Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1843-11-10
MOCKERY OF HUNGRY MEN.

Our readers will recOllect that few months
ago, one of the American ships Of war, in
Mediterranean port, threw large quantity
Of bread overheard, which, though still palate-
able to hungry men, was removed to make
room for fresher, which would keep longer.
The officers Of the vessel offered to give it to
the poor inhabitants of the place, if the au-
thorities would permit it to he landed. This
they refused, and the poor wretches came off
in boats and picked up the saltwater soaked
food as it fell into the sea.
Another case of mockery Of human hun
ger has just fallen under our eye. We copy
from Liverpool paper, without comment
the phraseology Of the paragraph being pre-
ciseIy that of the Liverpool editor. Truly,
John Bull is a patient animal !-Phila. Sat.
Post.
"Our attention has Just been called to an
other most gross imposition upon poor, pa
tient, long suffering John Bull. Part of the
cargo of the ship Europe, which arrived at
this port, the other day, from New York,
consisted Of butter-imported, not for the use
Of man himself, but for any other purpose he
may put il, when spoiled. The law passed
by our landed legislators, provides that this
butter shall be put carefully into bond, under
custom-house lock and key, and not removed
thence for use in this country, unit. i. is rem
dered utterly unfit for human food. or the
butter in question, ten tons were consigned
to one house, and the rest to different firms.
. -necimen of it was brought to us, the 9TH
Asr Itch we found to be slightly over
CT Jay W"' '.r respects, equal to the
sa"eo' W, ~ o'''- -llng in the Liver
pool markets at Is. per ID. Ire ee " ~.
American article under notice, is oSs.
cwt., which would be about pence per ID.
but in order to prevent the poor man from
getting any of this cheap butter, i, is mixed
with tar before il is taken out of bond and
then our humane and benevolent laws allow
it to be used for the purpose of smearing
sleeps noses and greasing cart-wheels, or
for any other unconnected with the nourish-
ment of man or beast. The work of de-
s,ruction was duly performed yesterday on
the Pierhead. Admirable laws Mracu-
lousy patient John Bull ~
GFThe aristocratc gentry who mis-gov
crn the people of Great Britain, think, per-
haps, that lururies, such as good butter. if
allowed the poorer classes, might make them
more camorous in demanding their rights
as high living is apt to beget high SPIRIT
and to smother this turbulent choler Of" the
cdnaiAe," the judiciOus rulers think it best 10
keep them on loU diet-such AS turnips, oat.
meal, and Potatoes-and also to make it hard
for them to get snGeieney even of this sort
of fodder
Ssriously-how much longer, in the name
Of outraged humanity. will "patient Joh"
Bull endure this atrocious injustice from the
hands Of an oppressive and worse than USE
less aristocracy 7-whose chief ann seems to
be to aggrandIze themselves at the expense
of "toiling millions "-mmpres who suck
the very life-blood of the nation, who, in
outrage of heaven-apponted justice, reap
where they have not sown, and riot upon the
extorted earnings of the poor mans TOLL
good only in being good providers for them
selues, and
"only great
In that strange spell-a nams"-
and whose highest aspiration and chiefes,
aim. is to sustain and perpetuate splendid
government at the expense Of an imporeri,h-
ed people.
England has much in Ter history of which
she may justly boast; b't the brightest page
of her annals records no achievement of hers
that can atone for her objectionable injustice
to her neglected poor-whoso oft-repeated
and unheeded petitions Tor redress of their
wrongs. constitute monument of her shame
that will survive the marble memorials com.
memmorativc of her glory. A fearful day
of reckoning awaits them who arc RESPONSE.
BILE for her government policy,--who had in
their hands the means to feed the hungry
and clothe the Naked" in obedience to the
expressed will of the benevolent Saviour, but
who used them not, even when millions of
their ow-creatures--their equals, as chill
dren Of tho same common Father-were. in
the midst of plenty, suffering from the stern
est need -
"Wiiling to toll. and yet deprived
VI common wood and store of corn"
But the poor mans wrongs, we are taught TO
believe, will one day be avenged-and before
tribunal where neither rank nor wealth can
influence the verdict, -where kings will be
on level with the lowlest of their subjects
and where the decision of the infaible |
Judge must be final and lust.-Howard.
CoNTENTMENT.-Them man who has been
INDUCED with all the riches of this life, and
thereby. as he thinks, ensured comfortable
and contented lot, is not always the content