Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1851-08-08
The United State, at the World. Fair.

ance 10 the great Exhibition AT London ana
the newspaper press Of England do not mean
To leave the people In ignorance Of that some
what Notifying fact. As the Fair is on their
own ground, courtesy would demand at least
civil treatment, but the old arisiocraiic blood
Of British loryism is still hot with the remcm-
brances Of the past, and the occasion is eager
ly seiLod to abuse our country and the inst.
tuiions. Well, We think We can survive the
infection.
The New York Courier and Enquirer has
done a good thing lately, in a long and tho
rough yindicalion Of the United States fom
the insolcnl attack Of the London Times and
other serile oaclcs Of British OPPRESSION
I, is not ofcn We find anything in the Courier
that we ran compliment, 30 unrcseUedly as
this. Bu, hn article is one, the spirit Of
which deserves to be copied everywhere. We
make a few pithy extracts:
That the character Of our contributions TO
the "world's Fair" is the cause Of the pres.
cnt abuse Of everything American by the Ion.
don press, 70 man in his senses, will pretend
To believe. The cause Of that abuse lies much
deeper. Al admit, however, iha, our coun-
try presents but poor figure at the great eH'
hIbrlion bu, the readers Of the Courier and
Enquirer were prepared for this SIX months
ago. when We plainly told the American poo
pie that there was no place for Us to figure,
because We are not a manufacturing nation,
bound down with a surplus population With
out fool. and willing TO work for a shilling a
DAY and find themselves. Nor have We sur
plus manufactures looking for market, upon
which depends the very existence Of our Pco-
plc and the bread necessary to support life
We are no, a nation Of pauPels and there
fore. W. ought no, To have asPIrcd to place
IN the grand exhibition Of the PauPcr labor OF
Europe, got up to save the paupers Of Eng
land from starvation, and to enable some II
her artnns 20 steal the products Of other
men. brains. through the agency of Patent
Laws. which very conveniently chime IN With
the Object Of this great industrial exhibition.
Tho Worlds FAIR Is scilcd upon as the pre-
trnrr for rdlculc anil abuse and yet the very
limited space vc occupy in tina, great cNhlb''
ton of the Plupcr labar Of Europe, should be
a suurcc OF houc,, pride to our whole eoun-
try. o. il Is unqucstionably mos, CALLING to the
,rlf esteem of John BOIL. Our gUncrarIi are
no, remarkable lor ls.au,y, nor DO they dem
ou,trlrc how months Of labor can h. oNPend'
eli UPON a few square inches Of embroidery
and probably expended, too, according To
English political economy, Il II has yielded
In the white slave hrr, P,Hc, per day Tor 'l''
teen hours Of toll! wecNhblt there no long
rlllcrc. filled with the Products of coalmincs,
the ,cry specimens of which were hauled Ia
the mouth II the mines los naked girls crawl
,pr an their hands aud knees In galleries three
feet high. through twelve inches oi mud and
,lush. Garrsu,d like bfuirs TO sloiscs, and
a.. ,.,s,,r,,r.. .,f ,l,r,r ,uhuman
tasks by brutal aihcn Who never heard oi ih,
c,i,,rncr IT a God and all ior iuurPcncc a
80, I,.ob,,,p, ,p,rimrrs Of Iron there
Ia show how mcNhaus,lblc 9. the wealth oI
-. 49,. I....,Y,s a., na.t lb,i M
-. 80, 49,. L,,, u, region Of coun,r,
H.. rin,-,,n,h, of liz population can p,t,
,b,r rad nor uu,c--uhcr, unc bali the men
Jo oo, ,a.,e animal food lhras times q year
ubrr, a third Of them rarely $50 the light Of
J,y-vhcr, tho great object OF llic I,to kccp
h.Iy and soul together. by CuuI which ihs
street swine Of ourcouu,y would rycci-and
where. according To official documents Of lhc
Grl, Buush Empire, With IT, Church T.
,.bll,hmrn, a part and parcel Of the STATE
ann. seventh of Ms people never heard of tn,
existence Of the Saviour Of the World
/ If Ne capno, exhibit shavls from India, II
j. because We have no colonies composed
of cnnoucrrI nations, where We have cusli''
ed whole races OF our fellow men, after fret
piIlarinr their houses, banning their towns
and giving up their women aud children to DO,
tender m,rclc. Of a bandit army and lhcirm
uudInr aIlc,,-whcrc We hold IN a scoiiud,
far more ablrc, than tha, OF our Southern
. Country. nearly hundred millions of human
h,,ng,. from whom We extract, by the lasl
and ,b, thong. ,hl, gold Which CUES to enuct
IL. n,u.h n,,,,, and enable. Ia nav for III,
..,,,o,,,,,,,,, II .l,,,ry which IL under ,hl
immediate owe Of the civilized World, and
u,,cb mus, therefor, be- di.pcased v i,h, IN
- -, ,,,,, natal,