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TO THE IMPERIAL CHARTISTS employers can say—if you dont like the work there are not drunk, but I am plenty others yrho will do It Your chairman has aaJd,. Ht Belovhs FaiKroSi—I am that you have tried trades' unions and they have failed. jaioxicated by aseries of trimsphssince I last wrote ; We do not seek to destroy trades* Bnioas ;ia we aeek to and now about that last writing. I wrote yoD a preyeht them frem failing. All propet^y protected, long letter froa.Koitingham, but, as once before, I save labour which creates property. I look in the coun- Leeds. I was dread- try, and see the boards stnek op--" Wliqsosyer tee* addressed it London instead of passes bere shall be prosecutedaccording to law." Did /allydisappointed at not seeingH in the Star, when yea ever see a man with a brassplate on his breast ibe Editor assigned » most excellent reason, Bend- ina«a-ibed—'' Whosoever trespasseson this man's hibour ing me the back of my letter which bore the Not- will be prosecuted" ? {Great cheering.) Those who 22nd, aad which was trespass upon the tights of labour are the parties : who tingham post-ffl&rk ef the have the by Mr. Bussell. JlND XEEB8 power of making tbe lava. Look at the treat- posted and paid for at Nottingham -iS^^ ment the Unions have received since the, time> ol flio To me it was all-important that you should have seen Reform Bill—.look at the assistance yon gava them in Birmingham, but, thank God, I can vyjo. carryingtha t measure ; and then ask yourselves, have all about VOL.- - Y. NO. 225.*" un-SATURDAYJ- UXVimi m-ixMAEGH 5•* J.U^/&. Five SUillings per Quarter; live for a "week u pou character. I shall now, - ^ > 18^ the governing powers treated you fairly ? : Why do always they object to the name well as I can recollect, begin where I left .cf Chartism ? a rose would as Ctatt ijSt 3£ttt *tttg$nce. for us? If they are honest let them withdraw their for ; your eyea have been opened, that; that this is all GREAT PUBLIC MEETING smell aa sweet by any other name. Chartism sounds resolution and support this amendment :— claptrap. If these men werei sincere and honest, as well as Whiggery or Toryism. Whiggery has ren- Wednesday,a fter I wrote from Loughborough, they would say at once OS THE TAJLOBS, : CONVENED AT THE SOCIAL BALL, dered Toryism triumphant We look for political On GREAT & IMPORTANT " That this meeting declares its unqualified approval that all our evils arose from " d t ddress the Chartistsin a room, but PUBLIC MEETING class legislation; that to remove the Corn Laws and J OHN-STREET , ON MONDAY , FEB. 27THi TO power, not to displace either Whigs or tories, bat to I proceede o a of the principle of free and unfettered trade ; while, at PUttTUER THE OBJECTS OF THE NATIONAL uld o ld p f AT MARYLEBONE. ottier bad Jaws, we must remove this bad legislation. give as equal power with them.- Give us the Charter behold it wo n t ho one twentieth art o the the same time, it denies either the competency or the CHARTER ASSOCIATION. to-motrow, and the trades would bo at full A public meeting was held in the Workhouse-yard, tight of the representative body, Read it all the gentlemen said. It shall be read. We work hi a flock, and there being a large yard outside, I spoke as at present constituted, wish not to burke the month. We want equal protection and equitable dis- Marylebpne, on Monday last, for the avowed purpose of to make so great a change as that sought by the advo- freedom of discussion ; we wish At half-past seven o'clock, the place was crowded to by moonlight to congregated thousands. Cooper * to consult the feelings of all ; and we count on the never before ¦ witnessed ; and from that time tribution. I havo been Member of Parliament, mem- forming a junction between the " Liberals" or the Com cates of a repeal of the Cora Laws, inasmuch as any a degree s Pailiament, and Bairstow also addressed them, and all expressed decision of this day to lay the foundation of an agita- until nine o'clock, thousands must have gone away un- ber of the People' leading journalist,head Law Repealers and the Cha-.tists. At twelve o'clock, advantage derived from that measnre would not be for agitator, and an extensive farmer. I have themselves .highly gratified -nito, the evening's tion that shall be carried on the wings of the wind ablo t» obtain admittance. published the gateswere thrown open, and the yard rapidly began the benefit of the working classes ; and this meeting a small work on practical farming. I : do , through the wholo king ^om. (Mr. Ridley then read Mr,- Parker moved, and Mr. Knight seconded, entertainment. I promised on behalf of Leaeh, to fill ; by one o'clock the time appointed for taking further protests against any change being particularly the declaration, not even do -I- as your . Chairman said, lecom- the -not lesa than 8800 persona were present, and commented upon it in a strong tbafe Mr. Cuffay take,the chair. H'Dooall, and myself, that when their association ch*ir, and made to affect any separate c ass or interest, pledging it- and forcible manner. ) Lot. them pat the representa- laend you to go to the ¦waste lands. I say that is until two o'clock the number was continually increasing. self , in common with the people of all other parts of the At this period Mr. O'Connor entered ; and if the numbered 350j we would spend a day with them. ' tion first and the Corn Law Repeal afforward, and warm and enthusiastic applause of the assembled highly the cold meat in the larder, which may serve some The arrival of Mr. O'Connor, about half-past twelve, United Kingdom, to look with & jealous eye to-the after us. Let us I Isft Loughborough at one in the morning to he ¦was they would then be hitting the right nail on the head I gratified audience, could reward him for his almost centuries hence1->r those who come greeted -with deafening applause, as was likewise application of the People's Charter, with a view to the Will you be cajoled by cultivate to the highest thd lands now in occupation , the factory lords, by those who superhuman exertions in the causo of liberty, on that * at Knigatsbridge that Bamenignt ; and I went and that of Mr. Sankey. settlement of those many and conflicting interests have amassed their wealth and, instead of importing wheat, we shall grow clock Nagle dissensions about which now mind. from the blood and the evening he must have been highly rewarded-r-he must, to spoke at great length in my sleep, and I am told At one o' , air. Scott moved and Mr. agitate the public marrow of the factory children ? Will you plenty for eurseives, and be enabled import com seconded, that Mr. Sankey take the chait. This being We are resolved that that measure in its workings sball be knocked indeed, have felt himself a proud and happy man. ^ I did our cause great good. We had a crammed down at such a price? {No, no.) Romaia then, like Mr. CuFFAY, having been unanimously elected to the ourselves; yet bur sapient economists tell ns that we put to the meeting was carried unanimously. legislate justly for all, instead of partially for a class ; men, firm aad manly, c»nnot grow sufficient corn to support us. Why, sieeting. ourselves side by side ; present one broad chair, commenced by Informing them that he should Mr. Sakket briefly opened the proceedings, by re- and, under these circumstances, we pledge phalanx of union to your tyrants, and determine upon these men scarce know 'whether wheat is dug up out On .Friday, I went to Southwark, glorious Souih- questing for all a fair and impartial hearing, and advis- not to agitate for any other measure than the whole of not make the usual apoligies of incompetency, &c. ; but the Charter, and no surrender. If you do not do this, as a working man, a tailor, and a Chartist, he would of the ground, or grows on the top of the straw. wark ; and, as I was to meet Sidney Smith at ing them to stand by their Tights and to make no those principles embodied in the document entitled the you will be told, and sold , I If you gave them 100 acres of ground, they -would surrender. People's Charter the only cheaply ; but you will never shrink from the performance of any public duty Chelsea ok the same night, I prevailed upon Dr. , and to which we look as know, act -wisely and ju stly. Mr. Ridley tb>n ably starve, unless, like Nebuchaunezzir, they could lira A messenger tras then dispatched to the Committee means of producing national greatness and prosperity, which his fellow-trademen : and brother-slaves elected ll to supply my place skowed up the motives which actuated the League in him to perform--(oheera ) He trusted they would sup- upon grass. Why should you go to fereign lands for SfDoua , after a short address, to inform them that the chair was taken, and the meet- and of producing peace, law, and order throughout the food when at Sottthwark. I proceeded to Chelsea with Bony their agftatio , and asked who were the men who had port him iri the chair ; and he would give to all who your own cpnntry would produce suffici ent ? ing waiting for the Committee.

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