The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-05-03

u lndt your pelluOnerS regard tile represents
ton in Parliament of Every man of SCUM,
mind as right compatible with and sustained
T by the laws Of nature and Of God, and tina
mans priyation BY his fellow-creatures of sucl
fright is an act which, iftolerated, evidences the
lexistence of tyranny aud injustice upon The
one hand, and servility and degradation upon
the other.
4 That your petitioners regard the reform bill
as unjust, ii restricts the right Of citizenship
to one-seventh OF the male adult community,
} and stamps the other six-seyenths with the
stigma of political inferiority.
That the system which your petitioners ar
u raign before the judgement of your honorable
house, seven men subservient 10 the will, cap
rice, and dominance Of one; that it not only
establishes the ascendency OF a small minorii.
of the empire, but it invests minority Of tn
small enfranchised fraction with the power of
returning majority ofyour honorable house.
| That your petitioners have never yet heard a
valid reason urged for maintaining the pres u
representative system, and that the arguments
| pleaded against the admission of the people to
the immunities which the social contract should
guarantee are based upon class selfshness.
| preiudices, and contracted views of humanity.
/ That your petitioners hold the elective fran
| chse not TO be trust, as has been absurdly
represented, but right Inherent in every man
for the preservation of his person. liberty, and
property, which is to be exercised to the best
of the possessor's judgement, without let or
hindrance from his neighbor.
| That your petitioners, believing the princi
pie of universal suffrage to be based upon those
eternal rights of man which, although kept in
allegiance, can be neither alienated nor destroy
ed, appeal to your honorable house TO make
such organic reforms in our representative sys-
tenn as will make that principle the foundation
upon which shall stand the Commons House Of
Parliament Of Great Britain.
| That your petitioners, in order that the cleo
tor may possess perfect security in the exercise
| of his franchise, pray that the voting at cleo
tons for members Of Parliament be taken by
ballot. Yourpetitioners, aware of the great,
coercive, and corrupted power possessed by
wealth and station over the poor elector, see
no hope of securing purity Of election and
genuineness ofrepresentation. but in throwing
the protective mantle Of the ballot over the
ELECTORAL body.
That your petitioners regard the present inc
quality Of representation to be opposed to COM
mon sense, and inimical to a genuine repre-
sentation of the people. They therefore appeal
to your honorable house to remedy this defect
in the legislative machinery, BY the division
of the country into equal electoral districts,
assigning TO each district one representative.
| That your petitioners hold the legislature,
equally with the executive, to be the servants
OF the people, and consequently entitled to re-
muneration at the public expense; and, believ-
| ing that the House of Commons should be the
minister and not the master of the people, call
upon you to establish their just relative posi-
lions by fixing an equitable salary for the SER
vice ofits members.
That your petitioners consider septennial
Parliaments unjust, as they prevent, for six
years out OF seven, those who are annually ar
irving at maturity from exercising the right OF
suffrage. Your petitioners also consider that
seven years is too long term for the existence
LOT Parliament; period that affords an oppor-
Saving men To pra
mote their selfish interests at the expense Of
those whose welfare should be the ultimate
Gin OF all their labors Your petitioners, there
fore, entreat your honorable house 10 create be
tween the representative and the represented
that salutary responsibility indispensable to
good government. by the restoration of the
ancient wholesome practice of annual Paria-
| ments.
That your petitioners complain that seat
in the Commons House of Parliement should
! be contingent upon the possession of property
OF any description, as they have yet to learn
that legislative talent is the exclusive preroga-
tive Of any order of men; and therefore pray
| for the abolition Of what is termed the "prop-
erty qualification"
That your petitioners respectfully direct your
attention 10 the document entitled, 1.-THE Peo-
pies Charter" which embodies the principles
and details for securing the full and equitable
representation of the male adult population,
which document they earnestly pray your hon.
orable house TO forthwith enact as the law of
the realm.
Should the members of your honorable house
entertain any doubts as TO the justice Of our de-
mands, your petitioners humbly entreat to be
heard at the bar of your honorable house by
counsel or agent in support Of those claims,
And your petitioners, &c.
Rifle clubs In course of formation, and
target shooting is practised extensively in all
the distu; bed districts of of Ireland.
The Irish confederation has issued on a
broad sheet, price one penny, the speeches for
which Messrs, O'Brien and Meagher are being
prosecuted by the government. In this form
they are distributed through Dublin i'm thou
sands every day by vendors of catch-pennys.
Extensive impor;ations OF pixies have taken
place from Birmingham, two consignments|
alone amounting TO thirty thousand. These
are sold only to persons who can give certain
password. One man. named Coogan, in the
county OF Meath, has at present contract toI
supply ash saplings, eleven feet long, for l00,-
600 men. One club alone in Dublin possesses
!, 900 pixies. Some parties have been arrested
IN Tipperary for manufacturing these weapons.
Light brass guns. from seven to fourteen poun
ders, are said TO have arrived in Dublin.
Haly.-Tle Piedmontese Gazette publishes
the following from the threatre of war;
Milan, March 30.-"The accounts of thisI
morning, which may be considered as official,
state that Gen. Bes. at the head of 900 regular
troops, and 1000 vols. commanded by officers
of our staff, fell in with a strong body of the
enemy near Montechiari, whom he COM
pletely put to route, taking squadron of cav
airy, three pieces of cannon, carriages. &c.
1.-The Austrian army appears DESTROYS to es-
tablish itself near Montechiari, and wait a |
pitched battle. They are very short Of pro-
vision.