The Yazoo Democrat., 1852-08-18
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PHILLIPS & BOWMAN, ED1roRs,
Starvation and E7icfio...

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citing some considerable amount Of virtuous In
dignation. They are, of course, in condition
there to feel just adherence of the inhlunani
| ty of their cruel white brethren on this side n
the Atlantic Every thing is SO correct and de
| llghttul there; no misery in the British island
no slavish dagradation--no brutal task master.
to grind down the miserable white slaves in tho
mining manufacturing districts of free, hap.
py old England Well may they look on oul
poor 1" Uncle Tom and his Cabin with raven
Gus sympathy, and possibly an amelioration SC.
cety for the relief of our suffering slaves may
be started in the very neart of the land, among
their work-house paupers. Auxiliaries could be
formed in the purlieus of London, amidst the
comfortable and happy thousands in the under
ground lodgings, in the damp and sufIocating
cellars in the sthed courts and alleys, and fever
fed rookeries, where. the pure light Of heaven and
a fresh gasp of air never enters. The throngs
there who lin9er in sickness and starvation, with
no one TO care for them-no hand TO do friend
|! office as the soul is being starved out of its
wasted tenement-whosef fostering misery would
make the change from its charnel- house to a ne
gros cabin, perfect paradise, they could feel for
Uncle Tom" and, poor souls, do all they can
for the cause. The g cabin of the black man,
though palace, compared with the kennels in
which the white paupers herd and sicken and
die, we have no doubt win do a great work in
England. There is need of some sort of effort
there, judging by the shocking pictures Of mise
ry-not merely among the worst of all human
sla. es, the manufacturers paupers-but in the
very centre OF English civilization, London it.
self. What pictures are presented to US, con-
stantly, of wretchedness and suffering thefe.-
Look at single instance:
An English paper says that Coroner G.. S.
Brent held, lately, an inquest at Grays Inn lane,
London, upon the body of Jonathan Nichols,
who had been schoolmaster With all his in
dustry, he could sometimes only earn but few
pence a-week. The wife of the poor man was
paralytic, and on the scanty earnings of the hus-
band, they sustained q miserable existence, eled
out by one loaf Of bread a aeeek from the parish,
and buoyed up by the hope of coming into pos
session of small estate to which he was enti-
tied
For the last twelve months he had been grad
ually sinking Under absolute starvation, and was
found at last by his wife one morning in bead
dead by her side. On the day following his dis
ease, the paper states, he became entitled to
fI20, and EGO year thereafter. The foreman
of the jury ses his horror at the supness of
the parochial authorities, and the jury rendered
verdict in accordance with the facts above sta
Led
1t may seem strange that teacher could not
nave awakened some sympathy among his form
er pupils or their parents. But we suppose, |
ike the crocodile philanthropsts in our own
country, they were all members of some society |
or the relief of far-of suffering, which has no
existence except in their own distempered i'm
ginations. In England, as here, there are an
bundance of Mrs. Jellybys. mock-sympathisers,
urious Gdecaimers against imaginary distor-
ed ills, and occasionally authors, who pervert
he genius that might do good into plausible en-
ines of Misrepresentation making even their
inc talents curse rather than blessing.
The case of the poor schoolmaster is but type
f large class of similar sufferers. Nay, his
Misery was far less, because of so much shorter
uration, than the lifelong misery of whole
antilles. whose entire existence, from the lisping
nfant, almost, to the feeble exhaustion of prema.
ure old age, is prolonged in the poisoned atmos-
here of pent-up factories. Talk of negro cabinsi
ghy what mockery of human wrong and out
age, to mention the worst ills of negro slavery
4 contrast with this white bondage bondage
rom which there is no relief but in death. A
ontrast still more strongly marked from the
lct, that in the one case there are always those
Tho have the strongest motive-sef interest
0 iced, clothe, nurse and care for the toiers,
7hile in the other. food clothing. sickness suf
sring or even death, is matter of no concern
vhatever, since even death itself is no loss to
ask-masters. But while sympathising over the
tarvation of the poor schoolmaster and his PAR
lytic wife, we see this enquiry made: 'Could
uch an instance possibly occur in the United
tates? We have misery enough. and poverty
nough, it is true. especially in great cities;
ut case like this, we are sure can find no par
llel amongst U.S."
Indeed How little do 'sUncle Toms" sym
athisers know or care about the suffering or the
Misery that exists among their own colored dupes
a our principal cities. Since the account of the
Inglish starvation reached us, we read, in one
f the papers four city, the following paragraph;
DIED OF sTARvATIoN.-The Coroner on Sat
rlay held an inquest on the body of Anna Ma
la Wilson, colored woman, aged about 30
ears, who lived In Baker streets below Seventh.
he jury returned siTdict that she died ''tor
want of food." /,
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