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THE NORTHERN STAR, SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1848.
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LONDON NEWSPAPERS FOR SALE . THE Tikes , Hebald , and Cqeomcle , posted the day of Publication - - 2 os . per quarter . Posted the da ? after Publication at 10 s . ,, The Bismtch , Bell ' s Life , Sosdat TiHbs , LaDI S KEWSP . S . PE 2 , posted the day after Publication , at 12 s . per amnum . The subscription to be paid in advance . A list wiU be f onrarded on the receipt of two postage stamps . !< o conreiion with any other person . , Address free to WILLIAM BARRETT , Town and Cona-tr . - Newspaper Agent , 122 , Houndsitch , London .
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Just Published , Price 2 d . DR M'DOCALL'S ADDKESS to the MIDDLE CLASSES . THE CHARTER—WHAT IT MEANS ; THE CHARTISTS—WHAT THEY WAKT . E . Dipple , 4 ? , Holjrvell-street , Strand , London , and all Booksellers ; also , at the Literary Institution , Johnstreet , Tottenliam-court-road , and the Land Office , 144 , High HolborH .
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NOW PUBLISHING . THE POLITICAL WOKKS 0 ? THOHAS PAIJTE Complete ia one thick Tolume , pr ice 5 s ., in which will be feund several pieces nexer before published in Bngl&nd ; and an appeadix , containing the Trial of Thomas Paint , with a portrait of the author . Just Published , in Penny numbers and Ponrpensy parts . VOLTAIRE'S PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY . l £ ay bs had , complete , in two volumes , handsomely bound , 12 s . The first volume has a medallion likeness of the author , and the second , a full length portrait , as fee appeared in his 70 th year . To the first Toluene is prefixed a copious Memoir of his Lifeaod Writings . Every cure hdsbeen taken to ketp the text correct , so that it may remain a lasting monument of the genius and indo , mitable perseverance of the author in enlightening and liberating bis fellorr creatures . Th 8 two volumes contain 1 , 276 pagei , clearly printed , crownSvo . VOLTAIRE'S ROMANCE AND TALES , in one vol . price 3 s . 6 d . THE DEVIL'S PULPIT . By the Her . Robeet Tatlos . tiro vols . price 53 ., published at Ss .
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PORTRAIT OP FEAttGUS O'CONSOR , EBfc , M . P ., T MASTiy informs his friends and the Chartist body generally , that he has reduced the price of his lithographic full-length portrait of their Illustrious Chief to tie following price : —Prints , Is ; coloured ditto , 2 s . 6 d . Also , a beautiful lithographic portrait of W . Dizon , late of Manchester , now one of the Directors , by T . Martin . Price—plain , Is ., coloured , 2 s . PEOPLE'S EDITION . To be had at the Nosthses Stae office , 16 , Great Wind , mill-street , Haymarket ; at the Office of the National Land CompaBy , 144 , High Holborn ; Sweet , Goose Gate . Notfingnam ; Heywood , Manchester , and all booksellers n the United Kinzdoa .
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COLLIVER'S COMMERCIAL COFFEE AND CHOP HOUSE AND READING ROOMS , 2 CSJ , STRAND , LGKDOtf . J GOLLIVER returns his sincere thanks to his . Friends and the Public at large , for the support he has receired at their haads during the last ton years , and hopes , by Etrict attention find civility , to merit a continuance of their patronage . J . G . also begs to state , that having lately mads Gitsnsivs alteratious aud improreraents in his premises , he is now enabled to afford additional convenience without extra charge . A Commercial Coffee-room upstairs , with every facility for Travellers and Visitors from the country . The House is situated iu the very heart of the ^ Metropolis , in the centre of the Theatres , near the National Iismi Ofice , and Public Boilding 3 . Omnibuses pass to and from aU the Hallway Statiocs , to meet the Trams , eTerv five miaates . Bsds , is . to is . 6 d . per nijht . All other char-es qualiy moderate . NO FEES TO SEP-VAXW ,
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TO BE SOLD , - 'pEE KISHT OF LOCATION of a Four Acre Allot-JL me : iton the Estate near Bvoni 5 ^ rove . _ ' For particulars stating terms ) , by enclosing a Postage Stamp , apply to Cliae . Goodivin , 15 , Darwin-street , Bir . mingham .
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TO BH SOLD . AFoUil ACHE SHAIiE in the Laud Company , with all eipcn ? D paid for the present year— the Advertiser being about to emigrate . Price Hi ie . ¦ ipplv ( if bj letier , prc-paidj to w . G ., care of Mr Mora * n , M » it Mi'J-square , Mertuvr Tv < WH .
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JUST PUBLISHED , FBICE SIXPENCE . HO . XVII ; OF " THE LABOURER , " C 0 NTBHT 8 . 1 . TheSoug of the Gaggers . by Ernest Joneg . 2 . Reform and Reformers . 3 . St Jehn ' s Eve , a Romantic Drama . 4 . Self-Reliance . 5 . The Wife , by Jane . 6 . Pride and Prtjudice , or the Martyrs of Sooiety . 7 . The London DoorBtep , a true story . 8 . ThcPe east Girl . 9 . National Literature . —3 , GermaBy . 10 , Monthly Review . tetters ( pre-paid ) to be addressed to the Editors , 16 , Great "Windmill street , Havmarket , London . Orders received by all agents for the " Northern Star " and all booksellers in town and country .
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IMPORTANT TO THE BLOCKPRINTERS OF SCOTLAND . rnHE BOARD OF ORGANISATION" call the attention _ L Of their fello < r workmen to the circular— ' Policy of the Board '—issued by them this week , ana request thorn to taie it into their serious consideration . All communications to be addressed to the Secretary-Thomas Watson , 7 , Smith-hills , Puislej .
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ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETT OF ENGLAND . YORK MEETING . ALL PERSONS who intend to exhibit Live Stack a < the ensuing York Meeting of the Society , are requested to transmit to the Secretary ( at 12 , Hanoversquare , London ) , on or before the First of June next , a statement of the particular animals they intend to ex . hibit on that occasion ; as , by the Rules of tae Society , ho entries can be received after that date . Jahes Hddsom , Secretary . London , 24 th May , 1848 .
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EMIGRATION . T ) ERS 0 NS desirous of Emigrating can obtain a Free JL Gift Of Forty Acres of the be 3 t Land , in the mo 6 t healthy and productive portion of the United States . Also , Land for Sale , or Barter , from © ne Dollar per Acre . Pasten ? ers shipped toall parts of tha World , and supplied with Bonded Stores , Provisions , < fcc , on the lowest ttrms . Apply tpoit free ) to the General Passengar Shipplne and Land Agency Offices , 15 , Eastcheap , London ; and 32 , Waterloo-read , Liverpos ? .
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SMG'S END . TO B . E SOLD , a Four Acre Allotment , on the above desirable Estate , the holder having engagemeits that prevent his taking possession . Letters containing a stamp to ba addressed to G . W ^ heeler , No . 3 , O'Connorsille , Eickmausworth , Herts .
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Berwick . —A Reform Association has been established in Berwick-on-Tweed , having the following objects in view : —An Extension of the Franchise , the lessening of the National Expenditure , and many other abuses , which at present exist in this country , aud to give all the support in their power to the present movement under the auspices of Messrs Hume , Cobden , and the other members of Parliament . A meeting is held every Thursday night to discuss the subject , and enrol members . Hull . —A gepeial meeting tf the branch will be held in the Wilberforce room , on Friday evening , Jane 2 nd , for the purpose of ejecting a secretary in t&e twin of Mr Stephens , tearing t ma ,
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; { RED HALL . I have received numerous letters , asking me for information , as to the description and quality of the Land of Red Hall . I can only say in reply to all , that there is not in all England PRIMER LAND / or spade husbandry , and that I should not recommend anv poor man to lay out his money to a loss . I have " undertaken to discharge the duties of auctisneer , without fee or reward , oreven my travelling expenses , to have the pleasure of expounding my plan in a maiden district ; where , hitherto , it has been impossible for the small capitalist to possess himself of a patch of land . Were I to answer one tenth of the letters I receive upon the subject , it would occupy my whole time . Feargus O'Connor .
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THE LABOURER . ' The June number of the Labourer' will consist of an article written by Mr P . O'Connor , embracing the whole Labouh Question , showing the inseparable ties by which the natural and artificial labourers are bound , and clearly illustrating the fact —that all hope for the emancipation of labour depends upon its representation , and upon the location
The Northern Star, Saturday, May 27, 1848.
THE NORTHERN STAR , SATURDAY , MAY 27 , 1848 .
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THE ' TIMES'AND CHARTISM . THE SHAM REFORMERS UNMASKED . "We have put down Chartism ; lut we have not conciliated discontent . " Thus , a few days ago , spoke the Thunderer of Printinghouse-square . A great fact conjoined to a great falsehood . It is true that discontent has not been conciliated ; and it is not the less true that Chartism has not been put down .
Chartism cannot be put down as long as discontent exists , and discontent must continue until the system of justice embodied in the Charter is acknowledged and acted upon . W h en t h e Charter becomes law , discontent will be concili a ted ; because the discontented will be enabled , by legal and moral means , to redress their grievances . Until then there will not and there ought not to be peace in the land .
The Times , whilst admitting that " Poverty is the unstatutable offence of modern conventionalism ;' ' and that its victims are far more numerous than were' the proscribed followers of Huss , Wickliffe , and Penn—the victims of former religious intolerance—has no remedy to offer ; for this deplorable state of things hut "Emigration . " With all the bullying energy for which the Times is celebrated , it is , day by day , striving to show that " emigration is the mission of this country , " and that " Systematic Colonisation "—that is , the wholesale transportation of the poor , is the only remedy for existing evils .
In another column we have commented on this subject at greater length . Here , we will only add a word of warning to those goldgorged conspirators who pull the wires of the Times : — Chi n k n o t , gentlemen , th a t the p eo p le of this country will ever allow themselves to be humbugged into tolerating your infernal design of " putting down" Chartism by transporting the discontented . Your journalists m a y preach , lie , whine , and bull y , u ntil a s black in the face as they are black hearted ;
but no amount of sophistry or bullying will induce the people to tamely submit to be transporte d from the land of their birth . Beware ! Perseverance in your present course may produce results fatal to your power . If once the people , driven to despair , inscribe upon their banners the ominous motto of the ouvriers of Lyons : " To live working , or die fighting" it will not be Gag-ging Hill ? , nor Times' articles , that will prevent them doing themselves justice .
Being d ete r m i n ed to do it s be s t to get a ll the discontented transported , the Times is of c o urse , furious at the prospect of a national agitation for Reform in Parliament . The Times knows well that a real reform in Parliament would enable the people to improve their . social conditioj ) , without going ' through
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the p roces s of transportation , but that would be ( he triumph of Chartism— A consummatien devoutly to he feared" by the Times and its T ^^ ^ f ^^^ on . 'nnfc that would bP
masters . , But let the Times rave ever so furiously , the agitation for real Radical Reform will go on . In saying this , we are speaking for the working classes . That the new Middle Class Movement has real Reform for its object , we cannot believe . No doubt , many individuals amongst the middle classes , are actuated by a fair and llOneSt Spir it . "theNewcastle meeting-, reported in our present number , is a proof of this ; but we have no faith in the mass of the bourgeoisie . Their present shouting for " Reform" appears to us to be only a repetition of the fraud of
1831—32 —« mockery , a delusion , and a SMF 6 . If the bourgeoisie were determined to place the representatioa of the country on a just basis , why not have taken the principles of the Charter for the object of their agitation ? In the anarchy which pervades the forces of the m i ddle cl a ss , it is difficult to say w hat they even profess to seek for—some asking for an undefined Extension of the Suffrage , some for an Extension to Ratepayers , some for Household , and a few for Universal Suffrage ; but the majority , we presume , follow Mr Hume ' s banner , inscribed ' Household Suffrage , V o te
by Ballot , Triennial Parliaments , and EquaJ Electoral Districts . '' Such a change , if accomp lished , would be no settlement of the question of " Reform . " Household Suffrage would exclude from the representation tens of thousands of the classes best fitted to exercise the franchise , whilst it would include every fool or knave who possessed the qualification of being a housekeeper . Thousand s o f the best educated men in this Metropolis are lodgers , and tens of thousands of the best politicallyinformed amongst the working classes are compelled by poverty to occupy rooms
only , instead of each family having , as it ought to have , its own separate dwelling . Under a system of "Household Suffrage" the 16 , 000 cellarmen of Liverpool would be enfranchised , whilst at least double that number of artisans , wa rehou s emen , clerks , and assistants living in lodgings , would be repulsed from the polling booths . In thi s metr o poli s , cert ain ly , three-fourths of the intelligence and patriotism existing is to be found amongst the lodgers ; but they would be ex c luded from their ri g hts by Mr Hume and
his friends , w hilst every keeper of a brothel , or receptacle for stolen goods , would be permitted to legislate , or at least have a voice in electing the legislators . Certainly , Universal Suffrage would not exclude the questionable or unquestionable characters of Liverpool and London from the representation , but under that system of suffrage the evil influence of such characters would be neutralised . The honest , the indu s t ri ou s , the intelligent , and the thoughtful , would far outnumber the knav i s h , the idle , the ignorant , and the prejudiced .
But we protest against Household Suffrage on the broad ground of principle . Household Suffrage would continue the present accursed system of Property Qualification . Why will men palter with ' principles ? " Man is man , and who is more ? " Any system , by whicb even one man would be excluded from the enjoyment of his ? natural rights , would be a system of injustice . Why this cavilling about what is expedient ? The right is simple enough ; justice is understandable by alL If
mernvouldact upon the principle , "Do unto thy brother man as thou wouldest he should do unto thee , " injustice could not exist . He who will not act upon this principle , no matter whether he call himself a " Conservative " or a " Reformer , " a " Supporter of our Glo rious Institutions , " or a " Friend to Progress , ' ' is a tyrant and a knave , a robber and a hypocrite ; and whether he mouths the cant of To r y ism or the cant of Liberalism , he " is a liar , and the truth is not in him . ' '
Again , the new Reform dodge , if successful , would compel the Electors to select , as now , their Representatives from the ranks of the enemies of industry . What matters it that you have a " voice " in selecting from a basket of oranges when the whole are rotten ? Any system which would eontinuejjthe present Property Qualification for Members of Parliament would be utterly valueless . Even Universal Suffrage would not be worth a straw unless accompanied by those two other important " paint s" of the Charter — " No" Property Qualification , " and " Payment of Members . "
We have two more objections to urge against the " new move . " First—Household Suffr ag e woul d b e no s e ttlement o f the S u ff r a ge agitation . The excluded masses would very properly continue to agitate until they had obtained their rights . We can assure Messrs Hume and Co . that as long as one political slave exists on Britain's soil , we shall continue to " agitate ! agitate ! ! agitate ! ! I" Second—J t is evident , from the insolent tone of Lord John Russell and the innate despotism of the present Parliament , that the country must be brought to the verge of a revolution before even Hume ' s " Reform Bill '' could be carried ; n o w the s ame a m o unt of popular agitation could not fail to carry the Charter .
We have an additional reason for distrusting the " new move . ' Hume and his Monde mix up with Parliamentary Reform the question of lf an equitable reform of taxation . " In the Anti-Corn-Law agitation these men told the Chartists that it was necessary to do one thing at a time , and , therefore , they stuck to Free Trade . Why not now act upon their old rule of " one thing at a time ? " If they were honest they would do so . This " equitable taxation" liumbu < r is the cloven foot
reyealedrHume , L ' obden and Co . know well that a House of Commons that really represented the people , would at once set about reforming the taxation and expenditure . The shortest road , therefore , to '' equitable taxation ' is through a real Radical reform of Parliament . But it is not " equitable taxation ' that these shampatriots want . They want to remove tho bur . dens , which at present oppress them , to the s houl d er s o f o t h er peop le—either the leviathans of land and capital or the working classes , they are indifferent as to which , so that they relievo themselves . The "Keform " dodge is only a whip with which to frighten the Government into yielding to their demands for a revision of taxation . If the
"equitable taxation" scheme w e re accomp lis h ed , the " Reform" cry would at once expire ; and as the aristocracy will grant the bourgeoisie any concession rather than grant the people their rights , the working classes may a ssure t h em s el v e s th a t if they gire their support to the middle classes , upon the terms at present proposed by the latter , they will be served as they have been before , —made use of to promote the selfish ; ends of their " respectnhte" friends , and then trampled in the mire . A week ' ago many were inclined to views more favourable towards the new agitation ,
but the scene in the House of Commons on Tuesday last , must satisfy the most credulous as to the real designs of the bourgeoisie . After the just complaints of Mr O'Connor against the juggling course pursued by Mr Hume , up got Cobden , and in the most venomous terms denounced the Chartists , and declared he never had , and never would , fraternise with them . That the people may not be deceived by the sham Radicals , of whom Cobden is the real head , we will here place on record his words . Let every Chartist read , mark , and inwardly digest them : — J
1 never fraternised with ! the honourable member or with his myrmidons . No ono can charge mo with ever baring fraternised with or succumbed to them for a mo meat . I always treated the honourablo member as a oaderof a mall , mugnifiaanl , and very poiverlen parly . Cb < er » md a laugh . ) I novep identified him or J followers with the mass of the working classes of thl , country . I treated him thon as I twat him now t > o a th . eadcrof the working cla 8 aes of EngtaiKt « the leader of an organised faction oftUvm , imallM rf ? monnons . I have Mt him publicl * and pohttaall , 5 £ . ^ : ^ s : ^ :: ^~ vzt
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raaoament of the political franchise of the working daises I never will fraternise vjHMhehmourabUmemUr and Ms organited followers ; aad if be says , be has said , tbnt be ban been preparing hi * foUowera to go with Hi , I will say , ae I hav « said a hundred times , that , withthe Chartists as organited under his leadership , I never will / raternit<—Ihav 4 set themal d 4 fianct before , and I set them at defiance wu > , ( Cheers . ) Chartists , you are denounced as a " small , insignificant , and powerless party / ' whom the League king sets at " defiance . " We accept his " defiance . " Cobden says that he and his " myrmidons" never failed to beat the Chartists . A grosser falsehood never came from the lips of even a Leaguer . He knows that as long as the League meetings were free to the public , Ta ^ mBPt the political , franchise of the , working
the Chartists constantly unmasked his schemes , and outvoted his paid spouters and deluded dupes . It is notorious that , in consequence of b eing inv a riabl y defeated by the Chartists in open meetings , the League had recourse to closed meetings . In the last two or three years of its existence , the League had scarcely throughout the kin g dom a ny c o lle c tion o f hum a n b eing s that was not a ticket meeting . Free discussion was completely proscribed , and any one who , at Covent Garden Theatre gatherings , ventured to put a question to the speakers , was hustled out of the place . In the teeth of these facts , to outrage the truth as Cobden did on Tuesday night , shows him to be possessed of powers of face perfectly matchless . After this exhibition of furious hatred on
the part of the middle-class leader , compromise is impossible ; until the middle-classes renounce Cobden and his schemes of delusion , and prove their honesty of purpose by adopting the entire principles of the Charter , there can be no union with them . Let the sh o p keepers have their private and " organised factioa" meetings unmolested ; but iftliey venture before the public , and pretend to take the sense of the public on their nostrums , and demand the support of the people , let them be made to understand the only terms on which they shall have that support : — THE CHARTER , THE WHOLE CHARTER . AND NOTHING BUT THE CHARTER !
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Mr O'Connor ' s letter ' to the Chartists , " and the address from the Chartist Executive , received since the above article was put into type , recommend pre c isely the l i ne o f policy we have above recommended . We are happy t o pe rc ei v e that the Star , Mr O'Connor , and the Chartist Executive are all of the same mind . Energetic action must be the fruit of this union of sentiment . Throughout our serried ranks ^ but one resolve must run : — No Compromise ! THE CHARTER AND NO SURRENDER !
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THE PIGMY PREMIER
Mister John Russell , commonly known by the st yle and title of Lord John Russell , has ventured to assert that the peop le de s ire neither Mr Hume ' s scheme of " Reform , " nor the " People ' s Charter . ' ' According to his Lordship , the Working Classes are quite indifferent on the question of their riglitf , as embodied in the Charter . Chartists of Great Britain , you well know how to answer this mendacious insolence . You will carry out the Proclamation of the Chart i st Execu ti ve , an d str i ke conv i c tio n to t he puny pettifogging soul of the Whig Premier , by raising from the Land ' s-End to John-o-Groats , one united , thundering peal for ' THE CHARTER , THE WHOLE CHARTER , AND NOTHING BUT THE CHARTER !"
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THE TRADES AND THE CHARTER . We direct the attention of our readers , particularly those who are members of Trades ' Societies , to an ably written Address in our 2 nd page , from the Stone Masons of London to the Trades of the Metropolis and the country generally . It will be seen , that the S t o ne Masons urge upon their brother operatives the necessity of forming a Metropolitan Trades ' Political and Social Union , for the purpose of obtaining legislative recognition of the political and social rights of Labour . The Stone Masbns in contending for the political rights of industry , demand the Six Points of the Charter ,
and wisely add that they regard the ^ vote only as a means to an end . Their views of social reform do them great credit , and are well worth y th e serious consideration of all who earnestly desire the veritable emancipation of the millions . We are especially well pleased with the s e n sible obse r v a ti o ns of the Masons on the necessity of the working men obtaining by discussion and mutual instruction a thorough comprehension of their political rights and duties , and the measures necessary to effect the social
salvation of the masses . When Universal Suffrage is obtained—as obtained it will be—we trus' . it will be better employed than hitherto it has been in America , or than it was employed in France , on the occasion of electing the pr e s ent rotten As s em b l y . If the Stone Masons can succeed in inducing their brother operatives to follow their noble example , then , indeed , political enfranchisement will come soon , a n d soci a l regener a tion will as s urel y follow .
When , on a late occasion , at a meeting of the Metropolitan Trades , certain individuals , more zealous than wise , succeeded in tacking the Charter and Repeal on to the " Report " presented b y the delegates to the meeting for adoption , we were ) by no means pleased at their " triumph . " Ifc was , to say the least , an indiscreet act , calculated to prejudice the Trades against the Chartists . The operatives , wh o are not C h art i st s , must be converted , not driven . Now it appears to us , ' that the movement of the Stone Masons is admirably calculated to win over to the good cause those who hitherto have net been with us . The
greatest stickler for unadulterated Trades ' Unions , cannot object to the Stone Masons ' scheme . They do not wish to bring politics into the Trades' Societies j they { desire , on the contrary , that those societies should be wholly devoted to Trades' interests ; but , seeing that Trades' Unions alone are not a sufficient defence of the workmen ' s interests , and certainly not calculated to obtain for the
working men the restoration of their plundered rights , they propose the establishment of an Association which they ( and we ) believe to be calculated to promote the social ^ in t ere s t s of the Trades , by and through the " obtainment of those ri ghts which will arm the people with the power to enact good laws , and establish social institutions , founded on the princip les of eternal justice .
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they flatter themselves will appear exceeding ! JJ patriotic and philanthropic on their parts , anjf at . the same time secure not onl y all the , \ , present advantages , but conduce to the futu r permanent predominance of their class . Th « Times is the exponent of the panaceajfor the wretched and disturbed state of societ y . { Jn . der the catching title of " Colonisation ' » u . has , by leaders and letters addresssed to itselfi by its own writers , been busil y emp loy ed fOc sonte time pa s t in writing up the w holesale transportation of our " s u p erabun d ant " working population to the antipodes . It is feund that the " Gagging Act ' ' does not fulfil its vocation ) y enabling ourrulers ^ to transport any of them ^^*^ they flatter themselveg will appear exceeaw .
as felons , so a systematic and extensive expa , triation is recommended , and called "National Colonisation . " The kundreds of thousa nds who a re thus to be got r i d o f , are uncon > victed b y any court o f l aw , but their crime ig apparent enough . There are too many o £ them—human vermin that they are—for the comfort of the rich : th e r e fore , we are to " ship o ff c a rg o e s o f hum a n beings starving here" to Australasia and elsewhere , and thus , in the language of the same authority , " turi { that which seems a curse into a blessing , and to supersede the turbulent discontent of half . employed multitudes by the well-directed efforts of a National Colonisation !"
Casting about for the means of carrying out this scheme of National Transportation— we beg p a rdon , Colonisation—the Times finds that the Poor-rates absorb a great deal of money very wastefull y , besides the large am ou nt s ex p ende d in maintaining hosp itals , alms-houses , orphan-schools , and other chari . table institutions , and appealing to the selfish , ne ss an d t he pocket s o f the weal t h y , it says ,
" would it not be cheaper for you to pay a good roun d sum , and get rid of this ' surplus * humanity at once ! '' On the other hand , to entice the working classes , it publishes highly coloured pictures of colonial felicity at the Antipodes , " Lumpers'' getting 6 s . a . day irt a . country where meat is 6 d . per pound , and bread , l | . In fact , " where the servants are masters , and lose half their time . "
It is scarcely necessary to observe , that these pictures are drawn by men who want more lahour , in order t o enable them to be a t d o w n i ts present price in the colonies ; and that if the Times could succeed to any great extent in persuading people to adopt this " National Coloaisation , " the result would speedil y be what we see at home . There would be more labourers than were wanted by the Capitalist , and consequentl y the hi gh wages and " mas tership' ' of the '' servants" would vanish to . gether . They vrould become , as they are at home , the serfs of the commercial feudalism , which has superseded the iron ruJe of the mailed barons of old , with , in our opinion , but very little , if any , change for the better to the
serf . T o a just , necessary , and rational system of National Colonisation , we are b y no means opposed . In the course of Nature , nations m us t throw o ff f re sh h ives , as well as bees ; but the bees never do so until there is a real necessity for it . The means of subsistence eq u itab ly distributed among the worker * , are f ou nd t o be i na dequ a te to t he support o f the whole , and then the Emigration takes place .
But they don't expatriate the working bees , and keep the drones to consume the honey which the workers have stored up , with only so many other workers behind as may suffice to make more honey for the drones . The bees are too sagacious to worship their drone * ocracy to that extent . As long as they ' are useful or tolerable , they have no objection to them ; but when they become neither , they are dealt with o la Jeremy Bentham—on the principle of utility .
We would apply the same principle to human affairs . We shall grant that when there is a " surp lus population , " the surplus should swarm off and . find a new hive , and a new field for their industry . But who are the surplus ? Those who create the wealth of the country , or those who merely consume it ? The best way to test any principle is to push it to its extreme . Let us
8 uppose ; then , that all the tillers of the soil—the s h ep herds and graziers , the bricklayers , masons and carpenters , the weavers , spinners , and mechanics—in short , those who raise the food , build the houses , produce the clothing , and furnish all the convenience , comforts , and luxuries of society—let us suppose , we say , that every one of them , if it were possible , we ' re to sai l to the Anti podes in one day , leaving behind only those who have hitherto honoured
them by condescending to consume the fruits of their toil , and who now coolly talk of their wholesale expatriation . What would be the result if the land of England was thus left in the undisturbed and sole possession of the Lord Johns , Sir Georges , Sir Charleses , and noble and right hon . gentlemen , who now imagine they s w ay its destinies ? We suspect that it would be found very soon that these idols of the British Constitution , were as wooden god ? as ever were worshipped by the most ignorant savage . The armies of labourers who went
forth from its shores would carry with them civilisation and plenty . Mighty and ever beneficent labour would clear away forests ; stately cities rise up amidst the wilderness - } pleasant farmsteads nestle in the valleys , and smile upon the hill-sides ; cultivated fields would stretch away to the horizon , rich in the promise of plenty for man and beast ; and the rivers which flowed through their new home , would be brightened by the white wings of vessels wafting from other lands their produce in exchange for the surplus wealth sent thither
But what would become of England left in the hands of the serene nonentities—the " lords and gentlemen , " and who now think themselves the great pillars of the State ? Her cities would fall into ruins ; hev fertile soil revert to a state of nature ; and her now busy ports cease to be visited by a single sail . If we are to have a system of colonisation , let it be for the purpose of sending away the real surplus , not the . real wealth of the coun try . Every labourer sent out of it who mig ht be profit a bly em ployed in it for himself and the
country , is an abstraction from the national strength and prosperity . Every useless idler exported would be a substraction from the national burden . The true surplus are those who are ; unwilling to work for their own maintenance , and who think they have a ri g ht to live on the labour of others . Send them away by all means , as fast as you please , with just so many captains and sergeants of industry as may suffice to teach the poor benighted and ignorant wretches , how t « earn an honest livelihood . Give at the same time the imp lements and the means of living , u nt i l they get t hei r first crops in , and then you will have done all they can fairly expect from you , and have restored Eugland into the hands of it * real owners—those whose labours make it what
tt is . ^ his quest i on must be fairl y un derstood . Hie richest man amongst us can" eat , drink wear , or spend nothing whatever which ha * not , in the first p l a ce , beea . produced by L 3 " bour . Onl y a comparativel y small portion ot the population actuall y labour ; therefor *' every labourer produces , a great deal n > * than he consumes , or would be capable , " « 'ie . any circumstaaces , of censuming ,. As Christ' * anity and natural justice equally concur I " laying dowE the prinesple that , " the labon ^ shall first bs partakes of the fruits , " it foil" ? that , until he and his are satisfied , there »
nothing for any bsd y else . If , after this * done , he is c onte n te d to let his sur p lus 8 ° : feed idlers , undo ? any name whatever , why " has n ri ght to do so . But if there c omes * pinch , and the r e i s not e n ou g h for all , ' ' clear th e O ri ginal owner—because the first < - ' ' ator of the wealth—has the right to sa >'' the idler , " 1 can't afford to keep you h ere » idleness any longer . You are ' surp lus , < 1 « must betake yourself elsewhere . " . But we denounce the whole thewy ° ^ " sU u phis" upon which this scheme of > vhole s Li transportation is based , as . x fiction , iBYeH '
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WHOLESALE TRANSPORTATION . The w ealthy clas s es are very much puz z led just now . They don ' t kno w w hat to d o with the " poorer classes . " Notwithstanding artjllery , soldiers , pensioners , police , and specinl constables , they have an uneasy consciousness that the system is ricketty beyond the p o wer of s uch prop s to keep up much longer , and that a change of some sort or other must be made .
But what kind of change shall it be ? The producers of wealth demand their fair share of political power , in order that they may use that power to promote the social well-being oi their / order . " The possessors of the wealth , who are not its producers , refuse , under various pretexts , to concede this just demand—the real reason being that they fear the- establishment of just political relations would lead to e q uitable s oci a l practices , and ihe labourer then be not onl y worthy of his hire , but < Tctuall y receive it , which is m > t tho case at present .
The question , ho w ever must be answered in some way or other , or U ia evident that this l f ir « ? ™ T } ° holtl the Partv or the "haves , and the party of the « h avenuts together . Uerefore , the r ic h people have bethought themselves of a comfortable mode . of settling the difficulty , in a Sffi
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 27, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1472/page/4/
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