New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-05-16
VOL. Hi. no. 81.

to these bastard new times Happiness our be-
inc's end and aim IS at bottom II we Will count
well, not vet two centuries old III Inc Worid.
The ONLY happiness a brave mar ever troubled
b;n,self with asking much about was, happiness
onoroh TO get his work done. Not 8 can't eat -
b,, :. can't work - that was the burden OF all
wise complaining among men, 1t is, after all,
the one unhappincss Of a man. that he cannot
work. that he cannot get his destiny as man
fulfilled Behold, the dayis passing swiftly over.
our life is passing swiftly over; and the nigh,
cometh, wherein no man work. The night
once come, our happiness, our unhappness-lt Is
I all abolished vanished. clean gone thing that
has been: not of the slightest consequence
whether we were happy as eupepuc Curtis, as the
latest pig of Epicurus, or unhappy as Job with
| potsherds, as musical Byron with Giaours and
scnsib;iities of the heart; as the unmuscal Meat
Jack with hard labor and rust. But our work
4 behold that is rot abolished. that has not van
shcd: our work, behold. it remains. or the want
OF it remains for endless Times and Etenlitics.
remains and that is HOW the SOLE question with
Us ioreycrmore Brief brawling Day, with its
noisy phan,asms its poor paper crowns, tlnsc-
+ gilt, is zone and divine, everlasting Night. with
her star dadems, with her silenccs and her vera
cities is come What hast thou done and how
! Happiness, unhappincss: all that was but the
'cageS thou hadst thou hast spent all that IN sus
tanning thysclf hithcrward; no. a coin Of it re-
mains with thee, II Is all spent, eaten; and now
thy work, where is thy work Swift, cut with
it, let us sec thy work
OF truth, If man were not d poor hungry
bastard, and even much OF a blockhead wlthal,
he would cease critcislng bis victuals TO such
tent; and criticise himself rather, what lie does
with his victuas
Here is a chapter which dur Political Econo-
mlss, our Statesmen and our PhilanthrOPlsts
should earnestly consider. 1t contains truths
which we have often attempted IN our poor fashion
to set forth. Shall they not vet obtain hearing
ovER-PRoDUCING.
But what will reflective readers say of a Gov
crninr Glass, such as ours, addressing its Work.
ers with an Indictment of Over production =
Over production runs it not so Ie INSECT
laneOus. ipnob!e manufacturing individuals, &c
have produced too much We accuse you of
making above two hundred thousand shirts for
the bare backs Of mankind. Your trousers, too,
which YOU have made, Of iustlan, of cashmere, OF
Scotch plaid. Of ianc nankcen and wooden broad
cloth are they not manifold Oi hats for the
human head, Of shoes for the human foot, OF
stools 10 SIT on, spoons to eat with nay. what
say we, hats or shoes You produce gold
watches. jcwelr,cs, silver forks and epcrgneS.
comnodes. chlionlcys stuffed soias-i1cavens,
the Commercial Bazaar and mutitudinous Howell
and Jamcscs cannot contain yoa. You have
produced. produced; lie that seeks your lndlct-
lnent, let him look around. Millions of shirts,
and empty pairs of brccches hang there III Judge
ment against YOU. We accuse you o! ovcr-pio-
ducing you are crnnally guilty of producing
shirts, breeches. hats, shoes and commodities, ina
frightfu ovcr-abundancc. And now there Is
gut, and your operatives cannot be fed .
Never. surely, against earnest Working
Mammonsm was there brought, by Game-pre-
serving aristocratc Dilettansm, a stranger accu-
sation since this world began. My lords and
gcntlcmcn--why, it was you that were appointed,
by the fact and by the theory OF your position on
the Earth, to make and administer Laws that
is to say, in world such as ours, to guard against
guts Against honest operatives, who had done
their work, remaining unicd. say, you were
appointed to preside over the Distribution and
Apportionmcnt of the Wages of Work done, and
to sec well that there went no laborer without has
hire, were it of money. COINS, were 1t OF hemp
gallowsropes that function was yours, and from
immemoral time has been; yours. and as yet no
Others. These poor shirt-splnncrs have forgotten
much, which, by the virtual unwrttcn law OF their
position, they should have remembered; but, by
any written recognized law OF Their position, what
have they forgotten? They were set to make
shirts. The Community with all its voices com
mandcd them, saving Make shirts; :" and there
the shirts are. Too many shirts Well, that is
novelty in this incorporate Earth, with Its nnc
hundred millions of bare backs! But the Com
muntv commanded YOU, saving, g See that the
,.,t M Law
be emblem of Gods Laws" and where is the
apportonmcnt? Two million shirtess or ILL.,
shirtcd workers sit enchanted in Work-house Bias
TILES, five million more according to some i'll
Ugono Hunger cellars and for remedy, you say
what say YOU Raise err rents | have
not in my time heard any stranger speech. not
even on the shores Of the Dead Sea. You con-
,inuc addressing those poor shirt-splnncrs and
ovcr-producers III really Il too triumphant manner:
Twill you handy accusations, Will YOU accuse
us of ovcr-production We take the Heavens
and the Earth to witness that we have produced
nothing at al. Not from us proceeds this fright
iul overplus of shirts. In the wide domains OF
created Nature crculateS no SHIRT or thing OF our
producing. Certain loX-brllsheS nailed upon our
stable door, the fruit of fair audaclty at Melton
Nowbrav; these we have produced. and they are
openly nailed up there. He that accuses us OF
producing let HIM show himself, let HIM name
what and when. We are innocent of producing;
We ungratcful, what mountains of things have
we not, on the contrary. had to consume and
make away with! Mountains of those your
hcapcd manufactures, whercsoeycr edible or wear
able, have they not disappeared before us, as II we
had the talent OF ostrches, of cormorants, and
kind OF divine faculty TO cat? Yc ungratcful!
and did you not grow under the shadow of our
wings? Arc not your filthy mills built on these
fields of ours: on this soil OF England which be-
longs to--whom think you And We shall not
offer You our own wheat at the price that peaSeS