The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-03 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST.

SlR,.—Argument was useless. The mention of the
constitutional rights of the poor was subject for derision.
The people were too numerous—the "surplus population"
must be driven away. There was no connexion between
the poor and the land. They must be removed or perish !
Such was the award of our "enlightened and liberal phi-
losophers !" A pretty mess they have made of it ! People
won't die a want quietly. They become troublesome—
dangerous. They must be fed. We grumble that they
are impatient.
We are now receiving the just reward of our cruelty.
We listened to the philosophers—we deserve our punish-
ment, because we have turned a deaf ear to our good and
- ancestors. They assured us, that the poor have a
it to live ; the philosophers exclaimed, " Naturs has
le no provision for them—let them die !" We have
7ed that lie, and our sin has found us out. This,
s our case

When future economists strike the balance of favours Sir, . _
and duties between England and Ireland, they will pro- We do right, now, to feed the poor
bably scrutinise the traffic of the Irish Channel more remember, that, in doing so, we are acting in direct con-
closely than we are wont to do. They wi.l insist much on tradiction to the whole school of our "enlightened and
the fact that the food of millions did annually pass to the liberal philosophers." No provision for the poor, is still
rich and happier shore. They will not reconcile this with their creed ; although fear compels them to relent, they
dare not enforce their exterminating principles? Ilow
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diligently often have they been warned, that God was wiser and
what England gave in return. When their researches stronger than they ; and assured, that, if they would per-
bring them to that crisis which we are now actually suf- sist in altering our laws on their diabolical principles, lie
fering, they certainly will be struck, perhaps even unduly would exert His power! They answered in jeers and in-
by the fact that while England was avowedly feeding Ire- vectives, They removed the landmark of the poor, and
land—while both countries agreed in that view of their are now at their wit's end.
position
lv—eswhile
re andall Why do I write thus? It is once more to warn. It is
not enough to feed the poor now. They must be provided
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the Irishmen
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for hereafter. Their right to maintenance must again be
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the
fully recognised by our laws. They require, and must
cities of abundance. Scarce a day passes without every have, Protection! Yes, Sir that despised ward will, after
great port of this country seeing this visible eeetratlie- all, triumph over all its foes. Protection from first to
tion, or rather this painful anomaly. We are,emPbati• last—from the monarch to the pauper--,else•England's.aaa
rally reminded that it is not to Ireland herself, to, her will set in gore. I have warned the landlords until I have
This social state, that the famine is attributable. .1 his's no become hoarse. I told them their doom, should they rob,
exaggeration, no paradox. What, also, will teefuture the poor by the new Poor Law. appeal to the Duke of
historian feel when in the very columns which he is Wellington—have not my predictions been verified.
searching for the distracting and harrowing notices of Let the landlords now resolve that the first act of the
Irish destitution, he lights on such a paragraph as that next session of Parliament shall be .one recognising the
which apps aced in the London papers last week, and which, right of the poor to liberty and life in England, Scotland,
in fact, is only one out of many we could quote from the and Ireland. Then the philosophers will be confounded,
last few weeks : and, having thus set our faces constitutionwarel, we may
"No less than 16 ships arrived in the river Thames on expect prosperity and the blessing of our God.
Monday from the Irish ports, laden almost exclusively I remain, sir, your most obedient servant,
with food and provisions of various kinds, the produce of London, Oct. 21. , RICHARD °AMER.
that country, having collectively 14,960 packages of I P.S.—lt is no use to* mince matters. If we persist in
butter, 224 packages of pork, 1047 hampers and bales of refusing the constitutional right of the poor, they will
bacon, several of hams, 140 sacks, 2926 barrels, and 7788 hang, like an incubus, on the state, and we shall become
quarters of oats, 431 packages of lard, 75 of general pro- the derision of the world. The philosophers may storm
visions, 40 of oatmeal, 44 of porter, 259 boxes of eggs, and rage—God will iough at their fury. Truly, sir, if we
and a variety of other articles of lesser importance, which will not bend to receive lessons from our " greybearded
it would be quite needless further to particularise. Of ancestors," starving millions will demand that the state
these almost unprecedentedly numerous arrivals from the shall resume its right to the land and the property. In
sister island 5 were from Limerick. 1 from Belfast, 2 from the future distribution, their rights roust be sanctioned.
Waterford, 1 from Galway.) from Kilrusb, 2 from Dublin, i It were wiser to grant graciously than to yield ignomi-
-1 from Yougbal, out] from c9Flf?" " niously. /1, 0.

A us, however,