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KjBfGMSSTSR . — -The Manchester relief fund la mag on very well ; indeed they hire nine females E rwliere every week , to whom they give four AilliagB each ; and under particular drcnmstanoes , Bach as lying-ia , «* * ny thine of this sort , thev have ilbwed the woman eight shillings per week ; b £ ^ leg all other expenses of the soc iety . Who , after -gating this , will have the presumpaon to say that Q ^ rtisa is dead in Manchester ? SOUT& DURHAM . —On Sunday evenine , a r ^ .-rtirf meeting was held on Bi afaoo Aoddand wd by
g ^ t « was addressed Messrs . Emhle ton and PowJwa , when the meeting agreed to enrol themselves is the NatoonalCharter Association as soon as tbe csrds arrived . At a meeting of Delegates held si Bishop Auckland on Tuesday , it was agreed that gre shilliQ ^ s per week be sent to the iSxecutive ConBcil sittUng at Manchester , daring the present « tate of the fsmds ; that Bishop Auckland send one Delegate to iha County Delegate Meeetiug , to be TjsW cm Tuesday next , and that Robert Davison be the person sent ; that a subscription be entered into immedia tely for preparing a silk banner , &c ., to welcome Messrs . Williams and Binns to the Aock-U nds , when they come out of prison .
jfEWCASTLE-UPOH-TTHE . —National Chak-5 KB Assocuttok . —The ProTiBonal Council met as ^ ntl on las t Tuesday evening , September 1 st , Mr John Ra&d ^ * he chair . After the treasurer had finished receiving subscriptions , a great nnmber of uf class leaders came , lanrard , and reported 4 fe * t Shej had got classes formed . The discussion-of ^ jgmising the out distnets was then resumed , when jt was moved , and earned unanimousl y , ** That Mr Cockburn be the missionary for this district , and that he proceed to the following places , ra ^ Winlay-Uyton , Blaydon , Swalwell , Usworth , < fce ., to or-• anise them members of the Charter Association . " It is particularly requested that all class leaden wQl attend at the usual place of meeting , on Tuesday evening next , September 8 , on important business .
KAiiFAX . —Dr . MTDovaxl . —Agreeable to as Kfrert&OBent in another part of this "paper , it will hewn that the Charter of Waifo ^ 'Wi is not yet lost sight of by its friends In tb ! s town and neighbourhood , they bavin * determined to support one of its champion ' s . Dr . M'Donall , by giving him a public entry into the town on the day mentioned ; and also on the following Monday , honouring him with a public tea-party , as marks of Approbation for his firmness , his real , and . his honesty Sutherto dip . flayed in defence of . tfre Charter of U « irJiWrtiea . - KIUF 1 KCD . —On Monday evening , : &e Indepen . tea Methodist dapel , at yob place , was fiUedto exces by aa orderly and attent » % audience to bW Mr .
Bafetcnr , the West-Riding Misionaiy of the National Garter Association : Mr . Pearson , grocer , occupied fee chair . Mr . BabstoWs lectnre occupied upwards rf an hour , and at tke close , and daring the delivery of it , he was loudly cheered fey the attentive assembly . A handsome stun was collected in the meeting towards the West-Riding Miaaionary Fund . A very large num-In tit persona entered and enrolled themselves as the Mrrfield Members of the National Charter Association Yearly all the operative stonemasons on the Leeds and . Kssebester BsQway hare enrolled themselves as mem-Deri , and collected in one wtg » t no lea mm t ^ ro £ S » 6 * . towards the fund for the relief of ttteincar eented patriots and their sulfcring fkrnnt ^ Th ir seal tad unanimity is indeed above all praise .
B&BJfSCBY . —Naiiohal Democratic Chaeiib AssocuTies . —The member * of thit Association met u usual on Monday night , in their room , at the Raflway Tsrern ; a Chairman having been appointed , a retolntka from the Bamsley National Charter Association , winch appeared in the Northern Star of the SSrtfc . imt , wm read , wherein they declare that they will not hold « ay correspondence or acknowledge our body , anleu we $ mv oTBTboard the name of democrat . A discussion took place on the subject , when each member declared thai as long aawe were straggling to establish the principles of pare democracy , they would sot give up the name of democrat , that name having keen adopted only to ffiwtfngPiJth the two Associations . A deputation
from the T > ataooal Chatter Association was fct * e an . wanced , who stated they had been appointed by that body to request , us to change our name , when the following resolution was unanimously adopted : " That we , the membea of the Banulpy National Democratic Charter Association , deem it inexpedfent to change the same agreed upon in the formation of the society , with leanest tbat they w ** ld let i » know the decision they should come to on the subject , as we ware wiahfol that unity and peace should reign amoagst us . Aeoordbgkj , in about an hour , the deputation returned , accompanied by Che members of the Dodwortfc . >««« .
turn , and stated , that after the explanations which had been given , they fcad resolved to acknowledge us as brothers in the great cause of redeeming ourselves from political thraldom , which announcement was received with knd applause by the whole of the members present We had a great accession of new members , -who an agreed to the pledge wpired by the Grand National CdsocQ . Zttscosaiou an various subjects took place , sod the evening was concluded in the greatest harmony . Several patriotic songs and recitations were delirered , wbea the meeting was dissolved , every one being determined to forward toe great cause and not to give up { heir effort * nntn the Charter become the law of tha had . The Jiatiosai . Ch > rtks , Assocxatioh held its weekly meeting as usual , and many members were registered . A letter from Dewsbory was read , calling ipaa the Association to support a lecturer , in conjunction with the other-Aatoeiatia&s of the West Riding , te one month , Thia wai postponed to the following oeetiDg sight This business disposed of , Mr . Heyvped ' s letter was read respecting cards , and instructions Ten given to the Secretary to write to the Provisional Cocndl of Manchester , to learn upon what terms cards are to be sent A suggestion having been thrown out that a deputation should wait upon the democrats to ropiest thsa to change their name , so that the parent Awom-fem might eo-operate with them in choosing a
J&bl-eosncil , it -was explained that they strictly adhered to the rules laid down by the Manchester AelegUet , and that they assumed the name merely fa distinction . After this , the motion on the book was ftarinded . A discussion then aroae as to the propriety « f lending a delegate to Dewsbory , on Sunday , the 13 th ef September , inasmuch as the members present were of opinion that prejudice may arise against them . They wataally came to the following resolution : — " That fee members of this Association cannot consistently kkfi any part in any meeting where delegates are le-9 ° ^ OB ft Sunday , &l they triint these is no ad * aat * ge from such meeting *; but that they are calculated to excite a great deal of prejudice . " The meeting mi feaelT erowdsd .
HORTHABEPTOH . —A public tea-party and ball *» holden at this place on Friday last ; the 28 th OKxut , for the benefit of Mr . Henry Yincent . The JWy insisted of nearly three hundred highly res-Jw twle and well-dressed working men and women , « their families . After tea an eloquent address * M delivered by Mr . C . Jones , of -which a report » as been kindly furnished , but onr limits preclude its naemon . BXRUXNGEASK , —Democratic Absthtence SoaErri—The Abstinence Society meet every Monday £ « iag , as usual , at Mr . Bill ' s Coffee House , in « aor-Btreet ; and those wishing to get a knowledge « : what is being done for the Chartist cause throogh-«« the nation , would do well to attend at eight » clock each night , as the Northern Star , Liberator , * fid Scottish Patriot newspapers are read each night « meeting . Quarterly tickets will be issued next ¦ kft&ay nigh ; .
, RAI > CLIFPS BRIDGE . —A public dinner was PJQi in the Mechanics' Institution , Raddsffe *« Bge , on Tuesday , August 23 tn , in honour of the Wfcrauon of ihat uncompromising patriot . Dr . jjUwiall , when about seyenty sat down to an = * eelleat dinner ( a hot one ) provided by the eom-£ * " *» ^ d , after the cloth was trithdrawn , a nnm-** o f persong were admitted iBto the gallery of ihe ^ atun on on pay ment of three-pence each . Mr . "Alter was unanimously called to the chair , and , ffl ceat and able m » AAh ititrodnAft ^ the TWtor . an of
^ o delirered excellent lecture an hour and o 6 * 1 Tb duration , and concladed by assuring the *«« nee « iat the WhigB , by immuring him in a ~? f £ «> ii , had noi abated one jot of his zeal for the H caase of Chartism ; when , after a few con-: *™ i g ^ emarkB from the ChainBan , and three cheers ^ forOConnor , Frost , WUliam 8 , Joues , M'Douall , ^ nairman , aiid the Northern Star , the meeting ^^«« d in good epirits . The committee pre-^ a Or . M'Douall with two pounds , -wiich had 2 *» i subscribed by the men of Spring Water Print
aW > ana * fiends , towards defraying his law ex ** aiie 6 at Chester Asaies . ULPORB . -We had a good muster on Sunday , «[ we receded information that there has been *« e aore classes formed . It was then passed that £ « classi leader become a committee member , when ^ s hoped Uiat eyery class will instruct its leader to S * M « No . 3 , Cobbett-etreet , Shaw ' s Brow , on Z !?*****! evening , a * half-past seven o ' clock , WitH ^ fr ^ em enis « aa be made to take » large roam foi ^ Wfliseaseions , * c No . 1 Class meets at 3 , H ^^ reet ; No . 2 'aaBs , i * "Mr . MillingtonV , SJ ^ reet , OkiieM-laneTWe also took into oon , ^^' u > u the propriety of giving Mr . R . J . IU-£ ** fO 8 on a pubfie dinner when he shall come oat of
wZV" * d&ageon . He proposal met with umirerBal ^^) ata <« ; tt is expected that HI good aod true C jf 18 wi ^ attend tbs dawee on Sunday next , at r ^ -iafit two o'dock . Let us no longer be asleep , grouse like a giant , and shake off that apathy 2 * has befalkafseine lately , and neveTirest ^ Jf ^ oatU we -ehall have gained the Charter of ^ n ^ OrgaaiMl « r 0 UU 8 e ! orgJuii 8 e ! Get formed j ^^ u gpeM ^ aB possible , and we shall booh
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, -n g , Mr . S ^ ' S West Riding Missionary of . the Nal tional Charter Association , lectured here in Mr . S . giekmson ' B Room , to a crowded audience . His l e < i « 1 ^^ 5 t ? p ! fd : SSari 7 two honr 8 ' "«^ a 8 of a very animated kmd . Thei improveraent Mr . B * ir > tow hS m »* rm hig mode of lecturing since hiaTasI via £ ^ ^ " ^^ » tis | action : he made an impression oa the audience which had the effect of caW a large number to enrol themselves members .- After T » n 7 ? iTU fe ^ ? - was ani »> W"K > d by Mr . Bmns that Mr . R . Wilkin 9 on ( commonly called ^ JWi , fc « Halifax , waa there of and he was- desired by the Chairman to give us a short speechi which he did , and which the people appeared to be highly gratified with . It was also announoed r m ij j f ay Tuesday evening meetings the Committee had mtde arrangements for some one to §! « ° , i * ^ J . * nd PW ^ colwly reqntsted the attena ^ ? I ^ Pi membeK . with their friends . Hudaersheld and the neighbourhood is acuin in
mmmotion : such is the feeling towards the patriots , Collins and M'Douall , that the villages are vieinJ with on * mother how to pay their respecta and shew gratitude to the noble patriots . Six bands of musio are alread y engaged ; and Saturday is expected to i » a day similar to some in bygone times , when tjbe wfiole nation looked up to HuddereHeld as the gwde-poBt for all political moTemcnte . The addresses T ^ Ta . u * emanated from-the Committee has aroused the whole district , and frightened the base waigs . The shopkeepers appeared to take the aiwin , several having made applications to be allowed to be honorary members . Be at your post , then , on Saturday , at five o ' clock , on the LeedB ¦ toad , and shew to the world that the spirit of liberty still reigns in the bosom of Yorksbiremen .
^ umroKr- WssT SoKKKSBr . -TfaewhKfbardly rfl ^ - ^ g ^ owaa jet in these .. puttLtunife ealj « ntemng thepopdar amd regarding the nature and pnneinles of the People ' s Charter . Ignoranc and moral depravity are to a great extent a > a preminm , A man in poor circumstances , who exhibits a desire for knowledge , and takes an interest in P " ^^ i marked and watched with the most extreme suspicion . A dose system of espionage on the people is at eoastant work between the ignorant and onpnneipled justasses and the police to crush every thing that maj have the remotest tendency to fo * 7 [* nl the people in improvement . The possession of knowledge , by a labouring man , is looked upon and held as dangerous to the public safetyand ev
, ery method is adopted which wickedness can hatch , or * l * ck-hearted malignity invent Vo impede its progress , rhe yonth generally have been , and are even now , dewed an opportunity of getting the ordinary rudiments of education , by being kept at work , and in waiting from six in the morning till eight , nine , and even ten at night . The greater portion of the people in country parishes are unable to read or write . No endeavour has been made by the organised sections of the people to pierce through the thick darkness which hangs over the mind of the agricultural oounties . In Berkshire , for instance , bailiffs have been advertised for , to undertake the management of farms , and preferenoe offered to those who could neither read or write . This appeared in one of that
county s papers no later than last year . Doe 3 not this exhibit a field of moral barrenneas , which calls for the hand of the husbandman to till , invigorate , and fertilize . Many in the North country try to smooth down their disappointment and chagrin , in being beset by such » rascally Btate of things , in enreighing bitterly against the established clergy , bat I deem this very unfair , seeing the dissenting ones are equally chargeable , if not more so , with lute lvxe-mTmne $ B and indifference . I imagine the Tiverton men are premature in wishing for a lecturer . I presume , in the present state of things , he would only get into trouble . TheBe parte are worse , if possible , than what Dr . M'Douall states of Chester . The pioneers and woodman are first wanted .
Ihe brush-wood must previously be cleared away , and a road opened , so that the cultivator may walk freely around the ground , and be able to examine the nature and quality of the boU . Now this can be onl y done in the distribution of tracts , and plenty of them . Two or three thousand tracts would do more , jndiciottsly chosen and distributed , than any thing I know of . They would require to be dropped in the streets , and in the doorways of the poor . This is the way . Sow the seed , but &ee thai the ground is clear , so that it be not choked . Two or three messengers acting in this way as out-posts and Bcouts , would do more to process the cause of the
people in the West , in a few months , than twenty lecturers in a twelvemonth , or the most ably conducted newspaper in a dozen yeare . If the Nerthern Star , for example , were publicly known to be taken in by * little tradesman or innkeeper hereabouts , every means would be embraced to decry , ruin , and crush him . West of England men are very zealous and warmly forward in the North , ( or up the country as they call it ) but here they are very quiet and profess to know nothing , unless it be as policemen , lacquies , or priegtS , or clap-trap instruments of fraud and treachery in the hands of unfeeling and unconscionable officials . —Correspondent .
CBXCSSXLZ 7 T . —On Friday , the " good men and true" of Chickenley met at Mr . Riley " 8 , Malt Shovel Irm , to hear Mr . Bairstow lecture ; Mr . John Hafgh , of Street Side , was called to the chair . The patriotic and scientific band accompanied the meeting , and gratuitously rendered their services in playing many soulinspiring airs , and contributed mmch to the enthusiasm and pleasing unanimity of the evening . The village is but a very Email one , but it contains within it a -larger proportion of Bound , warm-hearted Radicals than any other in the empire . GAWTHORP . —On Saturday evening , Mr . Bairstow , accompanied by the kind and patriotic band from Chickenley , gave a lecture ia the School Room , which wai crowded to excess ; Mr . Barker was in the chair . The "people here are organising in unison -with the National Charter Association , and "will G&rry it out , " come weal , come woe . "
BIRSTAIfc—On Tuesday evening , at eight o ' clock , a very crowded audience assembled in the Zion ' s School Room , to hear Mr . Bairstow , the West Riding missionary of the National Charter Association . Mr . R . 8 teel , of Pudsey , was called to the chair , and Mr . Bairstew , -who -was cheered most enthusiastically on rising , delivered a lecture of nearly two hours duration . The result of the lecture already appears in a general desire to become members of the National Charter Association , and support the new system of organisation recommended by the delegate meeting in Manchester . The " good men and true" of Birstal "will again do their duty ; will hoist the flag of freedom h . gh in mid heaven with " Universal Suffrage , and No Surrender , " inscribed thereon , determined , come weal , ceme woe , to have their rights , and no less .
XKXDBLEBROT 7 GH . —The Chartists of this town are organising themselves in classes , and have lately Bent ten shillings in one week to the imprisoned Chartists in Tmrham gaoL KOTTIIfGHAM . —All the proceedings of the Chartists must show their despicable oppressors that it will be useless for them to persecute any longer , anil they may be assured , that the more they oppose the people , the more determined the unenfranchised millions will be to throw off the shackles which surround them . The " base , bloody , and brutal" faction have
determined upon building anew bastile in Nottingham , in opposition to three-fourths of the rate-payers ; the scoundrels may draw the cord too tight ; the middle classes are feeling the effects of their own misconduct , and if the people will only keep to their " own order " for a few months longer , the middle classes will be compelled , from dire necessity , to join them in their demands for justice . l « t the people ' s motto Still be the Charter , and no surrender ! A petition to the Queen , for the return of Frost , Williams , and Jones , and the liberation of all political prisoners , is in course of skn&ture .
X . OUGHBOB . OTJGH . —Visit to Vincent and Edwards . —Pursuant to arrangements made , Messrs . Skevington and Baker went , on Friday , the 28 th , to Oakham , for the pnrpose of seeing Messrs . Vincent and Edwards , being the bearers of 20 s ., to be divided among them . Also , from Mr . Eveleigh , of Loughborough , two ounces of tea , one pound of loaf sugar , half a pound of sugar , two packets of cocoa , and two pounds of bacon ; Mr . Smith , basket of peas ; Mr . Hobsoh , peck of apples ; Mrs . Renaia , the same ; Mr . Turner and friends , six night caps , with the initials of their names worked on them . These were all from Loughboroagh . From Hathern , a plum and batch cake , twenty eggs , tea , sugar , pears , apples , and one night cap . The money was raised as follows : — £ S . d . ¦ Received by Messrs . Skevington and Eveleigh 0 15 6 A Friend , by Mr . Turner 0 2 6 Collected at Mountsorrel 0 6 0 From Hathem 0 2 6 16 6 Given , „ ,, „ 16 0 Expenses 0 6 € The 2 a . 6 d . by Mr . Turner , was from the same penon that gave the sovereign to Mr . O'Connor , when he was here ; sixpence was alse begged on the way , and given them . On arriving at Oakham , we sent a note to the Governor , requesting to know what magistrate W 4 should apply to for an order . He recommended the
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Ret . Dr . Finch , of Oakham ; but on applying next morning at the Rectory , we learned that he was on a visit to Q . Finch , Esq ., Burley-on-the-HilL Thither we therefore went , and Bent in a note , requesting an order to see Vincent * and Edwards , also Shelkrd , U allowed . We were received with great courtesy by both gentlemen , who , after asking ns several questions , kindly presented us with an order to see Vincent and Edwards , stating that 8 beUard s time hadnot expired , it being required that he should be in prison six months before allowed to be visited . We thanked the gentler men , and would here bear testimony to their kindness , in the hope that others may emulate their example . We then repaired to the prison ; but were only admitted in one at a time , and to ^ ee one at once , in the presence - ^ - . _ . . _ .. _ .
of the turnkey , bars and an iron grate being between . Mr . Skevington went in first , and Vincent came to the bara He is recovering from what he suffered in the Penitentiary , though he is not the stout , ruddy young man he was when he sat in the Convention . He is In excellent spirits , was greatly rejoiced to see an old friend , spoke of part events and future prospects , rejoiced to hear of Dr . M'Douall ' s triumphant progress through the country , desired that the people might be informed , through the Star , that he remained the same , that he was devoting his leisure time in prison In preparing himself to be more useful to the people -than bef ore ; that -when he came out he should be a better lawyer and politician , and a more determined opponent of the present system . He desired to be reme » bered to all friends , and being about to retire , said , as we could not shake hands we must shake hearts , on which we were allowed to shake hands , which we did most cordially , being much affected . Mr . Edwards then took
his place , and bore the same testimony as fitr . Vincent , and seemed in good spirits , notwithstanding , all he has suffered ; he , also , had the pririlege of shaking hands . M * . Stavlngton retiring . Mr . Baker was admitted , and to him both Mr . Edwards and Mr . Vincent bore similar testimony . On-his . inquiring if Shellard had done any thing wrong , and why he was not allowed to be seen , the Governor , who was by , said that he did not think he could do any thing wrong , but it was the rule , * o . We found that the Government had defeated their own object by Bending them to Oakham , for it had been the means of spreading the principle * of Chartism there , as we were introduced to several , who told us that there ware many of that mind , but they were so humbled that they dare not avow themselves . The tradesman under the farmer , the farmer under the landlord . Had time permitted , Mr . Skevington would have given a lecture to the people ; but having to go twenty-nine miles , we returned home , rejoicing that we had been the means of chewing our suffering brethren .
John Skevingtoh , Jambs Bakek . TROWBRXSGE . —Poor Law Act . —Anether victory has been obtained over the Poor Law Commissioners by the inhabitants of Trowbridge . Three times this year , commencing the 25 th March , have the Commissioners issued orders under their seal to elect Guardians for this pariah , in the Melksham Union . Three out of the eight first elected resigned immediately on receipt of their appointments , when the Commissioners * second order , to elect three in their places , was issued and posted on the Church and Chapel doors . Notwithstanding the greatest publicity was given , not one application was made for a nomination paper , therefore no election could take place ; in fact , the people determined
were that there should be none . With this piece of Intelligence , the Commbsioners received the resignation of four others of the first elected Guardians , with reasons , as published in the WiltsMrt Independent , some time since . The Commissioners acknowledged very politely the receipt of the resignation , and soon » ft « r issued their third order , under seal , directing the Churchwardens and Overseers to proceed to the election of Guardians in the place of those who had resigned . Sixteen gentlemed and tradesmen were nominated by Mr . James Perkins , grocer ; Mr . Edwards , attorney ; and John Clark , Esq ., magistrate . The following gentlemen wereelected by hundreds over any others - —Mr Salter , Mr . J . Stancomb , Sen ., Mr . T . Clark , Mr . John H . Webb , Mr . W . Edgall , Mr . J . Norris Clark , all clothiers of the first-rate standing in the town . Those gentlemen also sent in their resignation to the Board of
Guardians on Tuesday , the 25 th inst What will the Commissioners Bay to this ? What they ought to say is : — ' Trowbridge People , —You conducted your buslness well before the formation of the Union ; your poor were better satisfied , aud did not co » t you « o much money as now ; therefore , take the management of your a&uirs into your own hands again , far we plainly see you know how to do it better than we . The following are some of the returns on the voting papers : " I vote far away with the Poor Act , and the three Kings of Somerset House ; " " I vote for the Charter and nothing else , my boys ; " " I vote for Universal Suffrage , the People ' s Charter , and no Surrender j" I vote for the following persons , Feargus O'Connor , John Frost , W . P . Roberta , Henry Vincent , Wm . Carrier , Wm . Potta ; " another had the following written in it — " This paper , nor the Guardians are of any use or ornament . " —Correspondent .
Incarcerated Chartists . —The following gubscriptions have been received on behalf of the incarcerated Chartists : — £ . s . d . From the Radicals of Warwick and Leamington , for Wm . Carrier , his wife and child ... ... ... o 13 0 Collected by the Chartists of Trowbridge , for Carrier to purchase books ... 109 Do . for Mr . Vincent ... ... ... 0 13 0 Do . for Mr . Potts ... ... ... 0 10 ? J . Moors . 34 , Mortimer-street , Trowbridge .
CHIBFP . —Fox Maule and the Criefp Chartists . —a dinner was given here on Thursday , the 2 "th inst , to Mr . Colquhoun , one of the leading Whigs , and desperate exertions were made before anything like a dinner party could be got up , although it had been preTicusly announced that Fox Mftttle ( QBCO , but not novr , the favourite of the people ) , and D . G * . Stewart , the rejected for Perthshire , would be present After four hours of eating and drinking , the party broke up ; and , when Fox Maule made his appearance at the door of the Inn , he was assailed with a tremendous storm of hisses , groans , and cries of " Sydmouth the second ! " " Where ia Feargna O'Connor , the people ' s friend ? " " Have yon received any word from Inspector Crawford about York Castle ? " " Was it you who employed Harrison and 8 rayth , the spies of Bradford ? " " You Whig lickspittle . " He then
entered hiB carriage , saying something like " you are paid for this . " He said something more , but , from the uproar , we could not hear . When the carriage was preparing to leave the cries of " Where is Frost , Willams , and Jones . May the blood of these patriots be on your head , " tzc 4 c ., rung in his ears . The carriage drove off , amidst awful hooting . G . D . Stewart then lifted the Inn -window , and cried out ' What is the reason of this noise ? " when he was assailed with hiBBes , and cries of " Away -with the bloody Whigs . " ' Away with your veto . " " We will have our Charter , Geerdie . " He had to retire as mortified as his colleague . What a change is here . ' Not many years since this same Fox Maule entered our town , with band and banners , cheered by the same class , who looked on him this night with indignation and scorn . Verily , Fox Manle knows there are Chartists in Perthshire .
Public Meetings . —A series of public meetings will be held here on Tuesday , Wednesday , and Thursday next , the subjects to be total abstinence , and the furtherence of the Charter . Mr . Abraham Duncan , the celebrated lecturer , will be present on Thursday night . There will be a social meeting , and the gentlemen of the Crieff Spouting Club havekindlv volunteered their
. STJNDERLAND—Men of Durham , be up and doing . The present calls upon you for action ;/ he past is your guide in the present conflicts : " the future is big with hope ; and , as sure as the seasons will go and return , it will give birth to the freedom you covet . How is this to be obtained ! Not by passive reBigDation ,-but by the active exertion oFthe national mind , wielding with energy whatever of law . justice , IB left . Past experience has told you the upper classes are against you : let it be y , our care that the greatest enemy to the success of yonr cause be not the people themselves . Be assured
that the failures of the late struggle was the people ' s fault : be assured that that very failure , and the sufferings of the martyrs therefrom , will be the best guide in future efforts , and the best stimulus the cause has had . You know your enemies amoDg the higher classes ; do you sufficiently know your friends among the working class { You were tempted by artful promises to follow the middle classes in the agitation for Reform , yet all those promises were broken in the hour of triumph . Thank Heaven for that ! Raly on yourselves . Tyranny in the Government there cannot be , without slavery among the people .
" No I tk our weakness , Gasping for the show of outward strength , that builds up tyranny , And makes it look so glorious . " Learn to respect yourselves , and this mast be done before such a display of moral power can be broagbt to bear against the Government , as to make them yield to fear what they would scorn to give to justice or reason . And how is this respeot to be generated ! flow , but by an enlightened conception of the dumity 01 that nature common to us
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* 1 \ the consciousness that rags are not necessarily to be despised , for it is moral dignity which must determine the respeot due to the occupation and * & beggar . "The palace , the cottage , may mark ow place , bnt cannot change our nature . '' The poor are the sonroe of tl » material wealth of the ccp ^ try : let them prove also that they are really t&e source of all ita moral power and greatness , and tie only basis on which its freedom can rest Poets have ever been in advance of the age they lived in ; ia anging ' of the freedom of England , they have but leajised in fchqir imaginations what England might Become . Why , in a free country , are you struggling tor freedom ! Because you have not the moral nonestjr to deserve it , nor have yoathe moral ceuraae
T . ™* mi »» n « when acquired . And here let us allude to the show of hands taken at the public meeting at Sunderland to elect a delegate to the Manchester Convention . Wheu the resolution was put to the meeting that the delegate do support / the plan of total abstinence from intoxicating { tanks , how many hands were held up I Every one How many of those : individuals were enrolled in the classes ! How many were slaves ^ he deadliest slaves , to that very vice , and the greatest enemies to themselves 1 Had the Secretary of the Teetotal Sooiety been on the spot to : take down the names of these new cwuvertyiheflaBe would hav « been somewhat diffisrent . ] % were not honest men ; they were Bi
aves-ave , * ranc it , slaves in Britain , too . The man who is ao Weak as to enslave himself must have a constitution unfitted for the air of freedom . The man who is fool enough to forge his own chains will , for a patarv bribed easily mduoed to sell the liberties of his country . Men of Durham , we call npon every town in the county , and upon every collftry , to « end » delegate t * Dotfaftm , to eonitide * the most efficient means for organising the county on the plan of the National Association . The means are legal , peaceful , and « o « fl « ttrtional—not those of the Reformers of 1832 , by the dagger and torch . If this do less ** our numbers , better this , if only an honest few . It wai a few men who in Sodom saved the city , and the few honest men may gain the freedom of the country : — .
" The fewer men , the greater share the honour . - ¦ Great results have arisen from small beginnings ; the intelleot of a nation was never perfected in a day , neither can it ? freedom be . Organise ! Organise ! Form yourselves into classes . Everything is to be gained by this ; without it nothing . It is organised discipline which gains the battles of onr country—the want of this has gamed ita defeats . Individually , man is helpless ; in the state of society we Bee his powers unfolded , and the principle of combination most fully developed . Disunited , like a house divided against itself , the cause cannot stand . Organised efficiently , linked in the sympathy . of a oommon cause , and impelled by the best feeling of the human ; heart , by the might } and the justice
01 we ng&ts you seek , tnere is nothing to fear . " One object of this delegate mwtinjr willT > e the appointment of a missionary tq , diffuse abroad just principles , on which alone th , e fabric of Chartism can be safely reared . The , appointment of the missionary is solely dependent on the steady subscription of the people ^ themselves : -the importance of the appointment must be sufficiently obvious . Government , backed by and buih on physical force , does not dread this in the people , though nrged as a pretext for the prosecutions carried on . They dread the moral power of the people ; they fea * " the might that slumbers in the nation ' s mind . " Well may they keep up the censorshin over the
press in the shape of a tax on knowledge , lest such a mighty instrument be wielded in effecting a nation ' s freedom . When ignorant , the wild passions of the multitude are let loose , as experience has too fatally informed us . the methods for obtaining a people ' s happiness have been misunderstood , let but the national intellect be roused , holding the pusBions in abeyance , and the right * of the people are tecure . Get knowledge , learn discretion , persevere firmly , and the b * tfle is yours . Neglect this , and there sinks in one common grave the liberty of the subject , and the security of the nation ' s happiness . To work , then , and organise . „ ,,. ¦ ¦ A Working Ma * . Sunderland , August 31 st .
Charter Association . —At a meeting of the Council of the Durham County Charter Association , held on Monday evening , it waa resolved— " That a meeting of delegates , from the various parts of the county , be held at Mr . Bradford ' s Temperance Hotel , Durham , on Tuesday , September 8 th , at ten o ' clock in the morning , for the purpose of devising the best means of organising the Chartista in the county of Durham , according to the plan laid down by the delegate meeting at Manchester , to consider the propriety of appointing one or more missionaries to
agitate the couuty , and to devise means for supporting the Chartist victims under confinement in Durham Gaol , to which delegates fron . the various districts 6 f the county be invited . " It is earnestly hoped that all Associations which possibly can will send delegates to jthe abo \ ( " -mentioned meeting , as the propriety of electing mw or more missionaries for the county will conso nuder consideration . The delegates from each distriot are requested to come prepared with a statement of the funds they can contribute weekly towards the maintenance of
one . NEWTON XKSARMS .- —CHAttTOT DrleqaTB Mketing . —A meeting of delegates from the different districts of the Upper Ward of Renfrewshire , was held at Newton Mearns , on Saturday , loth current , Mr . A . Rankine , Delegate t ' rotn Pollokshaws , in the chair . The reports tfi » eu in by the Delegates , of the state of organisation in their respective localities , were highly flattering , and from the spirit and determination evinced throughout the whole of the proceedings , we cannot hesitate in asserting that the U pper Ward of ReafrewBhire will goon assume a prominent place in the Chartist movement . The Delegates were principally engaged in making some necessary alterations in the general rules , which , after a protracted and spirited discussion , were unanimously agreed to .
CtJMNOCK—Teetotalism—Chbistiak Mketing—Chartism . —Our villagers are growing in knowledge and power . Four days lecturing from Arthur O'Neil , of Glasgow , late Delegate to Birmingham , put them in lite and motion . Onoe more the flow is onwardsunion is the word—peaceful , legal , and constitutional union—no denunciation—the Charter and our rights I On Friday , August 21 , the second anniversary of the Cumnock Total Abstinence Society was celebrated by a procession and a soiree . The oalookers were numerous , the proceedings animated , and the instrumental band enlivened the scene . More than two hundred walked in procession , and upwards of 40 J attended the soiree . Messrs . Samson , of Cumnock ; Nimmo , of Catrine ; Thomson , of Dalmellington ; Russell , of Tauyuher ; Hewittof
, Galston ; and O-Neil , of Glasgow , were the speakers ; John Tor ranee the Chairman , and John King the marshal . The speeches were sound , wholesome , and instructive , particularly Hewitt ' s and CNeil ' s . So interesting was the discourse of Mr . O'Neil , that next evening , at the request of the Committee , he delivered a second lecture in the square to a very large meeting . Subject , the physiology of man ' s nature , considered , relative to the effects of alcokol upon the constitution ; a splendid speech , powerful and convincing . No wonder that teetotalism 19 progressing . Who would be the slave of intemperance i This is the age of moral , social , and > olitical reform . It having been agreed that Mr . O'Nail should preach a sermon on the Sabbath-day ,
matters were so arranged that the service commenced at the " Skail 0 ' the Kirk . " Praise and pray er being offered to the Ruler of the Universe , the preacher began by reading a portion of Bcripture , the burning words of the prophet Isaiah , and the . text from Matthew ' s Gospel . He entered upon a wide fie Id of the causes of man ' B degradation , his fall from knowledge to ignorance and superstition , the ancient and his thousand gods , the druid and his human sacrifices , the Hindoo and hie Juggernaut , the Turk and his Mahomet , the Indian aud his great spirit , the Coristian and his money compassing seaand land to make proselytes , making mankind tenfold more the children of tha Devil than before , and finished thus : —True religion consists in spiritual love to God , and temporal love to man , in feeding the buugry and olotbing the naked , iu visiting the fatherless and those in affliction , in doing justice , loving mercy , and walking humbly before God : thAMta . ni
the dtttiea of a Christian , and whoso knoweth . them and doeth them not , to him it is sin . Prayer and praise being again offered to the Most High , the people quietly dispersed . This was the first Chartist sermon ever preached here , and in general is greatly admired ; the pubjio are beginning to think the Chartists not so very great Infidels indeed , as they are represented to be . On Monday , so anxiomswas Mr . O Neil to further the cause that he went to Oohiltree and delivered a Chartist lecture there to an excellent open-air meeting , Mr . Boyd in the chair . Political leotures are seldom or never heard in Oohiltree ; perchance at an election time the sweet voice of a Whig or Tory candidate may be heard wheedling the voters in the twaddling slang of Parliamentary men , nothing else . Now it is otherwise the spirit of inquiry is abroad and will flourish , producing better fruit to tyrants ; sweet to freemen . In the evening , Mr . O'Neil delivered another lecture
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on the moral and political state of the country . The meeting took place in the Square . MrvMUlar beina called to preside , the lecturer went into the subject at great length , for nearl y two hours , in which the whole history of England , from the earliest period to the present time , was touched upon . The simple and justGovermnentof the Saxons—theirself-government and direct taxation-the invasion of the Norman WiUiam , and his distribution of the land among his retmue-Magna Charta-and the subsequent revolutionB-the Hanoverian line-their wars and bloodshed , and the prayers offered up for success bv the ministers of our holy religion , the drinkbes at our crosses and the more infatuation of the people in Bupporting these wars ^ the passing of the Reform Bill , and the humbug practised upon the people ever
since—ana rarther , the apathy and ignorance of the middle classes with regard to the Corn Laws—the influence of thevPrussian Leagup in keeping out British manufactures from the continent ; but , said he , though the continent is lost , there-are the Prairie lands of America-the plains of Hifldostan and Central Asia , which , ander good Government , suoh as the Charter would secure , would produce an ever teemingmine of wealth—and what is India now ? A land of slaughter , a vast charnel-house . They have a police force there , tod , and what for ? To keep the mothers from stealing their children , and drowning thorn in the river Ganges , rather than seeing them die of famine , in a land , the choicest in fc ^ lan d flowing with ^ milk and h "
W , ^ oney . Such are the effects of misgovemment ; and then our own country , and Ireland ; but # is impossible to go over the tenth part of his speech ; suffice it to say , he reiterated his opinion that the Charter would ulfamatelybe carried through the ; all-powerful pro-KMssiofl of ^ knowledge . —fa being announced by the W *™» n » that * n after-meeting would be held in Campbell ' s Hall , the place was filled , and such the enthusiasm , that upwarda of fifty . formed themselves into ft Charter As 8 bcia . tipn ; so that to estimatTthe good resulting from'Mr . ONeil ' s visit , thisfactabne is « nough , / pr the oRAssociation was a . mere « feftl « t /» ,.
out uow the union is stronger thau everVeaoJn » nd all vieing with eachother inforgetting ol / MaabMoT and pressing onwards to the goal . UniversalSuffra ee ' Ata moating of the committee chosen to prep * refOr »« Tv rec f , ptio | t of Messrs . Lovett , Collins , and M'DouaU , it was agreed to call a public meeting , to make , the necessary arrangements . That meeting agreed to forward £ 2 to the Central Committee , for general expenses , and requesting that Cumnock » e placed on the list for a district meeting ; and farther that the . friends in Auohinleck , Ochiltree , Sorn ^ oe , Mauchline , New Camnock , Dalmellington , and Muirkirk , be invited to attend .
ABERDEEN—New Union op the Radicals—Thb Formation of thb Aberdeen Charter Union . —Once more the Radicals of Aberdeen are in motion ; and in spite of the water-gruel , beetle-broth Whigs , are determined to go a-head . A bumper meeting was held on Tuesday evening , the 2 lst instant , in the Temperance Hotel , Queen-street , for purpose of forming a union and for commencing the more vigorous agitation for the People ' s Charter . Mr . John Mitchell was called to the chair . He began the business of the evening by explaining the objeot of the meeting , and spoke at considerable length on the past and present condition of the working classes , and on the brightening prospect of the Chartist pause . He then called on Mr . Ord to read the objects and rolea of the Union , which ara
few . unambiguous , and decided , and were adopted by the meeting with unanimity and enthusiasm ; and a vote of thanks passed to the chairman and provisional committee who had drawn up and brought them forward . The chairman then introduced Mr . J . Legge , who addressed the meeting on the great necessity of Union , and of unceasing exertions , and dwelt upon the alteration in the rules , which in many respects are a great improvement on anv previous arrangement . Messrs . Archibald and " Wm . Maodonald addrereed the meeting ; after which , and the enrollment of members , the meeting separated . On Monday evening last , another meeting took place , Mr / John Legge in the chair , which was addressed by the chairman , Messrs . MacdonaJd .
Mackenzie , and Mitchell . It was intimated that the Union would hold a social meeting every Saturday evening , in theu ? Hall , 41 , Queen-street , which they have secured till June , 1841 . Iu consequence of circular from the Glasgow Central Committee , the Union transmitted , last Saturday , the sum of £ 1 to the committee as their proportion of the expense in bringing Messrs . Lovett , Collins , and M'Douall , to Glasgow . It must be gratifying to every honest heart to witness the zeal and determination everywhere displayed by _ the working men ; and in the name of truth and justice , we beseech them to go forward with one heart and soul and mind ! and as 6 ure as God win defend and guide the , injured and oppressed , they Bhall be enabled to crush the iniquity of their foo » . *
MMOON . —Meeting to celebbate the Liberation OF DR . M-DOUALU—An energetic and heart-stirring meeting was held at Johnson ' s Lecture Room , 7 , Clerkeuwell Green , on Wednesday evening , August 26 , Mr . Ball iu the chair . The Chairman opened the meeting in a neat and concise speech , fie said that the meeting had been called for the purpose of congratulating P . M- M'DouaU on his liberation from toe assassin Whigs ; they thought to subdue his noble spirit by keeping him on skilly and water ; but they were mistaken , for it had produced the contrary effect ; for he was determined to agitate for the People ' s Charter . The Chartists of this country were re-organising themselves ; the middle classes were now beginning to turn Chartists . He would say , with Feargus O'Connor / agitate for the Charter , and turn neither to the right nor to the left He called upon Mr .
Chapman to move the first resolution . He said , he would ranch rather it had fallen into better hands than his , as he was not prepared to speak to it . The first resolution did not relate to i 6 r . M'Douall in particular , but to the whole of the incarcerated victims , who had been persecuted by a miserable Whig faction ; for he could call them nothing else than miserable , for they have persecuted better men than themselves—have kept up anhireling press , for no other purpose than to misrepresent the just demands of the people ,- that failed , they had recourse to physical force , to disturb the peaceful assemblages of the people . Troops were sent from one part of the country to the other , and in many places preparations made which any foreigner would have imagined were being made for the reception of some foreign invader . He then moved the following resolution : —
" That this meeting views with contempt and abhorrence the base and dastardly attempt of ' a miserable Whig faction' to retain the power of misgoverning the people of this mighty nation , by persecuting , incarcerating , and torturing every man who shall have the honesty to exercise his unquestionable right of peaceably directing the attention of bis fellow-men to the cause of his wrongs , and the best means of remedying them . " Mr . Beggis rose , amidst considerable applause , to second the resolution . He said—I Bee , Mr . Chairman , the effects of persecution far and near , for Mr . M'Douall had suffered for his advocacy of the truth . He was still the same—he still evinces the same spirit ( Cheers . ) He ( Mr . Boggis ) had been prosecuted for his love to
the good cause ; it had had but little effect on him , however , for he , as far as regarded his opinions , was more and more convinced of the necessity of such a change . The middle classes were now beginning to feel and to see the justice of our demands ; they felt the weight of additional taxation—they , many of them » ay , must now join with us for the People ' s Charter . I and many others have suffered much for the good cause ; they , however isaid Mr . Boggis ) get little encouragement from you . It is true there is here and there one that assists us ; but I think the majority of the people in London are too well off : they get too much wages . I wish you were brought down to half what you now get—to a level with the men in the country , and I think you will soon be brought to ii
He thought they ought to be ashamed of themselves ; he was almost disgusted . You hold up your hands and lift up your voices at public meetings , yon never contributed , you made a great noise ; but when the time came , when you were wanted , where were you ? Oh ! guilty ! I will yet be stirring in the good cause ; I have spent many hours , many nights , but 1 have nothing to thank you for . I thank many individuals . I could name several who have my best thanks ; but I have nothing to thank the Chartists of London f « r . He concluded a long address , and seemed , to touch the consciences of many of his hearers . He seconded the resolution . —The resolution was carried unanimously amid load cheers . —Mr . Peat roae to move the next resolution , he spoke nearly as follows : —Mr . Chairman ,
Ladies , and Brother Radicals , —This day is the natal day of the consort of Queen Victoria , Prince Albert . We are not met , however , to greet him , but we have met to greet a noble . Tee , yes , we have met to greet a noble of nature , one that feels for the poor , and the persecuted ; but before I proceed farther , it wm to as well to take a sketch of bis life . He was born , I believe , in Scotland , and educated at Birmingham ; be commenced business at Ashton . He is a man of fine intellectual feeling . He wrote a work which called forth a vote of thanks from the British Association , which wm sufficient to establish him as a man of considerable talent and reeeareh . M'Donall prof erred his sendees to the General Convention , in the room of the Rev . J . R . Stephens . He was , however , of little note , until he brought forward bis motion for the Factory
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2 S ^ ¦ 1 L ? leiI f : * <» & **«* locmenos-bBt a * m * paWot ( Lend cheers . ) After that speaik , tt » Whig Government kept their eyes ionttaraaUy onMsav for they taw he was determined to expose theirMfl S ^ i ^ *» Srp «^ P » Miu y ^ wjSSS !^^ wlusreh 8 1 B * d 6 **• bert defence of any Ommtot ^ haMteod a trial ; he was convicted , lid attt fc . pbftaj Saol r to » , rdser * bie dungeon . Di < lhi * hS fail Wm there ? No ; he feared novthe 00 W waflTrf hi » dungeon , nor the rattling of the eliain *^ L « 3 cheer * . ) There > noVbotw « tt » two and thMelwifca * Chartists incarcerated , among ** which ia f . afrik » M
Bronterre O'Brien , Vincent , and Richardson , sadaaaw others ; the last victims axe Williams and BJknT-I challenge Whig and Tory to prove that we hav * a * right to the quarter ; to prove that it is not found ** on truth ; if they can prove it to be founded oa enm , I will then give up Chartism , and say " tfiijirttfsss . " but no , they wont do it If you . were blacks 70 a might stand some little ehanee : ;« s » ehaage yott * colour , and . turn black , you will then have ? my Loi 4 Brougham and Daniel O'Connell advocating your cans He concluded a long and eloquent address amidst ate cheering ' of the assemblage , and moved the following resolution : — . . . ^
• That this meeting regards , with feelings of dm indignation , the persecutions under the sacred name of JUSTicK ^ of that noble minded patriot , P . M . M < Doaafl , M . D ., a man who , sacrificing the prospects of his early life for an unflinching advocacy of tha rigkta of entering buraanity , has rendered himself peculiarly obnoxlmb to those tyrants who revel in the misery of an <¦* pressed people . " ^ T Mr . Bennett , in a very luminous speech , seoondel the resolution . He had intended to read to then » portion of ihe splendid defence of Dt . M'Douall , bt * at that late hour , he thought it would be better to reserve it for another occasion . He , lflte Mr . Peat , !•• gretted the thta attendance at the meeting , and aocounted ferit in a similar manner to the precedb * speaker , aria thought it advisable to adjourniS meeting to this day week . The meeting was tiwst addressed at considerable length , and with «*« £ * nd eloquence , by Mr * . 5 mery , who then mada
» u appeal on behalf of hex sisters In misery and wretchedness , and concluded an excellent ant h ear ^ rtirriiig address , ^ by asking them not to neglee * inured women , when they gain that for which they am no * struggling . ( Cheers . ) The resolution was thea put to the meeting and carried amidst lond shouts « C applause . Mr . Bennett thenmovtid the adjournment off the ^ meettog , so as to give / the men of London an on * KSL ' , ^^ *"" * PP «>™ <> f theindSiS DfcM'DoualH It was seconded by Mr . JPMaien , swt carried . Adjourned to thia day week . * Mr . Paataatt before we part , as this is ^ h * oatal day of Prinoe AIW . suppose we have three cheers for M'DooaU and *¦• other incarcerated victims of Whte tvrannv timf—a « t
joining in the gem- *** royalty : tliree tremeiawsi cheer , were then given , wbieh proved that the tawi * L thow « T Bnbled W *• tolerafclrfaeaTto SSk ^^ t ^ tten taoke ^ , beiiadJoB « 5 S
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GRAND CHARTISI ? MEETING AT . MERTHYBrTYDVIL . ( From the Advocate and Merthgr FreiPnu . ) [ . Last Thursday evening , % public meetin / K •!' tt * lnhal ? 1 ^ . of this town an / neighbourSol ^ S ^ ldm the New Market Square , for the purpoeedf SS ? ' i ° consideration the cases of persons Smi . ugan ^" ^ ^ K" * ^ « f ««» , andof seVoV SaSs © - * asssraffiss
The respected Chairman addree ^ ty , maaKt ^ to the foUowing effect :-- Ladies tod ^ Ki ^^^ gSBrother Radicals , this high c « oe--tnf ^ l ^| 2 S Btasion—and pre-eminent situation , which de > wU « t upon me this evening , is far too important for OUO •? my abilities * and education ; you have too bigfilf esteemed the one that now stands before you ; maar that are now present have bid him far in the sebow of poluics ; nevertheless , I have a task laid dowm before me , which I would wish to accomplish ; tbs is , to sympathise with the oppressed—to console ah »' persecuted—stretch forth mine arm ( though weAlr for the widow and orphan—and to succour tb * ar noble patriots that are incarcerated for advoeatoue
the cause of troth and righteousness ; and to dewto and dedicate my whole efforts to the glorious Caar * terof liberty ! ^ , . After the Chairman had more largely dealt qmk the object of their meeting , he called npon Mr . Wav Gould , who proposed the following resolution : — " That this meeting Is of opinion that the trwtiniat experienced by persons convicted of political offeaeB * in the various prisons , has been harsh and Tibdjcttnb and not warranted by the law of tbiskmgdom . ' * This resolution was seconded by Mr . Isaae Rogers , and was immediately agreed to by tha audience . Mr . Gould and Mr . Rogers , in desenhattj the treatment experienced bv Dersona in nnmm .
convicted of political offences , drew tears from tha eyes of the numerous assembly . Their oonfinenwat within damp and solitary dungeons—their dkt , whioh was not proper for the beasts of the fieldthe endeavouring of the tyrants to labour them hari and long , and to destroy them by . their silent sygteau They now were assured that none of those kni friends who came to the meeting . that evening , dn& not feel for them , and would not , to the utmost ct their power give aa helping hand to gain that point . which would fulfil one of the diviae oommandmeaBi — " Do unto your neighbours as vou would winK t »
be done by . " . Is it possible , as they observed , that in a Christian land , like ours , that persons , for assart * ing their opinions and their rights , should be throwm into prisons and cells whose very effluvia bespeaks * that if inhabitants therof long , their lives would tw but short ; aye , thia ia the point desired by too tyrants—to terminate the lives of the agitators . ¦ It was hoped the time was nigh when the Charter of liberty would be gained , and every man aright t » speak his mind , and assert his opinion , without fear of dungeons . Afterwards Mr . Jacob Jones moved another rear * lutiou , which was seconded by Mr . Benjamin Jonas and was also agreed to : —
"That-this meeting is of opinion that tha WUf Government is deserving of the strongest reprehenaoa because of bavin ? permitted the treatment of penoos oenvicted of political offences to be so widely different from that experienced by political offenders under Tory Governments . " .. The evils of the Whig Government fall upon tha poor alone . We see that the Reform BUI was * trick to gull the working men . The people were ia full expectation of receiving benefits from this Sill , and from their Government ; but at present tha
question is , what have they done for us ! They ha *» - promised us protection as a class ; and they hava f iven . us the accursed Bastile Act I They hava ' eprived us of many of our patriots—those that . asserted our rights . They deal with them as felons . > Compare the treatment of Sir Francis Bordett and : others , received at the time of the Tory Goveera * ; meat , when imprisoned , and the treatment Feanas ) O'Connor , Esq . - experienced at York Castle , Bear ; under the Whig Government ; the only difference ' wa- < have is , that one is mild and the other harsh . Now , the hand of tyranny is plainly seen in the present Government . ,
After this , a third resolution was moved by Me David John , Jun ., and seconded by Mr . 2 ajura Williams : — ,, " That ttits meeting is of opinion that a great « th"M fr should immediately take place in the treatment off persons confined for political offences ; so that greater reapeot . be shewn towards the laws , and that thsjr thereby become a preventive rather than a punishst of offences . " Mr . Williams , in seconding this resolution , strongly impressed upon the middle classes the necessity of their coming to a right understanding of the wants of the working classes . He said he was greatly afraid that they were deeply prejudiced in regard to the People ' s Charter , and that they believed tha
working classes to have some designs which they had not . He pointed out to them the neglect of their trust in returning suoh Members to the House of Commons , and the inutility of the Reform Bill aa a measure for producing happiness to the people . Ha also pointed out the fallacy of supposing that | ha People ' s Charter contained new things , espeoiallyS regard to the leading point , for Universal Soffinaj ^ t had been in existence iu £ ngl % ad , and was tecognuftd as a right by the best Writers of England , such m Locke , Somera , Sydney , &c . ¦¦ ¦ - After the adoption of these three resolutions , the Memorial which was to be presented in fo » f case , was put in and read , and unanunoasly agreed to . ' ,, Mr . Henry Thomas was then called , wharead tha following resolution , which was seconded by tha Rev . David John : —
" That it is the opinion of this meeting , « i « % jfcfea ' Frost , Zephaniah Wfllinms , and William Jones * 'WHS ! ' Illegally transported , and OUtftlt to be recalled . " ' . ;' This resolution was unanimously agreed to . Tfcap q trusted they should yet liva to -see the Charter tha law of the lan ( L * ° d J ° l" * Frost ,, and ( hia aaa > - panious , inthe b \) somof theirfaniiliea . WeSS v not , as they said , let their widows and orphaaalS l forgotten , for they must be considered aa TOobv , M fc f politically and socially as widows and ortaaajt Then the Memorial in this case was ^ SatS and read by Mr . Morgan William *; wbichiim adopted to be forwarded to the Marquis of lK ^ A vote of thanks . was given to tijie C ^ sJnMaVt 'l 9 *** - * SSSf we given for the Queea ^ thr * . Jsr 3 Feargas O'Connor . And lastly a vote of symsatW ^ for Frost , WiUiams , and Jones : themeetiSnaai separated in the best order , well plnnnd wflli Iia > vproeeedings .
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