M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1855-08-17
Charles Dsckens on PrOh.bItOFy
f.egisfafiem.


LegisfttIen.
In Dickens Household Words thei
recently appsatsd an article, uniafs
ltakabIy if6a se pen OF the distln
tgaizhed editefs IA which the posilio
istaksn that th6 Maine law and il
congenefs refer and defer excinsiyel,
to the toorst members of society, pas
4 sing over, az 81 no cosequeace, lbs
7 icomfort ana ebnyehience OF fhes best
4 Tie question, According to- Diclsens,
Us not "what do the decent mechanic
land his family want and deserve?p bui
FsswBat wilIthe vagabond, ialer, drunk
ard or jail,bird turn to bad account? as
if there were anything in the whole
world which the dregs of humanity
Twill turn to good account. The art oi
writing is converted by the hand oil
the forger into positive evil, and there
is scarcely any gift Of God, or pro-
duct Of mans industry and ingenuity
which may not be prostituled to Grim
inal purposes" The. following illus.
tralion from the article referred to is
forcible and amusing; Stdtesmaa.
Sob Smith suffers heavily, at every
turn oil his life, and every inch OF its
straight course, too, from the determ-
ined ruPinsm in which he has no more
part than he has in the blood royal.-
Six days Of Jobs week are days of
hard, mono.onous, exhausting work.
Upon the seventh, Job thinks that he,
his old woman and the children could
| lind it in their hearts to walk in gar
den, if they might, or to look at pic
Iture, or plant, or beast oil the lor-
est, or even a colossal toy made in inn
ltation OF some Of the wonders of the
world. Most people would be apt to
think Jobreasonable in this. But up
starts Brittania, tearing her hair, ant
crying, Never never! Here is Sog-
| gins, with the broken nose, the black
eye, and the bull dog. What Job
Smith uses Sloggins will abuse. There
fore, Job Smith must must not use. =
So Job sits down again in a killing at
mosphere, little weary and out o!
humor, or leans against post all Sun.
day long. = .'
sit is not generally known that this
accused Slogsins is the evil genius oI
Jobs life. Job never had in his pos
sessioh.at any one tine.EfiuIeFgask d
beer OF a bottle Of spirits. What he
and his family drink in that way is
fetched in very small portions indeed
from the public house. However dif'
fcuIt the Westminster club gentlemen
may Gndit to realize such an existence
Job has realized It through many a
long year; and he knows Infinitely bet
ter than the whole club can tell him at
what hour he wants his drop of beer,
and W hen it best suits his means and
convenience to get it. Against which
practical conviction Of jobs, Britain
MIA, tearing her hair, shrieks tenderly,
'Sloggins' SIoggins, with the broken
nose, the black eye, and the bull dog,
will 60 to ruin--as it he were going
anywhere else?--if Job Smith has his
beer when he wants it, So Job gets
it when Britannia thinks it good for
Sloggins to let him have it, and mar
vels greatly.
But, perhaps, he marvels most when
being invited, in immense type, to go
and hear the Evangelist of EIoquence
or the Apostle of Purity. Il have
noticed invitations rather lofty, not to
say audacious, titIes.) He strays in at
an open door, and finds parsonage on
stage, crying aloud to him, Behold
me! |, too, am Sloggins! |, likewise,
had broken nose, a black eye, and a
bull dog. Survey me well. Straight
is my nose, white is my eye, deceased
is my bull dog. ], formerly Sloggins,
now Evangelist, (or Apostle, as the
case may be, cry aloud in the wilder
ness unto you, Job Smith, that in re $
pect that | was formerly Sloggins, and
am now sanity, therefore you, Job
Smith, (who were never Sloggins, or
in the least like him, shall, by force
of law, accept what accept, deny
what | deny, take upon yourself My
shape, and follow Me- Nov, it is
not generally known that poor Job,
Though bles: with poor understanding,
aud thinking any putting out of the
way OF that ubiquitous Slogans a
mertorious action highly to be com
mndsd Anever can understand the ap-
piication Of all this to himself, who
never had anything in common with
Sloggins, but always aGominated and
abjured him."
Dickens Job Saith and Sloggins,
can be seen in any town or village,
where the Temperance men have got
laws to persecute the innocent, that The
guilty may be reformed. The Maine
Law men, in truth, are fast becoming
as notorious as the old Blue Law men
OF Connecticut, who are standing
bye-word for jests and jeers.
A TIMELY WARNING.-Kossuth
thus concludes a recent letter to the n.
York Times:
"Of one thing, however, | would
warn America to beware-and that Is,
lie Introduction Of race, tongue, and
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