Washington sentinel., 1854-06-29
Masbington geutinel,

9kE lhe array oil facts Drougnt lorWaru III
the editorial we annex from the Examiner are
novel and astounding. We are not prepared
to adopt the inferences OF the Examiner. We
are more hopeful of the future progress Of man,
and do not despair that society may yet be
happily and successfully constructed without
the elements Of domestic slavery. But, until
it is so constructed, those who live in glass
houses should not throw stones" Let the peo-
pie of Europe and the north see that their own
social edi6ces are sound and secure, before
they undertake to remodel and repair those of
other people:
The FAILURE OF FREE SocIETY.-Domestic
slavery is as natural and necessary relation
in society as those of parent and child, hus
band and wife, guardian and ward, master and
apprentice, officer and soldier, and captain
and sailor All these latter relations are in
stances of slavery, and cases in which ore part
OF mankind are governed and controlled by
the will of another part, rather than by pre-
scribed law ; cases in which those so governed
have to rely on their superiors for support and
sustenance. The condition of the laboring
classes in free society in Europe as depicted BY
almost all writers who dwell in its midst, con.
trasted with the condition of the same in Feu-
dal society and that of our own slaves, proves
that domestic slavery is not only natural and
necessary, but great blessing.
So quiet and contented is southern society
that the mass Of our people and writer's have
either not observed at all the social distur-
Dances Of western Europe, or confined their
notice to such half crazy individuals as Owen,
Fourier, and Louis Blanc. The assaults of the
abolitionsts on southern slavery, accompanied
thav al,
Citations Of religion, of marriage, Of property,
and of almost all other institutions constituting
the framework of society, excite in every
inquiring mind the suspicion that there is
something rotten and hollow in the whole
social system where slavery is not legally estab-
lished AS one advances in the investigation
he is astounded at the mass and the ananimity
Of testimony spread out before him on every
hand. Thousand of facts that had lain un-
needed before, became proof as strong as Holy
Writ, that free society is sad and signal
failure
In England we find men of all parties, and
of no party, concurring in this conclusion.
Macaulay seemed for while, to be the single
dissentient. He now is silent-convinced, we
presume, by the wars, falnines, the revolutions
the universal spirit of emigration, of discomfort
and alarm, and the thousands pershing from
hunger-that there must be something rotten
in the State of Denmark" Young England, the
most conservative wing of toryism, is not less
emphatic in its protest against the organization
of society than the revolutionary chartists.
Carlisle and Newman, the impersonations of
the dispotic idea, bear as strong testimony
against the intolerable suferings Of the eman
cipated laborng class as Mr.. Mayhew and the
author of Alton Locke, the red republican Of
England. Dickens and Bulwer in Olirer Ticist
and Paul Clifford, combine to swell the lists of
re-organzers, with DIsrae in his young Eng
land novels. The muse, in dissonant labor
songs, joins in the chorus, adds to the hubbub,
and makes confusion worse confounded. The
united voice of all testi6es that free competi-
ton in England has produced wider, deeper,
intenser mass of starvation, penury, dismay and
dispair, than emancipation in Jamaica and ST.
Domingo.
Btackrood gives long statistics to show the
, ratio of the increase of crime and pauperism,
and the abest of all English reviews, the North
British, asserts again and again that the con
dition of the laboring class in Great Britain is
intolerable, and the British society must be
recognized. The Edingbnrg Reriep, ad
mitting the extent of dissatisfaction, and the
respectability of the sources that give it utte-
rance, growls a feeble dissent, and proposes
larger dose of liberty and free competition to
cure the evils which liberty and free compet-
ton have inflicted. Hear the North British
Reriep:
"AI,on Locke" is, upon the whole, as powerful
literary expression as exists OF the general con-
vctor, shared by all classes alike, that the coun-
try has arrived at state when something extra
ordinary whatever il is, must be decided on and
done, II society is 10 be saved in Great Britain.
As such, therefore, it is book that ought TO be
welcome 10 all parties.
Again:
AT what conclusion have we arrved1 We have
pointed out, as one of the most remarkable signs
OF the time the appearance Of literature of social
reference, originating in and then further promot-
ing rapprocheme,n between these two extremes
of society, men OF letters and the working classes
We bave examined, and, TO some extent, analysed
the two most conspicuous examples that have
been recently furnished in this country OF the
direction and intention OF literature. And what
has been the result The result has been that in
both cases we have found ourselves conducted by
the writer's in question to one point-the pronun.
cia,on OF the terrible phase, Organization o
Labor; and the contemplation Of possible exc.
dns al very distant period out Of the Egypt
Of our present system of competition and Laissez
fare, into a comparative Canaan of some kind OF
cooperative socialism. Such is the fact, startling
il may be, but deserving TO be fairly stated and ap-
pretended. Right or wrong. we believe that this
is true version Of the entire voice and aspiration
of our current social literature. We have ELECTED
il from an examination but two examples but
believe that the most extensive examination
would not invalidate il. Collect all the books
pamphlets and papers that constitute our htera
ture OF social reference; or assemble all our men
OF letters that have contributed to that literature
go to learn their private aspirations and opin-
ions with respect 10 the social problem and the
last word, the united vote will still bc-THe Or
gani7atton IF Labor on the Associasire Pyinciple
There are of course dissentients. but such is the
vote Of the majority; and so far the vote is OF
value, may be asserted that decree Of the liter.
ary faculty Of the country has gone forth decfar-
INK the avaar Of political economy, if not science
OF facts, al least as supreme rule of government,
10 be near its close.
Again, showing that slavery still remains in
England:
Servants of the property class and constituting
by far The most numerous portion of every com.
muniiy, are the proLstaf.es, or, speaking more
restrictedly, the working men, who earn io.day,s
bread by today's labor They the veritable
descendants OF those who in ancient times wer.
the slaves with but few differences their socia
position is the same. Despite savings banks, TEN
perance societies, and institutions for mutua
Improvement, the characteristic Of this class lk,
that Of the literary class, is and probably ever viii
be, pecuniary inSoneiaVce From week 10 weel
these thousands live, now in work and now on
OF work, as careless Of tomorrow as il BENJAMIN