Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1842-07-05
The white slave. Of Eurone.s

Upon every perusal of the sickly details of Eu.
Topean pauperism, want and woe, the reflection in.
variably occurs to our mind-@Why in the name
of God and humanity do not these miserable
wretrhes cease to marry and propagate2 Why
do they notsuffer their species to become extinct
Why, in the very jaws Of starvation---as the very
scorse than hell viii they deliber-
ntely entail existence upon those who shall be
heirs ef Az the horrors and intold AutIerines ofu
& ypcan pAuVsi
We enjoy sort ofmorbid, nndc6nable pain
ful pleasure in dwelling upon these revolving tales
of human degradation. We love to contrast the
gorgeous luxury of the oppressive mobiles with the
squallid poverty of the oppressed peasantry; we
love to group them together in one close picture
present them side By side, to heighten the horrid
contrast. 1t serves to impress upon our mind a
fresh consciousness of our own forgotten blessings
and little esteemed privileges; and to show how
slight thing it is which saves the poor of our
own land from the same deplorable degradation.
We owe it all to our Republican form of Govern.
ment Ito our Democratic nstitutions--to our
privileges as freemento our rights, as freemen, to
interfere with, and in effect to make Laic-to over
count, and to punish encroachmens upon the
Natural Rights of Man. Would to God the
great mass Of our people knew the blessings these
privileges conferred upon them, Shall we pre-.
S,rre these laws-these insttutions-these rights,
Just as they were framed by our truly patriotic an
cestors or shall their sacred spirit be lost in poit.
ical strifes and selfish aspirations To preserve
these invaluable blessings, an American citizen
owes no higher Duty save to his Maker, than
to avail himself of each and every opporun
ty at the ballot box, to sustain such measures as in
his honest judgment are best calculated to serve
the great cause Every free and rightful voter
should be esteemed a traitor to his. country who
voluntarily neglects to discharge this duty What
when his EARTHLY ALL is at stake, and that great
system of political economy by which nation is
blessed, is in danger, can the very being on whose
shoulders the responsibility ofthis salvation is laid
guiltlessly disregard his obligations and hazard
the immense consequences Impossiblel Next
to fealty to his God, an American freeman owes to
his country the faithful, prompt and conscientious
discharge of his duty as VOTER. IL is his
duty to inform himself of the merits of political
questions and controversies-to read much and
mediate deepLy-to acGfch cdTetHtty and act
promptly in just that way dictated by an honest
and deliberately formed sentiment
We ask you to read the subjoiped extracts COM
piled from different sources
"Few parliamentary documents have excited a
deeper and more painful interest, than the Report
of the Children's Employment Commission. So
far it relates wholly to mines; and in those dark
abodes of industry it discloses scenes of suffering
and inlamy which will come upon many we'll in
formed people like the fctions or tales of distant
lands Whether as respects the oppressive nature
of the evil, the degraded ignorance of the work.
people, or the gross immortality, and indecency,
practices are now unfolded which are beyond toll
Grafton. In the east of Scotland, Mr. Franks de-
scribes the women who perform the office OF coal
putting or carrying the coal from the place where
it is excavated to the mouth of the pit, yoked to
cart sometimes crawling on their hands and knees
through narrow seams. The state which fe-
males are in, after pulling, like horses, through
these hoIes-their perSpiration, their exhaustion,
and very frequently even their tears-it is painful
in the extreme to witness: yet when the work is
done, they return to it with vigor which is sur
Prising, considering how they inwardly hate IT,