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THE NORTHERN STAR. SAfUKDAY, NOVEMBER 10, IS 19.
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W READ MAZZINI'S MAGNIFICENT MANIFESTO IN DEFENCE OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC ! Now Ready with ihe Magazines for November , No . VI . OF THE DEMOCRATIC REVIEW . Of BRITISH and FOREIGN POLITICS , < HiSXOH , Y and LITERATURE . . . 1 - ¦!¦ ¦
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Mb . Ambbose ToMitssos writes as follows ;—In the Stab ' of October 27 th mb stated that the Kirkdale Scholars had left their Collegiate Establishment without deeming St north while sending you a line of information about Iheir liberation , jou will , perhapB , think it more curious if we , who have been trained for the by-cone sixteen months in Wakefield College , should also remain silent after our liberation ; I therefore forward a list of the names of those of my fellow-sufferers liberated with irisself : —Ambrose TomUnson , John Connor , Francis Vicarv Isaiah Heaton , James Down , William Winterbucn Thomas Fell , Nathaniel Frith , Andrew Beanland ; i \ Vm ' Smith , All the above have served sixteen months As ' for myself I was liberated in good health , but I feel Wv weak . I am still a Chartist , and firmly believe that it ; is ! £ i ? Ls ™ e * " ? Slfta ? 5 the material univers > itself aStp
extinguish that love , of liberty , and hatred of misrule which glows in the bosom of every good man . I have received as good an education in the school of oppression as an unnatural parent could bestow upon me and I flunk . Mr . Editor , that I would be truly ungrateful if I did not give them the benefit of what I have been taucht My persecutors snapped all the ties of friendship asunder they placed manacles upon my hands , —dragged me from the workshop , —deprived me of all domestic comfort and BOCial Converse ; they have robbed me of sixteen months of my life ; I have had the insults , the sneering and scorn of prison officials , —the jeers of those who were the worst of characters , —but I liope to tive to see , and hasten the day , when I can return some of their compliments . —Ambrose ToMLissojf . P . S . —If any of my old friends wish to communicate with me thev must address
tor meat Mr . Wray ' s , Temperance Hotel and Commercial Rooms , Bnggate , Leeds . Since the above was in type we learn that fourteen persons have been liberated . Their names , in addition to those . given above , are Daniel Alcoyd , Edward Vow , John Smith , and — TomMns of Saddleworth . The three last named were bound over to keep the peace for twelve months , themselves in fifty pounds each , and two sureties in twenty-fivejoundseacli . On Monday last , a democratic entertainment was given in the Odd Fellows Hall in honour of their liberation . Mr . R . Fabihch , Barnstaple . —The 8 s . for the Victim Fund was dnly received , but too late to be inserted in the list published on the 27 th ult . If jou refer to the list inserted m the Star , of Saturday last , you will find it acknowledged . It would be too great a tax upon my time and pocket , to acknowledge every donation by letter . If you had perused the account of receipts in last week ' s paper jou would have seen it had not been omitted . Long !! ot
swingnames are frequently sent along with the subsenphons—these are not published for two reasons . — First : —the amount sometimes sent therewith would not pay for the composition . Secondly : —our sheet muit contain other matter in addition to accounts of monies received . —Wm . Rideb . J . Sweet , Nottingham . acknowledges the receipt of the following sums ( sent herewith ) viz .: —For Victim Fund-Mr . Wild 2 d . ; Mr . Tomlinson 2 d . —For Chartist Executive—Mr . Burgin 6 . ; Mr . Wild 2 . A . B ., Scouringburn Received . : Mr . S . Widdop , Addingliam . —Six copies have been sent to J . w . since last remittance , for which the stamps you enclose will pay . W . J ., Thorpe Hall—Yes . Mr . J . Mitchell , Jarrow . —Right . Mr . J . ltaraiN , 17 , Portland-street , Cheltenham , wishes to know the address of George White , late a prisoner in Kirkdale .
Mr . T . Harper , Wbodhouse , —Received . : Mr . W HiLtiAR , Christ Church . —The Advertisement would be charge * 4 s . 61 , payment in advance . BERwicK .-The letter from the Newcastle Guardian is both out of date and not sufficiently explanatory . A brief , clearly-written , and authenticated statement of grievances , if forwarded , shall have insertion . G , CayiIi . —Received . Shall be attended to . The hate Kibkdale Prisoner . —Thomas Ormesher , Manchester , acknowledges the following eumslfor the debt contractedfor the supportof the late Kirkdale m-ismx-m
—Kodmorden , per R , Barker Cs . Cd . ; Frestwich , ltoodenlane , and PUkington , per T . Doodson 12 s . ; for the femiliesofthelate Kirkdale prisoners , Preston : per J . ... Brown 2 s . Od . ¦ ' * Drawings of the monument may be seen at 28 , Golden-• T * ?? a 011 ??? 6 for buudin e being extremel y moderate JSJS ? ? " CriPleSate Wr to erect this structure to the memory of those victims , in hopes that the undertnk ing would meet with assistance fro ^ th e CharHst body Fsu& ^ & ^^ & * & aJsobereceivedat Golden-lane ? anddeclS elTKm
Tire Mommest to the Hestou o * the ylcmt . Wlf , . „ ipsSIs ! r- ^ t e ^ a ? ir ws » ifJ » £ ^ 'SfS 5 52 The might will bDeightfcet , Weet ril Til ??™ with a taper shaft for inscrfplions . Theneck $$ & *' voU bear emblematical designs , and the ton will i ! Cilp mounted with a Cap of Libe ? tv P W 1 " bo 6 ur-Isaac Wttso . v . -ThepubUcatlon of your letter it , «« . to us , woukl do nogoofl . The actsV th n 'Iff "
irad " s acle ~« best recommendation'Jo the ' ^^ iSXSSBSSSSi James Lowe , Dundee . —We had no notice of Tam ™ n i £ = ^« rw »~ ? S Ss ^^ f ¦¦ •* > * ^ SffSSSSMt Aaa ssaSSSS ? ' ^** 5 * s « iaat 5 ffftjS 3 { 5 a Jour name and address . J furmsh ^ | ,
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J . W . R ., Wbsey , and "Wm . Axos .-We do not answer ifflPace occupiedby the Chartist public meetings , " ^ he Trades Conference , Mr . Bright ' s speech , &c ., compels us to postpone tho insertion of numerous communications . The following will appear in the Star of next week --Address of Dr . M'Dounl ' s Committee , Mr . Walton ' s and Mr . P . J . O'Brien ' s Letter . ;
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NATIONAL THANKSGIVING- FOR THE CESSATION OF CHOLERA . As Thursday next has been named as a , day of rest and thanksgiving for the cessation of that scourge , the Cholera—and as we are not quite certain that the ceremony will be per . formed as it ought to be—it is our intention , in our next number , to publish a Form of Prayer , to . be offered up by the People , asthe means of relieving them from a more awful pestilence .
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COLONIAL MISRULE : CANADIAN ANNEXATION TO THE UNITED STATES . The absorption of our Canadian provinces into the great North American Federation , has been regarded by all reflecting persons as an event certain to take place . The only question was as to the time when we might write ij ; down as un fait accompli , and that is likely soon to receive an answer . It would be going to far too say that the recent legislation
of the Imperial Parliament , with reference to the corn laws and commercial tariff ^ will be the sole causes of the separation of Canada from the mother country , but there can be no doubt it will hasten it .. .. However much Free Trade may be suited to developethe resources of Canada , if itSvas an independent State , in connexion with the Transatlantic Federated Republics , it is wholly destructive to its interests as a dependent colony . The British
Parliament by taking away protection , severed the sole remaining bond which attached the colony to this country ; and the cry for annexation to the United" States , is raised not by the Radicals , nor the . French Canadian party , who may have an old antipathy to British and monarchical rule , but by the Tories—the heretofore ultra loyalists , upon whom the Home Government mainly , depended for the maintenance of our rule in our North American dependencies .
The document in which the reasons are set forth for the annexation of Canada to the States , ib altogether a remarkable one . Even the " Times , " the organ of the Colonial Office , was compelled , in its first commentary , to speak of it in the folio wing-terms : " It is neither inspired by vindictiveness nor fraught with violence . It is earnest in its tone , but its earnestness partakes of the character of deliberativeness . " And having thus characterised it , the leading journal says that it is entitled to " a patient , and even respectful attention at
our hands . " Tho whole tone of the subsequent remarks is in the same key . Instead of bursting into a fit of loyal anger at the idea of a dismemberment of this mighty empire heing coolly promulgated by a large and influential party ,- the Ministerial organ calml y admits the propriety of the course pursued b y the party ' which has issued the document , in the abstract , if not in the concrete . The Annexationists " simply advise separation from England , as they suggest annexation to the United ¦ States , from the motives by which communities , not less than individuals , are impelled motives of self-interest and self-advancement . ' ?
This admission—in connexion with some of the reasons urged by the colonists is certainly an extremely damaging one for monarchy , and the palliation—if not justification —of the conduct of the Annexatioimts , suggested by the " Time * , " applies , ' - mutatis mutandis , to large bodies of people at home , who consider themselves quite as ill-used at home by Monarchical Institution * , as the Canadians do on the other Bide of the Atlantic . Here , also , comparisons are made between the cheap Government of a Republic and the dear one of a Monarchy . Here the light taxation of the United States is contrasted with the
enormous burdens imposed by a luxurious and splendid Court—the preposterousl y large salaries paid to all high State officers and an overgrown War Establishment . On every side we see placemen , pensioners , and "dead-weight " blood-euckers fastened upon the people , and extracting from their toil the means of living in comfort , if not in Bplendour ; while those whose labours create all the wealth are treated in tho disgraceful and inhuman manner revealed by the correspondents of the " Morning Chronicle" in their Letters on "Labour and the Poor ''
We very much doubt , however , whether a document embodying the grievances of the toiling millions at home , and the reasons why they should have a cheap and responsible , instead of a dear and practicall y irresponsible Government , would be treated with equal deference and respect by the " Times" or its masters . ERNEST JONES and his co-patriots are in prison at this moment , for endeavouring to secure for the people such a , voice in
their own House , as would have given at least a chance of securing these two objects . The Montreal Annexationists are . treated with " patient and respec tful attention "—not because they are less rebels against aristocratical domination , and our "good old Institutions , " but simply because they are wealthy and powerful . Your bull y is always a coward . It is true that , m a subsequent article , the " Times "—having received further instruc
tions from the Colonial Office—blustered and threatened ; but it onl y made the matter , w . pr . se . The graven fears-the empty braggadocio—the frantic threats of the second Manifesto , proclaimed still more unmistakeablv the real nature of the bull y ; and , as far as the present Cabinet are concerned , muBt have given every encouragement to the . Canadian Annexationists to wry out the policy they have so boldly , so firmly , so consistentl y outlined in their address .
! For our own part , we candidly confess , that we should ba very happy to see the whole of our costly , oppressive , and oligarchial colonial system destroyed . In every direction the same complaints of Us tyrannous , mischievous , unjust character , are heard . The West In dies , Ceylon , Cephaionia , the Cape of , Good Hope Australia , and New Zealand , echo , in one shape or another , the deep die ontei * of he Canadian colonist . The ? all fediw
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decrease . This will , we presume , be qooA news for the few who still have faith intha Malthusian creed . How far it is matter of general rejoicing ia another question . In the words of the Registrar , " The population of England has suffered , died , and decreased during the quarter , to a degree of which them is no example in the present centurv . " This statement is e xplained by the fact / that the deaths exceed the registered births by 164 of the Emigration Commissioners , that th » emigrants during the quarter , from London ! Plymouth and Liverpool alone , amounted £ forty-six thousand five hundred and fiftveiaht " so that " England , " says the RegiS , ^ now less inhabitants b y many thousands than were within its shoves at Midsummer "
When the treatment which " England " gives her industrious children is considered it is ho wonder that they should either die off or fly from her shores . It would almost seem as if the Malthusians in power had aband oned the exoteric exposition of their philosophy , itt order that they may the more effectuall y increase its esoteric influence . Morbific agen . cies , of the most baneful and widely-diffused description , are suffered to exist unchecked , in all the great hives of industry ; and the consequence is , that the people drop like rotten sheep , or , appalled by the fearful fate of friends and neighbours , gird up their loins and flee from the doomed land , which is cursed by the tyranny of a Mammon-worshippiB g Oligarchy .
Tho Registrar-General gives a striking idea of the manner in which human hives are destroyed , hi order that sordid and monopolising capitalists may receive a large per centage , in the following passage : — . A disease in which the patient is restless , anxious , convulsed , and death-striclten the moment lie shrinks fr » m the sight'of water , was formerly of common occurrence ia London . No death from that cause has been recorded in the lastfiye summers . Yet hydrophobia in inevitably fatal , and medicine is of no move a * ail when its symptom * are revealed ' than it is in cholera ; but the wise course of removing its causes has been tried , and bids fair to create a permanent blank in the London nosology . The cause of typhus , of influenza , of cholera , and of the like diseasea
will not long , we may hope , remain in undisturbed possession of the earth and air of this city . Hydrophobia ( lisau . Dears when tho dogs which ave liable to become mad or to be bitten every ^ summer are removed bv police recula tions , so will the other zymotic diseases give way when that putrid , decaying , noisome atmosphere exhaled bv churchyards , slaughter-houses , the tanks of dirty water companies , cesspools , sewers , crowded dwellings , ' is purified and dissipated . The sewers and cesspools now under our houses will inflict more pains and destroy more lives than ten thousand mad dogs let loose in the streets . They may as eertainly be . removed ; and yet it is to be feared that many years will elapse before anything effectual ia done , or any such satisfactory result can be recorded as the extinction of another disease in this great ciw .
That removable and preventive causes of death are allowed to exercise their pestilential influences to tho greatest extent by the capitalists , who profit most largely by the leuding manufactures and industrial processes of the nation , is proved by every part of the Report * The mortality , with few exceptions , has been heaviest in the towns and districts which are devoted to trade and commerce . No matter what may be their natural advantages in re ~ spect of site , we find them entirely neutralised
by the utter absence of those sanitary arrangements which are indispensable to the preservation of health . We do not know a more beautifully situated town in England than Huddcrsfield—or a district possessing in itself more of the natural elements of health than that part of the West Riding in which it is situated immediately around it . Yet , even in that town , we find the advantages of its site destroyed by such facts as the subjoined , stated by the Registrar of that town : —
The fearful pestilence made its appearance on an ele . vated part of the district , containing about fifteen or six . teen labourers'dwellings , situated on ahill-side , without drainage , their refuse thrown on the surface , petties with open cesspools , and exposed to the malaria arising from % dirty fish-pond , which has not been cleaned out for thirty years , full of slime and aquatic vegetables ; the water for the last few months has been drawn off , and the slimy de . posit and decaying vegetable matter left exposed on the surface to the action of the sun and atmosphere . This pond presents about 1 , 500 square feetof evaporating surface , and is situated within 150 or 200 yards of the dwellings on the hill-side , where the cholera has been most intense every house in this district has been infected , and for two days before the cholera the wind blew directly from the poud into the dwellings .
At Merthyr Tydvil we have a repetition of the same disgraceful story , only upon a larger scale . . The district itself is naturall y healthy , yet is described as " one of the great Cholera Works among the hills" : — Death ( continues the report ) is always busv here but in the last quarter 1 , 870 lives were destroyedviz ., 41 in Gelligaer ; 487 in Lower Merthyr Tvdvil-1023 in Upper Merthyr Tydvil- . and 325 in Alwdanw The population of the district was 34 , 161 in 1831 , and 52 , 8 Gii in 1811 ; the mortality , therefore , was about 2 * per cent . —higher than in some of the worst districts of London . The most populous parts of Merthyr Tydvil are well situated on sloping ground , a very small portion beinir on a level . Merthyr church is S 00 feet above the docks at
Cardiff , l'en-y-Dran higher , and Dowlais about 400 feet above Merthyr . Hence ( says Sir H . T . de la Beche ) the situation of Merthyr is open , airy , and well exposed . Such is the situation by nature ; the evidence collected bv the Health of Towns ' commissioners shows what it lias " been made by the men aud the iron masters . From the poorer inhabitants , who constitute the mass of the population ' throwing all slops and refuge into the nearest open gutter before their houses , from tho impeded courses of such channels , and the scarcity of privies , some parts of the own ar « complete networks of filth emitting noxious eaha . lations . During the rapid increase , of this town , no atten . tion seems to have been paid to its drainage ! There are no regulations for draining the to ™; the surface water is retained
; there are stagnant pools and ditches contiguous to the dwellings . There ave no dust bins , no scavengers , the liquid refuse is allowed to remain on the surface , or thrown into the water-cours « s , which are cleansed bv the rain only . The main street—not the courts and allevsare occasionall y cleansed b y the turnpike trust commis . sioners ; some of the town refuse is carried to waste parts of the town and the beds Of the rivers Tafle and Morlais ; and after a long drought the steuctite almosUirtotoabk in many places , Ihe houses of small but respectable trades . 8 SS ™ e . P ™« kd with privieB . The interior of many of ! mW . T ? " Cleanly ana weU kePl i tlle Dowlais Company uiidertakeo carry away the ashes of the inhabitants of ? r&r H ' r , ° , - P" wcekfcreMhhmue . The towns « m ^ v ?? r " Mojitoi » t « rbjr Pumps and wells ; tho supply to scanty , und as most of the wells are fed bv surface waters ; , t may be doubted if they can be free from a mixture mth impurities derived from the houje refus . the
f . ? , ^ "i ™ to ground i n aU directions . Tile raoB « wretched part of Dowlais is ' the Cellars , ' a collection of small houses ma depression between the line of road , a cinder heap , anil the river Taffc . An open , stinking , and nearly stagnant gutter , into which the house refuse is as usual flung , moves slowly before the doors . The indifference with which life is sacrificed and lost in the mining districts is inconceivable . The following is the Registrar ' s brief not * on 102 deaths from cholera , 52 from an explosion , 325 from all causes , in a population of 9 . S 22 ( inlStl ) : —' Merthyr lydvil , Aberdare . —Deaths , 325 . Deaths very considerably * bovc the average , owing chiefly to two causes—namely , prevalence of cholera and accident (?) , 1 G 2 of the former and 5 » of the latter—52 were killed at one time by a dreadml explosion of fire-damp in a coal pit . ' The miners of Merthyr Tydvil sleep , it is said , with gunpowdw « nde * then- beds ; they wait inttlthy streets through a poisonous air to then- work , and breathe an exnlosiva miTtfi ™ , m , w of of
S „ , HIV * X ^ ' T tUe ( kttth an "rto » £ mo ? fnl A EDgl v ? rttl 1 coal and il ' on - Contrast this mortality from evident causes —to a creat extent rene £ j ^ fl ^ ^ clfi ' ollan e ed in 1848 , after witnesses had been heard , learned counsel had pleaded , jorici SedfdeSh ? ^ '" ^^' J ^ S ^ hadpronounced Befl . Thereis onlyonepartofthisstatementtowhicli wo have to object : —that which attributes tho humble state of things it discloses to " the men ; the "iron masters" are clearly the only parties to blame . They have sole anduncontro ed power fo the region : the men are ohhged to live in such houfes as are pro vided for thenv-they have neither the " *¦ vimvi
means »« , sv .. j . 1 . - ••» " vims uicauo nor the opportunity of procuring better , but 32- i 6 * heir , brother Workmen ? evei ^ e dependent on the capitalist for < Mii ) gs , and , of c ourse , the latter never lose siehtoi ' thl ¦ mam chance . ; ' If they Cau get fifteen per C 6 ut . foranin enorhouse , destitute of alldecent p ovisionforcleanliiiessand health , why should « ey trouble themselves further ? the possibi-• I ? , a suPe « or class of buildingB would not yield such an interest * and it does not . matter in the slightest to them , how many are murdered in the process of coding gold out of the sweat and toil of tho
lanffi -i T g ad t 0 find 8 uch facts as these in official documents ; they prove that the cry of the Working Classes against the wretchedness they endure , is amply justified by their actual- condition ; and while they may ail a rousin g the goTerning ckBses from their apath y , or interested indifference , they fwT Zl P 6 ) Cause 8 uch a demand for J ustic 9 fiom the oppressed classes , aa cannot be denied or withstood .
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Swarms of of&cials , possessing no other earth y qualification than poverty and " family influence , " alight upon them , and dev our every green thing . In Jamaica the colonists have turned restive , and demanded that these wcusts shall consume less , Beeing that protection has lessened the value of property— and Downing-street refuses the demand . Jtather than concede , the whole of the Governmental machinery is thrown out of gear , and the colonists are threatened with anarchy if they will not submit to extortion . In Ceylon it is the same . At the Cape the colonists and Earl Grey are alarms' length on the subject of convict importation into the colony—and ,
indeed , everywhere the signs of disaffection and incipient rebellion are evident . Now it may suit the interests of those whose position or influence gives them a chance of obtaining Colonial offices , or commissions in the Army and Navy , to maintain this state of affairs ; but the bonafide people of this country have a directly-opposite interest in the matter . They have , hi reality , to pay the piper . In order to enable the " ruling class " to maintain then * p laces in the Colonies , we have to keep up many thousand soldiers more than we should otherwise have either the necessity or
the excuse for . These soldiers require to be officered , and hence springs a plentiful crop of cornets , lieutenants , captains , colonels , and generals . One abuse breeds a host of others . The oppression and plunder of the Colonists is carried on by the oppression and . plunder of the taxpayers at home . A just and rational system of Colonial Government would destroy this monstrous system of frand , spoliation , and tyranny . Let
each Colony possess such institutions as are required for the free and independent administration of its own internal affairs , and be linked to the Imperial Executive and Legislature only by such ties as are clearly for their mutual advantage . They will then act cordially-and harmoniously together , because a free and fair field would then be left open for the action of " the motives by which , " according to the " Times / ' " communities , not lesB than individuals , are impelled—motives of selfinterest and self-advancement . "
"When the Colonists are allowed to levy their own taxes , and provide for the protection and security of their own property , we shall not need to keep up a large standing army for their defence . When they are unfettered by the ignorance of the Colonial-office , or the restrictions and burdens originating in the sordid rapacity of an all-grasping Oligarchy , they will rapidly develope the varied resources at their command , and become infinitely better customers to the English market than they ever can be . under the present regime .
With respect to Canada , this would be especially the case . The British North American provinces would be far more valuable to this country , in a commercial point of view , if they were Free States , than they can ever become as dependencies , in reality governed by the Colonial Office . At present they are kept in a state of artificial sterility , poverty , and backwardness . The Canadians complain , and most justly , that under our rule—while on the other side of the American border , every
sign of mercantile . prosperity and natural enterprise is manifest—on their Bide all is poverty , stagnation , and inertness . On the one side innumerable canals and railways intersect , in every direction , a country teeming with agricultural and manufacturing wealth ; while , on the other , extensive forests yet stretch over thousands of square mile * of untilled soil—and " enterprises of great pith and moment" perish in the very conception for lack of the means to realise them . Annexation would
dispel this sluggishness . It would unfetter the thousandfold . elements and agencies of industrial and material progress which now slumber undeveloped in these , large provinces ; and by adding to the wealth of the world promote , at least , indirectly the material comfort of mankind at large . y ., One feature of the movement towards this end ,. however , we must again advert to . It is indeed a striking manifestation of the moral and mental advance of the age , that fetich' a policy should be deliberately avowed
and calmly advocated on the one side , and deliberately and calmly criticised on the other . The time has been when such a declaration would have been answered by an unreasoning and rampant loyalty , and an appeal to the stupid prejudices of an ignorant population . The demand on the part of the colonists , for the power of managing their own affairs peacebly , in the way they think best calculated to promote their own prosperity , would have been answered by our Government with the threat of war , and the prosecution of the
traitors who entertain such treasonable , wicked , and felonious intentions . That these provinces will ultimately be given up without a struggle , we do not expect ; but the contest , be it what it may , and come when it may , will , we confidently believe , differ from all preceding struggles involving such momentous issues . Unconsciously , but steadily , the doctrines of the disciples of peace are making themselves felt in the government of nations . Men are beginning to be ashamed of giving way to the uegmnui g xo De astiamett of giving way to the
blind impulses of passion and prejudice ; and recognising the great fact , that in all differences between nation and nation , Reason and Justice are not onl y better arbiters , but . in the long run , the best calculated to promote their mutual interests , this country will not repeat the fatal policy which led to a vain attempt to retain thirteen provinces in subjection , and ended in utter aud inglorious defeat , after an immense expenditure of blood and treasure .
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I beg to announce to my Nottingham friends that I have been twice at the Home Office , to present theiv Memorial for the release of political prisoners , but that Sir George Grey was not in town upon either occasion , nor could any of the messengers or officials tell me when he would be , so that the delay has not been my fault . Feargus O'Connor .
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REDUNDANT POPULATION . " There arc too many of us , " was the compendious solution of all our social evils by the celebrated Malthus . The worthy divine proved , to tho satisfaction of the ruling classes , that the poverty , misery , destitution ? E ? v f ' x wh existedin society ,, waa not in the shghtesUegree attributable to them . God
Auiighty . alone was to blame . He had implanted a law in the human race by which it multiplied itself in a geometrical , and not in arithmetical ratio . Instead of increasing at the j ateof . pne , two , three , four , &c , it did so at the rate of one , two , four , eight , sixteen , thirty-two , and so on . Against the operation of this great law of nature it was in vain to contend by anymore legislative or governmental enactments . God was stronger than
; ; ana war , hunger , disease , " plague , pesl ^ T u ' , / W ^ ted means by which the " redundant population " was to he kept within the proper limits ** No wonder the doctrine became suddenly and immensel y popular with those who sat in high placeB—with all who toiled not 3 *^^ they spin , and yet * & ¦ % & dail y clothed m purple and fine linen ? It offered a complete statistical , philo sophical ™* rellf JB * Pl y to all C ; mplaints P I Nvhitewaahed all our politicaland social institutions , and absolved " noble lords " « hoi gentlemen , " aud other rulin g ma gnates from all possible responsibility or blame Was i no hlasphem yand presumption to fight S PrlvtS- " aiUiSC ^ -rJuling
Of late this vaunted pMosoDhy h ,. w 2 ier / edbica s » An . « £ tS . 1 strongest advocate !—those Hra » d « iti tl most robing effl ^ S 1 * , tt
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 10, 1849, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1547/page/4/
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