Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-02-02

George III. came In peace aff.r tie
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 Thus you see, sir how regularly the mseres of the working people have gone on increasing with the in crease of the Government taxes and the increase of the Debt. The ar shnt of the poor taxes is the mea sure of the mseres of the Dsorl; and here you see that they are seven times miserable as their grand fathers were.' Taxes make the people of the nation poor poveryis the parent of crime; and accord ng- y the Jals are seven times capacious they were When George ILL mounted the throne Let France take care, then; for similar causes produce similar effects; and, ftbe funding system of France be suf fered to exist for any length of time. misery will spread itself over France as it has done over Eng land When taxes are raised to be paid to fnndhold- CTS, they create idle people; u ey cause constant accumulation of the wealth of country in few hands; they create InonopOlies of all sorts; they cause Jews and loan jobbers to live in palaces; and beggar all the industrious part of the community. Taxes however applied, have naturally this tenden- cyi put particularly when applied to create usurers (now politely called capitalists, '') who quickly ab sorb the whole of the fruits ofa naiions industry.
 As the working people have gone on getting poor CT ana poorer they have become more and more inl- moral; and, indeed, it has been proved by witnesses oeiofe me committees of the House of Commons that Tn lnnumerable instances men have committed crimes TOT uie purpose oi getting into jail; because the fe- ~ In '''e J','. orc potter fed aud better clad than the honest working people, As the working neonIal
 nave become poor the lawsrelatng to them have been made more and more severe; and the poor lu,v tbo, famous law of Elizabeth which was the greatest alo. oi England for ages, has by degrees been so mpcb mutilaed and nulfed that at last. if is so far nn being protection to the working peope. that ii bos by its perversions been made the means o redpr;ng mem 10 state of wretchedness not to be described The sole food of the greater part of them has been Tor many years bread or potatoes, and not half enough oi these. They have eaten sheen or cattle 'ha, nave ed rom illness they have eaten garbage such as lord or loan jobbbr would not give to his dogs; children have been seen stealing the food out oi hog troughs thousands of them have died for want of food; three men were found dead Inst May lyihg under hedge, and when opened by the sur geons nothing but sour sorrel (osee sauvage) was found Tn their stomachs, and this was within n mile oi palace, which had cost millions pounds of the public money! The spot on which these poor cren- lures expired was surrounded with villas of Jews and '9nd Jobbers, living in luxury, and in the midst of pleasure gardens all the means of which living they derived from the burdens laid on the working peonc
 Besides sufierings from want the working people nave been made to endure insults and indenities such as even Negroes never were exposed to They have been harnessed like horses or asses and made to draw carts andwagons they have been shut up m the pounds made to hold stray cattle they have been made to work with bells round their necks like cows put out to grze they have been made to carry heavy stones backward and forward in fields. or on the roads, and they have in these cases had drivers set over them just as if they had been galley-slaves they have been sold by auction for certain fines os the Negroes are sold the West Indies; the marri- ed men have been kept separated from their wives by force, to prevent them from breeding; and, in short no human beings were ever before treated so unlusty, with so much nsoence and with such damnable barbarty, so the working people of Eng and have been within the sixteen, and particularly within the last ten ycars
 Such sir, are the fruits of public debts and funds thout this vile system, this industrious and moral and brave nation never could have been brought in to thls degraded state; but every evil not cured rom other causes has its cure in its own excess, so ut last, the cure will assuredy comc and it is indeed come, and in manner which shall endeayor to de- scribe in my next Letter. am, sir your most obe- a'eht servant, VIM. COBBETT. STATE OF ENGLAND WARNING TO FRANCE
 LETTER III.
 LONDON, 1st Dec. 1880. To Me Editor cf La Rerolution, at Paris.
 Sir The working people in almost all, if not all o the counties of England, are, in part at least, in state or comnOtion; for since the date of my first Letter, the cpmmoton has extended very widely.- All across the south, from Kent to Cornwall and from Sussex tp Lincolnshire the commotion extends It began by the laborers in Kent entering the bud ings oithe great farmers and breaking their brasb OI heavy taxation is to cause the invention of machine ". The farmer or manufacturer is so pressed for money by the Government, that he resorts to all pos sible means of saving the expense oflabor; and as machines will work cheaper than men, the machines are preferred, As to the good or evil of machinery speaking of it generally, there may be some ground Tor dispute; but 1t very certain that it may be car red to excess for, suppose that the land could be ploughed and the corn cut and carted as well as thrashed by machinery, there would be country with crops, but without people There can be no doubt that our forefathers who built the cathedrals could have invented spinning jennies and thrashing- machines, iftheir minds had been turned that way: but they knew what our modern lawgivers seem not to know that is to say, that it is men, and not ma chimes, that constitutes nation .N
 The laborers of England see, at any rate, that the thrashingmachines rob them of the wages that they ought to receive. They, therefore, began by demo- fishing these machines. This was crime the ma glstrates and jailors were ready with punishments soldieis we'll fed and we'll clothed out of the taxes were ready to shoot or cut down the offenders Un- able to resist these united orces the laboers resored 10 the use of re secretly put to the barns and stacks of those who had the machines, or whom tley deem ed the cause ofther poverty and misery. The mis- chlef and the alarm that they have caused by this means are beyond calculation. They go in bands of from 100 to 1000 men, and summon the farmers to come forth, and then they demand that they shall agree to pay them such wages as they think right and you will please to observe, that even the wages that they demand are not high by one third as their grandfathers received, taking into consideration the taxes that they have now to pay. elT
 The farmers, in their defence, say that they can not pay the wages that are demanded, because they have so much to pay in rent, in taxes and in thes The laborers have, therefore many instances gone to the parsons, and compelled them to reduce their tthes; and in one parish, in Sussex, they have or dered the collector ofthe taxes not to take the money out fthe parish, it was, they said, wanted there These proceedings would have been put an end to long ago, had tnot been for the fires. The military force backed by all the great farmers the and own ers and especially by the parsons and the immune rable swarms of Jews and f1nduh uhhars and ,,a,,;o