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PROGRESS OF THE REPEAL MOVEMENT . 33 EMGKSXBAIION AT ATHLONE . On Simdsy last , a demonstra&on in favour of tie movement to procure for Ireland » Parliament of ler own , tras made ai Ashlona . Tne meeting took jil&ce in tie eoenrfve lawn facing . Mr . ilnrphy ' s Teadence at Summerbill { three miles from Athione ) . Tasfc Bombers , headed by their ^ rgyznen , came from" distant plaees . The gronnd adjoining the pisiform was ocenpied by a dense body of friezeeoated listeners , -who were packed ( to use s . sunils of ibtar own ) as closely a 3 " harisgs in a barrel . j Ontssfo these were a number of horsemen , and about iifiy or aity privaSe vehicles called ^ -c&rsJ " Scattered over the -Test * f the field wee several thousands more , a . considerable portion of these vere women , who bang for the most part attired 5 n Sighl-eoleiirsd gowns and red shawls , gave te the scene xa ^ hsr aa ia > Dosn » aspect .
Mr . O'CcnBell arrived aboniten otuock last tight from V . nT ) Ta , and hsring slept at Mr . Murchj ' s , came into Aydone this morning to hear -mass , afjer which ha repaired to an opan pan of the town , called the- Sootch Parade , where be received from the trades of Aihlone an addict of gratitude " for ios siant draggles to j-esiore their robbea Parj ' ajnens ,-and *© laea'Ireland proudly ^ ju ^ at ; the nations of ths earih . " Mr . O * ii > nneil , £ sa . ro . ? anie 4 by Tom Sieele , came from Aihleafr io Saniiaerhill , at fee head of si procession of the trades , who carried large issuers , jsd were preceded and followed bv
bands of Erase . They did not arrive at the place of meeting narii max thrt « o ' clock . "On the trininpha ! arch placed across ihe read , near the entrance io SnmmerhHI , was the following inscription : — " The slave-master may brandish hi 3 whip , bnt we are determined to be free . Beware ! Physical force is ailansejons esperimeui to try npon the Irish poepie . Repeal shall not be pm down by the bayonet . " There were two plavionns—one for peatlemsn , the other for ladies . On the former wtre inscribed , * God save ihe Qaeen . " " A British Monarch , bnt an Irish PariiameiuJ" " Tha man who commits a
erase gives strength to the enemy . " And on the latter , the declaration of the M&rning Chronicle , that ** a population oi 3 , 000 , 000 is too pre&l to be dragged at the tail of another nation . " T « ern w ^ re present at tns meeting upwards of lift ) Roaian Catholic clergymen . On the motion oi Mr . R / D . Bkowsk , M . P ., Lord Feresch took the chair , and on doing so said thai he aecepted with pleasure the high honour of presiding over an assembly distinguished as was the present bj every attribute calculated to give it immense hsportanc * , and hallowed by the saerr-d eause in which it was engaged . Where was the Irishman who weald fure £ o his country for a commission of she peace—tcheers)—or Sn-ia cenzirrpoise to her interests in oSiciai ^ kiiiicdoii ? ( Cheers- ) Around lyihBiireaJleiderO ^ Connell —{ cheeri !)—they would
gladly doff off the livery of the-Saxon rnlers , &nd dad in the ample dress of Irishmen , they would bear to beoavesied of rank and consequence , whilst ' ihey looked forsraid to the joyous day of Irrfana's tefnrrection—teheeisO They were there that day ioiree ihsir conntry from thraldom , and restore her to iheiii ^ nity of a nation ; to shake eff the yoke of aftiPTi injaaiee and oppression , aad acquire what ; ihej t » d beforctjre possessed , and as free-born snb-Jeeis "Wetb entailed to—the blessings of sslf legisla- i turn . It was absurd to suppose that an Imperial Parliament would do them justice ; and they would ' bo longer be deceived by promises to that dFeet- j England had never yet made concessions of justice to . the people of Ireland , except when they were extorted from her in her moments of weakness . And if concessions were -again extorted under similar
circnmsiances , wnat security was tnera mat sne , Troold not perfidiously ( for her character was in- j scribed in ietiers of blood with perfidy towards ] Ireland ) revoke these concessions , and renew their oppressions I—feh&ers . ) Is was clear , then , that there was bo remedy against English monopoly and oppression bnt a domestic Legislature— -no other remedy asainet the all-iiapoverHhinic grievance of abaBSteeisia , which drew from ths country £ 9 fi 00 , 000 a year to bs squandered ia foreign countiies—no other maens by which their eonntry conid be rescued from that frightful poverty asd abject degr&d&iion to which die had been reduced by the ^ ernel and oppressive mis-legislauon of the united Parliament . An nnited Parliament was an insulting mockery of representation to the people of Ireland . Their enemies sought for civil wsr ; their objects being spoiiaiion and EiassaCTe , and to keap Ireland as ibe abject -eiave of Englasd . Let them
violate 310 law , eomait no crime , and ob = y the voice , « f their Liberator , and they ¦ would disappoint , iaffla , and overcome those bloodthirsty enemies . ( Cheers . ) As for the large military force sinch had l&een sent into Ireland , they rejoiced at ihe event , aa calculated w > scatter a iiitie zaccej nTnoagi-i them ,. ¦ which was very mush wanting . < Cheersaiid langhier . ^ 53 iey shouid not mistrust ihoi-e brave soldiers . ; IHear , hear . ) In their ranks they beheld their reia ,- Eves and frieada , aad sacnJd therefore isceive ) them' with kindness , cordiality , and friendship , Three cheers for the- brave soldiers . { Lend cheers . and cries of * they ' re welesme , " & 3 . ) How could England , with a defelration of £ 3 . 000 . 000 in the i ^ Exchequer , keep np such a vast armanient in Ire- land , J 3 e would say thai she conid do so , indeed , ' butfor-a very dion time . The resolve of the Irish people io keep within the constitution a ? d violate no law demonstrated the absurdity of snoh a taovement , ' and showed that its direct effect wonld be to accele- i
rate me Repeal ; while K ^ g lian weakness would confciue to be their best security , nntfl Aey sac- ' eeeded in ohraasing the fostering protection of a . ' native Parliament . ( Cheers ) ' ' Mr . D . Bbottse , M . P ., proposed the first resoln- i Con , to fiie effect * thas the union was obtained by ' corrupt and ernel means , and enght to be repealed . " \ Peel ^ nd Weliingwn tgroans ) had by their vapid threads endeavoured to intimidate the people of ' Ireland , and check the progress of Repeal ; bnt he ' wished they were there , and he would shew them 500 , 000 Sghting laen—Gond and reiterated cheering ) i —^ men of manly bearing and irresistable attimde— j peaceful , moral , and sober , bnt determined constitu- ; tionally to Repeal the Legishuive Union—resolved to be guilty of bo indiscretion , to spOl not a drop of j blood —( hear , hear)—to commit not a singla act , against the ordinances of society or the laws of the eonntry , but at ihe same time resolved to stand upon the threshold of the constitution and resist
. ^ Ihe Hon . Mr . Ffeexch ( = on of Lord French ) id seconding the resoinxion , addressed the meeting at considerable leEgth . He considered -it net only legal , but their inherent right to assemble for the parposeof peritjpnir s fee Legislature to Repeal the Union , which had been found so oppressive to Ireland , and of such vast advantage to England . Kot-¦ wiihstanding the threats of their present rnlers to crush the expression of public opinion and keep from Ireland a native Parliament , it was the firm determination of the people to persevere constitutionally and energetically to obtam it—( cheers . ) They had outgrown the tyranny of their oppressors—they had increased and multiplied until no chain could surxonnd them . Their masters could not forge mana cles as numerous as their unfettered arm 3 ; and they defied andacions Britain to awe thsir manly sonis—Gond cheering . )
Mr . O'Cqxnell then presented himself .. He was , talLd with xhe siost deafpning cheers . He congratulated them npon the fact that Irishmen , north , sonifc . east , snd west , were up and stirring on the question of whether Ireland should , btlong to the Insh or the Saxon stranger . In the whole course of his political eareer he never heard so vigorous a ** hnTCsb . " as the people now gave for ihe Repeal of ibe IJnion . O 2 they were certain of it—( chet : rs . ) ^ Eheir enemies first tried the effect of ireatn ^ thtm and thfrqaestion with contempt ; then they tr ; ed the forec of vimperatioiiand calumny . Both failed and the English newspapers began to express asDcnishment at the determination of ihs people to have a Parliameni of th&ir own . Then came Welh * B £ ton of
"Waterloo npen them—( groans ) . Wasitonthi 18 ih June they wcnld groan him in that way 1—( laughter ) But Wellington well knew that it was not die red eoat that made the soldier daring , , bnt the lxative hravery of the Irishman , who was as brave in a frieze * oat as he would be in a red one—( cheers . ) He began by threatening them with civil war . Then came Peel with ths same threat . Honest Bobby , lowe'eer , lold a lie -open the occasion . He said that the Queen declared zzzxnsi Repeal . He knew that they would despise la = threat of civil , war ; and he knew that they held in veneration the excellent judgment and the xastained character of their beloved Qneen . Hence the in troduction of her name . x » ow , he had if frein a person who could not he
decerFed , and who heard some one say in 3 veice rather : Jike the ^ ueeni , that she never made any Euchdtda- ' * atjon , andtha ? she complained that &r R . Peel had maeprsectedher —( cries of" Godbless her . ") The thr » te © fsiToWarjCOB £ fquenfljgtooda 3 one _ Bntthe ' people of Irelaad wculd violate jio law , wonld create ' ¦ ixojxioi or disturbance of anj Mnd ; and he had tnereiore defied the Government to proceed with a enrfl vrar , Tepeafing that a red « oat didxot m&ke al ^ TS-tu no 5 » ^ ezscoat a coward . . ( Cheers . ) Hu defiance liad caused the Duke to drawin hisi MooB i and ireei to shrink oui of flie scrape , Next ' « me ; thB "war against th » magistrates—the job of SrE . Sogden . Be would tell them a secret . The
MMsterJiad MnJ for Sr ^ ward , who started by iheiipacketilast 3 ? Jght for England , io get a good scolding for his folly and absurdity , very probably never to come back again . ( " That hetDever may , " frvma voice in the crowd . ) Then they were attacked and abnsed by -The Hsmea—a newspaper written and edited hya setof the most outrageous scoundrels thai ever Btood in shoe-leather . ( A laugh . ) A more deprflved , a more creedless , a note conscienceless set of blackguards were never congregated togathar They pnblished a jnanifesto stating that Ireland was almost in a state of rebellion ; that the remnant of the Orange faction ought to he armed ; and that through them "war ought immediately to be made
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npon the Jrish people . He was ai Mallow when he received the newspaper containing that sentiment It brought intelligence at the same time that the Ministry had made no Hpnse on the preceding Thursday , being busily employed forging chains for Ireland . Snowing that the people of Ireland would violate so law , they Tvere threatened to have their throats cat by those Saxon—he would not give them a bad name—but again he set them at defiance . ( Cheers . ) He had now the pleasure of Informing the ptopls of Ireland that those who had the hardihood to issne such threats had gone upon another tack , thfit of coEcilliation . If that meant a Repeal of the Union , fee would he satisfied , hat no conciliation would satisfy him short of a Parliament in
College-green—( cheers . ) Ministers had a great majority in Parliament , bnt they were not a bit the stronger for it . They were ^ anxious to attack Ireland , bnt they wonld not , for it wonld not be good for them while there were funds in the market . A man gave £ 95 for what was csllod £ 100 in ihe fnnds . It was down to £ 92 now , i and if ihey made war unjustly upon Paddy , that which was worth £ 92 to-day would not be worth £ 35 to-morrow . So much for ihe Tories , whom they set at defiance . As for Brougham , he was not worth talking of ; he was a despicable and a selfish mountebank—a man who betrayed his friends and fawned upon his enemies .
He wonld allow them to groan him—( groans . ] Then came the "Wbiga , saying , that as they had already benefited Ireland , and kept her quiet , the . Qaeen had only to tm-H ont Sir Robert , and bring in Lord John . The Whigs had certainly promised much , and undertaken to do much ; bnt tho people placed a eonfidfccc »? in them which they did not deserve ; and he novr told them that no change of that kind would drive the people of Ireland irom ibeir determination to have a Repeal of the Union —( cUeers . ) He would put Whigs and Tories into a bsg , shake it well , toss them out , and frem first to last rhere wonld be fuund no friend to Ireland amongst th&m . Irt-land had
bnt one friend , and that was herself—( cheers . ) The Morning Chronicle , the organ of the Whigs , said it was qaite trne that it might ha useful to Irelaud to have a separate Legislature of her own , but that it would not be tiseful to England , and that therefore thty should not have it . Would ihey abandon their agitation for Rcptal on that gruind I—( tries of " 2 s o . ") The same paper said if the ; people continued their straggle , they were likely to obtain all they wanted in the moment of England's weakness . He thanked ihe Chronicle for ike hint . It contained a strong temptation to them i o pray of an afternoon " may England soon be weak that we may carry Repeal . - ' ' With regard to fixity of tenure , he should like to explain thai by it he meant that no landlord should
be entitled to recover rent unless ne made a leasa of twenty one years at least . Ko lease , no rent—( cheers ) Then tse poor man would not bs : afraid of being turned out of his cabin next May . It might be * aid that the landlord would put too much rent in the Jesse . For that he was not without 3 cure . The Ordnance Survey had made a valuation of land , and he would not allow the rent to be any higher than th =-t valustion . If there was no Ordnance Survey , he would give the tenant the rest required upon registering his vote—namely , what- ^ a solvent tenant wculd gsve for the land . That would be tried by the assistant barrister , with an appeal to the judge ol assjze and a jury , who would ascertain wbar would be the fair rent , and that rent the tenant would have
to pay and no other . He was a landlord , and did not want to take away their right s but that they should perform their duties to the occupying tenants and not hunt them like wild beasis . In the county of Clare , a misbegotten fellow named Wyndham was tnrning ont family after family . A number were now under notice to quit , and trembled for their existence . He gave some of them money to go to America . The miscreant J Were they not Irish ! Were not the graves of their ancestors in Ireland I Was not Ireland their birth-place , and that of their children 1 And who would say that a ^ little moEcy to send thfm to * America was a rlbompence fordriving them from the land of their fathers , from their altars , and their homes 1—( hear . )
He would give power to every occupying tenant who laid out money or labour in improvements , to register those improvements in the Clerk of the Crown's office every year ; so that . when the twentyone years lease had expired the : landlord should tot up and and pav to the tenant in money the price of his improvements , or grant him a new lease of the farm . Tney might in that case build a better house for their pig than they now lived in themselves . These were the solid and lasting frnits he anticipated from Repeal . In civilization Ireland exceeded every other conntry on the face of the globe . The virtue of her daughters and the religion-: of her sons were of the highest order of civi ! zatirin ; and these he claimed for them . If their enemies attacked them , he knew who would have the worst . of it . Why , they were enough to take them in their arms and throw them into the Shannon . But he would carry Rppea ? as he carried emaneipation , without violating
the l&w , committing an offence against morality , or shfcdding one drop of hnman blood . Would they net mest him again , if he wanted them I < Lond cheers and cries of "Y&-. " ) He ] might want them again ; hat he did noi think England would be mad enough to rtfuse their demand . She was the weakest Power in the world at the present moment , by reason of the dissatisfaction existing m Ireland , and if she wanted strength she had only to do justice to Ireland . Alter advising the people to peace , and recommending fhal no man in the Repeal ranks should ever return a blow , but bring his assailant , it he met with one , to the petty sessions . The Hon . and Learned Gentlemen concluded with a glowing eulogy npon the beauties of the ; Shannon , which he wound up by saying a Saxon river was no more to he compared than the water of a dunghill to a living welL He retired amidst several rounds of enthusiastic applause . '
THE 9 I 5 SE& . About 500 persons sat down to dinner at seven o ' clock in a marqnee erected for ;' the pnrposein a field adjoining ths town . Lord Pfrench was in the chair . On the cloth being removed his Lordship gave the usual loyal toasts , and after them the " People , for whose . good alone sovereigns reign , " to which Mr . D . Browne , M . P responded . Letters of apology were read from Dr . M'Hale , of Tnam ; Dr . Biggins , of Ardagh ; IBr . CantweiL , of Meath ; and Dr . Burke , attributing their absence to professional doty or ill health , but not tp any abatement in their enthusiasm for the Repeal . " O'Coimell and Repeal" being ihe next toast ,
Mr . O'CossEU . said that they bad met net toj advance a party , bnt to turn a province into a nation , to make serfs freemen , to give liberty to their 1 fatherland , to strike off the shackles of the slave \ and let man walk forth in the majestic dignity of \ his creation , equal with his fellovv man , and equal 1 te the management of all that belonged to hnman I btJEgs , and amongst those mighty concerns the ] national concern was the firsS aad greatest . It was ] delightful to address them on aif -occasion like the j prtsent , when their difficulties were vanishing , and j » vben it had pleased Providence to mix timidity in j the councils of their enemies with the certainty of satngih in the cause of Ireland : They had come there to be free or die . ( Here theithe company ro 3 e , i
waved their hats , and cheered for some time . ) But j he thought they might put dyiDg out of the question . ; He always preferred one living patriot to a dozen I dead ones —( langhier ) . He talked of dying in the fine frenzy of an oraior who saw the possibility of an attack , and showed the enemy they were ready for i thtm , but whose solid judgment convinced him there , would be no dying at all . They were not the less j ready * ot the contest sbenld it be forced upon them ; and every hour taught him that there would be less i peril in it— fhetr , hear . ) He believed they had bten brought there by one great principle and one unanimous determination . He believed they had come there one and all to say— Ireland is a province , and she shall be a nation . ? ( Here the
company again rose , and cheered in an enthusiastic manner . ) As for the Union , it was nothing but a parchment Union . It never was a real Union ; but even if it were made of adamant , ; being UDJust , they wonld rend it asunder ^—( cheers ) . The Hon . Gentleman then referred to the disabilities under which the Roman Catholics laboured from 3800 to 1829 , during which time the mass of the Irish people , he Faid , were in a state of practical servitude . But ever since then , what portion of public liberty had they got equal to England ? They had not the same franchise , for in the eonnty of Kerry there was a rural population of 720 , 000 , and they had just 2 , 000 voters , while Wales , with only 800 , 000 inhabitants , had 36 , 000 voters . England and Scotland got
corporate Kcfonn . Ireland got a limiud and restricied corporate Reform . Was that a Union ? ( " Ko . " ) God forbid that it wjis , for if it were it would be much more difficnli to break it . The Whigs did a little for them , and the gratitude of the Irish people was great . Lord J . Russell had admitted the generosity of the Irish ptople , bui he ( Mr . O'Connell ) would not ttroTy hack the compliment , for he saw no generouty [ either in him or his colleagues—( laughter ) . They ; certainly put some deserving men into office , and kept out some scoundrels , which "was still better—men , however , wJ > o were immediately thrust in when Peel became Minister . But even during the Whig regime the burden of the Union pressed heavily npon them . A
fiendish cry was raised againBt them in England . The Times called the people of Inland a filthy and rebellions sraltitnde . tl $ called ! their priests snrpliced ruffians and sanguinary fiyrants—( groanB ) This waB the langnage which was ^ day after day , employed towards Ireland , and it was not employed in -vain * It irapired ihe English mind vpith an hatred and an antipathy that told trumpet-tongued at the last elections . There was , added to that , the interests of the landlords ; the ihjterestBof any class was never so potent aBtwhen envenomed and sharpened by a bigoted and fiendish spirit of religions animosity . The Times succeeded , and the consequence was ihat they had now a Parliament which was , perhaps , the most degraded that ever sat in England . Class interests and bigotry of feeling were openly manifesting themBelveB in unrestricted bribery . It was admitted on iboth Bides . Peel talked of the extent aad grosEness of bribery , and
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Lord J . Russell , io punier accents , admitted it . It was thatj bigotry and that bribery by which Ireland was now governed . What chance , then j had they of the least mitigatien of any of their grievances from an English Parliament ] Even the small fragment of their rights which they still possessed that Parliament was attempting to filch away . B y the Poof Law three-fourths of the guardians were to be elective , but that was too much for Ireland , and one-fourth ex offing guardians had been turned into one-third . The number of ex offloio appointments had been augmented , and that was the Government ' s amendment of fthe Poor Law . The people complained of the tyranny of the Voot Law Commiaaonerfl , and Lord Elliott ' s remedy was to double their power .
What chance had the Irish people of resisting it Some ofi hia friends who had done themselves " the high hononr of attending in the Saxon Parliament divided , and mustered just eighteen against it , tvhilo 205 Englishmen , who did not hear the debate , came down from Bellamy ' s smoking-room , and threw out ; the only mitigation of the law that had been moved by a glorious majority of 187 . He was blamed for distinguishing between Englishmen and Irishmen . Mr . Ross , of Rosstrevor , Baid it was a folly to make a distinction between Saxon and Celt . But who began the distinction ? It was not he ( Mr . O'Connell ) . It was first mado use of as an instrument of tyranny . He himself heard LyndLurst describe the Iiish as aliens in blood , in language , and
religion—( groan ? . ) He it was who began tho battle : but it never should end until Saxons governed England and Irishmen Irelaisd ; for , if a contest should fake place between them , thoy would die beiore they yielded—( loud cheers . ) He would attend these multitudinous mertings until all Ire-Jan ecting always that the Union , ia puint 01 constitutional principle , was a tiullity , and that Mr . Saurin , who was Attorney- G nteral for twentV'two years , auu Chief Justice Bu ^ he had sai d so . jSoihiug had taken away from the Q . ieen the
r'ght of issuing writa . She required only a statesman to advise her to that step , and , as a matter of course , the Irish House of Gommons would start into life . To cbtaiu that enu ho should have 300 of the gentry to meet him m Dublin , each wuh j £ UM ) from hia own locality . The ensuing day he Would request them to meet him at a public dinuer ; and there was nothing to preveD *« thorn frwia meeting again , 'and calling upon the Queen to issue her writs . Oh , they would carry repeal with the greatest facili'y , backed as he was by the millions , and supported as be would be by tho gentry . ( Cheers . ) Mr . O'Gonnell concluded by proposing the V . ealth of
Lord FyBEKCii , who brufly returned thanks , and propust-d " the Ca £ noiic Hierarchy of Irelaud , " to which toast , The Rev . Mr . Dawsom responded . Mr . O'Gojrs £ U . apojogizsd for leaving the compauy early ( a quarter before ten o ' clock ) , having , ho Baia , to be at iho association next dsy at one o'clock . The Hen . and Learned Gontletuan tUen retired amidst the cheers of the abS-.-mbly , who followed in about an hour after . The Tboops at Athlone , dubing the Demonstration . —In addition to two troupa of the 4 th Dragoon Guards , and a depo : of the 46 Yn and 90 jh Begi mtnts , toree aompanj-s of the 69 th , from Miillingar , and another troop of the 4 ih Dragoon Guards from Longford , arrived in Athione on Saturday .
REPEAL ASSOCIATION . —Monday . The Association met to-day , Mr . O'Mahony in the chair . Although Mr . O'Connell was not expected to be present , having attended the Repeal meeting and dinner at Athione yesterday , the room was very much crowded . Mr . John O'Conkeia . M P ., announoed , amid loud cheering , that the sum oi £ 1 , 008 i 9 s . lOd . had been received from the county oi Clare , and that a largo sum was expected from the same quarter . From the county of Limvriek £ G 52 Is . 6 d . had been received , being the-product or the recent meeting at Murroe . The suras of £ 105 from Kilkenny and £ 74 from Ulster were ai ? o announced as having been sent 10 the Association , and a great number Ot members wero proposed and admitted whoee subscriptions were included in these sums .
Soon after i wo o'clock Mr . O'Connell arrived at the Corn Exchange in a travelling carriage and iVur , having posted up 10 town from Athione , in order to attend the Association- He was received by the meeting with loiig continued cheering . The Hon . Gentleman proceeded to congratulate the Association on the majestic progress oi' the Repeal cause . Since he last saw them ho had attended several meetings of great magnitude—the last , in fact , always appeared t © him to be the greaiebi . He proceeded to describe tne meetings at Kilkenny , Mallow , and Athloue . The assertion of Loru Cnancrllor Sugden , ttmt in these meetings there was an " inevitable tendency to outrage , " was met by the fact that at none of tlieni was there used
even an uncivil word by one person towardB auo . her . The dimtanour of the people was peaceful and loyal , butdt : termin « -4—Ihear . ) ll seemed alinoBt the result of magic that , eo many thousands could congregate without evtn the occurrence ot an accidental injury ; in short , he would say thai in the bevt managed , assemblies of the nobility and gentry there was no instance in which the regulations of civilized society were betur observed . He had addressed 2 . 000 , 000 of persons at thobe meetings , and every individual , fTom the youngest to the oldest , was thoroughly convinced that any breach of the peace , assault or offence of any kind , was destruction to the cause . Ho next had to congratulate them on the late Anti-Repeal meeting , and he was
delighted to perceive that no one opposed in opinion to those "who held the meeting had interfered with them . They had the privilege of being Anti-Repoalers , as the Repealers had theirs , and having met to exercise the sacred right of petition , it was quite right that they should not be interfered with . He had anxiously looked over the reports of that meeting , in the hope of finding some arguments in favour of the Union ; but he was disappointed , for the speakers did not even attempt that species of rhetoric called a lie , to prove that the Union was a benefit to the country . They had abused him to be sure , but he hoped to earn much more of their abuse as : he went along . Tuay had also abused the Catholic religion ; but he would not be more
ready to give it up , because half-a-dozen fellows cried out no peace with Rome , " and attributed conduct and objects to them which never entered their minds . | What had Rome to do with . Repeal J—it was not-a Roman , but an Irish question —( hear , hear ) and the endeavour to make it a no-Popery question showed that its opponenta had not a single argument which they could advance . The Evening Mail , to which he rtturned thanks , as one of his best assistants , had lately said that Sir Robert Peel must know that . Repeal would do much good to Ireland ,, and woald prove exceedingly useful —( hear , ' hear ) . And further , that it could be carried without endangering Protestantism , because nineteen out of every twenty of the Lords would be
Protestants—( hear , hear ) . Having commented at some length on the proceedings of the anti-Repeal meeting , the Hon . Gentleman proceeded to advert to the late affray at Garland , and stated that it had been ascertained that the fellows who commenced the riot by an attack on several Protestants who were quietly proceeding along the road were not Repealers . If he could ascertain that any of them bad been enrolled , he would feel it his duty to move their expulsion . The drura by which these Protestants were preceded had been broken , and he would propose that a better one be supplied to them from the funds of the association . A man named Morrow had been beaten on the same occasion , and he shoulc move thai a sum be given to him out of their funds
to compensate him for the loss of time he had suffered . These petty conflicts were most disgraceful , and , in fact , were almost the only thing that could retard the progress of the cause . What he wanted was to restore Ireland , not to a particular party or section of the people , but to all Irishmen . That was the true meaning of the phrase " Ireland for the Irish "—( hear , hear ) . Why , somo of ihe highest Conservatives were joining them . In Clare one young gentleman , a decided Conservative , came to their meeting at the head of 600 horsemen . He meant Mr . John Malony , of Graig , a gentleman of family and fortune , and a magistrals of the county . He wasi one of the magistrates who attended that meeting to protest against the condact of the Lord Chancellor .
Mt . O'Coskeu . concluded by moving the resolutions to which he referred , and they were carried unanimously . A letter from Mr . Buggy , the editor of the Belfast Yindicator ^ was read , in which he Stated that secret societies were spreading in Ulster . Mr . O'Coa-neio . said , that if he had time , be would write an address to the people of Ulster , on the subject , but he feared that his engagements would not permit him to do eo . To-morrow he should go down t © Cionmel . and the next day he should be in Skibbereen . On Friday he should pass through ! Limerick on his way to Galway . On Saturday he should be in Kilgorey , and , after mass on Sunday , he would enter Galway . On Monday there was to be a meeting there ; and on Thursday he should be in Dundalk . It was then scarcely pos-Bible he bhould have time to prepare this address . He should , therefore , content himself with moving
that the : Association condemns illegal societies , and oaths of all kinds , and implores the people of Ulster to be on their guard against persons seducing them into such practices , and , if possible , to bring their tempters to condign punishment by exposing their machinations . After handing in several large sums of money from various parts of the country , the the Hon . - Gentleman proceeded again to congratulate the ] Association on the advances which Repeal was making . He had not yet bad time to read Sir J . Graham's silly and impertinent speech through , but he had seeu enough of it to glean that it was not intended to do anything for Ireland . ( Hear , hear . ) He congratulated them on this candid avowal of Sir James Graham . They should now look to themselves . They had inscribed on their banners , peace , law , snd order , but were at the same time determined not to continue the abject slaves of Great Britain . The feeling was ascending to the highest
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rilaces , a 3 the vast accession orespectable persons to thai ; Association showed . Ho had had diffiWtf In convincing some ' people that the Repeal was * ht > Only h ' ope for Ireland $ but now Sir James Graham had come to his assistance , to show them that ever } dther hopa was denied them , and he ( Mr . O'Connell ) thanked him for having done bo—( hear , hear ) . A Whig newspaper had lately stated that an enlightened despot would beithe best governor for Ireland . In reply to this he would say , that if such an attempt vvere made , they would stand on the law and the constitution in defence of their liberties—they might deprive the people of ^ Ireland of th ose , but only with their Jives—( Joud and protracted cheering . ) i The Secretary proceeded to read a great number Of communications enclosing subscriptions , amongst them wore £ 40 from South Carolina , and fifty francs from some parties in Paris . At the t ' TKiiaatioQ Of the proceedings ,
Mr . O Connell announced , amid great cheering , that the Repeal rent lor the past week amounted to , £ 3 , 103 7 s . 6 . 3 d . The largest sum received in op . week by the Catholic Association was £ 2 , 700 , and thatwaa during the height * of the agitation for the Clare election . In general theaverage oi' the receipts did not exceed £ 350 . The meeting tneu separated .
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Chatter ? What sense is thete , in pestering oursolvea and others about what we call our rights , when the toad to prosperity and fortune thus stands to us ? Sat , we are [ told , this scheme is not to snpercede our agitation for the Charter . Indeed ! Why , this schema we are assured will be a remedy for our distress ; a-, \ d we surely need not two remedies ; we are not , it te to be hoped , such unreasonable dogs as to want to M doubly { cured . The Charter we have found is
80 mev vhat difficult of achievement ; and , although I am pet . vaaded [ that the time for winning it , if -we do but keep together and single in our purpose , is now pretty nei . * & » . hand , yet should I , and I think all sensible niv . ^ » \ tt what he says of it have any true foundation , ^ xtfvr the moie immediate " nostrum" of Mr . O'Connor , which he says can be adopted and carried into effect ] without delay , and with little ox no difficulty ; an 4 v'&fcb is not merely to relieve distress , but to raise op to prosperity and fortune .
The putting forw . * of this scheme , or of any other , as a remedy for the prevailing distress , save that for which we C'liaritiflts ha"V « teen contending ; the putting forward of anything , A » a remedy , in clearly piaying into tho hands jof out o , ijpret-sors . To adroit teat there te more than one remedy , » to arturit tbat there may be a thousand . ' ank than whh * would become of our integrity of purpose ( what would * became of our sole remedy , the Charter ? It is lost aiaoi ^ the Babel of projects .
and we becomejsplit-up , divid < ** . scattered . ; We want not ! two remedies , did two exist , which , however , I stoutly deny . Bat h wever this may ba we want to be eureii only once . We ? . * ont ouiy one remedy . It ia dangerousjto listen to two—if V 4 do eo we aie sure to be split into ( two or three parties ,. vime for , one , some fov the Ulhar scheme , aud some for I ~*> tu ! Remember tbat " Bttwten two stools , &c , " and & V « k totheCxiarter alone . I remain ,
Yours faithfnlly . Thomas - Smith . Liverpool , June 19 , 1843 . P . S . —If any more be to be said of this prnje ^ about the land , 1 sin . u ' . d nmeh like to occupy a aicyie 1 vluran with what may j ) t > termed the statistic * , uiul the ' raU vnale of the schema , irrespective of its bearing on CbarrWm . May I hope tliat the Editor will yield me a column tjr the purpose ? i
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HOUSE OE COMMONS—Tuesday , Jdne 20 . At the ho-ut } u ? . ualiy devoted to private business , Mr . J . Wurtk-y moved the seound reading of the bill entitled "An Act to declare the illegitimacy of certain persons uilli-ut-d or claiming to bo ciuldren of tno Mosc Hon-jlreorge Fcrrars , Marquis of Towus * hend . " The bill had been sent down to thorn irom iho House onL « r < is , where it had undergone ihe fuiiebt investigation , and was intended tu secure to the parties ) promoting it tho honours aad prm-1- H ' -s ol' the peerage to which they claimed to be entitled . j ¦ . Mr . C . Bbiaer moved , that the bill be road a second time tnat day six months . Ho throw overboard all the ! facts mentioned by his noble and
learned friend opposite and proved before the House of Lords ; ana argued the impropriety ot passing such a measure upon general principles . He admitted that those facts involved a mwisurous hardship oh the Townshend family . He sympathised with the feelings of Lord ( J . Townshnnd , who . saw hi 3 succession to the hereditary honours of his family endangered ; bjat he sympathised also wiih the unfortunate Martjhioness of Townshend , who had been bound by law ] to a man whom she could >< oi but loathe , a&d from whom that very law prevented her from obtaiitinffla release . He was therefore not surprised that she ! who had ac ' . ed the part of a faithtul and affectionate consort to Mr . Msrgett ' s , should at
last determine [ that " the law , which had made nrr children illegitimate , should also make them legitimate , and that ] the law which made the Maiqiisof Townshend her husband should also make him the father of those children . " Admitting , however , the monstrous hardship which such a determination ni ght iufi ' :-ct upon the Townshend family , he objected to the present ] measure , as being a partiai remedy for it . Why should it be introduced for the benefit of the peerage jalone ? Wny not introduce a general law , affactiug not only peerages , but also tho estates of private individuals ? The House divided , when there appeared , —
For the second reading 153 Against it ... 49 Majority ... ... 104 The bill was then read a second time , and ordered to be committed to a committee of selection . Mr . Pakington gave notice , on tho part of Lord Ashley , that on the 4 th of July , he would move for leave to bring in a bill for the improvement of the condition of the industrious classes by the establishment of the allotment system and oi a general loan society . j A " talk" fchen ensued on the " Danish Claims " brought forward by Mr . Hawes , who wished to get some £ 220 , 006 for " compensation '' to " our merchants" for losses incurred by them during the war with Denmark . He was resisted by the Chancellor of the Exchequer , who told him chad he had no such sum to spars .
SEPTENNIAL ACX . Mr . Sharman Crawfor » then rose to move for leave to bring In a bill to rapeal the act of the 18 ih year of Geo . L , statute 11 , c . 38 , for extending the duration of Parliament to seven years . The Hon . Gentleman recapitulated the various acts w . hich had btea passed to ! regulate the duration of Parliament , and expressed Inis opiniou that , so long a ^ Parliaments exiated for seyen years , there could be no security for public liberty and the rights of the people . Af to the duration to which he should propose to return
he was willing ) to accept the period fixed by 6 Wm . and Mary , c . 11—namely , three years , though in nis own opinion a much shorter period would be fairer towards the public . If h « Members of that House had been mori subjected to popular opinion , by a shorter tenure of their seats , a great part of that unjust and mischievous legislation which had so oppressed and injured the people would never have been ventured upon ' . . Dr . Bowring seconded the motion .
Sir James Graham considered it decidedly beneficial to the public that a somewhat extended duration should b ^ given to Parliaments . The whole experience ofj years past proved that the average dura ' . ion of parliaments was not more than lour years , a period which , in his opinion , answurud every purpose of making members responsible to the public , while it gave them time to acquire that practical experience which wa 3 so essential to sound legislation . ! - ¦ The House then divided , —
For the motion 23 Againsi it ? ., 46 Majority against the motion . —23 LordElements renewed his motion for the production of tile correspondence connected with the disbanding of the yeomanry corps iu Ireland , to which j Lord Eliotd gave the same reply as on a former occasion , namely , tbat lie was willing to furnish eopies of all { orders for the disbanding of the yeomanry , with some selections , omitting from the correspondence whatever wa 3 of a personal or superfluous nature . )
Lord Clements acoepted the offer , and the returns were ordered . } The report of tho Princess Augusta ' s Annuity Bill was brought up , and the other orders being disposed of , the House adjourned .
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Depabtubb cf the Great Western Steam-Ship . —Liverpool ! Saturday . — This ornament to the steam marine of Great Britain Bailed about noon to-day from the Cobourg Dock , for New York . She is , we understand , in mo 3 t spledid order , for the voyage , and ia likely to make a remarkable short passage , the weather being most propitious . Her passengers number between sixty and seventy , aud the carries out a valuable cargo of fine goods .
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Leeds Corn Market , June 20 ,-rWo have good arrivals of gram to this day ' s market . The weaiher has been very fine since last Tuesday , and it has bad its effect on the market . Wheat ha 3 baen slow salo at a decline of Is . per quarter . Oats and Beans very little alteration . the average prices of wheat , fob the week ending June 20 , 1843 , Wheat . Barley . Oats . Rye . Beans . Pen Qrs . Qrs . Qrs . Qrs . Qrs . Qw . 4461 31 415 0 228 1 £ s . d . £ s . d . £ s . d . £ s . d . £ a . d , £ s . d 2 9 3 1 14 103 1 2 32 0 0 0 1 9 Hi 1 IS 9
Leeds Woollen Markets . —There were very slack markets boih on Saturday and Tuesday to , on the latter day particularly . The enquiry aner manufactured goods was limited ia the extreme , and some of the small manufacturers from the country were loud in their complaints , not only on account of the lack of business but at the very low prices which were offered for tne better kinds of goods . Hie recent revival , of which sanguinary hopes were entertained , appears to have entirely subsided , and me state of stagnation
trade to have again relapsed into a . York Corn Market , Juke 17 .-A most decided and beneficial change in the weather too * placa m the early part of the week , which has enabled iariners to work their land , and proceed with turnip sowing , we have , consequently , a thin attendance n to-day ' 4 market . and but little Grain offering . wie « must be quoted fully Is . per quarter lover ; ^ a"s and Oats dull sale ; Barley nominal . At the cw& of last weeks market , millers advanced Floor * -P
sack . Newcastle Corn Market , June 17 . -Theweaker since Tuesday has been tine , and although ws 0 * only a small iupply of wheat at market t * ws moru ing , both from the country and the coast , tne u * ruled dull , and last week ' s prices were bareiy ^ r ported . On Tuesday , there was a &W . fJ » business done in foreign Wheat , but today *™»"" r . not much passing ; tile sales made , ho ^ vevwew the same terms Ryo is in request , and coming full prices . Barky is scarce , and fnby asi «* Malt is again Is . per quarter dearer , feaa m with more enquiry , but for Beans the deman a b f « j limked . The show of Oats from ihe farmers to « j was small , and they met a brisk demand &i ¦ 1 S - X qiar ; erover the rates of this day se anight , w
Flour irado is dull . State op TkADE .-There was a v ^ juiet marke yesterday j botii in goods and yarn ; wpa * yarn . — clineof pries in soma descriptions orreeieuj-Manche&ler Guardian of Wednesday . _ ? Malton Corn Market , June 17 . —Ai ^ S market there was not an average supply 01 ' ^ tha farmers still showing a disposition'to boW j "ow cvnscqueuce of the dulnSss of the Wakeneld *»*» they could not obtain much advance on last , *<* prices .-Whfat , red , from 48 s . to 56 s . per qu » j " 40 stones . Barley 403 . per quarter . Oats , W lOd . per stone . . RicHMG > D , June 17 .-We only had a , tb $ n BgP j ofGraiuiaour market to-day . Wheat , W . "' 7 s . 3 d . Oats , 23 . 6 d , to 3 s . 3 d . Barley , 33 * o ° > 3 i . 9 J . Beans , 3 i . 9 d , to 4 s . per bushel . ^ ^ = g
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: The Army . —The second division of the 5 'h ( or Northumberland ) Fusileers , und . r the command of Captain Speece , arrived in Cove , in the Boyne tranport , on Friday , after ; a passage of 18 days , ii-om Gibraltar . They were immediately conveyed to Cork in the Tug steamer . The first division of this highly dist n ^ uished roeiment arrived in the Pfstonjee Bomunjee , on Friday , the 12 th of Ma-ys from thi . same quarters . Tnia division ( the 2 nd ) marched on So , turday for F . riroy , to join the head quarters .
' The Note of Psepahationw—Two moro war steamers have anived at Covo from Portsmouth . The Meteor , 2 gunn , Commander George Builei ' . and the Myrtlo . HerMaje 9 ty ' s ship Tyne , 26 guns , Captain W . H . Glasscock , is also added to the t > ir « -n « th of the sq ^ uadroB in that arbour , which , if rumour is to bo credited , is to be further increased by the addition of several vessels of war , first and second rates . Rear Admiral Bowles is hourly expected in the Shannon river by the Lightning war steamer , for the purpose
of inspecting tho several forts and batteries in tho Lower Shannon , which are to be garrisoned by detachments of the Marine Artillery . Further note of preparation is thus announced by the Limerick Chronicle : — " Several loads of timber have beea received into tho yard of tho n ^ w barracks for the purpose of erecting stockades and other defences inside tho walls , and two pieces of beavy ordnance are to be planted iu the old Castlo of Limerick , as a matter of preeantiou before the county of Ciare side of the rirer Shannon . ' *
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' TO THE CHARTISTS OF GREA . T BRITAIN . ON THE " LAND SCHEME" AND " THE CHARTER . " " Between two stools you come to tha prminrt . " ¦ ¦ Old Proverb . , Fellow CoCNTRYliEN , —We have beencuwtemiing for our freedom ; for the emancipation of ourtcives and of our aufi ' erin ^ fuiluw-ouuntr ^ men , from a bjatem of ty ; ai : ny and pillage which is mvte exacting , more grimting aud opprtsnive , than almudt any other puople in the world ever oncured ; our unfortunate brethren in Ireland alone executed . ;
: The poverty and consequent misery engendered by this system , have long been a source , r » ot oaly of reproach , bat ai ^ o of serious nlaim , even to owr selfish and greedy oppressors themselves -, and ebhenifs , therefore , of all sorts and isizss , aav « the plum n . U'i honest one of abating the pillage , have been iJe-jieed ami carried into operation by them . It is notorious that for full SfEy years past , the pruso , the various places of worship , anil the Houses oi P . ' ; riiameut hava teetued with privets of veii % f ; and our country has abounded with bHtievole . it and clmri ' -a& ' e institutions ; yet have the poverty aud misery continued to iDcraise , aud liuir natural conaequsnets , crimes , disease , aud death .
And why ; why is this ? Why , but btcnuso the artfully contrived , the . multifarious , the searohinst syatein of taxation to which wo have been subjected is persisted in ; because the fruits of honest itduetry are niched from the working people . It is bf cause the millions of labouring paopla ure short of the necessaries of life ; aad because the clawes iuxt above them , the tradesman aud dealers an'A pti ftsBumAl m <; n «; eneraliy , areatrufiling togother to avoid the &ame fate of dusUculiou aud imM » -ty . It is not that our Government is , or has been ,,
indifferent , on . igardleas of the coiulit-oa of the ptoplu . It ia the pride , as it ever baa been the interest of Governments to have thair subjecis proajxjrous , well-provided , healthy , and contented ., Tyranny , whatever may have been its freaks in ancient days , p- " 1 in other regions ; tyranny , in modern Europe , and mo . it especially in our country , has taken this shape und . no other whatever : it is a thing of searching , of ( mruUng exaction . It is a s ystem el taking , —cume little by open and direst meaus , but chiifly by certain round-about , indirect , and underhand contrivances , — the frui ' s of industry from the millions .
Not that oar Government has been indifferent te tha ppver y and suffarinj ; s of the pooplo . On the contrary they have encouraged and carried into eff&ct all sortsof schemes foT repairing the t-vils they iLflict by their everlasting exactions . And yet , as wa all see and feel the evils for the remedy of which thete schemes have been devised aud patronised have continued to increase until they have reauhud thoir present intolerable and alarming extent ' And , why is tfais ? Again I ask , why ? but because the proper , aud the only remedy has never been tolerated , much less applied . ' The remedy which we have agreed on , the remedy Which Blone we bad resolved to listen to , was the same as has been steadily recommended by Major John Cartwright , by Granvllle Sharp and other worthies , for about Beventy years last past . Ii is that which we have embodied in " the Peoplo ' a Charter . '''
; This remedy is no other than the possession and the free exercise of our rights , as men , in checking or controlling the measures of the Government ; and especially iu controlling the hand of taxation . For it is clearly the numerous and heavy taxes ; it ia clearly the numerous pillages committed on the honest aud industrious millions of the people , that causes their poverty , their degradation , and their misery . 1 Iu favour of this , our remedy , we Ghartists , who bad long 6 een the fruitlessness , the folly , and the fraud , of all other schemes ; in favour of this , we had unanimously come to a resolution that we would neither countenance nor listen to any other scheme ; that setting ourselves against all other projects , and confining our energies to the attainment of this one , we would concern ourselves in Ihe furtherance of no other public measure , " until the Charter shall become the law of the land . "
; ThiB was wise and good ; and to this resolve we were , constantly exhorted , aud enjoined , by our leaders . , But , behold , now a scheme of quite another complection , f *> r enriching the labouring people , for making them prosperous , and even powerful ; a Lcheme which * e are told can be carried into i-ffect immediately , without waiting jfor the Charter ; and all this propdundeci and urged by eur cbiofc&t leader himself , with all bis constitutional zeal and activity , and through all his extensive channels of publication I . " The general distress of the working classes , " says Mr . O'Connor , in one of his recent letters in the Northern Star , " is admitted on all hands , while each has his peculiar nostrum for their relief . MINE IS THE LAND . " And , accordingly , Mr . O'C . proceeds , as you have seen , withtht details of bis plan , aud with description of the splendid results to be derived from its adoption , '
Into the particulars of this schema , or as Mr . O'Connor has chosen to call it , " nostrum ; ' into the particulars of it , and the ( to me ) manifest futility thereof , boifl as to the practicability and promised results , I may not here be permitted to enter . At present , 1 take leave only to point out to you , my brother Chartists , rind to Mr . O'Connor , if he have overlooked the fact , that if what he has said of his schtme be correct ; if he have a remedy , and especially so very efficacious a remedy as he pronounces this of hia to be , for " the
general distress of the working classes , " and this remedy be something other than that prescribed by eur Charter , then have we -Chartists been all in the wrong ; as , indeed , are all oth » r political reformers . If bis scheme on the land be such as be tells us , then is there , clearly , no occasion whatever for the Charter , nor for any other reform of the Parliament ; and we who have busied ourselves in demanding such reform , have been a factious and senseless set of agitators , well meriting all the odium , expense , and suffering tbat we have endured . Let us proceed , however , yet a little closer into
the matter . 1 In his letter in the Northern Star of the 15 th of April last , Mr . O'Connor , in announcing hia scheme , says that his " chief aim and object is eo to locate the honest wbrking man that be may uninterruptedly enjoy the proceeds of hia natural labour . " In the same letter he also tells us that " he ; hopes to prove irrefutably that the people have it now In their power to present a large practical illustration" ot the result of his plan ; and then he proceeds to assure us ttiat his ia " a scheme in support of which no law beyond that already in existence , shall be required ; " adding ?• that ip thU
scheme every farthing raised will go to the benefit of too society ( of labourers ) itself . " 1 Need I quote more in order to show , that according to this new light of Mr . O'Connor , all our efforts to obtain what we have called our rights , all our "agitation" in behaJf of the Charter , now prova to have been but supeiflaous and mischievous Impertinence ; seeing that ' *• we nave it now in our power , " as he tells us , even " before the 12 th of May , in next year , so to locate the honest working man , " tbat " every farthing" he earns shall be secured to his benefit ; and that his earnings shall be three hundred , two hundred , or at the hrery lowest , one hundred pounds sterling a year ?
; Ii this be so ; if we can indeed thus immeoiately ( enter into sucb splendid results ; " bo fascinatir . g and so free , " aa Mr . O'C ; lays , then , what Wftd of the
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR . Sir , —The Hyde Chartists are determined to awake from their long slumber , and show the plundering , tyranical , Antij-Cora Lav ? League , that Chartism in Hyde is neither dead nor sleeping . Although the Whigs succeeded in depriving them of the Hall that cost the poor operatives £ 700 to erect , yet they are determined to kc-ep up a peaceable and Iwgal agitation until they see their country what she ought to be—" great ; , glorious , and free . " During the last utvike , the men of Hyde stood forward manfully in
demanding the Charter ; and , although they were seven weeks without Hoing a hand ' s stroke of work , during which period they experienced extreme p . avoHy and distress , yet who can say that thny destroyed one penijyaworth ofj property ? Tha League very " liberally" rolled out ! in the public streets barrels of , beer to induce them to ( trick , in order to justify tbeir malicious designs . To tn ] e honour of the Hyde men , nobody would drink it } e ^ ve a few drunken " h auvies , " enred not a straw aboat their characters . The League have carried tuLir meetinsa their own way sincelast
September . Xfhis was just what they wanted , and sought for , by the " Btrike . " But I am determined to inaet them at tueir own threshhold , and show up their fallacies aud knavish designs . Yes 1 the " red cat " Hyde will still Ilisclurge the duty he owes to his God and to his country : that is , to bring truth , and error into conflict and competition , that the minds of men may be capable ] of seeing what is wrong and what is right . The Wbigs of Hyde laid every plot , used every scheme , to procure for me banishment ; and for what ?
Fur endeavouring to Beep the p > -ace , and preserve Hyoe from their revolutionary designs ! 1 have rucorded a vow : to keep j to the Charter , and work on . public opinion , uutil a majority of the people of En $ l&a < i demands it . Then , according to Su- Frederick Pollock himstlf , the Charter must become the law &f the country . Hurrah for the Charter , and no surrender ! I remain yours , iu the good cause , I J . M . Leach . Hyde , June jl » th , 1843 .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 24, 1843, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct656/page/8/
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