The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-06 00:00:00

T a MEETING of the COUNCIL of
11 the CONVENTION, held at the ARUNDEL COF-
FEE HOUSE, STRAND, on Monday, the sth August,
the following resolution was submitted by BRONTERE O'BRIEN,
and, after a lengthy discussion, unanimously adopted.
Moved by BRONTERRE O'BRIEN, seconded by FEARGUS
O'CONNOR.

Resolved,—That from the evidence which has reached this
Council from various parts of the country, we are unani-
mously of opinion that the people are not prepared to carry out
the " Sacred Month" on the 12th of August. The same evi-
dence, however, convinces us that the great body of the
working people, including most of the trades, may be induced
to cease work on the 12th inst., for two or three days, in or..
der to devote the whole of that time to Solemn Processions
and Solemn Meetings, for deliberating on the present awful
state of the country, and devising the best means of averting
the hideous despotism with which the industrious orders are
menaced by the murderous majority of the upper and middle
classes, who prey upon their labour. We, at the same time,
beg to announce to the country that it is the deliberate opi-
nion of this Council that unless the Trades of Great Britain
shall corporate, as united bodies, with their more distressed
brethren, in making a Grand National Moral Demonstration,
on the 12th inst., it will be impossible to savethe country from
a revolution of blood, which, after enormous sacrifices of life
and property, will terminate in the utter subjection of the'
whole of the working people to the monied murderers of soci-
ety. Under these circumstances we implore all our brother
Chartists to abandon the projeet of a Sacred Month, as being,
for the present, utterly impracticable, and to prepare them-
selves forthwith to carry into effect the aforesaid constitutional
objects on the 12th inst. We also implore the United Trades,
if they would save the country from convulsion, and themselves
and families from ruin, to render their distressed brethren 'all
the aid in their power, on or before the 12th inst., towards
realising the great and benifieent object of the holiday.
Men of the Trades ! the salvation of the empire is iri yopr
hands !

MO THE IRISH WORKING CLASSES
MO
FELLOW LABOURERS,

We have struggled in our respective countries, now for the
attainment of one man's notion of liberty, and again for an-
other man's notion of justice. Unmindful of a principle, we
have been led in pursuit of phantoms and moonshine, until at
length our rulers, depend for the subjugation of public opinion
upon the purchase of those men, who have acquired a leader-
ship by cant professions, and who have invariably betrayed the
interests of a confiding people. Irishmen, in speaking of your
grievances you have been taught to attribute them to the
English people, while you have lost sight of the fact, that in
the people there is no representative power, and therefore for
the people there can be no legal protection. Those men
called the representatives of the people are equally the enemies
of the working classes of both countries. We have-no voice in
their election, and consequently no responsibility for their acts,
while we have all to fear from their injustice. When the pub-
lic voice is heard upon Irish questions, that voice is ever raised
on behalf of justice, not the justice of corporations or police
establishments, or arms' Bills, or Government education, or
pauper laws, or Church plunder distribution, or clerical discip-
line, or railway travelling for the rich, or bank charters for
the money-monger, or vain and idle hurrahs as earnest of
our anticipations from a young and ignorant, though, perhaps,
playful and innocent monarch. No, fellow men, we are tired
of all expensive baubles, and of the dominion of .mummery.
We /ook' for the re-assumption of the judgment-seat by reason
and common sense. The mind of man, if unfettered, is
capable of better government than that under which we live,
and for it, therefore, we look, '• and in -its ,pursuit
we are. resolved to continue, until justice,. real and sub-
stantial justice, shall be done to the labourer who is the
fountain and the source of wealth, -and should therefote be the-
fountain and the source of law, as without his labour there
would be no property to protect, and consequently no necessity
for laws to protect it. When the first Reform Ministry coerced
Ireland, was not the voice of the English people to a man
raised against them? Have we not over and over again de-
clared the injustice of a Catholic people paying the sporting
Church in Ireland, and have we not pi oclaimed the right of the
Irish people to be governed by laws made in their own country,
and by men over whom, from residence, public opinion may
have its due and legitimate controul ? and yet has not the En-
glish press and the Irish press circulated the malicious and
gross falsehoods of your leader, declaring that the English
people have no sympathy for their Irish brethren ? Irishmen,
you have got the name of Emancipation, while its benefit has
been conferred upon the place-hunter and political trafficker. You
have got the name of Reform, and contrast the spirit of the de-
bates upon Irish questions now, with the debates in those days
when your representatives truly represented the genius and the
opinions of Irishmen. In 1832, you had a test of representa-
tive fitness. What was it?—Repeal of the Union—Total
Abolition of Tithes—Cheap Government--Universal Suffrage
—and appointment of the Magistrates by the People. Such
was your catalogue in 1832, and what now is the only test of
Irish representative fitness? Hear it and blush, you calling
yourselves the brave nation ! It is a blind submission to the
will of the base, brutal, and bloody men, who subjected your
country to coercion and martial law, and your virtuous wives
and fair daughters to the foul inspection in the dead of night of
a ruffian police force—to the men who would blot the name
of Ireland from the map, and for it substitute that of West Bri-
tain.

Did we not raise our voice against their tyranny, and declare
that Ireland should not be stopped in her assaults against Pro-
testant injustice ? We did ; and what has been our reward?
Why the boast of the Champion of Irish liberty, that from the
slavish state of the Irish mind, the base, brutal, and bloody
Whigs, have been enabled to draft 5,000 troops from Ireland,
to coerce England, and subjugate the English mind. May we
not, with an equal show of justice, then, declare that the Irish
people are enemies to liberty, and opposed to the rights of man ?
Yet we make the distinction between base profligacy upon the
part of your representatives, and your ignorance of our views
and objects, and your Cconsequent adoption of the notions of

your tyrants.
We have been represented as blood-thirsty monsters and
destructives, while, during five years of unparalleled agitation,
not a single life has been sacrificed by the people, and not a
single law has been violated by them, while in quest of their
rights and their liberty.
Read the speeches of Irish Members before the blasting
Union had impoverished you, and enriched your oppressors, and
in them you will find the fire of patriotism and the love of
country, while you now select what you call practical men of
business, whose only duty is to divide, as strength directs,
the common plunder raised from the industrious millions. The
Senate-house of the nation has been turned into a temple where
Jew-jobbers and money-changers sit and divide plunder. The
voice of the patriot is no longer heard. Canada is coerced
without opposition, and as if by magic, while the charter of
your Moloch occupies night after night, and arouses the
latent spark of patriotism in the breast of your cham-
pion. We I invite you, Fellow-labourers, to crush the
system, and i for ever. We do not incite you to arms,
while, if the latter should be forced upon us, we will march
with them to death or glory, but we tell you that a union of our
moral power is sufficient to gain a bloodless victory. To make
the altar the footstool of God instead of the couch of Mammon :
to make the Throne rest upon the affections of the people, in-
stead of upon the usurpation of a capricious aristocracy ; and to
make the cottage the castle of the free man instead ofd the den
of the slave, we invite you to an alliance. Monarchs form
conpacts, but depend upon their people to ratify them ; we can
form an alliance which not all the Monarchs of earth can frus-
trate or destroy. The terms of our compact with you are to
give every man of 21 years of age, of sound mind, and un-
tainted with crime, or who shall have atoned for that crime, a
voice in the selection of those Representatives who shall make
laws, which shall be obeyed from respect and reverence, rather
than from dread and coercion—laws which shall be yielding to
mercy, and stern against oppression. Under such laws you will
have no soldiers to spare, because every man's house will be his
sentry-box, and the freeman will be the sentinel, a muster of
all, being the national army, which will flock with alacrity to the
cry of the State is in danger, while the interest of each forms a
component part of the nation's greatness. We invite you to ren-
der the machinery of government less complicated, more com-
plete and searching, by giving to Ireland a Legislature of her
own, returned by Universal Suffrage. For these sacred purposes
we invite you to send eight men, in whom the people shallrepose
entire confidence, to join, in such manner as the law admits, for
the formition of a Society who shall deliberate upon the best
and most efficient means for the accomplishment of our com-
mon objects, and for the regeneration of our respective countries.
We will take no step without your perfect concurrence, because
our Union shall be one of honour and integrity,
Irishmen, your bards and historians have depicted your land
as a paradise, your women as paragons of virtue, and your men
as warriors, who would rather die in quest of freedom than live
in servile chains. Have you lost your title to such high renown?
or are you so far steeped in misery as to have become in love
with degradation? Or wherefore stand alone and aloof while
the voice of freedom is heard upon each passing breeze ? Oh,
they are new days when the boast of Irishmen is the furnish-
ing of armed mercenaries for the subjugation of public opinion
and the prostration of liberty.
"Alas, poor country,
Almost afraid to know itself!"
In your misery and wretchedness your rulers recognize their
own oppression and misrule, and shudder as guilty men at the
recollection of their iniquities.
Rise, Hibernians, rise ! Your fathers never heard the
voice of freedom that their hearts did not thrill with
joy I They never saw the standard of liberty that they
did not vie in the race to reach the goal. And are you a dege-
nerate race ? Or have you attained all that freemen ought to
enjoy ? Or have you forgot the duties of the citizen in the
obligation of the Christian ; or how can you separate them ?
United we stand, divided we fall !
We are, Fellow men, your faithful and devoted fellow labour-
ers and friends.
Signed for, or on behalf of, the Council,
MAT. FLETCHER. Chairman.
T. R. SMART, Secretary.

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