Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1854-04-07
RICHMOND wHIG.
From tho London Times. March ia

From the London Times, March ls
The Englisb, as we are told every sde arc an emil
nen'y sensible, practical reasoning rather dull
pie. They calculate when they told to believe
They detect an imPosture glance aud sec through
superstition as they would trick a. cards How their
ancestors to worship stones. to offer
human hol'causts in wicker images or te think the
msuetoe OF the oak sacred than Of the apple
tree, passes comprehension. At all events John Bull
even IN ustan and shrtsleeycs wise for all this
nov" lie understands steam-engne and looms can cacu
e percentages strike an cverage, and do sum in Rue
Of Three The has banished false religions u,
the bats and the owls and the only fear s tha, with
much education TO be got for the asking and so mapv
sahuai comforts to be earned by Industry reI
g'on oi any kind should be voted uperfuity Never
heess it ia in this England whereof we write that Joanp.
southco:e and Thom we're indigenous where mesmerisu
and spirit rapping have spread to all classes
~heuce tens of thousands Of Momons are going off to the
salt Valley; where almost anybody iIhe give his mind TO
" can gain converts to anything Fanacism is not to be
eraccaed by figures and railways themselves suberye in
'ne pI'uc OF might to the most perverted forms of the
spiritual element SO we are surprised TO see the
CROWN OF new superstition, craftsman's idol
Ihe operatives OF Lancashire have discovered new re
gon and are performing pigrimages worthy of Jugper
haut or the Holy Coat OF Treves Their spiritual zeal
carries hem beyond the vulgar considerations OF comfort
or economy Monster trains convey them to the pIaces
where this newborn pety be refreshed by the
aions oi suitable preachers and the devotional hymns of
the new worship Under the cold blue sky they listen
with edyng submission to the pious aptures of inspired
teachers Fathers, mothe children flock to the festival
The aged forget their cruches and the their pains in
this holy ardour And what is this Gospel which has
umined the darkness of Lancashire and made il the Ga
lee o this land? Prepare yourself gentle reader for
this aud astounding revelation OF the Divine ;sdr
and mercy. The awful truth which has broken throuvb
the darkness Of ages, which has penetrated every heat
and warmed every soul in the Industrious north is the
pta al linn t,Ia, m
wages.
II IS sober and porten,ous fact From all L,nca-
re by ordinary trains and by special trains there as
embled last Sunday, which appears have been adopt
by the new religion for its day of worship such conpre
CATION as never Hoghton we presume one n,
tee high places of the Ten per Cent divinity They who
could could not come had their Peters pence in
shape OF two thousand pounds Their preachers mo-
claimed era, heralded by myrads of conversions
Preston the favored city of this church, it may
almost vie with Rome Nauvoo in the amount of coutr
buttons poured in by the devout Lancastrans Let thou
sands more be rolled in, exclaimed pious man. for ey
man in this assembly know the p-eat fact ,hrt
money is the sinew of Certainly if Ten per Cen,
more wages is Gospel from heaven the snews of war
may be considered great fact The creed is DEVELOPING
But why should it not embrace all England all classes
all emp!oymens aud all relations Who does nor war,
Ten per Cent more wages Who will not ackuoyledpe
that money is the sinew of war? The mill owners he9-
elues may embrace the faith for they want Ten per
cent more profits. The clergy may sit under brothers
Lawless and Cowel for they want Ten per Cent moro
rent charge and surplice fees All the functonaries of
the State, all the Army and Navy, wart Tent per Cent
more pay We fondly hope have ourselves been in
stTumenta IN procuring boon the common soldier
equvaento about Ten per Cent Let be enrolled among
the apostles OF the Ten per Centism The doctrine Is
easy, the burden light You have only to believe that
is safer with 22s aweek than with eos or with Ol
a-year than with 1901 and that the man who will not
give you the larger instead Of the smaller son of
Beia The beauty OF the doctrine universally; for
"ho 'here VINO does not want more money, rent
more tthes more salary, commission more profit
more allowances or pay in form another? Master
and man worship the altar even if their pray
ers seem commercially incompatible. But let Heaven set
tie that difficulty and let the operative on the one side
pray for Ten Cent wages and the master for Ten
per Cent more profits, out Of the order
But Is there really remedy for this deluson? Do we
witness the vettable beginning OF a religion the
only bond OF which shall common in an
ofpay: Surely there gentlemen and there are clergymen
IN Lancashire who can teach these dupes something
better than this and inform them that offer public wor
ship and sing hymns for triumph in struggle FOR Ten per
Cent more wages is not one ot better than falling down
before stock or stone True, two shlngs week more
wages may present itself in a more lovely form than
grim figure all eyes mouth, and nose with dogs teeth
and matted hair like the gods of the South Sea islanders
Two shingsa week may stand for bread meat and
beer better coats, shoes and stockings larger house
and forth. But, nevertheless comforts and luxuris
mount up into very sorry idol If operatives NAV meet
by of thousands heath sing HYMNS for boil
ed beef Sundays then their beers with equal ptv
offer up anthems for turtle soup and iced punch
No say how far devoees will go when thew once
place their affections on creature comforts and hsnd
some percentage Certainly all this spurious zeal looks
Ill for the religion of the norih and for the inEu,nce of
those whose duty 1t was TO set the example Is true
that Aoloch has been wohpped so long and so exclusive
y bv his forturnte followers that the Golden conta
gon has spread and the incorporating, money-spend
ug mill owner, finds himself crushed by the converts
to his ah! The Roman critic Observed that when
Homers chiefs went mad their followers suffered L.
there such madness, exclusive worship of d
in Lancashire that has at least infected the sy multi
ude and sent them worshppng the god of their beiiers
We should bc better satisfied of the result if we saw
something done by those who alone can do it to sp This
selfish agitation OF its lnAtical guse. To ask for Ter
Cent wages is allowable. and even laudable TO
insist on 1t divine right, aud invoke the favor o
Heaven on the demand is simple blasphemy Surely
there people in Lancashire whose sacred profession
whose high social position, and whose sectonate rea
tons with those whom they employ will enable them TO
address these fanatics with effect. II there are none
SUCH and the multitude Of Lancashire are really left ike
sheep without shcpherd whose fault but theirs who
being placed by Heaven in high moral influence have
thought Of little else but getting their Ten per Cent
their lOOOOOl.?