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O'CONNOUVILLK PLATE.
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MK NORTHERN STAR S A TURDAY JANUARY 30. 1817.
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LIBERAL BUOlvS on I'uLlThS. '«'!i!\U Ul-Y AND SOCIAL i'ilOUUKSS, Putty**, n«d Sold, Whol- sale aDd Retail.
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THE IRISH BANDITTI . If it required famine to arouse the Irish Landlords even to the painful recollection that the pos session of property implies a consequent performance of duty , however trivial , and the non-observance of which weakens the possessor ' s title ; we trust the same d tad monitor will remind the sufferers that life implies a RIGHT , the non-possession of which weakens their title to existence , and the want of which alone presents the fri ghtful disparity between rich and poor , and the astounding anomaly of distress being confined wholly to the
producing class . Surely , if our incessant remonstrances and oft-repeated warnings , as to the inevitable result which sooner or later was certain to follow their unpardonable and degrading indifference , have failed to convince the unrepresented , and , therefore disregarded , of the value of SELFKEPHESENTATION , the awful calamity which has passed by the door of tho rich man and desolated the hovel of the poor , will lead to reflection and action . Surely , when the affrighted Lord forgets his high-Mooded cause of quarrel with his old and
deadly foe ; when merchant and hanker , loom-lord and land-lord , law-lord and money-lord , hy common consent proclaim a truce to ancient feuds , a religious peace and political armistice , for no other earthly purpose than to strengthen their hands for the FAMINE FIGHT ; surely the forenameu sufferers will not fail to he forearmed with similar and necessary weapons -UNION AND FORGIVENESS . Despotism has ever governed the positivel y wretched through the pliant subserviency of the comparatively satisfied . It is an insult to mind , understanding ,
and strength , to suppose that a majority of the sane aud tlioughltulave satisfied with the present system j while its very existence is , nevertheless , prima facie evidence of their approval . The millions have wasted their energy in the enforcement ef sectional schemes , vainly hoping to fence themselves in from the assaults of faction , while their enemies have taken advantage of their severance from their order to trample upon the rights of all . How vain for the West-end well paid trades , who paint and paper the rooms where iheiv employers indulge hi idle ease and luxury , to suppose that in the long run the
Eastend standard , established hy their indifference and treachery , will not be applied as their rule of wages . Ilo ' . v silly of the well employed carpenter and bricklayer not to remember that every unlcuanted house is a competitor against him ; and that the huge UNEARTHLY BAST 1 LE is the monster denrcciator of his wages . And yet , while the millions have seen and are dissatisfied with the pigmy measures of thepigi-y Minister , the BANDED UNITED FEW hold them at arm ' s length , while , they positively mock nature , by experimenting upon man ' s credulity and forbearance . Can the fatal and disgusting union of Daniel
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O'Conntll and the Saxon Irish Landlords be productive of other than beneficial results to HIM , and injury to Ireland . Surely , the oft-deceived , but still confiding , cannot for a moment suppose that the serpent is won to civility and the temporary cessation of vulgar hostilities , by other than interested motives . The lamllordi cannot he fools enough to suppose him mindful of their interests , further than in as far as his pretended advocacy may subserve his own purposes , while even the Irish people are not so doltish as to imagine that the same hired advocate can plead theirs and their oppressor ' s cause .
Has the reader seen the PENNY clap-trap by which the Chancellor ofthe Exchequer hopes to feed a famishing nation , and has he seen the sympathy expressed for the brewers and distillers b y Mr . Callaghan , M . P . for the city of Cork , and from which he may glean the fact , that the amiable unanimity of the Irish landlords will just be carried to the extent of SELF PRESERVATION , and that will be its limit . Unless , therefore , the people can bring themselves to the fascinating conclusion , that the horrors of famine can be mitigated by magic , they have nothing to hope for from the MIS
D 1 TTI . As we before stated , the Irish landlords expect , and hope , and intend , to turn the DISPENSATION to a GODSEND , and instead of the minister using the GREAT DIFFICULTY as the great opportunity for whipping them to the performance of their duty , they will use if as a scourge to warn him of their political power . Already Stanley has baited the trap for the vermin ; he has raised the standard of Irish landlordism , and sung his dirge over their wounded feelings and insulted pride . He has plainly said— " If Russell dares to infringe your ri ghts , but by the loss of a particle of patronage .
even to the appointment of a single policeman or hangman ; if he dares to hold your estates responsible for what the English Exchequer should supply , and what he might have averted , come ye to our side of the house ; we are your natural friends and allies ; behold , we are in the same boat , you are our starboard oar if we Jose you we must sink ; we are the old Protectionists , the State ' s hinge upon which \> ur titles , lands , and patronage all hang ; snap it , unscrew it , or even loosen it , and the door is open to that torrent of prowling democracy , which but waits its opportunity to overwhelm our order and trample upon our privileges . "
Such , the reader may rest assured , is the plain English of Stanley ' s overture to the Irish landlords . Here , then , we find famine the question , and Ireland the difficulty , while Whigs and Tories are making the DISPENSATION the medium of canvass for the support of its very creators . Were we wrong , then , when we proclaimed the fact that Irish abuses ,
anil not the famine , would constitute the minister ' s greatest difficulty , and did we miscalculate when we proclaimed Russell ' s incapacity to arbitrate between the calamity and its creators . Were we wrong when we stated that a nation ' s sufferings would he the rallying cry of faction , and that all thought ofthe suffering , starving , dying poor would be lost in the struggle for political ascendancy .
We are sick of the subject , our only wonder is , that the very stones do not rise to avenge the insult offered to an offended God . But hold—the Queen has written a letter to her well . beloved Ri ght Rev . Father in God , but she has not told his Grace of Canterbury to tell his preachers to live sparingly and stint themselves , that they may be the better able to lessen the sufferings of the poor , and render themselves more acceptable to their Maker . Next week , we shall write a sermon , to be preached on the mountain top , under the canopy of the broad blue sky , which God will not be offeuded in hearing .
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but entire alteration in our social system must be the necessary consequence ; for , in the first place , the influence of the great landed proprietors must decrease in the same proportion , in which a selfrelying , and co-operative agricultural population becomes independent of the aristocrat , by having a resource in the ownership of the soil , —while the small tradesmen will be less subservient to the borough-kings , in having a surer market in the labouring community thaw iiv the capricious moneypatronage of the great . Thus constituencies will be purified , and the way paved for democracy to enter the legislature of the day ,
The educational reform that Lord John Russell will doubtlessly propound , according to his political creed , will he more advanced by a Ten Hours ' Bill than by the mere establishment of schools , which , under the present system , the working man ' s child has not much leisure to attend—even though an educational grant should equal that for Her Majesty ' s stables . Again , modern democracy is doing
more for sanatory improvement , in endeavouring to secure better food and shelter for the working classe than can be done by mere drainage and seweragei or by pulling down the poor man ' s hovel to build a house for the rich speculator in its stead . Purifying the streets of alleys and towns , though good in itself , is beginning at the wrong end ; it is as though a physician should give a starving man a purgative , when he wants a pound of beef .
Thus , in every branch of political economy , we find democracy marching in advance . It cries shame to the statesmen of the nineteenth century , who have confessedly left an Ireland of the seventeenth , and who very wisely caution the people not to expect too much at their hands ! We never did expect much ; we are now still less inclined to do so thax \ before . Aristocracy must cease to be aristocracy , before it can honestly join in the cause of popular progress . It must cease to drive its pampered horses through crowds of starving men ; it
must cease to entrench itself behind the prerogatives of power , and hold a haughty parley with the people across lines of bayonets and piles of parchment ; it must cease to encase itself with diamond breast-plates and head-gear , before it can live in harmony with the great truths of the present day ; in fine , it must divest itself of its own nature , « nrn citizen of the world , and rise in the social scale
from nobility into humanity . If the people are to wait until this change , they may wait long . It is a difficult thing for the pampered child of luxury to divest itself of its privilege—to cast away its golden toy . We say to the people , in the words of Lord John Russell , when telling them how little government can ( will ?) do for them , we say to the people , not of Ireland only , hut of all countries : " Help yourselves , then heaven will help 70 U . "
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their tenants . Enviable landlords ! Tio "" ti , ^ fully and tenderly doe * Lord John antici pate ^ your wishes , provide i * t / 7 J ' our smallest wants ; t " small proprietors" are not to participate in this £ 50 , 000 loan . That we presume would not be j n accordance with " the doctrines of political eco . nomy . " They may perish , if they can do no better *
the prizes are reserved for Hie large proprietors only . Lucky large proprietors ! we say again . The worst of it is that there appears to be no chance ct satisfying them . With none of the reasons , they have all the boldness and urgency of "Olive IVist ; " they are not sat sfied with onl y . € 50 , 000 - but , through Lord G . Bentinck , absolutel y " askfor more ! " « Pooh ; " says that celebrated ne « B « .-. . vim , aajo mm Lx-icuraieu ^
persona with a wondrous kind feeling towards his fellow * l andlords , " What ' s fifty thousand ? It won't sow five baronies ; give us more , more ; give , give Truly , the "horse-leech" mentioned in Scripture was a fool to the landlord leeches that suck the Wood of the people of Great Britain and Ireland . The third on the list of boons to the landlords ' 13 the remission of one-half of their debts on account of foolish , wasteful , and mischievous public works rather
or jobs , on which they have employed their retainers , dependents , and lacquies , to the exclusion ofthe very destitute people who were meant to be relieved by public works or public money . That is we have said , will be at least a million sterling , ¦» ' presented AS A GIFT to the landlords . " Perhaps ^ before the session is closed , we shall have a propo ! sition for remitting the other half . The Alchemists were for centuries engaged in looking after the " philosopher ' s stone , " by which thev could extract
gold from baser substances , or transmute inferior metals into the richer ore . We fear modern Alchemy will be equall y unsuccessful in its attempt to extract gold in repayment from that fathomless profound , that bottomless ab yss-an Irish landlord ' * pocket . There is not a bog in the country they own that has half so capacions a power of absorption . Number four of these boons commences what are called the measures for permanent improvement These •¦ permanent measures" are based oh the same
principle as the temporary ones . They commence with a new series of loans to the Irish landlords , /* - the improvement of their own estates . They are to have , so far as we can see , an unlimited amount of public money on loau at three-and-a-half per cent ., and are to repay it by easy instalments in twenty two years ; or , if they don ' t like that , they may have it at
six per cent ., without any stipulation as to time . In return for this munificent and liberal treatment , ah , that Lord John stipulates is that they shall reall y spend the money on their estates , not at races , nor gaming tables , at Naples , at Rome , or Paris I But what guarantees are proposed by which they are to be tied up to the observance of that condition we are not told .
Number five appears at first sight a little in favour of the people . It is intended to facilitate the rccla . roation of waste lands , and gives powers to the Commissioners of Woods . and Forests , to compel proprietors to sell all wastes after a certain period , under the annual value of 2 s . Oil an acre . Lord John expatiated very sensibly on the advantages of a small proprietary , adopting the views ofthe Northern Star on that subject , and entirely dissenting from the economists , who assert that poverty , misery , and crime , are the invariable concomitants of a minute
sub-division of the soil . U pon the lands thus taken possession of by the Government after makmgduecotapensation to the proprietors , it is meant to establish a class of small farmers , say from 20 to 50 acres , farmers holding either in fee simple or by lease in perpetuity . with power to fine down the rent , and ultimately make the farm freehold , according to the terms agreed upon by the contracting parties . This measure is
excellent in princi ple , and its being adopted so far , together with the importance and stress laid upon it by the Premier , only serves to exhibit in clearer colours the almost inconceivable cowardice and subjugation of the Whig clique to the " Irish Banditti , " which distinguishes other parts of the proposition . Had Lord John spoken depreciatiugly of the plan as Lord Lansdowne did in the Lords ; had he professed his inability to see where these re-claimable
wastes were to be found , or what benefits could be derived from their cultivation , and avowed that they were merely adopted as a quietus to troublesrme persons , who had got a crotchet into their head , then the others parts of this particular plan might have been , if not justifiable , excusable , on the ground of ignorance ; but no such plea can be urged for the Premier . He sins with his eyes open , and while professing to give the wastelands of Ireland , after being drained and made habitable by preliminary operations under Government superintendence , by Government machinery , and with public money , to the people , he stultifies himself , and nullifies the plan , hy confining the sphere within which such reclamation
is to take place . He deliberately assigns to the landlords all the best tvasle lands ; and , as another . boon , offers them the temptation of another loan from the state , to reclaim and make rent paying the waste ! they have so long neglected . Talk of Jove descending upon Danae in a jshower of gold ! Or the personage in the fairy tale , who never opened her mouth without dropping pearls and precious stouts ! Lord John in his extraordinary fit of liberality , beats all the mythological and fairy tales we ever heard of .
The only other measure left for notice , is the proposed alteration in the Poor Law . In future , guardians may give relief in food to the able-bodied destitute . Upon this point , however , we have not room left for comment this week . The summary of the Whi g panacea for Ireland is , that that country , after having been plundered for centuries by one of the most rapacious , heartless , ignorant , and seltish oligarchies , of which we have
any record of history ; after the land , the revenues , the destiny of that people have been for that period swayed by that oligarchy without check or hindrance , ( because they have been , and now are omnipotent in the Imperial Parliament , as well as on the other side of the channel ); after having , with the possession of all these powers , reduced thfi Irish people to a condition 50 low , so wretched , and so disgraceful , that the whole civilized world cries shame upon it ; after all this experience ofjtheir neglect or incapacity , or monstrous selfishness * it is now cooll y proposed in the midst of the social
disorganization famine and pestilence , resulting from their misconduct , not to rescue the people and the soil from their baleful dominion , but absolutely to liaud over both still more completely to them ] and at the same time to drench them with British gold t The mortgages , bonds , and debts , with which their estates are now encumbered in consequence of former extravagance , are to be wiped off for them , and they and their descendants set free to pursue ; the same wasteful , imprudent , unjust , and cruel career , which marks every step of the landed oligarchy of Ireland . Surely some one will be found in Parliamant bold
enough to protest against this monster measure in favour of the laudlords , awl against the people of that country as well as this , They are not bound by a good Poor Law in return . Among other matters of importance which have occurred since our last , are the short discussions on the re-constitution ofthe Poor Law Commission , and the first reading of the Ten Hours' Bill , on ill introduction by Mr . tfUiden . .
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MK NORTHERN STAR S A TURDAY JANUARY 30 . 1817 .
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THE MARCH OF DEMOCRACY . A benighted traveller , awakened one morning in a strange Inn b y a noise from without , rose with t he intention of opening a window to see whether it was daylight . It so happenned , the window bein g closely boarded , he opened the glass door of a cabinet instead , where , all being dark , he comfortably retired to bed . Roused once more by an external clamour , he repeated the experiment with the same result , and never discovered his error
until too late in the day to set about his business . Lord John Russell is like that benighted traveller . Roused by the voice of the people from his political lethargy , he rises to note the progress of the times , and looks but into his own dark cabinet . There he will not find the daylight ofthe awakened uations , and , when he discovers his error , the hours of his political reign will be too far advanced to retrace his steps , Passing , for the present , over the merits of his different propositions , guarded as they are by reservations of ulterior measures , we . will advert to the goal which he sets to his policy .
He has , indeed , drawn a lamentable picture of the miseries of Ireland , but the great consolation that he offers his starving people , is the delightful prospect of becoming , at some indefinite period , as prosperous and as comfortable as the English and Scotch are now ! Think of this , Irishmen ! and be grateful . Think of this , factory slaves . Think of this , starving labourers of Great Britain , your AliRiBter'has pronounced you patterns of prosperity , —and , to support his assertion , he has gone back to the seventeenth century . Forcibly , does the
quotation from Sir , Thomas M 6 " re exemplify how the great landlords obtained their lands : in his own words , " by covin or fraud , or violent oppression , wrongs and injuries" inflicted 011 their poorer nei ghbours , the result being starvation , and its further consequence , theft . Thus we have a Minister of the crown admitting that the order to which he belongs have no better title to their lands than
" violence or irauuV' He then , totally overlooking the numbers who are now murdered in the Bastile and the Factory , names an amount of many thousands who . at the period allmled to , were hung tor theft in one year . Is this an instance of improvement in the social condition of the present da / ? Surely not . Then it was the thieves who wore hung for this theft ; the case is reversed now , for it is the thieves who murder the men they have robbed .
If these are the conclusions at which the Premier arrives , \ i these are the prospects he holds before Ireland , and if he thus returns to his old fiualty for England , we ask him to look at the advancing march of democracy , and judge whether it will take his standard of progression . He will find the people are beginning to look for aid less to Cabinets , and more to themselves . In his own words , there is
much in self-reliance and co-operation ; that selfreliance the people are beginning to feel , —that cooperation is already rearing its mighty head beside the hydra of monopoly . Through means , the reverse of those by which the aristocracy obtained the lands of the people , the people ate obtaining the lands held by the aristocracy , and erecting a class o * small proprietors , which Lord Johu pronounces so beneficial , when he says : —
" 1 do not think that the small divisions of the country will be injurious , and I come to this conchlsion , from finding that one of the counties in which tho greatest subdivision has laken place , the county of Armagh , is the most flourishing and best cultivated in Ireland . " Greater changes will , however , result out of this movement of modern democracy than" Lord John Russell" dreams of in his philosophy . " A gradual ,
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PARLIAMENTARY REV — raw The gestation of the recess being completed , the birth of the Whi g bantling took place on Monday night . Expectation was wound up to a high pitch , and the crowded and attentive audiences hy whom Lord John Russell was listened to in the one House , and the Marquis of Lansdowne in the other , attested the interest with which their revelations were
looked for . The applause and satisfaction with which they were received in either House , and from all parties in both , will not , we are certain , be echoed by , nor responded to outside , by the people . Our anticipations as to the incapacity of the Whigs , either to devise or to carry into operation a policy equal to the emergencies of the crisis in Ireland , are
completely fulfilled . The Whigs are , at a moment demanding the highest abstract and administrative qualities , true to the essential pettiness of intellect , udgment , and moral feeling , which has always characterised them as a party . Charlatanism , partizanship , and cowardice , are their chief features ; and each are strongly stamped on the last production of their combined wisdom .
What was needed , what the country expected and had a right to demand , were measures calculated to give immediate relief to the starving psasantry , to arrest the pestilence which is now decimating their families , and causing them " to die off like rotten sheep , " followed up by plans which would have laid a sound foundation for a permanent , effectual , and progressive improvement in the condition of the people of Ireland , through and by their own efforts , for their own benefit . That it the only pulicv that can benefit Ireland . Instead
of this , the Whig Premier has given us a scheme for improving the condition of the landlords ; they are to be the medium through which relief is to he ad ministered . They are to be the parties immediatel y and remotely benefited . They are to have remitted , forthwith , one-half of the sum they owe the government , for works under the Labour Rate Act , amounting , we conjecture , to not less an a MILLION STERLING ! Pleasant news , no doubt , to the Irish landlords , but sad enough to the
working classes of this country , who are told , that , in consequence of this liberality , their soup , their lea , their sugar , their beer—their daylight , are to conti . nue subject to the present rate of taxation . The Irish landlord is the spoiled and petted child of English legislation . His very errors are windfall ! . The neglect of his duties is visited , not by punishment , but rewards . The whippings for neglecting his lessons are all reserved for the poor " fags" of the state schools .
A brief enumeration of the nature of the Whig measures will suffice to show their monstrously unjust character . At the present moment there are 500 , 000 destitute persons , representing , at least , a population of 2 , 000 , 000 , employed on the public works , i . e . according to Lord Stanley , " hi levelling imaginary hills , filling up visionary vallics , and cutting up the face of the island in such a way , as to render it almost impassable . " This exceedingly wise and economical mode of applying the labour and capital of the countrv , having been , be it
remembered , devised and set in motion by the Irish landlords , in baronial sessions assembled . This sage system is , however , to be as speedily , but as cautiously as possible , replaced by a plan for giving relief in food through the medium of local committees , without exacting work in return . The object being to allow the peasantry now attracted to the public works , by the payment of money wages , the option of working for the farmers or on their own holdings , and thus during the spring months to get the seed into the ground , and to prevent a famine as far as possible next year .
The cost of this wholesale relief is to be defrayed by local rates , subscriptions , and Government donations . Need we say , looking at the manner in which Irish wealth treats Irish poverty , that the Government will have to hear the heavy end of the burden . Or that , considering the appalling amount of destitution that has to be relieved , that its cost will be enormous ? Lord John does not even venture to estimate its amount . That is gift number one to the landlords . Wh y should the people of
England and Scotland be saddled with a tax for the support of the poor belonging to the Irish landlord ? If temporary assistance was needed , by all means let them have it , but to free them thus at once from the responsibility belonging to the possession of pro perty , and the consequences of their previous misapplication of it , is the most gross and iniquitous job that has been attempted for a long time past . The next temporary measure is a loan of £ 50 , 000 to the landlords , to enable them to buy seeds fot
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 30, 1847, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1403/page/4/
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