Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1841-12-07
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From the New York Sun.
ENGLISH LIBERTY

ENULISu LIBERTY
The last papers from England, hold up
the curtain Of a scene Of horror, such as
the annals of the world, full as they are
with crime and misery, can scarcely par
allel. While the table expenses of the
English Sovereign are given at $500, 900
year, it is stated that in one manufactu.
ring district there are 100000 of that
Queens subjects, without work, in q state
every hour verging on starvation, without
the remotest prospect Of relief.
BY day and by night this terrible tale
has been ringing in our ears-this picture
of horror has been constantly before u.s.
We have seen the madness of the father,
the despair of the mother, and the pale,
besceching 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 nothing before them
but the prospect of horrible death.
Here, in one district, within a compass
of few miles, is a popuation larger by
thousands than that of New York city,
which has been sinking, by slow but GER
tain degrees, lower, and lower, till woe
and human wretchcdness seem to have
found its lowest depth, and there lies hu-
manity, helpless, hopoless-the grave
yawning alike for the old and the young
all enduring a common fate, and that
the most awful that ever scourgcd the
world
Can any thing be done? Our commse-
ration avails not-our alms could not reach
them, and if they could it would be but
PRONUNCIATION of their misery. What if
we demonstrate ? VIII the naughty aris-
tocrats who now govern England and as
Pire TO the supremacy Of the world listen
to remonstronco? They, on whose ears
the groans Of millions Of the trodden-down,
fall idly as the whirling Of the autumn
leaves-they, whom the means Of women
and children, furnishing for bread, cannot
soften-wiIl they thus listen to the family
whispered rcproof which comes across the
Atlantic
The thousands Of priests, who, by a
huge establishment, fleece the nation Of a
1.-THE oF its productions--thc thousands Of
the rich and titled, who hold in their I'M
clenchng grasp the wealth, with the law
and the sword for their protection, will
they let go their hold, or give up one ofthc
privileges which their lawlcss, bandit, an
cestors seized, and they claim and defend;
will they rescue poverty from starva-
ton
When the negro slave is sick, he is
nursed-when old and inGrm, he is fed
and sheltered; infancy is cared for, &c is
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 a poor living
than the negro, and when provisions are
dear, and his work is not wanted, he is left
to starve. This England sends her
Thompsons TO declaim on the sin and
curse Of negro slavery. In the eyes of
the Almighty the Southern Shareholder is
less guilty than the English capitalist.
What Of liberty has the English artlzan
to boast! He has not even the liberty to
labor, the liberty TO eat the bread of toll.
England is no country Of liberty. The
slave who sets his foot upon her shore is
froc-to starve. Does he ask bread, he is
told to earn it. When he asks for labor,
there is none to be had. If he attempts
TO kill game in the forest, or catch fish in
the stream, he is sent to Jail. England is
q country of privilege. The nobility, the
clergy, all who compose the great machi-
merry of her government, have privilege
privileges TO Cypress, to monopolize, TO
crush, 10 starve In all the tyranny Of
privilege England abounds. In all the
freedom Of democracy and equal rights, 1t
is wanting. 1t is governed, taxed, plla-
ged, by privileged classes. Millions toll
from infancy to age-hundreds of thou
sands live in want and starvation; that
their sovereigns may enjoy a thousand
costly Injuries. A worlds wealth is
boarded around London. We can form
no adequate idea of the grandeur that is
concentrated upon the few. God looks
down calmly from above and sees. the
many starving
Can this be always? VIII generation
after generation pass into eternity, after a
life Of horrible destitution here, leaving
wealth and privilege still in the enjoyment
of the few, and toll and want, still the lot
Of the many; twill the spark of human
ity, not quite stamped out, revive, and
brains and muscles assert the ri,2ts they
were intended to protect and enJsigl Viii
all the brawny artzans of Englehill cringe
under the awful power Of purse 1t sword