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THE SORTiTEEN STAB,. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1842.
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PRICE ONE PEXflF . CONTENTS of Part Ei ^ ht , Price sixpence : — O'Connor ' s Letters on 'the Land—Sketches of the French Revolution by Pro Chartists-Speech of Pat Henry , the Orator of American Iudependonce--Horrors of Transportation—Spy System and Blood Money—Lecture , by W . Jones , Uately confined m Leicester Gaol)—What is Blasphemy T—An Address from the Poles—The Movement , by J . C La Mont —Italy and tho Operative Classes—Life of Washington—Letters , By T ; B . Smith—Several Chartist Addresses , including those of the Executive—Poetry , &c , &c .
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TO THE WOSLD . ¦ VrERy OTJSNESS i 3 a terra which embraces a I * frightful catalogue of disorders—even to insanity itself—to describe a tenth part of the symptoms nervous patients experience would fill a volume ; but although their variety is so great , they aro all referable to oiio and tho sam « cause . A nervous patient is like a musical instrument wffch its chords loofcued , emitting all sorts of discordant instead ; of harmonious sounds . What is , thereforej wanted to restgro a nervous patient to heaith ? Tho
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TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE NORTHERN STAR . DEAR GiR—You will greatly oblige the Sunderland Council by inserting the following letter to Mr . John Campbell , General Secretary of the National Charter Association . / . . ¦' . .. ' : ¦ ¦ : . . Yours respectfully , : ¦ . . .. ¦¦ ' . ;" George Esplin , sub-Secretary . TO MR . JOHN CAMTBELL , SECRETARY OF THE NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . SiR , ^ I am directed by the Cauhcillors of the National Charter Association resident in Sumlerland , to write to you teapecting the sixty cards , for which I have your letter dated September 29 th , in which you acknowledge the payment of , but which have not yet come to hand . I ; wrote a letter
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The town of Thetford , in Norfolk , has been thrown into a state of unpleasont ferment during the last few days , in . consequence of a solJcitor , ' hitherto considered of the bj ^ best respectability , h » ying suddenly absconded , leaving liabilities incurred by him to th' * amount , it is supposed , at the lowest , of £ 20 , 000 . He had appoirited Friday last formeeting some very heavy mortgage accounts , and for handing over the amount , for a farm which he bad recently purchared , and his non-appearance on that and the following days led to ¦ 'the above unpleasant discovery . His absence has almost created a panic in the neighbourhood , as from his extensive transactions in mortgages , cpnvcyancea , and other monetary matters , it is impossible to calculate at present the extent of his defalcations . :
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TO THE CHARTISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN . Mt Dzab . Fsiemis , —I sm sorry that any disunion xhould exist in the Chartist racks , and having a sincere desire that it may soon be ccitxcyed , I beg to lay before you the following suzz-stsons , hoping , that if acted trpon . rtfcey trill restore us tctbat uskycf action so essentially neceE 5-Ty to sccosplith for an eulav-d people their fre * c : n-I refrain from string Ely o ^ n opinions respecting tie csTise cf the eisneios , lest seme might say that I wasted to prejudice tie minds of the people agv ^ tt or in favour of either the Executive or terse members of tmr Association vrho feel "_ dissatis 2 ed "with ihe ' r eancnrt . _ . . . _ be
In or ^ er that tie disunion may heaiee , I sneeest for -yemr adoption , that a Committee of five or " seven persons be elected to examine the plan of Organization , sad take iEto coDK-ierstion the connect of the Executive , and if a majority of the Committee B » ree that they have acted according to the P . ' sn of Oreanizittoa ,. let them still hold oSce , and if not , let the Committee call njwn the Executive immediately to resign office . Let the Committee fe&ve a reporter present to report their proceedings , so ths ' their constitutcts may see how they hs . 7 e aeted and Toted .
. Trusting that the Executive "will Eee the propriety of adopting some meascre themselves to bring this unpleasant affair to a close , I remain , jctits , Amidst all Vtatbers zrd political storms the same , Hor . 25-Ji , IS 42 . Vf . BrssiET .
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TO TTTR CHARTISTS OF THE UXITED kingdom ; . i Fellow-labourers in the caoae— : Among the many vabjects which merit your attention , and thst of the TrorkiTsg-dasses generally , there is' one io "which ¦ we briefly though sincersiy invite 3 "onr immediate consideration . It is now generally known that for five months we have - liud a po- ^ erfnl and consistent daily advocate in the ; " leinici ? Sioi " newspaper , the propr 5 = tor cf which has ; ¦ j nade , acd is « H ^ ir . aime , imTaeziss sacrifices for the fjood of the cause ; but it is unreasonable in us to hore or expect these pecuniary sacrifices to be much longer , -continued . In order , therefore , to sustain the above patriotic individual , ¦ we urgently call upon the general council of the diSerent localities , and through , them upon all "who -wish their wrongs exposed and their few remaining rights protected , to arouse thtir " best energies < mfl ^ cTise t ^ - ^*^ " ti » incrtsss tlie cirsnlntion 01 sncii a valuable auxiliary to the ' Chsrtkt ci-usa . If tach locality throughout the kiii , 3 om toot npon an averse fivs papers daily , we are given to understand th : t the proprietor -would then be able io compete successfully with any daily Journal . If only three copies were tiSen by each
locality , the circulation thus increased would free the preprietor from any and every embarrassment Cn-Jer these drcmsstancss we tmst that no locality , however poor it may ba , will fail in coming immediately to the Teecae . Who would wish <•*«* the Evening Star should shine no more ? Who would not re-rrct the Ios 3 of so brilliant a luminary of the political horizon ? Tet it is useless to canceal the fear thst its light will be fcX-Jnguished unless you com , 6 forward , and that too without delay , to give an impetus to its circulation , and thereby advance your own interest and that of one of your firmest « ti 3 most devoted Manda-Tours , ca benalf of the Metropolitan Dtlezate meeting , TEOJirs M . Wheeleb , Secretary .
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THE EXECUTIVE . TO XHE ZiarOS . OF THE SOUTHERN STJJt-Dzab . Sis—The recent disclosures must have convinced the country of the nselessness of a permanent Executive in the existing affairs of Chartism . A general Secretary i 3 ail that seems wanted . The salaries of the rest might be saved and'tbe money applied to more needfcil purposes . - The business of the Secretary should bs to condnct the correspondence of the Association , end for this purpose he should have a fixed residence in some csntral place , to draw np addresses and to give a quarterly , half yearly , or « n ""^ 1 report cf the progress of the causa . A ysyJy conferenc 9 might be held in Iisndon , attended by delegates from all the localities . If these hints meet . tie approval of out brother Chartists , I trust they will- act npan them , and I jremain , Tours , in Jhe good cause , A MEXSES OF THE XATIOJf . lI CfrABTEB ASSOCIATION . LoBdon . > ov . 28 , 1 S 42 .
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THE EXECUTIVE BALANCE SHEET . TO THJE JEDITOS OF THE XOaTHEEN STAB . Sib , —Ttfbr Editorial comments , in last Saturday ' s Siar , abound with unsupported allegations against tne Executive , and contain such evident misconceptions , iua ^ urasieB , anl perversions , that I should deem myself criminal were I not to ottempi a reply . May I ask , why was my explanatory letter thrown into an obscure corner of your paper , whiie the Bull Councillors' correspondence with Mr . Campbell was pomponsJy paraded on' the front psge , knowing , es I do , that you received mine by the 6 ame post that con-Teyed their communi < --, tiori ? - TVaa faere no design iu this ?* Possibly , too , Mr . Editor , you m 3 y find it inconvement » o concb . your strictuiea on our conduct in no less * ' courtesy of expression a ? cd kindly in lone" thpn Buch Tery polite terms aa " robbery , " " embirjiement , " " fraud , " is . 4 c Whatever onr sensitiveness may indicsts of being " thin-skinned , " such a tone srxd phrsse olojjy ctrtiinly " fepeak volumes'' for the school in ¦ which the writer received his education J
But to your remarks on my own case . Ton are " sorry" my explanation is unsatisfactory ; and first you quarrel with my receipt of wages ¦ while in the West of England . Ton are surprised I should find "Bath , BriBtol , Cheltenfiam , and "WiltsMre" classed among the now aistricts . Ton setm willing to forget the reason of my going thither . " It is true they are not new districts—I never stated they were . The plan of organization does not limit cur receiving wages to breaking tip new districts , but extends the right to us while employed as the Association may think be 5 t—the Association having lodged in us the power cf executing its jrilL An spplicaticn being made for my services in Vha » diitric ^ and the ExecntiTe comp ' y ' wg witi thai request , and finding the West of England in a disorganized state , acd division rampant in msnj loeaMt-js ,
tfeey justly deemed that compliance in strict conformity ¦ with the powers given them by the plan of organizitioc And , bo far from my fhi-nti-ng it a shame in my brother Chartists of the West to accept u > y labours on those terms , I deem them highly landable for evincing so stern a determination to uphold the agitation in the teeth of defection , opposition , division , and persecution Bat I ask for what purpose does the Association exist , if it is not to itrengthen the weak , reTi ? c- tfc . 3 drooping , inspire the languid , inflame the torpid , acd encDurs . se the few brsve and noble spirits straggling amid vicissitude to perseverance and conquest ? Thia was our coarse , and one which , however some may cavil , wili Tecommend itself to the intelligent and the wise . And I cannot leave this £ u " "j- - > ct without letumitig my bssrtfelt gratitude to the * ' men of the west" for the courage , energy , prnd = nce , and firmness wiih ¦ which tliey eT = r TOPPorted and cheered me on . -
Tour next objection urged cgainst receiving the sum in travelling by Loughboro * to Bristol to attend jny tfflicted partner is so absurdly preposterous , that I could scarcely credit my eyes in reading it . " Ton cannot for the life of you discover how I have any right more than other man to charge upon the . country the expencD of such a journey . " Had this journey been solely for that purpose , and nrt on my way back to Bristol , your objection would havs had some force , as it is , and as I jras on my way back thither , and the exptnee was incurred on that acceunt , your objection is utterly void of point—the extra sum over my former jouraey from Bristol to Manchester w ? s the point oa which txplanaticn was solicited . I gave it , and you have not even attempted to show its nonconformity wish the pl-n of organSntion . is |
Tottr EEXi paragraph is a Sonnderir ^ one—it i palpably and grossly contrary to fact . 31 y Sict journey i from Bristol to 3 ianctiest « wr" itoi to t « K- Manchester Conference as you " believi / ' fent to the first situng of ' the newlr-electrf Executive in July , the Conference ; bring held in Aupust . My second jenmey teas to that ; Conference , at which I appeared as a m * mt ; r of the Execotivr , cad ' as a representative of Bristrt , Glocces- ¦ ter , and Chelrsnnam , being elected at those places , its ' , t ^ inc known thit I wss going there in my capacity as a Trtember of the Executive . 1 did not state tbere that 1 ; represented 200 , 000 Chartists , but that I represented totras conrahjvrg neatly tfcat populsfon . With regard j to tie plt ^ 2 of my being a fugitive , and that being " no ' plea at all , " probably you wi ' l allow the country to ' judge whether harassed , hunted , and pursued , as I w ?\ I had a right to claim expenrss while I wss en- ; gaged in ev . ding the lyrx-eyed eH > ss £ * its of ces-1 p-Dtism , and in a feeble state of b ' ealth . t ,
Again , let me ask , in what part of the plan of organi- Eation do we find it stated the Executive should be " a ; Jtsed body in a f * ied p ' acs . ^ 1 presume this is bu : one of joit own EEssmptions fer the pnrpose of listening a stigma upon Mr . Campbell for his removal to London , I If it Vas so , wiy not have shown it , prior to the last . election , so as to hsve secured the return of five Man-Chester ni , or prepared the people for our removal to j that tow » by disclosing your-. present extraordinary ; discovery ? I know that the question was mooted . at the plan of organisation meeting , but it was k-ft out of the plan to fee settled fcy the discretion of the future Executive who might hold cfiice .
I have now taken probably my last notice of your remarks , however gross and false you may make them . 2 leave the iasne to tfce Chartist body tircngbont the country . I abide by what I have cone , and by vrhat the Executive , as a body , hsve done in these matters . Honourable and just n I believe my coadjutors to be , -with the Charterin my band , and by their tide I will stand or f&U . Leeds , Uov . 50 , l ± i ~ J . K . H . Baibstow .
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RECEIPTS OF THE EXECUTIVE FOR THE WEEK ENDING NOT . 29 th , 1842 . London—Clockhonse 0 5 0 _ Richmond ... — 0 5 0 I . * we 3 0 3 0 Star ofice - 2 12 OJ £ 3 5 Oi
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THE EXECUTIVE AND THEIR DEFENCE . El ; ewher 5 we give the document named in our last , aad which would have been then given had wa received it in time . We commend it not merely to the reading but to the careful consideration of the people . Nothing coold ba farther from our principles , or from our purpose , than to deprive any man or men accused of anything of the full opportunity of making defence . We hare accused the ExecuriTe of various mal-practices ; of misappropriating the hard-earned funds committed to their care . cf disregarding , in their oEcial practice , their own avowed principles ; of determinedly and wilfully violating the rules of that organization which it is their one duty to enforce and carry ont ; ' and of attempting te set themselves above law , and , in the name of democracy , become pure despots . We proved all these grave and serious masters out of their own mouths . We offered no hearsay evidence ; no hired testimony ; we submitted no interested
witnesses to the credence of the public : we rested the whole case against them on the comparison of their ovra published accounts with the plain printed words of those rules which they are appointed for the sole purpose of enforcing . It is the duty of the people now to read this defence of the Executive to read along with it the " grave charges" to which i ; makes reference ; to compare both with the rules of the organization , and to say whether or not the " charges" be answered .
As an individual portion of the people , we have a light to an opinion ; we-shall give that opinion , and the reasons upon which we hold it ; and the people will attach to them as much or as little value as they like . " We have seldom known a document more difficult , to comment on than this defence of the Executive by Messrs . Leach and Campbell ; for the simple reason , that there is nothing at all in it . The greater portion of the " long yarn" is mado up of personal abuse of Mr . Hiii about the " denunciation" of Mr . Phil * and the insertion of the " Executive Sop" resolution . Now supposing
every thing which Messrs . Leach and Campbell m 2 y be disposed to say upon these subjects to be true as gospel ; suppose that Sir . Philv had really been ill-treated by Mr . Hill ; suppose that Mr . Hilz . had never received the " Executive Sop " resolution from Merlhjr Tydvil at all ; suppose he had manufactured that resolution for the purpose ; what then ? How does it ) affect the question ? If we should make Messrs . Leach and Campbell a present of all that their utmost noisiness can ask in reference to the Phil ? and " Sop" matters , does that meet any one of the present " charges " against them ? Does it prove that they have not
for a long time back been pajing to one of their body ten shillings weekly ont of pnblio money without the authority of any public vote ] : that they have not continued to do thia in spite of both private and public remonstrances , and of their own pledges to the contrary ! Does all that can be said about Philp and the " Sop" afford any reason why this transaction should be " hailed by the whole country with delight , " as Mr . Campbell says he expected it would have been 1 Does all that can be said abont Philf and the "Sop" exonerate the Executive from the " charge" of disregarding ,
m the matters appertaining to their own office , all the principles of Chartism I Doe 3 all that can be said abont Philp and the " Sop" prove that the Executive ha-ve not wilfully set aside in their own transactions the organization which they are appointed to enforce ? These are the matters and things to which the Executive should have addressed themselve 3 jin their defence ; and if all the abuse they can possibly heap upon Mr . Hill about Phiij and the Sop" cannot answer any one of these questions , the fair inference is that it is resorted to for ths mere purpose of diverting the attention of the reader from the matters really at issue . Ail that part of the defence which is ocenpied in
: praising Mr . Leach ' s eloquence and Dr . M ^ Douall ' s patriotism is alike beside the mark . The question j at issue is not whether Leach be an able debater on I the Corn Law question ; the question is not whether ' M'Douall hare bjen an active and energetic Char' s tist , or whether ha may or may not , at some time , I haxa giran his last shilling between two poor wea-! vers . The question is ; whether the Executive did 1 or did not , withoci asy dus authority , dip their I hands into the bag containing the hard-earned pence ! of poor weavers , and take out thecce ten shillings 1 weekly for many months . And this question is not at all affected by anything which may be said
¦ aoout Dr . M'Douall's patriotism , or aboafc his . generosity , or abaut the improbability " of either ! his or Leach ' s acceptance of a " sop . " Though : whole pages should be occupied with declamation i about these and like matters , it renders the fact of i appropriating the funds of the Association without a : ' vo : e of the Association , not a jot the 1-3 S 3 unprini cipled and unwarrantable . In like manner all their personal abuse of Mr , ' Hill , all their laudations of each other and them-I Eelves , and all their talk about Philp and th 9 " eod , "
affords no explanation of the many matters so much and seriously requiring it . It doas not all show why the enormeus sums charge ! for " travelling" and " agitating" expsaces should be chared to the country at all , or what rale of the organization justifies them . We thought our observations on these items could not be misunderstood ; but where people wish to misrepresent , it is easy to affect , a misunderstanding . We are spoken of as though wo had positively stated these items to be fraudulently charged . We hare done no such thing : we merely asked for information respecting them . All we say , or have said , is that , on the face of the balance
sheet , they ought io have appeared so plainly as to show for themselves that they were not fraudulently charged . This was not the case . There was no information given to the country as to the business by which they were incurred , so as to enable the people to see that they were charged according to rule . We said that this information ought to have been given ; that the absence of it left them floating in a mist of uncertainty and vagueness , wiicb , until it was removed , might warranti the suspicion that
there was something unfair about them . If the Executive knew them to be all right , and if their accounts had not been so kept a 3 to prove their Secretary to be utterly unfit for his place , it was in their power to have so explained every one of them as to remove all the liability to doubt which ought never to have existed . Instead of thus explaining , they " spin a long yarn" abont Mr . Hill ' s mischief-loving propensities , their own eloquence and patriotism , and ' . various other matters totally irrelevant .
Another portion of the Defence is a laborious reply to an objection ihat hss never been started , about the Secretary ' s salary . We never for an instant denied that the Secretary is a permanent officer , and should hare constant wages . We think him vreU
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entitled to his wages , and are qu : ^ Buxe tna t there is enough of work foe him 4 t ^ ti mes if he were able and disposed to do j t > But we do think that his awn published acc r / nBts ^ an ( i the stato of the society generally , of w ^ ^ ciief o gcerj afford sufficient etidenc ^ that he is utterly unnt for that office , because ut ^ riy incompetent to discharge its duties . This is o' opinion ; we are Eorry to be compelled to enter" ftin it ; we hare given our reasons for it ; and the p iopie ^ iu , of course , give it as much or as little we . gat a 3 they like . The only part of this long rambling document which bear « t all upon the question , and offers for themselvt ^ y defence i 3 the following : — ' " An ' anow let us tell you a a few facts as to the treatment we have received as an Executive .
" Xhe 22 nd rule says , 'When members of the Execu dve ahull be employed as missionaries , their salaries snail be the same as when employed in the Council-: coach-hire and one-half of any other incidental expences shall be paid to them in addition by the parties who may require their services . * Now \ re can prove that the above clause has not been aehered to in the localities where we have acted as lecturers . We give the following samples ef its violation : —We went to
Birmingham , after many strong invitations , and with the understanding thai our travelling- expencea would be paid . On ibis point , however , we were completely deceived : instead of our expences bang" paid , the Local Council came to a vote that they would net aliow us one halfpenny , but that we should be paid from the general fund , and after being at considerable expense of co : ich hire and living at Birmingham , we ¦ were indebted to the kindness of a friend for the means to get home Main .
" We assembled again in London , and met exactly ¦ with the same treatment as iu Birmingham , with tae exception of the vote : in fact , we were obliged to borrow money from Mr . Cleave to bring us home . We could lay before you scores of such cases if it ¦ were , necessary , but we think the above quite sufficient . " This , like all the rest , is sufficiently blunderingly stated . There is no twenty-second rule in the organization . The eighteeenth rule does say , nearly , but not exactly what is here quoted . It perhaps might not be too much to expect the President and the
Secretary to quote correctly from the rules of the association ; but we will take the quotation as it stands . Xhe observations following and founded upon this quotation seem to us to contain a tacit admission that the sums charged as "travelling" and " agitating " expenses , are , some of them at least , improperly charged to the country , instead of to the respective localities , on account of which they were incurred . and the effort is to shift the blame of this irregularity from the Executive to the localities . This is , at best , but a lame effort . It is the duty of the Executive to sea that the localities do comply with the rules of the organization ; that is the single one duly for which
they were appointed—the single one duty of which , as it seems to U 3 , they have never attempted the performance . Had they carefully regulated their own acts by the rules of the association ; and had they rigorously insisted upon a compliance with those rules by all its . officers and members , we cannot think that they would have found much difficulty in obtaining that compliance from particular parties , under such circumstances as they state in reference to Birmingham and London . Giving , then , all credit to their statements of the treatment they receive ' ¦ from all these places , they do not , on their own showing , justify themselves . There can be no
doubt that if they had appealed against ill-treatment to the body by whom they were appointed , that body , if it could not even have redressed , would , at all events have prevented the recurrence of such things . If the Executive weut to Birmingham as missionaries , at the invitation of the Birmingham people , their travelling charges , their salaries , and oho half of their incidental expences ought , by the plain rale of the Organization ? to have been paid by the Birmingham members , so long as they were so employed . And if the Birmingham councillors refused to comply with the organization , it was their duty to have then and there appealed to the Birmingham members
to have shown them the plain bearing of the rale , the necessity of its being complied with , and the injustice that would be inflicted on their much poorer brethren in many other parts , if those expenses , which of right appertained to that locality , should be charged to the general fund . This is what the Executive ought to have done , if their statement be correct . If they had done so there can be no doubt that the whole matter would have been set right . The whole question , however , of the liability of Birmingham hinges on the point of whether they went there as missionaries , ' and at therequest of the Birmingham ¦ people . If they did there can be no doubt that
Birmingham ought to have paid , and ought yet to pay , those expences . If they did not ; if they merely went to Birmingham because , it suited their own pleasure and convenience to remove their sittings there , they ought then to pay their travelling and other extra charges out of their own pockets . The country has decided by the resolution of a National Delegate Meeting that the Executive shall sit in Manchester ; no power but that" of another National Delegate Meeting , or a general vote of all the members of the Association , can alter that decision . It is quite clear , therefore , that if the Executive chose to move from Manchester to
Birmingham , not as Missionaries , but as an Executive to hold a session , they had no right to charge the country with the expence . If , however , they went there at the request of Birmingham , if they had been solicited to go and agitate in and around Birmingham , because there wag a prospect of doing good to the cause , and if , in consequence o such solicitation , they went there to . hold a portion of their , session , sitting as a committee during the day , and labouring as agitators in the evening , which we rather think to have bsen the case , it then appears plain that their salaries might b 9 charged to the general fund , but
that their travelling and all extra expences ought to have been defrayed by Birmingham . And any refusal on the part of Birmingham to do this , was a gross violation , not only of the terms of the organization , but of the principles of equity and justice . The same remarks will , of course , apply to London , and every other place in which the Executive have been treated as they say they have in these two . We are informed by Mr . Bairstow that the localities in and around Manchester never defray any expences incurred by members of the Executive in lecturing , and that , consequently , all these expenses are of necessity charged to the country under the head
agitating expenses . All we can say is , that , if this be so , it i 3 shameful ; it is a gross fraud upon every other part of the association . Our observations last week , in reference to Mr . Baiestow ' s lecturing in the West of England , are equally applicable here ; we think it a shame that North Lancashire , Leicestershire , Nottinghamshire and other poor distriots which pay their own local lecturers , should also pay lecturers for such places as Manchester , Birmingham , London , Bristol , &c . Il is clearly unreasonable to suppose that the Executive can defray out of their salaries travelling or other expenses incurred in lecturing .
If , therefore , these be not paid ly the localities , and if their services be still required as lecturers , we see not what else they can do . but charge to the general fund , though clearly unwarranted by the organisation . If this be tha true statement of the case , it is clearly in the power , and it is as clearly the duty , of the Association to remedy the grievance for themselves . All the members , && 1 all the general councillors , either know the rulee or ought to know them . Let them see that they . adhere to them themselves , that the Executive may hive no excuse for deviation . If no attention is to be paid by any body to the organisation , it may as well be given up at once ; there is no use in merely taataliziug ourselres and the country with it .
; While , however , we enforce upon the members and General Councillors especially , their share of ¦ attention io the requirements of the organization , ¦ we do no . forget that the one singte duly of ( he Executive , the sole thing for which they are appointed , iV io attend to this very husinas . Their great fault s ^ ms to us to be , that they have been always labouring after usefulness as lecturers and agitators , instead of attending tothe simple duties of
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their office ; the consequence of which is , that while by them and others , ourprinciples have been ^ widely extended throughout the : whole country , our Association is , in fact , no association at all , but a huge mass of crude , shapeless elements , without form or comeliness . There is no regular correspondence , and due understanding kept up amongst us , there is no sameness of system and . adherence to rule , and consequently no power , which there certainly oughs to be , of bending and directing the whole energies of the whole people towards any given point at any given time . This is to be effectsd by organization , and only by organization . All the agitation in the
world will never do it . The organization of the National Charter Association , worked by an efficient Executive—aye , even by a Secretary alone , of clever and business-like habits , and who would mind his own work , and keep to it , might in a few weeks , with the co-operation of the people , be made so perfect , as that that Secretary might at any time , in two or three posts , have the opinion , upon any given question , of every member of the Association . But he must be a Secretary of a very different caste from the one we now tare ; he must be a man who knows the organisation , and is able to instruct others in its management . ' .
We hope the peoplo will take the whole matter into consideration . It is high time . Nothing is so vital to the . movement . as a due attention to organisation . It is clear that the persons now composing the Executive lack either the disposition or the peculiar kind of talent for attending to it . Their fpjte is agitation . As agitators they are energetic and useful . There may be enough of . occupation found for them in the sphere which , is most suited to them . It is more reasonable and , more right for each distinctive locality to pay its own lecturer than for us to have a body of men under the name
of i an Executive , who are , in fact , merely lecturers occupying the beat a , nd most cultivated srounds of Chartism at the expence of the poorest and least cultivated . We suggest , therefore , that in future the Executive consist of a Secretary and four unpaid members resident in London , Birmingham , Nottingham , Leeds , or any other place on which the people may determine . We are decidedly of opinion that an efficient Secretary is the only paid officer needed in our movement , and that with such a functionary— 'Bra ffficxent man—having the advice and assistance in the concoction of documents , . &c . of a Committee chosen from the
General Councillors in his own locality , the orgazization may be well worked without any recurrence of the evils which have originated the present very painful , but we hope very useful and profitable discussion . This is the course adopted by our Scottish friends , who beat us hollow at sober , olearheaded arrangement . Our readers will perceive that it is recommended to them by a communication in this day ' s paper . That communication is from a tried and valuable friend to the cause . One who has seen much and suffered much in it ; and whose opinion desesvea the best attention of the people .
. Our readers will see also a communication from Mr . Beesley recommending the appointment of a Committee to inquire whether . the present Executive have violated the organisation or not . That , of course , is a proposal for the people to consider . To us it seems a farce ; tb . e more especially as the Executive have already admitted that the organization has been violated , by refusing to defend their own acts and meeting the charges against them with mere bluster and blash .
To our mind it is of much more consequence to prevent these things in future than to trouble ourselves about the past . That which is past cannot be recalled ; but the poople may make past errors a beacon for the future . We recommend therefore that the whole matter be taken up by ail the localities ; at once ; that the members and councillors meet togther and deliberate upon the subject ; that they endeavour to keep in mind the whole question and to keep out of mind everything , but the question—the duties of the Executive and the manner in which they haye been performed ; that they lay the balance sheet—not the last merely , but the last three
balance sheets and the : organization both , before them , and examine them ; together ; that they read in connection therewith , the letters of the Hull Councillors to the Executive—the _ articles in the Northern Star of this and the last two weeks , and especially all that the Executive have said for themselves in explanation and defence ; that they weigh all these carefully and dispassionately , using their own clear sense ef right and wrong , and their own appreciation of principle ; not suffering themselves to be led or biassed , either . by us or by the Executive , but judging fairly from the evidence which lies before them , and recording their opinions in firm , clear , and temperate language .
The matter is one fraught with as much importance as any that . has occupied the public mind for a long time . We ask not , therefore , that tho people should tako us for a guido ; but that they should ^ divest themselves of prejudice , and view the whole subject in the clear light of common sense and Chartist principle . We warn them that the consequences of miBtake may not be easily rectified or averted . Since writing the above , we observe in the Evening Star o ? Wednesday evening , which we have just received ,- a portion of a letter , in ; referenco to the subject , from M'DouALL- It seems to havetbeon written for the Northern Star ; but , for what reason we know not , it has not been sent to us . A part only of the letter is given in the Evening
Start with-a promiso for its continuance this ( Thursday ) evening . Of course we can neither give it nor reply to it , until we have seen the whole ; and before tho arrival of the Evening Star with the latter portion of it , our paper will have been at press some sixteen hours . We may just observe , in reference to the portion whibh has appeared , that its tone is of an altogether different character from that of the blundering bluster of Messrs . Leach and Campbell . For the present , we content ourselves with giving , from the ' port ' . on which has been published , the following acknowledgment of the aeonracy and justice of all that we have said about the ten shillings a-week business ¦ : — " You say that was contrary to rulo . So it was . "
I This is all that we have said about the matter . For the parallel case , by us given week before last , and out of which so much bluster about " robbery , " and " fraud , " and . " transportation" has arisen , tho Doctor aud his colleagues may thank , not us , but their Secretary , Mr . Campbell , who forced us to show him that his expectation of the whole country going into fits of "delight" about it , was a little absurd . We suppose this admission of the Doctor ' s , and the admission of Mr . Leach before the South Lancashire Delegate Meeting , that he could not defend that act of the Executive , together with the assertion of Mr . Bairsiow , made in our hearing , that he knew nothing of it , and was astounded when he saw it in the Balance Sheet , will settle all the
bluster about our having been actuated by some private maliee or some petty revenge in the I " denunciation" of it ; and will show pretty satisfactorily that wefcave only done that which it was our duty to do ; aud which if we had not done , W 8 should have deserved to be denounced ^ We dismiss this matter with the observation that we think it a little odd that the " sense of justice" about which the Dr . wr / tes very welh , did did not prompt him to send this iet . '« r at once to us-Maantime we may observe that we . see nothing in it to shake , but much to strengthen , t'Very position we have taken ; and many 6 trong ai guments for the recommendation we have above given t *> the people , in rc-forence to the future settlement of the V Executive .
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TO THE EDIXOB OP IHE SORTHEBX STAB . Sij ^ in our organization you \ riH £ cd it is stated that the General ^ Treasurer shall be elected by the General Councillors . This has not been done yet , but at the next nomination for Executive CoHimittee , I am determined , should health permit , and I am free from faction ' s dungeons , that I will place a person in nomination for that office I mention this , bo that it be not lust sight of in your strictures on tha organization . ; e . s .
The Sortiteen Stab,. Saturday, December 3, 1842.
THE SORTiTEEN STAB ,. SATURDAY , DECEMBER 3 , 1842 .
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* Certainly not . "V \" e tre ^ no c ore than Mr . Bairstow srtiere either of them would t-a till we saw the papgT- in print . f We only hope that justice V ^ i be don e by allowing like rf * 'm « to every nxzx und . r like cucunoitanc « 3 . — Ed . XJS .
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Extraordinary Increase ijt Potatofs .- "Mr- R . Ki < id t oi Briery Close , near Amblcside , v laated three potatoes last spring in his garden , th , .- * enprmous increase of which , when taken o « t Y ' 1 the ground , mw bo judged from the fact that the ' ' produce weighed eleven stone " , and a half .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 3, 1842, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct967/page/4/
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