Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1841-11-16
EN- GLIsH LIBERTY


The last papers from England, hold
up the curtain ofa scene of horror, such
as the annals of the world, full as they
are with crime and misery, can scarcely
parallel. While the table expenses of
the English Sovereign are given at $780,
900 year,it is stated that in one manu-
featuring district there are 4OO, 900 of the
Queens subjects, without work, in
state every hour merging nearer starva-
tion, without the remotest prospect OF
relief.
BY day and by night this terrible tale
has been ringing in our ears-this pic
ture of horror has been constantly before
US. We have seen the madness of the
father, the despair of the mother, and the
pale, beseeching 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 moth
ing before them but the prospect Of a
horrible death.
Here, ia one district, within the com.
pass Of a few miles, is population, lar
ger than that of New York city, which
has been sinking, by slow but certain de-
grees, lower and lower, till human woe
and wrelchedness seem to have found It's
lowest depth, and there lies humanity,
helpless, hopeless-the grave yawning
alike for the old and the young--all en-
during common fate; and that the most
awful that ever scourged the world
Can any thing be done' <Our commits
seration avails not-our aims could not
reach them, and if they could, it would
be but prolongation Of msery.-What
| if we demonstrate? Will the naughty
aristocrats who now govern England and
aspire to the supremacy of the world lis.
ten to remonslrancs!-They, on whose
ears the aroans of millions Of the down
trodden fall idly as the whirling of the au-
tumn leaves-they, whom the moans OF
women and children, famishing for bread
cannot soften-will they thus. listen to
the family whispered reproof that comes
across the Atlaniic9
The thousands of priests,who by huge
establishment, fleece the nation of tithe
of its produclons-the thousands OF the
rich and titled, who hold in their unclench-
ing grasp the wealth, with the law and
The sword for their production, will they
let 90 their hold, or give up one of the
privileges which their lawless, bandit an
cestors seized, and they claim and de.
fend; will they rescue poverty from star
vation3
When the negro slave is sick, he is
nursed-when old and infrm, he is fed
and sheltered; infancy is cared for, age
protected. If there is famine the master
kills his cattle, sells his property to feed
his slaves. In England the white slave
labors longer and harder for poorer liv-
ing than the negro, and when provisions
are dear, and his work not wanted, he is
left 10 stalve. This England sends her
Th0mpsons to declam on the sin and
curse of negro slavery: In the eyes OF
the Almighty the southern save-holdel
is less guilty than the English capitalist
What Of liberty has the English arti
zan to boast? He has not even the lber
ty to labor-the liberty to eat the breac
of toll. England is no country of liberty
The slave who sets his foot upon heI
shore is free-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 tC
Jail. England is country OF privilege
The nobility, the clergy, all who compose
the great machinery of her government
have privileges-prvilege to Cypress, tt
nunopoize, to crush, to starVe. In al
the tyranny ofpriviege England abounds
% Ia all the freedom of democracy an'
j equal rights it is wanting. ltisgoverned
taxed IlIlaged by privileged classes
D Millions toll from infancy TO age-hun
. dreds Of thousands live in want and staT
J, vation that their sovereigns may enjoy
4 thousand costly luxures. A world
i wealth is boarded around London. w
!. can form no adeqate idea of the grandeu
e that is concentrated upon the teU. 10
+ looks down calmly from above and see
j. the many starving.
r Can this be alwaysf Will generatIo
h after generation pass into eternity after
;. life of horrible destitutiOn here, leav'n
n wealth and privilege still in the enjoy
:. ment of The few, and toll and want sl
% the lot ofthe many; or will the spark
r. humanity, not quite stamped out, revive
~ and brains and muscles assert the rIgh
y thew were intended to protect and enjoy
~ Will all the brawny arrizlns Of Englar
.. - crinpe under the awful power ot pur'
I'd and sword forever. There is no hope
n m reform. Wealth does not relax its graz
,Iv power does not give up its privilege
~ and when did either care tor right2 Ev
ry day the case Ofthe English labOrer al
,.s the Irish peasant grows more hopeless,
IF this year, there are e,0OO,OOO Off
Irish, with not enough even Of roots
l.; 4on veaVs more the number v