The North-Carolina standard., 1843-04-19
FrOm the GIobe.
BRITISH PHILANTHROPY.


The old maxim that ''charity begins at home u
has been much and greatly stigmatised and vet il
IS most assuFedly true. We do not mean to say
that charity should end, but that it should begin
there. Nothing is more certain than that the first
duty of parent is to take care of those who are
dependent on him for support that those with
whom we are in the daily habit of EXCHANGING
the Offices of social neighborhoeG and mutual good
will, should take precedence in our kind offices;
and that every Government is bound, by the most
solemn obligations: never to sacrifice the interests
and happiness of its citizens Subjects to those of
any other nation whatever. Governments are not
Instituted for Others but ourselves; for the safety
and happiness of those who bear the burden of
their support, and defend them in time of danger
The maxim that 'chaTity begins at home'' is there
fore. that of all benefcent Governments If prop
eriy carried out, every nation will have its appro
PIRATE protector, and require interference on the
part of strangers to defend its rights and promote
Its happiness.
But there are many individual philanthropists
who are always looking abroad; whose charity
neither begins at home, nor ends there; men-ay,
and women too-who neglect their families, their
domestic duties and the still higher obligations of
patriotism, in the Jealous pursuit of the welfare of
those who have no other claim on them than that
OF the possession of a common nature and who live
perhaps, on the other side Of the world There
are also natlons-or, al least, one nati0n-whIch,
while affecting to be the leader and champion of
religion and philanthropy in every portion of the
universe, seems blind to the miseries engendered
IN her own BOSOM and deaf to the cries of Distress
that excite the horror, or call forth the deep COM
mi$eration of the rest of tine world.
We allude to England. Taking for our guide
official reports, Parliamentary inquiries, and doc
uments sustained by the oaths of parish officers,
parish priests and suffering individuals, there is no
country on the face of the earth which engenders
In Its fostering bosom sucha mass of human mis-
cry. We do not mean misery arising from COM
parative suffering. from the deprivation of fortune
or curtalment Of the mere superhutes of life:
but from want-actual want of that which is nc
cessary to the preservation of life; from starvation
which no industry can ward off in the present, and
from which no economy can protect them in the |
future. by referring to paper of the 2Sth |
ultimo, the reader will there see what kind of dis
trcss we mean. They will there read the testi |
mony of Edward Oakley, who "went down into
a coal-plt at 8-never received any wages till 21 |
and served l3 years apprenticeship and they
will learn what kind of apprenticeship this is,
from the testimony of another of the wretched
consignments to dungeons hundreds of feet under
ground where they never see the blessd light of
day, or breathe the blessed air of Heaven Hear
the poor orphan boy
"Ihomas Moorehouse is without father or mother
apprenticed nine years of age by the
never had enough of vicuals and clohes-od clothes
were bought for him at the Tagshops. His master stuck
pin into hlm-hit him with the belt or mawl and slelge
threw Goals at him exhibited his wounds twenty and
upwards occasioned by hurrYng in low workings upon
and around the spinous process of the verebr from the
sacrum and upwards"
Another:
edward Kershaw had been apprenticed by the oyer
seers OF Castleton to coliery. Found on his body
twentysix wounds His posteriors oins were beat
en- into jey-when taken before magistrate was un-
able to sit sand-was laid on his side His arm had
been broken by blow with ron-ra and the fracture
had never been set In this condition he had been kept
at work for several weeks. He had been starved for
want of food and his body presented all the marks of
emaciation." -
In many collieries in this district" yorkshire stbe
children work all day long in water and mud' sTo '
render the labor of the children easy in drawing
the carriage containing the COAL they buckle round the
IN front ring, with about four feet of chan Terminating
and occasions great pain" 'EBetty Harris had drawn
the corves in the pit her hands feet until the
skin had been worn off her sides, advanced state
Of pregnancy" T
This is sample of what is going on under :,
ground IN 'tmerry England" the seat of philan. te
hrepy. Above ground, are to be seen thousands. -
ems of thousands, hundreds of thousands of in, g
i1strous, hard-working people-fathers mothers W W
md chidren-all starving together, from child, "
lood to decrepid age -starvng-ay, perishing by W
nehes for lack of food, in the midst of lordlinGs
pending half million of dollars a year. THIS r