The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-10-16
/" MAN IN CHAINS"

Mr.. Rufus Choate, wing Senator from "assseneee"s,
Mr. Daniel Webster, recent causuc adversary oil Mr.
Clay and by a whole galaxy OF lesser ligh 5, on
England, love Of liberty, and The Southern peoples
love Of slavery, we might expect, on calm exami-
nation that there much foundation for their VT
tupsrstion on side and their praise on The other
Unfortunately for their bold serons, there are such
things as British magazines at hand, and facts known
10 the community al large in possession, 10 ehaoe
the grand jury Of general suffrage, now about 10 rem
der verdict, to make up that verdict on established
and ascertained facts and not on mere defamation.
The record can be resoreI io-the English record
Of the state Of laborers that Kingdom and IN Ire
land and thus the practical freedom they enjoy under
the patronage of philanthropy and the genius OF uni
vsrssi emancl on, can be satisfactorily known and
Understood We will quote flourish Of Mr.. Chostes
lssut English philanthropy, and we will then intro
aucs fact. sobery and soempy related and stated by
IN English tory journal, by way of comparison. We
will then ask any if any considerable portion OF
the negroes Of our country known TO be SO snted
in food and clothing the operatives Of England are
Represented to be by that Journal whether the facts
would not be blazoned in handbs and extras over
the whole Of the non-saveholdng States '-Whether,
il il possible, few more epilhets of reProach
would not be showered the people Of the South by
the Aboliiionsts and their coatjutors But we will
not detain the reader from elucidaory quotations.
The folio ing is from speech Of Hon. Rufus Choate
before the Clay Club Of Boston, delivered in August
last. We will first, to make pleasing exordum,
assist the reader to the flourish and rhetoric of Mr.
Choa,e and them to aid him in his logical deductions,
give the facts of the London Quarterly Review.
Mr. Choales Flourish Of Rhetoric in The weaher
Of August, 1874
" Does he reflect how vast change the sentiments
of civilization have undergone on this whole subject
(slavery1 since 1892 Does he remember that in
learning, the world is five hundred years older than
it then? Can he not read the gathering signs Of the
times Does he not mark the bazi characters
traced by the bodies hand, in the unfinished pic
turei Does he not rem,mber what the nations have
done, and especially what England has done within
twenty years. Does he no see and feel that in that
interval, public opinion has been generated, has
been organized tchoiy nep, aggressive, ntoieran Of
the sight, intoIerant Of the cry Of man in ehains'"
Thus We have the printed tae mbodied sentiments
Of the Wing party of the North but in uncongenial
jurta- position with this, we have their readiness to
surrender than hail. and some Of them, all
Of Oregon non ehoding part of territory
that we may be- surrounded by England: that not
the spectacle Of many blacks may be e1hibi ed to us
in state Of slavery, but The spectacle # srsnteen mil
lions Of american uiis may be exhibited TO wearing
the Calling chains of that monarchy, whose iron
ten the body and The soul, as will speedily prove
BY the evidence Of her writers. Man in chains,
indeed Knocked with the words and the sound Of
liberty, but reduced to starvation constantly its
brink Invested Of all right Of suffrage not regarded
competent to govern himself, because he poor,
and compelled, that he may enjoy his own religious
liberty, to pay established Church in which he
does not believe and some Of the tenets of which he
sbhors.
We have presented some the rhetoric, now
proceed to psrt-a small part--of The logic.
The London Quarterly, IN its Review Of Mr.. Car
,-i-,- ----L. Is...---~-s, rOrOJ anus spoaAs;
"He undo rstands II indeed we'll and depicts il for
chilly and touchingly And what sight 1t is Ire
land! What word is there But ireland is not
all.
\ "But now on the whole, it seems to US, English
statistic science with floods of the finest peasantry
10 the world streaming in on us, daily, may fold 10
her Dansdes ret,custions this matter OF the WORK.
ing clss-es; and conclude, what every man who W III
take the statistic spectacles off his nose and
look, may discern in town or country, that the
condition OF the lower mul itude of English labo-
rers approximates more aud more TO that of the
Irish, composing with them in all markets that
whatsoever labor to which mere strength with
little skill will suffice, is be done will be done not
At the English prce, but at approximation to the
Irish pr,ce al price superior yet TO the Irish
that 49, supeio to scarcity Of third rate potatoes
Tor thirty weeks yearly superior, yet hourly, within
the arrival OF every new steamboat sinking nearer
10 an equality with that. Half million hand loom
viewers, working fifteen hours day. in perpetual
inability to ocure thereby enough Of the coarsest
food English fsrm-laborers at nine shlings and at
seven shilliDgs week; Scotch farm-aborers who
In districts the half Of whose industry il that oT
cows, taste milk, procure no milk ~ all these
things credible TO Us several Of them are known
TO US by the best evidence, by the eyesght Another
thing asceraiDsble on this vast obscure matter ex
cites superficial surprise, but only superficial one
that II Is best paid workm,n who by strikes Trad.
Unions, Chartlsm, and the like, complain the most
No doust Of II The best paid worknen are they
alone who complain. How shall he the hand.
loom wea,er, who IN the day that passing over him
has 10 find food for the day, strike work. If he
strike work, he starves within the week He is mast
complaint
Is not this picture Of man in chainsi If not
what ISL Is 1t necessary for Great Britain TO take
pilgrimage 10 Mecca, or voyage to Japan to fnd
such a number Of objects Of compassion as are ne
cessary to employ her overlooking philanthropy or
do they not invoke her aid at her own doors3
Prom the Ladies Companion and Literary En- osifoy
THs BrEcHEs TRIr; tale told IN Rhvs, 4; Nv >
w. Thomas, author OF "Clintoh Bradshaw etc
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