The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1847-07-01
Correspondence Of the Tribune.
English and American Work
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ed States is that the people are in rude STATE
of semi-barbarism with no social refinement
and little intellectual culture mere money
delying, grave-digging, lean lank, generation
of Yankees; Worshipping but one God, anC
he Manmon ready at a moments notlce &c
whip all creation, and rather than not hight al
all to have touch Of mob law to keep his
hand in E; in fine, poor, degenerate, Oil shoo'
(from a noble stock,) living straggllng
Struggling, weedy sort Of life, and destined
some of these odd days, to disappear by sud
den rot, Ike Paddy's potato This Is John
Bulls pretty solemn conyiction-most unSol-
EMMY translated into plain English-of the
@Uniyersal Yankee Nation" During the last
nine months have been travelling over this
realm, visiting many OF its cities, towns and
villages, and having abundant means Of form
inc intelligent opinions, and | know | do not
rxanoerate when state that if any intelligent
American, in his travels through the Free
States of America, should come upon town
where people were III no better condition than
the people of the most Aourishing agricultural
or manufacturing town in Great Britain, the
sight Of such place, among the towns Of
America, would almost break his heart
lie would, in such an instance, find town
whose professional men would scorn to be
thought the social equals of its tradesmon;
whose tradesmen would look with the same
scorn upon its mechanics whose mechanics
would despise its liveried servants; whose
1iveried servants would dcspise its agricuItu-
raj laborers; and whose agricultural laborers
would only fail to look down upon some other
class because themselves were at the bottom
Of the ladder. He would find the mechanics,
laborcrs and scryants-with few exceptions
exceedingly coarse and ignorant, and more
over, having not the slightest aspiration for
any higher state.
Take, for instance, the Agricultural Labor
ers of Great Britain the men and women
whose toll have made this country the beauti-
full garden that it is, and every one Of whom
is entitled, therefore, according to the COM
monest law of quid pro quo, to have share
in pleasant little cottage and garden look
at these toll hardened PEOPLE, and what is
their condition ? Physically, they are worse
off Ct say after an abundant opportunity to
judge) than the slaves Of America; morally
and intellectually, they are but little better
and socially they are almost as bad. Their
average earnings do not exceed nine shillings
(sterIing) per week. | see hundreds OF
women hard at work in the fields Of Scotland
Just now who earn but a shilling day, to
do which some Of them have to come a long
bare foot journey from the Highlands. AS
for their social condition, a British farmer
would be as much shocked at the idea of sit
ting at meat with one of his laborers, as a
Southern planter with one of his negroes
aVhy? Because they are a set of Doors. One
sees the women here in Scotland bonnctless,
shoeless, trudging to and from the fields )
and wherein they are above the oxen and the
mules, becomes problem. The thing is as
bad in England, and in Ireland worse. Their
nouses-ifso they must be called-are wretch
ed novels where merciful man" would, in
many instances, think twice before housing
"his beast"
Then look at the Factory Operatives
Where will you find more degraded looking
pertinent What total want Of self-respect
follow them to their doors (you will shrink
from going farther) and see what they call,
with an unconscious irony, their houses
and then tell me what can be the religion Of
country which leaves its sweating millions in
such state? The streets of Manchester,
Birmingham, Leeds, Bolton, Glasgow, Dun
dee-as soon as the night sets in-swarm with
prostitutes, many of them operatives in facto-
Yies How different from Lowell Manchester
On. H, bristol, Nashua, and Fall River, with
you where the operatives are almost unan-
imousIy well clad, clearly and chaste.
To me it seems (and that without the
slightest national prejudice) perfectly plain
that the United States are, on a whole, cen
turtles in advance of Great Britain. She to
be sure is greatly superior in certain qualities
which age alone can bring to maturity; but
no candid person can watch the workings of
her political machineryand see how the great
mass Of the people are ground beneath its
wheels, without feeling that until that ma
chinery is displaced, or better adjusted othe
wants of society, the nation must be greatly
deficient in all that constitutes true grandeur.
Great Britain is, confcssedy, the proudest
nation on the face Of the earth but any ma
tional pride which is not based on the gcncr-
al happiness Of the people, is but another
name for the most sonseless vanity.
ASAD CASE. Policeman Benncttof the
market, yesterday afternoon, brought before
Justice Gushing, in the police Court, young
woman who has been wandering about the
city for the last three weeks,and whose con-
duct has been so singular as to attract the at
tention, of almost every one who passed her
in the street. She is apparently ten or ff-
teen years of age, dccently dressed and wears
about her an air Of responsibility and strik-
ing modesty Of dcmcauor She has formerly
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