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« E«I House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand.-"'
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. - ! _ . TO THE ; WOBKING CLASSES . Ifi Ifr Fbjesds , — -It is now some time since I _niaveiaTe beea able to devote my time to ibe _wrop-ropef organisation of the veritably honest Bnauindustrial mind . During the active progress » f tl ) f the National Land Company , my time was ttoojtoo laboriously employed to allow me to _g _^ _lg mfaia and support Chartism , except in the tJoJumnso f the Northern Star ; wMe up to the
iperiperiodof the commencement of my agricul-1 tur'tural operations my whole time was devoted Ito Uo tiie organisation of the Chartist party . 1 Anxiety and excitement * with reference to _fiie flie carrying on or winding np the affairs ol the the Company ., have almost totally unfitted me for for public business , hut have not erased from nn _mvmtad thedutythatl owe toyour order and to ' to myself- as the fiiend of your order and the ad _advocate of your principles . _^ ;
jfow however , as it is likely that the law _v _vill -rrant what Parliament refused—power to xr . vdninp file-National Land Company—and as I T behold , _^ _^ _iS _& isorrow and regret , the antagon-U ism which now exists among the professing 1 _< leaders of yonr order , it is my intention , T Terv - _"Deedily , to make a tour of England , * " Scotland , and "Wales , and to show niy love for * _j- _p _^ d honest discussion , it is my intention t to forewarn you of the several questions that 1 T -propose to discuss ; it is also my intention 1 to invite every man who dissents from my . _princip les , to meet me npon the platform , ¦ where our views may be freely , fairl y , and i im partially discussed , you constituting the
MN friends , there is an old saying , that no man is a hero to his valet dechambre , that is , that those with whom people become very intimatel y acquainted , are never thoug ht so much of as new and frivolous companions . All -people like novelty ; novelty has a charm , and ail am no novelty to your order , a party is now « p * -iD <* ing mto existence , in the hope that its _^ elty will break the charm with winch yonr confidence has bound me fo your hearts , and _toyoor caase—the accomplishment of which las been the dearest and only object of my life , and that object , is ever has heen , and ever shall be , to make your order wholl y and entirely indep _' endent of tyranny and class
leg islation . My friends , it makes me sad and doleful , when I read in tiie Times of Thursday morning , _ a paper that luxuriates in yonr disuniona brief and sarcastic comment npon a meeting which was held on "Wednesday night at the _National Hall , Holborn . Now , as I have not joined either party that assembled there , and aa 1 will not offer a word of comment on the _piaceedingswMchtookp lace ,-letme ask you , if the Government could base its power , and hs tyranny npon a stronger foundation than the antagonism there manifested ?
My Mends of the conntry districts , you wiU understand that this only exists in the metro polis ; and that although Paris is France , London is not Eng land , as the bu s y hives of Lancashire , Yorkshire , Warwickshire , Notting hamshire , Leicester , Derby , Northampton , Korthumberland , and Glasgow , cannet be led away from any principles to which their hearts are devoted . ii y friends , my reception , and the enthusiasm _, of the people ofthe Potteries , on Monday last , inspire me with an amount of p leasure that I cannot express . It would he foolish in me to make the faintest guess at the number ofthe thousands , and tens of
thousands , hy whose cheers I was greeted ; while it gave me not less pleasure to collect the feeling of the gathering in the Hall , that the staunch men of the Potteries still acknowled ge me as their accredited leader , notwithstanding the anxious desireof a ferocious clique—who understand as much about politics as a pig does of geometry—to get rid of me , and base their own power upon their enthusiastic violence and foll y , while I have that reliance in your order , to convince me , that so long as the minutest critic cannot charge me with one act of tergiversation or inconsistency during twentyei g ht years , your confidence will remain unbroken .
My friends , I have told you to surfeit , that * tiie men to whom I have heen most bountiful have been my bitterest enemies . Shaksfeake has trul y said—• _Neither a borrower nor a lender be , For bon-owing dulls the edge of husbandry , And loan oft loses both itself and friend . ' " Now , such , in part , has been my case . I lave not been a borrower nor a lender , hnt I havebeen a DONOR , and * my donations of hundreds and thousands have made ihe recipients my bitterest enemies and revilers .
Now , w ork i ng men , I always told you that , in no jury , excepting your order , would 1 repose confidence where character was in question ; and now I throw down the challenge to any wbo dare to revile that character , and ask them to charge me with one inconsistent or dishonest act , during a long life of toilsome stragg le and agitation ; and until such evidence is p laced before you , and unequivocall y corroborated , will you place more confidence in those who merely traffic in politics to live up o n y o ur c r edul i ty ? I say not—because I feel convinced ofthe integrity- of your order .
Working men , the position of Ministers , and the antagonism of factions in the House of Commons , convinces me that you are upon the ere of a tremendous strugg le ; and my hope and desire is , that you will not allow the fruits that may be gathered from that strugg le to he withered by avarice or folly . "When did you ever know of a public man who had honestly gained the affections of tiie peop le , against _vliom every tongue did not wag , and every press was not open to denounce ? Look at the position in which the foll y of the pe o ple pla c ed the immortal Hexey Huxt , and how their
ingratitude prematurely hurled him to the cold grave ; and now let me tell you , and truly , so _sensitive am I as fo the value of your affection and c onfiden c e , that , if I lost it to-morrow , I "" houM not long retain my existence . I love it not from vanity , but I love it because I before it cannot be fraudulentl y obtained or easil y l o st My friends , one great principle that I have ever advocated , and ever shall advocate is , the foil right of every man to express his own _opinions and sentiments , however repulsive
" " ey may be to his audience , or to a majority of the population . I have constantly told you _"J my speeches and writings , that the greatest danger to a country is the tyrannical suppres-H < m of public o p inion . I have told you , that " the opinions are sound they will be naturally ad opted , while if they are unsound , and if "" lowed to "be discussed , they will be rejected ; * hile the suppression of the fair promulgation and discussion of those principles , will but tend to rivet them more deeply in the hearts of those who do not understand them . And once
again to convince you that "the foll y of to-* % may be the wisdom of the morrow , " let - _" _ae c a ll your strictest attention to the following able article , extracted from the Daily Neirs , of * Wednesday ; and when you have read it , as _" * _- * yourselves how often you have perused the Tet same sentiments , and nearly the same _^" _"ds , in the Northern Star , and how often 1 _p e ** pressed them in my speeches ? Here _fol-«* fs the article , without exception the most ab' _* _i the most powerful and the most _statesman-like article that I have ever perused in a ne ** _-spaper , either dail y or weekly . The *" _""ta " savs : —
n "* "" * ** _-ini * m 3 , or any portion of public _ojiMiioiis are " * " _« y dangerous or even powtrfol as long as thej are _** _£ » - _* political . It is only when tliey come to partake of - _JtaJr : lu' «;< 'fa reli gion that they kinilie _enthashirm , _conaj _, a ™ ** V _* - _* . aad by connecting a multitude of minds _twJn " ** m oue tJloa S ' tand on * *«"" defy resistance , and P away _th-t-ixipoaJitm ol -wren- ; , * _anft at times that of j _^ _and © fright . oj -J _^ ! . - _"' " _" ""rise _inacoontry any species of political ft- *"" " ™" * - * tendencies of which appear dangerous to a w « M - fcat ' the first care of _aiatgoternment should be to _, _^ _enas to tliato * jiiiIim the _ch-uticterof _* -elii * iflB . Tate _^^ _43 £ tSB » for example . It is said to menace nropertj . to
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aim at subverting the existing OTgamsation of society , and putting something else in its stead . No doctrine flatters "f ° * "f _»« pride , the prejudices , the interests , the sores , tlie hallucination ofthe people . It gives them hopes of tlie futare and consolation for the past It fills the place of religion for him who has been taught none but an ignorant , a material , and a brute one . And we are sorry to say that in too many a European countries socialism has replaced religion ! the idea of perfecting the labouring man ' s _condtaon in this world shutting oiit from sight almost all thoughts of the next How are such opinions to be ren ' dered as harmless as may be ? Certainly by free discussion , by experiments , by their own divisions and exposures , by the refutation of earnest and disinterested pens , by the raillery of men ofthe world , by the action , in short , of that intellectual winnotrine machine which separates chafffrom jrrain _.
Instead _« f tlus _, how have ihe upper classes and ruling powers treated socialism in France ! They have persecuted and martyrised it into a i eligion . Socialism in France , when in power , and when allowed to realise , or attempt to realise its views , and to proclaim itself dominant , fell daily into contempt It became a mockery _andabye-word . Even when dethroned and hurled from power it grovelled , and might have wanted the means of recovery . But when promises were not kept to it , when the plainest principle of liberalism and honesty was cast aside and outraged along with Social ism ; when the first _e-eniuses ofthe Conservative party , the _Thierses and the Dupins , entered into thelkts witb the Socialist philosophers , and . were decidedly inferior to them in verve and aigument ; and when this inferiority of talent was instantly sought tobe made
up by a substitution of police law and brutality for logicoh , then Socialism began to wax strong , to hold up its bead , to claim public _sympathy , andattract public respect As was observed the other day by tiie _Examiner , the great geniuses of the age have rallied to it , tlie Hugos and the Sues—the first pens of France have taken up its cause , in addition to the Louis Blancs and thc Froudhons , men of great talents too , born in the faith . The result , therefore , ofa two years' reign of Conservatism , under an executive of its choice , and a representative majority of its formation , has been so terribly to augment die power of the popular-opposition , that any hope of arguing : with it was abandoned , and the sole mode of combating it made to lie in the rigour of the police and tlie numbers of the soldiery .
Police and soldiers are , however , inefficient for such purpose . They can disperse 3 group , put down a riot ; but tliey cannot eradicate a religion , or a social doctrine that has been made to partake ofthe nature and excite the enthusiasm of one . We know what the French army is , how it is composed , and that each year ' s recmital brings to it , fresh and unmitigated , the predominant feelings , whatever they may be , of the people . Go , combat the popular masses and their sentiments by portions of those masses and those sentiments , apparently modified by a few weeks ' drill But taking the supposition most favourable to the party of repression . _Imagme the people , or the Socialists as they are called , foolish enough to be provoked into insurrection by the goading ofthe police , or by a coup d ' etat of the President , and let us imagine them to hare been put down—that anether June combat has slain its thousands ,
defeated more thousands , and devastated the capital . What then i Why , that opinion is not killed by military conquest The history of Socialism after June bespeaks it One cannot extirpate the masses . They are not convinced , no , nor conquered , by the sword . Instead of this , we do think that freedom and fair treatment of opinion would work the cure of all that is pernicious in it whilst the doings of il . Carlier trill but make it strike deeper root into the pride , the conscience , and the conviction of the people . We know of no worse sign than the factthat the party ofthe upper , and . as they call themselves , the educated classes in Paris , hare been obliged , in order to combat the Socialist candidature of Eugene Sue , to put forward as their representative the lowlier and least intellectual of their _party-rone who does not represent them at all , indeed , although he may typify their only passion , and their one idea , a honor of entente . The
Conservative party has not one known or respectable name that it could otter to the electors of Paris . iL Carnot has been fearfully lacerated for telling the rustic electors to return staunch Republicans to the Assembly , -without caving whether they were learned or not The Conservatives are practising what Carnot preached . Their idea of the political champion is that he be a good constable . The Socialists of Paris gire their votes ioa man of genius—a poet and a novelist The aristocracies of the three dynasties unite thei _** votes on a representative of mere physical force . They abandon their own weapons—the intellect , the tongue , and the pen—in which they ought to have the superiority ; and they think to overcome the masses in a collision of bone and muscle . Is not this madness preposterous enough to demonstrate how ill promoted , illmanaged , and ill-defended has been their cause , and how irrevocably it is lost ? Whilst in the act of writing , the French telegraph has brought the expected intelligence that Eugene Sue has carried the election . And there comes with the report great wailing and gnashing of teeth . One would think the world
were at its end , because a man of talent and fortune , who sympathises with the people , and prefers a Itepublic to any ofthe candidate monarchies , has been chosen representative for Paris . And Hugene Sue is this , not merely by the votes of the shopkeepers but ofthe army , whose significant votes are recorded . Universal Suffrage has at last its merit —that it proclaims nnmistakeably tlie leanings and opinions ofthe troops , as well as ofthe multitude . Against these united , who but madmen would meditate resistance or a coup d ' etat ? There is evidently but one hope for peace and orderly government in France , for an avcilance of civil war and its consequences;—it is for the propertied class and its notabilities to accept the republic sincerely , give up reviling it and plotting against it , and employing police to insalt the public and to gag the press . Let Louis Xapoleon and his parliamentary majority condescend to be true to the oaths which they swore to the republican constitution , and by making common cause , and entering into common councils , with the people , prevent that death struggle between the two classes , which every Conservative act and word have hitherto gone to aggravate and to provoke .
My friends , do not he content when you read that article once ; ifyou do not thoroughl y understand it , read it again , ag a in , and again , and then you will he ahle to judge from it the views ofthe leading press of the Parliamentary and Financial Eeform Association . My friends , you will communicate with me now , as I am not a hireling or a hack in your cause , whether or not you still acknowled ge me as your leader . If you do , you will speedily find me amongst you again ; ifyou do not , say so , and I will not ask you to return what you owe me , nor will I desert your cause ; hut I will wait till my time comes again , which will not he long ; and during the present week 1 shall expect to receive app lications from the . several towns and districts that I am invited
to attend ; and where I am still acknowledged as the veritahle leader of the working classes , for the accomplishment of the PEOPLE'S CHARTER , and then I shall puhlish a very early account of my intended tour . "Nottingham will he the first place I shall visit . In conclusion , I beg to give you the following letter , received from John Eichauds , which , I think , will gladden your hearts . I remain , Your Faithful , Uncompromising , And Unpaid Friend and Advocate , Feahgcs O'Connor .
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Dickenson ' s-buildings , Hall-street , Bilson , April 2 Sth . _Deau _Xei-hew asd "Friends . —I make no apology for sending you the copy of a letter received from Cooper , last Thursday . I met George Rogers this morning , and he tells me tbat a _Kew South Wales paper has the following notice : — " We hear that Mr . Frost is to he recommended to the Home Government for emancipation , so we may live to see the veteran in E n g land again . " P . S .- —Be sure to telf James Linney , th a t Fro s t is likely to come back . I do not think that there is a more likely person in London , ( except tbe government officials , ] than George Rogers , to have
t he int e lligence , nor is there a more trut ' i-telJmg man . However , such as it is , I send it to you . As you are to hare O'Connor to morrow , just let him see my news ; and should he think well , he can announce it to the meeting . Make my regards to him , and tell him that it is only that poor man's enemy , ( poverty , ) that keeps me from seeing- him . I am so lame , that I dare not attempt to walk , or else I would ; you do not know how I long to be amongst you at the opening ofthe old gospel shop , for the better purpose of a working man ' s hall . May success attend _' your opening . Make my kind regards to Mother and all the family , to Mr . II . D . Shaw , to T . Mountfort , and all the other branches ofthe family .
Believe me to be , yours , ic . _„ _. _ , , _ Jon ** Richards . Respects to Yates and Wife , and to Ids family aud indeed to all true Democrats ofthe Potteries . '
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Gmxo a 1 'msoxER the _BENErw os a Doubt — The following scene took place at the Town Hall Gravesend , a short time since : —Recorder - . Gentlemen of tbe jury , the prisoner at the bar is indicted for stealing a piece of meat , the property of the prosecutor . Tou have heard the evidence , and if you have any doubt upon your minds you must give the prisoner the benefit of such doubt . ( Jury turn round in box—much whispering—sagacious nods , with repeated reference to _notes—Judge _fidtrettv
from delay—prisoner from fear—Jury turn roundsilence . ) The Town Clerk . —Bow say you , Gentlemen , " guilty , " or " not guilty ? " Foreman . — " Guilty ; " but we recommend him to mercy . Recorder ( surprised ) . —On what ground ' s ? Foreman . —Because we don't think he ' s the man . "We don ' t think there is sufficient evidence of '' identity . " Recorder . —I told jou , gentlemen , tbat if you h a vo any doubt , you must give the prisoner the benefit ofthe doubt . " Foreman . —Well , then , we find him ' •' _-ruiltv "
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SOUTH LONDON CHARTIST HALL . Thc second meeting convened under the auspices ofthe Provisional Committee of tho National Charter Association , was held on Monday evening , ' _April'the 29 th , and was most numerously attended . - _JfevJoHX'Pearcy . was unanimously called to the o b _^ . a _^ _brieflyiintroduced the business of the _evenin _^ by invoking ' - a fair hearing for all who might present themselves . Mr . Wiluam Davis came forward to move the following resolution : — " That this meeting is o f opinion that the People ' s Charter , as advocated by the Provisional Committee ofthe National Charter
Association of GreatBritain , ( which Association has been called into existence by the suffrages of the people , ) is based upon true and just principles , and is worthy ofthe support ofthe working classes ; and it considers , that no man , or body of men , advocating any measure short of the People ' s Charter , are acting honestly towards the mass of the people , and this meeting also pledges itself never to agitate for any measure short ot the principles contained in tbe dopuinent known as the People ' s Charter . " Mr . Davis , who wag greeted with loud cheers , said the resolution told them , that the People's Charter , contained those just princi ples whieh should actuate the great body of the people , and which , in his soul , he believed shortly would do so . ( Loud . cheers . ) The Charter
Association was not antagonistic to any other political body , and he ( Mr . Davis , ) advi s ed th e m to procure a ll t h e v otes a n d oth e r strength they could , ev en under the pres e nt s y s tem of representation , whilst he conceived it no harm to aid registration , or other enfranchisement associations . He did think they would be doing an infinity of harm , by taking themselves wholly and solely over to any body of men who advocated anything short of the People ' s Charter . ' ( Great cheering . ) If the Parliament pleased to pass meas u r es of r e form of a ny sort , they had no option but to take it and make the best of it , b ut t h at w a s no reason why they should cease agitating for their whole right ? . ( Hear , hear . ) The Parliamentary
and Financial Reformers havo been holding what was termed a " Conference , " in Crosby-hall , and this being a public affair , he conceived it a legitimate matter for discussion or remaik . Ue ( Mr . Davis ) eould not regard it as a representative body or Conference , but as a mere sham , a thing that really represented nobody , ( near . ) Its president ( Sir Joshua Walmsley ) had called on Mr . M'Grath and announced him as the representative of Dublin ; but , lo , Mr . M'Grath rises , and announces that he represents nobody , but simply attended there in his individual capacity . ( Loud laughter . ) The Weekly Dispatch had truly observed , That up to the time of Mr . G . W . M . Reynolds submitting his resolutions there had been no Conference . " ( Loud
cheers . ) It appeared to be a calling of men together from places hundreds of miles apart , to listen to long speeches from sundry members of Parliament of the Cobden and Bright school . Mr . Bright had _advised the Conference not to take up any " wild theorie s , "—meaning , no doubt , ' measures of social reform—and adding , ' that in a hundred years hence no doubt those theories would be realised . " Sow considering that John Bright was a Quaker , he thought he should have a little forethought as regards posterity . ( Hear , hear . ) Mr . Bright was a professed philanthropist , but as such he ( Mr . Davis ) could not conceive how he could content himself witli living out ofthe flesh , blood , and bones of factory children . ( Loud cheers . ) He
n ev er coul d , like the men ofthe Manchester school of political economy . ( Hear , hear . ) Mr . _M'Gregor , too , had observed , " that he should not like to see London England , as Paris at the present time was France . " No , he did wish to see the same amount of intelligence pervade the working classes of this metropolis as now animated the brave Proletarians of Paris . ( Loud cheers . ) Mr . Cobden had professed not to see intelligence in the " Red' " leaders , but was there none in the murdered Robert Blum , in the inimitable Mazzini , in the glorious Ledru Rollin ? ( Immense cheering . ) Mr . Cobden , too , had talked of" wealthy nations , " but wealthy nations were not always happy ; the poet , Oliver Goldsmith , had well hit off this in his Deserted Village , in the well known lines ,
Where wealth accumulates and men decay . England , at the present moment was an apt illustration of the fact ; and the great nations of old —Rome , Sparta , and Athens—had fallen in the moments of their greatest wealth . ( Cheers . ) Cato had observed , " tbat the first thing to be looked to was a good estate ; the second was to see thepeople well-fed ; the third , to see them well clothed : " but when asked what he thought of lending money on usury , he tersely replied by asking , " What ! would you commit murder ? " ( Cheers . ) But to return to the Conference . Mr . Reynolds had wisely submitted three resolutions to it . The resolutions , it appeared , bad been submitted to what had been called " abusiness committee , " and were , by that
committee , rejected . Mr . Reynolds himself had submitted tbem to the Conference itself—and what were these resolutions ? The first was , that the Parliamentary Reformers should adopt " registration , " instead of " tax-paying , " as a qualification for a voter—thus bringing it to veritable Universal Suffrage . ( Hear , bear . ) He h . id been on a deputation once to the Poultry on the subject , when Sir Joshua Walmsley told him the clause relative to tax-paying , or claiming to pay , simply meant that persons should exbihit their willingness to become electors . ( Laughter . ) But Mr . Reynolds had simplified the matter , by substituting tlie word ' "registered . " ( Hear . ) The next resolution embraced the payment of members of parliament for their
services , and without winch , he conceived , all the other points were much damaged , if not nullified . The third resolution was , " That deputations from the the National Charter Association and National Reform League should be received ; " but , notwithstanding all George Thompson'stalk about beginning and ending witb the working classes , the Conference , like the committee , rejected the resolutions . ( Hear , hear . ) When near the wind-up some member had submitted that the Parliamentary Reformers should be consistent , and whilst advocating the abolition of property qualifications for members of Parliament , should not hare a property qualification for members of their own council . This feeling met with a warm response _fvom a very large majority of
tlie members , when lo and behold , the committee steps in with a resolution wliich will meet the approbation of all parties ; and what was it ? Why , that the members might elect , but tbat the council should have a veto ; just allow him to say , that George Jacob Holyoake , a well tried friend of the working classes , had sent in his ten guineas , and had been black balled by the council . ( Hear , hear . ) In concluding this brief review of political and social reform measures , permit htm to take a hasty glance at our continental neighbours across the water . There they were engaged In all the ardour of an election contest , and in a day or two he trusted tbey would learn that the Democrats were triumphant . He had learned that the modern
Fouche , Carlier , prefect of police , had been making an attempt to pub down all the Democratic organs of opinion , and shutting up places of public meeting , thus deny ing to the Democratic socialists the right ol expressing their opinions . Again , the walls . of Paris wero covered with bills , telling the people , that should Eugene Sue be elected , th a t business would be suspended , workshops would be closed , and that they , ( the Proletarians , ) would thereby be deprived of the means of supporting themselves , wives and families , and asking them to support Leclerc , the candidate of " order . " They m i ght e a sily _conceire the eff e ct such things must haveon the timid and weak . But , despite all these things , he had every reason to believe that thc be
Democratic socialist _^ candidate would triumphant . ( Great cheering , ) He called on Loudon and England to he up and working for their political and social rights . Let them be firm and'true , a n d then Lord John and all other shams , would be obliged to yield to tbe demands of tho working classes , who are now Bhamefully ill-used . ( Loud cheers . ) Mr . Thohas Brows , in seconding the resolution , said , the last speaker had alluded to French affairs , a n d it was a f act th a t , not only in Paris , but throughout France , with the exception of the agricultural districts , work had not been so brisk for a long time past . Tho manufacturers admitted , that they had more orders on hand than they eould
execute , during the entire summer . He was sanguine as to tho election of _Eugene Sue , and he trusted that the Democratic Socialists would go on quietly conquering and to conquer . ( Loud cheers . ) The English were a conceited peop le , always boasting of their merciful laws ; and he supposed , the deeds performed recently by Sir II . Ward in the Ionian isles , as well as deeds done in other English colonies , were proofs and tokens of mercy . The social condition of England was most lamentable . Let t ? L- * at the herds of prost i tutes a n d thiev e s with which their streets were infected ; again , witness the mass of persons who obtain less than fourpence-halfpenny per day for their hard toil . In the execution , of the law there , was in d ee d , mercy for the rich , _^ but , alas , none for the . poor . ( Cheers . ) As reg a r d s the "rating clauses , " depended on by
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_iuP _^^^ _f _^^*" * "" 1 " " ' 3 * s ° _much depended on _^•" _jSms a- ¥ f _^ r , i _$ itii ' h e _thought hue little cot |» : be : t _^& _woja uni _»' ediyially ;; for the _^ Pe _^ le _' _sTeiiWteivun _? . ! 3 P P" _^** _W"f | P _|* ff . hieh _^ . they t _might-h ' opo to _ob-^• li . _^ Oi- « wa _^ rs-. asa mostimDo | 6 itit : ' poitit . Just sup-P ° 5 _%$ " t _;; a -bodypi _^^ amn iakers were-oppressed , - _andjcarried ; t _* ieis ' g _^ pances to Parliament , who m they look to . -as judges in this matter ? Not t 0 5 ? _J j ? _8 ' _** s , but . ' to ' men ' of . ' their o \ Vu order , who _} V 0 _®; H _**^ r stan < i , _/?* _cjifisoquently properly _ad-I vli _^ " * * A'h * erenc 6 j ; _ahd-hbiv . could working men hearabe , ; and maintain themselves honestly as
repiesmiatiyes , unless they : were paid for their Iahou _** ' ! ,: ( Loud , cheers . ) French politics had shown y " " ff _^^ tyof annual , parliaments , for had s ueh prevailed m that country , he believed that a French army . would never _^ have , marched into the Italian States to _putMfpf- _^ t _^ e Roman republic . The Pro" / "S o Committe e wero exten di ng the principles of the People ' s Chart e r throu gh tho metropolis aiid provinces . He agreed with Mr . Davies with-regard to leaders , and " always thought atheir own affairs - best , , done whenfthey looked rafter-themt he mse l ves , and studied , _hop 'tnev could accomplish the _gwatest ' amount of ; : goo _^ mend _^ _hostility 'to ' , _^ Par " iamentairy _^ formers , % ut , i in
aa uioy _, ™ uuu rauo _ine , articjea : ne iiKea _, my , he could" not deal with' them . '" ( Heai \ _SJ ! iear '" i He thought : it wdvedithem to stand by truth , an 'd _^ ct upon tlio « fy > rincipleli _ilbey'believed to be-rut ' it . m _couM _^ _fliM _^^^ t l _^ _gej _^ i _^^ had _swSfloed _thetriramy _^ P !" _neny- _!^ gone into prison Chartists , and h a d c om e out more than Chartists . Then let them not ' oppose any party , b ut go on s t e adil y in tlieir own course , pursuing their own princip les , and they must soon prevail . If they proceeded from success to victory , ' as thoy had done within the last three months , they might indeed live to boast that they had made England what she onght to be : —" great , glorious , and free . " ( Great cheering . )
Mr . F uzzon said he thought the people should have a voice in -whatever form of government mig ht prevail—be it either monarchical or republican—and that government should act as a good benefit society doeB—for the mutual advantage of all its members . ( Loud cheers . J He did not believe that the working classes could support more than one political associ a t i on , and the best being the National Charter Association , th e y sh o ul d adhere fi r m l y to that . ( Applause . ) When he rented a house in the boroug h of Finsbury ho had a vote , and was deem ed worthy of being on an election committee . He h a d i mproved hi s intellectu al powers , but D a m e Fortune had proved fickle , and depressed his pecuniary resources , and ,., consequently , he was not deemed worthy to exercise the franchise . ( Hear , hear . ) Now , w a s not th is g iving the vote to inanimate bricks and mortar and refusing it to man ? ( Loud Cheers . )
The resolution was then put and carried unanimously . Mr . _SiAuwoon , amidst loud cheers , came forwar d to move the following resolution * . — " That this meeting witnessing , as it does , the enormous luxury and extravagance possessed aud indulged in b y on e class ofthe community to the detriment and destruction of another class , is of opinion that sucha system is founded in fraud and based on injustice . As an illustration of this , this meeting daily witnesses the indolent non-producers basking in wealth and affluences , revelling at their case in comfort , luxury , and all the elegances of life , whilst the masses , who produce all wealth , can scarce procure the bare necessaries of existence . Thi 3 meeting , therefore , resolves to agitate for political rights , with a view to ensure for e very m a n the full b enefit of hi s labour . "
Mr . _Stam-wood , m moving the resolution , pointed to the splendid and elegant buildings that adorn this metropolis—to the well tilled parks , fields , and gardens , surrounding this monster placo called London—to the carriages that glide through tho _3 treets—to the magnificent ships that split the foam on the broad blue waters—to the glittering ore , which is d a il y exchangedJbr wealth—to the raiment that puts in shape , and beautifies the bodies ofthe wealthy—to the hats which often cover empty heads— to the useful furniture with which the Palaces of Priuoes aro garnished—to the mirrors , - and other _ornaifibnts ofthe toilette—to tho newspapers which grace and enliven the breakfast table , and the books which ornament the shelves of the
libraries ofthe so called great—the couch of down that receives their bodies when fatigued by ennui , and asked , w h o a re in f ull possesssion of all these ? Why the indolent , not proucers . The working classes , who produce all these necessaries , ornaments and elegances , were called " the inferior classes ''—left without tbe common necessaries of life—clothed in rags and wretchedness—their lot—misery—that of downcast slaves . When they ventured to ask , " ' who saw God give over the land as an heritage to individuals , " they were told they were pursuing a dangerous course , that they would stay the beneficent workings of capital . But , he said not so ; go on with your inquiry ; and although thoy were not spoliators , or repHdiators , they demanded land
on which to live ; and if the so called private property should be required for their public use , that compensation should be made for it in precisely the same way as rail way _,-or other companies made compensation for private property used by them . All they required w _.-is , that political reform _shsuld lead to social amelioration , or , in other words , that they should enjoy the fruits of their labour . That this could be done , was illustrated by the Tailors ' , Needle-womens ' , Shoemakers ' , Pri n ter s' and other co-operative associations already established ; therefore he said , push onward with your inquiry into social questions ; get the Charter , and put these questions to practice . ( Cheering . ) Mr . Elliot said , —After the very excellent ,
eloquent , and talented speech of Mr . Stallwood , it left him nothing to say , but he most cordially supported the resolution . He could not support the middle classes , although , as Mr . Stallwood h ad shown , there were some good men amongst thom , though they were few , therefore , ho said , push firmly on for thc Charter and Social Rights . ( Cheers . ) A young gentlem a n was s e en at thi s moment b u si l y engaged in distributing bills to persons in the meeting , which proved to bo announcements of the Charter League meeting , upon which the Chairman vead it . to the meeting from
the chair , and invited all to attend , hear and judge for themselves , upon which Mr . Sinn , sen ., rose , and said a few words , declaratory that the Provisional Committee , or rather thc majority of them were self-elected , w hich elicit ed an eloquent rep ly from Mr W . Davis , and which was greeted with much applause . The resolution was then put , and carried unanimously . A vote of thanks was given to the chairman by acclamation , and the meeting was adjourned until Monday next , May Cth . A considerable collection was made at the doors for the funds , and several _memhni's unrolled in thn _Assnoint . inn _.
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GREAT MEETING AT THE LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION , _JOIIX STREE T , FITZROY SQUARE . On Tuesday evening , Ap ril 30 th , the Provisional Committee of . the National Charter Association , were again gratified in witnessing an overflowing audience . The subject chosen for discussion was , how far thc " National Exhibition of Industry of all Nations" would raise the social condition of the operatives . Mr . Jons Milxe was unanimously called to the chair , and very briefly , amidst the most rapturous applause , introduced M . S . M . Kydd to move the resolution as follows ;— " That in the opinion of
this meeting , the Exhibition of the Works of Ind ustry o f al l N a tions , to beholden in the year 1851 , is in no way likel y to prove of a ny re a l ad v a nt a g e to the labouring classes of this country , in so far as its tendency will be to increase competition and the power of pro d u c t i on without in any way . providing for an efficient distribution of tho wealth produced . " Mr , Ivydd said , the resolution had been suggested by himself , and might be considered out of the way of the usual routine of business —( no , no , )— -but it w as sufficient for him to know , that it contained his sentiments , and that they wore what he . conceived to be truths , and of great importance to his order , the wealth producers . ( Hear , hear . ) It did not concern him to know if its terms suited the
Commissioners , or their royal patron . Ho knew not how those affairs were managed in tho petty German states , ' but here some persons were apt to hold and give expre ssi on to op inions of their own . It had gono forth on the-wings of the press , that the people of England were heart and soul witli this supposed exhibition ; but he ,, as an humble citizen ,, took leave to say , it would net bonefit the half or wholly unemployed operatives . He had weighed tho matter in his own mind , and thought past experience the best guide for the future ; was ho asked' would it stir up ingenuity , the _^ a rts an d sciences , he sai d yes . Was he asked would it increase mechanical knowledge ;¦ lie ' again said yes ;
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M _« _HadH _^ _MBH _« _iB « _tfnBKff-- * _nMHHMIMH- _' -f * ' **' | -- ' - *** a-a * but was ho asked would this ; Increase ; oi knowledge 3 d mechanical art and , _soiencejd » wip tho mass of , _tho-people _^ he ' emphaticftlly ;( S _^ i p | _TO w _l _^ _i _$ ciW had _showjM that ' ajj ' _-Iwealth _'' md _^ ymieiithei ; _produceripH _becbmelmiscrabl ypob _?^^^ i ncrea s ed , in a _groaterratfb * tht _&; population . _a Wjpi Because poverty was tho great source of crin _^' awl crime was not confined exclusively to _thetbwriroi England ; Scotland , and Ireland—n , o , it had extended to-the , agricultural districts . Great Britain had possessed tlief skill and ingenuity of _Arkwritrht _^
uargreaves _/ and others , which had added largel y to her mechanical-powers of production ; but statistics showed clearly _and-fut ' y , notwithstanding this matenal increase of wealth , that poverty an d crime hadjnereased in the'Bame . time _ia-a much greater _^ ratio . They might go on adding house to houso , * production to production , but unless man ' s phystoal , moral , and mentalVwelfare was caved for at the same time it Would be _^ _woMthah useless ; and it became them at once toM _* " * _$ nc 6 Albcrt , and tho pro . meters of the _exhibitibn / _thatthey ( the industrious classes ) were not ahxhins tbol _^ ate more wealth unless tiey were hllowedithe pr _$ _He'i * eof enjoving it . ( _Ofeeers'l ; Mr . Kyd dhere rea d ' a statistical table , _showmgtthe . superior , condition bEthe weavers in the seventeenth centurr , 'to ; thatVof _isao _? » hn : _v
¦ _W'f . _SlNw . _totypMt _f "life , statistics , ' * , showing the . difference . b ' _sfspen _^ the average duration of life of'the libn-producer ahd the producer ., of wealth , and asked , ; wayfit _^ _iiist-disti-ibijliion that caused _^ _M ( _Uiki _^ to the rich man s once ? that wealth should be so plentiful and death so common ? ' He cared nothing about the Gaudy Toy of 1851—no , not even if a Tower of Babel was to be erected in Hyde-park , and a confulsion of tongues should prevail—it was all nothing to him , unless it could be proved that the labourers would be benefited thereby . He believed that it woul d n o t o nl y not benefit them , but would be injurious to them . Sir Robert Peel ' s tariff had caused
both external and internal competition ; his op in i on mig h t b e a t pr e sent , in the minority , b ut that said nothing as regards the argument . The Commissioners say , that En g l a n d wo ul d compete w ith the world in art and science , and that the articles produced by that competition would be shown , but no sale of them would take place . He ( Mr . K . ) wanted to know who could prevent Germans , Frenchmen , or men of any other nation , from selling precisely the self-same kind of article as that produced ' ? they , know ifc mattered not who were the vendors . ¦ The cry is , " buy in tho cheapest market . " ( Loud cheers . ) He imagined that watch-makers , fancy box-makers , and manufacturers of articles of ornament and elegance ; would by this exhibition
be made to feel the full effects of Sir Robert Peel ' s measures . He objected to this exhibition , because it gave a much too rapid impetus to the Free Trade policy . If it had been suggested to Mr . Cobden , at the time of tho Corn-Law agitation , that specimens of all the wheat in the world should have been exhibited in one great market in Hyde-park , he would have objected that the vibration from such a shock would have been too much for the national weavers , and he decidedly thought it unfair to bring all the world in competition with the English artizan . ( Hear , hear . ) Lord Brougham , the old schoolfellow of Francis Horner , who so well understood _Political economy , was right when he said . " this exhibition of industry meant down , down , down with
English prices , and down with English prices , meant dow n , d own , d o w n with Eng fish wages . " He might he told he did not reason the matter fairly , that he did nofc take into account , or allow for the _ ifhprovement in English taste , that superior china would be brought from Dresden , than any that Staffordshire could produce ; that Turkey , Belgium , and Austria , would bring carpets that our Kidderminsters could not hope to equal , * but what is this to the operative , whose cupboards are never ornamented by tho china , and whose rooms tbe carpets never fit ? He had heard , from good authority , that parliament was about to vote a sum oi public money for tho purpose of erecting the building ; but he could not see thc policy of voting even
one single shilling to erect buildings for the world's rich men ; and , be it remembered , that neither parliament or Sir Charles Wood made the money ; no , it is the people ' s mone y , and he hoped the people would loudly protest against such a profligate abuse oi their property , " it the Chancellor of the Exchequer had a surplus , better far devote it to clothing tho naked , and feeding the hungry , who are both naked and hungry , because they produced too much . He did not object to this exhibition , because it was " royal . " IIo had no fault to find with Prince Albert , * no doubt ho was as good as any other prince —( laughter)—but he believed that Prince Albert was as ignorant of the laws which should _regxtlale production and distribution , as the veriest
clodhopper , liis Mansion-house speech was a proof of this . Prince Albert had there said " as soon as a thought was put forth , it wns the property of every body . " lie ( Mr . Kydd ) denied this tor instanceevery body might value a handsome Paisley shawl , whilst few knew the mode of obtaining one . ( Hear , hear . ) The last hundred years had been devoted to the production of wealth , a n d he thoug ht it their duty at the present time to devote their attention to the question of how wealth could bo best distributed lor tho advantage , comfort , and happiness ofthe producers . ( Loud cheers . ) ne objected to this exhibition , because it was a world-wide show , without benefit to the people . He objected to it because it would give much too rapid a
development of Sir Robert Peel s freo trade policy ; he objected to it because the cry of " buy cheap and sell dear" was the most false , pernicious , and damnable doctrine ever put forth . ( Loud'cheors . ) Tho labourer had nothing but his labour to dispose of , which was bought cheap and sold dear , which could only be advantageous to the middle man and fundholder . The evil ot this age wns not a want of property , but a mal-administration as regards the distribution of property . ( Loud cheers . ) The Royal Commission said , if a man gained a prize on the score of cheapness , he must send up tho invoiced price ; consequently , one of the objects of the exhibition was to cheapen labour . Why the tailors of London , and the distressed needle women , were t h e
victims ofcheapness . ( Hear , hear . ) If cheapness w a s ri ght , all th a t ha d b een s a id of th e Moses ' s and I l yams ' s was wrong . But it appeared to him that the merchant knew no bible but his day book , no God but his gold . ( Vehement cheering . ) England was not great from her lino of Tudorsor Guelphs , but from the ingenuity and industry of her army of workmen . ( Loud cheers . ) Was he to bo told that his duty to his clients demanded that he should support this exhibition ? He said no ; and in their name , ho s a id to Prince Alb e rt , go home and restu dy your lesson of political economy —( loud cheers)—and to Lord Overstone he said , think twice before you again go to parliament and speak once on this subject . ( Hear , hear . ) Had the hardy old Cobbet still lived , ho would havo hurled his mighty thunder at these Free Trade
Commissioners , and told them to establish prosperity at home before they looked to raising up foreign commerce . ( Loinl cheers . ) "Well , if they would havo an exhibition ofthe world ' s wealth on the one side , on the other they shall havo an exhibition of English poverty and degradation . ( Immense cheering . ) He did not say things there that he would not repeat elsewhere , and would much like the opportunity to meet Prince Albert and the Lord Mayor in discussion on thc subject ; and he had no fear bnt the horny-handed mechanics would always come out successful in any such encounter , for " What though < m hamely fare we dine , Wear hoddin' prey , and a' that , Gie fools theiv silks , and knaves their wine , A man ' s a man for a' that : For a' that , and athat ;
' Iheir tinsel show and a that ; Tlie honest man , though e ' en sae poor , Is king o' men for a' that . " Mr . Kydd sat down amidst the most rapturous and _prolonged cheering . Mr . D . W . Rufft _, in secon d ing tho motion , said , the exhibition appeared to him another "dodge " by which the middle and upper classos could the more effectually Buck the flesh and blood of the working classes . ( Hear , hear . ) Look round and see the country teeming with wealth , and ask themselves who produced it—and the answer must be , themselves—then ask who enjoys it—and the reply must be , their masters . There was to be a mcetine , relative to this exhibition , on Thursday , and he , with bis friend '
, Kydd , should be happy to cortiro nt the " lords and gentlemen _;'• and although he never had been to college , yet ho did think ho should bo enabled to show that this exhibition was not foi their advantage . ( Hear , hear . ) They did not want an increase of competition . With labour , skill , and s cienco , directed to Mother Eavth , she would pi-ed uce enoug h to keep all her children in comfort and happiness . ( Cheers . ) One ofthe great reasons that the producers were in such great misery , at the present day , was because of the cmrency laws . They had a symbolic currency whioh stamped a fictitious value on things , and defrauded the labourer of the product of his iudustry ( hear , hear ) butthey must Win to think nnd act for , themselves . There _weremany : " dodges" being played _^ off just now , and this exhibition was one amongst tho . num-
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ber . He entreated them not to be led away from their own p urpose , but _stiok to their examination and carrying out the science of government . Ho had read and carefully considered the seven resolutions of Bronterre O'Brien , and most excell e nt o n e s t h ey were . ( Cheers . ) If they were not exactly tho ten commandments , they were seven just steps towards theiv political and social rights . They had been' asked to seek an alliance with tho middle cl a s s es '; but the alliance lie thought they most needed , and the only one he was in favour of , was a close compact one amongst themselves , for the accomplishment of their political and social objects . ( Cheers . ) When ho found men of their own order intriguing , as it appeared te him , th ey were to sell themselves and the cause of the people at . the samo me , he could not find _wordSv'atronfcionoughJtQ ¦ . \ j / - ber . He entreated them not tobe _led ' away from their
_"" _v" " _* .- _oovu . _- _CT'iuucffe / _fui'eMWli ? y _^ np > _saw , c pnfu _^ _ffitf _^^ _PtW _^^ # _* hich they . by _# _vlto _^ _wpt _^ _had-M _^ _Ojjjectfe-l by Mi _\ _'Kydd-fta _^ Eb _^ fro _^ osed _^ j _^ p iyoii was an attempcto fc _% _*(}|^ age * _J ; npw . h _|^* Sbted if wageB could _^ f _^|^ _cimnislbwer , ahd"he _^ P » ioipated that oh thi _8- * 8 ubji _^| ,, Eiigligh emplop _|| fwquld find . " _^ a _^ _wlaAd ' f _^ their 01 _iveiM | and discover the ' _- _* atte _>/ it _^ _tt > 8 sibility pf _obM 8 eKng !' ctfectuaI ! y with' _theirSBba ? dJof ' taxef 1
with the _^ oomparatively untaxed : manufacturers pi _thCfiMntinent . ( Hear . ) The day was not fa * _diitajifc-Jf * hen these men wouldjbe tried-in thV ¦ balaMft ip hd found wanting . It ; wa 8 ; thelr duty , t 0 _hastett-pn that day , and forward the '' good ; time , " whehjall of liumaii kind should be contented , happy , anifirco ., ' ( Cheers . ) " _, | _'* " Mr . % 'J . Bez e r came forward amidst loud cheers , affd'Sai f _" , so far as exhibitions of industry ; were concewfed , they had had enough ' of t h em . The needIcwomen '' had shown them thiifc ; and the poet , Thomas Hood , in his excellent" Song oftheShirt , ' "" bad exbihited their fruits . ' . ( Cheers . ) He had been very . in d u s trious , from the days . of his boyhood , and
the . frmts of ins industry wero three hogsheads of skilly . ' ( Laughter . ) Nevertheless , he did not think he should " , get a situation by referring toll ' s list place for a character . , ( Laughter _. ) - Ho though t he could not do bettor tljan-put , himself _intO'th-vexhibiti pn , as an exposition " of * indi _* st * 7 ahd _** it s ffuiti , afrd " d ou b tless "*' hV ' shc * ld gain a prize . ( Increased laughter . ) Mr . Bezer , in a humourous speech , which elicited peals of laughter , alluded to Lord Brou g h a m ' s petition relative to " highland breefcs and kilts . " He then drew a comparison between ri c h and poor p a upers , likewise a description of New * gate and its inmates , and the demoralising effect ot present prison discipline on its unfortunate victims , and resumed his seat loudly applauded .
Mr . Pbter _ILinlkv stepped forward and said , by p erm iss ion of the ch a ir , he was desirous of correcti ng an error , made by Mr . Walter Cooper , on Tuesday evening last , relative to the boot and shoemakers . He had said that tbey h a d expende d £ 350 on a strike . Now , the sum actually expended since Christmas last was only £ 207— £ 47 of which had been expended in printing , and on the working comm ittee . Thirty shillings per week had also gone to the secretary , and ten shillings per week for the " uso of a committee-room . Mr . Hanley here entered into the usual routine of strikes , and said
such things , under present circumstances , werene * cessary , to prevent gross tyranny and reduction of wages . ( Hear , hear . ) After a few words in support of the resolution , a denunciation of deserters , and an invocation to union in the good old cause oi sterling democracy , Mr . Hanley resumed his seat , warmly applauded . The resolution was then put and carried una *" . " ' mously _. Three cheers were then called for , and heartily given , for Mr . Francis Looncy , upon wbich , amidst rapturous applause , Mr . Loo ' n ey rose , and acknowledged the compliment paid him . Three cheers were also given for thc martyrs now in pr i son .
A vote of thanks was then given by acclamation to the chairman . ' £ 112 s . Old . was collected at the door—a great addition was made to thc number of members oi the Ch a rter Asso c i a t i on , and thus terminated this spirited and enthusiastic meeting .
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THE HONESTY FUND . TO _TEAROl'S O ' _CONKOB , ESQ ., M . P . Respected Sih . —In viewing the proceedings of your recent trial with tbe _Nottingham journalist , Bradshaw , wc entertain no other feelings on th _» subject than those of unmixed contempt and disgus t , for the legal exhibition of meek justice and personal animosity , so _unblushingly and shamelessly displayed , to secure a verdict against you , in order , if possible , to blast your unsullied reputation , and destroy your influence with the mass of the people . But air , we believe your reputation is of too sterling a quality , and your influence too great and powerful , to suffer either by the slander of interested personal foes , or tho calumny of collective tools . Your years of untiring zeal and disinterested devotion to the advocacy of the rights of labour —• your straightforward and manly
opposition to the tyrants and spoliators of the human race , place tho working classes , we conceive , under a debt of everlasting obligation and gratitude to yon , for these v a lua bl e services . From these considerations , we think it the duty of every lover of liberty , and hater of oppression , to lend a helping h a n d to ren de r the envenomed darts of class power harmless , by successfully defeating the object sought to be accomplished by them , namely , " ruinhim with expenses . " In accordance with these views we respectfully inclose a post-office order for our mite of fifteen shillings towards the expenses of tlio trial . Hoping you may live to sec the speedy d ownfall of tyranny and injustice , and the establishment of thc true sovereignty of the people , wc remain Sir , Yours in the cause of Right , A few Operative Tailors . Hanley , Staffordshire .
TO _FKAHGUS 0 CONNOR , ESQ ., M . I \ Sir . —Language fails adequately to express our feeling of respect and admiration of one who has so long consistently and ardently strove to emancipate his fellow men from that political and social thraldom to whieh he has been so long subjected . Nevertheless , wc beg to state it as our opinion , that it is absurd to expect justice for a Chavtist , at tho hands ofa British jury " , as society is at present constituted ; in fact , " your own experience , we doubt not , will have satisfied you upon this point . Your lato trial with Bradshaw oi _"Sottiniiham _, we think ,
is sufficient to convince tho most sceptical upou this subject , a trial , the result of which , brands tho jury with an infamy which no time can efface . We have enclosed a po ' _st-oifice order for £ 1 1 . 1 s . being £ 1 iis . from a few Chartists who meet at the Old Trooper Inn , for the late trial of O'Connor v Bradshaw , and os . for the lato Macnamara aetion ; also 5 s . from a few friends , w ho meet a t th e Ol d Blue Bell , for thc trial of O'Connor v . Bradshaw . I am , Sir , Yours most respectfully , On behalf of thc Committee , Sutton in Ashiiehl . W . . _Telk'n .
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BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH , Nkw Ho . _av , Loxdox . Report of Lieutenant John _Maekimum , General Hygeian A « ent to thc British _Collejre of Health , New-road , London . ° C ' upe _lh-ctrt'i , Maivh tilth , ISiDO . TO MESSKS . J _1 ON _1 S 0 N . Pear Sirs , — I have the pleasure to communicate to you tliat . ill tha t my heart could desire lias been tully accomplish with respect " to my _pnu-tice as your agent since i last re . ported ; awl it . wouid be tedious , indeed , to give a state _, ment in full of ihe _nuwomus eases of enve ami benefits derived from die heaven-blessed medicines of the DritWi CoIlPKe of Health .
The decided superiority of ihe Hygeian system of medicine to all ordinary medical practice has been recently tested in our neighbourhood , the particulars of whieh 1 t _' ctl hound to communicate to you . We have lately heen visited with a fatal disease termed by our doctors typhus fever—and the name of the disease appears to be all they ' mow ahout it ; for all the patients tliey took in hand were soon hurried to tho lonj ; home . Among utliers who fell victims to this dreadful disease was a Mr . IVtcr Kelly , aged twenty-two ; n Miss Mary Mus « rave , a blooming young ladyofniuetccn ; and , 1 have proof that the first doctor employed in this ease after athninisterimr medicine , and blisterinif and bleeding to excess , _dririnreri he bad mistaken hev disorder ! however , they soon sent , her to her account t the
among them . Another who sulmiitied _herst-. _^ o , doctor's treatment , was a Mrs . _M'Ksiy , a _}' i » _'"g married woman , aged twentv-oue _, having one ehiM . She too , pom * yoimffthiiw , was soon hurried tothe grave . _leo-iJeiiow began to get out of conceit of the doctors , and _thelollonmg individuals placed themselves in my hands to be treated with the Hygeian medicines of Mr . Morison ; and under the blessing of God the success otyouv me . _heine _* _, gentlemen _, has , inthe whole of these cases , l . _eeu _salislachn-y in a high degree , for alt my _patta'to l' _»™ l * - _* 'bom _^ H y restored , » hC Mii ' _Mm-vAm . Mo « Utt , same ilge and related to Hie departed Miss Musgrave . ' JohnMaidore , _twenly-iour years ot ge . Mrs . Stalery , twenty-three years ot y . . two sistersand others who
• nio-Misses ' Grant , * , , many had lie fever light * ** by Inking the pills m timo ; the name of the " el have not meiyl _' umeu , hut those whose names I _, _, _seuu you I consider were on the brink of eternity , but they __ arc now- perfectly recovered and 1 have evtry hope the disease has now vanished . It carried oft live members in one fumiW near Sidney , and thc doctors there neither knew the nnineoftlie tlisea . se or how to cure it . I shall only add that I rejoice to know that the system and medicine of the late venerable James Morison are firmly established , and that the honest people , who signed the petition to parliament against the use and sale of " doctors' poisons aro to have their _imtiies recorded ; and 1 _fe-ji . ' _- ; j ' . *; - * - * - pride in the reflection that 1 have done my _duiyjjp J _& _Q _% d _* _$ _ . 'Q \ cause on this side tlie Atlantic , and have ten _ehil-ftfjii _afeJS _^ S " _, _*^ _\ ' _"B thoroughly imprc ' _-sed _wiili the souudwssof _tlu-Mo-jp-AdftoK A _^" Xj 3 theory . Should 1 live a few days longer I shall \ Q _& fB _^ s £ ?* n _WStB . Cla
iivo years of age , and I have taken in . my _tiiiii-. _lw _^ _-fe * * _w * . * t 3 f Sr ! _-i _va _jf your pills ; but _duritiy tbd past four years * 1 have " '' fvt _®|^ j _% _-Wi " r _Sf "" _^ 3 SR as many in twelve months as 1 formerly took in " "" _O-EH _^ _S n'i- ) ¦ ""¦ ' _VrnML Gucmontha ' smnnyflsl _formei ' v took in one'lay . _tP'Wm j & " _2 £ _ife *** " _™ firl . I am ,-Gentlemen , very _kineevely _Jwf'IR' j _* *" _# " _3 U * . ' Wit j _* _"rfffirfj
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 4, 1850, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_04051850/page/1/
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