The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-08-21

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Yossibs number Of independent families Man
bss tbs RIGHT to hoard the proceeds Of his own
toll but he has no right yea il is robbery, to hoard
the wealth which others have produced They
have no right to monopolze what they did not
rroiuce The land they did not produce; there
fore the conclusion need not be expressed. The
lanI ia like the air. means which God has pro-
odd Tor the sustentation of the whole human
familv-of one as much as another.
When the people are brought in right relations
"a the earth by the abolition Of this legal impi-
etv we shall find many other sources OF unjust
speculation out Of the labor Of others cut of,
and gradually all will receive the full produce OF
their own toll. The land is now made by monop-
DIV the basis Of false credit-of banking, Of
manufacturing on a large scale by operative labor
of commercial ventures, Of railroad monopolies,
&c 70 that If the land were held sacred only to
those who will work on it for their own support,
these other modes Of making fortunes without
earning them would he cut of The correction
Of this abuse will correct others; and thus the
Labor Question will he solved.
. But there is much to he done before this can
he fully brought about Msmmon worshippers
will not vote for Just land laws. Those who care
nothing for the well-being Of their fellows, and
look only to the acquisition Of fortunes, will not
favor the establishment Of legal justice. horse
be restrained by stabling them under lock and
KEY The land monopolist thinks there should
be no limit TO the control Of the earth by individ
uals What is to be done, then, in this respect
The rights and obligations Of man must be en-
forced The great doctrine that all wealth is
the product Of labor and no one has right to
more than he produces, must be elevated among
the moralities Of the age, and enforced by public
sentiment II must he held disgraceful, evidence
Of little and wicked spirit, to accumulate otner
peoples earnings. The great iniquity OF the
system of things by which a few make vast Ior-
tunes with no labor and many reap all the pow
erty with excessive toll must be confessed oy ALL
and every man must wash his hands Of the wrong
When public sentiment shall do this much will
he done toward solving the problem OF Labor
To this end all philanthropists should take hold
Of the work Il embraces the great question OF
Human Liberty which cannot be solved until this
one is answered Clergymen and laymen should
come UP TO the work, because it involves every
principle Of pieiy, and religion cannot flourish as
long rs these frauds upon Labor continue to be
perpetrated The vanity Of wealth on the one
f-75 81 tie degradation. eF DoTerty on the
other are totally fhtompatrne VIM rengrouo prv-
press The devil will reign supreme until these
flnq freis wrongs are abolished Deformsd
bodies 4 al stupid souls ragged brooches and hun
Rry bellies are not favorable to piety. All must
feel the obligation to produce what they consume
They must not claim FIVE dollars per day. as some
clergymen do, while their neighbors who do as
much ha-d work, cannot get a dollar per day.
A rsc,Tm clergyman in one Of orr cities gets FIVE
tn ,Isand year He is a libA, on ~ rm. Fifty
Of his dpy-and-Dszht working fellows cannot get
az mdch.
g. But The most important Of all steps toward
the solution Of this Labor q uestion is that of
IL at hA ndo4i NJ oil
progress Bad laws and bad public sentiment
can not he reformed until the People are more en-
l'ehtensd--nLtil they are more truly developed.
But little can be hoped from perverse genera
ton; but the young can be elevated by a thorough
system Of education. Every child, without re-
gard to the condition Of its parents must receive
as good an education as the means of the age can
afford. Free schools must be universally estab-
lished and their improvement must be q constant
work. The toilers themselves are too ignorant,
and the mouopolists, with all the colleges in their
hands, are too ignorant to understand the rights
of man. The colleges are the hotbeds of Old
Conservatism, and they are backed by the church
es. Our common schools, in which all the People
will be taught to think, are our only hope.
Thus we find three means of solving the Labor
Question or, rather, the question is solved by
pointing out those means, and IL only remains TO
apply them. These are,
/. The restoration of the earth to the whole
People.
g. The correction of public sentiment by set
ting forth the inequalities that prevail, and dis
GUESSING the causes thereof
3. By the improvement Of our schools, and the
thorough education Of every child. The more
inferior and unbalanced child is, the greater is
the necessity for his education, and the more sci
entfass l aEEss asra spr6posOns involve
questions of State and National legislation the
second is purely a matter Of moral and religious
obligation to be enforced by discussion. These
are the three conditions by which Labor can be
completely emancpated from oppression and all
social evils abolished. What philanthropists will
consecrate their energies to this work
SLAVE QUESTION "A stakeholder from Mis-
souri, took one Of his men slaves to California in
the spring of lS49, and has been engaged in dig
ging gold there for two years. The slaves labor
was very valuable so much 80 that the master
refused to take 81 500 year for his services By
the last steamer the Missourian returned to New
York city with plenty of gold, and with his
slave, was about returning home. The New York
COMMERCIAL says, that some person having learned
these facts, advised the slave that he was made
free by the laws of California, and that he had
right to recover wages for the time he worked for
duced the colored man to apply to an attorney to
institute legal proceedings, and suit has been COM
menced against the Missourian 10 recover the
wages cieimed to be due. The quonddm slave has
aso asserted his freedom.
WARS NECESSARY.-lIOrace Greeley has since
his sojourn in Europe, become convert to the
physical force doctrine. He says, horrible as war
is, ahd esST must be, be deems few battles less
evil ARrfhe perpetuity of such mental and phys
zeal boIdage as ia now endured by twenty mil
lions Of Italians He remarks;
When the Peace Society shall have persuaded
the Emperor Nicholas or Francis Joseph to dis
band his armies, and rely for the support Of his
Government on its intrinsic justice and inherent
moral force, | shall be ready TO enter its ranks
but while despotism, fraud, aud wrong, are tri
umphantly upheld by force, do not see how free
dom, justice, and progress, can safely dsclaim and
repudiate the only weapons that tyrants fear--the
only arguments they regard"
EXCITEMENT IN TExAs-Great excitement pre-
vailed at Rio Grande, ia conseq uence of the Mex
leans refusing to deliver up runaway slave. An
armed party OF Texqns had threatened to capture
Preside Ii is said that there are ? 900 fugitiyes
in Mexico.
II there were twenty thousand fugitivesp in
Mexico, Texas would have no right to demand
their surrender. Mexico is under no more obli
cation than England to surrender fugitive slaves
There is no clause in our treaty with that nation
requiring any such service. It would, however
excite no surprise if the refusal Of Mexico to sur
render these "fugitveso should be made, by ant
by, pretext for foray upon Mexican soil, anC
perhap9 the subjugation Of the Mexican Govern
ment-ADaRy EUeHmg Journal
THE ANrI-CoRPoRAL PUNISHMENT SYSTEM
letter from one Of the crew of the u. S. bric
Blinbridge, dated Montevideo May 18th, says
We are proud of our naval life at present
and hope we shall have pleasant cruise Of it
The new law of Congress, abolishing the cat from
the navy, works admirably Some few cases