The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-03-08

OF bitter trial, she became once the Joyous,
happy being of former days:
ENGLAND
If one were to see nothing in England but the
splendidly cultivated grain and fruit fields the
picturesque hcdge-rows the noble parks; the
game preseV, r., the cathedrals and palaces,
where pastoral bells chime over the beautiful
landscape, and the voice of feasting aud revelry
in high wassaif; if this were all of the outer
view ofthe picture with such filings in as lawns,
trcllisedvines and flowers; and ifpeopled althis
fairy-l yet substantial realm, there were only
to be seen Kings and Queens, lords and gentry,
each with giilded equipage, with race horses, and
dogs for the chase, and sumptuous palaces. for
game, banquet, and converse IN the quieter
hours, with plentiful ofwell-fed, happy and ODE.
dent lacAeys, to answer their every want, one
might call England a Paradise--a semi-Para.
disc at least
Such is the England seen. by many, who,
visiting her with wealth, and introductions to
aristocratic circles, whirl through that delight
full gilded sphere oflords and gentry who, lap.
ped in luxury, look out upon their broad fields
inherited from Norman swords; upon their thrift
and profusion which has cost them no treasure,
nor sweat nor blood, and riotng in the glory
of the vision, cry, 'Is not this a goodly land,
and are not its rivers better than all the rivers
of Abana and Pharphar!" Yes, England is a
glorious country seen through medium like
.this-glorious in her SOIL her products, her
wealth her intelligence, and her pastimcs-
There is no cloud of wo over all that scene, no
voice Of agony breaking dlc harmony ofits
music.
But as Mr.. Emerson confesses, there are two
Englands in England. A people constitute
nation, and of an English people, the crowded,
suffering, and almost despairing fourteen millions
who have come to curse national debts to cry
"bread or blood" and whose most mocking
monument is the every-recurring work house, or
pauper kennel, how few enter into the glowing
picture of the England of the lords and gentry.
The inquiring eye perces the fiimsy surface of
the picture 1t sees England in the coudition of
her masses-in the rights and enjoyments of
those whose sweat in the mines and factories,
or at the filrrow, has made those fields so beauti-
fill, has reared those palaces, and planted hedges
and parks, on which they may gaze, but over
and into witch they must not penetrate, and
whose blood has scattered the seeds, ,of British
Empire to the four quarters of the globe.
All. here is an England, as ptable and terri
Bile, as the other is lovely and beautiful. And
this wasted, squalid, and despairing Enslandis
the great England, the England which produces
without enjoying, which compasscs glory by
land and sea which it may never share, and
which fergcs its own chains of that which
ct,,>,,1,l Ian hrn,6 ,n1 apI ,,nils itc Hnpn
agony in the orc'lcstra of many voices, which
the world hear atar off as Britain's jubilee
Looking at this England, hardly so kindly to its
men of poverty and toll, as when Gurth was the
born thrall of Cedric the Saxon, with his collar
on his neck and the Saxon was the dependant
OF the Norman, how black and ugly becomes
that landscape of parks and palaces OF trace horses
and fox hounds, of sporting bishops and revel-
ling mobiles, of game laws and poor rates, which
hang like lead.n curse upon the nccks of the
mass.
England my be full of the elements of
strength and beauty, but they are not developed
in the national stature, if the people constitute
the natiun. Splendid shoots indeed spring from
her sildei misery and corruption, but they only
flourish when transplanted in colonies which
soon shake off the parent soil England is the
platter ''clean on the outside" the"whited sep.
uchre, fall of dead mems bones Dclve into
London, amid the thirty thousand thieves, pray
ing to be transport ID to where they can liveby
honest labor Irlve into Manchester, where
want now aud th,n barrs It's swathy arm to-
strike for brca.!--dclvc into tie mines which
burrow under all md-england, filled with beings
,rh, SI,ll Starn ~ iih wonder :t the name of