Columbus Whig. (Columbus, Miss.) 1843-18??, 1844-02-29

l%he WoEh'hgs 81 these selfish and Immature
system has already reduced society to a socia
ny There disorder. discord, and wretchedness
reign, and in which The most cruel fables of
Inc ola mythology are more than realized. The
masses naked and destitute, yet surrounded bv
productivity of wealth; seeing on all sides
heaps of gold. which by a fatal decree thew
cannot reach; stunned by the noise OF pilded
equlpages,or dazzFed BY the brilliance ofspIendid
draperIes and dressesitheir appetdes excited by
the magnlhcence OF heaped up hxuries of eve.
ny climate, and all arts provoked by all that
can gratliy desire; yet unable to touch one lot
or little OF 1t, offer terrible explanation of
Eantalus, tornented by an eternal hunger and
thirst after fruits and waters, always within
ms reach yet perpetualy eluding his grasp.'
Is this true? Without any reference to any
o'her organization whatever, is ours so disas-
trous IN It's workings! Taking in the serfs toll
ing under every form of tyranny in the old
world, with the groaning, desperate millions OF
England. and Ireland, and the slaves ard pau.
pers OF our own country, we must say Yes,and
the desperate need Of SOMETHING being done
tor perlshIng humanity becomes torture to the
warm and generous heart. The earth through
all her smiling valleys, waves with its rich har-
vests an invitation to man to eat and live, and
yet he dies from faminine. Magazines of
clothing stand in sigft of those freezing for
want of apparel; piles oe gold mock the eye of
dying want; luxury, and wealth, and extrava-
gance, dazzling the gaze of suffering men and
women, forcing them 10 curse their race, God,
and die. Wealth buys immunity in crime, and
innocent poverty is punished. The whole
structure of society makes the rich richer, and
the poor poorer, and the wretched more des-
perate. And yet3 for what IS life, with all It's
multiplied machinery, unless to bless man. He
who does moi see thls-ay, and feel, also, that
so, lie radical change is needed, is gifted with a
most miraculous stupidity. And vet what
shall be done that had not been already tried?
Every experiment of human government, and
every system for the relief of man, has thus far
proved failure; until after the lapse of nearly
six thousand years, the earth seems like ship
on lee shore, and every great failure of hu-
man organization minute gun of distress, fired
amid the gloom of human life. And yet can
nothing be done Must the earth be in flu.
ture as it has been IN the pasta great battle
field, where ranks of living men bleed and fall
or the poor wage heavier. painfulleF fight?
Here we are with soul and body, with the
body mere easement, and labor an accident
and the soul the great creation, and yet our
mere physical nature and wants engrossing all
our flying hours. Is this Heavens design!
Can there be no system that shall give the
Does any one suppose it was not designed our
chief time should be given o the cultivation ct
our mental and moral nature! Take village
where schools are enjoyed for only months
in the year, and let there he no schools at all
for 20 years and who would pass through IT.
But man has no school hourr-''--y - ~.' ~ \
| ss,,,4rrs. Icr UTTS giOflou> edrth % turned
into one great school House, instead of beng a
mere Work House. and let God and Nature
be our teachers, and three generations the
Angels would not know Us. And who will
deny that this should not be so. and that labor
should be mere daily episode TO supply our
few physical wants, and life be filled up with
higher, wortbier aims. =
But we have exceeded our limits, and we
will close by allowing the author to give what
he deems the remedy for all this.
2. Our help, if any is to come to US, If to be
found in the better adjustment of our social re-
latiops.-The vice for which we seek remedy
is in the heart of society, not its extremities !;
and # is to the heart that we must apply the
cure. What cure may be, is partly indicated
by the whole tenor of THE essay.-We have
shown that capital and labor are at open war
The field of inFrstry in all its branches IS an
eternal field of battle Either capital tyrannises
over labor or labor, driven to extremes, rises
in Instruction against Its oppressor. One or
the other ofthese effects inevitably follows the
working of the system of unrestrained compe
tition. How obvious the suggestlon' them
that this competition must be brought to an
end! If we can introduce peace, where there
was before war, if we can make common
feeling where there was before antagonlsh
and hatred. if we can discover mode of caus-
mo men to work for each olher-then, we say
we have advanced most important step to-
ward the solution of the problem. -.
Now; the power which is able to effect tn's
change, which ran turn opposition INTO acco nta
divergence INTO conveDgenCe, contrast INTO
co. operation, is the principle of the oRGAN1zA,
TON OF INDUSTRY ON THE BASIS OF UNION OF
In the closing paragraph of an article on
,r,s,, ii this No. are sentiments utterly pa
can. and have no more business among the
noble thoughts that pervade it, than Satan has
in Heaven.
FL fr,t rSIGN