New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-12-05
The Riaht 70 Labor.

in that paper the signature OF Seuez lew days
since IL commenting on the same, you remark
III we know Ourselves, we quite much the
friend Of the lsbo-er any reorner in The l. States.
Again you say
Show US hou the labo-er sny other class OF our
feowcitizens may De benefited and we are ready TO go
/ all lengths u their service.
Your expressions Of friendship for the laboring
classes are doubtless sincere. So regarding them
and anxious 10 convince you that something more
may De done in The way OF constitutional! Amend
ments, for their benefit without injury 10 any other
class instead Of sending this letter TO the Office OF
The Tribune, shall direct it 10 that OF the Courier i
Enquirer for publication
To remove all misrepresentation beg TO assure
you that the writer OF this has ambition 10 De con-
sidered Retormer nor has any sympathy with or
knowledge OF the ul;raists National Retormers'
in the City of New-York. Permit me TO add, that
having first seen tie ghtin the interior OF this State,
and contributed my full share to the signal and IN
broken ascendency OF Wing principles tor the last
twenty years in Western NewYork. Il Is with pain
that | see distinguished Wing Journal so apt to
cepsure the policy by which that ascendency has
been achieved and without which II cannot be main
tanned We claim to be the Partgot Progress. not
merely in works OF Internal improvement, Bones
tic Manufactures and General Education but IN re
gard 10 the nobler faculties OF race rs moral ra
tiona aud accountable beings and capable of max
ing some advancement in the infant science OF our
infant Government. The American people will not.
If they could, stand still and one that declines to
ride in the train which they travel in is not wise TO
lie down the track before their rapid and ponder
Gus locomotive.
During two sessions of the Legislature, l have
felt i; to be my duty TO advocate the calling OF Con-
veniion TO amend the Constitution, because 1t now
encourages and uphods wicked men IN violating
plain and important duties taught in the Christian
iigion and in transmitting the inaienable rights Of
man. There no hope OF remedy tor these
evils through any Legislative amendments
The fact, believe is conceded by all that in all
civilized nations both paupers and criminals are in
creasing faster than population. The reason OF this
TO most minds is very obvious bat 10 mine lev
things are palmer Look al England. With all her
recent advancement in science and Christian phlan
thropy; with all her great Improvements IN agrcul
ture. in mechanical arts in labor saving machinery,
and the successful use of steam; with all her I'M
rvaled advantages of commerce. and matchless accu
mutation of wealth. irhy Is IL that, 10 make few
persons very rich she has actually forced into pauper
ism, a million and al 0J ot ter 1nhdbatdntS The
Poor List of the United Kingdoms according 10 late
English journals includes about 100000. or one
fourth OF their whole population The poor rates
in England and Wales are said to be about thirty
millions of dollars wear. \ similar increase OF
pauperism is witnessed on the Continent. How
Isl in our own Empire State Scarcely can man
enter the Capitol of New York during the session Of
its Legislature without being met at every entrance
by 6eggGrs asking for money TO buy tread Large
sums are now being expended TO erect nec State
Prison while the cost of keeping the peace and sup
pressing rebellion among an old, stald and native
population has already been many thousands When
voting money to detray these increasing expenses
then thought and still believe that there wrongs
,bar Of III 1I1 mt
of Crime Pauperism and Anti Rentism, which the
good men Of all parties should calmly consider and
duly investigate.
do not believe that the columns OF the Courier x
ENQUIRER will be closed against such investigation
Is il the part Of wisdom TO close eyes, stop our
ears and turn our backs against state Of things that
is rapidly changing from bad 10 worse There are
one hundred thousand free men in this State, who
both feel and kaO,r that they rronged, and with
the help of God, that they have the power 10 right
the wrong VIII you hear their complaints Re
duced 10 single formula, their substance may be
expressed by saying The Constitution and Laws
OF the State confer the owners oicapital the legal
right 10 do 7cr0ne. This legal right 10 do wrong is
exercised extent that fills the land with erals
and suffering, which free men should not, and will
not endure. The Bible declares that mans love OF
money is the root OF all evil 1t is the mistaken
policy of our Constitution and Laws 10 foster rather
than restrain this love OF money which is so fruit
full of wickedness II human enactment violates
moral principle-a law OF God and law OF human
ity--its influence society, and its consequence
every where must be evil Every human being that
! God calls into existence, obviously needs 10 sup
plv his moral his intellectual and his physical
| wants between the first wall Of infancy and the
| closing OF his grave a sum equal 10 the whole
products Of one intellect and one pair of hands.
| lfvou Mr. Editor. believe that human being needs
less than this and his Maker designed that he should
have less. are you not the very man 10 prove the
= Ill IL.
the community days work equal 10 every day $
work in food drink, raiment lodging and the like
things which you have hitherto consumed, and then
produce more Of the good things of this world, here
after ,hanis consumed by yourself and your house
hold for whom. part OF yourself you are equally
bound 10 provide Nothing is palmer than the fact
that God has attached 10 each person but one pair
of hands, 10 rork, and provide for all the manifold
wants OF one hungry mouth one naked back, and
one houseless head. Now, before You claim the
moral or constitutional right of any man 10 con-
same, of the fruits of manual labor. sum equal
10 the product of three hands, you are bound
10 show tina; the physical and mental wants OF an
other man can be as well provided Tor by tue pro-
ducts Of one hand as with those OF t'so.
insist on the soundness OF this maxim" w here
there is dispostion-a trt{-to do right, God pro-
vides way for men 10 do right. II majority OF
the people really desire so 10 amend th,,r Consiltu-
ton as 10 prevent one fourth of the Inhabitants OF
products of three hands 10 one human being, and
thus compel another fourth limit all their comforts
to the product of hand to each person, they have
the ability so 10 do 1t is the disposition TO do
crong and not the inability do right, that stands
in The way OF just Constitutional Reform. It is be-
cause the natural heart OF man is inclined TO wicked
that his head is contrving ways and means
10 violate, by tar, the express command of the
Saviour -" Lay not up for yourselves treasures
upon earth where moth and rust doth corrupt and
where thieves break through and steal Who re-
CARDS this divine commandment Why foster le-
/ gal robbery and Unsuitable avarice : What, think
! you. is the difference in the eye OF our final
1 Judge, whether we so frame our Constitution and
/ Laws 10 make them the means by which we "eai
bread in the sweat not OF our own, but other men
faces contrive some other plan to eat the fruits
of others labor! Suppose you take from honest
toll in the shape of interes, hundred millions
seven millions OF dollars year, and continue 10 do
this for the next fifty years. II the rate OF interest
falls in this country as has in Europe, so also will
the wages OF labor fall in the same, or greater "a
ito. AT the end Of fifty years the Sl000O0O0O must
be paid back grain for grain in gold It's equivalent
and s35o.Oo0O0O as bonus added over and above
the amount received. What has honest industry
| but hard hands and an empty stomach for all This