The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-09-07

each member Of family In all the other districts
,ne Results Of the inquiries very nearly the same
Wretched as the condition on that occasion Of
OUT poor neighbors, (great numbers Of them fellow
nembefs OF Christian communities the case now IL
believe much worse both here and elsewhere
The Liverpool albion, says
We do not, cannot, look upon such state OF
things In mere party light, the forerun-
ner OF the triumph depression Of whig tory
Both factions alike, all who have been concerned in
the government of the country all who had influence
TO have prevented this and have misused H. all will be
alike involved in the discriminating fury which, in
the misery Of famine, the people will pour upon their
trusted but treacherous servants. In the convulson
which would be produced by such wde-spIeading
wretcbedness, we believe that political creed could
turn uppermos except characterization, proba-
bly,, IN It's worst and widest form Revolutions al
ways the produce of distress among the people Give
them the bare necessarles Of life and from sheer ndo
ience they Will submit to much oppression and yran-
ny but once rouse them 10 political reflection by star
vatlon, and they do not stop at tho threshold Of their
grievances
The Chronicle says" Let an attempt be made to
pass through the fearful approaching winter without
some grand legislative effort made TO relieve the in
dustry OF the country, and the spirit of ciartissye
and something more-will more rails its head
and neither churches nor yeomanry--neilheT bayo-
nets nor sabres, will put it down. We have had Jack
Cades and Wat Tylers in England and these have
heen put down we have had great GATHERINGS in Bir-
ngham-riots Bristol NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. a nd
physical- force charlisma all these have been APP
peased or subdued. But we have yet To another
spectacle, which comes as surely the to-
morrow, should the corn laws be manthined-in the
midst of run for gold and the fear of national
bankruptcy thousands upon thousands Of starving
men, rising up like grim and appalling shadows-men
hungerworn, with savage hatred in their hearts de-
handing, not bread alone, but right and trampling
alike upon public credit, and national honor and gen
era safety. Persuade not yourselves that in England
such thing is impossible II is perfectly possible
The materials for such frightful catastrophe are
dy the train is laid and wants but the lighinng's
flash to set it on fire. England is strong in that
tiona spirit which regards order as heavens first law
but when hunger and hatred combined, and these
concentrated in masses, the public opinion whichIe-
spects the law falls poweress before them"
shuddsr while write it," says the Manchester
correspondent of the London Morning Chronicle,
hut ask nine men out of ten that you meet here and
the Impression on their mind is that thereis something
in the present distress awful defy descriptions
and therefore they fear the worst"
On the prospects Of the new Tory Ministry the
Post says That if Sir Robert Peel be made Minis
ter his position will be any thing but bed of roses.
(This is Tory Ministerial opposition jour
nall The Globe (Whig) hints that Sir Robert
himself begins to feel alarmed well his party
1t says of the opposition, they begin to open their
eyes TO the difficulties of their position The
of reyelry, and with it the nsoence of triumph have
nearly closed. How they shall conduct the govern
ment which they to obtain as the consequences Of
their dearly bought victory begins to be the inquiry of
their most sober organs it doubtless is of the proxi
mate Premier and those whom he has admitted 10 his
preliminary counsels."
The Spectator says che might well withstand
the rush of man and beast to the water after march
in the DESERT stand by the Corn laws in the face of
the people pressed on by hunger he would be tram
pied down without hope mercy. He must aban-
don what he could not keep though he persisted in
the struggle sliding scale, details, principle and
all"
The Globe speaks to the effect II says
F." No man exists with sufficient mental capacity to
reckon by aid Of his fingers, who does no, sec
that the sliding scale must be abandoned and fixed
duty substituted for the present mode of regulating
corn imrorations and that the other import duties
upon articles Of general consumption must also be
subjected to similar modification and reduction yet
Sir Robert Peel defeated the government upon these
measures, and obtains office upon distinct pledges to
the monopolis,s 10 resist these proposed changes
changes which he knows he must concede be driven
again into hopeless opposition to measures the neces
sty of which becomes increasingly manifest and the
adoption of which is rendered absolutely inevitable
by the dispensatons of heaven, the embarrassments
of trade and the accumuating distresses of the
try-every successive day"
Even his own organ, the Post, says, "the business
OF successfully governing the country will be a task
Of the utmost difficulty, unless current Of good for
tune should set in, upon which it would be quite
reasonable to calculate