The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1843-11-20

Like pretty nearly as much the corn laws which
swell theu enormous rent-rolls and other in
comes as the Tory aristocracy. Thus between
the Two branches Of this aristocracy the body
lot The people are Kept on the verge Of starvation,
and not few Of them actually starved.
However widely, then. these sympathies ale
expanded abroad, they freeze like The ice Of
Labradortowards their hite fellow creatures
az home. While camoring with loud prot Sta
lions Of The evils and piquily Of such subj G.
lion, az an American STAKEHOLDER who has one
thousand slaves, "a very rare Circumstance, J
they think it all right and proper that they should
have Chat is, this seven hundred arts oeFacy)
five millions Of slaves 10 Ireland, an equal mum
Der in England and Scotland, aud one hundred
millions 10 HindosIan, with the hope and expec-
IaIion, for the worlds benefit, and in the spirit
OF an enlarged philanthropy, 10 have one hun
dred millions more placed in the same category,
IN China, 10 the next thirty years Is be a
freeman, really and truly, over whom seven
hundred men, bound together by an organiza-
ton that makes the interest Of each that OF the
other, 70 the prostration Of the equal rights OF
others not comprehended in this Organization
over whom, affirm. seven hundred men have
the power ofunIimted taxation without his con-
sent and who exercise their authority ia such
manner as 10 leave him but the bare means OF
subsistence Now the whole hundred and ten
millions ofwhom have just spoken are 10 this
condition. admit there are some ten millions
uhra al, a
shaved, but this enormous multitude is.
BY means Of their immense wealth and he
rediIary privileges, each Of this seven hundred
has from one 10 five thousand absolutely under
his control, besides the general power of levy
ing contributions, ad btum, on one hundred
and ten millions, as already stated. He can, BY
the abuse OF this wealth, if he so chooses, starye
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 him in relation to them, but that Of op-
MON; and this is control which may exist
over the STAKEHOLDER, who is such by legal en-
actmenl. How many could Mr. Richard Ark
wright, with his forty millions of dollars cap-
tai, have starved, had he chosen so 10 do2 as
many, think you, as slave-h holder having Ia
rare fact) FIVE hundred slaves, and worth per
haps quarter, or al most half a million of dol
lars capital, slaves included7 How many ope-
ralves could he have turned out of employ,
without such diminution of his own income as
in the slightest degree to feel il in a pecuniary
sense2 Might he not do what he would with
his own2 Oh, but he was too humane he
would not do such thing. So then, you are
reduced TO the humanity of the individual, when
you come TO reason of The British aristocracy 4;
but another and totally opposite view of the
subject must be taken, when the inquiry is ex-
tended TO the American STAKEHOLDER, with not
half, in most instances, not a tenth part of the
indiuiduat poloer of the British aristocracy
Mr.. Arkwright was but one of class which
the system of the British Government has a
direct tendency and uniform effect TO bring
into being and to nourish, with this addition.
that power Of hereditary legislation is accumu-
lated upon the power Of immense wealth, which
many OF them possess, bat which he, being mel
ther Lord, nor the near relation of a Lord, did
not possess. INDICATOR.