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PR 0 GSAI 4 ME . - '•• _ ^ On MONDAY , January 29 th , 1838 , and every H « nng during the "Week , the ' GREAT EL 2 . GIC 1 A 2 J-S - Entertainments will commence with the " GUN TEIOE , . OF -WHICH HE IS THE SOLE INVESTOR . Mr . J . H . A . will allow any gentleman to charge a 3 ? owling-piece with powder and bullets , in the jsresence of the whole audience , previously marline tke balls so as to ascertain them again . * He will be Reared to Sre at Mr . A ., wto wiirreceire the balls 5 a Ms hands , on his face , or any part of his body tie audie ' nee may direct ! being upwards of the 1 , 000 kh time of his attempticg th ; s experhnsnt . -Any gentleman will l > e allowed to bring his own fowling pi ^ ce and ingredients for loading .
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TO FLAX , TOW AND WORSTED spinners ; TAMES SMITH , ROBERT BEACOCK , and J THOMAS TAN NET having Commenced the Bunness of Machine Making in the above Line , bej ? leave to offer their Services to the Public . Having devoted many Years to the Trade , they hare not the slightest doubt of being able : to Manufacture Machines of the very test Kind , and of the most approved , Principles . Gentlemen favouring them with Orders may depend , upon : having all . sorts of- Flax , Tow , and Worsted Machinery , Laithes , Plaining Machines , Drilling Machines , Cutting Engines , Fluting Engines , &c , &c , executed iu the \ -ery best style , at the Victoria Foundry , Camp Field , Leeds . . . . . N . B . Scrcsrs and "Wheels Cut to order , and the strictest punctual "! tj * observed
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MINERAL TERRA JSIETALLIC , For Filling Decayed Teeth , without Heat , Pain , or Pressure ; and Incorrodible Mineral Teeth fixed without giving the least Pain , or shewing any fastening ivhatever . LEEDS , BRADFOED ; AND WAKEFIELD .
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'S . . , In conteoveiice of numerous ajmhcaUoyis continually received from Bradford and the Neighbourhood , one ofthe Proprietors of Dr . Henry ' s French Meroine Pills , will attend every Wednesday and Thursday , at No . 4 , George Street , facing East Brook Chapel , Bradford . A TREATISE IS JUST PUBLISHED ON THE VENEREAL & SYPHILITIC DISEASES , AND GIVEN WITH EACH BOX OF DR . HEMYFEENCH MEROINE PILLS , nOKTAININ G plain and practical directions for the effectual cure of all degrees of the above com rV plainte-withohservationsonseminnl ^ ealness arisingfrom early abuses , and the deplorable consel quencesresultrngfrom the use of mercury , the whole intended for the instruction of genS iS , d- « S d ^^ l person * can obtain an immediate cure with secrecy and safety . Prepared an ! sold by the sole -Propnetor , * No . 74 , CoDourg Street , Six Doors from Brunswick Chapel , Leeds . In Boies 2 s 9 d and 4 s . 6 d . each . With each Box w given -firections how to take these Pills , observations on points benefioial a ° evtLS g mS '" ^ worth ^^ g ^ ? T ^ ^ ^ ve been , sufferers . wl £ 3 Sa ^ ff-gg «*> ¦ f ? V- ^ ffi !!^ ^ WchLa * aestro ^ many thousands is now unhappily so well known that : ' » reeitel of ite effects ^ qmtt unneceswy , itsmahgnant influence extending by inheritance from family to family , and when _ the great Doctor Henry became professor to the University , he conferred an ^ nSuable benefit upon mankind by the discovery of his grand panacea for the cure of this depSabK Smlinf The certainty witivwhich the Pill * are continually administered can he attested by manyfhougaS who are annuall y enred ^ by ^ them . -What medicine can be more appropriate than that whS SSS ? such general rabrfacbon ? The French Pills root out everj- particle ofthe insidious poison / puriS ?• - 'S Sr ?^ ° ^ + T h 0 le - !/ t flnids - They not only remove the disease but they renovate by ^ heir action the ifierentftmenons of the body-expelling the grosser humour , andiu a maLer so im Pe ? ceptible as ° o convw « Ae most scepbeal of their astonishing and unequalled powers . They neither conSn nlr ? u £ no ^ any oAer suueral , and maybe taien without the slightest suspicion of ojscovery theVreo ^ e S restraintrf iet , loss of tome ^ or hindrance of business , but effect a complete cure withoS he le ^ t Sure ISIilk f ^ Sl ^ ^ test suspicion may existit will be well to have ^ coS " the French Pills j for whentakea before the disease has made its appearance they act asa certain Kventn ? r ^ vxng ^ e com ^ amt e ^ toU , and secretly . The deplorable'Lte in which many peS have Sen -when TBrta r . % Doctor ( from < he use of mercury ) renders it imperatively necessary to caution the pubue against that dangerous mineral when injudiciously administered . puouc ¦ atter
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On Monday Evening last a meeting was convened m the Assembly Room Wakefield , for the" purpose ofpetmbning Parliamerifc for UniT « rsal Suffrage , Short Parliaments , and ; Vote b y Ballot . At seven o clock the large ropin , which , will hold upwards of 2 , 000 persons , was crowded to excess , and every individual in the large assembl y anxiously joined in the shout lor freedom . About a fc * minutes -before seven Captain T ^ dod ester the room , and was hailed with -ft * loudest cheers , Mr ; O'Connor followed shortly afterwards , and was enthusiasticall y cheered as he made his way throug h the dense throng to the platform . r ; .- Mr . Martin was unanimously called to the chair . He was sorry they had chosen him to fill that office , as he would much rather have seen >«»
of those old veterans who bad grown grey in the cause ^ pf Radicalism iilling that pbsti As however they , had done him the honour to call upon him to preside at their meeting , he would use his best exertions to acquit himself honourably / arid usefully of Jhe duties which devolved upon him in that eapacity . { Hprj hear . ) Their object Was to hear ^ 11 sides of the , question , and if any one had ' any objections to make as to , the propositions which Were likely to be laid before the meeting , or any remarks to offer regarding any thing that might fall from any of the obSff' % WOll H K ^ < & * ^ power to obtain fbrthem a . fe , r hearing . ( Hear , rM&i **^ xie
hoped the meeting would be ; conducted in an orderly manner , and that the Radicals of Wakefield wo ^ d show bo «! Whig , ana Tories tbatth ^ w 2 e cgable not onl y of . calling a publie meeting ; but aLo of conducting the business ^ such meeting in ^ S ^^ f ^ T *?* ¥ » S * contradiction to goseimpudent and shameless epithets which , had beea , so cop-ouslrhe ' aped iipoif them , such * s J ! t **?* - *<»*<*** S ^ icals-vile trashanda thousand others too vile and contemptible for ^ I ^^^ Sf ^ Sr ^ fss m m ^^^^ sm Uiear , hear . ) But jrhough they were vntuallv ot the bajonet ^ buthewouldarresttheni with argument and ^ stub their reason ; } ( Hear , ) . . He * X
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advocate for Violence ;> it he pipdlfc . o ^ fnf ' ww ? tyrannical 5 and . thifcir ; obje ££ wasjiBtijl to pit y ^ nif and , if possible ^ fe J ^ ye ^ tU ^ m ; '; -Radical wished to convince the m ^ esf p £ ; their :: rights : theysli ? d often befcn designatp ; a 4 te& ignorant to ^ knpw-wh * t those rights were ji that might be , Ibut he " waa ^ ure the government were not wige \ iri witholdirig them . ( Laughter and cheers . ) ThcyVnlyrclaim ^ d a right t 9 P < : % intheCommpos . \ House dh ' . Parliament that was their uJidoQbtedv ^ gJit ; / but alas it was : monopolised by the ; jlandloirdl , aJa , V consequently . labour was unrepresented ; " Nothing but wealth spoke there . ^ Hear , hear . ) Wealth had its house , ¦ - •¦"¦¦¦ - - •¦ - - ¦ ~ " " ""^ ¦ ¦ ' ¦
—the House 1 of Lords—and it was top badthat it should monopolise both that and the House - of Commons . He wished however that both labour and wealth might there be represented , ( hear , hear ) but not wealth alofle > . ; . it had no to&gue . and ' ftbuld ' not speak , they wanted their representatives to extend the Suffrage , for he held that it was the , right of every man of twenty-one yeavs of age to have a voice in the choice of those who were to be their representatives , ( Cheers . ) - He would not detain them longer , and begged to call upon : V v
. Captain Woob to move the first resolution - . — lie was received with loud cheers . He said , that having taken a-somewhat active part in aiding them to obtain ; their rights , he had then come forward with great pleasure to assist them in the same great object they had so long been seeking ^ and wei ^ j Vet to find . When the Reform Bill was . introduced into Parliament , he did then think it would pro ve inefficient and that it was built upon a basis contrary 4 b the rights of Englishmen , and the constitution of the country : ; His . opinions tojthafc . cffect were stated . in the Court House , at Waiefieia , when he movedr ^ " . That the Relbran Bill would not be productive of any real benefit , ; unless the extension of the . Suffrage
went to the great boly of the people , and unless they were protected by the ; Ballot . "; 'ihatresolution was opposed by those who called theihselyesllefprmers ; but was carried b y a . tremeiidcus mjijority of the men of Vvakefield ; ( Clteers . ) It was a / painful thing to see a man act with insincerity oh ¦ ¦¦ any ' . ocfaai Pio ; n ,-: especially . ; thbse ; ' > ho-pf ^ end-to - ! be the"fri " enf 3 # of freedom . ( Hear ,: hear . ) He had .-given ' his opposi ^ tion to the Whigs , though he did not , thenthini ; them ' quite so bad as the Tories , but really he must now say . that he did not see ; the lightest shade of difference between them . ( Loud cheers , ) He had the othet day the pleasure of hearing > lr : Shannan Crawford address the people of Leeds , and from that address
it 1 appeared the ; people of Ireland Were still subject totlie -Coercion . ' -Bill , and that that shameful ¦ measure wad still in force in that insulted country . ( Hear , hear . ) . ThatBill , - as they were aware * Mt the country at the mercy pfwhoever might be " the Lord Lieutenant of IrelauJ—a power whicli involved the happiness or misery of others too much to be vested in the hands of any one lhau . ( Hear , hear . j He uave the Whigs credityfor-placing Earl MukrVtve at the head of that country , ¦ ¦ whose kindness ' and humanity were justly praised : ; but they should re * member that the . character of an individual was ho security for the wellare of states . ( CUewvsO It wivs iiutonoiis to ' all-who had paid nuy attention , to the a&air , s ; of . this ' country that , ' for . several vniir ' s nukf .
theAVhigs had beim urging the people - ' todemand their ju >; t and undoubted rights from the Tories , whom tlnn- represented , as being unjust , cruftl , ami oppressive : — . bythcir agitation and theinlHiehceof the people there was a cliaiige ulaUe in the adunnifttra . ticn —the V / bigd Lad obtained the power , and what was their first net ? The Reidrm BiU . ( Laughter . ) He could not coiisiiier the Keiorm ¦ liiU . fo . be any tiling more thi' . n he thoudit it to be at the . tim # j—a uriljul deliision . ( Cheers . ) ' And , iuyeedi i . uch Lurd Jnhii Rns ^ U had -himself declared it to Lie , ( shame ) for , instead of giviiVgt'iiiialreprosentiuion to the people , of Engknti , the iruiners of that nieasurt' intended to give ' -a prejioaaer ^ tiug iniiuerice to the lauded anstucracy . ( iJeiir . hear . )
Auajurvdiat reason w'as ' -this ? Whr , merely th- ^ t they inigbt keep in tlieir own hands the power oi tliruwiug npun unrepresented ' labour tiib ^ e taxes which bugiit to lie laid upon property . ( Shnine , shame . ) it was uow notori . 'us that the Whi m ' s when they got into place , if he inigut take Lord J-. Russell as tlieir orgim—it was notorious tlmt they werj oppose d to the progressive improvement of the -representative syf-. teui , bHcause , an they , sa-j , sucu changes would . be iiau ^ eruu » tb : thu CousUtuiion an 4 % a country . : ([ ieur . ) Now he need not toil that meetuig that all institutions . have , at , some perioa or other , Ijeen iiuiovations . j tnery thing human had had its . commencement ,- and would have its endaiidhe cared little what ¦
changes w- ere iiilroduced provided ihey did not throwobbtacles . in the way of the- ! iappiness- of men . ( Hear . ) But though human things yyere ¦ changeable ,- tlie principles : of trutii and jii .-tice wore eternal ami uiicuauj-iug ; mid hfe would prove that tiie ehiiins . wluch tiiev inane were not lti ! j . s bused . npoh tliu lmiurai .-ri gUt ^ " of . ihmi tlian they were upon the priuciples of tnitii ; and justice . ( Hear . ) _ Be had told Luem tilready that there was ho jnuuiLi the room , \ vlib was living upon his labour ; who-. wj : s . not -as . much entitled' to the Sufi rage us the proudest aristocrat in the laud that would , vlftunve hnn of it . ( Hear , hear , and c ! : eei « . ) ByLprd J Kus . ' -till s account , cue would , suppose lie had , never read the
uittury ol the country , lor if he referred to one ol : th . nets of iienry' the ' . Stii , he would find that ; tiieSutliaiewasexten-ed . to the mat-aes ol-the ueopleV A writer iu the ci-nys of Eliiitbetk had said that every Englishman by bath , was t ' ntitied to vote at eiections . ( Cheers- ;) . JNovv if that -wxs not Universal Suffrage he did not know what Was * . - ( Hear , hear . ) It the people then posscssod the sutiVage , they were now a thousand timed more entitled to it ; and he irou ! d _ shoy . - 'the truth of . that , assertion ' upon the authority of Crown lawyers who could hardl y be suspected of having too ' great a Lias in favcur of popular fix-ling : Sir Wm . BJachstoiie ' . expressly statt-s that by the constitution of this country nb lhiuv could be taxed -ttithbiit his consent havinobeeniven titheb
_ g r y' himself or by his representative in Parliament : and he gives this as a reason why the laws of our coun ' try are never promulgated as was formerly ¦ .. the case in other couutries—that every person in the eye of the law is presumed to be present at their enactment ., thus at once conceding the principle that every man either is in Parliament bj' his own person , or : by his representative . ( Hear and cheers . ) But he would come tp a more mot ' ern lawyer . Lord Brougham before he was made Lord Chancellor of Eughnd , ; expressly declared that repi-tseiitatioa was the undoubted right of all . the tax-paying inhabitants of England . ' ( Cheers . ) Now if they could bring forth one ; , individual from any part ; of the United Kingdom who eacaped taxadou hewouldthea grant that thatman was not entitled
to he . represented .. ( Hear . ) He had shown that the people had formerly had the Suffrage , and that they were therefore entitled to it again . It was true there were some both of Whigs and Tories who fancied themselves ; a great deal wiser than Judge Blackstone ; but it was enly natural for the aristocracy of the country , who had so long p ' osses * 4 d the entire monopoly of legislative power , to think that workine meu _ wou ! d not legislate so well for theui as
they would do for themselves —( laughter)—while they tell you on the other hand that such a system would be the destruction of all our other institutions and of every thing they held dear . Perhaps ? he might be allowed to illustrate this by relating a conversation that had occurred between himself and another intelligent gentleman for whom he had a very great respect ; he meant the late Earl I itzwilliam . Meeting this gentleman one day , he ( Captain Yt ood ) was introduced lo him as an Outand-out RadicaL ; Earl Fitzwilliam said , he hoDed
Captain Wood did not pretend to be a Radical " No , my Lord , " replied Captain Wood , I do not pretend to be a Radical , for I am one in reality " ( Cheers . ) Eairl Fitzwilliam said ,: « Why , you would not wish to see Universal Suffrage , Vote by Ballot fib . " "Yes , my Lord , " replied Captain Wood ' ¦ "• I think they would be the protection pf EDqli-sh-^ ien . . . . «¦ Why , my , good friend , " answered ^ Earl iitzwilliam , <« 1 cannot believe you , for you must be sensible that no civilized society could exist with these laws . " pinner being nearly reaSy , the Captain intimated to his Lordship that he would not protract the discussion , but would put an end to it in ; > oi ; e word . " What was that ? " asked his I , ordi ship . America , " replied Captain Wood ; arid b . e would refer allinen of every rank whodpubted the propriety of the txtensioh of the Suffrage ta look to Ahierica . They heard of no danger to property in iua
C cpunirj ' , ana yet they had : the Suffrage to the fullest extent . The Captain proceeded to address the meeting at great length , and in a very interestingspeech , repletewith excellent observations and amusing auecdotes , - showed the uecessitj' " of every man having the franchisee-combated the anmuients which had been made Use of in opposition to the rights pf the people , and did away with a variety of irivolousobjecUous which are often urged against a ^ fucther extension , of the representative system ; He concluded , amid loud cheers , by moving the first resolution , which was seconded by Mr . V Gill ; and carried unanimously . Mr . Gill proposed the next resolution , which was second by Mr . Butler . He said he did not come forward as an orator ; he merely wished to dp scmelhingin aid of the good cause if it were no
more than presenting himself ujon that platform . ( Hear , hear . ) He believed it was understood that all who presented tiiemselves there had embarked in the cause of Reform , and he was glad at this : opportunity , of . acknbvvledgmg . himself a refbnrier .- ; IJe was not an advocate for partial reform , but for Universal lleiorra ; not that freedom which was to
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^ JieW the mil of a donor , but that which h * considered the birth-right of every man . ( Hear hear ) : He re gretted that Reform , as it respected the 'y ° « ! Pg classes , had been , treated hy ^ many asameie dehisipn , and by others with more thin Contempt . but thatcav . se was not to be given up ; by those whose vnterest and well-being must stand or fall by it ^ Nothey were to return to the conibat animated by everr Wow they received , until the * nemv , exhausted % f ^^^ on " , had no ^ -Joiiger the powerto cbntewi . Then would the victory be won . ( Cheers . ) Mr . Kershavt : moved the third resolution . : He w « , . a 8 ^ wh -cpntra ^ e ^^ rffie " ii ? cei « i ^ ot short Parliaments as of the . Extension of thlsuffi-aee , borne people ^ entertaip . ^ ery di& « rept ^ btan 8 as ^ to ^^^¦^^^ " ¦^¦^ Sfe ^ wmcntaflhlsuld hi prot png ^ i butfor his ^ part ^^ gWflraj ^ 4 ionest Radical W ) uld , be ^ ati ^ edwith nothitole ^ than
AnnustlFarhamenls . ; By this means , if a represehtive was biinest r . ^ ieeiriwouWrreturn him agai n if he was capable of ^ doing / their " business ; if notj a year waa long enough either to ; injure their interests , or to sit in the House without doing- anything . ( Hear bear . ) In times past they had' beea much deceive by electioneering speecliesj but while they ^ had such long Parliaments they fcbuld har % expect otherw-ise than to be deceived . ( Hear . ) ? It had been ^ aii that a man wasjiotfit for a churchwarden who had bnly Md one year ' s ; trial ;/ but the fact was , that ; under ^ e old system if he ^ had been a churchwarden for two or Hireeyears ^ : he ; generally TJecame ^ a rogue ; and the same argument aflplfed to annual
Parliaments . . ( ilear , hear . ) ; Much had ' been said ibout the confusion of having Aunual Earliaments ; for hi « p ^ rt he did not think there would be ^ fourth part ot the confusion there was under ; the present system and there would- not be sp much shaking of % ands between the candidates and electors , the former of whom , as soon ^ as they got . into Parliament ^ forgot they had a cpnstituencyj and of course remembered nothing at ; alt about their interests . —( Hcar ^ near ;) Mr . Kershaw proceeded to animadvert on the measures of the Whiga whom he declared to be eauallv
as bad as the Tories , and if the people were to be oppressed it mattered little who' oppressed them . — ( Hear , hear . ); They had been charged with supporting the Whigs—they had supported them while they professed to go with the people , but theWhigs had ? hanicfuljy , abandoned their promiKes and were now justly deserted by those who would have been their firmest and most lasting supporters , —( Hear , hear . ) It mattered little , however , bow they were stigmatized so long as they maintained an ubrizht hnH
honest eo \ irse ; : tJiat he was sure would win their cause for them when stratagem and treachery would fail . The Whigs had entailed ^ upon the country much -unnecessary expense .. ; they : had augmente d the . salarypf the Dutchesfs of Kent £ 8 , 00 Q a year instead of taking away ; that . £ i 2 , 000 which ; she ^ was allowed for educating the Queen . This was insu& ferable , especially when tKey considercdithe pTeicnt depressed , state of trade and : the difficulties with wluch poor people had to contend .. Their object then ; was to obtain good and " cheap . governments The present Government was merely a system of monopply and plunder , and the annual expense of it
was unprectdented in the history of : any country and monstrous to think of . Biit they had trusted too long apd too ; confidingl y : to others to do their work tor them ; it was now necessary that they should think and act for themselves ; and however hard it might be for them who had so little time to devote to affairs : Of this liind ; thtre was np other way of . obtaining redress . They ought then to he detenninedjto accomplishUniverSal Suffrage , Annual Parliaments , Vote ; by J 3 a ] lot ^ and No-Property Qualification ; and whenever they were asked for a vote for a ; : y candidate for their . sutluages ( he spoke to-thosc who could vote ) they should refuse that vote uniesi they would pledge themselves to suuDort the **
principles in the : House of Commbhsi : Without tnrther detaining the meeting he begged to move the resolution . . '¦' - ; ,: V : ; .. ¦¦ " ¦ . ¦ : ¦; . ' : -. ' ' ¦ ¦ . ; Mn Appletard seconded the . resolution . V ;"' ; Mr . O'Connor ; was then with ; loud cheers ^ introduced to the meeting ; ; : He said ' Tie wW not quite . sure that he had best consulted ' their interests by appearing at that meeting ; but he was sure : that m visiting Walcefield on that ; occasion , he- had hot consnlted Ms own feelings , and had it ' not bear that he had disappointed them at a former period , he certainly ; should not have then been there ; '¦' ¦ - Hig hem , for some time past , had been far troin % ood
, aiid he did not then feel so able to address the meeting as he wished ;; -but if his voice was leeble he hoped his advocacy of the people ' s cause world lack .-nothing , of its ibrmer energy . —( Hear , hear . )—4 e agreed with .-: the ' Chairman and Captain Vyood , when these gentlemen laid down the real extent to which the people of England ought to bear all that ignominy which had -been heaped upon them ^' before they had recourse to the power of that momVforce u > r ; whlch they were so distihgui ^ hed , and which was but the mere shadow of that physical loice of which
the . people were in possession . He was glad to learn , that a new tera had been commenced in Vvakfe nvld , and that the working classes had befjiia to discover . the folly of worshi pping atlhe ' shrine of mher the : Whig or Tory ; factions . —( Cheers . ) Mn Kershaw had complained of the shameful extravagaiice of the Whigs in their expenditure of the public money , but for Ms part , he would not thank either the Whigs or Tories to pay ten shillings in the pound when they ought ; to pay twenty . He cared not for the pence , but for the br inmnle . anri
lie was glad to find that Radical Associations were finding their way into . Wakefield , —( obeera)—which had been so long famed for the influence-pf "its Whig and Tory , population . —( Hear . ; Much had bctn isaia by these two factions about the ignoranee of the people , and of their incapability of judging ia political aflairs ; hej however , was aware the peobie had . -, sufficient ,-knowled ge of their own ri ghts ,, and that they , merely required a gobd understabdini ' with : each other ,, to obtain these , righto ; and he ^ -as also awave that the dread which tyrants have ot knowledge was the best proof of the increasm * knowledgeof the people ; ( Hearhear ) If tae £
, , . p < pie of England were aaumhfbrnied people the Whij ;* woulu ; grant them the Suffrage ;; it was not their ignorance they dreaded , but because they had the very description ; pf knowledge which tyrants mo ^ t dreaded—the knowleage pf their own rights . Mr . UCoiinor would not travel over the histbry of tbe : YV ^ higs- ^ it ^ was well enough known at present for he believed they had broken all faith with the people . ( Hear , hear . ) : He would take his date from the time ot tte passing of the : - . Reform- BiiL In 183 S Parliament declared itself corrupt aiid incapable of legislating for the
eountiy .. .. They were seif-convictsi traitors . It was the House of Commons itself that conceded the fact that they were no loi ^ r worthy ofholding the confidence of the people . ( H ^ ar , Lear . ) to I ¦ & ? $ „ the cas 6 ; was lt no ! txpeeted that tie ¦ Keform Bill was to do . away with existing abuses and give to ^ the -people that-which they justly demanded ? . It was not he wb « bad told them what the Reform Bill was to do ; bu £ it was the present W hig : administi atipri when out of office , whotrumpeted into their ears the necessity of huch an extengion of the suffrage as would leave th »
people the right of control' over all the institution of the coimtry . ( Hear , hear . ) ThisTvasthe posihpnm which the Whigs had placed them ; ard now having occupied the places of Government , they were just as bad as the Tories . Mr . O'Connor entercd . inta a , long detail of . the follies of Whig Jegislaiiaa , shpwing the ' manifest : absurdity -of many of their measures . He deprecated them for their ; inconstancy to the people ' s Pause , and their extravagance , and tj-ranny ; nGtwithstanding all the impudent claims they set up for the countenance of fte people ^ bn ^ the pretext of carrying on the fetf ^^ ? - - ( Hear ' llear - > k * exhibited the folly pf placing any reliance upon eithpr faction . good
ipr ^ yttatever they Ai ght-profess to be willing to do for the ; people , they were all the whHe seeking * err owp advantage , It was to them a complete W monopoly ; and the Whigs were certainly the ineauCT of the two ; for if the Tories offered to flo any thing for the people the / Whi gs would iinniedija-teLy offer a fraction more , out such a fraction a » epul 4 make little or no difference to the real interests of _ the community . Mr . O'Cbnaor then ' entered into a long argumentative course ¦ proving , the ¦ necessitr
andvalaeot Universal Suffrage and the importance Of this right above all others , because he considered ltthe foundation of all others ; with that rifeht he bought « ger ; nghfe would he obtained ^ without that h ^ ou ^ . ? v . ^ m iropossiple / tb ^ obtaiii anything really wprth navmg . Mr . O ^ Corinor then br ^ eeeaed tojpeaX at - great ^ length : o " n ; a / variety * ti ' other interesting topics conaected AvitWtbe claims of the ^^ dtin ^ S ^^ of upwarOs of an hoDr and ahelf ^ ommanded the strictest attention , and Irequently the loudest applause . V - - v s ; : ; : , ; . v Mr . ^ ypE ^ moveaV the adop tion ^ of the petitiony u jm ¦*• ^^ ants of ^ -Wa&field ^ coriie for ^ ward ^ ini « gn a ^ It ; ^ fa presented in the House of Cpmmdns , by Sir Wm . M ( & < irth .
v Mr ^ Lpca : W 6 bi > secbhded the adoption of the petitHm , ; whichas wellas the etherresolution * were carried unanimously . ; ; v ; ;; , ;; ,:,:,- ; :: -Thtf meeting -then ; dispersed , giving three hearty t **^*^ O'Co Pnpr / ihref : 1 ^ pS Wood ; and three ^ for the cause of ^ fiadicalm ? -
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 20, 1838, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct989/page/2/
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