New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-11-22
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We are told that in England, while the non
producing classes and tho great capitalists re
gard American affairs with Indifference, rea
or affected, universally the sympathies o
the Laboriog Glasses arc upon the side Of
Freedom, in spite of many temptations to the
contrary. If there be one problem which more
than another the century is struggling to solve,
it 10 that Of Fair Wages for Fair Work. To
hopeful eyes, the contest which the world has
been wagiug against Feudalism for centuries,
seemed only yesterday to be upon the point Of
n peaceful and honorable termination; when,
as if to bring to scorn oil human prescience,
baronial selishness with its inevitable adjunct
Of military force, once more asserts It's mody
lies to be gospel truths, in that very land which
was the frat TO offer a practical though par
tal protest against them, and under that
very Government which first embodied the
Equities OF Labor in a written Constitution.
But the innate propensity Of mankind
to prey upon itself, and to develop the diabol-
zeal element of our nature, by extorting from
the toll Of other hands that which should be
the product Of orr own, improving its oppor-
tunity here, in institutions which the Republic
found already established, has compelled us 10
do serious battle for truisms and TO take up
arms IN defense Of tho fundamental ideas Of our
political scheme. The struggle has again broken
out between the Patrlcian and The Plebeian,
between the Baron aud the Seri, between the
Owner Of the Land and the CultiyotOr of the
Land, between the Absorhers and the Creators
of Capital. We awake from our dreams OF
The establishment of justice and the general
redress of human grievances, only to find that
as yet nothing is settled, and that the succef-
miseries, mOrsl and economical remains un-
broken. TIE " orst wrong which the slayehoders
hive inflicted upon tho world, is their base
thcit of IA faith in iairer forms Of social lite,
and in The final triumph Of goodness aud truth.
When any nation is shaken as ours is now, by
the antagoniIns which are irreconcable in any
possible poity il cannot, ia this age % inter-
coure stimulated b. commerce, suffer alone.
cashre must feel it, and 80 must Lyons. Bat
material eXigenclcs are not, bad % they NAY
De-. the worst which the English lstorer Is
compelled to suffer. To him. far bi,tercr than
the want of bread, than short time or short
wages, must be the thought that it Is possible
even low, for the i!raa,s OF The earth, the
spoilers % the poor, and the scourges Of the
weak, to wage n war IN defense oil their III
before q world wi.ch does not rise in is
might TO yindicate the dignity OF our
common nature. Human Slavery may
seem 90 be an UNPLEASANT but necessary accl-
dent IA human ada.es 10 tue peers aud the
politicians of England; but the iarin-laborer OF
tha' country the digger, the ditcaer, and the
factory drudge have tasted enough OF the
misery Of unrequited toll, 70 know that in spite
# the sorhistries Of The bad and the iallaces
of tie foolish, Slavery, he IL of White or OF
Black, ~ crime against Nature which no
eiior, OF human reason can successfully defend.
What must be- the exceeding bitterness OF bic
reflections, when be- Ends great armies arrayed
10 defense of this very crime, ard u war
wcged on, to prove that God always meant
that some should cheat AID that some should
be cheated WHAT must be his fortune and that
VI bis children, under the pressure Of peers,
aud the lortero Of taxes and Of tl!hes, when
Democracy itself gives up the vindi-
cation OF the isolated and individual
dignity of MAJ, and tumbes into the
I'D ruts, in which the wheels of Despotisrn
have rolled by pitless prescription over pros
irate man, for 50 many ages The name Of
Commonwealth is past and gone ~ last over
that continent which the poet in his lament
for the worlds lo,t liberty, excepted. The
B lht Of that Star Of Empire which took It's
way westward and which u gentle Christian
Bishop trusted, with pOetical icryor, would
rain down only healing Influences, has grown
urld and baic,ul. &an's destiny is as a tale
hat IS told. Mans hopes are dreams, and his
ASPIRATIONS only tho ludicrous whlmsiesof H.
lecy. This is the crucl wrong which Slavery
S infictpg upon the world-this final addition
IF despair TO the suffering Of every land-tLis
,tlI, irrational stoid assertion of the luequsl-
" of the Race-this practical denial Of a
Benevolent Proydence-this bitter prophecy OF
.omng ages darker .hau the ages that are
succession, tlll the world spias INTO
lappy nothngnoss, Of agony upon agony agd OF
wrong upon wong!
If we fail in maintaining our form Of Gov
'rnment, and the principles upon which it is
,ased, it viii ,hcn be easy enough for those
,ho dctest or political morality, for those
vhn i'm Iurnpe are rat Nau.DAnrrs merely