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¦^^ rfoiALLEY , OP THE DITBLIN tfUKTIST ASSOCIATION HUB CMallst , —In my two preceding & * ^ v ^ shown that so *» fr ° m **» Repeal and ^^ l . AriWaan being strengtbeneA it has pro-^ SrW * P « ' 7 * " fterye * > &om 183 S to fte f ^*^^ and » ° w , before I come to a eonai-F *** - ^ respective prospect * of the two connds **** jj ^ jj je qjeetiTe modes of advocating the tn * "TjL ajosi , let me , for a moment , direct yonr **** * . «» new figure placed on the wall of the ^^ JKLJK !*«* .-^ ( YHiflff . mart , " Compensation tot Tenants ;" ^ " ^ ArfR . fl * * 8 < JDfl ** tbe boOM to ** s ** ned b J ^^^ e Union , and one which Mr . O'Connell ""L ^ wi fc » d in bis eye , bnt which he never "J ^ f ^ d * peop le till the old painting wasted nitlUliilltf " * . .. — , _ _ , * . * .- *• : » m . uf ¦• »
_ _ < Th * « a * koo ° y * * ^^ wonpiea ?»* Ba *« tion of the trades and recHen Toting " ¦^ . <^ oaej to support a useless set of lumber , has ^ Ti toe «?* ° * *** ta < ies > * ° * * rti 8 * «» Md the ' ° ^ f 8 tt geoffally , and poor Paddy from Cock ; * * V _ ^^ j in hii own staple for his own money . VBoWBct&fc * * ° o T ^^ Vulvas , supplies , and ^^^^ ire ; bat he does understand rent ; and ^ SL& flf- rent and compensation being at all men-^ rJ ^^ Mtimi bein g a word which not oae *|* T fc < j& hnndred will understand , the whole * TuL * r - will be worked upon the single pivot ,
«— ' j gndsrstaDd the Irish country people much Ufa tW to- O'Conneil does , and the manner in * yj BHii fcB » ea wiB'be taught * ° nBderrtand ^ k T mB ^ Ji tBu : that they are aB to have the land * T « &iis a ey only back Dm That will be their , -nfr - ^ of the question . let . 80 * . to * " ™ consider it as a means to an end . ¦ Rak , sfctfW , itiato be one of the results from Renal libla *** ?« matarely used as a means of projtOiL * fee Se pal- Here then , again , we come to the 68 oa whom it is to be
iBonlps *^ " ^ P **** n P ned—& £ & * of Commons ; and I ask yon , coald UiD jninirfiB" * - ** " devised any qHestioa more likely toa £ j ^» Bom tf landlords out of th eir Tery wits , than ti » wy «* " rtu 6 b ** " ¦ " Pr * cticai" gentleman ja * vBfesA » a mean * to enlist their snpport ? Sorely bt bMtvftd i brt baring asked far petitions to the Haass «( Obh *»* taToui of Repeal , and having de-Bomtti !* J » aJ fi « ee , be most be a rogue or a mad msn to mate "alarm upon the most tender point in the hraJti tf &se Tery persons to whom he appeals .
2 » ov fFMaBey , I will distinctly show yon two facts . P 5 jst , aa a ^ Jish House of Landlords never ¦ would jcee ^ t , &e miad propositioB of 'being compelled t » pis « B 5 » a « ii < ffl ; M » d , secondly , they nerer will -rote ftuftuffl fafflfthirmnt of a iiTal House in Ireland , one of iritaebracts rnm"V * to be a precedent for interfera » » ifc Stair darling priTilege of " doing vhat they Hke vSkSktrmm . " An English House , then , will be frjrft »—« ri hj the pro position , while an Irish House of
Casamm , reSsussd by TTuiTers&l Suffrage , would , I joniadta tt , render the scheme wholly unnecessary ; jnd , ikmiiu , my friend , by rnirersal Suffrage alone , will latoi ent get a Bepeal of the Union -, and , as the iM £ i » iaM , consistent , and sincere Kepealer in Ireland , I ra 7 Soifc « iftii » beeTer should . One aristocracy , and csa «¦* , » A o »* ciligarebT , and one royal tail is quite OBofkfii the united beggars to support Believe me , ftat jb lMk ? ariissnent chosen by a middle class
con-^ sta 9 voskl hate miaie Court , its Deputy King , StTojA'tao ^ am set in diamonds and precious stones . We ba ataady had a sample , from irss to lseo , of tia ojtaty of irto patnots in emptying an ex-IteDy » , O'Mansy ) that Bffly Pitt complained to SB midirf ataa , l ? ra Longue > iUe , and to many other pmnMjBat the deril himself wouldn't satisfy an Irish EoBRtfCaauaoBS wit money and patronagB . Cvmsmmiiaa , then , is &mesaaof impeiing Bepe&l ;
aadftpai , with Unrrersal Suffrage , would render the tambB | B » neee « ry . Therefore , O'UaQey , doing Mr . < TCoa « £ u » jestiee to suppose that he knows what he It ibs ^ TDqe » he ^ t »* m in . aaying" tta * he has prenatasijnised this question with-tjie single Intenfe » rf ipa ^ xeng irelan * that 9 BT peat ttrength whki ise ^ B&r-from Qua -aaw ioane will justify deJiyioSit Aafl hare been " practically" marshalled . Ib 6 d , ^ at 3 is another stab in the aide of Repeal .
031 * 7 , "tats this witt you , " as we say in Iretotaiaiak-wwit . Repeal « f the XTnion , without VsitmdB&age , wooW be a cone to both countries ; * a & I one yen fiat if Mr . O'Conneil hail Che casting " **» S wnaa , tonwrrow , Tote against an Irish 2 * M OoonnontMtamed by ttie people ; and for this A gfcMfcW-aaA alOwnrh Paddy can be hoodwinked
saw ir-Sajesjit Jaekwa and Mr . Litton , " "I / ord ®* &ria&ti& . a » Beard , - and " onr beantifal Uttle , ^» ftfl » BUtet at a Qaaen , " while he basnt his eye 15 « 4 e 4 jp ; jd , if ta TO ^ daily communicatioH ^ laapwrfatiTB , that genUeman would hare to f ^** totaraooonnt of himself and his - progress , tii-in ¦ fia * he » M OrlraBfK > mMs poationbyaScotchfaoatic »^ t *» < 3 tHMbiBiste »
o 2 * 9 '"» "y » tme word is said in jest ; " and , •*^ £ ** * * V' my friend Dan was rarer more "W «» Bb * ia when he said that " the Kildare " 7 » *^ 4 b e ^> » d abont tha fiooae of a fine mornf' ^ aiEir shat « tfcka , tE »« bJng the members how /* IB 4 ? « T ao ^ OOdalky ? Oar » loTely young ^^ ouid ae&d ha red eoata , hex » bloody backs , " * J « B ^ doodle alb fljaa , down to Kildare in a £ « % . to toch tke Klldare boys how fco pay tithes , ^ " * >* po « ratet , or cosnty rates , or any other ™* i «* wl ! y aot t ^ em ^ j ,, ^ their moral te
use ^• teidithar members how to Tote for those g ^ **™ . and soidier questions ? besides , the ^ aafcssystttf " nothing convinces Eke a l ick in Baa ^« » ad , a g ^ faiUlj it hag been tie only n » HBd fey ths j ^ h for ctmTincing tlxs poor . hd tfe ^ S B ^ T ' tafe 0 , W £ tfd f £ w it _ tfeat y ^ ^ jJJ fi * Ato ** ijrOf brin | illg til ™ nfiW foroe iatothe ^ wiaettiiie foi pojtpoimig any discnoion P ^****! qnestion this session . oii ^ i ^* wa * to a ooMideration of the Irish aMieira g grisrances , with it * mrivmAMi nn » 1
j 2 » BWifi , with it , expences . « a ^^* 1 S 32 , has subscribed hundreds of thon-. i- *! M » to redress her grievanees : she has had * & *¦ sJ-Zf 85064 ^ ' Bfea S iltel ^ ter slaughter ; jj ^^ KKBae ' WaHstown , Cutrickahoek , and aa , ^^^* ' « a » gle mardsrs ; die has had her she Irb ^ ^ ^ auH ^ rrJ 8 , herelectien Hiartyra ; ^^ te ^ f ^* * ' hei ^^^ S " . her distrainjI a ^^ 2 ? tl&IIB ) her "'e ^ iag . her waUing , her J ^ 6 |«^ T * » ^^ tad the largest number « f » ed H » 2 ^!^' erer * sti to any legislatiTe assembly , b a&tt }^^ f ^ ta blct t ^ any men have ever ** ae ^^ *^> ** ether for money or signaturespeo ^ J ^ * ^> Jays—for excitement or for tem-« ia !^ . * tfahoiaing of ttthsa or paying « Mo ^ ^ ^^ heen retained—their *** l " i « . u d % aified with tiUes , and
re-• BS ^ ^ *—*«» , mea men nave eon-^ Ba ^^^ ti » sole , the only majority of ^^ -T ***^ years ; therefore , when the feo > a *^ itef ^ Bbera l Iri 8 h p * perB ^ P " * * MinisfyeB& 7 ^^ Vpm thoae vb 0 compose the $ ole tas ! sSui Jtea . 0 > iIal ] eyj j ^^ ^ jj ^ ^ P **** £ i t * r * ' ***** fOT O'CwuieU&ad his cph& ^^ vwfa , rendered aU respect for public ttwa ^* *? . the Whigg would have done tes > Ite * 'NLp «^! fw tte v 3 ™*** *»* he would " ^^ tSM ^ vJ ** ° ae assewlt which they have ** ** * «• ^ Wi Tl' Z "rm ' ^ ert'ke to prove 8 ^^ ** » des' Fnions—0 'CkmneH SaiS *^ Can ci _ o . CcHmen . ^^ tfS ChadKa -O-CoimeIl ; ^ j ^^ Jr ^ PP ^ Pnstion Clause—O'ConneH ;
¦« ; v ' T "" " * 1 " by Atlomey-Qeneral-O-Con H ^^ ai-o-Coaaen ; . ^^ rj- MMWBiinin , - ^^ tJ ^ J" 116 ^ Bent-O-Connell ; W ^! f" in Boyal Wages-O'ConneU ; * ** Li ! ' Money Qa « tions , and on the - ^ *^ TT Wll 5 s 8 >~ o * Coime 11 - ^ M ^^^ to ^ da of- pstoota - f ^^^^^ wfio has been com-16 . toBW «* todf « i 08 s « rostailiedia
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natrional struggle Not on ^ HMPHf Can you point out the one single inst * r 5 ^^ S ^ Bi ^ Pb farmers , orlibooriagclasses of Ireland * W »^ li ^ benefltt 6 d ? Not one single one , I defy you . Can yon point out a single martyr who has had his attorney ' s bill of costs paid ? Not one . Can you point out a real working man who has been benentted , or at all consulted t Then , I ask you whether yours hu been even-handed , er onesided " patriotism ? " - . ... ^ How much nearer is Irel&uL&&w to the ntttTrtTrnijt of her promised end , tfcan ^ mb * was in 1833 . * Immeasurably removed from the winning posa > wJbftB the
whole period has been spent in rough-ridtagwjpfcttHy ing the brave and manly Irish . ; In msiinjpSeia lixtas to the denunciation pfSinea who riakii . life and liberty in . »^ wggle" % 0 ? thrtr Jiberty ; in ; the inculcatks ^^ - ^ damnable doctrine that ioSering in thaSrarld will lead to happlaes in the next ; In the esta&Ubment of the strongest buis of devil-craft , kin £ -exa& , priest-craft , and witch-craft , namely , * % t passive obedience , even to unjust authority , becomes a part of a Christian ' s duty . In short , the last ten years , and the next five years , of Ireland " s history may be briefly written in the following words : —
"JDuiing tliis period Irish opinion WM gold at the Corn Exchange , in Dublin , by samples , just as any other commodity , while the nation was literally tickled into admiration of its own subserviency Ireland , however , as if by magic , appeared stung to the heart by her supineness and degradation , and with one gigantic effort achieved that freedom which no power can long withhold wbeu a whole people wills its accomplishment This spirit of independence was infused
into drowsy Ireland , by the manly and patriotic fcxertions ef our forefathers , who , about that time , ass&mwi the name of Chartists , and to whose indomitable courage and perseverance both countries owe the present proud and commanding position which they occupy in the estimation of all nations , and to whose justice we are indebted for the mild yet powerful constitution , which renders us great at home and commanding abroad .
" We read , in ' O'Connor ' s history of the Convention and its consequences , ' of the fast of 431 of those brave men being consigned to felons' prisons -at the same time , or periods varyingfromtwelvemonths tofouryears , and many ef them compelled to submit to a species of labour most degrading , but now unknown ^ Some , we leam , died in prison , waile few recovered the effects of the barbarous treatment to which they were subjected ; the Marquis of Normanby , who was then principal Secretary of State for the Home Department , —( but who was subsequently transported for life , ' —havinz issued
instructions for the treatment of Chartist prisoners at variance with the gaol rules then in existence for the worst description of felons . We read these facta in ' O'Connor ' s history of theJConvention , written during an imprisonment of eighteen months , which he suffered in sol itary confinement , in a felon ' s cell , in York Castle , ' the same in -which , the Marquis of Normanby , Lord John Russell , and a person of the name of Fox Maule , an nnder-strapper to the Marquis , -were imprisoned in three years after , prior to being removed to the Hulks .
" From this interesting work we also learn the gigantic difficulties with which the Chartists had t » contend , owing to the treachery of some of their own leaders , which , however , was always successfully overcome by tbe people themselves , and in every such instance , the traitors' beet exertions failed in again procuring for them the least confidence from the people ; and to this striking fact O'Connor ascribes the very few desertions from the Chartist ranks , his words are— ' In fact ,
when desertion was found to be profitless , like all other trades , it was speedily abandoned . ' The first experiments were made under the impression that the people , like sheep in a fold , would follow the leader who made a successful breach ; bat the enemy , rinding \ hat they bought a shepherd without a flock , a dog without a tail , ( as , in no single instance did a deserter take even a companion with him , ) thoafht they had paid too dear for tbelr wUstle , and , therefore , abandoned the pursuit as hopeless . "
I give > oa the foregoing , mj countryman , as a breath from that soul which I hope to leave as a record to rest in the archives of my father-land , when mj spirit , shall nava fled to that great God who has imposed upoh , ^ the earthly duty of doing unto others a » I think , ukiftfc ffitrftir y fCTT * t 3 ln /< ' 4 j f ) tf ) fim * tff ^ < fo nnt /\ ^ nft . _ O'Malley , I look for two lives ; that which I now enjoy to be devoted to the poor , in order to insure for me a rich inheritance hereafter . My friend , the deeds of great men have a wonderful effect upon me ; nor do I require that they skoold shine through the mst ot many dark ages to recommend them . I can admire a living Mathew , and the scarcely
cold Doyle . Tes , my friend , when I sat in bis chair , the host of the Rev . Mr , Bafferty , in the room in which his soul was so often poured oat on behalf of his suffering and oppressed countrymen , his spirit commanded me , and for the moment I lost all self-possession . I recollected the imperishable words which he engraved upon every Irish heart , and I swore to obey them . " My hoized tithes shall be as lasting as my love oj justice , " said the immortal hero , before the House of Peers . had equal pleasure in visiting that' which had been the abode of the
immortal Doyle , as 1 should have in visiting the Tetreat of Petrarch at Yaucluse , so endeared by antiquity , and so famed for the devotion he so long cherished and so sweetly recorded for his Laura . Petrarch ' s light was distinguished as a solitary Limp that bums in a dark chamber . Doyle ' s was as a torch , brilliant even in the noon-day Fun . Petrarch loved solitude , because it gave HiK liberty . Doyle loved liberty , because it would make hi » oonntry free . If Doyle had lived in the 14 th eentary , he would have been a patriot ; if Petrarch had lived in the nineteenth he would have been a
SPOONEY . O'Mallej , I loek upon Dr . Doyle and the Rev . 31 r . Mathew as two of the greatest patriots Ireland has had for many years . My admiration of Dr . Doyle is founded npon his pure love of liberty ; my admiration of Mathew is founded upon his pure love of justice , and his love of justice is established by his desire to appeal from Philip Drunk to Philip Sober . If he had attached other conditions than aalf-pos 3 es 3 ion , self-exaltation , " self-esteem , and power of self-defence to Teetotalism , I should have looked upon him as a new quack ; but , having healed the sick that he may use his renewed strength for bis own benefit , and walk alone without crutches , I honour him as a great State Physician .
O'JIalley , as an Irishman , you will pardon all this digression . I am very foad of speaking and thinking of my good countrymen . Well , now , I have disposed of the question ot Compensation , which the Tenant of Straw is to extract from tha Landlord of Steel , and , before we part , at this point , just think , O'Malley , how foolish , how rognish , how rascally , how mischievous to endeavour to persuade the tenantry of an agricultural country , whfire competition for land raises it much beyond its real valne , that any saeb power can be acquired from men who , unfortunately , certainly , cau " de what they like with their ewo . " Now , how foolish , to think that a landlord who can let his land , or let it alone , wiH be forced to give compensation for any monies expended during the occupation of his tenant . Let us test its " practicability , "—that ' s tha slang word
now . Firstly , then , the very agitation ot the question will make landlords more exact and tyrannical ; and , secondly , l et us see where upon a l andlord it might operate unjustly . Suppose a poor honest man to have a little property of his own , and suppose a rich man to take a fancy to it , and that the poor man is reconciled to par t with it for a short period for a tempting offer , and , that during bis lease , he , the rich tenant , expends so much as to preclude the possibility of the poor man ever . re-possessing himself , from his inability to pay the leqnired compensation for baths , or pleasure grounds , or large arming establishment , or so forth .
Bnt , 0 , say the " patriots , ? It shall be denned . I define it by a lease for ever , at a corn rent , which leaves the tenant compensation In his every day ' s labour . If there is any one thing in the world more farcical than another , O'Malley , it is that of contracting to pay an equal amount of rent each and every year for ninetynine years , or even twenty-one years , without reference to the price of corn or other produce . In fact , a Leeds clothier may just as well tell a piece of doth , and say , you shall pay whatever a similar article fetches when I or my executors shall call fox ttr ^ cash , within ninety-nine years . If Univeral Suffrage -was too great a mouthful for the Corn Law ' Repealers to ( W&Ilow all at once , they
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should , at all events , have protected the existing tenants and their successors against the tyranny of landlords , by making the current com price the standard rent price of land ; but they hare sot offered the poor tenants any accompanying measure as security against the rapacity of broken-down over mortgaged landlords , who would hold them to the old bargain , as I said before , as long as a goose remained . O'Malley , the expeace at which humbug agitation ha * been kept up In Ireland , requires no comment ; and now I come to a . consideration ot English agitation , and
its QMMfltaLf Bvery prtwtthat is arrayed in favour of Irish agitation frnmnijtidfed in deadly hostility against English agitation ; md > the very fact of those powers being composed oMbt , mighty , of the wealthy and the privileged because we represented of all classes , against the right of the poor and unprivileged because the unrepresented of all classes , would , at once , and without a word in explanation , test the value of the respective ends sought by the respective parties . In Ireland you
have with you royal toleration , ministerial neutrality , aristocratic support , middle-class influence , newspaper pliancy , and the use of a whole population , whenever called upon , no matter if to-day for Bepeal as the only thing ,, and to-morrow for Down with Jackson and Litton , " as a still greater thing . Added to this you have the columns of the imperial press for and against you , the latter being your best friends from their stupid desire to please advertisers : but no matter ;
you get , even from the enemy , just what you wantpublicity , while we cannot purchase it at any price . Why is this ? Because Irish agitation is a blind to secure power in the hands of the aristocracy and middle classes , and which is not therefore dreaded by their organs as Ukely to poison the public- mind ; while English agitation is based upon a principle which mast ultimately throw the balance of power into the hand * of those who are whimsically called " the legitimate seurce of a ll power , " and yet have not even the power of complaining without th « danger of coercion ; and it is therefore only seen in the columns of the press in connection with some violence , outbreak , disgraceful proceeding , and so forth , all of which is charged on the Chartists , but should be charged on the enemy .
Now , my friend , what is most valuable in a public man ? In Ireland , have we not an old saying , " What is any man but his ux > rd ? " Well , then , if , in the private transactions of life , the observance of a promise is a virtue , of how much more value . does it become , ( if we can measure virtue by a graduated scale of excellence ) when applied to the public man - in whom thousands may repose confidence , and the betrayal of whose word may lead thousands into trouble , disappointment , and errort In Ireland , since 1835 , you have had scores of Associations , scores of principles , scores of details , scores of plans , schemes , and tricks , and to each and all was attached the never-failing thing , called " means under the title , "— " rent" and collection .
In England , the people have had since that time one principle from which they have never budged , through persecution and prosecution , a single hair ' s breadth In England , we have had arrayed against us all the secondary influence of '' our beloved and beautiful Queen , " in the shape of a court ; we have had the Lords , the Commons , the Judges , the jurors , ths law officers , the middle classes , the army , the navy , the secret service fond , the magistrates , the spies , the informers , the traitors , the real enemies and sham friends , and the imperial press ; all , all against ub , with the one solitary exception of the Northern Star .
Again , we have had the subdivision of those classes into sectional squadrons , advocating the most enticing questions , in the hope of catching all the people upon some one or other of their many hooks ; and to each and all of which the pecp ' e would hive subscribed had they been convinced that the object of the several demagogues was attainable without the great organic change in the representative system for which they lock .
The people object to slavery in ever ; shape ; bnt , in order to prevent a spurious agU&tioa upon the subject , damaging the means of its complete and entire abolition , they are compelled to bear the name of lovers of 4 ^ I £ iZMa 3 rUh th s Com X ^ wi ^ rfefah . . tfeiy ww rtaft t IfcUijK 1 with ' knowledge , which they fondly Igjre an * fcrtXHJy-wareh rpr .- ^ migration they u > lpMM » , .-l > eca »» 9 it Is low , ttb jut foroe , of a people fronrtheir fatherland , through degradation brought about by class legislation .
You see tout hundred and thirty-one of the seasoned and trusted leaden of the people thrown at once into dungeons , and every device -ef which art is master used to supply their plaoa with less honest and less zealous men , resisted by substitutes whom necessity has crested and supplied , as if by magic , and not a whit less efficient than those who have been TemoveVL Such , then , is our agitation ,- a principle , a plain , clear , denned principle , at which no apprenticeship need be served to teach the trade . A . falls off to-day—B . supplies his pise © to-morrow ; while , in Ireland , so mysterious is your trade that , take away the master
to-day , and to-morrow not a . single one , not even a foreman , has been taught how to cut out . Having no principle , you should all set up loy-Bhops on yonr own account Our work consists of a single dress for nature ' s children , cut out according to nature ' s unerring rules and piinciples , and which every Chartist workman can pnt together . Youra is a kind of fancy-work , cut out by the great Master of Arts , in zigzag fasbioa ; the pieces only given out according to one man's will , and none to be put together till all are distributed ; and .
aa he alters his fashion according to order , if he died to-morrow , what you have got of your work would but confound you in your progress . In fact , of your Bepeal dress , after nine years , you have got but the buttons to your coat—there is neither back , front , nor sleeves ; you have got no trousers to your straps . But your tithe suit is complete ; yon have got a five shilling cape thrown over yonr old twenty-shilling suit ; while of " the rippling stream , the green valleys , the verdant hills , aud cloud-capped mountains , " you have got but the landscape .
Irish agitation , then , has had every thing , and almost every body , ia its favour—and has done worse than nothing . English agitation has had everybody , and everything , but the very honest opposed to it , —and it has stood the brunt of battle ; its front unmoved , its flank unturned , its centre undaunted , its reserve undisturbed ; in fact , " the Star and the people , against the world in aims ; " and while Irish expense for doing mischief baa been scores of thousands within the ye&t ; out cause , for the last fifteen months , after defending over three hundred prisoners , supporting their families , aud when
our next Convention shall have been paid , will be sEort of £ 1 , 000 ; that is all the expence * since the Monmouth Special Commission . None of our men have been undefended . I , this day , paid { or Counsel for Foden , the last of the Chartists , who is to be tried to-morrow , and who , although he means to plead guilty in the hope of mercy , I am resolved shall not be Without connsel , leaving the impression that , although a stray sheep , he has been deserted in the hour of need . He has had his choice , solicitor and counsel ; I offered him two , or as many as be liked , to be paid by the Irish traitor in a felon ' s celi
That ' s the way to make a party , O'Malley . Stand by your poorest man to th » last . Give what yon can to all and ^ ake fro m none . Let principle be your idol , and man your honourably used means for working it . O'Malley , the terms " traitor" and " patriot" are most whimsically used . I know of bo treason , bat treason against the happiness of the people . I know of uo patriotism , bat love of maa and love of justice . If a never ceasing wish , an anxious desire to see oar own Parliament sitting in oar own capital , in out own
kingdom , legislating for ear own people , be treason , then am i a traitor , if fond affection for tha land of my birth , preference for that society in which I grew from childhood to manhood , and a longing desire that my bones may rest with them in oar common fatherland , be patriotism , then am I a patriot Bat if my love of the human species would Induce me to resist my country in an attempt to forge fetters for herself or others , and to oppose decrees made only for fractions of her people , then am I a philanthropist , which , in my mind , is the highest order of patriotism .
O ' Malley , a patriot can seldom be jodged during life . He must die for bis reward . I believe the signs of patriotism to b e & consistent ; , frugal , honourable life , devoted to yonr country ' s cause ; no legacy duty , and a poor funeraL Qf all these , I am pretty sure . However , come 'what will , no man , who has ever lived before me , hap . ev « felt ft more sincere desire in the ftccompiishm-ea } of . hji pria ^ ipiBj t > i"i I have done .
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t ^ ronld ' iu > V help me God , nee ' ft village meeting o ! Chartist * defeated l ? y the . enemy for jgl , OO « . I would not impede their cause for untold gold . I would net sell it for my Ufa < : I am , O'MaJley , Tour faithful friend and countryman , TEARQV 8 O'CONNOR .
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. - — ¦ - —?> ;• ,. . ~ w ~ ¦ , ¦ ; ¦ • . . THE CHABTIST TRICKSTERS . TO THE EDITOR OF THE NOUTHEEN 8 TAH . Sia , —From the above heading , you and your numerous readers , may be led to suppose that I am going to run amuck and tilt" at the whole ChartUt host if bo , yon are strangely mistaken : I only use the term " Chartist , " inconnection with those on whose proceedings I Intend briefly to animadvert , because the Tricksters have the effrontery to apply it to themselves , or xather retain it , when they hate forfeited every particle » t claim to that honourable appellation
, In ancient times it was truly said , " They are not all Israel that are called Israel , " and , with equal truth we can now say , they are not all Chartists who are called Chartists . Hypocrisy , deceit , and treachery are not nonentities in the political world , and it is as necessary to keep a vigilant -eye npon o&r professed friends Bs " npon our avowed enemies , anA the public exposure of , the acts of false friends is , in my opinion , as much calculated to subserve our cause as keeping up an inceseant fire on the citadel of corruption . In short , I view those canting , turning , twisting , scheming , tramping novelty-mongers in the guise of Chartists , as the but allies of despotism , and I unhesitatingly pronounce
them ( though not without much watchfulness and consideration ) to be spies from the enemy ' s camp . It is dangerous to wince the matter ; we are now in a peculiar position , and , therefore , Mgardless of the censure of self-dubbed patriots and too-confiding Chartists , I pronounce the new project propounded by Lovett and others , as the infernal machine , invented by O'Conneil , Hume . Roebuck and others , of that treacherous ilique , to destroy , if possible , the growing , ipujt- ot freedom . Bui what will be the result ? ' Why , the machine will burst—Chartism will remain unscathed and the journeymen assassins will meet with their deserts—an ignominious political death . '
I haye long thought , Sir , that the Chartist tree required ' a little pruning . Many excrescences have grown thereon , aud perhaps the infernal machine will very speedily be seen to possess ' one good property^—it may , nay , I verily believe it wlll r prove a pruning knife , and will lop eff these excrescences , after which the tree will more abundantly flourish to the joy of every sterling patriot , and the chagrin of every Idle , spouting pseudo-Chartist . -The document-which has called forth these remarks , is a tissue of falsehood , can *; ' contradiction , arrogance , and wildnesB ; and it unquestionably smacks very much of jobbing , in addition to its burking character . These are . so conspicuously engraven on its front as to need no ' comment whatever , and everj working man . with It is
half an eye , will ^ ee through the whole affair . too clumsy , in all its ramifications , t » meet with the least countenance from the well-trained portion of our army , and this , I suppose , will soon be shown by the associaations , generally , entering their protest against both it , its coneoctors , and its promoters . Allow me , Sir , before I conclude to tell your readers , or rather remind them , that in the spring of 1839 , I attentively watched the movement in all its parts , and I had the impudence to insult the People ' s Parliament , by telling that body , to their faces , that there wae " not mote than eight honest men—men ef principle" in that assembly . At that time , and up to the present , I have been pressed to name the men of principle . I refused ,
because 1 foresaw that events would give the solution , and more credence would be given to circumstances , than to my words . Some of the M . C . ' s are politically dead , the breath went out of them when the pound per day and the three pound ten shillings per week departed ; others have laboured to retain soft hands and keep the apron off ; and some have found it profitable to blow the Russian horn ; however , I now ask the real Chartists to examine the accounts , and see how the business stands , and don't forget to note the M . C . ' s who may append their names to the " bran new" plan . After the addition and subtraction , see how many remains . If more than eight—if eight , I Won't guess again .
Before I lay aside the pen , I mutt confess my astonishment and sorrow on seeing the name of John Cleave appended to the " New Scheme . " I know him to be upright , and one who has hitherto acted with discretion , at least , so far as 1 have seen his political career . I cannot but think he has been imposed upon fay some wily knave , and ere long , I expect to See him retrace his steps , and pursue the course he has been wont to do . If not , 1 shall be greatly and painfully deceived . Yours truly , WlLUAH KlDBB . Leeds , April 13 th , 1841 .
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( Reported by our London Correspondent .- ) On Monday last ( Easter Monday , the 12 th of April ) , a public meeting of the Chartists of the metropolis was held , pursuant to advertisement , in the large theatre of the above tavern , to elect Delegates for the approaching sitting of the "Political Prisoners' Release , and People ' s Charter Convention . " In consequence of a mistake in the advertisement calling the meeting , ( the place of meeiing being omitted ) , it was long after the appointed hour ( twelve o ' clock ) before the assembly was sufficiently numerous to commence proceedings ; though , between one and two o ' clock , great numbers arrived , and a very full and earnest assembly testified thatdespite of the inconvenient hour , the holiday season , and the winterly weatber , ( snow and hail having fallen at short intervals throughout the morning ) , —they weTe ready to renew their efforts in favour of their persecuted brethren , and for the obtaining of the Charter .
Mr . Pahker ( a working man ) having been appointed to the chair , opened the business of the day , by stating that they had assembled to declare their unalterably attachment to the principles of the People ' s Charter , and to appoint Delegates to a Convention which was about to sit in London for a fortnight , to see what can be done to alleviate the miseries of the men now incaroerated for advocating the cause of the working classes . They ( the meeting ) bad been charged with having attended other , assemblies for the purpose of putting down , by clamour , all discussion on questions not connected with the Charter ; in reply , to which he would promise , that , if there were any persons present opposed to the principles of the Charter , they should have a fair hearing , and free
discussion . ( Cheers . ) They were determined to make au impression on the legislature of the country ; and therefore "were about to elect persons in whom , they could place confidence , to represent their wants to the legislature , and to devise such means as should accelerate the passing of the Charter into law . ( Loud cheers . ) He would conclude by reminding them , that they could nit expect working men te do the people ' s work without being properly paid;—( hear , hear , )—and in reference to the announcement that the delegates from the country would attend this meeting , he must inform them that since the bills bad been issued , it had been found expedient to change thu time , in order that all parts of the country might act with unison and energy . Mr . Parker resumed the chair amid much cheering .
Mr . Balls came forward to move the first resolution : — "That the security , peace , and happiness of the people entirely depend upon the interests of all persons being represented , and as such can . never be the case until the law admits every person within , the pale ot the Constitution , we call upon the Legislature to enadt the People ' s Charter , -which provides for the representation of every adult mala , and therefore necessarily provides for every interest being protected . " He addressed the meeting as his brothers of the slave class , because they were uot within the pale of the constitution , having no vote in the choice of those who make the laws , and who accumulate thereby untold riches to themselves , whilst those who have
produced these riches are cast off , and compelled to go into those slaughter-houses , called Union Workhouses ( Hear , hear . ) There was more humanity exercised in the putting to death of an old worn-out horse , than in the putting to death of an aged or worn-out son of labour ; for it had been proved , that even in the criminal gaols , the convicted felons received More food than did the inmates of the Union Bastiles . ( Hear , hear . ) In that consistent aud unchanging journal , The Times , —( loud laughter)—it had been shown that in the Bridgewater Union the paupers received only 145 ounces of feod per week , while in the Millbank Penitentiary the convicts received 292 ounces , thus giving an advantage to the convicted felon of 147 ounces of food per week over the honest , but
unfortunate pauper . ( Loud cries of " shame" and partial eheering . ) This was the work of the Poor Law Commission , that cost in the year before : last the sum of £ 5 » , 215 6 s . 3 d . The Bill which gave these men power was nothing else than a Bill to cause unfortunate mothers to destroy their own offspring , and to gradually but sorely starve off all who were unable to labour . ( Hear , hear . ) Bat the working classes saw very clearly thai neither the Poor Law nor any other bad enactments wouldbe repealed till the legislature were made responsible to the people—( loud cheerayand they were determined peacefully and calmly to agitate till the glorious principles of the People ' s Charter were engraved on the pillars of the constitution .
( Prolonged cheering . ) . The advocates of these principles have endued within the last three years a more cruel persecution than w « ever endured by any people ; the middle classes haft combined with the government to put them down . - Four hundred and forty-five individuals had been consigned to the dungeon by the Juris * selected from the middle classes ; but the watchword of the ChartiMaatm continued to be " freedom ! " and they would persevere until they had abolished the system of exclusive legislation , which enabled the idle few to Rye on the blood , tears , and toil of the enslaved millions . ( Enthusiastic cheering . } It was grgtifyJ ' og to find that even in Ireland their principles were \ jegianiagto be understood , and that the justice of
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their demands was at length recognised by their brother working men in that country . ( Hear / bear . ) Four Charter Associations were now in existence in Ireland ( Tremendous and long-continued cheering . ) Yes ! though the " liberator , " wna his Matk-Friday , Tore steele , had used their best efforts to crash Chartism over the water , truth , ^ justice , and right , would still triumph over tyranny , trickery , and duplicity . ( Cheers . ) In conclusion , he would urge them to make one . united effort to obtain the release of those who have boldly stood up to demand the rights which nature and nature's God haye given to all ; and the day could not be far distant when they must triumph over all opposition ; . when the brand of slavery . should , be removed , and England , Ireland , and Scotland would be what they ought to be , " great ,, prosperous , and free . " ( Loud and long continued cheering . ) . -. ¦ ' .. ' . '¦'" .
Mr . WALL rose to second the resolution . They were called upon , be said , to pledge themselves to persevere in that cause in which they had been so long embarked . Universal Suffrage belonged to the people , according even to the constitution of the country ; for every man enjoyed the franchise till the reign ot that pusillanimous monarch , Henry the Fifth ; and until the 25 th of Edward the Third , a Parliament was holdeu every year . As regarded the property qualification there was no such thing till the reign « f Qaeea Auue , nor was there a Septennial Act till the time of the Georges . ( Loud cheers . ) The aristocracy , and those who support them , were acting illegally , then , in keeping the franchise from the people ; they will not give them their right to vote , because they wish to keep them aa bondslaves . ( Hear , hear . ) Mr . Wall then referred to the
allegation of ignorance made against the working classes as an " excuse for withholding their political rights ; he had always found , he said , that those who brought this charge are very far less educated than those who say nothing about it Who were : they that judged of a man ' s education I What was the standard to be with the propagators of this education mania ? Was the mathematician to be denied bis right to vote because he was not also a linguist ? That would be not a bit more unjust than the denial of a competent workman the privileges of his calling , because he could not read and write . ( Cheers . ) He would tell them how to get educated : —do away with the . Uack-boeks , and use that money which Is now thrown away upon fellows who preach a service of two hours a week , in order that they may enjoy their cigars and champagne ,
and who yet smile and sneer at the people because they are ignorant He would like to have some of these gentry before them , and see what their educational qualification was : probably they could read and writa , and that was all . Now he , ( Mr . W . ) would undertake to enable any man to read and write too in six weeks , and if that was to be the standard , they would not know where to . commence or where to end . Some would be f » r an examination as to the Alexandrian measure of a verse , and others would talk of the Homeric standard ; but it was all preposterous absurdity even to think of it , and until the working classes were represented as effectually as the other classes , they
would bear of nothing else than thirty thousand for national education , and seventy thousand for royal dog-kennels . ( Cheers . ) There was another source , however , If the Parliament were desirous of educating the people ; there were chad tea in this country to the tune of six millions annually —( hear , hear , , —all of which were directed wrongly . Let the people have their share of that , instead of two or three hundred aristocratic sprigs receiving it all ; let all the people have a fair chance , and then that class from which had emanated » galaxy of self-educated talent and genius , would show the aristocracy , ia spite of aU their tinselled show , that
" A man ' s a man for a' that " Every man was amenable to . all the pains and penalties of the law , and the advocates of the Charter sought no more than their right to Its protection , and to vote for those who make it . ( Cheers . ) Their opponents do not deny the abstract right of every man to the franchise , but contend that the people are not prepared for it ; yet the men who thus argue are in general possessed of the least general understanding of any class—( hear , hear)—they are the men of the ledger and the counter ; the posssessors . of the dead walls , and bricks , and
mortar ; and as dull as the senseless stuff which confers on them the right of voting . ( Loud cheers . ) He would conclude by asking them , in the name of all that is beautiful and free , to act as men ; to show by their unity and determination that they are not to be put down ; that they -will never be content till the Charter "be given them ; that they will have those rights watch their fathers exercised ; that they will have the inheritance of Which thieves have robbed them ; and , once again , reselve to obtain the Charter , they must get It . ( Prolonged cheering . )
The Chairman then put the resolution , which -was carried unanimously . Mr . Naole briefly proposed the adoption of a petition to the Commons ; which was read from the Northern Star by Mr . Wall ; with very great effect ; the contrast of sentences passed on political offenders and oncrimlnalscalluigforth load an * deep expressions ; of execratiott Mr . Bennett seconded the adoption of the petition . ' A Gentleman ( Mr . H . D Griffiths we think ) from the body ; 6 f the meeting proposed that . the wurda " free pardon" as applied to Frost , Williams , and Jones , be omitted ; and that their "immediate liberation" be asked for instead . They had done nothing to be " pardoned " for ; and the use of that term implied guilt . ( This proposition was received with great sheering . ) The m « ver and seconder of the adoption of the petition acceded to the alteration , and on being put from the chair .
Mr . Hooi > begged permission to offer a few observations . Had no amendment been proposed , he would still have sought an opportunity to address them , believing as he did that they might as well preach to the wisd , or stand on the sea-shore and discourse to the waves , as petition the Parliament as at present constituted . ( Hear , hear . ) No one loved the principles of the Charter more than himself , and if this paradox of men " petitioning " for their rights , must be carried out , he trusted that it would not be done in the singular , but that petition after petition would be poured in , till there was a positive deluge of petitions . ( Great cheering . ) They must tell the law-makers , that if they will not attend to the business of the people , the people are determined that they shall not attend to their own . ( Cheers . ) It was
not long since that the principle of teetotalism had been introduced into England—( " Question , question ") —he was merely using ths fact in argument , for though a teetotaller , bis business there was political , and not to preach teetotalism—that principle had spread throughout England , aa well as Ireland , like a flame ; why , then , he would ask , did they not carry out the principles of the Charter like they had carried oat the principle of teetotalism ? If they could not meet under the fretted roof , they might assemble under the broad span of the arch of heaven ; in every town there was an open space—in every village there was a field ; and in such meetings the pure air would brace them lip , while uniting to obtain the Charter , and the return of Frost , Williams , and Jones . ( Cheers . ) Why were they kidnapped away ? ( Hear . ) Simply because they
had stood in the front ranks of liberty , they had been selected as victims by & detestable , an atrocious , and abominable Ministry—( loud cheers)—a Ministry who , if another Kienzi or another Cromwell were to arise , would consign them to death or transportation . They ( the meeting ) must not deceive themselves : there existed a degree of feeling against the Chartists even among the working classes themselves . ( Hear . ) Some called them iufldelsi-Bome called them Socialists , and a thousand opprobrious epithets were heaped upon them ; but occasions like these furnished fine opportunities of telling their fellow-working men what Chartism really is , aud no man , when be really under-, stands the principles , will longer refuse his aid in their propagation and establishment . ( Loud cheering . ) This , then , was the real Magna CUarta—not that for which fools . fought at Bunnymede . ( Long-continued
cheering . ) This Charter was to ennoble the whole peopleto make a nobleman of every man who walks the streets —to make a lady ( though not a titled one ) of every female who sits beside the hearth , brightening its blaza ; and to make a free-born soul of every child on its mother ' s lap . ( Loudand long-continued cheering . ) He would beseech of them , to remember , that Clapping of hands alone would not obtain their object ; they wanted Frost , Williams , and Jones in England , not at the Antipodes— ( hear , hear)—though the Whigs would like them all to be sent there ; they wanted all good men at home , ; and if the Charter were not already , as one of the speakers had said , " engraved on the pillars of the Constitution , " they would take core it should be , or they would pull down those pillars , and scatter them to the winds . ( Loud cheering . ) He would conclude with the poet ' s exhortation : —
*• Snatch from the ashes of your sires The embers of their former fires ; And he who in the strife expires , Will add to theirs a name of fear , That tyranny Bhall quake to hear , And leave his sons a hope , a fame , They too will rather die than shame : For freedom's battle once begun , Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son , Though baffled oft , is ever won . Bear witnwa , Gtreeece , thy living page , Attest it many a deathless age ! While Kings in dusty darkness hid , Have left a nameless pyramid , Thy neroes , though tb | i general doom Have swept the column from their touib , A mightier monument command , . The mountains of their native land !" Mr . Hood sat down amid long-continued and enthu siastic plaudits . ;
The petition , as amended , praying Tor " immediate liberation , " instead of " pardon , ' * forTrost , W ""* 1118 ' and Jones , was carried with general . acclamation . The CuAiBHAN announced that they would now proceed to the election of & 3 eg * tea > . » d it having been proposed , seconded , and agreed to , that the number be three , the following candidates were put in nomination :. — Mr . Wall . ] M » - « " ?»« , Mr . Beggis I Mr . Neesom-Others were named , but they declined . The sup * porters of ' the candidates severally addressed the meeting I'jl behalf of tiKlr aoaaiMM } and afterwards
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the candidates themselves spoke briefly in explanation ef their views and principles . What follows is a sum muyof the proceedings . . Mr . WALL , in the course of a lengthy , and , we must say , egotistical address , took occasion to deprecate the conduct of " certain parties , " which afterwards turned out to be In allusion to the address of Messrs Lorett , Collins , &c , in last week ' s Star . . . ' .-Mr . Boggis very modestly and properly , controste the style of his address with that of the preceding speaker , and in iialf a dozen sentences at most , left himself irithehands of the meeting . . ,
Mr . Spi / kk , in some degree , imitated Mr . Boggia , but took occasion to regret the introduction of censure on other persons , ( in reference to Mr . Wall' s , deprecation of the circular already referred to . ) Aloud and general cry of " Wall was ri * ht I" shewed Mr . Spurr that , In this respect , he had not toe feeling of bis audience with him ; so , after a law well-placed and sensible observations , he sat down , and , was followed by ¦ _ >' . ¦ Mr . Neesom , who , ( there having been a question raised as to his e li gibility on account ; of not belonging to the National Charter Association ; which point was decided in the affirmative by the Chairman , this being % public meeting , ) expressed his readiness to take a « ard of membership ,. if that was deemed the tost of a . true Chartist He belonged , he said , to the Teetotal Charter Association , and would tell them , that until the working classes found some better employment than the pot and the pipe , they would never obtain the Charter . .
Mr . FDSSELL , of Birmingham , who was received with considerable cheering , stated that he had a friend of his bosom in prison , with a very 'large family , whose cause had sever been broached , and he wa « anxious to know if the persons proposed were of the right stamp . The first candidate had made certain allusions which he did not understand ; but which drew forth an expression of regret from Mr . Spurr that absent parties hod been alluded to . Now , if Mr . Spun meant the Lovetts and Collinses , he . ibid Mr . Spurr they were not the men for him . [ The speaker was interrupted , at this point , by a ~ simultaneous burst ot cheering , as well as by the , Chairman , who . called hint to order ; the eall to order seemed only to excite tha feelings of the audience still further ,: and Mr . Fossell proceeded to denounce , in terms , which we need nofc lilermlly repeat , the parties to the circular in ' last week * l Star ; "thieves , " ' ' Haw . " and "humbugs" wereeom « monplaces , although Mr . Fuasell offered to prove his assertions . ] . '
The Chairman again called him to order , on the ground that they were not met there to discuss the merits or demerits of Messrs . Lovett , Collins , and Co- ' a plan ; bnt if the speaker had anything to say against any one of the proposed delegates , he ( Mr . Parfeer / would attentively listen to him . Mr . F « 8 Sell said he did not wish to create disunion , and withdrew . Mr Spurr , amid great confusion , explained . AGentlemak ( whose name we could not learn ) maintained that Mr . Spurr ' s explanation had made nia case still worse ; he had asked what had Lovett and Collins ' s address to do with this business ? He ( the speaker ) replied " everything ; he asserted that ' that address was an eternal disgrace to the cause of Chartism ,
( the Chairman here called the speaker to order ; the meeting , almost-unanimously , 'Insisting-upon hearing him ; Mr . Peat stood forward to set the speaker right , but a volley of hisses made even Mr . P ., who is , as will be seen below , very' highly esteemed by the Radical body , retreat ; the Chairman put it to the tneeting whether the speaker should proceed , and they decided unanimously in the affirmative . ) He then " leathered away , " In earnest , at the "breachof honourcircular , " and its supporters ; declaring , in conclusion , that the Chartists had one grand plan laid down ; and those who , instead of giving it , * r pointing out any defect , that It might be remedied , sought to establish a rival plan , and thus divided the Radical body , were Hofc Chartists . ( This sentiment was received with tumultuous cheering . )
Immediately on the conclusion of this gentleman ' s address , the nominator of Mr . Spurr withdrew his nomination , but another person having proposed Mr . S- he still remained a candidate . Mr . Bogg / s , in explanation , said he thought some of the meeting were blind , and that others had no discernment ; and Mr . Neesom said , after tha denunciations be had heard , and the determination of the meeting to listen to them , he thought their vote was not worth soliciting ; and that , unless the expression of the meeting was unanimous , he would decline a post , in which , though there was some honour , there was more danger . If elected , however , by the unanimous voice of the assembly , he should feel himself bound to do his duty as he had done ¦ throughout the last Convention . ;
The Chairman then proceeded to take a show of hands for the respective candidates , striatim : to our view , we thought the numbers [ tot Messrs . Wall , Boggis , and Neesom , ' were as nearly equal as could possibly Wascertained ; the number for Mr . Spurr being not more , than one-half Jb ^ Car tbAp ^ ers ^^ TJje Chairman , however , decided that Mrl Neesom Jiad the largest majority ; and that so for , as the . other three candidates were concerned , the' numbers were so Dearly equal he could , not determine Which two of them were elected ., A second show , therefor © , took place for the three remaining candidates , when the minority who voted fqr _ Mr . Spurr was manifest to alL Messrs . Wall and Boggis were therefore declared to be duly elected , as well aa Mr . Neesom , to Bit on the forthcoming Convention . The election was certainly a boisterous affair ; but then , the very fact itself shows earnestntss on the part of those engaged .
This part of the business over , Mr . Cameron was called upon to move the following resolution : — "That this meeting sympathising with illegally exiled patriots , Frost , Williams , and Jones , and with our incarcerated brethren , call upon all friends to liberty to assist in obtaining their freedom . " Mr . C . made a . long and eloquent speech in snpport of the resolution ; and concluded by saying that when the people became united , there would be an end to the nefarious traffic of the government . Let the people pursue their rights with avidity and determination ; and while he would guard them against any xmsuccessfut attempt , — -because siuA an attempt might be attended with calamitous circumstances , —he would urge Upon them to keep their rights steadily in view , and when they got within reach , seize on them by force . ( Loud cheers . ) r
Mr . Peat—who was now as loudly and enthusiastically applauded as be had before been goosed—( there ' s a Word ! but What other word would express such on incessant storm of hisses ? l—came forward to second the resolution . He did so , he said , because Frost , Williams , and Jones hod done nothing morally wrong . After some admi rable remarks , and one or two biting sarcasms on the " edueatiou-mongers , " Mr . P . observed , that a recent writer ( Mr . Combe , we believe ) on America , had stated that in some parts of the Union , the people are rery ignorant ; " but then , " he adds , " theignwanct of a democracy is superior to the inUMgente of an aristocracy" He next referred to the charge of the Chartists making a " cuckoo" cry of the Charter . ( This expression was used by Dr . Wade , when very few , if any
Chartists were present at the Com Law meeting , mind !) A " cuckoo'' cry was'it ? He hoped it would be something more ; for " cuckoos" cry only in one season : ' the Charter" must be eried / in every season ; nay , in season and out ot season , " the Charter" must be the test of their practical education . Mr . Peat next referred very ably to some of the practical proofs of education already to be seen among the working classes ; they had found out that sugar at 3 ^ d . a pound , which it might be sold for but for the monopoly tax , would be only juat half the price that it is when Bold for 7 d . ; there was practical education ! Mr . P . concluded by entreating his audience to give " a long pulVa strong pull , and a pull altogether , " for their rights , liberty , and Chartism—so as to "up with democracy and d * wn with aristocracy . " ( Load cheering . )
The resolution , on being put from the chair , waa carried unanimously . Mr . Cameron moved a vote of thanks to the Chairman , which wro carried with acclamation . Mr . Parkkb , in returning thanks for the compliment , trusted they would keep straightforward in the-Chartist road . The petition committee had this week received ( addressed to him ) a petition from Pont-ypool , signed by 3 , 186 " persons , In favour of the liberation of Frost , Williams , and Jones ; but such was the tyranny practised in that quarter , that the poor fellows who forwarded the petition had begged of him ( and they had reposed confidence in him , for which he
thanked them ) by no means to let H be known by whom the petition had been forwarded ; and on no account to let one of their names be known . There was a state of things I However , he hoped they would be enabled to get the greater number of those now in prison out ere long * He briefly referred to the ease of poor Jones , transported on account of the Birmingham riota , in which he had no concern ; and concluded by proposing three cheers for Frost , Williams , and Jenes , which were vociferously responded to ; as also were calls for similar honours to Feargus O'Connor , and the incarcerated victims ? the Charter ; the Northern Star ; and the new Convention .
The proceedings concluded- with a recitation ( very distinctly and duly emphasised ) Of an intelligent Httl 8 girl , apparently not -more than eight or nine years old , the burden of each stanza of which was— " MenI your rights no longer kurter ! Strike ! for freedom , and the Charter . ' " This was received with universal cheering , and toe meeting separated . -
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 17, 1841, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1105/page/7/
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