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ROTTINGHAM ELECTIOW. (From our own Correspondent.}
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TO TEE EDITOR OP THE ROBTHBItS STA 3 . giE , —I am a poor man borne down by oppression for ray steadfastly adhering to the noble causa of CbsrtiEni ; i have been entirely ruined by the clergy and middle classes of Shoreham for my firm determination to uphold the cause in this Tory-ridden borough , ^ iich I Mn sorry to say that out of a population of 19 * 2 by the census , cannot number but myself and tVo more Chartists , in the strict meaning of the -word , jly case is ** follow : — In December , 1838 , a party of respectable Chartists gaiae to Shsreham to enlighten the people here on the principles of the Charter . I being a -working man -was requested to take the chair , I did so ; being a
Greenwich out-pensioner , I -was immediately , reported to the Board of Admfrality , who directly stopped my pension . I memorialized them , telling " them that I had . done nothing wrong ; when I was answered by the Secretary that their Lordships did not thtak fit to restore it Sack to me . I answered them back that my country had given it to ma for wounds received in its defence , and it ought not to be withheld from me unless j hid broke the laws I had fought for ; but they were determined to stop it I then drew up & petition at the suggestion of that noble-minded patriot , Mr . Jobs Frost , ~ and got Mr . T . Duncombe to present it to the Bouse of Commons , when it was ordered to be laid on the table , where it remains .
I stni stood by the cause , and will as long as I live . I was immediately beset by the Shoreham parsons , ¦ who complstely ruined me and my large family , of a ¦ wife and nine children . I have dragged on & miserable existence , until every thing that the rascals left me is bow gone . Therefore , I hope , through your valuable paper , the Star , the only consolation I have got , that yoa will be so good as through its columns to state my ease to my brother Democrats throughout the Kingdom to raise a small subscription for me , to buy me a boat and oets that 3 may gain a livelihood by fishing , as I eas get « ne tor fifteen or sixteen peunds , to support my family with , and keep us out of the Bastile , as that plac * I hope I shall never face . If this abonld meet your approbation , yon will place me under the greatest obligations to you ; and , if yon Trotild act as Treasurer for me , if such a thiBg should take place , it will much oblige a poor but honest man .
With the greatest respect , I am yourt , » n the cause , JOHS HiSDES ., Shoreham , May 29 , 1 S 42 .
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< m 10 THE CHARTISTS OF GRFAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND . Fbiisds , —Having watched with some attention the progress of the cause of truth , justice , and humanity , in opposition to falsehood , injustice , and cruelty , I have been impressed with the necessity of some further steps being taken for the diffusion of sound political information among all classes , particularly among a great portiea of the working classes not as being necessary to ( jaalify the latter for electors , but as a means of enabling them to obtain their political rights . You are iwzie that those who are desirous of maintaining that system through which they are enabled to live in affluence by depriving a great por Bon of tha working classes of the common necessaries of life , do all they caa to
prevent the people from having convenient places to meet in , hoping , thereby , to prevent their obtaining their object . That these beings may reap disappointment , and tbat the causa of truth may speedily prevail , 1 \ Fonld recommend the Chartists all over the kingdom to open at convenient places their houses , and invite by printed circular , their neighbours to meet them , for the purpose of considering the propriety of forming a class for obtaining and diffusing sound political information . I subjoin the form of a circular to save those whe may b 9 disposed to act on this suggestion the trouble of ¦ writing one . Should this plan be generally adopted , I sin disposed to think that teas of thousands would j -. in such classes , and afterwards the association ; who , with their present small amount of Information would otherwise not join it for a considerable time . At these
meetings , which should be held weekly , at least , let the National Chartist newspaper ba rtad , and let ene or two of the members make it their business to look over the fether Chartist publications , eo as to bring any thing which they may think desirable should be made known before other members . As the success of those who jaay be disposed to adopt the plsn here recommended will depend much npon its being understood that the plan is to be acted npon extensively , I would suggest thai , at the next meeting's of the members of the fissod&tion , resolutions be passed expressive of a determination to act on the recommendation here given , and tint notice be seni to the Star of such resolutions having been passed . J . S . Fabheb . Wolverhampton , May 28 th , 1842 .
( Circular . ) Sin , —It is in contemplation to have established throughout the kingdom small classes for obtaining and cifoiing , at a cheap rate , sound political information , in orfer that by extending the influence and strengthening the power of the working classes , they may ere long cease to bs , as they now are , the slaves cf landowners , usurers , and money-mangers . Tour company is requested at the house of ibereizsert the place and time of meeting ) , -when and where a a few of your neighbours have been invited to attend , for the purpose of considering the propriety of forming > class to meet weekly at his house . The subscription , if any , Deed sot be above one penny per month .
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THE JTECESSITY OF A TOTAL CHANGE IN OUB . EAST-INDIAN POLICY ! "When the lives and fortunes of thousands of oar j brave countrymen are at stake , and when many of them with their wives and families are prisoners and host- ; age * in a bitterly hostile eountry , we may be forgiven ' lor calling some slight attention to the events which have lately taken place , and which have caused such j heartbreakiugs and heartburnings botk abroad and at j home , and to all connected in any way whatever with
the affairs of the East-India Company . Though the greater portion of our energies and sympathies should bs directed to the exterminatios of the barbarian j cruelties , practfred in arrogant and ignorant wanton- j ness , on the suffering masses of the population of Great Britain and Ireland , yet , we will uplift our voices , j feeble though they be , and fearlessly and bonsstly declaim against , and denounce with heart and soul , the murderers of our social hearths and happiness . We j have sons , brothers , friends , and relatives of all de- j uriptiona , iuale and female , in Hindostan , and in the j
midst cf esr unparalleled distresses , though we can i render bat little aid for their safety or salvation , yet we I can record our feelings and show in after and happier j tones , we were not totally insensible to their dangers j iad privations brought upon their heads ( like onrsi by i the crimes of the legislature . Our affiirs in the Sist , are extremely difficult to deliberate on at least satisfactorily , ts we have placed ourselves in a vtry false . position It is Tn ? i /? pe « 3 to advance , our moral power im shaken if we retreat , and if we come to a standstill we become the laughing-Etock of the European and Oriental worlds . This is the real picture of our positbn in Afghanistan , and a mighty pleasant oce it bids fair to be ! How are we to extric ^ tj
ourselves with anything like honour , and retain out a-. Tai superiority ? We have good reason to know that the war is not palataMe to the army in India , whether 2-roptin or native ; we can also vouch for the unwillirg feelings with which many of our fresh levies embarked on fhe transports which have lately sailed from ' oar shores : we will mention particularly the 9 th Lancers , and we heard seTJeant-major 3 , se ; jeants , nonconmisslcned officers of all grades , and scores of privates i fieckre , that they would ratter join the ranks of the i afkhans , than fight against them "—that is was an ; tnjust war—that they were obliged to go because they couldn't help themselves , not from any devetlon to the < hten-sts of the country , but from shtez necessity . '; Ths European ciScers are grumbling now in all their i
private letters about their numerous hardships , the deprivations of their usual luxuries , and the restrictions on their enormous quantities of baggage , that they can't ejoy their wines and ales , and are condemned to drink brssdy and water ! These restrictions are absolutely EeacssarT , or they would have to protect a baggage train cf seme miles in length , and wear the troops out by ssceasing and harassing doty . We should like to see s ^ ns cf the " old school" deprived of their " mess " ! = xaries , their tents with outer " KsnauU , " their " Rowtys , J > their " Bechobers , " their •' baggage , " and " stcessary tents , and we should see a portion of ifctsr enthusiasm evaporate after every day's march .
Excuse ihesa remarks , but we know what we ^ speaking aboui , and the Duke of Wei- j fc ^ stoa is well aware that they are but j " / earlier bed soldiers" ! We impugn not i &s-r conrage or their physical energies , it is thei donate , sad the climate alone , that encircles them in f a throw * of lissitude and makes them the slaves of ) custom . When they are in such a clime as that of > Afghanistan , the extremes of heat and cold , of wet and j <^ y , they must suffer considerably , and the luxuries of ' Hindostan , would be doubly regretted , aad to make ] rae march stall palatable to Christian , Mahometan , ori Hindoo ruHetts , success must be their constant compa- )
aim . acd plunder and promotion their necessary stien iants ! Such then is the undoubted state and ) efficiency of the advancing army ! - " - j We must now look behind and take & glimpse over ) &e suriice of Hindostan . The unquiet spirit of the j HiBioos-and Mahometans must be propitiated ; it has j krtberto been laid , or rather smothered , by constant em-Ptopaeut and petty wars . From the fall o ! Beringapa- j tem . and the death of Tippoo Saib , we have had a struggle j iot Bdtiih supremecy , and it has only been attained by ; lEcprirg one tribe er carte of natives , to wage war j a ? ahiit another . Like jackalls , we have partaken of j « -e prey . p om the battle of Assaye , in 2 503 , I where ) ih ? Duke of Wellington reaped Ms first blood-stained j lasrelsi to that of Mahidpoor , in 1817 , we were con- \ KiBtiy employed in the noble and ehristian-like occupa- ; iioa cf Betting natives by the ears , and tke w ? rs and j I ^ rnh of Holkar and Ssindiah amply testify to what '
ex . est we bad succeeded . Poor Bajee Row , the Peishwa , j j-fc-ms in for a share of our attention . He was subju- j sited , and a : ter « oine hard fishiing the gallant Goklar j * w sUin , and feij a ; Ashke . Tlanks to the old :
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22 nd Dragoons , we remained masters of that hard fought field ! In 1824 , came the Burmese war , to occupy men ' s minds and prevent them from thinking , theugh we forget to mention that the Bombay troops in 1820 made a few excursion * to the Persian Gulf , which did not stamp them as invincibles , or their leader . Sir Lionel Smith ( like any lord Cardigan ) aa the chevalier sans pear et sans reproche ! In 1827 , a few thousands knocked their heads against thewallsof Bhurtpore , and the ball was pretty well kept up , till the Affghana hinted to the Feringhees that they were determined to have a will of their own .
Hera , then , we are ia Afghanistan , panting for revenge , goaded by military renown , and partaking , in dreams , of plunder and promotion ! Behind you , in Hindostan , nations and tribes bowing an willingly to your yoke ; before you , a hardy , brave , and patriotic enemy ; and around you , and for the time being , and marching under your banner , a dispirited , and treacherous native soldiery ! We must negociate with arms in our hands . Posk tive orders mast proceed from the Government here to the Indian authorities , to stop these wanton butcheries , and by taking a high moral ground , with considerable physical force to back it , we may be able , by the
assistance of skilful negodators , to causa the blessings of peace to-beam upon the land . We have little doubt but the Afghans will meet us half-way , and would assist by peaceable means in ridding themselves of oar presence .. They cannot wish for such a war to ravage their homes and habitations . The army , we are well assured , would gladly aee once more the flowery " topes" and " paddy" Selds of HiDdostan , and the Government in tranquUity , by a more enlightened policy , might look to the construction of roads—aye , even the laying down of railroads , the beautifying the cities , towns , and villages , and framing more tqaitable and acceptable laws , equally embracing European and native , than have ever been issued forth in the East bv man .
The ministers here must not hesitate ; they must be prompt and bold ; it is our only chance aa regards Afghanistan and India . And such a result would tend more to their own or the national honour than thousands of bloodstained victories . Agghftnistan cannot be conquered by ub , and never could be tenable at any rate . Hindostan is not irredeemable , and by showering around it the blessings of civilization we may become in future years friends and benefactors to the natives . Under the present system we would boldly say never . A WoorwicH Cadet . Chichester , 23 d May , 1842-
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THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE TO THE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . Brethhbn , —The duties which devolved upon us , as members of the National Convention , are terminated . The period is now approaching when it becomes us , in accordance with the principles of the People ' s Charter , to lesign into your hands that trust which you have reposed in us , and which we have striven to the best of our ability to exercise to the satisfaction of our constituents and the benefit of the common causa . We therefore direct your attention to the -proper measures to be adopted for the election of a new Executive Committee .
THE BALLOT . Which shall take place tb . roBgb . ent the nation in the week beginning with Tuesday , the 7 th day of June , and ending on Tuesday , the 14 th d 3-y of Jnne . Lei it be pzriiailarij observed , tliai each Ideality will choose for ilstlfom day on ! y for # je ballot , out of the seven , so as to convenience all localities .
MODE OF BALLOTING . The fifth rule of our Association states , " That any person shall be admitted a member of this Association on taking a card of membership . " Therefore no person will be eligible to vote tor the ofneers of the Association -unless they can produce a card of membership . The Bub-secretary shall grant to each person , producing a card of membership of the locality to which he belongs , a voting card , on which is written or printed the names of all the candidates . The elector shall then , at his
own convenience , draw a pen through all the names except the five for whom he votes , and the five names left standing on the card shall be considered as the persons whom he thinks eligible to serve on the Executive The sub-secretaries shall also be empowered to grant to absent , sick , or distant members their voting cards , and receive their votes in return , sealed up , through the post ofice , or by other means , which sealed votes are to be opened by the General Council , and deposited in a box provided for the purpose , and to be called the ballot-box .
On the day of ballot each sub-Secretary shall act as registrar , and the General Council as scrutinisers of the votes . The sub-Secretaries , attended by the General Council , shall , on the day or evening appointed for the ballot by the majority , stand around the ballot-box , and proceed to call over the roll , eack voter advancing when his name is called , and dropping bis hallotting card into the ballot-box . On the conclusion of the ballot , the General Conneil will proceed to the scrutiny . They shall first count the cards to see that the number corresponds with that on the rolL They Bhall , secondly , cast up each card in succession , and the sub-Secretary shall pot a mark opposite the name of each cf the candidates reported as having been voted for . Finally , they shall declare the result to the General Secretary , reserving a copy for themselves .
On Tuesday , the 2 Ut of June , or earlier , if possible , the names of the new Executive will be announced ; and on Friday , the 1 st of July , the new Executive will supersede the old . Brethren , we trust these directions will be strictly adhered to , and that all « f you will vie with each other in exhibiting the proper spirit of Chartism during such an important practical application of our principle . All those places in arrears for cards are particularly requested to discharge the same , and thereby enable the present Executive to leave office without entailing any debts on the books of their successors .
Having full reliance in you , our constituents , supporting us in the course we have advised , regarding the election ,- We remain , your faithful And devoted Representatives , James Leach , P . M . M'Doda ll . Morgan Williams . R . K . Philp . John Campbell .
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- ? BRISTOL AND THE STURGE PARTY . TO THE EDITOB OP THE . VOBTHERJf STAB . Sjb , —Having read a report in your last paper of a meeting of the Complete Suffrage Union , without members . I wish through your pages to call the attention of my brother Chartists to the fact that without members it could not be a meeting of any union , and further to inform them , that this said meeting was held at the house of one who hitherto has passed for a Chartist , and I believe was convened by Chartist professors , for the purpose of seducing others of the Chartists to desert the glorious cause to which they have often publicly pledged themselves , and become lowered in the estimation of every party . The argument , if such their language may be termed , for this backsliding , is , that forty members of Parliament will support Sturge , that none will suppor t Feargus O'Connor , thus resolving tfee question ^ of right into individual influence . Secondly , that a rose would be just as sweet with any other name . But what Englishman would think of changing
the name of this emblem of his country ? and what CiiartiHt would for a moment entertain the idea of changing that name which has been banded down to U 3 by those great souls , the immortal Hunt , Cartwright , Cobbett ? As well may you ask the Irishman to change the name of his shamrock , or the Scotsman his thistle , the Welshman his leek , the democrats of France to" strike ene of their tricolours , or the Americans to throw aside ono of their stripes and stars . Ihe answer in every case would be , No ! These names and emblems are national , and are endeared to us by tfee breath , and toil ; and blood of noble sires and brothers , who have gone hence , bequeathing to us the fulfilment of the labours they commenced ; and we have administered to their testament , and sworn for onr own sikes and that of our children to devote our whole energies to the accomplishment of their glorious objects . Change the nam * Univei sal Suffrage ! Never ! It has become a sacred" name , sanctified by the sacred names of nobles of nature who have died in its advocacy .
' We were once united in local associations under the title of Universal Suffrage , Democratic , and Working Men " a Associations ; after the acceptance by these of the Charter , we advanced from this position to that of Local Chartist Associations and District Unions of Chartists ; after the barbarons crusade of 1839-40 , we emerged from the conflict with flying colours , and took a Etill more advanced position , under the title of the National Charter Association . We have since then , under good generals , parried every feint of our many enemies , and at length destroyed their army ; and should we , after having achieved this Tictory , in a war ef trickery waged by pretended friends and open foes , now bend to their new-modelled yoke , and disgrace ourselves in the eyes of the country and the world ? In the w > m « of cossUtency , do !—in the same of union , so !—in the names of Hunt , Cobbett , and Csrtwrieht , noJ
The Charter , we were continually told ( aye , and by one who has backslidden ) was framed , that all that was necessary for & just representation may be embodied —that we may have ene thing to point to , and be of one mind , not dirided by oar several crotcheU , but by unity of purpose , and unity of action , achieve our own emancipation from the thraldom of class legislation . And shall we now descend from this unity of purpose and action , to our several crotchets again , changing one name after another , to suit the whim of this man or that party , until the whole face is changed , and the working class divided into powerless sections ? Universal Suffrage is our sacred principle of political rights . The "Charter is become a talisman to the people , wherein is the : r hope of freedom ; anA to ask them to change—to turn from it—to c feck from their present
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position to even she five points without details , much leas to alter one of those point * for a more limited , and therefore iaferior name , is to ask them to be unstable as water , and lay them bare , to be blown about , as they hitherto have been , by the breath of faction—is , indeed , to favour the tyrant's maxim , " Divide and govern . But if the question is to be between Feargus O'Connor ^ nd Joseph Stttige , the decision moat ; be years of toil in favour of Feargus O'Connor , for he has been tried by the people and found perfect even to the present moment ; but of Joseph Sturge we may ask what do we know of him 1—answer , that he was a free trader only , till he found he could not carry free trade without the Chartists ; at least , all parties must own he is
untried , and therefore only thought to be a friend of the people . When be has had years of trial in the people's cause of political emancipation , it will be time enough to dab him a friend of the toiling millions ; but to desert our tried friend , O'Connor , and join Starge , because a few more of the dishonourable * would vote for the latter , would be truly absurd , and Joseph Sturge himself would not respect or place any confidence in men who could be guilty of such gross ingratitude to one who has served them so long and nobly . If Joseph Sturge can by his influence gain over the middle class to his Suffrage , be may do us service ,
because at a future time we may get them to advance into the Chartist ranks ; but that Chartists should retrograde to his plan , is too ridiculous y inconsistent . No , brothers , onward for the Charter , that has become sacredly endeared by the breath , and toil , and sufferings in dungeons and in exile of its virtuous advocates , and by its necessity to free our order from the crue : bondage , misery , and death entailed upon us by continual drudgery . Let ns stand by our tried friends as becomes men—let us stand by our Charter as frecometh freemen ; and set an example of consistency and firmne « 8 to the mere wordy democrat—ear country and the world , J . —— . Bristol .
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TO THB EDITOB OP THE A 0 BTHEKK STAB . Sir—As another proof of what Englishmen are reduced to , the following may be relied on as a fact : — "A man of the name of Kslph Kerahaw , of Oldham , who has been some time out » t employment , went to his former employer to get a job bat without success ; bat having to send a parcel to Halifax the man begged he would let him have the job , which he did , and the man got a wheelbarrow and breught the parcel ( weighing nine stone four pounds , ) from Oldham to Halifax , a distance of twenty-one miles , and took another parcel back that weighed six stone six pounds . What he got for it I know not , but this is another proof among many others , th * t Englishmen had rather toil for a livelihood , than live either on charity or parochial relief . " Robert Sutcliffe . Boothtown , May 31 , 1842 .
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THE STONE MASONS ON STRIKE , FROM THE NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT , AND KELSOH ' S MONUMENT , LONDON , AND THE WOOLWICH DOCKYARD , To the Public and ihe Trades of Great Britain and Ireland . " It every just man , that now pines with want , H > d but a moderate and beseeming share Of that which lewdly-pampered luxury Now heaps neon some few with vast exses 9 , Nature ' s full blessings would be well dispensed In unsuperfluous even proportion . " Milton .
An immense majority of every civiUz ^ d people are verging towards a mutual agreement to give , in order that to each may be given , full measure , pressed down , and shaken together , and running over . Such is the plenty in which God showers his gifts among us ; and such is the manner in which he would have us yield each to the otker . " . A Political Economist . Bretheen , —We have at length arrived at that period so long and s » devoutly wished for by all that have been engaged in prosecuting our strike to on honourable terminatiou , and more especially by ourselves—that of issuing our final address .
In doing bo , it ia our pleasing duty to inform you , that excepting sixteen individuals located at Dartmoor , all of the late turnouts have relieved us of the cost of supporting them—some of them by the obtainment of other employment , in the immediate localities in which they reside , some of them by going ia quest of it to distant parts of the country , and others of them by being promised a small bonus each so aooa as means are furnished to us to supply it to them . It may , perhaps , be fit here to state , that the arrears of pay due to those sixteen , including a bonus of £ 1 each , which they have agreed to accept , and then to relinquish all further claims in respect of . the strike , amount to upwards of sixty pounds ; and which ( having bad " a pretty considerable sum" arrears of Btrike
allowance to pay to those who have gone to the country in quest of employment , and having yet a considerable sum to pay to those remaining in their respective localities deficient of the promised bonus , and unsmployid ) , we are incapable of ourselves yet to pay , and which is operating most materially against us . We are , however , sanguine enough to hope , that this to the many insignificant , yet to us at this moment important " trifle , " will not be allowed long to operate as a drag chain on the wheels of our onward movement ; but , being freed from immediate embarrassment , we may be enabled , like industrious and persevering artisans , to set ourselves cheerfully and energetically at work
" placing our house again in order , " in repairing those portions of our citadel which , during the long siege unto which it has been subjected , have been susceptible of injury . Not , however , in propping with lame expedients , or decaying substances , the unstable and affected parts , but , taking the experience of the past as a beacon for the future , conserving that ODly which , in its practice , has proved effective and useful , and levelling to the ground all that has been proved ineffective and useless , and upon the most approved principle rearing up a new fabric , more adapted to the improvement of our condition , and the defence of the rights of labour .
We shall not , we hope , offend any of our friends if in this , our last address to them , we digress a little from the subject of onr strike , to say a word or two respecting the origin of that wealth through the agency of which we have been bo persecuted , as also respecting the inefficient protection afforded to , and the disproportionate distribution of , the produce of labour . It has beeu written , and , as assumed , by divine inspiration , that " He who will not labour neither shall he eat "—that " The labourer is worthy of his hire . " Indeed , labour was the first price—the original purchase-money—that was paid for all things . It was neither by gold nor by Eilver , but by labour , that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased . Labour , therefore , has a right to the first and most perfect kind of protection .
We see not , however , how this " per feet kind of protection" can be afforded it without a subversion of the existing arrangements with regard to the distribution of labour ' s produce . " Under the present social system , the capitalists and employers are not only distinct from , but they are in : i manner independent of , the labouring classes . They have the whole control of all the operations of trade—at their flat production goes forward or languishes—the labouring man is made comfortable or starves by inches . In all trades or professions the capitalists or employers receive double or quadruple remuneration for single work , or for no work whatever ; " and this unequal distribution of labour ' s produce is the great source from whence originates the misery and extreme poverty of the labouring classes . This system must , therefore , be subverted ere labour can receive " a perfect kind of protection . " The great
principle of equal exchanges , now too much unheeded by the labouring man , and which exposes him to every wrong and every injustice the rapacity of the capitalist and the . employer see it to . be their interest to inflict upon him , should engage his serious and undivided attention . He mnst take into his own bands his legitimate officethat of distributing the produce of hia own labour—a course of all others the best calculated to ensure it a " perfect kind of protection . " And until he does this —until he interposes his natural authority to the annihilation of the baneful system of unequal exchanges , with its destructive tendencies—" there will be evasion of labour by some classes at the expenca of other classes , the more especially of his class—there will be undeservedly rich , and nnmeritsdly poor—there will be tyrants and there will be slaves—and his labour will be without even a semblance of a " perfect kind of protection . "
Be it , however , fully understood , that we have no reason or intention to speak lightly of what we at once admit is but an imperfect " kind of protection" afforded to labour by trade societies as at present existing ; but that , on the contrary , by somewhat more judiciously directing their resources , and thus more extensively developing their capabilities , we hope for more through their ageucy than they have yet achieved . Neither let it be aupposeed that we contemplate the existence of trade societies would be rendered unnecessary by any political change in the constitution or government of
the country that may be effected , however extensive that change may be- The necessity for their existence , in our opinion , can only be removed by sweeping away universally that system which makes one man the property , indeed the slave , of another man—which divides society into classes of competitive and clashing interests—compelling one class to tail while others are idle—to produce that others may consume . " And no mere govermental change , if engrafted npon the present social system , " can effect the removal of these things ; and their removal must be " a consummation devoutly to be wished . "
To obtain , thea , " a perfect kind of protection to labour , " and an nnsuperfluous evenly proportioned distribution of its produce , the various trade societies must turn their attention , and direct their means to the institution of joint-stock and co-operative companies . " They must take their own affairs into their own hands ''—put their own money into their own co-operative bank ; and thus , by withdrawing it from the unprofitable channels which bow absorb it . make its interest and profits accrue to their ovrn immediate advantage . What we see accomplished almost everywhere around us by joint-stock companies must chrar away every doubt , even from the most sceptical , aa to
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the practicability of such a course ; and there are ample meana , when combined , at the disposal of the trades for such a purpose . In their existing funds which are now , through the hands of bankers and other conventional mediums , lent on bite under ^ the cnnniugly devised delusion -of receiving interest for the same , but which , In » majority of caseB , are made in some one way or another to operate against them are themeanato bo found v » bich , applied to such a pur . pose , under the jadicious direction of properly constituted boards of trade , aided by the united exertions of those conoernedj " mi faaTing a eommon interest , working fora common end , and denvinea common benefit , must incalculably conduce to beta individual and collective prosperity .
By the general adoption of the principles of co-operation , a « eat majority of the unenfranchised may also obtain for themselves their inalienable righto , the sufdsaf 1 ae «» Bubmitted are simple , peaceable , We recommend , with all the seriousness of which we are capable , the early attention of the trades to the BUbjeot of oo-oper » tion , and npon which we have passed the foregoing , although brief we hope , intelligible remarks . ¦ : ¦ ¦ . ' ¦ ¦ •¦ ¦ .. . ¦ . ¦¦ ' ¦¦ ., ' .: . ¦ ¦ . . ¦ ' . ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ And as . the meeting of delegates convened for the especial purpose of aiding us ( through our strike , is virtually dissolved , - we most respectfully submit that each trade , at Its earliest convenience ^ determine on the propriety of organizing another delegate meeting , having for its object the deliberate ^ consideration of this important question in all ita bearings . With a view to inspire confidence we shall conclude with the following lines from a poet of immortal fame : —
•• © ft expectation fails , and most oft there Where most it promises ; and oft it hits Where hope is coldest , and despair most sits : " and with deeply engrafted feelings of gratitude for the counsel and pecuniary aid which have been afforded We subscribe ourselves , Yours gratefully , Tae Committee of the Masons on Strike , Thomas Shortt , Sec May 25 th , 1842 . N . B . All money contributed on behalf of the masons , in the provinces , should be made payable to Thomas Shortt , at No . 180 , Strand , London .
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NORTHERN CIRCUIT . SUMMER ASSIZES 1842 . The days appointed for holding tae Assizes for the Northern Circuit , before the Right Hon . Thomas Lord Denman , Chief Justice of Her Ma jesty ' s Court of Q'leen's Bench at Westminster , and the Hon . Mr . Justice Maule , one . of . Her Majeaty's Justices of Common Pleas at Westminster , the Justices assigned to take the Assizes , pursuant to the statute , &o .: — . ' . . . ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' . : ¦ ¦ . ., '¦ ¦ . ; ' Dfjbham—Saturday , July , P , at Durham . Northumberland . —Thursday , July 14 , at the Castle of Newcastle-upon-Tyne . Town of Newcastle- upon-Tyne . —Thursday , July 14 , at the Guildhall of Newcastle-upon-Tyhe . Cumberland . —Tuesday , July 19 , at Carlisle , Westmoreland . —Saturday , July 23 , at Appleby . Lancashirb ( Northern Division ) . —Tuesday , July 26 . at Lancaster .
Lancashire ( Southern Division ) . —Saturday , July 30 , at Liverpool . Yorkshire . —Saturday , August 13 , at the Castle of York . City of York . —Saturday , August 13 , at the Guildhall of the City of York .
Sugar in the Olden Time . —In the reign of Henry the Fourth of France , sugar was so rare in that country , that it was sold by the ounce by apothecaries , nearly as Peruvian Dark is now sold . —• Echo du Monde Savant . The Stort of two Chixdren in the Wood . — { From the NdvaScotiany of April 21 . ^—IVo children went astray in the woods , about four miles from Halifax , at the Dartmouth side , on Monday week . Their names were Jauo . Elizabeth and Margaret Meagher ; the elder six years and ten months old , the younger four years and six months . Some hundreds of people , many of them from Halifax , and comprising some military and Indians , went in search for several successive days . On Friday , a snow-storm occurred , and added painfully to the difficulties and depression on the subject . On
Sunday , the remains of the children were found about six miles from the home of their parents . They were found locked ia each other ' s arms—the younger with its face ou the cheek of the elder . Tho elder had rolled her apron about the more helpless bab ? . She had the looks of care and sorrow in death j as if , which is not uncommon in similar cases , premature responsibility was felt , and that to secure and shield the little innocent by her side was felt a duty . The younger seemed as if it met death in sleep . Their tender feet were much injured by travelling—in vain endeavouring to reach home . What pangs must despair hare introduced into the children ' s minds , amid their loneliness and hunger , day after day , and nij { ht after night , in the wilderness . ' And yet there was a melancholy sublimity connected with their death— the ripening of the spirit under keen distress , and the mutual sympathy and love which id too often wanted at the death-bed of the
unfortunate mature . The parents of the children have been subjects of deep commiseration . The remains of the little wanderers were interred between Ellenvale and Allan ' s . They were lai d in the one coffin , and in the position in which they had been discovered . They had a largely attended funeral , notwithstanding the wet weather . . Death of Sia R . K . Porter . —Accounts have been received of the death of Sir Robert Kerr Porter , at St . Petersburgh . Sir Robert was an artist , and
was in 1804 appointed historical painter to the Emperor of Russia ; a soldier , and shared the perils of Sir John Moore ' s campaign in the Peninsula , which ended at Corunna ; and a diplomatist , being last employed by his owu Government as Consul-General at Venezuela . His sisters , Anna Maria and Jane , are well known for their works of fiction . He died on the 3 rd instant , in his sixty-third year . He is survired by the Princess Mary , the daughter of Prmce Theodore do Sherbatoff of Russia , whom he married in 1811 .
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Ever since the announcement of the compromise into which the parties contending for the honour of representing this pureBorongb in our reformed Parliament / are said to have entered , public opinion has been upon the stretch . But perhaps it may not be amiss , as the ¦ working classes generally appear to attach more than usual importance to the result of the present struggle—to state the nature of the coinprbniise . It is known to all that the return of Sir John Hobbouse and Sir John Ljirpent , was petitioned against by Walter and his Tory coadjutor on the score of bribery . That ia , Hobbouse and Larpent had committed the crime of over-bidding their virtuous Tory opponents in the flesh market However , bo great was the importance attached to the seat of the ex-Whig Minister , Hobhouse , that the Whigs , or a section of the influential of
that tody , entered into an agreement with the petitioner , the terms of which were that Hobliouse should retain his seat , that Larpent should accept the Chiltern Hundreds , as well as the Baronetcy which corruption entitled him to , and that the leading Whigs should give no opposition to the return of Waiter as the successor of the Whig Baronet . In this state of affairs the' -Tories had a fair right to presume that the neutrality of the leading Wfifgs , and thaefect of Tory gold would insure a walfc over for their tnan . Bat , alas ! " man proposes , but God disposes I" aud the wlched spoil-sport Chartist non-electora , fired with indignation at the presumptuous barter thus made of their rights , put their ignorant heads together ; and came to the conclusion to fight compromise , gold and all , with solid principlo and * virtue ; and accordingly invited Mr . Joseph Sturge to offer himself as the representative of their virtuous design .
Feargus O'Connor Was immediately written to , and at once pledged his aid in support of the people ' s views . The Tories being sceptical of Chartist integrity , laughed at the motion of the Chartists and the honest and uncommitted portion of the middle classes daring to raise their presumptuous heads against things as rule had settled thenu They have learned a lesson , however , which they will not hastily forget I O'Connor arrived on Thursday week , and addressed the people in the Market-place ; He then pledged himself to come and remain with us , when the struggle commenced , until the victory was won . He returned on Thursday last , and , at eight o ' clock , addressed a meeting of several thousands .. of the people in the Market-place . The veteran Harrison , delegate to the
Convention was in the chair , and opened the meeting in his usual straightforward manner . He then introduced Mr . O'Connor to tkeir notice , who was received with repeated cheers . He commenced by saying " what a blessing , what a pleasure , what a pride , that in the midfit « f accusation and recrimination , of taunts of Tory gold and Whig gold , that I can thus stand in the Market-place , and say to the Whigs ; tcftose spy lisas till I strangled them , who paid me ? and turning to the Tories , whose spy I then became , but as whose destroyer I now am , to them also I say , who paid ME ? Now is your time to come forward and for ever damn the hireling "—( tremendous cheering and- waving
of hat& ) Mr . O'Connor then continued in his usual strain of rapid and thrilling eloquence . After inspiring the Chartists with hope and confidence , in a glorious democratic speech , the meeting at its dose fell ; into procession , aud matched through the town , singing Chartist songs , with O Connor at their head . Walter had heard of Mr . Sturge ' s absence ; and , heping to steal a march upon the undefended garrison , he also arrived on Thursday ; bat O'Connor was before hand with him . Walter addressed a few of . _ tho leading Tories in the Assembly Rooms , and afftjeted great surprise at the altered state of public opinion since he was made a tool of by the Chartists for the annihilation of Whiggery . O'Connor informed bis beama t ' aat Walter - ¦ - - - ¦ * 3 M « Ljl ««»» gjr i . - * LJtnnwiwh ^ - _ Ja . n , liVm «> lM ! i -i .-y- ^ J
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was then addressing his Tory friends ; but assured them that on the morrow a train would take him back to the place from whence he came ; and , car ious * enough , on Fr iday morning , Walter waarmissing ) leaving to his mourning friends the sad task of communicating his retreat The people marched by the George the Fourth , ( Walter ' s Hotel , ) and from which lie was accustomed to hear the joyous cheer ; but , alas ! the melody was changed into three groans for the Tories . 0 , angrateful Chartists , why are ye not still in love with Toryism , that promises snoh fair things for you ?
FRIDAY EVENING , On Friday evening , Feargus O'Connor again addressed an immense concourse of all classes in the Market-place . Mi . James Sweet was unanimously called to the chair by his townsmen , and was received with hearty cheering . He explained the course which he thought it . his duty to pursue at Mr . Walter ' s first and second election , and showed the triumph which Nottingham had gained over Whiggery fey its adoption , and the hope which the Chartists now bad of reaching the bonefit of that triumph by the annihilation of Toryism . It was very gratifying to witness the unanimity of sentiment which prevailed in approval ef Mr . S west ' s conduct . He concluded amid cheers by introducing OCennor to the assembled thousands . Mr . O'Connor spoke till dark , and concluded a soul-stirring appeal thus : — - "If the middle classes are sincere , and desirous of
a union , what an opportunity now presents itself ! but should our principles be beat by Whig neutrality , who again will venture , nay , who will dare to recommend , a union 7 I for one never will . " This sentence had a powerful effect , and set many who were before lukewarm , to work . But he hit them still harder : — " W hat , " said he , " are Che Whigs of Nottingham parlies to a compromise by which this town is to be represented by an ex-Whig Minister , and no less a Tory than the proprietor of the Times ? If they beat us now , or if we are beaten by their neutrality , they shall have two thumping Tories at the very first general election . " This was followed by loud cheers . After the meeting broke up , the multitude , more numerous if possible than on the preceding night , fell into procession , and paraded the town , singing and cheering . for Sturge .- ; ; . r-vV ~ . ¦ - " . ¦ ¦ '"
SATURDAY . Saturday being market day , the Market-place wan not available for electioneering purposes , so O'Connor addressed the Chartists in their large room at the King George on Horseback . He entered fully into the question of trade , machinery , and the Corn Laws ; and plainly explained to his heaters that from a wholesome state of the labour market alone could machinery continue to be profitable to Its owners . He laughed at the idea of remunerating markets abroad , while domestic taxation was swallowing up mote than the proceeds of our entire exportation ; . while he eontended that the home market , if rendered sound by the representation of industry , would set every hand in every trade to work , and leave not a machine in the country idle .
After his speech , which was loudly Cheered , Mr . O'Connor ' s Addresa to the Irish Universal Suffrage Association was read by a working man , and was loudly applauded .
SUNDAY . Mr . Harrison , the veteran who exposed the tricks of the traders in the late Convention , and who is much beloved by all whe know him , preached a sermon on the Forest at noon , to an everflowing audienca ; and Dean Taylor preached his farewell sermon in the evening , from the same grass-carpeted natural pulpit .
MONDAY . On Monday evening Mr . O'Connor addressed the largest assemblage that has been gathered together for a long time , from a platform erected at Mr . Bean ' s Buildings , on Bunker ' s Hill . Mr . James Sweet was in the chair , and opened the business in an admirable speech of considerable length . Mr . O'Connor on being introduced , entered upoB the subject of the election , and the poor prospects of the Tories . He then turned to the Queen ' s begging letter , and scouted the notion of the bishops and ; parBons bleeding the flock through the year , and then when terror presented itself through famine , insulting the people with the tendor of not a tithe of a tithe of what they had shorn from the backs of the poor ; and in order
to show , the benefits which the people derived , he entered npon the evidence taken before the commission upon the treatment ef children in mines and collieries . Ono child , said he , of thirteen years of age , when questioned about Christ ; , and asked who he was , answered that she believed he was bom in Wales and went into England ( shame , shame . ) Another was asked who God was ; and she answered that she did not know him at all . but heard that he wa » the flrsfe man . Now , said Mr . O'Connor , had not these- poor creatures the fall share of ten millions sterling per annum spent in the circulation and the dispensation of gospel truth through Church State lips ? Yes , " he continued , " but see the effect which the neglect might have npon justice and the laws , it is one of our . msral maxims , that the
evidence of a witness cannot be received in a court of justice who does not believe in future rewards and punishments ; and suppose a murder to nave been committed in the presence of one hundred of those neglected creatures , all of whom . witnessed it . ;'; ¦ yet would this murderer go free , in consequence of the infamous neglect of our admirable , humane , and religious pastors and masters , who tolerate such hellish deeds under ground , lest their exposure should subject them to the rich man's scorn . ! ' He made a dreadful exposure of some Nottingham Tories , who took thirteen men to personate living voters at the South Derbyshire election . He stated that ho knew them all , and those Who suborned them to commit perjury and promised them j £ 2 a head for their services . They were to have
polled before the real Simon Pnres presented themselves , and when the real man came , he would appear to have voted before . Those whom , they were to have represented were Whigs ; thus would the thirteen have made a difference of twenty-six in favour of the Tory candidates j arid the very man who procured them , fed them , paid them and suborned them , to now the leading man in Nottingham in Mr . Walters Interest ; Mr . O'Connor , after a powerful appeal on behalf of Sturge , read the addresa of the non-electors to the electors of Nottingham , ( inserted below , ) and which it will be found was carried unanimously by the vast assemblage * Mr , O'Connor spoke for an hour and a half , and shewed the folly of the middle classes hoping to gain a triumph without the people ' s aid , and tho insolence of the Tories hoping to resist the demand which the whole working classes of Nottingham , nay of England , were making for the c « mmen rights of all . He said the
Whigs Bay they would rather do the work without me . I know they would , but I know how they would do it . ( Cheers . ) But they shan't . ( Cheers . ) I marshal vay force ; let them marshal their force ; and aa I am a plain speaker , and as taey attach much importtnee to municipal offices here , I now tell them that if we suffer the disgrace of a Tory triumph through their neglect , they shall have it to their heart ' s content in November next ; for we will fill the Council with Tories;—( cheers I They call your advocates ' ' demagogues , " in dbrisi « n . and in ignorance of the term they use it as a .. -rispvoach , whereasit was esteemed as a title the most bonourahle by those who loved liberty , because they knew its value . Among both Greers and Romans in ; their palmiest days , demagogue wast the term by which the people tiistbrguished their leaders . The word is derived f » om tho Greeit words ' . 'demos '' the people , and" ago" to-ieii'i , and signified , as I have told -you ; . 'a ¦ leader ; of the people . ¦ ¦ ;¦' . ' - .
Mr . Vincent has endeavoured to paint a nem . sKoeue in his true colours for you ; but I fear he ALSO has misunderstood the name which the picture h . u v .: re . ( v deserved . Political pedlar should have been sutw ituwd lor th « word " dtmagogue , •' " and now I will draw fur you the character of •'
A POLITICAL PEDLAR , to the life . It Is a living thing of clay , so pliant that the political mechanic may mould it .. into a j shape best suitad to his views '; It is . as clay in Ui .-. potter ' s hands , ready for any shape . " All things t . all men . " It quotes from . y « iney , : yolta , irij . atiU Paine , Milton , Shakspeare , and Byron , I . 0 CU . Pupe : Swif t , and Bentham , without' more kno wledge « , ( their contents , than the innocent calf skjn in which they are bound . If Socialism is popster , It tiecouun a Socialist ; but Blionld the pure doctrines of Christianity present higher prospects and a richer harvt « st , the cloiik of Socialism is doffed , and the triple mante of the Trinity i 3 modestly assumed . Its changes art mA conversions ; they are but omens of the ' monied v ; iiu « ,
which the change ia other ' s minds hold out .-for ctau ^ -. in his . . Before the people ,, he is loud in his support of labour ' s fights , and would uphold Us every privilegij ; but . should chance make bint an employer , h « forgt-t . > even the rules and regulations of hia craft , and wuuy do the work of journeymen with apprentices . Ou tne platform he pleads for tho rights- of fustian ; In : should Borne anxious expectanta follow him . to his rest ing-place , he applies to . the landlord for a private apartment , where he and hia mote respeotabtb associates may seek shelter from the filthy gese . He will gam popularity under the wing of a good and virtuous man ; but should his patron be brought to trouble , and become bound in the lion's net on his account , then , uniike the grateful mouse , be will forget to gnaw his trammels , or to assist in his release . Should the futy of party
threaten danger to Mm , he will have recourse to aU devices to enaure bis personal safety . Should he step into error , and be remiuded of hia false position by some of the bold sons of labour , he will sigh a quick rvpeutance , but 6 till remain with open mouth , ready to inhale the putrid air when be thinks the epidemic has become strong enough to justify a relapse . He is generally too proud to worki and too poor to live Vrithout labour . HeUvesbutfor a short time in each locality , his stock of secommendations being quickly used up . he can weep with the laphrimose , laugh with th « feay , and mourn with the sorrowful ; he iB part of every man ' s nature , and uo ; part of hts professing self , fie will denounce in private , aud seek shelter under the coat laps of his victim in public ; in shoit in tue words of the poet : — .
"It is a slender thing of wood Which up anil down its awkward arms doth sway , And ipiut and spout and spout away In one weak wasiy everlasting flood . "
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He will be the Vindicator of your rights bo leng as bia vindication is profitable ; but when be has dried up the pap of pauperism , he will look round for the daij of some new mUch cow . In fact , he has wares in bis basket for all parties , and is ready to praise them to effect a sale . He is a pompous noisy blockhead , tauaibt lik « a parrot , and eternally jabbering the same stuff . Such , my friends , is the character which Mr . Vincent ought tohdvedratm ; and over it ha should have written " a Political Pedlar , " with " Wares for all shades of politicians . " ;¦' ¦ , : / . ; '¦ ¦ ¦¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦¦ - ; . : ¦' ¦ ¦ ; '¦¦¦'' . ' . : '¦ : ¦ . ¦ -v : ¦¦ ¦ ¦ . " ¦ " . •« "Very fine toys lor girls and boys , A cock and a hen for a halfpenny . "^ - ( Roars o £ laughter , and " aye that ' s it" )
The address of the non-electors to the electors of Nottingham was then read and proposed by that excellent veteran , Harrison ; of the late Convention , and seconded by the meeting , and unanimously adopted ; after which , a member of the Chartist Associatioa presented an address from that body to Mr . O'Connor , to which he briefly replied , and departed , after a hearty vote of thanks to the Chairman ; and an assurance that he would come on the day of election , and march them all , electors and non-electors , to support Sturge and liberty . Several Of the electors shook hands with Mr . O'Connor , and pledged themselves to be forthcoming to vote for the man of the people ' s choice . He stated that be had to address the men of Beestou , four miles at the other side of Nottingham , at half-past six , and the people of Nottingbam at haf-pasteight ; and took his Jeave ' sbortly af ^ r two o ' clock , the procession , attending him to the confines of the town , and giving a round of hearty cheerB at parting .
"ADDRESS TO THE ELECTOBS . The following address of the non-electors , to the electors '' - of . ' . . Nottingham , was moved by Mr . J . Barber , seconded by N . Longmitft , and supported by Feargos O'Connor , at one of the largest public meetings ever held in Nottingham , and carried unanimously amidst thunders of applause on Monday , the 30 th May , 1842 . : Brothers!— -We address yoa at a critical jancture , when , aa trustees , yoa are about to be called upon to exerci : e a saered right—the right of voting- ^ deposited in your hands , not to be used for , your own especial 'benefit , but for the general advantage of mankind . The
misuse made of the franchise by the present electoral foody has given to wealth and might an unjust and pernicious influence over industry and right ; It baa given tyranny and misrule a confidence in its strength which could only arise from the corruption of that confiued source from whence its power spr ings . To the application of power thus unjustly acquired , may be traced the dominant sway of faction , tho disjointed state of society , the inquietude of the public iuind , the disparity which exists between the represented and the unrepresented classes , and the universal demand becoming daily more urgent for the restoration of that trust to the hands of the people , which has been used for their destruction and not for their advantage .
" Brothers , —We will not withhold the truth from you , though it inay sting you to hear it ; that , as a body , the Electors of Nottingham have been distinguished above all others for their Corruption and venality ; but , while we thus charge yon with past delinquencies , we are ready to record our approval of your noble conduct while struggling for Reform , which promised us a share in those rights which yon have hitherto exclusively held . ; -. ; .: : - ' . ' " Brother , —Your demeanour upon that occasion much lessens our censure of your conduct at repeated elections ; and , we are charitable enough to think that in your former struggles you recognised no difference in the value of those who courted your support , and therefore reconciled to your consciences the expediency of helping yourselves between the two totten crutches . - ¦¦ - . . . ' ' . ¦ ¦'¦' . ¦ :- - '' . ¦ . ¦ ' "¦'¦
" Brotbers , —Let us hope that such has been your motive , while your present position places before you a great and glorious opportunity of proving to the - world that the Electors of Nottingham know how to dlstingnisb between right and wrong , between principle and expediency , between virtue and vice . " Yes , Brethren , now for the first time in the history of our town ' s representation do we call upon you to use that trust with which you are invested , to aid in returning the man of our choice ,
MB . JOSEPH STURGE , to represent both you and us in the House of Commons , where the friends of order are but few . " Brothers , add one to the small number ; Yon , the Burgesses , have been taunted with your disregard of principle -when the tempter ' s gold Is offered as the purchase money of your own disgrace and your country ' s ruin . But it is to you , the poorest of the poor , that we make this our appeal , being well convinced ' that a mind as pure and a heart as warmly attached to liberty is to be found under the tags of ttie pauper as under the fine covering of the \ realtby .: ; . ' . ;'' .- ' ¦;¦" . "'¦¦ ¦ ' . " . ¦'
" Brothers , the eyes ; of England—nay , the world ' s glance . - 'is upon '•¦ ypii I and Bhall England frown , and the wortd stand paralyzed at the flstouttQlig news , that Nottingham baawadded one tnoreto tbe nttmbet ; of our oppressors ? ¦ 'No , brothers ! your " starving wives / dear to you , though in rags ; yo ttI sobbing offspring ; your bleeding country ; yout famishing biothers ; your , tottering homes ; your God who loves justice , all , all , one and al ! call upon you , « to awake ! arise f or be for ever Fallen . " Let virtuous poverty teacb vice In rich apparel that within your famiBhed homes there is a jewel too dear to be purchtised , too pure to be sullied ! Tell the great ones whoCcuarge you with delinquencies ; that you are above entering into a base compact for the sale of your country ' s and your fellow labourer ' s rights .
" Brothers : of what avail will ba the purchase money of our liberties ? Does not that which comes from evil perish in dissipation ? Commune thus with the virtuous wives of your bosom and the little ones given you as pledges of love , and charged npon yonr guardianship . My wife and chUdren , fechold i I am this day called upon to dispose of a sacred tight which I hold in trust for my fellow men , —how shall I use it ? It has been customary to sell it and from the purchase money to tupply your wants for a time . I knew not the dishonour and disgrace until roused to a sense of rtfiectfon by the sound judgment of my order . Public opinion now calls upon me for the first time to throw my voice into the scale of right , to weign down the load of my country ' s wroDgs ; but / will you , my
wife , still continue to bear your sufferings ? and shall our little ones still want ? or shall I feed yoa for yet a little upon the purchase money of my own and my country's diBhonouir And the virtuous wife wife will , answer . 'My husband , all the money that you have hitherto got for your country ' s sale has come over the devil ' s back and gone under the . devil ' s belly You receive it in a moment of excitement ; you are ashamed to confess its possession ; and you spend it in dissipation , injuring your health , and unfitting you for business ; so cast it from you on that account : but as a mother , a wife , and an English woman , I take higher ground , and ' say , if we are to perish , let us not perish by our own hand ; and if we must still wear our chains ,
jec us not forge them for ourselves . Husband , then , ¦ vote for Sturge , who promises yon peace through fellowship , abundance through industry , aitd the blessing of religion through an unpaid church . Vote not for Walter , v ? ho "would become another link in that chain which has so long bound industry and labour to the oppressor ' s will ; If we are poor , my husband , let us at !« astbe honest , and resisting the tempter ' s gold , shout for Sturge and liberty [ for peace through fellowship ; for religion through conscience ; for your country , yout or er , and your Ged . Go ! Gro ! Go ! and may heaven smile upon your undertaking . ' ¦¦¦ ' *• Signed on behalf of the meeting , " James Sweet , Chairman . "
TUESDAY . On Tuesday , Mr . O'Connor visited Arnold , a large village , distant about four miles from Nottingham , and wis accompanied by Mr . Sweet . Upon arriving within a mile of the village , which has a population of about 5 . 000 , and among whom are about forty electors , l \ n vas met by the v / hble pepnlation , and large numbers from many miles distant , marching in procession , headed by the females and a band ; It was intended thai he should , address them in the Chartist Chapel ; but the numbers being too great to be accommoiiated in u building ten times the Kize , they were compelled to adjourn to a large grass walled-in yard , which was kindly afforded for the purpose . Mr . Mellor avotet for the boreuch was unanimously called to the chair .
and , after opening the bnsiness of the meeting , introduced Mr . O'Connor , who was received with rapturous applause . He spoke for more than an hour and a half upon the monopoly of machinery , the iniquities of the Jaw , church , and the blessings of a rural life . He said : " Now suppose your population to consist of 5 , 000 , and 1 o 6 O of those to be heads of families ;—you are now ali starving , while your idleness is bringing ruin npon ^ il above you . Now just b ear my plan : 10 , 000 acres of that iand around your peaceful village , if let at its fu l value in holdings of ten acres each to the i . OOe beod . S'of . families , would leave a profit to «( oh holder of ^ 42 per annum , after consumption ef the * 6 ty best of food ; and suppose the family to consist of' a man , his wife , and three children ; the man should 'labour from six to twelve , and from four to six in the evening : tue mother ebonld never leave ber bouse except bat for business or pleasure—( loud cheers )—and if manufactures and agriculture are to go hand in band , tba
one must make a market at home tat the other . Tbng the father ' s proflfcjpver consumption would increase tba value of bis child ' s labour in the manufacturing market And suppose he had two children , and say one of them above fifteen years ofage ; that child might work atthat age at machinery from eight in the morning till twelve , and from four In the evening till six ; end fotithose six hours' labour , raised in value by the community ' s ability : to support its produce , I only ask , for argument ' s gake , 10 s ~ per week : now add that £ 26 pee annum to the father's £ 42 , and you have agtosa sum of £ 6 $ , over and above consumption , for each poor man ' s family to spend in the manufactnriDg market-r-Uiiud cheers;—and believe me , the resources of the country are fully equal to be extended to threefold' tbat amount if they were cultivated to the behest . That would give you 1 , 000 soldiers and 1 , 000 policeman to aefend youif rights and preserve the peace of Arnold , In ¦ which each jruan as a soldier and-a policeman would have an equal inUrest —( loud cheers ) . ( Continued in our eighth page-J
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THE NORTHERN STAR . " ., V ¦ - , ^ . ^^ ' : '¦'¦¦ ¦ ' ::-y . % ^
Rottingham Electiow. (From Our Own Correspondent.}
ROTTINGHAM ELECTIOW . ( From our own Correspondent . }
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 4, 1842, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct756/page/7/
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