The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-07-30


OF their free limbs'
who in the last great day OF will raise their lit.
Tie hands against her Tor her system of factory labor
more destructive than The mandate of Herod-a system
which renders them inanmae The machinery
which is their worker, aud which, like evil spirit,
has come hber TO torment them before their time Let her
listen to the waings OF her sewing temales who with
tears OF blood excaim in the language of her own i'm.
mortal poet--
" Oh men with sisters dear
Oh men with mothers and wives
i Is not linen your wearing out
But human creatures lives.
Stch, silich, stitch,
In poverty, hunger, aud dirt
sowing at once with double thread,
shToud u. well as shirt.
But why do talk of death
hardly fear his terrible shape,
y, |, see ms like my own.
II seems SO like my ovsp,
Because of the fast keep,
Oh God that bead should be so DEAR
And flesh and blood so cheap"
il these gravancaa too the centre OF royal
magnihcence 10 command attention lest il mar The gores
OF her trophies and dim the eugence OF her egaa let her
Tor moment IN the rich plenitude OF her compassion,
turn her eye 10 neighborng green isle OF the ocean,
whose dowD-tfodden children are groaning under the
exactions OF government which, like The tabled vampire,
is preying upon their warm hearts blood Let her
them conquerng that holy love OF home which stronger
than dcan and tearing themsev from friends aud kim
dred and the remains OF their beloved dead, that tn
may escape the destIo, ing influences Of government lie
toerable IN It's visitaons Than the curse which
threw the cities OF the PLAIN See them lowering upon
oppressed,
weary and bouseless wandereT, who has found
Tor the sole OF hts loot amid The wide waste OF the Old
Worlds desolaons. Stained with guilt aud drunk with
the blood of naons when she has redessed these and
many kindred and aloned before Heaven for
her whole career OF arocy and violence she may
play the censor with proprey and less adyant
age aud we may then consent 10 discuss with her The
national morality OF domestic institution OF portion OF
The States OF this conieeracy which constitutes large
an item in hsr cstsogus OF mock solictudean instu
ton which planted upon soil by her cupid
", which Te-
gard within the reach control of federal legislation,
and which the States where II has existence could not
with safety or propely suddenly throw II of If they
would.
Slaves" writes an eminent British poet, cannot
breathe IN England !" and il he had added that many OF
her poor labonng classes whether denomnaled slaves,
or misealled feenea, aso found the process oil espra-
non difficult within her borders, he would not have
ceeded essentially the limits OF poetic license,
When we were, as people, few and feeble, we pos
sesed The moral courage and physical iorce TO achieve
our Independence against the warllke nation OF
Chrislendom.
Now that we BY com non consent one OF the great
powers OF the earh,lf not equal 10 the reorna
uoo OF our own abuses we shall ial 10 draw profitable
teachings from envJous rivalry abroad. We will submit
shortcomings to a tribunal worthy OF the occasion-a
vuous. intelligent ami refined people, where opnion is
free from the musy pelndices OF drcayed royalty We
will, socially speakng confess to full share OF
ror and 10 records abundance OF human fray but
will anasn, and try and. needs be, condemn and
execute when the sanctuary OF justice Is unianted with
eRvy.
Oar Institutions repose not upon physical foundations
OF standing armies and warlke material, but upheld
by the virtue and intelligence OF free people The pa
fiofs hope for Their enduring purity rests 10 the fabric o
social order which deeply indebted for its strength and
beauty 10 the Influence ol woman, who fashions the
structure OF svcely Ia the spb.fe which Heaven dss-
tined her TO Gil she holds undivided empire she purhes
the fountains oil social and domestic life, and casts the
Impress Of brr moral image around her. like the smes OF
grac-au Providence. That dream OF poetic fancy
which suggested that the domestic hearth was The oay
spo earth by Satan IN The fa OF our
common prosenlor. was beautiful conception, and Is
exempihrd 10 The pure and holy influences OF mothers
love The characteristics OF her nalsre are genieness
and peace In every lane OF life where II has pleased
Heaven 10 cast bef LOT, whether at the resde OF home,
where, by influences which fall like evening dews upon
the vegetable world, she sways the moral sentiments
and rehnes and elevass the affections. IN healhen
lands whether IN the maosons OF siDueDce or IN the
owy cottage whether lingering by The couch ol toe dy
ing mosieniog the fevereJ ~ and wipng the death
damp from the hrobbng forehead, alter her companion
ha. sunk beneath fed before The destroyed, she is
mnisering TO the necessities Of fallen nan. and lul-
hlling the mission of that aagel OF mercy
who last at the cross and earliest at the tomb
OF her Lord and Master. Who would desire to see
her transferred from the domestic altar fires 10 the po-
li,ical arena from the culture OF infant minds al The
vestbule OF existence, to the framing OF legislative
reports ard pens statutes; from teaching infant lips to
pray, mnge D the harsh contests and angry debates
OF the forum from being The presiding genius Of hap
py home TO preside courts and wranginz con-
venons Her physical and mental structure Indicate not
that she destined for sphere inferior TO that OF
man. bat that called 10 exercise vocation more
interesting, delicate. and sacred The oonceii that she
has been degraded by society from her true condition
the diseased oh.pring OF a morbid fancy. Wherever
Christianity and civil zaion known, she Is mans
companion and equal and .oclal lille the abress OF
his destiny. She enjoys privileges and immuniues TO
which he is suanger and escapes many and grievous
burdens which rest upon his shoulders and like The
phsrsees OF old she occupies the uppernost seats Al
eass and receives greetings in the markets. and the re-
formers Of modern times while prospecting for The fossil
remains OF her los rights should remember that II in the
discharge of common duties and common ofbces equality
10 the point To be attained she should commence the ref
onaon ot restoring for mans eqaal enjoyment, many
preroxatives which she has usurped and monopoiized
lie who should insist upon the equal rights OF the metals
which are usually employed In fansacling the busness
OF e and TO that end should seek 10 fashion implements
of husbandfy from gold that il might enjoy equality with
uon would be pi,i.d Tor luosc. and meet with con.
TEN Ut and rdicuie for his reward and he who would
desecrste and despo Heavens lss best g by transfer
ring her from Of her social fupcuons, where
she holds mysterious dominion over thc heart 10 de
charge duties and engage n concis suited only to mans
sterner natate should be remembered only with exc
GRAFTON for the wrong- he has inflicted nPon socieyor
hs endeavor to dim the stre AMI mar the beauty OF the
female character. by buring down to darkness IRON
ns orbit where il has long shed light and loveiines'
around It. ,..,.s,.r.., , Il t., -
Every as. h.s furnished s ssf.cops,ituted, restless
burzing refovners. who regard society a. an organized
and have essayed 10 uproo and reconstruct u