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UMTED TRADES' ASSOCIATION , FOR THE EMPLOYMENT OF LABOUR IN AGRICULTURE AND MAN [ JFACTURES . THE FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREholders , and of those deputed to hold their proxies will be held on Saturday next , June Gth , 1810 , at the Office , 30 , Hyde Street , Bloomsbury , London , when full reports of the transactions , and accurate accounts of the receipts and expenditure , during the past year , will be submitted for confirmation ; the places of retiring directors filled up , a treasurer and trustees elected , and such other matters affecting the Association decided , as may be laid before the meeting by the board of directors . The chair will be taken at 12 o ' clock a . m ., by T . S . Buncombe , Esn . M . P . ( President ) Office , 30 , Hyde Street . JAMES HARRIS , May 25 th , 1816 . Secretary .
The Northern Star. Satultday, May 30, 1846.
THE NORTHERN STAR . SATUltDAY , MAY 30 , 1846 .
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TILE STRUGGLE . THE CONFERENCE .-TL 1 E STRIKE . We have driven the Times and Dispatch into the narrowest possible corner . We have poached them aa ferrets poach their game , until at length the animals find no escape , but must surrender . The Times of Monday last has favoured us with a very long and rubbishing article , into which it introduced the midnight ravings of one Mr . Holme , and which is as follows : — Mr . Holme gives the following version of the origin of this , declaration , he thus shows that it was not the masters , but the workmen , who at first originated it . He says : —
"Some years ago , we had a strike of ei ghteen weeks ' duration , and near its close , I was disturbed at midnight by a ringing of my door bell , two or three times gently repeated . On looldng out of my bedroom window , I found that it proceeded from three of my workmen , then on the strike . They desired me to admit them , and , contrary to the wishes of my family , I did so . They told me that ' our premises were so well watched until late in the evening , that they had come at that untimely hour to avoid being seen by any of the other turnouts ; and they urgently re-
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quested that I would listen to them . They told me that ; they were in great distress ; that the tyranny of the club was beyond all endurance ; and that many of our men , as well as themselves , were determined to go to work ! if they could get anj excuse for quitting the club . I told them that the authorities would protect , them , and suggested that they should go to work with a number of men whom we had obtained from a distant part of , the . country . They replied that they should be marked if they did this ; but added , that if they could sign any document which could be binding upon them , it would give them the opportunity , they wanted . During a long conversation , one of them admitted that both himself and his family were
in actual want , when another replied that they . might as well be killed as starved , and he strongly urged upon me the necessity of devising someinode by ; which . they might escape from the clubs . One of these men is now the foreman of a large employ ; one is since dead ; aim the other was not long since in . the service of the Dock Trustees , i mentioned the singularity of their visit aim conversation at a meeting of the masters soon afterwards , and the subject of a declaration that the men would quit the union was suggested as being sufficient , and one was drawn up , carefully avoiding everything which could in
any way legally bind a man . It was simply declaratory that they would not continue to be members of the un ion . This was submitted to a number of the workmen , and declared to be what they wanted , In less than a week the strike was at an end , for every man that resumed his work first attached his name , and not a few added , 'Now I am free . ' The union immediately died a natural death , and many of its then leaders were compelled to do what they much dreaded—they were compelled to work . This is a bri . f account of its origin , and I might add much more , but it is unnecessary . "
From this article we learn that the said Mr . Holme contends for the unenviable distinction of patentee of the newlyjjinveated declaration , and , as . in all other cases , the inventor and his backers parade the instrument as akind of working man ' s life preserver ; but we may ask , if Mr . Holme or the Times can foramoment hope to palm this midnight rubbish of olden times , furbished up for present use , upon the existing labour mind of the country . And even if we did believe in the treachery of the three midnight assassins who
watched for an opportunity to approach Mr . Holme ' s house by its unguarded avenues at midnight , to what other conclusion can it lead them than that Mr . IIolme was , SOME YEARS AGO , a black sheep , suspected by his hands , and his premises watched , and what other opinion can be formed of the three midnight ' prowlers , than . ' that' they were dark traitors to their order ; an opinion which is fully confirmed by the fact that Mr . Holme ia ashamed to mention their names , while he does TELL US " THAT ONE OF
THESE IS NOW A FOREMAN IN A LARGE EMPLOY , ONE IS SINCE DEAD . AND THE OTHER WAS NOT LONG SINCE IN THE
SERVICE OF THE DOCK TRUSTEES . " ' Here then we have the confessed qualification for masters'favour—it is the betrayal of labour . Now , whoever recommended this masters' scribe to rash into print ; why had they not the candour to inform him that he was critically proving our case ? Why did they not tell him that we , like Mr . Holme , have always seen the facility with which a few artful masters could break up and destroy the best arranged machinery of LOCAL CLUBS , and that it was dear bought experience of their inefficiency that
rendered the formation of a great national association indispensable . The Dispatch tells us , and the Times tells us , that neither they nor the masters have any objection to the existence of local associations , against which aggregate oppression may successfully contend , while they reprobate the existence of a general combination . Now , let us see whether we strain our reasoning too far , when we assert that the law and its administration are of themselves a great aggregate combination of masters' power , against which nothing , save a combination of labour , can successfully contend .
Society is variously and whimsically constituted . The master builders , and indeed , the masters of every other trade , feel themselves aggrieved by the attempt of their hands to participate in the prosperity of trade . Every mouth is full of the advantages to flow from the new order of things . A great confederation of economists and philanthropists is established , whose motto is—change ; the promised result of which , not to one . but to all , is , " HIGH WAGES .
CHEAP BREAD , and PLENTY TO DO !" " Coming events cast their shadows before ; " and in order to prepare themselves against the possibility of danger from the promised blessing , the masters commence by putting their " house iu order . " They not only refuse their hands any participation in the boon , but they farther degrade them by making selfdebasement the condition of existence . At once resistance is met by the denunciation of the press , the threat of the law—not of the ordinary law , but of a law to meet the exigency of the case—and by the kind fellow-feeling and charitable consideration of noblemen and gentlemen for whom the free trade master-class have contracted to build .
Railway societies , the law , the wealthy public , and communities of all shades and descriptions , enter into the sympathetic combination-in behalf of the
OPPRESSED AND ILL-USED MASTERS ; while not a word escapes the lips , not a line comes from the pen , not a sigh from the sympathetic , upon behalf of oppressed but struggling labour . Are not these odds sufficiently fearful , and can they be otherwise met than by a similar combination on behalf of labour ? The Dispatch informs us , that the masters have no objection to local societies . We know they have not , but labour has ; because labour has tried them aforetime , and has found them useless , inefficient , and expensive . We stated the case of the men on . strike seme'few weeks ago , in its proper bearir . g . We stated it thus . That high authority , the Times ,
amongst others , assured us of the great benefit that SOCIETY , not the master builders alone , was to derive from the great commercial measures of Sir Robert Peel , to the effect that all building materials would be considerably reduced in price . We argued that the change , to be just , should be a national and not a class benefit ; and that it was unjust that the master speculator , who had contracted for work according to old and expensive regulations , should be allowed by the new policy to monopolise the lion's share of the change , while labour , that constituted the chief value of the work , should not only go unrequited , but should bo degraded .
We asked the men , then , to be beforehand with masters . We asked them to send deputations to those for whom work was contracted to be done , not that we expected much sympathy from the capital class , but in order that labour may do for itself what the press and the law have invariably refused to accord to it . Was there anything unjust in this ? And is it NOW CONTRARY to the principle of po-I !*! I „„„_„™„ - ± ~ il , „ ! .,... „ „ P il , « 1 J il . _ l litical to the laws of the landtht
„ economy , or , a labour should make its best contract , and that it should buy in the cheapest and sell in the dearest market , and that it , like the capitalist , should establish a combination of its centralised power , to manage its own affairs , and especially to watch the doubtful results of the great changes now in progress , in order to secure for itself its fair share in the new order , of things .
Now it is for these things , and for these things only , that virtuous labour has been struggling against vicious , rampant , and intolerant capital . And it is to arrest the progress of this generous , confiding , but tardy struggle ; it is to stop the eouvse of this natural current , into which hope was led by promise , that the blundering prostitute press , the Times , Dispatch , Manchester Guardian , the Weekly Chronicle , and its Malthusian tenant , are directing their advertising columns . If we were at a loss for defence for the labouring classes it would be found in the fact
that they have no other defender—in the fact , that if we believe the literary , the aristocratic , and wealthy portion of society , labour has never yet been right . If its cause is good the time is injudiciousif the time be judiciously chosen labour ' s ranks arc led by artful and designing demagogues—if the time is judicious , and labour without eloquence takes its position and mumbles its own complaints , then the cause is bad , as its advocates , we are told , can offer nothing in its defence : so that labour is like the drummer , whether it hits capital high or low it never
can please it . We do not belong to that class who are led b y magic , or driven through the paradoxical windings of interested reasoners , we take our plain subject and argue it plainly , and if it is complex or intricate , we unravel the entanglement for simple readers . As with justice then , so with labour . If a poor man makes claim upon a rich man , the very INSOLENCE OF CLAIM to us furnishes a prima facie title . So
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withthe complaints of labour . Its very murmur is a constitutional indictment , its comp laint is ah unanswerable declaration , and its willingness to starve rather than submit , is enough to furnish the unprejudiced mind whereon to find a judgment against capital . Is there * no keenness in hunger ? Is there no charm in independence ? Is there no desire to possess the good opinion of an indulgent , or even a fair master ? Or is labour so rampant that it does not know when it is well off ? And arc the labouring classes of this generation less capable of judging of those things than their ignorant forefathers were ? _ , „ - . n
Thus we have dealt with the merits of the case , and now turn we to the consideration of a few not unimportant facts . We venture d an opinion early in the struggle that the first yielding on the part ot the men would but increase the insolent demands of the masters , and that , we were rig ht is amply proved by the two following documents- the first evincing the self-debasement of a half-dozen crimped slaves , who no doubt laid the foundation of their treachery in a midnight visit to the unguarded mansion of Mr . Holme , or some such philanthropic friend of labourthe other the noble , the spirited , and timely-expressed resolution of labour ' s self .
DECLARATION of PRINCIPLES upon which a SOCIETY of the OPERATIVE CAllfENTERS and JOINERS of MANCHESTER and SALFORD SHALL FORTHWITH BE FORMED . —We , a portion of the Carpenters and Joiners of the aforesaid Boroughs , are of opinion , that a combination of the different branches of tliB building trades , extending throughout the kingdom , is alike detrimental to the interests of journeyman and employer ; we , . therefore , resolve to dissent and withdraw from the combined society of the building trades , and to establish a Society of Carpenters and Joiners , that : shall he confined to the aforesaid boroughs . This society shall not interfere with the employers in the manner of carrying on their business , or as to what men they shall or shall not employ ; nor shall its funds be appropriated to th e support of any general trades ' union . —Signed by the Committee . ¦ GEORGE TISSINGTON ,
DANIEL DOUGLAS ; JOHN IVIIiLINGHAM , JOHN AITCIIISON . JOHN BELLHOUSE , SAMUEL HARIUSON , Clarendon Inn . May 22 nd ;
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AT a GENERAL MEETING of the Carpenters atid Join ers of Manchester , held at the Carpenters' Hall , on Thursday , May 21 st , it was unanimously resolved , —• ,.-- < That this meeting views with feelings of indignation the proceedings of a few individuals , who , actuated by motives at once contemptible and unprincipled , have thought proper to secede from this body , and among themselves to pass resolutions quite contrary to the rules of this society . Resolved , —That this resolution be published in the public papers , with a vote of censure from this body upon those persons who are actuated b y selfish motives , and whose conductis calculated to prolong the strike now pending . The committee beg leave to state , that the only thing which prevents a settlement of this dispute , is the document which the masters require each man to sign . The men are willing to resume their employ at the proposei ' advance of wages , and work 57 hours each week the year through . By order of the Committee .
It is said " what ' s in a name , " but when we read the signatures of the half-dozen traitors we are struck with the identity between the names of ene of the proselytes and that of the Chairman of the Newton conspiracy . One to be sure is called David Bellhouse and the other John Bellhouse , but we venture to assert that consanguinity has had something to do with the conversion of the President ' s POOR
RELATION . We have given the exultation of the great liar of the press upon the increased insolence of the masters when they had got the first wedge into the brittle minds of their dupes , and we would ask any man with a grain of common sense , if the terror of the national combination and the disregard evinced for the local clubs , should not be an inducement to la . hour to persevere in a perfect centralization of its powers ? If tyrants gain confidence from the yielding of a handful of thek slaves , let freemen take heart when they read the following comfort from abroad . We give the letter as we rece ived it from a most esteemed friend , and from it will be seen that we have forced the cause ot labour across the " deep , deep sea , " and have made its wrongs penetrate into the hearts of its banished sons . Here follows the
16 It CI * Saint Germans De Navarre , Department De L . Euro . Monday Morning , May 25 th , 1810 . . Deak Fbahgus , —I hasten to infirm you of the pro ; ceedings at Navarre during the last few days , in the cans , of right against might . A meeting of a few friends to the rig hts of labour took place on Thursday last , at the house of Mr . Paul Rosenthal , a Polish refugee , to take into consideration the present struggle of the Trades ol England .
Mr . John Sidaway , Sub-Secretary and Ajrcnt to ' tin-Chartist Co-operative Land Society , was called to -th . chair . The chairman opened the business by reading tinreports in the last week ' s Star . The unchristian am . tyrannical manifesto of the Newton despots , called down the execration Of the Whole meeting . Propositions were then carried to the following effect : — " That this meeting pledges itself to use every means in their power to support the men now on strike , and as a testimony of their determination , collectors were appointed to collect subscriptions on tbeir behalf . " It was also carried that ii public meeting should be called for Friday the 21 st , foi the purpose of explaining the nature of the strike ; and that Mr . Sidaway should be the secretary of the fund , and Mr . Thomas Harrison , assistant secretary : that
circulars should be sent to the siib-mastcra and foremen of Mr . John Oliver York and Company of Navarre , requesting their assistance and co-operation , in answer to which a few gave their attendance at the meeting . The public meeting took place on Friday night at 8 o ' clock . On the motion of Mr . Sidaway , seconded by Mr . Wm Ashton , Mr . Samuel Penberthy , late of London , was called to the chair . The worthy chairman opened the business by saying , he was pleased to see so many of the English machanics meeting together to protect the rights of labour over capital . He wag proud to see that though exiles from their native land , they did not forget that Wiev owed a duty to their fellow workmen in their mother country He called upon them to see that the present important struggle for the right of labour , was not put down by the
apathy , of their own order . He should not occuppy theii time Ipiiger ' by any more remarks of his own , but should call on their secretary Mr . John Sidaway , to address them . Mr . Sidaway then reviewed the various circumstances causing strikes , and administered a severe casti-Kation on the Newton tyrants . He read over the code oi regulations , and made some pointed remarks on Hum as he progressed . He concluded a speech of more than . in hour ' s duration , in a strain that called down the cheers of the meeting . He then called on them not only to shew their disapproval of the master abomination , but to open their purses and strike the death blow to tyranny of all shapes , by being united together in one phalanxof power , which would bring to the earth the temple of slavery , and erwet in its place , a monument of Contentment and Happiness , dedicated to the rights of man . It was then arranged that the various collectors should report
progress on the next night at 8 o ' clock , so that a report of the meeting should appear in the next week's Star . It was also desired that the secretary should forward the names of all the subscribers , with their several amounts and occupations , with a request to the Editor of the Star , to insert them in full , to show that Englishmen , though at a distance , are ready at the call of their brethren . Some observations where then made in reference to the imposition practised by some interested parties , who enriched themselves , and left the objects of their assistance , either to go into work at tha masters ' condition , or starve . Mr . Sidaway then replied to the satisfaction of the meeting , stating that all monies transmitted through the Northern Star was made public , and was applied to the proper purposes . The meeting then separated , after wishing the turnouts success , aud resolved to meet on the morrow night , to see the state of the poll in favour of the poor oppressed .
List of Subscriptions in aid of the turn-outs of Lugland ; collected by Messrs . Thomas , Harrison , and Sidaway : —Mr . John Sidaway , chain-maker , 5 francs ; Mr Alatfiew Fowler , shingler , 5 f ; Mr , Samuel Smith , ensinecr , 5 f ; Mr . Edward Davis , master smith , Of ; Messrs . David Thomas , Even Thomas , John Taylor , Samuel Penberthy , Thomas Drown , smiths , Thomas Harrison , Win . Uliodes , turners , William Whiteworth , John Hudson , Robert Calvert , William Hoggctt , carpenters , James Weston , sawyer , and Thomas Sidaway , bolt-maker , 3 l each ; Messrs . R-. ilph Derfoot , bait-maker , William Ashton , William Drown , John Hurry , Darny Goodman , aud John Roper , smiths , 2 f each ; Mr . Paul Rozcnthal . Polish refugee , 2 f ; Mr . Patrio Keogh , spring-maker , 2 f ; Mr . Christopher Shaw , litter , 2 f Messrs . George and Cuthberd Truman , moulders , 2 f each ; Mr . James Lee . cashier , 2 f ; Mr . Geo . Wintworth , millwright , 2 ; Messrs . Edward Hall and Robert Mat' -ews , If each ; making a total of 8 " francs , or £ 3 5 s . lid . English money .
There , struggling trades of England , | tuerc ] is ' . balm for your souls , consolation for your minds , your stai . ' third ia raised , your virtuous flag , with your motto
of-A FAIR DAY'S WAGES FOR A FAIR DAY'S WORK , waves in the breeze , and accursed be the traitor who strikes or lowers it . In a few hours after the voice of your co-operating brothers in France shall have reached you , your champion and your chief will be amongst you . Rally round him , for believe us when we tell you that the times are at hand when labour will require advocates of stout hearts and unbending minds . Show him that you are in earnest , for his
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frMlfirftllH ftoul rP . voltR at ffoftAntinn . If-VOH Stand hv generous soul revolts at deception . If yon stand by him , your ' tifiumph is sure ; if you betray him , you render him weak , useless and impotent .,. On Monday , the organised iradeg meet at the Hall of Science , Manchester ; it will be a day memorable in the annals of labour , if properly used . We see nothing to object to , but much to admire in the comprehensive , though prudently undefined , programme of the governing body . It is the root ; from your genius will , must , spring the branches , and from the branches will shoot the foliage beneath which we
hope and trust to see a shade and happy home for every son that ' s doomed to toil . The right is upon your side , and may Ged speed the righteous , and may labour's delegates succeed in levelling the throne of despotism in tho dust , and erecting its own temple of liberty upon the dishonoured ruins .-Though The blackness of ashes should mark where it-stood , While the wild mother screams o ' er her famishing broodi " ; Labour ' s battle once begun , Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son , Tho' baffled oft , is ever won .
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THE REVOLUTION . Charge ! Bentinck ! Charge—On , Stanley , on , Were the last words of Protect!—ON . Tory . How ' s the day , and now ' s the hour , See the front of battle lower , See approach the Leaguer ' s power , The Leaguer , Chains , and Slavery Whig . Come one , come all , this rock shall flee , From its firm base , as soon as WD .
Lord George Bentinck . ha ? declared that the landed aristocracy of England will SHOULDER THE MUSKET rather than abandon their ancient rights and antiquated privileges , and nothing now remains but for labour , robbed of rights , and stript of its privileges ; to prepare for the struggle . We have long seen the gathering cloud , and we have announced the coming of the crash . We were not alarmed when Peel proclaimed thenew | elementsout of which legitimacy should constitute its centralization , and by which it should uphold its authority in shape and form , only differing from the system to be exploded .
We saw the facility with which active capital could manifest its power , and command obedience to its will . Theorise and progress of . Reform / and its subsequent failure , read a wholesome lesson to the movement party of England . We were the first to announce that the day of auction would come , when Peel and Russell would respectively bid for that power which confers patronage , and we are now gladdened to find that the improved condition of the stock has led to an increased competition . Stasley and Bentisck are now competitors for . popular favor ,
and howsoever the long and lingering debate may terminate , upon which the fate of the nation depends , we tell the people that , whatever the result may bo , the day is at hand when they must prepare themselves to snatch from contending factions their share of the national spoil . We have averred that the new elements of national wealth , gave rise to a new national mind , that the creation of new national wealth was new national property , and that the full , entire and complete representation of the new national mind , was indispensable to the equitable dis - tribution of the increased property . '
There was a time when our weakness and want of concentration would have induced us to accept such terms as our position entitled us to , but the day Of barter and compromise has passed . Even the Factory Bill fades into comparative insignificance—the repeal of the Poor Law Amendment Bill loses its charmthe fostering of native industry lacks its magicpower and looks small in the distance , when we compare ihem with the much that our position entitles us to
expect and demand . The factious never yet had a struggle in which the contending parties have no bid faithlessly and recklessly for the only support which could insure their triumph , but in no case have they redeemed tiieir extensive pledges when the battle was won . Their bid has . always been capricious , and the payment of the purchase has been always withheld upon the plea that their obstructive opponents were too powerful in resistance ,
We have seen hustings' exhibitions , and platform vagaries . We have heard enthusiastic pledges , but we have seen ministerial favour and government patronage obliterate all recollection of the past . Wc have heard a Wortley , a Ward , and a Gisborne a Bright , a Herbert , a Peel and an O'Connelr , and a Russell , gain 'dangerous power by hopeful promise and ' extensive pledges ; but we have found one and all turn traitors , rank traitors , to tha cause they professed to espouse . . Why , then , longer potter with
these sectional questions with which factions fight their battle ? Why ask' men of broken faith to lie once more ? and give them opportunity to go on lying to the end ? Why now talk of compromise upon a Poor Law Bill or a Ten Hours' Bill , and why not rather say at once to faction , the day has arrived when we receive your promise as a mockery , a delusion , and a snare ; the hour has come when a united people may make themselves independent of your deceit .
We write thus because OUR PULSE HAS BEEN FELT , and because our . ' party has been tampered with . Wc write thus , that the foe may know that we are above purchase ; that the friend may believe that we are above suspicion , and may therefore confide in us . There were some men foolish enough to have . forced us into a premature exhibition of our weakness by huddling us together for no other purpose than the gratification of some personal feeling . It is this that has ever withheld a nation ' s rights . It is this egotism and selfishness that has disturbed and distracted the coimeils . of the people , and it was
to resist another such ; exhibition that the directing officers of Chartism , wisely determined to uphusband their strength until it could be brought to bear upon disorganised fast-ion rather than fritter it away upon individual conflict . Who that reads the signs of the times , who that contemplates the power of an ancient aristocracy about to be plucked of their gaudy plumage , about to be shorn of their ancient privileges , and stripped of tbeir usurped rights , who can witness the nightly conflicts in the senate House , who can cast a glance unon the present state of Europe , who can reflect upon the position assumed by America even
in the midst of her own internal brawls , who can think of the age of the Iron Duke , confidence in whom serves as a band to keep the rotten sticks of hereditary power together , who can think of the broken-down health and old age of the great peace preserver of the world , Louis Philippe , who can reflect upon the liisturbeil state of Ireland aud the unquiet state of England , who can see the old keystone about to be struck from the arch upon which society Las so long stood as A GREAT FICTION , without coming to the conclusion that the crash must come and that it will be awful in its results .
It is not many months since we icndeavoureu to map out the future state of England from the position of Cantiuential Europe ; although it is some years since we showed that our altered position , since we could shake hands with America and kiss France , would have a terrific tendency npon our future operations . Well , when we stood alone we were firebrands and alarmists , but perhaps the following state of Europe , which we take from the Times of Thursday , may inspire the incredulous with confidence in our future predictions . The Times says , "The evidence that the elements of a coming , though possibly distant , storm , exist on the continent is pressed upon us in nearly every letter wo receive from Prance , Italy or Germany . Of the state of Spain and Portugal
our readers require not now to be informed . The condition of Switzerland would be deemed alarming if anything done by the mountebanks at the head of the more . ment in the cantons could appear important . Throughout Germany a ferment prevails , the profundity of which is not appreciated by the Governments of the various states of which the confederation is composed . The Italian peninsula , from north to south , is notoriously agitated , hombardy and the Legations are even represented as ripe for revolt the moment when Austria shall have occupation elsewhere . To Poland it is unnecessary to refer . " It : snot , " says one of our private letters ,. "the force of ftusaia , the strength of our armies , the depth of her intrigue , or the unbounded characUr of her ambition , nor the power and the absolutism of Austria and Prussia , msr the selfish views of France , supported by vait military
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force—It is not any or all . of these that menace j * and order , it is the progree . " ' c * Such now are the foreign elements which the eom mercial policy of England has invited to take pal inner future conflicts . . The policy of England , f many years , has been to make this country' ^ great boiler for feeding universal machinery . ' iu statesmen vainly hoped to erect a CORDON arouRj her shores , through which her produce may escape force—Itia tint nn » « t > Ml tit » l .=. « » v _ - ' ' ^ v
but through which no democratic principles should enter . It is to regulate this anomaly—it is to hold , up an ancient system in -the midst of univ ersal assaults that Sir Robert Peel now directs his attention , and it is to close the breaches , stealthily made , that Stanley and Bentinck so industriously struggle Had they regulated MAN'S MONSTER-ENEMv ' —MACHINERY—and hod they arrested themarci of pauper degradation , instead of waiting the hou of their own weakness to PROMISE A : RE .
TREAT—had they heard us when we were weak and they were strong ; and thug evinced a disposition to act from justice rather than caprice , we might have heard their moans in the wilderness , and in reciprocal justice have run to the rescue . But when they were strong , they too coerced us , and starved us . They allowed no undivided triumph to Whig tyranny and despotism ) but claimed honourable participation in every act of oppression . And is it with men like these that we , the veritable Chartist party , the movement party , as the Times td ^ us , so menacing to tyranny all over the world , are now to unite for the STEP-MOTHER'S BIT , for a slight relaxation of their own adopted policy , and that only offered because they are powerless and weak , ridiculous ami contemptible without US .
Upon the other hand , are we to fly to the rescue or swell the train of the LITTLE MAN who invited the people to all but revolution , and then used his power to crush them ? Are . we to aid in giving power to theinaster-class—the Malthusians—the po . litical economists and PINCH BELLIES ? Are we to believe their confession , that they require law to make them just magistrates , honest masters , true jurors , and christian neighbours ? NO ! What
then ? STAND ALONE . Stand in the midst of the breakers of faction , watching with contempt the heaving of oppression ; and , as they have done , use our strength to take advantage of their weakness ; looking not to fragments of measures , but to the means of framing measures for ourselves ; fighting them one against the other , until the weakness of the defeated shall compel them to offer the only terms that our strength tells ' . us we have a right to expect
-OUR CHARTER . The peop le must have seen , and the wsrld must learn , from the recent debates in the House of Commons , that the labouring classes are far in advance of their representatives , and they must entertain a corresponding disgust for the representative assembly . PsEi has attempted to persuade us that he was sincere in his measure of ' 42 , and is sincere in' his project of ' 46 , but from the moment that Stanley was pitchforked into the Lords , we predicted that Peel was clearing the way for his own retreat . Nay , we sus pected him long before that ; in June , 1840 , six- years ago , we published Peel's dream , the principal feature of which was his anxiety for Stanley ' s removal to
the Lords . His dream is out , and so will he be 'ere long , for the Whigs will not bear his monopoly of office , and the betrayed Pro tectionists will not tolerate his continuance in power . Thus we pledge ourselves to no party , but our own ; we will watch the coming struggle , and will brave the danger ; but we will not accept condition or compromise from either party upon other terms than we have prescribed ; because wc believe , as we have long foreseen , that it is impossible , wholly and entirely impossible , to subdue machinery to man ' s wants , and to limit it within legitimate bounds without a FULL , FAIR , AND FREE representation of the whole people in the Commons House of Parliament .
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'PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . The arena of the great contest of the session has been transferred from the House of Commons to the [ louse of Lords , and public interest has . followed it thither . Since the memorable days of the Reform Bill that house has presented no such scene as it did on Monday last . Every available seat on the floor was occupied ; a crowd of Members of the other
house clustered about the steps of the Throne ; the side galleries were filled with Peers , Foreign Ambassadors , ' and a sprinkling of Peeresses ; the strangers ' , gallery was crammed to suffocation , the gallery appropriated to Members of the House of Commons was full , ( amongst others we noticed Mr . Cobdea and some of the leading Leaguers ); an : ! even tho Reporters ' part of the house testified to the general excitement , by being crowded in every corner where even standing room could be obtained .
The number and variety of the classes who thronged the house was not the only external symtom of the vital interest felt in the struggle , The staid , sober , measured tone and manner of the grave Senators of the Upper House evaporated under the strong influences of the moment . They almost forgot thoy were Lords and became Mm , men at leust so ht as to lose sight of the conventional frigidity of manner , the icy proprieties which are considered the distinguishing characteristics of their " order . " They laughed , groaned , shouted , cheered , and swayed to and fro , passion-tossed , as tumultuously as any democratic assembly under the strong stimulus of ptisssioaatc and stirring influences could be accused of doing .
ihe crisis had arrived—the last , or nearly the last struggle was to be made for the maintenance of one of the main causes of the proud pre-eminence of the English overall other landed aristocracies . They were aware of the momentous nature of tha conflict ; and they met it with the characteristic courage of the Anglo-Saxon race , if not with the calmness and composure of far-seeing statesmen . The Diilve of Richmond chivalrously threw himself first into the breach , at the head of the Protectionists : but ills indignation at the inconsistency , ' and treachery of the Peelites was so huge , that it prevented him from doing justice to his own prowess , or nuicli damage to the free trade measure . The most effective part of his oration was the carcfullr culled sidtuitions from
" Prosperity Robinson ' s" speeches , the author of the Corn Bill in 1 S 15 , the defender of every Corn Bill since , and now , in his capacity of President of the Board of Controul , the proposer of the final abolition of all Corn Laws ! The reading of these extracts excited immense laughter and cheering from both sides of the House , which must , we imagine , have been anything but gratifying to the ears of my Lord Ripox . The Duke did not confine his attack to the deserters from tlie Protectionist camp ; he made a furious onslaught on ihe League and its leading orators , which caused Mr .
Cobden to have recourse once or twice to a pinch of snuff during its delivery . No doubt it will bD repaid with interest the first opportunity . Earl FmwiLLUM followed , and avowed his preference for a fixed duty ; but he felt he had no alternative left but to support the ministerial measure , which he did , at tha same time compensating himself by abusing its authors . The Duke of Cleveland followed , with a Protectionist spoech of the usual kind and calibre ; and the Marquis of LoNDO . NDsiuiy threw tho House into convulsions of laughter by his general eulogy upou inconsistency . But these preliminaries
over , then came " the tug of war . " Amidst loud cries of " Stanley , Stanley , " the chosen leader of the Protectionist forces rushed forward to the table at nine o ' clock , and commenced amidst dead silence an address which lasted till nearly half-past twelve . The silvery sweetness of his voice—the exquisite and finished excellence of his language—the artistical structure of his sentences— the skill with which he selected his points , and the exuberance , the overflowing wealth of illustration he brought to bcr . r upon them , altogether-constituted a magnificent oration , and though we neither admire the cause i
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 30, 1846, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_30051846/page/4/
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