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©a Saturday, the 12th day of February, w.u oe puo lished, the First Xunibrr of «
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Extraordinary Lhvebtigatiok. — BiRui.SGnAM.
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JUST PUBLISHED , OfnifeK-m with tlis " Labohr.ee"' Magastrie,) t
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T. S. BUNCOMBE, ESQ., M-P.
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HANLEY POTTERIES. Mr O'Connor accepts th...
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ENROLMENT OF THE LAND COMPANY, On Tuesda...
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THE NOJRTHERN STAR, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1848.
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PROGRESSION. GLORIOUS NEWS. •v How true ...
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FREE TRADE QUACKERY. The philosophers of...
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r . , -- - ¦"¦' THE NORTHERN , STAR , ' Fsbbuary 12 , lajaj giniffg ' ¦ " '' .. ¦ ¦ ' . ii ii 1
©A Saturday, The 12th Day Of February, W.U Oe Puo Lished, The First Xunibrr Of «
© a Saturday , the 12 th day of February , w . u oe puo lished , the First Xunibrr of «
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DUBLIN' WEEKLY JOURNAL , EST 1 TLED 'THE UNITED IRISHMAN , ' EDITED BT JOHN MITCHEL , Aided bv Tkohas Devih Rsitir . Jonw Martin , of Leghorn , and other competeut Contributors . T ^ r-tnaenenaenee must Dchael at ' au hazirds . If the ^ eno fTrSrty will not support us the * must fall : wp cansur-port ourselve , l « y the aid of that numerous " nd respectable class of the community , the Men of no property . —Theobald Wolfe Tone . The Projectors of ' The United Irithman' believe that the erorld is weary of OLD IRELAND , aad also of YOC SG IRELAND—that the day for both these noisy faction * is pi & t and gone—that Old and Young alike have crown superannuated and obsolete together , Thev beliers that the Pubic ear is thirsting to hear some Voice , bolder , more intelligible , more ^ independent Of parties , policies , and cliques , than-any it has heard for a long while . They beiiere that Ireland really and truly tc < mts to be freed from English doniiuion . They know not how many o how few will listen to their voice . They have «» party prepared to halloo at their backs ; and have no trust , save in the power e » f Truth , and the immortal beauty of Freedom . IU that lath ears to hear , let him hear . _ . . _ . . , . „ The Principles on which ' The United Irishman' will fce conducted are shortly thtse : — 1 st That fie Irish People have a just and indefeasible rkht to tV . is Island , ar-d to all the moral and material -wealth and resources thereof , to possess and govern the same for their own use , maintenance , comfort , and honour , as a distinct Sovere-ign State . 2 nd . That it is in their power , and it is also their « ian-fc £ t dutv to make good and exercise that right . Srd . Thai the Ufa of one Peasant is as precious as the "Life of one Sobleman or Gentleman . 4 th . That the Property of the Farmers and Labourers of Ireland is as sacred as the Property of all the Noblemen and Geutle-nen in Ireland , and is also immeasurably more valuable . 5 th . That the ( ustom called Tcnart-right , which prevails partially in the north of Ireland , is a just and salutarv ensteun both for Sorth and South : —that it otuht to be extended and secured in Ulster , and adopted and enforced , by common consent , in tbe other three Pioiinces of the Ishnd . Pill . That every Man in Ireland who shall hereafter pav taxes for support ol the State , shall have a just right to an equal voice with every other Man in thegovernment of that State , and the outlay of those taxes . 7 th . That no Irishman at presenthas eniy « legal' rights , or claim to tbe protection of any Law ; and thai all legal and constitutional agitation' in Ireland is a . delusion . , 3 . 8 $ h . That every free man , and every man who desires to ' jeeome free , ought to have Arms , and to practise the t f . e of them . . . Sth . That no 'Combination ofCIasces ' in Ireland is desirable , just , or possible , save on the terms of the Rights © f the industrious clasfes being acknowledged and secured . it .... 10 th . That no good thing can come from the English Parliament , or the English Government . To enforce and apply these Principles—to make Irishmen thoroughly understand them , lay them up in their hearts , and practise them in their lives—will be the sole and constant study of the conductors of the 'U . S'ITED IRISHMAN . ' For the rest , the ' United Irishman' will be regularly eupplied with Hbtorical and Literary Articles , and Re-• fiews of all Bonks published in Ireland , or specially relating to Ireland . As a Newspaper , it will be carefully selected and compiled , so as to present its readers with & complete Summary of each week ' s news . SUBSCRIPTION ( payable in advance ) : — £ t . d . Yearlv J 1 0 Half-yearly 0 18 S Quarterly . 058 Single Paper . 9 0 5 OJice , 12 , Trinity ^ trcet , DubUn . ( Agents for all the Towns in Ireland wanted . )
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KO iV PUBLISHING . TSE POLITICAL WORKS OP THOMAS PAINE . Complete iu one thick volume , price 5 s , in which wll be found ieteiil pieces never before publiibed in England ; and an appendix , containing the Trial of Thomas Paine , with a portrait of the author . YOLTAIRE'S ROMANCE AND TALES , in one vol ., price 3 s . 6 d , THE DEVIL'S PULPIT , By the Rev . Robest Tatj & ob , two vols , price 5 s ., published at 9 s . THE DIAGESIS . By the same author , price 5 s published at One Guinea . THE MAHUAL OF FREEMASONRY . By Carlile , published at 15 s . asd now reduced to 6 « . This is the oaly edition tkat contains the celebrated Introductions , baing s complete Key to the science and mystery of Ma & onry . Three parts ia one volume , handsomely bound . THE MIRROR OF ROMANCE , one thick vel ., 408 pages 4 to , double columns , price 5 s ., containiug the following : —Lsone Leoni , by George Sand—Physiology of Matrimony , fifty rats , bj Paul tie Kock—White Home , S Romacce , and the History ef Jenoy , by the sa *> t author—Simon , the Radical , a Tale of the French Ke volution—MenioirB of aa Old Man ot Tsentj-five , ai . amnsinf * tale , & c . Tf , Dogdale , 1 G . Holywell-street , Strand ,
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THE O'CONNOR TARTAN . Ms JOHN GREGORY , Draper , Eccles , near Man ch & ster . begs respectfully to inform his Democratic iriends in Manchester , Stoctport , Ashton , Hyde , Oldliara , Bnrj , Hevwood , Bolton , and Leigh , that he has become Agent for the sale of THE O'CONNOR TARTAN , and intends to wait upon his friends , in the above-named places , in tha course of a few days , with a select stock of Ladies' Shawls , Scarfs . Handkerchiefs , Siik aud Woollen Dresses , e 5 entlemt-n * s Testings . & c . * fcc , wben he trusts he shall receive the patronage and support of his numerous friends .
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PORTRAIT OP FEARGUS O'CONNOR , Esq ., M . P ., T MARTI >* informs his friends and the Chartist body generally , that he has reduced the price of his lithographic full Jen ^ th portrait of their Illustrious Chief to the following price : —Prints . Is ; coloured ditto , 2 « . fd . PEOPLE'S EDITION . Tobehad atthe Nohtherk Stab office , 16 , Great 'Windmill-street , Haymarket ; Sweet , Goose Gate , Nottingham ; Heywood , Manchester , and aU booksellers in the United Kingdom . T HE MEMBERS of the First Society of CARPENTERS and JOINERS , and the Trade in general , are respectfully informed that the Society is removed from the Marquis of Granby to Mr Thomae Jenkins's ' Blue Post , comer of Xevvinan-street and <* astle-streeti Oxford-market . Hours of meeting every Monday tvening at seven o ' clock . Geo . Hoopke , Secretary .
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JOHN COOKE , BOOKSELLER , NEWS-AGENT , AND STATION ' S !! , 67 , Meadow-lane , Leedj , begs to re . torn his thanks for past favours—hopet to merit a conti . nuance of the same . AUths London periodical publica . tions supplied to the trade on the most reasonable terms . The Northern Stab , Laboukeb , & c , may be had o a the dav ef publication . Mr O ' CONNOR'S Work on Small Farms , & c , always kept on hand .
Extraordinary Lhvebtigatiok. — Birui.Sgnam.
Extraordinary Lhvebtigatiok . — BiRui . SGnAM .
Saturday Raoraing—A Very Painful Sensati...
Saturday raoraing—A very painful sensation has prevailed during the past few days by the circulation of a repart that a child only eight years of age had murdered another by placing it upon the fire . Tbe following is a summary of the evidence taken before the borough coroner : —The name of the deceased was Ro ^ anna Morris , a weakly child , between twelve and thirteen years of age . On Sunday , the 19 th ot last month , the deceased , her brother , and the accused ( a girl named Caroline Perry , ) were together in the upper room of the house belonging to the decoa ^ ed ' sparents , when the attention of the inmates was-auracted by violent screams proceeding from the ) apartment . A young woman ran up stairs and found the clathing of the deceased in flitnes . She put the fire out , but not before the deceased was most frightfully burned . She was taken to the
Genera ! infirmary , where she expired from the effects of the injuries on Friday se ' nigbt . The de-Ceased gave the following acconnt of the transac tion : —She stated that she was dividing some sucks ( sweetmeats-, ) aud was about dmdins ; one for the accused , whtn she swore at her , and said she would "have ihs whole , if not , she would bum deceased to ashes . The dscsaeei ttl 1 her brother to Ko and call her toother up stairs , but the accused interposed ; having pulled the stool from under deceased with cne hanei , she pushed her against the bars of the grate wi : h the uiber , and her clothing speedily became onemassofflama . James Morris , the brother of the deceased , gave a precisely similar account ef the transaction . The jury returned a verdict , ' Thatdeceased came by her death from having / alien into the fire wfeilafc engaged in a . struggle with Caroline Perry . '
The Number of Dsicns is Losdos during the week endiuc February 5 was 1 , 471 , the weekly average beins 1 , 107 . The excessive mortality is shown in the return of the re » istrar-general to have arisen from diseases «> f the Judk , influenza , scarlatina , typhus , and smill D <> . * . The number of births during the week was l . % 1 Fashionable DfPARTUB ** s . —The Panic , the Inftaenzi , and the Jewish Disabilities , from being objects of absorbing interest , to make room for the French Inva « ion . —Liver ? ool Lion . Soorn Loxdoji' Chakhst Hill . —A public meeting will be hell on Wednesday evening next , Feb . 16 h , at eight o ' clock , toeiecfc delegates for tha Metropolitan D , *] e * ate Council . Duax-Street , Soho . —Mr Liu-fun . will deliver a lecture at the above place , on Sunday evening , Feb . 13 th , on the subject of— ' Political Economy , as contrasted with the Economy of Nature . '
Phwter Flatteh , Nonio . v Foloaie— A ecneral meeting ef the members will take place on Tuesday next . Ashio . v . —The members of this branch are requested tomeet on Sunday test , at two o ' elfick , and pay up their levie ? . Worcester . —The members of the Lane } Company P «^\ r es * 5 nKetat Mr Hardhm ' s , CitT Arm ? , Sihut , o - niSht > at e'Sht o'clock , to pay their ^^^ I ^^ S ^ * " *' N &' m embers vrnfSCu i ec | aI meeting of the Land ^ K ^ S SK ^
Just Published , Ofnifek-M With Tlis " Labohr.Ee"' Magastrie,) T
JUST PUBLISHED OfnifeK-m with tlis " Labohr . ee"' Magastrie , ) t
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rnce > a . A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON SPADE HUSBANDRY , being the results of feur years' experience , Bt J . Sillett . M'Gowan and Co ., 16 , Great Windaalll-street , Lor . don nnd may be had of all booksellers .
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Just Published , price One * Penny , A LETTER by Feargus O'Conkob , Esq ., M . P ., 'TO THE RICH AND THE POOR ; To those « ho Live iu Idleness Without Labour , and to those who ore Willing to Labour but Compelled to Starve . ' Price 2 s . per 109 . or 18 * . per 1000 . ( TTTHIAT MAY BE DONE WITH THREE ACRES VV OF LAND , ' Explained in a Letter , by Feakjch O'Connoe , Esq ., M . P . Tc he had at ihe O-ffioe of the National Land Company HI , High Holborn .
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Now Ready , a Sew Edition of HR , O'CONNOR ' S WORK ON SMALL FARMS To be kad at the Northern Star Office , 16 , Great "Wind uill Street ; and of Abel Heywood Manchester .
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JUST PUBLISHED , PRICE SIXPENCE , HO . XIV . OF " THE LABOURER , " CONTA 1 M 1 NOA TREATISE ON TIIE SMALL FARM SYSTEM AND THE BANKING SYSTEM BT WHICH IT IS INTENDED TO BE DIVfilOPBD , BT FEARGUS O'CONNOR , ESQ , M . P . Letters ( pre-paid ) to he addressed t » the Editors , 16 Great Windmill street , Haymarket , London . Orders received by allageats for the "Northern Star " and all booksellers in t » wn and country .
T. S. Buncombe, Esq., M-P.
T . S . BUNCOMBE , ESQ ., M-P .
We Have No Ordinary Pleasure In Communic...
We have no ordinary pleasure in communicating the glad tidings of the improvement in Mr Duncombe ' s health to our numerous readers , and his numerous admirers . Of late we have been literally inundated with letters asking for information upon this head , and nnv we are pleased in being able to communicate the glad tidings , that with the improving weather the physicians promise our General improving health , and that after Easter they indulge a firm hope that he will once more be able to resume the office of leader of the people in the House of Commons . We feel convinced that this intelligence will be received by all , as it has been received by ns , with inexpressible and heart felt joy .
Hanley Potteries. Mr O'Connor Accepts Th...
HANLEY POTTERIES . Mr O'Connor accepts the invitation of the men of the Potteries , and will attend their soiree . He requires notice in next week ' s Star oftbe day , so that he may kill two birds with one stone , by appointing the same time for inspecting an estate in the neighbourhood .
Petitions. Mr O'Connor Having Received N...
PETITIONS . Mr O'Connor having received numerous applications to support petitions when presented to the House , begs to inform the uninstructed of the rules relative to the presentation of petitions . When a member presents a petition , ihe rules of the House do not allow him to open his lips upon the subject—he may read the prayer , and that ' s all ; and when one member presents a petition , no other member is allowed to say a word upon it ; therefore the several applicants will at once see the impossibility of their requests being complied with .
The Ship Carpenters Of Dundee May Rely U...
The ship carpenters of Dundee may rely upon Mr O'Connor ' s best support of Mr Hume ' s motion .
Enrolment Of The Land Company, On Tuesda...
ENROLMENT OF THE LAND COMPANY , On Tuesday night next , Mr O'Connor raalies the following motion in tlie House of Commons : — " For leave to bring in a Bill to extend to the National Land Company the provisions of the Act 9 & 10 Vic , c . 27 , entitled ' An Act to amend the laws relating to Friendly Societies . ' "
The Nojrthern Star, Saturday, February 12, 1848.
THE NOJRTHERN STAR , SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 12 , 1848 .
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CANT CASTIGATED . DR CAMPBELL , versus THE CHARTISTS . ' A robe of seeming truth and trust , Hid crafty Observation ; And eeerethunf ; , with puison'd crust , The dirk ol Defamation : A mask tbatlike thegorget B ' low'd , Dye-varving on the pigeon ; And for a tnantlo large and bread , He wrapt him in R- < ligion . "
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If , amongst the vile characters to be found on this earth , there is one more loathsome than his fellows , it is an intolerant priest assuming the mask of liberality and the cloak of patriotism . Such an enemy we have this week to uncover . We lately observed , attached to some of the monthly periodicals , a prospectus of a new
weekly journal , entitled The British Banner ; announced as under the superintendence of John Campbell , D . D ., a notorious Calvinistic preacher and writer . The Doctor is reputed by his admirers to be an exceedingl y clever fellow , and his paper was to be the very pink of patriotism . Only ensure his Banner a circulation of 100 , 000 * copies weekly , and he p ledged himself to regenerate the world I
This Dr Campbell , or Cantwell , who is in that hopeless condition described by Solomon , " wise in his own conceit / ' has signalised the unfurling-of bis rag b y a foul and false attack upon the Chartists . We are not in the habit of seeing the Ba ? iner , and it was only a few daysjago—our attention having been called to the subject—we obt .-iined a copy of the number containing CantweWs calumnies . "In the People ' s Charter , " says Cantwell , " we see much , very much , to approve , and very little to condemn ; in the eonduct of its principal advocates we see very much to
condemn , and very little to approve . " The same is with truth said of the gospel and its preachers ! whose only fitting and appropriate type is the guide-post pointing out the track it never goes . Reviewing the points of the Charter , he says , " Of this Universal Suffrage , were the nations thoroughly prepared for it , we highly approve , and to hasten it on , is a main object of our literary and Christian labours . " He approves of Electoral Districts ; would concur in the Ballot , where the majority of the electors may require it : considers Annual ' Parliaments
would be injurious , - and heartil y approves , of the abolition of the Property Qualification , and Payment of Representatives . But , says the Doctor , "Wisdom dictates that these points should be sued for one by one , and , where we cannot get the whole , that we should accept a part , and continue to demand the rest . For example , go for Household Suffrage ; then for Triennial Pa rliaments , & C ., $ c . " It Will be Seen from this , that the Doctor has a great horror of " going the whole hog ; " he is an " instalment seeker ; he ] does things b y degreesthe way lawyers are said to get to heaven .
. The entire article is one of the most wretchedly-written productions it has ever been our misfortune to read . According to thequotations just given , the Doctor sees much to approve of in the Charter , and has no objection to Chartism , if administered graduall y , in small doses . and it is amain object of his literary and Christian labours . to hasten the coming of Universal Suffrage : yet in another part of his article he describes the Charter as calculated , " not to reform , but to destroy . " " Were a Senate to decide for it , the deed would be one
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of national suicide- ! ' Again , Such triumph would be the signal for all that remained of wisdom and virtue to leave the land , and seek for refuge in other climes . " Let our readers note the beautiful consistency of all this ! And thisDr Campbell ig a great light in the Calvinistic world ! Were we one of the " elect , " we should be strongly inclined to exclaim with poor Caliban : — .... ... _
" What a thrice-double ass wob I . To take this idiot for a go ' l , And worship this dull tool . " Dr Campbell levels five accusations against the Chartists . " First;—The project of physical force is worthy of Bedlam . " Presently he says , " Nothing in extent equal to it [ the Charter ] has ever been effected by peaceable means , in the history of nations ; and it may be safely affirmed that it never will" "Well , then , if the Charter is a good measure if in it there is " much to approve and very little to condemn ; '' and that there is no hope of
obtaining it by peaceful means , is indeed the project of physical force worthy of Bedlam ? But we must put a few questions to Dr Cantwell . Do you believe that the obtainment of Magna Charta was a good thing , even at the cost of physical force ? ¦ ¦ Cromwell is your demi-god . Was he a moral force man ? You are not ignorant of Oliver ' s advice to his troopers : " Put your trust in God ; but mind to keep you r powder dry , " Did the Scottish Covenanters win religious liberty for themselves , by any other means than physical force J In your
prospectus you announced , that ' ' the conductors of the British Banner will wage eternal war with Home . '' By-the-by , if the war lis to be eternal you have small chance of , the victory , unless you calculate on clapping your wings the day after eternity . ' A bitter enemy of ' * Rome / 5 of course you honour " the . pious , glorious ,. and immortal memory'' of the Royal Dutchman , " who saved us from Popery , brass farthings , and wooden shoes ; '' and laid the foundation of the National Swindle , the Bank
of England and a good many other blessings , as well as " l ' rotestant ascendancy ! " Permit us to ask you , 0 ! Cantwell , if the " Battle of the Boyne " was a moral force demonstration ? " July the first , in Oldbrldge town , There wab a grievous battle , Where many a man lay on the ground , By cannons that did rattle , " Thus sing the Orangemen , and it strikes us that their " Hymn of praise" smells very strongly of physical force . We might multiply these examples , but we forbear . But if you
have such a horror of p hysical force , why j not assail those whose unjust power is upheld by physical force ? Why not denounce the privileged orders . , and their government , who have caused rivers of blood to flow , and piled up mountains of slain ? who have desolated nations and ravaged empires , and who maintain their usurpations b y the cannon , the musket , the sabre , the bayonet , the chain , and the gallows r whose supporters and defenders are the soldier , the policeman , the gaoler , and the hangman ? Where are the thunders of your denunciation against the oppressors of their
fellow-creatures , who recognise no right hut might , and with whom the longest sword is the best reason ? If the " project " of physical force was woithy of Bedlam , shall those who have employed physical force have a niche in Fame ' s Pantheon ? Will you condemn Cromwell and Washington to infamy ; or do you onl y denounce the unfortunate ? Is Kosciusko the object of your malignity because he failed and fell ? Is success , with you , the test of the righteousness of a cause ? Are your sympathies only with the victors I Harkve
Dr Cantwell , we shall " make no bones " about this physical force question ; we declare—and we defy you to prove ^ the contrary—the right of every people oppressed to relieve themselves from oppression by any and every means consistent nith honour . If the working classes of England were in a position to achieve their deliverance by arms , they would be fools if they did not do so . Under present circumstances sound policy dictates another mode of operation , but the mere question of right would justify an appeal to force .
" Secondly . —By severing themselves from the ranks of the middle-classes , and constituting themselves into a distinct community , and , in that capacity , arraying their order against the other portions of society , they took a step fatal in the extreme , & c , tic . " We deny this . In the first place , as soon as the middle-classes had , by using the physical force of the people , obtained for themselves the Reform Bill , they ( the shopocracy ) severed themselves from the working classes . Secondly , the working men took a step wise in the ex ' - treme when they refused to be again made tbe tools of the bourgeoisie in the pursuit of Free Trade and similar schemes of delusion . In
looking to their own class-organisation for their own emancipation , the labourers of England gave the best proof of their intelligence , and a guarantee for their ultimate emancipation , in spite of such impostors as Cantwell and Co . " Thirdly . —Their rancorous and irrational hatred of the Whigs , and their proclaimed preference of the Tories , & o . " In this charge against the Chartists the gentleman in black exhibits the cloven hoof , horns , tail and all ; in fact , Cantwell stands , self-unveiled , a Whig ! What more need we say to condemn
himjustly condemn him to the execration of the working classes ? Is it rancorous and irrational to hate the footpads and assassins of the political world ? Hi ghwaymen and brigands are , at least , bold-faced villains , but tlie Whigs ! A nation ' s curse be on them ! They humbugged the people with their " glorious revolution " they laid the foundation of the National Swindle ; set the example of public profligacy and tax-wringing rapacity ; passed the Septennial law ; were the pretended friends of peace and Ireland when out of power , and all for war and oppression of Ireland when in power ; they deluded the people with the Reform Bill ; passed the Irish Coercion Act and the New Poor Law ; filled the
gaols with the advocates of free knowledge ; embarked in a crusade against the Chartists , and b y the lies of hired calumniators in the press , prosecutions , fines , imprisonings , and transportings , did their best to crush the democratic movement . Was it irrational \ o hate such enemies—enemies who had combined fraud witli force , and delusion with persecdr tion ? When the Nottingham election gave tlie last blow to the Melbourne administration ; when the election of 1841 hurled the Whigs from power—the wisdom of the Chartist policy , which ] so largely contributed to both , was proved by the results : — -the progressive measures of Peel , and the new-born liberality of Russell . Canttvell has yet to learn the A . B . C . of politics .
"Fourthly . —Their adoption of tbe rallying . cry— "The Charter , the whole Charter , and nothing but the Charter , " forms another most momentous element in their system of mismamigement ) " What does Dr Cantwell say to the cry of" The Bill , the whole Bill , and nothing but the Bill ? " The Charter embodies the political faith of the Chartists , therefore their rall yingcry is "the whole Charter . " Dr Campbell believes iu the '' Gospel ; " has he inscribed upon his banner , " The Gospel , the whole Gospel , and nothing hut the Gospel "~ or will he be content to make an "instalment" of the Gospel his rallying-cry ? We pause for a reply .
" Finally . —The last , worst , deadliest error of our Chartist brethren is the inscription of the Charter with—Infidelity . "<* In plain English , Dr Campbell , you assert that which is false . There is nothing concerning Infidelity in the Charter . That document is thoroughly a political measure , taldner no account of men ' s creeds—of their belief or disbelief . The Charter recognises neither Christian nor Jew , neither believer nor Infidel neither Protestant nor Catholic . The Charter proposes to confer upon all men of mature age , sound mind , and not under punishment for crimejthe rights of citizenship—or , rather
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the power to exercise those rig hts winch are the natural and inalienable property of all . But the " proofs" of his accusation may , says the Doctor , " be gathered in abundance from its [ Chartism ] Lectures and its Literature f and as one proof he cites a long list of p ublications advertised by Mr Watson in the Northern Star ( . ' )—including the writings of Holyoake , Carlile , Taylor , Paine , Mirabaud , Diderot , Southwell , Owen , & c . This cleuer Doctor cannot even quote from an advertisement without making a nice mess of his handvwork . He speaks of Holyoake as a . ,..... _
....-Deist ( . ' ) , confounds the reputed author of the " System of Nature" with Mirabeau , the great orator , and classes " Bronterre ' s Life of Robespierre" amongst Infidel works . This is sufficient to show that the Doctor is utterly ignorant of tbe books he condemns . Hut mark the knavery of this holy calumniator in attempting to fasten upon the Chartists responsibility for the principles and sentiments ot' publications advertised in this journal , The
Doctor well knows that such advertisements are inserted merely in the way of business . Our p ublisher will be happy to advertise the publications of the Religious Tract Society \ orthodoxy , as well as heterodoxy , will find outadvertising columns open " on the usual terms . " If Mr Watson supplies the "bane , ' ' letDr Campbell furnish the " antidote . " But we request our reverend friend to look at home . What if we make him responsible for the advertisements in the Banner ? In the
veryjsame number in which he raises the howl of " Infidelity" against the Chartists , he advertises " The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation ; " a book written to show that the Bible account of the Creation is all fudge ; arid , as a consequence , that the superstructure raised upon that foundation is one vast fraud . Do you not see , 0 ! clever Cantwell , that , by your own rule , we have proved you a rank Infidel i But Holyoake , Owen , and Southwell are not Chartists . Carlile , Taylor , Mirabaud , and Diderot were not Chartists . True , the great
man whom ' you insolently term " Tom Paine " first popularised those democratic principles on which Chartism is based ; but his " Rights of Man" and his " Age of Reason" are works thoroughly distinct . Chartism recognises the principles of the former , but leaves every man to judge for himself of the latter . Chartism has no more connexion with " Paine ' s theological works" than it has with the canting trash of the editor of the Banner . A word of advice ,
Jock Campbell , —when next you have occasion to speak of the author of " Common Sense , " call him Thomas Paine . Remember that that great man numbered amongst his friends such men as Washington , Franklin , Jefferson , and Lord Edward Fitzgerald * and assure > ourself . that longafteryou havereturned tothevileearth whence you sprung , and your name and works are alike forgotten , the name of THOMAS PAINE , will be held in veneration by millions , and his works will be numbered amongst the
choicest gifts ever bestowed by genius upon mankind . The ranks of the Chartists , no doubt , inelude " Infidels , " J as well as Episcopalians , Methodists , Presbyterians , Independents , Unitarians , Roman Catholics , and persons who are neither believers nor unbelievers . What then ? In this age of liberality , when scheming , money-mongering Jews , who denounce Christ as an "impostor , '' * find sympathy in the * . eyes of the dissenting Liberals , is there still to be one section of the community reserved for priestly persecution ? You persecute when you seek to excite public odium against a juurnalj § for advertising tbe works of that section . But why stop there ? Be consistent . If it be
a crime to advertise a set of books advocating certain opinions , it must be , at least , equally a crime to print and publish such booksj or even to entertain such opinions . Act , then , as your class acted in days of yore ; resuscitate the stake and the axe—the rack and the thumbscrew . Hang , burn , deca pitate , impale , embowel , torture and slay , as once your order did , " for the glory of God . " You cannot ! Popular enlightenment and public opinion are too strong for you ! But you do your little worst . " I will not kill thee , " said the Quaker to his canine victim , " I will only call thee mad dog . " Precisely in the same spirit , and with the same object in view , you , 0 ! Cantwell , raise the shout of . " Infidelit y" against the Chartists .
-. You conclude by declaring that you have written "the truth in love . " If what you have written be evidence of your " love , ' ' let us henceforth be favoured with vour "hate . ' For the future , we recommend you , Dr Campbell , to remember the ninth commandment of your religion ;— " Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour ! '' A command in which we see much to approve , ivhilst in the conduct of the advocates of that religion we see much , very much to condemn .
Progression. Glorious News. •V How True ...
PROGRESSION . GLORIOUS NEWS . v How true the saying is , that , when a true principle is once propounded and embraced by tbe people , all classes will be obliged to sail in the wake of Progression , more or less nearly , indeed , but still following the policeman ' s advice , to " Move on . " Democracy is the great policeman of the age , that keeps the drones ef society •"• * moving on" along the thoroughfares of life—and , accordingly , we find that the principles of the Lund Plan have affected even the Irish landlords—and have won the support and p atronage of the Lord-Lieutenant . From a letter of the Dublin correspondent of the Times we take the following-:
—After mature deliberation , a number ef noblemen and gentlemen , interested in the welfare of th-ur country , have come to the resolution of starting 3 project which , upon the face of it ! at least , has the appearance of being capable of effecting an amelioration in the condition of the farming and agricultural classes generally . As sion as the necessary arrangements are completed , an application will be made to Parliament for lhe incorporation of a company under the title of " Trie Farmers' Estate Society of Ireland , " the objects of which will be found defined in the following extract from the prospectus , issued this day : —
" The Farmers' Estate Society propose purchasing eligible estates in fee , as they come inte the market , and selling them afterwards in small lots of not less than forty statute acres ( 24 a . 2 r . 31 p . Irish ) , the preference beinu given to the tenant in possession , il unobjectionable ih other respect- - , and the purchasemoney taken in half-yearly payments . The purchase money being thus taken by insta ' raents , the piirchaser can expend any capital he possesses in the cultivation of th « 3 land , erecting buildings , and
making other improvements ; and as he improves he will be the better enabled to pay larger instalments until the purchase shall be corepleted—asystem materially different from the present , under which the farmer generally gives all he possesses to get possession of a farm , and has no capital left for cultivation or stocking . Provision will be made to prevent the sub-division of any farm bo purchased to less thai > twenty acre . " , on the principle of the Act 31 st Elizabeth , c . 7 , which was pasaid before the introduction of the Poor Law into England . " The preyect , I learn , has met with the decided approval oftbe Earl of Clarendon ; and lhe provi-
* Since Tho Above Was In Tjue , Wo Have ...
* Since tho above was in tjue , wo have seen the BiKNta of Wedneadoy , Feb , 9 th , tu which is an article on ' the Jews . ' In this article Dr Campbell strong ) - , denounces rhe * outrageously insulting' exclusion ol Baron Rothschild from Parliament . The Doctor txpresses his ' indignation and diogu & t at the spirit ma ni feuted by some of the leaders of the Church of England in their capacity both of clergycuca and journalists , ' in relation to the Jew-question . He interrogates the op . ponents of Hebrew emancipation us to why they would exclude from Parliament ' o » i « of the wealthiest of human kind ; ' aud having wound up hia virtuous indignation to a pitch of frenzy , he exclaims : — 'Ye abettors ot
wrong-J ye advocates of pers . cution ! we wait jour reply . ' Yet this liberal clergyman and journalist would persecute' 'infidels , ' "'ho ot any rate were not the crucifiers »*> f the founder of Christianity ; and worse atlll , pe rsecitca with hia calumnious pen voasats of his fellow men , u ^ c- " "horn he falsel y throws the odium of ' infidelity . ' Itf another artiel " , devoted to a furious attack upon the Roman Catholics , he speaks of Catbo . licism as ' the gr . ^ d entmy of the son of God . ' Thie consorts « ell with 1 , « laudation of the Jews ! But Plutus is the God of Cu ' ti [ ^ i ani , » therefore , he rejects Peter and follows Cm '^ bsj ) } he denounces Pius and tvorehips BothscbJJd '
* Since Tho Above Was In Tjue , Wo Have ...
sional committee already comprises the names o Earls of Courtown and Devon , Lerd Monteftgle , Mr Edward Borough , Sir David Roche , Mr MobmII , MP , Mr Fagan , M . P ., Mr Guinnes-, M P ., and several other influential country (?< n'leraeii . lhe capital sought to be raised is . £ 1 , 000 , 000 , in 30 , 000 shares of Jt 20 eae ! s „ The above plan is , indeed , an encouraging instance of the calm victory of Truth , and we _ :. _ .. :.- i i := o = , Iib numea o
hail its appearance as an omen of better times , while we hope that no party influence will be brought to bear , for the purpose of crushing " the promise in the bud . There has , however , been an invariable contest between the Irish Executive and the English Government , the latter always shackling the actions of the Lord-Lieutenant , when in the direction of improvement , and only aiding in Coercion and
oppressive measures . We cannot promise to expunge recollection of so unconstitutional an act as Coercion , but if this social reform be carried out in its entirety and integrity , it will go far to create oblivion of the past . In that ca & a , however , and here is the rub , it must he for the benefit of the producers themselves , and not a landlord or a middle-class stop-gap . Let us no more hear of a burden of ten millions on England ,
as last year , for the support of our Irish brethren , while employed in mischief . If their confidence in the present Government is not sufficiently strong , or if their inclination is not sufficiently powerful to raise one million at four per cent ., upon security of this social reform , we can only say that Lord , Clarendon will have done his duty in this direction , and that the ^ Government , if opposed or listless in the matter , had far better abdicate .
With reference to the plan itself , it is more I the excellent principle involved , than the several details , which meet our approbation . The amount of acreage to be contained in each farm , for instance , is one of our grounds of difference , We think it is far too large , and for obvious reasons . We should not ohject to see an extension in the holdings greater than ia our Small Farm System—say to ten acres—since the amount of p « or is so immense in Ireland , and since we have always held that the best poor law was Nature ' s own ; the best guardians , the relatives of those in want ; the sweetest relief , that given by a kindred hand and a congenial heart . Tenacre allotments would , therefore , be
advantageous for the present in Ireland , since the fortunate holder would have it in his power to extend relief to others , to whom the land market was not opened , as it is by the National Land Company to all . As we have said , however , this " Farmers' Estate Society" is a move in the right direction , and , as such , we hail it with considerable p leasure . And , indeed , what does it prove ? Who , now , was right ? Those who looked to foreign competition , or an overgrown landed interest at home ? Are our opponents not obliged to come round at last , and admit the truth of our teaching ? We told them that their foreign trade was a bubble , and that they must look to a home trade , based on the land . They are drives to do so .
We told them that they would have to place the people on the land , to quit their old Large Proprietary system , and to revert to small farms , if they wished the resources of the land to be developeel ; they are confessing us in the rightj and forced to resort to our measures . We now tell them they must do so without afterthought or side-winded dealing ; the people desire the land for their own , and will
not have the concessions made cribbed , cabined , or confined , by the spirit of party or restriction ; and as one step in the path liberty ever follows another—as a strong people will be a free people—we now tell them further , they must knock down the restrictions of the Franchise as a necessary consequence , since the character of a slave and a yeoman are incompatible , and the holding of the land must become synonymous with the enjoyment of the vote .
Free Trade Quackery. The Philosophers Of...
FREE TRADE QUACKERY . The philosophers of Laputa , described in Swift's admirable political satire , and the Optimist in Voltaire ' s Candida , have , like straws in amber , bee"ii preserved by genius , to show to successive ages the nature , of the prevailing delusions of the times in which these two celebrated writers lived . Every generation has its own favourite delusion , assuming tiie i ^ arb of philosophy , and professing to be
based upon universal principles , as well as capable of universal application . In the majority of cases it is useless to attack these quackeries by sober reasoning ; they must either be permitted to die a natural death , or be assailed by the pen of the satirist . Cervantes , by his Don Quixote , did more to restore Spain to a state of sanity , than if all the preachers and moralists in the country had discharged their heavy artillery against the foll y of knight-errantry .
The race of Philosophers , Optimists , and Knight errants , similar to those of the eminent trio of authors just referred to , is not yet extinct ; but unhappily the quick perception , the profound analysis and the brilliant style—which enabled theSati . rists to put an extinguisher upon them—does not exist amongst us . Hence the fact that Quackery is as prevalent among politicians as
pillmongers . Cobden ' s recipe of Free Trade stands in the same category as Morison ' s Universal Tills , and Holloway s Universal Ointment . . Like them , it is an infallible remedy for " all the ills that flesh is heir to , " and , like them , it has an immense number of believers in its efficacy , whose faith is great iu proportion to the slenderness of the grounds on which it rests . If ever , indeed , the line of the Poet ,
" Mnr . never is but always to be blest , " was app licable to any body of men upon earth , it is to the Free Traders . They indulged in predictions of peace , plenty , and prosperity , of the most glowing description , during their agitation , and now that success has crowned their efforts , and the whole of the great interests of the nation are in a l most wretched and deplorable condition , they meet in Manchester and Bolton , not to confess their errors .
or to moderate their anticipations , but to find excuses for the past failure of their panacea , and raise false expectations for the future . There is scarcel y a single branch of traele with which they have interfered , which largel y and profitably employed home labour and depended upon the home market , that has not been either greatly injured or wholly destroyed by their meddling . The trade of Spitalfieids , for instance , is ruined . Within a few years we have seen its looms condemned either to
total idleness , or when employed , the rich and costly tissues formerly woven , by them supplanted by the coarsest fabrics , produced from " waste knabs and husks , " and sold at a price which can neither afford a profit to the manufacturer , nor a living wage to the workmen . The buyers for the large houses no longer wend their way to Spital-square , but to the continent , for the goods intended for the wear of the aristocracy and wealth y classes . 1 nstead of being the makers of rich silks and velvets , we are
now becoming merel y retailers for the manufacturers of Lyons and Rouen . As a consequence , eighty looms out of every hundred are , ut this moment , standing still . The povertystricken and hunger-bitten victims are vegetating upon the degrading charity of the soup kitchen—on the scanty halfpence picked upby selling sprats , shoe ties , blacking , or lucifer boxes in the streets—or dying the slow deaths of paupers in the workhouse , over their allotted task of four pounds of oakum per dav .
But it used to be said , that if there was not work in Spitaliields , it was because the weavers there » ere too proud , saucy , and unreasonable . Instead of being cooped up in one district , the silk trade had migrated into Lancashire and Cheshire , and the change was for the better . We should like in the present state of the trade , everywhere , to hear such fallacies repeated . The bubble has in this case ckaxly burst . We
have ruined n trade which gave remum » rat * .. „ have ruined a trade which gave remunerative employment to thousands of families , without having any tangible benefit whatever to sho w in return ; for we imagine it will scarcel be contended that the transference abroad of the money of the classes who in the first place raise it by the toil of the other sections of the working classes in this country , can be any national benefit . It may enable " these classes to wear goods of a more brilliant dye than can be produced under our sun , at a lower price , or of more elaborate design than the present state of Art will permit in this country ; but disguise
the fact as you may under a cloud of genera * lities , such a process is an impoverishing one . In the cotton , ; woollen , and other trades , too the depression continues , and reduction of wages is the order of the day . Mr Cobden admitted , in making a speech at Bolton , when a piece of p late was presented to Alderman Brook , that he had never known the trade of that town in such a depressed state before . Similar admissions were made in t ! 'e Free Trade Hall at Manchester , and yet the orators who assembled to glorify each other , and rejoice in the number of Free Trade members in
Parliament , one and all shut their eyes on the nonfulfilment of their former predictions , and ascribed the present state of things to any and to every cause but their own favourite nostrum , of which we can say nothing more condemnatory than that it neither averted the deplorable crisis into which the nation has been p unged , nor does it , to all appearance , in the slightest degree help us out of it , now that it has come . Yet , notwithstanding the utter inefficacy of this quack medicine , they advocate it with ae much effrontery and confidence as the Morison and Holloway tribe . Not content , as prudent
men would be , to wait and try the effect of tbe late changes a little more closely before proceeding further in the same course , they announcea new budgetof changes , which materially affect either large masses of home operatives , or important colonial interests . They speak as if the adoption of Free Trade unreservedl y , and wholly , w . is to be a species of " open sesame , " by which property of all kinds is to flow in a continued stream through the country , and foreign nations be made , to lay down their arms , and commence without further notice the long promised millenium .
Would that we had a Swift , a Cervantes , or a Voltaire to put down quacks , and awaken dreamers !
Parliamentary Review. The Condition Of T...
PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . The condition of the Sugar growing Interest , introduceel into the House of Commons by Lord George Bentinck on the first ni ght of the Session , was re-stated with more ability and effect , by Lord Stanley in the Peers on Monday . That our West Indian Colonies are in a most deplorable state no one denies , and that if something effectual is not speedily done , utter ruin must ensue , seems to be admitted by all parties . It would be unjust to charge the Legislature with having caused all the misery and loss which undoubtedly has befallen
these colonies of late years , and especially since the passing of the Sugar Bill of 1846 , which abolished the last remaining vestige of protection , the differential duty of ten shillings per cwt . Moral as well as political causes have largely contributed to the production of such a disastrous state of things . In one light ,. indeed , it may be fairly looked ^ upon as a por . tion of that retribution which inevitabl y follows injustice and oppression . The giant wroBg of slavery—subversive ? as it was of all morality and justice—could not be expected to be committed without expiation of some kind
or other , and the planters of the present day are suffering for the sins of their predecessors . When the Slave Trade to our West Indians Colonies was abolished in 1807 , Canning told the planters that it was expected they would gradually improve the condition and the treatment of their slaves , in order to lay the foundation for their subsequent complete Emancipation , without danger to the interests of th & state , or the order and welfare of the manumitted labourers themselves . But this warning fell unheeded . In 1823 not a single step
had been taken of that description . All the horrible cruelties and gross immoralities of slavery continued undiminished , and in order to remind them of their duty in the gentlest way , Lord Bathurst , in 1893 , sent out recommendations from the Privy Council for the Houses of Assembly , which they were requested to ' give the form and authority of law ; these recommendations included , amongst others , the abolition of the flogging of women , the separation of families , and other equally obvious and humane provisions . Lord Bathurst ' s recommendations shared the fate of
Mr Canning ' s warning , and it is no wonder , therefore , that when Emancipation was carried ten years later , the Legislature should have little faith in a bod y of men who had shown themselves so stubborn , and loaded them with restrictions as to the treatment of the manumitted negroes , which subsequent experience has shown to be incompatible with the prosperity of the planters , however much they may have tended to the benefit of the emancipated blacks .
But making every allowance for the misdeeds of the West Indians , it must be confessed that the treatment they have received from the Legislature , during the last fifteen years , has been of the most inconsistent , injurious , and unjust character . The planters have been , in . fact , crucified between two opposite parties * First the Anti Slavery party were uppermost in Parliament—they abolished slavery , giving to the planters 20 , 000 , 0002 ., for a property in human flesh valued at 45 , 000 , 000 ^ But they , acting upon hi gh moral principle , placing man and liberty far above all pecuniary consideration
s , guaranteed to the W est Indians the monopoly of the British market , and sundry privileges in the shape of protection , meant to aid the great experiment of free labour , and toprevent the introduction of slave grown sugar from other sugar growing countries . By-andhy the Free Trade party , with its huxtering cry ol "Buy in the cheapest and sell in the dearest market , " became prodominant , subjecting everything to the magic test of pounds ,
shillings , and pence , and caring not one doit , whether a thing was just , moral , and human or the contrary , so long as it saved a penny . This party gradually broke down the fences with which the Anti-Slavery party had hedged round the NVest Indians . First , tlie almost complete exclusion of slave produce was super-SQded b y a differential duty , which admitted it under some disadvantages ; and lastly came the Act of 1846 , which substituted for these differential duties , a vanishing ; scale of duties for
a short period , after which the West Indi . a planter will have to bear open competit . n with the Cuban slave owner . It is the confl . ¦ - ing policy of these two parties which : . * mainl y conduced to reduce the West Ind ; . n interest to its present wretched plight . 'J ; i * planters , we think , have a just right to demand from the Legislature that it will act nrmly and consistentl y upon either one principle or the other , and not continue to subject them to the cross-firing of these two parties , it England still retain its horror of slavery mcl slave-grown sugar , let us discourage these things in every possible shape . Let us redouble our efforts to putjdown the accursed tnifficand
rigorousl y abstain from tasting the bloodstained products of slave-owning planters , no matter what the direct cost of our repressive efforts . may be , or the indirect taxation to which we subject ourselves , in the shape oi protection to free labour . If the Legislature is not prepared to do this—if cheap sugar is more important than the Suppression of the Slave Trade , then we say it is bound to act distinctly , unequivocally , ' and consistently upon that principle . Aw ay with all cant and hvpO ' crisy . ^ Tell the West Indian planters that we do not care where we get our sugar from , or by what kind of labour it is produced , so that « e get it cheap : and at once abandon the useless
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 12, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_12021848/page/4/
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