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of suspicion and alarm to all well-disposed and right-thinking men. 

 The list of murders perpetrated by Unionists, if they were all collected 

 together, would make a fearful amount of crime ; and to show that 

 these diabolical acts have not been discountenanced by their leaders, 

 the individual perpetrators have generally escaped. A crime of this 

 sort, laid to the charge of the Yorkshire Union, took place at Farsly, a 

 small village in the neighbourhood of Leeds, in December, 1832. 

 The murdered man had become obnoxious to the Union, by refusing 

 to join in a strike ; and though the charge could not be proved 

 against the members, the circumstances told so strong against them, 

 that the jury who sat on the inquest, gave in their verdict, that they 

 had " too much reason to fear, that his murder had been the conse- 

 quence of fidelity to his master !" The night of the murder, the 

 Union had had a long and violent discussion, which lasted from six 

 to eleven ; at half-past eight the object of their hatred was attacked 

 in a lane by between thirty and forty persons, and beaten to death by 

 clubs ! Not one of these ruffians ever made a sign of their guilt, and 

 the perpetrators are still undiscovered We venture to say that the 

 annals of crime furnish few more atrocious deeds. In the course of 

 three years, ten lives were lost in Dublin in consequence of combi- 

 nations, and in no one instance were the murderers brought to justice. 

 In Dublin one of the foulest murders that ever disgraced the city 

 was perpetrated on a man who gave no other cause of offence than 

 earning superior wages, to which he was justly entitled by his supe- 

 rior skill. Many instances are on record where murders have been 

 perpetrated on men whose only crime has been an unshaken fidelity to 

 their masters ! The Scotch Unions have been even more ferocious in their 

 conduct than the English. Without enumerating examples, we will 

 quote the form of an oath from the work we before-mentioned. It was 

 to show the principle which actuated the members of the Union ; the 

 practice may be understood without quoting the disgusting details. 

 This oath was taken by the combined spinners of Scotland, in 1823. 

 " I, A.B., do voluntarily swear, in the awful presence of Almighty God, 

 and before these witnesses, that I will execute, with zeal and alacrity, 

 as far as in me lies, every task or injunction which the majority of 

 my brethren shall impose upon me in furtherance of our common 

 welfare; as the chastisement of knobs, the assassination of oppressive 

 and tyrannical masters, or the demolition of shops that shall be deemed 

 incorrigible ; and also that I will cheerfully contribute to the support 

 of my brethren," &c. &c. We will give a practical comment on 

 that text, showing, by rather a humorous illustration, the consistency 

 of that highly moral people the Scotch. When the Parliament of 

 the Union met, as we before stated, in the Isle of Man, they opened 

 the session on a Saturday, when the Scotch members proposed that 

 no business whatever should be transacted the next day, and moved 

 an adjournment to the ensuing Monday. The English delegates, 

 feeling for their constituents, were opposed to this plan, as a loss of 

 time, and increase of expense. But the Scotchmen protested that, 

 if their constituents knew that the Sabbath would be devoted to 

 business, they would consider that no good could attend the Union, 

 and would positively refuse to support it they finally carried their 



