction of documents , &c . of a Committee chosen from the
General Councillors in his own locality , the orgazization may be well worked without any recurrence of the evils which havo originated the present very painful , but we hope very useful and profitable discussion . This is the course adopted by our Scottish friends , who beat us hollow at sober , clearheaded arrangement . Our readers will perceive that it is recommended to them by a communication in this day's paper . . That communication is from a tried and valuable friend to the cause . One who has seen much and suffered mucli iu it ; and whose opinion desesves the best attention of the people .
Our readers will see alsa a communication from Mr . Beesley recommending the appointment of a Committee to inquire whether the present Exeoutive have violated the organization or not . That , of course , is a proposal for the people to consider . To us it seems a farce ; the more especially as the Executive have already admitted that the organization has been violated , by refusing to defend their own acts and meeting the charges against them with mere bluster and blash .
To our mind it is of much more consequence to prevent these things in future than to trouble ourselves about the past . That which is past cannot be recalled ; but the people may make past . errors / a beacon for the future . We recommend therefore that the whole matter bo taken up by all the localities , at once ; that the members and councillors meettogther aud deliberate upon the subject ; that they endeavour to keep iu mind the whole question and to keep out of mind everything but the question—the duties of the Executive and the manner in which they have been performed ; that they lay the balance sheet—not the last merely , but the last three
balance sheets and the organization both , beforo them , and exitnine them together ; that they read in connection therewith , the letters of the Hull Councillors to the Executive—the . articles in the Northern Star of this and the last two weeks , and especially all that the Executive have said for themselves in explanation and defence ; that they weigh all these carefully and dispassionately , using their own clear sense © f right and wrong , and their own appreciation of principle ; not suffering themselves to be led or biassed , either by us or by the Executive , but judging fairly from the evidence which lies before them , and recording their opinions ia firm , clear , and temperate language .
Thematter is one fraught with as much importance as any that has occupied the public mind for a long time . We ask not , therefore , that the people should tako us for a guide ; but that they should divest themselves of prejudice , and view the whole subject in the clear light of common sense and Chartist principle . Wo warn them that the consequences of mistake may not be easily rectified or averted . * Since writing the above , we observe in the Evening Star of Wednesday evening , which we have just received , a portion of a letter , in reference to the subject , from M'Douall . It seems to have been written for the Northern Star ; buc , for what reason we know not , it has not been sent to
us . A part only of the letier is given in the Evening Star , with a promise for its continuance this ( Thursday ) evening . Of course we can neither give it uor reply to it , until we have seen the whole ; and before the' arrival of the Evening Star with the latter portion of it , our paper will have been at press some sixteen hours . We may just observe , in reference to the portion which has appeared , that its tone is of an altogether different character from that of the blundering bluster of Messrs . Leach and Campbell . For the present , we content ourselves with giving , from the portion which has been published , the following acknowledgment of the accuracy and justice of all that we have said about the ten shillings a-week business : —
" You say that was contrary to rule . So it was . " This is all that we have said about the matter . For the parallel case , by us given week before last , and out of which so much bluster about " robbery , " and " fraud , " and - " -transportation" has arisen , the Doctor and his colleagues may thank , not us , but their Secretary , Mr , Campbell , who farced us to show him that his expectation of the whole country going into fits of "delight" about it , was a little absurd . We suppose this admission of the Doctor ' s , and the admission of Mr . Leach before the South Lancashire Delegate Meeting , that he could not defend that act of the Executive , together with the assertion of Mr . Bairsiow , made in our hearing , that he knew nothing of it , and was astounded when
he saw it in the Balance Sheet , will settle all the bluster about our having been actuated by some private malice or some petty revenge in the " denunciation" of it ; and will show pretty satisfactorily that we have only done that which it was our duty to do ; and which if we had not done , wo should have deserved to be denounced . We dismiss ihis matter with the observation that we think it a little odd that the " sense of justice" about which the Dr . writes very well , did did not prompt him to send this letter at once to us . Meantime we may observe that we see nothing in it to shake , but much to strengthen , every position we have taken ; and many strong arguments for the recommendation we have above given to the people , in r ^ fi < ranee to the future settlement of the Executive .
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THE SPINAL COMPLAINT . HPHERE is hardly a single complaint amongst tho -L Hundreds to which tho Human Frame is liable so distressing and so prostrating as Affection of : the Spine ; and there is hardly another complaint so difficult of cure . The discoverer of an almost unfailing ; Remedy may therefore safely be said to confer a boon upon his species ; arid this Remedial Boon is proved by extensive experience to have been discovered by the Proprietor of
HAIGH'S SPINAL OINTMENT . Some of the Cases of Cure effected by it are beyond belief ; and , mre not the parties living , and perfectly willing , nay , anxiously ready to be referred to , and to testify to the wonderful benefits they have received , the Proprietor of the Ointment dare not mention them for fear of being charged with an attempt to practise upon the credulity of the public . The parties , however , are living ; they can be referred to ; and their testimony is of . the highest importance to all ufii'Cted with Spinal affection . The efficacy of this invaluable Restorative has been again most abundantly demonstrated in the following two cases of cures effected within the last month . The names and addiesses of tho partio are given ; and to the parties themselves are tho sceptical referred .
RECENT CASE 3 . 1 . William Moss , son of Thomas Moss , Tailor , Northgate , Haddersficld , has been afflicted with the spinal complaint for nearly two years ; and during that time has bsen under the medical treatment of several of the Medical Profession in tho neighbourhood , but received no relief . His back was quite crooked and deformed . After using the Spinal-Ointment a short time , he was completely recovered , aad is now strong aud healthy . . 2 Mary Ann Hutchinson , daughter of Mr . Hutchinson , Ciock and Watchmaker , 32 , King-Btreot , Huddersfiold , vras severely afflicted with tho Spinal Complaint for a long period , so much so as 10 walk with great difficulty . Her Spine was much distorted . Sho had been under the treatment of the Faculty for some time , without experiencing any relict ' . After applying a few boxes of the Spinal Oiutin ' aut , she was completely restored , aud is now enjoying good health . : In addition to the above , the following CASES OF CWUB are also given , and reference made to the parties , who ,. by means of . this . invaluable boon , have been restored to lira a life of health and usefulness . 1 . —Joseph Parkin , slubber , Milnes Bridge , near Huddersfk'ld . This was a case of two Years' standing . Tho Patient had had the benefit of the best medical advice that could be procured , but without effect . His finger nails were putrifying , when he began to apply the Spinal Ointment ; and in the course of ten weeks he waa perfectly cuied . He is now in a state of perfect health . 2 . —Mrs . James Newton , of Ashton-under-Lyno . A case of very long standing . She had experienced all kinds of treatment , visited epas . Sec ,, without relief ; was cured with the Spinal Ointment in about seven months .
3 . — .- —— Senior , pon of Jame 3 Senior , slobber , Dewsbury , aged five years . Had never walked from his birth . Was cured in about four months ; and enabled to walk as well a 3 any one . To accommodate the distressed from this terrible affliction , the Ointment is made " up in tin boxes , and sold at 2 s . 9 d . each box , ttamp include . 1 . Mr . J ; Hobson , Northern Star Office ,: Leeds , is solb agent for its sale . The Spinal Ointment is of two . kinds , and numbered 1 and 2 . No . 1 is the strongest kind , and is to be used in the morning only , for children and for weak adults . Strong adults must Hse No . 1 continuously .
Ko . 2 is to be used according to the instructions given with each box , in the middle of the day , and at night .
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TO THE WORLD . ¦ VTER ' yOUSNESS is a term which embraces 3 1 Y frightful catalogue of disorders—even to insanity itself—to describe a tenth part of the syoiptonis * nervous patients experience would fill a volume ; but although their variety is so great , they are all referable to one and the same cause . A nervous patient is like a musical instrument iHih its chords , loosened , emitting all sorts of discordant instead of harmonious sounds . What is , therefore wanted to rcsiore a nervous patient ; to health ? Tha answer is , equalizing tho circulation of tho blood more especially iu tho vessels of the braiu , audby that means restoring to nature her lost equilibrium . A medicine calculated to do this must be one that —entering the circulating medium , will regenerate ormakq anew , and of a totally different character , the various secretions of the body , upon which nervous health depends . Numerous , indeed , nave been the cases where imbecility of mind was manifested in various ways ; that individuals have been , restored to their friends and society by a steady course of that mighty medicine
' DR . HAMILTON'S VITAL PILLS ; and this too , after having tried all sorts of proposed remedies in vain—there-Tore ' despair-not , 'but have recourse to this wonder-working remedy , and you will-have : more cause to rejoice , than if you were possessed of the wealth of the Indies . . In Liver Complaints , Consumption , Indigestion , Gout ; Scrofula , Rheumatism , tendency to Apoplexy , Asthmas , Headache , Bilious Disorders , Female Complaints , & . J ., this medicine has also manifested its all-. conquering powers . All who have tried thesa Pills speak of them in the highest terms , and are zealously recommending them to the afflicted .
" . We have a great antipathy to what is tormed quack medic'nes , but although all proprietary medicines are ranked as such , we consider Dr . Hamilton ' s Vital Pilis an honourable exceptiou , and to which all others we know or ever heard of , bear ho comparison in point of merit . We speak advisedly , when wo say that the powers of this singular compound in subduing disease under any form in which it may declare itself , appear perfectly miraculous . Wo ourselves know of instances where this medicine has been continued to be taken day by day , for months together , in obstinate chronic
complaints , and yet the patients feeling new powers of life , a sort of re-animation , and stronger and better in every respect , have bceu thereby encouraged to persevere , and have had tho happiness 10 . > , ain the grand end in view—that of being cured of the malady under whiuh they had laboured . We pronounce this to be a triumph iu medical science , and . hail . it as the harbinger of happiness to the human race , for health is of tha highest importance . We think they are with great truth called'" Vital Pills . " —London Morning Adverliser , July 5 , lb' 42 . .
Sold in boxes at Is , Hi , 2 s . 9 d and 11 s . ; in Leeds by Hobson , Northern Star Office ; Bdines and Newsome , Mercury Office ; Buckton , Times Office ; Smeeton , and Bell and Brooke , Boar-lane : Heaton , No . 7 , Hay , 106 , and Reinhardt and Son , 7 b " , Briggate ; and by all venders of patent medicines . In London , by Simpson and Co ., ( . the Proprietors' ) appointed Agent ? , ) 20 , Mile End-road ; Barclay and Sons , Farringdon-street ; Sutton and Co ., Bow Church Yard , and Edwards , 67 , St . Paula .
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Dear Gin—You will greatly oblige tho Sunderland Council by inserting the following letter to Mr . John Campbell , Ganerol Secretary of the National Charter Association . Yours respectfully j George EsplIaV , sub-Secretary . TO MR . JOHN CAMPBELL , SECRETARY OF THE NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . Sir , —I nm directed by the Cauncillora of the National Charter Association resident in Snmlerland , to ¦ write to you respecting the sixty cards , for which I have your letter dated September 29 th , in which you acknowledge tha payment of , but which have not yet como to band . I wrote a letter
to you , dated October 31 st , to which I received no reply . Tho Jute secretary , Mr . Youno ; , then undertook to write to you , aud did so , to which yoa made no reply ; so that we have no reaource loft ua now , seeing that you have them cards inserted in your quarterly return , but to ask you through the columns of the Star , by what conveyance you sent them , and when and to whom ? . Yours respectfully , George Esplin , Sub-Secrstary . ¦ P . S . An early reply to this , -through-the-Star , will oblige . O . E . Sunderland , Nov . 2 i ) , 1832 .
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TO THE EDITOB OF THE NORTHERN STAR . ; I sir —In our cronizition yon will find it is stated th- ~ t the General Treasurer shall be elected fey the G-neral Councillors . This has not been done yet , but ; a- ihe nex ; nomination for Executive Committee , ' £ am determined , should health permit , and I am { ree f'om fiction ' s dmiseons , tlia . I -criil place a pers on ill z ^ . ffiLn-iion ior that cfBc * . I mention this , ec that it be not lost Eight of in your slrictura oa the organization . E . S .
The ^Outherk Stae . Saturday, December 3, 1842.
THE ^ OUTHERK STAE . SATURDAY , DECEMBER 3 , 1842 .
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C > ; ¦ — ¦ ¦' ..-e ¦ Extraordinary . Increase in Potatoes . —Mr . R . r' Kidd , ol' Briery Close , near Ambles : de , planted th ' ree potatoes last spring in his garden , the enoru : raciib iuerease of whicn , when taken oat of the i Eroand-, any bo judged from the fact that- the prof' < L : c 3 weighed eleven stone and a half .
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For children and for weak adults it will therefori be necessary to procure two boxes of No . 2 to one of No . 1 . : A . letter addressed ( post-paid ,: and inclosing a postage stamp ) to Mr . Hobson , or to the Proprietor Mr . George Haigh , Crossland's-buildiuge , -Paddock-, near ' Huddersfield , wili receive : an answer pointing out the readiest mode of conveyance of the Oiut > ment ,. and ihe cosi . Parties writing had better communicate all the particulars of their ri-speeiivo cases ; how long afflicted ; from what cause , natural , or hurt ; and the course of treatment under * gone . The Oittment is in Boxes , at 2 a 9 d . each , stamp included . Sold only by Mr . Joshua Hobson , tho Northern Star publisher ; and by the Proprietor .
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The town of Thctford , in Norfolk , hag been , thrown into a state of unpleasont ferment during the last few days , in consequence of a solicitor , hitherto considered of the highest-respectability , having suddenly absconded , leaving liabilities incurred by him toth ^ Amount , it is snuposed , at the lowest , of £ 20 , 000 . He had appointed Friday last for meeting some very heavy mortgage accounts , and for handing over the amount for a farm which he had recently purchared , and his . non-appearance on that and the following days led to the above unpleasant discovery . His absence has almost created a panic jn the neighbourhood , as from his extensive transactions in mortgages , conveyances , and other monetary matters , it is impossible to " calculate at present the extent of his defalcations .
Suspected Case of Poisoning —On Sunday eveningJast , a man named John Hunter , employed as foreman in the works of Messrs . ' -Fairbairn and Co ., engineers and millwrights ,: and living at No . 13 , Walter-street , Travis-street , took sonv ; oatmeal porridge , prepared by his wite . He observed that it , had a " peculiarta . ste , and rt quested her to taste it . Shetastrda snuil quantity , and Hunter finished hia meal . Vury shortly afterwards-he was taken ill ; being most severely purged , and vomiting violently . Medical aid was called in , and , from tho symptom ? .
the surgeon suspected tbat Hunter had taken poison . The poor man continued to get worse , notwithstanding every attention and aid , and expired on Monday evening . His wifu ' s previous conduct having been somewhat irregular , it was suspected that she had poisoned hira , and she was accordingly taken into custody , The pplico instituted inquiries , and succeeded , yesterday ( Tuesday ) , in ascertaining , that . about ten days ago . Mrs . Hunter went to tho shop of Ivlr . Du . vies , drugt ; i : ; t , Travis-street , and asked for two -ounces of arsenic . Mr . Davies refused
, to sell , her the poison alone ; and Bhe soon afcerwards returned with another woman , and he then supplied her with that quantity . Mr . Davies , on seeing Mrs . Hunter , identified her as tho party to whom he sold the . arsenic ; and lie also identified tho I woman supposed to have gono with her , w ' uo , however , refuses to admit that she-did eo . The inquest ¦ on the body of the unfortunato victim is to be held , this day ( Wednesday ) . We believe , that up to last : night , 110 post mortem examination had been made ; ! and it is stated , that all the matter ejected from the ! stomach had-been tiirown away by the prisoner , I before ahe was secured . Wo understand that one of ! the children , who had eaten some of the meal lof which the porridge was made , became sick and ill ; and that Mrs . Hunter also became . slightly sick after tasting the porridge , but not until after her husband ' s vomiting had been severei— Manchester Guardian . —
; In addition to tho above we have received the follow-. ing from our correspondent . Oa Tuesday evening Mr . Harrison , surgeon , made a post mortem examination of the body , and found it to be in a state of perfect health , on removing the scalp the brain was healthy . The s-. omacii was in an inflamed state , such . a 3 would bo produced by taking arsenic . The i stomach was quite empty , and all the matter ! ejected from the stomach , and the remainder of j tue meal had been made away by the prisoner ; before she was secured . An inquest waa held on the body on Wednesday evening at the Bull ' s Head Inn , I London-road , when tho evidence was of such a I nature as not to leave a doubt upon the mind of any 1 but that Hunter came by his death by unfair meane . However , at the request of Mr . Harrison , who
I examined- ' - the body , the inquest was adl jourued until Friday morning , as by that I time he would have applied the proper tests to the contenis of the stomach and ' bowels , and be able to say if he had found any I poison in the body . The prisoner was then re''¦ moved . The deceased had the character of a kind \ and affectionate husband . They have been married about t . en years , ad duriug that time Hunter has ! put upwards of £ 7 « iu the bank . The wife has been j much given to drink , and it appi-ara that she hid j-taken nearly-everything'put ' of the house to pledge . I The-. deceased was highly respected amongst his I fellow-workmen ' , and is- much iamtuted bv his emj plovers .
To The Editor Of The Northern Star.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR .
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T H'E NORTHERN STAR .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 3, 1842, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct976/page/3/
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