The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1858-07-28
The Labor Question in England.
THE LONDON THUNDERER sPEAKErHl
British Philanthropy Don't Ray.
From the London Times, JunS 81.

From the London Timss. June 81
! The sons of William Wilbeiorce have sue.
ceeded to the inheritance of an exhausted mine.
The last generation got out all the ore. Is
may, perhaps, be pous filial duty 10 dig and
delve in the old spot, but the opportunity for
great results is gone. So also the ew renair-
ing companions of William. MiIberfonee have
worked themselves out Of work The eAueo
which was once the sustenancs and glory OF
their lives has passed from an object into an
institution. They sometimes almost nnechan-
cally recall the fervid phrases Of their yOotlI.
but it is only as veteran may numble ia ihs
sleep the shout with which SO years beiors Ls
marched to a victory. The speeches Of WilLsr-
force and Clarkson and Henry Broughan are ~
i'll adapted to all present use as the rusty clay
more thatscrv at Flodden field or the Pc
tronel that did execution at tho battle Of the
Boyne. Stories of the, horrors Of tho middle
passage and the crack Of the planters whip fell
heavily upon no Englshman's Conscience
When we cxtinguished the English slave trade.
when we ransomed and manumitted all our
slave trade when VIC made it felony for any
British subject to buy or sell human creature.
we purged ourselves Of this great offence. We
did all that, as nation, we could absolutely
do We may hope by persuasion and example
influence others, but this only one Of thousand
secondary duties-wa ourselves are clear and
guiltless
/ We can afford, therefore, to look black man
steadily in the face, and to tell him that he,
like us, is creature born to live by labor. The
resemblance ora gnat painted on tie spectacles
of an elderly gentleman will look larger in his
eyes than distant elephant. The Bishop Of
Oxford and Lord Drousham 50 about tho town
looking upon the world through spectacles that
have black man on either glass 1t Is tradi-
ton to the latter, and a family faith to the for
iner, that they should so see the world. Their
heads are full Of fossil facts. They are the ex-
ponents Of our national remorsc for the bad
deeds our gandathers, and they are up to
their role when they fall into state of exag-
Grated scnsibllity at the apparition OF black
skin. We accept them as actors necessary 10
the progress Of the drama, and allow them 10
say things that would be open to much crit.
cism in the mouths Of other men
When the Bishop ofOxford is indignant that
we do not supply the Africans with powder and
ball to enable them to piilagc the Beers, we do
not laugh because it is Wilberforce who says
this. When he tells US, as OF "a shameful thing
that something veg nearly approaching to slews
IN the form, Of ldborers may be found with color.
ed skins, we check the rising responses as We
rccolIect how useless it would be to tell vii.
bcrforce that if slavery conists in compulsory
work, all laborers are something very nearly ap-
proaching to slaves; that craving stomach a
sickly child, and pinins wife eompels men 10
things to which no masters voice would force
them. When Lord Brougham calls upon us
ABSOLUTELY and instantly TO protibit' the carrying
ofcolored men from one mart oi labor to anoth-
er, we hold our peace, for we rccoect that it is
Lord Brousham rekindling that old histoic iu-
dignation which once had an object.
Weare not dealing now with the French.
and Spanish and American kidnappers Of Swa-
tow. With respect to these, our right is plain
and our duty is evident. We must allow no
British ship and no British subject to take part
in these atrocities So far as we know, that
duty has been performed. Many months ago
Lord Clarendon issued instructions upon this
subject to all our consuls, and proclamations
were published threatening proceedings in every
case AT this moment we believe there is not
an English vessel engaged in the traffic. The
trade is carried on almost exclusively at Swat
tow, port which no British ship can enter
without becoming Liable to confscation. But,
entirely apart from this furtiye and illegal traf-
fc, there is wholesome transport trade with
which no man would knowingly interfere who
is not an enemy ofhs kind. The shores OF In
da and coasts Of China are crowded with .
congestion Of population. In China, the eastern
seaboard is like an iIl-managed stcw-pond,
crowded with starved, lean, unhsppy, under-si-
zed fish. 1t is fight for mere existence. 81
They become pirates along the coast, robbers
on the inland waters, and thieves upon the land
Z and still they starye. They elnigrate to Cali
fornia, they emgrate to Australia, they emf
crate to Singapore and Penang, and Borneo;
they cmigrate to the West India islands, and,
when opportunities for these places do not OF.
fer, they listen to the tempting voices Of the
kidnappors, and go forth to Cuba and TO the
French possessions. From these latter places
they never return, but from California and Aus
. tralia there is a constant stream Of Chinamen
; who come back to buy farms and send their
sons to the Examination Hail. The West In.
dia islands are not SO popular, because they are
further of, and the returns arc not so large.---
When Gen, Straubenzee made reconnaissance
: among the suburbs Of Canton be was suddenly
arrested by fat Chinaman, who asked him In
], good sterling vernacular, and not Canton Eng!
! lish. what the devil he wanted there?' The
? General, being the pink Of courtesy, stoppedto
e party and the Chinanian, being intsrrogated,
\ said that he had resided several years III Aus
I tralia, that he had come back with 3 fortune,
Z and had bought houses inthat suburb, and that
{ : he should held the general responsible at law
Z Z III the Quecn's courts il he did any damage 10
his property, The travelling Chinalnan was
Z little wrong in his English law, but that hap
pens to the best aofus1 Ho, however, wasofs
class and not q small class III ;China--e class
Q which Is gradually eleyating the infeiligsncsc III
Il the people IN China above that of their rulers
q, class whichit IS very mach pur interest to IN
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