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ADDRESS of the GENERAL CONVEN-
TION of the INDUSTRIOUS CLASSES to the
PEOPLE of ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, and WALES.
FELLOW COUNTRYMEN,
As representatives of the people, we have recommended
from time to time, the adoption of various measures, calculated
to forward the cause in which we are engaged, to secure the
confidence of the people, and establish the ancient rights of
our country. The opposition we have encountered in the
exercise of our duties has been of the most powerful and
harrassing description. It has been powerful from the
enemy—we regret to say it has been harrassing from
many of our own friends. When you . were called upon
to assemble in thousands and sign the great Petition
for the Charter, you obeyed the request with plea
sure. When you were asked to assemble again and register
your determination to support the Convention, and carry out
the Ulterior Measures recommended by representatives whom
you had cheerfully elected and as liberally supported, you
also attended that call, and gave another proof of the patient
determination of a people who amidst.all their grievances were
still determined to give the enemy every chance of concession,
without affording them one single reason upon which they could
ground their opposition to your just demands. In pursuance
with your universal wish, we have met again to devise further
measures for your approval. Having witnessed the failure of
the National Petition, and being convinced of the utter folly
of presenting any more Petitions to the House of Commons,
we have deliberated on the best and wisest course to be next
pursued. We have ceased to hope for any thing from the go-
verning power in this country, and now turn round to demand
assistance from the sources of all power, riches, luxury, and great-
ness, the people. To you, then, the people of England, Scotland,
and Wales, we now address ourselves as a Convention, demand-
ing your co-operation, approval, and support. The recom-
mendations which are embodied in our Manifesto we have al-
ready strenuously impressed upon your attention, and from
many sources we have derived cheering intelligence of those
recommendations being successfully adopted, yet at the same time
it is not our duty to conceal from you that although districts
may have acted upon our advice, still the whole people have
not shown that determination to follow up the ulterior measures
which we were taught to expect they would have persevered
in. It must be obvious that this Convention depends entirely
upon the people for any power or influence which they
may possess, , no instructions proceeding from this body
can gain either attention or respect, unless the people- are pre-
pared to practise and enforce them, far less will we be en-
abled to combat and subdue the vast powers arranged
against us. When we have arrived at a great and impor-
tant crisis, we begin to feel the effects of the opposing powers,
in the absence, ' arrest, and imprisonment of many able,
efficient, and respected Delegates. Conceiving that all delays
under such adverse circumstances are eminently dangerous,
and posseising no power to arrest the thinning of the
General Convention, we have decided on the last, the
most important, and ' the most serious measure ever yet
suggested by. any body of Representatives. We have called
upon the people to exhibit to their oppressive rulers,
in a practical and national form, the great spring upon which
the whole stream of human comforts or national greatness de-
pend—the ill-paid labour of the workmen. In deciding upon
this gigantic scheme, fraught with so many incalculable results,
we have neither consulted the suggestions of fear, nor ne-
glected the dictates of reason. With caution and prudence
we have endeavoured tp, direct our steps, knowing that
these are the only guides to security and success.
It has been our first object to carry the confidence of
the people along with us throughout all the preliminary
steps we have thought it wise to adopt. The next thing we
expected with anxiety was the obedience granted by the people
to their own laws; and, lastly, the effect produced upon our
opponents. When we reviewed the long course of agitation,
and witnessed the cheering fruits, we also relied upon the com-
bined efforts of the people, and endeavoured to establish the most
satisfactory measure of direction, which we considered would
terminate in the happiest results. Before we decided on the
fixing of a day when the labourer should cease from his work,
we proceeded to ascertain from each Delegate the state of pre-
paration in the district which he represented. We are com-
pelled reluctantly to state that the evidence was, at the least,
far from what we expected, and, at the Most, any-
thing but flattering. The reasons upon which such a
result could be expected, cannot be sufficiently ex-
plained, except upon the ground that. there has hitherto been
too little effort made to became really acquainted with the state
of different districts, and too much reliance placed on hasty and
coloured representations. But whilst we agree upon this opi-
nion we rather regret than censure the enthusiasm of many of
the leaders of the people. There are sufficient causes always
arising in a period of agitation to enable us to distinguish between
the ardent enthusiasm of a friend and the deep laid designs of an
enemy. It is a matter of congratulation to all that we have disco-
vered the error before the mischief became irretrievable. We have
not the slightest fears of the attachment and courage of the
people, we only doubt that they have, like ourselves, been taught
to consider the strength of their neighbours to be greaterthan their
own. It is for this, and other important reasons, that we at first
have thought it advisable to delay the fixing of the Sacred Month,
that we might be enabled to teach the people of each locality to de-
pend upon its own powers, and secure additional time to adopt the
suggestions which we have considered right to lay before them
at this important crisis. If the truth thus developed may afford
satisfaction to the enemy, it will also afford satisfaction and se-
curity to us, by preserving us from partial outbreaks and the
certainty of defeat. Truth will do more, it will stengthen
the existing union of the, people, confirm their re-
liance in each other, and excite a clearer and more
perfect understanding between the constituent and re-
presentative body. Having thus fairly and candidly stated
the opinions we possess of the country at large, it becomes our
next task to state the reasons why the 12th of August is now
provisionally fixed upon for the Sacred Month :—ln
such an important movement as the present we require
time to mature and deliberate on the evidence so as to per—
fect the judgment before we decide. In endeavouring to
secure the best results to the whole people we require to con-
sider the state of some forward district in comparison with that
of others, and we have to afford time to complete the most
efficient plans and allow the Delegates to return to their re-
spective constituents for the purpose of carrying these into
effect, always relying on the expressed determination
of the people to abide by any decision of the Con-
vention. When we have perfected these arrangements, we
will dissolve, and return to our respective districts with the most
perfect reliance in the people's promise, neither wearying them
with further appeals, nor testing them with additional trial.
We submit the -following recommendations to the people, to be
approved and acted upon previous to, and after, the 12th of
August :
We call upon the Trades of Great Britain to declare their
adherence to the right of the working man to possess the Suf-
frage, and to come forward united in support of the measures
of the Convention ; because we feel assured that however great
may be the opposition, no power can withstand the united
Trades. General unions may be formed for the Charter, and
they may become powerful; but depending alone on agitation
they never can become permanent. The association of the
Trades for the Charter must be successful if determined, and
as united bodies are imperishable.
The object of the Charter is to extend to the. Trades that
power which the Reform Bill only conferred on the middle
class, and thus secure to the basis ,of all national greatness the
power of removing or controlling the pressure upon their in-
dustry.

—We call upon the unemployed of all trades to meet together,
each day, in their own district, at an appointed place, previous,
to the 12th of August, and having made a request to
be assisted from the parish-rates, on refusal to proceed
peaceably in a body to solicit assistance from their more wealthy
neighbours—thus demonstrating to all the extent of suffering,
and proving to all, visibly and undeniably, the extent of misery
in the land, and the urgent necessity of measures being adopted
to alleviate the distress of the people, to return to the ancient
and just laws and customs of our forefathers, and secure the
peace, prosperity, and happiness of our eountry.
In conclusion, Fellow Countrymen, we trust this, our ad-
dress, will be deliberately considered by you, whilst we, in ac-
cordance with its spirit, will firmly await the results of the vast
movement we have headed, emboldened by the justice of our
sacred cause on the one hand, and armed with the irresistible
power of the people on the other.
Brethren, we remain, in the name of the General Conven-
tion, your faithful servants,

July 25, 1839.

JAMES TAYLOR, Chairman,
W. G. BURNS, Secretary, pro tem.

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