The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-11-18

ed, and the mutual interest OF the Tory ana
Wing aristocracy checked IL an lis operations
and will always continue so TO cheek u "hue
that arslocracy exists. Hence ihepopuiafiy o'
the main body Of the Wings who were uhae'
the control of the Wing arisiocfacy ran ou' IN
the course Of ten years. They could not eA-
tend those practical ameliorauons which many
of those who bad supported them expected 'ne"'
TO effect, and these supporters who had gwen
them the preponderance became indifieren. 70
their success. The landed Wing aristocraey
like pretty nearly as much the corn laws when
swell their enormous rent-rolls and othef III
comes, as the Tory aristocracy. Thus between
the two branches of this aristocracy the pony
of the people are kept on the verge oil starvation,
and not few Of them actually starved.
However widely, then, these sympa'hies ave
expanded abroad, they freeze like The ice OIL
Labrador towards their White tellow-creatures
at home While clamoring with loud protesta-
tons Of the evils and inquiry OF such suDJec-
lion, at an American slave holder who has one
thousand slaves, Ga very rare circumstance')
they Think all right and proper that they should
five millions of slaves in Ireland, an equal mum
Der in England and Scotland, and one hundred
millions in Hindoslan, with the hope and expec-
tation, for the worlds benefit, and in the splnt
of an enlarged philanthropy, TO have one nun
bred millions more placed in the same category,
| in China, in The next thirty years Is he
freeman, really and truly, over whom seven
In A h,,a apIy a
ton that makes the interest Of each that OF the
other to the prosralion of the equal rights oil
Others not comprehended in this organization
over whom, | affirm, seven hundred men have
the power ofunlimied taxation without his con-
sent, and who exercise their authority in such
manner as to leave him but the bare means OF
subsistence Now the whole hundred and ten
millions of whom | have just spoken are in this
condition admit there some ten millions
more who are not so absolutely reduced and en-
shaved, but this enormous multitude is.
BY IN, ans Of their immense wealth and he
rediary privileges, each OF this seven hundred
has from one to five thousand absolutely under
his control, besides the general power Of levy
ing contributions I'D btum, on one hundred
and ten millions, as already stated. He can, by
the abu. Sc of this wealth. if he so chooses, starve
to death many of the persons more particularly
dependant on him and nobody, nevertheless,
unless some rustic and sturdy Republican, shall
| dare 10 say that he is a Shareholder, or that
these people are his slaves. There is no con-
troll over bin in relation to them, but that of OPT
Mon; and this is contro! which may exist
over the Shareholder, who is such by legal en-
actment. How many could Mr.. Richard Ark
wright, with his forty millions of dollars CAPT
tai, have starved, had he chosen so 10 do 7 as
many, think you, as slave holder having Ga
rare fact) FIVE hundred slaves, and worth per
haps quarter or at most half million of dol
lars capital, slaves included? How many ope-
ratives could he have turned out of employ
without such dininution of his own income as
in the slightest degree TO feel it in pecunary
sense Might he not do what he would with
his own Oh, but he was too humane he
would not do such thing. So then, you are
reduced to the humanity of the individual, when
YQp, G1Jrife 0aifd totally opposite view Of The
SUBJECT must be taken, when the inquiry is ex
tended TO the American STAKEHOLDER. with moi
hail. IN most instances, not tenth Part Of the
iHdirtfudi poioer Of the British aristocracy !
Mr.. Arkwright was bu, one of class which
the system oil The British Government has
direct tendency and uniform effect TO bring
into being and to nourish, with hi, addition
that power of hereditary legislation is accumu.
lated upon the power Of immense wealth. which
many OF them possess, but which he, being mel.
ther Lord, nor the near relation of a Lord. did
not possess. Ntxn,c,r,,