New-York tribune., 1841-12-01

finally. under pains OF hunger, they take TO lespns
fences: eating foreign property. and-"e Nn7"
the ,e,t. An il Is not a joyful nirth i : sau
der than cars the laugh humanity i oicso 70 a.
Lqissc--t fare applied = poor peasants " " JILL
Ike our Europe Of the year Io5''
81 am quite disposed TO think, tna; the
-, ,,b;cb has worked through his working lie,
,.,l,, entitled to something 70 eat when ne can
III no more So thinks the STAKEHOLDER who
.,,nrorts hi. WORKOUT servants. One wead augh
him in the face to hear HIN talk OF the clarity OF
/ h- act Indeed, in TX Southern States | have
never heard a word about the ciGTiiy OF Il
have heard Jealous advocate OF slavery at
the North say something about II, but never with
ou, raising a laugh at the raisnomer.
The English workhouses are reckoned among
the Charities. Perhaps j; would be well to
find isr them some other name. some OF these
warehouses; do, ndeed. aa-rd cou.iorca-le homes
FOR the po.r (as the word comfort defined IN the
vocabulary OF men who have learned to dispense
w-;h greater part OF what ether men call the
uccessaries Of iie. Bu, there Is nothing so pain
fui iind to Of spirit and ,ensioility, a the
thought o. beng one day compelled TO enter
worhhouse It II. dark cloud that hangs OF the
vision of every poor man IL England wien he looks
into the future.
cruelty. prlvetiou and suffering. 1he description
which that master paiu;sr Of human wo. Charles
Dickens, has given of the worahouse, viii not do.
,ve all know for the majority Of them but it viii
DO for rnaav You have real Parliamentary re-
ports, books, pamphlets, &c. this subject;
couyersed with those who are familiar with II;
perhaps witnessed the wolHhousc system ia Eng
and with your own eyes. You are aware that IN
many instances the keeper. speculate on the stom-
achs Of parish paupers keeping them upon short
or damaged food denying them many oi the
most comnon necessares of life and all lis comforts.
Instances are not few in which the inmates Of
,hese house, die in lonely filthy chambers by
night without medical aid without an attendant;
without even rush-lisht 20 flicker their pill
! ows while they passing through deaths strug-
| gles The selfish avari-e of the keeper combines
aith the interest of the parish to shorten the pau
per days and rid Themselves of the ihankle,s
burden as quickly as possible. TO accomplish
| this, the cords of life are cut asunder by cold
neglect and barbarous treatment.
All that Is known ABOUT such cases is, that the
prayer Of the dying p7upcr is often denied. when
ne asks that the physician may come TO him, or
some one watch by hs bed or the minister OF re-
| gi~n be called to breathe out PRAYER for his
! -oul or If he Is to he LIT entirely alone while
the soul is breaking away romi's shattered house.
that they viii have mercy and bring light, that
the darkness Of night may not Iaingle with the
death-shadcs of the grave they settle over h.s
bed of rags.
In the morning they 20 to his chamber. and find
that he is dead. II cause, no grief; no friend
Vas with him when he died-but GOD. y rough
ofin is orderc.--price IS. Gd.-tRe body /, taken
away, and that Is the end OF tho pauPer his dying
groan heard only by the OF a mcrcIiu God
| over his grave no tear of affection Is shed no
monument ever rises; and in a little while no one
bu, He whose allseeng eye notices the falling
sparrow, can tell whose grave It is where the
paupcr sleeps.
The workhousc is gloomy place for the poor
to 90 to; it is of the most dismal places ever
entered. In the best of them England does not
pay back to the pauper half the law has taken
from his former earnings. 1t would be a difficult
matter, | apprchend to find many persons in the
parish wcrkhousc who have not paid far more to
support the government which has impoverished
them than the parish pays for their support when
they can work no longer
For any who may think | eXaggcraie the mis-
cries of these places, will quote short deserts
ton from the writings of DIR. Souihey: "When
he poor are Incapable of contributing any longer
TO their own support they are removed to what i
called the workhousc. cannot express To you
The feeling of hopelcssncss and dread with which
al the dccen, poor look upon this wretched ter
muation of a lito of labor. To this place all va
Grants are sent for punishment: unmarried women
with child 60 here to be delivered and poor or
phans and base-born children brought up here
l they OF age to be apprcnticed Oft: the other
inmates are those unhappy people who are utterly
hrlpless-purish idiots and madmen, the blind
and tie palscd, and the old who are fairly worn out
:" 1t is not in the nature of things that the super
ntcndcnts of such institutions as these should be
,cn,lc-heaticd, when the supcrintendence is
deraken merely for the salary. There are always
enough competitors icr the management among
those people who can get no better situation but,
whatever kindness of disposition they may buug
with them to the task, it Is soon perverted by the
perpetual sight Of depravity and OF suffering The
management of children who grow up without one
natural affection. where there Is none TO cve them
and. consequently. none whom they love,
would alone bo sufficient 10 souI happier dispos-
ion than i usually brought to the government OF
| workhouSc.
g. To ,hi, society Of wretchcdness the aboring
poor of England look us their last rcStng-pIace on
hs side the grave: and rather than enter abodes
% miserable they endure the severct privations
ong as it is possible to exist. \ feeling of honest
pride rukcs them shrink from place where guilt
md poverty are coutoundcd: and il i heartbreak-
| jus Tor those vino have reared family OF their
cwn to be subjected in their old sge to the harsh
and uuteciin. authority OF persons younger than
themselves. neither better born nor better bred.
they dread also, the disrespectful and careless
funeral, which public charity, or rather, law be-
slows; and many wretch denies himself the few
,ordid comforts within his reach in order thai lie
nav hoard up enough te purchase a more decent
bsrial. better shroud, or irmer coffin than the
parish will afford
No lot things be called by their right names; 8;