New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-11-16

ChaFtists to certain Radical gatherings III suo
country. that were to take place IN the vicinity OF
his aristocratic connections. He thus describes
THE JOURNEY
With many instructions from our friends, and
waruiDgs from MaCkaye started next dsy on u!
Journey When last caught sight OF the ola man
he was gazing fxedly after me, and using MS
pocket handkerchief in g somewhat suspicious
way lad remarked how depressed ne seemed
and my own spirits shared the depression
presentiment OF evil hang over me, when not
even the excitement OF the journey me rare
! eniovnlent-could dispel had no hearl soiHg
how to look at the country scenes around "ilcI
in general excited in me go much interest, anu
tried to lose myself IN summing up my stoCh VI liz
formation on the question which / e&Pecleu 70 70
hear discussed by the laborers tound ilgsel
not altogether ignorant. The horrible disclosures
/ offs. g o. and the barbarous ab0mlnatlons OF the
4 Andover Worhouse, then fresh IN the Pu9Hc mlnu'
had had their due effect on mine and IKE nlosI
thinking artisans, I had acquainted myseE toll
erably from books and newspapers with Tue gen
eral condition of the country laborefs
/ arrived in the midst OF dreary, treeiesS
country. whose broad brown and gray fields were
/ only broken By an occasional line OF dark doeiu!
frs, at knot OF matched novels, al sinking ana
leaning every way but the hight the "igu .s'f
patched with paper, the door ays stoPPeu WIN
! filth which surrounded beershop mat was
(
/ but an agitator. II discomfort and misery are
preparatives for berty-and they are-so strange
! and unlike ours are the ways OF God was Ike
! " enough TO find them there. ~
was welcomed by my intended most it'io
pert snub-nosed shoemaker, who greeted me as
his cousin from London-a relationship "ulc" II
seemed prudent to accept
He took me into his little cabin, and there with
! the assistance of shrewd good-natQred VINE,
shared with me the best be mad and alter supper.
commenced, mysterously and III tremD!lngi as Il
the very walls might have ears, q ramoliil8 OiS'ci
diatribe on the wrongs and suerlngs OF the lapoI-
ers. which went on till late IN the night ana Wnlcu
| shall spare my readers for II they nave eItheT
brains or hearts. they ought tosknow more than
can tell them from the pubic prints, and, lndeed
from their own eyes-althoush, as wise man
says, there is nothing more dihcult tnan 20 MAKE
people see first the facts when ne uiucI '''ei F" "
nose.
[ non one point however which wasnew to me-
! he was very ferce-the custom Of landlords let
ting the cottages with their farm, tor the mere
sake of saving themselves troubles thus gNlnB up
all power of protecting the poor man, ana denver
/ ing him over, bound hand and foot. even III Tue
/ matter of bis commonest home comforts, TO lafhl'
ers too penurious, too ignorant and often too poor,
TO keep the cottages in state lit Tor the haolta
ton of human beings Thus the poor mans how
ell as well as his labor became he tod me,
source OF profit TO the former out oil "hich no
/ WIung the last drop OF gam AHc llCSUE ~
pairs were put off as long as possiole-the LABOR
! ers were robbed of their gardens-the sllghtest
/ rebellion lost them not only their work. Dub suei
ter from the elements the slavery under when
tbey eroaned penetrated even to the liresIde ana
to the bedroom. D.,
OH he believed lie was very good sort OF
man. and uncommon kind to the people where he
lived but that was fifty miles away IN another
county and he liked that estate better than THIS
and never came down here except Tor the SHOOT
! ing.
Full of many thoughts, and tired out with my
Journey | went up to bed, in same loft with the
Gobbler and his wife, and fell asleep and dreamed
! of Lillian.
About eight o'clock the next morning, started
forth with my guide the shoemaker, over as des-
oate a country as men can we'll conceive; Not a
house was to be seen for miles, except the knot
OF novels which we had left, and here and there
great dreary lump of farm buildings, with It's YARD
of yellow stacks. Beneath ourt feet the earth was
iron and the sky iron above our heads. Dark
curled clouds (Which had built up every where
all under roof of dolefu gray, swept on before
the bitter northern wind, which whisted through
the low leahes hedges and rotting wattles, and
crisped the dark sodden leaves OF the scattered
holies almost the only trees i'll sight.
We trudged on over wide stubbles, thick with
innumerable weeds wide tallowa, III which
the deserted plows stood frozen fast then over
clover and grass burnt black Withfrost; then over
q field of turnips where we passed large htiu
of hurdles within which some hundred SheeP
stood. with their heads turned from the cutting
blast. All was dreary, idle, silent; no sound or
sie,, of hnnan beings One wondered where the
peoule lived who cultivated so vast tract oil CIV
ilized overpeopled Misunderstanding England
AS we came up to the fold, two little boys n6lieG
us from the inside-two little w-retches with oIue
noses and white cheeks, scarecroWs oil rags ana
matches. their feet peeping through bursten shoes
hO seemed TO have shared
between them a ragged pair OF worsted gloves
and covered among the sheep, under the shelter
OF q hurdle crying and inarticuate with cold.
Nv hat the matter, boys n,
"Turmits is froze, and us can turn the Lauulo
of the cutter. Doye gle us turn please! +,
w e scrambled over the hurdles, and gave tne
miserable little creatures the benefit OF ten MIN
utes labor, They seemed too small Tor such eA
ertion their little hands were purple with Gnu,
blains, and they were SO soreiooted they couid
scarcely limp | was surprised to find them at
! least three years older than their size and looks
denoted, and still more surprised, too, to lind that
their salary for all this bitter exposure to the ee
ments-such as believe | could not have en-
dured two days runuing-was the vast sum OF one
shilling week each, Sundays included " They
didn't never go to school, nor to church neither, ex
! cept Just now and then, sometimes-they mao 10
mind the shep.
Invent on. sickened with the contrast between
the highly bred, oyer-ted, fat thck-wooled ami
mails, with their troughs of turnips and malt dust
and their racks of rich coyer-hay, and their little
penthouse of rock,sat, having nothing to do but
to eat and sleep, and eat again, and the little half
starved shiyerng animals who were their slaves.
Man the master Of the brutes Bah AS soci-
ETY. is now, the brutes are the masters-the horse,
the sheep the bullock is the master, and the la
borer is their slave Oh! but the brutes are
eaten p Well; the horses at least are not eaten
they live like landlords, till they die. And those
who are eaten, are certainly not eaten by their
human hum servants. The sheep they fat, another
kills, to parody Shelley and, after all is not the
laborer, as well as the sheep, eaten by, you, my
dear straightforward body and soul, not the
less really because You are longer about the meal
there being an old prejudice against canni0asm,
and also against murder-except after the Riot