Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-09-17
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country, it would seem, are of no account
every ingenuity of the rulers through the in.
strumentaity of vicious laws, appears TO be
directed, 10 Cypress the mass without stint
or mercy, TO degrade and grind them TO the
dust, to drive them by the fends of hunger
and want TO the commission Of acts which
fill their jails aud penitentiaries, make work
for the eXecutioner, and, as their princely
pampered Bishops tell them, condemn them
TO eternal punishment hereafter. And why
and wherefore is it, that immortal and pre-
c:ous souls are condemned TO lead dogs
life, TO die a dogs dealh, and meet with a
dogs burial. Is it that there is not enough
in the land with which TO feed them; tina
the sun which shines, the rain and dew which
falls, the air which blows, are partial in their
blessings. Is it not rather the trckerv and
rascality of the laws, designed by the thrift
less, lazy,unproductive, and Improbable arts
tocracy, that without labor they may live in
splen1or, and may bury their brutes in cof
fins composed of wainscot, thickIy studded
with silver gilt nails, and tastefully lined with
Salisbury flannel is not this the reason rather?
Most certainly is it. The laborer, day after
day, goes forth with he morning sun and re-
turns only with IFS evening decline, but does
this physical labor, this gradual wasting OF
his bodily energies in unremitting toll, ben
eft himself in the least degree. Is his
cherries cabin made more comfortable? is
the partner of his life surrounded with more
enloymcnts? Are his sons and daughters
growing up in the possession of those adyan-
tages which can alone fit them to act the
part of men and women? The negative of all
| this is the fact. The laborer receives for
his toll pttance barely sufficient to keep
body and soul together-a pittance which
the labor of one hour each day is amply add
equae to yield, and where goes the surplus?
Listen humanty-liSten true christianity: it
goes to buy silver sit nails for the coffin of
the Queens greyhound. We hardly know
What estimate posterity will place upon the
present subjects of he British crown, when
they cast their eye upon the page of their
history. They will stand as people of eX-
traord;nary fortitudc, forbearance, and pa
tience, trusting in God who never fails to
overtake with vengeance the opprcssor; or
as coward people trembling under their
yoke.
Is there not lesson here for the people
of our own country? Is it not plain that the
laws which create monopolles, which confer
special privileges, which put power into the
hands of the few arc the cause of this con-
d'tion of things in Europe? The democra-
cy of this country labor for the suppression
of all monopolies; the abrogatlon of all en-
elusive privileges; they would have the law
make 10 grants by which the lazy and thrift
less, but cunning man. can appropriate the
proceeds of his neighbours toll; they would
have every individual member of society re-
ly upon the energy of muscle and brain
VIII oh God has given him, and neither re-
strained nor assisted, by the fiction of the
Inv, work his way to the position which his
qualifications cntillc him TO hold TO be
sure, we are accused of being he advocates
Of the British policy; is there any thing that
looks like the British policy in the above
En- Gland has he. BlnKs, her tariffs, her mo-
nopolies of every description; these are hcI
policy, but we do not advocate these: these
we all know. in our own country, are the
measures of the wings. Who, then, are the
advocates cfthc British policy? But we arc
told, that these measures WHICH are so dcs
tructive of the happiness and Interests OF the
mass in England, are to work contrary re-
suls here. How absurd the idea. That Pc
lcv which in England builds the rich mans
palace by the sweat of the poor mans brow
viii have precisely the same results Oh the
soil of America. Principles are the same
the world over, and we might with the same
proprciy expect water TO run naturally III
hill in one country and down in another, as
to expect that the principle which makes the
poor poorer and The rich richer, in Europe
is to have different results here.
People of Wisconsin; people Of Racine
what arc your views of it. England has hel
Bank. her protective and restrictive tariffs
and her monopoles of various kinds; she
has silver gilt nails for the collins of her dogs
she has starvation, suicides death and
suicides grave for her people. Do we wan
this people of Wisconsin? On Monday mex
let your cry go up to your rulers, through
your ballot box, in a long, loud and emphat
ic NO!
We learn that the new steamboat bull