The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1845-07-10

or The following remarks were made by
Mr.. Robert Owen in his last speech previous
10 leaving this country for sold England"
How do our people relish them? How do
they like TO be thus abused-every class of
them, from the highest TO the lowest? They
should remember, as they approach the bal
lot box, that such uere, and--as they have
never been recanted-ARE, the sentiments
of the son, Robert Dale Owen. 1t was TO
reform 'sthese abuses that Robert Dale aud
Fanny Wright undertook the publication Of
the .sFREE ENoUIRER,'' Weare, in the eyes
of Robert Dale, a degraded, snpersiitious,
idle aud vicious race, and he only has the
foresight and wisdom TO bring US out OF the
slough into which our forelatheiS cast rs. He
told US as much two years ago, when ne said
"the eight dollars a day" should be no sob
iect" when members Of Congress were 10 be
elected. According to Mr.. Ovens way OF
thinking, a poor farmer should not think of
offering himself for q seat in the councils OF
his nation, when one belonging 10 the supper
ten thousandn thought proper tooffer himself
for it. Well, we shall see how many are oil
his way Of thinking, ere long. All we ask
is, that the Christian portion of the communi-
ty-those who have no desire 10 see our
most sacred institutions entirely Destroyed
will remember on the first Monday in Au-
gust the remark made by Mr.. Ovens mouth
piece-"When the hyPocrites' (the christian
portion OF the community ''practice whai
they preach, then, but not till then, will Mr.
Owen be defeated. Here are The remark.
we have referred TO:
"In proportion as your scientific power tc
create wealth has increased, Individual com
petition has increased your ignorant selfish
ness, vice, crime and misery among the mas
SEES, SO as 10 make all parties blind 10 thei
present position Of high capabilities and tt
their interests as. individuals and members o
society.
"Your statesman are occupied in unprofi
table and nationally injurious politics.
'Your politicians in petty local party con
tests, useless for the attainment of great re
suits.
"Your capitalists and extensive merchant
are overwhelmed in speculations, hazardou
to themselves, and of little comparative ben
eft 10 their country or TO the world. Ther
S no foresight, wisdom, or order-no perma
nent, prosperous future in any of their pre-
ceedings.
Your traders, Wholesale and retail. ar
wasting, most lnjuriously, much of The cap
tai talent and industry of your co untry, an
at the same time keeping the mind and mo
ais of the Union upon a low level, most di:
RI advantageous TO every class.
Your most industrious classes are kept III
necessarily in toll, Ignorance, and conse
: quent degradation.
Senseless superstitions pervade the Ian
without a particle of real charity being crea
ed between any Of the classes, sects or pa
a ties, possessing any one of these monster oil
~stacles to human progress, for any who hay
been made 10 differ from them; and religio
. is perverted TO worldly purposes.
Your prisons and punishments increas
and the necessity for more, while the presel
state of things continues, will daily becom
: stronger.
v You have already, TO a great , exten
. throughout the Union, ignorance, povert
, division and misery"