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    • 10 THE MEMBERS OF TUE CHARTIST CO-OPERATIVE LAND ^ COM 1 "ANT.
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      10 The Members Of Tue Chartist Co-Operative Land ^ Com 1 "Ant.

      10 THE MEMBERS OF TUE CHARTIST CO-OPERATIVE LAND _^ COM "ANT .

      Jfr Deab Fbierds, The Star Ia So Crowded...

      _jfr Deab _Fbierds , The Star ia so crowded this week with subjects and _gaiter interesting to yon , that yon will not expect a _jong letter from me ; while at the same time , I _canjjot refrain from _faulting in your present position . Uelt ureat pride on Tuesday last , on my way to fjjrencester aa your agent , for ithe pin-pose of comp leting the purchase of our second Estate . I had a small lump of in

      _Y _^ y co-operation my fob , which _pgnindedme , everytime I thought of it , of your ( _Terffh elming power . The sire vnw impereeptible , _jjjough it consisted of Eight Bank Notes of £ 1 , 000 _ggch , gathered in shillings , sixpences , and pence ; _^ _J ffl oeh of which , I was pleased to think , had been _gjta tchedjrom the beer shop and the gin palace . _Without a _roundabont story I may inform yon / that Air _eare-keepers are now in possession , and that they _^ re _thorongMj delighted with the _pjaspeet , _sititajjonandsoiL ..: _ ' .

      There are many circumstances connected with onr project whieh are wholly overiooked by parties _dealiajin the wholesale land market ; for instance , _woodland , hedgerows , and old buildings , are a great _drawback to a farm . At Herringsgate I have eon" f erted about seventeen acres from an unprofitable to l profitablesUte . I paid £ 445 for timber and crops _, jnd the estimated-raine of those , articles to the society is , _apon the lowest calculation , £ 1050 . I have _rireidy _gvrca sou an _account of £ 314 worth sold , ve have still nearly £ 300 worth to sell , while , although it may be a conundrum , we used nearly

      e very stick of the timber . We have paid £ 665 for the materials on Lowbands and Red Marley , and I'd forfeit my exutenee if by gcod management I do not torn that into £ 2000 , thus reducing the price ofthe estate from £ 3 , 100 to £ 6 , 800 . This is a part ofthe principle of co-operation unknown to those who undertake to criticize our plan . Now I will lay dewn a simple rale for "One who has whistled at the plough , * " * The Company conveys , for ever , two acres of land that will have cost £ 30 , and a threeroom cottage that will have cost £ 60 , and we give £ 15-4 o each occupant , for a rent of £ 7 . 12 s . 6 d .

      per annum . Now , if we were not to give the £ 15 capital , we could afford to give the same tenement for £ 6 . 17 s . 6 d ., and no cotton lord or landlord give tbeir tenants £ 15 , or fifteen farthings , upon taking p ssession and _keeping it until it suits their pleasure or convenience to kick him out . What I assert , then , 19 , that whether in an agricultural district or in a manufacturing district , the house for ever wi « k-9 Ut the land is worth the whole rent , and the land without the house in snch convenient allotments is _aorth double the rent ; and vet a parcel of noodles and boobies that see jou huddled into garrets and

      cellars , of which yon must pay the rent whether you worker play , have the matchless insolence and _hyj-ocriey to express PAINFUL ANTICIPATIONS of the failure of such a plan . Tou will read fhe rigmarole of the gentleman " who has whistled at the plough , " and , no doubt , you' will look anxiously for his acceptance of my challenge . This man is to be used as the first League wedge ; and Quaker Bright , who has the insolence to ask for the countenance and support of the Chartists of Manchester , whose families he would doom to perpetual slavery , is tbe

      wooden beetle to drive the wedge . Will you just think of the surpassing philanthropy of this " Whistler /* coming all tbe way from Manchester to Herringsgate and back , for the mere purpose of satisfying himself aa to the land scheme , to the end that he may throw the shield of Ma protection over its dupes . Notwithstanding his ignorance , his _presumptie-i and folly , I would ask this modern economical philanthropist , why it , is that the value of the most valuable thing should become deteriorated , when itis applied to its most -valuable purpose ; and 1 would

      ask him what set of joint speculators in the world give equal security for the fulfilment of their engagements-that tlie Land ; Company , gives . What Mining Company , what Joint Stock Bank , what Kailway , or other Company , gives the fat security that the Land Company gives to its shareholders , ? r what Bank offers one per cent , beyond the chances of speculation to its _depositors ; while we are in this situation _, that if the Company was dissolved to-morrow it could even now pay a bonus of £ 5 and more upon every paid np share .

      1 shall only say , for ihe present , that as long as 1 am concerned in the Company , and for the Company , the most remote probability of failure or _reveise shall be announced to the members as soon as it pre sents itself ; while at the close of tbe year I have n o hesitation in writing it as my opinion , that the Land Plan is destined to change the whole face of society , and to do for the Working Classes precisely what the minions and scribblers of their masters are hired

      to try and prevent . The sudden transition of this new scribbler from _exstatic joy to piinful foreboding _, h too stale to pass current in the Chartist marktt ; so , wishing yon a merrier Christmas and a happiir New Year than your tyrant oppressors would wish you to spend , I shall close with defiance to all te "trail down the house that I am engaged in erecting or Labonr . Your faithful friend and bailiff , Feargus _O'Coxsor .

      Ireland. Xarkatiti: 0¥ Malcolm Mgrsgob. ...

      IRELAND . _XARKATITi : 0 ¥ MALCOLM _MGRSGOB . so . vm . I presume the reader will not require the usual minute description of viands , delicacies and wines that the humble priest ' s " table groaned under , " bnt will be satisfied at learning that our repast did not consis of all tbe delicacies that the season could afford , that

      we had neither turtle , champagne nor sherbet j turhot . venison , nor claret ; rose water nor damask napkins ; hut that the fare was substantial and of the farm ' s _prodhce , the manual producer and client regaling himself Jn the kitchen , while the worthy pastor and patron was enjoying his merited reward in the parlour . Meanwhile it may not be out of place to gwe the reader a description of " mine _host . "

      The Rev . Mr . O'Farrell , then , as he informed me , is in his 68 th year , is over six feet hig h , and straig ht as a whip , with long white fenerable locks small "~ but piercing blue eye , aquiline nose , high cheek bone , bold forehead , and the fresh complexion of vigorous youth ; the stranger , if asked to guess his age , would say nearer fifty than sixty ; such is the value of contentment , occupation and frugality .

      When the cloth was removed , and after my host and his coadjutor , for such was our companion , had made sundry anxious inquiries after my friend Capt . Burford , I introduced the subject of the state of Ireland , and , after a short discussion upon the present calamity , I requested the Rev . Mr . O'Farrell to give me his opinion of the Irish character , Irish grievances , and what he considered would he the rernedv .

      "As to the Irish character , " said he , " the heaven-born characteristics are bravery , hospitality gratitude , industry , aud frankness ; the system engendered wees are timidity , parsimony , idleness , doubt and suspicion ; if I may be allowed the s _' _uul ' e , a graft of the sour crab upoa the sweeteve » _KT . e . A parent , sir , is ever the greatest martyr to his own harshness , negligence , or over-indulgence

      ** -. the vices instilled in youth will grow with manhood and gain strength with age , and a negligent government has ao more right to complain oi the - . ices of a people than the parent has of thoie of the child . The duty of the father is to foster virtue and discourage vice , and his reward will be generous and full inthe ohedience of his children , while , upon the other band , neglect o parental duties will lead to disobedience and rebellion . " ( Contained to ihe Fifth Column . )

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      _; _£ : _k : ( Contmwd _^ _* _A- 'Bu { i _^ \ _;*'; D 6 rio _^ ip _^ _nn- _^ _fex _^ fi _^^ _-S paU _^ _charactisivandl ain ; defining it _^ •;* : * :- _v _> _^*; i _^ _£ b _&^ gives themi a very _diBrehtcnaracter , * . _' _' ' !

      -.. ; . " The Times : Commissioner ! " he . rejoined with a withering sneer , * andmay I ask , sir , ¦& that is the 80 ur _&* from ¦ when _^ yon _'/ haye deriverr yonr khbwledge ' . of the Irish character ? You cannot expect our accounts to taByryou come to me fer information , he acquired lis from Parson _Preasntove and Captain Squeezetenant ; and which , sir , do * you consider most likely to- be pnreor most erBcient ? Which is the best authority , the man who mixes with ' - 'the people 365 days in the- year , and who hears their _unreserved and _unadeened tale , or those whose _apr proach is an * evil omen , preceded by the _lawteiterh messenger ? Again sir , who was that Commissioner ?'' "Why , a Mr . Foster / - " "I replied , " an EN & 1 LISH

      BARRISTER . " " Mr . Foster . ' an ENGLISH B 4 RRISTER !" ae retorted with a sneer ; " one-hired for a purpose-, and circumscribed by _instructoms—a mere PEEPERand yon would place his authority in the scale * with one whose been born in ther land , and for the last 40 years made the subject bis- daily study . I see rsir , like most strangers , you have drunk deep of the cup of prejudice . " " Reverend sir , " I replied , " you must pardon me , I am' not . prejudiced , but merely mentioned the source from which several like myself have derived their information of your country , and my present mission is to hear and judge for myself ; but I was led to believe that the Irish did not consider

      themselves bound by any moral obligation , and _reqtiraud the force of law to enforce the observance of soeial duties , and moral obligations , *** " How have you applied your information , or what am I to understand are your deductions , " he asked ?" " Why , " said I , " that false swearing , for instance * in courts of justice , is a thing oi common occurrence , isitjnot . ?" .

      •" . I understand you , sir , ' he replied , " and will endeavour to trace the evil to its source ; the law ever comes to the peasant ' s door but as a cruel scourge , it never comes as the just avenger ; and from infancy to old age he is trained to deception by a just suspicion of all he comes in contact with . The village housewife instils it into the infant mind , and necessity compels her to do so ; she is watchful and suspicious of every thing above her own degraded class ; hence she will trust her crawling helpless babe to the mercy and consideration of the peasant carter or horseman , while the sound of the

      carriage wheel , or the approach of the aristocratic horseman , is the signal of alarm , and she flies to the rescue . Thus I show you the circumstances under which children are trained ; and now to the question pffalse ' _swearihg—wheu-lifevorliberty isabonttbbe sacrificed _fo'tbe _lMV ' _sTerige _^ rtce for the' gratification of some powerful enemy ; and , without sanctioning the crime , even I , may palliate it , and ask if it is unnatural to resist tyrant force by moral fraud ; hut , sir , " he continued , " in all moral obligations and worldly

      transactions , tell me of a people upon the face of the earth whose dealings are transacted with more fastidious honour , and while you measure our faults by the strict rule which is applicable to parties dealing on terms ol perfect equality , to whom the lawdeals equal justice , and equal vengeance ; bear one thing in mind , Ireland is as a large camp , besieged by a watchful and implacable enemy , and the hesieged are compelled to resist illegal force by justifiable fraud . "

      " What then , " said I , " do you advocate a recourse to physical force as a means of making thc enemy raise the siege , as you term it ?" " Physical force , sir , " he replied , " is a very harmless term iu the mouth of an unarmed man , just as moral force is a fine sentiment in the mouth of him with a musket in his hands . It is a resort reprobated by him who owes his power to it , and should never be threatened by those who are not possessed

      of it ; my ancestors lost their property by brute force and fraud , and whatever peaceful notions of passive obedience and non-resistance my calling compels . me to preach , I cannot prescribe the limits by which their descendants should be bound to submit to the wrong ; the existing generation can no more ensure posterity ' s obedience to its code of honour , than it can enforce the immutability of its statutes . Do you consider me right or wrong , without reference to my calling ? "

      " I confess , reverend sir , " I replied , " that your simple reasoning and convincing logic has already shaken the groundwork upon which my youtlafiil opinions have been based , and I freely admit the impurity and just suspicion of the sources from whence ray information has been gleaned * but then , are not your people in a miserably deficient state as regards education ? I met a large iarmer to-day who was ignorant of the existence of Sir Robert Peel or Lord John Russell , and who bad never before heard of the Times newspaper .- "

      " That is most likely , sir , " replied my bost , '' and the Times newspaper was just as ignorant of him , and admitting his want of education , who do yo _* _i blame for the child's ignorance but the undutiful parent ? But , sir , " he continued , if all the money paid by that peasant to thc support of the conqueror's church had been expended upon the cultk vation of his mind , where is the proof that he would : be ignorant of those statesmen , or TIIEY OF HIM ? He is as clay in the potter ' s hand , and is rude and iiiifiiiished'from the potter ' s negligence . _Every ig-. norant , or rather every uneducated , man in a state * is a living reproach to the _government he lives _, under : the strongest condemnation of the system that brutalizes him . "

      '' Well but , " I observed , " sure as regards Ireland government is not so much to blame , as your couutry is comparatively untaxed ? " Untaxed , sir , " he rejoined , " we owe the clemency to our poverty and not to our ruler ' s mercy ! Untaxed ! what could they tax but our poverty , and that would be but poor aid to the Exchequer . Taxes , sir , are measured by the rule of ability to pay , aud the slightest tax imposed upon an impoverished people would be equivalent to a prohibition of the use of the , taxed article . " " What then do you consider your principal grievances , " " I asked ?

      " Our _principal grievances , " he replied , " are want of _education ; insecurity of tenure ; want of cheap , impartial , and speedy justice , partial representation in the stranger ' s parliament ; imposition of tithes , a tax which appears to have escaped yonr notice , and , perhaps , the most grievous ; the abandonment of all social and paternal duties by the natural patrons and guardians , and the cruel substitution of a spe cies of step-father terror , in the person of middle _, men and solicitors , who can have no possible interest _' n the improvement of agriculture and thc people ,

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      whose only _ol"ject ; ia tofleeci ? , fleece , fleece , aiil then brutalize , debauch ; - and abuse , in justiflcatiott of their own unnatural cruelty ; and such are the representatives to whom our deserter landlords have delegated the duties that belong to , and are so inseparable from , the ownership of property ; heiice ther * step-father becomes a magistrate , grand juror , or ' juror , and his solicitor , a kind of freebooter , scourging the outlawed poor with the _oppressorfs ! _- _^ while , the only duty of the unnatural proprietor appears to be the enactment of Irishlaws which will aid his representative in the ' _ea _^ _moV _^ _as e _^ v demand , however unjust , and [ the _^ hforMmeni _^ oT _MSi

      lns / : eve : ry _, cpmmand . " v . ' ;; . VV _;* ' _^ ; r . « You or _^ t _wni of-cap _^ ;; vancesi and there Is ample capital in every peasant's _"' untrammelled arri » fertile ' \ brairi _^ ahd : lovVof _inde-• _*';;•; ' * :: _?

      tenure . and a __ soun _^ _systew : _- © f education , and' all others would i very speedily follow these _impriwe _* - _mehti , as , believe mer air independent educated people would very speedily enforce a proper representation of their intellect and their property _; seeto t & e law ' s equality - the-equitable distribution of the national property ,. and * the roost extensive de * velopement and profitable cultivation of the national ' resources , and we should ? be spared the loss and de > gradation of seeing our hardy peasants employed . _{&»

      -useless and unprofitable-works-to- save their guilty useless ana _unprontame-works-to- save their guilty . rulers from their vengeance ; , it is a very melancholy sight to see useless roads being made as a means of oppressive landlords securing exorbitant rents out of the farmer , while his own land , is-sterile for want of proper cultivation , Allow the producer to cultivate _thelartJ-1 for his own bcnefit ' . and t pledge my word that he will soon cultivate his * children ' s minds and train them to the enforcement of more regard and a ¦ - better system of representation !?'

      " Now , my dear sir , " I observed , " is not England , upon the whole , a benefactor and faithful ally to Ireland ? Does she not afford your people a good and convenient market ,. ahdwhat can it signify to the vendor where he sells * his , produce , provided he gets , a fair price , and as _tO'pcverty _, we are taught that it ia the will of God , that- poer shall always abide io the land . " _^ -rs-sss _*« rr- ' _..-jCK-i .- '*' - - " - '"'

      "As to _yourfifst _* proposition , '' '' said he , "I shall answer that presently , and tothelast ray answer is , that we are not taught that theproducers only shall constitute that class prescribed : by . Holy Writ . But you ask me , what it can signify toi the vendor where lie sells his produce , so long as- he- receives a good price— -I will give you an illustration * from my Own neighbourhood—a rule , not an . exception—and ex una . disee omnes . The late Lord * " Buttermilk -drew £ 10 , 000 per annum in rents from this parish and spent every farthing of that : sum , in it the present man draws the same amount and-spends not one sixpence a-year in it : now what must be the balance against the parish in . the latter Qase .

      " Enough , enough , " I repliedV "it is too true ; but yet your arguments ' ara opposed to all the principles of political economy * ,, and are at variance with the reasoning of the 7 'imesvand other papers upon whose faith so many minds are made up . " " Political economy _and-the-y _^ _BM ! " rejoined hi * reverence with a sneer arid , rather hastily , adding " Pray tell me , sir , would you take your opinion of plaintiffs case from defendant ' s brief ; and , if not , be assured that _youToatf as little rely upon . news * papefephUosoph _^;^ than ' ¦; defendan t ' s - brief . ., Irel . and . ispiaintiff r aiid thij writers of that ' - journal are fee'd bv defendants pre *

      cisely as counsel is fee'd . Theirish ; people are riot clients of the Times , because they cannot fee ; _itu proprietors ; andj therefore , as far as regards that journal , they are out of Court . You are a " young man , " _contiuuedjthe worthy pastor mildly , " and do not pin your faith to newspapers , or the honour of statesmen , as both are conventional and hollow . And now , sir , " continued he , ¦ ' as to political economy—to what school , or class , or section , or tribe , do you belong _? because , as yet I have never found any two to agree . You may , probably , have seen a showman present a plain sheet of paper to tiie spectators , and astonish , delight , and puzzle them , by tha

      many varied shapes he makes it assume ?" " I certainly have , " I said . " Well ,. "" said he , " that is . his political _econonijr Political economy is the showman ' s puzzle , the _msr chant ' s philosophy , the trader ' s _rsady reckoner , aud the poor man ' s thief ; and , as to governments , they , for the time being , represent the largest showman ; they have no other rule than expediency . One ci its principal features is to buy cheap and to sell dearthat is , to send a board of works to establish a standard , not of value , hut of forbearance and

      existence , for labour , and then a standard for the price of Indian corn . Now , pray inform ine what qualify of reciprocity or equality is to be found in that bargain ; and are the contracting parties upon- equal terms and equally untrammelled ? Believe-me , sir , thc basis of the science of political economy—if any such science ever shall exist—must be equality , reciprocity , mutuality , and legislative regulation , where vendor and purchaser can meet upon equal terms in the mart of representation , while the . * . _'ery fact of capricious laws being called in aid of the principle , proves that it is- a DELUSION , a MOUSERY , and a SNARE . "

      This _charmiag _, and to me , _instructiss lesson , v _.-aS continued to a inter hour than the liard-worked pastor wasinth . eh . ahit of devoting to other society , than the care of his . Sock , and after having _apologized for my _frequent a « d rather abrupt it : _terruptioti 8 , I received hearty , absolution for all , upon the assurance , that liencefertb I was a deserter . * fram the ranks of ; showmen .. Jugglers , capitalists ,, merchants , traders , iie _. _vspapct-5 and statesmen , ami to Mrs . Mahouy . ' s . gseat . delitght she was _roused-If-oni the kitchen cl _* -: in-. aey con & er to show Captauii Blinord's friend ta his

      room ,, and where I found _Qweiiy thing _conducw to _comfort : the worthy dame ,, after wishing tne a : good night ' s rest , telling _n * _- _* . n . oi to let his reverence ' s going out in the _morni-ii _** . wake me , as I cc > ild sleep _tili seven or eight , a * may be I was tired , and by Jbat time she wouvJ : _haJ-e my breakfast _readv and my boots cleaned ,, and ; hot water , and e \ ery thing I wished for ; and § am free to admit that I learned more of _Ireland and the Irish in one flight from the outlawed and plundered _descewlan , _i of an aticici . it family , than , from all I had eves- heard or read of that ill-fated ; and oppressed country aud people .. ( To be _continwt . )

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      Tins Murder and Sukhde in _LAMBw . a .- _—The police , obtained a clue which eventually led to tha identification of the female and child . The _f' _-mala had formerly lived in the service of sewral _families in Lambeth , but whilst in one «> f her ¦ situations she was seduced , and she ultimately _yavc _bir-h to tha child found in the water with her . Since her confinement she hart been subject to , great p-iv . _itton , having no sett _' ed place of abode , livinjj ona wa . k 1 : 1 one part- of the town and then shift !¦ ¦ _- , ' to other quarters . Her name waa Hannah _Rei- _' , her age \ 7 l \ months Idand

      32 and the child was on _< , was named William Reid . From what has since _tr-msniretl no doubt exists nut that thc _untorti . _nate creature had destroyed ha * own life , and also tints of her offspring . The lasi time she was seen alive was on Thursday last , when she appeared very discensolutc and unhappy , and she frequently state : ! Unit her troubles was more than she cmld stand against : Since that day sho had written a letter to thc party who had identified the bodies , in which she _iiiiule known her intention of destroying he * ' - lilts , and stated that it was all owing to the treatment stio had roccived from one _cii'hor own _reMvcs .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 26, 1846, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_26121846/page/1/