Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-03-01

TRE v king GAS Is IN ENGLASD "A seeming
crisis ia England is urgiag the working classes
there to extreme measures. .One-fOurth OF their
lumber it appears from competent authority, are
absolutely destitute Of bread Mulutudes, day
after day, apply for work at the London Docks,
and various Otheir empoTiums Of labor without
success Twenty thousand men and boys con
nected with the building trade alone have been
cast on the stress without occupation, or auy in
mediate prospects OF obtainingi.. But few weeks
since, q meeting was convened il Smith6eld for
tho purpose Of concerning measures to relieve the
widespread distress felt 60 severely Throughout the
lsb1ripg population Il vii not appear surprising
that one of the speakers proposed q general emil
grafton alleging that "lovs Of Country" became az
absuTdity in the mid Of such extreme misery IS
existed IN all the manufacturing cities and sgricul.
tcraI d5tr.cts where the sversge earnings Of q
laborcr were shout eight o. nine shiliDg5 week
In Liverpool, it was stated thst fifty Thousand
Of The inhabitants lived in squalid Cellars; and in
London sCms baii-a million rose every morning
without knowing where they could get break
lat IA the heart Of the great British Empire,
surrounded By the se5Dmris,ed riches Of tbs world
in tits boosted go,5eI sgs Of Commercial prospsri
~, where art science and literature are in 30
Furnishing a c)Jditon where political wisdom
and ecoL OG,it,i s,i nee assume aUd have conceded
10 them 40 Ity 20 master al material d,ffSultieJ-
those cis SIS Of the population which supply the
vital huIt TO the Oiy cJTJCrate, are literally 10 q
fzmishiug state aud forced to take MO their own
hands the qle5-io1 Of jh5ir Imperative nesds -
There seems no resource for tie unf0ItucR Rmtsses
of the labOrer5 sal .rsd-s nan bat tho Door house
They may look in vain fer help TO the Court and
the AristCc.scy. The policy Of the leaders or
10th sides 10 TIE nation IL TO support the interests
Ct TIE wealthy merchants and employers; TO their
20 yer and votes they must look; they COVER and
bnf INN NH IF fatie
Ia their worship Of hsDmOn they nnmJlste every
human sympathy, and the people, rs Of old, are
sacrificed to The goldou calf
Is It any won Ter, in such 3 state Of things, that
crime should be on the inoEease2 Il Is only mar.
Veou7 that the desperate population DO 60, al
turn thieves and murder5r5. Ous remedy sugg ,st,
ct the meeting was, that there should be an exit
sively oFgsuz=d National Ascension Of Unsm-
plOyed WOrkneG. The macs of artisans and
labo'eEs form great power in the land, although
uuTecognised by their snperiOrs; and # organized
into societies aud Co-poratonJ th5y will both learn
and teach Others heir weight in the community,
and Will perceive the reii nature OF tie National
Constitution They must understand sooner OF
lster,-sDd it might be from such desperate crisis
as the preseuL-that they have little to hope for
from society, or the immediate action Of gJVern-
ment. This diatribe hurled against abuses in
Church aud State by Thhekeray, and his lectures
against the royalty whose support absOrbs 50
much Of the public revenue-JJuss to the fact
indicated by these meetings Of the poor driven By
necessity TO inquire what they are to do, and as
sternly demands q reform: The community is
erlminaed when e. en- one in its midst psrishss
of want Tie workman in England is as much
the slave of his master as Southern negro Many
Of the AristoC,acy have wept over the woes of
Uncle Tom; let them now look around them, and
see how the miseries entailed on the nation by
an expensive Government ara thrust before them
1t will do them good to think over the matter:
and it will do good to the luxurious and INDECENT
Of our own country, to ref ot thlt sucl condi
ton Of things is violation of the laws under which
our race took possession of the earth Every mau
who lives on this planet il entitled to his food and
lodging if willing to work for it Vine be ca
not OBTAIN it in exchange for labor, there Is wrong
and impending punishment for the nation that |
suffers i!-NsW York E17rsss