Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-08-01

manufacturers, who, in their turn, either by rails
ing the price, or it the competition will not per-
init this, 10y more and better work, scuk to indem.
nifty themselves for the high prices which they
must pay. Finally, those who arc established
upon II fixed income, especially those in Office, have
only their share eff these advantages. Their sal.
aries are raised because they are drawn out Of the
supernuous wealth Of the tax payers rs n general
thing, however, only when the producing classes
are in q Measure satiated, and when their favorable
condition, fully apparent, admits Of the increase
OF their taxes. For this reason the class in Office
are really called upon to contribute to the increase
of the peoples resources as the source Of their
own incomes.
Thus circulates this stream through the budgets
of the several classes; and whenever, beginning
with those who have the necossarics of lite-tho
farmers-therc comes q stagnation or fall in this
stream of supplies, anxiety and rcstlossncSs seizcs
the other classes there remains, then, to the lat
ter nothing but to give a corresponding direction
to their capital, and improve by industry and in.
telligence the ordinary means Of production. 1t
We would indeed be just, We must admit that the
increase Of prices turns to the advantages Of those
classes who find it / hardest to raise their incomes
by other means, and that it also presses hard upon
those classes who, belonging to changealle occu.
patlons and lines OF business, are better able to
open to themselves new resources. Under the
pressure of necessity, old prejudicos ARE broken
up, and the educated classes, acknowledging the
dignity of labor, sink, as it were, anew their roots
into the bosom Of the old life-distributipg Mother
Earth. In ~thistway the high prices not only inurc
many men to energetic and well directed labor, but
1 they also give direction to the numerous forces OF
national industry which had either been unem.
a ployed or applied to oyerstockcd or less productive
branches, and thus contribute not a little to read
! just the individual condition of life.
/. The rise of prices of the means of subsistence
c leads to n concentration and condensation OF the
= national body. On the one hand, many hop over
ri from tho ranke of tho ol,aoEol ,pto tlpgR al tho
r working class--tha fa~rmers-receive the means OF
raising themselves to a higher level IF culture,
The line between farmers and landholders has al
ready, in single sections Of Germany, become
nearly extinct. According to the nature of the
case we lind this where permanently found and
well-conditiOned farms place n fixed net income in
the hands OF their owners for disposal. But the
land OF the spotted COW, the potatoes, and the
skinned milk" begins also to recover itself, and
the disadvantages of the splitting up OF farms,
which pressed heavily upon the Suabians, Thur
lnglans, and Franconians, upon the Rhine and
Nam, become less palpable in consequence of the
extensive cultivation, as well as the easy transpor-
tation and increased worth of produce. In many
sections the proprietorship a very moderate piece
of ground is sufficient to maintain a family free
from care. The fact is not less important that
henceforth no further divisions Of farms will be
necessary, because the iourishing condition of in
dustry offers employment to the excess of the
farming population.
The old caution-"make your bowls f0rtu-
nately no longer n necessity. The peasant steps
firmly and erect in the words of tho bohemian
peasants, he has become ga lord" (ein Herr For
the first time in the course of eighteen hundred
years, the poets find a real basis for their praises
of the peasant life in the Fatherland; from hence
forth they may be right in calling this condition
happy. And as we Germans, in our often slow
and toilsome way, are still wont in the end to
reach a lasting good result, so we may confidently
draw the conclusion that no other great land has
such q class Of free landowners as we have. Tue
English and Lombards bear the evident marks in
} their social condition of the subiugation Of their
land, divided as they are into a landholding arts
tocracy and simple tenants; and if the lFrenct
s PEASANTS are really free proprietors, they are st
only in consequence Of a bloody revolution, which
: has left it's deep and lasting wounds upon thei
moral sense. Gripping the quiet development o
the nation.
We ourselves have still so much to restore an
improve that it does not become us with Taught
u self praise to raise ourselves above our neighbour
~ Yet this much is true, that we, not long since, lai
- the foundations of a peaceable development, which
~ if il continues in the progress of the last for
a years, promises a rich future to all Germany. W
can, therefore, quietly await coming times ft
since the strengthening of The peAsantry, it is q
(; if the decayed portions Of the whole social edlf(
n stood before our eyes restored to frmness. Sittin
We upon their own soil, and placing a high estima
i u upon their own property; above the effect of fave
Nv and of envy; Strengthening ever the inner ma
u! by the mental contest of the day our elevate
~ peasantry holds, on the one hand, the guaranty
81 a steady unfolding of the inner desire for pr
Ia gress, and, on the other hand, the warrant thi
in this progress shall only take place within til
limits Of the law, u.