New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-07-02
THE TRIBUNE.
From the July Knickerbockes.
The Late Thomas Hood.

We grleve that we are compelled 10 record the
death Of THOMAS HooD. For many wears this
Magazine, in examples from his pen Of humor pa
thos, wit and the true buresque, has borne album
dant testimony to the richness and versatility Of his
genius II Is well observed OF him by a cotempo-
rary, that few men Of powers as great as his de-
voted them 60 well while maintaining position in
the lighter walks Of literature. The poor the
wretched, the miserable, found in him an advocate
whose powerful appeals will live when the mind
that conceived them shall have been quiet for many
years, and its earthly tabernacle shall be dust
Weighed down with disease HIMSELF plying his
laborious task author with incessant devotion
and earning his bread by the unremitting activity
Of his mind, he found time amid the various calls
for the humorous creations which his readers seized
upon with much avidity, TO give the world sub
siantal proof that the PAIN and sOrrow under which
he struggled had chastencd his spirit and enlarged
his heart to sympathy with the sulieriDgs OF 9th
ers and his and bis prose were poured out
during his latter days in advocacy OF the poor OF
his native country. The magazine which bore his
name, and over which he presided, is rich in the
evidence of his yearnng sympahcs for the dis
tresses of the laboring classes Of England, and of
his honest and bold efforts to call the attention of
the people TO them, that they might be meiorated.
To this purpose he devoted the strength OF his in
tellcct and his rare command OF the afuencc Of
language was cxempllfed In stirring appeals ON
behalf of the down-trodden and the starving This
was a nObleness IN his character; and THIS devotion
Of his powers elevated him in moral sense to
viabe dignity Who can estimate the influence OF
the Song OF the Shirt upon the sympathies OF the
benevolent OF Great Britain 1t was outburst
of generous feeling and indignant exposiuation.
which appealed to every heart. Some time pre-
vious To its appearance, the writer had drawn this
picture Of his subject: Consider that respectable
young woman, engaged at past midnight by the
light Of solitary rush-light in making shirts at
three-balfpencc a piece, and shifts for nothing.-
Look at her hollow eyes her wthered checks and
emaciaed frame. for it is part of the Internal bar
gain that she is to lose her own health and find her
own needles and thread. Reckon, if you can, the
thousands OF weary stitches it will require to sew,
not gussets and seams but body and soul together
and perhaps, after all her hard sewing, having TO
sue a shabby employer for tie amount of her pitt
ful earnings. Estimate if you may, the terrible
wear and tear of head and heart, Of liver and lungs
Apprase oath, the value of youth wasted spirits
outworn, prospects blasted natural affections with
cred in the bud and all bssful hopes annihiated
except those beyond the grave CARLYLE some
where says that sorrowful sight can be
witnessed, than man, with tmld air OF conscious
poverty seeking leave TO toll. and unable TO obtain
the boon How forcibly is the appeal OF such an
one put forth by Hoop, in his Lay OF the Laborer;