Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1841-12-04
ENGLISH LIBERTY.
From the Charleston Mercury.

W z iilii VIC IoIlONihS ubliiiluD llClt
IN the Philadelphia Pennsylvania. and, as
it is not loaded, and without credit, we
know not whether it is an editorial or Sc
lection of that able journal. Come whence
it may, it tails in so thoroughly with our
own views, that we earnestly commend it
to the careful consideration of our readers:
ENGLISH LIBERTY.-The last papers from
| England hold up the curtain of a scene Of
horror, such as the annals of the world, full
as they are with crime and misery, can
scarcely parallel. While the table expen.
ses of the English Sovereign are gwen at
100000 year, it is stated that, in one
manufacturing district, there are 100000 of
the Queens subjects without work, in
state every hour verging nearer starvation,
without the remotest prospect OF relief.
By day and by night, this terrible tale has
been ringing in our ears-this picture Of
horror has been constantly before US. We
have seen the madness of the father, the
despair of the mother, and the pale, be-
seeching faces of mourning babes. The
sun shines on them from the azure heavens,
the gentle rains fall round them, and they
live upon the beautiful earth, denied the
privilege of toll, with nothing before them
but lhe prospect of horrible death.
Here, is one district. within the compass
Of few miles, is a population. larger by
! thousands than that of New York city,
which has been sinking by slow but certain
degrees, lower and lower, till human woe
and wretchedness seem to have found its
lowest depth, and there lies humanity, help
less-hopeless-the grave yawnng alike
for the old and the young--ali enduring a
common fate; and that the most awful that
ever scourged the world.
Can any thing be done? Our considera-
ton avals not-our arms could not reach
them, and if they could it would only be but
a proIongation of misery. What if we re-
monstrate? Will the naughty aristocrats
who now govern England and aspire to
monstrance? They, on whose ears the
groans Of millions of the down-trodden
fall idly as the whirlng of the autumn
Ieaves-they, whom the means of women
and children. famshed for bread, cannot
soften-wl they thus listen to the family
whispered reproof that comes across the
Atlantic?
The thousands Of priests, who, by huge
establishments, fleece the nation OF 1.-THE
of it's productlons-the thousands OF the
rich and titled, who hold in their unclench-
ing grasp the wealth, with the law and the
sword for their protection-wiIl they let
90 their hold, or give up one of the privIle-
ges which their lawless, bandit ancestors
seized, and they claim and deend-will
they rescue poverty from starvation?
When the negro slave is sick, he Is nursed
when old and nfrm, he is fed and shell
tered; infancy is cared for, age protected.
If there is famine, the master kills his cat
tie, sells his property to feed his slaves.
In England the white slave labors longer
and harder for poorer living than the ne.
gro, and when provisions are dear, and his
work not wanted, he is left to starve. This
England sends her Thonpsons to declam
on the sin and curse of negro slavery. In
the eyes of the Almighty the Southern
STAKEHOLDER is less guilty than the English
capitalist.
What of liberty has the English artisan
to boast? He has not even the liberty to
labor-the liberty to eat the bread of toll.
England is no country of liberty. The
slave who sets his foot upon her shore is
tree-to starve-Does he ask bread, he is
told to earn it. When he asks for labor.
there is none to be had. Ii he attempts to
kill game in the forests, or catch fish in the
stream, he is sent to Jail. England is a
country of privilege. The nobility, the
clergy, all who compose the great machine
ry Of her Government, have privileges
privilege to Cypress, TO monopolize, to
II, of Il, $
privilege England abounds. In all the free
dom OF Democracy and equal rights it is
wanting. |, is governed, taxed, plllnged
by privileged classes. Millions toll from in
fancy to age-hundredS of thousands live
in want and starvation that their sovereigns
may enjoy thousand costly Injuries. A
worlds wealth is boarded around London.
We can form no adequate idea of the gran
deur that is concentrated upon the few.
God looks down calm y from above and sees
the many starving.
Can this be always? Will generation
after generation pass into eternity, after a
life of horrible destitution here, leaving
wealth and privilege still in the enjoyment
of the few, and toll and want still the lot
of many; or will the spark Of humanity,
not quite stamped out, revive, and brains
and muscles assert the rights they were in
tended to protect and enjoy? viii all the
brawny artizans of England cringe under
the awful power of purse and sword iorev-
err. There is no hope of reform. Wealth
does not relax its grasp-power does not
give up its privileges, and when did either
care for right9 Every day the case of the
English laborer and the Irish peasant grows