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J . Siveet , Nottingham , acknowledges the receipt of the following suras senthercivitli : —Foil CiiaktistExecutive : Mr . Lygo , Is ., Mr . Bugin , Gd Macnamaiia ' s Action : Mr . Lees , Is . —To Exesut Ernest Joses from Oakum Ticking : From Carriugtou , 5 s . J . Skebuitt , Nottingham , acknowledges the receipt ef the following sums Foil Piuster ' s Debt : —Sutton-in-Ashfield , 7 s . ( Id ., Forest Ride , L's . ( id . SEHCASTLf-os-rvxE . — Mr . U . Jude hcgs to acknowledge the receipt of the following sums , collected after an suldress by Mr . Walter Cooper in the lecture room : —Foh the VicriM Fo . vu , 10 s . —For Pmxteu ' s Bin , 2 s Gd . For Mac . namaka ' s Action , 2 s fid . Fob Mil John West , 2 s . l ' ost-order and letter , 4 Jd —The portion for Mr . West ' s account is fonvarded-. 'to him , together with 3 s ., given bj a gentlemen for that purpose . An Adhibeh of E . Jones , Paisley . —We have not got the portrait vou . mention . Should we obtain one itsttftUbc
sent Mrs . S . vowball , Kirkaldy , will oblige by forwarding her address to Mr . Samuel lioonham , the secretary to the Victim Fund , 144 . High London , as he has mislaid it . Dusdec—Julian Hirney has received and paid over the sum of 10 s . for the l'rinting Debt from Dundee , per John M'Crea . J . U . trusts that the rest of the Scottish Chartists will imitate the good example set them bv the men of Dundee . '
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YiH . O ' CONNOR'S VISIT TO IRELAND . Nations occasionally fall into the mistake of taking impostors for saviours ; I ) ut tjie ( Jelusion never lasts very long . The less the amount of truth and sincerity there may he accidentally mixed up with the imposture , the sooner it comes to an end . If this rale be
applied to the career of the late Daniel O'Connell , it will be found to have been , not only the most gigantic , but the most unsubstautial of popular delusions . It forms one of the strangest chapters in modem political history . Looking back some twenty or twenty-five years , we find him the most prominent actor on the political stage . Just twenty years since he extorted from the peaks of a hostile Government , and an alien Legislature , an act whichgavereligious equality to his countrymen ; but he did so at the sacrifice of those franchises
which could best and most effectuall y have guaranteed the practical exercise and enjoyment of the right thus conceded . Iu order to admit Roman Catholic geutlemen into Parliament , and Roman Catholic lawyers into places , fourhundre dthousand 40 s . freeholders were deprived of a franchise which is admitted to lie the most ancient and the most undoubted recognised by the Constitution . That sacrifice was , however , at the time acquiesced in , because the sending of Daniel O'Counell
and an Irish party to Parliament , was regarded as the one thing needful , to which all other considerations must give way . The Government of the time being appeared to be impressc ^ vitli the prevailing vein , and took the very best means of strengthening it , and of adding to O'Connell ' s influence , byinsertine an ex post facto clause in the Emancipation Act , the express object of which was , to prevent him from taking the seat to which he had been elected , and to drive him to the <™ Se and trouble of another election .
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The malignity of such conduct was only equalled by its folly . It gave a power and prominence to O'Connell which his own efforts could never have secured , For years afterwards he may be said to have held the elections , not only of Ireland , but of the Empire , in his hands . He made and unmade Cabinets almost at his will ; and his confiding countrymen looked up to him with the most unbounded faith—lavished upon him the most extravagant titles , and obeyed his behests us though he had been crowned an Imperial Dictator . Never , perhaps , since the days of stout oh I Warwick , the " King-maker , " has a single
individual wielded an equally powerful influence over the minds of a nation , and the current ' of contemporaneous events . If any one willlook at the newspapers from 1830 , up to the period of the " monster meetings , " some fourteen years later , he will find that they exhibit " the Liberator" as the celebrity—the patriot —the popular leader of the age . Outside of Parliament , his eloquence swayed the minds of millions to unresisting submission . Inside the House of Commons , he was followed by a crowd of sturdy henchmen , whose united votes could turn the preponderance in favour of whatever party they chose to support .
What are the actual results of all this power — this prodigious , and almost unparalleled personal influence ? What record has O'Cbnnel left on the Statute Book , by which posterity will bo able to recognise the popular idol of their ancestors ? Literally nothing . If wo except the one great event of Catholic Emancipation , there is no one public result of a long life of public agitation and activity . It cannot be alleged either , that this arose from the want
of pecuniary means , as too often happens in the case . of others who create and lead public movevhpnts . During the greater part of his career he levied taxes , as directly , and with much larger pecuniary returns than many a petty Sovereign in Germany . The Pridsts were his tax-gatherers ; and the money that mightnothave been forthcoming from temporal motives , was given up unresistingl y to those who held the keys of Purgatory .
The truth is , that Daniel O'Connell had no constructive faculty . He was in his clement in the midst of assembled thousands , whom he had excited to frantic enthusiasm by his wondrous eloquence , and the charm of his inimitable voice ; but when he sat down to the task of constructive legislation , he was totally at fault . He neither possessed the natural faculty , nor had the defect been remedied by artificially-acquired practice and habitude . He possessed the art of acquiring power , but was utterly destitute of the means of using it beneficially . In addition to this , the absence of . any
clear definitive conception of the structure of society—the relative position of the various classes to each other—of social economy , in its enlarged sense—altogether unfitted him for originating measures calculated to permanently improve the condition of his fellow-men . His knowledge of these subjects was of the most meagre and fragmentary character ; and in dealing with them , it is at all times evident , that he was speaking under the guidance of narrow prejudices , and random impulses , rather than from the thoughtful , enlarged , and calm reflections of the philosopher or statesman .
The Irish panted for a deliverer , and they set up a clover sham , and worshipped it . It is an old adage , that "when the Devil finds a man idle , he always sets him to work . " As O'Comiell did not know how to direct his immense power to beneficial purposes , it was natural it should be turned to others . Hence wo find him engaged in a succession of illusory schemes inconsistent with each other , and fallacious in themselves—the only tangible object of which was to maintain his own ascendancy and patronage , and to keep honester men out of the field . The moment ho discerned any
indication among his followers of inconvenient jstubboruess in their attachment to principles '—that moment such a follower was a marked man , to be thrown overboard with a damaged reputation , at the earliest possible moment . He had an unprincipled Press , and a horde of unscrupulous " gillies , " ready at Ms beck to crydown the prey thus marked out ; and by their agency he contrived to establish aPolitical Reign of Terror , in which many innocent victims were immolated , or to save ' themselves from that fate , became the crouching slaves of an impostor whom they had detected , and whom thev detested .
Only one man ventured to measure arms with him , and to assert his own right to act a manly and independent part as a representative of a great Irish county . Feargus O'Connor did not see why a Repeal of the Union should be made subservient to the promotion of the private interests of O'Counell and his tail . He persisted , in defiance of the opposition of the whole band of money and place-hunters , iu forcing the question upon Parliament . He was in earnest , and neither understood nor approved of paltering with principles , or making compromises by which the rights of the millions were sacrificed for the benefit of a few men , who should have protected those interests .
t What was the result o f this bold , high principled , and manly course ? Feargus 0 ' Connor was thenceforth denounced , maligned , vilified , and ridiculed . All the engines of calunnvy aud depreciation were set at work to blast his character , under value his talents , and impugn his sincerity . O'Connell contemptuously made a present of him to the English Chartists . He was—mainl y by the O'Connell influence—driven from his scat in Parliament for his native county ; and , for many years afterwardsit the
, was constant policy of the 0 Connellite organs—i . e ., thePressofIreland , to misrepresent and vituperate the only Irishman who really , consistently , and in goodfaith held to the political creed which the O'Connell party went to uphold in Parliament . In fact by tho manoauvres of O'Connell and his tail a virtual sentence of banishmeut from his natyve land was passed upon Mr . O'Connor and thusj the only voice that could have beeii raised to warn his countrymen , was silenced . " ¦ 'JJufc truth and justice alwavs conn ™ - * t
last . . Events work ever with the man who holds steadfast to principle , and who never deviates from the strai ghtforward path of rectitude . The O'Connell bubble has burst as completely as the Hudson fraud . Ireland is disenchanted , and has regained its natural eyesight . She will , ere long , know how to distinguish between real and pretended friends and the sooner that knowled ge is acquired , the better for her future destinies . There are still men with vows of devotion to her interests on their lips , who seek to exclude from all ff ! ^ T . , ^ . * T generation who
, a gentleman has distinguished himself m the midst of proscri ption and persecution , by his unquenchable ardour in the cause in 1835 ° M 7 h'P G Vdl i : Cnieinber that ^" in 183 o , Mr 0 Connor visited Manchester , in the course of h , s first tour to establish an or gcimsation m favour of the Charter , he expo nenced a warm opposition , because ho » ££ hered to the uuue policy . Whoever cfso gave S £ »^ rtsriir 0 Connor never did ; his talents , his labours Ins purse-so far as they could ho made atailable-have been constantl y devoted to her
service . Mr . Duffy and his friends committed a sad blunder , when they attempted to exclude such a > ed patriot from what they termed a National Conference . If any jJiZTlZ pre-emmen ly a right to be present , and to take a leading pan in the prodding , ft *
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a man whose attachment to his native country had been severely tested , and who had so nobly passed through the ordeal . The triumphant and enthusiastic reception he received from his countrymen—when he appeared before them after a lapse of so many years , in despite of the schemes of the Duffy clique—must have convinced them that they have mistaken both the man and the hour . The mantle of O'Connell , in this respect , will not fall on their shoulders . They have not tho power to deprive Ireland of the ssealous and unbought services of Mr . O'Connor .
We congratulate the Irish people on the fact ; wo congratulate the English and the Scottish people on tho fact . One great desideratum in the political world has thus been supplied . Henceforth , tho working clasessou both sides of the Channel will be enabled to understand , and to act in concert with each other , iu all those movements which may he necessary to their political and social improvement . Mr . O'Connor will form a medium of
communication—a bond of union between them of the most invaluable character ; and we trust , in due time , to see the consequences of this in a close , compact , and intelligent organisation of the people of the two islands , against misgovernment and oppression , and for the attainment of those political franchises aud social rights , without which civilisation is a mockery —and the life of the producer of wealth is that of a slave .
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valuable than the ordinary peasant , who had not had the advantage of the same mental training . There is no very great art required , either in dividing a piece of land into the portions required for a pre-arranged rotation of crops , or in using a spade to turn up the soil when so divided . The mechanic and workman , who is accustomed to much more complex industrial processes , will find no difficulty in mastering such simple operations as these .. The onl y remaining cause of incapacity , therefore , must be the want of sufficient bodily strength to pursue out-door labour : and if we
grant that that does exist , to the extent implied by Mr . Cobden ' s assertion , then it forms the heaviest accusation that could be preferred against the system of industry and trade of which he is the great advocate and apostle . It is , in reality , stating that such are tho blightingaud withering effects of manufactures and trades , under the competitive commercial system , upon the health of the workmenthat it renders them totally unfit for any manly labour—that the physique of the race is impaired and deteriorated by it to such aa extent as to threaten its ultimate extinction .
i et this is tho result of a system which Mr . Cobden wishes us to extend . Instead of going back to the healthy occupations of husbandry , aud so restoring the stamina of the people , he would still farther emasculate , enfeeble , and dobase them , by seizing more in the grasp of the Moloch , which at present destroys the vitality and the happiness of millions ! We , however , deny that the mass of the workmen in towns are as yet so completely prostrated and broken down as to be incapable of resuscitation by a judicious and gradual initiation into healthy field-labour , and the
cheering pursuits of small fawners , upon their own homesteads . All the facts we have upon the subject , show tliat tho change is neither ji very difficult one in itself , nor requiring much time to effect it . If it was so , the Political Economists , who say there are too many of us , and recommend Emigration to the redundant workers , are guilty of a great fraud and cruelty . Surely a tenter , a smith , a cottonspinner , or an iron-moulder , can learn to use the spade as well in Yorkshire as in "Wisconsin ; while , apart from the mere learning so to use it , the task would not be surrounded bv so many extensive difficulties .
"We advise Mr . Cobden , in conclusion , to "let sleeping dogs lie . " We are quite content that he should take his own way of securing a larger participation of political power by the masses , without any opposition or criticism on our part . Let him treat us in the same manner . In all confidence we assure him , his pet scheme is not so impeccable as it seems to his eyes ; and though we have no wish to be provoked into a critical examination of its real character , we shall not hesitate to do so , if the provocation be repeated .
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mm RECEIPTS OF THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY .. For this Week Ending Thursday , November 20 , 1849 . SHARES . Mansfield , Walker 0 0 . 0 S . B . Oram .. 3 1 ) Wmttington and Cat .. .. 210 !••> i- ft A . II . Oram .. o 5 5 i - ^ --TOTALS . f * * Fun ? ... ... 2 15 0 Expense ditto 0 1 G Bonus ditto 0 li > v iranrfers ... 0 2 0 £ "t - 5 0 0 Authon 113 0 0 ' S _ i 6 W . Dixos , C . Do tlb , " T . Clark , Cor ; Sec . , . . P . M'Grathj Fin . Sec .
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COBDEN VOTES v . O'CONNOR FARMS . Freehold Investment Societies are the last new patent invention by which the ears of tho " gentle public" are just now tickled . They have an immense advantage in having secured the advocacy of so lucid a speaker as Air . Cobden , and the aid of his practised intellect in their management . Perhaps no man in England understands so well the act of arranging facts in order to produce a given
impression , or of addressing the middle classes directly in language , in which they instinctively recognise the mintage of '' the shop . '' We candidly confess , that his speech this week in the capacity of Director of the National ( late Metropolitan arid Home Counties ) Freehold Land Society , appears to us quite a master-piece of that peculiar species of eloquence . No prospectus ever read more glibly or patly- ^ -no effort of the famous George Robins was ever more seductive . But with these natural advantages in his favour , we respectfully submit it is the more inexcusable in him to travel out of the record , and " lug in by tho head and shoulders " arguments , not pertinent to the matter in
hand , or to seek the exaltation of his own Association at the expense of another . "Let tho shoemaker stick to his last . " We have no doubt that Mr . Cobden quite understands the art of manufacturing county votes , because he has been extensively engaged iu the business aforetime , and we have no desire to prevent those who think a county vote worth purchasing , from buying one on the terms set forth by Fr . Cobden . But when he ventures to pronounce an opinion on matters of which ho is ignorant—when that opinion is manifestl y intended to damage another Association—and when , moreover , it is nottrueinitself , we deem it our duty to set the public right as far as we are concerned in the matter .
Cobdeu , at the meeting ill the London Tavom on Monday night—said : He wished to guard himself against a popular , but most - pernicious delusion—the idea that he was a party to a plan tor transferring people from their occupations in town . It a man left the workshop , or foundry , or manufactory , and tried to live on two or three acres of land , why stfi lie should eay was , tliat that man wuuld , ere W find himself back in Hie workshop or factory again . He niHit not return to the same , for he would be ashamed of haYhi " neen deluded into such an experiment : but back he would cjine .
There can bo no mistake as to the object of these remarks , and their intended application to the National Land Company , which the Free , Trade leader courteousl y denominates a " most pernicious delusion . " Let us see how far he is justified by facts iu using such hard words , or indulging in such disparagement . The impossibility of a man who has been employed in a " workshop , foundry , or
manufactory , " earning his living on two or three acres of land , must rest on one of two grounds . Either that quantity of land is physicall y incapable of producing sufficient produce to support him—or he himself has been so thoroughly incapacitated b y his previous habits and occupations , that no amount of after training will convert him into nn efficient cultivator of the soil .
Now we join issue with Mr . Cobden on both these points . It is not necessary to recapitulate to tho readers of the Star , the mass of conclusive evidence which has been at various times adduced , to prove that a family can be abundantl y supported b y spade culture on two acres of average land . Some of that evidence rests upon theoretical calculations : as the fertilising and productive agencies of a new mode of culture , rotation of crops , and general farm management Other facts take the move conchisivc and irrefutable form of actual experiments and examples . Wo give Mr . Cobden hw choice of either of these species of evidence
aud we defy him to disprove the conclusions to which they both tend , and to show in what respect tho proposal to make men self-supporting ou their own small farms , is a " most pernicious delusion . " Either Mr . Cobden was aware of the existence of these facts and arguments in favour of this mode of culture , or ho was not . If he was aware of them , he ouo-ht to have shown in what respects thev were fal-Ia C 1 ou S or delusive : if he was not aware Of them his assertion i 5 merely the presumptuous one ot an ignorant man , who knew nothing of the matter on which he ventured so confident aa assertion . _ Wherever the system of smart .
cu ture ftas been fturly tried , it has invariably confirmed all the anticipations of its advocates . Ihe produce of the soil has been mK . merited m quantity , and improved in quality at the same time . i ^ my It is not necessary to do more than enumeratethoexamplesaflbrdedbythe small . farmsys-XrfSH * r ' 7 ^ eIgium . Switzerland , pai of the lyrol , and districts of Sweden and W 01 way , besides many scattered illustrations in other countries . The moral , social , and nhv sical advantages which the ' concurre ? £ 2
monyotall intelligent travellers proves ^ system to possess arG uot to besneercd down fey the mvc ipsedixitoiMr . Cobden , who may be a very great authority on calicoes , but is bv no means equally at home in com or cabbages J e would rather take John Sillett ' s word on this point , and the evidence of a few of tho honest , industrious men referred to in thn Labourer ' s Friend Society ' s Mag azine than the combined evidence of Zll the PoH £ l Eco . uomists of the Manchester School
bim ! I > V l !? lttillg , ? Perior P ^ o capabihtiea of spade culture applied to small farms , it may bo argued by Mr . Cobden that the men who are brought up to town Wk ^ J now learn to become agricultural worke ? U e deny hat position when so broadly S -undoubtedly , those brought up to any pSi cuW occupation , from au early period of the r "cs , will acquire a peculiar mechanical dexterity m that occupation : but thev do so 11 *
uK 7 '" U C ° ^ « ™* c vaiuahl ' e quuht ) . xhe town labourer , if he lacks the mere mechanical power , possesses a quilt perception , and a greater capacity , and a rea sS B ° l" ?***** himsel" ™ cU-cum stance and pursuit ,. Mr . Shuttlewor h in TminW ^ i ° " Battei > sea NoiS iiaimng Schools , glves many proofs of this SJact . loung men wno went to that institu ^ JWlftAg ^ Mund becameexport spadLen ^ oie
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THE CHARTISTS IN TOTHILL-FIELDS PRISON . We must inform our friends who felt and expressed so much horror at the Deaths of Williams and Shakp , that at this moment the surviving fellow sufferers of those victims , are in the position of being forced topickoakum , or otherwise encounter the misery -which , caused the deaths of the above-named martyrs . A further payment to exempt the prisoners from oakum picking should have been made on Friday last ; but there being no funds in hand that was impossible .
More need not be said . If the Chartists desire to ensure the safety of Ebxest Jones and his fellow sufferevs- 'they will at once forward the necessary means , addressed to Mr . Eider , at this office , to save their friends from Tim DOOJt of Williams and Sharp .
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POSTPONEMENT OF THE METROPOLITA CONFERENCE . The Provisional Committee have decided upon the postponement of the Metropolitan Conference from Monday 3 rd , to Monday 10 th of December , upon the evening of which latter day the Conference will commence its sittings . This alteration in tho original programme of the committee , lias been made in order to meet the convenience of two of the districts , who cannot make their elections until late in the ensuing week . The committee , in the meantime , solicit the advice of those friends in the country who arc anxious for the re-organisation of the Chartist body . The prorogation of the Conference will afford
tune to the men of Lancashire , Yorkshire , Nottinghamshire , Leicestershire , Derbyshire , Cheshire . Birmingham , Merthyr Tydvil , Bristol , Carlisle , Newcastle , Dundee , Edinburgh , Glasgow , and the other large towns of England , Scotland , and Wales , to forward to the Conference such suggestions as they may deem advisable , and likely to aid in consolidating a strong and powerful movement for the Charter . —All communications to be made to the Secretary , at 144 , High Holborn , London . Tho time and place of meeting of Conference , will be published in tho Northern Star , aud fiatnokls s Political Instructor , of nest week . William Dixov , Feargus O'Coxson , rniup M'Graiii , Samuel Boonham , G . W . M . Reynolds , Tiios . Claim , Sec .
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EXECUTIVE FUND . Received !)? W . ltiDEit . _ Winchestev , pev G . Sturgcss ^ s . Nottingham , per J . Sweet , Is . Gd . b FOR THE AGITATION OF THE CHARTER . Roterc . x-5 ? --c - Clark ' Bristo 1 - 2 s - Ga '' ' FOR COSTS OF WIACNAMARA'S ACTION . afeSLW - RlDEK- ^« v blends , Tiverton , 10 s . ; . t vCpI ! ' 1 ' 6 s ' . Waster . perG . Sturgess tingham Va . ? % * T ? is ] lo l AuckliU ^ 5 s . 2 d . ; NotsS ; SW ^ TW * "" * i&SaSaSSs ^ wa feftiy is » ™ * »» --t £ :
DEBT DUE TO THE PRINTER . Ueceivedb yW . RmER .-Newca . tle . perM . Juac 2 s Gd ^ SASK ^ A TO EXEMPT E . JONES FROM OAKUM PICKING , Hwivea toy w . HiDER-Carrmgtor , , pfcr J . Sweet s « FOR MRS . JONES . 5 s / a . " Um Omct-ThoniM AlUvr , aud Friends , FOR W 1 DOWS 0 ? THE UATE MESSRS . W . UUAWIS ,, . H » u SHARP , 2 s . Cd . y > lldnum ot *•• Jones , for Monument ,
FOR WIVES AND FAMILI ES OF VICTIWS § 1111111 !
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4 THE NORTHERN STAR . Deceit 1 , 1849 ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 1, 1849, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1550/page/4/
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