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TO THE CHARTISTS OF GREAT BRIT AIN
AND MORE PARTICUItAKLY TO MR. HILL,
THE EDITOR 01,"rHb.:111011111EliN STAR,
AND MR. WILLIAM LOVETT.
FRIENDS,— We, the tinders ed, residing at Trow-
bridge, Councillors of the Nat al Charter Association,
desire to address you ; believi that the circumstances
urging us will, with all fair and *did minds, be a sulfi-
te
cient justification fur our doing SO.
The last month has deveiotved an apparent schism
amongst our best friends, accompanied with language so
coarse, violent, and, to our minds, utterly uncalled for, as
to give some ground for the triumphant assertion of our
opponents, that Chartism, instead of Icing a bond of
union and brotherly love, is really an apple of discord, a
watchword Vat* and scut rility. Men whom all of us
have delighted to honour, whom we received with accla-
mations on their release from prisOn, have hem, designated
in our only newspaper organ, as thieves, traitors, and liars ;
and that, not only without editorial censure, but even with
implied approbation. Can this be right? Does it not
!triply either a premature reekleasuess of praise nearly allied
to folly, or a wantonness of reproach that savours little of
opinion, disfigured by bitter sarcasm,
consistency or charity. Again—Vii read that a fierce war of
challenges to discus-
sion, Ike., is waging in Birmingham and other places as
to the connexion of Chartism. and Christianity or some-
thing of that sort; engendering feelings of hatred that
are far from being akin to the sacredness: of our cause or
C e purity of our objects. Is lot
.all this melancholy
work? Holding up a man in triumph on a Tuesday and
knocking him down on a Wednesday; calling him "god"
one day and " devil " the next. Christianity and Cuart-
ism set fighting against each other; the strength, the
men, the principles, that ought to be banded together in
holy tudor, against the common foe, wasting their rigour,
leut to them for the benefit of mankind, in childish quar-
rels and disgusting abuse ?
Let us examine into the e;:cul,%-!.saneesion which all this
bitterness in I inconsistency is batei, and see whether
they are necessary and proper.
First, we begin with the circular Address of Mr. Lovett
and others, " To the Political and Social Reformers of
the United Kingdom." With the spirit and purport of
that Address—except in one particular—we fully agree.
We concur with that Address in the belief that we must
become our own social and political regenerate rs, or that
we shall never enjoy freedom. More especially do we
agree with Mr. Lovett in " making the Charter the Polar
Star of our agitation ;" sad we cordially unite in the senti-
ments, that " having truth for its basis, and t':e happi-
ness of all for its end, it needs not the violence of passion,
the bitterness of party spirit, nor the arms of aggressive
warfare for its support; its principles need oily to be un-
folded to be appreciated, and, being appreciated by the
majority, will be est 'Wished in peace."
Nor do we altogether deny that " we have wasted
glorious means of usefulness in foolish displays and gaudy
trappings. Our concurrence with this sentiment must be
a qualified one. We incline to the belief that these dis-
plays and trappings, and even the " passionate invective
party spirit and personal idolatry," however unsuited to
our present advanced position, have often, under Pro-
v.denee, been the means of encouraging a social and
inquiring spirit, and waking up honest ignorance
from its hereditary torpor, Many, we believe, that
are designed to play a high and glorious part
in our emancipation from slavery, first heard the
truths of Universal BROTHERHOOD—wore first aroused
to a sense of their degradation their rights and
their strength—in conjunction with bands, banners,'music,
and processions, and the other gewgaw puerilities so cun-
ni. gay designed for our abasement. Tile toys have be-
come objects of our contanpt, but the lesson they helped
to teach—let us speak of them gently then—is destined
to conquer the system of ages and the prejudices of the
world l

Nur do we find fault with the plan proposed by the ad-
dress. District halls, circulating librarie., missionaries,
tracts, and so forth, all seem to us well calculated to en-
courage and ensure an enlightened public opinion; to for-
tify and consolidate the strength of our friends ; and to
mitigate the fears of those who oppose us from not under-
standing our objects,
But then—and here we come to the point to which we
alluded at the outset, and on whien we a't-rgether differ
from Mr. Lovet; and the four other gentlemen acting
wi h him in the address. They propose to establish an
Association to carry out their plan. In this we think them
altogether wrong. We do not call them—our injustice
would be greater than their deficiency of judgment if we
were to call them...." Thieves, lists, and traitors," but we
think thit they have committee a great error, and the
sooner they acknowledge it the better we shall think of
their sincerity and consistency.
We have an Association—the National Charter Asso-
ciation—chosen in the most fair and public manner, and
all but universally, recognised as the Representatives of
the Chartists of Great Britain. Already has this body
met and acted in its representative capacity; and we may
refer to the zeal with which one of their laws has been
carried out—that of enforcing on every public meeting
the Charter and its principles, as a proof, and a strong,
one, cf our faith in its wisdom. To these our Repre-
sentatives—the National Charter Association—Messrs.
Lovett, &c., ought in our opinion first to have submitted
their plan ; it would have been received and discussed with
all the respect and consideratim it so well merited ; and,
if there adopted, would thus have been girded with a mo-
ral strength that would have gone far to ensure its success.
Of the National Charter Association, we, the writers
of this letter, are councillors ; and we cannot refrain
from an opinion that all good Chartists will soon be
numbered in our lists. We sincerely regret to learn that
Mr. Lovett is not a member; more particularly as his well
earned reputation gives force to his example. The cry of
" Illegality " does not appear to us to be of any force.
Every Association to carry the Charter is illegal. For
the Slate to seek for freedom is contrary to law. Recent
experience has proved that with an Aristocrat Judge and
and a middle class Jury laws can easily be found suited
to their purposes. Still we believe, for we have noticed
a change in the political atmosphere, that if we pursue our
objects without violence, or the threat of it, we shall be
able to overcome and neutralize all opposition.
Most cordially do we oppose the forming another As-
sociation as proposed by Mr. Lovett ; and we earnestly
trust that he will pause before going further in his pro-
dto i
vioduerd riann kos,p
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odo taos e ntocoutrhaegem
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ah
ne s id
teoa
bteh a t
: it is calculated to engender a spirit of " party "
e rewipeloyaerde
to obtain our common object—that there are moral
force Chartists and physical force Chartists. The fact
dhispbbyesitcteari
forcet h an
question, whatever
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uponis, ao
the
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moralne forceki and
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differences there may formerly have been, we are now all
agreed The trials, the fact that John Frost is an exile,
and many of our best friends in prison, has taught us wis-
dom. All of us agree with Mr. Lovett in looking to mo-
ral force alone for the accomplishment of our objects ; and
Mr. Lovett agrees wilh us in the abstract right, not only
of a nation but even of an individual, to use physical force
or any other force to obtain emancipation from slavery. It
is wrong, therefore, to encourage or sanction the idea that
we are two bodies.—Lovett Chartism, and O'Connor
Chartism—that there is a dlfferenee of opinion where none
in reality exists. 'rho praise of Daniel O'Connell is in-
deed a heavy stigma—a disgrace, however, which we admit
Mr. Lovett is not entitled to ; but it will be well far him
to learn cautian from it. Virtue of a high order can alone
survive the infliction ! Ot Mr. Lovett's plan itself we
have before expressed our favourable opinion—indeed the
very means that it contemplates were contemplated by our
Reptesentatives; but we desire most emphatically to
record our opposition to the adoption of any plan what-
ever, however good, that is not first recognised by the
National Charter Association.
We now turn to a subject which has occasionel us much
pain. We allude to the intemperate language with which
the Address of Mr. Lovett has been treated by Mr. Hill,
the editor of the Northern Star. That paper is the only
generally recognised organ of the Chartist body, and, to
some extent, all are involved in its errors who do not pro-
test against them. We desire, therefore, to state the re-
gret with which we have lately obFerted in that paper
what we cannot but consider a spirit of intolerance towards
*very opinion but that of its editor. The day of dictation
is gone by, the great " we " no longer blinds us to the fact
that it is but a fallible mortal that guides the editorial pen,
and though we freely acknowledge the services rendered
to the People's Cause by the Northern Star, and we do
this the more freely inasmuch as those services have been
liberally and generously responded to, we think it right
to recommend to Mr. Hill the adoption of a less bitter
style towards those
I with whom he may conscientiously
differ.

In the Northern Star of the 17th inst., there is an edi-
torial article abounding from first to last, arid in every
variety of low phraseology, with charges and imputations
of fraud, falsehood, and trickery against Messrs. Lovett
and Collins. We believe these charges and imputations
to be utterly unfounded. We desire to record our con-
viction, that not a shadow of proof has been produced that
Messrs. Lovett and Collins ever sanctioned any movement
for any suffrage short of that comprised in the Charter.
All their declarations are opposed to any suffrage less
than the Charter Suffrage; and we believe, and we as-
sert, that the veracity of these gentlemen is as unimpeach-
able as that of Mr. Hill. _

Besides the injustice in the particular instance to which
we are now referring, we believe that the spirit of invective
and dogmatism whicu has lately sulied the pages of the
tso there Star, and damaged its purity, is in a gene's'
s use unwise. For the purpose of obtaining p( rrnanent
unity it is desirable ratter to encourage and court from
those who have proved that they value our principles by
their sufferings in our cause, those differences of thought
which, by forcing inquiry and investigation, are the
surest and soundest preludes to unanimity and success.
We have ever been among the foremost to oppose any union
with the middle classes, compromising, or appearing
to compromise, the principle of the Charter. The Anti-
Corn-law lecturer has indeed appeared in our county, but
we have met him and conquered him ; not resenting to
idle clamour, but arguing fairly and calmly the justice and
propriety of the working classes restraining their effortQ,
in the first instance, to their own political emancipation.
But, however strongly we deprecate any going over to
the middle classes, we are equally strong in our opinion
of the folly of preventing their coming over to us. Many
of them have long been favourable to our
principles,
though restrained by various circumstances from being for-
ward in the struggle ; many of them Pre suffering, keenly
though secretly, under the thousand ills comprised in the
phrase "commercial distress ;" and thousaads that never
thought before, have been compelled to the Wholesome

but painful process by the increased burthen of taxation,
The conviction—lMMOßTAL HONOUR TO THOSE THAT
WROUGHT IT I—that Chartism wi 1 never raise its hand for
any change short of the Charter, has dune its work :
in all there is uneasiness and a desire for change;
a growing fancy that there is something wrong ; a
fear too, shadowy and indistinct thnugh it be, that
when " thrown on their own resources," they, like
the pauper, must in their later days be separaxd
from their wives and children, be coffined by contract, and
be huddled together in the union grave. Their mental
shackles arc telling off, Tallow.chandler and cheese-
monger—a subject for a picture—ate discussing " first
principles." We hail these signs with satisfecti
In--
they are the result of political light, the work of our
own bands, aided by the circumstances which, having first
ground us to destitution, are now by their retriuutive
operation bringing them to their senses. We hail with
gladness their approach to reason, and it is because we de-
sire their further advancement in political knowledge that
we deprecate all language that is merely abusive or vio-
lent. They are apt to think, and we confess a leaning
in this instance towards their opinion, that hard and burst'
expresssons are seldom resorted to except where there is
lack of argument.
Besides the subject into which we have gone at length
we had intended to epeek of " Ccristian Chartism," and
other phrases by which our objects arc mystified; but our
letter is already too long and we forbear. To us ad these
distinctions seem very nouacneieal. THE CHARTER—
neither, more nor less—as a means of universal happiness,
is what we seek for ; and convinced that our claim is founded
in justice and truth we know that it win ultimately prevail.
Every person should be at Rosily to advocate the Charter
or any peculiar views that he considers calcuin:ed to ad-
vance its progress; but he ought not to make those pecu-
liar views a ground of distrust or hostility towards others
who have arrived at their conviction by a different road.
" Christienism," " Teetotalism," and the other " isms"
(we forget them just now), what are they but the various
paths tending to and terminating in the same glorious
Temple of Liberty, CHARTISAI ? Why then quarrel with
each other what can it possibly matter how we get there,
so that we get there ?
Our own opinion is that Chartism and Christianity not
only support each other but are identically the same ;
but seeing that wherever the holy name of religion
enters, discerd, by some unfortunate necessity, is sure
to follow, we would rather recommend its avoidance
in general discussion. Lot us learn from the harmoni-
ous conduct of the " Clergy of all Denominations,"
when temporalities are attacked, to act in the spirit
of unity and the bond of peace. In " spiritualities,"
indeed, they tolerate every grade and shade of difference;
but in temporalities—tithes, dues, pew tees, and so forth
—they are, as one man—firm as rocks—immutable and
im-
movable. There they arc all true to the Catholic faith.
Chartism is our temporality—to save us from want and
the workhouse—our Easter dues, our voluntary offering,
our tithe commutation. Let us first get that, and then we
can quarrel ourselves to peace. We very much doubt the
policy of confounding Chartism with maters to which it
does not necessarily or properly belong.
We conclude then in the earnest hope that the origina-
tors of the Address signed by Messrs. Lovett and others,
will feel it tight to postpone their project till it has re-
ceived the sanction of out Representatives—the National
Charter Association; and that in the mean time they will
do all in their power to discourage- by their writings, and
conduct the supposition that there is any division in our
ranks. To Mr. Hill we tender our thanks for his services,
and hope that he will receive our advice in the spirit which
actuates us in giving it—the sincere desire to pare off
from our advocacy all that is wrong or unseemly.
Our polemical friends at Birmingham will, we have no
doubt, understand us; the thing, indeed, is too pl&n
for a mistake, we cannot afford to go into ecclesiastical
matters just at present.

To ail our friends in the cause of Universal Freedom
we conscientiously tender our advice to ei,e)urage to-
wards each other a spirit of forbearance, and to suppress
every tendency to division. Events are working for us
more rapidly, or rather more extensively, than the wildest
speculation has reached. We must keep our men together
—helping the weak, urging the slack, restraining the free,
and quarrelling with none. A great portion of our
battle is being fought by the power of public opinion act-
ing on all. The Stock Exchange—but" enough—all is
gving on well.
/ In the earnest hope that we may soon be able to con-
gratulate eaoh other on the consummation of our wishes,
we beg to subscribe, ourselves,
Your sincere Friends and Fellow-labourers in the cause
of Democracy,
EDWARD PAYNE,
JAMES WATTS,
Josarrt BIGGEN,
JAMES HULBERT,
WILLIAM H ARFORD,
ISAAC LESTER,
JAMES HASWELL, Vc.:.-President,
JOHN MooRE, Sub-Treasurer,
HENRY ADAMS, Sub• Secretary,
(Councillors of the National Char.er .Association.)
Trowbridge, April, 1841.

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