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4 THE NORTHERN STAR. JuLY 29 > 184 ^
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ONE MILE FROM LINCOLN.
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THE NORTHERN STAR, SATETRDAY, JULY 29, 1818.
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IRELAND. 11 Hereditary bondsmen, know ye...
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PERSECUTION IN SCOTLAND. ARREST OF EDINB...
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STATE OF IRELAND. We give in another col...
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THE MARTYRS. RALLY TO TIIE RESCUE ! The ...
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW. The Whig policy to...
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4 The Northern Star. July 29 > 184 ^
4 THE NORTHERN STAR . JuLY 29 > 184 _^
One Mile From Lincoln.
ONE MILE FROM LINCOLN .
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Now _readv , price Twopence , THE RIGHT OF PUBLIC EETING A LETTER Addressed ( _befare Sentence , ) TO LORD CHIEF JUSTICE SIR THOMAS WILDE , Bt _Erhest Joses . This letter contains the substance of the address which Ernest Jones intended to deliver in the court , but whioh the judge would not allow to be spoken .
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The Northern Star, Satetrday, July 29, 1818.
THE NORTHERN STAR _SATETRDAY , JULY 29 , 1818 .
Ireland. 11 Hereditary Bondsmen, Know Ye...
IRELAND . 11 Hereditary bondsmen , know ye not , Who would be free , himself muBt strike the blow . " Such were the moral force words under which Lord John Russell would now make it appear that Mr O'Connell had marshalled the mind of Ireland , and , although we are by no means in . clined to taunt the ( lead with the frequent use of the above impressive phrase , yet we are not prepared to charge his living followers with any criminality which may result from strict obedience to his teaching . We shall not chronicle any of the closet and Conciliation-hall sayings of that gentleman , notwithstanding that ,
although delivered within the four walls of that building , they were nevertheless scattered abroad ; but we may , in justice to those who are now suffering , or are about to suffer , recall attention to the open-air avowals of the national teacher ; avowals made to millions of enthusiastic , oppressed , and starving people . We may remind the Whig Prime Minister of Mullagfimast and the Hill of Tara , where the Liberator declared , that he was surrounded by more physical force than any monarch could command ; and where he contrasted the strength of an Irish peasant with the strength of the peasantry of other nations ; nor can we forget the significant allusion to the motto under the
touch-hole of the cannon of the Volunteers ; and to the declaration of the departed chieftain , " that his arm was yet young enough to wield a sword in defence of his country ' s rights , ' '—a declaration which jn our souls we believe he would have realised and fulfilled , had he witnessed the last two years' desolation to which his country has been reduced by Whig treachery and despotic tyranny . And had Daniel O'Connell lived , we feel convinced that he would have joined the violent in the last extremity , rather than consent to tbe decimation of his country by starvation , and the abrogation of the constitution as the means of insuring the passive obedience of a starving people .
O'Conneil ' s policy was to gather up the mind of Ireland into one volition , which would be an irresistible rampart against the physical force of the enemy . He apprehended more danger from the vindictive vengeance which it has been the policy of England to foster between Irish Protestants and Irish Catholics , than he did from the united strength of English despotism . But although Daniel O'Connell denounced physical force , where was the man
who more lustily contended against the suppression of public opinion ? Did he not resist all statutary enactments , and defy all royal proclamations ! And thus , though opposed to his general policy , we rescue his memory from the stain which the Prime Minister of England would now * stamp upon it , by attempting to illustrate what his feelings would be under existing circumstances , by allusion to what tbey were under a different state of things .
The man who stands within twelve yards of the loaded pistol of a bully , hired to assassinate him , and whose hand was steady enough to avenge the contemplated assassination , could not hare been a coward ; and , therefore , it is an injustice to attempt any solution of what his course might nogf be by what his course had formerly been . But we turn from the dead father to the living son , and we remind the " Tanist , " and the heir apparent to the rent gathered from a starving people , of his words in 1815 . He said in Conciliation Hall , " THAT
THE DAY MIGHT COME WHEN THE OPPRESSORS OF HIS COUNTRY WOULD DRIVE HIS COUNTRYMEN INTO PHYSICAL RESISTANCE , AND THAT THEN HE WOULD BE FOUND FIGHTING IN THE FOREMOST RANKS OF THE PEOPLE . " We are aware of the narrow limits within which the " Gagging Bill" confines our pen , and , mayhap , the exhibition of ihe moral force leader , in his own mirror , may be the foreshadowing of sedition . Perhaps it ntay be
illegal to write in 1848 what the moral force leader of Ireland declared , amid cheers , in 1845 ! ' - ' There is no greater injustice than the attempt to drive a responsible leader from his own position and to force his acceptance of every speculative dogma of the reckless and enthusiastic , but that leader who abandons the position around wbich he has rallied his obedient followers , commits an act of the most flagrant injustice . By the teaching of leaders the mind is formed—by the enthusiasm of leaders the energy is quickened—by the resolution of leaders the action is confirmed . ' '
We have it upon the highest authority that the followers of Mitchel swore to him thathe should never leave the country , and by that assurance his energy was impelled and goaded to the resistance point ; but when the martyr was clutched what is called prudence supplied
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he place of what was tendered as allegiance , and Mitchel the brave , the uncompromising , nnd the bold , became a victim to his confidence , and was dragged , like a felon , from the dock to the hulk , and is now paying the penalty of his misplaced confidence . The peonle of Ireland , however , bave been no party to the deception and betrayal , because they were not parties to uTge him on or to insure his protection ; but , on tie contrary , it is tothe violation of tbose pledges given to the felon that the frenzy , the madness , and the enthusiasm of the Irish people is now to be ascribed . They are not purchasable—they are a nation
of indomitable heroes ; grateful for littlehospitable with little—generous , confiding , and forgiving ; but , as far as England is concerned , we fear tbe ; point of forgiveness bas been passed . And although the proposition of the Prime Minister to abrogate the constitution , may be received with a howl of faction , in which the yell ofthe degenerate Irish drowned the Saxon cheer , yet we would ask tbat Prime Minister to pause , we would ask Parliament , in its presumed strength , to reflect upon what tbe consequence must be , if the leaders ofa determined , maddened , and enthusiastic people are snatched from amongst them in violation of the Constitution .
Does the most confiding in governmental strength for one moment imagine that this war of sister against sister , as they are called , can be profitably maintained in the present state of Europe ? Do tbey imagine that they can revive the mad nationality inspired by Pitt—when all were ready to give the last farthing TO KEEP BONEY OUT . No—those were days of mere agricultural blindness , when the breeches pocket was a good substitute for brains ; but these are times when the active genius pauses , and asks what is to be the return for our submission to further taxation ?
Is it to be a probable war with America , the not improbable loss of Canada , the destruction of a home market which by kindness and jus tice may . be made lucrative and profitable . ' or is it the weakening of the English Crown and Government , at a period wben legitimacy all over the world is falling before the mind * progress ? Belgium , as a province of Holland , through pauperism , became a sting in the side of the mother country ; while Belgium , as a free state , still holds her own though surrounded by a Republic . Or , in th ° emphatic words of Mr
O'Connor , " Can the Government of England , with America within fourteen days ' sail , France all but touching our shores—Prussia demanding Republican Institutions as the means of preserving its monarchy—Italy throwing off the Austrian yoke , and the mind of Ireland one fierce volcano "—we ask , under such circumstances , is it possible to preserve a restrictive Monarchy and Oligarchical Institutions in this country ? It is well for the Prime Minister and the Parliament to say , be tranquil and your grievances shall be redressed , but for eight and forty years the same cuckoo cry has been heard .
Ireland has had Coercion Bills , Martial Law , and Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act , " usque ad nauseam , " and ( he temporary lull , created by terror , has been used as an argument that the people were satisfied ; and even now the prostitute Press of England , and some of the pledged Repealers in the House of Commons , would lead their dupes to believe that there was neither dissatisfaction nor disaffection amongst the Irish people , while we find tbem thirsting for Irish blood , while the transactions upon 'Change are mainly regulated by the hope or despair of its being shed .
But , we tell the Prime Minister of England , that although his predecessors subjugated Ireland by force and fraud in 1800 , that it would be worse than madness to try an experiment upon eig ht millions after forty-eight years of experience , which was only successful upon four millions without that experience . And , if the demand for Repeal of the Union shall be changed to a demand for a total separation , the Oligarchy of England , and they alone , will be chargeable with the result . Lord Althorp declared his opinion in the House of Commons in 1834 . that , if a majority of the Irish
people should demand a . Repeal of the Union , that it woald be the duty of that House to grant it , However , although the will of the majority bas been most significantlyproclaimed , we , nevertheless , find that the assumed duty of Parliament is to resist that will by the abrogation of the Constitution . And we now tellthe Noble Lord , the Prime Minister , that the Constitution proclaims the right of freemen to be armed , and . that to deprive them of those arms reduces them to slavery ; and we would ask , what allegiance a slave owes to a Government that would thus abrogate the
Constitution ? The Press may luxuriate in tbe hope that O ' Brien and Meagher have absconded , nd that thus the Irish Confederation has been dissolved . Such is , no doubt , the fond anticipation of those who would produce despair through treachery , but whatever the result of the conflict may be , we hazard an assurance that , whether the gaol or the grave shall be their lot , they will not dishonour their names by flight . The English Government
would make it appear that Ireland is a portion of England , whereas England is much more a portion of Ireland . Her manufacturing towns are crowded with the disinherited , the expatriated , and the exiled , hunted from their native land by the cruel Landlord , or the griping Parson , the desolating Middleman , or the relentless Official : and those who understand the feelings wbich possess man in social life , will understand the feelings ot those who are absent from the scene ef national
excitement . If the parent is present with a suffering child , fortitude and hope is sustained by the immediate knowledge of every change and crisis ; but if he is absent , and relies upon the post or the electric spark wben he cannot see the sufferer , the excitement is greater , and the agony more poignant , increased by doubt . So itis with the absent Irish ; they take rumour for fact , and want of accurate information
drives them to frenzy and despair . Hence we find that an attempt has been made to include Liverpool and Manchester in the unconstitutional proposition of tbe Prime Minister . But as it is the resolve of the powerful terrorists to strike a deadly blow at Chartism and Repeal , and as there are emissaries abroad who thrive by falsehood , and live upon blood , we would caution our Irish brethren against their machinations .
England is now feeling the effects of foreign revolutions , —her Exchequer nearly bankrupt , her trade paralysed , and her manufactures all but suspended ; her agricultural produce is threatened with a competition of the produce of other countries , not subject to unbearable burthens and taxations ; and for these casualties , calamities , and reverses , according to ancient custom and policy , the Government will attempt to eke supplies from the timid , by parading the phantom of disaffection ; and ere long we shall have the Chancellor of the Exchequer coming down to tbe House extolling
the Government for its precaution , and the aristocracy and the middle classes for their loyalty , which will end in an appeal to their pockets . And when has there been an occasion for such an appeal , that incipient revolution has not been the bugbear , and loyalty the talisman . So that in the exact proportion in which the demand for liberty increases , does patronage become augmented . But let not the noble lord lay the flattering unction to his soul , that
streams of Irish blood , or hulks of Irish _victims , will ever banish from the Irish mind that pent up rancour engendered by an alien church , an alien proprietary , alien " law _* , and alien taskmasters . These monsters have upheld a tyrannous ascendancy which has been as injurious and weakening to the English Crown , as to Irish prosperity , and an attempt beingmade to banish this destructive superiority from the land , it now rallies in thejury box determined to uphold its authority as long as a foot of resting
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around remains . But we tell the oppressor , that the authority of Government , the desolation ofthe Protestant Church , the tyranny of alien landlords , the authority of their middle class representatives , their partisan magistrat ' es , party judges , packed juries , ruthless police , ' unscrupulous detectives , and prostitute Press cannot bind the united mind of an op pressed and united people . And when the day of terror shall have passed away , and when the unbiassed verdict of a national jury , too large to be packed , shall be delivered , the English Minister who fostered revolution to secure power will be found as the criminal , and he will be justly chargeable with the deplorable consequences whicli will be but the result of his own weakness , his own treachery and ambition .
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PERSECUTION IN SCOTLAND . ARREST OF _EDINBURGH CHARTISTS . We take the following from the London papers of Thursday evening ;—" Edinburgh , Wednesday . —This afternoon , Mr H . Rankine , Mr A . Walker , and J . Cumming , with some others , were arrested , on charges of a general character , comprising attendance at illegal public meetings , and ad dresses delivered on those occasions of an exciting description . The houses of those individuals have been searched , and documents of a very suspicious character have been seized and carried away . The three named were committed to gaol , and some of the others liberated on bail . A great demonstration of sympathy with the offenders is talked of by the Chartists . "
So Scotland is to share the general proscription . War levied against tbe people of Ireland—terror established in England—and now extended to Scotland ! What are the people to do ? Their petitions are scoffed at , their meetings prevented by force , their footsteps tracked , and their words watched by Iscariot-detectives , and their advocates by the help of " Trial by Jury " thrown into dungeons . " The laws ( coirupted to their ends thRt make them ) ,
_Strvo but _forlnitrumenta of some new tyransy , That t : \ ery day starts up to enslave ub deeper . " The middle classes are being armed with deadly weapons to use against the people . The police of London are learning the use of the cutlass , and practising military evolutions , in addition to which the police of Liverpool are provided with firearms . A military camp is being formed in the neighbourhood of Liverpool , and _everywhere the signs abound of a determination to rule the working classes by the law of the naked sword .
•¦ How long ! Oh ! God , how long ?" Chartists of Scotland and England , working men of both countries , give your sympathy and your help to the persecuted patriots of Edinburgh . Friday Mornine . We havejust received a letter from Edinburgh stating that Mr Robert Cranston is included in the above arrests ; and , further , that the publishing office of the "North British Express" has been shut up by " the authorities , " and all the property connected therewith taken forcible possession of ! What say you to that , Englishmen ?
MORE ARRESTS IN SCOTLAND . _Saturdat Mohnikg . A letter received this morning from a friend at Greenock informs us tbat Messrs Robert Burrell and Andrew Keilson , of that town , and Mr James Smith , of Glasgow , were arrested very early on Thursday morning . The charge against Messrs Burrell and Smith is that of " treasonable correspondence ; '' that against Mr Keilson is of being secretary of a club for " illegal purposes . "
State Of Ireland. We Give In Another Col...
STATE OF IRELAND . We give in another column a statement of t e reported commencement of the Insurrection iu Ireland , in which it is stated , that the whole of the South is in open rebellion ; that fighting has taken place at Thurles , Clonmel _, and Kilkenny , in which the People have been victorious . It is also reported , that the troops have shown disaffection towards the
Government . On the other hand , the Evening Papers of Thursday contain no confirmation of this important intelligence ; on the contrary , in both Houses of Parliament Members ofthe Government , in reply to questions addressed to them , have professed to treat the matter as a hoax . The news of the Insurrection—whether for the moment true or false—has caused great excitement in the City , and occasioned a fall
in the Funds from 865 to 85 i From the tone of this ( Thursday ) evening ' s " Sim , '' it appears that some apprehension of " a run for gold " is entertained in the city . The " Standard" thinks the accounts from Ireland exaggerated , but adds , " still there can be no doubt of the ex p losion of the rebellion . ' ' According to the " Standard , " the moneymongers in the city are calling for measures " to silence the firebrand demagogues , " in England and Scotland ! Friday Morning .
It will be seen by later news in another column that the announced insurrection is a false report . All accounts , however , agree that a struggle is inevitable . The author or authors of tbe hoax did their work cleverly , and created that alarm which , no doubt , was the object they had in view ,
ARRESr OF P . O'HIGGINS , ESQ . Saturday Morning . Mr O'Hi ggins , the able and patriotic advocate of his country ' s rights , has been arrested on a trumped-up charge of " Felony , '' or , as some ofthe papers have it , " High Treason ' . " We reserve comment . It is reported in some of the papers that Mr Smith O'Brien is at the head of ten thousand armed men in Tipperary . A large force of police and military has been sent from Dublin to arrest him .
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THE MARTYRS . RALLY TO TIIE RESCUE ! The sacrifice of tbe Bradford and Bingley victims has commenced . In another column will be found a brief account ofthe trial of some ofthe defendants charged with having taken part in the Bradford Riot , on the 29 th of May . Those alread y tried have , with one exception , been found Guilty . The sentences have not yet been pronounced , and , most probably , will be deferred until the whole of the defendants have heen tried . We understand that there are , in all , fiftyeight persons charged with riot , & c , for trial at the present ( York ) assizes . The alleged offences embrace all the forms of " seditious
speeches , of illegal meetings , of riot , of rescue , of training and drilling others in the use of arms , of being present for the purpose of being trained and drilled , and of aiding , assisting , and abetting an unlawful assembly of persons in their being trained and drilled to the practice of military movements . " Of the fifty-eight , only nine have been enabled to obtain bail , and , consequently , nearl y fift y of these persecuted men have been already two months in prison . This has arisen from tbe exorbitant amount of bail fixed by the
celebrated " poor man ' s friend , " Busfeild Ferrand , and his worth y associates of the _miicisterial bench . The variations in tht forms ' ol the committals do honour to the in" * enuitv ot the aforesaid "poor man ' s friend _;' _* ari _<» that our readers may understand the comprehensive character of the net provided for the entrapment and sacrifice of their proscribed brethren , we give the following specimens : _ One man is committed fur "having wickedly maliciousl y , and seditiousl y , in the presence and hearing of divers liege subjects of our
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Sovereign Lady the Queen Victoria , uttered , pronounced , and declared certain scandalous , malicious , and seditious words , of and concerningour said Lady the Queen , her Government , Crown , and dignity ; '' another stands charged , that he , " with one R . W ., and divers other evil-disposed persons , to the number of 500 and more , at present unknown , did unlawfully meet together for the purpose of
exciting discontent and disaffection , and for the purpose of exciting the liege subjects of our Lad y the Queen to hatred , and hostilit y to the Government and Constitution of this realm—and did , by loud and seditious speeches , exclamations , and cries , and by exhibiting divers flags and banners ofa seditious character , cause great terror and alarm to divers peaceable and liege subjects of our Lady the Queen , her Crown , and dignity . '
Let the Just-asses of England only continue this game a little longer , and not all that the most furious Republicans ever said or did , will have done half so much to damage " our Sovereign Lady the Queen , her Government , Crown , and dignity , " as will be done by these officious , meddling , persecuting , " vindicators of the law . " We commend to the attention of our readers a letter from Dr M'Douall , describing the
particulars of his recent arrest and conmittal for trial . The treatment of that gentleman while in detention at Ashton , will excite the loathing , disgust , and burningindignation of all true men . The cowardly torturers appear to have tried upon their victim a combination ofthe cruelties of the Inquisition , with tbe horrors of the celebrated Black Hole . Curses loud and deep from the masses , will reward their cold-blooded vindictiveness .
Meetings have been holden in the metropolis to sympathise with Ernest Jones and his fellow victims , and for the purpose of obtaining some mitigation of the cruel punishment to which tbey are subjected . The Daily News has the assurance to stnte that " the moderation displayed by the Attorney-General and the Crown counsel in the recent trial at the Old Bailey , was exemplary : care was in general taken not to strain the law , or to act with unnecessary harshness towards tbe defendants : and the members of the Chartist body were satisfied of the perfect fairness of all that took place " Here are a precious string of lies—the greatest lie being the libel on the London Chartists , that they were satisfied of tbe perfect fairness of the trials !
Mr Jones was last week rescued from oakum picking by the payment of \ L , which relieve ! him for one month from this _disgusting toil . Mr O'Connor has this day ( Thursday ) paid il . to exempt Vernon , Fussell , Sharp , and Williams , from the same slavery for the _ensuing month . With pain andshame we must now direct the attention of the Chartist body to the humilia . ting fact , that scarcely anyTunds have been provided for the defence of the Yorkshire victims . Up to last Saturday , the West Riding treasurer had in hand not more than a shilling a head for each of the unfortunate men , and we fear that this week the funds are very little improved , although the trials are now going on .
Dr _lVI'Douall's letter speaks for itself . He will defend every inch of ground—if supported by the people , Is Dr M'Douall to be sacrificed ? He requires money to pay his solicitor , fee counsel , and take his witnesses to Liverpool . Men of England , we appeal to you to do your duty , and aid the Doctor in his struggle with his and your oppressors . The families , too , of the London victims demand your earnest sympathy , expressed not b y words , but by deeds . He who at this time withholds his assistance—according to his means—is a traitor to the Chartist cause , and the most culpable of the enemies oftbe Chartist martvrs-
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . The Whig policy towards Ireland has it length attained im appropriate conlummation . Based upon hypocrisy , and car-¦ ied on in fraud , it has ended in open and _unlisguised despotism . Last Saturday will be an listorical day in the annals of that party , of _P arliament , and ofthe country , whose liberties _itdfa of nr \ Cm rcll _oiirfwm _fin / l tn Ano oh _/\»* 4- <>* l 4 . _! _vwv
swept away . The Government that in two years has not been able to construct or carry one remedial measure for Ireland , can be vigorous enough when it pleases , and so can Parliament ; but , unfortunately , it is only for mischief when they rouse themselves to action . One sitting of seven hours is sufficient to suspend the Constitution : a session of seven months has produced no effort to mend it .
In order to form anything like an impartial _judgment on the course pursued by the Government in this suspension of one of tbe great constitutional rights of the subject , which distinguish a free country from one under despotic rule , it is necessary to recal to recollection a few _leadinj *; facts . It may be true , that looking at the present condition of Ireland from the same point of view as Parliament and the Executive Ministry , that _^ _ey have no alternative but to resort to this extreme
measure . In the face of an open and avowed armed preparation for insurrection , with the object of wresting from the dominion of the Queen an important portion of the empire , to the rule of which she succeeded her predecessors , and which she swore to maintain intact , the servants of the Crown have , constitutionally speaking , no alternative but to take every pjssible measure to prevent or repress that armed insurrection , and prevent * hat severance of the empire by force of arms , if it is proposed to effect it by that means .
All this may be ; admitted as abstractedly true ; but it does not in the slightest degree improve the position of the present Ministry . The question remains—who is to blame for the disaffection having grown so general ?—the i armed preparations so formidable as to call for j measures of so severe , unconstitutional , and despotic a nature ? j In replying to that question we need not travel back into the long records of Ireland ' s misgovemment . It is unnecessary to disinter from the tomb of past centuries , the injuries which have been inflicted upon ber b y systematic tyranny and misrule ; it is even , for an immediate answer to the question , not needed that we go beyond 1846 , and the accession of the present Ministry to power .
It will be remembered by our readers that , towards the close of that Session , Sir It . Peel brought in an Arms Act for Ireland . It was first introduced in the House of Lords , where it went through all its stages witli the entire sanction of the Whig Peers , including those who now sit upon the Ministerial Bench . On the appearance of the bill in the House of Commons , Lord J . Russell and the Whigs sup . ported the first reading , and even John O'Connell admitted that the case presented by Sir It . Peel , as a justification for the measure , and its own comparatively temperate and mild character , were such as to induce him to take
a neutral part on the first reading . He merely " egged for a little time to lake the sense of the people ol Ireland on the subject . It was admitted b y the Irish members generally , that it _vras the mildest bill of the kind ever proposed . If we understand - the policv of Sir R _, Peel on that occasion rightly , it was liis object to put these limited powers into the hands of the authorities , in order to prevent the people _tvom obtaining possession of arms ; and , having thus secured the State against the continKen . _cu-s of an armed outbreak , he intended to have
proposed and carried a series of remedial measures lor laying the foundation of a better _st-. te of things in that country . Presuming that Mich was Ins intention-a presumption fully Lome out by all that the Right Hon . Baronet stated in the debates on the bill -and especially > y his memorable declaration with reference to _rish policy iu the speech witli which lie took leave ol _uihw ?—there cannot be the _slightest ( ouht on the mind of any impartial man that ( Sir Ii . Peel would have succeeded in his _objects _. However much any party may differ
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from the politics or the policy of the late Premier , every one admits his rare administrative ability , When he brings forward any measure it is certain not only to be suited to the purpose in vieiv , but also to be framed in such a practical and business-like shape as fully to answer these objects ; besides this , the country at large know that when he proposes measures he really means to carry them . They are not produced merely to make a show of work , and then
withdrawn , postponed , or botched ; and , as a consequence , they have confidence in him as a practical statesman ; while , at the same time , Parliament knowing that they must either pass the measures or find another Minister , go willingly and in a workmanlike spirit to work . We repeat , therefore , that if Peel _hadsucceeded in getting his Arms Act , and b y that means preserving a tolerable amount of quiet in Ireland , we might fairly have expected a reall y remedial and practical policy from him , of a comprehensive and immediately practical
character . But what were the' facts ? When the Bill was first introduced into the House of Commons , the great Free Trade measure of the Premier was still before Parliament , and any hostile move on the part of the Whigs might have damaged the chances of its passing the Lords . They wished it to be passed , because they knew they could not , if in office , do so themselves ; whereas , that matter once settled , they saw the path to the resumption of power and patronage open _toj them . They therefore waited until the seal of the Queen ' s authority was finally affixed to the bill repealing the Corn Laws , and then united with the alienated section of
the Protectionist party in defeating Peel oa the Arms Act , with the express view of forcing him out of office and securing their own return to power . Whatever may be thought ofthe bitter and revengeful feelings by which the Protectionists were induced to vote with the Whigs on that _occasion they were at least natural , and had nothing of meanness or selfish calculation about tbem—but their allies were of a more sordid stump—tliey were actuated only by the desire to clutch at the loaves and fishes of office _.
They succeeded in their endeavour ; but on what terms did Lord J . Russel ); become the Pre mier of Great Britain and Ireland ? He distinctly declared that the time for governing Ireland by coercion had gone by forever . He enumerated the long and melancholy catalogue of coercive measures whicli had been enacted since the year of the Union—all of which had utterly and entirel y failed to produce Vie intended efFect _, and upon that historical review pro *
claimed the natural and rational induction—that in future these modes of endeavouring to suppress discontent and disaffection should be abandoned , and a conciliatory policy adopted , based upon the principle of removing the evils which generated both . He proclaimed that he was willing to accept the government ofthe country on these terms , and was prepared with a broad and comprehensive policy . Parliament took him at his word , and he became Prime Minister .
What are the results ? Where are the indications of that broad and \* omprehensive remedial policy which was to lay the foundation of a new and prosperous state of thing ' _s in Ireland ? In every respect Lord John Russell has falsified his pledges , and acted diametrically opposite to what he declared he would do _. The terrible famine , and its consequent suffering , in 1847 , wbich virtually threw both landlord , tenant , and labourer into the power of the Government , would have been seized by a bold and judicious minister as a providential auxiliary of the most powerful character , to
enable him to cut the _Gordian knot of difficulties , which other previous ministers had mainly attempted to untie . In the midst of that dreadful crisis which , in effect , reduced society to its original elements in Irelandproduced general disorganisation , and threw all classts helplessly on the sustaining _energies of the Executive and people of this country * ; a far-sighted and determined minister would have said : "lam willing to relieve and assist you to the utmost that the means at my disposal will enable me , but it must be under such arrangements as will be mutually
beneficial _, and which will afford at least a reasonable hope that such an awful and deplorable crisis in the history of the nation shall not recur again . It is clear that some radical error lies at the root of the organisation of society in Ireland , or the wide-spread destitution , disease , and death , and the utter helplessness of all classes under these afflictions , could not have existed . We must , therefore , proceed radically with our remedies , and while fully providing for a fair adjustment of all existing claims , lay the basis for a belter application of the soil and labour of Ireland in future . "
Such might , and would , have been the course of an enlightened and practical Minister , under the circumstances which then occurred , but Lord John Russell is neither an enlightened nor a practical Minister . The opportunity slipped through his fingers unimproved ; the only use he made of it was to squander ten millions sterling in one year , ia a way , which , while it involved a total loss to this country , produced in Ireland onl y a deeper feeling of humiliation and alienation than had formerly existed . Its real grievances remained untouched , and the hopes of substantial amelioration and improvement faded further into the distance .
Is it any wonder , then , the leaders and the people of Ireland should have grown desperate , and resolved to let their country ' s salvation no longer depend upon the will of a minister « ho was incompetent to his task , aud of a legislature which was either ignorant of the remedies required , or whose personal interests were directly opposed to the introduction of these remedies ? The consequence has been , that instead of the Arms Bill of Peel , in 1846 , we have bad a Coercion Bill passed in the extra session before Christmas 184 ?; . the Gagging Act , before Master 1848 ; and that proving altogether
incapable of putting down the natural , indignation with which Irishmen regard the Government of this country , Lord John bas now suspended the Constitution ! From this time forth the Lord Lieutenant has the power , without any proof of guilt , without any formality of examination or trial , to seize upon every man or woman in _Ireland he pleases , and to shut them up in jail until March next . There is but one step more to absolute despotism , in its worst and most abhorrent formnamely , to proclaim all Ireland under martial law , and the supreme authority of drum-head courts-martial .
We repeat that we owe this disgraceful and painful state of things , together with all the loss of life , destruction of property , and the more deadl y feeling of alienation between the two countries , which must ensue from any actual collision , entirely to the policy pursued by the Ministers now in power . It is the natural and inevitable termination to a career begun in false pretences , and everv step of which has been a disappointment to the 1 eople , and a contradiction to tbe professed principles of tbe Government , with reference to its Irish policy .
_W lether the extreme measure now resorted to will prevent bloodshed or insurrection , as Lord John says it is intended to do , remains to be seen . One thing _j 3 qUite certain . The people of Ireland have got a new article of accusation against the British Legislature and Government—a new argument for Repeal or beparation . The Parliament that finds so much difficult y in passing remedial measures , nnds none in passing coercive and cruel ones . We shall never forget the scene in the Ilouse of Lords on Monday night . The resolution to suspend the standing orders having been agreed to , after a verv short conversation on
tiie first re . idiiu of the Bill , it was read a second time , went through committee ( almost be . _' ore poor old Shaftesbury csuld get into his seat and out again ) , reported , read a third time , aud passed iu about two minutes with
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 29, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_29071848/page/4/
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