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'Price 4d. each, or 25s, per hundred /or distribul'wn. Truemmi's Farm, loth Jan, 183S. Mv DEAH WlLI.lAM, The last accounts from Canada have made me rather anxious ahout you. But Providence, who has mercifuUv guided your steps hitherto, I trust will keep you and your family in safety. The Patriots have at last sliown plainly what they mean by pa- triotism. It is clear they will go all lengths, and use the worst means to possess themselves of power and property. Many people fear they will get assistance from the American democrats, and that a quarrel with America may he the consequence. I can scarcely ;.;^^ believe the Americans will be so base as to break faith with us, and unite with the rebellious subjects of Great Britain. If they do, their sense of justice and national honour must be at a low ebb. You have always told me the Canadians, with a few exceptions, are loyal, and sincerely attached to the mother country ; and no doubt they . ; will remain so if properly supported by our Government. Suj-dy ■''' '■ LonUou : Printed IjvWilmam Clcwes & Sons, Uukestiect, Stamlonl street. A i I ' Si !^ Iti ;* I wc are not to judge of them by the sayings and doings of Papineau, Mackenzie, Bidwell, and the rest of that rebellious crew ? What a mistaken idea would be formed of the English character by taking the princijdes and conduct of violent radicals as a fair sample of it! Men who like them are determined to find fault and be discontented, can never be at a loss for some grounds of complaint, and they grumble themselves into a state of unhappiness which plain honest people never feel. The only pity is that so many are foolish enough to give credit to those grumblers, for ability to set everything to rights, because they are so skilful in the art of finding fault. Only let thei?- i)lans be cerried into effect, and then (according to their own showing) we should have a perfect government, and become, for the first time, a free, glorious, and happy people ! ! The favourite notion with which they cajole the people is, that they are to hjive it all their own way, to govern themselves according to tiieir own will and pleasure. But whose way and whose will would the way and will of the many-headed multitude be? W,hy, the wildest mob that ever came together has its ringleaders, who govern that mob for the time being ; and the leaders of every popular movement know very well that they are ruling the minds of the multitude even while they prate to them about liberty ; and all the while their intention is to get power and property under their own control. It often happens, however, that the ori(iinal promoters of a scheme of revolution are disappointed in their aml)itious designs. Either the scheme is defeated by the loyal and well-disposed part of the community (and I hope this will be the case \v Canada), or bolder, fiercer, bloodier men, hurry the people on ' extremes of violence which would have terrified the first movers in the plot. Those more timorous men are driven out and sacrificed, with thou- • sands of their followers ; and the people find, to their dismay and horror, that by throwing ofl' the wholesome restraints of good govern- ment, thel^ have run headlong into a tyranny of the worst description. This the French did, though, to be sure they did not enjoy before the revolution the blessings of such a government as the British con- stitution. But although there were many and great abuses luuler the old kingly government of France, yet even that might be con- sidered a state of freedom and happiness when compared with Marat and Robespierre's revolutionary reign of terror. Both in England and in Canada at the present time there are many deceivers who would drive matters on from bad to worse, to accomplish the ends of their own selfish ambition, happen what might to the country. But I am always inclined to hope better things lor England and her colonies. If you have some meddling violent mock patriots, you have many citizens truly patriotic, who won't lie down quietly to let the others ride over them rough-shod and ruin the country. I hope the colony will soon be delivered from '" ,4.iifi heavy curse of civil war, and that you will soon be able to return tbyour farming employment again in peace and safety. I therefore send by Captain Brown the books you wished to have, and some T 3 of Papineau, ew ? What a cter by taking ' sample of it ! e discontented, aint, and they 1\ plain honest foolish enough everything to g fault. Only mling to their nd become, for The favourite y are to have it tiieir own will Id the way and its ringleaders, caders of every ig the minds of iberty ; and all rty under their ijinal promoters l)itious designs, lisposed part of iv Canada), or extremes of !rs in the plot, iced, with thou- leir dismay and of good govern- orst description, not enjoy before the British con- it abuses under ; might be con- ired with Marat time there are bad to worse, to n, happen what 1 to hope better I some meddling y patriotic, who lem rough -shod e delivered from )e able to return ;ty. I therefore liave, and some more I have lately been reading. I also send, with their uncle's kind love, some good and entertaining books for your children ; and as a special present for my namesake John, I send that best of books, the Bible. If he loves to read that, all will go well with him ; for the secret of true and solid and everlasting peace and happiness is to be found there, and there only. Your affectionate brother, John Steady. Midland District, Upper Canada, 20t/i Jan. 1838. My dear John, The state of trouble in which the rebels have kept us this winter will account for my not writing sooner. Nothing so agreeably be- guiles the time in our solitude here during the long winter evenings, as writing my thoughts as they rise to you, my brother and friend, without reserve. It is a consolation and melancholy pleasure, for it brings England before my mind's eye — happy England, with all the friends and scenes of early days that I may never see again. May we all meet in a still better country, and a l)righter world ! Deeply grateful am I that we have escaped unhurt, and without any otlier loss than is caused by the alarm and confusion of a re- bellion, which stops every kind of business. At the head of the insurrection in the Lower Province was Papineau, who is a French Canadian : he iiad contrived to be elected Speaker of the House of Assembly by the revolutionary party. The people are generally a simple quiet race, and would have remained contented and happy under the government and protection of Great Britain. Papineau wished to be famous, and he has succeeded in becoming infamous. He and his party organised a dark and foul conspiracy : llelegates from every township of Lower Canada held meetings by night, and prevailed on the people to arm and drill, that they might be prepared to use " physical force." St. Benoit, Grand Brule, St. Charles, and the neighbouring districts were greatly excited by these rebellious proceedings. The Americans have assisted the insurgents with men, arms, and ammunition — I don't mean the American government; but when many of their citizens openly aided and joined the subjects of a friendly nation in lawless rebellion, the American government could not prevent them. So much for re))ublicanism ! It is strange, too, that some of the ringleaders of the rebellion had been appointed to situations of trust and responsibility in Canada, under our own government, I believe the British troops of the line did not amount to more than 3500, and when the Governor of Lower Canada sent a message to our Lieutenant-Governor Sir Francis Head, to inquire what number of soldiers he could spare, Sir Francis gallantly replied, " All !" So off went all our regular troops to the scene of war in the Lower Province. The rebels had plundered the a2 w* 1 i! I ir i II n %> '.i\ am country and laid it waste ; but the brave loyalists soon defeated the miserable deluded patriota, who tluew away their arms atid Hed. Hundreds were driven into the snowy troiccn woods, and many have perished there of cold and hunger. Others saved their lives by as- caping to America, with the loss of what property and what character they had to lose. There they will get more of what tiic Americans call sympalhi/, than help. Papineau took good care to keep on the opposite side of the river from the loyalist forces, and as soon as he saw the miserable patriots whom he had deceived and excited to insurrection giving way before the Queen's troops, off he scampered across the borders to the United States with a coward's speed. Ge- neral Brown is an American, and was a bankrupt ironmonger at Montreal. When the fust shots were fired, this hero told tlie poor fellows in the intrenchments that he was going to bring them a reinforcement, and so clapped spurs to his horse and galloped off, never to return, leaving them to be shot or taken prisoners ! Such was the conduct of the boastful leaders who were to do such great and valiant things. Oh, greatly deceived people, to be induced to leave their peaceful villages to follow knaves and traitors to battle, who, if they had been successful, would have become tyrants, as all past experience proves. But happily for Canada, their cowardice insured their defeat. Let the poor Canadians learn to be grateful for having escaped the curse of their tyranny, and therefore be more resigned to the evils which these agitators have brought upon them — alarm, con- fusion, plunder, fire, and bloodshed, ruined towns and villages, beggary and starvation. Your affectionate brother, William Steady. Midland District, Upper Canada, 29th January, 1838. My DEAR JoHK, I MENTIONED in a former letter that our brave lieutenant-gover- nor. Sir Francis Head, sent all the regular troops away from Upper Canada, and committed the defence of that province to the loyal militia. A conspiracy had long been hatching, and was just ready to break out. Dr. Lyon Mackenzie, who was originally a Scotch pedlar- boy, then a shop-boy at Toronto, afterwards editor of a violent repub- lican newspaper, and member of Assembly, had visited England about four years i;go ; there became intimately acquainted with his countryman Mr. Joseph Hume, M.P., and was admitted to confiden- tial conferences at the Colonial Office. His misrepresentations there had such influence that he wrote out to his friends that he had pro- cured the dismissal of the attorney and solicitor-general of the province, who had voted, with other members of the Assembly, for expelling Mackenzie. To Mackenzie and his factious friends this tk.wm I on defeated the arms and iled. and many Imvc leiv lives by as- what character tlic Americans ; to keep on the d as soon as lie and excited to I" he scampered i's speed. Ge- ironmongcr at ro told tlie poor > bring them a tid galloped oft", isoners ! Such do such great ) be induced to raitors to battle, e tyrants, as all their cowardice having escaped resigned to the im — alarm, con- s and villages, her, JAM Steady. er Canada, ^nuarxji 1838. lieutenant-gover- vvay from Upper nee to the loval was just ready to a Scotch pedlar- u violent repub • visited England uainted with his itted to confiden- esentations there that he had pro- ■-general of the he Assembly, for ious friends this was a great triumjjh ; but to the loyalists, a heavy blow and great discounigement. On Mackenzie's return to Canada he got elected a member of the House of Assembly again, and a majority of their republicans along with him. Four of them (of whom three have since been tried or outlawed as traitors) drew up a long report, or book of grievances. Sir Francis Head, on his arrival, endeavoured to get them to enter upon the subject of their alleged grievances. They constantly avoided it, and he saw plainly the book was a mere pretext, and that their designs lay fur deeper. That was soon put beyond a doubt by their attempting to change the constitution into a. democracy ! Sir Francis Head, like a trustworthy British governor, resisted their attempt ; the whole council resigned ; the House of Assembly stopped the supplies, and in April, 1836, the governor prorogued the Assem- bly. The loyal Canadians were delighted with his spirited conduct, and eent in addresses to the governor with many thousand signatures, expressing their loyalty and tendering their support. The elections took place, and went completely against the Speaker Bidwell, Mac- kenzie, and the other democrats. After this defeat they threw off the mask — Mackenzie's newspaper became more furious and revolu- tionary than ever, — they formed political unions, and held meetings of delegates. Mackenzie prevailed on the members to come armed, to practise firing with ball, and at length he led them in a body to Toronto, the seat of Government. At 10 o'clock at night, on the 4th of December, Sir Francis Head was informed that the rebels had risen and were only four miles from Toronto. The loyal inhabitants were suddenly armed, and messengers were sent to summon the militia from the various districts. Early on Tuesday morning I and my eldest son, a fine youth of nineteen, were marching, with many more, to Toronto. Mackenzie had not dared to attack the town, but was burning and plundering in the neighbouring country, and taking prisoners on the highway. The governor sent a Hag of truce to the rebels, requiring them to disperse. Mackenzie insolently demanded a " National Convention." The governor answered " Never." Mackenzie then attempted to burn Toronto, but was prevented by the governor's picquets. On Thursday, at twelve o'clock, we marchnd out of the town in high spirits, and strong in the justice of our cause. We found the rebels posted near " Gallows Hill," (a very proper place for them !) They fired ; we advanced steadily, and soon drove them liefore us like chaff before tlie wind. We took their flag with this inscription, " Bidwkll and the glorious minority I 1837, and a good beguinnig It was a good beginning for us. Some of the chief rebels were taken, but Mackenzie and others escaped to the United States, abandoning his followers as Papineau and Brown had done before. Many of the poor people now see their own folly and Mackenzie's villany, and, with their wives and children, reproach him bitterly as the author of their misfortunes. Knowing that you will feel interested in the events, I will continue my history of them in another letter. Farewell. Your affectionate brother, William Steady. r I 11 6 P.S. From the Newcastle district 2000 loyalists marched 100 miles in the depth of our severe winter, and arrived tlie day Mackenzie ■was defeated. From all parts of the province 10,000 or 12,000 hastened to the capital to uphold the British con8titutio!\ ngainst the attack of traitors, and the governor was obliged to issue a notice that there was no need for more militia to come to Toronto. % Midland District, Up})cr Canada, February b, 1838. My dear John, After Mackenzie had escaped to the United States he prevailed on some of the American republicans, calling themselves " sympa- thisers," to take up arms in aid of the expiring cause of those " Patriots" who were defeated at Gallows Hill. A band of 700 or 800 Americans under Mackenzie and a general Van Ransellaer, took possession of Navy Island, which is British territory, and situated near the Rapids, about two miles above the great Falls of Niagara. They garrisoned and fortified this small island, and Mackenzie having failed to get his " National Convention," here formed his " Provisional Government," which issued a proclamation offering 500/f. for the apprehension of Sir Francis Head, and 300 acres of the best land in Canada, and 100 dollars to every volunteer who should join them on the island ! ! The dollars it may be supposed were not very i)lentiful, and as the volunteers were to conquer Canada before they could divide the spoil, they had a very poor prospect of being paid for their military services either in dollars or in acres, especially as our governor was quite prepared, and had posted 2000 militia men under Colonel M'Nab along the Niagara frontier. Tlie rebels bought a steamer, the Caroline, which they employed to convey arms, artillery, recruits, &c., from the American sho'-e to the island. One dark night Captain Drew and Lieutenant Cormack, of the royal navy, •with five boats' crews, rowed silently towards the steamer, which the rebels had moored with chain cables to the American shore. The sentinel hailed them; Captain Drew sprung on board, followed by Lieutenant Cormack, who received five gun-shot wounds, of which he is danf the royal navy, ;amer, which the can shore. The tird, followed by mds, of which he ere killed during ing party kept an I, and then towed t prevented tliom id a sailor set her I the rapids, and bad emblem this and hurried irre- and ruined amid sallaer, and their r several fruitless I attempts to invade the Canadian shore from tlie United States, they di8i)er8ed. And so ended the great war between the patriotic provi- sional government of Navy Island mid the Queen and Government ot the Island of Great Britain ! What is there so i)resumptm)us which the selfish, unprincipled, insolent ambition of upstart^ grasping at DOwer and iilunder, will not atlempt? ' We should have greater confidence in the future peace and pros- peritv of the colony if our brave Governor Sir Francis Head were to remain. He has won the hearts of uU the friends ot the British cuu- nexion by ihe bold, manly, decisive, yet temperate manner in which he has exercised his authority. He was ever ready and willing to reform real abuses, but he had the good sense to perceive that tlie fiery, fierce republicans, who wished to overthrow the government, were neither to be pacified nor overcome by conciliation,— that by Yielding to the unjust demands of men who are traitors at heart, tlu-y grow more insolent and overbearing, till at length they become traitors in action. Mackenzie, Bidwell, Ridout, were all supposed l^y the government at home to be men deserving promotion to ])laces o high trust and authority. But Sir Francis Head discovered their real designs, and the event has proved that he was not mistaken, tor every one of them has been more or less deeply concerned in the rebel- lion. Bidwell's name (as I told you) was on the rebel flag at 1 oronto Ridout insulted the governor ; and a letter of Ins was published to the outlawed traitor, O'Callaghan, in which Ridout cxpresse.l his appro- bation of the rebellion; and, finally, Mackenzie himself was the leader of that rebellion in Upper Canada. We understand that Sir Francis Head has been recalled for refusing to promote Bidwel and Ridout If he had promoted them we know he would have placed power in the hands of men who would have abused it for treasonable purposes, while all true loyalists would have been discouraged and alienated from the governor and the mother country by so unwise and uniust a policy. On the contrary, we have seen our lieutenant-gover- nor resist and unmask the traitors at a critical moment. Ihey took up arms. He appealed to the colonists. At his call thousands ot loval men rushed from their distant homes with boundless enthusiasm, and crubhed the rebellion. By this wise, vigorous, patriotic conduct we think Sir Francis has saved the colony,— has preserved its con- nexion with England, and we cannot part with him without real sorrow. „ _ . ^ u .i Your affectionate Brother, William Steady. Midland District, Upper Canada, Mv DEAR Brother, . 5//t Jammry, 1839 I AM sorry to tell you the half extinguished rebellion ot last year revived just as Lord Durham was taking his departure for England. Both the Upper and Lower Provinces were attacked in various quarters by bands of rebels, reinforced and furnished with m ^ 1 w 8 Bupplics by Amoiicnn "sympfttliiscrs." In Lower Tnnn In Anr,n rebels, under l)r. Robert' N^.bL. .ere clefeuted Te o,? 1 c „rt val of the Queen's troops-liy the voluntce.8 of Odcll Town ii!r nngtcM, La Colle and IIen,min,ford. We are now beU Jepar'i t a, formerly an.l the " patriots" have n.et with the same Sv a .uceessfu resistance. The consequenecs to the nmntry are truly dreadlnl. Extensive districts are laid waste with e' and sNvn^rd; the m.^crablo inhabitants were driven into tl e lo ^ , 1 cnltu;at.on of the land is neglected for nnlila utv A ?« Vl" m ami m.eeuruy Bloody strife has banished 'hut "peaee an 1 13 IcUow.slup.and hosj.itality.uhieh are 80 necessary to^l^we ^cTa ii^inij an.l tlnnly inhabited col.mv. It deserves to lavon .n . a-l these tumults have kept back settlers Ao no rder, mercy, and happiness, which was i)roclaimcd by angels to u ransomed world, "(ii.oiiY 'lo (iou in thk iirani:sT, on earth peace, and aoon will towards men ?" But 1 did look with contempt, and it a))pears with too nuich indillercnce, at the plot of a club of demo- crats in New York, for revolutionising Enghind. I thought they would fnid it a hard matter to inoculate our ijopulation with those disorders whicli had afHicled Canada, until its loyal inhabitants sup- jire.'scd them and drove the mischievo'is avithors of them from our l}rili>h colony in disgrace. To act ipon tlie nuis-ses by sectional meetings or political nnioni», which were to choose delegates to a *' National Convention," the members of which were in their turn to agitate and inllame the working classes by all t!. j custom;iry arts and devices of seditious newspapers, clul)8, and meetings, up to the point at which they coidd be induced to buy arms, to drill, and ])repare to use " physical force, " bum, plunder, murder, UEvoLurioNizn ; — something like this was the jjlan, which the Ameiican demijcrats proposed for the adoption of democrats in England. It seems strange that they srhould have thought of troubling the mother country with their mischievous politics. But the benevolent )!rinci])lc is not more active in the minds of virtuous men than the J^atanic principle of mischief is active in the minds of vicious men. The revolutionary reign of terror in France made that country a little hell upon earth] yet the Jacobins burned with a fiery zeal to extend it to all nations. In short, devils and democrats labour to make all men as miserable ns themselves. You will perceive the New York revolutionary Bcheme is the ditto of Mackenzie's, as you described it to me in one of your letters, namely, political unions, clubs, delegates, ball practice, a " National Convention," demanded at Toronto — a " provisional government " set up at Navy Island. All this bas vanished from Canada, but has just sprung up in England — the old principles under a new name ; for here wc have, sure enough, unions, clubs, delegates, seditious papers, daylight meetings, torchlight meetings, pikes, pistols, drills; and, last of all, a "National Convention" to work all this detestable machinery for national disturbance, and if it were possible, for national ruin. Yes, a National Convention is sitting not far from Downing Street, affecting to exercise authority in con- tempt of our Government, which is not "provisional," and as some of us think is not very provident. Behold what the busy tongues and pens of agitators can do; see what a great fire a small spark kindleth I In this lovely month of May when the glorious sun looks out upon the green and smiling earth, at the holy time of Whitsuntide, when the spirit of peace and love should descend upon our hearts, and homes, and churches, men have been gathering in knots, suspi- ciously, spending the midnight hours in secret committees, where 10 self-important secretaries and delegates practise upon the hopes and fears of beguiled shoemakers, tailors, and others, who lurk about, halfshowingpikeheads beneath their aprons, with which they meditate doing. 'uch very valiant and terrible things ! But you will be ready to say, "What is it all about? We Canadian loyalists rose to a man to crush the traitors who dared attempt to break tlie bonds which unite us with British freedom, greatness, and prosperity. You enjoy these national blessings full and fresh at their very source ; and is it possible that Englishmen can wish for revobition, and that the authors oi' siich niad and treasonable designs can find any counte- nance among your people? What has bewitched your working population ? " You may v/ell ask what witchcraft has deceived them. They call it Chartism. Bur to discuss its principles and describe their desf .ctive effects may perhaps employ our pens longer than the Canadian rebellion has done. I hope, however, that this attempt at revolution may speedily end, like the other, in the triumph of honest loyalty, valour, and patriotism, over selfish ambition, cowardice, and treason. Your affectionate Brother, John Steauv. Trueman's Farm, 29th May, 1839. My dear WlLLIAAf, In my last letter I promised to give you a short history of Chartism. The spirit of democracy and revolution assumes different shapes, and takes different names in various countries and ages of the world; but whether in France during the last century, or in Canada and England now, it is essentially the same deceiving, destructive spirit. When I was in our neighbouring city a few days ago, I met m the streets a man who usually sells ballads ajid broadsheets. Like greater men, he had yielded to the spirit of the age; he had laid asiile his love-songs for politics, and was crying, at the full pitch of his rough voice,—" The People's .^Jharter, handsomely -vinted in hlood coloiu',— for the small charge of one penny !" And so I bought this new Constitution for the British Empire, which is so fashionable at present with some of the working classes,— handsomely printed in blood colour, for the price^of an old song. I hope the day may never come when their mad attempt to substi- tute this new democratic invention f our old, tried, glorious Consti- tution, wdl cost some of them the price of their own blood. It cannot be said of the British Constitution that any individual or committee, or club, formed it. It has grown with the growth, and strengthened with the strength, and prospered with the prosperity of the nation. In that respect it resembles our wonderful bodily frame which, as we pass through the different stages of life from infancy to nianhood, undergoes necessary and proper, but slow and gradual changes, is nourished by food, air, and exercise, and restored to in the hopes and vho hirk about, ch they meditate will be ready to 1 rose to a man he bonds which ity. You enjoy ource ; and is it , and that the ind any counte- your working i deceived them, es and describe longer than the this attempt at umpli of honest cowardice, and Brother, OHN Steady. May, 1839. lort history of sumes different ind ages of the I or in Canada ng, destructive ays ago, I met dsheets. Like had laid aside ill pitch of his mted in blood > I bought this fashionable at lely printed in smpt to substi- lorious Consti- 3od. my individual, le growth, and t prosperity of 1 bodily frame, rom infancy to r and gradual id restored to 11 health by medicine. But sudden, violent, extraordinary changes, by accidents or diseases which break its limbs, or wound and injure it in any vital part ; these either maim or destroy the body, make it an unsightly and comparatively useless thing, or a loathsome corpse. When its life, strength, and beauty are gone, can all the art of man bring them back from the corruption and dust of the grave ? And so let all who are urged by democrats to take a part in making great and violent changes in that excellent and justly-admired Political Constitution, which has been handed down to us from our forefathers, beware of the consequences The madness and folly of one genera- tion might easily destroy the happiness, strength, and prosperity of our nation, so that no future generation should be able to restore them again. If you ask these' peo])le what they expect to get by agitation and violence, they tell yon " The People's Charter;" which they are taught to believe means good government. But they are vastly igno- rant of what good government is ; nor have they had the wit to dis- cover that they have got it already, and that they are taking a short and speedy way to lose it. They are in a condition like that of the unfortunate gentleman, on whose tomb this epitaph was written — " I was well — I took physic — and died." The best Government secures in the best manner our property and personal freedom. Now the Englishman's house is his castle, and so long as he conducts himself like an honest, sober, industrious citizen and subject, he has nothing to fear. His cottage is as safe, under the protection of the laws of his country, as the king's palace,— his cot- tage garden as a nobleman's estate. We have courts of justice, from the small debt courts up to the Lord Chancellor's and the House of Lords, which are appointed to try all causes between all conditions of men. The concerns of our parishes, and small towns and cities, are managed by the ■peo'ple themselves in vestries, in petty sessions, in quarter sessions, in corporations— all chosen by the people. The members of particular trades have their particular meetings, to con- sider what is for their own special advantage, and to take measures, ■with the assistance of members of parliament, for obtaining good regu- lations for their special benefit. The people, acting as jurymen, bear the principal part in the administration of the laws, which vindicate and guard their rights. When the law protects me from heinx] injured by others, that is the substance of true liberty as lar as I am con- cerned. But, of course, I must submit in turn to be restrained by the same law from injuring my neighbours ; therefore, the more per- fect the liberty of those who do what is right, the more pertect also must be the restraint of those who wish to do what is wrong. Now, those restive wrong-doers, that are impatient of wholesome and neces- sary restraint, are the very people who kick and fling at the curb and rein of the law. They want more liberty than the law gives to honest industrious men ;— they wish not only to have their own just rights, but to encroach upon the just rights of other people. I have a greedy horse that first devours his own corn, and then tries to break his I 1 .-.;* ^<^i«»;'^^! 12 halter, that he may poke his head into the next manger and rob his iie.Rhbnins. Have I not rightly named him Democrat ? Under our just, wise, and happy form of government the neoule enjov a very different kind and degiee of liberty from that which S e people of Spain, Turkey, and other nations possess, vhee frauds robberies, and murders, are openly committed, and the poor are gnev-ous y oppressed. It may he safely affirmed, that there is no country in the world where the laws are so well and fa rly adn . n.s ered as m England, and where the people are so free to divru^s TlT'T^l' "''" P''^"^' ""'^ ^''^^ ^ff^'^^' ^« ^-e" «^ public busi! t luioi^ w'tl!!'^'7''"'f/''' '" P"^"^^"^«"t; and the British Con- ^t lui.on has the admirable iiroperty of being capabl. of gradual mprovement, of adapting itself to the alteration of circumstances and the course of events, without breaking the whole framework of it to pieces, m the hope of being able to make and establi h Xue^^ oi e a ! corchngto the theories of political quack doctors, who.e nostrums a, e If possible more ignorant, presumptuous, and dangerous than those of the worst pretenders to medical skill It is very strange that events, which have taken place very near us and have filled the world with astonishment, are in a great degree for-* gotten and neglected in the course of a few years. There a?e many Englishmen who were alive during the progress of the French Re3 Uon and the long and bloody continental wars that follow do ^ ^^ould have thought that those scenes of horror and misery wou d have cured the nations of Europe, for a century at least, of a taste for rvo' utions and all the violent changes that lead to thm. Ir my boyl'h tW I ami? Hkol TV" rf ''}''' P^"'^'P«1 ^^--ts of2t Zit that 1 am not likely to forget them during the rest of my life • and le us not omit, my dear brother, to impress them on the m ul's of onr clnldren as among the best lessons which history teaches Nolubt he condition of France, before the revolution, wal vastly dfferent from the state of England then, or since. France had a most corriipt .nd tyrannical government, which greatly needed amendmrt^ if er various revoiut.onary excesses, the French nation imao'^cd thev lad Sv to/ ' Thf ■'"' ^"'" '""^^^ ""'''^ '^''^^'''^ ^''^^ .hddren : th a ew toj. The immense population of Paris assembled on the Champ de Mars." and, amid the firing of cannon, and other nail s of rejoicing, took a solemn oath to adh?re to the new P n«Hfn. which the National Convention had planneck Witnn?i ar del^^^^ strations of joy, the oath was taken in all the cities nu[ vii^ form of government on a f«ll.g,o«n nation, whose character and h-S have undergone no correspondhij change ! And so it has b en wi Buenos Ayres, Mcx.co and other slates of South America Se the yernmculs. But those forms of government have been nowerle=s to .mprove or restrain the unrtdy characters of the S„uKmeri»,s° ' 13 gcr and rob his ■at? nent the people 1 that which the ?s where frauds, d the poor are hat there is no id fairly admi- free to discuss i as public busi- !ie British Con- iblv; of gradual cumstances and mcwork of it to a better one ac- e nostrums are, rous than those :e very near us, re at degree for- ^here are many ''rcnch Revolu- followed. One ery would have . taste for revo- In my boyish s of that time, ly life ; and let ; minds of our es. No doubt ' different from st corrupt and dmeiit. After ,incd they had lildren with a Tibled on the d other narks Constitution, milar demon- 3 and villnges their national solemnly rati- >t to fit a new er and habits las been with ca, wliere the )ublican Go- powerless to 1 Americans, who have been quarrelling, plundering, and fighting among tlicmselve^, ever since they obtained "their boasted freedom. They seem to have been even more miserable than they were under the heavy yoke of the Spanish Government, bad as that government undoubtedly was. But to return to the history of the French Revolution ; — after the murder of the king and queen, and the amiable princess de Lamballe, the closing up of the churches, the banishment of the nobility and loyal- ists, the confiscation of their estates and the church revenues, the sei- zure of the goods of farmers and shopkeepers, the forced enlistment of all classes of citizens — after all these acts of injustice, disorder, and convulsion— what followed ? Did the Age of Reason, in which the French publicly worshipped their goddess of reason in the person of an abandoned female of the lowest class,— did that march of intellect bring on the reign of peace, liberty, and happiness, which revolutionists had promised to afllicted France?— No— but the Reign of Tekkor ! The principal inventions of that dreadful time were in the art of speedy executions. Then was invented Dr. Guillotine's bloody ma- chine, for chopping off the heads of persons accused of holding any political opinions contrary to those of the ferocious republicans. — Then the streets of their towns flowed with blood ; — then Avere all the prisons crowded with persons of every rank, and sex, 'and condition ;— then were the horrible " Sejjtember Massacres," when the unhappy French, imprisoned for their political opinions, after going through a hurried examination before some revolutionary tyrant, were forced out of the prison doors, and compelled to pass through a double line of jacobins, armed with swords and bayonets, who stabbed and cut them to pieces, and threw their mangled bleeding bodies in the streets, where they were exposed to every shameless indignity ! Then Robespierre, Marat, Carrier, and others, murdered their defenceless fellow-citizens by wholesale, — sometimes crowded together to be shot by regiments of soldiers — sometimes fastened down in the holds of old vessels, which were scuttled and sunk, with all their cargo of hu- man beings. It seems almost too horrible to be believed, and yet it is only among the many horrors of that time, that a manufactory of wigs was supplied from the heads of fair-haired women which were cut off by the guillotine at the public executions in France. It is also stated by the French writer, M. Montgaillard, that at Meudon there was a tannery of the skins of guillotined people, of which good wash-leather was made for breeches and other uses. He coolly remarks, that the skins of the men were superior to ijhamois leather; but women's skins were too soft to be of much use. So thoroughly had the principles of atheists and republicans brutalised the minds of the French people, destroying all those delicate, amiable, and kindly feelings which adoui humanity, where it is influenced by true religion, and by genuine, because well-regulated freedom! When revolutionary barbarity had proceeded so far as to manufacture wigs and leather breeches from the scalps and skins of their fello\y- citfzens and fair countrywomen, it would not have been surprising if their corpses had been used in French cookery. For the French i I ^1 i« 14 nation once so polite and chivalrous, luul now become more de- graded n. character, and more rer.ucd in cruelly, than heathen can- II I l/llln« Oh Liberty ! how many crimes have been committed in thy name ! llu.B M-anee becan.e hke a habitation of demons, and t.he^,eo>lc their !; ;; ' 'f '"'' ';,''" "'■^'^^ i;-"'" '^^^ ''"•-- '^^' ^''-^ -voLiin tlu age o reason, their re.gn of terror, under the strong tyranny of Nupoeon JJuonaparte. France was far too small a field for^the 1>oundIeBsamh,t,on of that military tyrant, who forced her n.ale ,- pulat.on to q„,t then- homes, and «hcd their blood in the kVof h.s nnnjens. anmes, to leave their boortugal, and Russia. And 1 J ! we see hat very people, who. m the first fren/y of their revolution noronlv boasted ol the.r own liberty, but wildly talked of Jiv ^1-^ bm o the whole world, themselves governed by u military us m'crud pourmg out their blood to ruin the conunerce, pro eHtr am^^^ p.uesso England, and the other nations o knij and o nle cms , tfie powei oflJ.Kiun, and make it an insignificant nroviuce of 1 e 1-rench empne. If a meroif.d Providence had not mCrd our obtannng hberty fbr France and the world, would have ed to tl^ most extensive tyranny that ever existed. "" ...u. th.,. law, „„„„. ;vhiciy:;,;'c::ni vscrih" v'iii'r.i''"!";"' which some turbulent democrats wli.i b-.vo < ,1 ! i^ ^.^' condition mul love of dn>nue I Th J J'«<;"ntent with his sn,sor follies, and imprudence of the s uft^ix^ror hi! i" V'^f *" ''^' the acciimiihited offences of bis fpll, « . ^ iorefathers, to to the flagrant cninr^nd^n" S ^^^ Crilf '^Sl ^r'T^T^^ racters among them. These evils have Scd in „ T"^ '^" degree in every country, and every agl of tire orld aT.T '' "' ^''' we have English labourers who are^ec ivL igf or^O u '"T'"' even more, who are very d.contented witi.'th a ^:m ,^L ^Id 'd'el 'Pi#5'; 1 15 come more de- n licnlhcu can- ed in thy name! md tlic ])C()[)lc lioir revolution, rong tyranny ol" ii (ield for tlic d her male \)o- n the ranks of jn the plains of And lo ! we see ntion, not only ng freedom to ' usurper, and rity, and hap- ;, and to make I'f obJLCtwasto int province of supported our ur navy, under ■ armies, inuler )nquer iiim in ne the rnUr of ■Id. And thus the pretext of ave led to the )n that Great dcind, till she id sent him a Constitution, I) of its glory, eir cue from changing for I colour, and mien can he «'t of political tent with his IS the 8j)ark8 pointed lot of traced to the n-efathers, to particularly ■ worst elm- eater or less this moment s. a week, or ion, and de- mand tlie " People's Charter," which numbcra of them arc taught to imagine will make them their own maBters, and enable them to get „lnilv of "»"»i7 >vitliout working for it. But the Kn-lish hilx.urer euiovs many comforts which are unknown even to the rlufjs ol the Indians in your Canadian forests. The English labourer may rise, or his children may rise, to a higher station, and their imn^niary wants will lie still farther increased. You and I may allow ourselves to covet the i)ropcrty and condition of rich merclianls, members of parliament, noblemen, or ministers of state. A man's desires, if he will induhn- them unlawfully, know no bounds. The very temi)cr which would lead a labouring man to use " physical force'' m a general scramble for power and property, would lead him (d he were some r\>Ln-ees higher up in the ranks of revolution) to guillotine and mas- sacre his countrymen, like Robespierre, Marat, and Carrier or to sbuKditertens of tlumsands of his fellow creatures m war, like Huona- i.arle, for the selfish purpose of keeping unjustly acqninid ptnver and dominion, or of grasping at more. But pmorr and luiprmr.ss arc vorv dilfcrent things. The honest, industrious, contented laliourer is a far /inppipnm (which all men desire,) depends not u])on their condition in life, hut their rliarar.ler before God. The Divine ruler allows us, indeed, to improve our condiiinn by honest and lawful means, and when we do that, we improve our character, as well as our condition. Hut, on the contrarv, when we employ nvlawfulmvm^ to alter our condition, we lose oui- character, and injure, or forfeit for ever our happiness, both in this life and that which is to come. A being who must live hereafter in inconceivable and c^rlasting happiness or misery mus be a fool indeed, to leave cternay )ut of view; for what snail it profit a man, if ho gain the whole vorld -and lose his own soul .^ But what do revolutionary agitators care for men s souls ..^ Any serious rellections on that subject they know iul well would open men's eves to all their mischievous devices, and the misery into which Ihev plunge their victims. Religion is utterly opposed to re- hellion; and though revolutionary agitators may find it convenient not to benin by shocking the people with openly declaring their hatred of all true religion, but will at first conhnc themselves to revilino- the church, its ministers and attached members, they go on to denounce boldly that religion which condemns their crimes, and in '"""'''•>'I"'KMh' l..im-i|.K.«.,f (;i„mi«,„ I Imv. (illr.l a vrrv lo, ir l^l'H. Iniuyi.r.M I MitHKl i.Ml('«ml,<. iiH ,,1 " * ^ plaiiH iiikI opciatioiiH. Your alU'otioiinlc hrotlit-r, John Stiiadv. Trurmun's i-\inn, ls//t June, IH.'JO. (Am.ivnsary ofih, yMUmn Virt...y at Watn-Ioo.) My DKAii Wii.r.iAM, nnnuai';;L.ua:;;:;u:v*:ut;"'/': ""'^^-'^' -'"-k^ v i,y i,aii.,,. >na I has a .1 / / '"""">•, ^ '"'>' '""<•«<■ .l">^t as well .ay, cvcrv riuh^ I^^^^^^^^^^^ "'""•'■'■ '"■ I"^'l"""'-'". as that all have il ••o^^vCw ,::«;; r:..:;^^''''''^'''^- '^"^•' --^^ p..i.ii<- t.:st:: luMl.'tormin..,! ^ . '' ^=^'''"^''«'-'l '^ ">"^i t V t iw rr' '-^ 'Y """""• ' • -"""'^ /'/--'•/,/. How woul.l tlt^ u- ■ , '•^■^''■>''»'"'.V rule and nol,.„lv obey 8'vat family of tlu'.miim, «lanHorou« cxp.n.ueut ^vilh ihc just inthtnu^ ■; li '; /;; "^ "";• ^^■""•<' 'l^-^troy that '>' a yoto Nvho po.sesso.l prop > y 2', ' '^.''^l"'^'".^' «vory nuu. take poNvor from thoso ^y| o in il, 'i^'"" '""^'""^- '^ ^^'•>"'*» ;ppnL.. nn.r thn^^lUhlirVl^S :r"l;Sru t pP '"^^ ;':!:: :;;t;;c;;t;ri^^ tran..or that po;or int^XImci: ^m ^L^yh!:: ^11^ '' '''''''' Porty, education, uhiliiy, or character .J ''"'" ?,l''^'^' "'• >"> 1>'»- "once ,...„vo, .,.e, .vouw e^t' ^ 'u i ^t":,,:!!/!::.^.-;!^,; X- I'll ilr> clnnclioK, lined ilcMilh to be illcti II very lt>i ^ kI oponitioiiH. 1' lnotlifr, loiiN Sti:ai>v. » J II lie, IS.-J!). itl'lloo.) , voli' liy Imlloi, tuilriviuuu' to do ICC ol' vhdrach'r properly, u ccr- li \\\\\\\» iiMlity Lho pul>li(; (iuhL a riijlit to vole, lie hiinsi'lC, his veil Hiiy, vxvvy liat all liuvi: ii • public tnistH. ^tiou (hilt, must •*'/ iti/ifs r//'rrf.f uiids ulaiisihli; t>MC wlio air to »y that all men nimcnf. would, nobody obey ! lift «iH try it luciit with "the it would a;ivc I destroy that tve iu national Uir every man nt. It would 'uerations had m\ skill, pru- iees, the pro- >y. It woulil Ic or no pro- >ry and expe- perty belong- ing (0 o wi au( 17 lluiH. In HJiort, no conmuniity can be in peace and necurily bo, ill the a^l!;rc^ale |)OHHeHH windom, inlelli)i;eiice, cd of powtT and left dcleucelcHH, In (bat Hlrnf<^le lor plunder, of wbicb a lew lierce Ihmc the claHHCH w I property, are deprived of ) (s foreign eiicmicH might attack her in her weakmw, and IJrilaiii be eiiHlaved. V»»te by iiAi.i.oT i« another part of the Hiune plan (or tranHierring power into the ImndH of iboHe who anpire to rule the multitude, and, l\v these meaiiH, the nation. The ballot is roiilrary to Ihr op(-iineKs an<>P;' j't";;'- , Such arc the principal mrans which the authors o the I eople h Charier " propose to employ ; and what are they to do lor us i I <| i„it an end to the present system of representalion by towns and iounlies, Hull we may be. ruled by :U)() members of a parliament or national conyenlion, each of whom is to have a salary ol h.vK IIun- mcKD PouNPS A VKAU. So sayB the Charter. I he democratic. leaders, who have proposed this handsome allowance to begin with, cxiicct of courec, to be chosen by the multitude as th.' (irHt membe.H under 'the new constitution. They were mostly printers composi- tor^ drapers, tailorn, or mechanics. They have iiegleetr.l their own trades hoping that revolutionary politics would not only be a plca- «auter, but also a more pvolitable (,ecupation^ Men are generally roneei ted in prop.,rlion to their ignorance. So these agitators have the impudence t!) demand f..r their hcrviccH m their new trade of ,.yA.Jr „,ul mending the laws and cunsUtuUun at least live or ten ^^xu^^ rite^^^^^fc^^ ■■'5ii»r' i t 18 times the amount of wages thoy used to irct in their ohl trades of mak.ns? and mending cats and shoes, pots and kettU'. As the hest form of government that ever was miist hnve «inmn faul s, and as it is i.npossibh. to obtain at all tinu s nZl 7LZl w.sdom ahd.ty. and uprightness, and to scenre uninterr ,to 1 complete success m the nnu.agement of public affairs Se^ . avoidable imperfections afford convenient and i.lau.ibh .ron 1 .^ complamt for radical reformers and rev.dntio.ists ml / / the.r .« People's Charter" should be one elm 1 f,.!! • ,| llll^^ of the worst deser.ption, it must be trircl before the peo I w S^^ bysorc ,.rp.,,,,,, ,,,,,, ,„i^^,,i^^.^^,^ ,^„ absurdity t i T len n„ lodV'tW '" rf ^ -^r'^ ^''^y ^^''l '- rcsponsib ; ar^ ;..; Dotlj, that IS, nol)ody will be to ])lame Bcsido"^ nnvrhJ ^ charming: even our children grou- liredoflhei ok/ 1^^^^^^^^ '". '"7 and throw them awnv, hut are delighte wi Tne w ?^ r^^^^^ people, too, like new coats, new gownV iTcw at. ,, w I T" "L' .vhy not new constitutions So 1 r " i's that new Z '"'"' ""^ stitution the •« Pe(,],le's Chartr - '' n,ul ' i""^ ^'''I'''' ^'^'•- W' ^'"''"g" 1 • ^ , "' i.in.sdf in „ ,.e„l .1.!,,, „„ .,,e w™ „ ^J^lt';";','''!'.;'''' crew of those meny urchins v Tn lil-^ ,>/«„ "/i ^, '' ^^'^'' '^ have been amusing^hem Ives a d the Tn"?'' "^''^^l^'-''' ^'''^''' of a constitution. Butwho tLn I'^OP^V"'^'' f^'^"" cock-boat of public affairs and Ihet i ^i^^^mb '"^Idt^f VT^'^'^^^ and his conntrv's fortunes undo it n ''^^' '''^"^^' >'"»'^''iil< hi. own ignorant pretemlers to 2^ft:.^:^::rT^t: ^Z;^ ''^'' at power, which they know not how tS use u Si ? ^ ^^;"'« were so infatuated as to listen to their .rwJi!" „ I" '"'^'"" glorious fabric of their hw and cTnst u L '. ^"" ''"•'" ^''^^ liberties to the keeping of a iiatio alc^^^^^^^^ 'T '""^'r^ '^''''' declare their hatred of'our n'ra c v„irnr Is ' " "V'f' '''' '' if they could, abolish b,,th?a d '1^0 l^ ''^^^^\^^hoynnM^ irresponsiblerulersi-whe^e wo, hn J '■? ""' "'''"^"*« «'"l sway of 300 tyrants? iITC^^Jm ZV'""'^'''' "'"^" ^''^ '^^'^^ government bind them ? il, "'1^ ou Id /l.'''^'' ^^ '^ 500A a year ? By the three Cat 1"^^ i '1' " ^'^^"tentod with tion, the'errors an^l abus s o^ jeh d^^^^ n^^^^^^ ?,''^"'' P""^^^^'" «f fhllddemen, are m a grearmcL;:!^ X ^^ ^'^^i;,-.; ^^'-^''^ liament or convention no loiiper controlled l^v n 1 i "^ ^'•"■" legislature, errors and abuses^wou d . t n 7 "u d't i:'"''? "^" ^l"; groan under the intolerable burden As n, ^Y.^^'^'- :^"">'l to escape from the tyranny of the J oL ^r^'"^'"'' '^P^^^^ their descendants sigh^lnd^s,4;^: ti^:!:!:::;']} ::j^ 19 their old trades of :cttles. ns must have some \ •s rulers nf absolute | uninterrupted and ' 2 nfiairs, these lui lausihle grounds of ^ sts. What thoiii-h if politiralblundera ic ])eoi)Ic will learn ty it is. Then, ns unsible, and cvery- , novelty is s^o very (I phiylhings, break ^^' toy. Grown uj) new bonnets, and penny paper con- 1 that have been 'n invention to the efernjent and Jhe ids attempting the e country, failing sailing tiicir tiny who would trust e of wind, with a '■ Chartist leaders til their cock-bout actieul knowledge 1 embark hi.^ own of a crew of such are men grasj)ing [■• If the nation pull down tlie k1 commit their ho scruple not to , and who would, 'ur absolute and 1 under the iron ■ prospecliin of » 2 contented with British Constitu- l)le in the hands Hut with a par- branches of the lie people would fathers rejoieed >ient,_ so would :e, if ever they should be duped into making n surrender of their liberties, m ex- change for the ul)surd, but mischievous scheme of cruel bondage prc- parec? for them, under the specious and alluring name ot the " People's Charter." Ever, my dear brother, yours, &c. John Steady. District, Upper Canada, 20 called upon the eundled CharliBts to pay certain sums wee' ly in nana- of rent, Thn^ their spcech-niakers! are aide to liMvrr about and enjoy themselves merrily at ihc people's expense. They get well [jaid, well fed, applanded by the crowd, and arc putled up to be great men, and wise, in tlin'r own cnnccil. Tadors and uieehaules (ignrc awiiv in print as politicians and speech-makers. This i?- all veiy flattering to them so long as it lasls, and the [icople (•;in be indnceil to waste their time and spend their money to enable iliLK' gei.llemen to talk by the hour. Sonu; of them hml out |,v-!ind-bv that thev have paid rather too dearly for a storm of words, briiiuiiii^them nothing buldiseontent, vexation, loss of wages, loss ot eharaeter, imi)risonment, banishment, or death. The Chartist an- '^timiped i.apers are wrlllen with a sort of talent well calculated to mislead a half educated population. They abound with specious but false reasoning about the evils of society, and government, and the supposed "rights of man." To rail at the possessors of rank, power, and property, basely to flatter tlie multitude, artfully to appeal to humiin i)ride, passions, and prejudices, requires but little abdity and education, and will far more easily gain the attention and sway the minds of the populace than the calm and sober lessons of truth and wisdom. Sensible, well-instructed, respectable men, m every station of life reject the absurd and pernicious trash of the Chartist specebes and i)ublications. Thou perceive that such men and the principles thev inculaatc are bad, and avoid them as tiiey would the idiolera or plague ; thev discover by their own good sense and good feeling the moral and political frauds practised upon them, even although they ini-ht not be able to answer in a learned manner the plausible but hoiiow arguments by which those frauds are glossed over. It is just, because manv of our working i)opulation are not men of this sound English character, and honest feeling— religiously educated, am .veil conductcd-lhat thev fall into the snare. They take for granted all the statements of the Chartist writers and speakers, and learn through them to view all around them with discontent; all above tliem with an envious and evil eye. Once enrolled as Chartists they resolve not to believe the soundest reasoning and truth, because it is contrary to Chartism, which they have adopted with its manifold errors as an infallible creed. It is uot till they have had some sore exiierience of the evil consequences of their principles that some o them discover they have been made tools of by more hardened and cunning associates in a course of folly and crime. About the month of May last the inflammatory appeals of the Chartist writers and speakers began to take eflect on the population. They had been organised, drilled, and were provided with pikes and fire-arms secretly. They had been urged to abstain from all artic es naving excise duty, to draw out money from the savings l)anks, and de- mand gold for !)ank notes. The three last decrees of the " Convention, 24 i^ ii m ft which were intended to canse confusion and embarrass tlic Govci nment, had, as might be supposed, very httle effect. They also decreed that the people should keep a national holiday, about Whitsuntide, by assembling in armed midtitudes. They had sent a huge petition, with many signatures, to Parliament, demanding that their "Charter" should be substituted for the British Constitution ! ! ! This modest request was respectfully received by Parliament, who rejected it, as the Chartist agitators knew they would, and most properly. For, sup- pose a father were entreated by his children to be allowed to eat some berries, beautiful to the eye, Avhich he knew to be poisonous ? To consent to sucli a petition would be madness and murder. The " Con- vention" then attempted to excite the people to a general insurrection, but troops were despatched to the disturbed districts, and their trea- sonable designs were frustrated. The " Convention," meanwhile, con- tinued its sittings in London, in mockery of Parliament, and is^sucd iin order to the people of London to keep a " sacred month ! I " There was a prospect of a very abundant harvest, and their devilish design was to deprive their country of the bounties of Providence by inducing the people not to reap the harvest, and to cease from all kind of labour at that time!! "The sacred month," said these friends of the people/ "the sacred month, if solemnly adopted, will free you for ever." Happily for the people they were not cpiite so impiously mad as thcpe demagogues exjjected, and the plan failed. If they had abstained from reaping that portion of the harvest which was saved from the floods, starvation and beggary would have been the lot of thousands, as the consequence of Chartiem ; for it pleased God to visit our guilty nation with long continued heavy rains. A large part of the rich promise of autumn r.as been destroyed, and we must pay foreigners for tlie corn which our own fields have I'ailed to j)roduce. It is well for us that there are merchants in the country by whose capital the necessary supplies can be obtained, and famine be prevented. The Chartists have made the year 1839 singularly unprosperous. Besides the seditious meetings held in all parts of the kingdom, there have been riots at Stockport, at Newcastle, and at Llanidloes, in Wales. At Birmingham the mob attacked the police, and set part of the town on lire. The Duke of Wellington said in Parliament that even in war he had not seen besieticd places used so barbarously by their enemies as Birmingham had been by the riotous l)opulace, who made bonfires in the streets of the property of their fellow-citizens. Can we wonder that the people are maddened to commit such excesses, when at some of the Chartist meetings the speakers have advised their misguided hearers to go together in thousands and help themselves to sheep and oxen ? One of these firebrands lately advised a meeting he was addressing to go and get arms and gunpowder, and that he would tell the Home Secretary, Lord John Russell, if he did not give them universal suffrage they would have universal destruction ! Such are the ferocious sentiments of these mob-tyrants, even while we have a government and laws able to control and punish them. % 25 the Government, also decreed that Whitsuntide, by a huge petit'on, their " Charter" ! ! This modest ho rejected it, as perly. For, sup- )wed to eat some poisonous ? To rdcr. The " Con- eral insurrection, s, and their trea- meanwhilc, coii- nient, and issued icred month ! I " ,nd their deviUsh of Providence by ;o cease from all ith, " said these nly adopted, "will -ere not quite so the plan failed, he harvest "svhich would have been 11 ; for it pleased heavy rains. A lestroyed, and we Ids have failed to s in the country lined, and famine r 1839 singularly in all parts of the S^cwcastle, and at tacked the police, Wellington said in ed places used so 2en by the riotous property of their are maddened to list meetings the go together in ? One of these essing to go und Home Secretary, rsal suffrage they rants, even while id punish them. If they could only accomplish iheii' designs and get above the laws, t hev vould rule with a rod of iron. Ever your affectionate Brother, John Steady. TmcmorCs Farm, Bth A'pril, 1840. ^^^ Tn my kst^Mter I brought down my short history of Chartism to the time of the disgraceful riot at Birmingham. The self-stvled, and almost self-appointed, " halional Convcn- tion," which held its meetings in London durmg the session ot Par- liament, had dispersed, and most of the delegates had returned to their former occupation of iufaalbui the provinces. Some ot tl.em •ere arrested for llieir seditious speeches, and after trial, were con- victed and imprisoned. To evade the law others took out licences ar.hssenting ministers, and announced that they would proavh ou Sundavs in the open air. , r^ «• • The Chartist micst who visited this neighbourhood, after offering up a kind of imprecation which he called a prayer, actually read a text from the Bible, and delivered to such an audience as he could collect for such a purpose, an exhortation to sedition, "^"iS ed with some profane allusions to sacred things It would «ceni t "a ti^^ device was unsuccessful, and that so horrible a compound ot rebellion and blasphemy disgusted the better feelings of our countrymen ; for after a few attempts these profane political harangues were discon- *'" Another of the Chartist movements or freaks at this time, the purpose of which was not very obvious, was their visitation of various churches in a body. Their conduct in some instances was a dis- grSiTand irreverent mockery of the solemn service ; but at other times they conducted themselves with decency and propriety. Let s h pe that some of these deluded men who went to scoi , remained t^^ rTv Many of the clergy, with the dignity and lai hfulness beconing fl e7charaeter and'offiee, honestly and ably yet with kind- ne's proved to the Chartists, from the inspired volume, the error and wickedness of their principles and practices. , Meanwhile the Chai^ist unstamped papers were widely circu- lated particularly in Monmouthshire and South Wales where a iecret and extensive conspiracy was in progress. Some of the dele- gate had been imprisoned iu\he gaol of Monmouth. Their asso- Ses organised the plan of an aimed insurreclion, which was to b in in ?he mining diltriets of South Wales, and if successful was mmed ately to be followed by risings in the other disturbed districts. F o^t adiler (who had some time before been appointed a magis- rate by hon\ John Russell), Jones, a watchmaker, and W i hams, Sler beer, headed three numerous bodies of miners and other t rkn en, who were armed with pikes, scythes, guns, and pistols. 4 26 I r To march to N-wport on tlie night of Sundai/ tlic Srd of December in three divisions, whicli were to fittack the town together at two in the morniup^, when the inliabitants were ask-ep, and the sohh'ers as tliey hoped, unprepared, was their diabolicul phiii. That sacred' luglit which they had i)rofaned by a dark and murderous enteriirise to be perpetrated on the day l)efore tlie amiiversarv of that simihir loid conspiracy, tlie (nnipowder Plot ;— that Sunday night the ele- ments warred against them with tempest and torrents of rain. Iro^t and his 5000 men did not reach the town till the sun liad risen amid clouds and storm, and the two other divisions did not arrive for some time after. All were weary and wet, perplexed and dismayed with those doubts and fears which trouble the breasts of wicked conspirators. The Mayor of Xewj^ort had heard of their approach, and with an ofticer and thirty soldiers of the 45tli regiment was stationed in a room of the principal iim, which had a bow' window facing the ^treet. The rebels advanced, fired, and endea- voured to iorce a passage. The mayor, the officer, and serieant, then threvv open the window-shutters, and at that moment the mayor received several severe wounds, and the serjeant slighter iniuVv. Ihe gallant s.)ldiers then i)oured a few volleys on their numerous but coward y assailants, and when the Chartist rebels saw their com- panions falling killed and wounded, they threw down their arms and lied in horror and confusion. Frost was seen hiding himself in a neighbonring wood, and was soon afterwards taken prisoner with three loaded pistols on his iierson. The other two divisions, each consisting of several thousand armed men, instead of rallying Frost's division, joined them in their race; and so this long-hatched con- spiracy was crushed. It pleased God to blast their villanous design fea? "'°"''"^' """'^ ^" '^""''" thousands before a few, with a sudden ^v^iT''."''^ '"^''^f ^° '■'"' '''^'''^ ^^'"^y eW.'nf/er/ to d.) in conjunction ZT ^'^^^'^f "' °t^>"- V"'^^ "f t'le kingdom, //"thev had succeeded at , ,rrfl- if "%'"'^^'' ''^'.l^'ce that they were utterlv confounded and put to flight, and that the principal ringleaders were securerl. A rilw T ^^'''''''^'}^\'^''^ appointed to try them, consisting of the b . -i't ' ' T> " "'^'' J"'^^'' "^'^''^ '^'S'^^^* ^'^l^"t' knowledge, and 'o ? J ■ r f ■ P'/^'^'ievs were defended by the most eminent coun- oel a the Eng ish bar, who displayed, during the long and deliberate nivestigation, the utmost skill in making objections, in examinin- jvi nesses, in able and eloquent pleadings^n their behalf. Parlicu^ arlj they pleaded as a reason for accpiittal, an objection in point of • m sthrn of H^'^^ ",f " • '^'' ^'''' ^'^'''' "^^'^l^^ ^r affect the main Im r ll ? ^^ "' '""«f eji^e of the accused. The law reqiiires 1 Li . '''" ""^ '^ indictment shall be delivered at the mme tune to prisoners accused of high treason. ofthe'nairTif''^^''"'^ 'V '^''''''''' '^'' ''^'^'^''' information tlic names of he witnesses who M-ere to appear against them the Ca-own Solicitor had delivered the list of witnesses a cfay or two b'efo e tcims of the Act of Parliament, although it was for the prfsoners' 27 3n\ of December, 1 together at two and the sohh'ers, Ian. Tliat sacred derous enterprise, y of that similar lay night the elc- torrents of rain, till the sun hud divisions did not I wet, })er[)lexed •ouble the breasts lad heard of their le 45th rcgimenl, Inch had a how fired, and endea- ud Serjeant, then )mcnt the mayor ; slighter injury, their numerous s saw their com- 1 their arms and ing himself in a m prisoner with ) divisions, each f rallying Frost's ng-hatched con- villaiious design V, with a sudden in conjunction lad succeeded at confounded and ere secured. A onsisting of the knowledge, and t eminent couu- g and deliberate ?, in examining ^half. Particu- ;ion in point of affect the main 'he law requires delivered at the est information ainst them, the ly or two before iccording to the the prisoners' advanta"-c. The trials proceeded. Frost and his companions were found guilty, and condemned to be executed as traitors ; but the ohjccHon regarding the point of form was referred to the twelve imlges for their decision. The majority of the judges decided that the'objection was not good ; but as the minority thought the strict forms of law had not been observed (although of the prisoners' ijnill- no man in England entertained a doubt), the sentence of death pas.-^ed upon them was changed into banishment. So, after very narrowly escaping the death which they deserved to suffer as traitors, yet by that impartial justice tempered with mercy, with which our etiuitable laws are ac!mmis»;ered, the three ringleaders have had their lives spared, although as the fruit of their misdeeds they have bi.-en trans- ported from 0/r/ South Wales (where they were not content to pursue contentedly an honest calling in the enjoyment of peace and liberty) to Ncir South Wales, where they will be compelled to work in chains. It has been publicly, and I believe truly stated, that the three principal convicts (for "many more have been punished less severely) are not only Chartists, but avowed inMels — rebels both against God and man. ' The high character of the judges for integrity, knowledge, and ability ; their freedom from local interests, in the dignified and mde- pcndent exercise of the judicial functions which the British consti- tution has fenced with scrupulous care from every personal and political bias— the juries chosen with the prisoners' concurrence— the solemn and impartial manner in which the whole proceedings wc;e conducted ;— all these circumstances were calculated to convince the spectators and the public that justice and mercy were extended to the traitors mider the protection of those very laws which they had so grossly violated. Glorious privilege of Englishmen! at mice the terror of evil men and the safeguard of the innocent. 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