The republic., 1851-07-09
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The worlds Fair.

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ton in London. 1t just as easy 10 foresee the
untrue light in which the merits of our country
must Of necessity appear, as it is now to recount
the causes of our apparent nferiority. The writer
was by no means singular in steady opposition to
the sending any thing American whatever to the
Exhibition; or, if sent, that the manner or mode of
l exhibition should make appear in strong colors
our superiority over all nations in the clements Of
universal prosperity and comfort.
Had such mode as the following been adopted,
We should not have so much cause for expla-
nation to soften the modification of our own people,
or to turn the ridicule of other nations
Accompanying each sample parchment prop
erly framed, stating where made or produced the
rate of wages to the operatives, and the number Of
hours per day of their labor; bill of their ordi-
nary daily fare, the free of schools the perfect
equality of these operatives in all civil and political
rights with the richest and most learned among
US; non-imprisonment for debt, and homestead
| exemption. Let these facts be written on the
parchments in large, distinct characters, that every
one of the million who shall visit the Exhibition
may there read of the despised American exhibit
ton, and contrast it with any truthful legend which
san be appended to the boased exhibitions in
| the same building Follow around that huge pal
ace the workmen and workwomen of the filagree
and other elaborate workmanship which adorn the
| Glass Palace, watch them well while they read the
story of the workmen and artists of the American
specimens. As their eyes read-if indeed, poor
creatures, they can read-or, as some one shall
| read the various parchments to them, how must
they sigh and be sorrowful at the contrast of the
condition of American workmen with their own
miserable existence of semi -starvation, no educa-
ton, overtasked condition. with redeeming fea-
ture to relieve their dark picture. See within that
great palace the American, glowing with pride,
| with the ardor of true philanthropy and true pa
triotism, he reads the condition of the american
tDorkmen, inferior to none in useful manufactures
| and as with plying heart he reads the sorrowful
and abased condition of the poor human machines,
worn out in producing the gew- gaws which
cure the appreciation of vanity. The writer does
not mean to disparage articles of taste; he pro-
esses full admiration for every specimen of taste
but if these be had only at the expense of SO
many millions of human beings, whose supplies
must be narrowed to the scantiest pittance upon
which humanity exist, he would prefer to dis
pense with such costly articles of taste. In Europe
where the life and comfort of the aborer is 80 lit
tie valued and money so greatly priced, that is
called cheap which costs little money; here that is
called dear which would impoverish and degrade
the laborer.
We are called lovers of the " almighty dollar"
II is by word and cant phrase all over Europe as
especially applicable to Americans And why !?
Simply because all classes labor industrousy to
secure competency and wealth; idlers here
corresponding with the titled and tinselled drones
of Europe. 1t is because Americans incessant
| ly employed in works of utility and profit
And yet it is admitted, world wide, noto-
rous fact, that Americans proverbially prod-
gal; it is, in fact common accusation against US,
in the very face, though it be, of the taun love
| for ''the almighty dollar" There is no people in
| the world who pay labor WE'LL who pay so high
| for every thing, who venture much in bold en-
terprise; and no people in the world at all com.
pare with them in execution, in proportion to ap-
parent ability
In addition to the separate parchments attached
to each specimen, there should have been series
| of national parchments having them various
\ exhibitions of our labor; as, for example
Let one be map of Virginia, Pennsylvania, or
New York-either of which, being about the size
of England, would form suitable comparison.
Then, from table showing the length of all the
| canals, railroads, plank roads, turnpilees, and
roads generally in the United States, place on the
map OF whichever of the above States may be
| chosen the whole of these roads and canals and
I then see how England, many thousand years
old, and with population exceeding the United
States, would compare with that State, about one
century old Then state the number of cars, stages,
steamboats,, horses, Sc, which travel over all these
roads; and state the number of miles the whole
travel Look at the number of hands occupied in
the healthful exercise of telling forcsts and the
immense number of mechanics, who build houses
not only for the natural increase but the artificial
| one OF immigration of four hundred thousand
| souls.
Who has most reason to rejoice, the American,
whose countrymen employed in these health
| full occupations-the American lover of the al
mighty dollar, paying three times the wages his
\ laborer, and requiring third less of his time-or
the countryman of the flagree and lace work, emo
lover he of the alm ghty dollar" whose pride and
glory ia in the excellence of work for which he
pays only third much for the labor bestowed
| on it as the American pays, and regardless of the
depth of degradation, moral and physical, which
it entails upon the great of his fellowcoun
| trymen?
II Instead of appealing to popiniay lords, who would
not allow mana working man-to come be-
twixt the wind and their nobility-instead of an
appeal to newspapers whose vocation it is to keep
the fearful power of the press subservient to the
taskmasers of the down-trodden and suffering mil
lion-appeal to the manufacturers, artisans, and
workmen themselves of these boasted treasures, af
to which nation making exhibition at the Glass
Palace has most reason to reioce-which nation
eriibts the highest elements for the happiness and
| welfare OF lts citizens; and what would they say;
for whom would be their verdict Can any human
being doubt that the verdict would be unanimous
in favor of America? To go one step further; is il
not certain, beyond the bound of doubt that, j
the recording angels take note of this Exhibition
the approving smile of Heaven awards superiority
to America, as acting most nearly in consonanct
with it's righteous behests?
nation like England, which is an universa
4 oppressorj the alpha and omega of whose charity
is the negro of the United States whose dark form
shuts out from her vision the widespread misery
, the intolerable cruelty endured by her own white
SUBJECTS the vices and evils which stink in the nos
o tris of all the earth, whose cloak of hypocrisy
though conceang from sight, yet cannot preven
the escape of the fGtid odor of the enshrned char
v | el-house.
o The audacious hypocrisy of England is in par
the offspring of settled policy of the government
: by transferring the sentiment of the people from
= home considerations to foreign subject. Tht