The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1842-08-10

TIE LAPoRISG PEOPLE OF ENGLAND-Ni Il
the whg fedcralisis OF this country persist II
their attempts to lasten upon these United State:
system which has been tried in England, an'
whrch las brought a great portion OF the Peopit
of that country to the brink of starvation an'
death! The following is from the London ulooe
OF July .lth, brought ny the Acadia.
Ball. Republican.
"Evidcnce of the appalling extent and dISor'
ranzing tendency If distress, among the LABOR
ING population of the country, accumulates with
a rapidity which dcfes all our attempts to des-
cribe it in detail. The conviction is forced upon
our minds that we are on the eve OF dlsruP-
ton of the social ties, unless immediate and ell
fectual relief be brought to the suffering multl-
tudes who fill the streets and highways OF all the
thcklv popula ated portions of that land. Inc
accounts which reach US by every post, concur
in depicting the victims of compulsory ldiencss
and starvation according to law, as becoming
more and more fierce i'll their deneanor, more
and more reckless in their conduct, and more
anGmore threatening in their language: lhat
hunger, which breaks through stone walls, ana
braves death in pursuit of the means OF lie, Is
doing its work among cur population WIN a
haste that should arrest the solemn attention OF
all who dread the consequences oi an IghitIoh
of the combustbc masses of society.
We have Just learnt from respectable lnlor-
mant, who came up from Hull to London IN the
steamer Water Witch on Saturday, that there
was % recruits on board-eleven or twelve IRON
,ccds, and the rest from Sheffield. In the
course of conversation with one OF them, lie
stated, that during fourteen days he had been
obliged to subsst on half penny roll day
All these declared that their sole motive Tor en-
listing was the want of the necessarIes OF lie,
and that it was at last a choice between death
and the profession of arms. Our informant, VINO
is a member of the select vestry, belonging 10
the township of Iolbeck (Leed<,) says: Livery
day women with families apply for relief, whose
husbands have enlisted or emgrated to escape
starvation; and that many mechanics IN Leeds
who eighteen months ago were earning twenty
four sIlilings per week, are now worlAng IN liie1
same shops, and the same length OF time, Tor
fifteen shillings per week. And yet the Prime
Minister tells us that he will rcsolutey oppose
that measure which alone promises employment
and The means of honest subsistence TO the peo-
pie of this country!
What spectacle does this Island present!
Though no awful visitation has bclallen us in
the shape of invasion, civil war, or pestIlcncc,
Or blight, or earthquake; and though, as a ma
ion, our power at once OF productlon' consumP,
ton, and the carrying out OF an extensive ana
honorable commerce, is unrIvallcd, we are IN
condition, with regard to the most truly deserv-
inr portions of the people, which might com
mand the pity Of the untutnred savage. This
cannot last. On the ministry, a"L t.oir rs,ajori-
ties in the two houses. rests the responsibility
of those consequences which are now apprc-
heudcd, with trembling anxiety, by all who are
not blinded by seItiShneSs and the love of party.
1t is the spirit of monopoly which has brought
us to the verge OF ruin. 1t is the spirit of free
commercial intercourse that must inspire again
the dropping. and almost extinct energies. OF
our country"