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      sovth tAWCASKiRE . —Delegate Mbetikg . —Ibi * meeting m b * 14 in the Chartist-room , Brownstreet , But Manchester , ' which bad been called for the « i ± aeM purpose of taking into consideration the releaae of the Chartist prisoners , and to adopt means ¦ which to then might seem best to get op a demonstration for their reoeptian into Manchester . I tins agreed fo » j . the committee , which had already been formed for thai purpose In Manchester , should hare a Trace in tbe delegate meeting . Present—Mr . John CarUedge , Brown-street , Manchester ; Mr . Jonah Schofield , Droylsden ; Mr . Richard Hsslem , Oldhsm ; Mr . James Bowers , Stalybridge ; Mr . Roger Green , Middleton ; Mr , James Barlow , Stock-port ; Mr . Wood , Manduster ; Mr . David Booth , NewUn Heath ; Mr . John

      Toynson , Hardman-street , Manchester ; Mr . williun . Flstt , Salter-street , Manchester ; Mr . John Howarth , BateUfle Bridge ; Mr . John Balky , Oldham-road , Man-Chester ; Mr : Gabriel Bargraves , Manchester ; Mr . Peter Sfaom * ks , and Mi Win . € triffin . Mr . Peter Shorrocks was called to the chair , and commenced bosi sess by explaining to them tie reasons why they had been called together a week earlier than their usual time of meeting , and then proceeded to read teee letters which he had received ; the first from . Feargus O'Connor , Esq . ; the Becond from Mrs . O Brien , sad the third from Mr . Wo . Benbow ; after which a long discussion eomnreoeed amongst the delegates as to the day on which the above patriots should be requested to arrriTe at Manchester . One party contended for Saturday , whilst the other party wished for Monday , which terminated in a resolution to the following effect : — " That the Committee at Manchester shall again discuss the subject relative to the day oc

      ¦ which the demonstration shall take place , and that each delegate lay the ome before his constituents , who ¦ hall decide which -day they -wish , sn 4 to meet again in the same room to-morrow ( Sunday ) , and when assembled , that day on which the majority of delegates come prepared to stats would best suit their constituents , the demonstration will be held whether it be Monday or Saturday . " 2 nd . " That three persons be appointed to draw up an address to the prisoners . " Mr . John Bailey , yli . Riehard Haalem , said Mr . William Griffin were chosen for that purpose . They were reqaested to retire into the Committee-room while the others discussed other business which would be brought be / are them . Bat as nothing definite had been received from either Feargus O'Connor er the rest of the prlaoaexs upon tbe subject of their release , no resolution ws * passed . Shortly , tie Committee entered with the following address , which was read and carried with

      TO FElRffCS Q'COXyOR , ESQ ., MR . BROXTERRE O'BRIEN , A 2 tD MR . WILLIAM BE 2 TB 0 W . Patriotic Siks , —We , the delegates assembled in Brown-street , East Manchester , on Sunday , July 4 th , 18 U , baring heard that you are shortly to be released from your dungeons , beg most respectfully to inform yon , both on behalf of onrselre * and our constituents , that it is with joy inexpressible , that we receive such glad tidings . Sirs , we hail with delight , mingled with anxious expectation , the approach of the time when we shall once more have the pleasure and opportunity of seeing you , and to enjoy your company ; and when your tanaeendaut talents shall be called into action ,

      unfettered and free , both with yonr tongues and pens . When . jou , as you are ever welcome , shall Uke your proper stand amongst and assist those who hare fought the battle in your absence . Without flattery on our part , « b assure you wehavs many times had to lament the loss of such men as you in one of the most glorious , gigantic and enterprising struggles , that has ever occupied the minds and attention of the working millions , namely to burst the fetters of alavery , and stand up in the dignity of freemen , to gain those rights , liberties , sand pziraegea which of right belongs to universal maa . 3 > aeply hare we grieved that tyrants at heart should-be allowed to torture and insult you , and injure you both bodily aad mentally , especially when we are conscious thai the Terr extent of your crime , has been

      ttcanse you possessed feelings of sympathy , generosity and affection for , and manfully and indefatigably laboured to better the condition of what has been termed , by tboss who lire upon the fruits of our industry , " the swinish multitude" ;—feeling , as we do , convinced that if you had considered your own individual interest to the exclusion of ours , and had titan an opposite coarse , you could and would have been blessed with every priTilege—had you consented to go hand and glove with those who are now your and our . oppressors , you might , instead of being where you now ssre , team occupied the highest seats in tb «> senate Boose , extolled and rewarded for yonr abilities by those who , through the medium of an hireling press , brand yon with the epithets of fire-brands , rebellious , disaffections , < fce .

      Sirs , —We tiie working classes , judging from your station in society , are sufficiently a-ware that you have bean actuated by the purest of motiYeB ; and seeing the poverty , misery , tyranny , and oppression , the effects of dass-legisladou , everywhere abounding amongst the ao&Uvad millions of your fellow-creatures—a lore for Ihesu , youraeH , posterity , aad your country combined , propelled and stimulated you to exertion in the great "WtAjei uniTersal redemption , liberty , and happiness to alL We hare come to this conclusion from an im-J * essk > n wroHgfat upon our minds by watching your conduct for yean ; and , from the bold and disinterested manner you hare proceeded when 8 . 11 the power and influence of tyrants was arraigned against you ; from the Banner in which you have brayed the storm , be th in dancer

      aad out of danger , throngb e-ril as -well &s through good report , bidding defiance to police magistrates , attorney-general , judges , and juries , because yon were armed and fortified with truth and justice , and engaged in a righteous and glorious cause . They , poor short sighted , empty-headed fools , fancied . that when youand the rest of the good and true , who have nobly aaffered like yourselves , were taken from ns , that the ery against oppression would ceast , and that it would abate the thirst for liberty in those who Trere left be-Jiind ; bnt , alas ; thank God , they never made a greater mistake ; for , in the first place , they have not , by their dungeens , erased the lore of liberty from the breasts of those whom they hare had under their iron grasp ;* but , on the contrary , they , the patriots , hare come out of

      the furnace purified , and as giants refreshed with new wine , filled with seal and determination , have entered the field with more "rigour , and are going forward , advocating the principles of liberty through the length and breadth of the land . This ought , above all , to convince the despots , that neither the dungeon , the sword , nor the scaffold , -will be sufficient to uphold oppression , or stifia the cry for liberty . In the second place , those who have been left behind , those whom the blood hounds of the law have n » t thought sufficient game , have taken th * place of yourselves and others , and have supplied them to the best of their ability —the ill-used working classes likewise began to read ¦ ttnnk , jndge , and ^ ct for themselves , and thusnt was that the fustian jackets , the unshorn chins , and the

      blistered hands have met the tyrants upon the same stage ; stood forward in the majesty of their causa , and in thousands of instances havejbeat them in open and fair discussion , until at length , though we as Chartiste have suffered more persecution , met with more opposition both from the law , the Government , the middle and higher classes , and all those who wish for things to remain as they are , and have had our Tanks broken into , and out of them 450 of our best men imprisoned ; in a -word , history floes not record & OCiety SO mu * h persecuted and prosecuted as ouxa has been , from the eommeseemeut of our agitation for tlie Charter . Yet , notwithstanding all this yon have never flinched , you have n ^ t bended beneath your sufferings , and it is with exultation that we can without fear of contradiction , say , nay we rejoice ; and exclaim in a Toice of thunder , that we are in a better position than we were when you left us . That we are now

      better organised ; a better understanding exists with each other , and by the circulation of information through the medium the Star , and the Chartist press , the working classes in erery part of England and Scotland , and many parts of Ireland , have been enabled to read our principles , which cannot help feat produce conviction in erery honest and candid mind * f tbfiir correctness and purity : and thus have they become more intelligent . And , again , many who ooee looked upon as with scorn and contempt , have been led , for the sake of the novelty of the thing , to gramme and give those principles a proper investigation ; and ai many haTe acknowledged , -with a prejudiced miad , who after have eome honestly forward Joined our Association , aad have allowed themselves to be pat upon the plan « f lecturers , to expound those principles which they at one time presumed that they were justified in treating with contempt .

      Then , honoured Sirs , it « aeh has been our progress without men like yourselves to advise with and direct -e »—if this has been and is now our position—if we could meet the factions when we bad only a fustian Jacket , and amid all the conflicting and numberless difficulties , and when even he ran the risk of losing his employment—if we could make ahead against such « dds , what might we now anticipate when you once Cftore take your post—when yonr presence shall gladden , and when your tongues , as if broken loose from bondage , shall excite our countrymen , and stimulate th « a so that thousands will step out « f the routine of their former energies and be alive to their ownintarett in putting forward oar florioas and immutable Charier ? Te * , noble O'Connor , ire , judging £ wb the elemeaU Of Which you are eompoeed , expect great things froayou in addition to what you have 4 oae , in rousing the whole nation by your eloquence , determination , perseverance , and generalship , cutting tight an * left at those factions who dread your

      approach . And you noble O'Brien , termed as you have been by yonr companion Feargus , the schoolmaster of England , ¦ we jodge you likewise from your former conduct ; we have a pledge from you written in almost every page of < ho Poor Max . * Guardian , and from your eight years democratic writings we feel confident that you are up te the mark—that jonr mighty fingers and your pen will again be brought to bear against the citadel of corruption , and that you will hold up the present corrupt system to the blue of open day , shewing its foul and demoraliafag character ; that yon will chew the absurdity and isihtcQtty of our nlea , whether Whig or

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      Tory , in their trying to prop np a falling natioafby artifieial means , and shew the remedy for saving a sinking wreck . Noble and veil tried and nev ^ fbund-wanting , undaunted Benbow , yon will giTe no quarts * to the enemy . If every one had taken your advice , they would all hare been dammed to death long since . Judging from yonr defence , from the fortitude which you show under your sufferings , and from long duty perfouned with honour to yourself and satisfaction to you fellow-creatures , as recorded and registered in the democratic press for the last twenty years . We wish to convey to you , honoured Sir , that we do not despair in yon , Vat , on the contrary , you live in our breasts , and , like the aforesaid nobles of nature , possess our confidence and esteem ; and that we hope and trust we shall be able to convince you that we appreciate your exertions on your and onr behalf .

      Sirs , we look forward to all three of you to join the ranka of the rest who have lefAtielt dungeons to assist in opening the eyes of the million * to their tree interests , to organise them , and raise such a phalanx as will , before no very distant period , wring from a worthless , despotic , and tyrannical Government those rights and immunities which the laws of the omnipotent Ruler of the universe , and the laws of nature entitle us to . Honanred Sirs , there are thousands whose hearts pant with anxiety for the day on which they can pay a services hint

      debt of gratitude for your past ; only a that you are about to be released , baa put fresh life into the whole country ; and the question universally asking is , how can we sufficiently repay you ? How can we de to get up such a demonstration as England never saw , and to carry out which , money has been called for , which comes in beyond our expectation . Flags and banners of the most costly and splendid descr iption ase bei * g provided ; aad with everlasting credit to the females , we are compelled to * ay tiat they bid Cair to be foremost in the field .

      In conclusion , we , in behalf of our constituents , of ourselves , of our wives and children , return you our sincere thanks for the past , and place unbounded confidence in you for the future , and remain yours truly and affectionately in the cause of democracy , Universal Suffrage , and no surrender . Signed , By order of the delegates , Peter Shorbocks , Chairman . Chartistrrooms , Brown-street , July 4 th , 1841 . After the reading of the address , it was resolved , «• That the Editor of the NerOiern Star tee requested to insert the above address in the next publication . " A vote of thanks was given to the three individuals who drew up the address , and also to the Chairman , and thus ended a pleasing and animating meeting . ( This report was received for our last , but was accidentally omitted . —Ed . ]

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      THE MONSTER . After nine years of lingering hope between life and death , the monster Toryism , refreshed by Whig delinquency , strengthened by "Whig treachery , and emboldened by popular hatred of Whiggery , has been resuscit&ted ; and in the plenitude of its reformed power , "will no doubt vainly hope to hold the reins of Government and to rule British slaves according to olden custom and constitutional prerogative . Silly thought ! They most learn , and that at once , that the people rejoice in their newly acquired strength only as indicative of their approaching and instant and irrevocable destruction .

      Whyjffery , which for sine years acted as a foil to Toryism , was not the great opponent of Tories during the past struggle for pre-eminence . No ; those sections of the people who brought Tory strength in advance , in order to hare a fair shot at the enemy , whom , for nine years , the Whig ranks had covered , were the real enemies of Toryism , and the real friends of constitutional liberty . The cry of " give us a fair trial" will not for a

      moment be listened to . They have had too many u fair trials f and in each and all the people have found them wanting } and however the proud flesh of Whiggery may for a long time have coveredJand partially obscured the deep and festering wound of Toryism , yet will the caustic of public opinion very speedily remove the outward skin , and expose the running sore of constitutional disorder" TheIKisg ' s Evil "—to the naked eye .

      Give them & " fair trial , " indeed ! Have not our fathers and our grandfathers , our children and ourselves , given them a fair trial" ! And what has been the results ! In power , they have been rampant devils ; in opposition , they have been pasting bloodhounds ; cautious in every step , lest in a moment of over-zeal to attain office , they should , by a lipoffering to liberty , liberality , or justice , establish a precedent dangerous to the tyrant ' s rule .

      To U 3 > he plea of Whiggery—that the Tories made them villains , is not goc d ; to it , therefore , we demur , and reply Not so ; for had yon relied upon popular support , yon would have been independent of Tory moderation , and guiltless of the villany . " Bat let not the Whigs Euppose , meantime , that they can in turn play the part of negative tyrants , in the hope of again resuscitating Whiggery upon Tory hatred . Let them not imagine that Tory oppression ,

      unopposed by them , will of itEelf replace Whiggery in the ascendant . No , it will not . We have now created the monster ; it is for them in opposition to deal with it inside ; while for ourselves we are nothing daunted by its electoral strength , so long as the people have the command of the electrifying machine which is now charged , and ready to cammunicate a shock to tyranny , in whatsoever form it presents itself , whether abroad or at home .

      What then have we to fear ? We are aware that the bold Chartist stands in mnch greater daDger than the boldest Whig ; we are conscious that the Whig jury-class will applaud as patriotic all Whig attacks upon Toryism , so long as they , the jurors , look equally to Whig and Tory rule as sufficient protection or class legislation , by which the juryclass thrive ; while the same " sworn jurors of eur Sovereign Lady the Qaeen" will have no difficulty in seeing a gross violation of kw , and practices requiring immediate correction , in the case of & honest Chartist .

      What , in such caBe , then , becomes the bounden duty of the veritable Chartist ! We have over and over again shown that law is a farce ; and that , as Mr . O'CoJOiOR has well observed : " There is more danger to the peasant who shoots at the squire ' s hare , than to the squire who shoots at the peasant ' s head . " This is true ; most true : but , then , unopposed tyranny acquires the stamp of custom ; and usage and custom are most easily transferred to the country ' s records as common law ; whereas vigorous

      opposition to the infant abuse would have prevented the monster ' s strength . Hence have the people been most culpable in olden times . Indeed we have no right to lay equal stress upon popular acquiescence at present , inasmuch as the storm of popular indignation so snccessfnlly kept up against the New Poor Law Bill and the Rural Police Bill , is likely , if not to crush those monstrous iniquities to the earth per se , indirectly to annihilate , not only them , but the power of their Cramers ,

      What then , we say , becomes the people ' s duty They must create a power stronger than oppression ; a national feeling stronger than party or class prejudice ; a sense of justice greater than the laws' persecution ; and if attacked unconstitutionally behind such a rampart of moral strength by physical orce , then necessity , which is the mother of invention , will of itself , asd apon the moment , create a force stronger than gunpowder . The voice of knowledge has almost silenced the cannon ' s roar , and Tiiture , cm ready to ant right against night , will be prompt in supplying her children with the m , * nj of self-defence against their enemies .

      The mode of accomplishing all these desirable objects is by a dissemina \ ion of cheap political tracts—the support of that J . T 63 S which comes up to the Chartist principle , not or ^ y the support of those principles , bat the establishment of » principle ; that is the English Chartist Circular , for -jd . ; the Scotch Chartut Circvlar , id . ; JI'Douall ' s cheap publication , which we are extremely sorry to learn is not Enppported as it ought to be ; the Odd Fellow ; Vincent ' i National Vindicator , and all the other ; and though last , not leaat , the glorious

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      Cooper ' s little Leopold * which thongh compelled often to change its skin , yet never changes its flesh ; to meet in dr / Kas , in scores , in hundreds to talk about the Cr / zrter and its blessings ; to hold public meetings n / , w and then , to prove the advance of public opiniftifi ; to is&ist upon * perfect union between all parties straggling for the same end ; to look upon « Bvery man ' s brain as having something which V ) ay be beneficially extracted from it ; to

      make every man who is for the principle agree with his brother ^ to live soberly ; never to give the enemy a handle o , ver us by any infraction of the peace , bat alwayB U » be in a state to defend ourselves against aggression : this wholesome precaution kept the peace M the West Riding nomination , whereas , all moral appeals to physical ruffianism would have been disregarded . So much for the organisation of a proper public opinion .

      Let us now see how such a force—presuming upon its completion—could be beneficially applied . For argument ' s sake , we shall for the moment suppose a possible evil , namely , that the Whigs , who for nine years have played most fantastic pranks before high heaven for the mere possession of office , should now constitutionally deliver power into Tory hands without a just and constitutional struggle in which the people could and would take part ; we mean without another dissolution and an appeal to the people , of which more anon . Suppose , then , that we have such a force , our duty is to skirmish with the en em ? according to onr means during the short

      supply campaign , which is to commence on the 19 th of next month . We could not be prepared to meet them efficiently at that time , and defeat would be disastrous . We could not get our forces together so soon ; therefore the country should petition for the restoration of Frost , Williams , and Jones in the first instance , to try the mettle of the new House . We say for Faost , Wiixuns , and Jones , because we must keep their case alive ; we never « m forget them ; we never will abandon them : moreover , whoever signs for such a petition , would cheerfully sign for the Charter ; and this both parties will understand .

      Now , although it is highly important that such petitions should be numerously signed , yet as Mr . Dxjscombe only moved on one of the prayers of our former petition , and as the restoration of Frost , Wilua » s , and Joirts was another of our prayers , he can constitutionally call the 2 , 000 , 909 spirite from the dusty archives , or rather from the burying ground for popular , opinion , and make them plead for his clients .

      Should the Tories not commence the " shooting season" in Ireland before February , when the House will meet again , and should they allow us to live in peace in England during that period , ( which is very doubtful , ) we must meet them in fall Convention on the 4 th of February , the usual day for Parliament , assembling . We have already more than two-thirds of our 49 representatives ; we say 49 , for still will we remain within the laws' Banctuary . We have

      O'Bbirn , M'Douall , Sankey , Vincent , Hanson , FlTKETHLT , HaKNEY , LEECQ , WlLLIAMS , BlNKS , Lowery , Col . Thompson , Coopbb , Richardson , John Duncan , Abraham Duncan , Thomasson Mills . Moib , M'Ckae , Mabtin , young Thompson , and many others ; in fact , Scotland the land of martyrs , and consequently of patriots , has nearly filled up the list ; however the deficiency will be easily made good .

      If these forty-nine representatives are backed by the country , and supported by 4 , 900 , 000 ] signatures , which they will have and more , it will then become the duty of the people of London , headed by every member of the Convention , to go in procession to the Home Office with an address to the Queen ; and to the House of Commons with a petition to the House , of such nature and quality , aa the country shall decide upon . Meantime , as full notice of the day of presentation will be given , it will become the easy , the pleasing , and the imperative duty of the people of every town throughout the empire to Bet

      one Monday apart , supposing the petition to be presented . on a Friday , —( thus giving ample time for the knowledge of the treatment which it and the procession shall have experienced , to travel to the most distant part of the country)—we say , it vriR then become the people ' s duty to set that day apart , as the Chartist jubilee ; sad , without any nonsense of declaring their determination to have recourse to physical force , it becomes their duty to meet and gay what next ! and it becomes the duty of the delegates to remain in London to receive the decision .

      Let these things be done ; and let no funds , not a farthing , be placed in the hands of the Convention , beyond the mere necessary supply for advertising ; stationery , and rent of meeting place . Let each delegate receive full and ample wages from hi ? own local treasurer ; and let him receive it , like other honest workmen , on every Saturday night , and none in advance ; and let a detailed account of the proceedings be printed at the close of each week , a few

      copies of which should be sent to each town , to be read in different places upon a given day ; and let a Committee be chosen to draw up such report ; and let it , when drawn up , and before publication , be submitted to the whole body , and its truth and correctness be thus authenticated ; and then the country will have an unstamped national weekly organ , divested of falsehood and party spirit , and bearing the sterling Btamp of truth .

      Such are the weapons with which the country should be armed to resist Tory domination ; while the Whig alternative should be to transfer all the combustible elements of popular discontent into the House of Commons , as a national safety valve . To talk now of longer holding power by majorities and gunpowder , is child ' s play—a farce ! We are told that the government of a country i » , in general , a correct miniature of popular opinion . In this folly the Leeds Mercury joined during the days of Whig ascendancy ; but what

      will the Mercury say now ! We say now , as we before said ia reply : " that such was only a political truism , when the existing government did actually represent a majority of the nation . " Will the Mercury now say that the Tory Government represents a majority of the nation ! and if not , will it say that the government is s constitutional government ! and , if he admits that such is not the case , is it not our bounden duty , and the bounden duty of every good man to arrive at the means of at ^ t&ining an object upon which all appear to be agreed .

      It is plain that the Whigs cut a stick in 1832 , with which the Tories have thrashed them soundly in 1841 . What , then , can the Whigs do ? Can they go to the shrubbery again and select another Whig switch ? No ; impossible ; they must go to the forest and cut a Tory wattle , of which they may hold one end and the people the other ; and then ail may hope to annihilate the whole power of Toryism . The Whigs cannot regain power by the present constituencies of their own creation ; that is

      certain ; they have lost power by trafficking , experimentalising , and fencing with Tery opposition ; yielding to Tory prejudice , instead of bending to the national voice . They cannot toss up any other " hasty pudding" to catch the hungry electors ; they have gone further in their new cookery than they thought practicable or prudent ; and if reinstated by a majority , it was doubtless their intention to hire still relied upon Tory opposition for the non-performance of clap-trap promises .

      What , then , mast they do 1 They must , as they have tried juggling for nine years , now try a fair game . They must show the people every card in the pack , and tell the people , in the event ot a fresh deal , how many trumps they , the people , shall hold to stop " a bad lead , " or change a dangerous game . They must DISSOLVE AGAIN ! a&d without appearing ridiculous to all the nations of the earth , by another " vision , " or " night mare , " they need be at no trouble to go in search for the proper bait / or the season . We will bait the hook , and tie the fly , so as to catch tbe ( fish ; bat the fish most be

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      thirty Chartist Members , instituting the anti-Tory and Chartist staff in the House . At this notion , which we were the firet to broach , and which we rejoice to find the Chronicle and the Sun support , the bloody old Times , and our Great Grandmother , are outrageous . So mnch the better . If the Whigs allow the Tories onoe to get possession of the gunpowder and the treasury , then farewell all hope of such organic change , short of revolution , as will ever again transfer power from Tory to Whig hands .

      Let the Whigs , upon the other hand , do that which the national voice will call most constitutional and loyal ; let them appeal to THE PEOPLE , and give to THE PEOPLE a fair representation ; and then let the Tunes and the Tories rave away till they are black in the face ; and we pledge our lives that the result will be a wattle to crush Toryism , and for

      ever . These are not times to stand en nice prerogative . Society is divided into the landed class , represented by apolitical majority ; a money , commercial , and manufacturing class , represented by a political minority ; and a people made paupers by both—not represented at all , Can the Whigs , then , ro hope to deal with the latter class as to regain power by their exclusion ! and can they hope to persuade them that any act which denies them representation , can be for their benefit ?

      The Tories , it is true , have been much relieved by the rejection of Herkies , Sir George Mprray , and Mr . Fitzroy KetLY—all aspirants for offioe ; but then there are ample combustible materials left for a grand blow up . Peel and his old followers , Knatchbdll , Goulburn , Eoerton , Lord Mahon , Sir H . Hardinge , Lord Ashley , and all the old constitutionalists , will not like to be removed by Lord Stanley , Graham , Tennant , and their expectants ; while Sir Robert Ikolis and hia disciples will each press for a curacy , or perhaps a plurality of benefices ; as we are now essentially represented by the Protestant counties . "A little leaven leaveueth the whole loaf . " Howicr

      and Charley Wood kept continually poking and hiccupping at the Melbourne Cabinet , ia spite , for breaking up his papa ' s family circle ; and when one scabby sheep was able to infect the whole flock , what amount of "scab , " and "foot-rot , " and "blackleg , " and " liver-rot , " may that shepherd expect who haa so many infected sheep on one confined pasture ! To hold office on Tory principles the whole flock must be kept together ; while to keep the whole flock together , abuse must be multiplied for the seduction of each lot .

      Now in this state of things the difficulty which stares all in the face does not appear to have struck any of our contemporaries , who measure public opinion and prosperity by the stamp returns . The difficulty is this . All the money has got into one hand , —the hand of steam ; and a preponderance of political power into another hand—the landed hand ; while , between both , the people are starving . It

      has never struck our sapient rulers that the money has got into hands over which they have no controul , and therefore they can [ have no hope from any administrative change . They may marshal , organise , and register , eaoh according to their respective tactics ; but poverty , the Chartist drill sergeant and recruiting officer , will prove the better general , and turn out in the long run , the most efficient and best disciplined corps .

      All legislation which does not regulate supply and demand , and give to labour its fair representation , placing its sterling stamp of value upon the fabric , is moonshine ! " Want teaches man remembrance what man is ; The great man down , yon mark his favourite flies ; The poor advanced , makes friends of enemies . " Therefore DISSOLVE ; " advance the poor ; make

      friends of enemies ; " give to labour thirty representatives , and you may defy the devil and all his imps : on the other hand , turn sulky with the people , and farewell your power and for ever . Therefore , Whiga , DISSOLVE I Again we say , DISSOLVE ! and , without a blow , the full bloom of Toryism vanishes , and for ever , before the sweet breath of a great nation .

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      To this man ' s power , and its abuse , we trace the weakness of Whiggery , the strength of Toryism , and the rise of Chartism . The weakness of Whiggery ; because , as we have stated scores of times , the MiniBtert relied for existence upon his profligate support , rather than upon popular favour gained by good deeds . The strength of Toryism ; because every Englishman , from the princely mansion to the poorest hotel , must have bloshed to see roguery leading folly on to national destruction , at the beck of a tramping pauper and cameleon , prostitute politician . The rise of Chartism ;

      because his end , his aim , and object has been to remove , from the House of Commons , sneb men as Colonel Thompson , Rob » dck , Shabmah Cbawfobd , Whittle Hab * by , and Feamtjs O'CoKkob , whose advocacy of popular rights might have held popular feeling for yet a little longer in abeyance , also have formed an incorruptible barrier between him and the people upon the one hand , and between him and the Government upon the other ; thus rendering his corrupt support of less valae by exposure . He well knew that to insure unopposed power , he must destroy in the House , and banish from the

      House , all honest and independent opinion . He softened down Irish support to the place-and-title standard ; and then Bold his country wholesale ! What ! does he suppose that the far-seeing people are blind ? Or does he imagine that drowsy Ireland has not opened her eyes to the fact , that the men who were scouted from the hustings , for lacking liberality , in 1832 and 1834 , are now too liberal for the " Liberator" ! Does he suppose that the invitation to the Marquis of Kildaue , ( a Whig , and

      Anti-Repealer ) to become his colleague for the representation of Dublin , passes without notice 1 Does he imagine that the Repealers forget that " Ireland ' s only "—the Duke of Leinsxer , with the help of his tool , —Pierce Mahony , got up the memorable anti-Repeal Declaration ; and does he think that they ,, the Repealers , will not recollect his , O'Connell ' s , recent declaration , that " the Marqnis o f Kildare was the son of a man who , though he took but little part in politics , teas , nevertheless , always ON THE RIGHT SJDB . "

      Fat never had a patriot . Particularly good and wide . But fell upon St . Stephen ' s Jtoor , And always on the bettered side . Again , does the " Liberator" euppose that the extinguishment of Repeal by the return of anti-Repealers , will not penetrate even into the dull minds of his nose-led followers ? Here we find a Royal nary Captain ; here a Royal army Captain , aad there an

      anti-Repeal banker , or trader , or barrister , all anti-Repealers ; but none OF THEM POOR ONES ! Such men we find started , supported and returned for the Repeal county and borough of Carlow , for New Ross , for Kinsale , Youghal , and for many other places ; while the gallant General who was slandered and defamed AS BEING A REPEALER , notwithstanding the contradiction of the libel by the Newry Examiner Repeal print , is alone defeated .

      Here then ia a new Irish sum for the solution of Irish Politicians . If it required 2 , 000 , 000 signatures and 4100 , 000 to carry Repeal in the House of Commons , with 25 Repeal Members aud a Whig time-serving administration , how many signatures , and how much money will it require to carry it with Daniel and his three sons and a Tory House t Answer . —Signatures , now no object ; money is everything . But let us expose the greatest inconsistency of the " Liberator ; " if we are justified in using so mild a term to such a moving mound of rottenness .

      Is it not strange that in his celebrated puffs and advertisements for the sale of himself , of Ireland , and of the Catholics of Ireland , addressed to Lord Duncannon , as Home Secretary , in 1836 , he should have stated the non-appointment of Irish Catholics to places of emolument , as the great causes of Irish opposition f Is ft not strange that his son , Master John , —heir to the Irish potatoes , ( the skins being for the slaves , ) complains that the Irish bar have not their full share in colonial jobbery ;—we Bay is it not strange that the "Liberator " , notwithstanding all this pleading

      for iTieh Catholio place , pension , and emolument , should now turn upon the Repealers who have been sopped off , and declare them place-hunters and sold i Ia it not strange that , in the face of Irish denunciation , the miller Baronet , Sir David Roche , and the Whig Baronet , Sir Denham Norreys , and the Whig Attorney-General , David Pigot , and the Trinity grub , old Dr . Stocks , and the Right Honourables Thomas Wyse , and Little Dick Shiel—is it not strange , we say , in the midst of all this

      denunciation , that the above title-hunters , place-hunters and sopped-off Repealers , should still be " My dear friend Roche , " " My dear friend Pigot , " " My dear friend the Doctor , " " My dear friend Shiel , " and so forth ! Ah ! the denunciation is only intended for the poor place-hunter , who cannot lf butter the bargain ; " and not for him who can " grease the fist" of the independent " Liberator , " who loves to have his itching palm tickled with the price of office , even at the expence of an ardent Repealer .

      Let us now distictly show why , even in his dying moments , the monster Chartism haunts the brain of " Old Mortality . " It must be matter notorious to the least observant , that Mr . O'Connell for many years has lived upon the very abuses which he professed to desire power to destroy . It must be equally notorious that every abuse complained of has , in turn , been placed uppermost in the showbox ; and that the juggler has invariably produced a new trick , or touched up the old one , for rent day . It must also be plain to the least observant , that the juggler has invariably by some phuffle or other changed the trump to suit his own band .

      Let his career be followed , more especially for the last four years , and do we not find him just at rent time dealing in abuse the most violent of everything English , and trying to court Irish prejudice which he has endeavoured to foster by such abuse ! Do we not find him stopping short , as though he were Bhot , the moment excitement has served his purpose ? and in the midst of all , do we not find every single abuse of which he complained , and

      which he promised to redress , still in existence , notwithstanding his mighty power 1 Nay , more ! after so long a possession of power , do we not find that the Tories , upon their re-occupation of Government , have now all the machinery of police , and arms Bill , and mitigated coercion , all furnifched by the " Liberator , ' made to band and ready for use 1 And should the Tories now abuse that power , who is to blame—those who finding it , use it , or those who furnished it 1

      Why , then , does " Old Mortality" now abuse Chartism 1 Simply because in its establishment he sees the "finality" of humbng . So long as he could live upon the wages which Tory oppression would produce , he had no objection to relinquish Whig patronage for a season . To the system of turnabout he had no objection ; but to the complete transfer of all power to the people he ia mortally opposed . He never was for any organic change ; he never affected any , the slightest , administrative change . Of what use , then , was "Old Mortality !

      ot great use . He has furnished a leeeon of wisdom t » all the nations of the earth ; he presents to the living the wreck of prejudice and old opinion , while his downfall will be a warning to all future politicians ; teaching them that the use of power , and not the means of possessing it , is the one thing to which the people look . The tortuous policy of this natural-born magician was tolerated as expediency ; and a blind following was a tribute paid to his better understanding , while in search of that power from the possession of which so much had been promised , and so much was expected .

      John Lawless , Pbrcell O'Gorsian , Mr . Lambert , O'Gorman Mahon , and all who honestly opposed , or exposed the " Liberator , " were cheerfuly offered up as sacrifices to expediency : to this blindfold subserviency , and to the fact that Dan being

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      paid before the job was completed , we attribute Ut Sale of Ireland , and bis self humiliation . Had O'Connell never touched east till his cKent ' i cause wu gained , we unhesitatingly declare , that if he had had courage , moral and personal , which he hu not , he might have been a greater man than either Napolbom , Albxawdkb the Grkat , or Cromwell . Before we notice his abuse of O'Connor and Cha r * tism at the late Dublin meeting , we may observe * that herein lies the great difference between O'Con * nob and OToNNJJLi . O'Connor has , to out knowledge , taken an oath , a solemn oath , never to accept money , or value , to the amount of one pennyworth .

      till his client ' s success shall entitle him to a just reward for his advocacy of their cause . We know that very many persons , and bodies , have felt insuited by O'Cosnob ' s refusal of presents ; but we hold his determination to be wise . There is little difference between money and money ' s worth ; and if he commenced by accepting fustian , or any other money ' s worth , he would probably end in looking for money . Had O'Connell made the resolution nol tp accept anything till his work was completed , and had he made bis interest and the interest of th * people identical in the completion , it would hay * been done , and well done , long ago .

      We now proceed to lay before onr readers the venom of the Charter draftsman , as lately spit upon his gaping swallowers in Dublin . After two columns of rank nonsense , and praise of Whiggery and out M lovely young Queen , '' " Old Mortality " says : — "A damp had been thrown on the cause ot repeal in this country , by the foolish conduct of Lord Ebringtonat the Castle . ( Groans . ) The Governm ent refused to countenance Repealers , but did it now nfu * the support of these Repealers I Were they not thank , ful for their votes that day ? ( Hear , hear . ) Then , there were the Chartists in England ; they did con . siderable damage to the Radical cause . A groan for the Chartiata . ( The call was responded to by a deafes .

      ing burst of groaning , hissing , hooting , and every pot , Bible mark of disapprobation from the immense nvolti . tude . ) Mr . O'Connell continued—I think it Tight to tell you , my friends , that Feargus O'Connor made a most deperate attempt to have me assassinated t * Leeds ; and I am informed that there are a few of bit : vagabond Chartists at present in Dublin . Well , I would like te see what colour theae fellows are ot , ( Laughter , and cheers . ) These rascally Chartists ar » onr enemies—they are the enemies of Ireland—they ait the enemies of the Queen , whom they have grossly libelled . One word more , and that Is a big word , Rs » peal . ¦ ( Cheering . ) Yes , Repeal . It is for the great measure of Repeal that I am principally struggling . "

      - Of the Repeat question we have before disposed , in as far as it has been extinguished by the ** Libers * tor . " The groan for the Chartists will be answered tenfold by the Killarney echo , whose response wiQ be ten groans for Old Mortality , ' and the putrid ' oarcaae of Whiggery . " As to O'Connor , "Old Mortality" knows fall well that he told a lie , a wilful He . Bat why marolt Could he speak truth ! He knows that Mr . O'Cbft nqr ' s only observation as to Dan s visit to Leedj was , " Let no man riot ; and , should any attempt «/ , let him be instantly restrained : our interest U « i keep the peace ; their ' sistobreakit . "

      Now , what will the old grave-digger say ? Why just what we say—that a lie , to him , is much pro / ferable to the truth ; for truth never serves the bad man's purpose . However , in the midst of all this hot contest , it ii curious to see how the netted Chartists haunt tin Whig lion at large . Every opponent of the " Libert , tor ' s , " till he met with his over-match , either fell | prey Co the " Liberator ' s" slander and abuse , or i * disgust foolishly gave him a triumph by cflangisg sides . But O'Connor opposed him from the first , in 1833 , when he discovered his treachery upon the qua . tionof Repeal ; and , without turning a hair's breadth from his course , he has hunted the " Liberator " into the arms of Ireland ' s bitterest enemies , th * . i

      coercing , " the base , the brutal , and bloody Whiga , " O'Connor has never lost an opportunity of meeting him publicly , while at large ; and has more thas once challenged him to discussion in Dublin . But no ; falsehood could not stand against truth . O'Coi * nor alone , of all his marked victims , has battled hia single-handed , for eight long years ; being in the first instance , compelled to answer hia daily abuse by Ua slow , the heavy , and expensive mode which the publication of a pamphlet afforded . Ami let it be borne in mind , that O'Connell was the aggressor ; and that O'Connor wrote him two private letten , asking him for an explanation of his calumny , which might have been erroneously published , thus giving him an opportunity of correcting any errors befon he publicly defended himBelf .

      What , then , some person may ask , is O'Connell ' i aim and end ? It is obvious ; it is to keep O'Coircroi out of Ireland , well knowing that his presence then would be a signal for revolt from the crooked standard of the " Liberator ; " but in this he will fail , for O'Connor will again go to Ireland , and dan him to discussion . While speaking ot Irish afairs , we must lay whii is positively flattering to our great cause before our readers .

      Firstly , then , for negative proof of our strengtl , We find it in the fact of O'Connkll ' s weakness and shrinking from public opinion . No doubt it hu struck all with astonishment , that the Cobourg Gardens , ( the Palace Yard , the Holloway-head of Dublin agitation , ) has not , during the whole aampaiga , been the scene of action ; whereas of old , 200 , OW Irishmen rushed to the spot , as if by impulse , without more than a whiBper ' B notice , upon the announMment that the Whigs were in danger . Why is this ! Because the " miscreant Chartists , " mayhap , would attend ; and , if got , police officers , attorneys , patriot barristers , and the tribe of fatted tradesmen who never work , would , if left to themselves , out but sorry appearance in the vast epace .

      For pur positive strength see oar weekly notice * of rising Chartism in Dublin ; and especially da we recommend that in our last to the considerate of every . English , Scotch , and Welsh workman ii the cause . From it they will learn that our Dublia friends have done just what O'Connor recommended two years ago in Convention—they have incorporated the Suffrage and Repeal Questions . Our gallant friends have united their question with our question ; that is , if Repeal can be considered more an Irish than an English question , which we utterly desfr inasmuch as both countries suffer immense damag " from the incestuous union . But it is done ; and lei " Repeal and the Charter" go hand in hand , astlw united motto of united Englishmen , Scotchmen , Irishmen , and Welshmen .

      We have before stated that the " Liberator" haw every man who strengthens his monster , which h « never intended to have slippedfrom its leading-string *! but which , like Frankenstein ' s , has now beconw too powerful for him . Lat "Repeal and oar Charter" be now onr watch-word and our cry . Let it be constantly and incessantly repeated ; and before this day nine months , we shall be able to present the comp

      liments of four millions of BritonB to " the House , ' ( without the money-stamp of a shilling each being affixed to their names , demanding a Repeal of the Union , and our Charter . So for " Repeal and the Charter , " Hurrah . ' Hurrah for the Charter and Repeal ; and ten groans for Old Mortality , " and the P ' trid carcase of Whiggery , is the responsive ech « to the " groan for the Chartists . "

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      THE ELECTIONS . The following is a Bummary of the return * bo & as they had been received by ns on Thursday : * - " Whigs . Tories . English Boroughs 176 ' 166 English Counties .... 22 12 * f Ireland 33 30 Scotland 28 20 Total ... 259 345 The Whigs have gained 36 seats , one of which i » in a Welch County , and two Scotch counties ; and the Tories have gained 72 seats , of which 22 are to the English counties , three in Scotch counties , and one in an Irish county .

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      "OLD MORTALITY . " But for Mr . O'Connell ' s recent and fouleBt attack upon the Chartists , it was not our intention to notice the acts of treason of " Old Mortality" ( Mr . DAMEL O'Conneli /) , except to warn him for the future by reminding him of the past . We have followed him through his abuse of every living patriot till his voracious appetite was palled , and at length we have run him to the tombs of the great dead , for food whereon to feast .

      We find him engaged in a vain endeavour to deface the epitaphs from the grave-stones of the immortal Emmett and Lord Edward , and trying to substitute the name of traitor for that of patriot , in the vain hope , not more of obliterating all trace of recollection of their noble deeds from the Irish mind , ( which he has debased and brutalised , ) than of furnishing a justification for his own crooked , insignificant , and cowardly policy , made more glaring by contrast with the self-devotion of the patriots of 1798 .

      He never dreams ( old dotard !) that if it be justifiable to resist Tory oppression with a million of Irish pikes , as threatened by his pacificator-general in 1841 , it was not less bo in 1798 . He forgets that the perpetuation of the same rule ( which justified rebellion in 1798 ) , after nine years of Reform and thirteen of Emancipation , and during which time he has held the balance of power both in the House and out of the House , is wholly and entirely chargeable upon his treachery and treason . Of what use

      was his power if , after receiving hundreds ot thousands of pounds , and after the shedding of much blood in his moral and peaceful struggles , thsA power has not produced one single beneficial act , or one single beneficial clause in . any act , for a period of thirteen years , during the latter five of which he was all-powerful 7 Of what use , we ask , is that power , when no man can lay his finger upon one legislative act , and say " this is O'Connell ' s , " and "this is good" !

      This rampant Proteus , now for ever dismissed from his position , is frantic ; and , in his madness , he still , even in the heat of election contest , throws his venom at the only powerful party in the State—the Chartists . We thought he had been iangbi a lesson by the chastisement recently administered to him by the New York Repeal Association . Our readers are perhaps aware , that in a letter to "the real Old Goat , " ( Lord Gharlemont , ) " Old Mortality" denounced the Irish patriots of 1758 as traitors ; and that Robert Emmett , the son of Thomas Addis Eumett , late Attorney General

      of New York , who was expatriated in 1798 , and nephew to Robert Emmett , the patriot , who was butchered in 1803 ; that this young patriot was chairman of the Repeal Association of New York ; and , upon reading the insult offered by the Liberator to his father and uncle , he instantly sent in his resignation , whereupon the Association met , approved of his conduct , denounced the " Liberator" for his time-serving , expediency policy ; and , after passing a spirited resolution declaring that more self-devoted or braver patriots than those of 1798 never lived , requested Eumett to resume bis office , which however he declined .

      Chablemont and the Whigs , the Duke of Lbinstib , of Anti-Repeal notoriety , and Pierce Mahonet , his whipper-in , are now Bought to b » conciliated by O'Connell , As Mohammed would not eome to the mountain , the mountain resolved upon going to Mohammed . If the cause of liberty derived no other benefit from the expulsion of the Whigs from office , than the destruction of Daniel O'Conhem / s wholesale borough power , the victory would hare been great . Talk of the rotten boroughs , indeed , while one sales-master holds forty proxies ; the only difference between them and the hereditary legislators being that the puppets must be present to vote themselves : 1 ave « " in propria persona I "

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 17, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct859/page/4/