The organ of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1852-1853, 1852-07-02
CINCINNATI, o. FRIDAY, July ), 1852.

Cpopeanplh dloas. uar,os, ansEolssomeSoa
without al article Of decent furniture Or any.
thing 10 make them comfortable, they swallow
the wretched food furnished and breathe i'm
pure atmosphere, and pay roundly for the inxH-
rieS they enjoy. When they complain of the
condition of things, they are gravely informed
no better place can be obtained in the city at so
low rate; they should esteem themselves for.
tunate in selecting so respectable an abode; and
every effort will be made TO advance their sue
cess. Such stuff makes of course, an impress
sion upon the ingenious emigrant, and he parts
with few more dollars to his landlord, 10 in
duce him to remember him when the first op-
portnnity offers for providing him with Situa.
tiOn. The landlord keeps him, until he gets
his cash, and then turns him, well or sick, out
Of his house with his family, to beg, steal or
starve be cares not which. Penniess, he might
as we'll do one as another.
As this world goes, man without money is
no man; he is avoided as peStilence, and only
recognized for fear his fOrlorn condition may
render him desperate against his insulters.--
Man, noble man, depends upon his purse for his
nobility, and in proportion as that is lengthen-
ed or abbreviated, are his faculties exaggerated
or forgotten
On every side, turn where he will, the
emigrant finds land sharks, waiting to catch
their prey and devour whatever he has lett in
their rsvenous NAV. For his daily provender
he is forced to pay five times its worth, even
though Of the poorest description. Every pos
sible effort is made to fleece him of his hard
earnings, and every temptation thrown in his
way. A dram Of whisky the respectable grocer
will give him for nothing, knowing he will
purchase another and another, until the habit
fastens upoa him as strong as death. The emf
grantis constantly advised against false friends
and poor incredulous fool, he swallows the hooE
baited to catch him, and wonders why be wa'
so reckless, after he has been dragged 10 land
Considering all this, all the conspiraeies
against the cmigrant, is it strange he often be-
comes debased? Rather is it not strange he ar
rives at any importance and prosperity, when
his every act and aspiration are thwarted by the
despiCable wretches who swarm about himi
Often the emigrant, after having braved the
| perils Of the deep, and the lowering atmosphere
Of death, lurking throughout the close confines
of the ship that bore him from his country, no
sooner sets foot in our own fair city, than the
seeds Of disease, planted in his system, burst
into life and lay him pless and weakened
upon the couch Of pain. Who is there to watch
over hip, to bathe the burning brow or raise
the cooling draught to the parched lipsi None,
none The hours elongated into ages, a.
bodily and mental torture rack his being into
very paradise of agony How sad a spectacle
is he, afar from all he holds dear; leagues on
leagues from that land mellowed by association
into an Eden Of the SOUL As he groans the
leaden minntes through, does not his memory
roam, lightuing-like, over seas and plains
and mountains, and rear little pincicle of
blessedness, where his youthful footsteps wan
dered and where anguish and wo came not, for
he knew not what they werei
! -''in that instant o'er his soul
! Winters OF mem'ry seem to roll,
And gather in their drop of time
! life Of pain and age Of fCTimc."
He is alone, how terribly alOnel But the
door Of his rude apartment opens and young
man enters with au air Of dignity, and wisdom
persOuifisd written in his face. He gingerly
approaches the side Of the wretched pallet and
takes the sick mans wrist within his fingers
and looks upward, as If for inspiration. He is
newly manufactured physician aud needs in
spiraton, for assuredly the knowledge Of his
art can but little serve him. He is trying his
hand upon his poor patient. and If he kill him,
it matters not who will be the wiser or the
losers A mere bnnger at his trade, he pre-
scribes remedy the very opposite, perhaps, of
I what he should, aud when he calls on the NOR
row for his patient he hasnOne. Through inn
measurable distance has hisd the weary spirit
and the once envelOping clay lies there, stiff,
cold aud unconscious -beyond the possibility
Of further joy or pain.
Pitiful and pitiable are the mournial dramas,
with fearful termins tiOns oft hidden from the
general eye, in which the Emigrants are the
suffering actors. Ourselves have beheld what
many would scarce believe ronld exist IN our
city without speedy relief anu Jet iOund
none. The vast amount OF poverty ana
wretchedness and suffering among the emigrant |
population is unknown except by those VINO
search for the means Of being charitable, not
sarying until the cry Of affliCtiOn assails their
ears. They penetrate the fOrbiddiug residences |
Of wO, and pausing not upon the threshold,
miprls with and relieve it to the extsntof their
purses. Up the blind alley, to the ehattered
gsyret and the dark cellar they go, firm in the |
great purpose of humanity and strengthened BY |
| its pure teachings, bear countless trials, wage