The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-02-13
England.

If one were to see nothing in England but the
spendidy cultivated grain and fruit fields the pic
tnresque hedge-rows ke-noble parks; the game
preserves; the cathedrals and palaces, where pas
toral bells chime over the beautiful landscape, and
the voice of feasting and revelry is raised high
wassail if this were all OF the outer view of the
picture, with such filings in as lawns, trellised
vines and flowers and ii peopliRg all this fairy
like, yet substantial realm, there were only to be
seen Kings and Queens, lords and gentry each
with gilded equpage, with race horses, and dogs
for the chase, and sumptuous places for game, ban
quet, and converse in the queter hours, with pien-
tful of well-fed, happy and 2obedent lackeys, to
answer their every want, one might call England
Paradise semi Paradise at least
Such is the England seen by many, who, visiting
her with wealth, and introductions aristocratic
ciIcles, whlr through that delightfully."- gilded sphere
of lords and gentry who, Tapped in luxury, look out
upon their broad fields inherited from Norman
swords upon their thrift and profuson which has
cost them no treasure, nor sweat, nor blood, and
riotng in the glory Of the vision, cry, Is not,this
goodly land and are not its rivers better than all
the rivers of Abana and Pharphar ~ Yes, Eng
land is agorous country seen through medium
like this-glorioHs in her soil, her, products. her
wealth, her intelligence, and her pastimes. There
is no cloud OF over all that scene, voice OF
agony breaking the harmony of its music.
But, as Mr.. Emerson c0nfesses, there are two
Englands in England. A people constitute ma
ton, and OF the English people, the crowded, suf-
anu Utmost IOufteeH nliilOnS
who have come to curse national debts; to cry
"bread or blood,ss and whose most mocking mona-
ment is the ever-recurring work-house, pauper
kennel, how few enter into the glowing picture Of
the England Of the lords and gentry. The inquir-
ing eye pierces the fimsy surface Of the picture.
1t England in the condition OF her masses--in
the rights and enjoyments of those whose sweat in
the mines and factories, at the furrow, has made
those fields beautiful has reared those palaces,
and planted hedges and parks, on which they may
gaze, but and into which they must not pene-
trate and whose blood has scattered the seeds OF
British Empire to the four quarters Of the globe
All, here is an England, as pitable and leErioies
as the other is lovely and beautiful And ths vast
ed, squalid, and despairiDg England IS me great
| England, the England which produces Withou. en-
which il may never share and when iorgss hs own
| chains of that which should BE- lis bread and JOY,
and walls It's deep agony in the orchestra oi many
voices, which the world aiai en- near Us bsltain
| iubilse Looking al this England, hardly so kindly
| 10 ils men of poverty and toll, when Gurth was
The born thrali 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 race horses and
fox hounds, of sporting bishops and revelling mo-
bes, of game laws aAd poor rates, which hang liks
| a leaden curse npon lhs necks Of The mass.
England may be full of the elements OF strength
and beauty, but they are not devsioped 10 Ihe ma
tonal stature, if The people constitute the nation
Splendid shoots indeed spring irom her guided mls-
cry and corruption, but they only flourish when
transplanted in colonies which soon shake oH The
parent soil. England is the plauer !" clean on the
outside'-the ''whiied sepuehre, full Of dead mems
bones'' DeIve into London, amid the thirty thou
| sand thieves, PRAYING 10 be transported 70 whese
they can live by honest labor-delye into Manchss-
ter, where wan now and then baFes iis sAaFtf arm
TO strike for bread-delve into The mines whie bur
| row under all mid England, hlled with beings VITO
shall stare with wonder al lhs nsms OF Christ ana
/ whose thoughts have no part 10 The miiientiain.
| There you shall find creative England--the honu
and sinevv from which all thai empire spnaes, which
rolls its drum. beat around the world. Lei those
who can, call il q beautiful eoenuy.-ih <. 3Fn