The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1842-07-23

Navin which it was not likely they could
long keep.
Its Larklns' own fault, must way that
when the lease ofhis little place dropt he
wouldn't take. No for an answer but
would keep possession. and wonder at his
doing so, and he so well learned, ,and bright
at every thing,' said one of The men.
My own fault9' repeated a strong, hag.
gard looking person advancing, while the
group of coun,rymen to whom he had been
speaking made way for him. 'Who say s
IFS my own fault-you!--sir, was born
under that ,hatch, that now you stand on;
my father and grandfather held the bit of
land and we paid for it at the highest, and
TO the last farthing.'
'Tha. ye did, poor man-God help you'll
said many voice in tones of the deepest
sympathy.
4, with every hard working soul on the
estate, got notice to quit; because the agent
wants it 10 be cleared of men that il may
feed beasts, had acted all my life like a
man;I had the feelings Of one; I loved ever.
stick of them blackened rafiers. My faith.
ers own hands made the bed that poor bro.
ken hearted woman is sitting on; on it I
was born and on il she brought me FIVE chill.
dren. The bees that are now singing in
the bushes came from the ould stock; and
fathers mother, that they are bringing out
now has sat upon that stone bench for six.
ty four years.
A very venerable woman had Just been
carried through the fakes of falling thatch
into the open air; she seemed hardly con-
scious of what was going forward and ye,
she gazed around her and from one TO anoih.
er, with an anxious look.
well; we know all that, said the first
speaker; and you ought TO know that I'm
only doing nay duty and you ought to have
sense; the genteman's land is his own, and
if he'd rather feed cattle Cor the market than
have the place broke up in little farms, sure
IFS bis own land. not yours; he lets you
take every stick that you like away
The law, only bastard law after all
for the poor said Larklns, give me them.
And he pays you for your crop
'And that he cant help either.
'And yet granny there would not leave
till the roof was off. Sure any how the
gentleman had right TO do what he liked
with his own.'
He had not!' exclaimed the peasant,
firmly planting his foot on the ground; and
unconsciously assuming an attitude that
would have added dignity to Roman SEN
ator. In the sight and light of Almighty
God, no man having plenty has right to
say 10 another, go out and starve'--starve
as shall, and all belonging to me; starve
and beg and beg and starve till my bones
whiten through my skin and Gle as 9TH
ers'in this country have done before me; on
the road-Oh my God! if he had given me
a piece of mountain or piece of bog. and
time TO bring it round, I'd have worked, as
! have done all my lifc-aLd that's saying
enough-for it. Does he call to mind that
the tenants duty is to pay, and the land
lords to protect? Does he say as Christ
ian that any man has right to turn over
scores OF his fellow creatures 10 starvation
when they are willing to be bis slaves for
food and raimen,? for what more have any
of US! We lay by nothing and have moth.
ing TO lay by yet we pay our rent Will
any of you say that God intended ihat!'
Then why The devil' Johnny Larkins,
my jewell said tight concentrated fellow
walking up to the excited speaker; why
DON, you lei us starve them all out at
onct! Sorra better sport we'll desire, and
its under her roof ye'd be dow if ye had
let US take just one good heary fling a,
them
Il never broke the law in my life, James
replied Larkins.
'Sorra better we're off than them that
did, answered James, stepping back in q
most discontented manner. Two women were