The freeman. (Fremont [Ohio]) 1849-1850, 1850-02-16
Further Foreign News.
ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA.
TRELAND-sOGIAL DEMOCRACY.
From the [DubIin7 IrishmAn

when revolt insurrection, or revolution may be
guided by the hand of wisdom-when reflection
has pushed instinct from its throne-and instead
of the reckless spring of the mountain tiger, we
have learned to bide our time and choose both day
and ground.
! Is this nothing? History is the text book of the
present, the apocalypse of the future In the mad
revolutons-the stubble that burned for night,
and then was scattered ashes to the winds of
heaven-we see what We have to avoid In 9TH
ers, methodical arranged, concerted, and bearing
the impress of produce, we see examples worthy
of imitation.
ireland, we have said, marches strongly and In
evitably to the goal of political Independence
But as Frenchmen have found, she must have
more than that, or independence itself will be but
a tinselled plaything, dyed garment stretched
over the back of misery.
| We must became socially democratic, as well as
politically So To speak plainly-for no good can
come of disguise-no great benefit can be derived
from struggling for half victory; ireland must
be thoroughly and radically reyolutionized in all
her social relations.
The tyranny fcapital must be plucked down.
The grinding influence of great master employers
must be eradcated, and by salutary provisions its
future growth must be prevented.
1t is idle to talk of contning our views to the ad-
justment of the land question: the first establish
ment of the occuper, and the debasement or the
annlhllation OF the agrarian arstocracy All these
necessities solid in themselves and essential to
our independence.
But must go much further The landlord
arstocrocy is nearly rotted off the stem; but be-
hind if, partially unobserved, new arstocracy has
sprung up, infinitely more formidable because ap-
parently more consonant with reason and sound
principle
The arstocracy of money, the men fkeen, cold
calculating soul, who gloat over ingots and blank
accounts, and fatten on the blood of fanished and
overtasked nature-these men commit their sys-
tematic crimes on humanity to an extent and with
sanctimonious eclat to which the brutal and bare
faced exterminator can never aspire The one is
the proving wolf that weeds the 1ocks by secret
depradations the other the hungry lion that springs
on the keepers themselves.
Look at the manufacturing towns of England
to take broad exampe-and see how popular and
general misery, degradation and immortality have
kept pace with the growth of individual wealth.
Find the man of largest capital-examine its effect
on the artisans and employers whose labor it pur-
chases; you have only discovered an oyergrown
cesspool sending forth its physical and moral mi
asma to circle which lesser wealth can neither
reach nor aspire to.
Yet the conventional perversion of society, and
the crooked maxims of heartless political econo-
my, elevate such man into demigod, philan-
thropst, patriot See what employment he gives
is the exclamation; two thousand souls kept in
bread through his munfcent enterpriseP Two
thousand souls sunk in misery and debasement
say we, through his narrow avarce.
Two thousand souls, and look at them--the htl-
low eye, the clapped cheek, the falteiing step
hood sunk in premature old age, youth stepped in
precoc!ous depravity- ali that money may be
trebled for the bloated millionaire
The case is less apparent in Ireland but not less
black rninouS The rirhtS of 1ahnr evau
less regarded than in the English factory, or mine,
or farm. Our petty tyrants oppress on grander
scale. They make up for the fewness of the OBJ
jects by the intensity of the infletion
This must be correct, or nationality and inde-
pendence will be but the dream of the drunkard.
What will be the advantage of escaping from the
wholesale tyrant if we leave ourselves in the hands
Of host of paltry oppressors.
We must tumble from its base the complicated
structure of social tyranny; and 'the laborer is
worthy of his hire see that he procure it We
must discard the blood-staned maxms of political
economy, which say, let competition rule the labor
market'-and enthrone in their stead, rules dicta
ted by the principles of humanity and the laws of
natural equity. We must study the rights of man
more and the rights of property less
1t is we'll to study and become familiar with our
necessities 1t is profitable 10 know the length and
breadth of our wants-to mark out the goal we
aim at IN all Its forms and features. we nave seen
how in other countries necessity produced blind
impulse often ending in popular defeat, and oftener
in popular mistake.
We aspire to see our Irish democracy made up
of race of reasoning, thinking forseeing men
men who will anticipate and consequently be pre-
pared for, every phase of events and every emer-
gency of fortune.
The principles we have suggested will be brand
ed as the communist and anti-social; they will be
held forth by theoretic statesmen and hireling
writer's as the newzdisease-the baneful leprosy of
the nineteenth century. But ask, can society
exist in the condition which bengnant Providence
designed without such provisions? Can it be the
law of benevolent Creator that the prosperity of
nation and the wealth of individuals, should only
be raked together by the suffering and misery of
the multitude?
Is this an inevitable rule of nature, or a subtitle
rule of perversion of selfish and powerful men? ?
This is a question the answer TO which the demo-
Gratis of Ireland must write on the tablets of the
future with the honest strength of their rough hard
hands, and the manly vigor of reflective minds
They must solve it for themselves. perhaps for
the world. We have hung long in the reerguard
of civilization, and been disgrace to the name of
liberty We have been the helots of serfdom to
which the tyranny of Sparta was stranger; and,
worse than all, we have submitted without a sin
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