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_fCS _^< i » i _«^/ i V' _* our _^ rrt _^ o _^ ri _^^ _^ _t « te Unltea _*& i _«^ t _* uui . « _^ of a t **** ia contention , the reserved _righuof the people were summoned to displaytheir enei _^ , and baumce theauthonty aad neutralize the legislation of the central government . The Sttte . were _agitoted with prolonged excitement : the friends of freedom throughout the world looked on with _flivided sympathies , praying that the union of the States mig htbeperpetual , and also that the commerce of the eorld might be free . _ Fortunately for the country , and fortunately for man .
tfacJ . Andrew Jackson was at the helm of state , the representative ofthe principles that were to allay excitement _, and to restore the hopes of peace and freedom . — By nature , by impulse , by education , by conviction , a ftiend to personal freedom—by education , political sympathies , and the fixed habit of his mind , a friend to the tights of the States—unwilling that tiie liberty of the _Slates should be trampled under foot—unwilling thatthe constitution should lose its vigour or be impaired , he rallied for the _constitutii / n _; and in its name he published to true *» oiW"TheU » _mh * : it wist be _msEavED . " The
words were a spell to hath evil passion , and to remove _. _^ _Spression . Under bis guiding influence , the favoured interests which bad struggled to perpetuate unjust legislation yielded to the voice of moderation and reform ; sad every mind that had for a moment contemplated a rupture of the States , discarded it for ever . The _atole influence ofthe past was invoked in favour of the constitution . From the council chambers of the _fitthen , . Who moulded OUT institutions—froni the Hall where American independence was dtdared _, the clear , load cry was uttered—'' The Cuion : it must be preserved , " From every battle-field of the revolutionfrom Lexington and Bunker Hill—from Saratoga and Torktown—from the fields of Eutaw—from the canetrakes that sheltered the men of Marion—the repeated , long prolonged echoes came up— "the Union : it must be
preserve J . " From every valley in our land—from every cabin on the pleasant mountain sides—from the ships at COT ffbarves—from tbe tents of the hunter in our westernmost prairies—from the living minds of the living millions of American freemen—from the thickly coming gjories of futurity—the shout went np , like the sound of many waters , " the Union : it must . be preserved . " The friends of the protective system , and they who had denounced the protective system—the statesmen of the Eorth , ft" ** ' had wounded the constitution in their love of centralism— -the statesmen of the South , whose minds had carried to its extreme the theory of State rights—all _conepired together ; all breathed prayers for the perpetuity oi the Union . Under the prudent firmness of Jacksontinder the mixture of justice and general regard for nil interests , the greatest danger to our institutions was
turned aside , and mankind was encouraged to believe tbat our Union , like oar freedom , is imperishable . The moral of the great events of those days is _tliis—Qtaf the people can discern right , and will make their way to a knowledge of right ; that the whole human mind , and therefore with it the lnind _. of the nation , has a continuous , ever improving existence ; that the appeal from the unjust legislation of to-day must be made quietly , earnestly , perseveriugly ; to tbe more enlightened collective reason of to-morrow ; that submission is due to the popular will , in the confidence that the people , when in error , will amend their doings ; that in a popular _government , injustice is neither to be established by force , nor to be resisted by force ; in & word , that the Union , which was constituted by consent , must be preserved by love .
It rarely falls to the happy lot ofa statesman to receive each unanimous applause from the heart of a nation . Duty to the dead demands that on this occasion , tbe coarse of measures should not pass unnoticed , in the progress of which liis vigour of character most clearly appeared , and his conflict with opposing parties was most violent and protracted . From his home in Tennessee , Jackson came tothe _ri-ealtncyiri-SOlvedtnliftAmettcanles islation out ofthe forms of English legislation , and to place our laws on the enrrency in harmony with the principles of our Government _, lie came to the Presidency- ofthe United States resolved to deliver the Government from the Bank of the United State ? , and to restore the regulation of exchanges to the rightful depository of that power—lhe commerce of the country . He bad designed to declare his views on this subject in his inaugural address , but was persuaded
to relinquish that purpose , on the ground that it belonged rather to a legislative message . When the period for addressing Congress drew near , it was still urged , that to Attack the bank would forfeit his popularity and secure bis _futuredefcat . " Itisnot , " he answered , " it is notfor myself that I care . " It was urged that haste was unnecessary , as the bank had still sis unexpended years of crhartered existence . " I may die , " ke replied , "before another Congress comes together , and I could not rest quietly io my grave , if I failed to do what I hold so essential to the liberty of my country . " And his first annual message announced to th i country that the bank ivas natber constitutional not expedient . In this he was in advance of the friends about liim , in advance of _Congress , and in advance of his party . This is no time for the analysis of measures or the discussion of questions of political economy : on the present occasion , we have to contemplate the character of the man _.
Sever , from the first moment of his administration to the last , was there a calm in the strife of parties on the ¦ abject of the currency ; and never , during the whole period , did he recede or £ ilter . Always in advance of his patty—always having n _« ar him friends who cowered _beicrethe hardihood oi his courage—he himgelf , throughout all the contest , was unmoved , from the first suggestion of the unconstitutionality of the bank tothe momfnt when be himself , first of all , reasoning from the certav _tendency of its policy , with singular sagacity predicted to unbelieving friends thc coming insolvency of the institution . The storm throughout the country rose with nncxampledvehemence * , his opponents were not satisfied with addressing tbe public , or Congress , or his cabinet ; they threw their whole force personally on him . From all parts men pressed arouud him , urging liim , entreating hhn to bend . Congress was flexible ; many of his
personal friends faltered ; _theimpetuoos swelling- ware rolled oa , without one sufficient obstacle , till it reached bis presence ; but , as it dashed by in its highest fury at its feet , it broke before his firmness . The commanding- majesty of Us will appalled his opponents and revived hh friends . He himself bad a pi oud consciousness that his will was indomitahle . _Standing over the rocks of the Rip Saps , nnd looking out npon the ocean , "Providence , ** said he to a friend , "rrovidei * cemaj- change my determination ; batman no more can do it , than he can remove these Rip Saps , which have resisted the rolling ocerr from the _begmningoftfme . " And though apanic was treading through theland , and the whole credit system , as it then existed , was crumbling to pieces , and crushing around bim , he Stood erect , like a massive column , which the _J-eapsof falling ruins could not break , nor bend , nor sway from its fixed foundation .
People of theDistrietof Columbia . I should fall of a duty on this occasion , if 1 did not give utterance to your sentiment of gratitude wluch followed General Jackson into retirement . Dwelling amongst you , he desired your prosperity . This beautiful city , surrounded by heights the mostattractivc , watered by ariver so magnificent , the home of the gentle aud the cultivated , not les 3 than the seat of political power—this city ivlios _* site AVashington had selected—was dear to his affections ; and if he won your grateful attachment by adorning it with monuments of useful architecture , by establish **!] - its credit , and relieving its burdens he regretted only tbat be had not the opportunity to have connected himself still more intimately with yonr prosperity .
Ashe prepared to take his final leave ofthe District , the mass of the population of this city , and the masses tbat had gathered from around , followed his carriage in crowds . All in silence stood near him , to wish him adieu ; and as the cars started , and he displayed his grey baiis , as be lifted liis hat in token of farewell , you stood , around with heads uncovered , too full of emotion to speak , in solemn silence gazing on him as he departed , nevermore to be seen in your midst . Behold the warrior and statesman , his work well done , retire to the Hermitage , to hold converse with his for . rests ; to cultivate his farm , to gather around him
hospitably bis friends' ! Vfho was like him ?! Ho was still tlie loadstar ofthe American people . His ferrid thoughts , frankly uttered , still spread the flame of patriotism through the American breast ; his counsels were still listened to with reverence ; and , almost alone among statesmen , he in his retirement was in harmony with every onward movement of his time . His prevailing influence assisted to sway a neighbouring nation to desire to share our institutions ; bis car lieard the footsteps of the coming millions that are to gladden our western shores ; and his eye discerned iu the dim distance tlie whitening Sails that arc to enliven the waters of theFacific witli the social sounds ofour successful commerce .
. age had whitened Ids locks and dimmed his eye , and spread around him tiie iufirmities and venerable emblems of many years of toilsome service ; bnt bis heart beat as warmly as iu his youth , and liis courage was as linn as it had ever been in tiie day of battle . But while his affections were still for his friends and his country , his thoughts were already ia a better world . Thatexaltt'd mind , whicli in active life had always had unity of perception , and will , which in action had never faltered from doabr , and whicli iu council had always reverted to first principles and geaeral laws , now gave itself up to
communing with the Infinite , ne was ft believer : from feeling , from experience , from conviction . _JTot a shadow of scepticism ever dimmed tiie lustre of his mind , l _' roud philosopher ! will yon smile to know that Andrew _jtaekson _j-erusr . 1 rerrrently Jiis Psalter , and Prayer-book , and Bible ? Know tliat Andrew Jackson had faith in the eternity of truth , inthe imperishable power of popular freedom , in the destinies of humanity , in tiie virtues and capacity ofthe people , in his country's institutions , iu the being and overruling Providence of a niercifnl aud ever _, living God .
Thelastmemcntof hi _* j life on earth is at band . It is the Sabbath of lhe Lord : tiie brightness and beauty of summer clothe tiie fields around bim : nature is inker glory ; bat the snblimcst spectacle on that day , on earth , was the victory of his _unbtaicliing spirit over death itself . When he first felt the hand of death npon him , "May my enrmU _~ , " he cried , "find peace ; may the liberties ol my _comitnendme forever . " When his _exhausted system , nnder the excess of pain , sunk , for a moment , from debility , "Do not weep , " said It- to his adopted daughter , "icy _' _rufferingsare los .- thai ) ties ? of _Ciirist _uj _^ s _; b e .- _uss : " for he , too , as a disciple of the _vrws , _touW ] ,. v s devoted _Jiimscl _*; in sorrow , for _Jiatnti ! . 1 . _FteSzg : .. ¦ - ; , i r . Kr > * : e wt < l ! M s . . _ . _» u j l 5 s . _family _* _:-2 * _.-.- ; _s . r : l _*]¦•• _rr _^; e * , _ * than , oat by _oj ; _i > , jji
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_woriUbr . tenderntis and affection . His tiro little grand * _, -il _^ i _^ were absent at Sunday School . He asked for thefl ; and as they came , be prayed for them , and kissed them , and blessed them . His ¦ errants were then admitted : they gathered , some in bis room , and some on the outside of the house , clinging to . the windows _;^ that they might gaxe aud hear . And that dying man , _mussnrrounded , in a gush of fervid eloqneiice , spoke ; with inspiration of God , of * h » Kedeemer , of ; _station through the atonement , of _bnmortalityv ' of heaven . -For be ever
thought that pure and undented religion was the foundation of private happiness , and the bulwark of republicaninstitutions . Having , spoken of , immortality in . perfect consciousness of Ms own approaching end , he bade them all farewell . ** Dear children , " such were his final words , "dear children , servants , and friends , I trust to meet you all in heaven , both white and black—all , both white and black . " And having borne his testimony to immortality , be bowed his mighty head , and , without a groan , the spirit ofthe greatest man of bis age escaped to the bosom of his God . .
In life , bis career bad been like tbe blaze of the sun in the fierceness of its noon-day glory ; his death was lovely as tbe mildest sunset ofa summer ' s evening , when the sun goes down in tranquil beauty , without a cloud . To the majestic energy of an indomitable will , he joined a heart capable of the purest ' and most devoted love , rich iu the tenderest affections . On the bloody battle-field of Tohopeca , he saved an infant that clung to the breast of its dying mother ; inthe stormiest moment of his presidency , at the imminent moment of his decision , be paused ia his way , to give good counsel to a poor suppliant that bad come up to him for . succour . Of the strifes in which he was engaged in his earlier Ufe , not one sprung from himself , but in every case be became involved by standing forth as the champion of the weak , the poor , and the defenceless , to shelter tbe gentle against oppression , to protect the emigrant against the avarice ofthe speculator . His generous soul revolted at the barbarous practice of duels , and by no man in theland hare so many »« en prevented .
The sorrows of those that wereneartohim went deeply into his soul ; and at the anguish of the wife whom be loved , the orphans whom he adopted , he would melt into tears , and weep and sob like a child . Ko mau in private life so possessed the hearts of all around bim—no public man of this century ever returned to private life with such an abiding mastery orer the affections of the people . Ko man with truer instinct received American ideas—no man expressed them io completely , or so boldly , or so sincerely . He was as sincere a man as ever lived . He was wholly , always , and altogether sincere and true . "
Up to the last , he dared do anything that it was right to do . He united personal courage and moral courage beyond any man of whom history keeps the record . Before the nation , before the world , before coming ages , he stands forth the representative , for his generation , of the American mind . And the secret of bis greatness is this : _fcy intuitive conception , he shared and possessed all tlie creative ideas of his country and his time . He expressed them with dauntless intrepidity ; he enforced them with an immovable will ; be executed them with an electric power that attracted and swayed , the American people . The nation , in his time , bad not one great thought of which he was not the boldest and clearest expositor .
History does not describe tlie man that equalled hun in firmness of nerve . . Not danger , uot an army in battle array , not wounds , not wide-spread clamour , not age , not the anguish of disease , could impair in tbe least degree the vigour of his steadfast mind . The heroes of antiquity would have contemplated with awe the unmatched hardi * hood of his character ; and Napoleon , had be possessed his disinterested will , could never have been vanquished . Jackson never was vanquished . He was always fortunate . He conquered the wilderness ; be conquered the savage ; he conquered the bravest veterans trained in the battlefields of Europe ; he conquered everywhere in statesmanship ; and , when death came to get the mastery over him , he turned that last enemy aside as tranquilly as he had done the feeblest of bis adversaries , and escaped from earth in the triumphant consciousness of immortality . , . ...
His body has its fit resting-place in the great central valley of the Mississippi ; his spirit rests upon our whole territory ; it borers over the vales of the Oregon , and guards , in advance , tbe frontier of tlie Del Norte . The fires of party spirit are quenched at his grave . His faults and frailties have perished . Whatever of good he has done ; lives , and will live for ever .
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U . _VDEE LORD _OHETS AWIIXISTtlATIO _}* . Kev . 32 nd , 1830 . Lord Grey , alluding to the riots amongst the labourers in the South and West of England , said , "It is only within the lost three hours that we have been installed in our respective offices as members ofhis Majesty's Government . I here declare for myself , and also for my colleagues , ftat ittimy determined resolution , wherever outrages are perpetrated , or excesses committed , to suppress them with SEVERITY AND VIGOUR . " On the very same day that Lord Grey made this declaration , there was a proclamation issued , inthe name ofthe King , offering a reward of one _hokdbed pounds to any person causing another to be convicted of any act of violence , and of
FIVE HDXDRED POUNDS for causing any one tobe c < mviCttd Of Stthng fire tOproperly . The Dorsetshire magistrates bad just agreed to the allowance of TWO SHILLINGS AND SEVEN-PENCE A WEEK for a man to work on and to lire on , when Lord Grey made the declaration above-named , and when the King ' s proclamation above alluded to was issued , containing such an enormous inducement to perjury for any one of tbe poor labourers , as would give him / or the commuting one act of fcase swearing , so large a sum of money tbat fhe interest alone of it would be nearly four times as much as he could get for labouring work , according to the scale of allowance agreed to by the Dorsetshire magistrates .
Dec . 4 , 1830- A special commission was appointed to tiy the agricultural labourers who had been taken up for rioting , of whom , in Hampshire alone , there were : Transported , mostly for life 135 Hanged , one of them for rioting , and the other for striking Bingham Hating , without doing him any harm ! .... . 2 Wires bereft of their husbands 73 Children bereft of their fathers 243 Parents to bewail the loss of their sons ............... 210
Total 66 * Being more than two toeachparish in the whole county : and these men were thus prosecuted and thus punished , although it was given iu evidence on the trials that the labouring men went to work with _notldng _butpotetocs in their bags , ' and that the people who were compelled to go to the parish for relief were set to draic carts like cattle , and that OLD MEN and WOMEN were thus compelled to work ; and in one case a "WOMAN WHO WAS AN IDIOT ! Dec . C , 1830 . The Whigs voted _twehtt-hve _thous & sd _rousns for the repairs of Windsor Castle . The original estimate was £ 150 , 000 , and sums of money had been voted from time to time , to thc amount of NINE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS , to which the Whigs added the above £ 25 , 000 .
Dec . 16 , 1 S 39 . Lord Althorp announced to the House of Commons , in answer to a question put to him , that SIS THOUSAND men were added to the army ; but his Lordship said that it was done in theclieapeslpossible manner ! At this time tliere were more than sixteen
_tuou-SASD MltirACr OFFICERS IN PAT . Feb . 4 , 1831 . Lord Grey said , on taking office , " We wUl cut off , Kith an unsparing hand , all Uiat is not demanded for tlte _INTEEESTS , THE HOSOCE , and THE _WELFAHE of THE COBSTBT . " But Lord Althorp said , this day , in the House of Commons , "I doubt if ice hate any eQuilable right _toaboUshany of the pensions en thc ctriC list" , * although he well knew that Mrs . Arbutbnot ' s name was put on that list by thc Duke or Wellington , on the day that netctitt out of office , to tlie tune of-nearly £ 1 , 000 a year , and aniepated tes teabs ; eo that the moment her name was written on the list , the nation was her debtor nearly ten * _tiiocsa . vd _pocsus ; and that for sen-tees known to no person in thc kingdom , except perhaps tiie Duke himself , who might have been able , himself , to pay for her services out of his own purse , instead of out of that ofthe nation , seeing that he is in the enjoyment of more than £ 10 , 000 per annum , granted to him by tlie Governmentfor an " accidental victory , " for which we are told tbat we cannot be sufficiently grateful" ! !
May 23 , 1 S 31 . The migs made Wellington Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire , and a judge , to sit on the bench , in that " special commission" that was appointed to try persons charged with rioting in the agricultural districts . 1631 . They _roted an additional £ 12 , 000 a . year to the Puclicss of Kent ; £ 100 , 000 a year , as ad » wer forthe Queen ; £ 11 , 000 for the expense of the British Museum ; £ 100 , 000 to half-pay oflicers at Hanover , and other parts abroad ; and £ 50 , 000 for the expenses of the coronation of William IV . ; amounting in the whole to more than the whole of the poor-rates for the nine counties of Bedford , Berkshire , Cumberland , Huntingdon , Hereford , ilonnioutk , Northumberland , ltutland , and Westmoreland !
Nov . 21 , 1831 . Tbe Whigs caused to be issued a royal proclamation against political unions , although they had accepted addresses from such unions , and had written gracious answers to those very political unions ; and had , as was proved by Mr . Maurice O'Connell , even given "office feasks" to Mr . "fisaller" Parkes , by which papers of a pound weight may be sent by the post , in order that he might , by that means , circulate papers to rouse tlie political unions in favour of Lord Grey and the Whigs !
The Whigs caused prosecutions of thc press under one of the " Six Acts , " which acts they so furiously railed against when out of office . These ' prosecutions were carried on with such " vrcoca" that , in seven months , in Loudon alone , there were 33 G individuals prosecuted and imprisoned for selling cheap publications , whilst the Lord Chancellor Brougham was sending the cheap publications of a society to wliich he belonged , all over the country , by means of" office franks" ; and whilst we were , by this same Government , stunned with the cry of " _cdutioii" and * " cheap knowledge * ' !!
_1 S 3 L , The Vt'hig " Ihforrn" Government allowed a _Statneof _Cumini / ? tobe erected on a pieve of laud bclon " - _ing to the public ; of that Canning wiio had always been the _mos . ' siramons opponent cf reform , both when in and when out of place : of that Canning who , in the House of Commons , made a cruel jest of the suliering of thc _"ilEVEUEl ) AND _HUl'TUKED OGDEX , " whose su-V erhigs were caused by the brutal treatment that he _s-eireived at the hands of the G < iVcra : iK" . ! i of which Call . ni 9 » u-a 3 a member : oi _t-: az _C-inaing wiio , ill Slay , 1 _& 7 ,
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ft hit days after hehad becom _» Prime Mauler and _ChcrMtUor ofthe Exchequer , on being asked what be wonld do with the question of parliamentary reform , said , "I wUl oppose parliamentary reform in * _whateveb shape it mat APreAB , « otA _« lajt ? wuro / niyli /< . " And at that very moment he had _Bm-OETr , _Brooqham {" atocatethomine de lettrts" ) , Low John _Russeli , aud other " ' _reformers , " sitting at his back ; aU of . whom had the incomparable meanness to remain on the . ' . ministerial benches . - without saying a word in favour of reform ; and , indeed , ; those three above-named . worthies , " called Canning then * V . _WOX
_Honodbadle FRIEND , and had the indescribable baseness to state broadly that " the public Now _earcd _^ litlle or _tiothhtg about reform : tbat the Government " was new carried on in such a satisfactory manner , that tho people were grown quite , ufc < Mcann in ; the cause ' of reform " Finally , of that Canning who had spoken and . voted in favourofthe"GAGGINGANDDUNGEONINGBILLS"fo ' r « _* _fcnwi < 7 the . reformers in 1817 ; who bad impudently declared tbatft * _tTOuMprejtre * Gatton and Old Sarum ; and who , though the bastard son ' of a play actress liimself , had saucily declared tbat HE would " MAKE A STAND
AGAINST DEMOCBATICAL ENCROACHMENT , " and who had contemptuously called the advocates of parliamentary reform "A LOW , DEGRADED CREW . ' ! 7 . ' January 26 , 1832 . Lord Althorp informed- ! the House that it was the intention ofthe Government to appoint _' a tast-dat . Into this stupid intention 7 they _hadj . been badgered by the incessant and awful denunciations of two or three furious fanatics , members of . that House j but more particularly by one Perceval , a pious pensioner , and a most bigoted and crasy disciple ofthe bigoted and crazy parson Irving _^ The fast-day was held on . tl . e 21 t _** t of March , 1832 , and oh that day there was a procession of
the different bodies ofthe _produetive _classes ' th rough the streets of the metropolis , ' who went peaceably / along ; but , when almost , at the end of their march , the new Folice soldiers fell upon * them with their , bludgeons , ' and dispersed Jh ' em , without any attempt atiopposition on their _> pa _^ ,. . they 7 not . having even _awalkivgitkk amongst them , * . . being determined not to give pee to any _suspicionof their beuiglikely to Cause _^ breacb of the peace . Throughout the . _remitinder of _^ _tnei ' day large bodies of -IbeseroLiCE ' EOLniEBSwere _' to . be seen prowling about , as if watcUr _^ for tlieir victims " , aemed with _BiOAB-swoimaiBt the WHIG 7 GOVERNMENT ! 17 ¦ _* _U _\ _*
April 13 , 'i 832 . 7 The _^ Whig Premier , ; Lbrd Grey , who bad declared _thata'iess ' nie » suro of reform than tbat contained in the bill ' which was ! br . qugnt forward by . him , "for parliamentary reform , _nerershould have his support , and tbat he umld _^ not suffer the ; $ altered , yet o _* n this 7 day ; he ' a _^ _-. . ' . ' 4 Vho _^ 1 t '' Jlihink . ' . K boroughs ought tote _^ ditfre _^ ds t _^ i ' _- t _^ ii _^ lflw _^ Vi th & k the ten pound franchise is ' _hotjoii- ' _great ati _extension . of . the _^ qudU r . f cation , still these FBOYisjioH _^ ciriis or the _BlU _' . y ' _ANpT'j ' _w a 1 teked ik _miiiject cokbibtehci with - _iisipblk .: cifles" !! . ¦ : _;^* . _- _;^^*** : _^*! : 7 : j : _^' _W _* _V-- _^ _' ; _- _* . _^
August 1 , 1832 , The _Wbigis . prpposed toithef Parliament to give a retiring pension to the Speaker of the House of Commons , the _Tory-Sir C . _^ l _& nnera _^ Sutton _^ of £ 4000 a year for his life ; to which proposition the PafUa ment agreed ; and alio to give his « ona « _wMto _> . b / £ 3000 a-year for his life , although that son has a « iti « cur « place already , as Registrar of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury , for which he has £ 3000 a-year , which he is to hold in addition to the reversion ofhis father ' s pension . Mr . Hunt , the representative , par e »«* 8 ene « , . of , the people of _Freston , and of '' all the _unreprejented people of _England , " supported this measure by saying that '" i / l * e vote had been for . £ MV _9-ycar . _towwldluivcagreedU > it . "
March 2 ? , 1833 . -The Whigs carriedthe _?* . Irish Cobbcion Bill , " a bill which was known by the title . of "the brutal and bloody bill , " which subjected thepeopfe of Ireland to BE _TE 1 ED BY COURTS MARTIAL . In opposition to this bill Mr . Cobbett moved the following resolution : — "Resolved , That this House , seeing in this bill the substitution of military courts for courts consist _, ing of judges and jurors ; seeing in it the abrogation of aU the most precious institutions ofthe country ; seeing clearly that its main purpose isto keep in the hands of the present aristocracy the plunder of the ancient church and the poor , which the ancestors of tliat aristocracy obtained by apostasy , and which has been retained by the cruel penal laws and by the shedding of innocent blood ; and suspecting , moreover , that this bill is intended as a prelude to the adoption of similar measures iii Great Britain , this House will read this bill this day six months . " This resolution was negatived , and the bill was passed ; Mr . Stanley , the then Secretary for Ireland , declaring that " THE GOVEBNHENT MOST BE _FEABED BtFOEE IT CAN BB
loved !!!" April 26 , 1833 . The House of Commons agreed to a resolution for taking off half the maluduty , and on the following Tuesday , April 30 , they , on the motion of Lord Althorp , the Whig Chancellor of the _Exchequer , bescikded that vote by a large majority !!! April , 1833 . The Whig-Ministry opposed Mr . Grote ' s motion for voting by ballot at elections . Lord Althorp , who had spoken in favour of the ballot , at Northampton , when before his constituent _^ _Apposed it in the Houseof Commons , as became . a genuine Whig Minister . As did also the Right Honourable . Edward Ellice , Secretary at Wai , althoughhe had solemnly pledged himself to his constituents at Coventry , that be would vote for that motion !!
. May 2 , 1833 . Lord Althorp , on the subject of the renewal of the Bank Charter , proposed to the House of Commons to moke Bank-of-England notes a xegai . tenpee _, andthai _, in _FEBPETIHTT ; although he bad , only one short month before , objected to Mr . Matthias Attwood ' s motion for inquiring into the state of tbe nation ( and proof was offered his lordship thatthe distress amongst tradesmen was so great , that within five tbabs the proportion of bankruptcies , for Begent-ttretl alone , was more than one in tubee ; and tliat , mind , independent of compositions , of Which three , atleast , lake place for each bankruptcy J , ¦ _principaliy , because me part of that honourable Member's plan was , an issue of papMnoncy and the making such _pafeb-MONEF A LEGiL-TENDEB . ' . '
May 3 , 1833 . Mr . Cobbett brought forward his motion in the House of Commons , for the equalization of the stamp-duties , and complained that under the lawns it new stands "the various duties on legacies , and on property wmino * By intestate succession , are imposed applicable to differtnt dtgrus of relationship between the legatees andthe successors and the deceased , beginning at one per cent ., and going on to _tinper cent . ; but that freehold property is wholly exempt , from this . tax , and that , of course , thc large estates of the nobility and landed gentry ( including advowsons and lay-tithe *) ore exempted ; while if a deceased leave a thousand pounds to a distant relation , thai : relation will bave to pay ose _uukdw-d _voiiNns . " The honourable Member said that "If a man leave propertyabove tbe value of twenty pounds , his successors have to pay a stamp-duty of two per cent .: but if a person leave from thirty thousand to half a million pounds the duty is but one-and-a-half per cent . "
. He complained that "In conveyances the duty on any ttin-7 of five pounds value is ten shillings ( or ten per cent . ) , whilst if the property conveyed be of five hundred thousand pounds value , the duty will be only one thousand pounds ( only three-sixteenths per cent . ) , and in such acasothe poor man would have to pay more man fob ri times as much as the bich mak on the same sort of property . " After showing that the poor man is made , under the present stamp-duties , to pay , in some cases , seven times more than the _aicu man , and in some cases a THOUSAND TIMES MORE , the honourable gentleman concluded by moving the following resolution ;— "That this House will , with as little delay as possible , make' such an alteration in tiie several acts , imposing duties on
stamps , and on sales at auctions , as shall cause tho Peers , Nobles , Baronets , and other great fandoicners to pay , in proportion to the amount of their property , as great an amount in those duties as is paid by tlie / _toifttoMers , annuitants , tradesmen , manufacturers , farmers , tnccftam ' cs , and the rest of the industrious classes of the kingdom : and shall cause , in all cases , the rich to pay the Enid duties in the same proportion as the poor . " The Wmo MINISTRY , true to the breed of the first Whig that the devil spawned , opposed this resolution , and it was , consequently , lost . But Mr . Spying Rice , a member of the administration , declared that he had a bill ready to lay before the Mouse to remedy these evils ; which bill , altlionghhcwas repeatedly called upon to bxy it before the House , never was produced , and the evils have not been remedied .
May 13 , 1833 . Near Calthorpe-street a meeting was held / for the purpose of discussing the question of the " propriety of forming a _iiatioaal conuenfion in ihe present crisis of the affairs of the nation . " A few days prior to thc meeting bills were posted about the metropolis , cautioning the public not to go to thc meeting ; but these bills were not signed by anybody , nor had they any appearance of being issued by auy of the _puWicaut / ioritics . The meeting therefore took plaee ; and scarcely had the business for whieh they met commenced , when about thirteen hundred of tlte folice _soLniEBS , armed witli bludgeons , who had been secreted in some extensive livery-stables in the neighbourhood , and ttfio , it was . proved * , had been _supjilied largely with beer and smuts were lit loose upen the assembled multitude , when a dreadful scene took place , the policemen knocking down men , women , and ciiildben i « -
_dijcrmuiia ' elt ' , and , in their fury , absolutely knocking down casual passers by . The whole ofthe particulars were deposed to before a coroner ' s jury , which was called together to ascertain the cause of the death of ono of the Policemen , who was killed in the fight , which jury returned the following verdict : " We find a verdict of j ustifiable homicide , on these grounds : that no b » t act was read , nor any proclatnatian advising tlie people to disperse ; that the Government did not take thc proper precautions toprevent the meeting from assembling : as » that THE _COKDliCT OF TUJB POLICE WAS FEROCIOUS , _BROTAL , ASD UNPROVOKED bt the people ; and we moreover express our anxious hope that the _Gourumentwilt _, m / uture , take better precautions to
prevent Ihe recurrence of such _disckacefi'l tbansactions in this metropolis . " Notwithstanding tliis verdict , which was published in all the papers on a Tuesday morning , the Goverumeut had the decency to ofl _' er , in lhe Gazette of the Tuesday evening , a reword of ose hundred pounds to " any person giving information , so tliat the perpetra . tor ofthe _11 _UUDER may be apprehended and convicted thereof , " which was signed " Melbourne , " who was then Home Secretary . And , in addition to this , the Whig _Govebx'ie . vt caused the Attorney-general to move , in the Court of King ' s Bench , for the quashing of the above verdict , wliich the independent judges of tliat court actuall y did , on the 30 th of that same month . ' j . _»
June 10 , 1813 . Mr . Cobbett presented a petition to the liouse of Commons , from the freemen and electors of Sandwich , complaining that Sir E . T . Troubridge , M . P . for that borough , liad / _i-atiditrcatty obtained his commission as lieutenant in the navy ; and that there were more than two hundred other officers iu that service , who bad also fraudulently obtained their rank , by prOdncinq _Vib'E _CCiiTmcATi-s oi- TiiEiu aces . Sir _oames Graham ' the in -- .: Loid uf the _Adnr . iviilty , did aot attemp t to deny the
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truth of the allegations contained in the petition . He him » e ! f produced a list of thirty-nine o & eers , who had obtained their commissions in a similar way , at the head of whom was Lord Nelson ( the hero of the bay of Naples ) . Elliott , the Secretary of the Admiralty , declared that he himself nod obtained _fita promotion _^' n like manner , and said th & t he wa » " mo-CD to _' _beloso * ro- J * ' _«*« oi _pemohs whomthese UNMANNERLY PETITIONERS had thought ' _eroptr' to acem !" ' 7 Sir Edward Codrington stated as the apology" the _VgrtdtDEARTH of lieutenants at the time the _rfmticts _^ cem _& intd ' ofi _^^^ _cm _/' ralthough there were / according ¦ to ' returns then on the table ofthe house , at that very timeYno less than ei * ven _hunpbed lieutenants wJ , o were mt afloat ; yet tbis ' _gallnnt admiral bad the confidence to say that therewasa ' _. _'tteot-tA _. of lieutenants , " and seconded the motion for the reje « i 6 » o / tfl « petition ; which rejeetioh had been moved by Sir 3 ! Graham * , a Whig Ministerand the petition was rejected accordingly I _ _,.,..
; July 1 , 1833 . A select committee was appointed , on the motion of Mr . Cobbett , to inquire into the allegations ofa petition presented by bim to the House of Commons , from Frederick Youug , James Price , and others , inhabitants of _Camberivell aiid Walworth ; which committee ascertained the following facts : namely , that the Whig Government used the new police at spies at public meetings , whither theyiwere sent , dressed in plain clothes , and distributed amongst the crowd ; tliey were « ven sent to _paroclWal _nwet . % i 7 ag ; spies , and one of them , whose name was Popay , ii ' sed'to be sen ' _tltoTthe meetings of the _"JfoKtinal Union of the Wo [ fking ! plaues , '' whose society he joined under a feigned name , 'it . _njthating been dreamed of that he belonged , to the " police force , - '' and he having represented himself to
them as , belrig a person in great distress , and who picked up . his tiving byjniniature and landscape painting . This fellow , during nearly a whole year , belonged to the "PolC tieal Union if the ] Working Classes , " but was never seen In the uniform of , the police during the whole of that time . . He was , ' of course , a constant attendant at their meetings , and constantly urged / the members of the Union to use _ittonjer _^ jij _^ _je _^ tlwn ' jhey didin . tlielr reBOlutionB _aijil papers _i ' jka _^ _nmeUaet _' _. ] _e _^ ed . them with his own hand , in orderfb _;» ritrf _^ u _« . _^ He suggested to one _ofi 7 the 7 'f / e ' _titibncjs 7 the 7 establishing a thootinggallery _,. and . t 6 r . _6 ie _^ _jS . Uarn [ pte _^ iise ' of the broad-sword . He railed against theMinisters and Government , damned them for- villains ; ' and said that he would expel them from the earth . 'He said to some of the members of the Union
that "IT WOULD BE A : DAHNKD GOOD . THING II * HOME ONE wowd ; . tak" _> o t _/^ M . 00 DT muik _StASLtt ! ' ( one ' _oTthi-lim _^ lxri ) ' _.- _? Me attended the _Cal . thorpe-street , meeiing _ in 7 plain : _^ clothes . He urged the Union to purchase ' _firearms ' , and did every thinghe possibly could to incite the members to some violent and unlawful act ; and used , after jevery meeting of the Union , to / _owordanamntp / every thing ' thai took place at such meeting , fo & e ' CcnnmUsioners ~ of Police ' , ani these account s . wereregulariyfonvarded to the _SECRETARY OF ST ATfi _iOR _^ THE _^ _HOMfcDEf ARTMBHT , from whole departmentme _^ wai _^ _Q _iyfl ' _im _/^ _snd _^ sQO _^ discovered that they bad a spy amongst them , and had exposed him , the Police _CdmmUsiciiers ' raised Mminrank , and _augmenttdhis pay ! Oh ' the seleet committee making their report to the House bf Commons , J confirming tbe statements in the petition : Pbpay was removed from the situation that he held in the ' / oree / Vbut went unpunished , and his employers _unrei proved . " ' _"" '• '* : * " * ¦ ' " J ' " I
, July 23 ,. 1833 . The Whig Government successfully opposed Mr , Tennyson ' s motion for shortening the duration of Parliaments . ' Inthe course of the debate , . Lord Al . thorp stated that he "had formerly ' supported a _propose tion for shortening the duration of Parliaments ,, and should now do so wore Parliament iii the same state in which it ivas when he had so supported the proposition . " 1 Lord John Russell ( a _irftipo / tsejlrit water ) objected to the motion , because it " SEEMED TO INTIMATE A ' DISTRUST OF PUBLIC MEN . " Mr . Stanley- said that it WAS an " impracticable queilion , " and said that he had
" _trn the hustings , at Lancaster , made a statement from which he was not disposed to depart . "The . statement , to which this right honourable Whig alluded , was tho following : — "If , therefore , 'it should be attempted in another Parliament , to bring forward any of those sweeping motions for _fJtorteiifn _^ the duration of Parliaments ; and eiclenuii . 17 jiet /« rtiier the elective franchise ; or . of introducing that which 1 believe is falsely styled the protection of tho ballot ; to those measures we , as individuals and as members of the Government , arc bound ( and I announce it at once ' and openly ) to give oub mtebminep and decided opposition . " * ¦¦¦ ¦¦' ¦ ¦ '¦ " ' - - :
July 31 , 1833 . The Whigs passed a vote for twenty millions of pound * sterling to be g iven toindemnify the owners of slaves for any loss that tliey may sustain in consequence _ofaparttaJaljflHd ' on of slavery ; in consequence of a partial abolition of that sort of traffic which , they ' said , was " _auioIaHon of the laws of God and man . " The Minister , at first , proposed lending the proprietors of _swvei ten millions of pounds : after a while he said that he should propose the lending of fifteen millions ( and , inlnd , this was a proposition to lend money to the slave-owners to _compensflte . them for the loss of slave-labour , whilst the Government had endeavoured to prove , to the owners of slaves , that free-labour . was more productive than _tlavelabour }; but , after the presentation ofa petition signed by 278 , 000 females ,, he . boldly proposed . the GIVING OF TWENTY MILLIONS ; and that proposition was carried by a great majority , and must be paid , _fai part , by poor labourers of Dorsetshire outof their TWO SHILLINGS AND SEVENPENCE a week !
July , 1833 . The Whigs proposed and carried a vote for £ 1 , 000 , 000 out of the taxes to b » paid to the Protestant clergy in Ireland , in lieu of arrears of tithes which they were unable to collect , although they had the assistance of a large army and courts martial for the trial oi criminals , both ofwhich were provided for their aid by the Whigs . August , 1833 . They passed the _"AtUTOHT Bill , " giving to overseers and parochial officers the power , in some cases , of selling to the surgeons , for tht purpose of dissection , thebodies of persons who die in peer-houses ! but were cunning enough not to insert in that bill any clause consigning thc carcases of state-paupers to the _disseetingknife .
1833 . The Whigs refused to abolish flogging in the army ; and Sir J , 0 . Hobhouse , who had always professed thepriMiples of radical reform , and had most loudly declaimed against Hogging , but who had become a member ofthe Whig Ministry as Secretar _** * at War , now strongly opposed the abolishing of that disgusting and horrible prac . tiee , and supported , in their opposition to the putting an and to it , that very Whig party whom he had formerly de . scribed , both ia speaking aud in writing , as a party always " pernicious to England , " and always "actuated by selfish motives ; " as alwayshaving been " arrogant , " " overbearing , " " selfish , " "false , " "boasting , " "interested , " "tricky , " " mean , " " shallow , " "deceitful , " "jealous , " and "iinpotent . " How true is all this ! Yet he joined this party , became renogade to his principles , and voted against the _tlWliOIl for abolishing flogging in the army !
March , 1831 . The Wldg Government prosecuted six agricultural labourers at Dorchester , for having administered oaths of secrecy to persons on becoming members of a soeiety called the " Trades' Union ; " which society was formed for the protection of the ' class to which they belonged , against the arbitrary reduction of the price of their labour by their employers . These poor fellows were found guilty of thc charge alleged against them , and , to the astonishment of the whole kingdom , were sentenced by Williams ( a _neio madejudge ) to SEVEN YEARS' TRANSPORTATION !!! The nation wondered where the judge found law fur his purpose ; but faith [ lie did ! find it , and that too in an act passed in the 37 th year of George the Third , being chapter 123 of the year 1 * 137 , the whole of which act relates to oaths administered , or taken , for the purpose of seducing persons serving his Majesty by sea or by land ) and which was passed in consequence of the mutiny in tlte fleet . And yet _Ulldcr
this Act it WHS that this judge sentenced these men , whose only crime was combining lo rail ' s their wages ; and it was proved on their trial that one of them had but five shillings a week to live upon ; and that another of them had but stven _sMUiitjs a week to live _uponand to support a WIFE AND SIX CHILDREN ; neither of whom had the smallest notion of doing anything illegal , nor of having anything to do with politics . Petitions for the pardon of these poor men were signed by upwards of jice ftimdred t _' _wusand of their fellow countrymen ; the Whigs would not listen tothe prayers of these just and humane petitions , but immediately ordered these si ' s _Tiapfcss victims to be trans ported beyond the seas . Mr . Hutt , M . P ,, on presenting a petition for tbe pardon of these men , from _Kingston-upon-IIuU , deplored the conduct of Government towavds them , and said that it was clear that they were not punished for taking or administering a secret oath , but for having been members of the " Trades' Union . "
May 5 , 1814 . Mr . D . w , Harvey made a motion in the liouse of Commons with a view to the abolition of all unmerited pensions , many of which are , of course , given to females , and , in some cases , for quite unknown services rendered by them . Lor Althorp , the Whig _Chancei-lor of the Exchequer , opposed the motion , as being one '' calling for that to be done which no man of _crsTi , EaA » rir feeling would consent to do . He said that persons on the pension list had . 1 light , established by custom , to be continued on it ; and the present Government had , when they came into office , recommended that they should be . " He said that he " did not intend to defend each individual grant ; " that an inquiry into it "could not fail to be a disgusting inquiry to any gentleman who took a part in it- " "that it was calculated to wound the feelings , as we ' ll of those who conducted it , as of those who were the
objects of the inquiry , and that helclt himself bound to vote against the motion . " That was the sort of opposition given by a Whig Uinistw ; by a man who , and whose party , came into power on the breaking up of the _Toi'u Ministry ; which breaking up was occasioned by tho Whigs baring moved , by the mouth of Sir II . Parnell " That a select committee be appointed to inquire into t ' he various items connected with the civil , list , and to report there on . " We must also bear in mind that Lord G rev ivlio became Premier of thc Whig Ministry , declared on tiikimr office , that" a reduction of all unnecessary expense is tho firm resolution of myself and my colleagues , and tint we will cut off , with AK _tj-nspaeixg HAND , all that is not de _manded for the _ixteuests _, the hoxocr , and the \ _m ' FARE of tlie country . " It is scarcel y necessary to idd that the Whigs voted against tbe motion , « nd that it ivas lost _.
July , ISol . The Whig- Government carried the " Poor Law Amendment Hill . " They . had had a band of cdmmis turners prowling about the country for the pretended purpose of _uK-wring into thc state of parochial « , ff . i ' _rs -but all the inquiries were made from parish o § eers , _cWa-n _andscntUmcii , _ondnrtln a » y tm ' fif ( hi poor thomlves . 0 , no . ' that was not to be thought of for a moment ' , The _ob-ect -4 VhR , mi ( , * that was apart ofthe iminwiiom ohen to the ( oumnsmersjor th : poor people ofEn hid to he _"il-VDE
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TO LIVB ON _COABSBR FOOD ! " " Coarser food than the poor _Dorsetthire _labouwrwould procure for themselves , a wife , and six _hslpU _tubUdren , outof seven shillings awtek ! " Coarser food" than . the magistrates of Wiltshire ordered as parish allowarice ' _lbr an able-bodied labourer to live on and to work _on—namelyl'a gauon loaf and fhretpe ' iieehalfptnuy awte _£ l % Ttie Whig Chancellor ( "Brougham , _hommss _deiettrii-et « so « _aC )) : who is reputed to be the real author of Ihemtiure , declared , from the woolsack , that " no ; relief ought to be afforded , m . * to the aged aud iNMBk p oor ' . that they ought , during their health and . strength , ! to save enough- out of their earnings to keep themselves _duringtncKKESs and old AGS j" although that same Lord Chancellor , so far from setting an example of such a modVof guarding against want during sickness and old age , as soon as he got himself seated ou the
woolsack , 'brought forward , » nd caused tobe passed , a bill , _ratsinfl ih trttifingellowaneefor _himstlf , from / ourfAoiwand pound * to five thousand roDNDS a XKAB . And this : is the great ' supporter of a bill , which is , according to the report of '' the Poor Law Commissioners , to pave the way for completely and entirely abrogating ailright to ' relief for the poorand necessitous . The operation of this measure is dreadfully felt , eren by _uimarritd men , in the agricultural districts ; where ( owing to the horrible amount of fiscal exactions preventing the farmer from employing a sufficient number of labourers to cultivate theland ) the want of employment is so great ( and the farmers and parish officers ; naturally provide worlc for those who have families ) ,, that unmarried nun cannot find employment , nor will parish officers either provide it for tiiera , or give . them any relief : tbey tell them that now
( hey have w _rnore claim upon Vie parish than any _cohhok _BEGCIAW . 7 If these unfortunate men apply to the magistrates , they are told , that they have no power vow to order any relief for them . It they wander about in a body , and , being in want of food ; damand aid of those who are able to give it , they are sure of transportation , or perhaps of death . It they take wild animals for their support , ihtg are liable ( 0 M transported ; and if , whilst pursuing these wild ani * . inalJ , they be caught by the gamekeeper , and resist his taking them into custody , they ARE LIABLE TO BE HANGED [ Jl What have . these persons done ? What monstrous crimes hare they committed that they should be placed in such a horrible dilemma T No crimes at all , only , that they , whilst the law femaihed unaltered , were entitled to relief from theland , if they were in want ; and the Whig Ministers declared , that "the poor-rates would
swallow up the land , ' * although one of those very Ministers , Sir James Graham , ¦ proved when he was out of office , that a hundred and thirteen privy councillors twallowed up annually six hundred and _rirrr thousand founds , being more by eighty thousand pounds a year ( and that , mind , for only one ftundred . and thirteen p « r « mj ) than tbe ' _wJiofe amount 0 / _tte poor-rates for the _tweive countiib or Wales , andthe six coukies of Bedford , Cumberland , Huntingdon , Monmouth , Rutland , and Westmoreland ! It ought never to be _forgotten that Lotd Brougham , the author ot this bill , carried his hostility to the poor nnd unfortunate so far , as even to say , in the House of Lords , that " except for broken limbs , " hospital ' s , D 16 W-N _8 AIHES , AMD _ALMJ-HODSrS , ARZ LITTLt BITTER _WUN-JiUIfANCSS , and , ; onoHS : to be _. abatfd ! " The Whigs performed various other such like acts , as if desirous to retain the epithets which have tor so many years been prefixed to their name by Mr . Cobbett ; and amongst other acts of theirs we ought not to omit to mention their
malicious though unsuccessful prosecution of him . -He was indicted for . publishing in the _Weefclj * _Potiiieot B _# - _oii . er of the lith December , 1830 , a libel , with _intent to raise discontent in the minds of labourers \ n husbandry , ' and to incite them to acts of violence , and to destroy corn stacks / machinery , and other . property , " ic . Mr . _CoW belt defended himself in person , andthe lashing that he took the opportunity of inflicting on the "Greys , the Broughams , the Lambs , and the Itussells , " whom , with the rest ofthe Whig Ministry , lie had _subpanacd , and had before him in court ; his bantering allusion to the " _agrees . aibU twaddit"ioi Mr . Gurney , and comparing him to a '' truffle hunter ?; the defiance and scorn with which he loaded the Whig Attorney-General Denman , and his "ditty bill _ofixxdictment , " indeed , the whole of his defence was so manly and so powerful ; his , sarcasms so withering to his prosecutors ; his invectivo so overwhelming , so terrible , and so blasting to that degradedfaetion , that it will never be either forgiven or forgotten by them . - ., ' _- ..
The concluding sentence of his noble defence must " conclude this very brief notice of this remarkable trial ; aiid U would be- criminal to omit it / . itis this— " If your verdict should be one that will consign mc to death , by 6 endiugme'to ' a loathsome dungeon , I will , with my last breath , pray to God to bless my country , and curse tlio Whigs , and I bequeath my revenge to my CUltDAEN AND the Labourxrs of England !" Then there is to be remembered , against the Whigs , their objecting to take off the newspaper duty . , * Their objecting to the motion by which no Minister of State was to be allowed d retiring pension until ho had served / _iuej-eai-s . . Their tricks with regard to Savings Banks , in order to _meJce it as difficult as possible tor the deposits to be withdrawn .
Their paying the Butso-Dutch loan of six _uilmons : Their Oiho loan of two xillions : In short , their extreme mildness , integrity , and patriotism , have been such , during the four years of tlieir pestilent sway , that , more ofthe blood ofhis Majesty ' s subjects has been shed , more victims tO tho _OlllOUS laws affecting the press hare been punished with fine and imprisonment , than have taken place in England within the same period since 1780 . '; Nor must wc forget their having added about » OBTy millions to the national debt , iu the four years of their baneful domination , being one-eighteenth part ofthe whole debt , which has taken more than a hundred and fifty years to accumulate . ! The reader will have be « n disgusted if he have waded through this catalogue of crimes , therefore this offensive but necessary task shall be concluded by placing a few of the acts ofthe Tobies in juxta-position with some of the Whigs : —
37 _ie rforle * * The _IVhigs * Opposed the Reform Bill . Put in the tax-paying , clauses , and stultified the effect of the bill . Supported long Parlia- _HefusedtorepealtheSep . ments . tennial Act . 1 Had their Sidmouths , and Had their Melbournes and their Castles , and their their _Popays , and defended Olivers . the use _' ofSpies . Had their Manchester Hud their _fast-day affair , affair . . and . their Calthorpe _* street affair . Had their standing army Augmented the standing in time of peace , army that the Tories had leftthem . Declared against cheap ; Prosecuted and punished political publications . those who sold them . Suspended the Habeas Passed the Irish Coercion Corpus Act . Bill , and trials by courts martial .
Supported the Pension ltefused to revise it . List . Had their Swan River Had their Australian _emiemigratioiijob .. gration job , by Wilmot _Hortovi . Passed Sfurges Bourne ' s Passed the Poor Law Bills , giving a plurality of Amendment Bill , giving the votes m vestries to the rich , rich the right to vote by proxy ; and refused to rc-At . i ! . i „ i » i . peal Stuvgcs Bourne's Bills . Abolished the income-tax . Befused to repeal the malt and kept on the assessed tax , and the assessed taxes taxes and tho re * . _t-tax , for fear that they should be obliged to lay on a property
tax . In and out of place object- In favour of voteby ballot ed to the vote by ballot . when out of place , but nil . 1 * - ,,. - against it when in place , Put about _one-half of the Put the other half of the names on the Pension List , names on that list , andwouId allow of no inquiry into it , ¦ saying , that it would be "disgusting and ungentle . manly" to do so !
And ^ The Second Assiversabt Of Ihe United Patriots'
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_ijenefit _provident _SociETY was held at Cliaik barm layern , on Monday last , tbe chair being _occumed by Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., and the _vice-cliair by Mv . J . U . Dron . Vrhe assembly was numerous , including Roger O'Connor , Esq ., and other private _li-iends oi the chairman , and was also enlivened by the presence of a _large party of ladies . At two 0 clock tlie company sat down to a first-rate dinner including every delicacy of the season , which was served up in excellent style . The cloth having been removed _| Mr . O'Connor rose to propose the first toast , fhe People , the only source of legitimate power . It gave him great pleasure to see so many happy smiling laces around liim , met for such a worthy social purpose ; and lie felt grateful for the honour they had conferred by calling on him to preside over them . The toast of the " _VearAn" _« . _*» nn «
given by most political parties , and handled by each according to their particular interests . The Whigs considered themselves and their middle class supporters to be the people -, the Tories considered the Earsons and the _high-cluircliiuen to be the people ; ut he , Mr . O'C , considered those to be tbe people who earned their bread by the sweat of their brow _, those who were unwilling to labour were the Drones of the community , Jiving upon the energies of others , lie regretted that festivals like the present were not the rule instead of the exception . The present company had earned tlie _excolleiit dinner they had been enjoying—they cat their own dinner , whilst the other class of society eat that which they were obli ged to furnish them with . Ifc would bn h _™!
taste in liim to occupy much time in opening the proceedings , he should follow the example ofthe Speaker in the House of Commons , who was the man who had the tat to say of any in the liouse . The present was ' not the period for talking politics , tho timo was now arrived when tliey saw the necessity of making exertions to give themselves social power in order to enable them to wring political power from the grasp of their oppressors ; he trusted tliat tlie next Reform would solve the riddle as to who were thc true friends of tho people , and in his opinion the people would be happier and more prosperous if IcingCTaft and priestcraft were no more ; he saw in their society one of the rungs of the ladder by which they must pull down aristocratic power , and assist each other in a political as well as a social sense , Entertaining those views he should always ho happy to fill the situation lie then held , or any other which they might appoint him to , or to attend as a private onpst at ot _taci
'auy r Hitv . rc meetings , and give then , hi _;' ' _t 0 r 1 i nv ,, t ! , e _^ uuivcvsai ! i j ** pei mis My . 0 Uuiwv , amid great applause , then proposed . e toast , wit ! , three times three , 5 el \ Z _well a * the succeeding _loaste , was drank wit :
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enthusiasm , and followed by an » i » _^^ band , and vocal music _appropriate " > * < , , i , _" " _fte Mr . Wheeler responded to the toast _^ _"st . " People" in nn able manner , and slmL 1 *••• the United Patriots'Society , by their vert n _? _^ by the truly Democratic constitution ofthe _w' _^ was bringing the _prmcipleof se % overnmen' •* * » the every-day affairs of soeiety , and if ccne : ' ,, " } tt . lowed would elevate men in their own estimit 1 }' toi * in that of their fellow _citisens . ilr , _O'Conin . f _** gave the toast of " Prosperity tothe Unite , _k _, - " _^ Benefit Society / ' and in so doing w _^ _W pleasure that he was not the Pounder of the Sno * _t or it would certainly have been assailed fan , 7 V quarters , but being started by working men it ml r perhaps escape the virulence of their ' emmP ' uch _iucu i 3 uhuui
m no again _uuwu _, > .. uaving from if A to 1200 members as at present , he trusted th * name would be legion . Mr . Workman , in rcsponili to the toast said , if there was one action more nobi than another it . was that of assisting their fellow-nip who from sickness or otherwise were deprived of _«?' means of existence .. Of what avail to society * . v the warrior , the aristocrat , or the miser ? rhL J- *? nothing to benefit ) the condition of working men or t relieve them when in sickness or distress , but . on )\\ Z contrary , after accumulating wealth by their _Ja they left them no prospect in after-life but tl _^ horrid den tb « Poor Law Bastile . Mr . "fforkmn , then entered into details , showing the prosperity t the society and its great accession of numbers _duriniJ the past quarter . The next toast was " The presc i committees in town and country , and the good members of the past committees . " Mr . Dron J "
« . . _»• • * ' ' _ 11 A . 1- fill .... * V * t _eponded to this in sin excellent speech . The " IleaiVii of the General Secretary of tho Society" was nex _? proposed by the chairman , who paid some we ii merited compliments to the secretary , whom bc h J worked with for several years in the Dcniocratii struggle , and thought him far more worthy of a pen sion and a monument for his past services than to ofthe titled aristocratic manslayers upon whom such rewards were lavished . Mr . Ruffy , in responding j this toast , expressed his gratitude to the mcmEe _* _* generally , ana to Mr . O'Connor in particular , _stat ' me that had it not been forthe assistance rendered by that gentleman in giving the gratuitous use of tlie Northern Star for the . advertisements of tho society
during its infancy , it never could have attained . its present prosperous condition ; he also _gay his thanks to Mr . Harvey for similar favour ** in printing for the society—they , _ernd not himself , were in reality the founders of the society ; so _tliaj Mr . O'Connor had more to do with the originating ofthe society than he appeared to be aware of . The speaker then gave an interesting account of the pro . _gress and condition of the , society in town and country ; shewing the number of branches it _possessed in England . It had also a footing in Wales , and expected to form branches in . both Ireland and Scotland . He then painted , in glowing colours , _tiio good effected by the society , and the advantages of union amongst men in elevating their social and Solitical condition . He thanked them for their con . dence , and trusted he should never _ do anything
mean or base to deprive him of it . r- 'i'he lollowiug toasts were than drank and responded to— " Health of . the sub-secretaries , country members , Air Mark , the father ofthe society , the ladies , visitow , and friends , and chairman and vice-chairman * Messrs O'Connor and Dron responded to the latter toasts in excellent . ' speeches , which space will not permit ub to give . * Dancing , interspersed _witlpongs and recitations , then commenced , and was kept up until an early hour , the greatest harmony and good feeling prevailing . An excellent band was engaged , and in audition to . this the members from , Wiraolcdoa also were accompaned with a band , and a flag painted expressly for the occasion . Several sub * secretaries , including Mr . G . Wheeler , ef Reading , were present , and took part in the proceedings of tho ( lay .
United Patmots' _Bbnepit SociKir . —The first anniversary of the Sheffield branch of this young and flourishing Institution , was commemorated by a din ner at Mrs / Franks ' , Three Cranes , Queen-street , July 28 th . On thc cloth being removed the following toasts were given from the chair , " Prosperity to the United Patriots' Benefit Society , " " The Founder of the Soeiety , D . F . Ruffy , may he always merit thc esteem of the members , " VT . S . Duncombe , Esq ., M . P ., and tho Patrons of the Society , " - 'The People ; tho source of all wealth , " " Tho sub-secretary and members that established the Sheffield branch . " " The Queen , her rights and no more ; the People , their ( rights and no less . " These toasts were _atty responded to by Messrs Hall , Goddard , Clayton , Gallimoro , and Jones . There were some excellent songs sung , and , the company separated highly do lighted with the evening ' s entertainment .
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. '¦ ¦ NORTHAMPTON . Public Meeting . — -On Monday evening a meeting , convened by placard , was held on the Market-hill , to hear a lecture from Mr . M'Grath , on the " Land and its Capabilities . " Mr . _Mnnday waa appointed chairman . The lecturer , in the course of a Jong address , clearly demonstrated , by arithmetical calculation and from the admissions of the ablest political economists that the cultivable land of Great Britain and Ireland is capable of yielding sustenance to support four times the present population . He concluded by showing that the land was the only asylum upon which the people could find protection from the ravages which the capitalist , aided by machinery was making on their industry ; and invited all de sirous of location upon the land to investigate the
rules ofthe Chartist Co-operative Land Society . * A Public Meetixo was held on the same place oa Tuesday evening , for the purpose of forming a branch of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society . i \ % eight o ' clock Mr . Cairns was voted to the chair . Thc meeting wasan excellent one . The chairman having lucidly stated the object of the meeting , and promised a- fair heaving to ail desirous of expressing their opinions , called upon Mr . Holly well to move the first resolution , tho purport of which was that it was the people ' *; duty to exert every energy to elevate themselves to that position in society which God and nature intended them to occupy . It was seconded by Mr . Stammers , and unanimously adopted . The
next resolution was proposed by Mr . Munday , to the effect that the Chartist Land plan was sound and practicable , and fully entitled to the confidence and support of the working classes . Seconded by Mr . Williams . The chairman then called upon Mr . M'Grath , who spoke for nearly two hours in support of the resolution , expounding thc Land plan , and defining the benefits that would accrue to Trades ' Unions from its adoption . The meeting received every sentence with approbation . Many copies of rules were disposed of , and several shares taken out . These meetings have done much good . We shall soon havo a strong branch of the society in _tfortk . ampton .
"WELLINGBOROUGH . LEcrirnE . —On Wednesday evening Mr . M'Grath delivered a public lecture on the Land in thc Marketplace . Mr . Parish was in the chair . Several hundred persons were present , who paid thc most marked attention to the speaker . The thanks of the meeting having been voted to thc chairman anil lecturer , the meeting separated . PETERBOROUGH . Mb . M'Grath delivered two lectures on " Univer . ¦ sal Suffrage" on tlio evenings of Thursday and Friday , in the Assembly Room . They were tolerably well attended , and a favourable impression seemed to be made as to thc justice of thc Charter and the necessity for its enactment . Seteral cards of membership were disposed of .
SALFORD . _Tns Land Society . —At a meeting of the shareholders of tho Chartist Co-operative Land Soeiety , held on Tuesday last , the following resolution was passed : — " That a meeting of the members ' and friends take place on tlic last Sunday in each month , for the purpose of auditing tho accounts ; also that the committee meet every Sunday evening , at half-past six o ' clock , for the purpose of receiving subscriptions . "
OLDHAM . Lecture . —On Sunday last Mr . C . Doyle delivered a . very energetic address in the Working ' Man ' s Hall , in which he gave a brief account of the money expended by the Missionary Societies , and the money deposited in savings banks , & c . The lecturer showed in the most argumentative manner thc great advaii _; tapes that might be derived from thc application of such ttn amount of money in thc purchase of land , and . the allocation of tho surplus population thereon .
Leeds Cloth Markets.—During The Past Wee...
Leeds Cloth Markets . —During the past _week - there has been a slight tendency to improvement , , and , 111 some descriptions of goods , prices have shown a an upward tendency . In the halls , business has been a rather dull .
Leeds Cons _Maiuv-et , Tuesdat , July 29 . _—NYitU h a good arrival , and the weather more settled , our ir millers buy cautiously , the finest wheats at rather er over the rates of last week ; secondary sorts and tliose sc in chamber are slow sale at former prices . Barley cy nominal . Oats are scarce , and held at more money , y , but the trade slow . Beans are not so much in re- re quest , but we make no alteration in their value , or oi m that of other grain . Iobk Corn Market , July 2 C—In consequence of , oi thc weather this day being remarkablv fine for _tlfi Hit operations in the hay harvest , we have _' but a _slciulcr Jci attendance of farmers at market , consequently _•** ' _o small supply of grain . On account of the short sup * . up ply , wc liave a steady sale for Wheat , at fvtllv last las ' week s rates . Other articles without any niatcri . il ri » alteration .
Malton Corn Market , July 2 !) . —Wc have a good rood supply of wheat offering at this dav's market , w but moderate of other articles . Wheat Is . per qr . dearcfi ircfi barley nominal ; oats same as last week . Wheat . : cat . red , 50 s . to 58 s . ; white ditto , 5 Cs . to G 2 s . per qr- ot f * ot -40 stones ; oats , lid . to 12 ( 1 . per stono . Richmond Corn Market , July 2 G .-V V * c had » _«* ¦» lair supply of grain in our market to-day , ami _WAff prices were _n little higher . * Wheat sold from tV . ' f . _f ; to fcg . oats , 2 s . Kit ' , fo a ,. Cd . ; _harfcv , 4 * . : o -if . ¦*¦ " W " beans , 4 s ? . Cd _toSs . per bushel .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 2, 1845, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_02081845/page/2/
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