The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-12-01

which he abors and gives bis money and hopes
complished he would readily that it
the universal happiness of all mankind and a he would
suppose to be brought about by wha, he calls the unye
! sal liberty of all races and varieties of men,
And If asked further, what he meant by 'berfy,p he
: would reply (or all his ideas and notions purely
Brtsb that he meant that social and political condition
OF things common 10 English society, and which Russell
and Sidney gave their lives to secure and Curan has
mortazed in prose, and Cowper in verse; for II may be
also assumed that the American 'ideap Of liberty has
never in single instance entered the brain of aboi-
ZIONIST English society," like that of Europe generally is
made up Of two widely though artfeally separated
classes-the few and the many the governing and the
governed those who produce nothing but enjoy everything
and those who produce everything but enjoy nothing
There is, il is true, socaed middle class in England
but rather theoretical than practical for the large
class of petty radesmengreen grocers &cadmitted TO
the right of suffrage, instead of increasing the popular
power, tending TO the liberation Of the masses
police agents to watch and guard the people, and though
the mode is widely different they do differ in the re-
suits worked out from the French gen darmce Substan
TALLY the English masses-say twenty-five mons-occu-
Ply about the civil relation the governing class that
the handful of negroes in the State of New York do the
three millions ofczensthat is there direct posi-
tive law to prohibit them from changing their condition
but the whole social organism constructed that with
out overthrow Of the System it is impossible
for them to alter this condition ii is for negro reach
the Office of governor from which neither the law the
constitution of the State actually excludes him.
But there are several things in regard to which their
condition is infinitely below the status of those ne
groes They pretend to free press but take good care
that the people shall not learn read and for fear that
some few may surmount all difficulties Of this kind
they put tax on newspapers so that a laboring
man, able to read and make himself acquainted with
the slavery that Expresses him. has to give something
like days work for newspaper and therefore, takes
his choice to let his wife and children starvc
Tighten himself in regard TO his oppression Furthermore
English courts decide that the greater the the greater
the libel thus exposure of the conduct of officials is Ger
tain destruction to all who dare upon it. They
pretend too, to freedom of public discussion but IL more
than three persons dare to meet together for this purpose
without the permission of the agents of the government
these agents have only to read the riot act and if they
worth the powder 10 shoot them like dogs without the
slightest regard to the object of such meeting.
But the substantial slavery of the British System is
its industrial results The employer and employed are as
with ourselveswith all Chrscndom, except She Souhin
natural antagonsmtha is it is the interest of the
poyer to give little possible for days work. and the
interest of the employed to give little labor he
contrive in return The American aborer has vote and
thus resrans the capitalist from using the government
engine Cypress him. But in England the govern
is in the hands of the employer without the slightest
check whatever, and this he engine to dictate
terms and merclessly grnds the life of the bones and
muscles of the laborer The southern planter the
slave it is his highest interest TO protect and for
him. and the he produces the he has him
self to enjoy is the highest possible interest of the slave
to produce much possible; thus their interests are
identical and ndissouble and the System remarked
by eminent southern statesman, the best relation of
| capital and labor known
In any event. if the negro will not work according
the dictaton of the MASTER he is whipped that the worst
phase possible; but under the English SYSTEM" if the
aboror does conform to the dictation of the MASTER
he is put to DEATH and not only he himself but his in
nocent wife and helpless children also put to death
The employer says to him he will allow him certain sum
for days labor but, he is free-born" Engshman
and negro slave he cannot whip him if he refuses
Indeed the full enjoyment of that glorious English fce
dom by their ancestors he may refuse altogether
obey him but II he does disobey his command he
die-he and his family, his wife and his little ones all
must starye within the next three days. No poWer
earth not even the "Kings pardonTpothng short of a
supernatural providntial ntereencccan the lives
those helpless if they dare dsobey the mandate
of being like hemselves Twenty millions of Englishmen
in this abect and rghtu condition. They commence
laboring almost in the cradle As English writer SAYS
ahere childhood in England Multitudes are de-
formed and twisted out of all human shape in very child
hood and, mangled and torn by than wild beasts
die before reaching maturity while those who do not after
blind Dumb animal existence of twenty years or So arc
turned out to die by the wayde engulphed in that
hdeous and evergaping paupersm which annually swal
lows up the remanshe crushed dsjonted and WORKOUT
carcassesof three millions of "free-born Britons.
This then, is 'ibery'the British abolition 'dea"
of liberty 1t is to give to arsocncya class hand
full of the populaonall political power, and permission
| to use the machine thing called government to do
indirectly what feudasm did directlyo accomplish by
fraud what the Norman conquerors did by the sword
through an of Parliament what Russian Cars do by
ukase They make of course, much preenson to ere
form but if perfectly honest and sincere reorm" of
such system is morally impossible and the impostures
thus labelled tend continually to the greater degradation
and slavery of the Thus the socaed reform bill
Of 1892 brought to fife side Of the governing class
some half million of petty tradesmen and detached
them from the interests of the masses while property and
not persons being represented in Parliament it is Of
course a matter of consequence whether million or
ten thousand only should represent it. Thus too aboli
ton of West India slavery preached up by WILDER
force and the vile gang of bogus phlanhropsts,
great national "reform and at this moment the British
laborng classes annually taxed five millions 10
perfect this retom y or in other words every English
laborer gives portion of his daily toilhis sweat-hs
lcto alter the status of the negro-the bread from the
mouths of his children to make the interior negro bis
"equalp Throughout the whole series of animated exist
ence a wise and beautiful instinct stamped by the Gre
aor upon all the nnamerable forms that compose it. each
is forbidden prey upon its Ind but tits British ssys
tenn in total and terrible contradiction TO this aperya
ding law of the Almighty may he dcfned--a scheme or
conrvanee for the few to prey upon the many 10 tten
and gorge to tho bodies and drink the blood Of the
people TO live in idle sumptuousness the labor the
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