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« £ P CB&RtlSTS AND AT THEH !» TO THE CHARTISTS . BroT 3 ER 5 j—The devil has shown his cloven f nt and as it is necessary that you should be not : in possession , not only of what occurs in i he House of Commons , but how it occurs—as th . « i 5 much in manner—it is my duty to derelon ' to vou the proceedings of Tuesday
e ni < , ht- and from their plain recital you will come to the conclusion that I was right in the - -HmHte that I formed of the zeal and inten-Sonof the FOUR POINT HUMBUGS . From Mr Cobden ' s speech , you would lcfer t \ jat Mr Hume acted with judgment and disretion in postponing his motion , not at a nuarter past eleven o ' clock , as he states , but at Lren o ' clock precisely . his discretion
Fir « ffu . —^ ^ analyse upon this point , and Secondly . —I will prove that the whole thins was a dodge , as the motion was given UP and so entered upon ; the paper at the door , at twenty-five minutes past nine o ' clock Firstly . —As regards the hour by which l \ r Cobden would measure Mr Hume ' s discretion . At that hour there was a fuller house than one usually sees , and there was all but a unanimous desire that Mr Hume should proceed . It is customary to bring on important questions at any hour when the house is prepared to listen : and as we did sit till twenty minutes to two o ' clock , it is not a stretch of imagination
to presume that , upon so important a question at so critical a period , the house would have listened attentively till three o ' clock , thus allowing four speakers—two for , and two against ^ the motion—an hour each , and then the debate might have been adjourned , which would have afforded an opportunity of resuming the debate next week , instead of making it a dropped motion , and making it necessary to postpone it till the 20 th of June . This course would have broug ht out two of the advocates and two of the opponents of the measure , and would have relieved the country at once of all doubt as to the sincerity of the'r friends , and the grounds upon which their enemies rested their opposition .
Now this , I contend , would have been the manly— the dignified — the straightforward course , had the propounders of the measure been sincere in their project . Moreover , to the honour of the Irish Members he it spoken , many had come over purposely with the view of taking part in the debate , and supporting the motion , while all the Liberal Irish Members were , as they stated to me , prepared to remain all night if necessary ,
to aid the English people in obtaining this instalment ; and I assure you , Chartists , that I gained great courage from the feelings that I heard , expressed by the Irish Members , and many English Members , in favour of the whole animal . So much for the prudence of bringing on the question and adjourning the debate to next week , in preference to postponing it for a mortal moath—to the 20 th of June . And now for the proof of the intention of the party not to bring it on at all .
At twenty-five minutes past nine a Member came into the House and said to me , and Others , "So , Hume ' s motion is postponed . " ' TFe were incredulous ; but he assured us that It was entered in the paper , in the entrance to the House—the usual mode of giving such notices . Now , I have taken the time at which vre heard the news as the time at which it was entered upon the paper , but very probably it iad been entered there long before , and this I shrewdly suspect , from the fact of Mr Hume being in consultation with Ministers and Peelites . at different times , before that hour .
Chartists , again mark the fact , that , tad it not been for JVIilner Gibson provoking- a reply from Lord George Bentinck , upon an unopposed motion , Mr Hume ' s motion might have come on at ten o ' clock-Xow I have answered Cobden ' s compliment to Hume ' s discretion , and I have also shown that it « as nst Hume ' s intention to bring on the motion at all at twenty-five minutes past nine , as the meaning of entering his intention upon the p 3 per is to give notice to the supporters of a motion that they need not remain in attendauce . And now a word as to Cobden . In a very short speech he teld two thumpers .
Firstly , in order to prove the discount at which my principles stood in the House of Commons , he said I stated in the Convention that in my absence there was only one man to Support niv princip les in the House ; whereas , what I did state was , " That when I was abused in my absence Lord Castlereagh was the only man who protested against the abuse of an absent Member ; and surely Lord Castlereagh is not an advocate of my principles . " That ' s thumper the first—and a palpable thumper—made for the purpose oE casting disrespect upon the Chartist cause .
Thumper the second . He said , although he retracted it—and I have a better ear than the gods in the gallery—that he met me in nearly every market town in England upon the que > tior , of Free Trade , whereas , I only met him at Northampton and MALTA , and at one of those places I beat him , and at the Other he beat himself . But he tried to shove it off , by saying it was my followers he met ; so that , though they are the contemptible few . they worried him in every market town in En ^ Jand . He said , I had been lavish in my praise of him , while every man who reads the Star will remember the extent to which that praise
Trent . Vrhat I said was , that when I met Cobden at Northampton , I discovered signs of kindness , philanthropy , and humanity in his countenance , md that I would never abuse him again . Now that was the extent of my praise —praise nhich 1 now regret having bestowed , as the inner man belies the outer form-It is hue that I said I should rather see Cobden the leader of this MIDDLE-CLASS QUADRUPED than Hume . But why was It ? Because , as 1 have frequently stated , Hume was one of the seven crutches always at the command of rotten Whiggery , from tbe year 1833 to the year 1841 . He and six others were eternally courting popularity , by
demanding an extension of popular rig hts , bat when the Government that opposed them was in danger , these seven crutches were always at their command . So much for my praise of Cobden . And now , after the manner of Plutarch , I will give my opinion of him by comparison with Bright , whom 2 was in the habit of abusing . Until 1 saw the two gentlemen in the cockpit I could not form a just estimate of tbeir relative powers—report , which is a fickle jade , gave Cobden the pre-eminence , as an orator and a debater . I have now , however , had six months' experience , and , regardless of the consequences of praising a Free Trader , I now declare , that , as an orator and a debater , Cubden is to Bright asaiorsecliestnut
is to a chestnut horse . Apolo-ir-inir , then , to the Honourable Member for the West Riding , for having praised his noble mien and bold exterior , I assure him 1 shall not agaitt commit the blunder of attempting to judge the inner man by his showboard . . Chartists , I told you that you would be juggled . I now tell you that you are juggled . I will tell you that they never intended to bring on the question , but merely intended to use
it as Repeal was used fin Ireland—as a buggahoo to frighten the Government into a reduetion of taxation , and which would not have conferred one farthing benefit upon you . Chartists , you must know that I had not the right ef replying to the Free Trader , otherwise . I promise you , I would have made fcim look queer . But , now , mark—this fellow has been the greatest enemy the Chartists have ever had , and now , when a fresh opportunity is afforded he comes out under his old colours . Heie is the question you must put to your-
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selves ; If an undefined thing— FREE TRADE —is wortli SEVENTY THOUSAND POUNDS , what would it be worth to throw all the taxes on other shoulders , and to reduce wages upon the pretext of cheap food , ? Chartists , for fifteen years I have been telling you that a paid patriot is nothing more nor Jess than a shopkeeper with wares to sell ; and I now tell you , as I told you in the outset , that if Labour ' s work is to be demerit must be done by the labourers , and not by those who fatten upon their toil . " As -well may the lamb with the tiger unite , The mouse with the cat . or the lark with the kite , "
Chartists , the Free Trade leader , whom you beat for seven years , has called you MYRMIDONS , and says that you are but a rabble section of the labouring class .
" UP , THEN , CHARTISTS , AND AT THEM !" I teld you , in the commencement of the Free Trade agitation , that your apathy alone could place Free Trade in the ascendant . Their object was to show that Chartism merged into Free Trade , and that that boon should be conceded to the popular , willj and sow you mil find that Cobden has shown the cloven-foot too soon , and that their object is to use popular enthusiasm , and even fury , for the sinister purpose of prevailing upon the House of Commons to arrest that enthusiasm and fury by granting all that is really required by the industrious and well-disposed portion of the working classes—a reduction of taxation .
Chartists , if we were ia doubt before , tbe veil is now drawn . Go to every meeting ; insult no man , put down no man , hear every man ; and , as public meetings are called for the purpose of testing public opinion , if you prefer tbeSEXIPEDE , or six-legged aniinal that you know , to the quadruped that is spavined , ringboned , clapped in the back sinews , and foundered—start your animal in every race , and , my life on it , he will win . "Well , but , as of yore , they are beginning ; to call ticket meetings , as a means of testing public opinion—that is , they are empannelling their own jury to try their own case . Well , as thfi Free . Trader confessed that mv MYRMI
DONS worried him for seven years , the policy that annoys the enemy must be good , and he is a bad tactician who plays the game of his opponent . Therefore , as they have again resorted to this packed mode of testing public opinion , let me see if I can disiover a remedy . Whenever a ticket meeting takes place , an out-door meeting should be held in the immediate neighbourhood—in fact , as near as possible to the jury box , and it should be held contemporaneously . Now , believe me , that the broken shopkeepers and the small manufacturers , who have been ruined , or are being
ruined , will ga with you ; but then , at your meetings , you must get speakers who thoroughly understand the Labour . Question , and who will be able to show that Labour would derive no possible advantage from the reduction of taxation , unless represented in the House of Commons—and , above and before all , keep this great fact in mind , that the object of the new movers is to place their bubble in the ascendant , and to persuade the world that Chartism is dead—and hence Cobden s attempt to make a split between perfumed and unalloved Chartism .
Chnrtists , in 1842 , at the Sturge Conference , we refused to give up even the name ; and now that every country in Europe is adopting every point ofthe Charter , and when the Lahour Question is the one question that puzzles every statesman in Europe , and when you , the English working classes , are better instructed in that question than any other people in the world , are you , whose principles can be most beneficially applied for the general good of society , prepared to accept the shadow , and , like the dog , lose the substance ? Now mind the four legs ef the quadruped : Off fore leg-H-O-U-S B , a thing to live in—H-O-U-S-E , a thing to vote out of .
Near fore leg—Triennial Parliaments . , from the year 1833 to the year 184 ? , both inclusive , is fifteen years , and within that period we have had five parliaments—that is exactly Triennial Parliaments ; but I may be told that in these cases the death was sudden , and left no chance for a death-bed repentance . To this I answer , " Humbug ! " But what is still more curious , from the year 1833 to the year 1841 , nine years , both inclusive , we had four parlia ments nearly biennial parliaments — and judge ofthe men from their measures . Off hind leg—The Ballot . The ladle without the soup . The mask for the hypocrite . Electoral Dis
Near hind leg : —Not £ qual - tricts , but adding to the constituencies oflarge towns disfranchisingsmali boroughs , and giving a larger number of representatives to the great manufacturing towns ; and I should like to see how many would vote for the friend of labour against the friend of capital at those masquerades . Now , Chartists , how do you think this limping , halting , called jade , would carry industry upon its back ? I'll tell you-you ' d be the crupper to the Free Trade saddle , and when the animal cocked his tail , you'd have our share of the loaf .
y Verily , those Free Traders imagine that they are going to frighten me with the dread of being left alone in my glory ; but I would much rather Sit firmly upon the six-legged animal , amid their scoffs and jeers , than receive their cheers and applause upon the baulking jade that would not even start , but turned tail when the word , "AWAY" was given . Chartists , as I don ' t wish to be considered ferocious , at foot I give you my speech and Mr Cobden ' s ; they are both taken without the alteration of a word from the Morning Cironirie-and can you see the ferocity in my speech ?
... .. , , True , I am not paid for cautious words and for measured language . 1 speak my feelings on behalf of an oppressed people . He offers his wares for sale in the supplicating tone of the butcher ' s wife at the close of a hot day s market , when the broken bits won ' t keep' ' Buy , buy , buy . " But , Chartists , I never seek the battle nor shun it when it comes , and as Cobden has called you " Myrmidons , " " a small insignificant
and very powerless party , " " an organised faction of the very smallest dimensions "—before Saturday , London shall be placarded with my challenge te Richard Cobden , inviting him to meet me in Wakefield , the nomination town for the West Riding of Yorkshire , on Whit-SUn-mondaV—a day when his supporters canaot lock up * their hands—and there to test the speed ofthe animals , and to show upon whose side are the " Myrmidons , " and upon whose side is " the smallest possible faction . "
tfow , then , this course will test bis judgment and his veracity ; and if the four-legged animal wins , I will take it as a fair test of public opinion , and will then back the quadruped . Now , surely , this is not blinking the question upoa my part , the more especially when I am prepared to surrender the p leasure of witness ing the location of the occupants at bnig ' s End , for the purpose of availing mj elf or a holiday f « the West Riding Derby , and from thence I g o to Sheffield on Whit-Tuesday , to give a description of the running . I remain , Brother Chartists , An advocate of the whole animal , name and all , Fea&gub O'Connor .
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Here are the speeches from the Chromcie , and I beg your attention to the following sentence , which is reported exactly as it wasdelivered : — « I HAVE SET HIM ' PUB LICLY AND POLITICALLY AT DEFIANCE , AND I HAVE NEVER FAILED TO BEAT THE HONOURABLE MEMBER BY A VOTE IN PUBLIC ASSEMBLIES , IN THE OPEN AIR , IN ALMOST EVERY COUNTRY IN THE
KINGDOM . " Of course ' country' is a misprint for ' county / but I give it as I find it in the Chronicle , and I ask you , knowing that I had not the rig ht of reply , can there be a doubt upon any man s mind that Cobden hoped that the assertion would serve the immediate purpose of con-, vincing the House that Free Trade had killed Chartism before , when led on by me ; and that the threat of the quadruped would again destroy Chartism , when taxation was reduced-F . O ' C .
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REPRESENTATIVE REFORM . Mr Hoire : I am very sorry , sir , to say , that at this late hour , it being now past eleven o ' clock , I aball Hot ba able to proceed with the motion of which I have given notice . Mr O'Csnnor : Go on , go on . Mr Hcme : I know the magnitude and importance of the duty I have undertaken ; and I know , very well , that in the time before me 1 shall not bo able testate the grounds ofthe motion , which I wish to make as clear as poBBible . Mr O'Cosnor : Go on , go on . ( Criea of ' Order . ')
Mr Hums : How can I go on f Let me speak for myself . I have been here the whole of the evening , anxious and willing to bring on the moticn . I am disappointed , and consequently , howeTer anxiouB 1 may be for the discussion , and no man can be more anxious for it than I am , I shall be obliged to postpone it . The only day I find upon the order book upon which I can bring it on , is the 20 tb Jane ( ironical cheers from the opposition benches ); and on that day I will certainly bring it forward , in the hope that it will then meet with no impediment ( Hear , near . ) Mr O ' Connor : I quite agree , sir .
The Speaker : There is no question before the house . Mr O'Cohnoh : Then I move that this house do W > w adjourn- I quite agree , air , with the hon . member for Montros 9 , that we should allow him to speak for himself ; bat I hope that in future he will not undertake to speak for the oeuntry . On a former occasion I oame at ray great personal inconvenience from a great distance to support a motion of the hon . member for Montrose . lie withdrew that motion , and I then told him that he had deceived me for the first time ; but that if he deceived me a secosd time the fault should be my own . ( Laughter . ) It is quite evident to me that the hon . member for Oxfordshire ( Mr Henley ) wag qnite right when he aaid this motion t ? a 3 merely a tub to the
whale . There is no question of greater importance than that of which the hon . member for Montros 9 gave notice of for to-night ; and I dare say there are many honourable members prepared to support it , in better health than I am at this moment ; but it was my intention to remain here till the close of the debate , whatever might be the consequences . ( Laughter . ) The hon . member for Montrese having asked the working classes now to fraternise with tb . 9 middle classes , and the working classes having come to the conclusion to abate a great portion of these principles which I have always earnestly and indefatigably advocated for them , I do not think they have been well treated . Had it not been for the assurances of the hon . member for Montrose that
he would bring on this measure the first opportunity , I should have persevered with mine ; but now , after the high expectations that have been held out to the country , after the assurance that the middle classes were ready to plead fo ? the working classes , and after the working classes had been deluded by the middle classes , I ask the bon . member far Montrose if he thinks it likely that I , for one , or the working classes peneraliy .-winany longer confide in him ? ( Hear . ) I have told him , and the party with whom he acts , tha . if they want to have the confidence of the people , they must . take a determined Btand upon this question . They have been juggling the people for the last month—they have now postponed their motion for a month : whereas , if the hon . member for
Montrese had brought it forward , the debate might feaTe been adjourned to an early day , and then the people would have believed him to be really in earneati By my advice tha country has tolerated this movement . The country has made great sacrifices for it , by having abandoned the larger , for the purpose of the sense of the house being taken upon the minor , principle . I do not , then , wonder at hon . gentlemen opposite thinking they have achieved a great triumph when , in the present state of the house this motion is abandoned , I do not wonder at them casting some derision upon the position in which the hon . member for Montrose has placed himself and his friends . I gay to the hon . member 1 will not agatn ba a party to such a ' mockery , delasfon , and snare ; ' and I will not again be a party to
rtccmraend the working classes blindly to confide their own principles to , or to place confidence in , men who in my soul and conscience I believe only intend to use them for their own purposes . ( Loud cheers from the Opposition benches ) I have never been a party to apy delusion either in this house or out of this house ( ironical cheers ) , ' and I never will be ; and if fhe question had been put is it the pleasure of this houEe that the motion b& withdrawn , ' if I had walked into tke lobby alone I should have voted against it . Again , I say , the country will not be satisfied with the hon . member for Montrosa having postponed bis motion , and again ' I say I agree with the honourable member for Oxfordahiro that it wa * nothing but a 'tub to the whale . ' ( Opposition cheers . )
Mr Bright seconded the motion of the adjournment as a matter of form . Mr Cobdek : There can bo bat one opinioD , I think , on the part of every sincere and honest nan in the house and in the country , that my honourable friend , the member for Montrose , io entirely blameless for the delay which has taken place in bringing on his motion . No reasonable man will suppose that any one , having the conduct ef so important a ques * tion , would bring it before the hoU 38 after a quarter past eleven at night . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) Theobjeot of my honourable friend is , that this important question may be fully discussed ; and if he had began a <
five o'clock in the afternoon , I question whether this one evening would have been sufficient for a full discussion . ( Hear , hear . ) The honourable gentleman wko has just sat down has undertaken to pivo advice in not very courteona or complimentary terms to my hon . friesd . Now if Imight ; presumed give advice t <> my hon ( riend , the member for MontroBe , it would be this—that in the conduot of this important question he will not follow the advice , still less the example , of an honourable member who calls himseit the leader ofthe working classes of this conntro who hasundertakennowfor nine years to lead them in the advocacy ofthe People ' s Cfearter—Mr O'Connor : For fifteen years now .
Mr Cobden : For fifteen years ! 1 believe the honourable gentleman himself stated tbe other day , at a meeting of his Convention , that , after fifteen years' leadership , in the advocacy of the People ' s Charter , he had but one man in the Houec of Com mon he could depend upon , in his absence , to advocate his prlnciplea . ( Several honourable members here cried , ' name , name . ' ) One honourable men-.-b * r was mentioned , bat I do not know who » t was . ( Laughter , ) I think that one fact alone is sufficient to warn my honourable friend tbe member for Mo « troge , how he bsrrwwa his tacticB from the honourable member for Nottingham ; and I tbink , too , that if anything can open the ejes of the working classes of this country toaju 9 t sense of the value of that honourable member ' s services , it is the position in which their cause has been placed in this house , and in the country by the honourable gentlerosnafterhis fifteen years leadership . ( Hear , hear . ) I have had and he
long experience of the honourable member , will not accuse mo of having any personal hostility towards him when I say no honourable member in fbis house has lavishsd so many complimentB upo me as the hononrabte member for Nottingham : but with my erperience of hiB conduct ont of this house , and ef the manner in which he has contrived : to array the working classes of tliis country aga ' mit the very men that could assist them in carrying forward their object if they wished for succG&s—I Bay that toe conduct of the hon . gentleman has done more to retard the political progress of the working classes ot England than that ot any other political man who ever lived in this country . ( Great cheers . ) I speak after long experience of the honourable member . No man has more right to speak on this BUb . ject than I have . For seven years I had to struggle with his relentless hostility whilst I was advoaating the cause of the working classes by means of the abolitioaof all taxes upon their food . That honourable
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gentleman did all he could to array the working classes against mo and those who acted with me , I had more hostility to encounter from him and from hi 3 party , than from the Dake of Buckingham and all his followors . ( Cheers . ) What was the result ? I never fraternised with the honourable member , _ er with his myrmidoris . No one can charge mo with ever having fraternised with , or succumbed to them for a moment . I always treated the honourable member a » the leader of a small , insignificant , and very powerless party . ( Cbeers and a laugh . ) I never identified him or his followers with the nwsof the working classes of this country . I treated him then aa I treat him now , not as the leader of the working classes of England ,. but as the leader of an organised
faction of the very smallest dimensions . I have set him publicly and politically at defiance , and I have nevei 1 failed to beat the honourabio member by a vote in public assemblies in the opeD air in almost every country in the kingdom . Now , I may say for myself , that in any sdvooacy which I may enter on for the advancement of the political franchise of the working classes , I never will fraternise with the honourable member and his organised followers ; and if he says , as he has said , that he has been preparing his fol ' owers to go wich us , I will say , as I have said a hunY ' d times , that , with tbe Chartt caa organised und < r his leadership , I never will ffatirnise—I have ? e * $ iem at defiance before , and I to ; them at de fiaBC 0 now—( enters );—and 1 beseech mj honourable friend the member for Montrose not to be deluded by-: anything that may fall from tbe honourable merabet-for Nottingham as to the power which he asserts
he bas with the working classes of this country . He was weak before ; he is p&werleBa now , and whatever he may threaten or promise in this house , will be equally uniniluential and unimportant in the progress of any great question of reform . Notwithstanding the most ierooious attack which had been made upon my honourable friend the member for Montrose , I am convinced that the great body of the peaple ofthis country will tot feel disposed to withdraw from him that confidence which he has so long enjoyed- ( Cheera . ) Mr O'Connor wished toexplain . The honourable gentleman stated ( bat be had beaten him ( Mr O'Connor ) in almost every county in the kingdom . Now the fact was , that he had never had the honour of meeting the honourable gentleman , but once in Ms life . Mr Cobden said , he meant the honourable gentleman or his followers .
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ALAEMrKQ STATE Or THE COUNTRY . — TRIAt 01 ? JOHN MITCHBL . — COMING EVSNT 8 OAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE . ( From eur oton Correspondent . J Ddblin , Tuesday , 23 rd May . We are huvryinu to the grand crisis with accelerated impetus . If Ireland's regeneration be not at our very doors , another oentury will find her still a nursery of slaves and beggars—a land of crime and ODttage , of bloed and tears , more abject and base , aHd grovelling than even at present . England , perhaps , may not be in a position to hold us down for a 03 ntary , nor for a year ; she may not even be mistress qjf hmelf . But I say , that if we do not now push ' forward , ' our opportunity ia gone for ever , and
years , and ages , and generations , will find our luckless land as I have described . This is evident . With the example of all Europe before our eyes—¦ with our tyrant rulers paralysed and embarrassed on every band—with millions of friends and svtnpa . thiBers , in the midst of the enemy ' s land— with America cheering us onwards , and with the sense of present insult , and the treasured memory of seven centuriea of persecution and robbery burning in oar minds , if we do not be a freepeople we never | need hope tor a triumph , or emancipation , or happiness , Circumstances of which we yet do not dream , may operate in our favour , and ensure our triumph , but
if these circumstances do not arise I verily believe there will be a frighful scruple in this country , With a few exceptions in Conciliation Hall , nobody doubts this contingency . There is mw no' Old Ireland ' partyjn this country , with tbe exception of some antiquated parish prieats , and the ' fogies ' of the crumbling establishment on Burgh Quay . We are all now , thank Gad , not ' Young Irelanders , ' or ' Confederates / sr factionists , or partisans , but enemies of British corruption and Saxop tyranny , faithful of course , tojinr , Queen , but loving . Ireland infinitely better , and sworn to have her ' &a she sopht to be , ' or perish in the attempt .
These are hot daysm Dublin ! Hot in every sense , for the son ehines , dowa redly and bfilliantJ ^ , aad men ' s minds , to use an Irishism , are 'in a blazo . John Mitchei is on his trial to-day , or , rather , Ireland stands before a Saxon court , in the person of John Mitchei . John Mitchei represents Ireland—at least , all that is worth anything in Ireland ; and if he be convicted , not b . 9 alone will bg pronounood 'felon , ' but every good and gallant man within the watery zone which encircles this island . This is no flourish . It is a fact . Many men anticipate a '
conviction / manyotheisprogno-ticateau ' acquittal , ' but in either case , the prosecution of tills young patriot is themostunluckyjob which England ever undertook in this country . IfMitcbel be acquitted , English law is not worth a cabbage-stalk in Ireland ever again — if he be sent to the convict hulk , it will be still a fatal triumph for our enemies-. Mark my words . Ensland never be-devilled herself in" good earneit , until John Mitchei was sent in the ' black caravan ' to occupy a gloomy cell and a' doss' of stinking straw , in her Majesty ' s prison in Newgate .
The eity is tranquil , bat much excited . There is ? oa » oely any buainess doing to-day . Every body is out , and every fooMep fo bent towards Green-ftTfei . The Court-h " . use , the reader will please to bear in mind , is in Green street , in an obncure part of the city ; and tbe gaol , commonly called Newgate , is an antiquated i gloomy , f- 'rtress-like pile , attached to the Court-hODBe , This Green-strept is a stirring locality to-day . Thousands of anurv-lookine men are pressing towards tbe seat of justice , whilst several hundred policemen , with a strong ; posse of mounted consta
balary , sword , in band , form a cjrdoa around the edifice . The people abroad know little of what is passing with'in , and no poor-looking person is admitted . This is Btrange to Eneliah ears , but in Ireland it is no new thing . We are a strange peop ' e indeed in Ireland . In France or any other lnnd , a f « w policemen dare not push , orjoatle , or bludgeon thousands of honest and peaceable men , from the portals of the temple of justice . 'Justice ! ' Saxon justice !! Irish fudge !!! But in Ireland one wonders not at anything .
What some call 'Yoang Ire ' and , ' is now in the ' ascendant . ' A few raenths ago , this little party was the butt of public ridicule—despised , insulted , belied , and suspected . Now the case ia , indeed , widply different . There is nothing now any good but . ' Young Ifelandisin . ' There is no body to oppose this great organisation but the Whigs and the staff of the fallen house of O'Connell . I was looking at tba ' marching' of the Confederate Club , to the great meeting at B 9 lle Vue , on last Sunday . It was astrsnge sight to see an ' Ir ish eneray ' mareb'ing through the centre of a Saxon garrison . Yet so it was . They did ' march , ' Tbe police authorities aid they should not , but th ^ y did after all , and laughed at the police , and defied their batons and their blnsterlngQ . I was at that meeting in Be' ' e
Vue . It was a glorious scene . There wore no banners floating , no drums beatinp , no tiasel or flippery , as in the daya of ' 43 , but the ^ e wore twenty thousand men there registered a vow that if a jury was packed to try John Mit . hel , the world should hear of it ; and that , if the paid J hn Mitchei was victimised to the Saxon , twenty times twenty thousand pair of arms should be raided up to ' pronounce ' against the vmiiet ! There wa « no shiiffliDgaljou * the matter . T ^ orc wa « no mincing— ' no trimming of caps at Bel e Vue . It naa a rexular campuioet ins—and every man there , with the exception < f tbe police and Mr Hodgea , the ffnvrrnmrntrflrorter . W !>" a « ' enemy' to the Whien , and had a rifle or a pike at home . Tou will learn by ttie I ^ K-h papers tbat tbf
• 'bjecc of this meeting « a » to protwt against having a jury ' packed' on Mr Mitflbt-I's trial . Ir , was helii in a suburb of this city , near the Grand Canal Harbnur . It was a fine meeting . Most of the leading Confederates were there , including T . F . Meagher , J . B . Dillon . C . G . Duffy , of the Nation , John Martin , of Loghorne , Dr West , Richard O'Gormnn . jun , and Thomas Darcy Magee . The speeches were short , but good and 'racy . ' Mr Meagher deemed a little out of tone , but was eloquent , ao usual . The beat speech was that of Daroy Magee , thoueh he is the youngest ofthe leading orators of Musio Hall . It was a ' groat day , ' indeed , and nobody who witnossed the scene , and heard what was spoken , cou'd help feeling tbat ' a OBBAiDATPORinuLAND * was already dawning .
Mr O'Connor ' s letter to Mitohel is a subject of much speculation in Dublin . It haa given unqualified satisfaction , and proves that , amid the difficulties which boset that gentleman ' s path , he does not forget old Ireland , nor those who struggle in her behalf . There is one thing in connexion with this subject , hawevor , which pains us , as Irishmen . That is , that Feargus O'Connor is cat amongst ourselves , leading the van against the enemy , and flinginz the weight of ilia name and talents into the great national straggle . Itisnottoolato ! Let him come , aad he
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will meet Btx millions eead mille failthet in the land Of the west . He need not withdraw from the English camp , but he might , at least , give hh own a helping hand against the common enemy . The Irish peasantry are still arming . . A true bill has been found against Mitchei . He applied for a copy , but waa refused . This day counsel on both Bides are arguing this point . To morrow his trial commences in good earnest . I will send a line with whatever I can tell about the trial , as well as concerning the case of Darin Reilly , who is about to be added to the liBtof ' conspirators . '
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MRS MITCHEL . There appears in the Uhited Irishman an addresB of sympathy from the Dr Doyle Club to Mrs Mitchel , together with that lady's spirited reply : — MtDiu In the stats of alarm and uncertainty ta which , notwithstanding yonr long preparation and your beBt endeavours , we feel you must be reduced by thetyrannlcal arrest of onr heroic brother , your husband , John Mitchei , we ceme to aBBuro you that we not only feel that the aggression has been made upoa as as citizens of this notion , but as it it had been made upon caoll of u « individually , the same deep indignation , the same bitter and determined resentment .
How erer some of us Irish citizens may have disagreed on abstract quoetione , this tyrannical attempt by the foreign U 6 UTper of our country to cru 6 h him individually , binds us aU together henceforth to rise or fall with him . We have now but one absorbing duty to perfermnamely , to prepare , night and day , for the purpose , should he bs convicted , of restoring him in triumph to liberty and to you . We , however , entertain that confidence in our felloncitizens that no jury will be found so corrupt , base , and traitorous as to convict him . To yourself , personally , we most respectfully offer our sentiments of esteem and sympathy . With his safety there is but one other duty equally imperative on as ; namely , to protect thoie he holds dearest—you , madam , aed jour childrsc , from tbe slightest annojanco or Insult . ( Signed , on behalf of the club , ) Johh B . WiTSON , Chairman .
Mrs Mitchei replied briefly in the following words : — I feel deeply grateful to the member * of the Dr Boyle Club for their most encouraging and h 6 p » ful addfOBB to me . I bave the utmost trust and confidence in their determination not to allow thtlr brother Confederate , John Mitchei , to leave this land in a convict ship ; and I feel assured—nay , I am quite certain—that my hug . band will never disgrace their cause or ni » own , I have not hitherto allowed aDy fears I might feel for my children ' s safety or my own to interfere with that line © f policy whiohmy husband thought it his duty to pursue ,
and I do not Intend to do so now . Bat let me tell the Confederates of Dublin tbat I firmly believe that to allowany ConfeaerateB , no matter how Insignificant the part ho may have taken in their cause , to leave Ireland in felon ' s fetters for tbe advocacy of their cause , would ba the most fatal madness , and would bat riret the ehalne more closely tban ever , 80 that they woald be unable to regain the noble position they now hold , by aU that they might say or do for half a century to come . Ibayo now only to repeat my thanks to the members of tke Dr Doyle Club , for the sympathy whloh they have expressed with myself personally on the present occasion .
A BREST or US EEIIXY . At five o ' cloek on Monday evening Mr Dovin Reilly was arrested on a charge of' drilling and training , ' con . trary to law . On Tuesday , Mr Reilly wag brought before the police magistrates , at the head police-office , College-Btreet , and after the case was beard , and infor . mationB for his committal made out , he was admitted to bail , himself in £ 160 and two sureties in £ 54 each , to appear snd take his trial at the next city commission , to be tried two months hence .
U 0 EE 1 SREBT 8 , More of the leader * of tbe Confederates are to be prosecuted . I have just learned that a warrant haa been issued for the arrest of Mr Charies Gavin Duff / of the Nation , and that informations charging Mr T . D . Rsilly , with having committed felony under the new act , were sworn yeBttl'dsf . UumOtir also StatCS that * Mr Thomas Darcy M'Gee will also be preceeded against /! we presume for tbe part be took in the meeting on Sunday last , Father Kenyon has arrived In Dublin , to conduct tha editorship of the United Ieibhhan .
An application to postpone the trial of Mitchei ml bo made on ThureQaj , os the ground that the jury panel was partial JyeMalgned . ;
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LOCATION ON SNIG'S END ESTATE . The following is a correct list of the two , three , and four acre shareholders to be located at Snig'e End Estate , on the 2 nd Monday in June , 1848 . Thomas Clark Corres . Sec .
TWO ACRES . 09 Emma Adams Banbury C 63 Sarauel Whalley Manchester 146 James Holt Ditto 198 J » hn Hudson Leicester 137 Jnlin Carter UptOD'On'Serem 826 Charles Frith Greenwich 4071 W . H . Curtis Whittington and Cat 17 Win . Peckett Office List 44 Constantine Jay Hull 1822 Robert Wilson Walsoken 108 CharkB Firth ' Office List 206 Jamea Harmer Ditto 132 Jamee Smith Birmingham 121 Stephen Needham Derby 1230 Thomas Sutton Office List 42 John Lani ( l . ey Norwich 151 George Staples ) J Family Ticket 152 Henry Staples / 1 Office List 649 John Teasue Bilston
20 Mary Clarkson Addingham 707 Inaac Goodhall Market Lavington 600 William Gray Ditto Ditto ; S 2 C . II . Budtfecombe Southampton 2038 Edward Edesbury Office List 2376 William Dart Exeter ^ 2167 Thoroao Hope Ledbuty 1 G 1 Thomas Ashman ' MeUvSomenet Si Robert Heppenstall Hull 70 RohrrtBaineB Newcastle-on-Tyne 11 John West Office List 35 . John Robertson Stalybridge 155 ? Thomas Hatoale Chorley 1946 Richard Daniels Office List 133 S Dennis O'Brien Alva
THREE ACRES . 32 John Kay \ j Ashton-under-Lyne ThoraaB Buckby / ( Family Ticket 1624 , 4 ^ 7 James Watson Dawsbury 56 Alexander Cleland Glasgow 9 John Buswell Banbury 1080 , 1090 George Cose Nottingham 16 ii 7 , 138 Thomas Saville Halifax 18 Robert Winter Hull 26 Henry Oliver Newport Pagnell Matthew Brown Office List 793 , 62 Donald Robinson Edinburgh Win . Gent Wellingborough
FOUR ACRES . Mr C . Doyle O'CoanorTille Mr Baker Birmingham (\ rG . Wheeler Reading Mr Cornwall Bradford MrRawson Manchester Mr Smith London MrKiadell . Bradford , Wilts 449 W . Colston Derby 273 . 274 Jamea Wakeman Torquay 531 T Newson DewBbury 1078 1079 Daniel Powell Merlhyr Tydvil 15201521 James Brand Sleaford 65 John Rice Bradford , York 514 T Franklin Limehouse 861 362 John Kinross \ ( "Family Ticket 2351 2352 Andrew KinrOBBj " \ Alva 1504 15 C 5 J < hn Lawton Retford
« J 5 J hn L Simpson ) J Family Ticket 1087 Esther'Hunt / " \ Manchester 506 Robert Jaryis Office List 6001 Jiwph Smith Rouen , France 3507 3509 Edmund Gee Wigan 1929 vv , James Merthyr Tydvil 75 , 76 . lo !> n Miller Newton Abbott 921 922 JionesCarew Manchester 177 Jvhn Ramsey Glasgow 1390 , 1391 W . Jarrett Office List 1966 , 1907 T . Launchbury Kidderminster
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Hetwood . —The members of this locality are requested to rce 3 t in the Association Room , Hartleystreet , on Sunday , the 28 th inat ., at six o ' clock . —On Tuesday evening , May 30 th , Mr Matthews will lecture on' the present prospects of the Chartist Movement ; ' to commence at half-past coven . L-iykrimoIi — A meeting of the members of the Charter Association , will be held at Mr Farrall s , i , Cazneau-street , on Sunday evening , to consider the means to carry out the New Plan of Organisation , and to nominate perBona to serve for the exeoutiye . MANCHKSTKR .-A meeting of the balloted members of Manchester , Asbton , Stookport and the butrounding distriotB , will be held on Sunday next JMay 28 th at tea o ' cloc k in the forenoon , at Ms Wnift . taker's , 93 , Great Anooftta-atrect .
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PROCLAMATION OF THE TROVISfOWAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NA . TIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION TO THE PEOPLE . FjtlXOW ConSTRTUBV , « Lord John RuBsell having deolarenMn the House of Commons , that ha did not believe tile pco . fl ! of this oouHtry desired the Charter , we , accept tUftt Statement aa a challenge , and hereby ^ w ^ i ta ymto make immediate . tfWMwenwntB for convening Itt tfc « ftirnta ' tatttf noftitinnaof the varionB dlBtnoM Of
England ; Scotland , and Wales , great Jgathennffl | of theCuarti 8 te » on . Whit , Monday , the 12 th of June . Be poacefuh be orderly , ' but above all orgp-msed He who dowtot organise cannot berehed apon ^ Answer relnotant-matfBfci'fttea , that the Pnrnte Min . ister of England baa indirectly ealled you together , either tofalter or confirm his belief aB to your npatby and contentment , Rally , rally , in your classes—Gather , gftthflr , ltt your hundredK— -Meet , meet , fellow countrymen , in your tens of thousands , ! Record a solemn vow never to ceass agibting , and to agitate tor nothing loss than the People s Charter .
Let the chairman of each meeting so arrange it tbat the men only who are present form theroselveg into a solid square , bo as to be counted in tbe front line and down one of the sWeB . The multiplication of tho one number by the other , will give the axaot amount of men present . When tbat is correctly ascertained and verified by some wellknown person present whether magistrate , mayor , alderman , councilor or otherwise , let the Statement be forwarded at once to Lord John Russell , directed thus : —To the Right Honourable Lord John Resell . First Lord ot the Tre ^ ury , Downing-street , London . Make no remark whatever , beyond the correct statement , and let that bfl done iu a clear , busineea-liko manner , and with a e&lni and dignified spiiit . Send ua alaoa copy »_ so that we may act as a counter-sheet on his LarJahip , a ? to the Dumber of jour reports .
We shall so arrange it that one of the members Oi tho Executive shall . be present at each of five , and ona of the Commissioners at each of twenty great meet jags . Wo shall rely on you , the people , supporting ua in the Execution of this most important duty . We remain , fellow oountrymaD , your faithful brethren in the cause . P . M . M'Doiuu . John M'Crah EUSEil Jojibb James Lkach Samuel Kidd .
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THE PROVISIONAL EXECUTIVE COM MITTEE TO THE PEOPLE . Feiaow Countrymen ! At a time when so many parties are in the field with promises of Reform , we consider it our duty to point your attention to what we Seem the policy requisite to bo pursutd . Chartists ! these are times to try men's Bonb , their judgment , and their firmness . The middle class are seeking our support—at first , under the plea of Household Suffrage ; then , whsa they find this miserable bait will not take , they grow more vague—talk of a ' wide extension '—but all adhere te their ' Triennial Parliaments '—and ' Property
Qualification '—though some insidiously change it to an ' Income Qualification of £ 200 per annum !—whloh means a Middle Class Qualification , to the exclusion of working men and the interftBts of labour . SoGUlg their original propositions scouted by the people , they have made a further change , and try to clothe them in a more attractive shape . They are now declaring themselves fnr Universal Soffrape , ' leaving the ' details for carrying it out to be considered at a future period , ' We believ * that the detaiJa (« A « remaining five points of the Charter ) are essentially necessary for Riving due effect to the principle of Universal Suffraze . Leave the DFTAILS to be fixed by tho middle class , and Universal Suffrage , in their hands , may become universal mockery .
Working men ! The New Reform League io calculated to benefit the middle class alone ; everyone of its features will give them added power , and give yow none . Be on your guard ! Why do thfy ask your help ? Because Whig government—a compound of eotton lords and landlords—is fast ruining their trade , and they are not strong enough to subvert that government . They am , therefore , placed in the dilemma of submitting quietly to the WhigB , and being ruined—or of joining the Ghartiats , and giving np their class privileqet . They think , however , they can once more dupe us , and'blind us as Io their real intentions . Chartists ! They cannot do without you . but they are trying to save thenuelves at ttio coBt of as few c ' ass privileges as they can . They are driving thrir bargain—let ua drive obhs . If we hold out , tley will be obliged to com *
to our terms . Now that they are again raisin ? the Cuckoo cry of , ' Take what you can got !'— ' Do not go for the whole at once !'—tell them , that we adhered to our principles at a time whan we stood alone—in the hour o £ adversity—in the day of comparative weakness—and that now , when we are strosg ; now , when the Press is foroed to devote its eolumns daily to a notice of our movement ; now , when the middle classes are seeking us , soliciting U 3 for kelp , now is not tb . 9 moment to aBk us to descend from our proud position —abate one"iota of the Charter , or sneak from honest principles into serviJe expediency . ' THE CHARTER WHOLE AND ENTIRE , '
must be our motto , and we must oppose every Rsiorm movement having only a sectional , not a universal good in view . They may taunt us with being obstructives—they may taunt us with thwarting their 'iatro * ductory measures , which are to pave the way for the restt' Tell them a Reform which should benefit only the middle class , would bs worse than no Reform ; for whereas that class are now somewhat kept ia check by their privilejed opponents , they would then becomethe irresponsible and unconditional masters of tbe people ,
Charti 8 t 9 ! Reflect , also , when they ask you to ' give up your Chartist agitation ' in order to 'join with them V Who is there to join with f A political pigmy—a mere shadow . Where is their party ? Where is their strength ? HaTe they the people with them ; No ! Have they evon their own class with them ? No ! A few solitary sentinels , watohing our movement from a distance—divided among themselves—contradictory and disagreed—we see nothing to unite vitb , but a few parliamentary and
political pedlar * , daring to call themselves leaders of parties having no existence but in their own core-it . Rally , then , Chartists ! Unmask them at their meetings— tear tbe flimsy veil off their vague and unmeaning resolutioas ( you will see samplea of them in thin week ' s Star)—aBk them what they really mean ?—fix tho glippory rhetoricians to the pointand , if that is not the Charter , move the following amendment , which we submit to you , as , even herein , uniformity is desirable , evidencing at onoo tho strength and extent of our organisation : — 1
Resolved , as a ohange is now universally admitted to bg necessary ; aa that change must strike at the root of the evil , not merely at its surface ; as tha working classes have been , and are , the greatest sufferers and the oldest reformers , and are , therefore , entitled to the firat consideration and the chief benefit resulting from reform ; as the Charter embodies their rights , and expresses their wishes : this meeting pledges itself to sanction no measure of electoral reform short of the principles contained in that docu * ment , without compromise , curtailment , or surrender—convinced that the onmsion of any one of its points , would cripple the efficacy of the rest—warned by tho treachery of the Reformers of 1832-aware that a united people haa the power ot carrying any juat mejmira of reform , and determined that the interests of Labour shall be the ruling question ofthe age . '
A word as to the Plan of Organisation : we consider that plan capable of affavding our [ movement an irresistible powen To enouve tkis , it must bo acted on uniformly in every locality . It will not do for one locality to adopi one plan , —and another a different one ;—lor the political machine to work well , it must harmonise it all its details . The g&Terfiment dread our organisation more Man any other measure . They will therefore try to thwart its developement by forcing the people into a premature outbreak . Spies and traitors will be
employed for this purpose . They will irritate you by acts of local tyranny . Once more , be on your guard There must be no rioting—organise ! organiao I oresni 3 e!—and the hour of our triumph will come . Wo warn you , it ia nearer than our enemies—and even than our frienda erpect ; Nothing but intemperate haste can retard it , —nothing but a dereliction of principle can rob us of its fruits , me charter and no surrender John M'Crae , Ernest Jone ? , P . M , Douam ., James Leach , Samuel Kydd .
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NOTICE . —All treasurers and secretaries of d « . triots and localities are requested forthwilh . to forward their names and residences to tho Executive . All money orders to be made payable to Joan , Sewell Esq at the Post-Office , Southward , London , £ lS £ 3 itii t o John M'One , Finanma W tarv Literary Institution , John-street , Tottenham Court-road , London . . It is particularly requested the above may be strictly adhered to
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Oi . DHAM .-On Sunday ( tomorrow ) , a netting of the Irish Confederation wiJltake place m the Working Man ' s Hall . * # en Mr B . S . Treanor , and Mr R . Ande-son , of Stalybridee , will deliver addresses oa the Principles ot'the Irish Confederation , and the beat means of the people of England and Ireland obtaining their rights . ' Chair to be taken at Bix o ' oleck in the evening . —A meeting of the Land members vill take place in the school-room , At two o ' clock in the afternoon . Wobtley . —Messrs Brook and Harris will adJrftw * meeting , oa Monday evening , at hAlf * paBb two o ' clock . . ... , „ .: , ' ;
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^ y AND NATIONAL TRADES' JOURNAL ,
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'VOL- XI . No 553- . LONDON , SATURDAY , MAY 27 , 1848 . «* , j ^^ ggg ^> g
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 27, 1848, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1472/page/1/
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