On this page
- Departments (3)
-
Text (15)
-
Untitled Article
-
THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1841.
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
. . ¦ ¦ ¦ . — ^ F. O'CONNOR TO MR. HENRY HETHERlN<j TON, ONE OF THE SHOPOCRACY.
-
2To 3Scatrev0 antr Com0jw>tt&ettt0,
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
TOTAL OTBSTHBOW OF THB UIS 18 TERIAL MINIONS AT NBWCASTLE-TJPON-TrNE . r I na informed by aa agent of the Whigs that they Intended to try tht Mayor to convene a public meeting ¦ m tbe iahabiU&ta to adopt tbe Anti-Corn Lav Petitioa , at se ^ eno'dock , p . m ., to give the working classes an opportunity of attending , and If he acceded , that they would not placard the town until after two o ' clock of tbe same day , that all the -working men might be gone from dinner , Bat hi * worship would not grant them that boos , bat called the meeting for Friday , one o ' clock p . m ., 28 th May , a day of the week of all others
tbe most inconvenient for men that bad work to attend , sid at an boer that none could come ¦ without TnnVing a gnat mfrjflftt . Soon after twelTe o ' clock , the Guildhall was deasely crowded by the working classes and others , the bench was occupied by each persona as intaaded to take a part in the proceedings . " Soon after < me o ' clock , tbe chief acton in the play , each as Mr . Lockey Harle , Mr . Al&ermaa Loah , Mr . Justice Phillipton , Mr . Greenhaou Mr . AUhnsen , Mr . Charles Rayne Mr . Cbamly , &c . sarroBnded the bench ; they looked blue when they saw trneh a number of " workies" armed before them .
Mr . Harlb said be hoped the working classes wonld sot attribute the meeting being at this hoar of the day to the persons who got up the meeting , for he eonld assure them that tbe whole fault lay with tbe Mayor , who would not call the meeting at any other boor , and * a the Mayor could not attend himself , be would more thai Mr . John Bayne should be called to tbe chair , which was allowed to pass without opposition . Mr . RjkTXSread the bill calling the meeting , and said he hoped every gentleman that addressed the meeting would hare a patient hearing , and that they would be unanimous is their dartre to repeal the Corn and ProTisioa Tax .
Mr . Alderman LOSH moved the first resolution , which was in effect , *• That the Corn Laws were injurious to tbe working millions and prejudicial to the interests of commerce , and ought to be abolished . " He made the most unconnected and confused speech ever uttered by a Councillor . He wished to tell us that tbe tax upon bread amounted to fifty millions anaually , and was wraag from the people to enrich the landlords . Mi . Christian Allhcsex seconded Mr . L . * s resolution , whose remarks generally , as well as Mr . L " s , were principally directed to conciliate the industrious classes , and to endeavour to dupe them into a general support ot tbe ministry in the deplorable predicament in winch they are placed .
Mr . MaSOS ( Chartist ) rose to move an amendment to the resolution , which went to show that a fall and fair representation in tbe state to the working classes was the only effective remedy for the great evils occasioned by tbe Corn Laws , and for the redrew of the manifold grievances under which tbe industrious classes laboured . He entered into a long argument which showed that the repeal of the Corn Laws alone would not benefit the labouring classes , but the great capitalists ; that it would not induce the continental countries to discourage then owb manufactures for the sake of encouraging the British , manufacturer ; that it would seriously injure the landed proprietor and agricultural labourers , and reduce all whe depended upon agricultural prosperity to the wont condition of pauperism , for which the infamous Whigs had prepared already splendid bastile all over the land . [ Hear , hear . ) Mr . M . concluded an energetic speech by exposing tLe true character
of the present Com Law agitation , and expressed his decided opinion that it was got up for the sole purpose of keeping the -worthless ministry in office , and that their only object in bringing forward their resolutions on the sugar duties and Corn Laws was to deceive the people , as they had hitherto always done , and that he would not now trust them again , nor would he consent that they should make their el&pt « F seasons the means of deceiving the people' as to tfaprr real principles . He also adverted to Lord Melbourne's memorable declaration , that the men would be mad who attempted to repeal the Corn Laws , and ridiculed the idea that they should now be cabled on to help Melbourne in bis official difficulties , by entering npon the mad career of agitation , which -the ministry were now endeavouring to get up throughout the country . Mr . M . was loudly cheered throughout his addree * .
Mr . Sinclair seconded Mr . Mason ' s amendment . Mr . Harls replied to Mr . Mason , or rather vended a tirade of abuse in which there was neither argument or reason , after which he requested of Mr . Mason to let bis amendment go as a separate resolutioD , but as Mr . Mason would not accede , the Chairman tried to put the original motion first , when Mr . Mason contended that the amendment should be put on the motion , and if negatived , the original motion should then be pat A show ef hands being taken , Use amendment appeared to have the majority , bat as the Chairman seined unwilling to decide which party had the majority , it was proposed that they should all go down to the body of the hall and range themselves on each side . I afterwards learnt , from good authority , that at the time
the arrangements were making for the division , that Harrison ( the Whig man of all work ) and several others , had gone among the shops , warehouses , 4 c , canvassing for men to come to vote for them . Allhusen and several other masters , paid their men a day ' s wages for attending to vote when the signal was . given , and to hiss when a certain gentleman in black who . officiated in tbe capacity of fugleman , cut a certain carper with his hand . The Quaker of Friar ' s Goose had bis men there , so properly trained and drilled , they went and told the Quayside labourers , that if they caste and voted on their side , that they would remunerate them for loss of time . Several pieces of silver were given to induce men to come to their side of the room .
After the Whigs got all settled , at about a quarter to three o ' clock , when the most of the working men thai had work to go to , bad to be at work , the Chairman , from an eminence , viewed both parties , and declared the majority , although small , to be in favour « f the original motion ; and I believe that one third of the ministerial side did not know what they were voting for , having been in their stalls until summoned by the Whig heralds ; but this they knew , they were paid for their services . A result so unexpectedly fortunate to the Whig Corn clique , was received with several rounds of cheering . They became less timid in expressing their ideas In the presence of tbe honest working men , and chuckled heartily at their late triumph , bm a haughty look often precedes a fall , as the sequel will shew was the case with them .
Mr . Greek hah rose and moved the second resolution , which said something about the merciful intentions of Providence being impeded By the Corn Laws , but there was sueh a noise that I could not hear the whole contents . Mr . G . extravagantly praised liberal men and liberal measures , eulogised the ministry for their great boons to the people , and smacking his lips , talked energetically of the advantages of receiving French wines in exchange for the manufactures of this country . 80 much was he transported with the quality of the wine , that he handed bis spectacles to the Chairman , instead of the resolutions , and lifting the resolution , which at a distance appeared rolled in a triangular shape , to his head , went through the manoeuvres of drinking a glass of wine to the great amusement of all who observed him , Mr . Pollard seconded the resolution , bnt very prudently did not enter -into any of the intoxicating qualities of the Ministry .
Mr . Mason denounced the allusions to the merciful intentions of Providence as a gross blasphemy , and protested against the general tenor of the resolution , but suggested no amendmest . The motien wtj put from the chair end carried . Mr . Locket HaELB proposed the petition for the adoption of the meeting . As Mr . H . vas going to read the petition , the Rev . fugleman seeing the agitated state Mr . H . was in , plucked the petition out of his hand , and was going to read it , when ilr . H . retook it , aiHidst the convulsing laughter of all present ; even those that were paid for hissing for them all day , joined in the laugh . Mr . H . would wish to make the people believe that Hie Whigs were their best friends , and had always stood forward a * the friends of liberty ,
when several voices asked at once if there was any friendship in incarcerating hundreds of the honeslest men in England , for no other reason than ¦ wishing to be free , and wishing the accursed Whigs to . do something is the shape of justice to the starving millions . Where is Frost , Williams , and Jones ? Where is O'Connor , O'Brien , ice . Are there any signs of friends of liberty in their conduct to them ? Where is Clayton , whom they murdered , fcc . &c ? Where are the knights of the pestle , Sir J . Fife and Dr . Headlam ? are they friends of liberty ! Where is Charley Larkin ? where is the her * of the Forth t Where is the knight ? Sir John is a knight ! where iB the shabby turn-coat ? The people became indignant at Mr . H . ' s presumption , and would hear no more from him .
Mr . Phillipso 5 secoaded the adoption of the petition , which the Chairman was about to put to the meeting , when a scene of confusion ensued which baffles all description . Several working men , in fustian dresses , denounced the base Ministry for prosecuting Chartists for political agitation , which the Whigs themselves first fyf h * them , and were sow attempting to revive , so as to enable them to delude the ' people , and cheat them out of their just rights . They had ( said Mr . Fainlotgh ) only on Taesday night last , on Mr . Ducombe'i motion lor an address to the Queen to pardon political prisoners , stepped in to stay the pre rogative of mercy , and their pauper Whig Speaker , a man n&xaed Lefevre , fava bit easting vote against the motion . . Tha Chjukjcah mad * another attempt to submit the petition to the meeting .
Mr . Cook ( Chartist ) rose , and in a very eloquent speech , in which he recapitulated many of the infamies «? the Ministry , moved that the following resolution beiaoorpented with the petition , viz : — " That whilst this meeting is of opinion that the Com Law i * bad in principle , and unjust-in practice , jtill it has no confidence in the sincerity of her Majesty' s Ministers , it would , therefore , humbly implore your honourable House t * exercise your power in caasiBg the Sovereign to drive her present advisers from her councils , and make a selection of honest men Sot her Ministers , who will not only repeal the . Ccrn Laws , bat will also take into consideration the propriety of reducing the . debt called Batiosal . ' - - Mr . Mason , in a very able ud appropriate speech , wcoadad tie resolutioa . I
Untitled Article
Tbe Chaibvan said that it conld sot be incorporated with the petition , signifying that ft waa Inconsistent with the resolution that to adopted . The poor weO thrashed Whigs became again as chopfallen as they were at the -unexpected array ef the industrious classes . At one o ' clock , coaxing and blarney were then resorted to , to induce Mr- Cook to relinquish his addenda being incorporated with the petition . The trick however failed , notwithstanding tha earnest entreaties of Messrs . Loekey Hade , Greeaham , Charles Bayne , Lash , the Chairman , < kc Mr . C # ok stfll retained his integrity , and insisted that his resolution should be incorporated with tbe petition . The Chatbvan still eontinned to refuse to put the amendment in connection with the petition , declaring it irrelevant , and inconsistent with the object of the meeting .
Mr . Btrme then rose , and , in a very able speech , proved that it was quite relevant to the principles of the petition . He contended that if the object of the projectors of this meeting was honestly to petition for a repeal of tbe Corn Laws , it was quite consistent to adopt tbe addenda of Mr . Cook , in connection with the petition , He came not there to screen Ministers ia their villany , but to expose fraud in whatever quarter he believed it to exist He owed much to the Whigs : he owed them three months' lodgings , and he was determined that they should be at no loss by him , for as soon as he had it in his power he would pay them with -interest . Tbe Whiga were confounded ; they had sent their voters on the former division away . The Chartists were apprised of the roguery used on that occasion , and were determined to force the Whigs to be honest for once in their lives : the heralds were arrested in their
attempts to summon their minions . They had no alternative ; the Chartists would not move a peg from the position they had taken , and th * Whigs , with the tear in their eye , consented . The Chairman submitted Mr . Cook ' s addenda to the meeting , and four-fifths of the hands then were held up for it The Whigs made a grand retreat , and in the confusion they lost the petition and all the resolutions , which accounts for me not giving a verbatim copy of the resolutions aad petition , with tbe exception of Mr . Cook's .
We are determined to watch them , and to protest against any other petition being imposed on the Commons &s emanating from the inhabitants of Newcastle upon-Tyne . —Corresponded
The Northern Star. Saturday, June 5, 1841.
THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , JUNE 5 , 1841 .
Untitled Article
WE ARE TWO iMILLIONS , AND SOMETHING MORE . The observations ¦ which we purposed making npon the all-important National Petition presented to the House of Commons on the 25 ih of May , and conveyed to the bar of the House upon the shoulders of working men , have been in a great measure forestalled by the letter of Mr . O ' Connor , vrhich we this day publish apon the subject . Nevertheless , there are reflections other than those contained in that letter , to which the whole proceedings must give rise .
This document , the most numerously signed ever yet presented to the House of Commons , is laughed at , scoffed at , ridiculed and derided ; and after being made the sometime butt for aristocratic Peer and speculator , the merits of its doubted prayer are discussed in double quick time , while the presentation of such an array is not considered worthy a single line of comment in one newspaper throughout the land . In fact , a stranger to our mode of conducting proceedings in the "Honourable House , " would be led , by a perusal of the English press , to suppose that such a petition constituted a
necessary portion of each day ' s debate . That it was a common thing , a usual thing , a necessary but unimportant thing . While this mighty " silent monitor , " the reflex of Chartist moral force , is thus unceremoniously treated , we find double the space devoted to the discussion upon it , bestowed upon a clap-trap motion of Mr . Easthopk ' s , which immediately succeeded it , for leave to bring in a bill to humbug the Dissenters and assist in his ( Mr . Easthope ' s ) return for Leicester . Whatever the Parliamentary title of the Bill may be , the retnrn of Mr . Easthopb is the grand object
in view . But what of the serpent appears most conspicuous in the whole proceeding connected with this most mysterious aSair ! This . While we find the proprietors of the two " leading journals" pairing " on , in order to avoid the damage which neutrality would inflict either personally or on their respective parties , we recognise the real motive for the act of eaeh in the silence of their journal ! .
Yes , yes , the country is wide awake now , and knows enough to be assured that if service to the prisoners had been the object of either Walter or Easthope , their oolumns would have supplied aid to their vote , but inasmuch as the whole was a forced bid for popularity , eur good friends the " fustians" still remain of the opinion that Walxek or Easthope , having the casting vota in case of the life or death of every prisoner for whom they felt so much sympathy , would , withont hesitation , vote for the hanging of all those in custody , and for otherwise disposing of all those Chartists at large . Of this no man in England of common sense entertains a moment's doubt .
But let us ask if it was right or JHst , or , what is just now far more important , waa it expedient , thus to treat the moral exertions of a very powerful , a very outraged , and insulted party ! Is it prudent to add derision to inBult and oppression ! Let those who speak bo much about the torch and dagger take neediest they really provoke their use . Again , is it prudent just mow , or expedient , to laugh at the
petitions of the people at the very moment when the Noble Leader of the House of Commons sets a time specially apart for the mere purpose of speaking the national will through the medium of petitions ? But mayhap , the tone of the petition was not to the tune prayed for by the Noble Lord . Not one paper bnt the Star published the petition , while we find every Bcrap from hole and corner meetings , and Common Council meetings upon the question of
* COMMERCIAL REFORMS " Pompously paraded in every paper , and their petitions set forth at full length . Now , we ask , wa 3 this treatment fair or prudent ! Or was the most made of such an opportunity afforded to the Whigs for the expression of contrition , sorrow , and repentance , for having abandoned such support for the excruciatiBg and murdering caresses of Tory perfidy 1 Aye , aye , courtship of perfidious friends and neglect of real ones has been the " Alpha and Omega" of Whig folly , and even now being determined to " die game" in the
language of Lord Palmerston , which we take to mean that they are resolved to commit suicide with a blunt Tory instrument , they and their journals are even not * in the last hour of the last day , madly admitting the fact , that they are fearful of being guilty of an act of retribution to men whom they confess , have already suffered too much , lest the act should subject them to Tory taunt , and Tory suspicion ef courting popular favour ! Poor fools ! had they courted popular favour instead of Tory support . they would not now have been in a glorious minority in their own packed Parliament . The
Whigs have lost this opportunity , which fickle fortua © in a fit of kindness , threw in their way as a last resource . Much might have beea mad * of the monster petition . If England had an Ausb ) , he would order the Petitions of 1839 and 1841 to be made the supporters of his Throne , and titling between them , and with an arm resting upon each , he would receive the Ministers and Ambassadors of all threatening Monarohs , and Bay , " Behold , go tell your master that yon saw the King of England sitting
upon his Throne surrounded by bis people . Tell him that in his dominions yon saw no barrack * , bat many sentry-boxes , that in the streets ot his metropolis you saw no regimental soldiers , but many detachments of the great national army , of which behold the " muster roll f say that when he ballots , it is not for martial service , but for domestic duty—net to see who shall fight as an unwilling serf , but who shall remain » t home to keep watch and ward—and that eo great is the en-
Untitled Article
thasiasmof bis people , the Man on whom fortune ' s lot lights as the peaceful centinel , esteems himself insulted by fate , as all barn to flock ip the standard of their chief , when summoned to the defence of his people ' s liberty , their country , their families , and their homes . " Suoh is the nse which a constitutional monarch would make of the " muster roll " nation ' s strength ; that in our day , and with our legislators , one Honourable and Gallant Gentleman " splits hairs" about its legitimacy , and the House splits factions about its constitutionality , while the hostages are still in dungeons . But , treat it as they will , we are
TWO MILLIONS , AKD ¦ SOMETHING MORE ! and death alone can strike a single name from the regimental roll of the noble army of Chartists . The following is a list of petitions , with the amount of signatures attached to them , presented to the " House , " from the commencement of the Session to the 20 th of May ; and which we extend to the 25 th , that we may adorn the rude file of" broad cloth" with . TWO MILLIONS AKD ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND FUSTIANS , for the release of Chartist prisoners , the return of Frost , Williams , and Jones , and for making the Charter the law of the land ! 1
It will be seen by this return that the "Fustians '" Petition—got up in the teeth of all intimidationis nearly four times as numerously signed as all others put together : —
PUBLIC PETITIONS TO MAT 20 . Petitions . Signature For Proposed Sugar-duties 22 — 1 , 718 Against ~ ~ ~ _ 43 ^ 2 , 767 Against proposed Timberduties ~ . ~ . ~ — 12 652 For Repeal of the Corn Laws ~ - ~ . . ~ _ 2 , 066 ~ . ~~ . 599 , 095 Against ~ — ~ . 636 w , 35 , 120 For proposed Measure on Corn Laws ~ . _ 15 ~~~~~ 5 , 198 Against ~ . ~ 136 9 , 592 For Revision of
Importduties — . — — . 104 duties -. ~ . _ 104
39 , 368 For proposed Measures on Import-duties ~ . ~ . 490 .......... 110 , 603 Against -. 2 ,-, - , L 40 S Fob Releise op Political Prisoners , thb Recall of Frost , Williams , and Jones , and the enactment op the People ' s Charter ~ . ~ . 1 —~~ 2 , 100 , 000
Untitled Article
THE MORNING CHRONICLE AND THB " GREAT COMMERCIAL REFORMS . " We have before noticed that our friend the Chronicle invariably selects the last , ot the second last day of the week for the publication of a "lie with a circumstaxce , " in order that it may pass current with us poor country bumpkins , for at least ten days . We select the followingpassage from the Chronicle of Friday last , ( we write on Thsrsday , ) for present comment , and as illustrative of Chronicle practice . The Chronicle
says" Tbe manufacturers do . not wish or expect to lower wages by lowering the price of corn ; but , on the contrary , they expect that wages will rise , because employment will be increased—and that , in point of fact , the Corn Laws inflict a double injury on the working man , by diminishing the demand for labour at the very same time that they add to the cost of living . " in addition to these facts , it would be shown that the Corn Lairs have already driven us from some of our best markets ; that they cannot be continued without losing those which we at present possess , and sacrificing our foreign export trade of £ 35 , 000 , 1 * 0 a year , which gives employment to upwards of two millions of our population ; that they are no less Injurious te
the home trade and to the revenue , by obliging the labouring classes to spend more of their wages in food , and less in clothing and other comforts—that they are the occasion of the ruinous nuctnatiens in the money market , which have occurred regularly for the last ten or fifteen years , whenever we have had a bad harvest —and finally , that we bar * come to the point when we have no longer any choice but to break through our restrictive system , and adopt a sounder policy , or to sea tbe manufacturing and commercial greatness of Britain pass from her hands into those of rival nations , who do not tax tht necessaries of life in order to protect class interests , and to strengthen am aristocratic faction .
" These are facts which the Tories can neither deny nor explain away . Can we wvnder that they ahrink from a discussion on the Corn Laws as they would from a pestilence ?" After having perused the above , let the operative reader take the following bold assertion from the leading " anti-Monopolist , " for dissection : —He says , M The manufacturers do not wish or expect to lower wages by lowering the price of corn , but on the contrary , they expect they will rise . " Now here is a positive , not a relative position . The Chronicle does not say , that under the contemplated scale of duty
the value of wages relatively to the consequent price of corn might be increased . No such thing ; but he says at once boldly , presumptuously , and foolishly , not only that wages will not fall , but that wages will rise ! If , then , wages do rise , we ask our friend what is to become of the £ 35 , 000 , 000 now derived from our foreign export trade ? Will high wages create lower prices for the produce of the operative ! or will the increased price broug ht about by a rise in wages induce our cheap producing neighbours and customers to buy our produce at a fancy price to square with a popular " tariff !"
But we like figures . The Chronicle estimates the numbers to be directly benefitted by a " Great Commercial Reform " at 2 , 000 , 000 . We take the census as correct , and will admit , for argument ' s sake , the propriety of sacrificing every thing to the most convenient method of making 2 , 000 , 000 slaves work from morning to nifiht for the benefit of some few purseproud slave masters . Well , then , suppose the object to be to give , not to sell , but to give , corn to those 2 , 000 , 000 . How much does the Chronicle euppose that they the 2 , 000 , 000 would consume in a year ! Let us allow five to a family , or any number , it matters sot , as we make our calculations by the
single mouth . But suppose five ; 2 , 000 , 000 quarters of wheat per annum , would allow nearly five stone of flour per week to each family of fivei and which at forty shillings per quarter would cost £ 4 , 000 , 000 sterling annually ; to that amount then , even if gratuitously presented , would the actual slave producer require the staff of life . " Yes , yes f say the monopolists , " but then see the vast quantity which all other persons would consume . " They would so ; and for the purpose of giving it to them , ( who are the rich classes , ) cheaper , the 2 , 000 , 000 must work cheaper in order to undersell all their rivals , else must the whole export trade be stopped .
Let us follow this portion of the question up a little . One would really suppose that the operatives were to be eternally swallowing bread and evacuating bales of cloib , or that the foreigner would kindly take more of our produce than he required , in order that we may have as much of his bread as we wibked for ; and thai all Europe wtmld forthwith be devoted to producing corn for the purpose of purchasing coatB , breeches , shirts , waistcoats , and other comparative luxuries , at a higher price than they couid get the same articles at home .
Now , we beg to assure the Chronicle thai a very small portion of Normandy , on the banks of the Seine , lying between Havre and Rouen , would produce more than all the operatives in England could consume ; and let us even go further , and argue from precedent . It never strikes the " anti-monopolists " that any great advantage contemplated by England , from free intercourse with other nations , must be sanctioned by those other nations ; and while bur
rulers are speaking of destroying monopoly at home , they are actually laying the foundation for an extensive and universal monopoly abroad . They may require a precedent ; and we furnish it in order to show how the rulers of every country will either by " ad valorem " duty , prohibition , or fixed duty , make the most of their staple commodities , dead or alive . Thus . The emigration of mechanics and artisans from England was formerly prohibited .
Untitled Article
¦ , - ' ' lit——M ^ Jm— ' . ——M » The exportation of their tools was prohibited % the exportation of machinery was subjected to a heavy tax , and much of onr produce to heavy duties . Why was this ! Because they were articles i » which we had an advantage over onr neighbours , and for which we consequently made theni pay . Well , then , let the monopolists once bring Britain to that position when she will be wholly dependent upon her foreign customers not only as consumers , but as producers , and foreign rulers will say , aooording to precedent , I must levy a tax upon that article of food which I find you require from us .
Now , suppose a case . Suppose the Corn Laws were repealed to-morrow , and suppose America , Russia , Prussia , Poland , Germany , Holland , Belgium , Turkey and France , all set out upon the speculation of supplying the increased demand . Wouldnot , iu suoh case , the farmers on the banks of the Seine , who could shoot their produce from the barn into a steamer within a twelve hours passage of our ports , undersell those at a greater distance , paying heavier freightage and insurance , by at least 7 s . per quarter ! and we ask would those who could supply us cheapest and with
all that we required , take our goods in return for their produce ! What would Mr . Easthope say to the manufacturer who attended the arrival of a French vessel from Havre , Dieppe , Calais , or any other of the oontiguousFrenoh ports , laden with wheat , for the purpose of purchasing the cargo , who should say to the French merchant , " you must take goods in return , or else I won't purchase your corn ; the Americans , the Turks , the Russians , and others take goods in exchange . " Would not the Frenchman say , " well , if you don't , here comes a speculator who without reference to the two commodities , will
buy as cheap as he can , and will yet make a profit by retailing the cargo at prices lower than those at a distance can sell ; and ho will pay in cash ; and let me see whether your two million operatives will take eo many yards of their manufacture , to exchange with the Turk for dear corn , or so much of their wages to exchange with my customer for cheaper corn . " What in such an emergency wonld the Government of the nearest producing countries do ! Why just this . They would have their Corn-Law League ; and the Kings of Franoe , Holland , and Belgium would say , " we must have a fixed duty
upon our exported corn . France can export at so much per quarter-cheaper than such and such places , and can actually run across in three hourB with a supply to meet any demand . Holland , in twenty-four hours , can do the same ; therefore We must have our sliding scale , and put in our pockets the difference between the price at which our land can furnish it , and the prices at which the most distant can supply it . " Prussia and Germany would have their . sliding scale , and then would John Bull be compelled to pay the very highest price at which the most distant of his growers could supply his breakfast dinner and supper . In the midst of all this conflict , it would appear as if England alone was to progress in manufactures , and all other countries
were to become " smashers , " and destroyers of manufactured goods , for the mere purpose of supplying 2 , 000 , 000 of English operatives with cheap bread , while the fict is that England is at this moment exporting prodigious quantities of her most improved machinery , and , as soon as England , with her drag-chain of a gormandizing oligarchy , quits her hold of monopoly upon any one article , her neighbour will embrace the earliest opportunity of grasping it . It is a contest between the rival factions of the earth , the committee of monarchs and their satellites , for the subjugation of popular rights and liberty ; and before anything permanently beneficial can be done , we must all start equal under the law , and then we shall hear of no "
anti-Monopolists , " as there will be no monopolies to oppose . This subject has never been made familiar to those for whose advantage it is boastingly offered ; and they have discovered that God only helps those who help themselves ; and that the masters having very abundantly helped themselves , » pr pear hitherto to be the favoured of providence , but in proportion as the people help themselves , in the same proportion will the Almighty smile upon them , and joia them in their righteous work . The Chronicle concludes thus : — " These are facts which the Tories can neither deny nor explain away . Can we wonder that they shrink from a discussion on the Coin Laws as they would from a pestilence ?"
We , as Chartists , have nc-f only denied the Chronicle ' s facts , but we flatter ourselves that we have also explained away his fallacies . So much for oheap wages , by which the English slave is to undersell the foreign Blave in his own market In fact , the whole scheme is a pitting of the working classes of one country against those of another country . We trust , however , as we have more than once said , that we are not far from the period when we shall see a congress of working men of all nations meeting annually , to devise means for the preservation of peace , law , and their ordera noble substitute for a congress of kingly tools , who have met for the purpose of Bhedding blood for the ascendancy of faction . The Charter iB the only repealer .
Untitled Article
TREACHERY AND SUICIDE OF SIR ROBERT PEEL . "A long day , my Lord . " Our readers will now bear in mind our several hints about Peel and Stanley , and the horror which the Right Honourable Baronet saw in being prematurely pushed forward by the hungry hounds of hi 3 own pack . In confirmation of all we have said , let his course be now watched , and who can , for a moment , doubt his object , and his treachery to his party .
Unassisted by Sir Robert , the Whigs must inevitably have died a natural , death ; but , well knowing his own diasolution would speedily follow , he asBuxed the bold and open man , ( which neither becomes him or sits comfortably on him , ) for the mere purpose of saving himself , by saving the Whigs for another season . The debate goes on , as the ministers are speaking against time and " quarter day ; " while we have very little doubt that the artful opposition of the leader of as wily a conscience as emer haunted man ' s breast , will drag to their support all the old rotten fragments , ever ready to declare big upon abstract principles , but to fly to the cry of the Whigs , ( id . est . J " our seats and our pockets are in danger . "
Peel has done this with his eyes open , and has thus put another prop under limping , hopping , hobbling Whiggery , that he may " rule in hell" with all the delights of forcing others to establish precedents for his future acts of tyranny , without being himself a responsible agent . There breathes not on earth a more wily , artful , sleek , oily , and cold-blooded politician than Pehl—the Right Honourable Sir Robert , M . P . for Tamworth . He would prefer a pound to commit an act of popular injustice , to a guinea to do an act of substantial justice to the people .
We never can meet the Conservative army openly so long as it is commanded by ita present retreating General , who only gives battle when be may secure a personal triumph from his party ' s defeat . Victory was within the reach of the Tories ; but Perl has told them his policy is—by keeping men in , you keep them eut ; just as the ladies say , "By keeping mea off , you keep them on . " What are the odds in the event of Peel ' s motion being negatived , . " That little Jack Hdroer Don't come from the corner " And speak as follows j—
. ** Sir , — -The nation having , at this eventful crisis , again , through its representatives in Parliament , registered its confidence in her Majesty ' s Ministers , we should , npon our part , but ill requite that confidence by abandoning the country , just as personal danger and responsibility threatens us . ( Indesoribable cheering . )
Untitled Article
" Sir , —I now state that hor Majesty ' s advisers teiU not desert thek Sovereign , her people , or their trust . ( Renewed ^ oheera . ) " But , Sir , finding that we are in advance of the country , and that an immediate appeal upon the gigantic reforms which we have propounded would be taking the couatry by surprise , and that consi dering the many interests at stake in the proposed alterations , we have thought it our duty to continue ia our very unenviable position until the full weight of national judgment shall have been thrown into the Ministerial scale . ( Tremendous applause , whioh lasted for many minutes . )
" Sir , —When it is further considered , that an immediate appeal to the country would interfere with the approaching Assizes , and with the harvest , —( hear , hear , and cheerg , )— -I feel assured tha ^ our self devotion , by remaining in office for twelve months longer , mil be justly estimated by the country . ( Loud cheers . ) "Sir , —My Rt . Hon . Friend is now prepared to satisfy the House as to the manner in which he proposes to get over Am present finanoial difficulties . " And then comes Baring , the Rt . Hon . Francis , Chancellor of the Exchequer , with the" old hat" ( a lump of Exchequer Bills ) to stop the hole , to keep the Whigs in and the Tories out , and so may end the farce , when " Imperial Robert , dead , and turn'd to clay , May atop his hole to keep the wind away . "
Untitled Article
" CORN LAWS AND COMmESCXAZi REFORMS . " The following 1 b a list of the most recent discoveries of Liberal Depots , by that praiseworthy and energetic antiquarian and navigator , Professor Easthope , who is now upon a voyage of discovery in quest of Whig Land , said to be seen by Captain Parrt , but of which very little information is contained , either in his or Captain Cook ' s voyages .
It will be seen from the Journal and Log-Book of the gallant professor , from both of which we give copious extracts , that he has encountered heavy gales , and has had many "hair-breadth soapes , " being more thaa once driven upon the Cbartist rooks by the prevailing winds , known in that latitude by the name of Tory squalls , and which come on very suddenly , appearing as if they sprung from the depths of the ocean . But to our extracts : we begin them with : —
" Fsaringdon without St . Sepaiohre ; [ an awful name , it should have been reserved for the last ;] Hackney ; Paddington ; Town Council of Liverpool ; Town Council of Hull ; a Cambridge Correspondent ; A Huddersfield Correspondent ; a Hythe Correspondent ; Dover ; Faversham ; Newcastle-Emlyn ; [ uot Newcastle-upon-Tyne—there the good ship struck upon a Chartist rock and damaged its keel . ] Lime Regis ; Aberchirder ; Peterhead ; Kelao ; Preston-pans ; Wood / side ; Leslie ; Girven ; Dunbar ; Ward of Portsoken ; Wick ; a Man of Kent ; Civis , and a
bread-eater ; the Wilts Independent ; JVmdsor Express ; North Wales Independent ; a Bil 8 ton man ; Rugeley ; Ajlesbury ; open air meeting , in a house without a roof , at Romford ; Leamington , in Dr . Jephson ' s medical labaratory ; Lewes ; Guild of Dundee ; the Anti-Bread Tax Circular , alias , the Young Liar of the North ; from the Scotsman of the 26 th of May ; St . Anne ' s , Limehouse ; St . Luke ' s , Middlesex ; Chelsea pensioners ; Liverpool , continued for a month ; [ Pot-house at ] Stroud ,
[ having been licked in the open air ]; Pollokshaws ; Torquay ; Clayton ; Northampton ; Town Council ; Wednesbury ; Dunblaine ; Kinross ; Kincardine ; Mortlake ; Liverpool , still sitting ; Portobello ; Haddiugton ; Markincb ; Galston ; Largs ; a subscriber to the Chronicle ; Agricola ; Gatton ; Old Sarum ; East Redford ; Parish of St . Luke , Middlesex ; Parish of St . Botolph without , Aldersgate ; a Correspondent at Walsall ; a Correspondent at Sheffield ; Ditto at High Wycombe ; the Aberdeen Herald . "
" To be continued in our next ; " ad interim , be assured , Mr . Professor , you will fail in your object . You have Chartist recks and Tory squalls to contend with , now , in every inch of your course . Yon are a good Whig , but a bad politician , and a worse navigator .
Untitled Article
- ' "> ' ¦¦ ' ^^ IRISH " MORAL FORCE . " The Dublin Monitor gives the following cheering account of the characteristic mode of preserving peace and exhibiting " moral force" practices by the Corn Exchange patriots , at one of their recent meetings ; the Pacificator General in the chair : —
" LOYAL REPEAL ASSOCIATION . " The usual weekly meeting of this association was held yesterday at the Corn Exchange . " Thomas Steele , Esq ., in the chair . " Mr . John O'Consell was about to address the meeting , when " Mr . Dohenyclaimedtheattentionof the chairman for a few minutes . He said an attack had been made upon him in that room , and ke wished to have an opportunei y of refuting it " Mr . Doheny—If I come here solely for the purpose of vindicating myself and not to charge any other person whatsoever , I am sure the meeting will hear me , ( Hear , hear , order , order , and chair . ) " The Chairman intimated his intention not to hear any discussion upon the subject introduced by tbe last speaker .
" Mr . Doheny—I merely want to vindicate myself against statements made here on the last day of meeting , which are totally unfounded . ( Order , order , and great confusion . ) " Mr . Reynolds—In reply to that I say you are a liar . Those statements are true . ( Increased confusion , and loud cries of ' order . ) " Mr . John O'Connell—I rise to order . " The Chairman—It is most unpleasant to me to be obliged to listen to such language as this . " Mr . Reynolds—I say he ( pointing to Mr . Doheny ) is a liar . ( Loud cries of ' hear tha chairman '— ' order , order '—and great tumult )
" Mr . Reynolds here seiaad a piece of paper , apon which he wrote his name and place of residence , and having flung it across the table to wards the place occupied by Mr . Doheny , addressed him in the following terms : — ' Here my good fellow , take that with you . "' These are the civil gentlemen- who prate abouj the violence of the " miscreant Chartists . "
Untitled Article
PUBLICOLA . AND THE CHARTISTS . Pdblicola , who has recently become a pure Whig , and nothing more , most ludicrously informs us that he is a Cbartist and " something more . " That our ignorant readers may judge for themselves of " Publicola ' s" principle and logical powers at the same time , we submit the following extract from his letter of last week , under the head "CHARTISTS STAND BY YOUR COUNTRY , " And introduced with the quotation from Nelson ,
• ' England expects every man to do bis duty . " Under these banners , " Publicola" writes thus : — " If a Whig will not pledge himself to all these , are the Chartists to fly to the Tories , that will pledge themselves to none ? Let them get the most that they can . With some of the six pafhtsof Chartism I by no means agree . I am thoroughly / disinterested in my disagreement 1 am enamoured of the Ballot , Annual Parliaments , No Property Qualification , and Electoral Districts ; but because I like these , I dislike Universal Suffrage , on a conviction that it would destroy them all . As to the sixth point , the Payment of Members , t bold it absurd ; and it never deviates from absurdity excepting into mischief . Do the Chutists , mean to say .
that a disinterested candidate , who went tbe four points , and gave substantial reasons for , not g « ing the other two , oufht to be opposed , and this in favour of a Tory , who gave up no point at all , and whose principles and practices were diametrically opposed to all of them ? It is almost impossible to suppose any party se infatuated as to pursue such a system . Such doctrine * create a suspicion that the Chartists have enemies in their camp . Permit me , Mr . Editor , to say , that the ChartiBts' principles and doctrines do not go half far enough for me , and at any election I would vote for a Cbartist , candidate ; but I would not be so infatuated as to vite-fof a Tory ; or Whig , or Radical candidate , because the Chartist did not go my length . " Now , we have only to ask , was there ever a load of rubbish shot on Chalk Farm" equal to this ?
Untitled Article
u , Chartist , and sometbingmorc , " and opposed fertly rito % ^ only jspirf whioh the Charter breathes , Universal Suffra ge ' and , again , opposed to the only measure of detail , " the paymentof Meniben ^ tT ' which a free choio * under" ; Universal Suffrage" could be secured ! \; Bat , ¦* Publicol * " is * Republnjan , andyetoppo « a to Universal Suffrage ; and tb > Chartists dWt «»
far enough forhim . Poor "Paradox" 1 We havelatel y mournedio find the principles of the " Great Dispatch and of " Publicola" to ^ be guided by the princi ple , of the Time * , Whatever the Tana u , " PublicoJa " is resolved not to be , and nothing more ; andif th 9 Tvtfus came round to the thirty-nine paradoxical articles of our friend to-morrow , he would , we fear put on ¦ new . political spectacles , aad see error ia every opinion , that he now holds .
Wa have marked this * governing power over the ruling passion , ^ vanity , " ever since the r ejectio > of Mr . Hahhkr by the citizens of London ; and now , before it goes too far , we would merely say : — ' . ¦ ¦ ' ' '¦¦ :: ; ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ., \ . Turn again , Pablicola ; Lord Mayor Of London . Turn again , Publicola ; Lord Mayor of London . Turn again , PubHooIs . ; Lord Mayor of London . :
Untitled Article
Sin , —I am honoured with another letter from yon , fa type , ready for insertion in your own paper . Immediately upon its receipt , I sent for every number of your paper published from the commencement of the " new move . * I never saw one of them before ; and judge my honor my indignation and scorn for you , upon finding ' thu you had not published my answer te your letter , irha , I published both . O , you immaculate lover of frfr play ! what will the country say to that 1 Nay , more you sent slips to many journalists , who published you letter . Hut not one published my answer .
Now , I merely write these few lines to inform yog , that as you complain of my last being published » lon » . side of your first , I abstain from interfering with your second till next . week . Your poison shall remain in the stomach of the country , and your triumph in your brain , for that short period , when I will &ppij the stomach pump to the former , and will give you head such a thump against the wall you have built in your own path , as will addle your brains , if y < n have any ; but will , at all events , raise such a bump in your forehead as will enable all young phrenolo . gist * , as they pass you by , in pity to exclaim , "Mr £ T ? , what a FOOL ! " Yes , Sir , I will rais e tbe bump of folly on your front . " Till Saturday , I admit every word you say , and claha credit for each ; and then I shall show that you , a know lege-monger , have fallen into trouble , simply from not understanding the difference of meaning betwees the two words—circumstances and facts . Circunututot is ^ ' substantive , and means something appendant , or relative to a fact ; accident , something adventitious . Fact means a thing done , reality , action , deed . Now , Sir , while Mr . Hill was merely speaking of circumstances on the lfltb , I was speaking of facts on tin 24 th . As U Mr . Whittle , tbe new Editor of a new paper , his motives will be easily seen through ; but I piomin him a lick also . / fight you all ; I will not preserve « dignified silence , " P . O'Cownox .
Untitled Article
POST-OFFICE 0 BDBRS . —All persons sending ; . money to this Office by Foit-effice Order , are especially requested to make their orders payable to Mr . John Ardill , as , by a recent alteration in . tbe Poat-offire ar-, Tangements , any neglect of this Would cattae us a great amount of trouble and annoyance . The Manchester Radicals . —I feel some apology due to our hard-working friends of Manchester for the very unceremonious and uncalled-for
criticism on the phraseology of their resolution , which was most unwarrantably affixed during my absence from the office , and without my knowledge or authority . I am fully of opinion that the hateful Whigs richly merit all the opprobium that can be heaped on them . I tbink 00 language too marked or too emphatic for tbe venting of the good men ' s loathing of the " bloodies . " I have , as I hope , taken means to prevent the recurrence of any suoh liberty . — W . Hili ,. 1
Untitled Article
To Roshdale Shareholders . —Mr . O'Connor hat directed that the four shareholders of Rochdale who lost their scrip shall get new ones , and sha ll be allowed to receiue their money whenever re-¦ quired . Received bt Feargus O'Connor , jrom two friends at Sunderland , 2 s . 6 d ., for the persecuted Irish Chartists . Mb . O'Connor in account with the Convention Fund : — Mr . O'Connor , Dr . £ . s . d . To amount received , as published ... . 88 7 8 To interest while placed in Bank to Mr . . O'Connor ' s credit d 3 8 £ 88 10 9 Mr . O'Connor , Cr . £ . s . d . Paid Mr . Pitkethly as Treasurer to Convention ... 60 0 » Paid Mr . Cleave , as Treasurer to Convention ... ... 28 10 9 . £ 88 18 » Balance due £ 000 0 «
Untitled Article
? A . Chartist ' s Address to his Irish Brethbb shall appear . George Walker —We received no letter fro * ¦ him last week , and therefore know nothing of tht . case to which he refers . . Robert Gill , of Bilton-street , York , would begla * to hear from Mr . Charles Stuart , late of to Chartist Association , York . Peter Needful . — }} e have no room . J . L . —His '' Stanzas" shall appear . n > "Ode to Freedom , or Lines to Chabtisis , Hedined . J—We have no room . A Chartist— We have not room . A London Working Man will see in our present
paper that the fault was not ours . The French Republican ' s Song , and the < w * n « accompanying it , shall appear . A Newry Chaktist . —His song shall appear . A Political Vision declined . _ 1 StaplefordChartists . —At present we canw anon the space ; but we do shortly purpose to UtM up the subject ourselves . P . V ., Chowbet . —We cannot read his poetry . J . 5 ., Alva . —A Property Qualification u not rr ¦ quired in the Scotch Representatives . „ J , S . Smith , Plvmouth .- // ' the Devon m "" » wall friends will take the trouble to W ««" notices of their meetings , and send then 0 * notuxti
early part of the week , they shall be . R . G . Gammage . —We have not room . . An Irish Chartist , at Pontypool , cannot sum * that we should insert such a letter as to vpv » anonymous authority . . . » J . C ., of Pottery Fields , Leeds , will be bbltged w «• Steele and D . Black fo > - a few lines . "The Corn Laws" shall appear . , T . M'CARTtrEY . — We do not know the address oj ' : correspondent referred to . J . B ,., Camberwell . —We have not room . Mr . Charles Cross , of Gateshead , asl " . ^^ assistances reference to the Gateshefg *™ We will always give it cheerfully ? W rr"L and we do . most effectually , in gtmng ^ J ^
, following advice : ^ The Gateshead ^ " ^ rwe learn , on Sundays-let the report J JJJ posted the same night , so that mean hate u . w Monday morning to begin the week wV * ^ The National pBrmpN .-Som * person A " " ^ :. ¦ " the pains to cut out and post to us a r ? ^ Zi on this subject , containing sundry « " »« r . furious pseudo philippics W atntt . % Sar . generairandFr ^ ta ^ jy ( ^^ ^^ , We shall not nurse the " tltmf * nto tm ? or ' AsacomposUion , UuH > uldbeacc < mn ^ ' »™ Yorkshire boarding school , hvhlydugr ^^ y bov nine yean of *§ ei In every othf ruj ** ^ ¦
is too filthy to be touched even u *« - «• - ' JoHN ° JoKE 3 .-H « didreceive foj 0 ™" ^ . ^ tee did not choose to print « , ^^^ Lkt opinion that he couid have MMf ***™ ^ ingU , andtJ ^ it tcas ^ tca ^ d ^ f duceany goad result . John Jones ^ 3 ^ as that which he complatnsof-lhat tj u" !* ^ disavowed-and the whole thing ** & » £ ^ - . author in his preface . We do not fiffiff ,, fore , under these circumstances , to b n « * "Z J io the ereatingef « prejudice » un . ggj minds against a taorthy a ' ^ f' ^ fj ^ . without doing any good at « f ^ £ $ * & ** reason—which we should not have tn jJZ ^ i - expressed if the second letter M- ' < not made it necessary .
. . ¦ ¦ ¦ . — ^ F. O'Connor To Mr. Henry Hetherln≪J Ton, One Of The Shopocracy.
. . ¦ ¦ ¦ . — ^ F . O'CONNOR TO MR . HENRY HETHERlN < j TON , ONE OF THE SHOPOCRACY .
2to 3scatrev0 Antr Com0jw≫Tt&Ettt0,
2 To 3 Scatrev 0 antr Com 0 jw > tt&ettt 0 ,
Untitled Article
A •" - . " " - . "¦ -. ¦ : THE NDHTHBRR STAR . , ^ .. . . , , ,, -. . ¦ ~
-
-
Citation
-
Northern Star (1837-1852), June 5, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct552/page/4/
-