The organ of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1852-1853, 1852-04-09
MistRIlaafous.
written for the Cincinnati Daily Times
InkIings Of the Queen City.
NUMBER XVIII.
THB ABODEs OF POVERTY AND CRIME.


BY JuNiUas
This heading includes a very comprehensive
subject, which We intend to exhibit "a briefly
as possible. We do not, BY this connection Of
poverty and crime, wish To convey the idea that
they are BY any means Synonymous or eOeval,
though very frequently one results from the
other. lnasmuch as both produce wretchedness
aud suffering, to consider them IN connection is
not inappropriate. At first, our design was TO
select certain portion of the city Is contain
ing sufficient material for our purpose. How
belt, upon personal observation, we discovered,
what We partially knew before, that the s0InbTe
scenes of city life are restricted to no definite To-
cality. They abound in various quarters, as II
regardful not to nanseate the heart BY too |
great aud sudden display Of misery aud vice.
Considering It's population and rapid increase,
Cincinnati contains, 10 all probability, less poy
erty aud distress THAI other extensive Cities
Still, it has, Heaven knoWsl au abundant share /
As to immortality and crime, tho reputation it |
has acquired Is, We are apprehensive, only too
well deserved. No fondness have we for exag-
geration. To represent eaudidly and truthIul-
ly our different subieSts is aim, especially
in the present instauce-thst the evils referred
to may be corrected
Those who stroll through our handsome and
well built streets, overlooking with the high
tide OF commerce and enterprise, scarcely i'm
agine there are human beings within the sound
Of this noise and hustle, enduring agony from
disease snd poverty, and none 10 alleviate their
sufferiugs. Can they suppose, while gszng ad-
miriugly upon the sumptuous equipsges rolling
luxuriously by with their more luxurious IN
ob. Iv
agauce, and upon the attractive passing forma
round with health and sparkling with beauty,
thai hundreds are wasting away by life-consum.
ing toll and pallid penury, with all her host Of
woesf 1t is not natural they should. Do the
glittering creatures themselves know of the
misery that surrounds them2 The most natural
question may be ill-timed. To answer one ques-
ton, another may be asked: Do they carei
Could the heavy folds enveloping and stiff
fling the miseries Of our city be torn aside, the
eye Of the beholder would Involuntary close
with the horror Of the spectacle. OF what hu.
man nature is capable for good or for evil might
then be detected; how it could be corrupted,
degraded and bestiaized, how purified, eleva.
ted and made holy Events daily and hourly
occur in our midst which, related or reported,
couli not but disgust feelings the coarsest and
most obtuss. To these Of course we shall not
refer. They are left to the Imagination Of the
reader, or can be deduced from what falls |
properly within the range Of our pen.
There are strange aud shocking contrasts in
city like this, strange because they have exist
ence; shocking, because they are permitted to
exist. Look hereNnd there and Heaven aud !
He'll can scarcely be more different. Suddenly
removed from one to the other, you would not
believe yourself in the same world. Life often |
is not life, even with woe its constant cOmpsn.
ion. Substance and shadow are not more in
separsble than they. But there are degrees
many and distant in the time Of uncertainty aud
Inconsistency, We fenuminste life The dark
sides we now purpose to show-dsrk snd dreary
indeed, but fearfully real.
Wilt accept of our guidance, enduring readers
Come then and We will cOudnct YOU through
portion of the scenes We have traversed ourselves
alone and in the company Of those whose
custom it is TO seek ont and assist the needy. -
These are but mis-. formed and poorly expressed;
those were the rigid realization of the manifold
miseries mankind is doomed to suffer. None
can be fully sensible of the amount and ext.nt
Of human wretchedness. until they have been
brought lace to face with Its repuisVe existence
That Is a stately mansion. and wealth
and comfort, and youtd and beauty ere abb
ders there. An humber tenement the small
frame djOining-dingy in appearance aud an
tiquated. II looks but little lie its srist0crst-
&c ueighbor, aud yet the rays of the morning
sun come slauting as bright and abundant upon
its hOmely roof, as upon the loftier and elegant
pile. The heavens make no social distinctions;
not so the world,
10 Que Of the narrow and dimly lighted
apartments, each one Of which is occupied by
n family, lies the wan figure Of mau. Sunken
is his eye and his breathing heavy. His earth
ly horologe has well nigh run down. Its pen
dulum vIbrates upon the border OF the tomb. -
Around mis- low pallet are grouped & sorrow
stricken wife and two small children. Four
there were, but heaven, in mercy, removed two
thither. The children weep; but the mother S
tears have dried by long aud burning grief
An agony there is, whose intensity no eye drops
trace; such is hers Shorter grows hl5 breath
aud the expression Of the womans face
more painful. His lips move, and her hands
are cIssped in prayer. A rattlng in the throat,
snd the devoted wife groans above the sensegss
clay. The sun goes slowly down. The female
figure, PROSTATE on the body, does not move
Ia f.i. , H,u'La '"o 80. P''S aIG us
ren have cried themselves to sleep upon the ma
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