The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-03-24

in Democratic railing about lords and ladies He
has with individuals his structures regard the
System which has produced and susains the artist
cy, and he wishes TO elicit the truth in regard to its
real influence upon the interests Of society He looks
doion INTO England, and that man cannot do who
merely rolls over her beautiful roads, PUSHES along
her railways The surface of affairs in the queenly
island is smooth and brilliant, rery; and this and this
onfy some Travellers not observers, have seen. But
here we have who dives down occasionally
into the depths Of the human ocean and when in the
streets lanes of the Metropolis we behold him sink
ing beneath the living wave, we may be sure that he
will soon emerge with pearl Of truth 1t requires
strong effort OF strong mind TO strip off from system
externally brilliant, what Carlyle calls the wrap
page" and observe what the thing really is that the
wrappage" iniolJs. This Mr. Lester has endea
vored to do with the great structure of English
ciety and though the time which he could devote to
the work was limited he has exposed upon the 'bcdy
polite some fostering ulcers, that we fear will defy
all remedies, except perhaps the knife. He has not
permitted the blaze of jewels, the richer light
of titled adys smile, to dazzle his eye that he
| could no longer distinguish beggar or fimished
operatives he looked these in their connection oih
each other, retaining still that old fashioned notion
nearly obsolete it is in English circles Z at
thougs destitute of title, or wealth. yea, though
worse fed and lodged and harder worked than horse
has yet immortal soul ay, and certain rights, to
which though power and oppression may wrench
them from him, will yet be demanded back with most
usurious interest. Looking at the peer and the beg
gar, side by side, observing that Gods image was
stamped on both, he thought it not beneath him to,
inquire into the loheretore other different fortunes.
If man refuses To work few tears perhaps will be
shed, when he comes TO the crust and water or even
| should lack abundance of that But when he Is
milling to bend his muscles the task when he
it boon that he may be permitted to endure the
primeva curse yea and double that for daily bread it
becomes of the important questions ever
asked earth, why he should eat, and have shell
ter and raimentl question not to be answered it
may be, ill thrones shaken down. and coronets
,rampled in the dust Standing in London Liver
pool and Manchester, the bright centres Of England's
glory and power, the rest of the world was not OBJ
| scured or forgotten. He remembered that ah cugh
the island queen may be g magma purs she is not
the whole-and he desired to look at Britain in her
connection with the nations, and observe the in
fuebees Of her specious system not only on her own
subjects at home but upon the world, the fortunes of
the In the great march of European ci,iza-
ton, England confessedly leads the van. Those
causes which hurying all the nations of Christen
dom TO the contamination, whatever that may be, are
there working with greatest intensity. The system
which in countries is just in the bud in England
already exhibits the rpening fruit, and may form
judgment of its quality There, in all probability,
will be gathered the first fruits of that fearful har-
vest which is rpening over all the territory of Eu-
rope,-a harvest that must be reaped perhaps with
much sweat of blood. England, therefore, is the
most favorable point from whence to observe the
tua tendencies of European civilization. The aim OF
the whole scheme in Great Britain appears to be- ia
coin at the least possible expense, the blood and mus
Gle of the into cash for the few to revel with
while the souls are cast out among the odds and ends
the rubbish of the factory, The labor-savng ma
chlnery OF England has produced, is producing, a
two-fod result II converts at cheap rate her raw
materials into the beautiful and delicate fabric
that delighted the eye by their she lay.
the world under contribution, but at the same time
there is manufacturing process going on with thou
sands of men, women and children born in Chris
tan land, by which they are converted into pracca
heahen into beasts, in respect to their toll, to which
result are added nakedness cold, and starvation Ths
Is tue from the facts Wnlcn VII
Lester has collected and given the American pub
lie. They not the results of his own obserya tor
solely The most important statements are extracted
from Parliamentary reports, and from Englands owr
trusted writers. The author is most fully supported
in all his conclusions by no less authority than Black
wood, November number, ls4l The writer of the
article upon the social and moral condition Of the
manufacturing districts in Scotland, 7" states few re-
suits of the manufacturing system exhibited where
it has been attended with its most brilliant success in
Lanarkshire. The population has doubled within
ten years. OF the whole number, four hundred and
thirty-our thousand, which the country contains
there are upwards of hundred thousand who are
not only unprovided with any accommodation, in any
place of worship, but entirely destitute except by dis
tant report of religious impression, and who live alto
gether without God in the world The ratio OF
mortality has risen twenty-five per cent, and crime
has increased -four times faster than population y
These are of the fruits of the golden age OF
manufacturing and commercial civilization. Eng
land pressing the great of her population away
from the enjoyment of comfort away from all reli-
gious influence or restraint, and when this living
billow becomes refteni, what shall withstand its ter
rible power There is point beyond which the
million cannot be pressed down, and then the rebound
of the human mind is terrific than the explosive
force of the volcano, the heaving of the awful
surge of the earthquake. Such statements as have
been quoted from Blackwood, and such as are con
tanned in the Glory and Shame Of England, I" are
fraught with fearful meaning. They the fright
/ full shadows of coming events They speak in tones
deep and startling those of signal gun-they are
like the far off roar of the which arrested the
dancers the morning of Waterloo.
Mr. Lester writes not only in attractive, but
in forcibe style, which sometimes rises into genuine
and glowing eloquence. Faults there may be- disco