Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-02-07
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powerful, IT had compunction no pity no reenting
sense that any appeal from any of the of could
reach 1t was invisible to every creature born upon
inc earth save to each. 1t turned its shaded face
on whatsoever living thing, time and straight the
END OF that thing 1t passed through the for
est, and the vigorous tree it looked on shimk away
through the garden and the leaves persisted and the
flowers wlthered; through the air, and the eagles flag
ged upon the wing and dropped through the sea- and
the monsters ofthe deep oated great wrecks upon the
waters 1t met the eyes of lions in their airs, and they
were dust; It's shadow daIkened the faces of young
children ying asleep, and they awoke
1t had It's work appointed; it inexorabIy did what
was appointed to it do and neither sped nor slack
ened. Jailed to, 1t went unmoved, and did not
come. Besought, by who felt that it was draw
ing near, to change its course, turned its shaded face
upon them, even while they led, and they dumb
II passed into the midst of palace chambers, where
there were lights and music pictures, diamonds, gold
and silver; crossed the winked and the grey, regard
less of them; looked into the eyes of bright bride;
and vanished 1t revealed itself to the baby the old
crones knee, and left the old waiing by the fire.
But, whether the beholder of its face were now King
oIslow laborer now Queen, or seamstress;
etshe hand it pasied be the sceper, the pillow;
or yet too small and nerveess TO grasp anylhng the
Spirit never paused in its appointed work, and
or later, turned its impart face on all.
saw Minister of State sitting in his Closet; and,
round about him, rising from the country which he gov
erned, up to the Eternal Heavens low dull howl
II was lneApHCdDl6 HlulteT con-
fsed, but full of threatening and it made all hearers
hearts to quake within them But, few heard. In the
single city where this Minister of State seated,
saw Thirty Thousand children, hunted, fogged, i'm
prlsoned, but not taughtwho might have been nurtur
ed by the wolf bear, little of humanity had they
within themor without-all joining in this dolefu cry.
And, ever among them, among all ranks and grades
OF mortals, in all parts of the globe, the Spirit went;
and ever by thousands, in their british sate will all
the gifts OF God perverted in their breasts ampled
out, they died.
The Minister of State, whose heart was pierced by
even the little he could hear of these terrible voices day
and night rising to Heaven, among the Priests
and Teachers oil all denominations, and family said:
"Harken to this dreadful cry! What shall we do to
stay IT %
One body Of respondents answered, "Teach this %
Another said, "Teach that''
Another said, "Teach neither this nor that but
'othcr 20
Another quarreled with all the three twenty others
quarreled with all the four, and quareled less bitter
ly among themselves. The voices not STAYED BY this
cried out day and night; and still, among those many
thousands, among all mankind, went the Spirit who
rested from its labor and STILL in british Sort
they died.
Then, whisper murmured to the Minister of State {:
"Corect this for thyself. Be bold Silence these
Voices vrtuousy lose thy power the attempt to do
it. Thou cans't not grain Of good seed in vain.
Thou knowest it well. B bold, and do thy duty %
The Minister shrugged his shoulders, and replied
at is great wrong-but it will last my tme.''-
And so he put it from him.
Then, the whisper went among the Priests and
Teachers saying to each "In thy soul thou knowes it
is truth, o man, that there are good things to be
taught, and stay this cry.'
To which, each answered in like manner, sit is a
great wrong-but 1t will last my time" And so he put
it from him.
! saw poisoned air, in which Life dropped. saw
Disease, arayed in all its of hideous aspects and
appalling shapes, triumphant in every alley, by-way,
court, back street, and poor abode, in every place
where human beings congregatedin the proudest and
most boastful places, most. of all. | nnumerabe
hosts, foredoomed darkness, Dirt pestience obsce-
nifty, misery, and early DEATH l saw, wheresoeveI
looked, cunning preparations made for deacins the
Creators Image, from the moment Of its appearance
here on earth, and stamping it the image of the
Devil. saw from those reeking and pernicous steyys
the avengin9 consequences of such Sin issuing forth
and penetrating to the highest places saw the rich
struck down in their strength, their darling children
weakened and withered, their manageable sons and
daughters perish IN their prime. | that not one
msel able wretch breathed out his poisoned life in the
deepest cellar OF the most neglected town. but from the
surrounding atmosphere, particles of his infection
were borne away, charged with heavy retrbuton on
the general guilt.
There were many attentive and alarmed persons
looking on, who saw these things too. They were
well clot ed, and had purses in their pockets they
were educated, full of kindness, and loved mercy.
shall not ben' and there was stir among them to
set IT right. But, opposed to these, came small
multitude of noisy fools and greedy knaves, whose
harvest was in such horrors; and they, with impu
dence and turmoil, and with scurrilols tests at mis-
cry and death, repealed the better lookers-on, who
soon fell back, and stood aloof
Then, the whisper went among those betters look
ers-on, saying, Over the bodies Of those fellows to
the remedy p
Rnf each of thon1 L IL
and replied, :" 1t is great wrong-BUr 1T WILL
LAST MY TIME" And SO they put it from them.
4 saw great library laws and law-proceedings
so complicated, costly, and unintegioIe, that, al
though numbers of lawyers united in public fiction
that these were wonderfully just and equal, there
was scarcely an honest man among them, but who
said to his friend, privately consulting him, "Better
put up with fraud or other injury than grope for
redress through the manifold blind turnings and
strange chances of this system.''
saw portion ofthe system, called (of alltbinpsl
EQUITY, which was ruin 10 suitors, ruin 10 proper.
ty, a shield to wrong-doers having money, rack
for rght-doers having none; by-word for DELAY.
slow agony of mind, despair, impoverishment trick
cry, confusion, insupportabe injustice A main par,
OF It, saw prisoners wasting in Jail; mad people in
hospitals suicides chroncled in the yearly recot DIS
orphans robbed of their mheritance infants righted
| (perhaps) when they were grey. .1...'
Ceilah ia"yeis anu layfnen came together, and
SAID to one another" nonly ofthese our Courts
Of Equity, there years Of this dark perspective
before US at the present moment. We must change
thls.''
| Uprose, immediately, throng of Others Secreta.
RES, Petty Bags, Hampers, Chaff-waxes, and wha
not, singing Gin answer) "Rule Britannia and
9 God save the Queen" making ffourishing speech
es, pronounced hard names, demanding commit
tees, commissions, commissioners, and other scare
crows, and terrifying the little band of innoyator,
| out Of their five wits