The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1841-11-25
ENGLISH LIBERTY.

The last papers from England hold up the curtain ot
of horror, such as the annals ofa world, full as
they are with crime and misery can scarcely parallel
While the table expenses ofthe English Sovereisns are
estimated at $500 900 year, it is stated that in one
manufacturing district there are 400 900 oflhe Cueons
subjects without work, in state every hsur verslng
starvation, without the reMotes prospect Of r0~
lief
BY day and by night this terrible tale has been ring
ing ears this picture horror has been constant
ly before We have the madness ofhe father,
the despair ofhe MOTHER and the pale beseeching faces
Of mourning babes. The shines on them from the
azuro heavens, the gentle rains fall around them and
they live upon the beautiful earth denied the privilege
of TOLL with nothing before them but the prospect of
horrible DEATH.
Here, in one iistric., within the compass of few
miles, is population larger by thousands than that o.
New York city, which has been sinking, by slow bu'
certain degrees lower and lower, till human and
wrelchedness seems to have found its lowest depth &
there lies humanity, helpless hopess-.>tho grave yaw
ming alike for the old and the young enduring
common fatet and that the most awful that
ged the world
Can any thing be donei Our commisseraiOn avails
not our aims could not reach them, and iftheY could,
1t would be but aprolongaion cfmsery. What five
demonstrated Will the naughty arstocrats who now
govern England and aspire tho world listen to remoh
s,rancei They, on whose ears the groans of millions
of downtrodden fall idly the whirling of the aus
tumn eaves-tbeY, whom the means of women and
children, furnishing for Bread cannot soften; will they
thus listen to tho family whispered reproof that comes
across The Atanticf
The thousands ofpreSts, who, by huge establish-
men fleece the nation of tthe of its productions; the
thousands of the rich and titled, who hold in their
clenching grasps the wealth. with Tho law and the
sword for their projection, wihey let 60 their hodor
give up one ofthe privileges which their awlesSsr bans
dit ancestors SEIZED and they claim and defend; will
they rescue poverty from starvatIon'
When the negro slave siCk he is nurSed; when old
and nfrm he is fed and shetered infancy is cared for
age protected. Ifthere is famine the master kills his
Catte sells his property to feed his slaves, labors Ions
ger and harder for poorer living than the negro, and
when provisions are dear and his work not wanted he
is left 10 starve. This England sends her ThompSOns
to decaim 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 arIizan to boast! He
has not even the liberty to Obor the liberty to eat the
bread Of toa England is no country of liberty. The
slave who SeiS his foot upon her shore is free tU
starve. Does he ask bread hs is told to it When
no asks for labor, there is TO he had. Hhe at"
tBmpts to kill game in tho woods, or catch fish in the
stream, he is sent to Jail. England is country Ofpr
Vilege. The nobility the clergy, all who compose tho
great machinery of her government have privileges
privileges 10 OpposS to monOpoze, TO Crush to sIarve
In all the tyranny Of privilege England abounds In all
the freedom ofdemocracY and equal rights it is vans
ting It is governed, taxed, puged by privileged caS.
Ses' Millions toll from infancy to age-hundreds Of
thousands live in want and starvation that their SOW
sregns may enjoy thousand costly luxuries worlds
wealth is boarded around London. We can form no
adequate idea Of the grandeur that s concentrated upon
the FEW God looks down calmly from above and
sees the MANY starving
Can this be aways1 Will generation after generation
pass into eIern y, after life of horrible dsstituton
here leaving wealth and privileges still in tho enjoy
en of the few and toll and want still the lot of The
many; or will the spark ofhumanity, quite stamped
out revive, AMI brains and muscles assert the rights
they plpnded to protect and eniOyi Will all the