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    • j = i. THE POSTEA1TS.
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    • THE JSOILTHEB^ STAK S ATURUAY, JULY 23,1642.
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      BLA 2 * FOB 0 RGAN 18 INQ THE CHABTISTS OF il " -V - ttEEAl BEUAIN . AS ; REVISED ASD A 1 LEBDED A 1 A KEETISG 0 ? DELEGATES , APPOINTED BT THE PEOPLE . A > D HEtD AT THE KaTIOKAL CH . AST £ B ASSOCIATION BOOM , IIB-STBEBT , MANCHESTER , FEB . 20 , 1841 . DESIGXATIOH OP THE ASSOCIATION . 1- Hart tie CbaitMs of Gre&t Britain be Incorporated in one Society , te be called the National Charter Association of Great Britain . OBJECTS . |? 2 . The object of this Association is to obtain a " Radical Reform" of the House of Commons ; in other ¦ wordB , a fnll and faithful Representation of tbe entire people of toe United Kingdom . ,

      PEIXCiPLES . 3 . The principles requisite to secure snch a representation of the people are ; The right of voting for Members of Parliament , by every male of twtnty-one yerra of age , and of sound mind ; Annual Elections ; Tote by Billot ; No-Property Qualifications for Si-embers of Pirlismmt ; Pjymc ^ t cf Members ; and a DiYJsion of the Kingdom iuto Electoral DiEtriets , giving ta each district a proportionate number of representatfrc 33 accor-iiig to ihe number of electors . MEAXS . 4 . To accomplish the foregoing o ^ je ^ t , none but peaceable and constitntional means shall be enr- ' -Ioysd .

      COKD 1 TIOXS GF MEMBERSHIP . 5 , Any person shall be admitted a Memr-er of this Association on taking a Card of MembersLip . to be renewed hslf-yeariy ; for wijch he shall pr . y twopence , and afterwards one penny per - tr&ck subcription . REGISTRATION OF HEKBEES . 6 . A book shall bs iept by the Execctf Te Coinmit * co ( hereicsfter described ') , in-which shall be ent < -red tt > .-nsffies of the Members of this Association throughout the iingdGm .

      GOVERNMENT . 7 . The GoTen-ment cf this Association shall be ve&isd in a General Council , to be chosen as iereintSter mentioned ; five of -wiioin « Tr-. n ait as an Ex&euliYe CoiwMttK . - ' ELECTI 05 OF GENERAL COTTSCrL . 8 . Every to ^ m or tillage in ¦ which Members of this Association shall be resident , may nominate one or mars persons as Members of tne General Connc ;'; the nomination to take pl&ca erery twelve months—th . it is to say , on the 1 st day of December in each jtar ; the election * f snch Councillors by all the Members of the Association to be taken on the 1 st day of January next following

      srB-r&EASrBEES and sub-secretaries . 9 . Each town or Tillage , in ¦ which members of this Association snail be resident , may nominate one person , a member of the General Council , as . a Sub-Tr € 3 surt »; and one person , als *> a member of the General Council , as a Sab-Secretary ; to assist the G 3 nerel Treasurer and the General Secretary : the nomination of Ench Sub-Treasureis and Snb- ; kcalories , and tbeir election by all the members of tfce Association , to take place at the same time a ? the nomination and election of the General Council .

      DUTIES OP SrB TREASURERS 10 . Each Sab-Treasurer shall be authorised to receive subscriptions and donations for the nse cf this Association . He shall teep an exact account thereof , and transmit monthly to the General Treasurer one-_ fourth of the whole , giying notice thereof to iLc General Secretary .

      DrilES OF SCE-SECRETARIES . ID . The £ nb-S ; creiarie 3 sbail assist the General Secretary in "writing and preserving minutes of all the faansactisna of the Association , and in preparing for publication such reports of those transactions as may be deemed necessary to be published , and in snclr other "Ways as by the General Sa-zretary , "wiih the adfice of the ExecatiT 3 Committee , may be required .

      ELECTION AND DtllES OF IHE GENERAL TREASURER . 12 . The General Treasurer of this Association shali bs chosen by the General C-jusciL , in like manner and at the same time as the Executive Committee hereinafter mentioned . He ? ha'l be responsible for all monies entrusted to him : he shall " keep an exact * £ 0 oont of ill receipts and disbursements of the Association ; and shall , ence in eyery three sooBtas , publish in the Xo > ihem Star , Scottish Patriot , and in . such other of the Chartist cevrfpapera as uny be selects by the Executive Committee , a statement of She same , "with s fnil balance-i-beet , -which shaii be nrst examined by auditors , eppointed for the purpose by the Executive . APPOINTMENT AND DUTIES Or THE GENERAL SECSETaBI .

      13 . The General Secretary shall be appointed , by the Executive Committee . He shall t-jep an tract it-corr of ths bnsinsss , monetary or otherwise , g ? the x XccaliVe Camsnitiee ., sal perform all xhe general duUes of a SeOfefary , as be may be required .

      EXECVTiTE COMMITTEE . 14 . The General Council of the Association shell ehocse fire me&bers of their own body to sit as an Ereeoiivs Committee , in manner as herein follows : — 32 * ey sub-Secretary shall be at liberty to nominate ona candidate , on the 1 st day of Febraary in e ^ ch year , and five persons from among those sa nraiicaisd Etail J « elected by all the members on tee 1 st day of Marc ' s foUoiFiiig . JtODE OF ELECTING THS EXECCTITE COJIHITT 2 E _ 15 . The nomination oi candidates of the Executive CcBUHittfie , by the several Eub-Secretaries ., * b < i \ be in accorcsnce ^ dth the follotring form : — To He General Secretary of the Xationa ! Charter Association of Great Britain , February 1 ,

      ISSrB , —I here nominate A- B . ( blacksmith ) of ( 14 Hieh-street , Bath , ) a member of tbe Genera ! Oiei'cu of the Katicn Charter Association of Great Britain , as a fit and proper person to be elected a member of tha Ezecativa Committee , on the 1 st dsy of Match next Signet , C . D ., iCapenter , > "a 6 , Tib-stret , - Manchester , ) Mambsr of the General Council , and EU ' c-Sec-reiaryof the KaSonal Chartr ? Association of Grtat Britain .

      A list of all the candidates so nominated , shall hi transmitted , per post , by the General Sfcretcry , to every suV-S ^ erfrtsry , on or before the 10 th day of Jebrnary ; tha election shiil betiken on ih * lit- f '^ y of March following ; and the number cf vc-t .-s p ^ all be immediately forwarded to the General SiixcUry . - ^ ho shall lay tie same before the octci-iBg Execntl- » e C ' -u .-mlttee for tx ^ mmaticn , an 4 bj titir eider j-u-OUli , within one vreei of " icceivjig Ciem . the whole oi * uch Tctums ; to'tiher with tha declaration of the outgoing Executive Committee , of tbe pejsoss 6 uij eltuzJ .

      POTVEK AXB BVTiES OF TfiE E 5 ECUT 2 TE . 18 . The Executive G- ^ msnittee sbasl be eispywered to ciicpt any nitasuie for tbe advancement cf t ) -t objects of this Association , consistent "with its fundamental laws ; fcr -which purpese they £ -ha : l havt tha disposal of enc-fourth of the money 3 c-lUctr ' ' - throughout the society , and lodged with the G ; Etra ] Treaturer .

      BElirSEBATIOS OF OFPICEES . 17 . The G-neral Secretary pball be paid for his ser-Tices gie sum of £ 2 p = r wtst , and each o : hsr Member ef fee Exrcutive CoheciI , the sum of £ 1 10 s . per weefc durisg the period of their sittings . COSIFESSATW . 18 . TliB Members of the Esscutive shall be entitled lo compensation , for loss consequent upon their accepance of tfflse . either by being employed as missionaries during anyreesss that may happ ? n while they continue in thi ' . r official capacity , or in such other "eray as ma ?

      is most convenient for the Association . "When Mtmbea of the Executive shiJl be employed as mission' rie =. Jhfiir sslarits shall be tbe ssma as when employed in iheir regular duties . Coach hire , and one-half of an ) otber incidental erponses , shall be paid to them i » B ^ dition , by the parties v * ho m 3 y request their ser-Tiees ; or in the event of being employed by the Executive to open new districts , the same proportion of expenses shall be allo « red out of the general fund .

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      TO TEE SHAKSPEBEAN ASSOCIATION OF LEICESTER CHARTISTS . Mr beloved COMbatjes , —Ton have been doing gallantly during my absence . Honoui and glory to tou ! EOBOTU and gloiy to Bairsto-sr , and Bc-euham a ' . ld Smiih , for tiieir bravery in leading you on . I hope to be with you within a few hsun after this days £ iar Teache * 70 a , and ones more to lead on the cb&rge , ¦ With my darling brigade , against the juggling Cjra Xaw Bepealers , the sham Chartists , and all who dare Ofpose . I left you S , iS < in nombe-, on Thursday rn ^ ning , Has 14 th instant . I trust my valiant re-VBitiug Serjeants have bees doing their duty , and Ibat I ahall find you eoaiiderably increaae-i on my sbIozb .

      1 hare spread " tbe real Leiceater fire" with all mj strenfth daring then last few days . On Tkursday , tbe day that I left 70 a , I addressed a large open-• & TttfiHTig at Bdpet . just to prepare the vraj for doing real basine&s the following night . In company with that true-hearted and indefatigable Chartist , Mr . Tickers ( who is at Belper what Sweet is at Nottingham , WMte at Birmingham , Hainey at Sheffield , Skevington at Xaagjiboieogh , &c . &c—the « tafFaud pillar of Charttam is Ms l&taiity ) , 1 vUited tbe splendid Eoenery of ' Matlock , Boasall , Crotcford , Jec the next day ; and re-Imad to Belper , invigorated by the air of fixe Peak , Sod laid-to at the beads and hearts of the stout Belperiaaa , is the evening , until I had enrolled 102 of their names , as Chartists , in the open marketplace , Th » sort morning I entered their namei in a new book ,

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      which I prepared with a view of improving their organisation , " sad in ¦ which my friend Vicktrs and the Secretary have promised that the members' names shall be inssrt-d . The cl ; j £ -book is formed on the principle of street-diatricts , 'with a view to enlisting the seificss of collectors , on onr Leicester system . 1 reached Satffieid on Saturday night , and -with that intrepid and incorruptible spirit , Julian Harney , visited the widow of the murderedUolberry on the succeeding forenoon . I vfaB much affected by the interview . She 13 a remarkably fine-looking -woraan , and in spite of all her heart-rendins ! sufferinga , -wears a latent fire in her eye , and a dignity in her carriage , that tells you she is ¦ worthy to have been the wife of the unconquerable patriot , Samn&l Holberry . Great excitement still prevails in ShtStl 4 , on \ he Bubjeet of his death . They have got plaster busls of him , from a cast , taken after death , by Mr . Dcinaine of York , a young Chartist of great natural geciui We will have one of theso busts

      at Leicester , my brave Siakspereans . HolbeiTy bears the highest cha-actfeT for iuteerity . He "was a very fine looking man and wis a head and shoulders taller than common men : his ccfin measured six feet nine inches , and was bat two inches within too long for the corpse . Tbe poor niuidtrt-l piUoner was b& completely Ekeletocised , tb&t Lis -w' ^ o-k- could only recogn z 1 him by bis hair as h » lay in the ccfiia . Poor ¦ woman . ' wonder lhat sbe became dtiiriuus ! now , how&ver , Ehe is happ : iy recovered . 2 Hay the &x ^ of the fa therless and tbe "Widow be her support I preached twice to the Stcffifeldcrs , in the oprn air on Sunday last . In the evening , the death of poor Holberry was part of my thome . His fakbfu ! widow sat in a chair close by the table en winch I s-tood , — zvA "with a perseverance and ardour which prove h ? r to bo a woman cf no ordinary vaine/— S 3 i tnroueh ! b-j whole discourse , surrounded by fr-.= m six to seven thousand people , and would not more from the srcun-1 til ! I had enrolled one hundred asd

      s ; tten names as Cnartists ! I thought , as I gave her my aria t >> conduct her off the ground , amidst the th . ong of hundreds , who crowded round to g : z 3 , —that if every Chartist in England could have setn that Lrave , bereaved , and noble woman , —they "would have sworn , as I did , in my inmost soul , either io compass the dowpfa ' il of the horrid tjranny by "which htr husbs . cd viTis martyred , —or to sp-cad life in the attempt In the i ; £ . ms of the . departed patriot , let this poor widow 09 remembered , and that efitsctoally , in every vharti-t iycalitv .

      On Monday night the Town-hall had been hired , for fear of rain ; bnt we "B-ere cotEpelled to adjourn to the Hcymarket ; immediaWy on entering it , through pTesssre of the immense numbers . Till ten o ' clock , I addressed as large a number as on the preceding night ; and I believe the enthusiasm -was bo deeply-seated , and so widely spread , that I should have been able to enrol twohusiired more names , if it bad not been dark , and I had not bsen completely spent Harney , however , errolled thirty-two names , at the rooms , after that time of night I sfeonld have told Ton , by be ' oved Srigade , that I introduL = d our favcurira song ; " Wo'li rally around him , " and some o-h-. r snatches , common at Leicester ; icdthe SseSelders , a 3 vdl as the Bslperiana , learnt them right heartily ,

      I got to Leeds , amidst a disagreeable change of vrtathtr , on Tuesday afternoon , and was compelled to itcture in a email xovm , r . r % capable of containing more than 500 j > £ o ? ie , at nii , ht . Tie meeting had been announced for the cp » . -n air , bnt it vras imposible so to held it . The va * t majority of my audience , of course , ¦ were enrolled Chanis' -s ; but I enrolled tweDty-two new members , nevertheless , at the close . Mr . Hill , the invaluable editor of tie Star , addresse'l the meeting in a pointed and energetic manner , after I had concluded .

      On Wednesday , I had the unexpected delight of rr . eeticg our great champion , O'Connor , at tfce Star Office ; and after parsisg a couple of pleasurable hoars in his company , I stt cct for Holbeck , a suburb of Leeds . The meetiv . g had been called for in-doors , but I persuaded tbe Holbeckr-rs to turn out , end we had a pleasant meeting , in the open-air . Sixty wire enrolled at the close , and I left the Chartisu of this district of Leeds , full of enthusiastic atluriration for our popular Leicester song , " Well rally around him , " and also for our stirring chorus " Spread the Chaiter ! spread the Charter through the land ! Let Britons , bold ai : d brave , join heart in hand !"

      I have been Fpcndivg another portion of happy time with our brave and nntireabla Feai ^ us , this morning , sa-. i hive obtiined from him a promise to visit us , — ave , axd io speiid some time xrilh us , too , at Leicester , in the mordh of Stpiembir . Now , dont go mad withjoy about that , my darling lads . —let me sta the " Shaksperean brigade" stwly and firm as oaks , -when I return . I am j&ii off for Todccordcn , and -wiil tell yeu how I succeed there , when 1 get back to Leicester . 1 am , my brave comrades ,-Tour faithful " general , " Thomas Coopeb . Leeds , Thursday , July 2 L , 1 S 42 .

      J = I. The Postea1ts.

      j = i . THE POSTEA 1 TS .

      ! Specimens op the Petition PROCESSION A >" D i Tjiosias DrscOJIBE , ES < i , M . P . ABE NOW FOB ! t : ie most pakt is the hands op opr Agents , ; am > at the uege 5 t keqdest of many we ) HAVE EXTENDED THE TJME FOB BECEJVJSG j St ; B 3 CHIPTIO > S TO SaTCKDAT > "EXT , THE 30 Tn , j FOB THOSE WHO HAVE BECEIVED THEIR SPECI-\ ME ^ S ; A . ND TO SaTIRDAT TUB 6 TQ OF AUGUST , i FOB THOSE "WHO , FBOM THE DISTANCE , CANNOT i BE IN POSSESSION OF THEM TILL NEXT 1 TKEK . ! Agents abb t .. eq , uested to give tickets to J SriiSCBIBEBS , AS NOSE OTHERS TTILL BE ENi TITLED TO , OB CAN BECE 1 VE , THE PLATES .

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      ORGANIZATION . Thebe 13 not , at the present time , any other snbjec * of so auch or of such immediate consequence to ths people as this . It is only by union that our ( Lower can be knowa aud manifested , and ifc is only by organization tha' onr union can become effective . It 13 cot enough that an uniformity of opinion s bould obtain among tte people ; there must also ba an an iformity of energy and determination univ ? rt 2 . 11 y msniiesied . In Eoibicx can the fixed purpose and determined energy of tho people

      bs eo well manifested as in tho steady aahcrer . ee to all the principles and all the details of their oct national ¦ p lan of organ : zatior ! , We flare never been in tfce habit of assuming for the Northern Star , the position of a dictator or a guide ; we hare sought rather to mako it a reflector in which the public mind—the people ' s will—should ij-pisrinitsovrnjistproportion ?; striving only toprevens-Uiose proponioni from b ^ Lg marred or hidden by iho mac'inations of \\\ i treacherous , the attac ^ = of o 5 > eu foes } OT ths folly of indisereet and unr-Liiectin ^ frieads . We are , however , quite aware that a

      iarge poriion of our brethren look to us , and depend ¦ ¦ n us , ' for the necessary word of caution , whenever , frora any of ihete causes , or from any other can--6 | danger may be apprehended ; and we should lil di .-charge the duty which wa owe ibe people it we Deflected so to do . We have , therefore , on r ^ r ra : Jate occasion ? , bid the people to remember : * ho were now in power , and who were seeking to make too ) s of them io attain a double object—1 ho affrighting of the Tory Government and ihe iaakicg of more elbow room for ibeir machinery . We have Been thai there i 3 great uaDger from the neglecting to observe generally ifle nauonal organization ; whereby the body

      becomes lisble to the relentless inroads of the landsharks—the lawyers and middle-clas 3 jurors .. "We promised in . this matter , last week , to republish in our present number the plan of organization , of which some localities and some officers of the association seem really as ignorant as if it had never beea -published . That plan we give in another column ; and we bfg that it Kay be read , learned , and inwardly digested by erery Chartiat in the king-• Jcm . "TTe append hereto the observations made upon it in the Northern Star of the 6 th of ll&rch , 1841 . They are as clear as anything we could now write upon the subject , and as necessary to be noted now as when they were first written .

      " Among the many good things which O'CojtHEix has said , we remember one saying of his : that the next best thing to being riglt yourself is to put yonr enemy completely in the wrong . " We fully accord with this doctrine ; and hence we have ever been most anxiois that the operations of the people bhould be conducted peacefully and legally : knowing that if their moral strength was well marshalled , and their numbers well organised , th 6 y were invincible and irresistible;—able to carry any measure of a wholesome and . sanatory tendency , without violating any of those forms and appearances of law with which the harpies have fenced , round the carcase of corruption , in the hope of feasting undisturbedly thereon . There 13 no power in any state successfully to resist the right eons

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      demands of a people , united in purpose and opinion , and bo organised as to enable them to expreea their opinion and to prosecute their purpose as one man . Of this the factions are most perfectly aware ; and hence their highest dread has ever been , tha organisation of the people ) and their greatest card to pro-Tide against its existence . It is only by a well digested plan of organisation , generally ' '¦ und erstood and acted on , that the power of the people can bo efficiently made manifest . The isolated struggles of individuals , or knots of individuals , or separate societies * or localities , even though all directed to

      the same end , are but like water thrown by bucketfulls out of a mighty river against the walla of a citadel , which expends its force in impotence , producing a splash and nothing more : while a national organisation , enabling the whole people to move at the same time , and in the same direction , bending their energies against the same point , is like the mighty rushing of the whole torrent , against which no obstacle can stand . The vast importance of ihis subj ect - has been al ways seen , both by th $ people's friends and by their enemies ; and hence , from the time when the House of Commons was first sought to

      be emancipated from the direct controul of the crown , and placed in its due position as an independent branch of the legislature , to the present moacnt a period of about 250 years , an incessant struggle Las been going on , between those who wished to organise , and those who wished to destroy , the expression of the people ' s will for right . This struggle ha 3 been carried on with more or less of spirit , as the parties anxious fcr ri ^ ht , and understanding it , have been more or less numerous , talented , or

      influential . It would be easy to run over the entire history ; but it would comport neither with our space nor purpose to do so . Suffice it that the lynxeyed jealousy of faction watched every movement ; and , having in their hands the power of law-making , met every organised movement with new and more clos 3 restrictions ; till it was thought that , effectual provision had been made against any possibility of any national organisation existing , other than such as might accord with tho designs and purposes of the dominant class . *

      The laws now in forco , in reference to politica societies and national organisation , are comprised in two most sweeping and comprehensive statutes , the 39 Geo . Ill , chap . 79 , passsd in July 1789 , and the 57 G £ O . III . c . 19 , passed in March 1817 , undso well are the meshes of these two insidious and infamous statutes spread out , that ii was doubtless ceemed to bo impossible for any " national " organisation to escape them . And so it would be , in the absence of a national organ of communication . When the scoundrels hatched this

      infernal piece of villany , they did not calculate upon a Northern Star rising in the political and social hemisphere , and shedding its rays over the entire surface of the Empire . That advantage the people will now feel , as , by means of it , they may bo enabled to make the plan of organisation now offered them , as thoroughly efficient as it is perfectly legal ; and thus bafib all the arts of all the enemies of freedom . In calling attention to tbe plan of organisation propounded by tho national mealing of delegates , and to the mode of working it , we begin with placing before ourreadersso much of the provisions of the law upoa "the subject , & 3 were capable of being brought to bear upon the former plan .

      Freemasons , Quakers , and all societies oF a puroly religious or charitable character , and in which no other subject shall , u : ider any circumstances , bo discussed , are specially exempted from the operation of tho acts above-named ; and with such exceptions only , by the united force of these acts , every society the members of which , or any members whereof shall , cither verbally , or in writing , subscribe , or assent to , any test or declaration , not required by

      lato , 13 an unlawful combination and confederation See the carefulness with which villany has drawn the net strings ! Not content with prohibiting such oaths , testa , or declarations & 3 might beof / ainsS the law , the words not required ly law extend' tha prohibition to all voluntary declarations of whatever character ; even a declared determination , by the members of any society , to uphold the law , might by this cl&use be construed as illegal .

      This made the very outset of the former system of organisatioa illegal . Tae fifth paragraph , on " The conditions of membership , " being as follows : — '' 5 . AU persons will become memf > Rr 3 of this Association on condition of signing a declaration , signifying their agreement with its objects , principles , and constitution , when they shall be presented with cares of membership , vrhich shall ba renewed quarterly , and for which they shall each pay the sura of twopence .

      How , this signing a declaration was quito un necessary : every man desirous of buing a member Of the Association , of course agrees wish its objects , principles , and constitution . The " signing" is no protection against spies or traitors , whom the good sense and vigilance of tho members will as easily detect without the " signing" as with it . In the new plan of organisation it 13 , therefore , omittsd Every Chartist is supposed , necessarily , in virtue of his being a Chartist , to desire the objects—to hold the principles , and to approve tVo constitution , of the Association . This is the first great improvement of the amended plan ; by which the fang * cf the l ? iial harpic 3 are removed from one limb of their prey .

      Ths next has relation to the abolition of tho classes , ward divisions , and local officers and council ? . By the A . CU befora narsid , eveiy Society otr . poscd of d' ffi-rcnl brandies or divisions , acting IN AXX k . ' . xxer separately or tlhCndly from each other + or of whkJi > -: ny pnrt thrill have any distinct President , Secretary , Treasurer , de ' egate , or other officer , ok any person acting as sv . ch , elected or appo i nted 1 > y or f : > riuchpar ! , or to act in any office for : suchpnrt , shaii be ue .-msd and hold « n to be an uulawful combination and confederacy .

      Thi ? , of course , brought all tho classes , all the Town Councils , all ward divisions , officers , and Councils , all the local Treasurers , and Secretaries , and ail the Riding and County Councils , within the meshes of the law . Beeausa in all these oases tho several parts of tha Association acted separately and-distinctly from each other , having reference to their own local arrangements only , and without any reference to , or any overt cognizance thereof by tho

      whole Society . The Counc : l for Bradford , for instance , was a distinct Council for ' . that . locality . It wa 3 elected by the members resident in'Bradford only , and H 3 functions v ? ero clearly referable to a part of the Association , separate and distinct irom ihe other parts . In like manner , the Treasurer and Secretary for Bradford were officers only for that part of the Association , and not for the whole ; and so on for all the other local officers .

      Having declared the cases in which political societies shall be deemed unlawful combinations aud confederacies , these Acts provide : —That any member of a 7 ty sveh society , and every person who shall directly or indirectly maintain correspondence or intercourse with any inch sonielyt . or with any division , branch , tommiltee , or other select body , pre sident , treasurer , secretary , delegate , or other officer , or member thereof , as such ; or who shall by contribution of money or otherwise , aid , abet , or support Bach society , or any member thereof , as such , shall incur certain penalties . The penalties are of two kinds . ¦ ** 1 . By summary process on information before ONE Justice of the Peace ; on ^ conviction , a fine of twenty pounds , or three months' imprisonment in the common gaol . 2 . BY INDICTMENT :

      ON CONVICTION , TRANSPORTATION FOR SEVEN YEARS / ' ; ....- ¦ Thus was it doubtless hoped to render anything like a national organization for political purposes utterly impossible , without subjecting all the parties therein concerned , to the full penalties of thi 3 master-piece of class-legislative villany and cowardice . Indeed , our opinion was , after having carefully and often looked through the actB , that there was no possible mod © of escaping thtir pro-

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      visions , otherwise than by taking advantage of some 'brie or other of the forms and names incidental to some oue or other 0 ? the special exemptions therein provided . And as we most conscientiously believe ther Christian religion ti ) inculcate all the doctr ines of trnth and righteousness , personai , social , and political ; as in fact ifo hold politics to be part and parcel of Christianity , and inseparable therefrom , being mixed up with , springing out of , and sustaiiiing all its principles and doctrines , we were desirous to havta seen , for the first tune since the age of the Apostles , a true Catholic ana

      Chrjttian church , acknowledging , in all the fulness of their comprehensive import , the precepts of that , religion which being hitherto talked of , but neither understood nor practised , has been , and is now . being made , the most fearfully effective tool that ever tyranny employed for the destruction of inan ' s liberty , and of all clear recognition of the principles of moral right . We hold the principles of Chartism to be religious principles , and every Chartist society to be consequently a religious society ; and we were desirous to see them so daalaro themselves , and leave to the vile herd of

      despots the option of openly and manifest / y trampling , under foot their own laws , or of crashing , along with Chartism , Methodism in all its varieties of aspeofc , the associatirn of the Baptist churches , the Society of friends , or . Quakers ,- ' the confederated unions of Unitarians , the newly-organised and admitted association of " Rational Relisioiiiste , " and every other religious Society whose creed , forms , discipline , or worshipi Bhould involve declarations of principle not required by laic , or the several societies of which should correspond with each other , or appoint deputies to meet each other ,

      or in airy other way transgress the almost all-comprehensive provisions of these two acts . This was our opinion ; it has been our opinion long—in fact throughout the whole movement * We 1 were sorry to be ' unsupported in it by O'Connor , for whom , and for whose opinions every true Chartist must have respect , amounting almost to veneration ; but we permit not even the raspect due to him to shackle us in tho entertainment and the expression of our own honest sentiments . We ask , however , for no deference ; we aro quite contented to have our opinions estimated by the people , and to accept for them just

      so much influence as they are thought worthy of . The National Delegates refused to shrink from tho direct avowal of their political objnets ' and-purposes ; claiming the '' right , to consider their principles to be those of- 'religion / ,- they would not take advantage of that right to place themselves in any other position than the bold and manly one of meeting the enemy , in front . Their voice said , almost unanimously , " Let us go right on— -legally , if it may be —illegally , if the law be such as that wo cannot comply with it—but let us at all events go right on , " In the spirit of this determination they sat down , with the Jaw before them , but without any assistance from its paid mystifiers , to exercise the

      shrewd judgment of plain working men , the clear heads of testotal Chartists , and the earnest anxiety for the " following of peace with all men , " of Christian Chartists , in the concoction of a plan of national- organisation which , while it conducted the people ' s operations on d straightforward and avowed basis , should , at the same tims , render strict submission to all , even the most tyrannous , requirements of .. the concantratod essence of tyranny , which lay befo-o them in the two Acts of Parliament so oft reverted to above . They have succeeded , we believe , to the very letter ; and right glad are we to congratulate them and the people upon that success .

      The entrapment of the local Councils has been wisely provided against , by tho amalgamation of all those into one body , as a General Council of tho whole Association , provided for in No . 7 , of the new plan . The entrapment of the local officers has been in like manner provided against , by making them not local , but general officer ^ acting respectively , not for a part , but for the whole , of the Association . While their election , not merely by the members resident in their own locality , but by all the members of the Association , guards effectually against the wily trap of a part of the society acting separately and distinctly from the other parts ,

      Tho Bradford Councillors are to be now considered , and indeed are , not local Councillors for Bradford only , but members of the General Council , by whom the whole Government of the whole Association is conducted , and whose residences happen to be at Bradford ; the Bradford Treasurers and Secretaries are , in like manner , not Treasurers and Secretaries for that locality alone , but Sub-Treasurers and Sub- Secretaries ! , acting under the

      direction of the General Treasurer , and General Secretary , and performing such duties as may be necessary te assist them in conducting tho affairs of the whole Association . Thus , every officer acts as an officer , not for any part separately or distinctly , but for the whole . Thus , every mesh of this most elaborately and cautiously constructed le ^ 'al net , has been avoided by tho wisdom of tho delegates .

      Of course , and of necessity , the plan , to be legal , is exceedingly general , and it may be somewhat undefined , in its detail ;? . We obserrg some of its provisions- , which are liable to abuse , and which may , unless prf eluded by the prudf . nco of the people , givo riso to some inconvenience in its working ; but on comparing these mast . - carefully with tho tortuoua enactments of which its -coneo ' ctors had to steer clear , wo are fully satisfied that no other Way , or , at

      least , no . other Way so good could have been adopted lor securing tho double object' of tho delegates , the active operation of the people , and the eviting of all collision with tho law ; and we know too much of ihe people not to feel satisfied , that when these paints ave fairly laid before thorn and explained : heir watchfulness and prudence will come in to the a . * : Bta : ico of their leaders , and take care that that ssaU not be crippled in operation which has been devised so well and wisely .

      we have studied the plan most carefully ; wo think we understand it ; and we have no doubt of being able to show tho people that , though its form is apparently more general , and . ' . its details less bracing , than the original , but illegal , plan of orgattbation , it may be made in working to superadd xo the immense advantage of being perfectly con ? t > oaant with the law , every practical advantage possessed or provided for by the old plan . For this purpose , as wo have been requested by the delegates to call to ic the attdntion of the people in a series of artieliS , we shall return to ii , probably more than on ee ; .. We shall take up its several clauses , and

      shew tho people how we understand them—how we think they should be applied iu operation—what , means we advise for the avoidance of any inconvenience which might otherwise arise , from any necessary laxity of expression forced on its author rity by the tyrannous mandate of the law ; we shall show ihem how , so far as wo underfctand ibia docu > ment , tbey may , by a careful and universal adhereuce to its provisions , go on , certainly , safely , legallyi succtssfully , and triumphantly , in the prosecution of those great principles , to which the benevolent and just of all classes are pledged and bound by their adhesion to the rules ond principles of moral right .

      Thus Bhall we put our enemies completely in the wrong , by fencing ourselves round with the provisions , not merely ; of jrioral ; social ^ and religiouSj but of legal right ; taking ail thesempon ^ their own shewing . The National Charter - .. " 'Association of Great Britain may then bid defiance to the Government . It shall stand ; it Bhall prosper ; it shall flourish , in despite of all their power , and iu despite

      of all their Bophistryj or they shall do one of two things—they Bhall make a special law . 'i ' o */ its extinction , as waadono with the London CorreBponding Society— - . ( the very law how in . amouded operation , by which it was hoped to extinguish all Politioal Societies for ever ) - -or they shall at once throw off tho mask , which we have no doubt they will do as soon as they may deem it expedient , and , trampling under foot all semblance of rejspect

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      for the laws of their own making , try the temper of the people by a farther experimeht of undisguised bnite force . ;¦ ¦ : \ -. ¦ ' ' :. ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ; ' - \ ¦ . ' : ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦' . ¦/¦ ¦ . /' S We shall ratuni to this subject next week * and for some time , week by week . Wo shall point out exaotly wherein the organisation has been wholly neglected and Bufiared hitherto to lie dormant as a dead letter ; we shall show how it may and ought to bo beneficially carried out ; and we shairalso giveT instructions ^ to t ^ bse who may choose to follow them for the arrangement and perfecting of local societies to work hand in hand with , and to nphbld and strengthen , our great National Charter Association .

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      The Local Council of tjie Tiveuton Charteb Association call loiidly and earnestly on the Chartists of Devonshire to bestir themselves for ihe cause . They suggest that letters of imitation be sent frOrn epery locality to F . O'Connor , J 2 sq . praying a visit from that gentleman , while on his ¦ Co rniaH tour ; and if unable to obtain his aid , to secure that of some other talented lecturer . Mr Tom Ste . el-b and his '' Cock akd Bull" SroRr at -rHEVBow street Pouce CovB . T .- ~ The pithy missive stated in our last to have been , sent by a good Chartist to the Secretary of the Birmingham Complete Suffrage Union , was transmitted to the head pacificator , who in repl y denies that he ' mentioned Chartists or Chartism at Bow-street

      at all . Nobody . ever said he did . He trumped up the story of disloyal wordu uttered " at a n meeting . ' His friend , "the black- ' uri '' ( Mr . Crow j stated the meeting tb have been a Char ' tist meeting . Arcades Ambo . The one forges , and the other directs the clumsy javelin : the in * formant , " Fairbrother , ' ( what a name to be connected with a story like this ! j having first .. supplied the unwrought materiel . J ..-C . Beaumont . —If he wilt keep his temper , and give us his exact , address , so that tve may reach him with . a letter , he shall'hearfrom us , and' . shall have satisfactory reasons for thai which hcis so very angry about : " Bbistol Chartist Youths—Their correction of the

      statement that there were no '' Philpites"in their body appeared in our Notices to Correspondents of the week following the statement . It urai received from the same person who sent the paragraph . : ' / - . - ¦ . " : /¦ - / .- /;/ . ' .-. ' : "; : ¦¦"¦ ¦'¦ - /;¦/ , . Whitehaven . —Tfe hear that the friends of freedom are about to open a local association for the pro ' mitigation of the truths of Chartism in Whitehaven . Heaven speed them ! ;/•" ¦ ¦ One of the Middle Classes , who Would bh Industrious . —We have received his long letter ; but we do not see tlie utility oj publishing it . It bears to us Ihe evidence of a mind which greatly . overrates its own powers . WewUl try to ansicer his queries . 1 st . The Chartist body , so for as we

      'know them , have no connection with , nor similarity to , nor affection for , the filthy ribaldry and disgusting Atheism of Publicola , in the Dispatch . Publicola has written against the Char ' lists with as much virulence , ignorance , and falsehood as any public writer of the day . Our Correspond' nt cannot more thoroughly loathe the . diatribes of Publicola than we do . We know very little of the religious sentiments of the body whom our correspondent- terms ihe . *' ' O' Neil Christian Chartists ; " but we apprehend that they are not "Catholics or Romanists" We rather suppose them to consist of parties holding it may be a variety of individual opinions upon what are usua

      qgreexng in their political sentiments , and agreeing afio 1 in the two great religious acknowledg ' merits of the' DivmUyof ' -. theLord ' and ' . the Divinity ' Cortruth J ejthe Sacred Scriptures . Mr . O'Connor hasnot been caught" in the trap" of ' * the Labourers' Friend Society . ' We do hot know whether Mr : O'Brien , the Chariot , be-or , be noU-thjt' . same Mr . 0 ' Brie ilia whose writings in Lelund hema / cfs allusion We know nothing about Air . Farry , the Sturge Conference deputy . The Hkistol Chartists and the Stukgites . — We have received a letter from the Bristol sub-Secretary in reference to the coiduct of the Cha ?' tisis at the late Sturge meeting in thai toion ^ stating that no opposition was offered by the Chartists to the objects of the meeting ; that the meeting merely exercised its right of electing a chairman , which loas resisted by the Slurgileson

      behalf of their advertised chairman ; that if even the advertised chairman had been submitted to the vote of the meeting , he would not have been opposed , but that al { the "opposition" consisted in ihe contempt of the usage and orderly proceedings of piiUic meetings evinced by the Siurge party . We ttiU think that , notwithstandbigthis explanation , the Char lists did wrong . theif , should ; have allowed the SturgU ' es to go on with their ewhbutiness in their own way , taking anybody , ' or nobody for a chairmahy as they pleased , so fang ' ai ; 710 attacki upon , or compromise of , our principles were attempted . Had any su ^ h thing rendered it necessary for the Chartists to uphold our principles ^ and the : chairman had refused 1 them a fair hearing * it would have been quite ' competent for the meeting to vote him out of this chair , and some one else into Ui : ' /¦

      Gablislr CHARTiSTS / - ^ 7 % 0 y have sent us no trades or residencesoftheircouncil . I > avid M' MiLLAN . —We have no rooriti ' v Birmingham Chartists . —Their address io the Irish Universal Suffrage Association next week . David Thompson . — We hivenotrpom this week . luKSTALL Chartists . —Their list of ' council' « omitted because the trades and residences are not given . Geoiige Punn . —TAeBradford ' Chartists have written us several times , disclaiming all connection with this person , who was some time ago expelled , tfie ' ir association . ; ,: PftOPAGANDii-M . —Mr . Wm . G »// i «* r , jun . yMcxbTO * Flint

      -glass Works , by Rotherham . writes to exhort the Chartists of DoncasUr , Rotherham , dnd Gainsbro \ to exertion . He says ;—" Fellow-Serfs , —it is a fact , that although Chartism has' attained a greater strength now than ever it hail before , and that there are Chaxtiats in evety town and village , yet in many of the market towns within forty miles : of you there is no Chartist ; 6 ocitty . We find that ^ herevei ' thelocalleadaap- , are active the good cause flourbhes most : come , ; then , let ua be active , and do oar own part . to- ' warda our own frsedom ; let na unite , andBend ( itie Voice of CbartiJJHi Into every town and village in : ¦'¦ our difttiict . '¦ -.. ¦ ¦ . ¦¦ ¦ : ¦ ¦ . '¦ ¦ .. - . ¦ . '• : ¦¦ .- . ' . ' - ^ ¦ - '" ¦

      "If Doncaster could furnish £ 1 , Rdtherham 4 V Gainabro' ^ l , Swinton and Wath £ 1 , Are ndgbt thea venture to employ a lecturer for one mbattJ ^ ftndtherestof his wagea conld be made up in the : HJonfti . How these Places , with ; a leobwer it theiroommand , could send good , news to the following i places , all market fcowna t-i-Thome , Goole , Snaithy Cfowle , Epjworth , East Ketford , <}« . glej-upon-Hill , Bawtry , Twkbilli VSrbrksop , & 6 . This Would be a good route for a lecturer ; and if associations could be established in each place , they , along w \ lI L R ^ herhani , Doncastor , &a , would , I ttHnK , formed in a distriei , be enabled to keep a lectnrer employed regularly . There aia many popnloua vtUagea Vh . tci \ mtgW be aaitettd witli good Saccess , " -

      The Jsoiltheb^ Stak S Aturuay, July 23,1642.

      THE JSOILTHEB ^ STAK S ATURUAY , JULY 23 , 1642 .

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      REAL UNION WITH THE MIDDLE CLASSES ; We have bnt just time to point attention to the proceedings as reported in another column , of an important meeting of shopkeepers at Burnley . Our effort his been for some time back to Bhow the working portion of the middle classes , the honest shopkeepers , that their whole interests are inseparable , even for a moment , from the prosperity of those whose pence fill up their tills ; happy are we -to- / see one portion of them apparently convinced . The shopkeepers Of Burnley take the right course . They apply for the true remedy ; and they do so in the

      right way . They do their own work : the people very prpperiy not interfering to destroy the distinctive character of their meeting . With men like these there is some hope of an useful because honest union . And this is just what we have all along told the people must come if they were but faithful to themselves ; and forbore to go over to the middle classes instead of insisting on the middle classes coming over to them . Let them however yet be wary . The Burnley shopkeepefs are not all the middle classes . The war is not over because one regiment of honest men have joined us .

      The League are as orafty and as wmmg to lay hold of popular support without giving anything to the people as they ever were . Let the people read the following silky , wily , letter to the Chairman of the anti-Corn Law Conferonoe in London : — " My Dear Sir , —I thank you for your communication . I think you will have another Delegation from Coventry , but riot for / repeal only— ( cheers . ) The people hero are ripe for a straggle . We have to-day presented a requisition to the Mayor , well signed , at a ehort notice , to call a meeting to consider the state of the country . Hehasdoneso , and we meet on Tuesday . Our measures are not resolved upon , but we cannot keep the people back ; and I think wo had better give tho reins in favour of democracy .

      Dotirge upon the League thv propriety and policy of leading the people . We want but leaders , and we will dp anything and everything , but ; the masses will not restrict their efforts to Corn Law Repeal Ouc language will be denunciation of aristocracy and class-legislation , and defiance of the present House of Commons . I shall be glad of the latest information from head-quarters , that our measures on Tuesday may be in harmony ,, if possible ; will you write on Monday night ? Above ally impress upon ths Delegates that if they want the people at their back they must take up the suffrage question Without that , their efforts are hopeless , and the people will throw themselves upon more daring and reckless leaders .

      " I am , yours truly , " J . Whitxern . " Lot this letter be well read ; It * exactly corroborates and substantiates all we have over said and written as to the obvious purpose of the new-fledged patriots in " taking up tho Suffrage question "—just to place themselves again in the position of "lead ing the people ; " Let the people submit to be again "led" by them , and whither will they lead them I To the Suffrage ? Not they , indeed ! but to the accomplishment of their own projects of M Extension , " when , with small ceremony and less feeling , they will hand over their blind followers to an amount of ruin

      event greater and more pitiable than that which now engulfs them- Let the people but keep their eyes open , and their feet steady , and they are all right . _ -

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      MR . « HEAD-PACIFrCATOR ' STEELE AGAIN . " The Morning Chronicle of Friday last contains the following morsel , —too rich to pass without oar readers having a taste of it : —

      THE NGRTHERX STAR—MR STEELE . " To Vie Editor of Vie Morning Chronicle . " SIR , —The last number of that vulgar and stupid rag , the Norlliepi Star , contains a column of abuse of me , gTounueii upon a pure lie , invented either bj that wretched tool of Feargus O'Connor , the elitor of the paper , or more probabJy invented by abject Feargus himeolf , to try to serve a purpose . " It is with audacioua impudence of falsehood affirmed that , in my recent evidence at Bow-street , before the magistrate ^ Mr . Jardine , I bad alleged that the imputed Words—^ that " -. ' the Quren should be got rid of , ' had occurred at a Ctiartiat meeting .

      •• Now , ie will be perceived by reference to the reported evidence , that I never once mentioned or aliuded . directly or indirectly , either to Cbattists or Chartism . I could not have done so , for the person from waoml got my information at Bldorasbury , aad whowas' / bymy sidie , and who gave his evidence at Bow-street , a person of the name of Fairbrothor , distinctly declared that he had heard that the observation was made at a dififarent kind of meetiDg altogether . ' ¦ '' -.. " Tho object of this rascally article is qnite transparent

      "I am myself a Chartist of the Joseph Scurge and O'Connell school , and one of the council of the National Cimplsto Suffrage UDion , and , therefore , as a Sturgite Chartist , I am , of course , eager to unite the greatest possible numbar of friends to freedom in sanctiiied , peaceful , and constitutional brganfzition , Without bloodshed or violence , for general Reform . <; Feargu 3 O'CoDlior , in bis staling , ill-regulatsd , and fantastic ambition , on tho contrary , labours to keep his deluded dupes , the Frargusites , in disseveratlon from us ; and for this hnt ^ iul purpose he , withOat scruple , speaks and writes all muniier of lies , -which may tend to prevent union and perpetuate discord .

      " And now a word on another subject ia relation to this unfortunnte poison . He constantly , at his meetings of knaves and dupes , proposes cheers for Frost , and Jones , and Williams . •• ¦ ¦¦ ¦ NoWi sir , it appears to me that if Mr . Feargns O'Connor is of opinion that F . ost , and JoneS i and Williams , ought to ba cbeercd for . the proper time for him to cheer would have been in cheering them on afe their hea' 4 in their attack upon Newport , instead of skulking from danger , as he always does " That was th « time for cheaxini ? them , if he thought tkotn right ; arid' not now while / they are exiles , instigated to their fata by his own writings and spieecneai

      ' Frost , by his cowardice , bhowett himself worthy to be the follower of the craven Feargua O'Connor , and the / poor wretch is now sufferini ; a deep aggravation of his primitive punishment , very probably excited by hearing of thoBe cheerlngs , by writihg home political letters to Eqglahd , worthy of the disciple of ' the brave FtiargusH !' " I have thehononrto be , Sir , " With great / respect , 11 Your moat obedient , bumble servant , "Thomas Steele . " July 11 . "

      Is not that fine ! So the " Head Pacificator " would charge us with falsehood ! The lying fellow can himself speak no truth , and thinks no one else should . Ws nover said that he said any thing about Chartists or Chartism . We gave the report from the Times wUhont altering a word . The report of the Morning Chronicle was jdat / the same Y and it reprosented Mr . SrEEtE to , say that the "disloyalty " was / at a Teetotal meeting , while his witness , Mr ; CbQW , fixed it on the Chartists ; thus contriving between them to saddle the odium of " disloyalty " on both Teetotallera and Chartists . This SraRGB councillor SxEEEE is indeed a bright man ! "the broth of a boy !?

      "He merits not the name of man ! " SoBaid as good a Chartist and as perfect a gentleman as lives ; * nd / wa never knew a truer sentence . Tom Stesie ! what a name for a Pacificator I It is really as ironical as M Captain Rock . " But seriously , let us see wlio this Tom : Stbele is , or if he be worthy the name of nran f in < the first place , let us Mkonrseivcs what is man ! the answer is , ' a reasoning being , capable of judging between good and evil , and of acting in accordance with his jadgmeut '; but oau an individual come under this head who bound himself neck and Bleevea to O'CoNNELiin 1836 , bj ; declaring "That if O'Connell would order him to spring a mine , stand upon it , and abide its issue , he would do bo" ; while by way of shewiag how inuoh credit

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      is due to bis words , in ; the / following year he ^ ' addressed a letter io . G'Conneli ; , stating if- he would not : answer him " certain qaestions ;* ho woald never again act in publip concert wUfr him /! // Well ; ( XComELL did not answer him " sweet enough , ' - and accordingly Mr "Head Pacifioa / tor" Tom Steelb , ! in the most public manner , resigned both his Liber&torship and his head Pacificatorship of Ireland I . (; Nevertheless , the following week he addressed a letter to the Freeman s Journal , SIGNED with all his pompons insignia of office !! Again , when Mubray , the

      Corn taw delegate , was in Limerick , in 1839 , who opposed him ! The Mayor and Tok Steele with a mob , and turned him onfc of doors ! Yet the following week he received a note from O'Conneli ,, stating that he Daniei . O'Conneli , waa tnV friend of the Corn Law League ! and that -he ( Sthexe ) must not interrapt Mubray ! Mark th 9 change The following week Tom STEEtE / actually presided at a dinner f ^ iven to Sidney 5 JI 1 TH ia the very earne city !! I Well might our correspondent say that ho is not worthy the name of man i The " Mad Tom " , to use a local phrase , that would revile Cfeartism I the goose of O'Conneli , for Whom when he was on the / spit of a Pebtors ' Court for £ 14 ., O'Connell did not advance even ia

      penny to baste him ! The moral force "head pacificator" of Ireland , who denpnnced"physical-force Chartism , " while he called on the people of Ireland to appear in " marshal array" ! the head-pacificator , wh ^ se Iodging 8 are not 100 yards from where Bean presented a pistol at her Majestv's carriage wheel » The " pacificator" , who is in London , while tbe men of Ennis are reeking with gore ! The Pacificator , wh © raised his tiger-cry of Slood in 1839 , against our loved brothers in Chartism , robbed poor Clancey of the proceeds of his honest , industry , and made him an atien to his native land ! Tom Steele is a Councillor of the Sturge Men ' s Complete Suffrage Union . We add to his Bow-street exhibition , and the precious inoroeaux above , the following : from hia speech at a repeal meeting reported elsewhere

      :-r-" A / ' tide of thought : rashes on my soul at tnis momeHt by reason of the many subjects on which I might choose to address my brother Repeal Wardens in this wardmote—the -Repeal ¦ itself ; the anti-slavery question , the income-tax , the new , noble , and peaceful Chartist movement ia England , under Joseph Sturge , as contra-distinguished from Feargnaisxn , the Cflartism of that cowardiy miscreant incendiary , Feargus O'Connor— ( hear , hear , bear ) . In ths Sturgite movemept O'Conneil is not only a member of tne povisional council , but , as a lawyer , he i » the ' Counsellor pCbnnell' of t ' ae Complete Suffrage Union , as perfectly as ha was ever the ' Counsellor O'Connall * of the Irish people . " . ' / .

      We leave ths people noy ? to estimate "the sack " of tho Sturge man by " the sample / ' and to deliver their judgment accordingly .

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      4 T 1 IE NORTJIE ^^ . . .., ., . ¦ ¦'¦ ¦ " , ¦ ¦ . :- ' .: . / ' " .,:-: ¦ .. ' : - .. ' -Vv . ' . ,: ' ^ Z

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 23, 1842, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1171/page/4/