Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-09-23

must consne them preserve the peace Of the community
Well does the good Of society demand that when
such come together found side by side with
that the weaker should be reduced the dominion OF the
stronger Does not the peace Of society mperatiyey
demand il appeal 10 all experience if il be not so
Wherever you place Of these black beside stronger
whether it be the white the Malay, the coored
has been ensaved But Of all the power exercised by
over man, the most despotc with which acquainted is
that possessed by him who controls the entire Of sub
ssence Of another whom he himself depends for nothing
Here Of positive power and absolute control
than the master exercises his slave DO nothing
Of this in the free States Of this Union where this agitation
on the subject Of slavery conducted so ercey DO
see nothing Of il in Europe We have it from their
authorities. Dr. Arnold intelligent candid, and expert
encsd observer declares 10 than Of bis letters to-
wards the close Of his life that the condition Of these rail-
way navgaors he calls them and Of the operatives in
factories, than that Of ssycy II any doubts
H. Vet him take up the accounts Of French traveller IN Leeds
Birmingham, and Manchester in series Of letters which APP
peared in OF the French reviews "he Revue de deur
Mondes, year since in which you have de-
scpton Of society in those places In consequence of the
Improvements IN machinery, and the supeuor suppleness OF
the limb OF the child the natural order reversed and the
youthful members Of the family become, not only independ
ent, but the most important individuals in it, AS the
cessay consequence Of this revolution in the paterna
household government ought not to be surprised to find
oyerhrown all those barriers between age and which
designed TO preserve the very decences Of life
Take the pictures drawn in these letters in any other
accurate description Of life in those crowded manufacturing
cties ana you will find accounts OF infant and adult depav
a which the blood cold. You will find too pictures
merely Of crime but of destuon and suffering, and the
subsection not only Of man man. but Of man whatever
most bruiazng dependence and sin, which are the
by the depth OF their with amongst the
favored classes Now, all Of this Is not nevitabemuch Of
il is occasiOned by law and ought be removed by Govern
ment but when that is done much Of the misery and de-
pcndence must remain in very crowded populations. Is ii
surprising with such specaces these before the public that
the doctrines Of communism should find footing amongst the
tanned by should have been treated modified slavery
and that Government should be called on 10 distribute the pro-
cecds OF production between capital and labor What the
answer to these appeals That the aboer would suffer
more than the capitalist by such attempts at refomthat
would diminish production and reduce the condition Of the
aborer still lower by essenng, perhaps destroying the
stock from which his subsistence is to He is told that
he is left dependant, still upon him who gives him employment
and brendwho say TO him live die Now, sir, do
not mention these things by way Of rprosch complaint