Southern Argus., 1841-12-07
From tue Charleston Mercury.
ENGLISH LIBERTY.

L1NolL l011 A1D1lIb
We find the following admirable ar.
ticle in the Philadelphia Pennsylvania
an, and, as it is not loaded and without
credit, we know not whether it is an
editorial or sci hon of that able jour
nal. Come " nee it may, it falls in
SO thoroughly 9TH our own views, that
we earnestly commend it TO the care
ful consideration of our readers.
ENGLISH L1BERTY.-The last pa
pers from England hold up the the
curtain ola scene of horror, such as
the annals of the world, full as they
are with crime and A;sery, can scarcely
parallel. While lie expenses of
the English 81 given at
$500, 900 yeJ that, in
one manufacturifs 3ct, they are
100000 Of the Queens subjects with
out work, in state every hour verging
nearer starvation. without the remotest
prospect ofsalief.
| By night, this terrible
tale pg in our ears-this
pict Jas been constantly
befoN I've seen the madness
Of the IA, Despair ofthe mother,
and the beseeching faces of
mourning b The sun shines on
them from th zure heavens, the gen.
tie rains fall round them, and they
live upon the beautiful earth, denied
the privilege Of toll, with nothing be-
fore them but the prospect of horri-
bic death.A
Here one district, within the
compa few miles,is a population,
larger usands than that of New
York which has been sinking by
slow b rtain degrees, lower and
lower, 6luman woe and wretched-
ness seem to have found its lowest
depth, and there lies humanity, help
less-hopeless-the grave yawning
alike for the old and the young
all enduring a common fate; and that
the most awful that ever scourged the
world.
Can any thing be done? Our con-
sideration avails not-our arms could
not reach them, and if they could it
would be but prolongation of misry.
| What if we demonstrated? Will the
naughty aristocrats who now Cover
England and aspire to the supremacy
of the world, listen to remonstrance?-
They ,on whose ears the groans of mil
lions of the down-trodden fall idly as
the whirling Of the autumn leaves-they,
whom the means of woman and chill
dren, famishing for bread, cannot sof-
ten-will 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 a tithe of its productions-the thou.
saa4s Of TIE rich and titled, who tbs
law and the sword for their protection
will they let go their hold, or give
up one of the privileges which theil
lawless. bandit ancestors seized, and
they claim and defend-will they res.
: cue poverty from starvation?
When the negro slave is sick, he i:
nursed-when old and infrm, he i:
Q fed and sheltered; infancy is carec
for, age protected. lfthere is famine
the master kills his cattle, sells proper
ty to feed his slaves. In England th'
white slave labors longer harder for (;
poorer living than the negro, and wheI
provisions are dear, and his work no
wanted, he is left to starve. This
England sends her Thompsons t,
declaim on the sin and curse of ne
gro slavery. In the eyes of the Al
;, mighty the Southern STAKEHOLDER il
less guilty than the English capi
talist.
es What of liberty has the English sr
u tisan to boast? He has not even liber
ty or labor-the liberty to eat tn
J; bread of toll. England is no countr
J of liberty. The slave who sets hi
: foot upon her shore is free--to starve
Q Does he ask bread, he is told to ear
: it. When he asks for labor, there
u none TO be had. If he attempts to XII
$ game in the forests, or catch fish in tn
g stream, he is sent to jail. England i
/ a country of privilege. The nobilit J
s. the clergy, all who compose the gre'
q machinery Of her Government, hay
g privileges-privilege to Cypress,
Z monopolize to crush, to starve. 1
1 all the tyranny Of privilege Englan
e abounds. In all the freedom of d.
y mocracy and equal rights it is WantinI
. Ii is governed, taxed, pillaged by pril
a iIeged classes. Millions toll from il
le fancy TO age hundreds of Thousand
er i've in want and starvation that the
a sovereigns may enjoy athousand cost
NJ Injuries. A worlds wealth is hoarC
OF ed around London. We can form |
e. adequate idea of the grandeur that
&c conesntrated upon the few. Godlool
on dow ealmly from above and sees 4
y many starving.
ng Can this i plwaysS Will gener
ne n'e ton after generation pass into eternit
II Il after a life Of horrible deshtution her
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