Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-02-22


Birmingham, one Of the foremost leaders
of the AnIi-Slavery Enterprise IN Great
Britain. He is now the acknowledged
head OF the Moral Force Chsrlists, as they |
are called. FERoUs OCoNNoR is the
leader or the other division; but The idea
OF physical force, once the resort OF men
driven 10 desperation, is welfnigh aban-
doned. OCoNNoR's violent but eloquent
pen has been the life of the enterprise IN
its darkest days.
On a recent motion 10 the House OF Com !
mons, the Charter was supported oy AZ
votes, among whom were O'Connell ana
other distinguished men. Among the DIS
tinpuished Chartists out o. Parliament,
Mr.. p. mentioned VIM. II. Ashurst, an
eminent Solicitor of London, DR.. Bow
ring, J. S. Buckingham, Rev. Patrick
Brewster Of Palsy, and the Rev. Thomas
Spencer late fellow Of ST. Johns College,
Cambridge.
There are four papers devoted to the
Chanist cause. The North Star. edited
by OConnor, was long supposed to have
the most extensive circulation of any peri
odicaI in Great Britain. The Non Con-
formist, known TO be under the direction OF
Ashurst, is the organ Of the Moral Char
lists. One 0; the best pamphlets on the
subject was written by VIM. Lovett,. En-
gineer, and John Collins, Toolmaker, and
published while they were confined In
Warwick Jail for some political offence
II is hardly too much 10 say, that for no.
bic diclion and thought it has few equals
in any OF the Essays which recent pollti-
cal events 10 England have produced.
The ChaTtisis, as body. have taken
no action in relation to the Established
Church or National Debt Doubtless
many are ready to abolish the Church, as
indeed the great body Of the English peo-
pie would willingly do; and some advo-
cate a Reputation OF the Debt Many
ahink that the Debt is not National. but an
Aristocratic one, incurred to uphold high
rents and sustain the Aristoeracy in the
exercise of an unjust power, and therefore
that it ought not TO be paid but The greater
number would prefer to compound with
the creditors by paying them as far as they
could out OF the Church property and Ma
tiona! Domains. The Rev. Thos. Spen-
Ger advocates the full payment Of the debt,
and probably, on farther consideration,
such would be the decision of the major.
ity.
Mr.. P. remarked that nothing could
show more strongly the utter weakness
and dependence Of the people than the
perseverance, with which they insist or
the ballot; the privilege Of secrecy being
regarded as scarcely less important thar
the right OF suffrage itself They know
that without this, the right of voting woulC
be mockery, which would still leav,
them bound in the hands OF the rich
What contrast to lhis.is presented in on
own country, where every man is prou
of the party on whose side ne votes /
In the celebrated letter to Lord Dul
ham, published in 1889, the Radical
apologize for not carrying out their prir
ciples by claiming the right Of sutfrag
for women, on the ground that there woul
be no probability Of efectirg such
change; and a similar apology is found
the Preface 10 the Charter itself. Bucl
inpham is understood to advocate the rigl
Of women to the elective franchise, and :
of many others. Mr.. Surge has new
publicly avowed his opinion on this poin
unmarried women to vote.
Mr.. p. next showed that the Nation
Debt was contracted in order to pIosecu
the various wars in which Great Brita
had been engaged and that. after II
close o. the war with Napoleon, the sui
of $4,000, 900, previously raised by a ia
on land, was shifted to the customs
Thus by q statesman's trick was an into
cradle burden placed upon the shoulde
OF those least able 10 bear 1t {; and the pc
pie demonstrated as we'll they may. III
Protective System is continued solely
cause without il the burdensome expeus
Of government which has been 6ghtir
almost all the time for 800 years cam
be met and each succeeding age has rec
lessly left its children to pay its debts.
The only means we have OF estimatir
the strength OF the Chartists is from Il
immense Petitions presented to Parli
rnent. the last Of which bore the names
between three and four millions of p'
sons.
Some imagine that under the circuI
stances at present existing, or likely SO
TO occur, the British Throne, like that
the Bourbons. will pass away in a mig
They mistake, said MIR. p, the his,o
and nature Of British institutions I
Corn Laws will probably be abolish
and will strike of one halfthe strens
Of the Chartists and if, after long YET
ofsiruggle, the right of suffrage sho'
be gained. the Reform will malt for 10
period before it goes further.
England tries no experiments In q
eminent: Tor rather. she has tried but I
and that was in the glorious act
which she struck the chains from
slaves Of her w. |. Colonies) Her
sition ALWAYS shows how far the una