Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-07-07

ing intrnsiealv base or evil ia trade aud traihe;
yet i NAV be said with at least equal truth, that
there i nothing elevaing refining or purifying
in it. As nail, saith The son Of sraeh, stickeih
fast between the corners Of stones, 50 doth SIN
stick fazt between buying and selling How.
ever thaf be. certain II IL, that there + no more
ruthless tyrant on earth than the true CONNER
cial Spirii and the present age has seen more hu-
| man beings slain in one nation. for he mere sake
| of commerce, in three years than any thlrtY
! years War ever slew-nore miserably and y
| ANONYMOUSLY slain, than war mt lis worst ana
| wickedcst could ever STAY. by this same golden
! bond Of commerce. nations can some times lac
brought only too close together, to The bitter cost
Of one and the griesous corruption OF the other.
! Commerce may be just or unjust, benehcent or
/ cruel. Commerce is not an eni, but mehnS; ana
! like all instruments welded by haman hands, viii
/ be often. perhaps oitenest, made the means to
! base and evil end. Those States, also, whose
/ greatness has been bnsed ON commerce. have
! usually come to a bad end. Witness Carthage.
Witness Venice. And although the power nnd
grandeur Of England have not built upon trade a
lone. vet year by year they have come 10 depend
more and more upon that. For sake al trade aud
traffic all national justice, all personal and md.
vidual Justice all social bonds of fraternity, and
even Of common humanity, have been made sys-
tcmailealy to give way until, as Keen stern
moralist has expressed it. the sole Herus between
now trade and traffic having corrupted aud eaten
out the old heart of England, are going too Ger
tainly to ruin the State and nation, making her
pla"e blot and her name an kissing.
Listen 10 that same stern morallSt giving mn ae-
count Of the condition Of society III the country,
which eall- itself, and Is called by the world 50
Civilized, enlightened, prosperous and rich
descend whore You will into the lower class,
in town country, by whnt avenue you will, by
factory inquiries, agricultural inquiries, by reye-
nue. returns by mining laborer committees. by
opening your own eyes and looking, the same
sorrowful result disonses itself: YOU have TO ad-
nit that the working body OF this rich English
milton has sunk, or Is last sinking, into a state
TO which, all sides of II considered there was
literally never any parallel. At stockport
Assizes, n mother aud iather arragned and
found guilty of poisoning three of their own
children, 10 detrnuda "bural society OF some
CO. .. ID. due on the death Of each child they
are arraigned, found guilty; and the ohclal nu-
thorities IL is whispered, hint thai perhaps the
case Is mol solitary, that perhaps You hid better
not probe farther into thnt department OF things.
Such instances are like the highest mountain
apex emerged into view; under which hes
whole region and land not yet emerged hu
man mother aud father had said to themselycs,
what sha we do to escape starvation We arc
deep sunk here in our dafk cellar; and help Is ta
yes, IN the tgolino hungrr-tower stern thingt
happtn II. The stockport mother and iather think
and hint Our poor little starvclng Tom, win
cries all day for ,ictuais, who will see only eva
and not good IN this word Is he were out oi mis-
cry at once hc well dead, and the rest of us, per
hups kept alive 1t Is thought, and limited;
Nstit i done. And now, 'tom being killed, an,
all spent and caten, Is it poor little starvclinI
Jack that must go, ar poor little starYehng WIN.
What committee Of why's and means
"ln starved, seged cities, in the uttermo-
doomed ruin of old Jerusalem, iallen ndcr Tia
wrath of cod, it was prophcscd and said, 9TH,
hands oi the pitful woman have sodded thti
own children The stern Hebrew imagination
could conceive no blncker gulf of wretchcdncss
that was the uItimatumo degraded, God punish
ed man. And we here, in modern England eX
ubcrant with supply Of all kinds, besegcd b
nothing if il bc not hy invisible entertainments
are we reaching that
Reaching that les, nlccd, for long sine
tins Dnnesque picture drawn, the trade
stranglng children for SAKE of the burial fees
became 70 common, thai grand iuries ptescnte
the benevolent burial societies themselves rs
nuisance. and recommended their abolition b
law, lest EuRshmen descendants of the yeomc
of Azineonr, should turn into generation
ghonls.
Take this one fact, because it is the most start
ling and hideous inct; and take England, bcCaus
1t ~ the richest most successfully industrious
all nations. Aud NOW. is his the progress
are to exult over aud glorify ourselves upon :
Nhat m1e the printing press, md the elcctn
telegraph, and the prosperous commerce done 10
those tive VI hundred thousand workers, who 81
~uen in the warehouses of England, with thee
hands lying idle in their bosoms shy, ha,
not those grand engines of what you call Ciyiza
ton, aud the state of society they have created
have not those very things famed the cunnin
RIGHT lnnds of twplVp luudral tbousnn "A bn4
but this very progress, has made ghouls of BIRTHS
fathers aud mothers :
II were Ia cross the channel, and picture
your imagination an island charnel. and greer
beautiful placc of skulls, such rs my eyes ha,
seen IT ! might call ON you to set down another
gloomy item To the debtor side of the ninctecnt
centurys account. Debtor to two million I'm
man sacrifices inundated on the altar of CON
| meree,-e commerce for the solcsnke OF commerce
An obscene god who was wont to be name
MaInmon, and rcputed 6cnd If that thin
whiehis called British Civilization has been, ,
ven IN England a failure, it has been in Irclan
IA fatal fraud and wide spreading desolation.-
! Five hundred years ago (not 10 venture back int
the times OF mere mythical traditonl Ireland WI
in every SENSE more civilized, more wealth
more refined country than she Is now. Beior
| English law and social polty were forced upo
! that island, 1T Is we'll known to those who hay
| had opportunity TO study the authentic annals ,
the time that the Irish at that period not on
! enjoyed more # the material luxuries which tn
| dadal earth produces for mankind. more peasan
aud nourishing food, more wine, mead, ale milk
better and richer clothing, hut also enjoyed AN
| appreciated in fuller measure the soft, ming nm
ennoblng influences ofmusic and other cmbel
lishments and graces of life. Nay, another an
still higher distinction had the ancient cIansme
of lreland--thcy loved and reyereneed and
| beyed the law and its administrators and the
! baH la ia,y, ,,-ar tIa,,, l., II