Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-08-05
ENGLAND.

We neycf rencmlci to have read moro pointed
truth on the social lhcnomtna Of England, com
pressed IN a small space than is contained in thu
following from the iondor correspondent Of fhc
Nsc. 1ot Esp,ess
The FIRST thing that ..tfkcs an American in
ENGLAND is not n one the ci$fhty but the ser, .ty
of It's population. The scryilly is painful on
whatever side, or on whatever class We look. Tic
bcggar begins-where bCggar exists tior public
bcggary scarcely exists out Of ireland and the
ocean frontiers Of Scotland l--tho bcggar begins
in This serYiftr. and workman, peasant farr'er-
gentry. nobleman, alI follow on its graduation ans
in regular scryie course more or less The nation,
at once, to an American cye seems to be ma
ton Of castes--a nation of iiindoOs-not Ilindoos
Of the East by any means, but liindoos transplated
from the East into a rorthcrn, inyigorating cling
and transplanted with their castes, their artih
cial o. ganizatons and their social inyincbe pre-
judiccs. True, English laws look upon all classes
Of mon alike, and the principles Of Magma CLarts
cover the low-bon well rs he High born but
what he british sbi ect has won in civil and poll
teal liberty he has altogether lost i'll social organ-
zation. lie is not free he is not equal | do not
to say he is not politic;l freeman, for he is
now politically--that is, in the eye OF the laws
equal in almost a'l things whatever his condition
but nevertheless, he is social slave Fror1 royal
ty to peasantry there cas;os, there are ranks;
about a. hard TO OveTcomcanl about rs uncomfortable
as the castcs among the eastern lIindJOs lord
is woshipcd as is an idol in the East 70 krcFF
my lord, 90 have shed on you the sunshine OF his
presence, inspiring always. Hence terrific
civil, social war seems ever going GA here True,
it is not fought in field, as in Cromwel's day, but
in saloon in hail. in boudoir in park, in equippage
in livery, with prornse or with insolence, or in
pounds shilngs and pence Money, though,
makes no man, while blood make 2 man Of any
thing but money buys blood at times and gold
thus gets the guinea stamp. The terrific 5truGgle
is for rank, for position. for social peace The
soap-man's daughter has had bought fo- her It
princess education, and would be a princes; bu,
the struggle is all in vain. What was born soap
must die soap, unless it be through some mighty
struggle in the priesthood or the bar. Soap may
froth up and it may bubkein England ard the
bubbles may have the violet, the blue, green III
the coors Ct the raipbow-but still it is soap. The
grease and The ashes, and the lye stick it, ana
it always smells Of soap. Despite a, this, the as
tonishing thing is that the lower llinloo looks w
and really rcyerenccs the Ilindoo higher in caste
as a superior, better made clay Hence, not only
what the Queen is doing with her rrdttlhg baby
hood but what road she rides over, via. hour she
rides, what elements, Of sunshine or of frog damp
are over her. what maids attend her, what Clothing
all have on, and such things one and all, not in
royalty alone, bus throughout the allied ranks,
have an interest for Squres and Squeers as he
reads them fully recorded in the Morning Post
such as might have the bombarGment Of ssyastopoi
or the taking Of Crutstadt.