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^ES7EST EIDING (YORKSHIRE }ELECTION.
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THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, JANUA11Y 24, 1810.
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THE DUNCOMBE FESTIVAL . To those who hav...
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' Deaf To My Appealsand Make Laws For Th...
...... THE NORTHERN STAR . ' : January 24 , 1846 . _| 4 ' _ , ' ¦ — . -J- ' _.. - ¦ . _¦_ - _* ¦ _—!— ; " ' ' ' ' - " - ' ' ¦ -= _== _» _. _^————^ i _i . ' ¦ i _^—g — ~ ¦ — _» f . mrr i .. _ _1 _ __ I I
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_^ ES 7 EST EIDING ( YORKSHIRE } ELECTION .
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_liive live and let live . "— "A Mr day ' s wages for a fair - _daj ' _slaboir . * . ' " _^ _UE _^ IIE Friends of Xative Industry intend to start c . cHEAr _bailwat tbaiss from all the large _manurttnrictnring towns , bordi ring on the different railways , to ruble able the _operatives lo declare by show of hands , on the jy of iy of nomination , that they will not allow thtir " wages Ibe r " be re-uced to the continental level ; " tbat they will we a ve a " Ten -floni- Factory B & lf _ttv-t _Omss bav - _» right ia"ia "_ air day's wages for a fair day ' s labour f and that _mativiative industry shall beprotected . " "The The different trains > ffl convey the opsratives home tter titer tbe nomination . PurPurther information will be given when the day of
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EXTRAORDINARY ECONOMY TO TEA DRINKERS . THE DESIRE OF ENGLAND . —The PIQUA PLANT , now sold at 3 s . 6 d . per lb ., is three times the strength of tea , and is also equal in flavour , more delicate in taste , nfinitely more healthy , as is proved by physicians and chemists of high standing , also hy persons in great numhers with the most delicate lungs and stomachs . It is most pleasant and invigorating , and isTecommendedto the debilitated for its invaluable qualities , to advanced age for its strengthening properties , and to tiie publie generally for its moderate price and intrinsic excellence . ~ Ths Test . —The proof of the efficacy and healthful effect of the plant in preference to tea or coffee : —Let a nervous or dyspeptic patient use two or three cups of strong tea npon retiring to rest , and the effect will be night-mare , disturbed sleep , and other violent symptoms of indigestions , & c
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TO TAILORS . By _approbation of ner Most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria and His Royal Hig hness Prince Albert . THE LONDON and PARIS FASHIONS for Winter , _184 D and IS -, by READ and Co ., 12 , Hart-street , Bloomsbury-square , London ; Btrgcr , _Holjwell-strect , Strand , London , and may he had of all Booksellers wheresoever residing ; a very superb Print , epresentiug tlie most splendid exhibition in Europe , an Interior View of the Colosseum Rog * _'nt * s-park , London . This exquisitely executed and beautifully coloured Print will be accompanied with fullsize Dress , Frock _. and Riding Coat Patterns ; also , Patterns of tbe New Fashionable Polka { Frock , and Locomotive
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_—„„_» f . mrr TUE TEN HOURS BILL . BROTHER YORKSH 1 REUEN , —Attha last election the leaders of the _Conservative party nobly did their duty . The country _goutlomen , whose motto is , "Live and lot live , " and the old English manufacturers andmerohants , whose _nuwim is , ' A fair daj's wages for a fair day ' - labour , " _ontored iuto a solemn compact to rescue tho riding from Whig thraldom , and the _country from Whig misrule . They hoiste d the banner of " the altar , the throne , and tha cottag * , " and called upon the enemies of Popery , th » supporters of the monarchy , and the fiiends of native industry to rally beneath its shelter ; nor did thej * call m vain . The cheers which announced our glorious victory have scarcely yet died away : "the handwriting on the wall , " which told Lord Morpeth tliat Whiggery was _defimot iu the West Riding , is scarcely jet obliterated ; and behold it is proclaimed to tho world that Conservatism in West Yorkshire is as dead as Whiggery .
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COALS . PROVIDE FOR WINTER . PROVIDENT FAMILIES , subscribing ls . per week te the Metropolitan Coal Company ' s _Shilling Club , can obtain four half tons annually , without further charge , fines , ic . The Company ' s price current is , Best Screened Wallsend , 25 s . per full ton Seconds , 21 s ,, - . 'is ., and 23 s ; _Colce , 17 s . ( id . Office ,-27 a , High Holborn .
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DUNCOMBE AND DENMAN . EIGHT SPLENDID ENGRAVINGS are given in OLD MOORE'S SHEET ALMANACK for _ISit ; _, including Portr . _-iits of the Lord Chief Justice Demt . au , and of T . S Duncombe , Esq ., M . P . for Finsbury . Price One Pennv or sent postage free , Threepence , London , Cleave , Shoelane ; Ileywood , Manchester ; Guest , Birmingham ' Love Glasgow ; Freeman , Newcastle-on-T yne ; and all ' accnts for tbe Star throughout the countrv .
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.. _ _1 _ __ THE DUKE OF RICHMOND AND THI " NORTHERN STAR . " For the present we shall make no further comment upon the attempt of the Farmers ' Friend to bribe thc People ' s Paper , than the mere publication of tlie subjoined correspondence will naturally suggest : — "To Mr . William Rider , " Northern Star Office .
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O'HIGGINS' PORTRAIT . Iu reply to numerous applications from our agents , we havo no objection to extend the time for subscriptions to tho 31 st of January , whilo we must decidedly refuse allowing any but subscribers having the portrait , as wo had £ 2000 worth of portraits over after our last experiment .
The Northern Star. Saturday, Janua11y 24, 1810.
THE NORTHERN STAR . _SATURDAY , JANUA 11 Y 24 , 1810 .
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NO VOTE ! NO MUSKET !! THE LAND !!! Tiirouoh all ages a standing army has been considered not only uncon-tutional . but tending , beyond all other abuses , to demoralise the nation that is cursed with it . Bod , however , as this violation of the British constitution may be , it is tame , moral , and danger-less , compared with the militia force . The enlistmont for the regular army at least supposes the willingness of the reoruit to serve , and
even prescribes a period , though limited , in which he may retract that form of allegiance , by paying " smart money" as the terms of _releaso . It has been truly said , that tliere is but a step between the dungeon and the scaffold , and there is but as narrow a space between the militia and the line ; and thus the voluntary principle of enlistment , and the subsequent smart money payable for release loses its essence , from thc fact that the line is invariably recruited from the militia force .
When an ignorant peasant has been stolen from his family by this total violation of the Constitution , he loses liis distinctive character of citizenship , and becomes an easy prey to the flattory , the taunts , tlie joers , or the seductions of a _clasB who , in order to justify their own calling , laugh at all the rights of citizenship , and mock the laws of society . Hence we find that there is no transition from one state to the thev so rapid as . hat change between ths rustic clown and the raw recruit . To-day we sec him following the plough , herding tho cattle , tilling the soil , or driving tho team , with at least the poor privilege of a choice of masters , though it may be from bad to worse . When his daily avocation coases he is master of his own time , cheerless as it may be , till
the dawn once more reminds him of his serfdom . To-morrow we find him distinguished from the veteran by his pompous and measured gait , his hair cut as a workhouse pauper , or a felon , that he may bc known by liis master and claimed as his slave . The measured military gait is substituted for the peasant ' s rustic lounge ; his bouncing soul seems to exult in the tightened form so new to his body and limb 3 ; his foraging cap stands erect upon tho few hairs that military fashion yot allows him to wear ; his hands are encased in gloves , the use of wliich has been heretofore unknown to him , * a cane twirls in his clumsy fingers ; tho bait of whoredom , licentiousness , and drunkenness is upon his back , and thus has tho simple rustic peasant been transformed into a captivating bait I ' or lewdness and dissipation .
As time wears on , the esprit du corp gains strength . If hc is a militiaman , and a good-looking fellow , the crimps of tho line mark him out for prey—the militia is described as an inferior service , war is represented as the trade of a soldier , promotion as the result , and laurels as the reward , which , together with the tempting bait ofa bounty , measured by the necessity of tyranny , arc inducements too _stuong for the novice to withstand ; and the militiaman who has been stolen from his family for thc short period of service prescribed by tlic Jaw becomes a life-long bondsman , onlyHo be released when sickness , disease , or old age shall have rendered him useless as a soldier —• useless
to society and a burden to himself . We are thus minute in describing theanares and temptations that beset the young soldier upon all hands , n consequence of thc laudable determination expressed by many speakers at Turnagain-lane , and the South London Chartist-hall , that , though superannuated themselves , nevertheless still preserve that parenta ' affection _vdvi-iv makes tWtv _s-u \ shniWev at the bare notion of their sons , whom they have reared with tenderness , being torn rom them to light the battles of their oppressors .
Those who have not sons , whose oss they would mourn , have daughters , whose young husbands may be stolen rom their breasts ; while sisters have brothers whose society they still enjoy , and whose acquaintanceship they would mourn tol ose for ever upon no better account than that of fighting the battle of oppression and misrule . Some questions will naturally present _themselves even to those who yearn after military honours . We must presume chat tho man who selects a soldier ' s life from choice is a brave man , and , therefore , a humane man , bccausebravery and humanity are as the Siamese twins
that cannot be separated except by death . Such a man will argue thus : for wliat am I to fight ? for what am I to risk that lifo , thc enjoyments of which have been abridged that others may luxuriate upon my toil ? Shall I fight for tlic splendour of that crown which has distinguished the Ihief by the exercise of its uiorcy , while it has held my companion in durance for thc bare expression of his and my sufferings ? Shall I fight for thosc lords whose privileges aro upheld upon the _destruction of my every right ? Shall I risk my life i _^ or those co _tauiouora wlw mock my petitions , aro
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deaf to my appeals , and make laws for the monopoly of my labour ? Shall I fight for those bishops who sit in lawn , and fare sumptuously upon my toil ? Shall I fight for those _advowsons which are the links of loyalty between the parsons and the Crown ? Shall I fight for the landlords who , I am told , have monopolised my inheritance ? Shall I fight for the cotton lords , who are rieh e nough to overthrow the constitution by the purchase of the electoral right , while , by unremitting toil , I could not , from a life ' s saving , purchase the smallest amount that confers the Yotc ? Shall I fight for the gaol and the prison deaf to mv anneals , and makft laws fur tbo mminnnlv
diet , for the bastilo and its horrors , for the transport and its mercies ? Shall I fight for tha national debt and the jobber ' s profits ? Shall I fight for the Poor Law Amendment Act and the rural police ? Shall I fight for a Masters' and Servants' Bill ? Shall I fight , that Ireland may be coerced ? Shall I fight , that the scions ofa useless and overgrown aristocracy may reap plunder from patronage , and gain strength from my subserviency ? Shall I fight for tho bank that will not discount my labour note , for the rattlebox that addles vay brain , for the civilisation which I am told brings poverty in its train ? Shall I fight
for Prussia's king , that refuses his people other constitution than that which springs from his own wing ? Shall I fight for the king of the Barricades , who ha gained a throne by troachery and upheld it by treason ? Shall 1 fight against America , where my principles are acknowledged , and are but now coming into daily _nse ? Shall I fight against Ireland , to which my country owes so much retribution ? or , good Heavens * . the thought _hasjuststruck me—shall I fight ' _against my country , and mayhap be called upon to plunge the bayonet into my aged father ' s side , or into my young brother ' s broast ?
These are questions which erery man should carry to hh own home , into the bosom of his own family and repeat over and over again in the ears of his children . Some may say that it is time enough to resist when tho monster is upon the _threshhold . This lagging policy has ever been the curso of Englishmen . They should know that it is easier to smother a new-born infant than to strangle a full-grown monster . Ma _ t _ h . s has _teld them so . They must know that the very fact of calling out the militia is per se a declaration of war , and they must know that that militia will either be a substitute for the
army to be sent to America , or a coercive army to curb the growing spirit of liberty in Ireland . Are Englishmen , then , wo wonld ask , prepared for cither service ? If they are , let them abandon Chartism , and for ever ; if they are not , let them be prepared , one and all , to sign a petition to tbe Commons , to be presented by Mr . Du . vco . MBB the moment a new law for tbe embodiment of the militia is proposed , and let it be couched in the stern language of freemennot in tho lisping tone of suppliant slaves . Let it tell the world thatthe petitioners WILL NOT FIGHT until they have rights of their own to defend ; and that then , if those rights are invaded by the FOREIGN TYRANT or DOMESTIC FOE , they will cheerfully fly to the cry of " My cottage is in danger . "
To go to prison is the worst that can befall the re . fractory ; better to go to prison than to shed man ' s blood , and especially with no cause of quarrel ; better to die in prison with a consciousness of innocence , than to die in the field of battle as an unhonourcd slave . It is tlte never testing , the wholesale appliances at the command of the multitude that make tyrants strong and a nation weak . It was the spiri fc , the indomitable eourage with which Chartists bore the tyranny of misrule that sanctified the principle and preserved its name as a hallowed thing . Let Englishmen , then , for tho first time , evince tlieir determination to act as a body—let all , upon whom the lot shall fall , go unresistingly to prison , and leave their cause in the hands of their peaceful general , Duncombe , and those who have escaped the infliction .
LET THEM IMPRISON THE NATION , and let the nation lire in idleness upon the taxes of the country . War has been described by the most able writers and poets as the seed-time of tyranny ; all the stringent acts to be found upon the statute book are the fruits of that heedless thoughtlessness generated by war ; the lewdness , dissipation , and drunkenness , against which the moral , sober , peaceful mind of the country has been contending during thirty years of peace , are all , one and all , consequences of a long and desolating war . We have , in part , overcome the abominations by Teetotalism , denunciation , and moral speech-making , and shall wc now lose the ground we have gained , and relapse once more into degeneracy and licentiousness ?
When the Chartists spoke of fighting for their own liberties , they were assailed as physical force men ; and surely , now that their language is peaceful , now that they renounce war and all its horrors , now that they declare they will not fight for the privileges of others , they aro entitled to the co-operation and support of the moral philosophers of all classes , and especially of the Peace Preservation Society ; but , alas ! with this , as with all other question * , the privileged owners of power will not join the multitude in any cause in whieh popular strength is likely to bc made manifest . So much the better . Union is strength , and all that we required to establish such a union was some such question , tbat came home to the hearts of all—old and young , male and female . Chartism was said to have died from its
blood-thirstiness . Chartism now arises m the pure spirit of _peacefuliiess , and proclaims to the world that it will not sanction the strength of the nation being exhausted to uphold the tyrannic sway of the world ' s
oppressors . If battle must be done l et those who possess every eomfort of life , and who have privileges worth dying for , do battle for those who invade them ; but let the poor and helpless , who have neither comforts nor privileges , leave the glories of war to others , while they carry on their peaceful struggle for tho emancipation of their own order , and let the cry of—NO VOTE , NO MUSKET echo through this sea-bound dungeon .
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THE DUNCOMBE FESTIVAL . To those who have a perfect knowledge of the power of the Chartist party , and who are not easily satisfied with their own perfo rmances , but who rather consider them te havo fallen short of that devotiop wliich tlio sacred principle claims at the hands of its disciples , were , nevertheless , thunderstruck and awed by the great responsibility which the strength of Wednesday night evinced . It has been our fate to make one of the many , and one of the few , upon such occasions , but never wasi t our good or tune to
make ono of such a party , whose proceedings will be read by all with pleasure , excitement , and awe . Many attempts have been made to convince thc enemies of Chartism that the cause was dead , -white the honour of proving its existence , its fervour , and undyins resolution to live , devolved almost exclusively upon thc Chartist party . While we denounce , anil ever shall denounce , the privileged and the great who are separated from the people by an immeasurable distance , which the press will no t diminish
we must not , trom delicacy to those who ou _^ ht to be more nearly allied to labour , withhold thomore mcritcd castigation from them . Over and over a « min we have stated that we dread not tlie aristocracy of and , the aristocracy of money , or tlie _aristocrat of earning , so much as Are dread tho aristocrao ' v of labour . That aristocracy , which would uphold its poor privilege of superiority over its own order , bv obse . \ iiioi . 8 ly pandering to the tyranny of employer _, anil the caprice of an obsequious press .
No other order but that of labour lives upon the weak of its own class . _Js _' o other order bu t that of labour refuses to co-operate against thoso who attack its privileges and withhold its rights . Wo are led to this line of observation mainly from the fact of Mr . _Dusnixo having presented the address to Mr . Doxcomuc in the name of the United Trade- singly , without the bare mention of Chartist no-operation . Now , however ranch we admire the good tasto of tlw
succeeding speakers in not even noticing tbis attempt to aggrandise the Trade--at the oxpense ofthe Chartists , we cannot , _qM _willj not , allow „ one , nay ,
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the weakest , feather to be plucked from the wing of Chartism , whicli may hare the tendency to retard its progress , impede its flight , or lead to the conviction that it is second to any other in the State . Chartism is our idol—OHr political god . We have nourished it from impotent infanoy to its present giant strength . Wo have done so in opposition to the _aristocraty of all classes , the aristocracy of labour being it * most deadly enemy , and it shall not ; fall before that foe , at least , without a struggle . tho _weakfist . feather to be _Dluckad from the wins nf
The address was Chartist , thc resolutions were one and all Chartist ; there were thirteen speakers , and twelve of them , not excepting the three membens of Parliament , were Chartists . Let it not , then , go to the world that Chartism would allow the single honour to any party in the State of _sanctifying tlie reverence in which their chief is held . The peculiar characteristic of Chartism is , that no trade can move in its own affairs without the assistance of the Chartists of tho body . That no demonstration to advoeate labour ' s rights , or sanctify labour ' s triumphs , can be even undertaken without Chartist co-operation .
Tho main causa to which all , from the chairman ' s opening speech , which was glorious , eloquent , philanthropic , and conclusive , to his closing observations , which were cheering , pathetic , and manly , the necessity of union seemed to be tho prevailing topic . Have we not then , individually and collectively , done what in us lies to court tho co-operation of every son of labour ? And now , in conformity with the generally expressed opinion of the several speakers , we would say to the Trades , lay aside your prejudice-, unfetter jour minds , dispel your pretended fears , and adopt openly tho principles which secretly you
profess to admire . Your foes act open , and nothing hut your open confession and co-operation can meet and contend against their open hostility . Your secret devotion and withheld co-operation weakens rather then strengthens the ranks of labour , and simply because , its battle being for itself , and its own rights and privileges , its fues must naturally conclude , that alt who are not with us are against us . We see some paltry popularity-hunters , who denounce their sufferings in secret , and yet slavishly rub their skirts to their oppressors ; this is not Chartism—this is not principle , this is not common honesty , it is abject slavery .
No change in our system could be more wholesome than that of compelling Parliament to assemble before the people in a national forum , the night before they meet the Monarch in the national COUNTING-HOUSE . It would then be impossible for the press to withhold the nation ' s will : it would be out of the power of the most ignorant to plead ignorance , and not within the scope of Ministerial influence to nse it as a _justi & cation for withholding popular rights . To all who had the proud honour of being _pressnt on Wednesday night , the _confession of . Chartist strength and of the growth of popular
intelligence , by the representatives who did honour to themselves and the people in attending , was more than cheering . Mr . Wakley—no mean judge of men and things , no unimportant authority on thc question of knowledge intelligence , and education—wag literally amazed at tbe announcement that the several speakers wore working men ; whilo Mr . _Cubistie , the member for Weymouth , could scarcely be induced to believe tho fact . As it was well observed by one of the speakers , Mr . Skeltox , there are many members of Parliament who require but the knowledge of the progress that labour ' s cause has
made to tender it their ad vocacy ; and who can entertain a doubt that Mr . Wakley , an old soldier in our cause , and Mr . Ciuustie , a volunteer in oue service , will now front labour ' s oppressors with more boldness and determination , because with more reliance upon its sons . Wo were always grieved that any cause of quarrel should for a moment have separated us from ono of Finsbury ' s arms , which wa 3 stretched to the rescue of the Dorchester labourers , the Glasgow-cotton spinners , and is now nerved to aid in the restoration of Frost , Williams , and Jones ; and whose voice has been loudest in Parliament and
out of Parliament , in the senate and the dead house , in denunciation of the starvation bill and the suffer * _ings of its victims . He has too good a head , too noble a front , room witkin him for too large a heart , to lend the impression of the one , or the expression of the other in aid of tyranny ; we therefore hail our re-union with Finsbury's other half with inexpressible joy . Waklb _. is perhaps the best "MOB ORATOR" within the walls of St . Stephen ' s , not excepting the exploded Liberator himself , whilo he
has tact to reduce popular fire to Parliamentary temperature , and hence , within and without tha walls of Parliament , is powerful , commanding , and impressive . No man in the world could have filled tho chair with more urbanity and commanding influence than did Mr . Wakley . His duty did not appear to be one of imposition undertaken to court popularity , it was ono of pleasure , to testify his approval of his colleague ' s career , and his admiration ofhis admirers' principles .
Duncombe and Wakley may defy all the assaults o faction to disturb them from thc hearts of the electors of Finsbury ; the metropolis would rally round them to a man if their seats were endangered by action , while the nation—that is , the sons of toil , would hold tlicm harmless from expense . The attendance of Mr . CnmsTiH , the member for Weymouth , conferred no small advantage upon tbo cause he came to the meeting steeped _t n gnorance , he went away full o knowledge ; he could not have been devoid of prejudice when he came amongst us—he could not direst himself of reflection when he parted from us . He ,
too , was ! iterally thunderstruck at tho discovery tliat the several speakers were working men ; he was delighted with their demeanour , charmed with their eloquence , and enamoured with their sterling devotion , which unitedly inspired him with courage , supplied hiin with thought , anil helped him to a happy and eloquent delivery of his admiration of their proceedings . Mr . Chkistik , though young , is an admirable spcakor , and promises to be a valuable adjunct to our chief . _Dujicombk has made a party of the wliolo people out of doors ; Duncombe must now
model a rep resentative party in the House . This & the next step that must be taken in labour ' s inarch , and one wliich the times call for and _circmnstanccwill aid . Tho people out of doors require but a small mirror to reflect thom inside ; let them but see the full-length picture of their principles presented withia the walls , and thoy will rally to tbe summons of their leader . We live ill times whieh may require a quick rcsponso to a hasty message . We live in an active age when doiays are dangerous , and should be armed _^ all points to meet individual whun orthe caprice of faction .
" hat cans , then , so effective as that of the pressure from without being honestly reflected _froM within ? Wo have not space to comment upon tbe eloquent speeches of one and allot' the speakers , suffice it to say , that in or out of Parliarocnt _. -that in discussion , controversy , or debate , we never partook o _ such a feast of reason and flow of soul . The speakers , one and all , confined themselves to the subject entrusted to them , and did ample justice to it . Of Du . vco . mi > e , WE NEED say nothing ; his speech wa s
of more than ordinary interest , and partook of that freshness of the mountain breczo that he has been inhaling to gain strength for labour ' s struggle . His reception was that of which the honest leader may ever be _assured—affectionate , rapturous , and enthusiastic . Upon tho whole , we hail this , thc last and crowning effort of the Chartists and United Trades , as symptoms of the past and hope in the future—a *"" a treat whieh will not be speedily forgotten , as a , triumph which will not be slightly estimated .
The Daily News. Although Thc Old Maxim T...
THE DAILY NEWS . Although thc old maxim tells us tliat there 13 nothing new under the sun , nevertheless tho hope M anticipations raised in our mind by the promised appearance of the Daily New , * ! ill _» wc . cont ' * P " tako of all the charms of novelty . Given to understand , from Douglas _Jeukold himself , that his cooperation bad _Itfcn enlisted in behalf of the promised prodigy , we felt a warranty for the _sowvliwaa al _( kq
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 24, 1846, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_24011846/page/4/
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